Verse
(1) Poems Published in Drummond's Lifetime
An Almanacke (‘This strange Ecclipse one sayes’)
First published in Poems ([Edinburgh?, 1614?]). Kastner, II, 151.
*DrW 1
Autograph draft, with revisions, headed ‘on the ecclips of the sune in may anno 1612’.
In: A folio autograph composite volume of verse by William Drummond, 251 leaves of varying paper sizes, in reversed calf. c.1612-45.
Among the collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. X
This MS not mentioned in Kastner.
DrW 1.3
Copy, headed ‘A favorite dog’.
In: A quarto volume of epitaphs, in Latin and English, apparently compiled by one F. Cumming, 140 leaves. c.1784-1810.
‘As when it hapneth that some louely Towne’
First published in Flowres of Sion ([Edinburgh?], 1623). Kastner, II.
DrW 1.5
Copy, headed ‘Peace of mind’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, predominantly in a single non-professional hand, iv + 214 pages, in contemporary calf. Inscribed (p. 211) ‘I ended this book Novr. 13th 1723’. c.1723.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 15, pp. 2-3.
The Canon (‘When first the Canon from her gaping Throte’)
First published in Poems ([Edinburgh?, 1614?]). Kastner, I, 107.
*DrW 2
Autograph draft.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
This MS not mentioned in Kastner.
Change should breede Change (‘New doth the Sunne appeare’)
First published in Flowres of Sion ([Edinburgh?], 1623). Kastner, II.
DrW 2.5
Copy, headed ‘On the Spring’.
In: the MS described under DrW 1.5. c.1723.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 15, p. 1.
Epitaph (‘Stay Passenger, see where enclosed lyes’)
First published in Teares on the Death of Meliades (Edinburgh, 1613). Kastner, I, 83.
*DrW 3
Autograph copy, deleted.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
This MS not mentioned in Kastner.
Epitaph (‘The Bawd of Iustice, he who Lawes controll'd’)
First published in Poems ([Edinburgh?, 1614?]). Kastner, II, 152.
Floras Flowre (‘Venus doth loue the Rose’)
First published in Poems ([Edinburgh?, 1614?]). Kastner, I, 124.
For Dorvs (‘Why Nais stand yee nice’)
First published in Poems ([Edinburgh?, 1614?]). Kastner, II, 155.
*DrW 6
Autograph copy.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
Printed from this MS (?) in Kastner, II, 369.
‘Great God, whom wee with humble Thoughts adore’
First published among Vrania, or Spirituall Poems in Poems ([Edinburgh?, 1614?]). Kastner, I, 92-4.
*DrW 7
Autograph draft on an early version of lines 53-68, here beginning ‘O love and pitie, Vnknown to thes times’.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
This MS recorded in Fogle, p. 201.
Narcissvs (‘Flouds cannot quench my Flames, ah! in this Well’)
First published in Poems ([Edinburgh?, 1614?]). Kastner, I, 109.
Of Dametas (‘Dametas dream'd he saw his Wife at Sport’)
First published in Poems ([Edinburgh?, 1614?]). Kastner, I, 106.
‘Of Iet’
First published in Teares on the Death of Meliades (Edinburgh, 1613). Kastner, I, 84.
*DrW 12
Autograph copy, deleted.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
This MS not mentioned in Kastner.
Of Phillis (‘In Peticote of Greene’)
First published in Poems ([Edinburgh?, 1614?]). Kastner, I, 106.
*DrW 13
Autograph copy.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
This MS not mentioned in Kastner.
Phoebe (‘If for to be alone and all the Night to wander’)
First published in Poems ([Edinburgh?, 1614?]). Kastner, II, 157.
*DrW 14
Autograph draft.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
This MS not mentioned in Kastner.
Polemo-Middinia inter Vitarvam et Nebernam (‘Nymphae quae colitis highissima monta Fifaea’)
First published [in Edinburgh?, 1645?]. Kastner, II, 321-6, in ‘Poems of Doubtful Authenticity’. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 120.
DrW 15
Copy, in an italic hand, partly in double columns, as by ‘Gulielmo Drummundo’, transcribed from the 1691 Oxford edition, on 13 leaves, the title-page (f. 1v) inscribed ‘E. Gibson’. c.1700.
In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous tracts, including (item 1: 20 leaves) a verse miscellany, in several largely secretary hands, 210 unnumbered leaves.
Among the collections of Christopher Hunter (1675-1757), Durham antiquary and physician.
DrW 16
Copy, in a neat mixed hand, on two pairs of conjugate folio leaves. Mid-17th century.
In: An unbound folder of verse and miscellaneous MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 46 leaves.
This MS not recorded in Kastner.
Edinburgh University Library, MS La. II. 69, ff. 43r, 44r, 45r, 46r.
DrW 17
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany of Scottish provenance, chiefly in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, including some shorthand, inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Incept. March. 23. 1652/3.’, 190 leaves, in old brown calf gilt (rebacked). c.1653-64.
Purchased c.1798.
DrW 18
Copy, in the hand of Robert Veitch, who describes himself as a skipper in Leith, as by ‘Gulielmo Drummond de Hauthorden’, on eleven pages of three unbound pairs of conjugate quarto leaves. 1731.
Among the muniments of the Earl of Haddington.
The Pourtrait of Mars and Venvs (‘Faire Paphos wanton Queene’)
First published in Poems ([Edinburgh?, 1614?]). Kastner, I, 101.
*DrW 19
Autograph draft, with revisions.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
This MS not mentioned in Kastner.
The Praise of a Solitarie Life (‘Thrice happie hee, who by some shadie Groue’)
First published in Flowres of Sion ([Edinburgh?], 1623). Kastner, II, 30.
DrW 20
Copy, headed ‘Another Poem in praise of Solitude or Retirement, by S. Will. Drumond of Hauthornden; a little altered’.
In: An octavo miscellany of principally religious and moralistic verse, in a minute hand, written from both ends, in contemporary calf. Compiled by Robert Fleming. 8°, 82 leaves; verse miscellany, including portions of 17 poems by Cowley (on inside of front cover and ff. 2, 4-5v, 30, 47v-50, 66v); compiled by Robert Fleming (probably a Scotsman), who explains on f. 30v: ‘In this Manuscript, there is a confused casting together of several Miscellaneous things. Yet there is something here to denott many or most of the year sof my youth. Viz. these years; A°. 1670, 1673,1674, 1675, 1676, 1678, 1679, 1680, 1681, 1682, 1683, 1684, 1685. So that from the 9 year of my age, which is A° 1670 (for I was born May 16, A° 1661) until my 24 year, no year is undistinguished, but two years’. c.1670-85.
Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
This MS not recorded in Kastner.
DrW 20.5
Copy, headed ‘Solitude’.
In: the MS described under DrW 1.5. c.1723.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 15, pp. 1-2.
The Shadow of the Ivdgement (‘Aboue those boundlesse Bounds where Starrs do moue’)
First published in Flowres of Sion ([Edinburgh?], 1623). Kastner, II, 50-63.
*DrW 21
Autograph draft of lines 67-406, 427-58, beginning ‘To those black Sprightes which thou dost keepe in chaines’.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
This MS not recorded in Kastner.
Son (‘If crost with all Mis-haps bee my poore Life’)
First published in Poems ([Edinburgh?, 1614?]). Kastner, I, 30.
*DrW 22
Autograph draft, with revisions.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
This MS not mentioned in Kastner.
Son (‘My Lute, bee as thou wast when thou didst grow’)
First published in Poems ([Edinburgh?, 1614?]). Kastner, I, 60.
DrW 23
Copy in a 19th-century hand.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, predominantly in a single hand, with 19th-century additions (pp. 195 onwards, at least partly from earlier MS sources), 279 pages, in contemporary calf. c.1644 (and later).
Inscribed (f. [ir]) ‘William Han: 1644’, probably by the academic compiler.
Son (‘My Teares may well Numidian Lions Tame’)
First published in Poems ([Edinburgh?, 1614?]). Kastner, I, 24.
Son (‘Sleepe, Silence Child, sweet Father of soft Rest’)
First published in Poems ([Edinburgh?, 1614?]). Kastner, I, 7.
DrW 25.5
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, i + 200 leaves (ff. 129-199 blank), in quarter-vellum over boards. Compiled by John Phillipps, of Exeter College, Oxford, and the Middle Temple, who has inscribed the front pastedown ‘John Phillipps. med: Temp: Lond: 1776’. c.1776-1804.
Acquired from Cumming of Exeter, 1941.
Son (‘You restlesse Seas, appease your roaring Waues’)
First published in Poems ([Edinburgh?, 1614?]). Kastner, I, 28.
*DrW 27
Autograph copy, with corrections.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
This MS collated in Kastner, I, 190.
The Statue of Medvsa (‘Of Medvsa strange’)
First published in Poems ([Edinburgh?, 1614?]). Kastner, I, 99.
*DrW 28
Autograph draft, with revisions, headed ‘Medusaes Image’.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
This MS not mentioned in Kastner.
To S.W.A. (‘Though I haue twice beene at the Doores of Death’)
First published in A Cypresse Grove ([Edinburgh?], 1612). Kastner, II, 106.
*DrW 29
Autograph draft, with revisions, headed ‘Damon to Alexis’.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
Printed from this MS in Kastner, II, 355-6; facsimile in Laing (1831), facing p. 57.
DrW 30
Autograph copy, headed ‘Damon To Alexis’, on one side of a quarto leaf bound into a printed exemplum of Drummond's Poems (octavo, London, 1656), interleaved with 19th-century annotations, in modern calf gilt. Bound together with a brief autograph letter signed by Drummond, to a lady, on a narrow slip of paper. c.1630.
Inscribed (flyleaf) ‘Robert Clark: book Emp New[ ] Novemb 19 1669’; (title-page) ‘R. Baldwyn’ and ‘T Park’. Owned in 1820 by David Laing (1793-18780, scottish antiquary, collector and librarian. Bookplate of Winston Henry Hagen (1859-1918), New York lawyer and book collector.
DrW 31
Copy, headed ‘To Sir William Alexander’, subscribed ‘William Drumond’.
In: Copies of poems chiefly by Sir William Alexander (1577-1640), first Earl of Stirling, poet and politician, in three Scottish italic hands, on two conjugate folio leaves. Early-mid-17th century.
To Sr. W.A. (‘Like Sophocles (the hearers in a trance)’)
First published in Sir William Alexander, Doomes-Day (Edinburgh, 1614). Kastner, II, 161.
*DrW 32
Autograph copy of an untitled version beginning ‘Whidder braue sprit like Sophocles thou pranse’.
In: A folio composite volume of autograph verse and prose drafts by Drummond, in different folio sizes of paper, 178 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt. Early 17th century.
Among the collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. IX.
Printed from this MS in Kastner, II, 371.
The Trojane Horse (‘A Horse I am, whom Bit’)
First published in Poems ([Edinburgh?, 1614?]). Kastner, I, 99.
*DrW 33
Autograph draft, with revisions.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
This MS not mentioned in Kastner.
Vrania
See DrW 7, DrW 34.
‘What haplesse Hap had I now to bee borne’
First published among Vrania, or Spirituall Poems in Poems ([Edinburgh?, 1614?]). Kastner, I, 90.
*DrW 34
Autograph copy.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
This MS not mentioned in Kastner.
A Wish (‘To forge to mightie Ioue’)
First published in Poems ([Edinburgh?, 1614?]). Kastner, I, 120.
*DrW 35
Autograph draft.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
This MS not mentioned in Kastner.
(2) Posthumous Poems and Poems of Uncertain Authorship
‘A foolish change made vretchet Chremes dead’
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 286.
‘A lady in her prime to whom was giuen’
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 284.
Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.
*DrW 38
Autograph copy.
In: A folio composite miscellany compiled entirely by William Drummond of Hawthornden, including (ff. 165r-6v, 246r-7v) copies of, or brief extracts from, nineteen poems by Donne, 300 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt. c.1618-20s.
Among the collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. VIII.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Drummond Miscellany: DnJ Δ 66. Some extracts from this MS edited in Laing (1831), pp. 78-82. ‘Drummond's Catalogue of Comedies’ (ff. 122-3). Recorded in MacDonald, Library of Drummond, pp. 231-2.
‘Against the king, sir, now why would yee fight?’
First published in Works (1711). Kastner, II, 206.
*DrW 39
Autograph draft of lines 13-26, beginning ‘Giue me a thousand couenants, I'll subscriue’.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
‘Ah! eyes, deare eyes, how could the Heuens consent’
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 271.
‘Alexis, Flora, Damon, Cloris, Myris’
First published in Fogle (1952), p. 199.
*DrW 43
Autograph draft of one of two poems headed ‘Pastorells from Maria Bonardo frattegiano’.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
All Changeth (‘The angrye winds not ay’)
First published in Poems (1656). Kastner, II, 185.
‘All good hath left this age, all trackes of shame’
First published in Poems (1656). Kastner, II, 174.
Amarillis to her dog Perlin (‘Faire Perlin doe not barke’)
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 281.
Amphion of marble (‘This Amphion, Phidias frame’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 236.
‘Are these the Shores, is this the happye sand’
First published in Fogle (1952), p. 189.
*DrW 48
Autograph draft, in a series headed ‘De Materia Prima’.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
A Ball of Snow (‘With whitest hand, white snow’)
First published in Fogle (1952), p. 193.
‘Be reasons good Jhon him a christian proueth’
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 287.
The Beare of loue (‘In woodes and desart Boundes’)
First published in Poems (1656). Kastner, II, 178.
Beauties Frailtye (‘Looke how the maying Rose’)
First published in Poems (1656). Kastner, II, 175.
*DrW 54
Autograph draft, with revisions, headed ‘Jodel in Dido’.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
‘Behold (O Scots!) the reueryes of your King’
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 243.
*DrW 58
Autograph draft, deleted, with a second autograph version beginning ‘Britannes, admire the extravagancyes of our King’.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
Bembo in his Rime. 2 Son
First published in Laing (1833). Kastner, II, 233-4.
*DrW 59
Copy by Drummond of a sonnet by Cardinal Bembo, with three different autograph translations by Drummond; the first beginning ‘As the yong faune, vhen vinters gone avay’ and headed ‘In the same sort of Rime’; the second beginning ‘As the yong stag, vhen vinter hids his face’ and headed ‘In rime more frie’; the third beginning ‘As the yong hart, when sunne with goldin beames’ and headed ‘Paraphrasticalie translated’.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
‘Bishopes are like the turnores, most men say’
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 243.
The Boares head (‘Amidst a pleasant greene’)
First published in Poems (1656). Kastner, II, 177.
‘Bold Scotes, at Bannochburne yee killd your king’
First published in Works (1711). Kastner, II, 207.
Carmina Lugubria in morte Illustrissimi Regis Jacobi (‘Occidit ille decus summorum nobile regum’)
A Latin elegy of three 12-line stanzas ascribed to Drummond. Unpublished.
DrW 68
A formal copy, un an predominantly upright secretary hand, headed ‘In obitum Piissimi, Augustissimi, Maximi, Doctissimique Regis Jacobi Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, et Hyberniæ, Regis’, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter, endorsed (f. 323v) ‘Carmina Lugubria in morte Illustrissimi Regis Jacobi...p Drumond Scotu 2 Maij. 1625’. c.1625.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 341 leaves, mounted on guards, in half red morocco. Papers of Sir Julius Caesar (1588-1636), Master of the Rolls. c.1623-5.
Purchased in 1757 by Samuel Burroughs, Master in Chancery. Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector.
A Character of the Anti-Couenanter, or Malignant (‘Would yee know these royall knaues’)
First published in Works (1711). Kastner, II, 218-21.
Charles the IX of France (‘Vhy, vomets Charles so much blood from his brest?’)
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 287.
Chloris enamoured (‘Amintas, now at last’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 237.
‘Chremes did hing him selff vpon a tree’
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 287.
‘Circuit aboue the circle of our thoughts’
Hitherto unpublished, but see DrW 000.
*DrW 74
Autograph poetical jottings, beginning ‘aboue the circuit/circle of our thoughts’.
In: A folio volume of transcripts made by William Drummond of letters from Queen Elizabeth to James VI of Scotland, 23 leaves, in 19th-century morocco. Early-mid-17th century.
The country Maid (‘A country Maid amazon-like did ryde’)
First published in Works (1711). Kastner, II, 210.
The creed (‘How is the Creed thus stollen from vs away?’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 244.
D.A. Johnstones Eden-Bourgh (‘Install'd on Hills, her Head neare starrye bowres’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 227.
*DrW 82
Autograph copy, with two copies of Johnston's original Latin verses, headed ‘The same inglished’.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
D.O.M.S. (‘Justice, Truth, Peace, and Hospitalitie’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 250.
D.O.M.S. (‘So falles by Northern blast a Virgine rose’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 254.
Daphnè (‘Now Daphnès armes did grow’)
First published in Poems (1656). Kastner, II, 178.
‘Deare Steed that Choisen art now to sustaine’
First published in Fogle (1952), p. 190.
*DrW 88
Autograph draft, in a series headed ‘De Materia Prima’.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
Discontented Phillis (‘Blacke are my thoughts as is my Husbands haire’)
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 288.
‘Doth then the world goe thus, doth all thus moue?’
First published in Poems (1656). Kastner, II, 174.
Drummonds Lines one the Bschopes: 14 Appryll 1638 (‘Doe all pens slumber still, darr not one tray’)
First published in the ‘Third Book’ of James Maidment's Book of Scotish Pasquils (Edinburgh, 1827). Kastner, II, 293, in ‘Poems of Doubtful Authenticity’. Probably by Drummond: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 117.
DrW 93
Copy, headed ‘Vil: Drumonds Lynes one the Bischopes 14. Appryll 1638’.
In: A quarto volume of pasquinades and other verse, almost all in a single cursive secretary hand, 54 leaves, in contemporary brown calf (rebacked). Compiled by Sir James Balfour, first Baronet (1600-57), of Denmilne and Kinncaird, Lyon King of Arms and antiquary. c.1637-47.
‘Dum tua melliflui specto pigmenta Libelli’
Unpublished.
*DrW 94
Autograph copy of an eight-line Latin poem addressed to Michael Drayton.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
Eclogue (‘Damon and Moeris by a christal spring’)
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 257-62.
Eclogue (‘Vhile dayes bright coachman makes our schadows schort’)
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 263-7.
Encomiastike verses before a book entitled Follies (‘At ease I red your Worke, and am right sorrye’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 248.
Epitaph (‘Fame, Register of Tyme’)
First published in Poems (1656). Kastner, II, 198.
Epitaph (‘Heer lyes a cooke who went to buye ylles’)
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 284. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.
Epitaph (‘Heere Rixus lies, a Nouice in the lawes’)
First published in Works (1711). Kastner, II, 211.
Epitaph (‘Heer S---- lyes, most bitter gall’)
First published in Poems (1656). Kastner, II, 184.
Epitaph (‘If Monumentes were lasting wee would raise’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 251.
Epitaph (‘Sancher whom this earth scarce could containe’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 245.
Epitaph (‘Truth hatred breedes’)
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 288.
Epitaph of a Judge (‘Peace, Passenger, heere sleepeth vnder ground’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 243.
Epitaphe on a Cooke (‘Heere lyes a sowre and angry cooke’)
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 285. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 117.
Essay out of the Italien (‘Melpomene in Athenes neuer song’)
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 273.
‘Faire art thou if thy lockes of curling gold’
First published in Fogle (1952), p. 187.
*DrW 113
Autograph draft of a poem in a series headed ‘De Materia Prima’.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
‘First in the orient raign'd th'assyrian kings’
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 229. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 114-15.
DrW 115
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio volume comprising two MSS bound together, the first (iii + 323 leaves) a 15th-century MS of John Lydgate's Destruction of Troy, the second (v + 82 leaves, including blanks) a verse miscellany in various hands, in modern quarter-calf on marbled boards. The volume owned and possibly partly compiled by Sir James Murray, of Tibbermure, or by someone in his household, dated at the end ‘anno 1612 ye 24 of Maij’.
Inscriptions including ‘Marie Moorray wt my hand’,‘Kathrin Morton with my hand’, and ‘Capitane James Lyell’.
Facsimile of f. 78v in Sebastiaan Verweij, ‘Ten Sonnets from Scotland: Text, Context and Coterie Writing in Cambridge University Library, MS Kk.5.30’, EMS, 16 (2011), 141-169 (p. 144).
Cambridge University Library, MS Kk. 5. 30 , Item 2, f. 78v.
‘Flyting no reason hath, for at this tyme’
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 245.
For a Ladyes Summonds of Nonentree (‘Kite. Summond not mee to enter, there's no doubt’)
First published in MacDonald (1976), pp. 141-3.
For the Kinge (‘From such a face quois excellence’)
Often headed in MSS ‘The [Five] Senses’, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (JnB 654-70). A MS copy owned by Drummond: see The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden, ed. Robert H. Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1357. Kastner printed the poem among his ‘Poems of Doubtful Authenticity’ (II, 296-9), but its sentiments are alien to those of Drummond: see C.F. Main, ‘Ben Jonson and an Unknown Poet on the King's Senses’, MLN, 74 (1959), 389-93, and MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 118. Discussed also in Allan H. Gilbert, ‘Jonson and Drummond or Gil on the King's Senses’, MLN, 62 (January 1947), 35-7. Sometimes also ascribed to James Johnson.
DrW 117.1
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio verse miscellany, comprising nearly 250 poems, in five hands, vii + 135 leaves (with a modern index), in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked), with remains of clasps. Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller. c.1630s-40s.
Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Peeter Daniell’ and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names ‘Thomas Gardinor’, ‘James Leigh’ and ‘Pettrus Romell’. Owned in 1780 by one ‘A. B.’ when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Daniell MS’: CwT Δ 5, HeR Δ 2, RnT Δ 1, StW Δ 5, WaE Δ 9. Briefly discussed in Margaret Crum, ‘An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick’, RES, NS 11 (1960), 186-9. A facsimile of f. 22v in Marcy L. North, ‘Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 106). Betagraphs of the watermark in f. 65 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks’, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 241).
DrW 117.12
Copy in: A miscellany of verse and prose, in a single hand, originally in two volumes, xxiii + 158 pages, in 19th-century green morocco gilt. c.1630s.
Once owned by one C. Agard and later by F.W. Cosens (1819-89), book collector. The original second volume here bought from Colbeck Radford, sale catalogue No. 24 (1932), item 157.
DrW 117.13
Copy in: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in a secretary hand, vi + 221 pages, in 18th-century diced calf gilt. c.1630s.
Inscribed (f. iiir) by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector, ‘Bought at the sale of Mr. [Jonathan] Boucher's Library in April 1806, for £2. 12. 6. E Malone’.
Edited from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.
DrW 117.14
Copy, headed ‘A Praier for the kinges five senses.1623’.
In: A folio composite volume, chiefly of English and Latin verse, in various hands; vi + 186 leaves, in reversed calf.
Scribbling on f. iir including ‘ffor mr William Rabey in New=market...’, ‘ffor my Louing ffriend in G John westhropp at mr Rogers Reringe house Bury in S[uffolk]’, ‘ffor mr John fford at his house in Newmarket in the countey of cambridge’; notes on f. iiiv-ivr, one ‘Recd 22 July 1669’, subscribed ‘John Cooke’ and including, on f. vir, ‘ffor mr John Cocke at his howse neere the white harte in Thetford...’. Later owned, in the 1730s, by Charles Barlow, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (his bookplate f. iiv).
DrW 117.15
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, including 37 poems by Donne, in several hands, written from both ends, 279 leaves (including numerous blanks, mostly in ff. 42r-140r), with stubs of extracted leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled in part by the Oxford printer Christopher Wase (1627-90), fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Mid-17th century.
Later owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, and his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Wase MS’: DnJ Δ 39.
DrW 117.16
Copy in: A folio verse miscellany, including eleven poems by Carew, in a single professional secretary hand (adopting a different style on ff. 176r-8r), ii + 231 leaves (including numerous blanks), the date 1633 occurring on f. 55r. c.1630s.
The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Michell MS’: CwT Δ 8. Briefly discussed (in connection with the poem ‘Shall I die?’ attributed to Shakespeare) by Gary Taylor in The Sunday Times (24 November 1985, pp. 1, 3, with a facsimile example) and by Peter Beal in TLS (3 January 1986, p. 13); and see also letters on 24 January 1986, pp. 87-8.
DrW 117.17
Copy, headed ‘The five senses’.
In: A quarto composite miscellany of verse, in English and Latin, compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, who lived in Cambridge as student and Fellow of Emmanuel College from 1633 to 1651, ii + 115 leaves, in calf. Comprising three separate units: ff. 1r-96v all in Sancroft's hand; ff. 97r-104r in a second hand; and ff. 105r-9r in a third hand. c.1640s [and later].
Including (on ff. 2-23, 27ar-v, 70) 94 Latin poems ascribed to Crashaw (including three of doubtful authorship) and (on ff. 29-41, 43v, 44v-58, 60v, 62v-5v, 67-70v, 72-3, 95-6) 101 English poems (plus a second copy of one of them) attributed to him (including one of doubtful authorship) and (on f. 16r-v) one Greek poem attributed to him; a list of contents on the first page beginning ‘Mr. Crashaw's poems transcrib'd fro his own copie, before the were printed; among wch are some not printed…’.
Cited in IELM as the ‘Sancroft MS’: CrR Δ 1. Crashaw edited in part from this MS, and collated, in Grosart, in Waller and in Martin (cited as T or T5), and discussed in Waller, pp. vi-ix, and in Martin, pp. lviii-lxxiii. Folios 28-34v, 38v-41, 44v, 52v-6 reproduced in facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
DrW 117.18
Copy, headed ‘The fiue senses’.
In: A folio miscellany of verse and some prose, 282 pages, in calf gilt. Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 34 of the Hopkinson MSS. Mid-late 17th century.
Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 299.
DrW 117.19
Copy in: A folio volume of chiefly poems and prose on affairs of state, in several hands, one predominating, 165 leaves, in old reversed calf. Compiled by John Greene, of King's Lynn, Norfolk (probably the John Greene who was Mayor there in 1709). c.1720.
Sotheby's, 23 December 1958, lot 224.
DrW 117.2
Copy, in a hand similar to that of Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627), on three pages of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves. c.1620s.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers in verse and prose, in various hands and paper sizes, 170 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half-morocco. Including eleven poems by John Donne, three of them (ff. 10r-14v, 55r, 76r-7r) in the italic hand of his friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627); ff. 95r-8r in the same hand as the Leconfield MS (DnJ Δ 5) and constituting part of what was probably a quarto MS ‘book’ of Donne's satires; f. 132r-v constituting a set of six verse epistles by Donne, the text related to the Westmoreland MS (DnJ Δ 19). Early-mid-17th century.
From the ‘Conway Papers’ belonging chiefly to Sir Edward Conway, Baron Conway of Ragley, later Viscount Killultagh and Viscount Conway of Conway Castle (c.1564-1631), and to his son, Edward, second Viscount Conway (1594-1655). Later owned by John Wilson Croker (1780-1857), politician and writer, and presented 10 January 1860.
Cited in IELM, I.i, as the ‘Conway MS’: DnJ Δ 40. Cited as A23 by editors. Facsimile of f. 62r in Michael Roy Denbo, ‘Editing a Renaissance Commonplace Book: The Holgate Miscellany’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 65-73 (p. 71).
DrW 117.21
Copy, headed ‘The fiue Sences’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single neat secretary hand, the first page formally inscribed ‘To the righte honoble: the Lorde Thomas Darcy Viscount Colchester’ (c.1565-1640, Viscount Colchester from 1621 to 1626), 191 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Including 27 poems (and second copies of two poems) by Thomas Carew and three of doubtful authorship. c.1620s.
This MS largely transcribed in British Library, Add. MS 21433. The hand occurs also in British Library, Harley MS 3910, between ff. 112v and 120v, and is possibly associated with the Inns of Court.
Scribbled inscriptions including (f. 1r) ‘Mr John Bowyer’; (f. 2r) ‘Jeronomus ffox’; and (f. 3r) ‘William Ralph Baesh’.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Colchester MS’: CwT Δ 13.
DrW 117.22
Copy in: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several small non-professional hands, 88 leaves, imperfect at the beginning. c.1630s-40s.
DrW 117.23
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The senses’, on a single folio leaf. c.1620s.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, in verse and prose, in various hands, including that of John Stow (1524/5-1605), London historian, 192 leaves, in 19th-century half-leather gilt.
DrW 117.24
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, in one or more secretary hands, with (ff. 244r-54r) a first-line index, 254 leaves, in modern half-morocco, poems on ff. 34v and 242v dated 1637. Including 91 poems and some prose works by John Donne and fourteen poems by Thomas Carew. c.1637.
Among the collections of Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (1776-1839), first Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham, largely derived from the collection of the antiquary Thomas Astle (1735-1803), which in turn chiefly derived from Astle's father-in-law, the Essex historian Philip Morant (1700-70) (see DnJ Δ 15). Later owned by Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878).
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as ‘Stowe MS II’: DnJ Δ 44 and ‘Stowe MS’: CwT Δ 22.
DrW 117.25
Copy.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 204.
The Marquess of Bute, 4° Vol. Petitions to James I, &c, No. 9.
DrW 117.26
Copy, headed ‘Vpon his five senses’.
In: A quarto miscellany chiefly of chiefly verse, in English and Latin, in probably a single secretary and italic hand, 50 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Recorded as being compiled by Thomas Smyth, of Manchester. c.1630.
Bookplate of the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Lot 8055 in the sale of his library by Thomas King, 7 May to 16 June 1798. Afterwards owned by James Crossley (1800-83), author and book collector. Formerly Chetham's MS 8010.
DrW 117.28
Copy, probably in the secretary hand of Thomas Carre (d.1641), rector of Himsworth and vicar of Aycliffe, Co. Durham, headed ‘To King James’. c.1630s.
In: A tall folio composite volume of largely ecclesiastical verse and prose documents, in English and Latin, in various hands and paper sizes, with dates from 1613 to 1669, 238 leaves, in reversed calf.
Among the collections of Christopher Hunter (1675-1757), Durham antiquary and physician.
DrW 117.29
Copy in: A folio volume of tracts and letters, many relating to Cambridge affairs, partly compiled by I. Wickstede, mayor of Cambridge. Early 17th century.
Downing College, Cambridge, Bowtell Collection, MS ‘Wickstede Thesaurus’, Part II, ff. 106v-7v.
DrW 117.3
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the kings five Sences’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single cursive secretary hand, with a later title-page supplied in 1832, x + 116 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century black leather elaborately gilt. Inscribed (f. 1r), possibly by the compiler, ‘Richardus Jackson 1623’ and ‘Richard Jackson his booke’, who is described in a later pencil note as perhaps the brachygrapher. On ff. 113v-16r, in a later hand, is a ‘Catalogue of ye Books lately belonging to ye. Rev. Mr Jackson Rectr of Tatham’. c.1628-30s.
Also inscribed (f. 1r) ‘John Pecke’. Sold by Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, in 1831-2. Among collections of James Orchard Halliwell (from 1872 Halliwell-Phillipps) (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bought by him in 1871 from Sotheran's, London.
A 247-page transcript of this volume made c.1830 is in the Folger Shakespeare Library, MS M.b.26.
DrW 117.31
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Quinque sensus’, on two pages of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed on the fourth page ‘Quinque Sensus. Verses to the Kinge and on the Kinge’, once folded as a letter or packet, frayed.
In: A double-folio-size scrapbook of miscellaneous MSS and prints, 147 pages, in 19th-century half-morocco.
Bookplates of H. Rushton Barnes and of Captain Arthur C. Crawford of Cartsburn. Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 12-13 June 2003, lot 589. Formerly MS Add. 1246.
A set of photocopies of this collection is in the British Library, RP 8302.
DrW 117.32
Copy, in a neat predominantly secretary hand, headed ‘Song’, on two pages of two conjugate folio leaves. c.1620s.
Formerly Golger MS 4761.
DrW 117.33
Copy, headed ‘The Senses’.
In: A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in probably several neat secretary and italic hands, 194 pages. Compiled, probably at least in part, by ‘George Turner Scoolmaster’, as his name is inscribed at the end, a couplet on p. 179 reading ‘Hic liber me pertinet and beare yt well in minde / Per me Georgium Turner so curteous and kinde’. Possible contributors are members of the Bancrofte family, whom he might perhaps have tutored. c.1624-1645.
Various inscribed names (sometimes more than once): ‘Anne Bancrofte’, and ‘Mary Bancrofte’. Also, under ‘1624’, a list of names with perhaps birthdates: ‘Mary Bancrofte Ap. 28. 1611’, ‘Rich Bancrofte May 2. 1608’, ‘Elis Bancrofte Apr 27. 1614’, and ‘John Bancrofte Ap 30 1616’. A legal document in the volume, dated 4 November 1645, relates to Willesden, Kilburn and Hampstead.
Formerly Folger MS 1027.2, this MS has been missing since 1991. It can be seen only on microfilm (Film Fo 4376.8).
DrW 117.34
Copy, headed ‘The fiue sences’.
In: A large quarto verse miscellany, 76 leaves, in old vellum wrappers within modern quarter red morocco on marbled boards. Part I, including some Welsh, comprises sixteen leaves, all (but for f. 15r-v) in the cursive hand of William Jordan, schoolmaster of Denbigh or Caernarvon, whose name (‘Gulielmus Jordan’) is inscribed, the dates 1680-83 occurring. c.1674-84.
Part II comprises 60 leaves, ff. 1-50v in a neat italic hand, ff. 51r-60r in several other cursive hands.
The vellum wrapper on Part II bears notes on a debt by William Jordan in 1674 relating to ‘Evan Thomas’ and ‘Mr Richard Wilkinsn in pepper street’. Formerly Folger MS 1669.2.
DrW 117.35
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, closely written in possibly several minute predominantly secretary hands, 291 leaves (ff. 212-16 bound out of order after f. 24), in modern calf. c.1640s.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Joseph Hall’ (not the bishop). Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger, who has entered in pseudo-17th-century secretary script copies of various ballads on ff. 39r-41r, 107v-79r, 181r-v, 227r-8v, 243r-6r, as well as adding foliation (1-284) before the more recent foliation (1-291, used below). Quaritch's sale catalogue ‘of English Literature’ (August-November 1884), item 22350, Collier's transcript of the MS made c.1860 being item 22352. Formerly Folger MS 2071.7.
Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Giles E. Dawson, ‘John Payne Collier's Great Forgery’, SB, 24 (1971), 1-26.
DrW 117.36
Copy, headed ‘of ye fiue senses by James Johnson 1623’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single mixed hand, with additions in other hands, associated with Oxford University, possibly Christ Church, 315 pages (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt. Including 11 poems by Donne, and 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett. c.1630s.
Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the ‘Curteis MS’: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, ‘Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript’, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.
DrW 117.37
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, predominantly in two very small hands (A: ff. 1r-44v; B: ff. 44v-87v), with further verse and prose pieces in other hands on ff. 88r-121r, written from both ends, associated with Oxford, possibly New College, and probably afterwards with the Inns of Court, 155 leaves (including 33 blanks), in modern black morocco elaborately gilt. Including 23 poems by Strode (and second copies of two poems) and one poem of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.
Including (ff. 98r-100r) a letter by one ‘Pet[er] Wood’. Inscribed (ff. 90r-1r), ‘Thease verses I borroed to write out of John Sherly [d. 1666] a booke seller in litle Brittaine, 28th of March 1633’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9235. Sotheby's, 21 February 1938, lot 243.
Cited in IELM II.ii (1993), as the ‘Wood MS’: StW Δ 21. Discussed in C.F. Main, ‘New Texts of John Donne’, SB, 9 (1957), 225-33.
DrW 117.38
Copy in: A folio verse miscellany, 206 pages (plus blanks), rebound in 1832 (by Charles Lewis) with an independent miscellany (Huntington, HM 198, Part II). Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled ‘L.C.’ [? Lord Chancellor], as are some poems by others), 11 poems by Carew, ten poems by Corbett, and 11 poems by or attributed to Herrick, in a single neat hand throughout; the poems dating up to 1637. c.1637.
Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names ‘Edw Denny’ [presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], ‘Charles Cocks’, ‘Edward Randolphe’ and (on p. 162) ‘Thomas Cassy’. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Haslewood Kingsborough MS (I)’: DnJ Δ 25, CwT Δ 28, CoR Δ 10, and HeR Δ 5. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Discussed in C.M. Armitage, ‘Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on “The Funerall”’, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707. A facsimile of part of p. 63 in Marcy L. North, ‘Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 101).
DrW 117.39
Copy in: A folio volume of verse, some of it relating to the Cecil family, in a professional secretary hand up to f. 47r, with additions in two other hands thereafter, 60 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. c.1626-40s.
Inscribed ‘At Leith the 4 June 1649 Ro: Carre’. Later owned by Professor Douglas Grant (1921-69). Sotheby's, 20-21 July 1981, lot 493, to Quaritch.
Discussed in Tom Lockwood, ‘“All Hayle to Hatfield”: A New Series of Country House Poems from Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt q 44’, ELR, 38, No 2 (Spring 2008), 270-303.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. q. 44, ff. 1r-2r.
DrW 117.4
Copy, in William Parkhust's hand, untitled.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters, tracts, and verse, collected by, and mostly in the hand of, William Parkhurst (fl.1604-67), Sir Henry Wotton's secretary in Venice and later Master of the Mint, including various works in verse and prose attributed to Donne, chiefly in a scribal hand, partly in Parkhurst's hand, 373 leaves (including blanks), in old calf.
Among the papers of the Finch family of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland. Mistakenly reported by Grierson and Logan Pearsall Smith to have been destroyed in a fire at Burley c.1908.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Burley MS’: DnJ Δ 53. Recorded in HMC, 7th Report (1879), Appendix, p. 516. A complete microfilm of the MS is at the University of Sheffield, Microfilm 737.
A neat transcript of parts of the Burley MS (including principally poems on ff. 255r-v, 278v, [279r]-288v, 342v-3r, 294r-300r, 301r-8v), made before 1908, on 35 leaves, is in the Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. c. 80.
DrW 117.41
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The 5 sense’, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1620s.
DrW 117.43
Copy in: An oblong octavo composite volume, comprising two independent verse miscellanies, Part I, in Latin and English, largely in a neat secretary hand, paginated 1-22, Part II, in English and Welsh, in several hands, one neat secretary hand predominating, paginated 1-266, the two parts bound together in modern quarter red morocco. c.1630s.
Inscriptions including (Part I, pp. 1, 3 and 42) ‘Edward Lewis his Book 1753’, ‘John Parker’, ‘P H Warburton’, and ‘John Aden’, and (Part II, p. 33) ‘Thomas Lloyd Esq’. Wigfair MS 43, among papers mainly of the Lloyd family of Hafodunos, Denbighshire, and Wigfair, near St Asaph, Flintshire, purchased in 1926-7 from Colonel H. C. Lloyd Howard, of Wigfair.
National Library of Wales, NLW MS 12443 A, Part II, pp. 125-30.
DrW 117.44
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, including seventeen poems by Donne and fifteen by Strode, the main part in a single hand, 334 pages (but pp. 3-4 extracted, and including a later index). Possibly compiled by one ‘W: H:’: i.e. probably William Holgate (1618-46), of Queens' College, Cambridge, with late 17th-century additions apparently made by other members of the Holgate family, of Saffron Walden and Great Bardfield, Essex. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
Owned in the early 18th century by John Wale, who supplied the index on pp. 330-3. Owned before 1927 by Col. W.G. Carwardine-Probert, of Bures, Suffolk (descendant of the Holgate family).
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Holgate MS’: DnJ Δ 58. Briefly discussed in W.G.P., ‘Verses by Francis Beaumont’, TLS (15 September 1921), p. 596, and in E.K. Chambers, William Shakespeare, 2 vols (Oxford, 1930), II, 222-4. Also discussed, with facsimiles on pp. 68 and 70 of pp. 181 and 13, in Michael Roy Denbo, ‘Editing a Renaissance Commonplace Book: The Holgate Miscellany’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 65-73. For facsimile pages see DnJ 2931 and ShW 25. Complete microfilm in the Essex Record Office (T/A 98).
DrW 117.45
Copy, headed ‘On the fiue senses’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small mixed hand throughout; 425 pages (plus an eight-page index), in contemporary calf. Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1634.
The initials ‘T. C.’ stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 189.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Rosenbach MS II’: CwT Δ 32, CoR Δ 12, and StW Δ 24. Discussed in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 193-5).
Edited from this MS in Joshua Eckhardt, Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti-Courtly Love Poetry (Oxford, 2009), pp. 198-200.
DrW 117.46
Copy, headed ‘The 5 sences prsented to K. James’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including fifteen poems by Donne, with a title-page ‘Miscellanies Or A Collection of Diuers Witty and pleasant Epigrams, Adages, poems Epitaphes &c for the recreation of ye ouertravelled sences: 1630 Robert Bishop’, in a single mixed hand, probably associated with the University of Oxford, 306 pages, in old calf. c.1630.
Owned and probably compiled by Robert Bishop. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9549. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue, English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 187.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the ‘Bishop MS’: DnJ Δ 59. Edited in David Coleman Redding, Robert Bishop's Commonplace-Book: An Edition of a Seventeenth Century Miscellany (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1960) [Mic 60-3608].
DrW 117.47
Copy.
HMC 9, Salisbury (Cecil) MSS, XXII (1971), pp. 252-3.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 206/100r-v.
DrW 117.48
Copy, in a mixed hand, in double columns, headed ‘The Senses’, on one side of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1620s.
In: A bundle of unbound poems and songs, in various hands and paper sizes.
Among the papers of the Sanford family. Formerly DD/SF C/2635, Box 1 and DD/SF 4516.
DrW 117.49
Copy, in double columns, headed ‘The fiue Sences’.
In: A pair of conjugate folio leaves of verse, in a secretary hand, in a bundle of unbound miscellaneous papers. c.1620s.
Among papers of the related Trevelyan and Willoughby families
DrW 117.5
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Henry King, perhaps almost entirely written over a period in a single secretary hand with slightly varying styles, 54 leaves, in limp vellum. c.1636-40s.
The name of the possible compiler ‘John Pike’ inscribed on f. 1r: i.e. possibly a member of the Pike family of Cambridge (one John Pike (d.1677) matriculating at Peterhouse in 1662).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the ‘Pike MS’: KiH Δ 12. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6), pp. 143-7.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 32 (James 423), ff. 31r-2r.
DrW 117.51
Copy, headed ‘The five sences. Per incertum Authorem’.
In: A small quarto verse anthology, in a single minute hand (but for p. 206), arranged under genre headings (‘Epitaphs’, ‘Satyricall’, ‘Love Sonnets’, etc.), probably associated with Oxford University, possibly Christ Church, 382 pages (including numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. Including 13 poems by Donne and 14 (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; the scribe is that mainly responsible also for the ‘Thomas Smyth MS’ (DnJ Δ 48). c.1630s.
Later owned and used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, who also annotated Cambridge University Library MS Add. 5778 and Harvard fMS Eng 966.4. Bookplate of N. Micklethwait. Owned in 1931 by the Rev. F.W. Glass, of Taverham Hall, near Norwich (seat in the 17th century of the Sotherton family and later of the Branthwayt and Micklethwait families).
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Welbeck MS’: DnJ Δ 57 and CoR Δ 11. Discussed in H. Harvey Wood, ‘A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others’, Essays & Studies, 16 (1931), 179-90. For Taverham Hall, see Thomas B. Norgate, A History of Taverham from Early Times to 1969 (Aylsham, 1969).
DrW 117.52
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The 5 senses’, on both sides of a single long narrow ledger-size leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. Early 17th century.
DrW 117.53
Copy, in a secretary hand, in double columns, the heading cropped, on one side (the verso containing prose) of a half-folio leaf. Early 17th century.
DrW 117.54
Copy, headed ‘The Senses’.
In: A quarto composite miscellany of verse and prose, in various hands, probably associated with the University of Cambridge, 352 pages (including 35 blanks), in 19th-century boards. Erroneously described in 1965 as a commonplace book of the poet Robert Herrick. The so-called ‘Herrick hand’ responsible for complete poems or substantial passages on pp. 73-4, 102-3, 253, 312-13, 319-21, 323, 328 and 343, this hand also responsible for corrections and brief insertions in both verse and prose on pp. 55-6, 58-60, 68, 71, 75-6, 78, 83, 89, 91, 93, 97, 99. 108-9, 203, 266, 285, 291, 348 and 350. c.1612-24.
Scribbling on front- and end-leaves including ‘Georgius Cantuarien’, ‘Thomas Hobson’ [?the Cambridge Carrier], ‘Benjamin Broadeface’, ‘To my very long friend mr John Bond’, ‘To the right reuerend ffather in God George Archbyshop of Canterbury his grace’, ‘Whereas the Bearer hereof Thomas Hall hath serued his sixe weekes…’, ‘To the right honor Sr Tho: Moore Whereas the Bearer hereof John Tis[?]sdale’, ‘Williamson’ and ‘Phillip de Maceden’. Puttick and Simpson's, 30 May 1849, lot 158 (erroneously described as a commonplace book of George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 12341*. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 146 (as Herrick's commonplace book). House of El Dieff (Lew David Feldman), New York, sale catalogue No. 65 (1965), with facsimile page as frontispiece. Formerly Ms File/(Herrick, R)/Works B.
Also facsimiles of p. 323 in the Sotheby's sale catalogue (frontispiece) and of p. 253 (as if in Herrick's hand) in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 33. Facsimile of all the verse in the MS (viz. pp. 63-83, 85, 87, 89, 91, 93,95, 97, 99, 101-3, 105-9, 113-17, 251-3, 277-82, 291, 317-21, 323, 325-43, 345-50), together with a transcript, in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, ‘Poems from a Seventeenth-century Manuscript with the Hand of Robert Herrick’, Texas Quarterly, 16, No. 4 (Supplement) (Winter 1973), 1-185. Microfilm of the complete MS in the British Library, M/751.
The MS discussed by Farmer in loc. cit. and in ‘Robert Herrick's Commonplace Book? Some Observations and Questions’, PBSA, 66 (1972), 21-34; in P.J. Croft's critical comments on Farmer's articles in ‘To the Editor’, PBSA, 66 (1972), 421-6, and (correcting Farmer's published transcript of the text) in ‘Errata in “Poems from a Seventeenth-Century Manuscript”’, TQ, 19 (1976), 160-73; and in Farmer's ‘A Reply to Mr P. Croft’, TQ, 19 (1976), 174. Reasons for rejecting Herrick's alleged association are presented in the Introduction above, under The Texas ‘Herrick’ Manuscript.
Facsimile in TQ 16, No. 4 (Supplement) (Winter 1973), pp. 136-41.
DrW 117.55
Copy, headed ‘5 Senses’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.118 items, including thirteen poems by Donne, twenty poems by Corbett, and twelve poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, written in several hands over an extended period, associated with Christ Church, Oxford, 99 leaves. c.1620-40s.
Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Morley MS’: DnJ Δ 62, CoR Δ 13, and StW Δ 27. This MS apparently transcribed in part in the ‘Killigrew MS’ (British Library, Sloane MS 1792).
Facsimile of f. 49r in William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford, 1987), p. 24.
DrW 117.56
Copy, headed ‘A prayer for ye Kinges 5 senses. 1623’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, with a title-page, 385 pages numbered 858-1243 (pp. 914-29, 966-7, 981-2, 995-6, 1023-4, 1041-2, 1083-4, 1135-6, and 1173-6 excised), in 17th-century calf. In non-professional hands, the miscellany entitled A Collection of Witt and Learning…consisting of verses, poems, songs, sonnetts, Ballads, Lampoons, Libells, Dialouges...from the year 1600, to this present year: 1677. c.1681.
Formerly Osborn MS Chest II, Number 14.
Fragment (‘A faire, a sueet, a pleasant heunlie creature’)
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 276.
Fragment (‘It Autumne vas, and cheereful chantecleare’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 241.
Fragment (‘Like vnto her nothing can be namd’)
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 275.
Fragment (‘Now Phoebus vhept his horse vith al his might’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 241.
Fragment of a greater work (‘As vhen a sheaphard boy from fearful hight’)
First published in Fogle (1952), p. 202.
Galateas Sonnets (‘Joas in vaine thou brings thy rimes and songs’)
First published in Poems (1656). Kastner, II, 179-83.
‘Gods iudgments seldome vse to cease, vnlease’
First published in Works (1711). Kastner, II, 211.
‘Great lyes they preach who tell the church cannot err’
First published in Works (1711). Kastner, II, 208.
‘Great Queene whom to the liberall Heauens propine’
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 269. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 114-15.
‘Happie to be, trulye is in some schoole--’
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 242.
‘Hear lyeth Jean that some tyme vas a maid’
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 286.
‘Heere beneath Wee allwayes sayle towards the port of death’
First published in Fogle (1952), pp. 208-9.
*DrW 133
Autograph draft of a poem with accompanying philosophical observations.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
‘Heere couered lies vith earth, vithout a tombe’
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 244.
‘Heere lye the Bones of a gentle horse’
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 289.
*DrW 135
Autograph draft of the complete poem, after a false start (lines 1-2 on f. 223).
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
His Flames are Quenched (‘Phillis the knots are broke’)
First published in Fogle (1952), p. 192.
‘I feare to me such fortune be assigned’
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 230. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 114-15.
‘I write but Inke is teares’
First published in Fogle (1952), p. 193.
‘Idas to schune sunnes beames’
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 283.
‘If it be trew that Echo doth remaine’
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 283.
‘If of the dead save good nought should be said’
First published in MacDonald (1976), p. 143.
‘Ilas of the Nymfes’
First published in Fogle, p. 192.
*DrW 142
Autograph draft of a poem in a series headed ‘Madrigals di Mauritio Moro’; incomplete.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
An image to the pilgrime (‘To worship mee, why come ye, Fooles, abroad?’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 246.
‘In ashe her lies the wanton God of loue’
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 280.
In obitum Piissimi, Augustissimi, Maximi, Doctissimique Regis Jacobi Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, et Hyberniæ, Regis
See DrW 68.
‘In parlament one voted for the king’
First published in Works (1711). Kastner, II, 207.
In Sr. P. d. R. (‘Great Paragon, of Poets richest Pearle’)
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 268. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 113-14.
*DrW 148
Autograph copy.
In: A folio composite miscellany of verse and prose, compiled entirely by William Drummond, 403 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt. c.1606-14.
Among the working papers and collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. VII.
‘Into the sea al cornards Thomas vist’
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 287.
‘Jeane cal not your husband hart vhen ye him kis’
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 286.
‘Killd by ingratitude heere blest within doth rest’
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 284. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.
A Locke desired (‘I neuer long'd for gold’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 239.
‘Loue once thy lawes’
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 279. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116-17.
‘Momus, with venom'd tooth, why wouldst thou teare’
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 246.
‘Mops gaue his fath to Anne and Helen, yet doth ow’
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 285.
‘Most royall sir, heere I doe you beseech’
First published in Works (1711). Kastner, II, 209.
Neroes image (‘A cunning hand it was’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 235.
A New Precisian (‘Why should this nice world blame’)
First published in Fogle (1952), p. 205.
Non vltra (‘When Idmon saw the eyne’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 240.
‘Nor Amaranthes nor Roses doe bequeath’
First published in Poems (1656). Kastner, II, 184, 379.
*DrW 162
Three autograph versions; the first untitled; the second headed ‘Guazzo hath this Epitaph on a Drunckard’ and beginning ‘Nor Roses to my tomb, nor Lillies giue’; the third headed ‘Out of the Italian’ and beginning ‘Nor roses to my tombe nor lilies giue’.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
‘Now let these Hills sweet aire sigh forth’
First published in Fogle (1952), p. 187.
*DrW 163
Autograph draft, under a general heading ‘De Materia Prima’.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
‘O leave (Ulisses) in their cave the Winds’
First published in Fogle (1952), p. 192.
*DrW 164
Autograph draft of a poem headed ‘Of Dido’ in a series headed ‘Madrigals di Mauritio Moro’.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
‘O most perfidious face’
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 283.
‘O Tymes, o Heauen that still in motion art’
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 228.
*DrW 166
Autograph draft.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
Facsimile of this MS in Kastner, I, frontispiece.
Of a Be (‘Ingenious was that Bee’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 236.
Of a Kisse (‘Lips, double port of loue’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 239.
‘Of all these Rebelles raisd against the king’
First published in Works (1711). Kastner, II, 223.
Of Anthea (‘When Hylas saw the eyne’)
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 279.
Of Chloris (‘Forth from greene Thetis Bowers’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 236.
The oister (‘With open shells in seas, on heauenly due’)
First published in Poems (1656). Kastner, II, 185.
On a Book (‘Litel but blissed Booke’)
First published in Fogle (1952), p. 205.
On a glasse sent to his best beloued (‘Oft ye me aske vhome my sweet faire can be?’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 247.
On a lamp (‘Faithfull and loued light’)
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 280.
On a noble man who died at a counsel table (‘Vntymlie Death that neither wouldst conferre’)
First published in Kastner (1931), II, 285. Often found in a version beginning ‘Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre’. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.
DrW 176.95
Copy of a version headed ‘In Docett. Comitem Thesaur:’ and beginning ‘Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre’.
In: the MS described under DrW 117.36. c.1630s.
DrW 177.1
Copy of the version beginning ‘Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre’.
In: A small quarto colume of state papers and verse, in a closely written hand, i + 170 pages, badly affected by ink seepage. c.1620s-37.
DrW 177.12
Copy of a version, headed An Epitaph upon the late Lord Chancelor, here beginning ‘Im'odest death, that woul'st not once confer’.
In: A quarto notebook of verse and prose, in English, Latin and French, in several hands over a period, much in a small cursive hand, 50 leaves, in quarter-morocco gilt. Probably compiled in part by Edmund Killingworth (of Winchester College and New College, Oxford). Late 17th-early 18th century.
Discussed in Hilton Kelliher, ‘Dryden Attributions and Texts from Harley MS. 6054’, BLJ, 25.1 (Spring 1999), pp. 1-22, with facsimiles of ff. 20r and 27r on pp. 4 and 10.
DrW 177.2
Copy of a version beginning ‘Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, ii + 65 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Entitled Miscentur seria iocis. 1647. Elegies, Exequies, Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs Satires and other Poems, a formal compilation entirely in the hand of the Yorkshire antiquary John Hopkinson (1610-80). 1647.
From the library of Cecil Brent, FSA. Sold by P.J. & A.E. Dobell, January 1938.
DrW 177.3
Copy of a version beginning ‘Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by Donne and 14 poems by Corbett, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford University, written from both ends, 102 leaves, in 17th-century calf. c.1630s.
Inscribed (f. 101v) ‘Henry Lawson’ (or just possibly ‘Lamson’). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1185. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9257. Sotheby's, 15 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 862. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (1896), item 64.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Lawson MS’: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.
DrW 177.4
Copy of a version beginning ‘Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany of c.150 poems, in several hands; associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 279 pages (plus index and blanks). Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 32 poems (plus four of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1630s-40s.
Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 1044. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9561. Sotheby's, 19 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 628, and 21 March 1895, lot 903. Hodgson's, 23 April 1959, lot 528.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘English Poetry MS’: CoR Δ 3 and StW Δ 6.
DrW 177.5
Copy, here beginning ‘Immodest death...’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by the writer Robert Codrington (1602-65) of Magdalen College, Oxford, 360 pages (including stubs of extracted leaves on pp. 297-328 and blanks, plus index), in contemporary calf. Including 16 poems by Carew and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Written in three hands: i.e. A (Codrington's hand, including his own poems) on pp. 1-283, 349-55; B on pp. 284-9; and C on pp. 289-348, 356-60; dated (pp. 1-22) ‘Anno Dom: 1638’ and ‘The 30th of May. 1638’. c.1638.
Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Codrington MS’: CwT Δ 7 and StW Δ 7.
DrW 177.6
Copy, here beginning ‘Uncivil death...’.
In: A folio composite autograph manuscript of the third part of Brief Lives by John Aubrey (1626-97), 106 leaves of various sizes, in half-calf. 1681.
DrW 177.7
Copy of a version beginning ‘Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany compiled by an Oxford University man, i i + 37 leaves, in later half-calf. c.1630s.
Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.
DrW 177.8
Copy, headed ‘Epitaph. In nuper Ang: Thes: qui morte obijt repentina’ and here beginning ‘Immodest death...’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single neat largely italic hand, 155 leaves, in modern half-morocco. c.1630.
The table of contents (f. 155v) subscribed ‘Margrett Bellasys’, possibly the daughter of Thomas Belasyse (1577-1652), first Viscount Fauconberg of Henknowle. The front endpaper later inscribed ‘The pieces which I have extracted for “The Specimens” are, Page 91, 211, 265’: i.e. possibly by Thomas Campbell (1777-1844), editor of Specimens of the British Poets first published in 1809. Afterwards owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Evans (Sotheby's), 29 February 1836 (Heber sale, Part VIII), lot 13.
DrW 177.9
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph made vppon rthe death of the late Treasurer’, here beginning ‘Vncivill death, that neither woulde conferr’.
In: A folio volume of miscellaneous papers, many relating to Kent, the greater part in a single secretary hand, 228 leaves, in contemporary stamped calf. Compiled for, and chiefly relating to, Francis Fane (1582-1628), first Earl of Westmorland. Early 17th century.
Christie's, 18 July 1897.
This volume recorded in HMC, 10th Report, Appendix IV (1885), pp. 4-19.
DrW 177.91
Copy of a version headed ‘1608. An Epitaph one the death of Thomas Sackuile Lord Buckhurst Earle of Dorset & Lord Treasurar of England who died Suddainly at the Counsell table at whitehall 19th. Aprilis 1608 as he was Speaking in his owne Cause against Sir John Lawson Knight’, beginning ‘Immodest death, that wouldst not once Conferre’.
In: A volume of state letters and papers.
DrW 177.92
Copy of a version beginning ‘Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small neat predominantly secretary hand but for additions in a second hand on ff. 35v and 58r, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Wadham College, 97 leaves (inclusing two blanks), in half-calf. Including 14 poems by Carew (and a second copy of one poem), eight poems (plus 3 of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, and 28 poems by Strode (plus a second copy of one and two of doubtful authorship). c.late 1630s.
Later used and annotated by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, and entries in his hand on f. 97r. Formerly Bodleian, MS CCC.328.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Fulman MS’: CwT Δ 2; RnT Δ 6; StW Δ 16.
DrW 177.93
Copy of a version headed ‘The L: Treasurer’ and beginning ‘Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Christ Church, pp. 1-202 in a single minute hand, written over a period, with a few later additions (including two lines on p. 7) by other hands; pp. 202-19 containing entries in later hands up to 1789, in half-calf on marbled boards, pp. 77-84 detached in the 19th century and now separately bound as Folger MS V.a.152. Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 30 poems by Strode (one of them in V.a.152) plus one of doubtful authorship. c.late 1630s [-1789].
Later sold by Thomas Thorpe. Afterwards owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89) (and No. 27 in his Catalogue of Shakespeare Reliques (Brixton Hill, 1852)) and subsequently in the library of Lord Warwick at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Thorpe-Halliwell MS’: CoR Δ 7 and StW Δ 17. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).
DrW 177.94
Copy of a version headed ‘On the same’ [i.e. Lord Buckhurst] and here beginning ‘Imodest death that would not once conferre’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, arranged (Part I) as an anthology, under genre headings, the reverse end (Part II) largely occupied by a later series of Latin verses, epistles, and other exercises, 168 leaves, in old calf (rebacked). Part I probably in several hands, the predominant italic hand that also responsible for the ‘Welbeck MS’: DnJ Δ 57), and including 21 poems by Donne. c.1630 [-1677].
Part I inscribed (f. 1r) ‘John Smyth his Book 1640’, ‘Charles Smyth 1674’, ‘Hugh Smyth 1676’; (f. 23v) ‘J Smyth 1677 / 1676’. Part II inscribed several times ‘Thomas Smith’, on f. 19r also ‘Die: Maij 12o Ano 1659’, with a reference on f. 58v to Balliol College, Oxford, 1659/60. Later inscribed (f. [ir]) by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), who records buying ‘this very curious and interesting MS. of Messrs Boone’. Afterwards in the library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1. 28.
Cited in IELM, I.i, as the ‘Thomas Smyth MS’: DnJ Δ 48.
DrW 177.96
Copy of a version beginning ‘Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single, minute non-professional italic hand, probably someone associated with Oxford University, comprising 180 pages now all separated and mounted, interleaved, in 19th-century calf. c.late 1630s.
Later in the libraries (with bookplates) of the book collector Richard Heber (1774-1833); of the bibliographer and antiquary Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833); of the biographer and literary editor Alexander Chalmers (1759-1834); and of the antiquary Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough (his sale by Charles Sharpe in Dublin, 1 November 1842, lot 577).
DrW 177.97
Copy of a version headed ‘Epitaphe’ and here beginning ‘Vnciuill death wch wouldst not once confer’, in William Parkhurst's hand.
In: the MS described under DrW 117.4.
DrW 177.98
Copy of a version headed ‘On the late Lord Treasurer’ and beginning ‘Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre’.
In: the MS described under DrW 117.46. c.1630.
DrW 177.99
Copy of a version beginning ‘Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 152 leaves (paginated 1-34, thereafter foliated 35-169), plus index, in modern red leather. Including 85 poems (and second copies of two) by Thomas Carew. c.1638-42.
Inscriptions including ‘Horatio Carey 1642 te deus pardamus’ [viz. Horatio Carey (1619-ante 1677), eldest son of Sir Richard Carey (1583-1630) and great-grandson of Sir Henry Carey (1524?-96), first Baron Hunsdon ], ‘Thomas Arding’, ‘Thomas Arden’, ‘William Harrington’, ‘Thomas John’, ‘John Anthehope’ and ‘Clement Poxall’. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8270. Bookplates of John William Cole and of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 194.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Carey MS’: CwT Δ 34. Briefly discussed in Gary Taylor, ‘Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets’, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 68 (1985), 210-46 (pp. 220-4). Discussed, with facsimile pages, in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 188, 191-2).
DrW 177.991
Copy, headed ‘On the same’ [i.e. the Lrd Treasurer Buckhurst], here beginning ‘Immodest Death, that wouldst not once conferre’.
In: the MS described under DrW 117.51. c.1630s.
On Marye Kings pest (‘Turne, citezenes, to God. repent, repent’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 244.
On Pime (‘When Pime last night descended into Hell’)
First published in Works (1711). Kastner, II, 208.
On Pomponatius (‘Trade softlie, passenger, vpon this stone’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 245.
‘On some greene meade if shee her virgine side’
First published in Fogle (1952), p. 189.
On the Death of a Margarite (‘In shelles and gold pearles are not keept alone’)
First published in Poems (1656). Kastner, II, 184.
On the image of Lucrece (‘Wise Hand, which wiselie wroght’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 235.
On the isle of Rhe (‘Charles, would yee quaile your foes, haue better lucke’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 245.
On the lut of Margarite (‘The harmonie vherto the heauens doe dance’)
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 282.
On the poems of ------ (‘Thocht poets skil her vant, thinke it no crime’)
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 286.
‘Or the vinged boy my thochts to the made thral’
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 272.
‘Our faults thy wrath deserued haue, alas!’
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 272.
Out of the Passerat (‘Vho cuckhold is & tries it not’)
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 287.
Par (‘Old dotard (Pasquill) thou mistaketh it’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 243.
‘Paule vent to Toune to saue him selfe from horning’
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 286.
Persuasive dissuading (‘Show mee not lockes of Gold’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 240.
‘Phebus wher'ere thou stayst in Cynthe or Dele’
First published in Fogle (1952), p. 189.
*DrW 201
Autograph draft, in a series headed ‘De Materia Prima’.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
‘Phillis when first amongst us thou camst downe’
First published in Fogle (1952), p. 188.
*DrW 202
Autograph draft, in a series headed ‘De Materia Prima’.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
Polemo-Middinia inter Vitarvam et Nebernam (‘Nymphae quae colitis highissima monta Fifaea’)
See DrW 15-18.
‘Prometheus am I’
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 240. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.
A prouerbe (‘God neuer had a Church but there, Men say’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 245.
A prouerbe (‘To singe as was of old, is but a scorne’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 244.
‘Rames ay runne backward when they would aduance’
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 246.
Regrat (‘In this Worlds raging sea’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 237.
A Replye (‘Swadl'd is the Babye, and almost two yeeres’)
First published in Works (1711). Kastner, II, 207.
A Replye (‘Who do in good delight’)
First published in Poems (1656). Kastner, II, 175.
A Replye (‘Who loue enjoyes, and placed hath his Minde’)
First published in Poems (1656). Kastner, II, 188.
‘Rise to my soule, bright Sunne of Grace, o rise!’
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 229.
‘S. Andrew, why does thou giue up thy Schooles’
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 243.
Saint Peter, after the denying his master (‘Like to the solitarie pelican’)
First published in Works (1711). Kastner, II, 214.
‘Samarias Motheres when to Death they steru'd’
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 288.
Sextain (‘With elegies, sad songs, and murning layes’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner II, 247.
A sigh (‘Sigh, stollen from her sweet brest’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 238.
Silenus to King Midas (‘The greatest Gift that from their loftie Thrones’)
First published in Poems (1656). Kastner, II, 186. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 113-14.
‘Sith God ordaines and Natures lawes require’
First published in Fogle (1952), p. 209.
‘Some men desire spouses that come of noble Houses’
First published in Thomas Weelkes, Ayeres of Phantastique Spirites (1608). printed from this MS in Fogle (1952), p. 208. Of uncertain authorship: see [J.P. Cutts], ‘William Drummond of Hawthornden’, N&Q, 202 (April 1957), 148-50.
Song of Passerat (‘Shephard loueth thow me vell?’)
First published in Works (1711). Kastner, II, 221-2.
Sonnet (‘I Know that all beneath the Moone decayes’)
First published in Poems (Edinburgh, 1616). Kastner, I, 4.
Sonnet before a poëme of Irene (‘Mourne not (faire Grece) the ruine of thy kings’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 230.
Sonnet qu'un poet italien fit pour vn bracelet de cheveux qui lui auoit estè donnè par sa maistresse
First published in Laing (1833). Kastner, II, 231-2.
*DrW 230
Copy by Drummond of a sonnet by Antonio Tebaldeo, with three different autograph translations by Drummond; the first headed ‘In the same sort of rime’ and beginning ‘O haire, sueet haire, part of the tresse of gold’; the second headed ‘In frier sort of rime’ and beginning ‘O haire, faire haire, some of the goldin threeds’; the third headed ‘Paraphrasticalie translated’ and beginning ‘Haire, suet haire, tuitchet by Midas hand’.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
The Statue of Alcides (‘Flora vpon a tyme’)
First published in Works (1711). Kastner, II, 208.
Stollen pleasure (‘My sweet did sweetlie sleep’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 238.
‘Strange is his end, his death most rare and od’
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 284. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.
Sur les oeuures poetiques de Guillaume Alexandre, Sieur De Mesntre (‘Menstre, Mignon de Pinde, astre des escossois’)
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 278.
‘Sweet are the thoughts that harbour full content’
First published in Fogle (1952), p. 207. Discussed in [J.P. Cutts], ‘William Drummond of Hawthornden’, N&Q, 202 (April 1957), 148-50.
‘That burning lampe so gloriouslie that lustres’
First published in Fogle (1952), p. 201.
‘That which preserueth cherries, peares and plumes’
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 284. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.
‘The boyling sighs, and hote flaming fire’
First published in Fogle (1952), p. 191.
‘The daughter of a king, of princelye parts’
[Kastner, II, 200].
See DrW 279.
‘The dolorous accents, the most ruthfull plaints’
First published in Fogle (1952), pp. 193-8.
‘The feilds vith flours var Pant in divers heu’
First published in Fogle (1952), p. 200.
‘The Gods haue heard my vowes’
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 282.
‘The King a Negative Voice most justly hath’
First published in Works (1711). Kastner, II, 207.
‘The king good subiectes can not saue: then tell’
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 242.
‘The king nor Bond nor oath had him to follow’
First published in Works (1711). Kastner, II, 207.
‘The Nightingale, the organ of delight’
First published in Thomas Weelkes, Ayeres of Phantastique Spirites (1608). Fogle (1952), p. 208. Of uncertain authorship: see [J.P. Cutts], ‘William Drummond of Hawthornden’, N&Q, 202 (April 1957), 148-50.
‘The parlament lordes haue sitten twice fiue weekes’
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 242.
‘The parlament the first of June will sit’
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 243.
‘The scottish kirke the English church doe name’
First published in Works (1711). Kastner, II, 205.
‘The time that rests in feast, in dance, in pleasure’
First published in Fogle (1952), p. 205-7.
‘The woefull Marie midst a blubbred band’
First published in Works (1711). Kastner, II, 215.
‘There where the pleasant Eske’
First published in Fogle (1952), p. 199.
*DrW 257
Autograph draft of one of two poems headed ‘Pastorells from Maria Bonardo frattegiano’.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
‘This Monument vnder’
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 281.
‘Thocht louers lie borne by the streame of yuth’
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 286.
To a swallow, building neare the statue of Medea (‘Fond Prognèe, chattering wretch’)
First published in Poems (1656). Kastner, II, 186.
To an Owle (‘Ascalaphus tell mee’)
First published in Poems (1656). Kastner, II, 177.
To Anne, the french Queen, new come from Spaine, and applyable to Marye of England, meeting the King at Douer (‘At length heere shee is: wee haue got those bright eyes’)
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 274. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 115.
*DrW 263
Autograph copy of a French poem and Drummond's English translation.
In: the MS described under DrW 38. c.1618-20s.
‘To build a tombe Jhone doth him daylie paine’
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 285.
To his amorous Thoughts (‘Sweet wanton thought which art of Beautye borne’)
First published in Poems (1656). Kastner, II, 186.
To my Ladye Mary Wroath (‘For beautye onlye, armd with outward grace’)
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 271.
To my ladye Mary Wroath (‘Who can (great lady) but adore thy name’)
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 277.
To the Author (‘Whiles dark, unknowne, neglected your Glorie’)
First published in Fogle (1952), p. 75.
*DrW 270
Autograph, inscribed on a flyleaf.
In: Drummond's printed exemplum of William Alexander, Monarchicke Tragedies (London, 1607). c.1607.
To the honorable Author, Sir John Skene (‘All lawes but cob-webes are, but none such right’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 228.
To the Memorie of... (‘As nought for splendour can with sunne compare’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 252.
To the Memorie of his much louing and beloued Master, M.F.R. (‘No Wonder now if Mistes beclowde our Day’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 249.
To the Memorie of the excellent ladye Isabell, Countesse of Lawderdale (‘Fond wight, who dreamest of Greatnesse, Glorie, State’)
First published in Poems (1656). Kastner, II, 194.
To the Memorie of the vertuous Gentlewoman Rachell Lindsay (‘The Daughter of a king, of princelye partes’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 251.
To the Memorie of the worthye ladye, the ladye Craigmillare (‘This Marble needes no teares, let these be powr'd’)
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 253.
To the Memory of John, Earl of Lauderdale (‘Of those rare worthyes which adorn'd our North’)
First published in Poems (1656). Kastner, II, 192-3.
‘Tom moneyless his agnus dei hath sold’
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 285.
Translation of the death of a sparrow, out of Passerat (‘Ah! if yee aske (my friendes) why this salt shower’)
First published in Works (1711). Kastner, II, 212-13.
‘Two Bittes of Noses may make on tall nose’
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 288.
Venus armed (‘As to trye new alarmes’)
First published in Poems (1656). Kastner, II, 176.
‘Vhy byeth old Chremes land so near his death?’
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 287.
Vindiciae against the Comones for B.C. (‘Some are that thinke it no way can agree’)
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 289.
‘What course of life should wretched Mortalles take?’
First published in Poems (1656). Kastner, II, 173.
*DrW 293
Autograph copy, with alteration in a later hand.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
‘What groning ghost is this that goes’
First published in Fogle (1952), p. 203.
*DrW 294
Autograph draft, here beginning ‘What ghostlie grones be those that goes’.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
‘What pen is there so bold’
First published in Fogle (1952), p. 190.
*DrW 295
Autograph draft of a poem in a series headed ‘De Materia Prima’.
In: the MS described under DrW 1. c.1612-45.
‘When Charles was yong, to walke straight and upright’
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 242.
‘When discord in a Towne the Toxan ringes’
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 244.
‘While yee raise you to heauen shrill Swan’
First published in Fogle (1952), p. 202.
‘Why byeth old Chremes land so near his death?’
See DrW 290-1.
‘Ye veep as if your husbands death you griuit’
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 286.
‘Zanzummines they obeye the king doe sweare’
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 243.
‘Zoilus eies in glasse did see them selues looke euen’
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 286.
Prose
Ben Jonson's Conversations with William Drummond
First published (in an abridged form) in Works (1711). Laing (1833), pp. 241-70. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, I (Oxford, 1925), 132-51. Of Drummond's original MS only the cover remains, in National Library of Scotland, MS 2061 (Hawthornden Vol. IX), f. 140r.
See also DrW 351.
*DrW 303
Copy, in Sibbald's hand, headed ‘Informations be Ben Johnston to W.D. when he came to Scotland upon foot 1619’, transcribed from Drummond's (lost) autograph MS.
In: A tall folio composite volume of ‘Adversaria’, comprising miscellaneous political, historical and antiquarian papers, 65 leaves, in modern red leather. Collected by, and largely in the hand of, Sir Robert Sibbald (1641-1722), royal physician and geographer. Purchased at the sale of his library in April 1723. c.1682-1706.
Edited from this MS in Laing and in Herford & Simpson.
*DrW 304
Copy, headed ‘B. Jonsons his Epitaph told to mee by himselfe. not made by him’, and two anecdotes told to Drummond by Jonson, corresponding to passages in the Conversations with Jonson.
In: the MS described under DrW 38. c.1618-20s.
Bibliotheca Edinburgena Lectori
First published in Works (1711), p. 222.
*DrW 305
Two autograph drafts.
In: the MS described under DrW 32. Early 17th century.
National Library of Scotland, MS 2061, ff. 174r-3r, 175r-8r.
A Cypresse Grove
First published appended to Flowres of Sion ([Edinburgh], 1623). Kastner, II, 65-104 (11. 115-274).
*DrW 306
Autograph draft, with revisions, of a portion of the essay, here beginning ‘If on the Great Theater of this Earth...’ and ending ‘...in the midst of multitudes rather garded than regarded’.
In: the MS described under DrW 38. c.1618-20s.
A dedication of some poems to Craigmiller
First published in Paganelli (1968), pp. 327-8.
*DrW 307
Autograph, the title added in a later hand.
In: the MS described under DrW 32. Early 17th century.
Edited from this MS in Paganelli.
Discourse in commendation of kinglie government
Unpublished.
For the geneologie of the house of Drummond
Unpublished.
The Hermitage
Unpublished.
The History of Scotland
See DrW 314-16.
History of the Family of Perth
First published in William Drummond, The Genealogy of the House of Drummond (Edinburgh, 1831), Appendix I, pp. 241-56.
DrW 311
Copy of the complete work, headed ‘Sir William Drumond of Hawthornden his Historie of the familie of Perth’.
In: A quarto composite volume of antiquarian collections, in a single hand, 440 leaves. Copied entirely by Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), Scottish antiquary. Early 18th century.
DrW 312
An abridged version by Mylne, headed ‘Ane Accompt of the of the Duke of Perth's familie By Sir william Drummond of Hathornden’, with (after p. 185) Mylne's ‘A Table of Remarkable names In the Manuscript of Drumonds Earles of Perth And these of the name of Forbess’.
In: A quarto volume of antiquarian and genealogical tracts relating to Scottish families, in a single hand, 725 + 23 pages, in contemporary reversed calf. Copied entirely by Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), Scottish antiquary. c.1700s.
National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 34.6.12, pp. 410-23, [and 23 unnumbered pages after p. 185].
DrW 313
An abridged version by Mylne senior, as by ‘Mr. William Drummond of Hawthornden’, subscribed ‘13. Novr. i7i2’.
In: A folio volume of antiquarian and genealogical papers relating to Scottish families, mainly in a single neat mixed hand, ii + 107 leaves (including blanks), in old half-calf on marbled boads (rebacked). Compiled by Robert Mylne, engraver, son of the antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), with additions in Mylne senior's hand. A note by Mylne junior says this account ‘I had from Mr Alexr Nisbet Herauld his transcript who had it from the principal (wch he borrowed from the present Sr Wm. Drummond of Hawthornden his son the 7. Aug. 1701) copie writen with Mr Williams own hand’. c.1711-32.
Presented by trustees of the late Sir William Fraser, KCB, in 1922.
The History of the Five Jameses, Kings of Scotland
First published as The History of Scotland (London, 1655). Works (1711), pp. 1-116.
*DrW 314
Autograph rough drafts, bound in three folio volumes in 19th-century calf gilt.: Vol. I (James I-II), iii + 229 leaves, mostly on rectos only, dated 1633; Vol. II (James III), 352 leaves, mostly on rectos only, 1642-3; Vol. III (James IV-V), 390 leaves, mostly on rectos only, dated 1623, 1639 and 1644. 1633-44.
Among the working papers and collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vols I-III.
These drafts discussed in Thomas I. Rae, ‘The historical writing of Drummond of Hawthornden’, SHR, 54, 1 (April 1975), 22-62.
*DrW 315
Fair copy or later drafts, with a title-page ‘The Historie of the Lives and Raignes of five Kinges of Scotland by William Drummond of Hawthornden’, in two folio volumes, in 19th-century calf gilt. Vol. IV (James I-III), 320 leaves; Vol. V (James IV-V), 234 leaves, both volumes mainly in the italic hand of an amanuensis, with Drummond's autograph revisions and additions; Vol. V, ff. 1r-74r (James IV) entirely autograph. c.1644-9.
Among the working papers and collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vols IV-V.
These MSS discussed in Rae. A speech in MS 2057, ff. 202-8, printed in MacDonald (1976), pp. 174-8.
*DrW 315.5
Autograph draft passages for Drummond's history, on four pages in two pairs of conjugate folio leaves (one pair a letter sent to him on 5 March ‘1634’). c.1635.
Later owned by Sir James H. Williams-Drummond, Bt.
DrW 316
Copy of the complete work, in a single neat roman hand, with engrossed headings for the various chapters on each king (on ff. 2r, 80r, 178r, 300r and 382r), all as ‘By W. D.’, 556 leaves, on rectos only, in old half-calf on marbled boards. Mid-17th century.
In praise of letters
First published in Paganelli (1968), pp. 332-3.
*DrW 317
Autograph draft of a brief essay.
In: the MS described under DrW 32. Early 17th century.
Edited from this MS in Paganelli.
In praise of the allegorie in poesie
First published in Paganelli (1968), pp. 331-2.
*DrW 318
Autograph draft of a brief essay.
In: the MS described under DrW 32. Early 17th century.
Edited from this MS in Paganelli.
Irene
First published in Works (1711), pp. 163-73.
DrW 318.5
Copy, untitled, on 75 quarto pages. 17th century.
In the library of David Constable. Sold by Speare, 19 November 1828, lot 2926.
*DrW 319
Autograph first draft, with revisions, inscribed at the end ‘This copie of Irene is uerie imperfite and not to be made use of’, the work dated 22 September 1638.
In: A folio composite volume of autograph drafts by Drummond, on different folio sizes of paper, 319 leaves, chiefly on rectos only, in 19th-century calf gilt. c.1635-1644.
Among the working papers and collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. VI.
*DrW 320
Autograph second draft, with revisions, the work dated September 1638.
In: the MS described under DrW 319. c.1635-1644.
*DrW 321
Autograph third draft, with revisions, described (f. 47v) as ‘Second Coppie’, lacking the title and incomplete; [1638].
In: the MS described under DrW 319. c.1635-1644.
*DrW 322
Autograph fourth draft, the final version, dated 1638.
In: the MS described under DrW 319. c.1635-1644.
Extracts from this MS edited in MacDonald (1976), pp. 179-99.
DrW 323
Copy, the work dated 1638.
In: An octavo volume of prose tracts by William Drummond of Hawthornden, in a single mixed hand, 66 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in old calf (rebacked). Mid-late 17th century.
*DrW 324
Copy, in the neat roman hand of an amanuensis, with Drummond's autograph corrections and insertions, on rectos only. 1638.
In: A tall folio composite volume of historical tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 269 leaves, in modern cloth.
Once owned by Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), Scottish antiquary. Inscribed by him (f. 2r) ‘Gifted me by Spotswood’: i.e. by John Spottiswoode (1667-1728), lawyer, jurist. and Keeper of the Library of the Faculty of Advocates of Edinburgh.
DrW 325
Copy, the work dated ‘1638’.
In: A quarto volume of prose tracts by William Drummond, in a single secretary hand, 39 leaves, the pages slightly cropped, in later brown calf (rebacked). Mid-17th century.
DrW 325.5
Copy, untitled, 75 quarto pages. Mid-17th century.
David Constable's sale catalogue, 19 November 1828, item 2926.
The Load-Star
First published in Works (1711), pp. 183-4.
The Magical Mirror
First published in Works (1711), pp. 174-6.
*DrW 329
Autograph first draft, with revisions; incomplete.
In: the MS described under DrW 319. c.1635-1644.
*DrW 330
Autograph second draft, with revisions, incomplete.
In: the MS described under DrW 319. c.1635-1644.
*DrW 331
Autograph draft, the final version, imperfect, lacking the final page, dated 1 April 1639.
In: the MS described under DrW 319. c.1635-1644.
DrW 333
Copy in: the MS described under DrW 325. Mid-17th century.
New-Scotland
Unpublished.
[Note on Painters and Poets]
First published in Paganelli (1968), pp. 330-1.
*DrW 335
A brief autograph note.
In: the MS described under DrW 32. Early 17th century.
Edited from this MS in Paganelli.
Of change of religion
Unpublished.
Of Impresas
First published in Works (1711), pp. 228-31.
[Of the Country of Amauria]
Unpublished.
*DrW 338
Autograph drafts, untitled, on a full sheet of paper, written on the back of an answer to a bill of complaint dated 17 June 1605.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, partly in Drummond's hand, including papers of his uncle William Fowler, in various paper sizes, viii + 81 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt. Early 17th century.
Among the working papers and collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. XIV.
Queries of State
First published in Works (1711), pp. 177-8.
DrW 342
Copy in: the MS described under DrW 323. Mid-late 17th century.
DrW 343
Copy in: the MS described under DrW 325. Mid-17th century.
Remoras for the National League Between Scotland and England, 1642
First published in Works (1711), pp. 188-9.
Skiamachia
First published in Works (1711), pp. 190-205.
Printed Books and Manuscripts Annotated by Drummond
Alexander, William. The Monarchicke Tragedies (London, 1607)
*DrW 347
Extensive autograph annotations.
See also DrW 270.
In: the MS described under DrW 270. c.1607.
MacDonald, Library of Drummond, No. 698 (and see p. 34).
Boethius. De consolatione philosophiae (Lyons, 1486)
*DrW 348
Autograph annotations concerning the invention of printing.
MacDonald, Library of Drummond, No. 425.
Estienne, Robert. Les mots francois selon lordre des lettres (Paris, 1544)
*DrW 349
Copious autograph annotations by Drummond throughout, the quarto volume now in modern speckled calf gilt. c.1607.
MacDonald, Library of Drummond, No. 1037 (and a facsimile example on p. 133).
Fairfax, Edward. Godfrey of Bulloigne (London, 1600)
*DrW 350
Extensive autograph annotations.
MacDonald, Library of Drummond, No. 931 (discussed pp. 34-6).
Jonson, Ben. Workes (London, 1616)
*DrW 351
Autograph annotations, a number of which repeat information given in Drummond's Conversations with Jonson (DrW 303-4). c.1616.
Recorded in MacDonald, Library of Drummond, No. 850, with a facsimile of p. 782 on p. 36. The annotations discussed in J.R. Barker, ‘A Pendant to Drummond of Hawthornden's Conversations’, RES, NS 16 (1965), 284-8.
Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene (London, 1609)
DrW 351.5
Annotations by William Drummond.
Discussed in Alastair Fowler and Michael Leslie, Drummond's Copy of The Faerie Queene, TLS (17 July 1981), 821-2.
Letters
Letter(s)
*DrW 351.8
A series of autograph draft letters by Drummond.
In: the MS described under DrW 319. c.1635-1644.
Miscellaneous
Ephemeris
*DrW 352
Drummond's autograph miscellany entitled ‘Ephemeris’, containing lists of books, extracts from various authors, and other miscellaneous material.
In: the MS described under DrW 148. c.1606-14.
Democritie A labyrinth of Delight
*DrW 353
Autograph miscellany of verse and prose, including poems by himself and others, miscellaneous extracts, anecdotes, jests, pasquils, epitaphs, &c, entitled ‘Democritie, a labyrinth of delight’.
In: the MS described under DrW 38. c.1618-20s.
Memorialls
*DrW 354
A volume, chiefly in Drummond's hand, with a few notes by his son William, entitled ‘Memorialls’, comprising genealogical notes relating to the Drummonds of Carnock and a diary recording family births, deaths, marriages, accidents and illnesses between 1606 and 1647, with additions by William the son for the period 1649-1700; 87 pages (plus 301 blanks). Chiefly mid-17th century.
This MS discussed in MacDonald, Library of Drummond, pp. 11-12. The initial ‘Memorialls’ edited in MacDonald (1976), pp. 193-5.
University of Dundee, Brechin Diocesan Library, BrMS/Vol. 5.