Verse
(1) Poems Generally Attributed to Essex
‘Happy were Hee could finish foorth his Fate’
May, Poems, No. 7, p. 47. May, Courtier Poets, p. 254. EV 8176.
EsR 1
Copy, headed ‘Certaine verses made by him’ [i.e. Essex].
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.
This MS collated in May, pp. 124-5.
EsR 2
Copy, untitled and subscribed ‘J. Deane’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in three or more hands, probably compiled principally by a member of New College, Oxford, 163 pages, in calf-backed marbled boards. c.1620s-30s.
The name ‘George Brown’ inscribed on p. 14. Inscribed on p. i by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector ‘Feb 13. 1790. I this day purchased this Manuscript Collection of Poems, at the sale of Mr Brander's books, at the exorbitant price of Ten Guineas. EMalone’.
This MS text collated in May, pp. 124-5.
EsR 3
Copy, headed ‘Certaine verses made by the Earl of Essex about a weeke before he entered onto this Accon’.
In: A folio volume of state papers and verses relating chiefly to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in a single professional secretary hand up to f. 58r, other hands on ff. 59r-65r, 65 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1610.
An anonymous reader has dated f. 58r ‘Septembr 10. 93 / ffebr: 30. [1]700/1’.
This MS text collated in May, pp. 124-5.
EsR 4
Copy, headed ‘His Decastick, on retir'd Life’ and subscribed ‘Quoth Robertus Comes Essexiæ’.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 180 leaves, in calf. Compiled by Thomas Tanner (1674-1735) 17th century.
This MS collated in May, pp. 124-5.
EsR 5
Early 17th century.
In: A quarto composite volume of state letters and tracts, in various hands, 130 leaves, in calf.
Among scribbling on a flyleaf of the first item is the name ‘John Allen’.
This MS collated in May, Poems, pp. 124-5. Edited in May, Courtier Poets.
EsR 6
Copy in an italic hand, headed ‘Certaine verses made by the Earle of Essex not longe before his death’.
In: A folio volume of state papers, in two or three hands, 70 leaves, in vellum. c.1620s.
EsR 7
Copy, transcribed from Harley MS 35, p. 338 (EsR 8).
In: A large quarto composite volume of letters and papers relating to Queen Elizabeth, Francis Bacon and the Earl of Essex, predominantly in the hand of Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian, 44 leaves. Chiefly mid-18th century.
EsR 8
Copy, in a professional secretary hand.
In: A folio volume of state tracts, in various professional hands, 522 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.
This MS collated in May, pp. 124-5.
EsR 9
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, here beginning ‘Happie hee could finishe forth his fate’, incorporated in a copy of Essex's letter to Queen Elizabeth, of 30 August 1599, before his expedition to Ireland (beginning ‘From a mind delighting in sorrow...’). Early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state and legal tracts, papers and speeches, in several hands, with (f. 4r) an ‘Index’ of contents, 338 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.
EsR 10
Copy of the poem, untitled, as incorporated in ‘A letter of Robert Deuorex Earle of Essex, to Queene Eliz: vpon his Commande to goe to Ireland’.
In: A folio booklet of state letters, in a single predominantly secretary hand, 24 leaves, the last three leaves imperfect, unbound. c.1630.
EsR 10.5
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in at least seven secretary and italic hands, 118 leaves (plus some blanks), currently disbound. Possibly compiled by one or more persons connected with the Inns of Court. c.1600-1620s.
Later in the library 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. Probably owned afterwards by James Crossley (1800-83), author and book collector. Formerly Chetham's MS 8012.
The volume edited by Alexander B. Grosart as The Dr. Farmer Chetham MS. being a Commonplace Book in the Chetham Library, Manchester, temp. Elizabeth, James I, and Charles I, Chetham Society, vols 89 and 90 (Manchester, 1873).
Grosart, I, 97. Collated in May, pp. 124-5.
EsR 11
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, subscribed to a copy of a letter by the Earl of Essex to Queen Elizabeth ‘vppon his Comaund to goe for Ireland’ in 1599.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers and proceedings in Parliament, in various hands, 448 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.
This MS text collated in May, pp. 124-5.
EsR 12
Copy, headed ‘Verses made by him’.
In: A folio booklet of state letters and papers, chiefly relating to the Earl of Essex, closely written in a single hand, on two paires of conjugate leaves, in modern boards. Early 17th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. q. 57, f. 4v.
EsR 13
Copy, headed ‘Verses made by the Earle of Essex’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by or attributed to Herrick, almost entirely in a single small predominantly italic hand, 250 pages (plus numerous blanks), originally in contemporary calf, but now disbound. Inscribed four times on a flyleaf ‘Tobias Alston his booke’: i.e. probably Tobias Alston (1620-c.1639) of Sayham Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk. His half-brother Edward (b.1598) was a contemporary of Herrick at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, while his cousin, Edward Alston, later President of the College of Physicians, was a contemporary of Herrick at St John's College, Cambridge, some of the other contents also relating to Cambridge, besides some relating to Suffolk. The date 1639 occurs on p. 241, and pp. 243-50 contains verses written in two later hands (to c.1728) and some prose pieces written from the reverse end. c.1639 [-c.1728].
Names inscribed on a flyleaf including Henry Glisson (later Fellow of the College of Physicians); Thomas Avral(?); Horace Norton; Henry Rich; and James Tavor (Registrar of Cambridge University). Later owned by one John Whitehead, and by Dr Mary Pickford. Sotheby's, 27 June 1972, lot 309.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Alston MS’: HeR Δ 7. A complete set of photocopies of the MS is in the British Library, RP 772. Facsimile of pp. 6-7 in Sotheby's sale catalogue (see HeR 176, HeR 405) where the MS is described at some length. See also letters by Peter Beal and Donald W. Foster in TLS (24 January 1986), pp. 87-8.
This MS collated in May, pp. 124-5.
‘I am not as I seeme, I seeme and am the same’
First published, headed ‘Not attainyng to his desire, he complaineth’ and subscribed ‘E. O.’, in The Paradyse of Daynty Deuises (London, 1576). May, Poems, No. 5 (pp. 28-9). May, Courtier Poets, pp. 273-4. EV 9569. Also attributed to the Earl of Oxford: see OxE 6.
EsR 15
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, subscribed ‘finis qd Rob: Essex Comes’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in possibly several hands, a cursive secretary hand predominating, ii + 77 leaves, imperfect, in contemporary limp vellum, within modern reversed calf. Owned and possibly compiled by Richard Waferer, of Buckinghamshire (name on ff. 43r and 76v). c.1597-1628.
Also inscribed (f. ii) with names of ‘Marth: Waferer’ and Walter Jesson.
Edited from this MS in May, Poems and Courtier Poets.
EsR 15.5
Copy, headed ‘83. Not attaining to his desire, he complaineth’ and subscribed ‘E. Oxf.’
In: Transcript of The Paradise of Dainty Devises (London, 1577), iii + 162 quarto leaves (ff. 119-62 blank), mainly on rectos only, in contemporary vellum boards. Made largely by William Herbert (1718-95), bibliographer and printseller (ff. 116-18 in two other hands). 1777.
Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.
This MS collated in May, Poems.
‘Ingenium, studium, nummos, spem, tempus, amicos’
May, No. 9, p. 47.
EsR 16
Copy, headed ‘Per eundem’.
In: the MS described under EsR 10.5. c.1600-1620s.
Edited from this MS in Grosart, I, 97, and in May.
EsR 17
Copy, untitled.
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).
This MS collated in May, p. 125.
‘Muses no more but mazes be your names’
May, Poems, No. 1, pp. 43-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 250-1EV 14991.
EsR 18
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.
In: A folio volume originally used c.1528 as a manorial rental (up to f. 23) and subsequently, c.1580s, as a commonplace book of miscellaneous entries by Thomas Brampton, of Norfolk and Suffolk, i + 61 leaves, in marbled boards. c.1528-90.
Once owned by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, antiquary and collector. Among the collections of Richard Gough, FSA (1735-1809), antiquary and topographer.
This MS collated in May, p. 123.
EsR 19
Copy, headed ‘Robert Earle of Essex against Sr Walter Rawleigh’, here beginning ‘Muses no more but Marzes be your names’.
In: A folio volume of tracts and papers largely relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in several hands, ff. 8r-33r in a single professional secretary hand, 54 leaves (plus blanks), in half red morocco. c.1600s-1638.
This MS text collated in May, p. 123.
EsR 20
Copy, subscribed ‘finis. Comes Essex’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in an accomplished mixed hand throughout, with headings or incipts in engrossed lettering, 194 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco. c.1596-1601.
This MS volume discussed in Katherine K. Gottschalk, ‘Discoveries concerning British Library MS Harley 6910’, MP, 77 (1979-80), 121-31.
This MS collated in May, p. 123.
EsR 21
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.
Edited from this MS in May, Courtier Poets.
The Passion of a Discontented Minde (‘From silent night, true Register of mones’)
May, Poems, No. 11, pp. 48-59. EV 7196.
See BrN 51-53.5.
The Right Honourable Robert, earle of Essex: Earle Marshall of England (‘Change thy minde since she doth change’)
First published, with a musical setting, in Robert Dowland, A Musicall Banquet (London, 1610). May, Poems, No. 4, pp. 45-6. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 252-3. EV 4594.
EsR 22
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto miscellany chiefly of verse, largely in a single secretary hand, compiled by a Cambridge student, vii + 130 leaves, in later calf. c.1586-91.
This volume is edited in Cummings, who suggests that the compiler is Sir John Finett (1571-1641), of Fordwich, Kent: hence it is often cited as ‘The John Finett miscellany’. The hands do not appear to be his, however, and this attribution is questionable.
This MS text collated in May, pp. 123-4.
EsR 23
Copy, with (f. 113r) a musical setting.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 114 leaves, bound with a printed exemplum of Thomas Watson's <GREEK> or Passionate Centurie of Love (London, [1581?]). Compiled by John Lilliat (c.1550-c.1599). c.1590s.
This MS volume printed in full, with facsimile examples, in Liber Lilliati: Elizabethan Verse and Song (Bodleian MS Rawlinson Poetry 148), ed. Edward Doughtie (Newark, DE, 1985).
EsR 24
Copy, in a musical setting, in an italic hand, untitled.
In: A folio volume of music and verse, in several secretary and italic hands, 46 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in 19th-century half brown calf on marbled boards. Early 17th century.
Inscriptions including (f. 1v) ‘Richard Shinton his booke Witnis Thomas ffowke’; (f. 40r, in a court hand) ‘Thomas Shinton of Woluerhamt’; (f. 42v) ‘Richard Shinton this Booke did owe. And John Congreue the Same doth know / 1633’, ‘Richard Congreve’, ‘Jane Hart is my name’; and (f. 44v) ‘Martha Congreve’, and ‘Elizabeth Congreve Writ this’. Purchased from Thomas Rodd, bookseller, 13 April 1844.
This MS collated in May, pp. 123-4.
3 lines. but deade to thee
EsR 25
Copy in: A tall folio composite volume of state tracts, in various professional secretary hands, 339 leaves, in old brown calf (rebacked). c.1623-41.
National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 34.2.10, [unspecified page numbers].
EsR 26
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, 180 pages, in three secretary hands, in contemporary limp vellum. Probably compiled by a member of an Inn of Court. c.1630.
Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Formerly Rosenbach 186.
This MS collated in May, pp. 123-4.
‘Say, what is love?’
May, Poems, No. 6, p. 46. May, Courtier Poets, p. 253.
EsR 27
Copy, under a general heading ‘Songes & Dittyes to ye Lute & Viol de gambo’, with a sidenote ‘E: Essex Downe’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, made up from a larger book, 184 leaves, stubs of some excised leaves, in green boards. Compiled by John Ramsay (b.1578), of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and the Middle Temple. c.1596-1633.
Name (inscribed several times) of Thomas Russell. Given in 1724 by Robert Cook of Bokenham to Francis Blomefield (1705-52), Norfolk topographer, and with Blomefield's bookplate, 1736. Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.
Edited from this MS in May, Courtier Poets.
‘Seated betweene the olde world and the new’
See BcF 317.
‘To pleade my faith where faith hath noe reward’
May, Poems, No. 5, p. 46. May, Courtier Poets, p. 253.
EsR 28
Copy, chiefly of the incipit only, (v) f. 9r including the complete text, all in a musical setting by W. Wigthorp, untitled.
In: A set of six oblong quarto part-books of principally vocal music, largely in a single italic hand, each volume in modern half-morocco. Early 17th century.
Edited from MS (v) in May, Courtier Poets.
British Library, Add. MS 17786-91, (i, ii, iii, iv, vi), ff. 12v-13r; (v) f. 9r.
EsR 29
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics largely in a single italic hand, with (ff. 4v-5r) a table of contents, 84 leaves, in 19th-century red morocco gilt. Inscribed (f. 3v), evidently by the compiler, ‘Giles Earle his booke 1615’ (with other notes dated 1610) and (f. 1v) ‘Egidius Earle hunc librum possidet qui compactus fuit mense Septembris. 1626.’, f. 81r subscribed ‘Anno Dni: 1623 / Mense Augusti: Finis’. c.1615-26.
Acquired from Joseph Lilly, bookseller, 17 May 1862.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).
This MS collated in May, p. 123.
Verses made by the Earle of Essex in his Trouble (‘The waies on earth have paths and turnings knowne’)
May, Poems, p. 47. May, Courtier Poets, p. 254. EV 24641.
EsR 30
Copy, untitled and subscribed ‘My Lord of Essex verses’.
In: the MS described under EsR 3. c.1610.
This MS collated in May, p. 125.
EsR 31
Copy, headed ‘Verses by Robert Earl of Essex in his trouble’ and subscribed ‘R.E.E.’
In: the MS described under EsR 15.5. 1777.
EsR 32
Copy, in Birch's hand, transcribed from EsR 0000.
In: the MS described under EsR 7. Chiefly mid-18th century.
EsR 33
Copy, headed ‘Verses made by the Earle of Essex in his Trouble’, subscribed ‘R: E: E:’.
In: A quarto volume of papers relating to Robert, Earl of Essex, in two secretary hands, 30 leaves. Early 17th century.
Edited from this MS in May, Poems and Courtier Poets.
EsR 34
Copy, subscribed ‘R: E: E:’.
In: A quarto letterbook, in several neat hands, 191 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in red morocco gilt. c.1745.
EsR 35
Copy, ascribed to ‘My Lo: of Essex’.
In: A folio volume of state letters and poems, 65 pages. c.1625-30s.
Once belonging to the Sotheby family of London and Ecton Hall, Northamptonshire.
(2) Poems Possibly by Essex
‘Courte's skorne, state's disgracinge’
As ‘The Answer to the Lie’ in The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt., 8 vols (Oxford, 1829), VIII, 735. May, Poems, No. I, p. 60. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 264-5. EV 5008.
EsR 36
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Courtes skorning, states disgracinge’. Early 17th century.
In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous state tracts, speeches, and verse, in various largely professional hands, iv + 413 leaves (including a thirty-page index and some blanks), in half-calf (rebacked). Transcribed from the Yelverton papers chiefly belonging to Sir Christopher Yelverton (1535?-1612), Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), and their family.
Owned in 1679 by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.
This MS collated in May, p. 127.
EsR 38
Copy, headed ‘An other aunswere by Sr Wal R’.
In: A folio composite volume of verse and some prose, in various hands, v + 179 leaves, in early 18th-century half-calf.
With a few additions in Rawlinson's hand.
Edited from this MS in The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Michael Rudick (Tempe, Arizona, 1999), No. 22, p. 45. Collated in May, p. 127.
EsR 39
Copy, headed ‘Another answeare thought to be made by R Essex’.
In: A small octavo miscellany of verse and prose, written from both ends, i + 155 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum. Compiled by an Oxford University man. Early 17th century.
Edited fom this MS in Rudick, p. 41, and in online Early Stuart Libels. Collated in May, Poems, p. 127.
EsR 40
Copy, untitled.
In: A collection of unbound verse manuscripts, in various hands and paper sizes (chiefly folio), 142 leaves. Partly compiled by Sir Richard Browne and his father Christopher Browne (1577-1646), of Saye's Court, Deptford.
Volume LXVII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford. Acquired March 1995.
EsR 41
Copy, untitled, on a tipped-in folio leaf (with folds). c.1595.
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).
Edited from this MS in The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Michael Rudick (Tempe, Arizona, 1999), p. 33. Collated in May, pp. 127-8.
EsR 42
Copy, headed in the margin ‘Resp’.
In: the MS described under EsR 26. c.1630.
Edited from this MS in Samuel L. Tannenbaum, PMLA, 45 (1930), 814. and in May, Courtier Poets. Collated in May, Poems.
‘Go Eccho of the minde, a careles troth protest’
May, Poems, No. II, pp. 60-1.
EsR 43
Copy, in double columns, untitled.
In: the MS described under EsR 38.
This MS collated in May, pp. 127-8.
EsR 44
Copy, headed ‘Another answere made by an vnknowne author’.
In: the MS described under EsR 39. Early 17th century.
Edited from this MS in Rudick, pp. 38-40, and in online ‘Early Stuart Libels’.
EsR 45
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under EsR 10.5. c.1600-1620s.
This MS text collated in May, pp. 127-8.
EsR 46
Copy 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.
This MS collated in May, pp. 127-8.
EsR 49
Copy, headed ‘An Answere to the same’ [i.e. RaW 177] and here beginning ‘Goe Eccho of the wynde’.
In: An octavo volume of works by, or attributed to, Ralegh, in several largely secretary hands, 282 pages, in contemporary velum. c.1620s.
Owned in 1732 by the Rev. John Jones (1700-70), of Abbots Ripton and Alconbury, near Cambridge.
This MS discussed in Lefranc (1968), pp. 584-5.
‘Happy were Man, if Sin had never been’
See BrN 51-53.8.
A Poem made on the Earle of Essex (being in disgrace with Queene Eliz): by mr henry Cuffe his Secretary (‘It was a time when sillie Bees could speake’)
First published, in a musical setting by John Dowland, in his The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1603). May, Poems, No. IV, pp. 62-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 266-9. EV 12846.
EsR 50
Copy of a fifteen-line version, untitled, later headed ‘Song On bees’. Early 17th century.
In: the MS described under EsR 36.
EsR 51
Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, headed ‘The buzzeinge Bees complaynt’ and here beginning ‘There was a tyme when seylley bees could speake’.
In: A quarto MS of letters and tracts by or relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in several probably professional secretary and italic hands, v + 72 leaves (ff. 43v-61v blank), bound with other MSS in contemporary calf. Early 17th century.
This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.
EsR 52
Copy of a fifteen-stanza version, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis Essex:’.
In: the MS described under EsR 1. c.1620s-37.
This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.
EsR 53
Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, headed ‘Verses made by The Erle of Essex’, in a secretary hand, in a pair of conjugate folio leaves (ff. 20r-1v) of Elizabethan verse. c.1600.
In: A guardbook of miscellaneous separate papers, chiefly folio, 21 leaves.
Given by J. Fowler 19 March 1918 on behalf of the owner Edward Weston Cracroft, J.P. (1849-1933), of Hackthorn Hall, Lincoln.
This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.
EsR 54
Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, headed ‘Verses or English poemes written by the Lo: the E: of E:’ and here beginning ‘There was a time...’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in more than one hand, written from both ends, in vellum boards. c.1595-1600s.
This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.
EsR 55
Copy, imperfect, lacking the first four stanzas, here beginning ‘But from those leaues no dram of sweet I drayne’, subscribed ‘quod Mr Iohn Lilly’.
In: the MS described under EsR 23. c.1590s.
Printed from this in Doughtie, No. [103], pp. 96-8; discussed pp. 178-80. Recorded in May, p. 111.
EsR 57
Copy, headed ‘My Lord of Essex his Bee’.
In: the MS described under EsR 38.
This MS text collated in May, pp. 128-32.
EsR 58
Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, headed ‘Verses made by the Earle of Essex’.
In: the MS described under EsR 3. c.1610.
This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.
EsR 59
Copy of a 15-stanxa version, headed ‘Henry Cuff made these following verses, his Lord, and Mastr the Earl of Essex being then in some Disgrace’, also headed in a different hand ‘The Apologue of ye Bee’.
In: the MS described under EsR 4. 17th century.
This MS text collated in May, pp. 128-32.
EsR 60
Copy of the fourteen-stanza version, in an accomplished secretary hand, untitled but endorsed ‘The ballade of a Bee’, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Early 17th-century.
In: A folio composite volume of verse and academic plays, in English and Latin, in various hands, 493 leaves, now in two volumes, foliated 1-250 and 251-493 respectively. Partly compiled by Archbishop Sancroft.
This MS text collated in May, pp. 128-32.
EsR 61
Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, closely written in a minute hand, headed ‘E. Essex’ with sidenote ‘R: D: E. E.’ and subscribed ‘p R. D: E:’.
In: the MS described under EsR 27. c.1596-1633.
This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.
EsR 62
Copy of the fifteen-stanza version, headed ‘Th'erle of Essex his Buzze, made in his decayed estate by mr Henry Cuffe his Secretary’, with two lines deleted in the fifth stanza.
In: A folio volume of state tracts and letters, in several probably professional secretary hands, 225 pages, in marbled boards. c.1630.
Formerly among the F. Bacon Frank MSS at Campsall Hall, Yorkshire. Sotheby's, 11 August 1942, lot 70. Afterwards owned by Annie Winifred Bryher (née Ellerman, d.1983) and by the Ralegh scholar Agnes Latham (1905-96), of Pickering, North Yorkshire.
Recorded, as B. 3, in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 459.
EsR 63
Copy in: MS of a genealogical history of the Neville family of Raby, to c.1647, i + 52 pages, in a composite volume of various tracts bound together. Mid-17th century.
EsR 64
Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, untitled, here beginning ‘There was a time when silly bees could speake’.
In: A large square-shaped folio letterbook, in several secretary hands, 248 leaves, in embossed calf. Comprising copies of letters principally received by Sir Christopher Hatton (c.1540-91), Vice-Chamberlain of the Household and Lord Chancellor. c.1640.
Later in the possession of William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector. Upcott sale (22 June 1846), lot 83.
This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.
EsR 65
Copy of a fifteen-stanza version, headed These Verses were pend by Robert late Earle of Essex in his first discontentmt in ye moneths of July and August.
In: the MS described under EsR 19. c.1600s-1638.
This MS text collated in May, pp. 128-32.
EsR 66
Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, in a secretary hand, headed ‘verses made by ye earle of Essex 1598 in his absence from ye Courte’. Early 17th century.
In: A tall folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in verse and prose, in several hands, 87 leaves, in 19th-century mottled leather. Possibly assembled by a barrister of the Middle Temple.
This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.
EsR 67
Copy of a fifteen-stanza version, headed ‘A Poem made on Robt Deuorex Earle of Essex by mr. Henry Cuff his Chaplaine’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several small non-professional hands, 88 leaves, imperfect at the beginning. c.1630s-40s.
This MS text collated in May, pp. 128-32.
EsR 68
Copy of the fourteen-stanza version, in a secretary hand, untitled, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed (f. 59v) ‘The Bees Songe’. c.1600.
In: A folio composite volume of verse, entitled ‘Songs & Sonnetts’, in various hands, 84 leaves, in half morocco gilt. Among the collections of Randle Holme, probably the third of that name (1627-1700), herald.
This MS text collated in May, pp. 128-32.
EsR 69
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under EsR 20. c.1596-1601.
This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.
EsR 70
Copy of the fifteen-stanza version, in the hand of Ralph Starkey (c.1568-1628), antiquary, headed ‘A Poem made on the Earle of Essex being in disgrace with Queene Eliz:. by mr henry Cuffe his Secretary’. c.1600-28.
In: A large folio guardbook of chiefly verse MSS, in Latin, English and Greek, in various hands, at least some relating to Cambridge University, 408 leaves, in modern half-morocco.
Edited from this MS in May, Courtier Poets.
EsR 71
Copy of the first three stanzas, in a musicial setting, untitled.
In: A folio songbook, in probably two secretary and italic hands, 25 leaves, in a recycled contemporary vellum indenture within modern half red morocco. c.1614-30.
Inscribed (f. 1v) ‘John Shurlane His Booke’, and (f. 24v rev.) ‘This Book Do[ ] / Hugh ffloyd / Domn: 11’, with dates ‘28 Nov. 1630’ and ‘1633’. Purchased from Thomas Rodd, bookseller, 13 April 1844.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).
This MS text recorded in May, p. 111.
EsR 72
Copy of the 15-stanza version, headed ‘The Earle of Essex his Buzze wch he made vpon some discontentment he receiued, a litle before his iourney in to Ireland, Ano Dni 1598’, here beginning ‘There was a tyme when Bees Could speake’, subscribed ‘Robert Deuoreux’.
In: A folio volume of tracts and poems, in a single secretary hand, 73 leaves. c.1600.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Sum liber Johannis Botterilli, Ano Dni 1600. Nouembris 27 don Me 18 Augusti 1602 Myles B.’
This MS text collated in May, pp. 128-32.
EsR 73
Copy of a fifteen-stanza version, in one secretary and one italic hand, untitled.
In: A folio composite verse and heraldic miscellany, in several hands, ii + 302 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf. Including much Welsh verse and coats of arms, some by or relating to Sir John Salusbury. Compiled, at least in part, by William Cynwal of Penmachno for Catherine of Berain, wife of Sir Richard Clough. c.1591-1609.
This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.
EsR 74
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Henrie Cuffe’.
In: A folio volume of state letters, speeches and verse, in a single neat italic hand. c.1620s.
Among the papers of the Fuller family of Brightling Park. Possibly once owned by Ambrose Trayton of Lewes, Esquire of the Body to James I and Charles I.
EsR 75
Copy of a fifteen-stanza version, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Carm Com Essex. 1598, 40 Elizabeth’, inscribed in red ink ‘By the Right Honble: Robert Devereux Earle of Essex an Elegiac Apologie’, on both sides of a single folio leaf. c.1600s.
Formerly Folger MS 7038.
This MS text collated in May, pp. 128-32.
EsR 76
Copy of the fourteen-stanza version, untitled.
In: the MS described under EsR 21. c.1640s.
This MS text collated in May, pp. 128-32.
EsR 77
Copy of an adapted thirteen-stanza version, untitled, here beginning ‘There was a time when sylly Bees coulde speake’.
In: A quarto miscellany of both bawdy and religious verse and some prose, in several hands, 94 leaves (including a number of blanks), in modern quarter-calf marbled boards. Mid-late 17th century.
Inscribed ‘Charles Shuttleworth His Booke Anno 1691’. Peter Murray Hill, London, sale catalogue No. 82 (1962), item 33.
This MS text recorded (as very corrupt) in May, p. 111.
EsR 78
Copy of a fifteen-stanza version, with some alterations and a line deleted, headed in another hand ‘Earle of Essex his Complaint’. Early 17th century.
In: A large folio composite volume of state papers, letters and speeches, in English and Latin prose and verse, in various hands, 58 items, i + 449 leaves.
Given by William Moore.
This MS recorded in May, Poems, p. 111, n. 64.
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, MS 73/40, f. 157r-8r.
EsR 79
Copy of a thirteen-stanza version, untitled, on two tipped-in long narrow ledger-size conjugate folio leaves.
In: A large coucher-size volume of accounts, state letters, speeches, legal documents and other papers, in several professional secretary hands, 402 pages, in a contemporary vellum wallet binding with remains of ties and a strap. Early 17th century.
Inscribed (p. i) ‘Per me Johannem Fry’ and ‘Per me Gul: Fry’.
This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.
EsR 80
Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Intituled the discontented Courtier’, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1600.
In: the MS described under EsR 11.
This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.
EsR 81
Copy of the fifteen-stanza version, in a small secretary hand, untitled.
In: the MS described under EsR 25. c.1623-41.
EsR 82
Copy of the fifteen-stanza version, headed ‘A Poem made on Robt Deuorex, Earle of Essex by mr Henry Cuff, his Chaplaine’.
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. 1-7.
EsR 83
Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, in a secretary hand, headed ‘By the L. of Essex’.
In: A quarto composite memorandum book of English, Welsh and latin verse and prose, in several hands, 100 leaves, in a contemporary limp vellum wrapper within modern half red morocco. Compiled over a period, at least in part, by various members of the Lloyd family of Llwydiarth. Early 17th century-1672.
Inscriptions including (f. 3r) ‘Mounta: Lloyd 1671’ and (f. 49r) ‘David Wms. his Book beeing Mrs Anne Lloyds Guift’, and with other references to David Lloyd, Elizabeth Lluyd, Robert Lluyd, Jane Lloyd, and Hugh Lloyd. Probably Quaritch's sale ‘Catalogue of English Literature’ (August-November 1884), item 22351. Formerly Sotheby MS B. 2.
National Library of Wales, Wynne (Bodewryd) MS 6, ff. 60r-1r.
EsR 84
Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, in double columns, headed ‘The Poor Labouring Bee’, subscribed ‘Essex’, on two quarto pages. c.1598-1600s.
Later owned by James Douglas; by the Rev. John Brand (1744-1806), antiquary and topographer; and by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836, (Heber sale Part VIII), lot 208, to Thomas Thorpe. Afterwards in the Britwell Court Library, at Burnham, Buckinghamshire, founded by William Henry Miller, MP (1789-1848) and maintained by Samuel Christie Miller, MP (1810-89). Britwell sale, 1927, lot 1499.
A complete facsimile in Tobacco: A Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts and Engravings acquired since 1942 in the Arents Tobacco Collection..., Vol. I [Supplement] (New York, 1961), No. 115, pp. 118-20. This MS recorded in May, p. 111, n. 64.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, S 115, [item 1].
EsR 85
Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, headed ‘The poor labouring Bee’, on the rectos of fourteen octavo leaves. c.1598-1600s.
Owned in 1882 by William A. Bragge, and later by J. Eliot Hodgkin, FSA (1829-1912), of Richmond, Surrey, engineer and book collector. Sotheby's, 12 May 1914 (Hodgkin sale), lot 1499]. Subsequently owned by Francis B. White.
Complete facsimile in Tobacco: A Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts and Engravings acquired since 1942 in the Arents Tobacco Collection..., Vol. I [Supplement] (New York, 1961), No. 115, pp. 118-20. This MS recorded in May, p. 111, n. 64.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, S 115, [item 2].
EsR 86
Copy of a fifteen-stanza version, in double columns, headed ‘The Earle of Essex his Bee’ and here beginning ‘There was a tyme when silly bees could speak’.
In: A folio miscellany of verse and prose on state matters, entitled Ephemeris Chirographoru quorudam Memorabiliam Succincta, 703 pages, in modern calf gilt. A formal compilation written throughout in a calligraphic hand, in black and red inks with elaborate black and coloured decorations and patterned layouts, associated with one Henry Feilde, with his inscription (p. 1) ‘No 4. Henry Feilde 1642’. c.1642.
Bookplates of Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary, and of the Rev. Charles Winn (1795-1874), of Nostell Priory, Yorkshire. Christie's, 2 July 1975, lot 229, to H.P. Kraus. Sotheby's, New York, 17 December 1992, lot 95.
Facsimile example in Sotheby's sale catalogue.
EsR 87
Copy of the first three stanzas only, untitled, here beginning ‘Ther was a tyme yn sille Bees did speak’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in various hands, including seventeen poems by Carew, a title-page inscribed ‘A book of Verses / Seria mixta Jocis’, c.260 pages, in calf blind-stamped ‘V/I F 1667’. References to ‘Westminster Drollerie’ (which was not published until 1671) added on pp. 1 and 242. c.1667-8.
Inscribed on the title-page ‘Frendraught Legi’: i.e. by James Crichton (d.1674/5), second Viscount Frendraught. Bookplate of Thomas Fraser Duff (1830-77), of Woodcote, Oxfordshire. Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 9 April 1987, lot 272 (with a facsimile of p. 131 in the sale catalogue), sold to Quaritch.
EsR 88
Copy of the fifteen-stanza version, headed ‘honi soit qui mal y pense’, subscribed ‘R Diuereux. Essex’.
In: the MS described under EsR 26. c.1630.
This MS text collated in May, pp. 128-32.
EsR 89
Copy of the fourteen-stanza version, untitled.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, 89 leaves, in old calf gilt. Partly compiled (pp. 75-99) by one Robert Berkeley, who has inscribed the first page ‘Rob Berkeley his booke Ano. 1640’. c.1640s.
Formerly owned by Henry Huth (1815-78). Formerly Rosenbach 195.
This MS text collated in May, pp. 128-32.
EsR 90
Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, untitled, subscribed ‘finis Essex’.
In: A quarto volume of verse and prose by or relating to Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, iv + 39 leaves, in limp vellum. Chiefly in a single professional secretary hand, some verse written on the front and rear endpapers in a different hand. Early 17th century.
Bookplate of James W. Ellsworth.
This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.
EsR 91
Copy of a nine-stanza version, in a cursive secretary hand, inscribed in another hand ‘Sr Walter Rawley’, untitled, here beginning ‘There was a tyme when sillie bees could speake’, on both sides of a single folio leaf. Early 17th century.
EsR 92
Copy of a fifteen-stanza version, headed ‘The Earle of Essex his Bee’, here beginning ‘There was a Time when silly bees coulde speake’.
In: the MS described under EsR 17. c.1630s.
Edited from this MS in Wood article, pp. 188-90. Collated from that article in May, pp. 128-32.
(3) Poems Eroneously Attributed to Essex
‘Can she excuse my wrongs with vertues cloake’
First published in John Dowland, The First Booke of Songes or Ayres (London, 1597). Discussed and attribution to Essex rejected in May, Poems, pp. 114-15. EV 4476.
EsR 93
Copy, in a musical setting.
In: A set of four oblong quarto music part books (Cantus, Quintus, Altus, Tenor and Bassus), including verses, ranging from 24 to 30 leaves each, in half-red calf marbled boards. Compiled chiefly by Thomas Hamond (d.1662), of Cressners, in the parish of Hawkdons, Suffolk. c.1630s.
Also inscribed ‘Marie Hammond’.
EsR 94
Copy, under a general heading ‘Songes & Dittyes to ye Lute & Viol de gambo’, with a sidenote ‘Mr Jno Dowland’.
In: the MS described under EsR 27. c.1596-1633.
EsR 95
Copy in: A notebook of verse and prose, in several hands, written from both ends over a period, 73 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. Compiled and written principally by Dudley North, third Baron North (1581-1666). Early 17th century.
Sotheby's, 29 October 1975, lot 149.
EsR 96
Copy, in a musical setting.
In: MS volume of musical pieces. Late 16th-early 17th century.
EsR 97
Copy of the incipit only, in a musical setting by John Dowland.
In: The lute book of John Dowland, partly in his hand, 34 leaves. c.1600.
A facsimile edition of this volume published as The Folger ‘Dowland’ Manuscript, intro. Ian Harwood (Lute Society, 2003).
‘There is none, oh none but you’
See CmT 104-105.
‘Welcome sweet Death the kindest freind I have’
Discussed and attribution to Essex rejected in May, Poems, p. 115.
EsR 98
Copy, headed ‘Essex laste Voyage to the hauen of Happiness’.
In: the MS described under EsR 51. Early 17th century.
Prose
Apology
First published, addressed to Anthony Bacon, as An Apologie of the Earle of Essex, against those which jealously and maliciously tax him to be the hinderer of the peace and quiet (London, [1600]), but immediately suppressed. Reprinted in 1603.
EsR 99
Copy, the full title-page dated ‘Anno: 1598’.
In: A folio volume of state tracts and letters, in a single accomplished mixed hand, i + 352 pages, in contemporary limp vellum with ties. Possibly in the hand of Edward Paynton or Peyton, whose name, dated 1633, also appears in ‘A Discourse of Court and Courtiers’ in HMC MS No. 266. c.1630.
Woburn bookplate dated 1873, but probably owned earlier at the time of the fourth Earl of Bedford.
Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 2.
EsR 100
Copy, in two secretary hands, with various deletions and alterations.
In: the MS described under EsR 51. Early 17th century.
EsR 101
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, 26 octavo leaves (plus blanks). c.1600.
EsR 102
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in various secretary and italic hands, 90 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. c.1625.
EsR 103
Copy in a secretary hand. c.1600.
In: A quarto composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, 160 leaves, in half-calf.
EsR 104
Copy, in a professional secretary hand. Early 17th century.
In: the MS described under EsR 4. 17th century.
EsR 105
A fragment of a copy, on three folio leaves, the rest missing. Early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of letters and state papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 237 leaves, in 17th-century calf (rebacked).
EsR 106
Copy in: A folio volume of state letters and tracts, in professional hands, 64 leaves (plus blanks). c.1620s.
A flyleaf inscribed with the text of a settlement between Thomas Bancke of London and John Semens of Yarmouth, Norfolk.
EsR 107
Copy, closely written in Dr Clay's hand. c.1600.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in English and Latin, in various hands, 155 leaves, in limp vellum.
Inscribed (several times), by the principal compiler, ‘ex dono D. Clay’: i.e. Dr Robert Clay (1576?-1628), vicar of Halifax.
EsR 109
Copy. c.1630.
In: A large folio composite volume of state tracts, in English and Latin, in various professional hands, i + 488 leaves, in modern calf.
Among the collections of Browne Willis (1682-1760), antiquary, of Whaddon Hall, near Winslow, Buckinghamshire.
This volume discussed, with a facsimile of f. 92r (Plate IV after p. 272) in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), pp. 176-8.
EsR 110
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled. Early 17th century.
In: the MS described under EsR 7. Chiefly mid-18th century.
EsR 111
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand. Early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and verses, in two or more hands, 18 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf on marbled boards. Collected by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.
EsR 112
Copy in: the MS described under EsR 19. c.1600s-1638.
EsR 113
Copy, in a professional secretary hand.
In: A folio letterbook of Sir Henry Unton (c.1558-96), diplomat and soldier, as Ambassador to France from 25 June 1591 to 12 June 1592, in several professional secretary hands, iii + 174 leaves, in modern half red morocco. c.1600.
Inscribed (f. iiir) ‘OL: Luke. 1679. Xber 8’: i.e. by Oliver Luke (1626-1708), son of the parliamentary army officer Sir Samuel Luke (1603-70), of Cople, Bedfordshire. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 1844 (Bright sale), lot 263. Sir Thomas Phillipps, Phillipps MS 11774. Sotheby's, 24-28 April 1911 (Phillipps sale), lot 1043.
EsR 114
Copy, in three secretary hands. Early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, 263 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary limp vellum, with ties. In various hands, including the ‘Feathery Scribe’.
Yelverton MS 69, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.
Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 43.
EsR 115
Copy, in a professional italic hand, with corrections in another hand, in a sewn quarto booklet of 25 leaves, the first leaf imperfect. c.1600s.
In: A quarto composite volume of state tracts, speeches and sermons, in various hands, 141 leaves, unbound. Volume CCCLIX (Series II) of the Dropmore Papers: papers of William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville (1759-1834), Prime Minister, of Dropmore House, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, and associated families.
EsR 116
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, entitled ‘The Earle of Essex his Apologie’ and dated ‘1601’, on 14 folio leaves. Early 17th century.
Volume CLXX of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Add 16/11.
EsR 117
Copy, headed ‘The Earle of Essexe Appollegy for his proceedinges at Cales’, in the hand of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), merchant and antiquary; imperfect. c.1610s-20s.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers and tracts relating to Admiralty matters principally during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, 458 leaves, badly damaged by the fire of 1732, in modern crushed morocco gilt. In various largely professional hands, including (ff. 56r-7v, 336r-8r) that of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), merchant and antiquary.
EsR 118
Copy in: A quarto volume of state and philosophical tracts, in several hands, 75 leaves, in modern quarter crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
EsR 119
Copy in: A quarto volume of tracts relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in a professional cursive secretary hand, 72 leaves, in old calf gilt within modern quarter-morocco. c.1600s.
EsR 120
Copy in: A quarto volume of state tracts, 30 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. c.Early 1600s.
EsR 121
Copy in: A small folio volume of state tracts and letters, in a professional secretary hand, sixteen leaves, in modern crushed morocco. Early 17th century.
EsR 122
Copy in: An octavo miscellany of tracts, in a single predominantly secretary hand, 52 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Early 17th century.
Among the collections of John Patrick (1632-95), religious controversialist.
EsR 123
Copy, in a professional secretary hand. Early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters and tracts, in various professional hands, 240 leaves (plus blanks), now in four volumes, in modern quarter-calf.
Cambridge University Library, MS Kk. 1. 3 , I, Item 2, ff. 2r-12v.
EsR 124
Early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in various professional hands, 124 leaves (including blanks), in half-calf on marbled boards.
EsR 125
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, the first page numbered at the top ‘16’. c.1600s.
In: A tall folio composite volume of state tracts and a Latin play and verses, in various hands, 510 largely unnumbered pages, in reversed calf.
Among the collections of Christopher Hunter (1675-1757), Durham antiquary and physician.
EsR 126
Copy, in three or more secretary hands. Early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of tracts and papers, in various hands, 250 leaves, in modern leather.
Emmanuel College, Cambridge, MS 181 (III. 1. 13), V, ff. 1r-13v.
EsR 127
Copy, in a secretary hand, on twelve quarto leaves, in modern red morocco gilt. c.1600.
EsR 128
Copy, in a professional secretary hand.
In: A large volio volume of state papers, tracts and speeches, in several professional largely secretary hands, 484 pages (including numerous blanks), in half calf on marbled boards. c.1630.
Bookplates of Captain Henry B.H. Beaufoy, FRS (1786-1851), and of William T. Smedley (1851-1934), Baconian.
EsR 129
Copy, in several secretary hands. c.1600s.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, ii + 91 leaves, virtually disbound.
EsR 130
Copy, ‘1597’ in margin.
In: A thick folio volume of state letters and tracts, a number relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in several largely secretary hands, 271 leaves, in contemporary calf (rebacked). Early 1600s.
Inscribed (front pastedown) ‘Die veneris. Julij: 1o 1601. per me Richardu Greenen’ and ‘Thomas Scott’; (f. 3r) ‘G. Scott’; (f. 271v) ‘Thomas Scott’, ‘Thomas Payne’, ‘Willm Scott’. Bookplate ‘Ex Libris Chambrun-Longworth’. Formerly Folger MS 6185.1
This volume discussed in James G. McManaway, ‘Elizabeth, Essex, and James’, in Elizabethan and Jacobean Studies Presented to Frank Percy Wilson (Oxford, 1959), pp. 219-30 (p. 221 et seq.).
EsR 132
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on seven folio leaves, the first page foliated ‘99’, the work dated 1598. Early 1600s.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters, tracts, parliamentary speeches, etc., in various professional hands, c.160 leaves, in contemporary calf.
A flyleaf inscribed ‘This belongs to Mrs Carewe of Crowcombe, Co. Somerset / T Philli’: i.e.formerly among the Carew MSS at Crowcombe Court, Somerset, and borrowed at some time by Sir Thomas Phillips, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector.
Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 373.
EsR 134
Copy in: A large folio volume of prose tracts, verse, and devotional material, in a single secretary hand but for a series of engrossed indentures in a formal professional hand on ff. 3r-17v, written from both ends (ff. 1r-84v and ff. 1ar-51av respectively), 134 leaves in all. c.1603.
Inscribed names ‘Gilbert Rye’ and ‘William Norris’ and a reference (on f. 6av) to ‘Doctor Gylbart’.
The entries were at one time given separate library EL numbers ranging (intermittently) from EL 1183c to EL 6172 at one end and from EL 1183a to EL 6206 from the reverse end.
This MS also classified as EL 1205d.
EsR 135
Copy in: An oblong quarto volume of transcripts of state letters up to 1627, closely written in two professional secretary hands, 39 leaves, in a late 16th-century vellum deed wrapper (now within modern green morocco gilt). c.1627-30s.
Phillipps MS 10665.
EsR 136
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on nine large folio leaves (plus one blank), disbound. c.1600.
EsR 138
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on 22 quarto leaves. c.1600s.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters and tracts, in various hands, 488 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.
EsR 139
Copy, in a professional secretary hand. c.1600s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, relating to Elizabethan voyages, in various hands, 475 leaves, in modern calf.
The first item inscribed (f. 1r) ‘This boke ys myn / Iohn fford’. Among papers of the Carew family.
EsR 140
Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed ‘Apology of ye old Earl of Essex’, on 21 quarto leaves. Early 17th century.
In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous verse and prose, in various hands, 24 items, unfoliated, in old calf (rebacked).
Among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.
EsR 141
Copy, closely written in a cursive secretary hand, on both sides of seven folio leaves, somewhat faded, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1600s.
In: A tall folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 127 items, unfoliated, in old black morocco gilt.
Volume V of the collections of Edmund Gibson (1669-1748), Bishop of London.
EsR 142
Copy, in two professional secretary hands, on twelve folio leaves, frayed and slightly imperfect. c.1600.
In: A tall folio guardbook of miscellaneous letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 208 leaves.
One in a group of papers here relating to Essex and his rebellion bought at Sotheby's, 20 February 1978, lot 137.
EsR 143
Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, seven + iii folio leaves, unbound. c.1600s.
EsR 143.5
Copy in: the MS described under EsR 86. c.1642.
EsR 144
Copy, headed ‘To Mr Anthonie Bacon An Appollogie of the Earle of Essex againste those wch falselie & malitiously take him to be the onlie hindraunce of the peace & quiett of his countrye’, on leaves numbered 1-23.
In: the MS described under EsR 90. Early 17th century.
EsR 145
Copy, in an accomplished professional secretary hand. c.1600s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and letters, in several hands, 121 leaves, in 17th-century calf.
With a later title-page (f. [iiir]), ‘Leycesters Common-wealth...Together with other Political Papers written or Collected by Mr Beaupre Bell...De Beauprè Hall in Com: Norf: 1726’. Inscribed inside the front cover by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary, ‘Sept. 1. 1733. This MS. belongs to Beaupré Bell Junior, Esq. Tho: Hearne’.
Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R. 5. 18 (James 713), ff. 107r-16v.
EsR 146
Copy, in a professional secretary hand. c.1620s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional secretary hand, with a table of contents, i + 221 pages (including some blanks), in old vellum boards. Early-mid-17th century.
Old pressmark E. 1. 36.
EsR 147
Copy, in one professional secretary hand, 64 octavo pages, in (now tipped-in at the end) a recycled vellum indenture, within later boards. Early 17th century.
The original wrapper is an indenture of Sir Edward Osborne, leasing land in Harthill, Yorkshire, to Humfry Bark, 14 November 1586. The volume was once owned by Sir Julius Caesar (1558-1636), Master of the Rolls. His sale December 1757. Bookplate of Horace Walpole (1717-97), fourth Earl of Orford, author, politician, and patron. Bought at his sale in 1842. In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 11788. Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.
EsR 148
Copy, in two professional secretary hands. c.1600s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, 118 leaves, in vellum boards.
Inscribed (f. [ir]) ‘Given me by T.H.L. from The Library of his gt Grand.father. the Revd. J[ohn]. Parkhurst, M.A. [1728-97] The Hebrew Lexicographer’.In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 16896. Bookplate of Frederick Leigh Colvile (1818-86). Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.
University of London, Senate House Library, MS 300, ff. 48r-60r.
EsR 149
Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, dated 1599, inscribed ‘imprinted at 1633’. Early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional secretary hands, with (ff. 4r-6r) a table of contents, 222 leaves, in old half-calf.
Stamped (f. 1r) with name of Sir Richard Betenson, Bt (? the first Baronet, d.1679, of Hatton Garden, Holborn). Thomas Thorpe, ‘Catalogue of books, ancient and modern...[and] manuscripts’, Part 2 (1823), item 5903. In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 2519. Sotheby's, 21 March 1895 (Phillipps sale), lot 301. Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.
University of London, Senate House Library, MS 309, ff. 208r-40v.
EsR 150
Copy, the work dated 1598.
In: A folio volume of texts relating to Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, in two or more professional hands, 150 leaves, in modern boards.
EsR 151
Copy. 17th century.
Owned before 1697 by Thomas Brotherton, of Hey, Lancashire.
Recorded in Edward Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ, [ed. Humphrey Wanley] (Oxford, 1697).
Discourse on War with Spain
Written as a letter to an unnamed gentleman, probably to Sir Robert Cecil, and possibly intended ultimately for the Queen, giving an account and justification of the Cadiz expedition and proposing various measures for dealing with Spain.
Unpublished in full. An altered version of the first few pages was published from a MS in the British Library, Cotton MS Julius F. VI, ff. 280r-1r, in Thomas Lediard, The Naval History of England in all its branches (2 vols, London, 1735), pp. 337-9.
*EsR 152
Autograph draft, with copious revisions, written on board his ship the Due Repulse on Essex's return from the Cadiz expedition, with some deletions and additions in another hand, 32 folio leaves, imperfect, [c.early August 1596]. 1596.
From the Hulton papers relating to Essex. Sotheby's sale catalogue ‘Elizabeth and Essex. The Hulton Papers’ (14 December 1992), lot 4, with facsimiles of two pages. Phillips's sale catalogue ‘The Earl of Essex to Elizabeth I’ (11 June 1999), lot 250, with facsimiles of two pages.
First Letter of Advice to the Earl of Rutland
The letter, dated from Greenwich, 4 January [1596], beginning ‘My Lord, I hold it for a principle in the course of intelligence of state...’.
First published, as ‘The Late E. of E. his aduice to the E. of R. in his trauels’, in Profitable Instructions; Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 27-73. Francis Bacon, Resuscitatio (London, 1657), pp. 106-10. Spedding, IX, 6-15. W.B. Devereux, Lives and Letters of the Devereux, Earls of Essex (1853), I, No. xciii.
Essex's three letters to Rutland discussed by Paul E.J. Hammer in ‘The Earl of Essex, Fulke Greville, and the Employment of Scholars’, SP. 91/2 (Spring, 1994), 167-80, and in ‘Letters of Travel Advice from the Earl of Essex to the Earl of Rutland: Some Comments’, PQ, 74/3 (Summer 1995), 317-22. It is likely that the first letter was written substantially by Francis Bacon.
EsR 153
Copy, untitled but subscribed ‘The Earle of Essex to the Earle of Rutland’. Early 17th century.
In: the MS described under EsR 36.
EsR 154
Copy, headed ‘The Erle of Essex letter to the Erle of Rutland’.
In: A tall folio commonplace book of miscellaneous extracts, in a single hand, 139 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Entirely in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician. c.1620s-30s.
Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1. Recorded (as the ‘Bedford MS’) in Peter Beal, ‘More Donne Manuscripts’, John Donne Journal, 6/2 (1987), 213-18 (p. 213).
EsR 155
Copy, headed ‘A letter sent by the Earle of Essex to the Earle of Rutland before his travaile beyond the seas in Anno 1595’. c.1640.
In: A folio volume of political tracts and letters, in a single secretary hand, 57 leaves, in contemporary vellum. The lower vellum cover inscribed ‘Book of noates collected out of Mr Traffords Sermons & others’. Early 17th century.
EsR 156
Copy, headed ‘The Earle of Essex letter to the Earle of Rutland before his Travell very learnedly pennd’, in a mixed hand, undated. Early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and letters, in various hands, 297 leaves, in calf (rebacked). Early-mid-17th century.
EsR 157
Copy, headed The Earle of Essex to the Earle of Rutland, and dated 4 January 1594.
In: the MS described under EsR 106. c.1620s.
EsR 158
Copy, headed in another hand ‘A letter I suppose from the Ld Chancellor Bacon to a young Lord intending to travell’.
In: A folio commonplace book of miscellaneous historical material, in Latin and English, iii + 145 leaves (including blanks), in vellum. Originally used as a commonplace book by ‘T. Metcalf’ in 1598 (up to f. 63v), and then by James Ussher (1581-1656), Archbishop of Armagh. First half of 17th century.
EsR 159
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The Earle of Essex advice to the Earle of Rutland in his Travailes’, the letter dated ‘this 4th of Ju.’.
In: the MS described under EsR 6. c.1620s.
EsR 160
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed The late Earle of Essex his Advice to the Earle of Rutland in his Trauailes, dated from Greenwich ‘the 4th of Jan: 1596’, with the postscript. c.1630.
In: A folio composite volume of political speeches and tracts, in various professional hands, 108 leaves, in old vellum.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Sum Umfreville 1740’: i.e. by Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts. Bookplate of Horace Walpole (1717-97), fourth Earl of Orford, author, politician and patron. Strawberry Hill sale, 30 April 1842, lot 86.
EsR 161
Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, headed ‘A letter of my Lo; of Essex Written to the Earle of Rutland going to travell’, dated ‘Ano 1597’, on seven pages of four folio leaves. Early 17th century.
In: A double-folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 174 leaves, in modern half red morocco.
Assembled from various sources.
EsR 162
Copy, in a professional flourished secretary hand, imperfect.
In: the MS described under EsR 113. c.1600.
EsR 163
Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed ‘To the Right H: ye Erle of Rutland By Henry Savall’, on four quarto leaves, imperfect, lacking the last section. Early 17th century.
In: A quarto composite volume of twelve folio and quarto leaves, in three hands, in 19th-century half red morocco gilt. Early-mid-17th centry.
Acquired from M.C. Hamilton 11 November 1873.
EsR 164
Copy, in two coloured inks, headed ‘Robart Earle of Essex to the late Earle of Rutland’, the letter here dated from Greenwich 4 January ‘1594’, under a general heading (on f. 191r) ‘Three lres concerninge Travaile & Travailors’.
In: An octavo volume of transcripts of state tracts and letters, iii + 227 leaves (including blanks) in all, in calf. Mainly in three hands, with later additions in c.1683-99.
Inscribed names including Anthony, Thomas and John Marshall, Jonas Ramsden, Jenkinson, Thomas Maleverer, and Lawson. Owned c.1670s-90s by the family of Sir Thomas Seyliard, third Baronet (d.1701), of Delawarre, Kent. Later note: ‘Bought this Manuscript at Montague's Book warehouse near Queen Street Lincoln's Inn Fields Tuesday Feb: 12 1739’. Later armorial bookplate apparently of the Appleyard family of either Yorkshire or Norfolk. Phillips, 20 March 1998, lot 467, to Quaritch.
EsR 165
Copy, closely written in a cursive mixed hand, headed ‘The Earle of Essex advice to the Earle of Rutl: in his travels’. c.1640s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, 200 leaves, in modern crushed morocco gilt.
EsR 166
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed ‘The Earle of Essex his aduise to the Earle of Rutland in his Journey’. Early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, speeches and miscellaneous papers, in several hands, vi + 361 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt.
EsR 167
Copy, in a small secretary hand, headed ‘The Earle of Essex advise to the Earle of Rutland in his Jorny’, and dated ‘Jan: 4:’.
In: A folio volume of state papers and speeches, in several secretary hands, 124 leaves, in modern mottled calf gilt. Early 17th century.
EsR 168
Copy, headed ‘A letter written by the late Earle of Essex to the late Earle of Rutland, wherein he giues him directions how to make the best vse of his travailes’, the second of ‘Three Letters conserning one subiect...All giueing directions to their said frinds how to make the best of their Travailles’.
In: A folio miscellany of tracts, letters, plays and verse, for the most part in a single secretary hand, partly on inserted sheaves of long narrow ledger-size leaves, written from both ends, 248 leaves, in contempoary vellum with metal clasps. Compiled by a University of Cambridge man. Early 17th century.
Inscribed at the end ‘Josephus Diggins me possedit’: i.e. by Joseph Diggins, of Clare Hall, Cambridge (matric. 1607, d.1658). Christie's, 5 December 1973, lot 84, to Hofmann & Freeman.
EsR 169
Copy, lacking the first paragraph, here beginning ‘Your lordship's purpose is to travel...’.
In: A folio volume of state tracts and letters, c.480 pages. c.1625-30s.
Inscribed on the rear cover ‘Robert Wingfield his Booke witnes Barbary Wingfield’. Among the Tabley House MSS and once owned by Sir Peter Leycester (1614-78), antiquary.
Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, pp. 47-8.
EsR 170
Copy, untitled., subscribed ‘Jan: 4: H: S:’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, much relating to the Fane and Mildmay families, in a single predominantly italic hand, 130 leaves, in contemporary calf, remains of silk ties. Compiled by Sir Francis Fane (c.1612-80), of Fulbeck Hall, Northamptonshire, with his signed dedications to his son Henry (ff. 2r-v, 130r) dated respectively 1 January ‘1655’ and ‘20th. of Augt: 1663’. c.1655-63.
EsR 171
Copy, headed ‘The Earle of Essex to the Earle of Rutland. Jan: 4: 1594’.
In: the MS described under EsR 130. Early 1600s.
EsR 172
Copy, with postscript.
In: A large folio volume of state letters and of speeches in the Star Chamber, in a single secretary hand, 45 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum, damaged by corrosive seepage of ink. Early 17th century.
EsR 173
Copy, headed ‘The Erle of Essex his aduice to ye E: of R: in his Travels’, dated from Greenwich, 4 January ‘1596’.
In: An octavo volume of essays on travel, largely in one professional secretary hand, a ‘Table’ and some notes in other hands, with a formal title-page ‘Itineraria Collectanea or Instructions for A Traveler Directing him how to make the best use of his Travels Together with the Politique survay of A Kingdome’, 107 pages (plus blanks), in old vellum boards. c.1630.
This MS recorded in BC, 15 (Summer 1966), p. 156.
EsR 174
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, subscribed ‘R. E.’, and with a postscript.
In: the MS described under EsR 83. Early 17th century-1672.
National Library of Wales, Wynne (Bodewryd) MS 6, ff. 77r-82r, 83v-4r.
EsR 175
Copy, headed ‘The Erle of Essex advise to the Erle of rutlande in his travell’. Early 17th century.
In: An account book of the Cartwright estates in Nottinghamshire, 161 leaves, in contemporary leather. c.1560-1715.
EsR 176
Copy, untitled, the letter dated 4 January [no year] and subscribed ‘H: S:’.
In: A small octavo prose miscellany, compiled by Sir Francis Fane (c.1612-80), ii + 242 pages (plus 182 blank pages). Inscribed by Fane to his son, as a book of travels to comfort him, dated from Aston, 1 January ‘1655’. One later entry dated 1659. c.1650s.
Sold by Maggs, 29 May 1930.
EsR 177
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘A lre written by the Earle of Essex to the Earle of Rutland touching the direction of his travell Januarie 1594’. c.1595-1600s.
In: the MS described under EsR 145.
Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R. 5. 18 (James 713), ff. 69r-72r.
EsR 178
Extracts, headed ‘Notes taken out of a letter of the Earle of Essex to the Earle of Rutland being to travill’.
In: A quarto commonplace book of extracts from state and legal writings, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, 118 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Compiled entirely by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. c.Mid-1630s.
Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
EsR 179
Copy, in a small secretary hand, headed ‘The Earle of Essex to ye Earle of Rutlande before his travell...’, on all four pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves. Early 17th century.
EsR 180
Copy, in a secretary hand.
In: A folio autograph letterbook of Sir Thomas Hoby (1539-66), courtier and translater, as Ambassador to France, with later additions in a secretary hand and annotations by his second son, Sir Thomas Posthumus Hoby, 90 pages, in paper covers. c.1566-1600s.
Christie's, 3 December 1986, lot 279, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue, p. 37.
Second Letter of Advice to the Earl of Rutland
The letter lacking a date, beginning ‘My good Lord, The last I sent to your Lordship was so long...’. Spedding, IX, 16-18. This letter, probably by neither Essex nor Bacon, is related to one normally attributed to Fulke Greville and perhaps originally composed by Sir Thomas Bodley: see GrF 16-23.
EsR 181
Copy of a variant version, in a predominantly italic hand, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, the second leaf with possible signature partly torn away, the verso bearing a spot of red wax. c.1596.
In: A tall folio composite volume of letters and papers of Francis Bacon, in various hands and paper sizes, with a fourteen-leaf table of contents, 282 items, unfoliated, in old black morocco gilt. Volume VIII of the collections of Edmund Gibson (1669-1748), Bishop of London.
Edited from this MS in The Works of Francis Bacon, ed. James Spedding et al. (London, (1857-74), IX, 16-18.
Third Letter of Advice to the Earl of Rutland
The letter dated from St Albans 16 October [1596] and beginning ‘My Lord, Since you have required of me some advice now at the very instant of your going...’. Spedding IX, 19-20.
*EsR 182
The original letter sent by Essex to Rutland. In the secretary hand of an amanuensis, with an eleven-line autograph addition signed by Essex (beginning ‘This was written yester=night att St Albons...’), on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, addressed on the fourth page. 16 October [1596].
From the papers of the Hulton family, probably deriving from the third Earl of Essex's papers via his executors' lawyer, William Jessop, whose daughter married William Hulton in 1694. Sotheby's, Elizabeth and Essex: The Hulton Papers, 14 December 1992, lot 7, with a facsimile of the second page in the sale catalogue. Photocopies are in the British Library, RP 6340 (iv). Formerly MS Add 1039.
EsR 183
Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, headed ‘Another of the E of Essex lres written to the same Earle vppon his departure’, on two pages of two folio leaves, endorsed on f. 99v ‘Letters ffrom my lo: of Essex to the E: of Rutlans going to travell:’. Early 17th century.
In: the MS described under EsR 161.
EsR 184
Copy, headed ‘A Letter of aduice touching trauell written to the Earl of Essex by a frend’, subscribed ‘Essex’.
In: A folio composite volume of letters and state papers, in various professional largely secretary hands, ff. 80r-160v an imperfect single unit, 346 leaves, in modern half red morocco gilt. c.1630s.
Inscribed (f. 3r) ‘Sum Ed: Umfrevile Janrio 1727’: i.e. Edward Umfreville (1702?-(1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts.
Fourth Letter of Advice to the Earl of Rutland
The letter probably addressed to the Earl of Rutland, dated 26 May [1596?], and beginning ‘Noble l. I am surprised by yr man thatt now letts me know he is going to yw...’. First published in the school magazine The Rossallian, 15 December 1903.
*EsR 185
Autograph letter signed, two conjugate folio leaves, dated 26 May [1596?]. [1596].
Formerly among the Hulton papers relating to the Earl of Essex. Donated by the owner of Hulton Park, Lancashire, to Rossall School, Fleetwood, in 1903. Sotheby's, 16 December 2004, lot 28, with a facsimile of the first page in the sale catalogue.
Meditation
A prose meditation beginning ‘Since that tyme the sonne hath gone about the world and inspired liefe...’ and ending ‘...wch is noe guift, except ye ptie wch psenteth the guift be given wth it.’ Unpublished?
EsR 186
Copy, in Birch's hand, transcribed from EsR 0000.
In: the MS described under EsR 7. Chiefly mid-18th century.
EsR 187
Copy, headed ‘Meditacon’, and indexed (in the table of contents on f. 1v in another hand) as ‘The Earle of Essex Meditacon’.
In: the MS described under EsR 33. Early 17th century.
EsR 188
Copy in: the MS described under EsR 34. c.1745.
Opinion upon the Articles propounded by the Earl of Essex upon the Alarum given by the Spaniards in 1596
See RaW 699-700.
Dramatic Works
The Earle of Essex his deuice one the Queens day before he was to run at Tilte: the 17th Nobr. 34 Eliz.
The Accession Day entertainment 1595, at least partly written by Francis Bacon.
See BcF 308-315.
Miscellaneous
Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1
EsR 189
Copy in: A small quarto volume of state tracts and letters, in a single professional secretary hand, 149 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Early 17th century.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Devereux Papers, Vol. VII, ff. 147v-9r.
EsR 190
Copy in: A folio composite volume of state letters, speeches and other papers, in various hands and paper sizes, x + 315 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.
Collected and partly written by Elias Ashmole (1617-92).
EsR 191
Copy, in a secretary hand. c.1600s.
In: A folio composite volume of copies of state letters and papers, in several professional hands, i + 23 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf.
The majority of the MS items here once owned by Sir Edward Dering, first Baronet (1598-1644), antiquary and religious controversialist. Portions of this volume once in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MSS 22355 snd 34574. Sotheby's, 6 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lot 847. Bequeathed in 1816 by Captain C. S. Harris.
EsR 194
Copy in: A folio composite volume of state tracts and letters, in several largely professional secretary hands, 372 leaves, differing sizes, in modern half-calf.
Scribbling before and in the first item including ‘Thomas Rastewell hys Booke’, ‘Johannes Barker’ (in court hand), ‘Thomas Tamkine’ (? Thomas Tomkins), and ‘Thomas Cooke’.
EsR 197
Copy in: A double-folio-size composite volume of historical tracts and papers, many relating to state arraignments, in a single professional secretary hand up to p. 527, xxiv + 552 pages (plus blank pp. 553-684), in red morocco elaborately gilt. c.1610 [with addition to c.1630].
Presented to the Bodleian in 1620 by Sir Peter Manwood (1571-1625), judge and antiquary.
EsR 198
Copy in: A folio composite volume of papers on antiquarian and state matters, in various hands, 207 leaves, in half-calf.
EsR 202
Copy in: A folio volume of miscellaneous and historical tracts and papers, chiefly written by Robert Nalson, 607 leaves.
Owned by another Robert Nalson in 1686 and later by Edward Taylor.
EsR 204
Copy in: A folio volume of state documents, speeches and verse, 284 leaves (plus blanks), in modern calf gilt. Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 27 of the Hopkinson MSS. Chiefly transcribed from papers belonging to John Savile, Baron of Pontefract, and Edward Taylor, of Furnivall's Inn, Holborn. 1674.
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. 298.
EsR 206
Copy, in a neat italic hand. 18th century?
In: A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous documents, in several professional hands, 230 leaves.
EsR 207
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, 12 folio leaves, in modern half-calf on marbled boards. Early 17th century.
Purchased from Boone, 14 March 1857.
EsR 208
Copy of an account of the ‘speeches’ on 8 February 1600/1, in a rounded hand, inscribed in a later hand ‘Another Account from another contemporary MS. in the same collection’.
In: A quarto volume of accounts relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in three hands, 36 leaves, in modern half-calf. Mid-17th century.
Sotheby's, 21 November 1863, in lot 248.
EsR 208.5
Copy of an account of the arraignment, in three hands.
In: the MS described under EsR 208. Mid-17th century.
EsR 209
Copy, in a secretary hand.
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.
EsR 210
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on eight quarto leaves. c.1601.
In: A double-folio composite volume of historical and theological tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 214 leaves, mounted on guards, in half green morocco. Volume III of the papers of Sir Thomas Tresham (1543-1605), of Rushton Hall, Northamptonshire, recusant. c.1600.
Presented by T.B. Clarke-Thornhill.
EsR 211
Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand. Early 17th century.
In: the MS described under EsR 114.
EsR 212
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on 17 leaves of an unbound quarto booklet in paper wrappers, ff. 18r-20r occupied by ‘Certaine other obseruacons taken out of some other coppies and here incerted’. Early 17th century.
Volume CLXVIII of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly in Berkshire Record Office, part of Add 21.
EsR 213
Copy in: A folio volume of texts relating to the second Earl of Essex, closely written in a professional secretary hand, 17 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century half-calf marbled boards. Early 17th century.
EsR 214
Copy in: A folio volume of state tracts and speeches, in two or more professional mixed hands, 91 leaves, in old calf gilt. c.1620s.
EsR 215
Copy in: the MS described under EsR 119. c.1600s.
EsR 216
Copy in: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various professional hands, 380 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
EsR 218
Copy, in a professional secretary hand.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, 196 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. Comprising papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.
Bookplate (as ‘Shelburne’) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.
EsR 219
Copy of a summary.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 272 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Among collections of John Strype (1643-1737), ecclesiastical historian and biographer, incorporating papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.
EsR 220
Copy in: A folio composite volume of papers relating to the rebellion of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, in professional secretary hands, sixteen leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.
EsR 221
Copy in: A folio volume of state tracts, in four probably professional secretary hands, 101 leaves, in modern quarter-morocco gilt. Early 17th century.
EsR 222
Copy, imperfect.
In: A quarto composite volume of state papers and tracts, in various hands, 212 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
EsR 223
Copy in: A quarto volume of state papers, nearly all in a single secretary hand, 74 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt. Early-mid-17th century.
EsR 224
Copy in: A small folio volume of state tracts, in a professional cursive secretary hand, 73 leaves, in old mottled leather. Early-mid-17th century.
Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, dated 1701.
EsR 225
Copy in: A folio volume of state tracts, speeches and accounts, written from both ends, 86 leaves, in contemporary calf.
EsR 226
Copy in: A folio composite volume of tracts and miscellaneous papers, in several hands, 160 leaves (including numerous blanks), in 19th-century half-calf. Compiled in large part by William Jackson, one of the ‘Custome Masters’ of Great Yarmouth.
EsR 227
Copy, imperfect.
In: A folio MS relating to the Essex Rebellion, in a professional secretary hand, 21 pages, in modern quarter-morocco. Early 17th century.
Among papers of the Knatchbull family, Barons Brabourne, of Mersham-le-Hatch, Kent.
EsR 228
Copy in: the MS described under EsR 169. c.1625-30s.
EsR 229
Copy in: the MS described under EsR 10.5. c.1600-1620s.
EsR 231
Copy of an abridged version, in a professional secretary hand. c.1600s.
In: the MS described under EsR 125.
EsR 233
Copy of the 8 February arraignment, headed ‘The manner of the proceedings of Robert Earle of Essex, and Henry Earle of Southampton, with their Arreignement...Written by Francis ap. Rice, and by him aproued of’.
In: A quarto volume of writings relating to the Earl of Essex and his rebellion, in two professional secretary hands, 162 leaves (including many blanks), in modern half morocco marbled boards. Early 17th century.
EsR 235
Copy 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).
EsR 237
Copy in: A folio volume of state tracts, in several secretary hands, with a title-page ‘A manuscript containing seuerall Discourses the heades thereof are in the next Page following...1641’, 350 pages, in half calf marbled boards. c.1642.
Bookplate of the Honourable Frederic North. Phillipps MS 7511. Sotheby's, 26 June 1967, lot 596 (incorrectly described as a commonplace book of Sir Thomas Crewe, Speaker of the House of Commons (d.1634)). Formerly Folger MS Add. 538.
A microfilm is in the British Library (RP 154).
EsR 238
Early 17th century.
In: A quarto composite volume of state and ecclesiastical tracts, speeches and letters, in several professional hands, 653 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum boards.
Inscribed names of ‘John Paman’ (p. 57), ‘Rob Hare’ (p. 81), ‘Rob Toynton’ (p. 294), and ‘Henry Myrielle’ (p. 656). Donated by William Moore by 1681.
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, MS 389/609, ff. 531r-53r.
EsR 239
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, i + thirteen folio leaves, disbound. Early 17th century.
Formerly MS 5119.
EsR 240
Copy, in a professional secretary hand.
In: A large quarto MS of arraignments, iv + 42 leaves, in modern reversed calf.
Inscribed ‘Lionel Tolmach -- 1600 of Bently’.
This MS described in Spedding, I, 322-3.
EsR 241
Copy, in a professional secretary hand. c.1630s.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, with (ff. 1r-2v) a table of contents, ii + 266 leaves, in red morocco gilt.
EsR 243
Copy of the arraignment on 28 February 1600/1, in a mixed hand, endorsed in italic ‘Essex and Southamptouns arreigment’. Early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of ecclesiastical and state papers from 1586 to 1709, in several hands, 228 leaves, rebound in two volumes in modern cloth.
Among the working papers and collections of Robert Wodrow (1679-1734), ecclesiastical historian.
National Library of Scotland, MS Wod Fol. XXVIII, ff. 7r-8v.
EsR 244
Copy in: the MS described under EsR 86. c.1642.
EsR 245
Copy in: A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in a single neat hand but for additions in other hands on pp. 183-226, 226 pages (including numerous blanks), in modern cloth. Compiled by Sir George Ent (1604-89), physician, a founding member of the Royal Society, to whom is addressed an inscription, sending the last item in the volume, on p. 226. c.1674-80.
EsR 246
Early 17th century.
In: A composite volume of state letters and papers.
Recorded in HMC 12th Report, Part IV, Rutland I (1888), pp. 370-3.
The Duke of Rutland, Belvoir Castle, Letters & Papers, Vol. XIV, [unspecified page numbers].
EsR 247
Copy in: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 270 leaves (including some blanks), in quarter-calf marbled boards.
Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R. 5. 12 (James 707), ff. 142r-9r.
EsR 248
Copy in: A folio volume of texts relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in one professional secretary hand, 22 leaves, in later boards. Early 17th century.
In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 26199. Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.
University of London, Senate House Library, MS 293, ff. 3r-21r.
EsR 249
Copy, in a secretary hand, dated ‘29th of February Ano Dni 1600’, subscribed with a note about the time of the arraignment in a rounded hand.
In: A quarto volume of state trials, largely in a single semi-calligraphic secretary hand associated with Henry Feilde, with decorated and patterned headings, probably another secretary hand on ff. 59r-76r, with (f. 2r) a list of contents in a flourished italic hand, 81 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum.
Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.
University of London, Senate House Library, MS 313, ff. 59r-73r.
EsR 250
Copy in: A folio miscellany, entitled ‘A Booke of Memorable Accidents and famous Arraignements with other worthy matters touchinge great personages agitated wthin this Realme of England in the Reignes of Queene Elizabeth and Kinge James’, compiled by William Bull, of the Middle Temple, 104 leaves, bound with other material by Henry Bull, Jr, and others, in half-calf. c.1620s.
Puttick & Simpson's, 11 November 1887, lot 1050. Briefly owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89, literary scholar and book collector. Bequeathed to his nephew and executor Ernest E. Baker. Acquired in 1960 from Emily Driscoll, manuscript dealer, New York.
EsR 251
Copy in: A folio booklet of texts relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in two secretary hands, eleven leaves, in a paper wrapper. Early 17th century.
EsR 252
Copy, with a formal title-page in italic script.
In: Accounts of the Earl of Essex's arraignment and execution, in a formal secretary hand, on 51 folio pages. Early 17th century.
A microfilm of this MS is in the British Library, RP 1683.
EsR 253
Copy, in two hands, twenty folio pages, disbound. Early 17th century.
In: Accounts of the Earl of Essex's arraignment and execution, in two MSS, in three hands, together with a quarto document signed by William Parr, Earl of Essex, 14 August 1544.
Later owned by W.A. Foyle (1885-1963), bookseller, of Beeleigh Abbey, Essex. Christie's, 12-13 July 2000 (W.A. Foyle sale, Part III), lot 313.
EsR 253.5
Copy, in the professional secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 25 folio leaves, in paper wrappers. c.1620s-30s.
Later in the collection of Donald Frizell Hyde (1909-66) and Mary Hyde (1912-2003), Viscountess Eccles. Christie's, New York, 14 April 2004 (Lady Eccles sale), lot 34.
A facsimile opening in the sale catalogue.
Essex's speech at his execution
Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.
EsR 254
Copy in: the MS described under EsR 51. Early 17th century.
EsR 257
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The mannr of the Executio of my L: of Essex’. c.1600s.
In: the MS described under EsR 191.
EsR 258
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘The manner of the execution of the sentence of death vppon the Late famous Robert Earlle of Essex wthin her Maties Touer of Londonn and the affecte of his speeches wch he vttered immediately before his death’, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1600s.
In: the MS described under EsR 191.
EsR 259
Copy, headed ‘The manner of the Earle of Essex his death in the Tower of London and his prayer’.
In: the MS described under EsR 3. c.1610.
EsR 260
Copy, headed ‘The Earle of Essex suffered upon Ashwednesday the .25. of ffebruarie 1600 within ye Tower of London betweene .7. and 8 of the Clocke in the Morninge / The manner of his death and the whole summe of such words as he did speake to the Guard ouernight before he died and his speeches from his chamber to the scaffold to the houre of his death...’. Early 17th century.
In: the MS described under EsR 194.
EsR 261
Copy, headed ‘The beheadinge of the Earl of Essex’. Early 17th century.
In: the MS described under EsR 194.
EsR 262
Copy, headed ‘The maner of my Lord of Essex his execucon’.
In: the MS described under EsR 102. c.1625.
EsR 263
Copy, with sidenotes (? in Archbishop Sancroft's hand), imperfect, lacking the ending.
In: the MS described under EsR 4. 17th century.
EsR 264
Copy, headed ‘The Earl of Essex his behavior speache and prayer at the tyme of his deathe’.
In: A folio compendium or entry book of state letters and other documents and memoranda, in various secretary and italic hands, 231 leaves (including numerous blanks), in modern half-calf. Compiled over a period, and partly written, by Sir Stephen Powle (c.1553-1630), Clerk of the Crown.
EsR 265
Copy of an account of the execution.
In: the MS described under EsR 197. c.1610 [with addition to c.1630].
EsR 266
Copy in: the MS described under EsR 197. c.1610 [with addition to c.1630].
EsR 267
Copy of an account of Essex's execution and ‘prayer at his death’, in a professional hand. Early 17th century.
In: the MS described under EsR 198.
EsR 269
Copy, headed ‘The Execution of Robert Earle of Essex in the Tower the 25th of ffebruary 1600’.
In: the MS described under EsR 204. 1674.
EsR 270
Copy, headed ‘my Lord of Essex his confession before his death the 25th of February vpon the scaffold Anno 43o Regine Elizabeth’, including ‘His prayer before his execution’.
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.
EsR 273
Copy, in a rounded hand, inscribed in a later hand ‘From a Contemporary Manuscript in the Collection of Mr Wilson’.
In: the MS described under EsR 208. Mid-17th century.
EsR 274
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The manner & end of the Earle of Essex in the tower of london the 25th of ffe: 1600’, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter. c.1602.
In: A large folio composite volume og miscellaneous papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 205 leaves, mounted on guards, in red morocco gilt. Papers of the Hatton and Finch families, including notably Christopher Hatton (1632-1706), first Viscount Hatton, Governor of Guernsey, and his son-in-law Daniel Finch (1647-1730), second Earl of Nottingham, Secretary of State.
EsR 275
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘A noate of what was done & of the speaches of the Earle of Essex at his deathe’. c.1601.
In: the MS described under EsR 210. c.1600.
EsR 276
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled. Early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 248 leaves, in modern crushed morocco gilt.
EsR 277
Copy of an account, headed ‘The execution of Robt Devereux late Earle of Essex the 25th of feb: 1600 wthin ye tower of London’.
In: A large folio miscellaneous compilation of verse and prose, chiefly in a single neat hand, written from both ends, 189 leaves, in contemporary vellum (rebound). Associated with the Freville family and probably assembled by Gilbert Frevile, of Bishop Middleham, Co. Durham, whose name appears on the cover with the date 1591. A pen-and-ink ornamental drawing at the end inscribed ‘Finis quoth G. W.’ c.1620s.
EsR 278
Copy, headed ‘Speeches of my Lo. of Essex the night before his execution out of his Chamber Wyndow to the yard and from his chamber to the place of execution and their as ffolloweth / 1600’.
In: the MS described under EsR 213. Early 17th century.
EsR 279
Copy of an account of the speech and execution, untitled, run on directly after the arraignment (EsR 214).
In: the MS described under EsR 214. c.1620s.
EsR 280
Copy, closely written in a secretary hand, headed ‘The executinge of the Erle of Essex’, on a single folio leaf with fold marks. c. Early 1600s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, papers and speeches, in various hands, 215 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.
EsR 281
Copy, headed ‘The true Copie in substance of Robert Devereux lat Earle of Essex his behevior speache and preyer at the tyme of his execution wthin the Tower of london 1600’.
In: the MS described under EsR 119. c.1600s.
EsR 282
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘A description of thexecucon of the Earle of Essex at the tower the 25 of ffebruary 1600’. Early 17th century.
In: the MS described under EsR 216.
EsR 283
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on a folio leaf. c.1601.
In: the MS described under EsR 218.
EsR 284
Copy, headed ‘The manr of the Earle of Essexe his deathe [etc.]’, on a single folio leaf.
In: the MS described under EsR 220.
EsR 285
Copy in: the MS described under EsR 221. Early 17th century.
EsR 286
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The Man[ner of] the death of the Earle of Essex...to his best Remembrance that hard it’, imperfect. Early 17th century.
In: the MS described under EsR 222.
EsR 287
Copy, headed ‘The speeches of Robert Earle of Essex the night before his execution out of his Chamber windowe to the guard, and from his chamber going to the place of Execution’, including an account of the execution itself.
In: the MS described under EsR 224. Early-mid-17th century.
EsR 288
Copy, in a secretary hand. Early 17th century.
In: the MS described under EsR 123.
Cambridge University Library, MS Kk. 1. 3 , I, Item 2, ff. 14v-15v.
EsR 289
Copy by Baker.
In: A folio volume of transcripts of historical and antiquarian papers, in Latin and English, made by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary, 476 pages, in old reversed calf. MS Baker 33.
EsR 290
Copy, headed ‘The Last Speech of Robert Devereux Earle of Essex Within The Tower of London the 25th day of ffebruary 1600’, including ‘The Earl of Essex his Prayer’.
In: the MS described under EsR 226.
EsR 291
Copy, headed ‘The description of ye executione of ye E: of Essex wthin ye tower the 25 of February / 1600/’.
In: the MS described under EsR 227. Early 17th century.
EsR 292
Copy in: the MS described under EsR 169. c.1625-30s.
EsR 293
Copy, headed ‘The Execution of the Earle of Essex’.
In: A quarto composite volume of historical memorials of English affairs up to 1625, 193 leaves, in half-vellum on marbled boards. Compiled chiefly by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary. Mid-late 17th century.
EsR 294
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Concerning the Earle of Essex execution and arrainement’. c.1600s.
In: the MS described under EsR 125.
EsR 295
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘The Manner and death of the Earll of Essex one A wensdaie the 25th of febriari 1600 in the Towr of London: as follow &c’. c.1600s.
In: the MS described under EsR 125.
EsR 296
Copy of an account of Essex's execution, including his speech and prayer.
In: Twelve unbound folio leaves, comprising two sets of texts (ff. 1r-8v a copy of a charter relating to Somerset), in a single cursive secretary hand, in paper wrappers. Early 17th century.
Inscribed (f. 12v) ‘Elizabeth James’.
EsR 298
Copy, headed ‘The manner of Robert Ea: of Ess: his / The manner of Robert Earle of Essex his execution’.
In: the MS described under EsR 233. Early 17th century.
Facsimile of ff. 86v-7r in Elizabeth I Then and Now, ed. Georgianna Ziegler (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, 2003), p. 70.
EsR 299
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘The manner & ende of Robte Earle of Essex in the Tower of London’, inscribed in the margin ‘25 febuarij 1600’.
In: the MS described under EsR 128. c.1630.
EsR 300
Copy, headed ‘The true copy in substance of the late Earle of Essex, his behauiour, speach and prayer, at the time of his execution’. Early 17th century.
In: the MS described under EsR 238.
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, MS 389/609, pp. 553r-6r.
EsR 301
Copy, headed ‘Speeches vsed by the Earle of Essex at his deathe’.
In: the MS described under EsR 79. Early 17th century.
EsR 302
Copy, headed ‘Thexecucon of Robert Earle of Essex,the xxvth of ffebruary beinge Ashwenday .1600. wthin ye Towr’.
In: the MS described under EsR 240.
EsR 303
Copy, headed The manner of the Earle of Essex his death, the whole sume of all words as hee spake to the Guard overnight before hee dyed, and his speeches from his Chamber to the Scaffoulde, and alsoe vpon the Scaffould at the howre of his death. Early-mid 17th century.
In: A volume of state papers relating to criminal trials, in three secretary hands, 392 pages.
EsR 304
Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed ‘The speech and Execution of the Earle of Essex’, on both sides of a single folio leaf. c.1601.
In: the MS described under EsR 241.
EsR 305
Copy of a verse account of Essex's speech and execution, in double columns, headed ‘Vppon the death of Robert Deuereux late Erle of Essex attaynted of treason’ (beginning ‘Swete Englands pride is gone’), subscribed ‘Finis. 29 die Decembr: 1606’, among other verses relating to him including (f. 60r-v) ‘A Lamentable mone of a Souldier for the losse of his derely beloued Lorde’ (beginning ‘Gallants all come mourne with me’) which is subscribed ‘Finis tertio die Octobris 1601’.
In: A folio volume of legal and historical tracts and verse, largely in one formal hand employing variant secretary, roman and court scripts, with a few later additions by others, 78 leaves, in 19th-century calf. Compiled by one Robert Hassall, who signs and dates many of the texts as ‘wrytten...per me’. c.1583-1608.
Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘J H Lecke / Carden Park / Chester / Found at Carden 1886 and rebound 1886’.
John Rylands University Library of Manchester, English MS 202, ff. 58v-9v.
EsR 306
Copy in: A small quarto volume of texts relating to Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, in a professional secretary hand, 78 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Early 17th century.
Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 1038, [II], ff. 1r-7v.
EsR 307
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The Manner of the death of Robert Earle of Essex, who was beheaded wthin the Tower of London vppon Ashewednesday, 1600’, on a pair of conjugate folio leaves. Early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and letters, in various hands, 763 pages, in contemporary calf elaborately stamped.
Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2503, pp. 469-71.
EsR 308
Copy, headed ‘The Speeches of the Earle of Essex and his Behaviovr vs:ed the night befor and at the Tyme of his Execvcion. Ao. 1600’.
In: the MS described under EsR 86. c.1642.
EsR 309
Copy, among other papers relating to the Essex rebellion.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, letters and speeches, in various hands, 614 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.
EsR 310
Copy, in a secretary hand. c.1620s.
In: the MS described under EsR 247.
Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R. 5. 12 (James 707), ff. 155v-6v.
EsR 311
Copy, headed ‘The manner of the Demeaner of the Earle of Essex att the time of his Deathe’.
In: the MS described under EsR 248. Early 17th century.
University of London, Senate House Library, MS 293, ff. 21v-2v.
EsR 312
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed in a rounded hand ‘The Speeches of the Earle of Essex and his behauiour vsed the night before, and at the tyme of his execucon. Ano 1600’.
In: the MS described under EsR 249.
University of London, Senate House Library, MS 313, ff. 74v-6r.
EsR 313
Copy in: the MS described under EsR 250. c.1620s.
EsR 314
Copy, headed ‘The manner and end of the Earle of Essex in the Tower of London the xxvth of ffebruarie 1600’.
In: the MS described under EsR 251. Early 17th century.
EsR 315
Copy in: A folio miscellany of poems and state papers, in secretary hands, written from both ends, 50 leaves, in contemporary vellum. c.1620s.
Among papers of the Troyte-Bullock family, formerly of Zeals House, Mere, and probably deriving from the papers of the Chafyn family of Bulford and Chisenbury or the Reymes family of Waddon, near Dorchester.
EsR 316
Copy, headed ‘Thexecution of Robert Erle of Essex the xxvth of ffebruary beinge Ashwenday 1600. wthin ye Towr’.
In: the MS described under EsR 252. Early 17th century.