Verse
(1) Translations
The Englishman's Doctor, or The School of Salerne (‘The Salerne Schoole doth by these lines impart’)
First published in London, 1607. Edited by Francis R. Packard and Fielding H. Garrison as The School of Salernum (London, 1922). Edited anonymously as The School of Salernum (Salerno, 1953). A version of lines 1-8 quoted in The Metamorphosis of Ajax (see HrJ 317-22.8).
HrJ 1
Copy, with possibly autograph corrections, of Harington's translation of the late 11th-early 12th century poem Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum (by Joannes de Mediolano?), untitled, 28 leaves, in marbled wrappers. Early 17th century.
J. Bindley. Used by Malone. Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1307. Formerly Phillipps MS 9132. Sotheby's, 17 May 1897 (Phillipps sale), lot 372. Sotheby's, 19 May 1913, lot 797. Bibliotheca Osleriana No. 7623. Bequeathed by Osler 1928.
This MS recorded but not collated by editors; described by H.F.B. Brett-Smith in BQR, 5 (1926-9), 307. Facsimiles of p. 1 in 1922 edition, facing p. 75, and in 1953 edition, p. 12. The variants in this MS from the early printed text are listed by Edmond Malone (1741-1812) in his exemplum of the edition of 1624 in the Bodleian, Mal. 507.
The Hermaphrodite
See HrJ 71.
Metrical Paraphrases of the Psalms (‘Right happie hee that neither walked hath’)
Harington's complete Psalter, intended for publication just before his death, but unpublished.
*HrJ 2
Copy of Harington's translation of the Seven Penitential Psalms (Nos. 6, 32, 38, 51, 102, 130, 143), partly autograph, partly in the hand of an amanuensis with autograph revisions. c.1609.
In: A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt. In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand pre dominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r. c.1530s.
Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.
Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the ‘Egerton MS’. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, ‘Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?’, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles ‘Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad’, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and ‘Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse’, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.
Psalms 38, 102, and 130 edited from this MS in Karl E. Schmutzler, ‘Harington's Metrical Paraphrases of the Seven Penitential Psalms: Three manuscript Versions’, PBSA, 53 (1959), 240-51. Facsimile of part of f. 104 (Psalm 6) in Petti, English Literary Hands (1977), No. 31 (where it is mistakenly described as entirely autograph, but see P.J. Croft's review in TLS (24 February 1978), p. 241).
*HrJ 3
Autograph draft, with revisions, of Harington's translation of Psalms 1, 3, and 4.
In: A folio composite volume of papers, in various hands, 135 leaves, in red half-morocco. Late 16th century-1612.
Inscribed (f. 41r) ‘I ffrancis Harington of Compton Dando in the countie of Somset’ dated 7 February 1609; (f. 57r) ‘John Brock his Bok’; and (f. 121r) ‘John Harington his Book 1689’. Acquired from the Rev. J. C. Jackson, 25 May 1867.
HrJ 4
Copy of Harington's translation of Psalms 42 and 50.
In: A quarto volume of miscellaneous papers largely relating to Ireland, in several hands, ii + 65 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. Volume IV of the Harington Papers. c.1599-1609.
HrJ 5
Copy of Harington's complete Psalter, entitled ‘King Davids Psalmes’, inscribed in a later hand on a flyleaf ‘The Psalmes putt into verse by Sr John Harrington’, iv + 96 folio leaves. Early 17th century.
Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, dated 1701. Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.
HrJ 6
Copy of Harington's complete Psalter, in a professional secretary hand, entitled ‘King Davids Psalmes’, 231 quarto pages, imperfect, in contemporary vellum. Early 17th century.
Inscribed ‘James Harington’: i.e.? Sir James Harington, of Merton, Oxfordshire. and ‘Bickford-Dunland’. Dobell's sale catalogue No, 68 (1941), item 380.
This MS discussed in Schmutzler.
Ohio State University, English Department Library, Spec. MS Eng. 16.
Of a faire woman. translated out of Casaneus his Catalogus gloriae mundi
See HrJ 100-101.
Orlando Furioso (‘Of Dames, of Knights, of armes, of loves delight’)
First published in London, 1591. Edited by Robert McNulty (Oxford, 1972). Printed and manuscript exempla discussed in Gerard Kilroy, ‘Advertising the Reader: Sir John Harington's “Directions in the Margent”’, English Literary Renaissance, 41/1 (Winter, 2011), 64-110.
See also HrJ 22, HrJ 243.
*HrJ 7
Fair copy of Books I-XXIV, partly in Harington's hand, largely in the hand of his ‘servant’ Thomas Combe, vi + 512 folio pages, in brown leather gilt. The first stanza, italic headings and sidenotes, and some corrections and additions in Harington's hand; prepared as a trial lay-out of the text before the full printing; with inserted engravings, some coloured, from both Italian and English printed editions. c.1590.
This MS collated in McNulty; discussed, with facsimile examples, in Kathleen M. Lea, ‘Harington's Folly’, Elizabethan and Jacobean Studies Presented to F.P. Wilson (Oxford, 1959), 42-58, and in Philip Gaskell, From Writer to Reader (Oxford, 1978), p. 11 seq. NB. this MS is not entirely autograph.
*HrJ 8
A fair copy of Books XIV to the ‘Briefe and Summarie Allegorie’ after Book XLVI, partly autograph, partly in the italic hand of Harington's servant Thomas Combe, imperfect, with printer's marks, this MS being the printer's copy for the first edition.
In: A largely autograph MS by Sir John Harington, 338 quarto leaves, in half morocco. c.1590-1.
Sotheby's, 1862?, to Boone. Purchased from Boone 24 April 1862.
This MS collated in McNulty. Discussed, with facsimile pages, in W. W. Greg, ‘An Elizabethan Printer and his Copy’, The Library, 4th Ser. 4 (1923-4), 102-18, reedited in Greg, Collected Papers (Oxford, 1966), pp. 95-109; in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate XLV(b); in Percy Simpson, Proof-Reading in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (London, 1935), pp. 71-5; in Kathleen M. Lea, op. cit.; in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 20; in Gaskell, op. cit., p. 11 et seq.; in R. H. Miller, ‘Sir John Harington's Manuscripts in Italic’, SB, 40 (1987), 101-6 (p. 102); and in Chris Fletcher et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 2003), p. 51.
HrJ 8.5
Exemplum of the printed edition of 1591, with a few autograph marginal annotations by Harington, notably in the dedication to Princess Elizabeth and on p. 7, with yet later annotations in other hands. c.1591.
Later owned by one Gregory Haines; by the Rev. H.A.D. Surridge in 1908; and by his daughter Miss M.K. Surridge in 1947; and in the hands of Quaritch in the 1980s. The volume was once erroneously thought to have been owned and annotated by John Milton.
HrJ 8.8
A couplet quoted from Orlando Furioso.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, including 37 poems by Donne, in several hands, written from both ends, 279 leaves (including numerous blanks, mostly in ff. 42r-140r), with stubs of extracted leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled in part by the Oxford printer Christopher Wase (1627-90), fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Mid-17th century.
Later owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, and his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Wase MS’: DnJ Δ 39.
HrJ 9
Copy, probably autograph, of Harington's English translation of a four-line Latin verse by Sir Walter Mildmay (here beginning ‘fflye Sinne for sharp Revendge doth follow sinne’) which is cited in the notes to Book XXII of Orlando Furioso.
In: A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain. Mid-late 16th century.
This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, ‘The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents’, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.
A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.
McNulty, p. 249. Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 92, p. 143.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 59v.
HrJ 10
Copy of various lines of verse, possibly early translations of parts of Orlando Furioso made by Harington or by his father John Harington of Stepney (namely Book XXXI, stanza 2, lines 7-8; Book XLIV, stanza 33, lines 7-8; Book XXXI, stanza 1, line 1 seq.; Book V, stanza 54, lines 5-6; Book XLVI, stanza 91, lines 7-8), with some revisions in Sir John's autograph.
In: the MS described under HrJ 9. Mid-late 16th century.
These lines edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 35, p. 100; No. 38, p. 100; No. 44, p. 101; No. 50, p. 102; No. 54, p. 102, and discussed in II, pp. 44-8, 50-1.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, ff. 28r-9r.
HrJ 11
Copy of Book XIX, stanza 1, in a roman hand, with alterations in different ink, untitled. here beginning ‘None can deame right who faythfull frends do rest’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, in several hands, 88 leaves, in contemporary leather gilt (rebacked). Almost entirely compiled for John Harington of Stepney (c.1517-82), of Stepney, courtier and writer, but also used by his son Sir John Harington and including (ff. 69v-78r), in an unidentified hand, Edmund Campion's Virgilian Latin epic (beginning ‘Sancta salutiferi nascentia semina verbi’) which otherwise exists in a presentation MS in the hand of Harington's ‘servant’ Thomas Combe (Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall, MS 437). Mid-late 16th century.
Inscribed (ff. 29v and 82r) ‘Ellina Harrington’ and (f. 29v) ‘ffrancis Haryngton’, two of Sir John's children. Inscribed (f. 3r) ‘Liber Jacobi Tyrrell, 1663’: i.e. by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), political theorist and historian, friend of John Locke. Owned in 1791 by the Rev. William Sayle, of Stowey, Somerset. Bearing annotations in red ink by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Bought in 1800 from Sayle by Thomas Park (1758/9-1834), antiquary and bibliographer, who sold it to Thomas Hill (1760-1840), London book collector. Subsequently owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 1336. Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1836, item 1244. Phillips MS 9474. Sotheby's, 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 1206. Quaritch's sale catalogue, 1900, Part VII, item 5811. Acquired 15 October 1900.
Some pieces in this MS (notably works by John Harington the Elder) printed in the various editions of Nugae Antiquae and in Ruth Hughey, John Harington of Stepney: Tudor Gentleman, (Columbus, Ohio, 1971). The poem by Edmund Campion edited, with an English translation, in Gerard Kilroy, Edmund Campion: Memory and Transcription (Aldershot, 2005), pp. 155-93.
HrJ 12
Extensive extracts, in a single small hand.
In: A folio volume, 140 leaves, in contemporary vellum. 1645.
Containing (ff. 1v-13v, 138r-130v rev.) copies of letters and accounts, 1623-5, of Richard Newall, London merchant, trading with Newfoundland. A label on a rear endpaper inscribed ‘...brought by Mr Bob from Zelaste[?] near Flushing’. Inscribed by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector ‘These M.S.S. were bought at the sale of the late Samuel Ireland [i.e. Samuel Ireland (fl.1758-1800), printmaker and writer] of Norfolk St.- London 13: May 1801’.
HrJ 13
Copy of Harington's English translation of a Latin verse by Sir Walter Mildmay cited in the notes to Book XXII of Orlando Furioso (see HrJ 9).
In: Autograph volume of writings by Katherine Austen, 114 small quarto leaves.
This MS recorded in Hughey, II, 123.
HrJ 14
Copy of Book IX, stanzas 24-5 (beginning ‘For first he is of limbs and bodie strong’), and Book XI, stanzas 19-24, in a professional hand.
In: A folio composite volume of genealogical, historical and antiquarian tracts and papers, in various hands, 323 leaves, in modern half crushed calf on cloth boards gilt. Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works, particularly Remaines.
Names inscribed (f. 207r) ‘Bryan Tukerson’ and ‘George Wiseman’.
HrJ 15
Extracts.
In: A folio composite miscellany of verse and prose, compiled entirely by William Drummond, 403 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt. c.1606-14.
Among the working papers and collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. VII.
Orlando Furioso. A Preface or Rather, A Briefe Apologie of Poetrie and of the Author and Translator of this Poem
HrJ 16
Copy of ‘Sr John Harrington his apologie of poetrie’, in a closely written cursive secretary hand, subscribed ‘The preface or rather a briefe apologie of poetrie, the apologie of Sr: John Harrington worke of translation called Orlando: furioso finis / scriptum p me Jacob Blenkinsop’.
In: A quarto miscellany of prose and verse, in two or more cursive secretary hands, 24 leaves (including fragments of three leaves), in contemporary vellum. Compiled principally by one Jacob Blenkinsop, whose name appears on f. [23r rev.] with the date ‘30Mrch 1639’, his entry on f. [16v] dated ‘30th Aug: about 2 afternoone 1640’. 1639-40.
HrJ 17
Copy of a verse translation in 170 six-line stanzas (ending with a two-line envoy), vi + 24 folio leaves. Early 17th century.
Volume XI of the Castle Ashby Manuscripts formerly owned by the Earl Compton. Probably once owned by William Compton, first Earl of Northampton (d.1630). Christie's, 5 July 1978, lot 47, with a facsimile of one page in the sale catalogue.
This translation is not by Harington: see Simon Cauchi, ‘Sir John Harington and Virgil's Aeneid IV’, EMS, 1 (1989), 242-9, with a facsimile page.
Ouids confession translated into English for Generall Norreys. 1593
See HrJ 296.
The School of Salerne, or The English Doctor
See HrJ 1.
Virgil's Aeneid. Book VI. (‘While thus with tears hee spake, his Navy glydes’)
A verse translation in 134 eight-line stanzas, with seven supplementary prose essays on related topics: (1) ‘Of Enchauntements, and prophecies’. (2) ‘Of funerals’. (3) ‘Of hel and the state of the ded’. (4) ‘Of Paradise and the state of the godly’. (5) ‘Of the sowl of man and the original thereof’. (6) ‘Of the Citty and Empyre of Room’. And (7) ‘Of reeding poetry’.
Edited, as The Sixth Book of Virgil's Aeneid translated and commented on by Sir John Harington (1604), by Simon Cauchi (Oxford, 1991).
*HrJ 18
A semi-calligraphic fair copy of the verse translation, with accompanying original Latin text, 162 quarto pages (including blanks), in contemporary limp vellum gilt bearing the Royal Arms of James I. The presentation copy, made for the instruction of Prince Henry and presented for that purpose to his father James I, complete with a five-page signed autograph dedicatory epistle to the King; the text set out systematically, the left page of each opening bearing Harington's autograph verse translation, the facing right page bearing the original Latin text in the italic hand of his ‘servant’ Thomas Combe surrounded on three sides by Harington's predominantly secretary autograph glosses and commentary, followed on 66 pages by a series of seven predominantly autograph prose appendices. [1604].
Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Add. MS 23, among the papers of the Trumbull family, Marquesses of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Possibly once owned by William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), British Resident at Brussels.
Sotheby's, 14 December 1989, lot 224 (unsold), and 13 December 1990, lot 10.
Facsimiles of various pages in IELM, I.ii (1980), Facsimile XVII, pp. 126-7; in Sotheby's sale catalogues; in Cauchi, pp. lviii-lix; and in Gerard Kilroy, ‘Advertising the Reader: Sir John Harington's “Directions in the Margent”’, English Literary Renaissance, 41/1 (Winter, 2011), 64-110 (p. 104). A complete microfilm is in the British Library, RP 5554.
HrJ 19
Copy of the commentary, ‘Taken out of a MS of his late Majesty [? Charles I] Composed by Sr John Harrington Kt’, entitled ‘To φωs φισεωs or the light of Nature in Heathens, being breife notes upon the sixth booke of Virgils Aeneads’, on 103 pages, with a later title-page and index, the work dated 19 June 1604. c.1625-30s.
Later owned by Professor Marcus Selden Goldman (1894-1984), of Urbana, Illinois, whose working papers are in the University of Illinois.
(2) Epigrams
(i) Collections of Epigrams
Epigrams
Seven Epigrams first published in Epigrammes by Sir J. H. and others appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). 116 Epigrams published in London, 1615. 346 Epigrams published in London, 1618. 428 Epigrams edited in McClure (1930), pp. 145-322. See also HrJ 26.5-314.8. All the Epigrams published as The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. Gerard Kilroy (Farnham, 2009).
HrJ 20
Copy of 409 Epigrams, in the neat italic hand of one of Harington's amanuenses and in the hand of his brother Francis, ncluding (pp. [256]-266) the English and Latin verses for Harington's ‘new yeeres guifte’ to King James in 1602/3; with a gilt drawing of the lantern, Harington's welcome to King James and to Queen Anne; and his verses ‘Musa jocosa meos solari assueta dolores’.
In: A quarto volume of texts principally by Sir John Harington, including (p. c) Latin and English verses by Francis Harington; (pp. 195-201) Latin ‘exercyses’ (with translations) by Harington's son, John; (and pp. 203-5) more Latin and English verses, followed by an index to the volume and a Latin epigram on tobacco, with a translation, the MS probably originally prepared as a presentation MS, with (pp. iv-v) a dedication to Prince Henry dated 19 June 1605, 268 pages, imperfect, lacking pp. 11-12, in contemporary calf elaborately gilt. c.1605.
Inscribed (p. [i]) ‘R. Joyner[?] Sandwich’.
The epigrams in this MS collated in McClure and in Kilroy. Four previously unpublished epigrams edited from this MS in R.H. Miller, ‘Unpublished Poems by Sir John Harington’, ELR, 14 (1984), 148-58. Extracts also edited from this MS by EU. HOOD (i.e. Joseph Haslewood) in Gentleman's Magazine, 97, ii (1827), pp. 191-21, 128, 392. The verses on pp. [256]-266 in Kilroy, pp. 252-8, and ‘Additional material’ edited from this MS on pp. 295-309.
Facsimiles of p. 27 of the MS in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XLV(d), and of pp. 132-3 in McClure, facing p. 298.
*HrJ 21
Copy of 408 epigrams (including SuH 42), described by Harington as ‘this Collection or rather confusion of all my ydle Epigrams’, comprising four ‘Bookes’ of (sometimes erratically numbered) 99, 100, 103 and 106 epigrams respectively (including SuH 41), all in the accomplished italic hand of Harington's ‘servant’ Thomas Combe, with Harington's frequent autograph corrections and insertions.
In: A quarto volume of Harington's epigrams, with related poems, in the accomplished italic hand of his ‘servant’ Thomas Combe, with Harington's frequent autograph corrections and insertions, written as a presentation copy to Prince Henry (via James I), vi + 268 pages (two numbered twice), in contemporary calf elaborately gilt. Including (pp. 256-63) a watercolour drawing of the lantern, with accompanying English and Latin verses, which Harington gave to King James as a New Year's gift in 1602/3; (p. 264) Harington's welcome to King James and to Queen Anne; (pp. 256-6) his verses ‘Musa jocosa meos solari assueta dolores’; and (p. 261) an engraving of the Mysteries of the Rosary, with (p. 1) an address ‘To James the Sixt king of Scotland The dedication of the coppie sent by Captayn Hunter’, and (pp. [iv-v]) a dedicatory epistle to Prince Henry, dated in Harington's hand (and probably presented to the Prince shortly after) 19 June 1605. 1605.
Inscribed ‘R. Joyce Emmerson Sandwich’. Item 14 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Later owned by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. Sotheby's, 22 February 1932 (Thorn-Drury sale), lot 2405.
Including (p. [iii]) a 19th-century copy of James I's letter of thanks for this gift, transcribed from the original letter in British Library Add. MS 46381, f. 145r.
Edited from this MS in Kilroy, with colour facsimiles of the lantern, of page 122, of the binding, of the coloured title-page, and the engraving on p. 261 (Kilroy, Plates 5-9, after p. 178). Facsimile of pp. 256-7 (including the lantern) in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 106. Facsimile of the lantern in Scott-Warren, p. 194.
Edited from this MS in Kilroy. Seven previously unpublished epigrams edited from this MS in R.H. Miller, ‘Unpublished Poems by Sir John Harington’, ELR, 14 (1984), 148-58. This MS recorded, and those epigrams which also occur in the Arundel Harington MS are collated, in Hughey. See also HrJ 20, HrJ 26, and HrJ 213.
Facsimile example of p. 60 in R.H. Miller, ‘Sir John Harington's Manuscripts in Italic’, SB, 40 (1987), 101-6 (p. 104). Facsimile of pp. 256-7 (including the lantern) in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 106. Facsimiles of pp. 122, 256 (the lantern) and p. 261 (engraving of the Mystery of the Rosary) in Kilroy, Plates 5, 6 and 9, after p. 178.
*HrJ 22
Fair copy, in the italic hand of Harington's ‘servant’ Thomas Combe, of 52 Epigrams relating to Harington's wife and mother-in-law, on thirty folio pages, subscribed ‘Finis 1600’, bound with a printed exemplum of Orlando Furioso (London, 1591) the title-page of which is illuminated in colours, presented to Harington's mother-in-law, Lady Jane Rogers, with a dedicatory epistle to her (‘...I haue added to it as manie of the toyes I haue formerly written to you and your daughter, as I could collect out of my scattered papers...’), dated in Harington's hand 19 December 1600 and signed by him, in red calf elaborately gilt, the name ‘IANE ROGERS’ on the front cover and ‘MARY HARYNGTON’ on the rear cover both in gilt. 1600.
This MS collated in McClure, and the epistle printed pp. 86-7, and collated in Kilroy (pp. 259-74). Facsimile pages in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XLV(c); in Flower & Munby, English Poetical Autographs, p. 4; and in R.H. Miller, ‘Sir John Harington's Manuscripts in Italic’, SB, 40 (1987), 101-6 (pp. 103-4). Facsimiles of the binding and dedication to Lady Jane Rogers in Scott-Warren, pp. 100 and 105.
HrJ 23
Fair copy of 65 Epigrams, with no general heading.
In: A folio composite volume of separate MSS of verse and some prose, in various secretary and italic hands, written over an extended period, with a table of contents (f. 3r-v), 186 leaves. Comprising papers of the Skipwith family of Cotes, Leicestershire, including 60 poems by John Donne (and one Problem), the text related in part to the ‘Edward Smyth MS’ (DnJ Δ 45); also 15 poems (and second copies of two) by Henry King; and 19 poems (and two of doubtful authorship) by Carew. c.1620-50.
Including poems ascribed to William Skipwith (? Sir William Skipwith, d.1610, or his grandson, William, or possibly a cousin, William Skipwith, of Ketsby, Lincolnshire, fl.1633); to Sir Henry Skipwith (fl.1609-52); and to Thomas Skipwith, and several poems by Donne's friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627), to whom a branch of the Skipwith family was related by marriage. Later owned by Robert Sherard (1719-99), fourth Earl of Harborough. Sotheby's, 10 June 1864, lot 605, to Boone.
This MS is the ‘curious folio volume’ lent to John Nichols (1745-1826) by ‘the late Lord Harborough’ and cited in Nichols's account of the Skipwith family in his History of Leicestershire, 4 vols (1795-1815), III, part i (1800), 367.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Skipwith MS’: DnJ Δ 21; CwT Δ 14; KiH Δ 8. Also described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp. 119-29 (see KiH Δ 6). For Sir William Skipwith and his literary connections, see James Knowles, ‘Marston, Skipwith and The Entertainment at Ashby’, EMS, 3 (1992), 137-92 (esp.pp. 171-2).
HrJ 24
Epigrams. Fair copy of eighteen Epigrams (McClure Nos. 261, 5, 67, 308, 262, 326, 338, 121, 122 (same as 329), 142, 356, 337, 366, 246, 270, 263, 248, 421), plus a Latin version of No. 421 (‘The Like in Latten’, beginning ‘Stirpis Haringtoniæ Soboles pulcherrima Sara’), in a secretary and italic hand, on six quarto leaves, inscribed on the front paper wrapper in a later hand ‘A Booke of verses made by Sr: John Harrington knight who dwelt at Bathe’. Early 17th century.
HrJ 25
Copy of ten Epigrams (McClure Nos. 188, 271, 31, 302, 337, 67, 90, 267, 338, and 329), in an italic hand, headed ‘Certaine Epigram's out of a Pamphlet called Misacmos: Merriments, composed by Sir Jhon Harryngton’.
In Harington's letter of 19 December 1600 to Lucy, Countess of Bedford (copy on f. 303v), he presents these epigrams to her. The present MS is probably a copy deriving from the MS he sent to her. Early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and miscellaneous papers, in various largely professional hands, 480 leaves, in red morocco gilt.
This MS recorded in McClure, p. 390, and the letter printed p. 87; also discussed in Frances Berkeley Young, ‘The Triumphe of Death translated out of Italian by the Countesse of Pembrooke’, PMLA, 27 (1912), 47-75.
HrJ 26
Transcript of seven English and Latin poems by Harington written in 1602 to accompany his new year's gift of a lantern to King James, four large quarto leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century calf (rebacked). Made by John Leyden (1775-1811), linguist and poet, as an ‘Authentic Copy from the original in the University Library, Edinr. March 26. 1802’. 1802.
Edited from this transcript in Nugae Antiquae (1804), I, 325-35. What Leyden calls ‘the original’ is no longer in Edinburgh University Library and is untraced.
Against Dr. Prickett (‘Prickett, ye phisicke doctr, Loues a whore’)
(ii) Individual Epigrams
[in addition to those in HrJ 20-6]
Against an extreame flatterer that preached at Bathe on the Queens day the fortith yeare of her Raigne
Kilroy, p. 196.
HrJ 26.5
Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, with other verses, on one side of a single folio leaf.
In: A folio composite volume of correspondence and papers, many in Tresham's hand, 250 leaves. Volume II of the papers of Sir Thomas Tresham (1543-1605), of Rushton Hall, Northamptonshire, recusant. c.1598-1605.
Against Swearing (‘In elder times an ancient custome was’)
First published in Henry Fitzsimon, S.J., The Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (Douai, 1611). 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 9. McClure No. 263, p. 256. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 30, p. 220.
HrJ 27
Copy, headed ‘Of Othes’, subscribed ‘Authore Ben: Jonsonio’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, 64 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. Compiled by Leweston Fitzjames (1574-1638), of Leweston, Dorset, and the Middle Temple. c.1595-early 17th century.
HrJ 28
Copy, on a single folio leaf of verse. Late 17th century.
In: A large folio composite volume of verse, in various largely secretary hands, 327 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Collected, and partly written, by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Betagraph of the watermark in f. 29 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks’, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 239).
HrJ 30
Copy, headed ‘Of swearing’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and some prose, in five hands, one predominating on ff. 8v-130r, ii + 166 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Compiled in part (ff. 131v-66r) by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary. c.1630s-40s.
HrJ 31
Copy in: A small folio miscellany of medical receipts, chemical experiments, and verse, in a single small hand, 62 leaves (chiefly blank). Compiled by one John Stansby. c.1669.
HrJ 32
Copy, headed ‘The degrees of sweareing’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany compiled by an Oxford University man, i i + 37 leaves, in later half-calf. c.1630s.
Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.
HrJ 33
Copy, headed ‘The degrees of swearinge’.
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’.
HrJ 34
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio verse miscellany, entirely in the professional secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, containing some 76 poems, including eleven by Donne, later inscribed (erroneously) ‘Sir John Haringtons Poems Written in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth’, 56 leaves, in contemporary vellum. c.1620s-33.
From the library of Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755), nonjuring bishop and topographer.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Rawlinson MS’: DnJ Δ 38. Also briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 277 (No. 94), with facsimile examples on pp. 102-3.
HrJ 35
Copy in: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single neat largely italic hand, 155 leaves, in modern half-morocco. c.1630.
The table of contents (f. 155v) subscribed ‘Margrett Bellasys’, possibly the daughter of Thomas Belasyse (1577-1652), first Viscount Fauconberg of Henknowle. The front endpaper later inscribed ‘The pieces which I have extracted for “The Specimens” are, Page 91, 211, 265’: i.e. possibly by Thomas Campbell (1777-1844), editor of Specimens of the British Poets first published in 1809. Afterwards owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Evans (Sotheby's), 29 February 1836 (Heber sale, Part VIII), lot 13.
HrJ 36
Copy, headed ‘Juramenta antiqua’, subscribed ‘Sr John Har:’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Juvenilia Ludicra, in a single small mixed hand, 103 leaves, all now window mounted in a quarto volume, in 19th-century half morocco. Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man. c.1630s.
Inscribed in engrossed lettering (f. 1r) ‘E Libris Richard Sutclif’. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 194.
HrJ 37
Copy, headed ‘On Swearinge’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single neat predominantly italic hand, 72 leaves, in old leather. Probably compiled by one ‘H.S.’, a Cambridge man. c.1640s-50s.
Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector, with his bookplate and inscription ‘1806 Purchased of Lansdown of Bristol’. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 192.
HrJ 38
Copy, headed ‘Against Dr Patton who preached against swearing by the crosse and masse made by a Papist’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany in several hands, written from both ends, 46 leaves, in contemporary calf. Mid-17th century.
Inscribed names (on front paste-down and f. 1r) of ‘Fra: Norreys’ (? Sir Francis Norris (1609-69)) and ‘Hen. Balle’. Purchased from J. Harvey 8 December 1877.
HrJ 39
Copy, untitled.
In: An independent quarto verse miscellany, including 47 poems by Donne, in two secretary hands. Constituting ff. 230r-99v in a quarto composite volume of verse and prose, in various hands, 308 leaves, in modern half green morocco gilt. c.1620-33.
Among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son, Edward, second Earl of Oxford (1681-1741), and acquired in 1722 from the bookseller Nathaniel Noel (fl.1681-c.1753).
Cited in IELM I.i as the ‘Harley Noel MS’: DnJ Δ 2.
HrJ 39.5
Copy, in a secretary hand, words only, untitled, with a general heading in the margin ‘Varietie of Catches’.
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.
HrJ 40
Copy, headed ‘Of Sweaeringe’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, written in two styles of hand (A: ff. 2r, after first six lines, to 64v; B: ff. 2r, first six lines, 64v-91v, 92v-4r), possibly both in the same hand, with an Index (ff. 93r-4r), 94 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Including 22 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 13 poems by King, and 24 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and probably associated with Christ Church, Oxford. c.1633.
Inscribed names including (f. 93v, in court hand) ‘ffrancis Baskeruile’: i.e. probably the Francis Baskerville who married Margaret Glanvill in 1635 and was in 1640 MP for Marlborough, Wiltshire. Other scribbling including (f. 1r) accounts referring to Wanborough, Wiltshire; (f. 9v) ‘Elizabeth White’; (f. 54v) ‘William Walrond his booke 1663’; (f. 92r) accounts dated 1658; and (f. 94r) ‘John Wallrond’. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.
Recorded in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Baskerville MS’: CwT Δ 20, KiH Δ 10, StW Δ 13. Facsimile examples of ff. 55r and 68r in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 6, after p. 86.
HrJ 41
Copy, untitled.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and jests, in a minute hand, compiled by a Cambridge man, 59 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt. c.1630.
HrJ 42
Copy, headed ‘Of Swaring’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, 210 pages, comprising 38 unnumbered pages and 172 numbered pages (plus four blank leaves), perhaps largely in a single predominantly secretary hand, with additions in four other hands on the unnumbered pages and pp. 167-71, including the scribbled title ‘Divers Sonnets & Poems compiled by certaine gentil Clarks and Ryme-Wrightes’, probably associated with Oxford University and the Inns of Court, in contemporary vellum. Including 14 poems by Strode (and a second copy of one poem). c.1637-51.
Inscribed (front pastedown) ‘Wakelin EeK Hering / Blows of Whitsor’, and (rear pastedown) ‘R. J. Cotton’. Formerly Folger MS 2073.4.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Cotton MS: StW Δ 20.
HrJ 43
Copy, headed ‘The degrees of Swearing’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, predominantly in two very small hands (A: ff. 1r-44v; B: ff. 44v-87v), with further verse and prose pieces in other hands on ff. 88r-121r, written from both ends, associated with Oxford, possibly New College, and probably afterwards with the Inns of Court, 155 leaves (including 33 blanks), in modern black morocco elaborately gilt. Including 23 poems by Strode (and second copies of two poems) and one poem of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.
Including (ff. 98r-100r) a letter by one ‘Pet[er] Wood’. Inscribed (ff. 90r-1r), ‘Thease verses I borroed to write out of John Sherly [d. 1666] a booke seller in litle Brittaine, 28th of March 1633’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9235. Sotheby's, 21 February 1938, lot 243.
Cited in IELM II.ii (1993), as the ‘Wood MS’: StW Δ 21. Discussed in C.F. Main, ‘New Texts of John Donne’, SB, 9 (1957), 225-33.
HrJ 44
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio verse miscellany, 148 leaves (foliated 161-206), once bound (reversed) with an independent miscellany (Huntington, HM 198, Part I), rebound with this MS (in continuous form without inversion) in 1832 (by Charles Lewis). Including 59 poems by Donne (and second copies of six poems), in probably six professional secretary hands: A (ff. 1r-25v, 82r-129r); B (ff. 26r, 42v-7v, 49r-63r, 63v-79r, 130r-48r); C (ff. 27r-36v, 41r-2v; with occasional corrections possibly in hand B); D (ff. 37r-40v); E (ff. 63r-v); and F (f. 129v). c.1620-33.
Scribbling includes the name ‘Meriall Tracy’ (on f. 148v). Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary; by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary; and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library, lot 624). Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.
Recorded in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (II)’: DnJ Δ 26. Discussed in C.M. Armitage, ‘Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on “The Funerall”’, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707.
A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Betagraph of the watermark in f. 43 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks’, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 240).
HrJ 45
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo miscellany of English and Latin verse and prose, in a small secretary hand, 79 leaves (largely blank), disbound. Early 17th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 25, f. 8r.
HrJ 46
Copy, here beginning ‘In older times an auncient custome was’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in two hands, one mixed hand predominating, 128 pages (plus a five-page index). Inscribed, and probably compiled, by Hugh Barrow (b.1617/18), of Brasenose College, Oxford. c.1638.
Also inscribed names of George Hope, Peter Wynne and [?]Anselm Huff. Later owned by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia bookseller and scholar: Rosenbach MS 192.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), p. 81.
HrJ 46.5
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘In the elder Time the auncient custome was’.
In: Copy of verse and prose, in a secretary hand, on three pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves. Early 17th century.
HrJ 47
Copy, headed ‘Swearing’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including fifteen poems by Donne, with a title-page ‘Miscellanies Or A Collection of Diuers Witty and pleasant Epigrams, Adages, poems Epitaphes &c for the recreation of ye ouertravelled sences: 1630 Robert Bishop’, in a single mixed hand, probably associated with the University of Oxford, 306 pages, in old calf. c.1630.
Owned and probably compiled by Robert Bishop. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9549. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue, English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 187.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the ‘Bishop MS’: DnJ Δ 59. Edited in David Coleman Redding, Robert Bishop's Commonplace-Book: An Edition of a Seventeenth Century Miscellany (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1960) [Mic 60-3608].
HrJ 48
Copy, untitled.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco. c.1620.
Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.
Cited by editors as the Todd MS.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39), f. 79v.
HrJ 49
Copy in: A duodecimo verse miscellany, compiled principally in the secretary hand of a University of Oxford man, with additions in one or more other hands, 150 pages, imperfect, disbound. c.1640.
HrJ 50
Copy, headed ‘On Swearing’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands (one predominating up to p. 167), probably associated with Oxford, 436 pages (pp. 198-9 and 269-70 skipped in the pagination, and including many blanks and an index) and numerous further blank leaves at the end, in modern black morocco gilt. Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1650.
Scribbling on the first page including the words ‘Peyton Chester…’.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Osborn MS I’: CwT Δ 38; CoR Δ 14; StW Δ 29.
HrJ 51
Copy in: A sextodecimo verse miscellany, written from both ends in several hands (two principal ones on ff. 6r-40r, 41r et seq. respectively), 102 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf, with remains of metal clasps. Including 45 poems by Strode and three poems of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.
Formerly Box 22, item II.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the ‘Osborn MS II’: StW Δ 30.
The Author, of his own fortune (‘Take fortune as it falles, as one aduiseth’)
First published in 1618, Book I, No. 29. McClure No. 30, p. 160. Kilroy, Book I, No. 56, p. 113.
HrJ 52
Copy 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.
HrJ 53
Copy, headed ‘Of Fortune’.
In: An oblong octavo verse miscellany, in a neat mixed hand up to p. 78, the remainder in later hands, 116 pages, in 19th-century half-leather marbled boards, with remains of crimson velvet. c.1630[-1700s].
Once owned by Elizabeth Herrick (1684-1745) and her brother William Herrick (1689-1773). Formerly among the papers of the Herrick family, of Beaumanor.
This MS discussed in J.A. Taylor, ‘Two Unpublished Poems on the Duke of Buckingham’, RES, NS 40 (May 1989), 232-40.
The Author to his wife (‘Mall, once in pleasant company by chance’)
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 45. McClure No. 299, pp. 268-9. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 85, pp. 240-1, as ‘To his wife a rule for Church house and bed’ beginning ‘Of late in pleasant company by chaunce’.
HrJ 53.5
Copy, headed ‘Coniugium & matrimonium Nuptiæ’, subscribed ‘Sr Jo: Harrington Epigram ye 50th’.
In: A quarto commonplace book and miscellany of verse and prose, in various hands, with additions up to 1751, ii + 662 pages (some erratically numbered), in contemporary calf. c.1672-1715 [plus later additions].
Ownership inscriptions (pp. [i] and [662]), dated 1672, by John Digby, of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Other inscribed names including (p. 662) ‘Thomas Digby’, ‘Edward Digby’, ‘Robert Debnam’, and (p. [640]) ‘Josh: Churchill 1694’.
HrJ 54
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.
HrJ 55
Copy, ‘Taken out of Burton's Abstract upon Malincholy’.
In: A folio miscellany entitled Epitaphs Collected 1694, 42 pages. c.1695.
This epigram is quoted in Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy (Oxford, 1621), Part 2, Sect. 2, Memb. 6, subs. 4.
The Author to Queene Elizabeth, in praise of her reading (‘For euer deare, for euer dreaded Prince’)
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 13. McClure No. 267, p. 258. This epigram is also quoted in Breefe Notes and Remembraunces (Nugae Antiquae (1804), I, 172). Kilroy, Book IV, No. 88 (p. 243).
HrJ 56
Copy, headed ‘To ye Prince’, subscribed ‘R: corbet’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 30. c.1630s-40s.
HrJ 57
Copy, headed ‘Sir John Harington to Quee: Elizabeth’ and here beginning ‘Dreade, Soveraigne, and ever loueinge Prince’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 34. c.1620s-33.
HrJ 58
Copy, headed ‘Ad. reg: Elizab:’, subscribed ‘Sr John Harri:’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 36. c.1630s.
HrJ 59
Copy, headed ‘Sr John Harrington to Queene Elizabeth’ and here beginning ‘Dread Soveraigne and ever loving Prince’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 39. c.1620-33.
HrJ 59.5
Copy, under a general heading ‘Epigrammata’, with a sidenote ‘Sr Jo: Har: to ye late Q:’.
In: A large quarto commonplace book of extracts, proverbs, etc. under headings, chiefly in Latin, largely in a cursive secretary hand, with additions in italic script, possibly associated with Cambridge, 116 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum. c.1630s.
HrJ 60
Copy, headed ‘Sr John Harrington to Quee. Eliza.’ and here beginning ‘Dread Soueraigne & ever Loving Prince’.
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).
HrJ 60.5
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, written over a period in three hands (A, in alternating secretary and italic, written c.1638: ff. 1-59v; B, written c.1645: ff. 60r-9r; C, written c.1649, ff. 69v-70r), 70 leaves, in old calf. Including thirteen poems by Strode and three of doubtful authorship. c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
Later sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9569. Bookplate of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 193.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Rosenbach MS I’: CwT Δ 31 and StW Δ 23.
The authors farewell to his Muse written at Eaton 1603 the 14th of April (‘Musa jocosa meos solari assueta dolores’)
The Latin version of McClure No. 427, printed in Nugae Antiquae (1804), I, 332-3, appears in the British Library, Add. MS 12049, pp. 217-18 (HrJ 20) and in the Folger, MS V.a.249, pp. 265-6 (HrJ 21). Also in A Short View of the State of Ireland (HrJ 326-327). Kilroy, Book III, No. 19, p. 258, with English version on p. 309.
A comparison of a Booke, with Cheese (‘Old Haywood writes, & proues in some degrees’)
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 72. McClure No. 326, pp. 276-7. Kilroy, II, Book I, No. 1, p. 130.
HrJ 61
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Heiwood affirms & proves in some degrees’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 41. c.1630.
HrJ 62
Copy, headed ‘Vt caseus liber’ and here beginning ‘Heywood affirmes & prooues in some degrees’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany (originally in two separate volumes), including eleven poems by Donne, chiefly in two hands, probably associated with the University of Oxford, 98 leaves, one of the original vellum covers now incorporated in modern red morocco. Mid-17th century.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Stephen Wellden’ and ‘Abraham Bassano’ and (f. 98r) ‘Elizabeth Weldon’. Later owned by William John Thoms (1803-85), writer, antiquary and librarian. Sotheby's, 11 February 1887 (Thoms sale), lot 1092. Also owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.4.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Welden MS’: DnJ Δ 49.
A dish of dainties for the Diuell (‘A godly Father, sitting on a draught’)
First published in The Metamorphosis of Ajax (London, 1596). 1618, Book I, No. 48. McClure No. 49, p. 166. Kilroy, Book I, No. 90, p. 125. See also HrJ 317-24.
HrJ 63
Copy of an early version, untitled.
In: the MS described under HrJ 9. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 197, p. 242.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 146v.
An Epitaph in commendation of George Turberuill, a learned Gentleman (‘When rimes were yet but rude, thy pen endeauored’)
First published in 1618, Book ?, No. 42. McClure No. 43, p. 164. Kilroy, Book I, No. 84, p. 123.
HrJ 63.5
Copy, subscribed ‘Sir Jo: Harington, Writ -- (1631)’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, principally in a single non-professional hand (pp. 1-119), with additions (pp. 56-71) in later hands of c.1702, 71 leaves (plus blanks). c.1680s-1702.
A good answere of a Gentlewoman to a Lawyer (‘A vertuous Dame, that saw a Lawyer rome’)
First published in 1618, Book III, No. 39. McClure No. 240, pp. 248-9. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 90, p. 224.
HrJ 64
Copy, headed ‘A gentlewomans answeare to a Lawyer’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 52. Mid-late 17th century.
HrJ 66
Copy, headed ‘Of a Lawyers absence: Epi: 1’.
In: A quarto volume of epigrams, in a single secretary hand, 25 leaves, in modern half black morocco. c.1630s.
Inscriptions (f. 1r) including ‘Ex spolijs Richardi wharfe’ and ‘Ex spolijs R: W:’.
Bookplate of John Hollis (1662-1711), Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, politician.
HrJ 67
Copy, untitled, imperfect, half a page torn away.
In: the MS described under HrJ 62. Mid-17th century.
HrJ 68
Copy, headed ‘a lady to a Lawyer’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves (including blanks), in old calf gilt. c.1640.
Formerly MS 2073.3.
HrJ 69
Copy, headed ‘A Lady to a Lawyer’, inscribed in different ink ‘Sr John Harrington’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, with later accounts on the last page dated June 1658, 1* + 238 pages (including stubs of extracted pages 191-6, plus numerous blanks), in old calf (rebacked). Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph. c.1630s-40s.
Inscribed ‘Jane Wheeler’ and ‘Tho: Oliver Busfield’. Francis Quarles's poem (pp. 209-11) ‘To ye two partners of my heart Mr John Wheeler, and Mr Symon Tue’. Item 96 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 2071.6.
A ‘Jo. Wheeler’ signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Wheeler MS’: CwT Δ 25 and RnT Δ 7.
HrJ 69.5
Copy, headed ‘A Caution agt Travelling Husbands’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, entitled (p. 1, in engrossed lettering) ‘Thos. Walker Book of Miscellanies 1712’, 252 pages (jumping from p. 56 to 61), in modern half dark green morocco. Compiled by Thomas Walker (b.1682), of Mosley, near Ashton under Lyne, Greater Manchester, including (pp. 105-6, 203) verses by him to his parents etc., dated 1720/1-27). c.1712-27.
Later owned by Sir Charles Bradbury (his sale December 1864, lot 2819, to Haywood, thence bought by Sir Thomas Baker. Bernard Halliday, bookseller of Leicester, February 1930.
John Rylands University Library of Manchester, English MS 521, pp. 47-8.
HrJ 70
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under HrJ 48. c.1620.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39), f. 65v.
The Hermaphrodite (‘When first my mother bore me in her wombe’)
A version (a translation of a Latin poem by Pulix) first published in Timothy Kendall, Flowers of Epigrammes (London, 1577). 1615. 1618, Book III, No. 37. McClure No. 238, pp. 246-7. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 32, p. 221.
HrJ 71
Copy, headed ‘The Hermophrodite translated’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small mixed hand throughout; 425 pages (plus an eight-page index), in contemporary calf. Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1634.
The initials ‘T. C.’ stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 189.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Rosenbach MS II’: CwT Δ 32, CoR Δ 12, and StW Δ 24. Discussed in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 193-5).
How England may be reformed (‘Men say that England late is bankrout grown’)
Not published before the 19th century (?). Quoted at the end of the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5). McClure No. 375, p. 301. Kilroy, Book I, No. 1, p. 186.
HrJ 72
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘England men say of late is Banquerout growen’, and subscribed ‘finis Sr J Harrington’.
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 recorded in McCLure, p. 425.
HrJ 73
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘England men say of late is banquerout growne’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, including fourteen poems by Donne, almost entirely in a single hand, 33 leaves (plus six blanks), in contemporary vellum. c.1630.
Possibly associated with the Inns of Court. Later used, and annotated in the margin, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the ‘Fulman MS’: DnJ Δ 36. Formerly Bodleian MS CCC 327.
HrJ 74
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Englande (men say) of late is bankerupte growne’.
In: A duodecimo notebook of verse and prose, comprising 131 interleaves in a printed exemplum of John Sansbury's Ilium in Italiam (Oxford, 1608), in contemporary calf (rebacked), blind-stamped ‘S. S.’ on the upper cover. Owned in 1619, and probably compiled, by Simon Sloper (b.1596/7), of Magdalen Hall, Oxford. c.1620s-30s.
Bought from Parker, of Oxford, 2 April 1889, by Percy Manning and bequeathed by him in 1917.
HrJ 75
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘England men say of late is bankerupt growne’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in a secretary hand, vi + 221 pages, in 18th-century diced calf gilt. c.1630s.
Inscribed (f. iiir) by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector, ‘Bought at the sale of Mr. [Jonathan] Boucher's Library in April 1806, for £2. 12. 6. E Malone’.
HrJ 76
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘England men say of late is bankroute growne’.
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.
HrJ 77
Copy, headed ‘Sr Jo. Harrington On K. James his Coming in’ and here beginning ‘England (Men say) of late is banckrupt grown’.
In: An octavo book of jests and verse compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, vi + 374 pages (pp. 72-306 blank), in contemporary calf. c.1682-91.
HrJ 78
Second copy, untitled and here beginning ‘England, Men say, of late is Bankrupt grown’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 77. c.1682-91.
HrJ 79
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘England (men say) of late is bankrupt growne’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 35. c.1630.
HrJ 79.5
Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, here beginning ‘England of late men[?] said is bankerupte growne’, with other verses, on one side of a single folio leaf.
In: the MS described under HrJ 26.5. c.1598-1605.
HrJ 80
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘England, men say of late, is bankrupte growne’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and some prose, in one or possibly two hands, in varying secretary and italic scripts, 107 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Compiled by someone probably connected with the Royal Court. c.1605.
Owned in 1845 by James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps] (1820-89), with his inscription ‘of Andrews Bristol 1845 at the enormous Price of 6.6.0’. Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 189.
Printed from this MS in James Orchard Halliwell, ‘Poetical Miscellanies from a Manuscript Collection of the time of James I’, Percy Society (London, 1845), p. 37.
HrJ 81
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘England men say of late is bankrout growen’, inscribed ‘Sr. J H.’
In: A quarto miscellany of English and Latin verse and prose, largely in a neat secretary hand, 91 leaves, in limp vellum. Early 17th century.
Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D258/60/26a.
HrJ 82
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘England, men say of late is banquerot growne’, subscribed ‘Sr Jo: Harrington’.
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.
HrJ 83
Copy, headed ‘Upon England’ and here beginning ‘England men say of late is Bankrupt growne.’
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).
HrJ 83.5
Copy, headed ‘An Epigram showing how England might be reformed’ and here beginning ‘England men say of late is bancrout grown’, subscribed with the date 10 December 1602.
In: A quarto volume of ecclesiastical treatises, in three secretary hands, 96 leaves, in vellum boards. Early 17th century.
HrJ 83.8
Copy, headed ‘An Epigram shewing how England might be reformed’ and here beginning ‘England men say of late is bankerout grown’, dated ‘18. December. .1602’.
In: A quarto volume, comprising a treatise by Sir John Harington, to which was subsequently added (pp. 263-8), in a cursive secretary hand, after 1623, a tract relating to a prognostication by Sebalt Brandt Schweizer, xiv + 268 pages, in contemporary vellum. The treatise in the hands of Harington's ‘servant’ Thomas Combe and of Harington's brother Francis. 1602 (and later).
In defence of Lent (‘Our belly-gods dispraise the Lenton fast’)
First published in 1618, Book II, No. 90. McClure No. 186, pp. 222-3. Kilroy, Book III, No. 30, pp. 179-80.
HrJ 84
Copy, lines 1-4 in Harington's autograph, the rest probably autograph, untitled.
In: the MS described under HrJ 9. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 91, p. 142.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 59v.
HrJ 84.5
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘ffinis. Jo. Har.’
In: A tall folio volume, comprising a transcript of ‘Dr Harington's Manuscript No. 2’: i.e. of The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. (the ‘Arundel-Harington MS’). c.1810.
Owned by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor.
Typed and MS notes relating to this volume made in the 1920s by Professor Hyder Edward Rollins (1889-1958) are in Harvard MS Eng 1613.
In prayse of the Countesse of Darby, married to the Lord Keeper (‘This noble Countesse liued many yeeres’)
First published in 1618, Book III, No. 47. McClure No. 248, p. 251. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 74, p. 237.
HrJ 85
Copy, headed ‘The praise of the Countess of Derby married to the Lord Chancellour’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 52. Mid-late 17th century.
HrJ 86
Copy, headed ‘The sam Author vppon ye countes of Darby the wiff of ffernando’.
In: A quarto miscellany, largely in a professional secretary hand, i + 59 leaves (plus numerous blanks and some loose papers), in contemporary vellum. Late 16th-early 17th century.
Once owned by the Draycott family.
In Romam (‘Hate, and debate, Rome through the world hath spread’)
First published in 1618, Book IV, No. 92. McClure No. 346, p. 286. Authorship uncertain.
HrJ 88
Copy, headed ‘Of Rome’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Carew and one of doubtful authorship, in a single neat non-professional hand, 72 leaves (plus a later index). c.1643-50s.
Later owned by the Newcastle antiquarian collectors John Bell (1783-1864) and Robert White (1802-74).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Bell-White MS, CwT Δ 30. Described, with facsimiles of ff. 30r and 56v, in T.G.S. Cain, ‘The Bell/White MS: Some Unpublished Poems’, ELR, 2 (1972), 260-70.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, f. 42v.
HrJ 89
Copy, headed ‘An Epigram of Rome’.
In: An oblong quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat hand, written with the volume tilted with the spine to the top, 167 pages (plus blanks), in elaborately tooled green morocco gilt. Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by Strode (and two poems of doubtful authorship). c.1634.
The initials ‘M W’ stamped on each cover: i.e. M[aidstone] and W[inchilsea]. Evidently compiled by or for Sir Thomas Finch, Viscount Maidstone and Earl of Winchilsea (who succeeded to the peerage in 1633 and died in 1634). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 190.
The MS came to Rosenbach with a printed exemplum of William Wishcart, An Exposition of the Lord's Prayer (London, 1633), and the two clearly share the same provenance. The printed volume is similarly bound, with the initials ‘M W’; it is inscribed ‘Lord Winchilsea for Mr Locker 1634’; it bears the late 17th-century signatures of Stephen Locker and Alexander Campbell, and the bookplates of Captain William Locker (1731-1800) and Edward Hawke Locker (1777-1849).
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Winchelsea MS’: CwT Δ 33 and StW Δ 25.
HrJ 90
Copy, headed ‘of Rome’ and subscribed ‘Colb. Claney. 30th. Augt. 63’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, French, Latin and Greek, written from both ends in various hands, with a list of contents, 117 leaves, in half-calf. Late 17th century.
Bookplate of Charles W.G. Howard, ‘The Gift of the Rt. Hon. Sir David Dundas Knt. of Ochtertyre 1877’. Formerly Chest II, No. 13.
Of a certaine Man (‘There was (not certain when) a certaine preacher’)
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 23. McClure No. 277, p. 262. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 105, p. 250.
HrJ 90.5
Copy, untitled, here beginning It is vncertaine when a Certaine Preacher, followed (pp. 61-2) by ‘The Womans answer’ (beginning ‘That in the Scripture non could ever finde’)
In: A quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in a single hand, vi + 98 leaves, in calf. Probably compiled by a member of New College, Oxford. c.1630s.
Some tipped-in notes by Richard Rawlinson.
HrJ 91
Copy, headed ‘On Quidam Homo’ and here beginning ‘There was not certaine, when a Certaine Teacher’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 36. c.1630s.
This MS text followed by ‘The Answ: to it by the Lady cheeke’ (here beginning ‘That noe man yet could in the Bible find’).
HrJ 91.5
Copy, headed ‘Erat Quidam homo’ and here beginning ‘It is not certaine, when, a certaine Preacher’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 35. c.1630.
The text followed by an answer headed ‘Erat quedam mulier’ and here beginning ‘That no man yet could in the Scripture finde’.
HrJ 91.6
Copy. headed ‘Erat quidam homo’ and here beginning ‘It is not certain when a certain preacher’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves. Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.early 1630s.
Inscribed (f. 1r) by one ‘I A’ of Christ Church, Oxford, and also ‘Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison’. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Killigrew MS’: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.
The text followed by an answer headed ‘Erat quaedam Mulier’ and here beginning ‘That noe man yett could in the scripture find’.
HrJ 91.8
Copy, headed ‘a certain woman’, the text followed by an untitled answer beginning ‘That we yet could in the bible find’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 81. Early 17th century.
HrJ 92
Copy, headed in the margin ‘vpo a certaine man’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single cursive secretary hand, with a later title-page supplied in 1832, x + 116 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century black leather elaborately gilt. Inscribed (f. 1r), possibly by the compiler, ‘Richardus Jackson 1623’ and ‘Richard Jackson his booke’, who is described in a later pencil note as perhaps the brachygrapher. On ff. 113v-16r, in a later hand, is a ‘Catalogue of ye Books lately belonging to ye. Rev. Mr Jackson Rectr of Tatham’. c.1628-30s.
Also inscribed (f. 1r) ‘John Pecke’. Sold by Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, in 1831-2. Among collections of James Orchard Halliwell (from 1872 Halliwell-Phillipps) (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bought by him in 1871 from Sotheran's, London.
A 247-page transcript of this volume made c.1830 is in the Folger Shakespeare Library, MS M.b.26.
HrJ 93
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single mixed hand, with additions in other hands, associated with Oxford University, possibly Christ Church, 315 pages (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt. Including 11 poems by Donne, and 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett. c.1630s.
Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the ‘Curteis MS’: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, ‘Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript’, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.
HrJ 94
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘A time not certaine when a certaine preacher.’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 44. c.1620-33.
HrJ 95
Copy, headed ‘Erat quidam Homo. Or An invective against Women’ and here beginning ‘It is not certaine when, a certaine Preacher’. The text followed by ‘Erat quaedam Mulier. Or The Womans Reply’ (here beginning ‘That no man yet could in the scripture find’).
In: the MS described under HrJ 83. c.1630s.
HrJ 96
Copy, headed ‘A Certaine Woman’ and here beginning ‘It was not certaine when a certaine Preacher’. The text followed by ‘The reply’ (here beginning ‘That noe man yet could in the Bible find’).
In: the MS described under HrJ 47. c.1630.
HrJ 96.5
Copy, headed ‘Erat quidam homo’ and here beginning ‘Ther was no certayne when a Certyne teacher’, followed (p. 17) by an ‘answear’ (here beginning ‘That noe man yet Could in the Bible find’).
In: A quarto formal verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary and italic hand throughout, paginated 1-162 (but lacking some leaves), in modern limp vellum. Compiled by John Cruso (fl.1595-1655), poet and military writer, who matriculated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1632. c.1630s.
Names inscribed lengthways down margins (pp. 71, 91, 95) including ‘Cuthbert Sewell Esq’, ‘Jos. Nicholson’, ‘Wm Richardson’, and ‘Somers’. Donated in 1922 by Gordon Wordsworth who claims that the volume was once owned by the poet William Wordsworth.
HrJ 97
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘It is of certaine that a ceraine preacher’, followed (pp. 157-8) by an answer (here beginning ‘That no man yett could in the Scriptures find’).
In: A quarto miscellany of epitaphs and poems, in several hands, the main collection of verse (ff. 46-147) in a single hand and including 54 poems by Donne (all subscribed ‘J. D.’) and fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, 158 pages (plus index). c.1630s.
Once owned by the Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary, and later by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 164. Afterwards owned by Sir George Grey (1812-98), Governor of Australia, New Zealand and Cape Colony. Formerly MS Grey 2 a 11.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Grey MS’: DnJ Δ 60 and HeR Δ 6. Facsimile of p. 119r (HeR 355) in L.F. Casson, ‘The Manuscripts of the Grey Collection in Cape Town’, The Book Collector, 10 (Spring 1961), 147-55 (facing p. 153).
National Library of South Africa, Cape Town, MS Grey 7 a 29, p. 157.
HrJ 98
Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, untitled and here beginning ‘It was not certaine when a cteine teacher’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany, of verse and generally religious prose, in Latin and English, in several hands, largely in one small cursive predominantly italic hand, written from both ends, 151 leaves, in old blind-stamped calf. Compiled by a Cambridge University man. c.late 1630s.
Inscribed name (f. 151v) ‘John graves’. Old pressmark F. 5. 24.
HrJ 98.5
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘A tyme vncertayne when as a certayne preacher’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 48. c.1620.
The text followed (f. 72v) by an answer (here beginning ‘That no man yet could in ye bible finde’) and subscribed ‘Sr. J.H.’.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39), f. 72r.
HrJ 98.8
Copy, headed ‘Quidam homo’ and here beginning ‘There was a time when that a certain techer’. The text followed (f. 48r-v) by ‘An answer by ye Lady checke’ (here beginning ‘That no man yet could in ye bible find’).
In: the MS described under HrJ 51. c.1630s.
Of a faire Shrew (‘Faire, rich, and yong? how rare is her perfection’)
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 37. McClure No. 291, p. 266. Kilroy, Book II, No. 88, p. 162.
Of a faire woman. translated out of Casaneus his Catalogus gloriae mundi (‘These thirty things that Hellens fame did raise’)
First published in 1618, Book I, No. 15. McClure No. 16, p. 154. Kilroy, Book I, No. 24, p. 102.
HrJ 100
Copy, headed in another hand ‘Calmeydas verses translated by Iohn Harington’. The text followed by a copy of the original Latin verses by Barthélemy de Chasseneux (lines 1-10 in Sir John Harington's hand.
In: the MS described under HrJ 9. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 226, p. 257.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, ff. 156v-7r.
HrJ 101
Copy in: the MS described under HrJ 52. Mid-late 17th century.
Of a Lady that giues the cheek (‘Is't for a grace, or is't for some disleeke’)
First published in 1615. 1618, Book III, No. 3. McClure No. 201, p. 230. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 84, p. 201.
HrJ 102
Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, predominantly in a single hand (up to f. 34v), with additions in four subsequent hands (ff. 37-50v), 50 leaves, in vellum. Compiled for the most part by a University of Oxford man, with (f. 1r-v) a list of contents. c.1640s.
Once owned by one John Faith, and by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.
Formerly cited as Corpus Christi College, MS E.i.33.
HrJ 103
Copy, headed ‘On a gentel woman tha pained her face’ and here beginning ‘If for a grace, or if for some mislike’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by Donne and 14 poems by Corbett, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford University, written from both ends, 102 leaves, in 17th-century calf. c.1630s.
Inscribed (f. 101v) ‘Henry Lawson’ (or just possibly ‘Lamson’). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1185. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9257. Sotheby's, 15 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 862. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (1896), item 64.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Lawson MS’: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.
HrJ 105
Copy, headed ‘To a proud Lady’.
In: A quarto composite volume of four MSS, in English and Latin, iii + 187 leaves, in vellum boards. Part B (ff. 16d-86v): A quarto miscellany of poems and letters, in several hands, compiled by William Elyott (a nephew of Sir Simonds D'Ewes). c.1640-55.
Part C (ff. 86 bis-120r): A quarto verse miscellany compiled by Thomas Axton, M.A. (b.1699/1700), of Trinity College, Cambridge. c.1718-22.
Part C sold at the Thomas Rawlinson sale in March 1733/4, lot 289.
HrJ 106
Copy, headed ‘Coynesse’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, 215 leaves (plus a few blanks), in modern calf gilt. Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 17 of the Hopkinson MSS. c.1670.
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, pp. 295-6.
HrJ 107
Copy, headed ‘vpon a gentlewoman painted’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 52. Mid-late 17th century.
HrJ 108
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 John P. Cutts, ‘Sir John Harington's Epigrammatic Lyric’, N&Q, 205 (February 1960), 60-1.
HrJ 108.5
Copy, in a musical setting for treble and bass.
In: the MS described under HrJ 108. c.1615-26.
HrJ 109
Copy of lines 1-4, in a musical setting, untitled and here beginning ‘Ist for a grace or ist for some mislicke’.
In: An oblong folio songbook, the lyrics in two or more secretary and italic hands, 44 leaves, in contemporary vellum within brown calf gilt, stamped with the initials ‘A. B.’, now within modern half red morocco. c.1630.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Richard Elliotts his Booke’ and ‘William Wilkins 1743’. The cover initials ‘A. B.’ conjecturally attributed to Adrian Batten (1591-1637), composer. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1873.
Facsimile of ff. 2r-26v in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).
Edited from this MS in Cutts, N&Q (1960), 60-1.
HrJ 110
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman who painted her face’.
In: A small octavo verse miscellany, written from both ends, predominantly in a single hand in variant styles (ff. 1v-79v, 80r, 88v-96v, 119r-117r rev.), with additions in later hands (ff. 97r-104v, 116v-106r rev.), 164 leaves, in modern half red morocco. Inscribed (f. 1v, in a court hand) ‘Daniell Leare his Booke’, ‘witnesse William Strode’, and (f. 164r) ‘Mr Daniell Leare eius Liber’: i.e. compiled chiefly by Daniel Leare, a distant cousin of the poet William Strode, probably at Christ Church, Oxford, before he entered the Middle Temple in 1633. c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This suggestion, by Mary Hobbs, is supported by entries in the Caution Book of 1625-41 at Christ Church, where Strode is found (p. 22) paying £10 as college security for Leare and where Leare signs (p. 23) on this sum's repayment by Dr Fell on 13 May 1633. Forey suggests (p. lxxix) that he was the Daniell Leare of St Andrews, Holburne, whose will was proved in 1652; but it is more likely that he was the Daniel Leare to whom Henry King, Dean of Rochester, leased property at Chatham on 19 July 1655 (National Archives, Kew, SP 18/99/61). Daniel Leare's wife, Dorothy, was a member of the Hubert family with whom King was associated by virtue of the marriage of his sister Dorothy.
The volume includes 12 poems by Donne; 15 poems (plus a second copy of one and three of doubtful authorship) by Carew; 20 poems (plus two of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; and 84 poems (plus second copies of eight poems, four poems of doubtful authorship and some apocryphal poems) by Strode, the texts being closely related to, and in part probably transcribed from, the ‘Corpus MS’ of Strode's poems (StW Δ 1).
Inscribed also ‘John Leare’ (probably Daniel's younger brother); (f. 1r) ‘Anthony Euans his booke’ (who married Daniel Leare's niece Dorothy Leare in 1663); (f. 1v) ‘Alexander Croke his Book 1773’; and (f. 164v) ‘John Scott’ (who matriculated at Christ Church in 1632). Rimell & Son, 9 November 1878.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Leare MS’: DnJ Δ 41, CwT Δ 15, CoR Δ 4, and StW Δ 10.
Discussed in Mary Hobbs, An Edition of the Stoughton Manuscript (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1973), pp. 185-90; in her ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 189-90); and in her Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), passim, with facsimile examples of ff. 79-80 facing p. 87.
HrJ 111
Copy, headed ‘Of a Painted Lady’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 60. c.1600-1620s.
Printed from this MS in Grosart, The Dr Farmer MS (1873), I, 82.
HrJ 112
Copy, headed ‘To a Scornefull Ladye’.
In: A sextodecimo pocket miscellany, ff. 3r-53r in a single hand, other hands and scribbling on ff. 1r-2r, 54v, 87v-90v, 90 leaves in all (including blanks ff. 55r-87r), in contemporary calf, with remains of clasps. Including 12 poems by Carew. c.1650s.
Inscribed ‘Richard Archard his booke Amen 1650’; ‘Richard Archard his penn Amen 1657’; ‘to Mr Satars[?] towads the Casting of ye lead 1657’; ‘Tho: Wise’; ‘John Smith of halmortaine and I…went to Thornebury’; and ‘Edward Watt’. Bookplate of William Harris Arnold.
Cited in IELM, II.i, as the ‘Archard MS’: CwT Δ 24.
HrJ 113
Copy, headed ‘To a paynted Lady’ and here beginning ‘If for a grace, or if for some dislike’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 42. c.1637-51.
HrJ 114
Copy, headed ‘Of a gentlewoman that painted her face’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 43. c.1630s.
HrJ 115
Copy, headed ‘Of Kissing’ and here beginning ‘Its for a grace or else for some dislike’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single, minute non-professional italic hand, probably someone associated with Oxford University, comprising 180 pages now all separated and mounted, interleaved, in 19th-century calf. c.late 1630s.
Later in the libraries (with bookplates) of the book collector Richard Heber (1774-1833); of the bibliographer and antiquary Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833); of the biographer and literary editor Alexander Chalmers (1759-1834); and of the antiquary Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough (his sale by Charles Sharpe in Dublin, 1 November 1842, lot 577).
HrJ 116
Copy, in a musical setting.
In: A folio songbook, largely in a single secretary hand, with poems and (reversed) culinary and medical receipts in later hands at the end, imperfect or incomplete, now 27 leaves, lacking half the songs listed in a ‘Table’ at the end. c.1620s-30s.
The original cover inscribed ‘Ann Twice her booke’. Inscribed on the first page ‘My Cosen Twice Leftte this Booke with me...which is to be returne to her AGhaine...’. Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.
A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 11 (New York & London, 1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, ‘“Songs Vnto the Violl and Lute” -- Drexel Ms. 4175’, Musica Disciplina, 16 (1962), 73-92.
This MS collated in John P. Cutts, ‘Sir John Harington's Eppigrammatic Lyric’, N&Q, 205 (February 1960), 60-1.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4175, No. xx.
HrJ 117
Copy, headed ‘A woman giving her cheek to be Kissed’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 88. c.1643-50s.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, f. 44v.
HrJ 121
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Yst for a fauor, or for some dislike’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, containing 89 poems, including 43 by Donne, in several hands (ff. 21r-62r in a single accomplished secretary hand), 69 leaves, in paper wrappers. The text of the poems by Donne derived from the same source as the Lansdowne MS (British Library, Lansdowne MS 740) and related in part to the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS II (Huntington, HM 198, Part II). c.1620-5.
Formerly among the muniments of the Earl of Dalhousie (descendant of the Maule and Ramsay families), of Brechin Castle, on deposit in the Scottish Record Office [now National Archives of Scotland] (GD45/26/95/1). Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 490.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the the ‘Dalhousie MS I’: DnJ Δ 11. Complete reduced facsimile and transcription in The First and Second Dalhousie Manuscripts: Poems and Prose by John Donne and Others: A Facsimile Edition, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Columbia, 1988). Also discussed by Ernest W. Sullivan, II in ‘Donne Manuscripts: Dalhousie I’, John Donne Journal, 3/2 (1984), 204-19; in ‘“And, having done that, Thou hast done”: Locating, Acquiring, and Studying the Dalhousie Manuscripts’, in The Donne Dalhousie Discovery: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Acquisition and Study of the John Donne and Joseph Conrad Collections at Texas Tech University, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan II and David J. Murrah (Lubbock, TX, 1987), pp. 1-10; and in ‘The Renaissance Manuscript Verse Miscellany: Private Party, Private Text’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, ed. W. Speed Hill (Binghamton, 1993), pp. 289-97.
Facsimiles of f. 15v in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 13, and of f. 42r in Sotheby's sale catalogue and in Peter Beal, A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450-2000 (Oxford, 2008), p. 431, Illus. 91. A complete microfilm of the MS is in the National Archives of Scotland.
Sullivan suggests that the miscellany derives from sources preserved by members of the Earl of Essex's circle, their most likely ‘conduit’ to the Dalhousie family being John Ramsay (1580-1626), Viscount Haddington and Earl of Holderness.
HrJ 122
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Yst for a fauour, or for some dislike’, probably transcribed from HrJ 121.
In: A folio verse miscellany comprising 56 poems, including 29 by Donne, in several hands (two predominating), 34 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern cloth. Much of the volume (including 24 poems by Donne on ff. 15r-31v) evidently transcribed from the Dalhousie MS I (Texas Tech University, PR 1171 D14) and the text of some poems (including ff. 9r-11r) corrected from that MS. c.1622-9.
Inscribed (f. 1r) with the date 28 September 1622 and, in possibly a child's hand (f. 1v), ‘Andrew Ramsey’. Formerly among the muniments of the Earl of Dalhousie (descendant of the Maule and Ramsay families), of Brechin Castle, on deposit in the Scottish Record Office (GD45/26/95/2). Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 491, and 12 December1982, lot 49.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Dalhousie MS II’: DnJ Δ 12. Complete reduced facsimile and transcription in The First and Second Dalhousie Manuscripts: Poems and Prose by John Donne and Others: A Facsimile Edition, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Columbia, 1988). Also discussed in The Donne Dalhousie Discovery, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan, II and David J. Murrah (Lubbock, TX, 1987), and in ‘The Renaissance Manuscript Verse Miscellany: Private Party, Private Text’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, ed. W. Speed Hill (Binghamton, 1993), pp. 289-97.
Facsimiles of f. 10v in Sotheby's sale catalogue, and of ff. 20v and 26r in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), pp. 320-1. Complete microfilms of the MS are in the National Archives of Scotland and in the Brirish Library, RP 2441.
HrJ 122.5
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under HrJ 48. c.1620.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39), f. 64v.
HrJ 123
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman paynted’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat italic hand, with rubrication, 144 pages (plus later index). Including twelve poems by Carew, nine poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph and nineteen (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the miscellany associated with Oxford University and possibly related to Bodleian MS Malone 21, the latest date occuring in a poem on pp. 63-6 ‘Vpon ye great Frost 1634’. c.1635.
Inscribed inside the front cover by a later owner: ‘April 1853 Read to Lit[erary] & Philosophical] Soc[iet]y of L[iver]pool’. Acquired in 1940 by Edwin Wolf II (1911-91), Philadelphia librarian.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Wolf MS’: CwT Δ 37; RnT Δ 12; StW Δ 28.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 88-9.
HrJ 124
Copy, headed ‘Another’ and here beginning ‘I'st for a faur or for some dislike’.
In: A fragment of a quarto verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, seven leaves, the second item in a quarto composite volume also containing (item 1) a MS translation of the Song of Solomon written on nine leaves in 1622 by one Robert Eliot, and (item 3) Greek verse, on thirteen leaves subscribed ‘J: Malet’, in modern cloth. c.1630s.
Formerly MSS 4. 29.
HrJ 124.5
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman, who paynted her face’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 50. c.1650.
Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett (‘A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse’)
First published in ‘Epigrammes’ appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). McClure No. 404, p. 312. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 57, p. 231.
HrJ 126
Copy, headed ‘A Lady musinge’, with two additional lines.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small neat predominantly secretary hand but for additions in a second hand on ff. 35v and 58r, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Wadham College, 97 leaves (inclusing two blanks), in half-calf. Including 14 poems by Carew (and a second copy of one poem), eight poems (plus 3 of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, and 28 poems by Strode (plus a second copy of one and two of doubtful authorship). c.late 1630s.
Later used and annotated by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, and entries in his hand on f. 97r. Formerly Bodleian, MS CCC.328.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Fulman MS’: CwT Δ 2; RnT Δ 6; StW Δ 16.
HrJ 127
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘A Gentle Lady sitting in a muse’, transcribed by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729) ‘from a MS. written 1612’.
In: A composite volume of verse, i + 126 leaves. Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary. Late 17th century.
Given to the library in 1954 by N.R. Ker.
HrJ 129
Copy, headed ‘Sr. John Keys to his Lady’ and here beginning ‘A gallant lady sitting in a muse’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 74. c.1620s-30s.
HrJ 130
Copy in: An octavo miscellany of verse and university exercises, including twelve poems by Carew, in a single hand, compiled by Edward Natley, Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, 165 leaves (including many blanks), in calf (rebacked). c.1635-44.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 2592. Sotheby's, 10 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 960. Owned in 1896 by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. Acquired in 1950 from H.F.B. Brett-Smith, Oxford literary scholar and editor.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Natley MS’: CwT Δ 6.
HrJ 131
Copy, headed ‘On a Lady which sate museing’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by the writer Robert Codrington (1602-65) of Magdalen College, Oxford, 360 pages (including stubs of extracted leaves on pp. 297-328 and blanks, plus index), in contemporary calf. Including 16 poems by Carew and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Written in three hands: i.e. A (Codrington's hand, including his own poems) on pp. 1-283, 349-55; B on pp. 284-9; and C on pp. 289-348, 356-60; dated (pp. 1-22) ‘Anno Dom: 1638’ and ‘The 30th of May. 1638’. c.1638.
Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Codrington MS’: CwT Δ 7 and StW Δ 7.
HrJ 134
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several hands, written from both ends, 84 leaves, in contemporary calf. Probably compiled principally by an Oxford University man. c.1630s-40s.
Names inscribed on rear flyleaf and paste-down ‘Elizabeth hosman’ and ‘William Blois’.
HrJ 135
Copy, headed ‘A Ladies Answere to...’ and here beginning ‘A beutuouse ladie sittinge in a muse’.
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.
HrJ 136
Copy, headed ‘Upon a vertuous Ladye falling asleepe’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 52. Mid-late 17th century.
HrJ 138
Copy, headed ‘A Ladyes answer to her husband’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 49 leaves, outer leaves imperfect, in modern calf gilt. Including twenty poems by Carew, eleven poems by Crashaw on ff. 10-30 passim, and fifteen poems by Strode. c.1630s.
Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1834), item 728. Acquired from C. Booth, October 1857.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Thorpe MS’: CwT Δ 12, CrR Δ 3, StW Δ 9.
HrJ 139
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Lady’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several small non-professional hands, 88 leaves, imperfect at the beginning. c.1630s-40s.
HrJ 140
Copy, headed ‘On a lady and her Knight’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 38. Mid-17th century.
HrJ 141
Copy by Barbon, with general heading in the margin ‘Epigramata’. Early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of verse, in various hands, 280 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Incorporating (ff. 40r-51v) a quarto verse miscellany compiled allegedly ‘for the mendinge of his hand in wrighting’, when ‘Idle and wanting Employment’, by Feargod Barbon of Daventry, Northamptonshire (? a relation of the Anabaptist politician Praisegod Barbon (1598-1679/80)).
In preliminary verses (f. 40r), Barbon records that ‘This Booke [i.e. presumably the exemplar for his verse transcripts] was giuen me by A frende / To reade and overlooke’.
HrJ 142
Copy, headed in the margin ‘On a Lady’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in Latin and English, one cursive hand predominating, 69 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half black crushed morocco. c.1630s.
Inscribed (f. 62r) ‘Nathaniel Heighmore’: i.e. presumably Nathaniel Highmore (1613-85), chemical physician and anatomist; ‘John Sacheverell his hand and pen Amen’; and ‘John Sacheverell the Author of this...’.
HrJ 143
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘A uirtuouse ladie sittinge in a muse’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, chiefly (ff. 1r-14r) in a single small mixed hand, i + 15 leaves, the eighth and last item in a composite volume of otherwise printed amatory poems and pamphlets, in 19th-century quarter brown calf. c.1620s.
The volume inscribed (on flyleaves) ‘E Bedford’, ‘W Monteagle’, ‘Fra: Goodwin’, ‘Edw nedwarde’.
The MS poems here edited in Frederick J. Furnivall, Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted New York, 1977).
Furnivall, p. 21.
HrJ 144
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a Scottish secretary hand, paginated 5-132, bound with a later verse MS on 98 pages, in brown calf. c.1630s-40s.
Bookplate of John Pinkerton (1758-1826), historian and poet. Sotheby's, April 1812 (Pinkerton sale), lot 593, to Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 1104, to Thomas Thorpe. His catalogue, 1836, bought by Laing.
HrJ 146
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Knight and his Lady’ and here beginning ‘A gallant Lady sitting in a muse’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 42. c.1637-51.
HrJ 147
Copy, headed ‘On ye lady J: S. musinge’, subscribed ‘JL’.
In: A large quarto verse miscellany, 76 leaves, in old vellum wrappers within modern quarter red morocco on marbled boards. Part I, including some Welsh, comprises sixteen leaves, all (but for f. 15r-v) in the cursive hand of William Jordan, schoolmaster of Denbigh or Caernarvon, whose name (‘Gulielmus Jordan’) is inscribed, the dates 1680-83 occurring. c.1674-84.
Part II comprises 60 leaves, ff. 1-50v in a neat italic hand, ff. 51r-60r in several other cursive hands.
The vellum wrapper on Part II bears notes on a debt by William Jordan in 1674 relating to ‘Evan Thomas’ and ‘Mr Richard Wilkinsn in pepper street’. Formerly Folger MS 1669.2.
HrJ 149
Copy, untitled, with four additional lines and the marginal note ‘A couplet or two fastned to Sr Io: Harrington his Epigra, to doe his Townes knight yeomans seruice?’.
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.
HrJ 150
Copy, headed ‘Of a Lady musing’, with four additional lines.
In: the MS described under HrJ 93. c.1630s.
HrJ 152
Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, untitled.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters, tracts, and verse, collected by, and mostly in the hand of, William Parkhurst (fl.1604-67), Sir Henry Wotton's secretary in Venice and later Master of the Mint, including various works in verse and prose attributed to Donne, chiefly in a scribal hand, partly in Parkhurst's hand, 373 leaves (including blanks), in old calf.
Among the papers of the Finch family of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland. Mistakenly reported by Grierson and Logan Pearsall Smith to have been destroyed in a fire at Burley c.1908.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Burley MS’: DnJ Δ 53. Recorded in HMC, 7th Report (1879), Appendix, p. 516. A complete microfilm of the MS is at the University of Sheffield, Microfilm 737.
A neat transcript of parts of the Burley MS (including principally poems on ff. 255r-v, 278v, [279r]-288v, 342v-3r, 294r-300r, 301r-8v), made before 1908, on 35 leaves, is in the Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. c. 80.
HrJ 153
Copy, headed ‘On a lady’, among poems on a single folio leaf.
In: Miscellaneous literary papers, unbound, assembled by Adam Ottley (1685-1752), Registrar of the diocese of St David's, Wales. Among papers formerly at Pitchford Hall, Shropshire.
National Library of Wales, Pitchford Hall (Ottley) English Literary MSS (uncatalogued), A, A1.
HrJ 154
Copy, headed ‘Upon a Vertuous Lady’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 88. c.1643-50s.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, f. 45r-v.
HrJ 154.5
Copy in: A folio composite volume of Percy family poems, in various hands, in half red morocco. Early-mid-18th century.
HrJ 155
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Ladie’, with four additional lines.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in probably two or more secretary hands, 108 pages, in half brown morocco. Mid-17th century.
Later owned by F.W. Cosens (1819-89). Bookplate of James W. Ellsworth.
HrJ 157
Copy, headed ‘A Knight to his Lady beeing in a muse’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 89. c.1634.
HrJ 159
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under HrJ 48. c.1620.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39), f. 82r.
HrJ 159.5
Copy, headed ‘On a Lady sitting stradling’ and here beginning ‘A gallant Lady sitting in A muse’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 50. c.1650.
HrJ 160.5
Copy, headed ‘Of a Lady’ and here beginning ‘A vertuous Lady sittinge in a muse’, in an oblong volume of cittern music compiled in part by the Bedfordshire Parliamentarian Sir William Boteler (d.1656). Mid-17th century.
Christie's, 2 April 1982, lot 4, to Richard McNutt.
Of a Lady that sought remedy at the Bathe (‘A Lady that none name, nor blame none hath’)
First published in 1618, Book III, No. 8. McClure No. 206, pp. 232-3. Kilroy, Book I, II No. 99ter, pp. 207-8.
Of a Preacher that sings Placebo (‘A smooth-tong'd Preacher that did much affect’)
First published in 1618, Book II, No. 56. McClure No. 152, p. 207. Kilroy, Book II, No. 90, p. 163.
HrJ 162
Copy, headed ‘On a Preacher’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, closely written from both ends in several hands, 144 leaves (plus entries on inside covers), in contemporary calf. Owned (name inscribed on f. 1r), and probably compiled in part, by one Thomas Watson. c.1680s.
Formerly MS P. 3. 1.
Of a Precise Cobler, and an ignorant Curat (‘A Cobler, and a Curat, once disputed’)
First published in 1618, Book I, No. 66. McClure No. 67, p. 173. Kilroy, Book I, No. 10, p. 97.
HrJ 164.3
Copy, with a sidenote ‘Sr JH of a cobler & curate’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 59.5. c.1630s.
HrJ 164.5
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘A curate & a Cobler longe disputed’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 62. Mid-17th century.
Of a Precise Lawyer (‘A Lawyer call'd vnto the Barre but lately’)
First published in 1618, Book I, No. 82. McClure No. 83, pp. 179-80. Kilroy, Book I, No. 72, pp. 118-19.
HrJ 166
Copy in: the MS described under HrJ 52. Mid-late 17th century.
Of a Precise Tayler (‘A Taylor, thought a man of vpright dealling’)
First published in 1618, Book I, No. 20. McClure No. 21, pp. 156-7. Kilroy, Book I, No. 40, pp. 107-8.
HrJ 167
Copy in: A large folio composite verse miscellany, chiefly folio, partly quarto, 243 pages, in contemporary calf. Including 18 poems by Carew and two of doubtful authorship, compiled by Nicholas Burghe (d.1670), Royalist Captain during the Civil War and one of the poor Knights of Windsor in 1661 (references to ‘I Nicholas Burgh’ occurring on ff. 165r, with the date ‘3d of June 1638’, and 166r, and his name partly in cipher on other pages); predominantly in his hand, with some later additions in other hands. c.1638.
Afterwards owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Burghe MS’: CwT Δ 1.
HrJ 168
Copy, headed ‘In Johannem Sartorem’.
In: A folio composite volume, chiefly of English and Latin verse, in various hands; vi + 186 leaves, in reversed calf.
Scribbling on f. iir including ‘ffor mr William Rabey in New=market...’, ‘ffor my Louing ffriend in G John westhropp at mr Rogers Reringe house Bury in S[uffolk]’, ‘ffor mr John fford at his house in Newmarket in the countey of cambridge’; notes on f. iiiv-ivr, one ‘Recd 22 July 1669’, subscribed ‘John Cooke’ and including, on f. vir, ‘ffor mr John Cocke at his howse neere the white harte in Thetford...’. Later owned, in the 1730s, by Charles Barlow, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (his bookplate f. iiv).
HrJ 170
Copy, headed ‘A precise Taylor’ and here beginning ‘A Taylor tane to be of vpright dealinge’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 135.
HrJ 171
Copy, headed ‘Of A Puritane taylour made by Sr JH:’ and here beginning ‘A Taylor held a man of vpright dealinge’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 76. Early 17th century.
HrJ 172
Copy, headed ‘Upon a precise Taylor’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 52. Mid-late 17th century.
HrJ 176
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including 50 poems by Donne, in a single neat secretary hand except for ff. 70r-2r, which are in another secretary hand. Comprising folios 57r-137v in a quarto composite volume of MSS, in various hands, 173 leaves, in 19th-century leather gilt. c.1620s.
Later owned by Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), Yorkshire antiquary and topographer. Among the collections of William Petty (1737-1805), first Marquess of Lansdowne, Lord Shelburne.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Lansdowne MS’: DnJ Δ 8). Recorded as item 133 among ‘Manuscripts in Quarto’ in the list at the end of Thoresby's Ducatus Leodensis, 2nd edition (Leeds, 1816), Appendix, p. 85.
HrJ 177
Copy, headed ‘A Reformed Taylour’.
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).
HrJ 178
Copy, headed ‘A storie of a Taylor by Sr. John Harrington’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, including 26 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Thomas Carew and poems by Henry King, in several hands, 92 leaves, plus an inserted gathering of eleven leaves after f. 82v (ff. [82a-82k]), but including stubs of some extracted leaves (ff. 74-8, 94-5), in contemporary vellum. Inscribed ‘To my euer honored good Cosen Sr John Reresby Barronett these prsent’: i.e. presented to Sir John Reresby, first Baronet (1611-46), royalist, of Thribergh Hall. c.1630s.
Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Mexborough MS’: CwT Δ 29.
HrJ 180
Copy in: the MS described under HrJ 71. c.1634.
HrJ 181
Copy, headed ‘A Taylor’, here beginning ‘A Taylor, a man of vpright dealling’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 47. c.1630.
HrJ 182
Copy, headed ‘Vppon a Puritan Taylor’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 96.5. c.1630s.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS U. 26 (James 548), pp. 22-3.
HrJ 183.5
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘A taylor ta'ne to be of vpright dealing’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 48. c.1620.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39), f. 84r.
HrJ 185
Copy, headed ‘A reformed Taylor’.
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.
Of a pregnant pure sister (‘I learned a tale more fitt to be forgotten’)
First published (13-line version) in The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1926), but see HrJ 197. McClure (1930), No. 413, p. 315. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 80, p. 239.
HrJ 187
Copy of a ten-line version, headed ‘On a maid gott wth child’ and here beginning ‘A godlie maid wth one of her societie’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, ii + 65 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Entitled Miscentur seria iocis. 1647. Elegies, Exequies, Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs Satires and other Poems, a formal compilation entirely in the hand of the Yorkshire antiquary John Hopkinson (1610-80). 1647.
From the library of Cecil Brent, FSA. Sold by P.J. & A.E. Dobell, January 1938.
HrJ 188
Copy of a ten-line version, headed ‘On a precise mayd wth childe’ and here beginning ‘A godly mayd by one of her societie’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 103. c.1630s.
HrJ 189
Copy of a ten-line version, headed ‘On a holy sister got with childe by a holy brother’ and here beginning ‘A sister once by one of her society’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 131. c.1638.
HrJ 190
Copy of a ten-line version, untitled and here beginning ‘A Puritan, with one of her society’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 168.
HrJ 191
Copy of a ten-line version, headed ‘The Godlye mayde’ and here beginning ‘A godlye Mayde wth one of her societye’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 34. c.1620s-33.
HrJ 192
Copy of a variant 16-line version, headed ‘A saintlike sister’ and here beginning ‘A saintlike sister late turnd votarie’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 135.
HrJ 193
Copy of a ten-line version, headed ‘Parturiens Puritana’ and here beginning ‘A godly sister, by one of her Society’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 36. c.1630s.
Edited partly from this MS in John Wardroper, Love and Drollery (London, 1969), p. 174.
HrJ 193.5
Copy of a version headed ‘On a Puritan’ and beginning ‘A Puritan of late, and eke a holy Sister’, imperfect.
In: the MS described under HrJ 37. c.1640s-50s.
HrJ 193.8
Copy (words only), untitled and here beginning ‘A Puritan of late & eke a holy sister’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 108. c.1615-26.
HrJ 194
Copy of a ten-line version, headed ‘On a Puritan maide’ and here beginning ‘A Puritan maide by one of hir societie’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse, academic exercises and other material, in English and Latin, almost entirely in a single hand, 134 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Inscribed by the compiler (f. 133v) ‘Anthony Scattergood His booke’: i.e. Anthony Scattergood (1611-87), theologian, of Trinity College, Cambridge. Volume XXXII of the Scattergood papers. c.1632-40.
Also inscribed (f. 130v) ‘Elisabeth Scattergood her Booke 1667/8’. Booklabel of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector.
HrJ 195
Copy of a variant fourteen-line version, headed ‘On a Puritaine’ and here beginning ‘A st like sister, late turne votary’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 139. c.1630s-40s.
HrJ 196
Copy of a ten-line version, untitled and here beginning ‘A godlye maide wth one of her societye’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including 18 poems by Donne, in several hands over a period (the predominant secretary hand on ff. 1r-35v, 45v-63r), written from both ends, 91 leaves, in later green morocco. c.1630s [-1777].
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘E Libris Richardo Glovero pharmacopol. Londinense pertinantibus’, the date ‘1638’ possibly added in a different hand. The name ‘William Allen’ on f. 77v among scribbling. Inscribed (f. 1v) by a later owner, apparently for ‘Mr Thorpe’, ‘I was informed by the bookseller of whom I bought this book; that it belonged formerly to a literary gentleman who lived in Burton Crescent and who died about six months ago. 3rd Augt. 1835’.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Glover MS’: DnJ Δ 42.
HrJ 197
Copy of a ten-line version, untitled and here beginning ‘A puritane, with one of hir societie’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 143. c.1620s.
Furnivall, p. 22.
HrJ 198
Copy of a ten-line version, headed ‘Upon A Holy Sister’ and here beginning ‘A Godly sister by one of her society’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 42. c.1637-51.
HrJ 199
Copy of a ten-line version, untitled and here beginning ‘A [ ] sister wth one of her society’, partly deleted.
In: the MS described under HrJ 93. c.1630s.
HrJ 200
Copy of a ten-line version, headed ‘On a maiden conceived by a scholler’ and here beginning ‘A godly maiden wth one of her societie’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 43. c.1630s.
HrJ 201
Copy of a ten-line version, headed ‘On a Mayd got wth child’ and here beginning ‘A godly Maid wth one of her society’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 115. c.late 1630s.
HrJ 202
Copy of a ten-line version, headed ‘Upon a Puritan mayde’ and here beginning ‘A puritan mayde by one of her society’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 88. c.1643-50s.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, ff. 40v-1r.
HrJ 203
Copy of a ten-line version headed ‘A Puritan maide’ and here beginning ‘A Puritan maide by one of her society’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 155. Mid-17th century.
HrJ 204
Copy of a ten-line version, untitled and here beginning ‘A godly maide by one of her society’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 60.5. c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
HrJ 205
Copy of a ten-line version, headed ‘On a Puritan’ and here beginning ‘A holy made, by one of her society’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 71. c.1634.
HrJ 206
Copy of a ten-line version, untitled and here beginning ‘A holy maide by one of her society’.
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.
HrJ 207
Copy of a ten-line version, headed ‘On A Purytan Maide’ and here beginning ‘A vertuous maide (with one of her society)’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 89. c.1634.
HrJ 208
Copy of a ten-line version, untitled and here beginning ‘A Godly maide with one of her society’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 47. c.1630.
HrJ 208.5
Copy, headed ‘Vppon a puritane’ and here beginning ‘A holie maide by one of her societie’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, of English and Welsh verse and prose, in probably several hands, the English verse (on pages 9-70, 93-104) including eleven poems by Strode and two of doubtful authorship, 110 pages (plus stubs of extracted leaves). Compiled by members of the Griffith family, of Llanddyfnan, the verse probably entered by one or more of the various members of that family who studied in this period at the University of Oxford. Mid-17th century.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Griffith MS’: StW Δ 26.
HrJ 208.8
Copy of a ten-line version, untitled and here beginning ‘A godlie mayde wth one of her societie’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 48. c.1620.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39), f. 64r.
HrJ 209
Copy of a ten-line version, headed ‘On a puritan maide’ and here beginning ‘A holy maid with one of her society’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 49. c.1640.
HrJ 209.3
Copy of a version headed ‘A Puritan his zeale for his Sister’ and beginning ‘A Puritane of late / And eake an holy Sister’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 50. c.1650.
HrJ 209.5
Copy of a ten-line version, headed ‘parturiens puritana’ and here beginning ‘A godly sister by one of hir society’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 51. c.1630s.
HrJ 209.7
Copy of a ten-line version, headed ‘Vpon a woman gotten with child by a Scholler’ and here beginning ‘A puritane maide with her society’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, originally written in two hands (A: ff. 1r-22r, 27v-8v; B: ff. 22r-7v, predominantly italic), with late 17th-century additions in three other hands on ff. 28v-33v, 52r and f. 34r, associated with Cambridge, 35 leaves (plus 17 blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. Including 13 poems by Randolph, plus three of doubtful authorship. Initials stamped on both covers of ‘F R’ and the inside of the cover inscribed ‘Francis Rolfe Anno dni 1637’: i.e. Francis Rolfe (1618-78), Town Clerk of [King's] Lynn, Norfolk. c.1637.
Sotheby's, 21 July 1988, lot 18.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Rolfe MS’: RnT Δ 5. Briefly described in E.S. Leedham-Green, ‘Francis Rolfe's poetical miscellany: Add.Ms 8684’, Bulletin of the Friends of Cambridge University Library, 9 (1988), 20-2. A facsimile of f. 9v in Sotheby's sale catalogue: see RnT 123, RnT 239. For the Rolfe family (whose later papers are in the Norfolk Record Office, NRS 27114, 404 x 3), see R.T. and A. Gunther, Rolfe Family Records, 2 vols (London & Aylesbury, 1914), and Veronica Berry, The Rolfe Papers: The Chronicle of a Norfolk Family 1559-1908 (Brentwood, Essex, 1979; 2nd impression 1986).
Of a pure preaching Phisition (‘The zealous preacher Lalus as they tell’)
Kilroy, Book IV, No. 20, p. 216.
HrJ 209.8
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Lalus the zealous preacher as they tell’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 81. Early 17th century.
Of a sawcy Cator (‘A Cator had of late some wild-fowle bought’)
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 22. McClure No. 276, p. 261. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 82, p. 239.
HrJ 210.5
Copy, in a secretary hand, words only, untitled.
In: the MS described under HrJ 39.5. Early 17th century.
Of a word in welch mistaken in English (‘An English lad long Woode a lasse of wales’)
Kilroy, Book IV, No. 38, p. 224.
HrJ 213
Copy, headed ‘Nil refert loqui du vbi liceat’ and here ascribed to ‘JD’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.128 items, including 94 poems by Donne plus his Paradoxes and Problems, compiled by Henry Champernowne (1600-56), of Dartington, Devon, 243 pages, dated on the first page 1623. 1623.
Afterwards owned by other members of the Champernowne family, by Sir Edward Seymour, Bart. (?the third Baronet, 1610-85). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1030. Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) (MS 9568). Sotheby's, 6 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lot 749. Bookplate of C. S. Harris and bequeathed by him 1916.
Cited in IELM, I.i (190), as the ‘Phillipps MS’: DnJ Δ 20.
HrJ 214
Copy, in a secretary hand, words only, headed in the margin ‘An English ma and a Welsh Lasse’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 39.5. Early 17th century.
HrJ 215
Copy by Barbon, headed ‘Epigr.’ and here beginning ‘And English lad long woed A lasse of Wales’. Early 17th century.
In: the MS described under HrJ 141.
HrJ 216
Copy, headed ‘Of mistaking of a word’, deleted.
In: A verse miscellany, in long narrow format, 66 leaves (including a number of blanks), in later calf. Largely in one neat secretary hand; a second hand on ff. 58v-9r, and a third on f. 66r. Compiled chiefly by a University of Cambridge man. c.1630s.
Once owned by F. W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Bequeathed in 1894 by Samuel Sandars, of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth and Claude J. Summers, ‘Recovering an Important Seventeenth-Century Poetical Miscellany: Cambridge Add. MS 4138’, TCBS, 7 (1978), 156-69 (pp. 160-1). A 19th-century transcript of much of this MS is in the Bodleian, MS Firth d. 7, ff. 60r-9r.
HrJ 218
Copy, headed ‘Nil refert loqui dum vbi liceat’.
In: An octavo volume of poems and some prose, including 96 poems by Donne plus his Paradoxes and Problems (many ascribed to ‘J. D’), in a single neat secretary hand, 150 pages, in 17th-century calf gilt. c.1622-33.
Later owned by Major J.B. Whitmore. Hodgson's, 20-21 November 1958, lot 571, with a facsimile page in the sale catalogue.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Osborn MS’: DnJ Δ 30. For a facsimile page see DnJ 728, DnJ 1205. Complete microfilm in British Library (M/569).
Of bagge and baggage (‘A man appointed, vpon losse of life’)
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 42. McClure no. 296, p. 267. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 35, p. 223.
Of Blessing without a crosse (‘A Priest that earst was riding on the way’)
First published in 1618, Book I, No. 17. McClure No. 18, p. 155. Kilroy, Book I, No. 30, p. 104.
HrJ 221
Copy, headed ‘Of Blessing wthout the Crosse’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 52. Mid-late 17th century.
HrJ 222
Copy, headed ‘Sacerdotis benedictio’ and here beginning ‘A certaine preist once riding on the way’, subscribed ‘Ibid’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 36. c.1630s.
HrJ 223
Copy, headed ‘On A Vicar’ and here beginning ‘An honest Viccar riding by the way’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Christ Church, pp. 1-202 in a single minute hand, written over a period, with a few later additions (including two lines on p. 7) by other hands; pp. 202-19 containing entries in later hands up to 1789, in half-calf on marbled boards, pp. 77-84 detached in the 19th century and now separately bound as Folger MS V.a.152. Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 30 poems by Strode (one of them in V.a.152) plus one of doubtful authorship. c.late 1630s [-1789].
Later sold by Thomas Thorpe. Afterwards owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89) (and No. 27 in his Catalogue of Shakespeare Reliques (Brixton Hill, 1852)) and subsequently in the library of Lord Warwick at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Thorpe-Halliwell MS’: CoR Δ 7 and StW Δ 17. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).
HrJ 224
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘An honest Vicar ridinge by the way’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 62. Mid-17th century.
HrJ 225
Copy, headed ‘A Vicar and a blind man’ and here beginning ‘An honest vicar riding on the way’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 178. c.1630s.
HrJ 226
Copy, headed ‘Of Blessinge’ and here beginning ‘A Preist in hast was riding on ye waye’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 53. c.1630[-1700s].
HrJ 227
Copy, here beginning ‘A certayne priest once riding on ye way’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 48. c.1620.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39), f. 79v.
HrJ 228
Copy, here beginning ‘A certaine preist once riding on the way’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 49. c.1640.
Of certain puritan wenches (‘Six of the weakest sex and purest sect’)
First published (anonymously) in Rump: or An Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662), II, 158-9. McClure No. 356, p. 292. Kilroy, Book II, No. 94, p. 164.
HrJ 229
Copy, headed ‘The conference of 6 Puritanicall wenches’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 32. c.1630s.
HrJ 232
Copy, untitled.
In: A tall folio volume of state papers, in various largely secretary hands, ii + 267 leaves, in modern half red morocco. Collected by Sir Peter Manwood, MP (1571-1625), of Hackington, Kent, judge and antiquary. c.1618-25.
HrJ 232.5
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Six of the weaker sex but purer sect’.
In: An octavo miscellany, 47 leaves, the greater part (ff. 1r-26, 42r-5v) in a single small mixed hand, with other hands on ff. 27r-41r, including a ‘Catalogus Librorum’ on ff. 29v-40r, and accounts c.1705 on ff. 46v-7r, in black morocco gilt. Compiled principally by Henry George, while a student at Christ's College, Cambridge. c.1639-43.
Inscribed (f. 1*v) ‘Meliora Spero dum Spiro / Henricus George / nec ut mortale / quod opto’.
HrJ 233
Copy, headed ‘Upon six holy Sisters that mett at a Conuenticle to alter the Popish word of Preaching’.
In: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in two or more professional hands, 222 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary red panelled morocco gilt. c.late 1680s.
HrJ 234
Copy, headed ‘The conference of 6 puritanicall wenches’, partly deleted.
In: the MS described under HrJ 93. c.1630s.
HrJ 234.1
Copy, headed ‘The Holy Sisters’ and here beginning ‘Six holy sisters of ye purest Sect’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, almost entirely in a single hand, compiled by a university man, 134 leaves, in modern vellum. End of 17th century-1700s.
In a family library at Bath before 1924. Sotheby's, 23 July 1987, lot 11, to Quaritch.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 79, ff. 129v-30r.
HrJ 234.2
Copy, in a roman hand, headed ‘The Conventicle’, here beginning ‘Sixe of our Purer and our weaker sect’, and subscribed ‘Jo: Taylor’. c.1640s.
In: A folio composite volume of verse, prose and dramatic works, in various hands, written over a period from both ends, 543 pages (including blanks), in contemporary panelled calf with remains of metal clasps. Compiled by members of the Salusbury family of Llewenni, Denbighshire, including works by Sir Thomas Salusbury, second Baronet (1612-43), poet and politician. Early-mid 17th century.
Later owned by J. Baskerville-Glegg, of Withington Hall, Chelford. Sotheby's, 14-16 March 1921, lot 421.
HrJ 234.3
Copy, headed ‘Epig:’ and here beginning ‘Six of the weaker sex, but purer sect’.
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. 22-3.
HrJ 234.5
Copy of a version beginning ‘first of the weakest sex and purest secte’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 44. c.1620-33.
HrJ 234.6
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Six holy Sisters that mett att a Conventicle to alter the Popish word of Preaching’, here beginning ‘Six of the female Sex and purest Sect’.
In: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional rounded hand, including (pp. 269-71) an ‘Index’, iv + 271 pages (including blanks), in contemporary black morocco gilt. c.1690s.
HrJ 234.8
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, here beginning ‘Six of the female sex & purest Sect’, on one side of a single quarto leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. Mid-late 17th century.
HrJ 235
Copy, headed ‘The conference of 6 Puritan wenches’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 71. c.1634.
HrJ 236
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Sixe of the weakest sort & purest sect’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 54. c.1630.
HrJ 237.5
Copy, in the secretary hand of George Faulcon, receiver or secretary to Roger Manners (1576-1612), fifth Earl of Rutland, and to George Manners (1580-1641), seventh Earl of Rutland, headed ‘Six holie Sisters’, here beginning ‘Six holie sisters of the Purest sect’, with another epigram on a single quarto leaf. Early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands. c.1612-20.
In collections of the Manners family, Dukes of Rutland.
Recorded (erroneously as Volume XXIV) in HMC, 12th Report, Appendix V, Rutland II (1889), pp. 316-31.
The Duke of Rutland, Belvoir Castle, Letters & Papers, Verses, Vol. XXV, f. 18r.
HrJ 238
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Six of ye weakest sex yet purest secte’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 96.5. c.1630s.
HrJ 238.5
Copy, headed ‘Upon Six holy Sisters that mett at a Conventicle to alter the popish word of Preaching’.
In: A quarto volume of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, 136 pages (lacking pp. 49-50), in paper wrappers. c.1680s.
Among the archives of the Bridgeman family, Earls of Bradford.
Staffordshire Record Office, D 1287/19/6, [uncatalogued volume], p. 69.
HrJ 239
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio verse miscellany, including 15 poems by Donne, f. 162r-v in a rounded italic hand, ff. 164r-74v in a slightly erratic italic hand, ff. 175r-279v in a neat formal italic hand (also responsible for the index on ff. 2r-11v), this miscellany constituting ff. 162r-279v of a single folio volume containing also Part I (DnJ Δ 15), ii + 279 leaves in all (lacking one or more leaves at the end), in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked). c.1630s.
Formerly MS G. 2.21.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Dublin MS (II): DnJ Δ 61.
HrJ 239.5
Copy, headed ‘The Holy Sisters’ and here beginning ‘Six Holy Sisters of ye purest Sect’.
In: A folio miscellany of verse and some prose, principally on affairs of state, 320 pages (plus blanks), with a table of contents, in contemporary vellum. c.1701.
The name Edward H. Finch-Hatton inscribed on a flyleaf. Bookplate of Alfred Morrison (1821-97), autograph manuscript and art collector. Sotheby's, May 1919 (Morrison sale Part IV), lot 2942, sold to George D. Smith for Carl H. Pforzheimer (1879-1957), financier and book collector.
Of cursing Cuckolds (‘A Lord that talked late in way of scorne’)
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 26. McClure No. 280, p. 263. Kilroy, Book II, No. 59, p. 151, a version beginning ‘A gallant talking late in way of skorne’.
HrJ 240
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘A great man speaking one day in scorne’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 45. Early 17th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 25, f. 7v.
HrJ 240.5
Copy in: the MS described under HrJ 46. c.1638.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), p. 84.
Of Don Pedros debts (‘Don Pedro's out of debt be bold to say it’)
McClure, No. 65. Kilroy II, 18, p. 138.
HrJ 240.8
Copy in: the MS described under HrJ 81. Early 17th century.
Of Fortune (‘Fortune, men say, doth giue too much to many’)
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 56. McClure No. 310, p. 272. Authorship uncertain.
HrJ 241
Copy of an early version, untitled and here beginning ‘[blynde added in another hand] ffortune gevs tomoche to manye’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 9. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 56, p. 103.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 29r.
Of Galla's goodly Periwigge (‘You see the goodly hayre that Galla weares’)
First published in Orlando Furioso (London, 1591), in notes at the end of Book XXXII. 1618, Book II, No. 66. McClure No. 162, p. 211. Kilroy, Book III, No. 3, p. 168.
HrJ 243
Copy of four-line version, untitled and here beginning ‘The goodly heare Gella doth weare’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 54. c.1630.
Of Garlick to my Lady Rogers (‘If Leekes you like, and doe the smell disleeke’)
First published in The Metamorphosis of Ajax (London, 1596): see HrJ 317-24. 1618, Book I, No. 47. McClure No. 48, p. 166. Kilroy, Book I, No. 89, p. 125.
Of inclosing a Common (‘A Lord, that purpos'd for his more auaile’)
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 68. McClure No. 322, p. 275. Authorship uncertain.
Of Lynus borrowing (‘Lynus came late to me, sixe crownes to borrow’)
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 16. McClure No. 270, p. 259.
HrJ 247
Copy, imperfect, lacking the beginning.
In: the MS described under HrJ 45. Early 17th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 25, f. 9r.
HrJ 247.5
Copy in: A quarto miscellany, in one or possibly two hands, one of which may be Sir Charles Calthorpe (d.1616), judge and Attorney-General of ireland, 279 leaves, imperfect. c.1600.
Of one that vow'd to dis-inherit his sonne, and giue his goods to the poore (‘A citizen that dwelt neere Temple-barre’)
First published in 1618, Book I, No. 65. McClure No. 66, pp. 172-3. Kilroy, Book I, No. 5, pp. 95-6.
HrJ 248
Copy in: the MS described under HrJ 53. c.1630[-1700s].
Of Plaine dealing (‘My writings oft displease you: what's the matter?’)
First published in 1618, Book I, No. 59. McClure No. 60, p. 170. This epigram is also quoted in the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5). Kilroy, Book II, No. 8, p. 133.
HrJ 249
Copy, headed ‘Of plaine dealings’ and here beginning ‘My writings still displease thee, what the matter?’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 53. c.1630[-1700s].
Of sixe sorts of Fasters (‘Sixe sorts of folkes I find vse fasting dayes’)
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 30. McClure No. 284, p. 264. Authorship uncertain.
HrJ 250
Copy in: the MS described under HrJ 47. c.1630.
Of swearing first betweene the wife and the Husband (‘Cis, by that Candle, in my sleepe, I thought’)
First published in 1618, Book II, No. 80. McClure No. 176, p. 218. Kilroy, Book III, No. 19, p. 174.
HrJ 251
Copy in: the MS described under HrJ 52. Mid-late 17th century.
Of taking a Hare (‘Vnto a Lawyer rich, a Client poore’)
McClure No. 331, p. 278. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 45, p. 226, a version headed ‘Of a Lawier that would take a Hare for a fee’ and beginning ‘Late to a Lawier rich a Client poore’.
HrJ 251.5
A paraphrase by Dyott from memory presumably of this poem: ‘Sir Jo: Harrington in his epigrammes brings in a country fellow who had taken advise of a lawyer and when his deeds 3 weekes had bin perused told the lawyer he had no mony to give him…’.
In: A notebook, probably compiled by Sir Richard Dyott (1590-1659), MP for Stafford and Lichfield. Early-mid-17th century.
Of the Bishopricke of Landaffe (‘A learned Prelate late dispos'd to laffe’)
First published in 1618, Book II, No. 2. McClure No. 98, p. 187. Kilroy, Book II, No. 21, p. 138.
HrJ 252
Copy in: the MS described under HrJ 216. c.1630s.
Of the commodities that men haue by their Marriage (‘A fine yong Clerke, of kinne to Fryer Frappert’)
First published in 1618, Book II, No. 70. McClure No. 166, pp. 213-14. Kilroy, Book III, No. 7, pp. 169-70.
HrJ 253
Copy, headed ‘Ludicru of marriage’ and here beginning ‘A fine younge Preist of kin to ffryar ffrapp’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 27. c.1595-early 17th century.
HrJ 254
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘A ffine yong priest of kin to ffrier ffrapper’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 176. c.1620s.
HrJ 255
Copy, here beginning ‘A fine yong Priest of kin to frier ffrapper’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 121. c.1620-5.
Of Treason (‘Treason doth neuer prosper, what's the reason?’)
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 5. McClure No. 259, p. 255. This epigram also quoted in a letter to Prince Henry, 1609 (McClure, p. 136). Kilroy, Book III, No. 43, p. 185.
HrJ 256
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Treason:’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, evidently associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 214 pages (skipping p. 177), plus an index. Including 18 poems by Corbett and 59 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1630s.
Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Elizabeth Lane hir booke’ and, among scribbling on another flyleaf, ‘Johannes Finch’. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 341.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Elizabeth Lane MS’: CoR Δ 1 and StW Δ 4. The Dobell catalogue description recorded in Forey (pp. lxxxv-lxxxvi).
HrJ 257
Copy, headed ‘On ye same’ [i.e. Treason], in a quarto booklet of verse (ff. 136r-45v).
In: the MS described under HrJ 28.
First published in 1615; 1618, Book IV, No. 5; McClure No.l 259, p. 255.
HrJ 258
Second copy, headed ‘On Treason’ and here beginning ‘Treason did neu psp; what's ye Reason’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 28.
HrJ 260
Copy, untitled (but under the general heading ‘On Treason &’).
In: the MS described under HrJ 33. c.1620s-30s.
HrJ 261
Copy of a version beginning ‘Some say treason is unlawful; what's the reason?’
In: A set of five oblong quarto music part books (Cantus, Altus, Sextus, Tenor, Bassus), ranging from 40 to 110 leaves each (including blanks), in half-red calf marbled boards. Compiled largely by Thomas Hamond (d.1662), of Cressners, in the parish of Hawkedon, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. 1630-3.
Bequeathed in 1800 by Osborne Wight, of New College, Oxford.
Discussed in M.C. Crum, ‘A Seventeenth-Century Collection of Music Belonging to Thomas Hamond, a Suffolk Landowner’, BLR, 6, No. 1 (October 1957), 373-86, and in Ian Payne, ‘George Kirbye (c. 1565-1634): Two Important Repertories of English Secular Vocal Music Surviving Only in Manuscript’, MQ, 73, No. 3 (1989), 401-16.
HrJ 262
Copy in: A miscellany relating to Oxford, in several hands, i + 705 pages (including many blanks). Late 17th century.
HrJ 263.5
Quoted in the copy of Harington's letter to Prince Henry (HrJ 402).
In: A broadsheet-size guardbook of miscellaneous papers of the Harington family, 15 + 24 leaves. 18th-19th century.
HrJ 264
Copy in: the MS described under HrJ 38. Mid-17th century.
HrJ 265
Copy, in Haward's hand, untitled, subscribed ‘Sr Ion. Harrington’.
In: A folio volume, in the neat roman hand of Sir William Haward, FRS (c.1617-1704), of Tandridge Hall, Surrey, courtier and antiquary, 290 pages, in contemporary calf gilt within modern half-morocco gilt. c.1658-67.
HrJ 266
Copy in: the MS described under HrJ 91.6. c.early 1630s.
HrJ 266.5
Copy, untitled and running directly on from Greville's epigram on the subject (GrF 36).
In: the MS described under HrJ 102. c.1640s.
HrJ 268.5
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, following directly on from GrF 43.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and some prose, in several italic and mixed hands, written probably over a period from both ends, 72 leaves, in contemporary vellum. c.1630s-40s.
John Rylands University Library of Manchester, English MS 410, f. 22v.
HrJ 268.8
Copy, headed ‘Prosperous treason’.
In: A volume containing parallel translations from Latin of Martial's ‘Epigrams’, ‘Other epigrammes ancient and moderne’, ‘Epigrammes or sentences epigrammelike out of classical heathen authors’, and the anonymous author's own epigrams, in a single hand, with some emendations. c.1650.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. q. 18, f. 5v.
HrJ 270
Copy, here beginning ‘Treason nere prospers, true, but what's the reason’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 251.5. Early-mid-17th century.
Of two Welsh Gentlemen (‘I heard among some other pretty Tales’)
First published (the short version) in 1615. the longer version in 1618, Book I, No. 62. McClure No. 63, p. 171. Kilroy, Book II, No. 15, p. 136.
HrJ 272
Copy of a 12-line version, in a neat mixed hand, headed ‘An Epigram of Sr John Harrington’ and here beginning ‘Two Squires of Wales came ridinge to a Towne’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 234.2. Early-mid 17th century.
The MS text followed by ‘The replie’, twenty lines beginning ‘Once out of England ridde a companie’, subscribed ‘Ignoto’.
Of Women learned in the tongues (‘You wisht me to a wife, faire, rich and young’)
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 7. McClure No. 261, pp. 255-6. Kilroy, Book I, No. 7, p. 96.
HrJ 276
Copy, headed ‘A refusall of a learned wife’ and here beginning ‘You wish me to a wife that's faire & young’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 131. c.1638.
HrJ 277
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Comending a wife to a gent.’ and here beginning ‘I wish yow to a wife rich, faire & younge’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 52. Mid-late 17th century.
HrJ 278
Copy, headed ‘A refusall of a learned wife’ and here beginning ‘You wish me to a wife thats faire & younge’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 110. c.1633 [-late 17th century].
HrJ 279
Copy, headed ‘In amorosom. Epi. 7:’ and here beginning ‘A wife you wisht me (Sir) rich, faire, and young’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 66. c.1630s.
Edited from this MS in The Complete Poems of Sir John Davies, ed. Alexander B. Grosart (London, 1876), II, 48-9.
HrJ 279.2
Copy, headed ‘On the refusall of a learned wife’ and here beginning ‘You wishe mee to a wife thats faire and younge’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single professional hand, with later additions on ff. 58v-62v in three or four other hands, 65 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt. Compiled by one Thomas Crosse, whose name appears (f. 1*) in ‘An Acrosticke upon my name’, as well as subscribed (‘Tho: Cro:)’ to a poem on ff. 23v-4r. c.1630s [-1670s].
HrJ 279.5
Copy, headed ‘On a learned wife’ and here beginning ‘You wish to me a wife thats faire & younge’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 232.5. c.1639-43.
HrJ 279.8
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘You wisht me to a wife both faire and yonge’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 81. Early 17th century.
HrJ 280
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘You wish mee to a wife, rich, fare, & younge’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 62. Mid-17th century.
HrJ 281
Copy, headed ‘Upon one that would not marry a Learned wife’ and here beginning ‘You wisht mee to a wife that's fayre and young’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 42. c.1637-51.
HrJ 282
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Youle wishe mee to a wife that is rich faire & yonge’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 43. c.1630s.
HrJ 284
Copy, headed ‘A refusall of a learned wife’ and here beginning ‘You wish mee to a wife that's faire & young’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, comprising approximately 80 poems, including eleven poems by Donne, 21 poems by Strode, and one poem of doubtful authorship, in several hands, one small neat hand predominating (ff. 1r-34r), with later receipts for 1658-62 at the end, 161 leaves (including numerous blanks). c.1630s-40s.
Inscriptions include ‘Edwardus Hyde’ (at the end) and (f. [ir]) ‘Edward Hyde is a knave’: i.e. probably Edward Hyde (1607-59), royalist divine, who may be the ‘E. H.’ responsible for a poem ‘To his Wife’ (f. 34r) and the ‘Ned Hide’ who is subject of an ‘Epitaph’ (f. [18r rev]). Later inscribed ‘Robertus Walker’ and ‘Elizabeth Walker’. Early 18th- century bookplate of Baron Aston of Forfar. Percy Dobell, sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 345. Later owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.
Discussed in Geoffrey Keynes, ‘A Footnote to Donne’, The Book Collector, 22 (Summer 1973), 165-8, with a facsimile of the page with Hyde's ‘signature’ (which does not correspond to the main handwriting). Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 1863.
HrJ 285
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Sr I do wish to you a wife, rich, faire & yong’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 45. Early 17th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 25, f. 7v.
HrJ 286
Copy, headed ‘On a Learned wife’ and here beginning ‘One proferd mee a wife, rich, faire & yonge’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 71. c.1634.
HrJ 289
Copy, witten along the length of the page with the spine uppermost, untitled.
In: the MS described under HrJ 98. c.late 1630s.
HrJ 289.5
Copy, headed ‘In Amorosum Epig:’ and here beginning ‘A wife you wisht me sr rich, faire, & young’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 51. c.1630s.
Of writing with double pointing (‘Dames are indude with vertues excellent?’)
First published in 1618, Book I, Nos. 33 and 35. McClure Nos. 34 and 36, pp. 161-2. Kilroy, Book I, No. 65, pp. 116-17.
HrJ 290
Copy of a version beginning ‘Wemen or noble vertuos excellent’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 167. c.1638.
HrJ 292
Copy, headed ‘Another’ [i.e. verse employing a double sense], with a prose preamble concerning King Edward at Berkeley Castle, inscribed in the margin ‘Harrington’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 93. c.1630s.
HrJ 294
Copy of a four-line version beginning ‘Weomen are godely wyse & excellent’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 54. c.1630.
HrJ 295
Copy, untitled.
In: A small quarto miscellany of anecdotes, aphorisms, verses, etc., in two hands, compiled by Sir Francis Fane (c.1612-80), 193 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Inscribed by Fane on f. 1r ‘Aug: 24: 1629 / Franciscus Fane’ and, later, as a bequest to his three grandsons to be read by them when aged 21, dated from Fulbeck, 5 May 1672. c.1629-72.
Sold by Maggs, 29 May 1930.
Ouids confession translated into English for Generall Norreys. 1593 (‘To liue in Lust I make not my profession’)
First published in 1618, Book II, No. 85. McClure No. 181, pp. 219-21. Kilroy, Book III, No. 26, pp. 177-8.
HrJ 296
An early version, lines 1-6 in Sir John Harington's hand, the rest in the hand of an amanuensis with autograph revisions, headed by Harington ‘Ovids Confession. Non ego mendosos ausim defendere mores’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 9. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 222, pp. 253-4.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 153r-v.
A pretty questions of Lazarus soule well answered (‘Once on occasion two good friends of mine’)
First published in 1615. 1618, Book II, No. 46. McClure No. 142, pp. 203-4. Kilroy, Book II, No. 80, p. 159.
HrJ 297
Copy in: the MS described under HrJ 52. Mid-late 17th century.
A Tale of a Bayliffe distraining for rent. To my Ladie Rogers (‘I heard a pleasant tale at Cammington’)
First published in 1618, Book I, No. 91. McClure No. 93, pp. 183-5. Kilroy, Book II, No. 2, pp. 130-1.
To her Daughter, vpon the same point, reading the same verse with another point (‘Dames are indude with vertues excellent’)
See HrJ 290-295.
To his Wife (‘Because I once in verse did hap to call’)
First published in 1618, Book II, No. 81. McClure No. 177, p. 218. Kilroy, Book III, No. 20bis, p. 175.
HrJ 299.5
Copy, headed ‘Sr Jo: Harringtonn to his wife’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 96.5. c.1630s.
To Master Cooke, the Queenes Atturney, that was incited to call Misacmos into the Starre-chamber, but refused it (‘Those that of dainty fare make deare prouision’)
First published in 1618, Book I, No. 45. McClure No. 46, p. 165. Kilroy, Book I, No. 87, p. 124.
*HrJ 300
Autograph, untitled and here beginning ‘They that of dainty food make deer provision’; imperfect, with part of lines 5-6, 7-8, and a title added in an 18th-century hand.
In: A printed exemplum of Harington's The Metamorphosis of Ajax (London, 1596), in modern calf gilt. c.1596.
Once owned by William Herbert (1718-95), bibliographer and printseller, and in 1841 by William Pickering (1796-1954). Bookplate of John Henry Wrenn (1841-1911), Chicago industrialist and book collector.
University of Texas at Austin, Wh H224 596n WRE, unnumbered rear flyleaf.
HrJ 300.5
Copy, in an unidentified hand, headed ‘Epilogue’ and here beginning ‘They that of dainty food make deer prouision’.
In: A large-paper printed exemplum of the first edition (1596) of A new discovrse of a stale svbiect called the matamorphosis of Aiax, inscribed on the title-page in red ink ‘Seen and dissalowed’, dated (on the verso of the title-page) 3 August 1596. 1596.
Five loosely inserted pages of notes in the hand of Isaac Reed (1742-1807), literary editor and book collector. Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. In the Britwell Court Library of William Henry Christie Miller, MP (1789-1848) and Samuel Christie Miller, MP (1810-89), at Burnham, Buckinghamshire. Sold by John R. B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.
This volume described in William Beloe, Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books, 2 vols (London, 1814), II, 372-84. Also recorded in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), 212.
Princeton, RHT 16th-45, blank page at the end of the Apologie.
To Mr. Bastard, the minister that writes the pleasant Epigrams (‘Had yow been known to me ear yow wear maryd’)
First published in The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1926). McClure (1930), No. 358, p. 293. Kilroy, Book III, No. 10, p. 171.
HrJ 301
Copy, headed ‘In Thom: Bastard Theolog:’ and here beginning ‘Bastard had I knowne ere thou hadst bene married’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 47. c.1630.
To the ladies of the Queenes Priuy-Chamber, at the making of their perfumed priuy at Richmond, The Booke hanged in chaines saith thus: (‘Faire Dames, if any tooke in scorne, and spite’)
First published in 1618, Book I, No. 44. McClure No. 45, p. 165. Kilroy, Book I, No. 86, p. 124.
*HrJ 302
Autograph, headed ‘An Epigram of the booke hanging in cheyns. to ye Ladyes’ and here beginning ‘Fayr dames yf any tooke in skorn or spyte’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 300. c.1596.
HrJ 302.5
Copy, in an unidentified hand, headed ‘An Epigram of the Book - Hanging in Cheyns. To the Lady’, here beginning ‘Fair Dames yf any took in scorn or spite’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 300.5. 1596.
Princeton, RHT 16th-45, blank page at the end of the Apologie.
A Tragicall Epigram (‘When doome of Peeres & Iudges fore-appointed’)
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 82. McClure No. 336, pp. 280-1. Kilroy, Book III, No. 44, p. 185. This epigram is also quoted in the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5).
HrJ 303
Copy, headed ‘On ye beheading of Mary Q. of Scots’ and here beginning ‘When doome of death by Judgemt foreappointed’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 103. c.1630s.
HrJ 304
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘When doome of death by Judgment foreappointed’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 76. Early 17th century.
HrJ 305
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘When doome of Death by Judgemt fore-appointed’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 35. c.1630.
HrJ 306
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘When doome of death by iudgmts force appointed’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 80. c.1605.
Printed from this MS in James Orchard Halliwell, Poetical Miscellanies from a Manuscript Collection of the time of James I, Percy Society (London, 1845), p. 38.
HrJ 306.5
Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, headed ‘Of hangmen’, with other verses, on one side of a single folio leaf.
In: the MS described under HrJ 26.5. c.1598-1605.
HrJ 306.8
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘When doome of death by iudgment fore appointed’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 81. Early 17th century.
HrJ 307
Copy, in a mixed hand, here beginning ‘When Doome of Death by Judgemt foreappoynted’, subscribed ‘Sr John Harrington vpon the Death of the Queen of Scotts’.
In: A large quarto volume of tracts on Mary Queen of Scots, in several hands, 75 unnumbered leaves (including blanks, plus a number of other blanks), in contemporary vellum. Early 17th century.
Among the collections of Christopher Hunter (1675-1757), Durham antiquary and physician.
HrJ 308
Copy, headed ‘Sr John Harringtons epigram vppon the deathe of his magesties Mother Mary quen of Scotland’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 86. Late 16th-early 17th century.
HrJ 309
Copy, headed ‘On the beheading of Mary Queene of Scotts’ and here beginning ‘When doome of death by judgment foreappointed’.
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.
HrJ 310
Copy, headed ‘An elegie on ye queene of Scots’ and here beginning ‘When doome of death by iudgment foreappointed’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 68. c.1640.
HrJ 311
Copy, headed ‘An elegye on ye Queene of Scotts’ and here beginning ‘When doome of death by iudgment foreappointed’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 69. c.1630s-40s.
HrJ 312
Copy, headed ‘On ye Q. of Scots Execution’ and here beginning ‘When doom of death by iudgment soe appointed’, inscribed in the margin ‘Harrington’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 93. c.1630s.
HrJ 313
Copy, headed ‘On the beheading of Mary Queene of Scots’ and here beginning ‘When doome of death by judgment foreappointed’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 83. c.1630s.
HrJ 313.5
Copy, headed ‘Vpon ye death of ye Queen of Scots’ and here beginning ‘When doome of death by iudgmt. foreappointed’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 152 leaves (paginated 1-34, thereafter foliated 35-169), plus index, in modern red leather. Including 85 poems (and second copies of two) by Thomas Carew. c.1638-42.
Inscriptions including ‘Horatio Carey 1642 te deus pardamus’ [viz. Horatio Carey (1619-ante 1677), eldest son of Sir Richard Carey (1583-1630) and great-grandson of Sir Henry Carey (1524?-96), first Baron Hunsdon ], ‘Thomas Arding’, ‘Thomas Arden’, ‘William Harrington’, ‘Thomas John’, ‘John Anthehope’ and ‘Clement Poxall’. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8270. Bookplates of John William Cole and of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 194.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Carey MS’: CwT Δ 34. Briefly discussed in Gary Taylor, ‘Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets’, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 68 (1985), 210-46 (pp. 220-4). Discussed, with facsimile pages, in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 188, 191-2).
HrJ 314
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘when peeres and judges had by doome appointed’.
In: A quarto composite miscellany of verse and prose, in various hands, probably associated with the University of Cambridge, 352 pages (including 35 blanks), in 19th-century boards. Erroneously described in 1965 as a commonplace book of the poet Robert Herrick. The so-called ‘Herrick hand’ responsible for complete poems or substantial passages on pp. 73-4, 102-3, 253, 312-13, 319-21, 323, 328 and 343, this hand also responsible for corrections and brief insertions in both verse and prose on pp. 55-6, 58-60, 68, 71, 75-6, 78, 83, 89, 91, 93, 97, 99. 108-9, 203, 266, 285, 291, 348 and 350. c.1612-24.
Scribbling on front- and end-leaves including ‘Georgius Cantuarien’, ‘Thomas Hobson’ [?the Cambridge Carrier], ‘Benjamin Broadeface’, ‘To my very long friend mr John Bond’, ‘To the right reuerend ffather in God George Archbyshop of Canterbury his grace’, ‘Whereas the Bearer hereof Thomas Hall hath serued his sixe weekes…’, ‘To the right honor Sr Tho: Moore Whereas the Bearer hereof John Tis[?]sdale’, ‘Williamson’ and ‘Phillip de Maceden’. Puttick and Simpson's, 30 May 1849, lot 158 (erroneously described as a commonplace book of George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 12341*. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 146 (as Herrick's commonplace book). House of El Dieff (Lew David Feldman), New York, sale catalogue No. 65 (1965), with facsimile page as frontispiece. Formerly Ms File/(Herrick, R)/Works B.
Also facsimiles of p. 323 in the Sotheby's sale catalogue (frontispiece) and of p. 253 (as if in Herrick's hand) in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 33. Facsimile of all the verse in the MS (viz. pp. 63-83, 85, 87, 89, 91, 93,95, 97, 99, 101-3, 105-9, 113-17, 251-3, 277-82, 291, 317-21, 323, 325-43, 345-50), together with a transcript, in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, ‘Poems from a Seventeenth-century Manuscript with the Hand of Robert Herrick’, Texas Quarterly, 16, No. 4 (Supplement) (Winter 1973), 1-185. Microfilm of the complete MS in the British Library, M/751.
The MS discussed by Farmer in loc. cit. and in ‘Robert Herrick's Commonplace Book? Some Observations and Questions’, PBSA, 66 (1972), 21-34; in P.J. Croft's critical comments on Farmer's articles in ‘To the Editor’, PBSA, 66 (1972), 421-6, and (correcting Farmer's published transcript of the text) in ‘Errata in “Poems from a Seventeenth-Century Manuscript”’, TQ, 19 (1976), 160-73; and in Farmer's ‘A Reply to Mr P. Croft’, TQ, 19 (1976), 174. Reasons for rejecting Herrick's alleged association are presented in the Introduction above, under The Texas ‘Herrick’ Manuscript.
A witty choice of a Country fellow (‘A rich Lord had a poore Lout to his ghest’)
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 70. McClure No. 324, p. 276. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 56, pp. 230-1.
Prose
A Briefe Apologie of Poetrie
See HrJ 16.
Breefe Notes and Remembraunces
Breife Notes upon the Sixth Booke of Virgils Aeneads
See HrJ 18-19.
A Briefe View of the State of the Church of England
See HrJ 328-332.
A Discowrse shewing that Elyas must personally come before the Day of Judgment
First published in Nugae Antiquae (1775), pp. 39-56. Nugae Antiguae (1804), II, 281-304.
HrJ 315
Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis.
In: An octavo volume, comprising two tracts by Sir John Harington, iii + 45 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Volume VI of the Harington Papers. c.1597-1600s.
Edited probably from this MS in Nugae Antiquae (1775). Briefly described in Ruth Hughey, ‘The Harington Manuscript at Arundel castle and Related Documents’, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444 (p. 402).
A Journal of my lords Jorney, beginning the 9. of May. 1599
An account of the Irish expedition of the Earl of Essex, different from the ‘Report concerning…Essex's Journeys’ attributed (probably incorrectly) to Harington in Nugae Antiquae (1804), I, 268-93: see Timothy G. A. Nelson, ‘Sir John Harington — A Mistaken Attribution’, N&Q, 214 (December 1969), 457. The Journal here is edited in R. H. Miller, ‘An Unpublished journal of Essex's Munster Campaign of 1599’, ELR, 10 (1980), 96-119.
(f. 7r-v and sidenotes throughout in Harington's hand)
*HrJ 315.5
Copy, with sidenotes throughout in Harington's hand.
In: the MS described under HrJ 4. c.1599-1609.
Edited from this MS, with a facsimile of f. 7r, in Miller.
Letter to the Rev. Joseph Hall, on the Marriage of the Clergy
First published in M. H. M. MacKinnon, ‘Sir John Harington and Bishop Hall’, PQ, 37 (1958), 80-6.
HrJ 316
Unfinished draft, in the secretary hands of several amanuenses, of an epistle to Joseph Hall, probably intended for publication.
In: the MS described under HrJ 3. Late 16th century-1612.
Edited from this MS in MacKinnon.
The Metamorphosis of Ajax
First published in London, 1596. Edited by Elizabeth Story Donno (New York, 1962).
*HrJ 317
A quarto MS, largely autograph, with deletions and revisions, some pages in the hand of Harington's ‘servant’ Thomas Combe and at least one addition in the hand of Harington's brother Francis, being the printer's copy for the first edition, i + 60 leaves, imperfect, in 19th-century half calf. Volume III of the Harington Papers. 1596.
Inscribed (f. 60v) ‘Ric Bancroft’.
This MS collated in Donno. Described in Ruth Hughey, ‘The Harington Manuscript at Arundel castle and Related Documents’, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444 (pp. 403-4).
HrJ 317.5
Extracts.
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.
*HrJ 318
Autograph marginal additions and annotations by Harington in a large paper exemplum of one of the octavo editions of 1596, in modern red morocco gilt. c.1596.
Once owned by John, first Baron Lumley (c.1533-1609), collector, and later by The Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857, antiquary and book collector. Bookplates of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector; E. M. Cox; and Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).
This item (the ‘Lumley-Folger’ copy) collated in Donno, with a facsimile of the title-page as frontispiece.
Folger, STC 12772.3 copy 1, Bd w STC 12774.2 copy 1 and STC 12779 .
*HrJ 319
Autograph marginal additions and annotations by Harington in an imperfect exemplum of one of the octavo editions of 1596, the missing first part (‘A New Discourse’) supplied from an exemplum of the third edition (1814) and two pages missing from the ‘Appolgie’ supplied in MS in a roman hand, in old russia. c.1596.
Inscribed in 1813 by Robert Nares (1753-1829), philologist. Bookplates of J. Knight and John William Cole. Label of James Camden Hotten (1832-73), bookseller, writer and publisher.
This item (the ‘Nares-Folger’ copy) collated in Donno.
Folger, STC 12772.3 copy 2 Bd. w STC 12774.2 copy 2 and STC 12781.2 .
*HrJ 320
Exemplum of one of the printed octavo editions of 1596 with Harington's autograph sidenotes, in his small italic hand, on sig. A5r, pp. 3, 5, 11, 17, 29, 35, 51, and sig. N6v, imperfect. c.1596.
Among extensive scribbling and inscriptions in various hands throughout the volume are ‘Robert Eton bringeth xl xs the vith day of October [1602]’, ‘Thomas Hares of Hentor in the countie of Waltes’[part of his will], a record of the birth of Robert Pantinge the night before Whit Sunday 1600, ‘Robert Pantinge’, ‘By me Thomas Pantinge’, ‘Anthony Pantinge’, ‘Richard Pantinge’, ‘John dimmacke’, ‘John Needham’, ‘Barklay Needham 1756’, ‘Barbra Needham Book 1759’, and ‘John Rogers not his book’. Later owned by F. Bowman.
This item collated in Donno.
HrJ 321
Exemplum of one of the editions of 1596 with Harington's autograph additions, including (facing the title-page) his dedication to his uncle, Thomas Markham, dated 3 August 1596.
In: the MS described under HrJ 300. c.1596.
This item (the ‘Markham-Wrenn’ copy) collated in Donno.
University of Texas at Austin, Wh H224 596n WRE, The volume as a whole.
*HrJ 322
Harington's autograph marginal annotations and additions throughout, including his autograph dedication to his uncle Thomas Markham.
In: the MS described under HrJ 300.5. 1596.
HrJ 323
An exemplum of one of the printed editions of 1596 containing transcripts of Harington's autograph dedication to Thomas Markham and marginal annotationa in HrJ 322. Early 19th century.
Inscribed (erroneously) inside the front cover, in another hand, ‘Note. written by Walter Scott April 18 1815’. Bookplate of the Carleton House Library: i.e. of the Prince Regent, afterwards George IV (1762-1830).
HrJ 324
Exemplum of one of the editions of 1596, in 19th-century calf, containing a transcripts of Harington's autograph dedication to Thomas Markham in HrJ 322; the MS notes here on three front flyleaves in the hands of Richard Farmer (1735-97), James Bindley (1737-1818), and Sir Francis Freeling (1764-1836). c.1800.
Sotheby's, 29 January 1873, lot 748. Bookplate of John Henry Wrenn (1841-1911), Chicago industrialist and book collector.
HrJ 325
Copy of a historical narrative, headed ‘The Fall of Nero and beginning of Galba’ and beginning ‘Galerius, Trachalus, and Silius Italicus being Consuls: Caius Julius Vindex, Lieutenant of Gallia Lugdunensis, perceyuing that priuate conspiracies...’, in the hand of an amanuensis, with a few marginal annotations in an italic hand. This is not part of Harington's lost ‘succinct collection of historie: his compendious & apt obseruatios in the Emperors liues’ but a work by Sir Henry Savile, published with his 1591 translation of Tacitus's History and Adricola.
Deleted entry, Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 139/194-203v.
The Prayse of Private Life
See DaS 45-46.
A Short View of the State of Ireland
First published, edited by W.D. Macray (Oxford, 1879). Facsimile of f. 13 (which includes the epigram ‘Musa Jocosa, meos solari assueta dolores’) in Kathleen M. Lea, ‘Harington's Folly’, Elizabethan and Jacobean Studies Presented to F.P. Wilson (Oxford, 1959), pp. 42-58 (facing p. 48).
*HrJ 326
Autograph copy, with revisions, of Harington's letter to Charles Blount, Earl of Devonshire, and Sir Robert Cecil, Viscount Cranborne, applying for the Chancellorship of Ireland, 1605.
In: A quarto composite volume, comprising two tracts (the second on the Commonwealth of Scotland), in two different hands, 19 leaves (plus blanks), in vellum boards.
A lengthy inscription, on an unopened front endpaper, by Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts, addressed to Rawlinson, 1748.
Edited from this MS in Macray. Facsimile example in R. H. Miller, ‘Sir John Harington's Manuscripts in Italic’, SB, 40 (1987), 101-6 (p. 102).
The original autograph letter which accompanied the copy of this memorial (now unlocated) sent by Harington to Sir Robert Cecil on 20 April 1605 is owned by the Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 110/97, and is printed in McClure, p. 118.
HrJ 327
c.1635.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, ii + 296 leaves, with a table of contents, in contemporary calf, with metal clasps. In various professional hands, the predominant and distinctive secretary hand in Harvard MS Eng 1266 (v. 1) here responsible for ff. 1r-41v, 142r-9r, 202r-54r, 257r-73r, 283r-94v.
Owned by Sir Richard Grosvenor (1585-1645); later by the Duke of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire, with his bookplate (inscribed ‘XXI No. 4’) and a label with No.‘15’ on the spine. Assembled largely from ‘Liber 7’ (= MS 15). Sotheby's, 19 July 1966, lot 482.
This volume recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 212.
A Supplie or Addicion to the Catalogue of Bishops, to ye Yeare 1608
First published, as A Briefe View of the State of the Church of England, edited by John Chetwind (London, 1653). Edited by R.H. Miller (Potomac, 1979).
*HrJ 328
Autograph fair copy, on 88 quarto leaves, appended (ff. 314r-407r) to a printed exemplum of Francis Godwin, Bishop of Hereford, A Catalogue of Bishops of England (London, 1601). Presented to Prince Henry, the remains of the original leather binding bearing his arms. The printed volume (ff. 1r-279r) contains Harington's extensive autograph marginal annotations, with an index (ff. 230r-301v) in the hand of an manuensis and ‘A table Alphabeticall annexed to the Booke of the Catalogue of Bishops’ (ff. 302r-13r) also in Harington's hand. 18 February 1607/8.
Edited probably from this MS in Nugae Antiquae (London, 1804), II, 1-278. Edited from this MS in Miller's edition. Also discussed in R.H. Miller, ‘Sir John Harington's A Supplie or Addicion to the Catalogue of Bishops, to the Yeare 1608: Composition and Text’, SB, 30 (1977), 145-61. Facsimile example in R.H. Miller, ‘Sir John Harington's Manuscripts in Italic’, SB, 40 (1987), 101-6 (p. 105).
HrJ 328.5
Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed ‘Sr John Haritons addishons to Goodwins works about Bishops’.
In: A folio commonplace book, in several hands, written from both ends, with a table of subject headings, begun 7 March 1624/5, 358 pages of text (plus blanks), Chiefly in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician, partly in the rounded secretary hand of an amanuensis and two others. c.1625-30s.
Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.
The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 21, pp. 133-6.
*HrJ 329
Copy of an early version, in the hand of Harington's ‘servant’ Thomas Combe, with some italic headings in Harington's hand, a tipped-in leaf at the end in another hand, untitled, ii + 62 quarto leaves, imperfect, lacking various leaves. Volume V of the Harington Papers. 1607-8.
This MS discussed in R.H. Miller, ‘Sir John Harington's A Supplie or Addicion to the Catalogue of Bishops, to the Yeare 1608: Composition and Text’, SB, 30 (1977), 145-61. Facsimile example in R.H. Miller, ‘Sir John Harington's Manuscripts in Italic’, SB, 40 (1987), 101-6 (p. 105).
HrJ 330
Copy, in two hands: ff. 169r-248v in an early 17th century secretary hand; ff. 134r-68v in a later professional secretary hand, c.1620s, probably replacing a lost portion of the earlier copy; with a title-page (f. 134r), the inscription ‘by Sr John Harrington written for the service of Prince Henry and Printed in smal octavo 16<blank>’ added in a later hand.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various professional hands, 248 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
This MS discussed and some previously unpublished portions of the text printed from it in Miller.
HrJ 331
Copy, 72 quarto leaves. Mid-late 17th century.
Once owned by Moses Pitt (1639-97), bookseller and printer.
HrJ 332
Copy of about four-fifth of the work, in a secretary hand, headed ‘A Supply or Additiou to the Cataloge of Bishops to the yeare 1618: And ferste of Mr Docto Parker’, stained and imperfect, breaking off in the section on Dr Edwin Sandys. c.1620s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, with a table of contents, 599 leaves. Inscribed (f. 141r) ‘John: Saunders is the trew owner of this booke’, ‘Captaine Christo: Blounte’, and ‘Valentine LLawless’.
Owned by John Madden, MD (1649-1703/4), physician and manuscript collector. Old pressmark F. 1. 20.
A Tract on the Succession to the Crown
First published, edited by Clements R. Markham (Roxbiurghe Club, London, 1880). Reprinted in New York, 1969.
HrJ 333
Copy, in the formal secretary hand of Harington's ‘servant’ Thomas Combe, untitled and beginning ‘To all trew Englishmen that feare God and honor the Queene. the protesting, Catholique, Puritan sendeth greeting’. The MS presumably presented to Tobie Matthew (1544?-1628), Archbishop of York.
Incorporating (p. 3) a copy of King James VI's letter to Harington of 23 December 1591.
In: the MS described under HrJ 83.8. 1602 (and later).
Edited from this MS, and the title supplied, in Markham's edition (1880). Scott-Warren (pp. 158-67) thinks that the evidence that this MS was a presentation copy is ‘equivocal’. Facsimile of pp. 80-1 in Gerard Kilroy, ‘Advertising the Reader: Sir John Harington's “Directions in the Margent”’, English Literary Renaissance, 41/1 (Winter, 2011), 64-110 (p. 101).
HrJ 334
Extracts from the introduction, concerning ‘the 3 sorts of religions in Engla[nd]e’, closely written in a small mixed hand, on all four pages of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed by Thomas Phelippes (c.1556-1626?), a servant of Sir Robert Cecil, ‘Some notes for remembrance out of Sir Jo. Harringtons booke on the behalfe of the K. of Sc. succession’, once folded as a packet. Early 17th century.
This MS recorded in McClure, p. 29 (n). Discussed in Scott-Warren, pp. 167-8.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 139/108.
HrJ 335
Copy of the last chapter, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The eight chapiter; of quyeting the contrauersies of Religion’, inscribed in a different hand ‘Out of Sr John Haringtons boke’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 83.5. Early 17th century.
A Treatise on Playe
First published (from this MS) in Nugae Antiquae, (1775), pp. 3-38. Nugae Antiquae (1804), I, 186-232.
HrJ 336
Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, headed ‘Of Play’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 315. c.1597-1600s.
Edited probably from this MS in Nugae Antiquae (1775). Briefly described in Ruth Hughey, ‘The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents’, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444 (p. 402).
Miscellany
*HrJ 338
Assembled by Sir John Harington, a large part in the hand of one of his amanuenses, comprising miscellaneous tracts, notes, drafts of letters, and memoranda; including (ff. 11v, 30r, 43r-v, 47r) lists of books (‘my masters bookes carryed wth him to Eaton’) and plays owned by Harington and (f. 30r) ‘A note of things sent to London the 29th of Jan: 1609’; (ff. 54r-60v, 116v-21r) two copies of an anonymous tract entitled ‘The Order of a Christian Common wealth’; and (ff. 61r-8v) anonymous tracts entitled ‘Of the Trinitie’, (ff. 72r-93r)‘A question of the Trynytye, Dialogue wyse’, (ff. 94v-103r) ‘Whether usurye be Lawfull among Christians’, (ff. 105r-9v)‘Of the Sabbothe’, (ff. 110r-15v)‘A Dialogue betwene Neshama, the Sowle, Nephes, the Bodye, and Orthodoxus’, and (ff. 122r-5v)‘Whether it be dampnation for a man to kill hymself’, Harington's handwriting occurring chiefly on ff. 30r-2r (including a book list of 1609, notes, and letters), 33r-v (Psalms), 34r (notes), and 41r-6r (notes and letters, including ‘Names of Comedies’).
In: the MS described under HrJ 3. Late 16th century-1612.
*HrJ 339
Signs of Sir John Harington's use of this volume, including (f. 46v) six anonymous lines of verse in his hand beginning ‘Now hope, now feare, now ioye, now wofull care’, and (f. 69r) sidenotes apparently in his small italic hand.
In: the MS described under HrJ 11. Mid-late 16th century.
HrJ 340
A folio volume of state tracts and papers, chiefly relating to Queen Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots, in two or three secretary hands.
In: Volume I of the Harington Papers, i + 126 leaves (including blanks), in modern calf gilt, ‘Prose N° I’ stamped on the spine. Late 16th century.
This MS briefly discussed by Hughey in The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 399-400 et passim,and in McClure, p. 11 (n).
HrJ 341
A MS volume owned by Sir John Harington (and probably also by his father), comprising letters chiefly by Sir John Cheke (1514-57), with some by Sir Christopher Hatton and others, and extracts from Seneca's Epistles, written mainly in three scribal hands, with some additional matter probably in later hands, including a Dialogue of Plato, ‘Prose N° II’ stamped on the spine, imperfect, now comprising 140 leaves (some original leaves probably extracted by the printers of Nugae Antiquae). Volume II of the Harington Papers. Late 16th century.
Portions printed in the various editions of Nugae Antiquae. This MS briefly discussed by Hughey in The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 399-401 et passim.
*HrJ 342
A notebook, chiefly in the hands of amanuenses, partly in Harington's hand, entitled on the cover ‘Sr John Harringtons own MSS relating to the war in Ireland 1599’; containing copies of state letters and documents relating to Ireland in 1597-1600 and reports of events at that time; including (f. 20r) a copy of letters of Captain MacDermon to the Constable of Boyle, 15 August 1599, in Harington's hand; (ff. 21r-3r) a ‘Report on my Jorney into the North to Justice Cary. In Ierland’ in Harington's hand); and (ff. 41r-3v) ‘The chiefe causes of the wante of reformation of Irelande’.
In: the MS described under HrJ 4. c.1599-1609.
Some texts in this MS (notably the ‘Report…to Justice Cary’ and Harington's letters) edited in the various editions of Nugae Antiquae.
*HrJ 343
A folio volume of transcripts of documents relating to lands formerly belonging to Sir James Harington of Brierley from the time of their forfeiture in 1485 until the grant of their reversion to John Harington of Stepney in 1570, compiled by Sir John Harington of Kelston apparently for Sir Henry Hobart and inscribed ‘The booke of Haryngtons Lands for Sr Henry Hubbert [his] Maties attorney general’, chiefly in the hands of amanuenses, with Harington's autograph annotations and with some pages or substantial additions in his hand (notably ff. 25r, 26v, 33r, 35v-6r, 37v-8r), 44 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Volume VIII of the Harington Papers. c.1606-12.
Books possibly from Harington's Library
Contarini, Nicola. De perfectione rerum (Lyon, 1587)
HrJ 345
A printed exemplum inscribed on an endleaf ‘hir son, I am. J. H. vpo his Mother…’, this text followed by a parody, headed ‘Art thou hir son whi than in the ' We shall the Dams true Image see’, the last line containing an allusion to The Metamorphosis of Ajax. c.1587-1600s.
Ubuldini, Petruccio. Descrittione del Regno di Scotia, et delle Isole sue adiacenti (Antwerp, 1588)
*HrJ 346
Harington's exemplum, inscribed by him ‘John Haryngton’ and the date ‘iijo. M.ay. 1588’. 1588.
Sotheby's, 9 July 1951, lot 184, to Maggs, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue.
Letters
Letter(s)
*HrJ 347
Autograph letter signed, to Mrs Penn, from Eton, 19 May 1571 1571.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 196 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.
McClure, No. 1, p. 61.
HrJ 348
Copy of a letter by Harington, to Edward Dyer, [from Cambridge, 1588]. 1580.
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.
McClure, No. 2, pp. 61-2.
*HrJ 349
Autograph letter signed, to Sir Francis Walsingham, [from King's College, Cambridge, 2 November 1580. 1580.
McClure, No. 3, p. 63.
*HrJ 350
Autograph letter signed, to Lady Russell, [14 August 1596]. 1596.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various largely professional hands, 236 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. 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.
McClure, No. 5, pp. 65-6. Facsimiles in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XLV(a), and in P. J. Croft, ‘Autographs’, in The Concise Encyclopædia of Antiques, Vol. IV (London, 1959), pp. 236-41 (Plate 148).
*HrJ 351
Autograph letter signed, concerning Harington's pedigree, to Sir William Dethick, [14/24 June 1597]. 1597.
In: A folio composite volume of heraldic and genealogical material, in various hands, 37 leaves.
Inscribed (f. 3r) ‘Mr Knight, May, 1644’.
McClure, No. 6, pp. 66-7. The postscript in this letter is edited in Craig, p. 48.
HrJ 352
Copy of a letter by Harington, to Sir Anthony Standen, [from Athlone, 7 Augu st1599], in a secretary hand. c.1599.
In: the MS described under HrJ 4. c.1599-1609.
McClure, No. 8, pp. 68-70, edited from Nugæ Antiquæ.
HrJ 353
Copy of a letter by Harington, to Thomas Combe, [from Ireland, 24/31 August 1599]. 1599.
In: the MS described under HrJ 4. c.1599-1609.
McClure, No. 9, pp. 71-6, edited from Nugæ Antiquæ.
HrJ 354
Copy of a letter by Harington, to Justice Cary, in the secretary hand of an amanuensis, headed ‘Report of my Jorney into the North to Justic Cary. In Ierland’, [October 1599]. c.1599.
In: the MS described under HrJ 4. c.1599-1609.
McClure, No. 10, pp. 76-9, edited from Nugæ Antiquæ.
HrJ 355
Copy of a letter by Harington, to Sir Anthony Standen, [from Kelston, 20 February 1599/1600], in a secretary hand.
In: the MS described under HrJ 4. c.1599-1609.
McClure, No. 11, pp. 79-80, edited from Nugæ Antiquæ.
*HrJ 356
Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, [12 June 1600]. 1600.
Edited in CSP Ireland, 1600, March-October, pp. 233-4. Recorded in R.H. Miller, ‘Sir John Harington's Irish Journals’, SB, 32 (1979), 179-86.
*HrJ 357
Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, [from Greenwich, 25 June 1600]. 1600.
McClure, No. 12, pp. 81-3.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 80/62.
*HrJ 358
Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, [3 July 1600]. 1600.
McClure No. 13, p. 83.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 251/121.
HrJ 359
Copy of a letter by Harington, to an unidentified person, [1600].
In: the MS described under HrJ 263.5. 18th-19th century.
McClure, No. 14, p. 84, edited from a family transcript.
HrJ 360
Copy of a letter by Harington, to Sir John Stanhope, [20 November 1600]. 18th century.
In: the MS described under HrJ 263.5. 18th-19th century.
McClure, No. 15, pp. 84-5, edited from a family transcript.
HrJ 361
Copy of a letter by Harington, to an unidentified lady, [8 December 1600].
In: the MS described under HrJ 263.5. 18th-19th century.
McClure, No. 16, p. 85, edited probably from this family transcript.
HrJ 362
Copy of a letter by Harington, to an unidentified person, [1600].
In: the MS described under HrJ 263.5. 18th-19th century.
McClure, No. 17, p. 85, edited from a family transcript.
*HrJ 363
Autograph letter signed by Harington, to Lady Jane Rogers, [19 December 1600]. 1600.
In: MS.
McClure, No. 18, pp. 86-7.
HrJ 363.5
Copy of a letter by Harington, to Lucy, Countess of Bedford, enclosing psalms, [19 December 1600]. 1601.
In: the MS described under HrJ 25.
McClure, No. 19, p. 87.
*HrJ 364
Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, [31 January 1600/1. 1601.
McClure, No. 20, p. 88.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 76/29.
*HrJ 365
Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, [7 September 1601].
McClure, No. 21, pp. 88-90.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 88/28.
*HrJ 366
Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, [from London, 7 June 1602]. 1602.
McClure, No. 23, pp. 91-3.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 93/117.
*HrJ 367
Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, [22 June 1602]. 1602.
McClure, No. 24, pp. 93-4.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 93/150.
*HrJ 368
Autograph letter signed, to Gilbert Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, [from Greenwich, July 1602]. 1602.
In: A folio guardbook of letters, in various hands and paper sizes, 593 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.
Volume M of the Talbot Papers, formerly owned by the College of Arms.
McClure, No. 25, pp. 94-5, where it is edited from Edmund Lodge, Illustrations of British History, Biography, and Manners, 3 vols (London, 1791), II, 552-4.
*HrJ 369
Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [19 November 1602]. 1602.
Evans, p. 215.
London Metropolitan Archives, Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/145.
HrJ 369.5
Copy of a letter by Harington, to his wife Lady Mary Harington, [7/27 December 1602], here dated ‘Decembr 20th 1602’, in a neat 18th-century hand, on a single broadsheet.
In: the MS described under HrJ 263.5. 18th-19th century.
McClure, No. 27, pp. 96-100, edited from Nugæ Antiquæ.
*HrJ 370
Autograph letter signed, to the Earl of Shrewsbury. Undated.
In: the MS described under HrJ 368.
*HrJ 371
Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [from London, 21 May 1603]. 1603.
McClure, No. 29, p. 101.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 100/28.
*HrJ 372
Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [from London, June 1603]. 1603.
McClure, No. 30, pp. 101-2.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 187/66.
*HrJ 373
Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [from London, 10 June 1603]. 1603.
McClure, No. 31, pp. 102-3.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 187/69.
*HrJ 374
Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [October 1603]. 1603.
McClure, No. 33, pp. 104-7.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 97/54-55.
*HrJ 375
Autograph letter signed, to Gilbert Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, 11 March 1603/4. 1604.
In: the MS described under HrJ 368.
Craig, pp. 49-50.
*HrJ 376
Autograph letter signed, to Gilbert Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, 12 March 1603/4. 1604.
In: the MS described under HrJ 368.
Craig, pp. 50-1.
*HrJ 377
Autograph letter signed, to Gilbert Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, [31 March 1604]. 1604.
In: the MS described under HrJ 368.
McClure, No. 36, p. 112, where it is edited from Nugæ Antiquæ.
*HrJ 378
Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [20 May 1604]. 1604.
McClure, No. 37, pp. 112-14.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 188/110.
*HrJ 379
Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [from London, 27 June 1603]. 1603.
McClure, No. 32, pp. 103-4.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 101/99.
*HrJ 380
Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [from London, 7 June 1604]. 1604.
McClure, No. 38, p. 114.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 188/126.
*HrJ 381
Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [from London, 12 June 1604]. 1604.
McClure, No. 39, p. 115
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 188/129.
*HrJ 382
Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [17 June 1604]. 1604.
McClure, No. 40, pp. 115-16.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 188/2.
*HrJ 383
Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essendon, [8 July 1604]. 1604.
McClure, No. 41, pp. 116-17.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 188/137 .
*HrJ 384
Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Viscount Cranborne, [3 November 1604]. 1604.
McClure, No. 42, pp. 117-18.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 189/38.
*HrJ 385
Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Viscount Cranborne, [from Kelston, 20 April 1605]. 1605.
McClure, No. 43, p. 118.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 110/97.
*HrJ 386
Autograph draft of a letter by Harington, to Richard Langley, [3 December 1602]. 1602.
In: the MS described under HrJ 20. c.1605.
McClure, No. 26, pp. 95-6.
*HrJ 387
Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [4 June 1606]. 1606.
Evans, p. 216.
London Metropolitan Archives, Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/146.
*HrJ 388
Autograph draft of a letter by Harington, to Prince Henry, [1606].
For the letter actually presented to Prince Henry, see HrJ 21. 1606.
In: the MS described under HrJ 20. c.1605.
McClure, No. 46, p. 126.
*HrJ 389
Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [June 1607]. 1607.
Evans, p. 217.
London Metropolitan Archives, Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/147.
*HrJ 390
Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [July 1607]. 1607.
Evans, pp. 221-2.
London Metropolitan Archives, Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/148.
*HrJ 391
Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [22 July 1607]. 1607.
Evans, pp. 218-19.
London Metropolitan Archives, Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/149.
*HrJ 392
Autograph letter signed, to Sir William Smith, [31 July 1607]. 1607.
Evans, pp. 219-20.
London Metropolitan Archives, Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/150.
*HrJ 393
Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [17 September 1607]. 1607.
Evans, pp. 223-4.
London Metropolitan Archives, Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/317.
*HrJ 394
Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, [9 November 1607]. 1607.
McClure, No. 50, pp. 129-30.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 191/68.
*HrJ 395
Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [13 November 1607]. 1607.
Evans, pp. 225-6.
London Metropolitan Archives, Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/153.
*HrJ 396
Autograph letter signed, to Lady Arbella Stuart, 19 November [probably 1607]. 1607?.
In: A folio composite volume of original letters and documents.
Craig, pp. 52-3, with a facsimile.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, Autograph Letters 1585-1617, No. 169.
*HrJ 397
Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [4 June 1608]. 1608.
Evans, p. 226.
London Metropolitan Archives, Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/151.
HrJ 398
Copy of a letter by Harington, to Prince Henry, [from Kelston, 14 June 1608]. Mid-18th century.
In: A folio composite volume of papers of Henry Harington (1727-1816), composer and physician, 75 leaves. Volume XX of the Harington Papers.
McClure, No. 52, pp. 132-4, edited from Nugæ Antiquæ.
*HrJ 399
Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [13 June 1608]. 1608.
McClure, No. 51, pp. 130-1, edited from Philip Bearcroft, Thomas Sutton (London, 1737), p. 23. Evans, pp. 227-8.
London Metropolitan Archives, Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/154.
*HrJ 400
Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [from Bath, 5 September1608]. 1608.
McClure, No. 53, pp. 134-5, edited from James Peller Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum (London, 1803). Evans, pp. 229-30.
London Metropolitan Archives, Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/155.
*HrJ 401
Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [21 December 1608]. 1608.
McClure, No. 56, p. 139 (here dated 21 December 1609), edited from James Peller Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum (London, 1803). Evans, pp. 230-1.
London Metropolitan Archives, Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/156.
HrJ 402
Copy of part of Harington's letter to Prince Henry, [1609], in a neat 18th-century hand, on a broadsheet.
In: the MS described under HrJ 263.5. 18th-19th century.
McClure, No. 54, pp. 135-7, edited in full from Nugæ Antiquæ.
*HrJ 403
Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, [15 November 1609]. 1609.
McClure, No. 55, p. 138.
*HrJ 404
Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, 23 November 1609. 1609.
Craig, p. 54.
London Metropolitan Archives, Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F5/42.
*HrJ 405
Autograph rough draft of a letter by Harington, to Thomas Sutton, [5 February 1609/10]. 1610.
In: the MS described under HrJ 3. Late 16th century-1612.
McClure, No. 57, p. 140. For the letter actually sent, see HrJ 406.
*HrJ 406
Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [5 February 1609/10]. 1610.
McClure, No. 57, p. 140, edited from Harington's rough draft (HrJ 405). Evans, pp. 232-3.
London Metropolitan Archives, Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/157.
*HrJ 407
Autograph rough draft of a letter by Harington, to an unidentified person, [5 February 1610]. 1610.
In: the MS described under HrJ 3. Late 16th century-1612.
McClure, No. 58, pp. 140-1.
*HrJ 408
Autograph rough draft of a letter by Harington, to Lord Compton, [1610?]. 1610?.
In: the MS described under HrJ 3. Late 16th century-1612.
McClure, No. 59, pp. 141-2.
*HrJ 409
Autograph rough draft of a letter by Harington, to ‘Cosen Sheldon’, [1610?]. 1612?
In: the MS described under HrJ 3. Late 16th century-1612.
McClure, No. 60, p. 142.
*HrJ 410
Autograph rough draft of a letter by Harington, to an unspecified lord, [1611 or 1612]. 1611-12.
In: the MS described under HrJ 3. Late 16th century-1612.
Recorded in a review in TLS (4 September 1930), p. 697. Craig, pp. 55-7 with a facsimile.
*HrJ 411
Autograph rough draft of a letter by Harington, to an unidentified person. [1612?]. 1612?.
In: the MS described under HrJ 3. Late 16th century-1612.
McClure, No. 61, pp. 142-3.
*HrJ 412
Autograph rough draft of a letter by Harington, to King James I, [1612?]. 1612?
In: the MS described under HrJ 3. Late 16th century-1612.
McClure, No. 62, pp. 143-4.
Documents
Document(s)
*HrJ 413
A conveyance of land, signed by Harington, containing his pedigree, dated 30 September 1588. 1588.
Sotheby's, 12 December 1977, Lot 87, to J.F. Fleming.
*HrJ 414
Autograph pedigree of the Harington family from the 13th to 16th century by Sir John Harington. c.1600-12.
In: A folio composite volume of chiefly 17th-century papers, both MSS and printed, relating to the Harington family, 40 leaves. Volume IX of the Harington Papers.
HrJ 415
A summary of a law suit involving Harington, in a professional hand. 1604.
In: the MS described under HrJ 368.
HrJ 416
An abstract of Sir John Harington's claim to lands formerly owned by Sir James Harington of Brierley. c.1606-12.
In: the MS described under HrJ 414.