Verse
Poems included in Hesperides and Noble Numbers
The admonition (‘Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares’)
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 130-1. Patrick, p. 177.
HeR 1
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘See'st thou those Jewills that she wears’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, comprising nearly 250 poems, in five hands, vii + 135 leaves (with a modern index), in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked), with remains of clasps. Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller. c.1630s-40s.
Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Peeter Daniell’ and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names ‘Thomas Gardinor’, ‘James Leigh’ and ‘Pettrus Romell’. Owned in 1780 by one ‘A. B.’ when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Daniell MS’: CwT Δ 5, HeR Δ 2, RnT Δ 1, StW Δ 5, WaE Δ 9. Briefly discussed in Margaret Crum, ‘An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick’, RES, NS 11 (1960), 186-9. A facsimile of f. 22v in Marcy L. North, ‘Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 106). Betagraphs of the watermark in f. 65 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks’, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 241).
HeR 3
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.
In: A large folio volume of autograph vocal music by Henry Lawes (1596-1662), ix + 184 leaves, in modern black morocco gilt. Comprising over 300 songs and musical dialogues by Lawes, probably written over an extended period (c.1626-62) in preparation for his eventual publications, including settings of 38 poems by Carew, fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, and fifteen by Waller. Mid-17th century.
Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer; of Robert Smith, of 3 St Paul's Churchyard; and of Stephen Groombridge, FRS (1755-1832), astronomer. Later owned, until 1966, by Miss Naomi D. Church, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Formerly British Library Loan MS 35.
Recorded in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Henry Lawes MS’: CwT Δ 16; HeR Δ 3; WaE Δ 11. Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Pamela J. Willetts, The Henry Lawes Manuscript (London, 1969). Facsimiles of ff. 42r, 78r, 80r, 84r, 111r and 169r in The Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend, ed. Cedric C. Brown (Reading, 1983), pp. 59, 60, 62, 64, 66 and 117. Also discussed in Willa McClung Evans, Henry Lawes: Musician and Friend of Poets (New York and London, 1941), and elsewhere. A complete facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 3 (New York & London, 1986).
HeR 4
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Seest thou those Jewells that shee weares’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, in a single probably professional rounded hand (except for a poem on f. 81r and later scribbling); ii + 81 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Including 16 poems by or attributed to Herrick and 24 poems by Randolph (plus two of doubtful authorship). This MS related to HeR Δ 2 and to RnT Δ 1. c. late 1630s.
Inscriptions including (on a flyleaf) ‘Anthony St John/ Ann: St John/ 1640 Bletso’: i.e. Anthony St John (1618-73), of Christ's College, Cambridge, fourth son of Oliver, fourth Baron St John and first Earl of Bolingbroke (c.1584-1646), of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and Anthony's wife, Ann Kensham (married 1639); (flyleaf) ‘Oliver Beeesfor[d]’; and (f. 81v) ‘John Watts’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13187. Sotheby's, 6 June 1910, lot 672, to Quaritch. Item 1415 in an unidentified sale.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘St John MS’: HeR Δ 4 and RnT Δ 8. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 72).
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 5
Copy, headed ‘A songe. R: H.’ and here beginning ‘Seest thou those Jewells...’.
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.
HeR 6
Copy, headed ‘A fancy’.
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.
HeR 7
Copy, headed ‘On a dressing of hayre stucke wth jewels’ and here beginning ‘Seest thou those rubies that shee weares’.
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.
HeR 8
Copy, headed ‘On his Mrs adornd with sewerall sorts of jewells’ and here beginning ‘Seest thou thos rubies wch shee weares’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, including sixteen poems by Strode and one of doubtful authorship, in several hands, including a small mixed hand on ff. 2r-43v, cursive secretary hands thereafter, and Latin entries in italic at the reverse end, 139 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1630s.
A flyleaf inscribed ‘[?] Johannes Philips’. Acquired from H. Stevens 11 December 1852.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1987), as the ‘John Philips MS’: StW Δ 8.
HeR 9
Copy, headed ‘On a dresse of hayre wth Jewells in it’ and here beginning ‘Seeest thou those rubies wch shee weares’.
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.
HeR 10
Copy, headed ‘A Songe’ and here beginning ‘Seest thou those Jewells wc she weares’.
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.
HeR 11
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Ladies dresse of Hayre stucke with Jewells’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single neat secretary hand, the first page formally inscribed ‘To the righte honoble: the Lorde Thomas Darcy Viscount Colchester’ (c.1565-1640, Viscount Colchester from 1621 to 1626), 191 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Including 27 poems (and second copies of two poems) by Thomas Carew and three of doubtful authorship. c.1620s.
This MS largely transcribed in British Library, Add. MS 21433. The hand occurs also in British Library, Harley MS 3910, between ff. 112v and 120v, and is possibly associated with the Inns of Court.
Scribbled inscriptions including (f. 1r) ‘Mr John Bowyer’; (f. 2r) ‘Jeronomus ffox’; and (f. 3r) ‘William Ralph Baesh’.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Colchester MS’: CwT Δ 13.
HeR 12
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Seest thou those Jewells which shee weares’
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, predominantly in a single secretary hand, written from both ends, 179 leaves, in 19th-century half blue morocco gilt. c.1640s.
Inscribed (f. 179r) ‘This is Sr. Thomas Meres [or ? Maiors] Book’: i.e. probably Sir Thomas Meres (1634-1715), of Kirton, Lincolnshire. Later bookplate of the Rev. John Curtis. Purchased from Mrs Ann Austin Curtis 12 October 1889.
HeR 13
Copy, headed ‘On his Mris adorned wth sundry sortes of Jewells’ and here beginning ‘Seest thou those Rubyes wch shee weares’.
In: An octavo miscellany of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive italic hands, with religious verse and prose at the reverse end in another hand, 111 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf gilt. Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v. c.1635.
Inscribed on f. 111v rev. ‘Thursday next at Capricks for Mr Pitt’. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Harley MS’: CoR Δ 5.
HeR 14
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Ladies dresse of hare stuck wth Jewells’.
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.
HeR 15
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on a single folio leaf of verse. c.1622.
In: A collection of unbound verse, in various hands. Probably collected by Dr Samuel Knight (1677/8-1746), clergyman and antiquary.
HeR 16
Copy, here beginning ‘Seest thou those rubies which she weares’
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.
HeR 17
Copy, headed ‘Of a proud Ladie that had her hayre drest and stuck with Jewells’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford and afterwards with the Inns of Court, 73 leaves (plus a few blanks and a modern index). Including 40 poems by Strode and two poems of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9510. (Phillipps sale, lot 1015.) Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914). Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 342. Formerly MS 4201. 27. 1.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Dobell MS II’: StW Δ 19. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.42.
HeR 18
Copy, headed ‘Upon a Ladyes dress of heayre stuck wth Jewells’, subscribed in different ink ‘R Hericke’.
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.
HeR 19
Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, here beginning ‘Seest thou those iewells wch she weares’.
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.
HeR 19.5
Copy, headed ‘A Phansie’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single non-professional mixed hand, written from both ends, 90 leaves, in vellum (lacking spine). c.1630s.
Among papers of the Clitherow family of London, which included Sir Christopher Clitherow (1578-1642), Lord Mayor of London in 1635. Bookplate of James Clitherow Esq. of Boston House, Middlesex: i.e. either Christopher's son, James Clitherow (1618-82), merchant and banker, who purchased Boston Manor, in the parish of Hanwell, in 1670, or James Clitherow (1694-1752).
HeR 20
Copy, headed ‘Of a proud Ladie that had her haire drest & stucke with Iewells’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, 204 pages, in old calf. Including ten poems by Carew (and two of doubtful authorship) and 24 poems by Randolph. c.1630s.
Thomas Thorpe, ‘Catalogue of upwards of fourteen hundred manuscripts’ (1836), item 1030. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9282. Subsequently in 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 188.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Rosenbach MS I’: CwT Δ 31 and RnT Δ 10. The complete volume edited in Howard H. Thompson, An Edition of Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1959) (Rosenbach Library Mic 59-4669).
HeR 21
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a scornefull Ladyes dres of haire (with Jewells) written by waye of aduice to a puny louer’ and here beginning ‘Seest thou those Rubyes...’.
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.
HeR 21.5
Copy, run on directly following ten lines headed ‘Vpon parting wth a deare frend’ beginning ‘As soules from bodies part, so part wee twoe’.
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.
HeR 22
Copy, headed ‘On his Mrs adorned wth seuerall Jewells’, here beginning ‘Seest thou those rubies which she wears?’.
In: the MS described under HeR 21.5. c.1630s.
Copy, headed On his Mrs adorned wth
HeR 23
Copy, headed ‘A fancy’.
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 Apparition of his Mistresse calling him to Elizium (‘Come then, and like two Doves with silv'rie wings’)
First published, among verse ‘By other Gentlemen’, in Poems written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent. (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 205-7. Patrick, pp. 273-5.
HeR 24
Copy, headed ‘His Mistris Shade’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, largely in a predominantly secretary hand, another hand on ff. 85r-7v, 95v-6r, xiii pages + 104 leaves (including blanks, but lacking ff. 7-9, 54-5, 95), with a table of contents (pp. 1-6), in modern calf, gilt-edged. Compiled by University or Inns of Court men. c.1630s.
The extracted fols 7, 8 and 54 are now Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2757, Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2216, and Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2217 respectively. The extracted fol. 9 is now Folger MS V.a.505, p. 27.
Inscribed (f. [104v] ‘Thomas White His Book May ye 20 Anno Domine 1691’. Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and in his library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.21.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 25
Copy, headed ‘His Mistris shade’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, written in alternating secretary and italic scripts, probably in a single hand; foliated in ink 1-32 and paginated in pencil 33-96, 32 leaves (lacking final leaf). Including nine poems by Randolph, plus two of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 10110. Bookplate of Robert Hoe (1839-1909), New York businessman and book collector.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Huntington MS’: RnT Δ 9. Complete microfilm at the Shakespeare Institute, Birmingham (Mic S 15).
This MS collated in Martin.
The Bag of the Bee (‘About the sweet bag of a Bee’)
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 31. Patrick, p. 45. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).
HeR 26
Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
In: A folio songbook, 121 leaves (including c.20 blanks and an index), in contemporary calf (rebacked). Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by or attributed to Herrick, in musical settings, predominantly in a single hand (ff. 2r-63v, 92r-9r, 100r, with a change of style on ff. 64r-5v and in the index probably by the same hand), with 18th-century additions on ff. 81v-7v, 89r-v and 145v-53r, and scribbling elsewhere. c.1640s-60s.
Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Probert MS’: CwT Δ 4, HeR Δ 1. Discussed and analysed in John P. Cutts, ‘A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57’, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211. Also briefly discussed in George Thewlis, ‘Some Notes on a Bodleian Manuscript’, M&L, 22 (1941) 32-5, and in Willa McClung Evans, ‘Shakespeare's “Harke Harke ye Larke”’, PMLA, 60 (1945), 95-101 (with a facsimile of f. 78r). A facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 6 (New York & London, 1987).
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 26.5
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, untitled.
In: A square-shaped folio volume of vocal and instrumental music, in two or more cursive italic hands, written from both ends, with (ff. 1v-2v, 96v rev) a table of contents, 97 leaves, in modern half red morocco. c.1760s.
Bookplate of Edmund Thomas Warren Horne, publisher, and probably the compiler. Puttick & Simpson's, 24 April 1873.
HeR 27
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.
In: the MS described under HeR 3 (HeR Δ 3). Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Martin.
The Bell-man (‘From noise of Scare-fires rest ye free’)
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 121.
HeR 27.5
Copy in: A printed exemplum of A Selection from the Poetical Works of Thomas Carew, [ed. John Fry] (London, 1810), with interleaved annotations and tipped-in earlier leaves. Early 19th century.
The Bubble. A Song (‘To my revenge, and to her desp'rate feares’)
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 87. Patrick, p. 124.
HeR 29
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under HeR 4 (HeR Δ 4). c. late 1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 30
Copy, headed ‘To his Scornefull mistris’, subscribed ‘Rob: Herricke’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands, including eight poems by Randolph (one twice), 102 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. Fols 1r-93v, 95r-100v in the hand of Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London (whose name is inscribed on a flyleaf: f. 1*); f. 94r-v in an unidentified hand, and ff. 101v-2r in that of Peter Calfe's son, Peter Calfe the Younger (d.1693). c.1650-9.
Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford. Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Janu. 6. 1738/9’.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6917 with which it was once bound, as the ‘Calfe MS’: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 30.5
Copy, in a secretary hand, on a single folio leaf of verse. c.1622.
In: the MS described under HeR 15.
Charon and Phylomel, A Dialogue sung (‘Charon! O gentle Charon! let me wooe thee’)
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 248. Patrick, p. 327. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).
HeR 31
Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by William Lawes.
In: the MS described under HeR 26 (HeR Δ 1). c.1640s-60s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 31.5
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, headed ‘Charon & Philomil A Dialogue by mr Lawes’.
In: A folio music book, in probably a single hand, 125 leaves, in contemporary brown blind-stamped calf within modern half red morocco gilt. Owned and probably compiled by one John Channing, whose label ‘IOHN CHANNING 1694’ was on the original spine. c.1694-7.
Inscribed in pencil (f. 1r) ‘Alex Tytler 1779’. Label on a flyleaf of ‘Alfred Moffat. Edinburgh. 1896’.
HeR 32
Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes.
In: A folio music book, ii + 262 pages. Early 18th century.
HeR 33
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards. Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source. Late 17th century.
Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as ‘Rawlinson MS I’: PsK Δ 6.
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 464-6; collated in Martin.
HeR 34
Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes, headed ‘A dialogue between Phylomel & Charon’.
In: A narrow oblong duodecimo music book, probably in a single cursive hand, with (ff. 2r-v, 98r-97r rev.)a table of contents, written from both ends, i + 98 leaves, in modern red morocco. c.1682-90.
Bookplate of Ralph Sympsun Esqr. Puttick & Simpson's, 24 April 1873.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 35
Autograph copy by Lawes, in his musical setting, headed ‘Dialogue Charon and ye Nitingale’.
In: A folio autograph songbook by William Lawes (1602-45), composer, 49 leaves, in contemporary calf stamped in gilt with arms of Charles I. c.1638-45.
Inscribed (f. 1v) ‘Richard Gibbon his booke giuen to him by Mr William Lawes all of his owne pricking and composeing’, and ‘Giuen to me J R by his widdow mris Gibbon J R:’, and ‘Borrowed of Alderman Fidye by me Jo: Surgenson’. Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer, and of Julian Marshall (1836-1903), music and print collector and writer.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 2 (New York & London, 1986). Discussed in John P. Cutts, ‘British Museum Additional MS. 31432 William Lawes' writing for the Theatre and the Court’, The Library, 5th Ser. 7 (1952), 225-34, and in Margaret Crum, ‘Notes on the Texts of William Lawes's Songs in B.M. MS. Add. 31432’, The Library, 5th Ser. 9 (1954), 122-7.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 37
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including (ff. 113r-15r) copies of, or brief extracts from, 30 poems by Donne (plus two apocryphal poems), in a single hand, transcribed from the 1635 or 1639 edition of Donne's Poems, headed ‘Donnes quaintest conceits’ in several hands, 156 leaves (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt. Late 17th century.
Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).
Cited in IELM I.i (1980) as the ‘Harley Rawlinson MS’: DnJ Δ 64.
HeR 38
Copy, untitled.
In: A sextodecimo miscellany of verse and topographical prose, probably in a single small cursive hand, 78 leaves, written from both ends, Part I foliated 1r-33r, Part II foliated 1r-45r, in old calf. c.1650s-60s.
Inscribed (Part I, f. 1r) ‘Mr John Oldhams Booke’ [i.e. the poet John Oldham (1653-83)]. Inscribed (Part II, f. 1r) ‘James Bateman’ [(b.1633/4) of Christ's College, Cambridge], and ‘Robert Pierrepont’ [either the son of Col. Francis Pierrepont, M.P. (d.1659), or the third Earl of Kingston (1650/1-82), of Holme-Pierrepoint, Nottinghamshire, Oldham's patron]. Formerly Folger MS 621.1.
Described in F.P. Hammond, ‘A Commonplace Book owned by John Oldham’, N&Q, 224 (December 1979), 515-18.
HeR 39
Copies, in a musical setting by William Lawes.
In: A set of four oblong duodecimo music part books, (i) Cantus Primus, (ii) Cantus Secundus, (iii) Bassus and (iv) Basso Continuo, each written from both ends, compiled by John Playford (1623-86?), 50, 36, 48, and 35 leaves respectively, each volume in limp vellum lettered ‘I. P.’. Leaves excised from these volumes are in the Folger, MS V.a.411 (five leaves) and (nine leaves) at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (Halliwell-Phillipps, Shakespearean scrapbooks). c.1660.
A flyleaf in the Cantus Secundus part book inscribed ‘Decemb. 30. 1674. Note that I Thomas Clifford bought this sett of Musick Books of Mr Richard Price's widow Mrs Dorothy Price for --7s--6d’.
University of Glasgow, MS Euing R.d.58-61, (i) f. 42v; (iii) f. 42v; (iv) f. 27v.
HeR 39.5
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio formal verse miscellany, comprising c.406 poems, many of them song lyrics, in various neat hands, compiled probably over a period, 8 blank leaves (pp. [i-xvi]) + 10 unnumbered pages of poems (pp. [xvii-xxvi]) + 9 numbered pages (pp. 1-9) + ff. [9v]-151v + 12 leaves at the end blank but for a poem on the penultimate page (f. [11v]), in contemporary calf gilt. Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
Inscribed (f. [ir]) ‘Sr Robert Killigrew / 1702’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.
Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, ‘Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?’, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 107r.
HeR 40
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo miscellany, 25 pages, in contemporary vellum (cut from a deed). Late 17th century.
HeR 41
Copy, headed ‘Song. 117. Philomel, and charon’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, with a title-page: The Theatre of Complements erected Collectection of Songs composed and compiled by A Schollar of Oxford. Printed for S.S. 167, 80 pages. c.1670s.
The title-page inscribed ‘Nar. Lutterell: His Book 1682’, i.e. owned by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector. At Yale formerly Chest II, No. 39.
The Cheat of Cupid: Or, The ungentle guest (‘One silent night of late’)
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 26-7. Patrick, pp. 39-40.
HeR 42
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.
In: the MS described under HeR 3 (HeR Δ 3). Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Martin.
Comforts in Crosses (‘Be not dismaide, though crosses cast thee downe’)
The couplet first published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 311. Patrick, p. 411.
HeR 42.5
Copy in: A small quarto book of ‘Dayly Obseruations both Diuine & Morall / The First part by Thomas Grocer Florilegius. 1657’, on 215 pages (paginated irregularly, plus five preliminary leaves). A commonplace book of quotations from largely devotional or philosophical texts under subject headings, neatly written in a single hand, with a title-page and table of contents. 1657.
Inscriptions in the MS including ‘Crescentius Matherus 1680’, ‘Crescentii Matheri Liber 1682’, ‘Nathanaelis Matheri Liber 1683’, ‘By Mr Oakes’, ‘Elijah Warings Book 1734’, ‘Jne Daniell 1832’, and ‘Thos Alexander -- 1847’.
A Country life: To his Brother, Master Thomas Herrick (‘Thrice, and above, blest (my soules halfe) art thou’)
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 34-8. Patrick, pp. 50-3.
HeR 43
Copy, headed ‘Mr: Herricks Country Life’.
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).
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 44
Copy, headed ‘Mr. Hericks Countrey life’.
In: the MS described under HeR 5 (HeR Δ 7). c.1639 [-c.1728].
HeR 45
Copy, headed ‘In praise of the Country Life’.
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.
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 456-60; collated in Martin.
HeR 46
Copy in: A quarto volume of poems, including 72 by Donne, arranged under genres, probably in two hands, poems by Corbett and others at the reverse end, 160 pages (not numbered consecutively, plus blanks). Owned, and possibly compiled, by John Cave, of Lincoln College, Oxford (M.A. 28 January 1618/19; d.1657). The first page of text is a poem ‘Vpon Mr Donn's Satires’ subscribed ‘Io. Ca. Jun. 3. 1620’. If John Cave was a member of the Cave family of Stanford, Northamptonshire, he would have been related (by marriage) to the Skipwith family. c.1620-5.
Also inscribed with names of Elizabeth Park [or Parker], John Nedham, and William Adams. Later owned by the Rev. T.R. O' Flahertie (d.1894), of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector; by Charles Elkin Matthews (1851-19210, bookseller; and by Richard Jennings. Sotheby's, 28 April 1952 (Jennings sale), lot 12.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘John Cave MS’, DnJ Δ 27. For a facsimile of page 3 see DnJ 793, DnJ 3858.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 191 (Acc. No. 7167), f. [18r-20r rev.].
HeR 47
Copy, here ascribed to ‘Dr Corbett’, transcribed from HeR 46.
In: A quarto volume of 72 poems by Donne, together with a poem by John Cave on Donne's satires and four poems by Richard Corbett, in two alternating styles of hand, 84 leaves (including 41 blank pages). Chiefly in the hand of John Nedham, of Lincoln College, Oxford, and probably transcribed from the ‘John Cave MS’ (DnJ Δ 27), the title-page dated 31 March 1625. c.1625.
Also owned or used by Millicent Nedham and by one William Edmunde. Possibly the quarto MS of ‘Poems by Dr. Donne and Dr. Corbet’ in Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue of a Collection of MSS, 1841, item 600, and in his catalogue of MSS, 1846, p. 29. Later owned by Francis Godolphin Waldron (1743-1818), actor and playwright, and by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Nedham MS’: DnJ Δ 28. Some poems edited from this MS in F.G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802).
Edited from this MS in F.G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 5-8.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 18 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.17), ff. 73r-4r.
HeR 48
Copy, in a small neat italic hand, headed ‘The Countrie Life’, on both sides of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1630.
Among papers of the Newdegate family, Viscounts Daventer, of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton.
The Curse. A Song (‘Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return’)
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).
HeR 49
Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Robert Ramsay (fl.1628-44).
In: the MS described under HeR 26 (HeR Δ 1). c.1640s-60s.
Edited from this MS in Major Poets of the Earlier Seventeenth Century, ed. Barbara K. Lewalski and Andrew J. Sabol (New York, 1973), pp. 1253-5; collated in Martin.
HeR 50
Copy, headed ‘ye womans farewell to her louer who under pretence of trauill forsooke her’.
In: the MS described under HeR 1 (HeR Δ 2). c.1630s-40s.
HeR 52
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under HeR 4 (HeR Δ 4). c. late 1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 53
Copy, subscribed ‘Rob: Herrick’.
In: the MS described under HeR 43 (HeR Δ 5). c.1637.
This MS recorded in Martin.
HeR 54
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a periured man by a woman’, subscribed ‘J. Grange’.
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. 81.
HeR 55
Copy in: the MS described under HeR 5 (HeR Δ 7). c.1639 [-c.1728].
HeR 55.5
Copy in: A large folio composite volume of materials relating to Northumberland, 500+ leaves, in contemporary vellum. 17th century.
Duke of Northumberland, Alnwick Castle, [no shelfmark], Flyleaf.
HeR 56
Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow, headed ‘Ritornello for 2 violins to a Bass’.
In: A folio music book. End of 17th century.
University of Birmingham, Barber Institute, MS 5002, pp. 8-11.
HeR 57
Copy, headed ‘A forsaken Ladye that dyde for Loue’.
In: the MS described under HeR 45. c.1638.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 58
Second copy, headed ‘An Epitaphe made by A Gentelwoman att her Death, her louer prouing Inconstant’.
In: the MS described under HeR 45. c.1638.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 59
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on a Maide yt dyed in love’.
In: the MS described under HeR 6. c.1635-44.
HeR 60
Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
In: A large folio volume of songs in musical settings by John Wilson (1595-1674), composer and musician, vi + 214 leaves (plus some blanks), gilt-edged, in contemporary black morocco elaborately gilt, lettered on each cover ‘DR. / I.W’, with silver clasps. Possibly Wilson's formal autograph MS or else in the hand of someone similarly associated with Edward Lowe (c.1610-82). c.1656.
Complete facsimile in Jorgens, Vol. 7 (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth Century Lyrics: Oxford, Bodleian, MS. Mus. b. 1’, MD, 10 (1956), 142-209.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 61
Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow.
In: A folio songbook, of works chiefly by Henry Purcell, 143 leaves. End of 17th century.
HeR 62
Copies, in a musical setting by John Blow, untitled.
In: A set of six folio music part books of ‘Latine & English Songs...by the best Italian and English Authors’, ranging from 96 to 162 pages each. Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer, with further copies added by Richard Goodson (c.1655-1718), organist and composer. c.1663-77.
HeR 63
Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow.
In: the MS described under HeR 32. Early 18th century.
HeR 64
Copy in a musical setting by John Blow, untitled.
In: A folio songbook, 64 leaves. Late 17th century.
HeR 65
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto miscellany of chiefly amatory verse, in several hands, i + 132 leaves. Partly in Scottish dialect, one poem by ‘mr. W. Turner’. Early 18th century.
HeR 66
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto composite miscellany of verse, in English and Latin, compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, who lived in Cambridge as student and Fellow of Emmanuel College from 1633 to 1651, ii + 115 leaves, in calf. Comprising three separate units: ff. 1r-96v all in Sancroft's hand; ff. 97r-104r in a second hand; and ff. 105r-9r in a third hand. c.1640s [and later].
Including (on ff. 2-23, 27ar-v, 70) 94 Latin poems ascribed to Crashaw (including three of doubtful authorship) and (on ff. 29-41, 43v, 44v-58, 60v, 62v-5v, 67-70v, 72-3, 95-6) 101 English poems (plus a second copy of one of them) attributed to him (including one of doubtful authorship) and (on f. 16r-v) one Greek poem attributed to him; a list of contents on the first page beginning ‘Mr. Crashaw's poems transcrib'd fro his own copie, before the were printed; among wch are some not printed…’.
Cited in IELM as the ‘Sancroft MS’: CrR Δ 1. Crashaw edited in part from this MS, and collated, in Grosart, in Waller and in Martin (cited as T or T5), and discussed in Waller, pp. vi-ix, and in Martin, pp. lviii-lxxiii. Folios 28-34v, 38v-41, 44v, 52v-6 reproduced in facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
HeR 67
Copy, headed ‘In perjuratum amatorculum’, subscribed ‘R. Ramsey’: i.e. Robert Ramsey (c.1595-1644), composer and organist.
In: the MS described under HeR 7. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 68
Copy, headed ‘Her Answere’.
In: the MS described under HeR 8. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 69
Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow, untitled.
In: A folio songbook, in several hands, one italic hand predominating, with (f. 1v) a list of contents, 46 leaves, in modern half red morocco. Inscribed (f. 1r), possibly by the compiler, ‘Charles Campelman his book June ye 9. 1681’ (‘God give him grace 1682’ added in another hand). c.1681 -1700s.
Sotheby's, 20 January 1854, lot 1138.
This MS recorded in Martin.
HeR 70
Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow, untitled.
In: A tall folio songbook, the lyrics in a cursive italic hand, with (f. 2r-v) a brief table of contents, 149 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in modern half red morocco. Compiled by John Walter, organist of Eton College (in 1681-1705) and possibly erstwhile chorister in the Chapel Royal (c.1674-7). c.1682-1700s.
Inscribed (last page, inverted) ‘Mr Dolbins book Anno domini 1681/2’ and (on the penultimate page) ‘Mr Dolbens Booke’ and ‘Mr James Hart’. Bookplate of Robert Smith and (f. 1r) a note signed by him dated 4 June 1813.
This volume discussed in Bruce Wood, ‘A Note on Two Cambridge Manuscripts and their Copyists’, M&L, 56 (1975), 308-12.
This MS recorded in Martin.
HeR 71
Copy, headed ‘On hir periur'd sirvant’.
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).
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 72
Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow, untitled.
In: the MS described under HeR 34. c.1682-90.
This MS recorded in Martin.
HeR 73
Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow, untitled.
In: A folio music book of vocal compositions, the lyrics in English and Latin almost entirely in a single italic hand, with a contemporary index (f. 93r), 94 leaves, in 19th-century half red leather. Compiled by the composer Henry Bowman, those songs set by himself listed by him on f. 93r. c.1678-80s.
Bookplate of Katherine Sedley (1657-1717), daughter of Sir Charles Sedley and later Countess of Dorchester, of Southfleet, Kent. Inscribed (f. 93r) ‘John James’. Purchased from J. Harvey, 13 July 1877.
This MS recorded in Martin.
HeR 74
Copy, headed ‘The answare’.
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.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 75
Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow, untitled.
In: A folio volume of vocal music, probably in a single cursive hand, 190 leaves, in remains of vellum boards within modern half red morocco. c.1682.
Inscribed (f. 1*r) ‘P. Fussell Winton’, ‘Liber Caroli Morgan e Coll Magd Decmo: 6to Die 7bris: Anno Domini 1682’, and ‘Vincent Novello [(1781-1861), music publisher] The gift of his kind friend Wm Patten’.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 76
Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow, untitled.
In: A large folio music book, almost entirely in a single rounded hand, 146 leaves, in 19th-century half red morocco. c.1700.
Notes (f. 2r) by a son of Dr Williams recording his purchase of the volume from the widdow of Simon Child, organist of New College, Oxford. Inscribed (f. 1v) ‘Phil: Hayes 1757’ and ‘The Gift of Mrs Cave’. Bookplates of the Rev. John Parker and Stephen Groombridge, FRS. Bought at Groombridge's sale by J. Smith of Deptford and presented by him in November 1832 to Vincent Novello (1781-1861), music publisher. Acquired by his bequest on 21 March 1887.
This MS recorded in Martin.
HeR 77
Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow, untitled.
In: A large folio volume of vocal music, the lyrics in two or more cursive hands, with (ff. 1v, [52bisv]) a table of contents, 229 leaves, in 19th-century half dark maroon morocco. c.1716.
Bequeathed by William Henry Husk, 10 November 1887.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 78
Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow.
In: A tall folio songbook, largely in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, i + 133 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary reversed calf. The cover inscribed ‘The Song-Book [of Mr. Montriot added in another hand]’. c.1711.
Formerly among Lord Leigh's muniments at Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire. Christie's, 16 October 1985, lot 139.
This MS recorded in John P. Cutts, ‘An Unpublished Purcell Setting’, M&L, 38 (1957), 1-13 (p. 9).
HeR 79
Copy, headed ‘A forsaken Lady that died for loue’.
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.
This MS collated (and four additional lines edited) in Martin, pp. 467-8.
HeR 80
Copy, headed ‘On her periured servant’.
In: the MS described under HeR 12. c.1640s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 81
Copy, headed ‘A forsaken Lady that died for Loue’.
In: the MS described under HeR 14. c.1633.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 82
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on a single folio leaf of verse. c.1622.
In: the MS described under HeR 15.
HeR 83
Copy, headed ‘A forsaken lady yt dyed for loue’.
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.
HeR 84
Copy, headed ‘On a perjur'd man’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, the first 21 pages in a small mixed hand, the rest (including a book catalogue dated 1675) in one or two later hands, 33 pages (plus numerous blanks), in old calf. Inscribed (p. 1) ‘ffran: Wyrley’, possibly the principal compiler, whose name is also subscribed to several poems. c.1636-77.
Also inscribed (f. ii) ‘Michaell Keepis. anno Dom: 1636 ffebruarie. 13th. Me tenet’. Later Phillipps MS 9311. Bookplate of Wyrley Birch. Purchased from Peter Murray Hill, 1950. Formerly S4975M1 [1636-75] Bound.
HeR 85
Copy, headed ‘An pjurum Amatorem’.
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.
HeR 86
Copy, headed ‘A Curse’, here beginning ‘O periured man, and if ye ere returne’
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.
HeR 87
Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow.
In: A folio MS music book. c.1680.
HeR 88
Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow.
In: A folio MS music book. c.1728.
HeR 90
Copy, headed ‘The answere’, subscribed ‘Mr. Ro: Herrick’.
In: the MS described under HeR 24. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 91
Copy, headed ‘To a periurd louer’.
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).
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 92
Copy, headed ‘Replye’.
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.
HeR 93
Copy, headed ‘A Reply to the same’.
In: A large folio verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford University, 34 leaves, in modern half-morocco marbled boards. Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King. c.1630s.
Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.8.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Halliwell MS’: CwT Δ 26 and KiH Δ 11. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Some Account of the Antiquities…illustrating…Shakespeare (1852), No. 8. Facsimile example in Giles Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (London, 1968), Plate 42. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 195).
This MS recorded in Martin.
HeR 94
Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow, untitled.
In: A folio songbook, largely in one hand, written from both ends, vi + 241 pages including blanks(Part I: pp. 1-207; Part II: pp. 1-34), in contemporary panelled calf gilt (rebacked). Early 18th century.
Inscribed (Part I, p. [iii]) ‘Liber Georgij Forman Anno Domini April 8th 1721’; ‘John Ladds Book October the 9 in the year of our Lord 1764’; and (Part II, p. 2) ‘Liber Georgij Forman Anno Domini 1717 November Undecimo Die’; ‘Thomas Lea Southgate, Gipsy Hill, Kent’; and ‘Johannes Gilbert A. M. Coll. Christ. Cantab.’ Puttick & Simpson's, 1890. Formerly Folger MS 1634.4.
HeR 94.5
Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow.
In: A folio song book, in a single hand, 95 pages (slightly misnumbered), in modern boards. c.1720.
Bookplate of William Hayman Cummings, FSA (1831-1915), singer and musical antiquary. Sotheby's, 15 June 1971, lot 1602. Formerly Folger MS cs 1064.
HeR 95
Copy, headed ‘A forsaken lady yt dyed for loue’, with an emendation in a different ink.
In: the MS described under HeR 18. c.1630s.
HeR 95.8
Copy, in a musical setting by Morelli.
In: A folio volume of music by Cesare Morelli. Late 17th century.
Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2802, ff. 54r-6r.
HeR 97
Copy, preceded by a fourteen-line ‘songe’ beginning ‘Lowe in a vale and here sate a sheaperdesse’.
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).
This MS collated (and the preceding lines printed) in Patrick, p. 70.
HeR 98
Copy, headed ‘A curse to a falce loue’.
In: the MS described under HeR 21. c.1634.
This MS collated in Patrick.
HeR 99
Copy, headed ‘A forsaken Lady yt dyed for loue’.
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).
This MS (erroneously cited as ‘MS 239/22’) collated in Patrick.
HeR 100
Copy, headed ‘Sonnett’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Henry King, perhaps almost entirely written over a period in a single secretary hand with slightly varying styles, 54 leaves, in limp vellum. c.1636-40s.
The name of the possible compiler ‘John Pike’ inscribed on f. 1r: i.e. possibly a member of the Pike family of Cambridge (one John Pike (d.1677) matriculating at Peterhouse in 1662).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the ‘Pike MS’: KiH Δ 12. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6), pp. 143-7.
HeR 101
Copy, headed ‘Answer’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.118 items, including thirteen poems by Donne, twenty poems by Corbett, and twelve poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, written in several hands over an extended period, associated with Christ Church, Oxford, 99 leaves. c.1620-40s.
Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Morley MS’: DnJ Δ 62, CoR Δ 13, and StW Δ 27. This MS apparently transcribed in part in the ‘Killigrew MS’ (British Library, Sloane MS 1792).
Facsimile of f. 49r in William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford, 1987), p. 24.
HeR 102
Copy, headed ‘A Reply to the same’.
In: A folio miscellany of some 133 poems, including 55 poems by Henry King and nineteen by Thomas Carew, 247 pages. In the hands of two amanuenses associated with King: i.e. Scribe A (c.1636), pp. 1-214, that of Thomas Manne's ‘imitator’ using two styles (a: pp. 1-62, 64-6, 133-4, 147-215; and b, the earlier: pp. 63, 67-132, 135-45); and Scribe B (c.1641): pp. 217-47, that of the scribe responsible for the Phillipps MS (Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 8471). c.1636-41.
The flyleaf inscribed ‘Ex dono Eugenii Stoughton Die Octobrii 23 Anno-1738-Domini’: i.e. owned before 1738 by the Stoughton family, of St John's House, Warwick.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Stoughton MS’: CwT Δ 36 and KiH Δ 6. A complete photocopy deposited by Mary Hobbs in the Bodleian (MS Facs. d. 157). Edited in Mary Hobbs, An Edition of the Stoughton Manuscript (An Early Seventeenth-Century Poetry Collection in Private Hands connected with Henry King and Oxford) seen in relation to other contemporary Poetry and Song Collections (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1973). Also discussed in Mary Hobbs, ‘The Poems of Henry King: Another Authoritative Manuscript’, The Library, 5th Ser. 31 (1976), 127-35. Recorded in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King, D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96. A complete facsimile edition in The Stoughton Manuscript, ed. Mary Hobbs (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1990).
HeR 103
Copy 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], p. 130.
HeR 104
Copy, headed ‘To a false Lover’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, with a title-page, 385 pages numbered 858-1243 (pp. 914-29, 966-7, 981-2, 995-6, 1023-4, 1041-2, 1083-4, 1135-6, and 1173-6 excised), in 17th-century calf. In non-professional hands, the miscellany entitled A Collection of Witt and Learning…consisting of verses, poems, songs, sonnetts, Ballads, Lampoons, Libells, Dialouges...from the year 1600, to this present year: 1677. c.1681.
Formerly Osborn MS Chest II, Number 14.
HeR 106
Copy, headed ‘On womans Beauty’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, predominantly in one hand, chiefly in double columns, 92 pages, lacking covers. Early 18th century.
Formerly ‘Osborn MS. Chest II, Number 4’.
HeR 107
Copy, in a musical setting, headed ‘Go Perjur'd man wth Symphonies by Dr. John Blow’.
In: A folio songbook of catches, in a rounded hand, ten leaves, in cardboard boards. Early-mid-18th century.
Inscribed inside the front cover ‘Tho: Benson’.
A Dialogue betwixt himselfe and Mistrisse Eliza: Wheeler, under the name of Amarillis (‘My dearest Love, since thou wilt go’)
Martin, pp. 323-4.
An Epithalamie to Sir Thomas Southwell and his Ladie (‘Now, now's the time. so oft by truth’)
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 53-8. Patrick, pp. 76-81.
HeR 108
Copy, of a twenty-one-stanza version, untitled.
In: the MS described under HeR 1 (HeR Δ 2). c.1630s-40s.
HeR 109
Copy of a twenty-stanza version, headed ‘An Epithalamie’.
In: the MS described under HeR 4 (HeR Δ 4). c. late 1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 110
Copy of a twenty-stanza version, headed ‘An Epithalamium:’, subscribed ‘Rob: Herrick:’.
In: the MS described under HeR 30. c.1650-9.
Edited from this MS in Martin, pp. 455-60, and in Patrick, pp. 81-6.
The fare-well to Sack (‘Farewell thou Thing, time-past so knowne, so deare’)
First published in Recreations for Ingenious Head-peeces (London, 1645). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 45-6. Patrick, pp. 62-3.
HeR 111
Copy, in a neat secretary hand, subscribed ‘R: Herrick’.
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.
HeR 112
Copy, headed ‘Mr Herricks farwell to Sack’.
In: the MS described under HeR 43 (HeR Δ 5). c.1637.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 113
Copy, headed ‘My farewell to Sack’, subscribed ‘finis Ro: Herr:’.
In: the MS described under HeR 54 (HeR Δ 6). c.1630s.
National Library of South Africa, Cape Town, MS Grey 7 a 29, pp. 131-2.
HeR 114
Copy, headed ‘In prayse of sacke’.
In: the MS described under HeR 5 (HeR Δ 7). c.1639 [-c.1728].
HeR 115
Copy, in a neat predominantly secretary hand, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter. c.1620s-30s.
In: An unbound folder of verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 138 leaves. Volume CCXXXVI of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Add 17 and 18.
Sotheby's sale catalogue, The Trumbull Papers (14 December 1989), part of lot 39.
Facsimile the last ten lines in Sotheby's catalogue, The Trumbull Papers, lot 39
HeR 116
Copy in: A verse miscellany, i + 25 leaves. c.1640.
Owned before 1959 by the Lingard-Guthrie family.
HeR 117
Copy, headed ‘Mr Hearick his farwell to Sacke’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, apparently a presentation MS, 133 pages (including blanks), plus index, in half-calf. Including twenty poems by Randolph, plus ten of doubtful authorship (some here ascribed to ‘T.R.’), in two hands (A: pp. 3-99; B: pp. 1, 99-129), with some scribbling and one heading in other hands on pp. 3, 98 and 133; a poem on p. 1 (beginning ‘Loe here a sett of paper=pilgrimes sent’) dedicatingthe collection [‘To ye] Incomparably vertuous Lady the Lady Harflette’: i.e. Afra (d.1664), wife of Sir Christopher Harflete of Canterbury. c.1640.
Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Harflete MS: RnT Δ 2.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 118
Copy, headed ‘Mr: Herick his farewell to Sacke’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, including eleven poems by Carew, in a single professional secretary hand (adopting a different style on ff. 176r-8r), ii + 231 leaves (including numerous blanks), the date 1633 occurring on f. 55r. c.1630s.
The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Michell MS’: CwT Δ 8. Briefly discussed (in connection with the poem ‘Shall I die?’ attributed to Shakespeare) by Gary Taylor in The Sunday Times (24 November 1985, pp. 1, 3, with a facsimile example) and by Peter Beal in TLS (3 January 1986, p. 13); and see also letters on 24 January 1986, pp. 87-8.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 119
Copy, headed ‘Herrickes Farewell to Sacke’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, in a single professional secretary hand associated with the playhouse and possibly inns of court (also responsible for ChG 12.5, HyT 5, and MiT 6), 97 leaves, with a first-line ‘Index’ at the end, in contemporary vellum boards. Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship). c.1636.
Inscribed (on the front paste-down) ‘My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire’ (following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Chute MS’: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, ‘Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).
This MS text collated in Martin.
HeR 120
Copy, subscribed ‘R: H:’.
In: the MS described under HeR 14. c.1633.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 121
Copy, subscribed ‘R J’.
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.
Edinburgh University Library, MS H.-P. Coll. 401, ff. 12v-13v.
HeR 122
Copy, headed ‘Mr Rob: Herricks Farwell to Sacke’.
In: the MS described under HeR 24. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 123
Copy, headed ‘Herrick's farewell to Sacke’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, 170 leaves, paginated 1-8 (Latin text in a small secretary hand), then pp. 1-162 (in one or possibly two largely italic hands; pp. 108-57 blanks; pp. 158-62 containing later notes), in modern red morocco gilt. The pagination cited below relates to the second, main series of pagination. c.1640.
Inscribed on a flyleaf in red ink ‘Matheus Day me suum vvst’: i.e. Matthew Day (d.1661), five times Mayor of Windsor. Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger. Collier's sale, 1884, lot 906. Formerly Folger MS 452.1.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 124
Copy 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, ff. 30v-1v.
HeR 125
Copy, headed ‘Mr Hericks farewell to sack’.
In: the MS described under HeR 97. c.1634.
This MS collated in Patrick.
HeR 126
Copy 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].
This MS collated in Patrick.
HeR 127
Copy, headed ‘Mr Herricks farewell to Sacke’.
In: the MS described under HeR 99. c.1638-42.
This MS collated in Patrick.
HeR 127.5
Copy, headed ‘Herricks farewell to sack’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in one secretary hand, erratically paginated up to 333, 250 leaves, in 18th-century boards. c.late 1630s.
Inscribed (on p. [330]) ‘Robert Lord his book Anno Domini’; (on [p. 335]) ‘william Jacob his booke Amen’; and, among scribbling on the last leaf, ‘Hugh Gibgans of the same’ and ‘John Winter of Buckland Dursbane [or husbande?]’. Owned in 1788 by Alexander R. Popham. Bloomsbury Book Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 8.
A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.
His age, dedicated to his peculiar friend, Master John Wickes, under the name of Posthumus (‘Ah Posthumus! Our yeares hence flye’)
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 132-6. Patrick, pp. 179-83.
HeR 128
Copy, headed ‘His ould age to Mr. Weeks’.
In: the MS described under HeR 1 (HeR Δ 2). c.1630s-40s.
HeR 128.5
Copy of a version in which some lines of the poem are reworked into a song of seven sestains plus a chorus, headed ‘11th Song’ and beginning ‘Come hether my Lads a while’.
In: the MS described under HeR 45. c.1638.
HeR 129
Copy, headed ‘His old Age to Mr Weekes’.
In: the MS described under HeR 4 (HeR Δ 4). c. late 1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 130
Copy, headed ‘To his peculiar frend mr John Weekes his Age he dedicates’, subscribed ‘R: Herrick’.
In: the MS described under HeR 43 (HeR Δ 5). c.1637.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 131
Copy, headed ‘To his peculiar friend Mr John Weeks he dedicates his age —’.
In: the MS described under HeR 54 (HeR Δ 6). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
National Library of South Africa, Cape Town, MS Grey 7 a 29, pp. 84-7.
HeR 133
Copy, headed ‘Mr Herrickes old age to Mr. Weekes’.
In: the MS described under HeR 12. c.1640s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 134
Copy, headed ‘His old age to Mr Weekes’, subscribed ‘Ro: Herrick:’.
In: the MS described under HeR 30. c.1650-9.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 135
Copy, headed ‘His old Age to Mr. Weekes’.
In: the MS described under HeR 20. c.1630s.
This MS (erroneously cited as ‘MS 239/22’) collated in Patrick.
HeR 136
Copy, headed ‘mr Herick to his friend mr. Weeks’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Thomas Carew, probably in a single accomplished hand (changing to two styles of italic on ff. 42v-4v, 5r-60r, 76r-v), i + 89 leaves (including blanks, stubs of two or three excised leaves, and an index), in contemporary limp vellum. c.1630s-40s.
Later notes and scribbling including the names ‘John Nutting’ (ff. 26r, 56r) and ‘John M.’ and ‘John Susan’ (rear paste-down). The last leaf also containing a list of the titles of 65 poems by Carew together with the number of lines in each poem, this list unrelated to the contents of the rest of the MS.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Nutting MS’: CwT Δ 35. The list of poems, probably relating to another MS, is edited, with facsimiles, in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 198-9, 217-19).
This MS collated in Martin.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 23 (James 416), ff. 77v-81r.
His Meditation upon Death (‘Be those few hours, which I have yet to spend’)
First published in Noble Numbers (London, 1647) appended to Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 392. Patrick, pp. 520-1.
HeR 136.5
Copy of lines 9-22, here beginning ‘Might I make choise long life should be wthstood’, subscribed ‘Hericke Cat[?] Hall Cambridge’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly in one mixed hand, 77 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Compiled by Sir Thomas Dawes (knighted 1639). c.1623-30.
Purchased on 4 July 1873 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.
HeR 137
Copy, headed ‘Mr Herricks Age, dedicated to his peculiar friend Mr John Wicks, under the name of Posthumus. pag: 152’.
In: A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, ‘A S’ in a gilt lozenge on each cover. The later additions partly compiled by George Clarke (1661-1736), politician and virtuoso (whose bookplate is inside the cover and whose family coat of arms is on f. [iv]), son of Sir William Clarke (1623?-66), Secretary of War to the Commonwealth and Charles II. c.1662[-1730s].
Inside the front cover inscribed ‘E[?] Barrow’, evidently a member of the family of Samuel Barrow (1625-82), Royal Physician and friend of John Milton, Barrow being the second husband of Sir William Clarke's widow, Dorothy (d.1695). Formerly MSS 6. 13.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Clarke MS’: PsK Δ 5. See also Elizabeth H. Hageman, ‘Treacherous Accidents, and the Abominable Printing of Katherine Philips's 1664 Poems’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004), pp. 85-95.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 137.5
Copy, headed ‘Mr Herricke to Mr Weekes’.
In: the MS described under HeR 127.5. c.late 1630s.
How Lillies came white (‘White though ye be. yet, Lillies, know’)
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 74. Patrick, p. 106. Musical setting by Nicholas Lanier published in Henry Lawes, The Treasury of Musick, part II (London, 1669), p. 58.
HeR 138
Autograph copy by Lawes, in his musical setting, headed ‘On the Lillyes’.
In: the MS described under HeR 35. c.1638-45.
An Hymne to Love (‘I will confesse’)
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 296. Patrick, pp. 389-90.
HeR 139
Copy, apparently transcribed from the text in Wits Recreations (London, 1663), in a small octavo verse miscellany.
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.
The Kisse. A Dialogue (‘Among thy Fancies, tell me this’)
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 130. Patrick, pp. 176-7.
HeR 140
Copy, subscribed ‘Rob: Herricke’.
In: the MS described under HeR 119. c.1636.
This MS text collated in Martin.
Leanders Obsequies (‘When as Leander young was drown'd’)
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 42. Patrick, p. 59. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
HeR 141
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.
In: the MS described under HeR 3 (HeR Δ 3). Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Martin.
The Lilly in a Christal (‘You have beheld a smiling Rose’)
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 75-6. Patrick, pp. 107-9.
HeR 143
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under HeR 4 (HeR Δ 4). c. late 1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 144
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘finis Ro: Herrick’.
In: the MS described under HeR 54 (HeR Δ 6). c.1630s.
National Library of South Africa, Cape Town, MS Grey 7 a 29, pp. 115-17.
Long and lazie (‘That was the proverb. Let my mistresse be’)
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 141. Patrick, p. 191.
HeR 145
Copy, apparently transcribed from the text in Wits Recreations (London, 1663), in a small octavo verse miscellany.
In: the MS described under HeR 139. Late 17th century.
The mad Maids song (‘Good morrow to the Day so fair’)
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 156-7. Patrick, pp. 211-12.
HeR 146
Copy, headed ‘A Songe’, subscribed ‘Rob: Herrick’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including 33 poems by Thomas Carew and sixteen by Henry King, in a single small hand, with (ff. 1r-2v) an alphabetical Index, 105 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. Compiled by Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London. c.1641-9.
Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.
Cited in IELM II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6918 with which it was once bound, as the ‘Calfe MS’: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp 129-35, 444-5 (see KiH Δ 6).
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 463-4; collated in Martin.
Mistresse Elizabeth Wheeler, under the name of the lost Shepardesse (‘Among the Mirtles, as I walkt’)
First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 106-7. Patrick, p. 147. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).
HeR 147
Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
In: the MS described under HeR 26 (HeR Δ 1). c.1640s-60s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 148
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under HeR 3 (HeR Δ 3). Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 149
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Amongst the Myrtles as I walkt’.
In: the MS described under HeR 33. Late 17th century.
HeR 150
Copy, here beginning ‘Amongst the Mirtles...’.
In: A long narrow ledger-like volume (c.40 x 15 cm) of ballads and metrical romances, in a single predominantly secretary hand, 268 leaves, all mounted on guards, in modern half-morocco. Mid-17th century.
Later owned by Thomas Percy (1768-1808), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor, and bearing copious annotations in his hand throughout, with a list by him at the end dated 20 December 1757.
This volume edited as Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript, ed. John W. Hales and Frederick J. Furnivall, 4 vols (London, 1867-8). Re-edited by I. Gollancz, 4 vols (London, 1905-10). Facsimile example of f. 94r in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), No. 20, p. 31. Discussed, with five facsimile examples, in Joseph Donatelli, ‘The Percy Folio Manuscript: A Seventeenth-Century Context for Medieval Poetry’, EMS, 4 (1993), 114-33.
Hales & Furnivall, II, 35-6.
HeR 151
Copy, headed ‘The Enquiry’ and here beginning ‘Amidst the mirtles as I walkt’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in two styles of italic, the last poem (f. 93v) added in a later hand, 93 leaves (plus ten blanks), in modern quarter-morocco gilt. Including 14 poems by Donne, six poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, ten poems by Habington and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph. Owned and possibly compiled by Arthur Capell (1631-83), second Earl of Essex, whose name is inscribed in red ink (1*), in a similar roman hand to that on ff. 1r-19r. He married (1653) Elizabeth Percy (1636-1718), daughter of Algernon, tenth Earl of Northumberland; she was therefore the great niece of Habington's mother-in-law, Eleanor Percy, sister of the ninth Earl of Northumberland. Mid-17th century.
Later among the collections of Robert Harley (1661-1724), first Earl of Oxford, and his son, Edward (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II, i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Capell MS’: DnJ Δ 43, CwT Δ 17, and RnT Δ 3. Discussed in Geoffrey Tillotson, ‘The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell’, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91.
HeR 152
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Within the mirtles as I walkt’.
In: the MS described under HeR 37. Late 17th century.
HeR 153
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled, here beginning ‘Amongst the mirtles as I walkt’.
In: A folio songbook, in at least two secretary hands, dated on the first page ‘June the ffirst 1639’, 25 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. c.1639.
Bookseller's label of Kenneth Mummery, Bournemouth.
Clark Library, Los Angeles, C6967M4 [1639] Bound, ff. 2v-3r.
HeR 154
Copy, headed ‘A louers contemplation of his mris’ and here beginning ‘Amongst ye Myrtills as I walk'd’.
In: the MS described under HeR 84. c.1636-77.
HeR 155
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Amidst the mirtles as I walk’.
In: the MS described under HeR 38. c.1650s-60s.
HeR 155.5
Copy, untitled.
In: Two folio leaves of MS verse, in double columns, in a neat roman hand, at the end of a printed exemplum of Thomas Campion's The First Booke of Ayres (London, [1613?]) bound with The third and fourth booke of Aires (London, [1617]), in panelled calf. Mid-17th century.
Sotheby's, 16-19 June 1930, lot 326, to Quaritch. From the library of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).
HeR 156
Copies, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, here beginning ‘Amidst the mirtles...’.
In: the MS described under HeR 39. c.1660.
University of Glasgow, MS Euing R.d.58-61, (i) f. 1v; (ii) f. 1v; (iii) f. 1v.
HeR 157
Copy, headed ‘Sonnett 8’ and here beginning ‘All in the Myrtells as I walked’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany of Scottish provenance, chiefly in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, including some shorthand, inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Incept. March. 23. 1652/3.’, 190 leaves, in old brown calf gilt (rebacked). c.1653-64.
Purchased c.1798.
HeR 158
Copy, headed ‘On his Mris’ and here beginning ‘Amg ye woods as I walked’.
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), pp. 31-2.
HeR 159
Copy, in a musical setting, here beginning ‘Amidst the Mirtles, as I walkt’.
In: A folio music book, containing 327 songs, in three largely secretary hands, with a ‘Cattalogue’ of contents, 229 leaves. Owned (in 1659) and partly compiled by the composer John Gamble (d.1687), with some misnumbering. c.1630s-50s.
Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.
A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 10 (New York & London, 1987). Discussed in Charles W. Hughes, ‘John Gamble's Commonplace Book’, M&L, 26 (1945), 215-29.
This MS collated in Martin.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 38.
HeR 160
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Amongst ye Myrtles as I walked’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in several hands, written from both ends, with a list of contents, 108 leaves. Late 17th century.
Bookplate of Charles W.G. Howard, ‘The Gift of the Rt. Hon. Sir David Dundas Knt. of Ochtertyre 1877’. Formerly Osborn MS. Chest II, No. 13. vol. 2.
HeR 161
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Amongst the mirtles as I walkt’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several hands, showing communal use, 161 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.
Formerly Chest II, No. 21.
The Night-piece, to Julia (‘Her Eyes the Glow-worme lend thee’)
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 217. Patrick, pp. 287-8.
HeR 162
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under HeR 3 (HeR Δ 3). Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Martin.
Not to love (‘He that will not love, must be’)
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 102-3. Patrick, pp. 142-3. See also Louise Schleiner, ‘Herrick's Songs and the Character of Hesperides’, ELR, 6 (1976), 77-91 (pp. 83-5).
HeR 163
Autograph copy by Lawes, in his musical setting, headed ‘Perswasions not to loue’.
In: the MS described under HeR 35. c.1638-45.
This MS collated (and the second stanza printed) in Martin, pp. 474-5.
HeR 163.5
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
In: the MS described under HeR 153. c.1639.
Clark Library, Los Angeles, C6967M4 [1639] Bound, ff. 4v-5r.
A Nuptiall Song, or Epithalamie, on Sir Clipseby Crew and his Lady (‘What's that we see from far?’)
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 112-16. Patrick, pp. 154-8.
HeR 164
Copy of a nineteen-stanza version, headed ‘Epithalamie’.
In: the MS described under HeR 1 (HeR Δ 2). c.1630s-40s.
HeR 165
Copy of a twenty-stanza version, headed ‘An Epithalamie’.
In: the MS described under HeR 4 (HeR Δ 4). c. late 1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 166
Copy of a nineteen-stanza version, headed ‘An Epithalamye’, subscribed (first part) ‘finis R: Her:’ and (at the end) ‘finis Ro: Herrick’.
In: the MS described under HeR 54 (HeR Δ 6). c.1630s.
National Library of South Africa, Cape Town, MS Grey 7 a 29, pp. 121-2, 124-7.
HeR 167
Copy of a nineteen-stanza version, headed ‘Epithalamium’.
In: the MS described under HeR 117. c.1640.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 168
Copy of a twenty-three-stanza version, headed ‘Epithalamie’, subscribed ‘R. Her’, transcribed from HeR 169.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single predominantly secretary hand, with some later additions and annotations, 188 leaves, in quarter-morocco. Transcribed from British Library Add. MS 25303 and perhaps associated likewise with the Inns of Court. Including 23 poems by Carew and three of doubtful authorship. c.1620s-30s.
Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 13 May 1856 (Pickering sale), lot 258.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Pickering MS’: CwT Δ 11.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 169
Copy of a twenty-three-stanza version, headed ‘Epithalamie’, subscribed ‘RHer:’.
In: the MS described under HeR 11. c.1620s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 170
Copy of a twenty-three stanza version, headed ‘An Epithalamium’, subscribed ‘R: Herrick’.
In: the MS described under HeR 146. c.1641-9.
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 448-55; collated in Martin.
HeR 171
Copy in the hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple, headed ‘Hericks Epithalamie:’, imperfect, on the remains of two conjugate quarto leaves.
In: Papers of the Gell family, formerly of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, in different hands and paper sizes, now disbound in folders.
Sotheby's, 16 December 1950, lot 560. Owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Given to the Houghton Library by Robert S. Pirie in 1959.
Oberons Feast (‘A Little mushroome table spred’)
First published complete, with six preliminary lines beginning ‘Shapcot! To thee the Fairy State’, in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 119-20. Patrick, pp. 161-3. An earlier version, entitled ‘A Description of his Dyet’, published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Martin, pp. 454-5.
HeR 172
Copy, headed in the margin ‘The feast Oberon Kinge of fayries’ and without the preliminary lines.
In: the MS described under HeR 1 (HeR Δ 2). c.1630s-40s.
HeR 173
Second copy, headed ‘The feast of Obron Kinge of the ffayries’, without the preliminary lines, subscribed ‘Sr Simon Stewarde’.
In: the MS described under HeR 1 (HeR Δ 2). c.1630s-40s.
HeR 174
Copy, without the preliminary lines, subscribed ‘R Herrick’.
In: the MS described under HeR 43 (HeR Δ 5). c.1637.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 175
Copy, without the preliminary lines.
In: the MS described under HeR 54 (HeR Δ 6). c.1630s.
National Library of South Africa, Cape Town, MS Grey 7 a 29, pp. 87-8.
HeR 176
Copy, complete with the preliminary lines.
In: the MS described under HeR 5 (HeR Δ 7). c.1639 [-c.1728].
Facsimile in Sotheby's sale catalogue (hardback), 27 June 1972, lot 309, facing p. 55.
HeR 177
Copy, headed ‘Kinge Obrons Feast’ and without the preliminary lines.
In: the MS described under HeR 45. c.1638.
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 470-2; collated in Martin.
HeR 178
Copy, headed ‘Oberon his Banquet’ and without the preliminary lines.
In: the MS described under HeR 117. c.1640.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 179
Copy, without the preliminary lines and subscribed ‘Rich: Hiericke of Clare Hall’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, probably associated with Cambridge University, ii + 78 pages, in contemporary vellum. c.1625-31.
Inscribed (p. i) ‘Ex dono B. R. ao Jni. i625 [altered to i631] / Broughton / Thomas Gray’.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 180
Extracts, comprising eighteen lines beginning at line 19 (here ‘Now you must imagine first’), garbled with HeR 339 under the common heading ‘The Fayrie Kings diet, & apparrell’.
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’.
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 481-2.
HeR 181
Copy, headed ‘King Oberons Feast’ and without the preliminary lines, subscribed ‘Rob: Herrick’.
In: the MS described under HeR 118. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 182
Copy, without the preliminary lines.
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.
HeR 183
Copy, imperfect, lacking a heading and the first four lines.
In: the MS described under HeR 9. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 184
Copy, headed ‘King Oberons his feast’ and without the preliminary lines, subscribed ‘Herricke’.
In: the MS described under HeR 10. c.1640s-50s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 185
Copy, headed ‘The fayries feast att his mariage’ and without the preliminary lines.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several small non-professional hands, 88 leaves, imperfect at the beginning. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 186
Copy, without the preliminary lines, headed ‘The Pharyes Clothing by Sir Simion Steward. Immediately preceding this neat little trif[l]e is the Pharyes Supper by Robert Herrick, some parts of which is pleasing enough; for instance:’.
In: A composite volume of transcripts of ballads made, from various printed and manuscript sources, by and for Robert Jamieson (1780?-1844) for his edition of Popular Ballads and Songs (Edinburgh, 1806). c.1800.
Owned in 1921 by George Neilson, then by Charles R. Cowie, and now in the John Cowie Collection.
Discussed in G. Neilson, ‘A Bundle of Ballads’, E&S, 7 (1921), 108-42.
This MS recorded in Neilson, ‘A Bundle of Ballads’, p. 113.
HeR 187
Copy, headed ‘The fayrie's feast att his mariage’ and without the preliminary lines.
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. 259-63.
HeR 188
Copy, headed ‘The Pharyes Supper’ and without the preliminary lines.
In: the MS described under HeR 21. c.1634.
Oberons Palace (‘Full as a Bee with Thyme, and Red’)
First published, with eight preliminary lines beginning ‘After the Feast (my Shapcot) see’, in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 165-8. Patrick, pp. 222-5.
HeR 189
Copy, without the preliminary lines.
In: the MS described under HeR 5 (HeR Δ 7). c.1639 [-c.1728].
HeR 190
Copy in two hands, without the preliminary lines and with lines 69-107 first copied on p. 105 and repeated on p. 103.
In: the MS described under HeR 45. c.1638.
Edited evidently from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 466-70; collated in Martin.
HeR 191
Copy, headed ‘Oberon his Pallace: by Mr Herrick’ and without the preliminary lines.
In: the MS described under HeR 117. c.1640.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 192
Copy, headed ‘King Oberons Pallace’ and without the preliminary lines, subscribed ‘R: Herick’.
In: the MS described under HeR 118. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 193
Copy, headed ‘King Oberons his Pallace’ and without the preliminary lines, subscribed ‘Hericke’.
In: the MS described under HeR 10. c.1640s-50s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 194
Copy, without the preliminary lines, subscribed ‘Exp: R: H.’
In: the MS described under HeR 11. c.1620s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 194.5
Copy of lines 1-26, without the eight introductory lines, incomplete. c.1620s-30s.
In: A small quarto composite volume of miscellaneous works, in five hands, including Memorials of the Holles family in the hand of Gervase Holles (1607-75), leaves (a few excised), in 19th-century calf gilt. Early-mid-17th century.
Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Timothy Raylor, ‘The “Lost” Essex House Masque (1621): A Manuscript Text Discovered’, EMS, 7 (1998), 86-130 (esp. pp. 95-110).
Facsimile of this MS in Raylor, p. 106.
The parting Verse, or charge to his supposed Wife when he travelled (‘Go hence, and with this parting kisse’)
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 174-6. Patrick, pp. 233-5.
HeR 195
Copy, headed ‘My Charge’ and here beginning ‘Go & with this partinge Kisse’.
In: the MS described under HeR 1 (HeR Δ 2). c.1630s-40s.
HeR 196
Copy, headed ‘My Charge’ and here beginning ‘Goe and with this parting kisse’.
In: the MS described under HeR 4 (HeR Δ 4). c. late 1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 197
Copy, headed ‘The husband charge departing from home, to his wife’ and here beginning ‘Go and with this parting Kiss’, subscribed ‘Robert Herrick’.
In: the MS described under HeR 43 (HeR Δ 5). c.1637.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 198
Copy, headed ‘My Charge’ and here beginning ‘Goe, and with this parting kisse’, subscribed ‘finis Ro: Herrick’.
In: the MS described under HeR 54 (HeR Δ 6). c.1630s.
National Library of South Africa, Cape Town, MS Grey 7 a 29, pp. 117-18.
HeR 199
Copy, headed ‘His chardge to his wife’ and here beginning ‘Goe & with this parting kisse’.
In: the MS described under HeR 5 (HeR Δ 7). c.1639 [-c.1728].
HeR 200
Copy, headed ‘Mr Hericke his charge to his wife’ and here beginning ‘Goe: and with...’.
In: the MS described under HeR 45. c.1638.
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 460-3; collated in Martin.
HeR 201
Copy, headed ‘R: Herrick: his charge vnto his wife’ and here beginning ‘Go & with...’.
In: the MS described under HeR 118. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 202
Copy, headed ‘Mr Herickes Charge to his Wife’ and here beginning ‘Goe and wth this partinge Kisse’.
In: the MS described under HeR 10. c.1640s-50s.
This MS collated in Martin.
A Pastorall upon the birth of Prince Charles, Presented to the King, and Set by Master Nicholas Laniere (‘Good day, Mirtillo. And to you no lesse’)
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 85-7. Patrick, pp. 120-1.
HeR 203
Copy 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.
HeR 204
Copy, headed ‘Myrtillo, Amyntas, Amarillis’.
In: An octavo notebook of extracts, chiefly verse, compiled by one or two University of Cambridge men, 69 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1653-60s.
HeR 205
Copy, headed ‘An Eclogue on ye birth day of Prince Charles’, subscribed ‘Phil: Massenger’.
In: the MS described under HeR 84. c.1636-77.
HeR 206
Copy, headed ‘In Nat: Prin: &c.’.
In: the MS described under HeR 20. c.1630s.
Edited from this MS in Patrick, pp. 122-3.
HeR 207
Copy, headed ‘A dialogue on Prince Charles his birth betwene 4 sheaphards...’.
In: the MS described under HeR 97. c.1634.
Printed from this MS in Martin, pp. 460-1.
HeR 207.5
Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue vpon the Princes Birth song betweene Amintus, Myrtillo, Amarillis’.
In: the MS described under HeR 39.5. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, ff. 21v-2r.
HeR 207.8
Copy, headed ‘A Diologue vpon the Princes Birth sung betweene Amintas, Mirtillo & Amarillis’.
In: A folio formal verse miscellany, in a single rounded hand, 259 pages (plus a three-page index), in modern boards. The contents, the latest of which (on pp. 203-7) can be dated to a marriage that took place in November 1656, reflect the taste of Interregnum Royalist sympathisers. c.Late 1650s.
Formerly in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 4001. Sotheby's, 29 June 1946, lot 164, to Myers. Then in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
HeR 207.9
Copy, headed ‘Vpon ye birth of ye Prince Eclogue’.
In: the MS described under HeR 127.5. c.late 1630s.
The Present: or, The Bag of the Bee (‘Fly to my Mistresse, pretty pilfring Bee’)
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 100. Patrick, p. 140.
HeR 208
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Flye to my Mris yealowe footed bee’
In: the MS described under HeR 45. c.1638.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 209
Copy, headed ‘Nuncius amoris Apes’ and here beginning ‘Fly to my Mistresse yellow footed Bee’.
In: the MS described under HeR 7. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 209.5
Copy, headed ‘Of one in despaire of his Mrs’, and here beginning ‘Fly to my mistresse yellow-footed bee’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, comprising 162 poems in English, in a single hand, 273 pages, in brown morocco gilt. c.late 1640s.
Formerly (before 1686) in the Palatine Library at Heidelberg. Possibly acquired by Charles Louis (1617-80), Elector Palatine, while at the English court of his uncle, Charles I, from 1635 to 1649.
This volume discovered, and announced in the TLS, 23 July 2010, pp. 14-15, by June Schleuter and Paul Schleuter.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 78-9.
The Primrose (‘Ask me why I send you here’)
First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640) and, among verse ‘By other Gentlemen’, in Poems written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent. (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 208. Patrick, pp. 276-7. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
HeR 210
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.
In: the MS described under HeR 3 (HeR Δ 3). Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 211
Copy in: the MS described under HeR 151. Mid-17th century.
A Ring presented to Julia (‘Julia, I bring’)
First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1641). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 65-6.
HeR 211.5
Copy, headed ‘A Weding Ring presented to julia’, followed by an answer headed ‘To this writen by a gentlewoeman ye answer underneath was given’ (beginning ‘Believe not him...’) which is itself followed by ‘His Answer’ (‘Yet trust him...’).
In: A small quarto commonplace book of largely devotional verse and prose, in a single cursive hand, viii + 335 pages (including blanks, plus numerous others to p. [374]), in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps. Compiled by Thomas Fane (1683-1736), sixth Earl of Westmorland. Early 18th century.
To a Gentlewoman, objecting to him his gray haires (‘Am I despis'd because you say’)
First published, among verse ‘By other Gentlemen’, in Poems written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent. (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 63. Patrick, pp. 91-2. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
HeR 212
Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
In: the MS described under HeR 26 (HeR Δ 1). c.1640s-60s.
Edited from this MS in John P. Cutts, ‘A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57’, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 200); collated in Martin.
HeR 213
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.
In: the MS described under HeR 3 (HeR Δ 3). Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 214
Copy, headed ‘An old man to his younge Mrs’, subscribed ‘Herricke’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in two or more cursive hands, written from both ends, iv + 278 pages, in contemporary calf. Compiled principally by one ‘H. S.’, a Cambridge University man. c.1640s-60s.
This MS volume edited in D.J. Rose, MS Rawlinson Poetical 147: An Annotated Volume of Seventeenth-Century Cambridge Verses (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Leicester, 1992), of which a copy is in Cambridge University Library, Manuscript Department, A8f.
This MS probably the unspecified MS from which the text printed in Hazlitt, II, 466; collated from Hazlitt in Martin, pp. 468-9.
HeR 215
Copy, in a musical setting by John Hilton, untitled.
In: A square-shaped folio songbook, largely in a single rounded secretary hand, with (ff. 1r-v, 69r-v) a table of contents, i + 69 leaves, in modern half red morocco. Mid-17th century.
Puttick & Simpson's, 2 March 1866, lot 230.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 2 (New York & London, 1986).
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 216
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under HeR 20. c.1630s.
Edited from this MS (erroneously cited as ‘MS 239/22’) in Patrick.
To Anthea, who may command him any thing (‘Bid me to live, and I will live’)
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 108-9. Patrick, pp. 149-50. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).
HeR 217
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.
In: the MS described under HeR 3 (HeR Δ 3). Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 219
Copy, in a musical setting.
In: the MS described under HeR 159. c.1630s-50s.
This MS collated in Martin.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 133.
To Blossoms (‘Faire pledges of a fruitfull Tree’)
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 176.
HeR 219.2
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, i + 200 leaves (ff. 129-199 blank), in quarter-vellum over boards. Compiled by John Phillipps, of Exeter College, Oxford, and the Middle Temple, who has inscribed the front pastedown ‘John Phillipps. med: Temp: Lond: 1776’. c.1776-1804.
Acquired from Cumming of Exeter, 1941.
To Dewes. A Song (‘I Burn, I burn. and beg of you’)
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 50. Patrick, p. 71.
HeR 220
Autograph copy by Lawes, in his musical setting, headed ‘To the Desert’.
In: the MS described under HeR 35. c.1638-45.
This MS collated in Martin.
To God: an Anthem, sung in the Chappell at White-Hall, before the King (‘My God, I'm wounded by my sin’)
First published in Noble Numbers (London, 1647) appended to Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 342. Patrick, p. 454.
HeR 221
Copy, headed ‘An Anthem by Mr. Herricke’.
In: the MS described under HeR 123. c.1640.
This MS collated in Martin.
To Musick. A Song (‘Musick, thou Queen of Heaven, Care-charming-spel’)
First published (in a six-line version) in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 103. Patrick, p. 143.
HeR 222
Copy of an untitled eight-line version, in a musical setting.
In: the MS described under HeR 26 (HeR Δ 1). c.1640s-60s.
Printed from this MS in John P. Cutts, ‘A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57’, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 206); collated in Martin.
HeR 223
Copy of a sixteen-line version.
In: the MS described under HeR 1 (HeR Δ 2). c.1630s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Margaret Crum, ‘An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick’, RES, NS 11 (1960), 186-9 (p. 89).
HeR 224
Copy of an eight-line version, in a musical setting.
In: MS songbook. Owned and probably compiled by Elizabeth Davenant (sister of Sir William Davenant), of Oxford. c.1624-30s.
Complete facsimile of this MS volume in Jorgens, VII (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, ‘“Mris Elizabeth Davenant 1624”: Christ Church MS. Mus. 87’, RES, NS 10 (1959), 26-37.
This MS collated in Martin.
To Pansies (‘Ah cruell Love! must I endure’)
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 74. Patrick, p. 107.
HeR 225
Autograph copy by Lawes, in his musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under HeR 35. c.1638-45.
This MS collated (and the second stanza printed) in Martin, p. 469.
HeR 225.5
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
In: the MS described under HeR 153. c.1639.
Clark Library, Los Angeles, C6967M4 [1639] Bound, ff. 5v-6r.
To Sycamores (‘I'm sick of Love. O let me lie’)
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 158. Patrick, p. 214.
HeR 226
Autograph copy by Lawes, in his musical setting, headed ‘To the Sicamour’.
In: the MS described under HeR 35. c.1638-45.
HeR 227
Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.
In: the MS described under HeR 215. Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 227.5
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘O I am sick of Loue, heere Lett mee lye’.
In: the MS described under HeR 39.5. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 39r.
To the Virgins, to make much of Time (‘Gather ye Rose-budd while ye may’)
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 84. Patrick, pp. 117-18. Musical setting by William Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).
HeR 228
Copy in a musical setting by William Lawes.
In: the MS described under HeR 26 (HeR Δ 1). c.1640s-60s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 229
Copy in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.
In: A folio music part book (2nd treble part), viii + 218 pages, in contemporary calf. Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer. c.1650s.
Bookplate of Povert Henley.
HeR 230
Copy of the first two lines, in a three-part musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.
In: An oblong quarto songbook, written from both ends, ii + 384 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum. Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer. Mid-late-17th century.
HeR 231.5
Copy in: An octavo volume of verse and related notes compiled by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary, for his Lyrical Gleanings published in 1817. c.1817.
HeR 232
Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.
In: A folio songbook, almost entirely in a single rounded italic hand, with (ff. 3r-7v) a table of contents, 113 leaves, in 19th-century half dark red morocco. Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer (his signature f. 2v). c.1654-70s.
Arms of Eleanor Bursh on a seal affixed to f. 56r. Later owned and annotated in pencil by Thomas Oliphant (1799-1873), music editor and cataloguer.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 5 (New York & London, 1986).
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 233
Autograph copy by Lawes, in his musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under HeR 35. c.1638-45.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 233.5
Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes.
In: An oblong folio book of vocal music, largely in one hand, 165 leaves, in moder half red morocco. Mid-18th century.
Acquired from Julian Marshall (1836-1903), music and print collector and writer, 1880-81.
HeR 234
Copy, headed ‘Loose No time’.
In: the MS described under HeR 37. Late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Martin.
HeR 235
Copy, headed ‘A Sonnet’.
In: the MS described under HeR 30. c.1650-9.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 236
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, untitled.
In: the MS described under HeR 153. c.1639.
Clark Library, Los Angeles, C6967M4 [1639] Bound, ff. 7v-8r.
HeR 237
Copy of the incipit, in a musical setting for the Viol da Gamba, in the hand of A. J. Wighton.
In: Transcript, made by A.J. Wighton (d.c.1884), of a transcript (then belonging to James Davie of Aberdeen) of the original ‘Blaikie MS’, a music book dated [Glasgow] 1692. Mid-19th century.
Owned in the early 19th century by Andrew Blaikie, engraver in Paisley. Bequeathed c.1884 by A.J. Wighton.
This MS recorded in Nelly Diem, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Schottischen Musik im XVII Jahrhundert (Zürich & Leipzig, 1919), pp. 27-8. The original Blaikie MS is untraced. Another transcript of the Blaikie MS, made by Alfred Moffat, was item 436 in an unidentified sale catalogue (c.1940s).
HeR 238
Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.
In: A folio songbook (First Treble part), in a single hand, written from both ends, viii + 213 pages (paginated 1-191, then 1-22 rev.), lacking pp. 87-8, 115-18, the first two of which are now Birmingham Central Library, Acc. No. 57316, Location No. S747.01, in modern half brown morocco marbled boards. Compiled entirely by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer. Mid-late 17th century.
Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.
Discussed in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69’, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 8 (New York & London, 1987).
HeR 239
Copy of the first two lines, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.
In: An oblong quarto book of mainly vocal music, the lyrics in several largely secretary hands, one predominating, 90 pages (including blanks), in contemporary brown calf, both covers stamped in gilt ‘I S’. Inscribed several times ‘John Squyer’, probably the compiler. Mid-17th century.
Also inscribed (p. 1) ‘Ane Cattologue of books 1700’, and (p. 25) ‘Joanne Squier’. Owned by David Laing in June 1855.
HeR 240
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, a neat mixed hand predominating up to f. 55r, 151 leaves (including a few blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1730.
Inscribed (in another hand) on the front pastedown ‘Thomas Boydell’. Formerly Folger MS 4108.
HeR 241
Copy of lines 1-4, untitled.
In: A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, largely in one hand, iv + 544 pages (including numerous blanks), in vellum boards. Inscribed, and evidently compiled, by Sir Henry Oxinden (1609-70), of Barham, Kent. c.1642-70.
Inscribed ‘Lee Warly. Canterbury. 1764’. Booklabel of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 242
Copies, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.
In: the MS described under HeR 39. c.1660.
University of Glasgow, MS Euing R.d.58-61, (i) f. 16; (ii) f. 15r; (iii) f. 18r; (iv) f. 10v.
HeR 243
Copy in a musical setting by William Lawes, in an italic hand, untitled.
In: An oblong duodecimo book of chiefly vocal music, in at least three hands, one rounded hand predominating, 33 leaves, in old calf (rebacked). Mid-late 17th century.
Inscriptions including (f. 1v) ‘Janet Glesone’; (ff. 2r and 33v) ‘Heline ffergusone’; (f. 5v) ‘Andrew Gardner Est Hujus Liber Anno domini’; (f. 9v) ‘John Patsen’; and (f. 32r) ‘John Watson’. Purchased at the sale of the books of David Constable in 1828, lot 2905.
HeR 244
Copy in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.
In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics in at least two secretary and italic hands, 21 leaves (plus blanks), in modern cloth. Mid-17th century-1704.
Inscribed (f. 9v) ‘Mrs Agnes Hume her book Anno Dom 1704’.
Edited from this MS in Nelly Diem, Beiträge zur Geschichte der Schottischen Musik im XVII Jahrhundert (Zürich & Leipzig, 1919), p. 119.
HeR 245
Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes.
In: A folio songbook, in a single secretary hand, some items misnumbered, 144 leaves. c.1640s.
Once owned by the Shirley family, Earls Ferrers, of Staunton Harold, Leicestershire. Also owned, and annotated, by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.
Generally cited as the Earl Ferrers MS. Collated in Cutts, ‘Drexel Manuscript 4041’, MD, 18 (1964), 151-202. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 9 (New York & London, 1987).
This MS collated in Cutts, ‘Drexel Manuscript 4041’, p. 178.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4041, No. 59, f. 43r.
HeR 246
Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes.
In: the MS described under HeR 159. c.1630s-50s.
This MS recorded in Martin.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 141.
HeR 247
Copy of the incipit, in a musical setting.
In: A music book for the lyra-viol. c.1690s.
Later owned by John Leyden (1775-1811).
Discussed in Christopher Hunt, ‘Scottish ballads and music in the Robert White Collection in the University Library, Newcastle upon Tyne’, The Bibliotheck, 5 (1968), 138-41. A transcript of the MS made in 1844 by George Farquhar Graham is in the National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS. 5. 2. 19.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 42, f. [60r].
HeR 247.5
Copy, in William Lawes's musical setting.
In: A quarto songbook, 138 leaves. Mid-18th-century.
Once owned by John Henry Mee.
HeR 248
Copy, in a musical setting, among the appended Italian songs.
In: MS transcript of the first printed edition (Aberdeen, 1662) of John Forbes, Cantus, Songs and Fancies. c.1662.
In the Atholl Collection of Music, assembled by Lady Dorothea Stewart-Murray (1866-1937), daughter of John Stewart-Murray (1840-1917), seventh Duke of Atholl. Formerly in the Sandeman Library, Perth.
HeR 248.5
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under HeR 39.5. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, ff. 40v-1r.
Upon his kinswoman Mistris Elizabeth Herrick (‘Sweet virgin, that I do not set’)
First published in John Stow, Survey of London (London, 1633), p. 812. Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 145-6. Patrick, pp. 197-8. The memorial tablet of c.1630 bearing this epitaph at St Margaret's Church, Westminster, was restored there in 1955: see Charles Smyth, ‘A Herrick Epitaph’, TLS (13 May 1955), p. 253.
HeR 249
Copy in: An octavo commonplace book of extracts, in English and Latin, compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, iv + 302 pages. Mid-late 17th century.
HeR 249.5
Copy, headed ‘In memory of the late deceased Virgin Mistris Elizabeth Hereicke’, transcribed from Stow's printed text.
In: the MS described under HeR 27.5. Early 19th century.
HeR 249.8
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph in memory of ye late deceas'd virgin, Mrs: Elizabeth Hereicke’.
In: A collection of epitaphs, principally from churches in and about London, at least up to f. 193 in a single large rounded hand, an epitaph on f. 309 dated 1760, 244 folio leaves. Late 18th century.
Owned in 1785 by Mary Windsor of Tottenham High Cross, Owned in 1821 by one John Marris [i.e. Morris?]. Bookplate of James Walsh, FSA, FRAS. Purchased from J. R. Smith 9 December 1848.
Upon Mistresse Elizabeth Wheeler, under the name of Amarillis (‘Sweet Amarillis, by a Spring's’)
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 46. Patrick, p. 65.
HeR 250
Copy of an untitled version beginning ‘Amarillis by a spring's’, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
In: the MS described under HeR 26 (HeR Δ 1). c.1640s-60s.
Printed from this MS in Martin, p. 467.
HeR 251
Copy of a version beginning ‘Amarillis, by A Springes’, in Lawes's musical setting.
In: the MS described under HeR 3 (HeR Δ 3). Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 252
Copy of a version beginning ‘Amarillis by a springe’, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, untitled.
In: A folio songbook, in two or more predominantly italic hands, written from both ends, 87 leaves, in remains of contemporary vellum within modern half red morocco. Possibly compiled in part by one ‘T. C.’ c.1641-59.
Inscribed (f. 1v) ‘R. Guise [of Abbey] Feb: 12. 1760’. Purchased from Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, 17 June 1839.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 4 (New York & London, 1986).
HeR 253
Copy of a version beginning ‘Amarillis by a springe’ in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
In: the MS described under HeR 232. c.1654-70s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 254
Copy of a version beginning ‘Amarillis, by a springe’, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
In: the MS described under HeR 215. Mid-17th century.
Upon the death of his Sparrow. An Elegie (‘Why doe not all fresh maids appeare’)
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 103-4. Patrick, pp. 143-4.
HeR 255
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under HeR 4 (HeR Δ 4). c. late 1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 256
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis Ro: Herrick’.
In: the MS described under HeR 54 (HeR Δ 6). c.1630s.
National Library of South Africa, Cape Town, MS Grey 7 a 29, p. 91.
HeR 257
Copy, headed ‘A Sonnet’, subscribed ‘Rob: Herrick.’
In: the MS described under HeR 30. c.1650-9.
This MS collated in Martin.
The Welcome to Sack (‘So soft streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles’)
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 77-9. Patrick, pp. 110-12.
HeR 258
Copy, in a neat secretary hand, headed ‘The Welcome againe’.
In: the MS described under HeR 111. c.1612-24.
HeR 259
Copy, headed ‘The time expired thus he welcomes his mrs: Sacke’.
In: the MS described under HeR 43 (HeR Δ 5). c.1637.
This MS collated in part in Martin.
HeR 260
Copy, headed ‘My wellcome to Sacke’, subscribed ‘finis Ro: Herrick’.
In: the MS described under HeR 54 (HeR Δ 6). c.1630s.
National Library of South Africa, Cape Town, MS Grey 7 a 29, pp. 132-4.
HeR 261
Copy, headed ‘Hericks wellcome to sack:’.
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).
HeR 262
Copy, in a neat predominantly secretary hand, headed ‘The Welcome again’, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter.
In: the MS described under HeR 115.
HeR 264
Copy, headed ‘Mr Hearick his welcome to Sack’.
In: the MS described under HeR 117. c.1640.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 265
Copy, headed ‘Herick's Welcome to Sack’.
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).
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 266
Copy of an abridged version, headed ‘Herricks Sack’ and here beginning ‘Springs meet with Smiles’
In: the MS described under HeR 180. c.1630s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 455-6; recorded in Martin.
HeR 267
Copy, headed ‘The Time expired, he welcomes his Mrs. Sacke as followeth’.
In: the MS described under HeR 118. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 268
Copy, headed ‘Mr Herrickes welcome to Sacke’.
In: the MS described under HeR 8. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 269
Copy, headed ‘The time expired, he Welcomes his Mrs (Sacke) as followeth’.
In: the MS described under HeR 10. c.1640s-50s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 270
Copy, headed ‘Mr Herricks wellcome to Sacke’.
In: the MS described under HeR 74. c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 271
Copy, headed ‘The Time of his vow expird, he thus welcomes it againe’.
In: the MS described under HeR 119. c.1636.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 272
Copy, headed ‘Mr Herricks welcome to Sacke’.
In: the MS described under HeR 13. c.1635.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 273
Copy, headed ‘The welcome to Sacke’, subscribed ‘R: H:’.
In: the MS described under HeR 14. c.1633.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 274
Copy, headed ‘Mr Herricks welcome to sacke’.
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.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 275
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto miscellany chiefly of chiefly verse, in English and Latin, in probably a single secretary and italic hand, 50 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Recorded as being compiled by Thomas Smyth, of Manchester. c.1630.
Bookplate of the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Lot 8055 in the sale of his library by Thomas King, 7 May to 16 June 1798. Afterwards owned by James Crossley (1800-83), author and book collector. Formerly Chetham's MS 8010.
HeR 276
Copy, subscribed ‘R. J.’
In: the MS described under HeR 121. c.1628-30s.
Edinburgh University Library, MS H.-P. Coll. 401, ff. 13v-15r.
HeR 277
Copy, headed ‘Mr: Herricks welcome to Sacke’.
In: the MS described under HeR 24. c.1630s.
This MS collated in part in Martin.
HeR 278
Copy, headed ‘Mr Herricks welcome to sack’.
In: the MS described under HeR 91. c.late 1630s [-1789].
This MS collated in part in Martin.
HeR 279
Copy, headed ‘Mr Herricks welcome to Sacke’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, pp. 13-244 in a single largely roman hand, the remainder in varying styles in one or more other hands (up to c.1655), probably associated with Oxford University, 541 pages (of which pp. 1-12, 87-8 have been extracted and pp. 251-68, 334, 400, 410-540 are blank, with stubs of other extracted leaves at the end), in contemporary brown calf. Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1630s[-55].
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: possibly his MS 18123. Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller. Formerly MS 646.4.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Dobell MS’: CoR Δ 8 and StW Δ 18A. Discussed in Bertram Dobell in The Athenaeum, No. 4475 (2 August 1913), p. 112. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).
This MS collated in part in Martin.
HeR 280
Copy 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.
This MS collated in part, and six additional lines printed, in Martin, pp. 469-73.
HeR 281
Copy, headed ‘His Return and Welcome to Sacke’.
In: the MS described under HeR 124. c.1643-50s.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, ff. 31v-3.
HeR 282
Copy, headed ‘The time beinge expired Hericks wellcome to sacke’.
In: the MS described under HeR 97. c.1634.
HeR 283
Copy, headed ‘A Welcome to Sack’.
In: the MS described under HeR 126. c.1630.
This MS collated in part in Patrick.
HeR 284
Copy, headed ‘His Returne’.
In: the MS described under HeR 99. c.1638-42.
This MS collated in part in Patrick.
HeR 285
Copy, headed ‘Mr Herricks wellcome to sacke’.
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.
HeR 285.5
Copy, headed ‘Mr Herricks Wellcome to sacke’.
In: the MS described under HeR 127.5. c.late 1630s.
The Willow Garland (‘A Willow Garland thou did'st send’)
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 161. Patrick, p. 217. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).
HeR 286
Copy in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, untitled.
In: the MS described under HeR 26 (HeR Δ 1). c.1640s-60s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 287
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under HeR 3 (HeR Δ 3). Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Martin.
The wounded Cupid. Song (‘Cupid as he lay among’)
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 50. Patrick, pp. 70-1.
HeR 289
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under HeR 3 (HeR Δ 3). Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Martin.
The Wounded Heart (‘Come bring your sampler, and with Art’)
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 10-11. Patrick, p. 18.
HeR 290
Copy, headed ‘To his Mistresse’, subscribed ‘Rob: Herricke’.
In: the MS described under HeR 119. c.1636.
This MS text collated in Martin.
HeR 290.5
Copy, headed ‘Sonet’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, largely in one secretary hand, written from both ends, with indexes (ff. 2r-3r, 168r-v), 168 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. Compiled by Sir John Perceval, Bt (1629-65), probably while at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Volume CXCII of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family. c.1646-9.
Other Poems by or Attributed to Herrick
Advice to a Maid (‘Love in thy youth fayre Mayde bee wise’)
First published, in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Airs (London, 1632). Martin, p. 443 (in his section ‘Not attributed to Herrick hitherto’). Not included in Patrick.
HeR 293
Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
In: the MS described under HeR 60. c.1656.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 295
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under HeR 232. c.1654-70s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 296
Copy, closely written in a minute mixed hand, untitled, on the first page of two conjugate octavo leaves probably extracted from a verse miscellany.
In: A large folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 128 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.
Presented by F. Stevens, FSA.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 298
Copy, headed ‘Sonnet’.
In: the MS described under HeR 93. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Martin.
HeR 299
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo miscellany, comprising ‘Instructions for Justices of the Peace’ in a roman hand at one end and, from the other end a collection of poems in a secretary hand, much of the MS written in double columns in oblong format, 92 leaves, in calf. c.1623-30s.
Probably compiled by two members of the Calverley family (f. 1r contains a poem headed ‘A new years giuft presented to my father and Mother by my Brother Thomas Calverly’).
Later in the library od Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9624. Owned before 1947 by N.M. Broadbent. Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 13 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 135, to Maggs.
HeR 300
Copy, headed ‘To his yonger Mrs’.
In: the MS described under HeR 124. c.1643-50s.
This MS collated in part in T.G.S. Cain, ‘The Bell/White MS: Some Unpublished Poems’, ELR, 2 (1972), 260-70 (p. 265).
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, ff. 26v-7r.
HeR 302
Copy, headed ‘In imitation of the former’, in a verse miscellany appended to a MS volume of poems by Donne.
In: the MS described under HeR 21.5. c.1630s.
A Charroll presented to Dr. Williams Bp. of Lincolne as a Newyears guift (‘Fly hence Pale Care, noe more remember’)
First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 445-6. Martin, p. 413. Patrick, pp. 74-5.
HeR 304
Copy, on one side of a single folio leaf. c.1630s.
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).
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt (erroneously cited as ‘Ashmole MS. 38’), in Martin and in Patrick.
Chorus (‘Is, is there nothing cann withstand’)
First published in Croft, Autograph Poetry (1973), I, 32.
*HeR 305
Autograph fair copy of an elegy on John Browne, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, on a single folio leaf, unsigned and subscribed ‘Trinitall halls/Exequies’, with folds and tears, possibly one of the papers originally attached to Browne's coffin, [1619].
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, in verse and prose, in various hands, including that of John Stow (1524/5-1605), London historian, 192 leaves, in 19th-century half-leather gilt.
Edited from this MS, with a facsimile, in Croft. Facsimile and transcript also in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 53. Facsimile in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), No. 16, p. 16, and in Chris Fletcher et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 2003), p. 65.
A Christmas Carroll to the Earle of WestmorLand (‘Now Christmas comes’)
First published, and attributed to Herrick, in Tom Cain, ‘Herrick's “Christmas Carol”: A New Poem, and its Implications for Patronage’, ELR, 29/1 (Winter 1999), 131-53 (pp. 134-5).
HeR 305.5
Copy, followed by [Fane's] response ‘His answære to the Caroll’ (beginning “Robin--Like Copper guilded ore”).
In: A folio volume of miscellaneous verse and prose, in Latin and English, largely in one hand, with additions in other hands, written from both ends, dates ranging from 1633 to 1649, 43 unfoliated leaves, in paper wrappers. Principally composed and copied by Mildmay Fane (1602-66), second Earl of Westmorland, politician and writer. c.1640s-50s.
This MS recorded in Gerald W. Morton, ‘Two Literary and Historical Manuscripts in the Westmorland Collection’, ELN, 26 (1988), 13-17 (pp. 13-14).
Edited from this MS in Cain, the ‘answære’ edited on pp. 135-7.
Northamptonshire Record Office, W(A) Box 6 Parcel VI, No. 1, [unnumbered pages].
The Descripcion: of a Woman (‘Whose head befringed with bescattered tresses’)
First published in Recreations for Ingenious Head-peeces (London, 1645). Hazlitt, II, 433-6. Martin, pp. 404-6. Patrick, pp. 549-51.
HeR 306
Copy in: the MS described under HeR 43 (HeR Δ 5). c.1637.
Edited in part from this MS in Patrick; collated in Martin.
HeR 307
Copy in: the MS described under HeR 5 (HeR Δ 7). c.1639 [-c.1728].
HeR 308
Copy in: the MS described under HeR 45. c.1638.
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt; edited in part in Patrick; collated in Martin.
HeR 309
Copy in: the MS described under HeR 118. c.1630s.
Edited from this MS in Martin; edited in part from this MS in Patrick.
HeR 310
Copy, subscribed ‘R: W’.
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].
Edited in part from this MS in Patrick; collated in Martin.
‘Dote not on that which may but cause thy woe’
The Eclipse (‘Vaile thou thine eyes a while my Deare’)
First published in Norman Ault, A Treasury of Unfamiliar Lyrics (London, 1938), pp. 238-9. Martin, pp. 440-1 (in his section ‘Not attributed to Herrick hitherto’). Not included in Patrick.
Elegy (‘Since, louely sweete, much like vnto a Dewe’)
First published in Martin (1956), pp. 443-4 (in his section ‘Not attributed to Herrick hitherto’). Not included in Patrick.
HeR 313
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under HeR 1 (HeR Δ 2). c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Margaret Crum, ‘An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick’, RES, NS. 11 (1960), 186-9 (p. 189).
HeR 314
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under HeR 4 (HeR Δ 4). c. late 1630s.
Edited from this MS in Martin.
HeR 315
Copy, headed ‘Elegye’, subscribed ‘finis Ro: Herrick’.
In: the MS described under HeR 54 (HeR Δ 6). c.1630s.
National Library of South Africa, Cape Town, MS Grey 7 a 29, pp. 127-8.
Epitaph on a man who had a Scold to his Wife (‘Nay, read, and spare not, Passenger’)
First published, as ‘An Epitaph on Himself’, in Thomas Jordan, Claraphil and Clarinda (London, [1650?]). Martin, p. 420. Patrick, p. 554.
HeR 316
Copy in: the MS described under HeR 119. c.1636.
Edited from this MS text in Martin and in Patrick.
The farewell (‘Sweetest Loue since wee must part’)
First published in Martin (1956), pp. 441-2 (in his section ‘Not attributed to Herrick hitherto’). Not included in Patrick.
HeR 318
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under HeR 4 (HeR Δ 4). c. late 1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
Herracke on a Kisse to his Mrs (‘Why what are lips but earth burnt read’)
First published, and attributed to Herrick, in T.G.S. Cain, ‘The Bell/White MS: Some Unpublished Poems’, ELR, 2 (1972), 260-70 (pp. 261-3).
HeR 320
Copy in: the MS described under HeR 124. c.1643-50s.
Edited from this MS, with a facsimile of f. 56v, in Cain.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, ff. 56v-7r.
HeR 321
Copy of lines 1-4, headed ‘On the Lipps’, with other verse on a single quarto leaf.
In: the MS described under HeR 304.
This MS recorded in Cain.
HeR 322
Copy of lines 1-4, headed ‘on the lips’ and here beginning ‘Why were your ffresh lips. but earth burn'd red’.
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.
This MS recorded in Cain.
‘Hide not thy love and mine shall be’
First published in Aurelian Townshend's poems and Masks, ed. E. K. Chambers (Oxford, 1912), pp. 28-32. The Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend, ed. Cedric R. Brown (Reading, 1983), pp. 34-41 (Version One, First Part, pp. 35-7; Second Part pp. 35-7; Version Two, pp. 38-41). Ascribed to Herrick in several MSS.
HeR 323.5
Copy of the second part, here beginning ‘Though hand and eyes may proue’.
In: the MS described under HeR 12. c.1640s.
This MS collated in Brown.
HeR 323.8
Copy, untitled and unascribed.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, in probably several hands over a period, one predominating, 31 leaves (plus blanks), in modern calf. Including (ff. 3v-12r), in a single hand, fourteen poems, headed ‘Verses of Madam Orindas’ and most subscribed ‘Orinda’, in relatively early versions, none dating later than 1650-51, subscribed (f. 12v) ‘thus Farr Madam Orinda’. c.1651-86.
Owned, in 1927 by Percy Dobell, and item 14 in one of his sale catalogues of poetical manuscripts.
Recorded in IELM as the Cardiff MS: PsK Δ 3. Recorded, collated and the text of three otherwise unknown poems by Philips printed in Thomas (1990); these three poems also edited in Thomas (1988), pp. 54-7. A complete microfilm of the MS is in the National Library of Wales.
HeR 324.5
Copy, headed ‘Dedicated to the La: L: B:’.
In: the MS described under HeR 43 (HeR Δ 5). c.1637.
HeR 324.8
Copy, in two hands.
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).
HeR 325
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘finis Ro: Herrick’.
In: the MS described under HeR 54 (HeR Δ 6). c.1630s.
National Library of South Africa, Cape Town, MS Grey 7 a 29, pp. 135-6.
HeR 326
Copy of the six stanzas version, untitled.
In: the MS described under HeR 71. c.1620-50.
Edited in part from this MS in Brown. Recorded in Chambers.
HeR 327
Copy of the six stanza version, headed ‘A Sonnet’.
In: the MS described under HeR 30. c.1650-9.
Partly edited from this MS in Brown. Recorded in Chambers.
HeR 327.4
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Aurelian Tounshind’.
In: the MS described under HeR 136. c.1630s-40s.
Version Two edited from this MS in Brown.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 23 (James 416), f. 42v-4v.
HeR 327.6
Copy, headed ‘Pure Simple Loue’, here beginning ‘Hide not thy Face and myne shal be’, the word ‘Face’ underlined and the word ‘Love’ written in the margin in another hand, the poem subscribed ‘Townesend’.
In: the MS described under HeR 21.5. c.1630s.
Edited from this MS in Chambers and in Brown.
HeR 327.7
Copy, headed ‘Upon a harmlesse payre of unskilfull lovers’.
In: the MS described under HeR 124. c.1643-50s.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, ff. 22r-3r.
HeR 327.8
Copy of the six-stanza version, headed ‘To his Mrs entreating her to shunn the concealemt: of her affection’.
In: the MS described under HeR 21.5. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Chambers and in Brown.
HeR 327.9
Copy, headed ‘Innocent Love’, subscribed in another hand ‘AT’.
In: the MS described under HeR 207.8. c.Late 1650s.
His Mistris to him at his farwell (‘You may vow Ile not forgett’)
First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 445. Martin, p. 414. Patrick, p. 46.
HeR 329
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under HeR 4 (HeR Δ 4). c. late 1630s.
Edited in part from this MS in Patrick. Collated in Martin.
HeR 330
Copy, subscribed ‘Ro herrick’.
In: A quarto composite volume of verse, in several hands (the 22 or 23 poems by Carew on ff. 2r-22r in a single hand), with later additions dated 1731-3 by one ‘G. Broughton’ on ff. 1r and after 44r, a reference to St John's College, Cambridge (in 1731) on f. 83v, 93 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century half black morocco. c.1630s [-1733].
‘G. Broughton’ is possibly William (‘Gulielmus’) Broughton (b.1684/5), of Trinity College, Cambridge (one of whose Latin verse compilations was copied in 1704-6 by Richard Robinson in Trinity College, Cambridge, MS 0.6.1 (James 1497). Also the name ‘Jo: Tweedy’ is inscribed several times on f. 81r. Owned before 1841 by one W. Potter.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Tweedye MS’: CwT Δ 10.
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Martin; edited in part in Patrick.
HeR 331
Copy, headed ‘A Sonnet’.
In: the MS described under HeR 30. c.1650-9.
Edited chiefly from this MS in Patrick; collated in Martin.
HeR 331.5
Copy, headed ‘Mr Herricke to his Mrs going a iourney’.
In: the MS described under HeR 127.5. c.late 1630s.
King Oberon his Cloathing (‘When the monethly horned Queene’)
First published, as ‘A Description of the King of Fayries Clothes’ and attributed to Sir Simeon Steward, in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Musarum Deliciae (London, 1656), p. 32. Attributed to Herrick in Hazlitt, II, 473-7, and in Norman K. Farmer, Jr., ‘Robert Herrick and “King Oberon's Clothing”: New Evidence for Attribution’, Yearbook of English Studies 1 (1971), 68-77. Not included in Martin or in Patrick. See also T.G.S. Cain, ‘Robert Herrick, Mildmay Fane, and Sir Simeon Steward’, ELR, 15 (1985), 312-17.
HeR 332
Copy, headed in the margin ‘Kinge Oberons apparrell’.
In: the MS described under HeR 1 (HeR Δ 2). c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Farmer.
HeR 333
Copy, headed ‘Kinge Obrons Apparell’, subscribed ‘Sr Simon Stewarde’.
In: the MS described under HeR 1 (HeR Δ 2). c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Farmer.
HeR 334
Copy, headed ‘Oberons Cloathing’, the original subscription ‘Ro: Herrick’ deleted and replaced by ‘Sr Si: Steward’.
In: the MS described under HeR 54 (HeR Δ 6). c.1630s.
National Library of South Africa, Cape Town, MS Grey 7 a 29, pp. 113-14.
HeR 335
Copy, headed ‘King Oberons Apparell’ and subscribed ‘Sr. Simmion Steward’.
In: the MS described under HeR 5 (HeR Δ 7). c.1639 [-c.1728].
HeR 336
Copy, headed ‘King Oberons Apparell’ and here ascribed to ‘Sr. Simon steward’.
In: the MS described under HeR 45. c.1638.
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, collated in Farmer.
HeR 337
Copy, headed ‘Oberon attired’.
In: the MS described under HeR 117. c.1640.
This MS collated in Farmer.
HeR 338
Copy, headed ‘The clothing of Oberon King of Fairies by Sr Simeon Steward’.
In: the MS described under HeR 179. c.1625-31.
This MS collated in Farmer.
HeR 339
Extracts, comprising twenty lines beginning at line 11 (here ‘In a Cobweb shirt most thin’), garbled with HeR 180 under the common heading ‘The Fayrie Kings diet & apparrell’.
In: the MS described under HeR 180. c.1630s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 481; recorded in Farmer.
HeR 340
Copy, headed ‘The Faerey King’, subscribed ‘Sir Simeon Steward’.
In: the MS described under HeR 214. c.1640s-60s.
This MS collated in Farmer.
HeR 341
Copy, headed ‘King Oberons Apparel’, subscribed ‘Sr Simon Stewards’.
In: the MS described under HeR 118. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Farmer.
HeR 342
Copy of an abridged version, headed ‘The ffayry King’ and here beginning ‘On a time the fayry elues’.
In: A miscellany of verse and prose, iii + 141 leaves. Compiled by Matthew Crosse, Oxford University bedell of law. c.1630s.
HeR 343
Copy, headed ‘The Fairy King’, subscribed ‘Sr Simeon Steward’.
In: the MS described under HeR 330. c.1630s [-1733].
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 476-7; collated in Farmer.
HeR 344
Copy, headed ‘The apparrelling of Oberon king of ye Fayries’.
In: the MS described under HeR 9. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Farmer.
HeR 345
Copy, headed ‘K. Oberons his Apparrell’, subscribed ‘Sr Edmond Steward’.
In: the MS described under HeR 10. c.1640s-50s.
This MS collated in Farmer.
HeR 346
Copy, headed ‘The Fayres Reuellinge’.
In: the MS described under HeR 11. c.1620s.
This MS collated in Farmer.
HeR 347
Copy, headed ‘Oberon King of the fairies by Sr Simon Stewart’. c.1630s.
In: An octavo volume of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive hands, 102 leaves (plus blanks), in half brown morocco on marbled boards. Including principally autograph poems by Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax (1661-1715), but also (ff. 72v-7v) some poems apparently in a much earlier hand.
Later owned by John Lilly, bookseller. Sotheby's, 15-25 March 1871 (Lilly sale), lot 1366.
This MS collated in Farmer.
HeR 349
Copy, subscribed ‘Ro: Herricke’.
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.
Printed from this MS in Farmer.
HeR 349.5
Copy, headed ‘Oberon Kinge of the Fairyes, his apparrell’.
In: the MS described under HeR 209.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 16-18.
HeR 350
Copy, headed ‘The kinge of ffairies Dresse’ on both sides of a single folio leaf. c.1630s.
In: A disbound collection of chiefly verse MSS, in several hands, largely folio.
Once belonging to the Newdegate family of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Hodgson's, 20-21 November 1958, lot 572.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. q. 11, No. 29.
HeR 351
Copy, headed ‘The Pharyes Clothing’ and here ascribed to ‘Sir Simion Steward’.
In: the MS described under HeR 186. c.1800.
This MS recorded in Neilson, ‘A Bundle of Ballads’, p. 114.
HeR 351.5
Copy of part of the poem, headed ‘The Fairy King's apparell’ and beginning at line 11, here ‘In a cobweb shirt more thin’.
In: A folio composite volume of Percy family poems, in various hands, in half red morocco. Early-mid-18th century.
HeR 352
Copy, headed ‘The Pharyes clothing’ and here ascribed to ‘Sr Simion Steward’.
In: the MS described under HeR 21. c.1634.
This MS collated in Farmer.
Mr Hericke his daughter's Dowrye (‘Ere I goe hence and bee noe more’)
First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 436-9. Martin, pp. 407-9. Patrick, pp. 539-42.
HeR 354
Copy, headed ‘My [The deleted] Daughters Dowry’.
In: the MS described under HeR 4 (HeR Δ 4). c. late 1630s.
Edited from this MS in Patrick. Collated in Martin.
HeR 355
Copy, headed ‘My Daughters Dowrye’, here beginning ‘'ffore I go hence, & be no more’, subscribed ‘finis Ro: Herr:’.
In: the MS described under HeR 54 (HeR Δ 6). c.1630s.
Facsimile of p. 119 in L.F. Casson, ‘The Manuscripts of the Grey Collection in Cape Town’, BC, 10 (Spring 1961), 147-55 (facing p. 153).
National Library of South Africa, Cape Town, MS Grey 7 a 29, pp. 119-21.
HeR 356
Copy, headed ‘R: Hericks daughters dowrie’.
In: the MS described under HeR 5 (HeR Δ 7). c.1639 [-c.1728].
HeR 357
Copy, headed ‘Mr Hericke his daughter's Dowrye’.
In: the MS described under HeR 45. c.1638.
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Martin; collated in Patrick.
Mr Robert Hericke his farwell vnto Poetrie (‘I have behelde two louers in a night’)
First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 439-42. Martin, pp. 410-12. Patrick, pp. 543-5.
HeR 358
Copy, headed ‘Mr Herriks farwell to Poetry’.
In: the MS described under HeR 43 (HeR Δ 5). c.1637.
This MS collated in Martin and in Patrick.
HeR 359
Copy, headed ‘R: Hericks farwell to poetry’.
In: the MS described under HeR 5 (HeR Δ 7). c.1639 [-c.1728].
HeR 360
Copy in: the MS described under HeR 45. c.1638.
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, in Martin, and in Patrick.
HeR 361
Copy, here beginning ‘Euen as yow see two lovers in a night’.
In: the MS described under HeR 118. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin and in Patrick.
HeR 362
Copy, headed ‘Herickes Farewell to Poetrie’.
In: the MS described under HeR 10. c.1640s-50s.
This MS collated in Martin and in Patrick.
The New Charon, Upon the death of Henry Lord Hastings (‘Charon, O Charon, draw thy Boat to th' shore’)
First published in Richard Brome, Lachrymae Musarum (London, 1649). Martin, pp. 416-17. Patrick, pp. 538-9.
HeR 363
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, here beginning ‘Charon oh Charon, steere thy boate vp to the shore’, on one side of a single folio leaf, the first line repeated (or else a false start) on the verso, once folded as a letter or package. c.1620s-30s.
Among the papers of the Isham family of Lamport Hall.
Of one comeinge into the Springe Garden (‘Blasted wth sighes and surrounded wth Cares’)
See DnJ 3682.
Orpheus and Pluto (‘How! not you Ghosts and Furies while I sing’)
First published in Norman Ault, A Treasury of Unfamiliar Lyrics (London, 1938), p. 135. Martin, pp. 421-2. Patrick, p. 555.
HeR 364
Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Robert Ramsay.
In: the MS described under HeR 26 (HeR Δ 1). c.1640s-60s.
Edited from this MS in Ault, in Martin, and in Patrick.
Parkinsons shade to the house of Mr Pallauicine takeing his death ill (‘Will you still lament and rayse’)
First published in Martin (1956), pp. 422-3. Patrick, p. 556.
HeR 365
Copy, subscribed ‘R: Herrick’.
In: the MS described under HeR 43 (HeR Δ 5). c.1637.
Edited from this MS in Martin and in Patrick.
HeR 366
Copy in: the MS described under HeR 5 (HeR Δ 7). c.1639 [-c.1728].
The Showre of Roses (‘My Mistris blush'de, and therewithall’)
First published, and attributed to Herrick, in Willa McClung Evans, Henry Lawes (New York, 1941), pp. 157-8. Martin, p. 440. Not included in Patrick.
HeR 367
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under HeR 3 (HeR Δ 3). Mid-17th century.
Edited from this MS in Evans and in Martin. Facsimiles in Evans, p. 159, and in Pamela J. Willetts, The Henry Lawes Manuscript (London, 1969), plate XXII.
A Song (‘Loose no time nor youth but be’)
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Martin, p. 442 (in his section ‘Not attributed to Herrick hitherto’). Not included in Patrick.
HeR 369
Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by John Wilson.
In: the MS described under HeR 26 (HeR Δ 1). c.1640s-60s.
Edited from this MS in Martin.
HeR 370
Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
In: the MS described under HeR 60. c.1656.
This MS collated in Martin.
A Sonnet (‘Ile dote noe more, nor shall mine eyes’)
First published in Martin (1956), p. 442 (in his section ‘Not attributed to Herrick hitherto’). Not included in Patrick.
HeR 371
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under HeR 4 (HeR Δ 4). c. late 1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
To a disdaynefull fayre (‘Thou maist be proud, and be thou so for me’)
First published in Norman Ault, A Treasury of Unfamiliar Lyrics (London, 1938), p. 134. Martin, p. 421. Patrick, pp. 553-4.
HeR 373
Copy of an untitled three-stanza version, ascribed to Herrick, in a musical setting by Robert Ramsey.
In: the MS described under HeR 26 (HeR Δ 1). c.1640s-60s.
Edited from this MS in Ault, in Martin, in Patrick and in Buchan, p. 102.
HeR 374
Copy of a three-stanza version, headed ‘Of a proud Mrs’.
In: the MS described under HeR 1 (HeR Δ 2). c.1630s-40s.
This MS colalted in Margaret Crum, ‘An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick’, RES, NS 11 (1960), 186-9 (p. 189).
HeR 375
Copy of the first stanza, in a musical setting by John Hilton.
In: Portion of a folio songbook compiled by John Playford (1623-86?). c.1660.
This MS collated in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Paris Conservatoire MS. Rés. 2489’, MD, 23 (1969), 117-39 (pp. 138-9).
HeR 376
Copy of the first stanza.
In: the MS described under HeR 119. c.1636.
This MS text collated in Martin and in Patrick.
HeR 377
Copy of the first stanza, in a musical setting by John Hilton, untitled.
In: the MS described under HeR 215. Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Martin and in Patrick.
HeR 377.5
Copy of an adapted version of Herrick's poem, headed ‘The patchd Song. 1636’ and beginning ‘Thou mayst be proud, & bee thou so for mee’.
In: A quarto volume of poems by Thomas Pestell (1584-1659), royal chaplain, headed ‘Perditi poëmata’, in a single neat roman hand (?autograph), 57 leaves, in paper wrappers. c.1637.
Maggs's sale catalogue No. 481 (1940?), item 1496.
Edited from this MS text in The Poems of Thomas Pestell, ed. Hannah Buchan (Oxford, 1940), pp. 59-60, and see also R.G. Howarth, ‘Attributions to Herrick’, N&Q, 203 (June 1958), 249.
HeR 377.8
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘On a proud Mrs.’, subscribed ‘Ro: Herick’. c.1620s-30s.
In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous papers, in various languages, in various hands and paper sizes, 277 leaves, in modern cloth.
Among the papers of Robert Boyle (1627-91), natural philosopher.
To a Mayd (‘Fayre Mayd, you did but cast your eyes erewhile’)
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Martin, p. 419. Patrick, p. 553.
HeR 378
Copy, subscribed ‘Rob: Herricke’.
In: the MS described under HeR 119. c.1636.
Edited from this MS text in Martin and in Patrick.
To his false Mistris (‘Whither are all her false oathes blowne’)
First published in Martin (1956), p. 420. Patrick, pp. 68-9.
HeR 381
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.
In: the MS described under HeR 3 (HeR Δ 3). Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 382
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Wheer are all ower falce Oath blowne’, in double columns.
In: the MS described under HeR 43 (HeR Δ 5). c.1637.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 383
Copy, headed ‘A complaint of his piurd Mrs’.
In: the MS described under HeR 8. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 384
Copy, headed ‘on his periur'd Mris’.
In: the MS described under HeR 71. c.1620-50.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 385
Copy, headed ‘A complaint’.
In: the MS described under HeR 74. c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 386
Copy, subscribed ‘Rob: Herricke’.
In: the MS described under HeR 119. c.1636.
Edited from this MS text in Martin and in Patrick.
HeR 387
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, untitled.
In: the MS described under HeR 215. Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 388
Copy, headed ‘On a periured Mris’.
In: the MS described under HeR 12. c.1640s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 389
Copy, headed ‘On a false Mrs’.
In: the MS described under HeR 14. c.1633.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 393
Copy, headed ‘Upon his periured Mistris’ and here beginning ‘Whether bee all her false oathes’.
In: the MS described under HeR 93. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Martin.
HeR 395
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under HeR 20. c.1630s.
This MS (erroneously cited as ‘MS 239/22’) collated in Patrick.
HeR 396
Second copy, headed ‘To his false Mistresse’.
In: the MS described under HeR 20. c.1630s.
This MS (erroneously cited as ‘MS 239/22’) collated in Patrick.
HeR 397
Copy, headed ‘Of his periur'd Mrs’.
In: the MS described under HeR 99. c.1638-42.
This MS collated in Patrick.
Upon a Cherrystone sent to the tip of the Lady Jemmonia Walgraves eare (‘Lady I intreate yow weare’)
First published in Delattre (1912), 519-21. Martin, pp. 417-18. Patrick, pp. 547-8.
HeR 401
Copy, headed in the margin ‘One a Cherrie stone sent to ye tip of mrs Jemiammas werldgraues eare one ye one side a delicate face on ye other side a deathes head’.
In: the MS described under HeR 1 (HeR Δ 2). c.1630s-40s.
HeR 402
Second copy, headed ‘On a Carued Cherrie Stone’.
In: the MS described under HeR 1 (HeR Δ 2). c.1630s-40s.
HeR 403
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Carued Cherriestone’.
In: the MS described under HeR 4 (HeR Δ 4). c. late 1630s.
Edited in part from this MS in Patrick. Collated in Martin.
HeR 404
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Carved cherrystone’, subscribed ‘finis Ro: Herrick’.
In: the MS described under HeR 54 (HeR Δ 6). c.1630s.
National Library of South Africa, Cape Town, MS Grey 7 a 29, pp. 114-15.
HeR 405
Copy, in double columns.
In: the MS described under HeR 5 (HeR Δ 7). c.1639 [-c.1728].
Facsimile of p. 7 in Sotheby's sale catalogue (hardback), 27 June 1972, lot 309, facing p. 55.
HeR 406
Copy in: the MS described under HeR 118. c.1630s.
Edited from this MS in Delattre and in Martin; edited in part from this MS in Patrick.
HeR 407
Copy, headed ‘On a Cherrie-stone having a Deaths-head on ye one side and a Gentlewomans on the other’.
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.
HeR 408
Copy, headed ‘On a cherry stone haueing a deaths head on ye one side & a Gentlewoman on ye other side’.
In: the MS described under HeR 74. c.1633 [-late 17th century].
Edited in part from this MS in Patrick; collated in Martin.
HeR 409
Copy, headed ‘On a cherry stone sent to weare in his Mrs eare, a deaths head on the one side & her face on the other’, subscribed ‘Rog: Hericke’.
In: the MS described under HeR 14. c.1633.
Edited in part from this MS in Patrick; collated in Martin.
HeR 410
Copy, headed ‘A cherry stone sent to weare in his Mris eare a deaths head on one side her owne face on ye other’.
In: the MS described under HeR 274. c.early 1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
HeR 411
Copy, headed ‘One a cherry stone haueinge a deaths head one the one side, & a gentle woman on the other’.
In: the MS described under HeR 97. c.1634.
This MS collated in Patrick.
HeR 411.5
Copy, headed ‘On a cherystone hauing the picture of death on one side and a gentlewoman on ye other’.
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.
HeR 412
Copy, headed ‘On a cherry stone haveing a deaths on the one side, and a gentlewoman on the other’.
In: the MS described under HeR 23. c.1630s.
Vpon parting (‘Goe hence away, and in thy parting know’)
First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 446-7. Martin, p. 414. Patrick, p. 552.
HeR 413
Copy, subscribed ‘R. Herrick:’.
In: the MS described under HeR 146. c.1641-9.
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, in Martin, and in Patrick.
HeR 414
Copy, subscribed ‘Ro Herrick’.
In: the MS described under HeR 280. c.1674-84.
This MS recorded in Martin.
HeR 415
Copy, in Constance Fowler's hand, untitled.
In: A quarto miscellany of recusant verse, many of the 65 poems relating to the circle of the Catholic Aston family, in three hands, 200 leaves (including five preliminary blanks, and ff. 53r-135v are blank), in contemporary leather gilt. Compiled principally by Constance Fowler (d.1664), daughter of the diplomat Walter Aston, Baron Aston of Forfar (1584-1639), of Tixall and Colton, Staffordshire, her roman hand responsible for ff. 6r, 8r-15v, 24v-34v, 46v-52v, 136r-9r, 143v-59r, and 182v-95v. The second, predominantly secretary hand, responsible for fourteen poems on ff. 7r-v, 16r-24r, and 35r-46r, is that of Constance's sister Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68). The third hand, on ff. 196r-200v, is that of Constance's brother-in-law Sir William Pershall. c.1635-50s.
William H. Robinson, sale catalogue (1925), item 472.
This volume discussed, with a complete first-line index and a facsimile of f. 25r, in Jenijoy La Belle, ‘The Huntington Aston Manuscript’, The Book Collector, 29 (Winter 1980), 542-67. See also Jenijoy La Belle, ‘A True Love's Knot: The Letters of Constance Fowler and the Poems of Herbert Aston’, JEGP, 79 (1980), 13-31. The complete volume edited in The Verse Miscellany of Constance Aston Fowler: A Diplomatic Edition, ed. Deborah Aldrich-Watson (Tempe, Arizona, 2000), with a facsimile of f. 28v on p. lxiv.
Aldrich-Watson, p. 16. This MS collated in Martin, p. 494. Discussed in Jenijoy La Belle, ‘The Huntington Aston Manuscript’, BC, 29 (Winter 1980), 542-67 (p. 555).
Letters
Letter(s)
*HeR 416
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle, subscribed by Robert's older brother Thomas, acknowledging receipt of £15 from Sir William on 1 October 1613, [September 1613]. 1613.
In: Collection of fourteen letters by Robert Herrick, all written in his student days at Cambridge, to his uncle, Sir William Herrick.
Formerly in the Leicestershire Record Office, DG 9/2422-2435. Sotheby's, 5 December 1988, lot 14 (i-xiv), with facsimile examples.
Martin, pp. 445-53. Facsimile examples also in Grosart (frontispiece); in Hazlitt, p. ix; in John Nicols, The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester, II, ii (1798), Plate CV, facing p. 613; in George Walton Scott, Robert Herrick (London, 1974), p. 93; and in Ray Rawlins, The Guinness Book of Autographs (London, 1977), p. 105. See also HeR 000.
Martin, p. 445. Sotheby's (i)
*HeR 417
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle, from St John's College, Cambridge. c.1613.
In: the MS described under HeR 416.
Martin, pp. 445-6. Sotheby's (i i), with a facsimile in the sale catalogue, p. 16.
*HeR 418
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle, from St John's College, Cambridge.
In: the MS described under HeR 416.
Martin, pp. 446-7. Sotheby's (iii).
*HeR 419
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle. c.1613.
In: the MS described under HeR 416.
Martin, p. 447. Sotheby's (iv), with a facsimile of Herrick's signature and subscription by Robert Martine acknowledging receipt from Sir William of £10.
Bodleian, MS Eng. c. 2278, Letter 4: ff. 13-14v (24245/1-2).
*HeR 420
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle [end of 1616 or beginning of 1616/7]. 1617.
In: the MS described under HeR 416.
Martin, pp. 447-8. Sotheby's (v), with a facsimiles in the sale catalogue, p. 18 and cover. Facsimiles also in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile XXIII, after p. xxiv, and in in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 170.
*HeR 421
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle, [early 1616/7]. 1617.
In: the MS described under HeR 416.
Martin, p. 448. Sotheby's (vii)
*HeR 422
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle, [March-April 1617]. 1617.
In: the MS described under HeR 416.
Martin, p. 449. Sotheby's (vii), with a facsimile of Herrick's signature and the subscription by Anthony Uphill acknowledging receipt from Sir William of £10 on 11 April 1617.
*HeR 423
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle.
In: the MS described under HeR 416.
Martin, p. 449. Sotheby's (viii).
*HeR 424
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle.
In: the MS described under HeR 416.
Martin, p. 450. Sotheby's (ix), with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue, p. 21.
Bodleian, MS Eng. c. 2278, Letter 9: ff. 29r-30v (2430/1-2).
*HeR 425
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle.
In: the MS described under HeR 416.
Martin, p. 450. Sotheby's (x).
Bodleian, MS Eng. c. 2278, Letter 10: ff. 33r-34v (2431/1-2).
*HeR 426
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle, from St John's College, Cambridge.
In: the MS described under HeR 416.
Martin, 451. Sotheby's (xi).
Bodleian, MS Eng. c. 2278, letter 11: ff. 37r-8v (2432/1-2).
*HeR 427
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle, 11 October [no year]. c.1616.
In: the MS described under HeR 416.
Martin, p. 451. Sotheby's (xii), with a facsimile in the sale catalogue, p. 22. Facsimile also in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 171.
Bodleian, MS Eng. c. 2278, Letter 12: ff. 41r-2v (2433/1-2).
*HeR 428
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle. c.1616.
In: the MS described under HeR 416.
Martin, p. 452. Sotheby's (xiii).
*HeR 429
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle, from Trinity hall, Cambridge, [c.1616]. c.1616.
In: the MS described under HeR 416.
Martin, pp. 452-3. Sotheby's (xiv), with a facsimile of Herrick's signed subscription in the sale catalogue, p. 23.
*HeR 430
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to Sir William Herrick, from St John's College, Cambridge, [c.1615-16]. c.1615-16.
Given by a proprietor of Beaumanor early in the 19th century to Lady Sitwell of Rempstone, Derbyshire, and afterwards owned by her grandson, Canon Egerton Leigh. Later in the collection of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American business man and collector. Christie's 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 256, with a facsimile in the sale catalogue, Plate 37.
Martin, p. 452 (No. XIIA), and Moorman, pp. 37-8. A facsimile is also in British Literary Autographs, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 36.
*HeR 431
Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to his uncle Sir William Herrick, undated. c.1613-16.
Alleged by Nichols to be from the collection of Miss Anne Nichols.
A facsimile in John Gough Nichols, Autographs of Royal, Noble, Learned, and Remarkable Personages conspicuous in English History (London, 1829), facing p. [93].
Documents
Document(s)
*HeR 432
The sixteen-year-old poet's indenture of apprenticeship to his uncle, on vellum, bearing the poet's earliest known signature (‘Robert Hericke’), 25 September 1607. 1607.
In: Legal and financial documents relating to Robert Herrick. Including papers signed by his father, Nicholas (d.1592), and his uncle and guardian, Sir William Herrick (1562-1653).
Edited in F.W. Moorman, Robert Herrick: A Biographical & Critical Study (London, 1910), pp. 331-2. Facsimiles in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 15 December 1988, lot 15, p. 24, and in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 169.
*HeR 433
A portion of Sir William Herrick's autograph account book, recording four payments to his nephew Robert Herrick (totalling £74 8s) between 1 September 1610 and 5 March 1612/13, the last of the payments (for £42 10s) being signed in receipt by the poet himself (‘Robert Hearick’) and the account then cancelled by his uncle with two pen strokes, 19 March 1612/13. 1613.
Among papers of the Herrick family.
Facsimile in Hofmann & Freeman's sale catalogue No. 25 (1968), item 27.
*HeR 434
A statement in Latin, in a professional secretary hand, signed by Herrick (‘Robert Hearicke’), acknowledging receipt of money from his uncle, 19 March 1612/13. 1613.
In: A double-folio-size civic register of entries, in the professional hands of clerks, with numerous signatures by others, 402 leaves (including blanks), in modern vellum.
Formerly Corporation of London Records Office, Journal 29.
A negative microfiche of this document also in London Metropolitan Archives, COL/AC/19/188. Discussed in Mark Eccles, ‘Herrick's Inheritance’, N&Q, 230 (March 1985), 74-8.
*HeR 435
A statement in Latin, in a professional secretary hand, signed by Herrick (‘Robert Hearick’), acknowledging receipt of money from his uncle, 19 March 1612/13; together with similar or related statements signed by his brothers ‘Thomas Heyrick’, ‘Nicholas Hericke’, and ‘William Hericke’, and by his sister ‘Mercie Hericke’, 19 March 1612/13. 1613.
In: A double-folio-size civic register of entries, in the professional hands of clerks, with numerous signatures by others, vi + 368 vellum leaves (plus 21 blanks), in modern vellum.
Formerly Corporation of London Records Office, Letter Book AB.
A negative microfiche of this document is also in London Metropolitan Archives, COL/AC/19/187. Discussed in Mark Eccles, ‘Herrick's Inheritance’, N&Q, 230 (March 1985), 74-8.
*HeR 436
Herrick's autograph signature (as ‘Robertus Heareck’ or ‘Hearick’, the dot on the i perhaps being accidentally extended) under the heading ‘Aula Trinitatis’ for 1616. 1616.
In: The University Subscriptions Book, 1613-38.
*HeR 437
Herrick's autograph signature (as ‘Robert Hearick’) under the heading ‘Aula Trinitatis’, also in his hand, for 1620. 1620.
In: the MS described under HeR 436.
*HeR 437.5
Herrick's signature (‘Robert Hearick’). The signature appears under a similar heading to the poet's previous entry (which in this instance is in Herrick's hand). [1620]. 1620.
In:
St John's College, Cambridge, Subscriptiones I, 1613-38, p. 79.
HeR 438
A petition by Herrick for the vicarage of ‘Deane’ (viz. Dean Prior) in Devon, entirely in professional hand, undated but with a modern pencil inscription ‘15 Mar 1628/9’ and ‘Sept 1630?’. 1629-30.
Edited in Delattre, pp. 514-15, and in Martin, p. xiv. Erroneously described as autograph in Moorman, p. 88.
*HeR 439
The last ten lines of this page written in a hand similar to Herrick's.
In: Parish Register for Dean Prior, for 1557-1738. Containing entries over these years by a large number of different parish clerks and, possibly, rectors, seven pages recording baptisms, burials and marriages between 25 March 1630 and September 1636 bearing some resemblance to Herrick's hand. 1630-6.
A few extracts edited in Delattre, pp. 516-17. A complete microfilm is in the Devon Record Office at Exeter.
Church of St George the Martyr, Dean Prior, [no shelfmark], f. 12v.
*HeR 440
This whole page, some 51 lines, written in a hand similar to Herrick's.
In: the MS described under HeR 439. 1630-6.
Church of St George the Martyr, Dean Prior, [no shelfmark], f. 13r.
*HeR 441
The first 29 lines written in a hand similar to Herrick's.
In: the MS described under HeR 439. 1630-6.
Church of St George the Martyr, Dean Prior, [no shelfmark], f. 13v.
*HeR 442
The last seventeen lines and a name inserted in line 29 written in a hand similar to Herrick's.
In: the MS described under HeR 439. 1630-6.
Church of St George the Martyr, Dean Prior, [no shelfmark], f. 37r.
*HeR 443
The whole page but for the last four lines, some 42 lines in all, written in a hand similar to Herrick's.
In: the MS described under HeR 439. 1630-6.
Church of St George the Martyr, Dean Prior, [no shelfmark], f. 37v.
*HeR 444
Line 22 onwards, some 26 lines, written in a hand similar to Herrick's.
In: the MS described under HeR 439. 1630-6.
Church of St George the Martyr, Dean Prior, [no shelfmark], f. 59r.
*HeR 445
The first two lines written in a hand similar to Herrick's.
In: the MS described under HeR 439. 1630-6.
Church of St George the Martyr, Dean Prior, [no shelfmark], f. 59v.
*HeR 446
A petition by Herrick, to the House of Lords, requesting that the revenues of his vicarage, which had been sequestered during the Commonwealth period, might be newly sequestered into the hands of the churchwardens or overseers of the poor until he could prove his title to it by law, in a professional hand and signed by Herrick (‘Robert Herrick’), 23 June 1660. In a guardbook of petitions to Parliament. 1660.
Formerly House of Lords Record Office, Main Papers, H.L., 23 June 1660.
Edited in Delattre, pp. 515-16 and in Martin, pp. xvi-xvii.
*HeR 447
A certificate of orthodoxy, in Latin, for one Edward Goswell, Herrick's signature (‘Robertus Herrick’) appearing as the first of six in support of the testament, 12 October 1661. 1661.
*HeR 448
The signature of ‘Robert Herrick Rector of Deane Prior’ on a leaf in the middle of twenty-five signatures by clerics and academics (eighth in the right-hand column), 31 August 1662. 1662.
In: Book of Subscriptions to the Act of Conformity.
*HeR 449
Herrick's signature (‘Robert Herrick Minister’), on a leaf in the Bishop's Transcripts for 1613-1811 relating to Dean Prior, the leaf, probably written shortly after 20 April 1663, containing ‘The names of those which haue beene buried since the first day of Aprill one thousand sixhundred sixtie and Two’, counter-signed by Herrick's churchwardens Thomas Mudge and Samuel Hore. 1663.
Devon Record Office, Exeter, The Bishop's Transcripts for 1613-1811.
Miscellaneous Extracts from Herrick's Poems
Extracts
HeR 450
Copy in: A large untitled folio anthology of quotations chiefly from Elizabethan and Stuart plays, alphabetically arranged under subject headings, in a single mixed hand, in double columns, 900 pages (lacking pp. 1-4, 379-80, 667-8, 715-20 and 785-8), including (pp. 893-7) an alphabetical index of some 351 titles of plays, in modern boards. This is the longest known extant version of the unpublished anthology Hesperides or The Muses Garden, by John Evans, entered in the Stationers' Register on 16 August 1655 and subsequently advertised c.1660, among works he purposed to print, by Humphrey Moseley. Another version of this work, in the same hand, dissected by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), is now distributed between Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Halliwell-Phillipps, Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare, Folger, MS V.a.75, Folger, MS V.a.79, and Folger, MS V.a.80. c.1656-66.
Formerly MS 469.2.
This MS identified in IELM, II.i (1980), p. 450. Discussed, as the ‘master draft’, with a facsimile of p. 7 on p. 381, in Hao Tianhu, ‘Hesperides, or the Muses' Garden and its Manuscript History’, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/4 (December 2009), 372-404 (the full index printed as ‘Catalogue A’ on pp. 385-94).
HeR 451
Extract, a couplet by ‘Rob Herrick’.
In: A verse miscellany. c.1674.
Owned by Henry Bracegirdle, of Merton College, Oxford, and in 1674 by one Hugh Massey.
King's College, Cambridge, Hayward Collection, H. 11. 13, f. [30r].