Verse
(1) English Poems
‘A zealous Lock-Smith dy'd of late’
Whitlock, p. 108.
HoJ 1
Copy, headed ‘Vppon A Smith’.
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.
HoJ 2
Copy, headed ‘On a Locke-smith’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in probably three hands, written from both ends, 86 leaves, in 17th-century calf. c.1648-61.
Scribbling on f. 33r rev. including the name ‘Elizabeth keech’.
HoJ 3
Copy, headed ‘on a black smith’ and here beginning ‘a zealous blacksmith died of late’.
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 Briefly discussed in Margaret Crum, ‘An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick’, RES, NS 11 (1960), 186-9.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).
HoJ 4
Copy, headed ‘On ye death of a locksmith’ and here beginning ‘Ther was a Locksmith died of late’.
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.
HoJ 5
Copy, headed ‘A Puritannical Lock Smith’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, predominantly in one hand, written from both ends, 127 leaves, in contemporary vellum, heavily soiled. Early-mid-17th century.
HoJ 6
Copy, headed ‘On a locksmith’.
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.
HoJ 7
Copy, headed ‘On a locksmith’.
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.
HoJ 8
Copy, headed ‘On a locke smith’.
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.
HoJ 9
Copy, headed ‘On a locksmith’.
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.
HoJ 10
Copy 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.
HoJ 11
Copy, headed ‘On a Lockesmith’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany (originally in two separate volumes), including eleven poems by Donne, chiefly in two hands, probably associated with the University of Oxford, 98 leaves, one of the original vellum covers now incorporated in modern red morocco. Mid-17th century.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Stephen Wellden’ and ‘Abraham Bassano’ and (f. 98r) ‘Elizabeth Weldon’. Later owned by William John Thoms (1803-85), writer, antiquary and librarian. Sotheby's, 11 February 1887 (Thoms sale), lot 1092. Also owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.4.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Welden MS’: DnJ Δ 49.
HoJ 12
Copy 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).
HoJ 13
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Lock-Smith’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, 210 pages, comprising 38 unnumbered pages and 172 numbered pages (plus four blank leaves), perhaps largely in a single predominantly secretary hand, with additions in four other hands on the unnumbered pages and pp. 167-71, including the scribbled title ‘Divers Sonnets & Poems compiled by certaine gentil Clarks and Ryme-Wrightes’, probably associated with Oxford University and the Inns of Court, in contemporary vellum. Including 14 poems by Strode (and a second copy of one poem). c.1637-51.
Inscribed (front pastedown) ‘Wakelin EeK Hering / Blows of Whitsor’, and (rear pastedown) ‘R. J. Cotton’. Formerly Folger MS 2073.4.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Cotton MS: StW Δ 20.
HoJ 14
Copy, in shorthand, headed ‘On a zealous Lock=Smith’.
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.
HoJ 15
Copy, headed ‘Vppon a Locksmith’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single mixed hand, with additions in other hands, associated with Oxford University, possibly Christ Church, 315 pages (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt. Including 11 poems by Donne, and 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett. c.1630s.
Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the ‘Curteis MS’: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, ‘Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript’, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.
HoJ 16
Copy, headed ‘Of a locke smith’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, predominantly in two very small hands (A: ff. 1r-44v; B: ff. 44v-87v), with further verse and prose pieces in other hands on ff. 88r-121r, written from both ends, associated with Oxford, possibly New College, and probably afterwards with the Inns of Court, 155 leaves (including 33 blanks), in modern black morocco elaborately gilt. Including 23 poems by Strode (and second copies of two poems) and one poem of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.
Including (ff. 98r-100r) a letter by one ‘Pet[er] Wood’. Inscribed (ff. 90r-1r), ‘Thease verses I borroed to write out of John Sherly [d. 1666] a booke seller in litle Brittaine, 28th of March 1633’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9235. Sotheby's, 21 February 1938, lot 243.
Cited in IELM II.ii (1993), as the ‘Wood MS’: StW Δ 21. Discussed in C.F. Main, ‘New Texts of John Donne’, SB, 9 (1957), 225-33.
HoJ 17
Copy, headed ‘Vppon a Puritan beeinge a lock smythe’ and here beginning ‘A zealous brother, dyed of late’.
In: A quarto formal verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary and italic hand throughout, paginated 1-162 (but lacking some leaves), in modern limp vellum. Compiled by John Cruso (fl.1595-1655), poet and military writer, who matriculated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1632. c.1630s.
Names inscribed lengthways down margins (pp. 71, 91, 95) including ‘Cuthbert Sewell Esq’, ‘Jos. Nicholson’, ‘Wm Richardson’, and ‘Somers’. Donated in 1922 by Gordon Wordsworth who claims that the volume was once owned by the poet William Wordsworth.
HoJ 18
Copy of a version headed ‘Upon a lock-smith’ and beginning ‘There was a lock-smith died of late’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Carew and one of doubtful authorship, in a single neat non-professional hand, 72 leaves (plus a later index). c.1643-50s.
Later owned by the Newcastle antiquarian collectors John Bell (1783-1864) and Robert White (1802-74).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Bell-White MS, CwT Δ 30. Described, with facsimiles of ff. 30r and 56v, in T.G.S. Cain, ‘The Bell/White MS: Some Unpublished Poems’, ELR, 2 (1972), 260-70.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, f. 41r.
HoJ 19
Copy, headed ‘on a locke smyth’.
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.
Absence (‘Absence heare my protestation’)
First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), pp. 428-9. Osborn, No. XXIV (pp. 192-3).
HoJ 20
Copy, headed ‘A Poem vpon Absence’, docketed in the margin ‘D: Dun’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 4. c.1630s.
HoJ 21
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.128 items, including 94 poems by Donne plus his Paradoxes and Problems, compiled by Henry Champernowne (1600-56), of Dartington, Devon, 243 pages, dated on the first page 1623. 1623.
Afterwards owned by other members of the Champernowne family, by Sir Edward Seymour, Bart. (?the third Baronet, 1610-85). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1030. Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) (MS 9568). Sotheby's, 6 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lot 749. Bookplate of C. S. Harris and bequeathed by him 1916.
Cited in IELM, I.i (190), as the ‘Phillipps MS’: DnJ Δ 20.
This MS collated in Grierson. Cited in Osborn.
HoJ 22
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including 50 poems by Donne, in a single neat secretary hand except for ff. 70r-2r, which are in another secretary hand. Comprising folios 57r-137v in a quarto composite volume of MSS, in various hands, 173 leaves, in 19th-century leather gilt. c.1620s.
Later owned by Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), Yorkshire antiquary and topographer. Among the collections of William Petty (1737-1805), first Marquess of Lansdowne, Lord Shelburne.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Lansdowne MS’: DnJ Δ 8). Recorded as item 133 among ‘Manuscripts in Quarto’ in the list at the end of Thoresby's Ducatus Leodensis, 2nd edition (Leeds, 1816), Appendix, p. 85.
This MS collated in Grierson. Cited in Osborn.
HoJ 23
Copy, untitled.
In: A small folio volume of 102 poems by Donne, together with a few poems by others, in a professional predominantly italic hand, the poems often subscribed with bunch-of-grapes decorations, 114 leaves (plus blanks), with an alphabetical ‘Table’ (ff. 112v-14r), in modern half-morocco on cloth boards gilt. c.1623-33.
Among the collections of Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, first Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1776-1839), of Stowe House, near Buckingham, largely derived from the collections of the antiquary Thomas Astle (1735-1803), which in turn chiefly derived from Astle's father-in-law, the Essex historian Philip Morant (1700-71). Later owned by the fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878).
Cited in IELM as ‘Stowe MS I’: DnJ Δ 15.
Edited from this MS in Grierson. Cited in Osborn.
HoJ 24
Copy, headed ‘Loue in absence’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in one or more secretary hands, with (ff. 244r-54r) a first-line index, 254 leaves, in modern half-morocco, poems on ff. 34v and 242v dated 1637. Including 91 poems and some prose works by John Donne and fourteen poems by Thomas Carew. c.1637.
Among the collections of Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (1776-1839), first Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham, largely derived from the collection of the antiquary Thomas Astle (1735-1803), which in turn chiefly derived from Astle's father-in-law, the Essex historian Philip Morant (1700-70) (see DnJ Δ 15). Later owned by Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878).
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as ‘Stowe MS II’: DnJ Δ 44 and ‘Stowe MS’: CwT Δ 22.
HoJ 25
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J. D.’
In: A folio volume of 69 poems by Donne, together with a few poems by others, in a single neat hand, 99 pages, in contemporary limp vellum. c.1620s-33.
Inscribed inside the rear cover ‘J. D. Dune Rainsford …Chiltearns’ probably by a member of the family of Sir Henry Goodyer's brother-in-law Sir Henry Rainsford (1575-1622), of Clifford Chambers, Stratford-upon-Avon. Later owned by J. Carnaby. Puttick and Simpson's, 25 November 1886, lot 334. Then owned by the Rev. T.R. O'Flahertie (d.1894), of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector, and by Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908), American professor and art historian. Formerly MS Nor 4502.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Carnaby MS’: DnJ Δ 22. Briefly discussed in C.E. Norton, ‘The Text of Donne's Poems’, [Harvard] Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, 5 (1896), 1-22 (pp. 10-11).
This MS collated in Grierson. Cited in Osborn.
HoJ 26
Copy, headed ‘Song 2d’.
In: MS copy of twenty-nine poems supposedly by Donne (only six actually by him) plus an epitaph by him, in a single hand, transcribed from the O' Flahertie MS (Harvard MS Eng 966.5), with a title-page ‘Poems on several Occasions Written by the Reverend John Donne, D.D. Late Dean of St Pauls’, 57 quarto pages, in cardboard wrappers. 19th century.
HoJ 27
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio volume of 119 poems by Donne, plus some prose works by him, in a single neat secretary hand, each poem usually ending with a trefoil or triangular group of trefoils, 536 pages, in modern calf elaborately gilt. c.1623-30s.
Like Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 5778 (DnJ Δ 4) and University of Nottingham, Pw V 37 (DnJ Δ 57), this volume was extensively used as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire. Sotheby's 10-12 June 1914, lot 1095. Then owned until 1932 by Percy J. Dobell (1871-1956), bookseller. Formerly MS Nor 4506.
Recorded in IELM as the ‘Dobell MS’: DnJ Δ 16. Discussed, with a facsimile of f. 194r (see DnJ 2104) by Mabel Potter in ‘A Seventeenth-Century Literary Critic of John Donne: The Dobell Manuscript Re-examined’, HLB, 22 (1975), 63-89, and in ‘A Letter of Tom Browne’, N&Q, ? (October 1973), 393. A facsimile of the last page (see DnJ 4011) is in Potter & Simpson, X, 428-30. The extensive MS and typescript papers on this MS by George Reuben Potter and Mabel H. Potter, donated by George R. Potter in 1962, are Harvard, MS Eng 966.4.1.
HoJ 28
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto volume of 169 poems by Donne, plus some prose works by him, together with a few poems by others, almost entirely in a single hand, with a table of contents, viiii + ‘440’ pages (plus blanks, the pagination jumping from 156 to 161 and from 339 to 400), with an alphabetical first-line index (pp. [iii-vi]), in modern calf. Mainly transcribed from Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8468 (the ‘Luttrell MS’: DnJ Δ 18), with a title-page (p. i) inscribed ‘The Poems of D.J. Donne (not yet imprinted)...finished this 12 of October 1632’. It bears corrections in two hands (one possibly the original scribe) made from the 1633 edition of Donne's Poems, many of the poems headed ‘P.’ (signifying ‘Printed’), with some annotated in red ink ‘Not Printed’. The largest known MS collection of Donne's poems and apparently used in the preparation of the second edition of the Poems (1635). [1635].
According to the compiler of the partial transcript of this MS (Harvard MS Eng 966.2), the O'Flahertie MS belonged to ‘the late Dr Parnel, Arch Deacon of Clogher’: i.e. Thomas Parnell (1679-1718), poet and essayist, ‘and after his decease to Mr. Thos: Burton of Dublin, and [was] obtained from him by the Editor.’ Sold at Puttick & Simpson's, 28 April 1856 (Francis Moore sale), lot 975. Later owned by the Rev. T.R. O'Flahertie (fl.1861-94), vicar of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector. Sotheby's, 25-27 July 1899, lot 384, to Ellis. Described in Ellis and Elvey's sale catalogue No. 93 (November 1899), the relevant pages of which are inserted in the MS. Formerly MS Nor 4504.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the ‘O'Flahertie MS’: DnJ Δ 17.
This MS collated in Grierson. Cited in Osborn.
HoJ 29
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto volume of 84 poems by Donne, plus some prose works by him, together with a few poems by others, in a single secretary hand, 343 pages, in later half purple morocco marbled boards, dated at the end (p. 343) ‘19th, Julij 1620’. 1620.
Bookplate of Thomas Stephens of the Inner Temple (perhaps the Thomas Stephens who was at the Inner Temple in 1717 or else his son, Thomas, who was there in 1725). Later owned by F.W. Cosens (1819-89), book collector; and purchased from Bernard Quaritch in 1896 by Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908), American professor and art historian. Formerly MS Nor 4500.
Cited in IELM, I.i, as the ‘Stephens MS’: DnJ Δ 23. Used extensively in The Complete Poems of John Donne, D.D., ed. Alexander B. Grosart, 2 vols (privately printed, 1872-3). Briefly discussed in C. E. Norton, ‘The Text of Donne's Poems’, [Harvard] Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, 5 (1896), 1-22 (pp. 6-10).
This MS collated in Grierson. Cited in Osborn.
HoJ 30
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘That time and absence proves’, ascribed at the top to ‘J. D.’
In: A small octavo miscellany of 76 poems by Donne, together with a few poems by others dating up to 1627, in a single italic hand, occasionally marking the end of poems with one or more quatrefoils, 102 leaves (foliation jumping from 55 to 57), gilt-edged, in 19th-century dark green leather gilt. c.late 1620s.
Inscriptions including (f. 6r) ‘Hannah Lewis Junr’; ‘Thomas Turner his Book’ (three times, ff. 8r, 14v, 48v, dated ‘1750’, ‘58’ and ‘1760’); (f. 12r) ‘Edmund Baxter att Mrs Nortons’; (ff. 20r, 59v) ‘John Jones’; (f. 40r) ‘Jon: Pryse 1729’; (f. 59v) ‘Robt. Was’[?]; and (f. 79r) ‘Edmund Baxter 1729’. Later owned by Edward Vernon Utterson (1776-1856), of Shanklin and Ryde, Isle of Wight, artist, literary antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 24 April 1852 (Utterson sale), lot 1317, sold to ‘Lelly’. Then owned by Sir John Simeon, third Baronet (1815-70), M.P. Sotheby's, 3 March 1871 (Simeon sale), lot 638, to Pickering. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 436 (1930), item 576. Formerly MS Nor 4620.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Utterson MS’: DnJ Δ 51. Discussed in Sir John Simeon, ‘Unpublished Poems of Donne’, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3. For an account of Utterson, see Raymond V. Turley, ‘Edward Vernon Utterson’, The Book Collector, 25 (1976), 21-44 (and plates after p. 48).
HoJ 31
Copy, headed ‘Against Absence’.
In: A small quarto volume of 123 poems by Donne plus some of his Paradoxes, Problems and characters, together with some poems by others, 185 leaves (including blanks on ff. 141r-61v) plus nine further blanks on ff. 185v-94v, inscribed ‘L: ll: N: 6./6’ on f. 1r and ‘Dr: Donne’ within a gilt grid on f. 3r, in contemporary vellum with initials ‘F B’ [Frances Bridgewater] in gilt and a smudged watercolour central lozenge on the upper cover. In a single, neat, predominantly roman hand (but for entries on ff. 105v-15r in a less neat cursive hand), and with various corrections or emendations throughout possibly in another hand. c.1622-32.
Once owned by Frances (née Stanley) Egerton (1583-1636), Countess of Bridgewater, and her husband John Egerton (1579-1649), first Earl of Bridgewater. Listed in ‘A Catalogue of my Ladies Bookes at London Taken October .27th 1627’ (Huntington, EL 6495) as No. 3, ‘The Lamentaons of Jeremy in verse by Dr Donne, 8o’, among ‘Paper Bookes of diverse volumes’ after the date 26 April 1631 and before a new list in a different hand under the date 17 April 1632.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Bridgewater MS’: DnJ Δ 24.
This MS collated in Grierson. Cited in Osborn.
HoJ 32
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio verse miscellany, 148 leaves (foliated 161-206), once bound (reversed) with an independent miscellany (Huntington, HM 198, Part I), rebound with this MS (in continuous form without inversion) in 1832 (by Charles Lewis). Including 59 poems by Donne (and second copies of six poems), in probably six professional secretary hands: A (ff. 1r-25v, 82r-129r); B (ff. 26r, 42v-7v, 49r-63r, 63v-79r, 130r-48r); C (ff. 27r-36v, 41r-2v; with occasional corrections possibly in hand B); D (ff. 37r-40v); E (ff. 63r-v); and F (f. 129v). c.1620-33.
Scribbling includes the name ‘Meriall Tracy’ (on f. 148v). Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary; by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary; and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library, lot 624). Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.
Recorded in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (II)’: DnJ Δ 26. Discussed in C.M. Armitage, ‘Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on “The Funerall”’, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707.
A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Betagraph of the watermark in f. 43 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks’, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 240).
HoJ 33
Copy, headed ‘A Poeme:’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, including some thirty poems by Donne, in several hands, associated with the Inns of Court, with a 19th-century title-page, ‘A Collection of Original Poetry, written about the time of Ben: Johnson, qui ob. 1637’ and erroneously annotated ‘Chiefly in the Autograph of Dr. Donne Dean of St. Paul's’.67 pages (plus index). c.1614-25.
Later owned by Sir John Simeon, third Baronet, MP (1815-70); by Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-85), first Baron Houghton, author and politician, and by his son, Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Sotheby's, 22 July 1980, lot 585, to Quaritch.
Recorded in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Monckton Milnes MS’: DnJ Δ 63. Briefly discussed in Sir John Simeon, ‘Unpublished Poems of Donne’, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3, and, with selected collations, in Grierson (II, cix et passim). A complete set of photographs of the MS is in the British Library, RP 2031.
HoJ 34
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J. H.’
In: A quarto volume of 27 poems by Donne, together with a few poems by others, in the hand of William Drummond of Hawthornden, a title-page in another 17th-century hand inscribed ‘Thirre [i.e. These] poems belonginge to Jhon Don Transcribed by William Drummond’, 40 leaves, bound with an independent notebook of Drummond's uncle, William Fowler, 96 leaves in all, in 19th-century calf gilt. c.1613?-33.
Among the collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. XV.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Hawthornden MS’: DnJ Δ 54. Drummond cites ‘Jhone Dones Lyriques’ in his autograph list of ‘Bookes red be me’ in ‘Anno 1613’ (National Library of Scotland, MS 2059, f. 366r).
This MS collated in Grierson. Cited in Osborn.
HoJ 35
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Absence heare thou my protestation’, subscribed ‘J. H.’
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, including (ff. 3r-49v) 49 poems by Donne in a single neat secretary hand, also responsible for poems by others on ff. 83r, 88r-90r, 4r-11v rev., later notes and two poems by Donne in other hands on the remaining leaves, 124 leaves, in contemporary vellum. c.1620[-76].
The later material including medical notes written c.1665-76 by Sir John Wedderburn (1599-1679), royal physician.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Wedderburn MS’: DnJ Δ 55. Discussed in Alan MacColl, ‘A New Manuscript of Donne's Poems’, RES, NS 19 (1968), 293-5.
HoJ 36
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio verse miscellany, containing 89 poems, including 43 by Donne, in several hands (ff. 21r-62r in a single accomplished secretary hand), 69 leaves, in paper wrappers. The text of the poems by Donne derived from the same source as the Lansdowne MS (British Library, Lansdowne MS 740) and related in part to the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS II (Huntington, HM 198, Part II). c.1620-5.
Formerly among the muniments of the Earl of Dalhousie (descendant of the Maule and Ramsay families), of Brechin Castle, on deposit in the Scottish Record Office [now National Archives of Scotland] (GD45/26/95/1). Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 490.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the the ‘Dalhousie MS I’: DnJ Δ 11. Complete reduced facsimile and transcription in The First and Second Dalhousie Manuscripts: Poems and Prose by John Donne and Others: A Facsimile Edition, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Columbia, 1988). Also discussed by Ernest W. Sullivan, II in ‘Donne Manuscripts: Dalhousie I’, John Donne Journal, 3/2 (1984), 204-19; in ‘“And, having done that, Thou hast done”: Locating, Acquiring, and Studying the Dalhousie Manuscripts’, in The Donne Dalhousie Discovery: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Acquisition and Study of the John Donne and Joseph Conrad Collections at Texas Tech University, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan II and David J. Murrah (Lubbock, TX, 1987), pp. 1-10; and in ‘The Renaissance Manuscript Verse Miscellany: Private Party, Private Text’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, ed. W. Speed Hill (Binghamton, 1993), pp. 289-97.
Facsimiles of f. 15v in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 13, and of f. 42r in Sotheby's sale catalogue and in Peter Beal, A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450-2000 (Oxford, 2008), p. 431, Illus. 91. A complete microfilm of the MS is in the National Archives of Scotland.
Sullivan suggests that the miscellany derives from sources preserved by members of the Earl of Essex's circle, their most likely ‘conduit’ to the Dalhousie family being John Ramsay (1580-1626), Viscount Haddington and Earl of Holderness.
HoJ 37
Copy, headed ‘A Poem’.
In: An octavo volume of poems and some prose, including 96 poems by Donne plus his Paradoxes and Problems (many ascribed to ‘J. D’), in a single neat secretary hand, 150 pages, in 17th-century calf gilt. c.1622-33.
Later owned by Major J.B. Whitmore. Hodgson's, 20-21 November 1958, lot 571, with a facsimile page in the sale catalogue.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Osborn MS’: DnJ Δ 30. For a facsimile page see DnJ 728, DnJ 1205. Complete microfilm in British Library (M/569).
HoJ 38
Copy of the last stanza, beginning ‘By absence this good mean I gain’.
In: Commonplace book of Lady Christian Kerr (b.1679), 205 folio pages. c.1716-30.
The Censure of a Parliament Fart (‘Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke’)
Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of ‘Doubtful Verses’ in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.
HoJ 39
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Downe came graue auncient Sargeant Croke’, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves. c.1620s-30s.
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).
HoJ 40
Copy, headed ‘The Parliamentall fart’ and here beginning ‘Downe came ancient Sr John Crooke’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany compiled by an Oxford University man, i i + 37 leaves, in later half-calf. c.1630s.
Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.
HoJ 41
Copy, headed ‘The Censure of the Parliamentary Fart’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in a secretary hand, vi + 221 pages, in 18th-century diced calf gilt. c.1630s.
Inscribed (f. iiir) by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector, ‘Bought at the sale of Mr. [Jonathan] Boucher's Library in April 1806, for £2. 12. 6. E Malone’.
Edited from this MS in Early Stuary Libels.
HoJ 42
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on the first two pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Early 17th century.
In: A large double-folio composite volume of literary, political and miscellaneous papers, on paper and parchment, in various hands and sizes, 339 leaves, in modern cloth.
Among papers of the North family, Barons North and Earls of Guilford, seated principally at Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire.
HoJ 43
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Fart lett in the Parliament house’, subscribed ‘Explicit Crepitus’.
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).
HoJ 45
Copy, headed ‘The Parliament fart’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, including 37 poems by Donne, in several hands, written from both ends, 279 leaves (including numerous blanks, mostly in ff. 42r-140r), with stubs of extracted leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled in part by the Oxford printer Christopher Wase (1627-90), fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Mid-17th century.
Later owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, and his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Wase MS’: DnJ Δ 39.
HoJ 46
Copy, headed ‘The Fart Sensured in the Lower howse of Parliament’ and here beginning ‘Puffing downe comes graue auncient Sr. John Crooke’.
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.
HoJ 47
Copy, headed ‘The Parliament fart’ and here beginning ‘Downe came graue auncient Sergeant Crooke’.
In: A folio composite volume of verse and some prose, in various hands, v + 179 leaves, in early 18th-century half-calf.
With a few additions in Rawlinson's hand.
HoJ 48
Copy, headed ‘The Parlement-Fart. 1607’ and here beginning ‘Down came grave ancient Serjeant Crook’.
In: An octavo book of jests and verse compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, vi + 374 pages (pp. 72-306 blank), in contemporary calf. c.1682-91.
HoJ 49
Copy, in a secretary hand, on two folio leaves, endorsed ‘The famous ffarte. 1607’.
In: A folio composite volume of verse and academic plays, in English and Latin, in various hands, 493 leaves, now in two volumes, foliated 1-250 and 251-493 respectively. Partly compiled by Archbishop Sancroft.
HoJ 51
Copy, headed ‘The Parliament fart / About this tyme was scattered and dispoesed abroad this worke[?] following compiled (as then was said) by mr John Hoskins Barraster of the midle Temple London’.
In: A folio volume of state documents, speeches and verse, 284 leaves (plus blanks), in modern calf gilt. Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 27 of the Hopkinson MSS. Chiefly transcribed from papers belonging to John Savile, Baron of Pontefract, and Edward Taylor, of Furnivall's Inn, Holborn. 1674.
Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 298.
HoJ 52
Copy, headed ‘The Parliament fart’.
In: A folio miscellany of verse and some prose, 282 pages, in calf gilt. Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 34 of the Hopkinson MSS. Mid-late 17th century.
Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 299.
HoJ 53
Copy, in Starkey's hand, headed ‘A censure of a Fart (that was lett in the Parleament howse by mr Henry Ludlowe) by a worshipfull Jurie each speaking in their order as foloweth ano:’.
In: A folio volume of state papers, tracts and verse, in professional secretary hands, predominantly that of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, and including the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 349 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco. c.1624-8.
Afterwards owned by Sir Simonds D'Ewes, Bt, MP (1602-50), diarist and antiquary. Inscribed (f. 2r) ‘G Hewett’.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 227-8 (No. 27).
HoJ 54
Copy, headed ‘The Parliament Fart’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single neat largely italic hand, 155 leaves, in modern half-morocco. c.1630.
The table of contents (f. 155v) subscribed ‘Margrett Bellasys’, possibly the daughter of Thomas Belasyse (1577-1652), first Viscount Fauconberg of Henknowle. The front endpaper later inscribed ‘The pieces which I have extracted for “The Specimens” are, Page 91, 211, 265’: i.e. possibly by Thomas Campbell (1777-1844), editor of Specimens of the British Poets first published in 1809. Afterwards owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Evans (Sotheby's), 29 February 1836 (Heber sale, Part VIII), lot 13.
HoJ 55
Copy, headed ‘On the Fart let in the Parliament house’, here beginning ‘Downe came Graue ancient Serjeant Crooke’.
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.
HoJ 55.5
Copy, untitled, in two italic hands, imperfect, lacking the ending. Early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers in verse and prose, in various hands and paper sizes, 170 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half-morocco. Including eleven poems by John Donne, three of them (ff. 10r-14v, 55r, 76r-7r) in the italic hand of his friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627); ff. 95r-8r in the same hand as the Leconfield MS (DnJ Δ 5) and constituting part of what was probably a quarto MS ‘book’ of Donne's satires; f. 132r-v constituting a set of six verse epistles by Donne, the text related to the Westmoreland MS (DnJ Δ 19). Early-mid-17th century.
From the ‘Conway Papers’ belonging chiefly to Sir Edward Conway, Baron Conway of Ragley, later Viscount Killultagh and Viscount Conway of Conway Castle (c.1564-1631), and to his son, Edward, second Viscount Conway (1594-1655). Later owned by John Wilson Croker (1780-1857), politician and writer, and presented 10 January 1860.
Cited in IELM, I.i, as the ‘Conway MS’: DnJ Δ 40. Cited as A23 by editors. Facsimile of f. 62r in Michael Roy Denbo, ‘Editing a Renaissance Commonplace Book: The Holgate Miscellany’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 65-73 (p. 71).
HoJ 56
Copy, untitled, but inscribed down the central fold ‘The Parliament Libell’ and endorsed on a blank leaf (f. 18v) ‘The farte’. Early 17th century.
In: the MS described under HoJ 55.5. Early-mid-17th century.
This MS cited in Osborn.
HoJ 57
Copy, headed ‘The parlament fart’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 6. c.1633 [-late 17th century].
HoJ 58
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio volume of miscellaneous papers, many relating to Kent, the greater part in a single secretary hand, 228 leaves, in contemporary stamped calf. Compiled for, and chiefly relating to, Francis Fane (1582-1628), first Earl of Westmorland. Early 17th century.
Christie's, 18 July 1897.
This volume recorded in HMC, 10th Report, Appendix IV (1885), pp. 4-19.
HoJ 60
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, written from both ends, 192 leaves (including blanks), in old brown calf. Compiled, over a period, principally by Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), Chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford, and Henry King's amanuensis, including (ff. 7r-61r) 24 poems by King in Manne's formal hand, written c.1625-30s; ff. 61v-72v, 73r-99v, 100r-101v written in a variant style of Manne's hand, c.1630s; and (ff. 72v, 99v, 102r-14v, 190v-169r rev.) additions in six other hands, c.1630s-44, with (ff. 75r, 76r, and 76v) three poems to which the subscription ‘R. Dorset’ is added in the hand of King himself. c.1625-46.
Inscribed (f. 190v rev.) ‘Ann Littleton’. Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue, [June 1848], p. 31. Sotheby's, 4 Februry 1850 (Rodd sale), lot 500, to James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps] (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Afterward owned by the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector. Sotheby's, 25 June 1873 (Corser sale), lot 325, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Later owned by the bookdealer Philip Robinson. Sotheby's, 26 June 1974, lot 3013, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Thomas Manne MS’: KiH Δ 7. Used in Crum. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).
HoJ 61
Copy, headed ‘Le Pet:’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including 18 poems by Donne, in several hands over a period (the predominant secretary hand on ff. 1r-35v, 45v-63r), written from both ends, 91 leaves, in later green morocco. c.1630s [-1777].
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘E Libris Richardo Glovero pharmacopol. Londinense pertinantibus’, the date ‘1638’ possibly added in a different hand. The name ‘William Allen’ on f. 77v among scribbling. Inscribed (f. 1v) by a later owner, apparently for ‘Mr Thorpe’, ‘I was informed by the bookseller of whom I bought this book; that it belonged formerly to a literary gentleman who lived in Burton Crescent and who died about six months ago. 3rd Augt. 1835’.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Glover MS’: DnJ Δ 42.
HoJ 62
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Fart let in the Parliament House’ and here beginning ‘Downe came Ancient Sr John Crooke’.
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.
HoJ 63
Copy of a 34-line version, n an italic hand, headed ‘A Censure upon a fart, let in the House of Comons, in a Parliamt towards the beginning of King James his raign, by Sr Henry Ludlow’, incomplete. c.1640s.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, parliamentary speeches, and verse, in various hands, with an alphabetical Index (ff. 1r-6v), 144 leaves, in modern mottled leather gilt.
HoJ 64
Copy of a 144-line version, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Of a ffart that was lett in the lower house of Parliamt 1607’. Early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of tracts and miscellaneous papers, in several hands, 32 leaves, in a vellum wrapper comprised of an Elizabethan indenture, within a modern quarter crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
HoJ 65
Copy, headed ‘A fart let at ye parlamt, in K. James tyme’ and here beginning ‘Downe came ancient Sr John Crooke’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and jests, in a minute hand, compiled by a Cambridge man, 59 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt. c.1630.
HoJ 66
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Down came graue auntient Sr John Crooke’.
In: An octavo commonplace book of medical materials and verses, chiefly in Latin, probably in a single secretary hand, 80 leaves, in contemporary vellum within modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Early 17th century.
This MS cited in Osborn.
HoJ 67
Copy of a 90-line version, untitled, on the first two pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of parliamentary papers, in various professional hands, 326 leaves, in modern crushed morocco.
HoJ 68
Copy, headed ‘The censure of the Parliamet fart’, subscribed ‘p Jo: Hoskines’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 24. c.1637.
HoJ 69
Copy, headed ‘Verses giuen mee of Mr St John Hoskins Composure / A censure of a fart that was lett in the Parliament howse 3o Car by a worpll Jury each speaking in their order as followeth’ and here beginning ‘Downe came graue auncient reurend Sr John Crook’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany, in English and Latin, in several hands, written from both ends, i + 74 leaves, in contemporary calf. Owned (inscription f.[ir]), and possibly partly compiled, by Sir Henry Rainsford (1599-1641), of Clifford Chambers, near Stratford-upon-Avon. c. late 1630s-40s.
Bookplate of Edward Greenfield Doggett and Hugh Greenfield Doggett, of Bristol, 1893. Later owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.
Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 15. Discussed in Peter Davidson, ‘The Notebook of Henry Rainsford’, N&Q, 229 (June 1984), 247-50.
HoJ 70
Copy, headed ‘The Parlament farte’, subscribed ‘Hoskins’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 10. c.late 1630s.
HoJ 71
Copy, in two small italic hands, headed ‘The Parliament fart’.
In: A quarto volume of verse and dramatic works, associated with Cambridge University, in several hands, a small italic hand predominating, 88 leaves, in contemporary calf, once with metal clasps. c.1620s.
Inscribed (f. [ir]) ‘Fra: Corbet’ and (f. 88v) ‘1626 Ja: Rolfe’.
HoJ 72
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the fart that was let in the Parliament house’.
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.
HoJ 73
Copy, headed ‘The Parliamt ff’, here beginning ‘Downe came Graue Srieaunt Crooke’.
In: A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in probably several neat secretary and italic hands, 194 pages. Compiled, probably at least in part, by ‘George Turner Scoolmaster’, as his name is inscribed at the end, a couplet on p. 179 reading ‘Hic liber me pertinet and beare yt well in minde / Per me Georgium Turner so curteous and kinde’. Possible contributors are members of the Bancrofte family, whom he might perhaps have tutored. c.1624-1645.
Various inscribed names (sometimes more than once): ‘Anne Bancrofte’, and ‘Mary Bancrofte’. Also, under ‘1624’, a list of names with perhaps birthdates: ‘Mary Bancrofte Ap. 28. 1611’, ‘Rich Bancrofte May 2. 1608’, ‘Elis Bancrofte Apr 27. 1614’, and ‘John Bancrofte Ap 30 1616’. A legal document in the volume, dated 4 November 1645, relates to Willesden, Kilburn and Hampstead.
Formerly Folger MS 1027.2, this MS has been missing since 1991. It can be seen only on microfilm (Film Fo 4376.8).
HoJ 74
Copy, headed ‘Verses on a fart lett by Sr Henery Ludlow at a Parliament held: 1628’ and here beginning ‘Downe came graue Serieant Crooke’.
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.
HoJ 75
Copy, headed ‘The ffart’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, closely written in possibly several minute predominantly secretary hands, 291 leaves (ff. 212-16 bound out of order after f. 24), in modern calf. c.1640s.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Joseph Hall’ (not the bishop). Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger, who has entered in pseudo-17th-century secretary script copies of various ballads on ff. 39r-41r, 107v-79r, 181r-v, 227r-8v, 243r-6r, as well as adding foliation (1-284) before the more recent foliation (1-291, used below). Quaritch's sale catalogue ‘of English Literature’ (August-November 1884), item 22350, Collier's transcript of the MS made c.1860 being item 22352. Formerly Folger MS 2071.7.
Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Giles E. Dawson, ‘John Payne Collier's Great Forgery’, SB, 24 (1971), 1-26.
HoJ 76
Copy of the first 24 lines, headed ‘The parliament fart’, here beginning ‘Downe came braue ancient Sr John Crooke’, imperfect, lacking the last part of the poem.
In: A fragment of an octavo notebook, including verses, in a single rounded hand, nine leaves. A loose paper wrapper is later inscribed ‘Verses writ in old Mr James Harris's hand’: i.e. James Harris (1605-79), of Salisbury, lawyer. c.1630.
Among papers of the Harris (Malmesbury) family.
HoJ 77
Copy, headed ‘A fart censured in the Lower house of Parliment’ and here beginning ‘Puffing doune comes graue ancient Sr John Crook’.
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).
HoJ 78
Copy, in William Pathurst's hand, headed ‘The Parliament Fart’.
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.
HoJ 79
Copy, headed ‘The Parliament ffart’, subscribed ‘Hoskins’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, written over a period in three hands (A, in alternating secretary and italic, written c.1638: ff. 1-59v; B, written c.1645: ff. 60r-9r; C, written c.1649, ff. 69v-70r), 70 leaves, in old calf. Including thirteen poems by Strode and three of doubtful authorship. c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
Later sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9569. Bookplate of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 193.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Rosenbach MS I’: CwT Δ 31 and StW Δ 23.
HoJ 80
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, 180 pages, in three secretary hands, in contemporary limp vellum. Probably compiled by a member of an Inn of Court. c.1630.
Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Formerly Rosenbach 186.
HoJ 81
Copy, headed ‘On a ffart lett in the Parliament house’, here beginning “Down came graue Ancient Sergeant Cooke”.
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].
HoJ 82
Copy, headed ‘Dr. Hoskins his Ballat’ and docketed ‘Verses on Ludloes part in ye Parliament House by Dr. Hoskins’.
In: A volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, one secretary hand predominating, with a table of contents and other additions by members of the Hervey family. c.1630[-1690].
Probably once owned by John Hervey (1665-1751), first Baron Ickworth and first Earl of Bristol, of Ickworth, near Bury St Edmunds.
Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds, 941/73/2, ff. 129v-31r.
HoJ 83
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio verse miscellany, including 15 poems by Donne, f. 162r-v in a rounded italic hand, ff. 164r-74v in a slightly erratic italic hand, ff. 175r-279v in a neat formal italic hand (also responsible for the index on ff. 2r-11v), this miscellany constituting ff. 162r-279v of a single folio volume containing also Part I (DnJ Δ 15), ii + 279 leaves in all (lacking one or more leaves at the end), in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked). c.1630s.
Formerly MS G. 2.21.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Dublin MS (II): DnJ Δ 61.
HoJ 84
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed ‘The Parlament farte’, on two pages (the second inverted) of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. Early 17th century.
HoJ 85
Copy, headed ‘The lybell of ye fart so supposed by Mr Ludlo in ye Parlem house’.
In: A quarto volume of transcripts of correspondence of John Holles (1587-1637), first Earl of Clare, and his son John (1595-1666), second Earl of Clare, with other tracts and verse, almost entirely in a single predominantly italic hand, 228 leaves (paginated 1-3, 14-238), in modern boards. Mid-17th century.
Among papers of the Cavendish-Bentinck family, Dukes of Portland, of Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire, incorporating papers of the related Holles, Harley and Cavendish families, and purchases made by J.A.C.J. Cavendish-Bentinck (1857-1943), sixth Duke of Portland.
HoJ 87
Copy, headed ‘A fart censured in the lower House of Parliamente’ and here beginning ‘Puffinge comes down, graue Auncient Sr John Crooke’.
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.
HoJ 88
Copy, headed ‘On a fart let in Parliament’ and here beginning ‘Quoth Sir Harry prole it was a bold tricke’.
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.
De quodam Nephritico. Translated thus (‘Thou diedst, ye stone broiling thy consum'd reines’)
Unpublished.
HoJ 90
Copy in: A small quarto verse anthology, in a single minute hand (but for p. 206), arranged under genre headings (‘Epitaphs’, ‘Satyricall’, ‘Love Sonnets’, etc.), probably associated with Oxford University, possibly Christ Church, 382 pages (including numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. Including 13 poems by Donne and 14 (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; the scribe is that mainly responsible also for the ‘Thomas Smyth MS’ (DnJ Δ 48). c.1630s.
Later owned and used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, who also annotated Cambridge University Library MS Add. 5778 and Harvard fMS Eng 966.4. Bookplate of N. Micklethwait. Owned in 1931 by the Rev. F.W. Glass, of Taverham Hall, near Norwich (seat in the 17th century of the Sotherton family and later of the Branthwayt and Micklethwait families).
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Welbeck MS’: DnJ Δ 57 and CoR Δ 11. Discussed in H. Harvey Wood, ‘A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others’, Essays & Studies, 16 (1931), 179-90. For Taverham Hall, see Thomas B. Norgate, A History of Taverham from Early Times to 1969 (Aylsham, 1969).
A Dreame (‘Me thought I walked in a dreame’)
Osborn, No. XXXIV (pp. 206-8). Whitlock, pp. 480-2.
A shortened version of the poem, of lines 43-68, beginning ‘the worst is tolld, the best is hidd’ and ending ‘he errd but once, once king forgiue’, was widely circulated.
HoJ 91
Copy, headed ‘Mr Hoskins his Dreame in the Tower’, on a single folio leaf of verse. c.1620s-30s.
In: the MS described under HoJ 39.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
HoJ 92
Copy, headed ‘Mr Hoskins Dreame’.
In: A small quarto colume of state papers and verse, in a closely written hand, i + 170 pages, badly affected by ink seepage. c.1620s-37.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
HoJ 93
Copy of the shortened version of lines 43-68, headed ‘Mrs Hoskins to his matie for her husband’ and beginning ‘The worst is told, the best is hid’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 92. c.1620s-37.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
HoJ 94
Copy of the short version, headed ‘Mrs Hoskins to the king’ and here beginning ‘The worst is told, the best is hid’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 4. c.1630s.
HoJ 95
Copy of the shortened version of lines 43-68, headed ‘Verses presented to ye King by Mrs. Horskins in the behalfe of her husband prisoner’ and here beginning ‘The worst is told, the best is hidd’.
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’.
Edited from this MS in Hannah, p. 121. Recorded in Osborn.
HoJ 96
Copy, headed ‘Mr. Hoskins his Dreame’ and subscribed ‘J. Hoskins’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in three or more hands, probably compiled principally by a member of New College, Oxford, 163 pages, in calf-backed marbled boards. c.1620s-30s.
The name ‘George Brown’ inscribed on p. 14. Inscribed on p. i by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector ‘Feb 13. 1790. I this day purchased this Manuscript Collection of Poems, at the sale of Mr Brander's books, at the exorbitant price of Ten Guineas. EMalone’.
This MS cited in Osborn.
HoJ 97
Copy, headed ‘Mr Hoskins his dream in the Tower. 1614’.
In: An octavo volume of transcripts of state tracts and documents in the minute hand of Robert Horn of Shropshire, two items (ff. 19-30, dated 20 January 1620/1) added by Herbert Jenks of Newhall, 104 leaves, in contemporary vellum. c.1618-30s.
HoJ 98
Copy of the shortened version, lines 43-68, headed ‘Mrs Hoskins petition to ye king, her husband being imprisoned vpon ye kings high indignation in ye tower’, here beginning ‘The worst is knowne ye best is hid’, and subscribed (mistakenly) ‘vpon ye sight of it the kinges matie: most graciously granted her suite and her husband was forth with released’.
In: A quarto volume of state tracts, in a single neat italic hand up to f. 15 (ff. 16-19 inserted and in a different hand), 19 leaves, in old vellum wrappers within modern cloth. c.1620s.
HoJ 99
Copy of a version of lines 43-68, beginning ‘the worst is tolld, the best is hidd’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 48. c.1682-91.
HoJ 100
Copy of a version of lines 43-68, headed ‘Mris Hoskins petition for her Husband’ and here beginning ‘The worst is told, ye Best is sed’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 48. c.1682-91.
HoJ 101
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Insomniu’.
In: A quarto composite volume of state papers and printed material relating to Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Essex, in various hands, ff. 3r-87r in the neat secretary hand possibly of one ‘M. K.’ whose initials appear on the title-page (f. 3r), 161 leaves, with a table of contents (ff. 4r-5v), in modern half-morocco. Collected by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian. Early 17th century-1630s.
Inscribed (f. 2r) ‘Rd Bankes Anno Dni 1708’; (f. 1r) ‘Tho: Birch Januarii 8. 1752’; and (f. 96r) ‘Tho. Birch 28. Janua: 1754’.
HoJ 102
Copy, in Starkey's hand, headed ‘Mr John Hoskins the lawier of the midle Temple, being comitted to the Tower for a speeche, spoken by him in the Parleament howse, writt this Sonnett, intituled his Dreame being presentd by his wife to the Kings matie: in ano. 1614’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 53. c.1624-8.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
HoJ 103
Copy, headed Mr‘John Hoskins bewailing his owne his wifes his Mothers and his Childrens woefull case, ye one borne ye other yet vnborne’.
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 recorded in Osborn.
HoJ 104
Copy, headed ‘Mr John Hoskins bewailinge his owne his wifes his Mothers & his childrens wofull case the one borne the-other yet vnborne 1616’.
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.
HoJ 104.5
Copy of the shortened version of lines 43-68, headed ‘Mr. Hoskins to the king sent by his wife’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several small non-professional hands, 88 leaves, imperfect at the beginning. c.1630s-40s.
Tis MS recorded in Osborn.
HoJ 105
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Mr John Hoskins of the Middle temple, Counsellor at Law, being comitted to the Tower by the king for certaine speeches vttered in the Parliament house, not long after his comittmt (wch was in the yeare of or Lord 1614.) wrote these ensuing verses wch he caused his wife to prsent to the kings Matie. entituling the same / A Dreame’, on two leaves once folded as a letter or packet. c.1620s-30s.
In: A large folio guardbook of chiefly verse MSS, in Latin, English and Greek, in various hands, at least some relating to Cambridge University, 408 leaves, in modern half-morocco.
Edited from this MS is Osborn.
HoJ 106
Copy of the six-line version, headed ‘Mrs Hoskins to his Mty for her Husband’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, including fourteen poems by Donne, almost entirely in a single hand, 33 leaves (plus six blanks), in contemporary vellum. c.1630.
Possibly associated with the Inns of Court. Later used, and annotated in the margin, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the ‘Fulman MS’: DnJ Δ 36. Formerly Bodleian MS CCC 327.
HoJ 108
Copy of the short version, headed ‘Mris Hoskins to the King in behafe of her Husband’ and here beginning ‘The worst is told, the best is hid’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 13. c.1637-51.
HoJ 109
Copy of a version of lines 43-68, here beginning ‘The worst is known, the best is hid’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, closely written in probably a single secretary hand, ii + 393 pages, in old calf. c.1620.
Inscribed (p. [i]) ‘This curious Manuscript was bought by me of Mr Muskett the Bookseller. Norwich - J. P. B.’ Unidentified Dobell sale catalogue, item 182.
HoJ 110
Copy of the shortened version of the poem, of lines 43-68, headed ‘Mrs Hoskins Petition to his Maty for her husbande’ and here beginning ‘The worst is told, the best is hidd’.
In: A folio miscellany of verse and prose on state matters, entitled Ephemeris Chirographoru quorudam Memorabiliam Succincta, 703 pages, in modern calf gilt. A formal compilation written throughout in a calligraphic hand, in black and red inks with elaborate black and coloured decorations and patterned layouts, associated with one Henry Feilde, with his inscription (p. 1) ‘No 4. Henry Feilde 1642’. c.1642.
Bookplates of Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary, and of the Rev. Charles Winn (1795-1874), of Nostell Priory, Yorkshire. Christie's, 2 July 1975, lot 229, to H.P. Kraus. Sotheby's, New York, 17 December 1992, lot 95.
Facsimile example in Sotheby's sale catalogue.
HoJ 111
Copy of the abbreviated version, headed ‘A gentlewoman for her husband in ye Tower to King James’ and here beginning ‘The most is told, the best is hid’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 18. c.1643-50s.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, f. 40r.
HoJ 112
Copy, headed ‘Verses of Mr Hoskins in the Tower’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 85. Mid-17th century.
HoJ 113
Copy of the shortened version, headed ‘Mrs hoskins petition to the kings matie: her husband. being imprisoned in the tower vpon the kings high indignation An: 1615.’, here beginning ‘The worst is knowne the best is hid’.
In: A folio miscellany of poems and state papers, in secretary hands, written from both ends, 50 leaves, in contemporary vellum. c.1620s.
Among papers of the Troyte-Bullock family, formerly of Zeals House, Mere, and probably deriving from the papers of the Chafyn family of Bulford and Chisenbury or the Reymes family of Waddon, near Dorchester.
HoJ 114
Copy of a version of lines 43-68, headed ‘Mrs Hoskins to his Mty for her Husband’ and beginning ‘The worst is tolde, ye best is hidde’.
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.
The Dying Louer (‘Some powers Regard me or my hart will burne’)
Osborn, No. XXIII (pp. 191-2).
HoJ 115
Copy, subscribed ‘J. H.’
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.
Epitaph of the parliament fart (‘Reader I was born and cried’)
HoJ 116
Copy, headed ‘On a fart in ye Parlianent.’
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).
HoJ 117
Copy, headed ‘One a fart lett in a parliament’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by the writer Robert Codrington (1602-65) of Magdalen College, Oxford, 360 pages (including stubs of extracted leaves on pp. 297-328 and blanks, plus index), in contemporary calf. Including 16 poems by Carew and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Written in three hands: i.e. A (Codrington's hand, including his own poems) on pp. 1-283, 349-55; B on pp. 284-9; and C on pp. 289-348, 356-60; dated (pp. 1-22) ‘Anno Dom: 1638’ and ‘The 30th of May. 1638’. c.1638.
Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Codrington MS’: CwT Δ 7 and StW Δ 7.
HoJ 118
Copy, headed ‘Mr Fs Epitaph’ and here beginning ‘Reader it was borne and cryd’.
In: A quarto composite volume comprising three independent MSS bound together, i + 78 leaves. The first MS a verse miscellany, in an italic hand, 29 leaves. c.1640.
HoJ 119
Copy, headed ‘The farts Epitaph in the Parliament howse’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 46. c.1630s.
HoJ 120
Copy, headed ‘On a fart lett in the Parliament house’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single stylish cursive hand, ii + 176 pages, in contemporary calf gilt bearing a V within a lozenge. c.1640s.
HoJ 121
Copy, headed ‘The Fart's Epitaph’ and here beginning ‘Reader, I was born, & cry'd’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 48. c.1682-91.
HoJ 122
Copy, headed ‘The Farts Epitaph’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 49.
Edited from this MS In Early Stuart Libels.
HoJ 124
Copy, headed ‘An epitaph vpon a fart’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 6. c.1633 [-late 17th century].
HoJ 125
Copy, headed ‘On a fart in ye Parliament house’ and here beginning ‘Reader I was borne & cri'de’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 7. Mid-17th century.
HoJ 126
Copy, headed ‘On a fart lett in the parliament house’.
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.
HoJ 127
Copy, headed ‘A fart in the Parliament’.
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.
HoJ 128
Copy 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.
HoJ 129
Copy, headed in the margin ‘Epitaph of the pliamet fart’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 24. c.1637.
Edited from this MS in Colclough, p. 377.
HoJ 130
Copy, headed ‘On a fart in the Parliament howse’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, originally written in two hands (A: ff. 1r-22r, 27v-8v; B: ff. 22r-7v, predominantly italic), with late 17th-century additions in three other hands on ff. 28v-33v, 52r and f. 34r, associated with Cambridge, 35 leaves (plus 17 blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. Including 13 poems by Randolph, plus three of doubtful authorship. Initials stamped on both covers of ‘F R’ and the inside of the cover inscribed ‘Francis Rolfe Anno dni 1637’: i.e. Francis Rolfe (1618-78), Town Clerk of [King's] Lynn, Norfolk. c.1637.
Sotheby's, 21 July 1988, lot 18.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Rolfe MS’: RnT Δ 5. Briefly described in E.S. Leedham-Green, ‘Francis Rolfe's poetical miscellany: Add.Ms 8684’, Bulletin of the Friends of Cambridge University Library, 9 (1988), 20-2. A facsimile of f. 9v in Sotheby's sale catalogue: see RnT 123, RnT 239. For the Rolfe family (whose later papers are in the Norfolk Record Office, NRS 27114, 404 x 3), see R.T. and A. Gunther, Rolfe Family Records, 2 vols (London & Aylesbury, 1914), and Veronica Berry, The Rolfe Papers: The Chronicle of a Norfolk Family 1559-1908 (Brentwood, Essex, 1979; 2nd impression 1986).
HoJ 131
Copy, headed ‘On a Fart in the Parl. House’, written lengthways down the margin by Fulman.
In: the MS described under HoJ 10. c.late 1630s.
HoJ 132
Copy, headed ‘A fart in ye Parlimt house’.
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).
HoJ 133
Copy, headed ‘On a fart in ye Parliamt house’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 11. Mid-17th century.
HoJ 134
Copy, headed ‘On a Farte lett in the Parlmt house’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 12. c.1630s[-55].
HoJ 135
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaphe on a fart in the Parliament house’.
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.
HoJ 136
Copy in: A small quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single, minute non-professional italic hand, probably someone associated with Oxford University, comprising 180 pages now all separated and mounted, interleaved, in 19th-century calf. c.late 1630s.
Later in the libraries (with bookplates) of the book collector Richard Heber (1774-1833); of the bibliographer and antiquary Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833); of the biographer and literary editor Alexander Chalmers (1759-1834); and of the antiquary Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough (his sale by Charles Sharpe in Dublin, 1 November 1842, lot 577).
HoJ 137
Copy, headed ‘On a fart in ye Parliament house’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 136. c.late 1630s.
HoJ 138
Copy, headed ‘On a Parliament Fart’.
In: A quarto miscellany of Latin and English verse and prose, in several hands, written from both ends, 57 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1719-50.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 13, f. 32v rev.
HoJ 139
Copy, headed ‘On a fart in ye parliament house’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in two hands, one mixed hand predominating, 128 pages (plus a five-page index). Inscribed, and probably compiled, by Hugh Barrow (b.1617/18), of Brasenose College, Oxford. c.1638.
Also inscribed names of George Hope, Peter Wynne and [?]Anselm Huff. Later owned by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia bookseller and scholar: Rosenbach MS 192.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), p. 20.
HoJ 140
Copy, headed ‘On the Parliament fart’.
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).
HoJ 142
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Henry King, perhaps almost entirely written over a period in a single secretary hand with slightly varying styles, 54 leaves, in limp vellum. c.1636-40s.
The name of the possible compiler ‘John Pike’ inscribed on f. 1r: i.e. possibly a member of the Pike family of Cambridge (one John Pike (d.1677) matriculating at Peterhouse in 1662).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the ‘Pike MS’: KiH Δ 12. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6), pp. 143-7.
HoJ 143
Copy, headed ‘On a fart let in the Parliament’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, compiled principally in the secretary hand of a University of Oxford man, with additions in one or more other hands, 150 pages, imperfect, disbound. c.1640.
HoJ 144
Copy, headed ‘The farts Epitaph in the parliament house’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 87. c.1639 [-c.1728].
An Ep: one a man for doyinge nothinge (‘Here lyes the man was borne and cryed’)
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Osborn, No. XII (p. 171).
HoJ 147
Copy, headed ‘Vppon an old man noted for nothing butt his Age’ and here beginning ‘Here lieth one was Borne and Cried’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 1. c.1638.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
HoJ 148
Copy, untitled but inscribed ‘Ignoti cuiusdam’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 55. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
HoJ 149
Copy, here beginning ‘He that lies heer was borne & cried’.
In: A folio composite volume of original papers of the Society of Antiquaries, in various hands, 221 leaves, in modern half-morocco on cloth boards gilt.
HoJ 150
Copy in: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 219 folios, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.
Bookplate (as ‘Shelburne’) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.
HoJ 151
Copy, here beginning ‘Here lyes a man was borne, then cryed’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 65. c.1630.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
HoJ 152
Copy of a version.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, 63 leaves, partly mounted on guards, in modern quarter-calf on marbled boards. Compiled by Henry Stanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, including George Carey, second Lord Hunsdon. c.1581-1612.
A complete transcription of this volume in Steven W. May, Henry Stanford's Anthology: An Edition of Cambridge University Library Manuscript Dd. 5.75 (New York, 1988).
This MS recorded in Osborn. May, Stanford, pp. 38-9 (No. 29).
HoJ 153
Copy, subscribed ‘per Eundem’ [i.e. Hoskyns].
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in at least seven secretary and italic hands, 118 leaves (plus some blanks), currently disbound. Possibly compiled by one or more persons connected with the Inns of Court. c.1600-1620s.
Later in the library of the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Lot 8055 in the sale of his library by Thomas King, 7 May to 16 June 1798. Probably owned afterwards by James Crossley (1800-83), author and book collector. Formerly Chetham's MS 8012.
The volume edited by Alexander B. Grosart as The Dr. Farmer Chetham MS. being a Commonplace Book in the Chetham Library, Manchester, temp. Elizabeth, James I, and Charles I, Chetham Society, vols 89 and 90 (Manchester, 1873).
Edited from this MS in Osborn.
An Epitaphe on Mr Sandes (‘Who wo'ld live in other's breath’)
HoJ 155
Copy, headed ‘On one Sands’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, ii + 65 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Entitled Miscentur seria iocis. 1647. Elegies, Exequies, Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs Satires and other Poems, a formal compilation entirely in the hand of the Yorkshire antiquary John Hopkinson (1610-80). 1647.
From the library of Cecil Brent, FSA. Sold by P.J. & A.E. Dobell, January 1938.
HoJ 157
Copy, headed ‘338 an Epitaph on One of the Name if Sandes’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, 171 leaves, with an index, imperfect at the beginning, in contemporary calf (rebacked). Compiled by Colonel Gabriel Lepipre, being the ‘4th Vol’. of his compilations. c.1748-50s.
Donated in 1938 by F.F. Madan.
HoJ 160
Copy, subscribed ‘Mr Hoskynes: medij Templi’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 153. c.1600-1620s.
Grosart, II, 181.
Epitaph On Sr Walter Pye, Attorney of the Wardes, dying on Christmas Day, in the morning (‘If Any aske, who here doth lye’)
Osborn, No. XLVI (p. 214).
HoJ 161
Copy, headed ‘Epitaph on Sr Walter Pye Atturney of ye Wards, who dyed on Christmas day’.
In: A large folio formal miscellany of verse and prose, in a single rounded hand throughout, the margins ruled in red, and with an alphabetical index (pp. 719-21), 738 pages (pp. 722-38 blank), plus 40 pages of preliminary inserted material, in contemporary elaborately tooled leather. Including thirteen poems and a mock-speech in the Marvell canon and eleven poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, compiled — in stages, probably for the most part in chronological sequence, over a period of up to fifteen years — by Sir William Haward (or Hawarde or Hayward) of Tandridge, Surrey (his signature, dated 21 January 1676/7, on p. 66). c.1667-82 [the poems by Marvell and Rochester c.1670s].
Sir William Haward was knighted in 1643, served as a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Charles I, Charles II, James II and William III, was M.P. for Bletchingley (1661-78), a Fellow of the Royal Society (1665) and a Commissioner for the Sale of Fee Farm Rents (1670 onwards); he lived sometime in Scotland Yard and was still living in 1702 (see, inter alia, W. Paley Baildon, The Hawardes of Tandridge Co. Surrey (London, 1894), pp. 23-31). John Evelyn described him as ‘a greate pretender to English antiquities &c:’. An autograph letter by him, dated 23 March 1688/9, is in the British Library (Add. MS 29563, f. 453).
Later owned by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), by his wife Frances Le Neve (signature on p. vii), by their servant Joseph Allen, who entered additional items in 1729, and by her second husband Thomas Martin (1697-1771) of Palgrave. Later in the library of the Aston family of Tixall, Staffordshire (and sold in the Tixall sale at Sotheby's, 7 November 1899, lot 430 to Bertram Dobell (1842-1914)). Afterwards owned by George Thorn-Drury (1860-1931) and sold in 1935 by P.J. Dobell.
The Marvell canon selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II and the Rochester canon selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. See also Paul Hammond, ‘The Dating of Three Poems by Rochester from the Evidence of Bodleian MS. Don. b. 8’, BLR, 11 (1982), 58-9.
Facsimile of p. 277 in POAS, I, facing p. 228 (see MaA 98).
HoJ 162
Second copy, headed ‘On Sr Walter Pye Atturney of ye Court of Wards, who died on Christmas day’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 161. c.1667-82 [the poems by Marvell and Rochester c.1670s].
HoJ 163
Copy, headed ‘Vppon Sr Walter Pye Attorney of the Court of Wards, who died in Christmasse’.
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).
This MS recorded in Osborn.
HoJ 164
Copy, in a cursive italic hands, on one side of a quarto leaf. Mid-17th century.
In: the MS described under HoJ 55.5. Early-mid-17th century.
Edited from this MS in Osborn.
HoJ 165
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘If any do aske where here doth lye’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 104. c.1620s.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
‘Here lyes the man wthoute repentaunce’
Osborn, No. IV (p. 169).
‘Here lyeth the bodie of Hugh Poache’
Osborn, No. III (p. 169).
HoJ 167
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘per eundem’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 153. c.1600-1620s.
Edited from this MS in Osborn.
‘Here the bodie of that man lyes’
Osborn, No. VIII (p. 170).
HoJ 168
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J: Hoskynes’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 153. c.1600-1620s.
Edited from this MS in Osborn.
Hoskins conualescens ad Giffordu medicinæ Doctorem et suum (‘Docte Jacoboru decimas Gifforde meorum’)
Osborn, No. XLV (p. 213).
HoJ 169
Copy, in an uneven italic hand.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several largely italic hands, closely written, 148 leaves (plus blanks), in modern quarter morocco gilt. Probably compiled by university or inns of court men. c.1620s-30s.
Edited from this MS in Osborn.
Hoskins reply (‘Euen so yr dubelet is too short in the wast’)
A single line in response to the verse ‘As at a banaquett some meates haue sweet, some soure tast’. Osborn, p. 211.
HoJ 170
Copy, headed ‘Hoskins reply’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 96. c.1620s-30s.
following verses As at a banaqett some meales haue sweet, some soure last.
Incipit Johannes Hoskins (‘Even as the waues of brainelesse butter'd fish’)
Osborn, No. XXIX (pp. 199-202), in English and Latin.
HoJ 171
Copy, headed ‘Cabalisticall verses, which by transposition of wordes, syllables, & letters make excellent sense, othrwise none in laudem Coriatti’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 96. c.1620s-30s.
This MS cited in Osborn.
HoJ 172
Copy, headed ‘Cabilisticall verses wch by transpocitio of words, letters, & syllables make excellent sence other wise none at all in laude Coriati’.
In: An octavo notebook of extracts in verse and prose, in a small untidy hand, written from both ends, 42 leaves (plus three blanks), badly worn, remains of boards and green ties. c.1640.
Includes (f. [31r rev.] a reference to ‘my brother Capstons account book after his death 1632’. Given to the library by H.L. Pink, Assistant Under-Librarian, 22 November 1948.
HoJ 173
Copy, headed in the margin ‘Nosense’ and here beginning ‘Even as the Waues of breaneles batterd fish’.
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.
HoJ 174
Copy, headed ‘John Hoskins in Coriat’. c.1620s.
In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous MSS, in various hands, 368 leaves, in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked). Folios 357r-68v comprising a portion of a quarto verse miscellany, in a neat italic hand, probably associated with the Inns of Court, c.1620s-30s.
Old pressmark F. 4. 20.
‘Loue is a foolish melancholie’
Osborn, No. XXII (p. 190).
HoJ 175
Copy, headed ‘His melancholy’, subscribed ‘Mr Hoskins’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 153. c.1600-1620s.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
HoJ 176
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J. H.’
In: the MS described under HoJ 34. c.1613?-33.
Edited from this MS in Osborn.
‘Martin is fled, Farewell my friend’
A single couplet.
HoJ 178
Copy, headed Mr. Hoskins a lawyer in the Middle Temple made these two verses of four gentlemem of the Temple (Mr. Martin Mr. Farwell Mr. Musket Mr. Warre).
In: A folio commonplace book cum letterbook, predominantly in one hand, compiled by Sir Francis Castillion (1561-1638), 241 pages (plus many blanks). c.1620s-30s.
The front pastedown inscribed ‘Thomas Hugh Markham From his Mother. Sepr 11th. 1846’ and, in pencil, ‘Darker Esqr. Gayton’.
Mr Hoskines, his own Epitaphe when he was sicke beinge fellow in New Colledge in Oxford (‘Reader I wold not haue the[e] mistake’)
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Osborn, No. X (p. 171).
Mr. Hoskins one a dull Lawyer (‘As a louse as we cracke, hath a list one his backe’)
Osborn, No. XL (p. 211).
HoJ 181
Copy, headed ‘Mr Hoskins one a dull Lawyer’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 96. c.1620s-30s.
Edited from this MS in Osborn.
Mr. Hoskins one Mr Permenter at the Chancerye in London (‘Mr Permentor stands at ye Center’)
Osborn, p. 211.
HoJ 183
Copy, headed ‘Hoskins on Mr Permenter at the Chancery in L:’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 11. Mid-17th century.
Of a Cosener (‘And was not death a lusty struggler’)
HoJ 184
Copy, subscribed ‘per eundem’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 153. c.1600-1620s.
Grosart, II, 185.
Of One yt kepte runinge Horses (‘Here lyes that man whose horse did gayne’)
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Osborn, No. XX (p. 189).
HoJ 187
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under HoJ 5. Early-mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
HoJ 188
Copy, subscribed ‘per eundem’ [i.e. Hoskyns].
In: the MS described under HoJ 153. c.1600-1620s.
Edited from this MS in Osborn.
Of Sr Tho. Gressam (‘Here lyes Gressam under the ground’)
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Osborn, No. XIII (p. 171).
HoJ 189
Copy, headed ‘230 Epitaph on a hard Drinker’ and here beginning ‘Here lyeth C. under Ground’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 157. c.1748-50s.
HoJ 190
Copy in: A transcript of two 17th-century verse MSS, the second a miscellany, 195 large quarto pages, in calf gilt. 19th century.
Once owned by F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale), in lot 136. Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
HoJ 191
Copy, headed ‘On Gresham a Drunkard’ and here beginning ‘Heere lyeth Gresham vnder ground’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 96. c.1620s-30s.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
HoJ 192
Copy, subscribed ‘per Eundem’ [i.e. Hoskyns].
In: the MS described under HoJ 153. c.1600-1620s.
Edited from this MS in Osborn.
Of Swifte (‘Here lyes Swifte that swiftlie fledd’)
Osborn, No. XI (p. 171).
HoJ 193
Copy, subscribed ‘per eundem’ [i.e. Hoskyns].
In: the MS described under HoJ 153. c.1600-1620s.
Edited from this MS in Osborn.
Of the B. of London (‘I was the first that made Christendom see’)
Osborn, No. XIX (p. 189).
HoJ 193.5
Copy, headed ‘Vppon Dr Fletcher B[...]’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 47.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
HoJ 194
Copy of a version headed Ep. Dris ffletcher Epi Londi: and beginning ‘Here lyes the first yt gaue England to see’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 54. c.1630.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
HoJ 195
Copy, headed ‘An Eph. on Dr Fletcher bishop of L: R. C:’ and here beginning ‘Here lyes the first yt gaue England her see’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 6. c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS recorded in Osborn.
HoJ 196
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on Dr flecher byshop of London’ and here beginning ‘Here lyes the first yt gaue England to see’
In: the MS described under HoJ 6. c.1633 [-late 17th century].
HoJ 197
Copy in: A folio volume of antiquarian collections, including much verse, in a single neat hand, 238 leaves, in half-morocco. In the hand of the Rev. William Cole, FSA (1714-82), antiquary (Volume XXXI of the Cole Collection). Mid-18th century.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
HoJ 198
Copy in: A folio composite volume of genealogical, historical and antiquarian tracts and papers, in various hands, 323 leaves, in modern half crushed calf on cloth boards gilt. Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works, particularly Remaines.
Names inscribed (f. 207r) ‘Bryan Tukerson’ and ‘George Wiseman’.
HoJ 199
Copy, in a professional mixed hand, headed ‘An other in Fletcheru’.
In: A folio volume of heraldic papers, in several hands, 92 leaves, in panelled mottled calf (rebacked). Compiled by, or for, William Penson (d.1637), claimant Chester Herald and Lancaster Herald. c.1620s.
HoJ 200
Copy, subscribed ‘per eundem’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 153. c.1600-1620s.
Edited from this MS in Osborn.
Of ye losse of time (‘If life be time that here is spent’)
Osborn, No. IX (p. 170).
HoJ 201
Copy, as ‘Per J: Hoskins’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 153. c.1600-1620s.
Edited from this MS in Osborn.
On a young Gentlewoman (‘Nature in this small volume was about’)
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Facetiæ (London, 1655). Osborn, No. XLIV (p. 213), ascribed to John Hoskyns.
See BrW 108.
On Dreames (‘You nimble dreames wth cob webb winges’)
Osborn, No. XXI (p. 189).
HoJ 203
Copy, headed ‘On Dreames’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany and masque, in at least three hands, written from both ends, i + 123 leaves, in contemporary calf. Mid-late 17th century.
Including (f. 1r) an anagram on Frances Pawlett. Inscribed in red ink (f. 123v) ‘Egigius Frampton hunc librum jure tenet non est mortale quod opto: 1659’: i.e. by Giles Frampton, who is perhaps responsible for some of the later poems. Also inscribed [?]‘R. N. 1663’. Some later notes in the hand of Richard Rawlinson.
HoJ 205
Copy 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.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
HoJ 206
Copy, with an additional stanza.
In: the MS described under HoJ 104. c.1620s.
This MS recorded in Osborn and the additional stanza printed, p. 284.
HoJ 207
Copy 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.
Edited from this MS in Osborn.
HoJ 209
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J: H.’
In: the MS described under HoJ 153. c.1600-1620s.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
The same in English (‘An hundred nights twice told are come & gone’)
Osborn, No. XXXIII (pp. 205-6). Whitlock, pp. 483-4.
HoJ 210
Copy in: A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous tracts and papers, in various hands, in modern red morocco gilt.
Edited from this MS in Osborn.
HoJ 211
Copy in: A large quarto volume of verse and prose, in several hands, a cursive mixed hand predominating on ff. 1r -51, 53r-8v, with a later addition dated 1694 on f. 78r, 82 leaves, in modern half green morocco. Mid-17th century.
This MS cited in Osborn.
Sr Fra: Bacon. L: Verulam. Vicount St Albons (‘Lord Verulam is very lame, the gout of go-out feeling’)
Osborn, No. XXXIX (p. 210). Whitlock, pp. 558-9.
HoJ 212
Copy, headed ‘Sr francis Bacon Lo: chan: of England deposed’ and here beginning ‘Greate Virulam is verie lame the gout of goe out feeleing’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 40. c.1630s.
HoJ 213
Copy, here beginning ‘Greate Verulm is very lame ye gout of god not feelinge’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 3. c.1630s-40s.
HoJ 214
Copy, untitled. here beginning ‘Great Verulam is very lame ye goute of go-out feeling’.
In: A duodecimo notebook of verse and prose, comprising 131 interleaves in a printed exemplum of John Sansbury's Ilium in Italiam (Oxford, 1608), in contemporary calf (rebacked), blind-stamped ‘S. S.’ on the upper cover. Owned in 1619, and probably compiled, by Simon Sloper (b.1596/7), of Magdalen Hall, Oxford. c.1620s-30s.
Bought from Parker, of Oxford, 2 April 1889, by Percy Manning and bequeathed by him in 1917.
HoJ 215
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the fall of Sr, Francis Bacon Lo. verulam & viscount St: Alban Lo: Chancellour’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 41. c.1630s.
Edited from this MS in Early Stuart Libels.
HoJ 216
Copy, dated ‘April. 1621’ and subscribed ‘Thought to be done by Mr Hoskins of Hereford’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 97. c.1618-30s.
Edited from this MS in Osborn.
HoJ 217
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under HoJ 45. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
HoJ 218
Copy of a 28-line version, headed ‘on the Lord chancellor’ and here beginning ‘Greate Verulam is verie lame, the goute of goe=out feeling’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, nearly all in a single mixed hand, 19 leaves, in a wrapper comprising a recycled vellum leaf bearing a rubricated (?)15th-century religious text in Latin. c.1630.
Among the papers of the Stanhope family, of Horsforth, near Leeds. Formerly Spencer-Stanhope MSS, Calendar No. 2795 (Bundle 10, No. 34).
HoJ 219
Copy, in the secretary hand of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, with full title, on one side of a single folio leaf. 1620s.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, in verse and prose, in various hands, including that of John Stow (1524/5-1605), London historian, 192 leaves, in 19th-century half-leather gilt.
HoJ 220
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Great verulam is very lame, the goute of go-feeling’, and subscribed ‘ffranciscan Martir’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 210.
HoJ 221
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Great Verulam is very lame, the gout of go=out feeling’, subscribed ‘ffranciscan Martir’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 211. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
HoJ 222
Copy, in a cursive italic hand, untitled, here beginning ‘Great Verulam is very lame, the Gout of go=out feeling’, subscribed ‘ffranciscan Martir’. Mid-17th century.
In: A large folio composite volume of original state letters, in various hands, iv + 488 leaves (plus blanks), in half morocco gilt.
HoJ 222.5
Copy, headed ‘verses made vpon the Lo: Chancellor Bacon’ and here beginning ‘Great Verulam is very lame, the Gowte of gold out-feeling’, among other verse on a sheaf of folio leaves (now removed to MS Gg. 4. 13*).
In: A folio volume of state tracts, speeches, and verse, closely written from both ends in a single hand, 260 pages, lacking a number of pages and some fragments (pp. 25-38, 48-64) now removed to MS Gg. 4. 13*, in quarter-calf. Mid-17th century.
HoJ 223
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Carr. l. of Somerset & Sr francis Bacon then l. keepr lord Verulam’, here beginning ‘Great Verulame is very lame the gout of toe not feeling’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 173. c.1628-30s.
Edinburgh University Library, MS H.-P. Coll. 401, f. 43rbis.
HoJ 224
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Great Verulam is very lame ye Goute or goe out feelinge’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse, state papers and parliamentary speeches, in several secretary and mixed hands, 134 leaves (plus numerous blanks), written from both ends chiefly on rectos only (Part I: ff. 1r-113r, Part II: ff. 1r-21r), disbound. c.1640s.
HoJ 225
Copy, headed ‘On ye Lord Chancelour’ and here beginning ‘Great Verulam is very lame ye gout of goout feeling’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 15. c.1630s.
HoJ 226
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, here beginning ‘Great Verulam is very lame, the, Gout, of goe out, feeling’, on one side of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet, in a file of verse MSS. c.1620s.
In: A box of unbound and unnumbered legal and miscellaneous papers.
HoJ 227
Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, untitled, here beginning ‘Great Verulam is very laime the goute of goe out feelinge’, on one side of a folio leaf. c.1620s.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 144/275.
HoJ 228
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untited, here beginning Greate Verulame is very lame ye goute of gorout feeling, on the fourth page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1620s.
In: A bundle of unbound poems and songs, in various hands and paper sizes.
Among the papers of the Sanford family. Formerly DD/SF C/2635, Box 1 and DD/SF 4516.
HoJ 229
Copy, headed ‘On ye fall of Sr Francis Bacon L. Chancellour, and of his Followers’, here beginning ‘Great Verulam is very lame, the Gout of Goe-out feeling’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 90. c.1630s.
Sir Henry Wotton, and Serjeant Hoskins, riding on the way (‘Noble, lovely, vertuous Creature’)
First published in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (London, 1651), p. 517. Osborn, pp. 211-12.
HoJ 230
Copy, headed ‘Verses extempore betweene Sir. H. Wotton & Mr. Hoskins, as they rode together from Oxford to London. ye theame a mistris’.
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.
Song vppon a bellowes mender (‘Here lyes Tom short ye king of good fellowes’)
Osborn, No. VI (p. 170).
See DaJ 125-152.5.
To his Son Benedict Hoskins (‘Sweet Benedict whilst thou art younge’)
Osborn, No. XXXI (p. 203).
HoJ 231
Copy, untitled, on a single folio leaf of verse. c.1620s-30s.
In: the MS described under HoJ 39.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
HoJ 232
Copy, the two Latin verses first, headed ‘Mr Hoskins to his Sonne’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 96. c.1620s-30s.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
HoJ 233
Copy, following the two Latin verses.
In: the MS described under HoJ 97. c.1618-30s.
This MS cited in Osborn.
HoJ 234
Copy by Aubrey of a version beginning ‘My little Ben, whilst thou art young’ and including the two Latin verses.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous, genealogical and heraldic papers, in various hands, including John Aubrey, and on various sizes of paper, 126 leaves, in modern half-calf.
Chiefly from the collection of Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary.
This MS cited in Osborn.
HoJ 235
Copy, headed ‘Hoskins (imprison'd) to his Sonne’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 43.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
HoJ 236
Copy, headed ‘Hoskins in the Tower to his little sonne Beniamen’ and here beginning ‘My little Ben nowe thou art yonge’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 45. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
HoJ 237
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Ad Beniaminu filium’ and here beginning ‘Sweete Beniamin, whilest thowe art younge’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 101. Early 17th century-1630s.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
HoJ 238
Copy, headed ‘Hosckins in the Tower to his little son Beniamin’, here beginning ‘My little Ben, now yu art young’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 54. c.1630.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
HoJ 239
Copy, headed ‘Ad filiolum Suum Beniamin’, the English preceded by the Latin version beginning ‘Dum pueres vant ne seiq incomoda vocis’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 103. c.1620s-30s.
This MS cited in Osborn.
HoJ 240
Copy of the Latin version, headed ‘Ad filiolum suum Beniamin’, followed by the English version which is untitled.
In: the MS described under HoJ 104. c.1620s.
This MS cited in Osborn.
HoJ 241
Copy, headed ‘Johnson to his sonne Benn’ and here beginning ‘Sweet Beniamin while thou art younge’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 106. c.1630.
HoJ 242
Copy in: the MS described under HoJ 10. c.late 1630s.
HoJ 243
Copy, following the Latin version, which is headed ‘Mr: Hoskins to his sonne’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 11. Mid-17th century.
HoJ 244
Copy, headed ‘Mr Hoskins in the Tower to his Son’ and here beginning ‘My little Ben, while thou art young’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 13. c.1637-51.
HoJ 245
Copy, headed ‘Mr Hoskins to his sonne’ and here beginning ‘My little sonne whilst thou art yong’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves (including blanks), in old calf gilt. c.1640.
Formerly MS 2073.3.
HoJ 246
Copy, headed ‘Mr Hoskins to his sonne’ and here beginning ‘Sonne Baniamin while thou art yong’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 30. c.late 1620s.
HoJ 248
Copy in: A folio leaf of verse (on one side), in an italic hand, endorsed ‘Verses made by Sergeant Hoskins’, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1634.
Among papers of the Griffith family of Carreglwyd, Anglesey, including papers of John Griffith of Gray's Inn, private secretary to Henry Howard (1540-1614), Earl of Northampton.
Edited from this MS in Osborn
HoJ 249
Copy, headed ‘Mr Hoskins in the Tower to his Sonne’, here beginning ‘My little Ben whilst thou art yong’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 90. c.1630s.
HoJ 250
Copy of a version headed ‘Ben: Johnson to his Sonne Ben’ and beginning ‘Sweet Beniamin, while thou art young’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 114. c.1650.
Vppon on of the Mayds of Honor to Queen Elizabeth (‘Here lies, the lord haue Mercie vppon hur!’)
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 349. Osborn, No. VII (p. 170).
HoJ 251
Copy, headed ‘Vppon on of the Mayds of Honor to Queen Elizabeth’, subscribed ‘Sergt Hoskins’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 1. c.1638.
Edited from this MS in Osborn.
HoJ 252
Copy, headed ‘On a Young Noble Gentlewoman’ and here beginning ‘Here lies ye Lord have mercy upon her’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 4. c.1630s.
HoJ 253
Copy, under a general heading ‘Epitaphes’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 45. Mid-17th century.
HoJ 254
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Heare lyeth Lord haue mercie vppon her!’
In: the MS described under HoJ 47.
HoJ 255
Copy, in the hand of William Camden, headed ‘Vpon one Margarett Radcliffe I found theise Verses’, written along the length of a margin.
In: the MS described under HoJ 149.
HoJ 256
Copy, in Sir John Davies's hand, introduced as ‘the newest pleasant Epitaph that I know’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 149.
Vpon the birth of the Prince (‘While at the Altar of St Pauls ye King’)
See HoJ 296-303.
‘Whosoever is contented’
See HoJ 260-270.
(2) Latin Poems
Ad chutum & sharpum (‘Chute meæ infoelix consors et Acute ruinæ’)
Osborn, No. XXX (pp. 202-3)
Ad has reliquias illustrissimi amicissimique Richardi Martini, Recordatoris Londinens., qui fato concessit ulto Octob. 1618 (‘Tu liber æternæ complectens verba salutis’)
Clark, II, 48. Osborn, No. XXXVI (p. 209)
HoJ 259
Copy by Aubrey, recording that these veses were written in the bible of Richard Martin.
In: the MS described under HoJ 234.
Edited from this MS in Aubrey's ‘Brief Lives’, ed. Andrew Clark, 2 vols (Oxford, 1898), II, 48; thence in Osborn.
Convivium philosophicum (‘Quilibet si sit contentus’)
Osborn, No. XXVIII (pp. 196-9), with an English version (beginning ‘Whosoever is contented’), on pp. 288-91.
HoJ 260
Copy, imperfect, half of the second leaf torn away.
In: A folio volume of poems, in a single accomplished hand, 61 leaves (plus stubs of fifteen extracted leaves), imperfect, in quarter-vellum. Including 49 pems by Thomas Carew and one of doubtful authorship. c.1640s.
Later owned by F. Wyburd who, according to W.C. Hazlitt (1870, p. xv), ‘obtained it about three years ago of a dealer at Knightsbridge’. Owned c.1927 by P.J. Dobell, who sold it in 1936.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Wyburd MS’: CwT Δ 3. Reduced facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969). Briefly discussed in Evelyn M. Simpson, ‘Two Manuscripts of Donne's Paradoxes and Problems’, RES, 3 (1927), 129-45 (pp. 131-3).
HoJ 260.5
Copy in: A large folio miscellany of English and Welsh poems, in occasionally alternating black and red ink, 61 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Compiled by Richard Roberts, Justice of the Peace. c.1628.
Sold by P.J. Dobell in 1936.
HoJ 261
Copy, in double columns.
In: the MS described under HoJ 45. Mid-17th century.
This MS cited in Osborn.
HoJ 262
Copy, as ‘autore doctore Rodolpho Colfabio Æneonasensi’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, 49 leaves; in contemporary calf gilt. Including 14 poems by Carew; the main text (ff. 1r-27r) in a non-professional mixed hand of the 1630s (but for later scribbling); the remaining leaves filled by later hands; notes on family history from 1647 to 1664 on ff. 28r-9r. c.1630s[-75].
Inscribed on f. 29v ‘John Peverell Booke 1674’ and his name also on ff. 1r and 49r. Fol. 48v containing a receipt dated 30 June 1653 ‘by me Francis Blackitt of bro. William of Hoodcroft, Co. Durham’. Other names inside the front cover including ‘John Peves’ and ‘Railphe Hogwood’ and, inside the back cover, ‘James Portington’, ‘William Steadman 1675’, ‘Thomas Meeres’, ‘William Diton’ and ‘Ramond Swift’.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Peverell MS’: CwT Δ 9.
HoJ 263
Copy, in a small italic hand, in double columns, as ‘Autore Rodulpho Golfabio’, subscribed ‘Joh. Reinoles’. c.1640s.
In: the MS described under HoJ 63.
HoJ 264
Copy in: the MS described under HoJ 69. c. late 1630s-40s.
HoJ 265
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, in double columns, followed by other Latin verse and a play in English. Early 17th century.
In: A quarto composite volume of verse and dramatic works, in various hands, 200 leaves, each of the fifteen items now bound separately in modern boards.
Sotheby's, 19 March 1930, lot 450.
HoJ 267
Copy, in an italic hand, headed ‘Conuiuium (a) Philosophicum tent in Clausi Terminv michis in crastino festi sti egidij in Campis Authore Dno Radulpho Colphabio: Æneo-nasensi’, followed by a list of the revellers, on both sides of a single folio leaf, endorsed ‘Latin Rimes of Tom Corriat’. Early 17th century.
In: A folio guard-book of independent Jacobean state papers, stamped foliation 1-188.
This MS cited in Osborn.
HoJ 268
Early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands. c.1612-20.
In collections of the Manners family, Dukes of Rutland.
Recorded (erroneously as Volume XXIV) in HMC, 12th Report, Appendix V, Rutland II (1889), pp. 316-31.
The Duke of Rutland, Belvoir Castle, Letters & Papers, Verses, Vol. XXV, f. 27r.
HoJ 269
Copy, in double columns, endorsed in another hand (p. [4]) ‘Latine verses made at A Philosophicall Banquet’.
In: A pair of conjugate folio leaves of verse, in a secretary hand, in a bundle of unbound miscellaneous papers. c.1620s.
Among papers of the related Trevelyan and Willoughby families
HoJ 270
Copy in: 17th century.
Recorded in 1898 as being at Lincoln College, Oxford.
Edited from this MS in Aubrey's ‘Brief Lives’, ed. Andrew Clark, 2 vols (Oxford, 1898), II, 50-3.
De quodam Nephritico (‘Occidis exesos renes torrente lapillo’)
Unpublished.
[Epitaph on Anne, Countess of Oxford] (‘Anna soror soror Anna suæ charissima Elisæ’)
Osborn, No. XVI (pp. 184-8).
HoJ 272
Copy, in a fine italic hand (the same hand as in HoJ 00).
In: A composite folio volume of antiquarian and state papers, by Camden and others, in various hands, 197 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Largely comprising notes and materials either written by Camden or used by him for his various works. c.1580s-90s.
HoJ 273
A fair copy, in a fine italic hand, probably the formal copy delivered to the Cecil family, headed ‘Anna Vera vxor Eduardi Veri Comitis Oxoniæ, filia Guil. Burghlæi summi Angliæ Quæ storis, mulier pietate, prudentia patientia, publicitia & in Coniuge amore singulari, principi, parentibus, fratribus & vniuersæ Aulæ regiæ admodu chara. Obijt in Aula regia Greenwici Tres filias superstitus reliquit’, subscribed ‘V. M. Pergaman / Joh. Hoskins’, on four folio leaves, among other elegies and funereal verses on Anne Cecil.
In: the MS described under HoJ 150.
Edited from this MS in Osborn.
Epitaph on Benedicta Hoskyns (‘Hic Benedicta jacet, de qua maledicere nemo’)
First published in Clark, I, 424. First stanza of Osborn, No. XLII (p. 212).
HoJ 274
Copy by Aubrey, headed ‘The Serjeant's Epitaph on his Wife at Bowe-church-Heriff’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 234.
Edited from this MS in Clark, I, 424. Cited in Osborn.
‘Hic jacet Egremundus Rarus’
Clark, I, 424. Osborn, No. V (p. 169).
HoJ 275
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph made vpon Egrimond Thyn by Sriant Hoskins’ and here beginning ‘Hic iacet Egrimontanus’, on one side of a half-folio leaf of verse. Early-mid-17th century.
In: the MS described under HoJ 39.
HoJ 276
Copy, ascribed by Aubrey to ‘Serjeant Hoskins’.
In: A folio composite autograph manuscript of the third part of Brief Lives by John Aubrey (1626-97), 106 leaves of various sizes, in half-calf. 1681.
Edited from this MS in Clark and in Osborn.
In eundem Audoenum (‘Non expers salis ambulator audi’)
Osborn, No. XXXVIII (p. 210).
HoJ 277
Copy, in an uneven italic hand, headed ‘In eundem Audoenum Joh. Hoskins’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 169. c.1620s-30s.
Edited from this MS in Osborn.
In Syllabam Cos; in Pentecost Dom. in Schola Wintoniensi (‘Dic mihi Semesas Lipsi serutate figuras’)
Osborn, No. II (pp. 168-9).
HoJ 278
Copy, subscribed ‘Hosequinus’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 55. c.1630s.
Edited from this MS in Osborn.
HoJ 279
Copy, with additional verses and endorsed ‘Mr. Hoskins' verses’, sent on 1 December 1598 to ‘Mr Percivall...at the house of...Sir Robert Cecill’ by a Mr Warwicke of Winton.
This MS cited, and additional verses edited, in Osborn, pp. 280-1.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 204/43.
Jacobo Magnæ Britanniæ Regi Maximo, Clementissimo (‘Jam mihi bis centum fluxere in carcere noctes’)
Osborn, No. XXXII (pp. 203-4).
HoJ 280
Copy, in an italic hand, subscribed in a different hand ‘presented (it seemes) a New-yeares Gift & Petition to the King’ and, in yet another hand, ‘These verses were made by Mr Hoskins Counsellor of Law, when he was a Prisoner’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 43.
This MS cited in Osborn.
HoJ 281
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Jo: Hoskyns / Ad Regem’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 101. Early 17th century-1630s.
This MS cited in Osborn.
HoJ 282
Copy, headed ‘John Hoskins Newyeares gift to the Kings Matie:’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 210.
This MS cited in Osborn.
HoJ 283
Copy, headed ‘John Hoskins new=yeares-gift to the Kings Maty:’, subscribed ‘J: H:’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 211. Mid-17th century.
This MS cited in Osborn.
*HoJ 284
A formal copy, in an accomplished italic hand, signed by Hoskyns himself (‘J: Hoskyns’), on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter and evidently presented to James I.
In: A folio composite volume principally of original letters to King James VI ‘from Learnid Men & Staitsmen’, in various hands and paper sizes, 110 leaves, in modern quarter red morocco on marbled boards. Vol. XX of the Denmilne Papers, collected by Sir James Balfour, first Baronet (1600-57), of Denmilne and Kinncaird, Lyon King of Arms and antiquary.
HoJ 285
Copy, in an italic hand, subscribed in an expansive cursive style ‘J Hoskins’, on two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘Verses to k James by J Hoskins’, once folded as a letter or packet. Early 17th century.
HoJ 286
Copy, headed ‘J. Hoskins incarceratus / Jacobo M. Britanniæ Regi Opt: Max:’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 90. c.1630s.
Mr Hoskins wrott in the windowe when he came out of the Tower (‘Sic luo, sic merui; sed quod meruique luoque’)
Osborn, No. XXXV (p. 208).
HoJ 287
Copy, headed ‘Mr Hoskins wrott in the windowe when he came out of the Tower’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 96. c.1620s-30s.
Edited from this MS in Osborn.
HoJ 289
Copy, headed ‘Traditus in custodia Ao: dni 1614 12o Jacobi. Re 8o die Juij’, subscribed ‘J. Hoskins Liberatus 8 die Junij 1615 13 Ja: Re’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 248. c.1634.
This MS cited in Osborn.
‘Nobilis innocuos transegit Bournius annos’
First published in Clark, I, 424. Osborn, second stanza of No. XLII (p. 212)
HoJ 290
Copy by Aubrey, headed ‘On Mr Bourne his sonne-in-law: by him’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 234.
Clark's edition of Aubrey cited in Osborn.
To his Son Benedict Hoskins (‘Dum Puer es, vanæ nesisque incomoda Linguæ’)
Cp To his Son Benedict Hoskins: HoJ 231-250.
‘Undecies senos exegi strenuus annos’
The Latin poem followed by an ‘Englished’ version, beginning ‘Years sixty six, I have with vigour Past’. Osborn, No. XLVIII (pp. 214-15).
HoJ 291
Copy by Aubrey.
In: the MS described under HoJ 234.
Edited from this MS in Osborn and in Clark, I, 417.
HoJ 292
Copy, with an introductory note about ‘ye ingenious Mr. Jon. Hoskyns’ and as verses ‘drawn 6 years before he dy'd’.
In: A quarto notebook, closely written in a single cursive hand, 108 leaves, in modern quarter morocco on cloth gilt. Compiled by Thomas Rawlins, of Pophills, nearWixford, Warwickshire. c.1730s.
HoJ 294
Copy of both Latin and English versions, headed ‘Verse composed by Serjeant Hoskyns. 1632 or 1633’
In: Owned by Henry Hornyold-Strickland, Sizergh Castle.
Recorded in Osborn, p. 296.
Sizergh Castle, Collection of papers of John Hoskyns, Verses.
HoJ 295
Copy of both Latin and English versions, headed ‘Verse composed by Serjeant Hoskyns. 1632 or 1633’.
In: A collection of papers of Sir John Harington (1560-12) and his family. Late 16th-early 17th century.
Owned by Sir John's descendants Henry Harington (1686-1769) and Dr Henry Harington (1727-1816).
These manuscripts edited in Nugae Antiquae (first published in two volumes, London, 1769); various editions, expanded to 2 vols, ed. Henry Harington [and Thomas Park], London, 1804.
Among the papers of Hoskyns owned in 1937 by Henry Hornyold-Strickland.
Vpon the birth of the Prince (‘Cum Rex Paulinas accessit gratus ad aras’)
The Latin poem followed by the English version, beginning ‘While at the Alter of St Pauls ye King’. Osborn, No. XLVII (p. 214).
HoJ 296
Headed ‘Vpon the birth of the Said Prince’. The Latin poem followed by the English version, beginning ‘While at the Alter of St Pauls ye King’. Osborn, No. XLVII (p. 214).
In: the MS described under HoJ 43.
Edited from this MS in Osborn.
HoJ 297
Copy of a Latin and an English version, the former headed ‘30o: May 1630’, here beginning (correctly) ‘Dum Rex Paulinas accessit Gratus ad Aras’, subscribed ‘Ser: Hoskins; Med: Temp’; the latter headed ‘In English thus’, and here beginning ‘Where as or gratefull king went to Paules shrine’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 46. c.1630s.
This MS cited in Osborn.
HoJ 298
Copy of both Latin and English versions, headed ‘Certaine verses sent from Serjeant Hotchkins to one Mr Hyrne of Bramford who then preached at Pauls crosse, on that day the King came thither to offer up his oblation at the altar for the birth of his sonne’, inscribed in the margin ‘Mar: 30 Ano: 1630’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 55. c.1630s.
This MS cited in Osborn.
HoJ 299
Copy of the English version only, headed ‘On the Princes birth’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 6. c.1633 [-late 17th century].
HoJ 300
Copy of the Latin version only, introduced ‘...Serjeant Hoskins after sermon sent the Preacher [“Mr Herne Vicar of Henly”] these verses’.
In: A folio volume of genealogies, in a single secretary hand, with an Index (ff. 2r-7r) and two leaves tipped-in at the end, 277 leaves, in modern calf gilt. Late 17th century.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Jacobus Locke apprentice de la Ley in Grayes Inn dedit mihi chartaceum hoc amoris erga me...20o: July...Ani: 1642 / Ita Testor Robert Appleton’. Also inscribed (f. 1r) by Wanley ‘Bought of Mr Noel. 7 July 1716’.
This MS cited in Osborn.
HoJ 301
Copy, in a mixed hand, untitled, here beginning ‘Du Rex Paulinas accedit gratus ad Aras’, subscribed ‘Joh: Hoskins’, the second of two poems on one side of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed in a cursive hand ‘6o Junij 1630 / A coppie of verses made by Dr. Sharpe & Sergeant Hoskins upon ye appearance of a starr that day in ye sermontyme at Poules [?church] ye Kinges matie: beinge present at the byrth of ye prince’. c.1630.
Among papers of the Griffith family of Carreglwyd, Anglesey, including papers of John Griffith of Gray's Inn, private secretary to Henry Howard (1540-1614), Earl of Northampton.
HoJ 302
Copy 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).
HoJ 303
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Dum Rex Paulinas...’, subscribed ‘S: H’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 302. c.1630s.
Verses at Morehampton (‘Grates ades quisquis descendis, amicus et hospes:’)
Osborn, No. XLIII (pp. 212-13). Clark, I, 419.
(3) Poems of Doubtful Authorship
An Anima sit ex traduce (‘What is the soule of man? or where created’)
Ascribed to Hoskyns in one MS source.
HoJ 305
Copy, ascribed to ‘Hoskins’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 79. c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
Censure (‘Down came graue Sir John Crooke And read his message out of Booke’)
Cited, but unprinted (as ‘probably the result of collaboration’), as No. III of ‘Doubtful Verses’ in Osborn, p. 300.
See The Censure of a Parliament Fart, HoJ 39-89.
‘He that hath heard a princes Secrecy’
Osborn, p. 302.
HoJ 307
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J: H:’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 211. Mid-17th century.
Edited from this MS in Osborn.
Impossibilities (‘Embrace a Sun-beame, and on it’)
Osborn, p. 299.
HoJ 308
Copy 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 recorded in Osborn.
HoJ 309
Copy 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.
Edited from this MS in Osborn.
John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob (‘Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet wthstood’)
Osborn, p. 301.
HoJ 310
Copy, in double columns, headed ‘Mr Poldens delight of N: Coll: Oxf:’ and here beginning ‘O loue whose force & might’, in a quarto booklet of verse (ff. 136r-45v).
In: the MS described under HoJ 39.
HoJ 311
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany of c.150 poems, in several hands; associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 279 pages (plus index and blanks). Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 32 poems (plus four of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1630s-40s.
Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 1044. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9561. Sotheby's, 19 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 628, and 21 March 1895, lot 903. Hodgson's, 23 April 1959, lot 528.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘English Poetry MS’: CoR Δ 3 and StW Δ 6.
HoJ 313
Copy, headed ‘Mr <deleted> delight of <deleted> in Oxford’ and here beginning ‘O loue whose force & might / Noe power euer wthstode’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 96. c.1620s-30s.
HoJ 314
Copy, in double columns, headed ‘Mr Lawson of St. John's Colledge his verses to his mistrisse’, followed by ‘Her answere’ (beginning ‘Yor letters I receiv'd’).
In: the MS described under HoJ 43.
HoJ 315
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several hands, written from both ends, 84 leaves, in contemporary calf. Probably compiled principally by an Oxford University man. c.1630s-40s.
Names inscribed on rear flyleaf and paste-down ‘Elizabeth hosman’ and ‘William Blois’.
HoJ 316
Copy, headed ‘A songe’ and here beginning ‘O Loue whose force & might’.
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.
HoJ 317
Copy, headed ‘Carelesse Affection’ and here beginning ‘O loue whose force and might’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 47.
This MS cited in Osborn.
HoJ 318
Copy, headed ‘A song’ and here beginning ‘Oh love whose force & might’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 98 pages (plus some blanks), in reversed calf (rebacked). c.1620s-30s.
Inscribed (f. ir) by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), the date ‘1741’ added.
HoJ 319
Copy, headed ‘Drollery’ and here beginning ‘Oh Loue, whose force & might’, the seventh stanza deleted.
In: the MS described under HoJ 163. c.1640s [and later].
HoJ 320
Copy, in the margins on ff. 50v, 59r-65r of a 15th-century MS on parchment of Petrarch's Quatuor invectivarum libri. Mid-17th century.
Inscribed names of Sampson Walker (f. 2v) and Roger and Richard Martin.
HoJ 321
Copy, headed ‘Juuenis delicantem quandam ancillam illudens’ and here beginning ‘O Loue whose forces might none euer yet withstood’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 55. c.1630s.
HoJ 322
Copy, headed ‘Exprience & examples dailie proue that my man can be well aduised & loue’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and some prose, in one or possibly two hands, in varying secretary and italic scripts, 107 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Compiled by someone probably connected with the Royal Court. c.1605.
Owned in 1845 by James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps] (1820-89), with his inscription ‘of Andrews Bristol 1845 at the enormous Price of 6.6.0’. Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 189.
This MS cited in Osborn.
HoJ 323
Copy, headed John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob, followed (f. 71r) by The Lady Jacobs Answer beginning ‘Yor letter I receiu'd bedeckt wth florishinge quarters’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 104. c.1620s.
HoJ 324
Copy (words only), headed ‘A letter from a louer to his beloued’, here beginning ‘O Loue whose power & might none yet withstood’, followed (f. 82r) by ‘Her answeare’.
In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics largely in a single italic hand, with (ff. 4v-5r) a table of contents, 84 leaves, in 19th-century red morocco gilt. Inscribed (f. 3v), evidently by the compiler, ‘Giles Earle his booke 1615’ (with other notes dated 1610) and (f. 1v) ‘Egidius Earle hunc librum possidet qui compactus fuit mense Septembris. 1626.’, f. 81r subscribed ‘Anno Dni: 1623 / Mense Augusti: Finis’. c.1615-26.
Acquired from Joseph Lilly, bookseller, 17 May 1862.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).
This MS cited in Osborn.
HoJ 325
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, chiefly (ff. 1r-14r) in a single small mixed hand, i + 15 leaves, the eighth and last item in a composite volume of otherwise printed amatory poems and pamphlets, in 19th-century quarter brown calf. c.1620s.
The volume inscribed (on flyleaves) ‘E Bedford’, ‘W Monteagle’, ‘Fra: Goodwin’, ‘Edw nedwarde’.
The MS poems here edited in Frederick J. Furnivall, Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted New York, 1977).
Furnivall, pp. 7-9.
HoJ 326
Copy, headed ‘To his mistriss’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 172. c.1640.
Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 7196, ff. [19v-20r rev.].
HoJ 327
Copy, headed ‘A gearinge fellow to his scornefull loue’ and here beginning ‘O loue whose force & might’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 10. c.late 1630s.
HoJ 328
Copy, headed ‘Dr. Dun to his mrs yt scorn'd him’ and here beginning ‘O love whose force & might’.
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.
HoJ 329
Copy, headed ‘Mr. Poulden's delight of N: Coll. in Oxon’[i.e. ascribed to Robert Polden, who matriculated at New College, Oxford, 14 October 1597], here beginning ‘O Loue whose force & might’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 11. Mid-17th century.
HoJ 330
Copy, headed ‘In Loves contempt’ and here beginning ‘O Love whose force and might’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 16. c.1630s.
HoJ 331
Copy, in Constance Fowler's hand.
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. 139.
HoJ 332
Copy, in double columns, headed ‘A Clownes Loue letter’.
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.
HoJ 333
Copy, in double columns, headed in the margin ‘Love’, here beginning ‘Love whose powr & might’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 33. c.1614-25.
HoJ 336
Copy, headed ‘Mr Poldens delight of New Coll: Oxon’, here beginning ‘O loue whose force & might’, with a verse-for-verse reply in a second column on each page.
In: the MS described under HoJ 81. c.1630.
HoJ 337
Copy, headed ‘To his mistress’, followed by an answer.
In: the MS described under HoJ 37. c.1622-33.
Of one yt had stolne much out of Seneca (‘Put of thy buskins Sophocles ye greate’)
First published in Henry Parrot, Laquei ridiculosi: Or Springes for Woodcocks (London, 1613), p. 163. Osborn, pp. 299-300.
See DaJ 77-78.
Prose
Directions for Speech and Style
First published, as Directions for Speech and Style by John Hoskins, ed. Hoyt H. Hudson (Princeton, 1935). Osborn (1937), pp. 114-66.
HoJ 339
Copy, in a professional hand, with a title-page, on 23 folio leaves, in early 18th-century half-calf. c.1630s.
This MS selectively collated in Osborn.
HoJ 340
Copy, in one professional secretary hand, 28 folio leaves, in marbled boards. c.1620s.
Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 217, to Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller.
HoJ 341
Copy of the first part of the work, lacking a title-page and imperfect at the end. c.1620s.
In: A folio volume comprising two tracts, in a professional secretary hand, i + 83 leaves, bound with Harley MS 1298, an independent MS of Memoirs of Sir Henry Wotton when ambassador in Italy and Holland, in worn half calf on marbled boards.
This MS collated in Hudson edition (pp. 103-7). Selectively collated in Osborn.
HoJ 342
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page, ascribed to ‘Jo: Hoskins’, on 28 folio leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt. c.1630.
Inscribed in red pencil (f. 1*r)‘D. M. Dan: Manwaring's Booke. Ao. Domini MDCXXX’.
Edited from this MS in Hudson edition and in Osborn, with a facsimile of f. 7r facing p. 125. Facsimiles of f. 7r also in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 181, and in DLB, vol. 281, British Rhetoricians and Logicians 1500-1660. Second Series, ed. Edward A. Malone (Detroit, 2003), p. 158.
Dramatic Works and Speeches
Fustian Speech
Hoskyns's ‘Fustian Speech’, or ‘Tuftaffeta Speech’, features in the Middle Temple's Christmas season revels Le Prince d'Amour alias Noctes Templariæ, the Christmas Revels of the Middle Temple in 1597-8. The entertainment was first published, as written by Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, as Le Prince d'Amour, or The Prince of Love (london, 1660), Hoskyns's speech on pp. 37-40. Hoyt, pp. 108-13. Osborn, pp. 98-102. Whitlock, pp. 121-3.
HoJ 342.5
Copy of the speech, headed ‘Refused to answer at extempore being importuned by ye prince and Sr Walter Rawlegh: Began’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 95. c.1625-31.
This MS collated in Osborn, pp. 258-9.
HoJ 343
Copy, headed ‘Refused to answer at extempore beinge importuned by ye Prince & Sr Walter Raleigh began’, subscribed ‘Jo: Has: his Tuffe:’.
In: the MS described under HoJ 104. c.1620s.
This MS cited in Hudson.
HoJ 344
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘John Hoskins’.
In: A quarto commonplace book of notes and extracts, closely written in a small mixed hand, from both ends, 146 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary limp vellum. Compiled possibly by one Thomas Parsons, whose name is subscribed to a letter on f. 92v. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Hudson.
Speech in the House of Commons, 2 April 1628
Speech, beginning (in a brief summary) ‘That knowing our own rights we might be better enabled to give...’.
HoJ 345
Copy of a brief summary.
In: An unbound collection of papers largely relating to parliamentary proceedings, in various hands, 108 generally folio leaves.
Volume CCCCLXXXV of the Evelyn Papers.
HoJ 346
Copy of a brief summary.
In: A folio volume of speeches and proceedings in Parliament 1627-29, in several professional hands, 380 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1630.
Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, dated 1701.
HoJ 347
Copy of a six-line summary.
In: A folio volume of speeches in Parliament 1627/8-1638, in a single professional hand, 163 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum. c.1630.
Phillipps MS 20758. Donated by William Appleton Coolidge.
HoJ 348
Copy of a seven-line summary, ascribed to ‘Serieaunt Hoskins’.
In: A folio volume of parliamentary debates in 1627/8-9, in several professional secretary hands, 351 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt, with traces of ties.
Bookplate of the Earl of Aylesford, Packington, Warwickshire. Bernard Halliday, Leicester, sale catalogue 1930, item 568.
John Rylands University Library of Manchester, English MS 522, f. 76r.
HoJ 349
Copy of a seven-line summary, ascribed to ‘Serieant Hoskins’.
In: A folio journal of the House of Commons from 17 March 1627/8 to 26 June 1628, in a single professional secretary hand, including (ff. 420r-9r) a ‘Table’ of contents, 429 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt with traces of ties. c.1630.
Among the Braye Manuscripts, descending from John Browne (1608-91), Clerk of the Parliaments, whose daughter, Martha, married Sir Roger Cave, Bt, of Stanford Hall, Rugby, seat of successive Lords Braye.
HoJ 350
Copy of a four-line summary, in a mixed hand, ascribed to ‘Sergeant Hoskins’, with other speeches, on two quarto leaves, in modern half-morocco marbled boards. c.1630.
Speech in the House of Commons, 1 May 1628
Speech (14 lines), beginning ‘I am against a Remonstrance...’.
HoJ 351
Copy, fourteen lines, ascribed to ‘Serieant Hoskins’.
In: A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings, 17 May 1627/8 to 26 June 1628, in several professional predominantly secretary hands, 660 leaves, in half brown morocco. c.1630.
Presented by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), American financier and collector.
Speech in the House of Commons, 6 May 1628
Speech, beginning ‘The question is not what we have now more then before...’.
HoJ 353
Copy of an eight-line summary, ascribed to ‘Seriant Hoskins’.
In: A folio volume comprising proceedings and speeches in Parliament, 17 March to 22 May 1628, in two or more professional mixed hands, 201 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Mid-17th century.
Bookplate of John Holles (1662-1711), Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, politician.
Tuftaffeta Speech
See Fustian Speech: HoJ 342.5-344.
Letters
Letter(s)
*HoJ 354
Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, from the Middle Temple, London, 13 November 1601 1601.
In: the MS described under HoJ 294.
Osborn, No. I, pp. 63-4. Whitlock, pp. 172-3.
Sizergh Castle, Collection of papers of John Hoskyns, [Letter 1].
*HoJ 355
Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, [25 March 1609]. 1609.
In: the MS described under HoJ 294.
Osborn No. II, pp. 64-5.
Sizergh Castle, Collection of papers of John Hoskyns, [Letter 2].
*HoJ 356
Copy of a note by Hoskyns giving instructions to his steward William Taylor, docketed by Taylor, undated, [c.1606-11?]. c.1606-11.
In: the MS described under HoJ 294.
Osborn No. III, pp. 65-7.
Sizergh Castle, Collection of papers of John Hoskyns, [Letter 3].
*HoJ 357
Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 1 August 1611. 1611.
In: the MS described under HoJ 294.
Osborn No. IV, pp. 67-8.
Sizergh Castle, Collection of papers of John Hoskyns, [Letter 4].
*HoJ 358
Autograph letter signed (with initials), to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, written on the back of a letter sent to him by John Clarke dated 14 October 1611. 1611.
Whitlock, pp. 402-4.
*HoJ 359
Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 6 November 1611. 1611.
In: the MS described under HoJ 294.
Osborn No. V, pp. 68-9. Whitlock, pp. 405-6
Sizergh Castle, Collection of papers of John Hoskyns, [Letter 5].
*HoJ 360
Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, from the Tower, 23 November 1614. 1614.
In: the MS described under HoJ 294.
Osborn No. VI, p. 70. Whitlock, pp. 478-9.
Sizergh Castle, Collection of papers of John Hoskyns, [Letter 6].
*HoJ 361
Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 2 March 1614/15. 1615.
In: the MS described under HoJ 294.
Osborn No. VII, pp. 70-2, with a facsimile of the first page opposite p. 70.
Sizergh Castle, Collection of papers of John Hoskyns, [Letter 7].
*HoJ 362
Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 14 October 1615. 1615.
In: the MS described under HoJ 294.
Osborn No. VIII, pp. 72-3.
Sizergh Castle, Collection of papers of John Hoskyns, [Letter 8].
*HoJ 363
Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 27-28 October 1615. 1615.
In: the MS described under HoJ 294.
Osborn No. IX, pp. 73-5. Whitlock, pp. 502-3, 567 n. 17.
Sizergh Castle, Collection of papers of John Hoskyns, [Letter 9].
*HoJ 364
Autograph letter signed (‘J Hoskyns’), to Lord Cranfield, 2 March [1616/17]. 1617.
*HoJ 365
Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 6 June 1617. 1617.
In: the MS described under HoJ 294.
Osborn No. X, pp. 75-6. Whitlock, pp. 517-18.
Sizergh Castle, Collection of papers of John Hoskyns, [Letter 10].
*HoJ 366
Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 29 June 1617. 1617.
In: the MS described under HoJ 294.
Osborn No. XI, pp. 76-7.
Sizergh Castle, Collection of papers of John Hoskyns, [Letter 11].
*HoJ 367
Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 16 October 1617. 1617.
In: the MS described under HoJ 294.
Osborn No. XII, p. 77. Whitlock, pp. 520-1.
Sizergh Castle, Collection of papers of John Hoskyns, [Letter 12].
*HoJ 368
Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 30 October 1617. 1617.
In: the MS described under HoJ 294.
Osborn No. XIII, p. 78.
Sizergh Castle, Collection of papers of John Hoskyns, [Letter 13].
*HoJ 369
Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 11 November 1617. 1617.
In: the MS described under HoJ 294.
Osborn No. XIV, pp. 78-9.
Sizergh Castle, Collection of papers of John Hoskyns, [Letter 14].
*HoJ 370
Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 6 February 1617/18. 1618.
In: the MS described under HoJ 294.
Osborn No. XV, pp. 79-81. Whitlock, pp. 526-8.
Sizergh Castle, Collection of papers of John Hoskyns, [Letter 15].
*HoJ 371
Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, from the Middle Temple, London, 8 May 1618. 1618.
In: the MS described under HoJ 294.
Osborn No. XVI, p. 82.
Sizergh Castle, Collection of papers of John Hoskyns, [Letter 16].
*HoJ 372
Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 19 May 1618. 1618.
In: the MS described under HoJ 294.
Osborn No. XVII, pp. 82-3.
Sizergh Castle, Collection of papers of John Hoskyns, [Letter 17.
*HoJ 373
Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 23 May 1618. 1618.
In: the MS described under HoJ 294.
Osborn No. XVIII, p. 83.
Sizergh Castle, Collection of papers of John Hoskyns, [Letter 18].
*HoJ 374
Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 24 October 1618. 1618.
In: the MS described under HoJ 294.
Osborn No. XIX, pp. 83-4.
Sizergh Castle, Collection of papers of John Hoskyns, [Letter 19].
*HoJ 375
Autograph letter signed (‘J Hoskyns’), to Lord Cranfield, from Hereford, 15 March 1618[/19]. 1619.
*HoJ 376
Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 3 February 1620/1. 1621.
In: the MS described under HoJ 294.
Osborn No. XXI, p. 87. Whitlock, pp. 555-6.
Sizergh Castle, Collection of papers of John Hoskyns, [Letter 20].
*HoJ 377
Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 12 May 1621. 1621.
In: the MS described under HoJ 294.
Osborn No. XXII, p. 88.
Sizergh Castle, Collection of papers of John Hoskyns, [Letter 21].
*HoJ 378
Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 5 June 1621. 1621.
In: the MS described under HoJ 294.
Osborn No. XXIII, pp. 88-9.
Sizergh Castle, Collection of papers of John Hoskyns, [Letter 22].
*HoJ 379
Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's wife Benedicta, 26 June 1621. 1621.
In: the MS described under HoJ 294.
Osborn No. XXIV, pp. 89-90.
Sizergh Castle, Collection of papers of John Hoskyns, [Letter 23].
*HoJ 380
Autograph letter signed (‘J Hoskyns’), to Lord Cranfield, docketed 16 March 1623[/4]. 1624.
*HoJ 381
Letter, in the hand of an amanuensis, with Hoskyns's autograph subscription and signature, to hs step-daughter Elizabeth Bourne, from the Middle Temple, London, 16 February 1625/6. 1626.
In: the MS described under HoJ 294.
Osborn No. XXV, pp. 90-1.
Sizergh Castle, Collection of papers of John Hoskyns, [Letter 24].
*HoJ 382
Autograph letter signed, to [Hoskyns's step-daughter Elizabeth Bourne], from the Middle Temple, London, [9 December 1627]. 1627.
In: the MS described under HoJ 294.
Osborn No. XXVI, pp. 91-2.
Sizergh Castle, Collection of papers of John Hoskyns, [Letter 25].
*HoJ 383
Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's step-daughter Elizabeth Bourne, from Risington, 11 December 1627. 1627.
In: the MS described under HoJ 294.
Osborn No. XXVII, p. 92.
Sizergh Castle, Collection of papers of John Hoskyns, [Letter 26].
*HoJ 384
Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's step-daughter Elizabeth Bourne, undated, [c.1620s-30s?]. c.1620s-30s?.
In: the MS described under HoJ 294.
Osborn No. XXVIII, p. 93.
Sizergh Castle, Collection of papers of John Hoskyns, [Letter 27].
*HoJ 385
Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's step-daughter Elizabeth Bourne, undated. [c.1620s-30s?]. c.1620s-30s?.
In: the MS described under HoJ 294.
Osborn No. XXIX, pp. 93-4.
Sizergh Castle, Collection of papers of John Hoskyns, [Letter 28].
*HoJ 386
Autograph letter signed, giving instructions to James Dalley, from Morehapton, 26 September 1628. 1628.
Whitlock, p. 652, with a facsimile on p. xiii.
*HoJ 387
Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's step-daughter Elizabeth Bourne, from the Middle Temple, London, 6 June 1629. 1629.
In: the MS described under HoJ 294.
Osborn No. XXX, pp. 94-7.
Sizergh Castle, Collection of papers of John Hoskyns, [Letter 29].
*HoJ 388
Autograph letter signed, to Hoskyns's step-daughter Elizabeth Bourne, from Burnithen, 6 September 1629. 1629.
In: the MS described under HoJ 294.
Osborn No. XXXI, p. 97.
Sizergh Castle, Collection of papers of John Hoskyns, [Letter 30].
Documents
Document(s)
*HoJ 389
A document in a professional secretary hand and signed ‘JHoskyns’, relating to a replication of Henry Hoskyns in a case relating to Launcelot Mills and his wife, on a large membrane of vellum, 3 May 1622?. 1622.
*HoJ 390
Autograph formal letter of commission signed, appointing Richard Knight to look after Hoskyns's manor of Titley, 28 June 1628. 1628.
Will
*HoJ 391
Hoskyns's first last will and testament, in the hand of an amanuensis, subscribed and signed by Hoskyns, dated 23 March 1618/19. 1619.
In: the MS described under HoJ 294.
Osborn No. XX, pp. 85-6. Whitlock, pp. 542-4.
*HoJ 392
Autograph codicil to Hoskyns's last will and testament, 23 June 1627. 1627.
Whitlock, p, 628.
*HoJ 393
Hoskyns's last will and testament, in the hand of an amanuensis, the last few lines and signature in Hoskyns's hand, 31 July 1632. 1627.
Whitlock, pp. 677-80.
*HoJ 394
A registered copy of Hoskyns's last will and testament, dated 31 January 1635[/6].
Osborn, pp. 241-2