Verse
In Obitum potentissimæ principis D Mariæ Stuartæ Scotorum Reginæ (‘Si generis splendor raræ si gratia formæ’)
A version first published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623).
HoH 1
Copy of a 42-line version, in an italic hand, with a lengthy title, subscribed ‘H N gemesis’, with five unrelated Latin verses added at the end in another hand, on two conjugate small folio leaves. c.1600s.
In: A large folio guardbook of state letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 219 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.
Volume V of the Cassiobury Papers donated by Adela, Countess of Essex, comprising papers of the Capel family, Earls of Essex, of Cassiobury House, Watford, Hertfordshire.
*HoH 2
Autograph fair copy of a 42-line version, subscribed ‘Finis. H. N. gemens’, docketed ‘Inscriptions upon the Queene of Scotts tombe’.
In: A folio composite volume of state correspondence, in various hands, over 600 leaves.
Edited from this MS in Calendar of State Papers relating to Scotland, IX (1585-88), pp. 314-15.
British Library, Cotton MS Caligula C. IX, pt ii, ff. 626v-7r.
*HoH 3
Autograph fair copy of a 42-line version, with revisions, headed ‘In Obitum potentissimæ principis D Mariæ Stuartæ Scotoum Reginæ Franciæ dotariæ et coronæ Anglicanæ hæredis indubitata atque proximæ memoriæ suæ celebritati deuotissimus carmen lugubre posuit’, as by ‘Henricus Northampt comes’. c.1604-14.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers principally in the hand of Lord Henry Howard, including some letters to him and some parliamentary speeches, 585 leaves, in 19th-century morocco gilt. c.1580s-1614.
*HoH 4
Autograph fair copy of the 42-line version, with some deletions, headed ‘In Obitum pijssimæ potentissimæque Principis D Mariæ Stuartæ Scotoru Reginæ Franciæ Dotariæ et iure successionis Anglicanæ regni hæredis proximæ...carmen lugubri posuit’, as by ‘Henr. Howardus comes Northamptoniæ’. c.1604-14.
In: the MS described under HoH 3. c.1580s-1614.
Probably edited from this MS in The Works of Henry Howard Earl of Surrey and of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, ed. George Frederick Nott, 2 vols (London, 1815), pp. 472-4 (the MS erroneously cited as ‘Cotton, Titus, B. VI. p. 174’).
*HoH 5
Autograph fair copy of a 36-line version, with some revisions, headed ‘In obitum potentissimæ principis Mariæ Stuartæ Scotoru Reginæ Franciæ Dotariæ et iure successionis Angliæ hæredis indubitatææ atque proximæ’, unascribed. c.1604-14.
In: the MS described under HoH 3. c.1580s-1614.
My Lord of Northamptons funerall verses touching the Princes death (‘Oh how much happier had my fortune been’)
HoH 6
Copy, headed ‘My Lord of Northamptons funerall verses touching the Princes death. / Vppon the death of ye late noble Prince Henry’.
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.
Prose
Abatements nowe in beinge: or to be verie shortlie vppon the Marryage of the Lady Elizabeth to the Counte Pallatyne of the Rhine, Anno 1613: and otherwise ffor the kings Bennifitt
A tract beginning ‘By the bestowing of my La Eliz. grace and after hir grace shall be settled...’. Unpublished?
HoH 7
Copy, in the secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’. c.1620s-30s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, 430 leaves, in contemporary calf, with ties. In various hands, including early items docketed by Robert Beale (1541-1601), Clerk of the Privy Council.
Yelverton MS 68, including papers of Beale descending to Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.
Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 43. Described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 228-9 (No.33).
Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 229 (No. 33.4).
*HoH 8
Autograph MS, under headings of categories of proposed ‘Abatements’ and ‘Improvementes’, docketed in another hand (f. 84r) ‘Considerations of the Kings present Estate by the Earl of Northampton in his own hand’.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers and tracts chiefly relating to Crown revenues, in various largely professional hands, 367 leaves (and additions), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘A Collection made by Sr Robert Cotton for his Maties Seruice in time of Extremytie’. A list of contents (f. 2v) is in the hand of Sir William Dugdale (1605-86), antiquary and herald.
British Library, Cotton MS Cleopatra F. VI, ff. 84r-7v, 93r-4v.
HoH 9
Copy. Early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 248 leaves, in modern crushed morocco gilt.
HoH 10
Copy, in the professional secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’. c.1620s-30s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, with (f. 1*r-v) an ‘Index’ of contents, 247 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt. In various professional hands, including those of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, and the ‘Feathery Scribe’.
Later owned by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary. Then by Robert Harley.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 239-41 (No. 53).
Beal, In Praise of Scribes, 1998), p. 41 (No. 53.14).
HoH 11
Copy, in a professional secretary hand.
In: A folio guard-book of state tracts and papers, in several hands, one professional secretary hand predominating, 191 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
HoH 12
Copy in: A folio volume of state tracts and papers dating up to 1628, almost entirely in two professional hands, including the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 179 leaves, in modern reversed calf.
Once owned by ‘Ric: Tichbone’, probably Sir Richard Tichborne, second Baronet, MP (c.1578-1652).
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 247 (No. 71), with a facsimile of f. 1r on p. 83.
HoH 13
Copy in: A small folio volume of state tracts and papers, in one or more probably professional hands. c.1620s-30s.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 203-4.
HoH 14
Copy in: A folio volume of state tracts and papers, in a single professional secretary hand, 96 leaves, in red morocco gilt. c.1630s.
HoH 15
Copy, in a professional secretary hand.
In: A folio volume of state and antiquarian tracts and letters, in two or more professional hands, with a table of contents at the end, ii + 227 leaves, in modern cloth. c.1630.
Mostyn MS 139 (Old Catalogue MS 53), from the library originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn Hall, near Hollywell, Flintshire, and maintained by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) and his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90). Sotheby's, 13 July 1920, lot 72, to Sumner.
Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 352.
HoH 16
Copy in: A folio volume of state letters and tracts, in a single professional secretary hand, 88 leaves, in old quarter-calf marbled boards. Entirely in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’. c.1625-30s.
Bookplate of James Buckley (1770-1839), of Bryncaerau Castle. From the library of Captain James Buckley (1869-1924), of Castell Gorfod, St Clears, Carmarthenshire, which incorporated books and manuscripts collected by Theophilus Jones (1759-1812), Brecknockshire historian, by William Owen Pughe (1759-1835), antiquary and lexicographer, and by Joseph Joseph, FSA (1890), of Brecon, collector.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 211-14 (No. 1), with a facsimile example of f. 32v on p. 65.
Beal, In Praise of Scribes, pp. 211-12 (No. 1.1).
HoH 17
Copy in: A folio composite volume of state tracts and letters, in professional hands, including that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 517 leaves, in reversed calf. No. 11 inscribed ‘Severall Tracts Selected out of a Booke in ye hands of Sir Robert Cotton Knight and Baronnet’.
Collected in 1674 by one John Witham.
An Accompt of such Service as was enioyed by your Mats. Comission to me and others concerninge the prsent State of your Navy
See CtR 2-6 and HoH 94.
An answer to the copy of a railing invective against the regiment of women
See HoH 68-87.
Answer to John Stubbs's ‘Gaping Gulf’
An untitled rebuttal of John Stubbs's tract The Discovery of a Gaping Gulf (1579) which attacked the proposed Alençon marriage. Beginning ‘Dutiful affection to my native country enforceth me at this present to disclose my opinion and conceit...’ and ending ‘...to perform agreeable service to Her Majesty and the state I would rest, with sword in hand, ready to make adventure of the loss of my life.’ First published in John Stubbs's Gaping Gulf with Letters and Other Relevant Documents, ed. Lloyd E. Berry (Charlottesville, 1968), pp. 153-94.
HoH 18
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled but indexed on f. 99r as ‘A Discourse concerning a marriadge betweene Q Elizabeth and Monsieur d'Aniou’, 33 folio pages, frayed at edges. c.1638.
In: A tall folio composite folio volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, 102 leaves, in half red morocco.
Owned and occasionally annotated by Mildmay Fane (1602-66), second Earl of Westmorland. Christie's, 18 July 1892 (Westmorland sale), lot ??
This MS recorded in Berry, pp. lix-lxi., and in Woudhuysen, p. 101.
HoH 19
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, inscribed by Beale ‘An answer made to Mr Stubbes his booke, by the l. Henry Howard as it was thought or by Francis Throgmorton [i.e. Francis Throckmorton (1554-84), Catholic conspirator] who was afterwardes executed’.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, many relating to Mary Queen of Scots, some concerning the proposed Anjou marriage, in various hands and paper sizes, 711 leaves, in contemporary vellum, with ties. Collected and annotated by Robert Beale (1541-1601), Clerk of the Privy Council. Including (ff. 152r-95v) a printed exemplum of Stubbs's banned tract A Gaping Gulf (1579). c.1580s-90s.
Yelverton MS 31, among Beale's papers descending to Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.
Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 41.
Edited from this MS in Berry.
HoH 20
Copy, in a neat predominantly italic script, untitled, on 29 quarto leaves. Early 17th century.
Owned and signed on the first page (‘Ro. Cotton Bruceus’) by Sir Robert Cotton (1571-1631), antiquary and politician.
This MS recorded in Berry, pp. lix-lxi.
HoH 21
Copy, entitled ‘The Lord Henry Howard after Earle of Northampton his defence Of the ffrench Monsieurs desiring Queene Elizabeth in marriage written in Ao. 22o. Eliz Ao. Do. i580, in Answare To Mr. Stubbs treatyse foregoeing which was intituled The Discouerie of a gapeing Gulfe. &c.’, following a printed exemplum (on ff. 31r-74v) of John Stubbs's Gaping Gulf (1579). c.1620s.
In: A duodecimo composite volume of one printed and three MS tracts, chiefly in one scribal hand, 169 leaves, in calf stamped with arms (a dog's head) in gilt and with silver clasps. The volume entitled ‘BAZILEGAMVS or Roial Marriages discussed approoued improued Betweene Queene Mary & King Philip finished Ao.Do. 1554. fol. i. Queene Elizabeth and Mounsieur frustrated Ao.Do. 15. fol. 3i.’.
Owned, 2 April 1627, and annotated by the diarist and antiquary Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1602-50). Book label with the motto ‘Virtute et Fide’.
This MS recorded in Berry, pp. lix-lxi.
Antiquitas Mariscalli
An unpublished discourse beginning ‘Ever during the minoritie of the heir of the erle marshall by enheritance the King gaue the office his Paten An 25 H5...’.
*HoH 22
Autograph drafts on the subject of the Earl Marshall, under the running heading ‘Antiquitas Mariscalli’.
In: A folio composite volume of antiquarian tracts and documents, including original papers of the Society of Antiquaries, in various hands, 485 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
A brief discourse of the right use of giving arms
An unpublished treatise on heralds and the office of Earl Marshal. Beginning with the heading ‘Of the first Institutions and function of Heralds and the proues that make for them’; the text beginning ‘It cannot as I suppose seeme strange to men of vnderstanding in recordes of historie...’, and ending ‘...and the gratitude of persons that are soubbl . will dispence exceptions of base men yt are mutinous.’ The tract has also been attributed to Ralph Brooke.
*HoH 23
Part of an autograph draft of the work, here beginning ‘out of the riche mine of Peru betweene a glass...’, the sequence out of order, imperfect. Early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of heraldic tracts and papers, in various hands, 292 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.
HoH 24
Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, on 98 large folio pages, in contemporary limp vellum. With a title-page in an italic hand: ‘A briefe discourse of ye right vse of gevinge armes, wth: the Late abusis about that matter, and ye beste meane' by wch. they may be reformid orderly. Written by Henry Howard Earl of Northampton’. c.1620.
Baker, No. 420, pp. 76-7. date? early 17c?
HoH 25
Copy of an abbreviated version of part of the tract, in a professional hand, on eight folio leaves. Beginning with the heading ‘What Inconueniences & abuses haue falne out by suffringe the kings att Armes to giue Coats’ and text beginning ‘The originall word which Ierome translats Nobilem implies notabilenes...’ and ending ‘...soe that their owne faint collors may be deerly purchased &c. Finis’. c.1620.
Formerly Folger MS 1743.1.
A transcript of this MS made c.1900, on 15 folio pages, is Folger MS W.b.20.
A certaine form of Orders to be prescribed to the Officers of Armes For reformation of abuses & prevention of Corruptions deeply rooted & not easie to be removed
Apparently beginning ‘Discord betwixt Garter & the Provinciall Kings of Armes hath beene the cheife cause of Corruption & disorder in ye Office of Armes...’. Unless this is a version of the untitled tract on the reformation of the office of arms (HoH 92) this unpublished work is known only from an extract.
HoH 26
Copy of an extract, in an italic hand, headed ‘Extracted out of a discourse written in King James his time by the right honble. Henry Howard Earle of Northton. and by him then prsented to his fellow Commissioners for the Office of Earle Marshall of England Intituled A certaine form of Orders to be prescribed to the Officers of Armes For reformation of abuses & prevention of Corruptions deeply rooted & not easie to be removed’, and here beginning ‘Discord betwixt Garter & the Provinciall Kings of Armes hath beene the cheife cause of Corruption & disorder in ye Office of Armes...’.
In: A folio volume of antiquarian tracts, almost entirely in a single professional secretary hand, 175 leaves (plus a two-leaf insertion), with a table of contents (ff. 168r-75r). in mottled leather. c.1630s.
Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, 1701.
Concerning the painters of Armes and others
An official proclamation or letters patent of James I, evidently written by Howard, beginnining ‘Whereas many disorders haue of late bin vsed in the Raigne of our sister Queene Elizabeth of happie memory...’. Unpublished?
HoH 27
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed in the margin ‘My Lord of Northampton concerning the painters of Armes and others’. [1604-14].
In: the MS described under HoH 23.
A Copy of the last instructions which the Emperor Charles the Fifth gave to his son Philip before his death translated out of Spanish
An unpublished translation of a suppositious work, supposed (but unlikely) to be Charles V's instructions to his son Philip II, which was circulated in MS in 16th-century Europe and published in Spanish in Sandoval's Life of Charles V (1634). An Italian translation in MS was presented to James VI by Giacomo Castelvetro between 1591 and 1595 and is now in the National Library of Scotland (MS Adv. 23. I. 6): see The Works of William Fowler, ed. H.W. Meckle, James Craigie and John Purves, III, STS 3rd Ser. 23 (Edinburgh, 1940), pp. cxxvii-cxxx, and references cited in The Basilicon Doron of King James VI, ed. James Craigie, II, STS, 3rd Ser. 18 (Edinburgh, 1950), pp. 63-9. A quite different translation was published as The Advice of Charles the Fifth...to his Son Philip the Second (London, 1670).
Howard's translation, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth, was allegedly written when he had been more than twelve years out of the Queen's favour [? in the early 1590s]. The Dedication begins ‘If the faithful Cananite of whom we read in the holy writ...’; the main text begins ‘I have resolved (most dear son) to come now to the point...’, and ends ‘...to proceed in such a course as prayers may second your purposes. Sanctae Trinitati, &c.’
*HoH 28
Copy, with a title-page and dedication to the Queen (pp. [iii-xvi]), in the accomplished italic and secretary hand of one of Howard's amanuenses, and with a sidenote in Howard's own hand on p. 49, xviii + 94 folio pages, in red velvet. Late 16th century.
Owned in 1772 by John White, formerly a member of All Souls College.
HoH 29
Copy on thirty folio leaves. With a title-page (f. 5r), inscribed ‘Scripsit Pau: Thompson Cant: in gratia Amicissmi: sui Jwhs: Clapham’; with the Dedication ‘To the Qs most sac: matie’ on ff. 10r-13r; the main text on ff. 14r-39r; written in a single secretary hand, that of Paul Thompson (1563-1617) of Cambridge, apparently for his friend John Clapham. Folios 6r-9r are occupied by sixteen sonnets (two addressed to the painter Segar), apparently by one ‘Ch. M.’, in a different hand. The volume was originally in vellum wrappers extracted from a 15th-century Italian manuscript of letters by Cicero. Late 16th century.
Owned in 1898 by Richard Mullings and before 1933 by the Wiltshire Archæological and Natural History Society.
Recorded in Wiltshire Archæology and Natural History Magazine, 30 (1898), pp. 39, 85-6, and in Woudhuysen, p. 102.
HoH 30
Copy, including the dedicatory epistle to Queen Elizabeth.
In: An octavo volume of nine state tracts, 80 leaves. Late 16th century.
HoH 31
Copy of the main text, lacking a title and dedicatory epistle to the Queen, in a formal small italic hand.
In: A quarto volume of military and state tracts and extracts, in several hands, predominantly in a largely italic hand, iii + 194 leaves, in contemporary vellum, with traces of ties. Early 17th century.
Inscribed (f. 15r and elsewhere) ‘John Rider his Book’. Christie's, 30 January 1980, lot 102.
HoH 32
A formal copy, with a title-page in engrossed lettering, the dedicatory epistle to Queen Elizabeth (ff. 2r-9r) in an accomplished italic hand and subscribed ‘Henry Howard’, the main text (ff. 10r-61v) in an accomplished secretary hand, 63 folio leaves. Bound with a separate 86-leaf MS of ‘A ffrench Satyre of State’ (Harley MS 6247), in (deteriorated) half calf on marbled boards. Late 16th-early 17th century.
Inscriptions (f. 63v) including financial records ‘p me Thoma Paleston’, ‘bought John Turner the xiijth of novembr 1611’, ‘Evan Williams of Exeter’, and ‘Ralph Addisson’ [sic].
HoH 33
Copy in two professional secretary hands, untitled, with the Dedication to the Queen, signed ‘Henry Howarde’, very imperfect, the first two leaves and f. 49 torn vertically in half, also lacking a title and the ending. Late 16th-early 17th century.
In: A large folio composite volume of heraldic and antiquarian papers, 177 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt.
HoH 34
Extracts, headed ‘Notes out of a copie of a letter written by way of dedication of charles the 5th: his instructions to his sonne Phillip: Translated out of Spanish: and sent to her matie by L: H: Howard’ [‘E: of Arundell’deleted]. August 1602.
In: A duodecimo diary and notebook of extracts, in a single small secretary hand, 133 leaves, dated from January 1601/2 to April 1603, in modern quarter crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Compiled by John Manningham (c.1575-1622), lawyer, of the Middle Temple.
The Diary edited by John Bruce, Camden Society 99 (London, 1868). The Diary of John Manningham of the Middle Temple 1602-1603, ed. R.P. Sorlien (Hanover, NH, 1976). Facsimiles of f. 12r in DLB, vol. 62, Elizabethan Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 318, and of f. 29v in The British Inheritance: A Treasury of Historic Documents, ed. Elizabeth Hallam and Andrew Prescott (London, 1999), p. 44.
*HoH 35
A fair copy, probably made for presentation, complete with dedication ‘To the Qveenes most Excellent Matie’ in italic script (ff. 1r-8v), the main text in mixed secretary script (ff. 9r-54v), in the hand of Howard's principal amanuensis (the same as in British Library, King's MS 166), with autograph sidenotes by Howard throughout. c.1590s.
In: A composite folio volume of tracts.
With the armorial bookplate of ‘Shelburne’: i.e. William Fitzmaurice Petty (1737-1805), Earl of Shelburne (in 1761), Marquess of Lansdowne (in 1784). Books collected by Shelburne included ‘several which had belonged to Sir Julius Caesar, and also many of Lord Burghley's’: Cyril Davenport, English Heraldic Book Stamps (London, 1909), pp. 313-14.
HoH 36
Copy of the main text, in a single mixed hand, 33 leaves, in modern half mottled leather gilt. Untitled and lacking the Dedication to the Queen, but with a colophon (f. 33v): ‘Here End the Instruction which the Emperour Charles the fift gaue to his sonne Philip Before his death’. c.1620s-30s.
HoH 37
Copy, on 45 folio pages (ff. 3r-25r). Complete with the Dedication ‘To the Queenes moste excellente Matie:’, headed ‘A memoriall of a discourse vsed by the late worthy Emperour Charles the vth vppon the resignemt of his gouermente, and stats to his sonne, the now kinge of Spaine’. Early 17th century.
Name on f. 1v of ‘John Gybbon’. Inscription on f. 2r ‘Lent to Mr Gunton. Feb. 16. 1648...’.
HoH 38
Copy of the main text (ff. 3r-23r). followed by the Dedication ‘To the Queenes most excellent Matie’: (ff. 24r-7r), in a professional secretary hand, unascribed. c.1630s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in various professional hands, 211 leaves, in mottled leather.
Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, 1701.
*HoH 39
A fair copy, possibly the presentation copy to Queen Elizabeth, on 64 small folio leaves. Complete with a formal title-page (f. 1r) and Dedication ‘To the Quenes most Excellent Maiestie’ (ff. 2r-9r); the main text on ff. 10r-64r; written in the accomplished, predominantly secretary hand of Howard's principal amanuensis (the same as in British Library, Lansdowne MS 792); the dedication subscribed and signed by Howard (f. 9r) ‘Yr Mties most affectionat, humble, and / loyall subiecte, till deathe / Henry Hwward’; in calf with the arms of George III in gilt and the royal arms bookplate pasted on f. 1v. c.1590s.
HoH 40
Copy, in a single cursive hand, complete with the Dedication ‘To the Queenes most Excellent Majestie’ subscribed ‘Henry Hwward’ (pp. 1-12), headed ‘The Memoriall of a Discourse used by the late worthie Emperor Charles the Vth vpon the Resignement of his Government & State to his Sonne, Philip .II. King of Spaine’, on 110 small quarto pages (followed by 22 blanks), in later half-calf on marbled boards. c.1630.
From the library of King George I.
HoH 41
Copy, in a single mixed hand, of about two thirds of the main text, incomplete and lacking a title and the Dedication. Early-mid-17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of legal and historical tracts, in various largely professional hands, 306 leaves (including some blanks), in modern half-calf.
HoH 42
Copy, in a single hand, complete with (pp. 87-93) the Dedication ‘To the Quenes most excellent Matie’.
In: A folio volume of state letters and tracts, in several professional secretary hands, with (p. [i]) a table of contents in a later hand, 140 pages (including c.17 blank pages) plus 17 blank leaves at the end. Early 17th century.
This MS tract separately numbered EL 1201.
HoH 43
Copy of the Dedication ‘To the Queenes most excellent Matie’ only. In a single secretary hand, on six folio pages. 17th century.
Among the Hastings papers.
HoH 44
Fragment of a copy, in a professional secretary hand, without the dedicatioin, on six unbound folio leaves foliated 4-9, partly faded. End of 16th-early 17th century.
Among the Hastings papers.
HoH 45
Copy, complete with a Dedication to the Queen subscribed ‘Henrie Howarde’, in a single professional secretary hand. Early 17th century.
Inscribed (f. 213r) ‘Nathaniell Darby his Booke ffeb: ye 22th in the year of our Lord god 1701/2’.
In: A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in various hands, 296 leaves, in modern half-morocco.
Among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.
HoH 46
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, complete with Dedication to the Queen subscribed ‘Henrie Howarde’. Late 16th-early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, 255 leaves, in red morocco.
HoH 47
Copy, including the dedicatory epistle to Queen Elizabeth, entitled ‘A Memoriall of a Discovrs used by the late worthie Emperor Charles the Vth upon the resignement of his gouernement and states to his sonne the now Kinge of Spaine’. Late 16th-early 17th century.
HoH 48
Copy of only the dedication to Queen Elizabeth, headed ‘An Epistle dedicatory of ye Lo: Henry Howard in ye beginning of a booke called The Exhortations of Charles ye fift to his sonne King Phillipp vppon the yeilding vp the gouerment of his dominions to him. Translated out of Spanish by ye said Lo: and dedicated to her Matie: as followeth’, subscribed ‘Hen Howarde’.
In: A folio volume of state tracts and papers, in a single professional secretary hand, a note on the last page dated ‘7. Nov. 1637’, 40 pages. Late 16th century.
From the collections of John Browne (1608-91), Clerk of the Parliaments. Inscribed (p. 1) ‘returned to Dr Browne of Twickenham’ and ‘Thomas [?]Aisley’.
A bound set of photocopies of this volume is in the Parliamentary Archives, BRY/79.
HoH 49
Copy, complete with 32-page Dedication to the Queen, in two professional predominantly secretary hands, 255 quarto pages. c.1620s.
Sotheby's, 13 December 1993, lot 287; 19 May 1994, lot 682; and 25 October 1994, lot 678, to Bradin T. Cormack, Stanford, California.
HoH 50
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with some underlinings and marginal emendations in another hand, on 45 quarto leaves, in contemporary vellum. Headed ‘The sume of diverse directions of governmte which Ch: 4th lefte vnto his sonne Philip ye ii K. of Spaine’, and without a Dedication. End of 16th-early 17th century.
The MS is accompanied by a 19th-century transcript of it.
HoH 51
Copy, on 124 folio pages. Complete with fourteen-page ‘The Epistle To the Queen’, but without a title, in a single professional scribal hand. c.1630.
Phillipps MS 13128.
A Discourse of Duels (I)
Treatise beginning ‘The pride of humors, the Lybertie of Times, the connyuencie of magistrats...’. Unpublished.
*HoH 52
A largely autograph draft work, the first two leaves in a professional secretary hand with Howard's autograph deletions and revisions, all the rest entirely autograph with his revisions, untitled, docketed (f. 99r) ‘A Discourse of Duells in the Handwriting of Henry howard Earl of Northampton - the interlineation to p. 2. & afterwards the whole’, subscribed (f. 118v) ‘sit laus sanctæ Trinitati’, with an additional autograph leaf f. 120r-v. c.1603-14.
In: A folio composite volume of state and heraldic tracts and papers, in various hands, 452 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. [1688].
A Discourse of Duels [II]
An unpublished discourse beginning ‘It hath bene ancientlie obserued by men of great experience in precedent times...’.
*HoH 53
Copy, in the accomplished secretary hand of one of Howard's principal amanuenses, with his autograph sidenotes, untitled.
In: A folio composite volume of tracts and papers relating to duelling, the majority in the hand of Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, including (ff. 479r-85r) two letters to Howard and (ff. 486r-8r) a tract on a challenge by the Earl of Northumberland to Sir Francis Vere in the hand of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, 488 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. c.1613-14.
Discussed in Fredson Thayer Bowers, ‘Henry Howard Earl of Northampton and Duelling in England’, Englische Studien, 71 (1936-7), 350-5.
*HoH 54
Copy, in the secretary hand of one of Howard's amanuenses, with Howard's extensive autograph revisions and additions, untitled, 78 folio pages, in modern vellum. c.1614?
A Discourse of Duels [III]
An unpublished discourse beginning ‘My firste care and endeauore (as appeareth by the first parte of this discourse against Duelloes)...’.
HoH 55
Copy of the discourse, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, a reference to ‘the Duke of Norffolke my grand father’ occurring on f. 478r.
In: the MS described under HoH 53. c.1613-14.
Duello Foiled
A discourse, with a dedicatory epistle to ‘my very good Lord’, beginning ‘Reasons moving me to write this thing which handleth not the whole matter...’, the tract beginning ‘The two parties between whom this single fight was appointed...’. Published in Thomas Hearne, A Collection of Curious Discourses written by Eminent Antiquaries (London, 1771), II, 223-42, where it is attributed to Sir Edward Coke. It is not certain whether this tract is by Howard or simply annotated by him as a reader.
HoH 56
Copy, in a professional hand, ascribed to Northampton, inscribed in the margin ‘Ex MS: in bibl Hatton’: i.e. copied from a manuscript in the library of Christopher Hatton. The text is followed (on ff. 146r-8r) by a copy of Sir Edward Coke's discourse on the subject allegedly written at Northampton's request. c.1630s.
In: A large folio volume of antiquarian tracts relating to the Earl Marshal and court of chivalry, in probably professional predominantly secretary hands, iv + 445 pages (plus fifteen blank pages), in contemporary calf. Volume I of twelve volumes of collections made by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
HoH 57
Copy in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, lacking a title-page, but headed ‘Duello Foil'd: The whole proceedinges, in the orderly Dissoluinge, of a designe for single, fight, Betwene, two Valiant, gentlemen by occasion, Whereof, the vnlawfulnes; and wickednes, of a Duello, is preparatorilye, Disputed, accordinge to the Rules, of honnor: and Right Reason: Written, by ye: Lo: Henry Howard, Earle of Northampton Ano:’.
In: A folio volume of antiquarian tracts, in two or three professional hands, including that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 266 leaves. c.1630s.
Once owned by Sir Robert Oxenbridge, MP (1595-1638) of Hurstbourne Priors, Hampshire; later by Thomas Tanner (1674-1735), Bishop of St Asaph, ecclesiastical historian, scholar and book collector. It was once bought from John Jackson of Tottenham High Cross.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 258-9 (No. 96).
Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 258 (No. 96.5).
HoH 58
Copy, subscribed with notes in Archbishop Sancroft's hand.
In: A large quarto volume of political, ecclesiastical and antiquarian tracts, in a single accomplished professional hand, 268 leaves. c.1630.
HoH 59
Copy, as ‘written by ye Lo: Henry Howard Earle of Northampton’.
In: A folio volume of tracts, chiefly relating to the Office of Arms and dueling, the greater part in one professional secretary hand, a second hand on ff. 66v-7r, with (f. 1v) a list of contents in another hand, 83 leaves. c.1630.
Inscribed on a preliminary blank leaf ‘From Canon Newling's collection / Purchased at Rodd [i.e. Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller] 12th Mar 1842’.
HoH 60
Copy, in two professional secretary hands, as ‘written by ye Lord Henry Howard Earle of Northampton’.
In: A folio volume of tracts and papers relating principally to the Earl Marshall of England and the protocols of duelling, in two or more professional secretary hands, 318 leaves, in half-calf on marbled boards. c.1630s.
Acquired from Lord R. Montagu, MP, 27 June 1863.
*HoH 61
Copy, in a professional italic and secretary hand, with a few autograph sidenotes and annotations by Howard, entitled ‘Dvello Foil'd’, with a dedication (f. 359r) to ‘my uery good Lord’.
In: the MS described under HoH 22.
HoH 62
Copy in: A folio volume of antiquarian tracts, in several professional hands, 208 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Late 17th century.
Inscribed (f. 1*r) by Wanley with date of accession into the Harley Library ‘4 May 1721’. An affixed slip inscribed ‘Ane baryngton’, ‘Robarts’, and ‘The Lady Robarts’, all in the same hand.
HoH 63
Copy, subscribed ‘Yor Lops most humble servt to be commanded Ed Cooke’.
In: A large folio volume of antiquarian tracts, in a single professional secretary hand, 316 leaves, in modern mottled leather. c.1620s-30s.
Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, 1701.
HoH 64
Copy, subscribed ‘Sr Edward Coke’.
In: A folio composite volume of papers in the hand of Augustine Vincent (c.1581/4-1626), Rouge Croix Pursuivant and Windsor Herald. Early 17th century.
HoH 65
Copy, in Starkey's hand.
In: A folio volume of antiquarian tracts and papers relating to the Earl Marshall and duels, entirely in the hand of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, 46 leaves, imperfect, disbound.
From papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle.
HoH 66
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘written by the Lord Henry Howarde Earle of Northampton’. c.1620s-30s.
In: A folio composite volume of tracts, in several professional secretary hands, 234 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary boards.
HoH 67
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘written by the lord H: Howard Earle of Northampton Anno dni [blank]’.
In: A folio volume of antiquarian tracts, in three professional hands, 261 leaves (plus numerous blanks), dated in ink on the fore-edge ‘1637’, in contemporary calf. c.1637.
Bequeathed by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Old pressmark G. 3. 5.
A dutiful defence of the lawful regiment of women
An unpublished answer to, and attack upon, John Knox's ‘railing invective’ against Mary Queen of Scots, First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women (1558). Written, Howard claims in his Dedication, some thirteen years after he was asked to do so by a Privy Councillor [i.e. c.1585-90]. The Dedication to Queen Elizabeth beginning ‘It pricketh now fast upon the point of thirteen years (most excellent most gratious and most redoubted Soveraign...’; the main text, in three books, beginning ‘It may seem strange to men of grounded knowledge...’, and ending ‘...Sancta et individuae Trinitati sit omnis honor laus et gloria in secula seculorum. Amen.’
HoH 68
Extracts by Stanford.
In: A quarto miscellany, 79 pages (including some blanks), compiled by Henry Stanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families. c.1590s-1600s.
Discussed, with facsimiles of pp. 1 and 49, in Steven W. May, ‘Henry Stanford's “God Knows What”’, EMS, 16 (2011), 70-81.
*HoH 69
A presentation copy, chiefly in the accomplished secretary and italic scripts of one of Howard's amanuenses, with autograph additions, corrections and sidenotes by Howard throughout, 177 folio leaves, in purple velvet, with remains of silk ties. Prepared for a member of the Stanhope family, probably Sir John Stanhope, later first Baron Stanhope of Harrington (c.1545-1621), Treasurer of the Chamber (in 1596-1616), with a lengthy title-page (f. 1r), subscribed by four lines in Latin in Howard's own hand quoting from Daniel 13.57; illuminated arms of the Stanhope family (f. 1v) followed by eight autograph lines of Latin verse by Howard and with his sidenote, signed ‘Amicus tibi in perpetuum fidelissimus H. Hwward’; a Dedication ‘To the Quenes most excellent Maiestie’ on ff. 2r-19v, 19 bis - 20r, subscribed with two autograph lines of Latin signed by Howard (f. 20r) ‘Your Maiesties most loyall / and humble subiecte and / seruante till deathe / H. Hwward’; the main text on ff. 21r-176v, with separate title-pages for the second book (f. 97r after a blank leaf) and third book (f. 119v). Late 16th century.
Given to the Bodleian in 1621 by Ralph Radcliffe, Town Clerk of Oxford.
HoH 70
Copy of the Dedication to the Queen only, 46 folio leaves, in marbled boards. In the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’; with a title-page: ‘An: Aunswere:, To, the; Coppye of a Rayleinge Invectyve, (Against the Regymte: of Woemen in generall) wth: Certayne Malliparte dyceptions to dyvers and sundrye, matters of the State, Wrytten To Queene Elizabeth, By the Right honnoble: Henrye Lord Howarde, Late Earle of Northton’. c.1630s.
Inscribed (f. 2r) ‘Sum EUmfreville’: i.e. Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts. Bookplate of Horace Walpole (1717-97), fourth Earl of Orford, author, politician and patron of the arts. Strawberry Hill sale, 30 April 1842, lot 91.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 228 (No. 30).
HoH 71
Extracts from the treatise, headed ‘A short Tractate of womens Gounment’, beginning ‘Howsoeur ye ffrenchmen oppose them selues against womens gounmt, as Bodin theire Countreyman hath of late streched out ye strength of his witt...’, and ending ‘...do shew Doctr. Ridley in his view of ye Ciuill, & Ecclecall Law. Pag. 98. 99.’
In: A small quarto commonplace book of extracts, in a single mixed hand, 83 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Early 17th century.
Later scribbling (f. 15r) including names ‘Joseph England’, ‘Tho Denton’ and ‘Joseph Dixon’.
*HoH 72
A formal presentation copy, for a member of the Heneage family, 239 folio leaves, in modern leather gilt. In the accomplished italic and secretary scripts of one or possibly two of Howard's principal amanuenses, with a formal title-page (f. 2r) including an autograph quotation in Latin by Howard from Daniel 13.57, twelve lines of autograph Latin verse by him, followed by illuminated arms of the Heneage family, subscribed by ten more autograph lines of Latin verse signed ‘Tibi in perpetuum / Leuinctissimus / H. Hwward’ (f. 2v), a Dedication ‘To the Queenes Most Excellent Maiestie’ in italic script (ff. 3r-29r), subscribed by Howard (f. 29r) ‘Your Maiesties most loyall / and humble subiecte till / death / H: Hwward’, the main text then in secretary script, after an unnumbered blank leaf, on ff. 30r-238r, with separate title-pages for the second book (f. 132v) and third book (f. 162r), and with some of the sidenotes also in Howard's hand. Late 16th century.
Scribbled names on f. 1*v of ‘henry Dull’ and ‘John Poole’. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, 17 May 1862.
HoH 73
Copy of the dedicatory epistle ‘To the Queenes most excellent Matie’ only, iii + 52 folio leaves, in modern quarter-vellum marbled boards. In a professional hand (that of the ‘imitator’ of the ‘Feathery Scribe’), with a formal title-page: ‘An answere To The coppie of a rayling Invectiue agst the regement of woemen in genall with certein Mallepert excepcons to divers and sundrye matters of the state written vnto Queen Elizabeth by the right honorable Henrye Lo Howard late Earle of Northampton’; the title docketed at the top with the initials ‘G. D.’, in modern quarter-vellum on marbled boards. c.1620s-30s.
Probably MS 43 in the collection of Harry Lawrence Bradfer-Lawrence (1887-1965), Norfolk and Yorkshire antiquary and manuscript collector. Item 155 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Sotheby's, 12-13 and 27 January 1987, lot 795.
*HoH 74
Presentation copy, on 240 folio leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. For Sir Robert Cotton (1571-1631), antiquary and politician; written at least partly in the accomplished italic script of Howard's principal amanuensis; with a formal title-page in engrossed lettering (f. 1r) including an autograph quotation in Latin from Daniel 13.57 by Howard; the arms of Cotton in watercolours (f. 1v) subscribed by ten autograph lines of Latin verse by Howard (f. 1v); a Dedication ‘To the Queenes Most Excellent Maiestye’ in italic script on ff. 2r-26v, with autograph corrections and sidenotes by Howard and his three-line subscription; the main text, possibly in one or more other hands, in a predominantly secretary script, after a blank leaf (f. 27r-v), on ff. 28r-240v, with separate title-pages for the second book (f. 134r) and third book (f. 165r). Late 16th century - 1613.
The title-page subscribed by the heavily deleted name or signature of Sir Robert Cotton and then the inscription ‘Ex dono Henrici Comitis Northamptoni 1613’. The name ‘N: Boothe’ inscribed on f. 2*v. Harleian inscription ‘Oxford, BH Oct. 18. 1738.’ on f. 1r.
This volume was evidently lent by Cotton to the merchant and antiquary Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628) before 23 April 1621 (recorded in his loan register Harley MS 6018, f. 150r, and recorded as item 47 in Starkey's own list of his MSS, Harley MS 537, ff. 82r-3v). It presumably remained in Starkey's collections which were purchased after his death by Sir Simonds D'Ewes.
HoH 75
Copy of the Dedication to the Queen only, in a professional hand with a title-page: ‘An aunswere to the Coppie of a Rayleing Invectiue, against the Regement, of woemen in generall, wth certaine, Malliparte exceptions, to diuers, and sundrie matters of State; Written vnto Queene Elizabeth; by the Right Honnorable Henrye Lord Howard late Earle of Northampton &c’. c.1620s-30s.
In: A folio composite volume of tracts and papers, in various hands, 432 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.
*HoH 76
Presentation copy, on 231 folio leaves. For Sir George Carey (1547-1603), who was elevated to the peerage as the second Baron Hunsdon in 1597 and was then Lord Chamberlain of the Household; written in the accomplished italic and secretary scripts of Howard's principal amanuensis; with a formal title-page (f. 1r) including an autograph four-line quotation in Latin from Daniel 13.57 by Howard; the illuminated arms of Carey superscribed by four autograph lines of Latin verse and subscribed by six autograph lines of Latin verse by Howard and with his marginal dedication signed (f. 1v); a Dedication ‘To the Qveenes Most Excellent Maiestie’ in flourished italic script on ff. 2r-27r, with a two-line addition in Howard's hand (f. 16v) and subscribed and signed by him (f. 27r); the main text in a secretary script on ff. 28r-231v, with separate title-pages for the second book (f. 125r) and third book (f. 156r), and with occasional autograph sidenotes added by Howard. Before 1597.
HoH 77
Copy of the dedication to the Queen only; with a formal title-page in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’: ‘An Aunswere, to, the, Coppye of a Rayleinge Invectyve (against, the Regyment of woemen in generall) wth Certayne Malliparte, exceptions, to dyvers, and sundrye matters, of State, Wrytten, to Queene Elizabeth, By the Right honnoble: Henrye Lord Howard, Late Earle, of Northampton:’; the text in the hand of another scribe, on 60 leaves. c.1620s-30s.
Some notes on the final blank verso of the tract by a near-contemporary reader (also responsible for notes in item 2 in the volume, a tract of 1642) remark on ways in which English queens furthered the causes of religion in England.
In: A folio composite volume of seventeen state tracts, in the hands of professional scribes, nearly 600 pages, in half-calf marbled boards. c.1620s-30s.
Once owned by Sir Richard Betenson, Bt (? the first Baronet, d.1679, of Hatton Garden, Holborn); by Thomas Brooke, F.S.A., of Armitage Bridge; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 2402; and later by Lord Fairfax of Cameron. Sotheby's, 14 December 1993 (Fairfax sale), lot 30 (unsold), and 13 December 1994, lot 538 (with facsimile examples in both sale catalogues).
Recorded in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 214-15 (No. 3), with facsimile examples on pp. 64, 65, 84-6.
Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 215 (No. 3.1), with a facsimile of the title-page on p. 64.
HoH 78
Copy of the Dedication only, in a formal secretary hand, written in a single narrow column throughout, headed in engrossed lettering ‘To the Quenes most excellente Maiestie’, 26 leaves. Late 16th century.
In: A folio volume comprising two MSS bound together, the first in French, in three professional secretary hands, unfoliated, in contemporary limp vellum gilt.
The cover stamped in gilt with the badge of Henry Percy (1564-1632), ninth Earl of Northumberland (the ‘Wizard Earl’).
Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 307.
*HoH 79
A partly autograph presentation copy, 232 large folio leaves, in 19th-century dark blue morocco gilt. For Robert Devereux (1566-1601), second Earl of Essex, written in the accomplished hands of two or more of Howard's principal amanuenses; with a formal title-page in engrossed lettering (f. 3r) including an autograph four-line quotation in Latin from Daniel 13.57 by Howard; the arms of Essex emblazoned in their proper colours (f. 3v) superscribed by six autograph lines of Latin verse and subscribed by six more autograph lines of Latin verse by Howard; (ff. [4r-25v]); the Dedication ‘To the Queenes most Excellent Maiestie’ in secretary script, with autograph sidenotes by Howard and signed by him ‘Henry Hwward’; (ff. 26r-232v) the main text, in predominantly secretary hands, with variant styles of script for headings, sub-headings and sidenotes; with a separate title-page for the second book (f. [127v]) and a title in the second half of the page (f. [157r]) for the third book, with autograph corrections and sidenotes by Howard occasionally in the first book and throughout the third book. c.1590s.
Inscribed (f. [iiv]) ‘Tho: Chomley is the true ouner of this Booke by the Gifte of his good Mother the Ladie Marie chomley 1623’. Sale of the Royal Library, Earl de la Ware, Baron Delamire. American Art Association, 11 March 1936 (Marsden J. Perry sale), lot 218. Charles S. Boesen's sale catalogue No. 1 (c.1951), item 160.
Facsimile examples of the illuminated arms and Dedication in the 1936 sale catalogue.
*HoH 80
A partly autograph presentation copy, on 219 folio leaves, in brown velvet. For William Cecil (1520-98), Lord Burghley, Secretary of State; written in the accomplished hands of one or more of Howard's principal amanuenses; with a formal title-page (f. 1r) including an autograph four-line quotation in Latin from Daniel 13.57 by Howard; the illuminated arms of Cecil superscribed by six autograph lines of Latin verse and subscribed by four autograph lines of Latin verse by Howard and signed by him ‘Tuæ D in perpetuum deuinctiss. H. Hwward’ (f. 1v); the Dedication ‘To the Queenes Most Excellent Maiestie’ in italic script on ff. 2r-27r signed by Howard (f. 27r); the main text, in a predominantly secretary script, by one or more scribes, with variant styles of script for headings, sub-headings and sidenotes, on ff. 28r-219r; with separate title-pages for the second book (f. 125v) and third book (f. 154r); with autograph corrections and sidenotes by Howard throughout; the paste-down formed from pages of a 16th-century French book about Henri III printed in black letter. Late 16th century.
The Dedication only bears Cecil's autograph annotations (occasional words flagging subject matter on ff. 10r, 11r, 12v, 13r-v, 14r, 15v, and 16r). Later owned by Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) and with his bookplates.
HoH 81
Copy, complete with dedicatory epistle to Queen Elizabeth, in a single professional secretary hand, 253 folio leaves (plus seven blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. Late 16th-early 17th century.
Inscribed inside the front cover ‘Baker & Leigh Aug: 77’. Bookplate of Alfred Cock. His sale, 11 July 1898, lot 598, to Maggs.
HoH 82
Copy of the Dedication to the Queen only, in a professional secretary hand, 55 folio leaves, bound with four other tracts (MSS 85, 94, 104, 105), in 19th-century half-calf on marbled boards. With a title-page in italic: ‘An Answere to the Coppye of a raileing Invective against the Regiment of woemen in generall with certaine mallipart exceptions to diverse and sundry matters of the State, written vnto Queene Elizabeth by the Right honble Henry Lord Howard Earle of Northton’. Early 17th century.
Presented 10 February 1790 by Francis Douce, FSA. (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.
HoH 83
Copy of the Dedication to the Queen only, in a professional secretary hand, headed An answere to the Coppy of a rayleing Invectiue against the Regiment of Woemen, in generall, with certaine Malipart exceptions to diverse and sundry matters of State, written to Queene Elizabeth by the right honble Henry lord Howard late Earle of Northton.
In: A folio volume of state tracts and speeches, in several professional hands, 586 leaves, in old calf. c.late 1620s-30s.
Bequeathed by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Former pressmark G. 4. 9.
Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 222-3 (No. 17A).
*HoH 84
A formal partly autograph copy, probably made for presentation, with separate title-pages for the ‘second booke’ (p. 259) and ‘third booke’ (p. 323), 478 folio pages, in old purple velvet. The Dedication to the Queen (pp. 1-49) entirely in Howard's italic hand and signed ‘Henry Hwward’, the main text in the accomplished hand of one of his principal amanuenses; with some of the sidenotes in Books 1 and 2 and all those in Book 3 also in Howard's italic hand. Late 16th century.
Inscribed (down the margin of p. 248) ‘William Trumbull’, possibly the son (1594-1668) or grandson (1639-1716) of William Trumbull (c.1580-1635), diplomat. Later owned by Lord Brougham and Vaux [? Henry Peter Brougham (1778-1868), first Baron, Lord Chancellor] whose monogram is stamped in gilt on the upper cover. Afterwards in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist and book collector.
Facsimile of p. 442r in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), Plate II after p. 272.
HoH 85
Copy of the Dedication to the Queen only, headed ‘An Answere to the Coppye of a Rayleing Invective, against the Regiment of Woemen in generall, with certain Mallepert exceptions... written unto Queen Elizabeth, by the Right Honoble: Henry Lo: Howard, late Earle of Northampton’, 52 folio leaves. 17th century.
Sotheby's, 5 July 1955 (André de Coppet sale), lot 901, to Quaritch.
HoH 86
Copy. 17th century?.
‘A defence of the government of women by the Lo: Howard in fol:’ is listed at Holkham Hall, Norfolk (Coke Library scroll, Archives) as being among MSS owned by Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), Attorney General.
HoH 87
Copy, folio. Early 17th century?
Formerly among the Carew family papers at Crowcombe Court, Taunton, Somerset. Sotheby's, 6 May 1903 (Crowcombe Court Library sale), lot 270, to Ridler.
Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, pp. 373-4.
Enchiridion christianarum precautionum
Unpublished.
*HoH 88
An autograph quarto volume of prayers and devotions, in Latin, iii + 237 leaves, in modern black velvet. A formal presentation copy to William Cecil, Lord Burghley, entirely in Howard's italic hand, the title-page, decorated in colour, (f. 2r) ‘Enchiridion christianarum precautionum in honorem sacrosanctæ indiuiduæ et gloriosæ Trinitatis e sacris scripturis: delibatum et in paricularia erga singulas Personas officia distributum’; with (f. 1v) Burghley's arms in colour; (ff. 3r-68v) a dedicatory epistle to him, subscribed ‘Londini ex aedibus Dacrensibus martii 15, 1589’, signed ‘H Hwward’; and (ff. 69r-237v) a series of prayers and devotional meditations; various watercolour miniatures illustrating biblical scenes and religious subjects on ff. 70v, 87r, 116r, 146v, 165v, 199v, and 217v. 1590.
Volume CCXLVII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 100. Purchased March 1995.
This volume inscribed (on a flyleaf) by John Evelyn as being given to him, in London 1647, by James Thicknesse.
This MS would seem to be the work which Howard discusses in a letter to Burghley on 27 March 1589 (Cotton MS Titus C. VI, f. 39r-v), describing ‘the matter out of which this treatise is compiled’ as ‘the worde of god it selfe’, expressing a hope that Burghley will therefore ‘wincke the rather at the playnesse of the workmanshippe Diuersitie of formes of praier’, adding that the ‘littell booke’ is written in his own hand, that he was ‘forced to take this extraordinary labore by the ignorance of the scriueners of this towne’, and that it had a ‘preface to your lordshipe’.
A Formulary of Psalms and Prayers
Unpublished.
*HoH 89
Autograph devotional formulary of Psalms and Latin prayers, neatly written by Howard on 90 octavo leaves of vellum, untitled. c.1589.
Inscribed later in the 17th century ‘A formularie of Psalmes & Prayers made by Henry Earle of Northampton and writ wth his own hand’. The first leaf is stamped ‘Soc. Reg. Lond ex dono Henr. Howard Norfolciensis’.
Pars Prima Tractatus de Dvellis Inchoata Febrvarii 27 AD 1613
An unpublished treatise beginning ‘Wise men haue obserued man times that beside the weakenesse of originall attaint ...’.
*HoH 91
Autograph MS, with copious revisions, in two sections, dated at the end ‘Finitu Febr 26’. 26-27 February 1613.
In: the MS described under HoH 22.
The Reformation of the College of Arms
Unpublished tract, beginning ‘Beinge taught by experience that inwarde and ciuile strif betwene the kinges at armes...’.
*HoH 92
Autograph draft, with copious deletions and revisions, headed ‘Certaine Rules to be prescribed and euer obseruid for the reformation of all abuses and corrupiones that haue crepte into the office of Armes and for preuentio of all meanes which maie bringe in the like herafter’. c.1610.
In: the MS described under HoH 22.
Regina Fortunata
Unpublished Latin prose treatise, beginning ‘Cogitanti mihi sapius de Maiesta eis tua laudibus (Regina serenissima, qua paruis Britannorum finibus latebrisque non contentae transcenderunt Alpes...’.
*HoH 93
Entirely autograph presentation copy, on 74 quarto vellum leaves (each c.200 x 133mm.). Dedicated and presented to Queen Elizabeth, the edges of the leaves gilt and gauffered, the semi-calligraphic text ruled in red and with running heads in gilt; the dedication to the Queen (f. 1r) elaborately decorated in blue, red and gold; an illuminated portrait of the Queen seated on the throne with a book on her lap on f. 1v; and an elaborate formal title-page in red and gold on f. 2r. c.1576.
The volume labelled ‘Ex legato Caroli Baronis Farnborough’: i.e. from the library of Charles Long (c.1760-1838), Baron Farnborough, of Bromley Hill Place, the vellum boards bearing his arms in gilt (see Cyril Davenport, English Heraldic Book-Stamps (London, 1909), pp. 273-4). Purchased from H. Farrer 23 July 1842.
This MS recorded in Woudhuysen, p. 100. The portrait of Elizabeth is reproduced in Roy Strong, Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I (Oxford, 1963), pp. 100-2.
Report of the Navy Commission to James I
Unpublished abstract of the Commission's findings, addressed to King James I, beginning ‘The greatest happienes that your Mats. Affectionate and Humble. 3 can either without of his owne duetifull desire, or expect from your Special grace...’.
*HoH 94
A quarto MS in the italic hand of an amanuensis, with autograph sidenotes and revisions by Howard, signed by him ‘HNorthampton’, and dated ‘March 2’, headed ‘To the Kings most excellent and Sacred Matie:’, fourteen leaves, bound with three other Royal MSS in modern half-morocco. Probably the MS presented to James I. c.1609.
The Suppression of Duels
An unpublished memorandum headed ‘certain humble petitions to be obteined by the Ks assent before anie regulare and iuste orderes can be set downe for the suppression of duellos and challengis’, relating to James I's proclamation against private challenges and combats issued 4 February 1613/14.
*HoH 95
Autograph, with revisions, docketed ‘Demaundes of the Kinge’.
In: the MS described under HoH 53. c.1613-14.
Treatise on Natural Philosophy
Unpublished treatise on natural philosophy.
*HoH 96
A presentation copy, the main text beginning ‘What is Natture...’, including (f. 11r-v) verse, written chiefly in the hand of one of Howard's amanuenses in two styles of secretary script, with some of the sidenotes in Howard's own hand, ii + 67 quarto leaves, in contemporary red calf elaborately tooled in gilt. Produced for Howard's sister Lady Katherine Berkeley; the dedication (ff. 1r-12v) ‘To hys very lovinge sister the Lady Kathe. Barkley’ beginning ‘Your earnest affection (my dere sister)...’ and including (f. 11r-v) verses beginning ‘Nothing applyede to common vse’, dated ‘From Trinity haule in Cambridge the 6 of August 1569’ and signed by Howard ‘your lounge and fayth full brother durynge lyfe Henry Howarde’. 1569.
Donated to the Bodleian on 2 May 1735 by Dr Thomas Waine, who has inscribed f. iir‘Sir / I Desire that Mr Nichs, Holland of Merton College may have ye Liberty of peruseing Henry Howard's Manuscript of Philosophy att ye Request of me ye Donor Thos Waine’.
Treatise on the Nobility
*HoH 97
Autograph MS, with corrections and revisions, some on tipped-in slips of paper, of an antiquarian treatise in English on Counts, Dukes, and Earls, headed ‘The deriuation of this word Comes or Counte acordinge to the trewe Etimologie’, possibly incomplete. Late 16th-early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of legal and antiquarian writings, in various hands and paper sizes, 540 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half-morocco.
Assembled, at least in part, by John Selden, MP (1584-1654), lawyer and historian. Among collections bequeathed by Sir Mathew Hale (1609-76), Chief Justice of the King's Bench, legal writer.
Described in Hunter's catalogue of Lincoln's Inn Manuscripts (1838) as endorsed ‘My Lord of Northampton's discourse of earls and dukes’, but this endorsement appears to be no longer present.
Miscellaneous
Commonplace book or collectanea
*HoH 98
Autograph list of ‘Abatementes’ and, on two conjugate quarto leaves, of details of the ‘Juell howse’. c.1612.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers relating to treasury and revenue matters, 394 leaves, in modern crushed morocco gilt. In various largely professional hands, including (ff. 332r-5v) that of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), merchant and antiquary.
British Library, Cotton MS Titus B IV, ff. 100r-4r, 178r-9r.
*HoH 99
Effectively one of Howard's autograph miscellaneous compilations or commonplace books, relating chiefly to duels, his entries, mainly in English, under a series of Latin headings, beginning with ‘Mendacium’.
In: the MS described under HoH 53. c.1613-14.
*HoH 100
A substantial series of autograph drafts and entries, in English and Latin, most of it under commonplace-book-type headings (‘Regum institutio’, ‘Reges non subiectj legibus’, ‘Arma contra Principes’, ‘Status Popularis’, ‘Facetiæ’, ‘Inuentio’, ‘Pro Bello Argumeta’, etc.), incorporating possibly drafts for an intended treatise on monarchy. c.1604-14.
In: the MS described under HoH 3. c.1580s-1614.
British Library, Cotton MS Titus C. VI, ff. 213-486r, 494r-523r, 579r-83r.
*HoH 101
Series of autograph entries, in English and Latin, on narrow ledger-format leaves, under Latin subject headings and largely relating to naval matters (‘Naues’, ‘Howe Carried’, ‘M Thesaur’, etc.).
In: A folio composite volume of state and antiquarian papers, in various hands, a list of contents (f. 1r-v) in the hand of William Dugdale, 276 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
*HoH 102
Autograph commonplace book, 162 quarto leaves, in vellum. c.1580s-90s.
*HoH 103
An autograph quarto commonplace book, in English, Latin and Greek, under various headings, the first part (ff. 1-53) chiefly devoted to alchemy, the second part (ff. 54-840 to Latin liturgical offices, psalms and prayers, 85 leaves, in 19th-ceentury boards. Late 16th century.
Formerly among books from the library of Lord William Howard (1563-1640), antiquary and collector, of Naworth Castle, Cumberland, sold at Sotheby's, 15 December 1992, lot 171.
*HoH 104
An autograph quarto commonplace book, under various headings, relating to the nobility, 135 leaves (lacking ff. 3-6, 39-48, 103-4), in 19th-century boards. Late 16th century.
Formerly among books from the library of Lord William Howard (1563-1640), antiquary and collector, of Naworth Castle, Cumberland, sold at Sotheby's, 15 December 1992, lot 171.
Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 57r and 63r, in Paul E. J. Hammer, ‘How to Become an Elizabethan Statesman: Lord Henry Howard, the Earl of Essex and the Politics of Friendship’, EMS, 13 (2007), 1-34.
*HoH 105
An autograph quarto commonplace book, in Latin, English and Greek, under various headings, devoted chiefly to astrology, 64 leaves (f. 60 belonging to MS 1 above), in 19th-century boards. c.1580s.
Pen trials by James Maxwell of Naworth, one dated 1701. Formerly among books from the library of Lord William Howard (1563-1640), antiquary and collector, of Naworth Castle, Cumberland, sold at Sotheby's, 15 December 1992, lot 171.
*HoH 106
An autograph commonplace book, in English, Latin and Greek, under various headings, chiefly relating to women, vii + 180 leaves (lacking ff. 141, 141bis and 166), in near-contemporary blind-stamped sprinkled calf (rebacked). Late 16th century.
Formerly among books from the library of Lord William Howard (1563-1640), antiquary and collector, of Naworth Castle, Cumberland, sold at Sotheby's, 15 December 1992, lot 171.
*HoH 107
An autograph folio commonplace book, in English, Latin and Greek, devoted chiefly to devotional subjects, including (f. 40r-v) a draft letter by Howard to Sir Philip Sidney dated 27 August, written probably in 1583-4 when he was under arrest in the Fleet Prison or confined to the house of Sir Nicholas Bacon, 65 leaves, in 19th-century boards. c.1583-4.
Formerly among books from the library of Lord William Howard (1563-1640), antiquary and collector, of Naworth Castle, Cumberland, sold at Sotheby's, 15 December 1992, lot 171.
*HoH 108
An autograph commonplace book of largely philosophical and religious observations, in English, 131 quarto leaves, in an old recycled Latin vellum document within vellum boards. Late 16th century.
*HoH 109
An autograph commonplace book of philosophical, religious and political observations, in Latin and English, under a series of running heads (‘Good for the State’, ‘Idle for the State’, ‘Good for my Lorde’, ‘Spaine glad of peace’, ‘Amicitia’, etc.), 273 quarto pages (including some blanks), in contemporary vellum. Including (pp. 257-62, 271) entries under ‘Regiment of Women’, possibly relating to Howard's treatise A dutiful defence of the lawful regiment of women (HoH 68-87). Late 16th century.
*HoH 110
An autograph commonplace book of religious and philosophical observations and aphorisms, largely in English, ii + 370 quarto leaves, in vellum boards gilt with traces of ties.
Notes on the Jews
*HoH 111
Autograph memorandum, on the rectos of two folio leaves, one headed ‘Reasons against permission of the Judias’, the other headed ‘Reasons for the Judias’.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers and tracts, largely relating to relations with Spain, 452 leaves, in half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. In various hands, including that of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), merchant and antiquary (ff. 23r-v, 135r-42r, 169r-70v, 331r-v. 449r-52v).
Annotations
*HoH 112
Howard's occasionally autograph drafts, annotations or docketing in a collection of possibly his working papers as commissioner relating to cases involving Lady Arbella Stuart and her husband's grandfather, Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, and also including some annotations by Sir Robert Cotton, 82 folio leaves in all.
Sotheby's, 6 December 1984, lot 326.
*HoH 113
Lord Henry Howard's autograph annotations or docketing on various documents in professional hands on heraldic matters, including (ff. 94r-6r)‘Copy of Mr Camdens deputation to mr N Charles Lancaster Herauld, for Visitting in his province’; (ff. 225r-6v) ‘Embeaselinge of Recordes and bookes out of the office’; (ff. 227r-8v) ‘Office of Armes’; and (f. 234r-v) ‘Rules or articles’.
In: the MS described under HoH 23.
*HoH 114
Howard's autograph docketing, ‘Reasones of the Trinity howse touchinge shippinge of scotland’, to a series of ten clauses in a professional hand, on a single broadsheet. c.1608-9.
In: A folio composite volume of state pqpers, in various hands, 295 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt.
*HoH 115
Howard's autograph endorsement ‘Equalling Siluer’ on a treatise on coinage (ff. 155r-8r) dated 8 October 1612, and his 24-line autograph addition, at the lower half and margin of the last page, to a tract on ‘The lawes and Statutes of this Realme’ (ff. 322r-3r). c.1612.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers relating to coinage, in various hands, v + 339 leaves, in a recycled 15th-century vellum fragment of a philosophical treatise within later brown calf. Owned by Sir Robert Cotton, with (f. vr) his engraved plate, his autograph signatures (ff. 50r, 61r, 159r), and his occasional annotations throughout.
Later owned by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary. Acquired in 1751 by Joseph Massie. Including part of a letter about the MS by W. Herne, 30 March 1752. Purchased from Massie in 1761.
Will
HoH 116
Copy of Howard's last will and testament. c.1614.
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.
HoH 117
Copy of Howard's last will and testament. c.1614.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 468 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on roan boards. End 16th-early 17th century.
This volume discussed and printed in part, with facsimile examples, in F. Haverfield, ‘Cotton Iulius F. VI Notes on Reginald Bainbrigg of Appleby, on William Camden and on some Roman Inscriptions’, Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, NS 11 (1911), 343-78.