Verse
(1) Poems Commonly Attributed to Ralegh
‘A Secret murder hath bene done of late’
First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, pp. 78-9.
RaW 1
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘finis: Gossr:’.
In: A quarto miscellany chiefly of verse, largely in a single secretary hand, compiled by a Cambridge student, vii + 130 leaves, in later calf. c.1586-91.
This volume is edited in Cummings, who suggests that the compiler is Sir John Finett (1571-1641), of Fordwich, Kent: hence it is often cited as ‘The John Finett miscellany’. The hands do not appear to be his, however, and this attribution is questionable.
This MS collated in The Phoenix Nest, ed. H. E. Rollins (Cambridge, Mass., 1931), p. 173; recorded in Latham, p. 159.
*RaW 1.5
Copy in: A folio composite volume of letters and state papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 237 leaves, in 17th-century calf (rebacked).
Reproduced in Edwards, II, frontispiece.
The Advice (‘Many desire, but few or none deserve’)
First published in Le Prince d'Amour (London, 1660). Latham, pp. 14-15. Rudick, No. 18, pp. 27-8.
RaW 2
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis written to Mrs. A.V.’.
In: the MS described under RaW 1. c.1586-91.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 110.
RaW 3
Copy, headed ‘To A. Vaua’.
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 recorded in Latham, p. 110.
‘As you came from the holy land’
First published in Thomas Deloney, The Garland of Good-Will (London, 1596? first extant edition 1628). Latham, pp. 22-3. Rudick, No. 13, pp. 16-17.
RaW 4
Copy, of an untitled version beginning ‘As you went to Walsingam’, with four lines beginning ‘As you came from the holy land’ added at the top right hand margin in a different hand, subscribed ‘to Sr W. R:’.
In: the MS described under RaW 1. c.1586-91.
Edited from this MS in Latham, pp. 22-3.
RaW 5
Copy in: A long narrow ledger-like volume (c.40 x 15 cm) of ballads and metrical romances, in a single predominantly secretary hand, 268 leaves, all mounted on guards, in modern half-morocco. Mid-17th century.
Later owned by Thomas Percy (1768-1808), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor, and bearing copious annotations in his hand throughout, with a list by him at the end dated 20 December 1757.
This volume edited as Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript, ed. John W. Hales and Frederick J. Furnivall, 4 vols (London, 1867-8). Re-edited by I. Gollancz, 4 vols (London, 1905-10). Facsimile example of f. 94r in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), No. 20, p. 31. Discussed, with five facsimile examples, in Joseph Donatelli, ‘The Percy Folio Manuscript: A Seventeenth-Century Context for Medieval Poetry’, EMS, 4 (1993), 114-33.
Edited from this MS in Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript, ed. John W. Hales, Frederick J. Furnivall, et al., 4 vols (London, 1867-8). This publication mentioned in Latham, p. 120.
RaW 5.5
Copy of a version beginning ‘As you come fro Walsingham’.
In: A quarto miscellany of both bawdy and religious verse and some prose, in several hands, 94 leaves (including a number of blanks), in modern quarter-calf marbled boards. Mid-late 17th century.
Inscribed ‘Charles Shuttleworth His Booke Anno 1691’. Peter Murray Hill, London, sale catalogue No. 82 (1962), item 33.
RaW 6
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘A yow cam from that holly land, of wallsyngham’, dated at the end 1595, on the recto of a tipped-in folio leaf (with folds). c.1595.
In: A folio verse miscellany, 206 pages (plus blanks), rebound in 1832 (by Charles Lewis) with an independent miscellany (Huntington, HM 198, Part II). Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled ‘L.C.’ [? Lord Chancellor], as are some poems by others), 11 poems by Carew, ten poems by Corbett, and 11 poems by or attributed to Herrick, in a single neat hand throughout; the poems dating up to 1637. c.1637.
Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names ‘Edw Denny’ [presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], ‘Charles Cocks’, ‘Edward Randolphe’ and (on p. 162) ‘Thomas Cassy’. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Haslewood Kingsborough MS (I)’: DnJ Δ 25, CwT Δ 28, CoR Δ 10, and HeR Δ 5. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Discussed in C.M. Armitage, ‘Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on “The Funerall”’, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707. A facsimile of part of p. 63 in Marcy L. North, ‘Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 101).
Edited from this MS in Josephine Waters Bennett, ‘Early Texts of Two of Ralegh's Poems from a Huntington Library Manuscript’, HLQ, 4 (1940-1), 469-75 (pp. 473-4). Recorded in Latham, p. 120.
RaW 6.5
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘As you came from that holy Land of Walsingham’ and set out as four stanzas (8, 6, 4 and 4 lines respectively).
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.
RaW 7
Copy in: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several hands, showing communal use, 161 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.
Formerly Chest II, No. 21.
Conjectural First Draft of the Petition to Queen Anne (‘My dayes delight, my spring tyme ioyes foredun’)
See RaW 295.
Cynthia
See RaW 8-9, RaW 146, RaW 188; also RaW 133-5, RaW 200-202.
The 12th: and last booke of the Ocean to Scinthia (‘Sufficeth it to yow my ioyes interred’)
First published in Hannah (1870). Latham, pp. 25-34 (as The 11th: and last booke of the Ocean to Scinthia). Rudick, No. 26, pp. 48-66 (as ‘The 21th and last booke of the Ocean to Scinthia’).
*RaW 8
Autograph, on seventeen folio pages. Late 16th century.
Edited from this MS by all editors. Facsimile examples in Philip Edwards, Sir Walter Ralegh (London, 1953), facing p. 96; in John Winton, Sir Walter Ralegh (London, 1975), facing p. 122; in IELM, I.ii (1980), Facsimile XXVIII; and in Felix Pryor, Elizabeth I: Her Life in Letters (British Library, London, 2003), No. 60, p. 134.
The heading discussed in Stacy M. Clinton, ‘The “Number” of Sir Walter Ralegh's Booke of the Ocean to Scinthia’, SP, 82 (1985), 200-11 (with facsimile examples of the MS and letters by Ralegh); Douglas and Mary Brooks-Davies, ‘The Numbering of Sir Walter Ralegh's Ocean to Scinthia: A Problem Solved’, N&Q, 236 (March 1991), 31-4; and Peter Beal's review of Rudick in TLS, 29 December 2000, p. 7.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 144/240-247 .
The end of the bookes, of the Oceans love to Scinthia, and the beginninge of the 12 Boock, entreatinge of Sorrow (‘My dayes delights, my springetyme ioies fordvnn’)
First published in Hannah (1870). Latham, p. 44. Rudick, Nos 27, 32 and 33 (three versions, pp. 66, 72-77).
*RaW 9
Autograph, on the first two pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Latham, p. 44.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 144/247.
An Epitaph upon the right Honorable sir Philip Sidney knight: Lord governor of Flushing (‘To praise thy life, or waile thy woorthie death’)
First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, pp. 5-7. Rudick, No. 16, pp. 24-6.
RaW 10
Copy, headed ‘Sr Wallter Rawleys epitaphe on Sr Phillip Sydney’, the heading and lines 1-2 in the hand of Sir John Harington.
In: A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain. Mid-late 16th century.
This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, ‘The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents’, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.
A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 225, pp. 255-7. Recorded in Latham, pp. 97-8.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 156r-v.
Erroris Responsio (‘Courts Comender, states maintayner’)
Rudick, No. 22, p. 45.
RaW 10.5
Copy, headed ‘Erroris Responsio’, subscribed ‘Sr Wa: Ra:.’.
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.
Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 22, p. 45.
‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’
First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as ‘These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse’). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).
This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).
See also RaW 302 and RaW 304.
RaW 11
Copy, untitled, with a sidenote ‘At Sr Walter Rawleighs deathe’.
In: Copy of texts relating to Ralegh's execution, in a single secretary hand, on an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1620.
Among the papers of the Trevor Wingfield family and possibly deriving from the papers of the Boteler family of Biddenham.
RaW 11.5
Copy, headed ‘By Sr wal: Rawly the night befoer his heading’ and here beginning ‘Euen shuch is tiem that holds in trust’.
In: A tall folio commonplace book of miscellaneous extracts, in a single hand, 139 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Entirely in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician. c.1620s-30s.
Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1. Recorded (as the ‘Bedford MS’) in Peter Beal, ‘More Donne Manuscripts’, John Donne Journal, 6/2 (1987), 213-18 (p. 213).
RaW 12
Copy, headed ‘These verses following were made by Sr. Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse’. c.1618.
In: A folio composite volume of French state paper, including documents relating to Ralegh, in various hands.
Edited from this MS in Latham.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Cinq cents de Colbert n° 467, f. 68v.
RaW 13
Copy in: Sir Richard Napier's notebook recording his medical practice from 19 August 1618 to 17 May 1619. 1618-19.
RaW 14
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleighs verses, found in his bible in the gate house at Westmr’.
In: A small folio miscellany of medical receipts, chemical experiments, and verse, in a single small hand, 62 leaves (chiefly blank). Compiled by one John Stansby. c.1669.
RaW 15
Copy, in an unaccomplished non-professional hand, untitled. c.1620.
In: A quarto composite volume of historical memorials of English affairs up to 1625, 193 leaves, in half-vellum on marbled boards. Compiled chiefly by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary. Mid-late 17th century.
RaW 16
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.
RaW 17
Second copy, with a sidenote: ‘said to be done by Sr. W: Rawleighe’.
In: the MS described under RaW 16. c.1628.
RaW 18
Copy, headed ‘verses written by Sr walter Raleigh but twoe howers before his death’, in a section of material relating to Ralegh (pp. 43-51). c.1630.
In: A folio composite volume of political tracts, speeches and other papers, many relating to Spain and the Netherlands, v + 138 pages, in 19th-century reversed calf.
Once owned by Sir Henry Spelman (1564?-1641), historian and antiquary. Later owned by Cox Macro (1683-1767), antiquary. Christie's, February 1820 (Macro sale, Part VI), lot 112. Subsequently owned by Hudson Gurney (1775-1864), banker and antiquary, of Keswick Hall, Norfolk (Gurney MS XXX), Vol. 4, pp. 308-75). Sotheby's, 30 March 1936 (Gurney sale), lot 163.
HMC, 1891, Appendix, Pt IX, pp. 144-7.
This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 143-4, 156.
RaW 19
Copy, headed in the margin ‘Rawleighs Meditation’.
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).
RaW 19.2
Copy in: A folio and quarto composite verse miscellany, in several hands, one of them that of the writer Robert Samber (1682-c.1745), 38 leaves. Early 18th century.
RaW 19.5
Copy, headed ‘The verses Sr Walter Rawleigh made and wrote in a bible as he was going to ye place of Execution’, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves.
In: A double-folio guardbook of political and miscellaneous letters and other papers, in verse and prose, in various hands, 150 leaves, in 18th-century quarter-calf on marbled boards. Early 18th century.
Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Ex Bibliotheca dom. Catharinæ Bridgeman anno 1742’.
Even such
RaW 20
Copy, in a professional hand, untitled and subscribed ‘W.R.’c.1620s.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and other papers of the Baskervile family, in various hands, 164 leaves (with omissions). c.1590-1636.
Assembled by Hannibal Baskervile, of Sunningwell, Berkshire.
RaW 21
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘John Cooke’. c.1620s-40s.
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).
RaW 21.5
Copy in: A quarto religious diary of possibly a woman in London, covering the period from 29 September 1706 to 31 March 1707, with some verses and epitaphs in another hand at the reverse end, 31 leaves. Early 18th century.
Inscribed on the cover ‘[William] Woodman his book, 1706’.
RaW 22
Second copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh's Epitaph on his owne death - Nouemb: 1618’, subscribed ‘W.R.’.
In: the MS described under RaW 21.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 153.
RaW 23
Third copy, headed ‘His owne Epitaph’, subscribed ‘W. Raleigh’.
In: the MS described under RaW 21.
RaW 24
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, i + 23 leaves, in contemporary vellum. compiled by one John Hooper of Devon. c.1665.
The binding is a recycled vellum legal document between Christopher and Katherine Mason.
RaW 25
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘These words vnderwritten he wrote the nighte before he suffred’. c.1620s.
In: A folio collection of state papers, in various hands, 257 leaves, once in stamped calf, now disbound in folders.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 153.
RaW 26
Copy, headed ‘Verses found in Sr: Walter Raleighs Bible in the Gate howse’.
In: A folio volume of letters and state papers, in various professional hands, one secretary hand predominating, with a table of contents, 354 leaves, in black leather gilt. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 153.
RaW 27
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rauleighs Epitaph made by himselfe, & giuen to one of his the night before his sufferinge’.
In: A quarto volume of letters, tracts and speeches, 208 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. All in the hand of William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury. Mid-late 17th century.
RaW 28
Copy in Aubrey's hand, headed ‘These lines Sir Walter Ralegh wrote in his Bible, the night before he was beheaded’. Mid-late 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of letters written or sent to Wood by John Aubrey (1626-97), antiquary and biographer, ii + 461 leaves.
Among collections of Anthony Wood (1632-95), Oxford antiquary.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 153.
RaW 29
Copy, headed ‘His Epitaph, made by himselfe’ and here beginning ‘O cruell time, which takes in trust’.
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.
RaW 30
Copy, headed ‘Epitaph upon Sr Walter Rawleigh made by himselfe’ and here beginning ‘O cruell tyme, wch takes in trust’.
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.
RaW 31
Copy, headed ‘Verses found in Sr Walter Raleighs Bible in ye Gate house’.
In: A quarto volume of state letters, in several hands, 543 pages, in calf gilt. Mid-17th century.
Once owned by John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 44 of the Hopkinson MSS. Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.
This volume (when unnumbered) recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 300.
RaW 32
Copy, headed ‘Nox ante obitum. Sr. W.R. 29 october. 1618’.
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.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 153.
RaW 33
Copy, headed ‘Sr. Walter Raliegh the night before his death’, transcribed from Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651).
In: An oblong octavo miscellany of largely devotional verse and some prose, including (ff. 7v-22r) twelve poems by Crashaw, probably transcribed from Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652), in a single italic hand, written across the width of the pages with the spine upwards, with (ff. 181r-8r) a table of contents, 188 leaves, in calf gilt. Entitled Collections out of seuerall Authors by Marmaduke Raudon Eboracensis 1662: i.e. compiled by Marmaduke Rawdon (1610-69), traveller and antiquary, of Guiseley, Yorkshire, who later lived with his cousin, also named Marmaduke Rawdon, at Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, the MS including elegies on yet another (Sir) Marmaduke Rawdon (1582-1646), Governor of Basing House. c.1662.
Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849). Rodd's sale catalogue, February 1850, item 764.
Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Rawdon MS: CrR Δ 2. Crashaw's work collated in Martin (cited as A1) and discussed pp. lxxx-lxxxi.
For other Rawdon miscellanies, see Yale, Osborn MS fb 150; York Minster, MS Add. 122; and a MS sold at Puttick and Simpson's, 3 March 1870, lot 552, to Nicholls. For the Rawdon family, see H.F. Hayllar, The Chronicles of Hoddesdon (1948), pp. 52-4.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 153. See also RaW 101.
RaW 34
Copy, headed ‘Another’.
In: A small octavo verse miscellany, written from both ends, predominantly in a single hand in variant styles (ff. 1v-79v, 80r, 88v-96v, 119r-117r rev.), with additions in later hands (ff. 97r-104v, 116v-106r rev.), 164 leaves, in modern half red morocco. Inscribed (f. 1v, in a court hand) ‘Daniell Leare his Booke’, ‘witnesse William Strode’, and (f. 164r) ‘Mr Daniell Leare eius Liber’: i.e. compiled chiefly by Daniel Leare, a distant cousin of the poet William Strode, probably at Christ Church, Oxford, before he entered the Middle Temple in 1633. c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This suggestion, by Mary Hobbs, is supported by entries in the Caution Book of 1625-41 at Christ Church, where Strode is found (p. 22) paying £10 as college security for Leare and where Leare signs (p. 23) on this sum's repayment by Dr Fell on 13 May 1633. Forey suggests (p. lxxix) that he was the Daniell Leare of St Andrews, Holburne, whose will was proved in 1652; but it is more likely that he was the Daniel Leare to whom Henry King, Dean of Rochester, leased property at Chatham on 19 July 1655 (National Archives, Kew, SP 18/99/61). Daniel Leare's wife, Dorothy, was a member of the Hubert family with whom King was associated by virtue of the marriage of his sister Dorothy.
The volume includes 12 poems by Donne; 15 poems (plus a second copy of one and three of doubtful authorship) by Carew; 20 poems (plus two of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; and 84 poems (plus second copies of eight poems, four poems of doubtful authorship and some apocryphal poems) by Strode, the texts being closely related to, and in part probably transcribed from, the ‘Corpus MS’ of Strode's poems (StW Δ 1).
Inscribed also ‘John Leare’ (probably Daniel's younger brother); (f. 1r) ‘Anthony Euans his booke’ (who married Daniel Leare's niece Dorothy Leare in 1663); (f. 1v) ‘Alexander Croke his Book 1773’; and (f. 164v) ‘John Scott’ (who matriculated at Christ Church in 1632). Rimell & Son, 9 November 1878.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Leare MS’: DnJ Δ 41, CwT Δ 15, CoR Δ 4, and StW Δ 10.
Discussed in Mary Hobbs, An Edition of the Stoughton Manuscript (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1973), pp. 185-90; in her ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 189-90); and in her Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), passim, with facsimile examples of ff. 79-80 facing p. 87.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 153.
RaW 35
Second copy, headed ‘on Sr: Water Rawly’.
In: the MS described under RaW 34. c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 153.
RaW 36
Copy, headed ‘By Sir Walter Rawleigh a little before he was ledd from the Gatehouse’.
In: A folio volume of state papers and speeches, in a single professional mixed hand, 56 leaves, in half dark red morocco. Volume LXVIII of the Vernon Papers, collected principally by James Vernon (1646-1727), government official and politician, and his son Edward (1684-1757), Admiral. Presented by T.S. Vernon Cocks. c.1630s.
RaW 37
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Verses found in Sr Walter Raleighs Bible in the Gatehowse’. c.1620s-30s.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in several professional secretary hands, with (ff. 1r-12v) a ‘Tabula’ of contents, 315 leaves (including blanks), in old calf gilt.
Stamped crest on the cover of the Finch family, Earls of Winchilsea.
RaW 38
Copy, in a cursive mixed hand, written lengthways down the margin, headed ‘s Walter Rawley his Epitaph’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in possibly several hands, a cursive secretary hand predominating, ii + 77 leaves, imperfect, in contemporary limp vellum, within modern reversed calf. Owned and possibly compiled by Richard Waferer, of Buckinghamshire (name on ff. 43r and 76v). c.1597-1628.
Also inscribed (f. ii) with names of ‘Marth: Waferer’ and Walter Jesson.
RaW 38.2
Copy, headed ‘By Sr Walter Raleigh a little before he was ledd from the Gatehouse’.
In: A tall folio volume of state and historical tracts, letters and speeches, largely in a single rounded hand, ff. 35v-6r in an italic hand, with (f. 92v) a later index, ii + 92 leaves, frayed and damp-stained, in contemporary limp vellum. Volume CCCLVII (Series II) of the Dropmore Papers: papers of William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville (1759-1834), Prime Minister, of Dropmore House, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, and associated families. c.1620s-40s.
Inscribed on the rear cover the name of Sir Henry Anderson, Bt (d.1653).
RaW 38.5
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled.
In: A small quarto volume of chiefly parliamentary speeches and sermons, in several hands, two predominating, ii + 44 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary limp vellum. Owned and probably compiled in part by Knightley Chetwode, of Chetwode, Buckinghamshire, student of Lincoln's Inn (in 1623), whose name is inscribed on the cover, as is that of Jane Chetwode. c.1626.
Later in the family papers of Sylvester Douglas (1743-1823), Baron Glenbervie, politician.
RaW 39
Copy, in the hand of Ralph Starkey, headed ‘This Epetath followinge was writtene by Sr walter Ralegh the Night before he died’.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, letters and speeches, in several professional hands, 432 leaves (plus blanks), in modern crushed morocco gilt. In professional hands, including those of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), merchant and antiquary, and the ‘Feathery Scribe’.
Later owned, and annotated, by Sir Simonds D'Ewes, BT, MP (1602-50), diarist and antiquary. A note (f. 432v) by Humfrey Wanley (1672-1726), scholar and librarian, records on 30 July 1714 that eight or nine years earlier Robert Harley lent this book to Queen Anne ‘upon the account of divers Original Letters &c. written by the Royal Family’, which, on its return, Wanley extracted and inserted into a separate collection.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 235-6 (No. 45).
RaW 40
Copy, in a neat secretary hand, untitled.
In: A large folio volume of state papers and tracts, many relating to Sussex and dating up to 1627, in various secretary hands, 177 leaves, with remains of a vellum wrapper from a rubricated 15th-century antiphonal, within modern half morocco gilt. Apparently compiled for Sir Walter Covert, High Sheriff and Deputy Lieutenant in Sussex. c.1627.
The name ‘Mary Chalone’ inscribed on the vellum wrapper (f. 177r).
RaW 41
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, subscribed ‘Wal: Raleigh’. c.1620s.
In: A folio composite volume of state and legal tracts, papers and speeches, in several hands, with (f. 4r) an ‘Index’ of contents, 338 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 153.
RaW 41.5
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio volume of state tracts and miscellaneous extracts, largely in one professional secretary hand, 183 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘The 2. day of Janvarie .1617. <erasure> begun to be wrytten - by my man John May. / P W’[?]. c.1618-20s.
RaW 42
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘verses found in Sr walter Rayleighs Bible in the Gatehouse’. c.1620s.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters, in vavious professional hands, 194 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Early-mid-17th century.
RaW 43
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘By Sr W: Rawleigh the morn a little before he was ledd from ye Gatehouse’. c.1618.
In: A folio composite volume of letters and tracts, in various hands, 49 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Collected by James Butler (1610-88), first Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
RaW 44
Copy, headed ‘Sr W: Raleigh de seipso’ and here beginning ‘Euen such is tyme yt takes in trust’.
In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous tracts, poems and other papers, in various hands, 329 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Fols 1r-82r comprise a separate collection of verse and some prose, possibly in a single predominantly secretary hand with some variants of style, the first leaf (f. 1) inscribed in another hand ‘Poems by Wm: Browne of the Inner-Temple Gent &c / 1650’, this possibly applying to the poems up to f. 62v, which is subscribed ‘ffinis W Browne’. c.1637-50.
This volume comprising Parts 1-3, 5, 8-13, of what was formerly a single composite volume but is now bound in three volumes.
Inscribed (f. 280v) ‘Philip Butler his book’.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 153.
RaW 45
Copy, on a leaf pasted in at the end of the volume.
In: A quarto volume of alchemical treatises and receipts, 117 leaves. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 153.
RaW 46
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The verses following were made by Sir Walter Rawleigh the night before his death at the gate house’. c.1620.
In: A large folio guard-book of independent state papers, in various hands, 86 leaves.
RaW 47
Copy, headed ‘Verses made by Sr Waltr Rawly at his beheading’.
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.
RaW 47.5
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh, a man of such Admirable Parts that he is More to be admired then sufficiently praised, this following Epitaph was made by himself’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, predominantly in one female roman hand, written from both ends, 174 pages, in contemporary calf. Compiled by members of Sir Thomas Browne's family, chiefly his daughter Elizabeth Lyttelton (b. c.1648), containing various works in verse and prose including copies of a passage by Sir Thomas on consumptions (p. 43), a list of books which he had Elizabeth read out to him (pp. 44-5), copies of notes by him (pp. 77-76 rev.), his poem ‘Upon a Tempest at Sea’ (pp. 94-93 rev.) and verses beginning ‘the Almond flourisheth ye Birch trees flowe’ (p. 72); some of the verses in other hands including poems by Donne, Corbett, Wotton, Cartwright, William Browne, Ralegh, Katherine Phillips and others. Late 17th century.
Inscriptions (p. 1) ‘Mary Browne’ (who d.1676) and ‘James Dodsley’ and (p. 174) ‘Mar. 11th 1713/4 The gift of Mrs Lyttelton to Edward Tenison’. Percy Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1240. Bookplate of the Royal College of Medicine, London. Owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (Bibliotheca Bibliographici, No. 1301).
This MS volume described in [Geoffrey Keynes], ‘A Daughter of Sir Thomas Browne’, TLS (4 September 1919), p. 420. Discussed in Victoria E. Burke, ‘Contexts for Women's Manuscript Miscellanies: The Case of Elizabeth Lyttelton and Sir Thomas Browne’, Yearbook of English Studies, 33 (2003), 316-28. Edited selectively by Geoffrey Keynes as The Commonplace Book of Elizabeth Lyttelton, Daughter of Sir Thomas Browne (Cambridge, 1919). The passages by Browne also edited in Keynes, I, 120-1, and III, 236-7, 331-2.
RaW 47.8
Copy in: A volume of transcripts made by by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary.
RaW 48
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘W: R:’.
In: A quarto volume of state tracts and letters, largely written in one secretary hand, entries at the reverse end in a different hand, 281 leaves (including 90 blanks). Early-mid-17th century.
Inscribed at the end ‘T ed: Kenett’.
RaW 48.5
Copy, in a roman hand, headed ‘written by Sr Water Ravlige before his Death a fewe dayes’.
In: A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Welsh, in several hands, 161 pages, in contemporary limp vellum. Compiled, at least in part, by Philip Powell of Brecon (‘Phillip Powell his booke’ on p. 2), referring (p. 63) to his being committed to Newgate prison for three years on or by 1 March ‘1633’ (his wife not having come to see him ‘once’) and with a reference (p. 45) to ‘My ffather Thomas Powell’, a distant cousin of Edward Games, the first recorder of Brecknock. Other names inscribed including Thomas and Richard Powell, and with a note dated 1812 (p. 4) by ‘Thomas Lawrence’, who purchased the MS at the sale of the library of Theophilus Jones (1759-1812), Brecknockshire county historian. c.1632-48.
RaW 48.6
Copy, in a neat secretary hand, headed in the margin ‘Sr water Ralige before his Death beHeaded’.
In: the MS described under RaW 48.5. c.1632-48.
RaW 48.8
Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, headed ‘Sr Water Raulighs meditation’, on the first page of a single octavo leaf of verse probably extracted from a miscellany. c.1620s-30s.
RaW 49
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh’.
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).
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 153.
RaW 50
Copy, headed ‘Sir W: Rawleighs Epitaph made by himselfe’.
In: A quarto volume of works by or relating to Sir Walter Ralegh, largely in a single stylish hand, with later additions after f. 106v probably in another hand, 113 leaves (ff. 29v-106v blanks), in contemporary calf. Probably chiefly in the hand of Andrew Card, who inscribes f. 5r ‘Ex libris Andreæ Card 1674’. c.1674-84.
Bookplate of Richard Cranmer [i.e. Richard Dixon (d.1828), of the manor of Mitcham, Surrey, who claimed descent from Archbishop Cranmer.
RaW 51
Copy, here beginning ‘Euen such is time that takes in trust’, subscribed ‘made by himselfe, the night before his execucon’.
In: A MS containing four texts relating to Ralegh, in a professional secretary hand, on four folio leaves (the last page blank). c.1620s.
Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D 258/67/6b
Recorded in HMC, 9th Report, Part II (1884), Appendix, p. 386b.
RaW 52
Copy, in the hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleys Epitaph written by himselfe the night before his execution’ and here beginning ‘Euen such is time that takes in trust’.
In: A single half-folio leaf containing on one side two copies of Ralegh's ‘Epitaph’ in different hands. c.1620-18th century.
Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D258/67/33a.
RaW 53
Copy, in a cursive italic hand, probably of the 18th century, headed ‘Sir Walter Rawleys Epitaph written by himselfe the night before his execution’, here beginning ‘Even such is time that takes in trust’.
In: the MS described under RaW 52. c.1620-18th century.
RaW 53.5
Copy, headed ‘His Epitaph made by himselfe’.
In: A volume comprising two works by Ralegh. Early-mid-17th century.
Sir William Dugdale, Merevale Hall, Bundle XVII/22 in Horse-hair trunk, [unnumbered page].
RaW 54
Copy, in an italic hand. c.1620s.
In: A folio composite miscellany of verse, prose, and dramatic works, in several hands, an independant unit on ff. 88r-111r, in a single hand, containing, inter alia, twenty poems by Donne, 117 leaves (plus seventeen blanks), in contemporary vellum, with remains of ties. c.1630.
Inscribed (f. 134v) ‘Anthony Methuen’. Later owned by members of the Wyndham family, including probably the Henry Penruddocke Wyndham (1736-1819), topographer. Sotheby's, 11 April 1872, lot 1331, to David Laing.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Laing MS’: DnJ Δ 47.
RaW 55
Copy, headed in the margin ‘his Epith.’
In: A folio volume principally of scullery and kitchen accounts, largely in a single secretary hand, 74 leaves, in modern calf (repaired). Probably connected with the Royal Establishment and kept by David Young, servant of the Scullery, who was presumably related to Sir Peter Young (1544-1628), royal tutor and diplomat, who is cited in the volume at least twice. c.1628-38.
RaW 56
Copy, headed ‘The night before hee died’.
In: A miscellany, belonging to the Smyth family of Hill Hall, Essex. c.1620.
RaW 57
Copy, headed ‘This Epitath ffollowinge was wrytten, by Sr: Walter; Ralegh the night before he dyed’, in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’.
In: A folio volume of state letters and tracts, in two professional secretary hands, predominantly that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 334 leaves, plus an index in an italic hand (f. 375r), in modern half vellum on marbled boards.
Sotheby's, 4 July 1955 (André de Coppet sale), lot 950, to Maggs. Formerly Folger MS Add. 35.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 262-5 (No. 108).
RaW 58
Copy, headed ‘Verses found in Sr Walter Rauleighs Bible in ye Gatehowse’.
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’.
RaW 59
Copy, headed ‘Verses found in Sr. Walter Raleighs Bible in the Gatehowse’.
In: A quarto volume of state letters, in a single professional hand, xxvi + c.955 pages (misnumbered around pp. 895-6), including a table of contents (and plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, remains of ties. c.1630s.
RaW 60
Copy, headed ‘Sir Walter Ralegh of himself’.
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.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 154.
RaW 61
Copy, inscribed ‘Sir Gualter Raleigh’ as a heading.
In: the MS described under RaW 60. c.1637-51.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 154.
RaW 62
Copy, headed in the margin ‘Tyme’ and here beginning ‘Whie this is time that takes in trust’, subscribed ‘Sr W: Ral:’.
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.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 154.
RaW 63
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawlighes verses the nighte before he was beheaded in London 1619’.
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.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 154.
RaW 64
Copy, in an italic hand, headed ‘Verses made by himselfe’.
In: A quarto volume of documents by or relating to Ralegh, 81 pages in all, in contemporary limp vellum. Comprising printed exempla of A Declaration of the Demeanor and Cariage of Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight, aswell in his Voyage, as in, and sithence his Returne (London, 1618) and The humble petition...of Sir Lewis Stucley (London, 1618), with ten MS leaves at the beginning and two at the end, in at least two secretary and italic hands. c.1620.
Formerly Folger MS Add. 402.
RaW 65
Copy, headed ‘Verses found in Sr Walter Raleighs Bible in the Gate house’.
In: A folio volume of state letters and papers, in several professional secretary hands, 1050 pages (plus a 24-page ‘Tabula’ of contents at the end), in calf. c.1630s.
Formerly MS F. 2. 20.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 154.
RaW 66
Copy, headed ‘The wourdes vnderwritten he wrote the nighte before he suffred’.
In: A folio volume of state tracts, in several secretary hands, with a title-page ‘A manuscript containing seuerall Discourses the heades thereof are in the next Page following...1641’, 350 pages, in half calf marbled boards. c.1642.
Bookplate of the Honourable Frederic North. Phillipps MS 7511. Sotheby's, 26 June 1967, lot 596 (incorrectly described as a commonplace book of Sir Thomas Crewe, Speaker of the House of Commons (d.1634)). Formerly Folger MS Add. 538.
A microfilm is in the British Library (RP 154).
RaW 66.5
Copy in: A folio volume comprising a collection of epitaphs, in a single neat italic hand, entitled ‘Delectus Epitaphiorum Anglo-Latinorum Tam Veterum quam Recentiu’, 74 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1664-1705.
Pencil inscription on front pastedown: ‘Charles A. Cole[?] June 26 '64’. The rear cover stamped ‘R. S. 1705’.
RaW 67
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled. c.1620.
In: A large folio composite volume of state papers, letters and speeches, in English and Latin prose and verse, in various hands, 58 items, i + 449 leaves.
Given by William Moore.
RaW 68
Copy, headed ‘Sr walter Rawleigh hys verses written in his byble a lyttell before his deathe’ and here beginning ‘Yeouen suche ys tyme wch takes in haste’.
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.
Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 35A, p. 80. Recorded in Latham (1929), p. 166, and in Latham (1951), p. 154.
RaW 68.5
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleighs Epitaph written himself the night before he suffered’.
In: An octavo composite miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, relating to angling, 284 pages (lacking pp. 161-84), in quarter-calf marbled boards. In several neat, small, chiefly italic hands, one on pp. 1-203 that of Nathaniel Bridges, of Magdalen College, Oxford, whose inscription on f. [iiir] is dated ‘1694’. c.1691-early 18th century.
Bookplate of George Weare Braikenridge, Broomwell House. A flyleaf is inscribed by him, November 1834, ‘The Book belonged to the late Dr. Nathl. Bridges Lecturer of St Mary Radcliffe & St Nicholas in the City of Bristol & purchased out of a private sale of his library at his decease.’ Other names inscribed after p. 212 including ‘William Trumbu[ll]’, ‘Joseph Brampton 1691’, and ‘Hen Sacheverell / Coll. Magd.’. A later bookplate inside the lower cover: ‘Gift of Daniel B. Fearing of Newport, 1915’.
RaW 70
Copy, headed ‘Verses found in Sr. Walter Raleighs Bible in the Gatehowse’.
In: A folio volume of transcripts of state letters, in a single professional hand, 209 pages plus a three-page table of contents, in vellum. c.1630s.
Later owned by the antiquary Michael Lort (1725-90). Bookplate of Edmund Turner. Sotheby's, 24 October 1972, lot 383, to Alan Thomas.
RaW 71
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, written on the address leaf of a folio autograph letter by Richard Blackall, to Sir Lionel Cranfield, 27 October 1618. c.1618.
Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of de la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent. Formerly EN M1012.
Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 314.
RaW 72
Copy, in Twysden's hand, headed ‘part of an Epytaph made by Sr water Raugley beefore he sufferd’.
In: A quarto commonplace book, in an italic hand, xii + 758 pages, the great majority blank, in a recycled vellum membrane from a 14th-century missal. Compiled by Sir Roger Twysden (1597-1672), antiquary. c.1618-26.
RaW 73
Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, untitled, here beginning ‘Eaven such is tyme that takes in trust’.
In: A folio volume of documents by or relating to Sir Walter Ralegh, in several professional hands, iv + 30 leaves (including five blanks), in paper wrappers. c.1620s.
The upper wrapper inscribed ‘Cha Kemeys’. Bought from Maggs, 23 April 1953, by Annie Winifred Bryher (née Ellerman, d.1983). Afterwards owned by the Ralegh scholar Agnes Latham (1905-96), of Pickering, North Yorkshire.
RaW 73.5
Copy, headed ‘The coppy of that wch was deliver'd by Sr Walter Rawley to the Deane of Westminster upon the scaffold, for his Epitaph’.
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.
RaW 74
Copy, untitled, indexed (f. 13v) as ‘Verses made by Sir walter Rawleigh’.
In: A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in several hands, 283 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Compiled principally by one ‘Jo. Tempest’. Mid-17th century.
Inscribed inside the front cover ‘G. J. Farsyde Fylingdales in Whitby 1826 / These M S. were found amongst the papers of my Uncle Watson Farsyde’. Peter Murray Hill, sale catalogue No. 72 (1960), item 22.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. q. 9, f. 17r.
RaW 74.5
Copy, headed ‘verses I made the Last nyght I Liued’ and subscribed ‘Walter Rawleygh’, on a small slip of paper pasted down on page ccxxxii in a printed exemplum of William Oldys, The Life of Sir Walter Ralegh (London, 1736). Early-mid-17th century.
Owned by the Historical Society of Philadelphia.
Library Company of Philadelphia, *Am 1736 Old Accession No. AqE83 0 44.
RaW 75
Copy, in the hand of John Goodyer, on the back of a draft letter dated from his lodgings at the Red Lyon in Fleet Street, London, 7 November 1618.
In: A volume of papers of John Goodyer (c.1592-1664), botanist.
Edited from this MS in R.T. Gunther, Early British Botanists and their Gardens (Oxford, 1922), p. 32. Recorded in Latham, p. 156.
RaW 76
Copy, headed ‘Epitaphe Sr W R. by himselfe’.
In: A folio composite miscellany compiled entirely by William Drummond of Hawthornden, including (ff. 165r-6v, 246r-7v) copies of, or brief extracts from, nineteen poems by Donne, 300 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt. c.1618-20s.
Among the collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. VIII.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Drummond Miscellany: DnJ Δ 66. Some extracts from this MS edited in Laing (1831), pp. 78-82. ‘Drummond's Catalogue of Comedies’ (ff. 122-3). Recorded in MacDonald, Library of Drummond, pp. 231-2.
Edited from this MS in David Laing, ‘Extracts from the Hawthornden Manuscripts’, Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 4 (1833), 225-40 (p. 238), and in Rudick, No. 35B, p. 80. Recorded in Latham, p. 153.
RaW 77
Copy, in a roman hand, untitled. c.1640s.
In: A folio composite volume of verse, prose and dramatic works, in various hands, written over a period from both ends, 543 pages (including blanks), in contemporary panelled calf with remains of metal clasps. Compiled by members of the Salusbury family of Llewenni, Denbighshire, including works by Sir Thomas Salusbury, second Baronet (1612-43), poet and politician. Early-mid 17th century.
Later owned by J. Baskerville-Glegg, of Withington Hall, Chelford. Sotheby's, 14-16 March 1921, lot 421.
RaW 78
Copy, in a cursive mixed hand, subscribed ‘Sr wa: Rawghleygh knt wrytten ye daye hee died’. c.1640s.
In: the MS described under RaW 77. Early-mid 17th century.
RaW 79
Copy, on a slip pasted at the bottom of the third page.
In: Copy of two texts relating to Sir Walter Ralegh, on a pair of conjugate folio leaves. Early-mid-17th century.
Later owned by André de Coppet (1892-1953), New York financial broker. Sotheby's, 5 July 1955 (De Coppet sale), lot 984.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Acc. No. 7482, [item 2].
RaW 80
Copy, untitled.
In: Copy of texts relating to Ralegh's execution, in a secretary hand, on two unbound conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1618-20s.
RaW 81
Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, here beginning ‘Euen soe is tyme, who takes in trust’, subscribed ‘Walter Raleigh’, on a small slip of paper once part of a leaf folded as a letter or packet. c.1620s.
RaW 82
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled, on one side of a half-folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1620s.
RaW 83
Copy, headed ‘Verses found in Sr Walter Raleighs Bible att the Gatehowse’, followed by two lines in Latin.
In: A folio volume of state letters, in several professional secretary hands, with a lengthy ‘Tabula’ of contents, xxx + 558 pages, in old vellum boards. c.1637.
Recorded in HMC, 6th Report, Part I (1877), p. 306.
RaW 84
Copy in the hand of one Humphrey Holden, headed ‘Sr. Walter Rawleigh wrote these verses ye night before his Execution. Oct 28 1618’, written on the first unsigned leaf in Holden's printed exemplum of Ralegh's The History of the World (London, 1614), in modern morocco. c.1620.
Edited from this MS in E.V. Unger and W.A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), III, 846. Facsimile in Henry Stevens, Son, & Stiles, catalogue No. 177 (1927), Plate XII.
RaW 85
Copy, headed ‘These ensueing verses are sayd to bee written, by Sr. Walter Raleigh, in the prison of the Gatehouse, the same morneing hee suffered’.
In: A folio volume of accounts of Ralegh's arraignment and execution, in four professional predominantly secretary hands, 103 pages (an unnumbered blank leaf after p. 52), in 19th-century morocco. c.1620.
Later owned, in 1821, by William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector, in 1863 by John Dillon, and afterwards by Alfred Morrison (1821-97), manuscript and art collector.
Recorded in HMC, 9th Report, Appendix, Part II (1884), p. 408. Described in E.V. Unger and W.A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), III, 857-8.
This MS partly collated in E.V. Unger and W.A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), III, 858.
RaW 86
Copy, headed ‘Upon Sr Walter Rawleigh made by himself before he was beheaded’, added in a late 17th-century hand.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including seventeen poems by Donne and fifteen by Strode, the main part in a single hand, 334 pages (but pp. 3-4 extracted, and including a later index). Possibly compiled by one ‘W: H:’: i.e. probably William Holgate (1618-46), of Queens' College, Cambridge, with late 17th-century additions apparently made by other members of the Holgate family, of Saffron Walden and Great Bardfield, Essex. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
Owned in the early 18th century by John Wale, who supplied the index on pp. 330-3. Owned before 1927 by Col. W.G. Carwardine-Probert, of Bures, Suffolk (descendant of the Holgate family).
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Holgate MS’: DnJ Δ 58. Briefly discussed in W.G.P., ‘Verses by Francis Beaumont’, TLS (15 September 1921), p. 596, and in E.K. Chambers, William Shakespeare, 2 vols (Oxford, 1930), II, 222-4. Also discussed, with facsimiles on pp. 68 and 70 of pp. 181 and 13, 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. For facsimile pages see DnJ 2931 and ShW 25. Complete microfilm in the Essex Record Office (T/A 98).
RaW 87
Copy, headed ‘Verses found in Sr. Walter Raleighs Bible in ye Gatehouse’.
In: A small quarto volume of state letters and papers, in a single secretary hand, 704 pages, in quarter-calf boards. With a letter by James Gairdner (1828-1912), historian, returning this volume to Edward William Cox (1809-79), lawyer and publisher, 20 January 1886. Mid-17th century.
Gift of Mr Roland L. Redmond, 1942.
RaW 88
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, here beginning ‘Yeven such is tyme wch takes in trust’, with a sidenote ‘des carmes faits par Sr walt: Rawleigh le iour deuant qu'il fut execute Ao. dni. 1618. Nouemb.’, in a quarto booklet. c.1620s.
In: A folio guard-book of Jacobean state papers, stamped foliation 1-165.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 154.
RaW 89
Copy, headed ‘Made by sr W: Raleigh the morning before his death and deliuerd to the deane of westminster alittell before his ende’, at the foot of the second page of a folio leaf. c.1618.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 187 leaves, in red morocco.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 154.
RaW 90
Copy, headed ‘Sir Walter Ralleighe his Epitaph made by himselfe the Morninge when he was put to death’.
In: the MS described under RaW 6.5. c.1642.
RaW 91
Copy, headed ‘Write by Sr. walter Rawleygh when he was in the Gatehouse’, among other papers relating to Ralegh. c.1620s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, letters and speeches, in various hands, 614 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.
RaW 92
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh the night before his death’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single mixed hand varying over a period, entitled in another hand Recueil Choisi De Pieces fugitives En Vers Anglois, 214 pages, in modern calf. c.1713.
Afterwards owned by Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon (1728-1810). Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9500. 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.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 154.
RaW 93
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleighs epitaph: by himselfe made’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including fifteen poems by Donne, with a title-page ‘Miscellanies Or A Collection of Diuers Witty and pleasant Epigrams, Adages, poems Epitaphes &c for the recreation of ye ouertravelled sences: 1630 Robert Bishop’, in a single mixed hand, probably associated with the University of Oxford, 306 pages, in old calf. c.1630.
Owned and probably compiled by Robert Bishop. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9549. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue, English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 187.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the ‘Bishop MS’: DnJ Δ 59. Edited in David Coleman Redding, Robert Bishop's Commonplace-Book: An Edition of a Seventeenth Century Miscellany (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1960) [Mic 60-3608].
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 154.
RaW 94
Copy, headed ‘The morneing before his execucon’.
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.
RaW 95
Copy, in a secretary hand, with a lengthy preamble about Ralegh's conduct before his execution, concluding ‘Going out of the prison, he gave certeyne verses in English to his Keeper, wch bycause they seme not to rellish an astonished invention, I thought good here to annexe them: His last verses’, the text followed by ‘answers’.
In: A large folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 198 pages, in quarter-vellum boards.
Trinity College, Cambridge, MS O. 5. 21 (James 1302), (20), p. 183.
RaW 95.5
Copy, in double columns, headed ‘When Kinge James the firste sente sente [sicWorde to Sr Walther Ralegh that he shod dy. he called for a pen & wrote these verses’.
In: MS verses on a flyleaf in a printed exemplum of Ralegh's The History of the World (London, 1621), a folio in contemporary calf. c.1620s-30s.
Inscribed (f. [ir]) ‘Ed: Rudd Trin: Coll: Cant: 1700’.
RaW 96
This is a duplicate of RaW 315.
Deleted entry, Dr Williams's Library, MS Jones B. 60, p. 367.
RaW 97
Copy, headed ‘Verses hee made the night before hee dyed’.
In: An octavo volume of works by, or attributed to, Ralegh, in several largely secretary hands, 282 pages, in contemporary velum. c.1620s.
Owned in 1732 by the Rev. John Jones (1700-70), of Abbots Ripton and Alconbury, near Cambridge.
This MS discussed in Lefranc (1968), pp. 584-5.
RaW 97.5
Copy, headed ‘On ye same W R.’
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.
RaW 98
Copy, headed ‘1616. [sic] Sr Walter Rawley, nox ante obitum’ and subscribed ‘These verses were made the night before he lost his hed’.
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’.
RaW 98.5
Copy, as an epitaph used for a monument to Wilfred Lawson.
In: A quarto commonplace book of extracts, compiled by Elizabeth Elliotson, 330 pages. 1729.
RaW 99
Copy, headed ‘Sr W. Rawleigh's Epitaph on Himself’.
In: A folio miscellany entitled Epitaphs Collected 1694, 42 pages. c.1695.
RaW 100
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Sr. Walter Rawleighs Epitaph in his Bible by him made’.
In: A group of five different sized folio leaves, paginated 412-416, now disbound. Comprising verse and prose texts by or relating to Sir Walter Ralegh. and the Duke of Buckingham. c.1625-30s.
Once belonging to Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary. Later owned by Hudson Gurney (1775-1864), of Keswick Hall, Norfolk, banker and antiquary.
Recorded in HMC, 12th Report. IX (1891), p. 161.
Formerly part of Gurney MS XXXIII at Keswick Hall, Norfolk, this MS recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Appendix IX (1891), p. 161. See also RaW 811.
RaW 101
Copy, headed ‘Sr walter Rawleighs Epitaph made by himselfe’.
In: A quarto miscellany of religious and political prose and verse, in English and Latin, in several secretary, italic and mixed hands, 318 leaves (including blanks, foliated on versos), in contemporary vellum boards. Compiled over a period (entries dated between 1621 and 1667) by members of the family of Sir Marmaduke Rawdon (1583-1646), merchant, shipowner and royalist soldier. Mid-17th century.
Inscribed (f. 278r) ‘Mary Elliston october the 27 1763’ and ‘Mary Elliston Collchester’. Later owned by Edward Hailstone (1818-90), of Walton Hall, Wakefield, botanist and book collector.
RaW 102
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleigh His Verses, wrytten in a voide place of his Bible the night before his death, in the Gatehouse’. Apparently appended to a printed exemplum of Newes from London (November 1618). c.1618.
Formerly among the papers of the Trevelyan family, of Trevelyan, near Lostwithiel, Cornwall (but not among the Trevelyan papers now in the Somerset Record Office).
This MS edited in Trevelyan Papers, ed. John Payne Collier, III, Camden Society 105 (London, 1872), 154-5.
RaW 102.5
Copy, headed ‘Sir Walter Rawleigh his Epitaph wreaten be himselfe before his death which was in @nno i6i8. Being beheaded in ye parliamt yeard att west=minster @nno forsaide’.
In: A large octavo verse miscellany, chiefly lampoons and poems on affairs of state, including 21 poems by Rochester and various others in the Rochester apocrypha, nearly 600 pages in all, with a 14-page index. Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6. c.1705.
RaW 103
Copy, here beginning ‘Even so dooth tyme take up withe truste’.
In: A miscellany, compiled by Adam Winthrop (1548-1623), father of John Winthrop (1588-1649), first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 1618-23.
Formerly owned by the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Discussed in Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1st Ser. 13 (1873), 83-98.
Edited from this MS in Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, p. 98. This publication recorded in Latham, p. 154.
RaW 104
Copy, in the hand of William Trumbull (1576/80-1635), English Resident at Brussels, headed ‘Sr walter Raleye was beheaded at Westminster the <blank> of October 1618 / His Epitaph written by himselfe the night before he suffered’. c.1620.
In: Ralegh's History of the World (London, 1614), first edition, folio, in 18th-century half-calf.
Formerly in the Trumbull library owned by the Marquess of Downshire, at Easthampstead Park, Berkshire. Sotheby's, 19 July 1990, lot 33, to Simon Finch.
RaW 105
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Eauen such is time that takes in trust’, in the hand of Peter Middelton.
In: Exemplum of Ralegh's The History of the World (London, 1614) with MS verses. c.1618?.
Owned by Peter Middelton (fl.1620s), Royal Chaplain. Sold in the 1980s by Joseph & Sawyer, booksellers.
The Excuse (‘Calling to minde mine eie long went about’)
First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, p. 10. Rudick, Nos 9A and 9B (two versions, pp. 9-10).
RaW 106
Copy, subscribed ‘Wa: Ralegh’.
In: the MS described under RaW 10.5. c.1620s-37.
This MS collated in The Phoenix Nest, ed. H.E. Rollins (Cambridge, Mass., 1931), pp. 178-9; recorded in Latham, p. 101.
RaW 107
Copy in: A folio verse miscellany, entirely in the professional secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, containing some 76 poems, including eleven by Donne, later inscribed (erroneously) ‘Sir John Haringtons Poems Written in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth’, 56 leaves, in contemporary vellum. c.1620s-33.
From the library of Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755), nonjuring bishop and topographer.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Rawlinson MS’: DnJ Δ 38. Also briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 277 (No. 94), with facsimile examples on pp. 102-3.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 102.
RaW 108
Copy, headed ‘A ffancy’.
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.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 102.
RaW 109
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under RaW 1. c.1586-91.
This MS collated in Rollins, pp. 178-9; recorded in Latham, p. 102.
RaW 110
Copy, headed ‘A ffancy’.
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.
This MS collated in Rollins, pp. 178-9; recorded in Latham, p. 102.
RaW 110.5
Copy of a version, in a cursive secretary hand, imperfect, lacking the first two stanzas, and here beginning ‘Repentinge folly that myn eye had soe deceived me’.
In: A tall folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in verse and prose, in several hands, 87 leaves, in 19th-century mottled leather. Possibly assembled by a barrister of the Middle Temple.
This MS recorded in Steven W. May, Sir Walter Ralegh, pp. 29 and 140 n. 6. Edited from this MS in Carlo M. Bajetta, ‘Unrecorded Extracts by Sir Walter Ralegh’, N&Q, 241 (June 1996), 138-40.
RaW 111
Copy, headed ‘To his Loue’, subscribed ‘Sr Walt: Raleigh’.
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.
Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 9B, p. 10. Collated in Rollins, pp. 178-9. Recorded in Latham, p. 101.
RaW 112
Copy, untitled.
In: An independent quarto verse miscellany, including 47 poems by Donne, in two secretary hands. Constituting ff. 230r-99v in a quarto composite volume of verse and prose, in various hands, 308 leaves, in modern half green morocco gilt. c.1620-33.
Among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son, Edward, second Earl of Oxford (1681-1741), and acquired in 1722 from the bookseller Nathaniel Noel (fl.1681-c.1753).
Cited in IELM I.i as the ‘Harley Noel MS’: DnJ Δ 2.
This MS collated in Rollins, pp. 178-9. Recorded in Latham, p. 102.
RaW 113
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in an accomplished mixed hand throughout, with headings or incipts in engrossed lettering, 194 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco. c.1596-1601.
This MS volume discussed in Katherine K. Gottschalk, ‘Discoveries concerning British Library MS Harley 6910’, MP, 77 (1979-80), 121-31.
This MS collated in Rollins, pp. 178-9; recorded in Latham, p. 102.
RaW 114
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘FINIS. RA’.
In: A quarto composite verse miscellany, comprising three miscellaneous MSS in different hands, 151 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. Fols 11r-78r, largely in a single secretary hand, comprising a verse miscellany compiled by the antiquary St Loe Kniveton, of Gray's Inn. c.1585-90s.
Edited from this MS in Rudick (No. 9A), p. 9. Recorded in Latham, p. 102.
RaW 115
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Sir Walter Rawlyegh’.
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.
RaW 115.5
Copy of the last two lines, untitled and here beginning ‘But whe I saw myselfe to you was true’.
In: the MS described under RaW 47. c.1640.
RaW 116
Copy, untitled, inscribed in the margin ‘W.R.’
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 Latham, p. 102. May, Stanford, pp. 81-2 (No. 109).
RaW 117
Copy, untitled, ascribed to ‘Sr Wa: Raleighe’.
In: A folio volume of state letters, speeches and verse, in a single neat italic hand. c.1620s.
Among the papers of the Fuller family of Brightling Park. Possibly once owned by Ambrose Trayton of Lewes, Esquire of the Body to James I and Charles I.
RaW 118
Copy, untitled.
In: An oblong quarto verse miscellany, in three accomplished secretary hands, xvi + 52 pages (including blanks), being a fragment of a larger volume, now mounted in an album, in russia gilt. c.1590-1600s.
Inscribed (on an affixed slip of paper) ‘Anne Cornwaleys her booke’ [i.e. probably Anne Cornwallis (d.1635), who on 30 November 1610 became Countess of Argyll]; (p. 34) ‘Ed Philips his Book 1740’; ‘Robert Thomas not his Book 1740’; (p. [xvi]); ‘Sam: Lysons’ [i.e. Samuel Lysons (1763-1819), antiquary]. Afterwards owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Bright sale, Part II (18 June 1844), to Thorpe. Then owned by Dr Thomas Russell and his son the Rev. John Fuller Russell (1813-84), ecclesiastical historian (who has signed the MS ‘John F. Russell’ on p.[i]); by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector, and then in the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.112.
Discussed in William H. Bond, ‘The Cornwallis-Lysons Manuscript and the Poems of John Bentley’, Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, DC, 1948), pp. 683-93, and 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. (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 102.
RaW 119
Copy, headed ‘A Lover to his Mistresse’, ascribed at the side to ‘Sr W. R:’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, arranged (Part I) as an anthology, under genre headings, the reverse end (Part II) largely occupied by a later series of Latin verses, epistles, and other exercises, 168 leaves, in old calf (rebacked). Part I probably in several hands, the predominant italic hand that also responsible for the ‘Welbeck MS’: DnJ Δ 57), and including 21 poems by Donne. c.1630 [-1677].
Part I inscribed (f. 1r) ‘John Smyth his Book 1640’, ‘Charles Smyth 1674’, ‘Hugh Smyth 1676’; (f. 23v) ‘J Smyth 1677 / 1676’. Part II inscribed several times ‘Thomas Smith’, on f. 19r also ‘Die: Maij 12o Ano 1659’, with a reference on f. 58v to Balliol College, Oxford, 1659/60. Later inscribed (f. [ir]) by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), who records buying ‘this very curious and interesting MS. of Messrs Boone’. Afterwards in the library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1. 28.
Cited in IELM, I.i, as the ‘Thomas Smyth MS’: DnJ Δ 48.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 102.
RaW 120
Copy, headed ‘A Fancy’.
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.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 102.
RaW 121
Copy, headed ‘A fancy’ and here beginning ‘Callinge to minde eyes went longe aboute’.
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.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 102.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), pp. 106-7.
RaW 122
Copy, headed ‘Sr W. R. / A Lover on his Mistresse’.
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).
RaW 122.5
Copy, untitled.
In: A small quarto miscellany of anecdotes, aphorisms, verses, etc., in two hands, compiled by Sir Francis Fane (c.1612-80), 193 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Inscribed by Fane on f. 1r ‘Aug: 24: 1629 / Franciscus Fane’ and, later, as a bequest to his three grandsons to be read by them when aged 21, dated from Fulbeck, 5 May 1672. c.1629-72.
Sold by Maggs, 29 May 1930.
RaW 122.8
Copy, headed ‘A Louer to his Mrs’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, of English and Welsh verse and prose, in probably several hands, the English verse (on pages 9-70, 93-104) including eleven poems by Strode and two of doubtful authorship, 110 pages (plus stubs of extracted leaves). Compiled by members of the Griffith family, of Llanddyfnan, the verse probably entered by one or more of the various members of that family who studied in this period at the University of Oxford. Mid-17th century.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Griffith MS’: StW Δ 26.
RaW 123
Copy, headed ‘A Fancie’ and here beginning ‘Calling to minde mine eyes about’.
In: A sextodecimo verse miscellany, written from both ends in several hands (two principal ones on ff. 6r-40r, 41r et seq. respectively), 102 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf, with remains of metal clasps. Including 45 poems by Strode and three poems of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.
Formerly Box 22, item II.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the ‘Osborn MS II’: StW Δ 30.
A Farewell to false Love (‘Farewell false loue, the oracle of lies’)
First published, in a musical setting, in William Byrd, Psalmes, Sonets & songs (London, 1588). Latham, pp. 7-8. Rudick, Nos 10A (complementing Sir Thomas Heneage's verses beginning ‘Most welcome love, thow mortall foe to lies’) and 10B, pp. 11-13.
The poem based principally on a poem by Philippe Desportes: see Jonathan Gibson, ‘French and Italian Sources for Ralegh's “Farewell False Love”’, RES, NS 50 (May 1999), 155-65, which also cites related MSS.
RaW 124
Copy, headed ‘A quip for Cupide’, the heading and lines 1-7 in the hand of Sir John Harington.
In: the MS described under RaW 10. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 235, pp. 274-5.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 162v.
RaW 124.5
Copy, in a five-part musical setting by William Byrd.
In: A MS songbook. Once owned by one Thomas Myriell. Early 17th century.
Bibliothèque Royale, Brussels, Belgium, MS II. 4. 109 (Fétis 3095), pp. 110-11.
RaW 125
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under RaW 1. c.1586-91.
Edited from this MS in The Complete Works of John Lyly, ed. R. Warwick Bond (Oxford, 1902), III, 471-2; collated in Hughey, II, 384-5; recorded and the last stanza edited in Latham.
RaW 126
Copy of the incipit only (here ‘Fairweill fals loue’), in a musical setting.
In: A small oblong folio part book, for the Bass voice, of vocal and instrumental music, the lyrics in a single formal secretary hand, 71 leaves, in modern half dark red morocco. Compiled (and signed at the foot of every page) by David Melvill, of Aberdeen, brother of James Melvill (1556-1614), Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages. Early 17th century.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘William Forbes [? of Tolquhon, near Aberdeen] Ought this Book 1705’. Bookplate of ‘W. H. S. F[orbes] L[eigh]’.
RaW 127
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘FINIS. RA’.
In: the MS described under RaW 114.
Edited from tis MS in Rudick, No. 10B, pp. 12-13. Collated in Hughey, II, 384. Recorded in Latham, p. 100.
RaW 128
Copy of the final couplet, here beginning ‘ffalse love; Desire; and Bewty fraile, Adiew’.
In: the MS described under RaW 114.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 100.
RaW 129
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under RaW 118. c.1590-1600s.
This MS collated in Hughey, II, 384. Recorded in Latham, p. 100.
RaW 130
Copy of an untitled three-stanza version beginning ffarwell falce loue thow oracle of lies, ascribed in the margin to ‘Mr Rawleigh’ and subscribed ‘ffinis R’.
In: A folio miscellany of verse, dramatic and heraldic works, 78 leaves (including some blanks), in contemporary limp vellum. c.1572-97.
Sotheby's, 17 June 1969, lot 492. Purchased from Hofmann and Freeman 1970.
A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 349.
The text accompanied by a companion poem by Sir Thomas Heneage (d. 1595) beginning ‘Most welcome love thou mortall foe to lies’. Edited from this MS in Bertram Dobell, ‘Poems by Sir Thomas Heneage and Sir Walter Raleigh’, The Athenaeum (14 September 1901), p. 349. Collated from that publication in Hughey, II, 384. Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 10A, pp. 11-12. Recorded in Latham, p. 100.
A microfilm of the MS is in the British Library (RP 349).
RaW 131
Copy of a four-stanza version, untitled.
In: A quarto booklet of verse, ff. 1r-10r in a cursive secretary hand, additions afterwards in other hands, sixteen leaves (ff. 12-13 stubs), unbound. Early 17th century.
Owned in 1781 by the Rev. John Williams (1760-1826), of Llanrwst.
RaW 132
Copy of a four-stanza version, in a neat secretary hand, untitled, on one side of a folio leaf. c.1600.
In: A folio guard-book of miscellaneous tracts, letters and papers, in various hands, 264 leaves.
This MS recorded in Pierre Lefranc, ‘A Miscellany of Ralegh Material’, N&Q, 202 (January 1957), 24-6.
RaW 132.5
Copy, in a musical setting.
In: A music book. Compiled largely by Thomas Hamond (d.1662), of Cressners, in the parish of Hawkedon, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
Discussed in Ian Payne, ‘George Kirbye (c. 1565-1634): Two Important Repertories of English Secular Vocal Music Surviving Only in Manuscript’, MQ, 73, No. 3 (1989), 401-16.
‘Fortune hath taken thee away my love’
Six lines cited in George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie (London, 1589). Latham, p. 9. The full text first published as a broadside in London, 1592 (?): see TLS (12 September 1968), p. 1032. This poem is related to the song “Fortune my foe”: see TLS, 30 May 1968, p. 553. Rudick, Nos 15A, 15B, 15C and 15D (four versions, pp. 19-22), followed by the Queen's answer (p. 23: see ElQ 38).
RaW 133
Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, in six quatrains beginning ‘Fortune hathe taken away my love’, with a lengthy marginal note by William Oldys.
In: A square-shaped folio miscellany of state letters and papers, largely in a single secretary hand, ii + 119 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. Compiled by someone in the household service of Henry Stanley (1531-93), fourth Earl of Derby, possibly Martin Heton (1552-1609), subsequently Bishop of Ely. c.1583-9.
Later owned by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary; by Nathaniel Booth, of Gray's Inn, in 1737, when it was also used by William Oldys (1696-1761), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary; by Thomas Thorpe (in his sale catalogue, 1820, Part I, item 2); and by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector (Phillipps MSS 19 and 3602). Sotheby's, 30 November 1971, lot 527, and 27 June 1977, lot 4941. Owned in 1978 by A.G. Thomas, London bookseller. Purchased on 9 April 1986 from Pickering & Chatto.
Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 15A, pp. 19-20. Walter Oakeshott, The Queen and the Poet (London, 1960), prints the lines beginning ‘In vain mine Eyes, in vain ye waste your tears’ (p. 154) as if a separate poem but reproduces a facsimile of this MS facing p. 157. Facsimile of the first two stanzas also in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 27 June 1977, p. 63.
RaW 134
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled and unascribed.
In: An octavo composite miscellany of verse and prose, in several secretary, italic and mixed hands, 190 leaves (irregularly numbered), in contemporary limp vellum. c.1580s-1615.
Inscribed (inside front and rear covers) ‘Robert Thornton’ and ‘William Sherida / Wm Sheridan.’
Edited from this MS in L.G. Black, ‘A Lost Poem by Queen Elizabeth I’, TLS (23 May 1968), p. 535, and in Rudick, No. 15C, p. 21.
RaW 135
Copy, in six quatrains, in a left-hand column, headed ‘A sonnett’.
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.
Edited from this MS in Queen Elizabeth I: Selected Works, poem 7a, pp. 14-15, and in Rudick, No. 15D, p. 22.
‘Hir face, Hir tong, Hir wit’
First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). Latham, p. 80. Rudick, No. 11, pp. 14-15. This poem was perhaps written jointly by Ralegh and Sir Arthur Gorges: see Lefranc (1968), p. 95.
RaW 136
Copy of the first stanza, headed ‘To his Mris’.
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.
RaW 137
Copy of a two-stanza version, here beginning ‘Your face; your tongue; your witt’.
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.
This MS collated in The Phoenix Nest, ed. E. H. Rollins (Cambridge, Mass., 1931), pp. 174-5; recorded in Latham, p. 160.
RaW 138
Second copy of a two-stanza version, untitled, also beginning ‘Your face; your tongue; your witt’.
In: the MS described under RaW 137. Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Rollins, pp. 174-5; recorded in Latham, p. 160.
RaW 139
Copy of a six-stanza version, headed ‘Vnto his Loue’.
In: the MS described under RaW 111. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Rollins, pp. 174-5; recorded in Latham, p. 160.
RaW 140
Copy of a two-stanza version, headed ‘To his Mistresse’ and here beginning ‘Yr Face, yr Tongue, yr witt’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 49 leaves, outer leaves imperfect, in modern calf gilt. Including twenty poems by Carew, eleven poems by Crashaw on ff. 10-30 passim, and fifteen poems by Strode. c.1630s.
Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1834), item 728. Acquired from C. Booth, October 1857.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Thorpe MS’: CwT Δ 12, CrR Δ 3, StW Δ 9.
This MS collated in Rollins, pp. 174-5; recorded in Latham, p. 160.
RaW 141
Copy of a six-stanza version made by an amanuensis of Sir Arthur Gorges.
In: An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all. Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth). c.1586-1625.
Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.
Edited from this MS in The Poems of Sir Arthur Gorges, ed. H.E. Sandison (Oxford, 1953), No. [79], pp. 77-8. Recorded in Latham, p. 160.
RaW 142
Copy of a six-stanza version, subscribed in different ink ‘Raley’.
In: the MS described under RaW 114.
Edited from this MS in Sandison, pp. 210-11m and in Rudick, No. 11, pp. 14-15.. Recorded in Latham, p. 160.
RaW 143
Copy of an untitled six-stanza version, here beginning ‘Your face your tongue your witte’, in treble columns.
In: the MS described under RaW 116. c.1581-1612.
Printed from this MS in Sandison, p. 211. Recorded in Latham, p. 160. May, Stanford, pp. 117-18 (no. 193).
RaW 144
Copy of the first stanza, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and some prose, in several italic and mixed hands, written probably over a period from both ends, 72 leaves, in contemporary vellum. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, p. 450.
John Rylands University Library of Manchester, English MS 410, f. 21r.
RaW 145
Copy, headed ‘A Propheticall Poesie’ and here beginning ‘Your face, your toungue, your wit’.
In: A miscellany compiled by one John Moulton. c.1625.
Colbeck Radford, sale catalogue No. 3 (1929), item 81, and No. 9 (1930), item 192.
This MS recorded (but not seen) in Rollins, p. 175. The first stanza edited in Sandison, p. 210.
‘I am that Dido which thou here do'st see’
A translation of Ausonius's Epigram 117 (“Ille ego sum Dido vultu quam conspicis hospes”), first published in The History of the World (London, 1614). Rudick 36.61 (pp. 99-100).
RaW 145.5
Copy of both Ausonius's epigram and Ralegh's translation, in a predominantly italic hand. On the final blank page in a printed exemplum of Symbolarum libri XVII quibus P Virgilii...per Jacobum Pontanum de Societate Jesu (Lyons, 1604). c.1620.
‘If Synthia be a Queene, a princes, and supreame’
First published in Hannah (1870). Latham, p. 24. Rudick, No. 24, p. 47.
*RaW 146
Autograph, on one side of a folio leaf. Late 16th century.
Edited from this MS by all editors.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 144/238.
‘In vain mine Eyes, in vain ye waste your tears’
See RaW 133-135.
The Lie (‘Goe soule the bodies guest’)
First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.
This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, ‘Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine’, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's ‘answer’ to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.
RaW 147
Copy, untitled, headed in a different hand ‘Satyr on all things’. Early 17th century.
In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous state tracts, speeches, and verse, in various largely professional hands, iv + 413 leaves (including a thirty-page index and some blanks), in half-calf (rebacked). Transcribed from the Yelverton papers chiefly belonging to Sir Christopher Yelverton (1535?-1612), Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), and their family.
Owned in 1679 by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 131.
RaW 147.5
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on a sheet of paper, with an endorsement by Henry Stanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, ‘Latworthes satyre against’ (sic). c.1600.
RaW 148
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio volume of state letters and tracts, in various hands.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, fonds anglais n° 149, f. 73r.
RaW 149
Copy of an adaptation of the poem.
In: A small quarto writing book of extracts and exercises, predominantly in a female roman hand, 20 leaves, bound with two other independent verse MSS (MSS Ashmole 49 and 50), in half-calf on marbled boards. Early-mid-17th century.
Inscribed (f. 18v rev.) ‘Ann: Bowyr’, evidently the principal compiler.
Facsimile and transcription of this MS in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), pp. 340-1.
RaW 150
Copy of lines 1-54, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleighes farewell’.
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.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 129.
RaW 151
Copy of lines 1-54; imperfect, lacking the ending.
In: The greater part of a quarto commonplace book of extracts, compiled by Edward Pudsey (1573-1613), iii + 104 leaves, in 19th-century green morocco gilt. Four leaves of this commonplace book are in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, ER 82/1/21. c.1604-9.
Owned in 1615-16 by one ‘Bassett’ and in the 1880s by Richard Savage. At the Neligan sale, 2 August 1888, lot 1098. Bought by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), and his sale 4 July 1889, lot 1257.
All the Shakespearian texts except Othello were edited from this MS in Richard Savage's Shakespearean Extracts (1887). The MS also edited in Juliet Mary Gowan, An Edition of Edward Pudsey's Commonplace Book (c.1600-1615) (unpublished M. Phil., University of London, 1967). It was then found that the miscellany lacked several of its original leaves, including extracts from six plays by Shakespeare. These leaves were rediscovered in 1977 among Savage's papers at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, ER 82/1/21, and the Othello extracts identified by Gowan. The MS also discussed in J. Rees, ‘Shakespeare and “Edward Pudsey's Booke”, 1600’, N&Q, 237 (September 1992), 330-1, and in Fred Schurink, ‘Manuscript Commonplace Books, Literature, and Reading in Early Modern England’, HLQ, 73/3 (2010), 453-69 (pp. 465-9), with a facsimile of f. 31r on p. 467.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 131.
RaW 151.5
Copy, transcribed from RaW 161.
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.
RaW 152
Copy, headed ‘Sir Walter Rawley his Lye to ye Worlde’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, apparently a presentation MS, 133 pages (including blanks), plus index, in half-calf. Including twenty poems by Randolph, plus ten of doubtful authorship (some here ascribed to ‘T.R.’), in two hands (A: pp. 3-99; B: pp. 1, 99-129), with some scribbling and one heading in other hands on pp. 3, 98 and 133; a poem on p. 1 (beginning ‘Loe here a sett of paper=pilgrimes sent’) dedicatingthe collection [‘To ye] Incomparably vertuous Lady the Lady Harflette’: i.e. Afra (d.1664), wife of Sir Christopher Harflete of Canterbury. c.1640.
Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Harflete MS: RnT Δ 2.
RaW 153
Copy, with two additional stanzas, headed ‘Dr Latworthe lye to all estates’.
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.
This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 129, 134-5 and in Höltgen, p. 435
RaW 154
Copy, headed ‘W R farewell made by D: Lat:’.
In: A small octavo miscellany of verse and prose, written from both ends, i + 155 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum. Compiled by an Oxford University man. Early 17th century.
This text accompanied by Latewar's answer. Edited from this MS in Höltgen, pp. 435-8; in Rudick, No. 20B, pp. 34-41; and in online Early Stuart Libels. Recorded in Latham, pp. 129-30.
RaW 155
Copy, untitled, together with an answer beginning ‘Stay Conick soule thy errante’, arranged in parallel columns, on both sides of a folio leaf. Late 16th-early 17th century.
See also DaJ 88.
In: A guardbook of separate verse items extracted from the bound volumes MSS Tanner 306/1 and 306/2.
Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 20C, pp. 42-4. Recorded in Latham, p. 131.
RaW 156
Copy in: the MS described under RaW 30. Mid-late 17th century.
RaW 157
Copy, with two additional stanzas, transcribed from an earlier MS, headed ‘A Lye to the World or The Farewell’, the ascription ‘By Sir Wa: Raleigh’ deleted in favour of ‘By the royall Earle of Essex’, with Cole's notes at the side.
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 Latham, pp. 129, 134-5.
RaW 158
Copy, headed ‘The Souls Errand’, transcribed from an unidentified source, sent with a letter by Nathaniel Ogle to Sheridan, from Southampton, 12 January in 1803, as ‘a Copy of the vigorous verses written by the great Sir Walter Raleigh, after his condemnation’.
In: A square-shaped folio composite volume of papers largely relating to the playwright R.B. Sheridan, in various hands and paper sizes, 78 leaves, mounted on guards, in half red morocco. 1803.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 130.
RaW 158.5
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, subscribed in a different hand ‘finis a rich ballet entitled Sr. ffoole yow lye’, on the first three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter. Early 17th century.
In: A collection of unbound verse manuscripts, in various hands and paper sizes (chiefly folio), 142 leaves. Partly compiled by Sir Richard Browne and his father Christopher Browne (1577-1646), of Saye's Court, Deptford.
Volume LXVII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford. Acquired March 1995.
RaW 159
Copy of a fifteen-stanza version, in double columns, in a professional secretary hand, untitled. c.1600s.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous verse, drama and other papers, in English, French and Latin, in various professional hands, 168 leaves, in modern brown leather gilt.
This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 131, 134-5.
RaW 159.5
Copy, in a secretary hand, with corrections, on one side of a folio leaf, heavily damp-stained, imperfect and lacking a heading. Early 17th century.
In: A double-folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 80 leaves, mounted on guards, in half-morocco.
Presented by Carew Reynell.
RaW 160
Copy, in double columns, untitled.
In: the MS described under RaW 113. c.1596-1601.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 131.
RaW 161
Copy, headed ‘Satira Volans’ and here ascribed to ‘Doctor Latworth’.
In: A verse miscellany, in long narrow format, 66 leaves (including a number of blanks), in later calf. Largely in one neat secretary hand; a second hand on ff. 58v-9r, and a third on f. 66r. Compiled chiefly by a University of Cambridge man. c.1630s.
Once owned by F. W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Bequeathed in 1894 by Samuel Sandars, of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth and Claude J. Summers, ‘Recovering an Important Seventeenth-Century Poetical Miscellany: Cambridge Add. MS 4138’, TCBS, 7 (1978), 156-69 (pp. 160-1). A 19th-century transcript of much of this MS is in the Bodleian, MS Firth d. 7, ff. 60r-9r.
A 19th-century transcript of this MS is in the Bodleian, MS Firth d. 7, f. 146.
RaW 161.5
Copy, headed ‘Sr Gualter Rawly his farewell’, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.
In: A composite folio volume of verse.
Among the papers of the families of Kitson (and later of Gage) of Hengrave Hall, Suffolk. An inscription records ‘These MSS. poems were found in the Belfry of Hengrave Church Among the title deeds’.
Edited from this MS text in Carlo M. Bajetta, ‘Unrecorded Extracts by Sir Walter Ralegh’, N&Q, 241 (June 1996), 138-40.
RaW 162
Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, subscribed ‘Wa: Raleigh’.
In: the MS described under RaW 49. c.1600-1620s.
Edited from this MS in Grosart, The Dr Farmer MS (1873), I, 114-17, with a facsimile of the last page. Recorded in Latham, pp. 129, 134.
RaW 162.5
Copy, in double columns, headed ‘An Errand to the Soul’, unascribed.
In: A quarto miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, inscribed (f. ir) in another hand ‘A Collection of Religious Poems &c. by an uncertain Author. Some are borrowed from Dr. J. Watts. There is another vol. larger Quarto’, iii + 299 leaves, in modern cloth. Early 18th century.
Adam Clarke, sale catalogue (1835), p. 84, item 172. His sale London, 20 June 1836, lot 361. Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 1027, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9616 = 21542. Dobell & Radford's sale catalogue The Ingatherer, No. 11 (1930), item 211.
RaW 163
Copy, headed ‘Satyra Volans. A flying satyre made by Dr Lateware’, ‘St. Johns’ added in the margin.
In: the MS described under RaW 119. c.1630 [-1677].
This MS recorded in Latham and Höltgen, p. 435.
RaW 164
Copy, untitled, inscribed as a heading ‘Sir Walter Rawley’, subscribed ‘See ye rest immediately before’.
In: the MS described under RaW 63. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 129.
RaW 165
Copy, in an italic hand, with corrections in another hand, untitled, subscribed in another hand ‘Anne Southwell’.
In: A tall folio composite volume chiefly of verse, entitled The workes of the Lady Ann Southwell Decemb: 2o 1626, assembled from the papers of Lady Ann Southwell (1573-1636), including (ff. 59r, 60v-1r) an inventory of her goods and (f. 64v-5v) a list of her books, in several hands, including hers and that of her second husband Henry Sibthorpe, as well as that of John Sibthorpe (? Henry's father), whose brief contributions date from 1588, 74 leaves (plus a few tipped-in), in 19th-century calf gilt. c.1626-36.
Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1836, item 1032. In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8581. Sotheby's, 19808 (Phillipps same), lot 699, to Bertram Dobell. Acquired from P.J. and A.E. Dobell by Henry Clay Folger in 1927. Formerly Folger MS 1669.1.
Complete edition of this volume, with facsimile examples, in The Southwell-Sibthorpe Commonplace Book: Folger MS. V.b.198, ed. Jean Klene, C.S.C. (Tempe, Arizona, 1997). Also discussed by Jean Klene, with facsimile examples, in ‘“Monuments of an Endless affection”: Folger MS V.b.198 and Lady Anne Southwell’, EMS, 9 (2000), 165-86, and discussed, with facsimiles of f. 9r-v, in Victoria E. Burke, ‘Materiality and Form in the Seventeenth-Century Miscellanies of Anne Southwell, Elizabeth Hastings, and Jane Truesdale’, EMS, 16 (2011), 219-41.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 130. Edited in Klene (1997), pp. 2-4, with a facsimile on p. [165]. Facsimile and transcription also in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), pp. 336-7, 339.
RaW 166
Copy, untitled, on the recto of a tipped-in folio leaf (with folds). c.1595.
In: the MS described under RaW 6. c.1637.
Edited from this MS in Josephine Waters Bennett, ‘Early Texts of Two of Ralegh's Poems from a Huntington Library Manuscript’, HLQ, 4 (1940-1), 469-75 (pp. 471-2), and in Rudick. Recorded in Latham, p. 131.
RaW 166.5
Copy, headed ‘The sowles Errand’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose generally on affairs of state, in several hands, one neat hand predominating, vii + 701 pages, in contemporary blind-stamped calf with metal clasps. c.1690s.
Inscribed (f [ir]) ‘Tho: Mercer’. Later bookplate of Charles Gordon of Beldorny and Wardhouse. Sotheby's, 14 December 1976, lot 21.
RaW 167
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Satyra volans’.
In: A quarto composite memorandum book of English, Welsh and latin verse and prose, in several hands, 100 leaves, in a contemporary limp vellum wrapper within modern half red morocco. Compiled over a period, at least in part, by various members of the Lloyd family of Llwydiarth. Early 17th century-1672.
Inscriptions including (f. 3r) ‘Mounta: Lloyd 1671’ and (f. 49r) ‘David Wms. his Book beeing Mrs Anne Lloyds Guift’, and with other references to David Lloyd, Elizabeth Lluyd, Robert Lluyd, Jane Lloyd, and Hugh Lloyd. Probably Quaritch's sale ‘Catalogue of English Literature’ (August-November 1884), item 22351. Formerly Sotheby MS B. 2.
National Library of Wales, Wynne (Bodewryd) MS 6, ff. 66r-7r.
RaW 168
Copy, headed ‘Satyre volans. Or a flying Satyre made by Dr Latewarr of St Johns.’
In: the MS described under RaW 122. c.1630s.
This MS recorded (as MS Taverham) in Latham, p. 129, and in Höltgen, p. 435.
RaW 170
Copy of a fifteen-stanza version, in a cursive italic hand, in double columns, untitled, on both sides of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. Early 17th century.
Sotheby's, 23 March 1900 (John Waller sale), lot 159 (erroneously described as ‘autograph’). Once owned by William Augustus White (1843-1927), American banker and collector. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.
This MS collated and additional stanzas edited in Samuel Tannenbaum, ‘Unfamiliar Versions of Some Elizabethan Poems’, PMLA, 45 (1930), 809-21 (pp. 810-14). Recorded in Latham, pp. 130, 134-5.
RaW 171
Copy, ascribed to ‘Sr W.R.’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small mixed hand throughout; 425 pages (plus an eight-page index), in contemporary calf. Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1634.
The initials ‘T. C.’ stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 189.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Rosenbach MS II’: CwT Δ 32, CoR Δ 12, and StW Δ 24. Discussed in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 193-5).
This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 130-1.
RaW 172
Copy, headed ‘Sir Walter Wrayly his lye’.
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.
Formerly Rosenbach 186, and once owned by John Payne Collier; printed from this MS in Tannenbaum, pp. 811-13; recorded in Latham, p. 129.
RaW 173
Copy of lines 1-16, set out as five lines, untitled.
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.
RaW 174
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.
RaW 175
Copy, untitled, probably transcribed from RaW 174.
In: A folio verse miscellany comprising 56 poems, including 29 by Donne, in several hands (two predominating), 34 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern cloth. Much of the volume (including 24 poems by Donne on ff. 15r-31v) evidently transcribed from the Dalhousie MS I (Texas Tech University, PR 1171 D14) and the text of some poems (including ff. 9r-11r) corrected from that MS. c.1622-9.
Inscribed (f. 1r) with the date 28 September 1622 and, in possibly a child's hand (f. 1v), ‘Andrew Ramsey’. Formerly among the muniments of the Earl of Dalhousie (descendant of the Maule and Ramsay families), of Brechin Castle, on deposit in the Scottish Record Office (GD45/26/95/2). Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 491, and 12 December1982, lot 49.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Dalhousie MS II’: DnJ Δ 12. Complete reduced facsimile and transcription in The First and Second Dalhousie Manuscripts: Poems and Prose by John Donne and Others: A Facsimile Edition, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Columbia, 1988). Also discussed in The Donne Dalhousie Discovery, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan, II and David J. Murrah (Lubbock, TX, 1987), and in ‘The Renaissance Manuscript Verse Miscellany: Private Party, Private Text’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, ed. W. Speed Hill (Binghamton, 1993), pp. 289-97.
Facsimiles of f. 10v in Sotheby's sale catalogue, and of ff. 20v and 26r in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), pp. 320-1. Complete microfilms of the MS are in the National Archives of Scotland and in the Brirish Library, RP 2441.
RaW 176
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.
Formerly MS G.2.21, this MS recorded in Latham, p. 131.
RaW 176.5
Copy, headed ‘Sr Water Raulies farewell to ye wourld’.
In: the MS described under RaW 122.8. Mid-17th century.
RaW 176.8
Copy, in an italic hand, headed ‘Verses by Sir Walter Ralwigh Knt. from a [ ? ] of Sir Walters, & suppos'd to have been written the night before his execution’. Early 17th century.
In: A guardbook of miscellaneious documents. Volume II of a collection of ‘Miscellanea Curiosa’ assembled by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist and antiquary.
RaW 177
Copy, headed ‘A Lye to the world Penned by Sr: W: Raleigh’.
In: the MS described under RaW 97. c.1620s.
RaW 177.3
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleigh to all ye world’.
In: the MS described under RaW 97.5. c.late 1630s.
RaW 177.5
Copy, untitled, written on a page between entries for 26 July 1601 (f. [41v]) and June 1606 (f. [42v]).
In: A folio memorandum book of accounts and of verse and prose on current events, with entries dating from 1592 to 1641, 170 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum boards. Compiled over a period by members of the Stringer family, including Francis and Thomas Stringer. c.1592-1641.
Bookplate of Sir Thomas Brooke, Bt, FSA (1830-1908), Yorkshire antiquary and book collector, of Armitage Bridge.
Like to a Hermite poore (‘Like to a Hermite poore in place obscure’)
First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). Latham, pp. 11-12. Rudick, Nos 57A and 57B (two versions, pp. 135-6).
RaW 178
Copy in: the MS described under RaW 10. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 194, pp. 240-1. The Nott transcript recorded in Latham, p. 104.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 145v.
RaW 179
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under RaW 1. c.1586-91.
This MS collated in Hughey, II, 314; recorded in Latham, p. 104.
RaW 179.5
Copy, in a musical setting by Nicholas Lanier, untitled and here beginning ‘Like Hermitt poore, in pensive place obscure’.
In: A folio songbook, almost entirely in a single rounded italic hand, with (ff. 3r-7v) a table of contents, 113 leaves, in 19th-century half dark red morocco. Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer (his signature f. 2v). c.1654-70s.
Arms of Eleanor Bursh on a seal affixed to f. 56r. Later owned and annotated in pencil by Thomas Oliphant (1799-1873), music editor and cataloguer.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 5 (New York & London, 1986).
This MS recorded in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 7.
RaW 180
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed in italic ‘Incerti Authoris’ and here beginning ‘Like Hermite poore in pensive place obscure’.
In: A folio miscellany of state papers, verse and prose, in several hands, vi + 105 leaves, in a recycled 13th-century vellum text, now within modern half dark red morocco. Compiled by Sir Edward Hoby (1560-1617), politician and diplomat. c.1580s-90s.
Bookplate of George Dunn (1865-1912), of Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead, Berkshire, antiquary. Sotheby's, 11 February 1914 (Dunn sale), lot 1198.
This MS collated in Hughey, II, 313-14; recorded in Latham, p. 104.
RaW 180.5
Copy of the second and third stanzas, in a musical setting, here beginning ‘my foode shall bee’.
In: A tall folio composite miscellany of chiefly music and heraldic and genealogical material, in various hands and paper sizes, 45 leaves, in contemporary leather gilt with stamped initials ‘R A’ and arms of James I within modern half morocco. Volume XXII of the collections of Warren Royal Dawson (1888-1968), antiquary.
Associated with the Aston family of Aston, Cheshire, and probably once owned by Sir Roger Aston (d.1612), Master of the Great Wardrobe to James I and his heirs. Also inscribed with the names of [James?] Davies, an officer serving under Sir Charles Morgan during the Thirty Years War, and Thomas Davies. One section linscribed (f. 12r, c.1682-6) ‘Sylvanus Stirrop His Booke’. Bought by Warren Dawson at Sotheby's 1931.
This volume described in Pamela J. Willetts, ‘Silvanus Stirrop's Book’, Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, No. 10 (1972), 101-7, 156.
RaW 181
Copy, here beginning ‘Like hermite poore, in pensive place obscure’.
In: the MS described under RaW 113. c.1596-1601.
This MS collated in Hughey, II, 314; recorded in Latham, p. 104.
RaW 182
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rayleyes last Eligie’, here beginning ‘Like Hermite poore in pensiue place obscure’.
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.
Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 57B, p. 136. Recorded in Latham, p. 104.
RaW 183
Copy, headed in a later hand ‘The despairing Lover’, here beginning ‘Lyke hermit pure in pensiue place obscure’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a Scottish secretary hand, paginated 5-132, bound with a later verse MS on 98 pages, in brown calf. c.1630s-40s.
Bookplate of John Pinkerton (1758-1826), historian and poet. Sotheby's, April 1812 (Pinkerton sale), lot 593, to Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 1104, to Thomas Thorpe. His catalogue, 1836, bought by Laing.
RaW 184
Copy, here beginning ‘Like Hermit poore in pensive place obscure’.
In: A sextodecimo miscellany of verse and topographical prose, probably in a single small cursive hand, 78 leaves, written from both ends, Part I foliated 1r-33r, Part II foliated 1r-45r, in old calf. c.1650s-60s.
Inscribed (Part I, f. 1r) ‘Mr John Oldhams Booke’ [i.e. the poet John Oldham (1653-83)]. Inscribed (Part II, f. 1r) ‘James Bateman’ [(b.1633/4) of Christ's College, Cambridge], and ‘Robert Pierrepont’ [either the son of Col. Francis Pierrepont, M.P. (d.1659), or the third Earl of Kingston (1650/1-82), of Holme-Pierrepoint, Nottinghamshire, Oldham's patron]. Formerly Folger MS 621.1.
Described in F.P. Hammond, ‘A Commonplace Book owned by John Oldham’, N&Q, 224 (December 1979), 515-18.
This MS collated in Hughey, II, 314; recorded in Latham, p. 104.
RaW 184.5
Copy, headed ‘Dispair’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, predominantly in a single non-professional hand, iv + 214 pages, in contemporary calf. Inscribed (p. 211) ‘I ended this book Novr. 13th 1723’. c.1723.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 15, pp. 119-20.
RaW 184.8
Originally a copy in a musical setting, listed in the table of contents (as ‘Like hermit poore’) but now lacking.
In: A folio songbook, largely in a single secretary hand, with poems and (reversed) culinary and medical receipts in later hands at the end, imperfect or incomplete, now 27 leaves, lacking half the songs listed in a ‘Table’ at the end. c.1620s-30s.
The original cover inscribed ‘Ann Twice her booke’. Inscribed on the first page ‘My Cosen Twice Leftte this Booke with me...which is to be returne to her AGhaine...’. Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.
A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 11 (New York & London, 1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, ‘“Songs Vnto the Violl and Lute” -- Drexel Ms. 4175’, Musica Disciplina, 16 (1962), 73-92.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4175, No, ix .
RaW 185
Copy, in a musical setting.
In: A folio music book, containing 327 songs, in three largely secretary hands, with a ‘Cattalogue’ of contents, 229 leaves. Owned (in 1659) and partly compiled by the composer John Gamble (d.1687), with some misnumbering. c.1630s-50s.
Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.
A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 10 (New York & London, 1987). Discussed in Charles W. Hughes, ‘John Gamble's Commonplace Book’, M&L, 26 (1945), 215-29.
A musical setting first published in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). A setting by Nicholas Lanier first published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres (London, 1652). This MS collated in Hughey, II, 316.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 15.
RaW 185.3
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in various hands, including seventeen poems by Carew, a title-page inscribed ‘A book of Verses / Seria mixta Jocis’, c.260 pages, in calf blind-stamped ‘V/I F 1667’. References to ‘Westminster Drollerie’ (which was not published until 1671) added on pp. 1 and 242. c.1667-8.
Inscribed on the title-page ‘Frendraught Legi’: i.e. by James Crichton (d.1674/5), second Viscount Frendraught. Bookplate of Thomas Fraser Duff (1830-77), of Woodcote, Oxfordshire. Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 9 April 1987, lot 272 (with a facsimile of p. 131 in the sale catalogue), sold to Quaritch.
RaW 185.5
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Like hermit poore’.
In: A folio formal verse miscellany, comprising c.406 poems, many of them song lyrics, in various neat hands, compiled probably over a period, 8 blank leaves (pp. [i-xvi]) + 10 unnumbered pages of poems (pp. [xvii-xxvi]) + 9 numbered pages (pp. 1-9) + ff. [9v]-151v + 12 leaves at the end blank but for a poem on the penultimate page (f. [11v]), in contemporary calf gilt. Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
Inscribed (f. [ir]) ‘Sr Robert Killigrew / 1702’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.
Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, ‘Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?’, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 27v.
RaW 185.8
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Like Hermit poore in pensive place obscure’.
In: A folio formal verse miscellany, in a single rounded hand, 259 pages (plus a three-page index), in modern boards. The contents, the latest of which (on pp. 203-7) can be dated to a marriage that took place in November 1656, reflect the taste of Interregnum Royalist sympathisers. c.Late 1650s.
Formerly in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 4001. Sotheby's, 29 June 1946, lot 164, to Myers. Then in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
RaW 186
Copy, headed ‘Cant: 3’; imperfect.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, 54 leaves, imperfect (chewed by rodents), lacking covers. Compiled by Herbert Aston (1613-88/9), poet, son of Walter Aston, Baron Aston of Forfar (1584-1639), of Tixall, Staffordshire, diplomat. c.1634.
Inscribed on f. iv‘Her: Aston [monogram] the 29 of July an: D: 1634’.
RaW 187
Copy in: A folio verse miscellany, in vellum. Late 17th century?
Inscribed on the front cover ‘William Turner his booke, 1662’ and, on the rear paste-down ‘Catherine Gage's Booke’: i.e. Catherine Gage, Lady Aston (d.1720). Formerly among the papers of the Aston family, of Tixall, Staffordshire.
Poems selectively edited from this MS (as his ‘Third Division: Poems Collected by the Right Honourable Lady Aston’) in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 107-205.
Edited from this MS, as ‘Despair’, in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 115-16. Recorded in Latham, p. 104.
Untraced Tixal MSS, Tixall MS 3, [unspecified page numbers].
‘My boddy in the walls captived’
First published in Hannah (1870). Latham, pp. 24-5. Rudick, No. 25, p. 48.
*RaW 188
Autograph. Late 16th century.
Edited from this MS by all editors. Facsimiles in T. N. Brushfield, A Bibliography of Sir Walter Ralegh Knt, 2nd edition (Exeter, 1908), facing p. 143; in Flower & Munby, English Poetical Autographs, Plate 2; and in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 13.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 144/239v.
‘Nature that washt her hands in milke’
See RaW 297-304.
The Nimphs reply to the Sheepheard (‘If all the world and loue were young’)
One stanza published in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). First published complete in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Latham, pp. 16-17. Rudick, Nos 45A and 45B, pp. 117, 119-20 (two versions, as ‘Her answer’ to Marlowe's poem on p. 116 and as ‘The Milk maids mothers answer’) respectively. For the companion poem by Marlowe, which accompanies most of the texts of Ralegh's ‘reply’, see MrC 10-19.
RaW 189
Copy of lines 1-16, 21-4, in an unidentified secretary hand, headed ‘The Aunswere’ and here beginning ‘If that the Worlde and Loue were yong’, imperfect, gnawed by rodents.
In: Copy of an alchemical tract by Simon Forman, predominantly in a single hand, 20 folio leaves, dated (f. 20v) 10 November 1598, bound with five other alchemical tracts, in contemporary calf. November 1598.
The MSS collected, and partly written, by Dr Simon Forman (1552-1611), astrologer and medical practitioner.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 112; facsimile in John Bakeless, The Tragicall History of Christopher Marlowe (Cambridge, Mass., 1942), II, facing p. 184.
RaW 190
Copy, headed ‘Her answer’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 114 leaves, bound with a printed exemplum of Thomas Watson's <GREEK> or Passionate Centurie of Love (London, [1581?]). Compiled by John Lilliat (c.1550-c.1599). c.1590s.
This MS volume printed in full, with facsimile examples, in Liber Lilliati: Elizabethan Verse and Song (Bodleian MS Rawlinson Poetry 148), ed. Edward Doughtie (Newark, DE, 1985).
Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 45A, p. 117. Recorded in Latham, p. 112.
RaW 191
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, written lengthways down the margin, untitled.
In: the MS described under RaW 38. c.1597-1628.
RaW 191.5
Copy, headed ‘The Milk-Maid's Mothers's Answer to Mr Marlow's Milk-Maid's Song. written by Sr Walter Raleigh’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in one hand, written from both ends, 32 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco. c.1630s.
RaW 192
Extract.
In: The detached cover of an octavo book, bearing inscriptions in a mixed hand, now enclosed in modern brown morocco. c.1620s-30s.
With a lengthy note by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.
RaW 193
Copy, headed ‘The milke maids mothers answer’.
In: the MS described under RaW 184. c.1650s-60s.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 112.
RaW 194
Copy, in an italic hand, headed in the margin ‘Responc’, unascribed.
In: A folio miscellany of state papers, religious verse and prose, and legal material, in several secretary hands, written over a period from both ends, 143 leaves (including a number of blanks), in a vellum wrapper (a recycled rubricated Latin text) within a contemporary leather wallet binding (rebacked), with straps. c.1572-1608.
Inscribed variously ‘James Ware his Book’: i.e. Sir James Ware (1594-1666), antiquary and historian; (‘henry Streite’, ‘william rise’, ‘Bartholomew Roche’, and ‘John Anderson’. Including copies of indentures relating to John Glascock of London, John Ellis of Gray's Inn, and Edward Johnson, goldsmith, of London. Inscribed (f. [2r], ? by Ware) ‘Qre whether this booke did belong to John Thornburgh [1551-1641] sometime Bp of Limrick & deane of York. vid fol: 13.’ Later among the manuscripts of the Carew family at Crowcombe Court, Somerset. Formerly Folger MS 297.3 and MS V.b.75.
Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 372. Briefly discussed by Fr Herbert Thurston in The Month, vol. 86, No. 379 (1896), pp. 33-4.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 112. Facsimile in A.D. Wraight and V.F. Stern, In Search of Christopher Marlowe (London, 1965), p. 130.
RaW 195
Copy of lines 1-6, headed ‘The Answer by Sr Arthur’, apparently transcribed from an early MS source, written on the recto of the leaf before the title-page.
In: Printed exemplum of the first edition, first issue, of Ralegh's The History of the World (London, 1614). Late 18th-early 19th century.
Edited from this MS in Susanne Woods, ‘“The Passionate Sheepheard” and “The Nimphs Reply”: A Study of Transmission’, HLQ, 34 (1970), 25-33 (pp. 26).
RaW 196
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, here beginning ‘If now the worlde and loue weare younge’.
In: the MS described under RaW 167. Early 17th century-1672.
RaW 197
Copy of a three-stanza version, headed ‘Response’ and beginning ‘But if the world & love were sound’, among other verse in one secretary hand on a single folio leaf. c.1600-10.
In: A collection of separate state papers and poems, in folders.
Edited from this MS in Curt F. Bühler, ‘Four Elizabethan Poems’, Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, DC, 1948), pp. 695-706 (pp. 696-7). Recorded in Latham, p. 112. Facsimile in British Literary Manuscripts, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg, et al. (New York, 1981), No. 18.
Pierpont Morgan Library, Rulers of England (Eliz. I), No. 48[b].
RaW 198
Copy, headed ‘Her Answeare’ and here beginning ‘If that the world & Loue weare young’.
In: the MS described under RaW 172. c.1630.
Formerly Rosenbach 186, printed from this MS in Samuel A. Tannenbaum, ‘Unfamiliar Versions of Some Elizabethan Poems’, PMLA, 45 (1930), 809-21 (pp. 816-17); recorded in Latham, p. 112.
RaW 199
Copy of a five-stanza version, in a right-hand column, headed ‘Respon:’ and here beginning ‘If now the world & love were younge’.
In: the MS described under RaW 135. c.1620s.
‘Now we have present made’
First published in Walter Oakeshott, ‘An Unknown Ralegh MS’, The Times (29 November 1952), p. 7. Rudick, No. 23, pp. 46-7.
*RaW 200
Autograph, untitled.
In: Largely autograph notebook of Ralegh's, iii + 173 quarto leaves (including many blanks), in contemporary vellum, with traces of green silk ties. c.1603-18.
Later owned by Frederick North (1766-1827), fifth Earl of Guilford, colonial governor; then, in 1830, by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector (Phillipps MS 6339. Sotheby's, 24 June 1935 (Phillipps sale), lot 144, to (Sir) Walter Oakeshott (1903-87), schoolmaster. Sotheby's, 30 November 1971, lot 526, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.
Edited from this MS in Oakeshott; in George Seddon, ‘A Newly Discovered and Unknown Poem in Sir Walter Raleigh's Autograph’, ILN (28 February 1953), p. 330 (with a facsimile), and in Walter Oakeshott, The Queen and the Poet (London, 1960), pp. 205-6 (with a facsimile facing p. 141). Facsimiles also in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), No. 12, p. 24, and of last two stanzas in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 48.
RaW 201
Copy, in a neat secretary hand, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves; endorsed in a contemporary hand ‘Verses 1602’. c.1602.
Edited from this MS in Lefranc (1968), p. 603.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 140/132.
RaW 202
Copies in a musical setting.
In: A set of five quarto music part books (Altus, Tenor, Bassus, Quintus, Sextus), the last comprising 29 pages, the others ranging from 137 to 161 pages each, each in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked). First half 17th century.
Formerly at St Michael's College, Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire.
This MS collated in Oakeshott, The Queen and the Poet, pp. 205-6.
Bodleian, MSS Tenbury 1163-1167, (i) pp. 80-1; (ii) pp. 64-5; (iii) pp. 80-1; (iv) pp. 56-7.
The Ocean to Cynthia
See RaW 8-9, RaW 146, RaW 188, also RaW 133-135, RaW 200-202.
On the Cardes, and Dice (‘Beefore the sixt day of the next new year’)
First published as ‘A Prognostication upon Cards and Dice’ in Poems of Lord Pembroke and Sir Benjamin Ruddier (London, 1660). Latham, p. 48. Rudick, Nos 50A and 50B, pp. 123-4 (two versions, as ‘Sir Walter Rawleighs prophecy of cards, and Dice at Christmas’ and ‘On the Cardes and dice’ respectively).
RaW 203
Copy, headed ‘Sr Water Rawleighs Prophecy on cards & dice’.
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.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 139.
RaW 204
Copy of an untitled six-line version, here beginning ‘the first day of ye next new yeare’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose extracts, in English and Latin, in several hands, written from both ends, ii + 79 leaves (including some blanks), in contemporary calf. Compiled by men associated with Oxford University. c.1647-1698.
Inscribed on the rear pastedown ‘To the right worsppf my very kind friend Mr Tho.: Young’ and ‘Ed Burham’. Bought in 1899 by W.D. Macray from George's of Oxford. Sold by Blackwell's, 1921.
RaW 205
Second copy of an untitled six-line version, also beginning ‘The first day of ye next new yeare’.
In: the MS described under RaW 204. c.1647-1698.
RaW 206
Copy, headed ‘A prognostication vpon cardes & dice’.
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.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 139.
RaW 207
Copy, subscribed in another hand ‘Sr Wal: R’.
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’.
Edited from this MS in Latham and in Rudick, No. 50B, pp. 123-4.
RaW 208
Copy, headed ‘A Prophesie’.
In: the MS described under RaW 108. Mid-late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 139.
RaW 209
Copy, headed ‘A rimeing prophecye alludeing to the Cards and Dice in Christenmas’.
In: the MS described under RaW 30. Mid-late 17th century.
RaW 210
Copy, headed ‘A Prophecie’.
In: the MS described under RaW 32. c.1630.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 139.
RaW 211
Copy, headed ‘A Prophesie to come to pase the next yeare’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several small non-professional hands, 88 leaves, imperfect at the beginning. c.1630s-40s.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 139.
RaW 212
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled.
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.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 139.
RaW 212.5
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawley his provesie’.
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).
RaW 213
Copy, headed ‘A Prophesy giuen to the king 1618’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several largely secretary hands, 68 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum. c.1620s.
Once owned by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector. Later in the library of the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Lot 8053 in his sale, 7 May to 16 June 1798. Formerly Chetham's MS 8011.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 139.
RaW 214
Copy, untitled.
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).
RaW 215
Copy, headed ‘Sr. Walter Ralegh's prophecie of Cardes & Dice’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, 170 leaves, paginated 1-8 (Latin text in a small secretary hand), then pp. 1-162 (in one or possibly two largely italic hands; pp. 108-57 blanks; pp. 158-62 containing later notes), in modern red morocco gilt. The pagination cited below relates to the second, main series of pagination. c.1640.
Inscribed on a flyleaf in red ink ‘Matheus Day me suum vvst’: i.e. Matthew Day (d.1661), five times Mayor of Windsor. Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger. Collier's sale, 1884, lot 906. Formerly Folger MS 452.1.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 139.
RaW 216
Copy in: the MS described under RaW 120. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 139.
RaW 217
Copy, headed ‘Sir Walter Raleighs prophecie of the sports and Games of christmas’.
In: the MS described under RaW 60. c.1637-51.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 139.
RaW 218
Copy, headed in the margin ‘A prooesie’ and here beginning ‘The first day of the nex new yere’.
In: the MS described under RaW 62. c.1640s.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 139.
RaW 219
Copy, untitled.
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.
RaW 220
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rauleighs prophecy of Cards, & Dice at Christmas’ and here beginning ‘Before ye sixt of ye Next yeare’.
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).
Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 50A, p. 123.
RaW 221
Copy, headed ‘Ænigma on the Cardes’, here beginning ‘ffew dayes before the next new yeare’.
In: An oblong octavo composite volume, comprising two independent verse miscellanies, Part I, in Latin and English, largely in a neat secretary hand, paginated 1-22, Part II, in English and Welsh, in several hands, one neat secretary hand predominating, paginated 1-266, the two parts bound together in modern quarter red morocco. c.1630s.
Inscriptions including (Part I, pp. 1, 3 and 42) ‘Edward Lewis his Book 1753’, ‘John Parker’, ‘P H Warburton’, and ‘John Aden’, and (Part II, p. 33) ‘Thomas Lloyd Esq’. Wigfair MS 43, among papers mainly of the Lloyd family of Hafodunos, Denbighshire, and Wigfair, near St Asaph, Flintshire, purchased in 1926-7 from Colonel H. C. Lloyd Howard, of Wigfair.
National Library of Wales, NLW MS 12443 A, Part II, pp. 19-20.
RaW 222
Copy, headed ‘Sr W. R. / An old and true Prophesy’.
In: the MS described under RaW 122. c.1630s.
Edited from this MS in H. Harvey Wood, ‘A Seventeenth-Century manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others’, E&S, 16 (1930), 179-90 (p. 182). Recorded (as MS Taverham) in Latham, p. 139.
RaW 223
Copy, headed ‘An old Prophecye’.
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.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 139.
RaW 223.5
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleighs prognostication’.
In: the MS described under RaW 97.5. c.late 1630s.
On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)
First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, ‘The Text of Ralegh's Lyric “What is our life?”’, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.
RaW 224
Copy, headed ‘Mans life’.
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).
RaW 225
Copy in the hand of Elias Ashmole, untitled.
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).
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
RaW 226
Copy in: A large folio composite verse miscellany, chiefly folio, partly quarto, 243 pages, in contemporary calf. Including 18 poems by Carew and two of doubtful authorship, compiled by Nicholas Burghe (d.1670), Royalist Captain during the Civil War and one of the poor Knights of Windsor in 1661 (references to ‘I Nicholas Burgh’ occurring on ff. 165r, with the date ‘3d of June 1638’, and 166r, and his name partly in cipher on other pages); predominantly in his hand, with some later additions in other hands. c.1638.
Afterwards owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Burghe MS’: CwT Δ 1.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
RaW 227
Copy of a version, headed ‘On mans life’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and some prose, in five hands, one predominating on ff. 8v-130r, ii + 166 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Compiled in part (ff. 131v-66r) by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary. c.1630s-40s.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
RaW 232
Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.
In: A folio songbook, 121 leaves (including c.20 blanks and an index), in contemporary calf (rebacked). Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by or attributed to Herrick, in musical settings, predominantly in a single hand (ff. 2r-63v, 92r-9r, 100r, with a change of style on ff. 64r-5v and in the index probably by the same hand), with 18th-century additions on ff. 81v-7v, 89r-v and 145v-53r, and scribbling elsewhere. c.1640s-60s.
Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Probert MS’: CwT Δ 4, HeR Δ 1. Discussed and analysed in John P. Cutts, ‘A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57’, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211. Also briefly discussed in George Thewlis, ‘Some Notes on a Bodleian Manuscript’, M&L, 22 (1941) 32-5, and in Willa McClung Evans, ‘Shakespeare's “Harke Harke ye Larke”’, PMLA, 60 (1945), 95-101 (with a facsimile of f. 78r). A facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 6 (New York & London, 1987).
This MS collated in John P. Cutts, ‘A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57’, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 202).
RaW 232.5
Copy, headed ‘On Mans life’.
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’.
RaW 233
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under RaW 150. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
RaW 234
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under RaW 206. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
RaW 235
Copy, headed ‘On the same’.
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.
RaW 236
Copy 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.
RaW 237
Copies, in a musical setting by Orlando Gibbons, untitled.
In: A set of five oblong quarto music part books (Cantus/Bassus, Quintus, Altus, Tenor, Bassus), including verses, chiefly in two hands, ranging from 34 to 63 leaves each, in half-red calf marbled boards. Compiled largely by Thomas Hamond (d.1662), of Cressners, in the parish of Hawkdons, Suffolk. c.1630s.
f. 11 (Cantus/Bassus) inscribed ‘Edmond Stapley’.
RaW 238
Copy, headed ‘Mans life A Tragedie’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards. Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source. Late 17th century.
Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as ‘Rawlinson MS I’: PsK Δ 6.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
RaW 239
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under RaW 137. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
RaW 240
Copy, headed ‘Mans life compared to a stageplay’.
In: the MS described under RaW 153.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
RaW 241
Copy, headed ‘Upon the life of man’.
In: the MS described under RaW 30. Mid-late 17th century.
RaW 242
Copy, headed ‘Vita Fabula’, subscribed ‘Tho: Dod, Jesu’.
In: the MS described under RaW 111. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
RaW 243
Copy of a version headed ‘Sr. walter Raliegh of life and death’ and beginning ‘Our lifes a play of passion’.
In: the MS described under RaW 33. c.1662.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
RaW 244
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Sr. W: R:’, transcribed from RaW 245.
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.
Edited from this MS in Hannah (1845), pp. 81-2, and in Rudick, No. 29C, p. 70. Recorded in Latham, p. 144.
RaW 245
Copy, untitled.
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.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
RaW 246
Copy of an untitled adapted version beginning ‘What is mans life but a play of passion’.
In: A folio composite volume of separate MSS of verse and some prose, in various secretary and italic hands, written over an extended period, with a table of contents (f. 3r-v), 186 leaves. Comprising papers of the Skipwith family of Cotes, Leicestershire, including 60 poems by John Donne (and one Problem), the text related in part to the ‘Edward Smyth MS’ (DnJ Δ 45); also 15 poems (and second copies of two) by Henry King; and 19 poems (and two of doubtful authorship) by Carew. c.1620-50.
Including poems ascribed to William Skipwith (? Sir William Skipwith, d.1610, or his grandson, William, or possibly a cousin, William Skipwith, of Ketsby, Lincolnshire, fl.1633); to Sir Henry Skipwith (fl.1609-52); and to Thomas Skipwith, and several poems by Donne's friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627), to whom a branch of the Skipwith family was related by marriage. Later owned by Robert Sherard (1719-99), fourth Earl of Harborough. Sotheby's, 10 June 1864, lot 605, to Boone.
This MS is the ‘curious folio volume’ lent to John Nichols (1745-1826) by ‘the late Lord Harborough’ and cited in Nichols's account of the Skipwith family in his History of Leicestershire, 4 vols (1795-1815), III, part i (1800), 367.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Skipwith MS’: DnJ Δ 21; CwT Δ 14; KiH Δ 8. Also described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp. 119-29 (see KiH Δ 6). For Sir William Skipwith and his literary connections, see James Knowles, ‘Marston, Skipwith and The Entertainment at Ashby’, EMS, 3 (1992), 137-92 (esp.pp. 171-2).
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
RaW 246.5
Copy, untitled. subscribed ‘Sr Walter Rawliue’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly in one mixed hand, 77 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Compiled by Sir Thomas Dawes (knighted 1639). c.1623-30.
Purchased on 4 July 1873 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.
RaW 247
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
In: the MS described under RaW 34. c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS recorded in Latham (1929), p. 162.
RaW 249
Copy, untitled.
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.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
RaW 250
Copy, headed ‘De brevitate vitae’.
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.
RaW 251
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Mans life’.
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.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
RaW 252
Copy, headed ‘On the brevity of mans life’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single professional hand, with later additions on ff. 58v-62v in three or four other hands, 65 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt. Compiled by one Thomas Crosse, whose name appears (f. 1*) in ‘An Acrosticke upon my name’, as well as subscribed (‘Tho: Cro:)’ to a poem on ff. 23v-4r. c.1630s [-1670s].
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
RaW 252.5
Copy of a version headed ‘Mans life’ and beginning ‘Mans life is like a play of passion’.
In: An octavo miscellany, 47 leaves, the greater part (ff. 1r-26, 42r-5v) in a single small mixed hand, with other hands on ff. 27r-41r, including a ‘Catalogus Librorum’ on ff. 29v-40r, and accounts c.1705 on ff. 46v-7r, in black morocco gilt. Compiled principally by Henry George, while a student at Christ's College, Cambridge. c.1639-43.
Inscribed (f. 1*v) ‘Meliora Spero dum Spiro / Henricus George / nec ut mortale / quod opto’.
RaW 253
Copy, headed ‘Verses Syr Walt. Rauleigh made the Same morning he was executed’, following ‘Verses made upon him since his death’ (‘Great heart, who taught ye so to die?’), on one side of a half-folio leaf. c.1620s-30s.
In: A folio composite volume of verse, in various hands, 280 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Incorporating (ff. 40r-51v) a quarto verse miscellany compiled allegedly ‘for the mendinge of his hand in wrighting’, when ‘Idle and wanting Employment’, by Feargod Barbon of Daventry, Northamptonshire (? a relation of the Anabaptist politician Praisegod Barbon (1598-1679/80)).
In preliminary verses (f. 40r), Barbon records that ‘This Booke [i.e. presumably the exemplar for his verse transcripts] was giuen me by A frende / To reade and overlooke’.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
RaW 254
Copy, in a small italic hand, untitled.
In: A quarto composite volume of papers largely relating to Parliament in 1620-28, in various professional hands, 142 leaves, in modern quarter-calf on cloth boards gilt.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
RaW 255
Copy, headed ‘On Mans life’ and here beginning ‘What is mans life? A playe of passion’.
In: the MS described under RaW 44. c.1637-50.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
RaW 256
Copy, subscribed ‘Sr: Wa: Raleigh’.
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.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144
RaW 257
Copy, headed ‘Mans life’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves. Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.early 1630s.
Inscribed (f. 1r) by one ‘I A’ of Christ Church, Oxford, and also ‘Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison’. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Killigrew MS’: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
RaW 258
Second copy.
In: the MS described under RaW 257. c.early 1630s.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
RaW 259
Copy, headed ‘ffunerall Verses’.
In: A quarto miscellany chiefly of chiefly verse, in English and Latin, in probably a single secretary and italic hand, 50 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Recorded as being compiled by Thomas Smyth, of Manchester. c.1630.
Bookplate of the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Lot 8055 in the sale of his library by Thomas King, 7 May to 16 June 1798. Afterwards owned by James Crossley (1800-83), author and book collector. Formerly Chetham's MS 8010.
RaW 259.5
Copy of an eight-line version, headed ‘Of Life’, here beginning ‘An humane life is but a Play of Passion’.
In: A series of quarto leaves of devotional poems, apparently copied by William Dugdale Jr, bound with a printed Book of Common Prayer (1679). c.1700.
RaW 260
Copy, headed ‘On Man’.
In: the MS described under RaW 214. c.late 1630s [-1789].
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
RaW 261
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under RaW 120. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
RaW 262
Copy of a variant version, headed ‘On Man’, here beginning ‘What is our Life, but a play of derision’ and ascribed in a running head to ‘W: S.’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, pp. 13-244 in a single largely roman hand, the remainder in varying styles in one or more other hands (up to c.1655), probably associated with Oxford University, 541 pages (of which pp. 1-12, 87-8 have been extracted and pp. 251-68, 334, 400, 410-540 are blank, with stubs of other extracted leaves at the end), in contemporary brown calf. Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1630s[-55].
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: possibly his MS 18123. Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller. Formerly MS 646.4.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Dobell MS’: CoR Δ 8 and StW Δ 18A. Discussed in Bertram Dobell in The Athenaeum, No. 4475 (2 August 1913), p. 112. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
RaW 263
Copy 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.
RaW 265
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raughly on mans life’.
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.
Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 29B, p. 70. Recorded in Latham, p. 144.
RaW 266
Copy, headed in the margin ‘Life's description’.
In: the MS described under RaW 62. c.1640s.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
RaW 267
Copy, headed ‘Of man’.
In: the MS described under RaW 63. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
RaW 270
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘by one ready to dye’.
In: A quarto miscellany, in several hands, written over a period, 80 leaves (plus 67 blanks and stubs of numerous extracted leaves), in contemporary vellum gilt. Compiled by or for Sir Henry Cholmley, brother of Sir Hugh Cholmley (1600-57), the ascription ‘by my brother Sr Hugh Cholmley’ (1600-57) inserted on f. 19r in a cursive hand responsible for entries on ff. 3r-12v, 15v-29r, 41r-v, 75v-7r, the contents including twelve poems by Thomas Carew and poems by members of the circle of Lucius Cary (1610?-43), second Viscount Falkland, of Great Tew, Oxfordshire, by the St Leger family of Ulcombe, Kent, and by Sir William Twysden of Kent. c.1624-41.
Later bookplate of Henry B. Humphrey.
Recorded in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Cholmley MS’: CwT Δ 27.
RaW 271
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled.
In: the MS described under RaW 144. c.1630s-40s.
John Rylands University Library of Manchester, English MS 410, f. 20r.
RaW 272
Copy, headed ‘Mans life’.
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.
RaW 273
Copy, untitled, subscribed in a different ink ‘Tho: Harding’.
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.
RaW 273.5
Copy, headed ‘In vitam’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse, prose and drama, written over a period in various hands, 179 leaves, in remains of contemporary calf. c.1620-late 17th century.
Inscribed (f. 31v) ‘Henry Gould his Book 1620’. Compiled in part by one Henry Gould (c.1620). Other scribbling in the volume includes names of Robert Carter, John and Peggy Marriot, Thomas and John Allsopp (1746), George and Thomas Swindell, Richard Fowles, and George and Catherine Bindale, as well as an acrostic on Mrs Anne Boulton, and, on the first page, the inscription ‘Mend the play Booke Gilbert Carter’. Sotheby's, 15 December 1988, lot 13.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 91, f. 168r.
RaW 274
Copy, in the hand of William Pankhurst, untitled.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters, tracts, and verse, collected by, and mostly in the hand of, William Parkhurst (fl.1604-67), Sir Henry Wotton's secretary in Venice and later Master of the Mint, including various works in verse and prose attributed to Donne, chiefly in a scribal hand, partly in Parkhurst's hand, 373 leaves (including blanks), in old calf.
Among the papers of the Finch family of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland. Mistakenly reported by Grierson and Logan Pearsall Smith to have been destroyed in a fire at Burley c.1908.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Burley MS’: DnJ Δ 53. Recorded in HMC, 7th Report (1879), Appendix, p. 516. A complete microfilm of the MS is at the University of Sheffield, Microfilm 737.
A neat transcript of parts of the Burley MS (including principally poems on ff. 255r-v, 278v, [279r]-288v, 342v-3r, 294r-300r, 301r-8v), made before 1908, on 35 leaves, is in the Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. c. 80.
Edited from this MS in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson (Oxford, 1912), I, 441. Recorded in Latham, p. 144.
RaW 275
Copy, headed ‘Of mans Life’.
In: An oblong octavo verse miscellany, in a neat mixed hand up to p. 78, the remainder in later hands, 116 pages, in 19th-century half-leather marbled boards, with remains of crimson velvet. c.1630[-1700s].
Once owned by Elizabeth Herrick (1684-1745) and her brother William Herrick (1689-1773). Formerly among the papers of the Herrick family, of Beaumanor.
This MS discussed in J.A. Taylor, ‘Two Unpublished Poems on the Duke of Buckingham’, RES, NS 40 (May 1989), 232-40.
RaW 276
Copy, here beginning ‘What is or life? it is a play of passion’, subscribed ‘Rawley’.
In: the MS described under RaW 134. c.1580s-1615.
Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 29A, p. 69, and in his PQ, 83 article. Recorded in Latham, p. 144.
RaW 277
Copy, headed ‘Of the life of Man’.
In: the MS described under RaW 221. c.1630s.
National Library of Wales, NLW MS 12443 A, Part II, pp. 9-10.
RaW 278
Copy of lines 1-8, headed ‘On Man’ subscribed ‘Be: Stone’.
In: the MS described under RaW 122. c.1630s.
This MS recorded (as MS Taverham) in Latham, p. 144.
RaW 280
Copy, untitled.
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).
RaW 281
Copy, headed ‘On the shortnesse of mans life’.
In: the MS described under RaW 171. c.1634.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
RaW 282
Copy, headed ‘On life’ and here ascribed to ‘John Donne’.
In: An oblong quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat hand, written with the volume tilted with the spine to the top, 167 pages (plus blanks), in elaborately tooled green morocco gilt. Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by Strode (and two poems of doubtful authorship). c.1634.
The initials ‘M W’ stamped on each cover: i.e. M[aidstone] and W[inchilsea]. Evidently compiled by or for Sir Thomas Finch, Viscount Maidstone and Earl of Winchilsea (who succeeded to the peerage in 1633 and died in 1634). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 190.
The MS came to Rosenbach with a printed exemplum of William Wishcart, An Exposition of the Lord's Prayer (London, 1633), and the two clearly share the same provenance. The printed volume is similarly bound, with the initials ‘M W’; it is inscribed ‘Lord Winchilsea for Mr Locker 1634’; it bears the late 17th-century signatures of Stephen Locker and Alexander Campbell, and the bookplates of Captain William Locker (1731-1800) and Edward Hawke Locker (1777-1849).
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Winchelsea MS’: CwT Δ 33 and StW Δ 25.
This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 144.
RaW 283
Copy, headed ‘On Mans Life’.
In: the MS described under RaW 93. c.1630.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
RaW 284
Copy, headed ‘On mans life’ and here beginning ‘Mans life is but a play of passion’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 152 leaves (paginated 1-34, thereafter foliated 35-169), plus index, in modern red leather. Including 85 poems (and second copies of two) by Thomas Carew. c.1638-42.
Inscriptions including ‘Horatio Carey 1642 te deus pardamus’ [viz. Horatio Carey (1619-ante 1677), eldest son of Sir Richard Carey (1583-1630) and great-grandson of Sir Henry Carey (1524?-96), first Baron Hunsdon ], ‘Thomas Arding’, ‘Thomas Arden’, ‘William Harrington’, ‘Thomas John’, ‘John Anthehope’ and ‘Clement Poxall’. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8270. Bookplates of John William Cole and of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 194.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Carey MS’: CwT Δ 34. Briefly discussed in Gary Taylor, ‘Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets’, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 68 (1985), 210-46 (pp. 220-4). Discussed, with facsimile pages, in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 188, 191-2).
This MS recorded in Latham, f. 144.
RaW 285.5
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo commonplace book of verse and prose, in two or more secretary hands, 41 leaves, in a recycled illuminated vellum music document. Inscribed (ff. 1r, 2r) ‘Samuell Watts’. Early 17th century.
Among the papers of the Sanford family. Formerly DD/SF 3970.
RaW 286
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto miscellany of epitaphs and poems, in several hands, the main collection of verse (ff. 46-147) in a single hand and including 54 poems by Donne (all subscribed ‘J. D.’) and fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, 158 pages (plus index). c.1630s.
Once owned by the Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary, and later by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 164. Afterwards owned by Sir George Grey (1812-98), Governor of Australia, New Zealand and Cape Colony. Formerly MS Grey 2 a 11.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Grey MS’: DnJ Δ 60 and HeR Δ 6. Facsimile of p. 119r (HeR 355) in L.F. Casson, ‘The Manuscripts of the Grey Collection in Cape Town’, The Book Collector, 10 (Spring 1961), 147-55 (facing p. 153).
National Library of South Africa, Cape Town, MS Grey 7 a 29, p. 139.
RaW 287
Copy, untitled and subscribed ‘g s’.
In: A quarto composite miscellany of verse and prose, in various hands, probably associated with the University of Cambridge, 352 pages (including 35 blanks), in 19th-century boards. Erroneously described in 1965 as a commonplace book of the poet Robert Herrick. The so-called ‘Herrick hand’ responsible for complete poems or substantial passages on pp. 73-4, 102-3, 253, 312-13, 319-21, 323, 328 and 343, this hand also responsible for corrections and brief insertions in both verse and prose on pp. 55-6, 58-60, 68, 71, 75-6, 78, 83, 89, 91, 93, 97, 99. 108-9, 203, 266, 285, 291, 348 and 350. c.1612-24.
Scribbling on front- and end-leaves including ‘Georgius Cantuarien’, ‘Thomas Hobson’ [?the Cambridge Carrier], ‘Benjamin Broadeface’, ‘To my very long friend mr John Bond’, ‘To the right reuerend ffather in God George Archbyshop of Canterbury his grace’, ‘Whereas the Bearer hereof Thomas Hall hath serued his sixe weekes…’, ‘To the right honor Sr Tho: Moore Whereas the Bearer hereof John Tis[?]sdale’, ‘Williamson’ and ‘Phillip de Maceden’. Puttick and Simpson's, 30 May 1849, lot 158 (erroneously described as a commonplace book of George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 12341*. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 146 (as Herrick's commonplace book). House of El Dieff (Lew David Feldman), New York, sale catalogue No. 65 (1965), with facsimile page as frontispiece. Formerly Ms File/(Herrick, R)/Works B.
Also facsimiles of p. 323 in the Sotheby's sale catalogue (frontispiece) and of p. 253 (as if in Herrick's hand) in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 33. Facsimile of all the verse in the MS (viz. pp. 63-83, 85, 87, 89, 91, 93,95, 97, 99, 101-3, 105-9, 113-17, 251-3, 277-82, 291, 317-21, 323, 325-43, 345-50), together with a transcript, in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, ‘Poems from a Seventeenth-century Manuscript with the Hand of Robert Herrick’, Texas Quarterly, 16, No. 4 (Supplement) (Winter 1973), 1-185. Microfilm of the complete MS in the British Library, M/751.
The MS discussed by Farmer in loc. cit. and in ‘Robert Herrick's Commonplace Book? Some Observations and Questions’, PBSA, 66 (1972), 21-34; in P.J. Croft's critical comments on Farmer's articles in ‘To the Editor’, PBSA, 66 (1972), 421-6, and (correcting Farmer's published transcript of the text) in ‘Errata in “Poems from a Seventeenth-Century Manuscript”’, TQ, 19 (1976), 160-73; and in Farmer's ‘A Reply to Mr P. Croft’, TQ, 19 (1976), 174. Reasons for rejecting Herrick's alleged association are presented in the Introduction above, under The Texas ‘Herrick’ Manuscript.
RaW 287.5
Copy of an eight-line version, headed ‘Of Mans life’.
In: the MS described under RaW 122.8. Mid-17th century.
RaW 288
Copy, headed ‘Epitaphium’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco. c.1620.
Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.
Cited by editors as the Todd MS.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39), f. 70v.
RaW 289
Copy, headed ‘Mans Life’.
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.
RaW 290
Copy, headed ‘One Mans life’.
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.
RaW 291
Copy, headed ‘On mans life’.
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.
RaW 293
Copy in: A quarto commonplace book of miscellaneous extracts, largely in one small hand, with a few additions in three other hands, 257 pages, in contemporary vellum. c.1620s.
RaW 293.5
Copies, in a musical setting by Orlando Gibbons, for five voices, tenor, and quintus respectively.
In: A set of three oblong quarto musical part books, each formally entitled ‘A Colection of 120 or more of the Choicest Divine Hymns or Anthemnes English and Latin, that have binne Extant within this 110 or 120 yeeres, to this present yeere 1688’, the lyrics probably in a single neat rounded hand. Comprising (i) Bassus part, ix + 155 leaves, in modern vellum. (ii) Treble part, viii + 136 leaves, in contemporary vellum. (iii) Bassus continuo part, iv + 109 leaves (lacking ff. 39-44), in contemporary vellum. 1688.
York Minster, MS M. 5. S, (i) ff. 49v-50r; (ii) ff. 45v-6v; (iii) ff. 45v-6v.
RaW 293.8
Copy, headed ‘The Aughr[?] An other Epetath by Sr Wa: Ra:’ and here beginning ‘What is our lyfe? ytt is a Play of passion’, in the hand of Peter Middelton.
In: the MS described under RaW 105. c.1618?.
‘Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames’
See RaW 320-338.
The passionate mans Pilgrimage (‘Giue me my Scallop shell of quiet’)
See RaW 438-452.
Petition to the Queen (‘My dayes delight, my spring tyme ioyes foredun’)
In three versions, first published in 1833, 1928, and 1978 respectively.
RaW 294
Copy of an early 78-line version, untitled and beginning with the first two stanzas of the last book of Cynthia, on both sides of a single folio leaf. c.1620.
Among the papers of the Mildmay family, including those of Colonel Carew Harvey Mildmay (fl.1625-67), officer of the Jewel House, of Marks, Somerset.
This MS edited and discussed in Pierre Lefranc, ‘Une Nouvelle Version de la “Petition to Queen Anne” de Sir Walter Ralegh’, Annales de la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences humaines de Nice, 34 (1978), 57-67. Edited in Rudick, No. 32, pp. 72-5. Recorded in HMC, 7th Report, Part I (1879), Appendix, p. 592.
RaW 295
Copy of an intermediate 51-line version, untitled and beginning with the first two stanzas of the last book of Cynthia (see RaW 9), subscribed ‘Sir Walter Raleigh’. Early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of verse and drama MSS, in various hands, 155 leaves, in 19th-century half brown morocco. Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary, his brother Oliver, and Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector.
This version first published, from this MS, in Agnes M.C. Latham, ‘Sir Walter Ralegh's Cynthia’, RES, 4, No. 14 (April 1928), 129-34 (pp. 133-4). Edited from this MS in Latham (1951), pp. 68-9, as ‘Conjectural First Draft of the Petition to Queen Anne’, and, untitled, in Rudick, No. 33, pp. 76-7.
RaW 296
Copy of a 36-line version of the petition (cp. RaW 294-5), headed ‘S.W. Raghlies Petition to the Queene. 1618’ and here beginning ‘O had Truth power the guiltless could not fall’.
In: the MS described under RaW 76. c.1618-20s.
This version first published, from this MS, in David Laing, ‘Extracts from the Hawthornden Manuscripts’, Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 4 (1833), 225-40 (pp. 236-7).Edited from this MS in Latham, pp. 70-1, and in Rudick, No. 34, pp. 78-9.
Petition to the Queen (‘O Had Truth Power the guiltlesse could not fall’)
See RaW 296.
A Poem of Sir Walter Rawleighs (‘Nature that washt her hands in milke’)
First published in A.H. Bullen, Speculum Amantis (London, 1889), pp. 76-7. Latham, pp. 21-2. Rudick, Nos 43A and 43B (two versions, pp. 112-14).
RaW 298
Copy of lines 1-12, 19-24, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
In: A large folio volume of songs in musical settings by John Wilson (1595-1674), composer and musician, vi + 214 leaves (plus some blanks), gilt-edged, in contemporary black morocco elaborately gilt, lettered on each cover ‘DR. / I.W’, with silver clasps. Possibly Wilson's formal autograph MS or else in the hand of someone similarly associated with Edward Lowe (c.1610-82). c.1656.
Complete facsimile in Jorgens, Vol. 7 (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth Century Lyrics: Oxford, Bodleian, MS. Mus. b. 1’, MD, 10 (1956), 142-209.
Edited from this MS in Norman Ault, A Treasury of Unfamiliar Lyrics (London, 1938), p. 185; recorded in Latham, pp. 119-120.
RaW 299
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under RaW 246. c.1620-50.
This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 119-20.
RaW 300
Copy of a 36-line version, headed ‘A poem of Sr Walter Rawleighs’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including 33 poems by Thomas Carew and sixteen by Henry King, in a single small hand, with (ff. 1r-2v) an alphabetical Index, 105 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. Compiled by Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London. c.1641-9.
Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.
Cited in IELM II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6918 with which it was once bound, as the ‘Calfe MS’: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp 129-35, 444-5 (see KiH Δ 6).
Edited from this MS in Bullen (1889); in Latham; and in Rudick, No. 43B, pp. 113-14.
RaW 301
Copy of lines 1-12, 19-24, headed ‘Sonnett’.
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.
This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 119-20.
RaW 302
Copy, headed ‘On his Mistresse Serena’, concluding with the final couplet of “Euen such is tyme” (here beginning ‘But from this Grave, and Earth, and dust’) with a marginal note, ‘This last staffe was saide to bee made by Sr Walter Raleigh a little before his death, wth the additio of these two last verses’.
In: the MS described under RaW 119. c.1630 [-1677].
This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 119-20.
RaW 303
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio verse miscellany, in a single probably professional rounded hand (except for a poem on f. 81r and later scribbling); ii + 81 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Including 16 poems by or attributed to Herrick and 24 poems by Randolph (plus two of doubtful authorship). This MS related to HeR Δ 2 and to RnT Δ 1. c. late 1630s.
Inscriptions including (on a flyleaf) ‘Anthony St John/ Ann: St John/ 1640 Bletso’: i.e. Anthony St John (1618-73), of Christ's College, Cambridge, fourth son of Oliver, fourth Baron St John and first Earl of Bolingbroke (c.1584-1646), of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and Anthony's wife, Ann Kensham (married 1639); (flyleaf) ‘Oliver Beeesfor[d]’; and (f. 81v) ‘John Watts’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13187. Sotheby's, 6 June 1910, lot 672, to Quaritch. Item 1415 in an unidentified sale.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘St John MS’: HeR Δ 4 and RnT Δ 8. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 72).
RaW 304
Copy, headed ‘Sr W. R. / On his Mistresse Serena’, concluding with the final couplet of “Euen such is tyme” (here beginning ‘But from this Earth, and Grave, and Dust’), with the marginal note, ‘This last staffe was said to bee made by Sr W.R. a little before his death, wth the addition of these two Verses’.
In: the MS described under RaW 122. c.1630s.
This MS recorded (as MS Taverham) in Latham, pp. 119-20.
RaW 304.5
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Nature that washt his hands in milke’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single non-professional mixed hand, written from both ends, 90 leaves, in vellum (lacking spine). c.1630s.
Among papers of the Clitherow family of London, which included Sir Christopher Clitherow (1578-1642), Lord Mayor of London in 1635. Bookplate of James Clitherow Esq. of Boston House, Middlesex: i.e. either Christopher's son, James Clitherow (1618-82), merchant and banker, who purchased Boston Manor, in the parish of Hanwell, in 1670, or James Clitherow (1694-1752).
A Poem put into my Lady Laiton's pocket by Sir W. Rawleigh (‘Lady farwell whom I in Sylence serve’)
First published in Hannah (1870), p. 57. Rudick, Nos 12A (eighteen-line version) and 12B (six-line version), pp. 15-16.
RaW 305
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under RaW 114.
Edited from this MS in Latham, pp. 4-5, and in Rudick, No. 12A, p. 15.
RaW 306
Copy of the first stanza, heavily deleted.
In: the MS described under RaW 49. c.1600-1620s.
Edited from this MS in Hannah and in Rudick, No. 12B, p. 16. Recorded in Latham, p. 96.
S.W. Raghlies Petition to the Queene 1618 (‘O Had Truth Power the guiltlesse could not fall’)
See RaW 296.
Sir Walter Raleigh in the unquiett rest of his last sicknes (‘Eternall mover whose diffused glory’)
Rudick, No 56, pp. 134-5.
See WoH 161-166.
Sir W. Raleigh, On the Snuff of a Candle the night before he died (‘Cowards fear to Die, but Courage stout’)
First published in Remains (London, 1657). Latham, p. 72. Rudick, No. 55, p. 133.
RaW 307
Copy, transcribed from an edition of Ralegh's Remains.
In: the MS described under RaW 14. c.1669.
This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 156-7.
RaW 308
Copy in: A quarto miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Compiled by members of the Cartwright family, of Aynho, Northamptonshire, including (ff. 4r-7v) verse by William Cartwright (1634-76). Mid-17th century.
Inscribed names including ‘Will: Cartwright’, ‘Jo: Cartwright’, and ‘Katherin Cartwright’. Myers, sale catalogue No. 291 (1933), item 120.
RaW 309
Copy, headed ‘By the same of feare’, transcribed from an edition of Ralegh's Remains.
In: the MS described under RaW 33. c.1662.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 156.
RaW 310
Copy, in the hand of Ralph Starkey, headed ‘Sr walter Ralegh on the snuffe of a Candle, the night before he Suffered death’.
In: the MS described under RaW 39.
RaW 311
Copy, headed in the margin ‘Rawleigh one a Candle snuffe’.
In: the MS described under RaW 115. c.1637.
RaW 312
Copy, headed ‘Sir W: Raw: on ye Snuffe of a Candle ye night before he Dyed’.
In: the MS described under RaW 50. c.1674-84.
RaW 313
Copy, in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh, on the snuffe of a Candle, the night before he suffered death’.
In: the MS described under RaW 57.
RaW 313.5
Copy in: the MS described under RaW 6.5. c.1642.
RaW 314
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Sir W. Raleigh’.
In: the MS described under RaW 92. c.1713.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 157.
RaW 315
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh on the Snuffe of a Candle the night before hee dyed’.
In: the MS described under RaW 97. c.1620s.
Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 55, p. 133.
Sir Walter Rauleigh to his sonne (‘Three thinges there bee that prosper up apace’)
First published in Latham (1929), p. 102. Latham (1951), p. 49. Rudick, No. 52, p. 125.
RaW 316
Copy of lines 1-12 headed ‘Sir Walter Rauleigh to his sonne’.
In: the MS described under RaW 207. c.1620s-30s.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 140.
RaW 317
Copy, in a cursive mixed hand, untitled, on one side of a quarto-size leaf. c.1620s.
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).
Printed from this MS in Latham.
RaW 318
Copy of lines 1-12, headed ‘Sr: Walter Rawley to his sonne’.
In: the MS described under RaW 120. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 140.
RaW 319
Copy, headed ‘Sr. Walter Rawleigh to his sonne, Waltr’.
In: the MS described under RaW 219. c.1630s.
Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 52, p. 125.
Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen (‘Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames’)
First published, prefixed to “Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart” (see RaW 500-42) and headed ‘To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh’, in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Edited in this form in Latham, p. 18. Rudick, No 39A, p. 106.
For a discussion of the authorship and different texts of this poem, see Charles B. Gullans, ‘Raleigh and Ayton: the disputed authorship of “Wrong not sweete empresse of my heart”’, SB, 13 (1960), 191-8, reprinted in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 318-26.
RaW 320
Copy, headed ‘W: R: To his Mistris’, here beginning ‘Passions are likened best to floods, and streames’, and prefixed to “Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart” (RaW 500).
In: the MS described under RaW 224. c.1630s.
RaW 320.5
Copy, headed ‘Sr w. R. to his Mrs’, here beginning ‘Passions are likned...’.
In: the MS described under RaW 232.5. c.1648-61.
RaW 321
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled and here beginning ‘Passions are likened best to floods & streames’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in several neat hands, ii + 142 leaves (ff. 111v-42v blank), in contemporary calf gilt. Compiled in part by ‘I. N’.: i.e. John Newdegate (1600-42), of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton, Warwickshire. c.1627-35.
Formerly Long Island Historical Society MS 22, to whom it was bequeathed by Samuel Bowne Duryea. Sotheby's, 21 December 1965, lot 595.
RaW 322
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Passions are likened best to flouds & streames’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, probably associated with Cambridge University, ii + 78 pages, in contemporary vellum. c.1625-31.
Inscribed (p. i) ‘Ex dono B. R. ao Jni. i625 [altered to i631] / Broughton / Thomas Gray’.
This MS recorded in Gullans.
RaW 323
Copy, headed ‘Of Passions’ and here beginning ‘Passyns are likened best to floudes & streames’.
In: the MS described under RaW 207. c.1620s-30s.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 116, and in Gullans.
RaW 324
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Passions are like to floods & streames’, written lengthways along the inner margin.
In: A quarto composite volume of four MSS, in English and Latin, iii + 187 leaves, in vellum boards. Part B (ff. 16d-86v): A quarto miscellany of poems and letters, in several hands, compiled by William Elyott (a nephew of Sir Simonds D'Ewes). c.1640-55.
Part C (ff. 86 bis-120r): A quarto verse miscellany compiled by Thomas Axton, M.A. (b.1699/1700), of Trinity College, Cambridge. c.1718-22.
Part C sold at the Thomas Rawlinson sale in March 1733/4, lot 289.
This MS recorded in Gullans.
RaW 325
Copy, headed ‘Sir Walter Ralegh to Queene Elizabeth’ and prefixed to “Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart” (see RaW 508).
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.
Edited from this MS in Gullans, p. 325; recorded in Latham, p. 115.
RaW 326
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Passions are likened best to flouds and streames’, prefixed to “Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart” which is subscribed ‘Sr W. R:’ (see RaW 510), transcribed from RaW 328.
In: the MS described under RaW 244. c.1620s-30s.
This MS the Pickering MS printed in Hannah (1845), pp. 132-4; recorded in Latham, p. 115, and in Gullans.
RaW 327
Copy, headed ‘Sr. Walter Ralegh to ye Queen’, prefixed to “Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart” (see RaW 511).
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in generally small mixed hands, ii + 40 leaves, in 19th-century embossed black leather. c.1640s.
Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller; by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector; and by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 190.
Edited from this MS in Latham and in Rudick, No. 39A, pp. 106-8. Recorded in Gullans.
RaW 328
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Passions are likened beste to flouds & streams’, prefixed to “Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart” (RaW 513) which is subscribed ‘Sr WR’.
In: the MS described under RaW 245. c.1620s.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 115, and in Gullans.
RaW 329
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Passions are likned unto floods & streames’, subscribed ‘Th: C:’.
In: the MS described under RaW 252. c.1630s [-1670s].
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 115, and in Gullans.
RaW 330
Copy, headed ‘A Louer’ and here beginning ‘Passions are likned best to flouds of streames’.
In: the MS described under RaW 214. c.late 1630s [-1789].
This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 116, and in Gullans.
RaW 331
Copy, headed ‘To the sole Governesse of His Affections’, here beginning ‘Passions are likned best to flouds and streames’ and prefixed to “Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart” (see RaW 525), ascribed at the side to ‘Sr Wa: Ral:’.
In: the MS described under RaW 119. c.1630 [-1677].
This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 115, and in Gullans.
RaW 332
Copy, headed ‘Of Passions’ and here beginning ‘Passions are likened best to flouds & streames’.
In: the MS described under RaW 219. c.1630s.
RaW 333
Copy, headed ‘Sr Gwalter Raleigh to ye sole Governours of his Affection’, here beginning ‘Passions are likn'd best to flouds & streams’, and prefixed to “Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart” (see RaW 527).
In: the MS described under RaW 220. c.late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Gullans.
RaW 334
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Passions are likned best to flouds & streams’, in double columns.
In: the MS described under RaW 6. c.1637.
This MS recorded in Gullans.
RaW 335
Copy, headed ‘Sr. W. R. / To the sole Governes of his affections’, here beginning ‘Passions are likened best to Flouds and Streames’, and prefixed to “Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart” (see RaW 535).
In: the MS described under RaW 122. c.1630s.
RaW 336
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleigh to his Mrs’, here beginning ‘Passions are likened to floods & streams’, and prefixed to “Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart” (see RaW 537).
In: the MS described under RaW 171. c.1634.
This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 115-16.
RaW 337
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawly: to the Queene’, here beginning ‘Passions are most like to shades and dreames’, and prefixed to “Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart” (see RaW 538).
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, 89 leaves, in old calf gilt. Partly compiled (pp. 75-99) by one Robert Berkeley, who has inscribed the first page ‘Rob Berkeley his booke Ano. 1640’. c.1640s.
Formerly owned by Henry Huth (1815-78). Formerly Rosenbach 195.
This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 116.
RaW 338
Copy, headed ‘On a passionate lover’ and here beginning ‘Passions best likned are to floods & streames’.
In: the MS described under RaW 123. c.1630s.
Formerly Rosenbach 195, this MS recorded in Latham, pp. 116.
A songe made by Sir Walter Rawley (‘What teares (Deare Prince) can serue to water all’)
See RaW 483-485.
‘Sweete ar the thoughtes, wher Hope persuadeth Happe’
First published in Hoyt T. Hudson, ‘Notes on the Ralegh Canon’, MLN, 46 (1931), 386-9 (p. 387). Latham, p. 4. Rudick, No. 7, p. 7.
‘The word of deniall, and the letter of fifty’
First published, as ‘The Answer’ to ‘A Riddle’ (‘Th'offence of the stomach, with the word of disgrace’), in Works (1829), VIII, 736. Latham, pp. 47-8. Rudick, Nos 19A, 19B and 19C (three versions, pp. 28-9).
RaW 340
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleigh to Bp. Nowell’.
In: the MS described under RaW 150. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 138.
RaW 341
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘The word of denyall, the figure of fiftye’, and in answer to the preceding verses (p. 52), Noel's “The offence of the stomach, & the word of disgrace” which is headed ‘Rawly’.
In: the MS described under RaW 207. c.1620s-30s.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 138.
RaW 342
Copy in: the MS described under RaW 108. Mid-late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 138.
RaW 343
Copy, run on directly from other verses, subscribed ‘Noele’.
In: the MS described under RaW 137. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 138.
RaW 344
Copy, headed ‘The answer’, subscribed ‘id. est. Nowell’, following ‘Th'offence of the stomacke, with the woord of disgrace’, which is headed ‘A Ridle’ and subscribed ‘id est. Rawly’.
In: the MS described under RaW 190. c.1590s.
Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 19A, p. 28.
RaW 345
Copy, headed ‘Sr wa Rawly made this rime vpon the name of a gallant one Mr Noel’, followed by ‘Noels answere/ Raw Ly’ (‘The foe to the stomacke, and ye word of disgrace’). December 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.
Edited from this MS in Latham and in Rudick, No. 19B, p. 29.
RaW 345.5
Copy, headed ‘Q. Eliz. that late died 1602’, and introduced in the margin ‘The queene bidding .2. courtiers namely Sr walter Rawly & Sr Andrew Nowell to rime they being enemies of each other. Sr Andrewe began / Hard of disgesture, word of disgrace / Then quoth S'r Walter’.
In: A quarto commonplace book, with entries largely under headings, in Latin and English, 163 leaves (including many blanks), in half-morocco. Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Johnes Mauritius Ano...1604’: i.e. John Morris (d.1658), antiquary and book collector, probable compiler. 1604-5.
RaW 347
Copy of the two verses, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleighs ieste vpo Noell & Noell vpo his name’.
In: the MS described under RaW 182. c.1628-30s.
RaW 348
Copy, headed ‘Sr: W.R. On Dr. Noel’.
In: the MS described under RaW 119. c.1630 [-1677].
This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 138. Edited from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.
RaW 349
Copy, headed ‘Rawleys reply on Noel’, directly following ‘On Sr Walter Rawley, by one Noel’.
In: the MS described under RaW 120. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 138.
RaW 350
Copy, headed ‘Rawley upon Noell’.
In: the MS described under RaW 265. c.1640.
This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 138.
RaW 351
Copy, headed ‘On the Lord Noel’.
In: the MS described under RaW 63. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 138.
RaW 352
Copy, headed ‘Rawly his reply’, here beginning ‘The word of denyall & the figure of fifty’, following ‘Noell To Sr Walter Rawleigh’ (‘Th' offence of the stomach and the word of disgrace’).
In: the MS described under RaW 219. c.1630s.
Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 19C, p. 29.
RaW 353
Copy, headed ‘Sr. W. R / On Dr Noell’, together with ‘Dr Noel On Sr W. Rawley’.
In: the MS described under RaW 122. c.1630s.
RaW 354
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleigh of H. Noell Courtier’, with ‘His reply’.
In: the MS described under RaW 93. c.1630.
This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 138.
RaW 354.5
Copy, headed ‘Rawleigh To Noell’, followed by ‘Noel to Rawleigh’ (‘The loath of ye stomacke, & ye word of disgrace’).
In: the MS described under RaW 97.5. c.late 1630s.
‘Those eies that holds the hand of every hart’
First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). Latham, p. 83.
RaW 355
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under RaW 1. c.1586-91.
This MS collated in The Phoenix Nest, ed. H. E. Rollins (Cambrdige, Mass., 1931), p. 183; recorded in Latham, p. 162.
RaW 356
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, ff. 2r-26r in a single secretary hand, ff. 26r-40v in yet another, with later additions near the end dated 1653, 60 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum. c.1596 [-1653].
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Anthonie Babingtonn of warrington’, with the date ‘1596’, and ‘Roger Wright me possidett ex dono Henerici fratrie Meo’. Later owned and annotated by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Signature and bookplate of F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale), lot 50. Purchased from Jarvis & Son, 15 June 1891.
Identified in Ringler, PQ (1975), as the ‘Quarto MS’ from which Percy derived the texts of three poems by Breton edited in his Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765). Substantial extracts from it edited in Grosart's edition of Breton (1879). Also briefly discussed in P.M. Buck, Jr., ‘Add MS. 34064 and Spenser's Ruins of Time and Mother Hubberd's Tale’, MLN, 22 (1907), 41-6, and in Robertson's edition of Breton, pp. liv-lv.
Typed and MS notes relating to this volume made in the 1920s by Professor Hyder Edward Rollins (1889-1958) are in Harvard MS Eng 1613.
Edited from this MS in Grosart. Collated in Rollins, p. 183/ Recorded in Latham, p. 162.
To his Love when hee had obtained Her (‘Now Serena bee not coy’)
First published in H. Harvey Wood, ‘A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others’, E&S, 16 (1930), 179-90 (pp. 181-2). Latham, p. 20. Rudick, No. 44, p. 115 (as ‘Sir W. Ra: To his Love When hee had obtained Her’).
RaW 357
Copy, ascribed at the side to ‘Sr W. Ra:’.
In: the MS described under RaW 119. c.1630 [-1677].
Edited from this MS in Latham and in Rudick.
RaW 358
Copy, inscribed at the side ‘Sr W. R.’
In: the MS described under RaW 122. c.1630s.
Edited from this MS in Harvey Wood. Recorded (as MS Taverham) in Latham, pp. 118-19.
Verses given as I suppose by Mr Lea to Laut; intimating that secret love speakes little but sithence I did understande that they weare Sir W. Rawleigh's verses to Queene Elizabeth, in the beginning of his favoures (‘The lowest trees have topps, the Aunt her gall’)
Rudick, No. 40, p. 110.
See DyE 73-95.
Vertue the best monument (‘Not Caesars birth made Caesar to suruiue’)
See RaW 497.
Walter Rawely of the middle Temple, in commendation of the Steele Glasse (‘Swete were the sauce would please ech kind of tast’)
First published in George Gascoigne, The Steele Glas (London, 1576). Latham, p. 3. Rudick, No. 1, pp. 1-2.
RaW 358.3
Copy in the hand of Gabriel Harvey. headed ‘The offence to the stomach’, in Harvey's annotated exemplum of George Gascoigne's Posies (London, 1575). c.1576?
Who list to heare (‘Who list to heare the sum of sorrowes state’)
First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, pp. 83-4.
‘Would I were chaung'd into that golden showre’
First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, pp. 81-2. Rudick, No. 8, p. 8.
See GgA 118-121.
(2) Poems Doubtfully Ascribed to Ralegh
Epitaph on the Earl of Salisbury (‘Here lies Hobinall, our Pastor while ere’)
First published in Francis Osborne, Traditionall Memoyres on the raigne of King Iames (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 735-6. Latham, p. 53.
Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, p. 146, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.
RaW 360
Copy by Aubrey, as ‘Sr W R. the Epigram on Robert Cecil Earle of Salisbury who died in a ditch’, here beginning ‘Here lies Robert our shepherd whilom’, as given to Aubrey by ‘Sir Thomas Malett…who knew Sr W. Raleigh’, incomplete.
In: A folio composite autograph manuscript of the first part of Brief Lives by John Aubrey (1626-97), 121 largely folio leaves, in vellum within modern boards. c.1679/80-1681.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 146.
RaW 361
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Sr. R.C. Lord Treasurer’ and here beginning ‘Here lyes Hobinall, our Shepperd while=ere’.
In: the MS described under RaW 206. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 146.
RaW 362
Copy, headed ‘Upon Sr Robert Cecill, Earle of Salisbury, & Ld Treasurer’, here beginning ‘Heere Hobbinall lyes, or Sheapheard while'e[re]’, and ascribed to ‘Sr Walter Raleig[h]’, with a marginal note ‘Lady Walsingham, his Concubine’.
In: the MS described under RaW 21.
RaW 363
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Heere lies Hobbinal or Sheepheard while here’.
In: the MS described under RaW 27. Mid-late 17th century.
RaW 364
Copy, headed ‘In obitum Ro: Cecillij’ and here beginning ‘Here lies old Hobynoll, or shepheard while here’.
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).
RaW 364.5
Copy, in a stylish italic hand, untitled and here beginning ‘Heere Hobbinoll lies our sheaphard while-ere’, on one side of a large portion of a single folio leaf. Early 17th century.
In: the MS described under RaW 158.5.
RaW 364.8
Copy, headed ‘Another’ [i.e. on the Earl of Somerset].
In: A collection of epitaphs, principally from churches in and about London, at least up to f. 193 in a single large rounded hand, an epitaph on f. 309 dated 1760, 244 folio leaves. Late 18th century.
Owned in 1785 by Mary Windsor of Tottenham High Cross, Owned in 1821 by one John Marris [i.e. Morris?]. Bookplate of James Walsh, FSA, FRAS. Purchased from J. R. Smith 9 December 1848.
RaW 365
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Heere lyes Hobbinoll our shepheard while ere’.
In: the MS described under RaW 249. c.1630s [-1777].
Edited from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.
RaW 366
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Heere Hobbinoll lyes our Shepeheard whilere’.
In: A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous tracts and papers, in various hands, in modern red morocco gilt.
RaW 367
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Here Hobbinoll lies our shepheard whilere’.
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.
RaW 368
Copy in: A composite booklet of verse, comprising nine unbound quarto and folio leaves. 17th century.
Dobell, sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 349.
Untraced Dobell MSS, [Booklet of verse], [unspecified pages].
RaW 369
Copy, headed ‘The following Lines were written by Sir Walter Rawleigh, upon ye Death of that famous Statesman Robert Earl of Surrey, his Most Implacable Enemy’, subscribed ‘The two last lines allude to ye manner of ye Earls Death wch was sd. to be Occasioned by his Amours’, in a section entitled Miscellany Poems, Song &c from the year 1727.
In: A large folio verse miscellany, headed (p. 1) ‘Poems on Severall Occasions’, 298 pages, in contemporary calf (rebacked). c.1735.
RaW 370
Copy, headed ‘Upon Cicells Death’ and here beginning ‘Here lies Hobbinall or Shepherd whileare’.
In: the MS described under RaW 62. c.1640s.
This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 146.
RaW 371
Copy, headed ‘In obitum Ro: Ceciliij.’, here beginning ‘Here lyes old Hobinol our shephard while heere’, and ascribed to ‘Sr wall. Rawleigh’.
In: the MS described under RaW 63. c.1630s.
Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 47, pp. 120-1. Recorded in Latham, p. 146.
RaW 371.2
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, here beginning ‘Here lieth Hobbynol our sheapard wch eare’, on the first page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves of verse, 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.
RaW 371.5
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Here lyeth hobinall our Sheepperd while ere’, with other verses on Robert Cecil, in a single secretary hand, on the fourth page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1612-20s.
Among the papers of the Isham family of Lamport Hall.
RaW 371.8
Copy, in a cursive secretary han, untitled and here beginning ‘Here lyeth Haniball our sheaperd whileare’, with other verses on Robert Cecil in two secretary hands, on a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1612-20s.
Among papers of the Isham family of Lamport Hall.
RaW 372
Copy, under a general heading ‘Epitaphes and verses of my Lord Tresorer Cicill’, here beginning ‘Heere Hobbinole lyeth or sheppard whyle eere’.
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.
RaW 373
Copy of a version headed ‘A Sarisbury Sheaphard’ and here beginning ‘Heare lies our sheaphard a while, soe deare’.
In: the MS described under RaW 93. c.1630.
RaW 374
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled and here beginning ‘Here lyes Hobbynoll or shepheard whileere’, with two other poems on Cecil's death, on one side of a half-folio leaf. c.1612.
In: A collection of unbound state papers, now in folders. c.1628.
Donated in 1921 by Dr J. R. Tanner.
RaW 374.5
Copy. Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled, here beginning ‘here lyes hobblenole our Sheapeard whileare’, with other verses on Cecil, on the first page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, in a bundle of unbound miscellaneous papers. Early 17th century.
Among papers of the related Trevelyan and Willoughby families.
RaW 375
Copy in the ‘Herrick’ hand, the first three words in another hand, here beginning ‘Here lies Hobinall our Shepheard whileare’.
In: the MS described under RaW 287. c.1612-24.
This MS reproduced in facsimile, with a transcript, in Norman K. Farmer, Jr., ‘Poems from a Seventeenth-Century manuscript with the Hand of Robert Herrick’, TQ, 16, No. 4 (Supplement) (Winter 1973), (pp. 40-1), and see P.J. Croft, ‘Errata in “Poems from a Seventeenth-Century Manuscript”’, TQ, 19, No. 1 (Spring 1976), 160-73 (p. 162).
RaW 376
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Heere Hobinol lyes oure shepheard while ere’.
In: the MS described under RaW 288. c.1620.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39), f. 71r.
RaW 377
Copy, headed ‘On Sr Rob: Cecil’, here beginning ‘Heere lieth Hobinol our Sheapheard while ere’, inscribed in the margin ‘Sr W: Raleigh in ye Tower’.
In: A small quarto booklet of verse and prose, in two predominantly italic hands, a fragment of a larger miscellany, eight leaves, paginated 73-88, disbound. c.1620s-30s.
Among papers of the Newdegate family, Viscounts Daventer, of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton.
RaW 378
Copy, under a general heading ‘Scurrillous epitaphes’ and here beginning ‘Heare lyeth Hobinoll our shepherd whileare’.
In: the MS described under RaW 135. c.1620s.
RaW 378.5
Copy, here beginning ‘Here lyes ye worthy warrier / thar neuer blouded sword’.
In: A quarto copy of (?) Richard Verstegan's Declaration of the true causes of the great troubles presupposed to be intended against the realm of England (1592), in several secretary hands, untitled, 40 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked). c.1590s.
Inscribed on f. iv‘Lib. Edwi. Mangin. This volume was inspected by the Revd. and learned Joseph Hunter [(1783-1861), scholar and antiquary], who said it did not contain anything of moment - sufficient to make amends for the trouble of reading it’.
RaW 379
Copy, headed ‘vpon sr Rob: Cecill Earl of Salisbury & Ld Treasurer’ and subscribed ‘by sr Walter Raleigh’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, with a title-page, 385 pages numbered 858-1243 (pp. 914-29, 966-7, 981-2, 995-6, 1023-4, 1041-2, 1083-4, 1135-6, and 1173-6 excised), in 17th-century calf. In non-professional hands, the miscellany entitled A Collection of Witt and Learning…consisting of verses, poems, songs, sonnetts, Ballads, Lampoons, Libells, Dialouges...from the year 1600, to this present year: 1677. c.1681.
Formerly Osborn MS Chest II, Number 14.
‘Fayne woulde I but I dare not’
A verse exchange, with Queen Elizabeth's answer “If thou art afraid climb not at all”. First published in Works (1829), VIII, 732-3. Latham (1929), pp. 72-3 (listed but not printed in her 1951 edition, p. 172). Queen Elizabeth I: Selected Works, Poems Possibly by Elizabeth I, pp. 24-5. Bradner, p. 7, among Poems of Doubtful Authorship. May, Courtier Poets, p. 313-14, among ‘Poems possibly by Dyer’. Rudick, No. 14, pp. 18-19 (32-line version) and No. 41, p. 111 (one line, and with the Queen's one-line reply).
RaW 381
Copy, untitled, subscribed in a different ink to ‘W. R.’.
In: the MS described under RaW 1. c.1586-91.
Edited from this MS in Works (1829) and in Latham (1929), pp. 72-3. Listed but not edited in Latham (1951), pp. 172-3.
RaW 382
Copy of a twelve-line version.
In: the MS described under RaW 113. c.1596-1601.
This MS recorded in Latham.
RaW 383
Copy, headed ‘Ferenda Natura’, subscribed ‘Fynys. DY.’[i.e. Dyer], with an additional couplet as ‘Lenuoy’.
In: the MS described under RaW 114.
Edited from this MS in Wagner and in May. Recorded in Latham, pp. 172-3.
RaW 383.5
Copy, in a roman hand, headed ‘Sir Water Raulige wrot this verse in the queens gardin’, here beginning ‘Faine would I climb but am afraid to fall’, the answer headed ‘The queene cominge by Knowinge whose inditing it was wrot vnder as foloweth’ and here beginning ‘If thou art afraid climb not at all’.
In: the MS described under RaW 48.5. c.1632-48.
Edited from this MS in Queen Elizabeth I: Selected Works.
An epitaph on the Earl of Leicester (‘Here lyes the noble warryor that never bludyed sword’)
First published as introduced ‘...yet immediately after his [Leicester's] death, a friend of his bestowed vpon him this Epitaphe’ and beginning ‘Heere lies the woorthy warrier’, in Richard Verstegan, A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles (London, ‘1592’), p. 54, which is sometimes entitled Cecil's Commonwealth: see E.A. Strathmann in MLN, 60 (1945), 111-14. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172, who notes that the epitaph was quoted, from a text among William Drummond's papers, in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth (1821). Rudick, No. 46, p. 120.
RaW 383.8
Copy of the verses (here beginning ‘Heere lyes ye worthy waryer’), in a copy of Richard Verstegan's Causes of the Great Troubles...1592 (occupying ff. 2r-15r), in a single secretary hand, endorsed in a later hand ‘A slanderous Inuectiue against ye State and som partycular persons many yeares past’. Early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and speeches, 81 leaves, in modern binding.
Among the collections of Gilbert Sheldon (1598-1677), Archbishop of Canterbury. Subsequently owned by members of the Dolben family, including probably John Dolben (1625-86), Archbishop of York.
RaW 384
Copy, headed ‘On Sr Robert Dudley Earle of warwicke and Leicester’, and here beginning ‘Here lies the souldier that neuer drewe his sword’.
In: the MS described under RaW 226. c.1638.
This MS recorded in Latham.
RaW 384.1
Copy, in a copy (on ff. 217r-38v) of Richard Verstegan's A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles...1592.
In: the MS described under RaW 147.
RaW 384.2
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Heere lies ye worthy Warrior, yt nevr bloudied sworde’, quoted in a copy of Richard Verstegan's A declaration of the great troubles...1592 (occupying ff. 30r-49v), in a small cursive secretary hand. Early 17th century.
In: A quarto composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, 236 leaves, in contemporary vellum, with ties.
Yelverton MS 129, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.
RaW 384.3
Copy, in a copy (on ff. 144r-69r) of Richard Verstegan's A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles...1592.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various professional hands, 299 leaves, in modern leather gilt.
RaW 384.4
Copy, in a copy (on ff. 32r-55v) of Richard Verstegan's A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles...1592.
In: A folio volume of tracts by Bacon and others, in a professional hand (the same as MS Hardwick 43: BcF 60). c.1620s-30s.
See E.A. Strathmann in MLN, 60 (1945), 111-14.
The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, MS Hardwick 55, [unspecified page number].
RaW 384.5
Miss Latham notes (p. 172) that Sir Walter Scott quoted the epitaph in Kenilworth (1821), his text deriving from a copy among the Drummond Papers, most of which are now in the National Library of Scotland (MSS 2053-67).
RaW 384.6
Copy, in a 19-page folio copy, in a secretary hand, of Richard Verstegan's A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles...1592, disbound. c.1600.
RaW 384.7
Copy, here beginning ‘Here lies the worthie warrior / that never bloudied sword’, in a copy (on ff. 153r-91v) of A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles...1592 probably by Richard Verstegan.
In: A folio volume of legal and state tracts, 246 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum boards, with initial ‘H’ in a gilt lozenge on the front cover and ‘F’ on a similar lozenge on the rear cover. Folios 5r-217r, 225r-31r in a semi-calligraphic secretary hand, formal title-pages and headings with heavily inked borders and decoration, associated with one Henry Feilde; folios 217v-24v in a different secretary hand; folios 232r-5v in a third hand. c.1630s.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 8989. Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.
University of London, Senate House Library, MS 312, f. 180r.
RaW 384.8
Sometimes entitled Cecil's Commonwealth, this is doubtfully attributed to Ralegh, for it is cited in the pro-Catholic tract (probably by Richard Verstegan) A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles.
In: A volume of historical and legal tracts. c.1630.
Later owned by Harry Lawrence Bradfer Lawrence (1887-1965), Norfolk antiquary and manuscript collector. Formerly on temporary loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
See E.A. Strathmann in MLN, 60 (1945), 111-14.
RaW 385
Copy of a twelve-line version, headed ‘Epitaphium’ and here beginning ‘Heere lyes ye valiant soldier | that neur drewe his sword’. c.1630s.
In: A small quarto volume of state tracts and papers, in one or more cursive secretary hands, 236 leaves, in modern half-morocco. c.1620s.
Printed from this MS in D.C. Peck, ‘Another Version of the Leicester Epitaphium’, N&Q, 221 (May-June 1976), 227-8.
RaW 385.2
Copy, headed ‘On the E. of Lecester Robert Dudley’, among other epitaphs on a pair of conjugate quarto leaves. Mid-17th century.
In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous MSS, in various hands, ii + 117 leaves, in half-calf.
Among collections of Anthony Wood (1632-95), Oxford antiquary.
RaW 385.4
Copy, here beginning ‘Heere lieth the worthy warrier that neuer blooded sword’, quoted in a copy (ff. 144r-68r) of Richard Verstegan's polemic A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles...1592, which is in a probably professional secretary hand and headed ‘A slanderous and Defamatory libell published by the Trayterous Papists beyond seas...’. c.1592-early 17th century.
In: the MS described under RaW 384.3.
RaW 385.5
Copy, in a copy of Richard Verstegan's A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles...1592 (ff. 26r-65v).
In: A folio volume of state tracts, in a single professional secretary hand, 98 leaves, in half-calf on marbled boards. Early 17th century.
RaW 385.8
Copy, in a copy (on ff. 30r-79r) of Richard Verstegan's A Declaration of the Great Troubles...1592.
In: A folio volume of state tracts, in a single professional hand, 118 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1620s-30s.
RaW 386
Copy of an eight-line version, headed ‘Epitaph E. Lester’ and here beginning ‘Heir Lyes ane waliant Wariour | Who never drew his sworde’.
In: the MS described under RaW 183. c.1630s-40s.
RaW 386.5
Copy, here beginning ‘Here lieth the worthy warrior yt neur. bloodied sword’, quoted in the tract.
In: Copy of Richard Verstegan's A Declaration of the true causes of the great troubles presupposed to be intended against the Realme of England...1592, on 26 folio leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary limp vellum. In a professional secretary hand, headed ‘A Slaunderous & defamatory Libell sett out & published by the Traytorous Papists beyond Seas, and intituled. A Declaration... [&c.]’, a marginal note on f. 25v in another hand listing books published by Wolfe and others 1591-99. c.1600.
Owned by John Egerton, second Earl of Bridgewater, and docketed by him on f. 1r ‘Burleygh's Comwealthe’.
RaW 387
Copy, headed ‘epetaphe’ and here beginning ‘Heere lyes the noble Warryor yt never bludyed sword’, ascribed to ‘Wa. Ra.’.
In: A large folio volume of prose tracts, verse, and devotional material, in a single secretary hand but for a series of engrossed indentures in a formal professional hand on ff. 3r-17v, written from both ends (ff. 1r-84v and ff. 1ar-51av respectively), 134 leaves in all. c.1603.
Inscribed names ‘Gilbert Rye’ and ‘William Norris’ and a reference (on f. 6av) to ‘Doctor Gylbart’.
The entries were at one time given separate library EL numbers ranging (intermittently) from EL 1183c to EL 6172 at one end and from EL 1183a to EL 6206 from the reverse end.
Edited from this MS in Ernest A. Strathmann, ‘An Epitaph attributed to Ralegh’, MLN, 60 (1945), 111-14; in D.C. Peck, ‘Another Version of the Leicester Epitaphium’, N&Q, (May-June 1976), 227-8; and in Rudick, No. 46, p. 120. Recorded in Latham.
This MS entry classified as EL 6183.
RaW 388
Copy, in an italic script, of an eight-line version, here beginning ‘Here lyes the woorthie warrior / That neuer blouded swoord’, quoted in a copy (on ff. 1r-22r) of the polemic probably by Richard Verstegan A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles...1592 in a secretary hand.
In: A folio volume of state tracts, in three secretary hands except for an addition on the last leaf in italic, c.125 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Early 17th century.
RaW 389
Copy of a four-line version, headed ‘An Epitaph of th E: of Leicester’ and here beginning ‘Here lyeth that noble souldier yt neur brandeth sword’.
In: the MS described under RaW 384.7. c.1630s.
University of London, Senate House Library, MS 312, f. 105v.
RaW 389.2
Copy, the page foliated in pencil 47, quoted in a copy (on ff. 24r-44r, item 17, foliated in pencil 32-52) of the polemic probably by Richard Verstegan A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles...1592, in a professional secretary hand. c.1592.
In: A folio guard-book of independent Elizabethan state papers, stamped foliation 1-241.
RaW 389.5
Copy of an eight-line version, here beginning ‘Heere lyeth yt noble Counselloure | That never kept his worde’.
In: the MS described under RaW 288. c.1620.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39), f. 60r.
RaW 389.6
Copy, in a professional copy (on pp. 185-246) of Richard Verstegan's A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles...1592, which is here entitled ‘Cicell's Common Wealth’.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in professional hands, including that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 605 pages (including blanks), in 17th-century calf. c.late 1620s-30s.
Once owned by Sir Richard Grosvenor (1585-1645). Later owned by the Duke of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire (bookplate, ‘XXI no. 20’). MS 25. Sotheby's, 20 February 1967, lot 265, sold to Dobell.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 215. A microfilm of the MS is in the British Library (RP 83).
RaW 389.8
Copy, in a copy of Richard Verstegan's A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles which occupies ff. 7r-46v.
In: A quarto composite volume of political and antiquarian tracts, in several probably professional hands, c.320 pages, in contemporary calf (rebacked). c.1592-1629.
Later ownership inscription by Edward Maugin, and a note by him which refers to the reading of this volume and dismissive attitude towards it by the Rev. Joseph Hunter (1783-1861). Sotheby's, 13 December 1990, lot 358 (unsold), and 30 July 1991, lot 28, to Hatchwell.
‘ICUR, good Mounser Carr’
First published in Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, ed. Frederick J. Furnivall, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted in New York, 1977), p. 20. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 48, p. 121 (as ‘Sir Walter Raleigh to the Lord Carr’).
RaW 392
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh to ye Ld. Carr’.
In: the MS described under RaW 206. c.1630s.
Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 48, p. 121. Recorded in Latham.
RaW 393
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in various secretary and italic hands, 90 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. c.1625.
Edited partly from this MS in Beatrice White, Cast of Ravens (London, 1965), p. 227.
RaW 395
Copy, headed ‘On the Earl of Somerset’.
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.
RaW 397
Copy, headed ‘In Robertum Car, comitem Somersetensem, postquam Essex: vxorem dixit’.
In: the MS described under RaW 111. c.1630s.
Edited partly from this MS in Beatrice White.
RaW 398
Copy, added to Oldisworth's compilation in a different hand.
In: A quarto volume of verse and prose relating to the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury in 1613, almost entirely in a single largely italic hand, 94 leaves, with (f. 2r) a title-page and list of contents, in modern quarter-vellum boards. Compiled by Nicholas Oldisworth, who records (f. 2v) ‘that I Nicholas Oldisworth who wrote this Booke...did deliberately reade it over, on thursday the ixth of October 1637, and in the Hearing of my old grandfather Sir Nicholas Overbury...’. c.1637-40.
Ourchased at Southgate's saleroom, 12 March 1845, lot 131.
Edited partly from this MS in Beatrice White.
RaW 399
Copy in: the MS described under RaW 34. c.1633 [-late 17th century].
RaW 399.5
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘I: C: v. R: good: Monser Carr’, struck through. 2 January 1615/16.
In: An ordnance book kept at the Tower of London from 1607 to 1617, largely in one secretary hand, written from both ends, v + 87 leaves, in long narrow ledger format.
Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 35.
Facsimile in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 20 July 1981, lot 35, and in Peter Beal, A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450-2000 (Oxford, 2008), p. 278 (illus. 58).
RaW 399.8
The title of the poem (‘ICVR’) only, in an endorsement on the fourth page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves containing two Jacobean satirical ballads in a secretary, lacking the lower half of the second leaf which would have contained the text of the ICUR poem. Early 17th century.
In: An unbound collection of miscellaneous letters and papers, 151 leaves.
Acquired from miscellaneous sources.
Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 11 May 2000, lot 11.
RaW 400
Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand. c.1620s.
In: the MS described under RaW 366.
Edited from this MS in John Wardroper, Love and Drollery (London, 1969), p. 268, and in Joshua Eckhardt, Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti-Courtly Love Poetry (Oxford, 2009), p. 182.
RaW 401
Copy in: A folio volume of works in verse and prose, including (ff. 88r-144v) 98 poems by Donne and (among ff. 2r-56v, 173r-88v, 192r-204r) various masques and poems by Ben Jonson, 208 leaves. Compiled for Sir William Cavendish (1592-1676), first Duke of Newcastle, of Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire. Written principally in the semi-calligraphic hand of Cavendish's secretary John Rolleston (1597?-1681), of Sokeholme, Nottinghamshire, and including (ff. 57r-87v, 145r-72r, 189r-90v) some 85 poems by Dr Richard Andrews (d.1634), Rhetoric Reader at St John's College, Oxford, and physician, who has revised some six of the poems in his own hand, with one poem (f. 87r) by his daughter Francisca dated 14 August 1629. c.1620s-34.
After 1718 among the collections of Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford (who married in 1713 Newcastle's great granddaughter).
Recorded in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Newcastle MS’: DnJ Δ 3. Extensively discussed, and the main scribe identified, in Hilton Kelliher, ‘Donne, Jonson, Richard Andrews and the Newcastle Manuscript’, EMS, 4 (1993), 134-73, with facsimiles of ff. 2r, 55r, 84r and 88r. Facsimiles of ff. 1r and 6r also in Jonson's Masque of Gipsies, ed W.W. Greg (London, 1952), Plates X-XI, and of f. 172r in Lynn Hulse, ‘“The King's Entertainment” by the Duke of Newcastle’, Viator, 26 (1995), 355-405 (p. 365).
RaW 401.5
Copy, headed ‘On Case E of Somerset’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single hand, entitled Poetical Characteristicks Vol 2d Collected by W O, 35 leaves (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt. c.1730s.
RaW 401.8
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio miscellany of largely poems on affairs of state, in two professional hands, with others on six tipped-in leaves at the end, 205 leaves (plus blanks), in black morocco gilt. c.1730.
RaW 403
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, chiefly (ff. 1r-14r) in a single small mixed hand, i + 15 leaves, the eighth and last item in a composite volume of otherwise printed amatory poems and pamphlets, in 19th-century quarter brown calf. c.1620s.
The volume inscribed (on flyleaves) ‘E Bedford’, ‘W Monteagle’, ‘Fra: Goodwin’, ‘Edw nedwarde’.
The MS poems here edited in Frederick J. Furnivall, Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted New York, 1977).
Furnivall, p. 20.
RaW 406
Copy in: the MS described under RaW 182. c.1628-30s.
Edinburgh University Library, MS H.-P. Coll. 401, f. 43r*bis.
RaW 408.5
Copy in: the MS described under RaW 6.5. c.1642.
RaW 410.5
Copy, here beginning ‘I.C.V.R. brave monser Car’. c.1615.
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. 53r.
RaW 411
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on the fourth page of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. Early 17th century.
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.
RaW 411.5
Copy in: the MS described under RaW 288. c.1620.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39), f. 97r.
‘I cannot bend the bow’
First published in Rudick (1999), No. 37, p. 105. Listed but not printed, in Latham, pp. 173-4 (as an ‘indecorous trifle’).
RaW 412
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Sr: Walter Rawleigh to my Lady Bentbowe’.
In: A small quarto journal of proceedings in Parliament from 20 January to 2 March 1628/9, with additional verses, in three hands, ii + 87 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. c.1629-30s.
Inscribed (f. 3r) ‘Arth: Langford his booke the first of may 1629’; (ff. 3r, 84v) ‘John Slaughter’; (f. 86r) ‘Francis Webb’ and ‘Robert Thurketil’. Subsequently in the papers of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Add 51.
Sotheby's, 14 December 1989, lot 232, and 13 December 1990, lot 11. Facsimile example in the sale catalogues. Acquired 22 March 1991.
Listed but not edited in Latham, pp. 173-4.
RaW 413
Copy, headed ‘Rawly to ye Lady Bendbow’.
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.
RaW 414
Copy, headed ‘A ridle proposed to by Lady bendbow’.
In: the MS described under RaW 206. c.1630s.
RaW 415
Copy, headed ‘A riddle vppon the Lady Bendbowe’.
In: the MS described under RaW 207. c.1620s-30s.
RaW 416
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh to ye Lady Bend-bow’.
In: the MS described under RaW 21.
This MS recorded in Latham.
RaW 417
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘There is a bowe wherin to shoote I sue’.
The text followed by a six-line ‘Answer’ beginning ‘You bended have the bowe wherin to shute you sue’.
In: the MS described under RaW 137. Mid-17th century.
RaW 418
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘The bow is not yet bent, wherin to shoot I sue’.
The text followed by a six-line ‘Answer’, beginning ‘The man that sued to shoote, in this well bended Bow’.
In: the MS described under RaW 190. c.1590s.
RaW 418.5
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘There is a bow wherein to shoote I sue’, followed by an ‘Answer’ beginning ‘You bended haue the bow wherein to shoot you sue’.
In: the MS described under RaW 32. c.1630.
RaW 419
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleigh to the Lady Benbow’.
In: the MS described under RaW 211. c.1630s-40s.
RaW 419.5
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘There is a Bowe wherein to shoote I sue’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, including 35 poems by Donne, in several hands, written from both ends, 30 leaves (plus stubs of ten extracted leaves), damp-stained, in modern boards. The text related to the ‘Skipwith MS’ (DnJ Δ 21). c.1620-33.
Inscribed name (f. 8r) of ‘Edward Smyth’ and (along margin of f. 11v) ‘in Mr Templers’. Among the collections of John Patrick (1632-95), religious controversialist.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Edward Smyth MS’: DnJ Δ 45.
RaW 420
Copy of a six-line version, headed ‘To his loue’ and here beginning ‘There is a bow wherein to shoote I sue’. The text followed by ‘Her answere’, beginning ‘You bended have the bow’.
In: the MS described under RaW 215. c.1640.
RaW 422
Copy, headed ‘Sir Walter Ralegh to the Lady Bendbowe’ and here beginning ‘In vayne I bend the Bow, wherein to shoote I sue’.
In: the MS described under RaW 60. c.1637-51.
This MS recorded in Latham.
RaW 423
Copy, headed ‘A ridle proposed by Sr Walter Rawley to ye Lady Bendbow’.
In: the MS described under RaW 265. c.1640.
Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 37, p. 105. Recorded in Latham.
RaW 423.5
Copy of three poems elaborating at greater length on the original version attributed to Ralegh, the first beginning ‘Faine woulde I shoote in a bowe yt I knowe’.
In: the MS described under RaW 5.5. Mid-late 17th century.
RaW 425
Copy, headed ‘A riddle propounded by Sr Walter Raughly to ye Lady Bend-bow’.
In: the MS described under RaW 220. c.late 1630s.
RaW 425.5
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh to the Ladye Bend=Bowe &c.’ and here beginning ‘I cannot bend this Bow’.
In: the MS described under RaW 6.5. c.1642.
RaW 426
Copy, headed ‘A Rose to his mrs’ and here beginning ‘ffaine would I bend ye bowe wherein to shoote I sue’.
In: the MS described under RaW 172. c.1630.
‘Like to a Ring without a finger’
First published in Latham (1951), pp. 165-7, as ‘A poem doubtfully ascribed to Ralegh’. Since, in fact, it is a parody of a poem by Francis Quarles printed in 1629 it cannot be by Ralegh.
RaW 428
Copy, in a mixed hand, headed ‘Canto’. c.1630s.
In: A quarto composite volume of verse MSS, in several hands and paper sizes, 129 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco. Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms, antiquary, his brother Oliver, and (in 1714) by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector. c.mid 17th century.
Later owned by Sir John Fenn (1739-94), antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 16-18 July 1866 (Fenn sale), lots 420-22.
Edited from this MS in Latham.
RaW 429
Copy of lines 1-32, 49-80, plus four additional stanzas.
In: the MS described under RaW 211. c.1630s-40s.
This MS recorded and additional stanzas edited in Latham, pp. 169-70.
RaW 430
Copy, in double columns, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, a neat mixed hand predominating up to f. 55r, 151 leaves (including a few blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1730.
Inscribed (in another hand) on the front pastedown ‘Thomas Boydell’. Formerly Folger MS 4108.
RaW 431
Copy of lines 1-64, headed ‘Canto’.
In: the MS described under RaW 62. c.1640s.
This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 167-9.
RaW 431.5
Copy of a sixteen-line version, headed ‘Canto’.
In: A duodecimo pocket commonplace book of chiefly religious verse and prose, in English and Latin, in a single minute hand, 238 pages, in contemporary calf with traces of metal clasps. Inscribed on the first page ‘Thomas Weld his Book. An. dom. 1669’: i.e. owned and compiled, perhaps partly while at Harvard University, by the Rev. Thomas Weld (1653-1702), first minister of the First Church of Dunstable, Massachusetts. c.1669-95.
Later inscription (p. 45) ‘Stephen Pearse's Book July 30th 1794’.
RaW 432
Copy, in double columns, untitled.
In: the MS described under RaW 221. c.1630s.
National Library of Wales, NLW MS 12443 A, Part I, pp. 33-5.
‘Now what is Loue, I praie thee tell’
First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). The first and last stanzas were a song in Thomas Heywood, The Rape of Lucrece (London, 1608). Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 171. Edited in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 156-7. Ralegh's possible authorship also discussed and largely supported in Walter Oakeshott, The Queen and the Poet (London, 1960), p. 161; in Lefranc (1968), pp. 78-9, 83; and in Michael West, ‘Raleigh's disputed Authorship of “A Description of Loue”’, ELN, 10 (1972-3), 92-9.
RaW 434
Copy of a version in 19 stanzas.
In: the MS described under RaW 3. c.1605.
This MS collated, and the additional stanzas printed, in Doughtie, pp. 504-10; recorded in Latham.
RaW 435
Copy, in a musical setting.
In: A folio volume of largely vocal music, mainly in a single secretary hand, 120 pages, in mottled calf. Early 17th century.
Complete facsimile in Jorgens, VI (1987).
This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 504-10.
RaW 436
Copy, headed ‘Tam arte quam Marte:’.
In: the MS described under RaW 5.5. Mid-late 17th century.
This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 503-10.
RaW 437
Copy of a version in 15 stanzas, untitled.
In: the MS described under RaW 172. c.1630.
Extracts from this MS printed in John Payne Collier, An Old Man's Diary (London, 1871), Part i, pp. 39-40. Formerly Rosenbach 186, this MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 504-10; recorded in Latham.
Of Favorites (‘Dazled with the height of place’)
Rudick, No. 49, p. 122.
See WoH 199-215.
The passionate mans Pilgrimage (‘Giue me my Scallop shell of quiet’)
First published with Daiphantvs or The Passions of Loue (London, 1604). Latham, pp. 49-51. Rudick, Nos 54A, 54B and 54C (three versions, pp. 126-33).
This poem rejected from the canon and attributed to an anonymous Catholic poet in Philip Edwards, ‘Who Wrote The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage?’, ELR, 4 (1974), 83-97.
RaW 438
Copy, headed ‘Verses Made by Sr walter Raleigh the night before hee was beheaded’.
In: the MS described under RaW 226. c.1638.
This MS recorded in Latham pp. 141-2.
RaW 439
Copy, headed ‘verses written by Sr walter Raleigh in the gatehouse att westmr the evening before he died’, in a section of material relating to Ralegh (pp. 43-51). c.1630.
In: the MS described under RaW 18.
This MS recorded in Latham pp. 141-2.
RaW 440
Copy, headed ‘Sir Walter Raleighs Pilgrimage’.
In: the MS described under RaW 325. c.1630s.
Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 54B, pp. 128-30. Recorded in Latham, pp. 141-2.
RaW 441
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raileieghs Pilgrim’, probably transcribed from an edition of Ralegh's Remains.
In: the MS described under RaW 33. c.1662.
This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 141-3.
RaW 442
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleighs Pilgrimage’, transcribed from RaW 443, subscribed ‘W: R:’.
In: the MS described under RaW 244. c.1620s-30s.
This MS the Pickering MS collated in Hannah (1845), pp. 105-8. Recorded in Latham, pp. 141-3.
RaW 443
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleighs Pilgrimage’.
In: the MS described under RaW 245. c.1620s.
This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 141-2.
RaW 444
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleighes Pilgrimage’, subscribed ‘Sr: walter Rawleigh’.
In: the MS described under RaW 252. c.1630s [-1670s].
This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 141-2.
RaW 446
Copy, in double columns, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleighs Pilgrimage’.
In: the MS described under RaW 221. c.1630s.
National Library of Wales, NLW MS 12443 A, Part II, pp. 237-8.
RaW 446.5
Copy, headed ‘Essex Pilgremage to Heauen’.
In: A folio booklet of poems relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in an accomplished roman hand, on ten pages of three unbound pairs of conjugate folio leaves. c.1620s-30s.
Among papers of the Isham family of Lamport Hall.
RaW 447
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh his Pilgrimage; Or A Preparative made by Himselfe, the Night before hee was beheaded’.
In: the MS described under RaW 122. c.1630s.
RaW 448
Copy, headed ‘Verses that Sr Wal: Rawly made a little beefore hee was beeheaded, his Farewell to the world’.
In: the MS described under RaW 337. c.1640s.
This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 141-2.
RaW 449
Copy, headed ‘By Sr Wa: Raleigh the night before his execucon’.
In: the MS described under RaW 94. c.1636-40s.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 32 (James 423), f. 33v-4v.
RaW 449.5
Copy, headed ‘Sr Waltr Raleigh his pilgrimage’.
In: the MS described under RaW 95.5. c.1620s-30s.
RaW 450
Copy of a version, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The Lo: Straford his Pilgrymage’, here beginning ‘Gyue me my Cockell Shells of quiett’, 24 lines, imperfect and lacking the rest, among other poems on Strafford.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, with a table of contents, 599 leaves. Inscribed (f. 141r) ‘John: Saunders is the trew owner of this booke’, ‘Captaine Christo: Blounte’, and ‘Valentine LLawless’.
Owned by John Madden, MD (1649-1703/4), physician and manuscript collector. Old pressmark F. 1. 20.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 141.
RaW 451
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleighes Pilgrimage’.
In: the MS described under RaW 97. c.1620s.
Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 54C, pp. 130-3.
RaW 452
Copy, headed ‘Sr W: Ralegs Pilgrimage’.
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.
‘Say not you love, unless you do’
First published in Inedited Poetical Miscellanies, 1584-1700, ed. W.C. Hazlitt ([London], 1870), p. [179]. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 38, p. 106.
RaW 453
Copy, headed ‘Two Louers dialogue’.
In: the MS described under RaW 224. c.1630s.
Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174.
RaW 453.5
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed at the side ‘Answare’.
In: the MS described under RaW 412. c.1629-30s.
RaW 455
Copy, headed ‘A Gentlewoman to a gentleman’.
In: the MS described under RaW 227. c.1630s-40s.
This MS recorded in Latham.
RaW 455.5
Copy in: An autograph diary of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary, for 6 July-12 September 1711, 242 quarto pages. 1711.
RaW 457
Copy, headed ‘A conference betwixt 2 lovers’.
In: the MS described under RaW 150. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Latham.
RaW 458
Copy, headed ‘Of loue’ and here beginning ‘Loue, or doe not say doe’.
In: the MS described under RaW 206. c.1630s.
RaW 459
Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue between a man and woman’.
In: the MS described under RaW 236. c.1638.
RaW 460
Copy, headed ‘A Lady to her Louer’, transcribed from RaW 461.
In: the MS described under RaW 244. c.1620s-30s.
RaW 462
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Ralegh & a Lady’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse, academic exercises and other material, in English and Latin, almost entirely in a single hand, 134 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Inscribed by the compiler (f. 133v) ‘Anthony Scattergood His booke’: i.e. Anthony Scattergood (1611-87), theologian, of Trinity College, Cambridge. Volume XXXII of the Scattergood papers. c.1632-40.
Also inscribed (f. 130v) ‘Elisabeth Scattergood her Booke 1667/8’. Booklabel of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector.
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt (1870) and in Rudick, No. 38, p. 106.
RaW 462.5
Copy, untitled and subscribed ‘J.D.’.
In: A folio volume of of tracts and papers chiefly on state matters, largely in one hand, 72 leaves (plus blanks). c.1635.
Inscribed (f. 10r) with names of Stephen Foster of Wrexham, Buckinghamshire (possibly the principal compiler) and Robert Drake of Topsham, Devon. Bookplate (f. 11r) of Berkeley Seymour of Queens's College, Cambridge. Purchased from the Rev. John C. Jackson 8 December 1866.
RaW 464.8
Copy, headed ‘Dr Duns answer to a lady Laday’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, in Latin, Greek and English, in several hands (two predominating), probably compiled by men associated with the University of Oxford, written from both ends, c.118 leaves, in contemporary calf. Mid-late-17th century.
Inscribed names of ‘Will. Randolph’ and ‘William Burry '67’ [who matriculated at Christ Church on 26 October 1666], and including (ff. 72v-59v rev.) verses by ‘G. Yalden’ [? William Yalden, who matriculated at Queen's College on 21 November 1687].
RaW 470
Copy, headed ‘two Louers’.
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.
RaW 471
Copy, headed ‘A conference betwixt 2 louers’, deleted.
In: the MS described under RaW 63. c.1630s.
RaW 473
Copy, headed ‘A Gentlewoman to Doctour Dun’.
In: the MS described under RaW 220. c.late 1630s.
RaW 474
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed ‘A ladyes speech to her suitour’.
In: the MS described under RaW 144. c.1630s-40s.
John Rylands University Library of Manchester, English MS 410, f. 22v.
RaW 475
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Sr say not that you loue unlesse you doe’.
In: the MS described under RaW 273. c.1630s.
RaW 476
Copy, headed ‘Doctor Dunns Answer to a ladie’.
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. 38r.
RaW 476.8
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Love or doe not say you doe’.
In: the MS described under RaW 93. c.1630.
‘Shall I, like an hermit, dwell’
First published in The London Magazine (1734), p. 444. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 173.
RaW 478
Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson.
In: the MS described under RaW 232. c.1640s-60s.
Printed from this MS in Norman Ault, A Treasury of Unfamiliar Lyrics (London, 1938), p. 124.
RaW 478.8
Extracts, headed ‘Sr Gualt: Raleigh’.
In: An octavo commonplace book of extracts, in Latin and English, in a single mixed hand, 73 unfoliated leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Mid-17th century.
Hertfordshire Record Office, DE/P F11, ff. [25r, 26r, 27r, 28r].
RaW 479
Copy, untitled.
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).
RaW 480
Copy of a four-stanza version, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson.
In: the MS described under RaW 185. c.1630s-50s.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 257.
RaW 481
Copy, allegedly in the hand of Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627).
In: An unbound collection of MS poems. Described by Bright in 1877 as ‘A small packet of old discoloured papers’. Early 17th century.
Once owned by Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-65), natural philosopher and courtier. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Bright's library was sold in five parts at Sotheby's, 3 and 18 June 1844, 3 March, 12 April and 7 July 1845.
The MS poems printed, with commentary by G.F. Warner, in Poems from Sir Kenelm Digby's Papers, in the possession of Henry A. Bright (Roxburghe Club, London, 1877).
Edited from this MS in Bright (1877), pp. 32-3, where (pp. 34-6) the hand is identified as Goodyer's by Sir George Warner.
‘So lies my lovinge heart conceald’
First published in Latham (1951), p. 169, as a doubtfully ascribed fragment.
RaW 482
Copy, ascribed in another hand to ‘W. R.’
In: the MS described under RaW 62. c.1640s.
Edited from this MS in Latham.
A songe made by Sir Water Rawley (‘What teares (Deare Prince) can serue to water all’)
First published in Latham (1929). Latham (1951), p. 52. Rudick, No 51, p. 124.
Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, pp. 145-6, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.
RaW 483
Copy of the first stanza, untitled, in a musical setting by Robert Ramsey.
In: the MS described under RaW 232. c.1640s-60s.
Edited from this MS in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 12.
RaW 484
Copy, in a musical setting by Robert Ramsey, untitled.
In: A folio songbook, in two or more predominantly italic hands, written from both ends, 87 leaves, in remains of contemporary vellum within modern half red morocco. Possibly compiled in part by one ‘T. C.’ c.1641-59.
Inscribed (f. 1v) ‘R. Guise [of Abbey] Feb: 12. 1760’. Purchased from Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, 17 June 1839.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 4 (New York & London, 1986).
This MS recorded in Spink.
RaW 485
Copy in: the MS described under RaW 140. c.1630s.
Edited from this MS in Latham snd in Rudick, No. 51, p. 124.
‘The state of Fraunce as nowe it standes’
First published in A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1808), III, 78. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172. Rudick, No. 30, p. 71. EV 24294.
RaW 486
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under RaW 1. c.1586-91.
This MS collated in Steven W. May, ‘“The French Primero”: A Study in Renaissance Textual Transmission and Taste’, ELN, 9 (1971-2), 102-8.
RaW 487
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The French Primero’.
In: A folio compendium or entry book of state letters and other documents and memoranda, in various secretary and italic hands, 231 leaves (including numerous blanks), in modern half-calf. Compiled over a period, and partly written, by Sir Stephen Powle (c.1553-1630), Clerk of the Crown.
This MS collated in May.
RaW 488
Copy, headed ‘The State of france translated oute of frenche into Englishe Anno Domini 1585’.
In: A folio miscellany chiefly of heraldic and historical collections, in a single secretary hand, with rubrication, 418 leaves. Compiled by Robert Commaundre (d.1613), rector of Tarporley, Cheshire, and chaplain to Sir Henry Sydney, Lord President of the Marches of Wales. Late 16th-early 17th century.
This MS collated in May.
RaW 488.5
Copy of an eleven-stanza version, headed ‘The frenche Prymero. 1585’.
In: the MS described under RaW 488. Late 16th-early 17th century.
RaW 489
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on a leaf following (on f. 214r-v) ‘A coppy of a lettre sent by the great lord to the Kinge of Nauarr. translated out of greekento ffrenche and soe into Englishe’. c.1600.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, papers and speeches, in various hands, 215 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.
Printed from this MS in Catalogue of Harleian Manuscripts (1808); collated in May; recorded in Latham.
RaW 490
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under RaW 114.
This MS collated in May; recorded in Latham.
RaW 491
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under RaW 116. c.1581-1612.
May, Stanford, p. 89 (No. 113).
RaW 492
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under RaW 118. c.1590-1600s.
This MS collated in May; recorded in Latham.
RaW 493
Copy, headed ‘Tempore Hen: 3.’
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 recorded (but not seen) in May.
RaW 494
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled and unascribed.
In: the MS described under RaW 134. c.1580s-1615.
This MS collated in May.
RaW 494.5
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, endorsed ‘Primero of ffraunce’. Late 16th-early 17th century.
In: Miscellaneous literary papers, unbound, assembled by Adam Ottley (1685-1752), Registrar of the diocese of St David's, Wales. Among papers formerly at Pitchford Hall, Shropshire.
National Library of Wales, Pitchford Hall (Ottley) English Literary MSS (uncatalogued), A, A4.
RaW 495
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled, on one side of a single quarto leaf, endorsed ‘Verses of the civill Vprores in Fraunc’, on a single leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. Early 17th century.
RaW 496
Copy, untitled, headed in a later hand in red ink ‘On the State of France under ye Administration of ye Guises by Sr Walter Rawleigh’, among other verse in one secretary hand on a single folio leaf. c.1600-10.
In: the MS described under RaW 197.
Edited from this MS in Curt F. Bühler, ‘Four Elizabethan Poems’, in Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, DC, 1948), pp. 695-706 (pp. 700-1), and in Rudick, No. 30, p. 71. Collated in May. Recorded in Latham.
Pierpont Morgan Library, Rulers of England (Eliz. I), No. 48[c].
RaW 496.5
Copy in: A folio volume of transcripts of state papers, in a secretary hand, i + 41 leaves, in contemporary vellum with remains of ties. c.1610.
Names inscribed on f. [ir]: ‘John Humphreys’ and ‘D [?] Wynn’.
RaW 496.8
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on a quarto leaf, imperfect, lacking all the right half of the page, in a bundle of unbound verse and miscellaneous papers. Late 16th-early 17th century.
Among papers of the related Trevelyan and Willoughby families.
Vertue the best monument (‘Not Caesars birth made Caesar to suruiue’)
First published in Latham (1929). Latham (1951), p. 53. Rudick, No. 59, p. 137.
Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, p. 147, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.
RaW 497
Copy, subscribed ‘Sr Walt: Raleighe’.
In: the MS described under RaW 301. c.1633.
Edited from this MS in Latham and in Rudick.
‘Water thy plants with grace devine, and hope to live for aye’
A version first published as the first two stanzas in a twenty-line poem edited in Poetical Miscellanies from a Manuscript Collection of the Time of James I, ed. James Orchard Halliwell, Percty Society 15 (1845). The long version in Rudick, p. 187. The two-stanza version (conflated to four lines) in Rudick, No. 58, p. 137.
RaW 497.5
Copy of a two-stanza version conflated to four extended lines, subscribed ‘Sir Wa: Raleigh’.
In: the MS described under RaW 10.5. c.1620s-37.
Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 58, p. 137.
RaW 497.8
Copy of the 20-line version.
In: the MS described under RaW 3. c.1605.
Edited from this MS in Halliwell and in Rudick, p. 187.
‘When first this circell Round, this buildinge faire’
First published as part of the anonymous play The First Part of the Tragicall Raigne of Selimus (London, 1594). Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 173. Rudick, No. 28, pp. 67-9.
RaW 498
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Certaine hellish verses devysed by that Athiest and traitor Rawley as yet is sayd viz’, subscribed ‘finis R. W / als’, on both sides of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed ‘Verses written by Sr Walter Rawleye 1603’. Early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters and documents, in various hands, 238 leaves.
Edited from this MS in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 52, and in Jean Jacquot, ‘Ralegh's “Hellish Verses” and the “Tragicall Raigne of Selimus”’, MLR, 48 (1953), 1-9.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Portland Papers, Vol. I, f. 191r-v.
RaW 498.5
Copy, in an italic hand, probably transcribed from RaW 498, on both sides of a single folio leaf. Mid-late 17th century.
In: the MS described under RaW 498.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Portland Papers, Vol. I, f. 192r-v.
RaW 499
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Certaine hellish verses devised by yt Athiest & traitour Rawley as Yet is said’, on both sides of a folio leaf once folded as a letter, subscribed ‘finis R W. als W Rawley’ and endorsed ‘verses sayed to be written by walter Rawley knight 1603’. Early 17th century.
In: A large folio composite volume of state papers and tracts, in various hands and paper sizes, 333 leaves, mounted on guards, in half red morocco.
Volume II of papers of the Malet family, baronets, of Wilbury, Wiltshire, including papers collected and endorsed by George Harbin (c.1665-1744), nonjuror, historical writer, and librarian at Longleat to Thomas Thynne (1640-1714), first Viscount Weymouth, and his family.
Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 28, pp. 67-9. Recorded in HMC, 5th Report (1876), Appendix, p. 311; in Latham, and in Jacquot.
‘Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart’
First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), printed twice, the first version prefixed by ‘Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames’ (see RaW 320-38) and headed ‘To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh’. Edited with the prefixed stanza in Latham, pp. 18-19. Edited in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Charles B. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 197-8. Rudick, Nos 39A and 39B (two versions, pp. 106-9).
This poem was probably written by Sir Robert Ayton. For a discussion of the authorship and the different texts see Gullans, pp. 318-26 (also printed in SB, 13 (1960), 191-8).
RaW 500
Copy, prefixed by ‘Passions are likened best to floods, and streames’ (RaW 320).
In: the MS described under RaW 224. c.1630s.
RaW 501
Copy of stanzas 1-7, apparently subscribed ‘Lo: Walden’, but now in an illegible state.
In: the MS described under RaW 10.5. c.1620s-37.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 116, and in Gullans.
RaW 502
Copy of stanzas 1-7, headed ‘To his Mrs’ and here beginning ‘Wronge not deare Mrs of my harte’.
In: the MS described under RaW 413. c.1630.
This MS recorded in Gullans.
RaW 503
Copy, headed ‘A paradox yt silence is ye best suiter’.
In: the MS described under RaW 136. c.late 1630s.
This MS collated in Gullans.
RaW 504
Copy of stanzas 1, 3, 4, 2 and 7, headed ‘Cant 5’.
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.
This MS recorded in Gullans.
RaW 505
Copy of stanzas 1, 3, 4, 2 and 7, headed ‘A Song’.
In: the MS described under RaW 206. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 116, and in Gullans.
RaW 506
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 recorded in Latham, p. 116.
RaW 508
Copy, prefixed by ‘Our passions are most like to floods & streams’ (see RaW 325).
In: the MS described under RaW 325. c.1630s.
Edited from this MS in Norman Ault, Elizabethan Lyrics, 4th edition (London, 1966), pp. 284-5; collated in Gullans; recorded in Latham, p. 115.
RaW 509
Copy, with Sir John Ayton's emendations, untitled.
In: A folio volume of poems by Sir Robert Ayton (1570-1638), in two hands, with corrections and corrections and emendations in the hand of his nephew Sir John Ayton, 23 leaves, in modern half blue morocco. With Sir John's title-page (f. 1r): ‘Some fewe English and Scotts amorous Poems of Sr: Robert Ayton late Secretarye to the most Illustrious Anna and Henrietta Mary Queenes of greate Brittayne France and Ireland’. c.1660s.
Edited from this MS in The Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse (Oxford, 1958), pp. 85-6. Collated in Gullans. Recorded in Latham, p. 116.
RaW 510
Copy, prefixed by ‘Passions are likened best to flouds and streames’ (RaW 326) and subscribed ‘Sr W: R:’, transcribed from RaW 513.
In: the MS described under RaW 244. c.1620s-30s.
This MS collated in Gullans; recorded in Latham, p. 115.
RaW 511
Copy, prefixed by ‘Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames’ (RaW 327).
In: the MS described under RaW 327. c.1640s.
Printed from this MS in Latham; collated in Gullans.
RaW 512
Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves of verse. Mid-17th century.
In: the MS described under RaW 317. Early-mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Gullans; recorded in Latham, p. 116.
RaW 513
Copy, untitled, prefixed by “Passions are likened beste to flouds & streams” (RaW 328) and subscribed ‘Sr WR’.
In: the MS described under RaW 245. c.1620s.
This MS collated in Gullans; recorded in Latham, p. 115.
RaW 514
Copy, in a Scottish hand, untitled, subscribed ‘finis quod sumbodie’. c.1620s-30s.
In: the MS described under RaW 295.
This MS collated in Gullans; recorded in Latham, p. 116.
RaW 515
Copy, in an italic hand.
In: An octavo volume of poems by Sir Robert Ayton (1570-1638), with later household recipes from f. 41 onwards, in several hands, 65 leaves. Mid-late 17th century.
Inscribed (f. 2v) ‘Mrs. Margaret’ and ‘M’. Presented by the Rev. C. Rogers, 4 March 1871.
This MS collated in Gullens. Recorded in Latham, p. 116.
RaW 516
Copy of stanzas 1, 3, 4, 6-8.
In: A folio composite volume of political and ecclesiastical verse and prose, 123 leaves.
Among the papers of Sir Edward Nicholas (1593-1669), Secretary of State.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 116, and in Gullans.
RaW 517
Copy of stanzas 1, 3, 4, 6-8, untitled.
In: the MS described under RaW 251. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 116, and in Gullans.
RaW 518
Copy, headed ‘An ode’, subscribed ‘Sr Walter Rawleigh’.
In: the MS described under RaW 252. c.1630s [-1670s].
This MS collated in Gullans; recorded in Latham, p. 115.
RaW 518.5
Copy, headed ‘Write by Sr. Wa: Rawleygh whe he was in the Gathouse’, among other papers relating to Ralegh
In: A folio volume of state tracts and speeches, in professional secretary hands, iv + 311 pages, in contemporary vellum gilt. Largely (but not entirely) a duplicate of MS 121. c.1620s-30s.
RaW 519
Copy, headed ‘To his Mistresse’, here beginning ‘Wrong not sweet Empresse of my soule’, and subscribed ‘Sr: Wa: Raleigh’.
In: the MS described under RaW 44. c.1637-50.
Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 39B, pp. 108-9. Collated in Gullans. Recorded in Latham, p. 115.
RaW 520
Copy of stanzas 1-7, headed ‘The Lord Walden to ye princesse Eliz:’ and here beginning ‘Wronge not deere mistresse of my hart’.
In: the MS described under RaW 115. c.1637.
This MS recorded in Gullans.
RaW 521
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under RaW 47. c.1640.
Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 7196, ff. [8v-9r rev.].
RaW 522
Copy of stanzas 1-7, here beginning ‘Wrong (not dear mrs: of my heart’ and set out as two poems.
In: A folio miscellany, begun as a commonplace book and then used for transcribing state papers, letters and verses, in several hands, 560 pages (including numerous blanks), in quarter-calf marbled boards. Early-mid-17th century.
Inscribed (p. i), probably in the late 17th century, ‘John Peck His Book’.
This MS recorded in Gullans.
RaW 523
Copy, headed ‘Songe’.
In: the MS described under RaW 183. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Gullans.
RaW 524
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Sr: Walter Raleigh.’
In: An octavo verse miscellany, largely in a predominantly secretary hand, another hand on ff. 85r-7v, 95v-6r, xiii pages + 104 leaves (including blanks, but lacking ff. 7-9, 54-5, 95), with a table of contents (pp. 1-6), in modern calf, gilt-edged. Compiled by University or Inns of Court men. c.1630s.
The extracted fols 7, 8 and 54 are now Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2757, Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2216, and Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2217 respectively. The extracted fol. 9 is now Folger MS V.a.505, p. 27.
Inscribed (f. [104v] ‘Thomas White His Book May ye 20 Anno Domine 1691’. Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and in his library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.21.
This MS collated in Gullans; recorded in Latham, p. 115.
RaW 525
Copy, prefixed by ‘Passions are likned best to flouds and streames’ (see RaW 331).
In: the MS described under RaW 119. c.1630 [-1677].
This MS recorded in Gullans; recorded in Latham, p. 115.
RaW 526
Copy, headed ‘A silent wooer’.
In: the MS described under RaW 63. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Gullans; recorded in Latham, p. 116.
RaW 527
Copy of lines 1-2, 5-28, 31-2, untitled, prefixed by “Passions are likn'd best to flouds & streams” (see RaW 333).
In: the MS described under RaW 220. c.late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Gullans.
RaW 528
Copy 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).
This MS recorded in Gullans.
RaW 530
Copy, headed ‘Songe’, transcribed from a text in ‘a small MS. Collection in Mr. Bouchers possession’ [i.e. Jonathan Boucher of Epsom].
In: A composite volume of transcripts of ballads made, from various printed and manuscript sources, by and for Robert Jamieson (1780?-1844) for his edition of Popular Ballads and Songs (Edinburgh, 1806). c.1800.
Owned in 1921 by George Neilson, then by Charles R. Cowie, and now in the John Cowie Collection.
Discussed in G. Neilson, ‘A Bundle of Ballads’, E&S, 7 (1921), 108-42.
This MS recorded in Neilson, ‘A Bundle of Ballads’, p. 111.
RaW 531
Copy of a sixteen-line version, in a musical setting.
In: A folio songbook, in a single secretary hand, some items misnumbered, 144 leaves. c.1640s.
Once owned by the Shirley family, Earls Ferrers, of Staunton Harold, Leicestershire. Also owned, and annotated, by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.
Generally cited as the Earl Ferrers MS. Collated in Cutts, ‘Drexel Manuscript 4041’, MD, 18 (1964), 151-202. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 9 (New York & London, 1987).
Edited partly from this MS in Cutts, ‘Drexel Manuscript 4041’, p. 181.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4041, No. 58, f. 42v.
RaW 532
Copy of a sixteen-line version, in a musical setting.
In: the MS described under RaW 531. c.1640s.
Edited partly from this MS in Cutts, ‘Drexel Manuscript 4041’, p. 181.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4041, No. 65, f. 46r.
RaW 533
Copy, in a musical setting.
In: the MS described under RaW 184.8. c.1620s-30s.
This MS collated in Cutts, ‘“Songs unto the Violl and Lute”--Drexel MS 4175’, MD, 16 (1962), 72-92 (pp. 85-6).
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4175, No. xxviii.
RaW 534
Copy of a garbled version, in a musical setting.
In: the MS described under RaW 185. c.1630s-50s.
This MS recorded in Cutts, MD, 16 (1962), 85.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 210.
RaW 535
Copy, prefixed by ‘Passions are likened best to Flouds and Streames’ (see RaW 335).
In: the MS described under RaW 122. c.1630s.
RaW 537
Copy, prefixed by ‘Passions are likened to floods & streams’ (see RaW 336).
In: the MS described under RaW 171. c.1634.
This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 115-16; recorded (but not seen) in Gullans.
RaW 538
Copy, prefixed by ‘Passions are most like to shades and dreames’ (see RaW 337).
In: the MS described under RaW 337. c.1640s.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 116; recorded (but not seen) in Gullans.
RaW 539
Copy, headed ‘A Songe’.
In: the MS described under RaW 282. c.1634.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 116; recorded (but not seen) in Gullans.
RaW 540
Copy, headed ‘Sonnett: to his Dearest’.
In: the MS described under RaW 93. c.1630.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 116; recorded (but not seen) in Gullans.
RaW 540.5
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Wronge not sweet Empresse of my hart’.
In: the MS described under RaW 285.5. Early 17th century.
RaW 540.8
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under RaW 185.5. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 14v.
Prose
Apology for his Voyage to Guiana
A tract beginning ‘If the ill success of this enterprise of mine had been without example...’. First published in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 477-507. Edited by V. T. Harlow in Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 316-34.
RaW 543
Copy, in a secretary hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, under the general title in another hand ‘Sir Walter Raleiges large Apologie for his last voyage to Guiana with certaine letters of his written to the King, his wife and others’.
In: A folio volume of tracts and letters relating to seafaring, in several professional secretary hands, 560 pages (plus a table of contents and blanks), in contemporary limp vellum gilt. Owned by, and occasionally annotated in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician. c.1620s-30s.
Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 4.
The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 261, pp. 444-518.
RaW 544
Copy in three or four hands, headed ‘Sr Walter Ralegh his Appologie’.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters, speeches and other papers, in various hands and paper sizes, x + 315 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.
Collected and partly written by Elias Ashmole (1617-92).
RaW 545
Copy, headed ‘Sr: Walter Raighley Large Appologie for the ill Successe of his enterprise to Guina’.
In: A folio volume of four works by Ralegh, in professional hands, i + 47 leaves, in 19th-century diced russia gilt (rebacked). c.1630.
Inscribed (f. 2r) with the name ‘Watkin Owen’. Formerly Mostyn MS 142, from the library of originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn Hall, near Holywell, Flintshire, and maintained by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) and his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90). Sotheby's, 13 July 1920 (Mostyn sale), lot 99, to Edwards. Francis Edwards, sale catalogue No. 519 (1929), item 385.
Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 353.
Edited from this MS in Harlow, pp. 316-34.
RaW 546
Copy, in a secretary hand
In: A folio volume of state papers, in two or three hands, 70 leaves, in vellum. c.1620s.
RaW 547
Copy in a professional secretary hand, a title added in another hand (f. 24r) ‘Sr walter Rauleighs Appologie’, on quarto leaves.
In: A quarto composite volume of state tracts, 72 leaves, in later grey boards.
Owned in 1721 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary, who has inscribed f. [ir] ‘Given to me by Richard Graves, of Mickleton near Campden in Gloucestershire, Esq.’
RaW 548
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rauleigh's Apologie, written to the King & the Councill in defence of his last action in Guiana, since his last coming into the towre’.
In: the MS described under RaW 27. Mid-late 17th century.
RaW 549.5
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleyghs Apologie’.
In: the MS described under RaW 38.2. c.1620s-40s.
RaW 550.2
Part of a copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, imperfect. c.1620s.
In: An unbound collection of state letters and tracts, in various hands, 128 leaves.
Volume XII of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Misc. XXXIV.
RaW 550.4
Part of a copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Sr walter Ralegh his Appologie’, imperfect.c.1620s.
In: the MS described under RaW 550.2.
RaW 550.6
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Sr Walter Ralegh his Apologie’, on six pages of three pairs of conjugate folio leaves, incomplete, lacking the ending, endorsed ‘Sr Walter Rawleigh's Apology’. c.1620s.
In: the MS described under RaW 550.2.
RaW 550.8
Extracts.
In: A quarto miscellany of extracts chiefly from historical works, in Latin and English, in a single small mixed hand, compiled by one Thomas Gybbons, armiger, 237 leaves, in modern quarter-morocco gilt. Mid-late 17th century.
RaW 551
Copy, headed ‘Sir Walter Rawleigh his large apologie at his returne from Guiana voiage’.
In: A quarto volume of state papers, nearly all in a single secretary hand, 74 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt. Early-mid-17th century.
RaW 552
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleighe his Apolloge’.
In: A folio volume of state tracts and letters, c.480 pages. c.1625-30s.
Inscribed on the rear cover ‘Robert Wingfield his Booke witnes Barbary Wingfield’. Among the Tabley House MSS and once owned by Sir Peter Leycester (1614-78), antiquary.
Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, pp. 47-8.
RaW 553
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleighs Apologie’, on nine folio leaves, in blank paper wrapper. c.1620s-30s.
Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D258/67/6c.
Recorded in HMC, 9th Report, Part II (1884), Appendix, p. 386.
RaW 553.5
A composite copy, in different hands and paper sizes, partly in the hand of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, 21 pages. c.1620s.
Among manuscripts purchased after Starkey's death by Sir Simonds D'Ewes, Bt (1602-50), diarist and antiquary.
RaW 554
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleighes Apologie’. c.1620.
In: the MS described under RaW 67.
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, MS 73/40, ff. 205r-13r.
RaW 555
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rayleigh's Apology’. c.1620s.
In: A folio volume of three works, each in a different secretary hand, 50 leaves (including blanks, plus more blanks), in brown morocco.
RaW 556
Copy in: A folio volume of tracts by Ralegh, in a single hand. Early-mid-17th century.
Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Given me by Wm. Collins Esqr. of Maise Hill, Greenwich, 12th Steptr. 1866 / Berrick’. In the library of Silvanus Phillips Thompson (1851-1916), physicist.
Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, [A Thompson MS], [item 3].
RaW 557
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleigh his Appologie after his Retorne into England in excuse of his not working the Mynne at Orenoque’.
In: A folio volume, comprosing two MSS of copies of letters by Ralegh, in three secretary hands (pp. 1-86, 87-91, 91-[93] respectively), with a table of contents, iii + 93 pages, in modern quarter-morocco. Among papers of the Knatchbull family, Barons Brabourne, of Mersham-le-Hatch, Kent. c.1620s.
RaW 558
Copy, in two italic hands, a supplied title-page in another hand ‘The Apologie of Sr Walter Raleigh for his Voyage to Guaiana’, with notes along the margin of f. 26r by a reader, inscribed on the first page ‘[?Gri]ffith M.A. / 1664’. Mid-17th century.
In: A collection of state tracts and verse, in various professional hands (including the ‘Feathery Scribe’), now bound in two volumes, Vol. I comprising 249 leaves (plus blanks), Vol. II 247 leaves (plus blanks), each in modern half-morocco gilt.
Among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 349 (No. 75).
RaW 559
Copy, headed ‘Sr Wa: Ralegh his Apologie’.
In: A folio volume of state tracts and letters, in several probably professional secretary hands, 225 pages, in marbled boards. c.1630.
Formerly among the F. Bacon Frank MSS at Campsall Hall, Yorkshire. Sotheby's, 11 August 1942, lot 70. Afterwards owned by Annie Winifred Bryher (née Ellerman, d.1983) and by the Ralegh scholar Agnes Latham (1905-96), of Pickering, North Yorkshire.
Recorded, as B. 3, in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 459.
RaW 560
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, imperfect, lacking the beginning and ending. c.1620s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, partly relating to Thomas Fairfax (1612-71), Parliamentarian army officer, in various hands, including some printed material, 181 leaves, in modern morocco.
Formerly among papers of the Ingleby family, of Ripley Castle, Yorkshire. In the collection of Roger Charles Anderson, D Litt (1883-1976).
Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 362.
RaW 560.5
Copy, in two mixed hands, headed ‘Sr Walter Ralegh his Apologie’.
In: A folio volume of tracts.
Among papers of the North family, Earls of Guilford.
RaW 561
Copy, in possibly three hands, untitled, on ten folio leaves numbered 5-23, disbound. c.1620s.
RaW 562
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Sir Walter Raleigh his Apologie’, eleven + ii folio leaves, in a paper wrapper. c.1620s.
RaW 562.5
Copy, headed ‘Sir Walter Raleigh his greate Apologie when he came fro Guiana 28: Oct 1618’.
In: the MS described under RaW 6.5. c.1642.
RaW 563
Copy; in a professional secretary hand, on eight folio leaves, imperfect, lacking a title and the beginning, later endorsed (f. 82v) ‘Imperfect Relation on a Voyage &c’. c.1620.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 194 leaves, in red morocco.
RaW 564
Copy, in a secretary hand, on seven folio leaves (plus one blank), imperfect, lacking a title and the beginning, later endorsed ‘Imperfect Relation of a Voyage &c. Sr W. Rawleigh’. c.1620s-30s.
In: the MS described under RaW 563.
RaW 565
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Sr: Walter Rawleghe his apologie’, apparently transcribed by of for one A. Throkmorton for an aristocratic friend a (knight), with Throkmorton's accompanying letter (on f. 1r-v) sending this ‘pleadinge Appologye’ and commenting on the morals it exemplifies, dated 31 October 1618. 1618.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, in vellum boards.
Later owned by Thomas Wagstaffe (1645-1712), nonjuror bishop, and by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS I. 4. (James 305), ff. [2r-11v].
RaW 566
Copy, in a secretary hand. c.1620s.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 270 leaves (including some blanks), in quarter-calf marbled boards.
Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R. 5. 12 (James 707), ff. 172r-7v.
RaW 567
Copy, headed ‘Sr: Walter Raleighs large Appologie for his Journey to Guiana’.
In: the MS described under RaW 97. c.1620s.
RaW 568
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleighes Apologie’.
In: the MS described under RaW 389.6. c.late 1620s-30s.
RaW 569
Copy in: A folio volume of tracts attributed to Ralegh. 17th century.
Formerly among the Finch MSS at Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland. (Not among the Finch MSS in the Leicestershire Record Office and possibly destroyed in a fire in 1908).
Recorded in HMC, 7th Report (1879), Appendix, p. 516.
RaW 569.5
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh his large appologie’, on 46 pages.
In: A folio volume of writings by Sir Walter Ralegh, in a single professional secretary hand, 38 leaves, in 18th-century vellum. c.1630s.
Sotheby's, 15 March 2007 (‘The Library of the Earls of Macclesfield removed from Shirburn Castle, Part Nine’), lot 3258.
Facsimile of the first page in Sotheby's sale catalogue, p. 201.
RaW 570
Three-page abstract of the tract, headed ‘Out of the Apologie of Sr Walter Ralegh after his unfortunate sucesse in Guiaiana. 1618’ and here beginning ‘My ill success was not without example…’.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 248 leaves, in modern crushed morocco gilt.
Considerations concerning Reprysalles
A memorandum beginning ‘All that hath or shalbe taken may be brought in question...’. First published in John Payne Collier, ‘Sir Walter Raleigh. Additional Papers’, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 5 (12 March 1864), 207-8.
*RaW 571
Autograph draft memorandum, untitled and here beginning ‘All yt hath or shalbe taken may be brought in question...’, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed in the hand of Sir Thomas Windebank (1566-1607), Clerk of the Signet,‘Consyderacons concerning Reprysalls’. c.February 1602/3.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 159 leaves, in red morocco.
Edited from this MS in Collier. Discussed (when unlocated) in Lefranc (1968), p. 52, and subsequently rediscovered by him.
A Dialogue between a Counsellor of State and a Justice of the Peace
A treatise, with a dedicatory epistle to James I beginning ‘Those that are suppressed and hopeless are commonly silent ...’, the dialogue beginning ‘Now, sir, what think you of Mr. St. John's trial in the Star-chamber?...’. First published as The Prerogative of Parliaments in England (‘Midelburge’ and ‘Hamburg’ [i.e. London], 1628). Works (1829), VIII, 151-221.
*RaW 572
Copy, with a few minor autograph corrections and additions in the dedicatory epistle to King James.
In: A folio volume of tracts apparently owned by Sir Walter Ralegh, 170 leaves, in 18th-century calf (rebacked). c.1611-15.
Bookplate of the Earl of Derby, Knowsley House, Merseyside. Christie's, 23 March 1954, lot 248, to Quaritch. Afterwards owned by Harry Lawrence Bradfer Lawrence (1887-1965), Norfolk antiquary and manuscript collector. Formerly on temporary loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Briefly described in Phyllis M. Giles, ‘A Handlist of the Bradfer-Lawrence manuscripts deposited on loan at the Fitzwilliam Museum’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 2 (1973), 86-99 (p. 96).
RaW 573
Copy in: A large folio composite volume of papers on public affairs, in English and Latin, in various hands, 180 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.
The first leaf inscribed by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary.
RaW 574
Copy of an abridged version, including the dedicatory epistle to King James, in at least two hands, imperfect, the last leaf gnawed by rodents. Early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and letters, in various hands, 297 leaves, in calf (rebacked). Early-mid-17th century.
RaW 575
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, docketed ‘MSS. No 55’, imperfect at the beginning and ending.c.1620s-30s.
In: A folio composite volume of works by Sir Walter Ralegh, in several professional hands, 63 leaves, in modern half green morocco. Volume XXI of the collections of Macvey Napier (1776-1847), encyclopedia and journal editor.
Item 921 in an unidentified sale catalogue.
RaW 576
Early-mid-17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers and tracts.
RaW 577
Fragment of a copy, in a professional secretary hand, comprising only the last portion, imperfect. c.1620s.
In: A folio composite volume of tracts, in various hands, 158 leaves, in modern green half crushed morocco gilt.
Inscribed on the last page Bought of ‘Mrs G: Pauls landlady’.
RaW 578
Copy, in a single professional hand, untitled, in mottled calf with initials ‘M. B.’ in gilt on each cover. c.1620s-30s.
RaW 579
Copy of an abridged version, complete with dedicatory epistle to the King, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Out of the Dialogue betweene a Counsellor & a Justice of Peace’. c.1630.
In: A large folio composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, 275 leaves, in modern half red crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Early-mid-17th century.
RaW 579.5
Extracts.
In: A quarto commonplace book, in a single mixed hand, 319 pages (including blanks, plus a few more), in brown calf. c.1620s-40s.
Inner Temple Library, Miscellaneous MS No. 17, ff. 123r, 245.
RaW 580
Copy in: Volume XII of the state papers largely assembled by Sir Thomas Edmondes (1563?-1633), 235 leaves. [1615-33].
RaW 581
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, lacking a title. c.1620s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, 104 leaves, now disbound.
Among the collections of John Patrick (1632-95), religious controversialist.
RaW 582
Copy in: A composite volume of twenty tracts, in 19th-century half-calf.
Not available for examination for conservation reasons.
RaW 583
Copy, in a single professional secretary hand, as ‘Written by Sr Walter Raleighe and dedicated to King James our Soueraigne Lord anno 1610’, on 78 folio pages (plus blanks), in half-calf on marbled boards. c.1620.
RaW 584
Copy, as ‘Written by Sr Walter Raleighe’.
In: A quarto volume of state and antiquarian tracts, in a single professional secretary hand, 92 leaves, in old calf gilt. c.1620s-30s.
G.N. Last's sale catalogue 200 (1934), item 773.
RaW 584.2
Copy, including the dedicatory epistle to James I, in a professional rounded hand, 24 tall folio pages, imperfect, lacking all the rest, unbound. A fragment of the same volume to which Cornwall Record Office, EL/730 belongs. c.1700.
Among the papers of the Eliot family, Earls of St Germans, of Port Eliot, Cornwall.
RaW 584.5
Copy, including the dedication to the King, in a professional cursive hand, headed ‘A Dialogue betwene a Counsellor of State and a Justice of Peace, the one disswadeng, the other perswading the calling of a Parliament. written by Sr Wa: Raleighe’, on 46 folio leaves (plus blanks), in vellum. c.1620s-30s.
Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671).
RaW 585
Copy. Early-mid-17th century.
Once in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 34507. Sotheby's, 25 March 1895. Afterwards owned by Thomas Nadauld Brushfield (1828-1910), medical superintendant, antiquary, and Ralegh scholar.
RaW 586
Copy, in two secretary hands, of the dedicatory epistle to King James and of the beginning of the dialogue, described as ‘written in the Tower of London by Sir Walter Raleigh...In Anno 1610’, subscribed in a later hand ‘Perlegi et pro Libitu Excerpsi Aug. 5. 1697. W. K.’, incomplete.
In: A folio volume of state tracts and parliamentary speeches, in several professional hands, 197 leaves (plus numerous blanks and some additions at the reverse end), in contemporary vellum. c.1620s-30s.
RaW 587
Copy, the dedicatory epistle and main text in two different italic hands or styles, some corrections probably in another hand, inscribed by Twysden (f. 48r) ‘The lady Raleigh did assure me this was her husbands doeing, Rog: Twysden: 1622’, and the name ‘Sr. Walter Raleigh’ added to the title possibly by him, subscribed (f. 73r) ‘Finis. Transcriptum Ao. 1622.’
In: A tall folio volume of state tracts and papers, in English and French, in several largely professional hands, 138 leaves, in diced calf gilt. Compiled by Sir Roger Twysden, second Baronet (1597-1672), antiquary, of Roydon Hall, East Peckham, Kent. c.1621-6.
Bookplate of Thomas Gage Saunders Sebright, eighth Baronet (1802-64).
RaW 588
Copy, in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, as ‘by S: Walter Rauleghe...1610’.
In: the MS described under RaW 57.
RaW 589
Copy, in a professional italic hand, untitled, unascribed, on 31 folio leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. Early 17th century.
RaW 590
Copy, in the hand of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, as ‘written in the Toure of Londo by Sr walter Raulegh...in ano. 1610’, 52 folio leaves, disbound. c.1620.
Sotheby's, 2 March 1965, lot 311, to Dawson. Formerly Folger MS Add. 447.
RaW 590.5
Copy, headed ‘A Dialoge beetweene a Justice and a Councillour’, imperfect.
In: A folio composite volume of legal tracts. c.1630s-40s.
RaW 591
Copy in a secretary hand, with the dedication to the King, incomplete, headed ‘Out of the Dialogue betweene a Counsellor and a Justice of Peace’, on nine folio leaves. c.1630.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, in calf (rebacked). Early-mid-17th century.
Bearing a list of contents in the hand of John Egerton, first Earl of Bridgewater (1579-1649).
RaW 592
Copy, in a secretary hand, subscribed ‘W. R.’, 33 + ii folio leaves, in remains of paper wrappers within later boards. Early 17th century.
Among papers of the Sidney family, Viscounts De L'Isle, of Penhurst Place, Ashford, Kent.
RaW 592.5
Copy 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. 30r-72r.
RaW 592.8
Copy, 128 quarto pages, allegedly including an autograph note, dated July 1616, and signature, attested by Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), Yorkshire antiquary and topographer. Early-mid-17th century.
Puttick & Simpson, 18 August 1865, lot 408, to Dell.
RaW 593
Copy, 60 leaves paginated 1-116. Early-mid-17th century.
Formerly owned by Annie Winifred Bryher (née Ellerman, d.1983) and by the Ralegh scholar Agnes Latham (1905-96), Pickering, North Yorkshire.
RaW 593.5
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The prerogative of parliaments in England by Sr Walter Ralegh preserved to be now happily in thes: distracted tymes published’, imperfect, lacking the ending. Early-mid 17th century.
In: A quarto composite volume of tracts, letters and sermons, in secretary hands, unfoliated, disbound. Mid-17th century.
RaW 594
Copy, in a professional italic hand, with corrections in a different ink, the dedicatory epistle to James I subscribed ‘Wa: Raleigh’, nineteen folio leaves (plus blanks), in paper wrappers. c.1620s.
This MS recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 32.
RaW 595
Copy of part of the tract, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Out of the Dialogue betweene a Counsellor & a Justice of Peace’, as by ‘Sr: walter Rawley’, thirteen folio pages, in a paper wrapper. c.1620s.
RaW 596
Copy, complete with Ralegh's dedicatory epistle to James I, in a professional.secretary hand, with some passages marked in the hand of Sir John Eliot. c.1620s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and letters, in various hands and paper sizes, 257 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century diced calf gilt. Volume 8 of the papers of Sir John Eliot (1592-1632), politician, and partly in his hand.
Among the papers of the Eliot family, Earls of St Germans, of Port Eliot, Cornwall.
Recorded (as Vol. 1) in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 42.
RaW 597
Copy of an abbreviated version, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Out of the Dialogue betweene a Counsellour and a Justice of Peace’, on twelve folio leaves. Early 17th century.
In: A folio guard-book of independent Jacobean state papers, stamped foliation 1-104.
RaW 598
Copy, in a secretary hand, with the dedicatory epistle to James I, on 32 folio leaves. Early 17th century.
In: A folio guardbook of independent Jacobean state papers, stamped foliation 1-42.
RaW 599
Copy, including the dedicatory epistle to James I, in a predominantly secretary hand.
In: A folio volume of tracts (one ‘A vew of the State of Religion’ by Sir Edwin Sandys, 1599, on ff. 2v-89r) and a speech, in different hands, 130 leaves (plus 126 blanks), in contemporary calf gilt with stamped crest, traces of green silk ties. c.1617.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘En dieu est tout: Et tout en tout / ThWentworth’: i.e. by Thomas Wentworth (1593-1641), first Earl of Strafford. Among the Wentworth Woodhouse Muniments.
RaW 600
Copy, complete with Dedication to the King, in a non-professional hand.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in several hands, written from both ends, with a list of contents, 108 leaves. Late 17th century.
Bookplate of Charles W.G. Howard, ‘The Gift of the Rt. Hon. Sir David Dundas Knt. of Ochtertyre 1877’. Formerly Osborn MS. Chest II, No. 13. vol. 2.
RaW 601
Copy in: A folio volume of state tracts. 17th century.
Once among the family papers of Sir Thomas Winnington, M.P. (1811-72), of Stanford Court, Worcestershire, which was partly destroyed by fire in 1882
Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 53.
Untraced, [Stanford Court MS (I)], [unspecified page numbers].
RaW 602
Copy, in a competent secretary hand, with dedicatory epistle to James I, with an affixed slip of replacement text on p. 447, inscribed in the margin ‘Sr Walt Rawley’.
In: A quarto volume of state and antiquarian tracts and papers, in various secretary hands, x + 523 pages, in contemporary limp vellum inscribed ‘Liber B’. Some of the items copied from manuscripts of Roger Dodsworth (1585-1654), antiquary, and of the Aske family. A list of books at the end, with dates 1642-54, includes references to Robert Cotton, Sir Hugh Cholmley, and Sir Gervase Clifton (who ‘hath ye booke’). c.1627-52.
Owned by the Fairfax family of Yorkshire. Partly compiled by Charles Fairfax (1597-1673) and with annotations by his brother Ferdinando (1584-1648), second Lord Fairfax. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 11138. Sotheby's, 8 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lot 406, sold to Downing. Bonham's, 18 March 2008, lot 250.
RaW 603
Extract from an early version of Ralegh's dedicatory epistle to the King, untitled.
In: the MS described under RaW 97. c.1620s.
RaW 603.5
Copy, on 126 quarto pages, numbered 2-128, in 19th-century red morocco. c.1620s-30s.
Owned in 1866 by one A. Potts. Bookplates of Earl Jermyn and of W.A. Foyle (1885-1963), bookseller, of Beeleigh Abbey, Essex. Christie's, 12-13 July 2000 (W.A. Foyle sale, Part III), lot 320 (item 2).
A Dialogue between a Jesuit and a Recusant
A dialogue beginning ‘My most reverend Father you are well returned into England...’. First published, as A Dialogue between a Jesuit and a Recusant. shewing how dangerous are their Principles to Christian Princes, in L. Eachard's An Abridgement of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World (London, 1700), part ii, pp. 27-70. The authorship discussed in Lefranc (1968), pp. 59-62.
RaW 604
Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, almost entirely on rectos only, headed ‘A Discourse betwixt a Recusant and a Jesuit’, incomplete, ending at p. 62 of the published version. Early 17th century. c.1640.
In: the MS described under RaW 581.
A Discourse of the Invention of Ships, Anchors, Compass, &c.
An epistolary tract addressed to Prince Henry, beginning ‘That the ark of Noah was the first ship because the invention of God himself...’. First published, as ‘Upon the first Invention of Shipping’, in Judicious and Select Essayes and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 317-34.
RaW 605
Copy, in a secretary hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, a title-page in italic, as ‘Written by Sr Walter Raleigh Kt’.
In: the MS described under RaW 543. c.1620s-30s.
This MS recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 4.
The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 261, pp. 19-64.
RaW 606
Copy, as ‘Written by Sir Walter Rawleigh’.
In: the MS described under RaW 551. Early-mid-17th century.
RaW 607
Copy, as ‘written by Sr Walter Rawleigh’. c.1630s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, ii + 317 leaves (plus numerous ruled blanks), with a table of contents, in contemporary calf, with metal clasps. In various professional hands (including the ‘Feathery Scribe’), one distinctive secretary hand responsible for ff. 1r-141v, 177r-8v, 206r-11r, 230r-5r.
Owned by Sir Richard Grosvenor (1585-1645); later by the Duke of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire, with his bookplate (inscribed ‘XXI No. 6’) and a label with No. ‘4’ on the spine. Assembled largely from ‘Liber 9’ (= MS 4). Sotheby's, 19 July 1966, lot 486, to Hofmann.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 212. Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 218-19 (No. 12). A microfilm of the MS is in the British Library, RP170.
RaW 608
Copy in: the MS described under RaW 556. Early-mid-17th century.
Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, [A Thompson MS], [item 1].
RaW 608.5
Copy, in two professional cursive secretary hands, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleighs Letter to Prince Henry touchinge the modell of a ship’. c.1630s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, iv +130 leaves, in reversed calf.
Presented by Philip Henry, fifth Earl Stanhope, President of the Society of Antiquaries, 22 January 1863.
RaW 609
Copy, headed ‘A Discourse of the first invention of Shipps & the Severall parts thereof...’.
In: the MS described under RaW 97. c.1620s.
RaW 610
Copy, complete in 17 folios apparently in original vellum binding (though the title-page also includes the title of Ralegh's ‘Discourse of...War’). Early-mid-17th century.
Formerly Lincolnfield MS 41 at Petworth House, Sussex, this MS recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 304.
A Discourse of the Original and Fundamental Cause of Natural, Arbitrary, Necessary, and Unnatural War
A tract beginning ‘The ordinary theme and argument of history is war...’. First published (in part), as ‘The Misery of Invasive Warre’, in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London 1650). Published complete in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 253-97.
See also RaW 610.
RaW 611
Copy, in a secretary hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, the title in italic, unascribed.
In: the MS described under RaW 543. c.1620s-30s.
The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 261, pp. 65-138.
RaW 611.5
Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed ‘Collections out of Sr Walter Raleghs discourse of War’.
In: An octavo commonplace book, largely in one mixed hand, written from both ends, with two tables of contents, 185 leaves, in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps. Owned by, and with additions and annotations in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician. c.1620s-30s.
Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.
The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 18, ff. 106r-11r.
RaW 612
Copy, untitled, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, imperfect, lacking the beginning. c.1620s-30s.
In: the MS described under RaW 575.
RaW 612.5
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed A Discourse of the Original and Fundamental Cause of Natural, Customaryy, Voluntary, and Necessary Warr. Written by Sr: Walter Rawleigh Knt:, i + 27 leaves, in modern half red morocco. Early 18th century.
Volume DXCV of the Blenheim Papers, papers principally of John Churchill (1650-1722), first Duke of Marlborough, army commander and politician, his wife Sarah (née Jenyns) (1660-1744), and the related Spencer and Trevor families.
RaW 613
Copy, in a rounded hand, with a title-page (f. 149r) in faded red ink, as ‘Written by Sr. Walter Rawleigh / Never Expos'd to the Public’. Late 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and speeches, in various professional hands, 280 leaves, in half red morocco gilt.
RaW 614
Copy in: A folio volume of political speeches and miscellaneous papers.
RaW 615.5
Extracts, inscribed ‘Sr Walter Rawleigh in a Manuscript discourse entitled A Discourse of the Original...& necessary war...this manuscript is now in ye hands of Mr Combs of Dainty in Northamptonshire, it is imperfect at ye end’.
In: A quarto miscellany of English and Latin tracts and recipes, in two or more hands, written from both ends, c.256 pages (including numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum. Inscription on front pastedown by O.W. Malet sayimg the MS belonged to his grandfather the Rev. A. Malet of [?]Canterbury. Inscribed (f. [ir]) ‘Michel W Malet’. c.1700-1740.
RaW 617
Copy in: the MS described under RaW 556. Early-mid-17th century.
Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, [A Thompson MS], [item 2].
RaW 618
Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, with a title-page ‘A Discourse of Warr Written by Sr Walter Raleigh’ followed by the fuller heading.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in various professional hands, including the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 385 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf.
Once owned by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Old pressmark G. 4.10.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 223 (No. 18).
RaW 619
Copy, headed ‘A Discourse of Warr, as it is either naturall (first Remedielesse wherein Somewhat touching transplantations) or Arbitrary...Written by Sr: Walter Raleigh knight’.
In: the MS described under RaW 97. c.1620s.
RaW 620
Copy, folio. 17th century.
Formerly among the MSS of the Duke of Marlborough, at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire.
Recorded in HMC, 8th Report (1881), Appendix, p. 25.
A Discourse touching a Marriage between Prince Henry and a Daughter of Savoy
A tract beginning ‘There is nobody that persuades our prince to match with Savoy, for any love to the person of the duke...’. First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses:...2) Touching a Marriage between Prince Henry of England and a Daughter of Savoy (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 237-52. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.
RaW 621
Copy in: the MS described under RaW 572. c.1611-15.
RaW 622
Copy, in a professional hand, the first leaf imperfect, endorsed (f. 102v) ‘A discourse of w. Rawleigh agt a match with the daughter of Savoy’. c.1620s.
In: A folio composite volume of papers, chiefly correspondence of the fifth and seventh Earls of Huntingdon, on state affairs, 723 leaves, in half-calf.
RaW 622.5
Copy, headed ‘A politique dispute aboute the happyest Marriage for the noble P.C.’c.1630.
In: the MS described under RaW 18.
RaW 623
Copy, headed ‘A Politick Dispute about the Happiest Match for ye noble & most hopefull prince Charles’. c.1620s.
In: A quarto composite volume of chiefly state letters and tracts, in English and Latin, in various hands, 176 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf.
RaW 624
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘A politique dispute aboute ye happiest marriage for the noble prince Charles’. Early 17th century.
In: A quarto composite volume of state letters and tracts, 168 leaves, in contemporary calf.
RaW 625
Copy, in Starkey's hand, unascribed.
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).
RaW 626
Copy, probably by one of Birch's amanuenses.
In: A folio composite volume of papers, largely in the hand of Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian, for his Life of Sir Walter Ralegh (preface to his edition of the Works, 1751), 106 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Including (ff. 1r-16v) a printed proof of Birch's Life with his autograph corrections, and an autograph draft of his Life (ff. 17r-83v). c.1751.
RaW 627
Copy, headed ‘A politique dispute about ye happiest match for ye Noble prince Charles’, subscribed ‘W Rawley’. c.1620s-30s.
In: A folio volume of state tracts and parliamentary papers, in three professional secretary hands, 32 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern quarter-vellum. Volume IV of the papers of John Scudamore (1601-71), first Viscount Scudamore, politician and diplomat.
Evans, 3 December 1821 (Scudamore sale), various lots, to Thomas Thorpe. Phillipps MS 287. Sotheby's, 16 June 1896 (Phillipps sale). Dobell's sale catalogue No. 238 (1914), item 603. Presented by Wilfred Merton, FSA (1888-1957), book and manuscript collector.
RaW 628
Copy, headed ‘A Politique discourse by way of Disput about ye happiest mariage for ye Noble Prince Henry written by Sr Arthure Gorge in An°. 1611’, the ascription emended to ‘by Sr Walter Rauleghe’, imperfect.
In: A folio composite collection of state papers and tracts, chiefly relating to matrimonial matters, in various hands, c.538 leaves, now bound in two volumes (ff. 1-302, and ff. 303-538).
This MS formerly divided between Vitellius C. XVI and XVII but now united.
British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius C. XVI, Part II, ff. 529r-38r.
RaW 629
Copy, in one or possibly two mixed hands, subscribed ‘Walter Rawley’.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous tracts, in several professional hands, 174 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt.
RaW 630
Copy, untitled.
In: A large folio composite volume of state papers and tracts, in various professional hands, 298 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt.
A later note in the gutter of f. 199r: ‘Bought of H.W.’, and similar inscriptions on ff. 12r and 13v (1581).
RaW 631
Copy, as ‘Written by Sr Walter Rawleigh kt’.
In: A folio volume of state tracts and papers, dating up to 1663, in a single semi-calligraphic hand, except for ff. 224r-95r in two other professional hands, 445 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt. The principal scribe associated with Henry Feilde. c.1660s.
RaW 632
Copy, in two professional italic hands, headed ‘A politique dispute about the happiest mariage for the noble Prince Charles’.
In: the MS described under RaW 254.
RaW 633
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘A Politique dispute aboute the happiest Mariage for the Noble Prince Charles’, imperfect at the end. c.1620s-30s.
In: the MS described under RaW 579. Early-mid-17th century.
RaW 634
Copy, in a predominantly rounded italic hand, as ‘Written by Sr Walter Rawleigh Knt therto comanded by the same Prince’, on fourteen quarto leaves, in modern half crushed morocco. Mid-17th century.
RaW 634.5
Copy, in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, with a title-page, on nineteen leaves. c.1620s-30s.
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. 3.3), with a facsimile of the last page on p. 65. Facsimile of the title-page in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 13 December 1994, lot 538.
RaW 635
Copy, headed ‘A Politiqe dispute aboute the Happiest Match for the noble & most hopefull Prince Charles’.
In: the MS described under RaW 48. Early-mid-17th century.
RaW 637.5
Copy, in a neat secretary hand, the work dated 1611. 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.
RaW 638
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with some marginal annotations. c.1620s-30s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and miscellaneous papers, in various largely professional hands, 480 leaves, in red morocco gilt.
RaW 639
Copy, in the professional secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 32 folio pages. c.1625-30s.
Sold by B.A. Seaby Ltd at Sotheby's, 31 July 1962, lot 554, to Blackwell. Subsequently owned by Dr Bent Juel-Jensen (1922-2006), Oxford physician and book collector. Quaritch's sale catalogue ‘English Books and Manuscripts’ (Winter 2008-9), item 61.
This MS recorded in The Book Collector, 15 (Summer 1966), p. 163. Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 259 (No. 98). A photocopy example is in the British Library, RP 9403 (ii).
RaW 640
Copy in: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 185.
RaW 641
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with marginal annotations in another hand, headed ‘A politiqe Dispute about the happiest match for the noble Prince Charles’, the name ‘Charles’ deleted and ‘Henry’ added in a different hand, subscribed in different ink ‘WR:’.
In: A quarto volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, 189 pages, in contemporary limp vellum. Early 17th century.
From the library of the Ormsby Gore family, Barons Harlech, of Brogyntyn (or Porkington), Oswestry, Shropshire.
Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 85, No. 30.
RaW 642
Copy. Early-mid-17th century.
New York Public Library, Personal Miscellaneous Papers, [no shelfmark].
RaW 643
Copy, as ‘Written by Sr Walter Rawleigh’, on nineteen folio leaves. c.1620.
RaW 644
Copy in: A folio booklet of two state tracts, in a single italic hand, fourteen leaves, unbound. Early 17th century.
RaW 644.5
Copy, headed ‘Consideracons touchinge the Mariage of the Prince with ye house of Savoy Ano 1612 by Sir Walter Raleighe knight’.
In: the MS described under RaW 6.5. c.1642.
RaW 645
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘A Politique dispute aboute the happiest marriage for the noble Prince Charles’, on twenty quarto leaves plus a blank. Early 17th century.
In: A folio guard-book of independent Jacobean state papers, stamped foliation 1-264.
RaW 645.8
Copy, dated 1611.
In: the MS described under RaW 592.5. c.1630[-1690].
Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds, 941/73/2, ff. 145r-56r.
RaW 646
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘written by Sr Walter Rawleigh’, dated 1612. c.1620s-30s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional secretary hand, with a table of contents, i + 221 pages (including some blanks), in old vellum boards. Early-mid-17th century.
Old pressmark E. 1. 36.
RaW 646.5
A formal copy of an untitled French translation of the discourse, beginning ‘Il ny a personne Qui persuade nostre prince de sallick a la Maison de Sauyoye...’, in a neat hand, 32 small quarto leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. Early 17th century.
RaW 647
Copy, headed ‘A politicke dispute about the happiest Match for the noble Prince Charles’.
In: A folio volume of state tracts and speeches, 380 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt, now disbound. Early-mid-17th century.
Includes arms and genealogy of ‘Helsby Cherleton & Acton Co. Lestr’ and of ‘The Lords of Hatton Co. Lestr’. Inscribed ‘Thomas Helsby Lincoln's Inn London 1855’.
A Discourse touching a Match between the Lady Elizabeth and the Prince of Piedmont
A tract beginning ‘To obey commandment of my lord the prince, I have sent you my opinion of the match lately desired by the duke of Savoy...’. First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses: 1) Concerning a match propounded by the Savoyan, between the Lady Elizabeth and the Prince of Piedmont (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 223-36. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.
RaW 648
Copy in: the MS described under RaW 572. c.1611-15.
RaW 649
Copy, in Starkey's hand, headed ‘A matche propounded by ye Sauoyan betweene the ladie Elizabethe, & the prince of Piemont’, unascribed.
In: the MS described under RaW 625. c.1624-8.
RaW 650
Copy, probably by one or two of Birch's amanuenses.
In: the MS described under RaW 626. c.1751.
RaW 651
Copy of an abridged version, headed ‘An opinion of ye match propounded by ye Embassadour of Savoy betweene ye Lady Elizabeth his Maties eldest (and now only daughter) and ye Prince of Piemont...1611’.
In: A folio volume of tracts and papers principally by Sir Charles Cornwallis (c.1555-1629), courtier and Ambassador to Spain, in professional mixed hands, i + 163 leaves, in modern half dark red morocco. Entitled ‘A Collection of Sr Charles Cornwaleys my fathers manuscripts’, and probably compiled by or for ‘Charles Cornwaleys of London Esqr’, who describes himself (f. 163r) as ‘a younger son to Sir Charles Cornwaleys Kt author of this manuscript’. c.1630s.
RaW 652
Copy, imperfect.
In: the MS described under RaW 628.
British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius C. XVI, Part II, ff. 395r-403v.
RaW 656
Copy, in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, headed ‘A matche propounded by ye Sauoyan betwene the Ladie Elizabeth and the Prince of Piemont’.
In: the MS described under RaW 57.
RaW 657
Copy, unascribed, dated ‘9 Jacobi’ [i.e. 1611-12], 27 folio pages. Late 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of legal and state tracts and letters, in various hands and paper sizes, eight items unfoliated. Early-mid 18th century.
Once owned by Sir Thomas Clarke, MP, FRS (1703-64), Master of the Rolls, and by Richard Pepper Arden (1744-1804), first Baron Alvanley, Attorney General. Inscribed by Charles Purton Cooper (1793-1873), lawyer and antiquary, while at Wadham College, Oxford.
RaW 658
Copy, the tract dated ‘12mo Reg: Jacobi’ [i.e. 1614-15].
In: the MS described under RaW 644. Early 17th century.
This MS recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 32.
RaW 658.5
Copy, headed ‘The match propounded by the Savoian...’.
In: the MS described under RaW 592.5. c.1630[-1690].
Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds, 941/73/2, ff. 135r-44r.
A Discourse touching a War with Spain, and of the Protecting of the Netherlands
A tract addressed to James I and beginning ‘It belongeth not to me to judge whether the king of Spain hath done wrong to the Netherlands...’. First published in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 299-316.
RaW 659
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, dated ‘1602’. 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).
RaW 659.5
Copy, in a secretary hand, endorsed (f. 312v) ‘Ra. warr and peace’.
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).
RaW 660
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘written by Sr Walter Rauleighe and presented to kinge James in the first yeare of his raigne 1602’. ‘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).
RaW 661
Copy, as ‘written by Sir Walter Raleigh 1602’.
In: A quarto composite volume of MSS, 121 leaves.
RaW 662
Copy, headed ‘A Discourse touchinge the prsent Consultacon concerninge the peace with Spaine, and protection written by Sr Walter Rauleigh, and prsented to Kinge James in the first yeare of his Raigne: 1602’.
In: A folio volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, including the ‘Feathery Scribe’ and Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), 374 leaves (plus blanks), in modern quarter-calf. c.1620s-30s.
Bookplate of John Moore (1646-1714), Bishop of Ely.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 216-17 (No. 6).
RaW 663
Copy, headed ‘A Consultation for the king concerning the retaining of the Netherlands in socyety and protection’ and endorsed (f. 67v) ‘Copie of a discourse touching the present consultacon of making peace or war wth: Spaine Ano. 1603’.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in various professional hands, 124 leaves (including blanks), in half-calf on marbled boards.
RaW 664
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on eleven folio leaves (plus one blank). Headed ‘A discourse touching the present Consultacon concerning the Peace with Spaine, and the retayninge of the Netherlands in societie & protection written by Sr. Walter Raleigh the first yeare of the Kinge. 1602’. c.1602-25.
Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D258/34/37.
Eecorded in HMC, 9th Report, Part II, (1884), Appendix, p. 386.
RaW 665
Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, as ‘written by Sr Walter Raleigh the first yeare of ye Kinge 1602’.
In: A Folio composite volume of state tracts, in three hands, 130 leaves, in old calf. c.1625-30s.
Once owned by Henry Powle (1630-92), Master of the Rolls, whose library and MS collection were assembled with the help of John Bagford (1650-1716). Bookplate of Francis North (1704-90), first Earl of Guilford, of Wroxton Abbey. Acquired by Henry Clay Folger (1857-1930) from the Arthur H. Clark Company, Cleveland (from their London warehouse) in August 1924. Formerly Folger MS 1291.3.
RaW 665.5
Copy, in two hands, headed ‘A discourse tuchinge the prsent Consultation Consernige the peace wth spayne and there layinge of the nether landes in socitye & Prection written by sr walter Rawley’, thirteen pages. c.1620-30s.
Among the papers of the Jervoise family, of Herriard Park.
RaW 666
Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, headed ‘A discourse touchinge the prsent consultacon concerninge the peace wth Spaine and the retayninge of the Netherlands in societie and pteccon written the first yeare of Kinge James 1602’, and docketed in another hand on a blank leaf ‘Concerning Peace wth Spaine & Netherlands 1602’, on ii + 24 folio leaves. c.1630.
In: the MS described under RaW 591. Early-mid-17th century.
RaW 666.5
Copy of ‘A Discourse of Sir W. Raleigh to James I 1602’.
In: A quarto volume of chiefly tracts and speeches, in various hands, 175 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
RaW 667
Copy. Early 17th century.
Formerly owned by the Sotheby family at Ecton Hall, Northamptonshire.
This MS recorded in Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the William L. Clements Library, by Arlene Phillips Sky and Barbara A. Mitchell, 3rd edn (Boston, Mass., 1978), p. 96, No. 148 (44).
RaW 668
Copy, as ‘by Sr water Rawleigh’, in several secretary hands, in an irregular sequence with passages on ff. 239v-40r and 245v marked for repositioning, on eight folio leaves, incomplete or imperfect. c.1620s.
In: A large folio guard-book of independent Jacobean state papers, stamped foliation 1-242.
RaW 669
Copy, headed ‘Of Spaine & ye Netherlands by Sr W. Raleigh 1o Jac.’, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, on 15 leaves, docketed at the end ‘Plegi febr. 25. 1673/4 Jo: Witham’.
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.
RaW 669.5
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘written by Sir Walter Raweleigh and directed to kinge James in the first yeare of his raigne 1602’. c.1630.
In: the MS described under RaW 608.5.
RaW 670
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘by Sr Walter Rawleigh...1602’. c.1625-30s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and speeches, in various professional hands, 429 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf.
Bequeathed by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Old pressmark G. 4. 8.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 225-6 (No. 22).
RaW 671
Copy, as ‘Written by Sr: Walter Raleigh knight, & by him presented to his Matie: Anno Dni 1602’.
In: the MS described under RaW 97. c.1620s.
RaW 672
Copy in: A folio volume of state tracts, in various hands, 273 pages. Early-mid-17th century.
Once owned by Sir Richard Grosvenor (1585-1645). Formerly owned by the Marquis of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire (‘Liber 5’ = MS 8). Sotheby's, 19 July 1966, lot 485, to Dobell.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 212. A microfilm of the MS is in the British Library, RP 45.
RaW 673
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘written and directed vnto Kinge James the first yeare of his raigne 1602’, annotated by a reader (f. 1r) ‘A Manuscript of Spaine Netherlands, &c.’ and (f. 15v) ‘The state of things is now much altered betweene ffrance, spaine, the netherlands and vs’[plus two heavily deleted lines].
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.
RaW 674
Copy in: the MS described under RaW 569. 17th century.
RaW 675
Copy; quarto. described in the Phillipps catalogue as ‘Sir Walter Raleigh's Discourse on Spain. 1602’. 17th century.
RaW 675.5
Copy in: A folio volume comprising three works by or relating to Sir Walter Ralegh, in a professional secretary hand, 52 leaves, in modern quarter-morocco. c.1620s.
Sotheby's, 18 December 1986, lot 9, to Simon Finch.
The Discovery of Guiana
A tract, with ‘To the Reader’ beginning ‘Because there haue been diuers opinions conceiued of the golde oare brought from Guinana...’, the main text beginning ‘On Thursday the 6. of Februarie in the yeare 1595. we departed England...’. First published as The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empire of Guiana (London, 1596). Works (1829), VIII, 377-476. Edited by V. T. Harlow (London, 1928). Edited by Joyce Lorimer (Aldershot, 2006).
RaW 676
Copy of an early version, with a dedication (f. 315r) to Charles Howard and Sir Robert Cecil in a neat italic hand, the main text (ff. 316r-36r) closely written in a probably professional secretary hand, with sidenotes (on ff. 320v, 321v, 322v, 325v, 326v) in an italic hand, probably Cecil's, untitled, but endorsed in a later hand (f. 337v) ‘sir Wallter Ralleghes dyscourse: of his first voyadg to Guiana’. c.1596. c.1596.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, relating to Elizabethan voyages, in various hands, 475 leaves, in modern calf.
The first item inscribed (f. 1r) ‘This boke ys myn / Iohn fford’. Among papers of the Carew family.
Edited from this MS in Lorimer.
RaW 677
An abridgement of the work, headed ‘Sr. Walter Raleigh. G. / An abstract of diuerse memorable thinges, worthy the noting, selected out of Sr. Walter Raleighes first booke of his discoverie of Guyana and by hym performed in Anno Domini 1595’.
In: A quarto volume of works by Ralegh, in a neat italic hand, 50 leaves, incorporating (ff. 22r-45v) a printed tract, in modern mottled leather gilt. c.1618.
The printed tract, Newes Of Sr. Walter Rauleigh, With The true Description of Gviana (London, 1618) inscribed on the title-page ‘Liber Richardi Harmar: Oxoniææ. 1618’.
The History of the World
First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.
See also RaW 728.
RaW 677.1
Extract.
In: A notebook of state and parliamentary papers compiled by John Browne, Clerk of the Parliaments, partly in another hand, ii. + 34 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Early 17th century.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 25152. Sotheby's, 27 April 1903, lot 868. Donated in 1938 by Falconer Madan (1851-1935), librarian and bibliographer.
RaW 677.2
Extracts.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in several hands, written from both ends (ff. 1-19, then ff. 82-20 rev.), the forty-three sonnets on ff. 1r-11r in a single neat secretary hand and headed ‘Sonetts by Alablaster vppo ye ensignes of Christes Crucifyinge’, iii + 82 leaves (plus three blanks), in contemporary vellum. Early-mid-17th century.
Discovered c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), book dealer and literary scholar. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 106 (1949), item 1.
RaW 677.4
Extracts.
In: A quarto volume of miscellaneous extracts and religious tracts, compiled or owned by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary, with his inscription ‘Liber Tho. Hearne, 16 Aug. 1709’, 285 leaves.
RaW 677.5
Extracts.
In: A folio comonplace book of extracts from different authors, 81 leaves. Mid-17th century.
Inscribed ‘Th. Crewe, pret. 3s 6d’.
RaW 677.6
Extracts.
In: John Milton's Commonplace Book. c.1632-60s.
This MS probably given to Viscount Preston by Daniel Skinner, his former schoolfellow at Westminster School; Milton's Commonplace Book (MnJ 66), together with the letter addressed to him by Henry Lawes (MnJ 10), were discovered by Alfred J. Horwood in 1874 among the papers of the Graham family at Netherby Hall, Longtown, Cumberland, and recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 320. The state papers of Viscount Preston, among whose muniments Milton's commonplace book (with related material) was found, were sold at Sotheby's on 10 July 1986, lot 303, and are now in the British Library (Add. MSS 63752-63781).
RaW 677.7
Extracts, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh Histor Mundi Libro 3 fo 15’.
In: A folio volume chiefly of heraldic arms, 97 leaves, in modern half brown morocco gilt. Partly in the hand of John Woodnoth (d.1634), antiquary, of Shavington Hall, Cheshire, with additions in a late-17th-century hand. Chiefly c.1603-34.
Later owned by Sir Simeon Stuart, third Baronet, MP (c.1724-c.1779/82), of Hartley Mauduit, Hampshire, Chamberlain of the Exchequer (constituting Volume VIII of the Stuart Collection). Purchased in 1778.
RaW 677.8
Extracts, headed ‘Sr W. R. Pref’.
In: A quarto commonplace book of extracts from theological and historical works, largely in a single minute hand, 116 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. c.1673.
Inscribed (f. 10v) ‘Gaue these Book to Mr Norman to Couer’.
RaW 677.9
A Latin translation of a passage from Ralegh's work made in the 1630s by Thomas Egerton, younger son of John Egerton (1579-1649), first Earl of Bridgewater.
In: 4°, composite volume of MSS in several hands, including (items 4, 9, 10, 16, 17, 21, 24) eight sermons by Donne in six hands; used by members of the Egerton family, Earls of Bridgewater. The Ellesmere MS. in contemporary calf. c.1620-30s.
Bridgewater Library. Sold at Sotheby's, 19 March 1951, lot 174. Owned in 1957 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes.
Described in Geoffrey Keynes, ‘John Donne's Sermons’, TLS (28 May 1954), p. 351, and in Potter & Simpson, II, 365-71. Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 1862.
RaW 678
Copy of the Preface only, in the accomplished predominantly secretary hand of a relatively young Elias Ashmole, transcribed from a printed source, on 51 duodecimo leaves, imperfect and lacking title, in quarter-calf over contemporary reversed calf, with remains of metal clasps. Mid-17th century.
RaW 678.1
Extract, the ending of the work, docketed ‘chap: 6: S. 12 / Sr Walter Rawligh ye last leaffe of hys history I meane ye first parte for wee are not lykly to see any other att least this world He being in Heaven’, here beginning ‘By this wch wee haue alreadie sett downe, is seene the beginninge and end of the three first Monarchies of the worlde...’.
In: the MS described under RaW 41.5. c.1618-20s.
RaW 678.2
Extracts, with various emendations and deletions, headed ‘Out of sr wa: Rauleighs book entituled The History of the World, wherof the first part Containing fiue Bokes is printed ao Dni. 1614: are best notes taken &c’. Early 17th century.
In: A folio composite miscellany of genealogical and antiquarian tracts, in various hands, 341 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.
RaW 678.3
Numerous extracts, including entries on pp. 15, 15a, 27, 34, 60, 63, 65, 79, 96, 106, 119-21, 138, 153, 162, 201, 206-7, 226, 236, 238, 264, 266, 282, 288, 308, 321-3, 329, 332, 337-8, 362, 386, 420, 430, 442, 449, 453-4, 467, 470, 473, 492-4, 525-6, 591, 596-600, 605, 607, 613, 619-22, 624, 626, 633-4, 637, and 648 (rev.).
In: A folio commonplace book of entries arranged under subject headings, in a single hand, written from both ends, 652 pages (plus some unnumbered), in modern cloth. Mid-17th century.
A modern pencil note on a flyleaf claims to identify the compiler as one ‘Raworth’.
RaW 678.4
Extract, headed ‘Sr walter Rawleigh 1. c 7. fo. 210’, beginning ‘That we may not saie to the Devill...’.
In: A quarto miscellany, in English and Latin, in a single small italic hand, i + 124 unnumbered leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum with ties. c.1615.
Inscribed (f. [ir]) ‘This Book I bought at Chester...1734 / J. Draye’. Among the collections of Christopher Hunter (1675-1757), Durham antiquary and physician.
RaW 678.6
A corrected proofsheet (sigs 5A3v-4r: pp. 398-9) in an exemplum of The History of the World (London, ‘1617’ [i.e. 1621]). c.1621.
Recorded in Jan Moore, p. 69.
RaW 678.7
Extracts.
In: A large untitled folio anthology of quotations chiefly from Elizabethan and Stuart plays, alphabetically arranged under subject headings, in a single mixed hand, in double columns, 900 pages (lacking pp. 1-4, 379-80, 667-8, 715-20 and 785-8), including (pp. 893-7) an alphabetical index of some 351 titles of plays, in modern boards. This is the longest known extant version of the unpublished anthology Hesperides or The Muses Garden, by John Evans, entered in the Stationers' Register on 16 August 1655 and subsequently advertised c.1660, among works he purposed to print, by Humphrey Moseley. Another version of this work, in the same hand, dissected by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), is now distributed between Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Halliwell-Phillipps, Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare, Folger, MS V.a.75, Folger, MS V.a.79, and Folger, MS V.a.80. c.1656-66.
Formerly MS 469.2.
This MS identified in IELM, II.i (1980), p. 450. Discussed, as the ‘master draft’, with a facsimile of p. 7 on p. 381, in Hao Tianhu, ‘Hesperides, or the Muses' Garden and its Manuscript History’, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/4 (December 2009), 372-404 (the full index printed as ‘Catalogue A’ on pp. 385-94).
RaW 678.8
Copy of an abridged version, with an index, on 802 small octavo pages, in a black morocco elaborately gilt. Mid-17th century.
Later in the library of William Stuart (1755-1822), Archbishop of Armagh, and his son William Stuart (1798-1874), of Aldenham Abbey.
RaW 678.9
Extracts, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawley / Of ye name, & meaning of ye words Law, & Right’, beginning ‘The word Lex, or Law, is not always taken alike, but is diversly & in an indifferent sense vsed...’.
In: A large folio volume of ecclesiastical and historical tracts, in a mixed hand, 418 pages (including numerous blanks, plus many blanks at the end), in modern calf. Early-mid-17th century.
Given by William Moore.
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, MS 291/274, pp. 403-6.
RaW 679
Copy of an abridged version, with two prefatory poems in praise of Ralegh, the History on pp. 37-229 in a volume of 237 pages, in leather. Mid-17th century.
Once owned by Robert Greville (c.1638-77), fourth Lord Brooke, of Warwick Castle. Sotheby's, 11 May 1970, lot 146. Hofmann and Freeman, sale catalogue No. 36.
This MS, or one similar to it, used by Laurence Echard as the basis for his Abridgment of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World (London, 1700). A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 880.
RaW 679.1
Extracts, on eight pages of four folio leaves, disbound. Headed Sr. ‘Walter Rawleis Booke of ye History of ye World; the first Booke treats of tymes from the Creation to Abraham’. c.1620.
Among the papers of the Hastings family, Earls of Huntingdon.
RaW 679.2
Extracts, on f. [iv] of a quarto booklet of twelve leaves, unbound, damaged by corrosive seepage of ink. Headed ‘ovt of Sir Walter Rovlie October ye 31 1643 this day begon and beginninge with ye Creation’. 1643.
Among the papers of the Hastings family, Earls of Huntingdon.
RaW 679.3
Extracts, on ff. [4r-7r] in a quarto booklet of twelve pages (plus four blanks). Docketed on f [1r] ‘Thucydides and Sir walter Rauly’.
RaW 679.4
Extracts, headed ‘Generall notes’.
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.
RaW 679.6
Extracts, including entries on pp. 143-4, 167, 169, 171, 177, 181, 187, 193, 195.
In: An octavo commonplace book relating to military history, in probably a single mixed hand, 230 pages (including many blanks), in contemporary brown calf. c.1630.
RaW 679.7
Extracts.
In: A quarto miscellany. Late 17th century.
Northamptonshire Record Office, W(A) Misc Vol 27, [unspecified page numbers].
RaW 679.8
Extracts, headed ‘Notes out of Sr. Walter Raleigh / 1738’, on rectos only.
In: A quarto notebook, 242 leaves, in half-calf on marbled boards. c.1738.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Jos Smith’.
RaW 679.9
Series of extracts, headed ‘Some few things excerpted out of Sir Walter Raleighs history of the World’, subscribed ‘Finis hujus Collectionis ex Dom: Walt: Raleigh / march 26 1700’.
In: An octavo notebook of extracts principally from works on religion and ancient history, in a single cursive mixed hand, closely written from both ends along the length of of each page with the spine uppermost, 162 leaves (plus three stubs), in contemporary calf with ties. Compiled by Andrew Melvill, a student of Glasgow University under James Woodrow (d.1707), Professor of Divinity, and frequently signed by Melvill (sometimes as ‘And: Melvinus’) with dates ranging from 29 November 1699 to 15 May 1701. 1699-1701.
RaW 679.91
Extracts, in a cursive hand, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawley of Phillip of Macedon Hist: 135 page’.
In: An octavo commonplace book, in several hands, 198 leaves, in contemporary calf with traces of ties. Compiled in part by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. c.1630s-48.
Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
RaW 679.92
Extract, headed ‘The Character of Epamanondas by Sir Walter Rawley’, beginning ‘He was graue and yet very affable...’.
In: A duodecimo commonplace book of extracts from historical works, in a cursive hand, written from both ends, 81 leaves, in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps. Compiled by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. c.1640.
Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
RaW 679.93
Extracts, in Drake's hand, headed ‘Some obseruations out of Sir walter Rawleies history of the world’.
In: An octavo commonplace book, largely in one cursive hand, written from both ends, 184 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Owned by, and with some entries in the cursive hand of, William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. c.1640s.
Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
University College London, MS Ogden 7/37, ff. 184v-183v rev.
RaW 679.94
Extracts, headed ‘Out of Sr wal: Rauley the Preface’.
In: A duodecimo commonplace book of extracts, in one cursive hand, written from both ends, 117 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum boards gilt. c.1630.
Owned by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
University College London, MS Ogden 7/38, ff. 116v-r rev. [2v-r rev.].
RaW 679.95
Observations and extracts.
In: A duodecimo commonplace book, compiled by James, Earl of Derby [presumably James Stanley (1607-51), seventh Earl of Derby], x or xii + 295 pages. 17th century.
Formerly among papers of the Rev. T.W. Webb, of Hardwick Vicarage, Herefordshire.
Recorded in HMC, 7th Report, Part I (1879), Appendix, p. 682.
*RaW 679.96
A printed exemplum of The History of the World with, at the top of the title-page, Ralegh's autograph presentation inscription to William Trumbull (1576/80-1635), English Resident in Brussels. c.1614.
In: the MS described under RaW 104.
Facsimile of the inscribed title-page in Sotheby's sale catalogue.
Instructions to his Son and to Posterity
A treatise in ten chapters, beginning ‘There is nothing more becoming any wise man than to make choice of friends...’. First published in London, 1632. Works (1829), VIII, 557-70. Edited by Louis B. Wright in Advice to a Son (Ithaca, 1962), pp. 15-32.
RaW 680
Copy of chapters I-IX, headed ‘Sir Walter Rawleigh to his sonne’.
In: A quarto volume of state papers, in several hands, one small secretary hand predominating, 73 leaves, all now mounted on guards, in modern red half-morocco. c.1630.
This MS discussed and the accompanying letter edited in Agnes Latham, ‘Sir Walter Ralegh's Instructions to his Son’, in Elizabethan and Jacobean Studies Presented to Frank Percy Wilson (Oxford, 1969), pp. 199-218 (pp. 206-8). However, the letter is probably independent of the Instructions: see Fred B. Tromly, ‘Sir Walter Ralegh Instructs his Son, Twice’, N&Q, 254 (December 2009), 616-19.
RaW 680.3
A précis of the tract, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleighs Instructyons to his Sonne and to Posterytye’.
In: A quarto volume of pious tracts, in a single secretary hand, 157 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. c.1633.
RaW 680.5
Copy, untitled, the first chapter headed ‘Wise and vertuous psons to be made choise of for friend’, imperfect.
In: the MS described under RaW 53.5. Early-mid-17th century.
Sir William Dugdale, Merevale Hall, Bundle XVII/22 in Horse-hair trunk, [unnumbered pages].
RaW 680.6
Extracts ‘Out of Sr walter Raleighs Instructions to his sone, & to posteritie’.
In: A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, largely in one hand, iv + 544 pages (including numerous blanks), in vellum boards. Inscribed, and evidently compiled, by Sir Henry Oxinden (1609-70), of Barham, Kent. c.1642-70.
Inscribed ‘Lee Warly. Canterbury. 1764’. Booklabel of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector.
RaW 680.8
Extracts, headed ‘Some Obseruations drawen from [Sr Wal: Rawleigh deleted] Instructions to his son’.
In: A quarto commonplace book of extracts, with a tipped-in insert, written from both ends, 171 leaves, in contemporary calf with green ties. Compiled by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. c.Mid-late 1630s.
Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
RaW 681
This letter by Ralegh to his son is not the Instructions to his Son and to Posterity.
Deleted entry, Inner Temple Library Petyt MS 538 Volume 18, f. 215r.
RaW 682
Copy in: A quarto volume of tracts. Mid-17th century?
Sotheby's, 15 June 1896, lot 982, to W. Flower.
RaW 682.5
MS of a French translation, entirely in the hand of John Egerton (1622-86), second Earl of Bridgewater, Privy Councillor, on 175 quarto pages. Written as a presentation copy to his father, the first Earl of Bridgewater (1579-1649), politician and lawyer, signed ‘JBrackley’, with preliminaries comprising (p.[1]) a title-page, ‘Instructions du Cheualier Gvalter Raleigh à son Fils, & a la Posterité’; (pp. [2-12]) a dedication; and (pp. [13-15]) a list of contents; the main text, in ten chapters, paginated 1-160.
A facsimile of this MS is in the Huntington, EL 34 A 6.
A Journal of Ralegh's Second Voyage to Guiana
See RaW 726.
Observations concerning the Royal Navy and Sea-Service
A tract dedicated to Prince Henry and beginning ‘Having formerly, most excellent prince, discoursed of a maritimal voyage, and the passages and incidents therein...’. First published in Judicious and Select Essayes and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 335-50. These notes probably written by Ralegh but usually appended to Sir Arthur Gorges, A larger Relation of the...Iland Voyage, printed in Purchas his Pilgrimes (London, 1625). Glasgow edition, XX (1907), 34-129. See Helen Estabrook Sandison, ‘Manuscripts of the “Islands Voyage” and “Notes on the Royal Navy”’, Essays and Studies in Honor of Carleton Brown (New York, London & Oxford, 1940), 242-52, and Lefranc (1968), pp. 53, 58-9.
RaW 683
Copy, in a secretary hand, as ‘Written by Sr Wa: Raleigh’.
In: the MS described under RaW 543. c.1620s-30s.
The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 261, pp. 388-437.
RaW 684
Copy, ascribed to Gorges.
In: A folio volume of tracts relating to seafaring, in a single professional predominantly secretary hand, 237 leaves. c.1640.
This MS recorded in Sandison (1928), p. 671. The previously unpublished introduction in this MS edited in Sandison (1940), p. 252.
RaW 685
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘Written by Sr walter Rawleigh and by him dedicated to the most noble and illustrious Prince Henry’. c.1630.
In: A large folio composite volume of naval tracts, in various hands, 188 leaves, in modern half red morocco.
This MS recorded in Sandison (1928), p. 671.
RaW 686
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘by Sir Arthur Gorge’ and dedicated to Prince Henry, on six folio leaves. Bound with three other MSS (Harley MSS 4133, 4271, 6014), in modern half crushed morocco gilt. c.1612-19.
This MS recorded in Sandison (1928), p. 671.
RaW 687
Copy, unascribed.
In: the MS described under RaW 631. c.1660s.
This MS recorded in Sandison (1928), p. 671.
RaW 687.5
Copy of an early version, headed ‘Especiall Notes concerning her Maties Nauie and Sea-Seruice’, with a preface addressed to Queen Elizabeth. c.1600.
In: the MS described under RaW 637.5.
This MS is discussed in Suzanne Gossett, ‘A New History for Ralegh's Notes on the Navy’, MP, 85 (1987), 12-26.
RaW 688
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page, as ‘Excellent obbservations...By Sir Walter Rawleigh Knt’, with (f. 1v) an ‘Index’. c.1620s-30s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several hands, 216 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.
RaW 689
Copy, on fifteen pages, imperfect.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/3/7.
RaW 690
Copy, the work ascribed to Gorges.
In: A quarto MS of two works by Sir Arthur Gorges and Sir Walter Ralegh, in a professional secretary hand, 173 pages, in contemporary limp vellum, with remains of green silk ties. A presentation MS, probably to Henry Percy, ninth Earl of Northumberland, in a professional hand, with title-page, inscribed ‘Given by Sir Arthur Gorges’. c.1612-19.
Formerly Leconfield MS 83 at Petworth House, Sussex. Sotheby's, 24 April 1928, lot 105, to A.S.W. Rosenbach. Afterwards in the library of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937). Sotheby's, 23 June 1988 (Philip Robinson sale, Part I), lot 169. Quaritch's sale catalogue English Literature in Manuscript (November 1996), item 9.
Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 308. A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 3898.
This MS discussed in Sandison (1928), p. 671, and in Sandison (1940).
RaW 691
Copy in: the MS described under RaW 569. 17th century.
Of the Art of Warre by Sea
No complete text of this treatise is known. Fragments first published in Lefranc (1968), pp. 597-9. Youings, No. 227, pp. 375-6.
*RaW 692
Two autograph sets of notes in preparation for the work, comprising two draft versions of a list of fifteen chapter headings, the first version beginning ‘The antiquitie of sea fight & in what vessels’, the second version headed ‘The pface’ and beginning ‘The Antiquitie of sea fight, & their weapons in elder times’, on two trimmed folio leaves.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers and tracts, generally relating to voyages and naval matters, in various professional hands, 388 leaves (but see RaW 726), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
Edited from this MS in Lefranc (1968), pp. 597-8.
RaW 693
Copy of notes belonging to the Art of Warre by Sea, consisting of later additions to the treatise, headed ‘Fragments of Sr. Walter Raleighes’ and beginning ‘For weere it not out of a singuler devotion to doe your Matie service...’, apparently transcribed from Ralegh's autograph papers or from an early copy of them.
In: the MS described under RaW 97. c.1620s.
Edited from this MS in Lefranc (1968), pp. 599-601, and in Youings.
Of the Voyage for Guiana
A tract beginning ‘Touching the voyage for Guiana, it is to be considered first, Whether it bee to be vndertaken...’. First published in The Discoverie of...Guiana, ed. Sir Robert H. Schomburgk, Hakluyt Society, 1st Ser. 3 (London, 1848). Edited by V.T. Harlow in The Discoverie of...Guiana (London, 1928), pp. 138-49, and in Joyce Lorimer's edition of that work (Aldershot, 2006), pp. 253-63.
RaW 694
Copy, in three styles of secretary and italic, possibly in a single hand, docketed at the top of the first page ‘by Sr. W. Raleigh’, on eight quarto leaves (plus blanks), originally foliated 45-52, in 19th-century half morocco. c.1595-6.
Edited from this MS by editors.
On the Conduct of the War
First published in Pierre Lefranc, ‘Un inédit de Ralegh sur la conduite de la guerre (1596-1597)’, EA, 8 (1955), 193-211. Recorded in T.N. Brushfield, A Bibliography of Sir Walter Ralegh (Exeter, 1908), No. 249, as ‘A Discourse on the Defence of a Country, the conduct of a Fleet and Army, &c.’.
RaW 695
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Discou[rse] < >’, beginning ‘Whosoeu attendeth ye approach [? of an Invador]….attendeth allso his tyme...’, subscribed ‘Wal: Rauleigh’, very imperfect. c.1596-early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers chiefly relating to military and defence matters, in various largely professional hands, 426 leaves, damaged by the fire of 1732, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
Edited from this MS in Lefranc (1955).
On the Seat of Government
A tract beginning ‘They say, that the goodliest cedars which grow in the high mountains of Libanus thrust their roots between the clifts of hard rocks...’. First published together with Sir Walter Raleigh's Scepticke (London, 1651). Works (1829), VIII, 538-40.
RaW 696
Copy, headed ‘An impfect discourse of Sr: Walter Raleighs’.
In: A folio volume of state letters and tracts, in two professional secretary hands, thirteen leaves, in paper wrappers. c.1620s-30s.
RaW 697
Copy, headed ‘That the Seate of Gouernment is vpheld by the two great Pillers Thereof vizt Ciuill Iustice, and Martiall Pollicie...Written by Sr Walter Raleigh kt:’.
In: the MS described under RaW 97. c.1620s.
On the Succession
An untitled memorandum beginning ‘first ther is no good subiect that ought to doubt of her Maiesties care and providence...’, addressed to Queen Elizabeth. First published in Pierre Lefranc, ‘Un inédit de Ralegh sur la succession’, EA, 13 (1960), 38-46.
*RaW 698
Autograph, submitted by Ralegh to Sir Robert Cecil, closely written on four pages of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed in a contemporary hand ‘Reasons why Q. Eliz. shd not name her Successor’. [February 1592/3].
Edited from this MS in Lefranc (1960). Ralegh's letter accompanying this memorandum is Cecil Papers 83/35 (also edited in Lefranc).
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 139/139-140.
Opinion upon the Articles propounded by the Earl of Essex upon the Alarum given by the Spaniards in 1596
The articles propounded by Essex beginning ‘Besides many advertisements of the great preparation of Spain, of their forwardness or rather full readiness to set sail...’ and Ralegh's opinion beginning ‘First, if we consider without further circumstance that the fleet which was at Lisbon is already gone...’. First published in Opinions delivered by the Earl of Essex, [&c.]...on the Alarm of an Invasion from Spain in the Year 1596 (London, n.d.) [the exemplum in the National Archives, Kew, SP 9/52/25, bears the MS date ‘1803’]. Works (1829), VIII, 675-81.
RaW 699
Copy of Essex's ‘Articles’, incorporating various commanders' opinions including Ralegh's.
In: A folio volume of state papers, in a single professional secretary hand, 28 leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt, the cover inscribed ‘Concerneinge Inuasion or Incursion into a Kingdome. / J. n. 22.’ c.1596.
RaW 699.5
Copy 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.
RaW 700
Copy in: the MS described under RaW 647. Early-mid-17th century.
Orders to be observed by the Commanders of the Fleet with Land Companies. 3 May 1617
Orders, beginning ‘First, because no action or enterprise can prosper (be it by sea or land) without the favour and assistance of Almighty God...’. First published in Newes of Sir Walter Rauleigh (London, 1618). Works (1829), VIII, 682-8. Edited by V. T. Harlow in Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 121-6.
RaW 701.5
Copy of Gorges's adaptation of Ralegh's orders, in a mixed hand, headed ‘A forme of Orders and directions to be given by an Admiral...’.
In: A tall folio commonplace book, chiefly of naval tracts and sermons, in two hands, begun 23 May 1629, 322 pages of text (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. Partly in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician, partly in the neat mixed hand of an amanuensis. c.1629-30s.
Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.
The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 23, pp. 93-105.
RaW 702
Copy. Among papers of the Graham family, Viscounts Preston.
Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 328.
RaW 702.5
Copy of Sir Arthur Gorges's adaptation (A Forme of Orders and Directions...[for] Conducting a Fleete through the Narrow Seas), in a secretary hand, with a title-page, on seven quarto leaves (plus a blank). c.1619.
In: A folio guard-book of independent Jacobean state papers, stamped foliation 1-235.
This MS recorded in Sandison (1928), p. 672.
RaW 703
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a lengthy heading beginning ‘Orders to be observed by the Comanders of the ffleet & land companies, vnder the charge & conducte of Sr. Walter Rawly...’, as ‘Given at Plimouth in Deuon, the third of May. 1617’, on two and a half folio leaves. c.1620.
In: A large folio guardbook of maritime documents, in various hands, 172 items, in modern black morocco gilt.
RaW 703.5
Copy, in a neat rounded hand, probably transcribed from RaW 703, on five folio pages. Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under RaW 703.
RaW 704
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on six folio leaves plus two blanks. From the ‘Conway Papers’ belonging to Edward Conway (c.1564-1631), first Viscount Conway and first Viscount Killultagh, politician, and his son Edward Conway (1594-1655), second Viscount Conway and second Viscount Killultagh, politician and book collector, of Ragley Hall, Warwickshire.
Edited from this MS in Sir Julian Corbett, ‘The Elizabethan Origin of Ralegh's Instructions’, Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816, Navy Record Society (London, 1905), 27-45.
RaW 705
Copy of Sir Arthur Gorges's adaptation of Ralegh's Orders, as A Forme of Orders and Directions...[for] Conducting a Fleete through the Narrow Seas, in the hand of an amanuensis, with Gorges's copious autograph deletions and revisions.
In: A small quarto volume of works by Sir Arthur Gorges, 37 leaves, in vellum. Inscribed on the upper cover ‘Matters concerninge Sea-seruice’. 1619.
This MS recorded in Sandison (1928). Sections printed from this MS, and the relation between Ralegh's Orders and Gorges's version discussed, in Helen E. Sandison, ‘Ralegh's Orders once more’, Mariners' Mirror, 20 (1934), 323-30.
RaW 706
Copy of Gorges's version, with lengthy title beginning ‘The forme of orders and directions to bee giuen by an Admirall in conducting a Fleet through the Narrow seas...’.
In: A small quarto volume comprising two works by Sir Arthur Gorges, formal copies in a professional secretary hand, 46 pages (plus some blanks), in contemporary vellum, with remains of green silk ties. A presentation MS, probably to Henry Percy (1564-1632), ninth Earl of Northumberland (the ‘Wizard Earl’). Inscribed inside the front cover ‘Giuen by Sr Art: Gorge’. c.1619.
Formerly Leconfield MS 48 at Petworth House, Sussex.
Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 305.
This MS recorded in Sandison (1928), p. 672; in Helen E. Sandison, ‘Ralegh's Orders once more’, Mariners' Mirror, 20 (1934), 323-30 (p. 328); and in Sandison (1940), p. 244.
RaW 707
Copy of Sir Arthur Gorges's adaptation of Ralegh's Orders, as A Forme of Orders and Directions...[for] Conducting a Fleete through the Narrow Seas.
In: the MS described under RaW 631. c.1660s.
This MS recorded in Sandison (1928), p. 672. Discussed in Sandison, Mariner's Mirror, 20 (1934), 323-4.
RaW 708
Copy, as adapted and incorporated in Gorges's A forme of Orders.
In: the MS described under RaW 702.5.
This MS recorded in Sandison, Mariner's Mirror, 20 (1934), 328.
The Prerogative of Parliaments in England, Proved in a Dialogue between a Counsellor of State and a Justice of the Peace
See RaW 572-603.
A Relation of the Action at Cadiz
An account of the Cadiz expedition in 1596, allegedly ‘by Sir Walter Ralegh’ and ‘Transcribed from a manuscript in the hands of his grandchild, Mr. Ralegh’, beginning ‘You shall receive many relations, but none more true than this...’. First published in An Abridgement of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World (London, 1700), part ii, pp. 17-25. Works, (1829). VIII, 667-74.
RaW 709
Copy, inscribed ‘Transcrib'd from a MS. in ye Hands of his Grandchild, Mr Raleigh’.
In: A large quarto volume of political, ecclesiastical and antiquarian tracts, in a single accomplished professional hand, 268 leaves. c.1630.
RaW 710
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleighs Letter to the Earle of Northumberland being a true Relation of the takeing of Cales’.
In: the MS described under RaW 97. c.1620s.
Short Apology for his last Actions at Guiana
Ralegh's letter of 1618 to his cousin George, Lord Carew of Clopton (beginning ‘Because I know not whether I shall live...’). First published in Judicious and Select Essays (London, 1650). Edwards, II, 375 et seq. Youings, No. 222, pp. 364-8.
RaW 710.1
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Sr walter Rauleighs Lesser Apollogie’.
In: the MS described under RaW 547.
RaW 710.11
Copy, originally paginated 978-80, in a section of the volume in a single professional secretary hand (ff. 14r-39r, originally paginated 937-[1003]). c.1620s. c.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters, speeches and other papers, in various largely professional hands, folio- and quarto-size leaves, 577 leaves.
RaW 710.15
Copy in two secretary hands, endorsed twice (f. 88v), once by Hannibal Baskerville's brother-in-law A. Scudamore, ‘S. W: Raleighs Apollogie to the Kinge, for sacking S. Thome 1618’.
In: the MS described under RaW 20. c.1590-1636.
RaW 710.17
Copy, headed ‘An addition to Sr Walter Raleyghs Apologie’.
In: the MS described under RaW 38.2. c.1620s-40s.
RaW 710.21
Copy, imperfect.
In:
Edited from this MS (erroneously believed to be the original letter) in Edwards (No. CLX).
RaW 710.22
Copy in: A folio volume of state letters, tracts, speeches and a parliamentary journal for 1624-25, in possibly several largely secretary hands, one predominating, 77 leaves (plus blanks), in modern quarter crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. c.1628[-1640].
Notes (f. 55r-v) on the executions of Ralegh, Cuffe and Essex signed ‘Wr Bilmor’ [i.e. Walter Belmor or Belmore], possibly the principal compiler.
Inscribed (f. [iir]) ‘Timothy Langley’.
RaW 710.225
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘His Apology for his last action att Guiana. october 29. 1618’. c.1620s.
In: the MS described under RaW 41.
RaW 710.23
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raughlyghes Apologie To the Lords of his mats Counsell for his accon in Guiana. 1618’.
In: the MS described under RaW 552. c.1625-30s.
RaW 710.235
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on two pages of two conjugate folio leaves.
In: A double-folio-size guardbook, containing state letters and papers, in various hands, largely written or collected by John Smyth (1567-1641), antiquary and parliamentary diarist, of Nibley, Gloucestershire, in modern red morocco gilt.
From the papers of the Cholmondeley family, of Condover Hall, Shropshire. Owned in 1889 by Hungerford Crewe (1812-94), third Baron Crewe, of Crewe Hall, Cheshire.
Recorded in HMC, 5th Report (1876), Appendix, pp. 354-5.
RaW 710.238
Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed ‘The Apologie of Sr Walter Raleigh’.
In: the MS described under RaW 64. c.1620.
RaW 710.24
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Sir Walter Rawleighs Apologie’. c.1620.
In: the MS described under RaW 67.
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, MS 73/40, ff. 204r-5r.
RaW 710.245
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Sr walter Rawleighs short Apollege’.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers and proceedings in Parliament, in various hands, 448 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.
RaW 710.248
Copy in: A folio booklet of state letters and tracts, in a secretary hand, 15 leaves (lacking a leaf torn out after f. 4), in a paper wrapper. c.1620s.
Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 269.
RaW 710.25
Copy, in William Parkhurst's hand, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleghs Apologie for his last Actions att Guiana’.
In: the MS described under RaW 274.
RaW 710.255
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Sr walter Rawleyghs Apollogie’, on the first of two pairs of conjugate quarto leaves. c.1620s.
In: the MS described under RaW 563.
Stamped ‘Conway Papers’: i.e. from the collections of Edward Conway (c.1564-1631), first Viscount Conway, politician, of Ragley, Warwickshire, and his son Edward (1594-1655), second Viscount Conway, politician and book collector.
RaW 710.258
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleigh his Apologie’.
In: A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings and state tracts, in several professional secretary hands, with (f. iiir) a table of contents, iv + 200 leaves, in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps. c.1635.
Once owned by Sir Richard Grosvenor (1585-1645); later by the Duke of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire, with his bookplate (inscribed ‘XXI no. 21’) and a label with No. ‘24’ on the spine. Assembled largely from ‘Liber 8’ (= MS 24). Sotheby's, 20 February 1967, lot 263. Formerly House of Lords Record Office, Historical Collection No. 53.
Recorded in HMC. 3rd Report (187-), Appendix, p. 214b.
RaW 710.26
Copy, headed ‘Sir Walter Raleighs lesser Apologie since he came from Guiana 1618’.
In: the MS described under RaW 6.5. c.1642.
RaW 710.268
Copy in: the MS described under RaW 569. 17th century.
RaW 710.27
Copy in: A duodecimo volume of speeches and tracts, closely written in a single hand, with a later table of contents, 228 pages (foliated 1-144), in contemporary mottled calf gilt within modern green morocco gilt.
Inscribed by Thomas Rundall and, in 1937, by Sir Walter Oakeshott, SBA (1903-87), Oxford college head. Bookplate of W.A. Foyle (1885-1963), bookseller, of Beeleigh Abbey, Essex. Christie's, 12-13 July 2000 (W.A. Foyle sale, Part III), lot 320 (item 1). Quaritch's catalogue No. 1415 (2012), item 51, with a facsimile opening in the sale catalogue.
RaW 710.275
Copy, headed ‘Sr: Walter Raleighs short Appologie for his last Actions at Guiana’.
In: the MS described under RaW 97. c.1620s.
RaW 710.28
Copy of Ralegh's ‘Appologie’.
In: A miscellany, including state papers, in several hands, in vellum. Compiled by members of the Benett family, of Pythouse, Tisbury. c.1660.
Inscribed inside the cover ‘Chaloner freville’.
RaW 710.286
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1618.
In: A folio composite volume of copies of state letters and papers, in several professional hands, i + 23 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf.
The majority of the MS items here once owned by Sir Edward Dering, first Baronet (1598-1644), antiquary and religious controversialist. Portions of this volume once in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MSS 22355 snd 34574. Sotheby's, 6 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lot 847. Bequeathed in 1816 by Captain C. S. Harris.
RaW 710.3
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled and incomplete, on two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘Part of Sr Walter Raughleighes apology’. c.1620.
In: the MS described under RaW 25.
RaW 710.4
Copy, in a professional hand, headed ‘The Coppie of Sr Walter Raighleys Answer for takeng of St Thome in Gaiana i6i8’. c.1620s.
In: A folio volume of state tracts, letters and speeches, 34 leaves, in modern half-calf.
Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Liber Mri ffrancesti Annyson’.
RaW 710.5
Copy, in a professional hand, untitled but subscribed ‘The Coppie of Sr. wa. Raleigh his appologie to ye Kinge at his returne from Guiana in July 1618’. c.1620s.
In: the MS described under RaW 622.
RaW 710.7
Copy, headed ‘Sr walter Rawleighes short Apologye’.
In: the MS described under RaW 680. c.1630.
RaW 710.8
Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed ‘An Apollogie written by Sr Walter Raleigh touchinge his voiage to Guyana ymediatly vpon his landinge to Plymouth. Anno: Dom 1618’. c.1620s-30s.
In: the MS described under RaW 575.
RaW 710.9
Copy, headed ‘An Addition to Sr: Walter Rawleighs Apologie’.
In: the MS described under RaW 36. c.1630s.
Sir Walter Ralegh unto Prince Henry touching the Model of a Ship
A letter to Prince Henry, written from the Tower, c.November 1607, beginning ‘If the ship your highness intends to build be bigger than the Victory...’. First published in Judicious and Select Essays (London, 1650), pp. 8-15. Works (1829), VIII, 627-9. Youings, No. 194, pp. 301-4.
RaW 710.91
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleigh his Leter to Prince Henry touching the Modell of a Shipp’.
In: A small folio volume of maritime tracts, in three professional secretary hands, 52 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1620s.
The cover bearing the family crest in gilt of Henry Percy (1564-1632), ninth Earl of Northumberland (the ‘Wizard Earl’). Leconfield MS 34 formerly at Petworth House, Sussex.
Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 304.
RaW 710.92
Copy, in a secretary hand.
In: the MS described under RaW 543. c.1620s-30s.
This MS recorded in Latham & Youings.
The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 261, pp. 438-43.
RaW 710.93
Copy, headed ‘A Letter to Prince Henry <excised >the Modell of a Shipp, written by Sir Walter Raleigh’.
In: the MS described under RaW 545. c.1630.
This MS recorded in Latham & Youings.
RaW 710.95
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleighs Letter to Prince Henry touching the modell of a Shipp’.
In: the MS described under RaW 97. c.1620s.
This MS recorded in Youings.
RaW 710.96
Copy in: A folio volume of state letters, 155 leaves, in modern calf gilt. Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 19 of the Hopkinson MSS c.1665-70s.
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. 297.
Edited from this MS in Latham & Youings.
Speech on the Scaffold
See RaW 739-822.
Testamentary Notes
See RaW 729-736.
Miscellaneous
Chemical and Medical Receipts
*RaW 711
Autograph notebook of chemical and medical receipts, including Ralegh's ‘great Cordiall’, and accounts of experiments; 70 quarto pages, with Ralegh's writing on 53 pages. Late 16th-early 17th century.
Later owned by Francis Bernard (1628-98), apothecary and physician.
This MS discussed in Lefranc (1968), p. 682; facsimile of the words ‘Our great Cordiall’ in Walter Oakeshott, ‘Carew Ralegh's Copy of Spenser’, The Library, 5th Ser. 26 (1971), 1-21 (plate V(c)).
RaW 712
Copy of various receipts by Ralegh, in a 36-page MS of medical and other prescriptions, in a single mixed hand, with (pp. 33-6) an Index; the first receipt (‘for the flux of the belly and blood’, p. 1) inscribed in the margin ‘Sr W: R.’; one on p. 14 (‘Myne owne purge’) recorded in the Index (under ‘fol. 14’) as ‘Sr W: R: his owne purge’; with a declaration (p. 28) ‘Whatsoever is conteyned in theis precedent pages is transcribed out of Sr Walter Raleghs booke of receipts written wth his owne hand and is done according to the originall in eurie sillable’; followed (pp. 28-9) by a receipt introduced ‘This that followeth Sr W: R: wrote wth his own hand and gave it to mee to teach me to make the Magister: of Pearle’. c.1620s.
In: A folio composite volume of cookery, medical and miscellaneous MS receipt books, comprising fourteen items, in various hands, 359 leaves, in half-calf marbled boards.
Booklabel of James Shrowle. Inscribed ‘J Hodgkin Dec. 9th, 1914’. Item 492 on an unidentified sale catalogue. Acquired in 1931.
*RaW 713
Autograph, eight-line culinary receipt, beginning ‘eyght stone of beef rostad, & when it is cold take out the bones...’, headed in another hand ‘To keepe beefe at sea’, written on a single small quart-size leaf, bearing on the verso a correspondent's address ‘To my honoble; and mutche respected frend S r walter Raleighe knight these’, and inscribed in yet another hand ‘Autographum Walt. Ralegh. in Turri Londinensi don. dr. Kileigrew’.
In: A folio composite autograph album, 34 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.
This MS recorded in Lefranc (1968), p. 681. See also RaW 723 (concerning Sir Robert Killigrew (1579-1633)).
RaW 714
A list of chemical symbols used by Ralegh, headed ‘Clavis Adversariorum Equitis Walteri Rhalegh’. 1592.
This MS recorded in Lefranc (1968), p. 678.
RaW 715
A list of chemical symbols used by Ralegh, headed ‘Alphabetum seu clavis chemicus N.S. Gwalteri Ralegh, equitis’.
In: Volume of chemical and medical collections compiled by Theodore Turquet de Mayerne. 17th century.
RaW 716
Copy of Ralegh's receipt to make quicksilver, headed ‘To make [symbol] into watter as Sr walter Rawlye did’.
In: A compendium of medical, chemical and alchemical receipts and prescriptions ‘By me Thomas Robson’, 70 quarto leaves, bound with eight other alchemical tracts and papers, in contemporary calf, with metal clasps. Early 17th century.
This MS recorded in Lefranc (1968), p. 680.
RaW 717
Copy of Ralegh's receipt to make quicksilver.
In: A quarto volume of alchemical papers compiled by Thomas Robson, 204 leaves (including blanks). 1615.
This MS recorded in Lefranc (1968), p. 680.
RaW 717.5
Second copy of Ralegh's receipt to make quicksilver.
In: the MS described under RaW 717. 1615.
This MS recorded in Lefranc (1968), p. 680.
RaW 718
Copy of Raleigh's receipt to make quicksilver, headed ‘Sr. w Rawley’.
In: Copy of an alchemical compendium of receipts and prescriptions apparently by Robert Garland, in at least three hands, 68 folio leaves, bound with five other achemical works, in contemporary calf. The MSS collected, and partly written, by Dr Simon Forman (1552-1611), astrologer and medical practitioner. c.1596.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘I am Robarte Garlands booke’ and (f. 27r) ‘This is Robarte Garlandes booke, practizioner in the arte spagericke, anno Do. 1596’.
This MS recorded in Lefranc (1968), p. 680.
RaW 719
Copy of receipts by Ralegh, partly in scribal hands, partly by Powle, including ‘Sr W. Rawleigh to cause to pisse bloode’ [1609], ‘December. 3: 1613 ffor the stone in ye bladder and raynes’ (annotated by Powle ‘This stone Sr. w. Rawlegh did geaue mee which I keepe as a Jwell 1613’), ‘December 1613 10 Sr Wa: Raughlyes medicen for the dropsy’, and ‘This medicen for the preservacon of the sight, Sr wa: Rawghly learned of a Dutch man, and imparted the same vnto mee, August: 27th 1614’.
In: the MS described under RaW 487.
This MS recorded in Lefranc (1968), p. 680 et seq.
RaW 720
Copy of ‘A present Metson for the Agewe’ ascribed to ‘Sr water Raylishe 1616’ (this ascription deleted).
In: A quarto navigational notebook, possibly associated with the East India Company, iii + 71 leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt. Early 17th century.
This MS (formerly owned by Boies Penrose) offered for sale at Sotheby's, 24 July 1978, lot 97.
RaW 720.5
Copy of ‘Sr Walter Rawleighs great Cordiall After Sir Robert Killigrewes way’, dated ‘March 19th: 1659’. c.1660.
In: A large folio composite volume of papers, in English and Latin, in various hands, 320 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco. Papers of Dr John Downes (fl.1640-95) physician to St Bartholomew's and Christ's Hospitals. Late 17th century.
RaW 721
Copy of a receipt by Ralegh, on p. 362 of a 17th-century transcript of a book of medical prescriptions compiled in the 16th century by Sir Samuel Sandys of Ombersley, Worcestershire, son of Edwin Sandys (d.1558). 17th century.
Formerly among the papers of the Shirley family of Ettington Park, near Stratford-upon-Avon. Sotheby's, 29 April 1947, lot 333, to Myers.
Recorded in HMC, 5th Report (1876), Appendix, p. 365 (No. 33).
RaW 722
Copy of a receipt for ‘A Excellent Cordiall ielly a Comforter of the harte and helpe to digesture > of Sr water raleigh’.
In: A quarto volume of chemical receipts, in several largely italic hands, 187 leaves (including a seven-page index and numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, silver clasps. Mid-17th century.
Bookplate of ‘Sr Edw: Littleton Bart’, of Pileton Hall, Staffordshire. Probably the MS sold at Sotheby's, 9 May 1961, lot 282, to Dawson.
RaW 723
Copy of ‘Sr Walter Raleighs Great Cordiall Sr Robert Killigrews way’.
In: A large folio book of medical receipts and prescriptions. Late 17th century.
In the Cole Park Collection deriving from the papers of the Lovell, Willes, and Harvey families.
RaW 724
Copy of ‘Sir Walter Rawleigh's Cordial’, in a small quarto volume of culinary receipts. Mid-late 17th century.
Sotheby's, 9 May 1961, lot 282, to Dawson.
RaW 725
Copy of ‘Sir Walter Rawleigh's great Cordiall’.
In: A receipt book of one ‘Mris Gratia Bartlet’. 1694.
Sotheby's, 22 February 1972, lot 544, to Quaritch. Afterwards owned by Lady Poole, London.
Private owners in the UK, [Bartlet MS], [unspecified page numbers].
A Journal of Ralegh's Second Voyage to Guiana
First published in The Discoverie of...Guiana, ed. Sir Robert H. Schomburgk, Hakluyt Society, 1st Ser. 3 (London, 1848), 177-208.
*RaW 726
Ralegh's autograph journal compiled on his last voyage to Guiana. 19 August 1617 to 13 February 1617/18. Now bound separately.
In: the MS described under RaW 692.
Facsimile examples in Facsimiles of Royal, Historical and Literary Autographs in the British Museum (1899), plate 28; Walter Oakeshott, ‘Carew Ralegh's Copy of Spenser’, The Library, 5th Ser. 26 (1971), 1-21 (plate V(d-e)); Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 49.
Miscellany
*RaW 727
The volume comprises copies of various tracts on Spain and on political and military affairs, including several letters and works by Ralegh and (f, 135v) his proposal for an agreement with the Lords in 1611 for the voyage to Guiana, in three professional secretary hands, with a number of minor autograph annotations by Ralegh throughout.
In: the MS described under RaW 572. c.1611-15.
Notebook
*RaW 728
A largely autograph notebook, with some pages in the hands of two amanuenses, compiled during Ralegh's imprisonment in the Tower of London; containing a glossary of geographical notes (used for his History of the World), several annotated ink and watercolour maps, a list of his books, and a poem, partly arranged under letters of the alphabet.
In: the MS described under RaW 200. c.1603-18.
This MS described by Walter Oakeshott (with a facsimile example) in ‘An Unknown Raleigh MS’, The Times (29 November 1952), p. 7; in The Queen and the Poet (London, 1960) (with facsimile examples facing pp. 119, 223); and in ‘Sir Walter Ralegh's Library’, The Library, 5th Ser. 23 (1968), 285-327 (with facsimile examples after p. 288, but plates I and II are not in Ralegh's hand). Facsimile examples also in Philip Edwards, Sir Walter Ralegh (London, 1953), facing p. 97; John Winton, Sir Walter Ralegh (London, 1975), facing p. 288; and Petti, English Literary Hands, Nos. 47-8.
Ralegh's Arraignment(s)
Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, ‘“The Great Day of Mart”: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603’, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.
RaW 728.113
Copy Ralegh's arraignment at Winchester, 25 November 1603.
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.
RaW 728.115
Copy of the 1603 arraignment, in a predominantly secretary hand.
In: the MS described under RaW 73. c.1620s.
RaW 728.12
The beginning of a copy only of Ralegh's arraignment in 1618, lacking the rest.
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.
RaW 728.128
Notes on Ralegh's arraignment in 1603.
In: A large folio miscellaneous compilation of verse and prose, chiefly in a single neat hand, written from both ends, 189 leaves, in contemporary vellum (rebound). Associated with the Freville family and probably assembled by Gilbert Frevile, of Bishop Middleham, Co. Durham, whose name appears on the cover with the date 1591. A pen-and-ink ornamental drawing at the end inscribed ‘Finis quoth G. W.’ c.1620s.
RaW 728.135
Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603, a quarto volume. Early 17th century.
RaW 728.14
Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1618, in a secretary hand.
In: the MS described under RaW 41.
RaW 728.145
Copy of the 1603 arraignment, here dated ‘1605’, and of the 1618 one.
In: A quarto volume of texts relating to Ralegh, 45 leaves. Early-mid-17th century.
RaW 728.148
Copy in: A large folio guard-book of independent state tracts and miscellaneous papers, in various hands, 229 leaves.
RaW 728.15
Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603, headed in the margin ‘Sir Walter Rawleighs Indictment’.
In: A folio volume of state trials from 1521 to 1666, in several professional hands, 194 leaves, in 19th-century mottled leather. Late 17th century.
Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, dated 1701.
RaW 728.155
Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603.
In: A folio volume of state tracts, speeches and accounts, written from both ends, 86 leaves, in contemporary calf.
RaW 728.16
Copy of Ralegh's arraignment on 28 October 1618.
In: the MS described under RaW 522. Early-mid-17th century.
RaW 728.17
Copy in: A composite volume of verse and prose, compiled by William Davenport of Bramhall.
Later owned by J.P. Earwaker (1847-95), Cheshire historian. Formerly in the Chester City Record Office.
Recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Appendix IX (1891), pp. 545-52.
RaW 728.18
Copy in: the MS described under RaW 117. c.1620s.
RaW 728.185
Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1618.
In: the MS described under RaW 54. c.1630.
Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 493, ff. 29r, 32r.
RaW 728.2
Copy in: the MS described under RaW 148.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, fonds anglais n° 149, ff. 75r-93r.
RaW 728.205
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in several hands, c.170 leaves (including many numbered blanks, plus many others), written from both ends (Part I: ff. 1-260; Part II: ff. 1-82), with later 18th- and 19th-century additions, in contemporary calf. c.1620s-30s.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Thomas Medcalf His B’; (f. 1v) ‘James Calvert’.
RaW 728.208
Copy of Ralegh's arraignment at Winchester in 1603, in a secretary hand, with related papers. Early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, ii + 91 leaves, virtually disbound.
RaW 728.215
Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in November 1603 (here dated 1605).
In: A folio volume of writings by or or related to Sir Walter Ralegh, in a professional secretary hand, 34 leaves, in modern quarter-morocco. Early 17th century.
Inscribed name ‘Edward Blandy’: possibly of the Middle Temple (1617) and of Inglewood, Berkshire. Bought from Hamill & Barker, Chicago, December 1956.
RaW 728.22
Copy of Ralegh's arraignment on 28 October 1618, in a professional secretary hand. c.1630s.
In: the MS described under RaW 710.245.
RaW 728.225
Copy of the 1603 arraignment.
In: A folio volume of state papers and tracts, in a professional cursive secretary hand, 346 leaves, in red morocco gilt. c.1620s-30s.
RaW 728.23
Copy of ‘The Arraignment of Sr Walter Rawley’ on 17 November 1603, in a professional secretary hand. c.1630s.
In: A folio composite collection of legal and state tracts, in various hands, now bound in two volumes, foliated 1-307 and 308-617 respectively, in modern quarter-calf vellum boards.
Among collections of Sir John Maynard, MP (1604-90), lawyer and politician.
Lincoln's Inn Library, Maynard MS 59, Part II, ff. 308r-39v.
RaW 728.235
Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603, on sixteen quarto leaves. Early 17th century.
RaW 728.238
Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603, in a professional secretary hand.
In: A quarto volume of state tracts and letters, in several professional hands, 244 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum dated inside the front cover ‘February 19o 1606’. c.1607-20s.
From the library of the Ormsby-Gore family, Barons Harlech, of Brogyntyn (or Porkington), Oswestry, Shropshire.
Recorded in HMC 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 85, No. 29.
RaW 728.24
Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603, in a professional secretary hand, imperfect, lacking the beginning and ending, eleven folio leaves, unbound. Early 17th century.
RaW 728.245
Copy of the 1603 arraignment, in a cursive secretary hand, followed (ff. [17r-18r]) by text relating to Lord Cobham partly in another secretary hand. Early 17th century.
In: A folio composite miscellany, in several secretary hands, i + eighteen leaves, unbound.
First blank leaf inscribed ‘John Sittartt’ [?].
RaW 728.248
Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in November 1603.
In: the MS described under RaW 6.5. c.1642.
RaW 728.255
Copy in: A large folio composite volume of state letters and papers, iv + 207 leaves, in contemporary calf.
RaW 728.26
Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1618, i n a secretary hand, docketed ‘These notes in ye margin, are out of mr O. Bands book, viz. at ye end of Rob: Monachus’. c.1620s.
In: the MS described under RaW 95.
Trinity College, Cambridge, MS O. 5. 21 (James 1302), (20), pp. 175-6.
RaW 728.265
Copy of Ralegh's Arraignment in 1603.
In: the MS described under RaW 566.
Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R. 5. 12 (James 707), ff. 160v-4v.
RaW 728.268
Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603.
In: An octavo commonplace book of tracts and extracts, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, 186 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum. Compiled entirely by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. c.1640s.
Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
RaW 728.27
Accounts of Ralegh's arraignments in 1603 and 1618.
In: the MS described under RaW 50. c.1674-84.
RaW 728.275
Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603 (here dated 1605).
In: A composite volume of state tracts and papers.
Owned by Sir Richard Grosvenor (1585-1645); later by the Duke of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire, with his bookplate (inscribed ‘XXI No. 3’) and a label with No. ‘4’ on the spine. Sotheby's, 19 July 1966, lot 490, to Hofmann & Freeman. Acquired from them June 1977.
RaW 728.278
Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603, in the hand of Henry Bull, Jr.
In: A folio miscellany, entitled ‘A Booke of Memorable Accidents and famous Arraignements with other worthy matters touchinge great personages agitated wthin this Realme of England in the Reignes of Queene Elizabeth and Kinge James’, compiled by William Bull, of the Middle Temple, 104 leaves, bound with other material by Henry Bull, Jr, and others, in half-calf. c.1620s.
Puttick & Simpson's, 11 November 1887, lot 1050. Briefly owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89, literary scholar and book collector. Bequeathed to his nephew and executor Ernest E. Baker. Acquired in 1960 from Emily Driscoll, manuscript dealer, New York.
RaW 728.28
Copy of the 1603 arraignment, in a professional cursive secretary hand, on fifteen pages of eight folio leaves. Early 17th century.
RaW 728.285
Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603, in three professional hands, including (pp. 47-65) that of the ‘Feathery scribe’.
In: the MS described under RaW 85. c.1620.
University of Texas at Austin, Pforzheimer MS 112, pp. 1-92.
RaW 728.29
Copy of ‘The chiefe points of ye indictment of Sr Water Rawly’ at his arraignement in 1603.
In: A quarto miscellany of state, military, and household material, 346 pages, in contemporary vellum. Compiled by John Holles (1595-1666), second Earl of Clare. c.1629-32.
Later owned by the fourth Duke of Newcastle, whose arms are stamped in gilt on the front cover.
RaW 728.3
Copy of Ralegh's arraignment 28 October 1618.
In: the MS described under RaW 10.5. c.1620s-37.
RaW 728.4
A summary of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603.
In: A double-folio-size composite volume of historical tracts and papers, many relating to state arraignments, in a single professional secretary hand up to p. 527, xxiv + 552 pages (plus blank pp. 553-684), in red morocco elaborately gilt. c.1610 [with addition to c.1630].
Presented to the Bodleian in 1620 by Sir Peter Manwood (1571-1625), judge and antiquary.
RaW 728.6
Copy of Ralegh's arraignment on 17 November 1603.
In: the MS described under RaW 559. c.1630.
RaW 728.7
Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603.
In: A folio volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, 193 leaves. Early 17th century.
One of the volumes donated in 1727 by Thomas Perrott, of St John's College, Oxford.
RaW 728.71
Copy of an abbreviated version of Ralegh's arraignment in 1618, headed ‘A short relation, wt was done at ye K' Bench-Barr wn Sr W. Ra. had Warng given him tp prpare to die’.
In: the MS described under RaW 27. Mid-late 17th century.
RaW 728.9
Copy of the 1618 arraignment in a French translation, headed ‘Informations faictes contre le Milord Walter Raleigh. Neuf Septembre 1618’.
In: A large folio volume of French state papers, transcribed in a single French professional hand, 494 leaves, in contemporary mottled leather gilt. Made at the direction of Jean Baptiste Colbert (1619-83), Minister of Finance under Louis XIV. Late 17th century.
Ralegh's First Testamentary Note
Ralegh's note ‘for discharge of his conscience’, concerning his estate, last wishes, &c as delivered to Sir Thomas Wilson, 1618, beginning ‘There is a lease of certaine parcells of land, claymed by one John Meere...’. First published in Edwards (1868), II, 493-4.
RaW 729
Copy of Ralegh's note, in Wilson's italic hand, on the first page of two once conjugate folio leaves, endorsed by Wilson ‘A copy of ye note written by Sr. Wal: Rawley in his owne hand wch hee gaue me for discharge of his conscience. W’. [1618].
In: the MS described under RaW 89.
Edited from this MS in Edwards (1868 ). II. 493-4.
Ralegh's Second Testamentary Note
Ralegh's note, 1618, denouncing false allegations, beginning ‘I did never receive advise from my Lord Carew to make any escape, neither did I tell ytt Stukeley...’. First published in The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Thomas Birch (London, 1751), II, 280-1. Edwards (1868), II, 494-5.
RaW 730
Copy of Ralegh's list of points in his own defence, beginning ‘I did neuer receive Advise from my Lord Carew to make any escape…’ and subscribed ‘Att my Death. W: Raleigh’. c.1620.
In: the MS described under RaW 570.
Published in The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Thomas Birch (London, 1751), II, 280-1; Works (1829), VIII, 563. Printed from this MS in Edwards (1868), II, 494-5.
RaW 730.1
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘These words following he putt into his Ladies pocket the night before he suffred and charged her not to publish them vntill he was dead’. c.1620s.
In: the MS described under RaW 25.
RaW 730.2
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled, subscribed ‘Wa: Rawleigh’.
In: the MS described under RaW 38.5. c.1626.
RaW 730.3
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Coppie of that Sr. W. Raleghe did write the Day before he suffered, wch he did desire might be published for the better satisfaction of all men’, on one side of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter. c.1620.
In: An unbound collection of letters and papers generally dating from October to December 1618, in various hands, 125 leaves. Comprising Volume CXIII of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park.
This leaf formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull MSS (Misc. Corres. Vol. XXXIV, No. 11).
RaW 730.6
Copy, in the secretary hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple, headed in the margin ‘The coppie of that script which Sr walter Rawley gaue his wife the eue before his death’, on one side of a single folio leaf. c.1620s.
Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671).
RaW 730.8
Copy, headed ‘These woordes following he putt into his La: Pockitt the night by fore he was executed Charging hie nott to publish them by fore he was deade’.
In: Copy of two texts by Sir Walter Ralegh, in a predominantly italic hand, on a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1620.
Endorsed ‘Alex Fuller 10. June 1937’. Bonham's, 18 December 2002, lot 776, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.
Photocopies of this MS are in the British Library, RP 8200.
RaW 731
Copy, headed ‘Thes wordes following he put into his Ladyes pocket the night before he suffered. and charged hir not to publish them till he was dead’.
In: the MS described under RaW 66. c.1642.
RaW 731.5
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Articles’, subscribed ‘S W. R’. c.1620.
In: the MS described under RaW 67.
RaW 732
Copy, headed ‘An answere made by Sr: walter Rawleigh at his death to the false accusations, yt a repriued and infamous fellow called Lewds stukleye charged him wthall, & therby caused & brought him to his vntimely end: as it is suspected induced thervnto by ye youthfull vertue of certaine spanish pistols. wch were shot at his treatcherouse soule’.
In: the MS described under RaW 710.248. c.1620s.
RaW 732.2
Copy, headed ‘These Affirmacons were written by Sr Walter Raleighe noxte ante Obitu and put by himselfe in to his wifes pockett fearing he should not be suffered to speake his mynde at large’.
In: the MS described under RaW 6.5. c.1642.
RaW 732.3
Copy, headed ‘These woordes following he putt into his La: Pockitt the night befoer he was executed charging her nott to publish them by Lore he was deade’.
In: Two texts by Ralegh, in a single hand, on a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1620.
Bonhams, 18 December 2002, lot 776, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue, p. 173.
RaW 732.5
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed ‘Accusations against Sr W Rawleigh cleared by him at his death’, on the first page of what was once probably two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed (on a mounted slip) ‘Sr Walter Rawleys clearing severall accusations at his death’. c.1618.
In: the MS described under RaW 89.
RaW 732.6
Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, untitled, on the first and third pages of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘A paper written by Sr W. Ralegh at his death’. c.1618.
In: the MS described under RaW 89.
RaW 732.8
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleighs Protestacon at his Death’.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, c.543 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.
Formerly 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. Christie's, 23 June 1954, lot 108.
Recorded in HMC 15, 10th Report, Appendix VI (1887), Appendix, Part VI, p. 122. A complete set of photocopies is in the Parliamentary Archives, BRY/96.
RaW 733
Copy of the text in a French translation, on a single leaf. c.1618.
In: the MS described under RaW 12.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Cinq cents de Colbert n° 467, f. 72r.
RaW 734
Copy of the text in a French translation, headed ‘Confession du Cheuallier Raulegh executé à Londres’. c.1618.
In: A folio volume of French state papers, in various hands.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Cinq cents de Colbert n° 488, ff. 167r-8r.
RaW 735
Copy of the text in a French translation, headed ‘Escript et confession de Raulegh’. c.1620.
In: A folio volume of French state papers, in various hands.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, fonds français n° 5812, ff. 82r-3r.
RaW 736
Copy of the text in a French translation, headed ‘1618 / Confession du Sr . Walter Raleg. a l' Instan de sa mort’ and here beginning ‘Jen'ay Jamais recu aduice du Milord Carew...’.
In: the MS described under RaW 728.9. Late 17th century.
A Speech found in Sir Walter Rawleighes pockett after his Execution Written by him in the Gatehouse ye night befores dea[th]
A prayer, beginning ‘I owe to god a death because his sonne died for me…’ and ending ‘…I am willing help my vnwillingnes.’ Unpublished.
RaW 737
Copy, in a secretary hand, subscribed ‘finis Walter Rawleigh’, on a single leaf. c.1620.
In: the MS described under RaW 489.
RaW 737.5
A transcript of RaW 737 made by Thomas Baker. Late 17th-early 18th century.
In: the MS described under RaW 47.8.
Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)
Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For a relevant discussion, see Anna Beer, ‘Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh’, MP, 94/1 (August 1996), 19-38.
RaW 739
Copy, headed ‘The tenor of Sir Wat. Raleigh his speech at his death’.
In: A folio volume of historical tracts, in several secretary hands, 167 pages, in modern purple calf. c.1609-20s.
Bequeathed by Dr George Coningsby, 1766.
RaW 739.1
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleigh his speech at his death who was beheaded in the Pallace of Westmr the 27th of October 1618. betweene the howres of 8 and 9 in the morning these lordes being present there...And also many Kts and gent. of rank...’.
In: A folio volume of miscellaneous tracts and papers, in several professional secretary hands, written from both ends, 287 leaves, in modern calf gilt. c.1630s.
Thomas Thorpe, ‘Catalogue of a most important collection of ancient manuscripts’ (1839), item 184. Purchased 8 June 1839.
RaW 739.2
Autograph letter signed by Robert Branthwaite, to William Trumbull in Brussels, discussing ‘the vnfortunate end’ of their ‘old freind’, who ‘made a most resolute and religious end’ and ‘dyed like a Sainte, and a souldier’, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves. 2 December 1618.
In: the MS described under RaW 730.3.
RaW 739.3
Autograph letter signed by Sir Robert Tounson (1576-1621), Dean of Westminster, later Bishop of Salisbury, who attended Ralegh before and at his execution, written to Sir John Isham, discussing Ralegh's execution (‘...I hope yow had the relation of sr Walter Rawleighs death, for so I gave order that it should be brought vnto yow...[I] sett downe the manner of his death as near as I could...’), with references to other copies, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, an address panel on the fourth page, dated 9 November 1618. Photographs and newscuttings relating to this letter in IL 3983, including the Morning Post, 28 July 1930. 1618.
Among papers of the Isham family, of Lamport Hall, including collections of Sir Justinian Isham, second baronet (1611-75), scholar and politician.
RaW 739.4
Brief notes on Ralegh's execution made by Sir Francis Fane. c.1655.
In: A small octavo prose miscellany, compiled by Sir Francis Fane (c.1612-80), ii + 242 pages (plus 182 blank pages). Inscribed by Fane to his son, as a book of travels to comfort him, dated from Aston, 1 January ‘1655’. One later entry dated 1659. c.1650s.
Sold by Maggs, 29 May 1930.
RaW 739.5
Copy in: A folio volume of Jacobean political tracts and verse, 103 leaves. Mid-17th century.
Once owned by John Loveday (1711-89), antiquary and traveller.
RaW 741
Copy in: the MS described under RaW 148.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, fonds anglais n° 149, ff. 102v-4r.
RaW 742
Copy in Ashmole's hand, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawley his speech at his death...’.
In: the MS described under RaW 544.
RaW 742.5
Copy of an account of the execution, headed ‘The vntimely and vnfortunate death of Sr Walter Rawleighe Knt. 1618’.
In: the MS described under RaW 29. 1674.
RaW 743
Copy, in the hand of William Fulman. Mid-late 17th century.
In: the MS described under RaW 15. Mid-late 17th century.
RaW 744
Copy in an unaccomplished non-professional hand, headed ‘Sr W. R. confession at his death. 1618’. c.1620.
In: the MS described under RaW 15. Mid-late 17th century.
RaW 745
Copy of an account of the speech and execution, in two hands, on five pages of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves (the third leaf, in the second hand, cut to ¾-leaf size), endorsed (f. 22v) ‘Sr walter Raleighe his speech at his death Octob: 29. 1618’. c.1620s.
In: A composite volume of state tracts and speeches, in various hands, folio and quarto sizes, 79 leaves, in modern cloth.
Given to the Bodleian in 1952 by J.C.B. Gamlen via Ruth Waterhouse.
RaW 746
Copy of an account of the speech and execution, in two secretary hands, headed ‘The Confession of Sr Water R’.
In: the MS described under RaW 546. c.1620s.
RaW 747
Copy of an account of Ralegh's speech on the scaffold and execution, in a professional secretary hand, on quarto leaves, imperfect, lacking the beginning. c.1620s.
In: the MS described under RaW 547.
RaW 748
Copy, in a professional hand, untitled, with an annotation at one point in the hand of someone apparently present at the execution, declaring that when Ralegh ‘came into his gallery hee said nothinge as I remember’. c.1620s.
In: the MS described under RaW 20. c.1590-1636.
RaW 749
Copy, in a secretary hand, on six pages of two conjugate folio leaves, headed ‘Walter Rawlighes speeche at his deathe whoe was beheaded at the ould Pallace at westminster ye 28th of october betwene 8 & 9 of the clocke in the morning’.
In: the MS described under RaW 25.
RaW 750
Copy, headed ‘The effect of sr Walter Rauleigh's speech written on the hearing of him before he was beheaded. Octob. 29th. 1618’.
In: the MS described under RaW 27. Mid-late 17th century.
Edited from this MS in Works (1829), VIII, 775-80, and in Edwards (1868), I, 698-706.
RaW 751
Copy, with alterations, in a cursive predominantly italic hand, untitled, on the first page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘Sr Walt Raleighs last words on ye Scaffold’. c.1620.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, mostly in the hand of Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian, 276 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.
RaW 752
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘A short Relation of what was done at the Kings Bench Bar wn Sr Wa. Raleigh had warning given him to ppare himself to die Together wth what hee spake at the time of his death.’
In: the MS described under RaW 575.
RaW 753
Copy of a version headed ‘A Memoriall of what passed concerning Sir Wa: Rawleighs execution who was beheaded in the old Pallace at Westminster October. 29 1618’, subscribed ‘written by mr Al: S. to the L. A:’: i.e. possibly by Sir Thomas Aylesbury, Bt (1579/80-1658), patron of mathematics, to Charles Howard, Earl of Nottingham, Lord High Admiral, whom Aylesbury served as secretary.
In: the MS described under RaW 36. c.1630s.
See also RaW 803.
RaW 754
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘The speech of Sr. Walter Rawleigh at his death, Anno Dnj. 1605’. c.1620s-30s.
In: the MS described under RaW 37.
RaW 754.5
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed ‘Words spoke by Sr. Walter Rawleigh at his death’.
In: the MS described under RaW 38.5. c.1626.
RaW 756
Copy, in the hand of Ralph Starkey, headed ‘sr Walter Raleghe his speeche Deliuered at his Deathe...Ano. 1618’. c.1620s.
In: the MS described under RaW 39.
RaW 757
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The sume of that wch Sr. Walter Rawley deliuered att his death’. c.1620s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and miscellaneous verse and prose, in various hands, 69 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.
RaW 758
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleighes speech at his death, Whoe was beheaded at the old Pallace, at Westminster 28th octob: betweene the houres of eight and nyne in the Morninge, these lordes being present...’.
In: A folio volume of state papers and speeches, in several professional hands, 41 leaves, in modern calf gilt. c.1620s-30s.
RaW 759
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh his Speech in October 1618 At his death on the Scaffold in the Old Pallace ar westmr 29th of October then executed’.
In: the MS described under RaW 710.22. c.1628[-1640].
RaW 760
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Notes of Sr. walter Rawleighs speech Novem: 20 1618’. c.1620s.
In: the MS described under RaW 41.
RaW 761
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh his speech at his death, who was beheaded in the old Pallace at Westm: the 29 of Octob: 1618’, incomplete. c.1620.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, 93 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.
Inscribed (f. 1*r) by Humfrey Wanley ‘Brought in by my Lord Harley, 23 March. 1714/5’.
RaW 762
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed ‘The Sume of Sr walter Raleigh his speetch att his execution in the olde pallace att westmr the 29th of october .1618. & in ye sixteenth yere of his Maties Raigne, as followeth’. c.1620s-30s.
In: A quarto composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, 194 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt.
RaW 763
Copy, in a secretary hand, of ‘Sr Walter Rawleighs Wordes at his Death, taken exactly by Tho: Aylsbury Esqr. [i.e. Sir Thomas Aylesbury (1579/80-1658), patron of mathematics] 1618’. c.1618.
In: the MS described under RaW 43.
RaW 764
Copy, in a secretary hand, on both sides of a folio leaf, imperfect; lacking the beginning. c.1620.
In: the MS described under RaW 46.
RaW 765
A second copy, in another secretary handm, untitled. c.1620.
In: the MS described under RaW 46.
RaW 766
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleighs speach at his death...[&c.]’, on two conjugate folio leaves. c.1620.
In: the MS described under RaW 728.148.
RaW 766.5
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, endorsed in another hand ‘If my boy hath mistaken or miswritten any thing in the speech, you must by discretion amend it. for I haue no tyme to read it’, and, in yet another hand, ‘Sr Walter Rawghleyes speech at his Death’, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter. c.1618.
In: the MS described under RaW 730.3.
Formerly Trumbull Misc. corres. XXXIV, no. 12.
RaW 767
Copy, untitled, on six leaves.
In: A composite volume of state, ecclesiastical and parliamentary tracts, speeches, and other records.
RaW 768
Copy in: the MS described under RaW 522. Early-mid-17th century.
RaW 769
Copy in: the MS described under RaW 48. Early-mid-17th century.
RaW 769.5
Copy of an account of Ralegh's speech and execution, untitled.
In: A folio booklet of state letters, in a single predominantly secretary hand, 24 leaves, the last three leaves imperfect, unbound. c.1630.
RaW 770
Copy, the speech introduced ‘His wordes were to this effecte’.
In: the MS described under RaW 552. c.1625-30s.
RaW 771
Copy of an account of ‘The speeches of sr Walter Rawleighe beheaded in the old pallace...’, here beginning ‘This daie whether the sunne refused to be a beholder or in pittie withdrew himselfe...’.
In: the MS described under RaW 552. c.1625-30s.
RaW 771.5
Copy of an account of Ralegh's execution, on fourteen small quarto pages, imperfect. c.1620.
Among the collections of J.P. Earwaker (1847-95), Cheshire historian. Formerly in the Chester City Record Office.
RaW 772
Copy, headed ‘Sir Walter Rawleighs Speech Imediately before he was Beheaded’.
In: the MS described under RaW 50. c.1674-84.
RaW 773
Copy in: the MS described under RaW 51. c.1620s.
RaW 774
Copy, in the secretary hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple; untitled, on seven pages of four small quarto leaves, in blank paper wrappers, docketed ‘Raleighs speech at his death’. c.1620s-30s.
Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D258/67/33b.
RaW 775
Copy in: the MS described under RaW 117. c.1620s.
RaW 777
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Sir walter Rauleighes speech at his execution who was beheaded at The old palleice at westminster the 28. of october 1618. betuin the hower of 8 & 9. in the morning theis Lords being prt...’.
In: the MS described under RaW 55. c.1628-38.
RaW 778
Copy in: the MS described under RaW 56. c.1620.
RaW 780
Copy, in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’.
In: the MS described under RaW 57.
Beal, In Praise of Scribe, p. 264 (No. 108.14).
RaW 782
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walther Rawleigh's speech a little before his execution beinge the 19th of October 1618’.
In: the MS described under RaW 66. c.1642.
A facsimile of p. 271 in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, 2008), p. 37.
RaW 783
Copy, in Smyth's accomplished secretary hand, headed ‘Sr walter Rawleighes speech at his death, who was beheaded at the old Pallace at Westminster the 28. of October .1618. betweene .8. and .9. of the Clocke in the morninge’. c.1618.
In: the MS described under RaW 710.235.
RaW 784
Copy, in a secretary hand. c.1620.
In: the MS described under RaW 67.
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, MS 73/40, ff. 214r-15r.
RaW 785
Copy, headed ‘october 29 1618 The full effecte and substance of Sr walter Rawliethes speeches at his Execution’.
In: the MS described under RaW 68. c.1620.
RaW 786
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Sr. Walter Rawleighs confession & gesture at the tyme of his execution’.
In: the MS described under RaW 710.245.
RaW 787
Copy, in two hands, on two leaves, the second evidently a later replacement for a lost or damaged original. Early-mid-17th century.
Rcorded in HMC, 14th Report, Appendix IV (1894), p. 24.
RaW 788
Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, headed ‘Sr: Walter Raleigh his speace att the time of his death’.
In: the MS described under RaW 73. c.1620s.
RaW 789
Copy, in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, headed ‘Sir walter Rawleighe Confession’.
In: A folio volume of state letters and tracts, almost entirely in two professional secretary hands, predominantly that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, iv + 232 leaves, in reversed calf. c.1628-30s.
Once owned by ‘Ric: Tichbone’, probably Sir Richard Tichborne, second Baronet, MP (c.1578-1652). James Tregaskis, sale catalogue No. 1022 (1948), item 29. Bought from Maggs, 4 November 1948, by Annie Winifred Bryher (née Ellerman, d.1983). Afterwards owned by the Ralegh scholar Agnes Latham (1905-96), of Pickering, North Yorkshire.
Briefly described in Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 229-31 (No. 35).
This MS recorded in C. Deedes, ‘Unpublished Letters of Sir Walter Ralegh’, N&Q, 8th Ser. 3 (24 June 1893), 481-2.
RaW 790
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleigh his speech at his execution’.
In: A quarto volume of state letters, the main text in a single mixed hand, viii + 125 pages, in half brown calf on marbled boards (rebacked). c.1630.
RaW 791
Copy, untitled, on three pages, endorsed on the fourth page ‘Sr Walter Raleigh's Execution’.
In: the MS described under RaW 79. Early-mid-17th century.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Acc. No. 7482, [item 1].
RaW 791.5
Copy, on 29 quarto pages, disbound, originally bound with an exemplum of Declaration of the Demeanour &c of Sir Walter Ralegh (1618). Early-mid 17th century.
RaW 793.
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh his speech at his Execution’.
In: the MS described under RaW 80. c.1618-20s.
RaW 794
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The some of that which Sr walter Raleigh deliuered att his death’, on three pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, written across both sides of the sheet in broadsheet format, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1618-20s.
RaW 795
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Octob: 28. 1618’, inscribed in the margin (p. 1) ‘The ffirst sheete / His bringeinge to the Barre’ and (p. 2) ‘The execucon Octob: 29th: 1618’, on five pages of two unbound pairs of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1620.
This MS recorded in HMC, 55, Various Collections, VII (1914), p. 269.
RaW 796
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh his speech att the time of his Execution, with the manner of his deportment’.
In: the MS described under RaW 85. c.1620.
University of Texas at Austin, Pforzheimer MS 112, pp. 93-103.
RaW 797
Copy, in a neat secretary hand, identified in an inscription on the mount as probably that of Edmund Elms of Lilliford, Clerk of the City of London, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh his speech vpon the scaffold at his death’. c.1620.
In: the MS described under RaW 197.
Edited from this MS in R.H. Bowers, ‘Ralegh's Last Speech: The “Elms” Document’, RES, NS 21 (1951), 209-16.
Pierpont Morgan Library, Rulers of England (Eliz. I), No. 49.
RaW 798
Copy, in a cursive secretary hand (incorrectly stated to be that of Serjeant Fleetwood), untitled, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1620.
In: the MS described under RaW 197.
This MS described in Bowers, pp. 210-11 (see RaW 797).
Pierpont Morgan Library, Rulers of England (Eliz. I), No. 50.
RaW 798.5
Copy in: the MS described under RaW 6.5. c.1642.
RaW 799
Copy, in an italic hand, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleighes speech att his death who was beheaded att the ould Pallace att westminster the 28th of October betwene 8 and 9 of the clocke in the morninge’, on the rectos of five small folio leaves, in loose paper wrapper. c.1620.
Formerly Princeton AM 20450 and General MSS Misc Ralegh unnumbered file.
RaW 800
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Sr W Raligh his speetch and behauior at his executio in Westminster Pallace. October. 28. 1618’, on five pages of three folio leaves, endorsed ‘Sr W. Ralegh his Execution. 28 Octr 1618’. c.1618.
In: the MS described under RaW 89.
RaW 801
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled but with a sidenote ‘Sr walter Raleighs speech att his death’, subscribed ‘Sr walter Rawleigh was be-headed on a Scaffold ye <space> day of Nobr 1618. in ye Pallace-yarde att Westmr’, on seven quarto leaves, foliated in ink (as if part of a larger volume) 57-63. c.1618 or later.
In: the MS described under RaW 89.
RaW 803
Copy, subscribed ‘Tooke by Mr. Alsbr: sectie: to ye Ld. Adll’, among other papers relating to Ralegh. c.1620s.
In: the MS described under RaW 91.
RaW 803.5
Copy, subscribed ‘Tooke by Mr. Alsbr: sectie: to the L: Adll’, among other papers relating to Ralegh.
In: the MS described under RaW 518.5. c.1620s-30s.
RaW 804
Copy, in two secretary hands, imperfect, lacking the beginning, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed ‘Sir Walt: Ralegh his speech at his dea[th] the 29th october 161[8]’. c.1620s.
Among the papers of the Mildmay family, including those of Colonel Carew Harvey Mildmay (fl.1625-67), officer of the Jewel House, of Marks, Somerset.
Recorded in HMC, 7th Report, Part I (1879), Appendix, p. 592.
RaW 805
Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleigh his speech at his death, who was beheaded in the ould [ ? ] at Westminster the 29th of October 16i8 betweene 8 and 9 of the cloke in the morn’, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1620.
Among the papers of the Sanford family. Formerly DD/SF C/2635, box 1, and in DD/SF/ 4514.
RaW 806
Copy. Early-mid-17th century.
Among the papers of the Bagot family of Blithfield, Staffordshire.
RaW 807
Copy, in a secretary hand, with annotations in a later hand.
In: the MS described under RaW 95.
Trinity College, Cambridge, MS O. 5. 21 (James 1302), (20), pp. 177-82.
RaW 808
Copy, headed in another hand ‘Sr Walter Raleighs Speech & Behaviour before his Execution &c’.
In: the MS described under RaW 97. c.1620s.
RaW 808.5
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleighs speech at his Execution’.
In: the MS described under RaW 97. c.1620s.
RaW 810
Copy in: the MS described under RaW 103. 1618-23.
Edited from this MS in Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, pp. 94-8.
RaW 811
Copy in: A composite volume of state papers. Early-mid-17th century.
Once belonging to Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary. Later part of MS XXXIII among the collections of Hudson Gurney (1775-1864), of Keswick Hall, Norfolk, banker and antiquary. Part of eight leaves sold at Sotheby's, 31 March 1936, lot 188, to Last, five of which are now in Yale, Osborn Poetry Box VI/107 (see RaW 100).
Recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Appendix IX (1891), p. 161.
RaW 812
Copy in: Volume of state papers. 17th century.
Formerly MS XXXIV among the collections of Hudson Gurney (1775-1864), of Keswick Hall, Norfolk, banker and antiquary.
Recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Appendix IX (1891), p. 162.
RaW 813
Copy of the speech in a Spanish translation, in a roman hand, with corrections or alterations in a different ink, headed ‘La suma de lo que dixo Don Gualtero Ralegh estando sobre el cadahalso antes que le degollassen’, on three pages of two folio leaves. c.1618.
In: A folio composite volume of Spanish state papers, relating to the affairs of Spain in 1613-19, in various hands and paper sizes, 256 leaves, in modern half-leather.
RaW 814
Copy of the speech in a French translation, headed ‘Dernieres parolles du Cheualier Raulegh, traduittes d'Anglois mot à mot’. c.1618.
In: the MS described under RaW 12.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Cinq cents de Colbert n° 467, ff. 67r-8v.
RaW 815
Copy of the speech in a French translation, headed ‘Dernieres parolles du Cheualeir Rauleigh traduites d'Anglois mot a mot’.
In: the MS described under RaW 728.9. Late 17th century.
RaW 816
Brief notes of the main points in Ralegh's speech, beginning ‘Two fits of an ague / Thankes to god...’, in Thomas Harriot's hand, on a long slip of paper, quite possibly jotted down at the execution itself.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, in various hands, 538 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco. Volume VIII of the collections of collections of Thomas Harriot (c.1560-1621), mathematician and natural philosopher.
This MS printed and discussed in B.J. Sokol, ‘Thomas Harriot's Notes on Sir Walter Raleigh's Address from the Scaffold’, Manuscripts, 26, No. 3 (Summer 1975), 198-206. Also printed and discussed, with a facsimile, in John W. Shirley, ‘Sir Walter Ralegh and Thomas Harriot’, in Thomas Harriot Renaissance Scientist, ed. John W. Shirley (Oxford, 1974), pp. 16-35.
RaW 816.5
Copy, headed ‘A Memoriall of what passed concerninge Sr Wa: Raleighs execusion, whoe was beheaded in the ould Pallace at Westminster October the 29. 1618’, subscribed ‘Write by Mr. Al: S. to the L. A.’: i.e. possibly by Sir Thomas Aylesbury, Bt (1579/80-1658), patron of mathematics, to Charles Howard, Earl of Nottingham, Lord High Admiral, whom Aylesbury served as secretary.
In: the MS described under RaW 38.2. c.1620s-40s.
RaW 817
An account of Ralegh's speech and execution, in a letter written by Thomas Lorkin to Sir Thomas Puckering, from London 3 November 1618, with a postscript ‘When you have read this side I should esteem it a fauor, if yow burnt it.’. 1618.
Later inscription (f. 423v) ‘Bought of Mr Baker’.
In: A large folio composite volume of original state letters, in various hands, iv + 488 leaves (plus blanks), in half morocco gilt.
This MS printed in V.T. Harlow, Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 311-14.
RaW 818
Account of Ralegh's speech in a letter written in the predominantly italic hand of John South to an unidentified person (‘Right Worshipfull’).c.30 October 1618.
In: A quarto booklet of verse and prose, in Latin and English, in several secretary and italic hands, thirteen leaves, disbound. c.1635.
RaW 819
Account of Ralegh's speech and execution in an autograph letter written by John Chamberlain (1553-1628) to Sir Dudley Carleton (1574-1632), English Ambassador at The Hague, mentioning that beforehand at the Gatehouse Ralegh ‘spent the rest of that day in writing letters to the k. and others’, docketed by Carleton ‘Mr Chamberlain the last of Octobr. red the 6th of 9ber giuing acct of sr Walter Rawleighs Execution’, 31 October 1618. 1618.
In: the MS described under RaW 89.
The letter is edited in The Letters of John Chamberlain, ed. Norman Egbert McClure, 2 vols (Philadelphia, 1939), II, 175-9.
RaW 819.5
Copy of the first part of John Chamberlain's letter to Sir Dudley Carleton (RaW 819) giving an account of Ralegh's speech and execution, in a secretary hand, endorsed on a second leaf (f. 94v) ‘ult octobris 1618 mr John Chamberlayn to Sr d. Carleton / Sr walter Raleighs Plea ourruled, because noe pardon is[?] for Treason by [?]Juriplication’. c.1618 or later.
In: the MS described under RaW 89.
RaW 820
Account of Ralegh's execution and speech in an autograph letter written by John Pory (1572-1636?) to Sir Dudley Carleton (1574-1632), English Ambassador at The Hague, endorsed by the recipient ‘Mr Pory ye last of 8ber red ye 6th of 9ber 1618’ with subsequent addition ‘upon the death of Sr Wal. Raleighe’. 1618.
In: the MS described under RaW 89.
This MS edited in William S. Powell, ‘John Pory on the Death of Sir Walter Raleigh’, WMQ, 3rd Ser. 9 (1952), 532-8 (pp. 534-7).
RaW 821
Account in Spanish of Ralegh's execution in a letter written by Juan Bautista van Male to Diego Sarmiento de Acuña (1567-1626), Count Gondomar, Spanish Ambassador to England. 14 November 1618. In a composite volume of Gondomar's diplomatic correspondence. 1618.
This MS edited in F.J. Sánchez Cantón, ‘Cóme se enteró el Conde de Gondomar de la ejecución de Sir Walter Ralegh’, Real Academia de la Historia, Boletín 113 (1943), 123-9
RaW 822
Account in Spanish of Ralegh's speech and execution, in a letter written by the Spanish agent Ulloa to King Philip. 1618.
Hume's source, presumably in the Spanish archives, is unknown (it is not at Simancas and cannot be identified in the archives of the Biblioteca de Palacio, Madrid, although it may be among uncatalogued papers).
This account edited, in an English translation, in Martin A.S. Hume, Sir Walter Ralegh (London, 1897), pp. 414-16. Reprinted from this publication in V.T. Harlow, Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 314-15.
Letters
Letter(s)
RaW 823
Copies of letters by Ralegh, to his wife and to Sir Robet Carr.
In: the MS described under RaW 147.
RaW 826
Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Winwood, in a secretary hand, on a single folio leaf. c.1620.
In: the MS described under RaW 498.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Portland Papers, Vol. I, f. 206r-v.
RaW 827
Copy of six letters by Ralegh, to his wife (2), to James I (2), to Ralph Winwood (both parts), and to Sir Robert Carr, in at least two secretary hands, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford.
In: the MS described under RaW 543. c.1620s-30s.
The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 261, pp. 519-60.
RaW 828
Copies of letters by Ralegh.
In: A MS volume.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, fonds anglais n° 146, pp. 166-75.
RaW 829
Copies of letters by Ralegh.
In: the MS described under RaW 148.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, fonds anglais n° 149, ff. 93v-102r.
RaW 830
Copy of letters by Ralegh, to James I (3), Lady Ralegh (3), and Robert Carr.
In: the MS described under RaW 10.5. c.1620s-37.
RaW 830.5
Copy of letters by Ralegh, one to Winwood, 21 March 1617/18.
In: the MS described under RaW 25.
RaW 831
Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to James I, 1603.
In: A folio volume of state letters and papers, 355 leaves.
RaW 832
Copy of five letters by Ralegh, to Winwood, James I, Lady Ralegh (2), and Robert Carr.
In: the MS described under RaW 26. c.1630s.
RaW 834
Copy of Ralegh's letter to Winwood, 21 March 1617/18, in a professional secretary hand.
In: A folio composite volume of letters, in various hands, 243 leaves, in contemporary calf.
RaW 835
Copy of five letters by Ralegh, to James I (3), Lady Ralegh, and the Earl of Southampton (14 August 1603).
In: the MS described under RaW 27. Mid-late 17th century.
RaW 837
Copy of a letter by Ralegh., 26 July 1584. Late 16th century.
In: A folio volume of letters, 186 leaves.
RaW 839
Copy of letters by Ralegh, to his wife (2, 1603 and 1618); to Sir Robert Carr (1608); and to Winwood.
In: the MS described under RaW 559. c.1630.
RaW 842
Copies of letters by Ralegh.
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.
RaW 843
Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to James I.
In: A folio volume of state papers and verses relating chiefly to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in a single professional secretary hand up to f. 58r, other hands on ff. 59r-65r, 65 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1610.
An anonymous reader has dated f. 58r ‘Septembr 10. 93 / ffebr: 30. [1]700/1’.
the life which i had...
RaW 844
Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife, 1603.
In: the MS described under RaW 19.5. Early 18th century.
RaW 846
Copy of several letters by Ralegh, to his wife, to James I, to Sir Robert Carr, and to Winwood.
In: A quarto volume of letters and state papers, in a secretary hand, xii + 209 pages (plus blank pp. 211-472, 475-6), in contemporary calf. c.1620s-30s.
Owned in the 17th century by William Goswell, his friend James Bedford, and Gerard Langbaine [? Gerard Langbaine (1608/9-58), head of Queen's College, Oxford]. Also inscribed (f. 376) ‘Amy Wigmore’.
RaW 848
Copy of letters by Ralegh, to Winwood, to James I, and to Lady Ralegh.
In: the MS described under RaW 31. Mid-17th century.
RaW 849
Copy of a letter by Ralegh to Robert Cecil, 1601, in the hand of Thomas Birch. Mid-18th century.
In: the MS described under RaW 751.
RaW 850
Copy of a letter by Ralegh to Robert Carr, in a secretary hand. c.1620s.
In: the MS described under RaW 751.
RaW 851
Copy of letters by Ralegh to Winwood and James I.
In: A small folio volume of state letters, in a probably professional secretary hand, ii + 114 leaves, in half-morocco. c.1625-30s.
Later owned by John Locker (1693-1760), barrister and literary editor. Bought at his sale in 1764 by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian (whose signature on f. iir is actually dated 26 September 1763).
RaW 852
Copy of a letter by Ralegh to James I.
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’.
RaW 853
Copies of letters by Ralegh, in Birch's hand.
In: A large quarto volume of letters, copied almost entirely in Thomas Birch's hand, 340 leaves. Volume I of the collection of state letters etc. by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian. Mid-18th century.
RaW 854
Copy, by Birch and at least one amanuensis, of letters by Ralegh, on pages including ff. 85r-8r.
In: the MS described under RaW 626. c.1751.
RaW 855
Copies of numerous letters by Ralegh, chiefly to Robert Cecil, some to Essex, James I, Ralegh's wife, and others, including those on ff. 15r, 17r, 19r, 21r-v, 29r, 53r, 67r-v, 69r, 81r-v, 87r, 89r, 97r-v, 99r, 101r, 107r, 109r-v, 113r-v, 119r-v, 135r, 137r-8r, 139r, 141r, 143r-v, 145r, 147r-v, 149r-v, 151r-v, 153r-v, 157r, 185r-v, 187r-v, 197r-v, 201r-v, 203r, 205r, 207r, 208r, and 209r-v; together with letters and petitions by Lady Ralegh (ff. 23r, 65r, 93r, 155r, 159r, and 163r).
In: A folio volume of transcripts of Elizabethan-Jacobean state letters, in a single neat hand, transcribed from originals at Hatfield House, 210 leaves (including blanks), in vellum boards. Early-mid-18th century?
RaW 856
Copies of seven letters by Ralegh to Robert Cecil.
In: A folio volume, in several hands, 214 leaves, in modern half red morocco. 18th century?
British Library, Add. MS 6178, ff. 2r-v, 16r-v, 18r-v, 22r, 44r-v, 46r, 198r-v.
RaW 857
Copy of two letters by Ralegh, to his wife (‘the night before he was beheaded att Westminster’) and to Winwood, in a professional secretary hand. c.1630s.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various professional hands, 200 leaves, in 19th-century morocco.
Purchased from Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller, 11 February 1838.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 228 (No. 28).
RaW 858
Copy of a letter by Ralegh to James I, 1603, in a secretary hand.
In: the MS described under RaW 739.1. c.1630s.
RaW 859
Copy of a letter by Ralegh to Sir Robert Carr, [December 1608].
In: A large square-shaped folio letterbook, in several secretary hands, 248 leaves, in embossed calf. Comprising copies of letters principally received by Sir Christopher Hatton (c.1540-91), Vice-Chamberlain of the Household and Lord Chancellor. c.1640.
Later in the possession of William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector. Upcott sale (22 June 1846), lot 83.
RaW 862
Copy of two letters by Ralegh, to his son and to his wife, 1603.
In: the MS described under RaW 680. c.1630.
RaW 865
Copy of letters by Ralegh, including one to James I.
In: the MS described under RaW 246. c.1620-50.
RaW 866
Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Stradling, from the Court, 26 September 1584.
In: A quarto letterbook comprising letters written to Sir Edward Stradling (c.1529-1609), antiquary, of St Donat's, Glamorganshire, in at least two secretary hands, 88 leaves, in modern half red morocco. Early 17th century.
Booklabel of Sir Charles George Young, FSA (1795-1869), Garter King of Arms. Sotheby's, 18 December 1871.
RaW 867
Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Winwood, in a secretary hand, imperfect. c.1620.
In: A folio composite volume of largely original letters, in various hands, in half red morocco.
RaW 868
Copies of four letters by Ralegh, to his wife (22 March 1617/18), to Winwood (21 March 1617/18), to James I (2: 1603), and to Sir Robert Carr (1608), in a professional secretary hand. c.1620s-30s.
In: the MS described under RaW 575.
RaW 869
Copy of a letter by Ralegh to James I [Winchester, after 17 November 1603].
In: A tall folio volume of state papers, in various largely secretary hands, ii + 267 leaves, in modern half red morocco. Collected by Sir Peter Manwood, MP (1571-1625), of Hackington, Kent, judge and antiquary. c.1618-25.
RaW 870
Copy of four letters by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr, to James I (2), and to Winwood.
In: the MS described under RaW 36. c.1630s.
RaW 871
Copies of six letters by Ralegh, to Winwood, James I (2), Lady Ralegh (2), and Sir Robert Carr, in a professional secretary hand. c.1620s-30s.
In: the MS described under RaW 37.
RaW 872
Copy of a letter by Ralegh to James I, in a formal secretary hand.
In: the MS described under RaW 38. c.1597-1628.
RaW 873
Copy of five letters by Ralegh, to his wife., to Sir Robert Carr, to James I (2), and to Winwood.
In: the MS described under RaW 38.2. c.1620s-40s.
RaW 874
Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Ralph Winwood, in a secretary hand, on three pages of two conjugate large folio leaves, folded as a letter, addressed on the last page (f. 48v) to William Trumbull in Brussels, with traces of a red wax seal and Trumbull's docketing. c.1617.
In: A folio collection of unbound letters, chiefly for 1617, 138 leaves.
Volume IX of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park.
Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Misc MS VIII, No. 37.
RaW 875
Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife, 14 November [1617], in a professional secretary hand, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves. c.1620.
In: A composite folio volume of official letters and papers of William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), English Resident at Brussels, in various hands, 1617, 136 leaves. Volume CX of the Trumbull Papers. 1617.
Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Misc XXXIV, No. 5.
RaW 876
Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife, in a secretary hand, on two pages of two conjugate folio leaves. c.1620s.
In: the MS described under RaW 730.3.
RaW 877
Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr, 1608, in a predominantly secretary hand.
In: the MS described under RaW 73. c.1620s.
RaW 878
Copy of ten letters by Ralegh, to Lords Nottingham, Suffolk, and Devonshire, to Sir Robert Carr, to Sir Robert Cecil, to James I, to Queen Anne, to Sir Ralph Winwood, and to Ralegh's wife, in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’.
In: the MS described under RaW 789. c.1628-30s.
RaW 879
Copy, imperfect, badly burnt. Early 17th century.
In: A folio volume of warrants and other letters, tracts and state papers, in various hands, c.327 leaves.
This MS recorded in Latham & Youings
RaW 881
Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr, 1609. c.1620.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 54 leaves.
RaW 881.5
Copy of two letters by Ralegh, to his wife and to Winwood, in a professional secretary hand.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, speeches and letters dating up to 1631, in various professional hands, including the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 313 leaves.
In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer. Inscribed by him on f. [iv] ‘F Hargrave A gift to me this day from my friend George Hardinge Esquire [(1743-1816), judge and writer]. F. H. 16. July 1789.’
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 232-3 (No. 41).
RaW 882
Copy of letters by Ralegh, including letters to James I, to Lady Ralegh, to Winwood, to Queen Anne., and to Nottingham, in the hand of Ralph Starkey and another professional secretary hand.
In: the MS described under RaW 39.
RaW 884
Copy of letters by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr and to Lady Ralegh.
In: A folio volume of state letters and papers, in a single professional secretary hand (but for f. 98r-v), 128 leaves, in black morocco gilt. According to an inscription on f. 1*r this MS comprises (presumably a transcript of) ‘Severall papers found in Mr: Deas Study Secretary to Bishop Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury’. c.1650.
RaW 885
Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Winwood, in a professional secretary hand.
In: the MS described under RaW 758. c.1620s-30s.
RaW 886
Copy of two letters by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr and to Lady Ralegh. c.1620s.
In: the MS described under RaW 366.
RaW 887
Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to lord Arundell.
In: the MS described under RaW 710.22. c.1628[-1640].
RaW 888
Copy of two letters by Ralegh, to James I and to Lady Ralegh, in a secretary hand. 17th century.
In: the MS described under RaW 41.