Sir Walter Ralegh

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.

Copy in: A folio composite volume of letters and state papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 237 leaves, in 17th-century calf (rebacked).

In: the MS described under RaW 1. c.1586-91.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 1. c.1586-91.

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.

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.

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.

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) ‘N^o 4. Henry Feilde 1642’. c.1642.

Copy in: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several hands, showing communal use, 161 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.

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.

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.

In: Copy of texts relating to Ralegh's execution, in a single secretary hand, on an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1620.

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.

In: A folio composite volume of French state paper, including documents relating to Ralegh, in various hands.

Copy in: Sir Richard Napier's notebook recording his medical practice from 19 August 1618 to 17 May 1619. 1618-19.

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.

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.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 16. c.1628.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In: A folio composite volume, chiefly of English and Latin verse, in various hands; vi + 186 leaves, in reversed calf.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 21.

In: the MS described under RaW 21.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, i + 23 leaves, in contemporary vellum. compiled by one John Hooper of Devon. c.1665.

In: A folio collection of state papers, in various hands, 257 leaves, once in stamped calf, now disbound in folders.

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.

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.

In: A folio composite volume of letters written or sent to Wood by John Aubrey (1626-97), antiquary and biographer, ii + 461 leaves.

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.

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.

In: A quarto volume of state letters, in several hands, 543 pages, in calf gilt. Mid-17th century.

In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single neat largely italic hand, 155 leaves, in modern half-morocco. c.1630.

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.

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) ‘M^r 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].

In: the MS described under RaW 34. c.1633 [-late 17th century].

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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’.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 W^m: 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.

In: A quarto volume of alchemical treatises and receipts, 117 leaves. Mid-17th century.

In: A large folio guard-book of independent state papers, in various hands, 86 leaves.

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.

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.

Copy in: A volume of transcripts made by by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary.

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.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 48.5. c.1632-48.

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.

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.

In: A MS containing four texts relating to Ralegh, in a professional secretary hand, on four folio leaves (the last page blank). c.1620s.

In: A single half-folio leaf containing on one side two copies of Ralegh's ‘Epitaph’ in different hands. c.1620-18th century.

In: the MS described under RaW 52. c.1620-18th century.

In: A volume comprising two works by Ralegh. Early-mid-17th century.

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.

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.

In: A miscellany, belonging to the Smyth family of Hill Hall, Essex. c.1620.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 60. c.1637-51.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, closely written in probably a single secretary hand, ii + 393 pages, in old calf. c.1620.

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. [iii^r] is dated ‘1694’. c.1691-early 18th century.

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.

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.

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.

In: A folio verse miscellany, comprising 162 poems in English, in a single hand, 273 pages, in brown morocco gilt. c.late 1640s.

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.

In: A volume of papers of John Goodyer (c.1592-1664), botanist.

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.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 77. Early-mid 17th century.

In: Copy of two texts relating to Sir Walter Ralegh, on a pair of conjugate folio leaves. Early-mid-17th century.

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.

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.

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.

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].

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.

In: A folio guard-book of Jacobean state papers, stamped foliation 1-165.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 187 leaves, in red morocco.

In: the MS described under RaW 6.5. c.1642.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, letters and speeches, in various hands, 614 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.

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.

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 y^e ouertravelled sences: 1630 Robert Bishop’, in a single mixed hand, probably associated with the University of Oxford, 306 pages, in old calf. c.1630.

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.

In: A large folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 198 pages, in quarter-vellum boards.

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.

In: An octavo volume of works by, or attributed to, Ralegh, in several largely secretary hands, 282 pages, in contemporary velum. c.1620s.

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.

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.

In: A quarto commonplace book of extracts, compiled by Elizabeth Elliotson, 330 pages. 1729.

In: A folio miscellany entitled Epitaphs Collected 1694, 42 pages. c.1695.

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.

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.

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.

In: A miscellany, compiled by Adam Winthrop (1548-1623), father of John Winthrop (1588-1649), first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 1618-23.

In: Ralegh's History of the World (London, 1614), first edition, folio, in 18th-century half-calf.

In: Exemplum of Ralegh's The History of the World (London, 1614) with MS verses. c.1618?.

In: the MS described under RaW 10.5. c.1620s-37.

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.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 1. c.1586-91.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 47. c.1640.

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.

In: A folio volume of state letters, speeches and verse, in a single neat italic hand. c.1620s.

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.

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].

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.

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.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 6.5. c.1642.

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.

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.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 97.5. c.late 1630s.

In: the MS described under RaW 10. Mid-late 16th century.

In: A MS songbook. Once owned by one Thomas Myriell. Early 17th century.

In: the MS described under RaW 1. c.1586-91.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 114.

In: the MS described under RaW 114.

In: the MS described under RaW 118. c.1590-1600s.

In: A folio miscellany of verse, dramatic and heraldic works, 78 leaves (including some blanks), in contemporary limp vellum. c.1572-97.

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.

In: A folio guard-book of miscellaneous tracts, letters and papers, in various hands, 264 leaves.

In: A music book. Compiled largely by Thomas Hamond (d.1662), of Cressners, in the parish of Hawkedon, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

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.

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.

In: A folio miscellany of poems and state papers, in secretary hands, written from both ends, 50 leaves, in contemporary vellum. c.1620s.

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.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 137. Mid-17th century.

In: the MS described under RaW 111. c.1630s.

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.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 114.

In: the MS described under RaW 116. c.1581-1612.

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.

In: A miscellany compiled by one John Moulton. c.1625.

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.

In: A folio volume of state letters and tracts, in various hands.

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.

In: An octavo verse miscellany compiled by an Oxford University man, i i + 37 leaves, in later half-calf. c.1630s.

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.

In: A transcript of two 17th-century verse MSS, the second a miscellany, 195 large quarto pages, in calf gilt. 19th century.

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 y^e] Incomparably vertuous Lady the Lady Harflette’: i.e. Afra (d.1664), wife of Sir Christopher Harflete of Canterbury. c.1640.

In: A folio composite volume of verse and some prose, in various hands, v + 179 leaves, in early 18th-century half-calf.

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.

In: A guardbook of separate verse items extracted from the bound volumes MSS Tanner 306/1 and 306/2.

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 30. Mid-late 17th century.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 113. c.1596-1601.

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.

In: A composite folio volume of verse.

In: the MS described under RaW 49. c.1600-1620s.

In: A quarto miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, inscribed (f. i^r) in another hand ‘A Collection of Religious Poems &c. by an uncertain Author. Some are borrowed from D^r. J. Watts. There is another vol. larger Quarto’, iii + 299 leaves, in modern cloth. Early 18th century.

In: the MS described under RaW 119. c.1630 [-1677].

In: the MS described under RaW 63. c.1630s.

In: A tall folio composite volume chiefly of verse, entitled The workes of the Lady Ann Southwell Decemb: 2^o 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.

In: the MS described under RaW 6. c.1637.

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.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 122. c.1630s.

In: the MS described under RaW 86. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 122.8. Mid-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.

In: the MS described under RaW 97. c.1620s.

In: the MS described under RaW 97.5. c.late 1630s.

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.

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 10. Mid-late 16th century.

In: the MS described under RaW 1. c.1586-91.

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.

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.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 113. c.1596-1601.

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 y^e Books lately belonging to y^e. Rev. M^r Jackson Rect^r of Tatham’. c.1628-30s.

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.

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.

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 Nov^r. 13^th 1723’. c.1723.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 7. Late 17th century.

In: the MS described under RaW 98. c.1620s-30s.

Copy in: A folio verse miscellany, in vellum. Late 17th century?

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.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 38. c.1597-1628.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in one hand, written from both ends, 32 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco. c.1630s.

In: The detached cover of an octavo book, bearing inscriptions in a mixed hand, now enclosed in modern brown morocco. c.1620s-30s.

In: the MS described under RaW 184. c.1650s-60s.

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.

In: Printed exemplum of the first edition, first issue, of Ralegh's The History of the World (London, 1614). Late 18th-early 19th century.

In: the MS described under RaW 167. Early 17th century-1672.

In: A collection of separate state papers and poems, in folders.

In: the MS described under RaW 172. c.1630.

In: the MS described under RaW 135. c.1620s.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 204. c.1647-1698.

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.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 108. Mid-late 17th century.

In: the MS described under RaW 30. Mid-late 17th century.

In: the MS described under RaW 32. c.1630.

In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several small non-professional hands, 88 leaves, imperfect at the beginning. c.1630s-40s.

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.

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.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several largely secretary hands, 68 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum. c.1620s.

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].

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.

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 120. Mid-17th century.

In: the MS described under RaW 60. c.1637-51.

In: the MS described under RaW 62. c.1640s.

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.

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.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 122. c.1630s.

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].

In: the MS described under RaW 97.5. c.late 1630s.

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.

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.

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 ‘3^d 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.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 203. c.1640s.

In: the MS described under RaW 136. c.late 1630s.

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 16. c.1628.

In: the MS described under RaW 16. c.1628.

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.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 150. c.1630s.

In: the MS described under RaW 206. c.1630s.

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.

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 30^th of May. 1638’. c.1638.

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.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 137. Mid-17th century.

In: the MS described under RaW 153.

In: the MS described under RaW 30. Mid-late 17th century.

In: the MS described under RaW 111. c.1630s.

In: the MS described under RaW 33. c.1662.

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.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single neat secretary hand, the first page formally inscribed ‘To the righte hono^ble: 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.

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.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 34. c.1633 [-late 17th century].

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 211. c.1630s-40s.

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].

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.

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.

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].

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.

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: 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.

In: the MS described under RaW 44. c.1637-50.

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.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 257. c.early 1630s.

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.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 214. c.late 1630s [-1789].

In: the MS described under RaW 120. Mid-17th century.

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].

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.

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 60. c.1637-51.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves (including blanks), in old calf gilt. c.1640.

In: the MS described under RaW 62. c.1640s.

In: the MS described under RaW 63. c.1630s.

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 219. c.1630s.

In: the MS described under RaW 219. c.1630s.

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 S^r 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.

In: the MS described under RaW 144. c.1630s-40s.

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.

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 S^r John Reresby Barronett these p^rsent’: i.e. presented to Sir John Reresby, first Baronet (1611-46), royalist, of Thribergh Hall. c.1630s.

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.

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.

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].

In: the MS described under RaW 134. c.1580s-1615.

In: the MS described under RaW 221. c.1630s.

In: the MS described under RaW 122. c.1630s.

In: the MS described under RaW 86. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 171. c.1634.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 93. c.1630.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 94. c.1636-40s.

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.

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.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 122.8. Mid-17th century.

In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco. c.1620.

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.

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.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 123. c.1630s.

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.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 105. c.1618?.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 76. c.1618-20s.

In: the MS described under RaW 19. c.1630s-40s.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 246. c.1620-50.

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.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 119. c.1630 [-1677].

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 122. c.1630s.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 114.

In: the MS described under RaW 49. c.1600-1620s.

In: the MS described under RaW 14. c.1669.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 33. c.1662.

In: the MS described under RaW 39.

In: the MS described under RaW 115. c.1637.

In: the MS described under RaW 50. c.1674-84.

In: the MS described under RaW 57.

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 6.5. c.1642.

In: the MS described under RaW 92. c.1713.

In: the MS described under RaW 97. c.1620s.

In: the MS described under RaW 207. c.1620s-30s.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 120. Mid-17th century.

In: the MS described under RaW 219. c.1630s.

In: the MS described under RaW 224. c.1630s.

In: the MS described under RaW 232.5. c.1648-61.

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.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, probably associated with Cambridge University, ii + 78 pages, in contemporary vellum. c.1625-31.

In: the MS described under RaW 207. c.1620s-30s.

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.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 244. c.1620s-30s.

In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in generally small mixed hands, ii + 40 leaves, in 19th-century embossed black leather. c.1640s.

In: the MS described under RaW 245. c.1620s.

In: the MS described under RaW 252. c.1630s [-1670s].

In: the MS described under RaW 214. c.late 1630s [-1789].

In: the MS described under RaW 119. c.1630 [-1677].

In: the MS described under RaW 219. c.1630s.

In: the MS described under RaW 220. c.late 1630s.

In: the MS described under RaW 6. c.1637.

In: the MS described under RaW 122. c.1630s.

In: the MS described under RaW 171. c.1634.

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 An^o. 1640’. c.1640s.

In: the MS described under RaW 123. c.1630s.

In: the MS described under RaW 114.

In: the MS described under RaW 150. c.1630s.

In: the MS described under RaW 207. c.1620s-30s.

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 108. Mid-late 17th century.

In: the MS described under RaW 137. Mid-17th century.

In: the MS described under RaW 190. c.1590s.

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.

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.

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 256. c.1630.

In: the MS described under RaW 182. c.1628-30s.

In: the MS described under RaW 119. c.1630 [-1677].

In: the MS described under RaW 120. Mid-17th century.

In: the MS described under RaW 265. c.1640.

In: the MS described under RaW 63. c.1630s.

In: the MS described under RaW 219. c.1630s.

In: the MS described under RaW 122. c.1630s.

In: the MS described under RaW 93. c.1630.

In: the MS described under RaW 97.5. c.late 1630s.

In: the MS described under RaW 1. c.1586-91.

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].

In: the MS described under RaW 119. c.1630 [-1677].

In: the MS described under RaW 122. c.1630s.

In: the MS described under RaW 62. c.1640s.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 206. c.1630s.

In: the MS described under RaW 21.

In: the MS described under RaW 27. Mid-late 17th century.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 158.5.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 249. c.1630s [-1777].

In: A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous tracts and papers, in various hands, in modern red morocco gilt.

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.

Copy in: A composite booklet of verse, comprising nine unbound quarto and folio leaves. 17th century.

In: A large folio verse miscellany, headed (p. 1) ‘Poems on Severall Occasions’, 298 pages, in contemporary calf (rebacked). c.1735.

In: the MS described under RaW 62. c.1640s.

In: the MS described under RaW 63. c.1630s.

In: A box of unbound and unnumbered legal and miscellaneous papers.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 93. c.1630.

In: A collection of unbound state papers, now in folders. c.1628.

In: the MS described under RaW 287. c.1612-24.

In: the MS described under RaW 288. c.1620.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 135. c.1620s.

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.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 1. c.1586-91.

In: the MS described under RaW 113. c.1596-1601.

In: the MS described under RaW 114.

In: the MS described under RaW 48.5. c.1632-48.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and speeches, 81 leaves, in modern binding.

In: the MS described under RaW 226. c.1638.

In: the MS described under RaW 147.

In: A quarto composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, 236 leaves, in contemporary vellum, with ties.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various professional hands, 299 leaves, in modern leather gilt.

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.

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.

In: A volume of historical and legal tracts. c.1630.

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.

In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous MSS, in various hands, ii + 117 leaves, in half-calf.

In: the MS described under RaW 384.3.

In: A folio volume of state tracts, in a single professional secretary hand, 98 leaves, in half-calf on marbled boards. Early 17th century.

In: A folio volume of state tracts, in a single professional hand, 118 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1620s-30s.

In: the MS described under RaW 183. c.1630s-40s.

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.

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. 1a^r-51a^v respectively), 134 leaves in all. c.1603.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 384.7. c.1630s.

In: A folio guard-book of independent Elizabethan state papers, stamped foliation 1-241.

In: the MS described under RaW 288. c.1620.

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.

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.

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 16. c.1628.

In: the MS described under RaW 150. c.1630s.

In: the MS described under RaW 206. c.1630s.

In: the MS described under RaW 151.5. 19th century.

In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in various secretary and italic hands, 90 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. c.1625.

In: the MS described under RaW 325. c.1630s.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 395. c.1682-91.

In: the MS described under RaW 111. c.1630s.

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 ix^th of October 1637, and in the Hearing of my old grandfather Sir Nicholas Overbury...’. c.1637-40.

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 34. c.1633 [-late 17th century].

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.

In: An unbound collection of miscellaneous letters and papers, 151 leaves.

In: the MS described under RaW 366.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 367. Mid-17th century.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single hand, entitled Poetical Characteristicks Vol 2^d Collected by W O, 35 leaves (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt. c.1730s.

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.

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 256. c.1630.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 161. c.1630s.

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 213. c.1620s.

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 182. c.1628-30s.

In: the MS described under RaW 120. Mid-17th century.

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 68. c.1620.

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 6.5. c.1642.

In: the MS described under RaW 172. c.1630.

In: the MS described under RaW 93. c.1630.

In: A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands. c.1612-20.

In: A bundle of unbound poems and songs, in various hands and paper sizes.

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 288. c.1620.

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.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 206. c.1630s.

In: the MS described under RaW 207. c.1620s-30s.

In: the MS described under RaW 21.

In: the MS described under RaW 137. Mid-17th century.

In: the MS described under RaW 190. c.1590s.

In: the MS described under RaW 32. c.1630.

In: the MS described under RaW 211. c.1630s-40s.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 215. c.1640.

In: the MS described under RaW 120. Mid-17th century.

In: the MS described under RaW 60. c.1637-51.

In: the MS described under RaW 265. c.1640.

In: the MS described under RaW 5.5. Mid-late 17th century.

In: the MS described under RaW 219. c.1630s.

In: the MS described under RaW 220. c.late 1630s.

In: the MS described under RaW 6.5. c.1642.

In: the MS described under RaW 172. c.1630.

In: the MS described under RaW 291. c.1650.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 211. c.1630s-40s.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 62. c.1640s.

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.

In: the MS described under RaW 221. c.1630s.

In: the MS described under RaW 94. c.1636-40s.

In: the MS described under RaW 3. c.1605.

In: A folio volume of largely vocal music, mainly in a single secretary hand, 120 pages, in mottled calf. Early 17th century.

In: the MS described under RaW 5.5. Mid-late 17th century.

In: the MS described under RaW 172. c.1630.

In: the MS described under RaW 226. c.1638.

In: the MS described under RaW 18.

In: the MS described under RaW 325. c.1630s.

In: the MS described under RaW 33. c.1662.

In: the MS described under RaW 244. c.1620s-30s.

In: the MS described under RaW 245. c.1620s.

In: the MS described under RaW 252. c.1630s [-1670s].

In: the MS described under RaW 50. c.1674-84.