Verse
(1) English Poems
Ad Amicam (‘Sweet, doe not thy beauty wrong’)
First published, in a version beginning ‘Deare, doe not your fair beauty wrong’, in Thomas May, The Old Couple (London, 1658), p. 25. Attributed to Randolph in Parry (1917), p. 224. Thorn-Drury, p. 168.
RnT 1
Copy, headed ‘Song’ and here beginning ‘Deare, doe not your fayre beauty wrong’.
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.
RnT 2
Copy, headed ‘Loues Prime’ and here beginning ‘Deare doe not yr faire beauty wrong’.
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.
RnT 3
Copy in: A quarto composite miscellany of verse, in English and Latin, compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, who lived in Cambridge as student and Fellow of Emmanuel College from 1633 to 1651, ii + 115 leaves, in calf. Comprising three separate units: ff. 1r-96v all in Sancroft's hand; ff. 97r-104r in a second hand; and ff. 105r-9r in a third hand. c.1640s [and later].
Including (on ff. 2-23, 27ar-v, 70) 94 Latin poems ascribed to Crashaw (including three of doubtful authorship) and (on ff. 29-41, 43v, 44v-58, 60v, 62v-5v, 67-70v, 72-3, 95-6) 101 English poems (plus a second copy of one of them) attributed to him (including one of doubtful authorship) and (on f. 16r-v) one Greek poem attributed to him; a list of contents on the first page beginning ‘Mr. Crashaw's poems transcrib'd fro his own copie, before the were printed; among wch are some not printed…’.
Cited in IELM as the ‘Sancroft MS’: CrR Δ 1. Crashaw edited in part from this MS, and collated, in Grosart, in Waller and in Martin (cited as T or T5), and discussed in Waller, pp. vi-ix, and in Martin, pp. lviii-lxxiii. Folios 28-34v, 38v-41, 44v, 52v-6 reproduced in facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
Edited from this MS in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 4
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Deare, doe not yor fayre beauties wrong’.
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.
RnT 5
Copy, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson, untitled and here beginning ‘Deare doe not yr fayre beauty wronge’.
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).
RnT 6
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Deare doe not your faire bewtie wronge’.
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. 16. This MS recorded in Parry, p. 369.
RnT 7
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Deere doe not yr faire beuty wrong’.
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.
RnT 8
Copy, headed ‘To his young Mistress’ and here beginning ‘Deare doe not yor faire beautie wrong’.
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).
RnT 8.3
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Deere doe not your faire bewty wronge’.
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.
RnT 8.5
Copy, headed ‘Songe’, here beginnining ‘Deare doe not your fayre beauty wronge’, inscribed in another hand ‘T. May’.
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.
RnT 9
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Deare doe not yr faire beowty wronge’.
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.
RnT 10
Copy, headed ‘An exhortation to marrie’ and here beginning ‘Dear do not thy fayr beauty wrong’.
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. 40r.
RnT 11
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a maide which still replyed she was too yonge’ and here beginning ‘Deare do not your faire beauty wronge’.
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).
RnT 12
Copy, headed ‘Loues Invitation’ and here beginning ‘Deare doe not your faire beauty wronge’.
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.
RnT 13
Copy, headed ‘To one thinking herselfe too young for the buisiness’, here beginning ‘Deare doe not your fayre beauties wrong’ and ascribed to ‘Humphrey Hide’.
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.
RnT 14
Copy, headed ‘To ones Mris thinking her selfe too younge’ and here beginning ‘Dear doe not your fair beauty wronge’.
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.
Ad Amicum Litigantem (‘Would you commence a Poet Sr, and be’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 97-8.
RnT 15
Copy, headed ‘Excludit Sanos Helicone Poetas Democritus ad amicum Litigantem’, subscribed ‘T. R’.
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).
RnT 16
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Poetts’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolphe’.
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).
RnT 17
Copy, headed ‘Excludit sanos Helicone Poetas —— Democritus Ad Amicum Litigantem’, subscribed ‘Tho: Rand.’
In: A folio verse miscellany, in a single probably professional rounded hand (except for a poem on f. 81r and later scribbling); ii + 81 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Including 16 poems by or attributed to Herrick and 24 poems by Randolph (plus two of doubtful authorship). This MS related to HeR Δ 2 and to RnT Δ 1. c. late 1630s.
Inscriptions including (on a flyleaf) ‘Anthony St John/ Ann: St John/ 1640 Bletso’: i.e. Anthony St John (1618-73), of Christ's College, Cambridge, fourth son of Oliver, fourth Baron St John and first Earl of Bolingbroke (c.1584-1646), of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and Anthony's wife, Ann Kensham (married 1639); (flyleaf) ‘Oliver Beeesfor[d]’; and (f. 81v) ‘John Watts’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13187. Sotheby's, 6 June 1910, lot 672, to Quaritch. Item 1415 in an unidentified sale.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘St John MS’: HeR Δ 4 and RnT Δ 8. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 72).
This MS recorded in Day, p. 31.
Annagram: Virtue alone thy Blisse (‘Descent of birth is a vaine good’)
First published in Hazlitt (1875). Thorn-Drury, pp. 168-9.
RnT 18
Copy, headed ‘An Anagr: vpon his Mris name. Vertue alone thy blisse’, subscribed ‘T. R.’
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, apparently a presentation MS, 133 pages (including blanks), plus index, in half-calf. Including twenty poems by Randolph, plus ten of doubtful authorship (some here ascribed to ‘T.R.’), in two hands (A: pp. 3-99; B: pp. 1, 99-129), with some scribbling and one heading in other hands on pp. 3, 98 and 133; a poem on p. 1 (beginning ‘Loe here a sett of paper=pilgrimes sent’) dedicatingthe collection [‘To ye] Incomparably vertuous Lady the Lady Harflette’: i.e. Afra (d.1664), wife of Sir Christopher Harflete of Canterbury. c.1640.
Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Harflete MS: RnT Δ 2.
This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 19
Copy, subscribed ‘T: Randolph:’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including 33 poems by Thomas Carew and sixteen by Henry King, in a single small hand, with (ff. 1r-2v) an alphabetical Index, 105 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. Compiled by Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London. c.1641-9.
Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.
Cited in IELM II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6918 with which it was once bound, as the ‘Calfe MS’: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp 129-35, 444-5 (see KiH Δ 6).
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Thorn-Drury.
An answer to Mr Ben Johnson's Ode to perswade him not to leave the stage (‘Ben doe not leave the stage’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 82-4. Davis, pp. 63-76.
For the poem by Ben Jonson, which appears with Randolph's ‘answer’ in many of the MSS, see JnB 367-81.
RnT 20
Copy, headed ‘A Paradise to Mr. Johnsons ode’ and subscribed ‘T: R’.
In: the MS described under RnT 15 (RnT Δ 1). c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Davis.
RnT 21
Copy, headed ‘B. J. his discontented Soliloquye Vpon ye censure of his Play called ye new Inne, answered by T: R:’ and here beginning ‘Ben, doe not leaue ye stage’, each stanza alternating with Jonson's original ‘ode’.
In: the MS described under RnT 18 (RnT Δ 2). c.1640.
RnT 22
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small neat predominantly secretary hand but for additions in a second hand on ff. 35v and 58r, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Wadham College, 97 leaves (inclusing two blanks), in half-calf. Including 14 poems by Carew (and a second copy of one poem), eight poems (plus 3 of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, and 28 poems by Strode (plus a second copy of one and two of doubtful authorship). c.late 1630s.
Later used and annotated by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, and entries in his hand on f. 97r. Formerly Bodleian, MS CCC.328.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Fulman MS’: CwT Δ 2; RnT Δ 6; StW Δ 16.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury and in Davis.
RnT 23
Copy, headed ‘Mr Randolophs Parody’, on versos only, interspersed stanza for stanza with Jonson's poem (JnB 378), subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.
In: the MS described under RnT 1 (RnT Δ 7). c.1630s-40s.
RnT 24
Copy, headed ‘A Parody to Mr. Johnsons Ode’, subscribed ‘Tho Rand:’.
In: the MS described under RnT 17 (RnT Δ 8). c. late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Day, p. 31. Collated in Davis.
RnT 25
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands (A: pp. 1-56; B: pp. 57-60, 75-122; C: pp. 61-74, 125-7), 127 pages, in contemporary limp vellum. Including 23 poems (and a second copy of one) by Randolph. c.1635.
Mostyn MS 196: from the library originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn Hall, near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, the MS possibly acquired by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) or by his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 191.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Mostyn MS’: RnT Δ 11. Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1873), Appendix, p. 356. Edited in Howard H. Thompson, An Edition of Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1959) [Mic 59-4669].
RnT 26
Copy, headed ‘Mr Randalls Answere in defence of defence of [sic] Ben Johnson’.
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 collated in Davis.
RnT 27
Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnsons discontented Soliloquy, vpon ye sinister Censure of his Play, call'd ye New Inne; Answerd verse for verse by Tho Randall’, Randolph's poem here beginning ‘Ben do not leaue ye stage’, each stanza alternating with Jonson's original poem (JnB 371).
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in a single small hand, 54 leaves, in vellum boards. Compiled by a Cambridge University man. c.1640s.
This MS collated in Davis.
RnT 28
Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnsons discontented Soliloquy upon ye sinister Censure of his play calld ye New Inne translated into Latin & answerd verse for verse by Tho. Randall’, alternating stanza-by-stanza with Jonson's poem (JnB 374) and Randolph's Latin version (RnT 416).
In: An octavo notebook of extracts, chiefly verse, compiled by one or two University of Cambridge men, 69 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1653-60s.
RnT 29
Copy, headed ‘Randolphs answer to B: J: Ode’.
In: Four octavo leaves removed fom the verse miscellany Folger MS V.a.97, bound in the order pp. 77-8, 83-4, 79-80 and 81-2, in modern half crushed morocco on marbled boards. c.late 1630s.
RnT 30
Copy, headed ‘An Answere to the Ode: T: R:’.
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).
RnT 31
Copy, headed ‘Randulphus answer to Benn Johnsons Ode’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, 206 pages (plus blanks), rebound in 1832 (by Charles Lewis) with an independent miscellany (Huntington, HM 198, Part II). Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled ‘L.C.’ [? Lord Chancellor], as are some poems by others), 11 poems by Carew, ten poems by Corbett, and 11 poems by or attributed to Herrick, in a single neat hand throughout; the poems dating up to 1637. c.1637.
Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names ‘Edw Denny’ [presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], ‘Charles Cocks’, ‘Edward Randolphe’ and (on p. 162) ‘Thomas Cassy’. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Haslewood Kingsborough MS (I)’: DnJ Δ 25, CwT Δ 28, CoR Δ 10, and HeR Δ 5. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Discussed in C.M. Armitage, ‘Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on “The Funerall”’, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707. A facsimile of part of p. 63 in Marcy L. North, ‘Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 101).
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 581.
RnT 32
Copy, headed ‘A Parody to Mr Johnsons Ode’.
In: the MS described under RnT 13. c.1630s.
Trinity College, Dublin, MS 877, [Part II], ff. 269v, 270v, 271v.
Ausonii Epigram 38 (‘Shee which would not I would choose’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 92-3.
RnT 34
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single predominantly secretary hand, with some later additions and annotations, 188 leaves, in quarter-morocco. Transcribed from British Library Add. MS 25303 and perhaps associated likewise with the Inns of Court. Including 23 poems by Carew and three of doubtful authorship. c.1620s-30s.
Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 13 May 1856 (Pickering sale), lot 258.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Pickering MS’: CwT Δ 11.
This MS transcribed from RnT 35.
RnT 35
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.
A Character. Aulico-politico-Academico (‘Thou Cozen to great Madames and allyed’)
First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 134-5.
RnT 36
Copy, subscribed ‘T: Rand:’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands, including eight poems by Randolph (one twice), 102 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. Fols 1r-93v, 95r-100v in the hand of Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London (whose name is inscribed on a flyleaf: f. 1*); f. 94r-v in an unidentified hand, and ff. 101v-2r in that of Peter Calfe's son, Peter Calfe the Younger (d.1693). c.1650-9.
Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford. Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Janu. 6. 1738/9’.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6917 with which it was once bound, as the ‘Calfe MS’: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4.
The Character of a perfect Woman (‘Apelles curious eye must gaze upon’)
First published in Parry (1917), pp. 220-3. Thorn-Drury, pp. 165-7.
RnT 37
Copy, headed ‘The character of a perfect Woman. T: R:’.
In: the MS described under RnT 18 (RnT Δ 2). c.1640.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 38
Copy, subscribed ‘T: R:’.
In: the MS described under RnT 36 (RnT Δ 4). c.1650-9.
Edited from this MS in Parry and in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 39
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 10. c.1643-50s.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, ff. 45v-7r.
A complaint against Cupid that he never made him in Love (‘How many of thy Captives (Love) complaine’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 35-40.
RnT 40
Copy, headed ‘His Complaint on Cupid that he neuer made him enamoured’.
In: the MS described under RnT 15 (RnT Δ 1). c.1630s-40s.
RnT 41
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 22 (RnT Δ 6). c.late 1630s.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 42
Copy, headed ‘His Complaint on Cupid that hee neuer yet made him enamoured’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.
In: the MS described under RnT 1 (RnT Δ 7). c.1630s-40s.
RnT 43
Copy, headed ‘His Complaint on Cupid that hee neuer yett made him enamour'd’.
In: the MS described under RnT 17 (RnT Δ 8). c. late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Day, p. 31.
RnT 44
Copy, headed ‘His complaynt on Cupid that hee never yet made him enamored’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, written in alternating secretary and italic scripts, probably in a single hand; foliated in ink 1-32 and paginated in pencil 33-96, 32 leaves (lacking final leaf). Including nine poems by Randolph, plus two of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 10110. Bookplate of Robert Hoe (1839-1909), New York businessman and book collector.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Huntington MS’: RnT Δ 9. Complete microfilm at the Shakespeare Institute, Birmingham (Mic S 15).
This MS recorded inDay, p. 32.
RnT 45
Copy, headed ‘His Complaint on Cupid that hee neuer yett made him enamoured’, subscribed ‘Th: R:’.
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).
RnT 46
Copy, headed ‘Randalls Complaint against Cupid, that hee neuer yet made him Enamourd’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany of c.150 poems, in several hands; associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 279 pages (plus index and blanks). Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 32 poems (plus four of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1630s-40s.
Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 1044. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9561. Sotheby's, 19 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 628, and 21 March 1895, lot 903. Hodgson's, 23 April 1959, lot 528.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘English Poetry MS’: CoR Δ 3 and StW Δ 6.
RnT 47
Copy, headed ‘A Complaint of Cupid’.
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.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 48
Copy, headed ‘His complaint on Cupid that hee neuer yet made him enamor'd’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.
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.
RnT 49
Copy, headed ‘A complaint agt Cupid that he neuer made him enamoured. by T. Randolfe’.
In: the MS described under RnT 11. c.1634.
The Constant Lovers (‘The halfe staru'd lambe warm'd in her mother's wooll’)
First published in B. H. Newdigate, ‘The Constant Lovers’, TLS (18 April 1942), p. 204. (25 April 1942), p. 216.
RnT 50
Copy, in Constance Fowler's hand, of a pastoral dialogue by ‘T R’ written for the marriage in 1634 of William Stafford of Blatherwycke, Northamptonshire, and Lady Dorothy Shirley, headed ‘The Constant Louers / A pastorale Eglogue / Laura Amintas and Chorus’, subscribed ‘T. R’.
In: A quarto miscellany of recusant verse, many of the 65 poems relating to the circle of the Catholic Aston family, in three hands, 200 leaves (including five preliminary blanks, and ff. 53r-135v are blank), in contemporary leather gilt. Compiled principally by Constance Fowler (d.1664), daughter of the diplomat Walter Aston, Baron Aston of Forfar (1584-1639), of Tixall and Colton, Staffordshire, her roman hand responsible for ff. 6r, 8r-15v, 24v-34v, 46v-52v, 136r-9r, 143v-59r, and 182v-95v. The second, predominantly secretary hand, responsible for fourteen poems on ff. 7r-v, 16r-24r, and 35r-46r, is that of Constance's sister Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68). The third hand, on ff. 196r-200v, is that of Constance's brother-in-law Sir William Pershall. c.1635-50s.
William H. Robinson, sale catalogue (1925), item 472.
This volume discussed, with a complete first-line index and a facsimile of f. 25r, in Jenijoy La Belle, ‘The Huntington Aston Manuscript’, The Book Collector, 29 (Winter 1980), 542-67. See also Jenijoy La Belle, ‘A True Love's Knot: The Letters of Constance Fowler and the Poems of Herbert Aston’, JEGP, 79 (1980), 13-31. The complete volume edited in The Verse Miscellany of Constance Aston Fowler: A Diplomatic Edition, ed. Deborah Aldrich-Watson (Tempe, Arizona, 2000), with a facsimile of f. 28v on p. lxiv.
Aldrich-Watson, pp. 149-56. Edited from this MS in Newdigate. See also Jenijoy La Belle, ‘The Huntington Aston Manuscript’, BC, 29 (Winter 1980), 542-67 (p. 563).
De Histrice. Ex Claudiano (‘Fam'd Stymphall, I have heard, thy birds in flight’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 44-5.
De Magnete. Ex Claudiano (‘Who in the world with busy reason pryes’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 46-8.
RnT 53
Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Rand:’.
In: the MS described under RnT 17 (RnT Δ 8). c. late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Day, p. 31.
De Moderatione Animi in vtraque fortuna (‘Is thy poore Barke becalm'd, and forc'd to staye’)
First published in Day (1932), p. 36.
RnT 57
Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Rand:’.
In: the MS described under RnT 17 (RnT Δ 8). c. late 1630s.
Edited from this MS in Day.
RnT 58
Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.
In: the MS described under RnT 44 (RnT Δ 9). c.1630s.
Edited from this MS in Dunlap, p. 267. Collated in Day.
De Sene Veronensi. Ex Claudiano (‘Happy the man that all his dayes hath spent’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 48-9.
RnT 61.5
Copy, untitled, inscribed ‘Mr Thomas Randulph’.
In: A quarto miscellany of extracts in verse and prose, in a single largely italic hand, 142 pages, in contemporary mottled calf gilt. Compiled by Sir John Cotton, Bt (1621-1702). Mid-17th century.
RnT 62
Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Rand:’.
In: the MS described under RnT 17 (RnT Δ 8). c. late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Day, p. 31.
RnT 63
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 45 (RnT Δ 10). c.1630s.
A Dialogue betwixt a Nymph and a Shepheard (‘Why sigh you swain? this passion is not comon’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 85-6.
RnT 64
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 25 (RnT Δ 11). c.1635.
RnT 65
Copy, in a musical setting by George Jeffreys, headed ‘Song ‘Nymphe & Sheaphard’’.
In: Autograph songbook by George Jeffreys (c.1610-85), composer and organist, in his cursive italic hand, with an index (ff. 2r, 3r), 275 leaves, in modern half red morocco. c. 1662.
Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, February 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1156; by Edmund Thomas Warren Horne, publisher; and by Thomas Oliphant (1799-1873), music editor and cataloguer.
This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury.
Dialogue Louely Sheaphard (‘Lovely sheaphard ope thine eye’)
First published and attributed to Randolph in Moore Smith (1925), p. 248. Thorn-Drury, p. 164.
RnT 67
Copy, in a musical setting by George Jeffreys. headed ‘Febisse / Endimion / Dialogue’.
In: the MS described under RnT 65. c. 1662.
Edited from this MS in Moore Smith and in Thorn-Drury.
A Dialogue. Thirsis. Lalage (‘My Lalage when I behold’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 84-5.
RnT 69
Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.
In: the MS described under RnT 17 (RnT Δ 8). c. late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Day, p. 31.
RnT 70
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 45 (RnT Δ 10). c.1630s.
RnT 71
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 25 (RnT Δ 11). c.1635.
RnT 72
Copy in: A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat italic hand, with rubrication, 144 pages (plus later index). Including twelve poems by Carew, nine poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph and nineteen (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the miscellany associated with Oxford University and possibly related to Bodleian MS Malone 21, the latest date occuring in a poem on pp. 63-6 ‘Vpon ye great Frost 1634’. c.1635.
Inscribed inside the front cover by a later owner: ‘April 1853 Read to Lit[erary] & Philosophical] Soc[iet]y of L[iver]pool’. Acquired in 1940 by Edwin Wolf II (1911-91), Philadelphia librarian.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Wolf MS’: CwT Δ 37; RnT Δ 12; StW Δ 28.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 108-10.
RnT 73
Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue betweene Thyrsis & Lalage’, subscribed ‘T. Randolph’.
In: the MS described under RnT 47. c.1640s.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
‘Ὴ εὐφυοῦς ἡ ποίησις ἢ μανικοῦ’ Arist. (‘From witty men and mad’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 96-7.
An Eglogue occasion'd by two Doctors disputing upon predestination (‘Ho jolly Thirsis whither in such hast?’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 101-4.
RnT 75
Copy, headed ‘An Eglogue’, subscribed ‘T: R:’.
In: the MS described under RnT 18 (RnT Δ 2). c.1640.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 76
Copy, headed ‘An Eglogue by Mr Tho: Randall’.
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 collated (as ‘Ash’) in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 77
Copy, headed ‘A diuine Pastorall Eglogue’, subscribed ‘T. Randolph gent.’
In: An octavo verse miscellany, comprising chiefly religious poems, in a semi-calligraphic secretary hand, 101 leaves, in contemporary vellum elaborately gilt. A formal presentation copy produced by Ralph Crane (fl.1589-1632), poet and scribe, with a title-page ‘A Handfull of Celestiall Flowers...composed by diuers worthie & Learned Gentlemen: Manuscrib'd by R. Cr:’, and with his dedication to the lawyer Sir Francis Ashley (1569-1635), for whom Crane served as a clerk or secretary for seven years, dated ‘Decemb: 1632’. 1632.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Hennarletta Holles her book Giuen by her Father’, with an addition in another hand ‘John Hollis ye last Duke of that name [i.e. John Hollis (1662-1711), Duke of Newcastle] She married ye Late Edwd Harley Ld Oxford - son of Robert Harley first Ld of Oxford of that family’.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 78
Copy, headed ‘An Eclogue’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph. Il Pastor fido’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, the first 21 pages in a small mixed hand, the rest (including a book catalogue dated 1675) in one or two later hands, 33 pages (plus numerous blanks), in old calf. Inscribed (p. 1) ‘ffran: Wyrley’, possibly the principal compiler, whose name is also subscribed to several poems. c.1636-77.
Also inscribed (f. ii) ‘Michaell Keepis. anno Dom: 1636 ffebruarie. 13th. Me tenet’. Later Phillipps MS 9311. Bookplate of Wyrley Birch. Purchased from Peter Murray Hill, 1950. Formerly S4975M1 [1636-75] Bound.
RnT 79
Copy, in a neat secretary hand, headed ‘Ecloga. Sacra’, subscribed ‘ffinis Th: Ran:’, on pages 1-3 of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, the rest of pp. 3-4 used for autograph draft verse by William Cavendish (1593-1676), Duke of Newcastle. c.1630s.
RnT 80
Copy, on four pages in a sixteen-page octavo booklet, in vellum wrappers. Mid-17th century.
Inscribed ‘Miss Ossbert Her booke 1759’. Sotheby's, 5 June 1973, lot 422.
An Eglogue on the noble Assemblies revived on Cotswold Hills, by M. Robert Dover (‘What Clodpates, Thenot, are our Brittish swains’)
First published in Matthew Walbancke, Annalia Dvbrensia. Vpon the yeerely celebration of Mr. Robert Dovers Olimpick Games vpon Cotswold-Hills (London, 1636). Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 118-23.
RnT 81
Copy, headed ‘An Eglogue Vpon ye Pallalia: at Cotswold hill’.
In: the MS described under RnT 18 (RnT Δ 2). c.1640.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
An Eglogue to Mr Johnson (‘Under this Beech why sit'st thou here so sad’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 104-9.
RnT 82
Copy, headed ‘An Eglogue To his worthy Father Mr. Ben: Jonson’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph.’
In: the MS described under RnT 1 (RnT Δ 7). c.1630s-40s.
RnT 83
Copy, headed ‘An Eglogue to his worthy father Mr Ben Jonson by T. Rand.’
In: the MS described under RnT 25 (RnT Δ 11). c.1635.
RnT 84
Copy, headed ‘An Eclogue To his worthy father Mr. Benjamin Johnson’.
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.
RnT 85
Copy, headed ‘An Eglouge To his worthy ffather Mr: Ben: Johnson vnder the Persons of Titerus and Damon’, subscribed ‘Tho: Rand’.
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 collated in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 86
Copy, headed ‘An Eglogue To his worthy Father Mr: Ben: Iohnson’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.
In: the MS described under RnT 48. c.1630s.
RnT 88
Copy, headed ‘An Eclogue to his worthy father mr. Ben. Jonson’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randulph’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Thomas Carew, probably in a single accomplished hand (changing to two styles of italic on ff. 42v-4v, 5r-60r, 76r-v), i + 89 leaves (including blanks, stubs of two or three excised leaves, and an index), in contemporary limp vellum. c.1630s-40s.
Later notes and scribbling including the names ‘John Nutting’ (ff. 26r, 56r) and ‘John M.’ and ‘John Susan’ (rear paste-down). The last leaf also containing a list of the titles of 65 poems by Carew together with the number of lines in each poem, this list unrelated to the contents of the rest of the MS.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Nutting MS’: CwT Δ 35. The list of poems, probably relating to another MS, is edited, with facsimiles, in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 198-9, 217-19).
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 23 (James 416), ff. 32r-6v.
An Elegie (‘Heav'n knowes my Love to thee, fed on desires’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 95-6.
RnT 89
Copy, headed ‘To his faire Mistresse incens'd vpon a mistake. T. Rand.’
In: the MS described under RnT 25 (RnT Δ 11). c.1635.
RnT 90
Copy, headed ‘To his fayre Mrs. incensed upon a mistake’.
In: the MS described under RnT 72 (RnT Δ 12). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 103-5.
RnT 91
Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs incensed vpon a Mistake’, subscribed ‘T. Randolph’.
In: the MS described under RnT 47. c.1640s.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
An Elegie (‘Love, give me leave to serve thee, and be wise’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 66-7.
RnT 92
Copy, headed ‘A True Mistresse. T: R:’.
In: the MS described under RnT 18 (RnT Δ 2). c.1640.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 93
Copy, headed ‘To his chast Mistresse. T. R.’
In: the MS described under RnT 25 (RnT Δ 11). c.1635.
RnT 94
Copy, headed ‘To his chast Mrs.’.
In: the MS described under RnT 72 (RnT Δ 12). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 101-3.
RnT 96
Copy, headed ‘A true Mris’ on a single quarto leaf.
In: A folio composite volume of verse, in various hands, i + 250 leaves. Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729). Some pages in the hand of Richard Rawlinson.
RnT 97
Copy, headed ‘A True Mrs’, on one side of a single folio leaf.
In: A folio composite volume of verse and academic plays, in English and Latin, in various hands, 493 leaves, now in two volumes, foliated 1-250 and 251-493 respectively. Partly compiled by Archbishop Sancroft.
RnT 98
Copy, headed ‘On his Chast Mistresse’, subscribed ‘T. Randall’.
In: the MS described under RnT 47. c.1640s.
RnT 99
Copy, in a neat roman hand, headed ‘Tom Randulphs Mrs’. c.1630s-40s.
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.
RnT 100
Copy, headed ‘To a Ladie vpon Chast Loue’.
In: the MS described under RnT 88. c.1630s-40s.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 23 (James 416), ff. 66v-7r.
An Elegie on the death of that Renowned and Noble Knight Sir Rowland Cotton of Bellaport in Shropshire (‘Rich as was Cottons worth, I wish each line’)
First published in Parentalia spectatissimo Rolando Cottono (London, 1635), sig. G4v-Hv. Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 89-92.
RnT 101
Copy, headed ‘On Sr Rowland Cotton's death’ and ascribed to ‘T: R:’.
In: the MS described under RnT 26. c.1630s-40s.
RnT 102
Copy, headed ‘On Sr Rowland Cottons death’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in two hands, one mixed hand predominating, 128 pages (plus a five-page index). Inscribed, and probably compiled, by Hugh Barrow (b.1617/18), of Brasenose College, Oxford. c.1638.
Also inscribed names of George Hope, Peter Wynne and [?]Anselm Huff. Later owned by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia bookseller and scholar: Rosenbach MS 192.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), p. 73.
An Elegie upon the Lady Venetia Digby (‘Death, who'ld not change prerogatives with thee’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 52-3.
RnT 103
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy vpon ye incomparablely beautyous Lady Maddam Venetia Digby’ and omitting the epitaph, subscribed ‘T. R’.
In: the MS described under RnT 18 (RnT Δ 2). c.1640.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 104
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy. On the incomparable beauteous ladye Mada Venetia Digbie. by T.R.’
In: the MS described under RnT 25 (RnT Δ 11). c.1635.
RnT 105
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie On ye incomparable beauteous Lady, Madam Venetia Digby’.
In: the MS described under RnT 72 (RnT Δ 12). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 106-8.
RnT 106
Copy, headed ‘An Elegye on ye Lady Verrona digbye’ and omitting the epitaph.
In: the MS described under RnT 26. c.1630s-40s.
RnT 107
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on the most beauteous and vertuous Ladie the Ladie Venetia Digby’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.
In: A quarto volume of elegies on Venetia Digby, in a semi-calligraphic roman hand (but for subsequent scribbling in another hand on f. 13v and pagination from 1 to 48), 24 leaves, lacking a final leaf, in 19th-century half morocco. Evidently a formal MS made by or for Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-65), natural philosopher and courtier, of the poems sent to him after the death of his wife Venetia (née Stanley) on 30 April/1 May 1633. [1633].
Purchased from J. Salkeld, 13 January 1877.
This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 107.5
Copy of The Epitaph, headed ‘Epitaph on a fayre woman’ and beginning ‘Beauty it selfe lyes here in whom alone’.
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’.
RnT 108
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on the most beauteous Lady Madam Venetia Digbye’, imperfect, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, subscribed ‘T: R:’.
In: Papers of the Gell family, formerly of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, in different hands and paper sizes, now disbound in folders.
Sotheby's, 16 December 1950, lot 560. Owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Given to the Houghton Library by Robert S. Pirie in 1959.
RnT 109
Copy, headed ‘on the Lady Verona Digby’.
In: the MS described under RnT 102. c.1638.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), p. 88.
RnT 110
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy on ye Incomparably Beauteous Lady Madam Venetia Stanly/Digby’.
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.
RnT 111
Copy, subscribed ‘Thos. Randolfe’.
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. 26-7, whence collated in Thorn-Drury.
Englished (‘By thy lookes Hecuba, Helen by thy songe’)
See RnT 156-160.
Englished (‘Why att thy Christ'ening did it rayne deare Prince’)
See RnT 152-155.
Englished thus παραψρὰστικῶς (‘The Spring was come, and all the fields growne fine’)
Epigram 47: ex decimo Libro Martialis (‘These are things that being possest’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 88.
RnT 112
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 25 (RnT Δ 11). c.1635.
An Epitaph (‘With Diligence And Trvst Most Exemplary’)
First published in John Aubrey, Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark, 2 vols (Oxford, 1898), II, 197. Thorn-Drury, p. 147.
RnT 113
Copy, headed ‘In the wall of the Cloister of westminster Abbye this for wm Lawrence’.
In: the MS described under RnT 76. c.1638.
RnT 114
Copy, in the hand of John Aubrey, with his note ‘Dr Busby the school master of Westminster was Tom Randolphs school-fellow & coetanean; & sayth that he made these vses — 'tis his vaine’.
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.
Edited from this MS in Clark. Reedited in Thorn-Drury.
An Epitaph upon his honour'd freind Mr. Warre (‘Here lyes the knowing head, the honest heart’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 56.
RnT 115
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 25 (RnT Δ 11). c.1635.
RnT 116
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on Mr Warr’.
In: the MS described under RnT 72 (RnT Δ 12). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 105-6.
RnT 117
Copy, headed ‘On Mr. Warre’, subscribed ‘Idem’ [i.e. T. Randolph].
In: the MS described under RnT 47. c.1640s.
An Epitaph upon Mrs. I.T. (‘Reader if thou hast a teare’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 53.
RnT 118
Copy, headed ‘On Mrs. J.T.’, ‘who died in labour’ added in probably a different hand.
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.
RnT 119
Copy, headed ‘An Epitath upon Mrs JT’.
In: the MS described under RnT 25 (RnT Δ 11). c.1635.
An Epithalamium (‘Bliss court thee sweetest soule, and fall soe thicke’)
First published in Hazlitt (1875), II, 661. Thorn-Drury, pp. 156-7 (erroneously citing on p. 187, as his copy-text the Harflete MS (Bodleian MS Firth e. 4: Δ 2), p. 120, evidently confusing his reference with that for RnT 18 since the ‘Epithalamium’ does not appear in that MS).
RnT 119.5
Copy, subscribed ‘Thomas Randolph’.
In: A quarto composite volume of verse, in several hands (the 22 or 23 poems by Carew on ff. 2r-22r in a single hand), with later additions dated 1731-3 by one ‘G. Broughton’ on ff. 1r and after 44r, a reference to St John's College, Cambridge (in 1731) on f. 83v, 93 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century half black morocco. c.1630s [-1733].
‘G. Broughton’ is possibly William (‘Gulielmus’) Broughton (b.1684/5), of Trinity College, Cambridge (one of whose Latin verse compilations was copied in 1704-6 by Richard Robinson in Trinity College, Cambridge, MS 0.6.1 (James 1497). Also the name ‘Jo: Tweedy’ is inscribed several times on f. 81r. Owned before 1841 by one W. Potter.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Tweedye MS’: CwT Δ 10.
This MS cited in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 120
Copy, imperfect.
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 Thorn-Drury.
An Epithalamium (‘Muse be a bride-maid, dost not heare’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 54-6.
RnT 121
Copy, headed ‘An Epithal: on his honored ffreind Mr Hunt’, subscribed ‘T. R.’
In: the MS described under RnT 18 (RnT Δ 2). c.1640.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
An Epithalamium to Mr. F. H. (‘Francke, when this Morne the harbinger of day’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 71-5.
RnT 121.5
Copy, beginning at line 47 (‘O bless them both! Let their affections meet’), headed ‘An Epithalamion or Wedding Song per Tho: Randolph’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, entitled (p. 1, in engrossed lettering) ‘Thos. Walker Book of Miscellanies 1712’, 252 pages (jumping from p. 56 to 61), in modern half dark green morocco. Compiled by Thomas Walker (b.1682), of Mosley, near Ashton under Lyne, Greater Manchester, including (pp. 105-6, 203) verses by him to his parents etc., dated 1720/1-27). c.1712-27.
Later owned by Sir Charles Bradbury (his sale December 1864, lot 2819, to Haywood, thence bought by Sir Thomas Baker. Bernard Halliday, bookseller of Leicester, February 1930.
John Rylands University Library of Manchester, English MS 521, pp. 43-4.
‘From witty men and mad’
See RnT 74.
A gratulatory to Mr. Ben. Johnson for his adopting of him to be his Son (‘I was not borne to Helicon, nor dare’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 40-2.
RnT 122
Copy, headed ‘T. Randolph his gratulatory to B: J: vpon his adoption’.
In: the MS described under RnT 18 (RnT Δ 2). c.1640.
This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 123
Copy, subscribed ‘T Rand’.
In: the MS described under RnT 16 (RnT Δ 5). c.1637.
Facsimiles of f. 9v in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 21 July 1988, lot 18, and in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 241.
RnT 124
Copy, headed ‘Tho: Randolph to Ben: Johnson his adopted father’.
In: the MS described under RnT 22 (RnT Δ 6). c.late 1630s.
RnT 125
Copy, headed ‘A Gratulatory to Mr Jonson for his voluntary adoption of mee to bee his sonne.’, subscribed ‘T: R:’.
In: the MS described under RnT 1 (RnT Δ 7). c.1630s-40s.
RnT 126
Copy, headed ‘A gratulatory to Ben Jonson for his adoption’, the last ten lines repeated in a different hand (on f. 18v), subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.
In: the MS described under RnT 119.5. c.1630s [-1733].
RnT 127
Copy, headed ‘Randolph to his adopted father Ben: Johnson’.
In: A quarto miscellany of plays (by George Wilde, of St John's College, Oxford) and English and Latin verse, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford, written over a period from both ends, 158 leaves, in 19th-century half black morocco. c.late 1630s-late 17th century.
RnT 129
Copy, headed ‘T. Randall to his Adopted father Ben. Johnson’.
In: the MS described under RnT 47. c.1640s.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury, pp. 177-8.
RnT 130
Copy, headed ‘To his ffather Mr: Beniamin Johnson vpon his Adoption’ and here beginning ‘I am not born to Hellicon nor dare’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolphe’.
In: the MS described under RnT 85. c.1630s [-1670s].
RnT 131
Copy, headed ‘A gratulatory to Mr. Ben. Jonson on his voluntary Adoption of Tho: Randolph: to bee his sonne’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.
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.
RnT 132
Copy, headed ‘A gratulatory to Mr Ben Johnson on his uoluntary adoption of mr Thomas Randolph to be his sonne’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph:’.
In: A large quarto verse miscellany, 76 leaves, in old vellum wrappers within modern quarter red morocco on marbled boards. Part I, including some Welsh, comprises sixteen leaves, all (but for f. 15r-v) in the cursive hand of William Jordan, schoolmaster of Denbigh or Caernarvon, whose name (‘Gulielmus Jordan’) is inscribed, the dates 1680-83 occurring. c.1674-84.
Part II comprises 60 leaves, ff. 1-50v in a neat italic hand, ff. 51r-60r in several other cursive hands.
The vellum wrapper on Part II bears notes on a debt by William Jordan in 1674 relating to ‘Evan Thomas’ and ‘Mr Richard Wilkinsn in pepper street’. Formerly Folger MS 1669.2.
RnT 133
Copy, headed ‘Thomas Randolphs Gratulatory to Ben Johnson for adopting him his sone’.
In: the MS described under RnT 31. c.1637.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 537.
RnT 133.5
Copy, headed ‘To Mr Beniamin Johnson’.
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).
London Metropolitan Archives, ACC/1360/528, ff. [21r-2r rev.].
RnT 134
Copy, headed ‘A Gratulatory to my ffather Johnson for his voluntary adoptio of mee to bee his sonne’.
In: the MS described under RnT 11. c.1634.
RnT 135
Copy, headed ‘A gratulatorie to Mr Johnson ffor his voluntarie adoption of me to bee his sonne’.
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.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 32 (James 423), f. 45r-v.
RnT 136
Copy, headed ‘A Gratulatory to Mr Ben: Johnson on his voluntary adoption of Tho: Randolph to be his sonne’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.
In: the MS described under RnT 13. c.1630s.
RnT 137
Copy, headed ‘A gratulatory to Ben: Jonson for his voluntary Adoption of mee to bee His Sonn’.
In: A folio notebook of verse and prose, predominantly in one hand, written from both ends, 45 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Compiled by John Clavell (1601-43), writer and highwayman. c.1633-42.
Among papers of the Troyte-Bullock anf Chafyn Grove families, of Zeals House, Mere.
Discussed, with facsimile examples, in John Pafford, John Clavell 1601-43 Highwayman, Author, Lawyer, Doctor (Oxford, 1993).
Edited from this MS in Pafford, pp. 192-4.
In Anguem, qui Lycorin dormientem amplexus est. Englished thus παραψρ (‘The Spring was come, and all the fields growne fine’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 28-34, following a Latin version beginning ‘Ver erat, & flores per apertum libera campum’.
RnT 138
Copy, headed ‘Of a Snake wch embrac'd Lycoris when she slept’.
In: the MS described under RnT 15 (RnT Δ 1). c.1630s-40s.
RnT 139
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a snake which did Imbrace Licoris as she slept’Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolphe’.
In: the MS described under RnT 16 (RnT Δ 5). c.1637.
RnT 140
Copy, following (ff. 51r-2r) the Latin version, subscribed ‘Tho: Rand:’.
In: the MS described under RnT 17 (RnT Δ 8). c. late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Day, p. 31.
RnT 141
Copy, headed ‘Englished thus’, subscribed Tho: Rand:, following (pp. 3-4) the Latin version.
In: the MS described under RnT 45 (RnT Δ 10). c.1630s.
In Archimedis Sphaeram ex Claudiano (‘Jove saw the Heavens fram'd in a little glasse’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 46.
RnT 142
Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.
In: the MS described under RnT 17 (RnT Δ 8). c. late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Day, p. 31.
RnT 143
Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolphe’.
In: the MS described under RnT 44 (RnT Δ 9). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Day, p. 32.
RnT 146
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed ‘In Sphæram Archimedis…Excellently translated by T. Randolph’, on one side of a single quarto leaf. c.1630s.
In auspicatissimas nuptias Nobilissimi Iuvenis Georgii Goringe (‘When I my serious thoughts had sett’)
First published in Alexander B. Grosart, ‘Literary-Finds in Trinity College, Dublin, and Elsewhere’, Englische Studien, 26 (1899), 1-19 (pp. 9-13). Thorn-Drury, pp. 151-6.
See also Introduction.
RnT 147
MS in the hand of a scribe, evidently the poet's presentation copy, of an epithalamium on the wedding of George Goring and Lettice Boyle, 25 July 1629, neatly written out on two folio leaves, now imperfect. [1629].
In: A composite volume of chiefly early 18th century printed squibs and broadsides.
Later owned by Sir William Betham, Ulster King of Arms (1779-1853). Sotheby's, 1 June 1854 (Betham sale), lot 159.
Edited from this MS in Grosart. Edited chiefly from this MS in Thorn-Drury and also in G.C. Moore Smith, ‘Randolph's Epithalamium to George Goring’, RES, 2 (1926), 146-51. A transcript made by George Thorn-Drury from Grosart's published text is in the Bodleian (Thorn-Drury e. 15, pp. 57-60).
RnT 148
Copy, headed ‘In Nuptias Geo. Goringe’, incomplete.
In: A quarto composite volume of verse, prose and dramatic MSS, in several hands, the second item (II) constituting an independent quire of six leaves containing copies of, or extracts from, 14 poems by Donne, in a single minute hand, c.160 leaves, in half-calf marbled boards. c.1630.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the ‘Emmanuel College MS’: DnJ Δ 65.
Edited in part from this MS in Moore Smith and in Thorn-Drury.
Emmanuel College, Cambridge, MS 68 (I. 3. 16), VI, ff. [25v-8r].
In corydonem & Corinnam. Paraphras'd (‘Ah wretch in thy Corinna's love unblest!’)
First published, following a Latin version beginning ‘Ah miser, & nullo felix in amore! Corinnam’, in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 98-9.
RnT 149
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 15 (RnT Δ 1). c.1630s-40s.
RnT 150
Copy, following the Latin version, subscribed ‘Tho: Rand.’
In: the MS described under RnT 17 (RnT Δ 8). c. late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Day, p. 31.
RnT 151
Copy, headed ‘Paraphras'd’, following (p. 118) the Latin version, both subscribed ‘T. R.’
In: the MS described under RnT 45 (RnT Δ 10). c.1630s.
In Diem Baptizationis Principis Caroli. Englished (‘Why att thy Christ'ening did it rayne deare Prince’)
First published, following a Latin version beginning ‘Inviditne tibi Tellus tua gaudia caelum’, in Day (1932), p. 35.
RnT 152
Copy, headed ‘Englished’, following the Latin version.
In: the MS described under RnT 15 (RnT Δ 1). c.1630s-40s.
RnT 153
Copy, following the Latin version.
In: the MS described under RnT 17 (RnT Δ 8). c. late 1630s.
Edited from this MS in Day.
RnT 154
Copy, following (pp. 90-1) the Latin version.
In: the MS described under RnT 45 (RnT Δ 10). c.1630s.
RnT 155
Copy, headed ‘On ye Princes Xning’.
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.
In Eandem Dystichon. Englished (‘By thy lookes Hecuba, Helen by thy songe’)
First published, following a Latin version beginning ‘Vox Hellenum, vultus Hecubam te Lesbia clamat’, in Day (1932), p. 35.
RnT 156
Copy, following the Latin version headed ‘In eanden Distcon’.
In: the MS described under RnT 15 (RnT Δ 1). c.1630s-40s.
RnT 157
Copy, following the Latin version, subscribed ‘Tho: R:’.
In: the MS described under RnT 17 (RnT Δ 8). c. late 1630s.
Edited from this MS in Day.
RnT 158
Copy, following the Latin version.
In: the MS described under RnT 44 (RnT Δ 9). c.1630s.
Edited from this MS in Dunlap, p. 267. Recorded in Day, p. 32.
RnT 159
Copy, subscribed ‘T: R.’, following the Latin version.
In: the MS described under RnT 45 (RnT Δ 10). c.1630s.
RnT 160
Copy, headed ‘Englished’, following the Latin version ‘In Eandem Dystichon’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.
In: the MS described under RnT 48. c.1630s.
In Lesbiam, & Histrionem (‘I wonder what should Madam Lesbia meane’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 42-4.
RnT 161
Copy, headed ‘In Lesbiam’, subscribed ‘Tho: Ran:’.
In: the MS described under RnT 15 (RnT Δ 1). c.1630s-40s.
RnT 161.5
Copy, headed ‘Englished’ and subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’, following the Latin version.
In: the MS described under RnT 1 (RnT Δ 7). c.1630s-40s.
RnT 162
Copy, headed ‘In Lesbiam’, subscribed ‘Tho: Rand:’.
In: the MS described under RnT 17 (RnT Δ 8). c. late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Day, p. 31.
In Natalem Augustissimi Principis Caroli. [Englished] (‘Thy first birth Mary was unto a tombe’)
First published, following a Latin version beginning ‘Prima tibi periit soboles (dilecta Maria)’, in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 78-9.
RnT 164
Copy, headed ‘englished’, following the Latin version headed ‘In Natalem Principis ad reginam mariam’.
In: the MS described under RnT 15 (RnT Δ 1). c.1630s-40s.
RnT 164.5
Copy, following the Latin version.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, including sixteen poems by Strode and one of doubtful authorship, in several hands, including a small mixed hand on ff. 2r-43v, cursive secretary hands thereafter, and Latin entries in italic at the reverse end, 139 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1630s.
A flyleaf inscribed ‘[?] Johannes Philips’. Acquired from H. Stevens 11 December 1852.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1987), as the ‘John Philips MS’: StW Δ 8.
RnT 165
Copy, headed ‘Englished’ and following the Latin version which is headed ‘In Natalem Principis ad Reginam Mariam’.
In: the MS described under RnT 17 (RnT Δ 8). c. late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Day, p. 31.
RnT 166
Copy, following the Latin version which is headed ‘In Natalem Principis ad Mariam Reginam’.
In: the MS described under RnT 45 (RnT Δ 10). c.1630s.
RnT 167
Copy, following the Latin version which is headed ‘To Queene Mary on the birth of her 2d sonne’.
In: the MS described under RnT 46. c.1630s-40s.
RnT 168
Copy, untitled, following the Latin version which is headed ‘In Eundem &c: T: R:’.
In: the MS described under RnT 30. c.1630s[-55].
In praise of Woemen in Generall (‘He is a Parricide to his mothers name’)
First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 141-3.
RnT 170.5
Copy, under a general heading ‘Randolphs Poems’.
In: the MS described under RnT 121.5. c.1712-27.
John Rylands University Library of Manchester, English MS 521, pp. 35-6.
A Letter to Ben. Johnson (‘Oh strange superfluous duty! who will add’)
Unpublished?
A Maske for Lydia (‘Sweet Lydia take this maske, and shroud’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 126-7.
RnT 172
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 118 (RnT Δ 3). Mid-17th century.
RnT 173
Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: R:’.
In: the MS described under RnT 17 (RnT Δ 8). c. late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Day, p. 32.
RnT 175
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 25 (RnT Δ 11). c.1635.
RnT 176
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several hands, written from both ends, 84 leaves, in contemporary calf. Probably compiled principally by an Oxford University man. c.1630s-40s.
Names inscribed on rear flyleaf and paste-down ‘Elizabeth hosman’ and ‘William Blois’.
RnT 177
Copy, untitled and subscribed ‘Tho. Randolph’.
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.
RnT 178
Copy of the first five lines, untitled.
In: An oblong octavo pocket commonplace book, comprising (f. 1r) ‘Poems / Characters / Proverbs / Sentences / Historicall Remarques / Tales’, in Latin, English and Greek, in perhaps two or more hands, probably associated with Cambridge University, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Including (on ff. 17-27, rectos only) portions of 17 English poems by Crashaw. Mid-17th century.
Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753).
Recorded in IELM as Sloane MS: CrR Δ 5. Crashaw's work collated in Martin (cited as S) and discussed p. lxxix.
Necessary observations (‘First worship God, he that forgets to pray’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 57-66.
RnT 179.2
Extract, from the first precept. Late 17th century.
In: An oblong octavo music part book (tenor), 63 leaves. c.1680-1750.
Once owned by Thomas and Mary Withen.
RnT 179.4
Extract, from the nineteenth precept. Late 17th century.
In: A duodecimo commonplace book of extracts, in English and Latin, written from both ends, 60 leaves, disbound. Owned and probably compiled by John Abbott (b.1653/4), of St John's College, Oxford. c.1670s.
RnT 179.6
A version of the nineteenth century precept. Late 17th century.
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. 62r.
RnT 179.8
A version of the nineteenth precept.
In: A duodecimo commonplace book of verse and prose, in a single hand. c.1680-90.
Inscribed, possibly by the compiler, ‘James Rhodes, 1680’. Later inscriptions by William Hamper (1776-1831), and ‘Lydia Anna Dobson Hamper. 1838. The gift of her dear father’.
RnT 180
Copy of precepts 1-17.
In: A quarto verse miscellany entitled A Collection of Verses Fancyes and Poems, Morrall and Devine, in a single hand, i + 180 leaves, (including index), in contemporary calf. Including 15 poems (and a second copy of one poem) by Cowley and 15 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source. Early 18th century.
Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as ‘Rawlinson MS II’: PsK Δ 7.
RnT 181
Copy of precepts 1-36, untitled, on three folio leaves, endorsed (f. 77v) ‘Instruccions’.
In: A folio composite volume of verse, in various hands and paper sizes, 87 leaves, in early 18th-century half calf.
RnT 181.5
Copy of 21 Precepts.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, chiefly translations of classical texts, predominantly in one clear hand up to p. 151, with additions in other hands over a period, written from both ends, 273 pages (plus a number of blanks), in half-calf marbled boards. Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 123, ff. 100r-4r.
An Ode to Mr. Anthony Stafford to hasten him into the Country (‘Come spurre away’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 79-82.
RnT 182
Copy, headed ‘An Ode, or an Incitation to the Countrie’.
In: the MS described under RnT 45 (RnT Δ 10). c.1630s.
RnT 183
Copy, headed ‘T. Randolphs Ode to Captaine Stafford, to hasten him into the Country’.
In: the MS described under RnT 25 (RnT Δ 11). c.1635.
RnT 184
Copy, headed ‘An Ode to Captaine Stafford to hasten him into ye Countrey’.
In: the MS described under RnT 72 (RnT Δ 12). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 110-14.
On a maide of honour seene by a schollar in sommerset garden (‘As once in blacke I disrespected walkt’)
First published in Hazlitt (1875), pp. 661-2. Thorn-Drury, pp. 169-70.
RnT 185
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 119.5. c.1630s [-1733].
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Thorn-Drury.
On Importunate Dunnes (‘Poxe take you all, from you my sorrowes swell’)
First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 131-4.
RnT 186
Copy, headed ‘Mr Randolph on his Dunn’.
In: the MS described under RnT 18 (RnT Δ 2). c.1640.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 187
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Cambridge donne’, subscribed ‘T Randolph’.
In: the MS described under RnT 16 (RnT Δ 5). c.1637.
RnT 188
Copy, headed ‘Randolph to his Creditors’.
In: the MS described under RnT 22 (RnT Δ 6). c.late 1630s.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury, pp. 185-6.
RnT 189
Copy, headed ‘Mr Thomas Randalls Expostulation wth his Credditors’.
In: the MS described under RnT 76. c.1638.
RnT 190
Copy, headed ‘Randolphs paying his Creditors’.
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.
RnT 191
Copy, headed ‘Randolphs Petition to his Creditors’.
In: the MS described under RnT 46. c.1630s-40s.
RnT 192
Copy, headed ‘Ide To his creditors 1633’.
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’.
RnT 193
Copy, headed ‘Randolphs payeing his Creditors’.
In: A miscellany of verse and prose, iii + 141 leaves. Compiled by Matthew Crosse, Oxford University bedell of law. c.1630s.
RnT 194
Copy, headed ‘T. Randolph to his Creditors. Or The Cambridge dunn’.
In: the MS described under RnT 47. c.1640s.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 195
Copy, headed ‘Thomas Randolph, on his Dun’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, in a single professional secretary hand associated with the playhouse and possibly inns of court (also responsible for ChG 12.5, HyT 5, and MiT 6), 97 leaves, with a first-line ‘Index’ at the end, in contemporary vellum boards. Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship). c.1636.
Inscribed (on the front paste-down) ‘My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire’ (following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Chute MS’: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, ‘Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).
This MS text (incorrectly cited as ‘A 10’ instead of ‘A 9’) collated in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 196
Copy, headed ‘Randolph's paying his creditours’.
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.
RnT 197
Copy, headed ‘Mr: Randolphes Petition to his Creditors’.
In: the MS described under RnT 31. c.1637.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 633.
RnT 198
Copy, headed ‘Tho: Randall to his Creditors’.
In: the MS described under RnT 102. c.1638.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), pp. 5-7.
RnT 200
Copy, headed ‘Randolps Dun or his petition to his Creditours’.
In: the MS described under RnT 14. c.1640.
RnT 201
Copy, headed ‘Randolph of Cambridge to his Creditors: 1633’.
In: the MS described under RnT 155. c.1650.
On Mr parson(s) Organist of Westminster Abbye (‘Death passing by, and hearing parsons play’)
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 415. Thorn-Drury, pp. 147-8.
See also Introduction.
RnT 202.5
Copy in: A folio composite volume of verse in Latin and English, some relating to Oxford, in various hands, 215 leaves, in contemporary quarter-calf gilt vellum boards. Early-mid-18th century.
RnT 202.8
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, 171 leaves, with an index, imperfect at the beginning, in contemporary calf (rebacked). Compiled by Colonel Gabriel Lepipre, being the ‘4th Vol’. of his compilations. c.1748-50s.
Donated in 1938 by F.F. Madan.
On Sr Robert Cotton the Antiquary (‘Posterity hath many fates bemoan'd’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 95.
RnT 203
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 25 (RnT Δ 11). c.1635.
On six maids bathing themselves in a River (‘When bashfull day-light now was gone’)
First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 138-40. Davis, pp. 56-62.
RnT 205
Copy, headed ‘Vpon 6: Wenches washing Them selues in Cambridge riuer. June 25: 1629’, subscribed ‘T: R:’.
In: the MS described under RnT 18 (RnT Δ 2). c.1640.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury and in Davis.
RnT 206
Copy, headed ‘One Six Cambridge Lasses Bathing themselues in a River and espied by a scholler’.
In: the MS described under RnT 16 (RnT Δ 5). c.1637.
RnT 207
Copy, headed ‘Vpon ye Bathing of six virgins sean by a yong gentleman’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, 49 leaves; in contemporary calf gilt. Including 14 poems by Carew; the main text (ff. 1r-27r) in a non-professional mixed hand of the 1630s (but for later scribbling); the remaining leaves filled by later hands; notes on family history from 1647 to 1664 on ff. 28r-9r. c.1630s[-75].
Inscribed on f. 29v ‘John Peverell Booke 1674’ and his name also on ff. 1r and 49r. Fol. 48v containing a receipt dated 30 June 1653 ‘by me Francis Blackitt of bro. William of Hoodcroft, Co. Durham’. Other names inside the front cover including ‘John Peves’ and ‘Railphe Hogwood’ and, inside the back cover, ‘James Portington’, ‘William Steadman 1675’, ‘Thomas Meeres’, ‘William Diton’ and ‘Ramond Swift’.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Peverell MS’: CwT Δ 9.
This MS collated in Davis.
RnT 208
Copy, headed ‘On 6 Cambridge Mayds, wch a Schollar saw washing ym selues by Q: Colledge’.
In: the MS described under RnT 120. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury and in Davis.
RnT 209
Copy, headed ‘On 6 Cambridge Maids bathing themselves by Queen's Coll: Jun. 15th. 1629. by T. Randph.’.
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.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 210
Copy, headed ‘Vpon 6 maides bathinge themselue[s] in Cambridge riuer’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several small non-professional hands, 88 leaves, imperfect at the beginning. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury and in Davis.
RnT 211
Copy, headed ‘On sixe Cambridge lasses Bathinge themselfes by queenes colledge on the 25th of Iune at night and espied by a scholer’, subscribed ‘T: Randolph’, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves. c.1629.
Formerly MSS 3.19. Acquired in May 1964.
Edited from this MS in Davis. Facsimiles in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 43-4, where it is doubtfully argued that the MS is in Randolph's own hand; and in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), pp. 242-3. The second page also reproduced in Manuscripts, 26, No. 2 (Spring 1974), inside the cover.
RnT 212
Copy, headed ‘Vpon 6 Cambridge Lasses bathing themselues in a riuer, and espied by a Schollar’.
In: the MS described under RnT 110. c.1681.
On the Death of a Nightingale (‘Goe solitary wood, and henceforth be’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 93.
RnT 213
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 118 (RnT Δ 3). Mid-17th century.
RnT 214
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 25 (RnT Δ 11). c.1635.
On the Fall of the Mitre Tavern in Cambridge (‘Lament, lament, ye Scholars all’)
First published in Wit & Drollery (London, 1656), p. 68. Thorn-Drury, pp. 160-2.
RnT 215
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 22 (RnT Δ 6). c.late 1630s.
RnT 216
Copy in: A quarto composite volume of papers of Sir Thomas Browne (1605-82) and his son Edward (1644-1708), 112 leaves. Late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 217
Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’, in a verse miscellany (ff. 267r-73v) compiled by an Oxford University man. c.1630.
In: A quarto composite volume of tracts and other papers, in verse and prose, 349 leaves, in half-calf. Copy, headed ‘An other lre from Sr Thomas Wiatte the elder to his sonne oute of Spaine aboute the same tyme’.
This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 218
Copy, headed ‘The Down-fall of the Miter’.
In: the MS described under RnT 27. c.1640s.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 220
Copy, headed ‘T.R. on ye fall of ye Miter’.
In: the MS described under RnT 120. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 221
This MS in the same hand as RnT 220.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single neat predominantly italic hand, 72 leaves, in old leather. Probably compiled by one ‘H.S.’, a Cambridge man. c.1640s-50s.
Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector, with his bookplate and inscription ‘1806 Purchased of Lansdown of Bristol’. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 192.
This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 222
Copy, in a secretary hand, imperfect and lacking a heading, on the first page of two heavily cut-down conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter. c.1620s.
In: A folio composite volume of state, literary and family papers and speeches, in various hands and paper sizes, 93 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco. Papers principally of the Boteler family, of Biddenham, Bedfordshire, and of the family of John Hampden, MP (1595-1643), politician, of Great Hampden, Buckinghamshire.
Volume DLXXXIII 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.
RnT 222.5
Copy, headed ‘The Downfall of the Mitre Tavern, Cambridge, or the sinking therof into the Cellar’. Mid-17th century.
In: A folio volume of miscellaneous papers in Latin and English, 125 leaves, with an index in the hand of Charles Burney.
RnT 223
Copy, subscribed in another hand ‘Tho: Randalgh’.
In: the MS described under RnT 210. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 224
Copy, headed ‘On the burning of the Signe of the Mitre in Cambridge’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany in several hands, written from both ends, 46 leaves, in contemporary calf. Mid-17th century.
Inscribed names (on front paste-down and f. 1r) of ‘Fra: Norreys’ (? Sir Francis Norris (1609-69)) and ‘Hen. Balle’. Purchased from J. Harvey 8 December 1877.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 226
Copy, headed ‘Vpon ye fall of the mitre’, subscribed ‘T. Randolph’.
In: the MS described under RnT 28. c.1653-60s.
RnT 227
Copy, headed ‘On the Downfall of the Miter Taverne in Cambridg by T.R.’.
In: A quarto composite miscellany of poems and songs, the greater part in a single cursive hand, 35 leaves, in modern cloth. c.1692.
RnT 227.5
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Vppon the ffall of part of the Miter taverne in Cambridge standinge over a Cellr’, on one of six folio and quarto leaves of verse. c.1630s.
In: A collection of unbound letters and documents.
Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 2717, Item 9, f. 5r-v.
RnT 228
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the fall of the Miter tauerne in Cambridge’.
In: the MS described under RnT 196. c.1640.
RnT 229
Copy, headed ‘Mr Randolph upon the fall of the Miter’.
In: A small octavo volume of Latin orations made at the University of Cambridge, in two or more small hands, 154 pages, written from both ends, in contemporary calf gilt (lacking front cover). Mid-17th century.
Inscribed ‘Ex dono Johannis Yate...anno domini 1651’ and ‘Ex dono Francisci Stringer’.
RnT 230
Copy, headed ‘On ye fall of ye Miter. T Rand’.
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).
RnT 231
Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, headed ‘Hospitiu Mytræ cadul Cantab’.
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.
RnT 232
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in probably two or more secretary hands, 108 pages, in half brown morocco. Mid-17th century.
Later owned by F.W. Cosens (1819-89). Bookplate of James W. Ellsworth.
RnT 233
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Myter tauerne, at Cambridge’.
In: the MS described under RnT 12. c.1640s.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 653.
RnT 234
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed ‘Verses on ye Mitre Taverne in Cambridge &.’, with side-notes and glosses, on one side of a small, mutilated quarto leaf. c.1633-5.
In: A collection of unbound state papers, now in folders. c.1628.
Donated in 1921 by Dr J. R. Tanner.
This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 236
Copy 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.
RnT 236.5
Copy in: An octavo miscellany, possibly compiled by one Ralph Parr. 17th century?
Later owned by the Rev. John Brand (1744-1806), antiquary and topographer, and by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 May 1897 (Phillipps sale), lot 238.
Untraced, Phillipps MS, [no shelfmark], [unspecified page numbers].
On the Inestimable Content He Injoyes in the Muses, To those of his Friends that dehort him from Poetry (‘Goe sordid earth, and hope not to bewitch’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 23-8.
RnT 238
Copy, ascribed to ‘T. R.’
In: the MS described under RnT 18 (RnT Δ 2). c.1640.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 239
Copy, subscribed ‘TR’.
In: the MS described under RnT 16 (RnT Δ 5). c.1637.
Facsimiles of f. 9v in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 21 July 1988, lot 18, and in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 241.
RnT 240
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 22 (RnT Δ 6). c.late 1630s.
RnT 242
Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.
In: the MS described under RnT 17 (RnT Δ 8). c. late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Day, p. 31.
RnT 243
Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.
In: the MS described under RnT 44 (RnT Δ 9). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Day, p. 32.
RnT 248
Copy, headed ‘Thomas Randolph of yt Inestimable Content he enioyes in the Muses, to those of his Freinds yt dehort him fro Poetry’.
In: the MS described under RnT 230. c.late 1630s.
On the losse of his Finger (‘How much more blest are trees then men’)
First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 135-6.
RnT 250
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 118 (RnT Δ 3). Mid-17th century.
On the Passion of Christ (‘What rends the temples vail, where is day gone?’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 57. This poem is the ‘Englished’ version of Latin verses beginning ‘Quid templum abscindit? quo luxque diesque recessit’, printed in Thorn-Drury, pp. 178-9.
RnT 252
Copy, following the Latin version headed ‘In Ecclipsin solis Christo Patienti contingente’ and beginning ‘Quid Templum abscindit’.
In: the MS described under RnT 15 (RnT Δ 1). c.1630s-40s.
RnT 253
Second copy, headed ‘Ecclips solis’ and without the Latin verses.
In: the MS described under RnT 15 (RnT Δ 1). c.1630s-40s.
RnT 254
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Good Fryday’, subscribed ‘T: R:’.
In: the MS described under RnT 18 (RnT Δ 2). c.1640.
RnT 255
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Eclips of the Sun when Christ suffered’, subscribed ‘T R.’.
In: the MS described under RnT 16 (RnT Δ 5). c.1637.
RnT 256
Copy, headed ‘Englished’ and preceded by the Latin version headed ‘In Eclipsem Solis Christo Patienti Contingentem’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.
In: the MS described under RnT 1 (RnT Δ 7). c.1630s-40s.
RnT 257
Copy, headed ‘Englished’ and preceded (f. 44r-v) by the Latin version headed ‘In Eclipsem solis, christo patienti Contingentem’.
In: the MS described under RnT 17 (RnT Δ 8). c. late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Day, p. 31.
RnT 258
Copy, headed ‘On the Ecclipse of the Sunne at Christs Suffering’.
In: the MS described under RnT 46. c.1630s-40s.
RnT 260
Copy, headed ‘Englished’, preceded (f. 74v) by the Latin versions headed ‘In diem passionis’, and subscribed ‘Tho. Ran.’
In: the MS described under RnT 177. c.1640s.
The Latin verses edited from this MS in Thorn-Drury, pp. 178-9.
A Paraeneticon to the truly noble Gentleman Mr. Endymion Porter (‘Goe bashfull Muse, thy message is to one’)
First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 136-7.
RnT 261
Copy, headed ‘To Mr Endimion Porter’, subscribed ‘T. Rand:’.
In: the MS described under RnT 36 (RnT Δ 4). c.1650-9.
RnT 262
Copy, headed ‘A New yeares Guift’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany chiefly of verse, in one or more secretary hands, with a few later additions in other hands, 29 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt. c.1665.
Paraphras'd (‘Ah wretch in thy Corinna's love unblest!’)
See RnT 149-151.
A parley with his empty Purse (‘Purse, who'l not know you have a Poets been’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 127-8.
RnT 263
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 25 (RnT Δ 11). c.1635.
RnT 265
Copy, headed ‘On an Empty Purse’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randall’.
In: the MS described under RnT 85. c.1630s [-1670s].
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 266
Copy, headed ‘Mr Randolphs vses vpon his empty purse’.
In: the MS described under RnT 9. c.1640s.
A Pastorall Courtship (‘Behold these woods, and mark my Sweet’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 109-15. Davis, pp. 77-91.
RnT 267
Copy, headed ‘A Pastorall: T: R.’
In: the MS described under RnT 18 (RnT Δ 2). c.1640.
This MS collated in part in Thorn-Drury and also in Davis.
RnT 267.5
Extracts from Randolph's poem, line 17 et seq., adapted into a 34-line poem headed ‘Louers’ and beginning ‘Ith Bosome of this groue lets lye’
In: the MS described under RnT 176. c.1630s-40s.
RnT 268
Copy, with four lines deleted and added later in a different hand.
In: the MS described under RnT 118 (RnT Δ 3). Mid-17th century.
RnT 269
Copy, headed ‘A pastoral’.
In: the MS described under RnT 22 (RnT Δ 6). c.late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury; collated in Davis.
RnT 270
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 25 (RnT Δ 11). c.1635.
RnT 271
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 76. c.1638.
This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury; collated in Davis.
RnT 272
Copy, headed ‘The pastorall courtshipp or a louers inuitation’.
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.
This MS recorded in Davis.
RnT 273
Copy, imperfect.
In: the MS described under RnT 120. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury; collated in Davis.
RnT 274
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 47. c.1640s.
This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury. Collated in Davis.
RnT 275
Copy of the last four lines (here beginning ‘Shall talke my shame, break, break my heart’), imperfect, lacking all the first part.
In: the MS described under RnT 210. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Davis.
RnT 276
Copy, divided into two parts, the first headed ‘The pastorall courtshippe’, the second headed ‘The continuation of the Pastorall courtshippe where wee left oft’ and subscribed ‘Incerti Authori’.
In: the MS described under RnT 224. Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Davis.
RnT 277
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 85. c.1630s [-1670s].
This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury; collated in Davis.
RnT 278
Copy, headed ‘Tom Randolphs pastorall’.
In: the MS described under RnT 8. c.late 1630s [-1789].
A Pastoral Ode (‘Coy Coelia dost thou see’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 86-7.
RnT 283
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 118 (RnT Δ 3). Mid-17th century.
RnT 284
Copy, headed ‘A Madrigall’.
In: the MS described under RnT 17 (RnT Δ 8). c. late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Day, p. 32.
RnT 286
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 25 (RnT Δ 11). c.1635.
RnT 287
Copy, in a musical setting by George Jeffreys, headed ‘Song ‘Coy Caelia’’.
In: the MS described under RnT 65. c. 1662.
This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 288
Copy, headed ‘A Madrigall’, subscribed ‘Thomas Randolph’.
In: the MS described under RnT 119.5. c.1630s [-1733].
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 586.
RnT 290
Copy, in a musical setting by Edmund Chilmeade, headed ‘Sheapherd’, with an additional passage of reply and a Chorus.
In: the MS described under RnT 5. c.1654-70s.
This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury.
The second Epod: of Horace translated (‘Happy the man which farre from city care’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 49-51.
RnT 291
Copy, probably transcribed from a printed source.
In: A duodecimo notebook and miscellany, entitled (f. [1r]) ‘Vade mecum or A Pocket-Booke’, ii + 84 leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled by John Gibson (1630-1711), of Welburn, near Kirkby Moorside, North Yorkshire, and in his minute hand throughout. c.1665-78.
Inscribed (f. [iir]) ‘Joseph King / Lewes Sussex / Sept 30 1834 to Mr S.B. Williams’.
Formerly Broxbourne R 359.
A Song (‘Musick thou Queene of soules, get up and string’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 87.
RnT 292
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 118 (RnT Δ 3). Mid-17th century.
RnT 294
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 25 (RnT Δ 11). c.1635.
RnT 295
Copy, headed ‘Mr. Randolph in Comendation of Musick’.
In: the MS described under RnT 190. Mid-17th century.
RnT 296
Copy, in a musical setting by George Jeffreys, untitled.
In: the MS described under RnT 65. c. 1662.
This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 297
Copy in: A sextodecimo pocket miscellany, ff. 3r-53r in a single hand, other hands and scribbling on ff. 1r-2r, 54v, 87v-90v, 90 leaves in all (including blanks ff. 55r-87r), in contemporary calf, with remains of clasps. Including 12 poems by Carew. c.1650s.
Inscribed ‘Richard Archard his booke Amen 1650’; ‘Richard Archard his penn Amen 1657’; ‘to Mr Satars[?] towads the Casting of ye lead 1657’; ‘Tho: Wise’; ‘John Smith of halmortaine and I…went to Thornebury’; and ‘Edward Watt’. Bookplate of William Harris Arnold.
Cited in IELM, II.i, as the ‘Archard MS’: CwT Δ 24.
RnT 298
Copies, in a musical setting by ‘Mr Caeser’ [i.e. William Caesar (fl.1615-67)].
In: A set of four oblong duodecimo music part books, (i) Cantus Primus, (ii) Cantus Secundus, (iii) Bassus and (iv) Basso Continuo, each written from both ends, compiled by John Playford (1623-86?), 50, 36, 48, and 35 leaves respectively, each volume in limp vellum lettered ‘I. P.’. Leaves excised from these volumes are in the Folger, MS V.a.411 (five leaves) and (nine leaves) at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (Halliwell-Phillipps, Shakespearean scrapbooks). c.1660.
A flyleaf in the Cantus Secundus part book inscribed ‘Decemb. 30. 1674. Note that I Thomas Clifford bought this sett of Musick Books of Mr Richard Price's widow Mrs Dorothy Price for --7s--6d’.
University of Glasgow, MS Euing R.d.58-61, (i) f. 19v; (ii) f. 18v; (iii) f. 21v; (iv) f. 19v.
RnT 299
Copy, untitled.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several hands, showing communal use, 161 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.
Formerly Chest II, No. 21.
The Song of Discord (‘Let Linus and Amphions lute’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 87.
RnT 300
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 15 (RnT Δ 1). c.1630s-40s.
RnT 301
Copy, headed ‘Discord’.
In: the MS described under RnT 118 (RnT Δ 3). Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 303
Copy, subscribed ‘T: R:’.
In: the MS described under RnT 17 (RnT Δ 8). c. late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Day, p. 31.
RnT 304
Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.
In: the MS described under RnT 44 (RnT Δ 9). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Day, p. 32.
RnT 306
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 25 (RnT Δ 11). c.1635.
The Song of Orpheus (‘Haile sacred Deserts, whom kind nature made’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 125.
RnT 309
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 25 (RnT Δ 11). c.1635.
To a Painted Mistresse (‘There are who know what once to day it was’)
First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 137-8.
To his well Timbred Mistresse (‘Sweet, heard you not fames latest breath rehearse’)
First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, p. 138.
To Mr. Feltham on his booke of Resolves (‘In this unconstant Age when all mens minds’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 75-8.
RnT 311.5
Copy of the last four lines, beginning ‘'Mongst thy Resolves, take my Resolves in too’.
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.
To Mr. J. S. on his Gratefull Servant (‘I cannot fulminate or tonitruate words’)
First published in James Shirley, The Gratefull Servant (London, 1630). Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, p. 143.
RnT 312
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 118 (RnT Δ 3). Mid-17th century.
To one admiring her selfe in a Looking-Glasse (‘Faire Lady when you see the Grace’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 99-100.
RnT 314
Copy, headed ‘On his Mistresse admiring herselfe in a lookinglasse’, subscribed ‘T: R.’
In: the MS described under RnT 18 (RnT Δ 2). c.1640.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 315
Copy, headed ‘To his mistresse praysing ye reflection of her beautye in a looking glasse’, subscribed ‘Thomas Randolph’.
In: the MS described under RnT 119.5. c.1630s [-1733].
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 600.
To one Overhearing his private discourse (‘I wonder not my Laeda farre can see’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 88.
RnT 317
Copy, headed ‘To Mr Swan overhearing his private discourse’.
In: the MS described under RnT 16 (RnT Δ 5). c.1637.
RnT 318
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 25 (RnT Δ 11). c.1635.
To that complete and noble Knight Sir Kenellam Digby (‘Sir, when I look on you, methinks I see’)
First published in The Jealous Lovers (Cambridge, 1632). Hazlitt, I, 57-8.
RnT 319
Copy, headed ‘Randolphs verses to Sr. Kellam Digby’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat predominantly italic hand, occupying ff. 25r-79v, the second of three independent MSS in different hands (including extracts from Hayward's Henry IV and from Sir Edwin Sandys, and parliamentary proceedings 1623/4), in a composite volume, 141 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt. The verse miscellany, including an Index (ff. 78v-9v), is compiled by John Holles (1595-1666), second Earl of Clare. Mid-17th century.
To the truly noble Knight Sir Chr. Hatton (‘To you (whose recreations, sir, might be’)
First published in The Jealous Lovers (Cambridge, 1632). Hazlitt, I, 58-9.
RnT 320
Copy, headed ‘Randolphs verses to Sr. Christopher Hatton’.
In: the MS described under RnT 319. Mid-17th century.
To the Vertuous and noble Lady, the Lady Cotton (‘Tis not to force more teares from your sad eye’)
First published in Parentalia spectatissimo Rolando Cottono (London, 1635), sig. E2. Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 89.
RnT 321
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 25 (RnT Δ 11). c.1635.
To Time (‘Why should we not accuse thee of a crime’)
First published in Moore Smith (1925), pp. 254-5. Thorn-Drury, p. 163.
RnT 323
Copy, headed ‘Against Time’.
In: the MS described under RnT 36 (RnT Δ 4). c.1650-9.
Edited from this MS in Moore Smith and in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 324
Second copy, headed ‘To Time’, subscribed ‘T: R.’
In: the MS described under RnT 36 (RnT Δ 4). c.1650-9.
RnT 324.5
Copy 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.
RnT 325
Copy, headed ‘Against Time’.
In: the MS described under RnT 17 (RnT Δ 8). c. late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Day, p. 32.
TR upon his dead ffreinds picture (‘George, in this peice something like thee I spie’)
First published in Moore Smith (1925), pp. 249-50. Thorn-Drury, p. 158.
RnT 327
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 18 (RnT Δ 2). c.1640.
Edited from this MS in Moore Smith and in Thorn-Drury.
Upon a very deformed Gentlewoman, but of a voice incomparably sweet (‘I chanc'd sweet Lesbia's voice to heare’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 115-17. Davis, pp. 92-105.
RnT 329
Copy, headed ‘Vpon ye hearing of a deformed Woman, sing sweetly. T: R’.
In: the MS described under RnT 18 (RnT Δ 2). c.1640.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury and in Davis.
RnT 330
Copy, headed ‘On a deform'd Gentle woman wth a sweet voice’.
In: the MS described under RnT 118 (RnT Δ 3). Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 331
Copy, headed ‘On a deformed gentlewoman yt had a sweet voyce’.
In: the MS described under RnT 22 (RnT Δ 6). c.late 1630s.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury and in Davis.
RnT 333
Copy, headed ‘On a very deformed gentlewoeman, but of a voice incomparably sweete’, subscribed ‘Tho: Rand:’.
In: the MS described under RnT 17 (RnT Δ 8). c. late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Day, p. 31, and in Davis.
RnT 334
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 44 (RnT Δ 9). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Day, p. 32, and in Davis; collated in Dunlap, p. 266.
RnT 335
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 45 (RnT Δ 10). c.1630s.
RnT 336
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman deformed yt sung exquisitely’.
In: the MS described under RnT 72 (RnT Δ 12). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 35-8.
RnT 337
Copy, headed ‘On A Gentlewoman that had A most Excellent sweet Voyce; but A most Ouglye deformed face’.
In: the MS described under RnT 76. c.1638.
This MS collated in Davis.
RnT 339
Copy, headed ‘On a deformed Gentlewoman that Sange well’.
In: the MS described under RnT 272. c.1638.
This MS collated in Davis.
RnT 340
Copy, headed ‘On A Lady of incomparable Sweet voice But very deformed’ and here beginning ‘Sweet Lesbias voice I chanc'd to hear’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, probably associated with Cambridge University, ii + 78 pages, in contemporary vellum. c.1625-31.
Inscribed (p. i) ‘Ex dono B. R. ao Jni. i625 [altered to i631] / Broughton / Thomas Gray’.
This MS collated in Davis.
RnT 341
Copy, headed ‘On a deformed Gentlewoman yt sunge exquisitely’ and subscribed ‘Dr Lewis’ [i.e. Dr William Lewis, Provost of Oriel College, Oxford].
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in two or more hands, 95 leaves (plus blanks), including two ‘Indexes’, in contemporary vellum. Compiled by an Oxford University man, possibly a member of St John's College. c.1634-43.
A receipt (f. 104r) by John Weston recording payment from his ‘brother Ed: Weston’, 3 May 1714. The name ‘John Saunders’ inscribed on the final leaf.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury and in Davis.
RnT 342
Copy, headed ‘On a deformed Gentlewoma with a sweet Voyce’, subscribed ‘TR.’
In: the MS described under RnT 176. c.1630s-40s.
This MS recorded in Davis.
RnT 343
Copy, headed ‘On a woeman of an excellent voice and bad face’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.
In: the MS described under RnT 119.5. c.1630s [-1733].
This MS collated in Davis.
RnT 344
Copy, headed ‘Randolphe, when he heard one singe extemporanea, made these verses’.
In: the MS described under RnT 120. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury and in Davis.
RnT 345
Copy in: A small octavo verse miscellany, written from both ends, predominantly in a single hand in variant styles (ff. 1v-79v, 80r, 88v-96v, 119r-117r rev.), with additions in later hands (ff. 97r-104v, 116v-106r rev.), 164 leaves, in modern half red morocco. Inscribed (f. 1v, in a court hand) ‘Daniell Leare his Booke’, ‘witnesse William Strode’, and (f. 164r) ‘Mr Daniell Leare eius Liber’: i.e. compiled chiefly by Daniel Leare, a distant cousin of the poet William Strode, probably at Christ Church, Oxford, before he entered the Middle Temple in 1633. c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This suggestion, by Mary Hobbs, is supported by entries in the Caution Book of 1625-41 at Christ Church, where Strode is found (p. 22) paying £10 as college security for Leare and where Leare signs (p. 23) on this sum's repayment by Dr Fell on 13 May 1633. Forey suggests (p. lxxix) that he was the Daniell Leare of St Andrews, Holburne, whose will was proved in 1652; but it is more likely that he was the Daniel Leare to whom Henry King, Dean of Rochester, leased property at Chatham on 19 July 1655 (National Archives, Kew, SP 18/99/61). Daniel Leare's wife, Dorothy, was a member of the Hubert family with whom King was associated by virtue of the marriage of his sister Dorothy.
The volume includes 12 poems by Donne; 15 poems (plus a second copy of one and three of doubtful authorship) by Carew; 20 poems (plus two of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; and 84 poems (plus second copies of eight poems, four poems of doubtful authorship and some apocryphal poems) by Strode, the texts being closely related to, and in part probably transcribed from, the ‘Corpus MS’ of Strode's poems (StW Δ 1).
Inscribed also ‘John Leare’ (probably Daniel's younger brother); (f. 1r) ‘Anthony Euans his booke’ (who married Daniel Leare's niece Dorothy Leare in 1663); (f. 1v) ‘Alexander Croke his Book 1773’; and (f. 164v) ‘John Scott’ (who matriculated at Christ Church in 1632). Rimell & Son, 9 November 1878.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Leare MS’: DnJ Δ 41, CwT Δ 15, CoR Δ 4, and StW Δ 10.
Discussed in Mary Hobbs, An Edition of the Stoughton Manuscript (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1973), pp. 185-90; in her ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 189-90); and in her Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), passim, with facsimile examples of ff. 79-80 facing p. 87.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury and in Davis.
RnT 346
Copy, headed ‘On an vnhandsome Gentlewoman, that sang very sweetly’ and here beginning ‘Sweet Lesbia's voice I chanc'd to heare’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, written from both ends, 192 leaves (including blanks), in old brown calf. Compiled, over a period, principally by Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), Chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford, and Henry King's amanuensis, including (ff. 7r-61r) 24 poems by King in Manne's formal hand, written c.1625-30s; ff. 61v-72v, 73r-99v, 100r-101v written in a variant style of Manne's hand, c.1630s; and (ff. 72v, 99v, 102r-14v, 190v-169r rev.) additions in six other hands, c.1630s-44, with (ff. 75r, 76r, and 76v) three poems to which the subscription ‘R. Dorset’ is added in the hand of King himself. c.1625-46.
Inscribed (f. 190v rev.) ‘Ann Littleton’. Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue, [June 1848], p. 31. Sotheby's, 4 Februry 1850 (Rodd sale), lot 500, to James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps] (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Afterward owned by the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector. Sotheby's, 25 June 1873 (Corser sale), lot 325, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Later owned by the bookdealer Philip Robinson. Sotheby's, 26 June 1974, lot 3013, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Thomas Manne MS’: KiH Δ 7. Used in Crum. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).
RnT 347
Copy, headed ‘Upon a mayde that would singe well & had a deformed face’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolgh’.
In: the MS described under RnT 210. c.1630s-40s.
RnT 348
Copy, headed ‘On a ffrench woman, one of the Qeenes Chapple vgly in face but, incomparable in voice’.
In: the MS described under RnT 224. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury; collated in Davis.
RnT 349
Copy, headed ‘On a deformed Gentlewoman that had a good voice’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in Latin and English, one cursive hand predominating, 69 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half black crushed morocco. c.1630s.
Inscribed (f. 62r) ‘Nathaniel Heighmore’: i.e. presumably Nathaniel Highmore (1613-85), chemical physician and anatomist; ‘John Sacheverell his hand and pen Amen’; and ‘John Sacheverell the Author of this...’.
This MS collated in Davis.
RnT 350
Copy, headed ‘On a French woeman attendinge the Queene, vglie in shape, but incomparable in her voice’ and here beginning ‘Sweet Lesbia's voice I chanc'd to heere’, suscribed ‘Tho: Randolphe’.
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 Thorn-Drury; collated in Davis.
RnT 351
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman of the Queenes Chappell vggly in face but incomparable in voice’.
In: the MS described under RnT 8. c.late 1630s [-1789].
This MS recorded in Davis.
RnT 351.5
Copy, on a leaf (f. 9r-v) extracted from an octavo verse miscellany which is now Folger MS V.a.96.
In: A quarto-size guardbook of miscellaneous printed and MS leaves, 65 pages, in 19th-century half crushed morocco on marbled boards.
Owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of Warwick Castle Library.
RnT 352
Copy, headed ‘On a deformed Gentlewoman having a sweet voyce’.
In: the MS described under RnT 230. c.late 1630s.
RnT 353
Copy in double columns, headed ‘Tho: Randolph upon A Sweet voice butt bad facd woman’.
In: the MS described under RnT 31. c.1637.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 617.
RnT 354
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the French Woman with the hard face that singes in Masques at Court’.
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.
RnT 355
Copy, headed ‘Vpon an Incomparable foule lady that had a very sweet voyce’.
In: the MS described under RnT 232. Mid-17th century.
RnT 356
Copy, headed ‘On a very deformed Gentlewoman havinge a voyce incomparable sweet’.
In: the MS described under RnT 11. c.1634.
RnT 357
Copy, headed ‘On a good voyce and a bad face’.
In: the MS described under RnT 88. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 23 (James 416), ff. 50r-1v.
RnT 358
Copy, in a cursive predominantly italic hand, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.
In: A folio volume of 121 poems by Donne and his Paradoxes and Problems, in a probably professional, predominantly italic hand (the scribe also probably responsible for the Dublin MS (I) (Trinity College, Dublin, MS 877); some poems by others added at the end (pp. 239-50) in other hands, 250 pages. c.1623-5.
Owned in the mid-late 17th century by ‘E. Puckering’ (signed f. 1r), probably a man but possibly Elizabeth (d.1689), wife of Sir Henry Newton (afterwards Puckering) (1618-1701), by whose bequest the MS came to Trinity College in 1691 (this Lady Elizabeth being the daughter of Thomas Murray (1564-1623), tutor to Prince Charles).
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Puckering MS, DnJ Δ 13. A note by Henry Bradshaw states that this MS was collated in 1861 and 1863 by the Rev. T.R. O' Flahertie (d.1894), of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector.
This MS collated in Fredson T. Bowers, ‘A Possible Randolph Holograph’, The Library, 4th Ser. 20 (1939-40), 159-62, with a facsimile of p. 246 facing p. 164. Also collated in Davis. Facsimile in Georges Borias, ‘Randolph's Praeludium’, Cahiers Elisabéthains, 29 (1986), 53-76 (after p. 54).
Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R. 3. 12 (James 592), pp. 244-6.
RnT 359
Copy, headed ‘One a very deformed creature hauinge a voyce vncomparable sweet’.
In: the MS described under RnT 14. c.1640.
Upon his Picture (‘When age hath made me what I am not now’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 79.
RnT 361
Copy, headed ‘Verses made upon his owne Picture’, subscribed ‘T R.’.
In: the MS described under RnT 16 (RnT Δ 5). c.1637.
RnT 362
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 72 (RnT Δ 12). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], p. 89.
RnT 364
Copy, headed ‘On his Picture by Randolph’.
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.
RnT 365
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 210. c.1630s-40s.
RnT 366
Copy, headed ‘Mr Randolf vpon his picture’.
In: the MS described under RnT 10. c.1643-50s.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, f. 45r.
Upon Hobson the Carrier (‘Charon take Hobsons ghost and let it passe’)
First published in Moore Smith (1927), p. 112. Thorn-Drury, p. 159.
RnT 368
Copy, headed ‘T. R.’
In: the MS described under RnT 18 (RnT Δ 2). c.1640.
Edited from this MS in Moore Smith and in Thorn-Drury.
Upon the losse of his little finger (‘Arithmetique nine digits, and no more’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 56-7.
RnT 369
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the losse of a finger’, subscribed ‘T. R’.
In: the MS described under RnT 18 (RnT Δ 2). c.1640.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 370
Copy, headed ‘Randolph on his finger cut off’.
In: the MS described under RnT 118 (RnT Δ 3). Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 371
Copy, headed ‘Verses made by Mr Randolph when his finger was cut of’.
In: the MS described under RnT 16 (RnT Δ 5). c.1637.
RnT 372
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 22 (RnT Δ 6). c.late 1630s.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 373
Copy, headed ‘Randall on ye losse of a finger’.
In: the MS described under RnT 1 (RnT Δ 7). c.1630s-40s.
RnT 374
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the losse of a Finger’, with a Latin subscription (‘Quam miser est…’) added in a different ink, subscribed ‘Th: R:’.
In: the MS described under RnT 45 (RnT Δ 10). c.1630s.
RnT 375
Copy, headed ‘T. Randolph vpon the loss of his little finger that was cut of’.
In: the MS described under RnT 25 (RnT Δ 11). c.1635.
RnT 376
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 72 (RnT Δ 12). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 6-7.
RnT 377
Copy, headed ‘Mr Randolph on ye losse of his litle finger cutt off’.
In: the MS described under RnT 26. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 380
Copy, headed ‘Randulph of Cambridge one his litle finger’.
In: the MS described under RnT 192. c.1620s-30s.
RnT 381
Copy, headed ‘Randol vpon ye Losse of his finger’.
In: the MS described under RnT 207. c.1630s[-75].
RnT 382
Copy, headed ‘On ye losse of a finger in a fray’, subscribed ‘Thomas Randolph’.
In: the MS described under RnT 119.5. c.1630s [-1733].
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 383
Copy, headed ‘One upon ye losse of his finger’, the poem followed by a Latin translation beginning ‘Ter ternes tantum numerandi novimus arte’.
In: the MS described under RnT 324.5. c.1630s.
This MS (the English poem) collated in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 384
Copy, headed ‘On the lose of a finger or a Thumbe’.
In: the MS described under RnT 345. c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 385
Copy, headed ‘Thomas Randalgh vpon the losse of his finger’.
In: the MS described under RnT 210. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 387
Copy, headed ‘Tho: Randolph on the loss of one of his fingers’.
In: the MS described under RnT 349. c.1630s.
RnT 388
Copy, headed ‘Randolls verses on the Losse of his finger’.
In: the MS described under RnT 350. c.1633.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 389
Copy, headed ‘Randolph on the losse of his little finger that was cut of’.
In: the MS described under RnT 196. c.1640.
RnT 390
Copy, headed ‘Epigram made by Thomas Randolphe on the losse of his Little ffinger’.
In: the MS described under RnT 9. c.1640s.
RnT 391
Copy, headed ‘Randolph, on ye losse of his litle finger, that was cut of’.
In: the MS described under RnT 230. c.late 1630s.
RnT 392
Copy, headed ‘Randolls verses of the losse of his finger’.
In: the MS described under RnT 354. c.1630s.
RnT 392.5
Copy, headed ‘Upon one that had lost his little finger’.
In: the MS described under RnT 181.5. Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 123, pp. 99-100.
RnT 393
Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, headed ‘A lost finger’.
In: the MS described under RnT 231.
RnT 394
Copy, headed ‘Th: Randall on ye loss of his litle finger’, incomplete.
In: the MS described under RnT 232. Mid-17th century.
RnT 395
Copy, headed ‘Mr Randolph one the losse of his little finger cutt off’.
In: the MS described under RnT 11. c.1634.
RnT 396
Copy, headed ‘By Th: Randall on ye losse of his finger’.
In: the MS described under RnT 135. c.1636-40s.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 397
Copy, headed ‘R: cutting off his own finger,’ on a single folio leaf.
In: A collection of papers of Lord Bagot, of Blithfield Hall, and his family. Mid-17th century.
Staffordshire Record Office, D 1721/3/246, [unnumbered item].
RnT 398
Copy, headed ‘On ye Losse of a finger’ and subscribed ‘T: Randoll’.
In: the MS described under RnT 110. c.1681.
Upon the report of the King of Swedens Death (‘I'le not believe 't. if fate should be so crosse’)
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 94-5.
RnT 399
Copy, headed ‘Upon the Rumor of the King of Swedens deathe reported in November and December 1632’.
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).
RnT 400
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Newes of the King of Sweden's death’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, including translations from Boethius, Martial, Horace, etc., in at least two secretary hands, one predominating, 73 leaves, in modern quarter-morocco. c.1630s.
Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 19 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 195, to Thomas Rodd.
This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 401
Copy, headed ‘Upon the rumor of the King of Sweedens death variously and uncertainely reported in November & December 1632’.
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.
RnT 402
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 11. c.1634.
RnT 403
Copy, headed ‘Uppon the Rumour of the King of Sweden's death uncertainly reported in November & December 1632’.
In: A folio heraldic notebook and miscellany compiled by John Cooper, a clerk of Sir Christopher Hatton (1605?-70), and relating in part to the latter's Book of Seals, 83 leaves, in contemporary vellum boards. c.1632-43.
Dawson's sale catalogue No. 200 (1969), item 24. Sotheby's, 29 October 1975, lot 78 (unsold).
The wedding Morne (‘Arise, come forth, but never to return’)
First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 140-1.
RnT 404
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 118 (RnT Δ 3). Mid-17th century.
‘When gratefull Charles went to Paules hollowed shrine’
First published in Day (1932), pp. 33-4.
RnT 405
Copy of an untitled translation by ‘T.R:’ of Latin verses (on f. 41r-v) ascribed to ‘Ser: Hosk:’ [i.e. John Hoskins (1566-1638)] and beginning ‘Dum Rex Paulinas accessit gratus ad aras’
In: the MS described under RnT 17 (RnT Δ 8). c. late 1630s.
Edited from this MS in Day.
RnT 406
Copy, following a text of Hoskins's Latin verses.
In: the MS described under RnT 45 (RnT Δ 10). c.1630s.
‘When Jove sawe Archimedes world of glasse’
First published in Day (1932), p. 35.
RnT 407
Copy, headed ‘In Archimedis Spheram ex Claudiano’.
In: the MS described under RnT 15 (RnT Δ 1). c.1630s-40s.
RnT 408
Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: R:’.
In: the MS described under RnT 17 (RnT Δ 8). c. late 1630s.
Edited from this MS in Day.
RnT 409
Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolphe’.
In: the MS described under RnT 44 (RnT Δ 9). c.1630s.
Edited from this MS in Dunlap, p. 267. Recorded in Day.
A Wronged Mistresse to a False Seruant (‘False man whose best religion hath but bin’)
First published in Moore Smith (1925), pp. 253-4. Thorn-Drury, pp. 162-3.
RnT 412
Copy, ascribed to ‘T: R:’.
In: the MS described under RnT 18 (RnT Δ 2). c.1640.
Edited from this MS in Moore Smith and in Thorn-Drury.
(2) Latin Poems
Ad Carolum Cotton, amicu (‘Dic vbi canities tua sit? guaue arte capillos?’)
Unpublished.
Cantabrigiensium oenopoliorum Fatum miserabile (‘Triste nefas morbo languent sitiente taberna’)
‘Felicem Anticyram! nullos ibi credo Poetas’
See RnT 15-17.
‘Jam sileat Jack Drum. taceat miracula Tom Thumb’
See RnT 438-442.
In Anguem, qui Lycorin dormientem amplexus est (‘Ver erat, & flores per apertum libera campum’)
See RnT 138-141.
In Corydonem & Corinnam (‘Ah miser, & nullo felix in amore! Corinnam’)
See RnT 149-151.
In Diem Baptizationis Principis Caroli (‘Inviditne tibi Tellus tua gaudia caelum’)
See RnT 152-155.
In diem passionis (‘Quid templum abscindit? quo luxque diesque recessit?’)
See RnT 252-260.
In Eandem Dystichon (‘Vox Hellenam, vultus Hecubam te Lesbia clamat’)
See RnT 156-160.
In Natalem Augustissimi Principis Caroli (‘Prima tibi periit soboles (dilecta Maria)’)
See RnT 164-169.
Ionson's Ode to Himself, translated (‘Eho jam satis & super Theatro’)
First published in S.R., A Crew of kind London Gossips …to which is added ingenious Poems or Wit and Drollery (London, 1633). Thorn-Drury, pp. 149-51. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, Volume X (Oxford, 1950), pp. 336-7.
See also RnT 20-32 and JnB 367-381.
RnT 413
Copy, on rectos only, headed ‘Mr Randolphs Translation’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.
In: the MS described under RnT 1 (RnT Δ 7). c.1630s-40s.
RnT 414
Copy, headed ‘Ben: Johnsons Ode turn'd into Latine by T. Randall’.
In: the MS described under RnT 27. c.1640s.
This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.
RnT 415
Copy, headed ‘Carmina p BenJohnsonem anglice expressa p Thomam Randolphu Latina exclusa’.
In: the MS described under RnT 207. c.1630s[-75].
This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.
RnT 416
Copy of Randolph's Latin version, alternating stanza-by-stanza with Jonson's poem (JnB 374) and Randolph's answer (RnT 28).
In: the MS described under RnT 28. c.1653-60s.
RnT 418
Copy, headed ‘T: R: Translation of the Ode’.
In: the MS described under RnT 30. c.1630s[-55].
‘Nunc sileat Jack Drum, taceat Miracula Tom Thumb’
See RnT 438-442.
Dramatic Works and Orations
Amyntas
First published in Poems (1638).
RnT 419.5
‘Portions of two leaves in Amyntas made up in MS’ in an exemplum of the 4th printed edition (London, 1652). c.1652.
Sotheby's, 27 June 1865, in lot 3409.
Aristippus, or The Jovial Philosopher
First published in London, 1630. Hazlitt, I, 1-34.
RnT 420
Copy of an untitled early version., in a secretary hand.
In: A quarto composite volume of state tracts, parliamentary speeches and plays, in Latin and English, in several hands, 157 leaves, in modern mottled leather gilt.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, I, 2; discussed in John Jay Parry, ‘A New Version of Randolph's Aristippus’, MLN, 32 (1917), 351-4, and in Bentley, V, 971-3.
RnT 421
Copy, in a neat secretary hand, on nineteen folio leaves, in quarter crushed morocco on boards. Headed ‘A Private Shewe presented on a Fast night to the Seniours and fellowes of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge the Custome of it being laid downe before for the space of seaven yeares in respect the fellowes had found themselues agreeved at it for theire abuse, and now againe revived by one Randolphe, one of the Schollers of the same house’. c. late 1620s.
Sotheby's, 25 July 1978, lot 430. Formerly Folger MS Add. 753.
Facsimile of f. 1r in Jean Preston and Laetitia Yeandle, English Handwriting 1400-1650: An Introductory Manual (Binghamton, NY, 1992), No. 30, p. 95.
RnT 422
Copy of the first Scholar's song, in a musical setting, untitled and here beginning ‘Come my Lads that love Canarie’, subscribed ‘Bassus composit p T: C:’.
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).
RnT 423
Copy of the catch sung by Simplicius in praise of Aristippus, headed ‘In laudem Aristippi’ and beginning ‘Aristippus is better in every letter’.
In: the MS described under RnT 324.5. c.1630s.
RnT 424
Copy of the catch sung by Simplicius in praise of Aristippus, headed ‘Randolph's Aristippus’.
In: the MS described under RnT 7. c.1628-30s.
RnT 424.2
Copy of the catch sung by Simplicius in praise of Aristippus, headed ‘A Sonnet’ and beginning ‘Aristipus is better in every letter’.
In: A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, including academic orations, in one or more largely italic hands, written partly in oblong format and from both ends, unfoliated, 154 leaves, in dark brown morocco. c.1651-61.
Inscribed (f. [1r rev.]) ‘Gulielmus Cartwright ejus liber praetium -- 0 -- 9 / 1651’ and . ‘J. Baddam’.
A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, RP 7250.
The Conceited Pedlar
First published (with Aristippus) in London, 1630. Hazlitt, I, 35-50.
RnT 424.5
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed in another hand ‘The Pedlar’, unascribed.
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.
RnT 425
Copy, headed ‘All Sts: 1627. Tho: Randolphs Pedlar’, in a mixed hand. 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.
This MS recorded in Bernard M. Wagner, ‘Thomas Randolph's The Conceited Pedlar’, TLS (9 April 1931), p. 288, and in Bentley, V, 974-6.
RnT 426
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The Pedler’ and subscribed ‘Randall’, on seven folio leaves of text, ff. 49r and the blank 56v inscribed ‘7 August 1629 the Pedlar’. c.1629.
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.
This MS recorded in Bernard M. Wagner, ‘Manuscript Plays of the Seventeenth Century’, TLS (4 October 1934), p. 675, and in Bentley, V, 974-6.
The Constant Lovers
See RnT 50.
The Drinking Academy, or The Cheaters' Holiday
First published, as an anonymous play, by Hyder E. Rollins in PMLA, 39 (1924), 837-71. Edited as ‘A Play by Thomas Randolph’ by Rollins and Samuel A. Tannenbaum (Cambridge, Mass., 1930). The play is discussed in Cyrus L. Day, ‘Thomas Randolph and The Drinking Academy’, PMLA, 43 (1928), 800-9; in G. C. Moore Smith, ‘The Drinking Academy and its Attribution to Thomas Randolph’, PMLA, 44 (1929), 631-3; in Moore Smith (letter), TLS (4 September 1930), p. 700; in Moore Smith (review), RES, 6 (1930), 476-83; in Rollins, ‘Thomas Randolph, Robert Baron, and The Drinking Academy’, PMLA, 46.ii (1931), 786-801; in Moore Smith, ‘The Authorship of The Drinking Academy’, RES, 8 (1932), 212-14; in Daniel C. Boughner, ‘The Drinking Academy and Contemporary London’, Neophilologus, 19 (1934), 272-83; in Fredson T. Bowers, ‘Ben Jonson, Thomas Randolph, and The Drinking Academy’, N&Q, 173 (4 September 1937), 166-8; in Bowers, ‘Problems in Thomas Randolph's Drinking Academy and Its Manuscript’, HLQ, 1 (1937-8), 189-98; and in Bentley, V (1956), 976-80. Randolph's authorship doubted by Moore Smith (who suggests that the author was Robert Baron), but supported by the rest.
RnT 427
Copy, with alterations, on twenty quarto leaves. This MS in the same hand as the anonymous The Fairy Knight, or Oberon the Second in Folger, MS V.a.126 (formerly MS 46.1), the two MSS once bound together. c.1620s-50s.
Edited from this MS by Rollins and Tannenbaum (1924 and 1930). Facsimiles of pages 3 and 8 in the 1930 edition, facing pp. 5 and 8. See also discussions listed above.
The Fairy Knight, or, Oberon the Second
A play once considered a possible addition to the canon, but firmly rejected by both Moore Smith and Bentley, V, 1328-30. Edited by F.T. Bowers, Chapel Hill, 1941.
RnT 427.5
Copy, in a single secretary hand, including dramatis personae, and a prologue and epilogue, on 38 quarto leaves, in a modern wrapper. Early-mid-17th century.
Edited from this MS in Bowers's edition.
The Jealous Lovers
First published in Cambridge, 1632.
RnT 427.8
Extracts, headed ‘Out of Randalls Jea: Lo:’.
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.
The Muses' Looking-Glass, Act I, scene iv. Song (‘Say in a dance how shall we go’)
First published (with Poems) Oxford, 1638. Hazlitt, I, 173-266 (p. 192).
RnT 428
Copy of the song of the Seven Deadly Sins, headed ‘The Maske of Vices’, subscribed ‘T. R.’
In: the MS described under RnT 15 (RnT Δ 1). c.1630s-40s.
RnT 429
Second copy, also headed ‘The Masque of vices’.
In: the MS described under RnT 15 (RnT Δ 1). c.1630s-40s.
RnT 430
Copy, headed ‘The maske of vices before the king’, subscribed ‘T: R:.’
In: the MS described under RnT 16 (RnT Δ 5). c.1637.
RnT 431
Copy, headed ‘The Masq[ue] of Vices’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.
In: the MS described under RnT 1 (RnT Δ 7). c.1630s-40s.
RnT 432
Copy, headed ‘The Masque of Vices’, subscribed ‘Tho: Rand:’.
In: the MS described under RnT 17 (RnT Δ 8). c. late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Day, p. 31.
RnT 433
Copy, headed ‘The Masque of Vices’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolphe’.
In: the MS described under RnT 44 (RnT Δ 9). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Day, p. 32.
RnT 434
Copy, headed ‘The Masque of Vices’, subscribed ‘Th: R:’.
In: the MS described under RnT 45 (RnT Δ 10). c.1630s.
RnT 435
Copy, in a musical setting by George Jeffreys, here beginning ‘Say Daunce how shall wee goe’, subscribed ‘The Maskque of Vices’.
In: the MS described under RnT 65. c. 1662.
Edited from this MS in John P. Cutts, ‘The Masque of Vices’, N&Q, 197 (8 November 1952), 492.
RnT 436
Copy, headed ‘The Masque of Vices’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.
In: the MS described under RnT 48. c.1630s.
Oratio
The Latin preface to Randolph's ‘Salting’ (RnT 444), beginning ‘Erga vos (viri gravissimi) filijs pietatem didici, sed quid demum sed ignotu hoc patris officium prorsus nescio…’. Edited in Elizabeth Ann Perryman Freidberg, Certain Small Festivities: The Texts and Contexts of Thomas Randolph's Poems and Cambridge Entertainments (unpublished PhD dissertation, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, June 1994), I, 75-9, with an English translation on pp. 97-101.
RnT 436.5
Copy in: A folio volume of Cambridge academic orations, 95 leaves. c.1630.
RnT 437
Copy of the complete work), with a general heading ‘Thom[a]e Randolphi’ and concluding with a Latin quatrain (‘Si sumpto sale probè sapiatis…’), on six pages.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse, prose, orations and drama relating to the University of Cambridge, 56 leaves (plus eight blanks). Fols [1r-45v] in a single neat unprofessional hand, ff. [46r-56r] in another hand; imperfect at the beginning (lacking the first three acts of George Ruggles's Latin play Ignoramus). c.1627.
Edited from this MS in Freidberg.
Oratio praevaricatoria Thomae Randolphi. 1632
First published in Hazlitt (1875), II, 671-80.
RnT 438
Copy of a humorous Latin oration as Praevaricator mocking M.A. candidates' declamations at the Cambridge Commencement of July 1632, ascribed to ‘Th: Rand: T: C:’ and beginning ‘Dne Procancellarie, veneranda capita, viri, fratres, & patres, & tota juventus Attica, ego plurimum salvere jubeo Prae=varicatorem…’, with a concluding poem beginning ‘Jam sileat Jack drum, taceat miracula Tom Thumb’.
In: the MS described under RnT 209. c.1632-40.
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt.
RnT 439
Copy in two hands, with corrections possibly in a third hand, the concluding poem beginning ‘Jam sileat [Jac]k drum, sileat miracula Tom thum’, on two conjugate quarto leaves and two conjugate folio leaves, imperfect. c.1632.
In: the MS described under RnT 209. c.1632-40.
Formerly Chist Church Evelyn Collection MS 301.
RnT 439.5
Copy, in an italic hand, headed ‘Thomae Randulphi oratio prævaricatoris comitijs Cantabrigiensibus habita. Anno Dni. 1632’, on four pages of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves, damp-stained. c.1632.
In: Miscellaneous papers of John Evelyn.
Volume CCLVIII of the Evelyn Papers.
Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, MS 301.
RnT 440
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed ‘Oratio praevaricatoria Mri Randolphi Coll Trin: habita Cantab. die Comitioru: 1632’, the concluding poem beginning ‘Jam sileat Jacke Drumm taceat miracula Tom thube’.
In: An octavo miscellany of Latin orations and other works, in several secretary and italic hands, 111 pages, in old brown calf stamped in gilt ‘1619’. Signed (p. 12 and elsewhere) by Mildmay Fane (1602-66), second Earl of Westmorland, politician and writer. c.1618-32.
Northamptonshire Record Office, W(A) Misc Vol 26, pp. 78-91.
RnT 441
Copy of the concluding poem, headed ‘Tho: Randall in Comitjs Praevaricator. 1632’ and here beginning ‘Nunc sileat Jack Drum, taceat Miracula Tom Thumb’.
In: the MS described under RnT 27. c.1640s.
RnT 442
Copy of the concluding poem, headed ‘Tho: Randall in Comitijs Prevaricator. 1632’ and here beginning ‘Nunc sileat Jack Drum, taceat Miracula Tom Thumb’.
In: the MS described under RnT 28. c.1653-60s.
Praeludium
First published in Parry (1917), pp. 226-31. Edited by Georges Borias in Cahiers Elisabéthains, 29 (1986), 53-76.
RnT 443
Copy, in a cursive mixed hand, headed ‘Præludium’, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter, endorsed (f. 55v) in the hand of Edward Hyde, later Earl of Clarendon, ‘T. Randall after ye last Plague’. c.1630.
In: A tall folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and verses, in various hands and paper sizes, 158 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern red morocco.
Edited from this MS in Parry and, with complete facsimiles, in Borias (who argues that it is autograph). Also discussed in Gerard Eades Bentley, ‘Randolph's Praeludium and the Salisbury Court Theatre’, in Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, 1948), pp. 775-83; in Bentley, Jacobean & Caroline Stage, V, 989-90; and in G.C. Moore Smith, ‘The Canon of Randolph's Dramatic Works’, RES, 1 (1925), 309-23 (pp. 319-20).
RnT 443.5
Copy, subscribed ‘This was Mr Randolphs salting speech’.
In: the MS described under RnT 436.5. c.1630.
Tom Randolf's Salting
A humorous academic Lent graduation ceremony, beginning ‘No salting heere these many yeares was seene...’. First published (a short version) in Roslyn Richek, ‘Thomas Randolph's Salting (1627), Its Text, and John Milton's Sixth Prolusion as Another Salting’, ELR, 12 (1982), 102-31. The complete version edited in Elizabeth Ann Perryman Freidberg, Certain Small Festivities: The Texts and Contexts of Thomas Randolph's Poems and Cambridge Entertainments (unpublished PhD dissertation, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, June 1994), I, 79-96.
RnT 444
Copy of the complete 545-line version of Randolph's humorous poetical monologue on an undergraduate initiation ceremony at Trinity College, Cambridge, in the autumn term of 1627, untitled, here beginning ‘No salting heere these many yeares was seene’, concluding with an eight-line Latin poem (‘Sed nimis sim iocator…’) and subscribed ‘Thomas Randolph’, on eighteen pages; the text preceded in the MS by RnT 437.
In: the MS described under RnT 437. c.1627.
RnT 445
Copy of the first 314 lines, here beginning ‘No salting here these many yeares was seene’, incomplete, on nine pages.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, probably associated with Cambridge, densely written from both ends in a minute hand, paginated 11-264 (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Mid-17th century.
Sotheby's, 15 February 1928, lot 500. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 550 (1931), item 310.
Edited from this MS in Richek, with a facsimile of the first page on p. 102; discussed in Fredson Bowers, ‘Thomas Randolph's Salting’, MP, 39 (1941-2), 275-80, and in Bentley, V (1956), 991-3. Collated in Elizabeth Ann Perryman Freidberg, Certain Small Festivities: The Texts and Contexts of Thomas Randolph's Poems and Cambridge Entertainments (unpublished PhD dissertation, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, June 1994), II, 204-13.
Poems Doubtfully or Spuriously Attributed to Randolph
Against Drunkards (‘What prodigy of nature, or what evil’)
Unpublished?
RnT 446
Copy, ascribed to ‘T. R.’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in a single hand, vi + 98 leaves, in calf. Probably compiled by a member of New College, Oxford. c.1630s.
Some tipped-in notes by Richard Rawlinson.
‘As Chloris warm'd her by the fire’
By Thomas Philipott. Numerous largely anonymous MS copies exist.
The City of London (‘O fortunate Citie reioyce in thy Fate’)
First published in Parry (1917), pp. 231-2. Omitted in Thorn-Drury.
RnT 448
Copy 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.
RnT 449
Copy, ascribed to ‘Randall’.
In: the MS described under RnT 27. c.1640s.
Edited from this MS in Parry.
RnT 450
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 85. c.1630s [-1670s].
The Combat of the Cocks (‘Go, you tame gallants, you that have the name’)
(Sometimes called A terible true Tragicall relacon of a duell fought at Wisbich June the 17th: 1637.) Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Hazlitt, I, xviii. II, 667-70. By Robert Wild.
RnT 451
Copy 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.
RnT 452
Copy, ascribed to ‘T. R.’
In: A verse miscellany, i + 25 leaves. c.1640.
Owned before 1959 by the Lingard-Guthrie family.
RnT 455
Copy in: A folio volume of miscellaneous and historical tracts and papers, chiefly written by Robert Nalson, 607 leaves.
Owned by another Robert Nalson in 1686 and later by Edward Taylor.
RnT 456
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 177. c.1640s.
RnT 458.5
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘A teribile true & troublesome Tragicall relation of a duell fought at wisbich: June 17th: 1637’, on two formerly conjugate folio leaves once folded as a letter or packet.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, tracts and some Latin verse, in several professional hands (including the ‘Feathery Scribe’ on ff. 226r-47r), 359 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf.
RnT 459
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 178. Mid-17th century.
RnT 460
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 28. c.1653-60s.
RnT 460.5
Copy, headed ‘A Terrible true troublesome tragicall Relation of A Duel fought at Wisbitch June 17 1637’, subscribed ‘R. Wilde’.
In: A verse miscellany, much of it in shorthand, almost entirely closely written in a small cursive mixed hand, written from both ends, in contemporary calf with initials ‘E H’ in gilt. 16°, 87 leaves (plus two paste-downs); miscellany, including portions of some 42 identifiable English poems by Crashaw, many of the lines here re-arranged in a garbled fashion; compiled by a Cambridge man, possibly a member of Christ's College; probably in a single hand throughout, with variations of style, written from both ends, about thirty pages in shorthand. c.1650s.
Later owned by Edward Hailstone (1818-90) of Walton Hall, near Wakefield, botanist and book collector. Sotheby's 23 April 1891 (Hailstone sale), probably lot 439, to Dobell). Bertram Dobell's sale catalogue No. 103 (June 1902), item 373. Formerly Folger MS 267.1.
Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Hailstone MS: CrR Δ 6. Crashaw's work selectively collated (cited as Dobell) in Martin and discussed p. lxxxi. Facsimile of f. 22 in Dobell catalogue. The MS discussed by Dobell, in other connections, in ‘Some Unpublished Epigrams by Thomas Fuller’, The Athenaeum (27 April 1901), p. 532, and in ‘An Early Variant of a Shakespeare Sonnet’, The Athenaeum (2 August 1913), p. 112. Compare CrR Δ 8.
RnT 463
Copy, in a mixed hand, headed ‘A terrible, true, troublesome tragicall Relation of a Duell fought at Wisbich June the 17: 1637’. c.1637-40s.
In: the MS described under RnT 99. Early-mid 17th century.
RnT 464
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 102. c.1638.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), pp. 115-18.
RnT 465
Copy, headed ‘A true terrible, troublesome, tragical relation of a duel fought at Wisbeach, 17 June 1637’.
In: A folio miscellany, comprising a ‘treatise of nobility’, subscribed ‘Finis 1638 July 15 per me John Walthall’, and some verse, 102 leaves. c.1638.
RnT 466
Copy, headed ‘A duell fought at Wisbech betwene a Norfolk & a wisbech Cock, 1637’, inscribed at the side ‘Wild’.
In: the MS described under RnT 232. Mid-17th century.
RnT 467
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 397. Mid-17th century.
Staffordshire Record Office, D 1721/3/246, [unnumbered item].
RnT 468
Copy, headed ‘A terible true tragicall, troublesome relation of a duell fought at Wisbich. June the 17. i637.’
In: the MS described under RnT 10. c.1643-50s.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, f. 48r-9r.
RnT 469
Copy, headed ‘A terrible true troublesome tragicall relation of a duell fought at Wisbech’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany, of verse and generally religious prose, in Latin and English, in several hands, largely in one small cursive predominantly italic hand, written from both ends, 151 leaves, in old blind-stamped calf. Compiled by a Cambridge University man. c.late 1630s.
Inscribed name (f. 151v) ‘John graves’. Old pressmark F. 5. 24.
RnT 470
Copy in: An octavo commonplace book, 209 pages, in 17th-century calf (rebacked). Owned and probably compiled (in part) by one John Hale. c.1650s-1725.
RnT 471
Copy, here beginning ‘Come you young gallants...’.
In: the MS described under RnT 155. c.1650.
RnT 472
Copy 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.
RnT 473
Copy in: A miscellany of anecdotes and verse, in a single hand. c.1730.
Epigram (‘Heavens decreed, before the world begun’)
Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Hazlitt, II, 655. Parry, p. 219. Rejected from the canon in Thorn-Drury, p. xxii.
‘Here lyeth a Horse, that died but’
First published, anonymously, in Wit's Recreations (London, 1640). Cornhill Magazine, 54 (1923), 684.
RnT 476
Copy, with a deleted ascription to ‘T. Randolph’.
In: the MS described under RnT 209. c.1632-40.
Edited from this MS in Cornhill Magazine.
Hobson and Charon (‘Charon, come hither Charon. What art thou’)
Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 96-7.
RnT 477
Copy, 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).
RnT 478
Copy, ascribed to Randolph.
In: the MS described under RnT 18 (RnT Δ 2). c.1640.
Edited from this MS in Moore Smith (1927).
‘I John Bo-peep’
Cited in an anecdote about Randolph in William Winstanley, Poor Robin's Jests (London, 1667). Hazlitt, I, xi. W. Hilton Kelliher, ‘Two Notes on Thomas Randolph’, PQ, 51. ii (1972), 941-5.
RnT 481
Copy in: A duodecimo commonplace book of anecdotes, epigrams, etc., including a brief treatise relating to Queen's College, Oxford. Mid-17th century.
Edited from this MS in Kelliher.
A letter to his Mistresse (‘Go, happy paper, by commande’)
Parrry, pp. 219-20. By William Strode.
See StW 209-25.
Love refused for Conscience Sake (‘If Conscience had not so cruel bin’)
Edited and attributed to Randolph in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 120-1.
‘Love, piety and sacred knowledge lie’
Attributed to Randolph in Moore Smith (1925), p. 249.
RnT 483
Copy in: A folio composite volume of collections, in English and Latin, relating to Cambridge, in various hands and partly printed, 402 leaves. 18th century.
On a Racket Court (‘Take up thy gown (poor Tom) and hie thee hence’)
Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Moore Smith (1925), p. 251.
RnT 484
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 22 (RnT Δ 6). c.late 1630s.
Edited from this MS in Moore Smith (1925).
On a Riban, tyed on his Arme-wrist (‘This silken wreath which circles in mine arm’)
By Thomas Carew.
See CwT 1185-1210.
On Feild and Day standing for the Procteourshippe (‘Fortune contended whether she should yeeld’)
First published in A Crew of Kind London Gossips (London, 1663).
RnT 485
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 15 (RnT Δ 1). c.1630s-40s.
RnT 487
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 224. Mid-17th century.
RnT 488
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 22 (RnT Δ 6). c.late 1630s.
RnT 489
Copy, ascribed to ‘Mr Randell’.
In: the MS described under RnT 10. c.1643-50s.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, f. 30v.
On Michaell Drayton (‘Do pious marble let thy readers know’)
Unpublished? Generally attributed to Francis Quarles.
RnT 490.5
Copy, ascribed to Francis Quarles.
In: A folio composite autograph manuscript of the third part of Brief Lives by John Aubrey (1626-97), 106 leaves of various sizes, in half-calf. 1681.
RnT 491
Copy in: An octavo commonplace book of extracts, in English and Latin, compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, iv + 302 pages. Mid-late 17th century.
RnT 492
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, largely in one secretary hand, written from both ends, with indexes (ff. 2r-3r, 168r-v), 168 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. Compiled by Sir John Perceval, Bt (1629-65), probably while at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Volume CXCII of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family. c.1646-9.
RnT 493
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 118 (RnT Δ 3). Mid-17th century.
RnT 494
Copy in: A quarto volume of biographical extracts, for the most part alphabetically arranged, largely in a single mixed hand, with a few pages of drafts in another cursive hand, 30 leaves (plus stubs of excised leaves), in contemporary vellum boards. c.1670.
RnT 496
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’.
RnT 497
Copy in: A folio miscellany entitled Epitaphs Collected 1694, 42 pages. c.1695.
On Sir Hen: Leigh nere Salisburie and his Concubine pictured kneeling beside his tomb (‘Here old Sir Henry Lee doth lie’)
Unpublished?
On the Banishment of Cambridge Lasses (‘Come, let us study, for those glorious lookes’)
Unpublished? Tentatively attributed to Randolph in Moore Smith (1927), p. 113.
RnT 501
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 209. c.1632-40.
On the death of Mr. Harrison, Mr. Sleepe, and Dr. Brookes, all of Trinity College in Cambridge (‘The other gods, Jove being like to die’)
Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Moore Smith (1925), p. 257.
RnT 502
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 19 (RnT Δ 4). c.1641-9.
Edited from this MS in Moore Smith (1925).
On the Goodwife's Ale (‘When shall we meet again and have a taste’)
First published, anonymously, in Witts Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. Y5v. Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1653), sig. M8v. Moore Smith (1925), pp. 252-4, and in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 92-3. Edited, discussed, and the possible attribution to Randolph supported, in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 448-9.
The poem is most commonly attributed to Ben Jonson. Also sometimes ascribed to Sir Thomas Jay, JP, and to Randolph.
RnT 503
Copy, ascribed to ‘Th. Jay’.
In: the MS described under RnT 76. c.1638.
Collated in Herford & Simpson.
RnT 503.5
Copy, ascribed to ‘T: R:’.
In: the MS described under RnT 26. c.1630s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Herford & Simpson.
RnT 504
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 15 (RnT Δ 1). c.1630s-40s.
RnT 505.5
Copy, captioned above ‘A description on Newgate vpon my first committment thither as a Prisoner of warre. To my honord Freind Sr: Clo: kt’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in Latin and English, in a single mixed hand (but for a later addition on f. 40r), entitled ‘Fancies occasionally written on seuerall Occurrances And Reuised heere vidz fro Julij the 22d: 1645 to Julij ye 28th: 1646’, each poem captioned with a dedication to a specified friend, 41 leaves (including blanks), in modern quarter-morocco. c.1646.
Bookplate of Sir William Betham (1779-1853), Ulster King of Arms. Betham sale, June 1854, lot 158.
In the same hand as British Library Harley MS 6932.
RnT 506
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 345. c.1633 [-late 17th century].
RnT 509
Copy, ascribed to Ben Jonson.
In: An octavo miscellany of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive italic hands, with religious verse and prose at the reverse end in another hand, 111 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf gilt. Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v. c.1635.
Inscribed on f. 111v rev. ‘Thursday next at Capricks for Mr Pitt’. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Harley MS’: CoR Δ 5.
RnT 509.5
Copy, captioned above ‘On my first Imprisonment / To my truely honord Freind Sr Joh: Clot: kt et Coll:.’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in Latin and English, in a single mixed hand, entitled ‘Fancies on seuerall occasions written and reuised heere from Julij 6t 1645 to Apr: 4t 1647’, each poem captioned with a dedication to a specified friend, 39 leaves, bound with British Library, Harley MS 3918 in modern half-morocco. c.1647.
In the same hand as British Library Add. MS 19863.
RnT 510
Copy, subscribed ‘Ben Johnson’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, probably compiled by one Matthew Bacon, whose name appears on ff. 1r (‘Matt Bacon’) and 2r (‘Mathæi Baconi poemata’) and to whom is ascribed many of the poems, 31 leaves, in modern half-calf. Mid-17th century.
Also inscribed on f. 1r ‘Joannes Tasbury’ and ‘John manser’[?].
Collated in Herford & Simpson.
RnT 511
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves. Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.early 1630s.
Inscribed (f. 1r) by one ‘I A’ of Christ Church, Oxford, and also ‘Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison’. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Killigrew MS’: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.
Collated in Herford & Simpson.
RnT 513
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 72 (RnT Δ 12). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 49-50.
RnT 521
Copy, subscribed ‘B. G.’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, including 24 poems by Strode, in a single mixed hand, associated with Oxford, 56 leaves (out of an original eight gatherings), in contemporary calf. c.1630s.
Inscriptions inside the covers including the name ‘Phil. Mu’ (or ‘Mer.’). Later in the library of John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector. Acquired in 1969 by Dr Bent Juel-Jensen (1922-2006), Oxford physician and book collector.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the ‘Sparrow MS’: StW Δ 31.
RnT 523
Copy, subscribed ‘Sr Thomas Jaye’.
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.
On the praise of Verse above prose (‘By numbers rational (our wise clerks say)’)
First published in Francis Beaumont, Poems, 2nd edition (London, 1653).
On Tobacco (‘The pipe that it befowle’)
Unpublished?
RnT 528
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 16 (RnT Δ 5). c.1637.
A Paralell twixt Tobacco pipes and weomen (‘Tobacco-pipes and maids are brittle ware’)
Unpublished?
RnT 531
Copy, ascribed to ‘T R.’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in a minute cursive hand, ii + 78 leaves, in early 18th-century half-calf. Compiled by a Cambridge University man, possibly of King's College, and formerly at Eton. c.1648-60.
Inscribed names: ‘Hennericus Some’, ‘Johannes Chase’, ‘Jacobus Chase’.
RnT 532
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 16 (RnT Δ 5). c.1637.
Randolph his answer to some merry companion (‘From all the ills that I have done, Lord, quit me out of hand’)
Published in Hazlitt, I, xi. Parry, p. 225.
Song (‘I saw fair Cloris walk alone’)
By William Strode.
See StW 747-834.
A Sonnet (‘Come, silent night, and in thy gloomy shade’)
Edited, and tentatively attributed to Randolph, in Moore Smith (1927), p. 115.
RnT 533
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 15 (RnT Δ 1). c.1630s-40s.
RnT 534
Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson.
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.
A terible true Tragicall relacon of a duell fought at Wisbich June the 17th: 1637 (‘Go, you tame gallants, you that have the name’)
See The Combat of the Cocks: RnT 451-473.
To Dr Empiric (‘When men a dangerous disease did 'scape’)
Hazlitt, II, 655. By Ben Jonson
See JnB 483-476.
To his Mistris (‘Dear, leave thy home, and come with me’)
Edited and tentatively attributed to Randolph in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 115-16. Probably by the Earl of Pembroke.
See PeW 91-97.
To his Mrs (‘Madam I would but praise, not flatter, yet’)
By Owen Felltham.
See FeO 66.
T:R: his Answere (‘When this fly lived she used to play’)
By Thomas Carew.
See CwT 235.5-302.
Uppon a Cuckold (‘God in Eden's garden's shade’)
RnT 538
Copy 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.
RnT 540
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 345. c.1633 [-late 17th century].
Vpon a Gnat burnt in a Candle (‘Silly buzzing wanton elfe’)
See CrR 446-449.
Upon a Sigh (‘Go, thou gentle whispering wind’)
By Thomas Carew.
See CwT 545-593.
Upon Dr. Rich. Love and Mrs. Grace Godman his wife (‘Is Love that conquers all o'ercome? must he’)
Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Moore Smith (1927), p. 107.
RnT 541
Copy, ascribed to ‘Randall’.
In: the MS described under RnT 399.
Edited from this MS in Moore Smith (1927).
Upon the Burning of a School (‘What heat of learning kindled your desire’)
Published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661), ascribed to ‘T. R.’. Usually anonymous in MS copies and the school variously identified as being in Castlethorpe or in Batley, Yorkshire, or in Lewes, Sussex, or elsewhere.
RnT 546
Copy 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.
RnT 547
Copy in: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in several hands, ii + 53 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1690.
J. Salkeld, sale catalogue No. 222 (17 June 1885), item 273.
RnT 548
Copy 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.
RnT 549
Copy, headed A lamentation vpon ye coflagration of ye muses habitation, or ye description of ye lamentable burning of a petty-schoole in ye parish of Bartley in westriding in Yorkshire.
In: the MS described under RnT 120. c.1630s.
RnT 550
Copy, headed ‘Verses on the burning of the Schoole of Castlethorp in York-shire’.
In: the MS described under RnT 209. c.1632-40.
RnT 551
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 224. Mid-17th century.
RnT 552
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, including (ff. 113r-15r) copies of, or brief extracts from, 30 poems by Donne (plus two apocryphal poems), in a single hand, transcribed from the 1635 or 1639 edition of Donne's Poems, headed ‘Donnes quaintest conceits’ in several hands, 156 leaves (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt. Late 17th century.
Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).
Cited in IELM I.i (1980) as the ‘Harley Rawlinson MS’: DnJ Δ 64.
RnT 553
Copy in: A folio composite volume of state papers, parliamentary speeches, and verse, in various hands, with an alphabetical Index (ff. 1r-6v), 144 leaves, in modern mottled leather gilt.
RnT 554
Copy in: A folio composite volume of tracts and miscellaneous papers, in several hands, 32 leaves, in a vellum wrapper comprised of an Elizabethan indenture, within a modern quarter crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
RnT 555
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 319. Mid-17th century.
RnT 556
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 178. Mid-17th century.
RnT 557
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 28. c.1653-60s.
RnT 558
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 22 (RnT Δ 6). c.late 1630s.
RnT 560
Copy, headed ‘A Lamentation On the conflagration of the Muses habitation The burning of an Accidence’.
In: the MS described under RnT 196. c.1640.
RnT 563
Copy, headed ‘A lamentation for the burning of a petty school’.
In: the MS described under RnT 231.
RnT 564
Copy in: A composite volume of state papers. Late 17th century.
Volume XIX of historical collections.
Duke of Northumberland, Alnwick Castle, MS No. 19, 40/1, p. 95.
RnT 565
Copy, headed ‘Upon the burning of a gramar school’, subscribed ‘Th: Ran:’, deleted.
In: the MS described under RnT 232. Mid-17th century.
RnT 566
Copy, headed ‘Th. Randall vpon ye burning of a gramer schoole’, subscribed ‘Th. Randall’.
In: the MS described under RnT 232. Mid-17th century.
RnT 567
Copy, headed ‘On the burninge of a schoole att Battles’.
In: the MS described under RnT 11. c.1634.
RnT 568
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 135. c.1636-40s.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 32 (James 423), ff. 35v-6r.
RnT 569
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 397. Mid-17th century.
Staffordshire Record Office, D 1721/3/246, [unnumbered item].
RnT 570
Copy, headed ‘The life and death of a Grammar scoole’.
In: the MS described under RnT 10. c.1643-50s.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, f. 16r-v.
RnT 573
Copy in: A folio verse miscellany, predominantly in one hand, chiefly in double columns, 92 pages, lacking covers. Early 18th century.
Formerly ‘Osborn MS. Chest II, Number 4’.
Upon the fall of Wisbech bridge (‘Help help you undertakers all’)
Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Wit & Drollery (London, 1656), p. 66bis.
Upon the First Newes of Sr Edward Burton being blind (‘Sir as for him that told me first 'twas true’)
Unpublished? Probably written by Burton's eldest son.
RnT 576
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 15 (RnT Δ 1). c.1630s-40s.
RnT 577
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 48. c.1630s.
Recorded in Crum (S696) as being ‘amongst Randolph's poems’ in this MS, but it appears here well after a group of his poems.
RnT 578
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 17 (RnT Δ 8). c. late 1630s.
Upon the Newes of his Recoverie (‘Sir that same darksome cloud it is o'erpast’)
RnT 580
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 15 (RnT Δ 1). c.1630s-40s.
RnT 581
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 48. c.1630s.
Recorded in Crum (S745) as being ‘amongst poems by Randolph’ in this MS, but it appears here well after a group of his poems.
RnT 582
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 17 (RnT Δ 8). c. late 1630s.
Verse upon the death of Mr. Harrison, Vice-Master of Trinity College (‘If virtue, honour, truth and fame’)
Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Moore Smith (1925), pp. 255-6.
RnT 584
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 18 (RnT Δ 2). c.1640.
Edited from this MS in Moore Smith (1925).
Verses spoken by the two daughters of the truly vertuous Mrs. Br: Sk: at the solemnization of the Annuall Nuptialls of the Right Noble Sr R. Cooke and his Lady Theophila (‘Madam, by us the genial gods do greet you’)
Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 118-19.
RnT 585
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 18 (RnT Δ 2). c.1640.
Edited from this MS in Moore Smith (1927).
Verses upon the Vicechaun: pulling downe ye signes (‘The Vicechauncelour doth like ye sunne appeare’)
Tentatively attributed to Randolph in Moore Smith (1927), p. 113.
RnT 586
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 324.5. c.1630s.
RnT 588
Copy in: the MS described under RnT 234. c.1628.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS K. 56 (James 542), [unspecified item number].
Vir Durus ac honestus Richardus Westonus (‘Allthough your Lordshipps happy anagram’)
Published in Parry, p. 219.
RnT 589
Ascribed to ‘Tho Randolph’ on the flyleaf.
In: Exemplum of Poems. 1638.
Printed in Parry, p. 219.
Miscellaneous Extracts from Works by Randolph
Extracts
RnT 590
Sixty-two numbered extracts, headed ‘The Poems of Thom: Randolph Gentl: Master of Arts and Letters of Trinitie Coll. in Cambridge’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse extracts, in a single italic hand (but for additions on f. 35r-v), foliated 14-52, in contemporary vellum. Mid-17th century.
Inscribed inside the front cover ‘F. C. Wellstood / Oxford’. Inscribed (f. 35r) ‘W. C. 1789’.
RnT 591
Extracts from plays and poems.
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).
RnT 592
Extracts, headed ‘Scraps out of Randolph’, on 30 pages.
In: An octavo miscellany, in a single mixed hand, possibly compiled by a Jesuit. Late 17th century.
RnT 593
Extracts, headed ‘Taken out of the Poems of Mr Thomas Randolph Fellow of Trinity college In cambridge’.
In: A large quarto miscellany of verse extracts, comprising 182 entries, in a single cursive hand varying in style, 115 unnumbered leaves (plus 26 blanks), in contemporary calf. Entitled (f. [1r]) ‘A Collection of Miscellany Poems from the Greatest Poets, both Ancient and Modern That i have Read, & here place for my own entertainment, to diuert Malincolly Thoughts, & to assist My Memory, That was neuer Good at no Time:’. Late-17th century.
From the library at Newburgh Priory, Yorkshire.
Books Inscribed by Randolph
New Testament in Latin, with commentary by Theodore Beza (London, 1581)
*RnT 594
Randolph's printed exemplum. Inscribed on the title-page, undoubtedly in the poet's hand, ‘Thomas Randolph Trin: Coll: Cambridge’ and the same hand has also written the abbreviation ‘T:R:T:C:C:’ on sig. Aiiijv. Probably three other early hands were responsible for assorted marginalia which appear elsewhere in this volume, one of them the gentleman who inscribed the last page (p. 336) ‘JosePhiper liber 1618 [or 1628] Octr: 28’. Early 17th century.
Although offered in sale catalogue No. 56 (1912), item 305, by the Charing Cross Road bookseller Arthur Reader and sold at some time before then by Sotheby's, this volume seems to have escaped the attention of Randolph scholars until its acquisition by the Bodleian in 1968.
It was first effectively recorded in Davis's unpublished thesis on Randolph (1970), pp. 167-8.
Seneca. Tragoediae (Venice, 1517)
*RnT 595
A printed exemplum allegedly bearing the poet Randolph's ‘autograph on [the] fly-leaf’ c.1620s-30s.
Later owned by Edward Vernon Utterson (1777-1856), of Shanklin and Ryde, Isle of Wight, artist, antiquary, literary editor and book collector. Sotheby's, 18 April 1852 (Utterson sale), lot 1578, to Lilly. Owned by Robert Hoe (1839-1909), New York businessman and book collector. Anderson Auction Company, New York, 1 May 1911 (Hoe sale), lot 2729.
Documents
Document(s)
RnT 596
Randolph's autograph signature on a list of Trinity College matriculands, sent by the college praelector to the Registrary, July 1624. 1624.
Facsimile in IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile VIIIb, after p. xxi.
*RnT 597
Randolph's autograph signature as subscription for his Bachelor of Arts, probably March 1627/8. 1627/8.
In: The University Subscriptions Book, 1613-38.
Facsimile in IELM, II.ii (1993), Plate VIIIc, after p. xxi.
*RnT 598
Randolph's autograph signature as his subscrition for his Master of Arts, probably July 1631. 1631.
In: the MS described under RnT 597.
Facsimiles in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCVIII(a-e), and in IELM, II.ii (1993), Plate VIIIf, after p. xxi.
*RnT 599
Miss E.S. Leedham-Green has suggested this is in the poet's own hand, but I am of the firm opinion that this was written on his behalf by someone else (perhaps Thomas Goldfinch or some other college butler or official), as was quite customary in this period. Before January 1627/8.
In: Supplicats volume for 1627-29.
Cambridge University Archives, Supplicats 1627-29 , f. 192r.
*RnT 600
Randolph's autograph Latin subscription signed, 22 September 1629. 1629.
In:
Facsimiles in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCVIII(a-e), and in IELM, II.ii (1993), Plate VIIId, after p. xxi.
Trinity College, Cambridge, Admissions and Admonitions Book 1560-1759, p. 42.
*RnT 601
Randolph's autograph Latin subscription signed, 23 March 1631[/2]. 1632.
In: the MS described under RnT 600.
Facsimiles in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCVIII(a-e), and in IELM, II.ii (1993), Plate VIIIe, after p. xxi.
Trinity College, Cambridge, Admissions and Admonitions Book 1560-1759, p. 42.
*RnT 602
Randolph's autograph Latin subscription signed, 9 April 1624. 1624.
In: the MS described under RnT 600.
Facsimiles in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCVIII(a-e); in Fredson T. Bowers, ‘A Possible Randolph Holograph’, The Library, 4th Ser. 20 (1939-40), 159-62 (facing p. 164); and in IELM, II.ii (1993), Plate VIIIa, after p. xxi.
Trinity College, Cambridge, Admissions and Admonitions Book 1560-1759, p. 257.