Verse
The Advice (‘All things submit themselves to your command’)
First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions, By several Persons (London, 1672). Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, pp. 18-19. Walker, pp. 16-17. Love, pp. 8-9.
RoJ 1
Copy in: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers. Papers of the Rev. George Harbin (c.1665-1744), historical writer and librarian to Sir Thomas Thynne (1640-1714), first Viscount Weymouth, at Longleat House, including (ff. 38r-60v) 23 quarto leaves of poems and letters by Rochester in a single hand. Early 18th century.
Inscribed (several times) ‘Alex: Malet’: i.e. the Rev Alexander Malet, Harbin's nephew and executor, a later note stating that the Marquess of Bath purchased part of the papers from Malet's descendant, Sir Alexander Malet, in 1873. Another inscription (f. 37r) reads: ‘Some of Dr Harbin's Papers obtained from Mr. Waller of Fleet St by J.E. Jackson, after the sale of the Papers by Puttick & Simpson April 1874’.
Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Harbin MS: RoJ Δ 9.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII , ff. 53v-4v.
RoJ 2
Copy in: A quarto volume of works almost exclusively by Rochester, in a single professional hand up to p. 208, a second, less accomplished, hand taking over (after stubs of two extracted leaves) on pp. 209-31; with a title-page (p. 13), ‘Poem's / By The. Right Honourable/John Earle / of/Rochester’, 219 pages (plus 12 preliminary blank pages and 99 blank pages at the end), in half-russia over marbled boards. c.mid-1680s.
Bookplate of ‘The Reverend Sir George Lee. Baronet/Hartwell’. Inscribed ‘This Manuscript was found at Hartwell. March. 1829. J. Lee’ and another, ‘Bound Mr. Wilson. March 1829’ [i.e. the MS was in the library of the Rev. Sir George Lee, Bt (1767-1827), rector of Hartwell, etc., and of Dr John Lee, F.R.S. (1783-1866), at Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire]. Later sold by Charles Sawyer (No. 1467 in a sale catalogue). The MS might possibly once have been owned by Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1635-91) of Hartwell, who was, incidentally, related by marriage to Sir John Suckling. His son was Sir Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1661-1702). The MS was later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 18 December 1995 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 114, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the ‘Hartwell MS’: RoJ Δ 17. This MS on exhibition at the Bodleian, 16-28 June 1930, and recorded in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), p. 213. Subsequently discussed, and parts printed, by Harold Love and Stephen Parks in ‘A reasonable satyr’, TLS, 1 August 1997, p. 13; in Harold Love, ‘A Tale of Two Manuscripts’, Yale University Library Gazette, 72 (1999), 41-53; and in his pamphlet A Newly Discovered Burlesque by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester (New Haven, 1997).
A complete microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7982.
Edited in part from this MS in Love.
RoJ 3
Copy of lines 35-50, headed ‘The Feminine Monarchy’ and here beginning ‘You are Loves citadel; By you he reigns’.
In: An octavo book of jests and verse compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, vi + 374 pages (pp. 72-306 blank), in contemporary calf. c.1682-91.
RoJ 3.5
Extracts, the first twelve lines headed ‘Brook’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in one hand, with additions by others, written from both ends, material at the reverse end dated 1708-9, ii + 114 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf. Inscribed (f. [iir]), probably by the compiler, ‘Ex Libris Georgij Wright [b.1685/6] Sti Johannis Collegis Cantabrigiensis Alumni, Decimo quarto Junij. Annoq. Domini 1703’. c.1703-9.
Also inscribed (f.[iir]) ‘Mrs Frances Wright 1708’. A postal address on f. 95r (rev.) reads: ‘Direct to Margtt Borrett att Mrs. Borretts In Kirkby=stephen Westmoorland p brough bag _ These’.
Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Wright MS: WaE Δ 12.
Against Constancy (‘Tell me no more of constancy’)
First published in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676). Vieth, pp. 83-4. Walker, pp. 42-3. Love, p. 34, as Songe of the Earle of Rocherters.
RoJ 4
Copy, headed ‘Songe of ye Earle of Rochesters’.
In: A large folio formal miscellany of verse and prose, in a single rounded hand throughout, the margins ruled in red, and with an alphabetical index (pp. 719-21), 738 pages (pp. 722-38 blank), plus 40 pages of preliminary inserted material, in contemporary elaborately tooled leather. Including thirteen poems and a mock-speech in the Marvell canon and eleven poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, compiled — in stages, probably for the most part in chronological sequence, over a period of up to fifteen years — by Sir William Haward (or Hawarde or Hayward) of Tandridge, Surrey (his signature, dated 21 January 1676/7, on p. 66). c.1667-82 [the poems by Marvell and Rochester c.1670s].
Sir William Haward was knighted in 1643, served as a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Charles I, Charles II, James II and William III, was M.P. for Bletchingley (1661-78), a Fellow of the Royal Society (1665) and a Commissioner for the Sale of Fee Farm Rents (1670 onwards); he lived sometime in Scotland Yard and was still living in 1702 (see, inter alia, W. Paley Baildon, The Hawardes of Tandridge Co. Surrey (London, 1894), pp. 23-31). John Evelyn described him as ‘a greate pretender to English antiquities &c:’. An autograph letter by him, dated 23 March 1688/9, is in the British Library (Add. MS 29563, f. 453).
Later owned by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), by his wife Frances Le Neve (signature on p. vii), by their servant Joseph Allen, who entered additional items in 1729, and by her second husband Thomas Martin (1697-1771) of Palgrave. Later in the library of the Aston family of Tixall, Staffordshire (and sold in the Tixall sale at Sotheby's, 7 November 1899, lot 430 to Bertram Dobell (1842-1914)). Afterwards owned by George Thorn-Drury (1860-1931) and sold in 1935 by P.J. Dobell.
The Marvell canon selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II and the Rochester canon selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. See also Paul Hammond, ‘The Dating of Three Poems by Rochester from the Evidence of Bodleian MS. Don. b. 8’, BLR, 11 (1982), 58-9.
Facsimile of p. 277 in POAS, I, facing p. 228 (see MaA 98).
Edited from this MS in David M. Vieth, ‘A New Song by Rochester’, TLS (6 November 1953), p. 716 (and see also related correspondence on 19 and 26 February 1954, pp. 121, 137). Edited in part from this MS in Vieth (1968) and in Love. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 5
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
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).
Printed from this MS in Macdonald Emslie, ‘A New Song by Rochester’, TLS (26 February 1954), p. 137; edited in part from this MS in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 5.5
Copy, untitled, the first of four poems on one and a half conjugate folio leaves, in a folder of unbound verse (at the top of the box). Late 17th century.
In: A box of papers and commonplace books of the Cary family, including the Rev. Francis Henry Cary (1642-1712), rector of Brinkworth, Wiltshire.
RoJ 5.8
Copy in: A folio verse miscellany, in vellum. Late 17th century?
Inscribed on the front cover ‘William Turner his booke, 1662’ and, on the rear paste-down ‘Catherine Gage's Booke’: i.e. Catherine Gage, Lady Aston (d.1720). Formerly among the papers of the Aston family, of Tixall, Staffordshire.
Poems selectively edited from this MS (as his ‘Third Division: Poems Collected by the Right Honourable Lady Aston’) in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 107-205.
Edited from this MS, as ‘Inconstancy’ in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 143-4.
Untraced Tixal MSS, Tixall MS 3, [unspecified page numbers].
Against Marriage (‘Out of mere love and arrant devotion’)
First published in Vieth (1968), p. 159. Walker, pp. 130-1, among ‘Poems Possibly by Rochester’. Love, pp. 40-1, as Of Marriage and beginning Out of Stark Love, and arrant Devotion.
RoJ 6
Copy, here beginning ‘Out of stark Love & Arrant devotione’.
In: A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt. A compendium of several separate collections of poems, each with its general heading, including nineteen poems by the Earl of Rochester, copied in a single hand, that of Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), antiquary. c.1680s-1700s.
Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 7
Copy, headed ‘Of Marriage’ and here beginning ‘Out of stark Love...’, with four lines added in another hand.
In: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled ‘A Booke of Paragrafts’, including 22 poems by Rochester, 445 pages plus stubs of extracted leaves (originally 463 numbered pages and now lacking pp. 59-68, 147-54 and parts of pp. 155-8), with a two-leaf index; in contemporary red morocco. In professional hands: A, pp. 1-194; B, in a different style and probably a different hand, pp. 195-432; C, probably yet another hand, with additions on pp. 75, 90, 102, 125, 142, 175, 195, and pp. 433-63. c.1680s-90s.
Inscribed (on stubs and endpapers) ‘matt Calihan’, ‘To Cpt Robinson att Capt Eloass [Elwes] near ye Watch house in Marlburhroagh street’, ‘For Capt. Robinson at his Lodginges in Charing Cross’. Christie's, 27 June 1979, lot 16.
Various commissioned officers named Robinson are recorded in Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714 (6 vols, London, 1892-1904): see esp. I, 276. The volume was most probably owned by Charles Robinson of the King's Regiment of Foot Guards, who became Captain and then Lieutenant-Colonel in 1688 and was killed at Namur in 1695. A member of the same regiment in 1684 was the purveyor of MS lampoons Captain Lenthal Warcup. The Captain ‘Eloass’ mentioned in one inscription was possibly William Elwes, who served as a Lieutenant in Viscount Colchester's Regiment of Horse, c.1692-4, and as a Captain in Lord Windsor's Regiment of Horse in 1702.
Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Robinson MS: RoJ Δ 8. Discussed with facsimiles of pp. 1-10 in Paul Hammond, ‘The Robinson Manuscript Miscellany of Restoration Verse in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds’, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 18 (1982), 275-324. Facsimiles of p. 1 also in Christie's sale catalogue, Plate 1, after p. 48, and in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), p. 17. Selectively collated in Walker.
Edited in part from this MS in Love. Collated in Hammond and in Walker (and the additional lines edited, p. 222).
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 54, p. 133.
RoJ 8
Copy, headed ‘Of Marriage’, here beginning ‘Out of stark Love and arrant Devotion’, subscribed ‘R.’
In: An octavo miscellany of chiefly satirical poems, including at least twelve by Rochester, in a single rounded hand but for an addition at the end (pp. 141-50) in a stylish italic hand, the greater part written along the length of the page with the spine uppermost, with an ‘Index’, xii + 150 pages (lacking pp. 135-40), in contemporary calf. Possibly associated with the court circle of James Butler (1610-88), first Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. c.1680s.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dublin MS: RoJ Δ 10.
RoJ 8.5
Copy, here beginning ‘out of stark love and Arrant devotion’.
In: A large octavo verse miscellany, chiefly lampoons and poems on affairs of state, including 21 poems by Rochester and various others in the Rochester apocrypha, nearly 600 pages in all, with a 14-page index. Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6. c.1705.
RoJ 8.8
Copy in: A commonplace book compiled by Whitelocke Bulstrode (1652-1724), administrator and writer. 1680-93.
Later in the library of J. Eliot Hodgkin, FSA (1829-1912), of Richmond, Surrey, engineer and book collector.
Recorded in HMC, 15th Report, Appendix II (1897), pp. 3 and 18 (where the poems by Rochester at the reverse end are erroneously attributed to Lord Rosebery).
RoJ 9
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Out of stark love, & kindnes, & arrant devotion’, ascribed to ‘some libertine, I know not whether T. Brown’, dated 23 March 1700/1, the text followed by Joshua Barnes's parody beginning ‘Out of stark love and kindness, with zeal and devotion’.
In: An autograph diary of the antiquary Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), 252 octavo pages, in contemporary calf. 24 June-16 September 1706.
RoJ 10
Copy, headed ‘By ye E. of Rochester’.
In: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single neat hand, 79 leaves (plus an index), in modern black leather gilt. Including eleven poems in the Marvell canon (plus further apocryphal poems). c.1680.
Later owned by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 9 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 389. Purchased from Boone, 9 June 1860.
Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the ‘Turner MS’: MaA Δ 4. The Marvell poems recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.
Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.
RoJ 11
Copy of a version headed ‘On Marriage’ and beginning ‘Out of stark Love & errant Devotion’.
In: Ten MS poems, in the hand of Pepys's secretary Paul Lorrain, on leaves bound, together with another related work, in Pepys's printed exemplum of Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Late 17th century.
Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 810(2), p. 23.
An Allusion (‘The freeborn English Generous and wise’)
First published in The Genius of True English-men (London, 1680). Love, p. 55 (21-line version) and pp. 257-8 (30-line version). Also attributed to Robert Wolseley.
RoJ 11.1
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 1 (RoJ Δ 9). Early 18th century.
Edited from tis MS in Love.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII , [unspecified page numbers].
RoJ 11.2
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 1 (RoJ Δ 9). Early 18th century.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII , f. 57v et seq.
RoJ 11.3
Copy in: A miscellany of verse and prose, mainly on affairs of state, 176 pages, in Middle Hill boards. c.1700.
Formerly Phillipps MS 10984. Sotheby's, 5 June 1899, lot 995. Then owned by F.W. Cock. Sotheby's, 8 May 1944 (Cock sale), lot 235. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue 97 (1947), item 179.
RoJ 11.4
Copy in: A folio verse miscellany, entitled ‘The Muse's Magazine, or Poeticall Miscelanies, in two parts’, in a single hand, 189 leaves. Including 27 poems by Cowley; eleven poems by Katherine Philips, evidently derived from printed sources; 10 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items; twelve poems by Sedley, plus one of doubtful authorship; and 15 poems by Waller, evidently derived from printed sources. Early 18th century.
A note on a flyleaf relating to the bookseller John Dunton (1659-1733): ‘John Dunton His Book, for which Mr. Corbet at ye Addisons Head, accepted One Half Guinea in full Payment for it, as Witness my Hand, Hannah Rakley’. A note on f. 1: ‘Since I had transcrib'd this whole Book, I met with some state Poems of these later times, mostly since K. George's Accession to the Crown [1714] which I have here inserted, as a supplement to these state Poems which make a part of this Collection by themselves’. Date at the end of the volume: ‘1718’, and some notes on a flyleaf dated ‘1724’.
The ‘Mr. Corbet’ from whom Dunton purchased this MS was evidently the bookseller Thomas Corbett (fl. 1705-43), who ran his business at the Addison's Head, next to the Rose Tavern, without Temple Bar, from 1719 until his death in 1743. Neither Dunton nor Corbett are known to have used this MS for publication purposes.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Dunton MS’: PsK Δ 8; RoJ Δ 4; SeC Δ 1; WaE Δ 10.
For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks, John Dunton and the English Book Trade: A Study of His Career with a Checklist of His Publications (New York & London, 1970).
RoJ 11.5
Copy in: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in a single neat hand, with later hands at the end, 114 leaves (some leaves excised), wth an index (f. 114r-v), in 19th-century half black morocco. c.1700.
Purchased on 4 July 1873 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.
RoJ 11.6
Copy, headed ‘Tacit de vita Agric. An Allusion’.
In: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in two or more professional hands, 222 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary red panelled morocco gilt. c.late 1680s.
RoJ 11.7
Copy in: A folio volume comprising two apparently independent miscellanies of poems on affairs of state, each in probably more than one professional hand, in variant styles, 199 pages, in modern cloth. Part I, ff. 1r-110v (poems dated 1667-83); Part II, ff. 111r-99r, on larger paper (poems dated 1680-7). c.1680s.
Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Advocates MS: MaA Δ 8. Works by Marvell recorded and some poems collated in POAS, I.
National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 19.1.12, f. 97v et seq.
RoJ 11.8
Copy in: A formal folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, including eleven by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, probably in a single professional hand, 444 leaves (including a six-leaf index). c.1690s.
Cited in IELM, II.ii as the Vienna MS: RoJ Δ 12. Discussed in Rudolf Brotanek, ‘Beschreibung der Handschrift 14090 (Supplement 1776) der Nationalbibliothek in Wien’, in Festschrift der Nationalbibliothek in Wien (Vienna, 1926), 145-62. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker.
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090, f. 183r et seq.
RoJ 11.9
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in a single hand, 304 pages (plus an Index and blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1680s-90s.
Sotheby's, 21-22 April 1958, lot 397, to Seven Gables bookshop. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 3.
A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, M/546.
RoJ 11.91
Copy in: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, in two volumes: Vol. I, including twelve poems by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal item, spp. 1-461 (plus index); Vol. II, pp. 462-842 (with irregularities of pagination). This MS is closely related to Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090. c.1690s-1700.
Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 ‘was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes’.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dyce MS: RoJ Δ 15.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38), p. 343.
RoJ 11.92
Copy 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.
RoJ 11.93
Copy of the 21-line version, cited in ‘To the Reader’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 2 (RoJ Δ 17). c.mid-1680s.
Edited from this MS in Love, p. 55.
RoJ 11.94
Copy, headed ‘The Charrecter of the English by Mr Wolseley’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, in a single hand, compiled by Nathaniel Hamby, of Wymondham, Norfolk, 648 pages, in morocco gilt. c.1729.
This MS recorded in Nicholas Fisher, ‘Rochester's An Allusion to Tacitus’, N&Q, 255, No. 4 (December 2010), 503-6.
RoJ 11.95
Copy in: A folio composite volume of separate copies of poems, in various hands and paper sizes, c.257 pages, now disbound. Late 17th century.
Sotheby's, 14 March 1961, lot 573. Formerly at Yale ‘Box 89, No. 3’.
Microfilm in the British Library, M/608.
An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book (‘Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes’)
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.
RoJ 12
Copy in: A large folio miscellany of verse and prose, in a single accomplished professional hand, 756 pages (including over 200 blank leaves). Including (pp. 217-429) 87 poems, chiefly on affairs of state, of which thirty are by Rochester; other contents comprising (pp. 1-71) a transcript of a Royal Household Establishment Book of William and Mary (1689-97); (pp. 75-212) a collection of legal precedents; and (pp. 442-543) copies of documents relating to the New Forest. c.1698-1700s.
Evidently compiled either for Henry Somerset (1629-1700), first Duke of Beaufort, Privy Councillor, or for his son Henry (1661-98), Marquess of Worcester, or else for his grandson, Henry Somerset (1684-1714), second Duke of Beaufort, who was Warden of the New Forest.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the ‘Badminton MS’: RoJ Δ 1. Discussed and contents listed, with facsimile examples, in Michael Brennan and Paul Hammond, ‘The Badminton Manuscript: A New Miscellany of Restoration Verse’, EMS, 5 (1995), 171-207.
RoJ 13
Copy in: A quarto composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 137 pages (plus eight pages of later additions and eight blank pages), in modern cloth. In a single hand, including sixteen poems by Rochester, pp. 139-46 occupied by charges of the Grand Jury added after 1714. c.1680s.
Recorded in IELM II.ii as the Gilpin MS: RoJ Δ 3.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
RoJ 14
Copy, headed ‘In Imitation of the 10th Satire Hor: 1th Lib.’
In: A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, including 27 poems by Rochester (all ascribed to him), xii + 299 pages (plus a number of blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary calf (rebacked). In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in). c.1690s.
Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 15
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 7 (RoJ Δ 8). c.1680s-90s.
This MS collated in Hammond and in Walker.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 54, pp. 137-42.
RoJ 17
Copy, headed ‘An Allusion to Horace’.
In: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a ‘Table’ of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf. Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items. c.1680s.
Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.
Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 18
Copy in: A formal quarto miscellany, of poems on affairs of state, including 29 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in three professional hands (A, pp. 1-278; B, pp. 279-84; C, pp. 285-314), 314 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco. c.1680.
Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 18.5
Quotation, lines 54-6 (here beginning Waller by nature for ye bays design'd), ascribed to ‘Roch’, in an unidentified hand.
In: Exemplum of the ‘Third’ printed edition of Waller's Poems (8°: London, 1668) extensively annotated by Francis Atterbury (1662-1732), Bishop of Rochester, including his rewriting of many poems, a blank page at the beginning annotated in an unidentified hand; pages 49-51 with a note on the irregularities of Waller's verse; the last blank page with other notes on Waller by Atterbury (‘Waller commends no Poet of his times that was in any degree a Rival to him...’) and by an unidentified hand (?Neve). c.1721.
The volume briefly described in H.C. Beeching, Francis Atterbury (1909), pp. 227-31.
RoJ 19
Copy of lines 5-124, here beginning ‘What e're you write; that wth a flowing Tyde’, imperfect, lacking the opening.
In: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised). Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTCO1 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand. c.1680.
Inscribed on the title-page ‘Hansen’: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.
Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (‘Antwerp’ [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and ‘The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680’, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, ‘Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105’, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.
Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.
RoJ 20
Copy, headed ‘Satyr, on the modern poets, An allusion to Horace, The 10th. Satyr of the 1st book. Nempe incomposito dixi pede &c.’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 2 (RoJ Δ 17). c.mid-1680s.
RoJ 21
Copy in two hands, headed ‘By the E. of Rochester In imitation of the tenth Satye of the first booke of Horace's Sermons’.
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.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 22
Copy on two conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of verse, 208 leaves.
Edited in part from this MS in Love. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 23
Copy, in an unidentified cursive secretary hand, untitled (but for the Latin quotation), subscribed ‘Ld Rochester’.
In: An octavo miscellany of English and Latin verse and some prose, largely in one mixed hand, 123 leaves, with (ff. 2r-4r) an index, in calf gilt. Compiled by John Watson (d. c.1707), of Queens' College, Cambridge, vicar of Mildenhall, Suffolk. c.1667-73.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Ex dono Drs Barb: Rhodes ...Mri Joan: Rhodes Decemb: 5 1667’; ‘Janawary ye 2 day 1726’; ‘Wm faildham London to ye Land of maderah & from thence to Jamaca’. Purchased from Lilly, 13 July 1850.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 24
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, ff. 4r-153v in a single neat predominantly italic hand, ff. 154r-63 in another hand dated 1687, with (ff. 2r-3v, 165r-6r) a table of contents, 166 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half morocco. Including eight poems in the Marvell canon and his mock-speech by the King (plus apocryphal poems). c.1680s.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Samll. Danvers. 1664’; and (f. 164v) ‘F Danvers’, ‘Samuel Danvers his book’, and ‘W D'anvers’: i.e. probably the family of Sir Samuel Danvers, Bt. (d.1683) of Culworth, Northamptonshire (though not in his hand).
Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Danvers MS: MaA Δ 5. Marvell contents recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 24.5
Copy, in a neat hand, headed ‘In imitation of ye 10 Satyr of Horace by my Ld Rochester’, on a fragment of two quarto leaves, partly torn away. Late 17th century.
In: A collection of unbound verse manuscripts, in various hands and paper sizes (chiefly folio), 142 leaves. Partly compiled by Sir Richard Browne and his father Christopher Browne (1577-1646), of Saye's Court, Deptford.
Volume LXVII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford. Acquired March 1995.
RoJ 25
Copy of two folio leaves (misplaced).
In: A large folio guardbook of chiefly verse MSS, in Latin, English and Greek, in various hands, at least some relating to Cambridge University, 408 leaves, in modern half-morocco.
This MS recorded in Vieth; lines 1-62 only collated in Walker.
RoJ 26
Copy on two probably once conjugate folio leaves.
In: A folio composite volume of poems, chiefly on affairs of state, in various hands, 67 leaves, in modern quarter crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 27
Copy, subscribed ‘Amsterdam. Oct: 8/79 Capt: Stead gave ye Copy’.
In: An octavo journal and memorandum book, chiefly relating to a journey to the Netherlands and France, 73 leaves. Compiled by one Latimer Ridley. 1679.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 28
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr in Imitation of Horaces Sat. 10. B. 1’ and here beginning ‘Well Sr 'tis granted I say Dryden's Rymes’, subscribed ‘Rochester’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, principally in a single non-professional hand (pp. 1-119), with additions (pp. 56-71) in later hands of c.1702, 71 leaves (plus blanks). c.1680s-1702.
RoJ 29
Copy, in a cursive hand, headed ‘An Alusion to Horace: Sermon: lib: ye session of the poetes’, on two conjugate quarto leaves. Late 17th century.
In: A collection of unbound verse, in various hands. Probably collected by Dr Samuel Knight (1677/8-1746), clergyman and antiquary.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 30
Copy, headed ‘The Session of Poets by Ld Rochester’.
In: A quarto miscellany, in several hands, 66 leaves (plus 70 blanks), in contemporary calf. Compiled at least in part by George Stanhope (1660-1728), Dean of Canterbury, chiefly while he was at King's College, Cambridge. c.1678-80s.
Inscribed ‘Mrs Denham Cookes 1922 March 10’.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 30.5
Copy, headed ‘In Imitation of ye. 10th Satyr of ye 1st. Book of Horace By my Ld. Rochester’, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1670s.
Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (John Brett-Smith sale), lot 492.
Facsimile of one page in Sotheby's sale catalogue.
RoJ 31
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr on the Poets’, subscribed ‘Rochester’, in a professional hand, on pp. 28-32, in a disbound fragment of a folio miscellany of poems paginated 1-34. Late 17th century
In: A folio composite miscellany of verse MSS, chiefly poems on affairs of state, in various hands and paper sizes, now disbound in folders.
Among papers of the Hastings family, Earls of Huntingdon.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 32
Copy, headed ‘A Poem on the Poets’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, one cursive hand predominating, entitled at one end Poems Collected at several Times from the year 1670 and at the other end Collections of several things out of History. begun about the year 1670, written over a period, 336 largely unnumbered pages (plus blanks), 205 pages from one end and 131 pages from the reverse end, in contemporary vellum boards. Compiled chiefly by Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, wife of Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706), possibly in part from texts supplied by Martin Clifford (c.1624-77), erstwhile secretary of the Duke of Buckingham and Master of the Charterhouse. Including (pp. [91-116]) 26 poems by Sir Charles Sedley as a single group (and copies of a poem of doubtful authorship on pp. [165] and [179]). c.1670-1705.
Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Cowper MS: SeC Δ 2. Discussed in Allan Pritchard, ‘Editing from Manuscript: Cowley and the Cowper Papers’, in Editing Poetry from Spenser to Dryden, ed. A.H. De Quehen (New York & London, 1981), pp. 47-76, esp. pp. 62-5, and in Harold Love, ‘Two Rochester Manuscripts Circulated from the Charterhouse’, The Library, 6th Ser. 16/3 (September 1994), 225-9.
RoJ 33
Copy, headed ‘Rotchestrs censures of the poets’.
In: Fragment of a verse miscellany, possibly of Scottish provenance. Late 17th century.
Acquired from Stonehill, 30 June 1945. Formerly Uncat. MSS. Rochester's Censures.
This MS recorded, as ‘Illinois MS. 30 Je 45 Stonehill’, in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 33.5
Copy, headed ‘Writ Anno 1677. An allusion to Horace 10 Satyr 1o booke’, on all four pages of two conjugate folio leaves (followed by DoC 251.5), in a folder of unbound verse (at the top of the box). Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under RoJ 5.5.
RoJ 34
Copy, in a cursive hand, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet, the heading cropped by the binder.
In: A folio composite volume of manuscript and printed verse and prose, in various hands, 59 items, in old reversed calf. Assembled and indexed by Thomas Price (d.1704), a Roman Catholic, of Llanfyllin, Powys.
Later owned by one ‘Prue Haerley’ and by one Henry Parry. Sotheby's, 20 June 1928, lot 539, to Pickering. Pickering and Chatto's sale catalogue No. 651 (1983).
RoJ 35
Copy, in the hand of one of Edmund Waller's daughters.
In: A quarto miscellany of chiefly verse, with some prose and French exercises, including at least seventeen poems by or attributed to Waller, as well as a complete transcript of The Maid's Tragedy Altered, in more than one hand, the predominant hand that of one of Waller's daughters, written from both ends, some of the ascriptions to ‘Mr Waller’ added later in a different hand, 100 unnumbered leaves (including stubs of some extracted leaves [ff. 9-13v, 7r-v rev., 27r-v rev., 35-6v rev.]), in calf. Including such association texts as ‘An Epistle to my father Ox: Sep: ye 17: 1667’ (f. [2v]), ‘On ye Wallers arms’ (f. [15v]), a letter [by Waller] to ‘my Dearest Neece’ (ff. [20-1]) followed by a letter to her ‘Honrd Uncle’ ascribed in another hand to ‘Lady Speake’ (f. 21r-v), and ‘The ffollowing line my ffather write…’ dated from ‘Hallbarn Aprill ye 11 1685’ (f. [33v]). c.1680s [-1700s].
Scribbling inside the covers and on the flyleaves including (several times) the name ‘Edmond Waller’ and ‘Edmund Waller his Bookes’: i.e. very probably the poet's son, Edmund Waller the Younger (1651-99). Pinned inside the cover is a receipt dated 29 September 1645 for money received from Anne Waller, the poet's mother (d. 1653), signed by Anne Darell and witnessed by John Ford and John Pepys.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Younger Waller MS: WaE Δ 7. Briefly recorded in Thorn-Drury and in Wikelund (1970), pp. 77-8.
RoJ 36
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr against the present poetts Being an Allusion to Horrace Satyr: X: Booke: 1:...Written by the Earle of Rochester 1677’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 11.92. c.1681.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 37
Copy, headed ‘Rochesters censure of the poets’, on four folio pages. Copy, headed ‘Rochesters censure of the poets’, on four folio pages, formerly in a composite volume of MS verse and prose collected by Richard Frank (c.1698-1762), of Campsall Hall, Yorkshire. Late 17th century.
Chiefly comprising papers of the Yorkshire antiquary Nathaniel Johnston (1627-1705).
This volume recorded (as Bacon Frank Vol. 21) in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, pp. 457-8. The rest of the volume, lacking this poem, is now Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. c. 25.
Answer to a Paper of Verses Sent Him by Lady Betty Felton and Taken out of the Translation of Ovid's ‘Epistles’, 1680 (‘What strange surprise to meet such words as these’)
First published in A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (London, 1693). Vieth, p. 149. Walker, pp. 123-4. Love, p. 43.
RoJ 38
Copy, headed ‘The Earl of Rochester's answer to a paper of verses sent him by L B Felton taken out of ye translation of Ovid's ‘Epistles 1680’’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 3.5. c.1703-9.
‘Could I but make my wishes insolent’
See RoJ 71-3.
Dialogue (‘When to the King I bid good morrow’)
First published in Vieth, pp. 129-30. Walker, pp. 102-3. Love, p. 91, as ‘Dialogue L: R.’
RoJ 39
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 11.8 (RoJ Δ 12). c.1690s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090, f. 20r.
RoJ 40
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 11.91 (RoJ Δ 15). c.1690s-1700.
Edited from this MS by all editors.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38), p. 26.
RoJ 41
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 19 (RoJ Δ 16). c.1680.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.
RoJ 42
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in at least three professional hands, ii + 124 leaves, in half-calf marbled boards. c.1680s.
Owned by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 43
Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue between Nell Gwyn, & Dutchess of Portsmouth. By E: Rochester’.
In: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state entitled A Choice Collection of Poems, Lampoons, Satyrs &ca, xx + 412 pages (339-411 blank). c.1700.
Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 44
Copy, headed ‘Dialogue by Ld Rochester’.
In: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in six chiefly professional hands, 124 leaves (plus numerous blanks) and including, ff. 123r-4r, two tipped-in octavo leaves, in modern half red crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. c.1710.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.
RoJ 44.5
Copy, headed ‘On A Rareshow by ye Ld Rochester’ and here beginning ‘When first I bid King Charles good morrow’.
In: An unbound collection of poems chiefly of a bawdy nature or on affairs of state (including a number in the Rochester and apocryphal Rochester canon), in a non-professional hand, possibly derived at least in part from printed sources, 29 folio leaves. c.1700.
Among the papers of the Turner family of Kirkleatham.
A Dialogue between Strephon and Daphne (‘Prithee now, fond fool, give o'er’)
First published in Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, pp. 7-9. Walker, pp. 12-14. Love (two versions), pp. 300-1, as ‘[Epigram on Samuel Pordage]’, among ‘Impromptus’.
RoJ 45
Copy, headed ‘Song / Strephon. Daphny’, set out as eighteen four-line stanzas and numbered in darker ink ‘1’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 2 (RoJ Δ 17). c.mid-1680s.
Edited from this MS in Love.
RoJ 45.5
Copy, incomplete, beginning at stanza 5 ‘(Love like other little boys’).
In: the MS described under RoJ 1 (RoJ Δ 9). Early 18th century.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII , ff. 56r-7r.
RoJ 45.8
Copy of stanzas 4-7 (lines 13-28), beginning ‘Tell me then the reason why’, subscribed ‘Sr John Suckling’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly in one cursive hand, written from both ends, 271 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum boards. c.1700.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 48, f. 42v.
The Disabled Debauchee (‘As some brave admiral, in former war’)
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.
RoJ 46
Copy, headed ‘The Maim'd Drunkard’ and here beginning ‘As some old Admiral in former war’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 12 (RoJ Δ 1). c.1698-1700s.
RoJ 47
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 4. c.1667-82 [the poems by Marvell and Rochester c.1670s].
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 48
Copy, headed ‘The Maim'd Debauchee’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 13 (RoJ Δ 3). c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
RoJ 48.5
Copy, headed ‘The Maymed Drunkard’.
In: An octavo miscellany of Restoration poems, chiefly upon affairs of state, ii + 89 octavo leaves, in 19th-century red morocco. Predominantly in a single professional hand, with subsequent corrections or annotations in other hands or inks, and (f. 89v) with a pencil note after a table of contents ‘This Book is written by Brown’. Late 17th century.
Bookplate of Edward Vernon Utterson (1776?-1856), of the Isle of Wight, artist, book collector and literary antiquary. Sotheby's, 19 April 1852, lot 1318. Owned after 1911 by Robert Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Christie's, 26 November 1997, lot 75.
RoJ 49
Copy, headed ‘Thee Disabled Debauch’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 6 (RoJ Δ 6). c.1680s-1700s.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 50
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 14 (RoJ Δ 7). c.1690s.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 51
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 7 (RoJ Δ 8). c.1680s-90s.
Edited in part from this MS in Love. Collated in Hammond and in Walker.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 54, pp. 86-8.
RoJ 52
Copy, in double columns, here beginning ‘As some old Admirall in former war’, subscribed ‘Rochester’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 8 (RoJ Δ 10). c.1680s.
RoJ 54
Copy, headed ‘The maim'd Debauchee / The E. of Rochester to his Companions when he lay sick’, subscribed ‘Rochester’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly on affairs of state, including nine poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in a single small hand, 356 pages (misnumbered in pencil 1-344 and lacking the first few original leaves), in contemporary boards. Probably compiled by an Anglican cleric (or student before taking orders) associated with Cambridge University. c.late 1690s-1704.
Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 5.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Cambridge Miscellany MS: RoJ Δ 13.
RoJ 55
Copy, headed ‘The Maim'd Drunkard’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 18 (RoJ Δ 14). c.1680.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 56
Copy, headed ‘Upon his lyeing in & cou'd not drinke By ye E: of R:’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 19 (RoJ Δ 16). c.1680.
Edited from this MS in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 57
Copy, headed ‘The Debauch disabled’, on a single leaf.
In: A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands. c.1612-20.
In collections of the Manners family, Dukes of Rutland.
Recorded (erroneously as Volume XXIV) in HMC, 12th Report, Appendix V, Rutland II (1889), pp. 316-31.
The Duke of Rutland, Belvoir Castle, Letters & Papers, Verses, Vol. XXV, f. 66r.
RoJ 58
Copy, lacking the last three stanzas.
In: A miscellany of academic orations, verse, satires, etc., in Latin and English, iv + 111 leaves, in limp vellum. Compiled by William Doble (1649/50-75), of Trinity College, Oxford. c.1669-74.
R.C. Hatchwell, sale catalogue No. 23 (1973), item 50.
This MS reproduced in facsimile, transcribed and discussed in Clive T. Probyn, ‘A New Draft of Rochester's Disabled Debauchee’, The Scriblerian, 8 (1975), 1-4, and see also David Vieth's corrections to Probyn's transcript in ‘Errata’, The Scriblerian, 9 (1977), 147-8; collated in Walker.
RoJ 59
Copy, omitting stanza 10, subscribed ‘John E Rochester’.
In: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single neat hand, iv + 248 pages, imperfect at the end, in contemporary calf. Compiled by an Oxford University man. End of 17th century.
Sold by J.W. Jarvis & Sons, 5 December 1888.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 60
Copy, headed ‘My Ld Rochestrs’. The text followed by a Latin translation.
In: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, i + 66 leaves. c.early 1700s.
Inscribed name (f. ir) ‘Nathaniell Spinxs’.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 61
Copy, headed ‘By my Ld Buckhurst:’.
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.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 62
Copy, the poem here dated 1675.
In: the MS described under RoJ 10. c.1680.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 63
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single predominantly italic hand, 102 leaves (plus sixteen blanks), in contemporary calf. Compiled probably by one Thomas Martin (inscribed on the first page ‘Thomæ Martin Lib’ and including correspondence of ‘T M’). c.1674-6.
Inscribed at the beginning and end ‘For Mr John Souter at Mr John Merttins at Cushione Court in Broadstreet London’, ‘For Mr John Sowter at Mr John Merttins at his hous on Garlick hil next door to yeGreyhound Taverne’, and ‘Mr Nicholas Holoway at ye golden Ball in Nicholas lane London’.
Clark Library, Los Angeles, M3835M3 L651 [1674-6] Bound, f. [33v].
RoJ 64
Copy, untitled, the poem dated 15 February 1673.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and French, in several hands, written from both ends, 360 pages (the majority blank), in old calf. Inscribed (p. [41 rev.]) ‘J. Tyrell’ and compiled at least in part by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer and friend of the philosopher John Locke (1632-1704), a poem by whom (ff. [16v-17r]) he dockets as ‘By my dear Friend Mr J. Lock’. c.1670s-80s.
Later in the library of Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-85), first Baron Houghton, author and politician, and his son Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician.
RoJ 65
Copy, in an accomplished rounded hand, headed ‘The Lord Rochester uppon himselfe’, on one side of a single folio leaf, later endorsed ‘very spirited but, very licentious!’. Late 17th-early 18th century.
In: A bundle of unbound verse MSS, in various hands.
Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of De la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 66
Copy, headed ‘The Maim'd Debauchee By ye same Author’, on pp. [4-5] of a small quarto booklet of poems by or relating to Rochester. Late 17th century.
In: Miscellaneous literary papers, unbound, assembled by Adam Ottley (1685-1752), Registrar of the diocese of St David's, Wales. Among papers formerly at Pitchford Hall, Shropshire.
National Library of Wales, Pitchford Hall (Ottley) English Literary MSS (uncatalogued), A, A7.
RoJ 66.5
Copy, headed ‘The Maimed Debauchee by ye Ld R--r’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 44.5. c.1700.
RoJ 67
Copy, headed ‘Lo: R:s Ghost’, imperfect, lacking the last six stanzas.
In: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state entitled A Collection of Poems Sayters and Lampoones, 4178 pages (but a number excised). Late 17th century.
Front endpaper inscribed ‘Latchington 2 March 1787’. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps MS 8303). At Yale formerly Chest II, Number 3.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
The Discovery (‘Celia, the faithful servant you disown’)
First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions, By several Persons (London, 1672). Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, pp. 17-18. Walker, pp. 15-16. Love, pp. 10-11.
RoJ 68
Copy, here beginning ‘Caelia yt faithfull servant you disown’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 1 (RoJ Δ 9). Early 18th century.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII , ff. 54v-5r.
RoJ 69
Copy, here beginning ‘Caelia that faithfull Servant you disowne’
In: the MS described under RoJ 2 (RoJ Δ 17). c.mid-1680s.
The Earl of Rochester's Answer, to a Paper of Verses, sent him by L.B. Felton, and taken out of the Translation of Ovid's Epistles, 1680 (‘What strange Surprise to meet such Words as these?’)
See RoJ 38.
Epigram on Thomas Otway (‘To form a plot’)
First published in Poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Vivian de Sola Pinto (London, 1953), p. 118. Vieth, p. 148. Walker, p. 123, untitled. Love, p. 91, as ‘[Lines]’.
*RoJ 70
Autograph, untitled, on one side of part of a folio leaf, the verso with an address panel to ‘the Earle’, once folded as a letter.
In: A folio composite volume of papers of Rochester and his immediate circle, on various paper sizes, 25 leaves, all mounted on guards, in modern black leather gilt. Small collection of nineteen undated leaves of poetical drafts by Rochester and his immediate circle, on single sheets and scraps of paper of various size (folio, quarto, octavo), now inserted in a modern album, comprising: i: ff. 1-11v, autograph drafts of nine poems and a fragment of a prose comedy by Rochester. ii: ff. 12-14, 15-19v, eight autograph poetical drafts (including two versions of the same poem by the poet's wife, Elizabeth (née Mallet), Countess of Rochester (d.1698)). iii: f. 14v, a brief lyric (‘Your glory Phillis is in being lov'd’) in an unidentified hand. c.1660s-80.
Formerly in the library of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741), and quite possibly inherited from his father, the statesman Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724).
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Portland MS’. First recorded by Francis Needham in 1934 (see RoJ 71, RoJ 435); recorded and printed in part in various of Vivian de Sola Pinto's publications (1935-62); discussed and analysed in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 204-30; the poems by Rochester edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker (and see also RoJ 633). Facsimile examples in Greene, pp. 71 and 128 (see RoJ 396, RoJ 406); Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 57-8 (see RoJ 396); Peter Beal, Index of English Literary Manuscripts, Vol. II, part 2 (1993), Facsimile IX.
Edited from this MS by all editors.
Epilogue to Circe (‘Some few from Wit have this true Maxime got’)
First published, as ‘By the Earl of Rochester’, in Charles D'Avenant, Circe, a Tragedy (London, 1677). Vieth, p. 140. Walker, p. 58. Love, p. 122.
Epistle (‘Could I but make my wishes insolent’)
First published in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), p. 52. Vieth, p. 33. Walker, pp. 17-18. Love, p. 11, as ‘[Draft of a love poem]’.
*RoJ 71
Autograph draft, with revisions, untitled, on two pages of two conjugate sextodecimo leaves.
In: the MS described under RoJ 70. c.1660s-80.
Edited from this MS by all editors.
RoJ 72
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio miscellany of largely poems on affairs of state, in two professional hands, with others on six tipped-in leaves at the end, 205 leaves (plus blanks), in black morocco gilt. c.1730.
RoJ 73
Copy, in a bold italic hand, untitled, on pp. 1-2 of an unbound pair of conjugate quarto leaves. Late 17th century.
Edited from this MS in Love.
An Epistolary Essay from M.G. to O.B. upon Their Mutual Poems (‘Dear friend, I hear this town does so abound’)
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.
RoJ 75
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 13 (RoJ Δ 3). c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
RoJ 76
Copy of (i) lines 30-43, headed ‘A Fragment out of Ld Rochester, which may serve as an apology for the whole collection’ and here beginning ‘Perhaps Ill verses ought to be confin'd’, and (ii) lines 89-98, headed ‘Upon Fame — by the same’ and here beginning ‘There's not a thing on Earth that I can name’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 11.4 (RoJ Δ 4). Early 18th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
RoJ 76.3
Copy of lines 89-100, headed ‘Upon Comon Fame’, here beginning ‘There's not a thing on Earth yt I can name’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 48.5. Late 17th century.
RoJ 76.5
Copy, in double columns.
In: A folio volume of transcripts of state papers and parliamentary speeches, chiefly from 1618 to 1679, largely in a single mixed hand, written from both ends, 161 leaves, in old marbled boards. Late 17th century.
RoJ 76.8
Copy of lines 89-96, beginning ‘To ev'ry Rule their mustie Customers spawn?’.
In: A quarto volume entitled ‘Miscellany Poems, By Severall Hands. Collected by B. Cumberlege’, in various hands or styles of script, with occasional pen-and-ink drawings and use of coloured inks, xiv + 195 pages, including a table of contents, in later calf. c.1703.
Bookplate of Frederick Lewis Gay, of Brookline, Massachusetts, 1916.
RoJ 77
Copy, headed ‘To My Lord Mulgrave, from Rochester. An Epistolary Essay From M.G. to O.B. Upon their Mutuall Poems’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 14 (RoJ Δ 7). c.1690s.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 78
Copy, headed ‘A Letter from the E. of R: to my Lord O.B.’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 7 (RoJ Δ 8). c.1680s-90s.
This MS collated in Hammond and in Walker.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 54, pp. 108-12.
RoJ 79
Copy, headed ‘Part of an Epistolary Essay from M:G: to G:B: upon ye Mutuall poems’ and here beginning ‘Dr Friend, It seems ys town does so abound’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 1 (RoJ Δ 9). Early 18th century.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII , ff. 58v-9r.
RoJ 80
Copy, headed ‘An Epistolary Essay from J.N. to J.S. upon their mutuall poems. by. E. Rochestr for liberty of writeing’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 8 (RoJ Δ 10). c.1680s.
RoJ 81
Copy, headed ‘From E:R: to E:M:’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 17. c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 82
Copy, headed ‘An Epistolary Essay from M.B. to O.G. upon their mutuall Poems’, subscribed Rochester.
In: the MS described under RoJ 54 (RoJ Δ 13). c.late 1690s-1704.
Edited in part from this MS in Love.
RoJ 82.5
Copy of lines 1-45, on one side of a folio leaf, lacking the rest, in the hand of Sir John Molyneux, third Baronet, headed ‘An Epistolary Essay’. Late 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of over thirty verse manuscripts, in various hands, including that of Sir John Molyneux, third Baronet (1623-91).
Among the papers of the Molyneux family of Teversall, Nottinghamshire. Donated in 1977 by the eighth Lord Carnarvon.
Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Paul Davis, ‘An Unrecorded Collection of Restoration Scribal Verse Including Three New Rochester Manuscripts’, EMS 18 (2013), 139-172.
University of Nottingham, Molyneux Papers, Vol. II, MOL 237.
RoJ 83
Copy, headed ‘From E:R: to E:M.’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 18 (RoJ Δ 14). c.1680.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 84
Copy, headed ‘An Epistolary Essay very delightfull and solid from ye Ld: R: to ye Ld: M: upon their mutuall Poems’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 19 (RoJ Δ 16). c.1680.
Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker
RoJ 85
Copy, headed ‘An Epistolary Essay Very delightfull and Sollid from M:G: to O:B: Vpon their mutuall Poems’ and here beginning ‘Dear friend / It seemes this Towne does soe abound’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 2 (RoJ Δ 17). c.mid-1680s.
RoJ 86
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio volume principally of poems, the majority (at least 20) by Edmund Waller, some probably by members of his family, 73 unnumbered leaves, in calf gilt. Including copies of various drafts, fragments and extracts, as well as poems by other writers such as Anne Wharton, Sir Charles Berkeley, Sir Thomas Higgons (including part of a play by him), Elizabeth Taylor (Lady Wythens, afterwards Lady Colepeper), ‘Ephelia’, George Granville, the Duke of Buckingham, Sir George Etherege, the Earl of Rochester, James Shirley, and Thomas Rymer, also extracts from Dryden and Davenant; almost entirely in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, with considerable variation of style; an apparently second, unidentified, hand copying verse and prose (‘Memoire…par le Sieur Lycelot…Le 9me de Decembre 1687’ and ‘Instructions to the Judges of Assize &c Lent 1687/8’) on ff. [23r, 62r-7v, 70v]; two of these leaves ([65r and 70v]) docketed in a later hand (after 1713) ‘The Handwriting of Dr Atterbury’ and ‘Bishp Atterbury’ [meaning perhaps copied from Atterbury's writing (see WaE Δ 15)]; a draft letter addressed (as is clear from the content) to Catherine, Lady Ranelagh (1614-91), sister of the ‘noble and learned…Mr [Robert] Boyle’, on f. [16v], enclosing ‘ffathers last verses’ [not specified], noting his reluctance to write anything for the forthcoming marriage of Princess Anne and Prince George of Denmark [which took place on 28 July 1684], and observing that he has ‘now consecrated his remayning facullty in vers to devotion’; a poem ‘Of his voyage vp the river to vissett’ (beginning ‘In my breast Eternall flames’) on f. [71r] ascribed to ‘Mrs M Waller’ (presumably Waller's second wife, Mary Bresse or Breaux, d. 1677); some scribbling and calculations on ff. 3r, 71v, 72v, 73v, a label on the spine erroneously identifying the volume as a compilation by Brian Fairfax (1637-1711). c.1693-8.
Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1798-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9096.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the ‘Harvard MS’: WaE Δ 6.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
RoJ 87
Copy, in a professional hand, headed ‘A Letter To My Lord Musgraue’, subscribed ‘Rochester’, in a disbound fragment of a folio miscellany of poems. Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under RoJ 31.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 88
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo verse miscellany. End of 17th century.
Once owned by Henry Bracegirdle of Merton College, Oxford, who gave it to Hugh Massey in 1674. Dobell's catalogue Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1274. Colbeck, Radford & Co., The Ingatherer No. 38 (1934), item 224.
King's College, Cambridge, Hayward Collection, H. 11. 14, pp. 7-11.
RoJ 89
Copy, headed ‘My Ld R. to my Ld M’; imperfect, lacking p. 113.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, 148 pages (lacking pp. 55-8, 117-26). Late 17th century.
Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1284. Afterwards owned by John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector.
RoJ 89.5
Copy of lines 89-100, headed ‘Fame’ and here beginning ‘There's not a thing on Earth that I can Name’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, entitled ‘Poems & Verses on Several Occasions, MDCCXXVI’, in a mainly single hand, 66 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary green vellum boards. 1726-c.1768.
The title-page inscribed ‘Anna. Rogers. Junr: 1768’.
Discussed in Paul Hammond, ‘Some Eighteenth-Century Texts and Adaptations of Rochester in Leeds MS Lt 110’, EMS 18 (2013 forthcoming).
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 110, f. 60r.
RoJ 90
Copy, headed ‘A Letter from My Lord Rochester to the Earl of M.’, on three pages of two conjugate quarto leaves. Late 17th century.
Formerly Osborn MS. Chest II. Number 28.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
The Fall (‘How blest was the created state’)
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 86. Walker, p. 26. Love, p. 26.
RoJ 91
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 12 (RoJ Δ 1). c.1698-1700s.
RoJ 92
Copy in: Fragment of a quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state. Originally 90 leaves, but many excised and now comprising 24 leaves (plus blanks), ff. 4r-22r in a single professional hand; ff. 22v-6v (first stanza) in a later, less tidy, hand of the early 18th century; ff. 26v [after first stanza]-27r apparently in a third hand. Late 17th - early 18th century.
Inscribed twice on the front paste-down ‘Richard Ashley’ and a deleted inscription possibly reading ‘Lowes Park’. Purchased c.1960 from a bookstall in Paris.
A complete facsimile edition of this MS, with discussion of the texts, in Pierre Danchin, ‘A Late Seventeenth-Century Miscellany’, Cahiers Élisabéthains, 22 (Universite Paul Valery-Montpellier, October 1982), 51-86. Recorded in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Ashley MS: RoJ Δ 5.
RoJ 93
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 14 (RoJ Δ 7). c.1690s.
Edited from this MS in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 94
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 7 (RoJ Δ 8). c.1680s-90s.
Edited from this MS in Walker. Collated in Hammond.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 54, p. 130.
RoJ 95
Copy, headed ‘Song The Fall’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 1 (RoJ Δ 9). Early 18th century.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII , ff. 51v-2r.
RoJ 96
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 17. c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 97
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 18 (RoJ Δ 14). c.1680.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker. Facsimile in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
RoJ 98
Copy, headed ‘The Fall a Song’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 19 (RoJ Δ 16). c.1680.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 99
Copy, headed ‘Song. The Fall’, numbered in a darker ink ‘10’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 2 (RoJ Δ 17). c.mid-1680s.
RoJ 100
Copy, headed ‘The ffall of Man’, with other verses, on one side of a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands, 171 leaves, in half brown morocco. Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary, his brother Oliver, and Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
<Fragment> (‘What vain, unnecessary things are men!’)
First published in Poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Vivian de Sola Pinto (London, 1953), p. 118. Vieth, pp. 102-3. Walker, p. 90-1, as ‘[Fragment of a Satire on Men]’. Love, pp. 74-6, as [Satire].
*RoJ 101
Autograph draft with revisions, untitled, on three pages of a pair of conjugate octavo leaves.
In: the MS described under RoJ 70. c.1660s-80.
Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.
RoJ 102
Copy, in a bold italic hand, untitled, on both sides of a single quarto leaf, imperfect. Late 17th century.
‘Great Mother of Aeneas, and of Love’
First published in Poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Vivian de Sola Pinto (London, 1953), p. 50. Vieth, pp. 34-5. Walker, p. 50. Love, p. 109, as ‘[Translation of Lucretius, De rerum natura, i. 1-4]’.
*RoJ 103
Autograph draft, with revisions, untitled, on one side of a single folio leaf.
In: the MS described under RoJ 70. c.1660s-80.
Edited from this MS by all editors.
Grecian Kindness (‘The utmost grace the Greeks could show’)
First published in Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, p. 53. Walker, p. 19. Love, p. 17.
RoJ 104
Copy, untitled but numbered ‘(1)’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 2 (RoJ Δ 17). c.mid-1680s.
Edited in part from this MS in Love.
RoJ 104.1
Copy. of lines 1-4, headed ‘Song / A young Lady to her Antient Lover’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 1 (RoJ Δ 9). Early 18th century.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII , f. 60v.
The History of Insipids (‘Chaste, pious, prudent, Charles the Second’)
See Vivian de Sola Pinto in ‘“The History of Insipids”: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell’, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.
RoJ 104.2
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 42. c.1680s.
RoJ 104.25
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 48.5. Late 17th century.
See Vivian de Sola Pinto in ‘“The History of Insipids”: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell’, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii).
RoJ 104.26
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 48.5. Late 17th century.
RoJ 104.28
Copy in: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in two or more professional hands, 303 leaves, in modern black morocco gilt. In two parts: Part I on ff. 1r-149r (followed by blanks and then an index on ff. 150-1); Part II, on ff. 152-302 (with an addition in another hand on f. 303), entitled A Collection of the most choice and Private Poems, Lampoons &c from the withdrawing of the late King James 1688 to the year 1701 Collected by a Person of Quality. c.1703.
A note of payment (f. 1r) for purchase on 25 March 1703. Owned by Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724).
Cited in IELM, II.i, as the ‘Harley MS’: MaA Δ 6. Marvell recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.
RoJ 104.3
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 4. c.1667-82 [the poems by Marvell and Rochester c.1670s].
See Vivian de Sola Pinto in ‘“The History of Insipids”: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell’, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii).
RoJ 104.31
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 26. Late 17th century.
RoJ 104.32
Copy in: An unbound bundle of verse MSS, in various hands. Late 17th century.
Among archives of the Copped (or Copt) Hall estate, chiefly relating to the Conyers family.
Essex Record Office, Chelsmsford, D/DW Z3, [unnumbered item].
RoJ 104.35
Copy, in a professional rounded hand, on five folio pages, once folded as a letter or packet, slightly imperfect. Late 17th century.
See Vivian de Sola Pinto in ‘“The History of Insipids”: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell’, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii).
RoJ 104.38
Copy, in a professional italic hand, in double columns, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in various hands, 296 leaves, in modern half-morocco.
Among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.
RoJ 104.4
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 11.4 (RoJ Δ 4). Early 18th century.
RoJ 104.41
Copy, headed ‘The Chronicle’.
In: An oblong quarto miscellany chiefly of poems on affairs of state, including ten in the Marvell canon and other works attributed to him, largely in a single hand, with later additions in other hands, written along the length of the page with the spine upwards, i + 92 leaves, in contemporary calf. Used from the reverse end, for a 79-page catalogue of c.1400 books dating from 1519 to the mid-18th century, in two hands, headed ‘Catalogue of Mr. Okeover's Library taken Septr: 1760’ with a supplement headed ‘Found in London in Feby 1764 by Mr. Walhouse — after Mr. Leeke Okeover's death in Mr. Okeover's house in John Street, Gray's Inn Lane, London’. c.late 1670s [-1764].
Inscribed (f. ir) ‘tho may’. Sotheby's, 22 July 1980, lot 541.
Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the ‘Okeover MS’: MaA Δ 7.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 55, ff. 43v-5v.
RoJ 104.42
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 11.7. c.1680s.
RoJ 104.43
Copy, in double columns, on both sides of a single folio leaf.
In: Two poems, in a professional cursive hand, on three folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th century.
National Library of Wales, Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers M 1/1/22, pp. [5-6].
RoJ 104.44
Copy, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.
In: MSS.
Among papers of the Herbert family, Barons Herbert of Cherbury. Formerly Powis MSS (1990 deposit).
RoJ 104.45
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 11.8 (RoJ Δ 12). c.1690s.
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090, ff. 43r-6r.
RoJ 104.46
Copy, headed ‘The History of the Tymes’.
In: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, including twelve poems in the Marvell canon (plus prose and apocryphal poems), in probably a single professional hand with variations of style (but for another hand on pp. 189-92), 192 pages (plus over 90 blank leaves and an Index), in modern red morocco. The predominant hand in the MS is the same as that in Yale Osborn MS b 105. c.1680s.
In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 1.
Marvell items recorded and some poems collated in POAS, I.
RoJ 104.5
Copy in: A folio composite volume of state letters, speeches and other papers, in various largely professional hands, folio- and quarto-size leaves, 577 leaves.
See Vivian de Sola Pinto in ‘“The History of Insipids”: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell’, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii).
RoJ 104.51
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 54 (RoJ Δ 13). c.late 1690s-1704.
See Vivian de Sola Pinto in ‘“The History of Insipids”: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell’, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii).
RoJ 104.52
Copy in: A quarto volume of Poems upon Affairs of State, 170 pages (plus 80 blanks), in contemporary black morocco gilt. Predominantly in a single professional hand, with a table of contents at the end, the volume produced under the auspices of the manuscript purveyor ‘Captain’ Robert Julian (fl. c.1650-90), ‘Secretary of the Muses’, with a few additions in two other professional hands and by subsequent owners. c.1680s.
Inscribed by William Stanley (c.1655-1702), ninth Earl of Derby, ‘I bought this booke of Julian not so much for my own use as to prevent others reading of it’. Inscribed later by his brother James Stanley (1664-1736), tenth Earl of Derby, ‘When Knowsley House was puled doune (for else it would soon haue faln of it self) this Book was found hid in one of ye Chimneys, to be sure by my Brother Derby’.
Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 20-30.
RoJ 104.53
Copy, subscribed ‘Rochester’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, in possibly two neat rounded hands, 366 pages plus a five-page index, dated at the end ‘Finis August ye. 6th 1717’. 1715-17.
RoJ 104.54
Copy, ‘writt...att Wyclyff August ye 9 Anno domini 1676’.
RoJ 104.55
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, 22 leaves plus numerous blanks, in calf. Late 17th century.
P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue, The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1280. Acquired from Quaritch, 23 July 1959. Formerly Uncat. MSS. Rochester, Commonplace book and 821 R58c.
A microfilm of the MS volume is in the British Library, M/573.
RoJ 104.58
Copy, in a mixed hand, in double columns, on pages 1 and 3 of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th century.
Facsimile page in Greene, p. 84.
RoJ 104.6
Copy in: A composite quarto verse miscellany, 199 leaves, in calf. Compiled (and ff. 2-39 written) by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop Canterbury; the rest in other hands. Mid-17th century.
RoJ 104.62
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 11.91 (RoJ Δ 15). c.1690s-1700.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38), pp. 76-81.
RoJ 104.63
Copy, ‘from Ra: Gregge iunr. 8o. March 77’. 1677.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in several hands, written from both ends, with a list of contents, 108 leaves. Late 17th century.
Bookplate of Charles W.G. Howard, ‘The Gift of the Rt. Hon. Sir David Dundas Knt. of Ochtertyre 1877’. Formerly Osborn MS. Chest II, No. 13. vol. 2.
RoJ 104.65
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 67. Late 17th century.
RoJ 104.7
Copy in: A folio volume of poems chiefly on affairs of state, in professional hands, ff. 1-49 comprising poems of the 1640s, ff. 49v onwards Restoration poems up to 1681, 174 leaves (including twelve blanks), in contemporary calf, both covers stamped ‘1642’, with remains of clasps. Including nine poems in the Marvell canon (plus apocryphal poems); ff. 1-157 a single unit in variant styles of hand; ff. 158-62 in yet another hand on a smaller tipped-in quire of paper. Mid-late 17th century.
Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1993) as the Douce MS: MaA Δ 3. Marvell contents recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.
See Vivian de Sola Pinto in ‘“The History of Insipids”: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell’, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii).
RoJ 104.8
Copy, headed ‘The History of the times’, in double columns.
In: the MS described under RoJ 104.7. Mid-late 17th century.
The Imperfect Enjoyment (‘Naked she lay, clasped in my longing arms’)
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 37-40. Walker, pp. 30-2. Love, pp. 13-15.
RoJ 105
Copy, headed ‘The Disappointment’ and here beginning ‘Naked she clasp'd me in her longing arms’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 12 (RoJ Δ 1). c.1698-1700s.
RoJ 106
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 6 (RoJ Δ 6). c.1680s-1700s.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 107
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 14 (RoJ Δ 7). c.1690s.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 109
Copy, headed ‘The Disappointment’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 18 (RoJ Δ 14). c.1680.
Edited in part from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 110
Copy, of lines 1-12, ascribed to ‘ye E: of R:’, imperfect, lacking the remainder.
In: the MS described under RoJ 19 (RoJ Δ 16). c.1680.
This MS recorded in Vieth, with a facsimile as frontispiece; collated in Walker.
RoJ 110.5
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 8.5. c.1705.
RoJ 112
Copy, headed ‘The imperfect enjoyment by E: R--r’.
In: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, 151 pages (plus 128 blank pages), with a table of contents (f. 1*r), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. End of 17th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
Impromptu on Charles II (‘God bless our good and gracious King’)
First published, in a version headed ‘Posted on White-Hall-Gate’ and beginning ‘Here lives a Great and Mighty Monarch’, in The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon (London, 1707). Vieth, p. 134. Walker, p. 122, as ‘[On King Charles]’.
RoJ 113
Copy, headed ‘The King Praising the Translation of the Psalms, Says my Lord Rochester...’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 11.8 (RoJ Δ 12). c.1690s.
Edited in part from this MS in Vieth. Recorded in Walker.
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090, f. 35r.
RoJ 114
Copy of a version headed ‘An Epitaph on K. Ch: 2d by Ld Rochester’ and beginning ‘Here lies our prettie wittie King’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 54 (RoJ Δ 13). c.late 1690s-1704.
RoJ 115
Copy, headed ‘One Tyme the King was a prayseing the Translation of the Psalmes, And my Lord Rocheter being by (Says he) 'an't please Your Maty Ile show you presently how they Run, And thus begun’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 11.91 (RoJ Δ 15). c.1690s-1700.
Edited in part from this MS in Vieth; recorded in Walker.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38), pp. 59-60.
RoJ 116
Copy of a version headed ‘The Ld Rochesters verses vpo the King an occasion of His Majestys saying he would leave everyone to his liberty in lathing when Himself was in company, & would not take wt was said, at all amiss, viz:’, beginning ‘We have a pretty witty king’, subscribed ‘These verses were put in one of the windows of the Room’. 17 November 1706.
In: An autograph diary of the antiquary Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), 256 octavo pages, in contemporary calf. 23 September 1706-18 February 1706/7.
Edited from this MS in Reliquiae Hearnianae, ed. Philip Bliss, 2 vols (Oxford, 1857), I, 114 and in Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne, Vol. I, ed. C.E. Doble (Oxford Historical Society, 2, 1885), p. 308.
RoJ 116.5
Copy of a version, headed ‘On the King’, beginning ‘Farewell my witty witty king’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 42. c.1680s.
RoJ 117
Copy, headed ‘Writte on ye Glass’, the verses in a different order and here beginning ‘And now God bless our Gratious king’, on a single folio leaf. End of 17th century.
In: A large double-folio composite volume of literary, political and miscellaneous papers, on paper and parchment, in various hands and sizes, 339 leaves, in modern cloth.
Among papers of the North family, Barons North and Earls of Guilford, seated principally at Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire.
RoJ 118
Copy, headed ‘King Cha: praiseing the Translation of the Psalmes, Ld Rochester said Ile show you how they run’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 44. c.1710.
Edited in part from this MS in Vieth; edited in Walker.
RoJ 119
Copy of a version headed ‘King Charles 2ds: Epitaph’ and beginning ‘Here lies our Sovereign the King’, subscribed ‘Earl of Rochester’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single neat hand, with a title-page ‘A collection of Poems by Several Hands’,118 pages (plus many blanks), in modern calf gilt. c.1728.
Inscribed on front free endpaper ‘C. Plumptre Sepr. 7th 1728’: i.e. Charles Plumptre (1712-99), the probable compiler. Bookplate of John Plumptre. Item 183 in an un identified sale catalogue.
This MS recorded in Vieth.
RoJ 120
Copy of a version headed ‘E. of Rochester's Character of K. Ch. 2nd’ and beginning ‘Here lives a great & mighty King’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, a neat mixed hand predominating up to f. 55r, 151 leaves (including a few blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1730.
Inscribed (in another hand) on the front pastedown ‘Thomas Boydell’. Formerly Folger MS 4108.
This MS recorded in Vieth.
RoJ 121
Copy of a version headed ‘King Charles's Epitaph. By the E: of Roch:’ and beginning ‘Here Lyes our Sovereign the King’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, 186 pages, in contemporary calf. c.1728.
RoJ 122
Copy of a version headed ‘Posted on Whitehall gate pr: my Ld. Rochester’ and here beginning ‘Here lives a great & mighty Monarch’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in a largely secretary hand, 222 pages, in calf. c.1705.
Impromptu on Louis XIV (‘Lorraine you stole. by fraud you got Burgundy’)
First published in The Agreeable Companion (London, 1745). Vieth, p. 21. Walker, p. 121, as ‘[On Louis XIV]’. See also A. S. G. Edwards, ‘Rochester's “Impromptu on Louis XIV”’, N&Q, 219 (November 1974), 418-19.
RoJ 123
Copy, following the Latin version and here beginning ‘You Loraine stole; by fraud you got Burgundy’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 4. c.1667-82 [the poems by Marvell and Rochester c.1670s].
RoJ 123.5
Copy, headed ‘On the French King’.
In: A quarto notebook of English and Latin verse and prose, in two or more cursive hands, ii + 100 leaves, in later black morocco. Late 17th century.
Armorial bookplate of Henry Ellison, of University College, Oxford, and his inscription (f. 43r) dated March 14th 1841. Donated in 1951 by Mrs G.L. Barstow.
RoJ 124
Copy, untitled and following the Latin version, with other verses on a folio leaf.
In: A composite volume of verse and prose, iii + 155 leaves. Collected by Richard Frank (c.1698-1762), of Campsall Hall, Yorkshire, and chiefly comprising papers of the Yorkshire antiquary Nathaniel Johnston (1629-1705). Late 17th century.
W.H. Robinson, sale catalogue No. 74 (1944), items 21 and 271.
This volume recorded (as Bacon Frank Vol. 21) in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, pp. 457-8.
RoJ 125
Copy, two Latin verses headed ‘On ye French Kgs Conquests’, then ‘Turn'd thus by ye E. of Rochester’ and here beginning ‘Lorrain he stole; by Fraud he got Burgundie’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 3. c.1682-91.
This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.
RoJ 126
Copy, in a cursive hand, headed ‘E of Rochester’ and here beginning ‘Lorrain he stole by fraud he got Burgundy’, with other texts on one side of a single octavo leaf.
In: A folio guardbook of separate state papers, in various hands, 271 leaves (but some removed to MS Tanner 89*).
This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.
RoJ 126.3
Copy in: A quarto notebook of verse and prose, in English, Latin and French, in several hands over a period, much in a small cursive hand, 50 leaves, in quarter-morocco gilt. Probably compiled in part by Edmund Killingworth (of Winchester College and New College, Oxford). Late 17th-early 18th century.
Discussed in Hilton Kelliher, ‘Dryden Attributions and Texts from Harley MS. 6054’, BLJ, 25.1 (Spring 1999), pp. 1-22, with facsimiles of ff. 20r and 27r on pp. 4 and 10.
Cited in Kelliher, p. 14.
RoJ 126.5
Copy of a version headed ‘Thus [Englished deleted] Paraphras'd by an English gen’ and beginning ‘Lorain hee stole; by fraud hee gott Burgundy’, following a Latin version headed in the margin ‘Sett in some remarkable places att Paris’, all under the general heading ‘To the French King 1684’.
In: A quarto volume of works by or relating to Sir Walter Ralegh, largely in a single stylish hand, with later additions after f. 106v probably in another hand, 113 leaves (ff. 29v-106v blanks), in contemporary calf. Probably chiefly in the hand of Andrew Card, who inscribes f. 5r ‘Ex libris Andreæ Card 1674’. c.1674-84.
Bookplate of Richard Cranmer [i.e. Richard Dixon (d.1828), of the manor of Mitcham, Surrey, who claimed descent from Archbishop Cranmer.
RoJ 126.8
Copy, headed ‘Eng-’, following the Latin version.
In: A formal folio miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, chiefly on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, individual items dated as late as 1697, 286 pages. c.late 1690s.
RoJ 127
Copy, here beginning ‘Lorrain he Stole, by Fraud he got Burgundy’, following the Latin text.
In: An octavo miscellany chiefly of verse, in several hands, with two tables of contents, 207 leaves (lacking ff. 1-4), in calf. c.1725.
Inscribed (f. 207v) ‘James Dyson’ and ‘James Thompson’.
Edited from this MS in Walker.
RoJ 128
Copy, headed ‘Anglice’ and following a Latin version.
In: the MS described under RoJ 104.41. c.late 1670s [-1764].
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 55, f. 36r.
RoJ 129
Copy, headed Thus English'd, here beginning ‘Lorain Thou stole, by Fraud Thou got Burgundy’, following two Latin distichs under the heading ‘On the French King’.
In: A quarto formal verse anthology entitled The Whimsical Medley or A Miscellaneous Collection of severall Pieces in Prose & Verse [etc.], in a single stylish italic hand, with a tipped-in six-leaf table of contents, bound in three volumes, also incorporating printed pamphlets, 217 + 232 + 216 leaves (plus blanks), each volume in contemporary calf gilt. Compiled by Theophilus Butler (1669-1723), first Baron Newtown of Newtown-Butler, book collector. c.1720.
Old pressmark I. 5. 1-3.
Impromptu on the English Court (‘Here's Monmouth the witty’)
First published in The Agreeable Companion (London, 1745). Vieth, p. 135. Walker, p. 123, as ‘A Lampoon upon the English Grandees’.
RoJ 129.5
Copy of a version beginning ‘Monmouth's Witty’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 4. c.1667-82 [the poems by Marvell and Rochester c.1670s].
RoJ 129.8
Copy, headed ‘The following lines spoke ex tempore by the late Lord Rochester, at the Dutchess of Portsmouths’ and here beginning ‘Monmouth the witty Lauderdale the pretty’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 7 (RoJ Δ 8). c.1680s-90s.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 54, p. 449.
RoJ 130
Copy, with introductory preamble ‘...my Ld Rochester vpo the Kings Request made ye following verses’. 17 November 1706.
In: the MS described under RoJ 116. 23 September 1706-18 February 1706/7.
Edited from this MS in Reliquiae Hearnianae, ed. Philip Bliss, 2 vols (Oxford, 1857), I, 113-14; in Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne, Vol. I, ed. C.E. Doble (Oxford Historical Society, 2, 1885), p. 308; and in Walker, p. 220.
RoJ 131
Copy of an untitled version beginning ‘Here's Lauderdale ye pretty’, with an anecdotal introduction: ‘The same E. of Roch. coming in another time when ye K. & others were drinking Lisbon, They had bin trying to make a Rhime to Lisbon, Now saies ye K. here's One will do it. Rocheste takes a glass & saies’, subscribed ‘He drinks & ran away’.
In: An oblong duodecimo verse miscellany, perhaps largely in one hand, with later additions by others, generally written across the page with the spine turned upwards, 136 leaves, with (f. 2r-v) a table of contents, in half green morocco. Including ten poems by Cowley (on ff. 113r-v, 124r-9v). c.1668-1713.
Inscribed (f. 2r) ‘Several Divine poems out of a Mss. of Mr. Hanserd Knolly's (thô [I suppose deleted] not of his composing)’; (f. 36r) ‘Finis Manuscript, H. K.’; (f. 1r and elsewhere) ‘H Packwood Anno 1668’ and ‘George Gaynor, 1681’. Item 988 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Purchased on 12 February 1876 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.
This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.
RoJ 132
Copy of a version headed ‘Lord Rochesters Character of the Court of K: Ch: IId’ and beginning ‘Lauderdale the pretty’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 72. c.1730.
This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.
RoJ 133
Copy of a version headed ‘opon ye K—g. D: of Y—k. &c:’, beginning ‘Lauderdale the witty’, and subscribed ‘Ld Rochester’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Poems & Satires in the Time of Charles the 2d. &c. Collected & written by Oliver Le Neve Esqr.’, in a single rounded hand, 80 leaves, in 19th-century half brown calf. Compiled by Oliver Le Neve (d.1711), younger brother of Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary. c.1690.
Bookplate of the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Lot 8055 in the sale of his library by Thomas King, 7 May to 16 June 1798. Formerly Chetham's MS 8013.
This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.
RoJ 134
Copy of a version headed ‘A Lampoon upon the English Grandees. 1676’ and beginning ‘Monmouth ye wittiest’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 11.92. c.1681.
This MS recorded in Vieth; edited in Walker.
Lampoone (‘To longe the Wise Commons have been in debate’)
See RoJ 260-270.
A Lampoon upon the English Grandees (‘Monmouth the wittiest!’)
See RoJ 130-134.
‘Leave this gawdy guilded Stage’
See RoJ 406.
A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country (‘Chloe, In verse by your command I write’)
First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.
RoJ 135
Copy, headed ‘A Letter from Artemiza’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 12 (RoJ Δ 1). c.1698-1700s.
RoJ 136
Copy, with a sidenote ‘This poeme is supposed, to bee made by ye Earle of Rochester, or Mr Wolseley’ [i.e. Robert....who wrote the Preface to Valentinian].
In: the MS described under RoJ 4. c.1667-82 [the poems by Marvell and Rochester c.1670s].
Edited from this MS by all editors.
RoJ 137
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 13 (RoJ Δ 3). c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
RoJ 138
Copy of lines 177-255, headed ‘The Cheating Whore. or, a Caveat to young Fops. Out of Ld Roch:'s Poems’ and here beginning ‘This in my time was an observed Rule’, and lines 147-68, headed ‘On a Witty Whore’ and here beginning ‘I took this time to think, what nature meant’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 11.4 (RoJ Δ 4). Early 18th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
RoJ 139
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 6 (RoJ Δ 6). c.1680s-1700s.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 140
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 14 (RoJ Δ 7). c.1690s.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 141
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 1 (RoJ Δ 9). Early 18th century.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII , ff. 38r-43r.
RoJ 142
Copy, headed ‘Artemiza to Chloe’, subscribed ‘Rochester’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 8 (RoJ Δ 10). c.1680s.
RoJ 144
Copy of lines 171-264, headed ‘Satyr’ and here beginning ‘You smile to see me (whom ye world pchance’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 11.8 (RoJ Δ 12). c.1690s.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090, ff. 35v-7r.
RoJ 145
Copy, headed ‘A Letter fancyd from Artemisia in ye Town to Cloe in the Country’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 54 (RoJ Δ 13). c.late 1690s-1704.
RoJ 146
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 18 (RoJ Δ 14). c.1680.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 147
Copy of lines 171-264, headed ‘Satyr’ and here beginning ‘You smile to see me (whom the world perchance’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 11.91 (RoJ Δ 15). c.1690s-1700.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38), pp. 61-4.
RoJ 148
Copy, headed ‘A Letter fancyd from Artemisa in ye Towne to Cloe in ye Countrey. By ye E: of R:’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 19 (RoJ Δ 16). c.1680.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 149.5
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 8.5. c.1705.
RoJ 150
Copy of lines 171-260, headed ‘Satyr by E Rochstr:’ and here beginning ‘You Smile to see me (whom the World perchance)’.
In: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in a single professional hand (up to f. 372r), with later additions on ff. 372r-203r(c.1738-45), 203 leaves, in contemporary speckled calf (rebacked). c.1700 [-1745].
Once owned by C. Stuteville (inscribed f. 2r) and later, c.1880, by the Grimston family and by the Byrom family, of Kilnwick Hall, East Yorkshire. Bought from E.L.G. Byrom in 1921.
This MS collated in Walker.
RoJ 151
Copy of lines 1-176, in a professional hand, on two conjugate folio leaves, imperfect, lacking the remainder. Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under RoJ 117.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 152
Copy in the hand of the poet John Oldham (1653-83), misbound out of sequence.
In: A quarto volume of poems and letters in the hand of the poet John Oldham (1653-83), vi + 310 pages. c.1675-82.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 153
Copy on eight quarto leaves.
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.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 154
Copy of lines 75-163, here beginning ‘Who had prevaild on her through her own skill’, on two folio pages. Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under RoJ 100.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 154.5
Extract, lines 40-3, here beginning ‘Love ye most generous passion of the mind’, headed ‘E: of Rochestr’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 126.3. Late 17th-early 18th century.
RoJ 155
Two extracts, headed ‘On a young Heir’: (i) eighteen lines beginning at line 56 (here ‘The female sex, 'tho born like monarcks free’): (ii) ten lines, headed ‘On Love’, beginning at line 40 (here, ‘Love the most generous passion of the mind’), transcribed from a printed source.
In: A quarto composite volume of verse, in several (possibly female) rounded hands, 79 leaves, in 19th-cntury half-morocco. c.1730.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
RoJ 156
Copy, headed ‘Artemissa to Cloë’ and here beginning ‘Cloe! by yor comand in verse I write’, subscribed ‘Rochester’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 28. c.1680s-1702.
RoJ 157
Copy of lines 140-264, here beginning ‘ye Lady of y[e house]’, on a single mutilated long ledger-size leaf tipped-in. Late 17th century.
In: A folio verse miscellany, including 35 poems by Donne, in several hands, written from both ends, 30 leaves (plus stubs of ten extracted leaves), damp-stained, in modern boards. The text related to the ‘Skipwith MS’ (DnJ Δ 21). c.1620-33.
Inscribed name (f. 8r) of ‘Edward Smyth’ and (along margin of f. 11v) ‘in Mr Templers’. Among the collections of John Patrick (1632-95), religious controversialist.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Edward Smyth MS’: DnJ Δ 45.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 158
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 30. c.1678-80s.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 159
Exemplum of the printed broadside A Letter from Artemiza in the Town, to Chloe in the Country. By a Person of Honour ([London, 1679]). Copy with a total of ten lines inserted in MS (corresponding to lines 20-3, 34-5, 183-4 and 203-4 in Vieth's text). Late 17th century.
This item in a large collection of Popish Plot pamphlets sold at Sotheby's, 24 July 1987, lot 262, to Quaritch.
RoJ 159.5
Copy, headed ‘A letter fancyed from Artemisa in the Town To Cloe in the Country’, on nine quarto pages, endorsed on the blank tenth page ‘Richard Willughby bound to Willm Hun[t?] 7. May 21, Car: 2. [i.e. 1669] to pay 18li upon the 24th of June’, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1669.
Sotheby's, 17 July 1997, part of lot 20.
This MS discussed, with facsimile pages, in Nicholas Fisher, ‘A new dating of Rochester's Artemiza to Chlöe’, EMS, 8 (2000), 300-19.
RoJ 160
Copy of lines 171-264, headed ‘Satyr By Ld: Rochester’ and here beginning ‘You smile to see me (whom the World perchance’
In: A tall folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in professional hands, 257 leaves, in modern calf gilt. In three sections each with its own title-page. Early 1700s.
First section: ‘A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &ca Not yet Printed’.
Second section (f. 102r): ‘A Collection of Choice Poems, Satyrs, & Lampoons From 1672 to 1688 Never printed’.
Third section (f. 146r): ‘A Collection of Poems. From 1688 to 1699. 1703/4’.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 161
Copy, subscribed ‘Rochester’, in a professional hand, on pp. 1-9, in a disbound fragment of a folio miscellany of poems paginated 1-34. Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under RoJ 31.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 162
Copy on six folio pages. Late 17th century.
Among the papers of the Egerton family, Earls of Bridgewater.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 163
Copy, headed ‘A letter fancyed from Artemise in Town to Cloe in ye Country’, lines 197-200 added in the margins of p. 29.
In: the MS described under RoJ 88. End of 17th century.
King's College, Cambridge, Hayward Collection, H. 11. 14, pp. 11-20, 29.
RoJ 163.5
Copy of lines 40-49.
In: the MS described under RoJ 89.5. 1726-c.1768.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 110, f. 69r-v.
RoJ 164
Copy of lines 171-260, headed ‘Satyr: On The Country Squire (by L Rochester)’ and here beginning ‘You smile to me (whom the world perchance’.
In: A large folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, probably in several hands, one professional hand predominating, with (ff. 1r-2r) a ‘Table’ of contents, 200 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf. c.1695.
Bookplate of William, Earl of Craven (1608-97), soldier and Privy Counsellor, of Hampstead Marshall, Berkshire.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 165
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 89. Late 17th century.
RoJ 166
Copy in the hand of one of Edmund Waller's daughters, imperfect, lacking lines 1-61 and here beginning ‘To an exact perfection they have wrought’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 35. c.1680s [-1700s].
Letter from Miss Price to Lord Chesterfield (‘My Lord, / These are the gloves that I did mention’)
First published in Letters of Philip, second Earl of Chesterfield (London, 1829). Vieth, p. 24. Walker, pp. 61-2. Love, pp. 92-3, as [Lines from Chesterfield's letterbook] From Mistress Prise Maid of honour to her Majesty who sent mee a pair of Itallian Gloves.
RoJ 167
Copy, headed ‘From Mrs: Prise [i.e. Henrietta Maria Price] Maid of honour to her Majesty who sent me a pair of Itallian Gloves’, subscribed ‘I had a mind you should see these inclosed papers which were writ by the Lord Rochester, and that hath occationd you this trouble from your humble servant’.
In: A large folio letterbook of Philip Stanhope (1633-1713), second Earl of Chesterfield, in a single neat hand, written from both ends, 211 leaves, in modern half red morocco. Early 18th century.
Sale of Charles K. Sharpe, 7 January 1852, lot 2330. Purchased from Boone 11 December 1852.
Edited from this MS by all editors.
Lord Moulgrave's character. By Lord Rochester (‘With Equall grace and force he walks and writes’)
Love, pp. 92-3.
RoJ 167.5
Copy, ascribed to Rochester.
In: the MS described under RoJ 8 (RoJ Δ 10). c.1680s.
Edited from this MS in Love.
Love and Life (‘All my past life is mine no more’)
First published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 90. Walker, p. 44. Love, pp. 25-6.
RoJ 168
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 12 (RoJ Δ 1). c.1698-1700s.
RoJ 169
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 13 (RoJ Δ 3). c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
RoJ 169.5
Copy, headed ‘Song / Love and Life’, inscribed ‘E R’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 48.5. Late 17th century.
RoJ 170
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 6 (RoJ Δ 6). c.1680s-1700s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 171
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 14 (RoJ Δ 7). c.1690s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 172
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 7 (RoJ Δ 8). c.1680s-90s.
This MS collated in Hammond and in Walker.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 54, p. 128.
RoJ 173
Copy, headed ‘Song Love & Life’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 1 (RoJ Δ 9). Early 18th century.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII , f. 51v.
RoJ 175
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 18 (RoJ Δ 14). c.1680.
Edited from this MS in Vieth and in part in Love. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 176
Copy, headed ‘Love & Life a Song’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 19 (RoJ Δ 16). c.1680.
Edited from this MS in Walker; recorded in Vieth.
RoJ 177
Copy, headed ‘Song. Love and life’, numbered in darker ink ‘9’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 2 (RoJ Δ 17). c.mid-1680s.
RoJ 178
Copy, headed ‘Roch: Love & Life. a Song’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 21. c.1690.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
RoJ 179
Copy, headed ‘(Joyes Past)’, lacking the last stanza.
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.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.
RoJ 180
Copy, headed ‘An Other’, with other verses, on the reverse side of a single folio leaf.
In: the MS described under RoJ 100.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
RoJ 181
Copy, in double columns, untitled.
In: the MS described under RoJ 120. c.1730.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
RoJ 182
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under RoJ 88. End of 17th century.
King's College, Cambridge, Hayward Collection, H. 11. 14, p. 29.
RoJ 183
Copy, headed ‘To Phillis’.
In: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &ca Not yet Edited, in a single professional rounded hand (the same as in University of Nottingham, Pw V 42 and University of Nottingham, Pw V 44), 463 pages plus a twelve-page index, in contemporary blind-stamped calf. c.1705.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; collated in Walker.
RoJ 184
Copy, headed ‘To Phillis’.
In: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, with some rubrication and decoration, 358 pages (including over 60 blanks), with a table of contents, in contemporary black morocco gilt bearing a coronet. c.1680s.
Formerly Phillipps MS 7740 and ‘Osborn MS. Box XXII, Number 3’.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.
The Mistress (‘An age in her embraces passed’)
First published in Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, pp. 87-8. Walker, pp. 29-30. Love, pp. 27-9, as Song.
RoJ 185
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 1 (RoJ Δ 9). Early 18th century.
Edited in part from this MS in Love.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII , ff. 52v-3v.
RoJ 186
Copy, headed ‘Song’, numbered in a darker ink ‘12’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 2 (RoJ Δ 17). c.mid-1680s.
Mistress Knights Advice to the Dutchess of Cleavland in Distress For a Prick (‘Quoth the Dutchess of Cleavland to Councillor Knight’)
See RoJ 431-434.
The Mock Song (‘I swive as well as others do’)
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 136-7. Walker, p. 110. Love, p. 102, as ‘Answer’ beginning ‘I Fuck no more then others doe’.
Texts usually accompanied by Sir Carr Scroope's song ‘I cannot change as others do’ (Love, pp. 101-2) of which Rochester's poem is a burlesque.
RoJ 187
Copy, headed ‘Answer’ and here beginning ‘I F—k no more than others do’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 12 (RoJ Δ 1). c.1698-1700s.
RoJ 188
Copy, headed ‘Answar’ and here beginning ‘I ffuck no more then others do’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 17. c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; collated in Walker.
RoJ 189
Copy, headed ‘Answer’ and here beginning ‘I ffuck no more then others doe’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 18 (RoJ Δ 14). c.1680.
Edited in part from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 190
Copy of lines 1-4, imperfect, lacking the remainder.
In: the MS described under RoJ 19 (RoJ Δ 16). c.1680.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.
My Lord All-Pride (‘Bursting with pride, the loathed impostume swells’)
First published, as ‘Epigram upon my Lord All-pride’, in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 142-3. Walker, pp. 116-17. Love, pp. 93-4.
RoJ 191
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 12 (RoJ Δ 1). c.1698-1700s.
RoJ 192
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 13 (RoJ Δ 3). c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
RoJ 193
Copy, headed ‘Ansuerd againe by Sr. CR: Scroope on ye. 1d. Alpride’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 6 (RoJ Δ 6). c.1680s-1700s.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 194
Copy, headed in the margin ‘Ld al Pride’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 17. c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 195
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 18 (RoJ Δ 14). c.1680.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 196
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 19 (RoJ Δ 16). c.1680.
Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.
RoJ 196.5
Copy, headed ‘Ansuer'd againe by Sr char: Scroop on ye Ld Alpride’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 8.5. c.1705.
RoJ 197
Copy in a small quarto verse miscellany (ff. 78r-82v).
In: A folio guard book of miscellaneous MSS, 95 leaves, in 19th-century black morocco gilt. Collected by John Payne Collier (1789-1883).
Sotheby's, 16-28 November 1885 (Ellis sale).
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 198
This entry separately classified as EL 8738.
In: A quarto booklet of poems, in a single probably professional hand, on eight leaves, foliated 59-63 (64r-6v blank), unbound. Late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker
RoJ 199
Copy, in an accomplished italic hand, on one side of a single folio leaf. c.1700.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 200
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 11.92. c.1681.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
On Cary Frazier (‘Her father gave her dildoes six’)
First published in Vieth, Attribution (1963), p. 237. Vieth (1968), p. 137. Walker, p. 123, as ‘Upon Cary Frazer’. Love, p. 294, in his Appendix Roffensis.
RoJ 201
Copy, headed ‘Upon Betty Frazer 1677’ and subscribed ‘Rochester’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 11.92. c.1681.
Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.
On King Charles (‘God bless our good and gracious King’)
See RoJ 113-122.
On Louis XIV (‘Lorrain he Stole, by Fraud he got Burgundy’)
See RoJ 123-129.
On Mrs. Willis (‘Against the charms our ballocks have’)
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 137-8. Walker, pp. 44-5. Love, p. 37.
RoJ 202
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 12 (RoJ Δ 1). c.1698-1700s.
RoJ 203
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 14 (RoJ Δ 7). c.1690s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 204
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 17. c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; collated in Walker.
RoJ 205
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 18 (RoJ Δ 14). c.1680.
Edited from this MS in Vieth, in Walker, and in part in Love.
RoJ 206
Copy of lines 1-4 only, headed ‘Song’, imperfect, lacking the remainder.
In: the MS described under RoJ 19 (RoJ Δ 16). c.1680.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.
On Poet Ninny (‘Crushed by that just contempt his follies bring’)
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 141-2. Walker, pp. 115-16. Love, pp. 107-8.
RoJ 208
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 13 (RoJ Δ 3). c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
RoJ 209
Copy, headed ‘On S.C.S. For Answering Ephelia To Bajazett’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 6 (RoJ Δ 6). c.1680s-1700s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 210
Copy, headed ‘Poet Ninny’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 17. c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; collated in Walker.
RoJ 211
Copy, headed ‘Poet Ninny’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 18 (RoJ Δ 14). c.1680.
This MS collated in Walker.
RoJ 212
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 19 (RoJ Δ 16). c.1680.
Edited from this MS in Walker and in part in Love, Recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
RoJ 212.5
Copy, headed ‘On Sr cha: Scroop for Answering Ephelia To Bajazet’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 8.5. c.1705.
RoJ 213
Copy in a small quarto verse miscellany (ff. 78r-82v).
In: the MS described under RoJ 197.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.
RoJ 214
This MS separately classified as EL 8737.
In: the MS described under RoJ 198. Late 17th century.
Edited in part from this MS in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 215
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 11.92. c.1681.
Edited in part from this MS in Vieth; collated in Walker.
On Rome's pardons (‘If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold’)
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among ‘Poems Possibly by Rochester’. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.
RoJ 216
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 13 (RoJ Δ 3). c.1680s.
RoJ 217
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 11.4 (RoJ Δ 4). Early 18th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
RoJ 217.2
Copy, headed ‘E. Rochester. On Romes Pardon’.
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, p. 46.
RoJ 217.4
Copy, in a mixed hand, headed ‘On Romes pardons by the E. of Rochester’, endorsed ‘32 / 1679 / Rochester / Rymes on poperie’. Late 17th century.
In: A quarto composite volume of papers relating to Presbyterian dissent, in various hands and paper sizes, 268 leaves., in modern half-calf marbled boards. c.1717.
Among the working papers and collections of Robert Wodrow (1679-1734), ecclesiastical historian.
RoJ 217.6
Copy, headed ‘On Rooms Pardons’, here beginning ‘If room can Pardon sins as papists hold’.
In: A small pocket notebook (11.5 x 5.5 cm.), largely in one small hand, unpaginated, in contemporary calf. Probably compiled by Patrick Senhouse (fl.1712-34): his inscription ‘Patricious Senhouse 1722’. c.1720s.
Also inscribed ‘Humphray Senhouse’. Together with another commonplace book probably compiled by Patrick Senhouse (‘Patt Senhouse 1720’), an octavo in contemporary limp vellum, also inscribed ‘John Senhouse’.
RoJ 217.8
Extracts.
In: A quarto miscellany of principally religious verse, in several hands, 213 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.
Inscribed (f. i) ‘Anthony Search his most excellent booke Janry 6th Anno Dom: 1695’.
RoJ 219
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 54 (RoJ Δ 13). c.late 1690s-1704.
RoJ 219.5
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 8.5. c.1705.
RoJ 221
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, chiefly Advice to Painter poems, 82 leaves, in quarter-brown morocco. Late 17th century.
Sold by P.J. & A.E. Dobell, 1938.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
RoJ 223
Copy, headed ‘On Rome's pardons’ and here subscribed ‘Ea of Rochr’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 3. c.1682-91.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
RoJ 224
Copy, untitled, endorsed ‘Verses about Roman pardons and indulgences’, on a single half-folio leaf. Late 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous antiquarian papers, in prose and verse, in various hands and sizes, viii + 108 pages, in early 18th-century half-calf.
Among collections of Thomas Smith (1638-1710), Oxford scholar and editor. Owned on 16 March 1710/11 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary, who records (p. v) Smith's bequest of the volume to him.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
RoJ 224.5
Copy in: A comminplace book, compiled largely by Colonel Thomas Culpeper (d.1708). c.1700-1708.
RoJ 225
Copy, headed ‘To the Romanists’ on a single folio leaf.
In: A folio composite volume of papers, 171 leaves. Assembled by Dr W. Wall. c.1700.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
RoJ 227
Copy, headed ‘Verses made by the Earle of Rotchester against the Popish Indulgences’, subscribed ‘For My Lord ffountan hall These’, on one side of a single folio leaf, the verso inscribed in another hand with a message to ‘My Lord’ signed ‘Ja. Nicolson’ and dated from Edinburgh 28 April 1694. c.1694.
In: An unbound folder of MSS of verse and prose, on affairs of state and other matters, in various hands.
Papers of the Lauder family of Fountainhall.
RoJ 228
Copy, in double columns, headed ‘E: Rotchester on Romes pardons’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany of Scottish provenance, in a single largely italic hand, vii + 224 leaves, including an Index, one of what was once two volumes, in quarter vellum on marbled boards. c.1740.
Phillipps MS 9616 (vol. 2).
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
RoJ 229
Copy, headed ‘I remember to haVe seen a Copy of Verses written by the Earl of Rochester (who had read and seen all the Fopperies and Idolatries of the Church of Rome, as they are practis'd abroad) to which our poor deluded English Papists are utter Strangers; I think they are very pathetick as follows’.
In: A quarto commonplace book and miscellany of verse and prose, in various hands, with additions up to 1751, ii + 662 pages (some erratically numbered), in contemporary calf. c.1672-1715 [plus later additions].
Ownership inscriptions (pp. [i] and [662]), dated 1672, by John Digby, of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Other inscribed names including (p. 662) ‘Thomas Digby’, ‘Edward Digby’, ‘Robert Debnam’, and (p. [640]) ‘Josh: Churchill 1694’.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
RoJ 230
Copy, headed ‘The Earl of Rochester on Romes pardons’.
In: A quarto miscellany entitled Poems, tracts & memoirs Collected by J Rolf beginning Anno 1700, in several neat hands, written over a period from both ends, 195 pages, with a tipped-in index, in contemporary green vellum. c.1700-5 [with additions to 1777].
Inscribed inside the front cover ‘N.H.W. Tytheridge, St James's Square, Notting Hill, W.’ Bookplate of G. Davies. Bequeathed by Susan Greene Dexter.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
RoJ 231
Copy, written sideways down the length of the page.
In: MS poems on otherwise blank leaves (pp. 25-[28]) at the end of a printed exemplum of The Speeches of the Lord Digby (London, 1641), heavily cropped by a binder, now disbound. c.1690.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 30, p. 25.
RoJ 231.5
Copy, headed ‘Romes Pardons’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 89.5. 1726-c.1768.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 110, f. 53r.
RoJ 232
Copy, on a single folio leaf, split in two.
In: A collection of unbound papers, including verse MSS. Papers of John Salvio, tutor to the Ward family, of Hooton Pagnell Hall, near Doncaster, Yorkshire, and mostly written or composed by him. c.1730s.
Sotheby's, 22 July 1980, lot 0.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. q. 46, Folder B17589, f. 1r.
RoJ 232.5
Copy, headed ‘Ld Rocheter verss’, f. [iiir] inscribed ‘E: Rochesters boack’.
In: MS verses on front and rear endpapers of a printed exemplum of The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley (London, 1684), a folio in contemporary calf gilt (repaired). End of 17th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. q. 70, f. [ir].
RoJ 233
c.1685.
In: A quarto composite volume of verse and prose manuscripts, in several hands, 165 leaves. Including (ff. 104-35) a late 17th-century quarto verse miscellany in a small mixed hand, possibly compiled by an Oxford University man.
RoJ 234
Copy in: A quarto formal anthology of verse, in a single neat rounded hand, arranged by genre, entitled ‘A Collection of Serious Humorous and Affectionate Poems’, 131 leaves, on rectos only, in modern cloth. Early 18th century.
RoJ 235
Copy, in a cursive hand, subscribed ‘Rochester’, on one side of a single folio leaf, inscribed ‘ffor Hod: Cor: Robert H: Esqr.’, once folded as a letter. Late 17th century.
RoJ 236
Copy, headed ‘Romes Delusions’, on a single quarto leaf. Late 17th century.
RoJ 237
Copy in: A quarto account book of George Downing relating to legal matters, subsequenty used as a commonplace book by a member of the Willes or Lovell families, 80 pages. 1785-9 [-c.1800].
RoJ 238
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, ix + 484 pages, in contemporary vellum. Entitled (p. iv) ‘A Miscellany of various things Being A Collection of rarities / In two Books / the First Book is cheifly Composed of Ænigma's Dialogue Epigrams Epitaphs Fragments of Dr. Latimers Sermons Poems Satyra, songs, Love verces & other accations &c...Collected from ye year 1697 to ye year 1728 per: Jer: Cliff Apoth; at Tenterden In Kent’. c.1728.
Inscribed (p. 484) ‘Sarah Cliff Her Book July ye 18 1741 Given her By her father’.
RoJ 239
Copy, headed ‘On ye E of Ro—r’ and endorsed ‘On ye Church of Rome by ye E of Ro:’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, 91 pages, in vellum. c.1760.
Formerly ‘Osborn MS. Box III, Number 27’.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
RoJ 240
Copy, headed ‘On ye Popes Indulgencies by ye Earle of Rochester Ld: Willmote’.
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’.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
RoJ 240.5
A three-line extract, subscribed ‘Rochester’, as preliminary to a long poem headed ‘Rome's Pardon -- a Tale’ (‘It happen'd on a certain Time’), occupying three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. Early 18th century.
On the Lady Mary Stewart who Eateing a honeycomb a Bee flew out and stung her neck (‘This Bee alone of all his race’)
First published in Love (1999), pp. 282-4.
RoJ 240.8
Copy, in double columns, subscribed ‘Rochester’ (and indexed as ‘by Ld Ro.’).
In: the MS described under RoJ 8 (RoJ Δ 10). c.1680s.
Edited from this MS in Love.
On the Supposed Author of a Late Poem in Defence of Satyr (‘To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain’)
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 132-3. Walker, pp. 114-15. Love, pp. 106-7. Texts are often followed by Sir Car Scroope's ‘Answer’ (‘Raile on poor feeble Scribbler, speake of me’: Walker, p. 115. Love, p. 107).
RoJ 241
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 12 (RoJ Δ 1). c.1698-1700s.
RoJ 242
Copy, followed (p. 55) by ‘The Answr’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 13 (RoJ Δ 3). c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
RoJ 242.5
Copy, headed ‘My Lord Rochester on Sr. C. S.’, followed (f. 80r) by ‘His Answer’ (‘Raile on poor feeble Scribbler’).
In: the MS described under RoJ 48.5. Late 17th century.
RoJ 243
Copy, headed ‘Answer to the Defence of Satyr’, subscribed ‘Rochester’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 6 (RoJ Δ 6). c.1680s-1700s.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 244
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 14 (RoJ Δ 7). c.1690s.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 245
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 7 (RoJ Δ 8). c.1680s-90s.
This MS collated in Hammond and in Walker.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 54, pp. 134-5.
RoJ 246
Copy, headed ‘My Ld. Rochesters answr to ye defence of satyr’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 8 (RoJ Δ 10). c.1680s.
RoJ 247
Copy, subscribed ‘Rochester’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 17. c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 249
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 18 (RoJ Δ 14). c.1680.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 250
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 19 (RoJ Δ 16). c.1680.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 251
Copy, headed ‘A Poet who writ in the praise of Satyr’ and here beginning ‘To vex and torture thy Vnmeaning Braine’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 2 (RoJ Δ 17). c.mid-1680s.
RoJ 252
Copy, headed ‘On a Poet who writ in Praise of Satyr, by ye Earl of Roches.’ and here beginning ‘To vex & torture thy unmeaning Brain’, on p. [2] of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves.
In: A quarto composite volume of letters, historical and heraldic collections, 103 leaves, in 18th-century quarter-vellum boards.
Owned on 21 August 1709 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
RoJ 253
Copy, in a professional hand, inscribed as by ‘Ld Rochester’, on one side of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th century.
In: A large folio guardbook of letters and verse, in Latin, English and French, in various hands and paper sizes, 224 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco. Late 17th century.
On the verso ‘The Answer Sir Carr Scroope’ (Raile on poore feeble Scribler speak of me)
RoJ 254
Copy, headed ‘On a poet who writt in ye praise of Satyr by ye. Earl of Rochester’ and here beginning ‘To vex & Torture thy unmeaning Brain’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 3.5. c.1703-9.
RoJ 255
Copy, headed ‘On the Author of the Defence of Satyr’, in a professional hand, on pp. 37-8, in a disbound fragment of a folio miscellany of poems paginated 35-8. Late 17th century
In: the MS described under RoJ 31.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 256
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 32. c.1670-1705.
RoJ 257
Copy, in a mixed hand, headed ‘On the supposed Author of the Defence of Satyre’, on one side of a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 259
Copy, headed ‘On the Supposed Author of the Defence off Satyr: vid: pag: 1012: 1677’ and subscribed ‘Writt by the Lord Rochester’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 11.92. c.1681.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
On the Women about Town (‘Too long the wise Commons have been in debate’)
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 46-7. Walker, pp. 68-9, as ‘Lampoone’. Love, p. 42, as ‘Lampoone by the Earle of Rochester’.
RoJ 260
Copy, headed ‘Lampoone by ye Earl of Rochester’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 4. c.1667-82 [the poems by Marvell and Rochester c.1670s].
Edited from this MS by all editors.
RoJ 261
Copy, headed ‘Clanbrazill & Fox’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 6 (RoJ Δ 6). c.1680s-1700s.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 262
Copy, headed ‘Satyr’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 6 (RoJ Δ 6). c.1680s-1700s.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 263
Copy, headed ‘Essay’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 11.8 (RoJ Δ 12). c.1690s.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090, f. 119r.
RoJ 264
Copy, headed ‘Essay’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 11.91 (RoJ Δ 15). c.1690s-1700.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38), pp. 223-4.
RoJ 265
Copy of an eighteen-line version, headed ‘I send your Ld shipp a copy of verses of my Ld Rochers makeing though inferiour to those of St James his Parke’.
In: Autograph letter by the London solicitor Godfrey Thacker to his cousin Theophilus Hastings, seventh Earl of Huntingdon, including verses. 20 March 1672/3.
Edited in Lucyle Hook, ‘Something More About Rochester’, MLN, 75 (1960), 478-85.
Edited from this MS in Hook (p. 481). Recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 266
Copy, headed ‘Satyr’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 104.46. c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 267
Copy, headed ‘Essay’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 11.9. c.1680s-90s.
This MS recorded in Vieth.
RoJ 269
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 67. Late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth; erroneously cited as ‘Osborn MS fb 54’ and collated in Walker.
RoJ 269.5
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 217.6. c.1720s.
RoJ 270
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr on women about Towne’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a non-professional hand, with subsequent index, 34 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. Late 17th century.
Bookplates of The Rt. Hon. John, Lord Brownlowe, Baron Charleville and Viscount Tyrconnel and of Belton House, Lincolnshire (seat of the Earls Brownlow). and possibly once owned by Sir John Brownlow, third Baronet (1659-97). Myers sale catalogue No. 348 (1947), item 344.
Set of photocopies in British Library, RP 5106.
A Pastoral Dialogue between Alexis and Stephan (‘There sighs not on the plain’)
First published, as a broadside, in London, 1682. Vieth, pp. 4-6. Walker, pp. 9-11. Love, pp. 3-8.
RoJ 271
Copy of a 35-line version, headed ‘Dialogue / Alexis & Strephon’ and here beginning ‘Strephon there sighs not on this plain’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 2 (RoJ Δ 17). c.mid-1680s.
RoJ 271.3
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 8.5. c.1705.
Plain Dealings Downfall (‘Long time plain dealing in the Hauty Town’)
First published in Poems on several occasions. Written by a late person of honour (London, 1685), p. 54. Love, pp. 277-8.
RoJ 271.5
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 11.4 (RoJ Δ 4). Early 18th century.
This MS recorded in Love.
RoJ 271.8
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 89.5. 1726-c.1768.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 110, f. 52r.
The Platonic Lady (‘I could love thee till I die’)
First published in Collected Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. John Hayward (London, 1926). Vieth, pp. 25-6. Walker, pp. 23-4. Love, p. 35.
RoJ 272
Copy, subscribed ‘Lord Rochester’.
In: A quarto miscellany, principally of poems on affairs of state, xvi + 130 leaves. Entitled ‘Horæ subsecivæ, or Misselanies in Prose & Verse’ and arranged in four ‘books’. Early 18th century.
Given by J. Cater in 1756 to the Rev. William Cole (1714-82). In the Dalrymple sale. Afterwards owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary. Haslewood sale (16 December 1833), lot 1386. Evans, 1834. Owned in 1836 by Reginald Peacock (his bookplate). Bought from George A. Johnston, Edinburgh bookseller, 18 March 1885.
Edited from this MS in Hayward, in Vieth, and in Walker.
RoJ 273
Copy in: A folio miscellany of poems on ‘ye Governmt. of ye Passions’, in six ‘books’, 373 leaves, in contemporary calf (rebacked). In a non-professional hand with amateur engrossing and decoration, compiled by someone with a daughter named Cater. Early 18th century.
Edited in part from this MS in Love. Recorded in Walker.
A Ramble in St. James's Park (‘Much wine had passed, with grave discourse’)
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 40-6. Walker, pp. 64-8. Love, pp. 76-80.
RoJ 274
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 12 (RoJ Δ 1). c.1698-1700s.
RoJ 275
Copy, incomplete.
In: the MS described under RoJ 13 (RoJ Δ 3). c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
RoJ 275.5
Extracts.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, nine leaves. Compiled by the botanist James Petiver (1663-1718). End of 17th century.
RoJ 276
Copy, headed ‘L. Rochester on St James's Park’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 6 (RoJ Δ 6). c.1680s-1700s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 277
Copy, headed ‘Upon ye Nightwalkers in St. James Parke’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 14 (RoJ Δ 7). c.1690s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 278
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 7 (RoJ Δ 8). c.1680s-90s.
This MS collated in Hammond and in Walker.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 54, pp. 100-8.
RoJ 279
Copy, headed in the margin ‘A Ramble in ye Parke’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 17. c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; collated in Walker.
RoJ 280
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 18 (RoJ Δ 14). c.1680.
Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.
RoJ 281
Copy of lines 1-13, headed ‘A Ramble in St James's Parke. By ye E: of R:’, imperfect, lacking the remainder.
In: the MS described under RoJ 19 (RoJ Δ 16). c.1680.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.
RoJ 281.5
Copy, headed ‘The Lord Rochester on St James's Park’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 8.5. c.1705.
RoJ 282
Copy of lines 1-138 in two hands, headed in a third hand ‘Lord Rochester’. c.1670s.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single professional hand, with later additions on ff. 58v-62v in three or four other hands, 65 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt. Compiled by one Thomas Crosse, whose name appears (f. 1*) in ‘An Acrosticke upon my name’, as well as subscribed (‘Tho: Cro:)’ to a poem on ff. 23v-4r. c.1630s [-1670s].
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.
Regime d'viver (‘I rise at Eleven, I Dine about Two’)
See DoC 314-318.5.
Rhyme to Lisbon (‘A health to Kate!’)
First published in A Choice Collection of Poetry (London, 1738). Vieth, p. 20. Walker, p. 122.
RoJ 283
Copy, ascribed to Rochester.
In: the MS described under RoJ 131. c.1668-1713.
Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.
Rochester Extempore (‘And after singing Psalm the Twelfth’)
First published in Vieth (1968), p. 22. Walker, p. 122.
RoJ 284
Copy, headed ‘Rochester extempore 1670’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 11.92. c.1681.
Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.
A Rodomontade on his Cruel Mistress (‘Trust not that thing called woman: she is worse’)
See JnB 425-430.
Sab: Lost (‘She yields, she yields! Pale Envy said amen’)
First published in Vivian de Sola Pinto, Rochester: Portrait of a Restoration Poet (London, 1935), p. 49. Vieth, p. 34. Walker, p. 26. Love, p. 123.
*RoJ 285
Autograph draft, on one side of a single quarto leaf.
In: the MS described under RoJ 70. c.1660s-80.
Edited from this MS by all editors.
Satyr (‘Say Heav'n-born Muse, for only thou can'st tell’)
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Love, pp. 81-5.
A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)
First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning ‘All this with indignation have I hurled’) in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as ‘Satyr’. Love, pp. 57-63.
The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, ‘A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's “A Satyr against Reason and Mankind”’, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different ‘Answer’ poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).
RoJ 287
Copy of lines 1-173, headed ‘A Satyr’, with a side-note ‘This satyre is supposed to be a Translation of ye Earle of Rochesters out of Italian’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 4. c.1667-82 [the poems by Marvell and Rochester c.1670s].
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 287.5
Copy of lines 174-221, headed ‘A Supplemt to my Ld Rochesters Satyr agt Man not Edited’, beginning ‘All this wth Indignation have I hurld’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 48.5. Late 17th century.
RoJ 288
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr on Man’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 13 (RoJ Δ 3). c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
RoJ 289
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr against Mankind’, the epilogue separately headed ‘The Apology’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 6 (RoJ Δ 6). c.1680s-1700s.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 290
Copy of the epilogue (lines 174-221), headed ‘Apologie’ and here beginning ‘All this with Indignation have I hurld’
In: the MS described under RoJ 6 (RoJ Δ 6). c.1680s-1700s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 291
Copy, headed ‘A Satyre Agst: Man’, lines 174-221 separately headed ‘An Addition to the Satyr Against Man’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 14 (RoJ Δ 7). c.1690s.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 291.5
Copy in: Index volume to DE/P F37 compiled by Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, wife of Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706).
Hertfordshire Record Office, DE/P F42, [unspecified page numbers].
RoJ 291.8
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr on Man’.
In: A tall folio verse miscellany, compiled by George Weller (1710-78) of Tonbridge, Kent, 157 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum boards. c.1750.
Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1132 (1990), item 128, with a facsimile example.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. q. 50, pp. 200-3.
RoJ 292
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr against man’, lines 174-221 separately headed ‘A supplement to ye satyr Against Man. by ye E. of Rochestr’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 8 (RoJ Δ 10). c.1680s.
RoJ 293
Copy, headed ‘Satyr’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 17. c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
RoJ 294
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr on Man’, subscribed ‘Rochester’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 54 (RoJ Δ 13). c.late 1690s-1704.
RoJ 295
Copy, headed ‘Satyr’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 18 (RoJ Δ 14). c.1680.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 296
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr Against Man, By ye E: of R:’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 19 (RoJ Δ 16). c.1680.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 297.5
Copy, headed ‘A-satyr-Agst. Mankind’, lines 174-221 separately headed ‘The Appology’, subscribed ‘By the Earle of Rochester.’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 8.5. c.1705.
RoJ 298
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 21. c.1690.
Lines 174-221 edited from this MS in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 300
Copy of lines 1-28, headed ‘A satyr on man’, deleted.
In: the MS described under RoJ 58. c.1669-74.
RoJ 301
Copy of lines 1-95, headed ‘Satyre agst Mankind’, in a portion of a quarto miscellany.
In: A composite volume of verse, i + 126 leaves. Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary. Late 17th century.
Given to the library in 1954 by N.R. Ker.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 302
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr against Mankind’, the epilogue separately headed ‘Addition’, subscribed ‘John E. Rochester’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 59. End of 17th century.
Edited in part from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 303
Copy of lines 1-173, headed ‘A satyr on Man’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 60. c.early 1700s.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 304
Copy of lines 1-165 in the hand of the poet John Oldham (1653-83), headed ‘Satyr upon Man’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 152. c.1675-82.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 305
Copy of lines 1-173, with alterations in another hand, headed ‘A Satyr on Man. Anno. 74’, subscribed ‘By Ld of Rochester’ and docketed underneath ‘Of Man’, on two long ledger-size leaves. Late 17th century.
In: A guardbook of separate verse items extracted from the bound volumes MSS Tanner 306/1 and 306/2.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 306
Copy of lines 1-173, headed ‘Satyr’, on three quarto leaves (of a six-leaf gathering). Late 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands, 215 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco. Collected and largely copied by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian. Early-mid-18th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 307
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr on Man: By ye Ld Roch:’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 61. c.late 1630s-late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 308
Copy of lines 1-173, headed ‘a Satyr against Man, & Reason’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany probably associated with Oxford. Late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 309
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr against Man by the E— of R—r’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 112. End of 17th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 310
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr against man by ye Earl of Rochester’. c.1680.
In: An oblong octavo miscellany, in English and Latin, chiefly in one hand, 231 leaves, in modern calf gilt. Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘White Kennett ex aulâ Scti Edmundi apud Oxonienses: Octobris 18mo 1678’, being Volume II of the collections of White Kennett (1660-1728), Bishop of Peterborough, historian. c.1678.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 311
Copy of lines 1-173.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, including material relating to Oxford University, probably in several hands, 55 leaves, in mottled leather gilt. c.1677.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Richard Enock [b.1657/8] e coll: Trin: Oxon’, possibly the principal compiler.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 312
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr on man’, subscribed ‘Rochester’, followed (pp. 52-62) by ‘A Satyr for man in answer to that against man’ (beginning ‘Were I a Spiritt to choose for mine own share’).
In: the MS described under RoJ 28. c.1680s-1702.
RoJ 313
Copy of lines 121-73, untitled and here beginning ‘Though one's a Statesman, t'other but a Hound’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 30. c.1678-80s.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 314
Exemplum of the printed broadside A Satyr against Mankind. Written by a Person of Honour ([London, 1679]). Exemplum of the printed broadside A Satyr against Mankind. Written by a Person of Honour ([London, 1679]) with at least nine substantive alterations in MS. Late 17th century.
This item in a large collection of Popish Plot pamphlets (the Verney Collection) sold at Sotheby's, 24 July 1987, lot 262, to Quaritch.
RoJ 314.5
Copy of lines 174-96. Added at the end of a printed broadside of the poem.
RoJ 315
Copy of lines 1-173, headed ‘Satyr against Mankind’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 64. c.1670s-80s.
RoJ 316
Copy of lines 1-13, untitled, this text quoted after the title-page (p. 151) ‘Corinna. or Human Frailty. A Poem. Also An Answer to ye Earl of Rochesters Satyr. against Man, which begins thus’, ‘An Answer to the Satyr Against Man’ (beginning ‘Were I a Spirit free (which thought's as vain’) occurring on pp. 162-4.
In: the MS described under RoJ 76.8. c.1703.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
RoJ 317
Copy, headed ‘Satyr On Man’, subscribed ‘Rochester’, in a professional hand, on pp. 12-19, in a disbound fragment of a folio miscellany of poems paginated 1-34. Late 17th century
In: the MS described under RoJ 31.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 318
Copy of lines 1-173, headed ‘A Satyr Ld Roches-.’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in a single cursive hand, 376 pages (including blanks), in contemporary calf. Compiled almost entirely by Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, wife of Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706), and inscribed by her inside the front cover ‘Sarah Cowper 1673’. Possibly compiled in part from texts supplied by Martin Clifford (c.1624-77), erstwhile secretary of the Duke of Buckingham and Master of the Charterhouse. c.1673-1700s.
Discussed in Harold Love, ‘Two Rochester Manuscripts Circulated from the Charterhouse’, The Library, 6th Ser. 16/3 (September 1994), 225-9.
RoJ 319
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr against man by the Earl of Rochester’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 104.55. Late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 320
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr agst man — by Ld Rochester’, on two pairs of conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.
RoJ 321
Copy, headed ‘Satyr agt. reason and mankind by ye Earle of Rochester Copied for and by ye desire of ye Right Honorable ye Lady Anne Somerset by Arthur Somerset 1689....’.
In: A folio booklet of verse chiefly by Rochester, nine leaves. 1689.
King's College, Cambridge, Hayward Collection, H. 10. 10, ff. [1r-6r].
RoJ 322
Copy of lines 1-10, written with the page turned sideways.
In: the MS described under RoJ 321. 1689.
King's College, Cambridge, Hayward Collection, H. 10. 10, f. [1r rev.].
RoJ 323
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr: & Com: Roffens’. June 1674.
In: A verse miscellany. c.1674.
Owned by Henry Bracegirdle, of Merton College, Oxford, and in 1674 by one Hugh Massey.
King's College, Cambridge, Hayward Collection, H. 11. 13, ff. [7v-9v].
RoJ 324
Copy, headed ‘A Sater against Man’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 88. End of 17th century.
King's College, Cambridge, Hayward Collection, H. 11. 14, pp. 1-7.
RoJ 325
Copy of lines 1-24, headed ‘Earl Rochestr’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 45.8. c.1700.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 48, f. 30r.
RoJ 325.5
Copy of a 198-line version, headed ‘A Satire on Man’, as by ‘L--R’, written lengthways down the pages on versos only.
In: the MS described under RoJ 89.5. 1726-c.1768.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 110, ff. 1v-18v.
RoJ 325.8
Copy of lines 60-71, headed ‘Man’, here beginning ‘Bless'd glorious Man, to whom alone kind heaven’, incorporated (as lines 1-12) in a poem made up of extracts from several writers' verses.
In: the MS described under RoJ 89.5. 1726-c.1768.
Edited from this MS in Hammond's article.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 110, ff. 12r-16r.
RoJ 326
Copy of lines 1-55, 60-158, 168-9, 179-82, 222-5, headed in the margin ‘A Satyr on Man’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, 225 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum boards. Compiled, and partly composed, by George Weller (1710-78), lawyer, of Tonbridge, Kent. c.1745.
Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1132 (December 1990), item 128.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. q. 51, pp. 168-71.
RoJ 327
Copy of the epilogue lines (174-201), here beginning ‘All this wth. indignation have I hurl'd’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 11. Late 17th century.
Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 810(2), pp. 4-7.
RoJ 328
Copy of lines 1-173, headed ‘A Satyr agt. Mankind. By the E. of Rochester’. c.1685.
In: the MS described under RoJ 233.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 329
Copy of a 96-line version, headed ‘A Satyr against Mankind By the late E. of Rochester’, on pp. [1-4] of a small quarto booklet of poems by or relating to Rochester. Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under RoJ 66.
This MS collated in Walker.
National Library of Wales, Pitchford Hall (Ottley) English Literary MSS (uncatalogued), A, A7.
RoJ 329.5
Copy of the epilogue (lines 174-201), headed ‘The Appology’, here beginning ‘All this with Indignation have I hurld’.
In: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Suplement to some of my Lord Rochesters Poems, in two neat rounded hands, 47 pages, in modern quarter-morocco. Late 17th century.
RoJ 331
Copy of lines 1-73, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘Rochester’.
In: A sheaf of sixteen folio leaves of verse, in a single hand, disbound.
Among the papers of the Waller family.
RoJ 332
Copy of lines 1-73, in the hand of one of Edmund Waller's daughters, headed ‘Satyre’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 35. c.1680s [-1700s].
RoJ 332.5
Copy, headed ‘Verses made by the Ld Rochester on Man: 1’.
In: A quarto commonplace book, in three sections, each in a different non-professional hand, iii + 47 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf and marbled boards. c.1687.
A 19th-century title-page (f. iir) claims this is the ‘Manuscript Common-Place Book of Tho. Hunt. November 1687’ (possibly author of the first item, on numeration, dated 30 November 1687). Owned in 1869 by Frederick William Cosens (1819-89), and in 1881 by J. Eliot Hodgkin. FSA (1829-1912), of Hitchin, Hertfordshire, solicitor.
RoJ 333
Copy of lines 1-173, untitled, inscribed ‘Satira del Conte di Rochester’, on five pages of four folio leaves.
In: A composite collection of separate copies of English verse, 64 folio and quarto pages. Assembled by the traveller Lorenzo Magalotti (1637-1712). Late 17th century.
Sotheby's, 19 July 1966, lot 518.
This MS collated in Walker.
RoJ 334
Copy of lines 1-173, headed ‘A Satyr against Mankind by the Ld R:’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 67. Late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 335
Copy of the epilogue (lines 174-84, 187-221), headed ‘An Addition to ye Satyr agt Man’ and here beginning ‘All this wth indignation I have hurld’, on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.
Formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (part of Phillipps MS 17818). Sotheby's, 29 October 1975, lot 154.
Photocopy in the British Library, RP 686 (4). Mentioned in YULG, 52 (1978), 108-9; collated in Walker.
RoJ 336
Copy of lines 1-173, headed A satyr, on two conjugate ledger-size folio leaves. Late 17th century.
In: Two conjugate ledger-size folio leaves. Late 17th century.
Formerly ‘Osborn MS. Chest II, Number 28’.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 337
Copy of lines 1-173, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat mixed hand, inscribed on p. 44 'march 24 Finis 1673', ii + 51 pages, in modern morocco gilt. c.1673.
Sotheby's, 26 June 1986 (Lionel Robinson sale), lot 110, to Maggs. Subsequently sold to Zeitlin & Verbrugge, Los Angeles. Formerly Temp MSS. Bound.
Complete photocopies of this MS in the British Library, RP 3341.
RoJ 337.5
Copy in: A small quarto commonplace book in English and Latin, in three hands, including 30 pages of proverbs, one item dated 1687, 57 pages, in 19th-century half-calf. Late 17th century.
Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 21 June 2001, lot 20.
A Satyr on Charles II (‘I' th' isle of Britain long since famous grown’)
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 60-1. Walker, pp. 74-5. Love (five versions), pp. 85-6, 86-7, 88, 89-90, 90. The manuscript texts discussed, with detailed collations, in Harold Love, ‘Rochester's “I' th' isle of Britain”: Decoding a Textual Tradition’, EMS, 6 (1997), 175-223.
RoJ 338
Copy, headed ‘A base copy’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 4. c.1667-82 [the poems by Marvell and Rochester c.1670s].
Edited from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth and in Walker.
RoJ 339
Copy, headed ‘Ld. Roch:'s Lampoon on K. Ch: for which he was banishd the Court, and turn'd Mountebank’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 11.4 (RoJ Δ 4). Early 18th century.
RoJ 340
Copy, headed ‘L. Rochester on the King’ and here beginning ‘There is A monarch in an Isle say some’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 6 (RoJ Δ 6). c.1680s-1700s.
This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.
RoJ 341
Copy, headed ‘Verses By Ld: Roc.’ and here beginning ‘There is a Monarch in an Isle say som’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 14 (RoJ Δ 7). c.1690s.
This MS recorded in Vieth.
RoJ 342
Copy, headed ‘Satyr’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 7 (RoJ Δ 8). c.1680s-90s.
This MS collated in Hammond. Recorded in Walker.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 54, pp. 205-7.
RoJ 342.5
Copy of a version headed ‘My Lord R. verses’ and beginning ‘There is a Monarch in an Isle say some’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 104.41. c.late 1670s [-1764].
Edited from this MS in Love, pp. 89-90.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 55, pp. 70-1.
RoJ 343
Copy, headed ‘The Earle of Rochrs Verses for which he was Banished’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 11.8 (RoJ Δ 12). c.1690s.
This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090, f. 61r-v.
RoJ 344
Copy, headed ‘The Earle of Rochesters verses For which he was Banish'd’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 11.91 (RoJ Δ 15). c.1690s-1700.
This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38), pp. 110-12.
RoJ 344.5
Copy of a four-line extracted version, beginning ‘Wee have a Very Gratious K:’.
In: A small quarto miscellany of anecdotes, aphorisms, verses, etc., in two hands, compiled by Sir Francis Fane (c.1612-80), 193 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Inscribed by Fane on f. 1r ‘Aug: 24: 1629 / Franciscus Fane’ and, later, as a bequest to his three grandsons to be read by them when aged 21, dated from Fulbeck, 5 May 1672. c.1629-72.
Sold by Maggs, 29 May 1930.
Edited from this MS in Love, p. 90.
RoJ 345
Copy, headed ‘On The King’, here beginning ‘There is a Monarch in an Isle (say some)’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 42. c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.
RoJ 346
Copy, headed ‘Giuen By a Mistake to his Majty’, subscribed ‘Rochester 1673’, in a quarto miscellany of verse and prose on affairs of state (ff. 297r-318v, originally paginated 1-44) in a single professional hand. Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under RoJ 104.5.
Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.
RoJ 347
Copy, headed ‘By ye Lord Rochester 1675’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 10. c.1680.
This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.
RoJ 347.5
4 lines, docketed ‘these were writen in Kg Charles ye 2ds Window by ye late Ld Rochester’. Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under RoJ 24.5.
RoJ 348
Copy, headed ‘Satyr’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 104.28. c.1703.
Edited from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth and in Walker. Facsimiles of both pages in Harold Love, ‘Rochester's ‘I' th' isle of Britain’: Decoding a Textual Tradition’, EMS, 6 (1997), 175-223. (pp. 176-7).
RoJ 349
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr’.
In: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Satyrs & Lampoons, in a single neat hand, i + 130 leaves, subscribed (f. 130v) ‘Finis. 25, March 1691-2.’, in modern black morocco gilt. c.1692.
This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.
RoJ 351
Copy, headed ‘On K: C: IId: by ye: E of Roch—r; For wch he was banish'd ye. Court, & turn'd Mountebank’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 127. c.1725.
This MS recorded in Walker.
RoJ 352
Copy, headed ‘My Ld. R. verses’ and here beginning ‘There was a Monarch in all Isle say some’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 104.41. c.late 1670s [-1764].
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 55, ff. 36v-7r.
RoJ 353
Copy, headed ‘On King Charles’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 11.7. c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.
RoJ 353.5
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the King by ye Late Ld Rochester’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 44.5. c.1700.
North Yorkshire Record Office, ZK MIC 1275/9785, ff. [1r-2r].
RoJ 354
Copy, headed ‘A copy of verses presented to ye K:’.
In: A quarto miscellany of Restoration verse, prose and dramatic works, in a single cursive predominantly italic hand, 417 pages. c.1670s-80s.
Formerly Princeton General MSS Misc AM 14401.
This MS discussed in A.S.G. Edwards, ‘Libertine Literature in Restoration England: Princeton MS AM 14401’, BC, 25 (Autumn 1976), 354-68, and in PBSA (1977).
Edited from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth and in Walker.
RoJ 355
Copy, headed ‘Satyr’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 104.46. c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.
RoJ 356
Copy, headed ‘A Poem made by ye E— R for wch ye K. banisht him.’
In: the MS described under RoJ 11.9. c.1680s-90s.
This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.
RoJ 357
Copy, headed ‘On C. S—’.
In: An octavo miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in one small neat hand, with additions (pp. 71-5 plus 20 pages at the reverse end) in later hands c.1709, 95 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum gilt. c.1680-1700s.
A label: ‘Sold by Robert Paske Stationer in the Piatza on ye North side of the Royal Exchange London’.
This volume is probably that sold at Sotheby's, 1 March 1871 (Sir John Simeon sale, 7th day), lot 1675, to Quaritch, and probably item 1279 in Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918). In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Restoration poetry MS 4.
RoJ 358
Copy, untitled, on the second page of two conjugate folio leaves.
In: A folio composite volume of poems on affairs of state, 319 pages, disbound. Late 17th century.
This MS owned in 1682 by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732). Later Phillipps MS 8301 and ‘Osborn MS. Chest II, Number 52’.
Edited from this MS in David M. Vieth, ‘Rochester's “Scepter” Lampoon on Charles II’, PQ, 37 (1958), 424-32 (p. 424); recorded in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.
Satyr. [Timon] (‘What Timon does old Age begin t'approach’)
See RoJ 472-481.
Senecas Troas Act 2d Chor: (‘After Death, nothing is, and nothing Death’)
See RoJ 511-525.
A Session of the Poets (‘Since the Sons of the Muses, grow num'rous and lowd’)
Signior Dildo (‘You ladies all of merry England’)
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 54-9. Walker, pp. 75-8.
The poem discussed, texts collated, and the attribution to Rochester questioned, in Harold Love, ‘A Restoration Lampoon in Transmission and Revision: Rochester's(?) “Signior Dildo”’, SB, 46 (1993), 250-62. Love (two versions and added stanzas), pp. 248-9, 250-2, 252-3, 253-7, among Disputed Works.
RoJ 359
Copy, headed ‘To the Tune of Peggy's gone to Sea with a Souldier’, together with (pp. 480-2) ‘Additions to Seigneur Dildoe’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 4. c.1667-82 [the poems by Marvell and Rochester c.1670s].
This MS recorded in Vieth; recorded and the ‘Additions’ printed in Walker, pp. 186-8.
RoJ 359.5
Copy, headed ‘Upon Seignor Dildo p Rochester’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 48.5. Late 17th century.
RoJ 360
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 11.8 (RoJ Δ 12). c.1690s.
This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090, ff. 66v-8v.
RoJ 361
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 11.91 (RoJ Δ 15). c.1690s-1700.
Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38), pp. 119-24.
RoJ 363
Copy, here beginning ‘Oh all ye fair Ladies of merry England’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 349. c.1692.
This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.
RoJ 364
Copy, the poem here dated 1674.
In: A large quarto miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled Collection of Choice Poemes, in a single neat hand, with a ‘Catalogue’ of contents (ff. 382v-6v), 387 leaves, in half brown morocco gilt. c.1703.
Note of purchase (f. 1r) ‘pd - 6 - 9 -/ April 24 1703’.
Edited from this MS in Court Satires of the Restoration, ed. John Harold Wilson (Columbus, 1976), pp. 15-18; recorded in Vieth and in Walker.
RoJ 364.5
Copy, headed ‘To ye Tune that Peg's gone ouer ye Sea with a Soldr’, here beginning ‘O all yee young ladies of merry England’, on five pages of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves.
In: the MS described under RoJ 104.44.
Edited from this MS and discussed in Harold Love, ‘A New “A” Text of “Signior Dildo”’, SB, 49 (1996), 169-75.
RoJ 365
Copy, as ‘By Lord Dorset & Mr: [Fleetwood] Shepperd’, the poem dated in the margin ‘1673’.
In: A large folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &ca Not yet Edited, in a single professional rounded hand (the same as in University of Nottingham, Pw V 43 and University of Nottingham, Pw V 44), 461 pages plus an eight-page ‘Table’ of contents, in contemporary blind-stamped calf. c.1705.
This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.
RoJ 366
Copy, the poem here dated 1673.
In: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled ‘A Choyce Collection of Poems. &c.’, 325 pages, the verse on pp. 324-5 added c.1762. c.1700.
Owned in 1712 by Thomas Wentworth (1672-1739), Baron Raby and third Earl of Strafford.
This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.
Ohio State University, English Department Library, Spec. MS Eng. 15, pp. 10-14.
RoJ 367
Copy, as ‘By E: of Rochester. 1673’.
In: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional rounded hand, entitled ‘A Collection of Choyce Poems, Lampoons, and Satyrs from 1673 to 1689. Never Extant in Print’, 335 pages (plus a Table of contents and blanks), in modern red morocco. c.1690s.
In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 2.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.
A Song (‘Absent from thee, I languish still’)
First published in Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, pp. 88-9. Walker, pp. 38-9. Love, p. 29.
RoJ 368
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 1 (RoJ Δ 9). Early 18th century.
Edited in part from this MS in Love.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII , f. 55v.
Song (‘As Chloris full of harmless thought’)
First published as a broadside, Croydon and Cloris or, The Wanton Sheepherdess [?London, ?1676]. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 26-7. Walker, p. 35. Love, p. 36.
RoJ 370
Copy, headed ‘The Yielding Nymph’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 11.4 (RoJ Δ 4). Early 18th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
RoJ 371
Copy of lines 1-8, untitled, on a single quarto leaf. Late 17th century.
In: A large folio guard-book of miscellaneous MSS, in various hands, 434 leaves. Collected, and partly written, by Lieutenant Gideon Bonnivert (fl.1670s-90s), French Huguenot soldier and author, of Oxnead Hall, Norfolk.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
Song (‘At last you'll force me to confess’)
First published, as an additional stanza to the Song ‘While on those lovely looks I gaze’, in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676). Vieth, p. 13. Walker, p. 22. Love, p. 32. An eight-line version beginning ‘Too late, alas! I must confess’ published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693), in Vieth, p. 174, and in Walker, p. 22.
*RoJ 372
Autograph, with minor revisions, on one side of a single quarto leaf, once folded as a letter or packet.
In: the MS described under RoJ 70. c.1660s-80.
Edited from this MS by all editors.
RoJ 374
Copy in: An unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves of verse, in a neat italic hand. Late 17th century.
RoJ 374.5
Copy of an untitled version beginning ‘Too late alas I must confess’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany. Compiled by Lady Henrietta Harley. Mid-18th century.
RoJ 375
Copy of an eight-line version headed ‘A song’, beginning ‘Too late alas! I must confess’, and ascribed to ‘Rochester’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 104.53. 1715-17.
Song (‘By all love's soft, yet mighty powers’)
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 139. Walker, pp. 45-6. Love, pp. 37-8.
RoJ 376
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 14 (RoJ Δ 7). c.1690s.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 376.8
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 17. c.1680s.
Song (‘Fair Chloris in a pigsty lay’)
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 27-8. Walker, pp. 33-4. Love, pp. 39-40.
RoJ 377
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 12 (RoJ Δ 1). c.1698-1700s.
RoJ 378
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 14 (RoJ Δ 7). c.1690s.
Edited in part from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 379
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 7 (RoJ Δ 8). c.1680s-90s.
This MS collated in Hammond and in Walker.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 54, pp. 123-5.
RoJ 380
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 17. c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 381
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 18 (RoJ Δ 14). c.1680.
Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.
RoJ 382
Copy, headed ‘Song to Cloris’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 19 (RoJ Δ 16). c.1680.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 383
Copy, untitled, lacking the last three stanzas, on a single folded leaf. Late 17th century.
Formerly Osborn MS. Chest II, Number 32.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
Song (‘Give me leave to rail at you’)
First published (first stanza only) in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Both stanzas in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). The second stanza only (beginning ‘Kindness has resistless Charms’) also in Valentinian (London, 1685). Vieth, pp. 10-11. Walker, pp. 20-1. Love, p. 18.
Some texts accompanied by Lady Rochester's ‘Answer’ to the poem (beginning ‘Nothing adds to love's fond fire’), her autograph of which is in University of Nottingham, Pw V 31, f. 15r. It is edited in Vieth, p. 10; in Walker, pp. 21-2, 154; in Kissing the Rod, ed. Germaine Greer et al. (London, 1988), pp. 230-2; and in Love, pp. 18-19.
RoJ 384.5
Copy, immediately followed (on ff. 78v-9r) by Elizabeth Wilmot's ‘answer’ (‘Nothing adds to your fond fire’).
In: the MS described under RoJ 48.5. Late 17th century.
RoJ 385
Copy, headed ‘To Thirsis’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 92 (RoJ Δ 5). Late 17th - early 18th century.
RoJ 386
Copy, headed ‘To Thirsis’; the text followed (pp. 121-2) by Lady Rochester's ‘answer’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 7 (RoJ Δ 8). c.1680s-90s.
This MS collated in Hammond and in Walker.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 54, p. 120.
RoJ 387
Copy, headed ‘Song by severall Hands / Mrs Whorton’; the text followed (f. 45r-v) by Lady Rochester's ‘answer’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 1 (RoJ Δ 9). Early 18th century.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII , f. 45r.
RoJ 388
Copy, headed ‘To Thirsis’; the text followed (pp. 59-60) by Lady Rochester's ‘answer’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 17. c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; collated in Walker.
RoJ 389
Copy, headed ‘To Thirsis’, followed (p. 168) by Lady Rochester's ‘answer’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 18 (RoJ Δ 14). c.1680.
This MS collated in Walker.
RoJ 390
Copy, followed (pp. 106-7) by Lady Rochester's ‘answer’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 11.91 (RoJ Δ 15). c.1690s-1700.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38), pp. 105-6.
RoJ 391
The text followed (pp. 137-8) by followed (pp. 137-8) by Elizabeth Wilmot's ‘The Answer’ (‘Nothing adds to your fond fire’).
In: the MS described under RoJ 19 (RoJ Δ 16). c.1680.
Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.
RoJ 392
Copy of the second stanza only, headed ‘Song’ and here beginning ‘Kindnesse has resistlesse charmes’, numbered in a darker ink ‘3’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 2 (RoJ Δ 17). c.mid-1680s.
RoJ 393
Copy of part of the poem, headed ‘Kindness’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 104.53. 1715-17.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
RoJ 394
Copy. The text followed (f. 32r-v) by Lady Rochester's ‘answer’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 160. Early 1700s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 395
Copy, in a musical setting as ‘By Jo: Blundevile’.
In: A folio song book, in a single hand, 95 pages (slightly misnumbered), in modern boards. c.1720.
Bookplate of William Hayman Cummings, FSA (1831-1915), singer and musical antiquary. Sotheby's, 15 June 1971, lot 1602. Formerly Folger MS cs 1064.
Song (‘How happy, Chloris, were they free’)
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 83-4. Walker, pp. 39-40, and the version ‘How perfect Cloris, and how free’ on pp. 40-1, and in Love, pp. 23-4. See also David Vieth, ‘A Textual Paradox: Rochester's “To a Lady in a Letter”’, PBSA, 54 (1960), 147-62 (and sequel in Vol. 55 (1961), 130-3).
For the even later version of this lyric, see RoJ 482.
*RoJ 396
Autograph draft of an untitled 32-line version beginning ‘How [happy deleted] perfect Cloris, & how free’, on the first of two conjugate quarto leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
In: the MS described under RoJ 70. c.1660s-80.
Edited from this MS and discussed (as text B1) in Vieth, art. cit. Edited in Walker, pp. 40-1, and in Love. Facsimile in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 57-8. Facsimile example in Greene, p. 71.
RoJ 396.5
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 48.5. Late 17th century.
RoJ 397
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 1 (RoJ Δ 9). Early 18th century.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII , f. 51r.
RoJ 398
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 19 (RoJ Δ 16). c.1680.
Printed from this MS (as text A1) in Vieth, art. cit., pp. 149-50; edited in Walker, pp. 39-40.
RoJ 400
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘How perfect Cloris & how free’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 72. c.1730.
This MS recorded (as text B1) in Vieth, art. cit., pp. 151-2; recorded in Walker as a copy of RoJ 396.
RoJ 401
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘How perfect Cloris, and how free’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 374. Late 17th century.
Song (‘Injurious charmer of my vanquished heart’)
First published, in a truncated version headed ‘The Expostulation’, in Female Poems On Several Occasions. Written by Ephelia, 2nd edition (London, 1682). Valentinian (London, 1685), Act IV, scene ii, p. 42. Vieth, p. 160. Walker, p. 28. Love, p. 16.
RoJ 402
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 7 (RoJ Δ 8). c.1680s-90s.
This MS collated in Hammond and in Walker.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 54, p. 463.
RoJ 403
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 1 (RoJ Δ 9). Early 18th century.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII , f. 60r.
RoJ 404
Copy, headed ‘Dialogue / Nimph Sheppard’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 2 (RoJ Δ 17). c.mid-1680s.
Edited in paer from this MS in Love.
A Song (‘Insulting beauty, you misspend’)
First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Vieth, p. 11. Walker, pp. 27-8. Love, pp. 33-4. See also David Vieth, ‘Two Rochester Songs’, N&Q, 201 (1956), 338-9.
Song (‘Leave this gaudy gilded stage’)
First published in Vivian de Sola Pinto, Rochester: Portrait of a Restoration Poet (London, 1935), p. 120. Vieth, pp. 85-6. Walker, p. 25. Love, p. 32.
*RoJ 406
Autograph, untitled, on one side of a single octavo leaf.
In: the MS described under RoJ 70. c.1660s-80.
Edited from this MS by all editors. Facsimile in Greene, p. 128.
Song (‘Love a woman? You're an ass!’)
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 51. Walker, p. 25. Love, p. 38, as ‘Love to a Woman’.
RoJ 408
Copy, headed ‘Love to a Woman’, heavily deleted.
In: the MS described under RoJ 92 (RoJ Δ 5). Late 17th - early 18th century.
RoJ 409
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 14 (RoJ Δ 7). c.1690s.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 409.5
Copy, headed ‘Satyr upon Women by ye Earl of Rochester’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 217.2. c.1712-27.
John Rylands University Library of Manchester, English MS 521, p. 69.
RoJ 410
Copy, headed ‘Love a Woman’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 7 (RoJ Δ 8). c.1680s-90s.
This MS collated in Hammond and in Walker.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 54, p. 132.
RoJ 411
Copy, headed ‘Love to a Woman’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 17. c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 412
Copy, headed ‘Love to a Woman’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 18 (RoJ Δ 14). c.1680.
Edited in part from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
Song (‘Phyllis, be gentler, I advise’)
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 32. Walker, p. 36. Love, pp. 19-20.
RoJ 414
Copy, headed ‘Song By the L: Rochester’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 6 (RoJ Δ 6). c.1680s-1700s.
Edited in part from this MS in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 415
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 14 (RoJ Δ 7). c.1690s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 416
Copy, headed ‘To Phillis’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 7 (RoJ Δ 8). c.1680s-90s.
This MS collated in Hammond and in Walker.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 54, p. 126.
RoJ 417
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 1 (RoJ Δ 9). Early 18th century.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII , f. 45v.
RoJ 418
Copy, headed ‘To Phillis’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 17. c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 419
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 11.8 (RoJ Δ 12). c.1690s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090, f. 60r.
RoJ 420
Copy, headed ‘Phillis’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 18 (RoJ Δ 14). c.1680.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 421
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 11.91 (RoJ Δ 15). c.1690s-1700.
Edited in part from this MS in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38), pp. 107-8.
RoJ 422
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 19 (RoJ Δ 16). c.1680.
Edited in part from this MS in Vieth and in Love. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 424
Copy, with a musical setting, untitled.
In: An oblong quarto music book, 156 pages (some leaves excised). Late 17th century.
RoJ 425
Copy, headed ‘To Phillis’, with other poems on the second page of two conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under RoJ 100.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
RoJ 426
Copy, in a musical setting by T. Judway, untitled.
In: A narrow oblong duodecimo music book, probably in a single cursive hand, with (ff. 2r-v, 98r-97r rev.)a table of contents, written from both ends, i + 98 leaves, in modern red morocco. c.1682-90.
Bookplate of Ralph Sympsun Esqr. Puttick & Simpson's, 24 April 1873.
RoJ 427
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 160. Early 1700s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.
RoJ 428
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under RoJ 88. End of 17th century.
King's College, Cambridge, Hayward Collection, H. 11. 14, p. 29.
RoJ 429
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single mixed hand varying over a period, entitled in another hand Recueil Choisi De Pieces fugitives En Vers Anglois, 214 pages, in modern calf. c.1713.
Afterwards owned by Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon (1728-1810). Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9500. In the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
RoJ 430
Copy, headed ‘By Sr. P. P’, written in a left-hand column, with a Latin version (beginning ‘Blanda sis o a crudelis Phyllis’) written in the right-hand column.
In: A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in a single neat hand but for additions in other hands on pp. 183-226, 226 pages (including numerous blanks), in modern cloth. Compiled by Sir George Ent (1604-89), physician, a founding member of the Royal Society, to whom is addressed an inscription, sending the last item in the volume, on p. 226. c.1674-80.
Song (‘Quoth the Duchess of Cleveland to counselor Knight’)
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 48. Walker, p. 61. Love, p. 90.
RoJ 431
Copy, headed ‘Song by ye Dts. of Cleavland & Mrs Knight’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 6 (RoJ Δ 6). c.1680s-1700s.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 432
Copy, headed ‘Mis: Knights Advice to the Dutchess, of Cleavland, in Distress For A Prick’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 14 (RoJ Δ 7). c.1690s.
Edited from this MS in Walker. Recorded in Vieth.
RoJ 433
Copy, untitled, among other verse on the second leaf of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th-early 18th century.
In: the MS described under RoJ 227.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 433.5
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 17. c.1680s.
RoJ 434
Copy of lines 1-3 only, headed ‘A Dialogue between Mall: Knight and the Dutchess of Cleaveland’, imperfect, lacking the remainder.
In: the MS described under RoJ 67. Late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
Song (‘'Twas a dispute 'twixt heaven and earth’)
First published in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), p. 51. Vieth, p. 3. Walker, p. 27. Love, p. 31, as ‘[Love poem]’.
*RoJ 435
Autograph, with revisions, untitled, on two pages of two conjugate octavo leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.
In: the MS described under RoJ 70. c.1660s-80.
Edited from this MS by all editors.
Song (‘What cruel pains Corinna takes’)
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 31. Walker, p. 20, as ‘To Corinna. A Song’. Love, p. 20, as To Corinna.
RoJ 439
Copy, headed ‘Woman's Frailty. A Song. by Ld. Ro:’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 11.4 (RoJ Δ 4). Early 18th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
RoJ 440
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 92 (RoJ Δ 5). Late 17th - early 18th century.
RoJ 441
Copy of stanzas 1, 2 and 4, headed ‘To Corinna’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 7 (RoJ Δ 8). c.1680s-90s.
This MS collated in Hammond and in Walker.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 54, p. 127.
RoJ 442
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 1 (RoJ Δ 9). Early 18th century.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII , f. 49v.
RoJ 443
Copy of stanzas 1, 2 and 4, headed ‘To Corinna’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 17. c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 444
Copy of stanzas 1, 2 and 4, headed ‘To Corinna’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 18 (RoJ Δ 14). c.1680.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 445
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 19 (RoJ Δ 16). c.1680.
Edited in part from this MS in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 446
Copy, headed ‘Song’, numbered in a darker ink ‘5’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 2 (RoJ Δ 17). c.mid-1680s.
Edited in part from this MS in Love.
Song (‘While on those lovely looks I gaze’)
First published in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676). Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 12-13. Walker, pp. 43-4. Love, pp. 26-7.
RoJ 448
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 12 (RoJ Δ 1). c.1698-1700s.
RoJ 449
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 92 (RoJ Δ 5). Late 17th - early 18th century.
RoJ 450
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 14 (RoJ Δ 7). c.1690s.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 451
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 7 (RoJ Δ 8). c.1680s-90s.
Edited from this MS in Walker. Collated in Hammond.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 54, p. 129.
RoJ 452
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 1 (RoJ Δ 9). Early 18th century.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII , f. 52r-v.
RoJ 453
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 17. c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 454
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 18 (RoJ Δ 14). c.1680.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 455
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 19 (RoJ Δ 16). c.1680.
Edited from this MS in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 456
Copy, here set out as four quatrains, numbered in a darker ink ‘11’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 2 (RoJ Δ 17). c.mid-1680s.
Edited in part from this MS in Love.
RoJ 457
Copy, headed ‘A Songe of MLR’, with other verses, on one side of a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under RoJ 100.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover (‘Ancient person, for whom I’)
First published in Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, pp. 89-90. Walker, pp. 32-3. Love, p. 30.
RoJ 458
Copy, headed ‘Song A Young Lady to her Antient Lover’, here set out as four stanzas of 6, 8, 6 and 6 lines respectively, and numbered afterwards, in a darker ink, ‘14’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 2 (RoJ Δ 17). c.mid-1680s.
Edited in part from this MS in Love.
RoJ 458.5
Copy of lines 1-4, headed ‘Song / A young Lady to her Antient Lover’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 1 (RoJ Δ 9). Early 18th century.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII , f. 60v.
Spoken Extempore to a Country Clerk after Having Heard Him Sing Psalms (‘Sternhold and Hopkins had great qualms’)
First published in The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon, 3rd edition (London, 1709). Vieth, p. 22. Walker, p. 122. Love, p. 301, as ‘Lord Rochester upon hearing the singing in a Country Church’.
RoJ 459
Copy, headed ‘As the late Earl of Rochester went by a Country Church, where the People were singing Sternhold, and Hopkins's Version of ye Psalms, he spake the following Verses, Ex Tempore’.
In: A quarto composite miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several hands, 11 + 109 leaves. Early-mid-18th century.
Owned in 1812 by Miss Elizabeth Mansel. Given to Henry Gough, of Redhill, who presented it to the Bodleian in December 1884.
This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.
RoJ 460
Copy, headed ‘Lord Rochester upon hearing ye singing in a Country Church.’
In: the MS described under RoJ 72. c.1730.
This MS recorded in Vieth; edited in Walker, p. 219.
RoJ 460.5
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of poems and plays by Corbet Owen (1645/6-71) and others, a ‘Catalogus Librorum’ at the reverse end, in probably several cursive predominantly italic hands, possibly associated with Oxford University, 166 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1671.
Owned in 1671 by one ‘J. H.’. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1253. Purchased from Dobell in 1935.
The Submission (‘To this moment a rebel, I throw down my arms’)
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 15. Walker, pp. 18-19. Love, p. 22, as Song.
RoJ 461
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 12 (RoJ Δ 1). c.1698-1700s.
RoJ 462
Copy, headed ‘Song’, imperfect, lacking the last three stanzas.
In: the MS described under RoJ 92 (RoJ Δ 5). Late 17th - early 18th century.
RoJ 463
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 7 (RoJ Δ 8). c.1680s-90s.
This MS collated in Hammond and in Walker.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 54, pp. 118-19.
RoJ 464
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 1 (RoJ Δ 9). Early 18th century.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII , f. 50v.
RoJ 465
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 17. c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; collated in Walker.
RoJ 466
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 11.8 (RoJ Δ 12). c.1690s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090, ff. 60v-1r.
RoJ 467
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 18 (RoJ Δ 14). c.1680.
Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.
RoJ 468
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 11.91 (RoJ Δ 15). c.1690s-1700.
Edited in part from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38), pp. 109-10.
RoJ 469
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 19 (RoJ Δ 16). c.1680.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 470
Copy, headed ‘Song’, numbered in a darker ink ‘7’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 2 (RoJ Δ 17). c.mid-1680s.
RoJ 471
Copy of a four-stanza version, untitled, on a folded portion of a folio leaf, endorsed ‘A Songe’. Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under RoJ 66.
National Library of Wales, Pitchford Hall (Ottley) English Literary MSS (uncatalogued), A, A8.
Timon (‘What, Timon! does old age begin t'approach’)
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 65-72. Walker, pp. 78-82, as ‘Satyr. [Timon]’. Harold Love, ‘The Text of “Timon. A Satyr”’, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 6 (1982), 113-40. Love, pp. 258-63, as Satyr. [Timon], among Disputed Works.
RoJ 473
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 13 (RoJ Δ 3). c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; collated in Love, ‘Text of “Timon”’.
RoJ 474
Copy, headed ‘A Satyre’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 6 (RoJ Δ 6). c.1680s-1700s.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, ‘Text of “Timon”’.
RoJ 475
Copy, headed ‘Satyr Bye Sr Charles Sidley’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 14 (RoJ Δ 7). c.1690s.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, ‘Text of “Timon”’.
RoJ 476
Copy, headed ‘Timon, A Satyr’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 7 (RoJ Δ 8). c.1680s-90s.
This MS collated in Hammond, in Walker, and in Love, ‘Text of “Timon”’.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 54, pp. 92-100.
RoJ 477
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr’, the subscription ‘Rochester’ crossed out and ‘Sr Ch: Sidley’ written above in faint ink.
In: the MS described under RoJ 8 (RoJ Δ 10). c.1680s.
RoJ 478
Copy, headed ‘Satyr’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 17. c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; collated in Love, ‘Text of “Timon”’.
RoJ 479
Copy, headed ‘Satyr’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 18 (RoJ Δ 14). c.1680.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, ‘Text of “Timon”’.
RoJ 480
Copy, headed ‘Satyr. By Sr Char: Sidley’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 19 (RoJ Δ 16). c.1680.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, ‘Text of “Timon”’.
RoJ 481
Copy, headed ‘Satyr vpon a Siner’, in two hands, in a disbound fragment of a folio miscellany of poems.
In: the MS described under RoJ 31.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, ‘Text of “Timon”’ (the heading misread by all editors as ‘Diner’).
To a Lady in a Letter (‘Such perfect bliss fair Chloris, we’)
First published, as ‘Against jealousie’, in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676). Vieth, pp. 84-5. Walker, pp. 41-2. See also David Vieth, ‘A Textual Paradox: Rochester's “To a Lady in a Letter”’, PBSA, 54 (1960), 147-62 (and sequel in Vol. 55 (1961), 130-3). Love, pp. 24-5.
For the earlier versions of this lyric, see RoJ 396-401.
RoJ 482
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 14 (RoJ Δ 7). c.1690s.
Edited from this MS and discussed (as text C) in Vieth, art. cit., pp. 153-4. Edited in part from this MS in Love.
To Corinna. A Song (‘What Cruel pains Corinna takes’)
See RoJ 438-447.
‘To forme a Plott’
See RoJ 70.
To Love (‘O Love! how cold and slow to take my part’)
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 35-7. Walker, pp. 49-50. Love, pp. 12-13.
RoJ 483
Copy, headed ‘Ovid...To Love’ and here beginning ‘Oh Love hou cold art thou to take my part’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 12 (RoJ Δ 1). c.1698-1700s.
RoJ 484
Copy, headed ‘Lib: 2. Eleg: 9th. To Love. By Ld. Rochester’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 11.4 (RoJ Δ 4). Early 18th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
RoJ 484.5
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 48.5. Late 17th century.
RoJ 485
Copy, headed ‘O nunquam pro me satis indignate Cupido / To Love’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 92 (RoJ Δ 5). Late 17th - early 18th century.
RoJ 486
Copy, headed ‘Love’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 14 (RoJ Δ 7). c.1690s.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 487
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 7 (RoJ Δ 8). c.1680s-90s.
This MS collated in Hammond and in Walker.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 54, pp. 113-15.
RoJ 488
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 1 (RoJ Δ 9). Early 18th century.
Edited in part from this MS in Love.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII , ff. 43r-4v.
RoJ 489
Copy, headed ‘Ovid...To Love’
In: the MS described under RoJ 17. c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 490
Copy, headed ‘Ovid...To Love’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 18 (RoJ Δ 14). c.1680.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 491
Copy, ascribed to ‘ye E: of R.’
In: the MS described under RoJ 19 (RoJ Δ 16). c.1680.
Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.
RoJ 492
Copy, headed ‘Ovid: Amor: LiOsborn MS b =2dus= Eleg: 9m: O nunquam prome Satis indignate Cupido To Love’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 2 (RoJ Δ 17). c.mid-1680s.
RoJ 493
Copy, headed ‘Ovid B: 2: Eleg: 9. By ye E: of Rhochester’. c.1700.
In: A tall folio composite volume of verse and some prose, chiefly translations from Latin, in various hands and paper sizes, 133 leaves, mounted on guards, in half red morocco. Volume XVIII of papers of the families of Browne, Mariett and West, of the manor of Alscot, in Preston-on-Stour, Gloucestershire.
Portions once owned by Henry Jackson (1586-1662), Hooker's first editor; by Anthony Wood (1632-95), Oxford antiquary; by Thomas Coxeter (1689-1747); and probably by James West, FRS, FSA, MP (1703-72), politician and antiquary.
RoJ 494
Copy, headed ‘A Translation of the 9th Elegye of Ovids 2d Book of Amorum…by Ld Rochester’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 30. c.1678-80s.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 495
Copy, headed ‘Ovid: Amor: lib. 2d. Eleg: 9’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 104.55. Late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
To My More than Meritorious Wife (‘I am, by fate, slave to your will’)
First published in The Museum: or, The Literary and Historical Register, Vol. III, No. 31 (23 May 1747), p. 156. Vieth, p. 23. Walker, p. 121. Love, p. 31.
RoJ 496
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 1 (RoJ Δ 9). Early 18th century.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII , f. 46r.
RoJ 497
Copy, headed ‘To his more than meritorious Wife’, as ‘By Wilmot E. of Rochester’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 72. c.1730.
Edited from this MS in Walker and in Love. Recorded in Vieth.
RoJ 498
Copy, on one page of two conjugate folio leaves. Early-mid-18th century.
In: A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands, 185 leaves.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Portland Papers, Vol. XVII, f. 13r.
To the Postboy (‘Son of a whore, God damn you! can you tell’)
First published, in shortened form, in Johannes Prinz, Rochesteriana (Leipzig, 1926), p. 56. Vieth, pp. 130-1. Walker, p. 103. Love, pp. 42-3.
RoJ 499
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 11.8 (RoJ Δ 12). c.1690s.
Edited in part from this MS in Vieth and in Love. Collated in Walker.
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090, f. 128r-v.
RoJ 500
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘By Rochester’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 54 (RoJ Δ 13). c.late 1690s-1704.
RoJ 501
Copy, headed ‘Verses to the Post Boy’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 11.91 (RoJ Δ 15). c.1690s-1700.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38), pp. 241-2.
RoJ 502
Copy, headed ‘E; of Rochesters Conference With a Post Boy. 1674’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 43. c.1700.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 503
Copy, as ‘by Ld: Rochester’, the date ‘1674’ added afterwards.
In: the MS described under RoJ 44. c.1710.
Edited in part from this MS in Vieth; edited in Walker.
RoJ 504
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 112. End of 17th century.
Edited from this MS in John D. Patterson, ‘Another Text of Rochester's “To the Post Boy”’, Restoration, 4 (1980), 14-16; collated in Walker.
RoJ 505
Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue wth a Post by ye Ld Rotchester.’
In: the MS described under RoJ 133. c.1690.
This MS recorded in Patterson, loc. cit.
RoJ 506
Copy, headed ‘To A Postboy: E: of R:’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 104.55. Late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.
RoJ 507
Copy, headed ‘the Earle of Rochesters Conference with the Post Boy’ and the poem dated ‘1674’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 365. c.1705.
This MS recorded in Patterson, loc. cit.; collated in Walker.
RoJ 508
Copy, headed ‘Earle of Rochester's Conference with a Post Boy. 1674’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 366. c.1700.
Edited from this MS in John Harold Wilson, ‘Rochester's “Buffoon Conceit”’, MLN, 56 (1941), 372-3. Recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
Ohio State University, English Department Library, Spec. MS Eng. 15, p. 16.
RoJ 509
Copy, headed ‘Earle of Rochesters Conference with a Post Boy’. This MS in the same hand as RoJ 502 and RoJ 508.
In: the MS described under RoJ 367. c.1690s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.
RoJ 510
Copy, headed ‘Roch: to a Post boy’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 11.9. c.1680s-90s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution, and in Walker.
A Translation from Seneca's ‘Troades’, Act II, Chorus (‘After death nothing is, and nothing, death’)
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 150-1. Walker, p. 51. Love, pp. 45-5, as ‘Senec. Troas. Act. 2. Chor. Thus English'd by a Person of Honour’.
RoJ 512
Copy, headed ‘Seneca's Troas Act 2. Chorus’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 4. c.1667-82 [the poems by Marvell and Rochester c.1670s].
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.
RoJ 512.5
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under RoJ 63. c.1674-6.
Clark Library, Los Angeles, M3835M3 L651 [1674-6] Bound, f. [34r].
RoJ 513
Copy, headed ‘Post nihil Mortem &c’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 6 (RoJ Δ 6). c.1680s-1700s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 514
Copy, headed ‘A Paraphrase upon Seneca Trag. Act: 2d Chorus…’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 14 (RoJ Δ 7). c.1690s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 515
Copy, headed ‘Seneca Troas’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 7 (RoJ Δ 8). c.1680s-90s.
This MS collated in Hammond and in Walker.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 54, p. 91.
RoJ 517
Copy, headed ‘Rochesters Translation of part of the Chorus of the 2d Act of Seneca's Troas; post Mortem &c’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 54 (RoJ Δ 13). c.late 1690s-1704.
RoJ 518
Copy, headed ‘Seneca Troas’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 18 (RoJ Δ 14). c.1680.
This MS collated in Walker.
RoJ 519
Copy, headed ‘Seneca Troas Act 2d Chor:’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 19 (RoJ Δ 16). c.1680.
Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.
RoJ 520
Copy, headed ‘Thus Englished by the same Lord Rochester’, following the Latin text (twelve lines) headed ‘Seneca Troades Act. 2 Chorus’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 64. c.1670s-80s.
RoJ 521
Copy, headed in another hand ‘Seneca's Troas. Chorus of the 2d Act ... Translated by ye Earl of Rochester’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 229. c.1672-1715 [plus later additions].
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
RoJ 522
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio volume of ‘Miscellanies Collected in the Yeare 1683 at Kingstone upon Thames May the 11th’, in verse and prose, predominantly in one neat hand, c.141 pages (usually on rectos only), gilt-edged, in contemporary calf gilt. Compiled between 11 May and 25 June 1683 by someone whose monogram is possibly (?) ‘JMD’. 1683.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 523
Copy, with the original Latin verses, headed ‘Senec. Tragoed. in Troade. Act 2. Chor...Translated by the E. of Rochester thus’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 233.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 524
Copy, headed ‘On Death by my Lord Rochester’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 122. c.1705.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.
RoJ 525
Copy, headed ‘Seneca: Tros: Act 2: Chorus’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 336. Late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.
Tunbridge Wells (‘At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head’)
First published in Richard Head, Proteus Redivivus: or the Art of Wheedling (London, 1675). Vieth, pp. 73-80. Walker, pp. 69-74. Love, pp. 49-54.
RoJ 526
Copy, headed ‘Observations on Tunbridge Wells’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 6 (RoJ Δ 6). c.1680s-1700s.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 527
Copy, headed ‘A Satyre upon Tunbridge Wells’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 14 (RoJ Δ 7). c.1690s.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 528
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 11.8 (RoJ Δ 12). c.1690s.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090, ff. 124r-7v.
RoJ 529
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 11.91 (RoJ Δ 15). c.1690s-1700.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38), pp. 234-40.
RoJ 530
Copy, headed ‘Tunbridge Wells A Satyr’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 19 (RoJ Δ 16). c.1680.
Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.
RoJ 531
Copy, headed ‘Upon ye Wells by my Ld Rocheseter’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 58. c.1669-74.
This MS collated in Walker.
Bodleian, MS Don. f. 29, fols 69r, 70r, 71r, 72r, 73r, 74r, 75r.
RoJ 532
Copy, subscribed ‘Ld R: fecit Sept 20: 81’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 104.7. Mid-late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 533
Copy, headed ‘On Tunbridge-wells a Satyre of L.R.’, on three quarto leaves (of a six-leaf gathering). Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under RoJ 306. Early-mid-18th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 534
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 24. c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.
RoJ 535
Copy, headed ‘Observacons on Tunbridge Wells’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 112. End of 17th century.
Edited in part from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 536
Copy of lines 1-175, headed ‘Epsom Wells: By ye Earl of Rochester’. c.1680.
In: the MS described under RoJ 310. c.1678.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 538
Copy, headed ‘Ann. 1670 A Poem at Tunbridg by Robert West / The Evidence’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 32. c.1670-1705.
RoJ 539
Copy, in a probably professional hand, headed ‘Tunbridg waters’, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th century.
In: A tall folio composite volume of state and ecclesiastical letters and papers, in various hands, 185 itemns, unfoliated, in later black morocco gilt.
Volume XIII of the collections of Edmund Gibson (1669-1748), Bishop of London.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 539.5
Copy, headed ‘Tunbridge Wells by ye Ld R--r’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 44.5. c.1700.
North Yorkshire Record Office, ZK MIC 1275/9785, ff. [9v-11v].
RoJ 540
Copy, as ‘by ye E: of R. June 30. 75’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 11.9. c.1680s-90s.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 541
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr vpon Tunbridge Wells by ye E. of Rochester An°. 1673’, largely written sideways the length of the page.
In: the MS described under RoJ 104.63. Late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 542
Copy, headed ‘Observations on Tunbridge Wells’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 184. c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, collated in Walker.
RoJ 542.5
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 8.8. 1680-93.
RoJ 543
Copy of lines 146-75, here beginning ‘And on her halfe dead wom bestow new Life’, imperfect, lacking the previous portion.
In: the MS described under RoJ 67. Late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
‘'Twas a dispute 'twixt heav'n and Earth’
See RoJ 435-437.
Two Translations from Lucretius
See RoJ 103.
Under King Charles II's Picture (‘I, John Roberts, writ this same’)
First published in Poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Vivian de Sola Pinto (London, 1953), p. xlv. Vieth, p. 20. Walker, p. 121.
Upon Cary Frazer (‘Her Father gave her Dildoes six’)
See RoJ 201.
Upon His Drinking a Bowl (‘Vulcan, contrive me such a cup’)
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 52-3. Walker, pp. 37-8. Love, pp. 41-2, as Nestor.
RoJ 546
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 13 (RoJ Δ 3). c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
RoJ 547
Copy, headed ‘Upon drinking in a Bowl’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 11.4 (RoJ Δ 4). Early 18th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
RoJ 548
Copy, headed ‘Upon drinking of A Bowle’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 14 (RoJ Δ 7). c.1690s.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 549
Copy, headed ‘Nestor’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 17. c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 550
Copy, headed ‘Nestor’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 18 (RoJ Δ 14). c.1680.
Edited in part from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 551
Copy, headed ‘Upon his drinking bowl.’
In: the MS described under RoJ 21. c.1690.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
RoJ 552
Copy of lines 1-8, 17-24, in a musical setting, headed ‘An Adress to Vulcan’.
In: An oblong quarto songbook, in two or more hands, 68 leaves, in modern half brown morocco. c.1724.
Inscribed (f. 34r) ‘Challis Mather 1742’. Acquired from R. N. James, 6 April 1888.
RoJ 553
Copy of lines 1-8, 17-24, headed ‘An Address to Vulcan’, with a musical setting. Late 17th century.
This MS cannot now be located, unless Vieth's reference to it is mistaken. It appears to be identical with RoJ 552.
This MS recorded (as ‘Illinois MS. 20 D 43 Ellis’) in Vieth, Attribution.
Upon His Leaving His Mistress (‘Tis not that I am weary grown’)
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 81. Walker, p. 37. Love, pp. 17-18.
RoJ 554
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 12 (RoJ Δ 1). c.1698-1700s.
RoJ 555
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 13 (RoJ Δ 3). c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
RoJ 555.5
Copy, headed ‘To Celia for Inconstancy’, subscribed ‘E R’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 48.5. Late 17th century.
RoJ 556
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 14 (RoJ Δ 7). c.1690s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 557
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 7 (RoJ Δ 8). c.1680s-90s.
This MS collated in Hammond and in Walker.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 54, pp. 89-90.
RoJ 558
Copy, headed ‘To Cælia for Inconstancy. Song’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 1 (RoJ Δ 9). Early 18th century.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII , f. 44v.
RoJ 560
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 19 (RoJ Δ 16). c.1680.
Edited in part from this MS in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 561
Copy, headed ‘To Caelia for Inconstancy / Song’, numbered in a darker ink ‘2’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 2 (RoJ Δ 17). c.mid-1680s.
RoJ 562
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under RoJ 88. End of 17th century.
King's College, Cambridge, Hayward Collection, H. 11. 14, p. 29.
RoJ 563
Copy, headed ‘My Ld Rochester to his mistresse, when he put her away’.
In: A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, ‘A S’ in a gilt lozenge on each cover. The later additions partly compiled by George Clarke (1661-1736), politician and virtuoso (whose bookplate is inside the cover and whose family coat of arms is on f. [iv]), son of Sir William Clarke (1623?-66), Secretary of War to the Commonwealth and Charles II. c.1662[-1730s].
Inside the front cover inscribed ‘E[?] Barrow’, evidently a member of the family of Samuel Barrow (1625-82), Royal Physician and friend of John Milton, Barrow being the second husband of Sir William Clarke's widow, Dorothy (d.1695). Formerly MSS 6. 13.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Clarke MS’: PsK Δ 5. See also Elizabeth H. Hageman, ‘Treacherous Accidents, and the Abominable Printing of Katherine Philips's 1664 Poems’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004), pp. 85-95.
Upon Nothing (‘Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade’)
First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.
RoJ 564
Copy, headed ‘Nothing’ and here beginning ‘Nothing thou Elder Brother unto Shade’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 12 (RoJ Δ 1). c.1698-1700s.
RoJ 565
Copy, headed ‘Rochesters Verses upon Nothing’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 4. c.1667-82 [the poems by Marvell and Rochester c.1670s].
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.
RoJ 566
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 13 (RoJ Δ 3). c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.
RoJ 567
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 11.4 (RoJ Δ 4). Early 18th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.
RoJ 567.5
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 48.5. Late 17th century.
RoJ 568
Copy, headed ‘On Nothing’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 6 (RoJ Δ 6). c.1680s-1700s.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.
RoJ 569
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 14 (RoJ Δ 7). c.1690s.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.
RoJ 569.5
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 291.5.
Hertfordshire Record Office, DE/P F42, [unspecified page numbers].
RoJ 570
Copy, headed ‘Nothing’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 17. c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.
RoJ 570.5
Copy, in a professional hand, folded as a letter and addressed to the poet Thomas Shipman (1632-80). Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under RoJ 82.5.
University of Nottingham, Molyneux Papers, Vol. II, MOL 224a.
RoJ 570.8
Copy, in the hand of Sir John Molyneux, third Baronet. Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under RoJ 82.5.
University of Nottingham, Molyneux Papers, Vol. II, MOL 224b.
RoJ 572
Copy, headed ‘On Nothing’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 18 (RoJ Δ 14). c.1680.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.
RoJ 573
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 19 (RoJ Δ 16). c.1680.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.
RoJ 574
Copy, headed ‘Upon Nothing by Wilmot Earle of Rochester’.
In: A miscellany, chiefly relating to religion and moral precepts, in Latin and English. c.1700.
Bookplate of John Newdegate, of the Inner Temple, 1702. Among papers of the Newdegate family, Viscounts Daventry, of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton.
RoJ 575
Copy, headed ‘Rochester Upon Nothing, or Somewhat of Nothing’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 21. c.1690.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.
RoJ 576
Copy, on a single folio leaf.
In: A composite volume of verse collected by John Locke (1632-1704), philosopher, partly in his hand, partly in that of Sylvester Brownover, 50 leaves. c.1680s-90s.
This MS collated in Walker.
RoJ 577
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 179. Early 18th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.
RoJ 578
Copy on both sides 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.
Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker; collated in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.
RoJ 579
Copy, headed ‘On Nothing’, subscribed ‘Rochester’, on both sides of a single quarto leaf, inscribed by Thomas Birch ‘This Autograph of the eminent Dr. John Nalson [1637-86, rector and author, prebendary of Ely] was given me by his Son the Revrd. & Ingenious Mr. Val: Nalson Preb: of York 1710’. Late 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 231 leaves, in 19th-century half black morocco. Including items once owned by Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), Yorkshire antiquary and topographer. Collected by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.
Presumably from item 47 among the folio MSS recorded in Thoresby's Ducatus Leodiensis, 2nd edition (Leeds, 1816), Appendix, p. 77.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.
RoJ 580
Copy, with alterations, in a professional hand, on a single folio leaf, once folded horizontally. Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under RoJ 253. Late 17th century.
This MS collated in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.
RoJ 581
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 11.5. c.1700.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.
RoJ 582
Copy, as ‘by Lord Rochester’.
In: A small octavo verse miscellany, in English and Latin, all but five pages in a single hand, 78 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half morocco. Early 18th century.
Inscribed (f. 78r) ‘A. Brooke May 21st. 1718’.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.
RoJ 583
Copy, headed ‘Of Nothing’, subscribed ‘Rochester’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 28. c.1680s-1702.
RoJ 584
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 30. c.1678-80s.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.
RoJ 585
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Nothing by my Lord Rochester’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 64. c.1670s-80s.
RoJ 586
Copy, subscribed ‘Rochester’, in a professional hand, on pp. 10-11, in a disbound fragment of a folio miscellany of poems paginated 1-34. Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under RoJ 31.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.
RoJ 587
Copy, in a professional hand, on a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under RoJ 31.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.
RoJ 588
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 318. c.1673-1700s.
This MS collated in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.
RoJ 589
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 104.55. Late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.
RoJ 590
Copy, in a probably professional hand, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under RoJ 539.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.
RoJ 591
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of Latin and English verse and prose, in several hands, written from both ends, 57 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1719-50.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 13, f. 43v-43r rev.
RoJ 591.5
Copy, headed ‘Upon Nothing. A Poem by D B: [Duke of Buckingham] & E Roc’, written lengthways down the page.
In: the MS described under RoJ 89.5. 1726-c.1768.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 110, ff. 33v-8v.
RoJ 592
Copy, arranged as a dialogue between the Duke of Buckingham (lines 1-18), Rochester (lines 19-45), and Mr. [Fleetwood] Sheph[er]d (lines 46-51), on three pages of two conjugate quarto leaves. Late 17th century.
In: A collection of unbound verse MSS. Assembled by John Gibson (1630-1711), of Welburn, near Kirkby Moorside, North Yorkshire.
Sotheby's, 18 July 1991, lot 164, to Quaritch.
Facsimile of f. 25r in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 18 June 1991, lot 164, and in The Brotherton Collection Review 1988-92 (Leeds, 1992), p. 10.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. q. 52, ff. 25r-6r.
RoJ 593
Copy, in a cursive italic hand, subscribed ‘By ye E--R--’, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed on f. 78v ‘R. upon Nothing’. Early 18th century.
In: the MS described under RoJ 498.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Portland Papers, Vol. XVII, f. 77r-v.
RoJ 594
Copy on a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.
Formerly owned by Harold Love (1937-2007), literary scholar and editor.
Edited in part from this MS in Love. Collated in Walker and, with a facsimile, in Harold Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’. Photocopy in the British Library, RP 833.
Estate of Professor Harold Love, Melbourne, [Rochester MS poem].
RoJ 595
Copy, here in an arrangement beginning with lines 46-51, headed ‘On Nothing p Shepheard’ (here beginning ‘French truth, Dutch Prowess, Brittish policy’), then lines 37-45, headed ‘On Ditto p Buckingham’ (here beginning ‘But nothing why does some thing still permit’). then lines 1-36 headed ‘On Ditto p E: Roch:’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 126.8. c.late 1690s.
RoJ 595.5
Copy, in a version divided between speakers ‘D: B:’, ‘E: R:’ and ‘F: B:’, in a professional hand, with emendations in the hand of the poet's mother, Anne, Countess of Rochester, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘Lord Rochester On Nothing’. Late 17th century.
In: Muniments principally of Anne (née St John: 1614-96), Countess of Rochester, and the associated Lee and Cary families.
Discovered and identified by Germaine Greer.
National Archives, Kew, C 104/110/Part 1, [unnumbered item].
RoJ 595.8
Copy, in the mixed hand of John Cary, steward of the poet's mother, Anne, Countess of Rochester, on both pages of a single folio leaf, endorsed ‘Upon nothing’. Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under RoJ 595.5.
National Archives, Kew, C 104/110/Part 1, [unnumbered item].
RoJ 596
Copy, on two pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under RoJ 66.
This MS collated in Walker and in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.
National Library of Wales, Pitchford Hall (Ottley) English Literary MSS (uncatalogued), A, A6.
RoJ 597
Copy of a nine-stanza version, headed ‘Upon Nothing. By the same’ and here beginning ‘Nothing, now elder Brother ev'n to shade’, on pp. [5-6] of a small quarto booklet of poems by or relating to Rochester. Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under RoJ 66.
This MS collated in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.
National Library of Wales, Pitchford Hall (Ottley) English Literary MSS (uncatalogued), A, A7.
RoJ 598
Copy of lines 1-2, 44-51, headed ‘A Poeme upon Nothing’.
In: A memorandum book of miscellaneous verse and prose, compiled by Judge John Saffin (1632-1710), of New England, originally in blue velvet. c.1665-1708.
Donated in December 1894 by Laura H. and Mary Carpenter, of Wakefield, Rhode Island.
This volume edited as John Saffin his Book (1665-1708), ed. Caroline Hazard (New York, 1928).
Edited from this MS in John Saffin his Book (1665-1708), ed. Caroline Hazard (New York, 1928), p. 45, and also in Norman S. Grabo, ‘The Profligate and the Puritan’, N&Q, 207 (October 1962), 392-3.
Rhode Island Historical Society, MSS 696, [unspecified page numbers].
RoJ 599
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 89. Late 17th century.
RoJ 599.5
Copy, apparently in the hand of Sir John Bridgeman (1667-1747), headed ‘On nothing by the Earl of Rochester’, on three quarto pages. c.1700.
Among archives of the Bridgeman family, Earls of Bradford.
Staffordshire Record Office, D 1287/19/6, [uncatalogued MS].
RoJ 600
Copy of stanzas 13-17, beginning ‘But Nothing, why does something still permit’, in the hand of one of Edmund Waller's daughters, lacking the first twelve stanzas.
In: the MS described under RoJ 331.
RoJ 601
Copy, headed ‘vpon Nothing Composed by ye Earle of Roshester’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 104.63. Late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.
RoJ 602
Copy in: Verse miscellany. Early 18th century.
Previously owned by John Wilson (1719-83) of Broomhead Hall. Later Phillipps MS 17695. Later owned by C.K. Ogden (1887-1957) and sold at Sotheby's, 31 July 1962, lot 619, to Dobell.
Collated in Walker and in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.
RoJ 603
Copy, headed ‘Upon Nothing, by ye Earl of Rochester’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 240. Early 18th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.
RoJ 604.6
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 337.5. Late 17th century.
RoJ 604.8
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 8.8. 1680-93.
A Very Heroical Epistle in Answer to Ephelia (‘Madam. / If you're deceived, it is not by my cheat’)
First published in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 113-15. Walker, pp. 112-14. Love, pp. 95-7.
RoJ 605
Copy, here beginning ‘Madam / If you're deceiv'd 'tis not by my heart’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 12 (RoJ Δ 1). c.1698-1700s.
RoJ 606
Copy, headed ‘An Heroicall Epistle in answer to Ephelia by Rochester’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 4. c.1667-82 [the poems by Marvell and Rochester c.1670s].
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 607
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 13 (RoJ Δ 3). c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
RoJ 608
Copy, headed ‘His answer’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 11.4 (RoJ Δ 4). Early 18th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
RoJ 609
Copy, headed ‘The answer by Sr. Charles Scroope’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 6 (RoJ Δ 6). c.1680s-1700s.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 609.5
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 217.2. c.1712-27.
John Rylands University Library of Manchester, English MS 521, pp. 238-40.
RoJ 610
Copy, headed ‘An heroicall Epistle in answer to Ephelia’, subscribed in a different ink ‘Rochester’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 8 (RoJ Δ 10). c.1680s.
RoJ 611
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 17. c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 612
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 18 (RoJ Δ 14). c.1680.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 613
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 19 (RoJ Δ 16). c.1680.
Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.
RoJ 614
Copy in a small quarto verse miscellany (ff. 78r-82v).
In: the MS described under RoJ 197.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 616
Copy, headed ‘Answere’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 86. c.1693-8.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
RoJ 617
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 198. Late 17th century.
This entry separately classified as EL 8736B. This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker
RoJ 618
Copy, headed ‘An Epistle in Answer of Ephelia’.
In: A large quarto miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, in a single neat italic hand, 81 leaves (including blanks), unbound. Mid-late 18th century.
RoJ 619
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 11.92. c.1681.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
RoJ 620
Copy in: A miscellaneous collection of MS verse, ‘totally unconnected with each other, and written on backs of letters, or other scraps of paper’. 17th century.
Formerly among the papers of the Aston family, of Tixall, Staffordshire.
Selectively edited (as his ‘Fourth Division: Miscellaneous Poems’) in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 207-324.
Edited from this MS, as ‘An Epistle in Answer to Ephelia’, in Clifford, Tixall Poetry (1813), pp. 223-5.
Woman's Honor (‘Love bade me hope, and I obeyed’)
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 14. Walker, pp. 22-3. Love, p. 21.
RoJ 621
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 12 (RoJ Δ 1). c.1698-1700s.
RoJ 622
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 92 (RoJ Δ 5). Late 17th - early 18th century.
RoJ 623
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 14 (RoJ Δ 7). c.1690s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 624
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 7 (RoJ Δ 8). c.1680s-90s.
This MS collated in Hammond and in Walker.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 54, pp. 116-17.
RoJ 625
Copy, headed ‘Woman Honour. Song’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 1 (RoJ Δ 9). Early 18th century.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII , f. 50r.
RoJ 626
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 17. c.1680s.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
RoJ 627
Copy, headed ‘Womans Honour a Song’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 11.8 (RoJ Δ 12). c.1690s.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090, ff. 61v-2r.
RoJ 629
Copy, headed ‘Womans Honour a Song’
In: the MS described under RoJ 11.91 (RoJ Δ 15). c.1690s-1700.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38), pp. 108-9.
RoJ 630
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 19 (RoJ Δ 16). c.1680.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.
RoJ 631
Copy, headed ‘Womans Honour Song’, numbered in darker ink ‘6’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 2 (RoJ Δ 17). c.mid-1680s.
Edited in part from this MS in Love.
Prose
The Famous Pathologist or the Noble Mountebank
An account of Rochester's prank in 1676 when he disguised himself as an Italian mountebank, Dr Alexander Bendo, and set up practice on Tower Hill. First published in this form, as a work by Rochester (‘Doctr. Alexandr. Bendo’) and Thomas Alcock, in an edition by Vivian de Sola Pinto (Nottingham, 1961). Rochester's mock-bill, ‘Alexander Bendo's Bill’, apparently printed and circulated by him as an advertisement in 1676 (no exemplum known). A version published in Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691), pp. 138-54. Reprinted in Collected Works of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, ed. John Hayward (London, 1926), pp. 153-60. Love, pp. 112-17.
RoJ 632
A formal copy, with a frontispiece sketch, a title-page, an imprimatur, and a dedicatory epistle to Lady Ann Baynton, followed by Rochester's mock-advertisement, ‘The Noble Mountebank's ingenious Bill’, subscribed ‘Transcribed at Mallets=Court in Shierhampton Decr. the 13th: 1687. by Me Thos. Alcock’, 53 octavo leaves (on rectos only), in black leather gilt. Made by Thomas Alcock, a former servant of Rochester's, for presentation as a New Year's gift to Rochester's daughter Ann (1667-1703) and her husband Henry Baynton (1664-91). 13 December 1687.
The MS later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 17730). Formerly Misc. MS 1489.
Edited from this MS in Sola Pinto's edition. See also [? Gerald P. Mander], ‘Rochester and Dr Bendo’, TLS (13 June 1942), p. 300. Facsimile examples in Sola Pinto and in Greene, p. 107.
To the Reader
Love (1999), pp. 54-7.
Dramatic Works
Scaene 1st. Mr. Daynty's chamber
First published in Vivian de Sola Pinto, Rochester: Portrait of a Restoration Poet (London, 1935), pp. 125-6. The revised edition, Enthusiast in Wit: A Portrait of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester 1647-1680 (London, 1962), pp. 111-12. Love, pp. 123-4.
*RoJ 633
Autograph draft, with revisions, of part of the first scene of an untitled prose comedy, beginning ‘Scaene 1st. Mr. Daynty's chamber — Enter Daynty in his Night gown singing…’, on both sides of a single quarto leaf.
In: the MS described under RoJ 70. c.1660s-80.
Edited from this MS in Sola Pinto. Facsimile of the first page in IELM, II.ii, Facsimile IX.
A Scaen of Sir Robert Howard's Play
A scene for Howard's play The Conquest of China by the Tartars. First published in Collected Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. John Hayward (London, 1926), pp. 239-47. Poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Vivian de Sola Pinto (London, 1964), pp. 61-9. Love, pp. 124-32. See also Allardyce Nicoll, ‘Dryden, Howard and Rochester’, TLS (13 January 1921), 27; J. Harold Wilson, ‘The Dating of Rochester's “Scaen”’, RES, 13 (1937), 455-8; and Jeremy Treglown, ‘The Dating of Rochester's “Scaen”’, RES, NS 30 (1979), 434-6.
RoJ 634
Copy of a ‘Scaen’ as ‘written by the Earl of Rochester’.
In: A folio volume containing two works by the Earl of Rochester, in one accomplished professional hand, 75 leaves, in 19th-century half green morocco. c.1680s.
Possibly this MS or RoJ 646 the MS of ‘Lord Rochester's Lucina's Rape, or the Tragedy of Valentinian’ offered in Thomas and John Egerton's ‘Catalogue of Books comprising Several Libraries lately purchased’, Military Library, Whitehall (1792), item 1421. Similarly either this volume or Folger MS V.b.233 offered in Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue of books, manuscripts and autograph letters [June 1848], p. 34.
This MS apparently that mentioned by one ‘J. Mt’ as being in his library in N&Q, Ser. I, No. 5 (6 March 1852), 225. Discussed in Nicoll. Edited in Sola Pinto, loc. cit. Facsimile of f. 70 in Prinz, after p. 390.
RoJ 635
Copy, headed ‘A Scæn of Sr Robert Howards Play, Written by the Earle of Rochester’.
In: A tall folio comprising dramatic works by the Earl of Rochester, in a cursive rounded hand, with occasional corrections possibly in another hand, ii + 56 folio leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Late 17th century.
Inscribed (f. [iir] ‘M Portman’. Bookplate of ‘Henry Seymour Esqr’. Possibly this MS or RoJ 645 the MS of ‘Lord Rochester's Lucina's Rape, or the Tragedy of Valentinian’ offered in Thomas and John Egerton's ‘Catalogue of Books comprising Several Libraries lately purchased’, Military Library, Whitehall (1792), item 1421. Similarly either this volume or British Library Add. MS 28692 offered in Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue of books, manuscripts and autograph letters [June 1848], p. 34.
This MS recorded in Sola Pinto, loc. cit., pp. 183-4.
Sodom and Gomorah
First published (?) at ‘Antwerp’ [i.e. London], (?)1684. The only known extant early printed exemplum is a probably early 18th-century octavo entitled Sodom, or the Gentleman Instructed. A Comedy. By the E. of R., sold at Sotheby's 16 December 2004, lot 54 (with facsimile pages in the sale catalogue), now in private ownership.
Edited from MS copies as Rochester's Sodom, ed. L.S.A.M. von Römer (Paris, 1904), and as Sodom (Olympia Press, Paris, [1957]). Love, pp. 302-33.
Of uncertain authorship. For discussions of authorship and texts, see notably Rodney M. Blaine, ‘Rochester or Fishbourne: A Question of Authorship’, RES, 22 (1946), 201-6; J. Thorpe, ‘New Manuscripts of Sodom’, PULC, 13 (1951-2), 40-1; A.S.G. Edwards, ‘Libertine Literature in Restoration England: Princeton MS AM 14401’, BC, 25 (Autumn 1976), 354-68, and ‘The Authorship of Sodom’, PBSA, 71 (1977), 208-12; Larry Carver, ‘The Texts and The Text of Sodom’, PBSA, 73 (1979), 19-40; John D. Patterson, ‘Does Otway ascribe Sodom to Rochester?’, N&Q, 225 (August 1980), 349-51; and J.W. Johnson, ‘Did Lord Rochester Write Sodom?’, PBSA, 81 (1987), 101-53.
RoJ 636
Copy, lacking a title-page, a prologue and an epilogue, here ending after scene 5.
In: the MS described under RoJ 17. c.1680s.
This MS discussed in Edwards, BC (1976) and PBSA (1977).
RoJ 637
Copy, headed ‘The Farce of Sodom’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 11.8 (RoJ Δ 12). c.1690s.
This MS discussed, with a facsimile of f. 81r, in Edwards, BC (1976).
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090, ff. 73r-88v.
RoJ 638
Copy, entitled ‘The Farce of Sodom’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 11.91 (RoJ Δ 15). c.1690s-1700.
This MS discussed, with a facsimile of p. 148, in Edwards, BC (1976).
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38), pp. 133-62.
RoJ 639
Copy, entitled ‘Sodom, a play by the Earl of Rochester’, apparently transcried from the ‘Antwerp’ edition of 1684, on eighteen leaves. Early 18th century.
This MS discussed, with a facsimile of f. 10, in Edwards, BC (1976). The two prologues, two epilogues and final speech edited from this MS in Danchin, Prologues & Epilogues, II, 475-86.
RoJ 640
Copy, with a title-page ‘Sodom or The Quintessence of Debauchery By E of R Written for the Royall Company of Whore masters’, in five Acts with the various prologues and epilogues.
In: the MS described under RoJ 112. End of 17th century.
This MS discussed, with a facsimile of p. 134 in Edwards, BC (1976). Text of the two prologues, two epilogues and final speech in this MS collated in Danchin, Prologues & Epilogues, II, 475-86.
RoJ 641
Copy, entitled ‘Sodom A Play By The Earl of Rochester’, apparently transcribed from the ‘Antwerp’ edition of 1684, on 39 quarto pages, bound with a MS of Beverlandia Otia Oxoniensa. c.1710.
Once owned by Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach (1683-1735), Frankfurt bibliographer and traveller.
Edited from this MS in Römer (1905). Discussed, with a facsimile of the title-page, in Prinz, pp. 393-4, and, with a facsimile of p. 22, in Edwards, BC (1976).
RoJ 641.5
Copy of a five-act version, without any prologues or epilogues, headed ‘The farce of Sodome’, cited in the table of contents as ‘Bolloximion A play’.
In: A folio volume of poems chiefly on affairs of state, in a non-professional hand, with a table of contents (listing some 125 poems), once containing upwards of 240 pages, but all of which after p. 22 have been excised. Late 17th century.
Suffolk Record Office, Lowestoft, 194/F1/1, pp. [2*] and 1-13.
RoJ 642
Copy, without a title-page but with a prologue headed ‘Prologue To Sodom & Gomorah by Bolloxinian’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 354. c.1670s-80s.
RoJ 643.5
Copy of the full five-act version, headed ‘The Farce of Sodom. or The Amours of Bolloximion’.
In: the MS described under RoJ 8.5. c.1705.
Valentinian, or Lucina's Rape
The first recorded performance was at Court, 11 February 1683/4. First published in London, 1685. Collected Works of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, ed. John Hayward (London, 1926), pp. 161-238. Love, pp. 133-231, as Lucina's Rape Or The Tragedy of Vallentinian, with (pp. 232-40) [A Mask for the Tragedy of Valentinian] [by Sir Francis Fane].
RoJ 644
Copy of the complete play, entitled ‘Lucinas Rape Or The Tragedy of Valentinian’. A text of the masque introduced by Sir Francis Fane in Act III, headed ‘A Masque Representing Lucina's dream in the third Act of the Tragedie of Valentinian’ (beginning ‘Haile sacred Cynthia mutable and chast’), is on pp. 219-31.
In: the MS described under RoJ 2 (RoJ Δ 17). c.mid-1680s.
This masque was published as ‘A Mask. Made at the Request of the late Earl of Rochester, for the Tragedy of Valentinian’, in Nahum Tate, Poems by Several Hands, and on Several Occasions (London, 1685), pp. 17-32.
RoJ 645
Copy of an early version, with a title-page ‘Lucina's Rape, Or The Tragedy of Vallentinian’, a list of dramatis personae (ff. 3r, 4r) including actors' names.
In: the MS described under RoJ 634. c.1680s.
This MS discussed in Allardyce Nicoll, ‘Dryden, Howard and Rochester’, TLS (13 January 1921), p. 27. Facsimiles of the title-page in Prinz, before p. 389, and in Greene, p. 186. Extracts edited from this MS in Poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Vivian de Sola Pinto (London, 1964), pp. 70-2; collated in Hayward, pp. 340-8.
RoJ 646
Copy of an early version, with a title-page ‘Lucina's Rape Or The Tragedy of Valentinian’, ‘By the Earle of Rochester’ added afterwards.
In: the MS described under RoJ 635. Late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Sola Pinto, loc. cit., pp. 183-4.
RoJ 647
A twelve-line extract, from Act IV, scene iv, beginning ‘At this she fell - choakt with a thousand sighs’. Late 17th century.
In: Sheaf of unbound letters (some of a later date) and a few copies of verse.
Letters
Letter(s)
*RoJ 648
Forty autograph letters by Rochester--addressed chiefly to his wife, some to his mother, son, and father-in-law, and to his friend Henry Savile. Late 17th century.
In: A large folio composite volume of original state and miscellaneous letters, in various hands, 391 leaves, in modern brown morocco gilt. Inscribed by Wanley with date of acquisition ‘27 August, 1724’.
Facsimiles of various of these letters appear in Lawrence B. Phillips, The Autographic Album (London, 1866), p. 231; in Prinz (1927), after pp. 252, 262 and 272; in Vivian de Sola Pinto, Rochester: Portrait of a Restoration Poet (London, 1935), after p. 52; in The Rochester-Savile Letters 1671-1680, ed. John Harold Wilson (Columbus, 1941), frontispiece; in Greene, pp. 51, 151; and in Treglown (two on the endpapers of the 1980 edition).
RoJ 649
Copies of a series of c.80 letters ‘From, and To The Earl of Rochester. 1670 &ca’., largely in a single professional hand (possibly that of Harley's secretary William Thomas, fl. 1685-1740), with a loosely inserted memorandum at the end ‘humbly Submitted to My Lord Harley’, 188 pages (including blanks), in half-leather marbled boards.
The majority of the copies are of the original letters in British Library, Harley MS 7003 (RoJ 648), and twelve letters to Rochester chiefly by Henry Savile are copied from the originals in the Marquess of Bath, Longleat, Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII (RoJ 650). Included (p. 39) is a copy of an otherwise unknown letter to Rochester by his wife.
In: Copies of letters by Rochester. Early 18th century.
Bonham's, 27 June 2006, lot 383.
Discussed, and the letter by Rochester's wife edited, in Nicholas Fisher, ‘“Copies of Letters From, and To the Earl of Rochester”: An Unexpected Assemblage Commissioned by Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741)’, EMS, 17 (forthcoming).
Nicholas Fisher, London, Rochester Letters, The MS as a whole.
RoJ 649.5
Copy of Rochester's letter of repentance on his death-bed, to Gilbert Burnet, 25 June 1680. c.1680.
In: the MS described under RoJ 648.
RoJ 649.8
Copy of a letter by Rochester, to his nephew, the Earl of Lichfield, 23 December 1677. c.1677.
In: the MS described under RoJ 648.
Treglown, pp. 176-7 (not signaled as a copy).
RoJ 650
Copy of twelve letters by Rochester, on two pairs of conjugate small folio leaves. Early-mid-18th century.
In: the MS described under RoJ 498.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Portland Papers, Vol. XVII, ff. 13r-15v.
RoJ 651
Copy of eight letters by Rochester.
In: the MS described under RoJ 1 (RoJ Δ 9). Early 18th century.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Thynne Papers, Vol. XXVII , ff. 46r-9r.
RoJ 652
Copy of five letters by Rochester, ‘Transcribed by the Earl of Winchilsea from the Originals then in the Possession of the Revd Mr: Harbin and now in Ld Oxford's Library given me by Crete’.
In: A quarto letterbook, in several neat hands, 191 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in red morocco gilt. c.1745.
RoJ 653
Copies by Birch of various letters by Rochester. Late 17th- or 18th-century.
In: A large quarto volume of letters etc., in various hands, 280 leaves.
Volume III of the collection of state letters etc. by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian.
RoJ 654
A petition by Rochester begging the King's pardon, entirely in the hand of a professional scrivener, probably in May 1665. Treglown, p. 247. 1665.
*RoJ 655
Autograph note of assignation signed by Rochester, to an unnamed Lady [possibly Lady Southesk (d.1698), daughter of William, second Duke of Hamilton], evidently folded so small as to be capable of being confidentially ‘palmed’ to her, undated. Late 17th century.
Among the muniments of the Hamilton family, Dukes of Hamilton, formerly at Lennoxlove. These muniments were acquired in 1982.
Recorded by Peter Beal in IELM, II.ii (1993), pp. 226-7. Subsequently edited and discussed, with a facsimile, in Keith Walker, ‘“Not the Worst part of my wretched life”: Three New Letters by Rochester, and How to Read Them’, EMS, 8 (2000), 293-9.
*RoJ 656
Autograph note of assignation signed by Rochester, to an unnamed Lady [possibly Lady Southesk (d.1698), daughter of William, second Duke of Hamilton], evidently folded so small as to be capable of being confidentially ‘palmed’ to her, undated. Late 17th century.
Among the muniments of the Hamilton family, Dukes of Hamilton, formerly at Lennoxlove. These muniments were acquired in 1982.
Recorded by Peter Beal in IELM, II.ii (1993), pp. 226-7. Subsequently edited and discussed, with a facsimile, in Keith Walker, ‘“Not the Worst part of my wretched life”: Three New Letters by Rochester, and How to Read Them’, EMS, 8 (2000), 293-9.
*RoJ 657
Autograph letter signed by Rochester, to Joseph Williamson, [1671]. 1671.
Treglown, p. 65.
*RoJ 659
A valedictory letter by Rochester virtually on his death-bed, to Lady Southesk's cousin, James Hamilton (1658-1712), Lord Arran, in the hand of an amanuensis and signed by Rochester, 8 June 1680. 1680.
Recorded by Peter Beal in IELM, II.ii (1993), pp. 226-7. Subsequently edited and discussed, with a facsimile, in Keith Walker, ‘“Not the Worst part of my wretched life”: Three New Letters by Rochester, and How to Read Them’, EMS, 8 (2000), 293-9.
*RoJ 660
A valedictory letter by Rochester on his death-bed, to Gilbert Burnet, expressing his repentance, in the hand of his mother and falteringly signed by Rochester, 25 June 1680. 1680.
Treglown, p. 244. Facsimile in The Houghton Library 1942-1967 (Cambridge, Mass., 1967), p. 52.
RoJ 661
Copy of ‘A letter to Dr. Burney from the Earle of Rochester, as he lay on his death Bed wrote wth his own Hand. 25 June 1680 at 12. at night’. c.1680.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, c.543 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.
Formerly among the Braye Manuscripts, descending from John Browne (1608-91), Clerk of the Parliaments, whose daughter Martha married Sir Roger Cave, Bt, of Stanford Hall, Rugby, seat of successive Lords Braye. Christie's, 23 June 1954, lot 108.
Recorded in HMC 15, 10th Report, Appendix VI (1887), Appendix, Part VI, p. 122. A complete set of photocopies is in the Parliamentary Archives, BRY/96.
RoJ 662
Copy of Rochester's letter on his death-bed to Dr Thomas Pierce, President of Magdalen College, Oxford, July 1680. c.1680.
In: A folio composite volume of letters by English noblemen, chiefly to Dr Arthur Charlett (d.1622), Master of University College, Oxford, 207 leaves.
Rochester's last known letter. Edited from this MS in Treglown, pp. 245-6. See also RoJ 663 and RoJ 664.
*RoJ 663
Allegedly autograph letter by Rochester to Dr Thomas Pierce, President of Magdalen College, Oxford, described as ‘A.L. 1 p., oblong small folio, n.p., n.d.’. See copies of this or another letter to Pierce, RoJ 662 and RoJ 664. 1680?.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 1 November 1950 (Oliver R. Barrett sale), lot 973.
RoJ 664
Copy of Rochester's letter on his death-bed to Dr Thomas Pierce, President of Magdalen College, Oxford, July 1680. c.1680.
In: A volume of estate and household accounts of Anne Freke at Hannington, Hampshire, i + 101 leaves (ff. 77-101 blank), in vellum. 1737-46.
See also RoJ 662 and RoJ 663.
Documents
Document(s)
*RoJ 665
A document signed by Rochester, appointing William Fanshawe to receive his annuity of £1,000, 16 September 1670. 1670.
Sotheby's, 15 July 1957, lot 440.
*RoJ 666
An indenture signed by both Rochester and his wife Elizabeth, leasing lands in Bishop's Lydeard, Somerset, to John Winter, 29 July 1672. 1672.
Sotheby's, 18 July 1973, lot 163.
Photograph in the British Library, RP 989 (2). Formerly Gen. MSS. Misc. No. AM 21597.
*RoJ 667
An indenture signed by both Rochester and his wife Elizabeth, 21 August 1672. With other family documents. 1672.
Formerly DD/SF 990.
*RoJ 668
Power of Attorney signed by Rochester, appointing Richard Blancourt to receive £1,000 from the Treasury, 9 December 1674. 1674.
Puttick & Simpson's, 4 June 1878, lot 312, to Waller. Later owned by J. Eliot Hodgkin, FSA (1829-1912), of Richmond, Surrey, engineer and book collector. Sotheby's, 24 April 1914 (Hodgkin sale), lot 321, to Barnard. Formerly Osborn Files/Rochester.
Recorded in HMC, 15th Report, Appendix Part II (1897), p. 315.
*RoJ 669
Letter of Attorney signed by Rochester, 2 July 1675. 1675.
Puttick & Simpson's, 21 June 1850 (Burton sale), lot 206, to Montagu.
*RoJ 670
Power of Attorney signed by Rochester, in favour of Richard Blancourt, 14 July 1679. 1679.
Sotheby's, 15 March 1876 (W.T.B. Ashley sale), lot 391, to Naylor.
*RoJ 671
Document(s). Indenture signed by Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, and by Arthur Capel, Earl of Essex, countersigned by Rochester, 16 July 1679. 1679.
Puttick & Simpson's, 28 April 1891 (Lionel Oliver sale), lot 121, to Barker.
Will
*RoJ 672
Rochester's last will and testament, with codicil dated 22 June 1680. 1680.
Sotheby's, 3 July 1908, lot 245, to Maggs.
Miscellaneous Extracts from Works by Rochester
Extracts
RoJ 673
Copy in: the MS described under RoJ 3.5. c.1703-9.
RoJ 674
Copy in: A quarto volume, in two hands. 274 leaves, unnumbered. 1626-96.
Comprising:
[Part I, ff. 12r-168r], five sermons, the first four by Donne, in the hand of Knightley Chetwode, son of Richard Chetwode, of Chetwode, Buckinghamshire, and Oakley, Staffordshire. 1625/6.
[Part II, ff. 1r-78r rev.], a verse miscellany, produced when the original blank pages were later filled from the reverse end, probably by one Katherine Butler. 1696.
The volume inscribed as having been given to Katherine Butler by her father in May 1693.
Described in Potter & Simpson, I, 41-2.