Verse
Poems by Shirley
Another (‘Harke, harke how in euery groue’)
First published, adapted as stanzas 3 and 4 of ‘Cupid's Call’ (‘Ho! Cupid calls, come Lovers, come’), in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 89.
ShJ 1
Copy in: Rawlinson MS. 4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed ‘J: S:’; signed at the end (p. 77) ‘J. Shirley’. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above. c.1640-3.
A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) ‘Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by Mr Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College’ [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and ‘Ro: Doyley’; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).
Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).
Edited from this MS in Armstrong.
ShJ 2
Copy, headed ‘Curtisan’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, comprising nearly 250 poems, in five hands, vii + 135 leaves (with a modern index), in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked), with remains of clasps. Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller. c.1630s-40s.
Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Peeter Daniell’ and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names ‘Thomas Gardinor’, ‘James Leigh’ and ‘Pettrus Romell’. Owned in 1780 by one ‘A. B.’ when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Daniell MS’: CwT Δ 5, HeR Δ 2, RnT Δ 1, StW Δ 5, WaE Δ 9. Briefly discussed in Margaret Crum, ‘An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick’, RES, NS 11 (1960), 186-9. A facsimile of f. 22v in Marcy L. North, ‘Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 106). Betagraphs of the watermark in f. 65 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks’, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 241).
ShJ 3
Copy, headed ‘The Curtizan’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands, including eight poems by Randolph (one twice), 102 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. Fols 1r-93v, 95r-100v in the hand of Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London (whose name is inscribed on a flyleaf: f. 1*); f. 94r-v in an unidentified hand, and ff. 101v-2r in that of Peter Calfe's son, Peter Calfe the Younger (d.1693). c.1650-9.
Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford. Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Janu. 6. 1738/9’.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6917 with which it was once bound, as the ‘Calfe MS’: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4.
This MS recorded in Armstrong.
ShJ 4
Copy, headed ‘Curtesan’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, in a single probably professional rounded hand (except for a poem on f. 81r and later scribbling); ii + 81 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Including 16 poems by or attributed to Herrick and 24 poems by Randolph (plus two of doubtful authorship). This MS related to HeR Δ 2 and to RnT Δ 1. c. late 1630s.
Inscriptions including (on a flyleaf) ‘Anthony St John/ Ann: St John/ 1640 Bletso’: i.e. Anthony St John (1618-73), of Christ's College, Cambridge, fourth son of Oliver, fourth Baron St John and first Earl of Bolingbroke (c.1584-1646), of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and Anthony's wife, Ann Kensham (married 1639); (flyleaf) ‘Oliver Beeesfor[d]’; and (f. 81v) ‘John Watts’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13187. Sotheby's, 6 June 1910, lot 672, to Quaritch. Item 1415 in an unidentified sale.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘St John MS’: HeR Δ 4 and RnT Δ 8. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 72).
This MS recorded in Armstrong.
ShJ 5
Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes.
In: A folio songbook, in a single secretary hand, some items misnumbered, 144 leaves. c.1640s.
Once owned by the Shirley family, Earls Ferrers, of Staunton Harold, Leicestershire. Also owned, and annotated, by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.
Generally cited as the Earl Ferrers MS. Collated in Cutts, ‘Drexel Manuscript 4041’, MD, 18 (1964), 151-202. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 9 (New York & London, 1987).
This MS collated in Cutts, ‘Drexel Manuscript 4041’, p. 184.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4041, No. 73, f. 52r.
ShJ 6
Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes.
In: A folio music book, containing 327 songs, in three largely secretary hands, with a ‘Cattalogue’ of contents, 229 leaves. Owned (in 1659) and partly compiled by the composer John Gamble (d.1687), with some misnumbering. c.1630s-50s.
Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.
A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 10 (New York & London, 1987). Discussed in Charles W. Hughes, ‘John Gamble's Commonplace Book’, M&L, 26 (1945), 215-29.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 12.
ShJ 7
Copy, headed ‘The Curtizan’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, 204 pages, in old calf. Including ten poems by Carew (and two of doubtful authorship) and 24 poems by Randolph. c.1630s.
Thomas Thorpe, ‘Catalogue of upwards of fourteen hundred manuscripts’ (1836), item 1030. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9282. Subsequently in the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 188.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Rosenbach MS I’: CwT Δ 31 and RnT Δ 10. The complete volume edited in Howard H. Thompson, An Edition of Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1959) (Rosenbach Library Mic 59-4669).
The Common-wealth of Birds (‘Let other Poets write of dogs’)
First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 9.
ShJ 8
Copy of a 36-line version beginning ‘Lissen (Gallants) to my words’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 1 (ShJ Δ 1). c.1640-3.
Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 93.
ShJ 9
Copy of a 36-line version beginning ‘List all people to my words’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany in several hands, written from both ends, 46 leaves, in contemporary calf. Mid-17th century.
Inscribed names (on front paste-down and f. 1r) of ‘Fra: Norreys’ (? Sir Francis Norris (1609-69)) and ‘Hen. Balle’. Purchased from J. Harvey 8 December 1877.
ShJ 10
Copy of a 40-line version beginning ‘Listen: gallants, to my wordes’. c.1640.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous tracts and verse, in several hands, 97 leaves, in panelled mottled calf. Folios 62r-78v comprise an independent verse miscellany in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, with his title-page ‘A: Booke;, Off, verses &c.’
Later owned by Edward Stillingfleet (1635-99), Bishop of Worcester. Bought by Robert Harley in 1707.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 242 (No. 56).
Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 242 (No. 56.5).
ShJ 11
Copy of a 30-line version beginning ‘Listen Gallants to my words.’
In: the MS described under ShJ 3. c.1650-9.
Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 93.
ShJ 12
Copy of an intermediate 46-line version, in a neat roman hand, beginning ‘Listen Gallants to my wordes’, on two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, among papers probably associated with William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle. c.1643-4.
ShJ 12.5
Copy in: A small quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in one secretary hand, erratically paginated up to 333, 250 leaves, in 18th-century boards. c.late 1630s.
Inscribed (on p. [330]) ‘Robert Lord his book Anno Domini’; (on [p. 335]) ‘william Jacob his booke Amen’; and, among scribbling on the last leaf, ‘Hugh Gibgans of the same’ and ‘John Winter of Buckland Dursbane [or husbande?]’. Owned in 1788 by Alexander R. Popham. Bloomsbury Book Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 8.
A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.
Cupids Call (‘Ho! Cupid calls, come Lovers, come’)
See ShJ 1-7, ShJ 14-15.
Curse (‘Woman, I cannot call thee worse’)
First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 17.
*ShJ 13
Autograph copy.
In: the MS described under ShJ 1 (ShJ Δ 1). c.1640-3.
Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 97.
Facsimiles also in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1, and (part of p. 78) in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 257. See Introduction.
The Curtizane (‘Cupid calls o Younge men Come’)
First published in Samuel Pick, Festum Voluptatis (London, 1639). Adapted as part of ‘Cupids Call’ (‘Ho! Cupid calls, come Lovers, come’) in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 89.
ShJ 15
Copy of a version beginning ‘Cupid calls com Louers com’, in a musical setting (by William Lawes?).
In: the MS described under ShJ 6. c.1630s-50s.
Edited from this MS in Cutts, ‘Original Music for Two Caroline Plays — Richard Brome's The English Moore; or The Mock-Mariage and James Shirley's The Gentlemen of Venice’, N&Q, 231 (March 1986), 21-5 (p. 24), where it is suggested that this song may belong to The Gentlemen of Venice, Act III, scene iv.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 22.
Dialogue (‘I prethee tell me what prodigious fate’)
First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 18.
ShJ 16
Copy of an early version of stanzas 2-4, untitled and here beginning ‘Her haires are Cupids, wch when she spreads’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 1 (ShJ Δ 1). c.1640-3.
Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 98.
ShJ 17
Copy of an early version headed ‘An Hyperbolick Description of a Leady which for ye sharpness of it I have here Insert’ and beginning ‘Hir Hairs are Cupids nets which when she spreads’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in two neat mixed hands, with subsequent additions in other hands, 32 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco. Probably compiled in Scotland by members of the Rutherford family. c.1680-1710.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Mr Gideon Rutherford’ and ‘Jean Rutherford’, and (ff. 11v-13v) including a poem on ‘John Reutherfoord’. Acquired in 1924 from Maggs Bros.
Briefly discussed in Marcia Allentuck, An Unpublished Commonplace Book of Scottish Interest in the Folger Shakespeare Library, SSL, 7, No. 4 (April 1970), 270-1.
ShJ 18
Copy of an early version headed ‘In praise of his Mrs. Shirley’ and beginning ‘Her haires are Cupids nets’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in probably two or more secretary hands, 108 pages, in half brown morocco. Mid-17th century.
Later owned by F.W. Cosens (1819-89). Bookplate of James W. Ellsworth.
Epitaph On the Duke of Bvckingham (‘Here lies the best and worst of Fate’)
First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 15.
ShJ 19
Copy, headed ‘Vppon the Duke of Buckingham, Epitaph’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 1 (ShJ Δ 1). c.1640-3.
This MS collated in Armstrong.
ShJ 20
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in a secretary hand, vi + 221 pages, in 18th-century diced calf gilt. c.1630s.
Inscribed (f. iiir) by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector, ‘Bought at the sale of Mr. [Jonathan] Boucher's Library in April 1806, for £2. 12. 6. E Malone’.
This MS collated in Armstrong. Edited in the online ‘Earl Stuart Libels’.
ShJ 20.5
Copy in: A small octavo verse miscellany, written from both ends, predominantly in a single hand in variant styles (ff. 1v-79v, 80r, 88v-96v, 119r-117r rev.), with additions in later hands (ff. 97r-104v, 116v-106r rev.), 164 leaves, in modern half red morocco. Inscribed (f. 1v, in a court hand) ‘Daniell Leare his Booke’, ‘witnesse William Strode’, and (f. 164r) ‘Mr Daniell Leare eius Liber’: i.e. compiled chiefly by Daniel Leare, a distant cousin of the poet William Strode, probably at Christ Church, Oxford, before he entered the Middle Temple in 1633. c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This suggestion, by Mary Hobbs, is supported by entries in the Caution Book of 1625-41 at Christ Church, where Strode is found (p. 22) paying £10 as college security for Leare and where Leare signs (p. 23) on this sum's repayment by Dr Fell on 13 May 1633. Forey suggests (p. lxxix) that he was the Daniell Leare of St Andrews, Holburne, whose will was proved in 1652; but it is more likely that he was the Daniel Leare to whom Henry King, Dean of Rochester, leased property at Chatham on 19 July 1655 (National Archives, Kew, SP 18/99/61). Daniel Leare's wife, Dorothy, was a member of the Hubert family with whom King was associated by virtue of the marriage of his sister Dorothy.
The volume includes 12 poems by Donne; 15 poems (plus a second copy of one and three of doubtful authorship) by Carew; 20 poems (plus two of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; and 84 poems (plus second copies of eight poems, four poems of doubtful authorship and some apocryphal poems) by Strode, the texts being closely related to, and in part probably transcribed from, the ‘Corpus MS’ of Strode's poems (StW Δ 1).
Inscribed also ‘John Leare’ (probably Daniel's younger brother); (f. 1r) ‘Anthony Euans his booke’ (who married Daniel Leare's niece Dorothy Leare in 1663); (f. 1v) ‘Alexander Croke his Book 1773’; and (f. 164v) ‘John Scott’ (who matriculated at Christ Church in 1632). Rimell & Son, 9 November 1878.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Leare MS’: DnJ Δ 41, CwT Δ 15, CoR Δ 4, and StW Δ 10.
Discussed in Mary Hobbs, An Edition of the Stoughton Manuscript (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1973), pp. 185-90; in her ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 189-90); and in her Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), passim, with facsimile examples of ff. 79-80 facing p. 87.
ShJ 21
Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, untitled, among other poems on the Duke of Buckingham.
In: A folio composite miscellany of verse, prose, and dramatic works, in several hands, an independant unit on ff. 88r-111r, in a single hand, containing, inter alia, twenty poems by Donne, 117 leaves (plus seventeen blanks), in contemporary vellum, with remains of ties. c.1630.
Inscribed (f. 134v) ‘Anthony Methuen’. Later owned by members of the Wyndham family, including probably the Henry Penruddocke Wyndham (1736-1819), topographer. Sotheby's, 11 April 1872, lot 1331, to David Laing.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Laing MS’: DnJ Δ 47.
ShJ 21.5
Copy, headed ‘Epitaph on George Villiers Duke of Buckingham -- by Shirley’.
In: Three quarto volumes of verse, 164, 155 and 145 leaves respectively, in later vellum. Compiled by Colonel Gabriel Lepipre. c.1753.
ShJ 22
Copy, untitled.
In: Small group of poems on two conjugate folio leaves. Mid-late 17th century.
Friendship, Or Verses sent to a Lover, in Answer of a Copie which he had writ in praise of His Mistris (‘O how I blush, to have ador'd the face’)
First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 16.
ShJ 23
Copy of an untitled eighteen-line version beginning ‘I haue noe humour to adore the fface’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 1 (ShJ Δ 1). c.1640-3.
Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 97.
ShJ 24
Copy of a version headed ‘To a Gentleman that magnified his Mrs. the prayse of a Mr.’ and beginning ‘I haue noe humour to adore the face’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 2. c.1630s-40s.
ShJ 25
Copy of a version headed ‘To a Gentleman (that magnified his Mistresse) The praise of a Maister’ and beginning ‘I have no humour to adore the face’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 4. c. late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Armstrong.
ShJ 26
Copy of a version headed ‘To a Gentleman (that magnified his Mistresse) The praise of a Mr.’ and beginning ‘I have no humour to adore ye face’, subscribed ‘T.R.’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 7. c.1630s.
The Garden (‘This Garden does not take my eyes’)
First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, pp. 16-17.
ShJ 27
Copy of a seven-stanza version, headed ‘Chlorinda's Garden’ and here beginning ‘fayne would I have a Plott of ground’, subscribed ‘James Shirley’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, in a single professional secretary hand associated with the playhouse and possibly inns of court (also responsible for ChG 12.5, HyT 5, and MiT 6), 97 leaves, with a first-line ‘Index’ at the end, in contemporary vellum boards. Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship). c.1636.
Inscribed (on the front paste-down) ‘My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire’ (following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Chute MS’: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, ‘Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).
Edited from this MS text in Howarth, pp. 26-7, and in Armstrong, p. 97.
ShJ 28
Copy of a seven-stanza version headed ‘Cardias Garden’ and beginning ‘Faine would I haue A plott of Ground’.
In: A large folio composite verse miscellany, chiefly folio, partly quarto, 243 pages, in contemporary calf. Including 18 poems by Carew and two of doubtful authorship, compiled by Nicholas Burghe (d.1670), Royalist Captain during the Civil War and one of the poor Knights of Windsor in 1661 (references to ‘I Nicholas Burgh’ occurring on ff. 165r, with the date ‘3d of June 1638’, and 166r, and his name partly in cipher on other pages); predominantly in his hand, with some later additions in other hands. c.1638.
Afterwards owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Burghe MS’: CwT Δ 1.
This MS collated in Howarth and recorded in Armstrong.
A Gentleman in Love with two Ladies (‘If Love his arrowes shoot so fast’)
First published as the Servant's song in Changes, or Love in a Maze, V, iii (London, 1632). Gifford & Dyce, II, 269-364 (pp. 354-5). Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 5.
ShJ 29
Copy, headed (afterwards) ‘One that lou'd two Mistresses at once’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 1 (ShJ Δ 1). c.1640-3.
This MS collated in Armstrong.
Good Morrow (‘Good morrow unto her, who in the night’)
First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 1.
ShJ 30
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under ShJ 1 (ShJ Δ 1). c.1640-3.
This MS collated in Armstrong.
ShJ 31
Copy, headed ‘Good morrow to ye wonder of her Sex’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 27 (ShJ Δ 2). c.1636.
This MS text collated in Armstrong.
ShJ 32
Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes.
In: A folio music part book (2nd treble part), viii + 218 pages, in contemporary calf. Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer. c.1650s.
Bookplate of Povert Henley.
ShJ 34
Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes, subscribed ‘John Wilson’, untitled.
In: A folio songbook (First Treble part), in a single hand, written from both ends, viii + 213 pages (paginated 1-191, then 1-22 rev.), lacking pp. 87-8, 115-18, the first two of which are now Birmingham Central Library, Acc. No. 57316, Location No. S747.01, in modern half brown morocco marbled boards. Compiled entirely by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer. Mid-late 17th century.
Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.
Discussed in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69’, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 8 (New York & London, 1987).
This MS collated in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69’, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94 (p. 181).
ShJ 35
Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.
In: the MS described under ShJ 34. Mid-late 17th century.
ShJ 36
Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes.
In: the MS described under ShJ 5. c.1640s.
This MS collated in Cutts, ‘Drexel Manuscript 4041’, p. 194.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4041, No. 122, ff. 102r-3r.
The Goodnight (‘Good night to her, who when she sleepes’)
First published in R. G. Howarth, ‘Some Unpublished Poems of James Shirley’, RES, 9 (1933), 24-9 (p. 25). Armstrong, p. 36.
ShJ 37
Copy, subscribed ‘James Shirley’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 27 (ShJ Δ 2). c.1636.
Edited from this MS text in Howarth and in Armstrong.
A Hymne to God (‘Canst thou (deare God) forgiue so soone’)
First published in Gifford & Dyce (1833), VI, 502-3. Armstrong, p. 35.
ShJ 38
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under ShJ 1 (ShJ Δ 1). c.1640-3.
Edited from this MS in Gifford & Dyce and in Armstrong.
In verolamium, a forgotten Cittie some tymes standing neere Sct Albions (‘Stay thy foot that passeth by’)
First published in R. G. Howarth, ‘Some Unpublished Poems of James Shirley’, RES, 9 (1933), 24-9 (p. 29). Armstrong, p. 54, as a ‘Doubtful Poem’.
ShJ 39
Copy in: the MS described under ShJ 28. c.1638.
Edited from this MS in Howarth and in Armstrong.
ShJ 40
Copy, headed ‘Of the old Cittie of verulam nere St Albons’
In: An oblong octavo miscellany of largely devotional verse and some prose, including (ff. 7v-22r) twelve poems by Crashaw, probably transcribed from Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652), in a single italic hand, written across the width of the pages with the spine upwards, with (ff. 181r-8r) a table of contents, 188 leaves, in calf gilt. Entitled Collections out of seuerall Authors by Marmaduke Raudon Eboracensis 1662: i.e. compiled by Marmaduke Rawdon (1610-69), traveller and antiquary, of Guiseley, Yorkshire, who later lived with his cousin, also named Marmaduke Rawdon, at Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, the MS including elegies on yet another (Sir) Marmaduke Rawdon (1582-1646), Governor of Basing House. c.1662.
Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849). Rodd's sale catalogue, February 1850, item 764.
Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Rawdon MS: CrR Δ 2. Crashaw's work collated in Martin (cited as A1) and discussed pp. lxxx-lxxxi.
For other Rawdon miscellanies, see Yale, Osborn MS fb 150; York Minster, MS Add. 122; and a MS sold at Puttick and Simpson's, 3 March 1870, lot 552, to Nicholls. For the Rawdon family, see H.F. Hayllar, The Chronicles of Hoddesdon (1948), pp. 52-4.
This MS collated in Howarth and in Armstrong.
The Kisse (‘I could endure your Eie, although it shott’)
First published in Gifford & Dyce (1833), VI, 499. Armstrong, p. 34.
ShJ 41
Copy in: the MS described under ShJ 1 (ShJ Δ 1). c.1640-3.
Edited from this MS in Gifford & Dyce and in Armstrong.
ShJ 42
Copy, headed ‘Songe the 19th’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 28. c.1638.
This MS recorded in Armstrong.
Love for Enjoying (‘Fair Lady, what's your face to me?’)
First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 7.
ShJ 43
Copy of an untitled 28-line version beginning ‘Ladie: what's your fface to me?’
In: the MS described under ShJ 1 (ShJ Δ 1). c.1640-3.
Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 92.
ShJ 44
Copy of a version headed ‘To his Mrs. whom hee Lou'd to enioy her’ and beginning ‘Ladie whts your face to mee’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 2. c.1630s-40s.
ShJ 45
Copy of a version headed ‘To his Mistresse, whome hee lou'd to enioye her’ and beginning ‘Ladie what's your face to mee’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 4. c. late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Armstrong.
ShJ 46
Copy of a version headed ‘To his Mrs. whome hee lou'd to enioye’ and beginning ‘Ladye what's your face to me’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 7. c.1630s.
Loves Hue and Cry (‘In Loves name you are charg'd, oh fly’)
First published as Treedle's verses in The Witty Fair One, Act III, scene ii (London, 1633). Gifford & Dyce, I, 273-362 (pp. 311-12). As ‘The Hue and Cry’ in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Shirley, Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 2.
ShJ 47
Copy in: the MS described under ShJ 1 (ShJ Δ 1). c.1640-3.
Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. xxvi.
ShJ 48
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in two styles of italic, the last poem (f. 93v) added in a later hand, 93 leaves (plus ten blanks), in modern quarter-morocco gilt. Including 14 poems by Donne, six poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, ten poems by Habington and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph. Owned and possibly compiled by Arthur Capell (1631-83), second Earl of Essex, whose name is inscribed in red ink (1*), in a similar roman hand to that on ff. 1r-19r. He married (1653) Elizabeth Percy (1636-1718), daughter of Algernon, tenth Earl of Northumberland; she was therefore the great niece of Habington's mother-in-law, Eleanor Percy, sister of the ninth Earl of Northumberland. Mid-17th century.
Later among the collections of Robert Harley (1661-1724), first Earl of Oxford, and his son, Edward (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II, i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Capell MS’: DnJ Δ 43, CwT Δ 17, and RnT Δ 3. Discussed in Geoffrey Tillotson, ‘The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell’, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91.
This MS recorded in Armstrong.
ShJ 49
Copy, here ascribed to ‘Carew’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in various hands, including seventeen poems by Carew, a title-page inscribed ‘A book of Verses / Seria mixta Jocis’, c.260 pages, in calf blind-stamped ‘V/I F 1667’. References to ‘Westminster Drollerie’ (which was not published until 1671) added on pp. 1 and 242. c.1667-8.
Inscribed on the title-page ‘Frendraught Legi’: i.e. by James Crichton (d.1674/5), second Viscount Frendraught. Bookplate of Thomas Fraser Duff (1830-77), of Woodcote, Oxfordshire. Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 9 April 1987, lot 272 (with a facsimile of p. 131 in the sale catalogue), sold to Quaritch.
A Lover that durst not speak to his Mistris (‘I can no longer hold, my body growes’)
First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 4.
ShJ 50
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under ShJ 1 (ShJ Δ 1). c.1640-3.
This MS collated in Armstrong.
ShJ 51
Copy, headed ‘one that Lou'd a great Mrs. & durst not discouer it’ and here beginning ‘I cannot longer hold, my body grows’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 2. c.1630s-40s.
ShJ 52
Copy, headed ‘One that lou'd a Mistresse & durst not discouer it’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 4. c. late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Armstrong.
ShJ 53
Copy, headed ‘Of one that lou'd a great Mistresse and durst not discouer it’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 7. c.1630s.
A Mother hearing her child was sick of the Small-Poxe (‘What hath my pretty child misdone?’)
First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 12.
ShJ 54
Copy, headed ‘On her Child sicke of ye small Pockes’, subscribed ‘James Shirley’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 27 (ShJ Δ 2). c.1636.
This MS text collated in Armstrong.
ShJ 54.5
Copy, headed ‘To her absent childe sicke of the Smalpox’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, largely in one secretary hand, written from both ends, with indexes (ff. 2r-3r, 168r-v), 168 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. Compiled by Sir John Perceval, Bt (1629-65), probably while at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Volume CXCII of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family. c.1646-9.
On the death of Anne, Queen of James the First (‘Oh, let me weep! and, though I censur'd be’)
First published in Gifford & Dyce (1833), VI, 514-15. Armstrong, p. 36.
ShJ 55
Copy, written in the back of a printed exemplum of Lacrymae Cantabrigienses: In obitum Serenissimae Reginae Annae (Cambridge, 1619). 17th century?
Later owned by David Laing (1793-1878), Scottish antiquary, collector and librarian. Sotheby's, 21 February 1881, lot 257, to Ridler.
Edited from this MS in Gifford & Dyce.
One that loved none but deformed Women (‘What should my Mistris do with hair’)
First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 9. Probably used in 1636 in The Duke's Mistress, Act III, scene ii (published London, 1638): see Gifford & Dyce, IV, 226, and Armstrong, p. 62.
ShJ 56
Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes.
In: the MS described under ShJ 5. c.1640s.
This MS collated in Cutts, ‘Drexel Manuscript 4041’, p. 191.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4041, No. 110, ff. 88v-9r.
ShJ 57
Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes.
In: the MS described under ShJ 6. c.1630s-50s.
This MS recorded in Cutts, ‘Original Music for Two Caroline Plays — Richard Brome's The English Moore; or The Mock-Mariage and James Shirley's The Gentlemen of Venice’, N&Q, 231 (March 1986), 21-5.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 24.
Orpheus (‘ffrom the Stigian Abisse’)
First published in Gifford & Dyce (1833), VI, 499-500. Armstrong, p. 34.
ShJ 58
Copy in: the MS described under ShJ 1 (ShJ Δ 1). c.1640-3.
Edited from this MS in Gifford & Dyce and in Armstrong.
Paranimphi (‘Come away, Hymen doth stay’)
First published in Gifford & Dyce (1833), VI, 501. Armstrong, p. 34.
ShJ 59
Copy in: the MS described under ShJ 1 (ShJ Δ 1). c.1640-3.
Edited from this MS in Gifford & Dyce and in Armstrong.
The Passing Bell (‘Hark, how chimes the Passing bell’)
First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 16.
ShJ 60
Copy of a twenty-line version.
In: the MS described under ShJ 1 (ShJ Δ 1). c.1640-3.
This MS collated in Armstrong.
ShJ 61
Copy, subscribed ‘James Shirley’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 27 (ShJ Δ 2). c.1636.
This MS text recorded in Armstrong.
Presenting his Mistris with a Bird (‘Walking to taste the welcome Spring’)
First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 6.
ShJ 62
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Bird prsented to his Mistris’, subscribed ‘James Shirley’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 27 (ShJ Δ 2). c.1636.
This MS text collated in Armstrong.
ShJ 63
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of verse and medical and household prescriptions, in several cursive secretary hands, one predominating, written from both ends, 117 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Compiled in part by Brian Fairfax (1633-1711), scholar and courtier. Mid-late 17th century.
Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 117. Item 667 in an unidentified sale catalogue.
This MS collated in Armstrong.
Riddle on Love (‘Who can define this all thing nothing loue’)
Unpublished.
ShJ 64
Copy of a fourteen-line poem, headed ‘Riddle on Love’, subscribed ‘Sherly’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, including some thirty poems by Donne, in several hands, associated with the Inns of Court, with a 19th-century title-page, ‘A Collection of Original Poetry, written about the time of Ben: Johnson, qui ob. 1637’ and erroneously annotated ‘Chiefly in the Autograph of Dr. Donne Dean of St. Paul's’.67 pages (plus index). c.1614-25.
Later owned by Sir John Simeon, third Baronet, MP (1815-70); by Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-85), first Baron Houghton, author and politician, and by his son, Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Sotheby's, 22 July 1980, lot 585, to Quaritch.
Recorded in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Monckton Milnes MS’: DnJ Δ 63. Briefly discussed in Sir John Simeon, ‘Unpublished Poems of Donne’, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3, and, with selected collations, in Grierson (II, cix et passim). A complete set of photographs of the MS is in the British Library, RP 2031.
Song (‘Cease warring thoughts, and let his braine’)
See ShJ 194-196.
A Songe (‘Coblers and Coopers and the rest’)
First published in R. G. Howard, ‘Some Unpublished Poems of James Shirley’, RES, 9 (1933), 24-9 (pp. 27-8). Armstrong, pp. 46-7.
ShJ 65
Copy of lines 1-30, 34-5, untitled, on a single folio leaf. c.1630s-40s.
In: A large folio composite volume of verse, in various largely secretary hands, 327 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Collected, and partly written, by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Betagraph of the watermark in f. 29 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks’, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 239).
This MS collated in Armstrong and in Howarth.
ShJ 66
Copy, headed ‘The New-yeares-gift, or Prophesy, & Vote’.
In: A folio composite volume, chiefly of English and Latin verse, in various hands; vi + 186 leaves, in reversed calf.
Scribbling on f. iir including ‘ffor mr William Rabey in New=market...’, ‘ffor my Louing ffriend in G John westhropp at mr Rogers Reringe house Bury in S[uffolk]’, ‘ffor mr John fford at his house in Newmarket in the countey of cambridge’; notes on f. iiiv-ivr, one ‘Recd 22 July 1669’, subscribed ‘John Cooke’ and including, on f. vir, ‘ffor mr John Cocke at his howse neere the white harte in Thetford...’. Later owned, in the 1730s, by Charles Barlow, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (his bookplate f. iiv).
This MS collated in Armstrong.
ShJ 67
Copy, untitled.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in a single small hand, 54 leaves, in vellum boards. Compiled by a Cambridge University man. c.1640s.
This MS collated in Armstrong.
ShJ 68
Copy, subscribed ‘J: Shirley’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 3. c.1650-9.
Edited from this MS in Armstrong and in Howarth.
ShJ 69
Copy, untitled, on the first two pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Mid-17th century.
Among the papers of the Egerton family, Earls of Bridgewater.
Strephon, Daphne (‘Come my Daphne, come away’)
First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 6. Also in The Cardinal, Act V, scene iii, printed in Six New Playes (London, 1652-3). Gifford & Dyce, V, 271-352 (pp. 344-5). Musical setting by William Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652) and in John Playford, The Musical Companion, 2nd edition (London, 1673). Edited from the latter in James Shirley, The Cardinal, ed. E. M. Yearling (Manchester, 1986), p. 162.
ShJ 70
Copy, untitled and subscribed ‘Ignot’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards. Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source. Late 17th century.
Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as ‘Rawlinson MS I’: PsK Δ 6.
This MS recorded in Armstrong.
ShJ 71
Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes, headed ‘A Dialogue Betweene Strephon & Daphne’.
In: A folio songbook, in two or more predominantly italic hands, written from both ends, 87 leaves, in remains of contemporary vellum within modern half red morocco. Possibly compiled in part by one ‘T. C.’ c.1641-59.
Inscribed (f. 1v) ‘R. Guise [of Abbey] Feb: 12. 1760’. Purchased from Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, 17 June 1839.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 4 (New York & London, 1986).
ShJ 72
Autograph copy by Lawes, in his musical setting, headed ‘A Dialogue’.
In: A folio autograph songbook by William Lawes (1602-45), composer, 49 leaves, in contemporary calf stamped in gilt with arms of Charles I. c.1638-45.
Inscribed (f. 1v) ‘Richard Gibbon his booke giuen to him by Mr William Lawes all of his owne pricking and composeing’, and ‘Giuen to me J R by his widdow mris Gibbon J R:’, and ‘Borrowed of Alderman Fidye by me Jo: Surgenson’. Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer, and of Julian Marshall (1836-1903), music and print collector and writer.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 2 (New York & London, 1986). Discussed in John P. Cutts, ‘British Museum Additional MS. 31432 William Lawes' writing for the Theatre and the Court’, The Library, 5th Ser. 7 (1952), 225-34, and in Margaret Crum, ‘Notes on the Texts of William Lawes's Songs in B.M. MS. Add. 31432’, The Library, 5th Ser. 9 (1954), 122-7.
ShJ 73
Copy, headed ‘Song in the Cardinal’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including (ff. 113r-15r) copies of, or brief extracts from, 30 poems by Donne (plus two apocryphal poems), in a single hand, transcribed from the 1635 or 1639 edition of Donne's Poems, headed ‘Donnes quaintest conceits’ in several hands, 156 leaves (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt. Late 17th century.
Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).
Cited in IELM I.i (1980) as the ‘Harley Rawlinson MS’: DnJ Δ 64.
ShJ 74
Copy, headed ‘[Sonnet] 29’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany of Scottish provenance, chiefly in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, including some shorthand, inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Incept. March. 23. 1652/3.’, 190 leaves, in old brown calf gilt (rebacked). c.1653-64.
Purchased c.1798.
ShJ 74.5
Copy, headed ‘A Song’.
In: A folio formal verse miscellany, in a single rounded hand, 259 pages (plus a three-page index), in modern boards. The contents, the latest of which (on pp. 203-7) can be dated to a marriage that took place in November 1656, reflect the taste of Interregnum Royalist sympathisers. c.Late 1650s.
Formerly in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 4001. Sotheby's, 29 June 1946, lot 164, to Myers. Then in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
ShJ 75
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio formal verse miscellany, comprising c.406 poems, many of them song lyrics, in various neat hands, compiled probably over a period, 8 blank leaves (pp. [i-xvi]) + 10 unnumbered pages of poems (pp. [xvii-xxvi]) + 9 numbered pages (pp. 1-9) + ff. [9v]-151v + 12 leaves at the end blank but for a poem on the penultimate page (f. [11v]), in contemporary calf gilt. Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
Inscribed (f. [ir]) ‘Sr Robert Killigrew / 1702’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.
Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, ‘Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?’, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 10v.
‘The glories of our blood and state’
See ShJ 140-174.
To a Beautiful Lady (‘Away with handsome faces, let me see.’)
See ShJ 90.
To a Lord who had courted a Lady of much perfection, and after offered his Service to another of an inferiour Beauty and Parts. in confidence that the first would re-accept him (‘And can thy proud Apostate eyes’)
First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 4.
ShJ 76
Copy of a 24-line version, headed ‘To his over daring thoughts’ and here beginning ‘Proud man, no more; let not thy eyes’, subscribed ‘James Shirley’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 27 (ShJ Δ 2). c.1636.
This MS text collated in Armstrong, p. 91.
To a young Lady weeping (‘Sweet, dry thy eyes, If it be Love’)
First published in R. G. Howarth, ‘Some Unpublished Poems of James Shirley’, RES, 9 (1933), 24-9 (p. 26). Armstrong, p. 36.
ShJ 77
Copy, subscribed ‘James Shirley’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 27 (ShJ Δ 2). c.1636.
Edited from this MS text in Howarth and in Armstrong.
To his Mistris (‘I would the God of Love would die’)
First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 1.
ShJ 78
Copy of an untitled early version of the first stanza beginning ‘O would to God, the god of Loue would dye’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 1 (ShJ Δ 1). c.1640-3.
Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 89.
ShJ 79
Autograph copy by Lawes of an early two-stanza version, in his musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under ShJ 72. c.1638-45.
Edited from this MS in Cutts, The Library (1952), p. 232.
ShJ 80
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under ShJ 75. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, p. 8.
To his Mistris confined (‘Think not my Phebe, cause a cloud’)
First published in Samuel Pick, Festum Voluptatis (London, 1639). Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Shirley, Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 2.
ShJ 81
Copy of a four-stanza version beginning ‘O thinke not Phebe, cause a cloud’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 1 (ShJ Δ 1). c.1640-3.
This MS collated and the additional stanza edited from it in Armstrong, pp. 88-9.
ShJ 82
Autograph copy by Lawes, in his musical setting, untitled and here beginning ‘O Thinke not Phoebe’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 72. c.1638-45.
ShJ 83
Copy, here beginning ‘O thinke not Phoebe cause a cloud’ and ascribed to ‘T.C.’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, predominantly in a single secretary hand, written from both ends, 179 leaves, in 19th-century half blue morocco gilt. c.1640s.
Inscribed (f. 179r) ‘This is Sr. Thomas Meres [or ? Maiors] Book’: i.e. probably Sir Thomas Meres (1634-1715), of Kirton, Lincolnshire. Later bookplate of the Rev. John Curtis. Purchased from Mrs Ann Austin Curtis 12 October 1889.
This MS collated in Armstrong.
To his unkind Mistris (‘Sure thy heart was flesh at first’)
First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 1.
ShJ 84
Copy of an untitled sixteen-line version.
In: the MS described under ShJ 1 (ShJ Δ 1). c.1640-3.
Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 89.
To the Earl of Stafford upon his recovery (‘My Lord, the voice that did your sicknes tell’)
First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, pp. 8-9.
ShJ 85
Copy, headed ‘Vppon the Lord of S: his recouerye’
In: the MS described under ShJ 1 (ShJ Δ 1). c.1640-3.
This MS recorded in Armstrong.
To the Honourable Lady, Diana Curson at his departure (‘Madam whose first stile is good’)
First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 10.
ShJ 86
Copy of a 28-line version headed ‘To th[e R]ight Ho:bl sisters The Ladie B[isshop] and Ladie Dia[na] Curs[on]’ and beginning ‘Ladies, whose first stile is Good’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 1 (ShJ Δ 1). c.1640-3.
Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 94.
ShJ 87
Copy of an early version, headed ‘Thankes for an Entertaynmt’ and here beginning ‘Ladyes, whose first stile is good’, subscribed ‘James Shirley’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 27 (ShJ Δ 2). c.1636.
This MS text collated in Armstrong.
To the Painter preparing to draw M.M.H. (‘Be not too forward, Painter: 'tis’)
First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, pp. 3-4.
ShJ 88
Copy, headed (afterwards) ‘To the Painter vpon his preparation to draw Mrs M.H. Picture’ and here beginning ‘Be not too dareing Painter, 'tis’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 1 (ShJ Δ 1). c.1640-3.
Edited from this MS in Armstrong, pp. 90-1.
ShJ 89
Copy, headed ‘To A Limner preparinge to Draw Mris WC.’, subscribed ‘James Shirley’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 63. Mid-late 17th century.
To the proud Mistris (‘Proud woman, know I am above’)
First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 17.
ShJ 90
Copy of an untitled version beginning ‘Know coye disdaine, I am aboue’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 1 (ShJ Δ 1). c.1640-3.
Edited from this MS in Armstrong, pp. 97-8. Some lines in this MS version incorporated in ‘To a Beautiful Lady’ (‘Away with handsome faces, let me see’) in Poems (1646): see Armstrong, p. 97.
Two Gentlemen that broke their promise of a meeting, made when they drank Claret (‘There is no faith in Claret, and it shall’)
First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 13.
ShJ 91
Copy of an early ten-line version headed ‘To E: H: &: W: H:’ and beginning ‘There is noe ffaith in Clarett, now I see’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 1 (ShJ Δ 1). c.1640-3.
Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 95.
Vpon a Gentlewoman that died of a Fever (‘Death, time, and sicknes, had been many a day’)
First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, pp. 13-14.
ShJ 92
Copy of an eighteen-line version headed ‘Vppon Sr. G: Ca: Ladie: Ep:’ and beginning ‘Death (that on humaine fflesh doth vse to feed)’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 1 (ShJ Δ 1). c.1640-3.
Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 95.
ShJ 93
Copy of a version, headed ‘Vpon a Lady's Death’ and beginning ‘Death, yt on humane flesh doth vse to feed’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 27 (ShJ Δ 2). c.1636.
This MS text recorded in Armstrong.
Vppon a Gentlewoman that died with Child, by blood Letting (‘Teares are too late, (sad ffreinds to her that's gone’)
First published in Gifford & Dyce (1833), VI, 503-4. Armstrong, p. 35.
*ShJ 94
Copy, lines 1-34 in the calligraphic hand of the main scribe, lines 35-42 in Shirley's hand.
In: the MS described under ShJ 1 (ShJ Δ 1). c.1640-3.
Edited from this MS in Gifford & Dyce and in Armstrong. Facsimile of p. 77 also in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 30, and see Introduction.
Vppon a Parson (‘For them, that leaue noe monument’)
First published in Gifford & Dyce (1833), VI, 501-2. Armstrong, pp. 34-5.
ShJ 95
Copy, including the ‘Epitaph inscribed in a small peice of Marble’ (beginning ‘Noe more marble lett him haue’).
In: the MS described under ShJ 1 (ShJ Δ 1). c.1640-3.
Edited from this MS in Gifford & Dyce and in Armstrong.
ShJ 96
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Parson's death’ and including the ‘Epitaph’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 27 (ShJ Δ 2). c.1636.
This MS text recorded in Armstrong. Facsimile of f. 34v in Hobbs, EMS, 1 (1989), 201.
Vpon his Mistris Dancing (‘I stood and saw my Mistris dance’)
First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 5.
ShJ 97
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under ShJ 1 (ShJ Δ 1). c.1640-3.
This MS collated in Armstrong.
Vpon his Mistris sad (‘Melancholy hence, and get’)
First stanza first published as the Maid's song in Changes, or Love in a Maze, Act IV, scene i (London, 1632). Gifford & Dyce II, 269-364 (p. 327). Second stanza (beginning ‘Love a thousand sweats distilling’) first published as a song in The Witty Fair One, Act IV, scene iii (London, 1633). Gifford & Dyce, I, 273-362 (p. 335). Published as a composite poem in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 5.
ShJ 98
Copy, written as two separate poems, the first headed (afterwards) ‘To A Gentlewoman Melancholy’, the second untitled.
In: the MS described under ShJ 1 (ShJ Δ 1). c.1640-3.
This MS collated in Armstrong.
Vpon M: E: S: Epitaph (‘If to maintaine the vse I must’)
First published in Gifford & Dyce (1833), VI, 501. Armstrong, p. 34.
ShJ 99
Copy in: the MS described under ShJ 1 (ShJ Δ 1). c.1640-3.
Edited from this MS in Gifford & Dyce and in Armstrong.
ShJ 100
Copy of a ten-line version, headed ‘Epitaph on ye most faire & vertuous Lady, E:S:’, subscribed ‘James Shirley’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 27 (ShJ Δ 2). c.1636.
Part of this text edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 100. Facsimile of f. 34v in Hobbs, EMS, 1 (1989), 201.
Vpon the death of K. James (‘When busie Fame was almost out of breath’)
First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 14.
ShJ 101
Copy of a 110-line version beginning ‘Is the Sea richer for a dropp of Raine?’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 1 (ShJ Δ 1). c.1640-3.
Edited from this MS in Armstrong, pp. 95-6.
ShJ 102
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy on ye death of King James’, subscribed ‘James Shirley’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 27 (ShJ Δ 2). c.1636.
This MS text collated in Armstrong.
Vpon the death of Sr. Th. Nevill (‘Swelling Eyes forbear to weep’)
First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 15.
ShJ 103
Copy, headed ‘Vppon Sr Thomas Neuill. Knt.’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 1 (ShJ Δ 1). c.1640-3.
This MS collated in Armstrong.
Vppon the Ladye Ryuers Who dyed wth greife. Epitaph (‘Gentle Eies, your teares distill’)
First published in Gifford & Dyce (1833), VI, 500. Armstrong, p. 34.
ShJ 104
Copy in: the MS described under ShJ 1 (ShJ Δ 1). c.1640-3.
Edited from this MS in Gifford & Dyce and in Armstrong.
ShJ 105
Copy, headed ‘On ye Lady Rivers thought to dye by extreame griefe’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 27 (ShJ Δ 2). c.1636.
This MS text recorded in Armstrong.
Vpon the Princes Birth (‘Fair fall their Muses that in well-chim'd verse’)
First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, pp. 7-8.
ShJ 106
Copy of a seven-stanza version.
In: the MS described under ShJ 1 (ShJ Δ 1). c.1640-3.
This MS collated in Armstrong.
ShJ 107
Copy, headed ‘A song on Prince Charles his birth’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in two or more hands, 95 leaves (plus blanks), including two ‘Indexes’, in contemporary vellum. Compiled by an Oxford University man, possibly a member of St John's College. c.1634-43.
A receipt (f. 104r) by John Weston recording payment from his ‘brother Ed: Weston’, 3 May 1714. The name ‘John Saunders’ inscribed on the final leaf.
This MS collated in Armstrong.
ShJ 108
Copy, headed ‘Uppon the birth of the Young prince’ and here beginning ‘fayre fare their muses which in welchim'd verse’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, including sixteen poems by Strode and one of doubtful authorship, in several hands, including a small mixed hand on ff. 2r-43v, cursive secretary hands thereafter, and Latin entries in italic at the reverse end, 139 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1630s.
A flyleaf inscribed ‘[?] Johannes Philips’. Acquired from H. Stevens 11 December 1852.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1987), as the ‘John Philips MS’: StW Δ 8.
This MS recorded in Armstrong.
ShJ 109
Copy, here beginning ‘Wellfare their Muses that wth well climbe verse’
In: A quarto verse miscellany, written from both ends, 192 leaves (including blanks), in old brown calf. Compiled, over a period, principally by Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), Chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford, and Henry King's amanuensis, including (ff. 7r-61r) 24 poems by King in Manne's formal hand, written c.1625-30s; ff. 61v-72v, 73r-99v, 100r-101v written in a variant style of Manne's hand, c.1630s; and (ff. 72v, 99v, 102r-14v, 190v-169r rev.) additions in six other hands, c.1630s-44, with (ff. 75r, 76r, and 76v) three poems to which the subscription ‘R. Dorset’ is added in the hand of King himself. c.1625-46.
Inscribed (f. 190v rev.) ‘Ann Littleton’. Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue, [June 1848], p. 31. Sotheby's, 4 Februry 1850 (Rodd sale), lot 500, to James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps] (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Afterward owned by the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector. Sotheby's, 25 June 1873 (Corser sale), lot 325, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Later owned by the bookdealer Philip Robinson. Sotheby's, 26 June 1974, lot 3013, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Thomas Manne MS’: KiH Δ 7. Used in Crum. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).
ShJ 110
Copy, headed ‘In natalem Caroli Principis Cantilena’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 83. c.1640s.
This MS recorded in Armstrong.
ShJ 111
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Birth of Prince Charles. The English Babe’.
In: An octavo notebook of extracts, chiefly verse, compiled by one or two University of Cambridge men, 69 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1653-60s.
ShJ 112
Copy, headed ‘On ye princes birth’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small neat predominantly secretary hand but for additions in a second hand on ff. 35v and 58r, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Wadham College, 97 leaves (inclusing two blanks), in half-calf. Including 14 poems by Carew (and a second copy of one poem), eight poems (plus 3 of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, and 28 poems by Strode (plus a second copy of one and two of doubtful authorship). c.late 1630s.
Later used and annotated by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, and entries in his hand on f. 97r. Formerly Bodleian, MS CCC.328.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Fulman MS’: CwT Δ 2; RnT Δ 6; StW Δ 16.
ShJ 113
Copy, in a cursive predominantly secretary hand, untitled.
In: the MS described under ShJ 21. c.1630.
Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 493, ff. 116v-17r.
ShJ 114
Copy, headed ‘A Song on Prince Charles his birth’ and here beginning ‘Welfare ye Muses wch in well chimed verse’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany, closely written in a minute hand from both ends, 152 pages, in modern brown morocco gilt. Compiled by ‘T. E.’, a member of St John's College, Oxford c.1655.
Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Bright sale, June 1844. MS 40 in the library of the Shirley family at Ettington Hall, Warwickshire, and with notes by E.Ph. Shirley.
Recorded in HMC, 5th Report, Part I (1876), Appendix, p. 365.
This MS recorded (as M540) in HMC, 5th Report, Part I (1876), Appendix, p. 365.
ShJ 115
Copy, headed ‘A Song on Prince Charles his birth’ and here beginning ‘Faire fare ye Muses which in well-chim'd verse’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands (A: pp. 1-56; B: pp. 57-60, 75-122; C: pp. 61-74, 125-7), 127 pages, in contemporary limp vellum. Including 23 poems (and a second copy of one) by Randolph. c.1635.
Mostyn MS 196: from the library originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn Hall, near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, the MS possibly acquired by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) or by his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 191.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Mostyn MS’: RnT Δ 11. Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1873), Appendix, p. 356. Edited in Howard H. Thompson, An Edition of Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1959) [Mic 59-4669].
ShJ 116
Copy, headed ‘Charles his birth. Song’ and here beginning ‘Faire fare, ye Muses wch in well-chim'd verse’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat italic hand, with rubrication, 144 pages (plus later index). Including twelve poems by Carew, nine poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph and nineteen (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the miscellany associated with Oxford University and possibly related to Bodleian MS Malone 21, the latest date occuring in a poem on pp. 63-6 ‘Vpon ye great Frost 1634’. c.1635.
Inscribed inside the front cover by a later owner: ‘April 1853 Read to Lit[erary] & Philosophical] Soc[iet]y of L[iver]pool’. Acquired in 1940 by Edwin Wolf II (1911-91), Philadelphia librarian.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Wolf MS’: CwT Δ 37; RnT Δ 12; StW Δ 28.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 131-4.
Upon the Printing of Mr Iohn Fletchers workes (‘What means this numerous Guard? or do we come’)
First published in Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Armstrong, p. 40.
ShJ 117
Copy, headed ‘On H: works’.
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, f. [35r].
Verses on the martyrdom of St. Alban (‘This image of our frailty, painted Glass’)
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 408. Sir Henry Chauncy, Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire (London, 1700), p. 472. R.G. Howarth, ‘Some Unpublished Poems of James Shirley’, RES, 9 (1933), 24-9 (p. 29). Armstrong, p. 54, as a ‘Doubtful Poem’.
ShJ 118
Copy of lines 1-10, headed ‘Verses wrighten vnder A windowe In the Abby Church of St Alban whearin the Execution of that protomartire was paynted; the Heads mans eyes falling out att the Martirdome’, here beginning ‘The Image of our frailtie, paynted glass’, and ascribed to ‘I.S.’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 28. c.1638.
Printed from this MS in Howarth; collated in Armstrong.
ShJ 118.5
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, i + 200 leaves (ff. 129-199 blank), in quarter-vellum over boards. Compiled by John Phillipps, of Exeter College, Oxford, and the Middle Temple, who has inscribed the front pastedown ‘John Phillipps. med: Temp: Lond: 1776’. c.1776-1804.
Acquired from Cumming of Exeter, 1941.
ShJ 119
Copy, here beginning ‘The image...’.
In: A folio miscellany entitled Epitaphs Collected 1694, 42 pages. c.1695.
‘Would you know what's soft?’
First published, as a ‘Song’, in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Shirley, Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 3.
ShJ 120
Copy of an untitled twelve-line version.
In: the MS described under ShJ 1 (ShJ Δ 1). c.1640-3.
Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 90.
ShJ 121
Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.
In: A folio songbook, 121 leaves (including c.20 blanks and an index), in contemporary calf (rebacked). Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by or attributed to Herrick, in musical settings, predominantly in a single hand (ff. 2r-63v, 92r-9r, 100r, with a change of style on ff. 64r-5v and in the index probably by the same hand), with 18th-century additions on ff. 81v-7v, 89r-v and 145v-53r, and scribbling elsewhere. c.1640s-60s.
Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Probert MS’: CwT Δ 4, HeR Δ 1. Discussed and analysed in John P. Cutts, ‘A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57’, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211. Also briefly discussed in George Thewlis, ‘Some Notes on a Bodleian Manuscript’, M&L, 22 (1941) 32-5, and in Willa McClung Evans, ‘Shakespeare's “Harke Harke ye Larke”’, PMLA, 60 (1945), 95-101 (with a facsimile of f. 78r). A facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 6 (New York & London, 1987).
Printed from this MS in John P. Cutts, ‘A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57’, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 199).
ShJ 123
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.
In: A large folio volume of autograph vocal music by Henry Lawes (1596-1662), ix + 184 leaves, in modern black morocco gilt. Comprising over 300 songs and musical dialogues by Lawes, probably written over an extended period (c.1626-62) in preparation for his eventual publications, including settings of 38 poems by Carew, fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, and fifteen by Waller. Mid-17th century.
Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer; of Robert Smith, of 3 St Paul's Churchyard; and of Stephen Groombridge, FRS (1755-1832), astronomer. Later owned, until 1966, by Miss Naomi D. Church, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Formerly British Library Loan MS 35.
Recorded in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Henry Lawes MS’: CwT Δ 16; HeR Δ 3; WaE Δ 11. Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Pamela J. Willetts, The Henry Lawes Manuscript (London, 1969). Facsimiles of ff. 42r, 78r, 80r, 84r, 111r and 169r in The Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend, ed. Cedric C. Brown (Reading, 1983), pp. 59, 60, 62, 64, 66 and 117. Also discussed in Willa McClung Evans, Henry Lawes: Musician and Friend of Poets (New York and London, 1941), and elsewhere. A complete facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 3 (New York & London, 1986).
ShJ 125
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 48. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Armstrong.
ShJ 126
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, largely in a predominantly secretary hand, another hand on ff. 85r-7v, 95v-6r, xiii pages + 104 leaves (including blanks, but lacking ff. 7-9, 54-5, 95), with a table of contents (pp. 1-6), in modern calf, gilt-edged. Compiled by University or Inns of Court men. c.1630s.
The extracted fols 7, 8 and 54 are now Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2757, Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2216, and Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2217 respectively. The extracted fol. 9 is now Folger MS V.a.505, p. 27.
Inscribed (f. [104v] ‘Thomas White His Book May ye 20 Anno Domine 1691’. Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and in his library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.21.
ShJ 127
Copy, headed ‘In praise of his mrs. absolute perfections’.
In: A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in probably several neat secretary and italic hands, 194 pages. Compiled, probably at least in part, by ‘George Turner Scoolmaster’, as his name is inscribed at the end, a couplet on p. 179 reading ‘Hic liber me pertinet and beare yt well in minde / Per me Georgium Turner so curteous and kinde’. Possible contributors are members of the Bancrofte family, whom he might perhaps have tutored. c.1624-1645.
Various inscribed names (sometimes more than once): ‘Anne Bancrofte’, and ‘Mary Bancrofte’. Also, under ‘1624’, a list of names with perhaps birthdates: ‘Mary Bancrofte Ap. 28. 1611’, ‘Rich Bancrofte May 2. 1608’, ‘Elis Bancrofte Apr 27. 1614’, and ‘John Bancrofte Ap 30 1616’. A legal document in the volume, dated 4 November 1645, relates to Willesden, Kilburn and Hampstead.
Formerly Folger MS 1027.2, this MS has been missing since 1991. It can be seen only on microfilm (Film Fo 4376.8).
ShJ 128
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, with later accounts on the last page dated June 1658, 1* + 238 pages (including stubs of extracted pages 191-6, plus numerous blanks), in old calf (rebacked). Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph. c.1630s-40s.
Inscribed ‘Jane Wheeler’ and ‘Tho: Oliver Busfield’. Francis Quarles's poem (pp. 209-11) ‘To ye two partners of my heart Mr John Wheeler, and Mr Symon Tue’. Item 96 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 2071.6.
A ‘Jo. Wheeler’ signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Wheeler MS’: CwT Δ 25 and RnT Δ 7.
ShJ 129
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under ShJ 4. c. late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Armstrong.
ShJ 130
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, written in alternating secretary and italic scripts, probably in a single hand; foliated in ink 1-32 and paginated in pencil 33-96, 32 leaves (lacking final leaf). Including nine poems by Randolph, plus two of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 10110. Bookplate of Robert Hoe (1839-1909), New York businessman and book collector.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Huntington MS’: RnT Δ 9. Complete microfilm at the Shakespeare Institute, Birmingham (Mic S 15).
ShJ 130.5
Copy, headed ‘On his Mris’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single non-professional mixed hand, written from both ends, 90 leaves, in vellum (lacking spine). c.1630s.
Among papers of the Clitherow family of London, which included Sir Christopher Clitherow (1578-1642), Lord Mayor of London in 1635. Bookplate of James Clitherow Esq. of Boston House, Middlesex: i.e. either Christopher's son, James Clitherow (1618-82), merchant and banker, who purchased Boston Manor, in the parish of Hanwell, in 1670, or James Clitherow (1694-1752).
ShJ 132
Copy in: the MS described under ShJ 7. c.1630s.
ShJ 133
Copy in: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several hands, showing communal use, 161 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.
Formerly Chest II, No. 21.
Poems of Uncertain Authorship
A Paradoxe of a Painted Face (‘Not kisse? By Jove I must, and make impression!’)
See PeW 211-265.
To his Mrs (‘Noe matter though our age doe not agree’)
Unpublished.
ShJ 133.5
Copy, inscribed at the side ‘Sherley’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 18. Mid-17th century.
Prose
To the Reader
The prose preface that Shirley wrote for the Folio edition of the Comedies and Tragedies of Beaumont and Fletcher (London, 1647).
ShJ 133.8
Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under ShJ 117. c.1674.
King's College, Cambridge, Hayward Collection, H. 11. 13, f. [7r].
Dramatic Works
The Ball
First published, as ‘written by George Chapman and James Shirly’, in London, 1639. Gifford & Dyce, III, 1-91. See also Bentley, Jacobean & Caroline Stage, V, 1078.
ShJ 134
MS annotations in an exemplum of the first edition prepared for use as a promptbook by the King's Company. c.1660s.
This item discussed in Dana G. McKinnen, ‘A Description of a Restoration Promptbook of Shirley's The Ball’, RECTR, 10 (May 1976), 25-48; and, with a facsimile example, in Edward A. Langhans, Restoration Promptbooks (Carbondale & Edwardsville, 1981), pp. 19-23.
The Bird in a Cage
First published in London, 1633. Gifford & Dyce, II, 365-455.
ShJ 135
Extracts, with comments on the play.
In: A quarto miscellany of extracts from plays and historical works, with comments on them, entitled ‘Excerpta quædam per A. W. Adolescentem’, in a single cursive predominantly italic hand, 119 leaves, in modern quarter-morocco. Entirely in the hand of the Rev. Abraham Wright (1611-90), of St John's College, Oxford, author. c.1640.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Ja: Wright’ (Abraham's son) and later ‘of Taylor, Brighton’. Bookplate of William Bromley, of Baginton, Warwickshire, 1703. Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 220.
For facsimile examples, see ShW 71 and ShW 44.
Wright's comments here (f. 83) edited in Arthur C. Kirsch, ‘A Caroline Commentary on the Drama’, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 257).
The Cardinal, Act V, scene iii, lines 100-18. Song (‘Come, my Daphne, come away’)
See ShJ 70-75.
ShJ 135.5
Copy of the song, superscribed ‘Bass & treb’, copied c.31 November-2 December 1645. 1645.
In: Diary of the Royalist and antiquary Richard Symonds.
Edited in Diary of the Marches of the Royal Army during the Great Civil War, ed C.E. Long, Camden Society, 1859.
Changes, or Love in a Maze
First published in London, 1632. Gifford & Dyce, II, 269-364.
See also ShJ 29 and ShJ 98.
ShJ 136
Extracts.
In: A large folio notebook and miscellany, 376 pages, in contemporary calf with metal clasps. Entitled A Volume of Figures Set by Mr Lilly from Aprill 1647 to Sept: 1648, comprising for the most part a formal collection of horoscopes. Mid-17th century.
ShJ 137
Extracts, with comments on the play.
In: the MS described under ShJ 135. c.1640.
Wright's comments here (f. 79v) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, ‘A Caroline Commentary on the Drama’, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 257).
A Contention for Honour and Riches
First published in London, 1633. Gifford & Dyce, VI, 287-314.
ShJ 138
Extracts, with a comment on the entertainment.
In: the MS described under ShJ 135. c.1640.
Wright's comment here (f. 75v) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, ‘A Caroline Commentary on the Drama’, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 257).
The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles
First published in London, 1659. Gifford & Dyce, VI, 369-97.
ShJ 139
Copy of the whole play, but imperfect, lacking the last few pages, probably transcribed from the first edition.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse, prose and drama, written over a period in various hands, 179 leaves, in remains of contemporary calf. c.1620-late 17th century.
Inscribed (f. 31v) ‘Henry Gould his Book 1620’. Compiled in part by one Henry Gould (c.1620). Other scribbling in the volume includes names of Robert Carter, John and Peggy Marriot, Thomas and John Allsopp (1746), George and Thomas Swindell, Richard Fowles, and George and Catherine Bindale, as well as an acrostic on Mrs Anne Boulton, and, on the first page, the inscription ‘Mend the play Booke Gilbert Carter’. Sotheby's, 15 December 1988, lot 13.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 91, ff. 144r-66v.
—— Act III, Song (‘The glories of our blood and state’)
Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).
ShJ 140
Copy of the first stanza of the dirge, in a musical setting by Edward Coleman.
In: Portion of a folio songbook compiled by John Playford (1623-86?). c.1660.
This MS collated in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Paris Conservatoire MS. Res. 2489’, MD, 23 (1969), 117-39 (p. 134).
ShJ 141
Copy of the complete dirge, in a musical setting by Edward Coleman.
In: the MS described under ShJ 140. c.1660.
This MS collated in Cutts, p. 134.
ShJ 141.5
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, compiled chiefly by Eliza Chapman, 89 leaves. 1788-9 [with additions to 1817].
Among collections of Captain Montagu Montagu, RN (d.1863).
ShJ 142
Copy of the dirge, untitled.
In: A folio verse miscellany, chiefly song lyrics, iv + 124 pages. Late 17th century.
Owned in 1670 by one Hilkiah Bedford.
ShJ 143
Copy of the dirge, headed ‘The vanitye of greatnesse’.
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.
ShJ 144
Copy of the dirge, headed ‘Songs’.
In: A quarto miscellany of chiefly amatory verse, in several hands, i + 132 leaves. Partly in Scottish dialect, one poem by ‘mr. W. Turner’. Early 18th century.
ShJ 145
Copy of the dirge, untitled.
In: An octavo volume of heraldic arms, chiefly in trick, 64 leaves, in calf, stamped in gilt ‘M. B.’ Compiled by Samuel Waker, painter stainer, of London. Late 17th century.
Later owned by Sir Simeon Stuart, third Baronet, MP (c.1724-c.1779/82), of Hartley Mauduit, Hampshire, Chamberlain of the Exchequer (constituting Volume XI of the Stuart Collection). Purchased in 1778.
ShJ 146
Copy of the dirge, headed ‘Scepters and Crownes must Tumble downe’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, in at least two secretary hands, with (ff. 1r-7v) a table of contents, 183 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half-morocco. End of 17th century.
ShJ 147
Copy of the dirge, untitled, on a small slip of paper. c.1700.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 201 leaves, in old calf gilt.
Purchased from Joseph Lilly, 20 February 1844.
ShJ 148
Copy of the dirge, headed ‘The Good Old English Sonet made by Mr James Shirley Thus (at the Request of a friend) In Latin Metrified’, followed (f. 47v) by ‘The Latin Version’ beginning ‘Natalium Lux et Magnificentia’,and subscribed ‘Comunic. a frater Tho: Watson. 1669’.
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.
ShJ 148.5
Copy in: A tall folio composite volume of verse and miscellaneous papers, in various hands, mounted on guards, 185 leaves, in modern half morocco.
Purchased at H. B. Rays sale, 26 July 1856, lot 1033.
ShJ 149
Copy of the dirge, untitled, stanzas 2 and 3 separated from the first stanza, with cross-references, and all deleted.
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.
ShJ 150
Copy of the dirge, untitled and here beginning ‘The Glories of our Birth & State’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 149. c.1668-1713.
ShJ 151
Copy of the dirge, on one side of a small quarto leaf. Late 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands, 101 leaves, mounted on guards, in 19th-century half black morocco.
Presented by A.W. Franks, 18 November 1891.
ShJ 152
Copy of the dirge in a sixteen-stanza version, introduced ‘...for yours & my my meditation vppon death, which ought to be often, the following lines, though verses, yett de tristibus, are properly applicable’.
In: Autograph journal of Bulstrode Whitelocke (1605-75), lawyer and politician, written in double columns, 114 folio leaves, in once half-calf marbled boards. Volume II of the Whitelocke Manuscripts. Mid-17th century.
ShJ 153
Copy of the dirge, headed (erroneously) ‘Song in the Gratefull servant’; late 17th-early 18th century.
In: the MS described under ShJ 73. Late 17th century.
ShJ 154
Copy of the dirge, in a secretary hand, untitled, in a section of verse. c.1679.
In: A folio composite volume of tracts and miscellaneous papers, in several hands, 160 leaves (including numerous blanks), in 19th-century half-calf. Compiled in large part by William Jackson, one of the ‘Custome Masters’ of Great Yarmouth.
ShJ 155
Copy of the dirge, untitled, on a single leaf. Mid-17th century.
In: A composite volume of papers belonging to a Cambridgeshire family.
ShJ 156
Copy of the dirge, headed ‘Song’.
In: MS poems, in several hands, on 28 octavo pages, at the end of a composite volume of three printed works, two dated 1659, the third Sir William Davenant's Two Excellent Plays (London, 1665), in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.
Inscribed (on the front free endpaper) ‘E libris Johanis Harding ex Aede Xti Oxon 1672’.
ShJ 158
Copy of the dirge, untitled, subscribed ‘by James Shirley’.
In: A quarto miscellany principally of English and Latin verse, drama, and jests, perhaps largely in a single hand, written from both ends, iv + 181 pages, in contemporary calf. Inscribed by, and the MS most likely compiled by, the Rev. Henry Newcome (1650-1713), of St Edmund's Hall, Oxford, in 1669, rector at Middleton, Manchester. c.1669.
A pencil note (f. [iv]) refers to ‘Original MSS otherwise from Hockwold Hall’.
ShJ 159
Copies of the dirge, in a musical setting by Edward Coleman.
In: A set of four oblong duodecimo music part books, (i) Cantus Primus, (ii) Cantus Secundus, (iii) Bassus and (iv) Basso Continuo, each written from both ends, compiled by John Playford (1623-86?), 50, 36, 48, and 35 leaves respectively, each volume in limp vellum lettered ‘I. P.’. Leaves excised from these volumes are in the Folger, MS V.a.411 (five leaves) and (nine leaves) at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (Halliwell-Phillipps, Shakespearean scrapbooks). c.1660.
A flyleaf in the Cantus Secundus part book inscribed ‘Decemb. 30. 1674. Note that I Thomas Clifford bought this sett of Musick Books of Mr Richard Price's widow Mrs Dorothy Price for --7s--6d’.
University of Glasgow, MS Euing R.d.58-61, (i) f. 2v; (ii) f. 4v; (iii) f. 2v; (iv) f. 7v.
ShJ 160
Copy of the dirge, 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.
ShJ 161
Copy of the dirge, in a musical setting by Edward Coleman, untitled.
In: A folio songbook, in at least two hands, 91 leaves (including numerous blanks), in calf gilt. c.1640s-50s.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Ann Blount’ and ‘The Lady Ann Blount’.
A complete facsimile of this volume is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 11 (New York & London, 1987).
ShJ 162
Copy of the dirge, headed ‘Anglice’. The text followed by a Latin version.
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.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 54, pp. 16-17.
ShJ 163
Copy of the dirge, untitled.
In: the MS described under ShJ 162. c.1680s-90s.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 54, p. 357.
ShJ 163.5
Copy, headed ‘Anglicè’, preceded by a Latin version beginning ‘Quid profunt monumenta...’.
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. 9v-10r.
ShJ 164
Copy of the dirge, untitled.
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.
ShJ 165
Copy of the dirge, headed ‘Reflections on our Mortal State. By Mr James Shirley’.
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.
ShJ 166
Copy of the dirge, untitled, here beginnining ‘The glories of our Birth ant [sic] state’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse, mathematical exercises, religious texts, and musical scores, written from both ends in various hands, unpaginated, mostly blank pages, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1713.
Owned in 1713 by one Millicent Rasby, whose name occurs repeatedly. Among the papers of the Elmhirst family of Houndhill, Worsbrough Bridge, Yorkshire.
ShJ 167
Copy of the dirge, untitled, on the penultimate leaf in the volume.
In: the MS described under ShJ 75. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. [11v]].
ShJ 168
Copy of the dirge, headed ‘A Song’.
In: A small pocket book of jokes and anecdotes, in verse and prose, in a single hand, written from both ends, ii + 92 leaves (plus eleven blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1667-70.
Containing a note by Bertram Dobell. Formerly MSS 2. 23.
ShJ 169
Copy of lines 1-13 of the dirge, headed ‘A song made as some say By James Shirley and others say by Alexander Brome about 40 years agoe, with a new supplement by T. Fuller D.D. 1677’, imperfect, the rest excised.
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.
ShJ 171
Copy of the dirge in the hand of one Thomas Style, subscribed ‘Sr This is the Song I Promised you if you Please To turne over Leafe...’ and headed ‘A Song composed by the Earle of Orrery’, on two conjugate 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.
ShJ 172
Copy of the dirge, headed ‘The Glittering Shade’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, with a title-page: The Theatre of Complements erected Collectection of Songs composed and compiled by A Schollar of Oxford. Printed for S.S. 167, 80 pages. c.1670s.
The title-page inscribed ‘Nar. Lutterell: His Book 1682’, i.e. owned by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector. At Yale formerly Chest II, No. 39.
ShJ 172.5
Copy of the dirge, untitled, here beginning ‘the Glories of our birth & state’.
In: A quarto miscellany of religious and political prose and verse, in English and Latin, in several secretary, italic and mixed hands, 318 leaves (including blanks, foliated on versos), in contemporary vellum boards. Compiled over a period (entries dated between 1621 and 1667) by members of the family of Sir Marmaduke Rawdon (1583-1646), merchant, shipowner and royalist soldier. Mid-17th century.
Inscribed (f. 278r) ‘Mary Elliston october the 27 1763’ and ‘Mary Elliston Collchester’. Later owned by Edward Hailstone (1818-90), of Walton Hall, Wakefield, botanist and book collector.
ShJ 173
Copy of the dirge, on an unbound folio leaf. Late 17th century.
Sotheby's, 27 May 1986, lot 548, to Slater.
ShJ 174
Copy of the dirge.
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 ‘A Moral Song’ in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 122-3.
Untraced Tixal MSS, Tixall MS 3, [unspecified page numbers].
ShJ 174.5
Copy of the dirge, headed ‘On man's mortality’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, possibly in a single variant cursive hand, 76 pages, disbound. c.1660s.
Inscribed ‘Thomas Beesly his booke’, ‘Richard Dewe’, and ‘Stephen Philips his booke’, and possibly associated with the University of Oxford. Sotheby's, 17 July 2008, lot 133, to ‘Anonymous’, with facsimiles of pp. 20-1 in the sale catalogue.
A set of photocopies is in the British Library, RP 9362.
Facsimile in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 17 July 2008, p. 99.
ShJ 174.8
Copy of a 21-line version, ‘in an attractive hand’, on a single folio page. Late 17th century.
Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 938 (1974), item 65. Sotheby's, 29 October 1975, lot 153. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (c.1980), item 71. Sotheby's, 27 May 1986, lot 548, to Slater.
The Court Secret
First published in Six New Playes (London, 1653). Gifford & Dyce, V, 425-514.
*ShJ 175
Copy of an early version, in a predominantly italic calligraphic hand, with later revisions and additions in Shirley's hand and (ff. 29r-30r) an ‘Induction to ye Court Secret’ in a third hand with Shirley's autograph corrections and endorsement, the whole bearing further pencil markings and minor alterations, on thirty folio leaves. The main scribe is probably John Rolleston (1597?-1681), of Sokeholme, Nottinghamshire, Sir William Cavendish's secretary, who is also chiefly responsible, inter alia, for the ‘Newcastle MS’ (British Library, Harley MS 4955). The later revisions were probably prepared for the production by the King's Company at the Bridges Street Theatre on 18 August 1664. c.1642-64.
This MS discussed in R.G. Howarth, ‘A Manuscript of James Shirley's Court Secret’, RES, 7 (1931), 302-13, and 8 (1932), 203, and in W.W. Greg, Dramatic Documents from the Elizabethan Playhouses: Commentary (Oxford, 1931), pp. 346-52. See also Bentley, Jacobean & Caroline Stage, V, 1100-2. The ‘Induction’ edited from this MS in Danchin, Prologues & Epilogues, I, 196-8.
Facsimiles of f. 15r in James Shirley, The Cardinal, ed. E.M. Yearling (Manchester, 1986), frontispiece, and of part of f. 28r in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(d).
Cupid and Death
First published in London, 1653. Gifford & Dyce, VI, 343-67. Edited by B. A. Harris in A Book of Masques in Honour of Allardyce Nicoll (Cambridge, 1967), pp. 371-403.
ShJ 176
A folio MS of the music for a revival of the masque in 1659 written by Matthew Locke and Christopher Gibbons, largely in a single cursive mixed hand, 34 leaves, in contemporary brown calf gilt, the initials ‘M L’ stamped in gilt on each cover. Locke's predominantly autograph copy, including instrumental dances, recitatives, choruses, &c. and five songs, headed ‘The Instrumentall and Vocall Musique in the Morall representation att the Millitary Ground jn Lescester ffields 1659’. 1659.
Once owned by Hannah Lanier. Bought at Dr Hayes's sale, Oxford, by Edward Jones. Sotheby's, 1825 (E. Jones sale), in lot 476. Puttick & Simpson's, 25 June 1849, lot 576.
Edited from this MS (with facsimiles of ff. 3, 9 and 20) by Edward J. Dent in Musica Britannica, 2 (London, 1951). See also R.G. Howarth, ‘Shirley's Cupid and Death’, TLS (15 November 1934), p. 795;, and Bentley, Jacobean & Caroline Stage, V, 1102-4.
—— lines 265-80. Song (‘Victorious Men of Earth, no more’)
Gifford & Dyce, VI, 355. Harris, pp. 388-9. Armstrong, p. 53.
The Duke's Mistress
See ShJ 56-57.
The Gentlemen of Venice
See ShJ 15.
The Grateful Servant
First published in London, 1630. Gifford & Dyce, II, 1-93.
ShJ 179
Extracts, with comments on the play.
In: the MS described under ShJ 135. c.1640.
Wright's comments here (f. 78v) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, ‘A Caroline Commentary on the Drama’, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 257).
Hyde Park
First published in London, 1637. Gifford & Dyce, II, 457-541.
ShJ 180
Extracts, with comments on the play.
In: the MS described under ShJ 135. c.1640.
Wright's comments here (f. 87) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, ‘A Caroline Commentary on the Drama’, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 258).
ShJ 181
Extracts.
In: An octavo miscellany of extracts chiefly from plays and religious works, closely written in a predominantly italic hand, 33 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half red crushed morocco on marbled boards. Lettered on the spine ‘W. How's Common-placebook’. Mid-17th century.
Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and in the Warwick Castle Library.
The Lady of Pleasure
First published in London, 1637. Gifford & Dyce, IV, 1-100. Edited by Ronald Huebert (Manchester, 1986).
ShJ 182
Extracts, with comments on the play.
In: the MS described under ShJ 135. c.1640.
Wright's comments here (f. 101v) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, ‘A Caroline Commentary on the Drama’, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 259).
ShJ 183
Contemporary MS additions to the dramatis personae page and other occasional MS corrections and emendations, in an exemplum of the quarto printed edition of 1637, bound with other plays in old calf gilt. Possibly made in preparation for an intended second edition. Mid-17th century.
Bookplate of Francis Longe, of Spixworth Park, Norfolk.
These emendations selectively collated in Huebert and discussed, pp. 43-4.
Love Tricks, or The School of Compliment
See ShJ 189-190.
Love's Cruelty
First published in London, 1640. Gifford & Dyce, II, 189-267.
ShJ 184
Exemplum of the printed quarto edition of 1640 with MS annotations, recording exits, stage directions, actors' cues, and lines or passages to be cut, apparently prepared as a prompt-book for use by an English theatrical company, in modern half-calf. Mid-late 17th century.
In the Bute Collection of English Plays purchased in April 1956 from Major Michael Crichton-Stuart of Falkland.
This item discussed in G. Blakemore Evans, ‘New Evidence on the Provenance of the Padua Prompt-Books of Shakespeare's Macbeth, Measure for Measure, and Winter's Tale’, SB, 20 (1967), 239-40. On other early prompt-books, see ‘Prompt-books’ in the Introduction for William Shakespeare.
ShJ 185
An exemplum of the first printed edition with extensive MS annotations, prepared for use as a promptbook by the King's Company at the Bridges Street Theatre. c.1663-7.
Acquired from William H. Robinson, April 1956.
Discussed in Judith Milhous and Robert D. Hume, ‘A 1660s Promptbook of Shirley's Loves Crueltie’, Theatre Research International, 11 (1986), 1-13.
The Maid's Revenge
First published in London, 1639. Gifford & Dyce, I, 99-185.
ShJ 186
Exemplum of the first edition with extensive MS annotations and markings in three hands, prepared for use as a promptbook by the King's Company, a small quarto in modern quarter-morocco cloth, slightly cropped by the binder. c.1673-4.
Sotheby's, 25 November 1974, lot 3172, with a facsimile of two annotated pages in the sale catalogue, p. 61.
Briefly discussed in Edward A. Langhans, ‘More Restoration Manuscript Casts and Dates and a New Restoration Promptbook’, TN, 32 (1978), 126-30 (pp. 128-9). Complete reduced facsimile in Langhans, Restoration Promptbooks (Carbondale & Edwardsville, 1981), pp. 197-231 (and discussed, pp. 35-8).
The Royal Master
First published in London, 1638. Gifford & Dyce, IV, 101-88.
ShJ 187
Part of a promptbook of the play, containing the cast-list for a performance before the Earl of Strafford in Dublin Castle on New Year's Day, 1635. [i.e. 1637/8?].
Formerly preserved in The Players Club, New York.
Described by John Malone in a periodical of c.1894-5, a cutting of which is in an extra-illustrated exemplum of George Alfred Townsend, The Life, Crime and Capture of John Wilkes Booth (New York, [1865]) now in the Harvard Theater Collection: see Bentley, Jacobean and Caroline Stage, V, 1141.
ShJ 188
Extracts, with comments on the play.
In: the MS described under ShJ 135. c.1640.
Wright's comments here (f. 114) edited in Arthur C. Kirsch, ‘A Caroline Commentary on the Drama’, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 259).
The School of Compliment
First published in London, 1631. Gifford & Dyce, I, 1-97.
ShJ 189
Extracts, with comments on the play.
In: the MS described under ShJ 135. c.1640.
Wright's comments here (f. 80v) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, ‘A Caroline Commentary on the Drama’, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 257).
—— Act II, scene i. Song (‘God of war, to Cupid yield’)
Gifford & Dyce, I, 21. Armstrong, p. 42.
ShJ 190
Copy of the Musician's song, in a musical setting.
In: the MS described under ShJ 6. c.1630s-50s.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 217.
The Sisters
First published in Six New Playes (London, 1652). Gifford & Dyce, V, 353-424.
ShJ 191
Exemplum of the first edition with over 250 MS annotations and markings and a new final couplet, in three hands, prepared for use as a promptbook by the King's Company at the Bridges Street Theatre. In an octavo volume, Shirley's Six New Playes (London, 1653), in contemporary sheep (rebacked). c.1669-70.
Inscribed (title-page) ‘Will: Norman’ and his blind-stamped initials and date ‘1655’ on the covers. Formerly at Sion College, London (ARC K 55.2 /SH 6). Sotheby's, 13 June 1977, lot 61.
This item recorded in Gifford & Dyce, V, 354. Discussed in Montague Summers, ‘A Restoration Prompt-Book’, TLS (24 June 1920), p. 400; in Summers, The Restoration Theatre (London, 1934), with a facsimile of p. 13 facing p. 142; in Edward A. Langhans, ‘The Restoration Promptbook of Shirley's The Sisters’, Theatre Annual, 14 (1956), 51-65, with six facsimile examples; in Sotheby's sale catalogue for 13 June 1977, lot 61, with a facsimile example. A complete facsimile is in Edward A. Langhans, Restoration Promptbooks (Carbondale & Edwardsville, 1981), pp. 133-62 (and discussed, pp. 28-30).
Langhans records an exemplum of the first edition of the play at the University of Chicago containing a transcript of the annotations in the present exemplum made by the editor William Gifford (1756-1826).
The Traitor
First published in London, 1635. Gifford & Dyce, II, 95-187. Edited by John Stewart Carter (London, 1965). The play was licensed on 4 May 1631 for performance at the Phoenix Theatre.
ShJ 192
Rough working draft. A rough working draft, or foul paper, of a scene in blank verse and prose between the ‘Prince’ [Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence] and Lorenzo [Lorenzino de' Medici] which was later heavily adapted as Act I, scene ii of The Traitor; a fragment comprising some 144 lines of text drafted out, with numerous currente calamo revisions, in the mixed secretary and italic hand of its (probably professional) author on two conjugate folio leaves, each c.390 x 305 mm; from the papers of Sir John Coke (1563-1644), Secretary of State, or his family, and the muniments of the Marquess of Lothian at Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire; the MS at some time folded and used as wrapping paper to enclose a bundle of letters (possibly in 1634 or 1640) when books and papers were sent by his sons respectively from Gray's Inn and from London to Melbourne); marked in pencil in the 1880s by William Dashwood Fane ‘Packet 3’ (which originally contained documents of 1601-30, including Sir Fulke Greville's household accounts of 1602-3). c.1606-31.
This MS was discovered by Edward Saunders and identified by Felix Pryor at Melbourne Hall in 1985. Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 20 June 1986, lot 222 (unsold).
This MS appeared in a separate sale catalogue by Felix Pryor for Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 20 June 1986, lot 222, and is discussed by him, with a facsimile page and transcript, in Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, ed. J.M. Brook (Detroit, 1986), pp. 133-8. It was publicised elsewhere, with occasional reduced facsimile examples, notably in The Times (6 May 1986), pp. 1, 12, and (19 October 1989); Time (19 May 1986), p. 11; New York Times (24 May 1986); TLS (13 June 1986), p. 651; The Spectator (14 June 1986), pp. 34-5; and Maine Antique Digest (July 1986), pp. 36-37C.
Discussed, with reduced facsimiles, and the attribution to Webster supported, in Antony Hammond and Doreen Delvecchio, ‘The Melbourne Manuscript and John Webster: A Reproduction and Transcript’, SB, 41 (1988), 1-32, and in Alfred Marnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986) [where it is also translated into German as Il Moro, Herzog von Florenz. Ein Webster-Fragment]. Facsimiles also in Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor, William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion (Oxford, 1987), p. 8., and in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), pp. 290-1.
Discussed, and the attribution to Webster rejected in favour of Shirley, by I.A. Shapiro in letters to the TLS (4 July 1986), pp. 735-6, and (8 August 1986), p. 865 (also in unpublished further articles), and in The Works of John Webster, Vol. III, ed. David Gunby, David Carnegie, and MacDonald P. Jackson (Cambridge, 2003), pp. xxx-xxxi. See also letters and articles by Richard Proudfoot and Felix Pryor in TLS (13 June 1986), p. 651; (18 July 1986), p. 787; (22 August 1986), pp. 913-14; and (29 August 1986), p. 939, and N.W. Bawcutt, ‘The Assassination of Alessandro de' Medici in early Seventeenth-Century English Drama’, RES, NS 56 (June 2005), 412-23.
ShJ 193
Extracts, with comments on the play.
In: the MS described under ShJ 135. c.1640.
Wright's comments here (f. 74) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, ‘A Caroline Commentary on the Drama’, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 257).
The Triumph of Beauty. Song (‘Cease warring thoughts, and let his brain’)
First published, usually appended to Poems, in London, 1646. Gifford & Dyce, VI, 315-41 (p. 329). The song alone also in Armstrong, pp. 51-2.
ShJ 194
Copy of the song, in a musical setting by William Lawes.
In: the MS described under ShJ 32. c.1650s.
This MS Edited in part in Peter Walls, ‘New Light on Songs by William Lawes and John Wilson’, M&L, 57 (1976), (pp. 62-3).
ShJ 195
Copy of the song in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled, deleted.
In: A large folio autograph songbook of the composer William Lawes (1602-45), viii + 114 pages, various leaves excised, in contemporary calf gilt bearing the royal arms. c.1638-45.
Edited from this MS in Murray Leflkowitz, William Lawes (London, 1960), pp. 231-3; Edited in part in Walls, p. 62.
ShJ 196
Copy of the song in a musical setting by William Lawes, scored for two voices and incomplete, untitled.
In: the MS described under ShJ 34. Mid-late 17th century.
This MS collated in Cutts, ‘Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69’, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94 (pp. 192-3). Edited in part in Walls, pp. 62-3.
ShJ 196.5
Copy of the complete song, in a musical setting by William Lawes, scored for three voices, untitled.
In: the MS described under ShJ 34. Mid-late 17th century.
This MS collated in Cutts, ‘Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69’, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94 (pp. 192-3). Edited in part in Walls, pp. 62-3.
The Triumph of Peace. Song 1 (‘Hence ye profane, far hence away’)
First published in London, 1633 [i.e. 1634]. Gifford & Dyce, VI 253-85 (p. 274). Edited by Clifford Leech in A Book of Masques in Honour of Allardyce Nicoll, ed. T.J.B. Spenser & S.W. Wells (Cambridge, 1967), pp. 275-313 (p. 296, lines 491-502). Edited by Murray Lefkowitz in Trois Masques à la Cour de Charles Ier d'Angleterre (Paris, 1970), pp. 27-109 (p. 76). Edited by Stephen Orgel & Roy Strong, Inigo Jones: The Theatre of the Stuart Court, 2 vols (Sotheby Parke Bernet, University of California Press, 1973), II, 536-66. The song alone also in Armstrong, p. 45.
ShJ 197
Copy of the incipit in a musical setting by William Lawes, headed ‘First Song of the Innis of Court Masque The howres descending’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 195. c.1638-45.
Edited from this MS in Edward J. Dent, Foundations of English Opera (Cambridge, 1928), pp. 30-2; in Andrew J. Sabol, Songs and Dances for the Stuart Masque (Providence, Rhode Island, 1959), pp. 78-80; in Lefkowitz, pp. 89-91; and in Sabol, 400 Songs & Dances, No. 36.
—— Song 2 (‘Wherefore do my sisters stay?’)
Gifford & Dyce, VI, 274. Leech, p. 296, lines 504-15. Lefkowitz, pp. 76-7. Armstrong, pp. 45-6.
ShJ 198
Copy of the incipit in a musical setting by William Lawes.
In: the MS described under ShJ 195. c.1638-45.
Edited from this MS in Dent, pp. 32-4 (transcription corrected in Murray Lefkowitz, William Lawes (London, 1960), p. 217); in Sabol (1959), pp. 81-3; in Lefkowitz, Trois Masques, pp. 92-6; and in Sabol, 400 Songs & Dances, No. 37.
—— Song 3 (‘Think not I could absent myself this night’)
Gifford & Dyce, VI, 275. Leech, p. 297, lines 523-44. Lefkowitz, pp. 77-8. Armstrong, p. 46.
ShJ 199
Copy of the incipit in a musical setting by William Lawes (1602-45).
In: the MS described under ShJ 195. c.1638-45.
Edited from this MS in Dent, pp. 34-7 (and see also Murray Lefkowitz, William Lawes, p. 217); in Sabol, (1959), pp. 84-8; in Lefkowitz, Trois Masques, pp. 97-104; and in Sabol, 400 Songs & Dances, No. 38.
—— Song 7 (‘Why do you dwell so long in clouds’)
Gifford & Dyce, VI, 281-2. Leech, p. 302, lines 719-30. Lefkowitz, p. 83. Armstrong, p. 47.
ShJ 200
Copy of the song in a musical setting by William Lawes.
In: the MS described under ShJ 32. c.1650s.
Edited from this MS in Peter Walls, ‘New Light on Songs by William Lawes and John Wilson’, M&L, 57 (1976), 55-64 (pp. 58-61); edited in part from this MS in Sabol, 400 Songs & Dances, No. 414.
ShJ 201
Copy of the song, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.
In: the MS described under ShJ 34. Mid-late 17th century.
Edited from this MS in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69’, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94 (p. 193); in Walls, loc. cit.; and in Lefkowitz, pp. 105-6. Edited in part from this MS in Sabol, 400 Songs & Dances, No. 414.
—— Song 8 (‘In envy to the Night’)
Gifford & Dyce, VI, 282-3. Leech, p. 303, lines 747-56. Lefkowitz, p. 84. Armstrong, p. 47.
ShJ 202
Autograph copy by Lawes, in his musical setting, headed ‘Amphilucæ: in a Maske’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 72. c.1638-45.
Edited from this MS in Cutts, The Library (1952), p. 232; in Lefkowitz, William Lawes, p. 218; in Sabol (1959), pp. 89-90; in Lefkowitz, Trois Masques, pp. 106-8; and in Sabol, 400 Songs & Dances, No. 39.
ShJ 203
Copy of the song, in a musical setting by William Lawes.
In: the MS described under ShJ 5. c.1640s.
This MS collated in Cutts, ‘Drexel Manuscript 4041’, p. 169.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4041, No. 20, f. 16r.
—— Song 9 (‘Come away, away, away’)
Gifford & Dyce, VI, 283. Leech, pp. 303-4, lines 760-79. Lefkowitz, pp. 84-5. Armstrong, p. 47.
ShJ 204
Copy of the incipit in a musical setting by William Lawes, incomplete, headed ‘The Last Part of the Innis of Court Masque’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 195. c.1638-45.
Edited from this MS in Lefkowitz, pp. 108-9, and in Sabol, 400 Songs & Dances, No. 416.
The Wedding
First published in London, 1629. Gifford & Dyce, I, 363-450.
ShJ 205
Extracts, with comments on the play.
In: the MS described under ShJ 135. c.1640.
Wright's comments here (f. 82) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, ‘A Caroline Commentary on the Drama’, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 257).
The Witty Fair One
First published in London, 1633. Gifford & Dyce, I, 273-362.
See also ShJ 47-9, ShJ 98.
ShJ 206
Two sets of MS annotations, one in pencil, the other in ink, in an exemplum of the first edition prepared for use as a promptbook by the Duke's Company. c.1666-7.
Owned, and annotated, by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.
This item briefly discussed in Bertram Joseph, ‘Stage-Directions in a 17th Cent. Copy of Shirley’, TN, 3 (1949), 66-7. Complete reduced facsimile in Edward A. Langhans, Restoration Promptbooks (Carbondale & Edwardsville, 1981), pp. 261-94 (and discussed, pp. 42-4).
The Young Admiral
First published in London, 1637. Gifford & Dyce, III, 93-181.
ShJ 207
Extracts, with comments on the play, headed “ye young Admirall tragicomedie”.
In: the MS described under ShJ 135. c.1640.
Wright's comments here (f. 90r) printed in Arthur C. Kirsch, ‘A Caroline Commentary on the Drama’, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (p. 258).
Documents
Document(s)
*ShJ 208
Autograph additions (some substantial), in mixed italic and secretary scripts, on several pages (notably Nos 11 and 12) in papers of Bulstrode Whitelocke (1605-75), politician, concerning the preparations, expenses and staging of Shirley's masque The Triumph of Peace by the Inns of Court on 3 and 13 February 1633/4.
Shirley's additions were identified by I.A. Shapiro: see his letter in TLS (8 August 1986), p. 865. Facsimile of a page in No. 11, a stage arrangement entirely in Shirley's hand, in Trois Masques à la Cour de Charles Ier d'Angleterre, ed Murray Lefkowitz (Paris, 1970), Plate VIII, and, also, very reduced, in I.A. Shapiro, ‘The Melbourne MS’, TLS (8 August 1986), p. 865. A microfilm of the MSS is at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London (XR 54, reel 15).
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Whitelocke Papers, Parcel II, item 9.
*ShJ 209
A three-line autograph attestation in Latin signed by ‘Jacobum Sherley’, in a largely italic script below the scribal text of a Schedula Excommunicationis drawn up in the Archdeaconry Court of St Albans, 10 November 1623. 10 November 1623.
Recorded in Bentley, Jacobean & Caroline Stage, V, 1066. A very reduced facsimile in I.A. Shapiro, ‘The Melbourne MS’, TLS (8 August 1986), p. 865.
*ShJ 210
A deposition relating to the scrivener Thomas Frith, the text in the hand of a scribe and signed by Shirley (a large four-inch-wide signature, ‘James Sherley’, in a mixed italic script), 6 March 1615/16. 1616.
This document discussed in J.P. Feil, ‘James Shirley's Years of Service’, RES, NS 8 (1957), 413-16.
ShJ 210.5
A petition to the Parliamentary Commissioners for Compounding, with an accompanying estimate of Shirley's estate, the text in a professional hand and both pages signed by Shirley (‘James Shirley’), 31 January 1650/1. 1651.
Calendar of the Proceedings of the Committee for Compounding &c, 1643-1660, Cases, July 1650-December 1653 (1892), p. 2703. These documents discussed in George Bas, ‘Two Misrepresented Biographical Documents concerning James Shirley’, RES, NS 27 (1976), 18-25.
Will
*ShJ 211
Shirley's last will and testament, entirely autograph, with copious revisions, and signed by Shirley (‘James Shirley’), on four large broadsheets, July 1666, proved 6 November 1666. A registered copy is National Archives, Kew, PROB 11/319-22.
Edited (incomplete and with inaccuracies) in Arthur Huntington Nason, James Shirley, Dramatist (New York, 1915), pp. 158-60. Facsimile pages are in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(b-c), and in IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile XII, after p. xxi.
ShJ 212
A registered copy of Shirley's last will and testament, July 1666, proved 6 November 1666. 1666.
Books Presented or Inscribed by Shirley
Shirley, James. Six New Playes (London, 1653)
*ShJ 213
Autograph presentation inscription, ‘For the noble hands of Sr Edmund Boyer. from his most humble servant Ja: Shirley’, in a printed exemplum of Six New Playes (London, 1653), an octavo in 19th-century goatskin.
The front cover stamped in gilt ‘S. E. S. 1884’: i.e. Sewallis Evelyn Shirley, MP, JP (1844-1904). From the library of the Shirley family at Ettington Hall, Warwickshire. Quaritch's sale catalogue ‘of English Literature’ (August-November 1884), item 22263.
Shirley, James. Poems (London, 1646)
ShJ 214
A printed exemplum, evidently a presentation volume from the author, although they do not bear any trace of his own hand. It bears the signature on the title-page of Bernard Hyde, who in fact was the ‘truly Noble’ dedicatee of Shirley's edition. 1646.
ShJ 215
A printed exemplum, evidently a presentation volume from the author, which bears on the verso of the portrait the faded inscription ‘Ex dono Authoris’. 1646.
Verses on ‘The Triumph of Peace’
A breif expression of the delight apprehended by the Authour att the seeing of the Solemne triumphs of the gent of the Innes of Court riding with the Masque presented before his Matie: Feb: 3, 1633 (‘Now did Heavens Charioteer, the great daies Starr’)
The first line sometimes reading ‘Now did Oceanus Charioteer, the great daies Starr’.
ShJ 216
Copy. c.1633.
Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 236.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, [unspecified shelfmark].
ShJ 218
Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, beginning ‘Now did Heavens Chariotier, the great daies starr’, on a single broadsheet, endorsed ‘Verses made in praise of ye gent wch prsented a maske before his K Matie ffebruary 3d. Ao. 1633’. c.1633.
Edited in Calendar of State Papers Domestic, Charles I, 1633-1634, pp. xxvii-xxviii, 450.
ShJ 219
Copy, with full title and here beginning ‘Now did heavens Charioter ye day’.
In: the MS described under ShJ 114. c.1655.
ShJ 220
Copy, headed ‘On ye solemne triumphs of ye Gentlemen of ye Innes of Court, riding wth ye Maske prsented before his Matie:’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands (one predominating up to p. 167), probably associated with Oxford, 436 pages (pp. 198-9 and 269-70 skipped in the pagination, and including many blanks and an index) and numerous further blank leaves at the end, in modern black morocco gilt. Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1650.
Scribbling on the first page including the words ‘Peyton Chester…’.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Osborn MS I’: CwT Δ 38; CoR Δ 14; StW Δ 29.
Miscellaneous Extracts from Works by Shirley
Extracts
ShJ 221
Extracts from plays by Shirley, including The Traitor.
In: A quarto commonplace book of extracts illustrating specified topics, largely in a single cursive hand, entitled Miscellanea Tragica Theatrical Index of Sentimts. & Descriptions Vol. 7, 244 pages (including blanks, plus a seven-page index and further blanks), in quarter crushed morocco on marbled boards. Inscribed ‘W. Harte 1726’: i.e. by Walter Harte (1709-41), compiler of the MS, which also has his bookplate. c.1726.
ShJ 222
Extracts from plays and poems.
In: A large untitled folio anthology of quotations chiefly from Elizabethan and Stuart plays, alphabetically arranged under subject headings, in a single mixed hand, in double columns, 900 pages (lacking pp. 1-4, 379-80, 667-8, 715-20 and 785-8), including (pp. 893-7) an alphabetical index of some 351 titles of plays, in modern boards. This is the longest known extant version of the unpublished anthology Hesperides or The Muses Garden, by John Evans, entered in the Stationers' Register on 16 August 1655 and subsequently advertised c.1660, among works he purposed to print, by Humphrey Moseley. Another version of this work, in the same hand, dissected by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), is now distributed between Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Halliwell-Phillipps, Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare, Folger, MS V.a.75, Folger, MS V.a.79, and Folger, MS V.a.80. c.1656-66.
Formerly MS 469.2.
This MS identified in IELM, II.i (1980), p. 450. Discussed, as the ‘master draft’, with a facsimile of p. 7 on p. 381, in Hao Tianhu, ‘Hesperides, or the Muses' Garden and its Manuscript History’, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/4 (December 2009), 372-404 (the full index printed as ‘Catalogue A’ on pp. 385-94).