Verse
(1) English Poems by Southwell
At home in Heaven (‘Faire soule, how long shall veyles thy graces shroud?’)
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 55-6.
SoR 1
Copy in: A volume of Southwell's English verse and some prose works, in a single hand but for one poem and some corrections in a second hand, 78 quarto leaves. c.1592-1609.
Bearing the childish signature of ‘iereneme WalDegrave’ (? the future nun Dame Hieronima Waldegrave, c.1603-35) and once in the possession of the Waldegrave family of Essex.
On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.
Cited by editors as the Waldegrave MS. Described in McDonald, pp. 19-22, and in Brown, pp. xxxvii-xl. This MS probably to be identified as the ‘lost’ Bury St Edmunds MS recorded in McDonald, pp. 25-7: see Brown, pp. xxxix-xl.
SoR 2
Copy in: A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped ‘IHS’. Early 17th century.
Inscribed names (f. 79v) ‘Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677’; (f. 78v) ‘Mrs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678’; and (elsewhere) ‘Katherine’ and ‘Laurence Champney’. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as ‘The Woolhampton MS’ (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.
Generally cited as the ‘Virtue and Cahill MS’.
SoR 3
Copy in: A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.
Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.
SoR 4
Copy in: A quarto volume of poems by Robert Southwell, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with (f. 1*v) a list of contents, 1* + 43 leaves, in modern black morocco. 1620.
With a faded inscription (f. 57v) ‘Charles Cauendish 1620 / Anno Dmi, 1620’.
Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Cavendish MS.
SoR 5
Copy in: A small quarto composite volume of works chiefly by Southwell, comprising a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, With other Poems (London, 1595), vi + 56 pages, with minor MS corrections and marks, bound with an untitled MS of poems by Southwell and others, in one or possibly two neat italic hands, 88 leaves, formerly in contemporary calf, now in modern quarter-calf. Early 17th century.
Inscribed on the title-page ‘E[x] L[ibris] J. Phillips 1774’. Booklabel of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937).
Cited by editors, and in IELM, I.ii, as the Harmsworth MS. Collated in Brown.
SoR 5.5
Copy in: Fragments of a small quarto miscellany of poems, chiefly by Robert Southwell (sixteen by him, probably copied from lost printed sources), in a single mixed Scottish hand, 36 pages (in present state). Apparently compiled by one ‘R. C.’ (possibly Robert Calder) for Sir Robert Gordon (1580-1656), Lord of Inverary and Gentleman of the Privy Chamber. c.1610.
The MS pages used as binder's waste or even perhaps as a deliberate mode of secretion in a MS volume compiled by the schoolmaster and royal chaplain Alexander Ross (1591-1654), of Aberdeen. Later in the library of Andrew Fletcher (1653?-1716), of Saltoun, political theorist and book collector. H.P. Kraus, New York, sale catalogue No. 157 (1980), item 29. Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 29 (with other MSS relating to the recusant Gordon family), to Quaritch.
SoR 6
Copy in: A miscellany, entitled a not-booke of divinity and honor military and civill, chiefly comprising 29 poems by Robert Southwell transcribed from printed sources, in the predominantly italic hand of Thomas Read, a student of Magdalen College, Oxford, 186 leaves, dated 1624. 1624.
Later in the collection of George Arents Jr (1875-1960), manufacturer.
This MS recorded in Brown, p. li, but not collated.
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center, SC 149, p. 29.
The burning Babe (‘As I in hoarie Winters night’)
First published in Saint Peters Complaint (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 15-16.
SoR 8
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 2. Early 17th century.
SoR 9
Copy, with corrections in two later hands.
In: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
SoR 12
Copy, untitled.
In: A long ledger-size miscellany of recusant verse and some prose, including 32 poems by Robert Southwell, largely in the single neat hand of Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68), a second hand on pp. 119-21, viii + 130 pages, some leaves partly torn away, in contemporary vellum. c.1651-7.
Associated with the Fairfax family of Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire, including Thomas Fairfax (d.1691), yeoman. Later inscribed with the name ‘Harriet Marcusden’. Sold by P.J. Dobell, 1948.
Discussed in Cedric C. Brown, ‘Recusant Community and Jesuit Mission in Parliament Days: Bodleian MS Eng. poet. b. 5’, Yearbook of English Studies, 23 (2003), 290-315.
SoR 12.5
Copy in: An octavo miscellany of verse, prose and drama, written over a period in various hands, 179 leaves, in remains of contemporary calf. c.1620-late 17th century.
Inscribed (f. 31v) ‘Henry Gould his Book 1620’. Compiled in part by one Henry Gould (c.1620). Other scribbling in the volume includes names of Robert Carter, John and Peggy Marriot, Thomas and John Allsopp (1746), George and Thomas Swindell, Richard Fowles, and George and Catherine Bindale, as well as an acrostic on Mrs Anne Boulton, and, on the first page, the inscription ‘Mend the play Booke Gilbert Carter’. Sotheby's, 15 December 1988, lot 13.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 91, f. 55r-v.
A childe my Choyce (‘Let folly praise that fancie loves, I praise and love that child’)
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 13.
SoR 13.5
Copy in: A quarto miscellany, in one or possibly two hands, one of which may be Sir Charles Calthorpe (d.1616), judge and Attorney-General of ireland, 279 leaves, imperfect. c.1600.
SoR 14
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 2. Early 17th century.
SoR 15
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
SoR 18
Copy of lines 5-16, beginning ‘Loves seetest mark, Lawdes highest theme, mans most desired light’ and headed ‘Op Xt’.
In: the MS described under SoR 6. 1624.
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center, SC 149, p. 25.
SoR 19
Copy, in Gertrude Thimelby's hand.
In: A quarto miscellany of recusant verse, many of the 65 poems relating to the circle of the Catholic Aston family, in three hands, 200 leaves (including five preliminary blanks, and ff. 53r-135v are blank), in contemporary leather gilt. Compiled principally by Constance Fowler (d.1664), daughter of the diplomat Walter Aston, Baron Aston of Forfar (1584-1639), of Tixall and Colton, Staffordshire, her roman hand responsible for ff. 6r, 8r-15v, 24v-34v, 46v-52v, 136r-9r, 143v-59r, and 182v-95v. The second, predominantly secretary hand, responsible for fourteen poems on ff. 7r-v, 16r-24r, and 35r-46r, is that of Constance's sister Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68). The third hand, on ff. 196r-200v, is that of Constance's brother-in-law Sir William Pershall. c.1635-50s.
William H. Robinson, sale catalogue (1925), item 472.
This volume discussed, with a complete first-line index and a facsimile of f. 25r, in Jenijoy La Belle, ‘The Huntington Aston Manuscript’, The Book Collector, 29 (Winter 1980), 542-67. See also Jenijoy La Belle, ‘A True Love's Knot: The Letters of Constance Fowler and the Poems of Herbert Aston’, JEGP, 79 (1980), 13-31. The complete volume edited in The Verse Miscellany of Constance Aston Fowler: A Diplomatic Edition, ed. Deborah Aldrich-Watson (Tempe, Arizona, 2000), with a facsimile of f. 28v on p. lxiv.
Aldrich-Watson, pp. 68-9. This MS recorded in Jenijoy La Belle, ‘The Huntington Aston Manuscript’, BC, 29 (Winter 1980), 542-67 (p. 558).
Christs bloody sweat (‘Fat soile, full spring, sweete olive, grape of blisse’)
First published (lines 1-12) in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 18-19.
SoR 20
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 1. c.1592-1609.
SoR 21
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 2. Early 17th century.
SoR 22
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
SoR 26
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 6. 1624.
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center, SC 149, p. 33.
Christs sleeping friends (‘When Christ with care and pangs of death opprest’)
First published (lines 1-12) in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 19-21.
SoR 27
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 1. c.1592-1609.
SoR 28
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 2. Early 17th century.
SoR 29
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
SoR 33
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 6. 1624.
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center, SC 149, p. 33.
Content and rich (‘I dwell in grace's courte’)
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 67-9.
SoR 34
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 1. c.1592-1609.
SoR 35
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 2. Early 17th century.
SoR 36
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
SoR 38
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 6. 1624.
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center, SC 149, p. 26.
SoR 39
Copy, headed ‘The contented man’.
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.
Davids Peccavi (‘In eaves, sole Sparrowe sits not more alone’)
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 35-6.
SoR 41
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 2. Early 17th century.
SoR 42
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
SoR 44.8
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 12.5. c.1620-late 17th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 91, ff. 54v-5r.
Decease release. Dum morior orior (‘The pounded spice both tast and sent doth please’)
First published in St. Peter's Complaint, and other Poems. by the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.J. Walter (London, 1817). Brown, pp. 47-8.
SoR 46
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 2. Early 17th century.
SoR 47
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
Edited from this MS in St. Peter's Complaint, and other Poems; by the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.J. Walter (London, 1817).
SoR 50
Copy, in a neat secretary hand, with corrections or emendations in a different ink, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘Des vers de mr Sothwell de la Reyne d'Escosse l'an 1596, receus au mois de Feuurier’ and ‘Sa vertu m'attire’.
In: A folio guardbook of state letters, mainly addressed to Anthony Bacon, in various hands, 241 leaves, in modern half-calf marbled boards.
Volume IX of the papers of Anthony Bacon (1558-1601), political intelligencer, subsequently among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.
This MS recorded in Brown, p. lxxx, but not collated. Described in Louise Imogen Guiney, Recusant Poets (London & New York, 1938), p. 247.
Epitaph on Lady Margaret Sackville (‘Of Howards stemme a glorious branch is dead’)
See SoR 322-325.
Fortunes Falsehoode (‘In worldly meriments lurketh much miserie’)
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 65-6.
SoR 52
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 2. Early 17th century.
SoR 53
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
SoR 55.5
Copy of lines 25-40; imperfect, lacking the rest of the poem.
In: the MS described under SoR 5.5. c.1610.
SoR 56
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 6. 1624.
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center, SC 149, p. 24.
From Fortunes reach (‘Let fickle fortune runne her blindest race’)
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 66-7.
SoR 58
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 2. Early 17th century.
SoR 59
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
SoR 63
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 6. 1624.
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center, SC 149, pp. 30-1.
SoR 64
Copy of lines 1-6, untitled.
In: A quarto composite volume of verse and prose, partly on vellum, partly on paper, c.110 leaves. Mid-late 16th century.
A holy Hymne (‘Praise, O Sion, praise thy Saviour’)
First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 23-6.
SoR 65
Copy, headed ‘Saint Thomas of Aquines Hymne read on corpus christy daye. Lauda Sion saluatorem’.
In: the MS described under SoR 1. c.1592-1609.
SoR 66
Copy, headed ‘Saint Thomas of Aquines Hymne. read on corpus christy daye’.
In: the MS described under SoR 2. Early 17th century.
SoR 67
Copy, headed ‘Saint Thomas of Aquines hyme redd on Corpus xpi day. Lauda Syon Sal.’
In: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
SoR 68
Copy, headed ‘Sainte thomas of Aquines Hymne redd on corpus christie daye Lauda syon saluatorem’.
In: the MS described under SoR 4. 1620.
SoR 69
Copy, headed ‘St. Thomas of Aquines hymne read on Corpus Christi daye: Lauda Sion Salvatorem’.
In: the MS described under SoR 5. Early 17th century.
I dye alive (‘O life what lets thee from a quicke decease?’)
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 52-3.
SoR 70
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 1. c.1592-1609.
Facsimile of stanza 3 of this MS in Grosart (quarto edition), facing p. 84. For an account of Grosart's misreadings, see Pierre Janelle, Robert Southwell the Writer (London, 1935), pp. 304-5.
SoR 71
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 2. Early 17th century.
SoR 72
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
SoR 73
Copy, with second stanza first (beginning ‘I live, but such a life as ever dies’).
In: the MS described under SoR 4. 1620.
SoR 75
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 6. 1624.
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center, SC 149, p. 28.
I dye without desert (‘If orphane Childe enwrapt in swathing bands’)
First published in St. Peters Complaint, and other Poems. by the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.J. Walter (London, 1817). Brown, pp. 48-9.
SoR 77
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 2. Early 17th century.
SoR 78
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
Edited from this MS in St. Peter's Complaint, and other Poems; by the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.J. Walter (London, 1817).
Josephs Amazement (‘When Christ by growth disclosed his descent’)
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 21-3.
Lewd Love is Losse (‘Misdeeming eye that stoupest to the lure’)
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 62-3.
SoR 86
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 1. c.1592-1609.
SoR 87
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 2. Early 17th century.
SoR 88
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
SoR 90.8
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 12.5. c.1620-late 17th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 91, f. 53r-v.
SoR 91
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 6. 1624.
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center, SC 149, p. 30.
Life is but Losse (‘By force I live, in will I wish to die’)
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 50-1.
SoR 93
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 2. Early 17th century.
SoR 94
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
SoR 97
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 6. 1624.
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center, SC 149, p. 28.
Lifes death loves life (‘Who lives in love, loves least to live’)
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 54-5.
SoR 98
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 1. c.1592-1609.
SoR 99
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 2. Early 17th century.
SoR 100
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
SoR 104
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 6. 1624.
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center, SC 149, p. 29.
SoR 105
Copy, in Gertrude Thimelby's hand.
In: the MS described under SoR 19. c.1635-50s.
Aldrich-Watson, pp. 70-1.
Looke home (‘Retyred thoughts enjoy their owne delights’)
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 57.
SoR 106
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 1. c.1592-1609.
SoR 107
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 2. Early 17th century.
SoR 108
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
SoR 110
Copy of lines 1-18.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in an accomplished mixed hand throughout, with headings or incipts in engrossed lettering, 194 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco. c.1596-1601.
This MS volume discussed in Katherine K. Gottschalk, ‘Discoveries concerning British Library MS Harley 6910’, MP, 77 (1979-80), 121-31.
This MS recorded in Brown, p. 146.
Losse in delaies (‘Shun delaies, they breede remorse’)
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 58-9.
SoR 111
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 1. c.1592-1609.
SoR 112
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 2. Early 17th century.
SoR 113
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
SoR 115
A minor MS correction in the printed text.
In: the MS described under SoR 5. Early 17th century.
SoR 116.8
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 12.5. c.1620-late 17th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 91, f. 51r-v.
SoR 117
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 6. 1624.
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center, SC 149, p. 27.
Loves Garden grief (‘Vaine loves avaunt, infamous is your pleasure’)
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 64.
SoR 118
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 1. c.1592-1609.
SoR 119
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 2. Early 17th century.
SoR 120
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
SoR 122.5
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 12.5. c.1620-late 17th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 91, f. 52r-v.
SoR 123
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 6. 1624.
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center, SC 149, p. 30.
Loves servile lot (‘Love mistris is of many mindes’)
Lines 1-48 first published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Lines 49-76 published in 2nd edition (1595). Brown, pp. 60-2.
SoR 124
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 1. c.1592-1609.
SoR 125
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 2. Early 17th century.
SoR 126
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
SoR 128
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 6. 1624.
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center, SC 149, pp. 27-8.
Mans civill warre (‘My hovering thoughts would flie to heaven’)
First published (lines 1-12) in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 49-50.
SoR 130
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 2. Early 17th century.
SoR 131
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
SoR 135
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 6. 1624.
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center, SC 149, p. 36.
Marie Magdalens complaint at Christs death (‘Sith my life from life is parted’)
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 45-6.
SoR 136
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 1. c.1592-1609.
SoR 137
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 2. Early 17th century.
SoR 138
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
SoR 140
A minor MS correction in the printed text.
In: the MS described under SoR 5. Early 17th century.
SoR 141
Copy of line 25, here ‘With my loue my life was rested’, untitled, in a musical setting by Thomas Morley.
In: A virginal book. Compiled by one ‘R: Cr.’ (Robert Creighton). c.1635-8.
This setting first published in Thomas Morley, First Booke of Ayres (London, 1600). See Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 138, 494-6.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Département de la Musique, MS Conservatoire Rés. 1186, f. 23r.
SoR 142
Copy of line 25, here ‘With my loue my life was nestled’, untitled, in a musical setting by Thomas Morley.
In: the MS described under SoR 141. c.1635-8.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Département de la Musique, MS Conservatoire Rés. 1186, f. 57r-v.
SoR 143
Copy of lines 25-30, 19-24, 13-18, headed ‘Cant 8’ and here beginning ‘With my loue my life was nestled’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, ii + 65 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Entitled Miscentur seria iocis. 1647. Elegies, Exequies, Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs Satires and other Poems, a formal compilation entirely in the hand of the Yorkshire antiquary John Hopkinson (1610-80). 1647.
From the library of Cecil Brent, FSA. Sold by P.J. & A.E. Dobell, January 1938.
SoR 144
Copy of lines 25-30, headed ‘I live where I love’ and here beginning ‘With my hart my love was nesled’, followed by five new stanzas.
In: A long narrow ledger-like volume (c.40 x 15 cm) of ballads and metrical romances, in a single predominantly secretary hand, 268 leaves, all mounted on guards, in modern half-morocco. Mid-17th century.
Later owned by Thomas Percy (1768-1808), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor, and bearing copious annotations in his hand throughout, with a list by him at the end dated 20 December 1757.
This volume edited as Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript, ed. John W. Hales and Frederick J. Furnivall, 4 vols (London, 1867-8). Re-edited by I. Gollancz, 4 vols (London, 1905-10). Facsimile example of f. 94r in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), No. 20, p. 31. Discussed, with five facsimile examples, in Joseph Donatelli, ‘The Percy Folio Manuscript: A Seventeenth-Century Context for Medieval Poetry’, EMS, 4 (1993), 114-33.
SoR 145
Copy of lines 25-30, 19-24, 18-18, in a musical setting by Thomas Morley, untitled.
In: A folio volume of largely vocal music, mainly in a single secretary hand, 120 pages, in mottled calf. Early 17th century.
Complete facsimile in Jorgens, VI (1987).
Edited from this MS in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth Century Songs and Lyrics (Columbia, Mo., 1959), p. 423.
SoR 146
Copy of line 25 only, here ‘With my love my lyf was nestled’, in a musical setting by Thomas Morley, untitled.
In: Three small quarto musical part books of the ‘St Andrews Psalter’ (the Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1566 etc. by Thomas Wode, afterwards Vicar of St Andrews), copied c.1575-8, in formal angular roman hands, with rubrication and colour decoration, and with a series of secular songs added later in secretary and italic hands at the end, comprising (i) Treble part: iv + 214 pages (including blanks; (ii) Tenor part: iv + 200 pages; and (iii) Bassus part: 214 pages, all in 19th-century black morocco (iii incorporating an original vellum board). c.1575-early 17th century.
For a fourth (Counter-tenor) part book of this Psalter, see British Library, Add. MS 33933.
Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 483, (iii) p. 188.
SoR 147
Copy of line 25 et seq., in a musical setting, untitled and here beginning ‘With my Love, my life was nested’.
In: MS transcript of the first printed edition (Aberdeen, 1662) of John Forbes, Cantus, Songs and Fancies. c.1662.
In the Atholl Collection of Music, assembled by Lady Dorothea Stewart-Murray (1866-1937), daughter of John Stewart-Murray (1840-1917), seventh Duke of Atholl. Formerly in the Sandeman Library, Perth.
SoR 148
Copy of line 25, in a musical setting by Thomas Morley, untitled.
In: A quarto musical part book, in several neat secretary and italic hands, with some initial-letter decoration, headed (f. 5r) ‘This is the fyrst Buke addit to the four psalme Bukkes, for songis of four or fyue partis, meit and apt for musitians, to recreat...’, with (ff. 2r-4r) a table of contents, 63 leaves, in old blind-stamped calf. One of the part books of the ‘St Andrews Psalter’. Early 17th century.
Mary Magdalens blush (‘The signs of shame that staine my blushing face’)
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 32-3.
New heaven, new warre (‘Come to your heaven you heavenly quires’)
First published in Saint Peters Complaint (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 13-15.
New Prince, new pompe (‘Behold a silly tender Babe’)
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 16-17.
Of the Blessed Sacrament of the Aulter (‘In paschall feast the end of auncient rite’)
First published as ‘The Christians Manna’ in S. Peters Complaint and Saint Mary Magdalens Fvnerall Teares ([St Omers], 1616). Brown, pp. 26-8.
SoR 165.5
Copy, in a professional hand, subscribed ‘W: S.’, on a pair of conjugate folio leaves.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers principally in the hand of Lord Henry Howard, including some letters to him and some parliamentary speeches, 585 leaves, in 19th-century morocco gilt. c.1580s-1614.
SoR 166
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 2. Early 17th century.
SoR 167
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
Edited from this MS in St. Peter's Complaint, and other Poems; by the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.J. Walter (London, 1817).
[The] Peeter Playnt (‘That sturdy peter...an...did boaste’)
First published in Grosart (1872). Transcribed more accurately in Mario Praz, ‘Robert Southwell's “Saint Peter's Complaint” and its Italian Source’, MLR, 19 (1924), 273-90. McDonald, pp. 144-7. Brown, pp. 103-7.
*SoR 170
Autograph first draft of a verse translation of part of Luigi Tansillo's Le Lagrime di San Pietro.
In: A quarto composite volume of Robert Southwell's autograph papers, in various paper sizes, 64 leaves, in modern binding. c.1580.
On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.
Described in McDonald, pp. 12-14.
Facsimiles of f. 50r in Brown, frontispiece, and in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 19, and of f. 51r in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 29.
A Phansie turned to a sinners complaint (‘Hee that his mirth hath lost’)
First published in Saint Peters Complaint (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 36-40.
SoR 171
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 1. c.1592-1609.
SoR 172
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 2. Early 17th century.
SoR 173
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
SoR 175
Copy, headed ‘Diars fancie turned to a sinners complaint’.
In: the MS described under SoR 5. Early 17th century.
The prodigall childs soule wracke (‘Disankerd from a blisfull shore’)
First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 43-5.
SoR 176
Copy, in the hand of a second scribe responsible only for corrections elsewhere in the MS.
In: the MS described under SoR 1. c.1592-1609.
SoR 177
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 2. Early 17th century.
SoR 178
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
SoR 182
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 6. 1624.
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center, SC 149, p. 36.
SoR 183
Copy, in Gertrude Thimelby's hand.
In: the MS described under SoR 19. c.1635-50s.
Aldrich-Watson, pp. 36-8.
S. Peters afflicted minde (‘if that the sicke may grone’)
First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, p. 31.
SoR 185
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 2. Early 17th century.
SoR 186
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
SoR 189
Copy, headed ‘A song called St. peters afficted minde’.
In: the MS described under SoR 12. c.1651-7.
SoR 190
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 6. 1624.
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center, SC 149, p. 34.
Saint Peters Complaynte (‘How can I live, that have my life deny'de?’)
This version first published in McDonald (1937), pp. 141-3. Brown, pp. 29-31.
SoR 191
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 1. c.1592-1609.
Edited from this MS in McDonald and in Brown.
SoR 192
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 2. Early 17th century.
SoR 193
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
SoR 195
Copy of lines 5-72, untitled and here beginning ‘O Sinne of sinnes, of evels the very woorst’, on the final blank leaf of the printed work.
In: the MS described under SoR 5. Early 17th century.
Edited from this MS in McDonald (1937), pp. 141-3, and in Brown, pp. 29-31.
Saint Peters Complaint (‘Launche foorth my Soul into a maine of teares’)
First published London, 1595. Brown, pp. 75-100.
SoR 196
Copy, complete with ‘The Author to the Reader’ (beginning ‘Deare eie that daynest to let fall a looke’).
In: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
SoR 198
Copy, complete with ‘The Author to the Reader’.
In: A quarto miscellany of religious verse and prose, dedicated to Thomas Knyvett, including (pp. 90-3 passim) thirteen sonnets by William Alabaster headed ‘Certaine of Arabasters his meditations. Anno 1597’, compiled by Peter Mowle, of Attleborough, Norfolk, 179 leaves, in contemporary calf stamped ‘P.M.’ c.1592-1606.
Inscribed ‘Peter Mowld Junior oweth this Booke Witnesse Edmond Mould Anno 1605’. Formerly MS E. 3. 11 (Shelf RNN3).
Described in McDonald, pp. 29-33. Discussed in Earle Havens, ‘Notes from a Literary Underground: Recusant Catholics, Jesuit Priests, and Scribal Publication in Elizabethan England’, PBSA, 99 (December 2005), 505-38 (p. 529 et seq.)
This MS collated in Brown.
SoR 198.5
Copy of six stanzas of the poem, untitled and beginning at line 637 (‘Ah Sinne, the nothing that doth all things fyle’), followed by lines 703-4.
In: the MS described under SoR 110. c.1596-1601.
SoR 198.8
Copy of ‘Part of St Peters Plaint’, beginning at line 637 (here ‘Ah sin ye nothing yt doth all things file; of hell’).
In: the MS described under SoR 12.5. c.1620-late 17th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 91, ff. 56r-7v.
SoR 199
Copy, with 12 lines of ‘The Author to the Reader’ arranged in the sequence of lines 7, 9, 8, 10-12, 20-1, 23-4, 3-4 (beginning ‘If equities even-hand the balance held)’.
In: the MS described under SoR 6. 1624.
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center, SC 149, pp. 44-51.
S. Peters remorse (‘Remorse upbraids my faults’)
First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 33-5.
SoR 200
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 1. c.1592-1609.
SoR 201
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 2. Early 17th century.
SoR 202
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
SoR 205
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 6. 1624.
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center, SC 149, p. 34.
Scorne not the least (‘Where wards are weake, and foes encountring strong’)
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 69-70.
SoR 206
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 1. c.1592-1609.
SoR 207
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 2. Early 17th century.
SoR 208
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
SoR 210
Three MS corrections in the printed text.
In: the MS described under SoR 5. Early 17th century.
SoR 210.6
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 12.5. c.1620-late 17th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 91, ff. 52v-3r.
SoR 210.8
Copy of the last two lines, untitled and here beginning ‘We trample grass & prize ye flowers of [May]’.
In: the MS described under SoR 12.5. c.1620-late 17th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 91, f. 36v.
SoR 211
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 6. 1624.
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center, SC 149, p. 24.
SoR 212
Copy of lines 1-18.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and some prose, in one or possibly two hands, in varying secretary and italic scripts, 107 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Compiled by someone probably connected with the Royal Court. c.1605.
Owned in 1845 by James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps] (1820-89), with his inscription ‘of Andrews Bristol 1845 at the enormous Price of 6.6.0’. Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 189.
This MS recorded in Brown, p. 152. See also SoR 241.
SoR 213
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under SoR 110. c.1596-1601.
This MS recorded in Brown, p. 152.
Seeke flowers of heaven (‘Soare up my soule unto thy rest’)
First published in Moeoniae, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 52.
SoR 214
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 1. c.1592-1609.
SoR 215
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 2. Early 17th century.
SoR 216
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
SoR 220
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 6. 1624.
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center, SC 149, p. 37.
The Sequence on the Virgin Mary and Christ (‘Our second Eve puts on her mortall shroude’)
Poems vi & xii first published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Poems i-v, vii-xi first published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Poems xiii & xiv first published in The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W. B. Turnbull (London, 1856). Brown, pp. 3-12.
SoR 222
Copy of the sequence of fourteen poems, with no general heading, the first poem headed ‘The conception of our blessed Lady’.
In: the MS described under SoR 2. Early 17th century.
SoR 223
Copy of a sequence of fourteen poems, imperfect.
In: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
Poems xiii & xiv edited from this MS in Turnbull.
SoR 226
Copy of the sequence of fourteen poems, beginning with ‘A meditation on ye Conception of or Blessed lady: St mary the virgin’.
In: the MS described under SoR 12. c.1651-7.
SoR 227
Copy of poems i-xii.
In: the MS described under SoR 6. 1624.
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center, SC 149, pp. 31-3, 25.
—— vi. The Nativitie of Christ (‘Beholde the father, is his daughters sonne’)
Brown, pp. 6-7.
SoR 228
Copy of lines 1-4, headed ‘Upon Christ’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small neat predominantly secretary hand but for additions in a second hand on ff. 35v and 58r, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Wadham College, 97 leaves (inclusing two blanks), in half-calf. Including 14 poems by Carew (and a second copy of one poem), eight poems (plus 3 of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, and 28 poems by Strode (plus a second copy of one and two of doubtful authorship). c.late 1630s.
Later used and annotated by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, and entries in his hand on f. 97r. Formerly Bodleian, MS CCC.328.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Fulman MS’: CwT Δ 2; RnT Δ 6; StW Δ 16.
This MS not recorded in Brown.
SoR 229
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, made up from a larger book, 184 leaves, stubs of some excised leaves, in green boards. Compiled by John Ramsay (b.1578), of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and the Middle Temple. c.1596-1633.
Name (inscribed several times) of Thomas Russell. Given in 1724 by Robert Cook of Bokenham to Francis Blomefield (1705-52), Norfolk topographer, and with Blomefield's bookplate, 1736. Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.
SoR 230
Copy of lines 1-4, under a general running head ‘Help to discourse’ and headed ‘Q[uestion]. Wt Issue was yt wch was older then his mother? A[nswer]. Christ: to wch purpose ye Poet wittily followeth it:’.
In: A duodecimo commonplace book of extracts, in English and Latin, written from both ends, 60 leaves, disbound. Owned and probably compiled by John Abbott (b.1653/4), of St John's College, Oxford. c.1670s.
Sinnes heavie loade (‘O Lord my sinne doth over-charge thy brest’)
First published in Saint Peters Complaint (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 17-18.
‘The shippe that fro the port dothe sayle’
First published in McDonald (1937), p. 159.
*SoR 236
Autograph fragment, comprising seven lines of verse (with revisions) preceded by the words ‘I goe…Amemmon’, on a single leaf also containing a transcript in a later hand.
In: the MS described under SoR 170. c.1580.
Edited from this MS in McDonald.
Time goe by turnes (‘The lopped tree in time may grow againe’)
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 57-8.
SoR 238
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 2. Early 17th century.
SoR 239
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
SoR 241
Copy of lines 7-12, untitled, beginning ‘The sea of fortune doth not ever flowe’, added as the concluding stanza to a copy of the first three stanzas of Scorne not the least (SoR 212).
In: the MS described under SoR 212. c.1605.
This MS recorded in Brown, p. 146.
SoR 242
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under SoR 110. c.1596-1601.
This MS recorded in Brown, p. 146.
SoR 242.5
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 12.5. c.1620-late 17th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 91, f. 54r.
SoR 242.8
Copy of the last two lines, untitled and beginning ‘Unmedled joys here to no man befall’.
In: the MS described under SoR 12.5. c.1620-late 17th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 91, f. 61v.
To the Reader (‘Deare eye that doest peruse my muses style’)
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 2.
SoR 246
Minor MS corrections in the printed text.
In: the MS described under SoR 5. Early 17th century.
SoR 248
Copy of lines 3-10, 17-18, beginning ‘Give sobrest countnance leave sometime to smyle’.
In: the MS described under SoR 6. 1624.
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center, SC 149, p. 44.
A vale of teares (‘A vale there is enwrapt with dreadfull shades’)
First published in Moeoniae, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 41-3.
SoR 249
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 1. c.1592-1609.
SoR 250
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 2. Early 17th century.
SoR 251
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
SoR 254
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 6. 1624.
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center, SC 149, p. 35.
The Virgins salutation (‘Spell Eva backe and Ave shall you finde’)
First published in Moeoniae, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 5 (a doubtful version also on p. 117).
What joy to live? (‘I wage no warre yet peace I none enjoy’)
First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 53-4.
SoR 255
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 1. c.1592-1609.
SoR 256
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 2. Early 17th century.
SoR 257
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
SoR 260
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 6. 1624.
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center, SC 149, p. 29.
(2) English Poems of Doubtful or Spurious Authorship
The Annuntiation altered from that before (‘Spel Eva backe, and Ave shall you find’)
First published in McDonald (1937), pp. 57-8. Brown, p. 117.
SoR 261
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 5. Early 17th century.
Edited from this MS in McDonald and in Brown.
Beatus vir qui non abiit etc (‘O happie wight that hath not raun'gd astray’)
First published in McDonald (1937), p. 51. Brown, pp. 110-11.
SoR 262
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 5. Early 17th century.
Edited from this MS in McDonald and in Brown.
Christ upon the Crosse to man (‘Behold I fainte and fade away’)
First published (from this MS) in McDonald (1937), pp. 53-4.
SoR 263
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 5. Early 17th century.
Edited from this MS in Brown, pp. 113-14.
Christes answere (‘Withdraw thy tender eies a while’)
First published in McDonald (1937), p. 53. Brown, p. 113.
SoR 264
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 5. Early 17th century.
Edited from this MS in McDonald and in Brown.
The Complaint of the B. Virgin having lost her Sonne in Hierusalem (‘How may I live, since that my life is gone?’)
First published in McDonald (1937), pp. 54-7. Brown, pp. 114-17.
Conceptio B. Virginis sub porta aurea (‘A golden gate was her conceaving place’)
First published in McDonald (1937), p. 42. Brown, p. 108.
SoR 267
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 5. Early 17th century.
Edited from this MS in McDonald and in Brown.
A Foure-fold Meditation: of the foure last things (‘O wretched man, which louest earthlie thinges’)
First published, as ‘By R: S. The author of S. Peters complaint’, in London, 1606. The poem is more commonly ascribed to Philip Howard (1557-95), first Earl of Arundel, Catholic Saint, with whom Southwell was acquainted (see McDonald, pp. 6-7, 121-2). EV17760.
SoR 267.1
Copy, entitled on a detached slip of paper ‘A poeme of the contempte of the world and an exhortacion to prepare to dye made by Phillipe earle of Arundell after his attaynder’.
In: A quarto miscellany, comprising four items of religious verse, compiled possibly by one ‘D. C:’, iv + 45 leaves. Early 17th century.
SoR 267.2
Copy of stanzas 37-48, on a leaf detached from SoR 267.3.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters and tracts, 176 leaves.
SoR 267.3
Copy, lacking a leaf after f. 46v (for which see SoR 267.2).
In: A folio miscellany of religious verse and prose, partly compiled by Alexander Colepeper and passed on to his son Thomas, 166 leaves. c.1600.
SoR 267.4
Copy, in a possibly professional secretary hand, untitled. c.1600.
In: A quarto composite volume of verse and prose tracts, in several secretary and italic hands, 33 leaves, with early 19th-century interleaving throughout, in old calf.
Haslewood-Phillipps MS 9613.
SoR 267.5
Copy of the opening lines only, untitled and here beginning ‘O wretched man (why loust ye earthly life’, in a musical setting by ‘Jo: Wilby’.
In: An oblong duodecimo musical part book (tenor), in a neat italic hand, 76 pages (including blanks). c.1600.
SoR 267.6
Copy, in two neat secretary hands, headed ‘written against Christmas: 1587. / his musick in Christmas of the miserie of man in this life the paines of hell & the ioye of heaven’, and, in the margin, ‘Of the miserie of ma in this life’.
In: A folio miscellany of state papers, religious verse and prose, and legal material, in several secretary hands, written over a period from both ends, 143 leaves (including a number of blanks), in a vellum wrapper (a recycled rubricated Latin text) within a contemporary leather wallet binding (rebacked), with straps. c.1572-1608.
Inscribed variously ‘James Ware his Book’: i.e. Sir James Ware (1594-1666), antiquary and historian; (‘henry Streite’, ‘william rise’, ‘Bartholomew Roche’, and ‘John Anderson’. Including copies of indentures relating to John Glascock of London, John Ellis of Gray's Inn, and Edward Johnson, goldsmith, of London. Inscribed (f. [2r], ? by Ware) ‘Qre whether this booke did belong to John Thornburgh [1551-1641] sometime Bp of Limrick & deane of York. vid fol: 13.’ Later among the manuscripts of the Carew family at Crowcombe Court, Somerset. Formerly Folger MS 297.3 and MS V.b.75.
Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 372. Briefly discussed by Fr Herbert Thurston in The Month, vol. 86, No. 379 (1896), pp. 33-4.
SoR 267.7
Copy, headed ‘Memorare novissima a tua, et in æternum non peccatis / A Poëme of the contempt of the world, and an exhortation to præpare to die, made by Philip Earle of Arundel after his attaindour’.
In: the MS described under SoR 5. Early 17th century.
SoR 267.8
Copy, headed ‘Of the fowre last things, which are these, Death, Iudgment, Hell, and Heaven’.
In: A quarto volume of Catholic tracts, in a probably professional secretary hand, 163 leaves (plus blanks), in 18th-century calf gilt. Late 16th-early 17th century.
Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘John Burns, November 30 1926’: i.e. the Rt. Hon. John Elliott Burns (1858-1943), labour leader and politician. Acquired in 1944 from Quaritch.
Some verse contents of the volume briefly discussed or edited in Peter J. Seng, ‘Recusant Poems in a More Circle Manuscript’, Moreana, 19 (March 1982), 21-4.
SoR 267.9
Copy in: A collection of recusant verse, 16 leaves. c.1586.
Among the Scarsbrick, Blundell and Crosby papers.
SoR 267.91
Copy, headed ‘Sartaine moste holsome & necessarie considerations, or meditations verye meete and convenyent (for all degrees) and att all tymes to be duelye considered of and had in Rememberance To wthdrawe our affections from this vaine & wicked worlde, to ye desire of Heauen and heauenlye thinges...’.
In: the MS described under SoR 198. c.1592-1606.
This MS discussed, with a facsimile of p. 110, in Nancy Pollard Brown, ‘Paperchase: The Dissemination of Catholic Texts in Elizabethan England’, EMS, 1 (1989), 120-43 (pp. 125-70.
SoR 267.92
Copy, in a neat italic hand, with (ff. 1r-6v) an ‘Introduction’ beginning ‘From worldly cares and wanton loues conceipt’, with a patterned title-page partly in gold, ‘The Pathe to Paradise’, iv + 27 quarto leaves, in 19th-century paper boards. c.1600.
Inscribed on the title-page ‘Mary Yeate’. A pasted-in slip ‘The Rev. Charles Churchill [fl.1845, Wesleyan missionary], Halifax, Nov Scotia, requests your acceptance of this manuscript found on board a vessel wrecked off the coast of Bermuda’.
SoR 267.93
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis P M’, preceded by an epistle ‘To ye right honorable, ye Ladie vicount Hereford...this first of ianuarie, Anno 1595’.
In: A quarto miscellany of Catholic verse and prose, in the hand of Peter Mowle (b.1554), entitled ‘Sartain Most Holsome Meditations Verey Meete to Bee Dulie Considered’, iv + 38 pages; once bound with a commonplace book of Nicolas Hanslopp, of Attleborough, dated 1 January ‘1595’ but with dates between 1618 and 1622, now disbound. c.1595.
Inscribed names ‘Robert Worral’, ‘John Radford’, and ‘William Sutton, His Booke’.
Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Earle Havens, ‘Notes from a Literary Underground: Recusant Catholics, Jesuit Priests, and Scribal Publication in Elizabethan England’, PBSA, 99 (December 2005), 505-38 (p. 525 et seq.).
SoR 267.94
Copy in: A quarto volume of tracts, letters and religious poems, 146 leaves, in old calf gilt. Late 16th - early 17th century.
Sotheby's, 15 November 1926, lot 422A. Owned in 1932 by the Rt. Hon. John Burns: i.e. John Elliott Burns (1856-1943), labour leader and politician. Sotheby's, 14 March 1944 (Burns sale, second portion), lot 217, to Quaritch.
Man to the wound in Christs side (‘O pleasant port, O place of rest’)
First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 72-3.
SoR 268
Copy, headed ‘To the wound in Christes side’.
In: the MS described under SoR 5. Early 17th century.
SoR 271
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 6. 1624.
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center, SC 149, p. 34.
SoR 272
Copy, in Gertrude Thimelby's hand.
In: the MS described under SoR 19. c.1635-50s.
Aldrich-Watson, pp. 39-40
Optima Deo (‘Behold how first the modest Rose doth prie’)
First published in McDonald (1937), p. 50. Brown, p. 110.
SoR 273
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 5. Early 17th century.
Edited from this MS in McDonald and in Brown.
Our Ladie to Christ upon the Crosse (‘What mist hath dimd that glorious face?’)
See SoR 283.
Praesentatio B. Virginis (‘A glorious temple wrought with secret art’)
First published in McDonald (1937), p. 43. Brown, pp. 108-9.
SoR 274
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 5. Early 17th century.
Edited from this MS in McDonald and in Brown.
S. Peters complaint (‘How can I live, that have forsaken life’)
First published in McDonald (1937), pp. 51-2. Brown, pp. 111-12.
SoR 275
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 5. Early 17th century.
Edited from this MS in McDonald and in Brown.
Ubi est Deus meus? (‘Alas I live without my life’)
First published in McDonald (1937), pp. 49-50. Brown, p. 109.
SoR 276
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 5. Early 17th century.
Edited from this MS in McDonald and in Brown.
Unworthy receaving (‘I freeze in fire, I thirst amiddest the crystal streames’)
First published in McDonald (1937), pp. 50-1. Brown, p. 110.
SoR 277
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 5. Early 17th century.
Edited from this MS in McDonald and in Brown.
Upon the Image of death (‘Before my face the picture hangs’)
First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 73-4.
SoR 280
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 6. 1624.
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center, SC 149, p. 35.
SoR 280.5
Copy, in a cursive mixed hand, untitled.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in possibly several hands, a cursive secretary hand predominating, ii + 77 leaves, imperfect, in contemporary limp vellum, within modern reversed calf. Owned and possibly compiled by Richard Waferer, of Buckinghamshire (name on ff. 43r and 76v). c.1597-1628.
Also inscribed (f. ii) with names of ‘Marth: Waferer’ and Walter Jesson.
The virgin Mary to Christ on the Crosse (‘What mist hath dimd that glorious face’)
First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 71-2.
SoR 282
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 6. 1624.
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center, SC 149, p. 33.
SoR 283
Copy of a version headed ‘Our Ladie to Christ upon the Crosse’.
In: the MS described under SoR 5. Early 17th century.
Edited from this MS in Brown, pp. 112-13.
(3) Latin poems by Southwell
Ad deu in aff. Elegia (‘Tu tacitas nosti lachrimas tu saucia cernis’)
First published in Grosart (1872), p. 212.
Ad S. Catherina uirg. et mar (‘Tu Catherina mei solatrix vnica luctus’)
First published in Grosart (1872), p. 213.
‘Clara Ducum soboles, superis nova sedibus hospes’
See SoR 322-325.
Elegia 7 (‘Ex luctu populus redditur ipse chalybs’)
First published in Grosart (1872), pp. 206-7.
*SoR 286
Autograph draft of the last part of what would have been ‘Elegia 7’, imperfect, lacking the beginning.
In: the MS described under SoR 170. c.1580.
Edited from this MS in Grosart.
Elegia 8 (‘Dic vbi nunc quod amo est! vbinam quod semper amavi?’)
First published in Grosart (1872), pp. 208-10.
Elegia 9 (‘Quid conclamato iacis irrita vota sepulchro?’)
First published in Grosart (1872), pp. 21-11.
*SoR 288
Autograph draft; imperfect, lacking the ending.
In: the MS described under SoR 170. c.1580.
Edited from this MS in Grosart.
Filij Prodigi porcos pascentis ad Patre Epistola (‘Si tam longinquis rogites quis scripsit ab oris’)
First published in Grosart (1872), pp. 199-205.
In festum pentecostes Ao D. 1.5.80. 21. Maij (‘Postquam tartarei spolijs ditatus Auerni’)
First published in Grosart (1872), pp. 214-15.
*SoR 290
Autograph draft, dated 21 May 1580.
In: the MS described under SoR 170. c.1580.
Edited from this MS in Grosart.
In renouationem uotorum festis Natalis Domini (‘Vita uenit uitae cu uotis obuius ito’)
First published in Grosart (1872), p. 214.
Poëma de Assumptione B.M.V. (‘Cum caelum et tellus, et uasti machina mudi’)
First published in Grosart (1872), pp. 191-9.
*SoR 292
Autograph draft, signed ‘Robertus Southwellus’.
In: the MS described under SoR 170. c.1580.
Edited from this MS in Grosart. Facsimile of part of f. 8r in Grosart (4to edition), facing p. 84.
Prose
(1) English Works by Southwell
Another letter persuasory to the same [i.e. his father]
A draft letter, beginning ‘Understanding that you were resolved upon a course which nearest toucheth the salvation of your soul...’. Brown, Two Letters, pp. 99-100.
Another letter written to one of his kinsmen
A letter beginning ‘I know not how to write, because I know not to whom to write, to my cousin or to a stranger...’. Brown, Two Letters, p. 101.
The Author to his loving Cosen
Prefatory address, beginning ‘Poets by abusing their talents, and making the follies and fayninges of love...’. First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 1-2.
SoR 293
Copy of the dedication of Southwell's poems, untitled.
In: the MS described under SoR 4. 1620.
This MS collated in Brown.
SoR 294
Minor MS corrections in the printed text.
In: the MS described under SoR 5. Early 17th century.
SoR 295
Copy of the dedication of Southwell's poems.
In: the MS described under SoR 1. c.1592-1609.
This MS collated in Brown.
An Epistle unto his Father (22 October 1589)
Epistle, beginning ‘In children of former ages it hath been thought so behooveful a point of duty...’. First published as ‘An Epistle of a Religious Priest unto his Father’ in A Short Rule of Good Life ([London?, 1596-7?]). Trotman, pp. 36-64. Brown, Two Letters, pp. 1-20.
SoR 296
Copy, untitled, headed in a later hand ‘Letter of a Son to his fathr, desireing him to be mindfull of death, & to prepare for his change 1589’. Early 17th century.
In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous state tracts, speeches, and verse, in various largely professional hands, iv + 413 leaves (including a thirty-page index and some blanks), in half-calf (rebacked). Transcribed from the Yelverton papers chiefly belonging to Sir Christopher Yelverton (1535?-1612), Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), and their family.
Owned in 1679 by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.
SoR 297
Copy, headed ‘A certaine letter written by the same author to his father to perswade him to embrace the Catholicke religion’, subscribed ‘R. S.’
In: the MS described under SoR 2. Early 17th century.
This MS collated in Brown, Two Letters.
SoR 298
Copy, untitled, endorsed on f. 226v ‘To his very louing Freind Mr Clement Knight bookseller at his shopp nere Paules church giue theise’; imperfect.
In: A folio composite volume of theological works, in various hands, 354 leaves. c.1620s.
Apparently edited from this MS in St. Peter's Complaint, and other Poems; by the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.J. Walter (London, 1817).
SoR 299
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
Edited chiefly from this MS in Trotman. Collated in Brown, Two Letters.
SoR 300
Copy, as by ‘R: S:’, transcribed from the first edition of A Short Rule of Good Life, imperfect, the first leaf, dated in an italic hand 1607, largely torn away. c.1607.
In: A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in several secretary hands, one predominating, 101 leaves, in modern half green morocco. Volume II of the letterbooks and miscellanies of members of the Williams (alias Cromwell) family of Huntingdonshire.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Willu Readman’.
This MS collated in Trotman. Described in McDonald, pp. 11-12. Recorded in Brown, Two Letters, p. xlvii.
SoR 301
Copy of the last 23 lines, on the first page of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves, once folded as a letter, imperfect, lacking the beginning. c.1700.
In: A large folio composite volume of letters and papers, comprising correspondence of Sir Robert Southwell (1635-1702), diplomat and government official, in various hands and paper sizes, i + 406 leaves, mounted on guards.
Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8741/8587. Sotheby's, 6-15 June 1910 (Phillipps sale), lot 843.
This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 11.
SoR 302
Copy, headed ‘A Gracious and religious Epistle of a sonne to his father’. Early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and parliamentary speeches, in various hands and paper sizes, 138 leaves.
This MS not recorded by editors.
SoR 303
Copy, transcribed from the first edition of A Short Rule of Good Life, subscribed ‘Robarte Southewell’.
In: A quarto volume of prose writings by Robert Southwell, in a single small predominantly italic hand, 62 pages, in old vellum. c.1608-12.
Microfilm in the British Library (M/714).
Edited from this MS in Brown, Two Letters. Microfilm in the British Library (M/714).
SoR 304
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 198. c.1592-1606.
This MS collated in Trotman and in Brown, Two Letters.
SoR 305
Copy in: the MS described under SoR 1. c.1592-1609.
This MS collated in Trotman and in Brown, Two Letters.
SoR 306
Copy, in a secretary hand, lacking the title-page.
In: A quarto volume of Catholic tracts, in three different hands, 82 leaves (plus 46 blanks), in old blind-stamped calf. c.1600.
Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue (1841), item 786. Later owned by Edward Hailstone (1818-90), of Walton Hall, Wakefield, botanist and book collector.
An Humble Supplication to Her Majesty
First published (by a secret English press) ‘1595’ [for 1600?]. Edited by R .C. Bald (Cambridge, 1953).
SoR 307
Copy, in a single neat secretary hand, headed ‘An humble Supplication to her Matie in aunswere of a late Proclamation’, 26 quarto leaves (plus blanks), numbered ‘8.’ by the second Earl of Bridgewater, lacking covers. c.1595.
Probably owned by Sir Thomas Egerton (1540-1617), first Viscount Brackley and Baron Ellesmere, Lord Chancellor.
This MS collated in Bald.
SoR 307.5
Abstract of the work, headed ‘Epitome supplicacojs’, another title supplied in a later hand, probably that of Narcissus Luttrell, ‘Petition of Roman Catholicks to [King James deleted] Queen Eliz. in maintenance of yeir religion; Cardinal Allen & father Parsons’. Early 17th century.
In: the MS described under SoR 296.
SoR 307.8
Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, on 41 quarto leaves, subscribed ‘Mensis Decembris, et Anni Domini 1591 Die vltimo’, in half-calf marbled boards. c.1591-1600.
Sotheby's, 16 September 1983, lot 00, to H. D. Lyons. Formerly Folger MS Add. 832.
SoR 308
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, apparently transcribed from the edition of ‘1595’. Early 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of largely state and parliamentary papers, in several professional secretary hands, 202 leaves, in red morocco gilt. Including (f. 3r-v) Elizabethan verses inscribed ‘Thomas Aldwell me possidet’ and (ff. 4r-81r) a formulary of political and legal documents and precedents, in several hands, largely compiled by Francis Alford, MP (c.1530-92).
This MS recorded in Bald, pp. 47-8.
SoR 309
Copy, headed ‘The Coppy of an Humble Supplication to Her Matie in answere to the late Proclamation’.
In: A folio volume of state papers and tracts, in a professional cursive secretary hand, 346 leaves, in red morocco gilt. c.1620s-30s.
Edited from this MS in Bald. Described in McDonald, p. 16.
SoR 310
Copy; in a neat secretary hand, 37 small quarto pages, incomplete, slightly imperfect at the lower outer corners. c.1600.
SoR 311
MS corrections in two hands, made from a MS source, in an exemplum of the printed edition of ‘1595’. c.1600s.
This item collated in Bald.
SoR 311.5
Copy of ‘An humble supplication to her Majesty, wherein is an Answer to a Proclamation in 1591 against Seminary Priests. As also the Death of the Queen of Scots, Ballard, Babbington, and the Residue of the Confederates, how and by what means they were drawn into the same’, on folio leaves. 1592?.
Whiston's sale catalogue, 26 February 1738/9 (Sir Joseph Jekyll sale), lot 319.
The Hundred Meditations of the Love of God
See SoR 339-340.
Letter to Sir Robert Cecil
Southwell's letter to Cecil from the Tower, 6 April 1593, beginning ‘Honorable Good Sir: The usual effect of a languishing and afflicted life is an unwillingness to live...’. First published in Brown, Two Letters (1973), p. 75-85.
SoR 312
Copy, subscribed ‘Robarte Southewell’.
In: the MS described under SoR 303. c.1608-12.
Edited from this MS in Brown (1973), with a facsimile of f. 54r as the frontispiece.
Mary Magdalen's Funeral Tears
Marie Magdalens Funerall Teares first published in London, 1591. Facsimile edition of the exemplum in the Huntington Library published in New York, 1975.
*SoR 313
Autograph draft of an English translation by Southwell of a 13th-century Latin homily (formerly attributed to Origen), intended to be read as a sermon; here beginning ‘In this psent solemnity hauynge to speake in this audience of yr charityes…’, unfinished; a work later expanded into Mary Magdalen's Funeral Tears.
In: the MS described under SoR 170. c.1580.
This MS discussed in Pierre Janelle, Robert Southwell the Writer (London, 1935), pp. 184-5. Facsimile of f. 56r in IELM, I.ii (1980), Facsimile XXIX (p. 498).
*SoR 314
Autograph draft of the beginning of Southwell's English translation of the 13th-century Latin homily; here beginning ‘As she surpassed many in loue so she passed most christs oune disciplines in loyalty…’, unfinished, a work later expanded into Mary Magdalen's Funeral Tears.
In: the MS described under SoR 170. c.1580.
Querimonia
An unpublished passage by Southwell previously known only in a Latin recension in Henry More, S.J., Historia missionis Provinciae Anglicanae Societatis Jesu (St Omer, 1660), pp. 173-5. Reprinted, with an English translation, in Publications of the Catholic Record Society, 5 (1908), pp. 294-300.
SoR 314.5
Copy. In Catalogus primorum Patrum ac Fratrum SJ in Anglia collectus Romae 1640, ex variis libris et catalogis MS praesertim vero libro P. Procuratoris Domus Professae Romanae in quo scribebantur dim nomina novitorum ab AD 1556 et libro simili Domus Probationis S. Andreae inchoato ab anno 1565. c.1640.
This MS identified and recorded in Brown, pp. xvi-xvii.
SoR 314.8
Copy, ‘very neatly written in a small volume. 12mo’. 17th century?
Thomas Rodd, sale catalogues (1839), p. 52, and (1841), item 463.
A Short Rule of Good Life
First published [in London? 1596-7?]. Brown, Two Letters, pp. 21-73.
SoR 315
Copy, entitled ‘A short rule of good life to derecte the devowte Christian’, in a neat secretary hand, with corrections and alterations, 95 unnumbered leaves; inscribed (f. [91v] and elsewhere), in a formal secretary hand, ‘James Cleasbie bocke’. c.1600.
In: An octavo composite volume of religious tracts, in several hands, 316 leaves (plus blanks), in reversed calf.
Among the collections of Christopher Hunter (1675-1757), Durham antiquary and physician.
SoR 316
Copy of a version, as ‘written by Robarte Southewell’, transcribed from the first edition, with changes made by an Anglican editor.
In: the MS described under SoR 303. c.1608-12.
Edited from this MS in Brown, Two Letters. Microfilm in the British Library (M/714).
SoR 317
Copy, in a neat secretary hand, preceded by ‘Three sonnetts in the Comendacon of this pamphlett’.
In: A composite volume of theological and historical tracts.
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, MS 218/233, pp. 115-245.
SoR 318
Copy, 55 octavo leaves, in modern binding. End of 16th-early 17th century.
This MS is probably the 110-page octavo MS of the ‘shorte Rule’ in ‘blue morocco, joints, gilt edges, by Clarke’ sold at Sotheby's, 19 December 1853 (J.H.S. Pigott of Borckley Hall, Somerset, sale, 6th day), lot 2087, to Kerslake. Kerslake's sale catalogue [February 1860], item 450. Puttick & Simpson's, 10 July 1861 (part of Dering of Surrenden, Kent, sale), lot 749, to Jones. A 19th-century pencil note by Judge O' Brien presenting the MS to the House and saying it was ‘Bought from Manchester’.
This MS collated in Brown, Two Letters.
Jesuit House of Studies, Milltown Park, Dublin, [no shelfmark].
SoR 318.5
Copy, in a neat probably non-professional secretary hand, concluding with ‘Three Sonnetts in the comendatio of ye Pamphlett’, iv + 59 quarto leaves, in contemporary vellum. c.1600.
Formerly owned by Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon (1917-93), fifth Baron Kenyon, of Gredington, Shropshire.
SoR 318.8
Copy of the complete version.
In: A duodecimo volume, comprising chiefly two Catholic devotional works (the second ‘A Bref Forme of Confession for such as confesse often’), in a neat secretary hand, with additions in Latin and English (including ‘A morninge exercise’) in other hands on premilinary leaves, xxviii + 132 pages, in contemporary calf elaborately gilt. Late 16th-early 17th century.
Among papers of the recusant Throckmorton family, of Coughton Court, Warwickshire. Bookplate of Sir Charles Throckmorton, Bt.
Warwickshire County Record Office, CR 1998 Drawer 4 No. 1, pp. [xxi-xxvii], 1-116.
SoR 319.5
Extract, comprising ‘A short meditation, of mans misery’, here beginning ‘What was I O lord, What am I...’, transcribed from an early printed source.
In: the MS described under SoR 12. c.1651-7.
SoR 320
Extracts, transcribed from the first edition.
In: the MS described under SoR 300.
This MS recorded in Brown, Two Letters, p. xlvii.
A Soliloquy
First published in Trotman (1914), pp. 69-70.
*SoR 321
Autograph copy of a Euphuistic prose recollection, beginning ‘Alas whre doe I lament his losse…’.
In: the MS described under SoR 170. c.1580.
Edited from this MS in Trotman.
The Triumphs over Death
First published in London, 1595. Trotman, pp. 1-35.
SoR 322
Copy, headed ‘A letter consolatorye for the death of a noble man his sister’, complete with dedicatory epistle to Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, the ‘Epitaph on Lady Margaret Sackville’ (here beginning ‘Of Howardes stemme a glorious braunche is deade’), and the Latin epitaph ‘Clara Ducum soboles, superis nova sedibus hospes’, subscribed ‘1593 R. S.’
In: the MS described under SoR 2. Early 17th century.
‘The Epitaph on Lady Margaret Sackville’ also printed and collated with the main MS copies in Brown, pp. 101-2, and the Latin epitaph printed in Brown, pp. 171-2. This MS recorded in Brown, p. xli.
SoR 323
Copy, complete with dedicatory epistle, the ‘Epitaph on Lady Margaret Sackville’ and the Latin epitaph, untitled.
In: the MS described under SoR 3. Early 17th century.
Edited chiefly from this MS in Trotman.
SoR 324
Copy, complete with dedicatory epistle, the ‘Epitaph on Lady Margaret Sackville’ and the Latin epitaph; c. 1592-1609.
In: the MS described under SoR 1. c.1592-1609.
This MS collated in Trotman.
SoR 325
A MS abridgement, headed ‘Comfortes por the apflicted of the that haue lost a sister or such like’, with lines 5-6, 13-18 of the ‘Epitaph on Lady Margaret Sackville’, here beginning ‘Fame, honor, grace, gaue aire vnto his breath’, and lines 3-4, 9-10 of the Latin epitaph, here beginning ‘Dotibus ornauit, superauit moribus ortu’.
In: the MS described under SoR 6. 1624.
Syracuse University, Special Collections Research Center, SC 149, pp. 37-44.
(2) Latin Works by Southwell
Ad omnia accomodata precatio
Unpublished.
*SoR 326
Autograph draft of a prayer beginning ‘O dulcissime Jesu Christe ecce nuc venit occasio…’.
In: the MS described under SoR 170. c.1580.
This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 13.
Ante Missam precatio
Unpublished.
*SoR 327
Autograph draft of a prayer beginning ‘Cum tu dulcissime Jesu temetipsum spinis coronatu…’.
In: the MS described under SoR 170. c.1580.
This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 13.
Ante orationem precatio
Unpublished.
*SoR 328
Autograph draft of a prayer beginning ‘Cum tu amatisse Jesu humanam natura assupteris…’.
In: the MS described under SoR 170. c.1580.
This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 13.
Ante studia precatio
Unpublished.
*SoR 329
Autograph draft of a prayer beginning ‘O benignissime Jesu qui vt ignaros viam salutis doceres…’.
In: the MS described under SoR 170. c.1580.
This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 13.
Antequam cum externis aut etiam domesticis loquaris prec
Unpublished.
*SoR 330
Autograph draft of a prayer beginning ‘O bone Jesu qui semper meca es…’.
In: the MS described under SoR 170. c.1580.
This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 13.
Exercitia et Devotiones
First published in Spiritual Exercises and Devotions of Blessed Robert Southwell, S.J., ed. J.M. de Buck, S.J. (London, 1931).
SoR 331
Copy, allegedly transcribed from Southwell's autograph MS (‘ex libello eius propria scripto’), dated ‘1607, feb. 11o’, 73 leaves, in old vellum. 1607/8.
Edited from this MS in de Buck. Recorded in McDonald, p. 14.
Bibliothèque Royale, Brussels, Belgium, fonds générals, inventaire n°. 5618, catalogue n°. 2262.
SoR 332
Copy, in a small MS volume of religious writings, 82 leaves. [1609-22].
In 1931 this MS was in the Jesuit Résidence in Ghent, Belgium, but is no longer there. Unless destroyed in World War II it may have been transferred to other Belgian Jesuit archives.
This MS collated in de Buck and described pp. 9-11.
SoR 333
Copy, with a title-page ‘Exercitia & Deuotiones R. P. Roberti Sotwellj Soctis Iesu Martyris In Anglia’.
In: An octavo volume of Catholic devotional meditations in Latin, in a single small secretary hand, 239 unnumbered leaves, in contemporary vellum, traces of ties. Compiled by an unidentified Jesuit in Louvain. c.1614.
Phillipps MS 2599.
Formerly in the Phillipps collection; this MS recorded in de Buck, pp. 14-15 (but not seen by him). See also SoR 341.
Meditatio
Unpublished.
*SoR 334
Autograph draft of a meditation beginning ‘Omnia te in cruce dereliquerunt…’.
In: the MS described under SoR 170. c.1580.
This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 13.
Meditationes de Attributis Divinis ad amorem Dei excitantes
See SoR 341.
Meditoes in aduentu
Unpublished.
*SoR 335
Autograph theological notes.
In: the MS described under SoR 170. c.1580.
This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 13.
Notae theologicae
Unpublished.
*SoR 336
Autograph notes of a treatise on dogmatic theology.
In: the MS described under SoR 170. c.1580.
This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 12.
On Christ's condemnation to death and the injustice of such a sentence
See SoR 342.
Precatio
Unpublished.
*SoR 337
Autograph draft of a prayer beginning ‘Domine Jesu Christe fateor me indignu esse qui oculos meos ad te attollam…’.
In: the MS described under SoR 170. c.1580.
This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 13.
*SoR 338
Autograph draft of a prayer beginning ‘O dulcissime et suauissime Jesu…’.
In: the MS described under SoR 170. c.1580.
This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 13.
(3) Prose Works of Doubtful Authorship
The Hundred Meditations of the Love of God
An English translation of Diego de Estella's Meditaciones devotissimas del amor de Dios. First published in London, 1873, ed. John Morris, S.J.
SoR 339
Transcript of an early copy which was allegedly transcribed from ‘ye Originall … written wth Mr. Robert Southwells owne hand’ and with a dedication by the early copyist to Lady Beauchamp, vii + 408 quarto leaves (plus later index and blanks). Early 19th century.
On deposit in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London.
Edited from this MS in Morris. Described in McDonald, pp. 15-16.
SoR 339.5
A formal copy, in an accomplished secretary hand, with some rubrication, with a title-page ‘Certein Devovte Meditations of the Love of God’, and with an eight-page ‘Table’ at the end, i + 315 quarto leaves, in old calf. Early 17th century.
SoR 340
Copy, with a dedication claiming that the MS is transcribed by the copyist from Southwell's autograph MS and that the translation was intended by Southwell to be presented to the mother of Anne, Lady Beauchamp. Early 17th century.
Later in the library of Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1845 (Bright sale), lot 247, to Doleman.
This MS recorded in Brown, p. xx.
Meditationes de Attributis Divinis ad amorem Dei excitantes
Unpublished.
See also SoR 333.
SoR 341
Copy, with a title-page, the work here ascribed to ‘B. P. Ca. Roberti Sotuuellj. mart.’
In: the MS described under SoR 333. c.1614.
Miscellaneous
Notebook
Unpublished.
*SoR 342
A sextodecimo composite booklet of autograph notes and memoranda by the young Southwell, i + 33 leaves (including nine blanks), in late 17th-century vellum gilt. Comprising three MSS containing copies, in Latin and Italian, of Jesuit rules and spiritual exercises, a calendar of duties, and a Latin devotional tract ‘On Christ's condemnation to death and the injustice of such a sentence’, compiled while Southwell was a novice or scholastic in Rome. c.1579-80.
The booklet sent from Rome by Christopher Green, S.J., to John Keynes, S.J., Rector of the Jesuit college at Liège; later probably sent to Stonyhurst College at its foundation in 1794. Given to Thomas Anthony Southwell (1777-1860), third Viscount Southwell. Temporarily deposited in 1930 by the fifth Viscount Southwell (1872-44) in St Joseph's Church, Newbury, Berkshire. A typescript summary and partial transcript of the MS made in London in 1930 by or for Fr C.A. Newdigate, S.J. Afterwards in the custody of Patrick C. Barry, in the Office of the Vice-Postulation for the Cause of the English and Welsh Martyrs, in the English Province of the Society of Jesus, London. Deposited in the Bodleian in 1988 by Iain Cameron.
Described in H[erbert] T[hurston, S.J.], ‘An Autograph Manuscript of the Venerable Robert Southwell, S.J.’, The Month, 193, No. 718 (April 1924), p. 353. Also described in Spiritual Exercises and Devotions of Blessed Robert Southwell, S.J., ed. J.-M. de Buck, S.J. (London, 1931), pp. 29-31, and in McDonald, pp. 14-15.
*SoR 343
A sectodecimo autograph notebook, comprising lists of saints and of subjects for prayers, in Latin, inscribed ‘Manu P. Rob. Southwelli Martyris scripta’, 16 unsewn leaves (ff. 9v-16r blank). c.1679-80.