Verse
English Poems
Againe on the Death of Sir Rowland seconding that of Sir Robert Cotton (‘More Cottons yet? What, doth some envious Fate’)
First published in Parentalia spectatissimo Rolando Cottono (London, 1635), sig. E3v. Dobell, p. 76. Forey, p. 182.
*StW 1
Autograph, with one revision.
In: A quarto volume of autograph poems by Strode, 130 leaves (including 31 blank leaves, plus numerous blanks, stubs of five extracted leaves, and some leaves added later). A working autograph notebook of poems by Strode, compiled and revised over a considerable period, comprising 101 English poems (including draft fragments, 66 Latin poems and 2 Greek poems by him, together with his copies of a few poems by others (generally paired with Strode's translations or answers) including Richard Corbett (2), Thomas Carew, Peter Apsley, and Henry King and Henry Reynolds, as well as a lecture in Latin by the Professor of Greek at Oxford; ff. 52r-96r written in Strode's mixed secretary and italic hand, probably early 1620s-30; ff. 96v-129v, and afterwards ff. 1-51v, written in Strode's italic hand, probably for the most part c.1635-7, with additions up to 1643; ff. 129v-30v containing rough jottings in both styles; many of the poems containing Strode's extensive revisions, probably made from the 1630s onwards. c.1620s-43.
Some scribbling on the last page including the name John Herbert. Possibly one of the MS volumes by Strode which, according to Anthony Wood (Athenae Oxonienses, ed. Philip Bliss, 4 vols (London, 1813-20), III, 152), came after Strode's death into the hands of Dr Richard Gardiner (1591-1670), canon of Christ Church, and then into those of Richard Davies, Oxford bookseller (fl.1646-88). Afterwards acquired, probably from Davies between 1665 and 1675, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, who added pagination, annotations and some further entries throughout.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Corpus MS’: StW Δ 1. Collated in part in Dobell. Identified as autograph and discussed in M.C. Crum, ‘William Fulman and an Autograph Manuscript of the Poet Strode’, BLR, 4 (1952-3), 324-35. Extensively discussed and the text edited from this MS in Forey. Facsimile of f. 94r in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 42 (see StW 641).
Edited from this MS in Forey.
Another (‘I, your Memory's Recorder’)
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 53. Forey, p. 52.
*StW 2
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 3
Copy, headed ‘Alias. W: S’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, evidently associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 214 pages (skipping p. 177), plus an index. Including 18 poems by Corbett and 59 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1630s.
Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Elizabeth Lane hir booke’ and, among scribbling on another flyleaf, ‘Johannes Finch’. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 341.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Elizabeth Lane MS’: CoR Δ 1 and StW Δ 4. The Dobell catalogue description recorded in Forey (pp. lxxxv-lxxxvi).
StW 4
Copy 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).
StW 5
Copy, headed ‘On a Register for a Bible’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany of c.150 poems, in several hands; associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 279 pages (plus index and blanks). Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 32 poems (plus four of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1630s-40s.
Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 1044. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9561. Sotheby's, 19 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 628, and 21 March 1895, lot 903. Hodgson's, 23 April 1959, lot 528.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘English Poetry MS’: CoR Δ 3 and StW Δ 6.
StW 6
Copy, headed ‘A song’.
In: A small octavo verse miscellany, written from both ends, predominantly in a single hand in variant styles (ff. 1v-79v, 80r, 88v-96v, 119r-117r rev.), with additions in later hands (ff. 97r-104v, 116v-106r rev.), 164 leaves, in modern half red morocco. Inscribed (f. 1v, in a court hand) ‘Daniell Leare his Booke’, ‘witnesse William Strode’, and (f. 164r) ‘Mr Daniell Leare eius Liber’: i.e. compiled chiefly by Daniel Leare, a distant cousin of the poet William Strode, probably at Christ Church, Oxford, before he entered the Middle Temple in 1633. c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This suggestion, by Mary Hobbs, is supported by entries in the Caution Book of 1625-41 at Christ Church, where Strode is found (p. 22) paying £10 as college security for Leare and where Leare signs (p. 23) on this sum's repayment by Dr Fell on 13 May 1633. Forey suggests (p. lxxix) that he was the Daniell Leare of St Andrews, Holburne, whose will was proved in 1652; but it is more likely that he was the Daniel Leare to whom Henry King, Dean of Rochester, leased property at Chatham on 19 July 1655 (National Archives, Kew, SP 18/99/61). Daniel Leare's wife, Dorothy, was a member of the Hubert family with whom King was associated by virtue of the marriage of his sister Dorothy.
The volume includes 12 poems by Donne; 15 poems (plus a second copy of one and three of doubtful authorship) by Carew; 20 poems (plus two of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; and 84 poems (plus second copies of eight poems, four poems of doubtful authorship and some apocryphal poems) by Strode, the texts being closely related to, and in part probably transcribed from, the ‘Corpus MS’ of Strode's poems (StW Δ 1).
Inscribed also ‘John Leare’ (probably Daniel's younger brother); (f. 1r) ‘Anthony Euans his booke’ (who married Daniel Leare's niece Dorothy Leare in 1663); (f. 1v) ‘Alexander Croke his Book 1773’; and (f. 164v) ‘John Scott’ (who matriculated at Christ Church in 1632). Rimell & Son, 9 November 1878.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Leare MS’: DnJ Δ 41, CwT Δ 15, CoR Δ 4, and StW Δ 10.
Discussed in Mary Hobbs, An Edition of the Stoughton Manuscript (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1973), pp. 185-90; in her ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 189-90); and in her Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), passim, with facsimile examples of ff. 79-80 facing p. 87.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 7
Copy, subscribed ‘Will: Stroud’.
In: An octavo miscellany of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive italic hands, with religious verse and prose at the reverse end in another hand, 111 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf gilt. Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v. c.1635.
Inscribed on f. 111v rev. ‘Thursday next at Capricks for Mr Pitt’. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Harley MS’: CoR Δ 5.
StW 8
Copy, headed ‘On the Register of a Bible’, subscribed ‘W: S:’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, written in two styles of hand (A: ff. 2r, after first six lines, to 64v; B: ff. 2r, first six lines, 64v-91v, 92v-4r), possibly both in the same hand, with an Index (ff. 93r-4r), 94 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Including 22 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 13 poems by King, and 24 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and probably associated with Christ Church, Oxford. c.1633.
Inscribed names including (f. 93v, in court hand) ‘ffrancis Baskeruile’: i.e. probably the Francis Baskerville who married Margaret Glanvill in 1635 and was in 1640 MP for Marlborough, Wiltshire. Other scribbling including (f. 1r) accounts referring to Wanborough, Wiltshire; (f. 9v) ‘Elizabeth White’; (f. 54v) ‘William Walrond his booke 1663’; (f. 92r) accounts dated 1658; and (f. 94r) ‘John Wallrond’. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.
Recorded in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Baskerville MS’: CwT Δ 20, KiH Δ 10, StW Δ 13. Facsimile examples of ff. 55r and 68r in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 6, after p. 86.
StW 9
Copy, headed ‘Idem’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves. Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.early 1630s.
Inscribed (f. 1r) by one ‘I A’ of Christ Church, Oxford, and also ‘Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison’. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Killigrew MS’: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.
StW 10
Copy, headed ‘On a Register for a Bible’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, pp. 13-244 in a single largely roman hand, the remainder in varying styles in one or more other hands (up to c.1655), probably associated with Oxford University, 541 pages (of which pp. 1-12, 87-8 have been extracted and pp. 251-68, 334, 400, 410-540 are blank, with stubs of other extracted leaves at the end), in contemporary brown calf. Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1630s[-55].
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: possibly his MS 18123. Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller. Formerly MS 646.4.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Dobell MS’: CoR Δ 8 and StW Δ 18A. Discussed in Bertram Dobell in The Athenaeum, No. 4475 (2 August 1913), p. 112. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.
StW 11
Copy, subscribed ‘W: S.’
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford and afterwards with the Inns of Court, 73 leaves (plus a few blanks and a modern index). Including 40 poems by Strode and two poems of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9510. (Phillipps sale, lot 1015.) Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914). Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 342. Formerly MS 4201. 27. 1.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Dobell MS II’: StW Δ 19. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.42.
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell. Collated in Forey.
StW 12
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including seventeen poems by Donne and fifteen by Strode, the main part in a single hand, 334 pages (but pp. 3-4 extracted, and including a later index). Possibly compiled by one ‘W: H:’: i.e. probably William Holgate (1618-46), of Queens' College, Cambridge, with late 17th-century additions apparently made by other members of the Holgate family, of Saffron Walden and Great Bardfield, Essex. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
Owned in the early 18th century by John Wale, who supplied the index on pp. 330-3. Owned before 1927 by Col. W.G. Carwardine-Probert, of Bures, Suffolk (descendant of the Holgate family).
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Holgate MS’: DnJ Δ 58. Briefly discussed in W.G.P., ‘Verses by Francis Beaumont’, TLS (15 September 1921), p. 596, and in E.K. Chambers, William Shakespeare, 2 vols (Oxford, 1930), II, 222-4. Also discussed, with facsimiles on pp. 68 and 70 of pp. 181 and 13, in Michael Roy Denbo, ‘Editing a Renaissance Commonplace Book: The Holgate Miscellany’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 65-73. For facsimile pages see DnJ 2931 and ShW 25. Complete microfilm in the Essex Record Office (T/A 98).
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 13
Copy in: A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat italic hand, with rubrication, 144 pages (plus later index). Including twelve poems by Carew, nine poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph and nineteen (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the miscellany associated with Oxford University and possibly related to Bodleian MS Malone 21, the latest date occuring in a poem on pp. 63-6 ‘Vpon ye great Frost 1634’. c.1635.
Inscribed inside the front cover by a later owner: ‘April 1853 Read to Lit[erary] & Philosophical] Soc[iet]y of L[iver]pool’. Acquired in 1940 by Edwin Wolf II (1911-91), Philadelphia librarian.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Wolf MS’: CwT Δ 37; RnT Δ 12; StW Δ 28.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], p. 27.
StW 14
Copy in: A sextodecimo verse miscellany, written from both ends in several hands (two principal ones on ff. 6r-40r, 41r et seq. respectively), 102 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf, with remains of metal clasps. Including 45 poems by Strode and three poems of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.
Formerly Box 22, item II.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the ‘Osborn MS II’: StW Δ 30.
StW 15
Copy, subscribed ‘W. S.’
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, including 24 poems by Strode, in a single mixed hand, associated with Oxford, 56 leaves (out of an original eight gatherings), in contemporary calf. c.1630s.
Inscriptions inside the covers including the name ‘Phil. Mu’ (or ‘Mer.’). Later in the library of John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector. Acquired in 1969 by Dr Bent Juel-Jensen (1922-2006), Oxford physician and book collector.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the ‘Sparrow MS’: StW Δ 31.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 16
Copy, headed ‘On a register of a Bible’, subscribed ‘W.S.’
In: A quarto miscellany, in several hands, including a number of culinary receipts, 255 leaves (including over 65 blanks), written from both ends (Part I, in a rounded italic hand: ff. 1r-117r:; Part II: ff. 1*r-72r), in old calf. Inscribed (Part II, f. 1*r) ‘A booke of verses collected by mee RDungaruan’: i.e. Richard Boyle (1612-98), Viscount Dungarvon and later Earl of Burlington. c.1630s.
Also inscribed ‘Mary Helerd’. Subsequently owned by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer, and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 15745. Formerly Folger MS 46. 2
An Answere made to Maudlins Rimes and their Factions, concerning the Proctors (‘If Ch: church Lads were sad they spent their breath’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 26-30.
*StW 17
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 18
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 19
Copy, headed ‘An aunswere to A coppy of verses on ye striving of Xt Church &c: p:43’.
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.
StW 20
Copy, headed ‘Answeare’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in Latin and English, one cursive hand predominating, 69 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half black crushed morocco. c.1630s.
Inscribed (f. 62r) ‘Nathaniel Heighmore’: i.e. presumably Nathaniel Highmore (1613-85), chemical physician and anatomist; ‘John Sacheverell his hand and pen Amen’; and ‘John Sacheverell the Author of this...’.
This MS collated in Forey.
Answere or Mock-song (‘Ile tell you true wheron doth light’)
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Forey pp. 155-6.
*StW 21
Autograph with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 22
Copy, headed ‘The answeare’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 23
Copy, headed ‘The Contrary’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and university exercises, including twelve poems by Carew, in a single hand, compiled by Edward Natley, Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, 165 leaves (including many blanks), in calf (rebacked). c.1635-44.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 2592. Sotheby's, 10 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 960. Owned in 1896 by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. Acquired in 1950 from H.F.B. Brett-Smith, Oxford literary scholar and editor.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Natley MS’: CwT Δ 6.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 24
Copy, headed ‘A songe’.
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.
StW 25
Copy, headed ‘An answere of a Contrary Mrs. A sonnett’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, 170 leaves, paginated 1-8 (Latin text in a small secretary hand), then pp. 1-162 (in one or possibly two largely italic hands; pp. 108-57 blanks; pp. 158-62 containing later notes), in modern red morocco gilt. The pagination cited below relates to the second, main series of pagination. c.1640.
Inscribed on a flyleaf in red ink ‘Matheus Day me suum vvst’: i.e. Matthew Day (d.1661), five times Mayor of Windsor. Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger. Collier's sale, 1884, lot 906. Formerly Folger MS 452.1.
This MS collated in Forey.
An Answere to a frinde (‘Have I a Corner in your memory’)
Unpublished. Forey p. 43.
*StW 26
Autograph, originally headed ‘A reply to a frinde’.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
An Answeare to an old Soldier of the Queenes (‘With a new beard but lately trimd’)
Unpublished. Forey pp. 83-5.
*StW 28
Autograph with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 29
Copy, headed ‘An answeare to an old Soldier of ye Queenes: W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 30
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 31
Copy of a seven-stanza version, untitled and here beginning ‘With a new white feather in his Cappe’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.118 items, including thirteen poems by Donne, twenty poems by Corbett, and twelve poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, written in several hands over an extended period, associated with Christ Church, Oxford, 99 leaves. c.1620-40s.
Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Morley MS’: DnJ Δ 62, CoR Δ 13, and StW Δ 27. This MS apparently transcribed in part in the ‘Killigrew MS’ (British Library, Sloane MS 1792).
Facsimile of f. 49r in William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford, 1987), p. 24.
An answer to the song against the New-Inglanders, made at the request of a well-wisher to that side. but in a Sense Ambiguous (‘Let such as to new Ingland goe’)
Unpublished. Forey pp. 163-6.
*StW 32
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
An Antheme (‘O sing a new song to the Lord’)
See StW 868-873.
An Anthem for Good Friday (‘See, sinfull soul, the Saviours sufferings. see’)
First published in James Clifford, Divine Services and Anthems (London, 1663). Dobell, pp. 53-4. Forey p. 188.
StW 33
Copies in a musical setting by Richard Gibbs.
In: Two MS volumes of church music used at Durham Cathedral. c.1664, 1670.
Volume (i) belonged in 1664 to George Davenport, chaplain to John Cosin, Bishop of Durham; Volume (ii) belonged in 1670 to Isaac Basire (d.1676), Prebendary of the seventh stall in Durham Cathedral.
These MSS recorded in Forey, p. 325.
British Library, Add. MS 30478-9, (i) ff. 178v-9; (ii) f. 154r-v.
StW 33.5
Copy, in a musical setting by Isaac Blackwell.
In: A folio volume of anthems, motets, hymns, etc.96 leaves. Early 18th century.
An Anthymne of the Prodigall (‘To raggs my Silks are turnd, to dreggs my Wine’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 170-2.
*StW 34
Autograph
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
‘Can Christendom's great champion sink away’
See PoW 78-100.
The Capps (‘The witt hath long beholden bin’)
See StW 944-964.
Chimney-Sweeper's Song (‘Hath Christmas furr'd your Chimneys’)
See StW 741-746.
The commendation of gray Eies (‘Looke how the russet Morne exceedes the Night’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 35-6. Forey pp. 40-1.
*StW 35
Autograph, with revisions; c.1620s-30s.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 36
Copy, headed ‘Vpon ye. commendation of graye Eyes: W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 38
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 39
Copy in: the MS described under StW 8 (StW Δ 13). c.1633.
StW 40
Copy, heaed ‘On gray eyes’.
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.
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.
StW 41
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small mixed hand throughout; 425 pages (plus an eight-page index), in contemporary calf. Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1634.
The initials ‘T. C.’ stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 189.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Rosenbach MS II’: CwT Δ 32, CoR Δ 12, and StW Δ 24. Discussed in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 193-5).
StW 42
Copy, headed ‘Gray Eyes’.
In: the MS described under StW 13 (StW Δ 28). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 78-9.
StW 44
Copy, headed ‘on ye prayse of gray eyes’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and some prose, in five hands, one predominating on ff. 8v-130r, ii + 166 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Compiled in part (ff. 131v-66r) by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Forey. A facsimile of f. 46v in Marcy L. North, ‘Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 94).
StW 45
Copy by John Newdegate, subscribed ‘Stroud of Christs Curch’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in several neat hands, ii + 142 leaves (ff. 111v-42v blank), in contemporary calf gilt. Compiled in part by ‘I. N’.: i.e. John Newdegate (1600-42), of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton, Warwickshire. c.1627-35.
Formerly Long Island Historical Society MS 22, to whom it was bequeathed by Samuel Bowne Duryea. Sotheby's, 21 December 1965, lot 595.
StW 46
Copy of the last eight lines, untitled and here beginning ‘Corruption layes on blacke. Give me the eye.’
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, probably associated with Cambridge University, ii + 78 pages, in contemporary vellum. c.1625-31.
Inscribed (p. i) ‘Ex dono B. R. ao Jni. i625 [altered to i631] / Broughton / Thomas Gray’.
StW 47
Copy, headed ‘On the Praise of a grey Eye.’
In: A quarto verse miscellany and masque, in at least three hands, written from both ends, i + 123 leaves, in contemporary calf. Mid-late 17th century.
Including (f. 1r) an anagram on Frances Pawlett. Inscribed in red ink (f. 123v) ‘Egigius Frampton hunc librum jure tenet non est mortale quod opto: 1659’: i.e. by Giles Frampton, who is perhaps responsible for some of the later poems. Also inscribed [?]‘R. N. 1663’. Some later notes in the hand of Richard Rawlinson.
StW 48
Copy, headed ‘In praise of gray eyes’.
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.
StW 49
Copy, headed ‘Gray eyes’.
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.
StW 50
Copy, headed ‘On gray Eyes’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, predominantly in a single hand (up to f. 34v), with additions in four subsequent hands (ff. 37-50v), 50 leaves, in vellum. Compiled for the most part by a University of Oxford man, with (f. 1r-v) a list of contents. c.1640s.
Once owned by one John Faith, and by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.
Formerly cited as Corpus Christi College, MS E.i.33.
StW 51
Copy, headed ‘Of Grey eyes’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves (including blanks), in old calf gilt. c.1640.
Formerly MS 2073.3.
StW 52
Copy, headed ‘Of Grey eyes: W: Stroude’.
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.
StW 53
Copy, headed ‘On praise of Gray=Eyes’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single, minute non-professional italic hand, probably someone associated with Oxford University, comprising 180 pages now all separated and mounted, interleaved, in 19th-century calf. c.late 1630s.
Later in the libraries (with bookplates) of the book collector Richard Heber (1774-1833); of the bibliographer and antiquary Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833); of the biographer and literary editor Alexander Chalmers (1759-1834); and of the antiquary Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough (his sale by Charles Sharpe in Dublin, 1 November 1842, lot 577).
StW 54
Copy, headed ‘In praise of grey eyes’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, 206 pages (plus blanks), rebound in 1832 (by Charles Lewis) with an independent miscellany (Huntington, HM 198, Part II). Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled ‘L.C.’ [? Lord Chancellor], as are some poems by others), 11 poems by Carew, ten poems by Corbett, and 11 poems by or attributed to Herrick, in a single neat hand throughout; the poems dating up to 1637. c.1637.
Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names ‘Edw Denny’ [presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], ‘Charles Cocks’, ‘Edward Randolphe’ and (on p. 162) ‘Thomas Cassy’. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Haslewood Kingsborough MS (I)’: DnJ Δ 25, CwT Δ 28, CoR Δ 10, and HeR Δ 5. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Discussed in C.M. Armitage, ‘Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on “The Funerall”’, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707. A facsimile of part of p. 63 in Marcy L. North, ‘Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 101).
StW 55
Copy in: A folio verse miscellany, including 26 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Thomas Carew and poems by Henry King, in several hands, 92 leaves, plus an inserted gathering of eleven leaves after f. 82v (ff. [82a-82k]), but including stubs of some extracted leaves (ff. 74-8, 94-5), in contemporary vellum. Inscribed ‘To my euer honored good Cosen Sr John Reresby Barronett these prsent’: i.e. presented to Sir John Reresby, first Baronet (1611-46), royalist, of Thribergh Hall. c.1630s.
Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Mexborough MS’: CwT Δ 29.
StW 56
Copy, headed ‘On the praise of gray eyes’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in two hands, one mixed hand predominating, 128 pages (plus a five-page index). Inscribed, and probably compiled, by Hugh Barrow (b.1617/18), of Brasenose College, Oxford. c.1638.
Also inscribed names of George Hope, Peter Wynne and [?]Anselm Huff. Later owned by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia bookseller and scholar: Rosenbach MS 192.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), p. 80.
StW 57
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 152 leaves (paginated 1-34, thereafter foliated 35-169), plus index, in modern red leather. Including 85 poems (and second copies of two) by Thomas Carew. c.1638-42.
Inscriptions including ‘Horatio Carey 1642 te deus pardamus’ [viz. Horatio Carey (1619-ante 1677), eldest son of Sir Richard Carey (1583-1630) and great-grandson of Sir Henry Carey (1524?-96), first Baron Hunsdon ], ‘Thomas Arding’, ‘Thomas Arden’, ‘William Harrington’, ‘Thomas John’, ‘John Anthehope’ and ‘Clement Poxall’. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8270. Bookplates of John William Cole and of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, 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 194.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Carey MS’: CwT Δ 34. Briefly discussed in Gary Taylor, ‘Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets’, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 68 (1985), 210-46 (pp. 220-4). Discussed, with facsimile pages, in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 188, 191-2).
Consolatorium, Ad Parentes (‘Lett her parents then confesse’)
See StW 511-525.
The Description of Ætna out of Claudian (‘The peake of Ætna any eie may know’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 75-6.
*StW 58
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 59
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
A Devonshire Song (‘Thou ne'er wutt riddle, neighbour Jan’)
First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, pp. 65-6. John Tuckett, ‘A Devonshire Song’, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 462. Dobell, pp. 114-16. Forey, pp. 101-3.
*StW 60
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 61
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 62
Copy, subscribed ‘Bill: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 7. c.1635.
Edited from this MS in Tuckett.
StW 63
Copy of a version beginning ‘Riddle, riddle, neighbour Jan’.
In: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
This MS collated in Dobell and in Forey.
StW 65
Copy of an untitled version beginning ‘A Ridle a Ridlea me neighbour John’. Mid-17th century.
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).
StW 66
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Thou ne're wout Riddle Nebur Jahn’, on a single folio leaf. Mid-17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of letters, verses, academic plays and other documents, in various hands and paper sizes, 253 leaves, in 18th-century black half-calf.
Assembled by Thomas Hearne (178-1735), antiquary, who has inscribed a slip attached to the front pastedown ‘Tho: Hearne Junij 21o. 1709’.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 67
Copy of a version headed ‘The Devonshire Travailer’ and beginning ‘Riddle riddle, neighbar Tom’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several hands, written from both ends, 84 leaves, in contemporary calf. Probably compiled principally by an Oxford University man. c.1630s-40s.
Names inscribed on rear flyleaf and paste-down ‘Elizabeth hosman’ and ‘William Blois’.
Edited from this MS in Dobell, pp. 117-18; collated in Forey.
StW 68
Copy of a version headed ‘Stroude on Deuon: Sonnett’ and beginning ‘Ruddle Ruddle, nebour Jan’.
In: the MS described under StW 20. c.1630s.
StW 68.5
Copy, headed ‘A Song Made when King Charles was at Plimouth’ and here beginning ‘A Riddle a Riddle me neighbour John’.
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.
University College London, MS Ogden 42, pp. 249, 249 bis, 250.
StW 69
Copy, headed ‘A Western humour’ and here beginning ‘Ridlea, Ridlea neighbour John with atale ha' bea?’
In: An octavo commonplace book, 209 pages, in 17th-century calf (rebacked). Owned and probably compiled (in part) by one John Hale. c.1650s-1725.
A Dialoge on the Calott (‘Why Shoomaker, how ist I pay to You’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 150-3.
*StW 70
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 71
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Callot’.
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).
StW 72
Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue betweene A Scholler and A Shoemaker: upon the Callot’.
In: the MS described under StW 24. c.1650-9.
This MS collated in Forey.
An Earestring (‘'Tis vaine to adde a ring or Gemme’)
First published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] Sr Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 101. Dobell, p. 44. Forey, pp. 34-5.
*StW 73
Autograph of a sequence of four couplets.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 74
Copy of the fourth couplet, here beginning ‘Here silken twine, the locks you see’, followed by the second couplet, headed ‘Another’ and here beginning ‘When idle wordes are passing here’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 75
Copy in: the MS described under StW 4 (StW Δ 5). c.1630s-40s.
StW 76
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
StW 77
Copy in: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 78
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Christ Church, pp. 1-202 in a single minute hand, written over a period, with a few later additions (including two lines on p. 7) by other hands; pp. 202-19 containing entries in later hands up to 1789, in half-calf on marbled boards, pp. 77-84 detached in the 19th century and now separately bound as Folger MS V.a.152. Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 30 poems by Strode (one of them in V.a.152) plus one of doubtful authorship. c.late 1630s [-1789].
Later sold by Thomas Thorpe. Afterwards owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89) (and No. 27 in his Catalogue of Shakespeare Reliques (Brixton Hill, 1852)) and subsequently in the library of Lord Warwick at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Thorpe-Halliwell MS’: CoR Δ 7 and StW Δ 17. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).
StW 80
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, predominantly in two very small hands (A: ff. 1r-44v; B: ff. 44v-87v), with further verse and prose pieces in other hands on ff. 88r-121r, written from both ends, associated with Oxford, possibly New College, and probably afterwards with the Inns of Court, 155 leaves (including 33 blanks), in modern black morocco elaborately gilt. Including 23 poems by Strode (and second copies of two poems) and one poem of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.
Including (ff. 98r-100r) a letter by one ‘Pet[er] Wood’. Inscribed (ff. 90r-1r), ‘Thease verses I borroed to write out of John Sherly [d. 1666] a booke seller in litle Brittaine, 28th of March 1633’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9235. Sotheby's, 21 February 1938, lot 243.
Cited in IELM II.ii (1993), as the ‘Wood MS’: StW Δ 21. Discussed in C.F. Main, ‘New Texts of John Donne’, SB, 9 (1957), 225-33.
StW 81
Copy in: the MS described under StW 13 (StW Δ 28). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], p. 28.
StW 84
Copy of the second couplet.
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).
An Epitaph (‘Beneath this brazen plate those ashes lie’)
Unpublished. Forey, p. 128.
*StW 85
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 86
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on a gentlewoman’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by the writer Robert Codrington (1602-65) of Magdalen College, Oxford, 360 pages (including stubs of extracted leaves on pp. 297-328 and blanks, plus index), in contemporary calf. Including 16 poems by Carew and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Written in three hands: i.e. A (Codrington's hand, including his own poems) on pp. 1-283, 349-55; B on pp. 284-9; and C on pp. 289-348, 356-60; dated (pp. 1-22) ‘Anno Dom: 1638’ and ‘The 30th of May. 1638’. c.1638.
Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Codrington MS’: CwT Δ 7 and StW Δ 7.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 87
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 88
Copy, here beginning ‘Behind this brazen plate these ashes lie’.
In: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
An Epitaph (‘Keep well this sacred Pawne, thou bed of stone’)
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 249. Forey, p. 123.
*StW 89
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey and in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), No. 131 (p. 140).
StW 90
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
Edited from this MS in Dobell.
An Epitaph (‘Man newly borne is at full age to die’)
Unpublished. Forey, p. 129.
*StW 91
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 93
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
An Epitaph on Mr. Blacknoll, and his Wife (‘Behold the Grave turnd Wedding bed! a payre’)
Unpublished. Forey, p. 173.
*StW 95
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
An Epitaph on Mr. Bridgman (‘One Pitt containes him now, who could not die’)
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 87. Forey, p. 123.
*StW 96
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 97
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on Mr Bridgman: W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 98
Copy, headed ‘On one that died of the small Poxe’.
In: the MS described under StW 5 (StW Δ 6). c.1630s-40s.
StW 99
Copy, headed ‘On mr Bridgman’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
StW 100
Copy in: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
An Epitaph on Mr. Chitwood (‘Whatere hath Chitwoods powrs opprest’)
Unpublished. Forey, p. 79.
*StW 102
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
An Epitaph on Mr. Dayrell Reader of Grayes Inne, and sometime Recorder of Abindon (‘Though Camden honoured Lillingston conferrd’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 187-8.
*StW 103
Copy in the hand of William Fulman.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
An Epitaph on Mr. Fishborne the great London benefactor, and his executor (‘What are thy games, o death, if one man ly’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 82-5. Forey, pp. 124-7.
*StW 104
Autograph, with corrections.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Dobell; Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 105
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph upon Mr. Fisborne ye geat London benefactor: W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 106
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
An Epitaph on Mistress Mary Nedham (‘As Sin makes grosse the Soule and thickens it’)
First published in E. V. Lucas, [unspecified publication cited in Dobell, printing from an untraced ‘MS book of poems of Catherine Anwill’]. Dobell (1907), p. 57. Forey, pp. 128-9.
*StW 108
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 109
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on mrs: Elizabe. Mary Nedham’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 110
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on mris Eliz: Nedam’.
In: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
StW 111
Copy, headed ‘On Mrs Mary Neadham’.
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].
An Epitaph on Sir Henry Lees 3 children (‘Three branches death here prun'd from Henry Lee’)
Unpublished. Forey, p. 130.
*StW 112
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 113
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on Sr Henry Lees three Children. W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 114
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
An Epitaph on Sir John Walter, Lord cheife Baron (‘Farewell Example, Living Rule farewell’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 73-5. Forey, pp. 130-2.
*StW 115
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 116
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on Sr. John Walter. Lord chiefe Baron. W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 118
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 119
Copy, headed ‘On the death of Sr Jo: Walter’.
In: the MS described under StW 8 (StW Δ 13). c.1633.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 120
Copy, headed ‘On the death of Sr Jn Walter: L: cheife Baron’.
In: the MS described under StW 47. Mid-late 17th century.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 121
Copy, headed ‘On Sr: John Walther the Lord cheife Baron his death’, subscribed ‘W: St.’
In: A quarto miscellany and memorandum book, in three or more cursive mixed hands, 113 leaves, in modern binding. Compiled, perhaps largely, by ‘Justinian Paget Es[q.] a Lawyer’, whose name is so inscribed on a flyleaf (f. 1*r), a number of the contents relating to the Paget family and also with references (ff. 34v-5v) to ‘my sister Ann Maydwell’. c.1633-1645.
The contents suggest an Inns of Court and possible Christ Church, Oxford, connection.
Epitaphes on the Monument of Sir William Stone (‘Tread soft, for if you wake this Knight alone’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 120-1. Forey, p. 186.
*StW 122
Copy of a series of three epitaphs, the second ‘On his Ladie Marie’ (‘Marie Incarnate Virtue, Soule and Skin’), the third ‘On his Lady Denys’ (‘Denys hath merited no slender praise’), following the Latin text of an epitaph, all in the hand of William Fulman.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Dobell; Edited from this MS in Forey.
For a Gentleman who kissing his frinde, at his departure out of England, left a Signe of blood upon her (‘What Mystery was this, that I should finde’)
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 32-3. Forey, pp. 22-3.
*StW 123
Autograph, with extensive revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 125
Copy, headed ‘A Gentleman kissing his Mrs at his departure fro England, left some bloud on her lippe’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 49 leaves, outer leaves imperfect, in modern calf gilt. Including twenty poems by Carew, eleven poems by Crashaw on ff. 10-30 passim, and fifteen poems by Strode. c.1630s.
Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1834), item 728. Acquired from C. Booth, October 1857.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Thorpe MS’: CwT Δ 12, CrR Δ 3, StW Δ 9.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 126
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 127
Copy, headed ‘Vpon ye leaving some signe of bloud on his Mistris Lip vpon a parting kisse’.
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).
StW 128
Copy, headed ‘A gent: to his freind whome kissing at his departure he left some signe of bloud vppon her’.
In: the MS described under StW 7. c.1635.
StW 129
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentleman who Kissing a Gentlewoman left some bload on her lipp’.
In: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 130
Copy, headed ‘A Gent: kissing his Ms left blood vpon her’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 133
Copy, headed ‘A Gentleman to his freind who kissinge her att his departure left a signe of blood vpon her’.
In: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
StW 134
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentleman who kissing his Mistresse at his departinge from England left blood upon her’.
In: the MS described under StW 13 (StW Δ 28). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 7-8.
StW 135
Copy, headed ‘A Gent: to his ffreind, who kissing at his departure he left some signe of blood upon her’.
In: the MS described under StW 19 (StW Δ 29). c.1650.
StW 136
Copy, headed ‘For One who kissing his freind att his departure out of England left a signe of blood vpon her’.
In: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
StW 137
Copy, headed ‘On a gentleman who kissing a gentle woman left some blood on her lipp’.
In: the MS described under StW 15 (StW Δ 31). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 138
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentleman yt kissing his Mrs at his departure from England, left blood vpon her’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in generally small mixed hands, ii + 40 leaves, in 19th-century embossed black leather. c.1640s.
Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller; by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector; and by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 190.
StW 139
Copy, headed ‘On one who kissing his mistris at his departure left some signe of blood upon her’, subscribed ‘W: Stroud.’
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including 33 poems by Thomas Carew and sixteen by Henry King, in a single small hand, with (ff. 1r-2v) an alphabetical Index, 105 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. Compiled by Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London. c.1641-9.
Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.
Cited in IELM II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6918 with which it was once bound, as the ‘Calfe MS’: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp 129-35, 444-5 (see KiH Δ 6).
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 140
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentleman who kissing his Mrs at his departure from England left blood upon her’.
In: the MS described under StW 111. c.1635.
StW 140.5
Copy, headed ‘On a kisse leauing blood on his Mrs lipps’.
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.
For Mr. Fei: and to his Freind (‘Unreasonable Sute, yet Freindly too!’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 143-5.
*StW 141
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
Fragmentary Poems
Unpublished. Forey, p. 184.
*StW 142
Autograph draft verse fragments of seventeen lines, three headed ‘On Ursula Chichester’ and beginning ‘Why should these parts, no Body fairer, noe soule better’, four lines beginning ‘Her Breath is Incense, sigh'd out when’, and ten lines beginning ‘Swell siluer Tame, a lusty source downe beare’.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
A Girdle (‘When ere the wast makes too much hast’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 45-6. Forey, p. 193.
StW 143
Copy of a sequence of five couplets.
In: the MS described under StW 4 (StW Δ 5). c.1630s-40s.
Text from this MS in Forey.
StW 144
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 145
Copy of the fourth couplet, headed ‘On a Girdle’, here beginning ‘This Circle heer is drawne aboute’, subscribed ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 8 (StW Δ 13). c.1633.
StW 146
Copy in: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 147
Copy in: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 148
Copy of the first two couplets, headed ‘Vpon a Girdle’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.
StW 149
Copy, subscribed ‘W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 151
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, written over a period in three hands (A, in alternating secretary and italic, written c.1638: ff. 1-59v; B, written c.1645: ff. 60r-9r; C, written c.1649, ff. 69v-70r), 70 leaves, in old calf. Including thirteen poems by Strode and three of doubtful authorship. c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
Later sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9569. Bookplate of 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 193.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Rosenbach MS I’: CwT Δ 31 and StW Δ 23.
StW 152
Copy, headed ‘On a ladies girdle’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, of English and Welsh verse and prose, in probably several hands, the English verse (on pages 9-70, 93-104) including eleven poems by Strode and two of doubtful authorship, 110 pages (plus stubs of extracted leaves). Compiled by members of the Griffith family, of Llanddyfnan, the verse probably entered by one or more of the various members of that family who studied in this period at the University of Oxford. Mid-17th century.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Griffith MS’: StW Δ 26.
StW 155
Copy of the last four couplets, here beginning ‘I here stand keeper’.
In: the MS described under StW 84. c.1630s.
StW 156
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, including fifteen poems by Donne, with a title-page ‘Miscellanies Or A Collection of Diuers Witty and pleasant Epigrams, Adages, poems Epitaphes &c for the recreation of ye ouertravelled sences: 1630 Robert Bishop’, in a single mixed hand, probably associated with the University of Oxford, 306 pages, in old calf. c.1630.
Owned and probably compiled by Robert Bishop. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9549. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue, English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 187.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the ‘Bishop MS’: DnJ Δ 59. Edited in David Coleman Redding, Robert Bishop's Commonplace-Book: An Edition of a Seventeenth Century Miscellany (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1960) [Mic 60-3608].
Her Epitaph (‘Happy Grave, thou dost enshrine’)
See StW 511-525.
An humble Thanksgiving for a Deliverance on New yeares Eeve, under a Rock whereon these afterward were presented (‘True Votive Thankes upon this Rock weele pay’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 147-9.
*StW 157
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
In commendation of Musique (‘When whispering straines do softly steale’)
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 2-3. Four Poems by William Strode (Flansham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 196-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).
*StW 158
Autograph fair copy, headed ‘The Commendation of Musick’.
In: An unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, occupied by eight autograph poems by Strode, written in fair copy in his stylish italic hand, two poems to each page, some marginal scribbling on the second page in another hand. c.1620s-30s.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Portland MS’: StW Δ 3, with a facsimile example as Facsimile XIII, after p. xxi. Recorded and two poems edited from the MS in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), pp. 40-1, where, however, it is not identified as autograph.
Edited from this MS in Needham, p. 40.
StW 159
Copy, headed ‘In ye commendation of Musick. W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 160
Copy, headed ‘On Musicke’.
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 Forey, p. 329.
StW 161
Copy, headed ‘Laus musices’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.
StW 162
Copy, subscribed ‘Will: Strode’.
In: the MS described under StW 7. c.1635.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.
StW 163
Copy, headed ‘The comendation of Musick’, subscribed ‘W.S.’
In: the MS described under StW 8 (StW Δ 13). c.1633.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 164
Copy, headed ‘Laus Musices’.
In: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.
StW 165
Copy in: A small quarto verse miscellany, comprising approximately 80 poems, including eleven poems by Donne, 21 poems by Strode, and one poem of doubtful authorship, in several hands, one small neat hand predominating (ff. 1r-34r), with later receipts for 1658-62 at the end, 161 leaves (including numerous blanks). c.1630s-40s.
Inscriptions include ‘Edwardus Hyde’ (at the end) and (f. [ir]) ‘Edward Hyde is a knave’: i.e. probably Edward Hyde (1607-59), royalist divine, who may be the ‘E. H.’ responsible for a poem ‘To his Wife’ (f. 34r) and the ‘Ned Hide’ who is subject of an ‘Epitaph’ (f. [18r rev]). Later inscribed ‘Robertus Walker’ and ‘Elizabeth Walker’. Early 18th- century bookplate of Baron Aston of Forfar. Percy Dobell, sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 345. Later owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.
Discussed in Geoffrey Keynes, ‘A Footnote to Donne’, The Book Collector, 22 (Summer 1973), 165-8, with a facsimile of the page with Hyde's ‘signature’ (which does not correspond to the main handwriting). Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 1863.
StW 166
Copy in: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.
StW 167
Copy, headed ‘A Song on Musicke’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 168
Copy, headed ‘On Musicke. W: S.’ and here beginning ‘When whispring streams with creeping wind’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
StW 169
Copy, subscribed ‘W: Strode’.
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 170
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, 210 pages, comprising 38 unnumbered pages and 172 numbered pages (plus four blank leaves), perhaps largely in a single predominantly secretary hand, with additions in four other hands on the unnumbered pages and pp. 167-71, including the scribbled title ‘Divers Sonnets & Poems compiled by certaine gentil Clarks and Ryme-Wrightes’, probably associated with Oxford University and the Inns of Court, in contemporary vellum. Including 14 poems by Strode (and a second copy of one poem). c.1637-51.
Inscribed (front pastedown) ‘Wakelin EeK Hering / Blows of Whitsor’, and (rear pastedown) ‘R. J. Cotton’. Formerly Folger MS 2073.4.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Cotton MS: StW Δ 20.
StW 171
Copy, headed ‘The Comendation of Musicke’.
In: the MS described under StW 80 (StW Δ 21). c.1630s.
StW 171.5
Copy, headed ‘A Song in praise of Musick’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single mixed hand varying over a period, entitled in another hand Recueil Choisi De Pieces fugitives En Vers Anglois, 214 pages, in modern calf. c.1713.
Afterwards owned by Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon (1728-1810). Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9500. In the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936.
StW 172
Copy in: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
StW 173
Copy in: An oblong quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat hand, written with the volume tilted with the spine to the top, 167 pages (plus blanks), in elaborately tooled green morocco gilt. Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by Strode (and two poems of doubtful authorship). c.1634.
The initials ‘M W’ stamped on each cover: i.e. M[aidstone] and W[inchilsea]. Evidently compiled by or for Sir Thomas Finch, Viscount Maidstone and Earl of Winchilsea (who succeeded to the peerage in 1633 and died in 1634). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 190.
The MS came to Rosenbach with a printed exemplum of William Wishcart, An Exposition of the Lord's Prayer (London, 1633), and the two clearly share the same provenance. The printed volume is similarly bound, with the initials ‘M W’; it is inscribed ‘Lord Winchilsea for Mr Locker 1634’; it bears the late 17th-century signatures of Stephen Locker and Alexander Campbell, and the bookplates of Captain William Locker (1731-1800) and Edward Hawke Locker (1777-1849).
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Winchelsea MS’: CwT Δ 33 and StW Δ 25.
StW 174
Copy in: the MS described under StW 152 (StW Δ 26). Mid-17th century.
StW 176
Copy in: the MS described under StW 13 (StW Δ 28). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 68-9.
StW 179
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany compiled by an Oxford University man, i i + 37 leaves, in later half-calf. c.1630s.
Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.
StW 180
Copy, subscribed ‘Dr Strode’.
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.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 181
Copy, headed ‘In the prayse of Musicke’, subscribed ‘W. Strode’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in two or more cursive hands, written from both ends, iv + 278 pages, in contemporary calf. Compiled principally by one ‘H. S.’, a Cambridge University man. c.1640s-60s.
This MS volume edited in D.J. Rose, MS Rawlinson Poetical 147: An Annotated Volume of Seventeenth-Century Cambridge Verses (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Leicester, 1992), of which a copy is in Cambridge University Library, Manuscript Department, A8f.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.
StW 182
Copy, headed ‘On ye Comendation of Musicke’, imperfect.
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 recorded in Forey, p. 329.
StW 183
Copy, headed ‘A Song in comendacon of Music’.
In: the MS described under StW 49. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.
StW 184
Copy of a version headed ‘The Commendation of musicke’ and beginning ‘When whispering straines with creeping winde’, subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 139. c.1641-9.
Edited from this MS in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), No. 90 (p. 98).
StW 185
Copy in: the MS described under StW 50. c.1640s.
StW 187
Copy, headed ‘The comendation of musick’, here beginning ‘When Whispering straynes wth creeping wynd’, and subscribed in a different hand ‘WS’.
In: the MS described under StW 55. c.1630s.
StW 188
Copy, headed ‘On Musicke’ and here beginning ‘When whispering straines with creeping winde’, transcribed from a text in ‘A small MS. Collection in Mr. Boucher's possession’ [i.e. Jonathan Boucher of Epsom].
In: A composite volume of transcripts of ballads made, from various printed and manuscript sources, by and for Robert Jamieson (1780?-1844) for his edition of Popular Ballads and Songs (Edinburgh, 1806). c.1800.
Owned in 1921 by George Neilson, then by Charles R. Cowie, and now in the John Cowie Collection.
Discussed in G. Neilson, ‘A Bundle of Ballads’, E&S, 7 (1921), 108-42.
Edited from this MS in Robert Jamieson, Popular Ballads and Songs (Edinburgh, 1806), II, 295-6. Recorded in Neilson, ‘A Bundle of Ballads’, p. 113.
StW 189
Copy, headed ‘His Mistris playing on a lute’ and here beginning ‘When whispering streines with creeping wind’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Carew and one of doubtful authorship, in a single neat non-professional hand, 72 leaves (plus a later index). c.1643-50s.
Later owned by the Newcastle antiquarian collectors John Bell (1783-1864) and Robert White (1802-74).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Bell-White MS, CwT Δ 30. Described, with facsimiles of ff. 30r and 56v, in T.G.S. Cain, ‘The Bell/White MS: Some Unpublished Poems’, ELR, 2 (1972), 260-70.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, f. 20r.
StW 190
Copy, headed ‘Song’ and here beginning ‘When whispering straines with gentle winde’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Thomas Carew, probably in a single accomplished hand (changing to two styles of italic on ff. 42v-4v, 5r-60r, 76r-v), i + 89 leaves (including blanks, stubs of two or three excised leaves, and an index), in contemporary limp vellum. c.1630s-40s.
Later notes and scribbling including the names ‘John Nutting’ (ff. 26r, 56r) and ‘John M.’ and ‘John Susan’ (rear paste-down). The last leaf also containing a list of the titles of 65 poems by Carew together with the number of lines in each poem, this list unrelated to the contents of the rest of the MS.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Nutting MS’: CwT Δ 35. The list of poems, probably relating to another MS, is edited, with facsimiles, in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 198-9, 217-19).
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 23 (James 416), f. 45r-v.
StW 191
Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs as shee sate playing on the Lute’, subscribed ‘Will: Stroude’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, including 15 poems by Donne, f. 162r-v in a rounded italic hand, ff. 164r-74v in a slightly erratic italic hand, ff. 175r-279v in a neat formal italic hand (also responsible for the index on ff. 2r-11v), this miscellany constituting ff. 162r-279v of a single folio volume containing also Part I (DnJ Δ 15), ii + 279 leaves in all (lacking one or more leaves at the end), in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked). c.1630s.
Formerly MS G. 2.21.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Dublin MS (II): DnJ Δ 61.
An Inscription and Epitaphes on the Monument of Sir William Strode (‘Tread soft, for if you wake this Knight alone’)
See StW 122.
An Inscription on the Monument of Mistress Ursula Sadleir (‘Behold a Virgin free from any spot’)
Unpublished. Forey, p. 187.
StW 192
Copy in the hand of William Fulman.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
Justification (‘See how the rainbow in the skie’)
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 55. Forey, p. 109.
*StW 193
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 195
Copy in: the MS described under StW 4 (StW Δ 5). c.1630s-40s.
StW 196
Copy in: the MS described under StW 125 (StW Δ 9). c.1630s.
StW 197
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 198
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Justification’, subscribed ‘Wil: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 127 (StW Δ 11). c.1636.
StW 199
Copy in: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 200
Copy, headed On Justification.
In: the MS described under StW 165. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 201
Copy, headed ‘On Justification. W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.
StW 202
Copy in: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell. Collated in Forey.
StW 203
Copy, headed ‘Vppon Iustification’.
In: the MS described under StW 12. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
StW 207
Copy in: A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 98 pages (plus some blanks), in reversed calf (rebacked). c.1620s-30s.
Inscribed (f. ir) by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), the date ‘1741’ added.
StW 207.5
Copy, headed ‘Uppon Justification’.
In: A quarto commonplace book, written from both ends, unnumbered pages, in contemporary vellum rebound in modern vellum. Compiled by members of the Deynes family and others. Mid-late 17th century.
Inscribed names of Charles Deynes, Grey Bryan (in pencil), and (in pencil) Alex Robertson, Invercargill, New Zealand. Purchased from P.J. and A.E. Dobell 30 November 1924.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 114, f. [iiir].
StW 208
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Henry King, perhaps almost entirely written over a period in a single secretary hand with slightly varying styles, 54 leaves, in limp vellum. c.1636-40s.
The name of the possible compiler ‘John Pike’ inscribed on f. 1r: i.e. possibly a member of the Pike family of Cambridge (one John Pike (d.1677) matriculating at Peterhouse in 1662).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the ‘Pike MS’: KiH Δ 12. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6), pp. 143-7.
StW 208.5
Copy in: A quarto notebook and miscellany, largely in two hands, one of them that of Charles Deynes (1681-1756), of Roydon, near Diss, Norfolk, c.250 pages, in contemporary vellum (rebacked). Late 17th-early-18th century.
Later owned by the Rev. Guy Bryon, of Malden, Essex, and by Alex Robertson, of Inverscargill, New Zealand, who acquired it in 1924 from Dobell. Roy Davids's sale catalogue No.VI (1999), item 32.
A Letter impos'd (‘Goe, happy paper, by commande’)
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 100-1. The Poems and Amyntas of Thomas Randolph, ed. John Jay Parry (New Haven & London, 1917), pp. 219-20. Forey, pp. 32-3.
*StW 209
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 211
Copy, headed ‘A Letter’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
StW 212
Copy, headed ‘A Love Letter’, subscribed ‘Nich: Oldisworth’.
In: the MS described under StW 127 (StW Δ 11). c.1636.
StW 215
Copy, headed ‘A Letter: W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited from this MS in Dobell.
StW 217
Copy, headed ‘A Letter sent to his Mris in her praise.’
In: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
StW 221
Copy, headed ‘A letter to his Mistresse’, subscribed ‘T. Randall’.
In: the MS described under StW 138. c.1640s.
Edited from this MS in Parry.
StW 222
Copy, headed ‘To his Lady’.
In: A verse miscellany, much of it in shorthand, almost entirely closely written in a small cursive mixed hand, written from both ends, in contemporary calf with initials ‘E H’ in gilt. 16°, 87 leaves (plus two paste-downs); miscellany, including portions of some 42 identifiable English poems by Crashaw, many of the lines here re-arranged in a garbled fashion; compiled by a Cambridge man, possibly a member of Christ's College; probably in a single hand throughout, with variations of style, written from both ends, about thirty pages in shorthand. c.1650s.
Later owned by Edward Hailstone (1818-90) of Walton Hall, near Wakefield, botanist and book collector. Sotheby's 23 April 1891 (Hailstone sale), probably lot 439, to Dobell). Bertram Dobell's sale catalogue No. 103 (June 1902), item 373. Formerly Folger MS 267.1.
Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Hailstone MS: CrR Δ 6. Crashaw's work selectively collated (cited as Dobell) in Martin and discussed p. lxxxi. Facsimile of f. 22 in Dobell catalogue. The MS discussed by Dobell, in other connections, in ‘Some Unpublished Epigrams by Thomas Fuller’, The Athenaeum (27 April 1901), p. 532, and in ‘An Early Variant of a Shakespeare Sonnet’, The Athenaeum (2 August 1913), p. 112. Compare CrR Δ 8.
StW 224
Copy in: the MS described under StW 111. c.1635.
StW 225
Copy, headed ‘A leter to ones Mris’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, compiled principally in the secretary hand of a University of Oxford man, with additions in one or more other hands, 150 pages, imperfect, disbound. c.1640.
Loves Ætna. Song (‘In your sterne beauty I can see’)
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 47. Forey, p. 93.
*StW 226
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 228
Copy, headed ‘To his Mris:’.
In: the MS described under StW 5 (StW Δ 6). c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 229
Copy, headed ‘Another’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 231
Copy, headed ‘On a kisse leauing blood behind it’, subscribed ‘W.S.’
In: the MS described under StW 165. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 232
Copy, headed ‘For a Gentleman’, under a running head ‘For a Friend: W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.
StW 233
Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs’, subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell. Collated in Forey.
StW 236
Copy, headed ‘To his Mris’ and here beginning ‘In thy sterne bewty I can see’.
In: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
A Moderating Answere to Both (‘Ile tell you of another Sun’)
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Forey pp. 156-7.
*StW 238
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 239
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
A Musical Contemplation (‘O lett me learne to be a Saint on earth’)
First published in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), pp. 40-1. Forey, pp. 109-10.
*StW 240
Autograph, originally headed ‘The diuines Commendation of a good voyce’ and the title later emended by William Fulman.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in M.C. Crum, ‘William Fulman and an Autograph Manuscript of the Poet Strode’, BLR, 4 (1952-3), 324-35 (pp. 334-5). Text from this in Forey. Facsimile in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 252.
*StW 241
Autograph fair copy, headed ‘The Commendation of a good voyce’.
In: the MS described under StW 158 (StW Δ 3). c.1620s-30s.
Edited from this MS in Needham.
StW 242
Copy, headed ‘The deuines comendation of a good voice’.
In: the MS described under StW 4 (StW Δ 5). c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 243
Copy, headed ‘The Diuines Comendacions of a good Voyce’.
In: the MS described under StW 125 (StW Δ 9). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 244
Copy, headed ‘The divines commendation of a good voyce’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 245
Copy, headed ‘The diuines comendation of a good voice’.
In: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
A necklace (‘Theis threades enjoy a double grace’)
First published (as the final couplet of Strode's other posy on a necklace) in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] Sr Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 100. Dobell, p. 45. Forey, p. 210.
StW 246
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.
StW 247
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.
A Necklace (‘These Vaines are Natures Nett’)
First stanza first published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 386. Second stanza (‘Loe on my necke…’) first published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] Sr Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 100. Complete in Dobell, p. 45. Forey, p. 35.
*StW 249
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 250
Copy, headed ‘A Necklace: W: S.’, the second stanza headed ‘Another’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 252
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
StW 253
Copy, headed ‘A Posey in a Necklace’, subscribed ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 8 (StW Δ 13). c.1633.
StW 254
Copy in: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 255
Second copy of the second stanza, here beginning ‘Lo on my necke’.
In: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 256
Copy in: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 258
Copy in: the MS described under StW 151 (StW Δ 23). c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
StW 259
Copy in: the MS described under StW 13 (StW Δ 28). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], p. 29.
StW 261
Copy in: the MS described under StW 15 (StW Δ 31). c.1630s.
StW 262
Copy of the seconde stanza, here beginning ‘Loe on my necke’.
In: the MS described under StW 84. c.1630s.
StW 263
Copy, headed ‘On A Necklace’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by or attributed to Herrick, almost entirely in a single small predominantly italic hand, 250 pages (plus numerous blanks), originally in contemporary calf, but now disbound. Inscribed four times on a flyleaf ‘Tobias Alston his booke’: i.e. probably Tobias Alston (1620-c.1639) of Sayham Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk. His half-brother Edward (b.1598) was a contemporary of Herrick at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, while his cousin, Edward Alston, later President of the College of Physicians, was a contemporary of Herrick at St John's College, Cambridge, some of the other contents also relating to Cambridge, besides some relating to Suffolk. The date 1639 occurs on p. 241, and pp. 243-50 contains verses written in two later hands (to c.1728) and some prose pieces written from the reverse end. c.1639 [-c.1728].
Names inscribed on a flyleaf including Henry Glisson (later Fellow of the College of Physicians); Thomas Avral(?); Horace Norton; Henry Rich; and James Tavor (Registrar of Cambridge University). Later owned by one John Whitehead, and by Dr Mary Pickford. Sotheby's, 27 June 1972, lot 309.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Alston MS’: HeR Δ 7. A complete set of photocopies of the MS is in the British Library, RP 772. Facsimile of pp. 6-7 in Sotheby's sale catalogue (see HeR 176, HeR 405) where the MS is described at some length. See also letters by Peter Beal and Donald W. Foster in TLS (24 January 1986), pp. 87-8.
Photocopy of this MS in the British Library (RP 772).
A Newyeares-gift (‘Others may give you presents out of Thrift’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 205-7.
A New yeares gift (‘Wee are prevented. you whose Presence is’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 98-9. Forey, p. 134.
*StW 267
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Dobell; Edited from this MS in Forey.
Of Death & Resurrection (‘Like to the rowling of an eye’)
See StW 965-983.
On a blisterd Lippe (‘Chide not thy sprowting lippe, nor kill’)
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 28-9. Forey, pp. 92-3.
*StW 268
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
*StW 269
Autograph fair copy.
In: the MS described under StW 158 (StW Δ 3). c.1620s-30s.
Facsimile of this page in IELM, II.ii, Facsimile XIII.
StW 270
Copy, headed ‘On a blisterd lipp. W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 271
Copy, headed ‘On his Mistris blistered Lip’.
In: the MS described under StW 127 (StW Δ 11). c.1636.
StW 273
Copy in: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 274
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewomans blistred Lip. W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell.
StW 275
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewomans blisterd lipp’, subscribed ‘W: S’.
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell.
StW 276
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewomans blistered Lip’.
In: the MS described under StW 170 (StW Δ 20). c.1637-51.
StW 278
Copy in: the MS described under StW 12. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
StW 279
Copy in: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
StW 280
Copy in: the MS described under StW 173 (StW Δ 25). c.1634.
StW 281
Copy, headed ‘On a lady hauing a sprouting lip’.
In: the MS described under StW 152 (StW Δ 26). Mid-17th century.
StW 282
Copy in: the MS described under StW 31 (StW Δ 27). c.1620-40s.
StW 283
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman's Lippe’.
In: the MS described under StW 13 (StW Δ 28). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 1-2.
StW 285
Copy in: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
StW 286
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by Donne and 14 poems by Corbett, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford University, written from both ends, 102 leaves, in 17th-century calf. c.1630s.
Inscribed (f. 101v) ‘Henry Lawson’ (or just possibly ‘Lamson’). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1185. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9257. Sotheby's, 15 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 862. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (1896), item 64.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Lawson MS’: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.
StW 287
Copy in: the MS described under StW 182. Mid-late 17th century.
StW 288
Copy in: the MS described under StW 49. Mid-17th century.
StW 290
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewomans blistred lipp’, subscribed ‘mr Strode’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, the first 21 pages in a small mixed hand, the rest (including a book catalogue dated 1675) in one or two later hands, 33 pages (plus numerous blanks), in old calf. Inscribed (p. 1) ‘ffran: Wyrley’, possibly the principal compiler, whose name is also subscribed to several poems. c.1636-77.
Also inscribed (f. ii) ‘Michaell Keepis. anno Dom: 1636 ffebruarie. 13th. Me tenet’. Later Phillipps MS 9311. Bookplate of Wyrley Birch. Purchased from Peter Murray Hill, 1950. Formerly S4975M1 [1636-75] Bound.
StW 291
Copy, ascribed at the side to ‘Mr Strowd of C. Chu:’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, arranged (Part I) as an anthology, under genre headings, the reverse end (Part II) largely occupied by a later series of Latin verses, epistles, and other exercises, 168 leaves, in old calf (rebacked). Part I probably in several hands, the predominant italic hand that also responsible for the ‘Welbeck MS’: DnJ Δ 57), and including 21 poems by Donne. c.1630 [-1677].
Part I inscribed (f. 1r) ‘John Smyth his Book 1640’, ‘Charles Smyth 1674’, ‘Hugh Smyth 1676’; (f. 23v) ‘J Smyth 1677 / 1676’. Part II inscribed several times ‘Thomas Smith’, on f. 19r also ‘Die: Maij 12o Ano 1659’, with a reference on f. 58v to Balliol College, Oxford, 1659/60. Later inscribed (f. [ir]) by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), who records buying ‘this very curious and interesting MS. of Messrs Boone’. Afterwards in the library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1. 28.
Cited in IELM, I.i, as the ‘Thomas Smyth MS’: DnJ Δ 48.
StW 292
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewomans blisterd Lippe’.
In: the MS described under StW 53. c.late 1630s.
StW 294
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewomans blistred lipp’ and here beginning ‘Hide not thy sprowting lipp, nor kill’.
In: the MS described under StW 55. c.1630s.
StW 295
Copy, headed ‘On the blisterd lip of his mris:’.
In: the MS described under StW 56. c.1638.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), pp. 12-13.
StW 296
Copy, headed ‘On a Lady having a blistered Lip’.
In: the MS described under StW 189. c.1643-50s.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, f. 19r-v.
On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter (‘A fitter Match hath never bin’)
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.
*StW 300
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 301
Copy in: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 302
Copy, here beginning ‘Fitter a match hath neuer beene’.
In: the MS described under StW 4 (StW Δ 5). c.1630s-40s.
StW 303
Copy in: the MS described under StW 5 (StW Δ 6). c.1630s-40s.
StW 304
Copy in: the MS described under StW 86 (StW Δ 7). c.1638.
StW 306
Copy, headed ‘A Bucher marringe to a Tanners daughter’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
StW 307
Second copy, headed ‘Verses on a Butcher marrying a Skinners daughter’ and here beginning ‘No fitter match hath ever bene’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
StW 307.5
Copy in: A collection of epitaphs, principally from churches in and about London, at least up to f. 193 in a single large rounded hand, an epitaph on f. 309 dated 1760, 244 folio leaves. Late 18th century.
Owned in 1785 by Mary Windsor of Tottenham High Cross, Owned in 1821 by one John Marris [i.e. Morris?]. Bookplate of James Walsh, FSA, FRAS. Purchased from J. R. Smith 9 December 1848.
StW 309
Copy, headed ‘On a butcher married to a farmers daughter’ and here beginning ‘A fitter match was never seene’.
In: the MS described under StW 165. c.1630s-40s.
StW 310
Copy in: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
StW 311
Copy, headed ‘On a butchers sonne and a Tanners daughter’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 314
Copy, inscribed at the side ‘W.S’.
In: the MS described under StW 151 (StW Δ 23). c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
StW 315
Copy, headed ‘On a butchers daughter marryed to a Tanner’.
In: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
StW 316
Copy in: the MS described under StW 31 (StW Δ 27). c.1620-40s.
StW 317.5
Copy in: A folio composite volume of verse in Latin and English, some relating to Oxford, in various hands, 215 leaves, in contemporary quarter-calf gilt vellum boards. Early-mid-18th century.
StW 319.5
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, 171 leaves, with an index, imperfect at the beginning, in contemporary calf (rebacked). Compiled by Colonel Gabriel Lepipre, being the ‘4th Vol’. of his compilations. c.1748-50s.
Donated in 1938 by F.F. Madan.
StW 320
Copy in: A duodecimo notebook of verse and prose, comprising 131 interleaves in a printed exemplum of John Sansbury's Ilium in Italiam (Oxford, 1608), in contemporary calf (rebacked), blind-stamped ‘S. S.’ on the upper cover. Owned in 1619, and probably compiled, by Simon Sloper (b.1596/7), of Magdalen Hall, Oxford. c.1620s-30s.
Bought from Parker, of Oxford, 2 April 1889, by Percy Manning and bequeathed by him in 1917.
StW 321
Copy, headed ‘upon A Butcher yt married A Tanners daughter’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, predominantly in one hand, written from both ends, 127 leaves, in contemporary vellum, heavily soiled. Early-mid-17th century.
StW 322
Copy, headed ‘on a Buchers son, to a Tanners daughter’, written lengthways along the inner margin.
In: A quarto composite volume of four MSS, in English and Latin, iii + 187 leaves, in vellum boards. Part B (ff. 16d-86v): A quarto miscellany of poems and letters, in several hands, compiled by William Elyott (a nephew of Sir Simonds D'Ewes). c.1640-55.
Part C (ff. 86 bis-120r): A quarto verse miscellany compiled by Thomas Axton, M.A. (b.1699/1700), of Trinity College, Cambridge. c.1718-22.
Part C sold at the Thomas Rawlinson sale in March 1733/4, lot 289.
StW 323
Copy, subscribed ‘These 3. out of Philpot's Remains. pp. 533. & 547.’
In: An octavo book of jests and verse compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, vi + 374 pages (pp. 72-306 blank), in contemporary calf. c.1682-91.
StW 324
Copy, headed ‘On a Butcher maryeing a skynners daughter’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, 215 leaves (plus a few blanks), in modern calf gilt. Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 17 of the Hopkinson MSS. c.1670.
Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 295-6.
StW 325
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single neat secretary hand, the first page formally inscribed ‘To the righte honoble: the Lorde Thomas Darcy Viscount Colchester’ (c.1565-1640, Viscount Colchester from 1621 to 1626), 191 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Including 27 poems (and second copies of two poems) by Thomas Carew and three of doubtful authorship. c.1620s.
This MS largely transcribed in British Library, Add. MS 21433. The hand occurs also in British Library, Harley MS 3910, between ff. 112v and 120v, and is possibly associated with the Inns of Court.
Scribbled inscriptions including (f. 1r) ‘Mr John Bowyer’; (f. 2r) ‘Jeronomus ffox’; and (f. 3r) ‘William Ralph Baesh’.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Colchester MS’: CwT Δ 13.
StW 326
Copy in: An octavo miscellany of verse, academic exercises and other material, in English and Latin, almost entirely in a single hand, 134 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Inscribed by the compiler (f. 133v) ‘Anthony Scattergood His booke’: i.e. Anthony Scattergood (1611-87), theologian, of Trinity College, Cambridge. Volume XXXII of the Scattergood papers. c.1632-40.
Also inscribed (f. 130v) ‘Elisabeth Scattergood her Booke 1667/8’. Booklabel of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector.
StW 327
Copy in: the MS described under StW 49. Mid-17th century.
StW 328
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘A fitter match then this cold not haue byne’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, nearly all perhaps in probably several hands, with (ff. 41v-2r) a ‘Tabula’ of contents, 45 leaves, in 19th-century mottled leather gilt. c.1630s.
StW 329
Copy, here beginning ‘Noe fiter match could e're haue beene’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany (originally in two separate volumes), including eleven poems by Donne, chiefly in two hands, probably associated with the University of Oxford, 98 leaves, one of the original vellum covers now incorporated in modern red morocco. Mid-17th century.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Stephen Wellden’ and ‘Abraham Bassano’ and (f. 98r) ‘Elizabeth Weldon’. Later owned by William John Thoms (1803-85), writer, antiquary and librarian. Sotheby's, 11 February 1887 (Thoms sale), lot 1092. Also owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.4.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Welden MS’: DnJ Δ 49.
StW 330
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single mixed hand, with additions in other hands, associated with Oxford University, possibly Christ Church, 315 pages (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt. Including 11 poems by Donne, and 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett. c.1630s.
Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the ‘Curteis MS’: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, ‘Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript’, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.
StW 331
Copy, headed ‘On a Butcher yt Marry'd a Tanners Daughter’.
In: the MS described under StW 53. c.late 1630s.
StW 331.5
Copy in: A folio composite volume of Percy family poems, in various hands, in half red morocco. Early-mid-18th century.
StW 332
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and some prose, in several italic and mixed hands, written probably over a period from both ends, 72 leaves, in contemporary vellum. c.1630s-40s.
John Rylands University Library of Manchester, English MS 410, f. 22r.
StW 332.5
Copy, headed ‘A Butcher marrying a tanners daughter’ and here beginning ‘A fitter match then ys could —r have been’.
In: A duodecimo pocket commonplace book of chiefly religious verse and prose, in English and Latin, in a single minute hand, 238 pages, in contemporary calf with traces of metal clasps. Inscribed on the first page ‘Thomas Weld his Book. An. dom. 1669’: i.e. owned and compiled, perhaps partly while at Harvard University, by the Rev. Thomas Weld (1653-1702), first minister of the First Church of Dunstable, Massachusetts. c.1669-95.
Later inscription (p. 45) ‘Stephen Pearse's Book July 30th 1794’.
StW 333
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in probably two or more secretary hands, 108 pages, in half brown morocco. Mid-17th century.
Later owned by F.W. Cosens (1819-89). Bookplate of James W. Ellsworth.
StW 334
Copy in: the MS described under StW 84. c.1630s.
StW 335
Copy in: the MS described under StW 190. c.1630s-40s.
StW 336
Copy in: A small quarto miscellany of anecdotes, aphorisms, verses, etc., in two hands, compiled by Sir Francis Fane (c.1612-80), 193 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Inscribed by Fane on f. 1r ‘Aug: 24: 1629 / Franciscus Fane’ and, later, as a bequest to his three grandsons to be read by them when aged 21, dated from Fulbeck, 5 May 1672. c.1629-72.
Sold by Maggs, 29 May 1930.
StW 337
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Butcher that had married a Tanners daughter’.
In: the MS described under StW 191. c.1630s.
StW 338
Copy, headed ‘On a tanners marieinge a butchers Daughter’.
In: the MS described under StW 225. c.1640.
On a Child dying at 2 yeares of Age (‘A Span in Age, and growth of 2 yeares might’)
Unpublished. Forey, p. 183.
*StW 339
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
On a Dissembler (‘Could any shew where Pliny's people dwell’)
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 33-4. Forey pp. 42-3.
*StW 340
Autograph, with one revision.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 342
Copy in: the MS described under StW 5 (StW Δ 6). c.1630s-40s.
StW 343
Copy, here beginning ‘Can any shew, where Plibies people dwell’.
In: the MS described under StW 86 (StW Δ 7). c.1638.
StW 344
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
StW 347
Copy, with two lines added interlineally in a different hand.
In: the MS described under StW 8 (StW Δ 13). c.1633.
StW 348
Copy in: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 349
Copy, here beginning ‘Can any shew…’.
In: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 350
Copy, subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 351
Copy, as by ‘W:S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 353
Copy, here beginning ‘Can any shewe…’.
In: the MS described under StW 173 (StW Δ 25). c.1634.
StW 354
Copy in: the MS described under StW 152 (StW Δ 26). Mid-17th century.
StW 355
Copy in: the MS described under StW 13 (StW Δ 28). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], p. 30.
StW 359
Copy, here beginning ‘Can any shewe where Plinnies people dwell’, subscribed ‘Will: Strode Cts Church’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in a single hand, vi + 98 leaves, in calf. Probably compiled by a member of New College, Oxford. c.1630s.
Some tipped-in notes by Richard Rawlinson.
On a Faire Crooked Gentlewoman, Proude and Dissembling (‘Halfe beautifull! Imperfect peice of Clay’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 135-6.
*StW 360
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 361
Copy, headed ‘On a crooked fayre Gentlewoman dissembling, and somewhat boasting. W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 362
Copy, headed ‘On a crooked fayre gentlewoman dissembling and somewhat boastinge’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 363
Copy, headed ‘On a Crooked fayre gentlewoman dissembling & somewhat boasting’.
In: the MS described under StW 208. c.1636-40s.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 32 (James 423), f. 22r-v.
On a freind's absence (‘Come, come, I faint: thy heavy stay’)
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 13. Forey, pp. 95-6.
*StW 364
Autograph of lines 9-24, the last two lines repeated among jottings; imperfect, lacking the beginning.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 365
Copy, headed ‘On a friends absence: W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 366
Copy in: the MS described under StW 160 (StW Δ 8). c.1630s.
StW 367
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 368
Copy, headed ‘A Song on the Absence of a Frend’, subscribed ‘Will: Strowde’.
In: the MS described under StW 7. c.1635.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 370
Copy, headed ‘A Sonnet. W: S.’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
This MS collated and the text of lines 1-8 from this MS in Forey.
StW 371
Copy, subscribed ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 372
Copy, headed ‘The ialous mans replye’.
In: the MS described under StW 173 (StW Δ 25). c.1634.
StW 374
Copy, headed ‘Song to his Mistresse’.
In: the MS described under StW 13 (StW Δ 28). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 83-4.
StW 375
Copy in: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
StW 376
Copy, headed ‘Song to his Mrs’.
In: the MS described under StW 180. c.1634-43.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 377
Copy, headed ‘A songe on ye absence of a friend’.
In: the MS described under StW 56. c.1638.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), p. 109.
On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute (‘Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears’)
First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 278. Dobell, p. 39. Forey, p. 208.
StW 378
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman yt sung, and playd on ye lute well: W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 379
Copy, headed ‘On a gentle woman that sunge most exquisitely’.
In: the MS described under StW 86 (StW Δ 7). c.1638.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 380
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman playinge vppon ye Lute’.
In: the MS described under StW 160 (StW Δ 8). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 332.
StW 381
Copy in: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 332.
StW 382
Copy in: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 332.
StW 383
Second copy.
In: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 332.
StW 384
Copy, headed ‘A Gentlewoman playing on the Lute’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 385
Copy, inscribed at the side in a different ink ‘T.C.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Text from this MS in Forey.
StW 386
Copy, subscribed ‘W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 332.
StW 387
Copy, headed ‘On a faire gentlewoman yt sunge well’.
In: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
StW 389
Copy, headed ‘On A Gentlewoman Singing, & playing on A Lute’ and subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 19 (StW Δ 29). c.1650.
StW 390
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman yt playd on a lute’.
In: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
StW 391
Copy, headed ‘B: John: On a ffayre gent: voyce’.
In: the MS described under StW 44. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 392
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman singing’.
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.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 394
Copy, headed ‘On a faire woman that sung sweetly’.
In: the MS described under StW 207. c.1620s-30s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 332.
StW 395
Copy, headed ‘On a faire Woman that sung excellently’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Juvenilia Ludicra, in a single small mixed hand, 103 leaves, all now window mounted in a quarto volume, in 19th-century half morocco. Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man. c.1630s.
Inscribed in engrossed lettering (f. 1r) ‘E Libris Richard Sutclif’. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 194.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 332.
StW 396
Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman [playing on ye Lute added in another hand], transcribed from StW 397.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single predominantly secretary hand, with some later additions and annotations, 188 leaves, in quarter-morocco. Transcribed from British Library Add. MS 25303 and perhaps associated likewise with the Inns of Court. Including 23 poems by Carew and three of doubtful authorship. c.1620s-30s.
Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 13 May 1856 (Pickering sale), lot 258.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Pickering MS’: CwT Δ 11.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 332.
StW 397
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under StW 325. c.1620s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 332.
StW 398
Copy, headed ‘To his Mris singing’.
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 recorded in Forey, p. 332.
StW 399
Copy, headed ‘On a faire woman that sung Excellently’.
In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous tracts, poems and other papers, in various hands, 329 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Fols 1r-82r comprise a separate collection of verse and some prose, possibly in a single predominantly secretary hand with some variants of style, the first leaf (f. 1) inscribed in another hand ‘Poems by Wm: Browne of the Inner-Temple Gent &c / 1650’, this possibly applying to the poems up to f. 62v, which is subscribed ‘ffinis W Browne’. c.1637-50.
This volume comprising Parts 1-3, 5, 8-13, of what was formerly a single composite volume but is now bound in three volumes.
Inscribed (f. 280v) ‘Philip Butler his book’.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 332.
StW 400
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman that sung excellently’.
In: the MS described under StW 291. c.1630 [-1677].
StW 401
Copy, headed in a different hand ‘upon a lady that sang lately’, subscribed ‘Wm Strowde’.
In: the MS described under StW 51. c.1640.
StW 402
Copy, headed ‘On a Lady singing’, subscribed ‘W. Stroude’.
In: the MS described under StW 52. c.1630s-40s.
StW 403
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman that sung very wel’.
In: the MS described under StW 330. c.1630s.
StW 404
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman that sung excellently’.
In: A large folio verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford University, 34 leaves, in modern half-morocco marbled boards. Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King. c.1630s.
Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.8.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Halliwell MS’: CwT Δ 26 and KiH Δ 11. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Some Account of the Antiquities…illustrating…Shakespeare (1852), No. 8. Facsimile example in Giles Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (London, 1968), Plate 42. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 195).
StW 406
Copy, headed ‘On A Ladye that songe And plaid on a Lute’.
In: the MS described under StW 56. c.1638.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), pp. 103-4.
StW 407
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman that sung excellently’.
In: A small quarto verse anthology, in a single minute hand (but for p. 206), arranged under genre headings (‘Epitaphs’, ‘Satyricall’, ‘Love Sonnets’, etc.), probably associated with Oxford University, possibly Christ Church, 382 pages (including numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. Including 13 poems by Donne and 14 (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; the scribe is that mainly responsible also for the ‘Thomas Smyth MS’ (DnJ Δ 48). c.1630s.
Later owned and used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, who also annotated Cambridge University Library MS Add. 5778 and Harvard fMS Eng 966.4. Bookplate of N. Micklethwait. Owned in 1931 by the Rev. F.W. Glass, of Taverham Hall, near Norwich (seat in the 17th century of the Sotherton family and later of the Branthwayt and Micklethwait families).
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Welbeck MS’: DnJ Δ 57 and CoR Δ 11. Discussed in H. Harvey Wood, ‘A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others’, Essays & Studies, 16 (1931), 179-90. For Taverham Hall, see Thomas B. Norgate, A History of Taverham from Early Times to 1969 (Aylsham, 1969).
StW 408
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman that sung exquisitly’.
In: the MS described under StW 111. c.1635.
StW 409
Copy, headed ‘To his Mistresse as shee sate singing’, subscribed ‘Geo: Markham’.
In: the MS described under StW 191. c.1630s.
On a Gentlewoman Walking in the Snowe (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)
See StW 747-834.
On a Gentlewoman who escapd the marks of the Pox (‘A Beauty smoother then an Ivory plaine’)
First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 272. Dobell, p. 49. Forey, p. 15.
*StW 410
Autograph, with alterations, originally headed ‘On a Gentlewoman iniurd by the Pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 411
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman inur'd by ye Poxe: W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 412
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman yt had ye small pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 4 (StW Δ 5). c.1630s-40s.
StW 413
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman iniurd by ye Pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 125 (StW Δ 9). c.1630s.
StW 414
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman yt had ye smale pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 415
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlwomans beauty iniurd by ye pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 416
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman iniured [by ye pox added]’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 417
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman, that had the small poxe’, subscribed ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 418
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman disfigured by the Pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 80 (StW Δ 21). c.1630s.
StW 420
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman mard with ye small pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
StW 421
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman that had the small pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
StW 422
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman yt had ye pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 44. c.1630s-40s.
StW 423
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman yt had ye Small pockes’.
In: the MS described under StW 23. c.1635-44.
StW 424
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman that had The Small Pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 47. Mid-late 17th century.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 425
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman that had the small Pox’.
In: A folio composite volume of separate MSS of verse and some prose, in various secretary and italic hands, written over an extended period, with a table of contents (f. 3r-v), 186 leaves. Comprising papers of the Skipwith family of Cotes, Leicestershire, including 60 poems by John Donne (and one Problem), the text related in part to the ‘Edward Smyth MS’ (DnJ Δ 45); also 15 poems (and second copies of two) by Henry King; and 19 poems (and two of doubtful authorship) by Carew. c.1620-50.
Including poems ascribed to William Skipwith (? Sir William Skipwith, d.1610, or his grandson, William, or possibly a cousin, William Skipwith, of Ketsby, Lincolnshire, fl.1633); to Sir Henry Skipwith (fl.1609-52); and to Thomas Skipwith, and several poems by Donne's friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627), to whom a branch of the Skipwith family was related by marriage. Later owned by Robert Sherard (1719-99), fourth Earl of Harborough. Sotheby's, 10 June 1864, lot 605, to Boone.
This MS is the ‘curious folio volume’ lent to John Nichols (1745-1826) by ‘the late Lord Harborough’ and cited in Nichols's account of the Skipwith family in his History of Leicestershire, 4 vols (1795-1815), III, part i (1800), 367.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Skipwith MS’: DnJ Δ 21; CwT Δ 14; KiH Δ 8. Also described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp. 119-29 (see KiH Δ 6). For Sir William Skipwith and his literary connections, see James Knowles, ‘Marston, Skipwith and The Entertainment at Ashby’, EMS, 3 (1992), 137-92 (esp.pp. 171-2).
StW 426
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman yt had ye small pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 50. c.1640s.
StW 427
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman that had the small pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 25. c.1640.
StW 427.5
Copy, headed ‘A sonG’, here beginning ‘As I saw fair Clora walk alone’, followed by a Latin version headed ‘Latinè redditum. p Mr Denny’ (beginning ‘Jupiter in Cloram tacitus descendit euntem’).
In: An octavo verse miscellany, predominantly in a single hand, written from both ends, the contents collected over a period but not entered in chronological order, 171 leaves, in contemporary panelled calf. Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Benj: Coles At Great Forster's. near Egham. In Surrey. owns this book MDCCXXXII’ and the miscellany evidently compiled by Coles. A similar inscription on f. 31r rev. dated ‘3d. Jany 1740/1’. c.1729-41.
Inscribed (f. iiv) ‘purchased by R Brown, for a valuable consideration of Benjamin Coles Anno 1754. August 8th’. Later owned by James Langlands and, in 1965, by Mrs V.J. Dawson, of Southan, Gloucestershire.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 24, f. 2v.
StW 428
Copy, headed ‘on a gentlewoeman yt had ye pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 56. c.1638.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), p. 83.
StW 429
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman that had ye small poxe’.
In: the MS described under StW 111. c.1635.
StW 430
Copy, headed ‘On a faire Lady yt had ye smal pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 57. c.1638-42.
StW 431
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman iniuried by ye pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 263. c.1639 [-c.1728].
StW 431.5
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman dying on ye Poxe’.
In: the MS described under StW 140.5. c.late 1630s.
On a Gentlewomans Watch that wanted a Key (‘Thou pretty Heavn, whose greate and lesser spheares’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 36-7. Forey, pp. 44-6.
*StW 432
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Text from this MS in Forey; recorded in Dobell.
StW 433
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewomans watch yt. wanted a key: W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 434
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 436
Copy in: the MS described under StW 50. c.1640s.
On a Glasse falling on the stones without breaking (‘How can the Embleme of Mortality’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 35-7.
*StW 437
Autograph, with revions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 438
Copy, headed ‘On a glasse falling on ye stones Without breaking: W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 439
Copy of an abridged version.
In: the MS described under StW 125 (StW Δ 9). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 440
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 441
Copy in: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
On a good legge and foote (‘If Hercules tall Stature might be guest’)
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 108-9. Forey, pp. 16-17.
*StW 442
Autograph, partly written sideways down the margin of the page.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 443
Copy, headed ‘On a good legg, and a good foot: W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 444
Copy in: the MS described under StW 5 (StW Δ 6). c.1630s-40s.
StW 445
Copy in: the MS described under StW 86 (StW Δ 7). c.1638.
StW 447
Copy, headed ‘On a good foot and a bad leg’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 448
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a good Legge & foote’.
In: the MS described under StW 127 (StW Δ 11). c.1636.
StW 449
Copy in: the MS described under StW 8 (StW Δ 13). c.1633.
StW 450
Copy, subscribed ‘W.S.’
In: the MS described under StW 165. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 452
Copy in: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 453
Copy, headed ‘On a good Legge & foot. W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.
StW 454
Copy, subscribed ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell. Collated in Forey.
StW 457
Copy in: the MS described under StW 151 (StW Δ 23). c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
StW 458
Copy in: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
StW 459
Copy in: the MS described under StW 13 (StW Δ 28). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 76-8.
StW 462
Copy in: A verse miscellany, i + 25 leaves. c.1640.
Owned before 1959 by the Lingard-Guthrie family.
StW 463
Copy, headed ‘In praise of a handsome Leg & foot’ and subscribed ‘W Strode’.
In: the MS described under StW 180. c.1634-43.
StW 464
Copy, headed ‘On a leg and foot’.
In: A sextodecimo pocket miscellany, ff. 3r-53r in a single hand, other hands and scribbling on ff. 1r-2r, 54v, 87v-90v, 90 leaves in all (including blanks ff. 55r-87r), in contemporary calf, with remains of clasps. Including 12 poems by Carew. c.1650s.
Inscribed ‘Richard Archard his booke Amen 1650’; ‘Richard Archard his penn Amen 1657’; ‘to Mr Satars[?] towads the Casting of ye lead 1657’; ‘Tho: Wise’; ‘John Smith of halmortaine and I…went to Thornebury’; and ‘Edward Watt’. Bookplate of William Harris Arnold.
Cited in IELM, II.i, as the ‘Archard MS’: CwT Δ 24.
StW 465
Copy, headed ‘The Comendations of A good Legg and foote’.
In: the MS described under StW 54. c.1637.
StW 467
Copy of lines 1-29, imperfect, lscking the last seven lines of the poem.
In: A fragment of a verse miscellany compiled by Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury a[1632] and other items.
Among Herbert's papers formerly preserved at Powis Castle. Formerly Powis MSS (1959 deposit), Series II and (Envelope) Taken from Bundle 26.
StW 468
Copy in: the MS described under StW 57. c.1638-42.
On a Great Hollow Tree (‘Preethee stand still awhile, and view this tree’)
See StW 1234-1244.
On a Locke burnt by the owner (‘When this Locke grew it was a Favourite’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 97-9.
*StW 469
Autograph, subscribed ‘P[ro] P[eter]: Apsley’.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 470
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
On a Register for the Bible (‘I am the faythfull deputy’)
See StW 691-705.
On a watch made by a blacksmith (‘Vulcan and love of Venus seldome part’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 38-9. Forey, p. 44.
*StW 471
Autograph, the first line originally reading ‘A Vulcane and a Venus seldome part’ before emendations added in the hand of William Fulman.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 472
Copy, headed ‘On a watch made by a black Smith: W: S.’, here beginning ‘A Vulcan, and a Venus seldome part’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 473
Copy, here beginning ‘A Vulcan and a Venus seldome part’.
In: the MS described under StW 5 (StW Δ 6). c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 474
Copy, here beginning ‘A Vulcan and a Venus seldome part’, as by ‘W. S.’
In: the MS described under StW 160 (StW Δ 8). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 475
Copy, here beginning ‘A Vulcan and a Venus seldome part’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 476
Copy, here beginning ‘A Vulcan & a Venus seldome part’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 477
Copy, here beginning ‘A Vulcan & a Venus seldome part’.
In: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
On Chloris standing by the fire (‘Faire Chloris, standing by the Fire’)
On Dr Lanctons death (‘Because of fleshly mould wee bee’)
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 70-1. Forey, pp. 216-18.
StW 478
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 479
Copy, subscribed ‘Will: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 7. c.1635.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 481
Copy, headed ‘On Dr Lancton’, subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 482
Copy, as by ‘W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited from this MS in Dobell and in Forey.
On Faireford windores (‘I know noe paint of Poetry’)
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 25-7. Forey, pp. 7-10.
*StW 483
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 486
Copy in: the MS described under StW 127 (StW Δ 11). c.1636.
This MS text recorded (as ‘A 17’) in The Poems of Richard Corbett, ed. J.A.W. Bennett and H.R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford, 1955), p. 169
StW 487
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under StW 7. c.1635.
This MS recorded (as ‘H 9’) in Bennett and Trevor-Roper, p. 169.
StW 488
Copy, subscribed ‘R: C:’.
In: the MS described under StW 8 (StW Δ 13). c.1633.
Edited from this MS in The Poems of Richard Corbet, ed. Octavius Gilchrist (London, 1807), pp. 239-42.
StW 489
Copy, subscribed ‘Mr Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 490
Copy, headed ‘On Farford windowes. W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.
StW 491
Copy, headed ‘On the same’, subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell. Collated in Forey.
StW 492
Copy, inscribed at the side ‘W. S’.
In: the MS described under StW 151 (StW Δ 23). c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
StW 493
Copy in: the MS described under StW 173 (StW Δ 25). c.1634.
StW 494
Copy in: the MS described under StW 13 (StW Δ 28). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 53-6.
StW 495
Copy, headed ‘On ye same’ and subscribed ‘W. Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 19 (StW Δ 29). c.1650.
StW 498
Copy in: the MS described under StW 49. Mid-17th century.
StW 499
Copy, subscribed ‘w. Stroode’.
In: the MS described under StW 20. c.1630s.
This MS recorded (as ‘S 1’) in Bennett and Trevor-Roper, p. 169.
StW 501
Copy in: the MS described under StW 111. c.1635.
On Gray Eyes (‘Looke how the russet morne exceeds the night’)
See StW 35-57.
On his Majesties Fleete (‘Cease now the talk of Wonders nothing rare’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 145-6.
StW 503
Copy on a folio leaf.
In: A folio composite volume of verse and some prose, in various hands, v + 179 leaves, in early 18th-century half-calf.
With a few additions in Rawlinson's hand.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 504
Copy, in a small mixed hand, on the second of two conjugate folio leaves, oce folded as a letter and addressed (f. 109v) ‘To his much respected & kind friend Mr Robert Sawer at Stratfieldsay in Hampshire these be d[elivere]d’.
In: A large folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 157 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half green morocco.
This MS collated in Forey. See also StW 1472.
StW 505
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, 148 pages (lacking pp. 55-8, 117-26). Late 17th century.
Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1284. Afterwards owned by John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector.
On Mr. Ingram, a Preist that built a house for his Rectory and kept it well (‘Ingram hath left a Monument. but where?’)
Unpublished. Forey, p. 178.
On Mr James Van Otten's death. March 1° (‘The first day of this month the last hath bin’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 85-6. Forey, pp. 218-19.
StW 507
Copy, headed ‘On mr James Van Otten March 1o’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell. Collated in Forey.
StW 508
Copy, as by ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
Text from this MS in Forey.
StW 509
Copy, headed ‘On the death of Mr. James Van Otten an expert Chirurgion, who dyed att Oxford: March: 1. 1622’.
In: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
On Mr. Sambourne, sometime Sherife of Oxford-shire (‘Fie, Schollers, fie, have you such thirsty souls’)
On Mistress Jane Hele borne on the 24 of Aprill betwixt St. George's Day and St. Markes. 1637. A Calculation (‘Betwixt St. Georg and Mark the Gospeller’)
Unpublished. Forey, p. 149.
*StW 510
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
On Mistress Mary Prideaux dying younge (‘Sleepe pretty one, oh sleepe while I’)
Sequence of three poems, the second headed ‘Consolatorium, Ad Parentes’ and beginning ‘Lett her parents then confesse’, the third headed ‘Her Epitaph’ and beginning ‘Happy Grave, thou dost enshrine’. The third poem probably by George Morley and first published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). The three poems published in Dobell (1907), pp. 59-63. Forey, pp. 211-16.
StW 511
Copy of the sequence.
In: the MS described under StW 5 (StW Δ 6). c.1630s-40s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 335.
StW 512
Copy of the sequence.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 335.
StW 513
Copy of the sequence, headed ‘On the Death of Mrs Mary Prideaux’, each of the three poems subscribed ‘Will: Strode’.
In: the MS described under StW 7. c.1635.
This MS recorded (erroneously as ‘H67’) in Forey, p. 335.
StW 514
Copy of the third poem (lines 85-106), here beginning ‘Happie graue that dost vnshrine’, subscribed ‘G Morley’.
In: the MS described under StW 8 (StW Δ 13). c.1633.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 515
Copy of the sequence.
In: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 516
Copy of the sequence, headed ‘On Mrs Mary Preas dying young’, subscribed ‘W.S.’
In: the MS described under StW 165. c.1630s-40s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 335.
StW 517
Copy of the sequence.
In: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 335.
StW 518
Copy of the sequence, headed ‘On the same. M: M: P.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited from this MS in Dobell and in Forey.
StW 518.5
Copy of the sequence, here arranged as ‘An Eligie on.’ (‘Sleepe pretty one...’), ‘The Epitaph’ (‘Happie graue...’), and ‘Consolatio ad Parentes’ (‘Let her Parents...’).
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).
StW 519
Copy of the sequence.
In: the MS described under StW 151 (StW Δ 23). c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
StW 520
Copy of the sequence.
In: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 239/27, pp. 349-50, 189-90, 350-1.
StW 521
Copy of the first and third poems, headed respectively ‘On Mrs. Mary Prideaux dying’ and ‘Mrs. Mary Prideaux Epitaph’.
In: the MS described under StW 15 (StW Δ 31). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 335.
StW 522
Copy of the first and third poems (lines 1-44, 85-106).
In: the MS described under StW 67. c.1630s-40s.
StW 523
Copy of the first poem (lines 1-44), headed ‘On the Death of Mrs Mary Priduax’.
In: the MS described under StW 359. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 524
Copy of the sequence, the first headed ‘An Elegie upon the death of Mrs M. P.’
In: A folio miscellany of verse and some prose, 282 pages, in calf gilt. Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 34 of the Hopkinson MSS. Mid-late 17th century.
Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 299.
StW 525
Copy of the third poem (lines 85-106), ‘An epitaph on mrs Mary Prideaux’, subscribed ‘G: Morley:’.
In: the MS described under StW 139. c.1641-9.
On Mistress Withypoll, an Epitaph (‘Alass our Loss and Greife, that wee should say’)
Unpublished. Forey, p. 182.
*StW 526
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
On Sir Edwin Sandys (‘O Learnings Head, where is thy braynes rich might?’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 174-5.
*StW 527
Autograph of a sequence of four poems.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
On Sir Thomas Savil dying of the smal Pox (‘Take, greedy Death, a Body here intoomd’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 86-7. Forey, p. 124.
*StW 528
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 529
Copy, headed ‘On Sr. Thomas Sauil dying of ye small poxe: W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 530
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentleman dying of ye small Pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 125 (StW Δ 9). c.1630s.
StW 531
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 532
Copy in: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell. Collated in Forey.
StW 533
Copy, subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 534
Copy, headed ‘Vpon one dyinge of the pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
StW 535
Copy, headed ‘On one that died of the small pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
StW 536
Copy in: the MS described under StW 111. c.1635.
On the Bible (‘Behold this little Volume here inrold’)
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 51-2. Forey, pp. 46-7.
*StW 537
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 539
Copy in: the MS described under StW 5 (StW Δ 6). c.1630s-40s.
StW 540
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
StW 541
Copy in: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
StW 541.5
Copy, subscribed ‘Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 542
Copy in: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
StW 544
Copy in: the MS described under StW 12. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
StW 545
Copy in: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
StW 546
Copy in: the MS described under StW 13 (StW Δ 28). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 25-6.
StW 548
Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters, tracts, and verse, collected by, and mostly in the hand of, William Parkhurst (fl.1604-67), Sir Henry Wotton's secretary in Venice and later Master of the Mint, including various works in verse and prose attributed to Donne, chiefly in a scribal hand, partly in Parkhurst's hand, 373 leaves (including blanks), in old calf.
Among the papers of the Finch family of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland. Mistakenly reported by Grierson and Logan Pearsall Smith to have been destroyed in a fire at Burley c.1908.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Burley MS’: DnJ Δ 53. Recorded in HMC, 7th Report (1879), Appendix, p. 516. A complete microfilm of the MS is at the University of Sheffield, Microfilm 737.
A neat transcript of parts of the Burley MS (including principally poems on ff. 255r-v, 278v, [279r]-288v, 342v-3r, 294r-300r, 301r-8v), made before 1908, on 35 leaves, is in the Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. c. 80.
On the Death of a Twin (‘Where are yee now, Astrologers, that looke’)
See StW 623-631.
On the death of doctor Langton, President of Maudlin Colledg (‘When men for injuries unsatisfied’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 68-70. Forey, pp. 121-3.
*StW 549
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 550
Copy, headed ‘On ye death of Doctor Langton: W:S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 551
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
StW 552
Copy of a version of lines 23-46, here beginning ‘Such store of flesh How seldome haue wee seene’.
In: the MS described under StW 80 (StW Δ 21). c.1630s.
On the death of Mr. Fra. Lancaster (‘Even so the greatest Alexander by’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 219-21.
On the Death of Mr. James Van Otton (‘The first day of this month the last hath bin’)
See StW 507-509.
On the death of Mr. Robert Horne who died of the small Poxe (‘Sweete Brother — so Ile call thee constantly’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 176-7.
*StW 554
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
On the Death of Mrs. Mary Neadham (‘As sinn makes gross the soule and thickens it’)
See StW 108-111.
On the death of Mistress Mary Prideaux (‘Weepe not because this Child hath died soe young’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 58-9. Forey, p. 111.
*StW 555
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 556
Copy in: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 557
Copy in: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
StW 558
Copy in: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 558.5
Copy in: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
StW 559
Copy, inscribed at the side in a different ink ‘W. S.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell.
StW 560
Copy in: the MS described under StW 12. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
StW 563
Copy in: the MS described under StW 47. Mid-late 17th century.
On the Death of Sir Rowland Cotton Seconding that of Sir Robert (‘More Cottons yet? What, doth some envious Fate’)
See StW 1.
On the death of Sir Thomas Leigh (‘You that affright with lamentable Notes’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 71-3. Forey, pp. 118-21.
*StW 565
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 566
Copy, headed ‘On ye death of Sr. Thomas Leigh: W.S.’
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 567
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 568
Copy, subscribed ‘W.S.’
In: the MS described under StW 165. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 570
Copy, inscribed at the side in different ink ‘W S’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.
StW 571
Copy in: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
StW 572
Copy in: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
On the death of Sir Thomas Pelham (‘Meerely for death to greive and mourne’)
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 64-5. Forey, pp. 114-15.
*StW 573
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 574
Copy, headed ‘On ye death of Sr Thomas Pelham: W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 575
Copy in: the MS described under StW 5 (StW Δ 6). c.1630s-40s.
StW 576
Copy in: the MS described under StW 86 (StW Δ 7). c.1638.
StW 577
Copy, headed ‘On ye death of an old Gentleman’.
In: the MS described under StW 125 (StW Δ 9). c.1630s.
StW 578
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
StW 580
Copy in: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
StW 581
Copy, headed ‘On Sr Thomas Peltham’, subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 582
Copy, inscribed ‘W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell.
StW 583
Copy, subscribed ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell.
StW 584
Copy in: the MS described under StW 12. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
StW 585
Copy in: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
StW 587
Second copy of lines 1-6, headed ‘on sorrow for ye dead’.
In: the MS described under StW 44. c.1630s-40s.
StW 588
Copy in: the MS described under StW 467.
Edited from this MS (and erroneously attributed to Herbert) in Mario M. Rossi, La vita, le opere, i tempi di Edoardo Herbert di Chirbury, 3 vols (Florence, 1947), III, 397.
StW 589
Copy of lines 1-12, headed ‘On the death of an old man’.
In: the MS described under StW 56. c.1638.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), p. 77.
StW 590
Copy in: the MS described under StW 111. c.1635.
StW 591
Copy in: the MS described under StW 208. c.1636-40s.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 32 (James 423), ff. 22v-3r.
On the death of Lady Caesar (‘Though death to good men be the greatest boone’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 80-2. Forey, pp. 116-18.
*StW 592
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 593
Copy in: the MS described under StW 125 (StW Δ 9). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Dobell, p. 82.
StW 594
Copy in: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
StW 595
Copy, inscribed ‘W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited from this MS in Dobell.
On the death of the young Baronet Portman, dying of an Impostume in the head (‘Is death soe cunning now, that all her blow’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 66-8. Forey, pp. 112-13.
*StW 597
Autograph, with one revision.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 598
Copy, headed ‘On the death of ye young Baronet Portman, dying of ye impostume in ye head. W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 599
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 601
Copy, headed ‘On the young Baronett Portman, dying of an Impostume in's head’, subscribed ‘W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.
StW 602
Copy in: the MS described under StW 12. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 603
Copy, headed ‘On one that died of an impostume in the head’.
In: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
StW 604
Copy, headed ‘Another’ [i.e. on one who dyed of a consumption].
In: the MS described under StW 392. 1647.
This MS collated in Forey.
On the Old man that died by chang of Ayre (‘Here lies the Man so long forgot by Death’)
First published in Anthony Wood, The History of the Antiquities of the University of Oxford, ed. John Gutch, 2 vols (Oxford, 1792-6), II, 348. Forey, p. 180.
*StW 605
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
On the Picture of Two Dolphins in a Fountayne (‘These dolphins twisting each on either side’)
See StW 608-622.
On the renowned Knight Sir Rowland Cotton, concerning his Agility of mind and Body. Elegy (‘Renowned Champion full of Wrestling Art’)
First published in Parentalia spectatissimo Rolando Cottono (London, 1635). Dobell, pp. 75-6. Forey, pp. 180-1.
*StW 606
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
On the same M.M.P. (‘Sleepe pretty one: oh sleepe while I’)
See StW 511-525.
On the Star which appeard at Prince Charles his Birth (‘Now Charles his Offspring bought with frequent Prayrs’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 133-4.
*StW 607
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
On the Young Baronett Portman Dying of an Impostume in 's Head (‘Is Death so cunning now that all her blowe’)
See StW 597-604.
On three Dolphins sewing down Water into a white Marble Bason (‘These Dolphins, twisting each on others side’)
First published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] Sr Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660). Dobell, p. 46. Forey, p. 185.
StW 608
Copy in the hand of William Fulman.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 609
Copy, headed ‘On a Fountayne. W: S.’ and here beginning ‘The Dolphines twisting each on others side’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 610
Copy, headed ‘On a fountaine’.
In: the MS described under StW 4 (StW Δ 5). c.1630s-40s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 320.
StW 611
Copy, headed, ‘On a fountaine’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 612
Second copy, also headed ‘On a fountaine’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 613
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a fountayne’, subscribed ‘Hen: King’.
In: the MS described under StW 127 (StW Δ 11). c.1636.
This MS text recorded in Forey, p. 320.
StW 614
Copy, headed ‘On a Fountaine’, subscribed ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 8 (StW Δ 13). c.1633.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 320.
StW 615
Copy, headed ‘On a fountaine’.
In: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 320.
StW 616
Copy, headed ‘On a fountaine’.
In: the MS described under StW 165. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 617
Copy, headed ‘On the picture, Of two Dolphins, in a Fount.’ and here beginning ‘These dolphins twisting each on either side’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 618
Copy, headed ‘On the picture of twoe Dolphins in a fountayne’, subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 619
Copy, headed ‘On a ffountaine’ and here beginning ‘The Dolphines twisting each on others side’.
In: the MS described under StW 12. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 320.
StW 620
Copy, headed ‘On a fountaine’.
In: the MS described under StW 152 (StW Δ 26). Mid-17th century.
StW 622
Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, headed ‘On a fountayne’ and here beginning ‘The Dolphins…’.
In: the MS described under StW 548.
On Twins divided by death (‘Where are you now, Astrologers, that looke’)
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 66. Forey, pp. 115-16.
*StW 623
Autograph, the original heading ‘On the death of a Twin’ altered to ‘On Twins divided by death’.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 625
Copy, headed ‘On ye death of a Twin’.
In: the MS described under StW 125 (StW Δ 9). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 626
Copy, headed ‘on the death of a Twine. W: S’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 627
Copy, headed ‘On the death of a Twin: W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.
StW 628
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the death of a Twin’.
In: the MS described under StW 170 (StW Δ 20). c.1637-51.
StW 629
Copy, headed ‘On the death of a twinne’.
In: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
StW 630
Copy, headed ‘On the death of a twinne’.
In: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
StW 631
Copy, headed ‘On the death of A twinne’.
In: the MS described under StW 179. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
On Ursula Chichester (‘Why should these parts, no Body fairer, noe soule better’)
See StW 142.
On Westwell Downes (‘When Westwell Downes I gan to treade’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 20-1. Four Poems by William Strode (Fransham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 5-7.
*StW 632
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey and in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), No. 183 (pp. 216-17).
StW 633
Copy, headed ‘On Westwell downes: W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 635
Copy, as ‘p W. S.’
In: the MS described under StW 160 (StW Δ 8). c.1630s.
Edited in part from this MS in Seventeenth Century Lyrics, ed. Norman Ault (London, 1928)m p., 172, and from this MS in Poetry of the English Remaissance 1509-1660, ed. J. William Hebel and Hoyt H. Hudson (New York, 1929), pp. 635-6.
StW 636
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
Edited in part from this MS in Ault, p. 172.
StW 637
Copy of lines 5-16, here beginning ‘The pleated wrinckles on the face’, subscribed ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 8 (StW Δ 13). c.1633.
StW 639
Copy, as by ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 640
Copy, subscribed ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
An Opposite to Melancholy (‘Returne my joyes, and hither bring’)
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 15. Forey, pp. 103-5.
*StW 641
Autograph, with extensive revisions and with an additional opening couplet beginning ‘For Business don, for strife well ended’.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey. Facsimiles in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 42, and in DLB, 126, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 253.
*StW 642
Autograph fair copy.
In: the MS described under StW 158 (StW Δ 3). c.1620s-30s.
Facsimile of this page in IELM, II.ii, Facsimile XIII.
StW 643
Copy, headed ‘An opposite to Melancholy: W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 645
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 646
Second copy.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 648
Copy in: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 650
Copy, subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 651
Copy, headed ‘W: S: Opposite to Melancolly’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 652
Copy, headed ‘An answer to Melancholly’.
In: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
StW 653
Copy in: the MS described under StW 13 (StW Δ 28). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], p. 74.
StW 656
Copy, headed ‘Against Melancholly’ and subscribed ‘Dr Strode’.
In: the MS described under StW 180. c.1634-43.
This MS discussed in Edward F. Rimbault, ‘Song in Fletcher's Play of “The Nice Valour”…’, N&Q, 1 (5 January 1850), 146-7. Collated in Forey.
StW 657
Copy, subscribed ‘Dr Strode’.
In: A quarto composite volume of tracts and other papers, in verse and prose, 349 leaves, in half-calf. Copy, headed ‘An other lre from Sr Thomas Wiatte the elder to his sonne oute of Spaine aboute the same tyme’.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 658
Copy, headed ‘Melancholly opposd by Mr Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 67. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 662
Copy in a fragment of a verse miscellany.
In: the MS described under StW 467.
Edited from this MS (and erroneously attributed to Herbert) in Mario M. Rossi, La vita, le opere, i tempi di Edoardo Herbert di Chirbury, 3 vols (Florence, 1947), III, 395.
StW 663
Copy in: the MS described under StW 84. c.1630s.
A Paralell between Bowling and Preferment (‘Preferment, like a Game at bowles’)
See StW 924-942.
Poses
See StW 73-84, StW 143-156, StW 246-263, StW 664-674, StW 677-690, StW 1214-1233.
Poses for Braceletts (‘This keepes my hande’)
Third stanza (beginning ‘Voutchsafe my Pris'ner thus to be’) and fourth stanza (beginning ‘When you putt on this little bande’) first published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 386. Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 43-4. Forey, p. 34.
*StW 664
Autograph of a sequence of four stanzas.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 665
Copy of the third stanza, headed ‘Vpon Bracelets: W: S’, here beginning ‘Vouchsafe my Prisoner thus to bee’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 666
Copy of the second and third stanzas, headed ‘Another for the same’ and here beginning ‘Silke tho thou bee’, and the fourth stanza, here beginning ‘When you put on this little band’.
In: the MS described under StW 5 (StW Δ 6). c.1630s-40s.
StW 667
Copy, headed ‘Bracelets’, under a general heading ‘Posies by W: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 668
Copy of the third stanza, headed ‘A Posee vpon a sent Bracelet’ and here beginning ‘Vouchsafe my Prisoner thus to bee’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
StW 669
Copy, headed ‘Braceletts’, under a general heading ‘Posies by W: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
StW 671
Copy of the second stanza.
In: the MS described under StW 151 (StW Δ 23). c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
StW 672
Copy in: the MS described under StW 13 (StW Δ 28). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 27-8.
StW 674
Copy in: the MS described under StW 15 (StW Δ 31). c.1630s.
A Prologe crownd with Flowres. On the Florists Feast at Norwich (‘If any think this dayes Solemnity’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 136-9.
*StW 675
Autograph, with corrections.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
Prothalamium (‘No sullen Clowde with frowning seeke’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 157-8.
*StW 676
Autograph, untitled.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Text from this MS (with title supplied) in Forey.
A pursestringe (‘Wee hugg, imprison, hang and save’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 44-5. Forey, p. 210.
StW 677
Copy in: the MS described under StW 4 (StW Δ 5). c.1630s-40s.
StW 678
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.
StW 679
Copy, headed ‘A Posey on a Pursestringe’, subscribed ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 8 (StW Δ 13). c.1633.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.
StW 680
Copy in: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 681
Copy, headed ‘On a Purse-string. W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
StW 684
Copy in: the MS described under StW 151 (StW Δ 23). c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
StW 685
Copy in: the MS described under StW 13 (StW Δ 28). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], p. 29.
StW 688
Copy in: the MS described under StW 15 (StW Δ 31). c.1630s.
StW 689
Copy of the second couplet, headed ‘On a purs Stringe’ and here beginning ‘While thus I hang’.
In: the MS described under StW 24. c.1650-9.
A Register for a Bible (‘I am the faithfull deputy’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 52-3. Forey, p. 52.
*StW 691
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 692
Copy, headed ‘A register for a Bible. W: S’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 693
Copy in: the MS described under StW 4 (StW Δ 5). c.1630s-40s.
StW 695
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 697
Copy in: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 698
Copy in: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.
StW 699
Copy, subscribed ‘W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell. Collated in Forey.
StW 700
Copy in: the MS described under StW 12. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 701
Copy in: the MS described under StW 151 (StW Δ 23). c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
StW 702
Copy in: the MS described under StW 13 (StW Δ 28). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 26-7.
StW 703
Copy, here beginning ‘I am yt faithfull deputy’.
In: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
StW 704
Copy in: the MS described under StW 15 (StW Δ 31). c.1630s.
StW 705
Copy, headed ‘vpon ye Register of a Bible’ and subscribed ‘Dr Strode’, in a verse miscellany (ff. 267r-73v) compiled by an Oxford University man. c.1630.
In: the MS described under StW 657.
Remembrances of the Renowned Knight, Sir Rowland Cotton, of Bellaport in Shropshire, concerning his Agility of Body, Tongue, and Mind (‘Renowned Champion full of wrestling Art’)
See StW 606.
Shiptons Distraction (‘Farewell the Seate where Hospitality’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 139-41.
*StW 706
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
A Sigh (‘O tell mee, tell, thou God of winde’)
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 6-8. Forey, pp. 194-6.
StW 708
Copy, headed ‘songe on a sight’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 709
Copy, headed ‘A Song on a Sigh’, subscribed ‘Will: Strowde’.
In: the MS described under StW 7. c.1635.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.
StW 710
Copy, headed ‘A song on a sigh’.
In: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 711
Copy, headed ‘A Song on a sigh’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 712
Copy in: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; text from this MS in Forey.
StW 713
Copy, headed ‘A song on a sigh’.
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; recorded in Forey, p. 329.
StW 718
Copy, headed ‘On a sigh’; c.1635-44.
In: the MS described under StW 23. c.1635-44.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.
StW 720
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: Two music part books compiled by Thomas Smith (1614-1701) of The Queen's College, Oxford, later Bishop of Carlisle. c.1637.
Formerly Carlisle Cathedral, Dean & Chapter of Carlisle MSS, Box B1.
These MSS discussed in John P. Cutts, Bishop Smith's Part-Song Books in Carlisle Cathedral Library (American Institute of Musicology, 1972).
StW 722
Copy, headed ‘On a Sigh’, subscribed ‘John Dunne’.
In: the MS described under StW 55. c.1630s.
Song (‘As I my flockes lay keeping, mine Eyes fell a sleeping’)
First stanza only first published in Dobell (1907), p. 130. The remaining six stanzas unpublished. Complete in Forey, pp. 80-2.
*StW 723
Autograph, with corrections.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 724
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 725
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under StW 80 (StW Δ 21). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955) 444-8 (p. 448).
Song (‘As I out of a Casement sent’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 11-12. Forey, pp. 77-9.
*StW 726
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 727
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a gentlewoman seene Out of a Casemen: W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 728
Copy, headed ‘Vppon a Lady as hee saw her out of a Casement walking in the streete’, subscribed ‘W. Straod’.
In: the MS described under StW 160 (StW Δ 8). c.1630s.
StW 729
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 730
Copy, headed ‘On a Strange Gentlewoman passing by his windowe’, subscribed ‘Will: Strode’.
In: the MS described under StW 7. c.1635.
StW 731
Copy in: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 732
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
This MS collated in Dobell and in Forey.
StW 733
Copy, headed ‘A strange gentlewoman passing by his windowe. Song’, subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Dobell and in Forey.
StW 735
Copy, headed ‘Vppon a Ladie as he sawe her out of a casement walkeing in ye streete’.
In: the MS described under StW 152 (StW Δ 26). Mid-17th century.
StW 736
Copy, headed ‘On A starange Gentlewoman passing by his window’ and subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 19 (StW Δ 29). c.1650.
StW 737
Copy, headed ‘A song’, subscribed ‘W. S.’
In: the MS described under StW 15 (StW Δ 31). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 738
Copy, headed ‘On a strange Gentlewoman passing by his Window’.
In: the MS described under StW 47. Mid-late 17th century.
StW 739
Copy, headed ‘A Lovers Epitaph, or rather a Complaint against Him for seeing and Loveing her knew not what’, ascribed at the side to ‘Mr Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 291. c.1630 [-1677].
StW 740
Copy, headed ‘A strange gentlwoman passinge by his window’.
In: the MS described under StW 56. c.1638.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), pp. 107-8.
A Song (‘Aske me no more whether doth stray’)
This poem is attributed to Strode, on the basis of Strode's autograph text, by Margaret Forey in ‘Manuscript Evidence and the Author of “Aske me no more”: William Strode, not Thomas Carew’, EMS, 12 (2005), 180-200.
For MS texts, see CwT 722-764.
Song (‘Hath Christmas furrd your Chimneys’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 111-14. Forey, pp. 89-91.
*StW 741
Autograph, with one revision.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Dobell and in Forey.
StW 743
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 744
Copy, headed ‘The Chimney=sweepers song’, subscribed ‘Will: Strode’.
In: the MS described under StW 7. c.1635.
StW 745
Copy, headed ‘The chimney-sweepers song’ and subscribed ‘Will Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 19 (StW Δ 29). c.1650.
StW 746
Copy, headed ‘Pidgeons songe’.
In: the MS described under StW 207. c.1620s-30s.
This MS collated in Forey.
Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)
First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).
*StW 747
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey and in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), No. 91 (p. 99).
StW 748
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman walking in ye Snow: W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 748.5
Copy, in a musical setting.
In: A folio composite music book, comprising (A) three printed works by Henry Lawes and others (1655-9), with MS additions, together with (B) 32 MS leaves of vocal music (plus stubs of eight excised leaves), in a single hand, bound together in brown leather. Owned by, and the MS pages in the hand of, the Rev. John Patrick (1632-95), religious controversialist. c.1660s.
Bookplate of Charles Barlow (fl.1720s-30s), of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Leo Liepmannssohn's sale catalogue 183 (1913), item 183 (possibly from MSS purchased in 1907 by James E. Matthew). Library stamp of the Königliche Bibliothek (now Preussische Staatsbibliothek), Berlin. Moved to Kraków in 1946.
Discussed, with various facsimile examples, in H. Diack Johnstone, ‘Ayres and Arias: A Hitherto Unknown Seventeenth-Century English Songbook’, Early Music History, 16 (1997), 167-201, and in Richard Charteris, ‘A Newly Discovered Songbook in Poland with Works by Henry Lawes and his Contemporaries’, EMS, 8 (2000), 225-79.
Edited from this MS in Charteris, pp. 272-3. Cited, with two staves of music, in Johnstone, p. 195.
Biblioteka Jagiellonska, Kraków, Poland, Mus. ant. pract. P 970, B. p. 29.
StW 748.8
Copy in: the MS described under StW 317.5. Early-mid-18th century.
StW 750
Copy, headed ‘On his Mrs walking in the Snow’.
In: the MS described under StW 5 (StW Δ 6). c.1630s-40s.
StW 751
Copy, headed ‘On Mrs: Duppa walking in her garden when it snowed, by W.S.’.
In: the MS described under StW 86 (StW Δ 7). c.1638.
StW 752
Copy, headed ‘On his Mris walkinge in the snowe’.
In: the MS described under StW 160 (StW Δ 8). c.1630s.
StW 753
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman walking in the snowe’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
StW 753.5
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a flake of snow fallinge into a fayre Ladies bosome’ and here beginning ‘I saw fayre Cloris walking all alone’.
In: A quarto volume of ‘Divine and Morall Observations’, in verse and prose, in a neat roman hand varying in style, with later additions at the end, 61 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half black leather. Inscribed by the compiler, on an elaborate title-page (f. 1r), ‘Abygall Guilford her Booke 1672’. c.1672 [-1714].
Inscribed (top of f. 1r) ‘This Book was I conclude my Grandmother Hoopers before her Marriage’. Acquired from the Rev. H. Hooper, 9 December 1874.
StW 754
Copy, headed ‘On Chloris walking’, subscribed ‘Wil: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 127 (StW Δ 11). c.1636.
StW 754.5
A four-line adaptation of the poem.
In: A folio volume of miscellaneous papers in Latin and English, 125 leaves, with an index in the hand of Charles Burney.
StW 755
Copy, headed ‘On his Mrs walking in a gentle snow’, subscribed ‘William Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 7. c.1635.
StW 755.5
Copy in: A folio miscellany of largely poems on affairs of state, in two professional hands, with others on six tipped-in leaves at the end, 205 leaves (plus blanks), in black morocco gilt. c.1730.
StW 756
Copy in: the MS described under StW 8 (StW Δ 13). c.1633.
StW 757
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Gentlewoman walking in the snow’.
In: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 758
Copy, headed ‘On his Mrs walking in ye snow’.
In: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
StW 759
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman walking in the snow. W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
StW 760
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman walking in the snowe’, subscribed ‘W. St’.
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
StW 761
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a fayre Lady going forth in the snowe’.
In: the MS described under StW 170 (StW Δ 20). c.1637-51.
StW 762.2
Copy, headed ‘Of his Mrs’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, comprising 162 poems in English, in a single hand, 273 pages, in brown morocco gilt. c.late 1640s.
Formerly (before 1686) in the Palatine Library at Heidelberg. Possibly acquired by Charles Louis (1617-80), Elector Palatine, while at the English court of his uncle, Charles I, from 1635 to 1649.
This volume discovered, and announced in the TLS, 23 July 2010, pp. 14-15, by June Schleuter and Paul Schleuter.
StW 762.5
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘I saw faire Clora walke alone’.
In: the MS described under StW 518.5. c.1630s.
StW 762.8
Copy of the incipit only, the page otherwise blank.
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. 87.
StW 763
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 12. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
StW 764
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Gentlewoman walkinge in ye snowe’.
In: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
StW 765
Copy, headed ‘It snow'd as Cloris walked’.
In: the MS described under StW 173 (StW Δ 25). c.1634.
StW 766
Copy, headed ‘On a gentw. walking in the snow’.
In: the MS described under StW 31 (StW Δ 27). c.1620-40s.
StW 767
Copy, headed ‘On A Gentle woman walking in ye Snow’.
In: the MS described under StW 19 (StW Δ 29). c.1650.
StW 768
Copy, in the hand of the English merchant Thomas Codrington, 20 September 1637. In an album compiled by the interpreter to the German legation of the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein to the court of Shah Sefi I in Isfahan, Persia. 1637.
Edited from this MS in Dirk Erpenbeck, ‘William Strode's “On Chloris Walking”: A Version from Esthonia’, N&Q, 222 (May-June 1977), 207.
StW 769
Copy, in a musical setting by John Hilton.
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. 129).
StW 770
Copy, here beginning ‘I saw fayre Celia walke alone’.
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.
Edited from this MS in The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. W. Carew Hazlitt ([London], 1870), p. 49.
StW 771
Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by John Hilton.
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).
StW 772
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the snowe falling vpon Cloris her breast’.
In: the MS described under StW 179. c.1630s.
StW 773
Copy in: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose extracts, in English and Latin, in several hands, written from both ends, ii + 79 leaves (including some blanks), in contemporary calf. Compiled by men associated with Oxford University. c.1647-1698.
Inscribed on the rear pastedown ‘To the right worsppf my very kind friend Mr Tho.: Young’ and ‘Ed Burham’. Bought in 1899 by W.D. Macray from George's of Oxford. Sold by Blackwell's, 1921.
StW 774
Copy, headed ‘On mrs Anion walkinge in a snow ye morne’.
In: the MS described under StW 320. c.1620s-30s.
StW 775
Copy, headed ‘Upon one Mrs Corbet walking in ye snow’.
In: the MS described under StW 23. c.1635-44.
This MS recorded in The Poems of Richard Corbett, ed. J.A.W. Bennett and H.R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford, 1955), pp. 169-70.
StW 776
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Gentlewoman in ye snow’, subscribed ‘T. R.’
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, apparently a presentation MS, 133 pages (including blanks), plus index, in half-calf. Including twenty poems by Randolph, plus ten of doubtful authorship (some here ascribed to ‘T.R.’), in two hands (A: pp. 3-99; B: pp. 1, 99-129), with some scribbling and one heading in other hands on pp. 3, 98 and 133; a poem on p. 1 (beginning ‘Loe here a sett of paper=pilgrimes sent’) dedicatingthe collection [‘To ye] Incomparably vertuous Lady the Lady Harflette’: i.e. Afra (d.1664), wife of Sir Christopher Harflete of Canterbury. c.1640.
Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Harflete MS: RnT Δ 2.
StW 777
Copy, headed ‘Dr Strowd on Mris Corbett Walking in the snow’.
In: A folio miscellany of letters, speeches and other documents, chiefly relating to Oxford University, largely in Latin, in several hands, iv + 432 pages, in half-calf. Compiled chiefly by Henry Wilkinson (d.1690), Principal of Magdalen Hall (in 1648-62), who entitles the miscellany (p. 1) ‘Elegantiores Conciones, Orationes, Epistolæ vna cum alijs notata dignioribus exercitijs Ex Proprio nec. non alieno pulchrius transcribuntur 1653’. c.1653-85.
Owned in 1841 by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. Turner sale, 9 June 1859, lot 528. Sotheby's, 28 July 1903 (as ‘from a College Library’), lot.
StW 778
Copy in the hand of Thomas Traherne, untitled, preceded on p. 200 by a Latin version.
In: Autograph octavo notebook by Thomas Traherne, in prose and verse, in English and Latin, written during and after his university days, 388 pages (mostly blank after p. 240), in contemporary calf, with remains of metal clasps. Largely autograph, with a few pages at the beginning in the hand of Philip Traherne, who inscribed it (p. iii) ‘Philip Traherne is the true owner of this booke Amen Ano Domi 1655’, used some pages for neat examples of his penmanship as a child and, in later years (after 1689), copied on pp. 237-40 an extract from Thomas Burnet's Telluris Theoria Sacra. c.1655-early 1660s.
Scribbling at the ends of the volume including names of Thomas and Philip Traherne, Holway and Warmeston. Later owned on 30 April 1841 by Rashleigh Duke of Salisbury: i.e.[son of Edward Duke (1779-1852), Wiltshire antiquary. Hodgson's, 13 December 1935, lot 137, to P.J. Dobell.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as Early Notebook: TrT Δ 4. Twelve poems edited from this MS, and attributed to Thomas Traherne, in Margoliouth, II, 204-11. The remainder of the MS unpublished. Six of the poems edited in Ridler, pp. 159-63; the incomplete ‘Epitaphium’ of uncertain authorship (TrT 138) omitted by her, and the other five poems rejected outright (i.e.‘What e're I have from God alone I have’, ‘Oh how injurious is this wall of sin’, ‘As fragrant Mirrhe within the bosom hid’, and ‘To bee a Monarch is a glorious thing’, all by Francis Quarles, and ‘a Serious and a Curious night-Meditation’, by William Austin). Discussed in Anne Ridler, ‘Traherne: Some Wrong Attributions’, RES, NS 18 (1967), 48-9, and in Carol L. Marks, ‘Traherne's Early Studies’, PBSA, 62 (1968), 511-36. Facsimile of p. 209 in Margoliouth, II, frontispiece.
StW 781
Copy, headed ‘Vppon a Ladye walkinge in Grais Inn walkes when it snowed’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, including 37 poems by Donne, in several hands, written from both ends, 279 leaves (including numerous blanks, mostly in ff. 42r-140r), with stubs of extracted leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled in part by the Oxford printer Christopher Wase (1627-90), fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Mid-17th century.
Later owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, and his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Wase MS’: DnJ Δ 39.
StW 782
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman walkinge in the snow’.
In: A quarto composite volume comprising three independent MSS bound together, i + 78 leaves. The first MS a verse miscellany, in an italic hand, 29 leaves. c.1640.
StW 783
Copy, headed ‘On Dor: Corbets wife walking in ye Snowe’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, including eleven poems by Carew, in a single professional secretary hand (adopting a different style on ff. 176r-8r), ii + 231 leaves (including numerous blanks), the date 1633 occurring on f. 55r. c.1630s.
The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Michell MS’: CwT Δ 8. Briefly discussed (in connection with the poem ‘Shall I die?’ attributed to Shakespeare) by Gary Taylor in The Sunday Times (24 November 1985, pp. 1, 3, with a facsimile example) and by Peter Beal in TLS (3 January 1986, p. 13); and see also letters on 24 January 1986, pp. 87-8.
This MS recorded in Bennett and Trevor-Roper, pp. 169-70.
StW 784
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman walking in a snowy morning’.
In: the MS described under StW 207. c.1620s-30s.
StW 785
Copy, subscribed ‘Dr Corbett’.
In: A quarto composite miscellany of verse, in English and Latin, compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, who lived in Cambridge as student and Fellow of Emmanuel College from 1633 to 1651, ii + 115 leaves, in calf. Comprising three separate units: ff. 1r-96v all in Sancroft's hand; ff. 97r-104r in a second hand; and ff. 105r-9r in a third hand. c.1640s [and later].
Including (on ff. 2-23, 27ar-v, 70) 94 Latin poems ascribed to Crashaw (including three of doubtful authorship) and (on ff. 29-41, 43v, 44v-58, 60v, 62v-5v, 67-70v, 72-3, 95-6) 101 English poems (plus a second copy of one of them) attributed to him (including one of doubtful authorship) and (on f. 16r-v) one Greek poem attributed to him; a list of contents on the first page beginning ‘Mr. Crashaw's poems transcrib'd fro his own copie, before the were printed; among wch are some not printed…’.
Cited in IELM as the ‘Sancroft MS’: CrR Δ 1. Crashaw edited in part from this MS, and collated, in Grosart, in Waller and in Martin (cited as T or T5), and discussed in Waller, pp. vi-ix, and in Martin, pp. lviii-lxxiii. Folios 28-34v, 38v-41, 44v, 52v-6 reproduced in facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
This MS recorded in Bennett and Trevor-Roper, pp. 169-70.
StW 786
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman walking in ye snow’.
In: A quarto composite volume of verse, in several hands (the 22 or 23 poems by Carew on ff. 2r-22r in a single hand), with later additions dated 1731-3 by one ‘G. Broughton’ on ff. 1r and after 44r, a reference to St John's College, Cambridge (in 1731) on f. 83v, 93 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century half black morocco. c.1630s [-1733].
‘G. Broughton’ is possibly William (‘Gulielmus’) Broughton (b.1684/5), of Trinity College, Cambridge (one of whose Latin verse compilations was copied in 1704-6 by Richard Robinson in Trinity College, Cambridge, MS 0.6.1 (James 1497). Also the name ‘Jo: Tweedy’ is inscribed several times on f. 81r. Owned before 1841 by one W. Potter.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Tweedye MS’: CwT Δ 10.
StW 787
Copy, headed ‘De perambulante puella’, here beginning ‘I saw faire Locris walke alone’ and ascribed to ‘Joh: Earles’.
In: the MS described under StW 395. c.1630s.
StW 788
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman walkinge in ye snow’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single neat predominantly italic hand, 72 leaves, in old leather. Probably compiled by one ‘H.S.’, a Cambridge man. c.1640s-50s.
Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector, with his bookplate and inscription ‘1806 Purchased of Lansdown of Bristol’. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 192.
StW 789
Copy, in a mixed hand, on the first page of two conjugate quarto leaves. c.1630.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers in verse and prose, in various hands and paper sizes, 170 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half-morocco. Including eleven poems by John Donne, three of them (ff. 10r-14v, 55r, 76r-7r) in the italic hand of his friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627); ff. 95r-8r in the same hand as the Leconfield MS (DnJ Δ 5) and constituting part of what was probably a quarto MS ‘book’ of Donne's satires; f. 132r-v constituting a set of six verse epistles by Donne, the text related to the Westmoreland MS (DnJ Δ 19). Early-mid-17th century.
From the ‘Conway Papers’ belonging chiefly to Sir Edward Conway, Baron Conway of Ragley, later Viscount Killultagh and Viscount Conway of Conway Castle (c.1564-1631), and to his son, Edward, second Viscount Conway (1594-1655). Later owned by John Wilson Croker (1780-1857), politician and writer, and presented 10 January 1860.
Cited in IELM, I.i, as the ‘Conway MS’: DnJ Δ 40. Cited as A23 by editors. Facsimile of f. 62r in Michael Roy Denbo, ‘Editing a Renaissance Commonplace Book: The Holgate Miscellany’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 65-73 (p. 71).
StW 791
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman in a Snow’, here originally beginning ‘I saw my Mistresse walke alone’ and changed to ‘I saw Faire Chloris walke alone’, also originally subscribed ‘incerti Authoris’ and then changed to ‘Stroud, Ox.’.
In: the MS described under StW 326. c.1632-40.
Edited from this MS in Herbert J. Davis, ‘Dr. Anthony Scattergood's Common-place Book’, Cornhill Magazine, 54 (1923), 679-91 (p. 690). The text with a sidenote referring to a Latin version of the poem on p. 29 (i.e. f. 19).
StW 794
Copy, in a musical setting by John Hilton, untitled.
In: A square-shaped folio songbook, largely in a single rounded secretary hand, with (ff. 1r-v, 69r-v) a table of contents, i + 69 leaves, in modern half red morocco. Mid-17th century.
Puttick & Simpson's, 2 March 1866, lot 230.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 2 (New York & London, 1986).
StW 795
Copy, headed ‘On his Mris walking in ye snowe’.
In: the MS described under StW 49. Mid-17th century.
StW 796
Copy, headed ‘Vpon his Mris walkinge in the snow’.
In: the MS described under StW 398. c.1640s.
StW 797
Copy, headed (possibly in another hand) ‘On his Mrs walking in ye snow’.
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.
StW 798
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman walking in the snowe’.
In: An octavo miscellany, 47 leaves, the greater part (ff. 1r-26, 42r-5v) in a single small mixed hand, with other hands on ff. 27r-41r, including a ‘Catalogus Librorum’ on ff. 29v-40r, and accounts c.1705 on ff. 46v-7r, in black morocco gilt. Compiled principally by Henry George, while a student at Christ's College, Cambridge. c.1639-43.
Inscribed (f. 1*v) ‘Meliora Spero dum Spiro / Henricus George / nec ut mortale / quod opto’.
StW 799
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘I see Faire Cloris walke alone’.
In: A quarto miscellany of letters, verse and prescriptions, in at least two hands, written from both ends, 35 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. c.1647.
StW 800
Copy of a twelve-line version headed ‘On Cloris goinge in the snow’ and beginning with the second line in first position (here ‘When feathered rayne cam sofly downe’).
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in one or more secretary hands, with (ff. 244r-54r) a first-line index, 254 leaves, in modern half-morocco, poems on ff. 34v and 242v dated 1637. Including 91 poems and some prose works by John Donne and fourteen poems by Thomas Carew. c.1637.
Among the collections of Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (1776-1839), first Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham, largely derived from the collection of the antiquary Thomas Astle (1735-1803), which in turn chiefly derived from Astle's father-in-law, the Essex historian Philip Morant (1700-70) (see DnJ Δ 15). Later owned by Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878).
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as ‘Stowe MS II’: DnJ Δ 44 and ‘Stowe MS’: CwT Δ 22.
StW 800.5
Copy, added in a later secretary hand, untitled. c.1630s.
In: A quarto volume comprising principally a ‘Description of England’ in a single secretary hand, c.1600, with later additions and scribbling in other hands, 206 leaves, in quarter-calf.
StW 801
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman walking in the snow’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, originally written in two hands (A: ff. 1r-22r, 27v-8v; B: ff. 22r-7v, predominantly italic), with late 17th-century additions in three other hands on ff. 28v-33v, 52r and f. 34r, associated with Cambridge, 35 leaves (plus 17 blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. Including 13 poems by Randolph, plus three of doubtful authorship. Initials stamped on both covers of ‘F R’ and the inside of the cover inscribed ‘Francis Rolfe Anno dni 1637’: i.e. Francis Rolfe (1618-78), Town Clerk of [King's] Lynn, Norfolk. c.1637.
Sotheby's, 21 July 1988, lot 18.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Rolfe MS’: RnT Δ 5. Briefly described in E.S. Leedham-Green, ‘Francis Rolfe's poetical miscellany: Add.Ms 8684’, Bulletin of the Friends of Cambridge University Library, 9 (1988), 20-2. A facsimile of f. 9v in Sotheby's sale catalogue: see RnT 123, RnT 239. For the Rolfe family (whose later papers are in the Norfolk Record Office, NRS 27114, 404 x 3), see R.T. and A. Gunther, Rolfe Family Records, 2 vols (London & Aylesbury, 1914), and Veronica Berry, The Rolfe Papers: The Chronicle of a Norfolk Family 1559-1908 (Brentwood, Essex, 1979; 2nd impression 1986).
StW 803
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbett on his mistresse’, inscribed by Fulman in the margin ‘Str.’
In: the MS described under StW 50. c.1640s.
This MS recorded (as ‘B 1’) in Bennett and Trevor-Roper, pp. 169-70.
StW 804
Copy, headed ‘vpo a faire gentlewoman walking in the fields to meete her louer the heauens sowing vpo her. his verses to her therevpo’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single cursive secretary hand, with a later title-page supplied in 1832, x + 116 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century black leather elaborately gilt. Inscribed (f. 1r), possibly by the compiler, ‘Richardus Jackson 1623’ and ‘Richard Jackson his booke’, who is described in a later pencil note as perhaps the brachygrapher. On ff. 113v-16r, in a later hand, is a ‘Catalogue of ye Books lately belonging to ye. Rev. Mr Jackson Rectr of Tatham’. c.1628-30s.
Also inscribed (f. 1r) ‘John Pecke’. Sold by Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, in 1831-2. Among collections of James Orchard Halliwell (from 1872 Halliwell-Phillipps) (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bought by him in 1871 from Sotheran's, London.
A 247-page transcript of this volume made c.1830 is in the Folger Shakespeare Library, MS M.b.26.
StW 805
Copy, headed ‘Vpon his mris walking in the snow’.
In: the MS described under StW 804. c.1628-30s.
StW 806
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a Scottish secretary hand, paginated 5-132, bound with a later verse MS on 98 pages, in brown calf. c.1630s-40s.
Bookplate of John Pinkerton (1758-1826), historian and poet. Sotheby's, April 1812 (Pinkerton sale), lot 593, to Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 1104, to Thomas Thorpe. His catalogue, 1836, bought by Laing.
StW 806.5
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman walking in the snow a Dr courting her’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 807
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman going in the snow’.
In: the MS described under StW 464. c.1650s.
StW 809
Copy, headed ‘Doctor Corbett, on a faire Gentlewoman walking by when it snow'd’ and here beginning ‘As I saw Clora walke alone’.
In: the MS described under StW 329. Mid-17th century.
StW 810
Copy, untitled.
In: A sextodecimo miscellany of verse and topographical prose, probably in a single small cursive hand, 78 leaves, written from both ends, Part I foliated 1r-33r, Part II foliated 1r-45r, in old calf. c.1650s-60s.
Inscribed (Part I, f. 1r) ‘Mr John Oldhams Booke’ [i.e. the poet John Oldham (1653-83)]. Inscribed (Part II, f. 1r) ‘James Bateman’ [(b.1633/4) of Christ's College, Cambridge], and ‘Robert Pierrepont’ [either the son of Col. Francis Pierrepont, M.P. (d.1659), or the third Earl of Kingston (1650/1-82), of Holme-Pierrepoint, Nottinghamshire, Oldham's patron]. Formerly Folger MS 621.1.
Described in F.P. Hammond, ‘A Commonplace Book owned by John Oldham’, N&Q, 224 (December 1979), 515-18.
StW 810.5
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, a neat mixed hand predominating up to f. 55r, 151 leaves (including a few blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1730.
Inscribed (in another hand) on the front pastedown ‘Thomas Boydell’. Formerly Folger MS 4108.
StW 811
Copy, headed ‘on a Gentlewoeman walkinge in the snowe’.
In: the MS described under StW 51. c.1640.
StW 813
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman walking in the snow’.
In: the MS described under StW 404. c.1630s.
StW 814
Copy on a slip pasted in.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in Latin and English, in several hands, 147 leaves (plus blanks), in half calf on marbled boards. c.1720s.
Once owned by Radley Aynscough (d.1727/8), chaplain, fellow of Manchester Collegiate Church, and, according to an inscription, ‘Formerly belonging to, and most probably written by the Rev Baldwin, of Bunwell, Norfolk’.
StW 815
Copies, in a musical setting by ‘Mr Blackwell’.
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. 8r; (ii) f. 31v; (iii) f. 17r; (iv) f. 29v.
StW 816
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a faire Gentlewoman walking in ye Snow’ and here ascribed to ‘Dr Corbet’.
In: the MS described under StW 53. c.late 1630s.
StW 817
This poem is not Strode's but an ‘Imitation’ of it beginning ‘I saw fair Flora take the air’.
StW 819
Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, headed ‘Vppon a Gentlewoman walking where it snowed’.
In: the MS described under StW 548.
StW 820
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, in Latin and English, written from both ends, 181 pages. Compiled by, and principally in the hand of, William Burton (1609-57), antiquary. c.1637-46.
StW 821
Copy, headed ‘Upon a fair Gentlewoman walking in the feilds to meet her lover. The heavens snowing upon her. His verses upon her’.
In: the MS described under StW 189. c.1643-50s.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, f. 40v.
StW 822
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘I saw far Cloe walk alone’, on a small slip of paper. c.1700.
StW 823
Copy, headed ‘On My Mistris’.
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.
StW 823.5
Copy, headed ‘An other’ and here beginning ‘I sawe my mistris walke alone’, on one of four octavo leaves of verse (ff. 245r-7v) in a single secretary hand, very imperfect.c.1630.
In: A large folio guardbook of state and miscellaneous papers.
StW 824
Copy, headed ‘Chloris in the snow’ and here ascribed to ‘Dr. Corbet’.
In: the MS described under StW 333. Mid-17th century.
StW 826
Copy, headed ‘On A gentlewoman walkeing in ye snowe’.
In: the MS described under StW 208. c.1636-40s.
StW 827
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of epitaphs and poems, in several hands, the main collection of verse (ff. 46-147) in a single hand and including 54 poems by Donne (all subscribed ‘J. D.’) and fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, 158 pages (plus index). c.1630s.
Once owned by the Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary, and later by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 164. Afterwards owned by Sir George Grey (1812-98), Governor of Australia, New Zealand and Cape Colony. Formerly MS Grey 2 a 11.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Grey MS’: DnJ Δ 60 and HeR Δ 6. Facsimile of p. 119r (HeR 355) in L.F. Casson, ‘The Manuscripts of the Grey Collection in Cape Town’, The Book Collector, 10 (Spring 1961), 147-55 (facing p. 153).
National Library of South Africa, Cape Town, MS Grey 7 a 29, p. 89.
StW 829
Copy, headed ‘Vpon his Mrs walking in a gentle Snow’, subscribed ‘William Stroude’.
In: the MS described under StW 191. c.1630s.
StW 831
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman walking in the Snow’.
In: A folio miscellany of some 133 poems, including 55 poems by Henry King and nineteen by Thomas Carew, 247 pages. In the hands of two amanuenses associated with King: i.e. Scribe A (c.1636), pp. 1-214, that of Thomas Manne's ‘imitator’ using two styles (a: pp. 1-62, 64-6, 133-4, 147-215; and b, the earlier: pp. 63, 67-132, 135-45); and Scribe B (c.1641): pp. 217-47, that of the scribe responsible for the Phillipps MS (Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 8471). c.1636-41.
The flyleaf inscribed ‘Ex dono Eugenii Stoughton Die Octobrii 23 Anno-1738-Domini’: i.e. owned before 1738 by the Stoughton family, of St John's House, Warwick.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Stoughton MS’: CwT Δ 36 and KiH Δ 6. A complete photocopy deposited by Mary Hobbs in the Bodleian (MS Facs. d. 157). Edited in Mary Hobbs, An Edition of the Stoughton Manuscript (An Early Seventeenth-Century Poetry Collection in Private Hands connected with Henry King and Oxford) seen in relation to other contemporary Poetry and Song Collections (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1973). Also discussed in Mary Hobbs, ‘The Poems of Henry King: Another Authoritative Manuscript’, The Library, 5th Ser. 31 (1976), 127-35. Recorded in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King, D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96. A complete facsimile edition in The Stoughton Manuscript, ed. Mary Hobbs (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1990).
StW 832
Copy, headed ‘on Mrs: Allice Hutton’.
In: A fragment of a quarto verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, seven leaves, the second item in a quarto composite volume also containing (item 1) a MS translation of the Song of Solomon written on nine leaves in 1622 by one Robert Eliot, and (item 3) Greek verse, on thirteen leaves subscribed ‘J: Malet’, in modern cloth. c.1630s.
Formerly MSS 4. 29.
StW 834.5
Copy, headed ‘On Chloris walking in ye snow’.
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.
Song (‘Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye’)
First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 88-9.
*StW 835
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey and in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), No. 93 (p. 100).
StW 837
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a gentlewoman too fayre W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 838
Copy, headed ‘On womans love. To his Mrs:’.
In: the MS described under StW 86 (StW Δ 7). c.1638.
StW 839
Copy, headed ‘To his Mistres not to torment him’, subscribed ‘W. S.’
In: the MS described under StW 160 (StW Δ 8). c.1630s.
StW 840
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 842
Copy in: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 842.5
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, headed ‘To a Lady pulling off his Veil / Words Dr. Stroud’ and here beginning ‘Keep on your Veil and hide your eye’.
In: A square-shaped folio volume of vocal and instrumental music, in two or more cursive italic hands, written from both ends, with (ff. 1v-2v, 96v rev) a table of contents, 97 leaves, in modern half red morocco. c.1760s.
Bookplate of Edmund Thomas Warren Horne, publisher, and probably the compiler. Puttick & Simpson's, 24 April 1873.
StW 843
Copy, headed ‘To his Mistresse’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 844
Copy, headed ‘A song. W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 845
Copy, subscribed ‘W: S’.
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 846
Copy, headed ‘A Lourer to his Mris’, deleted.
In: the MS described under StW 170 (StW Δ 20). c.1637-51.
StW 848.5
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
In: the MS described under StW 762.8. c.1630s-50s.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 237.
StW 848.8
Copy in: the MS described under StW 171.5. c.1713.
StW 849
Copy, headed ‘Mris keepe one your maske’.
In: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
StW 852
Copy, headed ‘One being in despayre to his Mrs:’.
In: the MS described under StW 19 (StW Δ 29). c.1650.
StW 853
Copy in: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
StW 854
Copy, headed ‘A song’, subscribed ‘W. S.’
In: the MS described under StW 15 (StW Δ 31). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 857
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting (1596-1662), here beginning ‘Keep on yor veile & hyde yor Eye’.
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).
StW 859
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled, here beginning ‘Keepe on yor: vaile & hide yor: eie’.
In: A folio songbook, in at least two secretary hands, dated on the first page ‘June the ffirst 1639’, 25 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. c.1639.
Bookseller's label of Kenneth Mummery, Bournemouth.
StW 861
Copy, headed ‘To A Lady putting off her veile’, here beginning ‘Keep on your vaile and hide your eye’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, in two hands, possibly compiled principally by Robert Clarke of Wadham College, Oxford. c.1663.
StW 864
Copy, headed in a different hand ‘On a gentlewoeman Masked’.
In: the MS described under StW 55. c.1630s.
StW 865
Copy, headed ‘on a lady’, with other verses on a single folio leaf.
In: Miscellaneous literary papers, unbound, assembled by Adam Ottley (1685-1752), Registrar of the diocese of St David's, Wales. Among papers formerly at Pitchford Hall, Shropshire.
National Library of Wales, Pitchford Hall (Ottley) English Literary MSS (uncatalogued), A, A1.
StW 866
Copy, in a musical setting, here beginning ‘Keep on yor vayle and hide your eye’.
In: the MS described under StW 762.8. c.1630s-50s.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 134.
StW 866.5
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Keepe on your Vayle, & hide your Eye’.
In: the MS described under StW 68.5. c.Late 1650s.
StW 867.5
Copy, in a 19th-century hand, headed ‘To a Ladie putting off her Veil. I retrieved from Lawes' Ayres for three voices. p: 19 by Dr Bliss from his Wood's Athenae, vol 3. p: 152’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, predominantly in a single hand, with 19th-century additions (pp. 195 onwards, at least partly from earlier MS sources), 279 pages, in contemporary calf. c.1644 (and later).
Inscribed (f. [ir]) ‘William Han: 1644’, probably by the academic compiler.
Song (‘O sing a new song to the Lord’)
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 54. Forey, p. 108.
*StW 868
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey and in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), No. 130 (pp. 139-40).
*StW 869
Autograph fair copy, headed ‘An Anthem’.
In: the MS described under StW 158 (StW Δ 3). c.1620s-30s.
StW 870
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
StW 872
Copy, headed ‘An Antheme’, subscribed ‘W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
Edited from this MS in Dobell.
Song (‘O when will Cupid shew such Art’)
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 6. Forey, p. 76.
*StW 874
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 876
Copy in: the MS described under StW 86 (StW Δ 7). c.1638.
StW 878
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
StW 879
Copy in: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 880
Copy, under a general heading ‘W: S: Sonnets’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited probably from this MS in Dobell.
StW 881
Copy, subscribed ‘W: St.’
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Dobell.
StW 886
Copy, subscribed ‘W S.’, with a later note ‘Qre W. Shakespeare’.
In: the MS described under StW 396. c.1620s-30s.
This MS transcribed from StW 887.
StW 888
Copy, headed ‘An ode’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single professional hand, with later additions on ff. 58v-62v in three or four other hands, 65 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt. Compiled by one Thomas Crosse, whose name appears (f. 1*) in ‘An Acrosticke upon my name’, as well as subscribed (‘Tho: Cro:)’ to a poem on ff. 23v-4r. c.1630s [-1670s].
StW 889
Copy, headed ‘A Sonnet’, ascribed at the side to ‘Mr Strowd’.
In: the MS described under StW 291. c.1630 [-1677].
StW 890
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo miscellany, comprising ‘Instructions for Justices of the Peace’ in a roman hand at one end and, from the other end a collection of poems in a secretary hand, much of the MS written in double columns in oblong format, 92 leaves, in calf. c.1623-30s.
Probably compiled by two members of the Calverley family (f. 1r contains a poem headed ‘A new years giuft presented to my father and Mother by my Brother Thomas Calverly’).
Later in the library od Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9624. Owned before 1947 by N.M. Broadbent. Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 13 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 135, to Maggs.
A song (‘Thoughts doe not vexe me while I sleepe’)
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Forey, p. 209.
StW 892
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under StW 86 (StW Δ 7). c.1638.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 893
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
Text from this MS in Forey.
StW 894
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 895
Copy in: the MS described under StW 173 (StW Δ 25). c.1634.
StW 897
Copy of the first part, untitled, in a musical setting by John Wilson (1595-1674).
In: the MS described under StW 771. c.1640s-60s.
This setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerful Ayres (London, 1659).
StW 898
Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
In: A large folio volume of songs in musical settings by John Wilson (1595-1674), composer and musician, vi + 214 leaves (plus some blanks), gilt-edged, in contemporary black morocco elaborately gilt, lettered on each cover ‘DR. / I.W’, with silver clasps. Possibly Wilson's formal autograph MS or else in the hand of someone similarly associated with Edward Lowe (c.1610-82). c.1656.
Complete facsimile in Jorgens, Vol. 7 (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth Century Lyrics: Oxford, Bodleian, MS. Mus. b. 1’, MD, 10 (1956), 142-209.
This MS collated in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth Century Lyrics’, MD, 10 (1956), 142-209 (p. 184); collated in Forey.
StW 900
Copy, in a musical setting, 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 Cutts, ‘Seventeenth Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69’, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94 (p. 188).
StW 903
Copy, in a musical setting.
In: the MS described under StW 762.8. c.1630s-50s.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 4.
Song (‘When meddow grounds wer fresh and gay’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 86-8.
*StW 904
Autograph, with corrections.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 906
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 906.5
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Strode’.
In: the MS described under StW 31 (StW Δ 27). c.1620-40s.
Song (‘When Orpheus sweetly did complaine’)
First published in Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dobell, pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 79-80. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).
*StW 907
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey and in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), No. 92 (pp. 99-100).
StW 910
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
StW 912
Copy in: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 913
Copy, headed ‘A Song. W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell.
StW 914
Copy, subscribed ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell.
StW 917
Copy in: the MS described under StW 13 (StW Δ 28). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 72-3 .
StW 918
Copy, imperfect, lacking the first nine lines and here beginning ‘The aspen tree’, subscribed ‘W. S.’
In: the MS described under StW 15 (StW Δ 31). c.1630s.
StW 920
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, including (ff. 113r-15r) copies of, or brief extracts from, 30 poems by Donne (plus two apocryphal poems), in a single hand, transcribed from the 1635 or 1639 edition of Donne's Poems, headed ‘Donnes quaintest conceits’ in several hands, 156 leaves (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt. Late 17th century.
Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).
Cited in IELM I.i (1980) as the ‘Harley Rawlinson MS’: DnJ Δ 64.
StW 921
Copy 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’.
StW 922
Copy, headed ‘The following unfortunate verses on the same subject with the foregoing (and which come immediately after them in the M.S.) I shall insert for the amusement of the reader; as, the admirable delicacy and beauty of the preceding will by contrast shew their unnatural quaintness in a more glaring light’, transcribed from a text in ‘a small MS. Collection in Mr. Bouchers possession’ [i.e. Jonathan Boucher of Epsom].
In: the MS described under StW 188. c.1800.
This MS recorded in Neilson, ‘A Bundle of Ballads’, p. 113.
StW 923
Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs in the prayse of Musick’, subscribed ‘John Chudleigh’.
In: the MS described under StW 191. c.1630s.
Song A Parallel betwixt bowling and preferment (‘Preferment, like a Game at bowles’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 103-4. Forey, pp. 94-5.
*StW 924
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 926
Copy, headed ‘A Parallel betwixt bowling and preferrment: W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 929
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 931
Copy in: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 932
Copy, as by ‘W: S’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.
StW 936
Copy in: the MS described under StW 31 (StW Δ 27). c.1620-40s.
StW 942
Copy, headed ‘Mr Strowd / Preferment likened to a Game at Bowles’.
In: the MS described under StW 407. c.1630s.
Song An Answeare to an old Soldier of the Queenes (‘With a new beard but lately trimd’)
See StW 28-31.
A song at the Musicke Lecture in the Act (‘In Heavn when bright Apollo tund the spheres’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 96-7.
*StW 943
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
A Song of Capps (‘The witt hath long beholding bin’)
First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 104-7. Forey, pp. 47-51.
*StW 944
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 946
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 948
Copy in: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 949
Copy in: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
StW 950
Copy, headed ‘The Capps: W: S.’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited from this MS in Dobell. Collated in Forey.
StW 951
Copy in: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
StW 952
Copy of an eleven-stanza version, headed ‘Verses on the cap by Mr Stroude’.
In: the MS described under StW 152 (StW Δ 26). Mid-17th century.
StW 954
Copy, headed ‘The Caps’ and subscribed ‘Will: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 19 (StW Δ 29). c.1650.
StW 955
Copy, headed ‘Verses on the cap by Mr Strode’.
In: the MS described under StW 179. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 957
Copy, headed ‘Of Capps’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in a minute cursive hand, ii + 78 leaves, in early 18th-century half-calf. Compiled by a Cambridge University man, possibly of King's College, and formerly at Eton. c.1648-60.
Inscribed names: ‘Hennericus Some’, ‘Johannes Chase’, ‘Jacobus Chase’.
StW 961
Copy, headed ‘Of Capps’, subscribed in a different hand ‘W Strode’.
In: the MS described under StW 55. c.1630s.
StW 963
Copy, headed ‘Cant: 26’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, 54 leaves, imperfect (chewed by rodents), lacking covers. Compiled by Herbert Aston (1613-88/9), poet, son of Walter Aston, Baron Aston of Forfar (1584-1639), of Tixall, Staffordshire, diplomat. c.1634.
Inscribed on f. iv‘Her: Aston [monogram] the 29 of July an: D: 1634’.
StW 964
Copy, untitled.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several hands, showing communal use, 161 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.
Formerly Chest II, No. 21.
Song of Death and the Resurrection (‘Like to the casting of an Eye’)
First published in Poems and Psalms by Henry King, ed. John Hannah (Oxford & London, 1843), p. cxxii. Dobell, pp. 50-1. Forey, pp. 107-8.
MS texts usually begin ‘Like to the rolling of an eye’.
*StW 965
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 967
Copy, here beginning ‘Like to the rowlinge of an Eye’.
In: the MS described under StW 4 (StW Δ 5). c.1630s-40s.
StW 968
Copy, headed ‘Death and Resurrection. Mr Stroud’ and here beginning ‘Like to the rowling of an eye’.
In: the MS described under StW 86 (StW Δ 7). c.1638.
StW 969
Copy in: the MS described under StW 125 (StW Δ 9). c.1630s.
StW 970
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 971
Copy in: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 972
Copy, headed ‘Of death, and resurrection’ and here beginning ‘Like to the rowling of an eye’.
In: the MS described under StW 165. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 974
Copy, headed ‘A Song W: S.’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.
StW 975
Copy, headed ‘Of Death and the resurrection. Sonnet’, subscribed ‘W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell. Collated in Forey.
StW 976
Copy, headed ‘Vppon Mortalitie’ and here beginning ‘Like to a rowlinge of an eye’, with a sidenote against the second stanza ‘Vppon Resurrection’.
In: the MS described under StW 12. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
StW 977
Copy in: the MS described under StW 152 (StW Δ 26). Mid-17th century.
StW 978
Copy, headed ‘On Mortality’ and here beginning ‘Like to ye rowling of an eye’.
In: the MS described under StW 19 (StW Δ 29). c.1650.
StW 978.5
Copy of a variant version headed ‘On Resurrection’ and beginning ‘Like to ye eye wth sleepe doth chayne’.
In: the MS described under StW 19 (StW Δ 29). c.1650.
StW 979
Copy, here beginning ‘Like to the rowling of an eye’.
In: the MS described under StW 44. c.1630s-40s.
StW 980
Copy, headed ‘On Death and Resurreccon’ and here beginning ‘Like to the Rowlinge of an Eye’.
In: the MS described under StW 46. c.1625-31.
Edited from this MS in Hannah.
StW 981
Copy, headed ‘Death and Resurrection’ and here beginning ‘Like to the rolling of an eye’.
In: the MS described under StW 207. c.1620s-30s.
StW 982
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Resurrection’ and beginning with the second stanza, here beginning ‘Like to the eyes wch sleepe doth chaine’.
In: the MS described under StW 404. c.1630s.
StW 983
Copy, headed ‘Mr Strowd. / Mortality and Resurrection’.
In: the MS described under StW 407. c.1630s.
Song on a Friends Absence (‘Come, com, I faint’)
See StW 364-377.
A Song on a Sigh (‘O tell mee, tell, thou god of wynde’)
See StW 707-722.
A song on the Baths (‘What Angel stirrs this happy well?’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 9-10. Forey, pp. 99-101.
*StW 984
Autograph, with extensive revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Dobell; Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 988
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 989
Copy, subscribed ‘Will: Stroude’.
In: the MS described under StW 7. c.1635.
This MS collated in Forey.
A Sonnet (‘My Love and I for kisses played’)
First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1633). Dobell, p. 47. Forey, p. 211. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 446-7).
StW 991
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under StW 4 (StW Δ 5). c.1630s-40s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.
StW 992
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under StW 5 (StW Δ 6). c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 993
Copy, headed ‘On a kissing gentlewoman’.
In: the MS described under StW 86 (StW Δ 7). c.1638.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 994
Copy in: the MS described under StW 160 (StW Δ 8). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.
StW 995
Copy, headed ‘On 2 Gamsters’.
In: the MS described under StW 125 (StW Δ 9). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.
StW 996
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
StW 1000
Copy, headed ‘on his Mris’.
In: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.
StW 1001
Copy, headed ‘A Sonnet. W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Text from this MS in Forey.
StW 1002
Copy, subscribed ‘W: S’.
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.
StW 1003
Copy, headed ‘A Louer to his Mistrise’.
In: the MS described under StW 170 (StW Δ 20). c.1637-51.
StW 1003.5
Copy, headed ‘Vpon A Louer and his Mris playing for kisses’.
In: the MS described under StW 170 (StW Δ 20). c.1637-51.
StW 1005.5
Copy in: the MS described under StW 331.5. Early-mid-18th century.
StW 1006
Copy, headed ‘On two louers playinge for kisses’.
In: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
StW 1008
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under StW 770. c.1638.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.
StW 1009
Copy, headed ‘A song’.
In: the MS described under StW 44. c.1630s-40s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.
StW 1010
Copy, headed ‘On his Mistris’.
In: A composite volume of verse, i + 126 leaves. Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary. Late 17th century.
Given to the library in 1954 by N.R. Ker.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1011
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under StW 320. c.1620s-30s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.
StW 1012
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in three or more hands, probably compiled principally by a member of New College, Oxford, 163 pages, in calf-backed marbled boards. c.1620s-30s.
The name ‘George Brown’ inscribed on p. 14. Inscribed on p. i by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector ‘Feb 13. 1790. I this day purchased this Manuscript Collection of Poems, at the sale of Mr Brander's books, at the exorbitant price of Ten Guineas. EMalone’.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.
StW 1013
Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
In: the MS described under StW 898. c.1656.
This MS collated in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth Century Lyrics’, MD, 10 (1956), 142-209 (p. 184); recorded in Forey, p. 334.
StW 1014
Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
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.
StW 1015
Copy of an untitled version beginning ‘I: and my Love ffor kysses playd’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, entirely in the professional secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, containing some 76 poems, including eleven by Donne, later inscribed (erroneously) ‘Sir John Haringtons Poems Written in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth’, 56 leaves, in contemporary vellum. c.1620s-33.
From the library of Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755), nonjuring bishop and topographer.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Rawlinson MS’: DnJ Δ 38. Also briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 277 (No. 94), with facsimile examples on pp. 102-3.
StW 1016
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under StW 322.
This MS recorded (erroneously as MS Rawl. poet. 117) in Forey, p. 334.
StW 1017
Copy, headed ‘A Sonet’.
In: the MS described under StW 207. c.1620s-30s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.
StW 1018
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘R. Cr.’
In: the MS described under StW 785. c.1640s [and later].
This MS recorded (erroneously as MS Tanner 306) in Forey, p. 334.
StW 1019
Copy, headed ‘Lusus amatorius’.
In: the MS described under StW 395. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.
StW 1021
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘I and my loue for kisses playd’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several small non-professional hands, 88 leaves, imperfect at the beginning. c.1630s-40s.
StW 1023
Copy, subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 121. c.1633-1645.
Edited from this MS in Edward F. Rimbault, ‘Queries concerning Poets and Poetry’, N&Q, 1st Ser. 1 (9 March 1850), 302; recorded in Forey, p. 334.
StW 1024
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘I and my loue, for kisses playd’.
In: An independent quarto verse miscellany, including 47 poems by Donne, in two secretary hands. Constituting ff. 230r-99v in a quarto composite volume of verse and prose, in various hands, 308 leaves, in modern half green morocco gilt. c.1620-33.
Among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son, Edward, second Earl of Oxford (1681-1741), and acquired in 1722 from the bookseller Nathaniel Noel (fl.1681-c.1753).
Cited in IELM I.i as the ‘Harley Noel MS’: DnJ Δ 2.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.
StW 1025
Copy, headed ‘Playinge for kisses’.
In: the MS described under StW 800. c.1637.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.
StW 1026
Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
In: the MS described under StW 720. c.1637.
Edited from this MS in James Walter Brown, ‘Some Elizabethan Lyrics’, Cornhill Magazine, 51 (September 1921), 285-96 (p. 290).
StW 1028
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under StW 900. 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 (p. 184).
StW 1031
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, closely written in possibly several minute predominantly secretary hands, 291 leaves (ff. 212-16 bound out of order after f. 24), in modern calf. c.1640s.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Joseph Hall’ (not the bishop). Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger, who has entered in pseudo-17th-century secretary script copies of various ballads on ff. 39r-41r, 107v-79r, 181r-v, 227r-8v, 243r-6r, as well as adding foliation (1-284) before the more recent foliation (1-291, used below). Quaritch's sale catalogue ‘of English Literature’ (August-November 1884), item 22350, Collier's transcript of the MS made c.1860 being item 22352. Formerly Folger MS 2071.7.
Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Giles E. Dawson, ‘John Payne Collier's Great Forgery’, SB, 24 (1971), 1-26.
StW 1032
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed ‘Vpon playing with his mistresse’.
In: the MS described under StW 332. c.1630s-40s.
John Rylands University Library of Manchester, English MS 410, f. 22r.
StW 1034
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘I and my loue for kisses played’.
In: An oblong octavo composite volume, comprising two independent verse miscellanies, Part I, in Latin and English, largely in a neat secretary hand, paginated 1-22, Part II, in English and Welsh, in several hands, one neat secretary hand predominating, paginated 1-266, the two parts bound together in modern quarter red morocco. c.1630s.
Inscriptions including (Part I, pp. 1, 3 and 42) ‘Edward Lewis his Book 1753’, ‘John Parker’, ‘P H Warburton’, and ‘John Aden’, and (Part II, p. 33) ‘Thomas Lloyd Esq’. Wigfair MS 43, among papers mainly of the Lloyd family of Hafodunos, Denbighshire, and Wigfair, near St Asaph, Flintshire, purchased in 1926-7 from Colonel H. C. Lloyd Howard, of Wigfair.
National Library of Wales, NLW MS 12443 A, Part II, pp. 55-6.
StW 1035
Copy, headed ‘Vpon his Mrs. playing for a kiss’.
In: the MS described under StW 333. Mid-17th century.
StW 1036
Copies in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
In: Three oblong quarto music part books (4/a, 4/b, and 4/c), 103, 93, and 75 leaves (including numerous blanks) respectively, in contemporary calf gilt. Principally in a single hand, a second hand responsible for 4/b, ff. 17v-24v, and for 4/c, ff. 5r-12v; the collection largely copies of vocal trios that would appear in John Wilson's Cheereful Ayres (Oxford, 1660). Mid-17th century.
In a collection of MS music books associated with the Filmer family, baronets, of Kent, members of whom included the political philosopher Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653), his brother Edward (d.1650, compiler of French Court Aires, 1628) and son Sir Edward (d.1668), and the playwright Edward Filmer (fl.1700).
Yale Music Library, Misc. MS 170, Filmer MS 4, 4/a f. 27r; 4/b f. 21r; 4/c f. 26r.
A Souldier to Penelope (‘Penelope the faire and chast’)
Unpublished. Forey, p. 33.
*StW 1037
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 1038
Copy, headed ‘A souldier to Penelope. W. S’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 1039
Copy in: the MS described under StW 125 (StW Δ 9). c.1630s.
StW 1040
Copy, headed ‘To Penelope’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
A Superscription on Sir Philip Sidneys Arcadia sent for a Token (‘Whatever in Philoclea the Faire’)
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 43. Forey, p. 18.
*StW 1042
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 1043
Copy, headed ‘song sr P: sydney’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS (or StW 1044) collated in Forey.
StW 1046
Copy, subscribed ‘W.S.’
In: the MS described under StW 165. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1048
Copy, as ‘by W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1050
Copy, inscribed at the side ‘W. S’.
In: the MS described under StW 151 (StW Δ 23). c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
StW 1051
Copy. headed ‘A subscription on Sir Philip Sidneys Arcadia sent for a Token’.
In: the MS described under StW 19 (StW Δ 29). c.1650.
StW 1052
Copy, headed ‘by A gent that sent Arcadia to his mrs:’.
In: the MS described under StW 54. c.1637.
Thankes for a welcome (‘For your good Lookes, and for your Clarett’)
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, p. 102. Forey, p. 30.
*StW 1053
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 1054
Copy in: the MS described under StW 5 (StW Δ 6). c.1630s-40s.
StW 1055
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
StW 1057
Copy in: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 1058
Copy, here beginning ‘ffor thy good lookes, and for your Clarret’, subscribed ‘W.S.’
In: the MS described under StW 165. c.1630s-40s.
StW 1059
Copy, subscribed ‘Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 1060
Copy in: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited probably from this MS in Dobell.
StW 1062
Copy, inscribed at the side ‘W. S’.
In: the MS described under StW 151 (StW Δ 23). c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
StW 1063
Copy, here beginning ‘ffor your good lookes & yr good clarret’.
In: the MS described under StW 15 (StW Δ 31). c.1630s.
StW 1064
Copy, headed ‘Mr Strouds thanks for a wellcome’.
In: the MS described under StW 67. c.1630s-40s.
Printed from this MS in Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses [1691-2], ed. Philip Bliss, 4 vols (London, 1813-20), III, 152.
To a frinde (‘Like as the hande which hath bin usd to play’)
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 99-100. The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. Rhodes Dunlap (Oxford, 1949), p. 130. Forey, p. 31.
*StW 1065
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 1067
Copy in: the MS described under StW 5 (StW Δ 6). c.1630s-40s.
StW 1069
Copy, here beginning ‘Like to ye hand wh hath bin vsd to play’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Dunlap and in Forey.
StW 1070
Second copy.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Dunlap.
StW 1072
Copy, here beginning ‘Like to the hand which hath beene vsd to play’, subscribed ‘W.S.’
In: the MS described under StW 165. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1074
Copy, here beginning ‘Like to the hand wch hath been vsd to play’, subscribed ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 1075
Copy, headed ‘W: S: To a Friend’ and here beginning ‘Like to the hande which hath bin usde to play’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1076
Copy, subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1077
Copy in: the MS described under StW 13 (StW Δ 28). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 31-2.
StW 1078
Copy, here beginning ‘Like to a hand that hath beene vs'd to play’, subscribed ‘W. S.’.
In: the MS described under StW 15 (StW Δ 31). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1079
Copy, headed ‘Mr Carew to his friend’.
In: the MS described under StW 770. c.1638.
Edited from this MS in Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses [1691-2], ed. Philip Bliss, 4 vols (London, 1813-20), II, 659, and in The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. W. Carew Hazlitt ([London], 1870), p. 164.
StW 1080
Copy, headed ‘To his mistrisse’.
In: the MS described under StW 139. c.1641-9.
Edited from this MS in Dunlap.
StW 1082
Copy in: the MS described under StW 208. c.1636-40s.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 32 (James 423), f. 21r-v.
To a Gentlewoman with Black Eyes, for a Frinde (‘Noe marvaile, if the Suns bright Eye’)
Lines 15-20 (beginning ‘Oft when I looke I may descrie’) first published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 29-30. Forey, pp. 37-9.
*StW 1084
Autograph, with twelve lines (originally lines 39-50) heavily deleted, headed ‘To a Gentlewoman [with Black Eyes added in the hand of William Fulman] for a Frinde’.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Text from this MS in Forey; cited in Dobell.
StW 1085
Copy, headed ‘To a gentlewoman for a Louer. W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 1086
Copy, headed ‘To a gentle-woeman [for a friend W. S. added in a different ink]’, subscribed ‘Will: Strowd’.
In: the MS described under StW 160 (StW Δ 8). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 283.
StW 1087
Copy, headed ‘To a Gentlewoman’.
In: the MS described under StW 125 (StW Δ 9). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 283.
StW 1088
Copy, headed ‘To a Gentlewoman for a freind’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1089
Copy of lines 15-20, headed ‘To his Mrs’, here beginning ‘Oft when I look, I may descry’, subscribed ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 8 (StW Δ 13). c.1633.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 283.
StW 1090
Copy, headed ‘To a Gentlewoman’.
In: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 1091
Copy, headed ‘To a Gentwoman for a freinde’, subscribed ‘W.S.’
In: the MS described under StW 165. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1092
Copy, headed ‘On Blacke eyes’.
In: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1093
Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 1094
Copy, headed ‘To a Gentlewoman, for a Friend. W:S.’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1095
Copy, headed ‘To a gentlewoman for a freind’, subscribed ‘W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1096
Copy, headed ‘To a gentlewoman from a freind’.
In: the MS described under StW 80 (StW Δ 21). c.1630s.
StW 1097
Copy, headed ‘To a gentleman for a freind’.
In: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
StW 1098
Copy, headed ‘In commendations of black-eyes’.
In: the MS described under StW 173 (StW Δ 25). c.1634.
StW 1099
Copy, headed ‘to A gentlewoman’.
In: the MS described under StW 152 (StW Δ 26). Mid-17th century.
StW 1100
Copy, headed ‘To a gentlewoman for his friend’.
In: the MS described under StW 152 (StW Δ 26). Mid-17th century.
StW 1101
Copy, headed ‘To a gentlewoman for a freind’.
In: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
StW 1102
Copy, headed ‘To a gentle woman’, subscribed ‘W. S.’
In: the MS described under StW 15 (StW Δ 31). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1104
Copy of lines 15-20, untitled and here beginning ‘Oft when I looke I may descry’.
In: the MS described under StW 425. c.1620-50.
StW 1105
Copy, headed ‘Black eyes’, lacking the last two lines.
In: the MS described under StW 49. Mid-17th century.
StW 1106
Copy of lines 15-20, headed ‘The dart’.
In: the MS described under StW 797. Mid-17th century.
StW 1108
Copy of lines 15-20, headed ‘The Dart’ and here beginning ‘Oft when I look I may descry’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several generally italic hands, written originally on rectos only, the versos used by later hands, i + 112 leaves (ff. 93-5 excised), in old calf (rebacked). Including 26 poems by Thomas Carew and one of doubtful authorship. c.1694-1740.
Inscribed (inside the front cver) ‘Tho: Jesson His Book 1694’; (ff. ir, 5v) ‘S Harriott 1740’, and a poem (f. 37v) subscribed ‘Sarah Harriott’.
Recorded in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Jesson MS’: CwT Δ 23.
StW 1109
Copy of lines 15-20, headed ‘The Dart’ and here beginning ‘Oft when I looke I may descry’, deleted.
In: the MS described under StW 1108. c.1694-1740.
StW 1112
Copy of lines 1-24, headed ‘To his Mrs hauing black eyes’, subscribed ‘Will: Stroude’.
In: the MS described under StW 191. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Dobell, p. 32.
To a Valentine (‘Fayre Valentine, since once your welcome hand’)
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 42. Forey, p. 193.
StW 1113
Copy in: the MS described under StW 5 (StW Δ 6). c.1630s-40s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 328.
StW 1114
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 328.
StW 1115
Second copy, headed ‘On a knife to a Valentine’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 328.
StW 1116
Copy, subscribed ‘W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 8 (StW Δ 13). c.1633.
This MS recorded in Forey.
StW 1117
Copy, headed ‘On a knife sent to his valentine’, subscribed ‘W.S.’
In: the MS described under StW 165. c.1630s-40s.
StW 1118
Copy in: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 328.
StW 1119
Copy in: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Text in part from this MS in Forey.
StW 1120
Copy, as by ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Text in part from this MS in Forey.
StW 1121
Copy, subscribed ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 328.
StW 1122
Copy, headed ‘On a knife giuen to his Valentine’.
In: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
StW 1125
Copy, subscribed ‘W. S.’
In: the MS described under StW 15 (StW Δ 31). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 328.
StW 1126
Copy, headed ‘To his valentine Mris Alice Hutton’, ascribed at the side to ‘Mr Strowd’.
In: the MS described under StW 291. c.1630 [-1677].
StW 1128
Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, headed ‘On a knife to a Valentine’.
In: the MS described under StW 548.
To his Mistresse (‘In your sterne beauty I can see’)
See StW 226-237.
To his Sister (‘Lovinge Sister, every line’)
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 88. Forey, p. 198.
StW 1129
Copy, headed ‘To his sister who sent a piece of Gold inclosed in her letter. W. S’.
In: the MS described under StW 86 (StW Δ 7). c.1638.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 330.
StW 1130
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1131
Copy, headed ‘A Gentleman to his sister’.
In: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 330.
StW 1132
Copy, subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 1133
Copy, headed ‘W: S: To his Sister’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1134
Copy, subscribed ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1135
Copy in: the MS described under StW 12. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
Text from this MS in Forey.
StW 1136
Copy, headed ‘A Gentleman to his Sisters’ and here beginning ‘Loving sisters euery line’, subscribed ‘W. S.’.
In: the MS described under StW 15 (StW Δ 31). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 328.
StW 1137
Copy, as by ‘W. Stroad’.
In: the MS described under StW 138. c.1640s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 330.
To Mr. Butler on his Booke of Musick (‘Sweete singing Prophet, Heire of Davids parts’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 141-3.
*StW 1138
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
To Mr Rives heal'd by a strange cure by Barnard Wright Chirurgion in Oxon. (‘Welcome abroad, o welcome from your bedd!’)
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 95-7. Forey, pp. 11-14.
*StW 1139
Autograph of lines 13-66, here beginning ‘A Bone soe lockd & huggd in as a Barne’; imperfect, lacking lines 1-12.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Text of lines 13-66 from this MS in Forey.
StW 1140
Copy, headed ‘Vpon ye recouery of a Gentleman: W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 1141
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman heald of a strangeCure: by two Surgants’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1142
Copy, headed ‘To a Gentleman strangely cur'd by two Chirurgians’.
In: the MS described under StW 7. c.1635.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 366 et seq.
StW 1143
Copy, headed ‘To Mr Riues uppon his recouery’, subscribed ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 8 (StW Δ 13). c.1633.
This MS recorded in Dobell; collated in Forey.
StW 1144
Copy, headed ‘To A Gentlewoman healed by a strange cure in Oxford’.
In: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 366 et seq.
StW 1145
Copy, headed ‘To Dr Griffith heald by a strange cure by Barnard Wright Chirurgeon in Oxon’, subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 1146
Copy, headed ‘To Doctor Griffith heal'd by a strange cure by Barnard Wright Chirurgion in Oxon.’, as ‘by W: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
Edited chiefly from this MS in Dobell. Collated, and the text of lines 1-12 and 67-8 taken from this MS, in Forey.
StW 1147
Copy, headed ‘To a Gentle man, on a strange Cure’.
In: the MS described under StW 12. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1148
Copy, headed ‘To a Gentleman strangely cur'd by two Chirurgians’.
In: the MS described under StW 19 (StW Δ 29). c.1650.
StW 1149
Copy, headed ‘vpon a gent who had a bone taken out of his Thighe’.
In: the MS described under StW 392. 1647.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 366 et seq.
StW 1150
Copy, headed ‘On Mr Rives and Mr Griffiths recovery both Fellowes of New Coll.’, subscribed ‘J[ohn]: South. N[ew] Coll[ege]’.
In: the MS described under StW 359. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1151
Copy, headed ‘Mr Strowd / To Mr Paine of CC. upon ye strange cure of his thigh by Venotto, and Barnard Wright; Or, The chirurgians Elogie’.
In: the MS described under StW 407. c.1630s.
StW 1152
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Surgery done by Bernard Wright’.
In: the MS described under StW 156. c.1630.
To Sir Edmund Ling (‘Sir, I had writt in Lattin, but I feare’)
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 93. Forey, p. 199.
StW 1154
Copy, as by ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1155
Copy, subscribed ‘W: Stroude’.
In: the MS described under StW 7. c.1635.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1156
Copy, inscribed ‘W. S.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited from this MS in Dobell; text from this MS in Forey.
To Sir Jo. Ferrers (‘Gold is restorative. How can I then’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 88-9. Forey, pp. 200-1.
StW 1159
Copy, subscribed ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 7. c.1635.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1160
Copy, inscribed ‘W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited from this MS in Dobell; text from this MS in Forey.
StW 1162
Copy in: the MS described under StW 56. c.1638.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), pp. 110-11.
To Sir John Ferrers for a token (‘It grieves mee that I thus due thanks retayne’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 92-3. Forey, pp. 204-5.
StW 1165
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1166
Copy, headed ‘To the same’ [i.e. Sir John Ferrers], subscribed ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 7. c.1635.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1167
Copy, headed ‘To Sr Jo: Ferrers. W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited from this MS in Dobell; text from this MS in Forey.
StW 1168
Copy, headed ‘To the same’ [i.e. Sir John Ferrers].
In: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
To the Lady Knighton (‘Madam, due thanks are lodgde within my breast’)
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 94-5. Forey, pp. 53-4.
*StW 1169
Autograph of lines 21-36; imperfect, the rest of the poem excised before the volume was paginated by Fulman.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Text mainly from this MS in Forey.
StW 1171
Copy, headed ‘On The Lady Knighton. W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1172
Copy, subscribed ‘Will Strode’.
In: the MS described under StW 7. c.1635.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1174
Copy, inscribed ‘W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited from this MS in Dobell; collated, and the text of lines 1-20 taken from this MS, in Forey.
To the Same [Sir Jo. Ferrers] (‘If empty Vessells can resounde’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 90-2. Forey, pp. 202-4.
StW 1175
Copy, headed ‘His Thankes to Sir John fferrars’, subscribed ‘Wil: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 127 (StW Δ 11). c.1636.
This MS text collated in Forey.
StW 1176
Copy, subscribed ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 7. c.1635.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1177
Copy, inscribed ‘W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited from this MS in Dobell; text from this MS in Forey.
To the Same (‘It grieves mee that I thus due thanks retayne’)
See StW 1164-1168.
The Townes new teacher (‘With Face and Fashion to bee knowne’)
First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Forey, pp. 167-9.
*StW 1178
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 1180
Copy, in double columns, on a single folio leaf. Mid-17th century.
In: the MS described under StW 66.
StW 1181
Copy, headed in a different hand ‘Vpon a Puritan-Preacher’.
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).
StW 1182
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘W. Strode’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in a single small hand, 54 leaves, in vellum boards. Compiled by a Cambridge University man. c.1640s.
StW 1183
Copy, headed ‘Ye Lecturer or New preacher’, with other poems on a folio leaf.
In: the MS described under StW 503.
StW 1184
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘By face & fashion to be knowne’.
In: the MS described under StW 799. c.1647.
StW 1185
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Strode’.
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.
StW 1186
Copy, partly in double columns, headed ‘Mr Strode’.
In: the MS described under StW 1034. c.1630s.
National Library of Wales, NLW MS 12443 A, Part II, pp. 234-6.
StW 1187
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled but endorsed ‘The Townes new teacher’, on one side of a single folio leaf. c.1630.
In: A collection of unbound state papers, now in folders. c.1628.
Donated in 1921 by Dr J. R. Tanner.
StW 1188
Copy, headed ‘To ye tune of ye old Country and the queen’.
In: the MS described under StW 964. Late 17th century.
A Translation of the Nightingale out of Strada (‘Now the declining Sun gan downward bende’)
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 16-18. Forey, pp. 72-5.
*StW 1189
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Text from this MS in Forey; collated in part in Dobell.
StW 1190
Copy, headed ‘Betwixt a Lutanist & a Nightingall These sweete expressions of musicke in a shady Groue / Translated by two ffrendes’.
In: the MS described under StW 4 (StW Δ 5). c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1191
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1193
Copy, headed ‘Stradas Nightingale translated’, subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 1194
Copy, subscribed ‘W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
Edited from this MS in Dobell.
StW 1195
Copy, headed ‘A Storie of a ffidler and a Nightingale translated out of ffam — Strada’.
In: the MS described under StW 170 (StW Δ 20). c.1637-51.
StW 1196
Copy in: the MS described under StW 12. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1197
Copy, headed ‘A translation out of Strada by Mr Strode of ye lutanist and ye nightingale’.
In: the MS described under StW 152 (StW Δ 26). Mid-17th century.
StW 1198
Copy in: the MS described under StW 31 (StW Δ 27). c.1620-40s.
StW 1200
Copy, headed ‘The Nightingale’.
In: the MS described under StW 783. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1201
Copy, headed ‘Strada's Nightgale’, subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 207. c.1620s-30s.
StW 1203
Copy, with the original Latin on facing pages, in a formal italic and mixed hand respectively, headed ‘Ex Libro secundo Famiani Stradæ prolu: sexta’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several largely italic hands, closely written, 148 leaves (plus blanks), in modern quarter morocco gilt. Probably compiled by university or inns of court men. c.1620s-30s.
StW 1204
Copy, headed ‘Of ye translatinge of ye nightingale out of Strada by W: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 56. c.1638.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), pp. 15-17.
StW 1205
Copy, headed ‘A Translacon out of Catullus of the Nightingirle’.
In: the MS described under StW 57. c.1638-42.
Ulysses his speech translated out of the 13th book of Ovids Metamorph: (‘Ajax had made an Ende, and all the Rout’)
Unpublished: Forey, pp. 55-71.
*StW 1206
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
Vpon Will: Bridle, who being zealous for his Sweethart never went without a blewe Eye, and one time founde noe other remedy then chalke to hide it (‘That my pen may not be idle’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 19-21.
*StW 1207
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 1209
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
A wassal (‘This Jolly Boule with broided Curlings wrought’)
First published in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), p. 41. Forey, pp. 105-6.
*StW 1210
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
*StW 1211
Autograph fair copy.
In: the MS described under StW 158 (StW Δ 3). c.1620s-30s.
Edited from this MS in Needham.
StW 1213
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
A watchstring (‘Tymes picture here invites your eyes’)
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 44. Forey, p. 210.
StW 1214
Copy of the second couplet, here beginning ‘My strings cann doe what noe man could’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 1215
Copy in: the MS described under StW 4 (StW Δ 5). c.1630s-40s.
StW 1216
Copy in: the MS described under StW 5 (StW Δ 6). c.1630s-40s.
StW 1217
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1218
Copy of the second couplet, here beginning ‘My strings can doe what noe man could’.
In: the MS described under StW 7. c.1635.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1219
Copy, headed ‘A Posey on a Watchstring’, subscribed ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 8 (StW Δ 13). c.1633.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1220
Copy, here beginning ‘This picture here invites your eyes’.
In: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 1221
Copy of the second couplet, headed ‘On a watch string’ and here beginning ‘My strings can doe what no man could’.
In: the MS described under StW 165. c.1630s-40s.
StW 1222
Copy of the second couplet, headed ‘On A watch.string’, here beginning ‘My strings can do what no man could’.
In: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
StW 1223
Copy in: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 1224
Copy of the second couplet, here beginning ‘my stringes can doe, what no man could’, inscribed in a different ink ‘W S’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1224.5
Copy of the second couplet, headed ‘On a watch string’ and here beginning ‘My stringe can doe what no man could’.
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
StW 1226
Copy of the second couplet, headed ‘Vpon the string of a watch’ and here beginning ‘My strings can doe what noe man could’.
In: the MS described under StW 170 (StW Δ 20). c.1637-51.
StW 1227
Copy in: the MS described under StW 151 (StW Δ 23). c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
StW 1229
Copy of the second couplet, here beginning ‘My strings can doe what no man could’.
In: the MS described under StW 31 (StW Δ 27). c.1620-40s.
StW 1230
Copy in: the MS described under StW 13 (StW Δ 28). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], p. 28.
StW 1232
Copy in: the MS described under StW 15 (StW Δ 31). c.1630s.
StW 1233
Copy of the second couplet, here beginning ‘My stringes can doe what noe man cold’.
In: the MS described under StW 324. c.1670.
Westwell Elme (‘Prethe stand still a while, and view this Tree’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 21-4. Forey, pp. 1-5.
*StW 1234
Autograph of lines 1-84, with corrections, originally headed ‘On a greate hollow Tree’, later headed by William Fulman ‘Westwell Elme’; imperfect, the last twelve lines (85-96) excised before the volume was paginated by Fulman.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Text of lines 1-84 from this MS in Forey.
StW 1235
Copy, headed ‘On a great hollow Tree. W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 1236
Copy, headed ‘On An Old Decayd Vast Hollow Tree’.
In: the MS described under StW 5 (StW Δ 6). c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1237
Copy, headed ‘On a greate hollow Tree’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1238
Copy, headed ‘On A great hollow tree’.
In: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 1239
Copy, headed ‘On a great hollow Tree. W:S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited from this MS in Dobell; collated, and text of lines 85-96 from this MS, in Forey.
StW 1240
Copy, headed ‘On a great hollow Tree’, inscribed at the side ‘W. S’.
In: the MS described under StW 151 (StW Δ 23). c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
StW 1241
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Westwell greate-Elme, standing at good-man Berryesgate, at the Farme; within two miles of Burforde in Oxforde-shire; beeing the drinking-Tree at Whitsontide’.
In: the MS described under StW 173 (StW Δ 25). c.1634.
StW 1242
Copy, headed ‘On a greate hollow Tree’, subscribed ‘W. S.’
In: the MS described under StW 15 (StW Δ 31). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1243
Copy, headed ‘on a greate hollowe tree’.
In: the MS described under StW 888. c.1630s [-1670s].
StW 1244
Copy, headed ‘Verses Upon Westwell Great Elme standing at Goodman Berrye's Gate, at the farme, within two miles of Burforde in Oxforde-shire; beeing the dancing Tree at Whitsontide’, transcribed from a text in ‘a small MS. Collection in Mr. Bouchers possession’ [i.e. Jonathan Boucher of Epsom].
In: the MS described under StW 188. c.1800.
This MS recorded in Neilson, ‘A Bundle of Ballads’, p. 113; the article recorded in Forey, p. 222.
With Pen, Inke and paper these to a distressed &c. (‘Here is paper, pen and Inke’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 101-2. Forey, pp. 15-16.
*StW 1245
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 1246
Copy, headed ‘With penn, Inke, and paper these to a distred Louer. W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 1247
Copy, headed ‘with yon paper & Inke, heare to a distressed’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
StW 1248
Copy, headed ‘With pen, inke & paper to a distressed lover’, subscribed ‘W.S.’
In: the MS described under StW 165. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1249
Copy, headed ‘With Penne, Inke, and Paper: to a distressed Friend. W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1250
Copy, headed ‘To a distressed freind, with pen, Inck and paper’, subscribed ‘W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 1251
Copy, headed ‘to his Mris With Penne, Inke, and Paper, these’, ascribed at the side to ?‘JC:’.
In: the MS described under StW 291. c.1630 [-1677].
English Poems of Doubtful or Spurious Authorship
In eundem [the death of Mr. Fra. Lancaster] (‘To die is Natures debt. and when’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 340.
StW 1252
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph’, and here ascribed to ‘W.S.’.
In: the MS described under StW 5 (StW Δ 6). c.1630s-40s.
This MS recorded in Forey.
StW 1253
Copy, headed ‘On ye death of Mr ffrancis Lancaster’, subscribed ‘W: Bra:’.
In: the MS described under StW 127 (StW Δ 11). c.1636.
StW 1254
Copy, headed In obitum ffrancisci Lancaster, subscried ‘Peter Bradshaw’.
In: the MS described under StW 7. c.1635.
This MS recorded in Forey.
StW 1255
Copy, headed ‘On the death of Mr Francis Lancaster stab'd’, subscribed ‘Peter Bradshawe’.
In: the MS described under StW 8 (StW Δ 13). c.1633.
This MS recorded in Forey.
StW 1256
Copy, headed ‘On Mr Lancaster run thorow by a captaine’.
In: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
StW 1257
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph’.
In: the MS described under StW 44. c.1630s-40s.
This MS recorded in Forey.
StW 1258
Copy, headed ‘On the death of Mr Lancaster’, subscribed ‘P: Bradshawe’.
In: the MS described under StW 139. c.1641-9.
Jack on both Sides (‘I holde as fayth What Englandes Church Allowes’)
First published, as ‘The Church Papist’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Reprinted as ‘The Jesuit's Double-faced Creed’ by Henry Care in The Popish Courant (16 May 1679): see August A. Imholtz, Jr, ‘The Jesuits' Double-Faced Creed: A Seventeenth-Century Cross-Reading’, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 553-4. Dobell, p. 111. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
StW 1260
Copy, headed ‘A Roman Catholick demanding of his friend what he should report his Religion to be, he answereth thus’, in double columns, the page turned to oblong format.
In: the MS described under StW 151 (StW Δ 23). c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
StW 1263
Copy, headed ‘Carmen Equiuocum’. c.1634.
In: A quarto antiquarian miscellany, xii + 118 leaves.
Among collections of Roger Dodsworth (1585-1654), antiquary.
StW 1263.5
Hearne's transcript of StW 1263.
In: An autograph diary of the antiquary Thomas Hearne (1678-1735).
StW 1264
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio volume of poems chiefly on affairs of state, in professional hands, ff. 1-49 comprising poems of the 1640s, ff. 49v onwards Restoration poems up to 1681, 174 leaves (including twelve blanks), in contemporary calf, both covers stamped ‘1642’, with remains of clasps. Including nine poems in the Marvell canon (plus apocryphal poems); ff. 1-157 a single unit in variant styles of hand; ff. 158-62 in yet another hand on a smaller tipped-in quire of paper. Mid-late 17th century.
Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1993) as the Douce MS: MaA Δ 3. Marvell contents recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.
StW 1266
Copy, in double columns, headed ‘The Catholique’.
In: the MS described under StW 180. c.1634-43.
StW 1267
Copy, untitled, in two columns, on a single oblong octavo-size leaf.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and other papers of the Baskervile family, in various hands, 164 leaves (with omissions). c.1590-1636.
Assembled by Hannibal Baskervile, of Sunningwell, Berkshire.
StW 1268
Second copy, in the hand of Hannibal Baskervile, subscribed ‘Anno 1636. when ye king was at Oxon’, on the back of a folio printed sheet of Vesper Questions for 1627. c.1636.
In: the MS described under StW 1267. c.1590-1636.
StW 1269
Copy, in double columns, headed ‘Jacke on both sides’ and subscribed ‘Dc Strode of Ch: Ch:’, in a verse miscellany (ff. 267r-73v) compiled by an Oxford University man. c.1630.
In: the MS described under StW 657.
This MS recorded in Forey.
StW 1270
Copy, in double columns, headed ‘These Verses will serue both for Protestant and Papist, as they may be diuersly read’.
In: the MS described under StW 1181.
StW 1271
Copy, in double columns, headed ‘Verses presented to the kinge’ and here beginning ‘We hold as faith’.
In: the MS described under StW 781. Mid-17th century.
StW 1272
Copy, in two columns, headed ‘The Church Papist’, slightly imperfect.
In: the MS described under StW 782.
StW 1273
Copy, in double columns, headed ‘A Romish Catholick demanding of his freind, what he should report his religion to be, setts it downe thus in 2 Columnes, as followeth’.
In: the MS described under StW 785. c.1640s [and later].
StW 1274
Copy, in double columns, headed ‘These following verses came to men's hands in these times’ [i.e.‘about 1634 & 1635’].
In: A small quarto diary, in a single secretary hand, 89 leaves, bound with a separately acquired continuation or companion MS (ff. 90r-153r, now Add. MS 28640), in modern half-morocco. Compiled by the Rev. John Rous (1584-1644), incumbent of Santon Downham, Suffolk, and relating, retrospectively, chiefly to public events and to literary texts in circulation in 1625-42. c.1625-42.
Later owned by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist and antiquary. Turner sale, 7 June 1859, lot 253. The second MS purchased at Sotheby's, 15-25 March 1871 (library of the bookseller Joseph Lilly).
The first MS edited in full in Diary of John Rous, incumbent of Santon Downham, Suffolk, from 1625 to 1642, ed. Mary Anne Everett Green, Camden Society No. 66 (1856).
Edited from this MS in Diary of John Rous, ed. Mary Anne Everett Green, Camden Society 66 (London, 1856), p. 80.
StW 1274.5
Copy of a French translation, in double colums, beginning ‘Je tien pour chose trescertaines’, on one side of a folio leaf. Late 17th century.
In: An unbound collection of mainly verse MSS, in various hands, 142 leaves.
Volume LXVII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford. Purchased March 1995.
StW 1275
Copy, untitled.
In: An oblong quarto songbook, the lyrics largely in a single italic hand, with (ff. 4v-5r) a table of contents, 84 leaves, in 19th-century red morocco gilt. Inscribed (f. 3v), evidently by the compiler, ‘Giles Earle his booke 1615’ (with other notes dated 1610) and (f. 1v) ‘Egidius Earle hunc librum possidet qui compactus fuit mense Septembris. 1626.’, f. 81r subscribed ‘Anno Dni: 1623 / Mense Augusti: Finis’. c.1615-26.
Acquired from Joseph Lilly, bookseller, 17 May 1862.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).
StW 1277
Copy, untitled, on an oblong octavo leaf. Mid-late 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of verse, entitled ‘Songs & Sonnetts’, in various hands, 84 leaves, in half morocco gilt. Among the collections of Randle Holme, probably the third of that name (1627-1700), herald.
StW 1279
Copy, in double columns, headed ‘The Church of Roome/The Church of England’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany chiefly of verse, in one or more secretary hands, with a few later additions in other hands, 29 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt. c.1665.
StW 1281
Copy, in double columns, headed ‘A two Fac't Creed’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Poems & Satires in the Time of Charles the 2d. &c. Collected & written by Oliver Le Neve Esqr.’, in a single rounded hand, 80 leaves, in 19th-century half brown calf. Compiled by Oliver Le Neve (d.1711), younger brother of Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary. c.1690.
Bookplate of the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Lot 8055 in the sale of his library by Thomas King, 7 May to 16 June 1798. Formerly Chetham's MS 8013.
StW 1283
Copy, in double columns, headed in the margin ‘On the Religions of protestants and of Papists’.
In: A folio commonplace book of verse and prose, in a single neat hand. c.1666.
Among papers of the Sheridan family, of Frampton Court, Dorset.
StW 1284
Copy, untitled.
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’.
StW 1284.5
Copy, headed ‘Dr. Valentines verses on the church’.
In: the MS described under StW 762.2. c.late 1640s.
StW 1284.8
Copy, headed ‘Verses to be reade two wayes’.
In: A folio volume of state papers. Owned in 1633-5, and partly compiled, by William Heveningham, of Heveningham Hall, Suffolk. c.1633-49.
Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.
Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, pp. 369-70.
The Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall, MS 684, [unnumbered pages].
StW 1285
Copy, untitled, on a single quarto-size leaf. Mid-17th century.
Among papers of the Duke of Manchester of Kimbolton Castle.
StW 1285.5
Copy, together with translations, headed ‘The Jesuit's Double-Facd Creed, In Three Languages. 1679’.
In: A quarto formal verse anthology entitled The Whimsical Medley or A Miscellaneous Collection of severall Pieces in Prose & Verse [etc.], in a single stylish italic hand, with a tipped-in six-leaf table of contents, bound in three volumes, also incorporating printed pamphlets, 217 + 232 + 216 leaves (plus blanks), each volume in contemporary calf gilt. Compiled by Theophilus Butler (1669-1723), first Baron Newtown of Newtown-Butler, book collector. c.1720.
Old pressmark I. 5. 1-3.
StW 1286
Copy, 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.
StW 1287
Copy, in an italic hand, headed ‘The Jesuits Double-fac'd Creed’, on one side of a single oblong quarto-size leaf. c.1700.
StW 1288
Copy on a blank page among twenty-one MS poems added at the end of a printed exemplum of Edmund Waller's Poems, ‘fourth’ edition (London, 1682), in the hand of Elizabeth Moyle (afterwards Mrs Gregor), daughter of Sir Walter Moyle, M.P. (d.1701).
In: Exemplum of the ‘Fourth’ printed edition of Waller's Poems (8°: London, 1682), accompanying The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690), 2 vols. With a collection of 21 poems, including nine by Waller, copied in MS on 47 blank pages at the end of the first volume in the hand of Elizabeth Moyle (afterwards Mrs Gregor), another poem at the very end added in a different hand; the printed text of the poems also containing a number of MS emendations, and some of the poems numbered in MS from 1 to 38. c.1686-90s.
The first volume inscribed as being a gift in 1684 by Sir Walter Moyle (d. 1701), M.P., of Bake, St Germans, Cornwall, to his daughter Elizabeth (afterwards Mrs Gregor), brother of the essayist and politician Walter Moyle (1672-1721).
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the ‘Moyle Volume’: WaE Δ 17.
StW 1289
Copy, untitled, written in part twice on a flyleaf and paste-down. In a printed exemplum of Christopher Saint German, The Dialogue in English, betweene a Doctor of Divinitie, and a Student in the Lawes of England ([London], 1638). Mid-17th century.
Sotheby's, 14 November 1988, lot 1286, to Smallwood & Randall, Cirencester.
StW 1289.5
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph’, subscribed ‘W. Strode’.
In: the MS described under StW 84. c.1630s.
A Lover to his Mistress (‘Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde’)
First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
StW 1290
Copy, headed ‘A louer to his Mistresse: W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 1292
Copy, headed ‘An answer to a gentlewoman who asked by the rose was redd and the lillie white’ and here beginning ‘Ile tell you whence the rose did first grow redd’.
In: the MS described under StW 86 (StW Δ 7). c.1638.
StW 1293
Copy, headed ‘To his mris’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
StW 1294
Copy in: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 1295
Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs’, subscribed ‘W.S.’
In: the MS described under StW 165. c.1630s-40s.
StW 1296
Copy in: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
StW 1298
Copy, headed ‘A Lover, to his Mris. WS.’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
StW 1300
Copy, headed ‘To his Mistresse’.
In: the MS described under StW 151 (StW Δ 23). c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
StW 1303
Copy, headed ‘English’.
In: the MS described under StW 31 (StW Δ 27). c.1620-40s.
This text following a Latin version.
StW 1304
Copy, headed ‘On his Mistresse’.
In: the MS described under StW 13 (StW Δ 28). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 8-9.
StW 1305
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under StW 769. 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. 129).
StW 1307
Copy, headed ‘On his Mrs’ and here beginning ‘Ile tell you whence ye Rose grew redde’.
In: the MS described under StW 44. c.1630s-40s.
StW 1309
Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.
In: the MS described under StW 771. c.1640s-60s.
Edited from this MS in Norman Ault, A Treasury of Unfamiliar Lyrics (London, 1938), p. 182; collated in John P. Cutts, ‘A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57’, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 200).
StW 1313
Copy, headed ‘A Complemente’, in a verse miscellany (ff. 267r-73v) compiled by an Oxford University man. c.1630.
In: the MS described under StW 657.
StW 1314
Copy in: the MS described under StW 47. Mid-late 17th century.
StW 1319
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting (1596-1662), untitled.
In: the MS described under StW 857. Mid-17th century.
StW 1320
Copy, headed ‘To his Mistris’ and here beginning ‘I wonder how the rose came red’.
In: the MS described under StW 398. c.1640s.
StW 1320.5
Copy of an untitled version beginning ‘Shall I tell you how the rose at first grew redd’.
In: the MS described under StW 328. c.1630s.
StW 1321
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘I'le tell you whence the rose did first grow redd’.
In: the MS described under StW 800. c.1637.
StW 1322
Copy, headed ‘On his mistress’.
In: An octavo notebook of extracts in verse and prose, in a small untidy hand, written from both ends, 42 leaves (plus three blanks), badly worn, remains of boards and green ties. c.1640.
Includes (f. [31r rev.] a reference to ‘my brother Capstons account book after his death 1632’. Given to the library by H.L. Pink, Assistant Under-Librarian, 22 November 1948.
StW 1323
Copy in: the MS described under StW 50. c.1640s.
StW 1329
Copy, headed ‘An answer of Dr Corbet to his Mrs who ask'd him why the rose was red and ye Lylly white’.
In: A small quarto miscellany, in various hands, possibly compiled in part by one William Leigh, in modern leather. c.1650.
Inscribed (f. 1v) ‘Buckley 1772’. Acquired in 1950 from P.M. Mill. Formerly MS Leigh, William (?), comp., Commonplace Book (ca. 1650).
This volume offered in Maggs's sale catalogue No. 640 (1937), item 302.
StW 1330
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Shall I tell you how the Rose did first growe redd’.
In: the MS described under StW 55. c.1630s.
StW 1332
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: A folio songbook, largely in a single secretary hand, with poems and (reversed) culinary and medical receipts in later hands at the end, imperfect or incomplete, now 27 leaves, lacking half the songs listed in a ‘Table’ at the end. c.1620s-30s.
The original cover inscribed ‘Ann Twice her booke’. Inscribed on the first page ‘My Cosen Twice Leftte this Booke with me...which is to be returne to her AGhaine...’. Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.
A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 11 (New York & London, 1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, ‘“Songs Vnto the Violl and Lute” -- Drexel Ms. 4175’, Musica Disciplina, 16 (1962), 73-92.
Edited from this MS in Cutts, ‘“Songs unto the Violl and Lute”--Drexel MS 4175’, MD, 16 (1962), 72-92 (p. 92).
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4175, No. [lx, unnumbered].
StW 1333.5
Copy, in a cursive hand, headed ‘An Answere to his ladye askenge why lillyes where so white and roses soe redd’.
In: An octavo miscellany, in English and Latin in at least two hands. Inscribed ‘Tho: Clarkes Booke Sid[ney] Suss[ex]: Coll[ege, Cambridge] 1654’. c.1654.
Formerly in the library of the Earl of Macclesfield, Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire.
StW 1334
Copy, in a mixed hand, headed ‘A Complement to a Young Lady’, with two other poems on a single quarto leaf.
In: A collection of papers of Lord Bagot, of Blithfield Hall, and his family. Mid-17th century.
Staffordshire Record Office, D 1721/3/246, [unnumbered item].
On Jealousy (‘There is a thing that nothing is’)
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 49. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
StW 1341
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
StW 1342
Copy in: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 1345
Copy, headed ‘Vppon Jealousy’.
In: the MS described under StW 151 (StW Δ 23). c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
StW 1346
Copy in: the MS described under StW 152 (StW Δ 26). Mid-17th century.
StW 1347
Copy, headed ‘Aenigma de Zelotopia’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single neat largely italic hand, 155 leaves, in modern half-morocco. c.1630.
The table of contents (f. 155v) subscribed ‘Margrett Bellasys’, possibly the daughter of Thomas Belasyse (1577-1652), first Viscount Fauconberg of Henknowle. The front endpaper later inscribed ‘The pieces which I have extracted for “The Specimens” are, Page 91, 211, 265’: i.e. possibly by Thomas Campbell (1777-1844), editor of Specimens of the British Poets first published in 1809. Afterwards owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Evans (Sotheby's), 29 February 1836 (Heber sale, Part VIII), lot 13.
StW 1348
Copy in: the MS described under StW 56. c.1638.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), p. 108.
A Riddle on a Kisse (‘What thing is that, nor felt, nor seene’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 48-9. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 340.
StW 1349
Copy, headed ‘On a kisse.’, with ‘W. S.’ added in a later hand.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 1350
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under StW 5 (StW Δ 6). c.1630s-40s.
This MS recorded in Forey.
StW 1351
Copy, headed ‘A Kisse’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
StW 1353
Copy, inscribed ‘W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
This MS recorded in Forey.
StW 1356
Copy, headed ‘A tresured blessing from one his kisse’.
In: the MS described under StW 179. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey.
StW 1357
Copy, headed ‘On a Kisse’.
In: the MS described under StW 47. Mid-late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Forey.
StW 1358
Copy, headed ‘Aenigma de osculo’.
In: the MS described under StW 1347. c.1630.
This MS recorded in Forey.
A Sonnet (‘Sing aloud, harmonious sphears’)
First published in John Banister, New Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1678). Dobell, p. 124. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
StW 1359
Copy, headed ‘A Sonnet. W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Printed from this MS in Dobell; recorded in Forey.
StW 1360
Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.
In: the MS described under StW 771. c.1640s-60s.
Printed from this MS in John P. Cutts, Seventeenth Century Songs and Lyrics (Columbia, Missouri, 1959), p. 303; also collated and the two additional stanzas printed in Cutts, ‘A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57’, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 209).
StW 1361
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under StW 900. 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. 189-90).
StW 1362
Copy, in a musical setting, 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).
Upon the blush of a faire Ladie (‘Stay, lustie bloud, where canst thou seeke’)
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 39-40. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
StW 1363
Copy, headed ‘A Blush’.
In: the MS described under StW 160 (StW Δ 8). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey.
StW 1364
Copy, headed ‘On a Blush’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
StW 1365
Copy, headed ‘On a Blush’ subscribed ‘Wil: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 127 (StW Δ 11). c.1636.
StW 1366
Copy, headed ‘A Blush’.
In: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey.
StW 1367
Copy, subscribed ‘W: Stroad’.
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
Edited from this MS in Dobell; recorded in Forey.
StW 1368
Copy, headed ‘A blush’ and here beginning ‘Stay hasty blood…’.
In: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
StW 1369.5
Copy, headed ‘A Blush’.
In: the MS described under StW 518.5. c.1630s.
London Metropolitan Archives, ACC/1360/528, ff. [8v-9r rev.].
StW 1370
Copy, headed ‘Of a ladies blush’.
In: the MS described under StW 152 (StW Δ 26). Mid-17th century.
StW 1371
Copy, headed ‘On a Blush’.
In: the MS described under StW 13 (StW Δ 28). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 116-17.
StW 1373
Copy, headed ‘on his Mrs Blush’ and here beginning ‘Stay hasty blood where canst thou seeke’.
In: the MS described under StW 44. c.1630s-40s.
This MS recorded in Forey.
StW 1374
Copy, headed ‘On a Blush’.
In: the MS described under StW 180. c.1634-43.
This MS recorded in Forey.
StW 1375
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: An oblong quarto music book, 95 leaves (ff. 32r-75v blank), in contemporary calf. Mid-late 17th century.
No. 7 of a set of ten volumes, owned in 1673 by one William Iles (friend of Izaak Walton), who sent them to John Fell (1625-86), Dean of Christ Church and Bishop of Oxford, for ‘ye vse of the publicke musicke Scoole’.
Complete facsimile in Jorgens, Vol. 6 (1987).
This MS recorded in Forey.
StW 1376
Copy, headed ‘The blush’ and here beginning ‘Stay hasty bloud where canst thou seeke’.
In: the MS described under StW 207. c.1620s-30s.
This MS recorded in Forey.
StW 1377
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including 18 poems by Donne, in several hands over a period (the predominant secretary hand on ff. 1r-35v, 45v-63r), written from both ends, 91 leaves, in later green morocco. c.1630s [-1777].
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘E Libris Richardo Glovero pharmacopol. Londinense pertinantibus’, the date ‘1638’ possibly added in a different hand. The name ‘William Allen’ on f. 77v among scribbling. Inscribed (f. 1v) by a later owner, apparently for ‘Mr Thorpe’, ‘I was informed by the bookseller of whom I bought this book; that it belonged formerly to a literary gentleman who lived in Burton Crescent and who died about six months ago. 3rd Augt. 1835’.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Glover MS’: DnJ Δ 42.
This MS recorded in Forey.
StW 1378
Copy, headed ‘A Blush’.
In: the MS described under StW 49. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Forey.
StW 1385
Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs on her blushing and presently growing pale again’, subscribed ‘William Arundell’.
In: the MS described under StW 191. c.1630s.
Latin and Greek Poems
Ad Clarissimus Dominum Ioannem Cirenbergium, Sacrae Antiquitatis Assertorem celeberrimum (‘Praeteritum Cirenbergi qui retrahis aevum’)
First published, headed ‘Ad Joannem Cirenbergium, Proconsulem Gedonensem: doctum Antiquarium’, in Ad magnificum…Dominum Iohannem Cirenbergium…carmen honorarium (Oxford, 1631), pp. 1-3. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 346.
Ad Filiolum Vincentium, in ipsius Natalem 10ime: Novembris, Anno aetatis 3to. 1630 (‘Scit nemo quid Opum Tibi relinquam’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349. In MS sources the poem is invariably preceded by the English poem by Richard Corbett on his son, of which Strode's poem is a Latin translation (see CoR 560-83).
*StW 1387
Autograph, subscribed ‘Latind by WS.’.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
StW 1389
Copy, headed ‘The same in Latin Phaleucians, by Mr. Stroad of Christchurch’.
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Dobell, p. 270.
StW 1390
Copy in the second column of the recto of a single folio leaf. Early-mid-17th century.
In: the MS described under StW 66.
StW 1391
Copy, headed ‘The same translated by Mr Strode’.
In: the MS described under StW 181. c.1640s-60s.
StW 1392
Copy, headed ‘Idem’, subscribed ‘W Strode his Chaplaine’.
In: the MS described under StW 359. c.1630s.
StW 1393
Copy, headed ‘The same in latine’, subscribed ‘mr Strode’.
In: the MS described under StW 290. c.1636-77.
StW 1394
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under StW 1034. c.1630s.
National Library of Wales, NLW MS 12443 A, Part I, pp. 10-12.
Ad mores natura recurrit Damnatos (‘Fortius in iuvenes fraenum est constrata voluntas’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.
*StW 1395
Autograph, with revisions and deletions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Alias (‘Altum marmoreo quiesce lecto’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.
Alias (‘Horruit Aliciae Mens pura & nescia labis’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.
Aliter (‘Dudum sydera Sandys antecepit’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.
Aliter (‘Est Lumen Christus, vult omnibus ille videri’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.
An Eucharistia sub vtraq[ue] specie sit communicanda. Aff. (‘De Pane haud solo viues, satiabere Verbo’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.
An Gratia sufficiens ad salutem concedatur omnibus. Neg (‘Gratia natura est nullo discrimine totum’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.
An Omnis Gratia sit resistibilis. Neg (‘Condenti Adamum potuitne obsistere Limus?’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.
An Panis et Vinum in Eucharistia transubstantientur? Neg. (‘Gens o Sancta nimis, cui tot nascuntur in hortis’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.
an Scriptura contineat omnia ad Salutem necessaria. Aff. (‘Ne mirere libro tantam Latitare salutem’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.
An Scriptura vulganda sit eo sermone quem populus intelligit. Aff. (‘Roma, sacrum populo calicem cur nemo ministrat?’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.
An Sola Scriptura sit norma fidei? Aff. (‘Iudaei malè constantes, incredula turba’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.
An Soli fideles Eucharistiam participent? Aff. (‘Vmbrae Christicolum Christi vescuntur et Vmbra’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.
‘Arripuit dudum Edwinus sibi praeuius Astra’
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.
‘Artem superbam vidit ut mundi pater’
See StW 1449.
Ben: Johns. Ode translat. per Gu. Stroad, Proc. Oxon. (‘Scenam defere Musa nauseatam’)
First published in Ben Jonson, ed. C. H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, Volume X (Oxford, 1950), 335-6. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.
For Jonson's original ode, see JnB 367-381.
StW 1409
Copy, headed ‘The Ode in Latine by Mr Stroude’.
In: Four octavo leaves removed fom the verse miscellany Folger MS V.a.97, bound in the order pp. 77-8, 83-4, 79-80 and 81-2, in modern half crushed morocco on marbled boards. c.late 1630s.
StW 1410
Copy, headed ‘W:S: translation of the ode’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
This MS recorded in Dobell, p. 270, and in Forey.
StW 1411
Copy, in the hand of Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-65), natural philosopher and courtier, headed ‘Ben Johns. Ode translat. per Gu: Stroud, Proc. Oxon’, on two and a half trimmed folio leaves, endorsed by Digby ‘Ben: Johnsons Ode translated into Latin by the Proctor of Oxforde’ and, in pencil in a later hand, ‘I had it from Mr Whaley T G W’. c.1630s.
In: A large quarto composite volume, comprising c.230 letters of British poets, 234 leaves (including blanks), in 19th-century half-calf. Assembled in 1824 by William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector.
Among collections of Captain Montagu Montagu, RN (d.1863).
Given to Upcott by William Gifford (1756-1826), editor and satirical writer.
Edited from this MS in Herford & Simpson.
StW 1412
Copy, headed ‘Mr Strouds Translation’, on rectos only, facing Jonson's poem (JnB 378), subscribed ‘Willm Stroade’.
In: the MS described under StW 52. c.1630s-40s.
StW 1413
Copy, headed ‘Mr Stroade of Ch: Ch: turning’, together with (stanza-for-stanza) Jonson's original poem (JnB 379.5) and a Greek version by ‘Mr Maisters of New=colledge’.
In: A miscellany compiled by Vincent Sparkes, Minister of Northwood, Isle of Wight. Mid-17th century.
Formerly recorded as ‘Cromwellian commonplace book’.
Recorded in Mary Damant, ‘A Cromwellian Commonplace Book’, N&Q, 7th Ser. 10 (13 September 1890), 204-5.
StW 1414
Copy, headed ‘Mr Ben: Johnsons farewell to the stage’.
In: the MS described under StW 191. c.1630s.
Carmen Dormitorium (‘Verna dies aliquid nocturnis detrahit horis’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.
Caroli et Mariæ Epithalamium (‘Jacobi Exequiae valete longum’)
First published, without title, in Epithalamia Oxoniensia (Oxford, 1625), sigs. B1-B3. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 346.
Ejusdem in Camd. 1624. (‘Ut ominosa fronte livorem gerans’)
First published, without title, in Camdeni Insignia (Oxford, 1624), sigs. D3v-4. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 346.
*StW 1417
Copy in the hand of William Fulman.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Epitaphium In Memoriam Ricardi Swayne (‘Annos quod meritis praeoccupasti’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.
*StW 1418
Autograph, dated by William Fulman ‘1634’ and with his copy of a Latin epitaph on Swayne on f. 38.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
‘Exiguo contracta iacent tot iugera busto’
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.
Faemina nulla bona est (‘Solo si meruit Calisto crimine coelum’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.
Fertilior seges est alienis semper in agris (‘Opticus vt forma maiori corpora fingit’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.
‘Fertur Amor pennis, addit Timor improb[e]s Alas’
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.
‘Hic iaceo errorum post longa pericula, fessum’
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.
*StW 1423
Autograph, with a correction in William Fulman's hand.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
‘Iacobi Exequiae valete longum’
See StW 1416.
Imberbis iuuenis tandem Custode remoto Gaudet Equis (‘Non vos Pierides, Te solum Pegase clamo’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.
In Admissione[m] Decani Corbett Oratio (‘Helicona Totum prodigus vatum furor’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.
*StW 1425
Autograph, dated in William Fulman's hand ‘Jun. 24.1620’.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
In Amorem Ipsius erga Literatos omnes praesertim Theologos, &c Probos. (‘Ridet Stultus Ineptias Inepti’)
First published in Parentalia spectatissimo Rolando Cottono (London, 1635), sig. B3v. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 347.
*StW 1426
Autograph, headed ‘In Memoriam Rowlandi Cottoni. De Amore Ipsius Erga Literatos omnes praesertim theologos & Probos’.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
In Caecum eundem (‘Qui sacrum assidua manu volumen’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.
In Coronationem Regis Jacobi (‘Vicini impatiens cum stringeret Anglia ferrum’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.
IN D[octo]ris Kilbeij obitum (‘Dum Kilbeie iaces mediae sub tempore brumae’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.
*StW 1429
Autograph, dated by William Fulman ‘1620’.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
In Dominam Aliciam Corbet Epitaphia. Nolo scribere, Pictor est Poeta (‘Formam Animi scribit cognata in Corpore forma’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.
In Electionem Guilielmi Episcopi Londinensis in Cancellariatum Academiae Oxon. (‘Isis quod Thamisi vehit Tributum’)
Unpublished (but see StW 1432). Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.
*StW 1431
Autograph, dated by William Fulman ‘1630’.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
This MS recorded in The Poems of Richard Corbett, ed. J.A.W. Bennett and H.R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford, 1955), p. xxxi.
StW 1432
Copy of lines 8-30, here beginning ‘Londinensis in Angelum Cathedrae?’, in the hand of Richard Corbett, quoted in his letter to Laud. 1630.
In: A letter by Richard Corbett.
Sotheby's, 14 April 1875, lot 532.
Facsimile in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile VIII after p. xxiv.
Pierpont Morgan Library, MA 420 (St. Paul's Cathedral vol. I, p. 59), Verses.
In Eundem [Obitum Doctoris Goodwin] (‘Primum Campanae tonitru laethale sonantis’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 347.
In Eundem [Obitum Doctoris Goodwin] (‘Septuaginta annos tua nondum impleuerat aetas’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 347.
In Eundem [Obitum Doctoris Goodwin] (‘__________________________’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 352.
In Eundem, Quod eodem quo natus est, eoq[ue] Resurrectionis die Interijt (‘Signatus vigili nota Kalendas’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.
In fontem hortulanu[m] (‘_____________________’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 352.
In M[agist]rum Somester Aulae Lateport: Praesulem (‘Rumpere qui nouit prensantis vincula fati’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.
In Memoriam Venerabilis Matronae Dominae Benedictae Corbet, quae Spe Resurrectionis obdormivit. Oct: 2, 1634 (‘Herberti Cinis invidere noli’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.
For the original English poem by Richard Corbett, see CoR 56-8.
In Nobilissimum Baronem Chichester de Belfast (‘Si miles acie cinctus hostili cadat’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.
*StW 1440
Autograph, dated by William Fulman ‘circ. 1625’.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
In Obitum Baronis (‘Honore nondum te salutatum novo’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.
In Obitum D[octo]ris Goodwin, Aedis Ch[ris]ti Decani (‘Mutilata nunquam tecta iacuerunt prius’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 347.
*StW 1442
Autograph, dated by William Fulman ‘Jun. 11. 1620’.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
In Obitum Doctoris Rawley, Medici Peritissimi (‘Qui plena Stygij vela tardauit Senis’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.
In Obitum Guilielmi Comitis Pembrokiae, Cancellarij Academiae Oxon. (‘Truncum vt Cadauer quaerit auulsum Caput’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.
*StW 1444
Autograph, dated by William Fulman ‘Apr. 10. 1630.’ and with a lengthy biographical note by him about Pembroke on f. 31v.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
In Obitum M[agist]ri Carew de Anthony (‘Clauditur hac vrna Romanus, Graecus, Hebraeus’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.
*StW 1445
Autograph, the date ‘1621’ entered in the margin by William Fulman.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
In Obitum Nobilissimi Marchionis Hamiltonis (‘Quae bella, quaeve pestis, aut squallor famis’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.
*StW 1446
Autograph, dated by William Fulman ‘1624.5 Mar.2.’.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
In Obitum Nobilissimi Sackvilli Comitis Dorcet (‘Quodcunq[ue] surdis ingerit rogis laudum’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.
In Obitum Obsonatoris et Lictoris D[omi]ni Rice (‘Quadragesima quod fit hic et ingens’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.
*StW 1448
Autograph, with William Fulman's marginal note ‘Richardus Rice Superior Bedellus Juris, ob. Febr. 1622.3’.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
In obitum Sauilij Mathematici (‘Artem superbam vidit vt mundi pater’)
First published, without title, in Ultima linea Savilii (Oxford, 1622), sig. D2v. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 346.
In Obitum Sauillij Mathematici, qui Astronomiam et Geometria[m] publicis Lectionibus ditauit (‘Qui caelo Astronomum dedit sagacem’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.
*StW 1450
Autograph, dated by William Fulman ‘1621-2’.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
In omnigenam qua claruit Linguarum Peritiam, praecipuè Orientalium (‘Iterrumne quisquam lampade accendet diem’)
First published in Parentalia spectatissimo Rolando Cottono (London, 1635), sig. B3v-4r. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 347.
*StW 1451
Autograph, headed ‘In Eiusdem omnigena Linguaru peritiam’.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
In Patroni reditum (‘Io iam reditum tuum Patrone’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.
In Patroni reditum (‘Justitio sterili maestae siluere Cathedrae’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.
In Reditum Charoli Principis ex Hispania (‘Noctu quantum oculi vident patentes’)
First published, without title, in Carolus redux (Oxford, 1623), sig. E3v-4v. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 346.
In Sepultura[m] domini Doctoris Hutton Praebendarij ex Aede Christi (‘Quà Moderatricis Cathedrae pia fraena tenentem’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.
*StW 1455
Autograph, with a lengthy biographical note by William Fulman about Hutton on f. 35v.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
In Studia ab Eo junctim posita in Literis cum Humanis tum Divinis (‘Cottonus Christum quaerens Hominemq[ue] Deumq[ue]’)
First published in Parentalia spectatissimo Rolando Cottono (London, 1635), sig. B3v. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 347.
*StW 1456
Autograph, headed ‘In Studium Eiusdem cum Literaturae humanae tum Divinae’.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
‘In surreptu[m] Pontificis tumulu[m] ut Pons fieret’
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.
Itidem (‘Patronum Incolumem fenestra redde’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.
‘Magne Puer, qui monstratum circumspicis Orbem’
First published, in a version beginning ‘Magne Puer, proprium qui jam circumspicis Orbem’ and ascribed to Leonard Hutton, in Britanniae natalis (Oxford, 1630), sig. K4. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 346. For the original English poem probably by Richard Corbett, see CoR 758-9.
Natalitium Caroli (‘Quod Sunamitae redditus Puer Matri’)
First published, without title and ascribed to Richard Corbett, Bishop of Oxford, in Britanniae natalis (Oxford, 1630), sig. K4r-v. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 346. For the original English poem by Corbett, see CoR 511-12.
*StW 1460
Autograph, subscribed ‘Latin'd by WS’.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Natalitium principis Caroli (‘Num Patrem an Patriam deceant plus gaudia? Tellus’)
First published, ascribed to Valentine Sotherton, in Britanniae natalis (Oxford, 1630), sig. I4v. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 346.
‘Natiua docuit sacra Sandaeus Pater’
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.
*StW 1462
Autograph, with an emendation in William Fulman's hand.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
‘Noctu quantum oculi vident patentes’
See StW 1454.
‘Num Patrem an Patriam deceant plus gaudia? Tellus’
See StW 1461.
‘O Sophiae Antistes, Cerebri quo magna supellex!’
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.
Pauli Epist: [1 ad Cor. 13.] Translat. (‘Si fulminati lingua Rhetorice calens’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.
*StW 1464
Autograph, the reference ‘1 ad Cor. 13’ added to the title after ‘Epist:’ in William Fulman's hand.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Redeat faelix fortuna licet tamen afflictos gaudere piget (‘Non fiunt tanti fortunae dona profusae’)
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.
‘Surge Domus nuptura Deo, te tolle sacratis’
Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.
*StW 1466
Autograph, with revisions, with William Fulman's note on f. 17v ‘Lincolne College Chapell built by D. John Williams Bishop of Lincolne, 1631’.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
‘Tergemino Sponsus muniuit Sceptra Leone’
First published in Epithalamia Oxoniensia (Oxford, 1625), sig. B3. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 346.
‘Ut ominosa fronte livorem gerens’
See StW 1417.
Prose Speeches and Sermons
Speech to Charles I and Queen Henrietta Maria at their visiting the Bodleian Library, 27 August 1629
Unpublished oration.
StW 1468
Copy by Thomas Smith of Strode's Latin oration, headed ‘Oratio ad serenissimu R. Carolu. 1. et Maria regina in bibliothecâ Oxon habita’ and beginning ‘Excelsissime Vice Deus, Clarum est amorem jactare, quem penitus absorbet reverentia…’, indexed by Thomas Hearne as ‘A Speech of Strode's to King Charles the 1st and his Queen at yeir visiting the Bodlejan Library’, in a small quarto booklet (pp. 17-32) of ‘Letters of Dr. Strode written in the Name and by ye Order of ye University of Oxford’, c.1630s-40s. Late 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous antiquarian papers, viii + 86 pages (including some blanks), in early 18th century half-calf.
Among the collections of Thomas Smith (1638-1710), Oxford scholar and editor. Owned on 16 March 1710/11 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary.
Speech to Charles I at Woodstock, 30 August 1635
Unpublished oration, beginning ‘Augustissime Christo proximo, homo-Deus qualis pro...’.
StW 1469
Copy of Strode's Latin oration in the hand of William Fulman, headed ‘Coram Rege Carolo Acad. Oxon. Oratoris Publici Oratio 1638’ and beginning ‘Augustissime, et Christo proxime Homo-Deus, Quales pro Te ad Aras sanctissimas, tales accedimus ad Te…’.
In: A quarto volume of collections concerning Oxford, chiefly verse, 240 leaves. Compiled, and largely written, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary. Mid-late 17th century.
StW 1470
Copy, headed ‘Oratio habita coram Rege Woodstochiæ a Gulielmo Stroad Acad. oratore publico’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, including academic material, in English and Latin, mostly in a small closely written hand, written from both ends, 171 leaves, in contemporary calf. Including Latin elegies by the possible compiler, Samuel Conduit (d.1662), of Lincoln College, Oxford. c.1640.
Owned in 1710 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary, who notes inside the lower cover ‘This Book was written in his younger Years by the late learned Mr. Abednego Seller’: i.e. Abednego Seller (1646/7-1705), clergyman, scholar and religious writer, who also inscribes a flyleaf ‘Abednego Sellers booke’.
StW 1471
Copy, headed ‘Ad Rege Carolu I. Oratorii Acad. Oxon. (Mri Strode, ut puto) Alloqu Woodstochii, ut—’.
In: An octavo volume of university Latin orations compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, xiv + 204 pages (pp. 110-94 blank). Late 17th century.
StW 1472
Copy, in a small mixed hand, headed ‘Stroad's Speech before ye K. at Woodstocke’, on the first two pages of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter, with an address panel (f. 109v) ‘To his much respected & kind friend Mr Robert Sawer at Stratfieldsay in Hampshire these be d[elivere]d’. c.1635.
In: the MS described under StW 504.
StW 1473
Copy, in a cursive italic hand, headed ‘Cora Carole Rege p mag: Stroude’.
In: A folio volume of academic plays and orations, in Latin and English, the majority associated with Cambridge University, in several neat hands, with some later notes added c.1671, 171 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1635.
StW 1474
Copy, headed ‘Oratio habita coram Rege, Woodstockiæ, die 30 Augusti A°. 1635, á Guliel. Strode publice Academiæ Oratore’.
In: A duodecimo commonplace book, in several hands, in English and Latin, probably associated with Oxford, written from both ends, 147 leaves, in contemporary calf. The original blanks later filled with texts with headings including (f. 116v rev.)‘By my cousen Stansfild oct 2 87’ and (f. 102v rev.) ‘By Mr Band of Stroud oct 1687’. c.1636-89.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 44 (James 434), ff. 146v-145v rev.
Sermon at the Funeral of Dr Bainbridge, 6 November 1643
Unpublished.
StW 1475
Copy of Strode's Latin oration, headed ‘In Exequijs Clarissimj Doctoris Bainbrigii, Mathematici ac Medici probatissimi, Astronomiae Praelectoris Publici apud Oxonienses, Oratio Funebris, Nouemb. 6: 1643. habita’, beginning ‘Si Medicinae loco sit Fama defunctis (ô aegrè Superstites Amici...’ and subscribed ‘Dixi Gulielmus Strodus, Orator Publicus’, with corrections in another hand, on two conjugate quarto leaves. c.1643.
In: A quarto composite volume of MSS, in Latin and English, relating principally to Irish affairs, in various hands, vii + 225 leaves. Assembled in part by James Ussher (1581-1656), Archbishop of Armagh.
StW 1476
Smith's transcript of the oration ‘a Gulielmo Strode, oratori publico’, headed ‘Exequij Clarissimi Doctoris Bainbrigij Mathematici ac Medici probatissimi Astronomiæ Prælectoris, Publici apud Oxonienses, Oratio Funebris Novemb. 6. 1643. habita’.
In: A quarto volume of papers in Latin relating to John Bainbridge (1582-1643), astronomer and physician, xii + 60 pages, in half-calf. Compiled by Thomas Smith (1638-1710), Oxford scholar and editor. Late 17th century.
Dramatic Works
The Floating Island
First published in London, 1655. Dobell, pp. 137-240.
StW 1476.5
A folio MS of what would appear to be Strode's play, entitled ‘The Passions Calmed, or the Floating Island, a tragi-comedy’, ‘very neatly written’. c.1630s?.
Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue ‘of ancient manuscripts upon vellum and paper’ for 1838, item 102. Subsequently offered in his catalogues for 1839, 1840, 1842, and 1843, item 471.
The Floating Island, Act I, scene iii. Song (‘My limbs I will fling’)
Dobell, p. 151.
StW 1477
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, headed ‘Hilario's Songe’.
In: A folio songbook, almost entirely in a single rounded italic hand, with (ff. 3r-7v) a table of contents, 113 leaves, in 19th-century half dark red morocco. Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer (his signature f. 2v). c.1654-70s.
Arms of Eleanor Bursh on a seal affixed to f. 56r. Later owned and annotated in pencil by Thomas Oliphant (1799-1873), music editor and cataloguer.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 5 (New York & London, 1986).
—— Act II, scene iv. Song (‘Hail thou great Queen of various Humours’)
Dobell, p. 169.
StW 1478
Copy of the Boy's song, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, headed ‘In Dr Strodes Play acted before ye Kinge’.
In: the MS described under StW 1477. c.1654-70s.
—— Act IV, scene x. Song (‘Sweet Morphe lend a feeling eare’)
Dobell, p. 210.
StW 1479
Copy of the Musitian's song, in Lawes's musical setting.
In: the MS described under StW 857. Mid-17th century.
—— Act IV, scene xiv. Song (‘Once Venus cheekes that sham'd the morn’)
Dobell, pp. 215-16. Musical setting by Henry Lawes first published in his Ayres and Dialogues…The Third Book (London, 1658).
StW 1479.8
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
In: A folio volume of glees with music, 16 leaves. 18th century.
StW 1480
Copy of the Musitian's song, in Lawes's musical setting.
In: the MS described under StW 857. Mid-17th century.
StW 1481
Copy of the Musitian's song, headed ‘A Sonnet’, subscribed ‘W. Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 139. c.1641-9.
—— Act V, scene vii. Song (‘Come heavy souls oppressed with the weight’)
Dobell, pp. 228-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes first published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
StW 1482
Copy of the Attendant's song, headed ‘In Mr Strowdes: The Passions mett at Desparato's Banquett, this songe’, on one side of a folio leaf.
In: the MS described under StW 503.
StW 1483
Copy of the Attendant's song, in Lawes's musical setting, headed ‘Dispaires Banquet’, with a note ‘This songe was sunge in A play cald ye pasions written by Mr William Strowd, presented by ye schollers of Christchurch before both their Majestyes 1636’.
In: the MS described under StW 857. Mid-17th century.
Letters
Letter(s)
StW 1484
Copies by Thomas Smith, in a small quarto booklet, of sixteen ‘Letters of Dr. Strode written in the Name and by ye Order of ye University of Oxford’, formal epistles and petitions, chiefly in Latin, variously addressed to King Charles I, the Chancellor William Laud, William Noye, Sir Henry Marten, Lord Keeper Thomas Coventry, Edward Sackville, Earl of Dorset, William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, Sir Thomas Roe, Sir Dudley Carleton, Viscount Dorchester, and others, c.1630s-40s. Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under StW 1468.
*StW 1485
A formal autograph letter signed by Strode, in Latin, in his neatest italic hand, as Public Orator to the University of Oxford, to Sir Thomas Roe, from Christ Church, 7 March [1630/1]. This letter thanks the diplomat for his gift to the University of a 15th-century copy of the synodal epistles of the Council of Basel. Roe's gift, with his inscription dated July 1630, is preserved in the Bodleian, MS Roe 20. 1631.
Documents
Document(s)
*StW 1486
Six autograph signatures by Strode
In: Disbursements book for 1619-20. 1619-20.
StW 1487
Two signatures by Strode.
In: Disbursements book for 1620-1. 1620-21.
*StW 1488
Strode's autograph signature, aged nineteen, upon his matriculation at Christ Church, 1 June 1621. 1621.
In: Oxford Subscription Register. 1615-38.
StW 1489
Some nineteen signatures by Strode.
In: Disbursements Book for 1622-3. 1622-3.
StW 1490
At least twenty-eight signatures by Strode.
In: Disbursements book for 1623-4. 1623-24.
StW 1491
Some eighteen autograph signatures by Strode.
In: Disbursements book for 1624-5. 1624-25.
*StW 1492
Some 22 signatures by Strode.
In: Disbursements Book for 1625-6.
*StW 1493
Six signatures by Strode.
In: Disbursements book for 1626-7. 1626-27.
*StW 1494
Eleven signatures by Strode.
In: Disbursements Book for 1628-9.
*StW 1495
Autograph subscription by Strode on his ordination as priest, 21 December 1628. 1628.
In: The Oxford Liber Subscriptionum Clericorum. 1628-46.
Facsimile in M.C. Crum, ‘William Fulman and an Autograph Manuscript of the Poet Strode’, Bodleian Library Record, 4 (1952-3), 324-35, Plate XVIIIb after p. 326.
*StW 1496
Some 26 signatures by Strode.
In: Disbursements Book for 1629-30.
*StW 1497
Nine autograph inscriptions by Strode registering his leave of absence between 1619 and 1630. 1619-30.
In: Sub-Dean's Books.
*StW 1498
Strode's signatures, dated 17 February 1641; 6 February 1638[/9]; 22 December 1639; 18 November 1639-8 february 1639[/40] (three times, to admission statements).
In: Sub-Dean's Book for 1549-1643.
*StW 1498.5
Five signatures by Strode.
In: Disbursements Book for 1630-31.
*StW 1499
Eight signatures by Strode, 1626-32.
In: Caution Book, 1625-41.
Christ Church, Oxford, MS xiii. b. 1, pp. 20-1 (rev.), 127, 161, 163, 167, 144-5.
StW 1500
Subscription in an unidentified hand, ‘Receiued then of mr Strode the Caution of mr. Daniell Leare...£10’, 23 January [1631/2], followed (on p. 23) ‘Repaid to Mr Leare by Dor Fell These: May. 13. 1633. Da: Leare’.
In: the MS described under StW 1499.
*StW 1501
Strode's autograph licence for the publication of John Donne's sermons, written and signed in Latin, listing twenty-two sermons by Donne and certifying that he finds nothing in them repugnant to the Catholic Faith or to the Church of England. The licence accompanies an autograph letter signed by John Donne the Younger, dated 26 September 1638, requesting the licence. 1638.