Verse
Poems by Suckling
Against Absence (‘My whining Lover, what needs all’)
First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 39-40.
SuJ 1
Copy, untitled, on the rectos of two conjugate folio leaves, gnawed at the corner by rodents.
In: A large folio composite volume of verse, in various largely secretary hands, 327 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Collected, and partly written, by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Betagraph of the watermark in f. 29 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks’, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 239).
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 2
Copy, headed ‘Of Absence’.
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.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 3
Copy, subscribed ‘J. S.’
In: A duodecimo miscellany, in English and Latin, in several hands, written from both ends, i + 74 leaves, in contemporary calf. Owned (inscription f.[ir]), and possibly partly compiled, by Sir Henry Rainsford (1599-1641), of Clifford Chambers, near Stratford-upon-Avon. c. late 1630s-40s.
Bookplate of Edward Greenfield Doggett and Hugh Greenfield Doggett, of Bristol, 1893. Later owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.
Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 15. Discussed in Peter Davidson, ‘The Notebook of Henry Rainsford’, N&Q, 229 (June 1984), 247-50.
SuJ 4
Copy, in the italic hand of John Langley, household steward and tutor to the Earl of Middlesex's sons, untitled, in a eight-page quarto booklet of verse by Suckling.
In: A bundle of unbound verse MSS, in various hands.
Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of de la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent.
Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, pp. 303-4.
This MS collated in Clayton and discussed p. ciii. Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 306.
Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, U269 F36, No. 42, pp. 1-2.
Against Fruition I (‘Stay here fond youth and ask no more, be wise’)
First published in Edmund Waller: Workes (London, 1645). Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 37-8. See also WaE 93-5.
SuJ 5
Copy 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 Clayton.
SuJ 6
Copy in: A quarto volume of 75 poems by Edmund Waller, in a single professional hand, 76 leaves (ff. 43r-76v blank), in vellum gilt, with remains of ties. With (f. 1r-v) a prose dedication ‘To the Queene’ (Henrietta Maria), an entry on f. 42v in a later hand, and f. 76v with scribbled date ‘14 of Jvne 1665’. c.1640s.
Covers inscribed on the inside at various times ‘Gentilles Colte her Book’, ‘Th Whitfield Septbr. 18: 1764’ and ‘b[ough]t at Woodcoates sale’. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 7004). Sotheby's, 24 April 1911. lot 844. Colbeck, Radford & Co., ‘The Ingatherer’, No. 24 (June 1932), item 221. Sold by P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1936.
Reduced facsimile of ff. 1r-41v in Poems 1645 (1971). Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Colte MS’: WaE Δ 1.
This MS collated in Clayton. Facsimile in Edmund Waller, Poems 1645 (Menston: Scolar Press, 1971).
SuJ 7
Copy 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 collated in Clayton.
SuJ 8
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, one cursive hand predominating, entitled at one end Poems Collected at several Times from the year 1670 and at the other end Collections of several things out of History. begun about the year 1670, written over a period, 336 largely unnumbered pages (plus blanks), 205 pages from one end and 131 pages from the reverse end, in contemporary vellum boards. Compiled chiefly by Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, wife of Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706), possibly in part from texts supplied by Martin Clifford (c.1624-77), erstwhile secretary of the Duke of Buckingham and Master of the Charterhouse. Including (pp. [91-116]) 26 poems by Sir Charles Sedley as a single group (and copies of a poem of doubtful authorship on pp. [165] and [179]). c.1670-1705.
Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Cowper MS: SeC Δ 2. Discussed in Allan Pritchard, ‘Editing from Manuscript: Cowley and the Cowper Papers’, in Editing Poetry from Spenser to Dryden, ed. A.H. De Quehen (New York & London, 1981), pp. 47-76, esp. pp. 62-5, and in Harold Love, ‘Two Rochester Manuscripts Circulated from the Charterhouse’, The Library, 6th Ser. 16/3 (September 1994), 225-9.
SuJ 9
Copy in the italic hand of John Langley, household steward and tutor to the Earl of Middlesex's sons, untitled, in a eight-page quarto booklet of verse by Suckling.
In: the MS described under SuJ 4.
This MS collated in Clayton and discussed p. ciii; recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 306.
Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, U269 F36, No. 42, pp. 4-5.
SuJ 10
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single mixed hand varying over a period, entitled in another hand Recueil Choisi De Pieces fugitives En Vers Anglois, 214 pages, in modern calf. c.1713.
Afterwards owned by Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon (1728-1810). Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9500. In the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936.
This MS collated in Clayton.
The Answer (‘Say, but did you love so long?’)
First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 56-7. Possibly written by Sir Tobie Matthew.
SuJ 11
Copy in: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several small non-professional hands, 88 leaves, imperfect at the beginning. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 12
Copy, headed ‘responsus’.
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.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 13
Copy in: A quarto miscellany, in several hands, written over a period, 80 leaves (plus 67 blanks and stubs of numerous extracted leaves), in contemporary vellum gilt. Compiled by or for Sir Henry Cholmley, brother of Sir Hugh Cholmley (1600-57), the ascription ‘by my brother Sr Hugh Cholmley’ (1600-57) inserted on f. 19r in a cursive hand responsible for entries on ff. 3r-12v, 15v-29r, 41r-v, 75v-7r, the contents including twelve poems by Thomas Carew and poems by members of the circle of Lucius Cary (1610?-43), second Viscount Falkland, of Great Tew, Oxfordshire, by the St Leger family of Ulcombe, Kent, and by Sir William Twysden of Kent. c.1624-41.
Later bookplate of Henry B. Humphrey.
Recorded in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Cholmley MS’: CwT Δ 27.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 14
Copy, in a musical setting.
In: A folio songbook, in a single secretary hand, some items misnumbered, 144 leaves. c.1640s.
Once owned by the Shirley family, Earls Ferrers, of Staunton Harold, Leicestershire. Also owned, and annotated, by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.
Generally cited as the Earl Ferrers MS. Collated in Cutts, ‘Drexel Manuscript 4041’, MD, 18 (1964), 151-202. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 9 (New York & London, 1987).
This MS collated in Clayton.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4041, No. 72a, f. 51v.
SuJ 15
Copy in: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several hands, showing communal use, 161 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.
Formerly Chest II, No. 21.
This MS collated in Clayton.
A Ballade, Upon a Wedding (‘I tell thee Dick, where I have been’)
First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646): Clayton, pp. 79-84.
SuJ 17
Second copy, untitled, in double columns on one side of a single folio leaf.
In: the MS described under SuJ 1.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 18
Copy, headed ‘The Bride on her Wedding-day, describ'd. A Song’, on the first of two conjugate folio leaves.
In: A folio composite volume of verse and letters by the Rev. William Parry (1687-1756), antiquary, to Thomas Rawlins, many on Oxford subjects, 172 leaves. c.1737-49.
This MS recorded in Clayton.
SuJ 19
Copy, on two conjugate folio leaves. Late 18th century.
In: A guardbook of miscellaneous separate papers, chiefly folio, 218 leaves. Early 18th century.
Chiefly collected by W.H. Black. Subsequently bought from Miss N.T. Harrison, 1947.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 20
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse, state papers and parliamentary speeches, in several secretary and mixed hands, 134 leaves (plus numerous blanks), written from both ends chiefly on rectos only (Part I: ff. 1r-113r, Part II: ff. 1r-21r), disbound. c.1640s.
This MS recorded in Clayton.
SuJ 21
Copy, headed ‘The Wedding’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, chiefly song lyrics, iv + 124 pages. Late 17th century.
Owned in 1670 by one Hilkiah Bedford.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 22
Copy, headed ‘A Parly betwean two West-Country men on Sight of a Wedding’.
In: A small quarto miscellany of chiefly Restoration songs and ballads, many from plays, in one or more small hands, 48 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary brown calf. Folios 1r-32r copied c.1686-8 in a single hand; ff. 33v-48r copied c.1688-94 in four other hands. c.1686-94.
Later owned by Sir Francis Freeling, first Baronet (1764-1836), postal administrator and book collector. Evans (Sotheby's), 25 November 1836 (Freeling sale), lot 1156. Acquired from Leo S. Olschki, 6 November 1986.
SuJ 23
Copy, headed ‘On the Marriage of the Lord Louelace’, subscribed ‘Sr John Suckling’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including 33 poems by Thomas Carew and sixteen by Henry King, in a single small hand, with (ff. 1r-2v) an alphabetical Index, 105 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. Compiled by Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London. c.1641-9.
Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.
Cited in IELM II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6918 with which it was once bound, as the ‘Calfe MS’: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp 129-35, 444-5 (see KiH Δ 6).
Edited from this MS in Berry, pp. 19-25; collated in Clayton.
SuJ 24
Copy of lines 1-4 (words only), untitled.
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.
This MS collated in Clayton.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 103.
SuJ 25
Copy, headed ‘Sr John Suckling on ye Lord Lovelace his Marriage’.
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.
A Barber (‘I am a Barber, and I'de have you know’)
First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, p. 21.
SuJ 26
Copy, subscribed ‘J. S.’
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.
This MS collated (no variants) in Peter Beal, ‘Suckling's Verses in the Hopkinson Manuscripts’, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 543-4, and see also Thomas Clayton in N&Q, 224 (October 1979), 425-7.
A Barley-break (‘Love, Reason, Hate, did once bespeak’)
First published, untitled, in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 18-19.
SuJ 27
Copy, headed ‘A Barly-breake’, subscribed ‘dedit ffrancis Kneuett’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly in one mixed hand, 77 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Compiled by Sir Thomas Dawes (knighted 1639). c.1623-30.
Purchased on 4 July 1873 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.
This MS collated in Clayton.
The constant Lover (‘Out upon it, I have lov'd’)
First published, untitled, in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 55-6.
SuJ 28
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.
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).
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 29
Copy, headed ‘Sonnetto’.
In: the MS described under SuJ 11. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 32
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
In: the MS described under SuJ 14. c.1640s.
This MS collated in Clayton.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4041, No. 72, f. 51r-v.
SuJ 33
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio formal verse miscellany, comprising c.406 poems, many of them song lyrics, in various neat hands, compiled probably over a period, 8 blank leaves (pp. [i-xvi]) + 10 unnumbered pages of poems (pp. [xvii-xxvi]) + 9 numbered pages (pp. 1-9) + ff. [9v]-151v + 12 leaves at the end blank but for a poem on the penultimate page (f. [11v]), in contemporary calf gilt. Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
Inscribed (f. [ir]) ‘Sr Robert Killigrew / 1702’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.
Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, ‘Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?’, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.
Facsimile of f. 55v in Cutbirth, ‘Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?’ p. 34.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 55v.
SuJ 34
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under SuJ 15. Late 17th century.
This MS collated in Clayton.
A Dreame (‘Scarce had I slept my wonted rownd’)
First published in L. A. Beaurline, ‘The Canon of Sir John Suckling's Poems’, Studies in Philology, 57 (1960), 492-518 (p. 513). Clayton, pp. 12-13.
SuJ 35
Copy, in a neat italic hand, subscribed ‘J Sucklyn. Esqr’, on the third page of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.late 1620s.
In: the MS described under SuJ 4.
Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton, with a facsimile in Clayton, Plate 5, before p. xcix. Facsimiles also in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 270, and in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 260.
Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, U269 F36, No. 38, p. [3].
Faith and Doubt (‘That Heaven should visitt Earth and come to see’)
First published in L. A. Beaurline, ‘The Canon of Sir John Suckling's Poems’, Studies in Philology, 57 (1960), 492-518 (pp. 512-13). Clayton, p. 12.
SuJ 36
Copy, in a neat italic hand, untitled and subscribed ‘J Sucklyn Esqr’, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.late 1620s.
In: the MS described under SuJ 4.
Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.
Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, U269 F36, No. 38, p. [1].
‘I pray thee spare me, gentle Boy’
See SuJ 38-39.
‘If when Don Cupids dart’
See SuJ 40-41.
‘Love, Reason, Hate, did once bespeak’
See SuJ 27.
Loves Clock (‘That none beguiled be by times quick flowing’)
First published, untitled, in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 62-3.
Loves Feast (‘I pray thee spare me, gentle Boy’)
First published, as ‘Song’, in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 51-2.
SuJ 39
Copy in the italic hand of John Langley, household steward and tutor to the Earl of Middlesex's sons, untitled, in a eight-page quarto booklet of verse by Suckling.
In: the MS described under SuJ 4.
This MS collated in Clayton and discussed p. ciii; recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 306.
Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, U269 F36, No. 42, p. 3.
Loves Offence (‘If when Don Cupids dart’)
First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 52-3.
SuJ 40
Copy, headed ‘Songe’.
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.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 92-3.
SuJ 41
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under SuJ 15. Late 17th century.
This MS collated in Clayton.
Love's Sanctuary (‘The crafty Boy that had full oft assay'd’)
First published, as ‘Song’, in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 50-1.
SuJ 42
Copy of an untitled six-stanza version, in an italic hand, on both sides of a single quarto leaf. Mid-17th century.
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).
This MS collated and the last two stanzas edited in Clayton.
SuJ 42.5
Copy, headed ‘Song, by Sir John Suckling’.
In: A printed exemplum of A Selection from the Poetical Works of Thomas Carew, [ed. John Fry] (London, 1810), with interleaved annotations and tipped-in earlier leaves. Early 19th century.
Loves Siege (‘'Tis now since I sate down before’)
First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 65-6.
SuJ 43
Copy of the first stanza, in a musical setting by John Atkins.
In: the MS described under SuJ 14. c.1640s.
This MS recorded in Clayton.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4041, No. 94, f. 71v.
SuJ 44
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Sr J. Suckling’.
In: the MS described under SuJ 10. c.1713.
This MS collated in Clayton.
Lutea Allison: Si sola es, nulla es (‘Though you Diana-loke have liv'd still chast’)
First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 25-6.
SuJ 44.5
Copy, subscribed ‘J. S.’
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in probably three hands, written from both ends, 86 leaves, in 17th-century calf. c.1648-61.
Scribbling on f. 33r rev. including the name ‘Elizabeth keech’.
The Miracle (‘If thou bee'st Ice, I do admire’)
First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, p. 33.
SuJ 45
Copy, subscribed ‘J. S.’
In: the MS described under SuJ 26. c.1670.
This MS recorded (but not seen) in Clayton, p. 291. Collated in Peter Beal, ‘Suckling's Verses in the Hopkinson Manuscripts’, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 543-4, and see also Thomas Clayton in N&Q, 224 (October 1979), 425-7.
‘My dearest Rival, least our Love’
See SuJ 79.
Non est mortale quod opto: (‘Thou think'st I flatter when thy praise I tell’)
See SuJ 86.8.
On King Richard the third, who lies buried under Leicester bridge (‘What meanes this watry Canop'bout thy bed’)
First published in Minor Poets of the Seventeenth Century, ed. R.G. Haworth (London, 1931). Clayton, p. 36.
SuJ 46
Copy, subscribed ‘Sr John suckling’.
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.
Edited from this MS in Clayton.
SuJ 47
Copy, headed ‘On King Richard the third supposed to be buried under the bridge at Leycester’.
In: the MS described under SuJ 23. c.1641-9.
Edited from this MS in Haworth and in Berry, p. 26; collated in Clayton.
SuJ 47.5
Copy in: the MS described under SuJ 40. c.late 1640s.
‘Out upon it, I have lov'd’
See SuJ 28-34.
A Pedler of Small-Wares (‘A Pedler I am, that take great care’)
First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 19-20.
SuJ 48
Copy, subscribed ‘J. S.’.
In: the MS described under SuJ 26. c.1670.
This MS recorded (but not seen) in Clayton, p. 230. Collated in Peter Beal, ‘Suckling's Verses in the Hopkinson Manuscripts’, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 543-4, and see also Thomas Clayton in N&Q, 224 (October 1979), 425-7.
Prefer'd Love rejected (‘It is not four years ago’)
First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 54-5.
A Sessions of the Poets (‘A Sessions was held the other day’)
See SuJ 93-99.
A Soldier (‘I am a man of war and might’)
First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 20-1.
SuJ 49
Copy, subscribed ‘J. S.’
In: the MS described under SuJ 26. c.1670.
This MS collated (no variants) in Peter Beal, ‘Suckling's Verses in the Hopkinson Manuscripts’, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 543-4, and see also Thomas Clayton in N&Q, 224 (October 1979), 425-7.
Song (‘Honest Lover whosoever’)
First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 59-60.
SuJ 50
Copy, subscribed ‘Sr J: Suckling’.
In: the MS described under SuJ 10. c.1713.
This MS collated in Clayton.
Song (‘No, no faire Heretique, it needs must bee’)
First published in Aglaura (London, 1638), Act IV, scene iv, lines 4-23. Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 63-4.
A musical setting by Henry Lawes (1592-1662) published in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652). See also John P. Cutts, ‘Drexel Manuscript 4041’, MD, 18 (1946), 151-202 (p. 166), where it is argued that the setting is probably by William Lawes (1602-45).
SuJ 51
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under SuJ 28. Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 52
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
In: the MS described under SuJ 14. c.1640s.
This MS collated in Clayton.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4041, No. 9, ff. 8v-9r.
SuJ 53
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
In: the MS described under SuJ 24. c.1630s-50s.
This MS collated in Clayton.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 89.
SuJ 54
Copy, subscribed ‘Sr. J: S:’.
In: the MS described under SuJ 10. c.1713.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 55
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under SuJ 33. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 15v.
SuJ 55.5
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘No more fayre Heretick, it needs must be’.
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.
Song (‘Why so pale and wan fond Lover?’)
First published in Aglaura (London, 1638), Act IV, scene ii, lines 14-28. Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Beaurline, Plays, p. 72. Clayton, p. 64.
SuJ 56
Copy, untitled.
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.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 57
Copy, in a musical setting, on a flyleaf in a printed exemplum of Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues in Three Bookes (London, 1653). c.1653-64.
Owned in 1664 by Anthony Wood (1632-95), Oxford antiquary.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 58
Copy, headed ‘Sonnet’, subscribed ‘Sr. P.S.’.
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.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 60
Copy of the incipit, in a musical setting by William Lawes.
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).
SuJ 61
Copy, headed ‘Protestations of Love’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in one hand, with additions by others, written from both ends, material at the reverse end dated 1708-9, ii + 114 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf. Inscribed (f. [iir]), probably by the compiler, ‘Ex Libris Georgij Wright [b.1685/6] Sti Johannis Collegis Cantabrigiensis Alumni, Decimo quarto Junij. Annoq. Domini 1703’. c.1703-9.
Also inscribed (f.[iir]) ‘Mrs Frances Wright 1708’. A postal address on f. 95r (rev.) reads: ‘Direct to Margtt Borrett att Mrs. Borretts In Kirkby=stephen Westmoorland p brough bag _ These’.
Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Wright MS: WaE Δ 12.
SuJ 62
Copy, headed ‘A gent: having repulse from a gent=woeman, A freind gives him counsell. A song’.
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.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 63
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.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 64
Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes.
In: the MS described under SuJ 14. c.1640s.
Edited from this MS in Murray Lefkowitz, William Lawes (London, 1960), pp. 201-2. Collated in Clayton.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4041, No. 8, ff. 7v-8v.
SuJ 66
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under SuJ 33. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 29r.
Sonnet I (‘Do'st see how unregarded now’)
First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646)and in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 47-8.
SuJ 68
Copy, untitled and deleted.
In: A folio miscellany of tracts, letters and verse, written over a period, 210 leaves. Compiled by one Philip Kynder (b.1597). c.1620s-50s.
SuJ 69
Copy, headed ‘Loves Ne plus Ultra’ and here beginning ‘To see how unregarded now’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single hand, written from both ends, ii + 91 leaves, in 19th-century dark red morocco (rebacked). c.1660.
Bookplate of F.W. Cosens (1819-89), book collector. Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale, in lot 294. Bookplate of S.G. Hamilton. Bought in 1950 from H.F.B. Brett-Smith, Oxford literary scholar and editor.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 70
Autograph copy by Lawes, in his musical setting, untitled.
In: A folio autograph songbook by William Lawes (1602-45), composer, 49 leaves, in contemporary calf stamped in gilt with arms of Charles I. c.1638-45.
Inscribed (f. 1v) ‘Richard Gibbon his booke giuen to him by Mr William Lawes all of his owne pricking and composeing’, and ‘Giuen to me J R by his widdow mris Gibbon J R:’, and ‘Borrowed of Alderman Fidye by me Jo: Surgenson’. Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer, and of Julian Marshall (1836-1903), music and print collector and writer.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 2 (New York & London, 1986). Discussed in John P. Cutts, ‘British Museum Additional MS. 31432 William Lawes' writing for the Theatre and the Court’, The Library, 5th Ser. 7 (1952), 225-34, and in Margaret Crum, ‘Notes on the Texts of William Lawes's Songs in B.M. MS. Add. 31432’, The Library, 5th Ser. 9 (1954), 122-7.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 71
Copy, in a musical setting by John Atkins (d.1671).
In: the MS described under SuJ 14. c.1640s.
This MS collated in Clayton.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4041, No. 37, ff. 27v-8r.
SuJ 72
Copy, in a musical setting by John Atkins.
In: the MS described under SuJ 24. c.1630s-50s.
This MS collated in Clayton.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 156.
SuJ 73
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘See See how vnregarded now’.
In: the MS described under SuJ 33. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, ff. 13v-14r.
SuJ 74
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under SuJ 15. Late 17th century.
This MS collated in Clayton.
Sonnet II (‘Of thee (kind boy) I ask no red and white’)
First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 48-9.
SuJ 75
Copy, in a musical setting by Nicholas Lanier.
In: the MS described under SuJ 14. c.1640s.
This MS collated in Clayton. On f. 30 of the MS appears the incipit ‘of thee’ with a musical setting by William Webb as published in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652).
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4041, No. 30, ff. 22v-3r.
SuJ 76
Copy, in a musical setting by Nicolas Lanier, subscribed ‘Sr: John Suckling’.
In: the MS described under SuJ 24. c.1630s-50s.
This MS recorded in Clayton.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 40.
SuJ 77
Copy, subscribed ‘Sr. J: S:’.
In: the MS described under SuJ 10. c.1713.
This MS collated in Clayton.
A Supplement of an imperfect Copy of Verses of Mr. Will. Shakespears, By the Author (‘One of her hands, one of her cheeks lay under’)
Clayton, p. 16.
See ShW 2.5.
‘That Heaven should visitt Earth and come to see ’
See SuJ 36.
‘That none beguiled be by times quick flowing’
See SuJ 37.
‘The crafty Boy that had full oft assay'd’
See SuJ 42.
‘'Tis now since I sate down before’
See SuJ 43-44.
To a Lady that forbidd to love before Company (‘What noe more favours, not A Ribbon more’)
First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 43-4.
SuJ 78
Copy, subscribed ‘Sr J: Suckling’.
In: the MS described under SuJ 23. c.1641-9.
Edited from this MS in Clayton.
To his Rival I (‘My dearest Rival, least our Love’)
First published, untitled, in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 41-2.
SuJ 79
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Sr. J. S.’
In: the MS described under SuJ 10. c.1713.
This MS collated in Clayton.
To Mr. Davenant for Absence (‘Wonder not if I stay not here’)
First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, p. 39.
SuJ 80
Copy, in the italic hand of John Langley, household steward and tutor to the Earl of Middlesex's sons, untitled, in an eight-page quarto booklet of verse by Suckling.
In: the MS described under SuJ 4.
This MS collated in Clayton and discussed p. ciii; recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 306.
Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, U269 F36, No. 42, p. 7.
Upon A.M. (‘Yeeld not, my Love. but be as coy’)
First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, p. 27.
SuJ 81
Copy of an untitled variant version in a musical setting.
In: A folio songbook, 121 leaves (including c.20 blanks and an index), in contemporary calf (rebacked). Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by or attributed to Herrick, in musical settings, predominantly in a single hand (ff. 2r-63v, 92r-9r, 100r, with a change of style on ff. 64r-5v and in the index probably by the same hand), with 18th-century additions on ff. 81v-7v, 89r-v and 145v-53r, and scribbling elsewhere. c.1640s-60s.
Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Probert MS’: CwT Δ 4, HeR Δ 1. Discussed and analysed in John P. Cutts, ‘A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57’, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211. Also briefly discussed in George Thewlis, ‘Some Notes on a Bodleian Manuscript’, M&L, 22 (1941) 32-5, and in Willa McClung Evans, ‘Shakespeare's “Harke Harke ye Larke”’, PMLA, 60 (1945), 95-101 (with a facsimile of f. 78r). A facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 6 (New York & London, 1987).
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 82
Copy, headed ‘Sonnet’.
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.
This MS collated in Clayton.
Upon Christ his birth (‘Strange news! a Cittie full? will none give way’)
First published in Beaurline, SP, 59 (1962), p. 653. Clayton, pp. 9-10.
SuJ 83
Copy on the first page of two conjugate leaves of verse [by Suckling].
In: the MS described under SuJ 4.
Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.
Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, U269 F36, No. 37 p. [1].
Upon Christmas (‘Haile wellcome time, whoes long expected date’)
First published in Beaurline, SP, 59 (1962), pp. 654-5. Clayton, pp. 11-12.
SuJ 84
Copy on the third page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse [by Suckling].
In: the MS described under SuJ 4.
Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton, with a facsimile, Plate 4, after p. xcviii. Facsimile also in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 259.
Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, U269 F36, No. 37 p. [3].
Upon Christmas Eve (‘Vaile cobwebs from the white-ned floore’)
First published in Beaurline, SP, 59 (1962), p. 653. Clayton, p. 9.
SuJ 85
Copy on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse [by Suckling].
In: the MS described under SuJ 4.
Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.
Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, U269 F36, No. 37 p. [1].
Upon Innocents day (‘What treason can there in an infant lurke?’)
First published in Beaurline, SP, 59 (1962), pp. 654. Clayton, p. 10.
SuJ 86
Copy on the second page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse [by Suckling].
In: the MS described under SuJ 4.
Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.
Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, U269 F36, No. 37 p. [2].
Upon L. M. weeping (‘Whoever was the cause your tears were shed’)
First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 34-5.
Upon Mrs. A. L. (‘Thou think'st I flatter when thy praise I tell’)
First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 26-7.
Upon My Lady Carliles walking in Hampton-Court garden (‘Didst thou not find the place inspir'd’)
First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 30-2.
SuJ 87
Copy, with an additional stanza, headed ‘A Dialogue betw: T: C: and Sr: I: S:’ and subscribed ‘T: C:’.
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.
This MS collated in Clayton. The additional stanza edited in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), p. 535.
Upon Newyeares day (‘Arise, my Muse, a Newyear's-gift praepare’)
First published in Beaurline, SP, 59 (1962), p. 654. Clayton, p. 11.
SuJ 88
Copy on the second page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse [by Suckling].
In: the MS described under SuJ 4.
Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.
Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, U269 F36, No. 37 p. [2].
Upon St. Johns-day comeing after christmas day (‘Let the Divines dispute the case, and try’)
First published in Beaurline, SP, 59 (1962), p. 654. Clayton, p. 10.
SuJ 89
Copy on the second page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse [by Suckling].
In: the MS described under SuJ 4.
Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.
Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, U269 F36, No. 37 p. [2.
Upon St. Thomas his unbeliefe (‘Faithe comes by heare say, loue by sight. then hee’)
First published in Beaurline, SP, 59 (1962), p. 653. Clayton, p. 9.
SuJ 90
Copy on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse [by Suckling].
In: the MS described under SuJ 4.
Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.
Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, U269 F36, No. 37 p. [1].
Upon Stephen stoned (‘Under this heape of stones interred lies’)
First published in Beaurline, SP, 59 (1962), pp. 653-4. Clayton, p. 10.
SuJ 91
Copy on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse [by Suckling].
In: the MS described under SuJ 4.
Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.
Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, U269 F36, No. 37 p. [1].
Upon the Epiphanie Or starr that appear'd to the wisemen (‘Astrologers, from hence you may devise’)
First published in Beaurline, SP, 59 (1962), pp. 654. Clayton, pp. 11.
SuJ 92
Copy on the second page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse [by Suckling].
In: the MS described under SuJ 4.
Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.
Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, U269 F36, No. 37 p. [1v].
The Wits (A Sessions of the Poets) (‘A Sessions was held the other day’)
First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 71-6. L.A. Beaurline, ‘An Editorial Experiment: Suckling's A Session of the Poets’, Studies in Bibliography, 16 (1963), 43-60.
SuJ 93
Copy, untitled.
In: A verse miscellany, i + 25 leaves. c.1640.
Owned before 1959 by the Lingard-Guthrie family.
This MS collated in Clayton and in Beaurline, loc. cit.
SuJ 94
Copy, headed ‘The Witts’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, ii + 318 pages (pp. 103-290 largely blank). Including many poems by Sidney Godolphin (1610-43), poet and courtier, and associated with the circle of Lucius Cary (1609/10-1643), second Viscount Falkland, politician and author, of Great Tew, Oxfordshire. c.late 1630s-early 1640s.
This MS collated in Clayton and in Beaurline, loc. cit.
SuJ 94.5
Copy, in a professional rounded italic hand, headed ‘The Witts’, on two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter. c.1630s.
In: A collection of unbound verse manuscripts, in various hands and paper sizes (chiefly folio), 142 leaves. Partly compiled by Sir Richard Browne and his father Christopher Browne (1577-1646), of Saye's Court, Deptford.
Volume LXVII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford. Acquired March 1995.
SuJ 95
Copy, untitled, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Clayton and in Beaurline, loc. cit.
SuJ 96
Copy, headed ‘The Witts’.
In: the MS described under SuJ 13. c.1624-41.
Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit. Collated in Clayton.
SuJ 97
Copy, headed ‘The witts’.
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).
Edited from this MS in Berry, pp. 39-47; collated in Clayton and in Beaurline, loc. cit. A MS transcript made by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833) is in the New York Public Library, Manuscript Divisoin: see Beaurline, p. 46, and C.M. Armitage, ‘Identification of New York Public Library Manuscript “Suckling Collection” and of Huntington Manuscript 198’, SB, 19 (1966), 215-16.
SuJ 98
Copy, possibly in the italic hand of John Langley, household steward and tutor to the Earl of Middlesex's sons, untitled, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed by Lionel Cranfield, Earl of Middlesex, ‘Rymes Of som Poettes Of som Wittes Abowt London Septembr 1637’. c.1637.
In: the MS described under SuJ 4.
This MS collated in Clayton and in Beaurline, loc. cit.
SuJ 99
Copy, headed ‘The Witts’.
In: the MS described under SuJ 33. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, ff. 49v-51v.
Poems of Doubtful Authorship
The Answer (‘Say, but did you love so long?’)
See SuJ 11-15.
Foreknowledge Englished thus (‘If man might know’)
First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton p. 93.
SuJ 100
Copy, untitled.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, much relating to the Fane and Mildmay families, in a single predominantly italic hand, 130 leaves, in contemporary calf, remains of silk ties. Compiled by Sir Francis Fane (c.1612-80), of Fulbeck Hall, Northamptonshire, with his signed dedications to his son Henry (ff. 2r-v, 130r) dated respectively 1 January ‘1655’ and ‘20th. of Augt: 1663’. c.1655-63.
This MS collated in Clayton and described p. 296.
Gnomics (‘Reuenge is sweete, & reckned as cleare gaine’)
First published in Clayton (1971), p. 95.
SuJ 101
Copy, in a neat italic hand, untitled, in the upper left-hand corner of part of a single quarto leaf, once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed in a later hand ‘Sir John Suckling’.
In: the MS described under SuJ 4.
Edited from this MS in Clayton.
Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, U269 F36, [unnumbered].
The guiltless Inconstant (‘My first Love whom all beauty did adorn’)
First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 90-1.
Probably written by Walton Poole.
SuJ 102
Copy, untitled and subscribed ‘ffinis Tu.’
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, probably associated with Cambridge University, ii + 78 pages, in contemporary vellum. c.1625-31.
Inscribed (p. i) ‘Ex dono B. R. ao Jni. i625 [altered to i631] / Broughton / Thomas Gray’.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 103
Copy of lines 1-19, untitled, written later.
In: the MS described under SuJ 102. c.1625-31.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 104
Copy, headed ‘Vpon his Loves Vicissitude’, subscribed ‘Walton Poole’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, in a single professional secretary hand associated with the playhouse and possibly inns of court (also responsible for ChG 12.5, HyT 5, and MiT 6), 97 leaves, with a first-line ‘Index’ at the end, in contemporary vellum boards. Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship). c.1636.
Inscribed (on the front paste-down) ‘My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire’ (following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Chute MS’: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, ‘Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 105
Copy, headed ‘The Sparke T.C.’, subscribed ‘W.P.’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, predominantly in a single secretary hand, written from both ends, 179 leaves, in 19th-century half blue morocco gilt. c.1640s.
Inscribed (f. 179r) ‘This is Sr. Thomas Meres [or ? Maiors] Book’: i.e. probably Sir Thomas Meres (1634-1715), of Kirton, Lincolnshire. Later bookplate of the Rev. John Curtis. Purchased from Mrs Ann Austin Curtis 12 October 1889.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 106
Copy, headed ‘On his first Loue’, subscribed ‘Posuit Wal: Poole’.
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).
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 107
Copy, headed ‘To a scornfull Mistresse’.
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. 56r.
SuJ 108
Copy, here beginning ‘My first Love burnt my hart to tynder’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, 89 leaves, in old calf gilt. Partly compiled (pp. 75-99) by one Robert Berkeley, who has inscribed the first page ‘Rob Berkeley his booke Ano. 1640’. c.1640s.
Formerly owned by Henry Huth (1815-78). Formerly Rosenbach 195.
This MS collated in Clayton; also collated (as ‘Mr. Huth's “Berkeley” MS. 1640’) in Thomas Carew, Poems, ed. W.C. Hazlitt (London, 1870), p. 119.
SuJ 109
Copy, headed ‘The answer to it’, subscribed ‘Walton Poole’.
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.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 110
Copy, headed ‘On the 2 first verses of the former Copye for the Lady Denham’, subscribed ‘Walton Poole’.
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.
This MS collated in Clayton.
In Brennoralt (‘Thy love is chaste, they tell thee so’)
First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1669). Clayton, p. 97.
SuJ 111
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.
Edited from this MS in L.A. Beaurline, ‘The Canon of Sir John Suckling's Poems’, SP, 57 (1960), 492-518 (p. 517); collated in Clayton.
Inconstancie in Woman (‘I am confirm'd a woman can’)
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 96-7.
Henry Lawes's musical setting published in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652).
SuJ 112
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting (1596-1662).
In: the MS described under SuJ 28. Mid-17th century.
Edited from this MS in Clayton.
SuJ 113
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under SuJ 111. Late 17th century.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 114
Copy, untitled.
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’.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 115
Copy of lines 1-8, headed ‘vpon A womans inconstancy’.
In: the MS described under SuJ 62. c.1650s.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 116
Copy, headed ‘Sr John Suckling verses’. The text followed (ff. 23v-4) by ‘The Answ[er]:’.
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.
Edited from this MS in A. D[yce], ‘Inedited Song by Sir John Suckling’, N&Q, 1st Ser. 1 (December 1849), 72. Collated in Clayton.
SuJ 117
Copy, in double columns, untitled.
In: the MS described under SuJ 63. c.1730.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 119
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
In: the MS described under SuJ 14. c.1640s.
This MS collated in Clayton.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4041, No. 16, f. 13r-v.
SuJ 120
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
In: the MS described under SuJ 24. c.1630s-50s.
This MS collated in Clayton.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 114.
SuJ 121
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under SuJ 33. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 56r-v.
Love and Debt alike troublesom (‘This one request I make to him that sits the clouds above’)
First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 88-9.
SuJ 122
Copy, subscribed ‘J. S.’.
In: the MS described under SuJ 26. c.1670.
This MS collated in Peter Beal, ‘Suckling's Verses in the Hopkinson Manuscripts’, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 543-4, and see also Thomas Clayton in N&Q, 224 (October 1979), 425-7.
SuJ 123
Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, untitled, with two staves of music, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves.
In: the MS described under SuJ 42. Early-mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 123.5
Copy, headed ‘Song’. 19th century?.
In: the MS described under SuJ 42. Early-mid-17th century.
Love turn'd to Hatred (‘I will not love one minute more I swear’)
First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, p. 88.
SuJ 124
Copy, headed ‘Capt. Tyrell. Of Mrs Winchcombe’. The text followed (p. 158) by an answer by ‘Mr Womack’.
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 collated in Clayton.
SuJ 125
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo volume of heraldic arms, chiefly in trick, 64 leaves, in calf, stamped in gilt ‘M. B.’ Compiled by Samuel Waker, painter stainer, of London. Late 17th century.
Later owned by Sir Simeon Stuart, third Baronet, MP (c.1724-c.1779/82), of Hartley Mauduit, Hampshire, Chamberlain of the Exchequer (constituting Volume XI of the Stuart Collection). Purchased in 1778.
This MS collated in Clayton.
A New-years Gift (‘The Phenix dyes, yet still remaine’)
First published in Clayton (1971), pp. 94-5.
SuJ 126
Copy, in a neat italic hand, untitled, on one page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1630s.
In: the MS described under SuJ 4.
Edited from this MS in Clayton.
Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, U269 F36, [unnumbered].
‘Revenge is swate, and reck'ned as cleare gaine’
See SuJ 101.
Song (‘I prethee send me back my heart’)
First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes (1592-1662), in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues in Three Bookes (London, 1653). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 89-90.
Probably written by Henry Hughes.
SuJ 127
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards. Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source. Late 17th century.
Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as ‘Rawlinson MS I’: PsK Δ 6.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 128
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.
In: the MS described under SuJ 28. Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 128.5
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
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.
SuJ 129
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, in two styles of italic, the last poem (f. 93v) added in a later hand, 93 leaves (plus ten blanks), in modern quarter-morocco gilt. Including 14 poems by Donne, six poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, ten poems by Habington and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph. Owned and possibly compiled by Arthur Capell (1631-83), second Earl of Essex, whose name is inscribed in red ink (1*), in a similar roman hand to that on ff. 1r-19r. He married (1653) Elizabeth Percy (1636-1718), daughter of Algernon, tenth Earl of Northumberland; she was therefore the great niece of Habington's mother-in-law, Eleanor Percy, sister of the ninth Earl of Northumberland. Mid-17th century.
Later among the collections of Robert Harley (1661-1724), first Earl of Oxford, and his son, Edward (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II, i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Capell MS’: DnJ Δ 43, CwT Δ 17, and RnT Δ 3. Discussed in Geoffrey Tillotson, ‘The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell’, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 130
Copy of lines 1-12, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, probably in a single hand, written largely on rectos only and from both ends, 44 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in calf gilt (rebacked). Mid-17th century.
Inscribed (f. [iir]) ‘Edward Pulton / Aprill 1645’, and (f. 44v rev.) ‘Edwardus Jackson 1687’.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 132
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.
This MS recorded in Clayton.
SuJ 132.5
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under SuJ 33. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, ff. 24v-5r.
SuJ 133
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under SuJ 15. Late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Clayton.
‘The Phenix dyes, yet still remaine’
See SuJ 126.
To Mr. W.M. Against Absence (‘Pedlar in love, that with the common Art’)
First published in Sir William Davenant, Works (London, 1673). Clayton, p. 94. Sir William Davenant, The Shorter Poems and Songs from the Plays and Masques, ed. A.M. Gibbs (Oxford, 1972), pp. 133-4. Possibly written by Davenant.
SuJ 134
Copy in the italic hand of John Langley, household steward and tutor to the Earl of Middlesex's sons, untitled, in a eight-page quarto booklet of verse by Suckling.
In: the MS described under SuJ 4.
This MS collated in Clayton.
Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, U269 F36, No. 42, p. 5.
SuJ 135
Copy, headed ‘Against Absence’.
In: A quarto volume, in two hands. 274 leaves, unnumbered. 1626-96.
Comprising:
[Part I, ff. 12r-168r], five sermons, the first four by Donne, in the hand of Knightley Chetwode, son of Richard Chetwode, of Chetwode, Buckinghamshire, and Oakley, Staffordshire. 1625/6.
[Part II, ff. 1r-78r rev.], a verse miscellany, produced when the original blank pages were later filled from the reverse end, probably by one Katherine Butler. 1696.
The volume inscribed as having been given to Katherine Butler by her father in May 1693.
Described in Potter & Simpson, I, 41-2.
St Paul's Cathedral, MS 52. D. 14, Part II, [unnumbered pages] .
To the Lady Desmond (Upon the Black Spots worn by my Lady D. E.) (‘I know your heart cannot so guilty be’)
First published in Dudley, Lord North, A Forest of Varieties (London, 1645). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, p. 92. Probably written by Peter Apsley.
SuJ 136
Copy, headed ‘To ye Lady Desmonde’ and subscribed ‘P Apsley’.
In: the MS described under SuJ 94. c.late 1630s-early 1640s.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 137
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘I do'nt belieue you can soe guilty bee’.
In: the MS described under SuJ 46. c.1630s [-1733].
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 138
Copy, headed ‘On his Mrs beauty spotts’ and here beginning ‘Madam your heart cannot soe guilty be’.
In: the MS described under SuJ 62. c.1650s.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 139
Copy, in Constance Fowler's hand, headed ‘on black paches’ and initialled ‘Mr H T’ [i.e. Henry Thimelby, brother-in-law of Constance Fowler].
In: A quarto miscellany of recusant verse, many of the 65 poems relating to the circle of the Catholic Aston family, in three hands, 200 leaves (including five preliminary blanks, and ff. 53r-135v are blank), in contemporary leather gilt. Compiled principally by Constance Fowler (d.1664), daughter of the diplomat Walter Aston, Baron Aston of Forfar (1584-1639), of Tixall and Colton, Staffordshire, her roman hand responsible for ff. 6r, 8r-15v, 24v-34v, 46v-52v, 136r-9r, 143v-59r, and 182v-95v. The second, predominantly secretary hand, responsible for fourteen poems on ff. 7r-v, 16r-24r, and 35r-46r, is that of Constance's sister Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68). The third hand, on ff. 196r-200v, is that of Constance's brother-in-law Sir William Pershall. c.1635-50s.
William H. Robinson, sale catalogue (1925), item 472.
This volume discussed, with a complete first-line index and a facsimile of f. 25r, in Jenijoy La Belle, ‘The Huntington Aston Manuscript’, The Book Collector, 29 (Winter 1980), 542-67. See also Jenijoy La Belle, ‘A True Love's Knot: The Letters of Constance Fowler and the Poems of Herbert Aston’, JEGP, 79 (1980), 13-31. The complete volume edited in The Verse Miscellany of Constance Aston Fowler: A Diplomatic Edition, ed. Deborah Aldrich-Watson (Tempe, Arizona, 2000), with a facsimile of f. 28v on p. lxiv.
Aldrich-Watson, p. 114. This MS discussed in Jenijoy La Belle, ‘The Huntington Aston Manuscript’, BC, 29 (Winter 1980), 542-67 (p. 555-6).
SuJ 139.5
Copy of an untitled version, here beginning ‘I dare not thinke yow can so guilty bee’.
In: the MS described under SuJ 33. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 78r.
Upon the Black Spots worn by my Lady D.E. (‘I know your heart cannot so guilty be’)
See SuJ 136-9.
Womans Constancy (‘There never yet was woman made’)
First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 61-2.
SuJ 139.8
Copy of a version headed ‘Songe’ and beginning ‘There was no woman ever made’.
In: the MS described under SuJ 40. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 93-5.
Prose
An Account of Religion by Reason
First published, with a separate title-page, in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 168-80.
SuJ 140
Copy, in a professional hand, entitled (f. 99r) ‘A Discourse written by Sr John Suckling Knt. to the Earle of Dorset’. c.1630s.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous and state tracts and speeches, in Greek, Latin and English, in various hands, 335 leaves, in near-contemporary panelled calf.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 141
Copy, in a mixed hand, as ‘by Sr John Suckling’, on eighteen quarto leaves. c.1640s.
In: A quarto composite volume of antiquarian letters and tracts, in various hands and paper sizes, 131 leaves, mounted on guards, in cloth boards.
Some items possibly from the library of Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary. Probably the quarto volume later owned by the Rev. Dr Cox Macro (1683-1767), antiquary, sold at Christie's, February 1820, lot 99. Afterwards owned by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. A description of the contents on ff. 1v-2r by Sir Francis Palgrave, December 1842. Turner sale, 1859, lot 8. Phillipps MS 21538. Sotheby's, 5-10 June 1899 (Phillipps sale), lot 1090.
SuJ 142
Copy, headed ‘A Discourse written by Sr John Suckling Knt to ye Earle of Dorsett’, followed (on f. 304r) by a contemporary reader's extensive comments prompted by the work, in a closely written mixed hand. c.1640.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional secretary hands, with (ff. 4r-6r) a table of contents, 222 leaves, in old half-calf.
Stamped (f. 1r) with name of Sir Richard Betenson, Bt (? the first Baronet, d.1679, of Hatton Garden, Holborn). Thomas Thorpe, ‘Catalogue of books, ancient and modern...[and] manuscripts’, Part 2 (1823), item 5903. In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 2519. Sotheby's, 21 March 1895 (Phillipps sale), lot 301. Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.
University of London, Senate House Library, MS 309, ff. 291r-304r.
SuJ 143
Copy, principally in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, the last two pages in another professional hand, with a reader's marginal annotations, on fifteen leaves.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, 40 leaves.
Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), businessman and collector. Christie's, 12 June 1980 (Houghton sale, Part 2), lot 482. Christie's, New York, 18 November 1988 (John F. Fleming sale), lot 334.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 227 (No. 24).
Facsimile of the first page in Christie's sale catalogue, 12 June 1980, lot 482 (Plate 42 after p. 132).
SuJ 144
Copy, on nine folio pages. c.1637-40s.
Probably owned originally by Suckling's uncle, Charles Suckling of Woodton, and later owned by William Suckling, Roos Hall, Beccles, Suffolk.
This MS collated in Clayton and discussed pp. cii-civ. Clayton's photocopies of the MS are in the Bodleian (MS Facs. c. 27, f. 33).
SuJ 145
Copy, headed ‘A discourse presented to ye Earle of Dorset by Sr John Suckling’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in at least two cursive hands, written largely on rectos only, unfoliated, c.90 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1700.
Inscribed inside the lower cover ‘Will Graves/Memoranda’. Thomas Thorpe, ‘Catalogue of upwards of fourteen hundred manuscripts’ (1836). Afterwards owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9621. Sotheby's, 17 May 1897 (Phillipps sale), lot 627. Donated in 1937 by Leicester Bradner. Formerly MS Vault, Section 10, Drawer 3 Commonplace book.
This MS collated in Clayton.
An Answer to a Gentleman in Norfolk that sent to enquire after the Scotish business
First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 142-4.
SuJ 146
Copy, headed ‘Sr John Sucklings letter to his friend’ on one side of a single folio leaf.
In: the MS described under SuJ 1.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 147
Copy, in Ashmole's hand, subscribed ‘J: S:’, on a single folio leaf. c.1640.
In: A folio composite volume of historical and miscellaneous MSS, in various hands, iii + 250 leaves. Collected and some items written by Elias Ashmole (1617-92). Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 148
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Sr John Sucklings Lre out of Scotland, April. 1639’, on a single folio leaf. c.1640.
In: A folio composite miscellany of antiquarian materials, in various hands, viii + 183 leaves, bound with MSS Dodsworth 62 and 63, in old calf.
Among collections of Roger Dodsworth (1585-1654), antiquary, passed on to Lord Fairfax, who donated them to the Bodleian.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 149
Copy in the hand of William Sancroft, headed ‘A Letter sent by Sr John Sucklikng to a freind of his in Norfolke, concerning the Scottish businesse’. Mid-17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, in various hands, 254 leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled in part by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 149.5
Copy, in a neat italic hand, as ‘by Sr John Suckling’.
In: A folio commonplace book of tracts and verses, in several hands, begun 1 October 1639, written from both ends, 35 leaves from the front, 241 pages (plus numerous blanks) at the reverse end, in old calf gilt. Compiled by, and partly in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician. c.1639.
Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.
The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 25, pp. 26-7 rev.
SuJ 150
Copy, headed ‘Sr. John Sucklings letter to a friend of his. Anno: Dom: 1640’.
In: the MS described under SuJ 105. c.1640s.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 151
c.1640.
In: A folio volume of state papers chiefly relating to the University of Cambridge. c.1640.
Once owned by Dr Henry Smyth, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. Among the collections of John Patrick (1632-95), religious controversialist.
SuJ 152
Copy in: A folio volume of state tracts, speeches, and verse, closely written from both ends in a single hand, 260 pages, lacking a number of pages and some fragments (pp. 25-38, 48-64) now removed to MS Gg. 4. 13*, in quarter-calf. Mid-17th century.
SuJ 152.2
Copy, in a mixed hand, headed ‘An answer to a gentleman of Norfolke concerninge the Scottish business: 1639’, subscribed ‘A. C.’c.1640.
In: A quarto volume comprising two independent works, in two different hands, 66 pages, in modern boards. Mid-17th century.
Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogues for 1835, item 228, and for 1836, item 216. Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 10134. Sold in 1895 to Tregaskis. Item 89 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 163.1.
SuJ 152.5
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘An answeer to a Gent in the north that sent to inquire after the Scottish busines’, subscribed ‘Written by Sr. John Sucklin as tis said’.
In: A folio volume of political and miscellaneous verse and prose, in several secretary verse, written from both ends, comprising ‘Book I’ (viii + 254 pages one way and pp. 255-309 inverted) and ‘Book II’ (282 pages inverted), including a table of contents, in half reversed calf. Compiled partly by Sir Thomas Swinburne (c.1589-1645), of Edlingham and Nafferton, Sheriff of Northumberland in 1628-9. c.1640s.
Among the family collection established by Christopher Mickleton (1612-69), Durham attorney, and by his eldest son James (1638-93), lawyer and antiquary, which was later incorporated in the collections of Gilbert Spearman (1675-1738), lawyer and antiquary.
Durham University Library, Mickleton & Spearman MS 9, Book II, pp. 130-1.
SuJ 152.6
Copy, headed ‘A Coppie of a Lre written by Sr. John Suckling knight to a friend of his in Kent, concerning ye Scottish Businesse. Ao. Dni: 1639.’
In: A folio booklet of discourses, in a single secretary hand, 42 pages, in modern stiff paper wrapper. Lacking pages after p. 26 and p. 32, some of which are now National Library of Wales, Carreglwyd II. 595. c.1640.
Among papers of the Griffith family of Carreglwyd, Anglesey, including papers of John Griffith of Gray's Inn, private secretary to Henry Howard (1540-1614), Earl of Northampton.
SuJ 152.8
Copy, headed ‘Sr John Sucklens Letter’, on one page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse. c.1641.
Yale, Osborn Gordonstoun Papers Box 1, Folder 6, [unnumbered item].
SuJ 153
Copy, on a single folio leaf. c.1640s.
Among papers of the Mainwaring family.
SuJ 153.2
Copy, subscribed ‘A. C.’, on two pages.
In: A quarto miscellany of political material, principally of parliamentary speeches and letters for 1640-1, neatly written in a rounded hand, 310 pages, in 17th-century calf. Mid-17th century.
Formerly Osborn Collection, Box 45, 19.
A Coppy of a Letter Found in the Privy Lodgeings at Whitehall
See SuJ 154-157.
A Letter to a Friend to diswade him from marrying a Widow which he formerly had been in Love with, and quitted
First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 155-6.
SuJ 153.5
Copy, in a mixed hands, headed ‘Sr John Sucklins letter to Tom: Cary the Poet’.
In: A quarto commonplace book, in several hands, begun 1 May 1634, written from both ends, 262 leaves, in contemporary calf (rebacked). Compiled by, and largely in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician. c.1634-5.
Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.
The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 24, ff. 231r-3r.
SuJ 153.8
Copy, headed ‘Written by one to his freind that woed a widow, to whome he had foermerly bin a Suitor when she was a maide’.
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.
Collated in Clayton.
To Mr. Henry German, In the Beginning of Parliament, 1640
First published as A Coppy of a Letter Found in the Privy Lodgeings at Whitehall (London, 1641). Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 163-7.
SuJ 154
Copy, headed ‘Sr John Sucklings letter to Mr Hen: Jermin’, on seven quarto pages.
c.1640.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 294 leaves, in half-calf. Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 155
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled, on two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed on a blank leaf (f. 60v) ‘A discourse of the state of these present times. / 1641’. c.1640s.
In: A large folio guard-book of independent state tracts and miscellaneous papers, in various hands, 229 leaves.
This MS collated in Clayton.
SuJ 156
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed ‘A Letre Concerninge these tymes. 1643’, on both sides of a folio leaf bound in a volume of printed tracts. c.1643.
Among the collection of George Thomason (c.1602-66), bookseller and collector of printed tracts.
This MS collated in Clayton. Microfilm in the British Library (Mic. B.58/245).
SuJ 157
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, probably once folded as a letter, unbound. c.1640.
Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of de la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent.
Edited from this MS in Clayton and discussed p. ci.
SuJ 157.5
Copy, in a professional hand, on two conjugate folio leaves, damp-stained. Headed ‘To Mr. Henrye German in the beginninge of Parliamt 1640’ and subscribed ‘J: S:’. c.1640.
Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671).
Dramatic Works
Aglaura
First published in London, 1638. Beaurline, Plays, pp. 33-119.
SuJ 158
Copy of the tragic version, in a professional hand, including three prologues, on 26 folio leaves. Possibly a copy presented to the King for the performance at Court about Christmas-time 1637. c.1637-8.
This MS collated in Beaurline and described pp. 256-8. Also described in W.W. Greg, Dramatic Documents from the Elizabethan Playhouses, 2 vols (Oxford, 1931), I, 332-3.
SuJ 158.2
Comments on the play.
In: A folio miscellany, owned and probably compiled by one ‘P. D’, 123 leaves, the first entry dated ‘Ap. 18. 1687’. 1687-9.
Discussed, with extracts, in G. Blakemore Evans, ‘A Seventeenth-Century Reader of Shakespeare’, RES, 21 (1945), 271-9.
Quoted in Blakemore Evans, p. 279.
SuJ 158.5
Extracts.
In: An octavo commonplace book of extracts from various authors, some under headings, compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, written from both ends, iv + 558 pages (the majority blank), in contemporary vellum. Late 17th century.
SuJ 159
An exemplum of the first printed edition with some MS stage directions on pp. 48-9 in the last act of the non-tragic version, made by someone apparently familiar with a MS or performance of the play. Mid-17th century.
Once owned by John Selden (1584-1654).
This item collated in Beaurline and described, p. 259.
SuJ 160
Extensive MS annotations in a printed exemplum of the third edition, prepared for use as a promptbook by the King's Company. c.1670s.
In: An annotated printed exemplum of Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1658).
This item briefly discussed in Beaurline, pp. 262-3. Complete reduced facsimile in Edward A. Langhans, Restoration Promptbooks (Carbondale & Edwardsville, 1981), pp. 163-95 (and discussed pp. 30-1).
SuJ 161
Copy of part of the play, containing the dramatis personae, the first prologue, Act I scene i and scene ii, lines 1-16.
In: the MS described under SuJ 130. Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Beaurline.
SuJ 161.2
Extracts.
In: A quarto commonplace book of extracts illustrating specified topics, largely in a single cursive hand, entitled Miscellanea Tragica Theatrical Index of Sentimts. & Descriptions Vol. 7, 244 pages (including blanks, plus a seven-page index and further blanks), in quarter crushed morocco on marbled boards. Inscribed ‘W. Harte 1726’: i.e. by Walter Harte (1709-41), compiler of the MS, which also has his bookplate. c.1726.
SuJ 161.5
Printer's cast-off marks, marked up for Jacob Tonson's 1709 edition of Suckling's Works. On pages 3, 15-24 of Aglaura in an exemplum of Poems &c Written by Sir John Suckling (London, 1646). c.1709.
Facsimile of pp. 22-23 in Roger E. Stoddard, Marks in Books, Illustrated and Explained (Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1985), p. 7, No. 6.
SuJ 161.8
Extracts from Aglaura, Act I, scene iv, lines 95-103, beginning ‘Ambition seemes all things and yet is none’, headed ‘Sr John Suckling’.
In: An octavo commonplace book, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, 193 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum boards. Compiled entirely by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. c.1635-40s.
Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
—— Act IV, scene ii, lines 14-28. Song (‘Why so pale and wan fond Lover?’)
See SuJ 56-67.
—— Act IV, scene iv, lines 4-23. Song (‘No, no, faire Heretique, it needs must bee’)
See SuJ 51-55.
Brennoralt
First published, with a separate title-page, in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Beaurline, Plays, pp. 183-244.
SuJ 162
Extensive MS annotations in a printed exemplum of the third edition, prepared for use as a promptbook by the King's Company. c.1673-5.
In: the MS described under SuJ 160.
This item briefly discussed in Beaurline, pp. 262-3. Complete reduced facsimile in Edward A. Langhans, Restoration Promptbooks (Carbondale & Edwardsville, 1981), pp. 232-60 (and discussed pp. 31, 37).
Brennoralt, Act II, scene i, lines 95-106. Song (‘Come let the State stay’)
Beaurline, Plays, p. 201. The second stanza, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, published in The Second Book of the Pleasant Musical Companion (London, 1686).
SuJ 162.5
Copy of the second stanza, beginning ‘The Macedon youth left behind’, in Purcell's musical setting.
In: the MS described under SuJ 128.5. c.1760s.
SuJ 162.8
Copy of the second stanza, beginning ‘The Macedon youth left behind’, in Purcell's musical setting.
In: An oblong quarto songbook, in one or possibly two hands, with a table of contents, vi + 128 pages, in contemporary blind-stamped calf. c.1705-39.
Owned, and possibly compiled, by William Knight (1684-1739), vicar choral (from 1712) and subchanter (from 1722) at York Minster.
—— Act II, scene ii, lines 52-66. Song (‘A hall, a hall’)
Beaurline, Plays, p. 100.
SuJ 163
Autograph copy by Lawes of Grainevert's song in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under SuJ 70. c.1638-45.
Edited from this MS in Cutts, The Library (1952), p. 228, and in Jorgens, Part 12 (1989), p. 2. Collated in Beaurline.
SuJ 164
Copy of Grainevert's song, untitled.
In: the MS described under SuJ 33. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 67v.
The Goblins, Act III, scene ii, lines 28-34. Song (‘Some drinke, what Boy, some drinke’)
First published, with a separate title-page, in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Beaurline, Plays, pp. 121-82 (pp. 142-3).
Henry Lawes's musical setting published in John Playford, Catch that Catch Can (London, 1667).
SuJ 165
Copy of the incipit of Nashorat's catch in a musical setting by William Lawes (1602-45).
In: A large folio autograph songbook of the composer William Lawes (1602-45), viii + 114 pages, various leaves excised, in contemporary calf gilt bearing the royal arms. c.1638-45.
This MS collated in Beaurline.
SuJ 166
Copy of Nashorat's catch, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled. Mid-late 17th century.
In: A large square-shaped folio composite volume of largely vocal music, in several hands and paper sizes, 61 leaves, mounted on guards, in a recycled vellum indenture within modern quarter vellum boards. c.1762.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘R Guise Oct: 1762’. Puttick & Simpson's, 20 December 1872.
This MS collated in Beaurline.
SuJ 167
Copy of Nashorat's catch, here beginning ‘Some drinke boyes some drinke’.
In: the MS described under SuJ 33. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 62v.
—— Act III, scene ii, lines 53-7. Song (‘A Round, A Round, A Round’)
Beaurline, Plays, p. 143. The song published in John Playford, Catch that Catch Can (London, 1667).
SuJ 168
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: An oblong quarto songbook, 38 leaves (including some blanks), in contemporary vellum. Mid-late 17th century.
This MS collated in Beaurline.
—— Act III, scene ii, lines 72-8. Song (‘A health to the Nut browne Lasse’)
Beaurline, Plays, p. 144.
SuJ 169
Autograph copy by Lawes, in his musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under SuJ 70. c.1638-45.
This MS collated in Beaurline.
SuJ 170
Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes.
In: the MS described under SuJ 14. c.1640s.
This MS collated in Beaurline.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4041, No. 108, ff. 86v-7v.
SuJ 171
Copy of the song, untitled.
In: the MS described under SuJ 33. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 62v.
The Sad One, Act V, scene v, lines 31-4. Song (‘Come, come away, to the Tavern I say’)
First published, with a separate title-page, in Last Remains (London, 1659). Beaurline, Plays, pp. 1-32 (p. 27). The song published in A Musicall Banquet (London, 1651).
SuJ 172
Copy of the song, untitled, here beginning ‘Come let's away, to the Tavern I say’, with two additional lines.
In: the MS described under SuJ 168. Mid-late 17th century.
This MS collated in Beaurline.
Letters
Letter(s)
SuJ 173
Copy of a letter by Suckling, or possibly by Sir John Mennes, perhaps to Mary Bulkeley, undated. c.1624-45.
In: A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in probably several neat secretary and italic hands, 194 pages. Compiled, probably at least in part, by ‘George Turner Scoolmaster’, as his name is inscribed at the end, a couplet on p. 179 reading ‘Hic liber me pertinet and beare yt well in minde / Per me Georgium Turner so curteous and kinde’. Possible contributors are members of the Bancrofte family, whom he might perhaps have tutored. c.1624-1645.
Various inscribed names (sometimes more than once): ‘Anne Bancrofte’, and ‘Mary Bancrofte’. Also, under ‘1624’, a list of names with perhaps birthdates: ‘Mary Bancrofte Ap. 28. 1611’, ‘Rich Bancrofte May 2. 1608’, ‘Elis Bancrofte Apr 27. 1614’, and ‘John Bancrofte Ap 30 1616’. A legal document in the volume, dated 4 November 1645, relates to Willesden, Kilburn and Hampstead.
Formerly Folger MS 1027.2, this MS has been missing since 1991. It can be seen only on microfilm (Film Fo 4376.8).
Edited in Clayton (pp. 161-2), as a letter by Suckling, or possibly by Sir John Mennes, perhaps to Mary Bulkeley.
SuJ 174
A letter allegedly by Suckling (the poet), ‘To some Lord at Oxford desiring a line of information by bearer, to say — “whether you have any notice from Yarmouth touching my election to a Burgess place there, for which you were pleased to write on my behalfe”’, from ‘Gadfathers’, 29 July 1628. 1628.
Later owned by Samuel Weller Singer, FSA (1783-1858), of Mickleham, literary scholar. Sotheby's, 3 August 1858 (Singer sale), lot 98, to Knight.
*SuJ 175
Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to Mary Cranfield, from Gravesend, 30 October 1629. 1629.
Edited in Clayton, p. 107.
SuJ 175.5
A copy of a letter by Suckling, [to William Wallis], from Leiden, 18 November 1629. 1620.
In: the MS described under SuJ 147. Mid-17th century.
Edited in Clayton, pp. 112-14.
*SuJ 176
Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to the Earl of Middlesex, from Brussels, 3 May 1630. 1630.
In:
Edited in Clayton, pp. 114-16.
Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, U269/1 CP108, [unnumbered item].
*SuJ 177
Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to William Wallis, from Brussels, 5 May 1630. 1630.
Edited in Clayton, pp. 116-18, with a facsimile of the first page, Plate 2, after p. xcviii.
*SuJ 178
Autograph letter signed by Suckling, [to the Earl of Middlesex], from Hamburg, 10 October 1631. 1631.
In: the MS described under SuJ 176.
Edited in Clayton, pp. 118-19.
Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, U269/1 CP108, [unnumbered item].
*SuJ 179
Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to the Earl of Middlesex, from Würtzburg, 9 November 1631. 1631.
In: the MS described under SuJ 176.
Edited in Clayton, pp. 119-21.
Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, U269/1 CP108, [unnumbered item].
*SuJ 180
Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to the Earl of Middlesex, from Frankfurt, 29 November 1631. 1631.
In: the MS described under SuJ 176.
Edited in Clayton, pp. 123-4.
Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, U269/1 CP108, [unnumbered item].
*SuJ 181
Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to the Earl of Middlesex, from Frankfurt, 4 ‘September’ [but really December] 1631. 1631.
In: the MS described under SuJ 176.
Edited in Clayton, p. 125.
Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, U269/1 CP108, [unnumbered item].
SuJ 181.5
Copy of a letter by Suckling, [to Sir Henry Vane], from Whitehall, 2 May 1632. c.1632.
Edited in Clayton, pp. 126-9. Facsimile example (erroneously described as probably autograph) in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCVII.
SuJ 182
Copy of a letter by Suckling, to Sir Kenelm Digby, [18-30 November 1634]. c.1634.
Edited in Clayton, p. 130. Photocopy in Bodleian (MS Facs. d. 90, f. 149r).
*SuJ 183
Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to Sir George Southcot, from Wiston, 9 September 1635. 1635.
Edited in Clayton, pp. 131-3.
*SuJ 184
Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to the Earl of Middlesex, from ‘Camp’ [Scottish border], 6 June 1639. 1639.
In: the MS described under SuJ 176.
Edited in Clayton, pp. 145-6. Facsimile in IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile XIV, after p. xxi.
Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, U269/1 CP108, [unnumbered item].
*SuJ 185
Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to the Earl of Middlesex, from Whitehall, [30 September 1639]. 1639.
In: the MS described under SuJ 176.
Edited in Clayton, pp. 148-9. Facsimile in Berry, frontispiece.
Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, U269/1 CP108, [unnumbered item].
*SuJ 186
Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to Edward, Viscount Conway, [April-May 1640]. 1640.
Edited in Clayton, p. 151, with a facsimile, Plate 3, after p. xcviii. Facsimiles also in British Literary Autographs, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 42, and in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 273. Edited in part in The R.B. Adam Library, Vol. III (London, 1929), 232.
*SuJ 187
Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to the Earl of Newcastle, from London, 8 January [1640/1?]. 1641.
In: A folio guardbook of letters and papers, in various hands, i + 358 leaves.
Volume CCCCXCIX of the Portland Papers, owned by the Harley family, of Brampton Bryan, and related families of Vere, Hollis, and Cavendish, and of Cavendish-Bentinck, Dukes of Portland. Formerly Loan MS 29/235.
Edited in Clayton, p. 152. Facsimile example in Berry, p. 114.
Documents
Document(s)
*SuJ 188
A vellum indenture signed by Suckling, on 1 May 1638, for the sale of the Manor of Roos Hall in Suffolk, to Theophilus Kent, George Cocke, and John Dusgate, one of eight largely vellum documents relating chiefly to Suffolk estates, one signed by the poet's father, Sir John Suckling (1569-1627). c.1638.
Sotheby's, 17 December 1963, lot 458.
Miscellaneous Extracts from Suckling's Works
Extracts
SuJ 189
Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed ‘Sr Jo. Sucklins Play’, here beginning ‘Ther if prettier knots about you then this we see...’.
In: the MS described under SuJ 153.5. c.1634-5.
The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 24, ff. 195r-205r (rectos only).
SuJ 190
Verse extracts, inscribed ‘Sr John Suckling’.
In: A folio miscellany of extracts, in a single cursive hand, 351 leaves, in modern half brown morocco on marbled boards. c.1685-1700s.
Sotheby's, 13 July 1855, lot 1364.
SuJ 191
Extracts, headed ‘Sucklings Poems’.
In: A folio commonplace book of miscellaneous extracts, in English and French, chiefly in a single cursive hand, with some pages in the hand of an amanuensis, written from both ends, i + 134 leaves, originally in contemporary calf (now detached), in modern half red morocco. Compiled by Sir Samuel Tuke, first Baronet (c.1615-74), royalist army officer and playwright, cousin and friend of John Evelyn. Inscribed by him (f. 134r rev.) ‘I began these Collections the 9th of July, 1662 / By Sr Samuel Tuke: Bart:’. c.1662-5.
Volume CCLVII 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 Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 164.
SuJ 192
Prose extracts, headed ‘Sr John Suckling’.
In: An octavo notebook of extracts, in a single small mixed hand, written from both ends, 165 leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled by one William Bright, entitled ‘ffragmenta hic omnigena è varijs excerpta authoribus ad priuatum existunt vsum WB ex anno 1644’. c.1644-76.
Inscribed also inside the lower cover ‘Will: Bright Novemb 12th pretiu 8d 1645’.
SuJ 193
Extracts from various dramatic works.
In: A large untitled folio anthology of quotations chiefly from Elizabethan and Stuart plays, alphabetically arranged under subject headings, in a single mixed hand, in double columns, 900 pages (lacking pp. 1-4, 379-80, 667-8, 715-20 and 785-8), including (pp. 893-7) an alphabetical index of some 351 titles of plays, in modern boards. This is the longest known extant version of the unpublished anthology Hesperides or The Muses Garden, by John Evans, entered in the Stationers' Register on 16 August 1655 and subsequently advertised c.1660, among works he purposed to print, by Humphrey Moseley. Another version of this work, in the same hand, dissected by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), is now distributed between Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Halliwell-Phillipps, Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare, Folger, MS V.a.75, Folger, MS V.a.79, and Folger, MS V.a.80. c.1656-66.
Formerly MS 469.2.
This MS identified in IELM, II.i (1980), p. 450. Discussed, as the ‘master draft’, with a facsimile of p. 7 on p. 381, in Hao Tianhu, ‘Hesperides, or the Muses' Garden and its Manuscript History’, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/4 (December 2009), 372-404 (the full index printed as ‘Catalogue A’ on pp. 385-94).
SuJ 194
Extracts.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly in one cursive hand, written from both ends, 271 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum boards. c.1700.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 48, f. 42v.
SuJ 195
Extracts from various poems by Suckling, including Against Fruition (I), the Song‘No, no, faire Heretique’, and To my Lady E. C. at her going out of England.
In: the MS described under SuJ 135. 1626-96.
SuJ 196
Prose extracts.
In: A quarto commonplace book of extracts, with a tipped-in insert, written from both ends, 171 leaves, in contemporary calf with green ties. Compiled by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. c.Mid-late 1630s.
Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
Satirical Poems on Suckling
Upon Sir John Suckling's hundred horse (‘I tell thee Jack thou'st given the King’)
First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 204-5.
SuJ 199
Copy in: A quarto composite miscellany of verse, in English and Latin, compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, who lived in Cambridge as student and Fellow of Emmanuel College from 1633 to 1651, ii + 115 leaves, in calf. Comprising three separate units: ff. 1r-96v all in Sancroft's hand; ff. 97r-104r in a second hand; and ff. 105r-9r in a third hand. c.1640s [and later].
Including (on ff. 2-23, 27ar-v, 70) 94 Latin poems ascribed to Crashaw (including three of doubtful authorship) and (on ff. 29-41, 43v, 44v-58, 60v, 62v-5v, 67-70v, 72-3, 95-6) 101 English poems (plus a second copy of one of them) attributed to him (including one of doubtful authorship) and (on f. 16r-v) one Greek poem attributed to him; a list of contents on the first page beginning ‘Mr. Crashaw's poems transcrib'd fro his own copie, before the were printed; among wch are some not printed…’.
Cited in IELM as the ‘Sancroft MS’: CrR Δ 1. Crashaw edited in part from this MS, and collated, in Grosart, in Waller and in Martin (cited as T or T5), and discussed in Waller, pp. vi-ix, and in Martin, pp. lviii-lxxiii. Folios 28-34v, 38v-41, 44v, 52v-6 reproduced in facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
SuJ 200
Copy in: the MS described under SuJ 111. Late 17th century.
SuJ 201
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat predominantly italic hand, occupying ff. 25r-79v, the second of three independent MSS in different hands (including extracts from Hayward's Henry IV and from Sir Edwin Sandys, and parliamentary proceedings 1623/4), in a composite volume, 141 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt. The verse miscellany, including an Index (ff. 78v-9v), is compiled by John Holles (1595-1666), second Earl of Clare. Mid-17th century.
SuJ 204
Copy in: the MS described under SuJ 152.5. c.1640s.
Durham University Library, Mickleton & Spearman MS 9, Book II, p. 126.
SuJ 207
Copy, headed ‘To Sr Jo: Sucklinge’.
In: A single folio leaf, comprising two poems in a cursive predominantly secretary hand. c.1640.
Among papers of the Griffith family of Carreglwyd, Anglesey, including papers of John Griffith of Gray's Inn, private secretary to Henry Howard (1540-1614), Earl of Northampton.
Recorded in HMC, 5th Report (1876), p. 414.
SuJ 208
Copy, the text only.
In: the MS described under SuJ 24. c.1630s-50s.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 104.
SuJ 209
Copy in: MS.
Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 12 June 1980 (Houghton sale, Part 2), lot 486.
SuJ 210
Copy, headed ‘Verses made to Sr John Sucklin aboute the settinge forth his 100. horse for his Mats. seruice in Scottland’.
In: A pair of conjugate folio leaves, comprising two poems relating to Suckling, in a single secretary hand. c.1640.
SuJ 211
Copy, untitled.
In: A pair of conjugate folio leaves, comprising two poems relating to Suckling, in a single hand, imperfect. c.1640.
SuJ 212
Copy in: A pair of conjugate folio leaves, comprising two poems relating to Suckling, in a single hand, with corrections. c.1640.
Among the papers of Samuel Hartlib (c.1600/2-1662), educationalist and natural philosopher, later owned by Lord Delamere.
Discussed and collated in Timothy Raylor, ‘Samuel Hartlib's Copy of “Upon Sir John Suckling's Hundred Horse”’, N&Q, 234 (December 1989), 445-7.
SuJ 213
Copy in: A MS comprising two poems relating to Suckling, on three folio pages. c.1640.
Charles J. Sawyer, sale catalogue No. 117 (‘The Pym Collection’, 1934), item 145 (where the tentative but unlikely suggestion is made that the first poem is in Sir Benjamin Rudyerd's hand).
Recorded in HMC, 10th Report, Appendix VI (1887), pp. 94-5.
SuJ 214
Copy of a version of the last two stanzas (inverted).
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in one or more secretary hands, compiled at least in part by Thomas Harrison of York, 103 leaves, originally in vellum, now in modern half-calf. c.1647-8.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Hugh Massey his Booke Amen 1692’: ? Alderman of York, ‘sone of Hugh Massey ...in ye County of Chester b. 9 Jan 1676’. Later owned by Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), Yorkshire antiquary and topographer.
SuJ 215
Copy, headed ‘A Libel by ye Scots, vpon Sr John Sucklings 1639’.
In: the MS described under SuJ 11. c.1630s-40s.
Sir John Suckling's Answer (‘I tell thee foole who'ere thou be’)
First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 205-6. Sometimes erroneously attributed to Suckling himself.
SuJ 216
Copy, here beginning ‘I tell thee [fellowe] foole who e're thou be’.
In: the MS described under SuJ 1.
SuJ 219
Copy in: the MS described under SuJ 11. c.1630s-40s.
SuJ 220
Copy in: the MS described under SuJ 111. Late 17th century.
SuJ 221
Copy in: the MS described under SuJ 201. Mid-17th century.
SuJ 222
Copy in: the MS described under SuJ 23. c.1641-9.
SuJ 223
Copy in: the MS described under SuJ 152.5. c.1640s.
Durham University Library, Mickleton & Spearman MS 9, Book II, p. 127.
SuJ 226
Copy in: the MS described under SuJ 207. c.1640.
SuJ 227
Copy of the first line only.
In: the MS described under SuJ 24. c.1630s-50s.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 104.
SuJ 229
Copy in: the MS described under SuJ 210. c.1640.
SuJ 231
Copy in: the MS described under SuJ 212. c.1640.
Upon Sir John Sucklings most warlike preparations for the Scotish Warre (‘Sir John got him on an ambling Nag’)
First published in Sir John Mennes and James Smith, Musarum Deliciæ (London, 1655). Clayton, pp. 208-9. Sometimes improbably ascribed to Sir John Mennes.
SuJ 235
Copy in: the MS described under SuJ 111. Late 17th century.
SuJ 236
Copy in: the MS described under SuJ 152.5. c.1640s.
Durham University Library, Mickleton & Spearman MS 9, Book II, p. 203.
SuJ 237
Copy, headed ‘Sr John Suckling's Escape from ye Scots’.
In: A small narrow folio miscellany of verse and some prose, in several hands, 136 leaves, in vellum boards. Compiled probably over a period by members of the Stringer family of Sharlston. Early 18th century.
Among archives of the Fane family, Earls of Westmorland, of Apethorpe.
Imperfectly edited, and misattributed to Mildmay Fane, in Gerald W. Morton, ‘Mildmay Fane's Satiric Poem on John Suckling’, N&Q, 236 (March 1991), 85-6.
SuJ 238
Copy in: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, probably associated with Cambridge, densely written from both ends in a minute hand, paginated 11-264 (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Mid-17th century.
Sotheby's, 15 February 1928, lot 500. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 550 (1931), item 310.