Verse
Adoration to Sylvia (‘'Tis Summer now since thou art come’)
Unpublished poem of three quatrains.
ToA 1
Copy, subscribed ‘AT.’
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.
An Answere (‘Sr / It is too true! Lord Francis is deceast’)
An unpublished 44-line answer to a previous poem (Ogden MS, pp. 3-4) ‘To my worthy freind A:T: inviteinge him to write somethinge on the Lord Francis Villers slayne in these vnciuill Warrs at Kingston vpon Thames’ (beginning ‘Friend! Though perhapps you'le say y'are old’), subscribed ‘CR’ [? Carew Ralegh].
ToA 2
Copy of the full text, headed ‘The Answere’, subscribed ‘AT’.
In: the MS described under ToA 1. c.Late 1650s.
The Answere
‘Come not to me for scarfs, nor plumes’
First published in Chambers (1912), pp. 21-7. Brown, pp. 26-9.
ToA 3
Copy, subscribed ‘Au: Tounsend’.
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.
Edited from this MS in Brown.
‘Delicate Beauty, why should you disdaine’
First published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655), p. 20. Chambers, p. 11. Brown, pp. 64-5.
ToA 4
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).
Edited in part from this MS in Brown, with a facsimile.
A Dialogue betwixt Time and a Pilgrime (‘Aged man, that mowes these fields’)
First published, in a musical setting by Lawes, in Henry Lawes, Ayres and Dialogues, Book I (London, 1653), p. 3. chambers, pp. 6-7. Brown, pp. 43-5.
ToA 6
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
In: Portion of a folio songbook compiled by John Playford (1623-86?). c.1660.
This MS recorded in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Paris Conservatoire MS. Rés. 2489’, MD, 23 (1969), 117-39 (pp.?). Edited in part from this MS in Brown.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Département de la Musique, MS Conservatoire Rés. 2489, item 4.
ToA 7
Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue betwixt Tyme & a Pilgrim’, subscribed ‘AT.’
In: the MS described under ToA 1. c.Late 1650s.
An Elegie Made by Mr Aurelian Townshend in remembrance of the Ladie Venetia Digby (‘What Travellers of matchlesse Venice say’)
First published in Poems from Sir Kenelm Digby's Papers, in the possession of Henry A. Bright (Roxburghe Club, London, 1877), pp. 17-19. Chambers, pp. 38-40. Brown, pp. 52-3.
ToA 8
Copy, imperfect, lacking the last two lines.
In: A quarto volume of elegies on Venetia Digby, in a semi-calligraphic roman hand (but for subsequent scribbling in another hand on f. 13v and pagination from 1 to 48), 24 leaves, lacking a final leaf, in 19th-century half morocco. Evidently a formal MS made by or for Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-65), natural philosopher and courtier, of the poems sent to him after the death of his wife Venetia (née Stanley) on 30 April/1 May 1633. [1633].
Purchased from J. Salkeld, 13 January 1877.
Edited chiefly from this MS in Brown.
*ToA 9
The MS evidently sent to Digby by Townshend, described by Warner as ‘probably in the original autograph of Townsend’, signed ‘A. Tounshend’ and endorsed ‘For the Rightly Honorable Knight Sr Kenelme Digby’.
In: An unbound collection of MS poems. Described by Bright in 1877 as ‘A small packet of old discoloured papers’. Early 17th century.
Once owned by Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-65), natural philosopher and courtier. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Bright's library was sold in five parts at Sotheby's, 3 and 18 June 1844, 3 March, 12 April and 7 July 1845.
The MS poems printed, with commentary by G.F. Warner, in Poems from Sir Kenelm Digby's Papers, in the possession of Henry A. Bright (Roxburghe Club, London, 1877).
Edited from this MS in Bright (1877), pp. 17-19, whence collated in Brown.
Elegy on the death of the King of Sweden: sent to Thomas Carew (‘I had and have a purpose to be kind’)
Brown, pp. 48-9.
ToA 10
Copy of lines 36-58, here beginning ‘Till hands are found fitt for a Monarchy’, imperfect, lacking the first 35 lines.
In: A folio volume of poems, in a single accomplished hand, 61 leaves (plus stubs of fifteen extracted leaves), imperfect, in quarter-vellum. Including 49 pems by Thomas Carew and one of doubtful authorship. c.1640s.
Later owned by F. Wyburd who, according to W.C. Hazlitt (1870, p. xv), ‘obtained it about three years ago of a dealer at Knightsbridge’. Owned c.1927 by P.J. Dobell, who sold it in 1936.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Wyburd MS’: CwT Δ 3. Reduced facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969). Briefly discussed in Evelyn M. Simpson, ‘Two Manuscripts of Donne's Paradoxes and Problems’, RES, 3 (1927), 129-45 (pp. 131-3).
This MS text collated in Brown.
ToA 11
Copy, headed ‘Aurelian Townesends elegie on ye death of ye King of Sweden sent to T: Carewe’, subscribed ‘A: T:’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, 49 leaves; in contemporary calf gilt. Including 14 poems by Carew; the main text (ff. 1r-27r) in a non-professional mixed hand of the 1630s (but for later scribbling); the remaining leaves filled by later hands; notes on family history from 1647 to 1664 on ff. 28r-9r. c.1630s[-75].
Inscribed on f. 29v ‘John Peverell Booke 1674’ and his name also on ff. 1r and 49r. Fol. 48v containing a receipt dated 30 June 1653 ‘by me Francis Blackitt of bro. William of Hoodcroft, Co. Durham’. Other names inside the front cover including ‘John Peves’ and ‘Railphe Hogwood’ and, inside the back cover, ‘James Portington’, ‘William Steadman 1675’, ‘Thomas Meeres’, ‘William Diton’ and ‘Ramond Swift’.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Peverell MS’: CwT Δ 9.
Edited from this MS text in Brown.
ToA 12
Copy, headed ‘Aurelian Tounsend to Tho: Carew vpon the death of the King of Sweden’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Thomas Carew, probably in a single accomplished hand (changing to two styles of italic on ff. 42v-4v, 5r-60r, 76r-v), i + 89 leaves (including blanks, stubs of two or three excised leaves, and an index), in contemporary limp vellum. c.1630s-40s.
Later notes and scribbling including the names ‘John Nutting’ (ff. 26r, 56r) and ‘John M.’ and ‘John Susan’ (rear paste-down). The last leaf also containing a list of the titles of 65 poems by Carew together with the number of lines in each poem, this list unrelated to the contents of the rest of the MS.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Nutting MS’: CwT Δ 35. The list of poems, probably relating to another MS, is edited, with facsimiles, in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 198-9, 217-19).
This MS collated in Brown. Edited in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), No. 170 (pp. 198-9).
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 23 (James 416), ff. 71v-2v.
An Elegie vpon the best of Kinges CHARLES the first Kinge of Great Brittayne (‘So much too much, in many meaner Theames’)
Full version unpublished. ‘Fragments of a poem on the death of Charles I’, comprising ten lines (versions of lines 51-52, 47-48, 23-26, 35-36), edited in Vita Sackville West, Knole and the Sackvilles (London, 1922), pp. 106-7. Edited thence in Brown, p. 70.
ToA 13
Copy of the full 62-line text, subscribed ‘Philobasileus’[i.e. lover of the king].
In: the MS described under ToA 1. c.Late 1650s.
ToA 14
MS. Mid-17th century.
Extracts edited from this MS in Sackville-West; thence in Brown. Recorded by G. C. Moore Smith in TLS, 23 October 1924, p. 667.
An Elegie upon the untymely death of the rightly honorable Edward Sackville (‘There was a Tyme and that not long agoe’)
First published in C. J. Phillips, History of the Sackville Family, 2 vols (London, 1930), II, 383-4. Brown, pp. 68-9.
ToA 15
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on the Death of the Right honble Mr Edward Sackvile’.
In: the MS described under ToA 1. c.Late 1650s.
ToA 16
MS, apparently presented to the Earl of Dorset. 17th century.
Formerley among the papers of the Sackville family, of Knole, Kent.
This MS cited in Sackville West. Edited in Phillips and thence in Brown. Recorded by G. C. Moore Smith in TLS, 23 October 1924, p. 667.
Fragments of a poem on the death of Charles I (‘It is a shame those that can write in verse’)
See An elegie vpon the best of Kinges CHARLES the first Kinge of Great Brittayne: ToA 13-14.
A Funerall Elegie (‘Dismisse thy private greife, and for a time’)
Brown, pp. 54-6.
ToA 17
Copy, beginning ‘Dismisse this priuate greife, & for a Time’, subscribed ‘Aurelian Townsend’.
In: A formal, probably presentation MS relating to the death of Frances, Countess of Bridgewater, on 11 March 1635/6, comprising (ff. [2r-29v]) the funeral sermon preached by John Carter on 2 April 1636, in a non-professional predominantly italic hand, and (ff. [31r-2r]) Townshend's elegy in another italic hand, 32 quarto leaves. 1635.
A complete facsimile of this MS is in the Huntington, EL 6883.
Edited from the photocopy of this MS in Brown.
The Duke of Sutherland, Mertoun, Roxburghshire, 35/B/19, ff. [31r-2r].
‘Hide not thy love and myne shal be’
See HeR 323-327.
‘Let not thy beauty make thee proud’
First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in John Playford, Select Musical Ayres (London, 1652), p. 34. Chambers, p. 3. Brown, pp. 66-7.
ToA 18
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.
This MS recorded in Brown.
ToA 19
Copy of the opening lines, in a musical setting, headed ‘Aurelian Townshend. to his daughter. Mris Kirke’.
In: A folio songbook, almost entirely in a single rounded italic hand, with (ff. 3r-7v) a table of contents, 113 leaves, in 19th-century half dark red morocco. Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer (his signature f. 2v). c.1654-70s.
Arms of Eleanor Bursh on a seal affixed to f. 56r. Later owned and annotated in pencil by Thomas Oliphant (1799-1873), music editor and cataloguer.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 5 (New York & London, 1986).
This MS recorded in Brown.
ToA 20
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under ToA 4. Mid-17th century.
Edited from this MS in Brown, with a facsimile.
ToA 21
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
In: A folio music book, containing 327 songs, in three largely secretary hands, with a ‘Cattalogue’ of contents, 229 leaves. Owned (in 1659) and partly compiled by the composer John Gamble (d.1687), with some misnumbering. c.1630s-50s.
Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.
A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 10 (New York & London, 1987). Discussed in Charles W. Hughes, ‘John Gamble's Commonplace Book’, M&L, 26 (1945), 215-29.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 263.
ToA 22.5
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio formal verse miscellany, comprising c.406 poems, many of them song lyrics, in various neat hands, compiled probably over a period, 8 blank leaves (pp. [i-xvi]) + 10 unnumbered pages of poems (pp. [xvii-xxvi]) + 9 numbered pages (pp. 1-9) + ff. [9v]-151v + 12 leaves at the end blank but for a poem on the penultimate page (f. [11v]), in contemporary calf gilt. Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
Inscribed (f. [ir]) ‘Sr Robert Killigrew / 1702’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.
Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, ‘Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?’, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 79r.
ToA 23
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.
An Ode Vpon the happy Birth of our sweete yonge Prince (‘How wysely did our Moderne Pöets Kinge’)
First published in Gabriel Heaton, ‘“His Acts Transmit to After Days”: Two Unpublished Poems by Aurelian Townshend’, EMS, 13 (2007).
ToA 24
Copy, in a neat roman hand, subscribed ‘ATounshend’, once folded as a letter.
In: A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands, 171 leaves, in half brown morocco. Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary, his brother Oliver, and Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector.
Edited from this MS, with a facsimile of the first page, in Gabriel Heaton, ‘“His Acts Transmit to After Days”: Two Unpublished Poems by Aurelian Townshend’, EMS, 13 (2007), 165-86 (p. 168).
On hearing her Majesty sing (‘I have beene in Heav'n, I thinke’)
First published, in a musical setting by Lawes, in Henry Lawes, The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655), p. 21. Chambers, p. 13. Brown, pp. 46-7.
ToA 25
Copy, headed ‘On his hearing her Matie sing’, subscribed ‘AT.’
In: the MS described under ToA 1. c.Late 1650s.
A Paradox (‘There is no Lover, hee or shee’)
First published in Chambers (1912), pp. 33-5. Brown, pp. 30-1.
ToA 26
Copy, headed ‘A Paradox’.
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 text recorded in Brown.
ToA 27
Copy, headed ‘A Paradox’.
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’.
ToA 28
Copy, subscribed ‘Au: Townsend’.
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.
This MS recorded in Brown.
ToA 29
Copy, subscribed ‘Aurelean Townsend’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single predominantly secretary hand, with some later additions and annotations, 188 leaves, in quarter-morocco. Transcribed from British Library Add. MS 25303 and perhaps associated likewise with the Inns of Court. Including 23 poems by Carew and three of doubtful authorship. c.1620s-30s.
Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 13 May 1856 (Pickering sale), lot 258.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Pickering MS’: CwT Δ 11.
ToA 30
Copy, subscribed in a different ink ‘Aurelian Tounsend’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single neat secretary hand, the first page formally inscribed ‘To the righte honoble: the Lorde Thomas Darcy Viscount Colchester’ (c.1565-1640, Viscount Colchester from 1621 to 1626), 191 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Including 27 poems (and second copies of two poems) by Thomas Carew and three of doubtful authorship. c.1620s.
This MS largely transcribed in British Library, Add. MS 21433. The hand occurs also in British Library, Harley MS 3910, between ff. 112v and 120v, and is possibly associated with the Inns of Court.
Scribbled inscriptions including (f. 1r) ‘Mr John Bowyer’; (f. 2r) ‘Jeronomus ffox’; and (f. 3r) ‘William Ralph Baesh’.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Colchester MS’: CwT Δ 13.
ToA 31
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio composite volume of separate MSS of verse and some prose, in various secretary and italic hands, written over an extended period, with a table of contents (f. 3r-v), 186 leaves. Comprising papers of the Skipwith family of Cotes, Leicestershire, including 60 poems by John Donne (and one Problem), the text related in part to the ‘Edward Smyth MS’ (DnJ Δ 45); also 15 poems (and second copies of two) by Henry King; and 19 poems (and two of doubtful authorship) by Carew. c.1620-50.
Including poems ascribed to William Skipwith (? Sir William Skipwith, d.1610, or his grandson, William, or possibly a cousin, William Skipwith, of Ketsby, Lincolnshire, fl.1633); to Sir Henry Skipwith (fl.1609-52); and to Thomas Skipwith, and several poems by Donne's friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627), to whom a branch of the Skipwith family was related by marriage. Later owned by Robert Sherard (1719-99), fourth Earl of Harborough. Sotheby's, 10 June 1864, lot 605, to Boone.
This MS is the ‘curious folio volume’ lent to John Nichols (1745-1826) by ‘the late Lord Harborough’ and cited in Nichols's account of the Skipwith family in his History of Leicestershire, 4 vols (1795-1815), III, part i (1800), 367.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Skipwith MS’: DnJ Δ 21; CwT Δ 14; KiH Δ 8. Also described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp. 119-29 (see KiH Δ 6). For Sir William Skipwith and his literary connections, see James Knowles, ‘Marston, Skipwith and The Entertainment at Ashby’, EMS, 3 (1992), 137-92 (esp.pp. 171-2).
This MS text recorded in Brown.
ToA 32
Copy, untitled.
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.
ToA 33
Copy, untitled, in double columns.
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).
ToA 34
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio verse miscellany, 148 leaves (foliated 161-206), once bound (reversed) with an independent miscellany (Huntington, HM 198, Part I), rebound with this MS (in continuous form without inversion) in 1832 (by Charles Lewis). Including 59 poems by Donne (and second copies of six poems), in probably six professional secretary hands: A (ff. 1r-25v, 82r-129r); B (ff. 26r, 42v-7v, 49r-63r, 63v-79r, 130r-48r); C (ff. 27r-36v, 41r-2v; with occasional corrections possibly in hand B); D (ff. 37r-40v); E (ff. 63r-v); and F (f. 129v). c.1620-33.
Scribbling includes the name ‘Meriall Tracy’ (on f. 148v). Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary; by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary; and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library, lot 624). Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.
Recorded in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (II)’: DnJ Δ 26. Discussed in C.M. Armitage, ‘Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on “The Funerall”’, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707.
A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Betagraph of the watermark in f. 43 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. 240).
ToA 35
Copy, headed ‘A paradox prouing no louer can bee falce’ and subscribed ‘Jo: Grange’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, including 26 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Thomas Carew and poems by Henry King, in several hands, 92 leaves, plus an inserted gathering of eleven leaves after f. 82v (ff. [82a-82k]), but including stubs of some extracted leaves (ff. 74-8, 94-5), in contemporary vellum. Inscribed ‘To my euer honored good Cosen Sr John Reresby Barronett these prsent’: i.e. presented to Sir John Reresby, first Baronet (1611-46), royalist, of Thribergh Hall. c.1630s.
Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Mexborough MS’: CwT Δ 29.
ToA 36
Copy, headed ‘Loues immutability’.
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.
ToA 37
Copy, untitled.
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 text recorded in Brown.
ToA 38
Copy, headed ‘Loues immutabilitie’, subscribed in another hand ‘Aurelian Townsend’.
In: the MS described under ToA 37. c.1630s.
This MS text recorded in Brown.
ToA 39
Copy in: the MS described under ToA 1. c.Late 1650s.
ToA 40
Copy, headed ‘A Paradox that no lover can be false’.
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, ff. a4r-a6r.
Song (‘I have bene Northward o' tother side Trent’)
Unpublished song of five sestains.
ToA 41
Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue betwixt Tyme & a Pilgrim’, subscribed ‘AT.’
In: the MS described under ToA 1. c.Late 1650s.
‘Thou art soe faire, and young withall’
First published, in a musical setting by Lawes and headed ‘Youth and Beauty’, in Henry Lawes, Ayres and Dialogues, Book I (London, 1653), p. 29. Chambers, p. 5. Brown, pp. 62-3.
‘Thou Shepheard, whose intentive eye’
First published, in a musical setting by Lawes, in Henry Lawes, Ayres and Dialogues, Book I (London, 1653), p. 20. Chambers, pp. 9-10. Brown, pp. 57-9.
ToA 44
Copy of the opening lines, in a musical setting, headed ‘In praise of his Mistress / Words Mr. Townsend’.
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.
This MS recorded in Brown.
ToA 45
Copy (words only), headed ‘A Second Dittye to the former Ayre’.
In: the MS described under ToA 4. Mid-17th century.
Edited in part from this MS in Brown, with a facsimile.
ToA 46
Copy, headed ‘A Description of Cloris’, subscribed ‘AT’.
In: the MS described under ToA 1. c.Late 1650s.
‘Though Regions farr devided’
First published in Chambers (1912), pp. 18-20. Brown, pp. 24-5.
ToA 47
Copy, untitled and subscribed ‘Au: Tounsend’.
In: the MS described under ToA 3. c.late 1630s-early 1640s.
Edited from this MS in Brown.
To my Lord North, vpon his Pöems (‘When I suruey theis lynes, and see’)
First published in Gabriel Heaton, ‘“His Acts Transmit to After Days”: Two Unpublished Poems by Aurelian Townshend’, EMS, 13 (2007).
ToA 48
Copy, in a professional italic hand, subscribed ‘ATounshend’.
In: A folio composite volume of verse and drama MSS, in various hands, 155 leaves, in 19th-century half brown morocco. Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary, his brother Oliver, and Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector.
Edited from this MS, with a facsimile, in in Gabriel Heaton, ‘“His Acts Transmit to After Days”: Two Unpublished Poems by Aurelian Townshend’, EMS, 13 (2007), 165-86 (p. 167).
To the Countess of Salisbury (‘Victorious beauty, though your eyes’)
First published, in a musical setting by William Webb, in John Playford, Select Musical Ayres (London, 1652), p. 22. Chambers, pp. 4-5. Brown, pp. 19-21.
ToA 49
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.128 items, including 94 poems by Donne plus his Paradoxes and Problems, compiled by Henry Champernowne (1600-56), of Dartington, Devon, 243 pages, dated on the first page 1623. 1623.
Afterwards owned by other members of the Champernowne family, by Sir Edward Seymour, Bart. (?the third Baronet, 1610-85). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1030. Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) (MS 9568). Sotheby's, 6 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lot 749. Bookplate of C. S. Harris and bequeathed by him 1916.
Cited in IELM, I.i (190), as the ‘Phillipps MS’: DnJ Δ 20.
This MS recorded in Brown.
ToA 50
Copy, headed in another hand ‘To the Countesse of Salisbury’ and subscribed in that same hand ‘A: Tounshend’.
In: the MS described under ToA 3. c.late 1630s-early 1640s.
This MS recorded in Brown.
ToA 52
Copy, headed ‘To my Lady salisburie’, subscribed ‘By Mr Tounsall’.
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 recorded in Brown.
ToA 53
Copy, as by ‘Earle of Pe:’.
In: the MS described under ToA 29. c.1620s-30s.
This MS text collated in Brown.
ToA 54
Copy, subscribed ‘Earle of Pe:’.
In: the MS described under ToA 30. c.1620s.
This MS collated in Brown. Recorded in Krueger, Pembroke.
ToA 57
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘By the Earle of Pemb:’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several largely italic hands, closely written, 148 leaves (plus blanks), in modern quarter morocco gilt. Probably compiled by university or inns of court men. c.1620s-30s.
This MS text collated in Brown.
ToA 58
Copy, untitled.
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.
ToA 59
Copy, untitled.
In: A small octavo miscellany of 76 poems by Donne, together with a few poems by others dating up to 1627, in a single italic hand, occasionally marking the end of poems with one or more quatrefoils, 102 leaves (foliation jumping from 55 to 57), gilt-edged, in 19th-century dark green leather gilt. c.late 1620s.
Inscriptions including (f. 6r) ‘Hannah Lewis Junr’; ‘Thomas Turner his Book’ (three times, ff. 8r, 14v, 48v, dated ‘1750’, ‘58’ and ‘1760’); (f. 12r) ‘Edmund Baxter att Mrs Nortons’; (ff. 20r, 59v) ‘John Jones’; (f. 40r) ‘Jon: Pryse 1729’; (f. 59v) ‘Robt. Was’[?]; and (f. 79r) ‘Edmund Baxter 1729’. Later owned by Edward Vernon Utterson (1776-1856), of Shanklin and Ryde, Isle of Wight, artist, literary antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 24 April 1852 (Utterson sale), lot 1317, sold to ‘Lelly’. Then owned by Sir John Simeon, third Baronet (1815-70), M.P. Sotheby's, 3 March 1871 (Simeon sale), lot 638, to Pickering. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 436 (1930), item 576. Formerly MS Nor 4620.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Utterson MS’: DnJ Δ 51. Discussed in Sir John Simeon, ‘Unpublished Poems of Donne’, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3. For an account of Utterson, see Raymond V. Turley, ‘Edward Vernon Utterson’, The Book Collector, 25 (1976), 21-44 (and plates after p. 48).
ToA 60
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘ignoto’.
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.
ToA 61
Copy, headed ‘The reuolt of a gentleman from his first Choyce at the sight of fayrer face / To his mistris’.
In: the MS described under ToA 35. c.1630s.
ToA 62
Copy, headed ‘To a Gentlewoman that requested him to write to her’, subscribed ‘J. Grange’.
In: A quarto miscellany of epitaphs and poems, in several hands, the main collection of verse (ff. 46-147) in a single hand and including 54 poems by Donne (all subscribed ‘J. D.’) and fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, 158 pages (plus index). c.1630s.
Once owned by the Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary, and later by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 164. Afterwards owned by Sir George Grey (1812-98), Governor of Australia, New Zealand and Cape Colony. Formerly MS Grey 2 a 11.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Grey MS’: DnJ Δ 60 and HeR Δ 6. Facsimile of p. 119r (HeR 355) in L.F. Casson, ‘The Manuscripts of the Grey Collection in Cape Town’, The Book Collector, 10 (Spring 1961), 147-55 (facing p. 153).
National Library of South Africa, Cape Town, MS Grey 7 a 29, pp. 79-80.
ToA 63
Copy, in a neat roman hand, untitled, subscribed ‘S. R.’[? Samuel Rutter].
In: A folio composite volume of verse, prose and dramatic works, in various hands, written over a period from both ends, 543 pages (including blanks), in contemporary panelled calf with remains of metal clasps. Compiled by members of the Salusbury family of Llewenni, Denbighshire, including works by Sir Thomas Salusbury, second Baronet (1612-43), poet and politician. Early-mid 17th century.
Later owned by J. Baskerville-Glegg, of Withington Hall, Chelford. Sotheby's, 14-16 March 1921, lot 421.
ToA 64
Copy, in a musical setting by William Webb.
In: the MS described under ToA 21. c.1630s-50s.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 163.
ToA 65
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, in various hands, including seventeen poems by Carew, a title-page inscribed ‘A book of Verses / Seria mixta Jocis’, c.260 pages, in calf blind-stamped ‘V/I F 1667’. References to ‘Westminster Drollerie’ (which was not published until 1671) added on pp. 1 and 242. c.1667-8.
Inscribed on the title-page ‘Frendraught Legi’: i.e. by James Crichton (d.1674/5), second Viscount Frendraught. Bookplate of Thomas Fraser Duff (1830-77), of Woodcote, Oxfordshire. Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 9 April 1987, lot 272 (with a facsimile of p. 131 in the sale catalogue), sold to Quaritch.
ToA 69
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under ToA 22.5. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 10r.
ToA 70
Copy, as ‘by Aurelian Townsend’.
In: A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, ‘A S’ in a gilt lozenge on each cover. The later additions partly compiled by George Clarke (1661-1736), politician and virtuoso (whose bookplate is inside the cover and whose family coat of arms is on f. [iv]), son of Sir William Clarke (1623?-66), Secretary of War to the Commonwealth and Charles II. c.1662[-1730s].
Inside the front cover inscribed ‘E[?] Barrow’, evidently a member of the family of Samuel Barrow (1625-82), Royal Physician and friend of John Milton, Barrow being the second husband of Sir William Clarke's widow, Dorothy (d.1695). Formerly MSS 6. 13.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Clarke MS’: PsK Δ 5. See also Elizabeth H. Hageman, ‘Treacherous Accidents, and the Abominable Printing of Katherine Philips's 1664 Poems’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004), pp. 85-95.
This MS recorded in Brown.
ToA 71
Copy, headed ‘The Mar. B: to the La ffe: H:’.
In: An octavo volume of poems and some prose, including 96 poems by Donne plus his Paradoxes and Problems (many ascribed to ‘J. D’), in a single neat secretary hand, 150 pages, in 17th-century calf gilt. c.1622-33.
Later owned by Major J.B. Whitmore. Hodgson's, 20-21 November 1958, lot 571, with a facsimile page in the sale catalogue.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Osborn MS’: DnJ Δ 30. For a facsimile page see DnJ 728, DnJ 1205. Complete microfilm in British Library (M/569).
To the Incomparable Brothers, Mr. Henry, and Mr. William Lawes (Servants to His Majestie) upon the setting of these Psalmes (‘The various Musick, both for Aire and Art’)
First published among commendatory verses in Choice Psalms put into Musicke, for three Voices. Composed by Henry and William Lawes, Brothers: and Seervants to his Majestie (London, 1648). Chambers, pp. 44-5. Brown, p. 122.
ToA 72
Copy, headed ‘To Henry & William Lawes Brothers Servants to his Matie vppon ye setting of Mr Sandys's Psalmes into musique’, subscribed ‘A. T:’.
In: the MS described under ToA 1. c.Late 1650s.
Verse Epistle to Charles I: ‘Tis but a while’ (‘Tis but a while, since in a vestall flame’)
First published in Chambers (1912), pp. 36-7. Brown, pp. 50-1.
ToA 73
Copy, in a professional mixed hand, untitled, on a single folio leaf, subscribed ‘A. Tounshend’.
In: A double-folio guardbook of miscellaneous historical documents, in various hands, 70 leaves of various sizes.
Later owned by Frederic Ouvry (1814-81), antiquary and lawyer.
Edited from this MS in Brown. Facsimile in Gabriel Heaton, ‘“His Acts Transmit to After Days”: Two Unpublished Poems by Aurelian Townshend’, EMS, 13 (2007), 165-86 (p. 172).
‘When we were parted’
First published, in a musical setting by Lawes, in Henry Lawes, The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655), p. 19. Chambers, p. 12. Brown, p. 61.
ToA 74
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under ToA 4. Mid-17th century.
Edited in part from this MS in Brown, with a facsimile.
ToA 76
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under ToA 22.5. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 33v.
‘Your smiles are not as other womens bee’
First published in A. H. Bullen, Speculum Amantis (London, 1889). p. 126. Chambers, p. 17. Brown, p. 23.
Verse of Doubtful Authorship
La Boivinette (‘She's not the fairest of her name’)
First published in John Cotgrave, Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), p. 55. Chambers, p. 51.
ToA 79.5
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under ToA 22.5. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, ff' 71v-2r.
Mr. Townsends Verses to Ben Johnsons, in Answer to an Abusive Copie, Crying Down his Magnetick Lady (‘It cannon move thy friend (firm Ben) that he’)
First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656), p. 18. Chambers, p. 49. Almost certainly written by Zouch Townley.
ToA 80
Copy, headed ‘To Mr. Ben Jonson against Mr Alexander Gill's verses written by him against...The magnetic lady’, ascribed to ‘Mr. Souch Townlye’.
In: A large folio composite verse miscellany, chiefly folio, partly quarto, 243 pages, in contemporary calf. Including 18 poems by Carew and two of doubtful authorship, compiled by Nicholas Burghe (d.1670), Royalist Captain during the Civil War and one of the poor Knights of Windsor in 1661 (references to ‘I Nicholas Burgh’ occurring on ff. 165r, with the date ‘3d of June 1638’, and 166r, and his name partly in cipher on other pages); predominantly in his hand, with some later additions in other hands. c.1638.
Afterwards owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Burghe MS’: CwT Δ 1.
ToA 81
Copy, headed ‘To Mr. Ben Jonson against Mr. Alexander Gill's verses written by him against...The magnetic lady’, ascribed to ‘Townly’.
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.
ToA 82
Copy, headed ‘To Mr. Ben Jonson against Mr. Alexander Gill's verses written by him against...The magnetic lady’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, 129 leaves, in half-vellum on marbled boards. Compiled and largely written by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary. Mid-17th century.
ToA 83
Copy, headed ‘An answer’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford and afterwards with the Inns of Court, 73 leaves (plus a few blanks and a modern index). Including 40 poems by Strode and two poems of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9510. (Phillipps sale, lot 1015.) Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914). Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 342. Formerly MS 4201. 27. 1.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Dobell MS II’: StW Δ 19. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.42.
ToA 84
Copy, headed ‘To Ben Jonson, in answer to the railing verses written by Alex Gill (upon the Magnetic Lady)’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves (including blanks), in old calf gilt. c.1640.
Formerly MS 2073.3.
ToA 85
Copy, headed ‘An Answer’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, with later accounts on the last page dated June 1658, 1* + 238 pages (including stubs of extracted pages 191-6, plus numerous blanks), in old calf (rebacked). Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph. c.1630s-40s.
Inscribed ‘Jane Wheeler’ and ‘Tho: Oliver Busfield’. Francis Quarles's poem (pp. 209-11) ‘To ye two partners of my heart Mr John Wheeler, and Mr Symon Tue’. Item 96 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 2071.6.
A ‘Jo. Wheeler’ signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Wheeler MS’: CwT Δ 25 and RnT Δ 7.
ToA 86
Copy, incomplete, headed ‘Incertus author to Ben Jonson’.
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.
On the Death of the Duke of Bucchingham (‘Death come thy selfe and let thy Image sleepe’)
A poem of 69 iambic pentameters. First published in The Verse Miscellany of Constance Aston Fowler: A Diplomatic Edition, ed. Deborah Aldrich-Watson (Tempe, Arizona, 2000), pp. 97-103.
ToA 87
Copy, in Constance Fowler's hand, subscribed ‘Mr AT’.
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.
Edited from this MS in Aldrich-Watson, pp. 97-103. This MS discussed in Jenijoy La Belle, ‘The Huntington Aston Manuscript’, BC, 29 (Winter 1980), 542-67 (p. 553).
Upon Kinde and True Love (‘'Tis not how witty, nor how free’)
Published in John Cotgrave, Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), p. 4. Chambers, p. 53.
ToA 88.5
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under ToA 22.5. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 72r.
Dramatic Works
Albions Triumph
First published in London, 1631.
*ToA 89
MS corrections, possibly by Townshend, on pp. 8, 16, 17 in an exemplum of the printed quarto edition of 1631, presented by Townshend to John Egerton, first Earl of Bridgewater (his inscription ‘J Bridgewater / ex dono Authoris [ ] Townsend [ ]’). c.1631.
A photocopy of this volume is in the Huntington, RB 69679.
A Bacchanall in a maske before their Majestys, 1636 (‘Bacchus, I-acchus, fill our braines’)
First published, in a musical setting by Lawes, in Henry Lawes, Ayres and Dialogues, Book I (London, 1653), p. 9. Chambers, pp. 7-8. Brown, pp. 115-16.
ToA 90
Copy, headed ‘A Songe’, with a stave of music down the margin.
In: A duodecimo notebook of verse and prose, comprising 131 interleaves in a printed exemplum of John Sansbury's Ilium in Italiam (Oxford, 1608), in contemporary calf (rebacked), blind-stamped ‘S. S.’ on the upper cover. Owned in 1619, and probably compiled, by Simon Sloper (b.1596/7), of Magdalen Hall, Oxford. c.1620s-30s.
Bought from Parker, of Oxford, 2 April 1889, by Percy Manning and bequeathed by him in 1917.
ToA 92
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, headed ‘Henry Lawes. A Bacchanall Songe in A maske before their Majestys 1636’.
In: the MS described under ToA 4. Mid-17th century.
Edited from this MS in Brown, with a facsimile.
ToA 93
Copy, headed ‘A Bacchanall’ and here beginning ‘Bacchus J'accus fill our Braynes’, subscribed ‘AT.’
In: the MS described under ToA 1. c.Late 1650s.
ToA 94
Copy, untitled.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in one secretary hand, erratically paginated up to 333, 250 leaves, in 18th-century boards. c.late 1630s.
Inscribed (on p. [330]) ‘Robert Lord his book Anno Domini’; (on [p. 335]) ‘william Jacob his booke Amen’; and, among scribbling on the last leaf, ‘Hugh Gibgans of the same’ and ‘John Winter of Buckland Dursbane [or husbande?]’. Owned in 1788 by Alexander R. Popham. Bloomsbury Book Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 8.
A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.
[A Masque by the Merchant Adventurers], The subject of ye Maske expressed in the first song (‘After this Rabble whom the sea hath taught’)
First published in Peter Beal, ‘Songs by Aurelian Townshend, in the Hand of Sir Henry Herbert, for an Unrecorded Masque by the Merchant Adventurers’, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, 15 (2003), 243-60 (p. 246).
ToA 95
Copy of the song in the hand of Sir Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves.
In: A folio guardbook of verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, including (ff. 1r-9r) a quarto booklet of sixteen poems by Donne in a single neat italic hand, 54 leaves, in modern brown morocco gilt. c.1620-33.
Among papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle, including particularly papers of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1582?-1648). Acquired in 1916.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Herbert MS’: DnJ Δ 56.
Edited from this MS, with a facsimile, in Beal.
[A Masque by the Merchant Adventurers], The second song to call out the Masquers (‘Faire suretys of my truthe appeare’)
First published in Peter Beal, ‘Songs by Aurelian Townshend, in the Hand of Sir Henry Herbert, for an Unrecorded Masque by the Merchant Adventurers’, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, 15 (2003), 243-60 (p. 247).
ToA 96
Copy of the song in the hand of Sir Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels, on the second page of two conjugate folio leaves.
In: the MS described under ToA 95. c.1620-33.
Edited from this MS, with a facsimile, in Beal.
[A Masque by the Merchant Adventurers], The .3. song to make them Vnmasque (‘Rise, rise, yee cold spectators rise’)
First published in Peter Beal, ‘Songs by Aurelian Townshend, in the Hand of Sir Henry Herbert, for an Unrecorded Masque by the Merchant Adventurers’, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, 15 (2003), 243-60 (p. 247).
ToA 97
Copy of the song in the hand of Sir Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels, on the second page of two conjugate folio leaves.
In: the MS described under ToA 95. c.1620-33.
Edited from this MS, with a facsimile, in Beal.
Letters
Letter(s)
*ToA 98
Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, April 1600. 1600.
*ToA 99
Autograph letter signed, in French, to Sir Henry Neville, 18 June 1600. 1600.
Facsimile in Gabriel Heaton, ‘“His Acts Transmit to After Days”: Two Unpublished Poems by Aurelian Townshend’, EMS, 13 (2007), 165-86 (p. 173).
*ToA 100
Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, 5 September 1600. 1600.
*ToA 101
Autograph letter signed, to Michael Stanhope, 5 September 1600. 1600.
*ToA 102
Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, October 1600. 1600.
*ToA 103
Autograph letter signed, in French, to Sir Robert Cecil, from Paris, 2/12 January 1600/1. 1601.
Edited in Chambers, p. xxxix.
in Chambers, p. xxxix.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 84/69.
*ToA 104
Autograph letter signed, in French, to Sir Robert Cecil, from Paris, 28 April 1601. 1601.
Edited in Chambers, p. xl.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 85/163.
*ToA 105
Autograph letter signed, to Michael Stanhope, 4 October 1600. 1600.
*ToA 106
Autograph letter signed, in French, to Sir Robert Cecil, from Geneva, 9 June 1601. 1601.
*ToA 107
Autograph letter signed, in Italian, to Sir Robert Cecil, from Venice, 4 July 1601. 1602.
Edited in Chambers, p. xli.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 86/137.
*ToA 108
Autograph letter signed, in Italian, to Sir Robert Cecil, from Venice, 27 July 1601. 1601.
Edited in Chambers, pp. xlii-xliii.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 87/23.
*ToA 109
Autograph letter signed, in Italian, to Sir Robert Cecil, from Padua, 27 September 1601. 1601.
*ToA 110
Autograph letter signed, in Italian, to Sir Robert Cecil, [from Venice], 9 May 1602. 1602.
Facsimile of the first page in Gabriel Heaton, ‘“His Acts Transmit to After Days”: Two Unpublished Poems by Aurelian Townshend’, EMS, 13 (2007), 165-86 (p. 174).
*ToA 111
Autograph letter signed, in Italian, to Sir Robert Cecil, from Venice, 3/13 June 1602. 1602.
Edited in Chambers, pp.xliii-xliv.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 93/110.
*ToA 112
Autograph letter signed, in Italian, to Sir Robert Cecil, 24 October 1602. 1602.
Edited in Chambers, pp. xlv-xlvi.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 96/11.
*ToA 113
Autograph letter signed, in French, to Sir Robert Cecil, fParis, 7 February 1602/3. 1603.
Edited in Chambers, pp. xlvi-xlvii.
The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 91/106.
*ToA 114
Autograph letter signed, to William Trumbull, from Hampton Court, 13 March 1620/1. 1621.
In: A folio composite volume of correspondence between January and March 1620/1. Trumbull Papers Volume CXIX, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. 1621.
Sotheby's, 14 December 1989 (‘The Trumbull Papers’ catalogue), lot 36, with a facsimile of the first page on p. 36. Facsimile page also in Gabriel Heaton, ‘“His Acts Transmit to After Days”: Two Unpublished Poems by Aurelian Townshend’, EMS, 13 (2007), 165-86.