Verse: Poems attributed to Wyatt
‘A face that shuld content me wonders well’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 132-3.
WyT 1
Copy in: A folio verse miscellany, in several secretary hands, 186 leaves, some stained and frayed, now bound in two volumes in modern quarter-vellum cloth boards. Including 85 poems that have been attributed to Wyatt, the great majority of poems untitled and unascribed, with (ff. 59r, 60r) a table of contents. The compiler, who adds headings and corrections, is John Mantell (1516?-41), a colleague of Wyatt on diplomatic missions. c.1532-41.
Owned c.1545-6 by Sir George Blage (1512-51). Probably used by John Harington of Stepney. Old pressmark D. 2. 7.
Cited by editors as ‘the Blage MS’. First described by Kenneth Muir (‘An Unrecorded Wyatt Manuscript’, TLS (20 May 1960), p. 328), and a selection of the poems printed by him in Sir Thomas Wyatt and his circle: Unpublished Poems (Liverpool, 1961). The compiler identified as Mantell in Helen Baron, ‘The “Blage” Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified’, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119, with facsimile examples, including an autograph letter by Mantell in the National Archives, Kew.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
WyT 2
Copy, in a formal secretary hand, untitled.
In: A folio verse miscellany, in several hands, 88 leaves, in contemporary leather gilt (rebacked). Almost entirely compiled for John Harington of Stepney (c.1517-82), of Stepney, courtier and writer, but also used by his son Sir John Harington and including (ff. 69v-78r), in an unidentified hand, Edmund Campion's Virgilian Latin epic (beginning ‘Sancta salutiferi nascentia semina verbi’) which otherwise exists in a presentation MS in the hand of Harington's ‘servant’ Thomas Combe (Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall, MS 437). Mid-late 16th century.
Inscribed (ff. 29v and 82r) ‘Ellina Harrington’ and (f. 29v) ‘ffrancis Haryngton’, two of Sir John's children. Inscribed (f. 3r) ‘Liber Jacobi Tyrrell, 1663’: i.e. by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), political theorist and historian, friend of John Locke. Owned in 1791 by the Rev. William Sayle, of Stowey, Somerset. Bearing annotations in red ink by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Bought in 1800 from Sayle by Thomas Park (1758/9-1834), antiquary and bibliographer, who sold it to Thomas Hill (1760-1840), London book collector. Subsequently owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 1336. Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1836, item 1244. Phillips MS 9474. Sotheby's, 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 1206. Quaritch's sale catalogue, 1900, Part VII, item 5811. Acquired 15 October 1900.
Some pieces in this MS (notably works by John Harington the Elder) printed in the various editions of Nugae Antiquae and in Ruth Hughey, John Harington of Stepney: Tudor Gentleman, (Columbus, Ohio, 1971). The poem by Edmund Campion edited, with an English translation, in Gerard Kilroy, Edmund Campion: Memory and Transcription (Aldershot, 2005), pp. 155-93.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.
‘A Ladye gave me a gyfte she had not’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 238-9.
WyT 3
Copy in: A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain. Mid-late 16th century.
This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, ‘The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents’, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.
A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Hughey, I, No. 97, p. 145.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 60v.
WyT 4
Copy, headed ‘A ridle of a gifte giuen by a ladie’.
In: A folio composite volume of verse and some prose, in various hands, v + 179 leaves, in early 18th-century half-calf.
With a few additions in Rawlinson's hand.
This MS collated in Hughey, II, 126.
‘A! my harte, A! what aleth the!’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 129.
WyT 5
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in at least fifteen and possibly twenty hands, now comprising 96 numbered leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped leather with initials ‘R N’. Probably compiled by various noblemen and ladies in the Court circle of Henry VIII, particularly members of the Howard family, including Mararet Howard (née Douglas), who transcribed some of the 122 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt, Mary Fitzroy (née Howard), Duchess of Richmond, and Mary Shelton. c.1530s-40s.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘mary shelton’ and with part of the name of ‘Mary Howard’. Later owned by the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire, and by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor. Sotheby's, 11 November 1848 (Nott sale), to Thomas Rodd.
Generally cited as the ‘Devonshire MS’. The fragment of flyleaf (f. 1r) is reproduced in facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 250, and a facsimile of f. 32v is in Arthur F. Marotti, Manuscript, Print, and the English Renaissance Lyric (Ithaca and London, 1995), p. 178. The MS is discussed, with an analysis of the hands, in Helen Baron, ‘Mary (Howard) Fitzroy's Hand in the Devonshire Manuscript’, RES, NS 45 (1994), 318-35. Also discussed in Raymond Southall, ‘The Devonshire Manuscript Collection of Early Tudor Poetry, 1532-41’, RES, NS 15 (1964), 142-50; in Elizabeth Heale, ‘Women and the Courtly Love Lyric: The Devonshire Manuscript (BL Additional 17492)’, MLR, 90 (1995), 296-313; in Jason Powell, ‘Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse’, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples; and elsewhere.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.
‘A Robyn’
Not published (in this form) in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 41-2.
WyT 7
Copy of lines 1-16, 21-8, including speech-prefixes.
In: A large quarto-shaped folio volume of Tudor verse almost entirely by Wyatt, 120 leaves (including blanks, several original leaves excised), in modern calf gilt. In several hands: poems on ff. 50r, 54v, 66r, 67r-9v, 86r-98v, 100r-1r, and a couplet at the top of f. 70r in Wyatt's own hand, with his autograph corrections and revisions occurring intermittently between ff. 29v and 66v; otherwise written, emended or annotated in various scribal hands, including Nicholas Grimald (1519-62) and John Brereton, one anonymous hand pre dominating on ff. 4r-49r, 50v-4r, 55r-62r. c.1530s.
Later in the possession of the Harington family, including entries (ff. 104r-7r) by Sir John Harington (HrJ 2, HrJ 342), later members of his family until the mid-17th century using it as a rough notebook, for exercises, calculations, and religious discourses, filling the margins and writing over many of the earlier poems. Subsequently owned in 1792, and occasionally annotated in pencil, by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 14 January 1889.
Generally cited by editors, and in IELM, as the ‘Egerton MS’. The principal text for all Wyatt's modern editors. The text of ff. 3r-101r is edited verbatim in Harrier. Discussed in Joost Daalder, ‘Are Wyatt's Poems in Egerton MS 2711 in Chronological Order?’, English Studies, 69/3 (June 1988), 205-23; and in Jason Powell's articles ‘Thomas Wyatt's Poetry in Embassy: Egerton 2711 and the Production of Literary Manuscripts Abroad’, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 261-82, with facsimile examples and where the hand of John Brereton is identified, and ‘Marginalia, Authorship, and Editing in the Manuscripts of Thomas Wyatt's Verse’, EMS, 15 (1009), 1-40, with facsimile examples.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see WyT 9), and in Harrier, pp. 147-8.
WyT 8
Copy of lines 1-8, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 9
Copy (not in the same hand as WyT 8), untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated (and lines 17-20 edited) in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 10
Copy of lines 1-12, in a musical setting by William Cornish, untitled and here beginning ‘A robyn gentyl robyn’.
In: A folio volume of vocal and instrumental music, in a single formal secretary hand, with colour decorations of initial letters, 130 leaves, in contemporary vellum within modern half red morocco. Early-mid-16th century.
Inscribed (ff. 129v-30r), among other scribbling, ‘Vynsent Wydderden’, ‘Syr John Lede’, and ‘Dauey Jonys’, all of Benenden, Kent, and ‘Jane Reve’ of ‘Mownfyld’ (i.e. Mountfield, Sussex). Bookplates of Thomas Fuller M.D. (inscribed ‘Stephen Fuller of Hart Street Bloomsbury 1762’) and of Archibald Montgomery, MP (1726-96), eleventh Earl of Eglinton, soldier. Purchased from Quaritch, 22 April 1882.
Edited from this MS in J.E. Stevens, Music and Poetry in the Early Tudor Court (London, 1961), p. 405, and in Muir & Thomson, p. 309. Discussed, with a facsimile, in Ivy L. Mumford, ‘Musical Settings to the Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt’, M&L, 37 (1956), 315-22. Edited and discussed in R.G. Siemens, ‘New Evidence on Wyatt's “A Robyn” in British Library Additional MS 31,922’, N&Q, 244 (June 1999), 189-91. Facsimile also in Foxwell, I, after p. 62. This text possibly the popular song which was the basis for Wyatt's version.
WyT 11
Copy of thie incipit only (here ‘Joly Robyn’), in a musical setting.
In: An oblong folio volume of musical works, the lyrics almost entirely in a single neat italic hand, with (ff. 1r-2r, 99r-v) a table of contents, 99 leaves, in contemporary brown calf, both covers stamped in gilt ‘Edwardvs Paston’. c.1611.
Sotheby's, 28 November 1882.
This MS discussed in Mumford, op. cit., p. 316, and in Mumford, ‘Sir Thomas Wyatt's Songs: A Trio of Problems in Manuscript Sources’, M&L, 39 (1958), 262-4. See WyT 10.
‘A spending hand that alway powreth owte’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 95-7.
WyT 12
Copy, the second page heavily written over.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 183-5.
WyT 13
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 141, p. 170-2. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
‘Absence, alas’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 127-8.
‘Absens absenting causithe me to complaine’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 231.
WyT 15
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘Accusyd thoo I be without desert’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 132.
WyT 16
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 1. c.1532-41.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson. Facsimile in Baron, p. 92.
‘After great stormes the cawme retornis’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 61-2.
WyT 17
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier. pp. 182-3.
WyT 18
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 138, p. 164-5. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 97r-v.
‘Agaynste the Rock I clyme both hy and hard’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 132.
‘Alas! dere herte, what happe had I’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 126.
WyT 21
Copy, untitled, immediately following on from lines 1-8 of ‘Mornyng my hart dothe sore opres’ (WyT 189).
In: A quarto composite volume of MS and printed verse and prose tracts and miscellaneous material, in various hands over a lengthy period from the late 14th to mid-16th century, the verse on ff. 84r-92v in probably five 16th-century cursive secretary hands, 216 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Mid-16th century.
Acquired from William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher, on 8 November 1851.
Discussed, with five pages of facsimiles, in Julia Boffey, ‘London, British Library, Additional MS 18752: a Tudor hybrid book?’, EMS, 15 (2009), 41-64, and in ‘Scattered Verse in British Library, Additional MS 18752’, EMS, 16 (2011) pp. 30-47 (pp. 31-2).
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.
‘Alas, fortune, what alith the’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 128-9.
‘Alas madame for stelyng of a kysse’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 33-4.
*WyT 23
Copy, with autograph revisions and with alterations in another hand.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 138. Facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 44.
WyT 24
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 103, p. 147. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 63v.
‘Alas! my Dere, the word thow spakest’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 133-4.
‘Alas, poor man, what hap have I’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 195-6.
WyT 26
Copy, untiitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘Alas the greiff, and dedly wofull smert’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 3-4.
WyT 27
Copy, with later alterations in the hand of Nicholas Grimald.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 102-3.
WyT 28
Copy of lines 13-30, untitled and here beginning ‘O cruell causer of vndeserrved chaunge’.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 29
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 1. c.1532-41.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
‘All hevy myndes’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 62-4.
WyT 30
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 185-8.
‘All yn thi sight my lif doth hole depende’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 214.
WyT 31
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘Alle ye that knowe of care and heuynes’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 131.
‘Alone musyng’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 127.
‘And if an Iye may save or sleye’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 73-4.
WyT 34
Copy of a 42-line version, in the hand of John Brereton.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 199-200. Facsimiles of f. 65r in Powell, HLQ (2004), p. 273.
WyT 35
Copy of a 28-line version (not in the same hand as WyT 34), later deleted.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Harrier, pp. 194-5. Collated in Muir & Thomson.
‘An wylt thow leve me thus?’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 196-7.
WyT 36
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘fynys qd Wiat’.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson. Facsimile in Foxwell, I, after p. 272.
Th' Argument (‘Somtyme the pryde of mye assured trothe’)
See WyT 283.
‘As power and wytt wyll me Assyst’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 198-9.
‘At last withdraw youre crueltye’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 129-30.
‘At moost myschief’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 36-7.
*WyT 41
Copy of lines 1-41, with autograph corrections (line 30 inserted).
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 142-3.
WyT 42
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘ffynys qd Wyatt’.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated (and lines 42-8 edited) in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 43
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 1. c.1532-41.
This MS collated (and lines 42-8 edited) in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Aunswere (‘Your ffolyshe fayned hast’)
See WyT 420.
‘Auysing the bright bemes of these fayer Iyes’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 22.
WyT 44
Copy, written over by later hands.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 125.
WyT 45
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 113, p. 153. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 67r.
‘Because I have thee still kept from lies and blame’
See WyT 49-50.
‘Behold, love, thy power how she dispiseth!’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 1.
WyT 46
Copy, with later alterations in the hand of Nicholas Grimald.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 97. Facsimiles in Foxwell, I, after p. 2, and in Powell, p. 18.
WyT 47
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
‘Beyng as noone ys I doo complayne’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 134-5.
‘Bicause I have the still kept fro lyes and blame’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 20.
WyT 49
Copy, with an alteration in another hand (that responsible for the ‘Aunswer’ to WyT 183).
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 123.
WyT 50
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 110, p. 152. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 66r-v.
‘Blame not my lute, for he must sownd’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 212-13.
WyT 51
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
WyT 52
Copy of the incipit in a musical setting for the lute.
In: An oblong octavo miscellany of chiefly music and verse, in several secretary hands, 136 leaves (including blanks), in modern black morocco gilt. c.1559-1610.
Scribbled name (f. 22r) ‘Sarah Scalther[?]’. Sotheby's, 14 July 1887, lot 481. Formerly Folger MS 448.16.
Edited from this MS and discussed in Ivy L. Mumford, ‘Musical Settings to the Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt’, M&L, 37 (1956), 315-22, and in John H. Long, ‘Blame not Wyatt's Lute’, RN, 7 (1954), 127-30 (and see also Vol. 8 (1955), 12-14).
WyT 53
Copy of the incipit in a musical setting.
In: An octavo book of cittern music and miscellaneous entries and recipes, in more than one hand, written from both ends, 166 leaves, in contemporary brown calf. Owned and probably compiled by John Ridout (1608-post 1665). Mid-17th century.
Phillipps MS, [unnumbered?]. Sotheby's, 15 June 1971. Gift of John M. Ward, 1985.
Described in John Ward, ‘Sprightly and Cheerful Musick: Notes on the Cittern, Gittern and Guitar in 16th- and 17th-Century England’, Lute Society Journal, 21 (1979-81), 183-95. A microfilm of the MS is in the British Library, RP 678.
‘But sethens you it asaye to kyll’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 4.
WyT 54
Copy, with later alterations in the hand of Nicholas Grimald; imperfect, lacking the beginning; c. 1537-8.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 103-4.
‘By belstred wordes I am borne in hand’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 134.
‘Caesar, when that the traytour of Egipt’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 2.
‘Comeforthe at hand, pluck vp thy harte!’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 136.
‘Comfort thy self my wofull hert’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 56-7.
‘Complaynyng, alas, withour redres’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 135-6.
‘Deem as ye list upon good cause’
See WyT 63.
‘Defamed gyltynes by sylens vnkept’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 139.
‘Deme as ye list vpon goode cause’
First published in The Gorgeous Gallery of Gallant Inventions (London, 1578). Muir & Thomson, pp. 235-6.
WyT 63
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this collated in Muir & Thomson.
‘Desire, alas, my master and my foo’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 57.
*WyT 64
Autograph fair copy, with revisions.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 173.
WyT 65
Copy of an early version, untitled, here beginning ‘Cruell desire my mr & my foo’.
‘& my foo’.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
‘Desyre to Sorow doth me constrayne’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 138-9.
‘Dido am I, the founder first of Carthage’
See WyT 73.
‘Disdain me not without desert’
See WyT 74.
‘Disdain not, madam, on him to look’
See WyT 75.
‘Divers doth use as I have heard and know’
See WyT 76.
‘Do way, do way, ye lytyll wyly prat!’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 138.
‘Dobell, dyuerse, soleyn and straunge’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 141.
‘Dryuyn to Desyre, a drad also to Dare’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 140-1.
‘Dryven to Desire I dyd this Dede’
Lines 1-7 first published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1575). Muir & Thomson, pp. 139-40.
‘Durese of paynes and grevus Smarte’
First published in The Court of Venus [c.1538]. Muir & Thomson, p. 137.
‘Dydo am I, the fownder first of Cartage’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 141.
‘Dysdaine me not without desert’
First published in The Court of Venus, [? c.1538] (no perfect exemplum known. It is in the later edition of c.1563). Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 257-8. The text discussed in Joost Daalder, ‘Recovering the Text of Wyatt's “Disdain Me Not Without Desert”’, Studia Neophilologica, 58 (1986), 59-66.
WyT 74
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 21. Mid-16th century.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson. Edited in Daalder, p. 62.
‘Dysdayne not, madam, on hym to louke’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 142.
‘Dyvers doth vse as I have hard and kno’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 222-3.
WyT 76
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘Eche man me telleth I chaunge moost my devise’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 11.
WyT 77
Copy, written over by later hands.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 112.
WyT 78
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 79
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 102, p. 147. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 63v.
‘Even when you lust ye may refrain’
See WyT 82.
‘Ever myn happe is slack and slo in commyng’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 23.
WyT 80
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 126.
WyT 81
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 114, pp. 153-4. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 67r.
‘Evyn when you lust ye may refrayne’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 146-7.
WyT 82
Copy, headed ‘The answere’.
In: the MS described under WyT 1. c.1532-41.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘ffarewell all my wellfare’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 192-3.
WyT 83
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘Ffarewell, Love, and all thy lawes for ever’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 12-13.
WyT 84
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 114.
WyT 85
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Nowe farewell love and thye lawes forever’.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 86
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 106, p. 150. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 65v.
‘ffarewell, the rayn of crueltie!’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 11-12.
WyT 87
Copy, written over by later hands.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 113.
‘ffor to love her for her lokes lovely’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 14.
‘fforget not yet the tryde entent’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 211-12.
WyT 90
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘ffortune dothe frowne’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 225.
WyT 91
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘ffortune what ayleth the’
First published in The Court of Venus, [c.1538]. Muir & Thomson, pp. 173-4.
‘fful well yt maye be sene’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 207-8.
WyT 93
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
*WyT 94
Autograph copy, with extensive revisions.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 203-4. Facsimile of f. 66r in Chris Fletcher et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 2003), p. 46.
WyT 95
Copy, here beginning ‘As from theys hilles that a spryng doth fall’.
In: the MS described under WyT 1. c.1532-41.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
‘From thowght to thowgt from hill to hill love doth me lede’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 84.
*WyT 96
Autograph.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 213.
‘Full well it may be seen’
See WyT 93.
‘Give place all ye that doth rejoyce’
See WyT 101.
‘Goo burnyng sighes Vnto the frosen hert!’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 16-17.
WyT 97
Copy, with an alteration in another hand (that responsible for the ‘Aunswer’ to WyT 183).
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 119.
WyT 98
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
‘Greting to you bothe yn hertye wyse’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 225-6.
WyT 99
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘Grudge on who list, this ys my lott’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 224-5. Authorship discussed in Richard Leighton Greene, ‘A Carol of Anne Boleyn by Wyatt’, RES, NS 25 (1974), 437-9.
WyT 100
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘Gyve place all ye that doth reioise’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 221-2.
WyT 101
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘Had I wiste that now I wott’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 142.
‘Happe happith ofte vnloked for’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 144.
‘Hart oppressyd with desp'rat thought’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 237.
WyT 104
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.
WyT 105
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson and in Hughey, I, No. 312, p. 356.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 217r.
‘Hate whome ye lyste, I care not’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 145.
‘He is not ded that somtyme hath a fall’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 45.
*WyT 108
Copy, with autograph corrections.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 152.
WyT 109
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘I am not ded altho I had a fall’ (agreeing with the uncorrected state of the poem in WyT 108).
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 110
Copy, in a formal secretary hand, untitled, here beginning ‘I am not dead although I had a fall’.
In: the MS described under WyT 2. Mid-late 16th century.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
‘Heart oppressed with desperate thought’
See WyT 104-105.
‘Heaven and earth and all that hear me plain’
See WyT 112-114.
‘Helpe me to seke for I lost it there’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 15.
WyT 111
Copy, heavily written over by later hands.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 117.
‘Hevyn and erth and all that here me plain’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 55-6.
WyT 112
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 165.
WyT 113
Copy of lines 25-35, untitled and beginning ‘Yf I had suffered this to you vnware’, subscribed ‘ffynys qd Wyatt’.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 114
Copy of lines 1-4 in a musical setting.
In: An oblong quarto volume of madrigals and other musical works, the lyrics in two or more secretary hands, 60 leaves, in half-morocco, stamped in gilt on both covers ‘1757’. Early 16th century.
This MS discussed, with a facsimile, in Ivy L. Mumford, ‘Musical Settings to the Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt’, M&L (1956), 315-22.
‘Horrybell of hew, hidyus to behold’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 143.
‘How oft have I, my dere and cruell foo’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 24.
WyT 116
Copy, heavily written over by later hands.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 127.
WyT 117
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 116, p. 154. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 67v.
‘How shulde I’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 205-7.
WyT 118
Copy of lines 1-34, 47-52, 59-62, in double columns, in the hand of Margaret Douglas, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see WyT 119).
WyT 119
Copy of lines 1-22, 29-62, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see WyT 118).
‘I abide and abide and better abide’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 231.
WyT 120
Copy of lines 1-7, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘I am as I am and so wil I be’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 148-50.
WyT 121
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated and lines 1-18 edited in Muir & Thomson.
WyT 122
Copy of lines 9-40, here beginning ‘I doo not rejoyse nor yet complayne’.
In: the MS described under WyT 1. c.1532-41.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see WyT 121).
WyT 123
Copy of a shortened version in the form of a carol, written on a front flyleaf of a 15th-century MS bolume of sermons by John Felton, Vicar of St Mary Magdalene, Oxford. Early 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Richard Leighton Greene, ‘Wyatt's “I am as I am” in Carol-Form’, RES, NS 15 (1964), 175-80; reprinted in Muir & Thomson, pp. 399-400.
WyT 124
Copy of an untitled version.
In: A formal anthology of Scottish poetry, including 51 poems presently attributed to William Dunbar, largely in a single secretary hand, with a few later additions in other hands, in two tall folio volumes, with differing series of pagination and foliation, vol. I comprising 192 leaves (paginated 1-385), vol. II comprising 205 leaves (paginated 387-795), all leaves now mounted separately in window mounts, each volume in 19th-century green morocco elaborately gilt. Compiled by George Bannatyne (b.1545), student of St Andrews and merchant burgess of Edinburgh. Subscribed on the last page ‘finis. / 1568’ but probably written over a period of some years. c.1568.
Descending to Bannatyne's son-in-law George Foulis. Later (c.1712) inscribed (p. 60) ‘This book is gifted to Mr William Carmichael Be me James Foulis’. Some annotations by Allan Ramsay (1684-1758), poet and editor, and by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor. Presented in 1772 by John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford.
Generally cited as the Bannatyne MS. Complete facsimile, introduced by Denton Fox and William A. Ringler, published by the Scolar Press, 1980. Complete text edited in Murdoch and in Ritchie. Discussed in Priscilla Bawcutt, ‘The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues’, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 3 (2008), 95-133. A facsimile page in The National Library of Scotland Advocates' Library Notable Accessions up to 1925 (Edinburgh, 1965), Plate 43.
Edited from this MS in The Bannatyne Manuscript, ed. J. Barclay Murdoch, Hunterian Club (Glasgow, 1896), III, 731-2; in The Bannatyne Manuscript, ed. W. Tod Ritchie, STS NS 26 (Edinburgh & London, 1930), pp. 2-3; and in H.A. Mason ‘“I am as I am”’, RES, NS 23 (1972), 304-8.
National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 1.1.6, Vol. II, f. 250r-v (pp. 555-6).
‘I am redy and euer wyll be’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 147-8.
‘I fynde no peace and all my warr is done’
First published in Songes and Sonnettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 20-1.
WyT 126
Copy, headed ‘Petrarke’ in another hand (that responsible for the ‘Aunswer’ to WyT 183).
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 123-4.
WyT 127
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 128
Copy, in a formal secretary hand, headed ‘Pace non trovo’.
In: the MS described under WyT 2. Mid-late 16th century.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 129
Copy of the incipit possibly of a version of this poem (here ‘No peace I find and foes I cannot face’), in a musical setting.
In: the MS described under WyT 11. c.1611.
This MS discussed in Ivy L. Mumford, ‘Musical Settings to the Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt’, M&L, 37 (1956), 315-22 (p. 321), and in Mumford, ‘Sir Thomas Wyatt's Songs: A Trio of Problems in Manuscript Sources’, M&L, 39 (1958), 262-4 (where it was argued that this song may not be the same as Wyatt's poem). Recorded in Muir & Thomson.
‘I have benne a lover’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 155-7.
‘I have sought long with stedfastnes’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 51-2.
WyT 131
Copy, with an alteration in an italic hand (that responsible for WyT 372).
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 160-1.
WyT 132
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
‘I knowe not where my heuy syghys to hyd’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 154-5.
‘I lede a liff vnpleasant, nothing glad’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 70.
WyT 134
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 194. Edited and discussed in Joost Daalder, ‘Wyatt's “I Lead a Life Unpleasant”: Text and Interpretation’, N&Q, 233 (March 1988), 29-33.
‘I love lovyd and so doithe she’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 191.
WyT 135
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘I muste go walke the woodes so wyld’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 150-2.
WyT 136
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 1. c.1532-41.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, with a facsimile facing p. 196.
WyT 137
Copy, added to the MS in a court hand.
In: A small folio volume of legal works, predominantly in a single professional secretary hand, with sidenotes and other additions in at least two other contemporary hands, 132 leaves. Early 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Rossell Hope Robbins, Secular Lyrics of the XIVth and XVth Centuries (Oxford, 1952), p. 14. Recorded in Muir & Thomson, p. 400.
WyT 138
A rough version, written along the margins.
In: the MS described under WyT 137. Early 16th century.
This MS collated in Robbins, p. 14.
‘I se the change ffrom that that was’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 204-5.
WyT 139
Copy in the hand of Margaret Douglas, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘I see my plaint with open eares’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 242.
WyT 140
Copy, in a formal secretary hand, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 2. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, p. 242.
‘I see the change from that that was’
See WyT 139.
‘I wyll allthow I may not’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 153-4.
WyT 141
Copy of lines 1-8, 13-24.
In: the MS described under WyT 1. c.1532-41.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see WyT 142).
WyT 142
Copy, in a neat secretary hand, headed ‘A balad of witt’.
In: A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in verse and prose, in several hands, 86 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. Mid-late 16th century.
This MS collated (and lines 9-12 edited) in Muir & Thomson.
‘If armour's faith, an heart unfeigned’
See WyT 411-412.
‘If chaunce assynd’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 50-1.
WyT 143
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 158-9.
WyT 144
Copy, in double columns, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
‘If fancy would favour’
First published in The Court of Venus [c.1538]. Muir & Thomson, pp. 32-3.
WyT 146
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 136-7.
WyT 147
Copy of lines 1-12, 17-26, 17-36, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 148
Copy of lines 9-36, here beginning ‘ffansye dothe know how’.
In: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 130, p. 159. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 75r.
‘If I might have at mine own will’
See WyT 413.
‘If in the world there be more woe’
See WyT 414-415.
‘If it be so that I forsake thee’
See WyT 416.
‘If waker care if sodayne pale Coulour’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 78.
*WyT 149
Copy, in the hand of John Brereton, with autograph corrections.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 204-5. Facsimile in Henry VIII Man and Monarch, ed. Susan Doran (British Library, London, 2009), p. 179.
WyT 150
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 124, p. 157. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 68r.
‘If with complaint the pain might be expressed’
See WyT 417.
‘In dowtfull brest, whilst moderly pitie’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 60.
*WyT 151
Autograph fair copy, with revisions.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 180-1.
‘In eternum I was ons determed’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 53-4.
‘In faith I wot not well what to say’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 19.
WyT 154
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 121-2.
‘In mornyng wyse syns daylye I Increas’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 157-9.
In Spayne (‘So feble is the threde that doth the burden stay’)
See WyT 273-275.
‘Is it possible’
See WyT 422.
‘It may be good, like it who list’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 17-18.
‘It was my choyse, it was no chaunce’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 201-2.
Jopas' Song (‘When Dido festid first the wandryng Troian knyght’)
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 84-7.
*WyT 160
Autograph, with extensive revisions.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 250-2.
WyT 161
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 140, p. 168-70. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 99r-v.
‘Lament my losse, my labor, and my payne’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 219-20.
WyT 162
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘Lengre to muse’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 228-9.
WyT 163
Copy, in double columns, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘Leve thus to slaunder love’
See WyT 168-169.
‘Like as the byrde in the cage enclosed’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 243-4.
WyT 164
Copy in: A volume of miscellaneous documents relating to Richard Cox, Bishop of Ely (1500-81). 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, pp. 243-4.
‘Like as the swant towards her death’
See WyT 177-179.
‘Like as the wind with raging blast’
See WyT 180.
‘Like to these vnmesurable montayns’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 24-5.
WyT 165
Copy, with geometrical diagrams drawn over it by later hands.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 128.
WyT 166
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 117, pp. 154-5. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
‘Live thou gladly, if so thou may’
See WyT 181.
‘Lo! how I seke and sew to haue’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 209-10.
WyT 167
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘Lo what it is to love!’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 66-9.
*WyT 168
Copy of a sequence of three poems, with an autograph alteration.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 190-4 (edited as separate poems).
WyT 169
Copy, partly in Mantell's hand.
In: the MS described under WyT 1. c.1532-41.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier. Facsimile of f. 118r in Baron, p. 97.
‘Longer to muse’
See WyT 163.
‘Longer to troo ye’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 159-60.
WyT 170
Copy of stanzas 1-5.
In: the MS described under WyT 1. c.1532-41.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see WyT 171).
WyT 171
Copy, here beginning ‘Longer to prove ye, what may it availe me’.
In: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 244, p. 282. Collated (and stanzas 6-7 edited) in Muir & Thomson.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 168r-v.
‘Love and fortune and my mynde, remembre’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 23-4.
WyT 172
Copy, with an alteration in another hand (that responsible for the ‘Aunswer’ to WyT 183).
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 126-7.
WyT 173
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 115, p. 154. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 67r-v.
‘Love hathe agayne’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 161-2.
‘Luckes, my fair falcon, and your fellowes all’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 241.
WyT 176
Copy, in a formal secretary hand, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 2. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, p. 241.
‘Lyke as the Swanne towardis her dethe’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 52-3.
WyT 177
Copy, imperfect, most of the leaf torn away.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 161-2.
WyT 178
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated (and edited in part) in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 179
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 1. c.1532-41.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
‘Lyke as the wynde with raginge blaste’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 242-3.
WyT 180
Copy, in a neat secretary hand, headed ‘T. Wyat of Loue’.
In: the MS described under WyT 142. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘Lyue thowe gladly, yff so thowe may’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 162-3.
‘Madame, I you requyere’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 163-4.
‘Madame, withouten many wordes’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 25.
WyT 183
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 128-9. The text followed by a 12-line ‘Aunswer’ in a later hand responsible for alterations to eleven other poems in this MS (this ‘Aunswer’ edited in Muir & Thomson, p. 298, and in Harrier, p. 129). Facsimile in Helen Baron, ‘The “Blage” Manuscript: The Original Compiler Identified’, EMS, 1 (1989), 85-119 (p. 105).
WyT 184
Copy, here beginning ‘Mestres what nedis many wordis’.
In: the MS described under WyT 1. c.1532-41.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier. The text followed by a 12-line ‘Aunswer’ in the same hand (see WyT 183).
‘Marvaill no more, all tho’
First published in The Court of Venus, [c.1538]. Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 38-9.
WyT 185
Copy, with an alteration in another hand (that responsible for the ‘Aunswer’ to WyT 183).
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 143-4.
WyT 186
Copy, in double columns, untitled, subscribed ‘ffynys qd Wyatt’.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 186.5
Copy, headed ‘Verses by Sir Thomas Wyatt’.
In: A collection of papers of Sir John Harington (1560-12) and his family. Late 16th-early 17th century.
Owned by Sir John's descendants Henry Harington (1686-1769) and Dr Henry Harington (1727-1816).
These manuscripts edited in Nugae Antiquae (first published in two volumes, London, 1769); various editions, expanded to 2 vols, ed. Henry Harington [and Thomas Park], London, 1804.
Edited from this MS in Nugae Antiquae, [ed. Henry Harington], 2 vols (London, 1769), II, 250-1.
‘Me list no more to sing’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 215-17.
WyT 187
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘Might I as well within my song belay’
See WyT 211-212.
‘Mine old dear enemy, my froward master’
See WyT 213-214.
‘Mine own John Poins, since ye delight to know’
See WyT 215-220.
‘Mornyng my hart dothe sore opres’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 163.
WyT 189
Copy of lines 1-8, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 21. Mid-16th century.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson. See also WyT 21.
WyT 190
Copy, here beginning ‘Morenyng my hart doithe sore opress’, in a musical setting.
In: A composite volume of papers of the Ramsden family. c.1560-74.
This MS recorded (but not collated) in Muir & Thomson, p. 405.
‘Most wretchid hart most myserable’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 171-3.
WyT 191
Copy in two hands, including John Brereton.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 197-8. Facsimiles of f. 64r in Powell, HLQ (2004), p. 272.
‘Mourning my heart doth sore oppress’
See WyT 188-190.
‘My galy charged with forgetfulnes’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 21-2.
WyT 192
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 125.
WyT 193
Copy, with alterations in another hand.
In: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 112, pp. 152-3. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 66v.
‘My hert I gave the not to do it payn’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 13.
WyT 194
Copy, written over by later hands.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 115.
WyT 195
Copy, begun by an amanuensis and corrected and completed by Margaret Douglas (omitting lines 10-11), untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 196
Copy, omitting line 10, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 196.5
Copy, in a secretary hand, with other verses, on a folio leaf of vellum (inverted), deleted and faded. Mid-16th century.
In: A folio composite volume of historical and miscellaneous papers, in various hands and paper sizes, i +138 leaves, in half red morocco. Owned and perhaps partly compiled by Sir James Ware (1594-1666), antiquary and historian, and including (ff. 131r-7r) forgeries by his son Robert.
Subsequently owned by Henry Hyde (1638-1709), second Earl of Clarendon, politician (constituting Clarendon MSS Vol. 55). Signature, dated 1746/7, and bookplate of Jeremiah Milles (1714-84), Dean of Exeter, antiquary (Milles Collection Vol. XLIV).
WyT 197
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 107, pp. 150-1. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 65v.
‘My hope, Alas, hath me abused’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 45-6.
WyT 198
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 153-4.
WyT 199
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 200
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 134, pp. 161-2. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 77r-v.
‘My love took scorn my service to retain’
See WyT 210.
‘My loue ys lyke vnto th'eternall fyre’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 210.
WyT 201
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘My lute, awake! perfourme the last’
First published in The Court of Venus, [c.1538]. Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 48-50.
WyT 202
Copy, with a correction in an italic hand (that responsible for WyT 372).
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 157-8.
WyT 203
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘fynys qd Wyatt’.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 204
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 1. c.1532-41.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
‘My mothers maydes when they did sowe and spynne’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 91-5.
WyT 205
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 174-7.
WyT 206
Copy of lines 1-18, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 207
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 142, pp. 172-5. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, ff. 100r-1v.
‘My pen, take payn a lytyll space’
First published in The Court of Venus, [c.1538]. Muir & Thomson, pp. 190-1.
WyT 208
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘My swet, alas, fforget me not’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 165-6.
‘My love toke skorne my servise to retaine’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 227.
WyT 210
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘MyghtI as well within my songe belaye’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 164-5.
WyT 211
Copy of lines 1-4 in the hand of Margaret Douglas, untitled, with a smudged copy of lines 1-2 in another hand on f. 66r.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.
‘Myne olde dere En'mye, my froward master’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 5-10.
WyT 213
Copy of lines 22-147, beginning ‘O small hony, much aloes & gall’, with later alterations in the hand of Nicholas Grimald, heavily written over by later hands.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see WyT 214), and in Harrier, pp. 105-8.
WyT 214
Copy of lines 1-79; imperfect, lacking the ending.
In: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 144, pp. 176-8. Collated and lines 1-21 edited in Muir & Thomson. Lines 22-79 collated in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 102r-v.
‘Myne owne John Poyntz, sins ye delight to know’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 88-91.
WyT 215
Copy of lines 52-103, beginning ‘Praise him for counceill that is droncke of ale’; imperfect.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see WyT 216), and in Harrier, pp. 167-8.
WyT 216
Copy of lines 1-27, 31-103, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated and lines 1-27, 31-52 edited in Muir & Thomson. Collated in Harrier.
WyT 217
Copy of lines 1-17, 20-8, 32-103, with corrections in another hand.
In: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 104, p. 147-9. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, ff. 64r-5r.
WyT 218
Copy of lines 1-17, 20-8, 32-103, in an italic hand, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 2. Mid-late 16th century.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 219
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 164. 16th century.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 220
Copy, immediately following on from ‘Venemus thornes that ar so sharp and kene’ (WyT 370), subscribed ‘finis T Wyet’.
In: A small quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in three or more hands, 142 leaves, in quarter-calf. c.1580.
Once owned by one W. Kytton.
This MS collated in F.D. Hoeniger, ‘A Wyatt Manuscript’, N&Q, 202 (March 1957), 103-4 and in Harrier; recorded in Muir & Thomson, p. 350.
‘Nature, that gave the bee so feet a grace’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 51.
*WyT 221
Copy, with autograph corrections.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 160.
WyT 222
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 223
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 1. c.1532-41.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 224
Copy, in a neat secretary hand, subscribed ‘Sr T. W.’
In: the MS described under WyT 142. Mid-late 16th century.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
‘Now all of chaunge’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 230-1.
WyT 225
Copy, in double columns, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
WyT 226
Copy of lines 1-36, 43-8, subscribed ‘To Smithe of Camden’.
In: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 6, p. 82. Collated in Muir & Thomson.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 17v.
‘Now must I lerne to lyue at rest’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 211.
WyT 227
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘O crewell hart, wher ys thy ffaythe?’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 168-9.
‘O goodely hand’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 65-6.
‘O myserable sorow withowten cure!’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 212.
WyT 231
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘O what vndeseruyd creweltye’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 166-7.
‘Off Cartage he that worthie warrier’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 61.
*WyT 233
Autograph, fair copy, with one revision.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 181.
‘Off purpos Love chase first for to be blynd’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 83.
*WyT 234
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 211. Facsimiles in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 9, and in DLB, vol. 132, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. First Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1993), p. 351.
‘Ons as me thought fortune me kyst’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 47-8.
WyT 235
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 156.
WyT 236
Copy of lines 1-8.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 237
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 237.5
Copy, headed ‘By Sir Thomas Wyatt’.
In: the MS described under WyT 186.5. Late 16th-early 17th century.
Edited from this MS in Nugae Antiquae, [ed. Henry Harington], 2 vols (London, 1769), II, 254-5.
‘Ons in your grace I knowe I was’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 167-8.
‘Pacyence of all my smart’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 200-1. The text discussed in Joost Daalder, ‘Wyatt's “Patience” Poems’, Neophilologische Mitteilungen, 91 (1990), 75-85.
WyT 239
Copy, in double columns, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘Pain of all pain, the most grievous pain’
See WyT 250.
‘Pas fourthe, my wountyd cries’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 171-2.
‘Patience, for I have wrong’
See WyT 245.
‘Patience for my device’
See WyT 246-249.
‘Patience of all my smart’
See WyT 239.
‘Patience, though I have not’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 29. The text discussed in Joost Daalder, ‘Wyatt's “Patience” Poems’, Neophilologische Mitteilungen, 91 (1990), 75-85.
WyT 241
Copy, with an alteration in an italic hand (that responsible for WyT 372).
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 133-4.
WyT 242
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘fynys qd Wyatt’.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 243
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 131, p. 159-60. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 75v.
WyT 244
Copy, with the third stanza placed first and here beginning ‘Patiens off all my blame’.
In: the MS described under WyT 1. c.1532-41.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
‘Patiens, for I have wrong’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 232. The text discussed in Joost Daalder, ‘Wyatt's “Patience” Poems’, Neophilologische Mitteilungen, 91 (1990), 75-85.
WyT 245
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘Patiens for my devise’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 29-30. The text discussed in Joost Daalder, ‘Wyatt's “Patience” Poems’, Neophilologische Mitteilungen, 91 (1990), 75-85.
WyT 246
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 134-5.
WyT 247
Copy, in double columns, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 248
Copy of lines 1-8; imperfect.
In: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 132, p. 160. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 75v.
WyT 249
Copy, immediately following on from ‘Patiens off all my blame’ (see WyT 244).
In: the MS described under WyT 1. c.1532-41.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
‘Payne of all payne, the most grevous paine’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 218-19. Considered of doubtful authorship by H. A. Mason in Sewanee Review, 84. ii (1976), 679-80.
WyT 250
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
Penitential Psalms (‘Love to gyve law vnto his subiect hertes’)
First published in Certayne psalmes (London, 1549). Muir & Thomson, pp. 98-125.
*WyT 251
Autograph of Wyatt's seven Penitential Psalms and their prologues, with extensive revisions; imperfect, lacking lines 100-51 (lines 26-80 in Psalm 6).
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, with a facsimile of one page facing p. 100, and in Harrier, pp. 214-49.
WyT 252
Copy of the seven Penitential Psalms and their prologues.
In: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, Nos 154-67, pp. 186-206. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 253
A formal copy of the seven Penitential Psalms and their prologues, on vellum throughout, 37 quart-size leaves. Mid-16th century.
Inscrined name (f. 1v) of ‘Marie Brograue’.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson (with a facsimile of two pages facing p. 116), and in Harrier.
‘Perdy I sayd hytt nott’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 170-1.
‘Playn ye, myn eyes, accompany my hart’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 241.
WyT 256
Copy, in a formal secretary hand, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 2. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, p. 241.
‘Processe of tyme worketh such wounder’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 61.
WyT 257
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 181-2.
WyT 258
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 137, p. 164. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 97r.
‘Prove wythr I do chainge, my dere’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 78.
*WyT 259
Autograph unfinished draft, heavily written over by later hands.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 204. Facsimile of f. 66r in Chris Fletcher et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 2003), p. 46.
Psalm 37. Noli emulare in maligna (‘Altho thow se th'owtragius clime aloft’)
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 75-7.
*WyT 260
Copy of lines 1-36, in the hand of John Brereton, with an autograph addition.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see WyT 261), and in Harrier, pp. 201-2. Facsimiles of f. 65v in Powell, HLQ (2004), p. 274.
WyT 261
Copy of lines 1-69, 72-112.
In: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 168, pp. 206-8. Collated (and Edited in part) in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier, pp. 202-3.
‘Quondam was I in my Ladys gras’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 172-3.
‘Resound my voyse, ye woodes that here me plain’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 18.
‘Ryght true it is, and said full yore agoo’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 35-6.
WyT 265
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 141.
WyT 266
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 119, pp. 155-6. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 67bisr.
‘Sche that shuld most, percevythe lest’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 174.
‘Shall she neuer out of my mynde’
First published (?) in A Boke of Balettes, [c.1548]. The Court of Venus, later edition [c.1563]. Muir & Thomson, pp. 255-6.
WyT 268
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 21. Mid-16th century.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson, pp. 255-6.
‘She sat and sowde that hath done me the wrong’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 40.
*WyT 269
Copy, with autograph corrections.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 146-7.
WyT 270
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 271
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 127, p. 158. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 68v.
‘She that should most, perceiveth least’
See WyT 267.
‘Sighs are my food, drink are my tears’
See WyT 295.
‘Since love is such that, as ye wot’
See WyT 296.
‘Since so ye please to hear me plain’
See WyT 297.
‘Since ye delight to know’
See WyT 298-300.
‘Sins you will nedes that I shall sing’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 215.
WyT 272
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘Sith I myself displease thee’
See WyT 301.
‘Sith it is so that I am thus refused’
See WyT 294.
‘So feble is the threde that doth the burden stay’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 79-82.
*WyT 273
Autograph copy, with extensive revisions, headed ‘In Spayne’ in an italic hand (that responsible for WyT 372).
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 205-9.
WyT 274
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 275
Copy, with numerous alterations.
In: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 139, pp. 165-8. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, ff. 97v-8v.
‘So vnwarely was never no man cawght’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 202-3.
WyT 276
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘Som fowles there be that have so perfaict sight’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 19-20.
WyT 277
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 122.
WyT 278
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 109, p. 151. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 66r.
‘Some tyme I fled the fyre that me brent’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 44.
*WyT 279
Copy, with autograph corrections.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 151.
WyT 280
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 281
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 128, p. 158. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 68v.
WyT 282
Copy of lines 1-4, in a neat secretary hand, inscribed ‘Tho w.’
In: the MS described under WyT 142. Mid-late 16th century.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
‘Some time I sigh, some time I sing’
See WyT 293.
‘Somtyme the pryde of mye assured trothe’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 240.
WyT 283
Copy, headed ‘Th' Argument’.
In: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, p. 240 and in Hughey, I, No. 169, pp. 208-9.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 119v.
‘Spight hath no powre to make me sadde’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 223-4.
WyT 284
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘Spytt off the spytt whiche they in vayne’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 174-5.
‘Stone who so list vpon the Slipper toppe’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 240.
WyT 286
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, p. 240, and in Hughey, I, No. 311, p. 356.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 216v.
‘Such happe as I ame happed in’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 26-7.
WyT 287
Copy, heavily written over by later hands.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 130-1.
‘Suche vayn thought as wonted to myslede me’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 42.
*WyT 288
Copy, with an autograph alteration.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 148-9.
WyT 289
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 290
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 121, p. 156. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 67bisv.
‘Suffryng in sorrowe in hope to Attayne’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 176-7.
‘Sum tyme I syghe, sumtyme I syng’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 199-200.
WyT 293
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘Syethe yt ys so that I am thus refusyd’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 175-6.
‘Syghes ar my foode, drynke are my teares’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 242.
WyT 295
Copy, in a neat secretary hand, inscribed ‘Tho w. to Bryan’.
In: the MS described under WyT 142. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, p. 242.
‘Synes loue ys suche that, as ye wott’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 208-9.
WyT 296
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘Synes so ye please to here me playn’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 210.
WyT 297
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘Syns ye delite to knowe’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 54-5.
WyT 298
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 163-4.
WyT 299
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 300
Copy of lines 1-6, 15-35.
In: the MS described under WyT 1. c.1532-41.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
‘Sythe I my selffe dysplease the’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 177-8.
‘Tagus, fare well, that westward with thy stremes’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 82.
*WyT 302
Autograph, with minor revisions.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 211. Facsimiles in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 9; in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 19; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), No. 10, p. 22; and in DLB, vol. 132, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. First Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1993), p. 351.
WyT 302.5
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, in Latin and English, written from both ends, 181 pages. Compiled by, and principally in the hand of, William Burton (1609-57), antiquary. c.1637-46.
‘Take hede be tyme leste ye be spyede’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 189.
WyT 303
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘Tanglid I was yn loves snare’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 227-8.
WyT 304
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘That tyme that myrthe dyed stere my shypp’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 184-5.
‘Th'answere that ye made to me, my dere’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 70-1.
WyT 307
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 196.
‘Th'enmy of liff, decayer of all kynde’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 47.
*WyT 308
Copy, with autograph corrections.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 155.
‘The flaming Sighes that boile within my brest’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 239.
WyT 309
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, p. 239, and in Hughey, I, No. 310, p. 355.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 216v.
‘The fructe of all the seruise that I serue’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 214.
WyT 310
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘The furyous gonne in his rajing yre’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 45.
*WyT 311
Copy, with autograph revisions.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 152-3.
WyT 312
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 129, p. 158. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 68v.
‘The hart and servys to yow profferd’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 193.
WyT 313
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘The Joye so short, alas, the paine so nere’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 217-18.
WyT 314
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘The knott that furst my hart dyd strayn’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 183-4.
WyT 315
Copy, untitled, preceded (f. 22v) by a false-start version of lines 1-4 in the same hand.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.
WyT 316
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.
‘The lively sparks that issue from those eyes’
See WyT 321-323.
‘The Longe love, that in my thought doeth harbar’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 3. Harrier, p. 3.
WyT 318
Copy, with later alterations in the hand of Nicholas Grimald.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 101.
WyT 319
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 99, pp. 145-6. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 63r.
‘The losse is small to lese such one’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 223.
WyT 320
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘The lyvely sperkes that issue from those Iyes’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 35.
WyT 321
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 140.
WyT 322
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 323
See also WyT 393.
In: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 118, p. 155. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 67bisr.
‘The piller pearisht in whearto I Lent’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 238.
WyT 324
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Hughey, I, No. 96, pp. 144-5.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 60v.
‘The restfull place, Revyver of my smarte’
First published (in a three 7-line stanza version) in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 197-8.
WyT 325
Copy of lines 1-7 in a variant version, including an extra line between lines 5 and 6, in the hand of Nicholas Grimald, headed ‘To hiz bedde’ and here beginning ‘O restfull place: reneewer of my smart’.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Harrier, p. 105. Collated in Muir & Thomson. Facsimiles in Ruth Hughey, ‘The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents’, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444 (after p. 414), and in Powell, p. 24.
WyT 326
Copy of the three 7-line stanza version, untitled, subscribed ‘ffynys qd Wyatt’.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘The wandering gadlyng in the sommer tyde’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 34.
*WyT 327
Copy, with autograph corrections.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 139.
WyT 328
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 329
Copy, in a formal secretary hand.
In: the MS described under WyT 2. Mid-late 16th century.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
‘There was never ffile half so well filed’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 14.
WyT 330
Copy, with alterations in another hand (that responsible for the ‘Aunswer’ to WyT 183).
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 116.
WyT 331
Copy, headed ‘To my’ and here beginning ‘Was neuer yet fyle half so well fyled’.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 332
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 98, pp. 145. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 60v.
WyT 333
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 108, p. 151. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, ff. 65v-6r.
WyT 334
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 1. c.1532-41.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
‘There was never nothing more me payned’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 28.
WyT 335
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 132-3.
‘They fle from me that sometyme did me seke’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 27.
WyT 336
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (with a facsimile facing p. 68), and in Harrier, pp. 131-2. Facsimile also in Flower & Munby, English Poetical Autographs, Plate 1.
WyT 337
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
‘Tho I cannot your crueltie constrain’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 42-3.
*WyT 338
Copy, with autograph corrections.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 149.
WyT 339
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 340
Copy of lines 1-17; imperfect, lacking ending.
In: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 136, pp. 163-4. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 78v.
‘Tho of the sort ther be that ffayne’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 180-1.
‘Tho some do grodge to se me joye’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 179-80.
‘Thou hast no faith of him that hath none’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 16.
WyT 343
Copy, with an alteration in another hand (that responsible for the ‘Aunswer’ to WyT 183).
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 118.
WyT 344
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
‘Thou slepest ffast. and I with wofull hart’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 179. Attributed to Wyatt in Annabel M. Endicott, ‘A Note on Wyatt and Serafino D'Aquilano’, RN, 17 (1964), 301-3.
WyT 345
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 1. c.1532-41.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson. Facsimile in Baron, p. 92.
‘Though I cannot your cruelty constrain’
See WyT 338-340.
‘Though I my self be bridilled of my mynde’
Not published in the the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 21.
WyT 346
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 124.
WyT 347
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 111, p. 152. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 66v.
‘Though of the sort there be that feign’
See WyT 341.
‘Though some do grudge to see my joy’
See WyT 342.
‘Though this thy port and I thy seruaunt true’
Not published in the the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 59.
‘Thy promese was to loue me best’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 203-4.
WyT 350
Copy in the hand of Margaret Douglas, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘To cause accord or to aggre’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 58.
‘To make an ende of all this strif’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 233-4.
WyT 353
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘To my myshap alas I fynd’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 181-3. Attributed to Sir Francis Bryan in A. Stuart Daley, ‘The Uncertain Author of Poem 225, Tottel's Miscellany’, SP, 47 (1950), 485-93.
WyT 354
Copy in the hand of Margaret Douglas, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.
WyT 356
Copy, with the second stanza placed first, headed ‘Tempore quo fodiebat’ and beginning ‘Amydes my myrth and pleasantnes’.
In: A small quarto miscellany of ballads, in several hands, 141 leaves. Copy. Mid-16th century.
Inscribed ‘Gabriell Penn 1640’.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.
‘To Rayle or geste ye kno I vse it not’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 217.
WyT 357
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘To seke eche where, where man doth lyve’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 64-5.
WyT 358
Copy, with a revision in another hand.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 188-9.
‘To wette your yee withoutyn teare’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 181.
‘To wisshe and want and not obtain’
Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 43-4.
WyT 361
Copy, with two alterations in another hand (that responsible for the ‘Aunswer’ to WyT 183), written over by later hands.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 150-1.
WyT 362
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 363
Copy of lines 11-36, here beginning ‘Yf then I burne to playne me so’; imperfect, lacking the first ten lines.
In: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 133, pp. 160-1. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 77r.
‘Vnstable dreme according to the place’
First pub in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 59-60.
WyT 364
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 180.
WyT 365
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 122, p. 156. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 67bisv.
‘Venemus thornes that ar so sharp and kene’
First pub in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 57-8.
*WyT 366
Autograph.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 173.
WyT 367
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 368
Copy, in a formal secretary hand.
In: the MS described under WyT 2. Mid-late 16th century.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 369
Copy, in a neat secretary hand.
In: the MS described under WyT 142. Mid-late 16th century.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 370
Copy, untitled and omitting line 4.
In: the MS described under WyT 220. c.1580.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier. See also WyT 220.
‘Venus, in sport, to please therwith her dere’
Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 188.
‘Vnstable dreme according to the place’
See WyT 364-365.
‘Vulcane bygat me. Mynerua me taught’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 84.
WyT 372
Copy, in an italic hand.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 213. Discussed in Wayne H. Siek, ‘A Note on Some Handwriting in Wyatt's Holograph Poetic Manuscript’, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 496-7, where it is argued that the poem is not in Wyatt's own hand.
WyT 373
Copy, in a neat secretary hand, headed ‘A Ridell. Tho. W.’, followed by the original Latin version headed ‘sub Idem latine Pandulpho’ and beginning ‘Vulcanus genuit peperit natura, Minerva’.
In: the MS described under WyT 142. Mid-late 16th century.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
‘Was I never, yet, of your love greeved’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 10-11.
WyT 374
Copy, with subsequent alterations in the hand of Nicholas Grimald, later written over by later hands.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 111.
WyT 375
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 101, p. 146. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 63r-v.
‘Whan that I call vnto my mynde’
Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 232-3.
WyT 376
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘What deth is worse then this’
Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 46-7.
*WyT 377
Copy, with autograph revisions, written over by later hands.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 154-5.
WyT 378
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 379
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
‘What menythe thys when I lye alone?’
Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 193-4.
WyT 380
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘fynys qd Wyatt’.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘What nedeth these thretning wordes and wasted wynde?’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 35.
WyT 381
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 141.
WyT 382
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 126, p. 158. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 68r-v.
‘What no, perdy, ye may be sure!’
Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 34.
WyT 383
Copy, with a correction and line 15 written in an italic hand (that responsible for WyT 372).
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 138-9.
WyT 384
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘ffynys qd Wyatt’.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
‘What rage is this? What furour of what kynd?’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 83-4.
*WyT 385
Autograph draft, with copious revisions.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS (with a facsimile) in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 212-13. Discussed, with a facsimile, in Helen V. Baron ‘Wyatt's “What rage”’, The Library, 5th Ser. 31 (September 1976), 188-204. Facsimile also in Chris Fletcher et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 2003), p. 47.
‘What shulde I saye’
Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 220-1.
WyT 386
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘What thing is that, that I both have and lack’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 237-8.
WyT 387
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, pp. 237-8, and in Hughey, I, No. 313, pp. 356-7.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 217r.
WyT 388
Copy of lines 1-7, headed ‘A Ridle’ followed by an ‘Answer’.
In: the MS described under WyT 142. Mid-late 16th century.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.
‘What vaileth trouth? or, by it, to take payn?’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 1-2.
WyT 389
Copy, with later alterations in the hand of Nicholas Grimald.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 98. Facsimile in Powell, p. 18.
WyT 390
Copy of the incipit (here ‘What vaileth’), in a musical setting by William Byrd.
In: the MS described under WyT 11. c.1611.
This MS discussed in Ivy L. Mumford, ‘Musical Settings to the Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt’, M&L, 37 (1956), 315-22 (p. 321), and in Mumford, ‘Sir Thomas Wyatt's Songs: A Trio of Problems in Manuscript Sources’, M&L, 39 (1958), 262-4 (where it was argued that this song may not be the same as Wyatt's poem).
‘What wolde ye mor of me, your slav, Requyere’
Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 186-7.
‘What wourde is that that chaungeth not’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 36.
WyT 392
Copy, headed in a later hand ‘Anna’.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 141-2.
WyT 393
Copy, immediately following on from ‘Ryght true it is, and said full yore agoo’ (WyT 266).
In: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 120, p. 155. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 67bisr.
‘When Dido festid first the wandryng Troian knyght’
See WyT 160-161.
‘When first mine eyes did view, and marke’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557).Muir & Thomson, pp. 248-9.
WyT 393.5
Copy of the incipit only, untitled.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single cursive secretary hand, 153 pages (including many blanks), in contemporary limp vellum. Late 16th century.
‘When that I call unto my mind’
See WyT 376.
‘Where shall I have at myn owne will’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 39-40.
WyT 394
Copy, with alterations in another hand (that responsible for the ‘Aunswer’ to WyT 183).
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 145-6. Facsimile of f. 36r in Powell, p. 19.
WyT 395
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 135, pp. 162-3. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 78r-v.
‘Who hath herd of suche crueltye before?’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 32.
*WyT 396
Copy, with autograph corrections.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 136.
WyT 397
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 398
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 125, p. 157. Collated in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 68r.
‘Who lyst his welthe and eas Retayne’
Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 187-8.
‘Who so list to hounte I know where is an hynde’
Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 5.
WyT 400
Copy, with later alterations in the hand of Nicholas Grimald.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 104. Facsimiles in Ruth Hughey, ‘The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents’, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444 (after p. 414), and in Powell, p. 24.
WyT 401
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 100, p. 146. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 63r.
WyT 402
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 1. c.1532-41.
This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
WyT 403
Copy, headed ‘Sr Th. w.S.’ and here beginning ‘Who list to hunt I knowe where is an hind’.
In: A quarto miscellany of English and Latin verse and prose, largely in a neat secretary hand, 91 leaves, in limp vellum. Early 17th century.
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). Formerly D258/60/26a.
‘Who would haue euer thowght’
Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 201.
WyT 404
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘Wyll ye se what wonders love hathe wrought?’
Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 234-5.
WyT 405
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘Wythe seruyng styll’
Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 185-6.
‘Ye know my herte, my ladye dere’
Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 30-1.
WyT 408
Copy of lines 24-39, beginning ‘all to my harme’, with an alteration in another hand (that responsible for the ‘Aunswer’ to WyT 183), imperfect, lacking the beginning of the poem.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson (and see WyT 409), and in Harrier, p. 135.
WyT 409
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
This MS collated (and lines 1-23 edited) in Muir & Thomson. Lines 24-39 collated in Harrier.
‘Ye old mule that thinck your self so fayre’
Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 25-6.
WyT 410
Copy, heavily written over by later hands.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 130.
‘Yf amours faith, an hert vnfayned’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 12.
WyT 411
Copy, written over by later hands.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 113-14.
WyT 412
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 105, p. 150. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 65r.
‘Yf I myght hau at myne owne wyll’
Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 152-3.
‘Yf in the world ther be more woo’
Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 70.
‘Yf it be so that I forsake the’
Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 15-16.
WyT 416
Copy, with an alteration in another hand (that responsible for the ‘Aunswer’ to WyT 183).
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, pp. 117-18.
‘Yf with complaint the paine might be exprest’
Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 214.
WyT 417
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘You that in love finde lucke and habundance’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 73.
WyT 418
Copy, in the hand of John Brereton, headed ‘Sonet’ in another hand.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, and in Harrier, p. 199.
WyT 419
Copy, omitting line 6.
In: the MS described under WyT 3. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 123, pp. 156-7. Collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.
‘Your ffolyshe fayned hast’
Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 164.
WyT 420
Copy, headed ‘The Aunswere’.
In: the MS described under WyT 1. c.1532-41.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
‘Your lokes so often cast’
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 145-6.
‘Ys yt possyble’
Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 194-5.
WyT 422
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘fynys qd Wyatt’.
In: the MS described under WyT 5. c.1530s-40s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
Letters
Sir Thomas Wyatt to his son (15 April 1537)
Letter beginning ‘In as mitch as now ye ar come to sume yeres of vnderstanding...’, dated from Paris 15 April. Muir, Life & Letters, pp. 38-41.
WyT 423
Copy, in the hand of Sir Thomas Wyatt the younger (c.1521-54), headed ‘ffrom him out of Spayne to his son then Xmo yeres old’.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson. Facsimiles of f. 71r in Powell, p. 26, and of f. 72r in Jason Powell, ‘Line Omission in Prose Manuscripts, 1500-1700’, PBSA, 104 (December 2010), 433-61 (p. 439).
WyT 424
Copy in: A folio composite volume of political tracts, speeches and other papers, many relating to Spain and the Netherlands, v + 138 pages, in 19th-century reversed calf.
Once owned by Sir Henry Spelman (1564?-1641), historian and antiquary. Later owned by Cox Macro (1683-1767), antiquary. Christie's, February 1820 (Macro sale, Part VI), lot 112. Subsequently owned by Hudson Gurney (1775-1864), banker and antiquary, of Keswick Hall, Norfolk (Gurney MS XXX), Vol. 4, pp. 308-75). Sotheby's, 30 March 1936 (Gurney sale), lot 163.
HMC, 1891, Appendix, Pt IX, pp. 144-7.
WyT 425
Copy, headed ‘ffrom olde Sr Thoma wiate to his sonne out of Spayne’.
In: A quarto volume of state letters, the greater part in a single secretary hand, 84 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Late 16th-early 17th century.
WyT 426
Copy in: A folio volume of ‘Speeches in Parliamt and other speeches with seuerall letters of Concernmt being of great Antiquitie...And some other speeches and Letters relateing to these late distracted tymes’, iv + 165 leaves, in calf gilt. Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 18 of the Hopkinson MSS. 1660.
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. 296-7.
WyT 427
Copy, headed ‘A letter of Sr Thomas Wyat vnto his sonne’.
In: A quarto volume of state papers, principally letters and speeches of Sir Nicholas Bacon (1510-79), Lord Keeper, in several professional secretary hands, 81 leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt, now within 19th-century half red morocco. Apparently prepared by ‘Tho: Mynatts’ for presentation to Sir Christopher Hatton (c.1540-91), Lord Chancellor, with a dedicatory epistle to him (ff. 1r-2r) subscribed with Mynatts's italic signature, he describing himself as ‘a poore clerke whoe have served in her Majestys Courte of Starr Chamber’, his sources having come to his hands ‘by ye guifte of one of his sonnes nowe in France’: i.e. Anthony Bacon (1558-1601), political intelligencer. c.1585.
Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger. Sotheby's, 9 August 1884 (Collier sale), lot 996.
WyT 428
Copy, headed ‘A lre of Thomas Wiat to his Sonne’.
In: A large double-folio formal volume of state papers of c.1545-80, arranged according to subject, in a single professional secretary hand, on 46 leaves of vellum, in half green morocco. c.1590s.
Bookplate of Richard Towneley, of Townely Hall, near Burnley, Lancashire, dated 1702. Sotheby's, 27-28 June 1883 (Towneley sale), lot 170, to Quaritch. Quaritch's sale catalogue ‘of English Literature’ (August-November 1884), item 22349. Presented by William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst (1835-1908), first Baron Amherst of Hackney, 13 April 1887.
This MS collated in Albert McHarg Hayes, ‘Wyatt's Letters to his Son’, MLN, 49 (1934), 446-9.
WyT 430
Copy, in a professional secretary hand.
In: A folio volume of of state letters and tracts, in several professional secretary hands, the letters on pp. 877-1039 arranged under genre headings (‘Aduise’, ‘Aunsweares’, ‘Comendatory’, etc.), 1039 pages, in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked). c.1595-1620s.
Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist and book collector. Sotheby's, 14 December 1976, lot 47, to Hofmann & Freeman. Then owned by Peter Beal, London. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 88, with a facsimile example.
A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, RP 2102.
WyT 431
Copy, subscribed ‘Thom: Wyatt’.
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.
Sir Thomas Wyatt to his son (Autumn 1537)
Letter beginning ‘I doubt not but long ere this time my lettres are come to you...’, subscribed ‘From Valedolide the xxiiith of June’. Muir, Life & Letters, pp. 41-4.
WyT 432
Copy, in the hand of Sir Thomas Wyatt the younger (c.1521-54), headed ‘Again unto his Son out of Spayne about the same time’.
In: the MS described under WyT 7. c.1530s.
Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson.
WyT 434
Copy in: the MS described under WyT 425. Late 16th-early 17th century.
WyT 436
Copy, headed ‘A second letter of the saide Sr Thomas Wyat vnto his sonne’.
In: the MS described under WyT 427. c.1585.
WyT 437
Copy, headed ‘A Seconde lre, Tho: Wyat’.
In: the MS described under WyT 428. c.1590s.
in Albert McHarg Hayes, ‘Wyatt's Letters to his Son’, MLN, 49 (1934), 446-9.
WyT 440
Copy, as ‘a second letter’, subscribed ‘Tho: Wyatt’.
In: the MS described under WyT 431. Early 18th century.
Northamptonshire Record Office, W(A) Misc Vol 20, ff. 60v-1r.
Miscellaneous
Document(s)
WyT 441
A formal tabling of Wyatt's financial accounts as ambassador to Spain, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Sir Thomas Wyatts Rekonyng’, from 12 March 1536/7 onwards, on two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a packet. c.1538.
In: A folio composite collection of state letters and papers, in various hands, now divided into two volumes, the first (A-J) 336 leaves, the second (L-W) 332 leaves, both in modern half-morocco gilt.
British Library, Cotton MS Vespasian C. XIV, Volume I, ff. 24r-5v.
*WyT 442
A receipt signed by Wyatt (on the verso) and by Lord Vaux of Harrowden (author of the song sung by the gravedigger in Hamlet), relating to the manor of Newyngton Luces, Kent, on vellum, 10 March 1535/6. 1536.
Sotheby's, 19 July 1960, lot 401, to Hollings. Afterwards owned by H. Bradley Martin (1906-88), American collector. Sotheby's, New York, 1 May 1990 (Bradley Martin sale), lot 3337. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1132 (December 1990), item 134. Phillips, 14 November 1991, lot 235, to Sawyer, with reduced facsimile of the recto in the sale catalogue.
Wyatt's Declaration of Innocence
Wyatt's declation to the Privy Council while in the Tower after his indictment in early 1541. First published by Horace Walpole in Miscellaneous Antiquities (1772), II, 21-54. Muir, pp. 178-84.
WyT 443
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘A declaracon made by Sr Thomas Wiatt knight of his Innocencye beinge in the Tower vpon the accusacon of Doctor Bonarde Byshopp of London made vnto the Councell the yere of or Lorde’, undated. Mid-late 16th century.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, x + 363 leaves, in contemporary vellum with ties. Late 16th century.
Yelverton MS 21, among the papers of Robert Beale (1541-1601), Clerk of the Privy Council, descending to Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.
Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 40.
This MS collated in The Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, ed. George F. Nott, 2 vols (London, 1815-16).
WyT 444
Copy, in a professional formal secretary hand, headed ‘A Declaration made by Sr Thomas Wiatt knight of his Innocence beinge [in the Tower] vppon the false accusation of Doctor Bonarde Bishope of London vnto the Councell the yeare of or lorde’, undated. Mid-16th century.
In: the MS described under WyT 142. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Muir. Edited in Walpole from a transcript of this MS made by the poet Thomas Gray (1716-71).
Wyatt's Defence
Wyatt's speech composed for his defence c.January-March 1540/1. Muir, pp. 187-209.
WyT 445
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘To the Judges after the Indictement and the evidence’. Mid-late 16th century.
In: the MS described under WyT 443. Late 16th century.
WyT 446
Copy, in a professional formal secretary hand, headed ‘To the Judges after the Indictemente and the evidence’. Mid-16th century.
In: the MS described under WyT 142. Mid-late 16th century.
Edited from this MS in Muir.