MS Sancroft 11
Notes in the minute hand of William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, on the Book of Common Prayer, vi + 566 quarto pages (the majority blank), in contemporary calf. Largely ‘transcribed out of Mr [John] Hayward's booke of Coton. wch were partly his owne collections, & ptly taken out of Bp Andrewes his owne service booke, written in ye Margin wth his owne hand, to whch is prfixed Wint or W. for Winchester of wch he was Bp’. Mid-late 17th century.
AndL 40: Lancelot Andrewes, Notes on the Book of Common Prayer
First published in William Nicholls, A Comment on the Book of Common Prayer (London, 1710). LACT, Minor Works (1854), pp. 141-58.
MS Sancroft 29
An octavo commonplace book of extracts from various authors, some under headings, compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, written from both ends, iv + 558 pages (the majority blank), in contemporary vellum. Late 17th century.
pp. 1-54, 124-5, 311-12
• B&F 212: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Extracts
A series of extracts from several plays.
pp. 58-61
• SuJ 158.5: John Suckling, Aglaura
Extracts.
First published in London, 1638. Beaurline, Plays, pp. 33-119.
p. 63
• WaE 327: Edmund Waller, On Mr. John Fletcher's Plays (‘Fletcher! to thee we do not only owe’)
Copy of a version of lines 17-26 beginning ‘Fletcher thy Muse at once improv'd, & marrd’.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 3-4.
pp. 67, 75-104
• ShW 119: William Shakespeare, Extracts
A serious of extracts from some 37 plays.
p. 68
pp. 68, 127
• JnB 603: Ben Jonson, Every Man in his Humour
Extracts.
First published in London, 1601. Herford & Simpson, III, 191-403.
p. 68
• CaW 82: William Cartwright, The Royal Slave
Extracts.
First performed at Christ Church, Oxford, 30 August 1636. First published in Oxford, 1639. Evans, pp. 193-253.
pp. 68-9
pp. 69-70
• WeJ 3.5: John Webster, The Devil's Law-Case
Extracts.
First published in London, 1623. Lucas, II, 229-372. Cambridge edition, II, 75-166.
pp. 71-3
• MiT 19.5: Thomas Middleton, A Game at Chess
Extracts.
First published in London, [1625]. Bullen, VII, 1-136. Edited by R.C. Bald (Cambridge, 1929) and by J.W. Harper (London, 1966). An ‘early form’ in Oxford Middleton, pp. 1779-1824, with a ‘later form’ on pp. 1830-85.
pp. 108-9
• DaW 102.4: Sir William Davenant, The Platonick Lovers
Extract.
First published in London, 1636. Dramatic Works, II, 1-105.
pp. 110-11
• SeC 119: Sir Charles Sedley, The Mulberry Garden
Extracts.
First published in London, 1668. Sola Pinto, I, 107-86.
pp. 113-23
• SiP 233: Sir Philip Sidney, Extracts
A series of extracts, marked ‘Sr Ph. Sidn.’
p. 125
• DrJ 247.35: John Dryden, Aureng-Zebe
Extracts.
First published in London, 1676. California, XIII (1994), pp. 147-250.
pp. 127-9
• JnB 767: Ben Jonson, Extracts
Extracts from the ‘Every Man’ plays.
MS Sancroft 53
An octavo book of jests and verse compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, vi + 374 pages (pp. 72-306 blank), in contemporary calf. c.1682-91.
p. 1
• SeC 53: Sir Charles Sedley, To Celia (‘As in those Nations, where they yet adore’)
Copy, headed ‘To Celia. Poëms upon Several Occons. 1672. Qui colit illi facit’.
First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1671). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Bat (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 62-3. Sola Pinto, I, 22.
p. 2
• RoJ 3: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Advice (‘All things submit themselves to your command’)
Copy of lines 35-50, headed ‘The Feminine Monarchy’ and here beginning ‘You are Loves citadel; By you he reigns’.
First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions, By several Persons (London, 1672). Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, pp. 18-19. Walker, pp. 16-17. Love, pp. 8-9.
p. 3
• SeC 71: Sir Charles Sedley, To Cloris (‘Cloris, I cannot say your Eyes’)
Copy, headed ‘Tota pulchra. or Je ne sçay quoy’.
First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 8.
pp. 3-4
• EtG 93: Sir George Etherege, To Her Excellence the Marchioness of Newcastle After the Reading of Her Incomparable Poems (‘With so much wonder we are struck’)
Copy, headed ‘On ye Dutchess of Newcastle’.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions (London, 1672). Thorpe, pp. 14-15.
pp. 5-6
• DoC 85: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Epilogue to ‘Tartuffe’ (‘Many have been the vain attempts of wit’)
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in Molière's Tartuffe, translated by Matthew Medbourne (London, 1670). Harris pp. 13-14.
pp. 6-7
• DoC 84: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Epilogue to ‘Every Man in his Humour’ (‘Entreaty shall not serve, nor violence’)
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon Several Occasions, by Several Persons (London, 1672). Harris, pp. 10-12.
pp. 7-8
• WaE 712: Edmund Waller, Upon the late Storm, and of the Death of His Highness ensuing the same (‘We must resign! Heaven his great soul does claim’)
Copy, subscribed ‘mr Waller’.
First published as a broadside (London, [1658]). Three Poems upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector (London, 1659). As ‘Upon the late Storm, and Death of the late Usurper O. C.’ in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 34-5.
For the ‘answer or construction’ by William Godolphin, see the Introduction.
pp 9-14, and vi
• DrJ 53: John Dryden, Heroique Stanza's, Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of his most Serene and Renowned Highnesse Oliver Late Lord Protector of this Common-Wealth, &c. (‘And now 'tis time. for their Officious haste’)
Copy, the stanza on p. vi headed ‘Dryden's 10th stanza, omitted p. 10’.
This MS collated in Dearing et al., loc. cit.
First published in Three Poems Upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (London, 1659). Kinsley, I, 6-12. California, I, 11-16. Hammond, I, 18-29.
pp. 33-4
• DeJ 3: Sir John Denham, ‘After so many sad mishaps’
Copy, headed ‘On Sr W. Davenant's Gondibert’, and subscribed ‘Sr Jo. Denham’.
First published, as ‘To Sir W. Davenant’, in Certain Verses (1653), pp. 5-7. Banks, pp. 313-16.
p. 39
• RoJ 125: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on Louis XIV (‘Lorraine you stole. by fraud you got Burgundy’)
Copy, two Latin verses headed ‘On ye French Kgs Conquests’, then ‘Turn'd thus by ye E. of Rochester’ and here beginning ‘Lorrain he stole; by Fraud he got Burgundie’.
This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.
First published in The Agreeable Companion (London, 1745). Vieth, p. 21. Walker, p. 121, as ‘[On Louis XIV]’. See also A. S. G. Edwards, ‘Rochester's “Impromptu on Louis XIV”’, N&Q, 219 (November 1974), 418-19.
p. 40
• DoC 223: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Young Statesmen (‘Clarendon had law and sense’)
Copy, headed ‘The 3 Chitts in Story’.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.
pp. 40-1
• SdT 23.1: Thomas Shadwell, To…Signior Pietro Reggio… (‘If I could write with a Poetick fire’)
Extracts.
See Summers, V, 239-41.
Summers, V, 239-41.
p. 43
• ShW 43: William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, II, iii, 19-27. Song (‘Hark, hark, the lark at heaven's gate sings’)
Copy, transcribed from the Folio of 1664.
p. 43
• ShW 75: William Shakespeare, Othello
Copy of Iago's lines beginning ‘She yt was ever fair, & never proud’ (II, i, 148-58), transcribed from the Folio of 1664, headed ‘Womens unknown Vertues’ and subscribed ‘W.Sh. 795’.
First published in London, 1622.
p. 44
• WoH 182: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife (‘He first deceased. she for a little tried’)
Copy, headed ‘A Lady dy'd soon after her husbd’ and here beginning ‘He first deceased. She a little try'd’.
First published as an independent couplet in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), p. 44. The authorship is uncertain.
This couplet, which was subject to different versions over the years, is in fact lines 5-6 of a twelve-line poem beginning ‘Here lye two Bodyes happy in their kinds’, which has also been attributed to George Herbert: see HrG 290.5-290.8.
p. 45
• DaJ 174: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)
Copy, headed ‘Another’ [i.e. epitaph] and here beginning ‘As carefull Nurses on yr Beds do lay’.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.
f. 47
• HrJ 77: Sir John Harington, How England may be reformed (‘Men say that England late is bankrout grown’)
Copy, headed ‘Sr Jo. Harrington On K. James his Coming in’ and here beginning ‘England (Men say) of late is banckrupt grown’.
Not published before the 19th century (?). Quoted at the end of the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5). McClure No. 375, p. 301. Kilroy, Book I, No. 1, p. 186.
p. 48
• RaW 395: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘ICUR, good Mounser Carr’
Copy, headed ‘On the Earl of Somerset’.
First published in Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, ed. Frederick J. Furnivall, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted in New York, 1977), p. 20. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 48, p. 121 (as ‘Sir Walter Raleigh to the Lord Carr’).
p. 50
• HoJ 99: John Hoskyns, A Dreame (‘Me thought I walked in a dreame’)
Copy of a version of lines 43-68, beginning ‘the worst is tolld, the best is hidd’.
Osborn, No. XXXIV (pp. 206-8). Whitlock, pp. 480-2.
A shortened version of the poem, of lines 43-68, beginning ‘the worst is tolld, the best is hidd’ and ending ‘he errd but once, once king forgiue’, was widely circulated.
p. 52
• DnJ 4063.3: John Donne, The Character of a Scott at the First Sight
Copy, headed ‘Descripto of a Scot at first sight’.
First published in Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Hayward, pp. 414-15. Peters, pp. 59-62 (among ‘Dubia’). The authorship discussed in Dennis Flynn, ‘Three Unnoticed Companion Essays to Donne's “An Essay of Valour”’, BNYPL, 73 (1969), 424-39.
p. 52
• HoJ 100: John Hoskyns, A Dreame (‘Me thought I walked in a dreame’)
Copy of a version of lines 43-68, headed ‘Mris Hoskins petition for her Husband’ and here beginning ‘The worst is told, ye Best is sed’.
Osborn, No. XXXIV (pp. 206-8). Whitlock, pp. 480-2.
A shortened version of the poem, of lines 43-68, beginning ‘the worst is tolld, the best is hidd’ and ending ‘he errd but once, once king forgiue’, was widely circulated.
p. 52
• DnJ 2886: John Donne, A selfe accuser (‘Your mistris, that you follow whores, still taxeth you’)
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘You follow whores: (yor Mistress taxeth you:)’.
This MS recorded in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 89. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 10.
pp. 53-6
• HoJ 48: John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart (‘Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke’)
Copy, headed ‘The Parlement-Fart. 1607’ and here beginning ‘Down came grave ancient Serjeant Crook’.
Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of ‘Doubtful Verses’ in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.
p. 56
• HoJ 121: John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart (‘Reader I was born and cried’)
Copy, headed ‘The Fart's Epitaph’ and here beginning ‘Reader, I was born, & cry'd’.
p. 57
• HrJ 78: Sir John Harington, How England may be reformed (‘Men say that England late is bankrout grown’)
Second copy, untitled and here beginning ‘England, Men say, of late is Bankrupt grown’.
Not published before the 19th century (?). Quoted at the end of the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5). McClure No. 375, p. 301. Kilroy, Book I, No. 1, p. 186.
p. 58
• DnJ 904: John Donne, Disinherited (‘Thy father all from thee, by his last Will’)
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Thy Father gave fro thee by his last Will’.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 94. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled), 8 and 11.
p. 58
• DnJ 1727: John Donne, Klockius (‘Klockius so deeply hath sworne, ne'r more to come’)
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘So deeply N. hath vow'd, ne'r more to come’.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 54. Shawcross, No. 99. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6, 9 and 11.
p. 58
• DnJ 1899: John Donne, A licentious person (‘Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call’)
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Thy Sins, & hairs no Man can equal call’.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Henry Fitzgeffrey, Satyres and Satyricall Epigram's (London, 1617). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 90. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 11.
p. 58
• DnJ 1756: John Donne, A lame begger (‘I am unable, yonder begger cries’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as ‘Zoppo’) and 10.
p. 58
• RaW 396: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘ICUR, good Mounser Carr’
Second copy, deleted.
First published in Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, ed. Frederick J. Furnivall, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted in New York, 1977), p. 20. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 48, p. 121 (as ‘Sir Walter Raleigh to the Lord Carr’).
p. 59
• SdT 18.5: Thomas Shadwell, Satyr to his Muse (‘Hear me dull Prostitute, worse than my Wife’)
Extract.
First published in London, 1682. Summers, V, 263-72.
p. 68
• RoJ 567.2: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing (‘Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade’)
Copy of the last six lines.
First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.
p. 69
• RoJ 223: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons (‘If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold’)
Copy, headed ‘On Rome's pardons’ and here subscribed ‘Ea of Rochr’.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among ‘Poems Possibly by Rochester’. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.
p. 69
• StW 323: William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter (‘A fitter Match hath never bin’)
Copy, subscribed ‘These 3. out of Philpot's Remains. pp. 533. & 547.’
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.
MS Sancroft 59
An octavo commonplace book of extracts, in English and Latin, compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, iv + 302 pages. Mid-late 17th century.
p. 284 rev.
• HeR 249: Robert Herrick, Upon his kinswoman Mistris Elizabeth Herrick (‘Sweet virgin, that I do not set’)
Copy.
First published in John Stow, Survey of London (London, 1633), p. 812. Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 145-6. Patrick, pp. 197-8. The memorial tablet of c.1630 bearing this epitaph at St Margaret's Church, Westminster, was restored there in 1955: see Charles Smyth, ‘A Herrick Epitaph’, TLS (13 May 1955), p. 253.
p. 286 rev.
• DaJ 175: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)
Copy, headed ‘On an infants death’ and here beginning ‘As nurses strive their babes in bed to lay’.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.
p. 296 rev.
• RnT 491: Thomas Randolph, On Michaell Drayton (‘Do pious marble let thy readers know’)
Copy.
Unpublished? Generally attributed to Francis Quarles.
MS Sancroft 89
An octavo volume of university Latin orations compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, xiv + 204 pages (pp. 110-94 blank). Late 17th century.
pp. 57-8
• WoH 57.5: Sir Henry Wotton, An Ode to the King, at his returning from Scotand to the Queen after his coronation there (‘Rouse up thyself, my gentle Muse’)
Copy of a Latin rendition of the poem, headed ‘Ad Regem e Scotia reducem Henrici Wottonj Plausus, & Vota’.
First published in Ben Jonson's Vnder-wood in his Workes (London, 1640). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 521. Hannah (1845), pp. 21-4. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), p. 267.
pp. 97-8
• ClJ 235: John Cleveland, Oratio coram Rege, & Principe Carolo in Collegio Joannensi Cantab. habita. 1642
Copy, headed ‘Mr Cleveland before ye K. 14 March 1641’[/2].
Oration, beginning ‘Augustissime Regum, Archetype Caroli, / Quæ nupero dolore obriguit Academia...’. Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 121-3. Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 177-9.
pp. 106-9
• StW 1471: William Strode, Speech to Charles I at Woodstock, 30 August 1635
Copy, headed ‘Ad Rege Carolu I. Oratorii Acad. Oxon. (Mri Strode, ut puto) Alloqu Woodstochii, ut—’.
Unpublished oration, beginning ‘Augustissime Christo proximo, homo-Deus qualis pro...’.
MS Sancroft 97
An octavo commonplace book of extracts, in English and Latin, compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, written from both ends, ii + 456 pages (pp. 121-96 blank). Late 17th century.
pp. 79-82
• ShW 116: William Shakespeare, Extracts
Quotations from Shakespeare (including Henry VI, King Lear, and A Midsummer Night's Dream).