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32D86/7

A folio volume of ‘auncient ffees due and vsually taken by the seuerall officers in the Countye of Yorke: with a treatise of weights and measures’, 126 leaves, in modern calf gilt. Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 7, Part II, of the Hopkinson MSS. 1663.

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 294.

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• CmW 66: William Camden, Money

Extracts labelled ‘Mr Camden’, among others labelled ‘Mr Burton’, in a section with the running title ‘money and Coynes’, almost illegible due to permeation of the ink.

A tract beginning ‘It is a receaued opinion that in most auncient ages there was onely batterie...’. First published in Remaines (London, 1614), pp. 196-210.

32D86/10

A folio volume of genealogical material, 210 leaves, in modern calf gilt. Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 10 of the Hopkinson MSS. Mid-late 17th century.

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 294.

passim

• CmW 6.33: William Camden, Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha

Various extracts and quotations.

Part I (to 1589) first published in London, 1615. Parts I-II (to 1603) published in Leiden, 1625-7.

32D86/11

A volume of genealogical material relating to Northern families. Late 17th century.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 294.

[unspecified page numbers]

• CmW 6.35: William Camden, Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha

Extracts.

Part I (to 1589) first published in London, 1615. Parts I-II (to 1603) published in Leiden, 1625-7.

[unspecified page numbers]

• FuT 16: Thomas Fuller, Extracts

32D86/14

A folio volume of accounts of travels to countries in Europe and to Turkey, 124 leaves (plus blanks), in calf gilt. Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 14 of the Hopkinson MSS c.1660s-70s.

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 295.

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• OvT 40: Sir Thomas Overbury, Observations in his travailes

Copy of ‘Obseruations of the State of ffrance’, ‘Observations vpon the Provinces vnited’, and ‘Obseruacons vpon the ArchDukes Countrye’, all ascribed to ‘S^r Thomas Ouerburye Knt’.

A tract beginning ‘All things concurred for the rising and maintenance of this State...’. First published as Sir Thomas Overbvry his Observations in his Travailes vpon the State of The Xvii. Provinces as they stood Anno Dom. 1609 (London, 1626). Rimbault, pp. 223-30. Authorship uncertain.

32D86/17

A folio verse miscellany, 215 leaves (plus a few blanks), in modern calf gilt. Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 17 of the Hopkinson MSS. c.1670.

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 295-6.

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• StW 1233: William Strode, A watchstring (‘Tymes picture here invites your eyes’)

Copy of the second couplet, here beginning ‘My stringes can doe what noe man cold’.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 44. Forey, p. 210.

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• StW 324: William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter (‘A fitter Match hath never bin’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Butcher maryeing a skynners daughter’.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.

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• HrJ 106: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that giues the cheek (‘Is't for a grace, or is't for some disleeke’)

Copy, headed ‘Coynesse’.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book III, No. 3. McClure No. 201, p. 230. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 84, p. 201.

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• DnJ 1758: John Donne, A lame begger (‘I am unable, yonder begger cries’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Cripple’ and here beginning ‘I can neither goe nor stand the cripple cryes’.

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.

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• JnB 234: Ben Jonson, An Execration upon Vulcan (‘Any why to me this, thou lame Lord of fire’)

Copy of lines 191-216, headed ‘Ben: Johnson against Vulcan’ and beginning ‘Pox on your flameship, Vulcan; if it be’.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (xliii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 202-12.

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• DaJ 48: Sir John Davies, A Lover out of Fashion (‘Faith (wench) I cannot court thy sprightly eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘Wooing stuffe’ and here beginning ‘ffaire wench I cannot court thy sprightly eyes’.

First published in Epigrammes and Elegies (‘Middleborugh’ [i.e. London?] [1595-6?]). Krueger, p. 180.

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• CoR 440: Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church (‘Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle’)

Copy, headed ‘On Tom the great Bell of Christ Church Oxford’.

First published (omitting lines 25-48) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 79-82. Ithuriel, ‘Great Tom of Oxford’, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 465-6 (printing ‘(from a MS collection) which bears the signature of Jerom Terrent’).

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• ChG 3: George Chapman, Hero and Leander

Copy of a couplet in Sestiad III (lines 231-2), headed ‘Loue’ and here beginning ‘Loue is a golden bubble full of dreames’.

Chapman's continuation of Marlowe's poem (Sestiads III-VI). First published in London, 1598. Bartlett, pp. 132-70.

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• BrW 9: William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Books I and II

Copy of Book I, Song 3, lines 479-80, headed ‘A nosegay w^th nettles’ and here beginning ‘Such is the posye love composes’, and of lines 481-2, headed ‘A Girdle’ and here beginning ‘This dureing light I give to clipt your waist’.

Book I first published London, 1613. Book II first published London, 1616. Goodwin, Vol. I.

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• DnJ 3201: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)

Copy, headed ‘A sonnett’.

First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as ‘Elegie XIX. Going to Bed’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.

The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, ‘Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's “To his mistress going to bed”’, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.

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• CoR 700: Richard Corbett, Upon Faireford Windowes (‘Tell mee, you Anti-Saintes, why glasse’)

Copy, headed ‘On the preserueing of Lincolns Inn Chappell windowes in the tyme of the warr’.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 87.

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• WoH 202: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset then falling from favour (‘Dazzled thus with the height of place’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon Secretarye Da: fall’, subscribed ‘ff. B.’.

Edited from this MS (or from the second copy: WoH 203) in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 295.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 522. Hannah (1845), pp. 25-7. Some texts of this poem discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Sir Henry Wotton's “Dazel'd Thus, with Height of Place” and the Appropriation of Political Poetry in the Earlier Seventeenth Century’, PBSA, 71 (1977), 151-69.

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• CoR 723.5: Richard Corbett, Upon the Same Starre (‘A Starre did late appeare in Virgo's trayne’)

Copy of a version headed ‘Est natura hominum nouitatis auida 1618’ and beginning ‘The starr that rose from Virgo's trayne’.

First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 65.

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• CwT 1287: Thomas Carew, To a Strumpett (‘Hayle thou true modell of a cursed whore’)

Copy, headed ‘An inuectiue against Grace Cooke’ and here beginning ‘Hayle, shamelesse model of a cursed whore’.

First published as ‘On one Grace C. an Insatiate Whore’ in a 24-line version beginning ‘Go shamefull Model of a Cursed Whore!’ in Latine Songs, With their English: and Poems. By Henry Bold (London, 1685). A 36-line version published in Minor Poems of the Seventeenth Century, ed. R.G. Haworth (Everyman Library, 1931). Dunlap. p. 191.

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• HeR 182: Robert Herrick, Oberons Feast (‘A Little mushroome table spred’)

Copy, without the preliminary lines.

First published complete, with six preliminary lines beginning ‘Shapcot! To thee the Fairy State’, in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 119-20. Patrick, pp. 161-3. An earlier version, entitled ‘A Description of his Dyet’, published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Martin, pp. 454-5.

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• StW 958: William Strode, A Song of Capps (‘The witt hath long beholding bin’)

Copy, headed ‘Cappes’.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 104-7. Forey, pp. 47-51.

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• CoR 554: Richard Corbett, A Proper New Ballad intituled The Faeryes Farewell: Or God-a-Mercy Will (‘Farewell, Rewards & Faeries’)

Copy, beginning at stanza 2 (here ‘Lament, Lament old Abbyes’).

First published (omitting lines 57-64) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Published complete in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 49-52.

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• DeJ 43: Sir John Denham, News from Colchester (‘All in the Land of Essex’)

Copy, headed ‘A ballad vpon one Greene a quaker and a mare’.

First published as A Relation of a Quaker [1659]. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 91-4.

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• EaJ 19: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie, Upon the death of Sir John Burrowes, Slaine at the Isle of Ree (‘Oh wound us not with this sad tale, forbear’)

Copy, headed ‘vpon the death of s^r John Boroughe 1628’.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 12-16. Extract in Bliss, pp. 225-6. Edited in James Doelman, ‘John Earle's Funeral Elegy on Sir John Burroughs’, English Literary Renaissance, 41/3 (Autumn 2011), 485-502 (pp. 499-502).

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• WoH 160: Sir Henry Wotton, Tears at the Grave of Sir Albertus Morton who was buried at Southampton (‘Silence in truth would speak my sorrow best’)

Copy, headed ‘Teares at the graue of S^r Albert morton by S^r Henry Wootton K^t’.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 528. Hannah (1845), pp. 40-3.

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• WoH 183: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife (‘He first deceased. she for a little tried’)

Copy.

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.

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• WoH 15: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r Henry wootton on Mr Roger Askam’.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Wotton's “The Character of a Happy Life”’, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's “The Character of a Happy Life”’, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).

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• WoH 203: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset then falling from favour (‘Dazzled thus with the height of place’)

Copy, headed ‘On Secretarye Dauison fall’ and subscribed ‘F. B.’.

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• SuJ 48: John Suckling, A Pedler of Small-Wares (‘A Pedler I am, that take great care’)

Copy, subscribed ‘J. S.’.

This MS recorded (but not seen) in Clayton, p. 230. Collated in Peter Beal, ‘Suckling's Verses in the Hopkinson Manuscripts’, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 543-4, and see also Thomas Clayton in N&Q, 224 (October 1979), 425-7.

First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 19-20.

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• SuJ 45: John Suckling, The Miracle (‘If thou bee'st Ice, I do admire’)

Copy, subscribed ‘J. S.’

This MS recorded (but not seen) in Clayton, p. 291. Collated in Peter Beal, ‘Suckling's Verses in the Hopkinson Manuscripts’, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 543-4, and see also Thomas Clayton in N&Q, 224 (October 1979), 425-7.

First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, p. 33.

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• SuJ 122: John Suckling, Love and Debt alike troublesom (‘This one request I make to him that sits the clouds above’)

Copy, subscribed ‘J. S.’.

This MS collated in Peter Beal, ‘Suckling's Verses in the Hopkinson Manuscripts’, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 543-4, and see also Thomas Clayton in N&Q, 224 (October 1979), 425-7.

First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 88-9.

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• SuJ 49: John Suckling, A Soldier (‘I am a man of war and might’)

Copy, subscribed ‘J. S.’

This MS collated (no variants) in Peter Beal, ‘Suckling's Verses in the Hopkinson Manuscripts’, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 543-4, and see also Thomas Clayton in N&Q, 224 (October 1979), 425-7.

First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 20-1.

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• SuJ 26: John Suckling, A Barber (‘I am a Barber, and I'de have you know’)

Copy, subscribed ‘J. S.’

This MS collated (no variants) in Peter Beal, ‘Suckling's Verses in the Hopkinson Manuscripts’, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 543-4, and see also Thomas Clayton in N&Q, 224 (October 1979), 425-7.

First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, p. 21.

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• MaA 330: Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter (‘Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight’)

Copy.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.

The case for Marvell's authorship supported in George deF. Lord, ‘Two New Poems by Marvell?’, BNYPL, 62 (1958), 551-70, but see also discussion by Lord and Ephim Fogel in Vol. 63 (1959), 223-36, 292-308, 355-66. Marvell's authorship supported in Annabel Patterson, ‘The Second and Third Advices-to-the-Painter’, PBSA, 71 (1977), 473-86. Discussed also in Margoliouth, I, 348-50, and in Chernaik, p. 211, where Marvell's authorship is considered doubtful. A case for Sir John Denham's authorship is made in Brendan O Hehir, Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 212-28.

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• MaA 294.5: Andrew Marvell, Upon his House (‘Here lies the sacred Bones’)

Copy, headed ‘On Dunkirke house’ and here beginning ‘Here doth lye the Sacred bones’.

First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 146-7. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.

32D86/18

A folio volume of ‘Speeches in Parliam^t and other speeches with seuerall letters of Concernm^t 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.

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• ElQ 127: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Answer to the Commons' Petition that she Marry, January 28, 1563

Copy, headed ‘Queen Elizabeths Answeare to M^r wilbraham the speaker’.

Beginning ‘Williams, I have heard by you the common request of my Commons...’. First published (from a lost MS) in Nugae Antiquae, ed. Henry Harington (London, 1804), I, 80-3. Hartley, I, 94-5. Collected Works, Speech 5, pp. 70-2. Selected Works, Speech 3, pp. 37-41.

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• ElQ 183: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech at the Close of the Parliamentary Session, March 15, 1576

Copy, headed ‘Queene Elizabeth in the Parliam^t house march 15^th 1576’.

First published (from a lost MS) in Nugae Antiquae, ed. Henry Harington (London, 1804), I, 120-7.

Version I. Beginning ‘Do I see God's most sacred, holy Word and text of holy Writ drawn to so divers senses...’. Hartley, I, 471-3 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 13, pp. 167-71. Selected Works, Speech 7, pp. 52-60.

Version II. Beginning ‘My lords, Do I see the Scriptures, God's word, in so many ways interpreted...’. Hartley, I, 473-5 (Text ii).

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• WyT 426: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Thomas Wyatt to his son (15 April 1537)

Copy.

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.

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• WyT 435: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Thomas Wyatt to his son (Autumn 1537)

Copy.

Letter beginning ‘I doubt not but long ere this time my lettres are come to you...’, subscribed ‘From Valedolide the xxiii^th of June’. Muir, Life & Letters, pp. 41-4.

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• SiP 189: Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur

Copy, headed ‘To Queene Elizabeth about the mariage with monsieur the Duke of Aniou’, with the subscription ‘when God long p^rserve your ma^ties most dutifull and humble subiect & seruant / Ignot.’

This MS recorded (but not seen) in Feuillerat, III, 326. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 8.

First published in Scrinia Caeciliana: Mysteries of State & Government (London, 1663) and in Cabala: sive Scrinia Sacra (London, 1663). Feuillerat, III, 51-60. Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 46-57.

This work and its textual transmission discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), Chapter 4, pp. 109-46 (with most MSS catalogued as Nos 1-37, with comments on their textual tradition, in Appendix IV, pp. 274-80).

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• BcF 557: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

Copy.

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• HlJ 50: Joseph Hall, The Free Prisoner, or The Comfort of Restraint, written some while since in the Tower

Copy, headed ‘Bishop Hall vpon his emprisonm^t’, dated from the ‘Tower 1641’ and subscribed ‘To my much respected & obliged freind m^r A. B these’.

An epistle beginning ‘Sir, whiles you pitty my affliction, take heed lest you aggravate it...’. First published in Three Tractates (London, 1646). Wynter, VI, 539-50.

32D86/19

A folio volume of state letters, 155 leaves, in modern calf gilt. Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 19 of the Hopkinson MSS c.1665-70s.

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 297.

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• BcF 558: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

Copy.

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• RaW 847: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to Winwood.

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• RaW 710.96: Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh unto Prince Henry touching the Model of a Ship

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Latham & Youings.

A letter to Prince Henry, written from the Tower, c.November 1607, beginning ‘If the ship your highness intends to build be bigger than the Victory...’. First published in Judicious and Select Essays (London, 1650), pp. 8-15. Works (1829), VIII, 627-9. Youings, No. 194, pp. 301-4.

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• HlJ 134: Joseph Hall, Letter(s)

Copy by Hopkinson of a letter by Hall to Thomas Fuller, from Higham, 30 August 1651. 1651.

Wynter, X, 524-5 (from Fuller's Church History of Britain, p. 478).

32D86/27

A folio volume of state documents, speeches and verse, 284 leaves (plus blanks), in modern calf gilt. Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 27 of the Hopkinson MSS. Chiefly transcribed from papers belonging to John Savile, Baron of Pontefract, and Edward Taylor, of Furnivall's Inn, Holborn. 1674.

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 298.

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• EsR 204: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1

Copy.

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• EsR 269: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution

Copy, headed ‘The Execution of Robert Earle of Essex in the Tower the 25^th of ffebruary 1600’.

Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.

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• RaW 728.8: Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603.

Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, ‘“The Great Day of Mart”: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603’, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.

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• CoR 261: Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem (‘Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on’)

Copy, headed ‘Doctor Corbett against Doctor Prince his Anniversary upon this princes death’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-9.

The poem is usually followed in MSS by Dr Daniel Price's ‘Answer’ (‘So to dead Hector boyes may doe disgrace’), and see also CoR 227-46.

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• ClJ 261: John Cleveland, To Captain Scott

Copy, headed ‘M^r [John] Cleueland to Captaine [John] Scott vpon his returne into England from beyond Seas’.

Letter, beginning ‘Sir, though no man's arms can be opened wide to receive you on shore...’.

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• WoH 79: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy of a five-stanza version, headed ‘An Ode upon this mariage’ [i.e. of the Prince Elector with the Princess Elizabeth].

First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, ‘“You Meaner Beauties of the Night” A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification’, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.

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• RaW 742.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)

Copy of an account of the execution, headed ‘The vntimely and vnfortunate death of S^r Walter Rawleighe K^nt. 1618’.

Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For a relevant discussion, see Anna Beer, ‘Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh’, MP, 94/1 (August 1996), 19-38.

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• KiH 195.5: Henry King, An Elegy Upon S.W.R. (‘I will not weep. For 'twere as great a Sinne’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon his death and Elegie’.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 66.

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• RaW 29: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

Copy, headed ‘His Epitaph, made by himselfe’ and here beginning ‘O cruell time, which takes in trust’.

First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as ‘These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse’). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).

This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

32D86/29

A folio volume of parliamentary and state tracts and speeches, 112 leaves, in calf gilt. Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 29 of the Hopkinson MSS. 1662.

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

ff. 104r-6r

• CtR 105: Sir Robert Cotton, A Briefe Discovrse concerning the Power of the Peeres and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature

Copy, headed ‘The forme and first modell of this State of England in a letter to S^r Edward montague by S^r Robert Cotton...1621’.

Tract, the full title sometimes given as A Brief discourse prouinge that the house of Comons hath Equall power with the Peeres in point of Judicature written by S^r Rob: Cotton to S^r Edward Mountague An^o Dni. 1621, beginning ‘Sir, To give you as short an accompt of your desire as I can...’. First published in London, 1640. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [341]-351.

32D86/30

A folio volume of collections on ecclesiastical matters, c.200 leaves. Late 17th century.

Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 30 of the Hopkinson MSS.

[unspecified page numbers]

• CmW 206: William Camden, Extracts

Extracts from Camden relating to monasteries.

32D86/32

A folio volume of state letters, tracts and verse, 177 leaves, in calf gilt. Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 32 of the Hopkinson MSS. 1674.

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 299.

ff. [iii^r], 1r-100v

• LeC 9: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

Copy, with (f. [iii^r]) a title-page: ‘Greene=Sleeues OR Leicesters Commonwealth...Ex libris Roberti sancti Gerardi 1630. / Nil temere. / transcribed in Anno Dni 1674. by J H.’

First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.

f. 101r

• MoG 7: George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James (‘All that have eyes now wake and weep’)

Copy of lines 15-32, headed ‘Vpon the death of King James of happye memorie’, here beginning ‘If noe Uriah lost his life’, subscribed ‘G: M:’.

A version of lines 1-22, headed ‘Epitaph on King James’ and beginning ‘He that hath eyes now wake and weep’, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.

32D86/34

A folio miscellany of verse and some prose, 282 pages, in calf gilt. Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 34 of the Hopkinson MSS. Mid-late 17th century.

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 299.

pp. 3-4

• EsR 270: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution

Copy, headed ‘my Lord of Essex his confession before his death the 25^th of February vpon the scaffold Anno 43^o Regine Elizabeth’, including ‘His prayer before his execution’.

Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.

p. 7

• RnT 548: Thomas Randolph, Upon the Burning of a School (‘What heat of learning kindled your desire’)

Copy.

Published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661), ascribed to ‘T. R.’. Usually anonymous in MS copies and the school variously identified as being in Castlethorpe or in Batley, Yorkshire, or in Lewes, Sussex, or elsewhere.

p. 8

• HrJ 99: Sir John Harington, Of a faire Shrew (‘Faire, rich, and yong? how rare is her perfection’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon a shrewd m^rs’.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 37. McClure No. 291, p. 266. Kilroy, Book II, No. 88, p. 162.

p. 9

• HrJ 136: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett (‘A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon a vertuous Ladye falling asleepe’.

First published in ‘Epigrammes’ appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). McClure No. 404, p. 312. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 57, p. 231.

pp. 9-11

• RaW 156: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie (‘Goe soule the bodies guest’)

Copy.

First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.

This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, ‘Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine’, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's ‘answer’ to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.

p. 12

• DaJ 95: Sir John Davies, On the Marriage of Lady Mary Baker to Richard Fletcher, Bishop of London (‘The pride of Prelacy, which now longe since’)

Copy of poem 5, headed ‘Upon R.F. Bp of London’, and poem 4, headed ‘Upon E.F. his wife’.

First published in Samuel A. Tannenbaum, ‘Unfamiliar Versions of Some Elizabethan Poems’, PMLA, 45.ii (1930), 809-21 (pp. 818-19). Krueger, pp. 177-9.

pp. 15-18

• CoR 61: Richard Corbett, The Distracted Puritane (‘Am I madd, o noble Festus’)

Copy.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 56-9.

p. 24

• MoG 8: George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James (‘All that have eyes now wake and weep’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the death of Kinge James of famous memorie’ and here beginning ‘All who haue eyes awake & weep’, subscribed ‘G. M:’.

A version of lines 1-22, headed ‘Epitaph on King James’ and beginning ‘He that hath eyes now wake and weep’, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.

p. 26

• DnJ 456: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)

Copy, headed ‘A songe’.

First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.

pp. 27-8

• CoR 71: Richard Corbett, An Elegie on the late Lord William Haward Baron of Effingham, dead the tenth of December. 1615 (‘I did not know thee, Lord, nor do I striue’)

Copy, the date in the title rendered as ‘20 December 1615’, subscribed ‘R. Corbet’.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 20-3.

p. 29

• CoR 176: Richard Corbett, An Elegie written upon the death of Dr. Ravis Bishop of London (‘When I past Paules, and travell'd in that walke’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon Docter Rauis Bishop of London’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 3-4.

p. 31

• RaW 241: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon the life of man’.

First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, ‘The Text of Ralegh's Lyric “What is our life?”’, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.

p. 33

• HrJ 107: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that giues the cheek (‘Is't for a grace, or is't for some disleeke’)

Copy, headed ‘vpon a gentlewoman painted’.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book III, No. 3. McClure No. 201, p. 230. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 84, p. 201.

p. 33

• CoR 403: Richard Corbett, A New-Yeares Gift To my Lorde Duke of Buckingham (‘When I can pay my Parents, or my King’)

Copy, headed ‘A New Yeares guifte to the marquess of Buckingham by Doctor Corbett’.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 71-2.

p. 35

• RaW 30: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

Copy, headed ‘Epitaph upon S^r Walter Rawleigh made by himselfe’ and here beginning ‘O cruell tyme, w^ch takes in trust’.

This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

See also RaW 302 and RaW 304.

p. 35

• CoR 537: Richard Corbett, On the Lady Arabella (‘How doe I thanke thee, Death, & blesse thy power’)

Copy.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 18.

p. 36

• CoR 723.8: Richard Corbett, Upon the Same Starre (‘A Starre did late appeare in Virgo's trayne’)

Copy, headed ‘These verses were found by k: James 1618 scattered by whome vn certaine, vpon the blasing starr’ and here beginning ‘The starre itt rose in Virgins traine’.

First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 65.

pp. 37-8

• CoR 328: Richard Corbett, A letter sent from Doctor Corbet to Master Ailesbury, Decem. 9. 1618 (‘My Brother and much more had'st thou bin mine’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the blasing starr by Doctor Corbett to M^r Alesbane’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 63-5.

p. 40

• DnJ 2312: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)

Copy, headed ‘In Eandem’ [i.e. upon a Mistresse] and with the second stanza appearing first (beginning ‘Send home my harmlesse heart againe’).

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.

pp. 41-2

• EaJ 3: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie upon Master Francis Beaumont (‘Beaumont lies here, and where now shall wee have’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon M^r Francis Beamont’.

First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640), sig. Kl^r-K2^r. Beaumont and Fletcher, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Bliss, pp. 229-32.

p. 44

• MoG 59: George Morley, On the Nightingale (‘My limbs were weary and my head oppressed’)

Copy, headed ‘The Nightingale’, subscribed ‘G: M:’.

p. 44

• WoH 16: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)

Copy, headed ‘vpon a priuate life’.

pp. 45-7

• BmF 32: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Death of the Virtuous Lady, Elizabeth Countess of Rutland (‘I may forget to eat, to drink, to sleep’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on the Countess of Rutland’, subscribed ‘F. B.’

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Dyce, XI, 507-11.

p. 48

• CoR 117: Richard Corbett, An Elegie vpon the Death of Sir Thomas Ouerbury Knight poysoned in the Tower (‘Hadst thou, like other Sirs and Knights of worth’)

Copy.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 18-19.

pp. 49-51

• CoR 354: Richard Corbett, A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine (‘I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd’)

Copy, headed ‘Docter Corbett to the Duke of Buckingham may 1^mo 1623°’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.

pp. 53-5

• HoJ 52: John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart (‘Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke’)

Copy, headed ‘The Parliament fart’.

Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of ‘Doubtful Verses’ in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.

pp. 57-62

• CoR 638: Richard Corbett, To the Lord Mordant upon his returne from the North (‘My Lord, I doe confesse, at the first newes’)

Copy, headed ‘Doctor Corbett to the Lord Mordant’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 23-31.

pp. 63-4

• PeW 222: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman (‘Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression’)

Copy, headed ‘A paradoxe in praise of a painted face’, here beginning ‘Not kisse? by Joue and make impression’, subscribed ‘Baker’.

Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed ‘P.’. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as ‘A Paradox of a Painted Face’, among ‘Poems attributed to Donne in MSS’. Also ascribed to James Shirley.

A shorter version, beginning ‘Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie’, was first published, as ‘A Maids Denyall’, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].

pp. 65-7

• DrW 117.18: William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge (‘From such a face quois excellence’)

Copy, headed ‘The fiue senses’.

Often headed in MSS ‘The [Five] Senses’, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (JnB 654-70). A MS copy owned by Drummond: see The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden, ed. Robert H. Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1357. Kastner printed the poem among his ‘Poems of Doubtful Authenticity’ (II, 296-9), but its sentiments are alien to those of Drummond: see C.F. Main, ‘Ben Jonson and an Unknown Poet on the King's Senses’, MLN, 74 (1959), 389-93, and MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 118. Discussed also in Allan H. Gilbert, ‘Jonson and Drummond or Gil on the King's Senses’, MLN, 62 (January 1947), 35-7. Sometimes also ascribed to James Johnson.

pp. 67-8

• JnB 657: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘ffrom a Gypsie in the morninge’)

Copy, headed ‘In Eosdem’ [i.e. ‘The fiue Senses’].

Herford & Simpson, lines 1329-89. Greg, Windsor version, lines 1129-89.

For a parody of this song, see DrW 117.1.

pp. 74-5

• PoW 15: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’

Copy, headed ‘Vpon a faire gentlewoman haueing blacke haire / M^rs. P.’

First published, as ‘In praise of black Women; by T.R.’, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as ‘On a black Gentlewoman’. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as ‘On black Hair and Eyes’ and superscribed ‘R’; in The Poems of John Donne, ed Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as ‘on Black Hayre and Eyes’, among ‘Poems attributed to Donne in MSS’; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.

p. 75

• HrJ 101: Sir John Harington, Of a faire woman. translated out of Casaneus his Catalogus gloriae mundi (‘These thirty things that Hellens fame did raise’)

Copy.

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 15. McClure No. 16, p. 154. Kilroy, Book I, No. 24, p. 102.

p. 76

• HrJ 64: Sir John Harington, A good answere of a Gentlewoman to a Lawyer (‘A vertuous Dame, that saw a Lawyer rome’)

Copy, headed ‘A gentlewomans answeare to a Lawyer’.

First published in 1618, Book III, No. 39. McClure No. 240, pp. 248-9. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 90, p. 224.

p. 76

• HrJ 251: Sir John Harington, Of swearing first betweene the wife and the Husband (‘Cis, by that Candle, in my sleepe, I thought’)

Copy.

First published in 1618, Book II, No. 80. McClure No. 176, p. 218. Kilroy, Book III, No. 19, p. 174.

p. 76

• HrJ 297: Sir John Harington, A pretty questions of Lazarus soule well answered (‘Once on occasion two good friends of mine’)

Copy.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book II, No. 46. McClure No. 142, pp. 203-4. Kilroy, Book II, No. 80, p. 159.

pp. 77-8

• HrJ 298: Sir John Harington, A Tale of a Bayliffe distraining for rent. To my Ladie Rogers (‘I heard a pleasant tale at Cammington’)

Copy.

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 91. McClure No. 93, pp. 183-5. Kilroy, Book II, No. 2, pp. 130-1.

p. 80

• HrJ 85: Sir John Harington, In prayse of the Countesse of Darby, married to the Lord Keeper (‘This noble Countesse liued many yeeres’)

Copy, headed ‘The praise of the Countess of Derby married to the Lord Chancellour’.

First published in 1618, Book III, No. 47. McClure No. 248, p. 251. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 74, p. 237.

p. 81

• HrJ 52: Sir John Harington, The Author, of his own fortune (‘Take fortune as it falles, as one aduiseth’)

Copy.

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 29. McClure No. 30, p. 160. Kilroy, Book I, No. 56, p. 113.

p. 81

• HrJ 221: Sir John Harington, Of Blessing without a crosse (‘A Priest that earst was riding on the way’)

Copy, headed ‘Of Blessing w^thout the Crosse’.

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 17. McClure No. 18, p. 155. Kilroy, Book I, No. 30, p. 104.

p. 82

• CoR 668: Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him (‘Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon M^rs m. An invectiue against her’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 6-7.

p. 83

• HrJ 277: Sir John Harington, Of Women learned in the tongues (‘You wisht me to a wife, faire, rich and young’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon Comending a wife to a gent.’ and here beginning ‘I wish yo^w to a wife rich, faire & younge’.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 7. McClure No. 261, pp. 255-6. Kilroy, Book I, No. 7, p. 96.

p. 92

• HrJ 172: Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Tayler (‘A Taylor, thought a man of vpright dealling’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon a precise Taylor’.

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 20. McClure No. 21, pp. 156-7. Kilroy, Book I, No. 40, pp. 107-8.

p. 107

• RaW 209: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Cardes, and Dice (‘Beefore the sixt day of the next new year’)

Copy, headed ‘A rimeing prophecye alludeing to the Cards and Dice in Christenmas’.

First published as ‘A Prognostication upon Cards and Dice’ in Poems of Lord Pembroke and Sir Benjamin Ruddier (London, 1660). Latham, p. 48. Rudick, Nos 50A and 50B, pp. 123-4 (two versions, as ‘Sir Walter Rawleighs prophecy of cards, and Dice at Christmas’ and ‘On the Cardes and dice’ respectively).

p. 108

• KiH 196: Henry King, An Elegy Upon S.W.R. (‘I will not weep. For 'twere as great a Sinne’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the death of S^r Walter Rawleighe beheaded 1619’.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 299.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 66.

pp. 109-10

• BmF 60: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Lady Markham (‘As unthrifts groan in straw for their pawn'd beds’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 503-5.

ff. 117-19

• StW 524: William Strode, On Mistress Mary Prideaux dying younge (‘Sleepe pretty one, oh sleepe while I’)

Copy of the sequence, the first headed ‘An Elegie upon the death of M^rs M. P.’

Sequence of three poems, the second headed ‘Consolatorium, Ad Parentes’ and beginning ‘Lett her parents then confesse’, the third headed ‘Her Epitaph’ and beginning ‘Happy Grave, thou dost enshrine’. The third poem probably by George Morley and first published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). The three poems published in Dobell (1907), pp. 59-63. Forey, pp. 211-16.

p. 128

• ClJ 180: John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford (‘Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust’)

Copy, headed ‘An epitaph vpon the Earle of Strafford’.

p. 129

• HrJ 166: Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Lawyer (‘A Lawyer call'd vnto the Barre but lately’)

Copy.

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 82. McClure No. 83, pp. 179-80. Kilroy, Book I, No. 72, pp. 118-19.

p. 130

• JnB 161: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body (‘Sitting, and ready to be drawne’)

First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).

pp. 130-2

• JnB 200: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 4. The Mind (‘Painter, yo'are come, but may be gone’)

Copy.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

pp. 138-50

• CoR 295: Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale (‘Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two’)

Copy.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.

pp. 175-6

• ClJ 19: John Cleveland, A Dialogue between two Zealots, upon the &c. in the Oath (‘Sir Roger, from a zealous piece of Freeze’)

Copy.

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 4-5.

pp. 178-81

• WoH 313: Sir Henry Wotton, Will

Copy of Wotton's last will and testament, dated 1 October 1637.

pp. 182-4

• ClJ 98: John Cleveland, Smectymnuus, or the Club-Divines (‘Smectymnuus? The Goblin makes me start’)

Copy.

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 23-6.

pp. 184-5

• CoA 143: Abraham Cowley, Prologue to the Guardian (‘Who says the Times do Learning disallow?’)

Copy, headed ‘Prologue before the play acted at Camebridge to his ma^tie and the Prince march 1641’.

First published, under the pseudonym ‘Francis Cole’, in The Prologue and Epilogue to a Comedie, presented, at the Entertainment of the Prince His Highnesse, by the Schollers of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, in March last, 1641 (London, 1642). Waller, I, 31-2 (and II, 161). Autrey Nell Wiley, ‘The Prologue and Epilogue to the Guardian’, RES, 10 (1934), 443-7 (pp. 444-5).

32D86/44

A quarto volume of state letters, in several hands, 543 pages, in calf gilt. Mid-17th century.

Once owned by John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 44 of the Hopkinson MSS. Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

This volume (when unnumbered) recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 300.

pp. 16-18

• LyJ 18: John Lyly, A petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth

Copy.

Beginning ‘Most Gratious and dread Soveraigne: I dare not pester yo^r Highnes w^th many wordes...’. Written probably in 1598. Bond, I, 64-5. Feuillerat, pp. 556-7.

pp. 18-20

• LyJ 41: John Lyly, A second petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth

Copy.

Beginning ‘Most gratious and dread Soveraigne: Tyme cannott worke my peticons, nor my peticons the tyme...’. Written probably in 1601. Bond, I, 70-1. Feuillerat, pp. 561-2.

pp. 55-71, 144-51, 153-78, 184-99, 539-41

• BcF 559: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

Copy of various letters by Bacon.

pp 71-81

• BcF 177: Francis Bacon, Considerations touching the Queen's Service in Ireland

Copy, subscribed ‘ffrancis Bacon’.

First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, X, 46-51.

pp. 178-84

• BcF 443: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

Copy.

The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning ‘I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...’); 22 April 1621 (beginning ‘It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...’); and 30 April 1621 (beginning ‘Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...’), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.

pp. 388-401

• RaW 848: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copy of letters by Ralegh, to Winwood, to James I, and to Lady Ralegh.

p. 401

• RaW 31: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

Copy, headed ‘Verses found in S^r Walter Raleighs Bible in y^e Gate house’.

This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

SpSt/9/1a

A quarto verse miscellany, nearly all in a single mixed hand, 19 leaves, in a wrapper comprising a recycled vellum leaf bearing a rubricated (?)15th-century religious text in Latin. c.1630.

Among the papers of the Stanhope family, of Horsforth, near Leeds. Formerly Spencer-Stanhope MSS, Calendar No. 2795 (Bundle 10, No. 34).

ff. [2v-5r]

• CoR 639: Richard Corbett, To the Lord Mordant upon his returne from the North (‘My Lord, I doe confesse, at the first newes’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Corbett to the Lord Mordant’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 23-31.

f. [6r]

• RaW 364: Sir Walter Ralegh, Epitaph on the Earl of Salisbury (‘Here lies Hobinall, our Pastor while ere’)

Copy, headed ‘In obitum Ro: Cecillij’ and here beginning ‘Here lies old Hobynoll, o^r shepheard while here’.

First published in Francis Osborne, Traditionall Memoyres on the raigne of King Iames (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 735-6. Latham, p. 53.

Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, p. 146, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.

f. [6v]

• DkT 9: Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall (‘The Queene was brought by water to White Hall’)

Copy, headed ‘Of the remoue of her bodie from Richmond to whitehall by water’.

First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, ‘Poems by William Camden’, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.

f. [6v]

• CoR 262: Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem (‘Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Corbett against D^r Brice's annyversaries on P: Henrie’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-9.

The poem is usually followed in MSS by Dr Daniel Price's ‘Answer’ (‘So to dead Hector boyes may doe disgrace’), and see also CoR 227-46.

f. [7r-v]

• CoR 238: Richard Corbett, In Poetam Exauctoratum et Emeritum (‘Nor is it griev'd (graue youth) the memory’)

Copy, headed ‘A replie to the defence’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 10-11.

For related poems see CoR 247-78.

f. [10r-v]

• CoR 441: Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church (‘Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle’)

Copy, headed ‘On yong Tom of C: C: D^r Corbet’.

ff. [10v-11r]

• HoJ 218: John Hoskyns, S^r Fra: Bacon. L: Verulam. Vicount S^t Albons (‘Lord Verulam is very lame, the gout of go-out feeling’)

Copy of a 28-line version, headed ‘on the Lord chancellor’ and here beginning ‘Greate Verulam is verie lame, the goute of goe=out feeling’.

Osborn, No. XXXIX (p. 210). Whitlock, pp. 558-9.

ff. [11v-12r]

• DnJ 3021: John Donne, Song (‘Sweetest love, I do not goe’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Donne on his departure from his loue’ and here beginning ‘Dearest loue! I do not go’.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 18-19. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 31-2. Shawcross, No. 42.

ff. [17v-18v]

• MrJ 29: John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 (‘And art returned again with all thy faults’)

Copy, headed ‘In Duce reduce’.

SpSt/9/25

A bundle of unbound verse MSS.

Among the papers of the Stanhope family, of Horsforth, near Leeds.

[no item number]

• DrJ 2.93: John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel (‘In pious times, e'r Priest-craft did begin’)

A second copy of ‘Dryden's Character of Zimri’, on two pages of two conjugate quarto leaves. Mid-18th century.

First published in London, 1681. Kinsley, I, 215-43. California, II, 2-36. Hammond, I, 450-532.

SpSt/9/28

A bundle of unbound verse MSS.

Among the papers of the Stanhope family, of Horsforth, near Leeds.

[no item number]

• DrJ 2.92: John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel (‘In pious times, e'r Priest-craft did begin’)

Copy of ‘Dryden's Character of Zimri’, here beginning ‘In the first Rank of there did Zimri stand’, followed by a Latin translation, headed ‘Translated by W S. At. 15’, beginning ‘Hos inter Princeps primo stetit Ordine Zimri’, evidently written as a schoolboy exercise, on the second and third pages of two conjugate quarto leaves. Mid-18th century.

First published in London, 1681. Kinsley, I, 215-43. California, II, 2-36. Hammond, I, 450-532.