CELM: The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 10000 through 14999

Add. MS 10308

A folio volume of poems by Sir Robert Ayton (1570-1638), in two hands, with corrections and corrections and emendations in the hand of his nephew Sir John Ayton, 23 leaves, in modern half blue morocco. With Sir John's title-page (f. 1r): ‘Some fewe English and Scotts amorous Poems of S^r: Robert Ayton late Secretarye to the most Illustrious Anna and Henrietta Mary Queenes of greate Brittayne France and Ireland’. c.1660s.

ff. 9v-10r

• RaW 509: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart’

Copy, with Sir John Ayton's emendations, untitled.

Edited from this MS in The Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse (Oxford, 1958), pp. 85-6. Collated in Gullans. Recorded in Latham, p. 116.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), printed twice, the first version prefixed by ‘Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames’ (see RaW 320-38) and headed ‘To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh’. Edited with the prefixed stanza in Latham, pp. 18-19. Edited in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Charles B. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 197-8. Rudick, Nos 39A and 39B (two versions, pp. 106-9).

This poem was probably written by Sir Robert Ayton. For a discussion of the authorship and the different texts see Gullans, pp. 318-26 (also printed in SB, 13 (1960), 191-8).

Add. MS 10309

A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single neat largely italic hand, 155 leaves, in modern half-morocco. c.1630.

The table of contents (f. 155v) subscribed ‘Margrett Bellasys’, possibly the daughter of Thomas Belasyse (1577-1652), first Viscount Fauconberg of Henknowle. The front endpaper later inscribed ‘The pieces which I have extracted for “The Specimens” are, Page 91, 211, 265’: i.e. possibly by Thomas Campbell (1777-1844), editor of Specimens of the British Poets first published in 1809. Afterwards owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Evans (Sotheby's), 29 February 1836 (Heber sale, Part VIII), lot 13.

ff. 2r-39r

• HlJ 16: Joseph Hall, Characters of Virtues and Vices

Copy of nineteen ‘Characterisms of Vice’.

First published in London, 1608. Wynter, VI, 89-125. Edited by Rudolf Kirk, together with Heaven vpon Earth (New Brunswick, N.J., 1948).

f. 32v

• DrM 82: Michael Drayton, Extracts

Extracts from poems by Drayton incorporated in another poem.

Cited in Hebel, V, 140, note 2.

f. 39v

• MrJ 61: John Marston, Georg IVs DVX BVCkIngaMIae MDCXVVVIII (‘Thy numerous name with this yeare doth agree’)

An anonymous copy, Latin only.

f. 42r

• MrJ 82: John Marston, Upon the Dukes Goeing into Fraunce (‘And wilt thou goe, great duke, and leave us heere’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon the Dukes goeing into Fraunce’.

ff. 42r-4v

• MrJ 30: John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 (‘And art returned again with all thy faults’)

Copy, headed ‘vpon his returne from thence’.

f. 45v

• SiP 52: Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 25 (‘When to my deadlie pleasure’)

Copy of a six-line paraphrase of lines 30-4, untitled and beginning ‘Sweet I cannot be from you’.

Edited from this MS in Ringler, p. 431.

Ringler, pp. 154-5.

f. 47r

• HoJ 204: John Hoskyns, On Dreames (‘Yo^u nimble dreames w^th cob webb winges’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

Osborn, No. XXI (p. 189).

ff. 47v-8v

• PoW 16: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’

Copy, untitled.

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.

f. 48v

• DnJ 457: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)

Copy, untitled.

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

ff. 50v-1r

• DnJ 3926: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)

Copy of a five-stanza version, headed ‘A Louers Testament dying for Loue’ and beginning ‘Before I grone my last gaspe, let me breath’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.

ff. 53v-4v

• DnJ 3861: John Donne, Variety (‘The heavens rejoyce in motion, why should I’)

Copy of lines 1-23, 37-70, 77-82, headed ‘An Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1650). Grierson, I, 113-16. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 104-6 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 23. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 393-4.

Probably by Nicholas Hare (1582-1622), Clerk of the Court of Wards and Liveries.

ff. 55r-6r

• CwT 477: Thomas Carew, My mistris commanding me to returne her letters (‘So grieves th'adventrous Merchant, when he throwes’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon y^e sending backe of his m^rs papers’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 9-11.

f. 57v

• CwT 706: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)

Copy, headed ‘To one that fear'd a discouery of her loue & affection’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).

Add. MS 10422

A quarto volume of works by Robert Southwell, in an accomplished secretary hand, 110 leaves, some pages at the back partly torn away, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, April 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1447.

f. 1r

• SoR 244: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, To the Reader (‘Deare eye that doest peruse my muses style’)

Copy, imperfect.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 2.

ff. 2r-8v

• SoR 223: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The Sequence on the Virgin Mary and Christ (‘Our second Eve puts on her mortall shroude’)

Copy of a sequence of fourteen poems, imperfect.

Poems xiii & xiv edited from this MS in Turnbull.

Poems vi & xii first published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Poems i-v, vii-xi first published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Poems xiii & xiv first published in The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W. B. Turnbull (London, 1856). Brown, pp. 3-12.

f. 9r

• SoR 15: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A childe my Choyce (‘Let folly praise that fancie loves, I praise and love that child’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 13.

ff. 9v-10v

• SoR 156: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, New heaven, new warre (‘Come to your heaven you heavenly quires’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 13-15.

f. 10v

• SoR 9: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The burning Babe (‘As I in hoarie Winters night’)

Copy, with corrections in two later hands.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 15-16.

f. 11r-v

• SoR 161: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, New Prince, new pompe (‘Behold a silly tender Babe’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 16-17.

ff. 11v-12v

• SoR 233: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Sinnes heavie loade (‘O Lord my sinne doth over-charge thy brest’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 17-18.

ff. 12v-13r

• SoR 22: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Christs bloody sweat (‘Fat soile, full spring, sweete olive, grape of blisse’)

Copy.

First published (lines 1-12) in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 18-19.

ff. 13r-14r

• SoR 29: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Christs sleeping friends (‘When Christ with care and pangs of death opprest’)

Copy.

First published (lines 1-12) in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 19-21.

ff. 14r-16r

• SoR 83: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Josephs Amazement (‘When Christ by growth disclosed his descent’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 21-3.

ff. 16r-17r

• SoR 67: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A holy Hymne (‘Praise, O Sion, praise thy Saviour’)

Copy, headed ‘Saint Thomas of Aquines hyme redd on Corpus xpi day. Lauda Syon Sal.’

First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 23-6.

ff. 17v-19r

• SoR 167: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Of the Blessed Sacrament of the Aulter (‘In paschall feast the end of auncient rite’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in St. Peter's Complaint, and other Poems; by the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.J. Walter (London, 1817).

First published as ‘The Christians Manna’ in S. Peters Complaint and Saint Mary Magdalens Fvnerall Teares ([St Omers], 1616). Brown, pp. 26-8.

ff. 19v-21

• SoR 193: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Saint Peters Complaynte (‘How can I live, that have my life deny'de?’)

Copy.

This version first published in McDonald (1937), pp. 141-3. Brown, pp. 29-31.

f. 21r

• SoR 186: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, S. Peters afflicted minde (‘if that the sicke may grone’)

Copy.

First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, p. 31.

ff. 21v-2r

• SoR 151: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Mary Magdalens blush (‘The signs of shame that staine my blushing face’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 32-3.

ff. 22r-3r

• SoR 202: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, S. Peters remorse (‘Remorse upbraids my faults’)

Copy.

First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 33-5.

ff. 23v-4r

• SoR 42: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Davids Peccavi (‘In eaves, sole Sparrowe sits not more alone’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 35-6.

ff. 24r-6v

• SoR 173: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A Phansie turned to a sinners complaint (‘Hee that his mirth hath lost’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 36-40.

ff. 26v-8v

• SoR 251: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A vale of teares (‘A vale there is enwrapt with dreadfull shades’)

Copy.

First published in Moeoniae, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 41-3.

ff. 29r-30r

• SoR 178: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The prodigall childs soule wracke (‘Disankerd from a blisfull shore’)

Copy.

First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 43-5.

ff. 30v-1r

• SoR 138: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Marie Magdalens complaint at Christs death (‘Sith my life from life is parted’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 45-6.

ff. 31v-2r

• SoR 47: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Decease release. Dum morior orior (‘The pounded spice both tast and sent doth please’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in St. Peter's Complaint, and other Poems; by the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.J. Walter (London, 1817).

First published in St. Peter's Complaint, and other Poems. by the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.J. Walter (London, 1817). Brown, pp. 47-8.

ff. 32v-3r

• SoR 78: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, I dye without desert (‘If orphane Childe enwrapt in swathing bands’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in St. Peter's Complaint, and other Poems; by the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.J. Walter (London, 1817).

First published in St. Peters Complaint, and other Poems. by the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.J. Walter (London, 1817). Brown, pp. 48-9.

f. 33r-v

• SoR 131: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Mans civill warre (‘My hovering thoughts would flie to heaven’)

Copy.

First published (lines 1-12) in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 49-50.

f. 34r-v

• SoR 94: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Life is but Losse (‘By force I live, in will I wish to die’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 50-1.

f. 35r

• SoR 216: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Seeke flowers of heaven (‘Soare up my soule unto thy rest’)

Copy.

First published in Moeoniae, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 52.

f. 35v

• SoR 72: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, I dye alive (‘O life what lets thee from a quicke decease?’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 52-3.

f. 36r-v

• SoR 257: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, What joy to live? (‘I wage no warre yet peace I none enjoy’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 53-4.

ff. 36v-7r

• SoR 100: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Lifes death loves life (‘Who lives in love, loves least to live’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 54-5.

ff. 37r-8r

• SoR 3: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, At home in Heaven (‘Faire soule, how long shall veyles thy graces shroud?’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 55-6.

f. 38r-v

• SoR 108: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Looke home (‘Retyred thoughts enjoy their owne delights’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 57.

ff. 38v-9r

• SoR 239: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Time goe by turnes (‘The lopped tree in time may grow againe’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 57-8.

ff. 39v-40r

• SoR 113: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Losse in delaies (‘Shun delaies, they breede remorse’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 58-9.

ff. 40v-1v

• SoR 126: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Loves servile lot (‘Love mistris is of many mindes’)

Copy.

Lines 1-48 first published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Lines 49-76 published in 2nd edition (1595). Brown, pp. 60-2.

ff. 41v-2v

• SoR 88: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Lewd Love is Losse (‘Misdeeming eye that stoupest to the lure’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 62-3.

ff. 42v-3v

• SoR 120: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Loves Garden grief (‘Vaine loves avaunt, infamous is your pleasure’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 64.

ff. 43v-4r

• SoR 53: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Fortunes Falsehoode (‘In worldly meriments lurketh much miserie’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 65-6.

ff. 44v-5r

• SoR 59: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, From Fortunes reach (‘Let fickle fortune runne her blindest race’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 66-7.

ff. 45r-6v

• SoR 36: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Content and rich (‘I dwell in grace's courte’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 67-9.

ff. 46v-7r

• SoR 208: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Scorne not the least (‘Where wards are weake, and foes encountring strong’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 69-70.

ff. 47-64v

• SoR 196: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Saint Peters Complaint (‘Launche foorth my Soul into a maine of teares’)

Copy, complete with ‘The Author to the Reader’ (beginning ‘Deare eie that daynest to let fall a looke’).

First published London, 1595. Brown, pp. 75-100.

ff. 65r-82r

• SoR 299: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, An Epistle unto his Father (22 October 1589)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Trotman. Collated in Brown, Two Letters.

Epistle, beginning ‘In children of former ages it hath been thought so behooveful a point of duty...’. First published as ‘An Epistle of a Religious Priest unto his Father’ in A Short Rule of Good Life ([London?, 1596-7?]). Trotman, pp. 36-64. Brown, Two Letters, pp. 1-20.

ff. 83r-4r

• SoR 292.2: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Another letter persuasory to the same [i.e. his father]

Copy, headed ‘A Letter writen to his brother’.

A draft letter, beginning ‘Understanding that you were resolved upon a course which nearest toucheth the salvation of your soul...’. Brown, Two Letters, pp. 99-100.

ff. 84v-5r

• SoR 292.6: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Another letter written to one of his kinsmen

Copy, headed ‘A Letter writen by P. B. to his Cosyn. W. R.’

A letter beginning ‘I know not how to write, because I know not to whom to write, to my cousin or to a stranger...’. Brown, Two Letters, p. 101.

ff. 86r-109r

• SoR 323: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The Triumphs over Death

Copy, complete with dedicatory epistle, the ‘Epitaph on Lady Margaret Sackville’ and the Latin epitaph, untitled.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Trotman.

First published in London, 1595. Trotman, pp. 1-35.

Add. MS 10449

Four playhouse ‘plots’.

f. 3r

• PlG 22: George Peele, The Battle of Alcazar

‘The Plott of the Battell of Alcazar’, made by a playhouse scribe, prepared for a revival of the play by the Admiral's Company, a large broadsheet.

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale), lot 1640. c.1598-9.

The ‘Plott’ first published by W. W. Greg in Henslowe Papers (London, 1907), pp. 138-41. Revised transcripts and facsimiles in Greg, Two Elizabethan Stage Abridgements: The Battle of Alcazar and Orlando Furioso, Malone Society (Oxford, 1922); in Greg, Dramatic Documents, I, 44-59, and II, Plate VI; and in Yoklavich, facing p. 280.

First acted 1589. First published in London, 1594. Edited by John Yoklavich in Prouty, II, 294-347.

f. 5r

• DkT 45.5: Thomas Dekker, Troilus and Cressida

The ‘Plott’ of a version of Troilus and Cressida performed by the Admiral's Company, made by a playhouse scribe, a large broadsheet. 1599.

Facsimile in Greg, Dramatic Documents (II, Plate V).

A lost play, written by Dekker and Henry Chettle for the Admiral's men in 1599.

Add. MS 11044

A folio composite volume of letters and papers relating to John, first Lord Scudamore (1619-71).

Volume IV of the Scudamore Papers of Hom-Lacy and Ballingham, Herefordshire.

ff. 180r-1v

• *HbT 119: Thomas Hobbes, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to John, first Viscount Scudamore, from Paris, 2/12 April 1641. 1641.

Edited in Perez Zagorin, ‘Thomas Hobbes's Departure from England in 1640. An Unpublished Letter’, Historical Journal, 21 (1978), 156-60. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 114-15, Letter 35.

Add. MS 11055

A folio composite volume of letters by bishops and miscellaneous ecclesiastical papers, in various hands. Volume XV of the papers of the Scudamore family, of Hom-Lacy and Ballingham, Herefordshire.

f. 9r

• *AndL 64: Lancelot Andrewes, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed, to Mr Field, 16 August 1605. 1605.

f. 10r-11r

• *AndL 65: Lancelot Andrewes, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed, to Mr Field, 26 September 1605. 26 September 1605.

f. 12r

• AndL 97: Lancelot Andrewes, Will

Copy of Andrewes's last will and testament.

Add. MS 11258

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in two or more hands, i + 41 leaves, in modern half-calf. c.1735.

f. 4r

• CrR 199.5: Richard Crashaw, Out of Martiall (‘Foure Teeth thou had'st that ranck'd in goodly state’)

Copy, headed ‘out of Martiall To an old Woman’, subscribed ‘Tr. by Rich^d. Crashaw’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 188.

Add. MS 11308

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various professional hands, 200 leaves, in 19th-century morocco.

Purchased from Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller, 11 February 1838.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 228 (No. 28).

ff. 59r-77v

• CtR 11: Sir Robert Cotton, An Answer made by Command of Prince Henry, to Certain Propositions of Warre and Peace

Copy, in the secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, as ‘Written by S^r: Robte Cotton Knight, and Barronett.’c.1630s.

A treatise beginning ‘Frames of Policy, as well as works of Nature, are best preserved from the same grounds...’., written in 1609. First published London, 1655. Also published as Warrs with Forregin Princes Dangerous to oyr Common-Wealth: or, reasons for Forreign Wars Answered (London, 1657); as An Answer to such Motives as were offer'd by certain Military-Men to Prince Henry, inciting him to affect Arms more than Peace... (London, 1665); and as A Discourse of Foreign War (London, 1690).

ff. 135r-42v

• RaW 857: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copy of two letters by Ralegh, to his wife (‘the night before he was beheaded att Westminster’) and to Winwood, in a professional secretary hand. c.1630s.

Add. MS 11388

A folio volume of heraldic and other treatises and papers, in several secretary hands, 191 leaves (plus 44 blanks), in modern quarter-morocco. Collected by Francis Thynne (1545?-1608), Lancaster Herald and antiquary.

Bookplate with the Markham arms. A flyleaf inscribed ‘F. J. Albers's’. Purchased from Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller, on 31 March 1838.

ff. 46v-63v

• MrT 91: Sir Thomas More, William Roper's Life of Sir Thomas More

Copy, headed ‘The lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore knight Written by Willm Roper Esquier, who maryed margarett Daughter of the sayd Thomas moore, This Willm dwelt at Elthame in kent and dyed aboute.’, subscribed ‘Finis. 26 maij 1598:’. 1598.

This MS collated in Hitchcock and briefly described, p. xiii.

First published in London, 1626. Edited, as The Lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte, written by William Roper Esquire, by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock (EETS, London, 1935).

Add. MS 11405

A large folio composite volume of state papers and tracts, in various hands, 412 leaves, in 19th-century half red morocco. Papers of Sir Julius Caesar (1558-1636), Master of the Rolls.

ff. 41r-5r

• BcF 200.5: Francis Bacon, Discourse upon the Commission of Bridewell

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, unascribed. Early 17th century.

A tract beginning ‘Inter magnalia regni, amongst the greatest and most haughty things of this kingdom...’. First published in Briefe Collections out of Magna Charta (London, 1643) [Wing B4557]. Spedding, VII, 505-16.

Add. MS 11492

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single mixed hand, entitled Essayes for attaineing ffrench in six Bookes,133 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum boards. Another title-page (f. 110r): ‘English Verse Turned into ffrench Verse, for my owne improvement in the ffrench Tongue. The English Verse is cheifely M^r: Cowley's. Done by me Ol. Salusbury’. c.1700.

Signed ‘Ol. Salusbury’ also on f. 1r. A copy of the will of Edward Ward, 20 June 1731, added on f. 133. Cochran's catalogue for 1837, item 511. Evans's (Sotheby's), 27 July 1838, lot 1348.

ff. 117v-31v (versos only)

• CoA 269: Abraham Cowley, Extracts

Copy of portions of 12 poems by Cowley, as well as a copy of Spratt's Life of Cowley on ff. 77v-109v (versos only).

Add. MS 11513

Copy of Sir George Etherege's Letter Book, 1685-8, 202 quarto leaves, in half-morocco.

Acquired from the bookseller Wilkes, 3 December 1838.

The MS as a whole

• *EtG 151: Sir George Etherege, Letterbook(s)

A quarto volume of copies of over 225 letters by Etherege (some abridged), from Ratisbon, 19/29 November 1685 to 1/11 March 1687/8 (ff. 1-171), together with a verse satire on Etherege [by Hughes] (f. 172r-v), transcripts of fourteen letters sent to Etherege by correspondents (ff. 173r-86v), his accounts (f. 187r-v), ‘Sir Georg^s acc^t. of the Feast on the B[irth] of y^e P[rince] of W[ales]’ (ff. 188r-91v, ‘A Catalogue of Sr. George's Bookes’ (f. 192r), and ‘An acc^t. of S^r G^s. life, & manner of living, writt in severall Letters, from Ratisbonne’ (ff. 192v-200r), all in the hand of Etherege's secretary Hugo Hughes, and (according to his note at the beginning) begun on 5/15 March 1686/7. 1687-8.

Recorded in IELM, II.i (1987) as ‘L 2’. Edited complete in Rosenfeld (1928), with a facsimile of part of f. 66v facing p. 170. Selected letters printed in Bracher; also discussed by Bracher in HLB, 15 (1967), 238-45. The ‘Catalogue of S^r. George's Bookes’ on f. 192 reproduced and discussed, with a facsimile, in Peter Beal, ‘“The most constant and best entertainement”: Sir George Etherege's Reading in Ratisbon’, The Library, 6th Ser. 10/2 (June 1988), 122-44.

f. 1v

• DrJ 2.4: John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel (‘In pious times, e'r Priest-craft did begin’)

Extract.

Quoted in California, II, 413.

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

ff. 5v-6r

• EtG 21: Sir George Etherege, A Letter to Lord Middleton (‘From hunting whores and haunting play’)

Copy in the hand of Hugo Hughes, headed ‘Ratisbonne 9/19 Jan. 1685/6 To my Lord Middleton with the following Copie of Verses’.

Edited from this MS in Thorpe and in Bracher, pp. 22-3.

First published, as ‘Another from Sir G.E. to the E. of M--Greeting’, in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 46-7.

ff. 15r-16r

• EtG 44: Sir George Etherege, Second Letter to Lord Middleton (‘Since love and verse, as well as wine’)

Copy in the hand of Hugo Hughes, the poem dated 19/29 April 1686.

Edited from this MS in Thorpe and in Bracher, pp. 32-4.

First published in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 48-50.

f. 43r

• EtG 60: Sir George Etherege, Song (‘Garde le secret de ton Ame’)

Copy, in the hand of Hugo Hughes, written before a letter of 31 December 1686.

Edited from this MS in Rosenfeld, in Thorpe and in Bracher, pp. 78-9.

First published in Rosenfeld (1928), p. 129. Thorpe, p. 13.

ff. 174r-5r

• DrJ 204: John Dryden, To Sir George Etherege Mr. D.- Answer (‘To you who live in chill Degree’)

Copy in the hand of Hugo Hughes, untitled, subscribed ‘Thought to be writen by M^r. Dryden & sent to S^r. G by my Ld Middleton’.

Edited from this MS in California, in Rosenfeld, and in Bracher.

First published at the end of The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Kinsley, II, 578-80. California, III, 224-6. Hammond, III, 21-7. The Letterbook of Sir George Etherege, ed. Sybil Rosenfeld (London, 1928), pp. 346-8. Letters of Sir George Etherege, ed. Frederick Bracher (Berkeley, Los Angeles & London, 1974), pp. 270-2.

f. 179r

• DrJ 314: John Dryden, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Dryden to Sir George Etherege, from London, 16 February 1686/7.

Ward, Letter 13. Also edited from this MS in The Letterbook of Sir George Etherege, ed. Sybil Rosenfeld (London, 1928), pp. 355-7, and in Letters of Sir George Etherege, ed. Frederick Bracher (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1974), pp. 276-7.

Other copies of this letter, not given separate entries, are in the other copies of Etherege's letterbook: EtG 000.

Add. MS 11600

A folio volume of miscellaneous tracts and papers, in several professional secretary hands, written from both ends, 287 leaves, in modern calf gilt. c.1630s.

Thomas Thorpe, ‘Catalogue of a most important collection of ancient manuscripts’ (1839), item 184. Purchased 8 June 1839.

ff. 4r-9v

• RnT 424.5: Thomas Randolph, The Conceited Pedlar

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed in another hand ‘The Pedlar’, unascribed.

First published (with Aristippus) in London, 1630. Hazlitt, I, 35-50.

ff. 21r-2r

• RaW 739.1: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘S^r Walter Rawleigh his speech at his death who was beheaded in the Pallace of Westm^r the 27^th of October 1618. betweene the howres of 8 and 9 in the morning these lordes being present there...And also many K^ts and gent. of rank...’.

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.

f. 22r-v

• RaW 858: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to James I, 1603, in a secretary hand.

ff. 22v-35r

• CtR 500: Sir Robert Cotton, Twenty-four Argvments, Whether it be more expedient to suppress Popish Practises against the due Allegeance of His Majesty, by the Strict Execution touching Jesuits and Seminary Preists? Or, to restraine them to Close Prisons, during life, if no Reformation follow?

Copy, in several secretary hands, headed ‘S^r Robert Cottons speech 1628. Against recusants in defence of the oath of allegiance or execucons of consideration of repressing of the increase of Papists’.

Tract beginning ‘I am not ignorant, that this latter age hath brought forth a swarm of busie heads...’, dated 11 August 1613. First published in two editions, as respectively Seriovs Considerations for Repressing of the Increase of Iesvites and A Treatise against Recusants (both London, 1641). Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [109]-159.

ff. 73r-81v, 85r-102r

• BcF 574.5: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

Copies of numerous letters by Francis Bacon, to Elizabeth I, Burghley, Essex, Robert Cecil, James I, Sir John Davies, Northampton, Ellesmere, Tobie Matthews, Buckhurst, Lancelot Andrewes, Bodley and others.

ff. 81v-4v

• BcF 176.3: Francis Bacon, Considerations touching the Queen's Service in Ireland

Copy, in a secretary hand.

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

ff. 102r-6r

• CtR 151: Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy

Copy, in a secretary hand, unascribed.

Tract beginning ‘As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine...’. First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.

Add. MS 11602

A folio composite volume of naval papers, in various hands, iii + 406 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Produced or collected by Richard Gibson (1635-c.1712), naval official.

ff. 302r-11r

• PpS 7: Samuel Pepys, The Pursers Employ Annatomized and both Advantages & disadvantages therein discovered and also A Proposall of comitting the Victualling accompt to the care and management of each Comander. Presented as a New yeares guift to S^r: William Coventry by Samuel Pepys Esqr in 1665

Copy, in a professional hand, untitled. c.1666.

First published in Further Correspondence of Samuel Pepys 1662-1679, ed. J.R. Tanner (London, 1929), pp. 83-111.

Add. MS 11743

A folio composite volume of verse, written by or relating to members of the Fairfax family, in various hands and paper sizes, 156 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

In Cochran's sale catalogue for 1837. Purchased from H. Bohn, 26 September 1840.

ff. 5r-6v

• FaE 2: Edward Fairfax, Eclogue the Eighth. Ida and Opilio (‘Bright may this riseing beame on Ida shine!’)

Copy, in a neat italic hand, headed ‘Ecloga Octava Ida and Opilio’, on two folio leaves. Early 17th century.

Edited from this MS in Greg and in Lea & Gang.

First published in W.W. Greg, ‘Fairfax Eighth Eclogue’, MLQ, 4 (1901), 85-91, and additional notes in 6 (1903), 73-4. Reprinted in Greg, Collected Papers (Oxford, 1966), 29-43. Lea & Gang, pp. 676-89.

f. 25r

• SpE 9: Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

Extracts, in an italic hand, untitled, including Book III, Canto IX, stanza 20, here beginning ‘And Philomell y^t knowes full well’. Early-mid-17th century.

Books I-III first published in London, 1590. Books IV-VI published in London, 1596. Variorum, Vols I-VI.

f. 26r

• FaE 3: Edward Fairfax, To my noble frend m^r huntington (‘Godfrey of Bulloigne & his great wonders’)

Copy of Canto I, lines 14-21, the description of Gabriel descending from Heaven, here beginning ‘Of silver wings he tooke a shining pair’.

This MS recorded in Charles C. Bell, ‘A History of Fairfax Criticism’, PMLA, 62.1 (1947), 644-56 (p. 645).

Six verses, unpublished.

Add. MS 11811

A quarto composite volume of verse, in several hands (the 22 or 23 poems by Carew on ff. 2r-22r in a single hand), with later additions dated 1731-3 by one ‘G. Broughton’ on ff. 1r and after 44r, a reference to St John's College, Cambridge (in 1731) on f. 83v, 93 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century half black morocco. c.1630s [-1733].

‘G. Broughton’ is possibly William (‘Gulielmus’) Broughton (b.1684/5), of Trinity College, Cambridge (one of whose Latin verse compilations was copied in 1704-6 by Richard Robinson in Trinity College, Cambridge, MS 0.6.1 (James 1497). Also the name ‘Jo: Tweedy’ is inscribed several times on f. 81r. Owned before 1841 by one W. Potter.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Tweedye MS’: CwT Δ 10.

f. 2r

• WoH 184: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife (‘He first deceased. she for a little tried’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph’.

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.

f. 2v

• StW 786: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman walking in y^e snow’.

First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).

ff. 2v-3r

• SuJ 46: John Suckling, On King Richard the third, who lies buried under Leicester bridge (‘What meanes this watry Canop'bout thy bed’)

Copy, subscribed ‘S^r John suckling’.

Edited from this MS in Clayton.

First published in Minor Poets of the Seventeenth Century, ed. R.G. Haworth (London, 1931). Clayton, p. 36.

f. 3r

• CoR 607: Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (‘Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes’)

Copy, headed ‘Bishop Corbet to y^e ladies of y^e new dresse’.

First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 90.

This poem is usually followed in MSS by ‘The Ladyes Answer’ (‘Blacke Cypresse vailes are shrouds of night’): see GrJ 14.

f. 3r-v

• GrJ 23: John Grange, ‘Black cypress veils are shrouds of night’

Copy, headed ‘The Answer’.

An ‘Answer’ to Corbett's ‘To the Ladyes of the New Dresse’ (CoR 595-629), first published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). The Poems of Richard Corbett, ed. J.A.W. Bennett and H.R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford, 1955), p. 91. Listed as by John Grange in Krueger.

f. 3v

• JnB 416.5: Ben Jonson, On the Vnion (‘When was there contract better driuen by Fate?’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e vnion of England and Scotland’, here beginning ‘Was ever contract driven by better fate’.

First published in Epigrammes (v) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 28.

f. 4r-v

• CwT 969: Thomas Carew, The Spring (‘Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Cary’.

This MS collated in Dunlap.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 3.

f. 4v

• CwT 875: Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie (‘Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face’)

Copy, headed ‘On his Mistresse’, subscribed ‘Tho: Cary’.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 9.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

ff. 4v-6r

• CwT 992: Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love (‘Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say’)

Copy, headed ‘His counsell to his Mistresse’, subscribed ‘Tho: Cary’.

This MS collated in Hazlitt, pp. 2-5.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.

f. 6r

• CwT 1066: Thomas Carew, To his mistresse retiring in affection (‘Fly not from him whose silent miserie’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Cary’.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Dunlap.

First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 5. Dunlap. pp. 129-30.

f. 6r-v

• CwT 178: Thomas Carew, A divine Mistris (‘In natures peeces still I see’)

Copy, headed ‘His M^ris. her perfections’, subscribed ‘Tho: Cary’.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 6.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 6-7.

f. 6v

• CwT 117: Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris (‘Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke’)

Copy, headed ‘His loue neglected’, subscribed ‘Tho: Cary’.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 8.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

f. 6v

• CwT 334: Thomas Carew, Griefe ingrost (‘Wherefore doe thy sad numbers flow’)

Copy of an eight-line version, headed ‘His perplexed loue’ and here beginning ‘If she must still denye’.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 7, and in Dunlap, p. 234.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 44-5. The eight-lline version first published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 7, and reprinted in Dunlap. p. 234.

f. 7r

• CwT 855: Thomas Carew, Song. Eternitie of love protested (‘How ill doth he deserve a lovers name’)

Copy, headed ‘The quality of his loue’, subscribed ‘Tho: Cary’.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 30.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 23-4.

f. 7r

• CwT 931: Thomas Carew, Song. To my inconstant Mistris (‘When thou, poore excommunicate’)

Copy of the second and third stanzas, headed ‘To his false Mistresse’ and here beginning ‘A fairer hand then thine shall cure’, subscribed ‘Tho: Cary’.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 18.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 15-16. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

f. 7r-v

• CwT 552: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind (‘Goe thou gentle whispering wind’)

Copy, headed ‘A Sigh’, subscribed ‘Tho: Cary’.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 13.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.

ff. 7v-9r

• CwT 461: Thomas Carew, My mistris commanding me to returne her letters (‘So grieves th'adventrous Merchant, when he throwes’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Cary’.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 9.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 9-11.

f. 9r-v

• CwT 1114: Thomas Carew, To Saxham (‘Though frost, and snow, lockt from mine eyes’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Cary’.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 34.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 27-9.

f. 10r

• CwT 802: Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing (‘Harke how my Celia, with the choyce’)

Copy, headed ‘On a lady singing to her lute in Arundel garden’, subscribed ‘Tho: Cary’.

This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 231.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.

f. 10r-v

• CwT 396: Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes (‘In Celia's face a question did arise’)

Copy, headed ‘A pleasing strife’, subscribed ‘Tho: Cary’.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 6.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 6.

ff. 10v-11r

• CwT 1134: Thomas Carew, To T.H. a Lady resembling my Mistresse (‘Fayre copie of my Celia's face’)

Copy, headed ‘To a gentle-woman like his Celia’, subscribed ‘Tho: Cary’.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 33.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 26-7.

f. 11r

• CwT 243: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Cary’.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 48.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

f. 11r-v

• CwT 1073: Thomas Carew, To M^ris Katherine Nevill on her greene sicknesse (‘White innocence that now lies spread’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Cary’.

Edited from this MS in Dunlap.

First published in Musarum Deliciae (London, 1655). Dunlap. p. 129.

ff. 11v-12r

• CwT 503: Thomas Carew, On Mistris N. to the greene sicknesse (‘Stay coward blood, and doe not yield’)

Copy, headed ‘The retired blood exhorted to return in y^e cheekes of y^e pale sisters M^ris Katherine, and M^ris Mary Nevill’, subscribed ‘Tho: Cary’.

This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 269.

First published in Poems (1642). Dunlap, p. 113.

f. 12r-v

• CwT 1026: Thomas Carew, To Ben. Iohnson. Vpon occasion of his Ode of defiance annext to his Play of the new Inne (‘'Tis true (deare Ben:) thy just chastizing hand’)

Copy, headed ‘To Ben: Jonson’, subscribed ‘Tho: Cary’.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 84.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 64-5.

ff. 12v-13r

• CwT 316: Thomas Carew, Good counsell to a young Maid (‘When you the Sun-burnt Pilgrim see’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Cary’.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 31.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 25.

f. 13r-v

• CwT 1188: Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband (‘This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Cary’.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 36.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.

f. 14v

• RnT 382: Thomas Randolph, Upon the losse of his little finger (‘Arithmetique nine digits, and no more’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e losse of a finger in a fray’, subscribed ‘Thomas Randolph’.

This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 56-7.

ff. 14v-15r

• RnT 288: Thomas Randolph, A Pastoral Ode (‘Coy Coelia dost thou see’)

Copy, headed ‘A Madrigall’, subscribed ‘Thomas Randolph’.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 586.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 86-7.

f. 15r-v

• RnT 315: Thomas Randolph, To one admiring her selfe in a Looking-Glasse (‘Faire Lady when you see the Grace’)

Copy, headed ‘To his mistresse praysing y^e reflection of her beautye in a looking glasse’, subscribed ‘Thomas Randolph’.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 600.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 99-100.

ff. 15v-16r

• RnT 119.5: Thomas Randolph, An Epithalamium (‘Bliss court thee sweetest soule, and fall soe thicke’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Thomas Randolph’.

This MS cited in Thorn-Drury.

First published in Hazlitt (1875), II, 661. Thorn-Drury, pp. 156-7 (erroneously citing on p. 187, as his copy-text the Harflete MS (Bodleian MS Firth e. 4: Δ 2), p. 120, evidently confusing his reference with that for RnT 18 since the ‘Epithalamium’ does not appear in that MS).

f. 16r

• RnT 185: Thomas Randolph, On a maide of honour seene by a schollar in sommerset garden (‘As once in blacke I disrespected walkt’)

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Thorn-Drury.

First published in Hazlitt (1875), pp. 661-2. Thorn-Drury, pp. 169-70.

ff. 16r-17v

• RnT 343: Thomas Randolph, Upon a very deformed Gentlewoman, but of a voice incomparably sweet (‘I chanc'd sweet Lesbia's voice to heare’)

Copy, headed ‘On a woeman of an excellent voice and bad face’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.

This MS collated in Davis.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 115-17. Davis, pp. 92-105.

ff. 17v, 18r, 19v

• RnT 126: Thomas Randolph, A gratulatory to Mr. Ben. Johnson for his adopting of him to be his Son (‘I was not borne to Helicon, nor dare’)

Copy, headed ‘A gratulatory to Ben Jonson for his adoption’, the last ten lines repeated in a different hand (on f. 18v), subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 40-2.

ff. 18v, 20rr

• HeR 343: Robert Herrick, King Oberon his Cloathing (‘When the monethly horned Queene’)

Copy, headed ‘The Fairy King’, subscribed ‘S^r Simeon Steward’.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 476-7; collated in Farmer.

First published, as ‘A Description of the King of Fayries Clothes’ and attributed to Sir Simeon Steward, in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Musarum Deliciae (London, 1656), p. 32. Attributed to Herrick in Hazlitt, II, 473-7, and in Norman K. Farmer, Jr., ‘Robert Herrick and “King Oberon's Clothing”: New Evidence for Attribution’, Yearbook of English Studies 1 (1971), 68-77. Not included in Martin or in Patrick. See also T.G.S. Cain, ‘Robert Herrick, Mildmay Fane, and Sir Simeon Steward’, ELR, 15 (1985), 312-17.

f. 20r

• KiH 613: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Tell mee you Starrs that our affections move’)

Copy, heared ‘On his coy mistresse’ and subscribed ‘S^r Simeon Steward’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales & Ayres (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.

f. 29v

• MoG 9: George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James (‘All that have eyes now wake and weep’)

Copy, headed ‘On King James’.

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.

Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.

ff. 30v-1r

• ToA 28: Aurelian Townshend, A Paradox (‘There is no Lover, hee or shee’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Au: Townsend’.

This MS recorded in Brown.

First published in Chambers (1912), pp. 33-5. Brown, pp. 30-1.

f. 31r

• JnB 278: Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse (‘Doe but consider this small dust’)

Copy, headed ‘Of the sand running In an hower glasse’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.

ff. 31v-2

• WoH 139: Sir Henry Wotton, A Poem written by Sir Henry Wotton in his Youth (‘O faithless world, and thy most faithless part’)

Copy, headed ‘His M^rs Constancie’, subscribed ‘S^r Hen Wotton’.

First published in Francis Davison, Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602), p. 157. As ‘A poem written by Sir Henry Wotton, in his youth’, in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 517. Hannah (1845), pp. 3-5. Edited and texts discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Sir Henry Wotton's “O Faithless World”: The Transmission of a Coterie Poem and a Critical Old-Spelling Edition’, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 5/4 (1981), 205-31.

f. 33r

• KiH 50: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)

Copy, headed ‘The fayer boyes answere’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) ‘A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds’ (‘Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee’). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

f. 33v

• PoW 17: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’

Copy, headed ‘On black hayre & eyes’, subscribed ‘W: P:’.

Edited from this MS in Grierson.

f. 35r

• KiH 51: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)

Copy, headed ‘the faier Boyes Answere’.

f. 36v

• DaW 34: Sir William Davenant, On his mistris Singing (‘Singe gentle Lady till you move’)

Copy, headed ‘To the lady hopkins Singing’, subscribed ‘S: Will: Dau’.

This MS collated in Berry and in Gibbs.

First published in Herbert Berry, ‘Three New Poems by Davenant’, PQ, 31 (1952), 70-4. Gibbs, pp. 275-6. A variant version, beginning ‘Sing fair Clorinda’, published, in a musical setting, in Henry Lawes, Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Gibbs, pp. 303-8.

f. 37r

• HeR 330: Robert Herrick, His Mistris to him at his farwell (‘You may vow Ile not forgett’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Ro herrick’.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Martin; edited in part in Patrick.

First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 445. Martin, p. 414. Patrick, p. 46.

f. 39r-v

• CwT 1270: Thomas Carew, The mistake (‘When on faire Celia I did spie’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 187-8. Possibly by Henry Blount.

f. 41v

• CwT 1054: Thomas Carew, To his jealous Mistris (‘Admit (thou darling of mine eyes)’)

Copy, headed ‘A Song’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 110.

f. 42v

• SuJ 137: John Suckling, To the Lady Desmond (Upon the Black Spots worn by my Lady D. E.) (‘I know your heart cannot so guilty be’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘I do'nt belieue you can soe guilty bee’.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Dudley, Lord North, A Forest of Varieties (London, 1645). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, p. 92. Probably written by Peter Apsley.

Add. MS 12047

Copy of Psalms 1-26, 51, 58, 68-71, 73-8, 80, 83-6, 88-9, 91, 93, 96, 98-100, 102, 104-5, 108-13. 117, 120-7. 129-34, 137-8, 142-3, 147, 149, 150 (in an irregular order), with second versions of Psalms 75, 89 and 122, untitled, on 95 quarto leaves, in black leather gilt. In the secretary hands of Harington's ‘servant’ Thomas Combe and of Harington's brother Francis, with Harington's occasional autograph corrections and insertions largely in italic. Late 16th-early 17th century.

SiP 74: Sir Philip Sidney, The Psalms of David

Covers stamped ‘Bibliotheca Butleriana’: i.e. the library of Samuel Butler (1774-1839), Bishop of Lichfield. Booklabel of Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary.

This MS described in Ringler, p. 550.

Psalms 1-43 translated by Sidney. Psalms 44-150 translated by his sister, the Countess of Pembroke. First published complete in London, 1823, ed. S.W. Singer. Psalms 1-43, without the Countess of Pembroke's revisions, edited in Ringler, pp. 265-337. Psalms 1-150 in her revised form edited in The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke, ed. J.C.A. Rathmell (New York, 1963). Psalms 44-150 also edited in The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke (1988), Vol. II.

Add. MS 12048

Copy of Psalms 1-150, in a probably professional roman hand, with a few alterations in a different ink, the title-page and pages towards the end faded, 148 quarto leaves, in modern half red morocco. Early 17th century.

SiP 75: Sir Philip Sidney, The Psalms of David

Sotheby's, 6 June 1793 (Dr Taylor's sale). Afterwards owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector.

This MS described in Ringler, pp. 549-50.

Add. MS 12049

A quarto volume of texts principally by Sir John Harington, including (p. c) Latin and English verses by Francis Harington; (pp. 195-201) Latin ‘exercyses’ (with translations) by Harington's son, John; (and pp. 203-5) more Latin and English verses, followed by an index to the volume and a Latin epigram on tobacco, with a translation, the MS probably originally prepared as a presentation MS, with (pp. iv-v) a dedication to Prince Henry dated 19 June 1605, 268 pages, imperfect, lacking pp. 11-12, in contemporary calf elaborately gilt. c.1605.

Inscribed (p. [i]) ‘R. Joyner[?] Sandwich’.

p. e

• *HrJ 388: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

Autograph draft of a letter by Harington, to Prince Henry, [1606].

For the letter actually presented to Prince Henry, see HrJ 21. 1606.

McClure, No. 46, p. 126.

pp. 1-254

• HrJ 20: Sir John Harington, Epigrams

Copy of 409 Epigrams, in the neat italic hand of one of Harington's amanuenses and in the hand of his brother Francis, ncluding (pp. [256]-266) the English and Latin verses for Harington's ‘new yeeres guifte’ to King James in 1602/3; with a gilt drawing of the lantern, Harington's welcome to King James and to Queen Anne; and his verses ‘Musa jocosa meos solari assueta dolores’.

The epigrams in this MS collated in McClure and in Kilroy. Four previously unpublished epigrams edited from this MS in R.H. Miller, ‘Unpublished Poems by Sir John Harington’, ELR, 14 (1984), 148-58. Extracts also edited from this MS by EU. HOOD (i.e. Joseph Haslewood) in Gentleman's Magazine, 97, ii (1827), pp. 191-21, 128, 392. The verses on pp. [256]-266 in Kilroy, pp. 252-8, and ‘Additional material’ edited from this MS on pp. 295-309.

Facsimiles of p. 27 of the MS in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XLV(d), and of pp. 132-3 in McClure, facing p. 298.

Seven Epigrams first published in Epigrammes by Sir J. H. and others appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). 116 Epigrams published in London, 1615. 346 Epigrams published in London, 1618. 428 Epigrams edited in McClure (1930), pp. 145-322. See also HrJ 26.5-314.8. All the Epigrams published as The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. Gerard Kilroy (Farnham, 2009).

p. 150

• SuH 38: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, ‘Marshall, the thinges for to attayne’

Copy, headed ‘A translation of the Earl of Surreys out of Martiall directed by him to one Maister Warner’ and here beginning ‘Warner the things for to attayn’.

Edited from this MS (together with Harington's own appended epigram to John Davies of Hereford) by ‘EU. Hood’ [i.e. Joseph Haslewood] in The Gentleman's Magazine, 97, ii (November 1827), 392.

First published at the end of Book III in William Baldwin, A treatise of Morrall phylosophye (London, 1547/8). Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Padelford, No. 41, p. 94. Jones, pp. 34-5.

The texts discussed in J.M. Evans, ‘The Text of Surrey's “The Meanes to Attain Happy Life”’, N&Q, 228 (1983), 409-11; in W.D. McGaw, ‘The Text of Surrey's “The Meanes to Attain Happy Life” -- A Reply’, N&Q, 230 (December 1985), 456-8; and in A.S.G. Edwards, ‘Surrey's Martial Epigram: Scribes and Transmission’, EMS, 12 (2005), 74-82.

p. 194

• *HrJ 386: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

Autograph draft of a letter by Harington, to Richard Langley, [3 December 1602]. 1602.

McClure, No. 26, pp. 95-6.

Add. MS 12097

A folio composite autograph album, 34 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

f. 13r

• *RaW 713: Sir Walter Ralegh, Chemical and Medical Receipts

Autograph, eight-line culinary receipt, beginning ‘eyght stone of beef rostad, & when it is cold take out the bones...’, headed in another hand ‘To keepe beefe at sea’, written on a single small quart-size leaf, bearing on the verso a correspondent's address ‘To my hono^ble; and mutche respected frend S ^r walter Raleighe knight these’, and inscribed in yet another hand ‘Autographum Walt. Ralegh. in Turri Londinensi don. d^r. Kileigrew’.

This MS recorded in Lefranc (1968), p. 681. See also RaW 723 (concerning Sir Robert Killigrew (1579-1633)).

Add. MS 12101

A folio composite volume of letters, in various hands.

f. 10r

• *TaJ 54: Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to [John Evelyn], 15 May 1657. 1657.

Sotheby's (Evans), 13 February 1833, lot 187.

Edited in Bray, II, i, 172-3. Eden, I, lxiv-lxv. Wheatley, III, 237-8.

Add. MS 12112

Two letters, the second by Matthew Prior. Among collections of Samuel Butler (1774-1839), Bishop of Lichfield.

ff. 1r-2v

• DrJ 360: John Dryden, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to [Charles Montagu], [c.October 1699].

Ward, Letter 65. Facsimile in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, 107. Facsimile examples in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 67, and (rearranged) in Frederick G. Netherclift, The Hand-Book of Autographs (London, 1862).

Add. MS 12453

A folio volume of tracts, chiefly relating to the Office of Arms and dueling, the greater part in one professional secretary hand, a second hand on ff. 66v-7r, with (f. 1v) a list of contents in another hand, 83 leaves. c.1630.

Inscribed on a preliminary blank leaf ‘From Canon Newling's collection / Purchased at Rodd [i.e. Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller] 12^th Mar 1842’.

ff. 29r-56r

• HoH 59: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, Duello Foiled

Copy, as ‘written by y^e Lo: Henry Howard Earle of Northampton’.

A discourse, with a dedicatory epistle to ‘my very good Lord’, beginning ‘Reasons moving me to write this thing which handleth not the whole matter...’, the tract beginning ‘The two parties between whom this single fight was appointed...’. Published in Thomas Hearne, A Collection of Curious Discourses written by Eminent Antiquaries (London, 1771), II, 223-42, where it is attributed to Sir Edward Coke. It is not certain whether this tract is by Howard or simply annotated by him as a reader.

Add. MS 12497

A large folio composite volume of state and legal papers, in various hands, 486 leaves, in half brown morocco. Papers of Sir Julius Caesar (1558-1636), Master of the Rolls.

Sale of Julius Caesar's MSS, December 1757, lot 73. Bookplate of Horace Walpole (1717-97), fourth Earl of Orford, author, politician and patron. Strawberry Hill sale, 30 April 1842, lot 155.

f. 7r-v

• BcF 333: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

Copy of a speech by Bacon in the Star Chamber, 14 February 1618/19, endorsed (f. 8v) by Caesar.

ff. 233r, 253r-62v, 281r-v

• LyJ 3: John Lyly, The Entertainment at Mitcham

Copies of parts of the entertainment: ff. 253r-62v, in a cursive secretary hand, on quarto leaves, endorsed by Caesar ‘The 2. speeches dialogue wise to Q. Elizabeth at my howse at Mitcha 13. Sept. 1598’; f. 233r, in a professional secretary hand, endorsed (f. 234v) in another hand ‘A copy of the supplication deliuered to her Ma^ty At D. Cæsars howse, 12. Septeb. 1598’; f. 281r, Greek and Latin verses in a roman hand, endorsed by Caesar (f. 281v) ‘The dite of the greak song, before the Q^s ma^ty at mine howse at Mitcha’.

Edited from these MSS in Hotson.

An entertainment, on 12 September 1598, just possibly by Lyly. First published in Queen Elizabeth's Entertainment at Mitcham, ed. Leslie Hotson (New Haven, 1953).

Add. MS 12503

A folio volume of state letters and papers.

Papers of Sir Julius Caesar (1558-1636), Master of the Rolls.

ff. 39r, 40v

• *PeM 23: Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Julius Caesar, 14 July 1603. 1603.

Edited in Collected Works, II, 295, and also in Margaret P. Hannay, ‘Unpublished Letters by Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke’, Spenser Studies, 6 (1986), 165-90 (p. 173).

ff. 42r, 45v

• *PeM 24: Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Letter(s)

Letter by the Countess of Pembroke, with her autograph signature, to Sir Julius Caesar, from Greenwich, 6 September 1603. 1603.

Edited in Collected Works, II, 295-6, and also in Margaret P. Hannay, ‘Unpublished Letters by Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke’, Spenser Studies, 6 (1986), 165-90 (pp. 174-5).

ff. 150r, 153v

• *PeM 21: Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Letter(s)

Letter by the Countess of Pembroke, in the hand of an amanuensis, with her autograph signature, to Sir Julius Caesar, from Windsor, 4 July 1603. 1603.

Edited in Collected Works, II, 293-4, and also in Margaret P. Hannay, ‘Unpublished Letters by Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke’, Spenser Studies, 6 (1986), 165-90 (pp. 170-2).

f. 151r, 152v

• *PeM 22: Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Letter(s)

Letter by the Countess of Pembroke, in the hand of an amanuensis, with her autograph signature and postscript, to Sir Julius Caesar, from Burham, 8 July 1603. 1603.

Edited in Collected Works, II, 294-5, and also in Margaret P. Hannay, ‘Unpublished Letters by Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke’, Spenser Studies, 6 (1986), 165-90 (p. 172). Facsimile in W. W. Greg et al., English Literary Autographs, 1550-1650, 3 vols (Oxford, 1925-32), No. XLII(b-c).

Add. MS 12504

A folio composite volume of state and legal papers, in various hands, i + 393 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco. Papers of Sir Julius Caesar (1558-1636), Master of the Rolls.

ff. 47r-57r

• CtR 388: Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England

Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, unascribed, with a letter (f. 46v) in the same hand, signed ‘Wal: Jeffes’, sending this tract to Caesar because it is ‘soe well written’.

Treatise, written c.1614 and ‘Presented to King James’, beginning ‘Wearied with the lingering calamities of Civil Arms...’. First published in London, 1627. Cottoni posthuma (1651), at the end (i + pp. 1-27).

Add. MS 12506

A folio composite volume of state letters. Comprising papers of Sir Julius Caesar (1558-1636), Master of the Rolls.

f. 235r

• *PeM 14: Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Letter(s)

Letter in the hand of an amanuensis, with the Countess of Pembroke's autograph signature, to Julius Caesar, from Wilton, 1 June 1596. 1596.

Edited in Collected Works, II, 287.

Add. MS 12511

A folio composite volume of political speeches and tracts, in various professional hands, 108 leaves, in old vellum.

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Sum Umfreville 1740’: i.e. by Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts. Bookplate of Horace Walpole (1717-97), fourth Earl of Orford, author, politician and patron. Strawberry Hill sale, 30 April 1842, lot 86.

ff. 38r-45v

• EsR 160: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, First Letter of Advice to the Earl of Rutland

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed The late Earle of Essex his Advice to the Earle of Rutland in his Trauailes, dated from Greenwich ‘the 4^th of Jan: 1596’, with the postscript. c.1630.

The letter, dated from Greenwich, 4 January [1596], beginning ‘My Lord, I hold it for a principle in the course of intelligence of state...’.

First published, as ‘The Late E. of E. his aduice to the E. of R. in his trauels’, in Profitable Instructions; Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 27-73. Francis Bacon, Resuscitatio (London, 1657), pp. 106-10. Spedding, IX, 6-15. W.B. Devereux, Lives and Letters of the Devereux, Earls of Essex (1853), I, No. xciii.

Essex's three letters to Rutland discussed by Paul E.J. Hammer in ‘The Earl of Essex, Fulke Greville, and the Employment of Scholars’, SP. 91/2 (Spring, 1994), 167-80, and in ‘Letters of Travel Advice from the Earl of Essex to the Earl of Rutland: Some Comments’, PQ, 74/3 (Summer 1995), 317-22. It is likely that the first letter was written substantially by Francis Bacon.

Add. MS 12513

Copy of the Dedication to the Queen only, 46 folio leaves, in marbled boards. In the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’; with a title-page: ‘An: Aunswere:, To, the; Coppye of a Rayleinge Invectyve, (Against the Regym^te: of Woemen in generall) w^th: Certayne Malliparte dyceptions to dyvers and sundrye, matters of the State, Wrytten To Queene Elizabeth, By the Right honno^ble: Henrye Lord Howarde, Late Earle of North^ton’. c.1630s.

HoH 70: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A dutiful defence of the lawful regiment of women

Inscribed (f. 2r) ‘Sum EUmfreville’: i.e. Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts. Bookplate of Horace Walpole (1717-97), fourth Earl of Orford, author, politician and patron of the arts. Strawberry Hill sale, 30 April 1842, lot 91.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 228 (No. 30).

An unpublished answer to, and attack upon, John Knox's ‘railing invective’ against Mary Queen of Scots, First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women (1558). Written, Howard claims in his Dedication, some thirteen years after he was asked to do so by a Privy Councillor [i.e. c.1585-90]. The Dedication to Queen Elizabeth beginning ‘It pricketh now fast upon the point of thirteen years (most excellent most gratious and most redoubted Soveraign...’; the main text, in three books, beginning ‘It may seem strange to men of grounded knowledge...’, and ending ‘...Sancta et individuae Trinitati sit omnis honor laus et gloria in secula seculorum. Amen.’

Add. MS 12515

A small quarto commonplace book of extracts, in a single mixed hand, 83 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later scribbling (f. 15r) including names ‘Joseph England’, ‘Tho Denton’ and ‘Joseph Dixon’.

ff. 15v-16r

• HoH 71: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A dutiful defence of the lawful regiment of women

Extracts from the treatise, headed ‘A short Tractate of womens Gounment’, beginning ‘Howsoeu^r y^e ffrenchmen oppose them selues against womens goun^mt, as Bodin theire Countreyman hath of late streched out y^e strength of his witt...’, and ending ‘...do shew Doct^r. Ridley in his view of y^e Ciuill, & Ecclecall Law. Pag. 98. 99.’

ff. 17r-24r

• SiP 106: Sir Philip Sidney, The New Arcadia

Prose extracts and parts of lines 1-6 of poem No. 77, transcribed from a printed source; variously headed ‘S^r Phillip Sidney's discourse: vpo Atheism’ (beginning ‘Cecropia to Pamela. devotion is indeed y^r best bond...’ and ending ‘...& shalt onely greiue him to haue beene a Creator in thy destruction. Arcadia. fol: 129. 130’); ‘S^r P. Sidney of selfe murther’ (f. 20v); ‘S^r P. Sidney of Death’ (f. 21r-v); ‘A Sonet of Death. by. S^r. P.S.’, beginning ‘Since nature's work's bee good’ (f. 22r, largely torn away); ‘S^r P. Sidneys discourse of Princes Conspireinge in another Princes land’ (ff. 22v-3r, imperfect); ‘S^r. P. Sidney, of Dauids. Psal.’ (f. 23v); and ‘S^r P. Sidney of Learninge’ (f. 24r).

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 554.

The unfinished revised version of Arcadia (the ‘New Arcadia’) first published in London, 1590. Edited, as The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The New Arcadia), by Victor Skretkowicz (Oxford, 1987).

Add. MS 14015

A folio composite volume of Spanish state papers, relating to the affairs of Spain in 1613-19, in various hands and paper sizes, 256 leaves, in modern half-leather.

ff. 134r-5r

• RaW 813: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)

Copy of the speech in a Spanish translation, in a roman hand, with corrections or alterations in a different ink, headed ‘La suma de lo que dixo Don Gualtero Ralegh estando sobre el cadahalso antes que le degollassen’, on three pages of two folio leaves. c.1618.

Add. MS 14047

A quarto miscellany of plays (by George Wilde, of St John's College, Oxford) and English and Latin verse, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford, written over a period from both ends, 158 leaves, in 19th-century half black morocco. c.late 1630s-late 17th century.

ff. 2r-3r

• RnT 127: Thomas Randolph, A gratulatory to Mr. Ben. Johnson for his adopting of him to be his Son (‘I was not borne to Helicon, nor dare’)

Copy, headed ‘Randolph to his adopted father Ben: Johnson’.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 40-2.

f. 4v

• BrW 157: William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow (‘Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd’)

Copy, headed ‘An epitaph on a Gentleman who was founde dead in y^e snow and afterwardes buryed’, subscribed ‘W: B:’.

First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Brydges (1815), p. 76. Goodwin, II, 290.

f. 5r-v

• CwT 708: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)

Copy, headed ‘To his mistris’ and here beginning ‘Thinke not (dear harte!) that ile reveale’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).

Add. MS 14410

A large folio composite volume of heraldic and state papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 112 leaves, in 19th-century half brown calf.

Collected by Thomas Lloyd, London wine merchant and collector of genealogical materials. His library sale (final portion), at Sotheby's, 14 October 1843, lot 193, to Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller. Purchased from him 14 October 1843.

This MS recorded in Edwards.

ff. 100r-2v

• CvG 3: George Cavendish, Metrical Visions (‘In the monyth of Iune / I lyeng sole alon’)

A three-leaf fragment of a MS copy of the work, comprising verses 2279-2425, in the hand of Thomas Lloyd, headed ‘An Epitaph on our late Queen Mary’ and here beginning ‘Descend from hevyn O muses Melpomene’, subscribed ‘Finis et compile le xxiiij jour de Junij a^s. regnor philip Rex et Reg Mariæ iiij & 5 p le Auctor GC’, transcribed from Egerton MS 2402, on three quarto leaves. Early 19th century.

This MS recorded in Edwards and in his ‘The Text of George Cavendish's Metrical Visions’, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 2/1. (Winter, 1978), 3-62 (pp. 59-60).

A series of poetical lamentations, comprising 2425 lines, on the deaths (the majority by execution) of Cardinal Wolsey, George, Viscount Rochford, Sir Henry Borris, sir Francis Weston, Sir William Brereton, Mark Smeaton, Anne Boleyn, Thomas Cromwell, Henry Courtenay, Marquess of Exeter, Henry Pole, Baron Montague, Catherine Howard, her lover Culpeper, Viscountess Rochford, Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Henry VIII, Thomas Seymour, Lord Protector, Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, Sir Thomas Arundel, Sir Michael Stanhope, Sir Ralph Vane, Sir Miles Partridge, Edward VI, John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, Lady Jane Grey, and Queen Mary.

First published in George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey and Metrical Visions, ed. Samuel W. Singer, 2 vols (London, 1825). Metrical Visions by George Cavendish, ed. A.S.G. Edwards (Columbia, SC, 1980).

Add. MS 14416

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, chiefly copies, relating to State Affairs, 73 leaves.

ff. 1r-4r

• CmW 6.37: William Camden, Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha

Extracts. 17th century.

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

Add. MS 14854

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 201 leaves, in old calf gilt.

Purchased from Joseph Lilly, 20 February 1844.

f. 104v

• ShJ 147: James Shirley, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, Act III, Song (‘The glories of our blood and state’)

Copy of the dirge, untitled, on a small slip of paper. c.1700.

Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).

f. 139r

• DoC 214: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Statue in the Privy Garden (‘When Israel first provoked the living Lord’)

Copy, untitled, on an oblong octavo-size slip of paper, endorsed ‘On the succession’. c.1700.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). Harris, pp. 57-60.

f. 178r

• DoC 243: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Pindaric Petition to the Lords in Council (‘Humbly Sheweth / Should you order Tom Brown’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Lords assembled...The Petition of Tho Brown’, on one side of a single quarto leaf. c.1700.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Flying Post (23-25 November 1697). Harris, pp. 99-100.

Add. MS 14874

A small quarto volume of poems almost entirely by Welsh bards, in several hands, with an index of contents, 302 leaves, in modern calf. Mid-17th century.

Donated by Governors of the Welsh School, 1844.

ff. 48v-9r

• PoW 85: Walton Poole, On the death of King James (‘Can Christendoms great champion sink away’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegy on the death of kinge James’, here beginning ‘Can Christendoms great monarch passe away’, subscribed ‘by M^r Strowd’.

First published in Oxford Drollery (1671), p. 170. A version of lines 1-18, on the death of Gustavus Adolphus, was published in The Swedish Intelligencer, 3rd Part (1633). Also ascribed to William Strode.

Add. MS 14929

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, correspondence, and verse, in Welsh and English, in various hands and paper sizes, 241 leaves. Mid 18th-century.

Assembled and partly written by Lewis Morris (1701-65), poet, scholar and cartographer. Donated by the Governors of the Welsh School, 1844.

f. 106r-v

• PsK 282.5: Katherine Philips, On the Welch Language (‘If honour to an ancient name be due’)

Copy, in a neat hand, as ‘Wrote by M^rs Catherine Philips of Porth Einion near Cardigan town’, on a single quarto leaf.

Recorded in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation, pp. 47-8.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 131-2. Saintsbury, pp. 580-1. Thomas, I, 202-3, poem 86.

Add. MS 14954

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘By his Ma^ties: Attorney Generall. of Ireland’, 94 folio leaves, in old calf gilt. c.1620s-30s.

DaJ 261: Sir John Davies, The Question concerning Impositions

Presented by the Governors of the Welsh School, 1844.

A treatise, with dedicatory epistle to James I, comprising 33 chapters, beginning ‘The Question it self is no more than this, Whether the Impositions which the King of England hath laid and levied upon Merchandize, by vertue of his Prerogative onely...’. First published in London, 1656. Grosart, III, 1-116.