CELM: The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 18000 through 19999

Add. MS 18016

A folio composite volume of state letters and tracts and parliamentary speeches, in several professional secretary hands, 188 leaves, in modern red calf.

Bought at the sale in February 1850 of the stock of Thiomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller.

ff. 91r-4v, 95r-106v

• BcF 334: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

Copy of speeches by Bacon, to the Judges in Star Chamber, Trinity 1617, and at the arraignment of Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, in two professional secretary hands. c.1620s-30s.

Add. MS 18040

A quarto book of emblems, entitled The Sprite of Trees and Herbes (1598-9), in one or more secretary and italic hands, the emblems in watercolour emblems, with prefatory material addressed to Lord Burghley and Sir Robert Cecil and commendatory verses by others, 115 leaves, in later green morocco. Produced by Thomas Palmer (1540-1626), poet and orator. c.1598-early 17th century.

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Margarett Nevill’ and ‘Wrote in the Year 1663’. Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849). Rodd sale, February 1850, lot 688.

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• DrM 42: Michael Drayton, ‘Nature, and Arte are overmatcht by thee’

Copy, in a formal secretary hand, untitled, subscribed ‘Mic: Draiton’.

Edited from this MS in Simpson and in Hebel.

First published in Percy Simpson, ‘Thomas Palmer’, N&Q, 8th Ser. 8 (28 September 1895), 243-4. Hebel, I, 497.

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• JnB 555: Ben Jonson, ‘When late (graue Palmer) these thy graffs and flowers’

Copy, in a formal secretary and italic hand, untitled, subscribed ‘Ben: Jhonson’.

Edited from this MS in Percy Simpson's article and in Herford & Simpson.

First published in Percy Simpson, ‘Thomas Palmer’, N&Q, 8th Ser. (28 September 1895), 243-4. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 361-2.

Add. MS 18044

An oblong octavo miscellany of largely devotional verse and some prose, including (ff. 7v-22r) twelve poems by Crashaw, probably transcribed from Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652), in a single italic hand, written across the width of the pages with the spine upwards, with (ff. 181r-8r) a table of contents, 188 leaves, in calf gilt. Entitled Collections out of seuerall Authors by Marmaduke Raudon Eboracensis 1662: i.e. compiled by Marmaduke Rawdon (1610-69), traveller and antiquary, of Guiseley, Yorkshire, who later lived with his cousin, also named Marmaduke Rawdon, at Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, the MS including elegies on yet another (Sir) Marmaduke Rawdon (1582-1646), Governor of Basing House. c.1662.

Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849). Rodd's sale catalogue, February 1850, item 764.

Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Rawdon MS: CrR Δ 2. Crashaw's work collated in Martin (cited as A1) and discussed pp. lxxx-lxxxi.

For other Rawdon miscellanies, see Yale, Osborn MS fb 150; York Minster, MS Add. 122; and a MS sold at Puttick and Simpson's, 3 March 1870, lot 552, to Nicholls. For the Rawdon family, see H.F. Hayllar, The Chronicles of Hoddesdon (1948), pp. 52-4.

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• CrR 136: Richard Crashaw, The Office of the Holy Crosse (‘Lord, by thy Sweet & Saving Sign &c’)

Copy, with general heading ‘Out of Crashawes Poemes’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published (in a compressed form) in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 263-75.

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• CrR 222: Richard Crashaw, The Recommendation (‘These Houres, & that which houer's o're my End’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, p. 276.

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• CrR 314: Richard Crashaw, Vpon the Sepulchre of Our Lord (‘Here, where our Lord once laid his Head’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin, p. 277.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, p. 86 (and later version, p. 277).

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• CrR 321: Richard Crashaw, Vexilla Regis, The Hymn of the Holy Crosse (‘Looke vp, languishing Soul! Lo where the fair’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 277-9.

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• CrR 270: Richard Crashaw, Vpon our Saviours Tombe wherein never man was laid (‘How life and Death in Thee Agree?’)

Copy, headed ‘To our B Lord uppon the Choise of his Sepulcher’.

Copy.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 93.

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• CrR 223: Richard Crashaw, Sancta Maria Dolorvm or The Mother of Sorrows (‘In shade of death's sad Tree’)

Copy of stanzas 1-6.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 283-7.

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• CrR 18: Richard Crashaw, Dies Irae Dies Illa. The Hymn. of the Chvrch, In Meditation of the Day of Ivdgment (‘Hears't thou, my soul, what serious things’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 298-301.

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• CrR 161: Richard Crashaw, On the Assumption (‘Harke shee is called, the parting houre is come’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). A version published, as ‘In the Glorious Assvmption of Ovr Blessed Lady’, in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 139-41 (and later version pp. 304-6).

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• CrR 324: Richard Crashaw, The Weeper (‘Haile Sister Springs’)

Copy of the preliminary couplet published in the second edition of Steps to the Temple (London, 1648), beginning ‘Loe where a wovnded Heart with Bleeding Eyes conspire’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple, (London, 1646). 2nd edition (1648). Revised version published as ‘Sainte Mary Magdalene or The Weeper’ in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 79-83 (and later version pp. 307-14).

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• CrR 228: Richard Crashaw, A Song (‘Lord, when the sense of thy sweet grace’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, p. 327.

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• CrR 255: Richard Crashaw, To the Same party Covncel Concerning her Choise (‘Dear, heaun-designed Sovl!’)

Copy, headed ‘Good Councell to a yonge Gentlewoman’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 331-3.

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• CrR 43: Richard Crashaw, An Epitaph Vpon Husband and Wife, which died, and were buried together (‘To these, Whom Death again did wed’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph of a yonge Maried Cupple dead and buried togeather’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, p. 174 (and later version pp. 399-400).

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• ShJ 40: James Shirley, In verolamium, a forgotten Cittie some tymes standing neere S^ct Albions (‘Stay thy foot that passeth by’)

Copy, headed ‘Of the old Cittie of verulam nere S^t Albons’

This MS collated in Howarth and in Armstrong.

First published in R. G. Howarth, ‘Some Unpublished Poems of James Shirley’, RES, 9 (1933), 24-9 (p. 29). Armstrong, p. 54, as a ‘Doubtful Poem’.

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• CaE 11: Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, An Epitaph upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham (‘Reader stand still and see, loe, how I am’)

Copy of the six-line epitaph, headed ‘Vppon a monument of George Duke of Buckingham att Porsmouth’.

This MS recorded in Ackerman.

A six-line (epitaph) version is ascribed to ‘the Countesse of Faukland’ in two MS copies. In some sources it is followed by a further 44 lines (elegy) beginning ‘Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place’. The latter also appears, anonymously, as a separate poem in a number of other sources. The authorship remains uncertain. For an argument for Lady Falkland's authorship of all 50 lines, see Akkerman.

Both sets of verse were first published, as separate but sequential poems, in Poems or Epigrams, Satyrs (London, 1658), pp. 101-2. All 50 lines are edited in Akkerman, pp. 195-6.

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• DaS 53.2: Samuel Daniel, Philotas

Extract, comprising a version of lines 150-1, 154-5, headed ‘Out of Daniels Phylotas’, and here beginning ‘He that will frett att greate lords and the raine’.

First published in London, 1605. Edited by Laurence Michel (New Haven, 1949).

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• WoH 53: Sir Henry Wotton, A Hymn to my God, in a night of my late sickness (‘Oh Thou great power! in whom I move’)

Copy, transcribed from a printed exemplum of Reliquiae Wottonianae.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 515. Hannah (1845), pp. 49-51.

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• WoH 16.5: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)

Copy, transcribed from a printed exemplum of Reliquiae Wottonianae.

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 184.5: 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 163.5: Sir Henry Wotton, This Hymn was made by Sir H. Wotton, when he was an Ambassador at Venice, in the time of a great sickness there (‘Eternal mover, whose diffused glory’)

Copy, transcribed from Reliquiae Wottonianae.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), pp. 45-8.

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• WoH 217.8: Sir Henry Wotton, A Description of the Country's Recreations (‘Quivering fears, heart-tearing cares’)

Copy, headed ‘Of the Country life’, transcribed from Reliquiae Wottoniana.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 531-3, subscribed ‘Ignoto’, among ‘Poems Found among the Papers of S. H. Wotton’. Described in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 239-40, as ‘a Copy printed amongst Sir Henry Wottons Verses, and doubtless made either by him, or by a lover of Angling’. Hannah (1845), pp. 55-9.

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• BcF 14.5: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’

Copy, headed ‘Of the world By s^r H: wotton’, transcribed from a printed source.

First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, ‘Bacon's Poem, “The World”: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems’, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.

f. 153v

• RaW 33: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

Copy, headed ‘S^r. Walter Raliegh the night before his death’, transcribed from Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651).

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 153. See also RaW 101.

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).

Add. MS 18220

An octavo miscellany of English and Latin verse and some prose, largely in one mixed hand, 123 leaves, with (ff. 2r-4r) an index, in calf gilt. Compiled by John Watson (d. c.1707), of Queens' College, Cambridge, vicar of Mildenhall, Suffolk. c.1667-73.

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Ex dono D^rs Barb: Rhodes ...M^ri Joan: Rhodes Decemb: 5 1667’; ‘Janawary y^e 2 day 1726’; ‘W^m faildham London to y^e Land of maderah & from thence to Jamaca’. Purchased from Lilly, 13 July 1850.

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• CwT 625: Thomas Carew, Psalme 137 (‘Sitting by the streames that Glide’)

Copy, headed ‘A Paraphrase upon the 137^th Psalm by Lord Digby, Earl of Bristol: April. 20: 1667’.

This MS collated in Dunlap.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in his Select Psalmes of a New Translation (London, 1655), pp. 1-3 [unique exemplum in the Huntington]. Dunlap, pp. 149-50. Edited from Lawes in Scott Nixon, ‘Henry Lawes's Hand in the Bridgewater Collection: New Light on Composer and Patron’, HLQ, 62 (1999), 233-72 (pp. 270-1).

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• MaA 501: Andrew Marvell, The last Instructions to a Painter (‘After two sittings, now our Lady State’)

Copy of lines 29-48, headed ‘A Libell Taken out of the Painter, vpon H. Jermyn E of S^t Albans’, here beginning ‘Paint me S^t Alban full of Sup & gold’ and subscribed ‘Comunicat ab H. North Arm^ro Julij 10: 1668’.

This MS recorded in Osborne and in Margoliouth. Facsimile in Kelliher, p. 99. Also briefly discussed in Hilton Kelliher, ‘Marvell's The Last Instructions to a Painter: From Manuscript to Print’, EMS, 13 (2006), 296-343 (pp. 328-9).

First published in The Third Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 147-72. POAS, I, 97-139. Lord, pp. 151-86. Smith, pp. 369-96. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 36-7.

Add. MS 18647

A folio volume of 121 poems and the Paradoxes and Problems by John Donne, almost entirely in a single predominantly secretary hand, 109 leaves, in modern calf gilt. Transcribed from the ‘Puckering MS’ (DnJ Δ 13). c.1620s-30s.

Owned until 10 May 1851 by the Fielding family, Earls of Denbigh and Desmond, of Newnham Paddex, Warwickshire.

Among other connections the Fielding family was related to the Hamilton family by the marriage of Mary, daughter of William Feilding (d.1643), first Earl of Denbigh, to James, third Marquess of Hamilton (1606-49), son of the second Marquess (1589-1625) whose elegy Donne wrote (see DnJ 1587). John Donne the Younger (1604-63) was chaplain to Basil Feilding, second Earl of Denbigh (d.1674), to whom he dedicated his father's Fifty Sermons (1649). The MS was owned by the Denbigh family when recorded by Edward Bernard in Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ [ed. Humphrey Wanley] (Oxford, 1697). The MS was sold in 1851.

Cited in IELM, I.i as the ‘Denbigh MS’: DnJ Δ 7.

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• DnJ 36: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

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

First published as ‘Elegie II’ in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as ‘Elegie II’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.

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• DnJ 3276: John Donne, To M^r Rowland Woodward (‘Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe’)

Copy, untitled.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 185-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 113.

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• DnJ 3447: John Donne, To S^r Henry Wootton (‘Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well’)

Copy, inscribed in the margin ‘D. to M^r. H: W:’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 187-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 73-4. Shawcross, No. 111.

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• DnJ 680: John Donne, The Comparison (‘As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

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

First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 90-2 (as ‘Elegie VIII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 5-6. Shawcross, No. 9. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 51-2.

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• DnJ 2542: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

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

First published, as ‘Elegie IV’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 84-6 (as ‘Elegie IV’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 7-9. Shawcross, No. 10. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 72-3.

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• DnJ 612: John Donne, Change (‘Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

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

First published, as ‘Elegie III’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 82-3 (as ‘Elegie III’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 19-20. Shawcross, No. 16. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 198.

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• DnJ 2327: John Donne, ‘Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love’

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

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

First published, as ‘Elegie VIII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 89-90 (as ‘Elegie VII’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 13. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 127.

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• DnJ 246: John Donne, The Autumnall (‘No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

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

First published, as ‘Elegie. The Autumnall’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 92-4 (as ‘Elegie IX’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 27-8. Shawcross, No. 50. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 277-8.

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• DnJ 949: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Image of her whom I love’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

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

First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 95 (as ‘Elegie X’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 58. Shawcross, No. 35.

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• DnJ 420: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)

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

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

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• DnJ 3093: John Donne, The Sunne Rising (‘Busie old fools, unruly Sunne’)

Copy, headed ‘Sunn Risinge’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 11-12. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 72-3. Shawcross, No. 36.

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• DnJ 1790: John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow (‘Stand still, and I will read to thee’)

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

First published, as ‘Song’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 71-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 30.

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• DnJ 3716: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.

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• DnJ 2436: John Donne, ‘Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve’

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

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

First published, as ‘Elegie VII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 87-9 (as ‘Elegie VI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 10-11. Shawcross, No. 12. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 110-11.

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• DnJ 1822: John Donne, The Legacie (‘When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.

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• DnJ 3609: John Donne, The triple Foole (‘I am two fooles, I know’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 16. Gardner, Elegies, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 40.

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• DnJ 1056: John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham (‘Man is the World, and death th' Ocean’)

Copie, headed ‘An Elegie vppon the death of the Ladie Marckham’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.

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• DnJ 1000: John Donne, Elegie on M^ris Boulstred (‘Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie vpon the death of Mistris Bulstrod’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 282-4. Shawcross, No. 150. Milgate, Epithalamions, p. 59-61. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 129-30.

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• DnJ 1438: John Donne, The good-morrow (‘I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.

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• DnJ 478: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)

Copy, untitled.

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

Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.

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• DnJ 3645: John Donne, Twicknam garden (‘Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares’)

Copy, headed ‘Twittnam Garden’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.

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• DnJ 2189: John Donne, Loves Warre (‘Till I have peace with thee, warr other men’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

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

First published in F. G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 1-2. Grierson, I, 122-3 (as ‘Elegie XX’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 14. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 142-3.

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• DnJ 1091: John Donne, Elegie upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred (‘Language thou art too narrow, and too weake’)

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

First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 284-6 (as ‘Elegie. Death’). Shawcross, No. 151 (as ‘Elegie: Death’). Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 61-3. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 146-7.

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• DnJ 812: John Donne, The Curse (‘Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.

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• DnJ 1953: John Donne, Loves Alchymie (‘Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I’)

Copy, headed ‘Mummy’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.

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• DnJ 578: John Donne, The Canonization (‘For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.

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• DnJ 2029: John Donne, Loves diet (‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.

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• DnJ 3891: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)

Copy of a five-stanza version, headed ‘Loues Legacies’.

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

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

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• DnJ 2524: John Donne, The Paradox (‘No Lover saith, I love, nor any other’)

Copy, untitled.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69-70. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 38-9. Shawcross, No. 77.

f. 21r

• DnJ 2903: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.

f. 21v

• DnJ 652: John Donne, Communitie (‘Good wee must love, and must hate ill’)

Copy, untitled.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 32-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 33-4. Shawcross, No. 53.

f. 22r

• DnJ 3975: John Donne, Womans constancy (‘Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 42-3. Shawcross, No. 34.

f. 22v

• DnJ 1346: John Donne, The Flea (‘Marke but this flea, and marke in this’)

Copy, untitled.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.

ff. 23r-4r

• DnJ 1249: John Donne, The Extasie (‘Where, like a pillow on a bed’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 51-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 59-61. Shawcross, No. 62.

f. 24v

• DnJ 1991: John Donne, Loves Deitie (‘I long to talke with some old lovers ghost’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 54. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 47-8. Shawcross, No. 64.

f. 25r

• DnJ 1388: John Donne, The Funerall (‘Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harme’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 58-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 67.

ff. 25v-7r

• DnJ 2128: John Donne, Loves Progress (‘Who ever loves, if he do not propose’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

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

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1669) (as ‘Elegie XVIII’). Grierson, I, 116-19. (as ‘Elegie XVIII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 16-19. Shawcross, No. 20. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 301-3.

f. 27r-v

• DnJ 340: John Donne, The Blossoms (‘Little think'st thou, poore flower’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 59-60. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 87-8. Shawcross, No. 68.

f. 28r-v

• DnJ 3160: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

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

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.

f. 29r

• DnJ 173: John Donne, The Apparition (‘When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead’)

Copy, headed ‘An Apparition’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.

ff. 29v-30v

• DnJ 3479: John Donne, To S^r Henry Wotton (‘Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 180-2. Milgate, Satires, pp. 71-3. Shawcross, No. 112.

f. 31r-v

• DnJ 2606: John Donne, The Primrose (‘Upon this Primrose hill’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 61-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 88-9. Shawcross, No. 69.

ff. 31v-2r

• DnJ 3309: John Donne, To M^r T.W. (‘All haile sweet Poët, more full of more strong fire’)

Copy, headed ‘To: M: J: W:’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 203-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 59-60. Shawcross, No. 114.

f. 32r-v

• DnJ 3352: John Donne, To M^r T.W. (‘Hast thee harsh verse, as fast as thy lame measure’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 205. Milgate, Satires, pp. 60-1. Shawcross, No. 115.

f. 32v

• DnJ 3360: John Donne, To M^r T.W. (‘Pregnant again with th' old twins Hope, and Feare’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206. Milgate, Satires, p. 61. Shawcross, No. 116.

ff. 32v-3r

• DnJ 3334: John Donne, To M^r T.W. (‘At once, from hence, my lines and I depart’)

Copy, untitled.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206-7. Milgate, Satires, p. 62. Shawcross, No. 117.

f. 33r

• DnJ 3228: John Donne, To M^r C.B. (‘Thy friend, whom thy deserts to thee enchaine’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 208. Milgate, Satires, p. 63. Shawcross, No. 120.

f. 33v

• DnJ 3300: John Donne, To M^r S.B. (‘O Thou which to search out the secret parts’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 211. Milgate, Satires, pp. 66-7. Shawcross, No. 124.

ff. 33v-4r

• DnJ 3219: John Donne, To M^r B.B. (‘Is not thy sacred hunger of science’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 212-13. Milgate, Satires, pp. 67-8. Shawcross, No. 126.

f. 34r-v

• DnJ 3255: John Donne, To M^r R.W. (‘If, as mine is, thy life a slumber be’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 209-10. Milgate, Satires, pp. 64-5. Shawcross, No. 122.

ff. 34v-5r

• DnJ 3247: John Donne, To M^r I.L. (‘Of that short Roll of friends writ in my heart’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 212. Milgate, Satires, p. 67. Shawcross, No. 125.

f. 35r-v

• DnJ 3238: John Donne, To M^r I.L. (‘Blest are your North parts, for all this long time’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 213-14. Milgate, Satires, pp. 68-9. Shawcross, No. 127.

ff. 35v-6r

• DnJ 3412: John Donne, To Sir H.W. at his going Ambassador to Venice (‘After those reverend papers, whose soule is’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r Henry Wotton at his going Ambassadour to Venice’.

This MS collated in Grierson Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 214-16. Milgate, Satires, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 129.

ff. 36v-7r

• DnJ 3427: John Donne, To S^r Henry Goodyere (‘Who makes the Past, a patterne for next yeare’)

Copy, headed ‘To H: G: movinge him to travell’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 183-4. Milgate, Satires, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 130.

ff. 37v-8r

• DnJ 3395: John Donne, To S^r Edward Herbert, at Julyers (‘Man is a lumpe, where all beasts kneaded bee’)

Copy, headed ‘To S^r: E: H:’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 193-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 80-1. Shawcross, No. 140.

ff. 38v-9r

• DnJ 3373: John Donne, To M^rs M.H. (‘Mad paper stay, and grudge not here to burne’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 216-18. Milgate, Satires, pp. 88-90. Shawcross, No. 133.

ff. 39v-40v

• DnJ 2708: John Donne, Sapho to Philaenis (‘Where is that holy fire, which Verse is said’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 124-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 92-4 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 24. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 409-10.

ff. 40v-1r

• DnJ 1673: John Donne, Jealosie (‘Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

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

First published, as ‘Elegie I’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 79-80 (as ‘Elegie I’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 9-10. Shawcross, No. 11.

ff. 41r-2r

• DnJ 2493: John Donne, On his Mistris (‘By our first strange and fatall interview’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

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

First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 111-13 (as ‘Elegie XVI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 23-4. Shawcross, No. 18. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 246-7.

f. 42r-v

• DnJ 1522: John Donne, His Picture (‘Here take my picture. though I bid farewell’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

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

First published as ‘Elegie V’ in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 86-7 (as ‘Elegie V’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 25. Shawcross, No. 19. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 264.

ff. 42v-3v

• DnJ 2382: John Donne, A nocturnall upon S. Lucies day, Being the shortest day (‘'Tis the yeares midnight, and it is the dayes’)

Copy, headed ‘A Nocturnal vppon S^t: Lucies daye beinge the shortest night’.

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

First published, as ‘Elegie IV’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 44-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 84-5. Shawcross, No. 82.

f. 43v

• DnJ 715: John Donne, The Computation (‘For the first twenty yeares, since yesterday’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69. Gardner, Elegies, p. 36. Shawcross, No. 76.

ff. 43v-4r

• DnJ 906: John Donne, The Dissolution (‘Shee is dead. And all which die’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 64. Gardner, Elegies, p. 86. Shawcross, No. 72.

f. 44v

• DnJ 3947: John Donne, Witchcraft by a picture (‘I fixe mine eye on thine, and there’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 45-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 37. Shawcross, No. 26.

ff. 44v-5r

• DnJ 1697: John Donne, A Jeat Ring sent (‘Thou art not so black, as my heart’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 65-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 38. Shawcross, No. 73.

ff. 45r-6r

• DnJ 2076: John Donne, Loves exchange (‘Love, any devill else but you’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 34-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 46-7. Shawcross, No. 55.

f. 46r-v

• DnJ 1311: John Donne, A Feaver (‘Oh doe not die, for I shall hate’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 21. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 61-2. Shawcross, No. 44.

ff. 46v-7r

• DnJ 1634: John Donne, The Indifferent (‘I can love both faire and browne’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 12-13. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 41-2. Shawcross, No. 37.

ff. 47v-8v

• DnJ 3770: John Donne, A Valediction: of my name, in the window (‘My name engrav'd herein’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 25-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 64-6. Shawcross, No. 49.

ff. 48v-9r

• DnJ 9: John Donne, Aire and Angels (‘Twice or thrice had I loved thee’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 22. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 45.

f. 49v

• DnJ 2098: John Donne, Loves growth (‘I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 33-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 76-7. Shawcross, No. 54.

f. 50r-v

• DnJ 919: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 37-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 79-80. Shawcross, No. 57.

f. 50v

• DnJ 2625: John Donne, The Prohibition (‘Take heed of loving mee’)

Copy of lines 1-16.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 67-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 39-40. Shawcross, No. 47.

ff. 50v-1r

• DnJ 106: John Donne, The Anniversarie (‘All Kings, and all their favorites’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 24-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 71-2. Shawcross, No. 48.

f. 51v

• DnJ 852: John Donne, The Dampe (‘When I am dead, and Doctors know not why’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 63-4. Gardner, Elegies, p. 49. Shawcross, No. 71.

f. 52r-v

• DnJ 2683: John Donne, The Relique (‘When my grave is broke up againe’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 62-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 89-90. Shawcross, No. 70.

f. 52v

• DnJ 2360: John Donne, Negative love (‘I never stoop'd so low, as they’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 66. Gardner, Elegies, p. 56. Shawcross, No. 74.

f. 53r-v

• DnJ 3829: John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping (‘Let me powre forth’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 38-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 58.

ff. 53v-4v

• DnJ 3801: John Donne, A Valediction: of the booke (‘I'll tell thee now (deare Love) what thou shalt doe’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 29-32. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 67-9. Shawcross, No. 52.

f. 55r

• DnJ 1188: John Donne, The Expiration (‘So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse’)

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

First published, in a musical setting, in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 68. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 36-7. Shawcross, No. 75.

f. 55r-v

• DnJ 3691: John Donne, The undertaking (‘I have done one braver thing’)

Copy, headed ‘Platonique Loue’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 10. Gardner, Elegies, p. 57. Shawcross, No. 63.

f. 56r

• DnJ 736: John Donne, Confined Love (‘Some man unworthy to be possessor’)

Copy, untitled.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 36. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 34-5. Shawcross, No. 56.

f. 56v

• DnJ 2279: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)

Copy, untitled but under general heading ‘Songes w^ch were made to certaine Ayres w^ch: were made before’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 57r

• DnJ 2990: John Donne, Song (‘Sweetest love, I do not goe’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 57v

• DnJ 291: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)

Copy, untitled.

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

First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612). Grierson, I, 46-7. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 27.

f. 58r

• DnJ 1473: John Donne, Hero and Leander (‘Both rob'd of aire, we both lye in one ground’)

Copy, under general heading ‘Epigrammes’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 83. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.

f. 58r

• DnJ 2647: John Donne, Pyramus and Thisbe (‘Two, by themselves, each other, love and feare’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 84. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.

f. 58r

• DnJ 2372: John Donne, Niobe (‘By childrens births, and death, I am become’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 85. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.

f. 58r

• DnJ 521: John Donne, A burnt ship (‘Out of a fired ship, which, by no way’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 86. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as ‘Nave arsa’) and 10.

f. 58r

• DnJ 1270: John Donne, Fall of a wall (‘Vnder an undermin'd, and shot-bruis'd wall’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 87. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6 (untitled), 7 (as ‘Caso d'vn muro’), and 10 (as ‘Fall of a Wall’).

f. 58v

• DnJ 1729: John Donne, A lame begger (‘I am unable, yonder begger cries’)

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

First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as ‘Zoppo’) and 10.

f. 58v

• DnJ 1880: John Donne, A licentious person (‘Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call’)

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

First published in Henry Fitzgeffrey, Satyres and Satyricall Epigram's (London, 1617). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 90. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 11.

f. 58v

• DnJ 146: John Donne, Antiquary (‘If in his Studie he hath so much care’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 93. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled and beginning ‘If, in his study, Hamon hath such care’), 8 (as ‘Antiquary’), and 11.

f. 58v

• DnJ 2258: John Donne, Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus (‘Like Esops fellow-slaves, O Mercury’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 96. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5, 8 and 11.

f. 58v

• DnJ 2584: John Donne, Phryne (‘Thy flattering picture, Phryne, is like thee’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 97. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5, 8 and 11.

f. 59r

• DnJ 2395: John Donne, An obscure writer (‘Philo, with twelve yeares study, hath beene griev'd’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 98. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6 (untitled), 9 and 11.

f. 59r

• DnJ 1714: John Donne, Klockius (‘Klockius so deeply hath sworne, ne'r more to come’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 54. Shawcross, No. 99. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6, 9 and 11.

f. 59r

• DnJ 2663: John Donne, Raderus (‘Why this man gelded Martiall I muse’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 54. Shawcross, No. 103. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 9 and 11.

ff. 59r-60v

• DnJ 1144: John Donne, Epithalamion made at Lincolnes Inne (‘The Sun-beames in the East are spred’)

Copy, headed ‘Epithalamion one a cittisen’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 141-4. Shawcross, No. 106. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 3-6. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 87-9.

ff. 61r-5v

• DnJ 978: John Donne, Ecclogue. 1613. December 26 (‘Unseasonable man, statue of ice’)

Copy, complete with the 11-poem ‘Epithalamion’, headed ‘Eclogue Inducing an Epithalamion at the Marriage of the E: of S:’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 131-44. Shawcross, No. 108. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 10-19 (as ‘Epithalamion at the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset’). Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 133-9.

ff. 66r-82r

• DnJ 4068: John Donne, Paradoxes and Problems

Copy of 10 Paradoxes and 17 Problems.

This MS discussed in Evelyn Simpson, ‘More Manuscripts of Donne's Paradoxes and Problems’, RES, 10 (1934), 288-300, 412-16 (p. 413).

Eleven Paradoxes and ten Problems first published in Juvenilia: or Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes (London, 1633). Twelve Paradoxes and seventeen Problems published in Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Two more Problems published in 1899 and 1927 (see DnJ 4073, DnJ 4089). Twelve Paradoxes and eighteen Problems reprinted in Paradoxes and Problemes by John Donne (London, 1923). Twelve Paradoxes (Nos XI and XII relegated to ‘Dubia’) and nineteen Problems (No. XI by Edward Herbert) edited in Peters.

ff. 83r-8r

• DnJ 1926: John Donne, The Litanie (‘Father of Heaven, and him, by whom’)

Copy, headed ‘A Letanie’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 338-48. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 16-26. Shawcross, No. 184.

f. 88r-v

• DnJ 1413: John Donne, Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward (‘Let mans Soule be a spheare, and then, in this’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 336-7. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 185.

ff. 89r-90r

• DnJ 780: John Donne, The Crosse (‘Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse it selfe, dare I’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 331-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 26-8. Shawcross, No. 181.

f. 90r-v

• DnJ 2700: John Donne, Resurrection, imperfect (‘Sleep sleep old Sun, thou canst not have repast’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 333-4. Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 28. Shawcross, No. 182. The MS texts discussed in Lara M. Crowley, ‘A Text of “Resurrection. Imperfect”’, John Donne Journal, 29 (2010), 185-98.

ff. 90v-1r

• DnJ 1550: John Donne, A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last going into Germany (‘In what torne ship soever I embarke’)

Copy, headed ‘A Hymne to Christ’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 352-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 48-9. Shawcross, No. 190.

f. 91v

• DnJ 1569: John Donne, A Hymne to God the Father (‘Wilt thou forgive that sinne where I begunne’)

Copy, headed ‘To Christ’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 369 (and variant text p. 370). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 193. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 10, 16, 26, 110 (in four sequences).

ff. 92r-102r

• DnJ 1660: John Donne, Infinitati Sacrum. 16 Augusti 1601 Metempsychosis (‘I sing the progresse of a deathlesse soule’)

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 293-316. Milgate, Satires, pp. 25-46. Shawcross, No. 158.

ff. 102v-4r

• DnJ 761: John Donne, La Corona (‘Deigne at my hands this crown of prayer and praise’)

Copy of the sequence of seven sonnets, under general heading ‘Diuine Poems’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 318-21. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 1-5. Shawcross, No. 160.

f. 104r-v

• DnJ 214: John Donne, ‘As due by many titles I resigne’

Copy, untitled.

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

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. I’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 322 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. I’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 6. Shawcross, No. 162. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 5, 11, 21, 103 (in four sequences).

f. 104v

• DnJ 2476: John Donne, ‘Oh, my blacke Soule! now thou art summoned’

Copy, untitled.

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

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. II’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 323 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. IV’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 7. Shawcross, No. 163. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 7, 21, 104 (in three sequences).

ff. 104v-5r

• DnJ 3134: John Donne, ‘This is my playes last scene, here heavens appoint’

Copy, untitled.

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

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. III’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 324 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. VI’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 7. Shawcross, No. 164. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 7, 22, 105 (in three sequences).

f. 105r

• DnJ 229: John Donne, ‘At the round earths imagin'd corners, blow’

Copy, untitled.

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

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. IV’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 325 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. VII’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 8. Shawcross, No. 165. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 8, 14, 22, 106 (in four sequences).

f. 105r-v

• DnJ 1615: John Donne, ‘If poysonous mineralls, and if that tree’

Copy, untitled.

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

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. V’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 326 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. IX’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 8. Shawcross, No. 166. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 9, 15, 23, 107 (in four sequences).

f. 105v

• DnJ 879: John Donne, ‘Death be not proud, though some have called thee’

Copy, untitled.

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

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. VI’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 326 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. X’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 9. Shawcross, No. 167. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 10, 16, 23, 107 (in four sequences).

ff. 105v-6r

• DnJ 3039: John Donne, ‘Spit in my face you Jewes, and pierce my side’

Copy, untitled.

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

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. VII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 327 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XI’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 9. Shawcross, No. 168.

f. 106r

• DnJ 3877: John Donne, ‘Why are wee by all creatures waited on?’

Copy, untitled.

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

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. VIII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 327 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XII’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 10. Shawcross, No. 169.

f. 106r-v

• DnJ 3866: John Donne, ‘What if this present were the worlds last night?’

Copy, untitled.

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

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. IX’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 328 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XIII’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 10. Shawcross, No. 170.

f. 106v

• DnJ 328: John Donne, ‘Batter my heart, three person'd God. for, you’

Copy, untitled.

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

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. X’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 328 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XIV’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 11. Shawcross, No. 171. Variorum, 7, Pt 1 (2005), pp. 18, 25.

ff. 106v-7r

• DnJ 3935: John Donne, ‘Wilt thou love God, as he thee! then digest’

Copy, untitled.

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

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. XI’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 329 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XV’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 11. Shawcross, No. 172.

f. 107r

• DnJ 1292: John Donne, ‘Father, part of his double interest’

Copy, untitled.

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

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. XII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 329 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XVI’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 173. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 6, 12, 26, 110 (in four sequences).

ff. 108v-9r

• DnJ 1587: John Donne, An hymne to the Saints, and to Marquesse Hamylton (‘Whether that soule which now comes up to you’)

Copy, ‘the Lady Desmond’ inscribed after the title in a later hand which also adds the subscription ‘J D’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 288-90. Shawcross, No. 154. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 74-5. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 220-1.

f. 109v

• PeW 23: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘Had she a glass and feared the fire’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘W: P:’.

This MS collated in Krueger.

Krueger, p. 55, among ‘Poems Attributed to Pembroke in Manuscripts’.

Add. MS 18648

A folio volume of tracts and letters, in a single professional secretary hand, 22 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

Owned until 10 May 1851 by the Fielding family, Earls of Denbigh and Desmond, of Newnham Paddex, Warwickshire. Possibly the MS containing Felltham's Observations owned by the Denbigh family and recorded by Edward Bernard in Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ [ed. Humphrey Wanley] (Oxford, 1697).

ff. 1r-8v

• FeO 75: Owen Felltham, A Brief Character of the Low-Countries

Copy, headed ‘Three Moneths Obseruation of the Lowe Countries especially Holland’, docketed ‘No. 35’.

This MS discussed in Van Strien.

First published as Three Monethes observation of the low Countries especially Holland by a traveller whose name I know not more then by the two letters of J:S: at the bottome of the letter. Egipt this 22th of Jannuary (London, 1648). Expanded text printed as A brief Character of the Low-Countries under the States. Being three weeks observation of the Vices and Vertues of the Inhabitants... (for Henry Seile: London, 1652).

Add. MS 18653

Copy, in the hand of Ralph Crane (fl.1589-1632), poet and scribe, with deletions and additions in black ink possibly in another hand (? a playhouse prompter), the title on f. i^r‘The Tragedy of S^r John Van Olden Barnauelt’ added in a later hand, 31 folio leaves (ff. 9 and 16 quarto), in modern calf gilt. The MS submitted for censorship to Sir George Buc, Master of the Revels, marked up for the writing of actors' parts, and with the King's Company's book-keeper's preliminary rehearsal notes for performance. [1619].

B&F 167: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Sir John van Olden Barnavelt

Owned until 10 May 1851 by the Fielding family, Earls of Denbigh and Desmond, of Newnham Paddex, Warwickshire. Recorded, as in their ownership, by Edward Bernard in Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ [ed. Humphrey Wanley] (Oxford, 1697).

Edited from this MS in Frijlinck and, with facsimile examples of ff. 2v, 3v, 7v, 24r, in the Malone Society edition. Discussed in T.H. Howard-Hill, ‘Crane's 1619 Promptbook of Barnavelt and Theatrical Processes’, MP, 86 (1988-9), 146-70; in T.H. Howard-Hill, ‘Buc and the Censorship of Sir John Van Barnavelt in 1619’, RES, NS 39 (February 1988), 39-63; and in Joseph F. Stephenson, ‘On the Markings in the Manuscript of Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt’, N&Q, 250 (December 2006), 522-4.

Facsimile examples in Greg, Dramatic Documents, II (discussed I, 228-9, 268-74); in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 174; and in Grace Ioppolo, Dramatists and their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood (London & New York), p. 149.

First published in A Collection of Old English Plays, ed. A. H. Bullen, II (London, 1883), 201-314. Edited by Wilhelmina P. Frijlinck (Amsterdam, 1922), and in the Malone Society (Oxford, 1979-80). Bowers, VIII, 503-89, ed. Fredson Bowers.

Add. MS 18752

A quarto composite volume of MS and printed verse and prose tracts and miscellaneous material, in various hands over a lengthy period from the late 14th to mid-16th century, the verse on ff. 84r-92v in probably five 16th-century cursive secretary hands, 216 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Mid-16th century.

Acquired from William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher, on 8 November 1851.

Discussed, with five pages of facsimiles, in Julia Boffey, ‘London, British Library, Additional MS 18752: a Tudor hybrid book?’, EMS, 15 (2009), 41-64, and in ‘Scattered Verse in British Library, Additional MS 18752’, EMS, 16 (2011) pp. 30-47 (pp. 31-2).

f. 87v

• WyT 268: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Shall she neuer out of my mynde’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson, pp. 255-6.

First published (?) in A Boke of Balettes, [c.1548]. The Court of Venus, later edition [c.1563]. Muir & Thomson, pp. 255-6.

f. 89r

• WyT 189: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Mornyng my hart dothe sore opres’

Copy of lines 1-8, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson. See also WyT 21.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 163.

f. 89r-v

• WyT 21: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Alas! dere herte, what happe had I’

Copy, untitled, immediately following on from lines 1-8 of ‘Mornyng my hart dothe sore opres’ (WyT 189).

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 126.

ff. 89v-90r

• WyT 38: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘As power and wytt wyll me Assyst’

Copy of lines 3-37, untitled and here beginning ‘Evyn as yo lyst my wyll ys bent’.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 198-9.

f. 163v

• WyT 74: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Dysdaine me not without desert’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson. Edited in Daalder, p. 62.

First published in The Court of Venus, [? c.1538] (no perfect exemplum known. It is in the later edition of c.1563). Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 257-8. The text discussed in Joost Daalder, ‘Recovering the Text of Wyatt's “Disdain Me Not Without Desert”’, Studia Neophilologica, 58 (1986), 59-66.

Add. MS 18861

Agreement between Milton and Samuel Symons for the publication of Paradise Lost, whereby Milton would receive £10, signed on Milton's behalf and with his seal, 27 April 1667. 1667.

MnJ 111: John Milton, Document(s)

Facsimiles in Sotheby, Ramblings, after p. 136 (Plate XVIII, No. i); in Facsimiles of Royal, Historical, and Literary Autographs in the British Museum (1899), No. 98; in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, after p. 80; in John Milton 1608-1674 Facsimiles of Autographs and Documents in the British Museum (London, 1908); inMilton Tercentenary: The Portraits, Prints and Writings of John Milton Exhibited at Christ's College, Cambridge, 1908 (Cambridge, 1908), after p. 96; and in Illinois, II, 110-13. Edited in Columbia, XVIII, 422-4, and in LR, IV, 429-31. Discussed by Peter Lindenbaum in ‘Milton's Contract’, Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, 10 (1992), 439-54; in ‘The Poet in the Marketplace: Milton and Samuel Simmons’, in Of Poetry and Politics: New Essays on Milton and His World, ed. P. G. Stanwood (Binghamton, NY, 1994), 249-62; in ‘Rematerializing Milton’, Publishing History, 41 (1997), 5-22; and in ‘Milton's Small Advance’, TLS, 16 April 2004, p. 14.

Add. MS 18920

A largely autograph MS by Sir John Harington, 338 quarto leaves, in half morocco. c.1590-1.

Sotheby's, 1862?, to Boone. Purchased from Boone 24 April 1862.

ff. 1r-338r

• *HrJ 8: Sir John Harington, Orlando Furioso (‘Of Dames, of Knights, of armes, of loves delight’)

A fair copy of Books XIV to the ‘Briefe and Summarie Allegorie’ after Book XLVI, partly autograph, partly in the italic hand of Harington's servant Thomas Combe, imperfect, with printer's marks, this MS being the printer's copy for the first edition.

This MS collated in McNulty. Discussed, with facsimile pages, in W. W. Greg, ‘An Elizabethan Printer and his Copy’, The Library, 4th Ser. 4 (1923-4), 102-18, reedited in Greg, Collected Papers (Oxford, 1966), pp. 95-109; in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate XLV(b); in Percy Simpson, Proof-Reading in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (London, 1935), pp. 71-5; in Kathleen M. Lea, op. cit.; in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 20; in Gaskell, op. cit., p. 11 et seq.; in R. H. Miller, ‘Sir John Harington's Manuscripts in Italic’, SB, 40 (1987), 101-6 (p. 102); and in Chris Fletcher et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 2003), p. 51.

First published in London, 1591. Edited by Robert McNulty (Oxford, 1972). Printed and manuscript exempla discussed in Gerard Kilroy, ‘Advertising the Reader: Sir John Harington's “Directions in the Margent”’, English Literary Renaissance, 41/1 (Winter, 2011), 64-110.

Add. MS 18981

Add. MS 18986

Add. MS 19253

A large folio letterbook of Philip Stanhope (1633-1713), second Earl of Chesterfield, in a single neat hand, written from both ends, 211 leaves, in modern half red morocco. Early 18th century.

Sale of Charles K. Sharpe, 7 January 1852, lot 2330. Purchased from Boone 11 December 1852.

f. 38r

• RoJ 167: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Letter from Miss Price to Lord Chesterfield (‘My Lord, / These are the gloves that I did mention’)

Copy, headed ‘From M^rs: Prise [i.e. Henrietta Maria Price] Maid of honour to her Majesty who sent me a pair of Itallian Gloves’, subscribed ‘I had a mind you should see these inclosed papers which were writ by the Lord Rochester, and that hath occationd you this trouble from your humble servant’.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

First published in Letters of Philip, second Earl of Chesterfield (London, 1829). Vieth, p. 24. Walker, pp. 61-2. Love, pp. 92-3, as [Lines from Chesterfield's letterbook] From Mistress Prise Maid of honour to her Majesty who sent mee a pair of Itallian Gloves.

ff. 121v-2r

• SeC 126: Sir Charles Sedley, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Sedley, to Philip Stanhope, second Earl of Chesterfield, August 1682.

Edited in Sola Pinto, Life, pp. 152-3.

f. 179v

• DrJ 332: John Dryden, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Dryden to Philip Stanhope, second Earl of Chesterfield, from London, 17 February 1696/7. 1697.

Ward, Letter 41.

f. 180v

• DrJ 334: John Dryden, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Dryden, to Philip Stanhope, second Earl of Chesterfield, 18 August 1697. 1697.

Ward, Letter 45.

f. 210r rev

• BrT 0.93: Sir Thomas Browne, An Epitaph on Monsieur Poliander (‘Here lys deposited in trust’)

Copy, introduced ‘this following Epitaph made by Doctor Broun, a fine Poet’.

Edited from this MS in Keynes.

Epitaph of forty lines on the Professor of Divinity at Leiden (d. c.1645). Published in Keynes, III, 237-8.

Add. MS 19256

f. 74r

• DaW 142: Sir William Davenant, Letter(s)

Copy of an unsigned petition by Davenant and Sir William Killigrew to King Charles II, from Whitehall, 16 January 1661/2. c.1662.

Add. MS 19268

An octavo verse miscellany, including sixteen poems by Strode and one of doubtful authorship, in several hands, including a small mixed hand on ff. 2r-43v, cursive secretary hands thereafter, and Latin entries in italic at the reverse end, 139 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1630s.

A flyleaf inscribed ‘[?] Johannes Philips’. Acquired from H. Stevens 11 December 1852.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1987), as the ‘John Philips MS’: StW Δ 8.

ff. 2r-3r

• ShJ 108: James Shirley, Vpon the Princes Birth (‘Fair fall their Muses that in well-chim'd verse’)

Copy, headed ‘Uppon the birth of the Young prince’ and here beginning ‘fayre fare their muses which in welchim'd verse’.

This MS recorded in Armstrong.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, pp. 7-8.

f. 4v

• JnB 280: Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse (‘Doe but consider this small dust’)

Copy, headed ‘On an Howglasse’.

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.

f. 7v

• CaW 45: William Cartwright, A Sigh sent to his absent Love (‘I sent a Sigh unto my Blest ones Eare’)

Copy, headed ‘A sigh sent to his Mistresse’.

Edited from this MS in Evans, pp. 701-2.

First published in William Shakespeare, Poems (London, 1640). Evans, pp. 472-3.

f. 8v

• JnB 700: Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, II, ii, 163 et seq. Song (‘If I freely may discouer’)

Copy, headed ‘A sonnet’.

f. 9r

• CaW 13: William Cartwright, Falshood (‘Still do the Stars impart their light’)

This MS collated in Evans.

First published in Works (1651), pp. 215-16. Evans, pp. 468-70.

f. 10r

• DnJ 2314: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)

Copy, headed ‘To a dissemblinge Lady’ and here beginning ‘Send home my strayinge eyes to me’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 10v

• CwT 172: Thomas Carew, Disdaine returned (‘Hee that loves a Rosie cheeke’)

Copy, headed ‘A sonnet’.

First published (stanzas 1-2), in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Complete in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

f. 11r

• StW 994: William Strode, A Sonnet (‘My Love and I for kisses played’)

This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.

First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1633). Dobell, p. 47. Forey, p. 211. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 446-7).

f. 11v

• CoR 505: Richard Corbett, On Mr. Rice the Manciple of Christ-Church In Oxford (‘Who can doubt Rice to which Eternall place’)

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 73.

f. 11v

• KiH 614: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Tell mee you Starrs that our affections move’)

Copy, headed ‘Loue ill-requited’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

f. 11v

• StW 877: William Strode, Song (‘O when will Cupid shew such Art’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 6. Forey, p. 76.

f. 12r

• CwT 1261: Thomas Carew, A Louers passion (‘Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see’)

Copy, here ascribed to ‘W.S.’.

This MS collated in Dunlap.

First published, as ‘The Rapture, by J.D.’, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), pp. 3-4 [unique exemplum in the Huntington edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990)]. Cupids Master-Piece (London, [?1656]). Dunlap, p. 192.

f. 12r

• StW 380: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute (‘Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman playinge vppon y^e Lute’.

This MS recorded in Forey, p. 332.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 278. Dobell, p. 39. Forey, p. 208.

f. 12r

• WoH 184.8: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife (‘He first deceased. she for a little tried’)

Copy, headed ‘On a gentleman dyeinge soone after his wife’ and here beginning ‘She first deceased he after liu'd, & tryde’.

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.

f. 12v

• StW 366: William Strode, On a freind's absence (‘Come, come, I faint: thy heavy stay’)

Copy.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 13. Forey, pp. 95-6.

f. 12v

• CoR 414: Richard Corbett, On Francis Beaumont's death (‘He that hath Youth, and Friends, and so much Wit’)

Copy, headed ‘On S^r francis Beaumont's death’.

First published in Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 23.

f. 13r

• StW 160: William Strode, In commendation of Musique (‘When whispering straines do softly steale’)

Copy, headed ‘On Musicke’.

This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 2-3. Four Poems by William Strode (Flansham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 196-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).

f. 13v

• StW 909: William Strode, Song (‘When Orpheus sweetly did complaine’)

Copy, headed ‘A sonnet’.

First published in Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dobell, pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 79-80. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).

f. 14r

• JnB 18: Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph (‘See the Chariot at hand here of Love’)

Copy of lines 21-30, headed ‘Another’ and here beginning ‘Have you seen y^e white lilie growe’.

First published (all ten poems) in The Vnder-wood (ii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 131-42 (pp. 134-5). Lines 11-30 of poem 4 (beginning ‘Doe but looke on her eyes, they do light’) first published in The Devil is an Ass, II, vi, 94-113 (London, 1631).

f. 18r

• RnT 164.5: Thomas Randolph, In Natalem Augustissimi Principis Caroli. [Englished] (‘Thy first birth Mary was unto a tombe’)

Copy, following the Latin version.

First published, following a Latin version beginning ‘Prima tibi periit soboles (dilecta Maria)’, in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 78-9.

f. 18v

• JnB 66: Ben Jonson, An Epigram on the Princes birth (‘And art thou borne, brave Babe? Blest be thy birth’)

Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnsons Epigram on the prince his birth’.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 237-8.

f. 18v

• CoR 520: Richard Corbett, On the Birth of the Young Prince Charles (‘When private men get sonnes they gette a spoone’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 86.

f. 19r

• DnJ 2961: John Donne, Song (‘Stay, O sweet, and do not rise’)

Copy, headed ‘Uppon 2 louers loath to depart’, here beginning ‘Lie still my dear, why dost thou rise’ (and see DnJ 458.5).

This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 609-11; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published (in a two-stanza version) in John Dowland, A Pilgrim's Solace (London, 1612) and in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Printed as the first stanza of Breake of day in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 432 (attributing it to Dowland). Gardner, Elegies, p. 108 (in her ‘Dubia’). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 402-3. Not in Shawcross.

Add. MS 19269

An octavo volume of verse and related notes compiled by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary, for his Lyrical Gleanings published in 1817. c.1817.

f. 166r

• HeR 231.5: Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to make much of Time (‘Gather ye Rose-budd while ye may’)

Copy.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 84. Patrick, pp. 117-18. Musical setting by William Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

ff. 202v-3r

• OxE 24: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, ‘Wheras the Harte at Tennysse playes and men to gaminge fall’

Copy.

This MS collated in May.

First published in John Cotgrave, Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). May, Poems, No. 13 (p. 35). May, Courtier Poets, pp. 279-80. EV 30349.

Add. MS 19333

A fair copy, in the hand of an amanuensis with Hutchinson's autograph verse ‘arguments’, corrections and marginal notes, with a dedicatory epistle to Arthur, Earl of Anglesey, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, 147 quarto leaves, in contemporary black morocco gilt. c.1675.

*HuL 1: Lucy Hutchinson, De Rerum Natura

Inscribed (f. [iv] ‘Given me June 11. 1675 by the worthy author M^rs Lucy Hutchinson’. Acquired from Messrs boone, 8 January 1853 (Arley Castle sale, lot 1056).

Edited from this MS in De Quehen, with a facsimile of f. 5v on p. 28. Also described in the online Perdita Project.

Lucy Hutchinson's verse translation from Lucretius. First published in London, 1656. Lucy Hutchinson's Translation of Lucretius: De rerum natura, ed. Hugh de Quehen (London, 1996). The Works of Lucy Hutchinson. Volume 1: The Translation of Lucretius, ed. Reid Barbour and David Norbrook (Oxford, 2012).

Add. MS 19399

A folio composite collection of documents and letters.

ff. 49r-50v

• *CoA 219: Abraham Cowley, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed, [to ? Henry Bennet], from Paris, 8 January ‘1648’. 1648/9.

Edited in Grosart, II, 352-3. Facsimile examples in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XXVII (a-b).

ff. 72r-3v

• *CoA 252: Abraham Cowley, Document(s)

‘Instructions for M^r. Denham’, entirely in Cowley's hand and signed by Queen Henrietta Maria, 10 May 1649. 1649.

Edited in Hilton Kelliher, ‘John Denham: New Letters and Documents’, BLJ, 12 (1986), 1-20 (pp. 18-19).

Add. MS 19591-19618

The Blenheim Archive.

For general information about this collection, see J.P. Hudson, ‘Cataloguing the Blenheim Archive’, Archives, 14 (1979), 88-91, and the British Library calendar, Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts: The Blenheim Papers, 3 vols (London, 1985). The original letters were unavailable to Geoffrey Webb, when editing them for the Works in 1927-28, and his texts of most of the letters are edited from a set of transcripts (with the inevitable occasional error) made by the historian Archdeacon William Coxe (1747-1828).

Add. MS 19592

The first of ten folio monthly account books of the Surveyor and Comptrollers of the building of Blenheim Palace, formally detailing all payments and expenses, neatly set out by one or more clerks, with occasional corrections by the Surveyor and Comptrollers, signed generally by Vanbrugh and by Henry Joynes, Inspector of the Works, and sometimes by Tilman Bobart, Comptroller, at the end of each month, covering altogether June 1705 to December 1714, Vanbrugh's signature appearing in this volume on ff. 12r, 30r, 45v, 63r, 83v, 92r, and 101r. 1705-14.

*VaJ 394: Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

Add. MS 19593

The second of ten folio monthly account books of the Surveyor and Comptrollers of the building of Blenheim Palace, formally detailing all payments and expenses, neatly set out by one or more clerks, with occasional corrections by the Surveyor and Comptrollers, signed generally by Vanbrugh, and by Henry Joynes, Inspector of the Works, and sometimes by Tilman Bobart, Comptroller, at the end of each month, covering altogether June 1705 to December 1714, Vanbrugh's signature appearing in this volume on ff. 5v, 12r, 24r, 46r, 62r, 77v, 91r, 102v, 114v, 126r, 134r, and [144v]. 1705-14.

*VaJ 395: Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

Add. MS 19594

The third of ten folio monthly account books of the Surveyor and Comptrollers of the building of Blenheim Palace, formally detailing all payments and expenses, neatly set out by one or more clerks, with occasional corrections by the Surveyor and Comptrollers, signed generally by Vanbrugh, and by Henry Joynes, Inspector of the Works, and sometimes by Tilman Bobart, Comptroller, at the end of each month, covering altogether June 1705 to December 1714, Vanbrugh's signature appearing in this volume on ff. 4r, 12r, 18r, 30v, 42r, 49v, 56v, 66r, 77r, 87v, 95v, and 101v. 1705-14.

*VaJ 396: Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

Add. MS 19595

The fourtht of ten folio monthly account books of the Surveyor and Comptrollers of the building of Blenheim Palace, formally detailing all payments and expenses, neatly set out by one or more clerks, with occasional corrections by the Surveyor and Comptrollers, signed generally by Vanbrugh, and by Henry Joynes, Inspector of the Works, and sometimes by Tilman Bobart, Comptroller, at the end of each month, covering altogether June 1705 to December 1714, Vanbrugh's signature appearing in this volume on ff. 8v, 14v, 20r, 26v, 35v, 48v, 62r, 75v), 86v, 97r, 109v, and 124v. 1705-8.

*VaJ 397: Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

Add. MS 19596

The fifth of ten folio monthly account books of the Surveyor and Comptrollers of the building of Blenheim Palace, formally detailing all payments and expenses, neatly set out by one or more clerks, with occasional corrections by the Surveyor and Comptrollers, signed generally by Vanbrugh, and by Henry Joynes, Inspector of the Works, and sometimes by Tilman Bobart, Comptroller, at the end of each month, covering altogether June 1705 to December 1714, Vanbrugh's signature appearing in this volume on ff. 3r, 14r, 23v, 31v, 46r, 62r, 77v, 93r, 102r, 116v, 127v, and 135r. 1705-14.

*VaJ 398: Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

Add. MS 19597

The sixth of ten folio monthly account books of the Surveyor and Comptrollers of the building of Blenheim Palace, formally detailing all payments and expenses, neatly set out by one or more clerks, with occasional corrections by the Surveyor and Comptrollers, signed generally by Vanbrugh, and by Henry Joynes, Inspector of the Works, andsometimes by Tilman Bobart, Comptroller, at the end of each month, covering altogether June 1705 to December 1714, Vanbrugh's signature appearing in this volume on ff. 8r, 16r, 24v, 36v, 54v, 68r, 78v, 87v, 99v, 107v, 111v, and 117v. 1705-8.

*VaJ 399: Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

Add. MS 19598

The seventh of ten folio monthly account books of the Surveyor and Comptrollers of the building of Blenheim Palace, formally detailing all payments and expenses, neatly set out by one or more clerks, with occasional corrections by the Surveyor and Comptrollers, signed generally by Vanbrugh, and by Henry Joynes, Inspector of the Works, and sometimes by Tilman Bobart, Comptroller, at the end of each month, covering altogether June 1705 to December 1714, Vanbrugh's signature appearing in this volume on ff. 4r, 9r, 12v, 15v, 18v, 21r, 25v, 29r, 38r, 43v, 48r, 54r, 59r, 63r, 66v, 69r, 73r, 77r, 79v, 81v, 84r, 91r, 94r, and 96v. 1705-8.

*VaJ 468: Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

Add. MS 19599

The eighth of ten folio monthly account books of the Surveyor and Comptrollers of the building of Blenheim Palace, formally detailing all payments and expenses, neatly set out by one or more clerks, with occasional corrections by the Surveyor and Comptrollers, signed generally by Vanbrugh, and by Henry Joynes, Inspector of the Works, and sometimes by Tilman Bobart, Comptroller, at the end of each month, covering altogether June 1705 to December 1714, Vanbrugh's signature appearing in this volume on ff. 2v, 4r, 6r, 8v, 10r, 12r, 14r, 16r, 18r, 20r, 22r, 24r, 26r, 28r, 30r, 32r, 34v, 36r, 38r, 40r, 42r, 44r, 46r, snd 49v. 1705-8.

*VaJ 400: Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

Add. MS 19602

A folio composite volume of letters and papers of Henry Joynes, one of the Comptrollers of the works at Blenheim, in various hands.

ff. 84r-8r

• VaJ 477: Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

Copy of a version of Vanbrugh's report to the Treasury on Blenheim Palace, [c.1714-15]. c.1714-15.

f. 85r

• VaJ 130: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to Robert Harley, from Blenheim, 30 September 1710, as part of Vanbrugh's report sent by him to the Treasury. 1710.

ff. 85v-6r

• *VaJ 141: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to the Treasury, 10 October 1710. c.1710.

ff. 95r-8r

• VaJ 478: Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

Copy of ‘The Reply of S^r. John Vanbrugh on the behalf of the Workmen employed in the Building of Blenheim, Humbly presented to the Kings most Excellent Majesty’, [c.1714-15]. c.1714-15.

Edited in Works, IV, 198-203 (Appendix I, No. 3).

Add. MS 19603

f. 52r

• VaJ 470: Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

Copy of a report to the Treasury (the original signed by Vanbrugh, by Nicholas Hawksmoor and by Henry Joynes), 2 December 1714. c.1714.

ff. 53v-4r

• VaJ 469: Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

Scribal draft.of a report to the Treasury (the original signed by Vanbrugh, by Nicholas Hawksmoor and by Henry Joynes), 2 December 1714. c.1714.

ff. 55v-6r

• *VaJ 471: Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

Report to the Treasury, in a professional hand, signed by Vanbrugh, by Nicholas Hawksmoor and by Henry Joynes, 2 December 1714. 1714.

f. 57r-v

• *VaJ 461: Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

Memorandum on money ‘Due to Severall Workmen and Artificers for Worke pform'd by them at the Building of Blenheim’, in a professional hand, signed by Vanbrugh, by Nicholas Hawksmoor and by Henry Joynes, July 1712. 1712.

ff. 58r-9v

• *VaJ 472: Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

Autograph memorandum by Vanbrugh on the ‘St[ate] of the Debt at Blenheim’, comprising a few calculations with an endorsement, ante 5 December 1714. 1714.

Add. MS 19605

A folio composite volume of letters and papers of Henry Joynes, one of the Comptrollers of the works at Blenheim, principally his correspondence with Vanbrugh.

ff. 4r-5v

• *VaJ 37: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to William Boulter [Clerk of the Ordnance], 1 January 1705[/6]. 1706.

Edited in Works, IV, 207 (Appendix II, No. 1).

ff. 6r-8v

• *VaJ 89: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 26 December 1708. 1708.

Edited in Works, IV, 223 (Appendix II, No. 23).

ff. 12r-13v

• *VaJ 42: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to William Boulter [Clerk of the Ordnance], from London, 11 January 1706[/7]. 1707.

Edited in Works, IV, 208 (Appendix II, No. 2).

ff. 16r-17v

• *VaJ 43: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to William Boulter [Clerk of the Ordnance], 24 January 1706[/7]. 1707.

Edited in Works, IV, 208-9 (Appendix II, No. 3).

ff. 18r-19v

• *VaJ 44: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, 6 March 1706[/7]. 1707.

Edited in Works, IV, 209 (Appendix II, No. 4).

ff. 20r-1v

• *VaJ 39: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to William Boulter [Clerk of the Ordnance], from London, 7 March 1705[/6]. 1706.

Edited in Works, IV, 209-10 (Appendix II, No. 5).

ff. 23r-4v

• *VaJ 48: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to William Boulter [Clerk of the Ordnance], from London, 18 July 1707. 1707.

Edited in Works, IV, 211-12 (Appendix II, No. 7, misdated ‘1710’).

ff. 28r-9v

• *VaJ 50: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to William Boulter [Clerk of the Ordnance], from Hatfield, 25 July 1707. 1707.

Edited in Works, IV, 212-13 (Appendix II, No. 8).

ff. 33r-33bis^v

• *VaJ 55: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to William Boulter [Clerk of the Ordnance], from London, 11 November 1707. 1707.

Edited in Works, IV, 213-14 (Appendix II, No. 9). Facsimile example in T.J. Brown, ‘English Literary Autographs XLI’, The Book Collector, 11 (Spring 1962), 63.

ff. 34r-5v

• *VaJ 54: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to William Boulter [Clerk of the Ordnance], from London, 18 November 1707. 1707.

Edited in Works, IV, 214 (Appendix II, No. 10).

ff. 36r-7v

• *VaJ 56: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to William Boulter [Clerk of the Ordnance], from London, 18 December 1707. 1707.

Edited in Works, IV, 214 (Appendix II, No. 11).

ff. 38r-9v

• *VaJ 68: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to William Boulter [Clerk of the Ordnance], from London, 29 March 1708. 1708.

Edited in Works, IV, 215 (Appendix II, No. 12).

ff. 40r-1v

• *VaJ 69: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to William Boulter [Clerk of the Ordnance], from London, 1 April 1708. 1708.

Edited in Works, IV, 215-16 (Appendix II, No. 13).

ff. 42r-3v

• *VaJ 72: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to William Boulter [Clerk of the Ordnance], from Henley, 25 April 1708. 1708.

Edited in Works, IV, 216 (Appendix II, No. 14).

ff. 44r-5v

• *VaJ 73: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to William Boulter [Clerk of the Ordnance], from London, 1 May 1708. 1708.

Edited in Works, IV, 217 (Appendix II, No. 14).

ff. 47r-8v

• *VaJ 77: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 19 June 1708. 1708.

Edited in Works, IV, 218-19 (Appendix II, No. 16).

ff. 50r-1v

• *VaJ 78: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London. 24 June 1708. 1708.

Edited in Works, IV, 219 (Appendix II, No. 17).

ff. 54r-5v

• *VaJ 84: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 21 September 1708. 1708.

Edited in Works, IV, 219-20 (Appendix II, No. 18).

f. 56r

• *VaJ 85: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 28 September 1708. 1708.

Edited in Works, IV, 220 (Appendix II, No. 19).

ff. 58r-9v

• *VaJ 86: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 6 November 1708. 1708.

Edited in Works, IV, 220-1 (Appendix II, No. 20).

ff. 61r-2v

• *VaJ 87: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 30 November 1708. 1708.

Edited in Works, IV, 221-2 (Appendix II, No. 21).

ff. 65r-6v

• *VaJ 88: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 9 December 1708. 1708.

Edited in Works, IV, 222 (Appendix II, No. 22).

ff. 69r-70v

• *VaJ 90: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 13 January 1708[/9]. 1709.

Edited in Works, IV, 224 (Appendix II, No. 25).

ff. 71r-2v

• *VaJ 91: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 10 February 1708/9. 1709.

Edited in Works, IV, 224-5 (Appendix II, No. 26).

f. 73r

• *VaJ 93: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 17 February 1708/9. 1709.

Edited in Works, IV, 225 (Appendix II, No. 27).

ff. 78r-9v

• *VaJ 104: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 29 September 1709. 1709.

Edited in Works, IV, 225-6 (Appendix II, No. 28).

f. 81r-v

• *VaJ 107: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to an unidentified correspondent, from London, 6 December 1709. 1709.

Edited in Works, IV, 226 (Appendix II, No. 29).

ff. 83r-83bis^v

• *VaJ 108: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 18 December 1709. 1709.

Edited in Works, IV, 226-7 (Appendix II, No. 30).

ff. 84r-5v

• *VaJ 109: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 20 December 1709. 20 December 1709.

Edited in Works, IV, 227-8 (Appendix II, No. 31).

ff. 87r-8v

• *VaJ 111: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 14 March 1709/10. 1710.

Edited in Works, IV, 236 (Appendix II, No. 46, the date given as ‘1710[11?]’).

ff. 90r-1v

• *VaJ 112: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes and Tilleman Bobart [Comptrollers at Blenheim Palace], 1 April 1710. 1710.

Edited in Works, IV, 228 (Appendix II, No. 32).

ff. 93r-93bis^v

• *VaJ 114: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 29 April 1710. 1710.

Edited in Works, IV, 228-9 (Appendix II, No. 33).

ff. 94r-5v

• *VaJ 115: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 6 May 1710. 1710.

Edited in Works, IV, 229 (Appendix II, No. 34).

ff. 96r-7v

• *VaJ 120: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes and Tilleman Bobart, from London, 6 June 1710. 1710.

Edited in Works, IV, 229-30 (Appendix II, No. 35).

ff. 98r-9v

• *VaJ 122: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 8 June 1710. 1710.

Edited in Works, IV, 230 (Appendix II, No. 36).

ff. 103r-4v

• *VaJ 126: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 7 September 1710. 1710.

Edited in Works, IV, 231 (Appendix II, No. 37).

ff. 106r-7v

• *VaJ 127: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 21 September 1710. 1710.

Edited in Works, IV, 231 (Appendix II, No. 38).

ff. 108r-9r

• VaJ 475: Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

Copy of Vanbrugh's report to the Treasury, giving ‘An Account of what has passed with the Treasury relating to the Building at Blenheim since my Lord Godolphin was removed’ (incorporating Vanbrugh's copies of his related letters to various bodies). [c.1714-15]. c.1714-15.

f. 108r

• VaJ 133: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Vanbrugh to [the Duke of Marlborough], from Blenheim, 30 September 1710, as part of Vanbrugh's report sent by him to the Treasury. 1710.

Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 44 (No. 33).

f. 108r-v

• VaJ 135: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Vanbrugh to Lord Poulet, from Blenheim, 30 September 1710, as part of Vanbrugh's report sent by him to the Treasury. 1710.

Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 45-6 (No. 33a).

f. 108v

• VaJ 131: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to Robert Harley, from Blenheim, 30 September 1710, as part of his report sent to the Treasury. 1710.

Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 46 (No. 33b) and 193-4.

f. 109r

• *VaJ 142: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to the Treasury, 10 October 1710, as part of his report sent to the Treasury. 1710.

Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 47-8 (No. 33d), and 195.

ff. 110r-11v

• *VaJ 144: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes and Tilleman Bobart, from London, 10 October 1710. 1710.

Edited in Works, IV, 232 (Appendix II, No. 39).

ff. 112r-13r

• *VaJ 146: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [Henry Joynes], from London, 12 October 1710. 1710.

Edited in Works, IV, 232-3 (Appendix II, No. 40).

ff. 116r-17v

• *VaJ 147: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 19 October 1710. 1710.

Edited in Works, IV, 233-4 (Appendix II, No. 41).

ff. 118r-19v

• *VaJ 148: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 25 October 1710. 1710.

Edited in Works, IV, 234 (Appendix II, No. 42).

ff. 122r-3v

• *VaJ 150: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 2 November 1710. 1710.

Edited in Works, IV, 234-5 (Appendix II, No. 43).

ff. 124r-5v

• *VaJ 153: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 9 January 1710[/11]. 1711.

Edited in Works, IV, 235 (Appendix II, No. 44).

ff. 128r-9v

• *VaJ 155: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from Whitehall, 17 February 1710[/11]. 1711.

Edited in Works, IV, 236 (Appendix II, No. 45).

ff. 132r-3v

• *VaJ 157: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 22 March 1710[/11]. 1711.

Edited in Works, IV, 237 (Appendix II, No. 47).

ff. 135r-6v

• *VaJ 158: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 17 May 1711. 1711.

Edited in Works, IV, 237-8 (Appendix II, No. 48).

ff. 139r-40v

• *VaJ 160: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 11 September 1711. 1711.

Edited in Works, IV, 238 (Appendix II, No. 49).

ff. 143r-4v

• *VaJ 161: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 15 September 1711. 1711.

Edited in Works, IV, 239 (Appendix II, No. 50).

ff. 146r-7v

• *VaJ 162: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 25 September 1711. 1711.

Edited in Works, IV, 239-40 (Appendix II, No. 51).

ff. 148r-9v

• *VaJ 163: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 30 September 1711. 1711.

Edited in Works, IV, 240 (Appendix II, No. 52).

ff. 150r-1v

• *VaJ 164: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 27 October 1711. 1711.

Edited in Works, IV, 240 (Appendix II, No. 53).

ff. 152r-3v

• *VaJ 165: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 13 November 1711. 1711.

Edited in Works, IV, 241 (Appendix II, No. 54).

ff. 155r-6v

• *VaJ 166: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 22 November 1711. 1711.

Edited in Works, IV, 241 (Appendix II, No. 55).

ff. 157r-8v

• *VaJ 168: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 1 December 1711. 1711.

Edited in Works, IV, 242 (Appendix II, No. 56).

ff. 159r-60v

• *VaJ 169: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 3 December 1711. 1711.

Edited in Works, IV, 242-3 (Appendix II, No. 57).

f. 166r

• VaJ 459: Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

Copy of a memorial by Vanbrugh about ‘Worke which the Duke of Marlborough has desir'd may be done this Year at Blenheim’, 15 June 1712. c.1712.

ff. 168r-9v

• *VaJ 174: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 30 October 1712. 1712.

Edited in Works, IV, 243 (Appendix II, No. 58).

ff. 181r-2v

• *VaJ 204: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 3 May 1715. 1715.

Edited in Works, IV, 243-4 (Appendix II, No. 59).

ff. 183r-4v

• *VaJ 205: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from Whitehall, 5 May 1715. 1715.

Edited in Works, IV, 244 (Appendix II, No. 60).

ff. 185r-6v

• *VaJ 206: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from Whitehall, 7 May 1715. 1715.

Edited in Works, IV, 244 (Appendix II, No. 61).

ff. 187r-8v

• *VaJ 207: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from Whitehall, 12 May 1715. 1715.

Edited in Works, IV, 244-5 (Appendix II, No. 62).

ff. 189r-90v

• *VaJ 217: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, 5 April 1716. 1716.

Edited in Works, IV, 245 (Appendix II, No. 63).

ff. 191r-2v

• *VaJ 219: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from London, 1 May 1716. 1716.

Edited in Works, IV, 245-6 (Appendix II, No. [64]).

ff. 195r-6v

• *VaJ 51: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from Henderskelfe, August [1707], in defective condition. 1707.

Edited in Works, IV, 223-4 (Appendix II, No. 24, [among letters of 1708]).

ff. 197r-8v

• *VaJ 40: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to William Boulter, from London, 8 November [1706]. 1706.

Edited in Works, IV, 210 (Appendix II, No. 6).

ff. 199r-200v

• *VaJ 329: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from Whitehall, 18 November 1721. 1721.

Edited in Works, IV, 140 (No. 132).

ff. 202r-3v

• *VaJ 351: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes, from Greenwich, 11 November 1723. 1723.

Edited in Works, IV, 152-3 (No. 146).

Add. MS 19633

Autograph calligraphic MS, on rectos only, v + 68 leaves (42 x 64 mm.), in contemporary maroon velvet embroidered. A presentation MS, a New Year's Gift to Prince Charles (1600-49), later King Charles I, with a Dedication to him, in a small Roman hand throughout, with colour and gold arms, decoration, and a self-portrait. 1 January 1614/15.

*InE 49: Esther Inglis, [Quatrains de Pybrac] Les Quatrains de Guy de Faur Sieur de Pybrac, escrits par Esther Inglis, ce premier jour de l'an 1615.

Later owned (until 1853) by John Wade.

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 41 (p. 71).

Quatrains in French by Guy du Faur, Sieur de Pybrac (1529-84), first published in 1576.

Add. MS 19863

An octavo verse miscellany, in Latin and English, in a single mixed hand (but for a later addition on f. 40r), entitled ‘Fancies occasionally written on seuerall Occurrances And Reuised heere vidz fro Julij the 22^d: 1645 to Julij y^e 28^th: 1646’, each poem captioned with a dedication to a specified friend, 41 leaves (including blanks), in modern quarter-morocco. c.1646.

Bookplate of Sir William Betham (1779-1853), Ulster King of Arms. Betham sale, June 1854, lot 158.

In the same hand as British Library Harley MS 6932.

ff. 15v-17r

• RnT 505.5: Thomas Randolph, On the Goodwife's Ale (‘When shall we meet again and have a taste’)

Copy, captioned above ‘A description on Newgate vpon my first committment thither as a Prisoner of warre. To my honord Freind S^r: Clo: k^t’.

First published, anonymously, in Witts Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. Y5^v. Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1653), sig. M8^v. Moore Smith (1925), pp. 252-4, and in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 92-3. Edited, discussed, and the possible attribution to Randolph supported, in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 448-9.

The poem is most commonly attributed to Ben Jonson. Also sometimes ascribed to Sir Thomas Jay, JP, and to Randolph.