CELM: The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 25000 through 29999

Add. MS 25014

Autograph copy (f. 2v) of an eight-line epitaph on Bede, headed ‘Epitaphu Bedæ venerabilis p br’ and beginning ‘Beda Dei famulus monachoru nobile sydus’, subscribed ‘Obiit Beda (735’, with Bale's notes on Bede, signed ‘Joan. Bale’, written by him in a 12th-century MS of works by Bede and others on 119 folio vellum leaves, in modern calf. Early 16th century.

*BaJ 33: John Bale, Bede. Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum

Inscribed (f. 1r and elsewhere) ‘Jure me tenet Franciscus S^t. John’. Later owned by Sir James Palgrave. His sale, 20 November 1862, lot 90.

This MS not recorded in McCusker.

Add. MS 25085

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers chiefly relating to Northamptonshire.

f. 21r et seq.

• BcF 444: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

Copy.

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

Add. MS 25245

A folio volume of legal tracts, in several probably professional hands, 85 leaves, in half-calf. c.1630s.

Purchased from Lord R. Montagu, MP, 27 June 1863.

ff. 5r-15r

• BcF 236: Francis Bacon, Ordinances in Chancery

Copy of 101 Ordinances, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘made by the Lo: Chancelor...1618’.

First published as Ordinances made by...Sir Francis Bacon Knight...being then Lord Chancellor For the better and more regular Administration of Iustice in the Chancery (London, 1642), beginning ‘No decree shall be reversed, altered, or explained, being once under the Great Seale...’. Spedding, VII, 755-74 (mentioning, on p. 757, having seen some ‘MSS and editions’ of this work but without specifying them or his copy-text).

Add. MS 25247

A folio volume of tracts and papers relating principally to the Earl Marshall of England and the protocols of duelling, in two or more professional secretary hands, 318 leaves, in half-calf on marbled boards. c.1630s.

Acquired from Lord R. Montagu, MP, 27 June 1863.

ff. 7r-11v

• CmW 26: William Camden, The Antiquity and Office of the Earl Marshall of England

Copy, headed ‘The Etimologie Antiquitie & office of the Earle Marshall of England’.

A tract beginning ‘Such is the vncertainety of etimologyes...’ and sometimes entitled in manuscripts ‘The Etymology, Antiquity and Office of the Earl Marshall of England’. First published, as ‘Commentarius de etymologia, antiquitate, & officio Comitis Marescalli Angliae’, in Camdeni epistolae (London, 1691), Appendix, pp. 87-93. Hearne (1771), II, 90-7.

ff. 46r-58r

• HoH 60: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, Duello Foiled

Copy, in two professional secretary hands, as ‘written by y^e Lord Henry Howard Earle of Northampton’.

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

ff. 84r-7r

• CtR 207: Sir Robert Cotton, A Discovre of Lawfvllnes of Combats to be performed in the presence of the King, or the Constable and Marshall of England. Written...1609

Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, as ‘written by S^r. Robert Cotton knight...1609’.

Tract beginning ‘Where difference could not be determined...’. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [59]-[71]. Hearne (1771), II, 172-80.

ff. 87v-91r

• DaJ 249: Sir John Davies, Of the Antiquity, Use, and Ceremony of Lawful Combats in England

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

Paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries, beginning ‘Our Question is of the antiquity and manner of lawful combats...’, dated 22 May 1601. First published in Hearne (1771), II, 180-7. Grosart, III, 293-302.

ff. 91r-2v

• DaJ 254: Sir John Davies, [Of the Antiquity, Use and Ceremony of Lawful Combats in England] Of the Same

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled and run on directly after DaJ 249.

Essay beginning ‘I supposed, and so it falleth forth amongst this learned assembly...’, dated 22 May 1601. First published in Hearne (1771), II, 187-90. Grosart, III, 303-6.

Add. MS 25250

A folio composite volume of state and antiquarian tracts, in several professional predominantly secretary hands, 194 leaves, in half-calf on marbled boards.

Acquired from Lord R. Montagu, MP, 27 June 1863.

ff. 172r-7r

• CtR 344: Sir Robert Cotton, A Relation of the Proceedings against Ambassadors who have miscarried themselves, etc. ...[27 April 1624]

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘written by S^r Robert Cotton the 27^th of Aprill 1624’, imperfect at the end. c.1624-30s.

Tract, addressed to George, Duke of Buckingham, beginning ‘In humble obedience to your Grace's Command, I am emboldned to present my poor advice...’. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 1-9.

Add. MS 25277

A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, c.132 leaves.

ff. 95r-8v

• ClE 58.5: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Articles of High Treason and other hainous misdemeanours ag^st Edward, Earle of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor, exhibited by Earl of Bristol, 10 July 1663

Copy. Late 17th century.

Add. MS 25286

MS of a translation into English of Camden's history of the reign of Queen Elizabeth from 1558 to 1568, closely written in a single minute cursive secretary hand, imperfect, lacking the beginning, a title, and probably the ending, 36 quarto leaves, in modern brown calf gilt. Mid-17th century?

CmW 7: William Camden, Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha

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

Add. MS 25303

A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single neat secretary hand, the first page formally inscribed ‘To the righte hono^ble: the Lorde Thomas Darcy Viscount Colchester’ (c.1565-1640, Viscount Colchester from 1621 to 1626), 191 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Including 27 poems (and second copies of two poems) by Thomas Carew and three of doubtful authorship. c.1620s.

This MS largely transcribed in British Library, Add. MS 21433. The hand occurs also in British Library, Harley MS 3910, between ff. 112v and 120v, and is possibly associated with the Inns of Court.

Scribbled inscriptions including (f. 1r) ‘M^r John Bowyer’; (f. 2r) ‘Jeronomus ffox’; and (f. 3r) ‘William Ralph Baesh’.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Colchester MS’: CwT Δ 13.

ff. 68v-9v

• CwT 615: Thomas Carew, Psalme 104 (‘My soule the great Gods prayses sings’)

Copy.

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. 4-6 [unique exemplum in the Huntington]. Hazlitt (1870), pp. 181-4. Dunlap. pp. 139-42. 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. 265-6).

f. 70v

• HoJ 323: John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob (‘Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet w^thstood’)

Copy, headed John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob, followed (f. 71r) by The Lady Jacobs Answer beginning ‘Yo^r letter I receiu'd bedeckt w^th florishinge quarters’.

Osborn, p. 301.

ff. 71v-2r

• RaW 443: Sir Walter Ralegh, The passionate mans Pilgrimage (‘Giue me my Scallop shell of quiet’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r Walter Rawleighs Pilgrimage’.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 141-2.

First published with Daiphantvs or The Passions of Loue (London, 1604). Latham, pp. 49-51. Rudick, Nos 54A, 54B and 54C (three versions, pp. 126-33).

This poem rejected from the canon and attributed to an anonymous Catholic poet in Philip Edwards, ‘Who Wrote The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage?’, ELR, 4 (1974), 83-97.

f. 73r

• KiH 438: Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation (‘Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published, as ‘Man's Miserie, by Dr. K’, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 5-6]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 157-8.

f. 73v

• BrW 87: William Browne of Tavistock, On an Infant Unborn, and the Mother Dying in Travail (‘Within this grave there is a grave entomb'd’)

Copy.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Brydges (1815), pp. 90-1. Goodwin, II, 255-6. Also (doubtfully) attributed to Richard Corbett and to Sir William Davenant: see Sir William Davenant, The Shorter Poems, and Songs from the Plays and Masques, ed. A.M. Gibbs (Oxford, 1972), p. lxxxvii.

ff. 74v-5r

• BcF 16: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’

Copy headed ‘Vppon the miserie of Man’, subscribed ‘L^d Bacon’, this ascription deleted and ‘by Henry Harrington’ substituted in another hand.

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. 75v

• JnB 163: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body (‘Sitting, and ready to be drawne’)

Copy, headed ‘The Body’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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

ff. 76r-7r

• JnB 201: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 4. The Mind (‘Painter, yo'are come, but may be gone’)

Copy, headed ‘The Mynde’, subscribed ‘B: J:’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

f. 77r

• CwT 955: Thomas Carew, Song. To one that desired to know my Mistris (‘Seeke not to know my love, for shee’)

Copy, headed ‘Song. To one y^t desired to knowe his M^rs’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 39-40. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

f. 78r

• CwT 120: Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris (‘Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke’)

Copy.

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

f. 78v

• CwT 53: Thomas Carew, The Comparison (‘Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Powell, p. 287.

First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.

ff. 79v-81r

• BeJ 45: Sir John Beaumont, Upon the death of the most noble Lord Henry, Earle of Southampton, 1624 (‘When now the life of great Southampton ends’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Sell.

First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 156-8.

f. 81r

• HeR 11: Robert Herrick, The admonition (‘Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Ladies dresse of Hayre stucke with Jewells’.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 130-1. Patrick, p. 177.

f. 81r

• StW 325: William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter (‘A fitter Match hath never bin’)

Copy.

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

ff. 81v-2v

• HrE 15: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Elegy for the Prince (‘Must he be ever dead? Cannot we add’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r Ed. H. his Elegy on Prince Harry’, subscribed ‘9^ber 9^th 1612’.

This MS collated in Smith, pp. 127-8.

First published among ‘Sundry Funeral Elegies’ appended to Joshua Sylvester, Lachrymae Lachrymarum, 3rd edition (London, 1613). Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 22-4.

f. 86v-8r

• BeJ 6: Sir John Beaumont, Against the desire of greatnesse, thoughte M^r John Beaumonts (‘Thou woldst be greate and to that heighte wouldst rise’)

Copy. headed ‘Againste the desire of greatnesse thoughte M^r John Beamonts’.

Edited from this MS in Sell.

First published in Sell (1974), pp. 178-80.

f. 90r

• RaW 461: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Say not you love, unless you do’

Copy, headed ‘A ladye to hyr Louer’.

First published in Inedited Poetical Miscellanies, 1584-1700, ed. W.C. Hazlitt ([London], 1870), p. [179]. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 38, p. 106.

ff. 90v-1r

• BeJ 54: Sir John Beaumont, To my Lorde Marques of Buckingham (‘To say to you my good Lord, I might refraine’)

Copy, headed ‘To my Lorde Marques of Buckhinha’, subscribed ‘John Beamont’.

This MS collated in Sell.

First published (?) in Sell (1974), pp. 180-1.

f. 91r

• CoR 538: Richard Corbett, On the Lady Arabella (‘How doe I thanke thee, Death, & blesse thy power’)

Copy.

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

f. 91v

• AlW 153: William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant (‘Bella inter geminos plusquam civilia fratres’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Allablaster’.

First published in J.J. Smith, The Cambridge Portfolio (London, 1840), pp. 183-6. Sutton, p. 12-13 (No. XVI).

f. 92r

• AlW 154: William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant (‘Bella inter geminos plusquam civilia fratres’)

Copy.

First published in J.J. Smith, The Cambridge Portfolio (London, 1840), pp. 183-6. Sutton, p. 12-13 (No. XVI).

f. 92r

• AlW 173: William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant (‘Between two Bretheren Civil warres and worse’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Hughe Holland’.

A translation of Alabaster's Latin poem by Hugh Holland. Sutton, p. 13.

f. 92v

• HrE 66: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, To Mrs. Diana Cecyll (‘Diana Cecyll, that rare beauty thou dost show’)

Copy, the first two words centred as a heading.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 129.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 34-5.

ff. 94r-8r

• JnB 236: Ben Jonson, An Execration upon Vulcan (‘Any why to me this, thou lame Lord of fire’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnson’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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

ff. 98v-9r

• HrG 292: George Herbert, A Paradox. That the Sicke are in better State then the Whole (‘You whoe admire yourselues because’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hutchinson.

First published in Works of George Herbert, ed. William Pickering, II (London, 1835). Hutchinson, pp. 209-11.

ff. 100v-2r

• CoR 143: Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox (‘Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegy on y^e Lady Haddington’, subscribed ‘Ric: Corbett’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 59-62. The last 42 lines, beginning ‘O thou deformed unwomanlike disease’, in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 48.

ff. 102v-3v

• BmF 4: Francis Beaumont, Ad Comitissam Rutlandiae (‘Madam, so may my verses pleasing be’)

Copy, subscribed ‘ffra: Be:’.

First published, as ‘An Elegie by F. B.’, in Certain Elegies, Done by Sundrie Excellent Wits (London, 1618). Dyce XI, 505-7.

ff. 104r-5r

• BmF 89: Francis Beaumont, A Funeral Elegy on the Death of the Lady Penelope Clifton (‘Since thou art dead, Clifton, the world may see’)

Copy of lines 1-38, headed ‘An Elegie on y^e death of Penelope y^e faire & virtuous Lady Clifton’, subscribed ‘fra: Beaumont’.

First published in Poems (London, 1653). Dyce, XI, 511-13.

f. 105v

• CwT 768: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye’)

Copy, headed ‘Peregrine’ and here beginning ‘In yo^r fayre cheekes two pitts there lye’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 105.

ff. 106r

• BeJ 48: Sir John Beaumont, Epitaphe (‘Tis not a safe conjecture more or lesse’)

Copy, subscribed ‘J B’.

Edited from this MS in Sell.

First published (?) in Sell (1974), p. 181.

f. 106r-v

• BeJ 50: Sir John Beaumont, ‘Gazer reade and take to harte’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘JB’.

Edited from this MS in Sell.

First published (?) in Sell (1974), p. 181.

ff. 107v-8v

• CoR 331: Richard Corbett, A letter sent from Doctor Corbet to Master Ailesbury, Decem. 9. 1618 (‘My Brother and much more had'st thou bin mine’)

Copy, headed ‘To my Lorde Admiralls M^r Alisbury vppon the Comett. R. Corbett’.

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

f. 109r

• CoR 465: Richard Corbett, On Henry Bowling (‘If gentlenesse could tame the fates, or wit’)

Copy, headed ‘Vppon M^r Henery Bowlinge an Epitaph by R C.’

First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 74.

f. 111v

• BrW 195: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the late Countesse of Pembrooke 1622’.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, ‘Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha’, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.

f. 117v

• StW 397: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute (‘Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears’)

Copy, untitled.

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. 118r

• RaW 328: Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen (‘Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Passions are likened beste to flouds & streams’, prefixed to “Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart” (RaW 513) which is subscribed ‘S^r WR’.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 115, and in Gullans.

First published, prefixed to “Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart” (see RaW 500-42) and headed ‘To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh’, in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Edited in this form in Latham, p. 18. Rudick, No 39A, p. 106.

For a discussion of the authorship and different texts of this poem, see Charles B. Gullans, ‘Raleigh and Ayton: the disputed authorship of “Wrong not sweete empresse of my heart”’, SB, 13 (1960), 191-8, reprinted in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 318-26.

f. 118r-v

• RaW 513: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart’

Copy, untitled, prefixed by “Passions are likened beste to flouds & streams” (RaW 328) and subscribed ‘S^r WR’.

This MS collated in Gullans; recorded in Latham, p. 115.

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

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

f. 118v

• RaW 245: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

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

f. 119r

• CwT 995: Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love (‘Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say’)

Copy of lines 1-26, untitled.

This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 216.

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

f. 119v

• ShW 10: William Shakespeare, Sonnet 2 (‘When forty winters shall besiege thy brow’)

Copy, headed ‘Spes altera’.

This MS recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 66.

Edited and most manuscript copies collated in Gary Taylor, ‘Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets’, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 68/1 (Autumn 1985), 210-46.

f. 120r

• CoR 415.5: Richard Corbett, On Francis Beaumont's death (‘He that hath Youth, and Friends, and so much Wit’)

Copy, headed ‘On M^r Beaumonts death’ and here beginning ‘Hee that hath such acutenesse & such witt’.

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

f. 120v

• CwT 430: Thomas Carew, Loves Courtship (‘Kisse lovely Celia and be kind’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 107-8.

f. 121r

• WoH 18: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)

Copy of a five-stanza version, untitled.

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).

f. 126v

• CwT 26: Thomas Carew, Celia bleeding, to the Surgeon (‘Fond man, that canst beleeve her blood’)

Copy, headed ‘Vppon occation of his M^rs beinge lett bloude’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 26.

f. 129r

• ToA 54: Aurelian Townshend, To the Countess of Salisbury (‘Victorious beauty, though your eyes’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Earle of Pe:’.

This MS collated in Brown. Recorded in Krueger, Pembroke.

First published, in a musical setting by William Webb, in John Playford, Select Musical Ayres (London, 1652), p. 22. Chambers, pp. 4-5. Brown, pp. 19-21.

ff. 129v-30r

• GrJ 49: John Grange, ‘Not that I wish my Mistris’

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published in Wits Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. V7^v. John Playford, Select Ayres and Dialogues (1652), Part II, p. 28. Poems (1660), pp. 79-81, unattributed. Prince d'Amour (1660), p. 123, ascribed to ‘J.G.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as by John Grange.

f. 130v

• PeW 19: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘Had I loved but at that rate’

Copy, superscribed ‘E: P:’.

This MS collated in Krueger and in The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, ed. Josephine A. Roberts ([revised paperback edition], Baton Rouge and London, 1983), pp. 217, 231.

Krueger, pp. 53-4, among ‘Poems Attributed to Pembroke in Manuscripts’. Edited, as a ‘Poem Possibly by William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke’, in The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, ed. Josephine A. Roberts ([revised paperback edition], Baton Rouge and London, 1983).

f. 132r

• RnT 35: Thomas Randolph, Ausonii Epigram 38 (‘Shee which would not I would choose’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 92-3.

ff. 133r-4r

• DrW 117.21: William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge (‘From such a face quois excellence’)

Copy, headed ‘The fiue Sences’.

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

f. 138v

• HoJ 206: John Hoskyns, On Dreames (‘Yo^u nimble dreames w^th cob webb winges’)

Copy, with an additional stanza.

This MS recorded in Osborn and the additional stanza printed, p. 284.

Osborn, No. XXI (p. 189).

f. 139v

• CwT 147: Thomas Carew, A deposition from Love (‘I was foretold, your rebell sex’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 16-17. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

f. 140r

• CwT 369: Thomas Carew, Ingratefull beauty threatned (‘Know Celia, (since thou art so proud,)’)

Copy, subscribed ‘T C’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 17-18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).

ff. 140v-1r

• CwT 1226: Thomas Carew, Vpon the sicknesse of (E.S.) (‘Mvst she then languish, and we sorrow thus’)

Copy, subscribed ‘TC.’

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 31-2.

f. 141r

• CwT 1191: Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband (‘This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme’)

Copy, subscribed ‘T C’.

This MS recorded in Powell, p. 293.

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

ff. 141v-5r

• HeR 169: Robert Herrick, A Nuptiall Song, or Epithalamie, on Sir Clipseby Crew and his Lady (‘What's that we see from far?’)

Copy of a twenty-three-stanza version, headed ‘Epithalamie’, subscribed ‘RHer:’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 112-16. Patrick, pp. 154-8.

ff. 145v-7r

• KiH 335: Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind (‘Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!’)

Copy, subscribed ‘H: K:’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.

f. 148r

• CwT 1217: Thomas Carew, Vpon some alterations in my Mistresse, after my departure into France (‘Oh gentle Love, doe not forsake the guide’)

Copy, subscribed ‘T C’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 24-5.

ff. 148v-9v

• CwT 631: Thomas Carew, A Rapture (‘I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come’)

Copy, subscribed ‘T: C:’, incomplete.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 49-53.

f. 150r

• CwT 805: Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing (‘Harke how my Celia, with the choyce’)

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 150v

• CwT 245: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘T C.’

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

ff. 150v-1r

• CwT 1087: Thomas Carew, To my Mistresse in absence (‘Though I must live here, and by force’)

Copy, subscribed ‘T C’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 22.

f. 151r

• HoJ 165: John Hoskyns, Epitaph On S^r Walter Pye, Attorney of the Wardes, dying on Christmas Day, in the morning (‘If Any aske, who here doth lye’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘If any do aske where here doth lye’.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

Osborn, No. XLVI (p. 214).

f. 151v

• CwT 1044: Thomas Carew, To her in absence. A Ship (‘Tost in a troubled sea of griefes, I floate’)

Copy, headed ‘Another in absence A Shipp’, subscribed ‘TC.’

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 23.

f. 151v

• CwT 399: Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes (‘In Celia's face a question did arise’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘TC.’

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

ff. 152r-3r

• CwT 464: Thomas Carew, My mistris commanding me to returne her letters (‘So grieves th'adventrous Merchant, when he throwes’)

Copy, headed ‘His M^rs comandinge to returne hyr Letters’, subscribed ‘TC’.

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

f. 153r

• CwT 679: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)

Copy, subscribed ‘TC’.

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

Add. MS 25304

Transcript principally of Sir John Davies's Nosce Teipsum, in a single hand, 44 quarto leaves, in modern leather gilt. Mid-17th century.

Among the papers of Lord Robert Montagu, MP, and probably descended from Oliver St John (1598?-1673). Purchased 27 June 1863.

ff. 1r-44r

• DaJ 73: Sir John Davies, Nosce Teipsum (‘Why did my parents send me to the schooles’)

Copy, complete with the dedication to Queen Elizabeth dated 11 July 1592 and Introduction, the main text entitled ‘Of the Originall, Nature, and Immortallity of the Soul’.

This MS recorded in G.A. Wilkes, ‘The Poetry of Sir John Davies’, HLQ, 25 (1961-2), 283-98 (p. 291). Described in Krueger, p. 322, as an 18th century transcript of Nahum Tate's edition (first published 1697), but see J.R. Brink's review in RES, NS 28 (1977), 337-40 (p. 339).

A philosophical poem, with dedication to Queen Elizabeth beginning ‘To that clear Majesty, which in the North’. First published in London, 1599. Krueger, pp. 1-67.

f. 44v

• SpE 38: Edmund Spenser, The Visions of Petrarch (‘Being one day at my window all alone’)

Copy.

First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 186-8.

Add. MS 25464

A quarto volume of accounts relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in three hands, 36 leaves, in modern half-calf. Mid-17th century.

Sotheby's, 21 November 1863, in lot 248.

ff. 1r-5r

• EsR 273: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution

Copy, in a rounded hand, inscribed in a later hand ‘From a Contemporary Manuscript in the Collection of Mr Wilson’.

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

ff. 8r-15r

• EsR 208: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1

Copy of an account of the ‘speeches’ on 8 February 1600/1, in a rounded hand, inscribed in a later hand ‘Another Account from another contemporary MS. in the same collection’.

ff. 15v-35r

• EsR 208.5: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1

Copy of an account of the arraignment, in three hands.

Add. MS 25707

A folio composite volume of separate MSS of verse and some prose, in various secretary and italic hands, written over an extended period, with a table of contents (f. 3r-v), 186 leaves. Comprising papers of the Skipwith family of Cotes, Leicestershire, including 60 poems by John Donne (and one Problem), the text related in part to the ‘Edward Smyth MS’ (DnJ Δ 45); also 15 poems (and second copies of two) by Henry King; and 19 poems (and two of doubtful authorship) by Carew. c.1620-50.

Including poems ascribed to William Skipwith (? Sir William Skipwith, d.1610, or his grandson, William, or possibly a cousin, William Skipwith, of Ketsby, Lincolnshire, fl.1633); to Sir Henry Skipwith (fl.1609-52); and to Thomas Skipwith, and several poems by Donne's friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627), to whom a branch of the Skipwith family was related by marriage. Later owned by Robert Sherard (1719-99), fourth Earl of Harborough. Sotheby's, 10 June 1864, lot 605, to Boone.

This MS is the ‘curious folio volume’ lent to John Nichols (1745-1826) by ‘the late Lord Harborough’ and cited in Nichols's account of the Skipwith family in his History of Leicestershire, 4 vols (1795-1815), III, part i (1800), 367.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Skipwith MS’: DnJ Δ 21; CwT Δ 14; KiH Δ 8. Also described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp. 119-29 (see KiH Δ 6). For Sir William Skipwith and his literary connections, see James Knowles, ‘Marston, Skipwith and The Entertainment at Ashby’, EMS, 3 (1992), 137-92 (esp.pp. 171-2).

ff. 4v-5r

• JnB 327: Ben Jonson, The Musicall strife. In a Pastorall Dialogue (‘Come, with our Voyces, let us warre’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in The Vnder-wood (iii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 143-4.

f. 5r

• CwT 27: Thomas Carew, Celia bleeding, to the Surgeon (‘Fond man, that canst beleeve her blood’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 26.

ff. 5v-6v

• DnJ 374: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegia i’, subscribed ‘J. D.’

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

First published, as ‘Eleg. XII. The Bracelet’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as ‘Elegie XI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.

f. 6v

• CwT 997: Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love (‘Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say’)

Copy of lines 37-48, untitled, beginning ‘Those curious locks so aptly twind’.

This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 216.

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

f. 7r

• CwT 806: Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing (‘Harke how my Celia, with the choyce’)

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 7v

• RaW 246: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy of an untitled adapted version beginning ‘What is mans life but a play of passion’.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

f. 8r

• DnJ 691: John Donne, The Comparison (‘As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegya 2’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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.

ff. 8v-9r

• DnJ 2556: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegya. 3’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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.

ff. 9r, 10r

• DnJ 1684: John Donne, Jealosie (‘Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegya. 4’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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.

f. 10r

• DnJ 2450: John Donne, ‘Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve’

Copy, headed ‘Elegya. 5’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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.

f. 10v

• DnJ 2337: John Donne, ‘Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love’

Copy, headed ‘Elegya. 6’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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.

ff. 10v-11r

• DnJ 2203: John Donne, Loves Warre (‘Till I have peace with thee, warr other men’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegya. 7’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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.

f. 11r-v

• DnJ 3173: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegya. 8’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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. 12r

• DnJ 626: John Donne, Change (‘Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegya. 9’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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.

f. 12r-v

• DnJ 50: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegya. 10’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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.

f. 13r-v

• DnJ 2504: John Donne, On his Mistris (‘By our first strange and fatall interview’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegya. 11’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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. 13v

• DnJ 1532: John Donne, His Picture (‘Here take my picture. though I bid farewell’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegya. 12’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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.

f. 14r-v

• DnJ 1012: John Donne, Elegie on M^ris Boulstred (‘Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee’)

Copy, headed ‘Funerall elegy for m^rs Bolstrid’.

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

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

f. 15r

• DnJ 491: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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.

f. 15v

• DnJ 1359: John Donne, The Flea (‘Marke but this flea, and marke in this’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J. D.’

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

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

f. 16r

• DnJ 2239: John Donne, Lovers infinitenesse (‘If yet I have not all thy love’)

Copy, headed ‘Mon Tout’, subscribed ‘J. D.’

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 17-18. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 77-8. Shawcross, No. 41.

ff. 16v-17r

• DnJ 2646.64: John Donne, Psalme 137 (‘By Euphrates flowry side’)

Copy, subscribed ‘I. D.’

Edited from this MS in Crowley, pp. 634-5, with a facsimile of f. 16v on p. 618. Collated in Grierson.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 424-6 in his Appendix B, as ‘Probably by Francis Davison’. Discussed, and the case for Donne's authorship reviewed, in Lara Crowley, ‘Donne, not Davison: Reconsidering the Authorship of “Psalme 137”’, Modern Philology, 105, No. 4 (May 2008), 603-36.

f. 17v

• DnJ 3000: John Donne, Song (‘Sweetest love, I do not goe’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J. D.’

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

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

f. 17v

• DnJ 1133: John Donne, Epitaph on Himselfe. To the Countesse of Bedford (‘That I might make your Cabinet my tombe’)

Copy of the six-line epistle only, untitled, subscribed ‘J. D.’

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

First published in Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 291-2. Milgate, Satires, p. 103. Shawcross, No. 147.

f. 18r

• DnJ 930: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee’)

Copy of lines 1-20, untitled, subscribed ‘J. D.’

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

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

f. 18r

• DnJ 1198: John Donne, The Expiration (‘So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘So so, leaue of thy last lamentinge kisse’, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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. 18v

• DnJ 2367: John Donne, Negative love (‘I never stoop'd so low, as they’)

Copy, headed ‘The nothinge’, subscribed ‘J. D.’

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

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

f. 18v

• DnJ 433: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)

Copy, headed ‘A songe’, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross. See also DnJ 2946.

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

f. 18v

• DnJ 2946: John Donne, Song (‘Stay, O sweet, and do not rise’)

Copy of a version beginning ‘Lie still my deare, why dost thou rise?’, written in the margin against Breake of day (see DnJ 433).

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

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 25901

Autograph MS of an early version, written from both ends, including copies of Colonel Hutchinson's correspondence at Newark in 1642-3, imperfect, 96 small pages, in modern brown morocco gilt. c.1645.

*HuL 8: Lucy Hutchinson, Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson

Scribbling (ff. 1r-2r) sincluding ‘Fenner a bookseller at Canterbury’. Acquired from Mr Proctor, 12 November 1864.

First published, edited by Julius Hutchinson, London, 1806. Edited by James Sutherland (London, New York & Toronto, 1973). See also David Norbrook, ‘“But a Copie”: Textual Authority and Gender in Editions of “The Life of John Hutchinson”’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 109-30.

Add. MS 25959

MS of an adaptation, ‘alter'd from Sir John Vanbrugh’ and with different dramatis personae, in a single cursive hand, entitled ‘The Country House a Farce’, 60 quarto leaves, written almost entirely on rectos only, in modern half-calf on marbled boards. Mid-18th century.

VaJ 13: Sir John Vanbrugh, The Country House

Presented in November 1864 by Coventry Patmore (1823-96), poet and essayist.

First published (translated from Florent-Carton Dancourt) in London, 1715. Works, II, 205-31.

Add. MS 26607

A grant of arms, to Robert Wakeman, DD, of Beerferris, Devon, signed by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms, also with lines on the verso from Chaucer's ‘Nun's Tale’ relating to the Wakeman crest, 1616. 1616.

*CmW 176: William Camden, Document(s)

Add. MS 26634

A tall folio volume of papers on parliamentary proceedings, in several professional hands, 109 leaves, in half-calf on marbled boards. c.1630.

Purchased from Lord R. Montagu in 1865.

ff. 45r-8v

• CtR 37: Sir Robert Cotton, An Answer to Certain Arguments raised from Supposed Antiquity, and urged by some Members of the lower House of Parliament, to prove that Ecclesiasticall Lawes ought to be Enacted by Temporall Men

Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, inscribed in the margin ‘By S^r R C.’ and subscribed ‘R. C: B:’.

Tract beginning ‘What, besides self-regard, or siding faction, hath been...’. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [203]-217.

f. 84v

• RuB 110: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 10 February 1628/9

Copy, in a professional hand, headed ‘S^r Ben Rudgers’.

A speech beginning ‘There be diverse recantations, submissions and sentences remaining on record...’. Variant versions include one beginning ‘That there have been many publique censures and recantacions...’. See Commons Debates for 1629, ed. Wallace Notestein and Frances Helen Relf (Minneapolis, 1921), pp. 137, [274]-5.

Add. MS 26705

A large folio volume of chiefly coats of arms and heraldic matters, almost entirely in a single secretary hand, 141 leaves, in half-calf on marbled boards. Probably compiled by Thomas Dutton, whose name and dates ‘1603’ and ‘1634’ are inscribed on ff. 134v and 138r. c.1603-34.

Inscribed (f. 2r) ‘Robt. Wever his booke 1658’, ‘Robert Wever i66i’, and ‘Joseph Edmondson his Book June y^e 13. 1759’. Wellesley sale, lot 147. Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, 24 June 1865.

f. 130r

• HlJ 8: Joseph Hall, Virgidemiae (‘I First aduenture, with fool-hardie might’)

Copy of Book IV, Satire 3, lines 1-27, here beginning ‘What botes it (Pontice, tho thou couldst discours’.

Books IV-VI first published as Virgidemiarvm. The three last Bookes (London, 1598). Wynter, IX, 563-680. Davenport, pp. 5-99. Comprising six books of satires following a ‘Defence to Enuie’ and Prologue.

1st line of Prlogue here.

Add. MS 26787

An octavo MS of Speculum principis, in a formal hand, in black and red ink with some engrossed lettering and decoration, 30 vellum leaves, in contemporary leather on boards stamped with the Tudor royal arms and initials ‘H A’. Dedicated to Prince Henry (Henry VIII), dated from Eltham, 28 August 1501, and probably Skelton's presentation MS to Henry. c.1509-10.

Possibly once in Lincoln Cathedral Library. Inscribed (f. 1r on an affixed slip) ‘Mr Bramley, late of Acton’, ‘Jemima Sewall[?]’, ‘Geo Murray...Mar 1854’. Purchased from Puttick & Simpson's, 15 July 1865, lot 838.

Facsimile of ff. 21v-2r in Henry VIII Man and Monarch, ed. Susan Doran (British Library, London, 2009), p. 30.

The MS as a whole

• SkJ 29: John Skelton, Speculum principis

Fair copy on vellum, followed by Latin verses (SkJ 4 and SkJ 8) and Skelton's ‘complaint’ to the King (headed, ‘Skeltonis Laureatus, didasculus quondam Regius, etc., tacitus secum in soliloquio ceu vir totus obliuioni datus aut tanquam mortuus a corde, etc.’), imperfect and lacking title.

Edited from this MS in Salter. Portions edited from this MS, with a translation, in Carlson, pp. 34-45. Facsimiles of parts of ff. 2r and 29r in Petti, English Literary Hands, Nos. 14, 15 (where it is suggested that the MS is autograph, but see P.J. Croft's review in TLS (24 February 1978), p. 241).

Canon, C51, p. 15. First published in F.M. Salter, ‘Skelton's Speculum Principis’, Speculum 9 (1934), 25-37.

ff. 24v-6v

• SkJ 4: John Skelton, Epigramma ad tanti principis maiestatem in sua peuricia (‘Si quid habes, mea musa, dei resonantis amenam’)

Fair copy on vellum, headed ‘Ad tanti principis maiestatem in sua pericia, quando erat insignitus Dux Eboraci, etc., Skeltonis Laureatus hoc Epigramma et.’, appended to the MS.

Edited from this MS in Salter. Facsimile of ff. 24v-5r in Carlson, pp. 2-3.

Canon, C51, p. 15. First published in F.M. Salter, ‘Skelton's Speculum Principis’, Speculum, 9 (1934), 25-37 (pp. 36-7). Carlson, pp. 42-3 (with a translation).

ff. 27r-8v

• SkJ 8: John Skelton, Palinodium (‘Iam nunc pierios cantus et carmina laudis’)

Fair copy on vellum, headed ‘Ad serenissimam iam nunc suam maiestatem regiam, Skeltonidis Laureati non ignobile palinodium, etc.’, appended to the MS.

Edited from this MS in Salter.

Canon, C51, p. 15. First published in F.M. Salter, ‘Skelton's Speculum Principis’, Speculum, 9 (1934), 25-37 (p. 37).

Add. MS 27278

A quarto autograph memorandum book of Francis Bacon, 40 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in modern green morocco. c.1608-9.

Later owned by Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury. Sotheby's, 1 July 1861 (Tenison sale), lot 11, to John Forster (1812-76), writer. Donated January 1866.

The MS as a whole

• *BcF 153: Francis Bacon, Commentarius solutus sive pandecta, sive ancilla memoriae

Autograph notebook, entitled ‘Comentarius solutus siue Pandecta siue Ancilla Memoriæ’, containing memoranda in English and Latin transferred from earlier notebooks; originally the first of two such books, with various dates 25-31 July, 6 August 1608, and 28 October 1609.

Facsimile pages in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate LXXVII(b); in BC, 15 (Summer 1966), p. 185; and in EMS, 16 (2011), p. 202.

Extracts edited in Spedding, XI, 39-95 (discussed pp. 18-37).

Add. MS 27320

Formal copy in a professional secretary and roman hand, headed ‘Observations Politicall and Ciuile’, with (f. 12r) a dedicatory epistle ‘To my very honorable good Lord the Lord Threasurer of her Maiesties royall Housholde and of her preuie Counsell’ subscribed ‘T: B:’, with a few shorthand annotations in another hand and the date ‘1640’, 124 tall folio leaves, with a table of contents (f. 124r-v), in modern half-calf marbled boards. Early 17th century.

RaW 1044: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Cabinet-Council: containing the Chief Arts of Empire and Mysteries of State

Inscribed (f. 124v inverted) ‘Christopher P’. Acquired from W. G. Bohn, 12 May 1866.

A treatise beginning ‘A Commonwealth is a certain sovereign government of many families...’. First published, attributed to Sir Walter Ralegh in John Milton's preface ‘To the Reader’, as The Cabinet-Council [&c.] (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 35-150.

Widely circulated in MSS as Observations Political and Civil. The various attributions include ‘T.B.’, for whom Thomas Bedingfield (early 1540s?-1613), translator of Machiavelli, is suggested in Ernest A. Strathmann, ‘A Note on the Ralegh Canon’, TLS (13 April 1956), p. 228, and in Lefranc (1968), p. 64.

Add. MS 27402

A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 197 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.

Including some papers written or endorsed by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector, and by Sir John Fenn (1739-94), antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 16-18 July 1866 (Fenn sale).

ff. 70r-2v

• KiT 14: Thomas Killigrew, Letter about the possessed Nuns of Tours, from Orleans, 7 December 1635

Copy, in a rugged secretary hand, headed ‘The coppie of a letter from M^r Thomas Killigrew to my lorde Goringe concerninge what he sawe at a monestarie in France where diuers nuns were posessed and the manner vsed in exorsisinge them’, on three folio leaves, imperfect, lacking the ending. c.1636.

This MS collated in Lough and Crane.

Letter, to Lord Goring, beginning ‘Being thus far from London...’. Published in European Magazine, 43 (1803), 102-6. Edited in J. Lough and D. E. L. Crane, ‘Thomas Killigrew and the Possessed Nuns of Loudun: The Text of a Letter of 1635’, Durham University Journal, 78 (1986), 259-68.

ff. 140r-3r

• ClE 132: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Letters to the Duke of York and the Duchess of York

Copy of Clarendon's letter to his daughter, in a non-professional rounded hand, on four quarto leaves. Late 17th century.

Letters by Clarendon to his daughter Anne (who died on 31 March 1671 before the letter arrived) and to her husband, the Duke of York (later James II), on the occasion of her conversion to Roman Catholicism. The original letters, which received particular attention by his contemporaries because of their subject matter, are not known to survive.

These were first published in Two Letters written by…Edward Earl of Clarendon…one to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the other to the Dutchess, occasioned by her Embracing the Roman Catholic Religion (London, [1680?]) and were reprinted in State Tracts (1689), in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (Oxford, 1724), pp. 313-24, and elsewhere.

Add. MS 27406

A quarto composite volume of verse MSS, in several hands and paper sizes, 129 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco. Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms, antiquary, his brother Oliver, and (in 1714) by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector. c.mid 17th century.

Later owned by Sir John Fenn (1739-94), antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 16-18 July 1866 (Fenn sale), lots 420-22.

f. 74r

• ShW 2: William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece (‘From the besieged Ardea all in post’)

Extracts, in a mixed hand, comprising lines 365-71, 386-99, 419-20, untitled, here beginning ‘Into y^e chamber wickedly he stalkes’. c.1630s.

First published in London, 1594.

f. 74v

• JnB 388: Ben Jonson, Of Life, and Death (‘The ports of death are sinnes. of life, good deeds’)

Copy of lines 5-8, in a mixed hand, untitled and here beginning ‘This world deathes region is, y^e other lifes’. c.1630s.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in Epigrammes (lxxx) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 53-4.

f. 74v

• DkT 11: Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall (‘The Queene was brought by water to White Hall’)

Copy, in a mixed hand, headed ‘Vpon Queene Elisabeths death’. c.1630s.

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

f. 99v

• SeC 94.8: Sir Charles Sedley, An Ode (‘Oh Ye blest Pow'rs, propitious be’)

Copy, untitled.

First published, as ‘An Ode By Mr. R. D of Cambridge’, in the second part of Jane Barker's Poetical Recreations (London, 1688), pp. 137-8. The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Ba^t (2 vols, London, 1722), II, 4-5.

f. 107v

• RaW 428: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Like to a Ring without a finger’

Copy, in a mixed hand, headed ‘Canto’. c.1630s.

Edited from this MS in Latham.

First published in Latham (1951), pp. 165-7, as ‘A poem doubtfully ascribed to Ralegh’. Since, in fact, it is a parody of a poem by Francis Quarles printed in 1629 it cannot be by Ralegh.

f. 110r

• JnB 46: Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 10. Another Ladyes exception present at the hearing (‘For his Mind, I doe not care’)

Copy, in a mixed hand, headed ‘A Lady's Choyce’. c.1630s.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 142.

f. 110v

• BmF 150.93: Francis Beaumont, A Song in the Praise of Sack (‘Listen all I you pray’)

Copy.

Unpublished?

f. 117r

• SiP 159: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book III, No. 62 (‘What toong can her perfections tell’)

Copy of lines 1-4, in a mixed hand, untitled. c.1630s.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 555, and in Robertson, p. 459.

Ringler, pp. 85-90. Robertson, pp. 238-42.

ff. 121r-7v

• RnT 425: Thomas Randolph, The Conceited Pedlar

Copy, headed ‘All S^ts: 1627. Tho: Randolphs Pedlar’, in a mixed hand. c.1630s.

This MS recorded in Bernard M. Wagner, ‘Thomas Randolph's The Conceited Pedlar’, TLS (9 April 1931), p. 288, and in Bentley, V, 974-6.

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

Add. MS 27407

A folio composite volume of verse and drama MSS, in various hands, 155 leaves, in 19th-century half brown morocco. Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary, his brother Oliver, and Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector.

f. 65r

• DnJ 2646.65: John Donne, Psalme 137 (‘By Euphrates flowry side’)

Copy, unascribed.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Crowley.

f. 5r

• ToA 48: Aurelian Townshend, To my Lord North, vpon his Pöems (‘When I suruey theis lynes, and see’)

Copy, in a professional italic hand, subscribed ‘ATounshend’.

Edited from this MS, with a facsimile, in in Gabriel Heaton, ‘“His Acts Transmit to After Days”: Two Unpublished Poems by Aurelian Townshend’, EMS, 13 (2007), 165-86 (p. 167).

First published in Gabriel Heaton, ‘“His Acts Transmit to After Days”: Two Unpublished Poems by Aurelian Townshend’, EMS, 13 (2007).

ff. 22r-3v

• DoC 41: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon (‘As Colon drove his sheep along’)

Copy, headed ‘A Satyre’, with annotations in another hand, on two conjugate long ledger leaves.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, II (1965), 167-75. Harris, pp. 124-35.

f. 40r-v

• WaE 687: Edmund Waller, Upon His Majesty's Repairing of Paul's (‘That shipwrecked vessel which the Apostle bore’)

Copy on a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 16-18.

f. 51r-v

• DaJ 80: Sir John Davies, On the Marriage of Lady Elizabeth Hatton to Edward Coke (‘Caecus the pleader hath a lady wedd’)

Copy of poems 1-6, in a predominantly italic hand, on two pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Early 17th century.

This MS collated in Krueger.

First published in Krueger (1975), p. 171-6.

f. 125r-v

• DnJ 3927: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)

Copy of a five-stanza version, untitled, on a single folio leaf.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 126r

• MoG 13: George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James (‘All that have eyes now wake and weep’)

Copy, headed ‘On the late Kinge’. c.1625-30s.

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

ff. 127r-8v

• JnB 575.5: Ben Jonson, An Entertainment of the King and Queen at Theobalds, 22 May 1607

Copy, in a secretary hand, on a pair of conjugate folio leaves. Early 17th century.

First published in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VII, 151-8.

f. 129r

• RaW 514: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart’

Copy, in a Scottish hand, untitled, subscribed ‘finis quod sumbodie’. c.1620s-30s.

This MS collated in Gullans; recorded in Latham, p. 116.

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

ff. 130r-1v

• RaW 295: Sir Walter Ralegh, Petition to the Queen (‘My dayes delight, my spring tyme ioyes foredun’)

Copy of an intermediate 51-line version, untitled and beginning with the first two stanzas of the last book of Cynthia (see RaW 9), subscribed ‘Sir Walter Raleigh’. Early 17th century.

This version first published, from this MS, in Agnes M.C. Latham, ‘Sir Walter Ralegh's Cynthia’, RES, 4, No. 14 (April 1928), 129-34 (pp. 133-4). Edited from this MS in Latham (1951), pp. 68-9, as ‘Conjectural First Draft of the Petition to Queen Anne’, and, untitled, in Rudick, No. 33, pp. 76-7.

In three versions, first published in 1833, 1928, and 1978 respectively.

ff. 154r-5r

• DnJ 1123: John Donne, Elegie upon the untimely death of the incomparable Prince Henry (‘Looke to mee faith, and looke to my faith, God’)

Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves. c.1620s.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

First published in Joshua Sylvester, Lachrymae Lachrymarum (London, 1613). Poems (London, 1633). Grierson, I, 267-70. Shawcross, No. 152. Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 63-6 (as ‘Elegie on Prince Henry’). Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 160-2.

Add. MS 27408

A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands, 171 leaves, in half brown morocco. Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary, his brother Oliver, and Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector.

f. 9v

• RoJ 425: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘Phyllis, be gentler, I advise’)

Copy, headed ‘To Phillis’, with other poems on the second page of two conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 32. Walker, p. 36. Love, pp. 19-20.

ff. 10v, 8v

• RoJ 154: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country (‘Chloe, In verse by your command I write’)

Copy of lines 75-163, here beginning ‘Who had prevaild on her through her own skill’, on two folio pages. Late 17th century.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.

f. 11r

• RoJ 457: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘While on those lovely looks I gaze’)

Copy, headed ‘A Songe of MLR’, with other verses, on one side of a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

First published in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676). Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 12-13. Walker, pp. 43-4. Love, pp. 26-7.

f. 11r

• RoJ 100: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Fall (‘How blest was the created state’)

Copy, headed ‘The ffall of Man’, with other verses, on one side of a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 86. Walker, p. 26. Love, p. 26.

f. 11v

• RoJ 180: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Love and Life (‘All my past life is mine no more’)

Copy, headed ‘An Other’, with other verses, on the reverse side of a single folio leaf.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

First published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 90. Walker, p. 44. Love, pp. 25-6.

f. 16v

• CgW 63: William Congreve, Love for Love, III, iii, lines 165-173. Song (‘A Nymph and a Swain to Apollo once pray'd’)

Copy of the song, in a non-professional hand, headed ‘Song m^r Congreve’, with other verses, on one side of a single long folio leaf. Early-mid-18th century.

Summers, II, 130. Davis, pp. 258-9. McKenzie, I, 311.

ff. 17r-18r

• DrJ 128: John Dryden, Prologue To The Duke of Guise. Spoken by Mr. Smith (‘Our Play's a Parallel: The Holy League’)

Copy, in a professional hand, headed ‘The Epilogue to the Play of the Duke of Guise’, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.

This MS recorded in Danchin.

First published (with two Epilogues) in London, 1682. The Duke of Guise (London, 1683). Kinsley, I, 326-7. POAS, III (1968), 274-7. Danchin, IV, 432-6. Hammond, II, 135-9.

f. 41r-9r

• DoC 361.4: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Town Life (‘Once how I doted on this jilting town’)

Copy, once folded as a letter or packet.

This MS collated in POAS.

First published in State Poems (London, 1697). POAS, IV, 62-7. An argument for Dorset's authorship advanced in O.S. Pickering, ‘An Attribution of the Poem The Town Life (1686) to Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset’, N&Q, 235 (September 1990), 296-7.

ff. 47r-8r

• BcF 228.3: Francis Bacon, Objections against the Change of the Name of England into the Name of Britain

Copy of an early report.

Written 25 April 1604. To be published in the forthcoming The Oxford Francis Bacon.

f. 65r-v

• DrJ 139: John Dryden, Prologue To The Prophetess. Spoken by Mr. Betterton (‘What Nostradame, with all his Art can guess’)

Copy, in a professional hand, on both sides of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter.

This MS collated in California.

First published in Thomas Betterton, The Prophetess: or, The History of Dioclesian (London, 1690). Poems on Affairs of State, Part III (London, 1698). Kinsley, II, 556-7. California, III, 255-6. Hammond, III, 231-4.

f. 94r-v

• DrJ 188: John Dryden, A Song for S^t Cecilia's Day, 1687 (‘From Harmony, from Heav'nly Harmony’)

Copy, in a probably professional hand, on both sides of a single folio leaf, endorsed as by ‘Dryden’. Late 17th century.

This MS collated in California.

First published (as a single half-sheet) in London, 1687. Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Kinsley, II, 538-9. California, III, 201-3. Hammond, III, 185-91. The original musical score by Giovanni Baptista Draghi (c.1640-1708) discussed in Ernest Brennecke, Jr, ‘Dryden's Odes and Draghi's Music’, PMLA, 49 (1934), 1-36.

ff. 112r, 113r

• ToA 24: Aurelian Townshend, An Ode Vpon the happy Birth of our sweete yonge Prince (‘How wysely did our Moderne Pöets Kinge’)

Copy, in a neat roman hand, subscribed ‘ATounshend’, once folded as a letter.

Edited from this MS, with a facsimile of the first page, in Gabriel Heaton, ‘“His Acts Transmit to After Days”: Two Unpublished Poems by Aurelian Townshend’, EMS, 13 (2007), 165-86 (p. 168).

First published in Gabriel Heaton, ‘“His Acts Transmit to After Days”: Two Unpublished Poems by Aurelian Townshend’, EMS, 13 (2007).

ff. 142v-3v

• DoC 366: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Vision in King James's Reign (‘Twas at an hour when busy nature lay’)

Copy, in a probably professional hand, headed ‘The Vision’, on three pages of two conjugate long ledger leaves. c.1700.

This MS recorded in Harris (who erroneously records two copies present).

First published in Collection of the Newest …Poems…against Popery (London, 1689). Discussed in Harris, pp. 192-3. Lines 1-5 in Edward Bysshe, The Art of English Poetry (London, 1702).

ff. 146r-7r

• MrJ 34: John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 (‘And art returned again with all thy faults’)

Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, with emendations and annotations in another hand, headed ‘In reditum Ducis’, subscribed ‘These verses came forthe, as I did heare, soon after the returne from Rees; in which, whether any more be sette down then vulgar rumor, which is often lying, I knowe not...’. [c.26 June 1628], on three pages of two probably once conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘Satire of bucks’. c.1630.

f. 148r

• MrJ 34.5: John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 (‘And art returned again with all thy faults’)

Copy, in a small mixed hand, in double columns, headed ‘In reditum Ducis’, on one side of a folio leaf, once folded as a letter. c.1630.

ff. 160r-1r

• KiH 316: Henry King, An Essay on Death and a Prison (‘A Prison is in all things like a Grave’)

Copy in the hand of Thomas Manne (in a variant style), on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 139-42.

f. 162r-v

• CoR 72: Richard Corbett, An Elegie on the late Lord William Haward Baron of Effingham, dead the tenth of December. 1615 (‘I did not know thee, Lord, nor do I striue’)

Copy, in a mixed hand, on a single folio leaf. c.1620s-30s.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 115.

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

ff. 167r-8r

• CoR 144: Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox (‘Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true’)

Copy, in a professional predominantly italic hand, headed ‘An Elegie Upon the Lady Haddington’, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves. c.1630s.

ff. 170r-1r

• KiH 336: Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind (‘Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!’)

Copy, in the hand of Thomas Manne, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.

Add. MS 27419

A duodecimo commonplace book, compiled by Henry Calverley of Ergholme, Durham. c.1658.

[unspecified page numbers]

• FuT 4.6: Thomas Fuller, The Church History of Britain

An epitome of the work.

First published in London, 1655.

Add. MS 27467

An apparently autograph MS of Jocelin's unfinished ‘legacy’, in a neat roman hand, with her occasional deletions and revisions in different inks, including a dedicatory epistle to her husband Taurell Jocelin, 44 duodecimo leaves (plus sixteen blanks), in 19th-century dark blue velvet. 1622.

*JoE 1: Elizabeth Jocelin, The mother's legacie, to her unborne childe

Acquired in 1866.

This MS discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 1r, 3v, 8v, and 44r-v, in Sylvia Brown, ‘The Approbation of Elizabeth Jocelin’, EMS, 9 (2000), pp. 129-64, and the MS is edited by her in her Women's Writing in Stuart England (Stroud, 1999), pp. 106-31 (notes pp. 131-9), with a facsimile of ff. 5v-6r, on pp. 94-5. The MS is also transcribed diplomatically, with a facsimile example, in parallel to the 1624 printed text, in the edition by Jean LeDrew Metcalfe (Toronto, Buffalo and London, 2000). A facsimile of the first page, with transcription, also in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), pp. 112-13. A full list of contents of the MS is in the online Perdita Project.

First published, edited by Thomas Goad, London, 1624.

Add. MS 27632

A folio composite volume of papers, in various hands, 135 leaves, in red half-morocco. Late 16th century-1612.

Inscribed (f. 41r) ‘I ffrancis Harington of Compton Dando in the countie of Somset’ dated 7 February 1609; (f. 57r) ‘John Brock his Bok’; and (f. 121r) ‘John Harington his Book 1689’. Acquired from the Rev. J. C. Jackson, 25 May 1867.

The MS as a whole

• *HrJ 338: Sir John Harington, Miscellany

Assembled by Sir John Harington, a large part in the hand of one of his amanuenses, comprising miscellaneous tracts, notes, drafts of letters, and memoranda; including (ff. 11v, 30r, 43r-v, 47r) lists of books (‘my masters bookes carryed w^th him to Eaton’) and plays owned by Harington and (f. 30r) ‘A note of things sent to London the 29^th of Jan: 1609’; (ff. 54r-60v, 116v-21r) two copies of an anonymous tract entitled ‘The Order of a Christian Common wealth’; and (ff. 61r-8v) anonymous tracts entitled ‘Of the Trinitie’, (ff. 72r-93r)‘A question of the Trynytye, Dialogue wyse’, (ff. 94v-103r) ‘Whether usurye be Lawfull among Christians’, (ff. 105r-9v)‘Of the Sabbothe’, (ff. 110r-15v)‘A Dialogue betwene Neshama, the Sowle, Nephes, the Bodye, and Orthodoxus’, and (ff. 122r-5v)‘Whether it be dampnation for a man to kill hymself’, Harington's handwriting occurring chiefly on ff. 30r-2r (including a book list of 1609, notes, and letters), 33r-v (Psalms), 34r (notes), and 41r-6r (notes and letters, including ‘Names of Comedies’).

ff. 31r

• *HrJ 405: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

Autograph rough draft of a letter by Harington, to Thomas Sutton, [5 February 1609/10]. 1610.

McClure, No. 57, p. 140. For the letter actually sent, see HrJ 406.

f. 31v

• *HrJ 407: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

Autograph rough draft of a letter by Harington, to an unidentified person, [5 February 1610]. 1610.

McClure, No. 58, pp. 140-1.

f. 33r

• *HrJ 3: Sir John Harington, Metrical Paraphrases of the Psalms (‘Right happie hee that neither walked hath’)

Autograph draft, with revisions, of Harington's translation of Psalms 1, 3, and 4.

Harington's complete Psalter, intended for publication just before his death, but unpublished.

ff. 35r-40r

• HrJ 316: Sir John Harington, Letter to the Rev. Joseph Hall, on the Marriage of the Clergy

Unfinished draft, in the secretary hands of several amanuenses, of an epistle to Joseph Hall, probably intended for publication.

Edited from this MS in MacKinnon.

First published in M. H. M. MacKinnon, ‘Sir John Harington and Bishop Hall’, PQ, 37 (1958), 80-6.

f. 37r

• *HrJ 411: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

Autograph rough draft of a letter by Harington, to an unidentified person. [1612?]. 1612?.

McClure, No. 61, pp. 142-3.

ff. 42r

• *HrJ 408: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

Autograph rough draft of a letter by Harington, to Lord Compton, [1610?]. 1610?.

McClure, No. 59, pp. 141-2.

f. 42v

• *HrJ 409: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

Autograph rough draft of a letter by Harington, to ‘Cosen Sheldon’, [1610?]. 1612?

McClure, No. 60, p. 142.

f. 45r

• *HrJ 412: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

Autograph rough draft of a letter by Harington, to King James I, [1612?]. 1612?

McClure, No. 62, pp. 143-4.

f. 46r

• *HrJ 410: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

Autograph rough draft of a letter by Harington, to an unspecified lord, [1611 or 1612]. 1611-12.

Recorded in a review in TLS (4 September 1930), p. 697. Craig, pp. 55-7 with a facsimile.

Add. MS 27879

A long narrow ledger-like volume (c.40 x 15 cm) of ballads and metrical romances, in a single predominantly secretary hand, 268 leaves, all mounted on guards, in modern half-morocco. Mid-17th century.

Later owned by Thomas Percy (1768-1808), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor, and bearing copious annotations in his hand throughout, with a list by him at the end dated 20 December 1757.

This volume edited as Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript, ed. John W. Hales and Frederick J. Furnivall, 4 vols (London, 1867-8). Re-edited by I. Gollancz, 4 vols (London, 1905-10). Facsimile example of f. 94r in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), No. 20, p. 31. Discussed, with five facsimile examples, in Joseph Donatelli, ‘The Percy Folio Manuscript: A Seventeenth-Century Context for Medieval Poetry’, EMS, 4 (1993), 114-33.

ff. 91r-2r

• JnB 635: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘Cock-Lorell would needes haue the Diuell his guest’)

Copy, with five extra stanzas.

The additional stanzas edited in Herford & Simpson, X, 633-4.

Herford & Simpson, lines 1061-1125. Greg, Burley version, lines 821-84. Windsor version, lines 876-939.

ff. 95v-6r

• LoR 33: Richard Lovelace, To Althea, From Prison. Song (‘When Love with unconfined wings’)

Copy, untitled.

Reprinted from Hales & Furnivall in Wilkinson, I, 52-3. Collated in Clayton.

First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 70-1. (1930), pp. 78-9. Thomas Clayton, ‘Some Versions, Texts, and Readings of “To Althea, from Prison”’, PBSA, 68 (1974), 225-35. A musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659).

f. 96r

• WaE 431: Edmund Waller, Song (‘Chloris! farewell. I now must go’)

Copy, originally headed ‘Cloris’ and beginning ‘Cloris farewell I needs must goe’ but now imperfect at the beginning.

Hales & Furnivall, II, 22-3.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652). Poems, ‘Eighth’ edition (London, 1711). Thorn-Drury, II, 110-11.

ff. 97v-8r

• HeR 150: Robert Herrick, Mistresse Elizabeth Wheeler, under the name of the lost Shepardesse (‘Among the Mirtles, as I walkt’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Amongst the Mirtles...’.

Hales & Furnivall, II, 35-6.

First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 106-7. Patrick, p. 147. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

f. 144r

• SoR 144: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Marie Magdalens complaint at Christs death (‘Sith my life from life is parted’)

Copy of lines 25-30, headed ‘I live where I love’ and here beginning ‘With my hart my love was nesled’, followed by five new stanzas.

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

f. 220v

• CmT 187: Thomas Campion, A Ballad (‘Dido was the Carthage Queene’)

Copy, headed ‘Aeneas & Dido’.

This MS collated in Davis, p. 507.

First published in George Mason & John Earsden, The Ayres That Were Sung and Played, at Brougham Castle in Westmerland, in the Kings Entertainment (London, 1618). Davis, p. 467.

f. 222v

• CoR 62: Richard Corbett, The Distracted Puritane (‘Am I madd, o noble Festus’)

Copy, here beginning ‘O noble ffestus’.

Hales &Furnivall, III, 272-4. Recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 133.

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

f. 241v

• PeW 283: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Song (‘Say pretty wanton, tell me why’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Come pretty wanton...’.

Poems (1660), pp. 73-4, superscribed ‘P.’.

f. 251r-v

• RaW 5: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘As you came from the holy land’

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript, ed. John W. Hales, Frederick J. Furnivall, et al., 4 vols (London, 1867-8). This publication mentioned in Latham, p. 120.

First published in Thomas Deloney, The Garland of Good-Will (London, 1596? first extant edition 1628). Latham, pp. 22-3. Rudick, No. 13, pp. 16-17.

Add. MS 27927

Autograph calligraphic MS, ii + 14 leaves (185 x 130mm.), in contemporary brown velvet embroidered (incorporated in rebinding). A presentation MS to the diplomatist Anthony Bacon (1558-1601), with a Dedication to him, in various styles of script, with figures and decoration, including a self-portrait. 14 April 1599.

*InE 4: Esther Inglis, [Ecclesiastes] Le Livre de l'Ecclesiaste, ensemble le Cantique de Salomon. Escrites en diverses sortes de Lettres par Esther Anglois Françoise a Lislebourg en Escosse, 1599

Later owned by one Francis Slade (1861).

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 10 (pp. 39-40), with facsimiles of ff. 2r, 6v, and 9v as Plates 12-14 (between pp. 42 and 43).

A French translation of Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon in the Bible, with Latin verses to Anthony Bacon by Robert Rollock and John Johnston and to Esther Inglis by Andrew Melville and Johnston.

yeo no 10.

Add. MS 27987

A folio volume comprising two works by Sir Robert Cotton, in a single cursive predominantly secretary hand, 56 leaves, in half-calf. c.1620s.

Purchased from Mrs Simmons, 27 February 1869.

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• CtR 277: Sir Robert Cotton, The Manner and Meanes how the Kings of England have from time to time Supported and Repaired their Estates. Written...1609.

Copy, entitled ‘Records Collected by S^r Robert Cotton K^t. & Barron^tt:’.

Tract beginning ‘The Kings of England have supported and repaired their Estates...’. First published, as An Abstract out of the Records of the Tower, touching the Kings Revenue: and how they have supported themselves, London, [1642]. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [161]-‘200’[i.e. 202].

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• CtR 106: Sir Robert Cotton, A Briefe Discovrse concerning the Power of the Peeres and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature

Copy, as ‘written by S^r Robert Cotten to S^r. Edward Mountague Anno Dni: 1621.’ and subscribed ‘R. B.’

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

Add. MS 28000

A large folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 411 leaves, in half red morocco. Volume II of the correspondence of the Oxinden family, Baronets, of Deane and Barham, Kent, from 1589 to 1710.

f. 368r

• DnJ 1240: John Donne, The Expostulation (‘To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true’)

Copy of lines 39-52, untitled and here beginning ‘Curst may she bee that tryd my Charge to staine’, deleted, in a draft letter by Henry Oxinden (1609-70), to his cousin Elizabeth Dallison, 7 December1641.

Edited from this MS in The Oxinden Letters 1607-1642, ed. Dorothy Gardiner (London, 1933), p. 245.

First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 108-10 (as ‘Elegie XV’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 94-6 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 22. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 369-70.

f. 369r

• MrC 1: Christopher Marlowe, Hero and Leander (‘On Hellespont guiltie of True-loves blood’)

Copy of four lines of the Second Sestyad (lines 131-4, here beginning ‘Oh none have power but Gods their love to hide’), in a draft letter by Henry Oxinden (1609-70), to his cousin Elizabeth Dallison. December 1641.

Edited from this MS in The Oxinden Letters 1607-1642, ed. Dorothy Gardiner (London, 1933), pp. 252-3.

First published in London, 1598. Bowers, II, 423-515 (p. 448). Tucker Brooke, pp. 485-548 (p. 507). Gill et al., I, 175-209. For George Chapman's continuation of the poem, see ChG 3-4.

Add. MS 28009

A volume of miscellaneous tracts and verse, chiefly relating to the Oxenden family of Kent.

ff. 159r-69v

• ClE 100: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Impeachment Proceedings against Clarendon in 1667

Copy.

Articles of Treason exhibited in Parliament against Clarendon, 14 November 1667 published in London, 1667. The Proceedings in the House of Commons touching the Impeachment of Clarendon 1667 published in London, 1700.

Add. MS 28011

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 124 leaves, mounted on guards, in 19th-century half red morocco. Collected by members of the Oxinden family, Baronets, of Deane and Barham, Kent, including Henry Oxinden (1609-70) and his brother Richard (b.1613).

f. 2r-6r

• BcF 445: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

Copy of Bacon's submissions on 22 and 30 April 1621, in a secretary hand.

f. 58r-v

• CtR 107: Sir Robert Cotton, A Briefe Discovrse concerning the Power of the Peeres and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature

Copy of a shortened version, as supposedly ‘written by a learned Antiquarie at the request of a Peere of his Realme. 1640.’c.1640.

Add. MS 28021

Copy, in a single formal secretary hand, 98 duodecimo leaves, in modern green morocco gilt. A 581-stanza version, in a single professional secretary hand, headed ‘The Legend of Edward y^e second of Carnaruan king of England’. c.1620s.

HuF 5: Sir Francis Hubert, Edward II (‘It is thy sad disaster which I sing’)

Inscribed (ff. 1r, 2r) ‘Ro^bti: ffrmy’ and ‘Ro: ffo^rmy’ (i.e. Robert Fermy). Purchased from Boone, 13 March 1869.

This MS collated in Mellor.

First published, in an unauthorised edition as The Deplorable Life and Death of Edward the Second. Together with the Downefall of the two Unfortunate Favorits, Gavestone and Spencer. Storied in an Excellent Pöem, London, 1628. First authorised edition, as The Historie of Edward the Second, Surnamed Carnarvan, one of our English Kings. Together with the Fatall down-fall of his two vnfortunate Favorites Gaveston and Spencer, London, 1629. An edition of a 576-stanza version in three cantos, entitled The Life of Edward II, was printed in London 1721 from an unidentified MS.

Mellor, pp. 4-169 (664-stanza version, headed ‘The Life and Death of Edward the Second’, including ‘The Authors Preface’ beginning ‘Rebellious thoughts why doe you tumult so’?).

Add. MS 28045

A folio copy of the impeachment proceedings for Clarendon and for Arlington, partly in the hand of Thomas Osborne (1632-1712), first Duke of Leeds, politician.

ClE 101: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Impeachment Proceedings against Clarendon in 1667

Add. MS 28095

A tall folio composite volume of chiefly verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 91 leaves, mounted on guards, in half red morocco.

At least some individual items here were later owned by Sir Thomas Osborne (1632-1712), first Earl of Danby, Marquess of Carmarthen and Duke of Leeds, politician. Sotheby's, 6-10 April 1869 (Leeds sale), including lot 725, item 10.

ff. 5r-6v

• HaG 30: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Maxims of the Great Almansor

Copy of 33 maxims, in a stylish professional hand, headed ‘The following Maximes were found by a Jew amongst Papers of the Great Almanzor and tho they must loose a good Deale of their Originall Spiritt by y^e Translation Yet they seem to be applicable to all times That it is thought no diservice to Mankind to make them Publique’, superscribed ‘By the Marq. of Halifax’, on four pages of two conjugate folio leaves, docketed (f. 9v) ‘Lot 725/10’. c.1700.

This MS collated in Brown, I, 398-401.

First published, anonymously, under the heading The following Maxims were found amongst the Papers of the Great Almanzor…[&c] (London, 1693). Foxcroft, II, 447-53. Brown, I, 292-5.

f. 19r

• MkM 3: Mary Monck, Verses Wrote on her Death-Bed at Bath, to her Husband, in London (‘Thou, who dost all my worldly thoughts employ’)

Copy.

Twenty-two lines, first published, introduced ‘The following verses were wrote by her (as I am inform'd) on her death-bed at Bath, to her husband in London’, in George Ballard, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (Oxford, 1752), pp. 418-22.

f. 36r

• SeC 37: Sir Charles Sedley, Song (‘Hears not my Phyllis, how the Birds’)

Copy, in a probably professional hand, headed ‘The Knotting Song’, on one side of a folio leaf, once folded as a letter.

Bought at Sotheby's, 6-10 April 1869 (Duke of Leeds sale). c.1700.

First published, as ‘Phillis Knotting’, in The Gentleman's Journal (August-September 1694), p. 233. Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 34-5. Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Thesaurus Musicus…the third book (London, 1695).

ff. 50r-1r

• CgW 35: William Congreve, Prologue to the Court, On the Queens' Birth-Day, 1704 (‘The happy Muse, to this high Scene preferr'd’)

Copy, in a probably professional rounded hand, on the rectos of two conjugate quarto leaves. c.1704.

First published in Works (London, 1710). Summers, IV, 72-3. Dobrée, pp. 275-6. McKenzie, II, 359-60.

Add. MS 28098

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers, in various hands, 56 leaves, mounted on guards in modern half dark red morocco.

ff. 45r-6v

• *GoT 7: Thomas Goffe, To Sir Constantine Huyghens, Knight, & Secretarie to the Lords the Ambassadors from the States of y^e united Provinces of the Netherlands to his Ma^tie. of G. Brittaine (‘I dare not w^th the same nor tongue nor art’)

Autograph MS, signed ‘Thomas Goffe’, once folded as a letter and probably delivered to Huyghens.

C. A. Van Sypesteyn sale, May 1825, lot 144.

Add. MS 28101

A folio miscellany of chiefly verse, in a single hand, entitled The Famous Miscellany, 248 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf. Compiled by Ashley Cowper, Clerk of the Parliaments (signed, f. 1v, ‘Ashley Cowper 1747’). c.1747.

f. 74r

• MkM 4: Mary Monck, Verses Wrote on her Death-Bed at Bath, to her Husband, in London (‘Thou, who dost all my worldly thoughts employ’)

Copy.

f. 114r-v

• PsK 578.5: Katherine Philips, Pompey. A Tragedy, Act III, scene iv. Song (‘From lasting and unclouded Day’)

Copy, headed ‘A Song -- In the tragedy of Pompey -- By M^rs. Cat. Phillips / pompey's Ghost sings to Cornelia asleep’.

Recorded in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation, p. 48.

A recitative air sung by Pompey's ghost. Saintsbury, pp. 611-12. Thomas, I, 244-5, poem 120. Thomas, III, 55-6. This song originally set to music by Dr Peter Pett (1630-99).

ff. 186r-7r

• FrG 10: George Farquhar, The Beaux Stratagem, Act III, scene iii. Song (‘A Trifling Song you shall hear’)

Copy, headed ‘The Trifle By M^r Farquhuar’.

First published in London, 1707. Stonehill, II, 113-92 (pp. 154-5). Kenny, II, 159-243 (pp. 197-8).

Add. MS 28253

A tall folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 195 leaves, mounted on guards, in half-morocco. Compiled chiefly by members of the Caryll family. Early 17th century (Vol. I); Late 17th-early 18th century (Dorset).

Presented by Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, first Baronet, MP (1810-69).

f. 3r

• SiP 55: Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 30 (‘Ring out your belles, let mourning shewes be spread’)

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on one side of a folio leaf, once folded as a letter, endorsed by Edward Bannister ‘A Dyttye mad by S^r phillpe sydnye gevene me Att pvttenye In svrrye Decembris x^o Ann^o 1584’, with the name (of the donor) ‘S^r phillyppe Sydnye’. c.1584.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Ringler, pp. 159-61.

f. 5r

• CmT 43: Thomas Campion, ‘Harke, al you ladies that do sleep’

Copy, in the secretary hand of Edward Bannister, untitled, on a folio leaf, endorsed ‘A fantasye of S^r Phillyp Sydnys write owt of his Astrophell & stella’ and ‘owte of m^r waterers Booke’. c.1587-91.

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 493.

First published among ‘sundry other rare Sonnets of diuers Noble men and Gentlemen’ appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). Davis, pp. 5-6 (also pp. 44-5).

f. 7r-v

• DaJ 81: Sir John Davies, On the Marriage of Lady Elizabeth Hatton to Edward Coke (‘Caecus the pleader hath a lady wedd’)

Copy of poems 1-6, in two secretary hands, the first that of Edward Bannister, untitled, the leaf torn.

This MS collated in Krueger.

First published in Krueger (1975), p. 171-6.

f. 65v

• DrJ 75: John Dryden, The Lady's Song (‘A Quire of bright Beauties in Spring did appear’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Dryden’, with other verse, on a folio leaf. Late 17th century.

First published in Poeticall Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1774. California, III, 223. Hammond, III, 247-8.

ff. 71r-2v

• MaA 401: Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter (‘Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before’)

Copy, in a professional hand, headed ‘New Instructions to a Painter’, on two probably once conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 140-6, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 33-5, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.

ff. 158r-9r

• EtG 3: Sir George Etherege, Ephelia to Bajazet (‘How far are they deceived who hope in vain’)

Copy, untitled, on two quarto leaves. Early 18th century.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published in Female Poems On several Occasions: Written by Ephelia (London, 1679). Thorpe, pp. 9-10. Harold Love's edition of Rochester (1999), pp. 94-5.

f. 189r

• DoC 248: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Song (‘Phyllis, the fairest of love's foes’)

Copy, untitled and with the second stanza appearing first (here beginning ‘Compell'd thrô Want this Wretched maid’) on one side of a single octavo leaf. Early 18th century.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Harris, pp. 81-2.

Add. MS 28504

Copy, being an attempted MS facsimile in a single hand of a 16th century printed edition of Skelton's poem, on ff. 1r-11v of 24 octavo leaves, the reverse end (ff. 12v-24 rev.) with rules of a society of bellringers in another hand dated 1662-3, in black leather gilt, with stamped royal cipher of Charles II. Mid-late 17th century.

SkJ 11: John Skelton, The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng (‘Tell you I chyll’)

Inscribed (heavily deleted) on a flyleaf ‘William Daniel 1693’. Sotheby's, 15 June 1870.

Canon, C42, p. 12. First published [c.1520]. Dyce, I, 95-115.

Add. MS 28558

A folio guardbook of miscellaneous letters and documents, in various hands and paper sizes, 86 leaves, in19th-century half morocco.

Acquired from C. Hamilton 21 December 1870.

ff. 21r-2r

• DrJ 140: John Dryden, Prologue To The Prophetess. Spoken by Mr. Betterton (‘What Nostradame, with all his Art can guess’)

Copy, untitled, on two conjugate quarto leaves, endorsed ‘M^r Drydons prolouge to the Prophetess’. End of 17th century.

This item acquired on 11 February 1871 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.

This MS collated in California. Recorded in Kinsley.

ff. 65r-6v

• CvM 4: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Margaret Cavendish, to Christyan Huygens, from Antwerp, 30 March 1657. 1657.

Add. MS 28571

A folio composite volume of papers relating to the Reformation in England, in various hands, 220 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern morocco.

Bookplate of John Fuller Russell.

ff. 201r-4r

• AndL 14: Lancelot Andrewes, Collections concerning the Sign of the Cross

Extracts in Latin from the works of Tertullian, Cyprian, and Origen, in a roman hand, with annotations in another italic hand, an inscription in yet another hand at the foot of f. 201v ‘D^r Androwes collections out of some fathers concerning the signe of the Crosse. 1605’, on six pages of four folio leaves. c.1605.

Unpublished (as a collection of extracts). Recorded in Welsby, p. 82.

Add. MS 28607

A folio volume of legal tracts, in several secretary and court hands, 172 leaves, in 19th-century morocco. c.1630.

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Sum Edm Umfrevile Jun^r's Interioris Templi Stud^tie 1724’: i.e. Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts. Bookplate of Horace Walpole (1717-97), fourth Earl of Orford, author, politician and patron. Presented by the Earl of Derby, 11 February 1871.

ff. 112r-19r

• BcF 237: Francis Bacon, Ordinances in Chancery

Copy of 100 Ordinances, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, as by ‘Francis Lord Verulam...23^o Januarij 1618’.

Add. MS 28618

A folio volume comprising copies by John Caryll, of Ladyholt, Sussex, of letters sent to him by various correspondents, c.120 leaves. c.1710-35.

Donated by Sir Charles W. Dilke, MP.

f. 84v

• DrJ 342: John Dryden, Letter(s)

Copy, in John Caryll's hand, of a letter by Dryden to him, 21 July 1698.

Ward, Letter 51.

f. 85r

• WyW 21: William Wycherley, Letter(s)

Copy, in John Caryll's hand, of a letter by Wycherley to him, from London, 17 May 1704. c.1704.

Edited in Summers, II, 242, and in Connely, p. 280.

Add. MS 28622

An octavo volume of poems by Sir Robert Ayton (1570-1638), with later household recipes from f. 41 onwards, in several hands, 65 leaves. Mid-late 17th century.

Inscribed (f. 2v) ‘M^rs. Margaret’ and ‘M’. Presented by the Rev. C. Rogers, 4 March 1871.

f. 18r-v

• RaW 515: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart’

Copy, in an italic hand.

This MS collated in Gullens. Recorded in Latham, p. 116.

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

Add. MS 28635

A tall folio volume, comprising a transcript of ‘D^r Harington's Manuscript N^o. 2’: i.e. of The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz. (the ‘Arundel-Harington MS’). c.1810.

Owned by the Rev. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841), literary editor.

Typed and MS notes relating to this volume made in the 1920s by Professor Hyder Edward Rollins (1889-1958) are in Harvard MS Eng 1613.

f. 20r

• SiP 25.5: Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 3 (‘The fire to see my wrongs for anger burneth’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘q^d Ph. S.’

Ringler, pp. 136-7.

f. 36v

• HrJ 84.5: Sir John Harington, In defence of Lent (‘Our belly-gods dispraise the Lenton fast’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘ffinis. Jo. Har.’

First published in 1618, Book II, No. 90. McClure No. 186, pp. 222-3. Kilroy, Book III, No. 30, pp. 179-80.

f. 85v

• DyE 80: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘The lowest trees haue topps, the ante her gall’

Copy.

This MS collated in Sargent.

First published in A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). Sargent, No. XII, p. 197. May, Courtier Poets, p. 307. EV 23336.

Add. MS 28644

An octavo volume of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive hands, 102 leaves (plus blanks), in half brown morocco on marbled boards. Including principally autograph poems by Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax (1661-1715), but also (ff. 72v-7v) some poems apparently in a much earlier hand.

Later owned by John Lilly, bookseller. Sotheby's, 15-25 March 1871 (Lilly sale), lot 1366.

ff. 72v-3r

• HeR 347: Robert Herrick, King Oberon his Cloathing (‘When the monethly horned Queene’)

Copy, headed ‘Oberon King of the fairies by Sr Simon Stewart’. c.1630s.

This MS collated in Farmer.

f. 74r

• PoW 21: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’

Copy, headed ‘Upon a black Maid’. c.1630s.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

f. 74v

• B&F 126: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song (‘Hence, all you vain delights’)

Copy, headed ‘Melancholy’. c.1630s.

Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1698-9.

For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see StW 641-663.

f. 75r

• ShW 31.3: William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis (‘Even as the sun with purple-coloured face’)

Copy of lines 799-804.

First published in London, 1593.

f. 76r

• CwT 1051: Thomas Carew, To her in absence. A Ship (‘Tost in a troubled sea of griefes, I floate’)

Copy, headed ‘To his M^rs in his absence’. c.1630s.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 23.

f. 76v

• CwT 271: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)

Copy, headed ‘A fly flew into his M^rs Eye’. c.1630s.

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

Add. MS 28656

A quarto volume of ‘Gleanings from Rare Books’ compiled by Dawson Turner, FSA (1775-1858), banker, botanist and antiquary. Early 19th century.

f. 186r

• DaW 59.5: Sir William Davenant, To his Excellency the Lord General Monck (‘Our fiery Scots scorn'd your triumphant night’)

Copy, by Dawson Turner.

First published, as A Panegyrick To His Excellency, The Lord General Monck (London, 1660). Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 81-2.

Add. MS 28692

A folio volume containing two works by the Earl of Rochester, in one accomplished professional hand, 75 leaves, in 19th-century half green morocco. c.1680s.

Possibly this MS or RoJ 646 the MS of ‘Lord Rochester's Lucina's Rape, or the Tragedy of Valentinian’ offered in Thomas and John Egerton's ‘Catalogue of Books comprising Several Libraries lately purchased’, Military Library, Whitehall (1792), item 1421. Similarly either this volume or Folger MS V.b.233 offered in Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue of books, manuscripts and autograph letters [June 1848], p. 34.

ff. 3r-69r

• RoJ 645: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Valentinian, or Lucina's Rape

Copy of an early version, with a title-page ‘Lucina's Rape, Or The Tragedy of Vallentinian’, a list of dramatis personae (ff. 3r, 4r) including actors' names.

This MS discussed in Allardyce Nicoll, ‘Dryden, Howard and Rochester’, TLS (13 January 1921), p. 27. Facsimiles of the title-page in Prinz, before p. 389, and in Greene, p. 186. Extracts edited from this MS in Poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Vivian de Sola Pinto (London, 1964), pp. 70-2; collated in Hayward, pp. 340-8.

The first recorded performance was at Court, 11 February 1683/4. First published in London, 1685. Collected Works of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, ed. John Hayward (London, 1926), pp. 161-238. Love, pp. 133-231, as Lucina's Rape Or The Tragedy of Vallentinian, with (pp. 232-40) [A Mask for the Tragedy of Valentinian] [by Sir Francis Fane].

ff. 70r-5v

• RoJ 634: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Scaen of Sir Robert Howard's Play

Copy of a ‘Scaen’ as ‘written by the Earl of Rochester’.

This MS apparently that mentioned by one ‘J. Mt’ as being in his library in N&Q, Ser. I, No. 5 (6 March 1852), 225. Discussed in Nicoll. Edited in Sola Pinto, loc. cit. Facsimile of f. 70 in Prinz, after p. 390.

A scene for Howard's play The Conquest of China by the Tartars. First published in Collected Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. John Hayward (London, 1926), pp. 239-47. Poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Vivian de Sola Pinto (London, 1964), pp. 61-9. Love, pp. 124-32. See also Allardyce Nicoll, ‘Dryden, Howard and Rochester’, TLS (13 January 1921), 27; J. Harold Wilson, ‘The Dating of Rochester's “Scaen”’, RES, 13 (1937), 455-8; and Jeremy Treglown, ‘The Dating of Rochester's “Scaen”’, RES, NS 30 (1979), 434-6.

Add. MS 28693

Copy, in an accomplished hand, with (f. 3r) a title-page ‘Loves Martyr / or / Witt above Crowns / A Tragedy’, ‘by M^rs Anne Wharton...’ added in a later hand, 51 quarto leaves, in contemporary red morocco gilt. Inscribed (f. 1v) ‘Mary Howe’, to whom the play is dedicated, the MS therefore evidently the author's presentation copy to her. Late 17th century.

WhA 68: Anne Wharton, Love's Martyr or Witt above Crowns A Tragedy

Bookplate of Horace Walpole (1717-97), fourth Earl of Orford, author, politician and patron. Strawberry Hill sale. Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1842, item 576. Afterwards owned by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe (1781-1851), antiquary and collector. Purchased from W.H. Logan, 15 April 1871.

Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.

First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), pp. 193-282.

Add. MS 28715

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, 36 quarto leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. c.1630s.

NaR 4: Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia

Sotheby's, 8 May 1871.

This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87.

Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).

Add. MS 28758

A small octavo notebook, in English and Latin, in several hands, 140 leaves, in half-calf. Compiled, at least in part, by George Sacheverell (d.1715), including letters by him to women, begun when he was ‘resident’ at Oriel College, Oxford, in August 1651. c.1651-66.

Other inscriptions include ‘W Hippisley his Book’, ‘Lucey Hippisley’, ‘Frank Hippisley 1662’, ‘George Pudsey’, ‘Herbert Pudsey’, ‘Robert Pudsey’, ‘Sarah Chapman’, ‘G. Chapman’, and ‘Hob Knowle 1662 / 1663’.

ff. 99v-101v

• WaE 149.5: Edmund Waller, Of a War with Spain, and a Fight at Sea (‘Now, for some ages, has the pride of Spain’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon y^e warr with Spain, and y^e victory obtain'd at sea, 1656’.

First published as a broadside (London, 1658). Revised version in Samuel Carrington, History of the Life and Death of Oliver, Late Lord Protector (London, 1659). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 23-7.

Add. MS 28839

A quarto volume of ‘Divine and Morall Observations’, in verse and prose, in a neat roman hand varying in style, with later additions at the end, 61 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half black leather. Inscribed by the compiler, on an elaborate title-page (f. 1r), ‘Abygall Guilford her Booke 1672’. c.1672 [-1714].

Inscribed (top of f. 1r) ‘This Book was I conclude my Grandmother Hoopers before her Marriage’. Acquired from the Rev. H. Hooper, 9 December 1874.

f. 32r

• SiP 113.5: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book I, No. 3 (‘What length of verse can serve brave Mopsa's good to show’)

Copy, untitled.

Ringler, p. 12. Robertson, pp. 30-1.

f. 33v

• StW 753.5: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon a flake of snow fallinge into a fayre Ladies bosome’ and here beginning ‘I saw fayre Cloris walking all alone’.

ff. 34v-5r

• BcF 16.5: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’

Copy, headed ‘of the world’.

ff. 37r, 38r

• WoH 19.5: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)

Copy, headed ‘The Character of a Happy Life’.

f. 42r

• DkT 11.5: Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall (‘The Queene was brought by water to White Hall’)

Copy, following a note about the Queen's death.

f. 43r

• BrW 119.5: William Browne of Tavistock, On Mrs. Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor (‘Nature in this small volume was about’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon a young Gentlewoman’.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Facetiæ (London, 1655). Osborn, No. XLIV (p. 213), ascribed to John Hoskyns.

f. 46r

• WoH 185.5: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife (‘He first deceased. she for a little tried’)

Copy, untitled.

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.

Add. MS 28842

A quarto volume comprising two antiquarian works, in a single prdominantly secretary hand, 116 leaves, in remains of contemporary vellum within 19th-century half green morocco. c.1630.

ff. 85r-116r

• CtR 278: Sir Robert Cotton, The Manner and Meanes how the Kings of England have from time to time Supported and Repaired their Estates. Written...1609.

Copy, headed ‘Extractes out of the Records, wherein may be collected by what meanes the Kings of England have and may rayse moneyes’, unascribed, the last leaf imperfect.

Add. MS 28852

A quarto letterbook comprising letters written to Sir Edward Stradling (c.1529-1609), antiquary, of St Donat's, Glamorganshire, in at least two secretary hands, 88 leaves, in modern half red morocco. Early 17th century.

Booklabel of Sir Charles George Young, FSA (1795-1869), Garter King of Arms. Sotheby's, 18 December 1871.

f. 63v

• RaW 866: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Stradling, from the Court, 26 September 1584.

Add. MS 28927

A quarto composite volume of letters, in various hands, addressed chiefly to John Ellis (1642/6-1738), secretary of state.

ff. 4r-5r

• HbT 164: Thomas Hobbes, Letter(s)

Letter by Hobbes, entirely in the hand of his amanuensis James Wheldon, including as an enclosure ‘To find a straight line equall to halfe a quarter of a Circle’, to James Butler, Duke of Ormonde, from Chatsworth, 14[/24] August 1677. 1677.

Edited in George A. Aitken, ‘An Unpublished Letter of Thomas Hobbes’, The Academy, 27 (1885), 46 (and see also p. 80). Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 756-8, Letter 200.

Add. MS 28955

A large folio guardbook of letters and verse, in Latin, English and French, in various hands and paper sizes, 224 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco. Late 17th century.

f. 39r

• RoJ 253: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Supposed Author of a Late Poem in Defence of Satyr (‘To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain’)

Copy, in a professional hand, inscribed as by ‘L^d Rochester’, on one side of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th century.

On the verso ‘The Answer Sir Carr Scroope’ (Raile on poore feeble Scribler speak of me)

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 132-3. Walker, pp. 114-15. Love, pp. 106-7. Texts are often followed by Sir Car Scroope's ‘Answer’ (‘Raile on poor feeble Scribbler, speake of me’: Walker, p. 115. Love, p. 107).

f. 43r

• DoC 326.991: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Death of the Duke of Gloucester (‘For Gloucester's death, which sadly we deplore’)

Copy, headed ‘On the immature Death of the D of Gloucester’. c.1700s.

First published in Tom Browne, Remains (London, 1720), p. 143. Edited and discussed in Harris, pp. 184-5. Possibly by another Lord Dorset.

f. 152r-v

• MaA 222.3: Andrew Marvell, The Statue at Charing Cross (‘What can be the Mistery why Charing Cross’)

Copy, untitled, on a single folio leaf, once folded horizontally. Late 17th century.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1698). Margoliouth, I, 199-201. POAS, I, 270-3. Lord, pp. 201-4. Smith, pp. 418-19.

f. 179r-v

• RoJ 580: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing (‘Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade’)

Copy, with alterations, in a professional hand, on a single folio leaf, once folded horizontally. Late 17th century.

This MS collated in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.

First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.

Add. MS 29241

An octavo verse miscellany, inclusing Latin translations. Late 17th century.

passim

• CoA 270: Abraham Cowley, Extracts

A Latin version of verses from The Mistresse.

Add. MS 29280

Copy, in a single professional hand, a list of ‘contents’ (f. 3v) added in another hand, 55 small folio leaves, in contemporary brown morocco gilt. c.1660s.

OrR 27: Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, Mustapha

Inscribed name of ‘J. Stuart’ deleted. Purchased on 5 October 1872 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.

This MS collated in Clark.

First performed on the London stage 3 April 1665. First published, as Mustapha, The Son of Solyman the Magnificent, London, 1668. Clark, I, 225-304.

Add. MS 29304

Copy, being an expanded and rearranged version of the tract, headed ‘A breefe treatise of the question for Precedencye betwixt England and Spayne, disputed of in the dayes of Queene Elizabeth; and deuided into seuerall Chapters’, on eight quarto leaves, in modern half red leather. In the mixed hand of the Rev. John Rous (1584-1644), incumbent of Santon Downham, Suffolk. c.1620s-30s.

CtR 77: Sir Robert Cotton, A Breife Abstract of the Question of Precedencie between England and Spaine: Occasioned by Sir Henry Nevill the Queen of Englands Ambassador, and the Ambassador of Spaine, at Calais Commissioners appointed by the French King...

Bookplate of Anthony Keck. Purchased on 3 March 1873 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.

Tract, relating to events in 1599/1600, beginning ‘To seek before the decay of the Roman Empire...’. First published in London, 1642. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [73]-‘79’ [i.e. 89].

Add. MS 29409

A folio volume of ballads, comprising two MSS bound together, in possibly a single hand, 281 leaves, in half red morocco on marbled boards. Volume II of the compilations of Peter Buchan (1790-1854), the foundation of his Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1828). c.1820s.

ff. 265v-6r

• CmT 10: Thomas Campion, Canto Tertio (‘My Love bound me with a kisse’)

Copy, headed ‘Iames Heruie’, in a group of ballads ‘copied from an unprinted MS. written by Lady Robertson of Lude in 1630’.

This MS collated in Doughtie, p. 503.

First published (first strophe) among ‘sundry other rare Sonnets of diuerse Noble men and Gentlemen’ appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). Robert Jones, Second Booke of Songs and Ayres (London, 1601). Davis, p. 9. Doughtie, p. 151.

Add. MS 29492

A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly in one mixed hand, 77 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Compiled by Sir Thomas Dawes (knighted 1639). c.1623-30.

Purchased on 4 July 1873 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.

f. 5r

• HeR 136.5: Robert Herrick, His Meditation upon Death (‘Be those few hours, which I have yet to spend’)

Copy of lines 9-22, here beginning ‘Might I make choise long life should be w^thstood’, subscribed ‘Hericke Cat[?] Hall Cambridge’.

First published in Noble Numbers (London, 1647) appended to Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 392. Patrick, pp. 520-1.

f. 5v

• RaW 246.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy, untitled. subscribed ‘S^r Walter Rawliue’.

ff. 13v-16r

• RuB 4: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, March 1623/4

Copy, headed ‘S^r Beniamin Rudiers speech taken as he spake it; being y^e first in y^e greate busines concerning y^e Treaties’.

Speech beginning ‘We are bound to bless God that we are mett againe in this place. And we ought to acknowledge his Ma^ts favour towards vs...’.

f. 35r-v

• BcF 16.8: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’

Copy, untitled and unascribed.

f. 38v

• JnB 128.5: Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. (‘Would'st thou heare, what man can say’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Epigrammes (cxxiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 79.

f. 41r-v

• PeW 274: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Song (‘Draw not too near’)

Copy, untitled, written across the page with the spine of the volume turned upwards

Poems (1660), pp. 116-17, superscribed ‘P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as possibly by Strode. Authorship unknown.

f. 42v

• SuJ 27: John Suckling, A Barley-break (‘Love, Reason, Hate, did once bespeak’)

Copy, headed ‘A Barly-breake’, subscribed ‘dedit ffrancis Kneuett’.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published, untitled, in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 18-19.

f. 43r

• MiT 4: Thomas Middleton, Petition to King James (‘A harmless game raised merely for delight’)

Copy of an eight-line version, headed ‘Verses sent to King James’, subscribed ‘T. M’.

Edited from this MS in Geoffrey Bullough, ‘“The Game at Chesse”: How it Struck a Contemporary’, MLR, 49 (1954), 156-63 (p. 163); in A Game at Chess, ed. J.W. Harper (London, 1966), p. xvii; and in Oxford Middleton, with a facsimile on p. 1895.

First published in Edward Capell, The School of Shakespeare, III (London, [1780]), p. 31. Bullen, I, lxxxiii. A Game at Chesse, ed. R.C. Bald (Cambridge, 1929), p. 166. Oxford Middleton, p. 1895.

ff. 49v-51v

• MrJ 34.6: John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 (‘And art returned again with all thy faults’)

Copy, headed ‘In Ducem reducem ab Insula RE’, dated in the margin ‘A^o. i627’.

ff. 69v-70r

• CoR 649.5: Richard Corbett, To the New-Borne Prince, Upon the Apparition of a Starr, and the following Ecclypse (‘Was Heav'ne afray'd to be out-done on Earth’)

Copy, headed ‘To the newe borne Prince Charles Maye 1630 uppon the apparrition of the starre and the following Eclipse of the Sunn and Moon’, subscribed ‘Ralphe Godwyn Secretary to the Earle of Northampton fecit hos versicolos’.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 84-5.

Add. MS 29497

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in a single neat hand, with later hands at the end, 114 leaves (some leaves excised), wth an index (f. 114r-v), in 19th-century half black morocco. c.1700.

Purchased on 4 July 1873 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.

ff. 2r-3v

• DoC 340: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell (‘Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age’)

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS.

First published in A Third Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs &c (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 217-27. Discussed and Dorset's authorship rejected in Harris, pp. 190-2. The poem is noted by Alexander Pope as being ‘probably by the L^d Dorset’ in Pope's exemplum of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (London, 1705), British Library, C.28.e.15, p. 121.

ff. 42r-3r

• DoC 320: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Deist: A Satyr on the Parsons (‘Religion's a politic law’)

Copy, headed ‘The Priest Moderator’.

This MS recorded in Harris.

Unpublished. Discussed in Harris, pp. 189-90.

ff. 48r-9r

• RoJ 581: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing (‘Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade’)

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.

f. 63r et seq.

• RoJ 11.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion (‘The freeborn English Generous and wise’)

Copy.

First published in The Genius of True English-men (London, 1680). Love, p. 55 (21-line version) and pp. 257-8 (30-line version). Also attributed to Robert Wolseley.

ff. 70v-1r

• MaA 178: Andrew Marvell, The Kings Vowes (‘When the Plate was at pawne, and the fobb att low Ebb’)

Copy, headed ‘A prophetic Lampoon made Anno 1659 by y^e Duke of Buckingham relating to what would happen under King Charles y^e second’.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

First published as A Prophetick Lampoon, Made Anno 1659. By his Grace George Duke of Buckingham: Relating to what would happen to the Government under King Charles II [London, 1688/9]. Margoliouth, I, 173-5. POAS, I, 159-62. Lord, pp. 186-8, as ‘The Vows’. Discussed in Chernaik, pp. 212-14, where it is argued that it is of ‘unknown’ authorship, ‘possibly Marvell's’, and that the poem grew by accretions by different authors.

ff. 78v-9r

• DrJ 141: John Dryden, Prologue To The Prophetess. Spoken by Mr. Betterton (‘What Nostradame, with all his Art can guess’)

Copy, as ‘by John Dryden’.

This MS collated in California.

ff. 82v-3r

• DoC 289: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A True Account of the Birth and Conception of a Late Famous Poem call'd ‘The Female Nine’ (‘When Monmouth the chaste read those impudent lines’)

Copy, headed ‘Monmouth’.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in POAS, V (1971), 211-13. Harris, pp. 25-7.

f. 108v

• DoC 249: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Song (‘Phyllis, the fairest of love's foes’)

Copy, headed ‘Philis by Lord Dorset’.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Harris, pp. 81-2.

f. 109v

• DoC 326.992: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Death of the Duke of Gloucester (‘For Gloucester's death, which sadly we deplore’)

Copy.

Recorded in harris.

First published in Tom Browne, Remains (London, 1720), p. 143. Edited and discussed in Harris, pp. 184-5. Possibly by another Lord Dorset.

Add. MS 29581

A large octavo volume comprising three letters by Jeremy Taylor.

ff. 1r-2v

• *TaJ 35: Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Christopher Hatton, ‘Wensday morning’, [c1643-5]. c.1643-5.

Facsimile in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XC(c).

ff. 3r-4v

• *TaJ 34: Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Christopher Hatton, [c.1640s]. c.1640s?.

Facsimile in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, 40.

ff. 5r-19v

• TaJ 38: Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

Copy by Dr Meade of Taylor's letter to Richard Bayley, 24 December 1648. c.1648.

Add. MS 29584

A folio composite volume of letters by English and Irish prelates, chiefly addressed to Chistopher Hatton, first Viscount Hatton, in various hands, over 113 leaves.

f. 6r-v

• *TaJ 82: Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Christopher Hatton, from Dublin, 23 November 1661. 1661.

Edited in Correspondence of the Family of Hatton, ed. Sir Edward Maunde Thompson, 2 vols, Camden Society (London 1878), I, 26-7. Facsimile in Facsimiles of Royal, Historical & Literary Autographs in the British Museum (1899), No. 96.

ff. 8r-9v

• *TaJ 92: Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

Letter by Taylor, to William Hamond, from Dublin, 2 August 1662, the text in the hand of an amanuensis and signed by Taylor. 1662.

Add. MS 29587

A large folio composite volume og miscellaneous papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 205 leaves, mounted on guards, in red morocco gilt. Papers of the Hatton and Finch families, including notably Christopher Hatton (1632-1706), first Viscount Hatton, Governor of Guernsey, and his son-in-law Daniel Finch (1647-1730), second Earl of Nottingham, Secretary of State.

f. 4r-v

• EsR 274: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The manner & end of the Earle of Essex in the tower of london the 25^th of ffe: 1600’, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter. c.1602.

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

Add. MS 29598

A folio composite volume of largely original letters, in various hands, in half red morocco.

ff. 2r-4v

• RaW 867: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Winwood, in a secretary hand, imperfect. c.1620.

f. 13r

• *DnJ 4131: John Donne, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Nicholas Carew, 1 September 1624 1624.

Edited in Gosse, II, 209. Facsimile in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XLVIII(c).

f. 15r

• *DnJ 4132: John Donne, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Nicholas Carew, 17 September [1624?]. 1624.

Edited in Gosse, II, 209-10. Facsimile in Keynes, Bibliography (1958), facing p. 123.

Add. MS 29607

A folio composite volume of verse and prose, i n various hands and paper sizes, 25 leaves, in modern half red calf.

f. 1r

• CoR 6.2: Richard Corbett, Against the Opposing the Duke in Parliament, 1628 (‘The wisest King did wonder when hee spy'd’)

Copy of the answer to Corbet's poem, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Answere to y^e Doct^r. Corbetts verses’ and here beginning “The warlicke kinge did wonder when he spide”, on one side of a single folio leaf.

First published in Poems and Songs relating to George Duke of Buckingham, Percy Society (London, 1850), p. 31. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 82-3.

Most MS texts followed by an anonymous ‘Answer’ beginning ‘The warlike king was troubl'd when hee spi'd’. Texts of these two poems discussed in V.L. Pearl and M.L. Pearl, ‘Richard Corbett's “Against the Opposing of the Duke in Parliament, 1628” and the Anonymous Rejoinder, “An Answere to the Same, Lyne for Lyne”: The Earliest Dated Manuscript Copies’, RES, NS 42 (1991), 32-9, and related correspondence in RES, NS 43 (1992), 248-9.

f. 6r

• MkM 5: Mary Monck, Verses Wrote on her Death-Bed at Bath, to her Husband, in London (‘Thou, who dost all my worldly thoughts employ’)

Copy.

Add. MS 29729

A folio volume of poems by John Lydgate and others, in several secretary hand with some rubrication, 288 leaves, in 19th-century morocco. compiled by or for John Stow (1525?-1605). Chiefly in the hand of John Stow (1524/5-1605), London historian.

Puttick & Simpson's, 15 July 1874.

ff. 8r-9r

• SkJ 17: John Skelton, Of the Death of the Noble Prince, Kynge Edwarde the Forth (‘Miseremini mei, ye that be my frendis!’)

Copy, with alterations, headed ‘Here folowythe the Epitaphy of Kynge Edward y^e fowrthe complyd by [John Lidgate monke of Burie deleted] Skelton’.

This MS collated in Kinsman.

Canon, D53, pp. 16-17. First published (lacking lines 37-48) in Certaine bokes copyled by mayster Skelto (London, c.1545). Complete in Dyce (1843), I, 1-5, and in Robert S. Kinsman, ‘“A lamentable of Kyng Edward the III”’, HLQ, 29 (1966), 95-108.

Add. MS 29764

A square-shaped folio composite volume of papers largely relating to the playwright R.B. Sheridan, in various hands and paper sizes, 78 leaves, mounted on guards, in half red morocco. 1803.

ff. 9r-10v

• RaW 158: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie (‘Goe soule the bodies guest’)

Copy, headed ‘The Souls Errand’, transcribed from an unidentified source, sent with a letter by Nathaniel Ogle to Sheridan, from Southampton, 12 January in 1803, as ‘a Copy of the vigorous verses written by the great Sir Walter Raleigh, after his condemnation’.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 130.

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

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

Add. MS 29770

Copy, in a single neat rounded hand, with corrections and underlining in black ink apparently in another hand, ff. 84v-91v in another, mixed hand, headed ‘A Dialogue / Tutor. Pupil,’ 91 leaves, in half black morocco. Mid-late 17th century.

HrE 113.6: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, A Dialogue between a Tutor and his Pupil

Acquired from R. E. Lonsdale, 10 April 1875.

Griffin's ‘A’ text.

First published and attributed to Herbert in an edition by Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill, 1768).

Commonly rejected from the canon, but see arguments for possible authorial involvement of Herbert (as well as Charles Blount) in Julia Griffin, ‘Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury's A Dialogue between a Tutor and his Pupil: Some New Questions’, EMS, 7 (1998), 162-201, where the various MS texts are discussed.

Add. MS 29874

A duodecimo commonplace book of anecdotes, epigrams, etc., including a brief treatise relating to Queen's College, Oxford. Mid-17th century.

ff. 17v-18r

• RnT 481: Thomas Randolph, ‘I John Bo-peep’

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Kelliher.

Cited in an anecdote about Randolph in William Winstanley, Poor Robin's Jests (London, 1667). Hazlitt, I, xi. W. Hilton Kelliher, ‘Two Notes on Thomas Randolph’, PQ, 51. ii (1972), 941-5.

Add. MS 29921

An oblong duodecimo verse miscellany, perhaps largely in one hand, with later additions by others, generally written across the page with the spine turned upwards, 136 leaves, with (f. 2r-v) a table of contents, in half green morocco. Including ten poems by Cowley (on ff. 113r-v, 124r-9v). c.1668-1713.

Inscribed (f. 2r) ‘Several Divine poems out of a Mss. of M^r. Hanserd Knolly's (thô [I suppose deleted] not of his composing)’; (f. 36r) ‘Finis Manuscript, H. K.’; (f. 1r and elsewhere) ‘H Packwood Anno 1668’ and ‘George Gaynor, 1681’. Item 988 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Purchased on 12 February 1876 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.

f. 3v

• RoJ 283: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Rhyme to Lisbon (‘A health to Kate!’)

Copy, ascribed to Rochester.

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

First published in A Choice Collection of Poetry (London, 1738). Vieth, p. 20. Walker, p. 122.

f. 3v

• RoJ 131: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on the English Court (‘Here's Monmouth the witty’)

Copy of an untitled version beginning ‘Here's Lauderdale y^e pretty’, with an anecdotal introduction: ‘The same E. of Roch. coming in another time when y^e K. & others were drinking Lisbon, They had bin trying to make a Rhime to Lisbon, Now saies y^e K. here's One will do it. Rocheste takes a glass & saies’, subscribed ‘He drinks & ran away’.

This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

First published in The Agreeable Companion (London, 1745). Vieth, p. 135. Walker, p. 123, as ‘A Lampoon upon the English Grandees’.

f. 36r

• PsK 219.5: Katherine Philips, An ode upon retirement, made upon occasion of Mr. Cowley's on that subject (‘No, no, unfaithfull World, thou hast’)

Copy of lines 43-46, here beginning ‘At length this secret I have learn'd’, inscribed at the side ‘Orinda fol: 123 / 'tis o Cowleys Retirem^t’, transcribed from the folio edition of 1667.

First published, as ‘Ode. On Retirement’, in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663), pp. 45-8 [apparently unique extant exemplum Folger C6681.5]. as ‘Upon Mr. Abraham Cowley's Retirement. Ode’ in Poems (1664), pp. 237-42. Poems (1667), pp. 122-4. Saintsbury, pp. 575-7. Thomas, I, 193-5, poem 77.

f. 37r-v

• BrW 197: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)

Copy.

ff. 40r, 51v-2r

• ShJ 149: James Shirley, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, Act III, Song (‘The glories of our blood and state’)

Copy of the dirge, untitled, stanzas 2 and 3 separated from the first stanza, with cross-references, and all deleted.

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

f. 42r-v

• WoH 20: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)

Copy, as by ‘S^r H W.’

f. 53r

• DaJ 179: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)

Copy, headed ‘On one that died young’.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.

ff. 67v, 115v-16r

• PsK 592: Katherine Philips, Extracts

Extracts.

Discussed in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, ‘“More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd”: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the “Matchless Orinda”’, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 135-6).

f. 69r

• TaJ 120: Jeremy Taylor, Extracts

Extracts from Opuscula.

ff. 69v-71r

• SoR 39: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Content and rich (‘I dwell in grace's courte’)

Copy, headed ‘The contented man’.

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

ff. 80r-1r

• MaA 5: Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between the Soul and Body (‘O who shall, from this Dungeon, raise’)

Copy, transcribed from the printed text of 1681.

First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 21-6. Smith, pp. 63-4.

f. 81r-v

• MaA 58: Andrew Marvell, Senec. Traged. ex Thyeste Chor. 2 (‘Climb at Court for me that will’)

Copy, headed ‘Translated by M^r Marvel ubi supa. pa. 64.’, transcribed from the printed text of 1681.

This MS recorded in Margoliouth.

First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 58. Lord, p. 51. Smith, p. 191, as ‘The Second Chorus from Seneca's Tragedy Thyestes’.

f. 108r

• MaA 13: Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda (‘When Death, shall part us from these Kids’)

Fragment of a copy, now comprising only the heading and first line, ‘When death shall part us from these kids / Vide 120 / A Pastoral Dialogue’, and and lines 44-8, with corrections in a different ink, the rest torn away.

This MS recorded in Margoliouth.

First published, in a musical setting by John Gamble, in his Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659). Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 19-21. Lord, pp. 261-2, as of doubtful authorship. Smith pp. 244-5. The authorship doubted and discussed in Chernaik, pp. 207-8.

f. 114r-v

• ShJ 150: James Shirley, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, Act III, Song (‘The glories of our blood and state’)

Copy of the dirge, untitled and here beginning ‘The Glories of our Birth & State’.

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

f. 115v

• PsK 199.5: Katherine Philips, L'accord du bien (‘Order, by which all things were made’)

Copy of lines 97-100, untitled, here beginning ‘Rightly to rule one's self must be’, subscribed ‘Orinda Fol. p. 201’, transcribed from the folio edition of 1667 (p. 102).

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 195-203. Poems (1667), pp. 98-103. Saintsbury, pp. 563-4. Thomas, I, 169-73, poem 65.

f. 115v

• PsK 167.5: Katherine Philips, Invitation to the Countrey (‘Be kind, my deare Rosania, though 'tis true’)

Copy of lines 39-40, untitled, here beginning ‘Kings may be Slaves by theire own Passions hurl'd’, subscribed ‘Orinda 104’, transcribed from the folio edition of 1667.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 203-6. Poems (1667), pp. 103-4. Saintsbury, pp. 564-5. Thomas, I, 173-5, poem 66.

f. 116r

• PsK 341.5: Katherine Philips, The Soule (‘How vaine a thing is man, whose noblest part’)

Copy of lines 77-8, untitled, here beginning ‘He that comands himself is more a Prince’, subscribed ‘Orinda p. 117’, transcribed from the folio edition of 1667.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 222-8. Poems (1667), pp. 114-17. Saintsbury, pp. 571-3. Thomas, I, 185-8, poem 73.

f. 123r-v

• MaA 14: Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda (‘When Death, shall part us from these Kids’)

Copy, headed ‘A Pastoral’.

This MS collated in Margoliouth.

f. 124r

• CoA 200.5: Abraham Cowley, The well wish of A: C: to his Soueraigne King Charles (‘Greate King whose pen y^e Angells guide, whose minde’)

Copy.

Of doubtful authorship.

f. 131r

• DrJ 64.5: John Dryden, The Hind and the Panther (‘A milk white Hind, immortal and unchang'd’)

Extract, headed ‘Dryden's Hind & Panther quoted in S^r Tho. Pope Blounts Essays, Edit. 3. p. 252. A^o. 1697’, six lines here beginning ‘Of all the Tyrannies on Humane Kind’.

First published in London, 1687. Kinsley, II, 467-537. California, III, 118-200.

f. 131v

• DrJ 173.4: John Dryden, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis (‘Still shall I hear, and never quit the Score’)

Extract, four lines, with alterations, beginning ‘He that once sins’, subscribed ‘Drydens Juvenal’.

First published (‘…together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus’) in London, ‘1693’ [i.e. 1692] (as ‘By Mr. Dryden, and Several other Eminent Hands’, Dryden's contribution being the prefatory ‘Discourse concerning Satire’ and Satires I, III, VI, X and XVI). Kinsley, II, 599-740 (Dryden's contributions). California, IV, 2-252 (Dryden's contributions). Hammond, IV, 3-137.

f. 134r

• JnB 122.5: Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. (‘Would'st thou heare, what man can say’)

Copy of lines 3-6, headed ‘An Epitaph by Ben Johnson’, here beginning ‘Underneath this stone doth lie’, subscribed ‘Quoted in a Spectator saies N W.’

First published in Epigrammes (cxxiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 79.

Add. MS 29975

A large folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 157 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half green morocco.

ff. 3r-5v

• ElQ 185: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech at the Close of the Parliamentary Session, March 15, 1576

Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed ‘The Queenes most excellent Maiesties Oration in the Parliam^t howse martij 1576’, with an endorsement on the blank leaf f. 6v. Late 16th century.

This MS cited in Hartley and in Selected Works.

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

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

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

f. 9r

• ElQ 245: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Latin Rebuke to the Polish Ambassador, Paul de Jaline, July 25, 1597

Copy, in a roman hand, untitled, endorsed in a cursive secretary hand (f. 9v) ‘A speache of Q. Eliz to a Poland Ambassador’. Late 16th century.

Beginning ‘Oh quam decepta fui: Expectaui Legationem tu vero querelam, mihi adduxisti...’, in Autograph Compositions, pp. 168-9. An English version, beginning ‘O how I have been deceived! I expected an embassage, but you have brought to me a complaint...’, in Collected Works, Speech 22, pp. 332-4.

f. 108r-v

• StW 1472: William Strode, Speech to Charles I at Woodstock, 30 August 1635

Copy, in a small mixed hand, headed ‘Stroad's Speech before y^e K. at Woodstocke’, on the first two pages of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter, with an address panel (f. 109v) ‘To his much respected & kind friend M^r Robert Sawer at Stratfieldsay in Hampshire these be d[elivere]d’. c.1635.

Unpublished oration, beginning ‘Augustissime Christo proximo, homo-Deus qualis pro...’.

f. 109r

• StW 504: William Strode, On his Majesties Fleete (‘Cease now the talk of Wonders nothing rare’)

Copy, in a small mixed hand, on the second of two conjugate folio leaves, oce folded as a letter and addressed (f. 109v) ‘To his much respected & kind friend M^r Robert Sawer at Stratfieldsay in Hampshire these be d[elivere]d’.

This MS collated in Forey. See also StW 1472.

Unpublished. Forey, pp. 145-6.

Add. MS 29981

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, with a title-page (f. 2r) A Collection of Loyal Poems. Made in the Years 1714 1715 and 1716, almost entirely in a single neat hand, 157 leaves, with (ff. 3r-6v) a table of contents, in modern half-green morocco. c.1720.

Inscribed (f. 1*^v) ‘Elizabeth Susannah Hall July 22^th 1778’. Purchased from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer, 5 April 1876.

f. 36v

• DoC 216: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Statue in the Privy Garden (‘When Israel first provoked the living Lord’)

Copy, headed ‘An Allusion’.

This MS collated in Harris.

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

Add. MS 29996

A small folio volume of motets, with some later political verses, in various hands, c.220 leaves. Mid-16th to mid-17th century.

f. 70v

• CaE 14: 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 ‘Epitaph of the duke of Buckingham’.

This MS recorded in 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.