CELM: The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 30000 through 34999

Add. MS 30012

A folio composite volume of verse MSS and miscellaneous papers, in various hands, 248 leaves, in 19th-century half green morocco.

Presented by Mrs Jervis, 13 May 1876.

ff. 104r

• CoA 17.5: Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. II. Drinking (‘The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain’)

Copy.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Among Miscellanies in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 51. Sparrow, p. 50.

Musical setting by Silas Taylor published in Catch that Catch Can: or the Musical Companion (London, 1667). Setting by Roger Hill published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

ff. 135r, 146r

• CoA 271: Abraham Cowley, Extracts

Extracts from works by Cowley.

f. 137r

• WaE 531: Edmund Waller, To Amoret (‘Fair! that you may truly know’)

Copy, in double columns, on the first page of two conjugate quarto leaves. c.1700.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 58-60.

Add. MS 30076

A quarto notebook and miscellany, in Latin and English, chiefly in a small cursive largely secretary hand, closely written, 71 leaves, heavily damp-stained, in a recycled vellum sheet from a 15th-16th-century antiphoner, now within 19th-century half green morocco. Compiled by Robert Dobbes, vicar of Runcorn, Cheshire. c.1601-7.

Acquired from L. Stock, 1 July 1876.

f. 3r

• GaG 2.8: George Gascoigne, Gascoignes good nyghte (‘When thou hast spent the lingring day in pleasure and delight’)

Copy of two versions of the poem, one cancelled, in a second column.

This MS discussed in Pigman, pp. 646-8. Also edited in Mark Kilfoyle, ‘“This doubtfull shewe”: George Gascoigne and the Voices of A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres’ (University of Cambridge dissertation, 1993), 252-3, and in Arthur Brown, pp. 156-9.

First published in A Hundreth sundrie Flowres (London, [1573]).Cunliffe, I, 58-9. Prouty, pp. 163-4. Pigman, No. 65, pp. 288-9.

f. 3v

• GaG 2: George Gascoigne, Gascoignes good morrow (‘You that have spent the silent night’)

Copy, in double columns.

This MS discussed in Pigman, p. 645.

First published in A Hundreth sundrie Flowres (London, [1573]). Cunliffe, I, 55-7. Prouty, pp. 161-3. Pigman, No. 64, pp. 286-8.

f. 27v

• TiC 14: Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Lament (‘My prime of youth is but a frost of cares’)

Copy of lines 1-15, untitled, imperfect, lacking the last line.

This MS text collated in Hirsch.

First published in the single sheet Verses of Prayse and Joy Written Upon her Maiesties Preseruation Whereunto is annexed Tychbornes lamentation, written in the Towre with his owne hand, and an answer to the same (London, 1586). Hirsch, pp. 309-10. Also ‘The Text of “Tichborne's Lament” Reconsidered’, ELR, 17, No. 3 (Autumn 1987), between pp. 276 and 277. May EV 15464 (recording 37 MS texts). For the ‘answer’ to this poem, see KyT 1-2.

Add. MS 30161

A transcript of DaS 45, ‘Faithfully copied from the Original Manuscript in Skipton Castle by W. Ford [William Ford (1771-1832)], Manchester’, entitled (f. 1r) ‘Sir John Harringtons Prayse of private life MS’, also inscribed ‘Upon a blank leaf, prefixed, was written “For the Countesse Dowager of Comberland, presented by Samuel Daniell”’, on 65 quarto leaves, in modern half black morocco. Early 19th century.

DaS 46: Samuel Daniel, The Prayse of Private Life

Wills & Sotheran's sale catalogue No. 155 (25 February 1860), item 673. Acquired from J. Harvey, 11 November 1876.

Edited from this MS in McClure.

First published (and attributed to Sir John Harington) in The Letters and Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. Norman Egbert McClure (Philadelphia, 1930), pp. 323-78. Attributed to Daniel in Sellers (1930), 341-2.

Add. MS 30162

A small octavo verse miscellany, in English and Latin, all but five pages in a single hand, 78 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half morocco. Early 18th century.

Inscribed (f. 78r) ‘A. Brooke May 21^st. 1718’.

ff. 1v-2v

• RoJ 582: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing (‘Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade’)

Copy, as ‘by Lord Rochester’.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and 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 30259

A quarto volume of elegies on Venetia Digby, in a semi-calligraphic roman hand (but for subsequent scribbling in another hand on f. 13v and pagination from 1 to 48), 24 leaves, lacking a final leaf, in 19th-century half morocco. Evidently a formal MS made by or for Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-65), natural philosopher and courtier, of the poems sent to him after the death of his wife Venetia (née Stanley) on 30 April/1 May 1633. [1633].

Purchased from J. Salkeld, 13 January 1877.

ff. 1r-2r

• JnB 165: 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 Picture of the body and minde of M^ris: Venetia Stanley (since Lady Digby) made by M^r. Benjamin Johnson / The Body’.

This MS (erroneously cited as ‘Add 17’) 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. 2r-4v

• JnB 203: 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 Minde’, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnson’.

This MS (erroneously cited as ‘Add 17’), collated in Herford & Simpson.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

ff. 4v-10v

• JnB 228: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 9. Elegie on my Muse (‘'Twere time that I dy'd too, now shee is dead’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie made by M^r: Ben: Johnson to S^r: Kenelme Digby vpon the death of his Lady. Elegie On my Muse The truly honor'd Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby, who liuing gaue me leaue to call her so’, subscribed ‘Ben Johnson’.

This MS (erroneously cited as ‘Add 17’) collated in Herford & Simpson.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 283-9.

ff. 18r-19v

• RnT 107: Thomas Randolph, An Elegie upon the Lady Venetia Digby (‘Death, who'ld not change prerogatives with thee’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on the most beauteous and vertuous Ladie the Ladie Venetia Digby’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.

This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 52-3.

ff. 21r-2v

• HaW 24: William Habington, To Castara, Vpon the death of a Lady (‘Castara weepe not, though her tombe appeare’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie made by M^r: William Abington vpon the death of the Lady Venetia Digby; directed to his wife M^rs: Lucy Herbert (the Lord Powis his daughter) vnder the name of Castara’.

This MS recorded in Allott, p. 182.

First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, pp. 63-5.

f. 23r

• ToA 8: Aurelian Townshend, An Elegie Made by Mr Aurelian Townshend in remembrance of the Ladie Venetia Digby (‘What Travellers of matchlesse Venice say’)

Copy, imperfect, lacking the last two lines.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Brown.

First published in Poems from Sir Kenelm Digby's Papers, in the possession of Henry A. Bright (Roxburghe Club, London, 1877), pp. 17-19. Chambers, pp. 38-40. Brown, pp. 52-3.

Add. MS 30262

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, in various hands, 97 leaves.

f. 66r

• ChG 31: George Chapman, Document(s)

A receipt by Chapman to Philip Henslowe, relating to Chapman's ‘Pastoral Tragedy’, possibly in another cursive secretary hand, 17 July 1599, on a slip extracted, probably by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger, from the ‘Diary’ of Philip Henslowe (c.1555-1616), theatre financier, now at Dulwich College. 1599.

Facsimiles in W.W. Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XII(b); in The Henslowe Papers, ed. R.A. Foakes (London, 1977); and in Cummings, p. 197.

f. 66v

• DkT 53: Thomas Dekker, Document(s)

A receipt by Dekker to Philip Henslowe for a loan of 20 shillings, signed by Dekker, 1 August 1599, .extracted, probably by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger, from the ‘Diary’ of Philip Henslowe (c.1555-1616), theatre financier, now at Dulwich College.

Facsimile in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate X(b).

f. 88r-v

• *WaE 825: Edmund Waller, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Waller, [to ? John Evelyn], from St. James's Street, [London], 14 October 1671. 1671.

Facsimile of the second page in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate LIV. Text in Deas, p. 189.

Add. MS 30303

A duodecimo miscellany of song lyrics, in one small hand up to f. 10r, a second ungainly hand on ff. 10v-11v, eleven leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1700s.

Purchased from Mr Crumpton, 14 April 1877.

f. 5r

• SdT 22: Thomas Shadwell, Song (‘Bright was the morning cool the Air’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Bright was y^e morning Clear y^e Aire’.

This MS collated in Walmsley, loc. cit., and in Summers, V, 410-11.

First published in Thomas D'Urfey, A New Collection of Songs and Poems (London, 1683). Summers, V, 383. The poem probably by D'Urfey and the musical setting perhaps by Shadwell: see D.M. W[almsley], ‘A Song of D'Urfey's Wrongly Ascribed to Shadwell’, RES, 4 (1928), 431.

f. 5v

• DrJ 187: John Dryden, Song (‘High State and Honours to others impart’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Day, pp. 186-7.

First published in John Shurley, The Compleat Courtier (London, 1683). Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1776. Hammond, II, 149. Musical setting by John Abell published in Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).

f. 9v

• CgW 68: William Congreve, The Old Batchelour, II, ix, lines 5-17. Song (‘Thus to a ripe, consenting Maid’)

Copy, headed ‘A Song’.

First published in London, 1693. Summers, I, 155-255 (p. 186). Davis, pp. 28-113 (pp. 59-60). McKenzie, I, 47-48. Musical settings of the two songs by Henry Purcell published in [first song] Joyful Cuckoldom (London, [1690s]), and [second song] Orpheus Britannicus (London, 1698). The Works of Henry Purcell, XXI (London, 1917), pp. 33-4, 35-7.

Add. MS 30323

A small quarto volume of collections relating to Shropshire, in a single hand, with indexes, 59 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum boards. Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘June y^e 5^th W M. 1733’: i.e. by William Mytton (1693-1746), of Halston, Shropshire, Rector of Habberley, antiquary. c.1733-42.

Sotheby's, 2 May 1877. Item 22 in an unidentified sale catalogue.

ff. 19v-21v

• LeJ 78: John Leland, The Itinerary of John Leland [Other transcripts and extracts]

Extracts, headed ‘Several things excerpted out of John Lelands Itinerary; otherwise called his Collectanea’, transcribed from Ashmole MSS in the Bodleian Library.

Add. MS 30340

Copy, in a Scottish professional hand, 113 duodecimo leaves, with a title page, as ‘Written in anno. 1684’, in 19th-century half morocco. Late 17th century.

HaG 6: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, The Character of a Trimmer

Acquired from J. Pearson, 2 June 1877.

This MS collated and used in part as a copy-text in Foxcroft (as ‘MS. B’). Collated in Brown, I, 345-96.

First published, ascribed to ‘the Honourable Sir W[illiam] C[oventry]’, in London, 1688. Foxcroft, II, 273-342. Brown, I, 178-243.

Add. MS 30501

A series of extracts, entitled ‘The Art of Angling Augmented, or Extractions out of several Authors concerning Fish and Fishing, etc. ... gathered out of Mr. Walton and others’, 37 duodecimo leaves (the first numbered 53). 1664.

passim

• WtI 3: Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler

Numerous extracts.

Recorded in The Compleat Angler 1653-1676, ed. Jonquil Bevan (Oxford, 1983), p. 20.

First published in London, 1653.

Add. MS 30663

A large folio volume of French state papers, transcribed in a single French professional hand, 494 leaves, in contemporary mottled leather gilt. Made at the direction of Jean Baptiste Colbert (1619-83), Minister of Finance under Louis XIV. Late 17th century.

f. 480r-v

• RaW 736: Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Second Testamentary Note

Copy of the text in a French translation, headed ‘1618 / Confession du S^r . Walter Raleg. a l' Instan de sa mort’ and here beginning ‘Jen'ay Jamais recu aduice du Milord Carew...’.

Ralegh's note, 1618, denouncing false allegations, beginning ‘I did never receive advise from my Lord Carew to make any escape, neither did I tell ytt Stukeley...’. First published in The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Thomas Birch (London, 1751), II, 280-1. Edwards (1868), II, 494-5.

ff. 481r-6v

• RaW 728.9: Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)

Copy of the 1618 arraignment in a French translation, headed ‘Informations faictes contre le Milord Walter Raleigh. Neuf Septembre 1618’.

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

ff. 489r-93r

• RaW 815: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)

Copy of the speech in a French translation, headed ‘Dernieres parolles du Cheualeir Rauleigh traduites d'Anglois mot a mot’.

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

Add. MS 30982

A small octavo verse miscellany, written from both ends, predominantly in a single hand in variant styles (ff. 1v-79v, 80r, 88v-96v, 119r-117r rev.), with additions in later hands (ff. 97r-104v, 116v-106r rev.), 164 leaves, in modern half red morocco. Inscribed (f. 1v, in a court hand) ‘Daniell Leare his Booke’, ‘witnesse William Strode’, and (f. 164r) ‘M^r Daniell Leare eius Liber’: i.e. compiled chiefly by Daniel Leare, a distant cousin of the poet William Strode, probably at Christ Church, Oxford, before he entered the Middle Temple in 1633. c.1633 [-late 17th century].

This suggestion, by Mary Hobbs, is supported by entries in the Caution Book of 1625-41 at Christ Church, where Strode is found (p. 22) paying £10 as college security for Leare and where Leare signs (p. 23) on this sum's repayment by Dr Fell on 13 May 1633. Forey suggests (p. lxxix) that he was the Daniell Leare of St Andrews, Holburne, whose will was proved in 1652; but it is more likely that he was the Daniel Leare to whom Henry King, Dean of Rochester, leased property at Chatham on 19 July 1655 (National Archives, Kew, SP 18/99/61). Daniel Leare's wife, Dorothy, was a member of the Hubert family with whom King was associated by virtue of the marriage of his sister Dorothy.

The volume includes 12 poems by Donne; 15 poems (plus a second copy of one and three of doubtful authorship) by Carew; 20 poems (plus two of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; and 84 poems (plus second copies of eight poems, four poems of doubtful authorship and some apocryphal poems) by Strode, the texts being closely related to, and in part probably transcribed from, the ‘Corpus MS’ of Strode's poems (StW Δ 1).

Inscribed also ‘John Leare’ (probably Daniel's younger brother); (f. 1r) ‘Anthony Euans his booke’ (who married Daniel Leare's niece Dorothy Leare in 1663); (f. 1v) ‘Alexander Croke his Book 1773’; and (f. 164v) ‘John Scott’ (who matriculated at Christ Church in 1632). Rimell & Son, 9 November 1878.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Leare MS’: DnJ Δ 41, CwT Δ 15, CoR Δ 4, and StW Δ 10.

Discussed in Mary Hobbs, An Edition of the Stoughton Manuscript (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1973), pp. 185-90; in her ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 189-90); and in her Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), passim, with facsimile examples of ff. 79-80 facing p. 87.

f. 2r

• DaJ 180: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)

Copy, headed ‘On a child’ and here beginning ‘As carefull mothers to there beds doe lay’.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.

f. 2r-v

• StW 161: William Strode, In commendation of Musique (‘When whispering straines do softly steale’)

Copy, headed ‘Laus musices’.

This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.

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

ff. 2v-3r

• MoG 60: George Morley, On the Nightingale (‘My limbs were weary and my head oppressed’)

Copy, headed ‘The nightingegale’, subscribed ‘George Morly’.

f. 3r

• StW 367: William Strode, On a freind's absence (‘Come, come, I faint: thy heavy stay’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Forey.

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

ff. 3r-4v

• CoR 423: Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church (‘Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle’)

Copy, headed ‘On younge Tom of ch: ch: by D^r Corbet’.

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

f. 4v

• CoR 475: Richard Corbett, On John Dawson, Butler at Christ-Church. 1622 (‘Dawson the Butler's dead. although I thinke’)

Copy, headed ‘On John Dawson y^e buttlers deth’.

Edited from this MS in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.

First published (omitting lines 7-10) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 72-3.

f. 4v

• StW 611: William Strode, On three Dolphins sewing down Water into a white Marble Bason (‘These Dolphins, twisting each on others side’)

Copy, headed, ‘On a fountaine’.

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] S^r Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660). Dobell, p. 46. Forey, p. 185.

f. 5r

• StW 870: William Strode, Song (‘O sing a new song to the Lord’)

Copy.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 54. Forey, p. 108.

f. 5r

• StW 1114: William Strode, To a Valentine (‘Fayre Valentine, since once your welcome hand’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Forey, p. 328.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 42. Forey, p. 193.

f. 5r

• StW 1247: William Strode, With Pen, Inke and paper these to a distressed &c. (‘Here is paper, pen and Inke’)

Copy, headed ‘with yon paper & Inke, heare to a distressed’.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 101-2. Forey, pp. 15-16.

ff. 5v-6r

• StW 30: William Strode, An Answeare to an old Soldier of the Queenes (‘With a new beard but lately trimd’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey pp. 83-5.

f. 6r-v

• StW 840: William Strode, Song (‘Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Forey.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 88-9.

ff. 6v-7r

• StW 906: William Strode, Song (‘When meddow grounds wer fresh and gay’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, pp. 86-8.

f. 7r

• StW 306: William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter (‘A fitter Match hath never bin’)

Copy, headed ‘A Bucher marringe to a Tanners daughter’.

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

f. 7v

• HoJ 6: John Hoskyns, ‘A zealous Lock-Smith dy'd of late’

Copy, headed ‘On a locksmith’.

Whitlock, p. 108.

f. 8r

• CoH 102: Henry Constable, To our blessed Lady (‘In that (O Queene of queenes) thy byrth was free’)

Copy, headed ‘A Sonnet on the virgin’.

First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 5. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J. C. Grierson (2 vols, Oxford, 1912), I, 427. Grundy, p. 185.

f. 8r

• CoR 530: 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. 8r

• StW 1293: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress (‘Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde’)

Copy, headed ‘To his m^ris’.

First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

ff. 8v-10r

• StW 512: William Strode, On Mistress Mary Prideaux dying younge (‘Sleepe pretty one, oh sleepe while I’)

Copy of the sequence.

This MS recorded in Forey, p. 335.

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

f. 10r

• StW 1069: William Strode, To a frinde (‘Like as the hande which hath bin usd to play’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Like to y^e hand wh hath bin vsd to play’.

This MS collated in Dunlap and in Forey.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 99-100. The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. Rhodes Dunlap (Oxford, 1949), p. 130. Forey, p. 31.

ff. 10v-11r

• StW 1171: William Strode, To the Lady Knighton (‘Madam, due thanks are lodgde within my breast’)

Copy, headed ‘On The Lady Knighton. W: S:’.

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 94-5. Forey, pp. 53-4.

f. 11r

• CwT 122: Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris (‘Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke’)

Copy.

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

f. 11r-v

• CwT 211: Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence (‘You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Dunlap.

First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 28. Dunlap. p. 131.

ff. 11v-12r

• CwT 1137: Thomas Carew, To T.H. a Lady resembling my Mistresse (‘Fayre copie of my Celia's face’)

Copy, headed ‘Of one like his M^ris’.

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

f. 12v

• StW 76: William Strode, An Earestring (‘'Tis vaine to adde a ring or Gemme’)

Copy.

First published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] S^r Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 101. Dobell, p. 44. Forey, pp. 34-5.

f. 12v

• StW 252: William Strode, A Necklace (‘These Vaines are Natures Nett’)

First stanza first published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 386. Second stanza (‘Loe on my necke…’) first published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] S^r Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 100. Complete in Dobell, p. 45. Forey, p. 35.

f. 12v

• StW 246: William Strode, A necklace (‘Theis threades enjoy a double grace’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.

First published (as the final couplet of Strode's other posy on a necklace) in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] S^r Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 100. Dobell, p. 45. Forey, p. 210.

f. 12v

• StW 144: William Strode, A Girdle (‘When ere the wast makes too much hast’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 45-6. Forey, p. 193.

f. 13r

• StW 1217: William Strode, A watchstring (‘Tymes picture here invites your eyes’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Forey.

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

f. 13r

• StW 678: William Strode, A pursestringe (‘Wee hugg, imprison, hang and save’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 44-5. Forey, p. 210.

f. 13r

• StW 1351: William Strode, A Riddle on a Kisse (‘What thing is that, nor felt, nor seene’)

Copy, headed ‘A Kisse’.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 48-9. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 340.

f. 14r

• CwT 681: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)

Copy, headed ‘Song’ and here beginning ‘Thinke not deare Loue y^t Ile reveale’.

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

Add. MS 31356

ff. 109r-11v

• VaJ 476: Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

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

Add. MS 31916

A quarto volume of copies of eight letters by Francis Bacon, to Lord Ellesmere and James I, 1605-15, in a professional secretary hand, eight leaves, in modern black morocco. c.1620s.

BcF 579: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

Later owned by Frederic Ouvry, FSA (1815-81), lawyer and antiquary. Sotheby's, 30 March-5 April 1882 (Ouvry sale), lot 183.

Add. MS 32092

A large folio composite volume of state papers and tracts, in various hands and paper sizes, 333 leaves, mounted on guards, in half red morocco.

Volume II of papers of the Malet family, baronets, of Wilbury, Wiltshire, including papers collected and endorsed by George Harbin (c.1665-1744), nonjuror, historical writer, and librarian at Longleat to Thomas Thynne (1640-1714), first Viscount Weymouth, and his family.

f. 201r-v

• RaW 499: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘When first this circell Round, this buildinge faire’

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Certaine hellish verses devised by y^t Athiest & traitour Rawley as Yet is said’, on both sides of a folio leaf once folded as a letter, subscribed ‘finis R W. als W Rawley’ and endorsed ‘verses sayed to be written by walter Rawley knight 1603’. Early 17th century.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 28, pp. 67-9. Recorded in HMC, 5th Report (1876), Appendix, p. 311; in Latham, and in Jacquot.

First published as part of the anonymous play The First Part of the Tragicall Raigne of Selimus (London, 1594). Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 173. Rudick, No. 28, pp. 67-9.

Add. MS 32095

A tall folio composite volume of state letters and miscellaneous papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 415 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

Volume V of papers of the Malet family, baronets, of Wilbury, Wiltshire, including papers collected and endorsed by George Harbin (c.1665-1744), nonjuror, historical writer, and librarian at Longleat to Thomas Thynne (1640-1714), first Viscount Weymouth, and his family.

ff. 406r-9r

• HaG 31: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Maxims of the Great Almansor

Copy of 33 maxims on four quarto leaves, being the first of ‘Certain observations on Government With Moral Reflections. By 3: Several hands’ and dated ‘1692’. The text followed (ff. 409v-10v) by 14 supplementary maxims by Charles Montagu and (ff. 410v-14) by 44 maxims by John, Lord Somers (1697). c.1700.

This MS used in part as copy-text in Foxcroft (as ‘MS B’).

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.

Add. MS 32096

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 364 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

Volume VI of papers of the Malet family, baronets, of Wilbury, Wiltshire, including papers collected and endorsed by George Harbin (c.1665-1744), nonjuror, historical writer, and librarian at Longleat to Thomas Thynne (1640-1714), first Viscount Weymouth, and his family.

f. 184r

• MaA 34: Andrew Marvell, In eandem Reginae Sueciae transmissam (‘Bellipotens Virgo, septem Regina Trionum’)

Copy, untitled but subscribed ‘Writt under Cromwell's picture presented to y^e Queen of Sweden. by And Marvell’, on one side of a single octavo leaf. c.1700.

This MS recorded in Margoliouth.

First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 108. Lord, p. 247. Smith, p. 315, with English translation.

Add. MS 32310

An exemplum with Milton's autograph entries on a flyleaf facing the first chapter of Genesis, recording family births and deaths down to 16 March 1650/1, an entry for 2 May 1652 entered on Milton's behalf in another hand and additional entries to 3 February 1657/8 made in yet another hand. Mid-17th century.

*MnJ 118: John Milton, Bible (Authorised Version, London, 1612)

Facsimiles of the page of memoranda in Facsimiles of Royal, Historical, and Literary Autographs in the British Museum (1899), No. 95; in John Milton 1608-1674 Facsimiles of Autographs and Documents in the British Museum (London, 1908); in Milton Tercentenary: The Portraits, Prints and Writings of John Milton Exhibited at Christ's College, Cambridge, 1908 (Cambridge, 1908), facing p. 1; and in Parker, Vol. II, frontispiece. The memoranda edited in Columbia, XVIII, 274-5. Discussed in J. Milton French, ‘Milton's Family Bible’, PMLA, 53 (1938), 363-6; in Maurice Kelley, ‘The Annotations in Milton's Family Bible’, MLN, 63 (1948), 539-40; in Hanford, No. 1; and in Boswell, No. 188.

Add. MS 32376

Autograph MS, with corrections and revisions, dealing with Lady Halkett's life up to 1656, imperfect (lacking various leaves including the first page and ending), 61 small folio leaves mounted on guards, in 19th-century binding. c.1677-78.

*HaA 1: Anne, Lady Halkett, Autobiography

Donated on 15 July 1884 by William Johnston Stuart.

Edited from this MS in Nichols, in Loftis, and in Trill. Facsimiles of ff. 2r and 41r in Trill, pp. 53 and 111.

First published, as The Autobiography of Anne Lady Halkett, ed. John Gough Nichols (completed by Samuel Rawson Gardiner), Camden Society, NS 13 (London, 1875). Published in The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, ed. John Loftis (Oxford, 1979), pp. 1-87, and in Trill (2007), pp. 51-143.

Add. MS 32379

A quarto volume of state papers, principally letters and speeches of Sir Nicholas Bacon (1510-79), Lord Keeper, in several professional secretary hands, 81 leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt, now within 19th-century half red morocco. Apparently prepared by ‘Tho: Mynatts’ for presentation to Sir Christopher Hatton (c.1540-91), Lord Chancellor, with a dedicatory epistle to him (ff. 1r-2r) subscribed with Mynatts's italic signature, he describing himself as ‘a poore clerke whoe have served in her Majestys Courte of Starr Chamber’, his sources having come to his hands ‘by y^e guifte of one of his sonnes nowe in France’: i.e. Anthony Bacon (1558-1601), political intelligencer. c.1585.

Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger. Sotheby's, 9 August 1884 (Collier sale), lot 996.

f. 21r-v

• ElQ 134: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Answer to the Lords' Petition that she Marry, April 10, 1563, delivered by Lord Keeper Nicholas Bacon

Copy, headed ‘The Quenes Ma^tyes. answere to the Petitions exhibited’.

Edited from this MS in Collected Works. Partly from this MS in Hartley (his Text ii).

First published in Simonds D'Ewes, The Journalls of All the Parliaments during the Raign of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1682), pp. 107-8.

Beginning ‘Since there can be no duer debt than princes' words...’. Hartley, I, 114-15 (2 texts). Collected Works, Speech 6, pp. 79-80. Selected Works, Speech 4, pp. 42-4.

ff. 22r-4r

• ElQ 186: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech at the Close of the Parliamentary Session, March 15, 1576

Copy of Version I, headed ‘The Quenes moste excellent ma^ties. Oration in the Parliament howse 15 martij anno dni 1576’.

This MS collated in part in Hartley and in Collected Works. Cited in Selected Works and in Heisch.

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).

ff. 59r-60v

• WyT 427: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Thomas Wyatt to his son (15 April 1537)

Copy, headed ‘A letter of S^r Thomas Wyat vnto his sonne’.

Letter beginning ‘In as mitch as now ye ar come to sume yeres of vnderstanding...’, dated from Paris 15 April. Muir, Life & Letters, pp. 38-41.

ff. 61r-2v

• WyT 436: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Thomas Wyatt to his son (Autumn 1537)

Copy, headed ‘A second letter of the saide S^r Thomas Wyat vnto his sonne’.

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

Add. MS 32463

A quarto miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, in a single neat rounded hand, including (ff. 126r-9v) a list of contents, 129 leaves, in half brown morocco. Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘The following Collection has been the Employment of some leisure Hours; several of the Pieces have since appear'd in Print...’. c.1730s.

Presented by Edward Gilbertson, 9 May 1885.

ff. 17v-18r

• DoC 217: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Statue in the Privy Garden (‘When Israel first provoked the living Lord’)

Copy, headed ‘The Allusion’.

This MS collated in Harris.

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

f. 39v

• DnJ 2274.5: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)

Copy.

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

ff. 98v-9v

• CgW 27: William Congreve, Letter to Viscount Cobham (‘Sincerest Critick of my Prose, or Rhime’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epistle from M^r. Congreve at Bath to Lord Cobham at Stowe. Aug^t. 24. 1728’.

First published, as ‘Of Improving the Present Time’, London, 1729. Summers, IV, 177-8. Dobrée, pp. 400-2. McKenzie, II, 486-8.

Add. MS 32494

An octavo commonplace book compiled by Gabriel Harvey, 52 leaves.

Later owned by James Crossley (1800-83), author and book collector (his note on f. 1r). Sotheby's, 20 June 1885 (Crossley sale), lot 3002.

ff. 1r-52r

• *HvG 6: Gabriel Harvey, Commonplace Books

Harvey's autograph commonplace book, in Latin and English, very closely written, with his extracts from innumerable books reflecting his literary, classical, linguistic and other interests.

Selections of this MS edited in Moore Smith, pp. 87-109.

Add. MS 32495

Copy, probably in three mixed hands, with corrections and alterations in the introduction, imperfect, lacking the first part of the introduction, 32 folio leaves, in half green morocco. c.1620s-30s.

FaE 5: Edward Fairfax, A Discourse of Witchcraft

Fairfax sale, 1831, item 142. Subsequently owned by James Crossley (1800-83), author and book collector. Sotheby's, 20 June 1885 (Crossley sale).

Formerly considered autograph, because of the alterations, but there is no evidence here of authorial attention. Edited from this MS in 1858/9 edition.

Facsimile of part of f. 12r in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate XLVI(c).

First published in Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 5 (London, 1858-9), No. 3, ed. R. Monckton Milnes. Edited by William Grainge as Daemonologia (Harrogate, 1882; reprinted in London, 1971).

Add. MS 32496

A tall folio miscellany, in a single mixed hand, compiled by Miles Gale (d.1721), rector of Keighley, Yorkshire, 123 leaves, in half green morocco. Early 18th century.

Later owned by James Crossley (1800-83), author and book collector. Sotheby's, 20 June 1885 (Crossley sale).

ff. 3v-42v

• FaE 6: Edward Fairfax, A Discourse of Witchcraft

Copy of the complete work, together with (ff. 2r, 43r-79r) pen and ink drawings of members of the Fairfax family, witches and their familiars, etc.

This MS recorded but not collated by editors.

Add. MS 32567

One of a series of seventeen commonplace books and ‘Recollections’ of the Rev. John Mitford (1781-1859), literary scholar, 367 small octavo leaves. 1847-56.

ff. 101r-3r

• DrJ 346: John Dryden, Letter(s)

Copy by John Mitford of Dryden's letter to Elizabeth Steward, 23 November 1698 (erroneously dated ‘1692’). 1848.

Add. MS 32625

A folio composite volume of Butler's papers, almost entirely autograph, 236 leaves. c.late 1660s-70s.

Sotheby's, 19 November 1885 (stock of the bookseller F.S. Ellis), lot 803.

The MS as a whole

• *BuS 5: Samuel Butler, Remains

A collection of numerous autograph drafts and fair copies bound together (somewhat irregularly) on different sizes and foldings of paper, the majority folio, now all mounted on guards; containing approximately 15,700 lines of verse and a thousand passages of prose averaging about ninety words per passage; including (ff. 2-82) verse passages, usually written in double columns, under a series of headings (some occurring more than once), principally: ‘Wit & Folly’, ‘Modern War’, ‘Cowardise’, ‘Nature’, ‘Learning’, ‘Bookes & Schooles’, ‘Truth’, ‘Conscience’, ‘Love’, ‘Honor’, ‘Magique’, ‘Astrology’, ‘War’, ‘Religion’, ‘Marriag’, ‘Chymistry’, ‘Hope’, ‘Government’, ‘Custome’, ‘Cruelty’, ‘Arts & Sciences’, ‘Antiquity’, ‘Popery’, ‘Opinion’, ‘Folly’, ‘The Burning of the Rump’, ‘The Moon’, ‘Trade’, ‘Time’, ‘Stinke’, ‘Art’, ‘Treachery’, ‘Gluttony’,‘Absurdities’, ‘Fortune’, ‘Feare’, ‘Wit’, ‘Pride’, ‘Virtuoso’, ‘Friendship’, ‘Treachery’, ‘Law’, ‘The world’, ‘Fanatiques’, ‘Theft’, ‘The Populace’, ‘Rabble’, ‘Women’, ‘Poetry’, ‘History’, ‘Nonsense’, ‘Learning & Devotion’, ‘Injustice’, ‘Avarice’, ‘Vice’, ‘Wealth’, ‘Lust’, ‘Writers’, ‘Physique’, ‘Zeal’, ‘Courage’, ‘Numbers’, ‘The Sea’, ‘Prelates’, ‘Infancy’, ‘Vulgarity and Morality’; together with some verse ‘Additions to Hudibras’ (f. 79), a verse fragment ‘On Phil Nyes thanksgiving Beard’ (ff. 83v-3), a draft passage originally for Hudibras, Book III, canto iii (f. 139), a ballad (ff. 84v-5) and other verse satires and fragments (ff. 85v, 86v-7, 88-9, 90-138v, 217v); also with drafts of two letters by Butler to a gentleman, 28 June [no year], and to his sister[-in-law], [no date] (ff. 1-86); a series of draft prose satires, observations and reflections (on ff. 84, 87v, 89v, 144-217, 218-36v) on subjects similar to his verse observations, including:

‘Antiquaries’, ‘Religion’, ‘Law’, ‘Government’, ‘Learning & Knowledge’, ‘Truth & Falsehood’, ‘Wit & Folly’, ‘Ignorance’, ‘Reason’, ‘Virtue & Vice’, ‘Opinion’, ‘Nature’, ‘History’, ‘Physique’, ‘Princes & Government’, ‘Criticisms upon Bookes & Authors’ (ff. 196-205), and ‘Contradictions’, together with other prose passages, including five Characters (‘Bankrupt’, ‘War’, ‘A Horse-corser’, ‘Church-warden’ and ‘Covetous Man’, on ff. 235-6v, 230-1v); some prose notes and lists on ff. 141-3v added later by John Clarke (1743/4-89); these papers forming a portion of those bequeathed by Butler to William Longueville (1639-1721) and containing some marginal notes in Longueville's hand; later used by Robert Thyer (1709-81), who has added pencil crosses in the margin to denote passages he wished to transcribe (see BuS 6).

Most of this MS edited, at various times, in re-arranged selections, in Thyer (1759, and also editions of 1822 and 1827) [viz. verse, including ‘additions to Hudibras’]; in Waller (1908) [viz. Characters and most of the verse and some prose]; and in De Quehen, Prose (1979), pp. 1-246 [viz. Characters, letters and miscellaneous prose]. The MS discussed notably in De Quehen, Editing and Prose (esp. pp. xxxix-xlvii).

Facsimile examples of ff. 1 and 139 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate LX; of f. 139 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 49; of f. 196 in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, 144; of f. 202v in De Quehen, Editing, p. 80 (plate V); of ff. 235 and 202v in De Quehen, Prose, after p. xxxviii; of f. 79r in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile IV, after p. xxiv; of ff. 79r, 139r, 202v and 235r in DLB, 126 (1993), pp. 30-2; and of f. 79r and one of the draft letters in Chris Fletcher, et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, [2000]), pp. 78-9.

f. 1r

• *BuS 9: Samuel Butler, Letter(s)

Autograph draft of a letter by Butler, to an unidentified gentleman, 28 June [no year], and to his sister[-in-law], [no date] (ff. 1, 86).

Edited (with BuS 9.5) in De Quehen, Prose, pp. 242-4. Facsimile of the signed subscription in John Thane, British Autography (1793 etc.), Vol. III.

f. 86r

• *BuS 9.5: Samuel Butler, Letter(s)

Autograph draft of a letter by Butler, to his sister[-in-law], [no date].

Edited (with BuS 9) in De Quehen, Prose, pp. 242-4.

Add. MS 32626

Folio, 154 leaves; composite volume of selective transcripts of, and systematically, arranged extracts from, Butler's autograph literary remains in verse and prose. Folio, 154 leaves; composite volume of selective transcripts of, and systematically, arranged extracts from, Butler's autograph literary remains in verse and prose, made by Robert Thyer (1709-91); a substantial part transcribed from BuS 5; much, principally 66 prose Characters (ff. 82-147v), transcribed from Butler's ‘lost’ MSS; this MS retained by Thyer and not given to the publisher to be edited in his Genuine Remains (1759); including (f. 2) a letter by Jacob Tonson, 8 January 1756, discussing the printing of Thyer's forthcoming edition, other related notes by Thyer, and (ff. 150-4) lists of Butler's MSS in his possession. c.1750s.

BuS 6: Samuel Butler, Remains

Sold in the Ellis sale at Sotheby's, 19 November 1885, in lot 803.

The Characters in this MS edited in Waller (1908), pp. 197-267, and in Daves (1970, pp. 247-319). The MS briefly discussed in De Quehen, Editing and Prose, passim.

Add. MS 32679

A folio composite volume of correspondence of the Holles family of Houghton, Nottinghamshire, 67 leaves.

f. 18r

• *VaJ 464: Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

Autograph memorandum signed by Vanbrugh (imperfect), concerning the Duke of Marlborough's will, 18 November 1712. A scribal abstract of the will is on f. 57r. 1712.

Edited in Works, IV, 53 (No. 41, misdated ‘10th’ November). Facsimile in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, 167.

ff. 21r-2r

• *VaJ 238: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph copy of Vanbrugh's letter to [the Duchess of Marlborough], 6 November 1716. 1716.

Edited (from Coxe's transcript) in Works, IV, 83-4 (No. 70).

f. 23r

• VaJ 242: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to the Duchess of Marlborough, from Whitehall, 8 November 1716. c.1716.

Add. MS 32685

A composite volume of letters, chiefly to Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle.

ff. 47r-8v

• *CgW 104: William Congreve, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, from Wotton, 9 August 1719. 1719.

Hodges, No. 88. McKenzie, III, 183-4 (Letter 65).

ff. 49r-50v

• *CgW 106: William Congreve, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, [November 1719?]. 1719?.

Hodges, No. 134. McKenzie, III, 184-5 (Letter 67). Facsimile in Richard Garnett & Edmund Gosse, English Literature: An Illustrated Record, 4 vols (London, 1903), III, 165.

Add. MS 32686

A folio composite volume of official correspondence of Thomas Pelham Holles, Duke of Newcastle, in various hands, 447 leaves. Volumr I of the Newcastle General Correspondence.

ff. 104r-5r

• *VaJ 252: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [a lady in the household of the Earl of Carlisle], from Greenwich, 30 April [1717]. 1717.

Edited in Kerry Downes, ‘Vanbrugh's Heslington Lady’, Burlington Magazine, 124 (March 1982), 153-5.

Add. MS 32687

A folio composite volume of official correspondence of Thomas Pelham Holles, Duke of Newcastle, in various hands, 562 leaves. Volume II of the Newcastle Home Correspondence.

f. 46r

• *VaJ 360: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke [of Newcastle], from Greenwich, 10 July 1724. 1724.

Edited in Works, IV, 161 (No. 158).

f. 52r

• *VaJ 361: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke [of Newcastle], from [Scarborough], 23 August 1724. 1724.

Edited in Works, IV, 161-2 (No. 159).

Add. MS 33064

A folio composite volume of correspondence of the Duke of Newcastle, in various hands, 503 leaves. Volume I of the Newcastle Correspondence.

ff. 44r-5v

• *VaJ 200: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [Thomas Pelham-Holles, Earl of Clare, afterwards fourth Duke of Newcastle], from Whitehall, 4 February 1714[/5]. 5 February 1715.

Edited in Works, IV, 61-2 (No. 51).

ff. 114r-15v

• *VaJ 244: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke of Newcastle, from Whitehall, 15 November 1716. 1716.

Edited in Works, IV, 86-7 (No. 73).

ff. 122r-3v

• *VaJ 245: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Duke of Newcastle], from Whitehall, 27 November 1716. 1716.

Edited in Works, IV, 87-8 (No. 74).

ff. 127r-8v

• *VaJ 258: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke of Newcastle, 3 July 1717. 1717.

Edited in Works, IV, 94 (No. 77).

f. 129r-v

• *VaJ 260: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke [of Newcastle], from Bath, 9 October 1717. 1717.

Edited in Works, IV, 94 (No. 78).

ff. 130r-1v

• *VaJ 265: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke of Newcastle, ‘Sunday Night’ [1717]. 1717.

Edited in Works, IV, 97-8 (No. 82).

ff. 135r-6v

• *VaJ 264: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke of Newcastle, from Greenwich, 21 December 1717. 1717.

Edited in Works, IV, 96 (No. 80).

ff. 137r-8v

• *VaJ 266: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke of Newcastle, ‘Friday One o Clock’ [1717]. 1717.

Edited in Works, IV, 96-7 (No. 81).

f. 147r

• *VaJ 253: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke [of Newcastle], from Greenwich, ‘May day’ [1717]. 1717.

Edited in Works, IV, 98-9 (No. 84).

ff. 148r-9v

• *VaJ 271: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [Peter] Forbes, from Greenwich, 4 July 1718. 1718.

Edited in Works, IV, 99 (No. 86).

ff. 156r-7v

• *VaJ 273: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke of Newcastle, from Whitehall, 7 August 1718. 1718.

Edited in Works, IV, 100 (No. 87).

f. 158r-v

• *VaJ 275: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke [of Newcastle], 30 August 1718. 1718.

Edited in Works, IV, 101 (No. 88).

ff. 160r-1v

• *VaJ 276: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke of Newcastle, from Greenwich, 17 September 1718. 1718.

Edited in Works, IV, 101 (No. 89).

f. 162r

• *VaJ 285: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke [of Newcastle], from Greenwich, ‘Saturday’ [1718]. 1718.

Edited in Works, IV, 102 (No. 90).

f. 163r-v

• *VaJ 274: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke [of Newcastle], from Greenwich, ‘Sunday’ [September 1718]. 1718.

Edited in Works, IV, 102 (No. 91).

f. 165r-v

• VaJ 278: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Vanbrugh to [the Earl of Suffolk], from Whitehall, 30 October 1718. 1718.

Edited in Works, IV, 103-4 (No. 93).

ff. 167r-8v

• *VaJ 279: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke of Newcastle, from Greenwich, 29 November 1718. 1718.

Edited in Works, IV, 105 (No. 96).

ff. 169r-70v

• *VaJ 280: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke of Newcastle, from Nottingham, 17 December 1718. 1718.

Edited in Works, IV, 105-6 (No. 97).

ff. 171r-3v

• *VaJ 281: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke [of Newcastle], from Castle Howard, 25 December 1718. 1718.

Edited in Works, IV, 107-8 (No. 98).

ff. 175r-6v

• *VaJ 286: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke of Newcastle, ‘Friday’ [1718]. 1718.

Edited in Works, IV, 104 (No. 94).

ff. 177r-8r

• *VaJ 287: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke [of Newcastle], from Castle Howard, 4 January 1718/19. 1719.

Edited in Works, IV, 108-9 (No. 99).

ff. 179r-80v

• *VaJ 288: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke [of Newcastle], from York, 12 January 1718/19. 1719.

Edited in Works, IV, 109-10 (No. 100).

ff. 181r-2r

• *VaJ 289: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke [of Newcastle], from Nottingham, 24 January 1718/19. 1719.

Edited in Works, IV, 110-11 (No. 101).

f. 183r-v

• *VaJ 293: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke of Newcastle, from London, 23 July 1719. 1719.

Edited in Works, IV, 113 (No. 103).

f. 185r-6r

• *VaJ 294: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Duke of Newcastle], from Whitehall, 6 August 1719. 1719.

Edited in Works, IV, 113-15 (No. 104).

ff. 187r-8v

• *VaJ 295: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke of Newcastle, from London, 11 August 1719. 1719.

Edited in Works, IV, 115-16 (No. 106).

ff. 189r-90v

• *VaJ 296: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke of Newcastle, 15 August 1719. 1719.

Edited in Works, IV, 116-17 (No. 107).

ff. 193r-4r

• *VaJ 297: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Earl of Sunderland? or Stanhope?], from London, 10 September 1719. 1719.

Edited in Works, IV, 117-18 (No. 108).

f. 195r-v

• *VaJ 300: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke [of Newcastle], from Whitehall, 23 November 1719. 1719.

Edited in Works, IV, 120-1 (No. 112).

f. 197r-v

• *VaJ 312: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke [of Newcastle], from London, 15 September 1720. 1720.

Edited in Works, IV, 126 (No. 117).

ff. 201r-2r

• *VaJ 325: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke [of Newcastle], from Castle Howard, 8 August 1721. 1721.

Edited in Works, IV, 136-7 (No. 129).

ff. 203r-4v

• *VaJ 326: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Brigadier Watkins, from York, 26 August 1721. 1721.

Edited in Works, IV, 137-8 (No. 130).

ff. 206r-v

• *VaJ 330: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke [of Newcastle], 11 February 1721/2. 1722.

Edited in Works, IV, 140-1 (No. 133).

f. 216r

• *VaJ 345: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke [of Newcastle], from Greenwich, 19 January 1722/3. 1723.

Edited in Works, IV, 150 (No. 142).

ff. 226r-7r

• *VaJ 347: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke [of Newcastle], from Greenwich, 30 July 1723. 1723.

Edited in Works, IV, 150-1 (No. 143). Register, No. 3191.

ff. 228r-9v

• *VaJ 348: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Peter Forbes, from Greenwich, 3 August 1723. 1723.

Edited in Works, IV, 151 (No. 144).

f. 232r-v

• *VaJ 349: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke [of Newcastle], from Castle Howard, 20 August 1723. 1723.

Edited in Works, IV, 151-2 (No. 145).

f. 238r

• *VaJ 350: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke [of Newcastle], from Greenwich, 1[?] November [1723]. 1723.

Edited in Works, IV, 82-3 (No. 69, dated there ‘[1716?]’).

f. 242r-v

• *VaJ 353: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke [of Newcastle], from Greenwich, 22 December 1723. 1723.

Edited in Works, IV, 153-4 (No. 148).

f. 247r

• *VaJ 362: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke [of Newcastle], from Castle Howard, 28 August 1724. 1724.

Edited in Works, IV, 162 (No. 160).

ff. 260r-1v

• *VaJ 283: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke [of Newcastle],‘Thursday Night’ [1718]. 1718.

Edited in Works, IV, 103 (No. 92).

f. 262r

• *VaJ 267: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Duke of Newcastle], [1717]. [1717].

Edited in Works, IV, 98 (No. 83).

f. 264r

• *VaJ 306: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke [of Newcastle], [1719]. 1719.

Edited in Works, IV, 115 (No. 105).

ff. 266r-7v

• *VaJ 282: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke of Newcastle, from Whitehall, ‘Thursday Night’ [1718]. 1718.

Edited in Works, IV, 154 (No. 149, among letters for 1723).

ff. 268r-9v

• *VaJ 284: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke of Newcastle,‘Friday Night late’ [1718]. 1718.

Edited in Works, IV, 104-5 (No. 95).

ff. 270r-1v

• *VaJ 263: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke of Newcastle, [from Whitehall], ‘Tuesday Night’ [November 1717]. 1717.

Edited in Works, IV, 155 (No. 151, among letters of 1723).

ff. 272r-3v

• *VaJ 305: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke of Newcastle, from Greenwich, ‘Sunday’ [1719]. 1719.

Edited in Works, IV, 119 (No. 110).

ff. 274r-5v

• *VaJ 197: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [Thomas Pelham-Holles], Earl of Clare [afterwards fourth Duke of Newcastle], ‘Saturday Night’ [Autumn 1714 or early 1715]. 1714-5.

Edited in Works, IV, 61 (No. 50).

ff. 276r-7r

• *VaJ 254: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to an unidentified correspondent, with an architectural drawing enclosed,‘May day’ [1717]. 1717.

Edited in Works, IV, 99 (No. 85).

ff. 279r-80v

• *VaJ 304: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke of Newcastle, from Whitehall, ‘Wednesday’ [1719]. 1719.

Edited in Works, IV, 118-19 (No. 109).

ff. 281v

• *VaJ 268: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke of Newcastle, from Whitehall, ‘Tuesday’ [1717-18]. 1717-8.

Edited in Works, IV, 155 (No. 152, among letters of 1723).

ff. 283r-4v

• *VaJ 354: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke of Newcastle, ‘Monday, 12 aClock’. [1723?]. 1723.

Edited in Works, IV, 154-5 (No. 150).

ff. 285r-6v

• *VaJ 269: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to the Duke of Newcastle, from Whitehall, ‘5 a Clock’ [1717-18]. 1717-8.

Edited in Works, IV, 155-6 (No. 153, among letters of 1723).

Add. MS 33219

An octavo volume of 87 English poems by Crashaw, in a single predominantly italic hand (as in CrR 232), 50 leaves, in contemporary silvered silk boards. Possibly prepared as a presentation copy (? by the author) to a lady, addressed as ‘Faire one’ in two dedicatory poems at the beginning (‘at th' Iuory Tribunall of your hand/ (Faire one) these tender leaues doe tremling stand…’), or else a transcript of such a copy. c.1630s.

Purchased from Bull and Auvache, 34-35 Hart Street, Bloomsbury, 13 November 1886. NB. This MS (once believed to be autograph) was discovered by William Thomas Brooke, finder of the Dobell MSS of Thomas Traherne: see his account in the Bodleian, MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 54-8.

Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Bull MS: CrR Δ 4. Crashaw's work edited in part, and collated, in Grosart (Supplement) and in Martin (cited A3); cited in a review ‘New Poems by Crashaw’, in The Saturday Review (17 March 1888), pp. 323-4, and discussed in Martin, pp. lxxiii-lxxvi; the dedicatory poems edited in Martin, pp. 397-8. Reduced facsimile of f. 2r in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, 62 (see CrR 3, CrR 180, CrR 186).

f. 1r

• CrR 12: Richard Crashaw, At th'Iuory Tribunall of your hand

Edited from this MS in Grosart (Supplement) and in Martin.

First published in Grosart, Supplement (1888). Martin p. 397.

f. 1r-v

• CrR 239: Richard Crashaw, ‘Though now 'tis neither May nor June’

Edited from this MS in Grosart (Supplement) and in Martin.

First published in Grosart, Supplement (1888). Martin, pp. 397-8.

f. 2r

• CrR 186: Richard Crashaw, On the water of our Lords Baptisme (‘Each blest drop, on each blest limme’)

Copy, under a general heading ‘Diuine Epigrams’.

This MS collated in Martin. Reduced facsimile in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, 62.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 85.

f. 2r

• CrR 81: Richard Crashaw, Joh. 3. But men loved darknesse rather than Light (‘The worlds light shines, shine as it will’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin. Reduced facsimile in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, 62.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 97.

f. 2r

• CrR 3: Richard Crashaw, Act. 8. On the baptized Aethiopian (‘Let it no longer be a forlorne hope’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin. Reduced facsimile in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, 62.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 85.

f. 2r

• CrR 180: Richard Crashaw, On the miracle of multiplyed loaves (‘See here an easie Feast that knowes no wound’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin. Reduced facsimile in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, 62.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 86.

f. 2v

• CrR 330: Richard Crashaw, The Widowes Mites (‘Two Mites, two drops, (yet all her house and land)’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 86.

f. 2v

• CrR 104: Richard Crashaw, Luk. 15. On the Prodigall (‘Tell me bright Boy, tell me my golden Lad’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 86.

f. 2v

• CrR 176.5: Richard Crashaw, On the Miracle of Loaves (‘Now Lord, or never, they'l beleeve on thee’)

Copy.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 88.

f. 2v

• CrR 1.5: Richard Crashaw, Act. 5. The sicke implore St. Peter's shadow (‘Vnder thy shadow may I lurke a while’)

Copy.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 87.

f. 2v

• CrR 245: Richard Crashaw, To Pontius washing his hands (‘Thy hands are washt, but ô the waters spilt’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Grosart (Supplement). Collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 88.

f. 3r

• CrR 184: Richard Crashaw, On the still surviving markes of our Saviours wounds (‘What ever story of their crueltie’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 86-7.

f. 3r

• CrR 315: Richard Crashaw, Vpon the Sepulchre of Our Lord (‘Here, where our Lord once laid his Head’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

f. 3r

• CrR 111: Richard Crashaw, Mar. 7. The dumbe healed, and the people enjoyned silence (‘Christ bids the dumbe tongue speake, it speakes, the sound’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 87.

f. 3r

• CrR 225: Richard Crashaw, Sampson to his Dalilah (‘Could not once blinding me, cruell, suffice?’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 102.

f. 3v

• CrR 126: Richard Crashaw, Mat. 28. Come see the place where the Lord lay (‘Show me himselfe, himselfe (bright Sir) O show’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 87.

f. 3v

• CrR 169: Richard Crashaw, On the Blessed Virgins bashfulnesse (‘That on her lap she casts her humble Eye’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 89.

f. 3v

• CrR 247: Richard Crashaw, To the Infant Martyrs (‘Goe smiling soules, your new built Cages breake’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 88.

f. 4r

• CrR 109: Richard Crashaw, Marke 4. Why are yee afraid, O yee of little faith? (‘As if the storme meant him’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 88-9.

f. 4r

• CrR 265: Richard Crashaw, Vpon Lazarus his Teares (‘Rich Lazarus! richer in those Gems, thy Teares’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 89.

f. 4v

• CrR 257: Richard Crashaw, Two went up into the Temple to pray (‘Two went to pray? ô rather say’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 89.

f. 4v

• CrR 275: Richard Crashaw, Vpon the Asse that bore our Saviour (‘Hath onely Anger an Omnipotence’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 90.

f. 4v

• CrR 310: Richard Crashaw, Vpon the Powder Day (‘How fit our well-rank'd Feasts doe follow’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 185.

f. 5r

• CrR 115: Richard Crashaw, Matthew 8. I am not worthy that thou should'st come under my roofe (‘Thy God was making hast into thy roofe’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 90.

f. 5r

• CrR 68: Richard Crashaw, I am the Doore (‘And now th'art set wide ope, The Speare's sad Art’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 90.

f. 5r

• CrR 117: Richard Crashaw, Matthew. 9. The blind cured by the word of our Saviour (‘Thou speak'st the word (thy word's a Law)’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 91.

ff. 5v-6r

• CrR 120: Richard Crashaw, Matthew. 22 Neither durst any man from that Day aske him any more Questions (‘Midst all the dark and knotty Snares’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Grosart (Supplement); collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 92.

f. 6r

• CrR 124: Richard Crashaw, Matthew. 27. And he answered them nothing (‘O mighty Nothing! unto thee’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 91.

f. 6r

• CrR 241: Richard Crashaw, To our Lord, upon the Water, made Wine (‘Thou water turn'st to Wine (faire friend of Life’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 91.

f. 6r

• CrR 272: Richard Crashaw, Vpon our Saviours Tombe wherein never man was laid (‘How life and Death in Thee Agree?’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

f. 6v

• CrR 79: Richard Crashaw, Is it better to go to Heaven with one eye, &c. (‘One Eye? a thousand rather, and a Thousand more’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

f. 6v

• CrR 102: Richard Crashaw, Luk. 11. Vpon the dumbe Devill cast out, and the slanderous Jewes put to silence (‘Two Devills at one blow thou hast laid flat’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

f. 6v

• CrR 97: Richard Crashaw, Luke 10. And a certaine Priest comming that way looked on him and passed by (‘Why dost Thou wound my wounds, ô Thou that passest by’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 94.

f. 7r

• CrR 243: Richard Crashaw, To Pontius washing his blood-stained hands (‘Is murther no sin? or a sin so cheape’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 94-5.

f. 7r

• CrR 304: Richard Crashaw, Vpon the Infant Martyrs (‘To see both blended in one flood’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 95.

f. 7v

• CrR 100: Richard Crashaw, Luke 11. Blessed be the paps which Thou hast sucked (‘Svppose he had been Tabled at thy Teates’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 94.

f. 7v

• CrR 122: Richard Crashaw, Matthew 23. Yee build the Sepuchres of the Prophets (‘Thou trim'st a Prophets Tombe, and dost bequeath’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 95.

f. 7v

• CrR 113: Richard Crashaw, Marke 12. Give to Caesar — And to God — (‘All we have is God's, and yet’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 96.

f. 8r

• CrR 86: Richard Crashaw, Joh. 16. Verily I say unto you, yee shall weep and lament (‘Welcome my Griefe, my Ioy. how deare's’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 95.

f. 8r

• CrR 84: Richard Crashaw, Joh. 15. Vpon our Lords comfortable discourse with his Disciples (‘All Hybla's honey, all that sweetnesse can’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 95.

f. 8r

• CrR 16: Richard Crashaw, But now they have seen, and hated (‘Seene? and yet hated thee? they did not see’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 96.

f. 8v

• CrR 107: Richard Crashaw, Luke 16. Dives asking a drop (‘A drop, one drop, how sweetly one faire drop’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 96.

f. 8v

• CrR 317: Richard Crashaw, Vpon the Thornes taken downe from our Lords head bloody (‘Know'st thou this, Souldier? 'tis a much chang'd plant, which yet’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 96-7.

f. 8v

• CrR 94: Richard Crashaw, Luc. 7. She began to wash his feet with teares and wipe them with the haires of her head (‘Her eyes flood lickes his feets faire staine’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 97.

f. 9r

• CrR 158: Richard Crashaw, On St. Peter cutting of Malchus his eare (‘Well Peter dost thou wield thy active sword’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 97.

f. 9r

• CrR 6: Richard Crashaw, Act. 21. I am ready not onely to be bound but to dye (‘Come, death, come bands, nor do you shrink, my cares’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 98.

f. 9r

• CrR 156.5: Richard Crashaw, On St. Peter casting away his Nets at our Saviours call (‘Thou hast the art on't Peter. and canst tell’)

Copy.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 98.

f. 9v

• CrR 193: Richard Crashaw, Our Lord in his Circumcision to his Father (‘To these first fruits of my growing death’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 98-9.

f. 10r

• CrR 190: Richard Crashaw, On the wounds of our crucified Lord (‘O these wakefull wounds of thine!’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 99.

f. 10v

• CrR 21: Richard Crashaw, Easter day (‘Rise, Heire of fresh Eternity’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 100.

f. 11r-v

• CrR 166: Richard Crashaw, On the bleeding wounds of our crucified Lord (‘Iesu, no more, it is full tide’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 101-2.

f. 12r

• CrR 155: Richard Crashaw, On our crucified Lord Naked, and bloody (‘Th' have left thee naked Lord, O that they had’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 100.

ff. 13r-14r

• CrR 216: Richard Crashaw, Psalme 23 (‘Happy me! ô happy sheepe!’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 102-4.

ff. 14v-15r

• CrR 220: Richard Crashaw, Psalme 137 (‘On the proud bankes of Great Euphrates flood’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 104-5.

ff. 15v-18r

• CrR 325: Richard Crashaw, The Weeper (‘Haile Sister Springs’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

ff. 18v-19r

• CrR 235: Richard Crashaw, The Teare (‘What bright soft thing is this?’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 84-5.

ff. 19v-21r

• CrR 198: Richard Crashaw, Out of Grotius his Tragedy of Christes sufferinges (‘O thou the span of whose Omnipotence’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Grosart (Supplement) and in Martin.

First published in Grosart, Supplement (1888). Martin, pp. 398-400.

f. 21r

• CrR 53: Richard Crashaw, ‘High mounted on an Ant Nanus the tall’

Copy, headed ‘Out of the Greeke’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 161.

f. 21v

• CrR 320: Richard Crashaw, Vpon Venus putting on Mars his Armes (‘What? Mars his sword? faire Cytherea say’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon Venus putting on Mars his Armes. Out of Ausonius’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 161.

f. 21v

• CrR 312: Richard Crashaw, Vpon the same (‘Pallas saw Venus arm'd and streight she cry'd’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 161.

f. 21v

• CrR 200: Richard Crashaw, Out of Martiall (‘Foure Teeth thou had'st that ranck'd in goodly state’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon Aelia./Out of Martiall’.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

f. 22r

• CrR 213: Richard Crashaw, Petronij Ales Phasiacis petita Colchis &c. R.Cr. (‘The bird, that's fetch't from Phasis floud’)

Copy, headed ‘Out of Petronius’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Grosart, I (1872), 286. Martin, p. 382.

ff. 22v-3v

• CrR 208: Richard Crashaw, Out of the Italian. A Song (‘To thy Lover’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 188-9.

f. 23v

• CrR 207: Richard Crashaw, Out of the Italian (‘Would any one the true cause find’)

Copy, headed ‘Italian’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 190.

f. 23v

• CrR 151: Richard Crashaw, On Marriage (‘I would be married, but I'de have no Wife’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 183.

f. 24r

• CrR 205: Richard Crashaw, Out of the Italian (‘Love now no fire hath left him’)

Copy, headed ‘Italian’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 190.

f. 24v

• CrR 195: Richard Crashaw, Out of Catullus (‘Come and let us live my Deare’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 194.

ff. 25r-6r

• CrR 201: Richard Crashaw, Out of the Greeke Cupid's Cryer (‘Love is lost, nor can his Mother’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 159-61.

ff. 26v-9v

• CrR 130: Richard Crashaw, Musicks Duell (‘Now Westward Sol had spent the richest Beames’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 149-53.

ff. 29v-30r

• CrR 14: Richard Crashaw, The Beginning of Heliodorus (‘The smiling Morne had newly wak't the day’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 158.

ff. 30v-1r

• CrR 210: Richard Crashaw, Out of Virgil, In the praise of the Spring (‘All Trees, all leavy Groves confesse the Spring’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 155-6.

ff. 31v-2r

• CrR 280: Richard Crashaw, Vpon the Death of a Gentleman (‘Faithlesse and fond Mortality’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Death of M^r Chambers / Fellow of Queens Colledge / in Cambridge’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 166-7.

f. 32v-3r

• CrR 285: Richard Crashaw, Vpon the Death of Mr. Herrys (‘A plant of noble stemme, forward and faire’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Death of M^r Herris / Fellow of Pembroke Hall / in Cambridge’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 167-8.

ff. 33v-4v

• CrR 289: Richard Crashaw, Vpon the death of the most desired Mr. Herrys (‘Death, what dost? ô hold thy Blow’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the same’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 168-170.

ff. 35r-6r

• CrR 8: Richard Crashaw, Another (‘If ever Pitty were acquainted’)

Copy, headed ‘Another Vpon the same’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 170-2.

ff. 36r-7r

• CrR 56: Richard Crashaw, His Epitaph (‘Passenger who e're thou art’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 172-4.

f. 37r

• CrR 38: Richard Crashaw, An Epitaph. Vpon Doctor Brooke (‘A Brooke whose streame so great, so good’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph/Vpon the reverend D^r Brooke’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 175.

ff. 37v-8r

• CrR 47: Richard Crashaw, An Epitaph Vpon Mr. Ashton a conformable Citizen (‘The modest front of this small floore’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph/Vpon the Death of M^r Ashton/Citizen of London’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 192-3.

ff. 38v-9r

• CrR 267: Richard Crashaw, Vpon Mr. Staninough's Death (‘Deare reliques of a dislodg'd soule, whose lacke’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Death of M^r Stanninough / Fellow of Queens Colledge in Cambridge’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Reprinted as ‘Death's Lectvre at the Fvneral of a Yovng Gentleman’ in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 175-6 (and 340-1).

f. 39r

• CrR 44: Richard Crashaw, An Epitaph Vpon Husband and Wife, which died, and were buried together (‘To these, Whom Death again did wed’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

ff. 39v-41v

• CrR 295: Richard Crashaw, Vpon the Duke of Yorke his Birth A Panegyricke (‘Brittaine, the mighty Oceans lovely Bride’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Voces votivae ab academicis Cantabrigiensibus (Cambridge, 1640). Among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 176-81.

f. 41v

• CrR 263: Richard Crashaw, Vpon Ford's two Tragedyes Loves Sacrifice and The Broken Heart (‘Thou cheat'st us Ford, mak'st one seeme two by Art’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 181.

f. 42r

• CrR 140: Richard Crashaw, On a foule Morning, being then to take a journey (‘Where art thou Sol, while thus the blind-fold Day’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 181-2.

ff. 43r-4r

• CrR 251: Richard Crashaw, To the Morning. Satisfaction for sleepe (‘What succour can I hope the Muse will send’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 183-5.

f. 44r

• CrR 336: Richard Crashaw, With a Picture sent to a Friend (‘I paint so ill, my peece had need to bee’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 156.

f. 44r

• CrR 300: Richard Crashaw, Vpon the faire Ethiopian sent to a Gentlewoman (‘Lo here the faire Chariclia! in whom strove’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 183.

ff. 44v-5v

• CrR 89: Richard Crashaw, Loves Horoscope (‘Love, brave vertues younger Brother’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 185-6.

f. 45v

• CrR 261: Richard Crashaw, Vpon Bishop Andrewes his Picture before his Sermons (‘This reverend shadow cast that setting Sun’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon Bishop Andrewes’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Lancelot Andrewes, XCVI Sermons, 2nd edition (London, 1641). Among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 163-4.

ff. 46r-7r

• CrR 73: Richard Crashaw, In praise of Lessius his rule of health (‘Goe now with some dareing drugg’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published (lines 15-46 only) in Leonard Leys, Hygiasticon…done into English, 2nd edition (Cambridge, 1634). Published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Reprinted, as ‘Temperance, Or the Cheap Physitian Vpon the Translation of Lessivs’, in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 156-8 (and later version pp. 342-4).

ff. 47r-50r

• CrR 332: Richard Crashaw, Wishes. To his (supposed) Mistresse (‘Who ere shee bee’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Wits Recreations, 2nd edition (London, 1641). Among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 195-8.

Add. MS 33237

MS.

ff. 200r-4r

• CoA 274: Abraham Cowley, Extracts

Letter by Cowley.

Add. MS 33271

A large double-folio formal volume of state papers of c.1545-80, arranged according to subject, in a single professional secretary hand, on 46 leaves of vellum, in half green morocco. c.1590s.

Bookplate of Richard Towneley, of Townely Hall, near Burnley, Lancashire, dated 1702. Sotheby's, 27-28 June 1883 (Towneley sale), lot 170, to Quaritch. Quaritch's sale catalogue ‘of English Literature’ (August-November 1884), item 22349. Presented by William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst (1835-1908), first Baron Amherst of Hackney, 13 April 1887.

f. 2r-v

• ElQ 187: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech at the Close of the Parliamentary Session, March 15, 1576

Copy of Version I, headed in the margin ‘The Queenes most excellent Ma^ties oration in the Parliament howse Martij 15. A^o. Dni 1576.’

This MS cited in Hartley, in Collected Works, and in Selected Works.

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

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. 2v

• ElQ 135: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Answer to the Lords' Petition that she Marry, April 10, 1563, delivered by Lord Keeper Nicholas Bacon

Copy, headed ‘The Quenes ma^ties Aunswear to the peticons exhibited’.

This MS cited in Hartley.

First published in Simonds D'Ewes, The Journalls of All the Parliaments during the Raign of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1682), pp. 107-8.

Beginning ‘Since there can be no duer debt than princes' words...’. Hartley, I, 114-15 (2 texts). Collected Works, Speech 6, pp. 79-80. Selected Works, Speech 4, pp. 42-4.

f. 13r

• ElQ 128: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Answer to the Commons' Petition that she Marry, January 28, 1563

Copy, headed ‘The aunsweare by the Q: ma^tie to William’.

Edited partly from this MS in Hartley. Cited in Selected Works.

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

f. 25r-v

• WyT 428: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Thomas Wyatt to his son (15 April 1537)

Copy, headed ‘A lre of Thomas Wiat to his Sonne’.

This MS collated in Albert McHarg Hayes, ‘Wyatt's Letters to his Son’, MLN, 49 (1934), 446-9.

Letter beginning ‘In as mitch as now ye ar come to sume yeres of vnderstanding...’, dated from Paris 15 April. Muir, Life & Letters, pp. 38-41.

ff. 25v-6r

• WyT 437: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Thomas Wyatt to his son (Autumn 1537)

Copy, headed ‘A Seconde lre, Tho: Wyat’.

in Albert McHarg Hayes, ‘Wyatt's Letters to his Son’, MLN, 49 (1934), 446-9.

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

ff. 32r-4r

• SiP 190: Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur

Copy in a single neat secretary hand, untitled, on five pages (f. 33r-v misbound in reverse order), in a section under the subject heading ‘Advise’.

This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 325 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 37. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 9.

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

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

f. 46v

• BcF 580: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Francis Bacon ‘To the L: Amb:’, [? March 1579]; another letter by him on a final leaf (f. 47) now missing.

Add. MS 33359

Copy of the treatise, in a single professional secretary hand, entitled ‘Observations Politicall and Civill A treatise on Government’, ‘The Argument’ (f. 2r-v) subscribed ‘W: * . B:’, 133 folio leaves, with (f. 3r-v) a ‘Tabula’ of contents, in 19th-century half dark red calf. c.1630s.

RaW 1045: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Cabinet-Council: containing the Chief Arts of Empire and Mysteries of State

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Sum Edri Umfrevile Jun^r. Inter Templi Stud^ti. 1724’: i.e. Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts, who here also records having seen ‘a Coppy subscrib'd T: B:’ which, together with ‘the Diction & manner of expression’, leads him to believe ‘the Work to be of the Pen of the learned S^r. Tho: Brown’. Also inscribed (f. 1r) ‘E Leeds Int^r Templi 1758’. Presented by Mrs Janet Morgan, 20 April 1888.

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 33392

A tall folio composite volume of MSS, including Latin verse variously attributed to Sir John Beaumont's son Francis (the Jesuit) and to the monk Robert Clarke (d.1675) of Nieuwpoort, in several hands, 191 leaves, in old mottled leather. c.1660.

Acquired from Quaritch, 11 July 1888.

ff. 1r-145r

• BeJ 47: Sir John Beaumont, The Crowne of Thornes (‘I sing of thornes transform'd in bloody springs’)

Copy, in two hands, a neat roman hand (ff. 1r-84v) and a predominantly secretary hand (ff. 85r-145r), the latter also appearing in tipped-in verses in a scribal copy of Robert Clarke's Christiados Libri 18 (British Library, Egerton MS 3875). c.1625-30.

This MS, and its attributions, discussed in Sell, pp. 333-5, et al. Facsimile examples in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), pp. 32 and 34.

A poem in twelve books, unpublished. Sir John Beaumont is recorded by Anthony Wood as having written a poem of this title in eight books. The present poem has been dated after 1625 and also attributed to Robert Clarke (d.1675), a Carthusian monk, of Nieuport, Flanders.

For discussions of authorship, see Sell, pp. 333-5, and references in his ‘The Handwriting of Sir John Beaumont and the Editing of His Poems’, HLQ, 33 (1969-70), 284-91.

Add. MS 33469

A double-folio composite volume of miscellaneous state papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 53 leaves, mounted on guards, in 19th-century half brown leather. Volume XXV of collections relating to Ramsey Abbey, Huntingdonshire, and the Williams, alias Cromwell, family.

ff. 35r-6v

• CtR 153: Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy

Copy, in a secretary hand, on two foliio leaves, imperfect, lacking the ending. c.1620s-30s.

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

Add. MS 33554

A composite volume of letters and papers of Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), philosopher and reformer, 348 leaves. Volume XVIII of the Bentham Papers.

f. 245r

• BuS 14: Samuel Butler, Editorial and Copyright Papers

Copy of Zachary Grey's publishing agreement of 26 July 1743 for his edition of Hudibras. 1743.

Add. MS 33573

A folio composite volume of correspondence of the Hale family, in various hands, 433 leaves, in late 19th-century half-morocco. Volume II of the Hale Papers.

f. 74r-v

• ClE 133: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Letters to the Duke of York and the Duchess of York

Copy of Clarendon's letter to the Duke of York.

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 33586

A quarto composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in Latin and English, in various hands, 137 leaves, in modern half-morocco.

ff. 75r-81r

• SpE 27.2: Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender

MS of Theodore Bathurst's Latin translation of the January and February eclogues, with a one-page dedication to Thomas Neville, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, in a neat italic hand, on seven octavo leaves. Early 17th century.

First published in London, ‘1579’. Variorum, Minor Poems, vol. I, 1-120.

Add. MS 33739

Copy, in several cursive secretary hands, one predominating, with a title-page in a flourished italic hand, 105 quarto leaves, in old calf gilt. Late 16th century.

LeC 11: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

Inscribed (f. 105v) ‘ffraunces Downes’.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

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

Add. MS 33940

A composite volume of miscellaneous legal and family papers of the Moreton family, of Moreton, Cheshire, 194 leaves. The third of four volumes of Moreton Papers.

f. 182r

• WaE 240.5: Edmund Waller, Of My Lady Isabella, Playing on the Lute (‘Such moving sounds from such a careless touch!’)

Copy. Late 17th century.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 90.

Add. MS 33963

A large folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers, mounted on guards, in half red morocco.

f. 109r

• PlG 15: George Peele, A Sonet (‘His Golden lockes, Time hath to Silver turn'd’)

Copy, in two styles of roman script, untitled, on a small piece of paper attached to a leaf nearing a 19th-century note ‘The following Lines I found on the fly leaf of Morny's Work “of the trewe Relligion”’ [translated supposedly by Sir Philip Sidney and Arthur Golding (1587)]. c.1600.

This MS collated in Clayton and in Hughey; recorded in Horne, pp. 169-70.

First published as an appendix to Polyhymnia (London, 1590). Edited by D.H. Horne in Prouty, I, 244. The sonnet probably written by Sir Henry Lee: see Horne, pp. 169-70, and Thomas Clayton, ‘“Sir Henry Lee's Farewel to the Court”: The Texts and Authorship of “His Golden Locks Time Hath to Silver Turned”’, ELR, 4 (1974), 268-75.

Add. MS 33998

A folio verse miscellany, in a single professional secretary hand associated with the playhouse and possibly inns of court (also responsible for ChG 12.5, HyT 5, and MiT 6), 97 leaves, with a first-line ‘Index’ at the end, in contemporary vellum boards. Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship). c.1636.

Inscribed (on the front paste-down) ‘My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire’ (following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Chute MS’: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, ‘Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).

ff. 4r-5v

• GrJ 50: John Grange, ‘Not that I wish my Mistris’

Copy, headed ‘Choyce of a Mistresse’.

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. 5r-v

• HeR 119: Robert Herrick, The fare-well to Sack (‘Farewell thou Thing, time-past so knowne, so deare’)

Copy, headed ‘Herrickes Farewell to Sacke’.

This MS text collated in Martin.

First published in Recreations for Ingenious Head-peeces (London, 1645). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 45-6. Patrick, pp. 62-3.

ff. 5v-7r

• HeR 271: Robert Herrick, The Welcome to Sack (‘So soft streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles’)

Copy, headed ‘The Time of his vow expird, he thus welcomes it againe’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 77-9. Patrick, pp. 110-12.

ff. 7r-8v

• BmF 150.94: Francis Beaumont, A Song in the Praise of Sack (‘Listen all I you pray’)

Anonymous.

Unpublished?

ff. 8v-10r

• CoR 356: Richard Corbett, A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine (‘I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd’)

Copy, headed ‘A Letter of Docto^r Corbettes to y^e duke then w^th y^e Prince in Spayne’.

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

f. 10r-v

• CoR 332: 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 ‘A Letter to M^r. Alesbury’.

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

ff. 10v-11r

• CoR 724: Richard Corbett, Upon the Same Starre (‘A Starre did late appeare in Virgo's trayne’)

Copy.

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

f. 11r

• CoR 701: Richard Corbett, Upon Faireford Windowes (‘Tell mee, you Anti-Saintes, why glasse’)

Copy.

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

f. 11r-v

• CoR 572: Richard Corbett, To his sonne Vincent Corbett (‘What I shall leave thee none can tell’)

Copy, headed ‘To his Son Vincent, on his Birth day’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 88.

ff. 12v-13v

• StW 486: William Strode, On Faireford windores (‘I know noe paint of Poetry’)

This MS text recorded (as ‘A 17’) in The Poems of Richard Corbett, ed. J.A.W. Bennett and H.R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford, 1955), p. 169

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 25-7. Forey, pp. 7-10.

f. 14r-v

• JnB 282: Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse (‘Doe but consider this small dust’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e Sand in an houreglasse’ and here beginning ‘Consider this small dust here in this glasse’, subscribed ‘Ben Johnson’.

This MS text collated in Herford & Simpson.

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

ff. 16r-29v

• BmF 134: Francis Beaumont, Salmacis and Hermaphroditus (‘My wanton lines do treat of amorous love’)

Copy, headed ‘Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, a Poem written by ffrancis Beaumont’.

First published (anonymously) London, 1602. Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 441-71. Elizabethan Minor Epics, ed. Elizabeth Story Donno (London, 1963), pp. 281-304. Elizabethan Narrative Verse, ed. Niel Alexander (London, 1967), pp. 168-91. Beaumont's authorship discussed by Philip J. Finkelpearl in N&Q, 214 (October 1969), 367-8, and by Roger Sell in N&Q, 217 (January 1972), 10-14.

ff. 30v-1r

• HoJ 308: John Hoskyns, Impossibilities (‘Embrace a Sun-beame, and on it’)

This MS recorded in Osborn.

Osborn, p. 299.

f. 31v

• WoH 140: Sir Henry Wotton, A Poem written by Sir Henry Wotton in his Youth (‘O faithless world, and thy most faithless part’)

Copy, headed ‘On his Mistris falshood’.

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

f. 33r-v

• JnB 107: Ben Jonson, Epitaph [on Cecilia Bulstrode] (‘Stay, view this stone: And, if thou beest not such’)

Copy.

This MS recorded but not collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in John A. Harper, ‘Ben Jonson and Mrs. Bulstrode’, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 4 (5 September 1863), 198-9. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 371-2.

f. 33v

• HeR 316: Robert Herrick, Epitaph on a man who had a Scold to his Wife (‘Nay, read, and spare not, Passenger’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS text in Martin and in Patrick.

First published, as ‘An Epitaph on Himself’, in Thomas Jordan, Claraphil and Clarinda (London, [1650?]). Martin, p. 420. Patrick, p. 554.

f. 34r

• ShJ 105: James Shirley, Vppon the Ladye Ryuers Who dyed wth greife. Epitaph (‘Gentle Eies, your teares distill’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e Lady Rivers thought to dye by extreame griefe’.

This MS text recorded in Armstrong.

First published in Gifford & Dyce (1833), VI, 500. Armstrong, p. 34.

f. 34r-v

• ShJ 96: James Shirley, Vppon a Parson (‘For them, that leaue noe monument’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Parson's death’ and including the ‘Epitaph’.

This MS text recorded in Armstrong. Facsimile of f. 34v in Hobbs, EMS, 1 (1989), 201.

First published in Gifford & Dyce (1833), VI, 501-2. Armstrong, pp. 34-5.

f. 34v

• ShJ 100: James Shirley, Vpon M: E: S: Epitaph (‘If to maintaine the vse I must’)

Copy of a ten-line version, headed ‘Epitaph on y^e most faire & vertuous Lady, E:S:’, subscribed ‘James Shirley’.

Part of this text edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 100. Facsimile of f. 34v in Hobbs, EMS, 1 (1989), 201.

First published in Gifford & Dyce (1833), VI, 501. Armstrong, p. 34.

f. 35r-v

• ShJ 102: James Shirley, Vpon the death of K. James (‘When busie Fame was almost out of breath’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegy on y^e death of King James’, subscribed ‘James Shirley’.

This MS text collated in Armstrong.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 14.

f. 36r

• ShJ 93: James Shirley, Vpon a Gentlewoman that died of a Fever (‘Death, time, and sicknes, had been many a day’)

Copy of a version, headed ‘Vpon a Lady's Death’ and beginning ‘Death, y^t on humane flesh doth vse to feed’.

This MS text recorded in Armstrong.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, pp. 13-14.

f. 36v

• CoR 539: Richard Corbett, On the Lady Arabella (‘How doe I thanke thee, Death, & blesse thy power’)

Copy, headed ‘Lady Arbella's Epitaph’.

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

ff. 37v-8r

• CoR 103: Richard Corbett, An Elegy Upon the death of Queene Anne (‘Noe. not a quatch, sad Poets. doubt you’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegy on Queene Anne's Death’.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 65-7.

f. 41r

• CoR 416: Richard Corbett, On Francis Beaumont's death (‘He that hath Youth, and Friends, and so much Wit’)

Copy, headed ‘Epitaph on ffrancis Beaumont’ and here beginning ‘He that hath such Acutenesse & such witt’.

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

ff. 41r-2v

• DaW 9: Sir William Davenant, An Elegy on the Duke of Buckingham's Death (‘No Poetts triviall rage, that must aspire’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Wil: Davenant’.

Edited from this MS in Gibbs.

First published in Gibbs (1972), pp. 272-4.

ff. 44v-5r

• ShJ 54: James Shirley, A Mother hearing her child was sick of the Small-Poxe (‘What hath my pretty child misdone?’)

Copy, headed ‘On her Child sicke of y^e small Pockes’, subscribed ‘James Shirley’.

This MS text collated in Armstrong.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 12.

f. 45r

• ShJ 31: James Shirley, Good Morrow (‘Good morrow unto her, who in the night’)

Copy, headed ‘Good morrow to y^e wonder of her Sex’.

This MS text collated in Armstrong.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 1.

f. 45r-v

• ShJ 37: James Shirley, The Goodnight (‘Good night to her, who when she sleepes’)

Copy, subscribed ‘James Shirley’.

Edited from this MS text in Howarth and in Armstrong.

First published in R. G. Howarth, ‘Some Unpublished Poems of James Shirley’, RES, 9 (1933), 24-9 (p. 25). Armstrong, p. 36.

ff. 45v-6r

• ShJ 61: James Shirley, The Passing Bell (‘Hark, how chimes the Passing bell’)

Copy, subscribed ‘James Shirley’.

This MS text recorded in Armstrong.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 16.

f. 46r

• ShJ 77: James Shirley, To a young Lady weeping (‘Sweet, dry thy eyes, If it be Love’)

Copy, subscribed ‘James Shirley’.

Edited from this MS text in Howarth and in Armstrong.

First published in R. G. Howarth, ‘Some Unpublished Poems of James Shirley’, RES, 9 (1933), 24-9 (p. 26). Armstrong, p. 36.

f. 46r-v

• ShJ 27: James Shirley, The Garden (‘This Garden does not take my eyes’)

Copy of a seven-stanza version, headed ‘Chlorinda's Garden’ and here beginning ‘fayne would I have a Plott of ground’, subscribed ‘James Shirley’.

Edited from this MS text in Howarth, pp. 26-7, and in Armstrong, p. 97.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, pp. 16-17.

ff. 46v-7r

• ShJ 62: James Shirley, Presenting his Mistris with a Bird (‘Walking to taste the welcome Spring’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Bird p^rsented to his Mistris’, subscribed ‘James Shirley’.

This MS text collated in Armstrong.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 6.

f. 47r

• ShJ 76: James Shirley, To a Lord who had courted a Lady of much perfection, and after offered his Service to another of an inferiour Beauty and Parts. in confidence that the first would re-accept him (‘And can thy proud Apostate eyes’)

Copy of a 24-line version, headed ‘To his over daring thoughts’ and here beginning ‘Proud man, no more; let not thy eyes’, subscribed ‘James Shirley’.

This MS text collated in Armstrong, p. 91.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 4.

f. 47v

• StW 613: William Strode, On three Dolphins sewing down Water into a white Marble Bason (‘These Dolphins, twisting each on others side’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon a fountayne’, subscribed ‘Hen: King’.

This MS text recorded in Forey, p. 320.

First published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] S^r Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660). Dobell, p. 46. Forey, p. 185.

ff. 47v-50r

• KiH 727: Henry King, To my Noble and Judicious Friend Mr Henry Blount upon his Voyage (‘Sir I must ever owne my self to be’)

Copy, headed ‘To M^r. Henry Blount, vpon his Voyage to the Levant’.

This MS text recorded in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 83-7.

f. 52r-v

• CwT 75: Thomas Carew, The Comparison (‘Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold’)

Copy, headed ‘To his Mistresse’, subscribed ‘Tho: Carew’.

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

ff. 55v-6r

• CwT 42: Thomas Carew, Celia bleeding, to the Surgeon (‘Fond man, that canst beleeve her blood’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Carew’.

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

ff. 57r-8r

• MyJ 17: Jasper Mayne, On Mris Anne King's Tablebook of Pictures (‘Mine eyes were once blessed with the sight’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon Mistris Anne Kinges Table Booke of Pictures’, here beginning ‘My eyes were once blessd w^th the sight’, subscribed ‘Jasper Mayne’.

Unpublished?

ff. 58r-9r

• GrJ 39: John Grange, ‘Come you swarms of thoughts and bring’

Copy, headed ‘To his Thoughts’, subscribed ‘John Grange’.

First published in Poems: Written by Wil. Shakespeare. Gent. (London, 1640), as ‘An Allegoricall allusion of melancholy thoughts to Bees’, subscribed ‘I. G.’ Listed in Krueger.

ff. 61v-2r

• HeR 290: Robert Herrick, The Wounded Heart (‘Come bring your sampler, and with Art’)

Copy, headed ‘To his Mistresse’, subscribed ‘Rob: Herricke’.

This MS text collated in Martin.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 10-11. Patrick, p. 18.

f. 62r

• StW 754: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, headed ‘On Chloris walking’, subscribed ‘Wil: Stroud’.

ff. 62v-3r

• StW 271: William Strode, On a blisterd Lippe (‘Chide not thy sprowting lippe, nor kill’)

Copy, headed ‘On his Mistris blistered Lip’.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 28-9. Forey, pp. 92-3.

ff. 63r-4v

• RnT 195: Thomas Randolph, On Importunate Dunnes (‘Poxe take you all, from you my sorrowes swell’)

Copy, headed ‘Thomas Randolph, on his Dun’.

This MS text (incorrectly cited as ‘A 10’ instead of ‘A 9’) collated in Thorn-Drury.

First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 131-4.

ff. 64v-5r

• ShJ 217: James Shirley, A breif expression of the delight apprehended by the Authour att the seeing of the Solemne triumphs of the gent of the Innes of Court riding with the Masque presented before his Ma^tie: Feb: 3, 1633 (‘Now did Heavens Charioteer, the great daies Starr’)

Copy, ascribed to Alexander Gill.

The first line sometimes reading ‘Now did Oceanus Charioteer, the great daies Starr’.

f. 65r-v

• ShJ 87: James Shirley, To the Honourable Lady, Diana Curson at his departure (‘Madam whose first stile is good’)

Copy of an early version, headed ‘Thankes for an Entertaynm^t’ and here beginning ‘Ladyes, whose first stile is good’, subscribed ‘James Shirley’.

This MS text collated in Armstrong.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 10.

ff. 68v-9v

• StW 1175: William Strode, To the Same [Sir Jo. Ferrers] (‘If empty Vessells can resounde’)

Copy, headed ‘His Thankes to Sir John fferrars’, subscribed ‘Wil: Stroud’.

This MS text collated in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 90-2. Forey, pp. 202-4.

f. 69v

• StW 230: William Strode, Loves Ætna. Song (‘In your sterne beauty I can see’)

Copy, headed ‘To his Mistris’.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 47. Forey, p. 93.

ff. 70v-1r

• BmF 121: Francis Beaumont, On Madam Fowler desiring a sonnet to be writ on her (‘Good Madam Fowler, do not trouble me’)

Copy, headed ‘To Madam ffowler desiring to have a Sonnett written on her (by him)’, subscribed ‘ffran. Beaumont’.

First published in Alexander B. Grosart, ‘Literary Finds in Trinity College, Dublin, and Elsewhere’, ES, 26 (1899), 1-19 (p. 8).

f. 71r-v

• MoG 91: George Morley, Upon the drinking in a Crown of a Hatt (‘Well fare those three that where there was a dearth’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon drinking in y^e Crowne of a Hatt’, here beginning ‘Well fare those Three y^t when there was a Dearth’, subscribed ‘George Morley’.

f. 72r-v

• CwT 1127: Thomas Carew, To Saxham (‘Though frost, and snow, lockt from mine eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon his Entertainm^t. at Saxum in Kent’, subscribed ‘Tho. Carew’.

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

ff. 73v-4r

• SuJ 104: John Suckling, The guiltless Inconstant (‘My first Love whom all beauty did adorn’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon his Loves Vicissitude’, subscribed ‘Walton Poole’.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 90-1.

Probably written by Walton Poole.

f. 74r-v

• StW 127: William Strode, For a Gentleman who kissing his frinde, at his departure out of England, left a Signe of blood upon her (‘What Mystery was this, that I should finde’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon y^e leaving some signe of bloud on his Mistris Lip vpon a parting kisse’.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 32-3. Forey, pp. 22-3.

ff. 74v-5r

• StW 345: William Strode, On a Dissembler (‘Could any shew where Pliny's people dwell’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Dissembler’.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 33-4. Forey pp. 42-3.

ff. 76r-7r

• StW 448: William Strode, On a good legge and foote (‘If Hercules tall Stature might be guest’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon a good Legge & foote’.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 108-9. Forey, pp. 16-17.

f. 77r

• CwT 414: Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes (‘In Celia's face a question did arise’)

Copy, headed On Celia's Lipps & Eyes, subscribed ‘Tho: Carew’.

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

ff. 77r-v

• CwT 1062: Thomas Carew, To his jealous Mistris (‘Admit (thou darling of mine eyes)’)

Copy.

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

ff. 77v-8r

• StW 212: William Strode, A Letter impos'd (‘Goe, happy paper, by commande’)

Copy, headed ‘A Love Letter’, subscribed ‘Nich: Oldisworth’.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 100-1. The Poems and Amyntas of Thomas Randolph, ed. John Jay Parry (New Haven & London, 1917), pp. 219-20. Forey, pp. 32-3.

f. 80r

• DaW 52: Sir William Davenant, Song. The Souldier going to the Field (‘Preserve thy sighs, unthrifty Girle!’)

Copy, headed ‘To his Mistris at his going to y^e warres’, subscribed ‘Wil: Davenant’.

This MS text collated in Gibbs.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 175-6.

f. 80r-v

• CwT 434: Thomas Carew, Loves Courtship (‘Kisse lovely Celia and be kind’)

Copy.

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

f. 80v

• StW 1365: William Strode, Upon the blush of a faire Ladie (‘Stay, lustie bloud, where canst thou seeke’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Blush’ subscribed ‘Wil: Stroud’.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 39-40. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

ff. 80v-1r

• StW 198: William Strode, Justification (‘See how the rainbow in the skie’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon Justification’, subscribed ‘Wil: Stroud’.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 55. Forey, p. 109.

f. 81r

• GrJ 82: John Grange, ‘The world created, God made man’

Copy, headed ‘Against Pride in Pedigrees’ and subscribed ‘Jo: Grange’.

Unpublished? Listed in Krueger.

f. 82r-v

• HeR 140: Robert Herrick, The Kisse. A Dialogue (‘Among thy Fancies, tell me this’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Rob: Herricke’.

This MS text collated in Martin.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 130. Patrick, pp. 176-7.

f. 82v

• HeR 378: Robert Herrick, To a Mayd (‘Fayre Mayd, you did but cast your eyes erewhile’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Rob: Herricke’.

Edited from this MS text in Martin and in Patrick.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Martin, p. 419. Patrick, p. 553.

f. 82v

• HeR 376: Robert Herrick, To a disdaynefull fayre (‘Thou maist be proud, and be thou so for me’)

Copy of the first stanza.

This MS text collated in Martin and in Patrick.

First published in Norman Ault, A Treasury of Unfamiliar Lyrics (London, 1938), p. 134. Martin, p. 421. Patrick, pp. 553-4.

ff. 82v-3r

• HeR 386: Robert Herrick, To his false Mistris (‘Whither are all her false oathes blowne’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Rob: Herricke’.

Edited from this MS text in Martin and in Patrick.

First published in Martin (1956), p. 420. Patrick, pp. 68-9.

f. 84r-v

• CwT 1235: Thomas Carew, Vpon the sicknesse of (E.S.) (‘Mvst she then languish, and we sorrow thus’)

Copy, headed ‘On his Mistresse, sicke of a Callenture’, subscribed ‘Tho: Carew’.

This MS text recorded in Powell, p. 287.

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

ff. 86r-7v

• EaJ 22: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie, Upon the death of Sir John Burrowes, Slaine at the Isle of Ree (‘Oh wound us not with this sad tale, forbear’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegy on y^e death of S^r John Burgh, slayne at the Ile of Rey’.

f. 89r

• DkT 13: Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall (‘The Queene was brought by water to White Hall’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e Conveying of her Body from Richmont to whitehall, by water’.

f. 89r-v

• CwT 272: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)

Copy, headed ‘On a dead flye’, subscribed ‘Tho: Carew’.

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. 89v-90r

• StW 1253: William Strode, In eundem [the death of Mr. Fra. Lancaster] (‘To die is Natures debt. and when’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e death of M^r ffrancis Lancaster’, subscribed ‘W: Bra:’.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 340.

Add. MS 34063

Copy, in a single professional secretary hand, with a formal title-page ‘Jocasta. A tragedie written in Greke by Euripedes translated and digested into Acte by George Gascoign and ffraunces Kynwelm^rshe of Grays ynne. 1566’, 38 folio leaves, in contemporary vellum. Late 16th century.

GaG 6: George Gascoigne, Jocasta

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘North’: i.e. Roger North, second Baron North (1530-1600), and with the North family bookplate. Also bookplate of F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Purchased from Jarvis & Son, 15 June 1891.

This MS collated in Cunliffe and in Pigman.

Written by Gascoigne and Francis Kinwelmersh, 1566. First published in A Hundreth sundrie Flowres (London, [1573]). Cunliffe, I, 244-324. Pigman, pp. 59-140.

Add. MS 34064

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, ff. 2r-26r in a single secretary hand, ff. 26r-40v in yet another, with later additions near the end dated 1653, 60 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum. c.1596 [-1653].

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Anthonie Babingtonn of warrington’, with the date ‘1596’, and ‘Roger Wright me possidett ex dono Henerici fratrie Meo’. Later owned and annotated by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Signature and bookplate of F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale), lot 50. Purchased from Jarvis & Son, 15 June 1891.

Identified in Ringler, PQ (1975), as the ‘Quarto MS’ from which Percy derived the texts of three poems by Breton edited in his Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765). Substantial extracts from it edited in Grosart's edition of Breton (1879). Also briefly discussed in P.M. Buck, Jr., ‘Add MS. 34064 and Spenser's Ruins of Time and Mother Hubberd's Tale’, MLN, 22 (1907), 41-6, and in Robertson's edition of Breton, pp. liv-lv.

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. 2r

• BrN 108: Nicholas Breton, ‘When nature fell to studie firste to frame a daintie peece’

Copy, headed in the margin ‘Elizabeth Regina’.

Edited from this MS in Grosart.

First published in Grosart (1879), I (t), p. 13. Authorship unknown.

f. 2v-3r

• BrN 101: Nicholas Breton, A sweete Pastorall (‘Good Muse rock me asleepe’)

Copy, headed ‘A pastorall.’

Edited from this MS in Ringler, PQ (1975), 30-1; collated in Rollins, Bowre, p. 74.

First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 5>. England's Helicon (London, 1600), <No. 23>, ascribed to ‘N. Breton’. Grosart, I (t), pp. 7-8.

f. 3r-v

• BrN 81: Nicholas Breton, ‘The pretie Turtle dove that with no litle moans’

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Grosart, I (t), pp. 13-14; collated in Rollins, Bowre, pp. 74-5.

First published as ‘A Sonet’ in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 6>. Authorship unknown.

f. 3v

• BrN 31: Nicholas Breton, ‘Goe muse vnto the bower, whereas the mistress dwelles’

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Grosart, I (t), p. 14; collated in Rollins, Bowre, p. 75.

First published, as ‘A Poem’, in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 7>. Authorship unknown.

f. 4r

• BrN 44: Nicholas Breton, ‘...Neuer thinke vpon anoye’

Copy, imperfect, lacking the first part of the poem.

Edited from this MS in Grosart.

First published in Grosart (1879), I (t), p. 14. Authorship unknown.

f. 5r

• BrN 21: Nicholas Breton, Bretons resolucon (‘If beawtie did not blinde the eies’)

Copy, untitled but called in the last line ‘Bretons resolucon’.

Edited from this MS in Grosart.

First published in Grosart (1879), I (t), p. 14.

f. 5v

• BrN 45: Nicholas Breton, Of a discontented minde (‘Poets come all, and each one take a penne’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Rollins, Bowre, p. 80.

First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 12>. The Arbor of Amorous Deuises (London, 1597), <No. 36>. Grosart, I (d), p. 12. Authorship unknown.

ff. 5v-6r

• BrN 46: Nicholas Breton, Of his Mistresse Beautie (‘What ailes mine eies, or are my wits distraught’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Rollins, Bowre, p. 80.

First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 13>. The Arbor of Amorous Deuises (London, 1597), <No. 37>. Grosart, I (d), p. 12. Authorship unknown.

f. 6r

• BrN 107: Nicholas Breton, ‘When fate decreeth’

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Grosart.

First published in Grosart (1879), I (t), p. 15. Authorship unknown.

f. 6v

• BrN 103: Nicholas Breton, ‘The feildes are grene, the springe growes on a-pace’

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Grosart.

First published in Grosart (1879), I (t), p. 16. Authorship unknown.

f. 7r

• BrN 47: Nicholas Breton, ‘Oh eies, leave of your weepinge’

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Grosart, I (t), p. 16.

First published in Robert Dowland, A Musicall Banquet (London, 1610), No. 3. Authorship unknown.

f. 7v

• RaW 356: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Those eies that holds the hand of every hart’

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Grosart. Collated in Rollins, p. 183/ Recorded in Latham, p. 162.

First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). Latham, p. 83.

f. 8r-v

• BrN 58: Nicholas Breton, A pastorell of Phillis and Coridon (‘On a hill there growes a flower’)

This MS collated and the last stanza edited in Rollins, Bowre, p. 81.

First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 15>. The Arbor of Amorous Deuises (London, 1597), <No. 39>. Englands Helicon (London, 1600), <No. 11>, ascribed to ‘N. Breton’. Grosart, I (d), pp. 12-13.

ff. 8v-9r

• BrN 29: Nicholas Breton, ‘Faire, fairer then the fairest’

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Grosart.

First published in Grosart (1879), I (t), p. 16.

ff. 9r-10r

• BrN 24: Nicholas Breton, Choridon's Dreame (‘Fast by a fountaine sweete and clere’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Grosart.

First published in Grosart (1879), I (t), p. 16-17. Authorship unknown.

f. 10r-v

• BrN 27: Nicholas Breton, Coridons supplication to Phillis (‘Sweete Phillis, if a silly Swaine’)

This MS collated in Rollins, Bowre, p. 102.

First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 47>. England's Helicon (London, 1600), <No. 40>, ascribed to ‘N. Breton’. Grosart, I (t), pp. 8-9.

ff. 10v-11r

• BrN 88: Nicholas Breton, S^r. Ph. Sydney's Epitaph (‘Deepe lamenting losse of treasure’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Grosart.

First published in Grosart (1879), I (t), p. 17.

ff. 11v-12r

• BrN 87: Nicholas Breton, A Sheepheards dreame (‘A Silly Sheepheard lately sate’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Rollins, Bowre, p. 103.

First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 50>. England's Helicon (London, 1600), <No. 50>, ascribed to ‘N. Breton’. Grosart, I (t), p. 9.

f. 12r-v

• BrN 90: Nicholas Breton, ‘Sitting late with sorrow sleepinge’

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Grosart.

First published in Grosart (1879), I (t), p. 17.

f. 13r

• BrN 110: Nicholas Breton, ‘Wytt whether will you?’

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Grosart.

First published in Grosart (1879), I (t), pp. 17-18. Authorship unknown.

f. 13v

• BrN 104: Nicholas Breton, ‘Tyme is but shorte, and shorte the course of tyme’

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Grosart. Collated in Rollins, Bowre, p. 104.

First published as ‘A Sonet of Time and Pleasure’ in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 52>. Authorship unknown.

ff. 14r-15r

• BrN 28: Nicholas Breton, An epitaph on the death of a noble Gentleman (‘Sorrow come sit thee downe, and sigh and sob thy fill’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Rollins, Bowre, p. 83.

First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 18>. The Arbor of Amorous Deuises (London, 1597), <No. 42>. Grosart, I (d), pp. 13-14. Authorship unknown.

f. 15r

• BrN 100: Nicholas Breton, The sum of the former in foure lines (‘Grace, Vertue, Valor, Wit, Experience, Learning, Loue’)

This MS collated in Rollins, Bowre, p. 84.

First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 19>. The Arbor of Amorous Deuises (London, 1597), <No. 43>. Grosart, I (d), p. 14. Authorship unknown.

f. 15r-v

• BrN 105: Nicholas Breton, ‘Vpon a deintie hill sumtime’

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Grosart.

First published in Grosart (1879), I (t), p. 18. Authorship unknown.

f. 16r

• BrN 61: Nicholas Breton, Phillida and Coridon (‘In the merry moneth of May’)

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Ringler, PQ (1975), 28-9; collated in Rollins, England's Helicon, II, 90-1.

First published as ‘The Plowmans Song’ in The Honorable Entertainment at Elvetham (London, 1591). Englands Helicon (London, 1600), <No. 12>, ascribed to ‘N. Breton’; Grosart, I (t), p. 7. English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 29. A musical setting first published in Michael East, Madrigals to Three, Four, and Five Parts (London, 1604).

ff. 16v-17r

• BrN 19: Nicholas Breton, ‘At my harte there is a paine’

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Grosart. Collated in The Poems of Sir Philip Sidney, ed. William Ringler, Jr. (Oxford, 1962), pp. 354-5.

First published in Grosart (1879), I (t), pp. 18-19. Authorship unknown.

f. 17r

• BrN 79: Nicholas Breton, A pretie fancie (‘Who takes a friend and trusts him not’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Rollins, Bowre, p. 82.

First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 17>. The Arbor of Amorous Deuises (London, 1597), <No. 41>. Grosart, I (d), p. 13. Authorship unknown.

ff. 17v-18r

• BrN 11: Nicholas Breton, Astrophell his Song of Phillida and Coridon (‘Faire in a morne (o fairest morne)’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Rollins, England's Helicon, II, 111-12.

First published in Englands Helicon (London, 1600), <No. 33>, ascribed to ‘N. Breton’ (‘S. Phil. Sidney’ cancelled). Grosart, I (t), p. 8.

f. 18r

• BrN 25: Nicholas Breton, The complaint of a forsaken Louer (‘Let me goe seeke some solitarie place’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Rollins, Bowre, p. 82 (no variants).

First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 16>. The Arbor of Amorous Deuises (London, 1597), <No. 40>. Grosart, I (d), p. 13. Authorship unknown.

f. 18r-v

• BrN 38: Nicholas Breton, ‘In time of yor when Sheppherds dwelt’

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Grosart.

First published in Grosart (1879), I (t), p. 19. Authorship unknown.

f. 19r

• BrN 37: Nicholas Breton, In the praise of his Mistresse (‘Poets lay downe your pennes, let fancie leaue to faine’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Rollins, Bowre, p. 84.

First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 20>. The Arbor of Amorous Deuises (London, 1597), <No. 44>. Grosart, I (d), pp. 14-15. Authorship unknown.

f. 19v

• BrN 82: Nicholas Breton, Quatuor elementa (‘The Aire with swete my sences doe delight’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Grosart, I (t), p. 19. Collated in Rollins, Bowre, pp. 106-7.

First published as ‘Of the foure Elements’ in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 55>. Authorship unknown.

f. 20r

• BrN 98: Nicholas Breton, A Sonett vpon this worde in truth spoken by a Lady to her Servaunte (‘In trust is trust, distrust not then my truthe’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Grosart, I (t), p. 19.

First published as ‘A poeme upon this word trueth’ in The Arbor of Amorous Deuises (London, 1597), <No. 29>. Authorship uknown.

f. 20r

• BrN 1: Nicholas Breton, Againe vpon the same subiect (‘Truthe shewes her selfe is secrett of her truste’)

Edited from this MS in Grosart, I (t), pp. 19-20. Collated in Rollins, Bowre, p. 85.

First published as ‘Of Truth and Loue’ in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 21>. Authorship unknown.

f. 20v

• BrN 2: Nicholas Breton, ‘Ah, poore conceite, pull downe delight, thy pleasant daies are done’

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Grosart.

First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Authorship unknown.

ff. 20v-lv

• BrN 94: Nicholas Breton, ‘Some men will saie, there is a kinde of muse’

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Grosart. Collated in Rollins, Bowre, p. 85.

Lines 37-66 (beginning ‘Who can delight in suche a wofull sounde’) first published as ‘Of a wearie life’ in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 23>. Lines 49-66 are lines 13-18, 25-36 of ‘A most excellent passion set downe of N.B. Gent.’ in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). First published complete in Grosart (1879), I (t), p. 20.

ff. 21v-2r

• BrN 49: Nicholas Breton, ‘Oh that desire colde leave to liue, that longe hath lookt to die’

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Grosart.

First published in Grosart (1879), I (t), p. 21. Authorship unknown.

f. 22r-v

• BrN 36: Nicholas Breton, ‘Yf heavne and earthe were bothe not fullie bente’

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Grosart. Collated in Rollins, Bowre, pp. 86-7.

First published as ‘His complaint against Loue and Fortune’ in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 25>. Authorship unknown.

ff. 22v-3r

• BrN 106: Nicholas Breton, ‘When Authors wryte, god knowes what thinge is true’

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Grosart. Collated in Rollins, Bowre, p. 87.

First published as ‘In the praise of his Penelope’ in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 26>. Grosart, I (t), p. 21. Authorship unknown.

f. 23r-v

• BrN 3: Nicholas Breton, ‘All my sences stand amazèd’

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Grosart.

First published in Grosart (1879), I (t), p. 22. Authorship unknown.

f. 23v

• BrN 4: Nicholas Breton, ‘All my witte hath will enwrappèd’

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Grosart.

First published in John Bartlet, A Booke of Ayres (London, 1606), No. 7. Grosart, I (t), p. 22. Authorship unknown.

f. 24r

• BrN 109: Nicholas Breton, ‘Will it neuer better be?’

Copy, untitled.

First published in Grosart (1879), I (t), p. 22. Authorship unknown.

f. 24v

• BrN 59: Nicholas Breton, ‘Pawse awhile my prittie muse’

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Grosart.

First published in Grosart (1879), I (t), p. 22. Authorship unknown.

f. 25r

• BrN 40: Nicholas Breton, ‘Looke not to longe vpon thes lookes, that blindes the ouerlooker sore’

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Grosart, I (t), p. 23; collated in Rollins, Bowre, p. 88.

First published as ‘A Poem’ in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 27>. Authorship unknown.

f. 25r

• BrN 10: Nicholas Breton, Amoris Lachrimae: For the Death of Sir Philip Sidney (‘Emonge the woes of those vnhappie wightes’)

Copy of the last two stanzas (lines 367-78), untitled and here beginning ‘Perfeccon, peerles, vertue without pride’.

These stanzas edited in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591) as a separate poem, headed ‘A Poem’ <No. 30>. Edited from this MS in Grosart. Collated in Rollins, Bowre, pp. 88-9.

First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 1>. Breton's authorship acknowledged in his Pilgrimage to Paradise (London, 1592).

f. 25v

• BrN 78: Nicholas Breton, ‘Pour downe poore eyes the teares of true distres’

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Grosart, I (t), p. 23; collated in Rollins, Bowre, p. 88.

First published, as ‘A Poem’, in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 28>. Authorship unknown.

ff. 25v-6r

• BrN 23: Nicholas Breton, ‘Choridon vnhappie swaine’

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Percy, in Grosart, and in Ringler, PQ (1975), 27.

First published in Thomas Percy, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (London, 1765), II, 246-7.

f. 26r

• BrN 32: Nicholas Breton, ‘Goe muse vnto the bower, whereas the mistress dwelles’

Copy, in a new secretary hand, untitled.

This MS collated in Rollins, Bowre, p. 75.

First published, as ‘A Poem’, in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 7>. Authorship unknown.

f. 27r-v

• SiP 136: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Second Eclogues, No. 27 (‘Thou Rebell vile, come, to thy master yelde’)

Copy, headed ‘The Scyrmish betwixt Reasons and Passion’, transcribed from the edition of 1593.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 555, and in Robertson, p. 443.

Ringler, pp. 46-7. Robertson, pp. 135-6.

ff. 27v-8r

• SiP 125: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book II, No. 15 (‘Let not old age disgrace my high desire’)

Copy, headed ‘An old man fallen in love with a yonge maiden’.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 555, and in Robertson, p. 437.

Ringler, p. 38-9. Robertson, p. 95.

f. 28r

• SiP 128: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book II, No. 16 (‘Since so mine eyes are subject to your sight’)

Copy, headed ‘Another’, transcribed from the edition of 1593.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 555, and in Robertson, p. 437.

Ringler, p. 39. Robertson, p. 99.

f. 28r

• SiP 110: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book I, No. 2 (‘Transformed in shew, but more transformed in minde’)

Copy, headed ‘Another’, transcribed from the edition of 1593.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 555, and in Robertson, p. 423.

Ringler, pp. 11-12. Robertson, pp. 28-9.

f. 28v

• SiP 123: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book II, No. 14 (‘In vaine, mine Eyes, you labour to amende’)

Copy, headed ‘Another’, transcribed from the edition of 1593.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 555, and in Robertson, p. 437.

Ringler, p. 38. Robertson, p. 93.

f. 28v

• SiP 133: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book II, No. 21 (‘Over these brookes trusting to ease mine eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘Another’, transcribed from the edition of 1593.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 555, and in Robertson, p. 440.

Ringler, pp. 41-2. Robertson, p. 118.

f. 29r

• SiP 147: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book III, No. 47 (‘Do not disdaine, o streight up raised Pine’)

Copy, headed ‘The answere to y^e former verses’, transcribed from the edition of 1593.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 555, and in Robertson, p. 453.

Ringler, p. 77. Robertson, p. 198.

ff. 29r-31r

• SiP 156: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book III, No. 62 (‘What toong can her perfections tell’)

Copy, headed ‘Another’, transcribed from the edition of 1593.

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

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

ff. 31r-3r

• SpE 23: Edmund Spenser, The Ruines of Time (‘It chaunced me on day beside the shore’)

Extracts, ranging from line 183 to line 572, headed ‘Another’, here beginning ‘It is not longe, since these two eies behelde’, apparently transcribed from a MS source.

This MS recorded in Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 687-8. First collated in P.M. Buck, Jr., ‘Add. MS 34064 and Spenser's Ruins of Time and Mother Hubberd's Tale’, MLN, 22 (1907), 41-6.

First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 35-56.

ff. 33v-5r

• SpE 15: Edmund Spenser, Prosopopoia: or Mother Hubberds Tale (‘It was the month, in which the righteous Maide’)

Extracts, ranging from line 353 to line 659, wrongly headed ‘The Ruines of Time’ and here beginning ‘And now the ffox, had gotten him a gowne’, apparently transcribed from a MS source.

This MS recorded in Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 687-8; first collated in P.M. Buck, Jr., ‘Add. MS 34064 and Spenser's Ruins of Time and Mother Hubberd's Tale’, MLN, 22 (1907), 41-6.

First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 103-40.

ff. 41r-7r

• BrN 7: Nicholas Breton, Amoris Lachrimae: For the Death of Sir Philip Sidney (‘Emonge the woes of those vnhappie wightes’)

Copy, the title subscribed.

Edited from this MS in Grosart. Collated in Rollins, Bowre, pp. 65-71.

First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 1>. Breton's authorship acknowledged in his Pilgrimage to Paradise (London, 1592).

ff. 49r-54v

• BrN 22: Nicholas Breton, Brittons Diuinitie (‘From worldly cares and wanton loues conceit’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS discussed in Ringler, PQ (1975), 35.

First published in The Arbor of Amorous Deuises (London, 1597), <No. 23>. Grosart, I (d), pp. 9-11.

Add. MS 34109

A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands, 101 leaves, mounted on guards, in 19th-century half black morocco.

Presented by A.W. Franks, 18 November 1891.

f. 2r

• MaA 448: Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by (‘Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe’)

Copy of the envoy (‘To the King’) only, headed ‘Made by the Earl of Rochester an: 1674 to y^e King’ and here beginning ‘Great Charles who full of mercy wouldst command’, on one side of a slip of paper. Late 17th century.

First published [in London], 1679. A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), as by ‘A-M-l, Esq’. Thompson III, 399-403. Margoliouth, I, 214-18, as by Henry Savile. POAS, I, 213-19, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 40-2, as by Henry Savile.

f. 13r

• ShJ 151: 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, on one side of a small quarto leaf. Late 17th century.

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

Add. MS 34173

A folio guardbook of correspondence chiefly of the Twysden family, of Roydon Hall, East Peckham, Kent, in various hands and paper sizes, 51 leaves, in 19th-century morocco.

Sotheby's, 7-8 April 1892.

ff. 9r-10r

• *TwA 2: Anne, Lady Twysden, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed (‘Anne Twysden’), in her italic hand, to ‘My swetehart’, on three pages of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves, the text written in various directions. c.1625.

f. 11r-v

• TwA 3: Anne, Lady Twysden, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed (Anne Twysden), in her italic hand, to ‘My swetehart’, on a single folio leaf, the text written in various directions. c.1628.

Add. MS 34212

Volume of medical treatises and prescriptions. c.1623?.

ff. 1r-35r

• LoT 14: Thomas Lodge, The Poore Mans Talentt

Copy, with a dedicatory epistle, and with four leaves of additional receipts (ff. 32-5) as in LoT 13.

The text followed on ff. 36-94 by miscellaneous medical works in the same hand (all unpublished) conceivably also by Lodge.

A medical handbook, in twelve chapters, with a dedicatory epistle to Lady Anne, Countess of Arundel. First published in Gosse, Vol. IV (1883).

Add. MS 34216

A tall folio composite folio volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, 102 leaves, in half red morocco.

Owned and occasionally annotated by Mildmay Fane (1602-66), second Earl of Westmorland. Christie's, 18 July 1892 (Westmorland sale), lot ??

ff. 27r-43r

• HoH 18: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, Answer to John Stubbs's ‘Gaping Gulf’

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled but indexed on f. 99r as ‘A Discourse concerning a marriadge betweene Q Elizabeth and Monsieur d'Aniou’, 33 folio pages, frayed at edges. c.1638.

This MS recorded in Berry, pp. lix-lxi., and in Woudhuysen, p. 101.

An untitled rebuttal of John Stubbs's tract The Discovery of a Gaping Gulf (1579) which attacked the proposed Alençon marriage. Beginning ‘Dutiful affection to my native country enforceth me at this present to disclose my opinion and conceit...’ and ending ‘...to perform agreeable service to Her Majesty and the state I would rest, with sword in hand, ready to make adventure of the loss of my life.’ First published in John Stubbs's Gaping Gulf with Letters and Other Relevant Documents, ed. Lloyd E. Berry (Charlottesville, 1968), pp. 153-94.

Add. MS 34217

A tall folio composite volume of state papers and verse, in various hands, with (f. 1r) a table of contents, 79 leaves, in half red morocco.

Among papers of the Fane family, Earls of Westmorland. Christie's, 18 July 1892 (Westmorland sale), lot ??.

f. 29r

• CwT 1288: Thomas Carew, Vpon the Royall Ship called the Soueraign of the Seas built by Peter Pett Master builder his Father Cap: Phineas Pett Superuisor. 1637 (‘Triton's auspicious Sound usher Thy raigne’)

Copy of the Latin version, beginning ‘Scilet Octano stupeant Miracula nostro’, in a neat upright italic hand, subscribed ‘Hen: Jacob’, followed by the English version, in a predominantly secretary hand, untitled, subscribed ‘Tho: Carew’, on one side of a folio leaf. Mid-17th century.

Edited from this MS in Powell, pp. 294-5.

First published in John Payne's engraving The Trve Portraictvre of His Ma^ties. Royall Ship The Soveraigne of the Seas Bvilt in the Yeare 1637. Dunlap, p. 190. Probably by Thomas Cary of Tower Hill: see Rhodes Dunlap, ‘Thomas Carew, Thomas Carey, and “The Sovereign of the Seas”’, MLN, 56 (1941), 268-71.

Add. MS 34218

A folio volume of miscellaneous papers, many relating to Kent, the greater part in a single secretary hand, 228 leaves, in contemporary stamped calf. Compiled for, and chiefly relating to, Francis Fane (1582-1628), first Earl of Westmorland. Early 17th century.

Christie's, 18 July 1897.

This volume recorded in HMC, 10th Report, Appendix IV (1885), pp. 4-19.

f. 6r

• DrW 177.9: William Drummond of Hawthornden, On a noble man who died at a counsel table (‘Vntymlie Death that neither wouldst conferre’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph made vppon rthe death of the late Treasurer’, here beginning ‘Vncivill death, that neither woulde conferr’.

First published in Kastner (1931), II, 285. Often found in a version beginning ‘Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre’. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.

ff. 20r-1v

• HoJ 58: John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart (‘Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke’)

Copy, untitled.

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

ff. 23v-4r

• JnB 576: Ben Jonson, An Entertainment of the King and Queen at Theobalds, 22 May 1607

Copy of an early version of lines 1-125, without the prose description, in a secretary hand, beginning with the speech of Genius ‘Let not yo^r gloryes darken to beholde’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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

ff. 129r-34v

• OvT 41: Sir Thomas Overbury, Observations in his travailes

Copy, in a secretary hand.

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

f. 186r

• BcF 581: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Francis Bacon, to Lord Henry Howard, followed (f. 186r-v) by Howard's reply.

ff. 210r-18v

• EsR 209: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1

Copy, in a secretary hand.

ff. 224r-6r

• RaW 728.113: Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)

Copy Ralegh's arraignment at Winchester, 25 November 1603.

Add. MS 34312

A quarto composite volume of theological and parliamentary tracts and a play, in various hands, 186 leaves, in quarter red morocco.

Bookplate of Sir John Dolben, second Baronet (1684-1756), of Finedon, Northamptonshire, clergyman. Purchased from Sotheran, 13 June 1893.

ff. 7v-10r

• AndL 32: Lancelot Andrewes, Judgment of the Lambeth Articles

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Articuli Lambethani exhibiti per D: Whitakeru, Nov: 20. 1595. Annexa et eoru Censura Theses exhibitæ’. Early 17th century.

First published in Articuli Lambethani (London, 1651). LACT, Pattern of Catechistical Doctrine (1846), pp. 287-300.

ff. 11r-13r

• CtR 154: Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy

Copy, in a secretary hand, as ‘by S^r Robert Cotton’. c.1630.

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

Add. MS 34316

Copy of a 581-stanza version, in a single italic hand, headed ‘The Lyfe, Raygne, and Fall of Kinge Edward y^e second of y^t name Ki: of England: written by S^r ffrances Hubbart knight’ and here beginning ‘ I singe thy sadd disaster fatal Kinge’, 98 duodecimo leaves, in modern calf gilt. c.1620s.

HuF 6: Sir Francis Hubert, Edward II (‘It is thy sad disaster which I sing’)

Bookplate of Edward Astle. Once owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), collector of books and manuscripts. Sotheby's, 19-22 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 312.

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 34324

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 341 leaves, mounted on guards, in half red morocco. Papers of Sir Julius Caesar (1588-1636), Master of the Rolls. c.1623-5.

Purchased in 1757 by Samuel Burroughs, Master in Chancery. Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector.

f. 316r-v

• DnJ 1567: John Donne, Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse (‘Since I am comming to that Holy roome’)

Copy, in a secretary hand, on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter, endorsed (f. 317v) by Sir Julius Caesar ‘D. Dun Deane of Paules his verses in his greate sicknes in Deceb. 1623’. c.1623-30.

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

First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 368-9. Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 192.

f. 322r

• DrW 68: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Carmina Lugubria in morte Illustrissimi Regis Jacobi (‘Occidit ille decus summorum nobile regum’)

A formal copy, un an predominantly upright secretary hand, headed ‘In obitum Piissimi, Augustissimi, Maximi, Doctissimique Regis Jacobi Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, et Hyberniæ, Regis’, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter, endorsed (f. 323v) ‘Carmina Lugubria in morte Illustrissimi Regis Jacobi...p Drumond Scotu 2 Maij. 1625’. c.1625.

A Latin elegy of three 12-line stanzas ascribed to Drummond. Unpublished.

Add. MS 34360

A small folio 15th-century MS of poems by Lydgate and other works, inscribed (f. 2v) ‘fortuna non mutat genus WB’ and (f. 4r) ‘W. Browne’. Early 17th century.

*BrW 265: William Browne of Tavistock, Lydgate, John. Poems

Later in the library of Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector.

Edwards, No. 2. This MS described in E.P. Hammond, ‘Two British Museum Manuscripts (Harley 2251 and Adds. 34360): A Contribution to Lydgate Bibliography’, Anglia, 28 (1905), 1-28.

Add. MS 34361

A folio volume comprising three works by Abraham Fraunce, in two hands, 36 leaves, in contemporary vellum. With (f. 2r) a general title-page ‘The Sheapheards Logike: conteyning the præcepts of that art put downe by Ramus; examples set owt of the Sheapheards Kalender; notes and expositions collected owt of Beurhusius, Piscator, Mr. Chatterton and diuers others. Together with twooe general discourses, the one touchinge the prayse and ryghte vse of Logike, the other concernynge the comparison of Ramus his Logike with that of Aristotle’, subscribed ‘To the Ryght worshipful m^r Edwarde Dyer’ and followed (ff. 2v) by a fourteen-line verse dedication to Dyer (beginning ‘Some arts wee bynde to some one kynde of subject generallye’) and subscribed in an italic hand ‘Abraham franse’, the main text (ff. 3r-36r) in a neat secretary hand. c.1580-5.

Bookplate of James Bindley, FSA (1737-1818), book collector, dated 1811. Bindley sale, part 3, 1819, lot 1665, bought by Triphook for George Watson Taylor, MP (1771-1841), collector (his sale 1823, part 2, lot 38). Then owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector (Heber sale, part 11, 1836, lot 800); and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), collector of books and manuscripts. Sotheby's, 19-22 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 232.

ff. 3r-28r

• FrA 5: Abraham Fraunce, The Sheapheards Logike

Copy, in two books, with numerous quotations from Edmund Spenser's Shepheardes Calender (1579)

A facsimile of this MS published by the Scolar Press (Menston, 1969), which is the first publication of the work itself.

A treatise, partly an earlier version of Fraunce's The Lawiers Logike, exemplifying the præcepts of Logike by the Practise of the Common Lawe which was published in London, 1588.

ff. 29r-31v

• FrA 4: Abraham Fraunce, Of the nature and vse of Logike

Copy.

ff. 32r-6r

• FrA 2: Abraham Fraunce, A bryef and general comparison of Ramus his Logike with that of Aristotle

Copy.

Add. MS 34362

A quarto miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, ff. 4r-153v in a single neat predominantly italic hand, ff. 154r-63 in another hand dated 1687, with (ff. 2r-3v, 165r-6r) a table of contents, 166 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half morocco. Including eight poems in the Marvell canon and his mock-speech by the King (plus apocryphal poems). c.1680s.

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Sam^ll. Danvers. 1664’; and (f. 164v) ‘F Danvers’, ‘Samuel Danvers his book’, and ‘W D'anvers’: i.e. probably the family of Sir Samuel Danvers, Bt. (d.1683) of Culworth, Northamptonshire (though not in his hand).

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Danvers MS: MaA Δ 5. Marvell contents recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

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• MaA 172: Andrew Marvell, The Kings Vowes (‘When the Plate was at pawne, and the fobb att low Ebb’)

Copy, the first leaf slightly cropped.

Edited from this MS in Margoliouth and 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. 22r-5r

• RoJ 534: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Tunbridge Wells (‘At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head’)

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.

First published in Richard Head, Proteus Redivivus: or the Art of Wheedling (London, 1675). Vieth, pp. 73-80. Walker, pp. 69-74. Love, pp. 49-54.

f. 37v

• MaA 282: Andrew Marvell, Upon his Grand-Children (‘Kendal is dead, and Cambridge riding post’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Cambridge is dead & Kendall is rideing Post’.

This MS recorded in Margoliouth.

First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 147. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.

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• MaA 143: Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between the Two Horses (‘Wee read in profane and Sacred records’)

Copy, the poem here dated 1675.

Edited from this MS in POAS, I; collated in Margoliouth.

First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 208-13, as ‘probably Marvell's’. POAS, I, 274-83, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

f. 41r

• MaA 33: Andrew Marvell, In eandem Reginae Sueciae transmissam (‘Bellipotens Virgo, septem Regina Trionum’)

Copy, headed ‘A Copy of Verses by M^r Andrew Marvell on the Protectors Picture sent to Christina Queen of Sweden’.

This MS recorded in Margoliouth. Facsimile in Kelliher, p. 58.

First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 108. Lord, p. 247. Smith, p. 315, with English translation.

ff. 42r-3r

• MaA 217: Andrew Marvell, The Statue at Charing Cross (‘What can be the Mistery why Charing Cross’)

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

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. 43r-v

• MaA 212: Andrew Marvell, Scaevola Scoto-Brittanicus (‘Sharpius exercet dum saevas perfidus iras’)

Copy, as ‘p And. Marvel’.

Edited from this MS in Margoliouth.

First published in Thompson (1776), I, xlviii. Margoliouth, I, 213-14. Smith, pp. 421-2, with English translation. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

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• MaA 139.5: Andrew Marvell, A Country Clowne call'd Hodge Went to view the Pyramid, pray mark what did ensue (‘When Hodge had number'd up how many score’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Mengel.

First published, as ‘Hodge a Countryman went up to the Piramid, His Vision’, in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), p. 5. Sometimes called Hodge's Vision from the Monument, [December, 1675]. Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 81-8. Thompson, III, 359-65. Grosart, I, 435-40. Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse, 1660-1714, Volume II: 1678-1681, ed. Elias F. Mengel, Jr (New Haven & London, 1965), pp. 146-53.

First attributed to Marvell in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697), but probably written in 1679, after Marvell's death.

f. 47v

• MaA 64: Andrew Marvell, A Ballad call'd the Chequer Inn (‘I'll tell thee Dick where I have beene’)

Copy of ‘The Answer’ only, headed ‘Upon the Rump or last long Parliam^t’ and here beginning ‘A Curse on such Representatives’.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Margoliouth, I, 201-8. POAS, I, 252-62. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

f. 50r-v

• MaA 200: Andrew Marvell, Nostradamus's Prophecy (‘The Blood of the Just London's firm Doome shall fix’)

Copy, headed ‘An ancient Prophecy written originally in ffrench by Nosterdam, & now done into English 6 Jan. 1671’.

Edited from this MS in Margoliouth; collated in POAS, I.

First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 178-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 185-9 (first part only as possibly by John Ayloffe). Rejected from the canon by Lord.

f. 53r

• CwT 1078: Thomas Carew, To M^ris Katherine Nevill on her greene sicknesse (‘White innocence that now lies spread’)

Copy, headed ‘On Celinda when she had y^e Green Sickness’.

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

ff. 78r-81v

• DoC 341: 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. 84r-5v

• RoJ 24: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book (‘Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.

ff. 88r-93v

• DrJ 43.74: John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire (‘How dull and how insensible a beast’)

Copy.

A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.

First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.

The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, ‘Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire’, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that ‘Mulgrave had by far the major hand’. Recorded in Hammond, V, 684, in an ‘Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition’.

f. 99v

• CoA 175: Abraham Cowley, Sors Virgiliana (‘By a bold peoples stubborn armes opprest’)

Copy, following Virgil's Latin, then headed ‘Thus English'd by M^r Cowly’.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Bowman, in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677].

Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Sparrow, p. 192. Texts usually preceded by a prose introduction explaining the circumstances of composition.

ff. 108r-10v

• MaA 165: Andrew Marvell, An Historical Poem (‘Of a tall Stature and of sable hue’)

Copy, the poem here dated 1680.

Edited from this MS in Margoliouth and in POAS, II.

First published in The Fourth (and Last) Collection of Poems, Satyrs, Songs, &c. (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 218-23, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, II, 154-63, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

ff. 117v-18r

• DoC 227: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Young Statesmen (‘Clarendon had law and sense’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon the Ministers’ and here beginning ‘Clarendon had some pedantick sence’.

This MS collated in POAS and (? mistakenly cited as Add. MS 22640) in Harris.

First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.

pp. 126-9

• MaA 210.4: Andrew Marvell, Oceana and Britannia (‘Whither, O whither, wander I forlorn?’)

Copy.

Published in Thompson (1776), III, 307-14. Cooke, II, 17-25. Grosart, I, 443-9. The poem probably dates from 1680-1, after Marvell's death.

ff. 136r-7v

• MaA 509: Andrew Marvell, His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament, 13 April 1675

Copy, headed ‘The K Speech April 13^th 75.’.

This MS recorded in Kelliher.

A mock speech, beginning ‘I told you last meeting the winter was the fittest time for business...’. First published, and ascribed to Marvell, in Poems on Affairs of State, Vol. III (London, 1704). Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 36-43. Grosart, II, 431-3. Augustine Birrell, Andrew Marvell (London, 1905), pp. 200-2. Discussed in Legouis, p. 470, and in Kelliher, pp. 111-12.

Add. MS 34395

A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in several secretary hands, one predominating, 101 leaves, in modern half green morocco. Volume II of the letterbooks and miscellanies of members of the Williams (alias Cromwell) family of Huntingdonshire.

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Willu Readman’.

ff. 36r-42v

• SoR 300: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, An Epistle unto his Father (22 October 1589)

Copy, as by ‘R: S:’, transcribed from the first edition of A Short Rule of Good Life, imperfect, the first leaf, dated in an italic hand 1607, largely torn away. c.1607.

This MS collated in Trotman. Described in McDonald, pp. 11-12. Recorded in Brown, Two Letters, p. xlvii.

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

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• SoR 320: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A Short Rule of Good Life

Extracts, transcribed from the first edition.

This MS recorded in Brown, Two Letters, p. xlvii.

First published [in London? 1596-7?]. Brown, Two Letters, pp. 21-73.

Add. MS 34517

A folio volume of extracts from the papers of Richard Graham, first Viscount Preston, compiled by Sir James Mackintosh (1765-1832), political writer and politician, 107 leaves. Volume XXXI of the Mackintosh Collections. Late 18th-early 19th century.

Recorded in HMC. 7th Report (1879), Appendix, p. 261.

ff. 31r-4r

• EtG 132: Sir George Etherege, Letter(s)

Copy, by Mackintosh, of two letters by Etherege to Preston, from Ratisbon, [17/27 December 1688] and 24 December 1688/3 January 1688/9.

Edited from this MS in Rosenfeld, pp. 432-4 (the date of the first letter given as 28 January 1688/9). For original letters, see EtG 000.

Add. MS 34631

A folio composite volume of works by Sir Walter Ralegh, in several professional hands, 63 leaves, in modern half green morocco. Volume XXI of the collections of Macvey Napier (1776-1847), encyclopedia and journal editor.

Item 921 in an unidentified sale catalogue.

ff. 2r-19v

• RaW 612: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse of the Original and Fundamental Cause of Natural, Arbitrary, Necessary, and Unnatural War

Copy, untitled, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, imperfect, lacking the beginning. c.1620s-30s.

A tract beginning ‘The ordinary theme and argument of history is war...’. First published (in part), as ‘The Misery of Invasive Warre’, in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London 1650). Published complete in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 253-97.

Add. MS 34660

A folio miscellany of theological and family materials, in several hands, 54 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in old calf. Compiled over a period by members of the Bridgen family, of Bridgnorth, Shropshire, including materials relating to Richard Mapletoft (1725-1801). c.1708-1801.

Inscribed (f. 1v) ‘E Coll. Univ. Anno Dom. 1708’, possibly by William Bridgen (d.1738), of University College, Oxford. Purchased from E. C. Shacland, 17 July 1895.

ff. 49r, 50r

• CoA 90: Abraham Cowley, The Given Love (‘I'll on. for what should hinder me’)

Copy. Mid-late 18th century.

This MS recorded in Jean Loiseau, Abraham Cowley's Reputation in England (Paris, 1931), p. 27, n. 18.

First published in The Mistresse (London, 1647). Waller, I, 68-70. Sparrow, pp. 64-6. Collected Works, II, No. 3, pp. 23-5.

f. 51r

• CoA 275: Abraham Cowley, Extracts

Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.

Add. MS 34692

A quarto volume of religious verse and prose, in a single predominantly italic hand, 33 leaves, in modern half black morocco. The first item (ff. 1r-25v) a sermon (on the authority of kings) with a dedicatory epistle to Charles I signed by the probable compiler of the volume, Thomas Lenthall (b.1610/11), Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and dated July 1642. c.1642.

Presented by Edward J.L. Scott, 14 October 1894.

ff. 26r-9r

• CrR 146: Richard Crashaw, On a prayer booke sent to Mrs. M. R. (‘Loe here a little volume, but large booke’)

Copy, headed (on a separate title-page) ‘Verses: Vpon the Booke of Common Prayer’, subscribed ‘R: Crashaw Coll: Petren:’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 126-30 (and later version pp. 328-31).

f. 30r-v

• WoH 257.6: Sir Henry Wotton, ‘Rise oh my soul w^th: thy desires to heauen’

Copy.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 537, subscribed ‘Ignoto’, among ‘Poems Found among the Papers of S. H. Wotton’.

ff. 31r-2v

• CrR 164: Richard Crashaw, On the Assumption (‘Harke shee is called, the parting houre is come’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Rob: Crashaw: A: Pet: Artis: Magist:’.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

Add. MS 34744

A tall folio composite volume of verse and some prose, chiefly translations from Latin, in various hands and paper sizes, 133 leaves, mounted on guards, in half red morocco. Volume XVIII of papers of the families of Browne, Mariett and West, of the manor of Alscot, in Preston-on-Stour, Gloucestershire.

Portions once owned by Henry Jackson (1586-1662), Hooker's first editor; by Anthony Wood (1632-95), Oxford antiquary; by Thomas Coxeter (1689-1747); and probably by James West, FRS, FSA, MP (1703-72), politician and antiquary.

ff. 20r-4r

• *HkR 56: Richard Hooker, Letter(s)

Hooker's autograph copy of an undated letter in Latin to John Rainolds. Late 16th century.

Edited from this MS in Folger edition, Volume V, with a facsimile of f. 20r on p. 420.

ff. 47r-8r

• DnJ 1159: John Donne, Epithalamion made at Lincolnes Inne (‘The Sun-beames in the East are spred’)

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Epithalamion one a cittisen’, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter. c.1620.

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

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

f. 48v

• DnJ 3351: John Donne, To M^r T.W. (‘At once, from hence, my lines and I depart’)

Copy, in a secretary hand, on the fourth page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter. c.1620.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

f. 56r-v

• SeC 26: Sir Charles Sedley, Ovid's Amores, Book II, Elegy the Fifth. To his false Mistress (‘Cupid, begon! who wou'd on thee rely’)

Copy of an 85-line version, headed ‘Ovid B: 2. Eleg: 5. Taken out of S^r. Ch: Sidley's & M^r Oldhams Translations’ and beginning ‘Nay then y^e Devil take all Love! if I’, comprising a conflated version based on two translations. c.1700.

Edited from this MS in Sola Pinto, I, 294-5.

First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 95-7.

f. 57r-v

• RoJ 493: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To Love (‘O Love! how cold and slow to take my part’)

Copy, headed ‘Ovid B: 2: Eleg: 9. By y^e E: of Rhochester’. c.1700.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 35-7. Walker, pp. 49-50. Love, pp. 12-13.

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• DrJ 109: John Dryden, Ovid's Elegies, Book II. Elegy the Nineteenth (‘If for thy self thou wilt not watch thy Whore’)

Copy, headed ‘Ovid B: 2. Eleg: 19. By M^r Dryden’. c.1700.

First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 364-5. California, II, 158-9. Hammond, II, 191-4.

f. 59v

• SeC 28: Sir Charles Sedley, Ovid's Amores, Book III, Elegy the Fourth. To A Man that lockt up his Wife (‘Vex not thy self and her, vain Man, since all’)

Copy, headed ‘Ovid Lib: 3. Eleg: 4 by S^r: Ch: Sedley’. c.1700.

This MS recorded in Sola Pinto, I, xxvi.

First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 97-8.

f. 63r-v

• DrJ 73: John Dryden, Idyllium the 23d. The Despairing Lover (‘With inauspicious love, a wretched Swain’)

Copy, as ‘By M^r Dryden’. c.1700.

This MS collated in California.

First published in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 424-7. California, III, 69-72. Hammond, II, 352-5.

f. 64v

• DrJ 67: John Dryden, Horace Lib. I. Ode 9 (‘Behold yon' Mountains hoary height’)

Copy, as ‘By M^r Dryden’. c.1700.

This MS collated in California.

First published in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 432-4. California, III, 79-80. Hammond, II, 366-8.

f. 64v

• DrJ 71: John Dryden, Horat. Ode 29. Book 3 Paraphras'd in Pindarique Verse. and Inscrib'd to the Right Honourable Lawrence Earl of Rochester (‘Descended of an ancient Line’)

Copy, as ‘By M^r. Dryden’. c.1700.

This MS collated in California.

First published in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 434-7. California, III, 81-4. Hammond, II, 369-76.

f. 64v

• DrJ 68: John Dryden, Horat. Ode 3. Lib. I Inscrib'd to the Earl of Roscomon, on his intended Voyage to Ireland (‘So may th' auspitious Queen of Love’)

Copy, as ‘By M^r. Dryden’. c.1700.

This MS collated in California.

First published in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 431-2. California, III, 77-8. Hammond, II, 363-5.

f. 64v

• DrJ 47: John Dryden, From Horace, Epod. 2d. (‘How happy in his low degree’)

Copy, as ‘By M^r: Dryden’. c.1700.

This MS collated in California.

First published in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 437-40. California, III, 85-8. Hammond, II, 378-85.

ff. 93v-5r

• CoA 37.5: Abraham Cowley, Christs Passion, Taken out of a Greek Ode, written by Mr. Masters of New College in Oxford (‘Enough, my Muse, of Earthly things’)

Copy, headed ‘Christ's Passion by M^r Cowley from a Greek Ode of M^r Masters’, in a quarto verse miscellany (occupying ff. 84r-117v). Early 18th century.

First published in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663). Verses, Lately Written upon several Occasions (London, 1663). Waller, I, 402-4.

Musical setting by Henry Bowman published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman (Oxford, 1679).

f. 102r-v

• CgW 54: William Congreve, Verses Sacred To the Memory of Grace Lady Gethin Occasion'd by reading her Book, Entituled, Reliquiae Gethinianae (‘After a painful Life in Study spent’)

Copy, as ‘by M^r Congreve’, in a quarto verse miscellany (occupying ff. 84r-117v). Early 18th century.

First published in Misery's Virtues Whet-stone Reliquiae Gethinianae, 3rd edition (London, 1703). Summers, IV, 60-1. Dobrée, pp. 250-1. McKenzie, II, 332-3.

ff. 102v-3r

• WhA 67: Anne Wharton, Verses on the Snuff of a Candle made in Sickness (‘See there the Taper's dim, and doleful Light’)

Copy, as ‘by M^rs Wharton’, in a quarto verse miscellany (occupying ff. 84r-117v). Early 18th century.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

First published in The Gentleman's Journal (London, 1692), p. 2. Greer & Hastings, No. 24, p. 190.

f. 104r-v

• PsK 550: Katherine Philips, The Virgin (‘The things that make a Virgin please’)

Copy, as ‘by M^rs Philips’, in a quarto verse miscellany (occupying ff. 84r-117v). Early 18th century.

First published in Poems (1667), p. 136. Saintsbury, p. 583. Thomas, I, 207-8, poem 90.

ff. 107r-9v

• WaE 159: Edmund Waller, Of Divine Love. Six Cantos (‘The Grecian muse has all their gods survived’)

Copy, headed ‘On Divine Love from M^r Waller’, in a quarto verse miscellany (occupying ff. 84r-117v). Early 18th century.

First published in Poems, ‘Fourth’ edition (London, 1682). Thorn-Drury, II, 119-30.

ff. 110r-12r

• WaE 170: Edmund Waller, Of Divine Poesy. Two Cantos (‘Poets we prize, when in their verse we find’)

Copy, as ‘by M^r Waller’, in a quarto verse miscellany (occupying ff. 84r-117v). Early 18th century.

First published in Divine Poems (London, 1685). Thorn-Drury, II, 131-5.

f. 112r-v

• WaE 284: Edmund Waller, Of the last Verses in the Book (‘When we for age could neither read nor write’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Waller's last Verses’, in a quarto verse miscellany (occupying ff. 84r-117v). Early 18th century.

First published in Poems, ‘Fifth’ edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 144.

ff. 114r-16v

• MnJ 23.5: John Milton, Paradise Lost (‘Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit’)

Extracts.

First published in London, 1667. Columbia, II. Darbishire I. Carey & Fowler, pp. 417-1060.