CELM: The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 35000 through 39999

Add. MS 35298

A 15th-century folio MS on vellum of an English translation, inscribed (f. 1r) ‘W^m Browne’. Early 17th century.

*BrW 260: William Browne of Tavistock, Legenda Aurea

Also inscribed by Sir Thomas North and, in 1776, by William Herbert (1718-95), bibliographer and print seller. Arms on the cover of Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary. Armorial bookplate of Prince Augustus Frederick (1773-1843), Duke of Sussex.

Edwards, No. 3.

Add. MS 35331

Autograph diary of the lawyer Walter Yonge, MP, of Colyton, Devon, in his secretary hand, 90 folio leaves, with (ff. 84r-90r) a ‘Table’ of contents, in modern half red morocco. 1627-42.

Inscribed (f. 3r) ‘This manuscript was founde by me one the 22^th day of April, 1644, in the studie of Walter Younge, Esq., in his house of Studcombe [i.e. Stedeombe in Axminster] in Devon, witnes my haunde the day & yeare first aboue-written. E. Fortescue’: i.e. probably by Sir Edmund Fortescue, the Royalist defender of Salcombe. Phillipps MS 20757. Sotheby's, 5-10 June 1899 (Phillipps sale), lot 340.

f. 28r

• CoR 6.5: Richard Corbett, Against the Opposing the Duke in Parliament, 1628 (‘The wisest King did wonder when hee spy'd’)

Copy, headed ‘An episcopall libell againste the lougher howse, the Bb^p of Oxforde is thoughte to bee the author of them’, c.17 March-12 May 1628/9.

On f. 30v is ‘An answere to the verses pag: 49’ (‘The warlike Kinge did wonder when hee spide’), the page headed ‘Maye 12^th 1629’.

Edited from this MS in Pearl, pp. 36-8.

First published in Poems and Songs relating to George Duke of Buckingham, Percy Society (London, 1850), p. 31. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 82-3.

Most MS texts followed by an anonymous ‘Answer’ beginning ‘The warlike king was troubl'd when hee spi'd’. Texts of these two poems discussed in V.L. Pearl and M.L. Pearl, ‘Richard Corbett's “Against the Opposing of the Duke in Parliament, 1628” and the Anonymous Rejoinder, “An Answere to the Same, Lyne for Lyne”: The Earliest Dated Manuscript Copies’, RES, NS 42 (1991), 32-9, and related correspondence in RES, NS 43 (1992), 248-9.

Add. MS 35333

A quarto composite volume of antiquarian letters and tracts, in various hands and paper sizes, 131 leaves, mounted on guards, in cloth boards.

Some items possibly from the library of Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary. Probably the quarto volume later owned by the Rev. Dr Cox Macro (1683-1767), antiquary, sold at Christie's, February 1820, lot 99. Afterwards owned by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. A description of the contents on ff. 1v-2r by Sir Francis Palgrave, December 1842. Turner sale, 1859, lot 8. Phillipps MS 21538. Sotheby's, 5-10 June 1899 (Phillipps sale), lot 1090.

ff. 11r-28r

• SuJ 141: John Suckling, An Account of Religion by Reason

Copy, in a mixed hand, as ‘by S^r John Suckling’, on eighteen quarto leaves. c.1640s.

First published, with a separate title-page, in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 168-80.

Add. MS 35819

A folio volume of papers relating to duels and combats, in probably several hands, one predominating, with indexes (ff. 2r-8r, 184r-8v), 188 leaves (with insertions), in a recycled vellum document, within modern half red morocco.

Bearing notes by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary. Le Neve sale, 1730, bought by Nicholas Hardinge. Volume XXXXLXXI of the papers of the first four Earls of Hardwicke and other members of the Yorke family.

ff. 39v-47v

• CtR 208: Sir Robert Cotton, A Discovre of Lawfvllnes of Combats to be performed in the presence of the King, or the Constable and Marshall of England. Written...1609

Copy, headed ‘S^r Robert Cotton's Discourse of the Lawfulnes of Combats to bee performed in the Kings presence &’. Mid-late 17th century.

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

Add. MS 35838

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various professional hands (including the ‘Feathery Scribe’), 425 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

Volume CCCCXC of the papers of the first four Earls of Hardwicke and other members of the Yorke family.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 228 (No. 32).

ff. 88r-100r

• DaJ 282: Sir John Davies, Speeches in Ireland (21 May 1613)

Copy of the two speeches, in a professional rounded hand, with (f. 88r) a later title-page. Late 17th century.

Two speeches, one in the Irish House of Commons, the other in the Irish House of Lords, beginning respectively ‘Most hon^ble. Lord & R^t. Worthy Deputy of Our most Invincible Renowned & Gracious Sovereign, I am here presented to your Lord^p...’. and ‘Most hon^ble. & Right Noble Lord. Since your high Wisdom (unto which I humbly made my Appeal) has not thought fit to repeal...’. The second speech first published in Davies, Historical Tracts (Dublin, 1787). The two speeches first published together in Grosart, III (1876), 215-21, 222-41.

Add. MS 35842

A tall folio volume comprising principally letters by Francis Bacon 1595-1622, largely in a single probably professional secretary hand, a letter by Sir Thomas Bodley to Bacon (ff. 41r-4v) in another secretary hand, 44 leaves, now mounted on guards, in contemporary vellum, now within modern half red morocco. c.1620s-30s.

Volume CCCCXCIV of the papers of the first four Earls of Hardwicke and other members of the Yorke family.

ff. 2r-16v, 22r-40v

• BcF 582: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

Copy of numerous letters by Francis Bacon, to Burghley, Queen Elizabeth, Essex, Robert Cecil, Northampton, James I, Sir Edward Coke, Buckingham, Tobie Mathews, Sir John Davies, Northumberland, and others.

ff. 16v-22r

• BcF 176.4: Francis Bacon, Considerations touching the Queen's Service in Ireland

Copy.

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

Add. MS 35865

A folio volume of parliamentary papers of of Sir Henry Capel. Volume DXVII of the Hardwicke Papers, of the Yorke family.

ff. 9r-44r

• ClE 102: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Impeachment Proceedings against Clarendon in 1667

Copy.

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

Add. MS 35957

A tall folio volume of legal and state papers, largely in a single cursive secretary hand, 259 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco. Probably compiled by Timothy Tourneur, reader in Gray's Inn (in 1632), who records (f. 124r) the births of his daughter Susan Tourneur at Salop in 1622, of his son Timothy in 1624, and of his daughter May in 1625. c.1622-5.

Volume DCIX of the papers of the first four Earls of Hardwicke and other members of the Yorke family.

ff. 82v-3v

• BcF 446: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

Copy of Bacon's submission.

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

Add. MS 36081

A large folio composite volume of legal tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 274 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco. Collected by Sir Nicholas Lechmere (1613-1701), judge and politician.

Volume DCCXXXIII of the papers of the first four Earls of Hardwicke and other members of the Yorke family.

ff. 42r-54r

• CtR 279: Sir Robert Cotton, The Manner and Meanes how the Kings of England have from time to time Supported and Repaired their Estates. Written...1609.

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Extracts of Recordes and meanes whereby kings and Queenes of England haue raised, moneys collected and comprized by S^r Robert Cotton knt and Baronet’. Early 17th century.

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

f. 110r-15r

• CtR 78: Sir Robert Cotton, A Breife Abstract of the Question of Precedencie between England and Spaine: Occasioned by Sir Henry Nevill the Queen of Englands Ambassador, and the Ambassador of Spaine, at Calais Commissioners appointed by the French King...

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with deletions and alterations, as collected by Robt Cotton Esquier at the comaundment of her Ma^tie. Early 17th century.

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

ff. 178r-85r

• BcF 238: Francis Bacon, Ordinances in Chancery

Copy of 100 ordinances, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘made by the Lord Chancellor...24 January, 1618’.

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

Add. MS 36082

A folio volume comprising two treatises on impositions (the second by Sir James Whitelocke), in a single professional secretary hand, 176 leaves, in contemporary vellum. c.1630s.

Volume DCCXXXIV of the papers of the first four Earls of Hardwicke and other members of the Yorke family.

ff. 1r-100r

• DaJ 262: Sir John Davies, The Question concerning Impositions

Copy, with a title-page: ‘S^r John Dauies Serieant at Lawe vnto his Ma^tie: vppon Imposicons’.

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

Add. MS 36103

A quarto composite volume comprising three legal tracts, in different hands, with (ff. 108r-13r) an index, 113 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

Volume DCCLV of the papers of the first four Earls of Hardwicke and other members of the Yorke family.

ff. 47r-76r

• BcF 239: Francis Bacon, Ordinances in Chancery

Copy of 101 ordinances, in a cursive predominantly italic hand, as ‘made by the Right Hon^rable ffrancis Lord Verulam’. Mid-17th century.

Add. MS 36106

A tall folio volume comprising two treatises on the Court of Chancery, in different hands, 162 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco.

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘W^m Salkeld’: i.e. William Salkeld (1671-1715), sergeant-at-law and law reporter. Volume CCLVIII of the papers of the first four Earls of Hardwicke and other members of the Yorke family.

ff. 1r-47r

• CtR 135: Sir Robert Cotton, The Courte of Chauncerye

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘A learned Treatise concerning the High and hon^ble. Court of Chancery with an Excellent dyscipcon of every pticuler office and officers duty in theire severall places belonging therevnto &^c Written by the Right woorthy S^r Robert Cotton Knight devided into two partes’. c.1630.

Tract, in two parts, the first beginning ‘There is a Booke called the Myrror of Justices mentioned in Plowden's Commentaries...’, the second beginning ‘There be Two manner of Powers & Process...’.

Add. MS 36270

A tall folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 114 leaves, in modern half red morocco.

Volume DCCCCXXII of the papers of the first four Earls of Hardwicke and other members of the Yorke family.

f. 97r-v

• MaA 35: Andrew Marvell, In eandem Reginae Sueciae transmissam (‘Bellipotens Virgo, septem Regina Trionum’)

Copy, with (f. 97r) a title-page ‘Andrew Marvell's Verses inscrib'd on Cromwell's picture presented to Christine Queen of Sweden. Translated’, on the first of two conjugate quarto leaves. Late 17th century.

This MS recorded in Margoliouth. The text followed on f. 98r by an English translation beginning ‘Queen of the North! resplendent polar Star!’, with alterations.

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

Add. MS 36294

A partly autograph folio composite notebook, chiefly in Latin, containing drafts of letters, fragmentary materials for the Annales, and two dedications, some material (f. 15v) relating to Michael Drayton, in several hands and paper sizes, 114 leaves, in half-morocco gilt. 1582-1621.

*CmW 142: William Camden, Collectanea

Mr Baker's, York Street, Covent Garden, 1768 (Anstis sale). Sotheby's, 6 November 1899 (Tixal sale), lot 114.

Facsimiles of f. 24r (letter to Lord Burghley, 1594) in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate LXXIII(d), and in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 30.

Add. MS 36354

John Milton's Commonplace Book. c.1632-60s.

This MS probably given to Viscount Preston by Daniel Skinner, his former schoolfellow at Westminster School; Milton's Commonplace Book (MnJ 66), together with the letter addressed to him by Henry Lawes (MnJ 10), were discovered by Alfred J. Horwood in 1874 among the papers of the Graham family at Netherby Hall, Longtown, Cumberland, and recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 320. The state papers of Viscount Preston, among whose muniments Milton's commonplace book (with related material) was found, were sold at Sotheby's on 10 July 1986, lot 303, and are now in the British Library (Add. MSS 63752-63781).

The MS as a whole

• *MnJ 66: John Milton, Samson Agonistes

Partly autograph commonplace book compiled by Milton, comprising a series of notes, extracts and quotations, in Latin and English, drawn from about 110 works by some 92 authors, arranged under a series of headings and classified in three main sections (according to the subjects of ethics, economics and politics) and also including many notes on marriage and divorce; the volume originally comprising 126 folio leaves, paginated 1-250 (including 136 blanks), and an unnumbered table, but now lacking (blank) pages 33-6, 83-93, 207-8, 225-8, 231-4, as well as the lower halves of pp. 1-14, which have been excised; 71 pages containing entries in Milton's own hand; the remained in the hands of five or six amanuenses, including Edward Phllips (on p. 197), Jeremie Picard (on pp. 188, 195), the scribe responsible for Book I of Paradise Lost (MnJ 22) (on p. 249), and (on pp. 71, 77, 187 and 242) the amanuensis who transcribed an Italian sonnet in Milton's exemplum of Della Casa's Rime (see Introduction above, Milton's Library, No. iv); a few later entries made by Richard Graham, first Viscount Preston (1648-95); repaired and rebound in the late 19th century; c.1632-60s.

Complete text edited by Alfred J. Horwood, with unfolding facsimile examples, in A Common-Place Book of John Milton and a Latin Essay and Latin Verses presumed to be by Milton, Camden Society NS. 16 (1876) [reissued with corrections]; by J. H. Hanford and N. G. McCrea in Columbia, XVIII (1938), 128-220; by Ruth Mohl in an English translation in Yale, I (1953), pp. 344-513 (with a facsimile example p. 361); and extensively discussed, with facsimile examples, in Ruth Mohl, John Milton and His Commonplace Book (New York, 1969). Complete collotype facsimile in A Common-place Book Of John Milton, ed. A.J. Horwood (privately printed, 1876). Other facsimile examples in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, after p. 16; John Milton 1608-1674 Facsimiles of Autographs and Documents in the British Museum (London, 1908); Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate LIII; Helen Darbishire, ‘The Chronology of Milton's Handwriting’, The Library, 4th Ser. 14 (1933), 229-35; Maurice Kelley, ‘Milton and Machiavelli's Discorsi’, SB, 4 (1951-2), 123-7 (Plates I, III); Don M. Wolfe, Milton and His England (Princeton, 1971), p. 22; Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (London, 1986), No. 17, p. 29; and in Chris Fletcher et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 2003), p. 69. Also discussed in LR, I, 275-6 and II, 4-5; James Holly Hanford, ‘The Chronology of Milton's Private Studies’, PMLA, 36 (1921), 251-314; Maurice Kelley, ‘Milton's Commonplace Book, Folio 20’, MLN, 62 (1947), 192-4; Kelley, ‘Daniel Skinner, Lord Preston, and Milton's Commonplace Book’, MLN, 64 (1949), 522-5; and William Riley Parker [and John T. Shawcross], ‘Milton's Commonplace Book: An Index and Notes’, Milton Newsletter, 3 (1969), 41-54. See also MnJ 7-8, MnJ 10, MnJ 50.

First published in London, 1671. Columbia, I, Part 2, 330-99. Darbishire, II, 59-109. Carey & Fowler, pp. 330-402.

passim

• CmW 6.39: William Camden, Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha

Extracts, including examples on pp. 6*, 109, 177, 181, 186, 188, 220, 242, and 245.

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

f. 1v

• *MnJ 10: John Milton, [Fragment] (‘Fixe heere yee overdated sphears’)

Autograph of two lines drafted on the back of a letter to Milton by Henry Lawes written probably in April 1638.

Edited from this MS in Horwood, in Columbia, and in Carey & Fowler.

First published in A Common-Place Book of John Milton, ed. Alfred J. Horwood, Camden Society NS. 16 (1876), p. xvi. Columbia, XVIII, 226. Carey & Fowler, p. 254.

pp. 16*, 17r, 187r-8r

• SiP 234: Sir Philip Sidney, Extracts

Extracts chiefly from Arcadia.

p. 114

• RaW 677.6: Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World

Extracts.

First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.

Add. MS 36529

A folio verse miscellany, in several hands, 88 leaves, in contemporary leather gilt (rebacked). Almost entirely compiled for John Harington of Stepney (c.1517-82), of Stepney, courtier and writer, but also used by his son Sir John Harington and including (ff. 69v-78r), in an unidentified hand, Edmund Campion's Virgilian Latin epic (beginning ‘Sancta salutiferi nascentia semina verbi’) which otherwise exists in a presentation MS in the hand of Harington's ‘servant’ Thomas Combe (Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall, MS 437). Mid-late 16th century.

Inscribed (ff. 29v and 82r) ‘Ellina Harrington’ and (f. 29v) ‘ffrancis Haryngton’, two of Sir John's children. Inscribed (f. 3r) ‘Liber Jacobi Tyrrell, 1663’: i.e. by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), political theorist and historian, friend of John Locke. Owned in 1791 by the Rev. William Sayle, of Stowey, Somerset. Bearing annotations in red ink by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Bought in 1800 from Sayle by Thomas Park (1758/9-1834), antiquary and bibliographer, who sold it to Thomas Hill (1760-1840), London book collector. Subsequently owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 1336. Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1836, item 1244. Phillips MS 9474. Sotheby's, 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 1206. Quaritch's sale catalogue, 1900, Part VII, item 5811. Acquired 15 October 1900.

Some pieces in this MS (notably works by John Harington the Elder) printed in the various editions of Nugae Antiquae and in Ruth Hughey, John Harington of Stepney: Tudor Gentleman, (Columbus, Ohio, 1971). The poem by Edmund Campion edited, with an English translation, in Gerard Kilroy, Edmund Campion: Memory and Transcription (Aldershot, 2005), pp. 155-93.

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• *HrJ 339: Sir John Harington, Miscellany

Signs of Sir John Harington's use of this volume, including (f. 46v) six anonymous lines of verse in his hand beginning ‘Now hope, now feare, now ioye, now wofull care’, and (f. 69r) sidenotes apparently in his small italic hand.

ff. 30r-1r

• WyT 218: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Myne owne John Poyntz, sins ye delight to know’

Copy of lines 1-17, 20-8, 32-103, in an italic hand, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 88-91.

f. 32r

• WyT 128: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘I fynde no peace and all my warr is done’

Copy, in a formal secretary hand, headed ‘Pace non trovo’.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

First published in Songes and Sonnettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 20-1.

f. 32r

• WyT 368: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Venemus thornes that ar so sharp and kene’

Copy, in a formal secretary hand.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

First pub in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 57-8.

f. 32r

• WyT 110: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘He is not ded that somtyme hath a fall’

Copy, in a formal secretary hand, untitled, here beginning ‘I am not dead although I had a fall’.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 45.

f. 32v

• WyT 176: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Luckes, my fair falcon, and your fellowes all’

Copy, in a formal secretary hand, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, p. 241.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 241.

f. 32v

• WyT 2: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘A face that shuld content me wonders well’

Copy, in a formal secretary hand, untitled.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 132-3.

f. 32v

• WyT 329: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘The wandering gadlyng in the sommer tyde’

Copy, in a formal secretary hand.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson and in Harrier.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, p. 34.

f. 33r

• WyT 256: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Playn ye, myn eyes, accompany my hart’

Copy, in a formal secretary hand, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, p. 241.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 241.

f. 33r

• WyT 140: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘I see my plaint with open eares’

Copy, in a formal secretary hand, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Muir & Thomson, p. 242.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 242.

f. 44r

• HrJ 11: Sir John Harington, Orlando Furioso (‘Of Dames, of Knights, of armes, of loves delight’)

Copy of Book XIX, stanza 1, in a roman hand, with alterations in different ink, untitled. here beginning ‘None can deame right who faythfull frends do rest’.

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

Add. MS 36674

A folio composite volume of tracts and papers relating to magic and witchcraft, in various hands, 197 leaves, in modern red morocco.

Probably in the library of John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, afterwards of his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician (his sale, 1759, lot 397, to Joseph Ames. Ames's sale, 1760, lot 357, to Snelling. Henry White sale, 1902, lot 1408.

item 1

• *HvG 21: Gabriel Harvey, [Anon.]. The Book of King Solomon called the Key of Knowledge

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Moore Smith, p. 80. Stern, p. 242.

item 2

• *HvG 31: Gabriel Harvey, [Anon. Treatise on Magic]

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Moore Smith, p. 80. Stern, p. 242.

item 3

• *HvG 81: Gabriel Harvey, Forman, Simon. An excellent booke of the arte of Magicke, first begoone the xxii^th of Marche Anno Domini 1567

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

Moore Smith, p. 80. Stern, p. 242.

item 4

• *HvG 23: Gabriel Harvey, [Anon.] Certaine straung visions, or apparitions of memorable note. Anno 1567.

Autograph annotations and marginalia. 1567.

Moore Smith, p. 80. Stern, p. 242.

Add. MS 36758

Copy, in a neat secretary hand, with (f. 1r) a title-page ‘Bonduca Queene of Brittaine’, stage directions and some headings in bold, with deletions (f. 24r), 25 folio leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt. In the hand of Edward Knight, book-keeper and prompter of the King's Company, incomplete, lacking Act IV, scenes i and ii and part of scene iii, with his note (f. 24r) explaining that ‘the booke where by it was first Acted from is lost: and this hath been transcribed from the fowle papers of the Authors w^ch were found’. c.1624-30s.

B&F 27: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Bonduca

Hodgson's, 20 February 1903, lot 1124.

Edited from this MS, with facsimile examples, in Greg. Collated in Bowers. Facsimile example in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 17.

First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, V, 1-102. Edited by W.W. Greg, Malone Society (Oxford, 1951). Bowers, IV, 156-244, ed. Cyrus Hoy. See also Grace Ioppolo, ‘The Final Revision of Bonduca: An Unpublished Essay by W.W. Greg’, SB, 43 (1990), 62-80.

Add. MS 36825

A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings, 17 May 1627/8 to 26 June 1628, in several professional predominantly secretary hands, 660 leaves, in half brown morocco. c.1630.

Presented by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), American financier and collector.

ff. 30v-3r

• RuB 14: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.20-22 March 1627/8

Copy, headed in the margin ‘Sir Beniamine Rudyer’.

Speech. Yale 1628, II, 58-60, two parallel versions: (1) beginning ‘This is the crisis of parliaments...’; (2) beginning ‘It is the goodness of God and the favour of the King...’; II, 68, third version, beginning ‘If we be thankful, all is well. By this we shall know whether parliaments will live or die...’; II, 73, fourth, brief reported version, beginning ‘We are not now upon the bene esse of our kingdom but the esse...’.

f. 109r-v

• RuB 40: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.2-9 April 1628

Copy, headed in the margin ‘S^r Ben: Rudyer’.

Speech beginning ‘The best thanks we can return his Ma^tie for his gracious and religious answer...’.

ff. 132v-3r

• RuB 53: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?4 April 1628

Copy, headed in the margin ‘[S^r] Ben: Rudyard’.

Speech beginning ‘We have received many gracious messages from His Majesty. It is now high time to give thanks...’. Yale 1628, II, 297 and 317; variant versions II, 303, 309, 313-14.

ff. 260v-1r

• RuB 83: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.30 April 1628

Copy, headed ‘Sir Beniamyne Rudyer at a Committee of the whole house’.

Speech beginning ‘We have been long about framing of words for a strong law...’. Yale 1628, III, 172. Variant versions: III, 175, 179, 180, 181-2.

f. 262v

• RuB 86: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, early May 1628

Copy, headed in the margin ‘Sir Beniamyne Rudyer’.

A brief speech beginning ‘I am sorry that that which I have said...’.

f. 272v

• HoJ 351: John Hoskyns, Speech in the House of Commons, 1 May 1628

Copy, fourteen lines, ascribed to ‘Serieant Hoskins’.

Speech (14 lines), beginning ‘I am against a Remonstrance...’.

f. 286v

• HoJ 352: John Hoskyns, Speech in the House of Commons, 6 May 1628

Copy, ascribed to ‘Serieant Hoskins’.

Speech, beginning ‘The question is not what we have now more then before...’.

f. 323r-v

• RuB 88: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, May 1628

Copy, headed in the margin ‘Sir Benia: Rudyer’.

Speech beginning ‘Justice ought to be a great favourer of the Innocent...’.

f. 326v

• RuB 90: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.16 May 1628

Copy, headed in the margin ‘S^r Beniamine Rudyer’.

Speech beginning ‘I would we were as ready to reward as punish...’.

ff. 446v-7r

• RuB 104: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 6 June 1628

Copy, headed in the margin ‘S^r Ben Ridyer’.

An eight-line speech beginning ‘This day is appointed for the consideration of his Majesty's answer to our petition...’.

f. 479r-v

• RuB 106: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.11 June 1628

Copy, headed in the margin ‘S^r Ben: Rudyer’.

Speech beginning ‘I hold the same ground still that I brought with me...’.

Add. MS 36913

A large folio composite volume of largely official papers relating chiefly to Cheshire, in various hands and paper sizes, 321 leaves, mounted on guards, in half green morocco.

Volume XIII of the papers of the Aston and Norris families, of Cheshire and Lancashire.

ff. 311r-20v

• CoA 44: Abraham Cowley, The Civil War (‘What rage does England from it selfe divide’)

Copy of Book I, lines 1-568, a neat rounded hand, with a title-page ‘Of the Civill War suppos'd to be written by Abr: Cowly and that vpon very good ground tho' not in his printed workes’, on ten folio leaves. Late 17th century.

This MS collated and described in Pritchard's edition, pp. 61-3.

Most of Book I first published as A Poem on the late Civil War (London, 1679). Waller, II, 465-81. The full text of Books I-III first published in Toronto, 1973, ed. Allan Pritchard. Collected Works, I, pp. 115-62.

Add. MS 36933

Counterpart of the contract between Dryden and Jacob Tonson for his translation of Virgil (see DrJ 376), signed by Tonson and by Congreve as witnesses, 15 June 1694. 1694.

*CgW 114: William Congreve, Document(s)

Add. MS 37157

A double-folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers of the Herbert family, in various hands and paper sizes, 92 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half red morocco. Including (ff. 1r-25r) a quarto collection of poems by Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury, in a neat predominantly italic hand, subscribed by him (f. 25r) ‘The Verses of Ed. L. Herbert of Cherbery and Castle Island; 1630’, with his occasional autograph corrections, deletions and additions. c.1630-1.

Purchased from Mrs Ada C. South, 14 October 1905.

f. 1r-v

• HrE 52: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, To a Lady who did sing excellently (‘When our rude & unfashion'd words, that long’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 131.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 44-5.

f. 1v

• *HrE 28: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Epitaph on Sir Edward Saquevile's Child, who dyed in his Birth (‘Reader, here lies a Child that never cry'd’)

Copy, headed ‘On my L. of Dorsets first sonne’, with Herbert's autograph addition ‘who dyed in his birth’.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 128.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 30.

f. 2r

• *HrE 42: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, ‘Tears, flow no more, or if you needs must flow’

Copy, with an autograph revision, headed by Herbert ‘Ditty’.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 128.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 26.

ff. 2v-3r

• HrE 5: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Ditty (‘If you refuse me once, and think again’)

This MS collated in Moore Smith, pp. 128-9.

Stanzas 1-3 first published (prefixed to verses by Sir Robert Ayton) in The Last Remains of S^r John Suckling (London, 1659). First published complete in Occasional Verses (1666). Moore Smith, pp. 31-2.

ff. 3v-4r

• *HrE 20: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Elegy over a Tomb (‘Must I then see, alas! eternal night’)

Copy, with three autograph corrections or revisions.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 129.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 32-4.

ff. 4v-5r

• *HrE 62: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, To Mrs. Diana Cecyll (‘Diana Cecyll, that rare beauty thou dost show’)

Copy, with two autograph revisions.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 129.

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

f. 5r-v

• *HrE 54: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, To her Eyes (‘Black eyes if you seem dark’)

Copy, with three autograph corrections.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 129.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 35-6.

f. 6r-v

• *HrE 57: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, To her Hair (‘Black beamy hairs, which so seem to arise’)

Copy, with eight autograph corrections and revisions.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 130.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 37-8.

f. 7r

• HrE 41: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Sonnet of Black Beauty (‘Black beauty, which above that common light’)

Printed from this MS in Norman Ault, Seventeenth Century Lyrics, 2nd edition (New York, 1950), p. 3; collated in Moore Smith, p. 130.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 38.

ff. 7v-8v

• *HrE 31: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The first Meeting (‘As sometimes with a sable Cloud’)

Copy with four autograph corrections and revisions.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 130.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 39-42.

f. 9r-v

• HrE 45: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Thought (‘If you do love, as well as I’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 131.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 43-4.

f. 10r

• HrE 76: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, To the C. of D. (‘Since in your face, as in a beauteous sphere’)

Copy, untitled and deleted.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 55.

f. 10v

• *HrE 40: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Sonnet (‘You well compacted Groves, whose light & shade’)

Copy, with an autograph revision, headed ‘Sonnet’, with Herbert's autograph addition ‘at Merlou 1620 in France’.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 132.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 54.

f. 11r-v

• HrE 2: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Brown Beauty (‘While the two contraries of Black and White’)

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 133.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 60.

ff. 11v-12r

• *HrE 33: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Green-Sickness Beauty (‘From thy pale look, while angry Love doth seem’)

Copy of a seven-stanza version, with an autograph correction.

First pub in Occasional Verses (1665); Moore Smith, pp. 68-9. This MS collated and the last two stanzas printed in Moore Smith, pp. 134-5.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 68-9.

ff. 12v-13r

• *HrE 34: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Green-Sickness Beauty (‘Though the pale white within your cheeks compos'd’)

Copy, with an autograph alteration.

This MS collated and the last two stanzas edited in Moore Smith, pp. 134-5.

First published in Le Prince d'Amour (London, 1660). Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 67-8.

ff. 13v-16v

• *HrE 38: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, An Ode upon a Question moved, Whether Love should continue for ever? (‘Having interr'd her Infant-birth’)

Copy of a 38-stanza version, with several autograph corrections and revisions.

This MS collated and the last three stanzas printed in Moore Smith, pp. 133-4, with a facsimile of f. 13 after p. xxiv.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 61-6.

f. 17r

• HrE 39: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Sonnet (‘Innumerable Beauties, thou white haire’)

Edited from this MS in Moore Smith.

First published in Moore Smith (1923), p. 97.

f. 17r

• HrE 7: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Ditty (‘Why dost thou hate return instead of love?’)

Copy of the first stanza.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 132.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 56-7.

ff. 17v-18r

• HrE 74: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, To one Blacke, and not very Hansome, who expected comendation (‘What though your eyes bee starres, your haire, bee night’)

Edited from this MS in Moore Smith.

First published in Moore Smith (1923), pp. 97-8.

f. 18r

• HrE 1: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Another Sonnet to Black it self (‘Thou Black, wherein all colours are compos'd’)

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 130.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 39.

ff. 19r-20v

• *HrE 12: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Elegy for Doctor Dunn (‘What though the vulgar and received praise’)

Copy, with seven autograph corrections and revisions.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 132.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 57-9.

f. 21r

• *HrE 75: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, To the C. of D. (‘Since in your face, as in a beauteous sphere’)

Copy, with an autograph correction.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 132.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 55.

ff. 21v-4r

• *HrE 61: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, To his Mistress for her true Picture (‘Death, my lifes Mistress, and the soveraign Queen’)

Copy, with at least twelve autograph corrections and revisions, headed ‘To my M^tris &c’.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, pp. 131-2.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 48-53.

f. 25r

• HrE 9: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Echo in a Church (‘Where shall my troubled soul, at large’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Moore Smith, p. 131, with a facsimile after p. xxiv.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 47-8.

Add. MS 37158

A folio volume comprising two plays, 47 leaves.

ff. 1r-16v

• DrJ 289: John Dryden, The State of Innocence, and Fall of Man

Copy, headed ‘The fall of Angells and man in innocence An Opera by M^r Dryden’. c.1674-7.

This MS recorded in Summers and in Macdonald. Discussed in Hamilton.

First published in London, 1677. Scott-Saintsbury, V, 93-178. See Vinton A. Dearing, ‘Textual Analysis of Dryden's State of Innocence’, TEXT, 2 (1985), 12-23.

Add. MS 37232

A double-folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 174 leaves, in modern half red morocco.

Assembled from various sources.

f. 22r

• SdT 34: Thomas Shadwell, Timon of Athens, the Man-Hater

Copy of the song ‘Come let us agree’, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, on one side of a folio leaf. c.1700.

Presented by W. Barclay Squire, 10 April 1905.

First published in London, 1678. Summers, III, 183-275.

ff. 94r-7r

• EsR 161: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, First Letter of Advice to the Earl of Rutland

Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, headed ‘A letter of my Lo; of Essex Written to the Earle of Rutland going to travell’, dated ‘Ano 1597’, on seven pages of four folio leaves. Early 17th century.

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

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

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

f. 97r-v

• EsR 183: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Third Letter of Advice to the Earl of Rutland

Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, headed ‘Another of the E of Essex lres written to the same Earle vppon his departure’, on two pages of two folio leaves, endorsed on f. 99v ‘Letters ffrom my lo: of Essex to the E: of Rutlans going to travell:’. Early 17th century.

The letter dated from St Albans 16 October [1596] and beginning ‘My Lord, Since you have required of me some advice now at the very instant of your going...’. Spedding IX, 19-20.

Add. MS 37425

A tall folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and verses, in various hands and paper sizes, 158 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern red morocco.

ff. 54r-5r

• RnT 443: Thomas Randolph, Praeludium

Copy, in a cursive mixed hand, headed ‘Præludium’, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter, endorsed (f. 55v) in the hand of Edward Hyde, later Earl of Clarendon, ‘T. Randall after y^e last Plague’. c.1630.

Edited from this MS in Parry and, with complete facsimiles, in Borias (who argues that it is autograph). Also discussed in Gerard Eades Bentley, ‘Randolph's Praeludium and the Salisbury Court Theatre’, in Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, 1948), pp. 775-83; in Bentley, Jacobean & Caroline Stage, V, 989-90; and in G.C. Moore Smith, ‘The Canon of Randolph's Dramatic Works’, RES, 1 (1925), 309-23 (pp. 319-20).

First published in Parry (1917), pp. 226-31. Edited by Georges Borias in Cahiers Elisabéthains, 29 (1986), 53-76.

Add. MS 37662

A folio letterbook of Henry Browne (c.1640-1717), fifth Viscount Montagu, Secretary of State to James II at St Germain, i + 290 leaves, in vellum. 1690-1.

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 22411. Sotheby's, 1980 (Phillipps sale), lot 510.

ff. 191v-2r

• VaJ 19: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Vanbrugh to Henry Browne, from Vincennes, 7 July 1691. 1691.

Edited in Paul Hopkins, ‘John Vanbrugh's Imprisonment in France 1688-1693’, N&Q, 224 (December 1979), 529-34.

Add. MS 37683

A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 126 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half green morocco.

Volume II of the papers of Peter Alfred Taylor, MP (fl.1875).

f. 1r-v

• CoR 297: Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale (‘Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two’)

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, in double columns, headed ‘Secundum Iter Boreale’, on a single folio leaf. c.1630s-40s.

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

Add. MS 37719

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in a cursive predominantly secretary hand, i + 284 leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled by Sir John Gibson (1606-65), of Welburn, near Kirkby Moorside, Yorkshire, when he was a Royalist prisoner in Durham Castle. The name Penelope Gibson on f. 174r. c.1653-60.

Bookplate of William Ward Jackson.

passim

• TaJ 121: Jeremy Taylor, Extracts

Extracts from works by Taylor, including The Great Exemplar, on leaves including ff. 4v, 123v, 155v, 282v.

f. 18v

• SaG 15: George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon Job (‘In Hus, a land which near the sun's uprise’)

Copy of Chapter XIV.

First published in A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1638). Hooper, I, 1-78.

f. 156r

• CmW 13.141: William Camden, Britannia

Extract.

First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.

ff. 172r-3v

• SaG 5.6: George Sandys, Ovid's Metamorphosis

Extracts, Books X, 17-63, and VIII, 634-731.

Books I-IV first published in London, 1621. Complete in 1626.

f. 174v

• WoH 229.5: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)

Copy of the last twelve lines.

First published, as ‘a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by D^r. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will’, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.

f. 186v

• PeW 275: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Song (‘Draw not too near’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

f. 189r

• SaG 3: George Sandys, Hymn to my redeemer (‘Saviour of mankind, Man, Emanuel’)

Copy, headed ‘A meditation vpon the sight of our Saviours Tombe’, subscribed ‘G. S.’.

First published in A Relation of a Journey begun Anno Dom. 1610 (London, 1615), p. 167. Hooper, I, xxiv-xxv.

f. 193v

• ClJ 183: John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford (‘Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust’)

Copy, headed ‘Epitaph on the Earle of Strafford’.

First published in Character (1647). Edited in CSPD, 1640-1641 (1882), p. 574. Berdan, p. 184, as ‘Internally unlike his manner’. Morris & Withington, p. 66, among ‘Poems probably by Cleveland’. The attribution to Cleveland is dubious. The epitaph is also attributed to Clement Paman: see Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), notes to No. 275 (p. 363).

f. 195r-v

• SaG 5.8: George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon Ecclesiastes (‘This Sermon the much-knowing Preacher made’)

Extracts, Book XI, 31-74.

f. 195v

• SaG 33: George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon the Songs Collected out of the Old and New Testaments (‘The praise of our triumphant King’)

Copy of Isaiah XXXVIII.

First published with A Paraphrase upon the Psalms of David (London, 1636). Hooper, II, 373-402.

f. 260v

• OvT 2: Sir Thomas Overbury, The Authours Epitaph (‘The span of my daies measur'd, here I rest’)

Copy.

First published in A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury (London, 1614). Rimbault, p. 46.

f. 272r

• HrG 148: George Herbert, Jesu (‘Jesu is in my heart, his sacred name’)

Copy, subscribed ‘M^r G: Herbert’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 112.

f. 272v

• HrG 29.5: George Herbert, Bitter-sweet (‘Ah my deare angrie Lord’)

Copy.

This MS not recorded in Hutchinson.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 171.

Add. MS 38015

A large folio composite volume of letters and papers, comprising correspondence of Sir Robert Southwell (1635-1702), diplomat and government official, in various hands and paper sizes, i + 406 leaves, mounted on guards.

Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8741/8587. Sotheby's, 6-15 June 1910 (Phillipps sale), lot 843.

f. 1r

• SoR 301: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, An Epistle unto his Father (22 October 1589)

Copy of the last 23 lines, on the first page of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves, once folded as a letter, imperfect, lacking the beginning. c.1700.

This MS recorded in McDonald, p. 11.

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.

Add. MS 38091

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers, in various hands, 248 leaves.

f. 3r

• *WiG 78: George Wither, Warrant(s)

A warrant authorising payment to Edward Basse for goods supplied, signed by Wither as member of the Committee of Trustees for the Sale of the Late King's Goods, 10 February 1651/2.

Donated in 1910 by Mr E. Leggatt. 1652.

Add. MS 38132

A portion of the Collectanea, all in Leland's hand except for a list of religious houses (ff. 28r-38r) which is in the hand of a clerk with Leland's autograph corrections and revisions, iv + 39 folio leaves, in modern half brown morocco. c.1536-45.

*LeJ 17: John Leland, Collectanea

Owned in 1677 by Sir Henry St George (1625-1715), later Garter King of Arms. Bookplate of the Rev. Dr Osmund Beauvoir, FSA (d.1789), who has added (ff. ii^r, iii^r-iv^r) notes and a list of contents. Afterwards owned by William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector. Upcott sale, 1846, lot 111. Then in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 12111. Sotheby's, 24-28 April 1911 (Phillipps sale), lot 680.

This MS recorded in Moore Smith, I, xxx, et passim. Facsimile examples of ff. 16v, 17v, in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate CI, and in Petti, English Literary Hands (1977), No. 21.

First published in J. Lelandi antiquarii de rebus Britannicis collectanea, ed. Thomas Hearne, 6 vols (Oxford, 1715; 2nd. edition London, 1770; 3rd edition London, 1774).

Add. MS 38137

A folio letterbook of Sir Henry Unton (c.1558-96), diplomat and soldier, as Ambassador to France from 25 June 1591 to 12 June 1592, in several professional secretary hands, iii + 174 leaves, in modern half red morocco. c.1600.

Inscribed (f. iii^r) ‘OL: Luke. 1679. Xber 8’: i.e. by Oliver Luke (1626-1708), son of the parliamentary army officer Sir Samuel Luke (1603-70), of Cople, Bedfordshire. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 1844 (Bright sale), lot 263. Sir Thomas Phillipps, Phillipps MS 11774. Sotheby's, 24-28 April 1911 (Phillipps sale), lot 1043.

ff. 161r-72v

• EsR 113: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Apology

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

First published, addressed to Anthony Bacon, as An Apologie of the Earle of Essex, against those which jealously and maliciously tax him to be the hinderer of the peace and quiet (London, [1600]), but immediately suppressed. Reprinted in 1603.

ff. 173r-4v

• EsR 162: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, First Letter of Advice to the Earl of Rutland

Copy, in a professional flourished secretary hand, imperfect.

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

Add. MS 38139

A tall folio volume of state papers, in various largely secretary hands, ii + 267 leaves, in modern half red morocco. Collected by Sir Peter Manwood, MP (1571-1625), of Hackington, Kent, judge and antiquary. c.1618-25.

f. 45r

• RaW 869: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to James I [Winchester, after 17 November 1603].

f. 58r

• HrJ 232: Sir John Harington, Of certain puritan wenches (‘Six of the weakest sex and purest sect’)

Copy, untitled.

First published (anonymously) in Rump: or An Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662), II, 158-9. McClure No. 356, p. 292. Kilroy, Book II, No. 94, p. 164.

Add. MS 38175

A folio composite volume of correspondence and papers of Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-65), natural philosopher and courtier, and of Sir Sackville Crow, first Baronet, of Laugharne, Carmarthen, 217 leaves.

f. 63r

• ClE 103: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Impeachment Proceedings against Clarendon in 1667

Copy.

f. 147r

• SeC 120: Sir Charles Sedley, Speeches

Copy of ‘S^r Charles Sidley speech’ in the House of Commons, beginning ‘We have provided for the army and navy...’, 28 March 1690. 1690.

Seven speeches in The Works of Sir Charles Sedley, [London, 1702], pp. 1-21 (second pagination). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Ba^t (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 225-38.

Add. MS 38554

ff. 85-92

• WaE 89.7: Edmund Waller, ‘Go, lovely Rose’

Copy of a version.

First published, as ‘On the Rose’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 128. Setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).

Add. MS 38599

A folio commonplace book, including (ff. 133r-45r) ‘Certaine pretie songes hereafter Drawn together, by Richard Shanne i6ii’, 254 leaves, in modern half brown morocco. Compiled by members of the Shann family, of Methley, Yorkshire, and mainly in the hand of Richard Shann (1561-1627). c.1611-32.

ff. 90r-105r

• CmW 13.142: William Camden, Britannia

Extracts.

First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.

ff. 137v-8r

• PeW 207: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, On Venus and Adonis (‘Venus that fair loving Queen’)

Copy, in a secretary hand, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Poems (1660), pp. 99-100, superscribed ‘P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’.

Add. MS 38607

An octavo volume of theatrical material, compiled by James Winston (d.1849), manager of Drury Lane Theatre, 200 leaves. Early 19th century.

f. 2r

• VaJ 57: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Copy, in James Winston's hand, of Vanbrugh's letter to [Thomas Coke], Vice-Chamberlain, 15 January [1707/8].

Edited from this MS in Coke Papers, pp. 72-3 (No. 46).

ff. 32r-3r

• VaJ 70: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Copy, in James Winston's hand, of a letter by Vanbrugh to [Thomas Coke], Vice-Chamberlain, [mid-April 1708].

Edited from this MS in Coke Papers, pp. 100-1 (No. 64). Register, No. 1974.

ff. 54r-5r

• VaJ 76: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Copy, in James Winston's hand, of Vanbrugh's letter to [Thomas Coke], Vice-Chamberlain, 14 May [1708].

Edited from this MS in Coke Papers, pp. 109-10 (No. 70).

ff. 55r-6r

• VaJ 59: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Copy, in Winston's hand, of Vanbrugh's letter to [Thomas Coke], Vice-Chamberlain, [20 January 1707/8].

ff. 56r-7r

• VaJ 189: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Copy, in James Winston's hand, of Vanbrugh's letter to [Thomas Coke], Vice-Chamberlain, from Castle Howard, 20 November 1713.

ff. 75r-7r

• VaJ 424: Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

Copy by Winston of a memorandum to Thomas Coke, Vice Chamberlain, proposing a subsidy by the Queen, 21 February 1707/[8].

Edited in Coke Papers, pp. 83-4 (No. 53). Register, No. 1957.

ff. 82r-3r

• *VaJ 429: Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

Copy by Winston of Vanbrugh's memorandum on ‘The Dayly Charge of an Opera’, 7 April 1708.

Edited from this MS in Philip Olleson, ‘Vanbrugh and Opera at the Queen's Theatre, Haymarket’, TN, 26 (1971-2), 94-101 (p. 98).

Add. MS 38671

A folio composite volume of papers, in several hands and paper sizes, ff. 19r-40v comprising a miscellany of verse and some prose in an unidentified cursive rounded hand, 84 leaves, mounted on guards, in half black morocco. Papers of Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, author, the verse compiled by him probably when he was at Trinity College Dublin. c.1679-88 [and 1700s].

Presented by Mrs E. Bromley, 12 April 1913.

ff. 32v-3r

• BeA 19: Aphra Behn, Satyr on Dryden (‘Scorning religion all thy life time past’)

Copy, headed ‘A Satyr on Doctor Dryden by M^rs. Bhen’.

Edited from this MS in Todd.1

See BeA 18-20.

Add. MS 38693

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, in various hands and paper sizes, iii + 150 leaves, in half-calf. Collected by Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury. 1st half 17th century.

Sotheby's, 1 July 1861 (Tenison sale), lot 61, to Boone. Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 15733. Sotheby's, 1913 (Phillipps sale), lot 532.

f. 29r-v

• BcF 302: Francis Bacon, Inquisitio de magnete

Versions of ‘Present Experiments touching the Loadstone’, later used for a section of Inquisitio de Magnete, in the rounded hand of William Rawley (c.1588-1667), Bacon's chaplain, amanuensis, and editor, on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. Early 17th century.

Edited from this MS, and discussed, in Graham Rees, ‘An Unpublished Manuscript by Francis Bacon: Sylva Sylvarum Drafts and Other Working Notes’, Annals of Science, 38 (1981), 377-412 (pp. 394-5).

First published in Opuscula varia, ed. William Rawley (London, 1658). Spedding, II, 307-12. His translation in V, 401-5.

ff. 30r-48v, 50r-2v

• BcF 283: Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: or A Natural History

An early version of portions of Sylva Sylvarum or of experiments later used in that work, mainly in the rounded hand of William Rawley (c.1588-1667), Bacon's chaplain, amanuensis, and editor, partly (ff. 37r-8v) in the secretary hand of a scribe, with Rawley's alterations, on folio leaves. Early 17th century.

Edited from this MS, and discussed, with a facsimile of f. 33r, in Graham Rees, ‘An Unpublished Manuscript by Francis Bacon: Sylva Sylvarum Drafts and Other Working Notes’, Annals of Science, 38 (1981), 377-412 (pp. 395-412).

First published in London, 1626. Spedding, II, 323-680.

f. 49r

• *BcF 297: Francis Bacon, Historia vitae et mortis

Autograph draft of parts 4 and 23 of the section headed ‘Natura durabilis’, on one side of a folio leaf. Early 17th century.

Facsimile of this page in Graham Rees, ‘An Unpublished Manuscript by Francis Bacon: Sylva Sylvarum Drafts and Other Working Notes’, Annals of Science, 38 (1981), 377-412 (p. 409).

First published in London, 1623. Spedding, II, 89-226 (pp. 111-12).

Add. MS 38730

A folio guardbook comprising ‘Original Assignments of Copy-rights of Books and other Literary Agreements between various Publishers, from 1712 to 1822: collected by William Upcott [(1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector] of the London Institution. 1825’, in various hands and paper sizes, i + 207 leaves.

ff. 16v-17r, 47v-8r, 103r, 104v

• OtT 23: Thomas Otway, Document(s)

Publishers' assignments of the copyright in Venice Preserv'd, variously dated 8 April 1760, 6 October 1764, 5 June 1783, and 19 December 1786. 1760-1786.

f. 95r

• BuS 18: Samuel Butler, Editorial and Copyright Papers

A receipt by W. Johnston for £2 5s from J. Lounds for a share of the copyright of Hudibras, on an oblong octavo leaf, 9 February 1757. 1757.

Add. MS 38823

A folio miscellany of state papers, verse and prose, in several hands, vi + 105 leaves, in a recycled 13th-century vellum text, now within modern half dark red morocco. Compiled by Sir Edward Hoby (1560-1617), politician and diplomat. c.1580s-90s.

Bookplate of George Dunn (1865-1912), of Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead, Berkshire, antiquary. Sotheby's, 11 February 1914 (Dunn sale), lot 1198.

f. 30r

• TiC 17: Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Lament (‘My prime of youth is but a frost of cares’)

Copy, in a small secretary hand, headed in italic ‘Verses of T during his imprisonment in the tower 1586’.

This MS recorded 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.

f. 25r-v

• ElQ 203: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech at the Closing of Parliament, March 29, 1585

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed in italic ‘Her Ma^ties Oration the last day of the first Session of Parliament: 1585’.

This MS cited in Hartley and in Collected Works.

Beginning ‘My lords and you of the Lower House: My silence must not injure the owner...’. Hartley, II, 31-3. Collected Works, Speech 16, pp. 181-3.

f. 58v

• RaW 180: Sir Walter Ralegh, Like to a Hermite poore (‘Like to a Hermite poore in place obscure’)

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed in italic ‘Incerti Authoris’ and here beginning ‘Like Hermite poore in pensive place obscure’.

This MS collated in Hughey, II, 313-14; recorded in Latham, p. 104.

First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). Latham, pp. 11-12. Rudick, Nos 57A and 57B (two versions, pp. 135-6).

ff. 76r-7r

• ElQ 210: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's First Reply to the Parliamentary Petitions Urging the Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, November 12, 1586

Copy of Version II, in a small secretary hand, headed in italic ‘Her Ma^ties first answere made by her self to the petition vttered in the names of the whole Court of parliament in hir chamber of presence att Richmond .12. 1686.’

This MS cited in Hartley and in Collected Works.

First published in Robert Cecil, The copie of a letter to the right honourable the Earle of Leycester (London, 1586).

Version I. Beginning ‘When I remember the bottomless depth of God's great benefits towards me...’. Hartley, II, 254-8 (Text ii, a summary) and II, 261 (cited only, as Text iv). Collected Works, Speech 17, pp. 186-90 (Version 1).

Version II. Beginning ‘The bottomless graces and immeasurable benefits bestowed upon me by the Almighty...’. Hartley, II, 247-53 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 17, pp. 190-6. Autograph Compositions, pp. 67-72 (Version 2). Selected Works, Speech 8, pp. 61-9.

Version III. Beginning ‘My lords and gentlemen, I cannot but accept with much kindness this your petition, wherein I perceive the great love you bear towards me...’. Hartley, II, 259-60 (Text iii).

ff. 77r-8r

• ElQ 221: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Second Reply to the Parliamentary Petitions Urging the Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, November 24, 1586

Copy of Version II, in a small secretary hand, headed in italic ‘Her Ma^ties seconde answere deliuered by her owne mouth to the second speech vttered in the names of the Lords and Comons of the plament in her chamber of presence att Richmond the 24. day of Nouember. 1586’.

This MS cited in Hartley and in Collected Works.

First published in Robert Cecil, The copie of a letter to the right honourable the Earle of Leycester (London, 1586).

Version I. Beginning ‘I perceive you have well considered of my last message...’. Hartley, II, 266-71 (2 versions). Hartley, II, 271 (cited only, as Text ii). Collected Works, Speech 18, pp. 196-200 (Version 1).

Version II. Beginning ‘Full grievous is the way whose going on and end breed cumber for the hire of a laborious journey...’. Hartley, II, 266-70 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 18, pp. 200-4 (Version 2). Autograph Compositions, pp. 73-8. Selected Works, Speech 9, pp. 70-6.

f. 96r

• ElQ 89: Queen Elizabeth I, On the Sailing of the Cadiz Expedition, May 1596

Copy, dated in the margin ‘Anno. 1596’ and headed ‘A prayer made by her Ma^tie herself, on the behalf of her Army, sent into Spaine vnder the Conduct of the right honorable Robert Earle of Essex, and charles lo: Howard, Lord high Admirall of England ll^s gen^ralls of the same’.

Edited from this MS in Collected Works. Cited in Selected Works.

Beginning ‘Most omnipotent Maker and Guider of all our world's mass, that only searchest and fathomest...’. Collected Works, Prayer 38, pp. 425-6. Selected Works, Prayer 4, pp. 254-6 (as ‘For the success of the expedition against Spain, June 1596’).

f. 96r

• ElQ 103: Queen Elizabeth I, On the Sailing of the Azores Expedition, July 1597

Copy.

This MS cited in Collected Works and in Selected Works.

Beginning ‘O God, All-maker, Keeper, and Guider, inurement of thy rare-seen, unused and seld-heard-of goodness...’. Collected Works, Prayer 39, pp. 426-7. Autograph Compositions, pp. 104-5. Selected Works, Prayer 5, pp. 257-9.

Add. MS 38892

Copy of an almost complete text, predominantly in two neat secretary hands, one that of Harington's ‘servant’ Thomas Combe, with a number of autograph insertions by Harington, another that of harington's brother Francis, headed ‘A treatis made by S^r Phillip Sydney Knyght of certeyn accidents in Arcadia. made in the yeer 1580 and emparted to some few of his frends, in his lyfe tyme and to more sence his vnfortunat deceasse’, i + 202 quarto leaves, lacking the last leaf, in contemporary vellum, with traces of ties. c.1590.

SiP 94: Sir Philip Sidney, The Old Arcadia

Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's (Evans), 10 February 1836 (Heber Sale, Part XI), lot 1433. Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1836, item 1171. In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9610. Sotheby's, 15 June 1908 (Phillipps sale), lot 677. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 228 (March 1914), item 108. Acquired 25 July 1914.

This MS collated in Robertson and the poems collated in Ringler. Described in Ringler, pp. 526-7. The identification of Harington's hand established in P.J. Croft, ‘Sir John Harington's Manuscript of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia’, in Stephen Parks and P.J. Croft, Literary Autographs (Los Angeles, 1983), pp. 37-75, with facsimiles of ff. 85r, 87r, 126r, as Plates 4, 2, and 3.

The unfinished revised version of Arcadia (the ‘New Arcadia’) first published in London, 1590. The original version (the ‘Old Arcadia’) first published in Feuillerat, IV (1926). The complete Old Arcadia edited by Jean Robertson (Oxford, 1973). The poems edited in Ringler, pp. 7-131.

Add. MS 38901

A composite volume of papers of William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer, for the years 1870-3, 419 leaves. Volume IV of the azlitt Papers.

passim

• CwT 1299: Thomas Carew, Editorial Papers

Correspondence relating to W.C. Hazlitt's edition of Carew (1870). c.1870.

Add. MS 39254

An octavo volume of state tracts, in several mixed hands, one predominating, 68 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary limp vellum, now within modern half dark red morocco. c.1620s.

Inscribed (f. 2r) ‘Henry Wotten His Book Anno Dom 1742 Novem’ and ‘Sam^l Kenrick [of Bewdley, Worcestershire] 1765’. Presented by W.A. Sharp.

ff. 44r-9r

• BcF 281.1: Francis Bacon, A Short View to be taken of Great Britain and Spain

Copy.

First published in Spedding, XIV (1874), 22-8.

ff. 63r-8v

• BcF 232.5: Francis Bacon, Offer to the King of a Digest to be made of the Laws of England

Copy.

Spedding, XIV, 358-64.

Add. MS 39311

A composite volume of letters and papers, chiefly collected by George Berkeley (1685-1753), Bishop of Cloyne, Ireland, philosopher. Volume VIII of the Berkeley Papers.

f. 5r

• *CgW 97: William Congreve, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed, to Joseph Keally, from London, 5 July 1711. 1711.

Hodges, No. 46. McKenzie, III, 177-8 (Letter 54).

Add. MS 39314

A small quarto commonplace book, compiled by Francis Cherry (1667-1713), nonjuror and antiquary, iii + 71 leaves, in old vellum. Late 17th century.

Volume XI of the papers of George Berkeley (1685-1753), Bishop of Cloyne, philosopher.

ff. 70v-62v rev.

• BcF 204.3: Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral

Extracts.

Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).

Add. MS 39779

A large guardbook of miscellaneous papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 146 leaves.

ff. 42r- 7v

• *HuL 9: Lucy Hutchinson, Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson

Six quarto leaves detached from an autograph manuscript of the Memoirs, here beginning ‘The first service m^r John Hutchinson vndertooke...’, a heading deleted.

An accompanying letter (ff. 40r-1v) by Charlotte Jones, from Halloway, 26 June 1824, sending this MS to Mrs [Anne. D.B.] Montagu.

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

Add. MS 39829

A folio composite volume of correspondence and papers, many in Tresham's hand, 250 leaves. Volume II of the papers of Sir Thomas Tresham (1543-1605), of Rushton Hall, Northamptonshire, recusant. c.1598-1605.

f. 93r

• HrJ 79.5: Sir John Harington, How England may be reformed (‘Men say that England late is bankrout grown’)

Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, here beginning ‘England of late men[?] said is bankerupte growne’, with other verses, on one side of a single folio leaf.

Not published before the 19th century (?). Quoted at the end of the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5). McClure No. 375, p. 301. Kilroy, Book I, No. 1, p. 186.

f. 93r

• HrJ 26.5: Sir John Harington, Against an extreame flatterer that preached at Bathe on the Queens day the fortith yeare of her Raigne

Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, with other verses, on one side of a single folio leaf.

Kilroy, p. 196.

f. 93r

• HrJ 306.5: Sir John Harington, A Tragicall Epigram (‘When doome of Peeres & Iudges fore-appointed’)

Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, headed ‘Of hangmen’, with other verses, on one side of a single folio leaf.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 82. McClure No. 336, pp. 280-1. Kilroy, Book III, No. 44, p. 185. This epigram is also quoted in the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5).

Add. MS 39830

A double-folio composite volume of historical and theological tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 214 leaves, mounted on guards, in half green morocco. Volume III of the papers of Sir Thomas Tresham (1543-1605), of Rushton Hall, Northamptonshire, recusant. c.1600.

Presented by T.B. Clarke-Thornhill.

ff. 32r-9v

• EsR 210: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on eight quarto leaves. c.1601.

ff. 40r-1r

• EsR 275: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘A noate of what was done & of the speaches of the Earle of Essex at his deathe’. c.1601.

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

passim after f. 49r

• FxJ 1.6: John Foxe, Actes and Monuments

Extracts made by Sir Thomas Tresham, in preparation for his defence in Star Chamber, 1581, and elsewhere. c.1581.

First published (complete) in London, 1563. Edited by Josiah Pratt, 8 vols (London, 1853-70).

Add. MS 39853

A folio volume of tracts and papers principally by Sir Charles Cornwallis (c.1555-1629), courtier and Ambassador to Spain, in professional mixed hands, i + 163 leaves, in modern half dark red morocco. Entitled ‘A Collection of S^r Charles Cornwaleys my fathers manuscripts’, and probably compiled by or for ‘Charles Cornwaleys of London Esq^r’, who describes himself (f. 163r) as ‘a younger son to Sir Charles Cornwaleys K^t author of this manuscript’. c.1630s.

ff. 25r-6r

• RaW 651: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a Match between the Lady Elizabeth and the Prince of Piedmont

Copy of an abridged version, headed ‘An opinion of y^e match propounded by y^e Embassadour of Savoy betweene y^e Lady Elizabeth his Ma^ties eldest (and now only daughter) and y^e Prince of Piemont...1611’.

A tract beginning ‘To obey commandment of my lord the prince, I have sent you my opinion of the match lately desired by the duke of Savoy...’. First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses: 1) Concerning a match propounded by the Savoyan, between the Lady Elizabeth and the Prince of Piedmont (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 223-36. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.

Add. MS 39992

A large folio composite volume of papers relating to Berkshire, in various hands and paper sizes, 444 leaves, mounted on guards, in half brown morocco. Collected by John Richards, Jr, FSA. Subsequently Volume XXXIV of the topographical collections of Francis Joseph Baigent (1830-1918), antiquary.

Presented by H.E. Cardinal F.A. Gasquet.

ff. 383r, 384r

• FaE 2.3: Edward Fairfax, Epitaph on Lady Fairfax (‘Here Lea's Fruitfulness, and Rachel's beauty’)

Copy of the couplet, headed ‘On my grandmother at Otley, by my uncle, Edward Fairfax’, quoted in a 19th-century quarto copy of a letter by Brian Fairfax (1633-1711), scholar and courtier, to his chiildren.

Edited from this MS in Lea & Gang.

A couplet first published in Lea & Gang (1981), p. 691.