CELM: The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 45000 through 49999

Add. MS 45143

A folio volume of state tracts and parliamentary papers, in three professional secretary hands, 32 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern quarter-vellum. Volume IV of the papers of John Scudamore (1601-71), first Viscount Scudamore, politician and diplomat.

Evans, 3 December 1821 (Scudamore sale), various lots, to Thomas Thorpe. Phillipps MS 287. Sotheby's, 16 June 1896 (Phillipps sale). Dobell's sale catalogue No. 238 (1914), item 603. Presented by Wilfred Merton, FSA (1888-1957), book and manuscript collector.

ff. 10r-15r

• RaW 627: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a Marriage between Prince Henry and a Daughter of Savoy

Copy, headed ‘A politique dispute about y^e happiest match for y^e Noble prince Charles’, subscribed ‘W Rawley’. c.1620s-30s.

A tract beginning ‘There is nobody that persuades our prince to match with Savoy, for any love to the person of the duke...’. First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses:...2) Touching a Marriage between Prince Henry of England and a Daughter of Savoy (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 237-52. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.

Add. MS 45144

A folio volume comprising ‘The Severall Opinions of Sundrie Antiquaries’, members of the Society of Antiquaries, concerning Parliament, in a single professional secretary hand, iii + 32 leaves, in modern quarter-vellum. Volume V of the papers of John Scudamore (1601-71), first Viscount Scudamore, politician and diplomat. Early 17th century.

Evans (i.e. Sotheby's), 3 December 1821 (Scudamore sale), various lots, to Thomas Thorpe. Phillipps MS 22282. Sotheby's, 16 June 1896 (Phillipps sale). Dobell's sale catalogue No. 238 (1914), item 603. Presented by Wilfred Merton, FSA (1888-1957), book and manuscript collector.

ff. 21v-4r

• CmW 74: William Camden, Of the Antiquity of Parliaments in England

Copy.

A tract beginning ‘That there were such like assemblies as parliaments now are, before the Romans arrival here...’. First published in Sir John Doddridge et al., The Several Opinions of Sundry Learned Antiquaries...touching...the High Court of Parliament in England (London, 1658). Hearne (1771), I, 303-6.

ff. 27r-8v

• CtR 68: Sir Robert Cotton, The Antiquitie of Parliaments

Copy.

A tract beginning ‘As touching the nature of the Right Courte of Parliament, It is nothing else but the Kinges greate councell...’. Ascribed to Cotton in MS sources.

ff. 29r-32r

• CtR 335: Sir Robert Cotton, Other Descriptions and occurrences of the Parliament

Copy.

A tract beginning ‘That we nowe agreeinge w^th the Scottes doe name a Parliament...’. Ascribed to Cotton in MS sources.

Add. MS 45145

Copy of Bacon's speech on becoming Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘The Lord Chancellor's Speech’, i + 17 folio leaves, in modern quarter-vellum. Volume VI of the papers of John Scudamore (1601-71), first Viscount Scudamore, politician and diplomat. c.1620s-30s.

BcF 336: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

Evans (i.e. Sotheby's), 3 December 1821 (Scudamore sale), various lots, to Thomas Thorpe. Phillipps MS 22283. Sotheby's, 16 June 1896 (Phillipps sale). Dobell's sale catalogue No. 238 (1914), item 603. Presented by Wilfred Merton, FSA (1888-1957), book and manuscript collector

sale details correct?

Add. MS 45580

A quarto miscellany of lyrics of chiefly naval songs, compiled by Richard Blechynden (d.1822), Surveyor to of the East India Company, Calcutta, 60 leaves. 1781.

ff. 27v-8v

• DoC 25.5: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Ballad by the Lord Dorset when at Sea (‘To all you ladies now at land’)

Copy.

First published as a broadsheet [1664? no exemplum extant]. Songs [1707?]. Old Songs [1707?]. Harris, pp. 65-8.

Add. MS 45718

Autograph volume, in Freke's italic hand, written from both ends, inscribed (p. 11) ‘Elizabeth Frek her book Given mee by my Cosen Sep: 1684’, vi + 245 folio leaves, formerly in contemporary vellum boards, now in modern quarter red morocco. Entitled (f. 46v) ‘Some Few Remembrances of my misfortuns [that] haue Attended me In my unhappy life since I were marryed: wch was November the 14: 1671’, covering events from 1671 to 1713/14, including (ff. 3v-34v, 245v-121r rev.) numerous medical and culinary prescriptions and receipts, as well as miscellaneous memoranda, rental accounts, speeches, etc., some relating to 1658. c.1684-1714.

*FrE 1: Elizabeth Freke, The Remembrances of Elizabeth Freke

Freke Papers Vol. I. Acquired from Edmund Kent, of East Winch Hall, Lynn, Norfolk. Donated by Mary, Lady Carbery.

Edited partly from this MS by editors. Facsimiles, with transcriptions, of pp. 120 and 121 in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), pp. 288-91.

Published as Mrs. Elizabeth Freke her Diary 1671 to 1714, ed. Mary Carbery (Cork, 1913), and as The Remembrances of Elizabeth Freke, 1671-1714, ed. Raymond A. Anselment, Camden Society 5th Ser. 18 (Cambridge, 2001). Also discussed by Anselment in ‘Elizabeth Freke's Remembrances: Reconstructing a Self’, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, 16/1 (Spring 1997), 57-75.

Add. MS 45719

Autograph volume, closely written in Freke's italic hand, comprising (ff. 3v-26r) a revised version of her ‘Remembrances’ up to 5 May 1713, together with miscellaneous memoranda, rental accounts, receipts, etc., including (ff. 43v-6r) decrees of Chancery in 1655 and (f. 46r-v) an agreement dated 2 October 1656 ‘Transcribed by mee Elizabeth Freke: 1712: out of the orginall Book of Pentney Sept 20:’, ii + 53 tall folio leaves, in modern quarter red morocco. c.1684-1713.

*FrE 2: Elizabeth Freke, The Remembrances of Elizabeth Freke

Freke Papers Vol. II. Donated by Mary, Lady Carbery.

Edited partly from this MS by editors.

Add. MS 45720

A quarto notebook, in a single hand, i + 349 leaves, in contemporary calf within modern quarter vellum. c.1669.

Freke Papers Vol. III. Donated by Mary, Lady Carbery.

The MS as a whole

• *FrE 5: Elizabeth Freke, Notebook

A notebook in Elizabeth Freke's italic hand throughout, comprising two sets of geographical and historical notes, the second (ff. 201v-339v) ‘A Catalogue of the dukes, Marqueses, and Earls, that haue bin since the Conquest, and first with Arundell’, based on Ralph Brooke's Catalogue and Succession (London, 1619).

ff. 1r-200r

• CmW 13.143: William Camden, Britannia

Extensive extracts and abridgement by Elizabeth Freke, headed ‘A Catalogue of of [sic] the Shires and their Cheife places in them of England; and First I will begin with Cornwall as being the furthest place or parts in the West and soe pass over the other Countries, In ordor Imitateing strabo ptolomy and the most antient Geagraphers who allways begin their first from the first Meridian. Taken out of Camdens Britiania’.

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

Add. MS 45721A

Autograph memorandum, in Elizabeth Freke's italic hand (on ff. 1r-v, 2v), endorsed ‘The Peculler of my Estate In West Bilney Church from King Edward the sixth Time his 2^d Year of his Reigne 1547: May the 27: to this presentt yeare 1714: Novem: 29 took outt of the original by me, Eliz. Freke’, together with (ff. 3r-7r) three letters to her, dated 12 April 1697, 29 November 1709, and 5 June 1710, and (ff. 8r-24r) papers, notes and illustrations relating to Freke collected by Mary, Lady Carbery, c.1901-17, in a tall folio guardbook in modern quarter-vellum. 1714.

*FrE 4: Elizabeth Freke, Memorandum

Freke Papers Vol. IV. Donated by Mary, Lady Carbery.

Add. MS 45721B

A printed genealogy of the Freke family ‘for near 200 years, first begun by Ralph Freke, of Hannington...reduced to this form by William Freke, of Hinton St. Mary, in the County of Dorset, Barrister of the Middle Temple, London, July y^e 14^th 1707’, printed in 1825b by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector, with MS additions principally by Mary, Lady Carbery, including a note that the pedigree was apparently ‘taken from a MS. book of Freke genealogies now in the possession of Mr. W[illiam] A[ubrey] Willes, of Astrop [d.1924], to whom it came by descent’, 12 leaves, in a tall folio guardbook in modern quarter-vellum. 1825-1900s.

FrE 3: Elizabeth Freke, Genealogy

Freke Papers Vol. V. Donated by Mary, Lady Carbery.

Add. MS 45965

Diary of the Rev. Oliver Heywood (1630-1702), Presbyterian minister of Coley Chapel, Halifax, Yorkshire, i + 143 duodecimo leaves. 1665-73.

Edited in The Rev. Oliver Heywood, B.A. 1630-1702; His Autobiography, Diaries, Anecdotes and Event Books, ed. J. Horsfall Turner, 4 vols (Brighouse, 1881-5).

ff. 71r-2r

• HrG 53.5: George Herbert, The Church-porch (‘Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhance’)

Eighty-four lines of extracts, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

Turner, III, 32-4.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 6-24.

f. 72r

• HrG 14.6: George Herbert, Ana-{MARY/ARMY} gram (‘How well her name an Army doth present’)

Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 77.

f. 72v

• HrG 222.8: George Herbert, Redemption (‘Having been tenant long to a rich Lord’)

Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

Turner, III, 34.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 40.

f. 72v

• HrG 92.8: George Herbert, Easter (‘Rise heart. thy Lord is risen. Sing his praise’)

Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

Turner, III, 35.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 41-2.

f. 73r

• HrG 17.5: George Herbert, Antiphon (I) (‘Let all the world in ev'ry corner sing’)

Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

Turner, III, 36.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 53.

f. 73r

• HrG 130.8: George Herbert, The H. Communion (‘Not in rich furniture, or fine aray’)

Copy of lines 25-40, here beginning ‘give me my captive soul’, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

Turner, III, 36.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 52-3.

f. 73r

• HrG 209.8: George Herbert, Prayer (I) (‘Prayer the Churches banquet, Angels age’)

Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

Turner, III, 35.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 51.

f. 73r

• HrG 2.5: George Herbert, Affliction (I) (‘When first thou didst entice to thee my heart’)

Copy of lines 65-6, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 46-8.

ff. 73v-4r

• HrG 257.8: George Herbert, The Temper (I) (‘How should I praise thee, Lord! how should my rymes’)

Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

Turner, III, 37.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 55.

f. 74r

• HrG 122.8: George Herbert, Grace (‘My stock lies dead, and no increase’)

Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

Turner, III, 37-8.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 60-1.

f. 74v

• HrG 42.5: George Herbert, The Church-floore (‘Mark you the floore? that square & speckled stone’)

Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

Turner, III, 38-9.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 66-7.

f. 74v

• HrG 219.5: George Herbert, The Quidditie (‘My God, a verse is not a crown’)

Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

Turner, III, 39.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 69-70.

f. 75r

• HrG 145.6: George Herbert, Humilitie (‘I saw the Vertues sitting hand in hand’)

Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

Turner, III, 39-40.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 70-1.

f. 75v

• HrG 158.5: George Herbert, Justice (I) (‘I cannot skill of these thy wayes’)

Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

Turner, III, 41.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 95-6.

f. 75v

• HrG 288.8: George Herbert, The World (‘Love built a stately house. where Fortune came’)

Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

Turner, III, 40.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 84.

f. 76r

• HrG 36.8: George Herbert, Charms and Knots (‘Who reade a chapter when they rise’)

Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

Turner, III, 41.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 96-7.

ff. 76r-7r

• HrG 140.8: George Herbert, Home (‘Come Lord, my head doth burn, my heart is sick’)

Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

Turner, III, 42-3.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 107-9.

f. 77r

• HrG 173.8: George Herbert, Love-joy (‘As on a window late I cast mine eye’)

Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

Turner, III, 44.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 116.

f. 77r

• HrG 148.8: George Herbert, Jesu (‘Jesu is in my heart, his sacred name’)

Copy, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

Turner, III, 43-4.

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

f. 77r

• HrG 215.8: George Herbert, Providence (‘O sacred Providence, who from end to end’)

Copy of lines 125-8, beginning ‘Sometimes thou dost divide thy gifts to man’, transcribed from a printed edition of The Temple.

Turner, III, 44.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 116-21.

f. 77v

• MaA 448.3: 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’, beginning ‘Great Charles who ful of mercy wouldst command’, subscribed ‘this was put into the kings private closet at the keyhole about Nov 29 1673’.

Turner, III, 44-5.

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.

Add. MS 46172

A large guardbook of miscellaneous letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 195 leaves.

ff. 93r-6v

• *HuL 10: Lucy Hutchinson, Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson

Four quarto leaves detached from an autograph manuscript of the Memoirs, here beginning ‘hour he told him he came to take possession of the house...’.

Given by Mrs Anne. D.B. Montagu, in 1854, to Dinah Maria Mulock (later Craik) (1826-87), novelist. Afterwards in the collection of Alan Park Paton (d.1905). Formerly National Library of Scotland, MS 3218, ff. 78-81).

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 46366

Volume I of the Harington Papers, i + 126 leaves (including blanks), in modern calf gilt, ‘Prose N° I’ stamped on the spine. Late 16th century.

The MS as a whole

• HrJ 340: Sir John Harington, Miscellany

A folio volume of state tracts and papers, chiefly relating to Queen Elizabeth and Mary Queen of Scots, in two or three secretary hands.

This MS briefly discussed by Hughey in The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 399-400 et passim,and in McClure, p. 11 (n).

ff. 100r-6r

• SiP 191: Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 276 (No. 10), with a facsimile of f. 100r on p. 123.

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).

Add. MS 46367

A MS volume owned by Sir John Harington (and probably also by his father), comprising letters chiefly by Sir John Cheke (1514-57), with some by Sir Christopher Hatton and others, and extracts from Seneca's Epistles, written mainly in three scribal hands, with some additional matter probably in later hands, including a Dialogue of Plato, ‘Prose N° II’ stamped on the spine, imperfect, now comprising 140 leaves (some original leaves probably extracted by the printers of Nugae Antiquae). Volume II of the Harington Papers. Late 16th century.

HrJ 341: Sir John Harington, Miscellany

Portions printed in the various editions of Nugae Antiquae. This MS briefly discussed by Hughey in The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 399-401 et passim.

Add. MS 46368

A quarto MS, largely autograph, with deletions and revisions, some pages in the hand of Harington's ‘servant’ Thomas Combe and at least one addition in the hand of Harington's brother Francis, being the printer's copy for the first edition, i + 60 leaves, imperfect, in 19th-century half calf. Volume III of the Harington Papers. 1596.

*HrJ 317: Sir John Harington, The Metamorphosis of Ajax

Inscribed (f. 60v) ‘Ric Bancroft’.

This MS collated in Donno. Described in Ruth Hughey, ‘The Harington Manuscript at Arundel castle and Related Documents’, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444 (pp. 403-4).

First published in London, 1596. Edited by Elizabeth Story Donno (New York, 1962).

Add. MS 46369

A quarto volume of miscellaneous papers largely relating to Ireland, in several hands, ii + 65 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. Volume IV of the Harington Papers. c.1599-1609.

The volume as a whole

• *HrJ 342: Sir John Harington, Miscellany

A notebook, chiefly in the hands of amanuenses, partly in Harington's hand, entitled on the cover ‘S^r John Harringtons own MSS relating to the war in Ireland 1599’; containing copies of state letters and documents relating to Ireland in 1597-1600 and reports of events at that time; including (f. 20r) a copy of letters of Captain MacDermon to the Constable of Boyle, 15 August 1599, in Harington's hand; (ff. 21r-3r) a ‘Report on my Jorney into the North to Justice Cary. In Ierland’ in Harington's hand); and (ff. 41r-3v) ‘The chiefe causes of the wante of reformation of Irelande’.

Some texts in this MS (notably the ‘Report…to Justice Cary’ and Harington's letters) edited in the various editions of Nugae Antiquae.

ff. 7r-18r

• *HrJ 315.5: Sir John Harington, A Journal of my lords Jorney, beginning the 9. of May. 1599

Copy, with sidenotes throughout in Harington's hand.

Edited from this MS, with a facsimile of f. 7r, in Miller.

An account of the Irish expedition of the Earl of Essex, different from the ‘Report concerning…Essex's Journeys’ attributed (probably incorrectly) to Harington in Nugae Antiquae (1804), I, 268-93: see Timothy G. A. Nelson, ‘Sir John Harington — A Mistaken Attribution’, N&Q, 214 (December 1969), 457. The Journal here is edited in R. H. Miller, ‘An Unpublished journal of Essex's Munster Campaign of 1599’, ELR, 10 (1980), 96-119.

(f. 7r-v and sidenotes throughout in Harington's hand)

ff. 18v-9v

• HrJ 4: Sir John Harington, Metrical Paraphrases of the Psalms (‘Right happie hee that neither walked hath’)

Copy of Harington's translation of Psalms 42 and 50.

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

ff. 21r-3r

• HrJ 354: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Harington, to Justice Cary, in the secretary hand of an amanuensis, headed ‘Report of my Jorney into the North to Justic Cary. In Ierland’, [October 1599]. c.1599.

McClure, No. 10, pp. 76-9, edited from Nugæ Antiquæ.

ff. 45r-8v

• HrJ 353: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Harington, to Thomas Combe, [from Ireland, 24/31 August 1599]. 1599.

McClure, No. 9, pp. 71-6, edited from Nugæ Antiquæ.

f. 49r-v

• HrJ 352: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Harington, to Sir Anthony Standen, [from Athlone, 7 Augu st1599], in a secretary hand. c.1599.

McClure, No. 8, pp. 68-70, edited from Nugæ Antiquæ.

f. 51v

• HrJ 355: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Harington, to Sir Anthony Standen, [from Kelston, 20 February 1599/1600], in a secretary hand.

McClure, No. 11, pp. 79-80, edited from Nugæ Antiquæ.

Add. MS 46370

Copy of an early version, in the hand of Harington's ‘servant’ Thomas Combe, with some italic headings in Harington's hand, a tipped-in leaf at the end in another hand, untitled, ii + 62 quarto leaves, imperfect, lacking various leaves. Volume V of the Harington Papers. 1607-8.

*HrJ 329: Sir John Harington, A Supplie or Addicion to the Catalogue of Bishops, to y^e Yeare 1608

This MS discussed in R.H. Miller, ‘Sir John Harington's A Supplie or Addicion to the Catalogue of Bishops, to the Yeare 1608: Composition and Text’, SB, 30 (1977), 145-61. Facsimile example in R.H. Miller, ‘Sir John Harington's Manuscripts in Italic’, SB, 40 (1987), 101-6 (p. 105).

First published, as A Briefe View of the State of the Church of England, edited by John Chetwind (London, 1653). Edited by R.H. Miller (Potomac, 1979).

Add. MS 46371

An octavo volume, comprising two tracts by Sir John Harington, iii + 45 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Volume VI of the Harington Papers. c.1597-1600s.

ff. 1r-30r

• HrJ 336: Sir John Harington, A Treatise on Playe

Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, headed ‘Of Play’.

Edited probably from this MS in Nugae Antiquae (1775). Briefly described in Ruth Hughey, ‘The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents’, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444 (p. 402).

First published (from this MS) in Nugae Antiquae, (1775), pp. 3-38. Nugae Antiquae (1804), I, 186-232.

ff. 31r-45v

• HrJ 315: Sir John Harington, A Discowrse shewing that Elyas must personally come before the Day of Judgment

Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis.

Edited probably from this MS in Nugae Antiquae (1775). Briefly described in Ruth Hughey, ‘The Harington Manuscript at Arundel castle and Related Documents’, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444 (p. 402).

First published in Nugae Antiquae (1775), pp. 39-56. Nugae Antiguae (1804), II, 281-304.

Add. MS 46372

Copy of Psalms 1-6, 8-148, chiefly in the hand of Harington's ‘servant’ Thomas Combe, with corrections and annotations in Harington's hand, untitled, imperfect. Volume VII of the Harington Papers. Late 16th century.

SiP 76: Sir Philip Sidney, The Psalms of David

With additional notes by John Harington, MP (d.1654).

This MS collated in Ringler and described pp. 551-2.

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

Add. MS 46373A

A folio volume of transcripts of documents relating to lands formerly belonging to Sir James Harington of Brierley from the time of their forfeiture in 1485 until the grant of their reversion to John Harington of Stepney in 1570, compiled by Sir John Harington of Kelston apparently for Sir Henry Hobart and inscribed ‘The booke of Haryngtons Lands for S^r Henry Hubbert [his] Ma^ties attorney general’, chiefly in the hands of amanuenses, with Harington's autograph annotations and with some pages or substantial additions in his hand (notably ff. 25r, 26v, 33r, 35v-6r, 37v-8r), 44 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Volume VIII of the Harington Papers. c.1606-12.

*HrJ 343: Sir John Harington, Miscellany

Add. MS 46373B

A folio composite volume of chiefly 17th-century papers, both MSS and printed, relating to the Harington family, 40 leaves. Volume IX of the Harington Papers.

f. 1r

• *HrJ 414: Sir John Harington, Document(s)

Autograph pedigree of the Harington family from the 13th to 16th century by Sir John Harington. c.1600-12.

f. 2r

• HrJ 416: Sir John Harington, Document(s)

An abstract of Sir John Harington's claim to lands formerly owned by Sir James Harington of Brierley. c.1606-12.

Add. MS 46382A

A folio composite volume of papers of Henry Harington (1727-1816), composer and physician, 75 leaves. Volume XX of the Harington Papers.

ff. 1r-2v

• HrJ 398: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Harington, to Prince Henry, [from Kelston, 14 June 1608]. Mid-18th century.

McClure, No. 52, pp. 132-4, edited from Nugæ Antiquæ.

Add. MS 46382B

A broadsheet-size guardbook of miscellaneous papers of the Harington family, 15 + 24 leaves. 18th-19th century.

f. 3v

• HrJ 359: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Harington, to an unidentified person, [1600].

McClure, No. 14, p. 84, edited from a family transcript.

f. 4r

• HrJ 360: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Harington, to Sir John Stanhope, [20 November 1600]. 18th century.

McClure, No. 15, pp. 84-5, edited from a family transcript.

f. 4r

• HrJ 361: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Harington, to an unidentified lady, [8 December 1600].

McClure, No. 16, p. 85, edited probably from this family transcript.

f. 4r-v

• HrJ 362: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Harington, to an unidentified person, [1600].

McClure, No. 17, p. 85, edited from a family transcript.

f. 12r

• HrJ 402: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

Copy of part of Harington's letter to Prince Henry, [1609], in a neat 18th-century hand, on a broadsheet.

McClure, No. 54, pp. 135-7, edited in full from Nugæ Antiquæ.

f. 12r

• HrJ 263.5: Sir John Harington, Of Treason (‘Treason doth neuer prosper, what's the reason?’)

Quoted in the copy of Harington's letter to Prince Henry (HrJ 402).

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 5. McClure No. 259, p. 255. This epigram also quoted in a letter to Prince Henry, 1609 (McClure, p. 136). Kilroy, Book III, No. 43, p. 185.

f. 13r

• HrJ 369.5: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Harington, to his wife Lady Mary Harington, [7/27 December 1602], here dated ‘Decemb^r 20^th 1602’, in a neat 18th-century hand, on a single broadsheet.

McClure, No. 27, pp. 96-100, edited from Nugæ Antiquæ.

Add. MS 46410

A large folio composite volume of papers chiefly relating to the Court of Chancery, in various professional secretary hands and paper sizes, ix + 355 leaves, once in a recycled ?15th-century vellum document, now in modern half red morocco.

Formerly MS Claudius B. 8 in the library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, first Baronet (1571-1631), antiquary and politician, and his signature (‘Robertus Cotton Bruceus’) on f. 3r. Inscribed (f. ii^v), by ‘Mr Deaues’ (?Charles Deaves of Lincoln's Inn) ‘This Book must be delivered to M^r. Mitford’. Bookplate and note of John Freeman-Mitford (1748-1830), first Baron Redesdale, Lord Chancellor or Ireland and Speaker of the House of Commons. Also annotated by Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer. Sotheby's, 28 July 1947, lot 177.

ff. 279r-87r

• BcF 239.5: Francis Bacon, Ordinances in Chancery

Copy of 101 ordinances, as ‘made by Frauncis lord Verulam lord high Chancellor of England...1616’. c.1620s-30s.

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 47111

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, largely in one secretary hand, written from both ends, with indexes (ff. 2r-3r, 168r-v), 168 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. Compiled by Sir John Perceval, Bt (1629-65), probably while at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Volume CXCII of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family. c.1646-9.

f. 4r-v

• MoG 61: George Morley, On the Nightingale (‘My limbs were weary and my head oppressed’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Nightingall whose singinge rauished A gentleman from his rest’.

f. 4r-v

• StW 48: William Strode, The commendation of gray Eies (‘Looke how the russet Morne exceedes the Night’)

Copy, headed ‘In praise of gray eyes’.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 35-6. Forey pp. 40-1.

ff. 5v-6r

• CoR 442: Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church (‘Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Corbet on the second castinge of the great bell at Christchurch caled great Tom’.

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. 6r-v

• RnT 507: Thomas Randolph, On the Goodwife's Ale (‘When shall we meet again and have a taste’)

Copy.

First published, anonymously, in Witts Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. Y5^v. Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1653), sig. M8^v. Moore Smith (1925), pp. 252-4, and in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 92-3. Edited, discussed, and the possible attribution to Randolph supported, in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 448-9.

The poem is most commonly attributed to Ben Jonson. Also sometimes ascribed to Sir Thomas Jay, JP, and to Randolph.

f. 7r-v

• WoH 87: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy of a six-stanza version, headed ‘S^r H. Wootton on the Lady crownd Q of Bohemia’ and here beginning ‘Yee glorious trifles of the East’. A Latin version appears on f. 24v.

First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, ‘“You Meaner Beauties of the Night” A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification’, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.

ff. 7v-8r

• LoR 34: Richard Lovelace, To Althea, From Prison. Song (‘When Love with unconfined wings’)

Copy, headed ‘Captaine Louelace in prison to his Althea’.

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

f. 10v

• BrW 158: William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow (‘Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd’)

Copy, headed ‘On A woman lost in the snow’.

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

f. 11r

• DrM 59: Michael Drayton, To His Coy Love, A Conzonet (‘I pray thee leave, love me no more’)

Copy, headed ‘On Tantalized by his M^ris.’.

First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 372.

f. 11r-v

• B&F 127: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song (‘Hence, all you vain delights’)

Copy, headed ‘On Malancholy’, omitting the first stanza and here beginning ‘Welcom folded armes and fixed eye’.

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

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

f. 11v

• RnT 492: Thomas Randolph, On Michaell Drayton (‘Do pious marble let thy readers know’)

Copy.

Unpublished? Generally attributed to Francis Quarles.

ff. 11v-12r

• DkT 14: Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall (‘The Queene was brought by water to White Hall’)

Copy, headed ‘On Queene Eliz.’.

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

f. 12r

• CwT 668: Thomas Carew, The second Rapture (‘No worldling, no, tis not thy gold’)

Copy, headed ‘The worldly felicity’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 103-4.

f. 12r-v

• PoW 86: Walton Poole, On the death of King James (‘Can Christendoms great champion sink away’)

Copy. here beginning ‘Can Christendoms great monarch sink away’.

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

f. 12v

• StW 792: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, headed ‘On Cloris’.

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

f. 15r

• DaW 15: Sir William Davenant, For the Lady, Olivia Porter. A present, upon a New-yeares day (‘Goe! hunt the whiter Ermine! and present’)

Copy, headed ‘On Endimion Porters wife’.

First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, p. 43.

ff. 15v-16r

• ClJ 51: John Cleveland, The Hecatomb to his Mistresse (‘Be dumb ye beggers of the rhiming trade’)

Copy, headed A rapture on his mistris and here beginning ‘Be dum be ye beggars of the riminge trade’, incomplete.

First published in Poems, by J. C., With Additions (1651). Morris & Withington, pp. 50-3.

f. 16r-v

• ClJ 147: John Cleveland, Upon the death of M. King drowned in the Irish Seas (‘I like not tears in tune; nor will I prise’)

Copy, headed ‘Sonnet’, incomplete.

First published in Justa Edovardo King (1638). Morris & Withington, pp. 1-2.

f. 17v

• PeW 91: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Sonnet (‘Dear leave thy home and come with me’)

Copy.

Poems (1660), pp. 38-9, superscribed ‘P.’. Krueger, p. 32, among ‘Pembroke's Poems’. Edited, and tentatively attributed to Randolph, in G.C. Moore Smith, ‘Thomas Randolph’ (Warton Lecture on English Poetry, read 18 May 1927), Proceedings of the British Academy, 13 (1927), 79-121 (pp. 115-16).

f. 21r

• ShJ 54.5: James Shirley, A Mother hearing her child was sick of the Small-Poxe (‘What hath my pretty child misdone?’)

Copy, headed ‘To her absent childe sicke of the Smalpox’.

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

f. 21r-v

• PeW 289: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Sonnet (‘So glides a long the wanton Brook’)

Copy, headed ‘Sonnet’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Poems (1660), p. 75, superscribed ‘P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as by Henry Reynolds.

f. 21v

• KiH 550: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Dry those faire, those Christall Eyes’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 147-8.

f. 22r

• SuJ 58: John Suckling, Song (‘Why so pale and wan fond Lover?’)

Copy, headed ‘Sonnet’, subscribed ‘S^r. P.S.’.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Aglaura (London, 1638), Act IV, scene ii, lines 14-28. Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Beaurline, Plays, p. 72. Clayton, p. 64.

f. 23r-v

• KiH 142.8: Henry King, The Dirge (‘What is th' Existence of Man's Life?’)

Copy, headed ‘On the fragility of man’, subscribed ‘D. H. K.’

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 177-8.

ff. 23v-4r

• KiH 597: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Tell mee no more how faire shee is’)

Copy, headed ‘The despayringe louer’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 158.

f. 25r

• HeR 290.5: Robert Herrick, The Wounded Heart (‘Come bring your sampler, and with Art’)

Copy, headed ‘Sonet’.

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

ff. 25v-6v

• KiH 317: Henry King, An Essay on Death and a Prison (‘A Prison is in all things like a Grave’)

Copy, headed ‘On A prison’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

f. 27r

• CoR 265: Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem (‘Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Anauersy of M^r Price who writt on the death of Prince Henery D:C.’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-9.

The poem is usually followed in MSS by Dr Daniel Price's ‘Answer’ (‘So to dead Hector boyes may doe disgrace’), and see also CoR 227-46.

f. 44r

• CaW 97: William Cartwright, The Royal Slave, Act I, scene ii, lines 167-79. The Priest's song (‘Come from a Dungeon to the Throne’)

Copy of the song, untitled.

Henry Lawes's musical setting of the forst six lines first published in his Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659), p. 26. Evans, p. 205.

ff. 68r-9r

• CoA 3: Abraham Cowley, Against Hope (‘Hope, whose weak Being ruin'd is’)

Copy of the two poems, headed respectively ‘Hope. Nichols Trin. Coll.’ and ‘Answer. Crashaw. Pe. house Camb.’.

A pair of poems comprising Against Hope by Cowley and the answer For Hope (‘Dear hope! earth's dowry, & heaun's debt!’) by Richard Crashaw, both first published as ‘On Hope, By way of Question and Answer, betweene A. Cowley, and R. Crashaw’ in Crashaw, Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Published separately as ‘Hope’ and ‘M. Crashaws Answer For Hope’ in Crashaw, Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). The Poems…of Richard Crashaw, ed. L. C. Martin, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1957), pp. 143-5 and 344-6.

Cowley's poem only also published separately in The Mistresse (London, 1647). Waller, I, 109-10. Sparrow, pp. 107-8. Collected Works, II, No. 3, pp. 23-5. See also Clarence H. Miller, ‘The Order of Stanzas in Cowley and Crashaw's “On Hope”’, SP, 61 (1964), 64-73.

Add. MS 47112

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in two italic hands, i + 12 leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled (ff. 1r-8r) by Sir Philip Perceval, second Baronet (1656-80), and (ff. 8r-12r) by Sir John Perceval, third Baronet (1660-86). Volume CXCIII of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family. c.1670s.

f. 8r

• BrW 199: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)

Copy in the hand of Sir John Perceval, third Baronet, headed ‘A Ladyes Epitaph ex libris Miscelan. Fratris’.

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

Add. MS 47128

A folio formal miscellany of verse and prose, partly under headings, labelled on the spine ‘Adversaria’, in at least three hands, one predominating, with (ff. 178r-86v) an index, 186 leaves, in contemporary vellum boards. Compiled by John Perceval (1683-1748), first Earl of Egmont, politician. Volume CCIX of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family. c.1730.

f. 132v

• MaA 264: Andrew Marvell, Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown (‘When daring Blood, his rents to have regain'd’)

Copy, headed in the margin ‘On Bloods stealing the Crown’.

First published as a separate poem in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, I, 78. Lord, p. 193. Smith, p. 414.

This poem also appears as lines 178-85 of The Loyal Scot (see MaA 191-8 and Margoliouth, I, 379, 384).

For the Latin version, which accompanies many of the MS texts, see MaA 85-97.

f. 133r

• DoC 187.5: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (III) (‘Proud with the spoils of royal cully’)

Copy, headed in the margin ‘Dorcester Countess of (Sidley)’.

First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384-5. Harris, pp. 43-4. In most texts the poem runs directly on from the previous poem on the Countess of Dorchester (DoC 173-85).

f. 135r

• DoC 217.5: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Statue in the Privy Garden (‘When Israel first provoked the living Lord’)

Copy, headed in the margin ‘On James the Second’.

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

f. 136v

• BrW 198.5: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)

Copy of lines 1-6, headed in the margin ‘Sidney C. of Pembroke her Epitaph’.

f. 147r

• DoC 198.5: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (IV) (‘Tell me, Dorinda, why so gay’)

Copy, headed in the margin ‘On the Countess of Dorchester, Mistress to k. James the 2. by the E. of Dorset 1680’.

First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 385. Harris, pp. 45-6.

Add. MS 47177

A tall folio composite volume of heraldic and genealogical papers, largely in one small secretary hand, ii + 196 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum boards. Compiled by Nicholas Charles (1582-1613), Lancaster Herald.

Charles's papers were purchased after his death by William Camden. They include two other of Charles's heraldic and genealogical collections: a quarto volume of 36 leaves (British Library, Add. MS 47178) and a folio volume of 135 leaves (British Library, Add. MS 47179). The three volumes constitute Volumes CCLVIII-CCLX of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family.

passim

• *CmW 143: William Camden, Collectanea

Various autograph notes and drafts by Camden, including entries on ff. 54r, 61r, 64v, 66v (on the dukedom of Buckingham), and 77r. c.1616-17.

Add. MS 47354

Autograph signature, on an indenture appointing Isaac Hunt his attorney for the sale of land in Bethersden and Halden to Richard Hulse, 20 March 1642/3. 1643.

*LoR 54: Richard Lovelace, Document(s)

Discussed, with a facsimile of the signature, in James Roberts Brown, ‘Richard Lovelace and Bethersden’, Archæologia Cantiana, 23 (1898), 337-8. Recorded in Wilkinson (1925), I, xviii, and (1930), p. xix.

Add. MS 48020

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, x + 363 leaves, in contemporary vellum with ties. Late 16th century.

Yelverton MS 21, among the papers of Robert Beale (1541-1601), Clerk of the Privy Council, descending to Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 40.

ff. 131r-3v

• WyT 443: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Wyatt's Declaration of Innocence

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘A declaracon made by S^r Thomas Wiatt knight of his Innocencye beinge in the Tower vpon the accusacon of Docto^r Bonarde Byshopp of London made vnto the Councell the yere of o^r Lorde’, undated. Mid-late 16th century.

This MS collated in The Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, ed. George F. Nott, 2 vols (London, 1815-16).

Wyatt's declation to the Privy Council while in the Tower after his indictment in early 1541. First published by Horace Walpole in Miscellaneous Antiquities (1772), II, 21-54. Muir, pp. 178-84.

ff. 134r-43v

• WyT 445: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Wyatt's Defence

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘To the Judges after the Indictement and the evidence’. Mid-late 16th century.

Wyatt's speech composed for his defence c.January-March 1540/1. Muir, pp. 187-209.

Add. MS 48023

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, some relating to Thomas Norton, in various hands, iv + 390 leaves.

Yelverton MS 26, among the papers of Robert Beale (1541-1601), Clerk of the Privy Council, descending to Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

f. 359v

• SaT 2.5: Thomas Sackville, Gorboduc or Ferrex and Porrex

An anonymous courtier's eyewitness report of the first performance of Gorboduc at the Inner Temple, Christmas 1561/62, in a secretary hand, among a series of memoranda on events between 1548 and 1562. 1562.

This MS edited and discussed, with a facsimile (location erroneously cited as Add. MS 40823), in Norman Jones and Paul Whitfield White, ‘Gorboduc and Royal Marriage Politics: An Elizabethan Playgoers's Report of the Premiere Performance’, ELR, 26/1 (Winter 1996), 3-16, and see also Henry James and Greg Walker, ‘The Politics of Gorboduc’, EHR, 110 (1995), 109-21.

First published in London, 1565. Edited by Irby B. Cauthen, Jr. (University of Nebraska Press, 1970).

Add. MS 48027

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, many relating to Mary Queen of Scots, some concerning the proposed Anjou marriage, in various hands and paper sizes, 711 leaves, in contemporary vellum, with ties. Collected and annotated by Robert Beale (1541-1601), Clerk of the Privy Council. Including (ff. 152r-95v) a printed exemplum of Stubbs's banned tract A Gaping Gulf (1579). c.1580s-90s.

Yelverton MS 31, among Beale's papers descending to Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 41.

ff. 197r-215r

• HoH 19: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, Answer to John Stubbs's ‘Gaping Gulf’

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, inscribed by Beale ‘An answer made to M^r Stubbes his booke, by the l. Henry Howard as it was thought or by Francis Throgmorton [i.e. Francis Throckmorton (1554-84), Catholic conspirator] who was afterwardes executed’.

Edited from this MS in Berry.

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.

ff. 230r-5v

• SiP 192: Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur

Copy in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘The copie of a Lre written to the Queen by M^r P.S.’, this heading later extended in Beale's hand ‘after wards called S^r Philipp Sidney, conc^rning the mareage w^th Mons^r d'Aniou’, on twelve folio pages.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 276 (No. 11), with a facsimile of f. 230r on p. 120.

ff. 451r-76r

• PtG 3: George Puttenham, An Apology or True Defence of Her Majesty's Honourable and Good Renown

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, with Beale's supplied title ‘A discours conce^rning the Just Execution of y^e Scotishe Queen’ and his note in the margin ‘It is thoght that this book was made by George Putteham’.

Recorded (as ‘the Calthorpe MS’) in Willcock & Walker, p. xxiii.

A treatise on the execution of Mary Queen of Scots, beginning ‘There hath not happened since the memorie of man…’. First published, as ‘A Justification of Queene Elizabeth in relation to the Affaire of Mary Queene of Scottes’, in Accounts and Papers relating to Mary Queen of Scots, ed. Allan J. Crosby and John Bruce, Camden Society, 93 (1867), pp. 67-134.

Add. MS 48041

A composite folio volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, 612 leaves, in contemporary vellum, with traces of ties. c.1620s-30s.

Yelverton MS 31, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

ff. 307r-9v

• ElQ 260: Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601

Copy of Version I, in a professional secretary hand, in a parliamentary journal and introduced ‘...her Ma^tie begann thus to answer herselfe, viz’.

First published (Version III), as Her maiesties most princelie answere, deliuered by her selfe at White-hall, on the last day of November 1601 (London, 1601: STC 7578).

Version I. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we have heard your declaration and perceive your care of our estate...’. Hartley, III, 412-14. Hartley, III, 495-6. Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 337-40 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 11, pp. 84-92.

Version II. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we perceive your coming is to present thanks unto me...’. Hartley, III, 294-7 (third version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 340-2 (Version 2).

Version III. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we perceive by you, whom we did constitute the mouth of our Lower House, how with even consent...’. Hartley, III, 292-3 (second version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 342-4 (Version 3). STC 7578.

Version IV. Beginning ‘Mr Speaker, I well understand by that you have delivered, that you with these gentlemen of the Lower House come to give us thankes for benefitts receyved...’. Hartley, III, 289-91 (first version).

ff. 520r-606r

• DaJ 262.5: Sir John Davies, The Question concerning Impositions

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘by S^r John Dauies knight’.

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 48044

A folio composite volume of state papers and tracts, in English and Latin, in various hands, ii + 380 leaves, in contemporary vellum, with traces of ties.

Yelverton MS 49, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

ff. 240r-6v

• SiP 192.5: Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘A letter Written to Queene Elizabeath against the Match w^th: Monseieur’, on fourteen folio pages, part of a single unit (ff. 215r-50v) of papers dating up to 1623. c. 1623-30s.

This MS cited in H.R. Woudhuysen, ‘A crux in the text of Sidney's A Letter to Queen Elizabeth’, N&Q, 229 (June 1984), 172-3. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 12.

ff. 295r-6v

• BcF 453: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621, in a professional secretary hand. c.1620s-30s.

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.

ff. 297r-301r

• BcF 239.8: Francis Bacon, Ordinances in Chancery

Copy of ordinances 1-58, 73-6 only, in a professional secretary hand, unascribed. c.1620s-30s.

Edited from this MS in G.W. Sanders, Orders of the High Court of Chancery (London, 1845), Part i, pp. 109-22, 129-31.

Add. MS 48062

A folio composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, 430 leaves, in contemporary calf, with ties. In various hands, including early items docketed by Robert Beale (1541-1601), Clerk of the Privy Council.

Yelverton MS 68, including papers of Beale descending to Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 43. Described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 228-9 (No.33).

ff. 300r-16r

• BcF 281.2: Francis Bacon, A Short View to be taken of Great Britain and Spain

Copy, in the secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, unascribed. c.1620s-30s.

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 229 (No. 33.1).

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

ff. 323r-4v

• HoH 7: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, Abatements nowe in beinge: or to be verie shortlie vppon the Marryage of the Lady Elizabeth to the Counte Pallatyne of the Rhine, Anno 1613: and otherwise ffor the kings Bennifitt

Copy, in the secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’. c.1620s-30s.

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 229 (No. 33.4).

A tract beginning ‘By the bestowing of my La Eliz. grace and after hir grace shall be settled...’. Unpublished?

ff. 370r-85r

• RaW 659: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a War with Spain, and of the Protecting of the Netherlands

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, dated ‘1602’. c.1620s-30s.

A tract addressed to James I and beginning ‘It belongeth not to me to judge whether the king of Spain hath done wrong to the Netherlands...’. First published in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 299-316.

Add. MS 48063

A folio composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, 263 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary limp vellum, with ties. In various hands, including the ‘Feathery Scribe’.

Yelverton MS 69, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 43.

ff. 28r-57v

• CtR 280: 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 professional secretary hand, with a title-page in a roman handunascribed. c.1620s-30s.

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].

ff. 151r-87r

• BcF 734: Francis Bacon, The Office of Compositions for Alienations

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Of the lately erected Service called the Office of Compositions for Alyenations’, unascribed. c.1620s-30s.

A tract, beginning ‘All the finances of revenues of the imperial crown of this realm of England...’. Discussed in Spedding, IX, 120-1. By William Lambarde (1536-1601), whose partly autograph MS (1590) is in the Folger (MS V.a.208), but the work is frequently ascribed to Bacon, who may have used and adapted it at the time of the debate on alienations in October 1601.

ff. 204r-14v

• EsR 211: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1

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

ff. 221r-6r

• CtR 38: Sir Robert Cotton, An Answer to Certain Arguments raised from Supposed Antiquity, and urged by some Members of the lower House of Parliament, to prove that Ecclesiasticall Lawes ought to be Enacted by Temporall Men

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, subscribed ‘1626’, unascribed. c.1620s-30s.

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

ff. 238r-51v

• EsR 114: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Apology

Copy, in three secretary hands. Early 17th century.

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. 253r-60r

• RaW 1085: Sir Walter Ralegh, Observations touching Trade and Commerce with the Hollander

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page ‘Keymers Booke of observacons...’, subscribed ‘John Keymer’. c.1620s-30s.

A tract addressed to the monarch and beginning ‘According to my duty, I am emboldened to put your majesty in mind, that about fourteen or fifteen years past...’. First published, as by Sir Walter Ralegh, in London, 1653. Works (1829), VIII, 351-76.

Written by John Keymer (fl.1584-1622). See Adolf Buff, ‘Who is the author of the tract intitled “Some observations touching trade with the Hollander”?’, ES, 1 (1877), 187-212, and Lefranc (1968), p. 64.

Add. MS 48066

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in several professional secretary hands, 374 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum, with ties.

Yelverton MS 72, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family, including papers descending from Robert Beale (1541-1601), Clerk of the Privy Council.

ff. 90r-165v

• CvG 16: George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey

Copy, the heading (‘Thomas Wolseyes the Cardinalls liffe and deathe written by George Candishe his gent vsher’) and first six lines of the prologue in the hand of Robert Beale, the rest in one or more professional secretary hands; followed (ff. 175r-82v) by notes in a similar hand, entitled by Beale ‘The Supplementes or defectes in the booke of Cardinall Wolseys life and fall made by Georg Candish’. Late 16th century.

Sylvester, No. 10.

First published in George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey and Metrical Visions, ed. Samuel W. Singer, 2 vols (Chiswick, 1825). The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish, ed. Richard S. Sylvester, EETS, orig. ser. 243 (London, New York and Toronto, 1959).

ff. 319r-73r

• MrT 73: Sir Thomas More, Nicholas Harpsfield's Life of Sir Thomas More

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, unascribed. Late 16th-early 17th century.

This MS collated and briefly described(as ‘in the possession of the Calthorpe family’) in Hitchcock & Chambers, p. xvii.

First published, edited by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock and R.W. Chambers, as The life and death of S^r Thomas Moore. knight, sometymes Lord high Chancellor of England...by Nicholas Harpsfield (EETS, London, 1932).

Add. MS 48088

A quarto volume of state papers and tracts, in a single professional secretary hand associated with Robert Beale, with additions at the end in a later hand, 62 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, with green silk ties. Yelverton MS 96, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family, including papers descending from Robert Beale (1541-1601), Clerk of the Privy Council. c.1600.

ff. 2r-5r

• CtR 79: 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, headed ‘Precedency of England in respect of the antiquitie of the Kingdome’, incomplete, unascribed.

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

Add. MS 48095

Copy, in a single professional secretary hand, headings in italic, with a title-page ‘An answere made by S^r Robert Cotton Knight, and Barronet...1628’, xvii + 153 octavo leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. Yelverton MS 104, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family. c.1628.

CtR 12: Sir Robert Cotton, An Answer made by Command of Prince Henry, to Certain Propositions of Warre and Peace

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

Add. MS 48101

A folio composite volume of state papers and tracts, in various hands, c.410 leaves, in a recycled vellum document, now disbound. Yelverton MS 110, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

f. 47r

• RuB 111: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 10 February 1628/9

Copy, headed ‘S^r Beniamin Ruddiers’. c.1629-30s.

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

ff. 70v-1r

• RuB 112: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 10 February 1628/9

Copy. c.1629-30s.

ff. 141r-62r

• CtR 468: Sir Robert Cotton, That the Kings of England have been pleased usually to consult with their Peeres in the great Councell, and Commons in Parliament, of Marriage, Peace, and Warre. Written...Anno 1611

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, unascribed. c.1620s-30s.

Tract beginning ‘To search so high as the Norman Conquest...’. First published, as The Forme of Governement of the Kingdome of England collected out of the Fundamental Lawes and Statutes of this Kingdome, London, 1642. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [11]-39.

ff. 215r-49r

• CtR 502: Sir Robert Cotton, Twenty-four Argvments, Whether it be more expedient to suppress Popish Practises against the due Allegeance of His Majesty, by the Strict Execution touching Jesuits and Seminary Preists? Or, to restraine them to Close Prisons, during life, if no Reformation follow?

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Considerations for the repressinge of the increase of Preists Jesuits and Recusants without draweinge of bloud collected by S^r Ro: Cotton’. c.1620s-30s.

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

Add. MS 48102A

A folio composite volume of state, parliamentary and antiquarian tracts and papers, in several professional hands, i + 366 leaves, originally in a recycled vellum indenture (now detached), in modern quarter-calf. Yelverton MS 111, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

ff. 25v-9r

• CmW 74.5: William Camden, Of the Antiquity of Parliaments in England

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘The Antiquity of Parliaments’, subscribed ‘William Camden’. c.1630.

ff. 30r-1v

• CtR 69: Sir Robert Cotton, The Antiquitie of Parliaments

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, unascribed. c.1630.

A tract beginning ‘As touching the nature of the Right Courte of Parliament, It is nothing else but the Kinges greate councell...’. Ascribed to Cotton in MS sources.

ff. 31v-5r

• CtR 336: Sir Robert Cotton, Other Descriptions and occurrences of the Parliament

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, unascribed. c.1630.

A tract beginning ‘That we nowe agreeinge w^th the Scottes doe name a Parliament...’. Ascribed to Cotton in MS sources.

ff. 319r-29r

• CtR 345: Sir Robert Cotton, A Relation of the Proceedings against Ambassadors who have miscarried themselves, etc. ...[27 April 1624]

Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, with a title-page, as ‘written by S^r. Robert Cotton’. c.1624-30s.

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

Add. MS 48114

A quarto composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, 236 leaves, in contemporary vellum, with ties.

Yelverton MS 129, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

f. 44r

• RaW 384.2: Sir Walter Ralegh, An epitaph on the Earl of Leicester (‘Here lyes the noble warryor that never bludyed sword’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Heere lies y^e worthy Warrio^r, y^t nev^r bloudied sworde’, quoted in a copy of Richard Verstegan's A declaration of the great troubles...1592 (occupying ff. 30r-49v), in a small cursive secretary hand. Early 17th century.

First published as introduced ‘...yet immediately after his [Leicester's] death, a friend of his bestowed vpon him this Epitaphe’ and beginning ‘Heere lies the woorthy warrier’, in Richard Verstegan, A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles (London, ‘1592’), p. 54, which is sometimes entitled Cecil's Commonwealth: see E.A. Strathmann in MLN, 60 (1945), 111-14. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172, who notes that the epitaph was quoted, from a text among William Drummond's papers, in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth (1821). Rudick, No. 46, p. 120.

Add. MS 48116

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, c.380 leaves, in a recycled ?15th-century vellum document. Yelverton MS 131, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

ff. 251r-6r

• BcF 281.5: Francis Bacon, A Short View to be taken of Great Britain and Spain

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, unascribed. c.1620s-30s.

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

Add. MS 48155

A folio volume of legal and state tracts and papers, in a single professional secretary hand, 92 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum, with remains of green silk ties. Yelverton MS 166, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family. c.1620s.

ff. 46r-59r

• BcF 753: Francis Bacon, The Use of the Law

Copy, headed ‘A briefe and Compendious abstract of the Summe of the Common Lawe of England’.

A discourse beginning ‘The use of the Law consisteth principally in these two things...’. Spedding, VII, 459-504 (and discussed pp. 302, 453-7). Probably by Sir Robert Forster (1589-1663), judge.

ff. 66r-71v

• RaW 1086: Sir Walter Ralegh, Observations touching Trade and Commerce with the Hollander

Copy.

Add. MS 49381

Portion of an autograph letter signed by Burton, to John Smyth of Nibley, Gloucestershire, 7 August 1635. 1635.

*BuR 7: Robert Burton, Letter(s)

Formerly in the library at Crewe Hall. Sotheby's, 22 October 1956, lot 43, with a facsimile in the sale catalogue.

For another portion of the letter, see BuR 8.