Add. MS 5141
Extracts from the Scriptorum from Bale's lives of Geoffrey Chaucer.
BaJ 26.4: John Bale, Romanorum Episcoporum Successio
Unpublished Latin work in seven libri.
Add. MS 5144
A folio composite volume of correspondence of Bishop Atterbury. Mid-late 18th century.
ff. 92r-8r
• FaE 1.5: Edward Fairfax, Eclogue IV: Eglon and Alexis (‘Whilst, on the rough, and Heath-strew'd Wilderness’)
The preliminary verses only quoted in a letter by Edward Fairfax's great-nephew, Brian Fairfax, to Bishop Atterbury. 12 March 1704/5.
Edited from this MS in Atterbury Correspondence, III, 255-69. Quoted in Lea & Gang, p. 649.
First published in Elizabeth Cooper, The Muses Library (London, 1737), pp. 364-76. Lea & Gang, pp. 654-64. The premiminary verses published in Atterbury Correspondence, III, 255-69.
Add. MS 5233
A large composite folio volume, 90 leaves. Described (? by Sir Hans Sloane) as ‘Some original drawings of Towns, castles, Antiquities, Medals &c by Dr Edward Brown in his Travels Preserved by his Father Thomas Brown. Who hath write upon sevll of them what they are’, in Edward Browne's hand but many of the drawings of towns and topographical features also containing annotations in Sir Thomas's autograph (notably ff. 18, 20, 21, 51, 67, 68, 82), many other pages containing extensive passages in Sir Thomas's hand taken from Dr Edward Browne's accounts of his European travels in 1668-9 (notably ff. 12, 14, 33-4, 40, 75-6, 78-9v, 80, 87), including Sir Thomas's copy of Edward's list of ‘Citties and considerable places which I have seen’ (ff. 89-90v); Sir Thomas's annotation also on a drawing of a tongue (f. 3) and further autograph observations by him on medals and coins (f. 49) and on plants (ff. 84-5v).
BrT 25: Sir Thomas Browne, Remains and Collectanea
Sir Thomas's observations on plants in this MS recorded and edited in part in Wilkin, IV, 367, and in Keynes, III, 374 (where the source is erroneously cited as ‘MS Sloane 523, ff. 58-9’). Facsimile of f. 68 (erroneously cited as f. 58) [annotated drawing of the Pont du Gard] in Endicott, p. 482.
Add. MS 5234
Elephant folio, 109 leaves; composite volume of maps and drawings. A composite volume of maps and drawings by (or collected by) Dr Edward Browne, of topographical and local scenes, monuments, birds, ships or other subjects, the majority relating to Persia and Turkey, a few also relating to his travels in Italhy, Germany and France, some annotated by Dr Edward Browne himself, others bearing autograph descriptions copied in the hand of Sir Thomas Browne, notably accounts of the Leaning Tower of Pisa (f. 34) and notes on colouring (f. 36), Turkish costume (f. 67), towns in Germany (f. 85) and Bordeaux (f. 104).
BrT 26: Sir Thomas Browne, Remains and Collectanea
Add. MS 5408
Detailed pen and ink drawing in a roll about 27 feet in length by 8 inches wide, attributed to Camden. 1603.
CmW 172: William Camden, The Funeral Procession of Queen Elizabeth
Presented in 1791 by John Wilmot.
Engraved reproduction of this MS in Vetusta Monumenta, III (Society of Antiquaries, London, 1799), plates 18-24; discussed in W.A. Jackson, ‘The Funeral Procession of Queen Elizabeth’, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 262-71 (p. 264). A similar roll drawing, but not apparently in Camden's hand, is Add. MS 35324, No. 7.
Add. MS 5495
A folio volume of tracts and papers largely relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in several hands, ff. 8r-33r in a single professional secretary hand, 54 leaves (plus blanks), in half red morocco. c.1600s-1638.
ff. 8r-15v
• EsR 112: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Apology
Copy.
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.
f. 28r
• EsR 19: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, ‘Muses no more but mazes be your names’
Copy, headed ‘Robert Earle of Essex against Sr Walter Rawleigh’, here beginning ‘Muses no more but Marzes be your names’.
This MS text collated in May, p. 123.
May, Poems, No. 1, pp. 43-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 250-1EV 14991.
ff. 28v-9r
• EsR 65: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, A Poem made on the Earle of Essex (being in disgrace with Queene Eliz): by mr henry Cuffe his Secretary (‘It was a time when sillie Bees could speake’)
Copy of a fifteen-stanza version, headed These Verses were pend by Robert late Earle of Essex in his first discontentmt in ye moneths of July and August.
This MS text collated in May, pp. 128-32.
First published, in a musical setting by John Dowland, in his The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1603). May, Poems, No. IV, pp. 62-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 266-9. EV 12846.
Add. MS 5499
Copy, in two professional secretary hands, on ff. 1v-76v of 86 folio leaves, in mottled leather gilt. The title (f. 1r) added in another hand, and ff. 77r-86v containing notes on the King's officers in yet another secretary hand. c.1630s.
NaR 2: Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia
This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87.
Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).
Add. MS 5503
A folio volume of transcripts chiefly of letters by and to Francis Bacon, in a single professional secretary hand, 132 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco. c.1630s.
ff. 1r-95v et passim
• BcF 573: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
Copies of numerous letters by Bacon, to Queen Elizabeth, Burghley, Essex, James I, Robert Cecil, Sir Thomas Bodley, Sir John Davies, Sir Edward Coke, Buckingham, Northumberland, Tobie Matthew, and others.
ff. 13v-18r
• BcF 179: Francis Bacon, Considerations touching the Queen's Service in Ireland
Copy.
This MS collated in Spedding.
First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, X, 46-51.
ff. 113r-16r
• BcF 55.5: Francis Bacon, Advertisement touching a Holy War
Copy.
First published in Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, ed. William Rawley (London, 1629). Spedding, VII, 1-36. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 183-206.
ff. 120v-1v
• BcF 106: Francis Bacon, The Beginning of the History of the Reign of King Henry VIII
Copy, headed ‘The History of the raigne of King Henry the eight’.
Edited from this MS in Spedding and in Kiernan.
An unfinished history beginning ‘After the decease of that wise and fortunate King, King Henry the Seventh...’. First published in Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, ed. William Rawley (London, 1629). Spedding, VI, 269-70. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 179-80.
ff. 121v-6v
• BcF 232.15: Francis Bacon, Offer to the King of a Digest to be made of the Laws of England
Copy, headed ‘To the King of a Digest to be made of the Lawes of England’.
Spedding, XIV, 358-64.
ff. 128r-32r
• BcF 452: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications
Copy of Bacon's submissions on 19 March 1620/1 and 22 April 1621.
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 5524
A folio volume of genealogical material and pedigrees of Suffolk gentry, in various hands, 238 leaves, in modern half red morocco. Early 17th century.
Inscribed on flyleaves ‘Liber Clopton’, ‘Purchased of Mr. Halsted’ (who acquired it at John Ives's sale in 1777, lot 429), and ‘Tho: Martin’: i.e. Thomas Martin (1697-1771, of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector; with annotations by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary.
f. 54v
• CmW 175: William Camden, Document(s)
Copy, in a secretary hand, of a gant of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms, to Edward Wattes of Blakesley, Northamptonshire, and Montague Wattes of Lincolns Inn, 15 February 1615/16.
Add. MS 5703
A folio volume comprising printed sheets of Edmund Gibson's edition in English (1695), relating to Sussex, with numerous MS notes copied from a collection of Messrs John Elliot and Edward Clarke, 76 pages. Late 18th century.
CmW 13.135: William Camden, Britannia
First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.
Add. MS 5758
A folio volume of state and miscellaneous papers, from the reigns of Henry VIII to Charles II, in various hands, 321 leaves.
f. 173r-v
• BcF 215.7: Francis Bacon, The History of the Reign of King Henry VII
Extracts. Mid-17th century.
First published in London, 1622. Spedding, VI, 23-245. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 3-169.
Add. MS 5821
A folio volume of antiquarian collections, in a single neat hand, 247 leaves, in half-morocco. In the hand of the Rev. William Cole, FSA (1714-82), antiquary (Volume XX of the Cole Collection). c.1747-52.
ff. 217r-19r
• CoR 34: Richard Corbett, A Certaine Poeme As it was presented in Latine by Divines and Others, before his Maiestye in Cambridge (‘It is not yet a fortnight, since’)
Copy, transcribed from ‘Mr: Martin's MS’: i.e. from a MS owned by Cole's ‘Friend’ Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector.
See CoR 41.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.
Some texts accompanied by an ‘Answer’ (‘A ballad late was made’).
Add. MS 5831
A folio volume of antiquarian collections, in a single neat hand, 236 leaves, in half-morocco. In the hand of the Rev. William Cole, FSA (1714-82), antiquary (Volume XXX of the Cole Collection). Mid-18th century.
ff. 62r, 63r
• MaA 42: Andrew Marvell, Janae Oxenbrigiae Epitaphium (‘Juxta hoc Marmor, breve Mortalitatis speculum’)
Copy, headed ‘On a black Marble near Lupton's Chapel, under the Arch against the South Wall over the 2d. Ascent to the Altar:’.
This MS recorded in Margoliouth and in Kelliher, BLJ, 4, 137.
On ff. 54r, ff. 63r and 64r Cole cites as his source the ‘MS Woodwardiano’, which was a ‘12mo. Almanack’ with ‘The Epitaphs...huddled one among another in so confused a Manner, that they are hardly to be separated’, remarking that Woodward ‘was Chapel Clark while I was at Eton Schole: we used to call him Taffy Woodward because of his choleric disposition & welsh Extraction’.
First published, as prose, in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 139-40. This inscription, in lapidary verse, was on a memorial formerly in Eton College Chapel and several extant texts recorded below were transcribed from a transcript of it made by one ‘Taffy’ Woodward, Chapel Clerk at Eton. See the discussion and reconstructed text in Kelliher (1978), pp. 72-3, and in Kelliher, ‘Some Notes on Andrew Marvell’, British Library Journal, 4 (1978), 122-44 (pp. 134-9). Smith, pp. 193-4, with English translation.
Add. MS 5832
A folio volume of antiquarian collections, including much verse, in a single neat hand, 238 leaves, in half-morocco. In the hand of the Rev. William Cole, FSA (1714-82), antiquary (Volume XXXI of the Cole Collection). Mid-18th century.
f. 119v
• WaE 322.5: Edmund Waller, On a Girdle (‘That which her slender waist confined’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 95.
f. 134v
• MkM 7: Mary Monck, Verses Wrote on her Death-Bed at Bath, to her Husband, in London (‘Thou, who dost all my worldly thoughts employ’)
Copy.
Twenty-two lines, first published, introduced ‘The following verses were wrote by her (as I am inform'd) on her death-bed at Bath, to her husband in London’, in George Ballard, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (Oxford, 1752), pp. 418-22.
f. 205r
• HoJ 197: John Hoskyns, Of the B. of London (‘I was the first that made Christendom see’)
This MS recorded in Osborn.
Osborn, No. XIX (p. 189).
f. 205r-v
• DaJ 90: Sir John Davies, On the Marriage of Lady Mary Baker to Richard Fletcher, Bishop of London (‘The pride of Prelacy, which now longe since’)
Copy of the series of five poems, with a sixth satire on Bishop Fletcher beginning ‘Mariage, they say, is honorable in all’, transcribed by Cole from a MS cited by him as ‘MS. Crewe’.
This MS collated in Krueger.
First published in Samuel A. Tannenbaum, ‘Unfamiliar Versions of Some Elizabethan Poems’, PMLA, 45.ii (1930), 809-21 (pp. 818-19). Krueger, pp. 177-9.
f. 209r-v
• HoH 116: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, Will
Copy of Howard's last will and testament. c.1614.
f. 216r
• HlJ 3: Joseph Hall, An epitaph on Gustavus Adolphus King of Sweden (‘He sleeps within this Tombe’)
Copy of a Latin epitaph ‘by an Italian Friar’ (beginning ‘Dormit Mestè in hoc Tumulo’) followed by a 23-line English version, headed ‘Sequitur Anglicè’, inscribed at the side by Cole ‘Translated by Jo: Hall &c: Jn: 1634. It is wrote in the Hand of that Time, & probably translated by Joseph Hall, who was Bp. of Exeter in 1627’.
Unpublished?
ff. 218r-19r
• RaW 157: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie (‘Goe soule the bodies guest’)
Copy, with two additional stanzas, transcribed from an earlier MS, headed ‘A Lye to the World or The Farewell’, the ascription ‘By Sir Wa: Raleigh’ deleted in favour of ‘By the royall Earle of Essex’, with Cole's notes at the side.
This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 129, 134-5.
First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.
This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, ‘Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine’, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's ‘answer’ to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.
Add. MS 5873
A folio volume of antiquarian collections, in a single neat hand, 128 leaves, in half-morocco. In the hand of the Rev. William Cole, FSA (1714-82), antiquary. c.1777.
ff. 106v, 107r
• BcF 574: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
Copy of two formal letters by Bacon in Latin, to the University of Cambridge, dated 31 October 1620 and 1623, transcribed by Cole from ‘Sancroft MSS.’
Add. MS 5937
A folio composite volume of genealogical and historical collections, chiefly relating to the county of Essex, in several hands, one cursive secretary hand predominating, with (ff. 2r-5v, 147r-52r) a list of contents and separate index, 156 leaves, in modern half-morocco.
Bookplate of Osmund Beauvoir, Sheriff of Essex (fl.1742).
ff. 203r-5r
• LeJ 39: John Leland, Collectanea [Other transcripts and extracts]
Extract, in the hand of Sir Henry St George (1625-1715), Clarenceux and Garter King of Arms, headed ‘Notes of some Familyes of Staffordshire taken by Leland being his owne hand writing being loose in folio 127. of this Booke, which I have transcribed in this place fearing they might be lost’, referring to an autograph leaf by Leland which once formed part of LeJ 17 (and is now indeed lost). c.1703.
This MS recorded in Smith, I, xxi, xxx. Edited II, 117 seq.
Add. MS 5947*
A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, in at least two secretary hands, with (ff. 1r-7v) a table of contents, 183 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half-morocco. End of 17th century.
f. 8r-v
• ShJ 146: James Shirley, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, Act III, Song (‘The glories of our blood and state’)
Copy of the dirge, headed ‘Scepters and Crownes must Tumble downe’.
Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).
ff. 8v-11r
• DeJ 59.5: Sir John Denham, On My Lord Croft's and My Journey into Poland (‘Tole, tole Gentle Bell, for the Soul’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 107-10.
f. 11r
• HrG 14.4: George Herbert, Ana-{MARY/ARMY} gram (‘How well her name an Army doth present’)
Copy, headed ‘The Anagram of Mary from the Virgin Marys name makes the word Army: And one makes this coment vpon the word Army’, here beginning ‘And well her name and Army doth prsent’.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 77.
ff. 143v-5v
• DrJ 156: John Dryden, Prologue [to The Unhappy Favourite] Spoken to the King and Queen at their coming to the House, and Written on purpose (‘When first the Ark was Landed on the Shore’)
Copy, headed ‘A prologue made by Dryden vpon a play called the vnfortunate favourite meaneing the Earle of Essex’.
This MS recorded in Kinsley.
First published in John Banks, The Unhappy Favourite: or The Earl of Essex (London, 1682). Kinsley, I, 244-5. California, II, 181-2. Hammond, I, 428-9.
Add. MS 5956
A tall folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in verse and prose, in several hands, 87 leaves, in 19th-century mottled leather. Possibly assembled by a barrister of the Middle Temple.
ff. 3r-16r
• EsR 205: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1
Copy, in a secretary hand. Early 17th century.
ff. 16r-18v
• EsR 271: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution
Copy, in a secretary hand.
Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.
ff. 19r-20r
• EsR 272: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution
Copy, untitled, in a secretary hand. Early 17th century.
Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.
ff. 23v-4r
• EsR 66: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, A Poem made on the Earle of Essex (being in disgrace with Queene Eliz): by mr henry Cuffe his Secretary (‘It was a time when sillie Bees could speake’)
Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, in a secretary hand, headed ‘verses made by ye earle of Essex 1598 in his absence from ye Courte’. Early 17th century.
This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.
First published, in a musical setting by John Dowland, in his The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1603). May, Poems, No. IV, pp. 62-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 266-9. EV 12846.
f. 25r-v
• RaW 110.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Excuse (‘Calling to minde mine eie long went about’)
Copy of a version, in a cursive secretary hand, imperfect, lacking the first two stanzas, and here beginning ‘Repentinge folly that myn eye had soe deceived me’.
This MS recorded in Steven W. May, Sir Walter Ralegh, pp. 29 and 140 n. 6. Edited from this MS in Carlo M. Bajetta, ‘Unrecorded Extracts by Sir Walter Ralegh’, N&Q, 241 (June 1996), 138-40.
First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, p. 10. Rudick, Nos 9A and 9B (two versions, pp. 9-10).
f. 37v
• DnJ 2935: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)
Copy in a secretary hand, headed ‘Vpon the inconstancy of women’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.
ff. 86r-7v
• BaJ 46: John Bale, Extracts
Extracts from one or more works by Bale, headed ‘John Bale his questions’ and beginning ‘Wch is best of right or reason?’.
Add. MS 5994
A folio composite volume of political tracts, chiefly French, in several hands, 200 leaves, in brown morocco.
Owned by the Rev. William Cole, FSA (1714-82), antiquary.
ff. 178r-84v
• CtR 389: Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England
Copy, in a small secretary hand, with some deletions and alterations in another hand, dated 29 April 1614, probably subscribed with Cotton's name but heavily deleted, endorsed in yet another hand ‘HEN 3 by Sr R. Cotton’. c.1620s.
Treatise, written c.1614 and ‘Presented to King James’, beginning ‘Wearied with the lingering calamities of Civil Arms...’. First published in London, 1627. Cottoni posthuma (1651), at the end (i + pp. 1-27).
Add. MS 6057
Add. MS 6130
Copy, in a single secretary hand, 62 folio leaves, in modern quarter-morocco.
LeC 10: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth
Donated in June 1818 by Mary Adams, of Tavistock.
This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.
First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.
Add. MS 6177
A folio volume of transcripts of Elizabethan-Jacobean state letters, in a single neat hand, transcribed from originals at Hatfield House, 210 leaves (including blanks), in vellum boards. Early-mid-18th century?
passim
• RaW 855: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
Copies of numerous letters by Ralegh, chiefly to Robert Cecil, some to Essex, James I, Ralegh's wife, and others, including those on ff. 15r, 17r, 19r, 21r-v, 29r, 53r, 67r-v, 69r, 81r-v, 87r, 89r, 97r-v, 99r, 101r, 107r, 109r-v, 113r-v, 119r-v, 135r, 137r-8r, 139r, 141r, 143r-v, 145r, 147r-v, 149r-v, 151r-v, 153r-v, 157r, 185r-v, 187r-v, 197r-v, 201r-v, 203r, 205r, 207r, 208r, and 209r-v; together with letters and petitions by Lady Ralegh (ff. 23r, 65r, 93r, 155r, 159r, and 163r).
Add. MS 6178
A folio volume, in several hands, 214 leaves, in modern half red morocco. 18th century?
ff. 2r-v, 16r-v, 18r-v, 22r, 44r-v, 46r, 198r-v
• RaW 856: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
Copies of seven letters by Ralegh to Robert Cecil.
Add. MS 6193
A small quarto volume of miscellaneous collections relating to Gresham College, compiled by John Ward, 168 leaves.
ff. 34r-v
• MoH 7: Henry More, Letter(s)
Extracts from three letters by More, to Dr John Worthington, dated respectively 24 January and 7 February 1664/5 and 10 May 1665. 18th-century.
Add. MS 6217
Copy of part of the Annales, in a single italic hand, 59 tall folio leaves (ff. 56-9 smaller size and bound-in), collated at the end with the edition of 1615, in quarter calf on marbled boards. Headed ‘The copye of the Storye of Queen Elizabeth from 1583 to 1587 not transcribed for my self as yett but sent into France to Thuanus’, transcribed from Cotton MS Faustina F. X, ff. 105r-70r (in Camden's autograph working draft: CmW 1). Late 17th century.
CmW 5: William Camden, Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha
Part I (to 1589) first published in London, 1615. Parts I-II (to 1603) published in Leiden, 1625-7.
Add. MS 6260
Copy of ‘An Abridgement of Roger Ascham's Schoolmaster’, in the neat italic hand of John Ward, FRS (1678/9-1758), antiquary, biographer and Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College, 31 quarto leaves, in modern half brown morocco. Early-mid-18th century.
AsR 3.1: Roger Ascham, The Schoolmaster
First published in London, 1570. Ed. Lawrence V. Ryan (Ithaca, NY, 1967).
Add. MS 6261
A small octavo composite notebook, in a small cursive hand, in Lation and English, 219 leaves, in 19th-century half morocco. Compiled by Thomas Tanner (1674-1735), Bishop of St Asaph, ecclesiastical historian, scholar and book collector, in preparation for his Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica (1748). Early 18th century.
Donated by John Loveday.
f. 87v
• SpE 45.5: Edmund Spenser, A View of the Present State of Ireland
Brief notes from the printed edition of 1633.
First published in Sir James Ware, The Historie of Ireland (Dublin, 1633). Variorum, Prose Works (ed. Rudolf Gottfried), pp. 39-231.
Spenser's authorship of this ‘View’ is generally accepted, especially in light of the comparable views about Ireland in The Faerie Queene. A cautionary note about authorship is sounded, however, in Jean R. Brink, ‘Constructing the View of the Present State of Ireland’, Spenser Studies, 11 (1994), 203-28; in her ‘Appropriating the Author of The Faerie Queene: The Attribution of the View of the Present State of Ireland and A Brief Note of Ireland to Edmund Spenser’, in Soundings of Things Done: Essays in Early Modern Literature in Honor of S.K. Heninger, Jr., ed. Peter E. Medine and Joseph Wittreich (Newark, Delaware, 1997), 93-136. See also, inter alia, Andrew Hadfield, ‘Certainties and Uncertainties: By Way of Response to Jean Brink’, Spenser Studies, 12 (1998), 197-202, and Jean R. Brink, ‘Spenser and the Irish Question: Reply to Andrew Hadfield’, Spenser Studies, 13 (1999), 265-6.
ff. 101r-3r, 166r-7r
• BaJ 26.6: John Bale, Scriptorum illustrium Maioris Brytanniae catalogus
Extracts from Bale's MS additions to the Scriptorum (BaJ 21, BaJ 27).
First published in Basle, 1557. Reprinted in facsimile (Farnborough, 1971).
Add. MS 6407
A broadsheet-size guardbook of miscellaneous letters and state papers, in several hands and paper sizes, 24 leaves, in modern quarter-calf.
Donated by Nicholas Vansittart, Secretary to the Treasury.
ff. 17r-v, 18r-20r
• ClE 136: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Letters to the Duke of York and the Duchess of York
Copy of both letters, in a probably professional hand. Late 17th century.
Letters by Clarendon to his daughter Anne (who died on 31 March 1671 before the letter arrived) and to her husband, the Duke of York (later James II), on the occasion of her conversion to Roman Catholicism. The original letters, which received particular attention by his contemporaries because of their subject matter, are not known to survive.
These were first published in Two Letters written by…Edward Earl of Clarendon…one to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the other to the Dutchess, occasioned by her Embracing the Roman Catholic Religion (London, [1680?]) and were reprinted in State Tracts (1689), in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (Oxford, 1724), pp. 313-24, and elsewhere.
Add. MS 6411
A folio volume of speeches in the House of Commons in 1640, in a single professional hand, 105 leaves, in modern quarter red morocco. c.1640s.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘John Griffith’ and with a stamp lettered ‘Cole Devm’.
ff. 59v-60r
• RuB 136: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?15-25 April 1640
Copy, headed ‘Sir Beniamyne Ruddiards speech in Parliamt 1640’.
Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 297.
Speech beginning ‘There is a great dore now opened unto us of doing good...’. Variant version in Manning, pp. 148-51.
ff. 64r-73r
• WaE 789.5: Edmund Waller, Speech in the House of Commons, 22 April 1640
Copy.
Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 306.
A speech beginning ‘I will use no preface, as they do who prepare men to something to which they would persuade them...’ First published in two variant editions, as A Worthy Speech Made in the house of commons this present Parliament 1641 and as An Honorable and Learned Speech made by Mr Waller in Parliament respectively (both London, 1641). In Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), pp. 306-8. It is doubted whether Waller actually delivered this speech in Parliament, though ‘He may have prepared and circulated the speech in manuscript to impress contemporaries’.
Add. MS 6703
A folio volume of state and parliamentary papers, in several professional hands, 176 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century half morocco. c.1700.
ff. 26r-7v
• HaG 29: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Maxims of the Great Almansor
Copy of 33 maxims, dated 1694, in a neat professional hand, the text followed (on f. 28r-v) by 14 supplementary maxims by Charles Montagu dated 1695.
This MS used in part as a copy-text in Foxcroft (as ‘MS A’). Collated in Brown, I, 398-401.
First published, anonymously, under the heading The following Maxims were found amongst the Papers of the Great Almanzor…[&c] (London, 1693). Foxcroft, II, 447-53. Brown, I, 292-5.
Add. MS 6704
A folio miscellany and memorandum book, in several secretary hands, one predominating, 214 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Compiled by Henry Wigley (fl.1600), of Middleton, Lancashire, and Richard Wigley (1591-1643), of Wigwall. Early 17th century.
f. 163r
• CmT 211: Thomas Campion, ‘What if a day, or a month, or a yeare’
Copy of a three-strophe version, in the secretary hand of Richard Wigley, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Swaen, pp. 408-9.
Possibly first published as a late 16th-century broadside. Philotus (Edinburgh, 1603). Richard Alison, An Howres Recreation in Musicke (London, 1606). Davis, p. 473. The different versions and attributions discussed in A.E.H. Swaen, ‘The Authorship of “What if a Day”, and its Various Versions’, MP, 4 (1906-7), 397-422, and in David Greer, ‘“What if a Day” — An Examination of the Words and Music’, M&L, 43 (1962), 304-19.
See also CmT 239-41.
Add. MS 6789
A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, in various hands, 538 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco. Volume VIII of the collections of collections of Thomas Harriot (c.1560-1621), mathematician and natural philosopher.
f. 533r
• RaW 816: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)
Brief notes of the main points in Ralegh's speech, beginning ‘Two fits of an ague / Thankes to god...’, in Thomas Harriot's hand, on a long slip of paper, quite possibly jotted down at the execution itself.
This MS printed and discussed in B.J. Sokol, ‘Thomas Harriot's Notes on Sir Walter Raleigh's Address from the Scaffold’, Manuscripts, 26, No. 3 (Summer 1975), 198-206. Also printed and discussed, with a facsimile, in John W. Shirley, ‘Sir Walter Ralegh and Thomas Harriot’, in Thomas Harriot Renaissance Scientist, ed. John W. Shirley (Oxford, 1974), pp. 16-35.
Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For a relevant discussion, see Anna Beer, ‘Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh’, MP, 94/1 (August 1996), 19-38.
Add. MS 7081
Autograph early draft, with copious deletions and revisions, untitled, subscribed ‘20 Julij 1619 EHerbert’, on 126 folio leaves, in old calf gilt. 1619.
*HrE 110: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, De veritate
This MS discussed in Rossi, III, 412-16, and in Gawlick, pp. xi-xii. For an account of its history see H.F.J. Vaughan, ‘Lord Herbert of Chirbury's MSS.’, Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society, 1st Ser. 3 (1880), 353-77.
First published in Paris, 1624. Translated by Meyrick H. Carré (Bristol, 1937). Facsimile of the London edition of 1645 introduced by Günter Gawlick (Stuttgart, 1966).
Add. MS 7084
Copy, in the roman hand of an amanuensis, with Bacon's occasional autograph deletions and insertions, untitled, 136 folio leaves, imperfect at the beginning and end, in 19th-century leather. c.1621.
*BcF 215: Francis Bacon, The History of the Reign of King Henry VII
Edited from this MS in Spedding. Edited partly from this MS in Kiernan, with facsimiles of ff. 122r and 2r on pp. xcv-xcvi.
First published in London, 1622. Spedding, VI, 23-245. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 3-169.
Add. MS 7121
A folio composite volume of letters, in various hands and paper sizes, 107 leaves, in modern black morocco gilt.
Bequeathed in 1829 by N. Hart, Esq.
ff. 31r-2r
• GiC 2: Charles Gildon, Letter(s)
Autograph letter signed by Charles Gildon, [to Charles Montagu, Lord Halifax], undated. c.1713-14?.
f. 75r-v
• *WyW 22: William Wycherley, Letter(s)
Autograph letter signed by Wycherley, to Lord Halifax, 12 May 1704. 1704.
Edited in Summers, II, 242, and in Connely, pp. 267-8. Facsimile examples in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, 163, and in T.J. Brown, ‘English Literary Autographs XLI’, BC, 11 (Spring 1962), 62-3.
Add. MS 8827
A folio volume of speeches and proceedings in Parliament from 17 March 1627/8 to 26 June 1628, in several professional secretary hands, 387 leaves, with (ff. 2r-11r) a neat table of contents, in contemporary vellum boards. c.1630.
Christie's, 12 June 1881 (Fairfax sale).
ff. 12r-19v
• CtR 156: Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy
Copy, as ‘described by Sr Robert Cotton’.
Tract beginning ‘As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine...’. First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.
ff. 54v-5r
• RuB 29: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.22 March 1627/8
Copy, headed ‘Sr Beniamyn Rudyards speech 22 Mar: 1627’.
Speech beginning ‘Of the mischiefs that have lately fallen upon us by the late distractions here is every man sensible...’.
ff. 181r-2v
• RuB 41: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.2-9 April 1628
Copy, headed ‘Sr Beniamin Ruddiers speech vpon the receipt of his Mates answeare to the peticon against Recusants circa. 9 Aprill: 1628’.
Speech beginning ‘The best thanks we can return his Matie for his gracious and religious answer...’.
ff. 220v-3v
• RuB 59: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 28 April 1628
Copy, headed ‘Sr Beniamin Ruddiers speech, 28 Aprill 1628’.
Speech beginning ‘We are here upon a great business...’. Yale 1628, III, 127-9 and 133-4. Variants: III, 138-9, 141, 143, and 161. Variant version in Manning, pp. 126-8.
f. 227r-v
• HlJ 19.8: Joseph Hall, Episcopal Admonition, Sent in a Letter to the House of Commons, April 28, 1628
Copy, headed ‘The Bishope of Exeters lre to the house of Comons. 2 May: 1628’.
See HlJ 17-30.
ff. 266r-9r
• RuB 94: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?22 May 1628
Copy, headed ‘Sr Beniamin Ruddiers speech: 22 May 1628. Concerning Ministers’.
Speech beginning ‘I did not think to have spoken...’. First published, as Sir Benjamin Rudierd His speech in Behalfe of the Clergie and of Parishes destitute of Instruction through want of Maintenance, Oxford, 1628. Manning, pp. 135-8. Yale 1628, III, 17-19, where it is dated probably 21 April 1628.
Add. MS 9298
A large folio composite volume of naval tracts, in various hands, 188 leaves, in modern half red morocco.
ff. 39r-54v
• RaW 685: Sir Walter Ralegh, Observations concerning the Royal Navy and Sea-Service
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘Written by Sr walter Rawleigh and by him dedicated to the most noble and illustrious Prince Henry’. c.1630.
This MS recorded in Sandison (1928), p. 671.
A tract dedicated to Prince Henry and beginning ‘Having formerly, most excellent prince, discoursed of a maritimal voyage, and the passages and incidents therein...’. First published in Judicious and Select Essayes and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 335-50. These notes probably written by Ralegh but usually appended to Sir Arthur Gorges, A larger Relation of the...Iland Voyage, printed in Purchas his Pilgrimes (London, 1625). Glasgow edition, XX (1907), 34-129. See Helen Estabrook Sandison, ‘Manuscripts of the “Islands Voyage” and “Notes on the Royal Navy”’, Essays and Studies in Honor of Carleton Brown (New York, London & Oxford, 1940), 242-52, and Lefranc (1968), pp. 53, 58-9.
Add. MS 9311
A tall folio volume of naval papers, in several professional hands, 279 leaves, in old half-morocco. Late 17th century.
ff. 33r-9v
• PpS 6: Samuel Pepys, The Pursers Employ Annatomized and both Advantages & disadvantages therein discovered and also A Proposall of comitting the Victualling accompt to the care and management of each Comander. Presented as a New yeares guift to Sr: William Coventry by Samuel Pepys Esqr in 1665
Copy, headed ‘Mr Pepy's Letter & NewyearsGift to his Hond Friend Sr William Coventry’, the text followed (ff. 40r-2v) by ‘Some brief Notes on Mr Pepys New Years gift to Sr Wm Coventry’.
First published in Further Correspondence of Samuel Pepys 1662-1679, ed. J.R. Tanner (London, 1929), pp. 83-111.
ff. 43r-60v
• PpS 1.5: Samuel Pepys, A Freind to Caesar
Copy.
A treatise, published anonymously, as A Freind to Caesar; or An humble proposicon for the more regular speedy and easy payment of his Mats Treasury graunted, or to be graunted by the Lords and Comons assembled in Parliament for the carrying on of his Mats: Expences whether Ordinary or Extraordinary both in time of Peace and Warr, beginning ‘It appears by several Acts of Parliament...’, in London, 1681. Pepys's authorship is uncertain.
Add. MS 9334
A formal and official copy, in professional secretary and italic hands, with some bold engrossed lettering, 84 double-folio leaves, in modern calf. Headed (f. 1r) ‘An Accompt of such Seruice as was enioyed by your Mats. Comission to me and others concerninge the prsent State of your Navy’, the initial address to James I subscribed (f. 19r) ‘your Maiesties most loyall and humble Subiecte and Seruante Robert Cotton’, followed by a series of observations on particular subjects (‘Before the Dock’, ‘In the Dock’, ‘In harborow’, ‘At the Sea’, ‘Victualling’, and ‘Trinitie howse’), subscribed (f. 82r) ‘Your Maiestye humble Subiect and Seruant Robert Cotten’, and with (ff. 83r-4v) an index. c.1610.
CtR 2: Sir Robert Cotton, An Accompt of such Service as was enioyed by your Mats. Comission to me and others concerninge the prsent State of your Navy
An official report by the Navy Commission, to James I, produced principally by Cotton, with corrections by Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton. Unpublished?
Cf also HoH 94.