CELM: The British Library: Lansdowne MSS

Lansdowne MS 13

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 196 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.

f. 115r

• *HrJ 347: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed, to Mrs Penn, from Eton, 19 May 1571 1571.

McClure, No. 1, p. 61.

Lansdowne MS 19

A folio composite volume of papers of William Cecil, Lord Burghley.

f. 31r

• LyJ 5: John Lyly, Letter(s)

A Latin epistle by Lyly, to Lord Burghley, in a professional hand, 16 May 1574. 1574.

Edited in Bond, I, 13-14, and in Feuillerat, pp. 522-3.

Lansdowne MS 28

A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, 220 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.

ff. 180r-1v

• *HvG 10: Gabriel Harvey, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Harvey, in Latin, to Lord Burghley, from Cambridge, 2 April 1579. 1579.

Recorded in Moore Smith, pp. 35-6.

Lansdowne MS 30

A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, 220 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.

f. 163r-v

• *HvG 11: Gabriel Harvey, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed (‘Gabriel Haruejus’), in Latin, to Lord Burghley, from Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 14 June 1580. 1580.

Facsimile examples in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plates LXXI (a, b), and in Alfred Fairbank and Bruce Dickins, The Italic Hand in Tudor Cambridge (London, 1962), Plate 22a.

Lansdowne MS 36

A folio composite volume of state papers.

ff. 192r-3r

• *LyJ 6: John Lyly, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed, to Lord Burghley, July 1582. 1582.

Edited in Bond, I, 28-9, and in Feuillerat, pp. 529-31. Facsimile in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XVII.

Lansdowne MS 42

A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in various hands.

ff. 160r-1v

• *HvG 12: Gabriel Harvey, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Harvey, to Lord Burghley, 15 February ‘1585’. 1585.

Recorded in Moore Smith, pp. 46-8. Facsimile examples in Greg, Englisj Literary Autographs, Plate LXXI (d, e).

Lansdowne MS 50

A folio composite volume of tracts letters and papers, in various hands, 212 leaves, in modern half-calf on cloth boards gilt. Papers of Lord Burghley.

Bookplate of shelburne.

ff. 171r-3r

• HkR 48: Richard Hooker, [Answer to Hooker's Account]

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on the first six pages of a quarto booklet of six leaves (plus wrapper), endorsed (f. 177v) by Lord Burghley ‘28. Mart. 1586 Inter Hookar. et Travers’. 1586.

A series of paragraphs, beginning ‘Our fathers are no precidentes for vs to followe in error’, apparently written in answer to Hooker's account of his preaching in the Temple (see HkR 45-6).

ff. 174-6v

• HkR 45: Richard Hooker, Notes of M^r Hookers Sermon

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on the last six pages of a quarto booklet of six leaves (plus wrapper), endorsed (f. 177v) by Lord Burghley ‘28. Mart. 1586 Inter Hookar. et Travers’. 1586.

This MS conforms to the text edited in Keble (see also HkR 49).

Hooker's account of what he preached in his Temple sermons on Habakkuk, beginning ‘I doute not but that god was m^rcifull to thousandes of o^r fathers...’. Keble, I, 60-4.

Lansdowne MS 63

f. 209r

• *AndL 83: Lancelot Andrewes, Letter(s)

An academic letter in Latin, to Lord Burghley, supporting a petition to Queen Elizabeth, signed by Andrewes and others, 23 April 1590.

Facsimile in Alfred Fairbank and Bruce Dickins, The Italic Hand in Tudor Cambridge (London, 1962), Plate 24.

Lansdowne MS 72

A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, 226 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half-calf on cloth boards gilt.

Bookplate of Shelburne.

f. 144r-v

• AndL 2: Lancelot Andrewes, Concio ad clerum in synodo provinciali Cantuariensis provinciae ad D. Pauli. 20 February 1592/3

Extracts, in an italic hand, on a single folio leaf, folded in double columns, headed ‘Ex concione M^ri D^ris Andrewes ad Clerum habitâ Londini in æde Divi Pauli in Comitije Pananglije. a^o 1592’, docketed ‘M^r Goodwin’. c.1593.

Edited from this MS in John Strype, The Life and Acts of John Whitgift, 3 vols (Oxford, 1822), III, 293-6.

First published in Opuscula quaedam posthuma (London, 1629). LACT, Opuscula (1852), pp. 29-31.

Lansdowne MS 82

A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various largely professional hands, 236 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

Bookplate (as ‘Shelburne’) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.

f. 161r

• ElQ 95: Queen Elizabeth I, On the Sailing of the Cadiz Expedition, May 1596

Copy, in a professional italic hand, untitled but with a sidenote ‘Her Ma^ts pryvate Medytacion vppon y^e recent Expedytion against y^e Spaniard in 1596’, the second item on one side of a single folio leaf, endorsed ‘Juine 1596 A Prayer made by y^e Q. w^th a lre of m^r secretary [Cecil] to y^e Erl of Essex and y^e L. Admirall’.

Edited from this MS in Selected Works.

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

No. 88

• *HrJ 350: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed, to Lady Russell, [14 August 1596]. 1596.

McClure, No. 5, pp. 65-6. Facsimiles in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XLV(a), and in P. J. Croft, ‘Autographs’, in The Concise Encyclopædia of Antiques, Vol. IV (London, 1959), pp. 236-41 (Plate 148).

Lansdowne MS 94

A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, 196 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. Comprising papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

Bookplate (as ‘Shelburne’) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.

f. 29r

• ElQ 119: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's First Speech before Parliament, February 10, 1559

Copy of Version 1, in a professional italic hand, headed ‘The answere of y^e Quenes highnes to y^e peticion proposed vnto hir by y^e lower howse concerning hir mariage’, on one side of a single folio leaf, docketed ‘Q. Eliz. Speech / Double’.

Edited principally from this MS in Hartley and in Collected Works.

First published in Richard Grafton, An Abridgement of the Chronicles of England (London, 1563), 179v-80.

Version I. Beginning ‘As I have good cause, so do I give you all my hearty thanks...’. Hartley, I, 44-5. Collected Works, Speech 3, pp. 56-8 (Version 1).

Version II. Beginning ‘In a thing which is not much pleasing unto me...’. Collected Works, pp. 58-60 (Version 2).

f. 30r

• *ElQ 140: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Answer to the Lords' Petition that she Marry, April 10, 1563, delivered by Lord Keeper Nicholas Bacon

Autograph draft, on the first page of two once conjugate folio leaves, endorsed by Burghley (f. 31v) ‘x. ap'll, 1563. 25 The Q. speche -- yⁿ y^e Parliam^t vttred by y^e L. kepur Q. Elizab^s. hand’.

Edited from this MS in Hartley (Text i) and in Autograph Compositions, pp. 34-7. Edited in Selected Works. Collated in Collected Works, with a facsimile on p. 78.

Facsimiles also in Heisch, p. 38; in Felix Pryor, Elizabeth I: Her Life in Letters (British Library, London, 2003), No. 14, p. 42; and in Philip Mould Fine Paintings catalogue [c.2008], p. 15.

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

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

ff. 53r-6v

• SiP 197: Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur

A précis of the letter in a single cursive secretary hand, originally untitled, here beginning ‘To arme an excuse w^th reasons were to acknowledg y^t I did willinglie amisse...’, on six folio pages, with blank wrappers (ff. 53r, 61v), docketed in another contemporary hand (f. 53r) ‘1579. Notes out of m^r Phillip Sidneys lre to y^e Q. towching hir mariage w^th. Monsieur’; other inscriptions including ‘1579 / Bundle XII / Varia’ (and scribbling in cipher on f. 53r in the same hand as the inscription on f. 63v: ‘An^o. 1579 IV. LXXV. Articles propounded in behalf of y^e Duke of Anjoy concerning marryinge w^th y^e Queen’). c.1579.

This MS recorded in Feuillerat, III, 325. Described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 277 (No. 18), with a facsimile of f. 54r on p. 126.

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).

ff. 84r-5r

• *ElQ 213: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's First Reply to the Parliamentary Petitions Urging the Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, November 12, 1586

Copy, in a neat italic hand, with autograph revisions by Elizabeth, on two folio leaves, imperfect.

Edited from this MS (as Text i) in Hartley and (as Version 2) in Autograph Compositions. This MS collated in Collected Works (as Version 2), with a facsimile of the first page on p. 191, and in Selected Works. Edited in part diplomatically in Heisch, pp. 49-51.

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

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

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

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

ff. 86r-8r

• *ElQ 224: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Second Reply to the Parliamentary Petitions Urging the Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, November 24, 1586

Copy, in a neat italic hand, with extensive autograph revisions by Elizabeth.

Edited from this MS (as Text i) in Hartley and (as Version 2) in Autograph Compositions. Edited in Selected Works. Collated (as Version 2) in Collected Works, with a facsimile of f. 87v on p. 203. Part Edited diplomatically in Heisch, p. 52.

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

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

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

f. 120r

• ElQ 250: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Latin Rebuke to the Polish Ambassador, Paul de Jaline, July 25, 1597

Copy, in a professional italic hand, headed ‘Oratio siue responsio Dnæ Reginæ, facta Oratori regis Poloniæ die Lunæ, 26. Julij. 1597’, on one side of a folio leaf, endorsed ‘Responsio Reginæ. ad pau'l de Jaline Legatu Regis Poloniæ Sigismondi tertii’.

Beginning ‘Oh quam decepta fui: Expectaui Legationem tu vero querelam, mihi adduxisti...’, in Autograph Compositions, pp. 168-9. An English version, beginning ‘O how I have been deceived! I expected an embassage, but you have brought to me a complaint...’, in Collected Works, Speech 22, pp. 332-4.

f. 123r-v

• ElQ 271: Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Her maiesties most princely answere, delyuered by her self at the court at whitehall on the last day of nouember 1601. when the Speaker of the lower house of parliament asisted with the most pte of the knights and burgesses had presented ther humble thankes for her fre and gracious fauour in preuenting and reforminge of sundrie greiuances, by abuse of many grants commonly called Monopolies, the same beinge taken verbatim in wrytinge by A: B: as neer as he could possiblie set yt downe’, on both sides of a single folio leaf, docketed ‘Vlt Nouvbris 1601 Hir Ma^ty Speache to y^e Speaker and the knights and Burgesses of the Lower howse’.

Edited from this MS (as ‘second version’) in Hartley (pp. 292-3). Cited in Collected Works.

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. 127r-34v

• EsR 218: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

f. 135r-v

• EsR 283: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on a folio leaf. c.1601.

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

Lansdowne MS 96

A folio composite volume of state and ecclesiastical papers in various hands, 159 leaves, in modern half-calf.

Among papers probably of Lord Burghley. Bookplate of Shelburne.

f. 50r-v

• HkR 40: Richard Hooker, A shorte note of sundrie vnsounde pointes of Doctrine at diuers times deliuered by M^r: Hooker in his publicke sermons

Copy, in a secretary hand, on the first two pages of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed (f. 51v) ‘30: Martij 1585 Certaine pointes of doctrine deliuered by M^r: Hooker’. 1585.

Edited in part from this MS in Folger edition, Volume V, with a facsimile of f. 50r on p. 280.

These statements edited in Keble I, 59-60, and in Folger edition, p. 282.

Lansdowne MS 98

A large folio composite volume of state latters, tracts and verse, in various hands, 282 leaves, in modern morocco gilt. Largely Burghley papers, with some later additions.

Bookplate of Shelburne.

f. 189r

• WoH 164: Sir Henry Wotton, This Hymn was made by Sir H. Wotton, when he was an Ambassador at Venice, in the time of a great sickness there (‘Eternal mover, whose diffused glory’)

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed ‘A Hymne made by S^r Henry Wotton in an unquiet night at the tyme of his late sicknes’, on the first page of a trimmed pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed (f. 190v) ‘A Hymne made by S^r He: Wotton att Venice’. c.1620s-30s.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), pp. 45-8.

ff. 192r, 193r

• WiG 25.5: George Wither, Prosopopæia Britannica: Britans Genius, or Good-Angel (‘When, in his might, the Dogstar, raigned here’)

Extracts, in a mixed hand, headed ‘Some verses taken out of M^r George Withers his Prosopopæia Britanica, or Britagnes Genius, Edited An^o 1648 When y^e King was at y^e Isle of Weight; Beginning towards y^e end of Page 98, & ending p. 101’, here beginning ‘And since men Wandring in a Wood by night’, in double columns, on two pages of two conjugate quarto leaves. Mid-17th century.

First published, with preliminary material, in London, 1648. Spenser Society, Miscellaneous Works of George Wither. Fourth Collection, pp. 1-117.

Lansdowne MS 99

A large folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, 280 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

ff. 151r-2v

• *PlG 25: George Peele, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Peele, in his predominantly italic hand, to Lord Burghley, docketed as presenting ‘y^e tale of Troy in 500 verses by his eldest daughter necessities servante’, on two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘17 Jan. 1595[/6]’. 1596.

Facsimiles in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XVI; in Shakespeare's England (Oxford, 1917), I, facing p. 290; and in Prouty, I, 106.

MS Lansdowne 103

A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, 320 leaves, in modern crushed morocco gilt. Papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

Bookplate (as ‘Shelburne’) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.

f. 64

• ElQ 214: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's First Reply to the Parliamentary Petitions Urging the Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, November 12, 1586

Copy of Extractions taken by the Queens order in reformation of somme errours in report of her speeche, the 12 of November 1586 in her withdrawing chamber.

This MS discussed in Hartley (II, 253).

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

Lansdowne MS 104

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 219 folios, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

Bookplate (as ‘Shelburne’) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.

f. 11

• HoJ 150: John Hoskyns, An Ep: one a man for doyinge nothinge (‘Here lyes the man was borne and cryed’)

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Osborn, No. XII (p. 171).

ff. 195r-8v

• HoJ 273: John Hoskyns, [Epitaph on Anne, Countess of Oxford] (‘Anna soror soror Anna suæ charissima Elisæ’)

A fair copy, in a fine italic hand, probably the formal copy delivered to the Cecil family, headed ‘Anna Vera vxor Eduardi Veri Comitis Oxoniæ, filia Guil. Burghlæi summi Angliæ Quæ storis, mulier pietate, prudentia patientia, publicitia & in Coniuge amore singulari, principi, parentibus, fratribus & vniuersæ Aulæ regiæ admodu chara. Obijt in Aula regia Greenwici Tres filias superstitus reliquit’, subscribed ‘V. M. Pergaman / Joh. Hoskins’, on four folio leaves, among other elegies and funereal verses on Anne Cecil.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

Osborn, No. XVI (pp. 184-8).

Lansdowne MS 115

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 272 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Among collections of John Strype (1643-1737), ecclesiastical historian and biographer, incorporating papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

f. 47r-v

• EsR 219: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1

Copy of a summary.

f. 108r

• ElQ 74: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Prayer at Bristol, August 15, 1574

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘A praier made by her Ma^tie the 15 of Aug beinge then in Bristowe’, on one side of a single folio leaf, endorsed ‘A praier made by Queene Elizabethe’. c.1574.

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

Beginning ‘I render unto thee, O merciful and heavenly Father, most humble and hearty thanks...’. Collected Works, Prayers 29, pp. 310-11. Selected Works, Prayer 1, pp. 246-8.

Lansdowne MS 116

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 87 leaves, in modern crushed morocco gilt. Among collections of John Strype (1643-1737), ecclesiastical historian and biographer, incorporating papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

f. 71r

• ElQ 75: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Prayer at Bristol, August 15, 1574

Copy, in a neat italic hand, untitled, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘The Q prayer / After a Progress. / Entered / Aug. 15 being then a [sic] Bristow’. c.1574.

Edited from this MS in Selected Works.

Beginning ‘I render unto thee, O merciful and heavenly Father, most humble and hearty thanks...’. Collected Works, Prayers 29, pp. 310-11. Selected Works, Prayer 1, pp. 246-8.

Lansdowne MS 120

A quarto composite volume of MS tracts, 192 leaves, in modern red morocco. Among collections of John Strype (1643-1737), ecclesiastical historian and biographer, incorporating papers of William Cecil (1520/21-98), first Baron Burghley, secretary of state.

ff 179r-87r

• *HvG 5: Gabriel Harvey, Xaipe vel Gratulatio Valdinensis ad...Dom...Burgleium

Autograph fair copy, the presentation MS to Lord Burghley, in Harvey's roman hand, entitled ‘Gabrielis Harueij Xaipe, uel Gratulatio Vandinensis, ad Honoratissimum, clarissimumque uirum, Dominum Burgleium, magnum Angliæ Thesaurarium, summumque Acadeniæ nostræ Cantabrigiensis Cancellarium; Audleianis ædibus vna cum Regia ipsa Maiestate, reliquisque Nobilibus honorificentissime exceptum’, signed ‘Gabriel Haruejus’, on nine quarto leaves.

Moore Smith, p. 79. Stern, p. 243.

A Latin ‘gratulatio’ to Lord Burghley, including a 14-line address by the poet, beginning ‘E loquar, an sileam? breue tempus postulat altrum’; an address to Burghley, beginning ‘Te quoque Carminibus iussit Prudentia dudum’; and then a series of epigrams.

Lansdowne MS 157

A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, compiled by Sir Julius Caesar (1558-1636), Master of the Rolls, c.455 leaves.

f. 155r et seq.

• RaW 897: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to James I, 21 January ‘1603’.

Lansdowne MS 160

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, compiled by Sir Julius Caesar (1558-1636), Master of the Rolls, 432 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.

ff. 331r-3v

• BcF 351: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

Copy of a speech by Bacon to the judges in Star Chamber, 26 June 1618, in the cursive hand of Sir Julius Caesar, written on folio leaves in oblong format. c.1618.

MS Lansdowne 163

A folio composite volume of Chancery and state papers, in various hands, compiled by Sir Julius Caesar (1558-1636), Master of the Rolls, 405 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.

ff. 236r-40r

• BcF 352: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

Copy of Bacon's inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617, in a secretary hand. c.1617.

Lansdowne MS 209

A folio composite volume of tracts and miscellaneous papers, in English and Latin, in several largely professional hands (the last item printed), 348 leaves, in 19th-century morocco.

ff. 166r-75r

• CtR 115.5: Sir Robert Cotton, A Briefe Discovrse concerning the Power of the Peeres and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature

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

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

Lansdowne MS 211

A folio volume of political speeches and miscellaneous papers.

ff. 309r-43r

• RaW 614: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse of the Original and Fundamental Cause of Natural, Arbitrary, Necessary, and Unnatural War

Copy.

A tract beginning ‘The ordinary theme and argument of history is war...’. First published (in part), as ‘The Misery of Invasive Warre’, in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London 1650). Published complete in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 253-97.

Lansdowne MS 213

A folio volume of state tracts and papers, dating up to 1663, in a single semi-calligraphic hand, except for ff. 224r-95r in two other professional hands, 445 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt. The principal scribe associated with Henry Feilde. c.1660s.

ff. 1r-6r

• BcF 539: Francis Bacon, A Letter of Advice to the Queen (1584)

Copy, headed ‘An Excellent Treatise against Papists. Written by the L^d Treasurer Burleigh Afterwards Earle of Salisbury. Address'd by him vnto Queene Elizabeth’.

Advice beginning ‘Most Gracious Soveraign and most worthy to be a Soveraign / Care, one of the natural and true-bred children of unfeigned affection...’. First published in The Felicity of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1651), pp. 121-56. Spedding, VIII, 43-56.

ff. 19r-31v

• CtR 507: 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, with a title-page: ‘Considerations for the Suppressing of the increase of Priests, Jesuites and Recusants, without drawing of Blood, written Aug. 11^th An^o. Domi. 1613. By S^r Rob^t: Cotton Bruceus’.

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.

ff. 36r-45v

• GgA 139: Sir Arthur Gorges, Observations & Overtures for a Seafight

Copy, with a title-page (appertaining to the three works on ff. 37r-56v), all as ‘Written, By W^m; Gorges Gent:’.

This MS recorded in Sandison (1928), p. 671.

The fuller title: Observations & Overtures for a Seafight vppon our owne Coasts, and what kynd of order and disciplyne is fittest to be vsed...against the præparations of such Spanish Armadas...as shall at anie tyme come to invade vs. Unpublished.

ff. 46r-8v

• RaW 707: Sir Walter Ralegh, Orders to be observed by the Commanders of the Fleet with Land Companies. 3 May 1617

Copy of Sir Arthur Gorges's adaptation of Ralegh's Orders, as A Forme of Orders and Directions...[for] Conducting a Fleete through the Narrow Seas.

This MS recorded in Sandison (1928), p. 672. Discussed in Sandison, Mariner's Mirror, 20 (1934), 323-4.

Orders, beginning ‘First, because no action or enterprise can prosper (be it by sea or land) without the favour and assistance of Almighty God...’. First published in Newes of Sir Walter Rauleigh (London, 1618). Works (1829), VIII, 682-8. Edited by V. T. Harlow in Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 121-6.

ff. 49r-56v

• RaW 687: Sir Walter Ralegh, Observations concerning the Royal Navy and Sea-Service

Copy, unascribed.

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.

ff. 81r-9r

• FeO 83: Owen Felltham, A Brief Character of the Low-Countries

Copy, with a title-page ‘A Breife Description of the Low Countryes especially Holland Obseru'd in a three Moneths abode in those Parts And dedicated to a very Noble Person. Written by J.S.’, the dedication to B.B. subscribed ‘I.S. Roterdam’.

This MS discussed in Van Strien, with a facsimile of f. 83r on p. 152.

First published as Three Monethes observation of the low Countries especially Holland by a traveller whose name I know not more then by the two letters of J:S: at the bottome of the letter. Egipt this 22th of Jannuary (London, 1648). Expanded text printed as A brief Character of the Low-Countries under the States. Being three weeks observation of the Vices and Vertues of the Inhabitants... (for Henry Seile: London, 1652).

ff. 90r-100r

• BcF 590: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Bacon to George Villiers, Marquess of Buckingham, 1616.

ff. 101r-10r

• RaW 631: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a Marriage between Prince Henry and a Daughter of Savoy

Copy, as ‘Written by S^r Walter Rawleigh k^t’.

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.

ff. 135r-9r

• CtR 452: Sir Robert Cotton, A Speech Made by Sir Rob Cotton Knight and Baronet, before the Lords of his Majesties most Honorable Privy Covncel, At the Councel Table being thither called to deliver his Opinion touching the Alteration of Coyne. 2. Sept. [1626]

Copy, with a title-page, followed (ff. 139r-48r) by the answers of the committee, etc.

Speech beginning ‘My Lords, Since it hath pleased this Honourable Table to command...’. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [283]-294, with related texts (‘The Answer of the Committees Appointed...2 September 1626’ and ‘Questions to be proposed’, etc.) on pp. 295-307. W.A. Shaw, Writers on English Monetary History, pp. 21-38.

ff. 203r-13v

• WoH 274: Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham

Copy, as ‘Written by S^r Henry Wotton, k^t’.

First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).

ff. 214r-22v

• ClE 11.9: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, The Difference and Disparity betweene the Estates and Condicions of George Duke Buckingham and Robert Earle of Essex

Copy, unascribed.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), where it is ascribed to Sir Henry Wotton. First ascribed to Clarendon in the third edition (1672). First published separately as The characters of Robert Earl of Essex…and George Duke of Buckingham (London, 1706). Reprinted in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (London, 1724), pp. 247-71, and in A Collection of several Valuable Pieces of Clarendon (2 vols, London, 1727), I, 247-71.

Lansdowne MS 215

A quarto composite volume of tracts, in various hands, 87 leaves, in modern half red morocco on cloth boards gilt.

ff. 5r-52v

• LeC 23: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page, incomplete. Early 17th century.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 226.

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.

Lansdowne MS 216

ff. 133v-44r

• RaW 1092: Sir Walter Ralegh, Observations touching Trade and Commerce with the Hollander

Copy.

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.

Lansdowne MS 223

A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in various professional hands, 138 leaves, in red mottled leather gilt.

Bookplate (as ‘Shelburne’) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.

f. 133r

• ClJ 54: John Cleveland, The Hecatomb to his Mistresse (‘Be dumb ye beggers of the rhiming trade’)

Copy, headed ‘Cleauelands Hecatombe to his M^rs:’, in a folio booklet of verse (ff. 133r-8r), in double columns, in several hands. Late 17th century.

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

f. 133v

• ClJ 82: John Cleveland, Parting with a Freind upon the Rode (‘I'me rent in 'twayne, your horses turning thus’)

Copy, headed ‘Parting wth a friend on y^e Way, C. L.’, in a folio booklet of verse (ff. 133r-8r), in double columns, in several hands. Late 17th century.

Morris & Withington, p. 63.

f. 134r

• ClJ 168: John Cleveland, On the Pouder Plot (‘I neede not call thee from thy miterd Hill’)

Copy, in a folio booklet of verse (ff. 133r-8r), in double columns, in several hands. Late 17th century.

Edited from this MS in Morris & Withington.

Morris & Withington, pp. 72-4.

f. 134r

• ClJ 76: John Cleveland, On Princess Elizabeth born the Night before New-Years Day (‘Astrologers say Venus, the same starr’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘C. L:’, in a folio booklet of verse (ff. 133r-8r), in double columns, in several hands. Late 17th century.

First published in Poems, Characters, and Letters. By J. C. With Additions never before Printed (1658). Morris & Withington, p. 62.

f. 134v

• WoH 234: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)

Copy, headed ‘A far well to y^e world’, in a folio booklet of verse (ff. 133r-8r), in double columns, in several hands. Late 17th century.

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

ff. 134v-5r

• ClJ 61: John Cleveland, The Hue and Cry after S^ir John Presbyter (‘With Hair in Characters, and Lugs in text’)

Copy, in a folio booklet of verse (ff. 133r-8r), in double columns, in several hands. Late 17th century.

First published as a separate, 1649. Morris & Withington, pp. 45-7.

f. 135r-v

• ClJ 6: John Cleveland, The Antiplatonick (‘For shame, thou everlasting Woer’)

Copy, in a folio booklet of verse (ff. 133r-8r), in double columns, in several hands. Late 17th century.

First published in Poems, by J. C., With Additions (1651), the edition with yet more additions. Morris & Withington, pp. 54-6.

ff. 136v-7r

• ClJ 128: John Cleveland, To the State of Love, or, The Senses Festival (‘I saw a Vision yesternight’)

Copy, untitled, in a folio booklet of verse (ff. 133r-8r), in double columns, in several hands. Late 17th century.

First published in Poems, by J. C. With Additions (1651). Morris & Withington, pp. 47-9.

ff. 137r-8v

• MaA 111: Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh (‘Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign’)

Copy, headed ‘Brittania;- Rawleigh. Britt’, in a folio booklet of verse (ff. 133r-8r), in double columns, in several hands. Late 17th century.

First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 194-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 228-36, attributed to John Ayloffe. See also George deF. Lord, ‘Satire and Sedition: The Life and Work of John Ayloffe’, HLQ, 29 (1965-6), 255-73 (p. 258).

Lansdowne MS 229

A folio volume of antiquarian collections, extracted from chronicles, genealogies, etc., in a single neat hand, 164 leaves (plus blanks), inscribed ‘Miscellanea ex variis scriptoribus collecta, 1573’, in modern morocco gilt. Compiled by, and in the hand of, Robert Glover (1543/4-88), Somerset Herald. 1573.

ff. 82r-6v

• LeJ 82: John Leland, The Itinerary of John Leland [Other transcripts and extracts]

Extracts from the Itinerary, in double columns, headed ‘Ex Comentarijs Angliæ, Johannis Laylandi’.

This MS recorded in Smith, V, xii.

ff. 87r-98r

• LeJ 42: John Leland, Collectanea [Other transcripts and extracts]

Extracts, in double columns, headed ‘Ex alijs diuersis collectaneis Johannis Leilandi’.

This MS recorded in Smith, V, xii.

Lansdowne MS 231

A folio composite volume of tracts, in various hands, including (ff. 101r-243v) autograph collections by John Aubrey (1626-97), antiquary and biographer, for his projected work on ‘Remains of Gentilisme & Judaisme’, 322 leaves, in modern morocco gilt. Late 17th century.

Once owned by White Kennett (1660-1728), Bishop of Peterborough, historian.

f. 157r

• CoA 176: Abraham Cowley, Sors Virgiliana (‘By a bold peoples stubborn armes opprest’)

Copy, in the hand of John Aubrey, headed ‘Virg. Æneid. lib. 4.’, on one side of a small octavo-size leaf, subscribed ‘Translated, for K. Ch: II. by m^r Abraham Cowley’. c.1687-92.

Edited from this MS (inaccurately) in Anecdotes and Traditions, ed. William J. Thomas, Camden Society 5 (London, 1839), pp. 108-9.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Bowman, in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677].

Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Sparrow, p. 192. Texts usually preceded by a prose introduction explaining the circumstances of composition.

Lansdowne MS 236

A folio composite volume of works by Francis Bacon, including charges and reports by him, in professional secretary hands, 221 leaves, bound with an independent sixteen-leaf tract of 1608 (Lansdowne MS 235), in modern red morocco gilt. c.1620s-30s.

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Sum EUmfreville 1740’: i.e. by Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts.

ff. 5r-100r passim

• BcF 353: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

Copies of some fifteen speeches by Bacon, including (ff. 17r-35) on the naturalization of the Scots, (ff. 36r-42r) on the union of laws, (ff. 162r-71v) on his becoming Lord Chancellor (7 May 1617), and (ff. 176r-83v) to Sir William Jones, to John Denham, and to Sergeant Hutton (1617).

ff. 218r-20r

• BcF 707: Francis Bacon, An Essay of a King

Copy, as ‘By S^r ffrancis Bacon’.

Spedding, VI, 595-7; discussed 592-4.

Essay, beginning ‘A king is a mortal god on earth...’. Spedding, VI, 595-7 (discussed pp. 592-4).

f. 221r-v

• BcF 275: Francis Bacon, Short Notes for Civil Conversation

Copy.

First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, VII, 105-10. Spedding notes (VII, 107) Basil Montagu's reference to an unspecified MS in the British Museum, but he could not find it.

Lansdowne MS 238

A folio composite volume of letters and state papers, in various professional largely secretary hands, ff. 80r-160v an imperfect single unit, 346 leaves, in modern half red morocco gilt. c.1630s.

Inscribed (f. 3r) ‘Sum Ed: Umfrevile Jan^rio 1727’: i.e. Edward Umfreville (1702?-(1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts.

ff. 80r-9v, 93v-129r

• BcF 591: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

Copy of a collection of letters by Bacon, to Essex, Queen Elizabeth, Burghley, Sir John Davies, Ellesmere, Northumberland, James I, Buckhurst, Northampton, Robert Cecil, Buckingham, and others.

ff. 89v-93v

• BcF 182: Francis Bacon, Considerations touching the Queen's Service in Ireland

Copy.

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

ff. 138r-9r

• RaW 898: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife.

f. 151v

• HbT 96: Thomas Hobbes, Letter(s)

Copy, in a neat mixed hand, of a letter by Hobbes, ‘to my M^{^r}.’ [Sir Gervase Clifton], [from Paris], c.5/15 March 1629/30. 1630.

Edited in Molesworth, English, VII, 451. Reprinted in de Beer, pp. 199-200.

ff. 158r-9r

• EsR 184: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Third Letter of Advice to the Earl of Rutland

Copy, headed ‘A Letter of aduice touching trauell written to the Earl of Essex by a frend’, subscribed ‘Essex’.

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

ff. 162r-241v

• NaR 11: Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia

Copy, c.1630s.

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).

ff. 242r-53v, 257v-70r

• BcF 592: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

Copy of a collection of letters by Bacon, to Essex, Queen Elizabeth, Sir John Davies, Ellesmere, Northumberland, James I, Northampton, Robert Cecil, Sir Edward Coke, and others.

ff. 253v-7v

• BcF 176.7: Francis Bacon, Considerations touching the Queen's Service in Ireland

Copy.

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

Lansdowne MS 241

A folio diary and notebook, in several hands, from 1560 to 1610, 411 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Compiled by John Sanderson, a merchant at Constantinople.

f. 49r

• CmT 216: Thomas Campion, ‘What if a day, or a month, or a yeare’

Copy, here beginning ‘What yf a day or a night, or an hower’. c.1592.

Edited from this MS in Swaen, pp. 401-2.

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.

Lansdowne MS 253

A folio composite volume of state, parliamentary and legal tracts, in professional secretary hands, 551 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.

f. 199r-v

• *CmW 156: William Camden, Collectanea

Autograph rough notes in Latin, on genealogy and dates and events in Tudor history, on both sides of a single folio leaf. Late 16th-early 17th century.

ff. 242r-54v

• *PpS 4: 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 S^r: William Coventry by Samuel Pepys Esqr in 1665

Autograph fair copy, untitled, signed ‘SPepys’, on thirteen folio leaves, a preliminary blank leaf (f. 241r) inscribed ‘About Pursers’, once folded as a letter, being the presentation MS sent to the dedicatee Sir William Coventry as a New Year's gift, dated from Greenwich 1 January ‘1665’.

First published in Further Correspondence of Samuel Pepys 1662-1679, ed. J.R. Tanner (London, 1929), pp. 83-111.

Lansdowne MS 254

A folio composite volume of political, legal and antiquarian tracts, 500 leaves. In various professional hands, including that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 245 (No. 62).

ff. 164r-70r

• FeO 84: Owen Felltham, A Brief Character of the Low-Countries

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Three weekes Obseruacons of the States Countries especially Holland’. c.1630s.

This MS recorded in Van Strien.

ff. 225r-51r

• NaR 12: Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia

Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand. c.1630s.

This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87.

ff. 252r-6v

• CtR 492: Sir Robert Cotton, That the Soveraignes Person is Required in the Great Covncells, or Assemblies of the State, aswell at the Consultations as at the Conclusions

Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, with a title-page, as by ‘S^er Robert Cotton Kn^t, & Baronet’. c.1630.

Tract beginning ‘Since at these Assemblies few Diaries, or exact Iournall Books are remaining...’. First published as A Treatise, shewing that the Soveraignes Person is Required in the great Councells or Assemblies of the State, aswell at the Consultations as at the conclusions, London, 1641. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [41]-57.

ff. 258r-69r

• CtR 166: Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, subscribed ‘written by S^r Robert Cotton knight and Baronet in January Ao^o 1627’. c.1630.

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

ff. 353r-65r

• RaW 1123: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Scepticke

Copy.

A tract beginning ‘The Scepticke doth neither affirm nor deny any position...’. First published, as by Sir Walter Ralegh, in London, 1651. Works (1829), VIII, 548-56. William M. Hamlin, ‘A Lost Translation Found? An Edition of The Sceptick (c.1590)’, ELR, 31/1 (Winter 2001), 34-51 (pp. 42-51).

A translation of extracts from the Hypotyposes of Sextus Empiricus. See S.E. Sprott, ‘Ralegh's “Sceptic” and the Elizabethan Translation of Sextus Empiricus’, PQ, 42 (1963), 166-75, and Lefranc (1968), pp. 66-7.

Lansdowne MS 255

A folio composite volume of state and heraldic tracts and papers, in various hands, 452 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. [1688].

ff. 40r-2r

• *HaG 66: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Miscellanies

Autograph draft of ‘Transactions at the P. of Oranges first Comeing’, written in double columns on three pages of two folio leaves. c.1688-90s.

Edited from this MS in Foxcroft, II, 57-9.

ff. 99r-120v

• *HoH 52: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A Discourse of Duels (I)

A largely autograph draft work, the first two leaves in a professional secretary hand with Howard's autograph deletions and revisions, all the rest entirely autograph with his revisions, untitled, docketed (f. 99r) ‘A Discourse of Duells in the Handwriting of Henry howard Earl of Northampton - the interlineation to p. 2. & afterwards the whole’, subscribed (f. 118v) ‘sit laus sanctæ Trinitati’, with an additional autograph leaf f. 120r-v. c.1603-14.

Treatise beginning ‘The pride of humors, the Lybertie of Times, the connyuencie of magistrats...’. Unpublished.

Lansdowne MS 259

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous, genealogical and antiquarian papers, in two or more hands, 108 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf gilt.

Inscribed (f. 2r) ‘Liber Ricardi S^tgeorge Norroy 1607’: i.e. Sir Richard St George (1554/5-1635), Norroy King of Arms, and ‘Sum EUmfreville’, i.e. Edward Unfreville (1702?-96), collector of legal manuscripts.

ff. 102r-4v

• FuT 5.267: Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England

Extracts, headed ‘Colleccons out of y^e history of the Worthies of England Endeavoured by Th. ffuller’.

First published in London, 1662.

Lansdowne MS 265

Copy, in a professional semi-calligraphic hand, with a lengthy title-page which is subscribed ‘Anno Dni 1616’, the Epistle to G.M. in italic, the rest in secretary script, concluding (ff. 96v-7r) with the meditation out of Job, 97 folio leaves, in quarter-calf marbled boards. 1616.

LeC 24: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

Lansdowne MS 335

Autograph draft of a Latin account of John Wicliffe and his followers, with deletions and revisions, untitled, with his original dedication to a patron (Duke Christopher of Würtemberg), 120 duodecimo leaves, in wrappers from a ?15th-century document, within modern quarter-calf marbled boards. c.1554.

*FxJ 3: John Foxe, Commentarii rerum in ecclesia gestarum

This account first published in Commentarii rerum (1554). It was later translated into English and incorporated in Actes and Monuments.

First published in Strasbourg, 1554.

Lansdowne MS 350

A quarto composite volume of religious tracts, in various hands, 236 leaves, in modern quarter crushed morocco on cloth boards.

ff. 139r-78r

• FoJ 3: John Ford, A Line of Life

Formal copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page and a dedicatory preface, subscribed in an italic hand ‘John de la Ford’, apparently written for presentation to James Hay (c.1580-36), Baron Hay, Viscount Doncaster, and later first Earl of Carlisle, courtier and diplomat.

This MS recorded in M. Joan Sargeaunt, ‘Writings Ascribed to John Ford by Joseph Hunter in Chorus Vatum’, RES, 10 (1934), 165-76 (pp. 174-5), and in George F. Reinecke, ‘John Ford's “Missing” Ralegh Passage’, ELN, 6 (1968-9), 252-4. Discussed in Nondramatic Works (1991), esp.pp. 287-96, with a facsimile of ff. 144v-5 on p. 298. Also discussed in G.D. Monsarrat, ‘Edited Texts and Presentation Manuscripts: The Case of John Ford's Fame's Memorial and A Line of Life’, The Library, 6th Ser. 2 (1980), 80-5.

First published [in London], 1620; Dyce, III, 381-419. Nondramatic Works (1991), pp. 277-327.

Lansdowne MS 353

Composite volume of theological tracts; imperfect. [1580].

ff. 225-384

• *FxJ 10: John Foxe, Papa confutatus

Autograph.

First published in London, 1580.

Lansdowne MS 357

A MS abridgement. Made by W.H. for the use of Lord Fitzmaurice. 1757.

TaJ 15: Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium or The Rule of Conscience

First published in London, 1660.

Lansdowne MS 388

A folio composite volume of papers. A composite volume of papers, including a life of Foxe by his son Samuel Foxe (ff. 2-52), Foxe's autograph drafts of letters and other writings composed while he was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford [1544-5] (ff. 53v-148), Foxe's autograph extracts from a book by John Purvey on the Eucharist (ff. 166-75), and letters and exercises by Samuel Foxe (ff. 184-250).

Formerly owned by John Strype.

This MS analysed in A Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum, Part II (London, 1819), pp. 112-13. For individual works see FxJ 2, FxJ 4-6, FxJ 8, FxJ 17, and FxJ 20.

• *FxJ 22: John Foxe, Miscellaneous Papers

ff. 59r

• *FxJ 0.8: John Foxe, ‘Maximus Aurorae custos lectique relictor’

Autograph rough draft of early Latin verses written at Magdalen College, Oxford. c.1545.

Edited from this MS in Hazel Smith.

A fourteen-line epigram about the schoolmaster John Harley. First published in John Hazel Smith, ‘Notes on Two Renaissance Authors’, in Brandeis Essays in Literature, ed. John Hazel Smith (Waltham, Mass., 1983), pp. 25-36 (pp. 25-9).

ff. 62-5

• *FxJ 2: John Foxe, An omnis mundi inferioris gubernatio ab influentiis dependent coelestibus

Autograph treatise on astrology written while Foxe was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; one in a series of ‘Letters & Writings of J. Fox in y^e University’.

Edited from this MS in Smith.

First published, with a translation, in Smith, ELR, 1 (1971), 210-25.

ff. 66-71

• *FxJ 8: John Foxe, [Digest of Erasmus's Querimonia pacis]

Autograph, written while Foxe was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; one in a series of ‘Letters & Writings of J. Fox in y^e University’.

Recorded in Smith, ELR, 1 (1971), 211.

Unpublished.

ff. 71v-7v

• *FxJ 17: John Foxe, [Tract on Rhetoric and Dialectics]

Autograph, written while Foxe was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; one in a series of ‘Letters & Writings of J. Fox in y^e University’.

Recorded in Smith, ELR, 1 (1971), 211.

Unpublished.

f. 78r

• FxJ 0.3: John Foxe, Ad Iesum Christum Filium Dei: Carmen Eucharisticon (‘Christe. aeterna Dei progenies patris’)

Fragment of a two-line unfinished autograph rough draft of early Latin verses written by Foxe at Magdalen College, Oxford. c.1545.

Edited from this MS in Hazel Smith.

First published in John Hazel Smith, ‘Notes on Two Renaissance Authors’, in Brandeis Essays in Literature, ed. John Hazel Smith (Waltham, Mass., 1983), pp. 25-36 (pp. 25-9).

f. 79r

• *FxJ 0.5: John Foxe, ‘Integer mentis fide fultus alta’

Autograph rough draft of early Latin verses written at Magdalen College, Oxford. c.1545.

Edited from this MS in Hazel Smith.

Six Horation quatrains. First published in John Hazel Smith, ‘Notes on Two Renaissance Authors’, in Brandeis Essays in Literature, ed. John Hazel Smith (Waltham, Mass., 1983), pp. 25-36 (pp. 25-9).

ff. 92v-100

• *FxJ 4: John Foxe, De contemnendis opibus

Autograph inspirational piece written while Foxe was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; one in a series of ‘Letters & Writings of J. Fox in y^e University’.

Recorded in Smith, ELR, 1 (1971), 211.

Unpublished.

ff. 105-10

• *FxJ 6: John Foxe, De regno clauuium disputatio adversus perturbatas conscientias

Autograph inspirational piece written while Foxe was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; one in a series of ‘Letters & Writings of J. Fox in y^e University’.

Recorded in Smith, ELR, 1 (1971), 211.

Unpublished.

ff. 121-46, 112-16

• *FxJ 20: John Foxe, Titus et Gesippus

Autograph draft, with extensive revisions, written while Foxe was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; one in a series of ‘Letters & Writings of J. Fox in y^e University’.

Edited from this MS in Smith, with a facsimile of f. 121r on p. 53.

First published, with a translation, in Two Latin Comedies by John Foxe the Martyrologist, ed. John Hazel Smith (Ithaca & London, 1973), pp. 50-197.

ff. 175-82

• *FxJ 5: John Foxe, De re eucharistica

Autograph; one in a series of ‘Letters & Writings of J. Fox in y^e University’.

This MS recorded in Mozley, p. 245.

Unpublished. Recorded in John Bale, Scriptorum illustrium (Basle, 1557), p. 733.

Lansdowne MS 389

A bound collection of Foxe's papers, consisting of documents and transcripts used in the writing of Actes and Monuments, most of them being Edited in that work. 16th century.

*FxJ 23: John Foxe, Miscellaneous Papers

Lansdowne MS 489

A folio volume of largely parliamentary and state tracts, predominantly in three secretary hands, 137 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. c.1637-43.

Owned in 1643 by one Charles Cheyney.

ff. 111r-18v

• WoH 275: Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham

Copy, untitled.

First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).

ff. 121r-7r

• SaG 25: George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon the Song of Solomon (‘Join thy life-breathing lips to mine’)

Copy, in a neat predominantly italic hand, with dedicatory verses ‘To y^e Queene’ (beginning ‘Chast Nymph; you who extracted are’) and (on f. 127v) nine lines of ‘Y^e Jugdm^nt of Sidney Godolphin On y^e former worke not Edited’ (beginning ‘Not in y^t ardent course as where he woes’), on seven folio leaves. c.1630s.

This MS recorded in Hooper, I, xlvi-xlvii. Discussed in Davis, loc. cit., p. 333 et seq.

First published in London, 1641. Hooper, II, 335-56. Dedicatory verses ‘To the Queen’ first published in A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1676). Hooper, II, 338.

ff. 132v-7r

• BrT 8: Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici

Extract, headed ‘M^rs [sic] Browne’, beginning ‘ffor my religion though there be seuerall circumstances...’, on ten folio pages, dated 1639. c.1639.

This MS recorded and collated in part by all editors.

First published (unauthorised edition) [in London], 1642. Authorised edition published [in London], 1643. Wilkin, II, 1-158. Keynes, I, 1-93. Edited by Jean-Jacques Denonain (Cambridge, 1953). Martin, pp. 1-80. Endicott, pp. 1-89.

Lansdowne MS 491

A folio composite volume of antiquarian and parliamentary tracts, in various professional secretary hands, 245 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco in cloth boards gilt.

Inscribed (f. 2r) ‘Sum Edw Umfrevile Jun^eis. Interioris Templi Studentis 1725. 10^o Aprilis’: i.e. by Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts. Bookplate (as ‘Shelburne’) of William Petty (1737-1805), second Earl of Shelburne and first Marquess of Lansdowne, Prime Minister.

ff. 16r-21r

• CtR 115: Sir Robert Cotton, A Briefe Discovrse concerning the Power of the Peeres and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature

Copy. c.1620s.

Lansdowne MS 498

A quarto composite volume of papers largely relating to Parliament in 1620-28, in various professional hands, 142 leaves, in modern quarter-calf on cloth boards gilt.

ff. 53r-9v

• RaW 632: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a Marriage between Prince Henry and a Daughter of Savoy

Copy, in two professional italic hands, headed ‘A politique dispute about the happiest mariage for the noble Prince Charles’.

f. 60r

• RaW 254: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy, in a small italic hand, untitled.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

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

Lansdowne MS 512

A folio volume of Elizabethan and Jacobean parliamentary papers, in professional hands, 265 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. A second volume of parliamentary collections by William Petyt (1637-1707), Keeper of the Records in the Tower of London. Late 17th century.

ff. 37v-41r

• ElQ 273: Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601

Copy of Version 1, headed ‘The last Speech of Queen Elizabeth to her last Parliament held Anno 43^o. of her Reigne. Annoque Domini 1601’. Late 17th century.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

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 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).

Lansdowne MS 514

A folio volume of parliamentary and state papers, in professional hands, 224 leaves, in modern morocco gilt. A fourth volume of the parliamentary collections of William Petyt (1640/1-1707), lawyer and political propagandist. Late 17th century.

ff. 59v-60r, 61v-6v, 71r-7v

• BcF 462: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

Copy of Bacon's submissions on 19 March 1620/1, 22 April and 30 April 1621, in an account (ff. 55r-81r) of the proceedings against him.

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.

Lansdowne MS 515

A folio composite volume of chiefly Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline parliamentary papers, in professional hands, c.250 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. A fifth volume of parliamentary collections by William Petyt (1640/1-1707), lawyer and political propagandist.

ff. 140r-4v

• ElQ 274: Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601

Copy of version 1, introduced ‘...her Ma^tie began thus to Answer her self viz.’ Late 17th-century.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

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 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).

Lansdowne MS 612

A folio volume of works by Francis Bacon, in four professional hands, 80 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Sum Edri Umfrevile Jun^ris. Interioris Templi Studentis 1724’: i.e. Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts. c.1630s.

ff. 2r-10r

• BcF 265: Francis Bacon, A Preparation for the Union of Laws

Copy.

This MS recorded in Spedding, VII, 775.

A discourse beginning ‘Your Majesty's desire of proceeding towards the union of this whole island...’. First published in Cases of Treason (London, 1641). Spedding, VII, 731-43 (and see p. 775 et seq.).

ff. 10r-11v

• BcF 114: Francis Bacon, Cases of the King's Prerogative

Copy.

This MS recorded in Spedding, VII, 775.

First published in Cases of Treason (London, 1641). Spedding, VII, 776-8.

Lansdowne MS 613

A folio volume of tracts and papers relating to the Court of Chancery, in several professional hands, 613 leaves, in reversed calf. c.1620s.

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Sum Edri Umfrevile Jun^ris. Interioris Templi Studentis 1724’: i.e. by Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts. Bookplate of Shelburne

ff. 78r-95v

• BcF 244: Francis Bacon, Ordinances in Chancery

Copy of 100 Ordinances, as ‘made by the Lord Chaunceller’, subscribed ‘Fran: verulam Canc.’, and inscribed in the margin ‘Bacon's Hecatomb’.

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).

Lansdowne MS 682

A duodecimo volume, comprising a brief description of England and account of its worthies extracted entirely from Fuller's work. Owned, and possibly written, by one Abraham Bassano. 1657.

FuT 5.268: Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England

First published in London, 1662.

Lansdowne MS 690

A fair copy, made by Ralph Crane (fl.1589-1632), poet and scribe, with a title-page ‘1624 A Game att Chesse By Tho: Middleton’, on 53 quarto leaves, in modern quarter green crushed morocco on cloth gilt. 1624.

MiT 19: Thomas Middleton, A Game at Chess

This MS collated in Bald; facsimile of p. 21 in Wilson, The Library, 4th Ser. 7 (1926-7), 194-215 (plate IV).

First published in London, [1625]. Bullen, VII, 1-136. Edited by R.C. Bald (Cambridge, 1929) and by J.W. Harper (London, 1966). An ‘early form’ in Oxford Middleton, pp. 1779-1824, with a ‘later form’ on pp. 1830-85.

Lansdowne MS 699

A 15th-century MS of works by Lydgate, on paper and vellum, inscribed (f. 2r) ‘W Browne 1615’ and (f. 95r) ‘W^m Browne’, together with the opening lines of Britannia's Pastorals. 1615.

BrW 266: William Browne of Tavistock, Lydgate, John. Works

Later owned by Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts.

Edwards, No. 5.

Lansdowne MS 702

A quarto notebook, closely written in a single cursive hand, 108 leaves, in modern quarter morocco on cloth gilt. Compiled by Thomas Rawlins, of Pophills, nearWixford, Warwickshire. c.1730s.

f. 54v

• HoJ 292: John Hoskyns, ‘Undecies senos exegi strenuus annos’

Copy, with an introductory note about ‘y^e ingenious M^r. Joⁿ. Hoskyns’ and as verses ‘drawn 6 years before he dy'd’.

The Latin poem followed by an ‘Englished’ version, beginning ‘Years sixty six, I have with vigour Past’. Osborn, No. XLVIII (pp. 214-15).

Lansdowne MS 716

A quarto manuscript of the unfinished abridgement of Edmund Gibson's English translation which he published in 1722. Published in 1722. c.1722.

CmW 13.16: William Camden, Britannia

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

Lansdowne MS 722

A quarto composite volume of tracts, in various hands, in modern half red crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

ff. 115r-25r

• OvT 44: Sir Thomas Overbury, Observations in his travailes

Copy, in an italic hand, with a title-page ‘S^r Thomas Overburie's Observations of The Low Countryes and Kingdome of France’. Early 17th century.

This MS cited in Steevens, p. 30.

A tract beginning ‘All things concurred for the rising and maintenance of this State...’. First published as Sir Thomas Overbvry his Observations in his Travailes vpon the State of The Xvii. Provinces as they stood Anno Dom. 1609 (London, 1626). Rimbault, pp. 223-30. Authorship uncertain.

Lansdowne MS 740

A quarto verse miscellany, including 50 poems by Donne, in a single neat secretary hand except for ff. 70r-2r, which are in another secretary hand. Comprising folios 57r-137v in a quarto composite volume of MSS, in various hands, 173 leaves, in 19th-century leather gilt. c.1620s.

Later owned by Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), Yorkshire antiquary and topographer. Among the collections of William Petty (1737-1805), first Marquess of Lansdowne, Lord Shelburne.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Lansdowne MS’: DnJ Δ 8). Recorded as item 133 among ‘Manuscripts in Quarto’ in the list at the end of Thoresby's Ducatus Leodensis, 2nd edition (Leeds, 1816), Appendix, p. 85.

ff. 58r-9r

• DnJ 2791: John Donne, Satyre III (‘Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids’)

Copy, headed ‘A Satire’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 154-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 10-14. Shawcross, No. 3.

ff. 59v-62v

• DnJ 2820: John Donne, Satyre IV (‘Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne’)

Copy, untitled.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.

ff. 63r-4r

• DnJ 2854: John Donne, Satyre V (‘Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they’)

Copy, headed ‘A Satire. 3’.

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

First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 168-71. Milgate, Satires, pp. 22-5. Shawcross, No. 5.

ff. 64v-6r

• DnJ 2758: John Donne, Satyre II (‘Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate’)

Copy, untitled.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 149-54. Milgate, Satires, pp. 7-10. Shawcross, No. 2.

ff. 66r-7v

• DnJ 362: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie 1°’.

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

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

ff. 70r-2r

• DnJ 2729: John Donne, Satyre I (‘Away thou fondling motley humorist’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyra’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 145-9. Milgate, Satires, pp. 3-6. Shawcross, No. 1.

f. 75r-9v

• OvT 16: Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife (‘Each woman is a brief of woman kind’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS cited in Beecher, pp. 95n, 122, 351-2.

First published, as A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury, in London, 1614. Rimbault, pp. 33-45. Beecher, pp. 190-8.

f. 80r-v

• OvT 31: Sir Thomas Overbury, Characters: A Very Woman

Copy.

First published in A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury (London, 1614). Rimbaud, pp. 48-50. Beecher, pp. 201-2.

ff. 80v-1r

• OvT 34: Sir Thomas Overbury, Characters: Her next part

Copy.

First published in A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury (London, 1614). Rimbaud, pp. 50-1. Beecher, pp. 202-3.

f. 81r-v

• OvT 28: Sir Thomas Overbury, Characters: A Good Woman

Copy.

First published in A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury (London, 1614). Rimbaud, pp. 47-8. Beecher, pp. 200-1.

f. 81v

• OvT 3: Sir Thomas Overbury, The Authours Epitaph (‘The span of my daies measur'd, here I rest’)

Copy.

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

f. 82r-v

• DnJ 681: John Donne, The Comparison (‘As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegia 2’.

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

First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 90-2 (as ‘Elegie VIII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 5-6. Shawcross, No. 9. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 51-2.

f. 83r-v

• DnJ 2543: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegi 3^th.’.

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

First published, as ‘Elegie IV’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 84-6 (as ‘Elegie IV’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 7-9. Shawcross, No. 10. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 72-3.

f. 84r

• DnJ 613: John Donne, Change (‘Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegia 4°’.

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

First published, as ‘Elegie III’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 82-3 (as ‘Elegie III’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 19-20. Shawcross, No. 16. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 198.

ff. 84v-5r

• DnJ 2190: John Donne, Loves Warre (‘Till I have peace with thee, warr other men’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegi. 5’.

This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.

First published in F. G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 1-2. Grierson, I, 122-3 (as ‘Elegie XX’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 14. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 142-3.

f. 85r-v

• DnJ 3161: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegia 6’.

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

First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as ‘Elegie XIX. Going to Bed’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.

The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, ‘Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's “To his mistress going to bed”’, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.

f. 86r-v

• DnJ 247: John Donne, The Autumnall (‘No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace’)

Copy, headed in a different ink ‘Widdow Her’.

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

First published, as ‘Elegie. The Autumnall’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 92-4 (as ‘Elegie IX’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 27-8. Shawcross, No. 50. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 277-8.

f. 94r

• DaJ 97: 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 poems 4 and 5, inscribed in the margin ‘Verses upo Bp Fletcher, who maried a Woman of il Fame’.

This MS recorded in Krueger, p. 442.

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.

ff. 95r-6r

• DnJ 3052: John Donne, The Storme (‘Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 175-7. Milgate, Satires, pp. 55-7. Shawcross, No. 109.

f. 96r-v

• DnJ 539: John Donne, The Calme (‘Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.

f. 97r-v

• DnJ 37: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

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

First published as ‘Elegie II’ in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as ‘Elegie II’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.

f. 98r-v

• DnJ 3277: John Donne, To M^r Rowland Woodward (‘Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe’)

Copy, inscribed in the margin ‘J: Donne’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 185-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 113.

ff. 98v-9r

• DnJ 3448: John Donne, To S^r Henry Wootton (‘Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well’)

Copy, inscribed in the margin ‘J: Donne’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 187-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 73-4. Shawcross, No. 111.

f. 100r

• DnJ 737: John Donne, Confined Love (‘Some man unworthy to be possessor’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 36. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 34-5. Shawcross, No. 56.

f. 106r

• DnJ 1823: John Donne, The Legacie (‘When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.

f. 106v

• DnJ 479: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)

Copy, headed ‘[Elegie deleted] Broken Hart’, inscribed in the margin ‘J D’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.

f. 107r

• HoJ 22: John Hoskyns, Absence (‘Absence heare my protestation’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Cited in Osborn.

First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), pp. 428-9. Osborn, No. XXIV (pp. 192-3).

f. 107v

• DnJ 3646: John Donne, Twicknam garden (‘Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares’)

Copy, headed in the margin ‘Twittnam Garden’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.

f. 108r

• DnJ 1439: John Donne, The good-morrow (‘I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.

f. 108v

• DnJ 813: John Donne, The Curse (‘Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.

f. 109r

• DnJ 1954: John Donne, Loves Alchymie (‘Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I’)

Copy, headed ‘Mummy’ (‘or Alchymy’) added in a later hand.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.

f. 109v

• DnJ 421: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

f. 110r

• DnJ 3094: John Donne, The Sunne Rising (‘Busie old fools, unruly Sunne’)

Copy, headed ‘Sunn Riseing’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 11-12. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 72-3. Shawcross, No. 36.

f. 110v

• DnJ 1791: John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow (‘Stand still, and I will read to thee’)

Copy, headed ‘Loues lecture vpon the shaddow’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Song’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 71-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 30.

f. 111r

• DnJ 3610: John Donne, The triple Foole (‘I am two fooles, I know’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 16. Gardner, Elegies, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 40.

f. 111v

• DnJ 950: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Image of her whom I love’)

Copie, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 95 (as ‘Elegie X’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 58. Shawcross, No. 35.

f. 112r

• DnJ 2030: John Donne, Loves diet (‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.

f. 112v

• DnJ 3717: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.

f. 113r-v

• DnJ 1057: John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham (‘Man is the World, and death th' Ocean’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie vppon the death of the La: Markam’.

This MS collated in grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.

f. 114r-v

• DnJ 3587: John Donne, To the Lady Bedford (‘You that are she and you, that's double shee’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie to the La: Bedford’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 227-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 94-5. Shawcross, No. 148.

ff. 114v-15r

• DnJ 3521: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘Reason is our Soules left hand, Faith her right’)

Copy, headed in the margin ‘Another to the Countis of Bed:’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 189-90. Milgate, Satires, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 134.

ff. 115v-16v

• DnJ 1001: John Donne, Elegie on M^ris Boulstred (‘Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie vppon the death of M^ris Bulstred’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

f. 117r-v

• DnJ 1092: John Donne, Elegie upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred (‘Language thou art too narrow, and too weake’)

Copy, headed ‘Another vpon the Death of M^ris Boulstred’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 284-6 (as ‘Elegie. Death’). Shawcross, No. 151 (as ‘Elegie: Death’). Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 61-3. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 146-7.

f. 118r-v

• DnJ 2437: John Donne, ‘Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve’

Copy, with the general heading ‘Elegiæ’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie VII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 87-9 (as ‘Elegie VI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 10-11. Shawcross, No. 12. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 110-11.

f. 119r-v

• DnJ 3892: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)

Copy, headed ‘Loues Will’; the omitted third stanza added at the end in a later hand.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

f. 120r-v

• BmF 11: Francis Beaumont, Ad Comitissam Rutlandiae (‘Madam, so may my verses pleasing be’)

Copy.

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

f. 121r-v

• DnJ 1216: John Donne, The Expostulation (‘To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 122r

• DnJ 2904: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.

f. 122v

• DnJ 1992: John Donne, Loves Deitie (‘I long to talke with some old lovers ghost’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 54. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 47-8. Shawcross, No. 64.

f. 123r

• DnJ 1389: John Donne, The Funerall (‘Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harme’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 58-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 67.

f. 123v.

• DnJ 2165: John Donne, Loves Usury (‘For every houre that thou wilt spare mee now’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 13-14. Gardner, Elegies, p. 44. Shawcross, No. 38.

f. 124r

• DnJ 1347: John Donne, The Flea (‘Marke but this flea, and marke in this’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

f. 124v

• DnJ 653: John Donne, Communitie (‘Good wee must love, and must hate ill’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 32-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 33-4. Shawcross, No. 53.

f. 125r

• DnJ 3976: John Donne, Womans constancy (‘Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 42-3. Shawcross, No. 34.

f. 125v

• DnJ 920: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

f. 126r

• DnJ 3830: John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping (‘Let me powre forth’)

Copy, headed ‘A Valediction’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 38-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 58.

f. 126v

• DnJ 1312: John Donne, A Feaver (‘Oh doe not die, for I shall hate’)

Copy, headed ‘Of a feuer’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 21. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 61-2. Shawcross, No. 44.

f. 127r

• DnJ 2525: John Donne, The Paradox (‘No Lover saith, I love, nor any other’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69-70. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 38-9. Shawcross, No. 77.

f. 127v

• JnB 509: Ben Jonson, To Sicknesse (‘Why, Disease, dost thou molest’)

Copy of lines 1-24.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in The Forrest (viii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 104-6.

f. 128r

• HrJ 254: Sir John Harington, Of the commodities that men haue by their Marriage (‘A fine yong Clerke, of kinne to Fryer Frappert’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘A ffine yong priest of kin to ffrier ffrapper’.

First published in 1618, Book II, No. 70. McClure No. 166, pp. 213-14. Kilroy, Book III, No. 7, pp. 169-70.

f. 128v

• HrJ 176: Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Tayler (‘A Taylor, thought a man of vpright dealling’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 20. McClure No. 21, pp. 156-7. Kilroy, Book I, No. 40, pp. 107-8.

f. 129r-v

• DaJ 3: Sir John Davies, Elegies of Love, 3 (‘Unto that sparkling wit, that spirit of fire’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Krueger.

Krueger, pp. 194-5.

f. 131r

• OvT 10: Sir Thomas Overbury, The Remedy of Love (‘When Love did reade the Title of my booke’)

Copy.

A verse translation from Ovid's Remedia amoris. First published as The First and Last Part of The Remedy of Loue: Written by Sir Thomas Overbvry Knight (London, 1620). Rimbault, pp. 205-19.

ff. 142r

• SoA 43: Anne, Lady Southwell, To the kinges most excellent Ma^tye. (‘Darest thou my muse present thy Battlike winge’)

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, subscribed ‘Anne Southwell’.

Edited from this MS in Klene (1997), pp. 124-5.

Klene (1997), pp. 124-5.

f. 142v

• SoA 47: Anne, Lady Southwell, ‘w^th feet of clay to enter the most hollye’

Copy, in a mixed hand, the page reversed.

Edited from this MS in Klene (1997), p. 125.

Klene (1997), p. 125.

ff. 143r-55r

• SoA 41: Anne, Lady Southwell, Thou shalt not take the name of god in vayne (‘In this our hartes corruption is most exprest’)

Copy of a version headed ‘Precept.3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lorde thy god in vayne...[&c.]’, in a predominantly italic hand, with deletions and alterations.

Edited from this MS in Klene (1997), pp. 125-43. Facsimile of f. 151v in Victoria E. Burke, ‘Medium and meaning in the manuscripts of Anne, Lady Southwell’, in Women's Writing and the Circulation of Ideas: Manuscript Publication in England, 1550-1800, ed. George L. Justice and Nathan Tinker (Cambridge, 2002), pp. 94-120 (p. 105).

Klene (1997), pp. 57-60.

ff. 156r-67v

• SoA 36: Anne, Lady Southwell, Thou shalt keepe holy the saboth daye (‘In six dayes god made this admyred balle’)

Copy of a version headed ‘Precept .4. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy...[&c.]’, in a predominantly italic hand, with alterations.

Edited from this MS in Klene (1997), pp. 143-62.

Klene (1997), pp. 60-72.

f. 170v

• DrJ 279: John Dryden, Marriage A-la-mode, Act IV, scene ii, lines 47-67. Song (‘Whil'st Alexis lay prest’)

Copy of the first and last stanzas of the song, untitled, on the last page of two conjugate quarto leaves.

This MS collated in part in California. Recorded in Day, p. 156.

California, XI, 285-6. Kinsley, I, 147. Hammond, I, 251-3.

Lansdowne MS 762

A quarto composite volume of verse and prose, partly on vellum, partly on paper, c.110 leaves. Mid-late 16th century.

f. 7v

• DuW 183: William Dunbar, To the City of London (‘London, thou art of townes A per se’)

Copy, headed ‘An honour to London.’

Edited from this MS in T. Wright and James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps], Reliquiae Antiquae (London, 1841), I, 205-7. Recorded in Mackenzie, pp. 230-1.

Mackenzie, No. 88, pp. 177-8.

ff. 75r-6r

• SkJ 2: John Skelton, Colyn Cloute (‘What can it auayle’)

Copy of lines 462-80, beginning ‘Som men thynke that ye’ and subscribed ‘The profecy of Skylton, 1529’.

Edited from this MS in Dyce, I, 329.

Canon, C12, p. 5. First published London, [c.1530]. Dyce, I, 311-60. Scattergood, pp. 246-78.

f. 88r

• SoR 64: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, From Fortunes reach (‘Let fickle fortune runne her blindest race’)

Copy of lines 1-6, untitled.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 66-7.

Lansdowne MS 775

A folio miscellany of tracts and papers on heraldic, genealogical and other subjects, in several secretary hands, 193 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt. c.1598-9.

Inscribed (f. 1r), possibly by compilers, ‘Johannem Lvyt de purleigh [Essex] 1598’, ‘Edmunde Thurston’, ‘Edmund Skorie 1597’, and ‘John Clearke 1598’, and (f. 194v) ‘Jo: Levitt’ again and ‘Johis Leviticus me possidet’.

ff. 160r-4r

• BcF 207: Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral

Copy of ten Essays (Of Studies, Of Discourse, Of Ceremonies and Respects, Of Followers and Friends, Of Suitors, Of Expense, Of Regiment of Health, Of Honour and Reputation, Of Faction and Of Negotiating), in a secretary hand, headed ‘Essayes. By L^d Bacon’.

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

Lansdowne MS 776

A quarto omposite volume of three tracts.

ff. 49r-69r

• HaG 7: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, The Character of a Trimmer

Copy, in a professional hand, with some alterations in a later hand, on 21 quarto leaves. Late 17th century.

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

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

Lansdowne MS 777

A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous tracts, poems and other papers, in various hands, 329 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Fols 1r-82r comprise a separate collection of verse and some prose, possibly in a single predominantly secretary hand with some variants of style, the first leaf (f. 1) inscribed in another hand ‘Poems by W^m: Browne of the Inner-Temple Gent &^c / 1650’, this possibly applying to the poems up to f. 62v, which is subscribed ‘ffinis W Browne’. c.1637-50.

This volume comprising Parts 1-3, 5, 8-13, of what was formerly a single composite volume but is now bound in three volumes.

Inscribed (f. 280v) ‘Philip Butler his book’.

f. 2r-v

• BrW 70: William Browne of Tavistock, An Ode (‘Awake, fair Muse. for I intend’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 211-13.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 1-3.

f. 3r

• BrW 3: William Browne of Tavistock, ‘Behold, O God, in rivers of my tears’

Copy, untitled, with rudimentary patterning.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 310-11. Discussed, with a facsimile, in Gillian Wright, ‘A Pattern Poem by William Browne of Tavistock: “Behold O God in Rivers of my Tears”’, EMS, 7 (1998), 264-74.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 4-5.

ff. 3v-4r

• BrW 57: William Browne of Tavistock, The Happy Life (‘O blessed man! who, homely bred’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 299-300.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 5-7.

f. 4v

• BrW 238: William Browne of Tavistock, A Round (‘Now that the Spring hath fill'd our veins’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Brydges and in Goodwin.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 8-9. Goodwin, II, 213-14.

ff. 5r-7r

• BrW 62: William Browne of Tavistock, Lydford Journey (‘I oft have heard of Lydford law’)

Copy of lines 1-48, 67-120.

Edited from this MS in Brydges (1815), pp. 9-15, and chiefly from this MS in Goodwin.

First published in John Phillips, Sportive Wit (London, 1656).Goodwin, II, 305-9.

f. 7v

• BrW 59: William Browne of Tavistock, ‘It happen'd lately at a fair, or wake’

Copy, headed ‘Epigramme’.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 283.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 15-16.

f. 8r-v

• BrW 21: William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Book III, Song 1, lines 463-92 (‘Love! when I met her first whose slave I am’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Brydges (1815), pp. 17-18. Collated in Goodwin, II, 340.

f. 9r-v

• BrW 72: William Browne of Tavistock, On a Fair Lady's Yellow Hair, powdered with White (‘Say, why on your hair yet stays’)

Copy, headed ‘One a faire Ladyes yellow harre powdred with white, writting in the dissoluing of a snow’.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 194-5.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 19-20.

f. 10r

• BrW 69: William Browne of Tavistock, ‘Not long agone a youthful swain’

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 195.

First published in Brydges (1815), p. 21.

f. 10r

• BrW 61: William Browne of Tavistock, ‘Love who will, for I'll love none’

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 193-4.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 21-2.

f. 10v

• BrW 240: William Browne of Tavistock, ‘Shall I love again, and try’

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 196.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 22-3.

f. 10v

• BrW 25: William Browne of Tavistock, ‘Deep are the wounds which strike a virtuous name’

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 196-7.

First published in Brydges (1815), p. 24.

f. 11r

• BrW 245: William Browne of Tavistock, ‘Telle me, Pyrrha, what fine youth’

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 298-9.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 24-5.

f. 11r-v

• BrW 20: William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Book III, Song 1, lines 430-7 (‘Yet one day's rest for all my cries!’)

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Brydges (1815), p. 26. Recorded in Goodwin, II, 340.

f. 11v-12r

• BrW 234: William Browne of Tavistock, ‘Poor silly fool! thou striv'st in vain to know’

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 197.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 26-7.

f. 12r

• BrW 40: William Browne of Tavistock, An Epistle (‘Dear soul, the time is come, and we must part’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 228-9.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 28-9.

ff. 12v-13r

• BrW 250: William Browne of Tavistock, ‘Welcome, welcome, do I sing’

Copy, headed ‘Song’.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 198-99.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 30-1.

f. 13r-v

• BrW 251: William Browne of Tavistock, ‘Ye merry birds, leave of to sing’

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 199-200.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 32-4.

ff. 14r-17r

• BrW 23: William Browne of Tavistock, Caelia. Sonnets (‘Lo, I the man that whilom lov'd and lost’)

Copy of a sequence of fourteen sonnets.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 217-25.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 34-46.

ff. 17v-19r

• BrW 249: William Browne of Tavistock, Visions (‘Sitting one day beside the banks of Mole’)

Copy of six ‘Visions’ (numbered 1, 3-7, with blank spaces left for 2 and 8).

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 279-82.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 47-51.

ff. 19v-21v

• BrW 42: William Browne of Tavistock, An Epistle Occasioned by the most intolerable jangling of the Papists' bells on All Saints' Night (‘Palmes and my friend, this night of Hallantide’)

Copy, subscribed ‘WB’.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 229-32.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 77-81.

f. 22r-v

• BrW 18: William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Book III, Song I, lines 45 et seq. (‘Marina's gone, and now sit I’)

Copy of an untitled version beginning ‘Caelia is gone, and now sit I’.

Edited from this MS in Brydges (1815), pp. 129-31, and in Goodwin, II, 209-10.

f. 22v

• BrW 55: William Browne of Tavistock, ‘Give me three kisses, Phillis. if not three’

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 285.

First published in Brydges (1815), p. 131.

f. 22v

• BrW 231: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess of Somerset's Picture (‘The pitied fortune most men chiefly hate’)

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 284.

First published in Brydges (1815), p. 73.

ff. 23r-4r

• BrW 41: William Browne of Tavistock, An Epistle (‘Hasten, O hasten, for my love's sake haste’)

Copy, subscribed ‘ffrom an Inner Temple then y^e Inn or Temple May the third 1615 / WB.’

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 234-6.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 97-100.

ff. 24v-5v

• BrW 19: William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Book III, Song 1, lines 159-234 (‘Vain dreams, forbear! yet but deceivers be’)

Copy of a version, headed ‘On a dreame’.

Edited from this MS in Brydges (1815), pp. 53-7, and in Goodwin, II, 302-5.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 53-7. Goodwin, II, 302-5.

ff. 26r-9v

• BrW 243: William Browne of Tavistock, A Sigh from Oxford (‘Go, and if thou chance to find’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 201-8.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 57-67.

f. 30r-v

• BrW 43: William Browne of Tavistock, An Epistle Thrown into a River in a Ball of Wax (‘Go, gentle paper. happy, happier far’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 232-3.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 93-4.

ff. 31r-3r, 34r-5v

• BrW 54: William Browne of Tavistock, Fido: An Epistle to Fidelia (‘Sitting one day beside a silver brook’)

Copy, some words at the foot of f. 33r heavily deleted.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 237-45.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 132-43.

f. 36r

• BrW 179: William Browne of Tavistock, On Rome as it is now (‘Thou, who to look for Rome, to Rome art come’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 301. The text is preceded on f. 33v by the Latin version by Janus Vitalis, headed ‘In urbem Romam qualis est hodie’ and beginning ‘Qui Romam in media quæris nouus aduena Roma’ (edited in Goodwin, II, 300-1).

First published in Brydges (1815), p. 52.

ff. 36v-8r

• BrW 39: William Browne of Tavistock, An Epiced on Mr. Fishbourne (‘As some, too far inquisitive, would fain’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 258-61.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 106-10.

ff. 38v-9v

• BrW 34: William Browne of Tavistock, An Elegy on Mr. William Hopton (‘When shall mine eyes be dry? I daily see’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 246-8.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 69-72.

ff. 40r-2v

• BrW 242: William Browne of Tavistock, The Shepherd's Pipe. Eclogue 4 (‘Under an aged oak was Willie laid’)

Copy, headed ‘A pastorall Elegie’ on M^r. Thomas Manwood.

Edited from this MS in Brydges (1815), pp. 118-27. Collated in Goodwin, II, 343-5.

First published in London, 1614. Goodwin, II, 77-164 (pp. 134-41).

f. 43r

• BrW 1: William Browne of Tavistock, ‘A hapless shepherd on a day’

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin.

First published in Goodwin (1894), II, 208-9.

f. 43r

• BrW 45: William Browne of Tavistock, An Epitaph (‘Fair Canace this little tomb doth hide’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 291-2.

First published in Brydges (1815), p. 95.

f. 43r

• BrW 246: William Browne of Tavistock, To Don Antonio, King of Portugal (‘Between thee and thy kingdom late with force’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 284.

First published in Brydges (1815), p. 95.

f. 43v

• BrW 51: William Browne of Tavistock, An Epitaph on Mr. Wm. Hopton (‘Reader, stay, and read a truth’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 288.

First published in Brydges (1815), p. 73.

f. 43v

• BrW 180: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Brydges; in Goodwin; and in Ben Jonson, ed. C. H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 433-4.

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.

ff. 44r-7v

• BrW 36: William Browne of Tavistock, An Elegy on the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Time hath a long course run since thou wert clay’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 248-55.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 81-90.

f. 48r

• BrW 233: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Right Honourable Susan, Countess of Montgomery (‘Though we trust the earth with thee’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 294-5.

First published in Brydges (1815), p. 103.

f. 48v

• BrW 101: William Browne of Tavistock, On Mr. John Deane, of New College (‘Let no man walk near this tomb’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 291.

First published in Brydges (1815), p. 92.

ff. 49r-50v

• BrW 27: William Browne of Tavistock, An Elegy (‘Is Death so great a gamester, that he throws’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Brydges (1815), pp. 143-8, and in Goodwin, II, 266-270.

First published in Le Prince d'Amour (London, 1660).

f. 51r

• BrW 104: William Browne of Tavistock, On Mr. Vaux, the Physician (‘Stay! this grave deserves a tear’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 289-90.

First published in Brydges (1815), p. 75.

f. 51v

• BrW 148: William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow (‘Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Brydges and in Goodwin.

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

f. 52r

• BrW 144: William Browne of Tavistock, On One Born Blind, and so Dead (‘Who (but some one like thee) could ever say’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 285.

First published in Brydges (1815), p. 148.

ff. 52v-3r

• BrW 77: William Browne of Tavistock, On an Infant Unborn, and the Mother Dying in Travail (‘Within this grave there is a grave entomb'd’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman dying in Travell and the childe unborne’.

Edited from this MS in Brydges and in Goodwin.

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

f. 53v

• BrW 52: William Browne of Tavistock, An Epitaph on Sir John Prowde (‘After a march of twenty years and more’)

Copy, the poem on Prowde who was ‘buryed at Zutphen. 1627’.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin II, 288-9.

First published in Brydges (1815), p. 74.

f. 54r-v

• BrW 232: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Right Honourable Charles, Lord Herbert of Cardiff and Shurland (‘If there be a tear unshed’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 256-7.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 103-5.

f. 55r

• BrW 47: William Browne of Tavistock, An Epitaph on Mr. John Smyth, Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of Pembroke. 1624 (‘Know thou, that tread'st on learned Smyth inurn'd’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 287.

First published in Brydges (1815), p. 68.

f. 55v

• BrW 103: William Browne of Tavistock, On Mr. Turner of St. Mary-Hall (‘I rose, and coming down to dine’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 295-6.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 117.

f. 56r

• BrW 35: William Browne of Tavistock, An Elegy on Sir Thomas Overbury, Poisoned in the Tower of London (‘Had not thy wrong, like to a wound ill cur'd’)

Copy of lines 1-10.

Edited from this MS in Brydges (1815), p. 111, and partly from this MS in Goodwin.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Goodwin, II, 261-3.

f. 56r

• BrW 100: William Browne of Tavistock, On Mr. Francis Lee of the Temple, Gent. (‘Nature having seen the Fates’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 292.

First published in Brydges (1815), p. 96.

f. 56v

• BrW 248: William Browne of Tavistock, ‘Unhappy Muse, that nothing pleasest me’

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 214.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 149-50.

f. 56v

• BrW 247: William Browne of Tavistock, ‘Unhappy I, in whom no joy appears’

Copy, untitled.

First published in Goodwin (1894), II, 215.

ff. 57r-8v

• BrW 38: William Browne of Tavistock, An Elegy On the untimely death of...Mr. Thomas Ayleworth (‘Is goodness shortest liv'd? doth Nature bring’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on Mr Thomas Ayleworth, slayne at Croydon’.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 263-6.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 111-15.

f. 58v

• BrW 46: William Browne of Tavistock, An Epitaph on Him (‘Here wither'd lies a flower, which blown’)

Copy, subscribed ‘WBrowne’.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 266.

First published in Brydges (1815), p. 116.

f. 59r

• BrW 58: William Browne of Tavistock, In Obitum M S, X^o Maij, 1614 (‘May! Be thou never grac'd with birds that sing’)

Copy, subscribed ‘W B’.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 289.

First published in Brydges (1815), p. 75.

f. 59r

• BrW 97: William Browne of Tavistock, On Goodman Hurst of the George at Horsham (‘See what we are: for though we often say’)

Copy, the poem dated 26 August 1637.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 296-7.

First published in Brydges (1815), p. 118.

f. 59v

• BrW 76: William Browne of Tavistock, On an Hour-Glass (‘The truest hour-glass lies. for, you'll confess’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 284.

First published in Brydges (1815), p. 68.

f. 59v

• BrW 74: William Browne of Tavistock, On a Rope-Maker Hanged (‘Here lies a man much wronged in his hopes’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 286.

First published in Brydges (1815), p. 151.

f. 59v

• BrW 99: William Browne of Tavistock, On John Tooth (‘Here lieth in sooth’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 284.

First published in Brydges (1815), p. 96.

f. 60r

• BrW 108: William Browne of Tavistock, On Mrs. Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor (‘Nature in this small volume was about’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

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

f. 60r

• JnB 130: Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. (‘Would'st thou heare, what man can say’)

Copy of lines 3-12, headed ‘An Epitaph on M^rs El. Y’ and here beginning ‘Underneath this stone there lies’.

Edited from this MS in The Poems of Wiliam Browne of Tavistock, ed. Cordon Goodwin (London, 1894), 11, 295.

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

f. 61r

• BrW 22: William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Book III, Song 1, lines 552-63 (‘I know that like to silkworms of one year’)

Copy of a version beginning ‘Like to a Silkeworme of one yeare’.

f. 61v

• BrW 68: William Browne of Tavistock, My Own Epitaph (‘Loaden with earth, as earth by such as I’)

Copy, subscribed ‘W^m. Browne 1614’.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 293.

First published in Brydges (1815), p. 101.

f. 62r

• BrW 98: William Browne of Tavistock, On His Wife, an Epitaph (‘Thou need'st no tomb, my wife, for thou hast one’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 293-4.

First published in Brydges (1815), p. 102.

f. 62v

• BrW 75: William Browne of Tavistock, On a Twin at Two Years Old Dead of a Consumption (‘Death! thou such a one hast smit’)

Copy, subscribed (possibly relating to the poems hitherto) ‘ffinis W Browne’.

Edited from this MS in Goodwin, II, 270.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 151-2.

f. 63r-v

• RaW 519: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart’

Copy, headed ‘To his Mistresse’, here beginning ‘Wrong not sweet Empresse of my soule’, and subscribed ‘S^r: Wa: Raleigh’.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 39B, pp. 108-9. Collated in Gullans. Recorded in Latham, p. 115.

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

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

f. 64r

• RaW 44: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

Copy, headed ‘S^r W: Raleigh de seipso’ and here beginning ‘Euen such is tyme y^t takes in trust’.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 153.

First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as ‘These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse’). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).

This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

Lansdowne MS 792

A composite folio volume of tracts.

With the armorial bookplate of ‘Shelburne’: i.e. William Fitzmaurice Petty (1737-1805), Earl of Shelburne (in 1761), Marquess of Lansdowne (in 1784). Books collected by Shelburne included ‘several which had belonged to Sir Julius Caesar, and also many of Lord Burghley's’: Cyril Davenport, English Heraldic Book Stamps (London, 1909), pp. 313-14.

ff. 1r-54v

• *HoH 35: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A Copy of the last instructions which the Emperor Charles the Fifth gave to his son Philip before his death translated out of Spanish

A fair copy, probably made for presentation, complete with dedication ‘To the Qveenes most Excellent Ma^tie’ in italic script (ff. 1r-8v), the main text in mixed secretary script (ff. 9r-54v), in the hand of Howard's principal amanuensis (the same as in British Library, King's MS 166), with autograph sidenotes by Howard throughout. c.1590s.

An unpublished translation of a suppositious work, supposed (but unlikely) to be Charles V's instructions to his son Philip II, which was circulated in MS in 16th-century Europe and published in Spanish in Sandoval's Life of Charles V (1634). An Italian translation in MS was presented to James VI by Giacomo Castelvetro between 1591 and 1595 and is now in the National Library of Scotland (MS Adv. 23. I. 6): see The Works of William Fowler, ed. H.W. Meckle, James Craigie and John Purves, III, STS 3rd Ser. 23 (Edinburgh, 1940), pp. cxxvii-cxxx, and references cited in The Basilicon Doron of King James VI, ed. James Craigie, II, STS, 3rd Ser. 18 (Edinburgh, 1950), pp. 63-9. A quite different translation was published as The Advice of Charles the Fifth...to his Son Philip the Second (London, 1670).

Howard's translation, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth, was allegedly written when he had been more than twelve years out of the Queen's favour [? in the early 1590s]. The Dedication begins ‘If the faithful Cananite of whom we read in the holy writ...’; the main text begins ‘I have resolved (most dear son) to come now to the point...’, and ends ‘...to proceed in such a course as prayers may second your purposes. Sanctae Trinitati, &c.’

Lansdowne MS 794

Copy, widely spaced, in a secretary hand, the first line illegible, 155 folio leaves, in modern half-morocco.

SkJ 34: John Skelton, The Image of Ypocresye

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘This Book I borrow'd of James West Esq^r. To be Returned on Demand &c. / Tho: Martin / In his Leaue I haue Transcrib'd it’ and, in another hand, ‘The transcript is in the possession of Rich Heber Esq^r. who bought it at D^r. Farmer's sale’. Also inscribed ‘Le Neve Norroy AD 1724 posessorem libri’, and with bookplate of ‘Shelburne’.

Canon, R64, p. 21. 2544 lines, attributed to Skelton in Thomas Hearne, Peter Langtoft's Chronicle (Oxford, 1725), II, 684-7. Full text in Dyce, II, 413-47.

Lansdowne MS 798

A folio volume of miscellaneous tracts.

ff. 78r-104v

• RaW 1093: Sir Walter Ralegh, Observations touching Trade and Commerce with the Hollander

Copy. c.1620s.

Lansdowne MS 805

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers.

Owned by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms, antiquary.

ff. 83r-9r

• MaA 507.8: Andrew Marvell, Flagellum Parliamentarium

Copy, erroneously ascribed in 1881 to Marvell's own hand. Late 17th century.

Discussed in Legouis, p. 469.

First published in London, 1678. Rejected from the canon by Legouis.

Lansdowne MS 806

A large folio composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, 275 leaves, in modern half red crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Early-mid-17th century.

ff. 28r-38r

• RaW 579: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Dialogue between a Counsellor of State and a Justice of the Peace

Copy of an abridged version, complete with dedicatory epistle to the King, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Out of the Dialogue betweene a Counsellor & a Justice of Peace’. c.1630.

A treatise, with a dedicatory epistle to James I beginning ‘Those that are suppressed and hopeless are commonly silent ...’, the dialogue beginning ‘Now, sir, what think you of Mr. St. John's trial in the Star-chamber?...’. First published as The Prerogative of Parliaments in England (‘Midelburge’ and ‘Hamburg’ [i.e. London], 1628). Works (1829), VIII, 151-221.

ff. 141r-66r

• CtR 287: 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 ‘Extracts out of the Records, wherein, may bee Collected, by what meanes the Kings of England have and may raise moneys Written by S^r. R.: C. Knight and Baronett’. Mid-17th century.

Later inscribed (f. 141r) ‘CB [or PB]: gen: Med: Tem: 24^o: De: No: 1663’ and (ff. 142r and 166v) ‘C[or P]Billingsby’, with a list of books in the same hand (f. 141v) dated ‘March 19^o. 1672’.

ff. 167-90v

• RaW 633: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a Marriage between Prince Henry and a Daughter of Savoy

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘A Politique dispute aboute the happiest Mariage for the Noble Prince Charles’, imperfect at the end. c.1620s-30s.

Lansdowne MS 807

A folio volume of plays and songs, in several hands, 88 leaves, in russia.

Later owned by John Warburton, FSA (1682-1759), Somerset Herald and antiquary, including his list of manuscript plays that he says he once owned and which were burned by a servant.

This MS and Warburton's list discussed in W.W. Greg, Collected Papers, ed. J.C. Maxwell (Oxford, 1966), pp. 48-74 (‘The Bakings of Betsy’).

ff. 29r-56r

• MiT 20.8: Thomas Middleton, The Lady's Tragedy

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, including some inserted slips of alterations and additions, with corrections and stage directions in two other hands (one possibly a prompter), the MS submitted by the King's Men to the Master of the Revels Sir George Buc, with his further deletions and annotations, his licence inscribed by him at the end (‘This second Maydens tragedy (for it hath no name inscribed) may w^th the reformations bee acted publikely. 31 octob^r. 1611. / G. Buc.’), with later inscriptions ‘Goff'[?]’, George Chapman and ‘By Will Shakspeare’,

Facsimile examples of ff. 48r, 54r, 55v-6v in Greg's edition, after p. xiii.

Generally known as The Second Maiden's Tragedy. Edited by W.W. Greg, Malone Society Reprints (Oxford, 1909). Oxford Middleton, pp. 839-906.

Variously attributed, including to George Chapman in Leonora Leet Brodwin, ‘Authorship of The Second Maiden's Tragedy: A Reconsideration of the Manuscript Attribution to Chapman’, SP 63 (1966), 51-77; this attribution dismissed in Anne Lancashire, ‘The Second Maiden's Tragedy: Chapman Reconsidered and Rejected’, ELN, 14 (1977), 174-82.

Lansdowne MS 811

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous tracts, in several professional secretary hands, 198 leaves, in modern half-morocco. c.1620s-30s.

Later in the library of Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts.

ff. 7r-16r

• RaW 1094: Sir Walter Ralegh, Observations touching Trade and Commerce with the Hollander

Copy. c.1620s.

ff. 133r-9r

• CtR 353: Sir Robert Cotton, A Relation of the Proceedings against Ambassadors who have miscarried themselves, etc. ...[27 April 1624]

Copy, as ‘written by S^r Robert Cotton the 27 of Aprill 1624’.

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.

ff. 140r-7v

• CtR 452.5: Sir Robert Cotton, A Speech Made by Sir Rob Cotton Knight and Baronet, before the Lords of his Majesties most Honorable Privy Covncel, At the Councel Table being thither called to deliver his Opinion touching the Alteration of Coyne. 2. Sept. [1626]

Copy, headed ‘A Discourse touching Alteracon of Coyne. By S^r Robte Cotton Kn^t & Baronet’, dated 2 September 1626, with related texts on ff. 148r-56r.

ff. 157r-75r

• CtR 474.5: 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, as by ‘S^r Robert Cotton kn^t & Baronett’.

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.

Lansdowne MS 813

Presentation copy, on 231 folio leaves. For Sir George Carey (1547-1603), who was elevated to the peerage as the second Baron Hunsdon in 1597 and was then Lord Chamberlain of the Household; written in the accomplished italic and secretary scripts of Howard's principal amanuensis; with a formal title-page (f. 1r) including an autograph four-line quotation in Latin from Daniel 13.57 by Howard; the illuminated arms of Carey superscribed by four autograph lines of Latin verse and subscribed by six autograph lines of Latin verse by Howard and with his marginal dedication signed (f. 1v); a Dedication ‘To the Qveenes Most Excellent Maiestie’ in flourished italic script on ff. 2r-27r, with a two-line addition in Howard's hand (f. 16v) and subscribed and signed by him (f. 27r); the main text in a secretary script on ff. 28r-231v, with separate title-pages for the second book (f. 125r) and third book (f. 156r), and with occasional autograph sidenotes added by Howard. Before 1597.

*HoH 76: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A dutiful defence of the lawful regiment of women

An unpublished answer to, and attack upon, John Knox's ‘railing invective’ against Mary Queen of Scots, First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women (1558). Written, Howard claims in his Dedication, some thirteen years after he was asked to do so by a Privy Councillor [i.e. c.1585-90]. The Dedication to Queen Elizabeth beginning ‘It pricketh now fast upon the point of thirteen years (most excellent most gratious and most redoubted Soveraign...’; the main text, in three books, beginning ‘It may seem strange to men of grounded knowledge...’, and ending ‘...Sancta et individuae Trinitati sit omnis honor laus et gloria in secula seculorum. Amen.’

Lansdowne MS 814

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous correspondence and papers, in various hands, 114 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

ff. 49r-51v

• ClE 139: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Letters to the Duke of York and the Duchess of York

Copy of Clarendon's letter to his daughter, on three quarto leaves, endorsed as being a copy ‘from M^r Ashby, MP for Leicester, received from him Feb 1675/6’. c.1676.

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.

Lansdowne MS 819

A composite volume of papers relating to Foxe and his descendants. A composite volume of papers collected by John Strype, consisting chiefly of documents relating to Foxe and his descendants, particularly concerning property, from 1584 to 1654, including (f. 95) a list of books and manuscripts belonging to Foxe. c.1551-2.

• *FxJ 24: John Foxe, Miscellaneous Papers

f. 90

• *FxJ 16: John Foxe, Tables of Grammar

Autograph page of Latin grammar with an English explanation, probably used in the compilation of Foxe's Table of Grammar.

First published in 1552 (no exemplum extant).

Lansdowne MS 825

A folio composite volume of MSS.

ff. 19-21, 53-4v

• LeJ 83: John Leland, The Itinerary of John Leland [Other transcripts and extracts]

List of names of counties and towns along Leland's routes and, in another hand, an extract concerning the Priory of Snelleshall, Staunford, &c.

This MS recorded in Smith, V, xiii.

ff. 48r-51r

• BrT 4.5: Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall

Extracts. Mid-late 17th century.

First published with The Garden of Cyrus (London, 1658). Wilkin, III, 449-96. Keynes. I, 123-72. Martin, pp. 81-125. Endicott, pp. 241-86. Also edited (with The Garden of Cyrus) by John Carter (Cambridge, 1958).

See BrT 36 and BrT 41.

Lansdowne MS 845

MS.

ff. 14r-24v

• MnJ 23.2: John Milton, Paradise Lost (‘Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit’)

MS of a translation of Paradise Lost, Book I, into Italian, by Lorenzo Magalotti (1637-1712)

First published in London, 1667. Columbia, II. Darbishire I. Carey & Fowler, pp. 417-1060.

Lansdowne MS 846

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, c.285 leaves.

f. 64r

• *WiG 70: George Wither, Petitions

A petition by Wither, to the House of Commons, requesting his release from imprisonment and applying for the office of Chief Searcher of Dover, a printed document with four words added in Wither's own hand. c.1647.

Lansdowne MS 852

A large folio composite miscellany of poems generally on affairs of state, in one or more professional hands, 289 leaves, in half crushed morocco on marbled boards. c.1730.

f. 40r-v

• FrG 11: George Farquhar, The Beaux Stratagem, Act III, scene iii. Song (‘A Trifling Song you shall hear’)

Copy, headed ‘The Trifle A Song by M^r: Farquar 1703 To the Tune of old Simon the King’.

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

f. 55r-v

• DoC 27: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Ballad by the Lord Dorset when at Sea (‘To all you ladies now at land’)

Copy, headed ‘Lord Dorset at Sea in the Dutch War An old Song, not Edited’.

This MS collated in Harris.

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

f. 61r

• DoC 159: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On Mrs. Anne Roche when she Lost Sir John Daws (‘Like a true Irish merlin that has lost her flight’)

Copy, headed ‘On M^rs: Roche by My L^d: Dorset found among his Papers after his Death’.

This MS collated in Wright & Spears and in Harris.

First published in The Roxburghe Ballads, ed. J. Woodfall Ebsworth, V (Hertford, 1885), p. 219. The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, ed. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1971) II, 778 (among ‘Works of Doubtful Authenticity’). Harris, pp. 101-2.

f. 84v

• WaE 910: Edmund Waller, Extracts

Extracts.

f. 90r

• CgW 66: William Congreve, Love for Love, III, xv, lines 44-75. Ballad (‘A Souldier, and a Sailor’)

Copy of a Latin translation of the ballad, headed ‘A Soldier and a Sailor &c. By M^r. Congreve. Put into Latin by <space> To the same Tune’ and beginning ‘Miles, Navigator’.

Summers, II, 141. Davis, pp. 274. McKenzie, I, 332-3.

ff. 108v-9r

• DoC 292: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A True Account of the Birth and Conception of a Late Famous Poem call'd ‘The Female Nine’ (‘When Monmouth the chaste read those impudent lines’)

Copy, headed ‘An Excellent new Ballad giving a true Acco^t [&c.]...by E Dorset’, following (on ff. 107r-8v) ‘The Female Nine. 1693 By E. of Monmouth’.

Edited from this MS in POAS and in Harris.

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

f. 113r

• DoC 176: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (II) (‘Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Countesse of Dorchester. 1694 By E: Dorset’.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384. Harris, pp. 43-4.

f. 113r

• DoC 202: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (IV) (‘Tell me, Dorinda, why so gay’)

Copy, headed ‘Another on the same Lady By E. Dorset’.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

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

f. 113r

• DoC 189: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (III) (‘Proud with the spoils of royal cully’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Harris.

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. 115r

• CgW 12: William Congreve, A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret (‘Fair Amoret is gone astray’)

Copy, here dated 1696 and as ‘By: E Dorset’.

This MS recorded in Harris.

First published, in a musical setting by John Eccles and attributed to Congreve, in a broadsheet (1698). Works (London, 1710). Summers, IV, 74. Dobrée, p. 284 (as ‘Amoret’). McKenzie, II, 369.

Also attributed to Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset: see The Poems of Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, ed. Brice Harris (New York and London, 1979), pp. 182-3.

f. 122r

• DrJ 229: John Dryden, Upon the Death of the Viscount Dundee (‘O Last and best of Scots! who didst maintain’)

Copy, headed ‘On Dundee 1689 By M^r Dryden’.

This MS collated in California.

First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1777. California, III, 222. Hammond, III, 219.

f. 183

• DoC 218: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Statue in the Privy Garden (‘When Israel first provoked the living Lord’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Harris.

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

f. 238v

• CoA 19.5: Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. II. Drinking (‘The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain’)

Copy, headed ‘An Anacreontique in Drinking, by M^r Cowley’.

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

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

ff. 244v-5r

• MaA 179: Andrew Marvell, The Kings Vowes (‘When the Plate was at pawne, and the fobb att low Ebb’)

Copy, headed ‘A Prophetick Lampoon, or Prince Bettyman's Resolutions whenever he comes to England again To the Tune of which nobody can deny’.

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

Lansdowne MS 863

A folio volume of heraldic, genealogical and antiquarian papers, in various hands, 200 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth gilt. c.1593.

f. 194r

• TiC 23: Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Lament (‘My prime of youth is but a frost of cares’)

Copy, in an italic hand, headed ‘Verses of m^r Tychborns before his execution’, subscribed ‘Tychborne’.

Lansdowne MS 878

A large folio volume comprising ‘A Collection of Monuments in divers Churches [chiefly in London and Westminster] with most of the Coats of Arms painted’, predominantly in a single italic hand, 114 leaves (including some tipped-in inserts), in modern half crushed morocco gilt. Late 17th century.

Shelburne bookplate.

f. 68v

• DnJ 4065.8: John Donne, An Essay of Valour

Copy of the epitaph, formally set out in a semi-calligraphic script, with a representation of Ann Donne's coat of arms emblazoned in their proper colours.

This MS collated in Variorum, 8.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Cottoni Posthuma (London, 1651), as ‘Valour Anatomiz'd in a Fancie by Sir Philip Sidney’. Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). The Prose Works of Sir Philip Sidney, ed. Albert Feuillerat, 4 vols (Cambridge, 1968), III, 308-10 (as Appendix). Hayward, pp. 417-20. Peters, pp. 62-7 (among ‘Dubia’). The authorship discussed in Dennis Flynn, ‘Three Unnoticed Companion Essays to Donne's “An Essay of Valour”’, BNYPL, 73 (1969), 424-39.

Lansdowne MS 896

A volume (Part VIII) of antiquarian materials collected by John Warburton, FRS, FSA (1682-1759), Somerset Herald and antiquary, for an intended history of Yorkshire. Early-mid 18th century.

ff. 273r-83r

• CmW 13.162: William Camden, Britannia

Notes for additions to Britannia made by one John Burnsell.

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

Lansdowne MS 904

Copy, in two professional secretary hands (A: ff. 1r-92v, 103r-11v; B: ff. 93r-102v), 111 folio leaves, imperfect, lacking all text up to the middle of Chapter V and all text after the beginning of the last chapter. Early 17th century.

CvG 20: George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey

Sylvester, No. 13.

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).

Lansdowne MS 924

A volume of collections of Basil Kennett (1674-1715), antiquary and translator.

ff. 1r-24r

• HkR 66: Richard Hooker, Extracts

Extracts from Hooker and Locke, on the subject of ‘the Liberty of the Will’.

Lansdowne MS 928

A quarto composite verse miscellany, comprising extracts in English, Italian, and Latin, in various hands, 174 leaves. Volume V of the collections of Basil Kennett (1674-1715), antiquary and translator. Early 18th century.

ff. 1r-20v

• FaE 4: Edward Fairfax, To my noble frend m^r huntington (‘Godfrey of Bulloigne & his great wonders’)

Extracts, headed ‘Godfrey of Bulloigne’, here beginnng ‘O heavenly Muse, that not with falling Bays’.

Six verses, unpublished.

Lansdowne MS 929

A folio volume of collections compiled by Dr Basil Kennett (1674-1715), antiquary and translator. Volume VI of the Kennett Papers. c.1700.

ff. 52r-67v passim

• SaG 63: George Sandys, Extracts

Extracts, principally from the ‘Penitential Hymns’, ‘Job's Curse’Paraphrases upon Job, upon the Psalms of David, and upon Ecclesiastes.

f. 70r

• WaE 170.5: Edmund Waller, Of Divine Poesy. Two Cantos (‘Poets we prize, when in their verse we find’)

Extracts.

First published in Divine Poems (London, 1685). Thorn-Drury, II, 131-5.

ff. 70v-3r

• MnJ 23.6: John Milton, Paradise Lost (‘Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit’)

Extracts from Paradise Lost.

First published in London, 1667. Columbia, II. Darbishire I. Carey & Fowler, pp. 417-1060.

Lansdowne MS 932

An octavo notebook of extracts, in a single hand, 85 leaves, in moder quarter blue crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Volume IX of the collections of Basil Kennett (1674-1715), antiquary and translator

ff. 65r-74v

• HkR 9.5: Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity

Extracts from Books I and V, headed ‘From M^r Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity’.

Book VII first published in John Gauden's edition of the ‘complete’ Polity (London 1662). For publication of other ‘Books’ see individual Books below.

Lansdowne MS 936

An oblong octavo miscellany, in English and Latin, chiefly in one hand, 231 leaves, in modern calf gilt. Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘White Kennett ex aulâ S^cti Edmundi apud Oxonienses: Octob^ris 18^mo 1678’, being Volume II of the collections of White Kennett (1660-1728), Bishop of Peterborough, historian. c.1678.

ff. 50r-4v

• RoJ 536: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Tunbridge Wells (‘At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head’)

Copy of lines 1-175, headed ‘Epsom Wells: By y^e Earl of Rochester’. c.1680.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

First published in Richard Head, Proteus Redivivus: or the Art of Wheedling (London, 1675). Vieth, pp. 73-80. Walker, pp. 69-74. Love, pp. 49-54.

ff. 63r-8v

• RoJ 310: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)

Copy, headed ‘A Satyr against man by y^e Earl of Rochester’. c.1680.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning ‘All this with indignation have I hurled’) in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as ‘Satyr’. Love, pp. 57-63.

The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, ‘A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's “A Satyr against Reason and Mankind”’, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different ‘Answer’ poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).

f. 69r et seq.

• TaJ 14: Jeremy Taylor, A Dissuasive from Popery to the People of Ireland

A six-line extract.

First published in Dublin, 1664.

Lansdowne MS 940

A quarto composite volume of MSS, in several hands, 190 leaves, in modern leather gilt. Volume VI of the miscellaneous historical collections of White Kennett (1660-1728), Bishop of Peterborough, historian. 17th century.

ff. 77r-8v

• RuB 100: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?22 May 1628

Copy, headed ‘Sir Beniamin Rudierd his Speach in behalf of y^e Clergie and of parishes miserably destitute of Instruction thro want of Maintenance, confirmed by the testimonies of Bp Jewel, Master Perkins and S^r Henry Spelman, Edited at Oxford 1628. 4to’ and here beginning ‘Bp Jewell in his Sermon before Qu. Eliz...’.

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.

ff. 118r-49r

• LeJ 84: John Leland, The Itinerary of John Leland [Other transcripts and extracts]

Substantial extracts, chiefly relating to Huntingdonshire, Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire, and Yorkshire, in several hands, headed ‘The Itinerary of John Leiland the famous Antiquarie Begun An. 1538 30^th Hen: 8’. Late 17th century.

This MS recorded in Smith, V, xiii.

Lansdowne MS 958

A quarto composite volume of MSS. Volume XXIV of the collections of White Kennett (1660-1728), Bishop of Peterborough, historian. Late 17th century.

ff. 54-60

• AndL 22: Lancelot Andrewes, A Discourse against Second Marriage after Divorce

Copy.

The text corrected from this MS in LACT.

First published in LACT, Minor Works (1854), pp. 106-10.

Lansdowne MS 963

An octavo notebook of extracts, in a single small cursive hand, 139 leaves, in modern half-calf gilt. Volume XXIX of the collections of White Kennett (1660-1728), Bishop of Peterborough, historian. c.1700.

Transcribed either from a lost volume of the Collectanea or partly from a MS of Part II of the Itinerary.

ff. 15v-16r, 86r-7v

• LeJ 43: John Leland, Collectanea [Other transcripts and extracts]

Extracts, headed ‘Ex Collectaneis Joh. Leland: MS.’, with references to ‘47^v. vol. 2.’ and ‘Vol. 1. fol.’ respectively.

This MS recorded in Smith, V, xiii-xiv.

Lansdowne MS 978

A quarto volume of biographical memoranda, in a single cursive italic hand, compiled by White Kennett (1660-1728), Bishop of Peterborough, historian, 184 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. Late 17th-early 18th century.

f. 115r

• MrT 9: Sir Thomas More, Epigrammata. 141. Epitaphium Abyngdonii cantoris (‘Attrahat huc oculos, aures attraxerat olim’)

Copy by Kennett, headed ‘1512 Sir Tho: Mores Epitaph vpon Henry Abyngdon Organist to the King's Chapell / Epitaphium Abyngdonii Cantoris’, with a sidenote ‘Tho. More Epigramm. 4to. 1517’, and subscribed ‘This was the first pure Latine Epitaph made in England’.

Yale, Vol. 3, Part II, pp. 200-1, with English translation.

Lansdowne MS 984

A quarto composite volume of biographical accounts of clerics, in several hands, one predominating, 192 leaves. Volume L of the miscellaneous historical collections of White Kennett (1660-1728), Bishop of Peterborough, historian. Late 17th century.

ff. 102v-3r

• DnJ 4065.7: John Donne, Epitaph for Ann Donne (‘Fæminæ lectissimæ, dilectissimæque’)

Copy, headed ‘His Wifes Epitaph’, in Kennett's ‘Memoirs of D^r John Donne Dean of Pauls...’.

This MS collated in Variorum, 8.

Donne's Latin epitaph on his wife Ann More, who died 15 August 1617. First published in John Stow, The Survey of London (London, 1633). Edited and discussed in M. Thomas Hester, ‘“miserrimum dictu”: Donne's Epitaph for His Wife’, JEGP, 94/4 (October 1995), 513-29. Variorum, 8 (1995), 187.

Lansdowne MS 985

Lansdowne MS 1045

Composite volume of MSS. c.1556 or [1658-9].

ff. 101-3v

• *DrJ 49: John Dryden, Heroique Stanza's, Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of his most Serene and Renowned Highnesse Oliver Late Lord Protector of this Common-Wealth, &c. (‘And now 'tis time. for their Officious haste’)

Autograph, headed ‘Heroique Stanza's, Consecrated to the glorious [& happy deleted] memorie Of his most Serene & Renowned Highness Oliver Late Lord Protector of this Common-wealth &c Written after the Celebration of his Funeralls’, on three folio leaves.

This MS first identified as autograph by Anna Maria Crinò in ‘Dryden MS’, TLS (22 September 1966), p. 879. Edited from this MS and discussed by Crinò in ‘Uno Sconosciuto Autografo Drydeniano al British Museum’, EM, 17 (1966), 311-20. Edited from this MS in Vinton A. Dearing, Serge E. Brunet, John H. Hall and R. Gill Tamarelli, ‘Dryden's Heroique Stanza's on Cromwell: A New Critical Text’, PBSA, 69 (1975), 502-26, and in Hammond, I, 533-8, with a facsimile of the first page after p. 304. Other facsimiles of f. 101r in Crinò, EM, 17, facing p. 313; in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 53; in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 66; in Paul Hammond, ‘Dryden's Employment by Cromwell's Government’, TCBS, 8.i (1981), 130-7 (p. 133); and in Chris Fletcher et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 2003), p. 73. Also discussed by Paul Hammond in ‘“The Autograph Manuscript of Dryden's Heroique Stanza's and Its Implications for Editors”’, PBSA, 76 (1982), 457-70.

First published in Three Poems Upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (London, 1659). Kinsley, I, 6-12. California, I, 11-16. Hammond, I, 18-29.

ff. 132r-55

• *FxJ 18: John Foxe, Christus triumphans

Autograph draft, with extensive revisions.

This MS collated in Smith, with a facsimile of f. 132r on p. 201. Facsimile of f. 132r also in DLB, vol. 132, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. First Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1993), p. 138.

First published in Basle, 1556. Edited, with a translation, by John Hazel Smith in Two Latin Comedies by John Foxe the Martyrologist (Ithaca & London, 1973), pp. 199-371.

Lansdowne MS 1121

A folio volume of judicial readings and other matter. c.1594.

ff. 112r-20v

• BcF 98: Francis Bacon, Arguments of Law. Argument in Chudleigh's Case

Copy, written in Law French.

An English translation of this MS in Spedding.

First published (in an English translation) in Spedding, VII, 613-36.

Lansdowne MS 1185

A quarto composite miscellany, in three or more hands, 76 leaves, in quarter-leather marbled boards. Late 17th century.

ff. 2r-3v

• ShW 82: William Shakespeare, Richard III

Extracts.

First published in London, 1597.

ff. 4r-14r

• ShW 117: William Shakespeare, Extracts

Brief quotations from Shakespeare (including All's Well that Ends Well, Henry IV, King John and Troilus and Cressida).

ff. 14v-16r

• ShW 55: William Shakespeare, Love's Labours Lost

Extracts.

First published in London, 1598.

ff. 16r-20r

• ShW 62: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

Extracts.

First published in London, 1600.

ff. 20r-1v

• ShW 67: William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing

Extracts.

First published in London, 1600.

ff. 21v-5r

• ShW 66: William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

Extracts.

First published in London, 1602.

ff. 25v-6r

• ShW 89: William Shakespeare, The Tempest

Extracts.

First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).

ff. 26v-36r

• ShW 37: William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

Extracts.

First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).

ff. 36r-40v

• ShW 108: William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

Extracts.

First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).

ff. 56r-64v

• HaG 23: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, The Lady's New Year's Gift: or, Advice to a Daughter

Series of extracts from a printed edition, headed ‘L^d Marq of Hallifax's Advice to a Daughter’.

First published, anonymously, in London, 1688. Foxcroft, II, 379-424. Brown, II, 363-406.

Lansdowne MS 1186

Copy in a scribal hand on 79 folio leaves. Late 17th century.

HaG 8: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, The Character of a Trimmer

This MS collated in Foxcroft (as ‘MS. A’). Collated in Brown, I, 345-96.

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

Lansdowne MS 1208

A small quarto volume of speeches etc. relating to Irish parliamentary matters, in a single neat hand, 38 leaves, in half-calf on marbled boards. 9 January 1754.

ff. 6r-8v, 9r-36r

• DaJ 283: Sir John Davies, Speeches in Ireland (21 May 1613)

Copy of the two speeches, subscribed (f. 36r-v) ‘Examined and Compared with a Manuscript in the possession of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire this Ninth day of January One Thousand Seven hundred and fifty four. (signed) Rob^t Wilmot.’.

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

Lansdowne MS 1233

A quarto composite volume of topographical notes and epitaphs. 1661.

f. 99r-v

• MaA 45: Andrew Marvell, Janae Oxenbrigiae Epitaphium (‘Juxta hoc Marmor, breve Mortalitatis speculum’)

Copy, headed ‘On a faire marble stone nigh a north chappell a black marble y^t had an inscription, now covered w^th paint’.

This MS discussed, with facsimiles, in Kelliher (1978), p. 73, and in Hilton Kelliher, ‘Some Notes on Andrew Marvell’, British Library Journal, 4/2 (Autumn 1978), 122-44 (pp. 134-9).

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.