CELM: The British Library: Sloane Collection

Sloane MS 20

Copy, 15 folio leaves, bound (as ff. 280r-94r) with Sloane MSS 15-19. Mid-17th century.

SpE 76: Edmund Spenser, Sir Kenelm Digby's Observations on the 22 Stanza in the 9th. Canto of the 2d. book of Spensers Faery Queen

One of the earliest commentaries on The Faerie Queene, including quotations, dated 13 June 1628, addressed to Sir Edward Stradling, and beginning ‘My much honored freind, I am too well acquainted with the weaknes of my abillities...’. First published in London, 1643. Variorum, II, 472-8.

Sloane MS 23

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on seven folio leaves, in modern half-calf, originaly foliated 317-323, formerly bound with other tracts in a much larger volume. c.1620s.

RaW 1109: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Present Stat of Thinges as they now Stand betweene the three great Kingedomes, Fraunce, England, and Spaine

Edited from this MS in Lefranc (1968), pp. 590-5, and discussed pp. 586-90; the attribution subsequently doubted by Professor Lefranc (privately communicated by letter).

A tract beginning ‘These three great kingdoms as they now stand are to be compared to the election of a king of Poland...’. First published in Lefranc (1968), pp. 590-5, and discussed pp. 586-90. The attribution to Ralegh subsequently doubted by Professor Lefranc (private communication). If the tract dates from 1623, as appears in one MS, it could not have been weitten by Ralegh.

Sloane MS 24

Copy in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, on sixteen folio leaves. c.1625-30.

SiP 198: Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur

This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 325 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 245 (No. 64), and p. 277 (No. 19).

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).

Sloane MS 63

A quarto composite volume of MSS, 121 leaves.

ff. 58r-69r

• RaW 661: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a War with Spain, and of the Protecting of the Netherlands

Copy, as ‘written by Sir Walter Raleigh 1602’.

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

Sloane MS 70

A quarto miscellany of extracts, in a cursive mixed hand, compiled by Sir Maurice Williams, MD (fl.1621-58), Physician to Lord Strafford, Viceroy of Ireland, 85 leaves, in 19th century quarter calf. Mid-17th century.

passim

• BcF 54.928: Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning

Extracts from Book V.

First published, as The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of Learning, diuine and humane, in London, 1605. Spedding, III, 253-491. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. IV (Oxford, 2000).

Sloane MS 93

Gabriel Harvey's letterbook, 104 quarto leaves. Late 16th century.

ff. 1r-104r

• *HvG 8: Gabriel Harvey, Letterbook

Autograph letterbook, comprising drafts in a largely cursive italic hand, including an account of the attempted seduction of his sister by a lascivious nobleman, headed (f. i) ‘Gabrielis Harvæi epistolæ æc.’, bearing dates between 1573 and 1578. c.1573-78.

Edited by Edward John Long Scott, Camden Society, NS 33 (1884). Moore Smith, p. 79. Stern, p. 243. Discussed in Edward George Harman, Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Nashe (London, 1923), chapter 1, and, with three facsimile examples, in James Nielson, ‘Reading between the Lines: Manuscript Personality and Gabriel Harvey's Drafts’, SEL, 33 (1993), 43-82. Facsimile examples in Greg, Engliah Literary Autographs, Plates LXXI (f, g).

The account relating to his sister discussed, and its modelling on George Gascoigne's The Adventures of Master F. J. established, in Katherine Wilson, ‘Revenge of the Angel Gabriel: Harvey's “A Nobleman's Suit to a Country Maid”’, in The Anatomy of Tudor Literature, ed. Mike Pincombe (Aldershot, 2001), 79-89.

ff. 65r-6r

• *HvG 4: Gabriel Harvey, ‘Sumtyme my booke is vnto me A God’

Autograph verses.

Edited from this MS in Moore Smith and in Harman, pp. 27-8.

Moore Smith, as ‘Gabriel Harvey at Pembroke Hall’, pp. xv-xvi. Edward George Harman, Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Nashe (London, 1923), pp. 27-8.

Sloane MS 118

A folio composite volume of letters and papers, many once belonging to Lancelot Andrewes (including letters to him by Casaubon, Peter du Moulin, Grotius and others), some belonging to Dr Joseph Colston, in various hands and paper sizes, 334 leaves.

f. 29r

• *AndL 80: Lancelot Andrewes, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Andrewes, to Mr Fenton, from Waltham, 6 August 1624. 1624.

Sloane MS 161

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, including a diary for 3-23 March 1670/1, in a predominantly single mixed hand, 30 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards. c.1673.

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Lent Cour: J Gooche Jan: 15 1672/3’.

ff. 22r-7r

• JnB 559: Ben Jonson, Catiline

Copy of various speeches, including Syllas's Ghost's ‘Dost thou not feel me Rome?’ and Catiline's ‘It is decree'd’, headed ‘Catilines Conspiracy: by B. Johnson’, transcribed from a printed source.

First published in London, 1611. Herford & Simpson, V, 409-550.

f. 28r

• JnB 732: Ben Jonson, Sejanus his Fall

Extracts, including part of Macro's speech beginning ‘by y^u, that fooles call gods’ (V, 390-9).

First published in London, 1605. Herford & Simpson, IV, 327-486.

ff. 29r-30r

• SiP 219: Sir Philip Sidney, The Lady of May

Extracts, headed ‘S^r. P. Sydnie. The speech of Rombus a School-master’, beginning ‘Now the thunder thumping Jove...’, transcribed from a printed source.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 361, and in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 20.

First published in Arcadia (London, 1598). Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 21-32. The verse portions in Ringler, pp. 3-5.

Sloane MS 203

A large folio composite volume of papers, in English and Latin, in various hands, 320 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco. Papers of Dr John Downes (fl.1640-95) physician to St Bartholomew's and Christ's Hospitals. Late 17th century.

f. 95r

• DrJ 35: John Dryden, Epilogue to The Man of Mode (‘Most Modern Wits, such monstrous Fools have shown’)

Copy, untitled, on one side of a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.

This MS collated in California and in Dearing. Recorded in Kinsley, IV, 1860.

First published in Sir George Etherege, The Man of Mode: or, S^r Fopling Flutter (London, 1676). Kinsley, I, 158-9. California, I, 154-5. Vinton A. Dearing, A Manual of Textual Analysis (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1959), pp. 69-72. Danchin, II, 705 et seq. Hammond, I, 301-3.

f. 97r

• DrJ 43.76: John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire (‘How dull and how insensible a beast’)

Copy of the last 36 lines.

A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.

First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.

The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, ‘Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire’, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that ‘Mulgrave had by far the major hand’. Recorded in Hammond, V, 684, in an ‘Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition’.

ff. 124r-5v

• RaW 720.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, Chemical and Medical Receipts

Copy of ‘S^r Walter Rawleighs great Cordiall After Sir Robert Killigrewes way’, dated ‘March 19^th: 1659’. c.1660.

Sloane MS 226

A formal copy, in an accomplished secretary hand, of ‘A Breefe and a true Discourse of the late honorable voyage vnto Spaine and of the wynning, sacking and burning of the famous Towne of Cadiz...by Docter Marbeck attending vpon...the Lorde High Admirall...’, 31 quarto leaves, in modern half morocco on cloth boards gilt. By and possibly in the hand of Roger Marbeck (1536-1605), Provost of Oriel College, Oxford, and Physician to Queen Elizabeth. c.1596.

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Michael Reunolds his book Anno 1645’, (f. 1v) ‘Fran: Harewell of Birlingha oueth this Booke’, and (f. 31r) ‘Liber francisci Harewell De Birlingha Armig^r’.

f. 5r-v

• ElQ 96: Queen Elizabeth I, On the Sailing of the Cadiz Expedition, May 1596

Copy of the prayer, introduced by Marbeck ‘...there came to my handes a prayer in Englishe, touchinge this present action, and made by her Ma^tie: as it was voyced’, followed (ff. 5v-6r) by ‘My homelie translation’ (into Latin, beginning ‘Summe prepotens Deus immens...’).

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’).

Sloane MS 235

A sextodecimo notebook of Latin tracts and miscellaneous memoranda, 48 leaves. Mid-late 17th century.

f. 14r-v

• MoH 29: Henry More, Extracts

Some ‘Annotationes in Casp: Bartholimi Metaphysicam majorem’ entered as ‘Tutoris Mori Camb.’

Sloane MS 243

A folio transcript of the Royal Society Register Book, 520 leaves. After 1661.

ff. 68r-72r

• HbT 85: Thomas Hobbes, A Proposition To find two meane proportionalls betweene two straight lines

Copy of HbT 82.

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 78.

Published in Christiaan Huygens, Oeuvres Complètes, III (The Hague, 1890), 339-43.

ff. 96r-8r

• EvJ 89: John Evelyn, An Exact Account of the Making of Marbled Paper

Copy.

This MS recorded in Wheatley (1893), p. 87, and in Keynes, pp. 260-1.

ff. 127v-41v

• EvJ 56: John Evelyn, The Construction of y^e Rowling Press, & Manner how to worke off y^e Plates

Copy.

This MS recorded in Wheatley (1893), in Bell and in Keynes.

Sloane MS 273

A folio volume of ‘Collections out of the Histories of England. 1670’, extracted from printed sources, in a single hand, 87 leaves, in mottled leather gilt. c.1670.

ff. 2r-6v, 57r-v

• DaS 41.3: Samuel Daniel, The Collection of the History of England

Extracts, headed ‘Daniell's History of y^e King of England’.

First part first published in London, 1612. First published complete in London, [1618?]. Grosart, IV, 69-299. V, 1-291.

ff. 7v-11r, 58r-63r

• HaW 44.5: William Habington, The Historie of Edward the Fourth, King of England

Extracts, headed ‘The Life of Edward y^e 4^th by Habinton’.

First published in London, 1641.

ff. 12v-17v, 63v-5v

• BcF 215.5: Francis Bacon, The History of the Reign of King Henry VII

Extracts, headed ‘The Raigne of King Henry the 7^th. by y^e L^d Verulam’.

First published in London, 1622. Spedding, VI, 23-245. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 3-169.

ff. 18r-34r, 65v-9r, 84r-v, 85v-8r

• HrE 125.4: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Life and Reign of King Henry VIII

Extracts, headed ‘The Life of Henry y^e 8th by y^e L^d. Herbert of Cherbury’, those beginning on f. 84r under the general heading ‘Witty Sayinges’.

First published in London, 1649. Published in London, 1880 (with Autobiography).

Sloane MS 359

Autograph notebook of chemical and medical receipts, including Ralegh's ‘great Cordiall’, and accounts of experiments; 70 quarto pages, with Ralegh's writing on 53 pages. Late 16th-early 17th century.

*RaW 711: Sir Walter Ralegh, Chemical and Medical Receipts

Later owned by Francis Bernard (1628-98), apothecary and physician.

This MS discussed in Lefranc (1968), p. 682; facsimile of the words ‘Our great Cordiall’ in Walter Oakeshott, ‘Carew Ralegh's Copy of Spenser’, The Library, 5th Ser. 26 (1971), 1-21 (plate V(c)).

Sloane MS 363

A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous tracts and papers, in verse and prose, in various hands, 99 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

ff. 81r-93v

• BcF 159: Francis Bacon, A Confession of Faith

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as Written by ffrancis Lord Viscount S^t: Albaⁿs at or before hee was Solicitor Generall. c.1620s-30s.

First published in London, 1641. Spedding, VII, 217-26.

Sloane MS 396

A quarto verse miscellany, probably compiled by one Matthew Bacon, whose name appears on ff. 1r (‘Matt Bacon’) and 2r (‘Mathæi Baconi poemata’) and to whom is ascribed many of the poems, 31 leaves, in modern half-calf. Mid-17th century.

Also inscribed on f. 1r ‘Joannes Tasbury’ and ‘John manser’[?].

f. 3r-v

• RnT 510: Thomas Randolph, On the Goodwife's Ale (‘When shall we meet again and have a taste’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Ben Johnson’.

Collated in Herford & Simpson.

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

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

Sloane MS 401

A commonplace book, in Latin, English and Greek, in possibly a single cursive hand with variations of style, written from both ends, 65 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt. Inscribed (f. 1r), probably by the compiler, ‘Radolphus Wilkinsonns’. Mid-17th century.

f. 38r-v

• ElQ 149: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Latin Oration at Cambridge University, August 7, 1564

Copy of the Latin oration, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Autograph Compositions.

Beginning ‘Etsi foeminilis pudor, (subditi fidelissimi, et Academia clarissima) rudem et incultum sermonem prohibet...’, in Autograph Compositions, pp. 123-5. An English translation, beginning ‘Although feminine modesty, and most faithful subjects and most celebrated university, prohibits the delivery of a rude and uncultivated speech...’, in Collected Works, Speech 7, pp. 87-9.

Sloane MS 402

A miscellany belonging to John Dury.

Sloane MS 414

A quarto composite volume of MSS, 119 leaves. c.1600.

ff. 347r-50r

• AndL 33: Lancelot Andrewes, Judgment of the Lambeth Articles

Copy, headed ‘Historia de articulis Lambethanis exhibitis per D. Whitakerum. Nov. 20, 1595.’; imperfect.

First published in Articuli Lambethani (London, 1651). LACT, Pattern of Catechistical Doctrine (1846), pp. 287-300.

Sloane MS 444

Autograph, with a dedicatory epistle to James Montagu, Bishop of Bath and Wells, on 57 duodecimo pages. [1611].

*FlP 4: Phineas Fletcher, Locustae, vel pietas Jesuitica (‘Panditur Inferni limen, patet intima Ditis’)

This MS discussed in Boas, I, x-xvi, and collated I, 278-87.

Facsimiles of the dedication in Boas, I, following p. 96; in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate L(d); and in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 138.

First published in Cambridge, 1627. Boas, I, 97-123.

Sloane MS 509

Autograph notebook. Cowley's autograph notebook of information about numerous specified herbs and their medicinal properties, in Latin and English, the first page of text headed ‘Facultates Medicam’, on 86 sextodecimo leaves, the name ‘Abraham Cowley’ written in another hand on f. 86v, in modern binding lettered on spine ‘Tract on Simples’. c.1656-60s?

*CoA 209: Abraham Cowley, Herbal

Notes (on ff. I and i) in the hand of Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753). Formerly owned by Francis Bernard (1628-98), apothecary and physician.

Facsimile of ff. 53v-54r in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile Xb, after p. xxii.

Sloane MS 542

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in Latin and English, one cursive hand predominating, 69 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half black crushed morocco. c.1630s.

Inscribed (f. 62r) ‘Nathaniel Heighmore’: i.e. presumably Nathaniel Highmore (1613-85), chemical physician and anatomist; ‘John Sacheverell his hand and pen Amen’; and ‘John Sacheverell the Author of this...’.

f. 11r-v

• DnJ 3204: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)

Copy, with alterations, headed ‘D^r Dunne his verses to his Mistrisse’.

This MS 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.

ff. 11v-12r

• DnJ 2964: John Donne, Song (‘Stay, O sweet, and do not rise’)

Copy of a three-stanza version, headed in the margin ‘at her rising’, here beginning ‘Lie still my dear, why dost thou rise’ and incorporating lines 1-6 of Breake of day, subscribed ‘DD’.

This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 609-11. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published (in a two-stanza version) in John Dowland, A Pilgrim's Solace (London, 1612) and in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Printed as the first stanza of Breake of day in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 432 (attributing it to Dowland). Gardner, Elegies, p. 108 (in her ‘Dubia’). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 402-3. Not in Shawcross.

Sloane MS 629

A quarto composite volume of state and ecclesiastical tracts and papers, in various hands, 371 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

ff. 246r-50r

• BcF 198: Francis Bacon, A Discourse touching Helps for the Intellectual Powers

Copy, together with a copy of the covering letter to Sir Henry Savill (‘My L^d Verulams to M^r Savil’), in a predominantly secretary hand, with corrections in another hand (? perhaps Archbishop Tenison's). c.1620s-30s.

Printed from this MS in Spedding, VII, 97-103. A copy of the letter to Savill (but without the discourse) in the hand of one of Bacon's amanuenses is in the British Library, Add. MS 5503.

First published in Resuscitatio, ed. W. Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, VII, 97-103.

Sloane MS 655

A folio composite volume of poems, chiefly on affairs of state, in various hands, 67 leaves, in modern quarter crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Late 17th century.

ff. 4r-7r

• DoC 345: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell (‘Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age’)

Copy, in a professional hand, on four folio leaves.

This MS collated in POAS.

First published in A Third Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs &c (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 217-27. Discussed and Dorset's authorship rejected in Harris, pp. 190-2. The poem is noted by Alexander Pope as being ‘probably by the L^d Dorset’ in Pope's exemplum of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (London, 1705), British Library, C.28.e.15, p. 121.

ff. 18r-21v

• MaA 195: Andrew Marvell, The Loyal Scot (‘Of the old Heroes when the Warlike shades’)

Copy, with alterations, on four folio leaves, slightly imperfect.

This MS collated in Margoliouth. Facsimile of f. 18r in Kelliher, p. 101.

First published in one version [c.1669?] (exemplum without title-page owned by the Library Company of Philadelphia, 935Q). An incomplete version in Charles Gildon, Chorus Poetarum (London, 1694). Margoliouth, I, 180-7. Lord, pp. 188-92. Smith, pp. 403-12.

Lines 15-62 also appear as lines 649-96 in The last Instructions to a Painter (MaA 500-4), and lines 178-85 appear as a separate poem in Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown (MaA 253-280).

ff. 22r-5r

• MaA 112: Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh (‘Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign’)

Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue between Brittania & S^r W: Rawleigh’ and here ascribed to ‘Andrew Marvell’, on four folio leaves.

This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I.

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).

ff. 30r-4v

• WaE 387: Edmund Waller, A Panegyric to my Lord Protector, of the present Greatness, and joint Interest of His Highness, and this Nation (‘While with a strong and yet a gentle hand’)

Copy, in a professional hand, headed ‘A Panegerick by E—W’, on three pairs of conjugate quarto leaves.

First published London, 1655. The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 10-17.

f. 43v

• MaA 240: Andrew Marvell, The Statue in Stocks-Market (‘As cities that to the fierce conquerors yield’)

Copy, untitled, in double columns, following another poem on a single folio leaf.

This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I.

First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 188-90. POAS, I, 266-9. Lord, pp. 193-6. Smith, pp. 416-17.

f. 48r

• DoC 229: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Young Statesmen (‘Clarendon had law and sense’)

Copy, untitled, on a small oblong quarto leaf.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.

ff. 49r-50v

• RoJ 104.31: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The History of Insipids (‘Chaste, pious, prudent, Charles the Second’)

Copy.

See Vivian de Sola Pinto in ‘“The History of Insipids”: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell’, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.

ff. 51r-2v

• RoJ 26: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book (‘Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes’)

Copy on two probably once conjugate folio leaves.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.

ff. 59r-60v.

• MaA 139.7: Andrew Marvell, A Country Clowne call'd Hodge Went to view the Pyramid, pray mark what did ensue (‘When Hodge had number'd up how many score’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Mengel.

First published, as ‘Hodge a Countryman went up to the Piramid, His Vision’, in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), p. 5. Sometimes called Hodge's Vision from the Monument, [December, 1675]. Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 81-8. Thompson, III, 359-65. Grosart, I, 435-40. Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse, 1660-1714, Volume II: 1678-1681, ed. Elias F. Mengel, Jr (New Haven & London, 1965), pp. 146-53.

First attributed to Marvell in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697), but probably written in 1679, after Marvell's death.

f. 64r-v

• BeA 21: Aphra Behn, To Alexis in Answer to his Poem against Fruition. Ode (‘Ah hapless sex! who bear no charms’)

Copy, in a professional hand, headed ‘To Alexis on his verses against Fruition’, on two conjugate quarto leaves, the text following (on f. 63r-v) ‘Against Fruition. By Alexis’ (‘Ah wretched man whom neither Fate…’).

First published in Lycidas: or the Lover in Fashion…together with a Miscellany of New Poems by Several Hands (London, 1688). Summers, VI, 348-9. Todd, Np. 74, pp. 272-3.

Sloane MS 713

Copy, in a predominantly rounded italic hand, as ‘Written by S^r Walter Rawleigh Kn^t therto comanded by the same Prince’, on fourteen quarto leaves, in modern half crushed morocco. Mid-17th century.

RaW 634: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a Marriage between Prince Henry and a Daughter of Savoy

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.

Sloane MS 719

A quarto commonplace book of extracts from theological and historical works, largely in a single minute hand, 116 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. c.1673.

Inscribed (f. 10v) ‘Gaue these Book to M^r Norman to Couer’.

f. 10r

• BcF 283.4: Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: or A Natural History

Extract, headed ‘Bacon's Natural History’, dated March 26 1673.

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

f. 13r et seq.

• TaJ 124: Jeremy Taylor, Extracts

Extracts, headed ‘Taylor of Originall Sinne’.

f. 31v et seq.

• RaW 677.8: Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World

Extracts, headed ‘S^r W. R. Pref’.

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

Sloane MS 739

A sextodecimo pocket-book miscellany of prose and verse, chiefly in Latin, closely written from both ends, almost entirely in a single minute hand, probably that of a university man, ff. 14v-16r written in a variant style, and ff. 51v-45v (rev.) containing recipes in a later hand, 104 leaves (plus blanks), in modern morocco gilt. Including eleven complete poems by Thomas Carew and extracts from about thirty others by him, perhaps transcribed from a printed source, the date 1649 occurring on ff. 1v and 104v. c.1649.

The word ‘Berengarius’ inscribed on a slip originally inside the rear cover.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as ‘Berengarius MS’: CwT Δ 19.

f. 99r rev.

• CwT 770: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 105.

ff. 100r-99v rev.

• CwT 1166: Thomas Carew, To the New-yeare, for the Countesse of Carlile (‘Give Lucinda Pearle, nor Stone’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 91-2.

f. 100r rev.

• CwT 303: Thomas Carew, For a Picture where a Queen Laments over the Tombe of a slaine Knight (‘Brave Youth. to whom Fate in one hower’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 81.

f. 100v rev.

• CwT 13: Thomas Carew, Another. A Lady rescued from death by a Knight who in the instant leaves her, complaines thus (‘Oh whither is my fayre Sun fled’)

Copy, headed ‘A Lady resolved…’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 63-4.

f. 101r rev.

• CwT 438: Thomas Carew, A Lover in the disguise of an Amazon, is dearly beloved of his Mistresse (‘Cease thou afflicted soule to mourne’)

Copy, headed ‘A louer in disguise’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 63.

f. 101v rev.

• CwT 6: Thomas Carew, An other (‘The purest Soule that e're was sent’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on y^e L. Mary Villers’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 54.

f. 101v rev.

• CwT 538: Thomas Carew, A Pastorall Dialogue (‘As Celia rested in the shade’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 42-4.

f. 102v-r rev.

• CwT 809: Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing (‘Harke how my Celia, with the choyce’)

Copy, headed ‘Celia singing’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.

f. 103r rev.

• CwT 905: Thomas Carew, Song. Perswasions to enjoy (‘If the quick spirits in your eye’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 16. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

f. 103v-r rev.

• CwT 452: Thomas Carew, Mediocritie in love rejected. Song (‘Give me more love, or more disdaine’)

Copy, headed ‘Song’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 12-13. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

f. 103v rev.

• CwT 881: Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie (‘Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

Sloane MS 747

A largely late-15th-century folio cartulary book of Missenden Abbey, Buckinghamshire, with some miscellaneous entries interspersed, 100 leaves.

ff. 88v-9r

• SkJ 36: John Skelton, The Manner of the World Now a Dayes (‘So many poynted caps’)

Copy.

Canon, R65, p. 21. Published in London, c.1562. Dyce, I, 148-54.

Sloane MS 755

Copy, in the professional secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 31 folio leaves, in modern half-morocco. Headed ‘A Breiffe Discours Touchinge the Lowe Countryes; The Kinge of Spayn; The Kinge of Scotts, the ffrench Kinge; And Queene Elizabeth, w^th some other Remarkeable passages of State, Wrytten by S^r. ffrauncis Bacon, knight, &c’. c.1620s-30s.

BcF 695: Francis Bacon, A Brief Discourse touching the Low Countries, the King of Spain, the King of Scots, the French King, and Queen Elizabeth

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, pp. 245-6 (No. 65).

Unpublished tract, beginning ‘Lodwick Sforza holding by tyrannous usurpation the Dukedom of Milan...’.

Sloane MS 756

A folio composite volume of papers relating to the rebellion of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, in professional secretary hands, sixteen leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

ff. 4r-14r

• EsR 220: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1

Copy.

f. 15r-v

• EsR 284: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution

Copy, headed ‘The man^r of the Earle of Essexe his deathe [etc.]’, on a single folio leaf.

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

Sloane MS 757

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on four folio leaves, unascribed, heavily damaged and imperfect, in modern half crushed morocco gilt. c.1620s.

CtR 167: Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy

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.

Sloane MS 760

Copy, on ten folio leaves. Early-mid-17th century.

RaW 550: Sir Walter Ralegh, Apology for his Voyage to Guiana

A tract beginning ‘If the ill success of this enterprise of mine had been without example...’. First published in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 477-507. Edited by V. T. Harlow in Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 316-34.

Sloane MS 799

Extract, untitled, beginning ‘A speech most hainously injurious to truth...’. on two duodecimo leaves, bound with other MSS in modern half-morocco gilt. Late 17th century.

BrT 5.4: Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received Tenents, and commonly presumed Truths

First published in London, 1646. Wilkin, vols II and III, 1-374. Keynes, Vol. II. Robbins (2 vols).

See BrT 29, BrT 32, and BrT 43.

Sloane MS 826

A quarto composite volume of state papers and speeches, in several hands, ff. 153r-97r in a single professional hand, 197 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards. c.1630s.

Once owned by John Hart and John Ashton.

ff. 6r-7r

• BcF 463: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

Copy of Bacon's supplication on 22 April 1621.

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

ff. 32r-3v

• MrJ 35: John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 (‘And art returned again with all thy faults’)

An anonymous copy.

ff. 34r-7v

• CtR 168: Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy

Copy, as by ‘S^r. Robert Cotton’, dated ‘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.

f. 47r-v

• RuB 34: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.22 March 1627/8

Copy, headed ‘S^r: Ben: Ruddiers first speech’. c.1630.

Speech beginning ‘Of the mischiefs that have lately fallen upon us by the late distractions here is every man sensible...’.

ff. 100r-1r

• RuB 46: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.2-9 April 1628

Copy, headed ‘S^r Ben: Ruddiers 2 speech’. c.1630.

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

f. 153r-v

• CoR 10: Richard Corbett, Against the Opposing the Duke in Parliament, 1628 (‘The wisest King did wonder when hee spy'd’)

Copy, headed ‘Verses supposed to bee made by D^r Corbet B^p of Oxford against the opposing the Duke in Parliament 1628’. c.1630.

Edited from this MS in Percy Society volume (1850); in Bennett & Trevor-Roper; and in online Early Stuart Libels.

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

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

f. 161r

• MrJ 83: John Marston, Upon the Dukes Goeing into Fraunce (‘And wilt thou goe, great duke, and leave us heere’)

Copy.

ff. 161v-4r

• MrJ 36: John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 (‘And art returned again with all thy faults’)

Copy.

Text from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.

f. 181v

• MrJ 64: John Marston, Georg IVs DVX BVCkIngaMIae MDCXVVVIII (‘Thy numerous name with this yeare doth agree’)

Copy.

Sloane MS 827

A small quarto volume of tracts, 42 leaves, dated at the end 12 April 1638. c.1638.

ff. 19r-23r

• AndL 37: Lancelot Andrewes, Notes on the Book of Common Prayer

Copy, headed ‘Notes found in Bishop Andrew Seruice Booke, written with his owne hand’.

First published in William Nicholls, A Comment on the Book of Common Prayer (London, 1710). LACT, Minor Works (1854), pp. 141-58.

Sloane MS 828

Copy, in a single hand, lacking the dedicatory epistles, 73 quarto leaves. Early 17th century.

MrT 82: Sir Thomas More, Ro. Ba.'s Life of Sir Thomas More

Collated in Hitchcock, Ro. Ba. and described, pp. xvi-xvii.

A life of More written in 1599, possibly by Robert Basset (1574-1641), of Devon, a zealous Catholic and kinsman of More: see Andrew Breeze, ‘Sir Robert Basset and The Life of Syr Thomas More’, N&Q, 249 (September 2004), 263. The work first published in Christopher Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical History, vol. II (London, 1839). Edited, as The Lyfe of Syr Thomas More Sometymes Lord Chancellor of England, by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock and P.E. Hallett (EETS, London, 1950).

Sloane MS 836

A quarto commonplace book of extracts, ff. 1r-39v in a professional hand, the rest almost entirely in a single hand, with some revisions, i + 100 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt. Compiled by Sir Edward Sherburne (1616-1702), translator and poet. c.1690s.

ff. 42r-3v

• BcF 213.5: Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral. Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates

Extracts.

Spedding, VI, 444-52. The Oxford Francis Bacon, XV, 89-99.

ff. 51r-v, 54r-9v

• BcF 205.3: Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral

Extracts, headed ‘Out of the L^d. Bacon's Essays’.

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).

f. 83r

• DrJ 297.5: John Dryden, Epistle Dedicatory for Examen Poeticum

Extract, headed ‘M^r. Dryden in his Dedicatory Epistle to his Examen Poeticum speaking of Chapman his Homer’.

‘To the right honourable My Lord Radcliffe’ (beginning ‘My Lord These Miscellany Poems are by many Titles yours...’), first published in London, 1693. California, IV, 363-75.

f. 83r

• DrJ 297.8: John Dryden, Epistle Dedicatory for Juvenal's Satires

Extract, headed ‘Speaking of M^r: Cowley in his Dedication to Juvenals Satyres’.

f. 83r-v

• DrJ 384: John Dryden, Extracts

Prose extracts.

Recorded in California, IV, 781, 800.

Sloane MS 848

A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous works and memoranda, in several hands, 32 leaves, in modern quarter-morocco gilt.

ff. 9r-10r

• MrJ 7: John Marston, The Entertainment of the Dowager-Countess of Darby

Extracts from the preliminary description of the arrangements at the Park Gates and all of Merymna's first speech, in an italic hand, headed ‘The Lady of Derbies entertaynm^t att Ashby 1707 August’. Early 17th century.

This MS collated in Davenport.

First published in Poems of John Marston, ed. Alexander B. Grosart (Manchester, 1879). Bullen, III, 383-404 (reprinting Grosart). Davenport, pp. 189-207.

f. 12r-v

• MrT 34.9: Sir Thomas More, The Life of John Picus, Earl of Mirandula

Extracts, in an italic hand, headed ‘The life of John Picus Erle of Mirandula out of S^r Tho: Moore’. Early 17th century.

First published in London, [1510?]. Yale, Volume 1, pp. 51-123.

f. 14r-v

• CvG 22: George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey

Extracts, in an italic hand, headed ‘Tho: Wolsey card: life & death by Cavendysh his gent: vsher:’. Early 17th century.

Sylvester, No. 14.

Sloane MS 856

A folio volume of copies of state correspondence chiefly in the reign of Charles II, in several professional hands, 58 leaves, in modern half-calf. Late 17th century.

The name inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Henry Gregory’.

ff. 52r-4r

• ClE 79: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, The Humble Petition and Address of Clarendon in 1667

Copy.

Petition beginning ‘I cannot express the insupportable trouble and grief of mind I sustain...’. Published as To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled: The Humble Petition and Address of Clarendon, [in London, 1667?] and subsequently reprinted widely, sometimes under the title News from Dunkirk-house: or, Clarendon's Farewell to England Dec 3 1667.

Sloane MS 868

Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, with a title-page ‘Fragmenta Regalia / Supposed S^r Rob Nanton^s M^r of y^e Court of Wards & Liuerys’. c.1630s.

NaR 13: Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia

This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87

Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).

Sloane MS 874

A folio commonplace book of extracts, in a single cursive hand, written with the volume in oblong format, inscribed in another hand (f. 1r) ‘Historical Collections by the Earl of Derby’. c.1646.

Inscribed (f. 6v) ‘i645: n.$. ne turba Opera meas L Derby’ and (f. 114v) ‘Finis Ja: i3: i645: at Castle Rushen in y^e Ile of Man. L Derby:’i.e. compiled by James Stanley (1607-51), seventh Earl of Derby, royalist army officer.

ff. 7r-12v

• LeC 27: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

Extracts, headed ‘Obseruations out of Leisters comon=welth:’.

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.

ff. 89r-114v

• FuT 5.225: Thomas Fuller, The History of the Holy War

Substantial extracts from Books 1 to 5, headed ‘Extracts out of the Hist. of the Holy Warr’.

Recorded in Bailey, p. 181

First published in Cambridge, 1639.

Sloane MS 876

Copy, in a professional hand, 77 folio leaves, plus (ff. 78r-83v) an inserted index in another hand on octavo leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt. c.1630s.

NaR 14: Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia

This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87.

Sloane MS 885

A quarto commonplace book, in several hands, one predominating, 147 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt. Compiled by John Bagford (1650/51-1716), bookseller and antiquary. c.1700.

ff. 68r-9r

• FuT 4.1: Thomas Fuller, Abel Redivivus

Extract from the printed edition, pp. 509-10, comprising a list of works by John Bale.

First published in London, 1651.

Sloane MS 892

A quarto miscellany of ‘Collections out of severall Authors’, predominantly in a single hand, 94 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. ‘by D^r. Stanley’ added in black ink.

f. 45r et seq.

• BrT 65: Sir Thomas Browne, Extracts

Extracts from Religio Medici and Pseudodoxia Epidemica.

Sloane MS 901

A quarto composite booklet of verse and prose, in different hands, four leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Late 17th century.

f. 2r-v

• MaA 451: Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by (‘Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe’)

Copy of lines 1-40 on a single quarto leaf.

This MS recorded in Osborne.

First published [in London], 1679. A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), as by ‘A-M-l, Esq’. Thompson III, 399-403. Margoliouth, I, 214-18, as by Henry Savile. POAS, I, 213-19, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 40-2, as by Henry Savile.

Sloane MS 904

A folio volume of miscellaneous tracts and papers, 239 leaves.

ff. 222r-39v

• BrT 59: Sir Thomas Browne, Sir Kenelm Digby's Observations on Religio Medici

Copy.

Cited (erroneously) as ‘Digby's manuscript’ in Keynes, Bibliography, p. 174.

Written as a letter to the Earl of Dorset, 23 December 1642. First published in London, 1643. Edited in Wilkin, II, 118-52.

Sloane MS 922

A duodecimo miscellany principally of ‘pious, holy Godly and Christian Letters’, in a single italic hand, with (ff. 200r-5r) a ‘Table’, 209 leaves, in modern half-crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Compiled by Nehemiah Wallington (1598-1658), puritan London turner and diarist. c.1635-58.

Including (ff. 34r-51v) ‘Some Epiesels or Letters of Ios Hall D of Diuinitie and Deane of Worchester in 1620’, transcribed from the edition of Hall's collected works printed in 1620, with a note at the end ‘Their be many more excellent letters in D Halls Booke which I let passe for preuitis sake’.

Inscribed (f. 1v) ‘Nehemiah Wallington his Booke 1650’; (f. 5v) ‘Nehemiah Wallington May 1650’; (f. 205v) ‘1658 Iune y^e xxiii By the marcy of God I haue read ouer this my Writing Booke which is Coppies of precious Lettres...’, and (f. 209v) ‘Nehemiah Wallingtoⁿ his Booke 1635’. Also inscribed (f. 1v) by his son-in-law ‘Ionathan Houghton September IX 1658’.

Recorded in Paul S. Seaver, Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London (Stanford, 1985).

ff. 3r-34r

• FxJ 1.8: John Foxe, Actes and Monuments

Extracts.

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

ff. 34v-5v

• HlJ 36: Joseph Hall, Epistles. Decade II, Epistle 1. To Sir Robert Darcy. The estate of a true but weak Christian

Copy.

First published in Epistles, Vol. I (London, 1608). Wynter, VI, 158-9.

ff. 36r-7v

• HlJ 49: Joseph Hall, Epistles. Decade VI, Epistle 3. To Sir George Fleetwood. Of the remedies of sin, and motives to avoid it

Copy.

First published in Epistles, Vol. III, Part 2 (London, 1610). Wynter, VI, 285-8.

ff. 38r-9v

• HlJ 38: Joseph Hall, Epistles. Decade II, Epistle 4. To my Sister Mrs. B. Brinsly. Of the sorrow not to be repented of

Copy.

First published in Epistles, Vol. I (London, 1608). Wynter, VI, 169-71.

ff. 40r-1v

• HlJ 37: Joseph Hall, Epistles. Decade II, Epistle 2. To Sir Edmund Bacon. Of the benefit of retiredness and secresy

Copy.

First published in Epistles, Vol. I (London, 1608). Wynter, VI, 160-2.

ff. 41v-2v

• HlJ 39: Joseph Hall, Epistles. Decade II, Epistle 8. To my Father-in-Law, Mr. George Wenyffe. Exciting to Christian cheerfulness

Copy.

First published in Epistles, Vol. I (London, 1608). Wynter, VI, 178-89.

f. 43r-v

• HlJ 44: Joseph Hall, Epistles. Decade III, Epistle 8. To Mr. Rob. Hay. A discourse of the continual exercise of a Christian. how he may keep his heart from hardness and his ways from error

Copy.

First published in Epistles, Vol. II (London, 1608). Wynter, VI, 208-10.

f. 44r-v

• HlJ 45: Joseph Hall, Epistles. Decade IV, Epistle 6. A discourse of the signs and proofs of a true faith

Copy, headed ‘Epistle 6. To Mistris A. P. A discourse of the Signes and proofes of true Faith’.

First published in Epistles, Vol. II (London, 1608). Wynter, VI, 231-4.

f. 45r-v

• HlJ 41: Joseph Hall, Epistles. Decade II, Epistle 10. To Mr. I.A. Merchant. Against sorrow for worldly losses

Copy.

First published in Epistles, Vol. I (London, 1608). Wynter, VI, 183-4.

ff. 46r-7v

• HlJ 47: Joseph Hall, Epistles. Decade V, Epistle 5. To Sir Richard Lea, since deceased. Discoursing of the comfortable remedies of all afflictions

Copy.

First published in Epistles, Vol. III (London, 1611). Wynter, VI, 260-3.

ff. 48r-50r

• HlJ 40: Joseph Hall, Epistles. Decade II, Epistle 9. To Mr. W.R. Dedicated to Mr. Thomas Burlz. Consolations of immoderate grief for the death of friends

Copy, headed ‘Epistle 9. To Master Thomas Burliz. Consolations of immodarate griefe For the death of Friends’.

First published in Epistles, Vol. I (London, 1608). Wynter, VI, 180-3.

ff. 50r-1v

• HlJ 34: Joseph Hall, Epistles. Decade I, Epistle 10. Written to Mr. J.B. and Dedicated to My Father, Mr. J. Hall. Against the fear of death

Copy.

First published in Epistles, Vol. I (London, 1608). Wynter, VI, 156-8.

Sloane MS 972

A folio composite volume of state papers, in English and Latin, in various hands and paper sizes, 49 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

ff. 1r-5v

• BcF 594: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

Copies of letters by Bacon to the Lord Chancellor (Egerton), about his History of Britain, and to George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham (1623).

ff. 13r-14v

• RuB 202: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 July 1641

Copy of most of the speech, imperfect, lacking the beginning, docketed (f. 14v) ‘part of an ingenious speech in parliam^t ag^t monopolies &c about ano 164i’. c.1641.

Speech beginning ‘If we may do the Prince Elector good, by our good word, I hope we shall not stick to afford it him...’. Manning, pp. 210-11.

Sloane MS 987

Autograph calligraphic manuscript, in various styles of script, on rectos only, 33 leaves (132 x 172 mm.). 1586.

*InE 33: Esther Inglis, [Psalms] Livret contenant diverses sortes de lettres, Escrit a Lislebourg par Esther Langlois, françoise. 1586.

Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 1 (pp. 25-6), with a facsimile of f. 29r as Plate 1 (after p. 42).

Translations of Psalms 2 and 94 by Clément Marot and Théodore de Bèze (into French verse) and by Helius Eobanus Hessus (into Latin verse), also with some Latin verses by Esther's father, Nicholas Langlois.

Sloane MS 1009

A large folio guard-book of miscellaneous MSS, in various hands, 434 leaves. Collected, and partly written, by Lieutenant Gideon Bonnivert (fl.1670s-90s), French Huguenot soldier and author, of Oxnead Hall, Norfolk.

ff. 376v-85r

• SaG 26: George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon the Song of Solomon (‘Join thy life-breathing lips to mine’)

Copy, in a professional hand, on nine folio leaves (ff. 377r-85r), with dedicatory verses ‘To the queen’ (beginning ‘Chast Nimphe yo^w whoe extracted are’) in another hand on a separate preliminary leaf (f. 376v). Mid-17th century.

This MS 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.

f. 389v

• RoJ 371: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘As Chloris full of harmless thought’)

Copy of lines 1-8, untitled, on a single quarto leaf. Late 17th century.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

First published as a broadside, Croydon and Cloris or, The Wanton Sheepherdess [?London, ?1676]. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 26-7. Walker, p. 35. Love, p. 36.

f. 395r

• SeC 54: Sir Charles Sedley, To Celia (‘As in those Nations, where they yet adore’)

Copy, untitled, with other verses closely written in three small secretary hands, on a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.

This MS collated in Pinto.

First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1671). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Ba^t (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 62-3. Sola Pinto, I, 22.

Sloane MS 1030

A small quarto commonplace book, chiefly in French, compiled by Gedeon Bonniver, 175 leaves. Late 17th-early 18th century.

f. 90v

• MnJ 48.4: John Milton, The History of Britain

Extracts, in French, untitled, subscribed ‘Milton Cronicle of Engl’.

First published in London, 1670-71.

Sloane MS 1132

A quarto volume of state tracts, 30 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. c.Early 1600s.

ff. 15r-25v

• EsR 120: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Apology

Copy.

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

Sloane MS 1133

Copy, in three styles of secretary and italic, possibly in a single hand, docketed at the top of the first page ‘by S^r. W. Raleigh’, on eight quarto leaves (plus blanks), originally foliated 45-52, in 19th-century half morocco. c.1595-6.

RaW 694: Sir Walter Ralegh, Of the Voyage for Guiana

Edited from this MS by editors.

A tract beginning ‘Touching the voyage for Guiana, it is to be considered first, Whether it bee to be vndertaken...’. First published in The Discoverie of...Guiana, ed. Sir Robert H. Schomburgk, Hakluyt Society, 1st Ser. 3 (London, 1848). Edited by V.T. Harlow in The Discoverie of...Guiana (London, 1928), pp. 138-49, and in Joyce Lorimer's edition of that work (Aldershot, 2006), pp. 253-63.

Sloane MS 1179

A duodecimo notebook, in Latin and English, entitled ‘Sales, Facetiæ & Collectiones promiscuæ’, in several hands, written from both ends, 56 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt. Including numerous medical prescriptions by Sir Théodore Turquet de Mayerne (1573-1654/5), royal physician. c.1658.

f. 47r

• CoR 10.5: Richard Corbett, Against the Opposing the Duke in Parliament, 1628 (‘The wisest King did wonder when hee spy'd’)

Copy, untitled.

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

Sloane MS 1189

A series of extracts, on nineteen octavo leaves, bound with other MSS. Late 17th century.

BrT 5.5: Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received Tenents, and commonly presumed Truths

First published in London, 1646. Wilkin, vols II and III, 1-374. Keynes, Vol. II. Robbins (2 vols).

See BrT 29, BrT 32, and BrT 43.

Sloane MS 1199

A folio miscellany of verse and prose, much of it on current events, largely in a single rugged italic hand, 190 leaves, in 18th-century half red morocco gilt. c.1630.

Inscribed (f. 1v) ‘D^r Benfield of Cor; X^pi his Notes. / The gift of his Executor to M^r B: G. / -30’.

f. 74v

• MrJ 65: John Marston, Georg IVs DVX BVCkIngaMIae MDCXVVVIII (‘Thy numerous name with this yeare doth agree’)

Copy, following a Latin version.

ff. 78v-9r

• CaE 20: Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, An Epitaph upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham (‘Reader stand still and see, loe, how I am’)

Copy of the 44-line elegy, here beginning ‘Yet were Bidentalls sacred, and the place’, headed in another hand ‘An answere to y^e Verses of M^r [Zouche] Tounley to his friend M^r Felton’.

A six-line (epitaph) version is ascribed to ‘the Countesse of Faukland’ in two MS copies. In some sources it is followed by a further 44 lines (elegy) beginning ‘Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place’. The latter also appears, anonymously, as a separate poem in a number of other sources. The authorship remains uncertain. For an argument for Lady Falkland's authorship of all 50 lines, see Akkerman.

Both sets of verse were first published, as separate but sequential poems, in Poems or Epigrams, Satyrs (London, 1658), pp. 101-2. All 50 lines are edited in Akkerman, pp. 195-6.

Sloane MS 1200

A folio composite volume of parliamentary speeches and related documents in 1640-41 and (ff. 32r-76v) a treatise on parliament by Ralph Starkey, in several hands, 129 leaves, in modern half-calf.

ff. 17r-18v

• RuB 126: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?15-25 April 1640

Copy, in a probably professional small mixed hand, headed ‘S^ir Beniamin Ruddiers Speech’.

Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 297.

Speech beginning ‘There is a great dore now opened unto us of doing good...’. Variant version in Manning, pp. 148-51.

Sloane MS 1303

A folio volume of tracts and poems, in a single secretary hand, 73 leaves. c.1600.

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Sum liber Johannis Botterilli, An^o Dni 1600. Nouembris 27 don Me 18 Augusti 1602 Myles B.’

ff. 7r-59v

• LeC 28: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

Copy, with a title-page.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

ff. 60r-71r

• BrN 56: Nicholas Breton, The Passions of the Spirit (‘Where shall I finde that melancholy muse’)

Copy, headed ‘The Countesse of Penbrookes passion’.

Edited from this MS in A Poem on our Saviour's Passion. By Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. From an Unpublished MS in the British Museum, ed. R.G.B. (London, 1862). Collated in Grosart.

First published London, 1599. Grosart, I (c), as ‘The Countess of Pembroke's Passion.’

ff. 71r-2v

• EsR 72: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, A Poem made on the Earle of Essex (being in disgrace with Queene Eliz): by mr henry Cuffe his Secretary (‘It was a time when sillie Bees could speake’)

Copy of the 15-stanza version, headed ‘The Earle of Essex his Buzze w^ch he made vpon some discontentment he receiued, a litle before his iourney in to Ireland, Ano Dni 1598’, here beginning ‘There was a tyme when Bees Could speake’, subscribed ‘Robert Deuoreux’.

This MS text collated in May, pp. 128-32.

First published, in a musical setting by John Dowland, in his The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1603). May, Poems, No. IV, pp. 62-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 266-9. EV 12846.

Sloane MS 1427

A folio volume of state tracts, in four probably professional secretary hands, 101 leaves, in modern quarter-morocco gilt. Early 17th century.

ff. 87r-99r

• EsR 221: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1

Copy.

f. 100r-v

• EsR 285: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution

Copy.

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

Sloane MS 1432

Copy of the main text, in a single mixed hand, 33 leaves, in modern half mottled leather gilt. Untitled and lacking the Dedication to the Queen, but with a colophon (f. 33v): ‘Here End the Instruction which the Emperour Charles the fift gaue to his sonne Philip Before his death’. c.1620s-30s.

HoH 36: 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

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.’

Sloane MS 1435

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous tracts and papers, in various hands, 203 leaves, in modern calf gilt. At least partly compiled by John Bagford, London bookseller and antiquary.

ff. 125r-30r

• BcF 128: Francis Bacon, Certain Considerations touching the Better Pacification and Edification of the Church of England

Copy, closely written in a cursive secretary hand, subscribed ‘Francis Bacon’. Early 17th century.

First published in London, 1604. Spedding, X, 103-27. The circumstances of the original publication and the book's suppression by the Bishop of London discussed, with a census of relevant exempla, in Richard Serjeantson and Thomas Woolford, ‘The Scribal Publication of a Printed Book: Francis Bacon's Certaine Considerations Touching...the Church of England (1604)’, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/2 (June 2009), 119-56.

Sloane MS 1443

Copy of an early version of Books I and II in the hand of an amanuensis, with Daniel's autograph corrections, revisions and marginalia, on 37 folio leaves. c.1590s.

*DaS 1: Samuel Daniel, The Civile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke

This MS described and printed in part in Cecil C. Seronsy, ‘Daniel's Manuscript Civil Wars with some Previously Unpublished Stanzas’, JEGP, 52 (1953), 153-60, 594.

Books I-IV first published in London, 1595. Grosart, Vol. II. Edited by Laurence Michel (New Haven, 1958).

Sloane MS 1446

A quarto verse miscellany, written in two styles of hand (A: ff. 2r, after first six lines, to 64v; B: ff. 2r, first six lines, 64v-91v, 92v-4r), possibly both in the same hand, with an Index (ff. 93r-4r), 94 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Including 22 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 13 poems by King, and 24 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and probably associated with Christ Church, Oxford. c.1633.

Inscribed names including (f. 93v, in court hand) ‘ffrancis Baskeruile’: i.e. probably the Francis Baskerville who married Margaret Glanvill in 1635 and was in 1640 MP for Marlborough, Wiltshire. Other scribbling including (f. 1r) accounts referring to Wanborough, Wiltshire; (f. 9v) ‘Elizabeth White’; (f. 54v) ‘William Walrond his booke 1663’; (f. 92r) accounts dated 1658; and (f. 94r) ‘John Wallrond’. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.

Recorded in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Baskerville MS’: CwT Δ 20, KiH Δ 10, StW Δ 13. Facsimile examples of ff. 55r and 68r in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 6, after p. 86.

ff. 2r-9v

• CoR 301: Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale (‘Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two’)

Copy, subscribed ‘R: C:’.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 47.

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

f. 9v

• CoR 525: Richard Corbett, On the Birth of the Young Prince Charles (‘When private men get sonnes they gette a spoone’)

Copy, subscribed ‘R: C:’.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 86.

ff. 10-11

• KiH 103: Henry King, By Occasion of the young Prince his happy Birth. May 29. 1630 (‘At this glad Triumph, when most Poëts use’)

Copy, headed ‘By occasion of the yong Prince Charles his happy birth’, subscribed ‘H: K:’.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 73-5.

f. 11r-v

• CoR 703: Richard Corbett, Upon Faireford Windowes (‘Tell mee, you Anti-Saintes, why glasse’)

Copy, subscribed ‘R: C:’.

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

ff. 11v-13r

• CoR 66: Richard Corbett, The Distracted Puritane (‘Am I madd, o noble Festus’)

Copy.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 56-9.

ff. 13r-14r

• CoR 104: Richard Corbett, An Elegy Upon the death of Queene Anne (‘Noe. not a quatch, sad Poets. doubt you’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on Queene Anne’, subscribed ‘R: C:’.

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

ff. 14r-15v

• CoR 147: Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox (‘Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true’)

Copy, headed ‘On the death of the La: Haddington’, subscribed ‘R: C:’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 59-62. The last 42 lines, beginning ‘O thou deformed unwomanlike disease’, in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 48.

ff. 15v-16v

• KiH 400: Henry King, A Letter (‘I ne're was drest in Formes. nor can I bend’)

Copy, subscribed ‘H: K:’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 152-4.

f. 17r

• KiH 521: Henry King, Sic Vita (‘Like to the Falling of a Starr’)

Copy, subscribed ‘H K:’.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 148-9.

f. 17r-v

• KiH 471: Henry King, On two Children dying of one Disease, and buryed in one Grave (‘Brought forth in Sorrow, and bred up in Care’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 72.

ff. 17v-18r

• HeR 120: Robert Herrick, The fare-well to Sack (‘Farewell thou Thing, time-past so knowne, so deare’)

Copy, subscribed ‘R: H:’.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

ff. 18v-19v

• HeR 273: Robert Herrick, The Welcome to Sack (‘So soft streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles’)

Copy, headed ‘The welcome to Sacke’, subscribed ‘R: H:’.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

f. 20r-v

• FeO 55: Owen Felltham, The Spring in the Rock (‘Harsh Maid! suppose not this clear Spring’)

Copy, headed ‘To his Cruell M^rs. On a springe riseinge in the midst of a Rocke’.

This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 23.

f. 21r

• StW 1116: William Strode, To a Valentine (‘Fayre Valentine, since once your welcome hand’)

Copy, subscribed ‘W: S.’

This MS recorded in Forey.

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

ff. 21r-2r

• StW 1143: William Strode, To Mr Rives heal'd by a strange cure by Barnard Wright Chirurgion in Oxon. (‘Welcome abroad, o welcome from your bedd!’)

Copy, headed ‘To M^r Riues uppon his recouery’, subscribed ‘W: S:’.

This MS recorded in Dobell; collated in Forey.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 95-7. Forey, pp. 11-14.

f. 22v

• CoR 487: Richard Corbett, On John Dawson, Butler at Christ-Church. 1622 (‘Dawson the Butler's dead. although I thinke’)

Copy, subscribed ‘W: S:’.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 144.

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

f. 22v

• StW 637: William Strode, On Westwell Downes (‘When Westwell Downes I gan to treade’)

Copy of lines 5-16, here beginning ‘The pleated wrinckles on the face’, subscribed ‘W: S:’.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 20-1. Four Poems by William Strode (Fransham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 5-7.

f. 23r

• StW 614: William Strode, On three Dolphins sewing down Water into a white Marble Bason (‘These Dolphins, twisting each on others side’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Fountaine’, subscribed ‘W: S:’.

This MS recorded in Forey, p. 320.

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

f. 23r

• StW 1056: William Strode, Thankes for a welcome (‘For your good Lookes, and for your Clarett’)

Copy, subscribed ‘W: S:’.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, p. 102. Forey, p. 30.

f. 23v

• StW 1045: William Strode, A Superscription on Sir Philip Sidneys Arcadia sent for a Token (‘Whatever in Philoclea the Faire’)

Copy, subscribed ‘W: S:’.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 43. Forey, p. 18.

f. 23v

• StW 1089: William Strode, To a Gentlewoman with Black Eyes, for a Frinde (‘Noe marvaile, if the Suns bright Eye’)

Copy of lines 15-20, headed ‘To his M^rs’, here beginning ‘Oft when I look, I may descry’, subscribed ‘W: S:’.

This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 283.

Lines 15-20 (beginning ‘Oft when I looke I may descrie’) first published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 29-30. Forey, pp. 37-9.

f. 24r

• StW 8: William Strode, Another (‘I, your Memory's Recorder’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Register of a Bible’, subscribed ‘W: S:’.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 53. Forey, p. 52.

f. 24r

• StW 145: William Strode, A Girdle (‘When ere the wast makes too much hast’)

Copy of the fourth couplet, headed ‘On a Girdle’, here beginning ‘This Circle heer is drawne aboute’, subscribed ‘W: S:’.

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

f. 24r

• CwT 659: Thomas Carew, Red, and white Roses (‘Reade in these Roses, the sad story’)

Copy, headed ‘Sonnett’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 46-7.

f. 24v

• StW 253: William Strode, A Necklace (‘These Vaines are Natures Nett’)

Copy, headed ‘A Posey in a Necklace’, subscribed ‘W: S:’.

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

f. 24v

• StW 1219: William Strode, A watchstring (‘Tymes picture here invites your eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘A Posey on a Watchstring’, subscribed ‘W: S:’.

This MS collated in Forey.

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

f. 24v

• StW 679: William Strode, A pursestringe (‘Wee hugg, imprison, hang and save’)

Copy, headed ‘A Posey on a Pursestringe’, subscribed ‘W: S:’.

This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.

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

f. 24v

• RaW 497: Sir Walter Ralegh, Vertue the best monument (‘Not Caesars birth made Caesar to suruiue’)

Copy, subscribed ‘S^r Walt: Raleighe’.

Edited from this MS in Latham and in Rudick.

First published in Latham (1929). Latham (1951), p. 53. Rudick, No. 59, p. 137.

Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, p. 147, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.

f. 27v

• StW 213: William Strode, A Letter impos'd (‘Goe, happy paper, by commande’)

Copy, subscribed ‘W: S:’.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 100-1. The Poems and Amyntas of Thomas Randolph, ed. John Jay Parry (New Haven & London, 1917), pp. 219-20. Forey, pp. 32-3.

f. 28r

• StW 435: William Strode, On a Gentlewomans Watch that wanted a Key (‘Thou pretty Heavn, whose greate and lesser spheares’)

Copy, subscribed ‘W: S:’.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 36-7. Forey, pp. 44-6.

f. 28v

• StW 647: William Strode, An Opposite to Melancholy (‘Returne my joyes, and hither bring’)

Copy, subscribed ‘W: S:’.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 15. Forey, pp. 103-5.

ff. 28v-9r

• HoJ 207: John Hoskyns, On Dreames (‘Yo^u nimble dreames w^th cob webb winges’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

Osborn, No. XXI (p. 189).

ff. 29v-30r

• CwT 1088: Thomas Carew, To my Mistresse in absence (‘Though I must live here, and by force’)

Copy, headed ‘To his absent M^rs’, subscribed ‘T: C:’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 22.

f. 35r

• CwT 730: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘Aske me no more whether doth stray’)

Copy, originally headed ‘A Complement to his M^rs’, this heading deleted and reheaded in a different hand ‘To the Queene’.

This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 264.

First published in a five-stanza version beginning ‘Aske me no more where Iove bestowes’ in Poems (1640) and in Poems: by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640), and edited in this version in Dunlap, pp. 102-3. Musical setting by John Wilson published in Cheerful Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1659). All MS versions recorded in CELM, except where otherwise stated, begin with the second stanza of the published version (viz. ‘Aske me no more whether doth stray’).

For a plausible argument that this poem was actually written by William Strode, see Margaret Forey, ‘Manuscript Evidence and the Author of “Aske me no more”: William Strode, not Thomas Carew’, EMS, 12 (2005), 180-200. See also Scott Nixon, ‘“Aske me no more” and the Manuscript Verse Miscellany’, ELR, 29/1 (Winter 1999), 97-130, which edits and discusses MSS of this poem and also suggests that it may have been written by Strode.

ff. 35r-6v

• CwT 190: Thomas Carew, An Elegie on the La: Pen: sent to my Mistresse out of France (‘Let him, who from his tyrant Mistresse, did’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on y^e death of the Lady Pemstone sent out of France’.

This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 222.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 19-21.

ff. 36v-7r

• StW 1255: William Strode, In eundem [the death of Mr. Fra. Lancaster] (‘To die is Natures debt. and when’)

Copy, headed ‘On the death of M^r Francis Lancaster stab'd’, subscribed ‘Peter Bradshawe’.

This MS recorded in Forey.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 340.

f. 37r

• DaJ 111: Sir John Davies, Upon a Coffin by S.I.D. (‘There was a man bespake a thing’)

Copy, headed ‘A Riddle’ and subscribed ‘A Coffin’.

This MS collated in Krueger.

First published in William Parkes, The Curtaine-Drawer of the World (London, 1612). Krueger, p. 243.

f. 37r

• GrJ 68: John Grange, ‘O bury not this dead child: lett him lie’

Copy, headed ‘On the death of a childe’, subscribed ‘Jo: Grange’.

Unpublished?

ff. 37v-8v

• MnJ 9: John Milton, An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester (‘This rich Marble doth enterr’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Marchionesse of Winchester whoe died in Childbedd. Ap: 15. 1631’ [the date here changed from ‘1633’] and subscribed ‘Jo Milton of Chr: Coll Cambr.’

This MS collated by editors; discussed in William R. Parker, ‘Milton and the Marchioness of Winchester’, MLR, 44 (1949), 547-50.

First published in Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 28-31. Darbishire, II, 133-5. Carey & Fowler, pp. 126-9.

ff. 38v-9r

• StW 119: William Strode, An Epitaph on Sir John Walter, Lord cheife Baron (‘Farewell Example, Living Rule farewell’)

Copy, headed ‘On the death of S^r Jo: Walter’.

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 73-5. Forey, pp. 130-2.

ff. 39v-40r

• StW 347: William Strode, On a Dissembler (‘Could any shew where Pliny's people dwell’)

Copy, with two lines added interlineally in a different hand.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 33-4. Forey pp. 42-3.

f. 40r-v

• CwT 1222: Thomas Carew, Vpon the Kings sicknesse (‘Sicknesse, the minister of death, doth lay’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 35-6.

f. 41v

• HrJ 40: Sir John Harington, Against Swearing (‘In elder times an ancient custome was’)

Copy, headed ‘Of Sweaeringe’.

First published in Henry Fitzsimon, S.J., The Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (Douai, 1611). 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 9. McClure No. 263, p. 256. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 30, p. 220.

f. 41r-v

• WoH 165: 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, headed ‘S^r Walter Raleigh in the vnquiett rest of his last sickness’.

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

f. 42r-v

• TiC 24: Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Lament (‘My prime of youth is but a frost of cares’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘My springe of youth is but a frost of care’.

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

f. 43r

• SpE 5: Edmund Spenser, Amoretti. Sonnet VIII (‘More then most faire, full of the liuing fire’)

Copy, untitled.

Printed from this MS in Cummings, pp. 128-9.

Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 198.

ff. 43v-4r

• WoH 89: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy of a six-stanza version, headed ‘On Ladie Eliz: Queene of Bohemia by S^r H: Wotton’.

This MS recorded by Agnes Conway in TLS (4 September 1924), p. 540.

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

ff. 46v-7r

• GrJ 3: John Grange, ‘A Lover once I did espy’

Copy, headed ‘Sonnett’, here beginning ‘A restless louer I espy'd’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published, in a musical setting, in Playford, Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (1652), I, 12. Poems (1660), pp. 86-7, beginning ‘A Restless Lover I espy'd’, superscribed ‘P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’, and in Krueger's Appendix II list of poems by John Grange.

f. 47r-v

• PeW 267: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Pastoral (‘Shepherd, gentle Shepherd hark’)

Copy, headed ‘A Pastoral betweene a Louer, and a Shepheard uppon hearing a faire Nimph singe in the woods’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Poems (1660), pp. 88-9, the Lover's speech attributed to ‘P.’, the Shepherd's to ‘R.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’.

f. 49r-v

• PeW 298: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A stragling Lover reclaim'd (‘Till now I never did believe’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published, in a musical setting, in Henry Lawes, Ayres and Dialogues (1653), Part I, p. 16. John Cotgrave, Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), p. 45. Poems (1660), pp. 90-1, superscribed ‘P.’ Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as probably by Sir Thomas Neville.

ff. 50v-1r

• GrJ 37.1: John Grange, ‘Blind beauty! If it be a loss’

Copy, headed ‘A Louer not haueinge y^e hart to speak to his M^rs would haue had her vnderstand his mynde by his Lookes’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published in Poems (1660), pp. 67-9, headed ‘Sonnet. P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as probably by John Grange.

f. 51v

• RaW 301: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Poem of Sir Walter Rawleighs (‘Nature that washt her hands in milke’)

Copy of lines 1-12, 19-24, headed ‘Sonnett’.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 119-20.

First published in A.H. Bullen, Speculum Amantis (London, 1889), pp. 76-7. Latham, pp. 21-2. Rudick, Nos 43A and 43B (two versions, pp. 112-14).

ff. 51v-2v

• StW 488: William Strode, On Faireford windores (‘I know noe paint of Poetry’)

Copy, subscribed ‘R: C:’.

Edited from this MS in The Poems of Richard Corbet, ed. Octavius Gilchrist (London, 1807), pp. 239-42.

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

f. 53v

• CoR 507: Richard Corbett, On Mr. Rice the Manciple of Christ-Church In Oxford (‘Who can doubt Rice to which Eternall place’)

Copy, subscribed ‘R: C:’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 73.

f. 54r-v

• CoR 178: Richard Corbett, An Elegie written upon the death of Dr. Ravis Bishop of London (‘When I past Paules, and travell'd in that walke’)

Copy, headed ‘On D^r King Bishopp of London’, subscribed ‘R: C:’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 3-4.

f. 54v

• JnB 456: Ben Jonson, Song. To Celia (‘Drinke to me, onely, with thine eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘To his M^rs’, an original subscription ‘B J:’ deleted and replaced by another hand as ‘M^r Cary’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in The Forrest (ix) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 106.

f. 55r

• JnB 329: Ben Jonson, The Musicall strife. In a Pastorall Dialogue (‘Come, with our Voyces, let us warre’)

Copy, headed ‘Sonnett’, subscribed ‘B J:’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in The Vnder-wood (iii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 143-4.

ff. 55v-6r

• CwT 1027: Thomas Carew, To Ben. Iohnson. Vpon occasion of his Ode of defiance annext to his Play of the new Inne (‘'Tis true (deare Ben:) thy just chastizing hand’)

Copy, headed ‘To Ben: Johnson vppon occasion of his Ode to himselfe come leause the Loathed Stage’, subscribed ‘T: C:’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 64-5.

ff. 56r-7r

• FeO 3: Owen Felltham, An Answer to the Ode of Come leave the loathed Stage, &c. (‘Come leave this saucy way’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon Ben Johnsons play call'd -- the newe Inne 1629’, subscribed ‘Owen Feltham’.

A version first published, as ‘Against Ben: Johnson’, in Panassus Biceps, ed. Abraham Wright (London, 1656), pp. 154-6. Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 26-8.

f. 57v

• CwT 494: Thomas Carew, On his Mistres lookeinge in a glasse (‘This flatteringe glasse whose smooth face weares’)

Copy, headed ‘To his Mistress. Looking in a glasse’.

This MS collated in Dunlap.

First published in Hazlitt (1870), pp. 23-4. Dunlap. p. 132.

f. 58r

• CwT 338: Thomas Carew, Griefe ingrost (‘Wherefore doe thy sad numbers flow’)

Copy, headed ‘To his Scornfull M^rs.’, subscribed ‘T: C.’

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 44-5. The eight-lline version first published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 7, and reprinted in Dunlap. p. 234.

f. 58r-v

• KiH 789: Henry King, The Vow-Breaker (‘When first the Magick of thine Ey’)

Copy, headed ‘To an inconstant M^rs.’, subscribed ‘H: K’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 160-1.

ff. 58v-9R

• KiH 575: Henry King, Sonnet (‘I prethee turne that face away’)

Copy, subscribed ‘H: K:’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1641). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.

Musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (Oxford, 1659).

f. 59r

• KiH 592: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Tell mee no more how faire shee is’)

Copy, subscribed ‘H: K.’

This MS collated in Crum.

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

f. 59v

• KiH 566: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Go Thou, that vainly dost mine eyes invite’)

Copy, subscribed ‘H: K’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 162.

ff. 59v-60r

• KiH 17: Henry King, The Anniverse. An Elegy (‘So soone grow'n old? Hast thou bin six yeares dead?’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie’, subscribed ‘H: K:’.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 72-3.

f. 60r

• KiH 308: Henry King, An Epitaph On Niobe turn'd to Stone (‘This Pile thou see'st, built out of Flesh not Stone’)

Copy, subscribed ‘H K’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 156.

f. 61v

• CwT 1171: Thomas Carew, The tooth-ach cured by a kisse (‘Fate's now growne mercifull to men’)

Copy, headed ‘On the recouerie from the Tooth ache by a faire Ladies kisse’, subscribed ‘Ro: Ellice’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 109-10.

f. 62r

• StW 514: William Strode, On Mistress Mary Prideaux dying younge (‘Sleepe pretty one, oh sleepe while I’)

Copy of the third poem (lines 85-106), here beginning ‘Happie graue that dost vnshrine’, subscribed ‘G Morley’.

This MS collated in Forey.

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

ff. 62v-3r

• HeR 409: Robert Herrick, Upon a Cherrystone sent to the tip of the Lady Jemmonia Walgraves eare (‘Lady I intreate yow weare’)

Copy, headed ‘On a cherry stone sent to weare in his M^rs eare, a deaths head on the one side & her face on the other’, subscribed ‘Rog: Hericke’.

Edited in part from this MS in Patrick; collated in Martin.

First published in Delattre (1912), 519-21. Martin, pp. 417-18. Patrick, pp. 547-8.

ff. 63v-4v

• RnT 350: Thomas Randolph, Upon a very deformed Gentlewoman, but of a voice incomparably sweet (‘I chanc'd sweet Lesbia's voice to heare’)

Copy, headed ‘On a French woeman attendinge the Queene, vglie in shape, but incomparable in her voice’ and here beginning ‘Sweet Lesbia's voice I chanc'd to heere’, suscribed ‘Tho: Randolphe’.

This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury; collated in Davis.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 115-17. Davis, pp. 92-105.

f. 64v

• BrW 102: William Browne of Tavistock, On Mr. John Deane, of New College (‘Let no man walk near this tomb’)

Copy.

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

f. 65r

• BrW 145: William Browne of Tavistock, On One Born Blind, and so Dead (‘Who (but some one like thee) could ever say’)

Copy.

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

f. 65r

• BrW 105: William Browne of Tavistock, On Mr. Vaux, the Physician (‘Stay! this grave deserves a tear’)

Copy.

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

f. 65r

• BrW 125: William Browne of Tavistock, On Mrs. Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor (‘Nature in this small volume was about’)

Copy.

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. 65v

• BrW 91: William Browne of Tavistock, On an Infant Unborn, and the Mother Dying in Travail (‘Within this grave there is a grave entomb'd’)

Copy.

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. 66r

• BrW 163: William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow (‘Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd’)

Copy.

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

f. 66r

• BrW 48: 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.

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

f. 68v

• GrJ 86: John Grange, ‘To the world Ile nowe discouer’

Copy.

A poem based on Ben Jonson's song ‘If I freely may discouer’ in The Poetaster (II, ii, 163 et seq.). Published in John Wardroper, Love and Drollery (London, 1969), pp. 102-3.

f. 70r

• CwT 374: Thomas Carew, Ingratefull beauty threatned (‘Know Celia, (since thou art so proud,)’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 17-18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).

f. 70v

• CwT 810: Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing (‘Harke how my Celia, with the choyce’)

Copy, headed ‘Sonnet’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.

ff. 70v-1r

• CwT 160: Thomas Carew, Disdaine returned (‘Hee that loves a Rosie cheeke’)

Copy, headed ‘Another’.

This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 222.

First published (stanzas 1-2), in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Complete in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

f. 71r

• KiH 31: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)

Copy, headed ‘The Boyes answere’.

This MS collated in Crum.

ff. 71v-2r

• PoW 30: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’

Copy, headed ‘In praise of black hare & eyes’, subscribed in another hand ‘M^r Walton Poole’.

ff. 72v-3r

• BmF 65: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Lady Markham (‘As unthrifts groan in straw for their pawn'd beds’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 503-5.

ff. 73v-4r

• BmF 12: Francis Beaumont, Ad Comitissam Rutlandiae (‘Madam, so may my verses pleasing be’)

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 74r-v

• CwT 559: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind (‘Goe thou gentle whispering wind’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Sigh’ and here beginning ‘Go gentle whistling winde’.

This MS recorded in Dunlap, pp. 219-20.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.

f. 74v

• HeR 81: Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song (‘Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return’)

Copy, headed ‘A forsaken Lady that died for Loue’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).

f. 75v

• HeR 14: Robert Herrick, The admonition (‘Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Ladies dresse of hare stuck w^th Jewells’.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 130-1. Patrick, p. 177.

f. 76r

• WoH 208: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset then falling from favour (‘Dazzled thus with the height of place’)

Copy, headed ‘Of ffauorites’.

This MS collated in Pebworth, p. 161 seq.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 522. Hannah (1845), pp. 25-7. Some texts of this poem discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Sir Henry Wotton's “Dazel'd Thus, with Height of Place” and the Appropriation of Political Poetry in the Earlier Seventeenth Century’, PBSA, 71 (1977), 151-69.

f. 76r

• PeW 166: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Lover's Dedication of his Service to a vertuous Gentlewoman (‘What I in Woman long have wisht to see’)

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Poems (1660), p. 85, superscribed ‘P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’.

f. 76v

• CwT 1248: Thomas Carew, A Louers passion (‘Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Dunlap.

First published, as ‘The Rapture, by J.D.’, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), pp. 3-4 [unique exemplum in the Huntington edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990)]. Cupids Master-Piece (London, [?1656]). Dunlap, p. 192.

f. 76v

• StW 756: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy.

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

f. 77r

• StW 841: William Strode, Song (‘Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye’)

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 77v

• CwT 124: Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris (‘Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke’)

Copy.

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

f. 78r

• StW 449: William Strode, On a good legge and foote (‘If Hercules tall Stature might be guest’)

Copy.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 108-9. Forey, pp. 16-17.

f. 78v

• CwT 150: Thomas Carew, A deposition from Love (‘I was foretold, your rebell sex’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 16-17. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

ff. 78v-9r

• CwT 321: Thomas Carew, Good counsell to a young Maid (‘When you the Sun-burnt Pilgrim see’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 25.

f. 79r-v

• CwT 957: Thomas Carew, Song. To one that desired to know my Mistris (‘Seeke not to know my love, for shee’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 39-40. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

f. 80v

• MoG 63: George Morley, On the Nightingale (‘My limbs were weary and my head oppressed’)

Copy.

ff. 80v-1r

• CwT 515: Thomas Carew, On sight of a Gentlewomans face in the water (‘Stand still you floods, doe not deface’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the seeing of his M^rs face in y^e Water’ and here beginning ‘Stand still yee streames doe not deface’.

This MS collated in part in Dunlap, p. 263.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 102.

ff. 81v-2r

• CwT 1228: Thomas Carew, Vpon the sicknesse of (E.S.) (‘Mvst she then languish, and we sorrow thus’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the sickness of his M^rs being ill of a Calenture’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 31-2.

f. 82r-v

• StW 39: William Strode, The commendation of gray Eies (‘Looke how the russet Morne exceedes the Night’)

Copy.

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

ff. 82v-3r

• CwT 465: Thomas Carew, My mistris commanding me to returne her letters (‘So grieves th'adventrous Merchant, when he throwes’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon his inconstant M^rs comanding him to returne back her letters’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 9-11.

f. 84r

• KiH 634: Henry King, Sonnet (‘When I entreat, either thou wilt not heare’)

Copy, headed ‘‘The discouraged suito^r’’.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 148.

f. 84r

• KiH 608: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Tell mee you Starrs that our affections move’)

Copy, headed ‘Loue ill Requited’.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales & Ayres (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.

f. 84v

• CwT 882: Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie (‘Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face’)

Copy, headed ‘A Charming beauty’.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

f. 87r-v

• CwT 1276: Thomas Carew, The mistake (‘When on faire Celia I did spie’)

Copy, headed ‘On a faire ladie that wore in her breast a wounded harte Carved in pretious stone’, subscribed ‘Hen: Blunt’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 187-8. Possibly by Henry Blount.

ff. 87v-8r

• CwT 1139: Thomas Carew, To T.H. a Lady resembling my Mistresse (‘Fayre copie of my Celia's face’)

Copy, headed ‘Of one like his M^rs’.

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

f. 88r

• HeR 389: Robert Herrick, To his false Mistris (‘Whither are all her false oathes blowne’)

Copy, headed ‘On a false M^rs’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Martin (1956), p. 420. Patrick, pp. 68-9.

f. 88v

• PeW 74: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of Friendship (‘Friendship on Earth we may as easily find’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Poems (1660), p. 48, but without attribution. Krueger, pp. 41-2, among ‘Pembroke's Poems’.

f. 89r

• KiH 671: Henry King, The Surrender (‘My once Deare Love. Happlesse that I no more’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J. B.’.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 146-7.

ff. 89v-90r

• JnB 207: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 4. The Mind (‘Painter, yo'are come, but may be gone’)

Copy, headed ‘Minde’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

f. 90v

• StW 163: William Strode, In commendation of Musique (‘When whispering straines do softly steale’)

Copy, headed ‘The comendation of Musick’, subscribed ‘W.S.’

This MS collated in Forey.

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

f. 91r

• RnT 388: Thomas Randolph, Upon the losse of his little finger (‘Arithmetique nine digits, and no more’)

Copy, headed ‘Randolls verses on the Losse of his finger’.

This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 56-7.

f. 91r-v

• JnB 168: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body (‘Sitting, and ready to be drawne’)

Copy, headed ‘Of his M^rs sitting to be drawne’, with a marginal note that this should have appeared with ‘Mynde’ on ‘p. 154’ (i.e. JnB 207).

First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).

Sloane MS 1454

A quarto miscellany of letters, verse and prescriptions, in at least two hands, written from both ends, 35 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. c.1647.

f. 26r

• StW 799: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘I see Faire Cloris walke alone’.

f. 28r-v

• StW 1184: William Strode, The Townes new teacher (‘With Face and Fashion to bee knowne’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘By face & fashion to be knowne’.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Forey, pp. 167-9.

Sloane MS 1455

A quarto composite volume of speeches and tracts, in several hands, 85 leaves, in modern crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

ff. 16r-19r

• CtR 169: Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy

Copy, in an italic hand, as by ‘S^r Ro: Cotton’. c.1630s.

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.

Sloane MS 1458

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, including material relating to Oxford University, probably in several hands, 55 leaves, in mottled leather gilt. c.1677.

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Richard Enock [b.1657/8] e coll: Trin: Oxon’, possibly the principal compiler.

ff. 16r-18r

• RoJ 311: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)

Copy of lines 1-173.

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. 23r-v

• DrJ 36: John Dryden, Epilogue to The Man of Mode (‘Most Modern Wits, such monstrous Fools have shown’)

Copy, headed ‘The Epilogue written by M^r Dryden and spoken by Smith or S^r ffopling’.

This MS collated in California and in Dearing; recorded in Kinsley, IV, 1860-1.

f. 35r

• HbT 19.2: Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic

Extracts.

First published, dedicated to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, in two parts, as Humane Nature: Or, The fundamental Elements of Policie, (London, [1649]-1650), and as De Corpore Politico: or The Elements of Law, Moral and Politick (London, 1650). Molesworth, English, IV, 1-76, 77-228. Edited by Ferdinand Tönnies (London, 1889). 2nd edition, with an introduction by M.M. Goldsmith, (London, 1969).

Sloane MS 1467

A quarto composite volume of parliamentary speeches and related papers, in several hands, 154 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

f. 1r-v

• ClJ 26: John Cleveland, A Dialogue between two Zealots, upon the &c. in the Oath (‘Sir Roger, from a zealous piece of Freeze’)

Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, headed ‘A Dialogue betweene two zelotts concerning &c. in the new Oath’. Mid-17th century.

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 4-5.

Sloane MS 1479

A duodecimo miscellany of ‘Sales, Facetiæ, & Collectiones promiscuæ’, including academic letters, speeches, etc., in English and Latin, in several hands, 56 leaves (plus blanks), the texts dating c.1623-1658, in red crushed morocco gilt. Compiled at least in part by a Cambridge University man. Mid-17th century.

f. 47r

• CoR 11: Richard Corbett, Against the Opposing the Duke in Parliament, 1628 (‘The wisest King did wonder when hee spy'd’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 152.

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

Sloane MS 1487

A duodecimo miscellany, written from both ends, 130 leaves. Late 17th century.

Once owned by one William Couplan.

f. 4r-v

• DrJ 251: John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts, Part I, Act IV, scene ii, lines 122-49. Song (‘Wherever I am, and whatever I doe’)

Copy of the song.

This MS collated in part in California; recorded in Day, p. 151.

California, XI, 69-70. Kinsley, I, 132-3. Hammond, I, 239-40.

Sloane MS 1489

A duodecimo miscellany of verse and jests, in a minute hand, compiled by a Cambridge man, 59 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt. c.1630.

f. 9v

• RaW 402: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘ICUR, good Mounser Carr’

Copy.

First published in Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, ed. Frederick J. Furnivall, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted in New York, 1977), p. 20. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 48, p. 121 (as ‘Sir Walter Raleigh to the Lord Carr’).

f. 10r

• HrJ 41: Sir John Harington, Against Swearing (‘In elder times an ancient custome was’)

Copy, untitled.

f. 10r

• HrJ 242: Sir John Harington, Of Fortune (‘Fortune, men say, doth giue too much to many’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 56. McClure No. 310, p. 272. Authorship uncertain.

f. 10v

• HrJ 61: Sir John Harington, A comparison of a Booke, with Cheese (‘Old Haywood writes, & proues in some degrees’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Heiwood affirms & proves in some degrees’.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 72. McClure No. 326, pp. 276-7. Kilroy, II, Book I, No. 1, p. 130.

f. 11r

• HoJ 151: John Hoskyns, An Ep: one a man for doyinge nothinge (‘Here lyes the man was borne and cryed’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Here lyes a man was borne, then cryed’.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

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

f. 16v

• RaW 346: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘The word of deniall, and the letter of fifty’

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 138.

First published, as ‘The Answer’ to ‘A Riddle’ (‘Th'offence of the stomach, with the word of disgrace’), in Works (1829), VIII, 736. Latham, pp. 47-8. Rudick, Nos 19A, 19B and 19C (three versions, pp. 28-9).

f. 21v

• MrJ 66: John Marston, Georg IVs DVX BVCkIngaMIae MDCXVVVIII (‘Thy numerous name with this yeare doth agree’)

Copy.

f. 21v

• RaW 256: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy, subscribed ‘S^r: Wa: Raleigh’.

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.

ff. 25r-6r

• HoJ 65: John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart (‘Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke’)

Copy, headed ‘A fart let at y^e parlam^t, in K. James tyme’ and here beginning ‘Downe came ancient S^r John Crooke’.

Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of ‘Doubtful Verses’ in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.

f. 35v

• JnB 396: Ben Jonson, On Giles and Ione (‘Who sayes that Giles and Ione at discord be?’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in Epigrammes (xlii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 40.

f. 57v

• DkT 40: Thomas Dekker, Vpon the Queenes last Remoue being dead (‘The Queene's remou'de in solemne sort’)

Copy.

First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Grosart, I, 93.

Sloane MS 1504

An octavo journal and memorandum book, chiefly relating to a journey to the Netherlands and France, 73 leaves. Compiled by one Latimer Ridley. 1679.

ff. 69r-70v

• RoJ 27: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book (‘Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Amsterdam. Oct: 8/79 Capt: Stead gave y^e Copy’.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.

Sloane MS 1506

Extracts, headed ‘Notes taken out of Milton concerning y^e History of England’, 41 duodecimo leaves, in modern cloth gilt. Mid-late 17th century.

MnJ 48.6: John Milton, The History of Britain

First published in London, 1670-71.

Sloane MS 1540

A folio volume of Cambridge academic orations, 95 leaves. c.1630.

ff. 74r-6v

• RnT 436.5: Thomas Randolph, Oratio

Copy.

The Latin preface to Randolph's ‘Salting’ (RnT 444), beginning ‘Erga vos (viri gravissimi) filijs pietatem didici, sed quid demum sed ignotu hoc patris officium prorsus nescio…’. Edited in Elizabeth Ann Perryman Freidberg, Certain Small Festivities: The Texts and Contexts of Thomas Randolph's Poems and Cambridge Entertainments (unpublished PhD dissertation, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, June 1994), I, 75-9, with an English translation on pp. 97-101.

ff. 77r-82r

• RnT 443.5: Thomas Randolph, Praeludium

Copy, subscribed ‘This was M^r Randolphs salting speech’.

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

Sloane MS 1566

Copy, in a single professional secretary hand, entitled ‘Leicesters Respublica’, 83 folio leaves, in half mottled calf on marbled boards. Late 16th century.

LeC 29: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

Sloane MS 1675

Copy, 72 quarto leaves. Mid-late 17th century.

HrJ 331: Sir John Harington, A Supplie or Addicion to the Catalogue of Bishops, to y^e Yeare 1608

Once owned by Moses Pitt (1639-97), bookseller and printer.

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

Sloane MS 1677

A miscellany. 17th century.

ff. 72-107

• BuR 1.9: Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

Extracts, invariably taken from printed sources.

First published in Oxford, 1621. Edited by A.R. Shilleto (introduced by A.H. Bullen), 3 vols (London, 1893). Edited variously by Thomas C. Faulkner, Nicolas K. Kiessling, Rhonda L. Blair, J.B. Bamborough, and Martin Dodsworth, 6 vols (Oxford, 1989-2000).

Sloane MS 1695

Formal copy, in a professional secretary hand, with frequent engrossed lettering, with a preliminary rubric headed ‘The effecte of the discourse’, subscribed ‘Lately made by E. S.’ and dated ‘1596’, 53 folio leaves, in modern half morocco gilt. 1596-early 17th century.

SpE 51: Edmund Spenser, A View of the Present State of Ireland

First published in Sir James Ware, The Historie of Ireland (Dublin, 1633). Variorum, Prose Works (ed. Rudolf Gottfried), pp. 39-231.

Spenser's authorship of this ‘View’ is generally accepted, especially in light of the comparable views about Ireland in The Faerie Queene. A cautionary note about authorship is sounded, however, in Jean R. Brink, ‘Constructing the View of the Present State of Ireland’, Spenser Studies, 11 (1994), 203-28; in her ‘Appropriating the Author of The Faerie Queene: The Attribution of the View of the Present State of Ireland and A Brief Note of Ireland to Edmund Spenser’, in Soundings of Things Done: Essays in Early Modern Literature in Honor of S.K. Heninger, Jr., ed. Peter E. Medine and Joseph Wittreich (Newark, Delaware, 1997), 93-136. See also, inter alia, Andrew Hadfield, ‘Certainties and Uncertainties: By Way of Response to Jean Brink’, Spenser Studies, 12 (1998), 197-202, and Jean R. Brink, ‘Spenser and the Irish Question: Reply to Andrew Hadfield’, Spenser Studies, 13 (1999), 265-6.

Sloane MS 1705

A folio volume comprising two tracts (the second a Life of John Fisher), in a single hand, 94 leaves, in modern binding. Late 16th century.

ff. 1r-32r

• MrT 96: Sir Thomas More, William Roper's Life of Sir Thomas More

Copy, imperfect.

Collated in Hitchcock and described, pp. xiv-xv.

First published in London, 1626. Edited, as The Lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte, written by William Roper Esquire, by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock (EETS, London, 1935).

Sloane MS 1709

A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in prose and verse, in various hands, 303 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

ff. 12r-22r

• BmF 151: Francis Beaumont, The Grammar Lecture

Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, subscribed ‘Francis Beamount’, following (ff. 2r-12r) an ‘Arithmetique Lecture by S^r Hennage ffynch’ in the same hand. Early 17th century.

Edited from this MS in Eccles. Recorded in Scott.

A mock-lecture, beginning ‘Gramaticæ quatuor sunt partes (sayth Lyly) orthographia, which is thus orthographia...’, delivered at Christmas revels of the Inner Temple. First published in Mark Eccles, ‘Francis Beaumont's Grammar Lecture’, RES, 16 (1940), 402-16. Recorded in Edward Scott, ‘An Unknown Work of Francis Beaumont’, The Athenaeum (27 January 1894), p. 115.

ff. 23r-34r

• CtR 402: Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England

Copy, in a secretary and italic hand, on rectos, with facing notes on versos in another hand or style, headed ‘A Short view of K. Hen. y^e third his Raigne’. c.1620s.

Treatise, written c.1614 and ‘Presented to King James’, beginning ‘Wearied with the lingering calamities of Civil Arms...’. First published in London, 1627. Cottoni posthuma (1651), at the end (i + pp. 1-27).

ff. 269r-70r

• B&F 207: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Song (‘It was a Ladies daughter, &c’)

Copy.

Quoted in The Knight of the Burning Pestle. Bowers, V, 219.

Sloane MS 1710

A folio composite volume of state papers, tracts and some Latin verse, in several professional hands (including the ‘Feathery Scribe’ on ff. 226r-47r), 359 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf.

356v-7r

• RnT 458.5: Thomas Randolph, The Combat of the Cocks (‘Go, you tame gallants, you that have the name’)

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘A teribile true & troublesome Tragicall relation of a duell fought at wisbich: June 17^th: 1637’, on two formerly conjugate folio leaves once folded as a letter or packet.

(Sometimes called A terible true Tragicall relacon of a duell fought at Wisbich June the 17^th: 1637.) Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Hazlitt, I, xviii. II, 667-70. By Robert Wild.

Sloane MS 1731

A folio composite volume of papers, 171 leaves. Assembled by Dr W. Wall. c.1700.

A, f. 115r

• DoC 326.995: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Death of the Duke of Gloucester (‘For Gloucester's death, which sadly we deplore’)

Copy.

Recorded in Harris.

First published in Tom Browne, Remains (London, 1720), p. 143. Edited and discussed in Harris, pp. 184-5. Possibly by another Lord Dorset.

A, f. 120r

• VaJ 7: Sir John Vanbrugh, To a Lady More Cruel than Fair (‘Why d'ye with such Disdain refuse’)

Copy, untitled, on a single folio leaf.

First published, ascribed to ‘Mr Vanbrook’, in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704), pp. 245-6.

A., f. 171r

• RoJ 225: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons (‘If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Romanists’ on a single folio leaf.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among ‘Poems Possibly by Rochester’. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.

Sloane MS 1733

A quarto volume of chiefly Latin medical and philosophical tracts and extracts, 475 leaves. 17th century.

f. 7r-v

• BcF 684: Francis Bacon, Extracts

Extracts, headed ‘Propositiones ponderum rerum ejusdem Magnitudinis, ex opusculis philosophicis Verulamis’.

Sloane MS 1745

Folio, 37 leaves (plus blanks); notebook, largely autograph. Comprising [A] Sir Thomas Browne's autograph copies of correspondence with his second son, Lieutenant Thomas Browne (d. c.1667) in 1666-7, including Admiral John Kempthorne's General Orders at Sea (f. 16r-v); [B] Sir Thomas's autograph copy of ‘Verses [by Thomas] at the end of his Horace & Juvenal which hee had with him at Sea’ (ff. 20-1) and verses written on board the Marie Rose (f. 21); [C] Sir Thomas's autograph copy of his son Thomas's account of ‘My Journey from Bourdeaux to Paris in 1662’ (ff. 22-9); [D] an incomplete copy in another hand of the younger Thomas Browne's journal for part of 1666, headed in Sir Thomas's hand ‘from the Thames to falmouth’ (ff. 31-7v); [E] other family notes (ff. 1, 30r-v [dated 1702]).

*BrT 28: Sir Thomas Browne, Remains and Collectanea

The correspondence [A] edited in Wilkin, I, 128-34, 141-9. One of the letters (by Sir Thomas) in Keynes, IV, No. 17. The account [C] edited in Wilkin, I, 17-22. The journal [D] edited in Wilkin, I, 134-42.

Sloane MS 1768

A small folio volume of Latin verse, 103 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Comprising (ff. 1v-28r) ‘Exercitatis Poëtica’ by Francis Thorius, French physician and poet, in a roman hand; (ff. 29r-93r), autograph drafts by his son Raphael Thorius (d.1625), physician and poet; and (ff. 94r-103v) verse by ‘F. Thorius’ in a cursive italic. Early 17th century.

f. 87v.

• DnJ 1627.8: John Donne, Ignatij Loyolae Apotheosis (‘Qui sacer ante fuit, sanctus nunc incipit esse’)

Autograph fair copy by Raphael Thorius, headed ‘In Ignatij Loiolæ apotheosin’ and here beginning ‘Qui fuit ante sacer, sanctus nunc incipit esse’.

This MS cited in Beal & Kelliher.

First published in P.G. Stanwood, ‘A Donne Discovery’, TLS (19 October 1967), p. 984. Reprinted in John Donne, Ignatius his Conclave, ed. T. S. Healy, S.J. (Oxford, 1969), pp. 174-5, and in Shawcross, pp. 505-6. Variorum, 8 (1995), p. 253, as ‘Dubium’.

This Latin poem is not by Donne but by the physician and poet Raphael Thorius (d.1625): see Peter Beal and Hilton Kelliher, ‘John Donne’, TLS (12 February 1982), p. 162.

Sloane MS 1775

A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous tracts and state papers, in English and Latin, in various hands, 254 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

ff. 47r-50r

• BcF 183: Francis Bacon, Considerations touching the Queen's Service in Ireland

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, subscribed ‘ffrancis Bacon’.

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

ff. 75r-8r

• BcF 135.5: Francis Bacon, Certain Observations made upon a Libel published this present year, 1592

Copy of the letter on the Queen's religious policies.

A tract beginning ‘It were just and honourable for princes being in war together, that howsever they prosecute their quarrels...’. First published in Resuscitatio, ed. W. Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, VIII, 146-208.

A letter to M. Critoy, Secretary of France, c.1589, ‘A Letter on the Queen's religious policies’, was later incorporated in Certain Observations made upon a Libel, and first published in Cabala, sive scrinia sacra (London, 1654), pp. 38-41.

For the Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles (also known as Cecil's Commonwealth), the ‘Libel’ that Bacon answered, see RaW 383.8.

f. 78r et seq.

• BcF 595: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Bacon to Sir Edward Coke.

ff. 83r-6r

• BcF 596: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

Copy of three letters of advice by Bacon to the Earl of Essex.

f. 86r

• BcF 597: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Bacon to James I.

Sloane MS 1779

A quarto composite volume of state papers and tracts, in various hands, 212 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

ff. 189v-206v

• EsR 222: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1

Copy, imperfect.

ff. 207r-8r

• EsR 286: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The Man[ner of] the death of the Earle of Essex...to his best Remembrance that hard it’, imperfect. Early 17th century.

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

ff. 208v-12v

• BrN 52: Nicholas Breton, The Passion of a Discontented Minde (‘From silent night, true register of mones’)

Copy, in a secretary hand, with the partly obliterated heading ‘...Essex made these verses...’, heavily damaged and imperfect.

This MS recorded in Edward Doughtie, ‘Nicholas Breton and Two Songs by Dowland’, RN, 17 (1964), 1-3, and in Lyrics from English Airs, p. 614.

First published in London, 1601. Attributed to Breton in Robertson, pp. xcii-xcviii, but see also Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 613-15. Printed and firmly attributed to Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, in The Poems of Edward De Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, and of Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, ed. Steven W. May, Studies in Philology, 77, No. 5 (Early Winter 1980), pp. 49-59 (No. 11) and pp. 94-106.

Sloane MS 1786

A folio guard-book of state tracts and papers, in several hands, one professional secretary hand predominating, 191 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

ff. 80v-3r

• HoH 11: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, Abatements nowe in beinge: or to be verie shortlie vppon the Marryage of the Lady Elizabeth to the Counte Pallatyne of the Rhine, Anno 1613: and otherwise ffor the kings Bennifitt

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

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

Sloane MS 1792

An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves. Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.early 1630s.

Inscribed (f. 1r) by one ‘I A’ of Christ Church, Oxford, and also ‘Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison’. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Killigrew MS’: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.

f. 2r-v

• WoH 90: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy of a six-stanza version, headed ‘Sir H. Wotton. on the Lady Elizabeth when she was first crowned Que. of Bohemia’ and here beginning ‘Ye glorious trifles of the East’.

This MS recorded by Agnes Conway in TLS (4 September 1924), p. 540.

f. 4r

• HrJ 91.6: Sir John Harington, Of a certaine Man (‘There was (not certain when) a certaine preacher’)

Copy. headed ‘Erat quidam homo’ and here beginning ‘It is not certain when a certain preacher’.

The text followed by an answer headed ‘Erat quaedam Mulier’ and here beginning ‘That noe man yett could in the scripture find’.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 23. McClure No. 277, p. 262. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 105, p. 250.

f. 5r

• MrJ 84: John Marston, Upon the Dukes Goeing into Fraunce (‘And wilt thou goe, great duke, and leave us heere’)

An anonymous copy.

f. 5r-v

• KiH 120: Henry King, The Defence (‘Why slightest thou what I approve?’)

Copy, headed ‘A louer to one y^t misiudged of his Mistris’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 145-6.

f. 6r

• DaJ 189: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)

Copy, headed ‘On a young man’.

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

f. 6r

• CwT 29: Thomas Carew, Celia bleeding, to the Surgeon (‘Fond man, that canst beleeve her blood’)

Copy, headed ‘A louer on his Mistris, being lett bloud’.

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

ff. 6v-7r

• HoJ 208: John Hoskyns, On Dreames (‘Yo^u nimble dreames w^th cob webb winges’)

This MS recorded in Osborn.

Osborn, No. XXI (p. 189).

f. 10v

• StW 757: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Gentlewoman walking in the snow’.

ff. 11v-12r

• DnJ 460: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)

Copy, headed ‘A gentleman to his M^rs. being a bedd with him that she wold not rise’.

This MS 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. 12r

• DnJ 2965: John Donne, Song (‘Stay, O sweet, and do not rise’)

Copy of a twelve-line version, headed ‘Idem’ and here beginning ‘Sweet stay a while, why doe you rise’.

This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 609-11.

Sloane MS 1815

A duodecimo volume of papers of Dr Francis Bernard and Captain Aston, relating to medicine, astrology, etc., 136 leaves. c.1690s.

f. 57r

• HlJ 7.5: Joseph Hall, To William Bedell (‘Willy, thy Rhythms so sweetly run and rise’)

Copy of a Latin version by William Dillingham of Hall's commendatory verses to William Bedell.

First published in William Bedell, A Protestant Memorial: or, The Shepherd's Tale of the Pouder-Plott (London, 1713). Davenport, p. 123.

Sloane MS 1818

A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous tracts and papers, in various hands, 219 leaves.

ff. 171r-6v

• FeO 86: Owen Felltham, A Brief Character of the Low-Countries

Copy of the first half of the work, incomplete, originally paginated 1-12.

This MS discussed in Van Strien.

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).

Sloane MS 1825

A folio MS of poems chiefly by Thomas Hoccleve, 91 leaves of vellum.

ff. 88v-9r

• MrT 4: Sir Thomas More, The Lamyntacyon off Quene Elyzabeth (‘Ye that put your trust & confydence’)

Copy.

First published, as A ruful lamentacyon, in Workes (London, 1557). Yale, Vol. 1, pp. 9-13.

Sloane MS 1827

A folio composite volume of autograph drafts by Sir Thomas Browne, 86 leaves.

The MS as a whole

• *BrT 29: Sir Thomas Browne, Remains and Collectanea

Autograph drafts by Browne including [D] two Latin epistles, one to a friend intending a difficult work (‘Amico opus arduum meditantij’) (ff. 61-4), the other to a friend on his wearisome chatterer (‘Amico clarissimo de enecante garrulo suo’) (ff. 82v-6); [E] passages on public execution which relate to Pseudodoxia Epidemica, VI, Chapter 21 (ff. 20-2); [F] a series of miscellaneous drafts and observations: on Kircher's treatise De peste (ff. 44-8), naval fights (in English and Latin) (ff. 59v-60v, 65-8), dice (‘De astragalo aut talo’) (ff. 69-70), a reading of Athenaeus (‘nonnulla a Lectione Athenaei scripta’) (ff. 71-7) and a reading of Athenaeus, Platina and Apicius on cookery (‘nonnulla a Lectione Athenaei Platinae Apicii de re culinaria conscripta’) (ff. 77-81). Mid-late 17th century.

The Latin epistles [D] edited from this MS in Wilkin, IV, 290-3, 309-12, and (with English translations) in Keynes, III, 150-5, 181-8; facsimile of the last line and signature on f. 86 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, No. LXXXIX (b). The passages relating to Pseudodoxia Epidemica [E] edited from this MS in Robbins, II, 990-5. The miscellaneous drafts [F] edited from this MS in Wilkin, IV, 277-80, 287-9, 294-308, and (with an English translation of the main Latin passages) in Keynes, III, 155-88, 249-54.

passim

• *BrT 4.1: Sir Thomas Browne, Certain Miscellany Tracts

Autograph draft versions (some incomplete) of nine of the Certain Miscellany Tracts: viz. Nos. XI [‘Of the Answers for the Oracle of Apollo’] (ff. 2-9), X [‘Of Troas’] (ff. 9-13, 17v-18), III [‘Of the Fishes’] (f. 19), V [‘Of Hawks’] (ff. 23-69), VIII [‘Of Languages’] (ff. 27-39), IX [‘Of Artificial Hills’] (ff. 39v-43), IV [‘An Answer to Certain Queries’] (ff. 55-7), VII [‘Of Ropalic’] (ff. 57v-8v), VI [‘Of Cymbals’] (ff. 58-9) [B] ‘A breif reply to severall Queries’, which forms in effect an addition to Certain Miscellany Tracts (ff. 48v-55, 55v); [C] a letter about ‘the improprietie, falsetie, or mistakes in picturall draughts’ which may also relate to Certain Miscellany Tracts (ff. 14-17).

The drafts of Certain Miscellany Tracts [A] collated in part in Wilkin, IV, xv-xvi, 179-230, and in Keynes III, 53-102; Tract VIII discussed by N.J. Endicott in ‘Sir Thomas Browne, Montpellier, and the Tract “Of Languages”’, TLS (24 August 1962), p. 645, and also in UTQ 36 (1966-7), 68-86 (p. 85). ‘The breif reply’ [B] edited from this MS in Wilkin, IV, 281-6, and (but for the passage on f. 57v) in Keynes, III, 224-9. The letter [C] edited from the MS — as, erroneously, an additional passage for Pseudodoxia Epidemica — in Wilkin, III, 157-61, and in Keynes, III, 221-3, but see Robbins, II, 946.

First published (viz. 13 tracts, edited by Archbishop Tenison) in London, 1683. Wilkin, IV, 115-250. Keynes, III, 1-120.

See also BrT 21, BrT 24, BrT 29, BrT 32, BrT 33, BrT 36, BrT 37, and BrT 46.

Sloane MS 1828

A folio composite volume of parliamentary speeches, tracts and plays, in various hands, 170 leaves, in half morocco gilt.

ff. 46r-80v

• OrR 41: Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, Zoroastres

Copy, in several non-professional hands or styles of hand (but not Orrery's hand), with deletions and alterations, some on pasted-on slips of paper, with a title-page ‘The Tragedy of Zoroastres’, ‘Written by the right honourable The late Earl of Orrery’ added in another hand, ‘written in 1676’ inscribed in a small hand on the list of dramatis personae (f. 46v). c.1676.

Edited from this MS in Clark. Discussed, with facsimile examples and the attribution to Orrery effectively dismissed, in Antony Hammond, ‘The Manuscript of Zoroastres’, The Library, 5th Ser. 30 (1975), 34-40 (plus Plates). Facsimile of f. 77r in DLB, vol. 80, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Dramatists. First Series, ed. Paula R. Backscheider (Detroit, 1989), p. 34.

Written c.1675. No stage performance recorded. First published as The Tragedy of Zoroastres, ed. Montague Summers (Cambridge, [1917]). Clark, II, 643-99. The attribution in the unique MS doubtful.

Sloane MS 1830

Folio, 46 leaves (plus blanks); composite volume of correspondence between Sir Thomas Browne and Dr Christopher Merrett, comprising four autograph draft letters by Browne to Merrett (ff. 5-44) and two letters from Merrett to Browne (ff. 1-4); the first letter by Browne (ff. 5-38, with additions on f. 45), consisting of a series of notes on the natural history of Norfolk, chiefly on birds and fishes and (ff. 10-11) on the ostrich. [1688-9].

*BrT 30: Sir Thomas Browne, Remains and Collectanea

The notes on natural history edited from this MS in Wilkin, IV, 313-39 (passim), and in Keynes, III, 354-6, 401-10, 417-26, 430-1. The remaining letters edited in Wilkin, I, 395-403, 442-5, and in Keynes, IV, Nos. 209-12, 217.

Sloane MS 1833

A folio composite volume of tracts, letters and papers, 236 leaves. Comprising tracts, letters and papers, chiefly on medical and anatomical subjects, chiefly in the hand of Dr Edward Browne, including his copies of his father's Oratio anniversaria Harveiana of 1680 (ff. 155-9), ‘Boulimia centenaria’ [of 1 February 1671/2] (f. 24v) and note ‘Upon the darke thick miste happening on the 27 of November, 1674’ (ff. 143r-v-146); some autograph passages by Sir Thomas in Latin (ff. 144-5v, 149-50); and twelve letters by Sir Thomas, 1668-82, five of them in his autograph (ff. 84-5v, 87r-v, 91r-v, 133-4v, 153-4v), the other seven copies in Edward's hand (ff. 14r-v, 17, 18r-v, 19v, 21v-3v).

*BrT 31: Sir Thomas Browne, Remains and Collectanea

The passages (in English) by Sir Thomas Browne edited chiefly from this MS in Wilkin, IV, 340-52, and in Keynes, III, 188-96, 240-3. The letters edited in Wilkin, I, passim, and in Keynes, IV, Nos. 33-5, 50, 52-3, 61, 119, 132, 208, 229, 231. The Oratio edited in part from this MS in Wilkin, IV, 343-52, and in Keynes, III, 188-205; and see also BrT 22 and BrT 21, BrT 36, BrT 44.

Sloane MS 1839

A quarto volume of tracts, 91 leaves. Comprising [A] autograph draft versions by Sir Thomas Browne of three of his Certain Miscellany Tracts, viz. Nos. XI (ff. 1-17), X (ff. 19-26) and VIII (ff. 27-48); and [B] the Observations on Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica written by, and in the autograph of, Sir Hamon L'Estrange of Hunstanton Hall, Norfolk, being the MS he sent to Browne in 1653 (ff. 50-91).

*BrT 32: Sir Thomas Browne, Remains and Collectanea

The Certain Miscellany Tracts [A] Nos VIII and XI edited largely from this MS in Endicott, pp. 425-7, all three tracts collated in part in Keynes, III, 70-83, 88-102; Tract No. VIII also discussed briefly by N.J. Endicott in TLS (24 August 1962), p. 645, and in UTQ, 36 (1966-7), 68-86 (p. 85). The ‘Observations’ by L'Estrange [B] unpublished but recorded in Wilkin, II, 173-5, and in Keynes, IV, 284 (where they are erroneously cited as ‘MS Sloane 1830’); brief extracts from ff. 50v-1 in Robbins, II, 731.

Sloane MS 1841

Autograph draft version of the first of Sir Thomas Browne's Certain Miscellany Tracts [viz. ‘Observations upon several plants mention'd in Scripture’], incomplete, and with a brief additional passage, 72 quarto leaves.

*BrT 33: Sir Thomas Browne, Remains and Collectanea

This MS collated in part in Wilkin, IV, 121-73, and in Keynes, III, 1-48, 120.

Sloane MS 1842

A quarto volume of alchemical treatises and receipts, 117 leaves. Mid-17th century.

f. 117r

• RaW 45: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

Copy, on a leaf pasted in at the end of the volume.

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).

Sloane MS 1843

A quarto notebook, entirely in Sir Thomas Browne's hand, 53 leaves. Including miscellaneous observations on medicine, anatomy, natural history, physics and other subjects, quotations from the classics and other writers and some verses in English and Latin, one passage (f. 13) being an early draft version of a brief passage in Christian Morals, Part I, section 5.

*BrT 34: Sir Thomas Browne, Remains and Collectanea

Selections from this MS edited in Wilkin, IV, 376-80, and in Keynes, III, 272-82. The variant passage for Christian Morals edited in Martin, p. 272. Facsimile example of f. 32v (a passage on brandy drinking) in Petti, English Literary Hands, Nol. 64.

Sloane MS 1847

A quarto composite volume of Sir Thomas Browne's papers, 256 leaves. Chiefly comprising 115 autograph letters by him, 1652-82, the majority to his son Edward, together with one letter addressed to Sir Thomas (f. 57); also including autograph notes by Sir Thomas relating to the European travels of Dr Edward Browne (ff. 65-6v), on plants (f. 105) and on Plutarch (f. 149), an autograph passage possibly relating to The Garden of Cyrus (f. 48v) and three others relating to Christian Morals (ff. 196, 227-8).

*BrT 35: Sir Thomas Browne, Remains and Collectanea

The letters edited in Wilkin, I (selectively, passim), and in Keynes, IV, Nos. 16, 19, 21, 24-8, 30-1, 36-8, 40-5, 47, 51, 54, 56-60, 62-8, 71-7, 80-3, 85-98, 100-4, 106-17, 120-1, 123-30, 133-4, 139-40, 142, 145-50, 152-62, 165-6, 214, 218, 225-6, 230, 232. The notes on plants and Plutarch edited from this MS in Keynes, III, 379 and 262. The passage possibly relating to The Garden of Cyrus edited from this MS in Keynes, I, 227; noted in Martin, p. 270 (where its relation to that work is questioned). The passages relating to Christian Morals edited selectively from this MS in Keynes, I, 291-2, 295, and in Martin, pp. 271-88 (passim). Facsimile of f. 27 [= Keynes, IV, No. 156] in Garnett and Gosse (1903), III, facing p. 52.

Sloane MS 1848

A quarto composite volume of writings entirely in Sir Thomas Browne's hand (except for ff. 173-4), 279 leaves. Comprising miscellaneous drafts and notes, observations and memoranda on anatomy, medicine, natural history and other subjects, including: rough draft notes for his Oratio anniversaria Harveiana (ff. 40-142v), passages on spectacles (f. 148), tutelary angels (f. 174), criticisms of passages in scripture (ff. 175-93), Camaldulenses (f. 196), St Veit (f. 196), St Paul's Cross (f. 210), Plutarch (f. 211) and passages relating to the European travels of his son Dr Edward Browne (ff. 256-66v), with draft letters to Dr Christopher Merrett on natural history (ff. 219-55v) and to his sons Thomas and Edward (ff. 3-10v, 267-9) and two original letters sent to Sir Thomas by members of his family (ff. 173-4); ff. 272v-3v containing notes (on Heydon's Chapel, etc.) relating to Repertorium; ff. 278-9v comprising a draft portion of Certain Miscellany Tracts No. IX, and several passages relating to Christian Morals occurring in ff. 146v, 149v-50, 157, 161-2, 165v, 167v, 195.

*BrT 36: Sir Thomas Browne, Remains and Collectanea

Various of these notes edited selectively from this MS in Keynes, III, 244-5, 261, 265-71, 282, 333-43, 349-54, 361-73, 375-7, 410-15, 426-31. Passages relating to Christian Morals edited in part in Keynes, I, 172 (questionably cited as an addition to Hydriotaphia), 291, 295, and in Martin, pp. 271-88 (passim). Two letters by Sir Thomas to his sons edited in Keynes, IV, Nos. 14 and 46. For the Oratio, see BrT 22 and also BrT 21, BrT 31, BrT 44.

Sloane MS 1849

A folio composite volume of MSS, 94 leaves. Fols 1r-32v comprising miscellaneous writings entirely in Sir Thomas Browne's hand, including his observations on the ear (ff. 1-5), on the ostrich (ff. 6-7), on various European towns and places [relating to Dr Edward Browne's travels] (ff. 8-9, 13, 19, 22-5), on the birth of our Saviour (ff. 17-18v) and on the birds in Norfolk (ff. 20-21v, 27-30v), f. 12 being a single leaf separated from the draft Certain Miscellany Tracts No. XII (see BrT 24, ff. 33-94 comprising tracts in other hands on the muscles, geometry and a translation from Plutarch, the last (ff. 55-94) in the hand of Dr Edward Browne).

*BrT 37: Sir Thomas Browne, Remains and Collectanea

The passages on the ear recorded in Keynes, III, 335. The leaf from the Miscellany Tract edited in part in Endicott, pp. 448-52.

Sloane MS 1855

A quarto MS volume, 84 leaves. Comprising: [A] a copy, entirely in Sir Thomas Browne's autograph, of part of his son Dr Edward Browne's account of his travels in Europe in 1668-9 (ff. 2-54), with additions in Edward Browne's hand on ff. 35v and 44v; [B] a Latin treatise on medicine in the hand of Edward Browne (ff. 55-70); [C] a Latin comedy, ‘Fraus pia’, in an unidentified hand (ff. 71-84).

*BrT 38: Sir Thomas Browne, Remains and Collectanea

Sloane MS 1856

A quarto volume of state papers, nearly all in a single secretary hand, 74 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt. Early-mid-17th century.

ff. 13v-30v

• EsR 223: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1

Copy.

ff. 42v et seq.

• BcF 244.5: Francis Bacon, Ordinances in Chancery

Copy of 61 ordinances, headed ‘The rules and ordinances obserued in the high Court of Chancery sauing the Prerogatiue of the Court’, unascribed.

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).

ff. 50v-6v

• RaW 606: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse of the Invention of Ships, Anchors, Compass, &c.

Copy, as ‘Written by Sir Walter Rawleigh’.

An epistolary tract addressed to Prince Henry, beginning ‘That the ark of Noah was the first ship because the invention of God himself...’. First published, as ‘Upon the first Invention of Shipping’, in Judicious and Select Essayes and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 317-34.

ff. 57r-62v

• RaW 615: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse of the Original and Fundamental Cause of Natural, Arbitrary, Necessary, and Unnatural War

Copy, unascribed.

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.

Sloane MS 1860

A quarto autograph Latin notebook, 91 leaves. Comprising ‘sententiae ethieca’ and extracts from Aristotle and other authors, written throughout in a relatively neat version of Sir Thomas Browne's hand, f. 91 being a leaf inserted later.

*BrT 39: Sir Thomas Browne, Remains and Collectanea

Sloane MS 1861

A quarto notebook chiefly in Sir Thomas Browne's hand, 90 leaves (plus blanks). Including [A] his autograph copies of 32 letters from his son, Dr Edward Browne, 1668-9 (ff. 22-88); [B] a copy in a scribal hand of a letter to Browne by M. Escaliot, 24 juanuary 1663/4, with Browne's autograph subscription (ff. 5-21); [C] an autograph list of seeds sown in Sir Thomas's garden, 1667 (ff. 1-4); a few additional notes on ff. 4 and 90 in Dr Edward Browne's hand.

*BrT 40: Sir Thomas Browne, Remains and Collectanea

Escaliot's letter [B] printed in Wilkin, I, 424-42. Facsimile example of f. 36 (erroneously described as an example of Dr Edward Browne's hand) in The Sloane Herbarium, ed. J.E. Dandy (London, 1958), No. 25.

Sloane MS 1862

A quarto notebook, entirely in Sir Thomas Browne's hand, 94 leaves. c.1668.

For A Letter to a Friend and Brampton Urns, see BrT 5 and BrT 3. Passages relating to Hydriotaphia edited from this MS in Martin, pp. 268-9. Those relating to Christian Morals collated in Martin, pp. 271-88 (passim), and one of them edited from this MS in Keynes, III, 291. A facsimile page in Chris Fletcher et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 2003), p. 71.

The MS as a whole

• *BrT 41: Sir Thomas Browne, Remains and Collectanea

Including drafts of A Letter to a Friend (ff. 8-25) and Brampton Urns (ff. 26-37); ff. 2-7v, 38-94 comprising miscellaneous notes and observations by Browne including draft passages relating to Hydriotaphia (on ff. 3, 48v, 78v, 79v, 80v-81v) and to Christian Morals (on ff. 7r-v, 38-9, 42, 46, 52, 67-8, 72v-5).

ff. 8r-25r, 43r, 78v

• *BrT 5: Sir Thomas Browne, A Letter to a Friend

Autograph draft, including passages not printed in 1690, untitled, with the author's note (f. 8v) ‘this Letter may bee added to the Letters in the folio with red leaues’, in one of Browne's notebooks (BrT 41).

Edited from this MS in Martin, pp. 249-57 (with a facsimile of f. 10), and in Endicott, pp. 472-80. The ‘additional’ passages on ff. 14r-19r edited in Keynes, I, 119-20. Passages on f. 43r collated in Martin, pp. 270-1. See also relevant discussions in Frank Livingstone Huntley, ‘The Occasion and Date of Sir Thomas Browne's “A Letter to a Friend”’, MP, 48 (1950-1), 157-71; N.J. Endicott, ‘Browne's “Letter to a Friend”’, TLS (15 September 1966), p. 868, and replies by Karl Joseph Höltgen, TLS (20 October 1966), p. 966; by F.L. Huntley, TLS (9 February 1967), p. 116; and by N.J. Endicott, ‘Sir Thomas Browne's “Letter to a Friend”’, UTQ, 36 (1966-7), 68-86.

Facsimiles of f. 78v in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), No. 19, p. 30, and in DLB, vol. 151, British Prose Writers of the Early Seventeenth Century, ed. Clayton D. Lein (Detroit, 1995), p. 66.

First published in London, 1690. Wilkin, IV, 33-51. Keynes, I, 95-121. Martin, pp. 177-96. Endicott, pp. 345-63.

Sloane MS 1865

Miscellany compiled by Dr Edward Browne (1644-1708), son of Sir Thomas Browne. Late 17th century.

ff. 145r-56v

• HbT 3: Thomas Hobbes, De Mirabilibus Pecci (‘Alpibus Angliacis, ubi Pecci nomine surgit’)

Copy entered at the end of a miscellany.

First published, dedicated to William Cavendish, Earl of Devonshire, [c.1636?] (no title-page known). 2nd edition [London, 1666]. Molesworth, Latin, V, 319-40.

Sloane MS 1866

A quarto notebook, entirely in Sir Thomas Browne's hand, 73 leaves (plus blanks). Including Browne's account of a thunderstorm at Norwich, 28 June 1665 (ff. 2-3v) and his notes and draft passages on Norwich steeple (f. 1), plants (ff. 2-4, 30), figures on nature (ff. 4-6v), opinions of the ancients (ff. 7-8), motion of bodies and ebullition (ff. 9-17), coagulation, congelation and other physical properties (ff. 19-29v) and extracts from Catullus, Horace, Juvenal and Plutarch (ff. 70v-31 (rev)) some of the passages on ff. 4-6 relating to The Garden of Cyrus.

*BrT 42: Sir Thomas Browne, Remains and Collectanea

Various of these notes edited selectively from this MS in Wilkin, IV, 353-4 (account of a thunderstorm) and 454-6 (some of classical passages), and in Keynes, III, 239-40, 246-8, 268, 396-400, 434-7, 457-62. The passages relating to The Garden of Cyrus recorded in Martin, p. 270, and see also Jeremiah S. Finch, ‘Early Drafts of The Garden of Cyrus’, PMLA, 55 (1940), 742-7 (p. 742).

Sloane MS 1867

A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, nearly all perhaps in probably several hands, with (ff. 41v-2r) a ‘Tabula’ of contents, 45 leaves, in 19th-century mottled leather gilt. c.1630s.

f. 32r

• BrW 126: William Browne of Tavistock, On Mrs. Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor (‘Nature in this small volume was about’)

Copy, headed ‘On a yonge gentlewoman:’.

Recorded in Osborn (erroneously as ‘MS. Sloane 1827’), p. 295.

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. 33r

• DnJ 1763: John Donne, A lame begger (‘I am unable, yonder begger cries’)

Copy, headed ‘On a lame begger’.

First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as ‘Zoppo’) and 10.

f. 34r

• DnJ 2887: John Donne, A selfe accuser (‘Your mistris, that you follow whores, still taxeth you’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 89. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 10.

f. 34r

• DnJ 1900: John Donne, A licentious person (‘Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call’)

Copy.

First published in Henry Fitzgeffrey, Satyres and Satyricall Epigram's (London, 1617). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 90. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 11.

f. 34r

• DnJ 2600: John Donne, Phryne (‘Thy flattering picture, Phryne, is like thee’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 97. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5, 8 and 11.

f. 38r

• B&F 161: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Queen of Corinth, III, ii. Song (‘Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan’)

Copy.

First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, V, 393-486 (p. 448). Bowers, VIII, 10-93, ed. Robert K. Turner (p. 57).

f. 38r

• StW 328: William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter (‘A fitter Match hath never bin’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘A fitter match then this cold not haue byne’.

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

f. 39r

• StW 1320.5: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress (‘Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde’)

Copy of an untitled version beginning ‘Shall I tell you how the rose at first grew redd’.

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

Sloane MS 1869

A notebook, entirely in Sir Thomas Browne's hand, with a few inserted leaves, 118 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt. c.1668.

The MS as a whole

• *BrT 43: Sir Thomas Browne, Remains and Collectanea

Including verses, a passage on angels (f. 17r), notes on medicines (f. 45) and miscellaneous memoranda and commonplaces on a variety of other topics (passim); some notes and passages on ff. 12v, 16r, 25r-6r relating to A Letter to a Friend, others on ff. 13r, 15v, 20v-1r, 23r, 26r relating to Christian Morals; passages on ff. 18r and 31v relating to Pseudodoxia Epidemica; ff. 60r-1r containing a draft of part of Brampton Urns.

Extracts from this MS edited in Wilkin, IV, 381-425, and in Keynes, III, 234-6, 244, 269, 274, 283-330. The passages relating to A Letter to a Friend and to Christian Morals collated in part in Martin, pp. 270-1 and 271-88 (passim). The passages relating to Pseudodoxia Epidemica edited in Robbins, II, 670 and 1015. For Brampton Urns, see BrT 4.

f. 5r

• *BrT 0.2: Sir Thomas Browne, ‘And if the Dogstarre up hath dranck’

Autograph fragment of four lines, introduced ‘...these four verses which wer part of a coppy w^ch I made upon his [T. M.'s] death’.

Edited from this MS in Keynes.

A four-line fragment published in Keynes, III, 234.

f. 5r-v

• *BrT 0.95: Sir Thomas Browne, Upon a Tempest at Sea (‘Whither yea angry winds? What beath’)

Autograph copy of 18 lines, introduced ‘of those upon a Tempest I was on the Irish seas I can call to mind only these’ and subscribed ‘The rest I haue vtterly forgott’.

Edited from this MS in Keynes, III, 234-5.

First published in The Commonplace Book of Elizabeth Lyttelton, ed. Geoffrey Keynes (Cambridge, 1919), p. 21. Keynes, III, 236-7.

ff. 5v, 7r

• *BrT 0.97: Sir Thomas Browne, ‘Wee scorne those iudgments which adore’

Autograph copy, introduced ‘The other verses upon a different subiect were these’.

Edited from this MS in Keynes.

Thirty lines, published in Keynes, III, 235.

f. 7v

• *BrT 0.92: Sir Thomas Browne, ‘Diseases are the armes wherby’

Autograph copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Keynes.

Twelve lines, published in Keynes, III, 236.

f. 8r

• *BrT 0.94: Sir Thomas Browne, ‘The courteous Sunn with dust & lowlie mire’

Autograph copy.

Edited from this MS in Keynes.

Four lines, published in Keynes, III, 236.

ff. 60r-1r

• *BrT 4: Sir Thomas Browne, Brampton Urns

Autograph draft of a portion of the text.

This MS recorded in Keynes, I, 231.

First published in Posthumous Works (London, 1712). Wilkin, III, 497-505. Keynes, I, 229-38.

Sloane MS 1871A

Autograph draft, untitled of Sir Thomas Browne's Oratio Anniversaria Harveiana, 19 quarto leaves.

*BrT 44: Sir Thomas Browne, Remains and Collectanea

Edited in part from this MS (with an English translation) in Keynes, III, 188-205. See BrT 22 and also BrT 21, BrT 31, BrT 36.

Sloane MS 1871B

A duodecimo notebook, 15 leaves. Containing extracts from various authors in Latin, Greek and Italian, in an unidentified hand (ff. 1-10), and memoranda of private expenses in 1661 in the hand of Sir Thomas Browne (ff. 13-15).

*BrT 45: Sir Thomas Browne, Remains and Collectanea

Sloane MS 1874

A quarto composite volume, including autograph writings by Sir Thomas Browne, 112 leaves. [A] ff. 1-38 comprising three tracts by Thomas Golding (ff. 1-18v), Thomas, Lord Coventry (ff. 19-21v) and another (‘Brevis animalium’: ff. 22-38), in three different scribal hands; [B] ff. 39-91, comprising an autograph commonplace book of miscellaneous notes and drafts by Browne, including passages in Latin on sea fights (ff. 43-50), on dice (‘De Talo aut Astragalo’: ff. 54-7), on reading Athenaeus, Platin and Apicius on cookery (ff. 58-64), on a reading of Athenaeus (ff. 65-75), an epistle to a friend intending a difficult work (‘Amico opus ardu meditanti’: ff. 76-81) and notes on Aristotle (ff. 82-3); [C] ff. 93-112 comprising an autograph draft of Certain Miscellany Tracts No. XIII [‘Musaeum Clausum’].

*BrT 46: Sir Thomas Browne, Remains and Collectanea

The miscellaneous passages [B] edited (sometimes in part) from this MS in Keynes, III, 150-2, 155-8, 162-70, 175-8, 205; the notes on Aristotle also in Wilkin, IV, 360-6. The Miscellany Tract [C] collated in part in Keynes, III, 109-19.

Sloane MS 1875

A quarto notebook entirely in Sir Thomas Browne's hand, 102 leaves. Containing miscellaneous drafts and observations, including notes on coagulation and other physical properties (ff. 1-4, 10-17, 20-40, 94), on natural history (ff. 2-3, 19-20, 48-6, 64-5, 82, 87-93, 95-7, 98, 100, 102), on plants (ff. 4, 44-5, 57-8, 60, 62, 66-9, 70-81, 82v-6), on the motion of bodies and ebullition (ff. 6-9), on bubbles (ff. 41-4) and on scripture criticism (ff. 46-7v); a passage on f. 100 relating to The Garden of Cyrus.

*BrT 47: Sir Thomas Browne, Remains and Collectanea

Extensive extracts from this MS edited in Wilkin, IV, 425-53, and in Keynes, III, 258-61, 352, 358-73, 379, 382-96, 432-4, 438-62. The passage relating to The Garden of Cyrus edited from this MS in Jeremiah S. Finch, ‘Early Drafts of The Garden of Cyrus’, PMLA, 55.i (1940), 742-7 (pp. 742-3). See also BrT 52.

Sloane MS 1879

A quarto notebook. entirely in Sir Thomas Browne's hand, 97 leaves. Comprising a series of miscellaneous Observations upon several subjects (ff. 1-57, 97), including draft passages on dreams (ff. 2-10), on the search for truth (ff. 44-6), pleasure (ff. 11-13), the line of our lives (ff. 17v-20), dying (ff. 21-3), aggregation and coacervation (ff. 25-6), intention, imitation and coincidence (ff. 26-8) and guardian angels (ff. 56-7), and passages relating to Christian Morals (ff. 42-7), together with a series of passages relating to the European travels of his son Dr Edward Browne (ff. 59-96).

*BrT 48: Sir Thomas Browne, Remains and Collectanea

The passages on dreams edited from this MS in Keynes, III, 230-3, and in Endicott, pp. 455-9; this and other passages possibly edited in part from this MS in Wilkin, IV, 355-9, 381-425 (where Sloane MS 1874 is questionably cited as a source). The passages relating to Christian Morals discussed and edited in part in Arno Löffler, ‘Sir Thomas Browne at Work: An Unpublished Early Section of “Christian Morals”’, N&Q, 218 (October 1973), 391-2. Other passages edited in Endicott, pp. 460-71, and the MS briefly discussed by Endicott (as ‘one of the most interesting of the Browne MSS’) in UTQ, 36 (1966-7), 68-86, 89-91.

Sloane MS 1882

A quarto notebook, entirely in Sir Thomas Browne's hand, 27 leaves. Including his observations on plants (ff. 2-9, 12,-14), medals (ff. 15-18v), fossil remains in Norfolk (ff. 19-20), insects (ff. 23-6) and ashes (f. 27); a few passages on ff. 1r-v, 4v-5 relating to The Garden of Cyrus.

*BrT 49: Sir Thomas Browne, Remains and Collectanea

Various of these observations edited from this MS in Wilkin, IV, 454, and in Keynes, III, 246, 256-8, 350-1, 356-7, 374-5, 377-82. The passages relating to The Garden of Cyrus discussed and edited in part in Jeremiah S. Finch, ‘Early Drafts of The Garden of Cyrus’, PMLA, 55.i (1940), 742-7 (with facsimiles of ff. 1 and 4v), and in Martin, pp. 269-70.

Sloane MS 1885

A quarto notebook, entirely in Sir Thomas Browne's hand, 44 leaves. c.1680.

The MS as a whole

• *BrT 50: Sir Thomas Browne, Remains and Collectanea

Including a draft of Repertorium (ff. 1-4v, 33-41v), a series of draft passages relating to Christian Morals (ff. 5-21, 24-5, 29-32), and notes relating to his son Edward's travels in Germany (ff. 42r-v, 44v), a drawing and notes on f. 43 in another hand.

The passages relating to Christian Morals collated in part in Keynes, I, 291-2, and in Martin, pp. 271-88 (passim), and ff. 45r-7r edited and discussed in Arno Löffler, ‘Sir Thomas Browne at Work: An Unpublished early Section of “Christian Morals”’, N&Q, 218 (October 1973), 391-2. For Repertorium, see BrT 15.

ff. 1r-4v, 33r-41v

• *BrT 15: Sir Thomas Browne, Repertorium, or Some Account of the Tombs and Monuments in the Cathedrall Church of Norwich 1680

Autograph draft, untitled.

First published in Posthumous Works (London, 1712). Wilkin, IV, 1-31. Keynes, III, 121-43.

Sloane MSS 1911-13

A folio composite volume (originally three separate MSS, now bound together with continuous foliation); comprising letters and papers of Sir Thomas Browne and his son Dr Edward Browne, 111 leaves.

The MS as a whole

• *BrT 51: Sir Thomas Browne, Remains and Collectanea

Comprising: 37 original letters from Edward to his father, the majority written on his European travels in 1668-9 (ff. 3-75v); a letter from Edward in another hand with subscribed autograph letters from Sir Thomas and his wife to their son Thomas, 1664 (ff. 1-2v); a series of original letters written to Sir Thomas and to Dr Edward Browne by various correspondents, including Henry Power, Theodor Jonas, Sir William Dugdale and Henry Oldenburg (ff. 76-88v, 92-102v, 104-5v, 108-41v); autograph drafts of two letters by Sir Thomas to Dugdale (ff. 103r-v, 106-7); Sir Thomas's autograph draft account of Iceland (ff. 90-1) and his autograph remarks on Ostend and Newport (f. 132); ff. 142-212 comprising a series of queries and observations on natural philosophy, mining, aspects of Europe, anatomy and other matters, some relating to the Royal Society, largely in the hand of Dr Edwarde Browne, some pages in other hands including part of a journal of 1693 by Sir Thomas's grandson, Dr Thomas Browne (ff. 195-201v), and some miscellaneous and political papers at the end (ff. 203-12).

Various of Edward Browne's letters edited selectively from this MS in Wilkin, I (passim); those by Sir Thomas edited in Keynes, IV, Nos. 15, 197 and 213, with those from Dugdale in IV, Nos. 194, 196, 198, 201, 203. For the account of Iceland, see BrT 1.

ff. 90r-1r

• *BrT 1: Sir Thomas Browne, An Account of Island, alias Ice-land in the yeare 1663

Autograph draft of a letter about Iceland which Browne communicated to the Royal Society, in one of the volumes of his miscellaneous papers (BrT 51); 15 January 1663.

Edited from this MS in Keynes, III, 345-6. Related letters by the Rev. Theodor Jonas are at the Royal Society, Classified Papers VII (1) 9.

First published in Posthumous Works (London, 1712). Wilkin, IV, 254-6. Keynes, III, 345-6.

Sloane MS 1925

An oblong octavo pocket commonplace book, comprising (f. 1r) ‘Poems / Characters / Proverbs / Sentences / Historicall Remarques / Tales’, in Latin, English and Greek, in perhaps two or more hands, probably associated with Cambridge University, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Including (on ff. 17-27, rectos only) portions of 17 English poems by Crashaw. Mid-17th century.

Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753).

Recorded in IELM as Sloane MS: CrR Δ 5. Crashaw's work collated in Martin (cited as S) and discussed p. lxxix.

passim

• SiP 107: Sir Philip Sidney, The New Arcadia

Prose extracts with three of the poems (Nos. 17, 20 and 62 [lines 35-6, 95-6, 125-6, 123-4, 73-6, 65-6, 37-8, 21-2]), transcribed from a printed edition.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 557.

The unfinished revised version of Arcadia (the ‘New Arcadia’) first published in London, 1590. Edited, as The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The New Arcadia), by Victor Skretkowicz (Oxford, 1987).

f. 15r

• RnT 178: Thomas Randolph, A Maske for Lydia (‘Sweet Lydia take this maske, and shroud’)

Copy of the first five lines, untitled.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 126-7.

ff. 17r, 18r, 19r, 20r, 21r, 22r

• CrR 131: Richard Crashaw, Musicks Duell (‘Now Westward Sol had spent the richest Beames’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

ff. 22r, 23r, 24r

• CrR 236: Richard Crashaw, The Teare (‘What bright soft thing is this?’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

f. 24r

• CrR 326: Richard Crashaw, The Weeper (‘Haile Sister Springs’)

Copy of stanzas 10, 11 and 13, with the addition of a final couplet.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

f. 25r

• CrR 22: Richard Crashaw, Easter day (‘Rise, Heire of fresh Eternity’)

Copy of stanza 3, lines 4-6, beginning ‘Nor is Death forct; for may he ly’.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

f. 25r

• CrR 157: Richard Crashaw, On St. Peter casting away his Nets at our Saviours call (‘Thou hast the art on't Peter. and canst tell’)

Copy of lines 3-4, untitled and here beginning ‘When Christ calls, & y^y Nets would haue y^ee stay’.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

f. 25r

• CrR 159: Richard Crashaw, On St. Peter cutting of Malchus his eare (‘Well Peter dost thou wield thy active sword’)

Copy of lines 3-4, untitled and beginning ‘To strike at eares, is to take heed there bee’.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

f. 25r

• CrR 181: Richard Crashaw, On the miracle of multiplyed loaves (‘See here an easie Feast that knowes no wound’)

This MS collated in Martin.

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

f. 25r

• CrR 187: Richard Crashaw, On the water of our Lords Baptisme (‘Each blest drop, on each blest limme’)

This MS collated in Martin.

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

ff. 25r, 26r

• CrR 333: Richard Crashaw, Wishes. To his (supposed) Mistresse (‘Who ere shee bee’)

Copy of stanzas 10, 15-18, 35, beginning ‘A face made up’.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

ff. 25r, 27r

• CrR 63: Richard Crashaw, A Hymne of the Nativity, sung by the Shepheards (‘Come wee Shepheards who have seene’)

Copy of stanzas 4 (lines 5-6), 6 and 12 (lines 1-4), beginning ‘It was thy Day, Sweet, and did rise’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 106-8.

f. 26r

• CrR 141: Richard Crashaw, On a foule Morning, being then to take a journey (‘Where art thou Sol, while thus the blind-fold Day’)

Copy of the last four lines, here beginning ‘The fresh cheekes of y^e virgin Morne’.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

f. 26r

• CrR 147: Richard Crashaw, On a Treatise of Charity (‘Rise then, immortall maid! Religion rise’)

Copy of the final couplet, beginning ‘What can the poore hope from us, when we be’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Five Pious and Learned Discourses…by Robert Shelford of Ringsfield in Suffolk Priest (Cambridge, 1635). Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 137-9.

f. 26r

• CrR 152: Richard Crashaw, On Marriage (‘I would be married, but I'de have no Wife’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

ff. 26r, 27r

• CrR 57: Richard Crashaw, His Epitaph (‘Passenger who e're thou art’)

Copy of lines 7-10, 23-4, untitled and beginning ‘The ripe endowments of whose mind’.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

f. 27r

• CrR 286: Richard Crashaw, Vpon the Death of Mr. Herrys (‘A plant of noble stemme, forward and faire’)

Copy oflines 15-21, here beginning ‘Amongst his leaues, y^e day’.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

f. 27r

• CrR 290: Richard Crashaw, Vpon the death of the most desired Mr. Herrys (‘Death, what dost? ô hold thy Blow’)

Copy of lines 31-4, here beginning ‘I'ue seene indeed y^e hopefull bud’.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

f. 27r

• CrR 305: Richard Crashaw, Vpon the Infant Martyrs (‘To see both blended in one flood’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

ff. 27v-24v (versos only)

• RnT 459: Thomas Randolph, The Combat of the Cocks (‘Go, you tame gallants, you that have the name’)

Copy.

(Sometimes called A terible true Tragicall relacon of a duell fought at Wisbich June the 17^th: 1637.) Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Hazlitt, I, xviii. II, 667-70. By Robert Wild.

f. 30v

• WoH 188: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife (‘He first deceased. she for a little tried’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘H. W.’

First published as an independent couplet in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), p. 44. The authorship is uncertain.

ff. 30v, 29v

• WoH 209: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset then falling from favour (‘Dazzled thus with the height of place’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon Somersets fall’, subscribed ‘H. W.’

This MS collated in Pebworth, p. 160 et seq. Edited in the online ‘Early Stuart Libels’ website.

f. 42r

• RnT 574: Thomas Randolph, Upon the fall of Wisbech bridge (‘Help help you undertakers all’)

Copy.

Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Wit & Drollery (London, 1656), p. 66bis.

ff. 43r, 43*r

• RnT 556: Thomas Randolph, Upon the Burning of a School (‘What heat of learning kindled your desire’)

Copy.

Published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661), ascribed to ‘T. R.’. Usually anonymous in MS copies and the school variously identified as being in Castlethorpe or in Batley, Yorkshire, or in Lewes, Sussex, or elsewhere.

Sloane MS 1941

A folio composite volume of largely medical prose and some verse, in English, Latin and cipher, in various hands, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

Once owned by Nehemiah Grew, M.D., F.R.S. (d.1712).

f. 4r

• MaA 210.7: Andrew Marvell, On the Monument (‘When Hodge first spy'd the labour in vaine’)

Copy.

Published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1703-4).

First published, as ‘On the Monument upon Fish-street Hill’, in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), p. 27. Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1703-4).

f. 18r

• MaA 92: Andrew Marvell, Bludius et Corona (‘Bludius, ut ruris damnum repararet aviti’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon Bloods stealing [afterwards altered to Attempting to steal] y^e Crown’, on one side of a quarto leaf. c.1670s.

First published in Thompson (1776), I, xxxix. Margoliouth, I, 178. Lord, p. 249. Smith, p. 414, with English translation.

For the English version, which accompanies many of the MS texts, see MaA 253-80.

f. 18r

• MaA 266: Andrew Marvell, Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown (‘When daring Blood, his rents to have regain'd’)

Copy, untitled but directly following MaA 92.

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

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

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

Sloane MS 1950

An octavo notebook and miscellany, in a cursive italic hand, 112 leaves, in contemporary leather. Mid-late 17th century.

ff. 35r-8r

• CvM 1: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Philosophical and Physical Opinions

Notes and extracts, headed ‘The Marchionesse of New Castle her Philosophy Compendium. / printed 55’.

First published in London, 1655.

Sloane MS 1965

A folio miscellany, in several hands, 181 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco. Early-mid-17th century.

ff. 122r-36r

• BuR 1.81: Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

Extracts, in a neat mixed hand, headed ‘Noates gathered out of the Anatomy of Melancholy written by Democritus Iunior’.

Sloane MS 1983

Miscellany. Late 17th-18th centuries.

f. 78r

• BuS 0.7: Samuel Butler, Hudibras (‘Sir Hudibras his passing worth’)

Extracts.

Part I first published in London, ‘1663’ [i.e. 1662]. Part II published in London, ‘1664’ [i.e. 1663]. Part III published in London ‘1678’ [i.e. 1677]. the whole poem first published in London, 1684. Edited by John Wilders (Oxford, 1967).

Sloane MS 2023

An octavo commonplace book of medical materials and verses, chiefly in Latin, probably in a single secretary hand, 80 leaves, in contemporary vellum within modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Early 17th century.

ff. 59r-60r

• HoJ 66: John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart (‘Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Down came graue auntient S^r John Crooke’.

This MS cited in Osborn.

Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of ‘Doubtful Verses’ in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.

Sloane MS 2046

Volume of chemical and medical collections compiled by Theodore Turquet de Mayerne. 17th century.

f. 110

• RaW 715: Sir Walter Ralegh, Chemical and Medical Receipts

A list of chemical symbols used by Ralegh, headed ‘Alphabetum seu clavis chemicus N.S. Gwalteri Ralegh, equitis’.

Sloane MS 2142

Francis Mortoft's MS Journal of a Voyage through France and Italy in 1658-59. 16 May [1659].

f. 87r

• WoH 235: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)

Copy, headed ‘A Farwell to y^e world. May y^e 16’ transcribed by Francis Mortoft.

This MS recorded in Francis Mortoft: His Book, ed. Malcom Letts, Hakluyt Society, 2nd Ser. 57 (London, 1925), p. xiii.

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.

Sloane MS 2143

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, i + 48 quarto leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. c.1620.

OvT 45: Sir Thomas Overbury, Observations in his travailes

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.

Sloane MS 2179

A folio volume comprising two treatises, 31 leaves. Early-mid-17th century.

ff. 24r-31v

• RaW 1095: 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.

Sloane MS 2230

Copy of stanzas 24-90. Copy of stanzas 24-90, headed ‘S^r. William Davenant's Reason’ and here beginning ‘Tell if you found your Faith, e're you it sought’, with two additional stanzas, on five quarto leaves. Late 17th century.

DaW 38: Sir William Davenant, The Philosophers Disquisition directed to the Dying Christian (‘Before by death you newer knowledge gain’)

This MS collated in Gibbs.

First published in Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 182-96. The poem originally intended to form part of Gondibert (see Gibbs, pp. lii et seq., 431).

Sloane MS 2283

A quarto miscellany, entitled ‘Usefull collections made in the years, 1674, 1675, 1676, &c. by Henry Coley. Vol. I.’, 75 leaves. Late 17th century.

ff. 65v-8r

• BcF 283.6: Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: or A Natural History

Extracts from Bacon's ‘Natural History’.

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

Sloane MS 2287

An octavo ‘Collection out of divers authors 1689’, 114 leaves. 1689.

f. 2v

• DrJ 2.5: John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel (‘In pious times, e'r Priest-craft did begin’)

Extracts.

Recorded in California, II, 413.

First published in London, 1681. Kinsley, I, 215-43. California, II, 2-36. Hammond, I, 450-532.

Sloane MS 2332

A quarto verse miscellany, nine leaves. Compiled by the botanist James Petiver (1663-1718). End of 17th century.

f. 3v

• DrJ 2.6: John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel (‘In pious times, e'r Priest-craft did begin’)

Extracts.

Recorded in California, II, 413.

First published in London, 1681. Kinsley, I, 215-43. California, II, 2-36. Hammond, I, 450-532.

f. 5r

• DoC 258: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Mr. Bays (‘Thou mercenary renegade, thou slave’)

Extracts.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in J.R., Religio Laici, or A Layman's Faith ([London, 1688]). POAS, IV (1968), 79-80. Harris, pp. 18-20.

f. 5v

• RoJ 275.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Ramble in St. James's Park (‘Much wine had passed, with grave discourse’)

Extracts.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 40-6. Walker, pp. 64-8. Love, pp. 76-80.

Sloane MS 2346

An octavo miscellany on botanical subjects, 246 leaves. Late 17th century.

ff. 179v-81r

• BrT 4.2: Sir Thomas Browne, Certain Miscellany Tracts

Extracts from No. II (‘Of Garlands’), headed ‘A catalogue of exoticke coronary or garland plants mentioned in Sir Tho. Brown's Miscellaneous Tracts, Lond. 1683’.

First published (viz. 13 tracts, edited by Archbishop Tenison) in London, 1683. Wilkin, IV, 115-250. Keynes, III, 1-120.

See also BrT 21, BrT 24, BrT 29, BrT 32, BrT 33, BrT 36, BrT 37, and BrT 46.

Sloane MS 2348

An octavo notebook of extracts from plays and poems, 40 leaves, c.1690s. c.1690s.

f. 38r

• DrJ 385: John Dryden, Extracts

Verse extracts.

Sloane MS 2497

A folio miscellany of verse and prose, largely in a single secretary hand, i + 48 leaves, in a vellum wrapper bearing 15th- or 16th-century rubricated Latin text within modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. c.1590s.

f. 27v

• DyE 50: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘My mynde to me a kyngdome is’

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

This MS text collated in Sargent.

First published, as two poems (one comprising stanzas 1-4, 6 and 8. the other stanzas 9-12) in a musical setting, in William Byrd, Psalmes, Sonets & Songs (London, 1588). Sargent, No. XIV, pp. 200-1. The uncertain authorship of this poem and its textual history are discussed in Steven W. May, ‘The Authorship of “My mind to me a kingdom is”’, RES, NS 26 (1975), 385-94. EV 15376.

Sloane MS 2521

A miscellany. 17th century.

f. 100r-v

• BuR 1.82: Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

Extracts, taken from printed sources.

Sloane MS 2531

A quarto composite volume of state tracts, parliamentary speeches and plays, in Latin and English, in several hands, 157 leaves, in modern mottled leather gilt.

ff. 98r-104v

• CtR 170: Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy

Copy, in a secretary hand, as ‘By S^r Robt Cotton’. c.1630.

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

ff. 124r-40v

• RnT 420: Thomas Randolph, Aristippus, or The Jovial Philosopher

Copy of an untitled early version., in a secretary hand.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, I, 2; discussed in John Jay Parry, ‘A New Version of Randolph's Aristippus’, MLN, 32 (1917), 351-4, and in Bentley, V, 971-3.

First published in London, 1630. Hazlitt, I, 1-34.

Sloane MS 2680

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, 63 leaves.

ff. 8r-9v

• HaG 33: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Maxims of the Great Almansor

Copy of 33 maxims, dated ‘1694’, on two folio leaves. The text followed (ff. 9v-11r) by fourteen supplementary maxims by Charles Montagu. c.1700.

This MS collated in Brown, I, 398-401.

First published, anonymously, under the heading The following Maxims were found amongst the Papers of the Great Almanzor…[&c] (London, 1693). Foxcroft, II, 447-53. Brown, I, 292-5.

Sloane MS 2717

A folio composite volume of legal and state papers and poems on affairs of state, 116 leaves.

ff. 74r-5r

• MaA 452: Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by (‘Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe’)

Copy, on two long ledger-size folio leaves. c.1690s.

This MS recorded in Osborne.

Sloane MS 2750

A folio composite volume comprising two independent tracts, one ecclesiastical, the other legal, in different hands, 58 leaves, in modern mottled leather gilt.

ff. 1r-50r

• HkR 17: Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book VIII

Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, headed ‘M^r. Hooker Lib. 8: v: 9. Eccle: poli.’c.1620s-30s.

This MS collated in Houk.

First published in an incomplete form (with Book VI) in London, 1648. Some additions published in Nicholas Bernard, Clavi Trabales (London, 1661), and in John Gauden's ‘complete’ edition of the Polity (London, 1662). Keble, III, 326-455 (and pp. 456-60 for a passage found in MSS but not in the first edition, possibly part of a Sermon on Civil Disobedience). Edited by Raymond Aaron Houk, Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity Book VIII (New York, 1931). Folger edition, Volume III, pp. 315-448.

Sloane MS 3073

A folio volume comprising two tracts by Sir Robert Cotton, 49 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt. Early 17th century.

ff. 1r-37r

• CtR 20: Sir Robert Cotton, An Answer made by Command of Prince Henry, to Certain Propositions of Warre and Peace

Copy, in two secretary and italic hands, imperfect, lacking the first part and a title, subscribed ‘Rob: Cotton Barronett’.

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

ff. 38r-49r

• CtR 403: Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘A shorte view of Henry the Thirds Lyfe’, subscribed ‘R. C. B. 29 Aprilis 1614’.

Sloane MS 3078

A folio volume of transcripts of letters by Bacon, 53 leaves. c.1620s-30s.

passim

• BcF 598: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

Copies of some 38 letters by Bacon, to various correspondents including Lord Burghley, Queen Elizabeth, Essex, Northampton, Sir John Davies, Northumberland, Robert Cecil, Buckhurst, and others.

ff. 22v-3v

• BcF 184: Francis Bacon, Considerations touching the Queen's Service in Ireland

Copy, incomplete.

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

Sloane MS 3079

A quarto volume of texts relating to Ralegh, 45 leaves. Early-mid-17th century.

ff. 1r-38r

• RaW 728.145: Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)

Copy of the 1603 arraignment, here dated ‘1605’, and of the 1618 one.

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

ff. 40r-44r

• RaW 900: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copy of three letters by Ralegh, to James I (1603), to Lady Ralegh (1603), and to Sir Robert Carr (1609).

Sloane MS 3087

A quarto volume of state papers, tracts, speeches, and verse, probably in a single hand, 38 leaves, in mottled leather gilt. Late 17th century.

ff. 28r-30r

• MaA 453: Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by (‘Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe’)

Copy, headed ‘Advice to a Painter’.

This MS recorded in Osborne.

Sloane MS 3213

An octavo composite volume comprising two works, in the same hand, 32 leaves originally paginated 95-126.

ff. 11r-32v

• FeO 87: Owen Felltham, A Brief Character of the Low-Countries

This MS discussed in Van Strien.

Sloane MS 3272

A quarto volume of works by Ralegh, in a neat italic hand, 50 leaves, incorporating (ff. 22r-45v) a printed tract, in modern mottled leather gilt. c.1618.

The printed tract, Newes Of S^r. Walter Rauleigh, With The true Description of Gviana (London, 1618) inscribed on the title-page ‘Liber Richardi Harmar: Oxoniææ. 1618’.

ff. 1r-21r

• RaW 677: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Discovery of Guiana

An abridgement of the work, headed ‘S^r. Walter Raleigh. G. / An abstract of diuerse memorable thinges, worthy the noting, selected out of S^r. Walter Raleighes first booke of his discoverie of Guyana and by hym performed in Anno Domini 1595’.

A tract, with ‘To the Reader’ beginning ‘Because there haue been diuers opinions conceiued of the golde oare brought from Guinana...’, the main text beginning ‘On Thursday the 6. of Februarie in the yeare 1595. we departed England...’. First published as The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empire of Guiana (London, 1596). Works (1829), VIII, 377-476. Edited by V. T. Harlow (London, 1928). Edited by Joyce Lorimer (Aldershot, 2006).

ff. 40r-55r

• RaW 899: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copy. 17th century.

Sloane MS 3273

Copy, in a non-professional secretary hand, with a title-page, 82 quarto leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt. Early 17th century.

LeC 30: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

Sloane MS 3299

A folio volume of state letters and papers, 216 leaves.

ff. 135r-8v

• ClE 63: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Articles of High Treason and other hainous misdemeanours ag^st Edward, Earle of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor, exhibited by Earl of Bristol, 10 July 1663

Copy. Late 17th century.

f. 209r

• ClE 64: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Articles of High Treason and other hainous misdemeanours ag^st Edward, Earle of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor, exhibited by Earl of Bristol, 10 July 1663

Copy.

Sloane MS 3323

A folio composite volume of MSS, 328 leaves.

ff. 2r, 224r

• *BrT 52: Sir Thomas Browne, Remains and Collectanea

Autograph draft note by Sir Thomas Browne on insects, on a single quarto leaf, together with a brief autograph note in Latin on frogs (relating to an English passage in BrT 47, ff. 19-20 [= Keynes, III, 352]), on a tiny slip of paper.

The note on insects edited from this MS in Keynes, III, 358.

Sloane MS 3413

A quarto medical commonplace book, 54 leaves. Compiled by Dr Walter Charleton (1619-1707), Royal Physician. Late 17th century.

f. 29v

• MaA 93: Andrew Marvell, Bludius et Corona (‘Bludius, ut ruris damnum repararet aviti’)

Copy, headed ‘Marvelli carmen In audacissim'e quidem, sed improsperè à Bloodio tentatum regii Diadematis furtum’.

This MS collated in Margoliouth. Facsimile in Kelliher, p. 102.

First published in Thompson (1776), I, xxxix. Margoliouth, I, 178. Lord, p. 249. Smith, p. 414, with English translation.

For the English version, which accompanies many of the MS texts, see MaA 253-80.

f. 29v

• MaA 267: Andrew Marvell, Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown (‘When daring Blood, his rents to have regain'd’)

Copy, headed ‘Englished’ and here beginning ‘Whilst valiant Blood, his rents to have regain'd’.

Facsimile of this MS in Kelliher, p. 102.

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

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

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

Sloane MS 3516

A large folio guard-book of miscellaneous verse and prose, in various hands and sizes of paper, 214 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Collected by Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753).

ff. 42r-5v

• MaA 113: Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh (‘Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign’)

Copy on four folio leaves. Late 17th-early 18th century.

This MS collated in Margoliouth.

f. 169r

• DoC 44: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon (‘As Colon drove his sheep along’)

Copy of lines 1-36, headed ‘A Satyr’, incomplete, on the first of two conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, II (1965), 167-75. Harris, pp. 124-35.

ff. 205r-7v

• WaE 388: Edmund Waller, A Panegyric to my Lord Protector, of the present Greatness, and joint Interest of His Highness, and this Nation (‘While with a strong and yet a gentle hand’)

Copy, in a roman hand, headed ‘M^r. W. Panegyricke to Oliuer’, on two pairs of once conjugate quarto leaves. Late 17th century.

First published London, 1655. The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 10-17.

Sloane MS 3522

A folio volume of letters and speeches chiefly by Francis Bacon, 41 leaves. Mid-17th century.

ff. 1r-3v

• BcF 599: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Bacon, to the Earl of Essex, 1599.

ff. 4r-33

• BcF 358: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

Copy of five speeches by Bacon, concerning the naturalization of the Scots, to Denham, to Sergeant Hutton, to Sir William Jones, and in the Star Chamber (1617).

Sloane MS 3561

Copy, in a neat talic hand, with a title-page ‘The Life of King Henrie the third / Written (as they saie) by Sir Robert Cotton’, 16 quarto leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt. c.1620s-30s.

CtR 404: Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England

Inscribed (f. 1v) ‘Elizabeth Caldicott 1665’.

Sloane MS 3752

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single hand, 133 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. c.1700.

f. 2v

• EtG 68: Sir George Etherege, Song (‘See how fair Corinna lies’)

Copy, untitled, under a general heading ‘The Songs In y^e Theater of Musick’.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published in Thomas Southerne, The Disappointment, or The Mother in Fashion (London, 1684). Thorpe, p. 31.

Sloane MS 3769

A duodecimo miscellany chiefly of verse, in one or more secretary hands, with a few later additions in other hands, 29 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt. c.1665.

f. 2r

• WoH 28: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)

Copy.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Wotton's “The Character of a Happy Life”’, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's “The Character of a Happy Life”’, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).

f. 2v

• TiC 25: Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Lament (‘My prime of youth is but a frost of cares’)

Copy, headed ‘Verses on the brittle Estate of man’.

This MS text recorded in Hirsch.

f. 3r

• RnT 262: Thomas Randolph, A Paraeneticon to the truly noble Gentleman Mr. Endymion Porter (‘Goe bashfull Muse, thy message is to one’)

Copy, headed ‘A New yeares Guift’.

First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 136-7.

f. 7v

• StW 1279: William Strode, Jack on both Sides (‘I holde as fayth What Englandes Church Allowes’)

Copy, in double columns, headed ‘The Church of Roome/The Church of England’.

First published, as ‘The Church Papist’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Reprinted as ‘The Jesuit's Double-faced Creed’ by Henry Care in The Popish Courant (16 May 1679): see August A. Imholtz, Jr, ‘The Jesuits' Double-Faced Creed: A Seventeenth-Century Cross-Reading’, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 553-4. Dobell, p. 111. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

Sloane MS 3796

A duodecimo medical commonplace book, 23 leaves. Late 17th century.

f. 17v

• HrG 24: George Herbert, Avarice (‘Money, thou bane of blisse, & sourse of wo’)

Copy, transcribed from the edition of 1678.

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

f. 17v

• HrG 54: George Herbert, The Church-porch (‘Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhance’)

Copy of stanzas 58 (beginning ‘Slight not the smallest losse, whether it be’) and 53, transcribed from the edition of 1678.

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

Sloane MS 3828

A folio volume of state tracts, speeches and papers, in a single hand, 230 leaves. 1700s.

Once owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor.

ff. 92r-5r

• HkR 68: Richard Hooker, Extracts

Extracts, headed ‘M^r Hooker's opinion of Government, extracted by M^r Abraham Hill from his Ecclesiastical Polity’.

ff. 181-5

• RaW 1059: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse of Sea-ports, principally of the Port and Haven of Dover

Copy, as ‘written by Sir Walter Raleigh and addressed to Queen Elizabeth...Printed in Quarto, London, 1700’, and with a prefixed note ‘Sir Walter Rawlegh or Sir Dudley Digges discourse...to which is added Sir Henry Sheer's thoughts in 1686’. 1700.

First published in London, 1700, with ‘A Memorial of Sir Walter Raleigh to Q. Elizabeth’ beginning ‘There is no one thing, most renowned Soveraign, of greater necessitie...’, ‘drawn up either by Sir Walter Raleigh or Sir Dudley Diges’. Written by Thomas Digges or Sir Dudley Digges?: see Ernest A. Strathmann in TLS (1956), p. 228, and Lefranc (1968), p. 65.

Sloane MS 3838

Copy, on 80 folio leaves. Mid-late 17th century.

ClE 30: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, A shorte view of the State and condicon of the kingdome of Ireland from the year 1640 to this tyme

First published in Dublin, 1719-20. Published in London, 1720. Incorporated into the 1816, 1826 and 1849 editions of The History of the Rebellion. Reprinted as Vol. II of A Collection of Several Valuable Pieces of Clarendon (2 vols, London, 1727).

Sloane MS 3914

ff. 138v-42r

• FuT 5.269: Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England

Extracts.

First published in London, 1662.

Sloane MS 3930

Copy, complete with dedication to the King, in a professional hand, on 32 folio leaves. c.1662?

HbT 34: Thomas Hobbes, Seven Philosophical Problems

First published in London, 1682. Molesworth, English, VII, 1-68.

Sloane MS 3943

A quarto composite volume of tracts, 180 leaves.

ff. 149r-56v

• DaS 6: Samuel Daniel, Delia

Copy of 46 Sonnets to Delia, probably transcribed from the edition of 1595; imperfect. Early 17th century.

28 Sonnets first published (untitled) in ‘Poems and Sonets of sundrie other Noble men and Gentlemen’ appended to Sir Phlip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). 50 sonnets (including 24 of those already published) published as Delia, London, 1592. Enlarged in subsequent editions, and 57 sonnets published in Works (London, 1601). Grosart, I, 19-77. Sprague, pp. 5-35.

Sloane MS 3945

A quarto composite volume comprising four MSS, 113 leaves, in half green leather gilt.

ff. 78r-113r

• LoM 1: Mary Love, The Life of Mr. Christopher Love

Copy, in a non-professional rounded hand, with two prefatory letters, by ‘M. L.’ and ‘T. H.’ (? Thomas Harrison, minister in Chester) respectively, in a different mixed hand, incomplete. c.1660s.

This MS described in the online Perdita Project.

Sloane MS 3957

Copy, with autograph revisions, 232 folio leaves, imperfect, the dedication dated 15 December 1622. [1622-3].

*HrE 111: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, De veritate

This MS discussed in Rossi, III, 416-17, and in Gawlick, pp. xii-xiii. Facsimile of two pages in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate XLIX (a-b).

First published in Paris, 1624. Translated by Meyrick H. Carré (Bristol, 1937). Facsimile of the London edition of 1645 introduced by Günter Gawlick (Stuttgart, 1966).

Sloane MS 3962

A folio composite volume of letters and papers of William Charleton (1642-1702), naturalist and collector, chiefly on natural history, 315 leaves. Late 17th century.

ff. 57r-9v

• CoA 278: Abraham Cowley, Extracts

Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.

Sloane MS 3986

A folio volume of miscellaneous tracts and state papers, 79 leaves.

ff. 2r-4r

• ClE 65: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Articles of High Treason and other hainous misdemeanours ag^st Edward, Earle of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor, exhibited by Earl of Bristol, 10 July 1663

Copy. Late 17th century.

Sloane MS 4031

Copy of lines 1261-1323, written as a ten-stanza poem beginning ‘Ye that are comouns obey your king and lord’, on the flyleaf of a 15th century MS of John Lydgate's Fall of Princes on 191 folio leaves of vellum. Early 16th century.

BaA 1: Alexander Barclay, The Life of St George (‘The auncyent wryters with wysdom decorate’)

Once owned by William Saunder after Lady Elizabeth Carewe of Redyngton, Thomas Lord Dacre, Dame Ann Dacre, Mistress Ellenor (sister of Lord Dacre), and others.

This MS discussed and collated in A.S.G. Edwards, ‘A Manuscript Portion of Barclay's Life of St. George’, Studies in Scottish Literature, 8 (1970), 66-7.

First published by Richard Pynson, London, 1515 (unique recorded exemplum at Trinity College, Cambridge). Edited by William Nelson, EETS 230 (London, 1955).

Sloane MS 4061

A folio composite volume of original letters, chiefly addressed to Sloane, in various hands, 324 leaves.

ff. 223r-4v

• *VaJ 338: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Sir Hans Sloane, from Whitehall, ‘Thursday Noon’ [c.14 June 1722]. 1722.

Edited in Downes, p. 540 (Appendix G, No. 8).