CELM: The British Library: Stowe MSS

Stowe MS 68

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

BrW 256.6: William Browne of Tavistock, Chronicle of the Brut

Edwards, No. 6.

Stowe MS 77

Copy …, headed ‘Behemoth, or the Epitome of y^e Civill Wars of England’. Copy in two scribal hands, with additions in a third hand, headed ‘Behemoth, or the Epitome of y^e Civill Wars of England’, on 64 folio leaves. Late 17th century.

HbT 10: Thomas Hobbes, Behemoth or The Long Parliament

First published, as The History of the Civil Wars of England, ([in London], 1679). Molesworth, English, VI, 161-418. Edited by Ferdinand Tönnies (London, 1889). 2nd edition, with introduction by M.M. Goldsmith, (London, 1969), and reprinted with an introduction by Stephen Holmes (Chicago & London, 1990).

Stowe MS 83

Copy, in a neat hand, on 114 folio leaves, with two letters concerning the work. Mid-late 17th century.

ClE 31: 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

Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, dated 1701.

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).

Stowe MS 95

Copy, on 45 folio pages (ff. 3r-25r). Complete with the Dedication ‘To the Queenes moste excellente Ma^tie:’, headed ‘A memoriall of a discourse vsed by the late worthy Emperour Charles the v^th vppon the resignem^t of his gouermente, and stats to his sonne, the now kinge of Spaine’. Early 17th century.

HoH 37: 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

Name on f. 1v of ‘John Gybbon’. Inscription on f. 2r ‘Lent to M^r Gunton. Feb. 16. 1648...’.

An unpublished translation of a suppositious work, supposed (but unlikely) to be Charles V's instructions to his son Philip II, which was circulated in MS in 16th-century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.’

Stowe MS 110

MS of an anonymous brief analysis of Books I-IV, on 28 duodecimo leaves. 17th century.

HkR 61: Richard Hooker, Analysis of ‘Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity’

Stowe MS 141

A large folio guard-book of independent state papers, in various hands, 86 leaves.

f. 74r-v

• RaW 764: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)

Copy, in a secretary hand, on both sides of a folio leaf, imperfect; lacking the beginning. c.1620.

Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For a relevant discussion, see Anna Beer, ‘Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh’, MP, 94/1 (August 1996), 19-38.

f. 74v

• RaW 46: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The verses following were made by Sir Walter Rawleigh the night before his death at the gate house’. c.1620.

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).

Stowe MS 142

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous state papers, in various hands, 166 leaves.

f. 161r

• MnJ 101: John Milton, Document(s)

Receipt of salaries of Milton and other Government officers (the ‘Ashburnham Document’), signed on Milton's behalf, 13 February 1654/5. 1655.

Facsimile examples in Sotheby, Ramblings, after p. 124 (Plate XVII[bis], No. ii, item 1); in John Milton 1608-1674 Facsimiles of Autographs and Documents in the British Museum (London, 1908); and in Guide to the Exhibited MSS (BM), Part I (1912), No. 80. Recorded in Columbia, XVIII, 625.

Stowe MS 145

A folio volume of state tracts and papers dating up to 1628, almost entirely in two professional hands, including the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 179 leaves, in modern reversed calf.

Once owned by ‘Ric: Tichbone’, probably Sir Richard Tichborne, second Baronet, MP (c.1578-1652).

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 247 (No. 71), with a facsimile of f. 1r on p. 83.

ff. 69v-71v

• HoH 12: 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.

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

ff. 72r-9v

• CtR 171: Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy

Copy, as ‘by S^r. Robert Cotton’.

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

Stowe MS 151

A folio volume of state letters and tracts, dating up to 1628, in three professional hands, one that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 214 leaves. c.1630.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 247-8 (No. 72).

ff. 45r-53v

• BcF 75.6: Francis Bacon, Advice to the King touching Sutton's Estate

Copy, the first three and a half lines in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, the rest in another professional secretary hand.

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 248 (No. 72.15), with a facsimile of f. 46r on p. 81.

Written c.January 1611/12. First published in Resuscitatio (London, 1657), pp. 265-70. Spedding, XI, 249-54.

ff. 101r-12v

• FeO 88: Owen Felltham, A Brief Character of the Low-Countries

Copy.

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).

Stowe MS 152

A folio composite volume of state tracts and parliamentary speeches, in various hands and paper sizes, 138 leaves.

ff. 25r-8r

• SoR 302: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, An Epistle unto his Father (22 October 1589)

Copy, headed ‘A Gracious and religious Epistle of a sonne to his father’. Early 17th century.

This MS not recorded by editors.

Epistle, beginning ‘In children of former ages it hath been thought so behooveful a point of duty...’. First published as ‘An Epistle of a Religious Priest unto his Father’ in A Short Rule of Good Life ([London?, 1596-7?]). Trotman, pp. 36-64. Brown, Two Letters, pp. 1-20.

Stowe MS 156

A small quarto volume of state tracts and papers, in one or more cursive secretary hands, 236 leaves, in modern half-morocco. c.1620s.

ff. 68r-80r

• CtR 405: Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England

Copy, as ‘written p S^r Robert Coton Knight & Baronet’. c.1630s.

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. 102v-4v

• RuB 5.5: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, March 1623/4

Copy, headed ‘S^r Beniamin Rudiers speache taken as he spake it, being y^e first in y^e great busieness concerninge y^e Treatie’. c.1630s.

Speech beginning ‘We are bound to bless God that we are mett againe in this place. And we ought to acknowledge his Ma^ts favour towards vs...’.

ff. 108v-204v

• LeC 31: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

Copy, in a roman hand, entitled (f. 108v) ‘Robert Dudley Erle of Leicester his life & gou^rnm^t, commonly called his Comon Wealth.1584’. c.1630s.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.

f. 204v

• RaW 385: Sir Walter Ralegh, An epitaph on the Earl of Leicester (‘Here lyes the noble warryor that never bludyed sword’)

Copy of a twelve-line version, headed ‘Epitaphium’ and here beginning ‘Heere lyes y^e valiant soldier | that neu^r drewe his sword’. c.1630s.

Printed from this MS in D.C. Peck, ‘Another Version of the Leicester Epitaphium’, N&Q, 221 (May-June 1976), 227-8.

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

ff. 209r-14v

• CtR 173: Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy

Copy, unascribed.

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.

Stowe MS 159

A folio volume of state and miscellaneous tracts, dating from 1572 to 1635, in various professional secretary hands, 386 leaves.

Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, 1701.

ff. 112r-18v

• CtR 354: Sir Robert Cotton, A Relation of the Proceedings against Ambassadors who have miscarried themselves, etc. ...[27 April 1624]

Copy, as ‘written by Sir Robt Cotton knight and barronet’, dated 27 April 1624. c.1620s-30s.

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

ff. 262r-5v

• BcF 281.8: Francis Bacon, A Short View to be taken of Great Britain and Spain

Copy.

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

f. 354v

• ElQ 96.5: Queen Elizabeth I, On the Sailing of the Cadiz Expedition, May 1596

Copy of the prayer, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘The Praier is thus’, and followed (ff. 354v-5r) by a Latin version, in a copy (on ff. 353r-69v) of Roger Marbeck's account of the taking of Cadiz in 1596.

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’).

Stowe MS 161

A folio composite volume of state tracts, in various professional hands, 211 leaves, in mottled leather.

Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, 1701.

ff. 3r-27r

• HoH 38: 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

Copy of the main text (ff. 3r-23r). followed by the Dedication ‘To the Queenes most excellent Ma^tie’: (ff. 24r-7r), in a professional secretary hand, unascribed. c.1630s.

ff. 65v-86v

• CtR 21: Sir Robert Cotton, An Answer made by Command of Prince Henry, to Certain Propositions of Warre and Peace

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

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. 156r-211v

• NaR 15: Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia

Copy, in at least three professional secretary hands, with a title-page. c.1630s.

This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87.

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

Stowe MS 171

A folio composite volume of diplomatic letters and papers, 1609-11, in various hands, 396 leaves. Volume VI of the papers of Sir Thomas Edmondes (1592-1633), diplomat.

ff. 352r-3v

• *LoT 27: Thomas Lodge, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Lodge, to Sir Thomas Edmondes, from London, 17 January 1610/11. 1611.

Facsimile in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XIX.

Stowe MS 177

Volume XII of the state papers largely assembled by Sir Thomas Edmondes (1563?-1633), 235 leaves. [1615-33].

ff. 138r-70r

• RaW 580: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Dialogue between a Counsellor of State and a Justice of the Peace

Copy.

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

Stowe MS 180

A large folio guard-book of independent state tracts and miscellaneous papers, in various hands, 229 leaves.

f. 9r-v

• RaW 728.148: Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)

Copy.

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.

f. 26r

• RaW 901: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Ralegh.

ff. 43r-5v

• BcF 709: Francis Bacon, An Essay of a King

Copy.

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

ff. 47r-8r

• RaW 766: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘S^r Walter Raleighs speach at his death...[&c.]’, on two conjugate folio leaves. c.1620.

f. 57r

• HlJ 23: Joseph Hall, Episcopal Admonition, Sent in a Letter to the House of Commons, April 28, 1628

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The Bishpp of Exeters Letter to the howse of Comons’, on one side of a folio leaf.

See HlJ 17-30.

ff. 58r-9v

• SuJ 155: John Suckling, To Mr. Henry German, In the Beginning of Parliament, 1640

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled, on two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed on a blank leaf (f. 60v) ‘A discourse of the state of these present times. / 1641’. c.1640s.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published as A Coppy of a Letter Found in the Privy Lodgeings at Whitehall (London, 1641). Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 163-7.

ff. 69r-70v

• ClE 140: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Letters to the Duke of York and the Duchess of York

Copy of the letters, here dated 3 April 1671.

Letters by Clarendon to his daughter Anne (who died on 31 March 1671 before the letter arrived) and to her husband, the Duke of York (later James II), on the occasion of her conversion to Roman Catholicism. The original letters, which received particular attention by his contemporaries because of their subject matter, are not known to survive.

These were first published in Two Letters written by…Edward Earl of Clarendon…one to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the other to the Dutchess, occasioned by her Embracing the Roman Catholic Religion (London, [1680?]) and were reprinted in State Tracts (1689), in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (Oxford, 1724), pp. 313-24, and elsewhere.

ff. 77r-8r

• MaA 516: Andrew Marvell, His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament, 13 April 1675

Copy, in a neat hand, untitled, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.

Facsimile of f. 77r in Kelliher, p. 110.

A mock speech, beginning ‘I told you last meeting the winter was the fittest time for business...’. First published, and ascribed to Marvell, in Poems on Affairs of State, Vol. III (London, 1704). Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 36-43. Grosart, II, 431-3. Augustine Birrell, Andrew Marvell (London, 1905), pp. 200-2. Discussed in Legouis, p. 470, and in Kelliher, pp. 111-12.

Stowe MS 182

A folio volume of transcripts of state papers and parliamentary speeches, chiefly from 1618 to 1679, largely in a single mixed hand, written from both ends, 161 leaves, in old marbled boards. Late 17th century.

f. 35r-v

• RoJ 76.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Epistolary Essay from M.G. to O.B. upon Their Mutual Poems (‘Dear friend, I hear this town does so abound’)

Copy, in double columns.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.

ff. 74r-5r

• PoW 87.8: Walton Poole, On the death of King James (‘Can Christendoms great champion sink away’)

Copy, in a neat italic hand, on ruled lines, headed ‘A mournfull Elegy vppon K. James His death’.

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

ff. 85r-7v

• ClE 141: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Letters to the Duke of York and the Duchess of York

Copy of both letters (ff. 85r-6v, 87r-v), in a neat hand.

Stowe MS 223

A folio composite volume of correspondence and papers of John Robethon, private secretary to William III and George I, for 1707-11, 472 leaves. Hanover Papers Vol. II.

f. 398r

• *ChM 7: Mary, Lady Chudleigh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Lady Chudleigh, to the Electress Sophia, from Exeter, 8 October 1710. 1710.

Stowe MS 232

A folio composite volume of copies and abstracts of intercepted Jacobite correspondence, 1717-19, 221 leaves. Hanover Papers Vol. XI.

f. 93r

• BarJ 99: Jane Barker, Letter(s)

An abstract in French of a letter by Jane Barker, to the Duke of Ormond, dated 19 March 1717/18, which was intercepted by the government's anti-Jacobite intelligence system. c.1718.

Cited, with a translation into French, in Kathryn R. King, with Jeslyn Medoff, ‘Jane Barker and Her Life (1652-1732): The Documentary Record’, Eighteenth Century Life, 21, n.s., 3 (November 1997), pp. 26, 36 n. 84.

Stowe MS 246

ff. 64r-5v

• *VaJ 182: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [the Duke of Marlborough], from London, 18 March 1712/13. 1713.

Edited in Whistler, pp. 240-1 (Appendix I, No. 16), and, with a facsimile, in Maynard Mack, ‘“They have actually turned me out”: Vanbrugh to Marlborough’, The Scriblerian, 9 (1977), 77-83.

Stowe MS 269

Copy; in a rounded hand, inscribed ‘Transcribed from a copy in the hands of M^r George Ballard, Sept. 20: 1748’, on sixteen duodecimo leaves, in vellum wrappers within modern half crushed morocco.

TiW 1: William Tindale, A commyssion sent to the bloudy byshop of London, and to al conuents of Frers By the high and mighty prince and king, lord Sathanas the deuill of hell

Edited from this MS in Fines.

First published in John Fines, ‘An Unnoticed Tract of the Tyndale-More dispute?’, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 42 (1969), 220-30.

Stowe MS 270

Copy, the main text in a single professional secretary hand, 73 quarto leaves, in modern crushed morocco. Formally inscribed (f. 1r) ‘De. Re / Priuata et Publia / RCL / Pecet nouisse malum facisse nefandum / Lectori / Emenda Legendo menda / Vale’, with a full title-page in secretary and italic scripts (f. 2r), subscribed (f. 71r) ‘finis. written Anno. 1594’. c.1594.

LeC 32: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

Stowe MS 271

A small folio volume containing two works, the second (ff. 49v-79r) a tabular summary of a philosophical ‘Encyclopædia’, 79 leaves, in modern crushed morocco. Early 17th century.

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

ff. 1r-48v

• LeC 33: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

Stowe MS 274

Copy, on 554 folio leaves, entitled ‘A large and excellent discourse of the Estate of Christiandome Written by An vnknowne Author about the years of our Lord 1594…’, with a table of contents in another hand. 1st half 17th century.

WoH 297: Sir Henry Wotton, The State of Christendom

A lengthy treatise, beginning ‘After that I had lived many years in voluntary exile and banishment...’. First published in London, 1657. Wotton's authorship is not certain.

Stowe MS 275

A small folio volume of state tracts and letters, in a professional secretary hand, sixteen leaves, in modern crushed morocco. Early 17th century.

ff. 2r-12r

• EsR 121: 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.

Stowe MS 276

A folio volume of state letters and tracts, chiefly in secretary hands, 24 leaves, in vellum wrappers from a ?15th-century document within a modern binding. Early 17th century.

f. 2r

• PlG 17: George Peele, A Sonet (‘His Golden lockes, Time hath to Silver turn'd’)

Copy, in an italic hand, that of Oliver St John (1584-1646), first Earl of Bolingbroke, headed ‘S^r Henrye Lee’, subscribed ‘St John’.

This MS collated in Clayton and in Hughey.

First published as an appendix to Polyhymnia (London, 1590). Edited by D.H. Horne in Prouty, I, 244. The sonnet probably written by Sir Henry Lee: see Horne, pp. 169-70, and Thomas Clayton, ‘“Sir Henry Lee's Farewel to the Court”: The Texts and Authorship of “His Golden Locks Time Hath to Silver Turned”’, ELR, 4 (1974), 268-75.

Stowe MS 277

Autograph draft, on twelve small quarto leaves. c.1615-16.

*CmW 50: William Camden, Discourse concerning the Prerogative of the Crown (‘The laws of England which men call the common laws...’)

Edited from this MS in Fussner.

First published in Frank Smith Fussner, ‘William Camden's “Discourse concerning the Prerogative of the Crown”’, Proceedings of the American Philological Society, 101 (1957), 204-15.

Stowe MS 278

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with some alterations in another hand, complete with a title-page, on 69 small folio leaves, in modern calf gilt. c.1630s.

NaR 16: Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia

This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87.

Stowe MS 279

A small quarto volume of works attributed to Sir Thomas Overbury, in a single secretary hand, 42 small leaves, in quarter-calf marbled boards. c.1620s.

Inscribed (inside the front cover) ‘Ex Bibl G. Brander Arm^r Feb: 1790’ [i.e. Gustavus Brander (1720-87), naturalist] and (on flyleaf) ‘Bibl. T. Astle’ [i.e. Thomas Astle (1735-1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts].

ff. 2r-14r

• OvT 38: Sir Thomas Overbury, Crumms fal'n from King James's Table, or his Table Talk, principally relating to Religion, Embassyes, State-Policy, &c.

An abridgement or extracts, untitled.

A discourse beginning ‘God made one part of man of earth, the basest Element to teach him humility...’. First published in The Prince's Cabala: or Mysteries of State. Written by King James the First and some Noblemen in hiis Reign, and in Queen Elizabeth's (London, 1715). Rimbaud, pp. 253-78. Unlikely to be by Overbury (unless one of various sources for the anecdotes) since certain references in the work date from no earlier than 1622.

ff. 15r-42v

• OvT 46: Sir Thomas Overbury, Observations in his travailes

Copy, headed ‘Maxims and Observations respecting the state if the 17. Provinces...Anno 1619’.

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.

Stowe MS 284

Copy, in a professional hand, untitled, as by Sir Robert Cotton, on 47 small quarto leaves, in modern boards. Early 17th century.

CtR 22: Sir Robert Cotton, An Answer made by Command of Prince Henry, to Certain Propositions of Warre and Peace

Owned in 1774 by Thomas Astle (1735-1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts.

Stowe MS 285

A folio volume comprising two treatises, 101 leaves. c.1630s.

Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, dated 1701.

ff. 75r-101r

• RaW 1096: Sir Walter Ralegh, Observations touching Trade and Commerce with the Hollander

Copy, headed ‘A discoverye of the Hollanders trades, and their circumventinge vs therein, and the meanes howe to make profitt by the ffisheinge...’.

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.

Stowe MS 289

Copy, on twenty small folio leaves. 1634-41.

WoH 276: Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham

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

Stowe MS 296

A folio composite volume of political and legal tracts and speeches, in four professional secretary hands (one predominating), 91 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco. c.1630s.

ff. 79r-86r

• CtR 116: Sir Robert Cotton, A Briefe Discovrse concerning the Power of the Peeres and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature

Copy, as ‘written by S^r Robert Cotton to S^r Edward Mountagu...1621’.

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

Stowe MS 297

A folio volume of three state tracts, 146 leaves.

ff. 1r-86r

• DaJ 266: Sir John Davies, The Question concerning Impositions

Copy. c.1625-40.

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

Stowe MS 298

A folio volume of state and legal tracts, in three professional secretary hands (one predominating ff. 2r-142r), 228 leaves (plus some blanks), in modern mottled leather. c.1620s-30s.

Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, 1701.

ff. 2r-81v

• DaJ 267: Sir John Davies, The Question concerning Impositions

Copy.

ff. 157v-60v

• CmW 78: William Camden, Of the Antiquity of Parliaments in England

Copy, headed ‘The Antiquity of Parliam^ts’, subscribed ‘William Cambden’.

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

Stowe MS 305

A folio partly composite miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly on affairs of state, in a single closely written hand (up to f. 294v) but for a second hand on ff. 220v-31v, a third hand on ff. 315r, 316r-25. 325 leaves (plus blanks), in quarter-vellum. Early 18th century.

ff. 89v-136v

• MnJ 48: John Milton, Eikonoklastes

Copy, probably transcribed from a printed source.

This MS recorded in LR, II, 264.

First published in London, 1649. Columbia, V, 63-309. Yale, III, 335-601.

f. 185r-v

• SeC 123: Sir Charles Sedley, Speeches

Copy of a speech by Sedley, headed ‘The speech of a person of Honour in the House of Comons Jan: 2: 1690: Sir Charles Sedly Barot’, beginning ‘We have provided for y^e navy...’. 1691.

Published in 1691.

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

f. 203v

• DoC 118: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Madam Maintenon's Advice to the French King. Paraphrase on the French (‘In gray-hair'd Celia's wither'd arms’)

Copy, headed ‘The hasty returne’.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Harris, pp. 171-5.

ff. 232r-4r

• DrJ 43.75: John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire (‘How dull and how insensible a beast’)

Copy, headed ‘A Satyricall poem’.

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’.

f. 242v

• DoC 326.996: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Death of the Duke of Gloucester (‘For Gloucester's death, which sadly we deplore’)

Copy, untitled.

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.

f. 296r

• LeJ 44: John Leland, Collectanea [Other transcripts and extracts]

Extracts, headed ‘Leland. Collect. vol. 1. p. 132, 133’, on one side of a folio leaf.

This MS recorded in Smith, V, xiv.

Stowe MS 321

Copy, 24 small folio leaves. Headed Extracts Out of the Records, wherein it may be collected by what meanes the kings of England have and may rayse moneys. Written by S^r Robert Cotton, knight and baronett. Early 17th century.

CtR 288: Sir Robert Cotton, The Manner and Meanes how the Kings of England have from time to time Supported and Repaired their Estates. Written...1609.

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

Stowe MS 354

A folio composite volume of parliamentary papers, in various professional hands, 326 leaves, in modern crushed morocco.

f. 18r-19r

• ElQ 156: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech to a Joint Delegation of Lords and Commons, November 5, 1566

Copy of Version 2, in a professional secretaty hand, headed ‘The Queenes Ma^ts answear to the Comon house touching her Mariage and the limitico of succession.’. Late 16th century.

Edited from this MS in J.E. Neale, ‘Parliament and the Succession Question in 1562/3 and 1566’, EHR, 36, No. 144 (October 1921), 497-520 (pp. 514-17). Cited in Hartley and in Selected Works.

First published in J.E. Neale, ‘Parliament and the Succession Question in 1562/3 and 1566’, EHR, 36, No. 144 (October 1921), 497-520 (pp. 514-17).

Version I. Beginning ‘If the order of your causes had matched the weight of your matter...’. Hartley, I, 145 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 9, pp. 93-4 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 5, pp. 45-6.

Version II. Beginning ‘If the order had been observed in the beginning of the matter...’. Hartley, I, 146-9 (Text ii). Collected Works, Speech 9, pp. 94-8 (Version 2).

f. 43r-v

• HoJ 67: John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart (‘Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke’)

Copy of a 90-line version, untitled, on the first two pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Early 17th century.

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

ff. 109r-10r

• RuB 195: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 7-9 February 1640/1

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘S^r: Benjamine Rydiars speech concerning Bishopps’. c.1640s.

Speech beginning ‘I doe verily beleeue that there are manie of the Clergie in one Church who doe thinke...’. First published in The Speeches of S^r. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 15-‘12’ [i.e. 20]. Manning, pp. 185-7.

Stowe MS 358

A large folio volume of Elizabethan parliamentary proceedings, in several professional secretary hands, 452 leaves, in modern calf gilt. Early 17th century.

f. 99r-v

• ElQ 171: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech Dissolving Parliament, January 2, 1567

Copy of Version 2.

This MS cited in Hartley.

First published in Simonds D'Ewes, The Journalls of All the Parliaments during the Raign of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1682), pp. 113-17.

Version I. Beginning ‘I love so evil counterfeiting and hate so much dissimulation that I may not suffer you depart...’. Hartley, I, 174-5 (‘Separate version’). Collected Works, Speech 10, pp. 105-6 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 6, pp. 47-51.

Version II. Beginning ‘My lords and others, the Commons of this Assembly, although the lord keeper hath, according to order, very well answered in my name...’. Hartley, I, 172-3. Collected Works, Speech 10, pp. 107-8 (Version 2).

f. 107v

• ElQ 176: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech Opening the 1571 Parliament, April 2, 1571

Copy, introduced by ‘...after a longe stay she spake in fewe words to this effect.’

This MS cited in Hartley.

Brief speech beginning ‘My right loving lords and you all, our right faithful and obedient subjects, we in the name of God....’. First published in Simonds D'Ewes, The Journalls of All the Parliaments during the Raign of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1682), p. 137. Hartley, I, 195. Collected Works, Speech 11, pp. 108-9.

Stowe MS 361

A folio composite volume of chiefly Elizabethan and Jacobean parliamentary proceedings, in various hands, 128 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco.

f. 1r

• ElQ 109: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's First Speech, Hatfield, November 20, 1558

Copy, headed ‘Quee Elizabeths speech to her Secretary and other her Lords before her Coronation. / Wordes Spoken by her Ma^tie To Mr Cicille’. Early 18th century.

This MS cited in Heisch.

‘Words spoken by her majesty to Mr. Cecil’ beginning ‘I give you this charge, that you shall be of my privy Council...’. Collected Works, Speech 1, p. 51. Selected Works, Speeches 1, pp. 32-3.

f. 1r-v

• ElQ 113: Queen Elizabeth I, Words Spoken by the Queen to the Lords, January 1559

Copy, headed ‘Words Spoken by the Queene. To the Lords’. Early 18th century.

‘Words spoken by the queen to the lords’ beginning ‘My lords, the law of nature moveth me to sorrow for my sister...’. Collected Works, pp. 51-2 (linked to Speech 1 as if spoken on 20 November 1558). Selected Works, Speech 2, pp. 34-6 (and dated January 1559).

f. 2r-v

• ElQ 215: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's First Reply to the Parliamentary Petitions Urging the Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, November 12, 1586

Copy of a version, untitled, in a professional secretary hand, on two pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Late 16th century.

Edited from this MS (as Text iii) in Hartley.

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

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

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

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

ff. 70r-3r

• RuB 156: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 November 1640

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘S^r Benjamin Rudyards speech in Parliam^t. Nov: 7^o 1640’, on four quarto leaves. c.1640s.

Speech (variously dated 4, 7, 9 and 10 November 1640) beginning ‘We are here assembled to do God's business and the King's...’. First published in The Speeches of S^r. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 1-10. Manning, pp. 159-65.

Stowe MS 362

A folio volume of parliamentary journals for 1597 and 1601-1601/2, in three professional hands, including that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 288 leaves. c.1630s.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 248-9 (No. 73).

ff. 168r-72r

• ElQ 275: Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

This MS cited in Hartley, in Collected Works, and in Heisch.

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

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

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

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

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

Stowe MS 363

A folio volume of the parliamentary journal of Hayward Townshend for 27 October to 19 December 1601, in a single professional hand, 241 leaves, in mottled leather. c.1630s.

Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, 1701.

This MS cited in Hartley.

ff. 115r-19r

• ElQ 276: Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601

Copy of Version 1, in a professional hand, introduced ‘...After .3. lowe obeyances/reverences made he with the rest kneeled downe, and her Ma^tie. began thus to answere (vizt)’.

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

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

Stowe MS 364

A folio volume principally of proceedings in the House of Commons, 1603-98, 90 leaves.

ff. 80r-90v

• ClE 142: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Letters to the Duke of York and the Duchess of York

Copy of both letters, here dated 3 and 4 April 1671 respectively.

Stowe MS 368

Copy, 115 folio leaves. Late 17th century.

ClE 111: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Impeachment Proceedings against Clarendon in 1667

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

Stowe MS 369

Copy, 135 folio leaves. Late 17th century.

ClE 112: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Impeachment Proceedings against Clarendon in 1667

Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor.

Stowe MS 389

A small quarto 15th-century volume of statutes from the reign of Henry IV to that of Henry VI, 125 leaves.

f. 120r

• SuH 27: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, ‘If care do cause men cry, why do not I complaine?’

Copy of the incipit, in a musical setting for the lute, as transcribed ‘by one Ralph Bowle to learne to playe on his lutte, in anno 1558’, added on the endpapers. 1558.

This MS discussed, with a facsimile, in Mumford.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Padelford, No. 28, pp. 80-2. Jones, pp. 14-16.

Stowe MS 396

A folio volume of state trials from 1521 to 1666, in several professional hands, 194 leaves, in 19th-century mottled leather. Late 17th century.

Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, dated 1701.

f. 8r-v

• SuH 77: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Surrey's Arraignment

Copy of a brief account of ‘The Arraignment of Henry Earle of Surrey’.

Unpublished?

ff. 70v-82v

• RaW 728.15: Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603, headed in the margin ‘Sir Walter Rawleighs Indictment’.

Stowe MS 399

A small folio volume of state tracts, in a professional cursive secretary hand, 73 leaves, in old mottled leather. Early-mid-17th century.

Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, dated 1701.

ff. 1r-36v

• EsR 224: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1

Copy.

ff. 37r-40r

• EsR 287: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution

Copy, headed ‘The speeches of Robert Earle of Essex the night before his execution out of his Chamber windowe to the guard, and from his chamber going to the place of Execution’, including an account of the execution itself.

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

Stowe MS 402

A folio volume of state trials, 33 leaves. c.1620.

f. 24r

• CoR 120: Richard Corbett, An Elegie vpon the Death of Sir Thomas Ouerbury Knight poysoned in the Tower (‘Hadst thou, like other Sirs and Knights of worth’)

Copy, headed ‘Overbury’.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 18-19.

Stowe MS 415

A tall folio volume of tracts relating to the Court of Chancery, apparently based on collections of William Lambarde, in a professional mixed hand, with (ff. 258v-63v) a table of contents, 263 leaves, in old calf now within 19th-century half-morocco. Mid-17th century.

Arms of the Wright family of Essex on the original cover.

ff. 70v-4v

• BcF 359: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

Copy of Bacon's inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617.

ff. 75r-82r

• BcF 245: Francis Bacon, Ordinances in Chancery

Copy of 100 Ordinances, the text followed (ff. 82v-3v) by fourteen ‘Additional Rules’.

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. 219-57v

• CtR 138: Sir Robert Cotton, The Courte of Chauncerye

Copy of the first part.

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

Stowe MS 422

A folio composite volume of legal tracts and speeches, in various professional hands, 136 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco.

Once owned by John Anstis (1669-1745), Garter King of Arms, antiquary.

ff. 70v-1r

• BcF 360: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

Copy of an abridged version of Bacon's inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617.

ff. 83r-107v

• BcF 736: Francis Bacon, The Office of Compositions for Alienations

Copy.

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

ff. 121r-33v

• BcF 266: Francis Bacon, A Preparation for the Union of Laws

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Cases of high Treason...[&c.]...written by Chanc. Bacon’. c.1630s.

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

ff. 133v-6r

• BcF 115: Francis Bacon, Cases of the King's Prerogative

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

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

Stowe MS 423

A small quarto volume of legal tracts, 150 leaves.

ff. 15r-22r

• BcF 103: Francis Bacon, Arguments of Law. The Argument on the Writ De Non precedendo Rege Inconsulto

Copy, incomplete.

This MS recorded (but not seen) in Spedding, VII, 305-6.

First published in Collectanea juridica, ed. F. Hargrave, I (London, 1791), pp. 168-213. Spedding, VII, 681-725.

Stowe MS 424

A folio volume of legal and state tracts, in vellum. Mid-late 17th century.

Later owned by Joseph Edmondson (1732-86), Mowbray Herald of Arms Extraordinary, and by Thomas Astle (1735-1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts.

ff. 133r-44r

• BcF 272: Francis Bacon, Reading on the Statute of Uses

Copy.

First published as The Learned Reading of Sir Francis Bacon...upon the Statute of Uses (London, 1642). Spedding, VII, 389-450.

ff. 145r-50r

• BcF 270: Francis Bacon, Reading on the Statute of Advocations

Copy.

This MS recorded (but not seen) in Spedding, VII, 305.

Unpublished?

Stowe MS 425

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous state and legal papers, 161 leaves.

f. 86r et seq.

• ClE 113: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Impeachment Proceedings against Clarendon in 1667

Copy.

Stowe MS 426

A small quarto volume of works by Sir Arthur Gorges, 37 leaves, in vellum. Inscribed on the upper cover ‘Matters concerninge Sea-seruice’. 1619.

ff. 1r-30r

• *GgA 140: Sir Arthur Gorges, Observations & Overtures for a Seafight

Copy in the hand of an amanuensis, with Gorges's copious autograph deletions and revisions, some overlaid on large strips of paper, with a title-page dated 1 March 1618[/19] and with a Dedication to the Marquess of Buckingham as Lord High Admiral, dated 16 March 1618/[19].

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

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

ff. 30v-6r

• RaW 705: Sir Walter Ralegh, Orders to be observed by the Commanders of the Fleet with Land Companies. 3 May 1617

Copy of Sir Arthur Gorges's adaptation of Ralegh's Orders, as A Forme of Orders and Directions...[for] Conducting a Fleete through the Narrow Seas, in the hand of an amanuensis, with Gorges's copious autograph deletions and revisions.

This MS recorded in Sandison (1928). Sections printed from this MS, and the relation between Ralegh's Orders and Gorges's version discussed, in Helen E. Sandison, ‘Ralegh's Orders once more’, Mariners' Mirror, 20 (1934), 323-30.

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

Stowe MS 531

A folio volume of antiquarian collections.

The fifth volume of antiquarian collections belonging to Thomas Astle (1735-1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts.

ff. 111v-14v

• CmW 106: William Camden, A second Discourse touching the Earl Marshals of England

Copy, untitled.

A tract beginning ‘Some learned men which have discoursed of offices and magistracies...’. First published, as De origine & dignitate Comitis Marescalli Angliae, in Camdeni epistolae (London, 1691), Appendix, pp. 93-6. Hearne (1771), II, 327-30.

Stowe MS 568

A folio volume of antiquarian tracts, almost entirely in a single professional secretary hand, 175 leaves (plus a two-leaf insertion), with a table of contents (ff. 168r-75r). in mottled leather. c.1630s.

Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, 1701.

ff. 16r-24v

• CmW 30: William Camden, The Antiquity and Office of the Earl Marshall of England

A tract beginning ‘Such is the vncertainety of etimologyes...’ and sometimes entitled in manuscripts ‘The Etymology, Antiquity and Office of the Earl Marshall of England’. First published, as ‘Commentarius de etymologia, antiquitate, & officio Comitis Marescalli Angliae’, in Camdeni epistolae (London, 1691), Appendix, pp. 87-93. Hearne (1771), II, 90-7.

ff. 37r-45v

• CtR 257: Sir Robert Cotton, A Discourse Off the Offyce of the Lord Steward of England, Written by S^r Robte Cotton, knight, and Baronnett

Copy, as ‘by S^r. Robert Cotton K^t. and Baronet’.

Tract beginning ‘For the Clearinge whereof wee will intreate off the name...’. Hearne (1771), II, 1-12.

ff. 46r-50r

• CtR 330: Sir Robert Cotton, Of the steward of the King's household by S^r. Robt Cotton K^t. & Bar^t.

Copy, as ‘by S^r. Rob^t. Cotton K^t. & Ba^rt.’

A tract beginning ‘Which office because it was neuer hereditary...’. Unpublished?

ff. 50v-4r

• CmW 40: William Camden, The Antiquity, Authority, and Succession of the High Steward of England

Copy, headed ‘A discourse of the office of the Lord Steward of England Collected by M^r. William Cambden’.

A tract beginning ‘Whom we call in English steward, in Latine is called seneschallus...’. First published in Hearne (1771), II, 38-40.

ff. 54v-7v

• CtR 242: Sir Robert Cotton, A Discourse Of the Offyce of the Lord Highe Connstable of England, written by S^r: Robte Cotton, knight, and Baronett

Copy, as ‘written by S^r. Robert Cotton K^t. & Bar’.

Tract beginning ‘Yff wee curiouslye will looke the Roote of this question...’. Hearne (1771), II, 65-7.

ff. 57v-64v

• CtR 59: Sir Robert Cotton, The Antiquitye and Offyce of Earle Marshall of England, Written by S^r Robte Cotton, knight, and Baronett

Copy, as ‘written by S^r. Robert Cotton knight & Bar.’

Tract beginning ‘The plentye of this discourse, the last question of Highe Connstables, whereto...’. Hearne (1771), II, 97-103.

ff. 64v-7r

• CtR 224: Sir Robert Cotton, A Discourse Of the Antiquitye, and Offyce of the Earle Marshall of England, written by S^r Robte Cotton, knight, Att the request of the Lord Henrye Howard, Earle of Northampton [25 November 1602]

Copy of the dedicatory epistle to Northampton, 25 November 1602, headed ‘A Letter to the Earle Howard of Northampton from S^r Ro: Cotton, Concerning Limitations of Arrests, & dispositions of ffellons goods’.

A dedicatory epistle beginning ‘Sir, Yo^r small tyme, I must Ballance, w^th as sclend^r Aunswere...’ followed by a tract beginning ‘Because the Jurisdiction att the Comon Lawe was vncertayne...’.

f. 176r

• HoH 26: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A certaine form of Orders to be prescribed to the Officers of Armes For reformation of abuses & prevention of Corruptions deeply rooted & not easie to be removed

Copy of an extract, in an italic hand, headed ‘Extracted out of a discourse written in King James his time by the right hon^ble. Henry Howard Earle of North^ton. and by him then p^rsented to his fellow Commissioners for the Office of Earle Marshall of England Intituled A certaine form of Orders to be prescribed to the Officers of Armes For reformation of abuses & prevention of Corruptions deeply rooted & not easie to be removed’, and here beginning ‘Discord betwixt Garter & the Provinciall Kings of Armes hath beene the cheife cause of Corruption & disorder in y^e Office of Armes...’.

Apparently beginning ‘Discord betwixt Garter & the Provinciall Kings of Armes hath beene the cheife cause of Corruption & disorder in y^e Office of Armes...’. Unless this is a version of the untitled tract on the reformation of the office of arms (HoH 92) this unpublished work is known only from an extract.

Stowe MS 569

A large folio volume of antiquarian tracts, in a single professional secretary hand, 316 leaves, in modern mottled leather. c.1620s-30s.

Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, 1701.

ff. ff. 2r-9r

• CtR 258: Sir Robert Cotton, A Discourse Off the Offyce of the Lord Steward of England, Written by S^r Robte Cotton, knight, and Baronnett

Copy, headed ‘Seneschallus Angliæ. Of the Office of Steward of England’.

Tract beginning ‘For the Clearinge whereof wee will intreate off the name...’. Hearne (1771), II, 1-12.

ff. 9r-12v

• CtR 331: Sir Robert Cotton, Of the steward of the King's household by S^r. Robt Cotton K^t. & Bar^t.

Copy, headed ‘Of the Steward of y^e Household’, subscribed ‘Ro: Cotton’.

A tract beginning ‘Which office because it was neuer hereditary...’. Unpublished?

ff. 12v-15v

• CmW 41: William Camden, The Antiquity, Authority, and Succession of the High Steward of England

Copy, headed ‘Steward of England’, subscribed ‘Will: Camden’.

A tract beginning ‘Whom we call in English steward, in Latine is called seneschallus...’. First published in Hearne (1771), II, 38-40.

ff. 15v-18r

• CtR 243: Sir Robert Cotton, A Discourse Of the Offyce of the Lord Highe Connstable of England, written by S^r: Robte Cotton, knight, and Baronett

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Robert Cotton’.

Tract beginning ‘Yff wee curiouslye will looke the Roote of this question...’. Hearne (1771), II, 65-7.

ff. 18r-24v

• CtR 212: Sir Robert Cotton, A Discovre of Lawfvllnes of Combats to be performed in the presence of the King, or the Constable and Marshall of England. Written...1609

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘R. Cott: B. 1609’.

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

ff. 25r-34v

• DaJ 251: Sir John Davies, Of the Antiquity, Use, and Ceremony of Lawful Combats in England

Copy, unascribed.

Paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries, beginning ‘Our Question is of the antiquity and manner of lawful combats...’, dated 22 May 1601. First published in Hearne (1771), II, 180-7. Grosart, III, 293-302.

ff. 41v-65r

• HoH 63: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, Duello Foiled

Copy, subscribed ‘Yo^r Lo^ps most humble serv^t to be commanded Ed Cooke’.

A discourse, with a dedicatory epistle to ‘my very good Lord’, beginning ‘Reasons moving me to write this thing which handleth not the whole matter...’, the tract beginning ‘The two parties between whom this single fight was appointed...’. Published in Thomas Hearne, A Collection of Curious Discourses written by Eminent Antiquaries (London, 1771), II, 223-42, where it is attributed to Sir Edward Coke. It is not certain whether this tract is by Howard or simply annotated by him as a reader.

ff. 75v-81r

• CtR 60: Sir Robert Cotton, The Antiquitye and Offyce of Earle Marshall of England, Written by S^r Robte Cotton, knight, and Baronett

Copy, subscribed ‘Ro: Cotton’.

Tract beginning ‘The plentye of this discourse, the last question of Highe Connstables, whereto...’. Hearne (1771), II, 97-103.

ff. 81v-3v

• CtR 225: Sir Robert Cotton, A Discourse Of the Antiquitye, and Offyce of the Earle Marshall of England, written by S^r Robte Cotton, knight, Att the request of the Lord Henrye Howard, Earle of Northampton [25 November 1602]

A copy of the dedicatory epistle to Northampton [25 November 1602], untitled, subscribed ‘Ro: Cotton’.

ff. 205v-14v

• CmW 31: William Camden, The Antiquity and Office of the Earl Marshall of England

Copy, headed ‘The Etymologie, Antiquity and Office of Earle Marshall of England’, unascribed.

Stowe MS 572

A folio volume of antiquarian and legal tracts, 77 leaves.

Later owned by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary, and afterwards by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, antiquary and collector.

ff. 14v-15v

• CmW 79: William Camden, Of the Antiquity of Parliaments in England

Stowe MS 619

A folio volume of tracts and of heraldic and genealogical material, written from both ends, with (ff. 3r-6r) an alphabetical index, 118 leaves, in modern morocco.

Inscribed (flyleaf) ‘John Holland N^o 28’ and (f. 2r) ‘Jefferies of Derbysh^r’.

ff. 1r-56r (118v-62v rev.)

• NaR 17: Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia

Copy, with a title-page, in a professional predominantly secretary hand. c.1640s.

This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87.

Stowe MS 656

An abridged history of the Willoughby family, based on of Cassandra Willoughby's genealogical work, in a neat cursive hand, followed (ff. 32v-43r) by tipped-in folded genealogies in another hand, 43 folio leaves, originally in contemporary vellum, now all mounted in a guardbook. c.1766.

WiC 3: Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess of Chandos, Family History

Bookplate of Augusta Anna Brydges (daughter of Henry, second Duke of Chandos), dated 1766.

Cassandra Willoughby's An Account of the Willughby's of Wollaton, in two volumes, unfinished and unpublished in full. The greater part of Vol. I edited in HMC, Lord Middleton, Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire (1911), pp. 504-608. Volume II edited as The Continuation of the History of the Willoughby Family by Cassandra Duchess of Chandos, ed. A.C. Wood (Eton, Windsor, 1958).

Stowe MS 755

Composite volume of letters.

f. 13r

• *CoA 245: Abraham Cowley, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed, to John Evelyn, from Barn Elms, [29 March 1663]. 1663.

Edited in Isaac D'Israeli, Calamities of Authors, 2 vols (London, 1812), I. 83-4. Reprinted in Nethercot, p. 237. Facsimiles in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, 73, and in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XXVII(d).

ff. 34r-5v

• *DrJ 298: John Dryden, Epistle Dedicatory for The Vocal and Instrumental Music of the Prophetess

Autograph draft by Dryden of a dedicatory epistle to Charles Seymour, sixth Duke of Somerset, written for Purcell's use (and published with Purcell as the signatory) on the first and last pages of two conjugate quarto leaves also containing (f. 35) a draft advertisement by or on behalf of Jacob Tonson, with a note in a contemporary hand: ‘This Epistle in the handwriteing of John Dryden Esq ... the foul draught of an Epistle Dedicatory to some Opera's of M^r Purcell, and writ at his Request & for his use’, the MS possibly used as printer's copy. ‘c’.1690.

Edited from this MS in Roswell G. Ham, ‘Dryden's Dedication for The Music of The Prophetess, 1691’, PMLA, 50 (1935), 1065-75, and in California. Recorded in Kinsley, IV, 1997. Facsimile of the first page in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile XV, after p. xxiv.

First published (as by Purcell) in Henry Purcell, The Vocal and Instrumental Musick of The Prophetess, or The History of Dioclesian (London, 1691). California, XVII, 324-6.

Stowe MS 758

Composite volume of MSS. Late 17th century.

ff. 147r-9r

• MaA 114: Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh (‘Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign’)

Copy, with alterations, on six pages of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves.

This MS collated in Margoliouth.

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).

Stowe MS 952

A 15th-16th-century quarto MS of an English translation of a work by Guillaume Deguileville, inscribed (f. 1r) ‘W. Browne:’ and with Browne's annotations. Early 17th century.

*BrW 264: William Browne of Tavistock, Lydgate, John. The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man

Edwards, No. 7.

Stowe MS 960

Manuscript of poems by Sir John Beaumont, 16 folio leaves (including 2 blanks). In a professional (but sometimes inaccurate) secretary hand; the contents including (f. 15v) a ten-line poem on Beaumont (beginning ‘Expect noe more: this latest line containes’). c.1627.

f. 2r

• BeJ 11: Sir John Beaumont, At the end of his Majes^ties first yeere. Sonnet first (‘Your Royall Father James, the Good and Great’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Sell.

First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 137-8.

f. 2r

• BeJ 37: Sir John Beaumont, Sonnet second (‘About the time when dayes are longer made’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Sell.

First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, p. 138.

f. 2v

• BeJ 43: Sir John Beaumont, To the Prince (‘In ev'ry man a little world we name’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Sell.

First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 135-6.

f. 3r-v

• BeJ 33: Sir John Beaumont, Of true Greatnesse: to my Lord Marquesse of Buckingham (‘Sir, you are truely great, and every eye’)

Copy, headed ‘Of the true greatnesse of my Lord Marquesse of Buckingham’.

First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 140-2.

f. 4r

• BeJ 19: Sir John Beaumont, An Epithalamium to my Lord Marquesse of Buckingham, and to his faire and vertuous Lady (‘Severe and serious Muse’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Sell.

First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 138-9.

ff. 4v-5v

• BeJ 21: Sir John Beaumont, An Epithalamium upon the happy marriage of our Soveraigne Lord King Charles, and our gracious Lady Queene Mary (‘The Ocean long contended (but in vaine)’)

Copy.

Thi MS collated in Sell.

First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 136-7.

f. 5v

• BeJ 4: Sir John Beaumont, Against inordinate love of Creatures (‘Ah! who would love a creature? who would place’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Sell.

First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 114-15.

f. 6r

• BeJ 34: Sir John Beaumont, Of true Liberty (‘He that from dust of worldly tumults flies’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Sell.

First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 113-14.

f. 6v

• BeJ 26: Sir John Beaumont, Of Sicknesse (‘The endes of Sicknes, Health or Death declare’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Sell.

First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, p. 113.

f. 7r-v

• BeJ 27: Sir John Beaumont, Of Sinne (‘What pensill shall I take, or where begin’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Sell.

First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 110-11.

ff. 7v-8r

• BeJ 1: Sir John Beaumont, An act of Contrition (‘When first my reason, dawning like the day’)

Copy, here beginning ‘When first my reason dawned like the day’.

This MS collated in Sell.

First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 105-6.

f. 8r-v

• BeJ 28: Sir John Beaumont, Of Teares (‘Behold what Rivers feeble nature spends’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Sell.

First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, p. 110.

ff. 8v-9r

• BeJ 29: Sir John Beaumont, Of the Assumption of our Blessed Lady (‘Whoe is shee that ascends so high’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Whoe is that attends so high’.

Edited from this MS in Kenyon and in Sell.

First published by F. G. Kenyon in The Athenaeum (1889), p. 524.i Sell, pp. 177-8.

f. 9r-v

• BeJ 31: Sir John Beaumont, Of the Transfiguration of our Lord (‘Yee that in lowly valleyes weeping sate’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Sell.

First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 100-1.

f. 10r

• BeJ 36: Sir John Beaumont, On the death of so many good People slaine by the fall of a floore att a Catholike Sermon in Black Friers (‘Mann hath noe safe defence noe place of rest’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Sell.

First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 158-9.

ff. 10v-11v

• BeJ 42: Sir John Beaumont, To the immortall memory of the fairest and most vertuous Lady, the Lady Clifton (‘Her tongue hath ceast to speake, which might make dumbe’)

Copy, lacking 16 lines.

This MS collated in Sell.

First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 154-6.

ff. 11v-12v

• BeJ 30: Sir John Beaumont, Of the miserable state of Man (‘Is man, the best of creatures, growne the worst?’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Sell.

First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 111-13.

ff. 12v-13r

• BeJ 2: Sir John Beaumont, An Act of Hope (‘Sweet Hope is soveraigne comfort of our life’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Sell.

First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, p. 109.

f. 13r-v

• BeJ 17: Sir John Beaumont, An Epigram concerning Mans life, composed by Crates, or Posidippus (‘What course of life should wretched mortals take?’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Sell.

First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, p. 86.

f. 13v

• BeJ 10: Sir John Beaumont, The answer of Metrodorus (‘In ev'ry way of life, true pleasure flowes’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Sell.

First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, p. 86.

f. 14r-v

• BeJ 22: Sir John Beaumont, In spirituall comfort (‘Enough delight, O mine eternall good!’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Sell.

First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 108-9.

ff. 14v-15r

• BeJ 46: Sir John Beaumont, Upon the two great Feasts of the Annunciation and Resurrection falling on the same day, March 25. 1627 (‘Thrice happy day which sweetlie doth combyne’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the two greate Feasts of the Incarnation and Resurrection falling on the same Day: March: 25: i627’.

This MS collated in Sell.

First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 98-9.

Stowe MS 961

A small folio volume of 102 poems by Donne, together with a few poems by others, in a professional predominantly italic hand, the poems often subscribed with bunch-of-grapes decorations, 114 leaves (plus blanks), with an alphabetical ‘Table’ (ff. 112v-14r), in modern half-morocco on cloth boards gilt. c.1623-33.

Among the collections of Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, first Duke of Buckingham and Chandos (1776-1839), of Stowe House, near Buckingham, largely derived from the collections of the antiquary Thomas Astle (1735-1803), which in turn chiefly derived from Astle's father-in-law, the Essex historian Philip Morant (1700-71). Later owned by the fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878).

Cited in IELM as ‘Stowe MS I’: DnJ Δ 15.

ff. 1r-3r

• DnJ 2762: John Donne, Satyre II (‘Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyre’, subscribed ‘Finis / A P’.

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

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

ff. 3v-5v

• DnJ 2732: John Donne, Satyre I (‘Away thou fondling motley humorist’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyre’, subscribed ‘Finis’ with an inverted ‘P’.

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

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

ff. 6r-10v

• DnJ 2824: John Donne, Satyre IV (‘Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyre’, subscribed ‘Finis / A P’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

ff. 11r-15v

• DnJ 2416: John Donne, Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, brother to the Lady Lucy, Countesse of Bedford (‘Faire soule, which wast, not onely, as all soules bee’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Finis / A P’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 271-9. Shawcross, No. 153. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 66-74. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 177-82.

ff. 16r-17r

• DnJ 3510: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘Honour is so sublime perfection’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Finis / A P’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 218-20. Milgate, Satires, pp. 100-2. Shawcross, No. 136.

f. 17v

• DnJ 1128: John Donne, Epitaph on Himselfe. To the Countesse of Bedford (‘That I might make your Cabinet my tombe’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Countess of Bedforde’.

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

First published in Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 291-2. Milgate, Satires, p. 103. Shawcross, No. 147.

f. 18r-v

• DnJ 3525: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘Reason is our Soules left hand, Faith her right’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Finis / P’.

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

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

ff. 19r-20r

• BmF 66: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Lady Markham (‘As unthrifts groan in straw for their pawn'd beds’)

Copy, headed ‘A funeral Elegie vpon the Deathe of the Ladie Markham’, subscribed ‘Finis / A P’.

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

ff. 20v-1v

• DnJ 1063: John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham (‘Man is the World, and death th' Ocean’)

Copy, headed ‘A Funerall Elegie vpon the Death of the Ladie Markham’, subscribed ‘Finis / P’.

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

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

ff. 22r-3v

• DnJ 1867: John Donne, A Letter to the Lady Carey, and M^rs Essex Riche, From Amyens (‘Here where by All All Saints invoked are’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Ladie Carey’, subscribed ‘Finis / P’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 221-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 105-7. Shawcross, No. 142.

f. 24r-v

• DnJ 3167: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’, subscribed ‘Finis / P’.

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

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

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

f. 25r-v

• DnJ 620: John Donne, Change (‘Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’, subscribed ‘Finis / P’.

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

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

f. 26r-v

• DnJ 2444: John Donne, ‘Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve’

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’, subscribed ‘Finis / P’.

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

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

f. 27r-v

• DnJ 2234: John Donne, Lovers infinitenesse (‘If yet I have not all thy love’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’, subscribed ‘Finis / P’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 17-18. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 77-8. Shawcross, No. 41.

ff. 28r-9r

• DnJ 2550: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’, subscribed ‘Finis / P’.

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

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

ff. 29v-30r

• DnJ 2197: John Donne, Loves Warre (‘Till I have peace with thee, warr other men’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’, subscribed ‘Finis / P’.

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

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

ff. 30v-1v

• DnJ 2498: John Donne, On his Mistris (‘By our first strange and fatall interview’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie on his Mistres, desiringe to be disguisd, and to goe like a Page, with him’.

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

First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 111-13 (as ‘Elegie XVI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 23-4. Shawcross, No. 18. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 246-7.

ff. 31v-2r

• DnJ 686: John Donne, The Comparison (‘As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

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

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

ff. 32v-3v

• DnJ 1221: John Donne, The Expostulation (‘To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’, subscribed ‘Finis / P’.

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

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

ff. 34r-5r

• DnJ 1097: John Donne, Elegie upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred (‘Language thou art too narrow, and too weake’)

Copy, headed ‘A Funerall Elegie vpon the Death of M^rs Boulstred’, subscribed ‘Finis / P’.

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

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

ff. 35v-6v

• DnJ 1007: John Donne, Elegie on M^ris Boulstred (‘Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Finis / P’.

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

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

f. 37

• DnJ 254: John Donne, The Autumnall (‘No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie. Autumnall on the Ladie Shandoys’.

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

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

ff. 38r-43r

• DnJ 982: John Donne, Ecclogue. 1613. December 26 (‘Unseasonable man, statue of ice’)

Copy, complete with the 11-poem ‘Epithalamion’, subscribed ‘Finis / AP’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 131-44. Shawcross, No. 108. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 10-19 (as ‘Epithalamion at the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset’). Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 133-9.

ff. 43v-5v

• DnJ 1167: John Donne, An Epithalamion, Or mariage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine being married on St. Valentines day (‘Haile Bishop Valentine, whose day this is’)

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 127-31. Shawcross, No. 107. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 6-10. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 108-10.

ff. 46r-7v

• DnJ 1149: John Donne, Epithalamion made at Lincolnes Inne (‘The Sun-beames in the East are spred’)

Copy, headed ‘Epithalamion on a Citisen’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 141-4. Shawcross, No. 106. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 3-6. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 87-9.

ff. 48r-9v

• DnJ 2133: John Donne, Loves Progress (‘Who ever loves, if he do not propose’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie on Loues Progresse’.

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

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1669) (as ‘Elegie XVIII’). Grierson, I, 116-19. (as ‘Elegie XVIII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 16-19. Shawcross, No. 20. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 301-3.

ff. 50r-1v

• DnJ 1489: John Donne, His parting from her (‘Since she must go, and I must mourn, come Night’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

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

First published, in a 42-line version as ‘Elegie XIIII’, in Poems (London, 1635). Published complete (104 lines) in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 100-4 (as ‘Elegie XII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 96-100 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 21. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 332-4 (with versions printed in 1635 and 1669 on pp. 335-6 and 336-8 respectively).

f. 52r-v

• DnJ 1678: John Donne, Jealosie (‘Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

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

First published, as ‘Elegie I’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 79-80 (as ‘Elegie I’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 9-10. Shawcross, No. 11.

f. 53r-v

• DnJ 44: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

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

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

f. 54r

• DnJ 1446: John Donne, The good-morrow (‘I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

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

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

f. 54v

• DnJ 2103: John Donne, Loves growth (‘I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure’)

Copy, headed ‘Springe’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 33-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 76-7. Shawcross, No. 54.

f. 55r-v

• DnJ 1999: John Donne, Loves Deitie (‘I long to talke with some old lovers ghost’)

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

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

f. 56r

• DnJ 2167: John Donne, Loves Usury (‘For every houre that thou wilt spare mee now’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

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

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

f. 56v

• DnJ 1317: John Donne, A Feaver (‘Oh doe not die, for I shall hate’)

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

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

f. 57r

• DnJ 1395: John Donne, The Funerall (‘Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harme’)

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

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

f. 57v

• DnJ 1354: John Donne, The Flea (‘Marke but this flea, and marke in this’)

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

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

f. 58r

• DnJ 1960: John Donne, Loves Alchymie (‘Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I’)

Copy, headed ‘Mummy’.

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

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

f. 59v

• DnJ 3952: John Donne, Witchcraft by a picture (‘I fixe mine eye on thine, and there’)

Copy, headed ‘Picture’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 45-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 37. Shawcross, No. 26.

f. 60r-v

• DnJ 583: John Donne, The Canonization (‘For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love’)

Copy, headed ‘Canonizatio’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.

f. 61r

• DnJ 3835: John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping (‘Let me powre forth’)

Copy, headed ‘A Valediction: of teares’.

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

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

f. 61v

• DnJ 14: John Donne, Aire and Angels (‘Twice or thrice had I loved thee’)

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 22. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 45.

f. 62r

• DnJ 178: John Donne, The Apparition (‘When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead’)

Copy, headed ‘An Apparition’, subscribed ‘Finis / P A’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.

f. 63r

• DnJ 925: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee’)

Copy, headed ‘Dreame’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross. A facsimile of f. 63r is in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), p. 26, and one also appears in the British Library's Literary Engagement Diary 2001 (opposite 1 March).

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

ff. 63v-4r

• DnJ 3283: John Donne, To M^r Rowland Woodward (‘Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe’)

Copy, headed ‘A letter to Rowland Woodwarde’, subscribed ‘Finis / AP’.

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

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

ff. 64v-5v

• DnJ 1254: John Donne, The Extasie (‘Where, like a pillow on a bed’)

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 51-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 59-61. Shawcross, No. 62.

f. 66r-v

• DnJ 3455: John Donne, To S^r Henry Wootton (‘Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Finis / A P’.

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

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

f. 67r

• DnJ 111: John Donne, The Anniversarie (‘All Kings, and all their favorites’)

Copy, headed ‘Ad Liviam’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 24-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 71-2. Shawcross, No. 48.

ff. 67v-8r

• DnJ 3898: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)

Copy, headed ‘Testamentum’.

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

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

ff. 68v-9r

• DnJ 3400: John Donne, To S^r Edward Herbert, at Julyers (‘Man is a lumpe, where all beasts kneaded bee’)

Copy, headed ‘A letter to S^r Edwarde Harbert’, subscribed ‘Finis / A P’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 193-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 80-1. Shawcross, No. 140.

f. 69v

• DnJ 1193: John Donne, The Expiration (‘So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse’)

Copy, headed ‘Valedictio’.

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

First published, in a musical setting, in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 68. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 36-7. Shawcross, No. 75.

f. 69v

• JnB 284: Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse (‘Doe but consider this small dust’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.

ff. 70r-1r

• PeW 232: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman (‘Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression’)

Copy, headed ‘A Paradoxe of a painted face’, subscribed ‘Finis / A P’.

Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed ‘P.’. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as ‘A Paradox of a Painted Face’, among ‘Poems attributed to Donne in MSS’. Also ascribed to James Shirley.

A shorter version, beginning ‘Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie’, was first published, as ‘A Maids Denyall’, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].

f. 71v

• DnJ 2942: John Donne, Song (‘Stay, O sweet, and do not rise’)

Copy, headed ‘Sonnett’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Doughtie, pp. 609-11. Recorded in Gardner. See also DnJ 428.

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.

Stowe MS 962

A quarto verse miscellany, in one or more secretary hands, with (ff. 244r-54r) a first-line index, 254 leaves, in modern half-morocco, poems on ff. 34v and 242v dated 1637. Including 91 poems and some prose works by John Donne and fourteen poems by Thomas Carew. c.1637.

Among the collections of Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (1776-1839), first Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham, largely derived from the collection of the antiquary Thomas Astle (1735-1803), which in turn chiefly derived from Astle's father-in-law, the Essex historian Philip Morant (1700-70) (see DnJ Δ 15). Later owned by Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as ‘Stowe MS II’: DnJ Δ 44 and ‘Stowe MS’: CwT Δ 22.

ff. 1r-18v

• DnJ 4080: John Donne, Paradoxes and Problems

Copy of 10 Paradoxes and 19 Problems, headed ‘Parradoxes p John Done’.

This MS discussed by Evelyn Simpson in RES, 10 (1934), 413.

Eleven Paradoxes and ten Problems first published in Juvenilia: or Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes (London, 1633). Twelve Paradoxes and seventeen Problems published in Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Two more Problems published in 1899 and 1927 (see DnJ 4073, DnJ 4089). Twelve Paradoxes and eighteen Problems reprinted in Paradoxes and Problemes by John Donne (London, 1923). Twelve Paradoxes (Nos XI and XII relegated to ‘Dubia’) and nineteen Problems (No. XI by Edward Herbert) edited in Peters.

f. 19r

• DnJ 4063: John Donne, The Character of a Scott at the First Sight

Copy, headed ‘A description of a Scott at first sight’.

This MS recorded by Evelyn Simpson in RES, 10 (1934), 413.

First published in Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Hayward, pp. 414-15. Peters, pp. 59-62 (among ‘Dubia’). The authorship discussed in Dennis Flynn, ‘Three Unnoticed Companion Essays to Donne's “An Essay of Valour”’, BNYPL, 73 (1969), 424-39.

ff. 19v-21r

• DnJ 4095: John Donne, The True Character of a Dunce

Copy, headed ‘A Dunce’, under a general heading ‘Characters p John Done’.

This MS recorded by Evelyn Simpson in RES, 10 (1934), 413.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Hayward, pp. 415-17. Peters, pp. 59-62 (among ‘Dubia’). The authorship discussed in Dennis Flynn, ‘Three Unnoticed Companion Essays to Donne's “An Essay of Valour”’, BNYPL, 73 (1969), 424-39.

ff. 21r-9v

• EaJ 74: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, Microcosmography

Copy of 13 characters, with no general heading, beginning with ‘A Childe’.

First published (anonymously), comprising 54 characters and with a preface by Edward Blount, London, 1628. 77 characters in the edition of 1629. 78 characters in the edition of 1664. Edited by Philip Bliss (London, 1811).

ff. 33r-4r

• WoH 236: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)

Copy, headed ‘A farewell to y^e world, p Sir Kell Digby. 1635’.

This MS collated in Krueger.

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

ff. 35v-6r

• CwT 1194: Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband (‘This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.

f. 36r

• CwT 1046: Thomas Carew, To her in absence. A Ship (‘Tost in a troubled sea of griefes, I floate’)

Copy, headed ‘To his M^s: in absence: A Shipp’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 23.

f. 36v

• CwT 685: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).

See also Introduction.

ff. 40v-2v

• BmF 38: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Death of the Virtuous Lady, Elizabeth Countess of Rutland (‘I may forget to eat, to drink, to sleep’)

Cooy, headed ‘Vppon the death of the Countesse of Rutland’, subscribed ‘ffr. Beamond’.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Dyce, XI, 507-11.

ff. 45v-7r

• CoR 148: 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.

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. 48r-9r

• DnJ 1076: John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham (‘Man is the World, and death th' Ocean’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

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

ff. 49r-50r

• PeW 233: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman (‘Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression’)

Copy, headed ‘A paradox on a paynted face’, subscribed ‘J: D: finis’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

f. 50v

• HoJ 24: John Hoskyns, Absence (‘Absence heare my protestation’)

Copy, headed ‘Loue in absence’.

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

ff. 55v-6v

• DnJ 3078: John Donne, The Storme (‘Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)’)

Copy, headed ‘A storme from the Iland voyage w^th the Earle of Essex to his freinde.Ben Jonson’, subscribed ‘Finis p JD’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

f. 61v

• PeW 266: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox, that Beauty lyes not in womens faces, but in their Lovers Eyes (‘Why should thy look requite so ill all other Eyes’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Why should thy eies requite soe ill All other eyes’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Poems (1660), p. 77, superscribed ‘P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’.

f. 62r

• CwT 57: Thomas Carew, The Comparison (‘Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold’)

Copy, headed ‘In prayse of ons M^rs:’, subscribed ‘p ffr:Beamont’.

First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.

f. 65r-v

• DnJ 2925: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)

Copy, headed ‘A songe’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 66r-9r

• HoJ 68: John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart (‘Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke’)

Copy, headed ‘The censure of the Parliamet fart’, subscribed ‘p Jo: Hoskines’.

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

ff. 69v-70r

• PoW 32: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’

Copy, headed ‘Vppon a fayre Complexion a blacke hayre & a blacke eye’.

First published, as ‘In praise of black Women; by T.R.’, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as ‘On a black Gentlewoman’. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as ‘On black Hair and Eyes’ and superscribed ‘R’; in The Poems of John Donne, ed Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as ‘on Black Hayre and Eyes’, among ‘Poems attributed to Donne in MSS’; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.

ff. 72r-5v

• CoR 641: Richard Corbett, To the Lord Mordant upon his returne from the North (‘My Lord, I doe confesse, at the first newes’)

Copy, headed ‘D^or: Corbet to the honerable Lo: Mordant’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 23-31.

ff. 80r-1r

• DnJ 3916: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)

Copy, headed ‘Testamentum, Or Loues Legacie’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 81r-2v

• BmF 67: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Lady Markham (‘As unthrifts groan in straw for their pawn'd beds’)

Copy, headed ‘On the death of the Lady Markham’, subscribed ‘F: Beamont’.

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

ff. 82v-3r

• DnJ 3184: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)

Copy, headed on the margin ‘An Elegie on vndressinge of ons mistresse’.

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.

f. 83r

• DaJ 190: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)

Copy, headed ‘A Childs Epitaph’ and here beginning ‘As carefull mothers do to sleepinge lay’.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.

f. 85v

• RaW 115: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Excuse (‘Calling to minde mine eie long went about’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Sir Walter Rawlyegh’.

First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, p. 10. Rudick, Nos 9A and 9B (two versions, pp. 9-10).

f. 86v

• JnB 704: Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, II, ii, 163 et seq. Song (‘If I freely may discouer’)

Copy, untitled.

ff. 87r-8v

• DnJ 2052: John Donne, Loves diet (‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’)

Copy, headed ‘Amoris Dieta. p J. Dun.’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 87v-8r

• DnJ 1207: John Donne, The Expiration (‘So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse’)

Copy, headed ‘Valedictio Amoris’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, in a musical setting, in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 68. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 36-7. Shawcross, No. 75.

ff. 88r-9r

• BmF 13: Francis Beaumont, Ad Comitissam Rutlandiae (‘Madam, so may my verses pleasing be’)

Copy, subscribed ‘F: B:’.

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

f. 89r-v

• DnJ 1544: John Donne, His Picture (‘Here take my picture. though I bid farewell’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegye’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published as ‘Elegie V’ in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 86-7 (as ‘Elegie V’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 25. Shawcross, No. 19. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 264.

ff. 89v-90r

• DnJ 598: John Donne, The Canonization (‘For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love’)

Copy, headed ‘Canonizatio’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.

f. 90v

• JnB 111: Ben Jonson, Epitaph [on Cecilia Bulstrode] (‘Stay, view this stone: And, if thou beest not such’)

Copy, headed ‘Vppon the death of M^rs: Boulstred’.

First published in John A. Harper, ‘Ben Jonson and Mrs. Bulstrode’, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 4 (5 September 1863), 198-9. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 371-2.

ff. 90v-1r

• DnJ 3741: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)

Copy, headed ‘Uppon the partinge from his mistresse’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 91v

• JnB 131: Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. (‘Would'st thou heare, what man can say’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph’, here beginning ‘Wilt thou heare what man can say’, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnson’.

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

ff. 91v-2r

• DnJ 3668: John Donne, Twicknam garden (‘Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares’)

Copy, headed ‘Twitnam garden’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 92r-3r

• DnJ 1108: John Donne, Elegie upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred (‘Language thou art too narrow, and too weake’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie vppon the death of M^rs: Boulstred’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

ff. 93r-4r

• DnJ 1019: John Donne, Elegie on M^ris Boulstred (‘Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee’)

Copy, untitled, immediately following DnJ 1108.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

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

ff. 95r-7r

• DnJ 2780: John Donne, Satyre II (‘Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyre 1: Agaynst Poets and Lawyers’, subscribed ‘J. D:’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 97r-9r

• DnJ 2750: John Donne, Satyre I (‘Away thou fondling motley humorist’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Humorist’ and, in the margin, ‘Satyre 2’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 99r-100v

• DnJ 2812: John Donne, Satyre III (‘Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyre. 3. Uppon Religion’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 100v-4v

• DnJ 2842: John Donne, Satyre IV (‘Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyre 4. Of the Courte’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 105r-6r

• DnJ 2874: John Donne, Satyre V (‘Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyre 5. Of the miserie of the poore suitors at Covrt’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 109r-10r

• DnJ 3499: John Donne, To S^r Henry Wotton (‘Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules’)

Copy, headed ‘A Letter’, subscribed ‘J: Donn’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 180-2. Milgate, Satires, pp. 71-3. Shawcross, No. 112.

f. 110v

• DnJ 2301: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)

Copy, headed in the margin ‘A Songe’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.

ff. 110v-11r

• DnJ 1369: John Donne, The Flea (‘Marke but this flea, and marke in this’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 111r-v

• DnJ 2014: John Donne, Loves Deitie (‘I long to talke with some old lovers ghost’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 111v-12r

• PeW 40: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘If her disdain least change in you can move’

Copy, headed ‘The Earle of Pembrocke’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published in 1635. Poems (1660), pp. 3-5, superscribed ‘P.’. Krueger, p. 2, among ‘Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd’.

f. 112r

• PeW 109: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘'Tis Love breeds Love in me, and cold Disdain’

Copy, headed ‘Answere’.

Poems (1660), pp. 4-5, superscribed ‘R’. Krueger, p. 3, among ‘Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd’.

ff. 112v-13r

• DnJ 269: John Donne, The Autumnall (‘No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie Autumnall’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 114r

• CoH 104: Henry Constable, To our blessed Lady (‘In that (O Queene of queenes) thy byrth was free’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Grierson, I, 427.

First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 5. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J. C. Grierson (2 vols, Oxford, 1912), I, 427. Grundy, p. 185.

ff. 114r-18v

• DnJ 1943: John Donne, The Litanie (‘Father of Heaven, and him, by whom’)

Copy, headed ‘A Letanie p J: D.’

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 338-48. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 16-26. Shawcross, No. 184.

ff. 118v-19v

• DnJ 799: John Donne, The Crosse (‘Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse it selfe, dare I’)

Copy, headed ‘Of The Crosse’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 331-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 26-8. Shawcross, No. 181.

f. 119v

• StW 1025: William Strode, A Sonnet (‘My Love and I for kisses played’)

Copy, headed ‘Playinge for kisses’.

This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.

First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1633). Dobell, p. 47. Forey, p. 211. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 446-7).

f. 120r

• DnJ 1812: John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow (‘Stand still, and I will read to thee’)

Copy, headed ‘Shadowe’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 120v

• DnJ 3851: John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping (‘Let me powre forth’)

Copy, headed ‘A Valediction of teares’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 121r

• DnJ 939: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee’)

Copy, headed ‘Dreame’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 121v

• DnJ 3630: John Donne, The triple Foole (‘I am two fooles, I know’)

Copy, headed in the margin ‘Songe’, ‘Triple foole’ added later.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 121v-2r

• DnJ 3114: John Donne, The Sunne Rising (‘Busie old fools, unruly Sunne’)

Copy, headed ‘Songe ad Solem’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 122r-v

• DnJ 1844: John Donne, The Legacie (‘When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye’)

Copy, headed in the margin ‘Songe’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 122v-4r

• DnJ 3791: John Donne, A Valediction: of my name, in the window (‘My name engrav'd herein’)

Copy, headed ‘A Valediction of his name, in the Windowe’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 25-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 64-6. Shawcross, No. 49.

f. 124r-v

• DnJ 504: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)

Copy, headed ‘Songe’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 124v

• GrJ 4: John Grange, ‘A Lover once I did espy’

Copy.

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.

ff. 124v-5r

• DnJ 837: John Donne, The Curse (‘Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes’)

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 125r-v

• DnJ 1331: John Donne, A Feaver (‘Oh doe not die, for I shall hate’)

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 125v-6r

• DnJ 193: John Donne, The Apparition (‘When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead’)

Copy, headed ‘An Apparitione’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.

f. 126r-v

• DnJ 3011: John Donne, Song (‘Sweetest love, I do not goe’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 18-19. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 31-2. Shawcross, No. 42.

ff. 126v-7r

• DnJ 1977: John Donne, Loves Alchymie (‘Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I’)

Copy, headed ‘Mumie’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 127r-v

• DnJ 1404: John Donne, The Funerall (‘Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harme’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 127v-8v

• DnJ 60: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 128v-9v

• DnJ 2566: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)

Copy, headed ‘Elelegie’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 130r

• DnJ 308: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)

Copy, headed in the margin ‘Sonnett’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612). Grierson, I, 46-7. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 27.

f. 130v

• DnJ 444: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)

Copy, headed in the margin ‘Sonnett’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and 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.

ff. 130v-1v

• DnJ 704: John Donne, The Comparison (‘As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still’)

Copy, headed ‘Ellegie’.

This MS recorded in Shaawcross.

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

f. 131v

• DnJ 2379: John Donne, Niobe (‘By childrens births, and death, I am become’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 85. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.

f. 131v

• DnJ 1482: John Donne, Hero and Leander (‘Both rob'd of aire, we both lye in one ground’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 83. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.

f. 131v

• DnJ 2593: John Donne, Phryne (‘Thy flattering picture, Phryne, is like thee’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 97. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5, 8 and 11.

f. 132r

• RaW 311: Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir W. Raleigh, On the Snuff of a Candle the night before he died (‘Cowards fear to Die, but Courage stout’)

Copy, headed in the margin ‘Rawleigh one a Candle snuffe’.

First published in Remains (London, 1657). Latham, p. 72. Rudick, No. 55, p. 133.

ff. 132v-3r

• DrM 19: Michael Drayton, The Cryer (‘Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Hebel, V, 147.

First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 371.

f. 133r-v

• DnJ 637: John Donne, Change (‘Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too’)

Copy, headed in the margin ‘Elligie’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 133v-4v

• DnJ 2217: John Donne, Loves Warre (‘Till I have peace with thee, warr other men’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

ff. 134v-5v

• DnJ 2514: John Donne, On his Mistris (‘By our first strange and fatall interview’)

Copy, headed ‘Ellegie’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 111-13 (as ‘Elegie XVI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 23-4. Shawcross, No. 18. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 246-7.

f. 135v

• PeW 6: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘Disdain me still, that I may ever love’

This MS recorded in Krueger.

ff. 135v-7v

• DnJ 1500: John Donne, His parting from her (‘Since she must go, and I must mourn, come Night’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

ff. 137v-9r

• BmF 91: Francis Beaumont, A Funeral Elegy on the Death of the Lady Penelope Clifton (‘Since thou art dead, Clifton, the world may see’)

Copy, headed ‘An Ellegie on the fayre and vertuouse La: Penelope, late La: Clyfton’, subscribed ‘Francis Beamont’.

First published in Poems (London, 1653). Dyce, XI, 511-13.

ff. 141v-2v

• PeW 277: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Song (‘Draw not too near’)

Copy, headed in the margin ‘Clora’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

f. 143v

• BcF 54.104: Francis Bacon, Upon the Death of the Duke of Richmond and Lennox (‘Are all diseases dead? or will death say’)

Copy.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 400. For a contemporary attribution to Bacon see BcF 54.117.

f. 144r

• JnB 285: Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse (‘Doe but consider this small dust’)

Copy.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.

ff. 144v-6r

• DrW 117.24: William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge (‘From such a face quois excellence’)

Copy.

Often headed in MSS ‘The [Five] Senses’, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (JnB 654-70). A MS copy owned by Drummond: see The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden, ed. Robert H. Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1357. Kastner printed the poem among his ‘Poems of Doubtful Authenticity’ (II, 296-9), but its sentiments are alien to those of Drummond: see C.F. Main, ‘Ben Jonson and an Unknown Poet on the King's Senses’, MLN, 74 (1959), 389-93, and MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 118. Discussed also in Allan H. Gilbert, ‘Jonson and Drummond or Gil on the King's Senses’, MLN, 62 (January 1947), 35-7. Sometimes also ascribed to James Johnson.

ff. 146v-7r

• JnB 170: 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 ‘The boddy’.

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).

f. 151r

• BrW 127: William Browne of Tavistock, On Mrs. Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor (‘Nature in this small volume was about’)

Copy, untitled.

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. 155r

• DnJ 2657: John Donne, Pyramus and Thisbe (‘Two, by themselves, each other, love and feare’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 84. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.

f. 155r

• DnJ 1740: John Donne, A lame begger (‘I am unable, yonder begger cries’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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. 155v

• DnJ 528: John Donne, A burnt ship (‘Out of a fired ship, which, by no way’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 86. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as ‘Nave arsa’) and 10.

f. 155v

• DnJ 1279: John Donne, Fall of a wall (‘Vnder an undermin'd, and shot-bruis'd wall’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 87. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6 (untitled), 7 (as ‘Caso d'vn muro’), and 10 (as ‘Fall of a Wall’).

f. 155v

• DnJ 159: John Donne, Antiquary (‘If in his Studie he hath so much care’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

f. 155v

• DnJ 2670: John Donne, Raderus (‘Why this man gelded Martiall I muse’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 54. Shawcross, No. 103. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 9 and 11.

f. 156r

• DnJ 2270: John Donne, Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus (‘Like Esops fellow-slaves, O Mercury’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 96. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5, 8 and 11.

ff. 156r-7r

• DnJ 563: John Donne, The Calme (‘Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 157v-8r

• DnJ 1460: John Donne, The good-morrow (‘I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 158r

• DnJ 2535: John Donne, The Paradox (‘No Lover saith, I love, nor any other’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 158v

• DnJ 675: John Donne, Communitie (‘Good wee must love, and must hate ill’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 159r

• DnJ 3992: John Donne, Womans constancy (‘Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 159r-60r

• DnJ 354: John Donne, The Blossoms (‘Little think'st thou, poore flower’)

Copy, headed ‘The blossome’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 59-60. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 87-8. Shawcross, No. 68.

f. 160r-v

• DnJ 2617: John Donne, The Primrose (‘Upon this Primrose hill’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 61-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 88-9. Shawcross, No. 69.

f. 160v

• DnJ 729: John Donne, The Computation (‘For the first twenty yeares, since yesterday’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69. Gardner, Elegies, p. 36. Shawcross, No. 76.

f. 161r

• DnJ 913: John Donne, The Dissolution (‘Shee is dead. And all which die’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner; collated in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 64. Gardner, Elegies, p. 86. Shawcross, No. 72.

f. 161v

• DnJ 3964: John Donne, Witchcraft by a picture (‘I fixe mine eye on thine, and there’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 45-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 37. Shawcross, No. 26.

ff. 161v-2r

• DnJ 1705: John Donne, A Jeat Ring sent (‘Thou art not so black, as my heart’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 65-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 38. Shawcross, No. 73.

f. 162r-v

• DnJ 1651: John Donne, The Indifferent (‘I can love both faire and browne’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 12-13. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 41-2. Shawcross, No. 37.

ff. 162v-3r

• DnJ 2117: John Donne, Loves growth (‘I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 33-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 76-7. Shawcross, No. 54.

ff. 163r, 212r

• DnJ 2644: John Donne, The Prohibition (‘Take heed of loving mee’)

Copy, with an additional stanza headed ‘To be placed after (Take heed of loueinge me in pag: 128’ and beginning ‘Yet loue a satire bee’, on f. 212r.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 67-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 39-40. Shawcross, No. 47.

ff. 163v-4r

• DnJ 124: John Donne, The Anniversarie (‘All Kings, and all their favorites’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 24-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 71-2. Shawcross, No. 48.

f. 164r

• DnJ 3349: John Donne, To M^r T.W. (‘At once, from hence, my lines and I depart’)

Copy, untitled, inscribed in the margin ‘J: R:’ [i.e. John Roe].

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206-7. Milgate, Satires, p. 62. Shawcross, No. 117.

f. 165r-v

• MoG 19: George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James (‘All that have eyes now wake and weep’)

Copy, headed in the margin ‘On K. Ja: death’, here beginning ‘Those that haue eyes now wayle & weepe’, subscribed ‘p G: Morley’.

A version of lines 1-22, headed ‘Epitaph on King James’ and beginning ‘He that hath eyes now wake and weep’, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.

Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.

f. 166r

• JnB 417.3: Ben Jonson, On the Vnion (‘When was there contract better driuen by Fate?’)

Copy, headed ‘Of the Vnion’ and here beginning ‘Neuer was Contract better driuen of fate’.

First published in Epigrammes (v) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 28.

ff. 167v-8r

• DnJ 3033: John Donne, Sonnet. The Token (‘Send me some token, that my hope may live’)

Copy, headed ‘To his mistresse’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1649). Grierson, I, 72-3. Gardner, Elegies, p. 107 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 78.

f. 168r

• CmT 36: Thomas Campion, ‘Fire, fire, fire, fire!’

Copy, headed in the margin ‘Songe’.

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xx. Davis, p. 156-8. English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 2.

f. 168v

• StW 899: William Strode, A song (‘Thoughts doe not vexe me while I sleepe’)

Copy, headed in the margin ‘Songe’.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Forey, p. 209.

f. 169r-v

• BcF 21: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’

Copy, headed in the margin ‘Of Mortalitie’.

First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, ‘Bacon's Poem, “The World”: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems’, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.

f. 170r

• WoH 144: Sir Henry Wotton, A Poem written by Sir Henry Wotton in his Youth (‘O faithless world, and thy most faithless part’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘H: W:’.

First published in Francis Davison, Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602), p. 157. As ‘A poem written by Sir Henry Wotton, in his youth’, in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 517. Hannah (1845), pp. 3-5. Edited and texts discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Sir Henry Wotton's “O Faithless World”: The Transmission of a Coterie Poem and a Critical Old-Spelling Edition’, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 5/4 (1981), 205-31.

f. 170v

• PeW 7: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘Disdain me still, that I may ever love’

Copy, untitled.

f. 172r

• PeW 135: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Amintas (‘Cloris sate, and sitting slept’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Cloris sight & songe and wept’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 170. Poems (1660), p. 104, superscribed ‘P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’.

f. 172r-v

• PeW 75: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of Friendship (‘Friendship on Earth we may as easily find’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

f. 176r-v

• WoH 29: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)

Copy, headed ‘Of a happie life’, here beginning ‘How happie is he borne or taught’.

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).

ff. 177v-9r

• JnB 209: 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 ‘The minde’.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

f. 179r

• StW 800: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy of a twelve-line version headed ‘On Cloris goinge in the snow’ and beginning with the second line in first position (here ‘When feathered rayne cam sofly downe’).

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. 179v

• JnB 20.5: Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph (‘See the Chariot at hand here of Love’)

Copy of lines 21-30, untitled, here beginning ‘Have you seene y^e white lilly growe’.

First published (all ten poems) in The Vnder-wood (ii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 131-42 (pp. 134-5). Lines 11-30 of poem 4 (beginning ‘Doe but looke on her eyes, they do light’) first published in The Devil is an Ass, II, vi, 94-113 (London, 1631).

f. 180v

• B&F 82: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Mad Lover, III, iv, 49-63. Song (‘Go, happy heart! for thou shalt lie’)

Copy, headed in the margin ‘The madd Louer y^t sent his hart to his M^rs:’.

First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, VI, 115-212 (pp. 171-2). Bullen, III, 111-219, ed. R.W. Bond (p. 174). Bowers, V, 11-98, ed. Robert K. Turner (pp. 58-9).

f. 185r-v

• RaW 520: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart’

Copy of stanzas 1-7, headed ‘The Lord Walden to y^e princesse Eliz:’ and here beginning ‘Wronge not deere mistresse of my hart’.

This MS recorded in Gullans.

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

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

ff. 186v-7

• DnJ 599: John Donne, The Canonization (‘For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love’)

Second copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.

f. 187r-v

• DnJ 968: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Image of her whom I love’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 187v-8r

• DnJ 2250: John Donne, Lovers infinitenesse (‘If yet I have not all thy love’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 17-18. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 77-8. Shawcross, No. 41.

f. 188v

• DnJ 27: John Donne, Aire and Angels (‘Twice or thrice had I loved thee’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 22. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 45.

f. 189r-v

• DnJ 2348: John Donne, ‘Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love’

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie VIII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 89-90 (as ‘Elegie VII’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 13. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 127.

ff. 189v-90r

• DnJ 2697: John Donne, The Relique (‘When my grave is broke up againe’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 62-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 89-90. Shawcross, No. 70.

ff. 190v-1r

• DnJ 1285: John Donne, Farewell to love (‘Whilst yet to prove’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 70-1. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 82-3. Shawcross, No. 79.

f. 193v

• StW 1321: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress (‘Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘I'le tell you whence the rose did first grow redd’.

First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

f. 193v

• CwT 1250: Thomas Carew, A Louers passion (‘Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see’)

Copy, headed ‘Vppon his Mistresse’.

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. 194r

• OvT 11: Sir Thomas Overbury, The Remedy of Love (‘When Love did reade the Title of my booke’)

Copy.

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

f. 201v

• HoJ 159: John Hoskyns, An Epitaphe on Mr Sandes (‘Who wo'ld live in other's breath’)

ff. 207v-8r

• JnB 330: Ben Jonson, The Musicall strife. In a Pastorall Dialogue (‘Come, with our Voyces, let us warre’)

Copy, headed ‘The Operatione of Musicke’.

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

f. 208r

• DnJ 1139: John Donne, Epitaph on Himselfe. To the Countesse of Bedford (‘That I might make your Cabinet my tombe’)

Copy, headed ‘Epitaph’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 291-2. Milgate, Satires, p. 103. Shawcross, No. 147.

f. 208v

• DnJ 2179: John Donne, Loves Usury (‘For every houre that thou wilt spare mee now’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 209r

• HrE 82: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Ode: Of our Sense of Sinne (‘Vengeance will sit above our faults. but till’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 139.

First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson (Oxford, 1912), I, 350. Moore Smith, pp. 119-20.

ff. 209v-10r

• DnJ 3469: John Donne, To S^r Henry Wootton (‘Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well’)

Copy, headed ‘ffrom the Court’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 211r-12r

• DnJ 2460: John Donne, ‘Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve’

Copy, headed ‘Ellegie’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 212v

• DnJ 754: John Donne, Confined Love (‘Some man unworthy to be possessor’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 212v-14r

• DnJ 1233: John Donne, The Expostulation (‘To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true’)

Copy, headed ‘Ellegie’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

f. 214vr-v

• DnJ 868: John Donne, The Dampe (‘When I am dead, and Doctors know not why’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 63-4. Gardner, Elegies, p. 49. Shawcross, No. 71.

ff. 214v-16v

• DnJ 388: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)

Copy, headed ‘To a Lady whose chayne was lost’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 217r-v

• PeW 64: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘No praise it is that him who Python slew’

Copy of lines 21-64, 73-8, headed ‘ffragmet to his m^rs: when shee would haue gone as his footboy’, here beginning ‘Now why should loue a footboyes place despise’.

Poems (1660), pp. 7-11, superscribed ‘R.’. Krueger, pp. 5-9, among ‘Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd’.

ff. 218r-19r

• DnJ 3821: John Donne, A Valediction: of the booke (‘I'll tell thee now (deare Love) what thou shalt doe’)

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 29-32. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 67-9. Shawcross, No. 52.

f. 219r

• HoJ 129: John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart (‘Reader I was born and cried’)

Copy, headed in the margin ‘Epitaph of the pliamet fart’.

Edited from this MS in Colclough, p. 377.

f. 220r-v

• DnJ 1577: John Donne, A Hymne to God the Father (‘Wilt thou forgive that sinne where I begunne’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J: D:’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 369 (and variant text p. 370). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 193. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 10, 16, 26, 110 (in four sequences).

f. 221r-v

• CwT 250: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph vppon a ffly’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

ff. 221v-2r

• CmT 201: Thomas Campion, Dolus (‘Thou shalt not love mee, neither shall these eyes’)

Copy, headed in the margin ‘Satyre’.

First published in Vivian (1909), p. 356. Davis, p. 475.

f. 222v

• CwT 883: 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.

f. 224r-v

• StW 1380: William Strode, Upon the blush of a faire Ladie (‘Stay, lustie bloud, where canst thou seeke’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Forey.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 39-40. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

f. 225r

• KiH 581: Henry King, Sonnet (‘I prethee turne that face away’)

Copy, untitled.

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. 226r

• HrG 195.5: George Herbert, A Parodie (‘Souls joy, when thou art gone’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published in The Temple (1633). John Donne, Poems, By J.D. (London, 1635). Hutchinson, pp. 183-4.

Herbert's poem is a ‘Parodie’ of a poem by William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, first published in John Donne, Poems (2nd edition, London, 1635). Entries below include both poems indiscriminately.

ff. 228v-9v

• CwT 100: Thomas Carew, The Complement (‘O my deerest I shall grieve thee’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 99-101.

f. 230r-v

• CwT 771: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘In yo^r fayre eyes two pitts doe lye’.

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

f. 231v

• ElQ 10: Queen Elizabeth I, On Monsieur's Departure, circa 1582 (‘I grieve and dare not show my discontent’)

Copy, headed ‘E: R: On Mounsieur^s depture’.

This MS collated in Bradner. Cited in Collected Works and in Selected Works.

Collected Works, Poem 9, pp. 302-3. Selected Works, Poem 6, pp. 12-13. Bradner, p. 5.

f. 235r

• JnB 457: Ben Jonson, Song. To Celia (‘Drinke to me, onely, with thine eyes’)

Copy.

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

f. 235r-v

• CwT 376: Thomas Carew, Ingratefull beauty threatned (‘Know Celia, (since thou art so proud,)’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Carewe’.

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).

ff. 235v-6r

• CwT 453: Thomas Carew, Mediocritie in love rejected. Song (‘Give me more love, or more disdaine’)

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 236r-v

• CwT 1105: Thomas Carew, To my Rivall (‘Hence vaine intruder, hast away’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘T: C:’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 41.

f. 236v

• CwT 660: Thomas Carew, Red, and white Roses (‘Reade in these Roses, the sad story’)

Copy, untitled.

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

ff. 236v-7r

• CwT 423: Thomas Carew, A Looking-Glasse (‘That flattring Glasse, whose smooth face weares’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘T: C:’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 19.

f. 237r-v

• CwT 859: Thomas Carew, Song. Eternitie of love protested (‘How ill doth he deserve a lovers name’)

Copy, subscribed ‘T: C:’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 23-4.

f. 237v

• StW 1280: William Strode, Jack on both Sides (‘I holde as fayth What Englandes Church Allowes’)

Copy, untitled.

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.

ff. 238r-42r

• JnB 239: Ben Jonson, An Execration upon Vulcan (‘Any why to me this, thou lame Lord of fire’)

Copy, headed ‘An Execratione vppon Vulcan by Ben: Jonson occasioned by the burninge of his Deske of writinges’.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (xliii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 202-12.

f. 243r

• CwT 686: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)

Second copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).

Stowe MS 969

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single hand, 63 leaves (plus blanks), in modern calf gilt. c.1700.

ff. 47r-9r

• EtG 50: Sir George Etherege, Second Letter to Lord Middleton (‘Since love and verse, as well as wine’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r George Etheridge to the Earl of Middleton’.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 48-50.

ff. 50r-2v

• DrJ 205: John Dryden, To Sir George Etherege Mr. D.- Answer (‘To you who live in chill Degree’)

Copy, headed ‘A Letter from M^r Dryden To S^r George Etheridge’.

This MS collated in California.

First published at the end of The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Kinsley, II, 578-80. California, III, 224-6. Hammond, III, 21-7. The Letterbook of Sir George Etherege, ed. Sybil Rosenfeld (London, 1928), pp. 346-8. Letters of Sir George Etherege, ed. Frederick Bracher (Berkeley, Los Angeles & London, 1974), pp. 270-2.

ff. 53r-4r

• EtG 28: Sir George Etherege, A Letter to Lord Middleton (‘From hunting whores and haunting play’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r . George Etheridge to the Earl of Middleton’.

This MS collated in Thorpe

First published, as ‘Another from Sir G.E. to the E. of M--Greeting’, in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 46-7.

Stowe MS 970

A quarto composite volume of verse, in several (possibly female) rounded hands, 79 leaves, in 19th-cntury half-morocco. c.1730.

f. 10r

• DeJ 71: Sir John Denham, On the Earl of Strafford's Tryal and Death (‘Great Strafford! worthy of that Name, though all’)

Copy of lines 1-2, 11-20, 27-30.

This MS recorded in Banks, p. 153.

First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 153-4.

ff. 35r, 39r

• RoJ 155: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country (‘Chloe, In verse by your command I write’)

Two extracts, headed ‘On a young Heir’: (i) eighteen lines beginning at line 56 (here ‘The female sex, 'tho born like monarcks free’): (ii) ten lines, headed ‘On Love’, beginning at line 40 (here, ‘Love the most generous passion of the mind’), transcribed from a printed source.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.

ff. 45r, 46r

• DoC 166: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess Dowager of Manchester (‘Courage, dear Moll, and drive away despair’)

Copy, headed ‘My Lord Dorsets Verses on Lady N’.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published (among poems of Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax) in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). POAS, V (1971), 378-81. Harris, pp. 37-40.

f. 46r

• DrJ 247.9: John Dryden, Aureng-Zebe

A six-line extract, headed ‘Out of Amprition by M^r Dryden -- on woman’ and here beginning ‘I gave them beauty to subdue the strong’.

First published in London, 1676. California, XIII (1994), pp. 147-250.

Stowe MS 971

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single possibly female hand, 36 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Mid-18th century.

Inscribed (f. 36r) ‘M Lowthers Jun:’, by a member of the Lowther family, Baronets and later Earls of Lonsdale.

f. 8r

• ShW 53.5: William Shakespeare, King Lear

Extract, from Act IV, scene vi, lines 10-21 (Edgar's ‘Come on, Sir, here's the place...’), headed ‘Out of King Lear’.

First published in London, 1608.

ff. 9v-10r

• DrJ 386: John Dryden, Extracts

Extracts from Dryden's works, including The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis and The Indian Emperour.

f. 10v

• CoA 101.8: Abraham Cowley, Martial. L. 2. Vis fieri Liber? &c. (‘Would you be Free? 'Tis your chief wish, you say’)

Copy, untitled.

First published, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 387.

f. 13r

• LeN 10.8: Nathaniel Lee, Oedipus

Extract, six lines beginning ‘To you Good Gods, I make my last Appeal’.

This MS recorded in California, XIII, 584.

By Nathaniel Lee and John Dryden. First published in London, 1679. Stroup & Cooke, I, 367-449. California edition of Dryden's works, XIII (1962), 114-215.

f. 14r

• DrJ 199.8: John Dryden, To my Honour'd Kinsman, John Driden, of Chesterton in the County of Huntingdon, Esquire (‘How Bless'd is He, who leads a Country Life’)

Copy of lines 73-95, headed ‘Dryden’ and here beginning ‘The first Physicians by Debauch were made’.

Kinsley, IV, 1529-35. California, VII, 196-202. Hammond, V, 190-201.

f. 16r

• PsK 550.5: Katherine Philips, The Virgin (‘The things that make a Virgin please’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1667), p. 136. Saintsbury, p. 583. Thomas, I, 207-8, poem 90.

ff. 17r-18r

• ShW 44.6: William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Copy of Hamlet's soliloquy ‘To be or not to be’, headed ‘Out of Hamlet / Shakespear's’.

First published in London, 1603.

ff. 21v-2r

• MkM 9: Mary Monck, Verses Wrote on her Death-Bed at Bath, to her Husband, in London (‘Thou, who dost all my worldly thoughts employ’)

Copy, headed ‘M^rs Molesworth’.

Twenty-two lines, first published, introduced ‘The following verses were wrote by her (as I am inform'd) on her death-bed at Bath, to her husband in London’, in George Ballard, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (Oxford, 1752), pp. 418-22.

Stowe MS 972

A quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in one hand, written from both ends, 32 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco. c.1630s.

ff. 5r-6r

• WoH 236.3: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)

Copy, headed ‘A Farewell to the Vanities of the World, said to be written by S^r Henry Wotton’.

f. 6r-v

• RaW 191.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Nimphs reply to the Sheepheard (‘If all the world and loue were young’)

Copy, headed ‘The Milk-Maid's Mothers's Answer to M^r Marlow's Milk-Maid's Song. written by S^r Walter Raleigh’.

One stanza published in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). First published complete in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Latham, pp. 16-17. Rudick, Nos 45A and 45B, pp. 117, 119-20 (two versions, as ‘Her answer’ to Marlowe's poem on p. 116 and as ‘The Milk maids mothers answer’) respectively. For the companion poem by Marlowe, which accompanies most of the texts of Ralegh's ‘reply’, see MrC 10-19.

f. 8r

• WoH 29.5: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)

Copy. headed ‘S^r Henry Wotton, on Contentment’, here beginning ‘How happy is He, born or taught’.

f. 28r

• DnJ 2315.5: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.

Stowe MS 1044

A quarto volume of antiquarian tracts and papers, 40 leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt. Early 17th century.

Owned by John Anstis (1669-1744), Garter King of Arms, antiquary, and by Thomas Astle (1735-1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts.

ff. 2r-15v

• BcF 81: Francis Bacon, Answers to Questions touching the Office of Constables

Copy, chiefly in a professional secretary hand, the ending on ff. 13r-15v in a second hand, as ‘writen by Sir ffrancis Bacon knight, his Maiesties Solicitor Generall, anno Domini 1608’.

First published in Cases of Treason (London 1641). Spedding, VII, 745-54.

ff. 16r-23r

• BcF 732: Francis Bacon, Of the jurisdiction of Justices itinerant in the principality of Wales

An adaptation of part of Sir John Doddridge, History of the Principality of Wales, possibly used by Bacon.

Printed in Cases of Treason (London, 1641). Spedding, VII, 778-81; discussed pp. 773-4.

Spedding, VII, 778-81 (discussed pp. 773-4). An adaptation of part of Sir John Doddridge, History of the Principality of Wales, possibly used by Bacon and printed with works by him in Cases of Treason (London, 1641).

Stowe MS 1048

A duodecimo notebook of historical, topographical and antiquarian collections, in probably three cursive hands, written from both ends, 81 leaves, in contemporary calf. Late 17th-early 18th century.

Inscribed (inside the front cover) ‘Ex Dono Caroli Stanhope filij vnici Arthuri Stanhope de East Stoat Comitatu Nottinghamiæ et Collegij Mertonensis generosi Comensatis Ann^o Dni 1667’: ‘i.e’. Charles Stanhope (1655-1711/12), of Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire. Also inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Gowin Knight’.

ff. 24r-v, 12v-7r rev.

• LeJ 45: John Leland, Collectanea [Other transcripts and extracts]

Extracts taken from Hearne's edition, headed ‘E Joannis Lelandi Antiquani de Rebus Britan. Collectaneiis, Edit. p^r Tho. Hearn. A: M. Oxon’, from Volumes I, III and IV respectively.

This MS recorded in Smith, V, xiv.