Arundel MS 152
A folio volume of documents relating principally to John Fisher (c.1469-1535), Bishop of Rochester, Catholic saint, 313 leaves, imperfect. Mid-16th century.
ff. 293r-v, 300r
• MrT 17: Sir Thomas More, Assertio quod omne perjurium sit mortale peccatum
Copy.
Cited in Yale, Vol. 6, Part II.
A Latin meditation on the meaning of perjury, written while in the Tower (April 1534-July 1535), and relating to A Dialogue concerning Heresies, Book III, Chapter 7. Yale, Vol. 6, Part II, pp. 764-7, ed. R.S. Sylvester, with an English translation.
f. 313r
• MrT 16: Sir Thomas More, Assertio quod omne perjurium sit mortale peccatum
Copy.
A Latin meditation on the meaning of perjury, written while in the Tower (April 1534-July 1535), and relating to A Dialogue concerning Heresies, Book III, Chapter 7. Yale, Vol. 6, Part II, pp. 764-7, ed. R.S. Sylvester, with an English translation.
passim
• CvG 23: George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey
Various extracts, incorporated in materials for a life of Fisher.
Sylvester, No. 14a.
First published in George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey and Metrical Visions, ed. Samuel W. Singer, 2 vols (Chiswick, 1825). The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish, ed. Richard S. Sylvester, EETS, orig. ser. 243 (London, New York and Toronto, 1959).
Arundel MS 285
A Scottish miscellany of devotional verse and prose. c.1530s.
ff. 1r-4v
• DuW 159: William Dunbar, The Tabill of Confession (‘To The, O mercifull Salviour, Jesus’)
Copy.
Edied from this MS in Bennett, pp. 1-6. Partly edited from this MS in Mackenzie.
Mackenzie, No. 83, pp. 163-7. Murdoch, II, 43-8. Ritchie, II, 42-7. Bawcutt, I, 267-73.
ff. 161r-2v
• DuW 75: William Dunbar, The Maner of Passing to Confessioun (‘O synfull man, thir ar the fourty dayis’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Bennett; and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 84, pp. 167-9. Bennett, pp. 257-9. Bawcutt, I, 136-8.
ff. 168r-v, 171r, 169r, 170r
• DuW 130: William Dunbar, Of the Passioun of Christ (‘Amang thir freiris, within ane cloister’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Bennett, pp. 266-9. Collated in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 80, pp. 155-9. Craigie, I, 229-34. Bawcitt, pp. 34-8, as ‘Ane Ballat of the passioun’.
Arundel MS 300
Autograph devotional formulary of Psalms and Latin prayers, neatly written by Howard on 90 octavo leaves of vellum, untitled. c.1589.
*HoH 89: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A Formulary of Psalms and Prayers
Inscribed later in the 17th century ‘A formularie of Psalmes & Prayers made by Henry Earle of Northampton and writ wth his own hand’. The first leaf is stamped ‘Soc. Reg. Lond ex dono Henr. Howard Norfolciensis’.
Unpublished.
Ashley MS B. 3165
Composite volume of papers of Thomas J. Wise (1859-1937). c.1700.
ff. 183-4
• DrJ 133: John Dryden, Prologue [to The Pilgrim] (‘How wretched is the Fate of those who write!’)
Copy on the first three pages of two conjugate quarto leaves.
First published in The Pilgrim (London, 1700). Kinsley, IV, 1758-9. Hammond, V, 593-7.
f. 184r-v
• DrJ 38: John Dryden, Epilogue [to The Pilgrim] (‘Perhaps the Parson stretch'd a point too far’)
Copy on the last two pages of two conjugate folio leaves.
First published in The Pilgrim (London, 1700). Kinsley, IV, 1759-61. Hammond, V, 597-9.
Burney MS 126
A predominantly autograph notebook by Thomas Traherne, in Latin prose throughout, inscribed by him (f. 1v) ‘Ex libris Tho Traherne’, 59 quarto leaves (plus a few blanks). Containing (f. 3r) a title-page (‘Platonis Philosophi Speculationes practicæ. A Marsilio Ficino breviter digestæ’) and table of contents (f. 4r), notes from Marsilio Ficino's life of Plato (ff. 5r-9v), epitomes of Plato and Pseudo-Plato (ff. 10r-45r), an anonymous life of Socrates (ff. 46r-57v), Ficino's ‘Argumentum’ to his translation of Hermes Trismegistus (f. 58r-v) and notes on eleven chapters of an anonymous ‘Stoicismus Christianus’ (f. 59r); with notes from Theophilus Gale's Court of the Gentiles, Part II (1670) added (ff. 57v, 59v) in the miniscule hand of an amanuensis (same as that in TrT Δ 1 and TrT Δ 5). Late 17th century.
*TrT 233.5: Thomas Traherne, The Ficino Notebook
The name ‘Elinor’ scribbled several times on f. 1v. Later owned by Dr Charles Burney (1757-1817), schoolmaster and book collector.
Recorded in Bell, p. xxx (who, however, thought the MS belonged not to the poet but to his nephew Thomas Traherne). Discussed in Carol Marks Sicherman, ‘Traherne's Ficino Notebook’, PBSA, 63 (1969), 73-81 (where the MS is questionably dated c.late 1660s). The extract from Gale's work (Book IV, chapter 1) also occurs, under the heading ‘Aristotle's Philosophy’, in TrT Δ 5. The MS cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as TrT Δ 6.
Unpublished.
Burney MS 362
A quarto composite volume of MSS collected by the classical scholar Meric Casaubon (1599-1671), 140 leaves, in modern binding.
ff. 96r-114v
• HkR 38: Richard Hooker, Hooker's Answer to Walter Travers's Supplication to the Council
Copy, in Casaubon's hand, inscribed ‘Given mee by Mr. Jervis, 26 Feb. 1640 sn’. c.1585-1600s.
This MS collated in Folger edition, Volume V.
First published, with Travers's Supplication, in Oxford, 1612. Keble, III, 570-96. Folger edition, Volume V, pp. 225-57.
Burney MS 363
A folio composite volume of letters sent to Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614), French classical scholar, in various hands, 288 leaves, in modern half-morocco.
ff. 26r-7v
• *AndL 66: Lancelot Andrewes, Letter(s)
Autograph letter in Latin, signed (‘Eliensis’), to Isaac Casaubon, [1612]. 1612.
Edited in LACT, Minor Works (1854), pp. xlii-xliv.
ff. 28r-9v
• *AndL 68: Lancelot Andrewes, Letter(s)
Autograph letter in Latin, signed (‘Eliensis’), to Isaac Casaubon, 8 September 1612. 1612.
Edited in LACT, Minor Works (1854), pp. xliv-xlv.
Burney MS 368
A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers and Latin verse, including papers of Meric Casaubon (1599-1671), 142 leaves, in modern half-morocco.
f. 23r
• DnJ 1627.3: John Donne, Ignatij Loyolae Apotheosis (‘Qui sacer ante fuit, sanctus nunc incipit esse’)
Autograph copy by Raphael Thorius, on one side of a single quarto leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1620s-30s.
This MS cited in Beal & Kelliher.
First published in P.G. Stanwood, ‘A Donne Discovery’, TLS (19 October 1967), p. 984. Reprinted in John Donne, Ignatius his Conclave, ed. T. S. Healy, S.J. (Oxford, 1969), pp. 174-5, and in Shawcross, pp. 505-6. Variorum, 8 (1995), p. 253, as ‘Dubium’.
This Latin poem is not by Donne but by the physician and poet Raphael Thorius (d.1625): see Peter Beal and Hilton Kelliher, ‘John Donne’, TLS (12 February 1982), p. 162.
f. 141r-v
• CoR 769: Richard Corbett, A speech made by Doctor Corbet Bpp of Norwich to the Clergie of his Diocesse about theire Benevolence for the repayre of St Paules Church London [29 April] Anno domini 1634
Copy, closely written in a small predominantly italic hand, untitled, on a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1634.
Sermon, beginning ‘My worthy freinds & brethren of the Clergy, I did not send for you before, though I had a commission...’, first published in James Peller Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum, 4 vols (London, 1802-7), II (1803), 77-80. Edited (with omissions) in Gilchrist, pp. xli-xlviii.
Burney MS 390
A quarto verse miscellany probably associated with Oxford. Late 17th century.
ff. 2r-6r
• CoA 164: Abraham Cowley, A Satyre. The Puritan and the Papist (‘So two rude waves, by stormes together throwne’)
Copy, here ascribed to Cowley.
This MS collated in Waller, II, 490, and in Sparrow.
First published, anonymously, [Oxford], 1643. Ascribed to Cowley in Wit and Loyalty Reviv'd (London, 1682). Waller, II, 149-57. Sparrow, pp. 17-28. J.H.A. Sparrow, ‘The Text of Cowley's Satire The Puritan and the Papist’, Anglia, 58 (1934), 78-102.
ff. 6r-7r
• RoJ 308: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)
Copy of lines 1-173, headed ‘a Satyr against Man, & Reason’.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning ‘All this with indignation have I hurled’) in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as ‘Satyr’. Love, pp. 57-63.
The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, ‘A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's “A Satyr against Reason and Mankind”’, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different ‘Answer’ poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).
f. 7r
• MaA 284: Andrew Marvell, Upon his Grand-Children (‘Kendal is dead, and Cambridge riding post’)
Copy, headed ‘On Clarendons Grand Children’.
This MS recorded in Margoliouth.
First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 147. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.
ff. 9r-10r
• DrJ 195: John Dryden, To His Sacred Majesty, A Panegyrick On His Coronation (‘In that wild Deluge where the World was drownd’)
Copy.
First published in London, 1661. Kinsley, I, 24-8. California, I, 32-6. Hammond, I, 55-61.
ff. 11v-12v
• DrJ 200: John Dryden, To My Lord Chancellor Presented on New-years-day (‘While flattering crouds officiously appear’)
Copy.
First published in London, 1681. Kinsley, I, 28-32. California, I, 38-42. Hammond, I, 63-9.
ff. 12v-13r
• DrJ 217: John Dryden, To the Lady Castlemain, Upon Her incouraging his first Play (‘As Sea-men shipwrackt on some happy shore’)
Copy, headed ‘Jo Dryden: To the Lady Castlemain for procuring a Play of his to be Printed’.
This MS collated in Hammond.
First published in A New Collection of Poems and Songs…Collected by John Bulteel (London, 1674). Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Kinsley, I, 154-6. California, I, 45-6. Hammond, I, 81-3. Also in Paul Hammond, ‘Dryden's Revision of To the Lady Castlemain’, PBSA, 78 (1984), 81-90.
f. 14r
• MaA 163.8: Andrew Marvell, The Dream of the Cabal: A Prophetical Satire Anno 1672 (‘As t'other night in bed I thinking lay’)
Copy.
A lampoon sometimes called The Gamball or a dreame of ye Grand Caball. First published in A Second Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs, &c. (London, 1689). Edited in POAS, I (1963), pp. 191-203, as possibly by John Ayloffe. Ascribed to Marvell in two MS copies (MaA 163.4 and MaA 163.92).
ff. 17v-19v
• DrJ 43.762: John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire (‘How dull and how insensible a beast’)
Copy.
A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.
First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.
The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, ‘Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire’, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that ‘Mulgrave had by far the major hand’. Recorded in Hammond, V, 684, in an ‘Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition’.
ff. 19v-22r
• MaA 29: Andrew Marvell, The First Anniversary of the Government under O.C. (‘Like the vain Curlings of the Watry maze’)
Copy, headed ‘Anniuersary on the Government of the Ld Protecter An: D: 1655’ and here ascribed to ‘Mr Waller’.
This MS recorded in Margoliouth.
First published in London, 1655. Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681), but cancelled from all known exempla except one in the British Library. Margoliouth, I, 108-19. Lord, pp. 93-104. Smith, pp. 287-98.
ff. 22r-3v
• WaE 385: Edmund Waller, A Panegyric to my Lord Protector, of the present Greatness, and joint Interest of His Highness, and this Nation (‘While with a strong and yet a gentle hand’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Deas, p. 317.
First published London, 1655. The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 10-17.
ff. 30v-1r
• KiH 155: Henry King, An Elegy Occasioned by Sicknesse (‘Well did the Prophet ask, Lord what is Man?’)
Copy, headed ‘A Definition of Man’.
This MS recorded in Crum.
First published in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 12-15]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 174-7.
Burney MS 392
Poems of Felicity volume. 8°, 71 leaves (ff. 5-71 originally paginated 1-133); volume of poems by Thomas Traherne in fair copy, entirely in the hand of Philip Traherne and with his sometimes extensive corrections, emendations and annotations (the latter probably relating to the ordering of the poems), apparently prepared for intended publication; the title-page reading ‘Poems of Felicity. Vol. I. Containing Divine Reflections On the Native Objects of An Infant=Ey. By Tho: Traheron, B.D. Author of the Roman Forgeries, & Christian Ethiks. Printed for Ph. Traheron B.D And are to be sold by &c’; containing a prefatory poem and 61 other poems by Thomas Traherne and two prefatory poems by Philip Traherne. In entries below the original page numbers are cited and the unnecessary modern foliation ignored. [after 1674].
Later owned by the Rev. Dr Charles Burney (1726-1814).
Cited in IELM as TrT Δ 7. Edited from this MS in Traherne's Poems of Felicity, ed. H. I. Bell (Oxford, 1910), with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece. Discussed in Margoliouth (I, xiv-xvi), collated and 38 of the poems edited from this MS (II, 86-152), as also in Ridler (pp. 77-139). Also discussed in Gladys I. Wade, ‘The Manuscripts of the Poems of Thomas Traherne’, MLR, 26 (1931), 401-7, and in Cedric Brown and Tomohiko Koshi, ‘Editing the Remains of Thomas Traherne’, RES, NS 57 (November 2006), 766-82. Twenty-three of the poems appear also in TrT Δ 1. A microfilm of this MS is in the Bodleian (MS Film 462), as are some facsimile pages of it (MS Facs. d.119, f. 141).
pp. 1-2
• TrT 205: Thomas Traherne, The Salutation (‘These little Limmes’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning ‘These little Limbs’.
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 5, 7.
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 1-3. Bell, pp. 1-2. Margoliouth, II, 4, 6. Ridler, pp. 5-6.
pp. 3-4
• TrT 100: Thomas Traherne, The Author to the Critical Peruser (‘The naked Truth in many faces shewn’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), sig. B3-B4r. Margoliouth, II, 2-3. Ridler, pp. 3-4.
pp. 3-5
• TrT 229: Thomas Traherne, Wonder (‘How like an Angel came I down!’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 7, 9, 11.
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 4-7. Bell, pp. 3-5. Margoliouth, II, 6, 8, 10. Ridler, pp. 6-8.
pp. 5-7
• TrT 135: Thomas Traherne, Eden (‘A learned and a Happy Ignorance’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 13, 15.
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 8-10. Margoliouth, II, 12, 14. Ridler, pp. 8-10.
pp. 7-10
• TrT 167: Thomas Traherne, Innocence (‘But that which most I Wonder at, which most’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 15, 17, 19.
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 11-13. Bell, pp. 7-10. Margoliouth, II, 14, 16, 18. Ridler, pp. 10-11.
pp. 10-12
• TrT 163: Thomas Traherne, An Infant-Ey (‘A simple Light from all Contagion free’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 10-12. Margoliouth, II, 86-7. Ridler, pp. 77-8.
pp. 12-13
• TrT 199: Thomas Traherne, The Return (‘To Infancy, O Lord, again I com’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 12-13. Margoliouth, II, 87-8. Ridler, p. 79.
pp. 13-15
• TrT 193: Thomas Traherne, The Preparative (‘My Body being Dead, my Lims unknown’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, headed ‘The Praeparative’ and here beginning ‘My Body being dead, my Limbs unknown’.
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 21, 23, 25.
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 14-17. Bell, pp. 13-15. Margoliouth, II, 20, 22, 24. Ridler, pp. 12-14.
pp. 15-16
• TrT 171: Thomas Traherne, The Instruction (‘Spue out thy filth, thy flesh abjure’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning ‘Spew out thy Filth, thy Flesh abjure’.
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 25.
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 18-19. Bell, pp. 15-16. Margoliouth, II, 24. Ridler, pp. 14-15.
pp. 16-18
• TrT 226: Thomas Traherne, The Vision (‘Flight is but the Preparative: The Sight’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning ‘Flight is but the Praeparative: the Sight’.
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 27, 29.
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 20-2. Bell, pp. 16-18. Margoliouth, II, 26, 28. Ridler, pp. 15-17.
See also TrT 170 and TrT 192.
p. 19
• TrT 195: Thomas Traherne, The Rapture (‘Sweet Infancy!’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 31.
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 23-4. Bell, p. 19. Margoliouth, II, 30. Ridler, p. 17.
pp. 20-1
• TrT 180: Thomas Traherne, News (‘News from a forein Country came’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 20-1. Margoliouth, II, 88-9. Ridler, pp. 79-81.
This poem is a variant version of TrT 187.
p. 22
• TrT 145: Thomas Traherne, Felicity (‘Prompted to seek my Bliss abov the Skies’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), p. 22. Margoliouth, II, 90. Ridler, p. 81.
pp. 23-4
• TrT 22: Thomas Traherne, Adam (‘God made Man upright at the first’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherene, heading altered from ‘Misapprehension’ to ‘Adam's Fall’.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published, as ‘Adam's Fall’, in Bell (1910), pp. 23-4. Margoliouth, II, 91-2. Ridler, pp. 82-3.
p. 24
• TrT 62: Thomas Traherne, The Apostacy (‘One Star’)
Copy of the first stanza in the hand of Philip Traherne, deleted.
See TrT 63.
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 29-31. Margoliouth, II, 95-7. Ridler, pp. 86-8.
Part of this poem is related to Blisse (TrT 112).
pp. 29-31
• TrT 63: Thomas Traherne, The Apostacy (‘One Star’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 29-31. Margoliouth, II, 95-7. Ridler, pp. 86-8.
Part of this poem is related to Blisse (TrT 112).
pp. 25-8
• TrT 231: Thomas Traherne, The World (‘When Adam first did from his Dust arise’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 25-8. Margoliouth, II, 92-5. Ridler, pp. 83-6.
pp. 32-6
• TrT 212: Thomas Traherne, Solitude (‘How desolate!’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 32-6. Margoliouth, II, 98-101. Ridler, pp. 88-91.
pp. 37-8
• TrT 191: Thomas Traherne, Poverty (‘As in the House I sate’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 37-8. Margoliouth, II, 101-3. Ridler, pp. 92-3.
pp. 39-42
• TrT 127: Thomas Traherne, Dissatisfaction (‘In Cloaths confin'd, my weary Mind’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 39-42. Margoliouth, II, 103-6. Ridler, pp. 93-6.
p. 43
• TrT 111: Thomas Traherne, The Bible (‘That! That! There I was told’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), p. 43. Margoliouth, II, 106. Ridler, p. 96.
pp. 43-52
• TrT 113: Thomas Traherne, Christendom (‘When first mine Infant-Ear’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 43-7. Margoliouth, II, 106-10. Ridler, pp. 97-100.
pp. 48-52
• TrT 185: Thomas Traherne, On Christmas-Day (‘Shall Dumpish Melancholy spoil my Joys’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 48-52. Margoliouth, II, 110-13. Ridler, pp. 100-3.
pp. 52-5
• TrT 110: Thomas Traherne, Bells (‘Hark!, hark, my Soul! the Bells do ring’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 52-5. Margoliouth, II, 113-16. Ridler, pp. 103-5. First published as two poems, ‘Bells I’ (‘Hark! hark, my Soul! the Bells do ring’) and ‘Bells II’ (‘From Clay, & Mire, & Dirt, my Soul’).
p. 56
• TrT 114: Thomas Traherne, Churches I (‘Those stately Structures which on Earth I view’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), p. 56. Margoliouth, II, 116. Ridler, pp. 105-6.
pp. 57-8
• TrT 115: Thomas Traherne, Churches II (‘Were there but one alone’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 57-8. Margoliouth, II, 116-18. Ridler, pp. 106-7.
pp. 59-61
• TrT 174: Thomas Traherne, Misapprehension (‘Men are not wise in their Tru Interest’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS, with a facsimile of p. 59 (f. 34) as frontispiece, in Bell.
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 59-61. Margoliouth, II, 118-20. Ridler, pp. 107-9.
pp. 61-4
• TrT 159: Thomas Traherne, The improvment (‘'Tis more to recollect, then make. The one’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning ‘Tis more to recollect than make; the one’.
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 31, 33, 35, 37.
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 25-9. Bell, pp. 61-4. Margoliouth, II, 30, 32, 34, 36. Ridler, pp. 18-20.
pp. 64-7
• TrT 184: Thomas Traherne, The Odour (‘These Hands are Jewels to the Ey’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 64-7. Margoliouth, II, 120-2. Ridler, pp. 109-11.
pp. 67-9
• TrT 25: Thomas Traherne, Admiration (‘Can Human Shape so taking be’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherene.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 67-9. Margoliouth, II, 122-3. Ridler, pp. 111-12.
pp. 69-70
• TrT 75: Thomas Traherne, The Approach (‘That Childish Thoughts such Joys inspire’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 37, 39, 41.
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 30-2. Margoliouth, II, 36, 38, 40. Ridler, pp. 21-2.
pp. 71-3
• TrT 179: Thomas Traherne, Nature (‘That custom is a Second Nature, we’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning ‘That Custom is a Second Nature, we’.
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 61, 63, 65.
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 49-52. Bell, pp. 71-3. Margoliouth, II, 60, 62, 64. Ridler, pp. 32-4.
pp. 74-5
• TrT 133: Thomas Traherne, Ease (‘How easily doth Nature teach the Soul’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, headed ‘Eas’ and here beginning ‘How easily doth Nature teach the Soul!’
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 65, 67.
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 53-4. Margoliouth, II, 64, 66. Ridler, pp. 35-6.
pp. 75-7
• TrT 131: Thomas Traherne, Dumnesse (‘Sure Man was born to Meditat on Things’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, headed ‘Dumness’ and here beginning ‘Sure Man was born to meditat on things’.
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 41, 43, 45.
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 33-6. Margoliouth, II, 40, 42, 44. Ridler, pp. 22-4.
pp. 78-82
• TrT 177: Thomas Traherne, My Spirit (‘My Naked Simple Life was I’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning ‘My naked simple Life was I’.
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 51, 53, 55, 57.
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 41-5. Bell (1910), pp. 78-82. Margoliouth, II, 50, 52, 54, 56. Ridler, pp. 27-30.
See also TrT 70-1.
pp. 82-5
• TrT 210: Thomas Traherne, Silence (‘A quiet Silent Person may possess’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning ‘A quiet silent Person may possess’.
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 45, 47, 49, 51.
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 37-40. Bell, pp. 82-5. Margoliouth, II, 44, 46, 48, 50. Ridler, pp. 25-7.
pp. 85-8
• TrT 202: Thomas Traherne, Right Apprehension (‘Giv but to things their tru Esteem’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 85-8. Margoliouth, II, 123-6. Ridler, pp. 112-14.
p. 88
• TrT 71: Thomas Traherne, The Apprehension (‘If this I did not evry moment see’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, following ‘Right Apprehension’ (TrT 202) and headed ‘II’.
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 57.
First published in Dobell (1903), p. 46. Bell, p. 88, as ‘Right Apprehension II’. Margoliouth, II, 56. Ridler, p. 31 (as ‘Evidently a fragment of a discarded longer poem, which T[raherne] placed here as a kind of postscript to My Spirit [TrT 176-7]’).
pp. 89-90
• TrT 147: Thomas Traherne, Fullnesse (‘That Light, that Sight, that Thought’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, headed ‘Fulness’.
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 59, 61.
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 47-8. Margoliouth, II, 58, 60. Ridler, pp. 31-2.
pp. 90-1
• TrT 214: Thomas Traherne, Speed (‘The Liquid Pearl in Springs’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning ‘The liquid Pearl in Springs’.
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 69, 71.
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 55-6. Bell, pp. 90-1. Margoliouth, II, 68, 70. Ridler, pp. 36-7.
pp. 92-4
• TrT 123: Thomas Traherne, The Designe (‘When first Eternity Stooped down to Nought’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, headed ‘The Choice’ and here beginning ‘When first eternity stoopt down to Nought’.
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 71-4.
First published, as ‘The Choice’, in Dobell (1903), pp. 57-9. Margoliouth, II, 70-1. Ridler, pp. 37-9.
See also TrT 213.
pp. 94-6
• TrT 190: Thomas Traherne, The Person (‘Ye Sacred Lims’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning ‘Ye sacred Limbs’.
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 75, 77, 79.
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 60-2. Bell (1910), pp. 94-6. Margoliouth, II, 74, 76, 78. Ridler, pp. 40-1.
p. 96
• TrT 157: Thomas Traherne, The Image (‘If I be like my God, my King’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, deleted.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), p. 146. Margoliouth, II, 126. Ridler, p. 115.
pp. 97-8
• TrT 141: Thomas Traherne, The Estate (‘But shall my Soul to Wealth possess’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, here beginning ‘But shall my Soul no Wealth possess?’.
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 79, 81, 83.
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 63-6. Bell, pp. 97-8. Margoliouth, II, 78, 80, 82. Ridler, pp. 42-3.
pp. 99-100
• TrT 143: Thomas Traherne, The Evidence (‘His Word confirms the Sale’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 99-100. Margoliouth, II, 126-7. Ridler, pp. 115-16.
pp. 100-1
• TrT 137: Thomas Traherne, The Enquirie (‘Men may delighted be with Springs’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne, headed ‘The Enquiry’.
Edited from this MS in Bell and in Margoliouth, II, 83, 85.
First published in Dobell (1903), pp. 67-9. Margoliouth, II, 82, 84. Ridler, pp. 44-5.
pp. 101-4
• TrT 207: Thomas Traherne, Shadows in the Water (‘In unexperienc'd Infancy’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 101-4. Margoliouth, II, 127-30. Ridler, pp. 116-18.
pp. 104-7
• TrT 186: Thomas Traherne, On Leaping over the Moon (‘I saw new Worlds beneath the Water ly’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 104-7. Margoliouth, II, 130-2. Ridler, pp. 118-20.
See also TrT 223.
pp. 107-8
• TrT 223: Thomas Traherne, ‘To the same purpos. he not long before!’
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published, as part of On Leaping over the Moon (TrT 186), in Bell (1910), pp. 107-8. Margoliouth, II, 132. Ridler, pp. 120-1.
pp. 108-10
• TrT 208: Thomas Traherne, Sight (‘Mine Infant-Ey’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 108-10. Margoliouth, II, 132-4. Ridler, pp. 121-3.
pp. 111-13
• TrT 227: Thomas Traherne, Walking (‘To walk abroad is, not with Eys’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 111-13. Margoliouth, II, 135-6. Ridler, pp. 123-4.
pp. 113-14
• TrT 126: Thomas Traherne, The Dialogue (‘Why dost thou tell me that the fields are mine?’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 113-14. Margoliouth, II, 136-7. Ridler, pp. 124-5.
pp. 114-16
• TrT 128: Thomas Traherne, Dreams (‘Tis strange! I saw the Skies’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 114-16. Margoliouth, II, 138-9. Ridler, pp. 126-7.
pp. 117-19
• TrT 164: Thomas Traherne, The Inference I (‘Well-guided Thoughts within possess’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 117-19. Margoliouth, II, 139-41. Ridler, pp. 127-9.
pp. 119-20
• TrT 165: Thomas Traherne, The Inference II (‘David a Temple in his Mind conceiv'd’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 119-20. Margoliouth, II, 141-2. Ridler, pp. 129-30.
pp. 121-4
• TrT 117: Thomas Traherne, The City (‘What Structures here among God's Works appear?’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 121-4. Margoliouth, II, 142-5. Ridler, pp. 130-2.
pp. 124-5
• TrT 168: Thomas Traherne, Insatiableness I (‘No Walls confine! Can nothing hold my Mind?’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 124-5. Margoliouth, II, 145-6. Ridler, p. 133.
pp. 125-6
• TrT 169: Thomas Traherne, Insatiableness II (‘This busy, vast, enquiring Soul!’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 125-6. Margoliouth, II, 146-7. Ridler, p. 134.
pp. 126-8
• TrT 119: Thomas Traherne, Consummation (‘The Thoughts of Men appear’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 126-8. Margoliouth, II, 147-8. Ridler, pp. 134-6.
pp. 129-31
• TrT 152: Thomas Traherne, Hosanna (‘No more shall Walls, no more shall Walls confine’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 129-31. Margoliouth, II, 149-51. Ridler, pp. 136-8.
pp. 131-2
• TrT 200: Thomas Traherne, The Review I (‘Did I grow, or did I stay?’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), pp. 131-2. Margoliouth, II, 151. Ridler, pp. 138-9.
p. 133
• TrT 201: Thomas Traherne, The Review II (‘My Child-hood is a Sphere’)
Copy in the hand of Philip Traherne.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Bell (1910), p. 133. Margoliouth, II, 152. Ridler, p. 139.
Burney MS 523
A folio volume of miscellaneous papers in Latin and English, 125 leaves, with an index in the hand of Charles Burney.
f. 111r
• StW 754.5: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)
A four-line adaptation of the poem.
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).
ff. 115r, 116r
• RnT 222.5: Thomas Randolph, On the Fall of the Mitre Tavern in Cambridge (‘Lament, lament, ye Scholars all’)
Copy, headed ‘The Downfall of the Mitre Tavern, Cambridge, or the sinking therof into the Cellar’. Mid-17th century.
First published in Wit & Drollery (London, 1656), p. 68. Thorn-Drury, pp. 160-2.
Hargrave MS 47
A folio volume of legal and political tracts and papers, in professional secretary hands, written from both ends, 211 leaves.
In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer. Inscribed by him on f. ir‘F. Hargrave / A present to me from Dan. Jones of Fakenham Esqr 29. Sept. 1789 F.H.’ and (on f. 1r-v) with a table of contents in Hargraves's hand.
ff. 191r-3r
• CtR 117: Sir Robert Cotton, A Briefe Discovrse concerning the Power of the Peeres and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature
Copy, headed ‘A briefe discourse proveinge yt. the house of Commons hath equall power wth. ye. Peeres’.
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 Sr Rob: Cotton to Sr Edward Mountague Ano 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.
See also the Introduction.
Hargrave MS 89
A folio volume of law readings, in several secretary hands, in modern quarter-morocco. Early-mid-17th century.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Sum liber Edwardi Shurlande teste [?]Jo: Michell’.
f. 3r-v
• MrT 45.4: Sir Thomas More, Utopia
Extracts, in a cursive secretary hand.
The Latin version first published in Louvain, 1516. Ralph Robynson's English translation published in 1551. Yale, Vol. 4.
Hargrave MS 168
A folio volume of ten state tracts, in a single professional hand, 437 leaves, in modern quarter-vellum. c.1620s-30s.
In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer. Inscribed by him on f. iv‘A present to me from my friend Charles Butler Esqr. Fra: Hargrave 15 Jan. 1792’. Inscribed on f. 1r in a different hand, ‘Given me by Mr: S. Baker, Bookseller, Whit-. May 26. 74 in XII. f. 1. my way home from Woodfd. Church, with another Fol. Ms. Halfd:’.
ff. 307r-62v
• RaW 1068.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Military Discourse
Copy.
A treatise beginning ‘Forasmuch as in every doubtfull and questionable matter, it is familiar and common amongst men to be diverse...’. First published in London, 1734. It was probably written by Sir Thomas Wilford (1541-1601?), or possibly by Sir Francis De Vere or Nathaniel Boothe. See Lefranc (1968), pp. 64-5.
ff. 395r-403r
• LeC 25: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth
Extracts, headed ‘Some Extracts out of the Earle of Leicesters Common wealth of which the whole booke is att Mr J. Lluyd of Ynisheere’.
This MS recorded in Peck. p. 226.
First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.
ff. 414r-37r
• WoH 269: Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham
Copy.
First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).
Hargrave MS 173
Copy, lacking title-page, in two volumes, on 581 folio leaves. In a single, predominantly secretary professional hand. 1st half 17th century.
WoH 296.5: Sir Henry Wotton, The State of Christendom
Once in the library of Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), Yorkshire antiquary and topographer. Later in the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal write and book collector.
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.
Hargrave MS 205
A folio volume, in a neat secretary hand, comprising a poem, an Inner Temple play (Tancred and Gismund), and a commonplace book cum lexical compilation, 178 leaves. c.1568.
In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer.
ff. 1r-8v
• SuH 70: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Virgil's Aeneid. Book IV (‘But now the wounded quene, with heavie care’)
Copy, headed ‘P Virgilij Muronis Æneidos Liber Quartus Britannico Sermoni Donatus per Comitem S’, with sidenotes.
Printed from this MS (with the text of the 1557 edition on facing pages) in Padelford, No. 58, pp. 122-65. Collated in Ridley.
First published in London, [1554], ed. John Day. Edited by Richard Tottel (London, 1557). Padelford, No. 58, pp. 142-89. Edited by Florence H. Ridley (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1963). Jones, pp. 63-88.
Hargrave MS 216
A folio volume of legal and political tracts, in professional secretary hands, 194 leaves. c.1630.
In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer.
ff. 77r-80v
• CtR 355: Sir Robert Cotton, A Relation of the Proceedings against Ambassadors who have miscarried themselves, etc. ...[27 April 1624]
Copy.
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.
Hargrave MS 219
‘Extracts taken out of a Copy of a MS of Sr Robt Cotton relating to ye Court of Chauncery compiled or framed in 2 parts’, beginning ‘The Chanceller hath no Commission by Letters Patents...’, with numerous sub-headings, predominantly in a single neat hand, the title in a later hand, 144 folio leaves (plus blanks), in modern cloth. Late 17th-early 18th century.
CtR 139.5: Sir Robert Cotton, The Courte of Chauncerye
In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer and book collector. Inscribed ‘lent me by MrGoldesborough ye Deputy Regr of ye Court of Chauncery & ye original was lent to him by Mr Grimes ye Late Usher of ye Rolls’, and including (ff. 115r-144v) material from ‘A copy of papers in ye hands of Mr Holforde...Sr Robt Cotton, headed De Magno Cancellario Angl et Cancellaria ac Cojudicibus ejus ey Authoritate eorundem’.
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...’.
Hargrave MS 223
A folio volume of legal and state tracts and papers, 165 leaves. In a single professional secretary hand.
In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer and book collector. Also inscribed on f. 2r ‘Tho Manby’.
art. 14
• CtR 473: Sir Robert Cotton, That the Kings of England have been pleased usually to consult with their Peeres in the great Councell, and Commons in Parliament, of Marriage, Peace, and Warre. Written...Anno 1611
Copy.
Tract beginning ‘To search so high as the Norman Conquest...’. First published, as The Forme of Governement of the Kingdome of England collected out of the Fundamental Lawes and Statutes of this Kingdome, London, 1642. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [11]-39.
Hargrave MS 225
A folio composite volume of state and antiquarian tracts and letters, in various professional hands, including the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 336 leaves.
In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer. Inscribed by him on f. [iv] ‘F. Hargrave A gift made to me this day by my friend George Hardinge Esquire [(1743-1816), judge and writer]. F. H. 16. July 1789.’
Described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 232 (No. 40).
ff. 36r-7r
• LyJ 21: John Lyly, A petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth
Copy.
This MS collated in Bond.
Beginning ‘Most Gratious and dread Soveraigne: I dare not pester yor Highnes wth many wordes...’. Written probably in 1598. Bond, I, 64-5. Feuillerat, pp. 556-7.
ff. 37r-8v
• LyJ 43.5: John Lyly, A second petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth
Copy.
This MS collated in Bond.
Beginning ‘Most gratious and dread Soveraigne: Tyme cannott worke my peticons, nor my peticons the tyme...’. Written probably in 1601. Bond, I, 70-1. Feuillerat, pp. 561-2.
ff. 67r-90v
• CtR 474: Sir Robert Cotton, That the Kings of England have been pleased usually to consult with their Peeres in the great Councell, and Commons in Parliament, of Marriage, Peace, and Warre. Written...Anno 1611
Copy, lacking title, imperfect, subscribed ‘Robt. Cotton’. Indexed in the table of contents (f. 336) as ‘The relacon of Sr. Tho Cotton shewing yt...’.
Tract beginning ‘To search so high as the Norman Conquest...’. First published, as The Forme of Governement of the Kingdome of England collected out of the Fundamental Lawes and Statutes of this Kingdome, London, 1642. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [11]-39.
ff. 240r-8v
• CtR 40: Sir Robert Cotton, An Answer to Certain Arguments raised from Supposed Antiquity, and urged by some Members of the lower House of Parliament, to prove that Ecclesiasticall Lawes ought to be Enacted by Temporall Men
Copy, in the professional secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, subscribed ‘R: C: B.’
Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 40.3 [not there identified] (p. 232).
Tract beginning ‘What, besides self-regard, or siding faction, hath been...’. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [203]-217.
Hargrave MS 226
A folio composite volume of state tracts, speeches and letters dating up to 1631, in various professional hands, including the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 313 leaves.
In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer. Inscribed by him on f. [iv] ‘F Hargrave A gift to me this day from my friend George Hardinge Esquire [(1743-1816), judge and writer]. F. H. 16. July 1789.’
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 232-3 (No. 41).
ff. 2r-17v
• BcF 337: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)
Copy of Bacon's speech at the arraignment of Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, 25 May 1616, in the professional secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’.
ff. 18r-30v
• CtR 85: Sir Robert Cotton, A Breife Abstract of the Question of Precedencie between England and Spaine: Occasioned by Sir Henry Nevill the Queen of Englands Ambassador, and the Ambassador of Spaine, at Calais Commissioners appointed by the French King...
Copy, as ‘By Sr Robert Cotton, Knt’.
Tract, relating to events in 1599/1600, beginning ‘To seek before the decay of the Roman Empire...’. First published in London, 1642. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [73]-‘79’ [i.e. 89].
ff. 93r-100r
• BcF 600: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
Copy of a letter by Bacon, to James I, concerning ‘his Mats Estate xijo Januarij Anno 1610’.
ff. 193r-207v
• BcF 157: Francis Bacon, A Confession of Faith
Copy, headed ‘The Confession of ffaith written by the Late Lord Keeper Sr ffrancis Bacon’.
First published in London, 1641. Spedding, VII, 217-26.
ff. 261r-9v
• RaW 881.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
Copy of two letters by Ralegh, to his wife and to Winwood, in a professional secretary hand.
ff. 270r-82v
• SiP 193: Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur
Copy, partly in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’ (on ff. 270r, 273r-82v), partly in another professional secretary hand (on ff. 271r-2v, the same hand as SiP 202 and SiP 209), with a few marginal marks by a reader.
This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 325 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38.
First published in Scrinia Caeciliana: Mysteries of State & Government (London, 1663) and in Cabala: sive Scrinia Sacra (London, 1663). Feuillerat, III, 51-60. Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 46-57.
This work and its textual transmission discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), Chapter 4, pp. 109-46 (with most MSS catalogued as Nos 1-37, with comments on their textual tradition, in Appendix IV, pp. 274-80).
Hargrave MS 227
A folio volume of treatises and papers relating to the Court of Chancery, in a professional predominantly italic hand, with a list of contents and some marginal annotations probably by Hargrave, 341 leaves, in late 19th-century morocco. Mid-late 17th century.
In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer. Inscribed by him on f. [1v] ‘F. Hargrave Bot. by me of Mr Lynch of Dublin with [?]t manuscripts for which together I gave £60 F. H.’ and with his list of contents (f. 2r-v).
ff. 3r-72r
• CtR 139: Sir Robert Cotton, The Courte of Chauncerye
Copy, the first part (ff. 3r-40r) headed ‘The Court of Chancery’, the second part (ff. 41r-72r) ‘A Learned Treatise concerng the high and Honourable Court of Chancery written by the Famous Sr Robt Cotton Pars Secunda’; subscribed in Francis Hargrave's hand ‘(Note that in another Copy which I have of this Mss. bound separately, there is an addition of 14 or 15 pages to yt. part where the mss. as concluded here.)’.
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...’.
ff. 306v-14v
• BcF 337.5: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)
Copy of Bacon's speech on taking his place in Chancery.
Hargrave MS 249
A folio volume of tracts and records relating to the Court of Chancery. c.1630.
ff. 188v-93v
• BcF 338: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)
Copy of Bacon's inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617.
Hargrave MS 255
A folio volume of two works, namely Henry Elsinge's Modus Tenendi Parliamentum and a tract by Cotton, in a single cursive mixed hand, 68 leaves. c.1630.
In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer.
ff. 66r-8v
• CtR 118: Sir Robert Cotton, A Briefe Discovrse concerning the Power of the Peeres and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature
Copy, headed ‘That ye house of Comons hath equall power with ye Peers in poynt of Judicature by Sr: Robert Cotton’.
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 Sr Rob: Cotton to Sr Edward Mountague Ano 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.
See also the Introduction.
Hargrave MS 278
A folio volume of state and legal tracts, in various professional hands, 498 leaves. c.1620-50.
In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer. Some scribbling under the table of contents on f. 1v refers to ‘Le Neve Yorke’ [i.e. Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary].
ff. 408r-98r
• DaJ 263: Sir John Davies, The Question concerning Impositions
Copy, with a formal title-page, ‘An Argument vppon The Question of Impositions, digested and divided into sundrie Chapters Written by Sr John Davis Knt one of his Maties: Councell learned in Ireland, & by him dedicated to Kinge James’.
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.
Hargrave MS 280
Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, 128 small folio leaves. With (f. 2r-v) a dedicatory epistle ‘To my very Honourable good Lord the Lord North Threasurer of her Maiesties royall Houshold and of her Priuie Counsell’ [i.e. Roger, second Baron North (1530/1-1600), Treasurer of the Queen's Household after 30 August 1596] (beginning ‘My good Lord, it is more then many yeeres since I first became devoted vnto yor vertue...’) and with (f. 4r) a title-page ‘Obseruations Politicall and Civill’. c.1630.
RaW 1046: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Cabinet-Council: containing the Chief Arts of Empire and Mysteries of State
In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer. Inscribed by him (f. 1r) ‘29. Septr. 1789. / A present to me from Dan. Jones of Fakenham in Norfolk Esqr. F. Hargrave’.
A treatise beginning ‘A Commonwealth is a certain sovereign government of many families...’. First published, attributed to Sir Walter Ralegh in John Milton's preface ‘To the Reader’, as The Cabinet-Council [&c.] (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 35-150.
Widely circulated in MSS as Observations Political and Civil. The various attributions include ‘T.B.’, for whom Thomas Bedingfield (early 1540s?-1613), translator of Machiavelli, is suggested in Ernest A. Strathmann, ‘A Note on the Ralegh Canon’, TLS (13 April 1956), p. 228, and in Lefranc (1968), p. 64.
Hargrave MS 284
Copy, on 42 folio leaves. In a professional secretary hand, headed ‘The Effecte Off the Charge giuen to the Grand Jury att yorcke by Sir John Dauis Knight. his Mates first Seriant att Lawe. being one of the Justices of Assize for the Northerne Circute’.
DaJ 229.5: Sir John Davies, Charge to the Jurors of the Grand Inquest at York [in 1619]
In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer and book collector, inscribed probably by him ‘To be half bound in Vellum / To be lettered’.
Charge beginning ‘You my Masters that are sworn, I am to direct my Speech principally unto you...’. First published (from a MS owned by A. Cooper Ramgard, Barrister) in Grosart, III (1876), 243-81.
Hargrave MS 311
A folio composite volume of state tracts, letters and speeches, in various professional hands, with a table of contents (f. 1r-v), 247 leaves. c.1630.
In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer.
ff. 2r-61v
• LeC 26: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth
Copy in a single hand, with a title-page, ‘Leicesters Common wealthe...’, annotated by readers ‘By some thought to haue been written by Sr. Walter Raughley’, ‘By some thought to bee written by ffather Parsons the Jesuite’, and ‘Rhoda kinge’.
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.
ff. 62r-77r
• CtR 289: Sir Robert Cotton, The Manner and Meanes how the Kings of England have from time to time Supported and Repaired their Estates. Written...1609.
Copy, headed ‘A Declaration how a Kinge of England haue from tyme to tyme supported and repaired their estates Collected out of the Records of the Tower by Sr Robt Cotton knight and Barronett Anno nono Jacobi’.
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].
King's MS 166
A fair copy, possibly the presentation copy to Queen Elizabeth, on 64 small folio leaves. Complete with a formal title-page (f. 1r) and Dedication ‘To the Quenes most Excellent Maiestie’ (ff. 2r-9r); the main text on ff. 10r-64r; written in the accomplished, predominantly secretary hand of Howard's principal amanuensis (the same as in British Library, Lansdowne MS 792); the dedication subscribed and signed by Howard (f. 9r) ‘Yr Mties most affectionat, humble, and / loyall subiecte, till deathe / Henry Hwward’; in calf with the arms of George III in gilt and the royal arms bookplate pasted on f. 1v. c.1590s.
*HoH 39: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A Copy of the last instructions which the Emperor Charles the Fifth gave to his son Philip before his death translated out of Spanish
An unpublished translation of a suppositious work, supposed (but unlikely) to be Charles V's instructions to his son Philip II, which was circulated in MS in 16th-century Europe and published in Spanish in Sandoval's Life of Charles V (1634). An Italian translation in MS was presented to James VI by Giacomo Castelvetro between 1591 and 1595 and is now in the National Library of Scotland (MS Adv. 23. I. 6): see The Works of William Fowler, ed. H.W. Meckle, James Craigie and John Purves, III, STS 3rd Ser. 23 (Edinburgh, 1940), pp. cxxvii-cxxx, and references cited in The Basilicon Doron of King James VI, ed. James Craigie, II, STS, 3rd Ser. 18 (Edinburgh, 1950), pp. 63-9. A quite different translation was published as The Advice of Charles the Fifth...to his Son Philip the Second (London, 1670).
Howard's translation, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth, was allegedly written when he had been more than twelve years out of the Queen's favour [? in the early 1590s]. The Dedication begins ‘If the faithful Cananite of whom we read in the holy writ...’; the main text begins ‘I have resolved (most dear son) to come now to the point...’, and ends ‘...to proceed in such a course as prayers may second your purposes. Sanctae Trinitati, &c.’
Loan MS 76
Copy of the original acting version of the masque represented at Ludlow Castle the 29th of September 1634. In an accomplished scribal hand, adopting a variant style for stage directions, on 37 quarto pages of text: entitled ‘A Maske Represented before the right hoble: the Earle of Bridgewater Lord president of Wales and the right hoble: the Countesse of Bridgewater. At Ludlow Castle the 29th of September 1634’, the title subscribed in a variant form of the same hand with the names of the ‘chiefe persons in the reprsentacon’; the text annotated throughout in a lighter-coloured ink, probably in a different hand, with abbreviated names of speakers; the title-page later subscribed in the hand of Thomas Egerton, Lord Brackley (later second Earl of Bridgewater), ‘Author Jo: Milton’. c.1634-7.
MnJ 59: John Milton, Comus
The MS evidently made for the Earl of Bridgewater (and retained among the Egerton family papers).
Edited from this MS in Henry Todd's edition of Comus (Canterbury, 1798), Appendix II, pp. 167-92; in Milton's Comus, being the Bridgewater Manuscript, with Notes and a short Family Memoir, ed. Lady Alix Egerton (London, 1910), with facsimile examples; in Visiak (1937); and, with detailed discussion, in Sprott (1972).
Collated in The Poetical Works of Milton, ed. Henry Todd, 6 vols (London, 1801), V, 431-8; in Columbia, in Darbishire, and in Carey & Fowler. Complete facsimile (but not generally showing the additions in the lighter ink) in Illinois, I, 300-39, with transcript; the transcript reprinted in A Maske at Ludlow, ed. John S. Diekhoff (Cleveland, Ohio, 1968), pp. 207-40. Complete photocopy in the Huntington (EL 34 B 14). Discussed also in David Harrison Stevens, ‘The Bridgewater Manuscript of Comus’, MP, 24 (1927), 315-20; in John T. Shawcross, ‘Certain Relationships of the Manuscripts of Comus’, PBSA, 54 (1960), 38-56; and in Barbara Breasted, ‘Comus and the Castlehaven Scandal’, Milton Studies, 3 (1971), 201-24.
First published, as A Maske presented At Ludlow-Castle, 1634, in London, 1637. Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 85-123. Darbishire, II, 171-203. Carey & Fowler, pp. 168-229. John Milton, The Masque of ‘Comus’. The Poem, originally called ‘A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, &c.’, ed. E.H. Visiak (Bloomsbury, 1937). John Milton, A Maske: The Earlier Versions, ed. S.E. Sprott (Toronto, 1973). Various texts also discussed in A Maske at Ludlow, ed. John S. Diekhoff (Cleveland, Ohio, 1968), [see esp. pp. 251-75].
Loan MS 98
Rough working draft. A rough working draft, or foul paper, of a scene in blank verse and prose between the ‘Prince’ [Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence] and Lorenzo [Lorenzino de' Medici] which was later heavily adapted as Act I, scene ii of The Traitor; a fragment comprising some 144 lines of text drafted out, with numerous currente calamo revisions, in the mixed secretary and italic hand of its (probably professional) author on two conjugate folio leaves, each c.390 x 305 mm; from the papers of Sir John Coke (1563-1644), Secretary of State, or his family, and the muniments of the Marquess of Lothian at Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire; the MS at some time folded and used as wrapping paper to enclose a bundle of letters (possibly in 1634 or 1640) when books and papers were sent by his sons respectively from Gray's Inn and from London to Melbourne); marked in pencil in the 1880s by William Dashwood Fane ‘Packet 3’ (which originally contained documents of 1601-30, including Sir Fulke Greville's household accounts of 1602-3). c.1606-31.
ShJ 192: James Shirley, The Traitor
This MS was discovered by Edward Saunders and identified by Felix Pryor at Melbourne Hall in 1985. Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 20 June 1986, lot 222 (unsold).
This MS appeared in a separate sale catalogue by Felix Pryor for Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 20 June 1986, lot 222, and is discussed by him, with a facsimile page and transcript, in Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, ed. J.M. Brook (Detroit, 1986), pp. 133-8. It was publicised elsewhere, with occasional reduced facsimile examples, notably in The Times (6 May 1986), pp. 1, 12, and (19 October 1989); Time (19 May 1986), p. 11; New York Times (24 May 1986); TLS (13 June 1986), p. 651; The Spectator (14 June 1986), pp. 34-5; and Maine Antique Digest (July 1986), pp. 36-37C.
Discussed, with reduced facsimiles, and the attribution to Webster supported, in Antony Hammond and Doreen Delvecchio, ‘The Melbourne Manuscript and John Webster: A Reproduction and Transcript’, SB, 41 (1988), 1-32, and in Alfred Marnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986) [where it is also translated into German as Il Moro, Herzog von Florenz. Ein Webster-Fragment]. Facsimiles also in Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor, William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion (Oxford, 1987), p. 8., and in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), pp. 290-1.
Discussed, and the attribution to Webster rejected in favour of Shirley, by I.A. Shapiro in letters to the TLS (4 July 1986), pp. 735-6, and (8 August 1986), p. 865 (also in unpublished further articles), and in The Works of John Webster, Vol. III, ed. David Gunby, David Carnegie, and MacDonald P. Jackson (Cambridge, 2003), pp. xxx-xxxi. See also letters and articles by Richard Proudfoot and Felix Pryor in TLS (13 June 1986), p. 651; (18 July 1986), p. 787; (22 August 1986), pp. 913-14; and (29 August 1986), p. 939, and N.W. Bawcutt, ‘The Assassination of Alessandro de' Medici in early Seventeenth-Century English Drama’, RES, NS 56 (June 2005), 412-23.
First published in London, 1635. Gifford & Dyce, II, 95-187. Edited by John Stewart Carter (London, 1965). The play was licensed on 4 May 1631 for performance at the Phoenix Theatre.
Loan MS 121C
A small folio volume of c.128 pages containing some 180 English and Latin poems dating from c.1649 to 1665. Written throughout in the hand of Mildmay Fane (1602-66), second Earl of Westmorland.
pp. 61-2
• DaW 11.5: Sir William Davenant, An Epitaph Wrot by Sir William Davenant Long Since upon Jeffery Hudson the Queens Dwarf (‘Let no rude hand remove this Ston’)
Copy of a poem headed ‘An Epitaph wrot by Sr William Dauenant Long since vpon Jefferey Hudson ye Queens Dwarf’, 16 lines beginning ‘Let no rude hand remoue this Ston’. c.1660s.
The text is followed by ‘Jeffreides or Jeffery ye Dwarfs answer to Sr william Dauenant in reuenge for the Epitaph he wrot long since on him’ (36 lines beginning ‘I'm stil aliue as I suppose’).
Both poems edited from this MS in Cain, who thinks that Hudson's ‘answer’ may be a persona poem possibly by Mildmay Fane.
First published in The Poetry of Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmorland, ed. Tom Cain (Manchester, 2001), Appendix I, pp. 363-4.
p. 114
• CwT 291.5: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)
Copy, headed ‘A Flye yt flew into his Mistresses Eye by Tom Cary -- pag -- 63’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).