MS Add. 22
A folio volume of state papers chiefly relating to the University of Cambridge. c.1640.
Once owned by Dr Henry Smyth, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. Among the collections of John Patrick (1632-95), religious controversialist.
f. 104v
• SuJ 203: John Suckling, Upon Sir John Suckling's hundred horse (‘I tell thee Jack thou'st given the King’)
Copy, headed ‘Verses agt Sr John Suckling’.
First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 204-5.
f. 105r et seq.
• SuJ 151: John Suckling, An Answer to a Gentleman in Norfolk that sent to enquire after the Scotish business
Copy. c.1640.
First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 142-4.
MS Add. 27
A folio composite volume of state tracts, 104 leaves, now disbound.
Among the collections of John Patrick (1632-95), religious controversialist.
ff. 1r-18v
• RaW 581: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Dialogue between a Counsellor of State and a Justice of the Peace
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, lacking a title. c.1620s.
A treatise, with a dedicatory epistle to James I beginning ‘Those that are suppressed and hopeless are commonly silent ...’, the dialogue beginning ‘Now, sir, what think you of Mr. St. John's trial in the Star-chamber?...’. First published as The Prerogative of Parliaments in England (‘Midelburge’ and ‘Hamburg’ [i.e. London], 1628). Works (1829), VIII, 151-221.
ff. 29-62v
• RaW 604: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Dialogue between a Jesuit and a Recusant
Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, almost entirely on rectos only, headed ‘A Discourse betwixt a Recusant and a Jesuit’, incomplete, ending at p. 62 of the published version. Early 17th century. c.1640.
A dialogue beginning ‘My most reverend Father you are well returned into England...’. First published, as A Dialogue between a Jesuit and a Recusant. shewing how dangerous are their Principles to Christian Princes, in L. Eachard's An Abridgement of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World (London, 1700), part ii, pp. 27-70. The authorship discussed in Lefranc (1968), pp. 59-62.
MS Add. 29
A folio verse miscellany, including 35 poems by Donne, in several hands, written from both ends, 30 leaves (plus stubs of ten extracted leaves), damp-stained, in modern boards. The text related to the ‘Skipwith MS’ (DnJ Δ 21). c.1620-33.
Inscribed name (f. 8r) of ‘Edward Smyth’ and (along margin of f. 11v) ‘in Mr Templers’. Among the collections of John Patrick (1632-95), religious controversialist.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Edward Smyth MS’: DnJ Δ 45.
ff. 1r-2r
• DnJ 389: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegia 1’, subscribed ‘J. D.’
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded 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. 3r
• DnJ 705: John Donne, The Comparison (‘As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegya. 2’.
This MS collated in Grierson; 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.
f. 3r-v
• DnJ 2567: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)
Copy, headed in the margin ‘3d Elegie’.
This MS collated in Grierson; 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.
f. 4r
• DnJ 505: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J D’.
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.
Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.
f. 4r-v
• DnJ 1370: John Donne, The Flea (‘Marke but this flea, and marke in this’)
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J D’.
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.
ff. 4v-5r
• DnJ 2251: John Donne, Lovers infinitenesse (‘If yet I have not all thy love’)
Copy, headed ‘Mon Tout’, subscribed ‘J D’.
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 17-18. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 77-8. Shawcross, No. 41.
f. 5r-v
• DnJ 2646.68: John Donne, Psalme 137 (‘By Euphrates flowry side’)
Copy, subscribed ‘J. D’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Crowley.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 424-6 in his Appendix B, as ‘Probably by Francis Davison’. Discussed, and the case for Donne's authorship reviewed, in Lara Crowley, ‘Donne, not Davison: Reconsidering the Authorship of “Psalme 137”’, Modern Philology, 105, No. 4 (May 2008), 603-36.
f. 5v
• DnJ 3012: John Donne, Song (‘Sweetest love, I do not goe’)
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J. D’.
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 18-19. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 31-2. Shawcross, No. 42.
f. 6r
• DnJ 1140: John Donne, Epitaph on Himselfe. To the Countesse of Bedford (‘That I might make your Cabinet my tombe’)
Copy of the six-line epistle only, headed ‘On Madame / J. D.’
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. 6r
• DnJ 940: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee’)
Copy of lines 1-20, untitled, subscribed ‘J. D.’
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 37-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 79-80. Shawcross, No. 57.
f. 6r
• DnJ 1208: John Donne, The Expiration (‘So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse’)
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘So so leaue of thy last lamentinge kisse’, and subscribed ‘J. D.’
This MS collated in Grierson; 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. 6v
• DnJ 2369: John Donne, Negative love (‘I never stoop'd so low, as they’)
Copy, headed ‘The nothinge’, subscribed ‘J. D.’.
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 66. Gardner, Elegies, p. 56. Shawcross, No. 74.
f. 6v
• DnJ 445: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)
Copy, headed ‘A Songe’, subscribed ‘J. D.’
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.
f. 7r
• DnJ 3742: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)
Copy, headed ‘Valediction agaynst mourning’.
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.
f. 7v
• DnJ 3917: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)
Copy, headed ‘A Will’.
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.
f. 8r
• DnJ 3115: John Donne, The Sunne Rising (‘Busie old fools, unruly Sunne’)
Copy, headed ‘Ad solem. A songe’, subscribed ‘J. D’.
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 11-12. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 72-3. Shawcross, No. 36.
f. 8v
• DnJ 2053: John Donne, Loves diet (‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’)
Copy, headed ‘The Dyet’.
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.
f. 9r
• DnJ 2015: John Donne, Loves Deitie (‘I long to talke with some old lovers ghost’)
Copy, subscribed ‘J. D.’
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 54. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 47-8. Shawcross, No. 64.
ff. 9v-10
• DnJ 3387: John Donne, To Mrs M.H. (‘Mad paper stay, and grudge not here to burne’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 216-18. Milgate, Satires, pp. 88-90. Shawcross, No. 133.
f. 10r-v
• DnJ 3439: John Donne, To Sr Henry Goodyere (‘Who makes the Past, a patterne for next yeare’)
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 183-4. Milgate, Satires, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 130.
ff. 11r-13r
• DnJ 2428: 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, headed Obsequies vpon the Lord Harringe yt last dyed, subscribed ‘J. D.’
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.
f. 14r-v
• DnJ 2146: John Donne, Loves Progress (‘Who ever loves, if he do not propose’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie on Loues pgress’, subscribed ‘J. D’.
This MS recorded 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.
f. 15r
• DnJ 838: John Donne, The Curse (‘Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes’)
Copy, headed ‘A Curse’, subscribed ‘J. D.’
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.
ff. 15v-16r
• DnJ 1077: John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham (‘Man is the World, and death th' Ocean’)
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy vpon the death of the Ladye Marckham’, subscribed ‘J. D’.
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.
f. 16r-v
• BmF 68: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Lady Markham (‘As unthrifts groan in straw for their pawn'd beds’)
Copy, headed ‘An Elegye vpon the death of the Ladye markham by ff. B.’
First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 503-5.
f. 16v
• DnJ 3669: John Donne, Twicknam garden (‘Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares’)
Copy of lines 5-7, 22-7, here beginning ‘But oh selfe traytour, I do bring’, subscribed ‘J D.’
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.
f. 17r
• DnJ 1461: John Donne, The good-morrow (‘I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I’)
Copy of lines 15-21, untitled and beginning ‘My face in thine eye, thine in mine appeares’, subscribed ‘J D’.
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.
f. 17r
• DnJ 1813: John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow (‘Stand still, and I will read to thee’)
Copy of lines 1-13, untitled, subscribed ‘J D.’
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Song’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 71-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 30.
f. 17v
• DnJ 1181: 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 of lines 1, 15-28, headed ‘Epithalamion at the mariage of the princesse Elizabeth & ye Palgraue Cbrated on Valentines day’, subscribed ‘J D’.
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.
f. 17v
• DnJ 1427: John Donne, Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward (‘Let mans Soule be a spheare, and then, in this’)
Copy of lines 1-2, untitled, subscribed ‘J D’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 336-7. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 185.
ff. 18v-19r
• BeJ 9: Sir John Beaumont, Against the desire of greatnesse, thoughte Mr John Beaumonts (‘Thou woldst be greate and to that heighte wouldst rise’)
Copy, untitled, suscribed ‘J B’.
First published in Sell (1974), pp. 178-80.
f. 19r
• DnJ 2926: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J D’.
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.
f. 33r-v
• RoJ 157: 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’)
Copy of lines 140-264, here beginning ‘ye Lady of y[e house]’, on a single mutilated long ledger-size leaf tipped-in. Late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
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. 34r-5r
• EaJ 40: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, In Cladem Rhenensem (‘Thus sick men feare their Cure, and startle move’)
Copy on two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘Verses vpon the slaughter at the Isle of Rheis’, bound in a miscellany of poems by John Donne and others.
Unpublished. Discussed, and Earles's authorship rejected, in James Doelman, ‘John Earle's Funeral Elegy on Sir John Burroughs’, English Literary Renaissance, 41/3 (Autumn 2011), 485-502 (pp. 496-7).
f. 36v rev.
• DaJ 144: Sir John Davies, An Epitaph (‘Here lieth Kitt Craker, the kinge of good fellowes’)
Copy of an untitled version beginning ‘Heere lyeth Thom: Spooner ye maker of bellowes’.
A version, ascribed to John Hoskyns, first published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Krueger, p. 303. Edited in The Life, Letters, and Writings of John Hoskyns 1566-1638, ed. Louise Brown Osborn (New Haven & London, 1937), p. 170.
f. 37v rev.
• RaW 419.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘I cannot bend the bow’
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘There is a Bowe wherein to shoote I sue’.
First published in Rudick (1999), No. 37, p. 105. Listed but not printed, in Latham, pp. 173-4 (as an ‘indecorous trifle’).
f. 38v rev.
• DnJ 2461: John Donne, ‘Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve’
Copy of lines 1-20, headed ‘Elegie 5’.
This MS 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. 38v rev.
• DnJ 2349: John Donne, ‘Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love’
Copy of lines 25-30 (beginning ‘Thy graces and good words my creatures bee’).
This MS recorded 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.
f. 39r rev.
• DnJ 1694: John Donne, Jealosie (‘Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die’)
Copy of lines 1-14, headed ‘4 Elegie’.
This MS 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. 39r rev.
• DnJ 2218: John Donne, Loves Warre (‘Till I have peace with thee, warr other men’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie. 7’, incomplete, beginning at line 9 (here ‘france in hir Lunatique giddines did hate’).
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in F. G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 1-2. Grierson, I, 122-3 (as ‘Elegie XX’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 14. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 142-3.
f. 39v. rev.
• DnJ 61: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie 10’.
This MS 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. 39v rev.
• DnJ 2515: John Donne, On his Mistris (‘By our first strange and fatall interview’)
Copy of lines 33-44, headed ‘Elegie 11. yt his mris should not trauaile wth in habit of a page’ and beginning ‘Men of France, changeable Camelions’.
This MS 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.
f. 40r rev.
• DnJ 1021: John Donne, Elegie on Mris Boulstred (‘Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee’)
Copy of part of the poem, headed ‘fureall Elegie for Mris Bollstredd’ and beginning at line 5 (‘Th' earths face is but thy Table; there are set’).
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.
MS Add. 39
A folio volume of parliamentary speeches in 1640, in three professional hands, 81 leaves, now disbound. c.1640s.
Owned by Dr Samuel Knight (1677/8-1746), clergyman and antiquary. Among the collections of John Patrick (1632-95), religious controversialist.
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• RuB 158: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 November 1640
Copy, headed ‘Sr Beniamen Ridyards speech November the xth i640’.
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 Sr. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 1-10. Manning, pp. 159-65.
MS Add. 41
A collection of unbound papers relating to Ely Cathedral, in various hands, in marbled wrappers.
f. 215r
• CmW 6.5: William Camden, Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha
Extracts. Late 17th century.
Part I (to 1589) first published in London, 1615. Parts I-II (to 1603) published in Leiden, 1625-7.
MS Add. 42
A collection of unbound verse, in various hands. Probably collected by Dr Samuel Knight (1677/8-1746), clergyman and antiquary.
ff. 4r-7v
• MaA 333: Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter (‘Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight’)
Copy of lines 1-300, here called ‘the last work of Sr J. D.’, imperfect, lacking the ending, on two pairs of conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.
First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.
The case for Marvell's authorship supported in George deF. Lord, ‘Two New Poems by Marvell?’, BNYPL, 62 (1958), 551-70, but see also discussion by Lord and Ephim Fogel in Vol. 63 (1959), 223-36, 292-308, 355-66. Marvell's authorship supported in Annabel Patterson, ‘The Second and Third Advices-to-the-Painter’, PBSA, 71 (1977), 473-86. Discussed also in Margoliouth, I, 348-50, and in Chernaik, p. 211, where Marvell's authorship is considered doubtful. A case for Sir John Denham's authorship is made in Brendan O Hehir, Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 212-28.
f. 21r
• CoR 12: Richard Corbett, Against the Opposing the Duke in Parliament, 1628 (‘The wisest King did wonder when hee spy'd’)
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, with a poem about Corbett, on a single folio leaf. c.1630.
First published in Poems and Songs relating to George Duke of Buckingham, Percy Society (London, 1850), p. 31. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 82-3.
Most MS texts followed by an anonymous ‘Answer’ beginning ‘The warlike king was troubl'd when hee spi'd’. Texts of these two poems discussed in V.L. Pearl and M.L. Pearl, ‘Richard Corbett's “Against the Opposing of the Duke in Parliament, 1628” and the Anonymous Rejoinder, “An Answere to the Same, Lyne for Lyne”: The Earliest Dated Manuscript Copies’, RES, NS 42 (1991), 32-9, and related correspondence in RES, NS 43 (1992), 248-9.
f. 27r-v
• CoR 38: Richard Corbett, A Certaine Poeme As it was presented in Latine by Divines and Others, before his Maiestye in Cambridge (‘It is not yet a fortnight, since’)
Copy, in a secretary hand, on two pages of two conjugate folio leaves; c.1630.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.
Some texts accompanied by an ‘Answer’ (‘A ballad late was made’).
f. 31r
• ClJ 59: John Cleveland, How the Commencement grows new (‘It is no Curranto-news I undertake’)
Copy, in a mixed hand, headed ‘Mr Cleuelandes verses wc were sung at Sidney colledg at comencemt night 4 July 1630 wch he retracted 1o Augusti in the consistory’. c.1630s.
First published in Poems, by J. C., with Additions (1651). Morris & Withington, pp. 56-7.
f. 36r
• HeR 82: Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song (‘Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return’)
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on a single folio leaf of verse. c.1622.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).
f. 36r
• HeR 15: Robert Herrick, The admonition (‘Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares’)
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on a single folio leaf of verse. c.1622.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 130-1. Patrick, p. 177.
f. 36r
• HeR 30.5: Robert Herrick, The Bubble. A Song (‘To my revenge, and to her desp'rate feares’)
Copy, in a secretary hand, on a single folio leaf of verse. c.1622.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 87. Patrick, p. 124.
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• RoJ 29: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book (‘Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes’)
Copy, in a cursive hand, headed ‘An Alusion to Horace: Sermon: lib: ye session of the poetes’, on two conjugate quarto leaves. Late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.
ff. 152r-9r
• MnJ 16.5: John Milton, Lycidas (‘Yet once more, O ye Laurels, and once more’)
Copy of a Latin translation.
First published, among ‘Obsequies to the memorie of Mr. Edward King’, in Justa Edouardo King naufrago, ab amicis moerentibus, amoris (Cambridge, 1638). Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 76-83. Darbishire, II, 163-70. Carey & Fowler, pp. 232-54.
MS Add. 72
An octavo miscellany of tracts, in a single predominantly secretary hand, 52 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Early 17th century.
Among the collections of John Patrick (1632-95), religious controversialist.
ff. 16v-39v
• EsR 122: 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.
MS Add. 79
An octavo notebook of extracts, chiefly verse, compiled by one or two University of Cambridge men, 69 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1653-60s.
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• RnT 460: Thomas Randolph, The Combat of the Cocks (‘Go, you tame gallants, you that have the name’)
Copy.
(Sometimes called A terible true Tragicall relacon of a duell fought at Wisbich June the 17th: 1637.) Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Hazlitt, I, xviii. II, 667-70. By Robert Wild.
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• RnT 226: Thomas Randolph, On the Fall of the Mitre Tavern in Cambridge (‘Lament, lament, ye Scholars all’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon ye fall of the mitre’, subscribed ‘T. Randolph’.
First published in Wit & Drollery (London, 1656), p. 68. Thorn-Drury, pp. 160-2.
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• CmT 217: Thomas Campion, ‘What if a day, or a month, or a yeare’
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘What if a day or a night or a yeare’.
Possibly first published as a late 16th-century broadside. Philotus (Edinburgh, 1603). Richard Alison, An Howres Recreation in Musicke (London, 1606). Davis, p. 473. The different versions and attributions discussed in A.E.H. Swaen, ‘The Authorship of “What if a Day”, and its Various Versions’, MP, 4 (1906-7), 397-422, and in David Greer, ‘“What if a Day” — An Examination of the Words and Music’, M&L, 43 (1962), 304-19.
See also CmT 239-41.
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• WoH 91: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)
Copy of a six-stanza version, untitled.
First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, ‘“You Meaner Beauties of the Night” A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification’, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.
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• MaA 16: Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda (‘When Death, shall part us from these Kids’)
Copy, headed ‘A Pastorall Dialogue between Thirsis & his Dorinda’, subscribed ‘Mr Symonds A Pembro. Canta. M.A. 1653.’
Printed from this MS in the ‘Ingenious Poems’ added in Samuel Rowlands, A Crew of Kind London Gossips, 2nd edition (London, 1663).
First published, in a musical setting by John Gamble, in his Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659). Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 19-21. Lord, pp. 261-2, as of doubtful authorship. Smith pp. 244-5. The authorship doubted and discussed in Chernaik, pp. 207-8.
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• JnB 374: Ben Jonson, Ode to himselfe (‘Come leaue the lothed stage’)
Copy, headed ‘Ben: Johnsons discontented Soliloquy upon ye sinister Censure of his play called ye New Inne…’, alternating stanza-by-stanza with Randolph's Latin version (RnT 28) and answer (RnT 416).
First published, with the heading ‘The iust indignation the Author tooke at the vulgar censure of his Play, by some malicious spectators, begat this following Ode to himselfe’, in The New Inn (London, 1631). Herford & Simpson, VI, 492-4.
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• RnT 416: Thomas Randolph, Ionson's Ode to Himself, translated (‘Eho jam satis & super Theatro’)
Copy of Randolph's Latin version, alternating stanza-by-stanza with Jonson's poem (JnB 374) and Randolph's answer (RnT 28).
First published in S.R., A Crew of kind London Gossips …to which is added ingenious Poems or Wit and Drollery (London, 1633). Thorn-Drury, pp. 149-51. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, Volume X (Oxford, 1950), pp. 336-7.
See also RnT 20-32 and JnB 367-381.
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• RnT 28: Thomas Randolph, An answer to Mr Ben Johnson's Ode to perswade him not to leave the stage (‘Ben doe not leave the stage’)
Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnsons discontented Soliloquy upon ye sinister Censure of his play calld ye New Inne translated into Latin & answerd verse for verse by Tho. Randall’, alternating stanza-by-stanza with Jonson's poem (JnB 374) and Randolph's Latin version (RnT 416).
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 82-4. Davis, pp. 63-76.
For the poem by Ben Jonson, which appears with Randolph's ‘answer’ in many of the MSS, see JnB 367-81.
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• KiH 338: Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind (‘Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!’)
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.
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• RnT 442: Thomas Randolph, Oratio praevaricatoria Thomae Randolphi. 1632
Copy of the concluding poem, headed ‘Tho: Randall in Comitijs Prevaricator. 1632’ and here beginning ‘Nunc sileat Jack Drum, taceat Miracula Tom Thumb’.
First published in Hazlitt (1875), II, 671-80.
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• RnT 557: Thomas Randolph, Upon the Burning of a School (‘What heat of learning kindled your desire’)
Copy.
Published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661), ascribed to ‘T. R.’. Usually anonymous in MS copies and the school variously identified as being in Castlethorpe or in Batley, Yorkshire, or in Lewes, Sussex, or elsewhere.
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• CoR 615: Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (‘Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes’)
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbet...in Lent 1632’.
First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 90.
This poem is usually followed in MSS by ‘The Ladyes Answer’ (‘Blacke Cypresse vailes are shrouds of night’): see GrJ 14.
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• GrJ 30: John Grange, ‘Black cypress veils are shrouds of night’
Copy, headed ‘The Answer’.
An ‘Answer’ to Corbett's ‘To the Ladyes of the New Dresse’ (CoR 595-629), first published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). The Poems of Richard Corbett, ed. J.A.W. Bennett and H.R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford, 1955), p. 91. Listed as by John Grange in Krueger.
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• ShJ 111: James Shirley, Vpon the Princes Birth (‘Fair fall their Muses that in well-chim'd verse’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Birth of Prince Charles. The English Babe’.
First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, pp. 7-8.
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• CoR 650: Richard Corbett, To the New-Borne Prince, Upon the Apparition of a Starr, and the following Ecclypse (‘Was Heav'ne afray'd to be out-done on Earth’)
Copy, headed ‘Another’ [i.e. on the birth of Prince Charles].
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 84-5.
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• JnB 70: Ben Jonson, An Epigram on the Princes birth (‘And art thou borne, brave Babe? Blest be thy birth’)
Copy, headed ‘Another’.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 237-8.
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• HeR 204: Robert Herrick, A Pastorall upon the birth of Prince Charles, Presented to the King, and Set by Master Nicholas Laniere (‘Good day, Mirtillo. And to you no lesse’)
Copy, headed ‘Myrtillo, Amyntas, Amarillis’.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 85-7. Patrick, pp. 120-1.
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• CrR 298: Richard Crashaw, Vpon the Duke of Yorke his Birth A Panegyricke (‘Brittaine, the mighty Oceans lovely Bride’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Newborn Prince a Panegyrick’, subscribed ‘Crashaw’.
First published in Voces votivae ab academicis Cantabrigiensibus (Cambridge, 1640). Among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 176-81.
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• StW 1185: William Strode, The Townes new teacher (‘With Face and Fashion to bee knowne’)
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Strode’.
First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Forey, pp. 167-9.
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• DaW 19: Sir William Davenant, For the Lady, Olivia Porter. A present, upon a New-yeares day (‘Goe! hunt the whiter Ermine! and present’)
Copy, headed ‘A Newyeares day to Mris Porter. Davenant’.
First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, p. 43.
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• DaW 32: Sir William Davenant, The Mistress (‘When Nature heard Men thought her old’)
Copy, headed ‘On the young Duke of Buckingham’ and here beginning ‘When Nature saw Men thought her old’.
First published in Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 181-2.
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• DaW 79: Sir William Davenant, On the old Lord Broak (‘Good Reader, kisse on this stone for look’)
Copy, ascribed to Davenant (‘Idem’), with a side-note against the first six lines: ‘This is set’.
Unpublished. Davenant served in the household of Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (d.1628), c.1624-8.
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• DaW 54: Sir William Davenant, Song. The Souldier going to the Field (‘Preserve thy sighs, unthrifty Girle!’)
Copy, headed ‘To my Mistris taking leave for a voyage’.
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 175-6.
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• RaW 903: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife.
MS Add. 84
A small (?sextodecimo) miscellany, in English and Latin, connected with Oxford, written from both ends in different hands, 91 leaves, in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.
Inscribed ‘John Patrickes Booke may 21 1650’. Among the collections of John Patrick (1632-95), religious controversialist.
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• DoC 273: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Mr. Edward Howard, on his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem Called ‘The British Princes’ (‘Come on, ye critics! Find one fault who dare’)
Copy, headed ‘Lord Buckhursts verses to Ned Howard who had put out a peice of poetry poorly done’.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 338-9. Harris, pp. 7-9.
MS Add. 102
A notebook of Edmund Leigh (c.1585-1658), MA, of Brasenose College, Oxford. [After 1607].
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• BcF 285.5: Francis Bacon, Valerius Terminus
Copy of the opening passage of the first chapter of the work.
Discussed in Richard Serjeantson, ‘The Philosophy of Francis Bacon in Early Jacobean Oxford, with an Edition of an Unknown Manuscript of the Valerius Terminus’, The Historical Journal, 56, (December 2013), pp. 1087-1106.
First published in Letters and Remains of the Lord Chancellor Bacon, ed. Robert Stephens (London, 1734). Spedding, III, 199-252.
MS Add. 103
A folder of 25 unbound letters and papers, in various hands.
item 3
• ClE 143: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Letters to the Duke of York and the Duchess of York
Copy of both letters, on two conjugate folio leaves, slightly imperfect. Late 17th century.
Letters by Clarendon to his daughter Anne (who died on 31 March 1671 before the letter arrived) and to her husband, the Duke of York (later James II), on the occasion of her conversion to Roman Catholicism. The original letters, which received particular attention by his contemporaries because of their subject matter, are not known to survive.
These were first published in Two Letters written by…Edward Earl of Clarendon…one to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the other to the Dutchess, occasioned by her Embracing the Roman Catholic Religion (London, [1680?]) and were reprinted in State Tracts (1689), in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (Oxford, 1724), pp. 313-24, and elsewhere.
MS Add. 335
A folio volume of state tracts, speeches and accounts, written from both ends, 86 leaves, in contemporary calf.
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• ElQ 277: Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601
Copy of Version 2, with an introduction ‘The 30th of Novemb. 1601 her maties being set vnder State in the Councill Chamber at White hall...as followeth’.
This MS cited in Hartley and in Collected Works.
First published (Version III), as Her maiesties most princelie answere, deliuered by her selfe at White-hall, on the last day of November 1601 (London, 1601: STC 7578).
Version I. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we have heard your declaration and perceive your care of our estate...’. Hartley, III, 412-14. Hartley, III, 495-6. Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 337-40 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 11, pp. 84-92.
Version II. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we perceive your coming is to present thanks unto me...’. Hartley, III, 294-7 (third version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 340-2 (Version 2).
Version III. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we perceive by you, whom we did constitute the mouth of our Lower House, how with even consent...’. Hartley, III, 292-3 (second version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 342-4 (Version 3). STC 7578.
Version IV. Beginning ‘Mr Speaker, I well understand by that you have delivered, that you with these gentlemen of the Lower House come to give us thankes for benefitts receyved...’. Hartley, III, 289-91 (first version).
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• RaW 728.155: Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)
Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603.
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.
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• EsR 225: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1
Copy.
MS Add. 337
MS.
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• *HrJ 363: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
Autograph letter signed by Harington, to Lady Jane Rogers, [19 December 1600]. 1600.
McClure, No. 18, pp. 86-7.
MS Add. 711, f. 5v
Copy, by Anthony Dopping (1643-97), Bishop of Kildare and of Meath, of a letter by Taylor to Mr Graham, Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, from Portmore, 13 January 1659/60.
TaJ 71: Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)
Edited in Eden, I, lxxxviii-xc.
MS Add. 2677
A quarto composite miscellany of verse and prose, in two hands, partly associated with the University of Cambridge.
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• CoR 39: Richard Corbett, A Certaine Poeme As it was presented in Latine by Divines and Others, before his Maiestye in Cambridge (‘It is not yet a fortnight, since’)
Copy, headed ‘After ye Kinges first entertainment att Cambridge, this Oxford ballad was comon, thus intitled A graue poem...[&c.]’. c.1620s.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.
Some texts accompanied by an ‘Answer’ (‘A ballad late was made’).
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• ClJ 236: John Cleveland, Oratio coram Rege, & Principe Carolo in Collegio Joannensi Cantab. habita. 1642
Copy, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1640s.
Oration, beginning ‘Augustissime Regum, Archetype Caroli, / Quæ nupero dolore obriguit Academia...’. Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 121-3. Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 177-9.
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• CoA 148: Abraham Cowley, Prologue to the Guardian (‘Who says the Times do Learning disallow?’)
Copy, headed ‘Prol: coram principe’, on the third page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1640s.
First published, under the pseudonym ‘Francis Cole’, in The Prologue and Epilogue to a Comedie, presented, at the Entertainment of the Prince His Highnesse, by the Schollers of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, in March last, 1641 (London, 1642). Waller, I, 31-2 (and II, 161). Autrey Nell Wiley, ‘The Prologue and Epilogue to the Guardian’, RES, 10 (1934), 443-7 (pp. 444-5).
See also CoA 68-81.
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• CoA 77: Abraham Cowley, The Epilogue [to the Guardian] (‘The Play, great Sir, is done. yet needs must fear’)
Copy, headed ‘Epil:’, on the third page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1640s.
First published, under the pseudonym ‘Francis Cole’, in The Prologue and Epilogue to a Comedie, presented, at the Entertainment of the Prince His Highnesse, by the Schollers of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, in March last, 1641 (London, 1642).Printed (with the first line: ‘The Play is done, great Prince, which needs must fear’) in The Guardian (London, 1650). Waller, I, 32 (and II, 242). Autrey Nell Wiley, ‘The Prologue and Epilogue to the Guardian’, RES, 10 (1934), 443-7 (pp. 444-5).
See also CoA 137-52.
MS Add. 2716
An unbound collection of miscellaneous manuscripts, in a single secretary hand. Late 17th century.
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• TaJ 30: Jeremy Taylor, Sermons
Extracts from Taylor's sermon at the funeral of Archbishop Bramhall, 16 July 1663, on a single octavo page.
A number of Taylor's sermons published in several volumes between 1638 and 1667: see Bibliography (1971).
MS Add. 2717
A collection of unbound letters and documents.
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• RnT 227.5: Thomas Randolph, On the Fall of the Mitre Tavern in Cambridge (‘Lament, lament, ye Scholars all’)
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Vppon the ffall of part of the Miter taverne in Cambridge standinge over a Cellr’, on one of six folio and quarto leaves of verse. c.1630s.
First published in Wit & Drollery (London, 1656), p. 68. Thorn-Drury, pp. 160-2.
MS Add. 3309
Transcript of the Lansdowne MS (SkJ 34), made by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector, 84 leaves, dated 23 February 1738. 1738.
SkJ 35: John Skelton, The Image of Ypocresye
Inscribed by the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. A note dated 19 June [1798] by Mr Ritson returning the MS to Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1836, item 1173, bought by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9261. Sotheby's, 26 March 1895 (Phillipps sale), lot 1041.
Canon, R64, p. 21. 2544 lines, attributed to Skelton in Thomas Hearne, Peter Langtoft's Chronicle (Oxford, 1725), II, 684-7. Full text in Dyce, II, 413-47.
MS Add. 4138
A verse miscellany, in long narrow format, 66 leaves (including a number of blanks), in later calf. Largely in one neat secretary hand; a second hand on ff. 58v-9r, and a third on f. 66r. Compiled chiefly by a University of Cambridge man. c.1630s.
Once owned by F. W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Bequeathed in 1894 by Samuel Sandars, of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth and Claude J. Summers, ‘Recovering an Important Seventeenth-Century Poetical Miscellany: Cambridge Add. MS 4138’, TCBS, 7 (1978), 156-69 (pp. 160-1). A 19th-century transcript of much of this MS is in the Bodleian, MS Firth d. 7, ff. 60r-9r.
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• CoR 40: Richard Corbett, A Certaine Poeme As it was presented in Latine by Divines and Others, before his Maiestye in Cambridge (‘It is not yet a fortnight, since’)
Copy.
An additional stanza in this MS edited in Pebworth and Summers. pp. 160-1.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.
Some texts accompanied by an ‘Answer’ (‘A ballad late was made’).
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• CoR 67: Richard Corbett, The Distracted Puritane (‘Am I madd, o noble Festus’)
Copy, described as ‘to the tune of Tho: of Bedlam’.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 56-9.
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• KiH 443: Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation (‘Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care’)
Copy, headed ‘A meditation of Death’, subscribed ‘Hen: King’.
First published, as ‘Man's Miserie, by Dr. K’, 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. 5-6]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 157-8.
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• RnT 254.5: Thomas Randolph, On the Passion of Christ (‘What rends the temples vail, where is day gone?’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 57. This poem is the ‘Englished’ version of Latin verses beginning ‘Quid templum abscindit? quo luxque diesque recessit’, printed in Thorn-Drury, pp. 178-9.
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• RnT 131: Thomas Randolph, A gratulatory to Mr. Ben. Johnson for his adopting of him to be his Son (‘I was not borne to Helicon, nor dare’)
Copy, headed ‘A gratulatory to Mr. Ben. Jonson on his voluntary Adoption of Tho: Randolph: to bee his sonne’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 40-2.
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• CwT 1205: Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband (‘This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme’)
Copy, headed ‘on a Ribbon tyed about his arme. by a Lady’, subscribed ‘Tho: Carew’.
Printed from this MS (recorded as ‘Cosens MS. B. obl. 8°’) in Hazlitt, pp. 37-8. A 19th-century transcript is in the Bodleian, MS Firth d. 7, ff. 121-2.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.
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• CwT 174: Thomas Carew, Disdaine returned (‘Hee that loves a Rosie cheeke’)
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Tho: Carew’.
This MS recorded (as ‘Cosens MS. B. obl. 8°’) in Hazlitt, p. 22. A 19th-century transcript is in the Bodleian, MS Firth d. 7, f. 123.
First published (stanzas 1-2), in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Complete in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
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• CwT 828: Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing (‘Harke how my Celia, with the choyce’)
Copy, headed ‘on his singing in ye Gallery at Yorke-house’, subscribed ‘Tho: Carew’.
This MS recorded (as ‘Cosens MS. B. obl. 8°’) in Hazlitt, p. 49.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.
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• CwT 1150: Thomas Carew, To T.H. a Lady resembling my Mistresse (‘Fayre copie of my Celia's face’)
Copy, headed ‘on a gentlewoman like his mistris’, subscribed ‘Tho: Carew’.
This MS recorded (as ‘MS. Cosens B. obl. 8°’) in Hazlitt, p. 33.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 26-7.
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• CwT 649: Thomas Carew, A Rapture (‘I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come’)
Copy. headed ‘A Rapture by Tho: Carew’.
This MS recorded (as ‘Cosens MS. B. obl. 8°’) in Hazlitt, p. 62.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 49-53.
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• CwT 1031: Thomas Carew, To Ben. Iohnson. Vpon occasion of his Ode of defiance annext to his Play of the new Inne (‘'Tis true (deare Ben:) thy just chastizing hand’)
Copy, headed ‘To Mr. Ben: Jonson Vpon occasion of his ode to himselfe by Tho: Carew’, subscribed ‘Tho: Carew’.
This MS recorded (as ‘Cosens MS. B. obl. 8vo’) in Hazlitt, p. 84.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 64-5.
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• CoR 121: 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 ‘Of Sr. Tho: Ouerburie’ and subscribed ‘Beamond’.
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 18-19.
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• RaW 161: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie (‘Goe soule the bodies guest’)
Copy, headed ‘Satira Volans’ and here ascribed to ‘Doctor Latworth’.
A 19th-century transcript of this MS is in the Bodleian, MS Firth d. 7, f. 146.
First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.
This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, ‘Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine’, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's ‘answer’ to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.
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• RaW 404: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘ICUR, good Mounser Carr’
Copy, deleted.
First published in Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, ed. Frederick J. Furnivall, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted in New York, 1977), p. 20. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 48, p. 121 (as ‘Sir Walter Raleigh to the Lord Carr’).
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• HrJ 216: Sir John Harington, Of a word in welch mistaken in English (‘An English lad long Woode a lasse of wales’)
Copy, headed ‘Of mistaking of a word’, deleted.
Kilroy, Book IV, No. 38, p. 224.
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• HrJ 252: Sir John Harington, Of the Bishopricke of Landaffe (‘A learned Prelate late dispos'd to laffe’)
Copy.
First published in 1618, Book II, No. 2. McClure No. 98, p. 187. Kilroy, Book II, No. 21, p. 138.
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• PeW 41: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘If her disdain least change in you can move’
Copy, headed ‘of Loue W: E: of Pembroke’.
First published in 1635. Poems (1660), pp. 3-5, superscribed ‘P.’. Krueger, p. 2, among ‘Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd’.
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• PeW 110: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘'Tis Love breeds Love in me, and cold Disdain’
Copy, headed ‘An answer by Sr. Ben: Rudiard’.
Poems (1660), pp. 4-5, superscribed ‘R’. Krueger, p. 3, among ‘Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd’.
f. 51r-v
• KiH 291: Henry King, An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset (‘Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere’)
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on ye trulye Noble Rich: E. of Dorset who leaft this world ye [space] of March. 1624’, subscribed ‘Hen King’.
A 19th-century transcript of this MS is in the Bodleian, MS Firth d.7, ff. 169-70 (recorded in Crum, p. 60).
First published, in an abridged version, in Certain Elegant Poems by Dr. Corbet (London, 1647). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 67-8.
f. 51v
• LyJ 26: John Lyly, A petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth
Copy.
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.
f. 51v
• LyJ 48: John Lyly, A second petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth
Copy.
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.
f. 52r-v
• CoR 591: Richard Corbett, To the Ghost of Robert Wisdome (‘Thou, once a Body, now, but Aire’)
Copy.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 75.
ff. 52v-3v
• HrG 298: George Herbert, To the Queene of Bohemia (‘Bright soule, of whome if any countrey knowne’)
Copy, complete with ‘L'Envoy’, ascribed to ‘G: H:’.
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Pebworth and Summers, with facsimiles.
First published in Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700, ed. W.C. Hazlitt ([London], 1870), pp. [186-92]. Hutchinson, pp. 211-13. Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘George Herbert's Poems to the Queen of Bohemia: A Rediscovered Text and a New Edition’, ELR, 9/1 (Winter 1979), 108-20 (pp. 117-20). Herbert's authorship supported in Kenneth Alan Hovey, ‘George Herbert's Authorship of “To the Queene of Bohemia”’, RQ, 30/1 (Spring 1977), 43-50, and in Pebworth.
MS Add. 4146
A small (?sextodecimo) miscellany, entitled (f. 1r) ‘Miscellanea Vol 2 1690’, largely in a neat minute hand (up to f. 60v), 85 leaves (plus 37 blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1690.
Inscribed name (f. 2r) ‘Peter Save’ (who was also responsible for University of Illinois, 821.08/C737/17—). Later owned by Edward Hailstone (1818-90), of Walton Hall, Wakefield, botanist and book collector. Bequeathed in 1894 by Samuel Sandars, of Kensington.
ff. 56r-8r
• MnJ 136: John Milton, Extracts
ff. 59r-60r
• SiP 167.5: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Fourth Eclogues, No. 74 (‘Unto the caitife wretch, whom long affliction holdeth’)
Copy of a version headed ‘Sr Phil: Sidney Lib. 3: 133p.’ and beginning ‘Vnto a Caitiff wretch who misery well nigh has ended’.
Ringler, pp. 122-4. Robertson, pp. 341-4.
MS Add. 4329
Two works by Bacon, 36 quarto leaves, in later half calf on marbled boards. c.1630.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘W Hone / xvii.30.15’. Among the Bacon collections of Basil Montagu (1770-1851), legal scholar and editor of Bacon's works (1825-37).
ff. 1r-28r
• BcF 58: Francis Bacon, Advertisement touching a Holy War
Copy in an accomplished roman hand (ff. 1r-6v) and neat mixed hand (ff. 7r-28r), on 28 quarto leaves, unfinished, ending ‘The rest was not perfected’.
First published in Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, ed. William Rawley (London, 1629). Spedding, VII, 1-36. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 183-206.
ff. 29r-36r
• *BcF 232.7: Francis Bacon, Offer to the King of a Digest to be made of the Laws of England
Copy in an accomplished predominantly italic hand.
A transcript is printed in The Works of Francis Bacon, ed. James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath, 14 vols (London, 1857-74), XIV, pp. 358-64.
Spedding, XIV, 358-64.
MS Add. 4347
Copy, on 144 folio pages. Late 17th century.
ClE 32: 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
From the library of the third Earl of Gosford (1806-64). Puttick and Simpson's, 26 April 1884, lot 1616, to Henry Bradshaw.
Microfilm in the National Library of Ireland, n. 5328, p. 5437.
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).
MS Add. 4348
Copy, on 45 folio leaves, imperfect. Late 17th century.
ClE 33: 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
Bought by Henry Bradshaw from William Ridler, London bookseller, 11 May 1885.
Microfilm of this MS in the National Library of Ireland, n. 5328, p. 5437.
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).
MS Add. 4429 (11)
An autograph statement signed by Dryden, regarding the second subscriptions to his edition of Virgil, with his forecast that ‘the whole work will be finishd by Lady day next’ (i.e. 25 March 1697). 1697.
*DrJ 378: John Dryden, Document(s)
MS Add. 4876, ff. 667r-79v
Extracts from, and notes on, Henry More's writings. 19th century.
MoH 30: Henry More, Extracts