Adv. a. 95. 4
Copy of the first two stanzas in an annotated exemplum of James Ware, The Writers of Ireland (Dublin, 1746). 18th century.
DoC 3: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Advice (‘Phyllis, for shame let us improve’)
This MS formerly MS Add. 704.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in Westminster Drollery (London, 1671). Harris, pp. 77-8.
Adv. b. 8. 1
Fair copy, in the italic hand of Harington's ‘servant’ Thomas Combe, of 52 Epigrams relating to Harington's wife and mother-in-law, on thirty folio pages, subscribed ‘Finis 1600’, bound with a printed exemplum of Orlando Furioso (London, 1591) the title-page of which is illuminated in colours, presented to Harington's mother-in-law, Lady Jane Rogers, with a dedicatory epistle to her (‘...I haue added to it as manie of the toyes I haue formerly written to you and your daughter, as I could collect out of my scattered papers...’), dated in Harington's hand 19 December 1600 and signed by him, in red calf elaborately gilt, the name ‘IANE ROGERS’ on the front cover and ‘MARY HARYNGTON’ on the rear cover both in gilt. 1600.
*HrJ 22: Sir John Harington, Epigrams
This MS collated in McClure, and the epistle printed pp. 86-7, and collated in Kilroy (pp. 259-74). Facsimile pages in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XLV(c); in Flower & Munby, English Poetical Autographs, p. 4; and in R.H. Miller, ‘Sir John Harington's Manuscripts in Italic’, SB, 40 (1987), 101-6 (pp. 103-4). Facsimiles of the binding and dedication to Lady Jane Rogers in Scott-Warren, pp. 100 and 105.
Seven Epigrams first published in Epigrammes by Sir J. H. and others appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). 116 Epigrams published in London, 1615. 346 Epigrams published in London, 1618. 428 Epigrams edited in McClure (1930), pp. 145-322. See also HrJ 26.5-314.8. All the Epigrams published as The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. Gerard Kilroy (Farnham, 2009).
Adv. d. 38. 6
Scrap of proof-sheet of the text of Lycidas. Scrap of proof-sheet of the text of Lycidas for the edition of Justa Edouardo King naufrago, ab amicis moerentibus, amoris] (Cambridge, 1638), comprising the top of page 21 with lines 23-35 bearing five MS corrections presumably made in the printer's office; pasted inside the lower cover of an exemplum of De literis & lingua getarum, ed. Bon. Vulcanio Burgensi (Antwerp, 1597). [1638].
MnJ 14: John Milton, Lycidas (‘Yet once more, O ye Laurels, and once more’)
Facsimile of this fragment in Illinois, I, 346, and in Lycidas: 1637-1645 (1970). Recorded in Columbia, I, 461.
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.
Ch(H)/759 (Correspondence)
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Robert Walpole, ‘Sunday’ [October 1715]. 1715.
*VaJ 214: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Edited in Downes (1977), p. 274 (Appendix L).
MS Dd. 2. 11
A folio MS music book, 196 pages, damaged. Early 17th century.
f. 3r
• B&F 203: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Song (‘Go from my window’)
Copy, in a musical setting.
Quoted in The Knight of the Burning Pestle. Bowers, III, 496-500.
MS Dd. 2. 39
A folio volume comprising two manuscripts of proceedings and speeches in Parliament, from 27 October to 19 December 1601 (212 leaves) and in 1638/9 (64 leaves), each in a professional secretary hand, in reversed calf. c.1640.
I, ff. 118r-19v
• ElQ 278: Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601
Copy, introduced by ‘The Queene answered her selfe’.
This MS cited in Hartley, III, 494-6.
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).
II, f. 32v
• RuB 119: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 10 February 1628/9
Copy.
A speech beginning ‘There be diverse recantations, submissions and sentences remaining on record...’. Variant versions include one beginning ‘That there have been many publique censures and recantacions...’. See Commons Debates for 1629, ed. Wallace Notestein and Frances Helen Relf (Minneapolis, 1921), pp. 137, [274]-5.
MS Dd. 2. 43
A folio commonplace book of extracts, formally written in at least three secretary and italic hands, 70 leaves (including blanks), in modern vellum. Early 17th century.
MS Dd. 3. 20
A folio composite volume of tracts, letters, etc.
section 5
• BcF 361: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)
Copy of a series of speeches by Bacon.
MS Dd. 3. 63
A MS volume. ?17th century.
f. 58r
• BcF 603: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
Copy of letter(s) by Bacon.
MS Dd. 3. 85
A composite volume of twenty tracts, in 19th-century half-calf.
Not available for examination for conservation reasons.
Item 1
• RaW 582: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Dialogue between a Counsellor of State and a Justice of the Peace
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.
Item 10
• BcF 59: Francis Bacon, Advertisement touching a Holy War
Copy in two hands, on 21 leaves.
This MS collated in Spedding.
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.
item 12
• SpE 77.5: Edmund Spenser, Sir Kenelm Digby's Observations on the 22 Stanza in the 9th. Canto of the 2d. book of Spensers Faery Queen
Copy, on 27 pages.
One of the earliest commentaries on The Faerie Queene, including quotations, dated 13 June 1628, addressed to Sir Edward Stradling, and beginning ‘My much honored freind, I am too well acquainted with the weaknes of my abillities...’. First published in London, 1643. Variorum, II, 472-8.
Item 19
• AndL 23: Lancelot Andrewes, A Discourse against Second Marriage after Divorce
Copy, on six leaves.
First published in LACT, Minor Works (1854), pp. 106-10.
Item 20
• DaJ 232: Sir John Davies, Charge to the Jurors of the Grand Inquest at York [in 1619]
Copy, on 16 leaves, imperfect, lacking the last part, inscribed ‘The articles of the charge 1639’. c.1639.
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.
MS Dd. 3. 86
A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, 438 pages, now disbound in folders. In various professional hands, including those of the ‘Feathery Scribe’ and Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628).
Bookplate of John Moore (1646-1714), Bishop of Ely.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 215-16 (No. 4).
item 1
• CtR 290: Sir Robert Cotton, The Manner and Meanes how the Kings of England have from time to time Supported and Repaired their Estates. Written...1609.
Copy, in a professional hand, on fifteen folio leaves (plus blanks). c.1630.
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].
item 4
• GrF 14.2: Fulke Greville, The Five Yeares of King James
Copy.
First published, attributed to Greville, in London, 1643. Almost certainly apocryphal.
MS Dd. 3. 87
A composite volume of state, ecclesiastical and parliamentary tracts, speeches, and other records.
Item 8
• RaW 767: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)
Copy, untitled, on six leaves.
Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For a relevant discussion, see Anna Beer, ‘Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh’, MP, 94/1 (August 1996), 19-38.
MS Dd. 4. 23
A long quarto MS music book, 35 leaves of music, each doubled. c.1610.
f. 5v
• B&F 204: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Song (‘Go from my window’)
Copy, in a musical setting.
Quoted in The Knight of the Burning Pestle. Bowers, III, 496-500.
f. 32r
• CmT 218: Thomas Campion, ‘What if a day, or a month, or a yeare’
Copy of the first line, here ‘What is a day or a night or an hower’, in a musical setting.
Edited from this MS in Greer, pp. 306-7.
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.
MS Dd. 5. 60
A miscellany. 17th century.
ff. 34r-48r, 51r-v
• BuR 1.21: Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
Extracts.
First published in Oxford, 1621. Edited by A.R. Shilleto (introduced by A.H. Bullen), 3 vols (London, 1893). Edited variously by Thomas C. Faulkner, Nicolas K. Kiessling, Rhonda L. Blair, J.B. Bamborough, and Martin Dodsworth, 6 vols (Oxford, 1989-2000).
MS Dd. 5. 75
A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, 63 leaves, partly mounted on guards, in modern quarter-calf on marbled boards. Compiled by Henry Stanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, including George Carey, second Lord Hunsdon. c.1581-1612.
A complete transcription of this volume in Steven W. May, Henry Stanford's Anthology: An Edition of Cambridge University Library Manuscript Dd. 5.75 (New York, 1988).
f. 12v
• HoJ 152: John Hoskyns, An Ep: one a man for doyinge nothinge (‘Here lyes the man was borne and cryed’)
Copy of a version.
This MS recorded in Osborn. May, Stanford, pp. 38-9 (No. 29).
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Osborn, No. XII (p. 171).
f. 25r-v
• DyE 20: Sir Edward Dyer, A Fancy (‘Hee that his mirth hath loste, whose comfort is dismaid’)
Copy, headed ‘Bewayling his exile he singeth thus’.
Edited from this MS in May, Courtier Poets, and in May, Stanford, pp. 72-5 (no. 95).
First published, in a garbled version, in Poems by the Earl of Pembroke and Sir Benjamin Ruddier (London, 1660), pp. 29-31. Sargent, No. V, pp. 184-7. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 290-2. EV 8529.
f. 26r
• SiP 152: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book III, No. 51 (‘Locke up, faire liddes, the treasures of my harte’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson. May, Stanford, pp. 75-6 (No. 96)
Ringler, p. 79. Robertson, pp. 200-1.
ff. 26r, 36v-7r
• SiP 157: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book III, No. 62 (‘What toong can her perfections tell’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson. May, Stanford, pp. 77 (No. 100), pp. 119-23 (No. 195).
Ringler, pp. 85-90. Robertson, pp. 238-42.
f. 26v
• SiP 143: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book III, No. 41 (‘Like those sicke folkes, in whome strange humors flowe’)
This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson. May, Stanford, p. 77 (No. 101).
Ringler, p. 74. Robertson, p. 181.
f. 26v
• SiP 144: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book III, No. 42 (‘Howe is my Sunn, whose beames are shining bright’)
Copy of lines 1-8.
This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson. May, Stanford, p. 78 (No. 102)
Ringler, p. 74. Robertson, pp. 181-2.
f. 26v
• SiP 148: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book III, No. 48 (‘Sweete roote say thou, the roote of my desire’)
This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson. May, Stanford, p. 78 (No. 103).
Ringler, p. 77. Robertson, p. 198.
f. 27r
• RaW 116: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Excuse (‘Calling to minde mine eie long went about’)
Copy, untitled, inscribed in the margin ‘W.R.’
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 102. May, Stanford, pp. 81-2 (No. 109).
First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, p. 10. Rudick, Nos 9A and 9B (two versions, pp. 9-10).
f. 27r
• SiP 57: Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 30 (‘Ring out your belles, let mourning shewes be spread’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Ringler. May, Stanford, pp. 79-80 (No. 106).
Ringler, pp. 159-61.
f. 27r
• SiP 27: Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 3 (‘The fire to see my wrongs for anger burneth’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Ringler. May, Stanford, pp. 80-1 (No. 107).
Ringler, pp. 136-7.
ff. 28r-9r
• ElQ 190: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech at the Close of the Parliamentary Session, March 15, 1576
Copy, headed ‘Oratio Elizabethæ reginæ habitu in regni conventu convocato ad die 15. Martij. anno. 1575’.
Edited from this MS in Collected Works and in Selected Works. May, Stanford, pp. 84-8 (No. 112).
First published (from a lost MS) in Nugae Antiquae, ed. Henry Harington (London, 1804), I, 120-7.
Version I. Beginning ‘Do I see God's most sacred, holy Word and text of holy Writ drawn to so divers senses...’. Hartley, I, 471-3 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 13, pp. 167-71. Selected Works, Speech 7, pp. 52-60.
Version II. Beginning ‘My lords, Do I see the Scriptures, God's word, in so many ways interpreted...’. Hartley, I, 473-5 (Text ii).
f. 29r
• RaW 491: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘The state of Fraunce as nowe it standes’
Copy, untitled.
May, Stanford, p. 89 (No. 113).
First published in A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1808), III, 78. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172. Rudick, No. 30, p. 71. EV 24294.
f. 34v
• DyE 32: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘I woulde it were not as it is’
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in May, Courtier Poets.
First published in Sargent (1935). Sargent, No. III, pp. 180-1. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 299-300. EV 10542.
f. 36r
• GgA 7: Sir Arthur Gorges, Carnation, whit and watchede (‘I saue of late a Ladie weare a shoo’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Sandison. May, Stanford, p. 117 (No. 192).
Sandison, No. [8], pp. 9-10.
f. 36r
• RaW 143: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Hir face, Hir tong, Hir wit’
Copy of an untitled six-stanza version, here beginning ‘Your face your tongue your witte’, in treble columns.
Printed from this MS in Sandison, p. 211. Recorded in Latham, p. 160. May, Stanford, pp. 117-18 (no. 193).
First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). Latham, p. 80. Rudick, No. 11, pp. 14-15. This poem was perhaps written jointly by Ralegh and Sir Arthur Gorges: see Lefranc (1968), p. 95.
f. 36v
• SiP 140: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book III, No. 35 (‘Sweete glove the wittnes of my secrett blisse’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson. May, Stanford, p. 119 (No. 194).
Ringler, p. 70. Robertson, p. 169.
f. 37v
• SiP 116: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book I, No. 3 (‘What length of verse can serve brave Mopsa's good to show’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson. May, Stanford, p. 124 (No. 196).
Ringler, p. 12. Robertson, pp. 30-1.
f. 37v
• SpE 6: Edmund Spenser, Amoretti. Sonnet VIII (‘More then most faire, full of the liuing fire’)
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘More fayr then most fair full of the lyving fyre’.
Edited from this MS in Cummings, p. 128. May, Stanford, pp. 124-5 (No. 197).
Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 198.
f. 37v
• BrN 93: Nicholas Breton, ‘Sitting late with sorrow sleepinge’
Copy of lines 1-18, untitled.
May, Stanford, pp. 125-6 (No. 198).
First published in Grosart (1879), I (t), p. 17.
f. 38r
• SiP 112: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book I, No. 2 (‘Transformed in shew, but more transformed in minde’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson. May, Stanford, p. 127 (No. 200).
Ringler, pp. 11-12. Robertson, pp. 28-9.
f. 38v
• BrN 14: Nicholas Breton, Astrophell his Song of Phillida and Coridon (‘Faire in a morne (o fairest morne)’)
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘fayre Phillis is the shepherds queene’.
May, Stanford, pp. 128-9 (No. 201).
First published in Englands Helicon (London, 1600), <No. 33>, ascribed to ‘N. Breton’ (‘S. Phil. Sidney’ cancelled). Grosart, I (t), p. 8.
f. 38v
• ElQ 42: Queen Elizabeth I, ‘When I was fair and young, and favor graced me’
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Collected Works. Cited in Bradner and in Selected Works. May, Stanford, p. 129 (No. 202).
Collected Works, Poem 10, pp. 303-4 (Version 1), 304-5 (Version 2). Selected Works, Poems Possibly by Elizabeth 2, pp. 26-7. Bradner, p. 7, among Poems of Doubtful Authorship.
ff. 39v-40r
• GgA 21: Sir Arthur Gorges, An Ecloge betwen a Shephearde and a Heardsman (‘Cumme gentle Heardman sitt with mee’)
Copy, headed ‘between a sheapheard & a heardsman an eglogue’.
This MS collated in Sandison. May, Stanford, pp. 132-4 (No. 205).
First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). Sandison, No. [98], pp. 118-23.
f. 40v
• GgA 90: Sir Arthur Gorges, ‘The gentell Season of the yeare’
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in B.M. Wagner, PMLA, 53 (1938), 123. Recorded in Sandison. May, Stanford, pp. 136-7 (No. 208).
First pub in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593), p. 87. Sandison, No. [1], pp. 3-4.
f. 43v
• DyE 33: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘I woulde it were not as it is’
Copy.
First published in Sargent (1935). Sargent, No. III, pp. 180-1. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 299-300. EV 10542.
f. 44v
• ElQ 5: Queen Elizabeth I, ‘Now leave and let me rest. Dame Pleasure, be content’
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Bradner, in Collected Works, and in Selected Works. May, Stanford, p. 155-6 (No. 222).
Selected Works, Poems Possibly by Elizabeth 3, pp. 28-30. Bradner, pp. 8-10, among Poems of Doubtful Authorship. Collected Works, Poem 11, pp. 305-6.
f. 47r-v
• SiP 13: Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, Song ix (‘Go my flocke, go get you hence’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Ringler. May, Stanford, pp. 168-70 (No. 237).
Ringler, pp. 221-2.
MS Dd. 5. 77
Third in a series of four autograph revised drafts by Sion, 108 quarto pages.
HaG 25.6: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, The Lady's New Year's Gift: or, Advice to a Daughter [French translation by Alexander Sion]
First published in London, 1692, for James Partridge and Matthew Gillyflower, who in 1688 had published the ‘Second Edition Corrected by the Original’ of The Lady's New Year's Gift.
MS Dd. 6. 8
A composite volume of four tracts, each in a different hand, in quarter-calf.
ff. 1r-17v
• WoH 278: Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham
Copy, in a mixed hand. c.1630s.
First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).
MS Dd. 6. 15
Second in a series of four autograph revised drafts by Sion, 90 quarto pages.
HaG 25.4: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, The Lady's New Year's Gift: or, Advice to a Daughter [French translation by Alexander Sion]
First published in London, 1692, for James Partridge and Matthew Gillyflower, who in 1688 had published the ‘Second Edition Corrected by the Original’ of The Lady's New Year's Gift.
MS Dd. 6. 23
A quarto volume of state papers and tracts, 5 items, the first four in one hand.
item 1
• BcF 465: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications
Copy, among ‘Passages in parliament against Bacon’, on twenty pages.
The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning ‘I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...’); 22 April 1621 (beginning ‘It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...’); and 30 April 1621 (beginning ‘Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...’), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.
MS Dd. 6. 43
A quarto verse miscellany, in a single cursive hand, 30 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half-calf. Compiled by a royalist. Mid-late 17th century.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Wm Godolphin Servt to Mr Savile’ and ‘Hen: Savile Servt: to Mr Godolphin’.
f. 2r
• CoA 188: Abraham Cowley, To a Lady who desired a Song of Mr. Cowley, he presented this following (‘Come, Poetry, and with you bring along’)
Copy, subscribed ‘Abrah: Cowly’.
First published in Poems by Several Hands (London, 1685). At the end of Sylva in Works (London, 1711). Waller, II, 489.
Musical setting by John Blow published in The Banquet of Musick (London, 1688).
ff. 2v-15r
• WaE 401: Edmund Waller, The Passion of Dido for Aeneas (‘Meanwhile the Queen fanning a secret fire’)
Copy, untitled but preceded by a prose ‘Argument’ and the work recorded (f. 3r) as ‘By Mr Sydney Godolphin’.
First published complete, by Humphrey Mosley, as The Passion of Dido for Aeneas, as it is incomparably exprest in the Fourth Book of Virgil, Translated by Edmund Waller and Sidney Godolphin Esqrs (London, 1658), where it is stated that the translation was ‘done (all but a very little) by …Mr. Sidney Godolphin’. Complete text in The Poems of Sidney Godolphin, ed. William Dighton (Oxford, 1931), pp. 31-55. Godolphin was responsible for the first 454 lines. Waller for the next 131 lines (455-585), beginning ‘All this her weeping sister does repeat’ which might possibly be his revision of part of Godolphin's translation of the whole. while the last 113 lines (586-699, beginning ‘Aurora now, leaving her watry bed’) are unassigned but probably also Godolphin's. The portion definitely by Waller is reprinted separately in Waller's Poems (London, 1664), pp. 185-92, and reprinted in Thorn-Drury, II, 29-33.
ff. 17v-18r
• PsK 165.8: Katherine Philips, Injuria amici (‘Lovely apostate! what was my offence?’)
Copy of a 22-line version.
First published in Poems (1664), pp. 109-12. Poems (1667), pp. 53-5. Saintsbury, pp. 538-9. Thomas, I, 123-5, poem 38.
f. 18r-v
• PsK 280.5: Katherine Philips, On the 3d September 1651 (‘As when the Glorious Magazine of Light’)
Copy of a version headed ‘On ye 29 of January 1648’ [i.e. on the execution of Charles I, 29 January 1648/9].
First published in Poems (1664), pp. 27-9. Poems (1667), pp. 13-14. Saintsbury, p. 515. Hageman (1987), pp. 585-6. Thomas, I, 82-3, poem 11.
ff. 18v-19v
• WoH 237: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)
Copy, headed ‘Dr Donne's farewell to ye world’.
Printed from this MS in The Complete Poems of John Donne, ed. A.B. Grosart, 2 vols (privately printed, 1871-2), II, 248-9. Recorded in Grierson.
First published, as ‘a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by Dr. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will’, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.
f. 20r-v
• PsK 318.5: Katherine Philips, Rosania shaddow'd whilest Mrs M. Awbrey. 19. Septemb. 1651 (‘If any could my dear Rosania hate’)
Copy, headed ‘To Parthenia’ and here beginning ‘If any could my deare Parthenia hate’.
First published in Poems (1664), pp. 94-9. Poems (1667), pp. 48-50. Saintsbury, pp. 535-7. Thomas, I, 117-20, poem 34.
f. 21r-v
• CoA 22: Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. II. Drinking (‘The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain’)
Copy, headed ‘A Health’ and here beginning ‘The parch'd earth drinkes ye raine’.
First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Among Miscellanies in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 51. Sparrow, p. 50.
Musical setting by Silas Taylor published in Catch that Catch Can: or the Musical Companion (London, 1667). Setting by Roger Hill published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).
f. 23r
• B&F 131: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song (‘Hence, all you vain delights’)
Copy, headed ‘Malancholy’.
Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1698-9.
For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see StW 641-663.
f. 25v
• JnB 22: Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph (‘See the Chariot at hand here of Love’)
Copy of lines 21-8, headed ‘A song’ and here beginning ‘Did you ever see ye white lilly grow’.
First published (all ten poems) in The Vnder-wood (ii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 131-42 (pp. 134-5). Lines 11-30 of poem 4 (beginning ‘Doe but looke on her eyes, they do light’) first published in The Devil is an Ass, II, vi, 94-113 (London, 1631).
f. 27v
• CoA 120: Abraham Cowley, Ode. Mr. Cowley's Book presenting it self to the University Library of Oxford (‘Hail Learnings Pantheon! Hail the sacred Ark’)
Copy of lines 1-5, headed ‘A Pindarique Ode/Mr Cowley's booke/Humbly presenting itselfe to ye Uty Library att Oxford’.
First published in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663). Verses, Lately Written upon several Occasions (London, 1663). Waller, I, 409-11.
f. 29r
• WaE 150: Edmund Waller, Of a War with Spain, and a Fight at Sea (‘Now, for some ages, has the pride of Spain’)
Copy of the first fifteen lines, headed ‘On ye Admiralles taking & destroying the Spanish Silver-fleet in wch was a Marquesse & his family’.
First published as a broadside (London, 1658). Revised version in Samuel Carrington, History of the Life and Death of Oliver, Late Lord Protector (London, 1659). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 23-7.
See also WaE 765.
MS Dd. 9. 21
A folio commonplace book, over 80 pages. 17th century.
The eleven leaves at the reverse end an intended book of legal precedents ‘for my sonne Jeffrye Palmer’.
MS Dd. 9. 42
Fourth of four autograph revised drafts by Sion, 55 quarto pages.
HaG 25.8: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, The Lady's New Year's Gift: or, Advice to a Daughter [French translation by Alexander Sion]
First published in London, 1692, for James Partridge and Matthew Gillyflower, who in 1688 had published the ‘Second Edition Corrected by the Original’ of The Lady's New Year's Gift.
MS Dd. 10. 60
Copy, closely written on 86 quarto leaves (plus 25 blanks), in reversed calf. In at least three secretary hands, subscribed ‘Finis. 1596. E. S.’ 1596-early 17th century.
SpE 52: Edmund Spenser, A View of the Present State of Ireland
This MS collated in Variorum.
First published in Sir James Ware, The Historie of Ireland (Dublin, 1633). Variorum, Prose Works (ed. Rudolf Gottfried), pp. 39-231.
Spenser's authorship of this ‘View’ is generally accepted, especially in light of the comparable views about Ireland in The Faerie Queene. A cautionary note about authorship is sounded, however, in Jean R. Brink, ‘Constructing the View of the Present State of Ireland’, Spenser Studies, 11 (1994), 203-28; in her ‘Appropriating the Author of The Faerie Queene: The Attribution of the View of the Present State of Ireland and A Brief Note of Ireland to Edmund Spenser’, in Soundings of Things Done: Essays in Early Modern Literature in Honor of S.K. Heninger, Jr., ed. Peter E. Medine and Joseph Wittreich (Newark, Delaware, 1997), 93-136. See also, inter alia, Andrew Hadfield, ‘Certainties and Uncertainties: By Way of Response to Jean Brink’, Spenser Studies, 12 (1998), 197-202, and Jean R. Brink, ‘Spenser and the Irish Question: Reply to Andrew Hadfield’, Spenser Studies, 13 (1999), 265-6.
MS Dd. 11. 56
64 pages, 4°. One in a series of four autograph revised drafts by Sion.
HaG 25.2: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, The Lady's New Year's Gift: or, Advice to a Daughter [French translation by Alexander Sion]
First published in London, 1692, for James Partridge and Matthew Gillyflower, who in 1688 had published the ‘Second Edition Corrected by the Original’ of The Lady's New Year's Gift.
MS Dd. 11. 73
A small quarto miscellany, c.360 pages. Compiled by William Whiteway, Jr (1599-1635). 1623-34.
f. 304r
• CoR 12.3: Richard Corbett, Against the Opposing the Duke in Parliament, 1628 (‘The wisest King did wonder when hee spy'd’)
Copy, headed ‘A Libell found at the Court and presented to the King by the Bp of London Dr Lawde, 8 March 1628’, dated 14 March 1628[/9].
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.
MS Dd. 11. 84
A quarto volume of extracts from works by Thomas Fuller, in a single hand, 187 pages, in contemporary calf (rebacked). Mid-17th century.
pp. 1-106
• FuT 5.235: Thomas Fuller, The History of the Holy War
‘Notes out of ye History of ye Holy Warre written by Tho: Fuller’.
First published in Cambridge, 1639.
pp. 107-87
• FuT 6.212: Thomas Fuller, The Holy State
‘Notes out of ye Holy State writt: by Tho: Fuller’, subscribed at the foot of p. 187 ‘Continued yes Notes also[?] in yt Book where are written notes out of my Ld Bacons Henry ye Seventh’.
First published in London, 1642. Edited by M.G. Walten, 2 vols (New York, 1938).
MS Dd. 12. 32
A duodecimo notebook.
pp. 61-97
• MoH 31: Henry More, Extracts
Extracts from ‘Dr Henry More's Philosophical Collections’.
MS Dd. 12. 41
A duodecimo miscellany of devotional tracts, in Latin and English, in a non-professional cursive hand, 279 leaves of vellum (including numerous blanks), in modern binding. Mid-16th century.
This MS and its Thomas More contents discussed in Daniel Kinney, ‘Rewriting Thomas More: A Devotional Anthology’, Manuscripta, 33 (1989), 29-35.
ff. 1r-95v
• MrT 30.1: Sir Thomas More, A Dialogue of Comfort
A recension and rearrangement of the work.
First published in London, 1553. Yale, Vol. 12.
ff. 99r-162v
• MrT 45.8: Sir Thomas More, Utopia
A recension and extension of the work.
The Latin version first published in Louvain, 1516. Ralph Robynson's English translation published in 1551. Yale, Vol. 4.
ff. 165r-210v passim
• MrT 60: Sir Thomas More, Extracts
Miscellaneous comments on faith and free will, including various extracts from works by More.
ff. 211r-15r
• MrT 17.5: Sir Thomas More, Assertio quod omne perjurium sit mortale peccatum
Copy, in Latin and English.
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.
ff. 223r-76r
• MrT 61: Sir Thomas More, Extracts
A compilation of extracts and comments relating to the seven sacraments, including various extracts from works by More, notably from A Dialogue of Comfort, A Treatise upon the Passion, A Dialogue concerning Heresies, and The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer.
MS Dd. 12. 62
A quarto volume comprising principally a ‘Description of England’ in a single secretary hand, c.1600, with later additions and scribbling in other hands, 206 leaves, in quarter-calf.
f. 3r
• StW 800.5: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)
Copy, added in a later secretary hand, untitled. c.1630s.
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).
MS Dd. 13. 35
A folio volume of state tracts and parliamentary speeches and proceedings in 1628/9, in a single professional hand, 91 leaves, in quarter-calf. c.1630.
ff. 41r-50v
• CtR 475: 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
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. 68v-9r
• RuB 114: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 10 February 1628/9
Copy, headed ‘Sr Ben: Rudiard’.
A speech beginning ‘There be diverse recantations, submissions and sentences remaining on record...’. Variant versions include one beginning ‘That there have been many publique censures and recantacions...’. See Commons Debates for 1629, ed. Wallace Notestein and Frances Helen Relf (Minneapolis, 1921), pp. 137, [274]-5.
MS Dd. 14. 3
A folio legal notebook by a Justice of the Peace, in several hands, 216 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked) with fleur de lys on both covers, remains of silk ties. c.1620s.
ff. 204r-7v, 4r-13r
• DaJ 233: Sir John Davies, Charge to the Jurors of the Grand Inquest at York [in 1619]
Copy, in two secretary hands.
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.
MS Dd. 14. 28
A small quarto volume comprising two tracts bound together, in different hands, rebound in modern quarter-calf on marbled boards.
The old cover inscribed ‘Geo Davenport 1652’.
Item 1
• SpE 53: Edmund Spenser, A View of the Present State of Ireland
Copy, on 100 quarto leaves, in a single predminantly secretary hand, subscribed ‘Finis Anno Dni: 1590’. 1596-early 17th century.
This MS collated in Variorum.
First published in Sir James Ware, The Historie of Ireland (Dublin, 1633). Variorum, Prose Works (ed. Rudolf Gottfried), pp. 39-231.
Spenser's authorship of this ‘View’ is generally accepted, especially in light of the comparable views about Ireland in The Faerie Queene. A cautionary note about authorship is sounded, however, in Jean R. Brink, ‘Constructing the View of the Present State of Ireland’, Spenser Studies, 11 (1994), 203-28; in her ‘Appropriating the Author of The Faerie Queene: The Attribution of the View of the Present State of Ireland and A Brief Note of Ireland to Edmund Spenser’, in Soundings of Things Done: Essays in Early Modern Literature in Honor of S.K. Heninger, Jr., ed. Peter E. Medine and Joseph Wittreich (Newark, Delaware, 1997), 93-136. See also, inter alia, Andrew Hadfield, ‘Certainties and Uncertainties: By Way of Response to Jean Brink’, Spenser Studies, 12 (1998), 197-202, and Jean R. Brink, ‘Spenser and the Irish Question: Reply to Andrew Hadfield’, Spenser Studies, 13 (1999), 265-6.
Item 2
• CtR 407: Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England
Copy, in a secretary hand, on 36 leaves, described as ‘Written by Sr Robert Cotton, knight Baronnett in anno 1614’. c.1620s.
Treatise, written c.1614 and ‘Presented to King James’, beginning ‘Wearied with the lingering calamities of Civil Arms...’. First published in London, 1627. Cottoni posthuma (1651), at the end (i + pp. 1-27).