CELM: Cambridge University Library, shelfmarks G through L

MS Gg. 1. 4

A small quarto miscellany of verse and prose, 81 leaves. c.1658.

Inscribed at the end ‘12^th October, 1658. J. Hinson’, possibly the compiler.

f. 24r

• B&F 132: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song (‘Hence, all you vain delights’)

Copy, headed ‘Melancholly’, dedicated to ‘Reverendissimo domino D^o T. Episc. Dunelm’ [i.e. Thomas Martin, Bishop of Durham in 1632-59], omitting the first stanza and here beginning ‘Come, folded arms’.

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.

MS Gg. 1. 29

A quarto volume of theological and state tracts, written from both ends, the first part (ff. 1r-131r) chiefly in the hand of John Overall (1561-1619), Bishop of Norwich, ii + 131 leaves at one end, x + 132 leaves (plus a number of blanks) at the other. Mid-17th century.

Once owned by John Moore (1646-1714), Bishop of Norwich and Ely.

f. 20r

• HlJ 4: Joseph Hall, ‘On the Altar Royall Melvin frownes to fynde’

Copy of the twelve-line poem, preceded by a two-line Latin motto and headed ‘Josephus Hall in Melv.’.

First published in Fram Dinshaw, ‘Two New Epigrams by Joseph Hall’, N&Q, 227 (October 1982), 422-3.

f. 21r rev.

• HrG 307: George Herbert, Dum petit Infantem (‘Dvm petit Infantem Princeps, Grantámque Iacobus’)

Copy of lines 1-4, here beginning ‘Dum petit Hispanam Princeps, Grantamq Jacobus’.

This MS collated in Hutchinson.

First published in True Copies Of all the Latine Orations, made on the 25. and 27. of Februarie 1622 (London, 1623). Hutchinson, pp. 437-8. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 172-3.

ff. 21v-6r rev.

• AndL 50: Lancelot Andrewes, Responsiones ad Petri Molinaei epistolas tres

Copy (with copies of Molin's Latin epistles to Andrewes, 1618).

First published in Opuscula quaedam posthuma (London, 1629). LACT, Opuscula (1852), pp. 173-216 (pp. 175-92).

ff. 27r-9r rev.

• AndL 52: Lancelot Andrewes, A Speech delivered in the Star-chamber against the two Judaical opinions of M. Traske

Copy, headed ‘Against Traskes trash’.

First published in Opuscula quaedam posthuma (London, 1629). LACT, Minor Works (1854), pp. 81-94.

ff. 40r-1r rev.

• BcF 466: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

Copy of a submission by Bacon in 1621.

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

ff. 42v-3r

• BcF 710: Francis Bacon, An Essay of a King

Copy.

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

ff. 65r-7r rev.

• AndL 54: Lancelot Andrewes, A Speech delivered in the Star-Chamber, concerning Vows, in the Countess of Shrewsbury's Case

Copy.

First published in Opuscula quaedam posthuma (London, 1629). LACT, Minor Works (1854), pp. 95-105.

ff. 68v-79v rev.

• AndL 29: Lancelot Andrewes, Form of Consecration of a Church and Churchyard

Copy, headed (with insertions in another hand) ‘Consecratio [et Dedicatio] Capelle Jesu [cum Cemiterio &c.] juxta Southampton[ione] cum Cemeterio ejusdem, in vasto solo Ridgeway Heath…Sept. 17. 1620’.

First published in London, 1659. LACT, Pattern of Catechistical Doctrine (1846), pp. 307-33.

MS Gg. 1. 35

Copy. 17th century.

BcF 756: Francis Bacon, The Use of the Law

A discourse beginning ‘The use of the Law consisteth principally in these two things...’. Spedding, VII, 459-504 (and discussed pp. 302, 453-7). Probably by Sir Robert Forster (1589-1663), judge.

MS Gg. 2. 1

Copy, headed ‘Bishop Andrewes on the Ten commandments’; incomplete (going as far as p. 848 of the edition of 1642), on 324 folio leaves. Mid-17th century.

AndL 42: Lancelot Andrewes, A Pattern of Catechistical Doctrine

First published in London, 1630. A version published as The Moral Law expounded (London, 1642). Another version printed, from ‘the Author's own copy’, London, 1650. LACT (1841).

MS Gg. 2. 28

A folio volume comprising four works, all in one secretary hand, 93 leaves (plus 115 blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked). Early 17th century.

Inscription (f. 1r) ‘Samvell Sandys’.

ff. 3r-58r

• LeC 35: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

Copy, headed ‘The Earle of Leicester his Common Wealth’, without the dedication.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

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

ff. 59v-67r

• CtR 408: Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England

Copy, headed ‘A Short veiw of K: Henry the third his Raigne written by s^r Robt Cotton: 1624’, subscribed ‘R. C. B. 29 Aprill 1614’.

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

ff. 70r-8v

• BeJ 14: Sir John Beaumont, Bosworth Field (‘The Winters storme of Civill Warre I sing’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘J: B:’.

This MS collated in Sell.

First published in Bosworth-feeld: with A Taste of the Variety of other poems, left by Sir John Beavmont, Baronet, ed. Sir John Beaumont the Younger (London, 1629). Grosart, pp. 23-63. Sell, pp. 66-83.

MS Gg. 2. 31

A folio volume of material relating to the Court of Chancery, 1060 pages.

ff. 322r-31v

• BcF 245.2: Francis Bacon, Ordinances in Chancery

Copy.

First published as Ordinances made by...Sir Francis Bacon Knight...being then Lord Chancellor For the better and more regular Administration of Iustice in the Chancery (London, 1642), beginning ‘No decree shall be reversed, altered, or explained, being once under the Great Seale...’. Spedding, VII, 755-74 (mentioning, on p. 757, having seen some ‘MSS and editions’ of this work but without specifying them or his copy-text).

MS Gg. 3. 34

A folio volume of state tracts, largely in one secretary hand, 409 pages (including a later index and blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. Late 16th century.

pp. 199-201

• ElQ 120: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's First Speech before Parliament, February 10, 1559

Copy, headed ‘The answere of Queene Elyzabeth to the Comons of the Lowe howse who movede her to marrye and to take ordere for the succession the fyrst yer of her Reygne’.

Edited in part from this MS in Collected Works.

First published in Richard Grafton, An Abridgement of the Chronicles of England (London, 1563), 179v-80.

Version I. Beginning ‘As I have good cause, so do I give you all my hearty thanks...’. Hartley, I, 44-5. Collected Works, Speech 3, pp. 56-8 (Version 1).

Version II. Beginning ‘In a thing which is not much pleasing unto me...’. Collected Works, pp. 58-60 (Version 2).

pp. 208 to the third ‘212’

• ElQ 157: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech to a Joint Delegation of Lords and Commons, November 5, 1566

Copy, based on a memorial account by an MP present at the occasion, headed ‘The speeche of the queens ma^tie ...to the Duke of Norfolk, the Archbishope of yowrke [&c.]...as followynge as I could carrye awaye by remembrans’.

Edited from this MS in Hartley (version ii) and (as Version 2) in Collected Works. Cited in Selected Works and in Heisch.

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

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

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

pp. 304-8

• ElQ 217: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's First Reply to the Parliamentary Petitions Urging the Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, November 12, 1586

Copy, with a sidenote ‘The Queenes Speech to y^e Comittees of both houses’.

Edited from this MS (as Version 1) in Collected Works. Cited in Hartley.

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

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

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

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

pp. 312-16

• ElQ 225: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Second Reply to the Parliamentary Petitions Urging the Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, November 24, 1586

Copy.

Edited from this MS (as Version 1) in Collected Works. Cited (as version ii) in Hartley.

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

Version I. Beginning ‘I perceive you have well considered of my last message...’. Hartley, II, 266-71 (2 versions). Hartley, II, 271 (cited only, as Text ii). Collected Works, Speech 18, pp. 196-200 (Version 1).

Version II. Beginning ‘Full grievous is the way whose going on and end breed cumber for the hire of a laborious journey...’. Hartley, II, 266-70 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 18, pp. 200-4 (Version 2). Autograph Compositions, pp. 73-8. Selected Works, Speech 9, pp. 70-6.

MS Gg. 4. 13

A folio volume of state tracts, speeches, and verse, closely written from both ends in a single hand, 260 pages, lacking a number of pages and some fragments (pp. 25-38, 48-64) now removed to MS Gg. 4. 13*, in quarter-calf. Mid-17th century.

p. 49

• HoJ 222.5: John Hoskyns, S^r Fra: Bacon. L: Verulam. Vicount S^t Albons (‘Lord Verulam is very lame, the gout of go-out feeling’)

Copy, headed ‘verses made vpon the Lo: Chancellor Bacon’ and here beginning ‘Great Verulam is very lame, the Gowte of gold out-feeling’, among other verse on a sheaf of folio leaves (now removed to MS Gg. 4. 13*).

Osborn, No. XXXIX (p. 210). Whitlock, pp. 558-9.

pp. 84-8

• CtR 174: Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy

Copy, headed S^r Robt Cottons speeche to y^e ll^s: of y^e Councell being (as was thought) y^e ground & occasion of calling y^e pliamt, holden soone after .1628. relating to y^e danger wherein y^e kingdome standes & y^e remedy.

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

p. 103

• HlJ 24: Joseph Hall, Episcopal Admonition, Sent in a Letter to the House of Commons, April 28, 1628

Copy, headed ‘The Bp: of Exceter D^r: Hall, his lre to y^e lower-howse of pliam^t’, subscribed ‘Joshua Exceter’.

See HlJ 17-30.

p. 104

• CoR 12.5: Richard Corbett, Against the Opposing the Duke in Parliament, 1628 (‘The wisest King did wonder when hee spy'd’)

Copy, headed ‘Certaine verses inveighing ag^t y^e howse of Comons made vpon their said Disorder’.

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.

p. 109

• CaE 21: Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, An Epitaph upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham (‘Reader stand still and see, loe, how I am’)

Copy of the 44-line elegy beginning ‘Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place’.

This MS recorded in Akkerman.

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

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

pp. 111-12

• MrJ 85: John Marston, Upon the Dukes Goeing into Fraunce (‘And wilt thou goe, great duke, and leave us heere’)

An anonymous copy.

pp. 112-13

• MrJ 37: John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 (‘And art returned again with all thy faults’)

An anonymous copy.

p. 115

• MrJ 67: John Marston, Georg IVs DVX BVCkIngaMIae MDCXVVVIII (‘Thy numerous name with this yeare doth agree’)

An anonymous copy.

p. 150

• CoR 616: Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (‘Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes’)

Copy, headed B^p: Corbetts verses, directed to y^e ladies of y^e new dresse.

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.

p. 150

• GrJ 31: John Grange, ‘Black cypress veils are shrouds of night’

Copy, headed ‘The Ladies 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.

p. 150

• MrJ 68: John Marston, Georg IVs DVX BVCkIngaMIae MDCXVVVIII (‘Thy numerous name with this yeare doth agree’)

An anonymous copy.

pp. 157-205 passim

• FxJ 1.15: John Foxe, Actes and Monuments

Various extracts.

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

pp. 229-225 rev.

• WiG 12.8: George Wither, Campo-Musæ (‘Yes,; now Ile write againe, and neither care’)

Extracts, comprising c.600 lines, headed ‘Taken out of withers campo musæ’.

First published, with preliminary material, in London, 1643. Spenser Society, Miscellaneous Works of George Wither. First Collection (1872), item 2 (pp. 1-78).

p. 235 rev.

• SuJ 152: John Suckling, An Answer to a Gentleman in Norfolk that sent to enquire after the Scotish business

Copy.

First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 142-4.

p. 236 rev.

• HrG 210: George Herbert, Prayer (I) (‘Prayer the Churches banquet, Angels age’)

Copy, with a general heading ‘Verses out of Herbert, oratour to y^e vniusitie of Cambridge Touching prayer’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 51.

p. 236 rev.

• HrG 203: George Herbert, The Posie (‘Let wits contest’)

Copy, headed ‘Herberts posie’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 182-3.

p. 236 rev.

• HrG 37: George Herbert, Charms and Knots (‘Who reade a chapter when they rise’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 96-7.

Hengrave MS 71

A composite folio volume of verse.

Among the papers of the families of Kitson (and later of Gage) of Hengrave Hall, Suffolk. An inscription records ‘These MSS. poems were found in the Belfry of Hengrave Church Among the title deeds’.

[item 1]

• RaW 161.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie (‘Goe soule the bodies guest’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r Gualter Rawly his farewell’, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

Edited from this MS text in Carlo M. Bajetta, ‘Unrecorded Extracts by Sir Walter Ralegh’, N&Q, 241 (June 1996), 138-40.

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.

MS Hh. 6. 6

A small quarto volume comprising two works by Bacon bound together, in different hands, 72 leaves, (ff. 65r-72v in other hands), bound with MS Hh. 6. 7 (a 27-leaf tract owned in 1578 by Dr Robert Phipps), in quarter-calf.

The second Bacon item owned on 24 January ‘1659’ by a lawyer, apparently Anthony Smithson, of Gray's Inn.

ff. 2r-54r

• BcF 224: Francis Bacon, Maxims of the Law

Copy of 25 Rules, in a secretary hand. Early 17th century.

This MS collated in Spedding.

First published in The Elements of the Common Lawes of England (London, 1630). Spedding, VII, 307-87.

Bacon claimed to have collected ‘300 of them’, of which only ‘some few’ (25 maxims) were subsequently published. For an attempt to track down the ‘missing’ maxims, see John C. Hogan and Mortimer D. Schwartz, ‘On Bacon's “Rules and Maximes” of the Common Law’, Law Library Journal, 76/1 (Chicago, Winter 1983), 48-77.

ff. 55r-64v

• BcF 267: Francis Bacon, A Preparation for the Union of Laws

Copy, in a secretary hand, incomplete. Mid-17th century.

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

MS Ii. 4. 33

A small folio composite volume of state tracts and genealogical papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 146 leaves, in old calf (rebacked).

ff. 1r-29r

• LeC 36: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

Copy, with a title-page, in a secretary hand. End of 16th century.

This MS recorded in Peck. p. 226.

MS Ii. 5. 1

Copy, with a title-page bearing at the foot the date ‘1648’, in a professional cursive hand, on 190 large folio leaves, in quarter-calf. c.1648?

LeC 37: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

MS Ii. 5. 8

A folio volume of state tracts, in professional hands, 120 leaves, in modern quarter-calf. c.1620s-30s.

ff. 26r-43v

• BcF 495: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

Copy of the proceedings against Bacon and all his submissions.

MS Ii. 5. 9

A folio composite volume of state tracts and speeches, in various professional hands (including that of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary), 257 leaves, in old calf (rebacked). c.1634-41.

ff. 1r-24v

• CtR 291: Sir Robert Cotton, The Manner and Meanes how the Kings of England have from time to time Supported and Repaired their Estates. Written...1609.

Copy, headed ‘Anno 9^o. Jacobi Regis. Collections out of the Records, declaring the manner howe the Kinges of England haue from time to time supplied theire Necessities with Moneyes, without the helpe of Parliamentes’. 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].

ff. 60r-8v

• WoH 279: Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham

Copy, in an accomplished rounded hand, subscribed ‘finis Henry Wotton’. c.1620s-30s.

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

MS Ii. 6. 29

A duodecimo volume of papers on the office of Compositions for Alienations, 110 leaves (including blanks). c.1590s.

ff. 1r-20r

• BcF 738: Francis Bacon, The Office of Compositions for Alienations

Copy.

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

MS Kk. 1. 3

A folio composite volume of state letters and tracts, in various professional hands, 240 leaves (plus blanks), now in four volumes, in modern quarter-calf.

I, Item 1, ff. 13r-16r

• DaJ 7: Sir John Davies, Epigrammes

Copy of 43 epigrams (Nos. 1-7, 9-19, 21-7, 29-44, 49, 61), in a professional italic hand, chiefly in double columns. Late 16th-early 17th century.

This MS collated and Epigramme 61 Edited from it in Krueger; described in Krueger, pp. 378, 436, and in R.F. Kennedy, ‘Another Davies Manuscript’, RES, NS 15 (1964), 180.

58 Epigrammes first published in ‘Middleborugh’ [i.e. London?], [1595-6?]. Krueger, pp. 127-51. Fourteen additional Epigrammes printed from MSS in Krueger, pp. 153-9.

I, Item 2, ff. 2r-12v

• EsR 123: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Apology

Copy, in a professional secretary hand. Early 17th century.

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.

I, Item 2, ff. 14v-15v

• EsR 288: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution

Copy, in a secretary hand. Early 17th century.

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

III, Item 13, ff. 1r-22v

• PtG 4.5: George Puttenham, An Apology or True Defence of Her Majesty's Honourable and Good Renown

Copy, on 22 folio leaves in a 38-leaf section (including SiP 199) in the same professional secretary hand, untitled. c.1587-1600s.

This MS recorded in Willcock & Walker, p. xxiii (n).

A treatise on the execution of Mary Queen of Scots, beginning ‘There hath not happened since the memorie of man…’. First published, as ‘A Justification of Queene Elizabeth in relation to the Affaire of Mary Queene of Scottes’, in Accounts and Papers relating to Mary Queen of Scots, ed. Allan J. Crosby and John Bruce, Camden Society, 93 (1867), pp. 67-134.

III, Item 14, ff. 3r-6v

• SiP 199: Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur

Copy, on six folio leaves in a 38-leaf section (including PtG 4.5) in the same professional secretary hand, untitled, with a prayer added as a coda after the ‘Finis’ (f. 6v): ‘God saue our gracious Queen Elizabeth; and so indue her w^th his grace, and touch her heart w^th the spirit of wisedome, that herein shee erre not, but maie doe onlie that, y^t maie make most for his glorie, best for her owne solace & comfort, and the good & quiet of our Land. Amen.’ Late 16th-early 17th century.

This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 326 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 20.

First published in Scrinia Caeciliana: Mysteries of State & Government (London, 1663) and in Cabala: sive Scrinia Sacra (London, 1663). Feuillerat, III, 51-60. Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 46-57.

This work and its textual transmission discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), Chapter 4, pp. 109-46 (with most MSS catalogued as Nos 1-37, with comments on their textual tradition, in Appendix IV, pp. 274-80).

MS Kk. 1. 5 (2)

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, originally in calf, now disbound.

[unspecified page numbers]

• SiP 103: Sir Philip Sidney, The New Arcadia

Copy of the prose text (incomplete) and 17 of the poems (Nos. 2-5, 8 [beginning only], 14-17, 20-2, 25, 26 [lines 1-4], 30 [lines 5-37], 62 [lines 1-8], 74 [lines 1-6]), in the same probably professional italic hand as SiP 176, with an engrossed incipit, some decoration, and occasional spaces left in the text presumably for words unclear in the scribe's exemplar, on 210 folio leaves, lacking title, dated (f. 1r) ‘1584’.

This MS collated in Robertson and the poems collated in Ringler; described in Ringler, pp. 529-31. Facsimile of f. 75r in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), Plate VII after p. 272

The unfinished revised version of Arcadia (the ‘New Arcadia’) first published in London, 1590. Edited, as The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The New Arcadia), by Victor Skretkowicz (Oxford, 1987).

[unspecified page numbers]

• SiP 70: Sir Philip Sidney, ‘Me thought some staves he mist: if so, not much amisse’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Ringler.

First published in Arcadia (London, 1590). Ringler, p. 241.

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• SiP 71: Sir Philip Sidney, ‘Miso mine owne pigsnie, thou shalt heare news o' Damaetas’

Copy.

First published in Arcadia (London, 1590). Ringler, p. 241.

[unspecified page number]

• SiP 28: Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 3 (‘The fire to see my wrongs for anger burneth’)

Copy of the incipit only.

This MS recorded in Ringler.

Ringler, pp. 136-7.

MS Kk. 5. 30

A folio volume comprising two MSS bound together, the first (iii + 323 leaves) a 15th-century MS of John Lydgate's Destruction of Troy, the second (v + 82 leaves, including blanks) a verse miscellany in various hands, in modern quarter-calf on marbled boards. The volume owned and possibly partly compiled by Sir James Murray, of Tibbermure, or by someone in his household, dated at the end ‘anno 1612 y^e 24 of Maij’.

Inscriptions including ‘Marie Moorray w^t my hand’,‘Kathrin Morton with my hand’, and ‘Capitane James Lyell’.

Item 2, f. 5r-v

• DyE 21: Sir Edward Dyer, A Fancy (‘Hee that his mirth hath loste, whose comfort is dismaid’)

Copy, headed ‘Inglishe Dyare’. Followed (ff. 6r-7r) by ‘Marrayis Dyare’, subscribed ‘quod Murradius’. c.1612.

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.

Item 2, ff. 71v-2r

• SiP 61: Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 32 (‘Leave me o Love, which reachest but to dust’)

Copy, untitled, in an ungainly roman hand.

This MS collated in Ringler, p. 554. Facsimile of f. 71v in Sebastiaan Verweij, ‘Ten Sonnets from Scotland: Text, Context and Coterie Writing in Cambridge University Library, MS Kk.5.30’, EMS, 16 (2011), 141-169 (p. 141).

Ringler, pp. 161-2.

Item 2, f. 78v

• DrW 115: William Drummond of Hawthornden, ‘First in the orient raign'd th'assyrian kings’

Copy, untitled.

Facsimile of f. 78v in Sebastiaan Verweij, ‘Ten Sonnets from Scotland: Text, Context and Coterie Writing in Cambridge University Library, MS Kk.5.30’, EMS, 16 (2011), 141-169 (p. 144).

First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 229. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 114-15.

Item 2, f. 82v

• CmT 219: Thomas Campion, ‘What if a day, or a month, or a yeare’

Copy, here beginning ‘Quhat giff a day or a nyt or a yeir’.

Edited from this MS text in Swaen, pp. 403-4.

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.

L*.9.4

Ralegh's signature, ‘W Ralegh. T.’, at the top of the title-page. This volume possibly noted in Ralegh's list of books (Oakeshott's No. 305). 1587.

*RaW 1034: Sir Walter Ralegh, Rerum Britannicarum, ed. Hieronymus Commelin (Heidelberg, 1587)

MS L1. 3. 10

Copy.

BcF 540: Francis Bacon, A Letter of Advice to the Queen (1584)

Advice beginning ‘Most Gracious Soveraign and most worthy to be a Soveraign / Care, one of the natural and true-bred children of unfeigned affection...’. First published in The Felicity of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1651), pp. 121-56. Spedding, VIII, 43-56.

MS Ll. 3. 11

A folio composite volume of state tract and speeches, in various hands, 332 leaves (including blanks).

ff. 1r-6r

• BcF 362: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

Copy of a speech by Bacon to the judges in Star Chamber, Trinity 1617.

ff. 167r-78r

• BcF 541: Francis Bacon, A Letter of Advice to the Queen (1584)

Copy, headed ‘An excellent Treatise against Jesuits and Recusants, written by the Earle of Salisbury or rather the Lord Treasurer Burleigh, to Queene Elizabeth’.

MS L1. 5. 8

A folio volume of two tracts and parliamentary speeches, 121 leaves. Early-mid-17th century.

ff. 26r-43v

• BcF 467: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

Copy.

MS Ll. 5. 10

A folio volume comprising a partial transcript of the Maitland Folio MS (including parts of the MS no longer preserved), and containing some fifty poems at present attributed to Dunbar (and generally subscribed ‘Q[uod] Dunnbar’), ii + 167 leaves, in contemporary vellum. In a Scottish secretary hand, that of John Reidpeth, who inscribes f. 1r ‘a me Joane reidpeth septimo decembris inchoat 1622 1622 / 1623’. 1622-3.

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Ex libris M^r cristopher Cokburne’.

Dunbar (3): The Reidpeth MS.Variant readings are recorded in Craigie.

f. 1r

• DuW 78: William Dunbar, Meditatioun in Wyntir (‘In to thir dirk and drublie dayis’)

Copy of lines 1-22, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, II, 34-5. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 203. Collated in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 10, pp. 26-7. Craigie, I, 380-2. Bawcutt, I, 109-10.

ff. 1r-v, 14r-v

• DuW 141: William Dunbar, The Petition of the Gray Horse, Auld Dunbar (‘Now Lufferis cummis with larges lowd’)

Copy, untitled.

Edited partly from this MS in Mackenzie. Collated in Craigie, II, 39-41, and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 22, pp. 46-8. Craigie, I, 19-20.

ff. 1v-2v

• DuW 176: William Dunbar, To the Merchantis of Edinburgh (‘Quhy will ye, merchantis of renoun’)

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 44, pp. 81-3. Craigie, II, 41-4. Bawcutt, I, 174-6.

ff. 2v-3r

• DuW 81: William Dunbar, A New Year's Gift to the King (‘My Prince, in God gif the guid grace’)

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 26, p. 51. Craigie, II, 44-5. Bawcutt, I, 129.

f. 3r-v

• DuW 112: William Dunbar, Of Folkis Evill to Pleis (‘Four Maner of folkis ar evill to pleis’)

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie, II, 45-6; and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 23, pp. 48-9. Murdoch, II, 180-1. Ritchie, II, 163-4. Bawcutt, I, 75-6.

ff. 3v-5r

• DuW 34: William Dunbar, The Dream (‘This hinder nycht, halff sleiping as I lay’)

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie, II, 45-6; and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 60, pp. 127-30. Craigie, II, 46-50. Bawcutt, I, 240-4.

f. 5r-v

• DuW 92: William Dunbar, Of Content (‘Quho thinkis that he hes sufficence’)

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, II, 50-1. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 223, and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No.70, pp. 144-5. Craigie, I, 366-7. Bawcutt, I, 169-70.

ff. 5v-6r

• DuW 193: William Dunbar, Welcome to the Lord Treasurer (‘I thocht lang quhill sum lord come hame’)

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 24, pp. 49-50. Craigie, II, 51-2. Bawcutt, I, 98-9.

f. 6r

• DuW 136: William Dunbar, On His Heid-ake (‘My heid did yak yester nicht’)

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 3, p. 3. Bawcutt, p. 127.

f. 6r-v

• DuW 175: William Dunbar, To the Lordis of the Kingis Chalker (‘My Lordis of Chalker, pleis yow to heir’)

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 25, pp. 50-1. Craigie, II, 53-4. Bawcutt, p. 128.

ff. 6v-7r

• DuW 41: William Dunbar, Elegy on the Death of Bernard Stewart, Lord of Aubigny (‘Illuster Lodovick, of France most Cristin king’)

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 62, pp. 133-4. Craigie, II, 54-5. Bawcutt, p. 100.

f. 7r-v

• DuW 165: William Dunbar, To Aberdein (‘Blyth Aberdeane, thow beriall of all tounis’)

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 64, pp. 137-9. Craigie, II, 55-8. Bawcutt, pp. 63-6.

f. 8r

• DuW 19: William Dunbar, Bewty and the Presoneir (‘Sen that I am a presoneir’)

Copy of lines 1-16, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Craigie, II, 58. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 218, and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 54, pp. 104-7. Murdoch, III, 607-10. Ritchie, III, 249-52. Bawcutt, I, 229-32.

f. 8r-v

• DuW 120: William Dunbar, Of Sir Thomas Norny (‘Now lythis off ane gentill knycht’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 35-6, and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 35, pp. 63-4. Craigie, I, 2-4. Bawcutt, I, 133-4.

ff. 8v-9r

• DuW 123: William Dunbar, Of the Changes of merche (‘I seik about this warld unstabille’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 36, and in Bawcutt. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 222.

Mackenzie, No. 66, pp. 140-1. Craigie, I, 4. Bawcutt, p. 93.

f. 9r-v

• DuW 95: William Dunbar, Of Covetyce (‘Fredome, honour, and nobilnes’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 36, and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 67, pp. 141-2. Murdoch, II, 175-6. Ritchie, II, 159-60. Bawcutt, I, 77-8.

ff. 9v-10r

• DuW 147: William Dunbar, Quhone Mony Benefices Vakit (‘Schir, at this feist of benefice’)

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 36, and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 11, pp. 27-8. Craigie, I, 6-7. Bawcutt, I, 196.

f. 10r

• DuW 5: William Dunbar, Aganis the Solistaris in Court (‘Be divers wyis and operatiounes’)

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 37, and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 29, pp. 55-6. Craigie, I, 7. Bawcutt, p. 60.

f. 10r-v

• DuW 169: William Dunbar, To the King (‘Off benefice, Schir, at everie feist’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 37.

Mackenzie, No. 12, p. 28. Craigie, I, 8-9. Bawcutt, I, 140-1.

f. 10v

• DuW 40: William Dunbar, Dunbar at Oxinfurde (‘To speik of science, craft, or sapience’)

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 37, and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 53, pp. 104. Craigie, I, 9. Bawcutt, I, 266.

f. 11r

• DuW 26: William Dunbar, Complaint to the King Aganis Mure (‘Schir, I complane off injuris’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 37, and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 5, p. 5. Craigie, I, 10. Bawcutt, I, 199.

f. 11r-v

• DuW 44: William Dunbar, Epetaphe for Donald Owre (‘In vice most vicius he excellis’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 38, and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 36, pp. 65-6. Ritchie, I, 87-8. Bawcutt, I, 111-12.

ff. 11v-13r

• DuW 30: William Dunbar, The Dance of the Sevin Deidly Synnis (‘Off Februar the fyistene nycht’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 38-9.

Mackenzie, No. 57, pp. 120-3. Murdoch, II, 312-15. Ritchie, II, 291-4. Bawcutt, I, 149-56.

ff. 13v-14r

• DuW 24: William Dunbar, Complaint to the King (‘Complane I wald, wist I quhome till’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 39; in Mackenzie, p. 206; and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 19, pp. 39-41. Craigie, I, 17-19. Bawcutt, I, 67-8.

ff. 18v-19r

• DuW 33: William Dunbar, The Devillis Inquest (‘This nycht in my sleip I wes agast’)

Copy of a 13-stanza version, untitled and beginning ‘Dremand me thocht that I did heir’.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 64-5, and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 42, p. 76-9 (see pp. 238-9). Murdoch, III, 372-5. Ritchie, III, 1-4. Bawcutt, I, 250-7.

f. 19v

• DuW 188: William Dunbar, The Twa Cummeris (‘Rycht airlie on Ask Weddinsday’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 65, and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 46, p. 84. Murdoch, III, 386-7. Ritchie, III, 14-15. Bawcutt, I, 180-1.

f. 21r-v

• DuW 102: William Dunbar, Of Discretioun in Asking (‘Off very asking followis nocht’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Eftir everie asking followis nocht’.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 110, and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 14, pp. 31-3. Murdoch, II, 165-7. Ritchie, II, 150-2. Bawcutt, I, 142-3.

ff. 21v-2v

• DuW 106: William Dunbar, Of Discretioun in Geving (‘To Speik of gift or almous deidis’)

Copy, immediately following on from Of Discretioun in Asking (see DuW 102).

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 110.

Mackenzie, No. 15, pp. 33-4. Murdoch, II, 167-9. Ritchie, II, 152-4. Bawcutt, I, 144-6.

ff. 22v-3r

• DuW 109: William Dunbar, Of Discretioun in Taking (‘Eftir Geving I speik of taking’)

Copy, immediately following on from Of Discretioun in Geving (see DuW 106).

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 110, and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 16, pp. 35-6. Murdoch, II, 170-1. Ritchie, II, 154-5. Bawcutt, I, 147-8.

ff. 24v-6r

• DuW 162: William Dunbar, The Testament of Mr. Andro Kennedy (‘I, Maister Andro Kennedy’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘ffinis q^d Kennedie’.

This MS collated in Bawcutt.

First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 40, pp. 71-4. Murdoch, III, 438-41. Ritchie, III, 62-6. Bawcutt, I, 89-92.

ff. 27r-8v

• DuW 134: William Dunbar, Of the Warldis Instabilitie (‘This waverand warldis wretchidnes’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 101.

Mackenzie, No. 13, pp. 28-31. Craigie, I, 202-5. Bawcutt, I, 258-61.

ff. 28v-9r

• DuW 143: William Dunbar, Quhen the Governour Past in France (‘Thow that in hevin, for our salvatioun’)

This MS recorded in Mackenzie, p. 222, and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 65, pp. 139-40. Craigie, I, 210-11. Bawcutt, I, 162-3.

f. 34r

• DuW 173: William Dunbar, To the King (‘Schir, yit remembir as of befoir’)

Copy of lines 76-83, untitled and beginning ‘How suld I leif and I not landit’.

This MS collated in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 20, pp. 41-3. Murdoch, II, 271-4. Ritchie, II, 251-4. Bawcutt, I, 225-8.

ff. 34v-5r

• DuW 69: William Dunbar, ‘In secreit place this hyndir nycht’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 121, and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 28, pp. 53-5. Murdoch, II, 296-8. Ritchie, II, 275-7. Bawcutt, I, 106-8.

ff. 37r-8r

• DuW 192: William Dunbar, Tydingis fra the Sessioun (‘Ane murlandis man of uplandis mak’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 121-2; and in Bawcutt.

Edited from this MS in Mackenzie, No. 43, pp. 79-80. Murdoch, II, 160-2. Ritchie, II, 145-7. Bawcutt, I, 39-40.

f. 38r-v

• DuW 64: William Dunbar, How Sall I Governe Me? (‘How sould I rewill me or in quhat wys’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 123.

Mackenzie, No. 9, pp. 24-6. Murdoch, II, 178-80; Ritchie, II, 162-3. Bawcutt, I, 87-8.

ff. 38v-9r

• DuW 126: William Dunbar, Of the Ladys Solistaris at Court (‘Thir ladyis fair, That makis repair’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 123, and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 48, pp. 97-8. Murdoch, IV, 762-3. Ritchie, IV, 30-1. Bawcutt, I, 238-9.

f. 40r

• DuW 139: William Dunbar, Ane Orisoun (‘Salviour, suppois my sensualitie’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 102, and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 78, p. 154. Craigie, I, 393. Bawcutt, I, 193.

ff. 40v-2r

• DuW 86: William Dunbar, None May Assure in this Warld (‘Quhom to sall I compleine my wo’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 125-6, and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 21, pp. 44-6. Edited from this MS in Murdoch, II, 234-6. Ritchie, II, 215-17 (with a facsimile of f. 84v). Bawcutt, I, 171-3.

f. 42r-v

• DuW 61: William Dunbar, How Dumbar wes Desyrd to be Ane Freir (‘This nycht, befoir the dawing cleir’)

Copy of lines 1-20, 26-50, untitled.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 126, and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 4, pp. 3-4. Murdoch, II, 327-8. Ritchie, II, 306-7. Bawcutt, I, 248-9.

ff. 42v-3r

• DuW 22: William Dunbar, The Birth of Antichrist (‘Lucina schynnyng in silence of the nicht’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 126, and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 39, pp. 70-1. Murdoch, III, 375-7. Ritchie, III, 4-5. Bawcutt, I, 114-15.

f. 43r-v

• DuW 17: William Dunbar, Best to be Blyth (‘Full oft I mus and hes in thocht’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 126, and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 69, pp. 143-4. Murdoch, II, 281-2. Ritchie, II, 260-1. Bawcutt, I, 79-80.

f. 44r-v

• DuW 114: William Dunbar, Of James Dog, Kepar of the Quenis Wardrop (‘The wardraipper of Venus boure’)

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 127, and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 33, pp. 61-2. Craigie, I, 413. Bawcutt, I, 236.

ff. 44v-5r

• DuW 132: William Dunbar, Of the Said James, Quhen he had plesett him (‘O Gracious Princes, guid and fair’)

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 127-8.

Mackenzie, No. 34, pp. 62-3. Craigie, I, 414. Bawcutt, I, 237.

f. 45r-v

• DuW 88: William Dunbar, Of a Dance in the Quenis Chalmer (‘Sir Jhon Sinclair begowthe to dance’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 128, and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 32, pp. 60-1. Craigie, I, 415-16. Bawcutt, I, 233-4.

ff. 45v-6r

• DuW 90: William Dunbar, Of Ane Blak-Moir (‘Lang heff I maed of ladyes quhytt’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 128.

Mackenzie, No. 37, pp. 66-7. Craigie, I, 416-17. Bawcutt, p. 113.

f. 46r-v

• DuW 179: William Dunbar, To the Quene (‘Madam, your men said thai wald ryd’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 129; in Mackenzie, p. 210; and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 31, pp. 59-60. Craigie, I, 417-18. Bawcutt, I, 116-17.

ff. 55v-6v

• DuW 37: William Dunbar, The Dregy of Dunbar (‘We that ar heir in hevins glory’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Dumbaris dirige to ye king’.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 129; in Mackenzie, p. 210; and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 30, pp. 56-9. Murdoch, II, 292-6. Ritchie, II, 271-5. Bawcutt, I, 274-7, as ‘Dumbaris Dirige to the King’.

f. 58r

• DuW 196: William Dunbar, The Wowing of the King quhen he was in Dumfermeling (‘This hindir nycht in Dumfermeling’)

Copy of lines 1-14, untitled.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 126, and in Bawcutt.

Mackenzie, No. 27, pp. 51-3. Murdoch, II, 330-3. Ritchie, II, 309-11. Bawcutt, I, 245-7.

ff. 58r-65r

• DuW 49: William Dunbar, The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie (‘Schir Johine the Ros, ane thing thair is compild’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Craigie, II, 69-70.

First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 6, pp. 5-20. Murdoch, III. 420-37. Ritchie, III, 44-62. Bawcutt, I, 200-18.