PRC 11/1
‘The Inventarie of the goodes and chattells’ (including the library) left by Hooker at his death, 26 November 1600. 1600.
HkR 59: Richard Hooker, Document(s)
Edited in Rosemary Keen, ‘Inventory of Richard Hooker, 1601’, Archaeologia Cantiana (Kent Archaeological Society), 70 (1956), 231-6.
PRC 16/86
Marlowe's signature (‘Christofer Marley’), as well as his father's (‘Jhan Marley’), as witnesses to the last will and testament of Katherine Benchkin, November 1585. 1585.
*MrC 24: Christopher Marlowe, Document(s)
Facsimiles of the signature in Bakeless, I, facing p. 208; in Wraight & Stern, pp. 229-30; in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 34; in Gill et al., I, 11; and in Park Honan, Christopher Marlowe Poet and Spy (Oxford, 20050, p. 108. Full text of the document in William Urry, Christopher Marlowe and Canterbury, ed. Andrew Butcher (London, 1988), pp. 123-7.
U36 T783
An indenture signed by Sedley, relating to a property transaction, 12 May 1699. 1699.
*SeC 141: Sir Charles Sedley, Document(s)
U48 Z1
A quarto commonplace book, in an italic hand, xii + 758 pages, the great majority blank, in a recycled vellum membrane from a 14th-century missal. Compiled by Sir Roger Twysden (1597-1672), antiquary. c.1618-26.
p. [2]
• RaW 72: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’
Copy, in Twysden's hand, headed ‘part of an Epytaph made by Sr water Raugley beefore he sufferd’.
First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as ‘These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse’). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).
This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).
See also RaW 302 and RaW 304.
U172 T2
An indenture signed, relating to Sedley's estate in Aylesford, 7 July 1668. 1668.
*SeC 137: Sir Charles Sedley, Document(s)
U269 A189/5
A receipt signed by Shadwell, acknowledging payment of a quarterly pension of £10, 13 August 1688. 1688.
*SdT 56: Thomas Shadwell, Document(s)
Recorded in John Ross, ‘Addenda to Shadwell's “Complete Works”: A Checklist’, N & Q, 220 (June 1975), 256-9.
U269 A189/6
A receipt signed by Shadwell, acknowledging payment of a quarterly pension of £10, 24 November 1688. 1688.
*SdT 57: Thomas Shadwell, Document(s)
Recorded in John Ross, ‘Addenda to Shadwell's “Complete Works”: A Checklist’, N & Q, 220 (June 1975), 256-9.
U269 A190/5 (15)
A receipt signed by Shadwell, acknowledging payment of a quarterly pension of £10, 10 August 1689. 1689.
*SdT 58: Thomas Shadwell, Document(s)
Recorded in John Ross, ‘Addenda to Shadwell's “Complete Works”: A Checklist’, N & Q, 220 (June 1975), 256-9 (p. 258). Edited in Brice Harris, Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset: Patron and Poet of the Restoration, Illinois Studies in Language and Literature, Vol. 25, Nos. 3-4 (Urbana, 1940), p. 124.
U269 A190/5 (79)
A signed receipt acknowledging payment of a quarterly pension of £10, 23 December 1689. 1689.
*SdT 60: Thomas Shadwell, Document(s)
U269 A190/8
A possibly autograph receipt signed by Shadwell, acknowledging payment of £5, 24 November [no year]. c.1689.
*SdT 61: Thomas Shadwell, Document(s)
U269 A190/9
A receipt signed by Shadwell, acknowledging payment of a quarterly pension of £10, 12 December 1689. 1689.
SdT 59: Thomas Shadwell, Document(s)
Recorded in John Ross, ‘Addenda to Shadwell's “Complete Works”: A Checklist’, N & Q, 220 (June 1975), 256-9.
U269 CIII
Autograph letter signed by Sedley, to Charles Sackville, sixth Earl of Dorset, [?early July 1695]. 1695.
*SeC 132: Sir Charles Sedley, Letter(s)
Edited in Sola Pinto, Life, pp. 215-16.
U269 C109/1
Autograph letter signed by Shadwell, to Charles Sackville, sixth Earl of Dorset, 24 January 1682/3. 1683.
*SdT 46: Thomas Shadwell, Letter(s)
Recorded in HMC, 4th report (1873), Appendix, p. 280. Edited in Summers, V, 401.
U269 C109/2
Autograph letter signed by Shadwell, to Charles Sackville, sixth Earl of Dorset, 10 September 1692. 1692.
*SdT 51: Thomas Shadwell, Letter(s)
Edited in Brice Harris, Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset: Patron and Poet of the Restoration, Illinois Studies in Language and Literature, Vol. 26, Nos. 3-4 (Urbana, 1940), p. 158.
U269 C109/3
Autograph letter signed by Shadwell, to Charles Sackville, sixth Earl of Dorset, from Chelsea, 2 May 1692. 1692.
*SdT 50: Thomas Shadwell, Letter(s)
Recorded in HMC, 4th report (1873), Appendix, p. 281. Edited in Summers, I, ccxxx-ccxxxi, and V, 404.
U269/1 CP39
Autograph letter signed by Donne, to Lionel Cranfield, Earl of Middlesex, 18 November 1628. 1628.
*DnJ 4140: John Donne, Letter(s)
Edited in part from this MS in Potter & Simpson, VIII, 24-5.
U269/1 CP108
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• *SuJ 176: John Suckling, Letter(s)
Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to the Earl of Middlesex, from Brussels, 3 May 1630. 1630.
Edited in Clayton, pp. 114-16.
[unnumbered item]
• *SuJ 178: John Suckling, Letter(s)
Autograph letter signed by Suckling, [to the Earl of Middlesex], from Hamburg, 10 October 1631. 1631.
Edited in Clayton, pp. 118-19.
[unnumbered item]
• *SuJ 179: John Suckling, Letter(s)
Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to the Earl of Middlesex, from Würtzburg, 9 November 1631. 1631.
Edited in Clayton, pp. 119-21.
[unnumbered item]
• *SuJ 180: John Suckling, Letter(s)
Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to the Earl of Middlesex, from Frankfurt, 29 November 1631. 1631.
Edited in Clayton, pp. 123-4.
[unnumbered item]
• *SuJ 181: John Suckling, Letter(s)
Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to the Earl of Middlesex, from Frankfurt, 4 ‘September’ [but really December] 1631. 1631.
Edited in Clayton, p. 125.
[unnumbered item]
• *SuJ 184: John Suckling, Letter(s)
Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to the Earl of Middlesex, from ‘Camp’ [Scottish border], 6 June 1639. 1639.
Edited in Clayton, pp. 145-6. Facsimile in IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile XIV, after p. xxi.
[unnumbered item]
• *SuJ 185: John Suckling, Letter(s)
Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to the Earl of Middlesex, from Whitehall, [30 September 1639]. 1639.
Edited in Clayton, pp. 148-9. Facsimile in Berry, frontispiece.
U 269/1, CP132
Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to Mary Cranfield, from Gravesend, 30 October 1629. 1629.
*SuJ 175: John Suckling, Letter(s)
Edited in Clayton, p. 107.
U269/1, CP157
Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to Sir George Southcot, from Wiston, 9 September 1635. 1635.
*SuJ 183: John Suckling, Letter(s)
Edited in Clayton, pp. 131-3.
U269/1, CP159
Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to William Wallis, from Brussels, 5 May 1630. 1630.
*SuJ 177: John Suckling, Letter(s)
Edited in Clayton, pp. 116-18, with a facsimile of the first page, Plate 2, after p. xcviii.
U269 F24
A bundle of unbound verse MSS, in various hands.
Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of De la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent.
[No. 77]
• RoJ 65: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Disabled Debauchee (‘As some brave admiral, in former war’)
Copy, in an accomplished rounded hand, headed ‘The Lord Rochester uppon himselfe’, on one side of a single folio leaf, later endorsed ‘very spirited but, very licentious!’. Late 17th-early 18th century.
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.
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• BcF 54.102: Francis Bacon, Upon the Death of the Duke of Richmond and Lennox (‘Are all diseases dead? or will death say’)
Copy, in an italic hand, headed ‘Another’, following other verses on Richmond, on the second page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1620s.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 400. For a contemporary attribution to Bacon see BcF 54.117.
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• DoC 4: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Advice (‘Phyllis, for shame let us improve’)
Copy, in a cursive hand, headed ‘Song by Earl of Dorset’ on one side of a single folio leaf. Early 18th century.
First published in Westminster Drollery (London, 1671). Harris, pp. 77-8.
U269 F36
A bundle of unbound verse MSS, in various hands.
Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of de la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent.
Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, pp. 303-4.
[unnumbered]
• PlG 20: George Peele, A Sonet (‘His Golden lockes, Time hath to Silver turn'd’)
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on one side of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. Early 17th century.
This MS collated in Clayton, ELR.
First published as an appendix to Polyhymnia (London, 1590). Edited by D.H. Horne in Prouty, I, 244. The sonnet probably written by Sir Henry Lee: see Horne, pp. 169-70, and Thomas Clayton, ‘“Sir Henry Lee's Farewel to the Court”: The Texts and Authorship of “His Golden Locks Time Hath to Silver Turned”’, ELR, 4 (1974), 268-75.
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• SuJ 101: John Suckling, Gnomics (‘Reuenge is sweete, & reckned as cleare gaine’)
Copy, in a neat italic hand, untitled, in the upper left-hand corner of part of a single quarto leaf, once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed in a later hand ‘Sir John Suckling’.
Edited from this MS in Clayton.
First published in Clayton (1971), p. 95.
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• SuJ 126: John Suckling, A New-years Gift (‘The Phenix dyes, yet still remaine’)
Copy, in a neat italic hand, untitled, on one page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1630s.
Edited from this MS in Clayton.
First published in Clayton (1971), pp. 94-5.
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• BuS 24: Samuel Butler, Dildoides (‘Such a sad Tale prepare to hear’)
Copy.
Dated in some sources 1672 but not published until 1706.
No. 2
• DaW 78: Sir William Davenant, The Fable of the Potts (‘Celestiall Genius of Brittania's Isle’)
Copy, in a rounded hand, ascribed to ‘W D’, on the first page, followed by other verses, in a pair of conjugate folio leaves. Mid-late 17th century.
Edited from tis MS in Gibbs.
First published in Gibbs (1972), pp. 279-80.
No. 37 p. [1]
• SuJ 90: John Suckling, Upon St. Thomas his unbeliefe (‘Faithe comes by heare say, loue by sight. then hee’)
Copy on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse [by Suckling].
Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.
First published in Beaurline, SP, 59 (1962), p. 653. Clayton, p. 9.
No. 37 p. [1]
• SuJ 85: John Suckling, Upon Christmas Eve (‘Vaile cobwebs from the white-ned floore’)
Copy on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse [by Suckling].
Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.
First published in Beaurline, SP, 59 (1962), p. 653. Clayton, p. 9.
No. 37 p. [1]
• SuJ 83: John Suckling, Upon Christ his birth (‘Strange news! a Cittie full? will none give way’)
Copy on the first page of two conjugate leaves of verse [by Suckling].
Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.
First published in Beaurline, SP, 59 (1962), p. 653. Clayton, pp. 9-10.
No. 37 p. [1]
• SuJ 91: John Suckling, Upon Stephen stoned (‘Under this heape of stones interred lies’)
Copy on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse [by Suckling].
Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.
First published in Beaurline, SP, 59 (1962), pp. 653-4. Clayton, p. 10.
No. 37 p. [2
• SuJ 89: John Suckling, Upon St. Johns-day comeing after christmas day (‘Let the Divines dispute the case, and try’)
Copy on the second page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse [by Suckling].
Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.
First published in Beaurline, SP, 59 (1962), p. 654. Clayton, p. 10.
No. 37 p. [2]
• SuJ 86: John Suckling, Upon Innocents day (‘What treason can there in an infant lurke?’)
Copy on the second page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse [by Suckling].
Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.
First published in Beaurline, SP, 59 (1962), pp. 654. Clayton, p. 10.
No. 37 p. [2]
• SuJ 88: John Suckling, Upon Newyeares day (‘Arise, my Muse, a Newyear's-gift praepare’)
Copy on the second page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse [by Suckling].
Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.
First published in Beaurline, SP, 59 (1962), p. 654. Clayton, p. 11.
No. 37 p. [1v]
• SuJ 92: John Suckling, Upon the Epiphanie Or starr that appear'd to the wisemen (‘Astrologers, from hence you may devise’)
Copy on the second page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse [by Suckling].
Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.
First published in Beaurline, SP, 59 (1962), pp. 654. Clayton, pp. 11.
No. 37 p. [3]
• SuJ 84: John Suckling, Upon Christmas (‘Haile wellcome time, whoes long expected date’)
Copy on the third page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse [by Suckling].
Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton, with a facsimile, Plate 4, after p. xcviii. Facsimile also in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 259.
First published in Beaurline, SP, 59 (1962), pp. 654-5. Clayton, pp. 11-12.
No. 38, p. [1]
• SuJ 36: John Suckling, Faith and Doubt (‘That Heaven should visitt Earth and come to see’)
Copy, in a neat italic hand, untitled and subscribed ‘J Sucklyn Esqr’, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.late 1620s.
Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton.
First published in L. A. Beaurline, ‘The Canon of Sir John Suckling's Poems’, Studies in Philology, 57 (1960), 492-518 (pp. 512-13). Clayton, p. 12.
No. 38, p. [3]
• SuJ 35: John Suckling, A Dreame (‘Scarce had I slept my wonted rownd’)
Copy, in a neat italic hand, subscribed ‘J Sucklyn. Esqr’, on the third page of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.late 1620s.
Edited from this MS in Beaurline, loc. cit., and in Clayton, with a facsimile in Clayton, Plate 5, before p. xcix. Facsimiles also in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 270, and in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 260.
First published in L. A. Beaurline, ‘The Canon of Sir John Suckling's Poems’, Studies in Philology, 57 (1960), 492-518 (p. 513). Clayton, pp. 12-13.
No. 42, pp. 1-2
• SuJ 4: John Suckling, Against Absence (‘My whining Lover, what needs all’)
Copy, in the italic hand of John Langley, household steward and tutor to the Earl of Middlesex's sons, untitled, in a eight-page quarto booklet of verse by Suckling.
This MS collated in Clayton and discussed p. ciii. Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 306.
First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 39-40.
No. 42, p. 3
• SuJ 39: John Suckling, Loves Feast (‘I pray thee spare me, gentle Boy’)
Copy in the italic hand of John Langley, household steward and tutor to the Earl of Middlesex's sons, untitled, in a eight-page quarto booklet of verse by Suckling.
This MS collated in Clayton and discussed p. ciii; recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 306.
First published, as ‘Song’, in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 51-2.
No. 42, pp. 4-5
• SuJ 9: John Suckling, Against Fruition I (‘Stay here fond youth and ask no more, be wise’)
Copy in the italic hand of John Langley, household steward and tutor to the Earl of Middlesex's sons, untitled, in a eight-page quarto booklet of verse by Suckling.
This MS collated in Clayton and discussed p. ciii; recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 306.
First published in Edmund Waller: Workes (London, 1645). Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 37-8. See also WaE 93-5.
No. 42, p. 5
• SuJ 134: John Suckling, To Mr. W.M. Against Absence (‘Pedlar in love, that with the common Art’)
Copy in the italic hand of John Langley, household steward and tutor to the Earl of Middlesex's sons, untitled, in a eight-page quarto booklet of verse by Suckling.
This MS collated in Clayton.
First published in Sir William Davenant, Works (London, 1673). Clayton, p. 94. Sir William Davenant, The Shorter Poems and Songs from the Plays and Masques, ed. A.M. Gibbs (Oxford, 1972), pp. 133-4. Possibly written by Davenant.
No. 42, p. 7
• SuJ 80: John Suckling, To Mr. Davenant for Absence (‘Wonder not if I stay not here’)
Copy, in the italic hand of John Langley, household steward and tutor to the Earl of Middlesex's sons, untitled, in an eight-page quarto booklet of verse by Suckling.
This MS collated in Clayton and discussed p. ciii; recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 306.
First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, p. 39.
No. 46
• SuJ 98: John Suckling, The Wits (A Sessions of the Poets) (‘A Sessions was held the other day’)
Copy, possibly in the italic hand of John Langley, household steward and tutor to the Earl of Middlesex's sons, untitled, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed by Lionel Cranfield, Earl of Middlesex, ‘Rymes Of som Poettes Of som Wittes Abowt London Septembr 1637’. c.1637.
This MS collated in Clayton and in Beaurline, loc. cit.
First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 71-6. L.A. Beaurline, ‘An Editorial Experiment: Suckling's A Session of the Poets’, Studies in Bibliography, 16 (1963), 43-60.
U269 F48/11
Copy of Lady Anne Clifford's journals for 1603 and 1616-19, probably chiefly in the hands of Elizabeth Sackville and her sister May, transcribed imperfectly from the earlier transcript at Longleat House (CdA 5), 62 folio leaves (largely on rectos only). c.1830.
CdA 6: Lady Anne Clifford, Journals
Edited from this MS in The Diary of the Lady Anne Clifford, ed. V. Sackville-West (London, 1923). Discussed and the handwriting tentatively identified in Acheson, p. 38, with facsimile examples on pp. 19-20.
U269/1 0o 44[i]
Autograph letter signed (‘J Hoskyns’), to Lord Cranfield, 2 March [1616/17]. 1617.
*HoJ 364: John Hoskyns, Letter(s)
U269/1 0o 44[ii]
Autograph letter signed (‘J Hoskyns’), to Lord Cranfield, from Hereford, 15 March 1618[/19]. 1619.
*HoJ 375: John Hoskyns, Letter(s)
U269/1 0o 44[iii]
Autograph letter signed (‘J Hoskyns’), to Lord Cranfield, docketed 16 March 1623[/4]. 1624.
*HoJ 380: John Hoskyns, Letter(s)
U269/1 OE266[i]
An autograph letter signed by Florio, to Lord Cranfield, received 11 November 1621. 1621.
*FloJ 9: John Florio, Letter(s)
Formerly Cranfield Papers 2323.
Edited in Yates, pp. 296-7.
U269/1 OE266[ii]
Autograph letter signed by Florio, to Lord Cranfield, 1623. 1623.
*FloJ 10: John Florio, Letter(s)
Formerly Cranfield Papers 985.
Edited in Yates, pp. 299-300.
U269/1 CP119
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, probably once folded as a letter, unbound. c.1640.
SuJ 157: John Suckling, To Mr. Henry German, In the Beginning of Parliament, 1640
Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of de la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent.
Edited from this MS in Clayton and discussed p. ci.
First published as A Coppy of a Letter Found in the Privy Lodgeings at Whitehall (London, 1641). Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 163-7.
U269/1 OEc 121
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, written on the address leaf of a folio autograph letter by Richard Blackall, to Sir Lionel Cranfield, 27 October 1618. c.1618.
RaW 71: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’
Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of de la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent. Formerly EN M1012.
Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 314.
First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as ‘These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse’). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).
This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).
See also RaW 302 and RaW 304.
U269 T83/15
Dorset's last will and testament, signed by him, 1679. 1679.
*DoC 371: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Will
U269 T83/16
Dorset's last will and testament, signed by him, 1680, with a codicil added 1681. 1680-1.
*DoC 372: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Will
U269 T83/17
Dorset's last will and testament, signed by him, 1688, together with a draft and copy of it. 1688.
*DoC 373: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Will
U269 T83/18
Dorset's last will and testament, signed by him, 1690. 1690.
*DoC 374: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Will
U269 T84/1
A registered copy of Sackville's last will and testament, made 1607, proved 1609. 1609.
SaT 4: Thomas Sackville, Will
U269 T84/9
An abstract of Dorset's last will and restament, made c.1678. c.1678.
DoC 369: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Will
U269 T84/11
Dorset's last will and restament, signed by him, 1704. 1705.
*DoC 370: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Will
U269 T84/12
Dorset's last will and restament, signed by him and sealed on every leaf, 1705. 1705.
*DoC 376: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Will
U269 T84/13
The administration of Dorset's last will and testament of 1705, made in 1707. 1707.
*DoC 377: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Will
U 269 T84/112
Dorset's last will and testament dated 1704. 1704.
DoC 375: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Will
U350 C2/140
Autograph letter signed by Philips (‘Orinda’), to Sir Edward Dering, 15 December [no year]. c.1648-52?.
*PsK 585: Katherine Philips, Letter(s)
Among the Dering family papers.
Edited, with a facsimile, in Peter Beal, ‘Orinda to Silvander: A New Letter by Katherine Philips’, EMS, 4 (1993), 281-6.
U951 C222
Copy, in an italic hand, headed ‘The passion of a discontented minde’, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves, frayed and imperfect. Early-mid-17th century.
BrN 51.8: Nicholas Breton, The Passion of a Discontented Minde (‘From silent night, true register of mones’)
Among papers of the Knatchbull family, Barons Brabourne, of Mersham-le-Hatch, Kent.
First published in London, 1601. Attributed to Breton in Robertson, pp. xcii-xcviii, but see also Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 613-15. Printed and firmly attributed to Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, in The Poems of Edward De Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, and of Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, ed. Steven W. May, Studies in Philology, 77, No. 5 (Early Winter 1980), pp. 49-59 (No. 11) and pp. 94-106.
U951 O9/3-4
Three texts relating to Bacon, comprising four folio leaves, in a probably professional secretary hand, once folded as a letter and addressed on the outer leaf (p. [7]) ‘ffor James Jackson these’, bound out of order, in a folio composite volume of sixteen parliamentary papers in various hands, in modern half-morocco. c.1620s.
Among papers of the Knatchbull family, Barons Brabourne, of Mersham-le-Hatch, Kent.
pp. [1-2, 7]
• BcF 468: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications
Copy of Bacon's submission 22 April 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.
pp. [3-4]
• BcF 469: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications
Copy of Bacon's submission on 19 March 1621/2.
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.
pp. [8, 5-6]
• BcF 254.8: Francis Bacon, A Prayer, or Psalm
Copy.
First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, XIV, 229-31.
U951 O10/9
Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621, in a professional secretary hand, on three folio pages, in a folio composite volume of 31 parliamentary papers, in modern quarter-morocco. c.1620s.
BcF 470: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications
Among papers of the Knatchbull family, Barons Brabourne, of Mersham-le-Hatch, Kent.
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.
U951 O10/24
Copy, in an italic hand with corrections, headed ‘Sir Benjamin Rudiers Speech in ye lower house of Pariamt Novem: 1640’, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, in a folio composite volume of 31 parliamentary papers, in various hands, in modern quarter-morocco. c.1640s.
RuB 160: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 November 1640
Among papers of the Knatchbull family, Barons Brabourne, of Mersham-le-Hatch, Kent.
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.
U951 Z3
A folio MS relating to the Essex Rebellion, in a professional secretary hand, 21 pages, in modern quarter-morocco. Early 17th century.
Among papers of the Knatchbull family, Barons Brabourne, of Mersham-le-Hatch, Kent.
pp. 1-19
• EsR 227: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1
Copy, imperfect.
pp. 20-1
• EsR 291: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution
Copy, headed ‘The description of ye executione of ye E: of Essex wthin ye tower the 25 of February / 1600/’.
Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.
U951 Z6
A folio volume, comprosing two MSS of copies of letters by Ralegh, in three secretary hands (pp. 1-86, 87-91, 91-[93] respectively), with a table of contents, iii + 93 pages, in modern quarter-morocco. Among papers of the Knatchbull family, Barons Brabourne, of Mersham-le-Hatch, Kent. c.1620s.
pp. 1-18, 87-[93]
• RaW 909: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
Copy of five letters by Ralegh, to Ralph Winwood (both parts), to Ralegh's wife (2), and to James I (2).
pp. 19-86
• RaW 557: Sir Walter Ralegh, Apology for his Voyage to Guiana
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleigh his Appologie after his Retorne into England in excuse of his not working the Mynne at Orenoque’.
A tract beginning ‘If the ill success of this enterprise of mine had been without example...’. First published in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 477-507. Edited by V. T. Harlow in Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 316-34.
U951 Z24
A quarto verse miscellany, largely in one rounded hand, with later additions in other hands, 169 pages, in a marbled wrapper. c.1710-30s.
Among papers of the Knatchbull family, Barons Brabourne, of Mersham-le-Hatch, Kent.
p. 6
• WaE 141.5: Edmund Waller, Of a Tree cut in Paper (‘Fair hand! that can on virgin paper write’)
Copy.
First published, in a fourteen-line version, in Poems, ‘Third’ edition (London, 1668). A 22-line version in Thorn-Drury, II, 68.
p. 6
• WaE 487.5: Edmund Waller, To a Lady, from whom he received the foregoing copy which for many years had been lost (‘Nothing lies hid from radiant eyes’)
Copy, headed ‘To a Lady’.
First published in Poems, ‘Third’ edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 69.
p. 7
• WaE 84.5: Edmund Waller, ‘Go, lovely Rose’
Copy.
First published, as ‘On the Rose’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 128. Setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).
p. 12
• BrW 179.5: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)
Copy, headed ‘On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke’ and here beginning ‘Underneath this Marble Hearse’.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, ‘Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha’, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.
p. 66
• SeC 6.5: Sir Charles Sedley, Constancy (‘Fear not, my Dear, a Flame can never dye’)
Copy, headed ‘A Song’.
First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 11.
pp. 91-2
• DyE 51: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘My mynde to me a kyngdome is’
Copy, headed ‘True Content’.
First published, as two poems (one comprising stanzas 1-4, 6 and 8. the other stanzas 9-12) in a musical setting, in William Byrd, Psalmes, Sonets & Songs (London, 1588). Sargent, No. XIV, pp. 200-1. The uncertain authorship of this poem and its textual history are discussed in Steven W. May, ‘The Authorship of “My mind to me a kingdom is”’, RES, NS 26 (1975), 385-94. EV 15376.
pp. 115-16
• DoC 23.8: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Ballad by the Lord Dorset when at Sea (‘To all you ladies now at land’)
Copy, headed ‘A Song’.
First published as a broadsheet [1664? no exemplum extant]. Songs [1707?]. Old Songs [1707?]. Harris, pp. 65-8.
U1121 Z8
Copy, in at least two professional secretary hands, with a title-page, 50 folio leaves, in a paper wrapper. c.1630s.
NaR 20: Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia
Among papers of Sir John Marsham, first Baronet (1602-85), of Whornes Place, Cuxton, Kent, Clerk in Chancery and antiquary, and his successors, later Earls of Romney.
Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).
U1121 Z9
Copy, in a cursive predominantly italic hand, headed ‘Doctor Corbett to the Lord Mordant’, here beginning ‘My Lord, I must confess at ye first newes’, subscribed ‘Rich: Corbett’, on twelve folio pages, unbound. c.1620s.
CoR 642: Richard Corbett, To the Lord Mordant upon his returne from the North (‘My Lord, I doe confesse, at the first newes’)
Among papers of Sir John Marsham, first Baronet (1602-85), of Whornes Place, Cuxton, Kent, Clerk in Chancery and antiquary, and his successors, later Earls of Romney.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 23-31.
U1121 Z14
Copy, complete with the prefatory poems To the true Patroness of all Poetry, Calliope and The Author to the Reader, in a professional cursive italic hand, ii + 28 + iii folio pages, subscribed ‘Finis / Francis Beamont’, unbound. Early 17th century.
BmF 136: Francis Beaumont, Salmacis and Hermaphroditus (‘My wanton lines do treat of amorous love’)
Among papers of Sir John Marsham, first Baronet (1602-85), of Whornes Place, Cuxton, Kent, Clerk in Chancery and antiquary, and his successors, later Earls of Romney.
First published (anonymously) London, 1602. Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 441-71. Elizabethan Minor Epics, ed. Elizabeth Story Donno (London, 1963), pp. 281-304. Elizabethan Narrative Verse, ed. Niel Alexander (London, 1967), pp. 168-91. Beaumont's authorship discussed by Philip J. Finkelpearl in N&Q, 214 (October 1969), 367-8, and by Roger Sell in N&Q, 217 (January 1972), 10-14.
U1121 Z56/7
A quarto formal commonplace book, in Latin, Greek and English, in a single predominantly secretary hand, written from both ends, including numerous blanks, unfoliated, in contemporary limp vellum, with traces of ties. Compiled by Robert Marsham, fourth Baronet. Late 17th century.
Among papers of Sir John Marsham, first Baronet (1605-85), of Whornes Place, Cuxton, Kent, Clerk in Chancery and antiquary, and his successors, later Earls of Romney.
p. [1r rev.]
• BcF 206.5: Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral
Extracts from five essays, headed ‘Essaies of sr Francis Bacon’.
Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).
U1475 C52
Autograph letter signed by Wroth, to her father Sir Robert Sidney, from Penshurst, 17 October 1614. 1614.
*WrM 17: Lady Mary Wroth, Letter(s)
Among papers of the Sidney family, Viscounts De L'Isle, of Penshurst Place, Ashford, Kent.
Edited in Roberts, Poems, pp. 234-5 (No. II).
U1475 Z1/1
Autograph commonplace book, on political and historical subjects, under headings, with some additions, including an index, possibly in the hand of the second Earl of Leicester, 754 folio pages (including numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum. c.1613-15.
*SiR 61: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Commonplace book
Among papers of the Sidney family, Viscounts De L'Isle, of Penshurst Place, Ashford, Kent.
Discussed in Robert Shephard, ‘The Political Commonplace Books of Sir Robert Sidney’, Sidney Journal, 21 (2003), 1-30, and in Fred Schurink, ‘Manuscript Commonplace Books, Literature, and Reading in Early Modern England’, HLQ, 73/3 (2010, 453-69 (pp. 457-60).
I1475 Z1/2
Autograph commonplace book, on principally genealogical and historical matters, with a few additions possibly in the hand of the second Earl of Leicester, 486 pages (including blanks), partly in ruled columns, in contemporary vellum, with green silk ties. Early 17th century.
*SiR 62: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Commonplace book
Recorded in Robert Shephard, ‘The Political Commonplace Books of Sir Robert Sidney’, Sidney Journal, 21 (2003), 1-30 (p. 2 n).
U1475 Z1/3
Autograph commonplace book, on coinage and history, 348 quarto pages (including blanks, plus further blanks at the end), in contemporary vellum. Late 16th-early 17th century.
*SiR 63: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Commonplace book
Among papers of the Sidney family, Viscounts De L'Isle, of Penshurst Place, Ashford, Kent.
Recorded in Robert Shephard, ‘The Political Commonplace Books of Sir Robert Sidney’, Sidney Journal, 21 (2003), 1-30 (p. 2 n).
U1475 Z1/10
Autograph commonplace book by Robert Sidney, on political subjects, under some headings, with additions, including an index, possibly in the hand of the second Earl of Leicester, 954 folio pages (including numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum. c.1600.
*SiR 64: Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, Commonplace book
Among papers of the Sidney family, Viscounts De L'Isle, of Penshurst Place, Ashford, Kent.
Discussed in Robert Shephard, ‘The Political Commonplace Books of Sir Robert Sidney’, Sidney Journal, 21 (2003), 1-30.
U1475 Z2
Copy. Copy, in a secretary hand, lacking a title-page, inscribed by the copyist at the end ‘Cutbert Crooke’, 133 quarto leaves, in vellum. Late 16th-early 17th century.
LeC 41: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth
Among papers of the Sidney family, Viscounts De L'Isle, of Penshurst Place, Ashford, Kent.
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.
U1475 Z3
Copy, transcribed from Sidney's autograph MS (SiP 172), perhaps by Arthur Collins (1681/2-1760), genealogist and historian, headed ‘The Answer of Sir Philip Sidney To a Book published by Father Parsons the Jesuit Intituled Secret Memoirs of Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester’, fifteen small folio leaves, on rectos only, now on mounts, unbound. Early-mid-18th century.
SiP 174: Sir Philip Sidney, Defence of the Earl of Leicester
Among papers of the Sidney family, Viscounts De L'Isle, of Penshurst Place, Ashford, Kent.
Edited from this MS in Feuillerat. Collated in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten.
First published in Arthur Collins, Letters and Memorials of State of the Sidney Family (London, 1746), I, 62-8. Feuillerat, III, 61-71. Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 129-41.
U1475 Z7
Copy, in a secretary hand, subscribed ‘W. R.’, 33 + ii folio leaves, in remains of paper wrappers within later boards. Early 17th century.
RaW 592: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Dialogue between a Counsellor of State and a Justice of the Peace
Among papers of the Sidney family, Viscounts De L'Isle, of Penhurst Place, Ashford, Kent.
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.
U1475 Z15
Autograph? presentation copy to Sir Philip Sidney, in a secretary hand, with dedication ‘Heroi Nobilissimo, Domino illustrissimo Mæcenati optimo Philippo Sidneio S P D:’, followed by eight Latin verses beginning ‘Meus erat immenso, nuper confecta Idore’ subscribed ‘Abrahamus Fransus’, the page of Personæ (p. 5) headed ‘Victoria’, v + 91 folio pages, in contemporary vellum, with remains of green silk ties. c.1570s-80s.
*FrA 8: Abraham Fraunce, Victoria
Among papers of the Sidney family, Viscounts De L'Isle, of Penshurst Place, Ashford, Kent.
Facsimile of the dedication to Sidney in DLB, vol. 236, British Rhetoricians and Logicians, 1500-1660. First Series, ed. Edward A. Malone (Detroit, 2001), p. 142.
First published, edited by G.C. Moore Smith (Louvain, 1906).
U1475/Z16
A formal presentation copy, in a small secretary hand, with a title-page bearing a dedication to Sir Robert Sidney (‘Ad illustriss: D Dominu Robertum Sydneyu’, signed at the end by Fraunce ‘Abrahamus Fransus’, 24 small quarto leaves, in contemporary vellum, with remains of green silk ties. c.1586-93.
*FrA 6: Abraham Fraunce, Symbolicae philosophiae liber quartus et ultimus
Among papers of the Sidney family, Viscounts De L'Isle, of Penshurst Place, Ashford, Kent.
Basically an addendum to Fraunce's Insignium, armorum, emblematum, hieroglyphicorum, et symbolorum, quae in Italia imprese nominantur, explicatio: quae symbolicae philosophicae postrema pars est which was published in London, 1588.
U1655 F8
Copy, in a neat italic hand, entitled (f. [vir]) in the small italic hand of Sir Roger Twysden, second Baronet (1597-1672), antiquary, ‘Certayn comfortable places of Scripture and three prayers collected and made by my deare and Noble Mother ye Lady Ann Twysden who dyed at her howse in East=Peckham the 14th of October 1638 / Roger Twysden’, and with his headnotes, vii leaves + 84 octavo pages (including blanks, plus further blanks at the end, in contemporary vellum with green ties. Transcribed from Lady Twysden's original MS (known as the Jennings-Bramley MS and now untraced) and including a prayer by her brother, Sir Heneage Finch (1580-1631), Speaker of the House of Commons. c.1638.
TwA 1: Anne, Lady Twysden, Anne, Lady Twysden's Prayerbook
Described in detail in the online Perdita Project.
U2035/T8 [item 1]
Autograph signature, on an indenture for the sale to Richard Hulse of land ‘abutting on the Kinges high way leading from Lovelace greene or Gigghill to Biddenden towards the North’, 25 October 1644. 1644.
*LoR 55: Richard Lovelace, Document(s)
Cited in Clarke, p. 362.
U2035/T8 [item 2]
Autograph signature, on a receipt for payment of £300 by Richard Hulse, 1 February 1647[/8]. 1648.
*LoR 62: Richard Lovelace, Document(s)
Cited in Clarke, p. 362.
U2035/T9 [item 1]
Signature on each of three membranes of an indenture relating to the sale of land in Bethersden and Halden to Richard Hulse, 10 March 1642/3. 1643.
*LoR 53: Richard Lovelace, Document(s)
Cited in Clarke, p. 362.
U2035/T9 [item 2]
Autograph signature, on an indenture concerning the sale of property to Richard Hulse, 10 October 1645. 1645.
*LoR 59: Richard Lovelace, Document(s)
Cited in Clarke, p. 362.
U2035/T9-T10, unspecified items
Scriveners' drafts, unsigned, of two legal documents involving Lovelace and Richard Hulse, 20 March 1642/3 and 20 August 1644 respectively. 1643-4.
LoR 54.5: Richard Lovelace, Document(s)
Cited in Clarke, p. 362.
U2035/T10
Autograph signature, on an indenture concerning the sale to Richard Hulse of land on the road from Bethersden to Biddenden East. 14 February 1644/5. 1645.
*LoR 56: Richard Lovelace, Document(s)
Cited in Clarke, p. 362.
U2035/T11
Autograph signature, on each of the three membranes of an indenture concerning the sale to Richard Hulse of land on the road from Bethersden to Biddenden East, 28 August 1645. 1645.
*LoR 58: Richard Lovelace, Document(s)
Cited in Clarke, p. 362.
U205/T17/1
Autograph signature, on an indenture, 29 March 1647. 1647.
*LoR 60: Richard Lovelace, Document(s)
Cited in Clarke, p. 362.
U205/T18/1
Autograph signature on an indenture, 28 September 1647.
*LoR 61: Richard Lovelace, Document(s)
Cited in Clarke, p. 362.
U2083/Box B/116a
An indenture for the sale of ‘The Splayed Eagle’ in Canterbury, signed by both ‘John Lyllye’ and his mother, Jane, 10 January [1570/1]. 1571.
*LyJ 61: John Lyly, Document(s)
Discovered by William Urry among the archives at Canterbury Cathedral. Formerly Boteler MSS 116a.
Recorded in William Urry, ‘John Lyly and Canterbury’, Thirty-third Annual Report of the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral (April 1960), 19-25 (p. 24).
U2083/Box B/116b
A title deed relating to the sale of ‘The Splayed Eagle’ in Canterbury, signed by Jane Lyly. 1581.
LyJ 62: John Lyly, Document(s)
Discovered by William Urry among the archives at Canterbury Cathedral. Formerly Boteler MSS 116b.
Recorded by Urry in ‘John Lyly and Canterbury’, Thirty-third Annual Report of the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral (April 1960), 19-25 (p. 24).
U2083/Box B/116c
A title deed relating to the sale of ‘The Splayed Eagle’ in Canterbury, signed by Jane Lyly. 1581.
LyJ 63: John Lyly, Document(s)
Discovered by William Urry among the archives at Canterbury Cathedral. Formerly Boteler MSS 116c.
Recorded by Urry in ‘John Lyly and Canterbury’, Thirty-third Annual Report of the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral (April 1960), 19-25 (p. 24).
U2083/Box B/116e
A quitclaim from John Lyly to his mother, signed in an italic script ‘Per me Joanne Lilie’ (or ‘Liliu’), 3 October [1581]. 1581.
*LyJ 64: John Lyly, Document(s)
Discovered by William Urry among the archives at Canterbury Cathedral. Formerly Boteler MSS 116e.
Recorded in William Urry, ‘John Lyly and Canterbury’, Thirty-third Annual Report of the Friends of Canterbury Cathedral (April 1960), 19-25 (p. 24).