CR 136/A391
A folio volume of political tracts, unfoliated. c.1620s-30s.
Bookplate of Sir Richard Newdigate, 1709. Among papers of the Newdegate family, Viscounts Daventry, of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton.
Warwickshire County Record Office, microfilm M1 351/2, item 12.
item 12
• CtR 412: Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England
Copy, in an italic hand, 31 pages, subscribed ‘R.O.B.’
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).
CR 136/A414
A quarto composite volume of plays, poems and tracts, in various hands.
Owned in 1702 by John Newdegate, of the Inner Temple. Among papers of the Newdegate family, Viscounts Daventry, of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton.
Warwickshire County Record Office, microfilm M1 351/3 & /5, No. 20.
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• MaA 321: Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter (‘Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight’)
Copy, in an italic hand, untitled but endorsed ‘Second Advice to a Painter’. c.1660s.
First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.
The case for Marvell's authorship supported in George deF. Lord, ‘Two New Poems by Marvell?’, BNYPL, 62 (1958), 551-70, but see also discussion by Lord and Ephim Fogel in Vol. 63 (1959), 223-36, 292-308, 355-66. Marvell's authorship supported in Annabel Patterson, ‘The Second and Third Advices-to-the-Painter’, PBSA, 71 (1977), 473-86. Discussed also in Margoliouth, I, 348-50, and in Chernaik, p. 211, where Marvell's authorship is considered doubtful. A case for Sir John Denham's authorship is made in Brendan O Hehir, Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 212-28.
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• MaA 482: Andrew Marvell, Further Advice to a Painter (‘Painter once more thy Pencell reassume’)
Copy, in an italic hand, untitled but endorsed ‘Advice to a Painter a Lampoon’. c.1660s.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). Margoliouth, I, 176-7. POAS, I, 163-7. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 38-9. Rejected from the canon by Lord and the authorship considered doubtful by Chernaik, pp. 211-12.
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• CaW 20: William Cartwright, November or, Signal Dayes Observ'd in that Month in relation to the Crown and Royal Family (‘Thou Sun that shed'st the Dayes, looke downe and see’)
Copy, headed ‘November’, endorsed Mr Wm Cartwright on ye successes of November. c.1630s.
First published as a broadside, undated. Reprinted in London, 1671. Evand, pp. 560-3.
ff. 71r-2r
• CoR 363: Richard Corbett, A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine (‘I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd’)
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Dr Corbet To ye Duke of Buckingham’. c.1630s.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.
f. 75r
• DaJ 299: Sir John Davies, Unidentified Entertainment. The Complaint of the Five Satyres against the Nymphes (‘Tell me, O Nymphes, why do you’)
Copy, in an italic hand, headed ‘The Satyrs Complaint’, on a single quarto leaf.
Krueger, pp. 308-9. This ‘complaint’ has sometimes been considered part of the Entertainment at Harefield but belongs to some other entertainment.
CR 136/A415
Copy, in possibly several largely italic hands, headed ‘Baiazet’, 56 quarto leaves, followed on sixteen leaves by ‘Vox Populi 1620’, in leather. c.1618-20.
GoT 11: Thomas Goffe, The Raging Turke, or, Bajazet the Second
Bookplate of Sir Richard Newdigate, 1709. Among papers of the Newdegate family, Viscounts Daventry, of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton.
Warwickshire County Record Office microfilm, M1 351/5, item 22.
First published London, 1631. Malone Society edition, ed. David Carnagie (Oxford, 1974).
MS 185
A miscellany, chiefly relating to religion and moral precepts, in Latin and English. c.1700.
Bookplate of John Newdegate, of the Inner Temple, 1702. Among papers of the Newdegate family, Viscounts Daventry, of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton.
f. [2r rev.]
• MaA 88: Andrew Marvell, Bludius et Corona (‘Bludius, ut ruris damnum repararet aviti’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Thompson (1776), I, xxxix. Margoliouth, I, 178. Lord, p. 249. Smith, p. 414, with English translation.
For the English version, which accompanies many of the MS texts, see MaA 253-80.
f. [2r rev.]
• MaA 259: Andrew Marvell, Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown (‘When daring Blood, his rents to have regain'd’)
Copy, headed ‘English'd by Dr An: Marvell’.
First published as a separate poem in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, I, 78. Lord, p. 193. Smith, p. 414.
This poem also appears as lines 178-85 of The Loyal Scot (see MaA 191-8 and Margoliouth, I, 379, 384).
For the Latin version, which accompanies many of the MS texts, see MaA 85-97.
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• RoJ 574: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing (‘Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade’)
Copy, headed ‘Upon Nothing by Wilmot Earle of Rochester’.
First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.
MS 201
Copy, in a single professional secretary hand, the Epistle dated 1592, 157 folio leaves, in contemporary vellum, the date ‘1598’ on the spine changed to ‘1639’. Early 17th century.
LeC 42: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth
Among papers of the Newdegate family, Viscounts Daventry, of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton.
Warwickshire County Record Office microfilm, M1 351/6, item 33.
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.