Add. MS 1107
Series of notes by Henry Hyde (1638-1709), second Earl of Clarendon, on his father's manuscript of the History of the Rebellion, in preparation for its publication (in 1702-4). c.1700.
ClE 160: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Editorial papers
Cosin MS B. i. 13
Copy. in a stylish italic hand, of ‘A Letter to a friend and Comrade in my Travells that chang'd his Religion’, subscribed ‘Thomas Killigrew’, twenty leaves, on rectos only, from Maastricht, 11 February ‘1659’ [probably 1658/9]. 1659.
KiT 26: Thomas Killigrew, Letter(s)
Discussed and edited, with a facsimile example, in J. P. Vander Motten, ‘“The saucy zeal of a layman”: The religious views of Thomas Killigrew (1612-1683)’, Lias, 29 (2002), 81-110.
Cosin MS B. i. 14
Copy, in a professional italic hand, headed ‘The Earl of Lesters Commonwealth’, 87 leaves (plus some blanks), in contemporary vellum with ties. Late 16th-early 17th century.
LeC 46: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth
In the library of John Cosin (1595-1672), Bishop of Durham.
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.
Cosin MS V. II. 13
MS, inscribed (f. 4v) ‘W Browne’. Early 17th century.
*BrW 256.4: William Browne of Tavistock, Chaucer, Geoffrey. Troilus & Criseyde, and Hoccleve
In the library of John Cosin (1595-1672), Bishop of Durham.
Edwards, No. 12. Described in R.K. Root, The Manuscripts of Chaucer's Troilus (London, 1914), p. 11.
Cosin MS V. II. 15
MS of the translation by John Walton, inscribed (f. 2r) ‘Willelmus Browne 1612’. 1612.
BrW 256.2: William Browne of Tavistock, Boethius. De Consolatione Philosophiæ
In the library of John Cosin (1595-1672), Bishop of Durham.
Edwards, No. 13.
Cosin MS V. II. 16
MS, inscribed (f. 3r) ‘W Browne’. Early 17th century.
*BrW 262: William Browne of Tavistock, Lydgate, John. Life of Our Lady
In the library of John Cosin (1595-1672), Bishop of Durham.
Edwards, No. 14. Described in A Critical Edition of John Lydgate's Life of Our Lady, ed. J.A. Lauritis, R.A. Klinefelter & V.F. Gallagher (Pittsburgh. 1961), pp. 22-4.
Cosin MS V. III. 9
MS, inscribed (ff. 3r, 14r) ‘W Browne’. Early 17th century.
BrW 259: William Browne of Tavistock, Hoccleve, Thomas. Works
In the library of John Cosin (1595-1672), Bishop of Durham.
Edwards, No. 15.
Cosin D. 3. 5
Some of the text of Andrewes's ‘Notes’ incorporated in Cosin's copious annotations in his exemplum of The Book of Common Prayer (1619), a large folio, in dark morocco on wooden boards with metal clasps, the volume prepared by him and his chaplain William Sancroft for a new edition. 1660-1.
AndL 38: Lancelot Andrewes, Notes on the Book of Common Prayer
In the library of John Cosin (1595-1672), Bishop of Durham. Formerly S.R.5.F.3.
Edited (apparently) in part from this MS in Nicholls. Described and collated in LACT.
First published in William Nicholls, A Comment on the Book of Common Prayer (London, 1710). LACT, Minor Works (1854), pp. 141-58.
Howard Library MS 1
An autograph quarto commonplace book, in English, Latin and Greek, under various headings, the first part (ff. 1-53) chiefly devoted to alchemy, the second part (ff. 54-840 to Latin liturgical offices, psalms and prayers, 85 leaves, in 19th-ceentury boards. Late 16th century.
*HoH 103: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, Commonplace book or collectanea
Formerly among books from the library of Lord William Howard (1563-1640), antiquary and collector, of Naworth Castle, Cumberland, sold at Sotheby's, 15 December 1992, lot 171.
Howard Library MS 2
An autograph quarto commonplace book, under various headings, relating to the nobility, 135 leaves (lacking ff. 3-6, 39-48, 103-4), in 19th-century boards. Late 16th century.
*HoH 104: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, Commonplace book or collectanea
Formerly among books from the library of Lord William Howard (1563-1640), antiquary and collector, of Naworth Castle, Cumberland, sold at Sotheby's, 15 December 1992, lot 171.
Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 57r and 63r, in Paul E. J. Hammer, ‘How to Become an Elizabethan Statesman: Lord Henry Howard, the Earl of Essex and the Politics of Friendship’, EMS, 13 (2007), 1-34.
Howard Library MS 3
An autograph quarto commonplace book, in Latin, English and Greek, under various headings, devoted chiefly to astrology, 64 leaves (f. 60 belonging to MS 1 above), in 19th-century boards. c.1580s.
*HoH 105: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, Commonplace book or collectanea
Pen trials by James Maxwell of Naworth, one dated 1701. Formerly among books from the library of Lord William Howard (1563-1640), antiquary and collector, of Naworth Castle, Cumberland, sold at Sotheby's, 15 December 1992, lot 171.
Howard Library MS 4
An autograph commonplace book, in English, Latin and Greek, under various headings, chiefly relating to women, vii + 180 leaves (lacking ff. 141, 141bis and 166), in near-contemporary blind-stamped sprinkled calf (rebacked). Late 16th century.
*HoH 106: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, Commonplace book or collectanea
Formerly among books from the library of Lord William Howard (1563-1640), antiquary and collector, of Naworth Castle, Cumberland, sold at Sotheby's, 15 December 1992, lot 171.
Howard Library MS 5
An autograph folio commonplace book, in English, Latin and Greek, devoted chiefly to devotional subjects, including (f. 40r-v) a draft letter by Howard to Sir Philip Sidney dated 27 August, written probably in 1583-4 when he was under arrest in the Fleet Prison or confined to the house of Sir Nicholas Bacon, 65 leaves, in 19th-century boards. c.1583-4.
*HoH 107: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, Commonplace book or collectanea
Formerly among books from the library of Lord William Howard (1563-1640), antiquary and collector, of Naworth Castle, Cumberland, sold at Sotheby's, 15 December 1992, lot 171.
Mickleton & Spearman MS 5
A folio volume of verse and prose extracts, those on pp. 321-7 headed ‘Observables of a Miscellaneous Nature’, those on pp. 367-77 ‘Witty Sentences’, in a single cursive secretary hand, 377 pages (including numerous blanks), in reversed brown calf. Among the family collection established by Christopher Mickleton (1612-69), Durham attorney, and by his eldest son James (1638-93), lawyer and antiquary, which was later incorporated in the collections of Gilbert Spearman (1675-1738), lawyer and antiquary. 1699-1711.
pp. 322-4
• AndL 55.7: Lancelot Andrewes, Tortura torti
Extracts from Andrewes's sermons.
First published in London, 1609.
p. 323
• ClE 20.8: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, begun in the year 1641
Extracts.
First published in 3 vols, Oxford, 1702-4. Edited by Bulkeley Bandinel (8 vols, Oxford, 1826).Edited by W. D. Macray (6 vols, Oxford, 1888).
p. 369
• AsR 6: Roger Ascham, Extracts
Extracts, headed ‘Ascham’.
pp. 371
• BcF 206.6: Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral
Extracts from ‘Lo. Bacon's Essays p. 39’ and from ‘J. J.'s Preface to a Book Entit. Baconiana &c. p. 57’.
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).
p. 374
• CvG 29: George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey
Extracts, headed ‘Sr. Willm Cavendish Memoirs of the Life of Cardinal Woolsey, in the Preface’.
First published in George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey and Metrical Visions, ed. Samuel W. Singer, 2 vols (Chiswick, 1825). The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish, ed. Richard S. Sylvester, EETS, orig. ser. 243 (London, New York and Toronto, 1959).
p. 376
• SeC 145: Sir Charles Sedley, Extracts
Extracts from poems, headed ‘Sir Charles Sedly on p. 91. in the Collection’.
Mickleton & Spearman MS 9
A folio volume of political and miscellaneous verse and prose, in several secretary verse, written from both ends, comprising ‘Book I’ (viii + 254 pages one way and pp. 255-309 inverted) and ‘Book II’ (282 pages inverted), including a table of contents, in half reversed calf. Compiled partly by Sir Thomas Swinburne (c.1589-1645), of Edlingham and Nafferton, Sheriff of Northumberland in 1628-9. c.1640s.
Among the family collection established by Christopher Mickleton (1612-69), Durham attorney, and by his eldest son James (1638-93), lawyer and antiquary, which was later incorporated in the collections of Gilbert Spearman (1675-1738), lawyer and antiquary.
Book II, p. 126
• SuJ 204: John Suckling, Upon Sir John Suckling's hundred horse (‘I tell thee Jack thou'st given the King’)
Copy.
First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 204-5.
Book II, p. 127
• SuJ 223: John Suckling, Sir John Suckling's Answer (‘I tell thee foole who'ere thou be’)
Copy.
First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 205-6. Sometimes erroneously attributed to Suckling himself.
Book II, pp. 130-1
• SuJ 152.5: John Suckling, An Answer to a Gentleman in Norfolk that sent to enquire after the Scotish business
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘An answeer to a Gent in the north that sent to inquire after the Scottish busines’, subscribed ‘Written by Sr. John Sucklin as tis said’.
First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 142-4.
Book II, p. 203
• SuJ 236: John Suckling, Upon Sir John Sucklings most warlike preparations for the Scotish Warre (‘Sir John got him on an ambling Nag’)
Copy.
First published in Sir John Mennes and James Smith, Musarum Deliciæ (London, 1655). Clayton, pp. 208-9. Sometimes improbably ascribed to Sir John Mennes.
Book II, p. 214
• DeJ 71.5: Sir John Denham, On the Earl of Strafford's Tryal and Death (‘Great Strafford! worthy of that Name, though all’)
Copy, in two secretary hands, headed in probably another hand ‘An epitaph of ye Earl of Strafford’.
First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 153-4.
Book II, p. 214
• ClJ 194: John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford (‘Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust’)
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The Earle of Strafords Epitaph’.
First published in Character (1647). Edited in CSPD, 1640-1641 (1882), p. 574. Berdan, p. 184, as ‘Internally unlike his manner’. Morris & Withington, p. 66, among ‘Poems probably by Cleveland’. The attribution to Cleveland is dubious. The epitaph is also attributed to Clement Paman: see Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), notes to No. 275 (p. 363).
Book II, p. 255
• DeJ 5.5: Sir John Denham, ‘After so many sad mishaps’
Copy.
First published, as ‘To Sir W. Davenant’, in Certain Verses (1653), pp. 5-7. Banks, pp. 313-16.
Mickleton & Spearman MS 62
A folio miscellany of historical verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several secretary hands, one cursive hand predominating, i + 183 leaves, in half reversed calf. c.1648.
Booklabel (f. iv) ‘Lib: G: Spearman Dunelm Ao 1700/1’. Among the family collection established by Christopher Mickleton (1612-69), Durham attorney, and by his eldest son James (1638-93), lawyer and antiquary, which was later incorporated in the collections of Gilbert Spearman (1675-1738), lawyer and antiquary.
ff. 149v-66v
• CmW 13.167: William Camden, Britannia
Extracts, headed ‘Camdens opinio of Brittaine, wth his Epitomized Description therof’, in Latin and English.
First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.
f. 182v
• ClJ 195: John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford (‘Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust’)
Copy, in a small cursive secretary hand, headed in the margin ‘Thomas Wentworth Lord deputi of Ireland beheaded maj 12 1641’.
First published in Character (1647). Edited in CSPD, 1640-1641 (1882), p. 574. Berdan, p. 184, as ‘Internally unlike his manner’. Morris & Withington, p. 66, among ‘Poems probably by Cleveland’. The attribution to Cleveland is dubious. The epitaph is also attributed to Clement Paman: see Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), notes to No. 275 (p. 363).
Mickleton & Spearman MS 73
A folio volume of state tracts, in several hands, with (p. I) a list of contents subscribed ‘Comunicated to me by Mr Shotbolt’, 183 pages, in contemporary limp vellum. Late 16th century.
Bookplate of ‘Jacobi Mickleton de Crook Hall in Com Dunelm A D 1718’: i.e. James Mickleton (1688-1719), lawyer and antiquary. Among the family collection established by Christopher Mickleton (1612-69), Durham attorney, and by his eldest son James (1638-93), lawyer and antiquary, which was later incorporated in the collections of Gilbert Spearman (1675-1738), lawyer and antiquary.
pp. 177-9
• ElQ 191: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech at the Close of the Parliamentary Session, March 15, 1576
Copy of Version I, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The Q. Matyes oration in the plament howse martij 15 Ano dni 1575’.
This MS cited in Selected Works.
First published (from a lost MS) in Nugae Antiquae, ed. Henry Harington (London, 1804), I, 120-7.
Version I. Beginning ‘Do I see God's most sacred, holy Word and text of holy Writ drawn to so divers senses...’. Hartley, I, 471-3 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 13, pp. 167-71. Selected Works, Speech 7, pp. 52-60.
Version II. Beginning ‘My lords, Do I see the Scriptures, God's word, in so many ways interpreted...’. Hartley, I, 473-5 (Text ii).
SB 0073
A printed exemplum with Sandys's autograph motto and signature on the title-page. Early 17th century.
*SaG 60: George Sandys, Poetae tres elegantissimi (Paris, 1582)
Recorded in Rogers, p. 370, with illustrations of the title-page and fore-edge (Plates B and C).
Containing works by Michael Marullus, Hieronymus Angerianus, and Joannes Secundus.