CELM: The Folger Shakespeare Library: V.b. series

MS V.b.7

Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, on 98 large folio pages, in contemporary limp vellum. With a title-page in an italic hand: ‘A briefe discourse of y^e right vse of gevinge armes, w^th: the Late abusis about that matter, and y^e beste meane' by w^ch. they may be reformid orderly. Written by Henry Howard Earl of Northampton’. c.1620.

HoH 24: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A brief discourse of the right use of giving arms

Baker, No. 420, pp. 76-7. date? early 17c?

An unpublished treatise on heralds and the office of Earl Marshal. Beginning with the heading ‘Of the first Institutions and function of Heralds and the proues that make for them’; the text beginning ‘It cannot as I suppose seeme strange to men of vnderstanding in recordes of historie...’, and ending ‘...and the gratitude of persons that are soub^bl . will dispence exceptions of base men y^t are mutinous.’ The tract has also been attributed to Ralph Brooke.

MS V.b.27

Copy, followed after f. 10r by a lengthy series of related precedents, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘By S^r: Robert Cotton’, 50 large folio leaves in all, in 19th-century quarter-leather marbled boards. c.1630.

CtR 86: Sir Robert Cotton, A Breife Abstract of the Question of Precedencie between England and Spaine: Occasioned by Sir Henry Nevill the Queen of Englands Ambassador, and the Ambassador of Spaine, at Calais Commissioners appointed by the French King...

Inscribed (f. 1*^r) ‘H.Walter 1811’.

Tract, relating to events in 1599/1600, beginning ‘To seek before the decay of the Roman Empire...’. First published in London, 1642. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [73]-‘79’ [i.e. 89].

MS V.b.34

MS of a conflated version of Shakespeare's two Henry IV plays, made by Sir Edward Dering (1598-1644), of Surrenden, Kent, i + 55 folio leaves. Based on the Fifth Quarto of 1 Henry IV (1613) and a 1600 Quarto of 2 Henry IV., this play was probably written for a private theatrical performance, the dramatis personæ including members of the Dering family. The MS is largely in the secretary and italic hand of a ‘mr Carington’ who was paid 4 shillings in February 1622/3 for the task, and bears Dering's autograph corrections and additions, as well as some rubrication. c.1622-3.

ShW 48: William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Parts I and II

Item 1035 in a sale catalogue.

Edited from this MS, with facsimile examples, in Shakespeare's Play of King Henry the Fourth Printed from a Contemporary Manuscript, ed. James Orchard Halliwell, Shakespeare Society (London, 1845). A complete facsimile edition, with transcription, as The History of King Henry the Fourth as revised by Sir Edward Dering, ed. George Walton Williams and G. Blakemore Evans (Charlottesville, 1974).

Collated in Henry IV, Part I, ed. Samuel Burdett Hemingway (Philadelphia & London, 1936), pp. 495-501, and in Henry IV, Part II, ed. Matthias A. Shaaber (Philadelphia & London, 1940), pp. 645-50. Discussed in G. Blakemore Evans, ‘The “Dering MS” of Shakespeare's Henry IV and Sir Edward Dering’, JEGP, 54 (1955), 498-503. Discussed, with a facsimile of the record of payment to Carington (Centre for Kentish Studies, U350 E4), in Laetitia Yeandle, ‘The Dating of Sir Edward Dering's Copy of “The History of King Henry the Fourth”’, Shakespeare Quarterly, 37 (1986), 224-6, where a possible candidate for Carington is suggested as Samuel Carington (d.1641), rector of Wootton, Kent. Discussed, as if a ‘pre-publication and authorial’ MS, in John Baker, ‘Found: Shakespeare's Manuscript of Henry IV’, Elizabethan Review, 4/1 (Spring 1996), 14-46.

Other facsimile examples in Giles E. Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (London, 1968), Plate 39, and in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 87.

1 Henry IV first published in London, 1598. 2 Henry IV first published in London, 1600.

MS V.b.41

A large volio volume of state papers, tracts and speeches, in several professional largely secretary hands, 484 pages (including numerous blanks), in half calf on marbled boards. c.1630.

Bookplates of Captain Henry B.H. Beaufoy, FRS (1786-1851), and of William T. Smedley (1851-1934), Baconian.

pp. 137-207

• LeC 56: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 226.

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.

pp. 263-80

• EsR 128: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Apology

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

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.

pp. 299-313

• EsR 236: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

pp. 315-16

• EsR 299: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘The manner & ende of Robte Earle of Essex in the Tower of London’, inscribed in the margin ‘25 febuarij 1600’.

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

MS V.b.43

A large folio verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford University, 34 leaves, in modern half-morocco marbled boards. Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King. c.1630s.

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.8.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Halliwell MS’: CwT Δ 26 and KiH Δ 11. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Some Account of the Antiquities…illustrating…Shakespeare (1852), No. 8. Facsimile example in Giles Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (London, 1968), Plate 42. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 195).

f. 1r-v

• CoR 679: Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him (‘Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon Mistris Mallet’, subscribed ‘R C.’

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 6-7.

f. lv

• CoR 270: Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem (‘Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on’)

Copy, subscribed ‘RC.’

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-9.

The poem is usually followed in MSS by Dr Daniel Price's ‘Answer’ (‘So to dead Hector boyes may doe disgrace’), and see also CoR 227-46.

f. 2r

• CoR 241: Richard Corbett, In Poetam Exauctoratum et Emeritum (‘Nor is it griev'd (graue youth) the memory’)

Copy, headed ‘In Authorum Exauctoratum et Emeritum’, subscribed ‘R: C.’

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 10-11.

For related poems see CoR 247-78.

f. 2r-v

• KiH 415: Henry King, Madam Gabrina, Or the Ill-favourd Choice (‘I have oft wondred, why thou didst elect’)

Copy, untitled before the Spanish motto, subscribed in monogram format ‘HK’.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 144-5.

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• KiH 111: Henry King, The Defence (‘Why slightest thou what I approve?’)

Copy, headed ‘The Answere’, subscribed in monogram format ‘HK’.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 145-6.

ff. 3r-4r

• KiH 713: Henry King, To his unconstant Freind (‘But say, thou very Woman, why to mee’)

Copy, subscribed in monogram format ‘HK’.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 142-4.

f. 4r

• KiH 790: Henry King, The Vow-Breaker (‘When first the Magick of thine Ey’)

Copy, headed ‘To an Inconstant Mistris’, subscribed in monogram format ‘HK’.

Copy, subscribed in monogram format ‘HK’.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 160-1.

f. 4r-v

• KiH 593: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Tell mee no more how faire shee is’)

Copy, subscribed in monogram format ‘HK’.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 158.

f. 4v

• KiH 609: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Tell mee you Starrs that our affections move’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed in monogram format ‘HK’.

First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales & Ayres (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.

f. 4v

• KiH 544: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Dry those faire, those Christall Eyes’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed in monogram format ‘HK’.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 147-8.

f. 4v

• KiH 635: Henry King, Sonnet (‘When I entreat, either thou wilt not heare’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed in monogram format ‘HK’.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 148.

f. 5r

• KiH 576: Henry King, Sonnet (‘I prethee turne that face away’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed in monogram format ‘HK’.

First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1641). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.

Musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (Oxford, 1659).

f. 5r

• KiH 522: Henry King, Sic Vita (‘Like to the Falling of a Starr’)

Copy, subscribed in monogram format ‘HK’

First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 148-9.

f. 5r

• KiH 427: Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation (‘Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care’)

Copy, subscribed in monogram format ‘HK’.

First published, as ‘Man's Miserie, by Dr. K’, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 5-6]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 157-8.

f. 5r-v

• KiH 705: Henry King, To his Freinds of Christchurch upon the mislike of the Marriage of the Artes, acted at Woodstock (‘But is it true, the Court mislik't the Play’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the mislike of Christchurch Mariage of the Artes at Woodstock’, subscribed in monogram format. ‘HK’.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 67.

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• KiH 359: Henry King, The Farwell (‘Farwell fond Love, under whose childish whipp’)

Copy, untitled but for the Latin motto, subscribed in monogram format. ‘HK’.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 150.

MS V.b.48

A folio composite volume of state and legal tracts, in various largely professional hands, 472 leaves, in half calf on marbled boards.

Bookplate of William Constable, FRS, FAS.

ff. 1r-1D^v

• CtR 293: Sir Robert Cotton, The Manner and Meanes how the Kings of England have from time to time Supported and Repaired their Estates. Written...1609.

Copy, in an ungainly secretary hand, headed ‘Extracts out of Records wherin may be collected by what meanes the kings of England haue and may raise moneies’, inscribed in a subsequent hand ‘...written by S^r. Robt. Cotton...’. c.1620s.

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].

MS V.b.50

A large folio volume of state and antiquarian tracts and papers for c.1530-1631, predominantly in two professional secretary hands, one of them that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 762 numbered pages (lpp. 148-76 blank, lacking pp. 345-56, plus 28 blanks), in old reversed calf.

From the library of William T. Smedley (1851-1934), Baconian. Acquired c.1924.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 265-7 (No. 109).

pp. 1-22

• CtR 261: Sir Robert Cotton, A Discourse Off the Offyce of the Lord Steward of England, Written by S^r Robte Cotton, knight, and Baronnett

Copy, as ‘written by Sir Robert Cotton Knight & Baronnett’, subscribed ‘Ro: Cotton:’.

Tract beginning ‘For the Clearinge whereof wee will intreate off the name...’. Hearne (1771), II, 1-12.

pp. 22-8

• CmW 42: William Camden, The Antiquity, Authority, and Succession of the High Steward of England

Copy, headed ‘A Discourse of the office of the Lord Steward of England Collected by master William Camden’.

A tract beginning ‘Whom we call in English steward, in Latine is called seneschallus...’. First published in Hearne (1771), II, 38-40.

pp. 29-34

• CtR 246: Sir Robert Cotton, A Discourse Of the Offyce of the Lord Highe Connstable of England, written by S^r: Robte Cotton, knight, and Baronett

Copy, as ‘written by S^r Robert Cotton knight & Baronett’, subscribed ‘Ro: Cotton’.

Tract beginning ‘Yff wee curiouslye will looke the Roote of this question...’. Hearne (1771), II, 65-7.

pp. 35-46

• CtR 63: Sir Robert Cotton, The Antiquitye and Offyce of Earle Marshall of England, Written by S^r Robte Cotton, knight, and Baronett

Copy, as ‘Written by Sir Robert Cotton knight and Baronett’.

Tract beginning ‘The plentye of this discourse, the last question of Highe Connstables, whereto...’. Hearne (1771), II, 97-103.

pp. 47-56

• CtR 227: Sir Robert Cotton, A Discourse Of the Antiquitye, and Offyce of the Earle Marshall of England, written by S^r Robte Cotton, knight, Att the request of the Lord Henrye Howard, Earle of Northampton [25 November 1602]

Copy, as ‘written by Sir Robert Cotton Knight’.

A dedicatory epistle beginning ‘Sir, Yo^r small tyme, I must Ballance, w^th as sclend^r Aunswere...’ followed by a tract beginning ‘Because the Jurisdiction att the Comon Lawe was vncertayne...’.

pp. 71-86

• CmW 31.5: William Camden, The Antiquity and Office of the Earl Marshall of England

Copy, headed ‘The Etimologie, Antiquitie and office of the Earle Marshall of England’.

A tract beginning ‘Such is the vncertainety of etimologyes...’ and sometimes entitled in manuscripts ‘The Etymology, Antiquity and Office of the Earl Marshall of England’. First published, as ‘Commentarius de etymologia, antiquitate, & officio Comitis Marescalli Angliae’, in Camdeni epistolae (London, 1691), Appendix, pp. 87-93. Hearne (1771), II, 90-7.

pp. 281-301

• RaW 1111: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Present Stat of Thinges as they now Stand betweene the three great Kingedomes, Fraunce, England, and Spaine

Copy, headed ‘The three greate kingdomes of England, France and Spaine’, subscribed ‘Anno Domini 1623’. c.1623.

A tract beginning ‘These three great kingdoms as they now stand are to be compared to the election of a king of Poland...’. First published in Lefranc (1968), pp. 590-5, and discussed pp. 586-90. The attribution to Ralegh subsequently doubted by Professor Lefranc (private communication). If the tract dates from 1623, as appears in one MS, it could not have been weitten by Ralegh.

MS V.b.66

A folio composite volume of antiquarian papers, in various hands and paper sizes, fourteen items, in modern boards. Papers collected by, and chiefly in the hand of, Sir William Dugdale (1605-86), antiquary and herald, in preparation for his Antiquities of Warwickshire (1656). Mid-17th century.

item 4 (f. 12r-v)

• RaW 941: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copy, in Dugdale's hand, of a letter by Ralegh to Sir Robert Carr, on both sides of a narrow octavo leaf.

MS V.b.82

Copy. Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘written by the honorable Kn^it: S^r: Henry Wotton Prouost of Eaton Colledge’, 18 tall folio leaves, in modern boards. c.1634-41.

WoH 282: Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham

Phillipps MS 19020. No. 1340 in an unidentified sale.

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

MS V.b.83

A tall folio miscellany of extracts from prose romances, 56 leaves (including blanks), largely written on rectos only, in modern half morocco on cloth boards. c.1600.

Note stating this MS was lent to Sidney Lee (1859-1926), literary scholar, by James Lee.

ff. 3r-5r

• LoT 15: Thomas Lodge, Rosalynde. Euphues Golden Legacie

Extracts.

First published in London, 1590. Gosse, Vol. I, last item.

ff. 5r-8r

• GrR 2: Robert Greene, Ciceronis Amor. Tullies Loue

Extracts.

First published in London, 1589. Grosart, VII, 95-216.

ff. 8r-11r

• GrR 1: Robert Greene, Arbasto: The Anatomie of Fortune

Extracts.

First published in London, 1584. Grosart, III, 171-253.

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• LoT 12: Thomas Lodge, Euphves Shadow, The Battaile of the Sences

Extracts.

First published in London, 1592. Gosse, Vol. II.

MS V.b.93

A large untitled folio anthology of quotations chiefly from Elizabethan and Stuart plays, alphabetically arranged under subject headings, in a single mixed hand, in double columns, 900 pages (lacking pp. 1-4, 379-80, 667-8, 715-20 and 785-8), including (pp. 893-7) an alphabetical index of some 351 titles of plays, in modern boards. This is the longest known extant version of the unpublished anthology Hesperides or The Muses Garden, by John Evans, entered in the Stationers' Register on 16 August 1655 and subsequently advertised c.1660, among works he purposed to print, by Humphrey Moseley. Another version of this work, in the same hand, dissected by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), is now distributed between Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Halliwell-Phillipps, Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare, Folger, MS V.a.75, Folger, MS V.a.79, and Folger, MS V.a.80. c.1656-66.

Formerly MS 469.2.

This MS identified in IELM, II.i (1980), p. 450. Discussed, as the ‘master draft’, with a facsimile of p. 7 on p. 381, in Hao Tianhu, ‘Hesperides, or the Muses' Garden and its Manuscript History’, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/4 (December 2009), 372-404 (the full index printed as ‘Catalogue A’ on pp. 385-94).

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• B&F 214: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Extracts

Extracts from numerous plays.

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• BcF 688: Francis Bacon, Extracts

Extracts from several works by Bacon.

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• BuR 1.23: Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

Extracts.

First published in Oxford, 1621. Edited by A.R. Shilleto (introduced by A.H. Bullen), 3 vols (London, 1893). Edited variously by Thomas C. Faulkner, Nicolas K. Kiessling, Rhonda L. Blair, J.B. Bamborough, and Martin Dodsworth, 6 vols (Oxford, 1989-2000).

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• CaW 131: William Cartwright, Extracts

Extracts from plays.

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• ChG 35: George Chapman, Extracts

Extracts from plays.

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• CrR 456: Richard Crashaw, Extracts

Extracts from poems.

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• DaW 158: Sir William Davenant, Extracts

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• DkT 61: Thomas Dekker, Extracts

Extracts from several plays.

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• FeO 105: Owen Felltham, Resolves

Extracts.

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• FuT 17: Thomas Fuller, Extracts

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• HaW 49.5: William Habington, The Queene of Arragon. The Song in the fourth Act (‘Fine, young folly, though you were’)

Extracts.

First published, anonymously, in London, 1640. The song, in a musical setting by William Tompkins, published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues, Book III (London, 1653). Allott, p. 152.

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• HeR 450: Robert Herrick, Extracts

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• HyT 16: Thomas Heywood, Extracts

Extracts from plays, including If You Know not Me, You Know No Bodie; or, The Troubles of Queene Elizabeth (1605) and The Rape of Lucrece (1609).

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• JnB 770: Ben Jonson, Extracts

Extracts from various works.

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• KiW 16: Sir William Killigrew, Extracts

Extracts from plays.

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• MiT 36: Thomas Middleton, Extracts

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• MnJ 140: John Milton, Extracts

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• RaW 678.7: Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World

Extracts.

First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.

MS V.b.94

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single accomplished professional hand, ii + 222 pages, with an ‘Index’, in contemporary calf. c.early 1700s.

Inscribed on the front pastedown ‘to be left at Inbourg's Muff-shop / Pall-Mall’ and ‘S^t hov^r Singleton’. Formerly Folger MS 473.1.

pp. 104-6

• EtG 75: Sir George Etherege, A Song on Basset (‘Let equipage and dress despair’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published (lines 1-16 only) in Choice Ayres and Songs, Fourth Book (London, 1683). Published complete in Lycidas (London, 1688). Thorpe, pp. 11-12.

pp. 110-12

• BeA 1: Aphra Behn, The Coquet (‘Melinda, who had never been’)

Copy, headed ‘Song on M^rs M. How-d’.

First published in La Monstre, or, The Lover's Watch (London, 1686). Summers, VI, 29-30.

pp. 113-15

• DoC 259: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Mr. Bays (‘Thou mercenary renegade, thou slave’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in POAS; collated in Harris.

First published in J.R., Religio Laici, or A Layman's Faith ([London, 1688]). POAS, IV (1968), 79-80. Harris, pp. 18-20.

p. 141 et seq,

• DoC 361.5: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Town Life (‘Once how I doted on this jilting town’)

Copy.

First published in State Poems (London, 1697). POAS, IV, 62-7. An argument for Dorset's authorship advanced in O.S. Pickering, ‘An Attribution of the Poem The Town Life (1686) to Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset’, N&Q, 235 (September 1990), 296-7.

MS V.b.110

A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, largely in one hand, iv + 544 pages (including numerous blanks), in vellum boards. Inscribed, and evidently compiled, by Sir Henry Oxinden (1609-70), of Barham, Kent. c.1642-70.

Inscribed ‘Lee Warly. Canterbury. 1764’. Booklabel of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector.

p. [ii]

• MrC 4: Christopher Marlowe, In obitum honoratissimi viri Rogeri Manwood militis, quaestorii Reginalis Capitalis Baronis (‘Noctivagi terror, ganeonis triste flagellum’)

Copy, subscribed ‘C. Marlo. Auth: Hero & Lean.’

Edited from this MS in Collier (1844) and in Bowers. Discussed in Mark Eccles, N&Q, 169 (20 July 1935), 39-41.

First published in The Works of William Shakespeare, ed. John Payne Collier (London, 1844), I, xliv. Bowers, II, 540. Gill et al., I, [220].

p. 42

• MrC 5: Christopher Marlowe, In obitum honoratissimi viri Rogeri Manwood militis, quaestorii Reginalis Capitalis Baronis (‘Noctivagi terror, ganeonis triste flagellum’)

Copy, subscribed ‘These verses aboue written were made by Christopher Marlo, who was a Shomakers son of Canterbury; it was this Marlo, who made the 2 first bookes of Hero & Leander, witnes M^r Alderich’.

This MS collated in Bowers.

First published in The Works of William Shakespeare, ed. John Payne Collier (London, 1844), I, xliv. Bowers, II, 540. Gill et al., I, [220].

p. 43

• DnJ 2937: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)

Copy of the second stanza, untitled and here beginning ‘If thou beest borne to strange sights’.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.

p. 48

• KiH 75.5: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)

Copy, untitled, headed ‘ffaire man complaine not that I fly’.

pp. 48, 58

• MrC 2: Christopher Marlowe, Hero and Leander (‘On Hellespont guiltie of True-loves blood’)

Copy of eight lines in the Second Sestyad (lines 131-4, 287-90).

Bowers, II, 448, 452; Tucker Brooke, pp. 507, 511. This MS discussed in Mark Eccles, ‘Marlowe in Kentish Tradition’, N&Q, 169 (20 July 1935), 39-41.

First published in London, 1598. Bowers, II, 423-515 (p. 448). Tucker Brooke, pp. 485-548 (p. 507). Gill et al., I, 175-209. For George Chapman's continuation of the poem, see ChG 3-4.

p. 49

• HeR 241: Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to make much of Time (‘Gather ye Rose-budd while ye may’)

Copy of lines 1-4, untitled.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 84. Patrick, pp. 117-18. Musical setting by William Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

p. 49

• CwT 418: Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes (‘In Celia's face a question did arise’)

Copy, headed ‘On Clarinda^s lips & eies’ and here beginning ‘In Clarindas face a question did arise’.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 6.

p. 58

• MrC 22: Christopher Marlowe, Edward II.

Copy of Mortimer's lines beginning ‘Base fortune, now I see, that in thy wheele’ (V, vi, 59-61).

Bowers, II, 95; Tucker Brooke, p. 384. This MS discussed in Mark Eccles, ‘Marlowe in Kentish Tradition’, N&Q, 169 (20 July 1935), 39-41.

First published in London, 1594. Bowers, II, 1-119. Tucker Brooke, pp. 307-85. Gill et al., vol. III.

p. 66

• DaJ 12: Sir John Davies, Epigrammes, 8. In Katam (‘Kate being pleasde, wisht that her pleasure coulde’)

Copy of lines 1-4, untitled.

Krueger, p. 132.

pp. 162-7

• TaJ 19: Jeremy Taylor, The Golden Grove

Extracts, as ‘by Ier Taylor. DD. printed 1656.’

First published in London 1655. Edited by L.P. Smith (Oxford, 1930).

pp. 421-3

• MnJ 53.5: John Milton, Pro populo anglicano defensio

Extracts ‘Ex Ioannis Miltons Angli pro populo Anglicano Defensione secunde Contra infamem libertu anonymum cui tutulus Regii sanguinis clamor ad coelum adversus parricidas Anglicanos, Londini Typis Neucomiami 1654’.

First published in London, 1651. Columbia, vol. VII. English translation only in Yale, IV, Part 1, 285-537.

pp. 490-5

• RaW 680.6: Sir Walter Ralegh, Instructions to his Son and to Posterity

Extracts ‘Out of Sr walter Raleighs Instructions to his sone, & to posteritie’.

A treatise in ten chapters, beginning ‘There is nothing more becoming any wise man than to make choice of friends...’. First published in London, 1632. Works (1829), VIII, 557-70. Edited by Louis B. Wright in Advice to a Son (Ithaca, 1962), pp. 15-32.

MS V.b.111

Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, headed ‘Thomas Wolsey Caraman, intituled S^t: Cicelie, trans Tiberim presbiter, & Lo: Chauncellor of England, his lyffe & death written by George Cavendish’, on 51 of 52 folio leaves (some other verse and prose on ff. 51v-2r), in contemporary limp vellum. c.1600.

CvG 30: George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey

Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Roger Bradshaigh Booke 1659’. Formerly Folger MS 759.1.

Sylvester, No. 27.

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).

MS V.b.132

A folio volume of state letters principally by Bacon, entirely in the predominantly secretary hand of Ralph Crane (fl.1589-1632), poet and scribe, v + 109 leaves, with an ‘Index’ (pp. iii-v), in old quarter vellum boards. With a title-page: ‘Sundrie Letters Conteyning Matter of Elegancie, Worth & Moment, At seuerall times, & upon seuerall occasions Written to the excell^t. Ma^tie. of King James, & diuers other persons of Hono^r. & Eminencie By S^r Fra Bacon deceased aswell before he was his Mat^ies. Solliciter: as in the after Passages of his life, dignities & fortune wherein are inserted .3. Letters of K. James his owne: & some of others’. c.1630.

Bookplate of William North (d.1734), second Baron Grey of Rolleston.

pp. 1-15, 7-10, 20-101, 104-9

• BcF 618: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

Copy of numerous letters by Bacon to Queen Elizabeth, Burghley, Essex, James I, Cecil, Northumberland, Tobie Mathew, Sir John Davies, Edward Coke, Bodley, and others.

pp. 15-20

• BcF 187: Francis Bacon, Considerations touching the Queen's Service in Ireland

Copy.

First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, X, 46-51.

MS V.b.133

A folio volume comprising two plays by Orrery, in one or possibly two hands, 107 leaves (plus numerous blanks), written on rectos only, in brown crushed morocco gilt. Late 17th century.

ff. 1r-63r

• OrR 17: Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, Henry the Fifth

Copy, in a professional roman hand up to f. 60r, then continued ff. 60r-3r in a cursive italic hand, untitled.

First performed on the London stage 13 August 1664. First published London, 1668. Clark, I, 165-224.

ff. 67r-107r

• OrR 32: Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, Mustapha

Copy, in a professional roman hand, with no title-page but headed ‘Mustapha’.

First performed on the London stage 3 April 1665. First published, as Mustapha, The Son of Solyman the Magnificent, London, 1668. Clark, I, 225-304.

MS V.b.142

A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, ii + 91 leaves, virtually disbound.

f. 20r

• ElQ 97: Queen Elizabeth I, On the Sailing of the Cadiz Expedition, May 1596

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, subscribed ‘E. R:’. c.1600.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

Beginning ‘Most omnipotent Maker and Guider of all our world's mass, that only searchest and fathomest...’. Collected Works, Prayer 38, pp. 425-6. Selected Works, Prayer 4, pp. 254-6 (as ‘For the success of the expedition against Spain, June 1596’).

ff. 32r-9v

• EsR 129: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Apology

Copy, in several secretary hands. c.1600s.

f. 62r

• ElQ 236: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Latin Speech to the Heads of Oxford University, September 28, 1592

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

Beginning ‘Merita et gratitudo sic meam rationem captiuam duxerunt...’, in Autograph Compositions, pp. 163-5. An English translation, beginning ‘Merits and gratitude have so captured my reason...’, in Collected Works, Speech 20, pp. 327-8.

ff. 78r-85r

• RaW 728.208: Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment at Winchester in 1603, in a secretary hand, with related papers. Early 17th century.

Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, ‘“The Great Day of Mart”: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603’, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.

MS V.b.151

A Folio composite volume of state tracts, in three hands, 130 leaves, in old calf. c.1625-30s.

Once owned by Henry Powle (1630-92), Master of the Rolls, whose library and MS collection were assembled with the help of John Bagford (1650-1716). Bookplate of Francis North (1704-90), first Earl of Guilford, of Wroxton Abbey. Acquired by Henry Clay Folger (1857-1930) from the Arthur H. Clark Company, Cleveland (from their London warehouse) in August 1924. Formerly Folger MS 1291.3.

ff. 57r-62r

• SiP 201: Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur

Copy, in a professional, predominantly secretary hand, headed ‘S^r Phillip Sidney his letter or Treatise to her Ma^tie against Monsieurs Mariage’, with the salutation (‘Most ffeared & beloved, most sweete & Gratious Soveraigne’) superscribed and centred.

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 22.

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).

ff. 63r-73r

• RaW 665: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a War with Spain, and of the Protecting of the Netherlands

Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, as ‘written by S^r Walter Raleigh the first yeare of y^e Kinge 1602’.

A tract addressed to James I and beginning ‘It belongeth not to me to judge whether the king of Spain hath done wrong to the Netherlands...’. First published in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 299-316.

MS V.b.154

A folio commonplace book of extracts largely from religious works, under headings, in English and Latin, in a single cursive mixed hand, c.580 pages, in old boards. c.1680.

pp. 20, 250

• HkR 72: Richard Hooker, Extracts

passim

• HbT 178: Thomas Hobbes, Extracts

Extracts, including references on pp. 26 and 34.

MS V.b.159

A folio volume of state letters, the great majority by Francis Bacon to James I, comprising warrants for the King to pass grants in 1607-9, in a single professional secretary hand, 75 leaves (plus 41 blanks), in contemporary limp vellum with remains of ties. c.1620s-30s.

BcF 619: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

MS V.b.172

Copy, in a secretary hand, on thirty large sheets of paper tied head to head (Exchequer-style), subscribed ‘ffr.St. Alban Canc.’ Headed ‘To the Right Honorable the Lordes of Parliam^t: in the vpper house assembled. The humble submission and Supplicacon of the L: Chancello^r’. 1621.

BcF 479: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

From the archives of the Hastings family. Eevidently an official copy owned by Henry Hastings (1586-1643), fifth Earl of Huntingdon, who was chairman of the Lords committee relating to the case.

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

MS V.b.173

A large folio of state tracts and parliamentary speeches and proceedings, in several professional hands, 263 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, dated 1701.

ff. 26r-35v

• RaW 1112: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Present Stat of Thinges as they now Stand betweene the three great Kingedomes, Fraunce, England, and Spaine

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed in another hand ‘Of the match w^th Spayne’. c.1620s-30s.

Edited from this MS in Lefranc (1968), pp. 590-5, and discussed pp. 586-90.

f. 38r

• ElQ 177: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech Opening the 1571 Parliament, April 2, 1571

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, introduced ‘...The Queen began to speake a fewe wordes to this effect or thus:...’.

Brief speech beginning ‘My right loving lords and you all, our right faithful and obedient subjects, we in the name of God....’. First published in Simonds D'Ewes, The Journalls of All the Parliaments during the Raign of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1682), p. 137. Hartley, I, 195. Collected Works, Speech 11, pp. 108-9.

f. 92r-v

• BcF 377: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

Copy of a speech by Bacon, in a professional secretary hand.

f. 132r-3r

• BcF 378: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

Copy of Bacon's speech, 8 March ‘1592’, in a professional secretary hand.

MS V.b.192

A fragment of a copy of the play(s), in a professional secretary hand, 17 small folio leaves, in old calf. Paginated 17-28, 37-38, with running heads ‘The first dayes playe’, and 43-58, 63-66, with running head ‘The second dayes playe’. c.1580-1630.

BaJ 32: John Bale, The Resurrection of Our Lord

Bookplate of T. Brayne, Oswestry, Shropshire.

Edited from this MS, with facsimiles of pp. 23, 50-1, in Malone Society edition. The MS recorded in Davies, p. 237 (xi).

A miracle play of c.1530-60 of unknown authorship, but possibly by Bale, who lists among his own works two plays on ‘the buriall and resurrection of Christ’. First published, ed. J. Dover Wilson, Bertram Dobell, and W.W. Greg, Malone Society (Oxford, 1912).

MS V.b.195

Copy of an abbreviated version of part of the tract, in a professional hand, on eight folio leaves. Beginning with the heading ‘What Inconueniences & abuses haue falne out by suffringe the kings att Armes to giue Coats’ and text beginning ‘The originall word which Ierome translats Nobilem implies notabilenes...’ and ending ‘...soe that their owne faint collors may be deerly purchased &c. Finis’. c.1620.

HoH 25: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A brief discourse of the right use of giving arms

Formerly Folger MS 1743.1.

A transcript of this MS made c.1900, on 15 folio pages, is Folger MS W.b.20.

MS V.b.197

A folio songbook, largely in one hand, written from both ends, vi + 241 pages including blanks(Part I: pp. 1-207; Part II: pp. 1-34), in contemporary panelled calf gilt (rebacked). Early 18th century.

Inscribed (Part I, p. [iii]) ‘Liber Georgij Forman Anno Domini April 8^th 1721’; ‘John Ladds Book October the 9 in the year of our Lord 1764’; and (Part II, p. 2) ‘Liber Georgij Forman Anno Domini 1717 November Undecimo Die’; ‘Thomas Lea Southgate, Gipsy Hill, Kent’; and ‘Johannes Gilbert A. M. Coll. Christ. Cantab.’ Puttick & Simpson's, 1890. Formerly Folger MS 1634.4.

Part I, p. [iii]

• DrJ 105: John Dryden, An Ode, On the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell. Late Servant to his Majesty, and Organist of the Chapel Royal, and of St. Peter's Westminster (‘Mark how the Lark and Linnet Sing’)

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

This MS collated in California.

First published (with a musical setting by John Blow) in London, 1696. Kinsley, II, 863-4. California, IV, 467-9. Hammond, IV, 362-4.

Part I, pp. 1-2

• CoA 157.5: Abraham Cowley, The Rich Rival (‘They say you're angry, and rant mightilie’)

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, headed ‘The Rich Rival. Words out of Cowley’.

First published in The Mistresse (London, 1647). Waller, I, 108-9. Sparrow, pp. 106-7. Collected Works, II, No. 41, p. 70.

Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in The Theater of Music (London, 1685). Works of Henry Purcell, XXV (London, 1928), pp. 171-3.

Part I, pp. 1 bis-3

• CgW 70: William Congreve, The Old Batchelour, III, x, lines 1-25. (‘As Amoret and Thyrsis, lay’)

Copy of the song, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.

Summers, I, 194. Davis, p. 71. McKenzie, I, 64.

Part I, pp. [5-6]

• CoA 287: Abraham Cowley, Extracts

Extracts from works by Cowley

Part I, pp. 23-6

• DrJ 183: John Dryden, Song (‘Go tell Amynta gentle Swain’)

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, untitled.

This MS collated in California.

First published in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 441. California, III, 89-90. Hammond, II, 388. Musical setting by Robert King published in The Theater of Music (London, 1685), I, 30. Day, pp. 73-5. Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Orpheus Britannicus, 3rd edition (London, 1721). Works of Henry Purcell, XXII (London, 1922), pp. 133-6.

Part I, pp. 32-4

• HeR 94: Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song (‘Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return’)

Copy, in a musical setting by John Blow, untitled.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).

Part I, pp. 48-9

• EtG 59: Sir George Etherege, Song (‘Cease, ansious World, your fruitless pain’)

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, untitled.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, in The Theater of Music, Fourth Book (London, 1687). Thorpe, p. 33.

Part I, pp. 78-81

• CoA 111.5: Abraham Cowley, Ode (‘Here's to thee Dick. this whining Love despise’)

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, headed ‘The words by M^r Cowley’.

First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 26. Sparrow, pp. 33-4.

Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in The Banquet of Musick (London, 1688). Works of Henry Purcell, XXII (London, 1922), pp. 69-73.

Part I, pp. 82-4

• CoA 186.5: Abraham Cowley, The Thraldome (‘I Came, I Saw, and was undone’)

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, headed ‘The Thraldom. The words by M^r Cowley’.

First published in The Mistresse (London, 1647). Waller, I, 67-8. Sparrow, pp. 63-4. Collected Works, II, No. 2, pp. 21-2.

Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Orpheus Britannicus (London, 1698). Works of Henry Purcell, XXV (London, 1928), pp. 67-71.

Part I, pp. 90-1

• CgW 56: William Congreve, The Double-Dealer, II, iii, lines 29-41. Song (‘Cynthia frowns when'er I Woo her’)

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, headed ‘A Song in y^e Double Dealer’.

First published in London, 1694. Summers, II, 1-77 (p. 31). Davis, pp. 117-204 (p. 143). McKenzie, I, 125-245 (p. 157). Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Thesaurus Musicus (London, 1694). The Works of Henry Purcell, XVI (London, 1906), pp. 207-10.

Part I, pp. 110-11

• PsK 196: Katherine Philips, La Solitude de St. Amant. Englished (‘O! Solitude my sweetest choice’)

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, headed ‘A song on a Ground, The Words by Madam Phillips’.

This MS recorded in Zimmerman, No. 406; also in Claudia A. Limbert, ‘“The Unison of Well-Tun'd Hearts”: Katherine Philips' Friendships with Male Writers’, ELN, 19 (1991), 25-37 (p. 35).

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 170-83. Saintsbury, pp. 601-4. Thomas, III, 94-102.

A musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Comes Amoris…The First Book (London, 1687), p. 18. The Theater of Music…The Fourth and Last Book (London, 1687), p. 57. The Works of Henry Purcell, XXV, ed. Arthur Somervell (London, 1928), pp. 137-40; revised edition, ed. Margaret Laurie (1985), pp. 75-9.

Part I, pp. 118-21

• CgW 48: William Congreve, A Two-part Song, the Words by M^r. Congreve (‘There ne'er was so wretched a Lover as I’)

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, headed ‘The Words by M^r Congreve’.

First published, in a musical setting, in Henry Purcell, Orpheus Britannicus (London, 1698), Book I, p. 112. The Works of Henry Purcell, XXII (London, 1922), pp. 120-4. Dobrée, p. 376. McKenzie, II, 466-7.

Part I, pp. 128-9

• CoA 95.5: Abraham Cowley, Honour (‘She Loves, and she confesses too’)

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, headed ‘A Song upon A Ground’.

First published in The Mistresse (London, 1647). Waller, I, 144-5. Sparrow, p. 145. Collected Works, II, No. 79, pp. 116-17.

Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683). Works of Henry Purcell, XXV (London, 1928), pp. 156-8.

Part I, pp. 134-5

• LeN 9: Nathaniel Lee, The Massacre of Paris, Act V, scene i, lines 17-29. Song (‘Thy Genius, lo, from the sweet Bed of rest’)

Copy of Genius's song, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, headed ‘A Song in y^e Play calld y^e Massacre in Paris’.

First published in London, 1690. Stroup & Cooke, II, 1-63 (p. 48). Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in A Collection of Songs Set to Musick by Mr. Henry Purcell & Mr. John Eccles (London, 1696). The song published separately [1697?] (Wing L881).

MS V.b.198

A tall folio composite volume chiefly of verse, entitled The workes of the Lady Ann Southwell Decemb: 2^o 1626, assembled from the papers of Lady Ann Southwell (1573-1636), including (ff. 59r, 60v-1r) an inventory of her goods and (f. 64v-5v) a list of her books, in several hands, including hers and that of her second husband Henry Sibthorpe, as well as that of John Sibthorpe (? Henry's father), whose brief contributions date from 1588, 74 leaves (plus a few tipped-in), in 19th-century calf gilt. c.1626-36.

Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1836, item 1032. In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8581. Sotheby's, 19808 (Phillipps same), lot 699, to Bertram Dobell. Acquired from P.J. and A.E. Dobell by Henry Clay Folger in 1927. Formerly Folger MS 1669.1.

Complete edition of this volume, with facsimile examples, in The Southwell-Sibthorpe Commonplace Book: Folger MS. V.b.198, ed. Jean Klene, C.S.C. (Tempe, Arizona, 1997). Also discussed by Jean Klene, with facsimile examples, in ‘“Monuments of an Endless affection”: Folger MS V.b.198 and Lady Anne Southwell’, EMS, 9 (2000), 165-86, and discussed, with facsimiles of f. 9r-v, in Victoria E. Burke, ‘Materiality and Form in the Seventeenth-Century Miscellanies of Anne Southwell, Elizabeth Hastings, and Jane Truesdale’, EMS, 16 (2011), 219-41.

f. 1r

• SoA 28: Anne, Lady Southwell, Sonnett: 1^a. (‘ffly from the world, ô fly, thow poore distrest’)

Facsimile of f. 1r in Klene (1997), p. [164].

Klene (1997), p. 1.

f. 1r

• SoA 29: Anne, Lady Southwell, Sonnett: 2^a. (‘When I sitt reading all alone that secret booke’)

Facsimile of f. 1r in Klene (1997), p. [164].

Klene (1997), p. 1.

f. 1r

• SoA 30: Anne, Lady Southwell, Sonn: 3^a. (‘ffarewell fond World, the onely Schoole of Error’)

Facsimile of f. 1r in Klene (1997), p. [164].

Klene (1997), pp. 1-2.

f. 1r

• SoA 31: Anne, Lady Southwell, Sonnett 4^a. (‘If in the flesh where thow indrench'd do'st ly’)

Facsimile of f. 1r in Klene (1997), p. [164].

Klene (1997), p. 2.

f. 1r

• SoA 32: Anne, Lady Southwell, Sonnett. 5^a. (‘Shall I sublyme my Soule to frame a letter’)

Facsimile of f. 1r in Klene (1997), p. [164].

Klene (1997), p. 2.

f. 2r

• RaW 165: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie (‘Goe soule the bodies guest’)

Copy, in an italic hand, with corrections in another hand, untitled, subscribed in another hand ‘Anne Southwell’.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 130. Edited in Klene (1997), pp. 2-4, with a facsimile on p. [165]. Facsimile and transcription also in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), pp. 336-7, 339.

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.

f. 3r-v

• SoA 51: Anne, Lady Southwell, Letter(s)

Copy of a formal letter about poetry, addressed to Lady Ridgeway. in a neat italic hand, headed ‘To my worthy Muse that doth these lines infuse / the Lady Ridgeway’, subscribed ‘Anne Southwell / vera Copia...’.

Klene, pp. 4-5. Also edited from this MS, with a facsimile of f. 3r, in Jean C. Cavanaugh, ‘Lady Southwell's Defense of Poetry’, in Women in the Renaissance, ed. Kirby Farrell, Elizabeth H. Hageman, and Arthur F. Kinney (Amherst, 1988), 175-8.

f. 4r

• SoA 52: Anne, Lady Southwell, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Lady Southwell, to Lord Falkland, Lord Deputy of Ireland, 1628.

Klene, pp. 5-6.

f. 5r

• SoA 16: Anne, Lady Southwell, A Hym to Christ (‘Alpha Omega, Oh thow first and Last’)

Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand.

Klene (1997), pp. 6-7.

ff. 7r-8r

• SoA 23.5: Anne, Lady Southwell, [Psalm 25, to the Earl of Castlehaven] Writen by the ladie A B--------to ye first Earle of Castle hayen (‘To thee my soule I rayse’)

Copy.

Klene (1997), pp. 9-11.

f. 8r-v

• SoA 23: Anne, Lady Southwell, A paraphrase vppon Lucius Anneus Sececa on his booke of Prouidence (‘It is an easy taske to pleade the Cause’)

Copy, in an italic hand.

Klene (1997), pp. 11-12.

f. 8v

• SoA 4: Anne, Lady Southwell, Blessed Life: (‘Seest thow a man that's vassaliz'd to pleasure’)

Copy, in an italic hand, with an autograph revision.

Klene (1997), pp. 12-13.

f. 8v

• SoA 3: Anne, Lady Southwell, Anger (‘Anger proceedes from a surcharged Gaule’)

Copy, in an italic hand.

Klene (1997), p. 13.

f. 9r

• SoA 6: Anne, Lady Southwell, Dialouge: (‘Anger what art thow? Hast thow treuth to tell:’)

Copy, in an italic hand.

Klene (1997), pp. 13-14.

f. 9r

• SoA 25: Anne, Lady Southwell, Sonnet (‘Beauty, Honour, yeouth, and fortune’)

Copy, in an italic hand, untitled.

Klene (1997), p. 14.

f. 9v

• SoA 26: Anne, Lady Southwell, Sonnet: (‘Like to a lampe wherein the light is dead’)

Copy, in an italic hand.

Klene (1997), pp. 14-15.

f. 9v

• SoA 27: Anne, Lady Southwell, Sonnett (‘O how happy were I dearest’)

Copy, in an italic hand.

Klene (1997), p. 15.

f. 10r

• SoA 14: Anne, Lady Southwell, ‘ffrayle Loue is like faire flowrie fields’

Copy, in an italic hand.

Klene (1997), pp. 15-16.

f. 11r

• SoA 21: Anne, Lady Southwell, ‘Nature, Mistris off affection’

Copy, in an italic hand.

Klene (1997), pp. 16-17.

ff. 12r-13r

• SoA 15: Anne, Lady Southwell, Honor thy father and mother that the dayes may be long in the lande w^ch the lord thy god gyveth thee (‘If to be borne the Image of the Lord’)

Copy, in an italic hand, the heading partly cropped.

Klene (1997), pp. 17-20.

f. 16r

• SoA 2: Anne, Lady Southwell, ‘All.married.men.desire.to.haue good wifes’

Copy, in an italic hand.

Klene (1997), p. 20.

f. 17r

• SoA 12: Anne, Lady Southwell, Fayne would I dye whil'st thy braue muse doth liue (‘Quaintest of all the Heliconian traine’)

Copy, in an italic hand.

Klene (1997), pp. 20-1.

ff. 18r-19r

• SoA 19: Anne, Lady Southwell, A Letter to Doctor Adam B^pp of Limerick by the Lady A:S: (‘Adam first preist, first Prophet and first Kinge’)

Copy, in an italic hand.

Klene (1997), pp. 21-4.

ff. 19v-20v

• SoA 7: Anne, Lady Southwell, An Elegie written by the Lady A: S: to the Countesse of London Derrye. supposeinge hir to be dead by hir longe silence (‘Since thou fayre soule, art warbleinge to a spheare’)

Copy, in an italic hand.

Klene (1997), pp. 24-7.

f. 21r

• SoA 8: Anne, Lady Southwell, An Epitaph vppon Cassandra MackWilliams wife to S^r Thomas Ridgway Earle of London Derry. by y^e Lady A: S (‘Now let my pen bee choakt w^th gall’)

Copy, in an italic hand, subscribed ‘A. S:’.

Klene (1997), pp. 27-8.

f. 21r

• SoA 48: Anne, Lady Southwell, Written in commendations of M^r Coxe (the Lecturer of Acton) his booke of the birth of Christ (‘Thou faythfull Harrold of the morne’)

Copy, subscribed ‘A: S.’

Klene (1997), p. 28.

ff. 21v-2r

• KiH 343.5: Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind (‘Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!’)

Copy, in double columns, in a predominantly secretary hand, headed ‘An Elegie Writen by M^r Barnard brother to M^res Jernegan y^t dyed at Acton’.

Edited from this MS in Klene (1997), pp. 28-32.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.

f. 22r

• SoA 45: Anne, Lady Southwell, ‘What if I wante the dross of Tagus Strann’

Copy, in an italic hand, untitled.

Klene (1997), pp. 31-2.

f. 22r

• SoA 20: Anne, Lady Southwell, A Letter to ye Duches of Lineox; from the Ladie Anne Southwell: (‘Vouchsafe this fauor; as to tell me how’)

Copy, in an italic hand.

Klene (1997), p. 32.

f. 22r

• SoA 10: Anne, Lady Southwell, An Epitaph vpon the king of Bohemia; written by the ladye Anne Southwell (‘Here lyes a king, and gods anoynted’)

Copy, in an italic hand.

Klene (1997), p. 32.

f. 22r

• SoA 11: Anne, Lady Southwell, An Epitaph vpon y^e king of Swede (‘Maliciouse fate enuyinge humaine glorie’)

Copy, in an italic hand.

Klene (1997), pp. 32-3.

ff. 22v

• *SoA 5: Anne, Lady Southwell, ‘Come forth foule Monster, at truthes barr to stand’

Copy, with autograph revisions, untitled.

Klene (1997), pp. 33-4.

f. 23r

• SoA 9: Anne, Lady Southwell, An Epitaph vpon the Countess of Sommersett (‘To tell the shrine that its faire saint is gone’)

Copy.

Klene (1997), pp. 34-5.

f. 23v

• SoA 22: Anne, Lady Southwell, ‘Only eight soules, the waued tost Church did keepe’

Klene (1997), pp. 35-6.

f. 24r-v

• KiH 236.5: Henry King, An Elegy Upon the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus (‘Like a cold Fatall Sweat which ushers Death’)

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Klene (1997), pp. 36-9.

First published in The Swedish Intelligencer, Third Part (London, 1633). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 77-81.

f. 25r

• SoA 33: Anne, Lady Southwell, ‘The more my soule doth shrinke from loue, y^e more, loue doth inflame her’

Copy, in an italic hand.

Klene (1997), pp. 39-40.

f. 26r

• SoA 44: Anne, Lady Southwell, ‘Vnless himselfe against himselfe weare bent’

Copy, in an italic hand, untitled.

Klene (1997), pp. 40-2.

f. 26v

• SoA 24: Anne, Lady Southwell, ‘Sr. giue mee leaue to plead my Grandams cause’

Copy, in an italic hand, untitled.

Klene (1997), pp. 42-3.

f. 27r-v

• SoA 18: Anne, Lady Southwell, ‘In this frayle worlde, where soules in earth are cladd’

Copy, in an italic hand, untitled.

Klene (1997), pp. 43-4.

ff. 28r-9v

• SoA 13: Anne, Lady Southwell, The ffirst Commandement. Thou shalt haue noe other gods before mee (‘Raise vp thy ffacultyes my Soule ti's time’)

Copy, subscribed ‘A: S’.

Klene (1997), pp. 44-8.

f. 30v

• SoA 1: Anne, Lady Southwell, An abstract of The liues of the Romaine Emperours; as the haue bine related vnto vs by Plinie Plutarch; and Suetonius and first of the first (‘Fortie twoe yeares; before oure sauiours birth’)

Copy.

Klene (1997), pp. 48-51.

ff. 30v-2v

• SoA 46: Anne, Lady Southwell, ‘Who euer sawe himself but in a myrrour’

Copy, in an italic hand, untitled.

Klene (1997), pp. 48-57.

ff. 32v-3v

• *SoA 17: Anne, Lady Southwell, I am thy god thatt brought thee oute of the house of bondage thou shalt haue noe others [god] but mee (‘I tooke thee oute of claye, and gaue thee lyfe’)

Copy, with autograph revisions.

Klene (1997), pp. 51-4.

ff. 34r-5r

• *SoA 39: Anne, Lady Southwell, Thou shalt not make to thy self any graven Image nor the likenes of anything (‘Noe man may see the face of god and liue’)

Copy, with autograph revisions.

Klene (1997), pp. 54-7.

ff. 35r-7r

• SoA 42: Anne, Lady Southwell, Thou shalt not take the name of god in vayne (‘In this our hartes corruption is most exprest’)

Copy.

Klene (1997), pp. 57-60.

ff. 37r-44r

• *SoA 37: Anne, Lady Southwell, Thou shalt keepe holy the saboth daye (‘In six dayes god made this admyred balle’)

Copy, with autograph revisions.

Facsimile of f. 42v in Victoria E. Burke, ‘Medium and meaning in the manuscripts of Anne, Lady Southwell’, in Women's Writing and the Circulation of Ideas: Manuscript Publication in England, 1550-1800, ed. George L. Justice and Nathan Tinker (Cambridge, 2002), pp. 94-120 (p. 107).

Klene (1997), pp. 60-72.

ff. 44v-6r

• SoA 34: Anne, Lady Southwell, [Southwell drafts, #1] (‘why doth she buid us haue thim still in mind’)

Autograph drafts, untitled.

Facsimile of ff. 44v-6r in Klene (1997), pp. [166-9].

112 lines of miscellaneous draft verse. Klene (1997), pp. 72-6.

ff. 47v-51v

• *SoA 38: Anne, Lady Southwell, Thou shalt not commit Adooltery (‘God doth with doggs the adulterate weights exempte’)

Copy, with autograph revisions, the heading partly cropped.

Klene (1997), pp. 76-84.

ff. 52r-3r, 54r-5r, 56r-7r

• *SoA 40: Anne, Lady Southwell, Thou shalt not steale (‘Harken you potentates and mighty kinggs’)

Copy, in an italic hand, with autograph revisions.

Klene (1997), pp. 84-91.

ff. 57r-8v

• SoA 35: Anne, Lady Southwell, [Southwell drafts, #2] (‘riches ar unto men as ar thar foode’)

Autograph drafts, untitled.

Facsimile of ff. 57r-8v in Klene (1997), pp. [170-3], and of f. 58r in Klene, EMS (2000), p. 168.

66 lines of miscellaneousdraft verse. Klene (1997), pp. 91-3.

MS V.b.206

A folio volume comprising two works, the second a speech by Justice Crooke, in a single professional secretary hand, 60 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum (now detached) within 19th-century boards.

Sotheby's, 1871 (Lilly sale). Phillipps MS 26061.

pp. 1-45

• DaJ 272: Sir John Davies, The Question concerning Impositions

Copy, with a title-page in italic majuscules, as ‘By his Ma^ties Attvrney Generall of Ireland’, the dedicatory epistle subscribed ‘Jo: Dauis’.

A treatise, with dedicatory epistle to James I, comprising 33 chapters, beginning ‘The Question it self is no more than this, Whether the Impositions which the King of England hath laid and levied upon Merchandize, by vertue of his Prerogative onely...’. First published in London, 1656. Grosart, III, 1-116.

MS V.b.208

Copy of Part I, in a single professional hand, on 49 folio pages (plus a title-page and some blanks), in contemporary vellum boards. Entitled ‘The First Part of Cecilia and Clorinda Or Love in Armes A Tragæ comedy. The Scene Lumbardy Written by Thomas Killigrew In Turin Dedicated to the Lady Anne Villiers, Countesse of Morton’. c.1650.

*KiT 3: Thomas Killigrew, Cicilia and Clorinda, or, Love in arms, a tragi-comedy, Parts I and II

Inscribed at the end ‘Anna Maria Joynes’. Later owned by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. Sotheby's, 22 February 1932 (Thorn-Drury sale), lot 2407 (erroneously described as autograph). Item 25 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 4458.

First published in Thomas Killigrew, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1664), pp. 215-309.

MS V.b.209

Manuscript of a play by T. Killigrew including a song by T. Carew, in a professional secretary hand, 51 folio leaves, in contemporary vellum boards. c.1650.

Later owned by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. Sotheby's, 22 February 1932 (Thorn-Drury sale), lot 2407 (erroneously described as autograph). Formerly Folger MS 4458.

pp. 1-50

• *KiT 4: Thomas Killigrew, Cicilia and Clorinda, or, Love in arms, a tragi-comedy, Parts I and II

Copy of Part II, on 50 folio leaves (plus title-page and some blanks), entitled ‘The second Part of Cecilia and Clorinda or Loue in Armes A Trage-Comedy Written in Florence By Thomas Killigrew Dedicated to the Lady Dorothy Sidney Countesse of Svnderland’.

First published in Thomas Killigrew, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1664), pp. 215-309.

pp. 50-1

• CwT 313: Thomas Carew, Foure Songs by way of Chorus to a play, at an entertainment of the King and Queene, by my Lord Chamberlaine (‘From whence was first this furie hurld’)

Copy of the first song, the ‘Chorus of Jealousy’, headed ‘The song in Parts’, subscribed with Killigrew's ‘Apologie’ beginning ‘This Chorus was written by M^r. Thomas Carew Cupbearer to Charles the first, and Sung in a Masque at Whitehall Anno 1633. And I presume to make vse of it here, because in the first designe, 'twas writt at my request, upon a dispute held betwixt M^res Cicilia Crofts and my self…’.

This version is printed in Thomas Killigrew, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1664), pp. 308-9.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 59-62.

MS V.b.210

A folio miscellany chiefly of verse, formally set out in a single neat secretary hand, compiled between 6 April and 17 November 1604, 80 pages, in modern marbled boards. 1604.

Phillipps MS 9062. Sotheby's (Phillipps sale), lot 00. Inscribed in pencil (f. [ii^r]) as owned on 11 May 1903 by William Augustus White (1843-1927), American banker and collector. Items 185 and 624 respectively in two unidentified sale catalogues.

pp. 19-30

• DrM 45: Michael Drayton, The Owle (‘What time the the Sunne by his all-quickning Power’)

Copy, in double columns, complete with dedication to Sir Walter Aston (beginning ‘For the shrill Trumpet, and sterne Tragick sounds’), transcribed from the edition of 1604, subscribed ‘FINIS xxi Die Aprilis, Anno 1604’.

This MS recorded in Hebel, V (1961), 283. A photocopy is in the Bodleian, Juel-Jensen Drayton Collection.

First published in London, 1604. Hebel, II, 477-514.

p. 45

• FlJ 7.5: John Fletcher, To his friend (‘You that come by, and chance this booke to see’)

First published, subscribed ‘I. F.’, in John Weever, The Whipping of the Satyre (London, 1601). Edited, and attributed to Fletcher, in Charles Cathcart, ‘John Fletcher in 1600-1601: Two Early Poems, an Involvement in the “Poets' War”, and a Network of Literary Connections’, PQ, 81/1 (Winter 2002), 33-51.

pp. 59-69

• BrN 50: Nicholas Breton, Pasqvils Mad-cappe (‘Why should man loue this wretched world so much’)

Copy, in double columns, subscribed ‘FINIS. xx^o Die Mensis Maij Anno Dni 1604’.

First published in London, 1600. Grosart, I (e).

MS V.b.212

Copy, in a neat mixed hand, with scene and stage directions added in a secretary hand (on ff. 2r, 3r, 7v, 18v, 20r, 23v, 24r, and 25r), on 26 folio leaves (cropped at the top), in modern calf. With a title-page (f. 1r) ‘The Royall Slaue A Trage-Comedy’, and including prologues and epilogues to the King and Queen and University. c.1636.

CaW 88: William Cartwright, The Royal Slave

Item 65 in an unidentified American (?Rosenbach) sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 7044.

This MS collated in Evans, with a facsimile of f. 25r opposite p. 168.

First performed at Christ Church, Oxford, 30 August 1636. First published in Oxford, 1639. Evans, pp. 193-253.

MS V.b.213

Two Elizabethan works bound together (the second being parliamentary speeches in 1558-63), in two different secretary hands, 25 folio pages, remains of later half-calf marbled boards.

pp. 1-13

• BcF 312: Francis Bacon, A Device to Entertain the Queen at Essex House, 17 November 1595

Copy of six speeches, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed ‘Reminbrances for the king of Spaine Speaches Deliuered to her Ma^tie: on the 17^th: Day of Nouember 1595 A Dialogue Betweene A 1. Melancholy dreaming Hermite. 2. A Mutinous brainesicke Soldier and 3. A busie, tedious-Secretarie’, including two speeches by the Squire. Early 17th century.

Edited from this MS in Birch.

First published in Letters, Speeches &c. of Francis Bacon, ed. Thomas Birch (London, 1763). Spedding, VIII, 378-86. Probably written partly by the Earl of Essex, partly by his secretariat, including Bacon. See 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. 88-90, and Paul E.J. Hammer, ‘Upstaging the Queen: the Earl of Essex, Francis Bacon and the Accession Day celebrations of 1595’, in The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque, ed. David Bevington and Peter Holbrook (New York & Cambridge, 1998), pp. 41-66.

MS V.b.214

A thick folio volume of state letters and tracts, a number relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in several largely secretary hands, 271 leaves, in contemporary calf (rebacked). Early 1600s.

Inscribed (front pastedown) ‘Die veneris. Julij: 1^o 1601. per me Richardu Greenen’ and ‘Thomas Scott’; (f. 3r) ‘G. Scott’; (f. 271v) ‘Thomas Scott’, ‘Thomas Payne’, ‘Will^m Scott’. Bookplate ‘Ex Libris Chambrun-Longworth’. Formerly Folger MS 6185.1

This volume discussed in James G. McManaway, ‘Elizabeth, Essex, and James’, in Elizabethan and Jacobean Studies Presented to Frank Percy Wilson (Oxford, 1959), pp. 219-30 (p. 221 et seq.).

ff. 61r-4r

• EsR 130: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Apology

Copy, ‘1597’ in margin.

ff. 64v-7r

• EsR 171: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, First Letter of Advice to the Earl of Rutland

Copy, headed ‘The Earle of Essex to the Earle of Rutland. Jan: 4: 1594’.

The letter, dated from Greenwich, 4 January [1596], beginning ‘My Lord, I hold it for a principle in the course of intelligence of state...’.

First published, as ‘The Late E. of E. his aduice to the E. of R. in his trauels’, in Profitable Instructions; Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 27-73. Francis Bacon, Resuscitatio (London, 1657), pp. 106-10. Spedding, IX, 6-15. W.B. Devereux, Lives and Letters of the Devereux, Earls of Essex (1853), I, No. xciii.

Essex's three letters to Rutland discussed by Paul E.J. Hammer in ‘The Earl of Essex, Fulke Greville, and the Employment of Scholars’, SP. 91/2 (Spring, 1994), 167-80, and in ‘Letters of Travel Advice from the Earl of Essex to the Earl of Rutland: Some Comments’, PQ, 74/3 (Summer 1995), 317-22. It is likely that the first letter was written substantially by Francis Bacon.

f. 67v

• ElQ 253: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Latin Rebuke to the Polish Ambassador, Paul de Jaline, July 25, 1597

Copy, in an italic hand, headed ‘Oratio seu responsio Dnæ Reginæ facta oratori regis Poloniæ die lunæ 25^to Julij 1597^o’.

This MS cited in Collected Works.

Beginning ‘Oh quam decepta fui: Expectaui Legationem tu vero querelam, mihi adduxisti...’, in Autograph Compositions, pp. 168-9. An English version, beginning ‘O how I have been deceived! I expected an embassage, but you have brought to me a complaint...’, in Collected Works, Speech 22, pp. 332-4.

ff. 67v-8r

• ElQ 237: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Latin Speech to the Heads of Oxford University, September 28, 1592

Copy, added at the foot of the two pages in an italic hand, headed in the margin ‘Oratio Reginæ Elizabethæ ad Oxoniæ studiosos’.

ff. 106v-9r

• RaW 942: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to his ‘Noble Cosin’ relating to Cadiz, 21 January 1596/7.

ff. 136v-93r

• SpE 54: Edmund Spenser, A View of the Present State of Ireland

Copy, in at least two secretary hands, apparently transcribed from SpE 63, subscribed ‘A^o. Dⁱ. 1597’.

Formerly Folger MS 6185. Collated in Variorum.

First published in Sir James Ware, The Historie of Ireland (Dublin, 1633). Variorum, Prose Works (ed. Rudolf Gottfried), pp. 39-231.

Spenser's authorship of this ‘View’ is generally accepted, especially in light of the comparable views about Ireland in The Faerie Queene. A cautionary note about authorship is sounded, however, in Jean R. Brink, ‘Constructing the View of the Present State of Ireland’, Spenser Studies, 11 (1994), 203-28; in her ‘Appropriating the Author of The Faerie Queene: The Attribution of the View of the Present State of Ireland and A Brief Note of Ireland to Edmund Spenser’, in Soundings of Things Done: Essays in Early Modern Literature in Honor of S.K. Heninger, Jr., ed. Peter E. Medine and Joseph Wittreich (Newark, Delaware, 1997), 93-136. See also, inter alia, Andrew Hadfield, ‘Certainties and Uncertainties: By Way of Response to Jean Brink’, Spenser Studies, 12 (1998), 197-202, and Jean R. Brink, ‘Spenser and the Irish Question: Reply to Andrew Hadfield’, Spenser Studies, 13 (1999), 265-6.

f. 197r-v

• BcF 620: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Bacon to Essex, inscribed in the margin ‘An answer to y^e precedent Lre: Both written by Fra. Bacon.’, following (on ff. 195r-6v a letter ny Anthony Bacon (?) dated 17 February 1600/1.

f. 200r

• BcF 316: Francis Bacon, A Device to Entertain the Queen at Essex House, 17 November 1595

Copy of the Secretary's speech, headed (as an addition in a cursive secretary hand) ‘A speach at y^e tilt by y^e of Essex’.

ff. 213r-25v

• EsR 131: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Apology

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

f. 226r

• ElQ 98: Queen Elizabeth I, On the Sailing of the Cadiz Expedition, May 1596

Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, untitled.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

MS V.b.215

A large folio volume of speeches and proceedings in Parliament, in one or more professional hands, 600 pages (plus blanks), in mottled calf. Mid-late 17th century.

Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, dated 1701.

pp. 388-95

• ElQ 283: Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601

Copy of Version I, introduced ‘...her Majestie began thus to Answ^r herselfe vizt...’.

First published (Version III), as Her maiesties most princelie answere, deliuered by her selfe at White-hall, on the last day of November 1601 (London, 1601: STC 7578).

Version I. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we have heard your declaration and perceive your care of our estate...’. Hartley, III, 412-14. Hartley, III, 495-6. Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 337-40 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 11, pp. 84-92.

Version II. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we perceive your coming is to present thanks unto me...’. Hartley, III, 294-7 (third version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 340-2 (Version 2).

Version III. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we perceive by you, whom we did constitute the mouth of our Lower House, how with even consent...’. Hartley, III, 292-3 (second version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 342-4 (Version 3). STC 7578.

Version IV. Beginning ‘Mr Speaker, I well understand by that you have delivered, that you with these gentlemen of the Lower House come to give us thankes for benefitts receyved...’. Hartley, III, 289-91 (first version).

MS V.b.218

A large folio composite volume of antiquarian and heraldic papers, in various hands, 368 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

Bookplate of Sir George Nayler (1764-1831), Garter King of Arms. Formerly Folger MS 7033.

passim

• *CmW 157: William Camden, Collectanea

Various documents belonging to Camden, partly autograph, including extensive and heavily revised drafts by Ralph Brooke (c.1563-1625), partly in his autograph, of his critiques of Camden's Britannia, notably (ff. 321-68v) ‘A Second Discoverie of Certaine Errovrs Published in the much comended Britannia 1594 Very preiudiciall to the Discentes and successions of the auncient Nobilitie of this Realme, with a reply to M^r Camdens apologie, ad Lectorem in his firsr edicon 1610. By Ra: Brooke Yorke Herauld’.

Brooke's A Second Discoverie was first published, from this MS, in an edition by John Anstis (London. 1723).

MS V.b.222

A folio volume of academic plays and orations, in Latin and English, the majority associated with Cambridge University, in several neat hands, with some later notes added c.1671, 171 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1635.

ff. 29r-37v

• AlW 264: William Alabaster, Roxana

Copy of an English version, in a small mixed hand, in double columns, subscribed ‘I B scriptore’, otherwise unascribed.

First acted at Trinity College, Cambridge c.1595?. First published in London, 1632. A translation by Dana F. Sutton put online in 1998 by the University of California at Irvine.

f. 95r-v

• StW 1473: William Strode, Speech to Charles I at Woodstock, 30 August 1635

Copy, in a cursive italic hand, headed ‘Cora Carole Rege p mag: Stroude’.

Unpublished oration, beginning ‘Augustissime Christo proximo, homo-Deus qualis pro...’.

MS V.b.223

A folio volume comprising two independent works (the second by George Buchanan), in different hands, 40 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9060. The front pastedown inscribed in June 1906 by Sir Israel Gollancz (1863-1930), literary scholar. Formerly Folger MS 421118.1.

A facsimile of this MS is in the University of London Library (MS/F 142).

ff. 1r-28r

• GrF 30: Fulke Greville, Mustapha

Copy of an early version, in a professional italic hand, the Chorus added at the end (f. 28r-v) in possibly another italic hand. c.1609.

Edited principally from this MS in Wilkes, II, 481-545. Briefly discussed in Ronald A. Rebholz, Life of Fulke Greville (Oxford, 1971), 101-2.

An early version first published in London, 1609. A later version first published in Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes (London, 1633). Bullough, II, 63-137. Wilkes, I, 210-97.

MS V.b.230

Copy, in a professional italic hand, untitled, unascribed, on 31 folio leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. Early 17th century.

RaW 589: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Dialogue between a Counsellor of State and a Justice of the Peace

A treatise, with a dedicatory epistle to James I beginning ‘Those that are suppressed and hopeless are commonly silent ...’, the dialogue beginning ‘Now, sir, what think you of Mr. St. John's trial in the Star-chamber?...’. First published as The Prerogative of Parliaments in England (‘Midelburge’ and ‘Hamburg’ [i.e. London], 1628). Works (1829), VIII, 151-221.

MS V.b.231

A folio volume of works by Katherine Philips, in a single mixed hand, 170 leaves, in contemporary vellum. An exact transcript of the 1669 edition of Philips's Poems (including all 122 poems by her, her two plays, and the preliminary commendatory poems by others), here preceded by twenty lines of verse headed ‘Cassandra preferr'd to Orinda’ and beginning ‘Let Cowley and the Rest theire fancy try’, a complimentary poem indicating possible presentation of this MS to ‘Cassandra’ [? the widowed Cecily Philips]. c.1670.

Colbeck, Radford & Co., ‘The Ingatherer’, No. 25 (August 1932), item 244, and No. 28 (December 1932). Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 323. Formerly Folger MS 440314.1.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Folger MS’: PsK Δ 9.

ff. 7v-8v

• CoA 125: Abraham Cowley, On Orinda's Poems. Ode (‘We allow'd You Beauty, and we did submit’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon M^rs: K: Phillips her Poems’.

First published in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663). Verses, Lately Written upon several Occasions (London, 1663). Waller, I, 404-6.

ff. 14r-15r

• CoA 132: Abraham Cowley, On the death of Mrs. Katherine Philips (‘Cruel disease! Ah, could it not suffice’)

Copy.

First published, among Verses written on several Occasions, in Works (London, 1668). Grosart, I, 165. Waller, I, 441-3.

f. 17r

• PsK 536: Katherine Philips, Upon the double murther of K. Charles, in answer to a libellous rime made by V.P. (‘I thinke not on the state, nor am concern'd’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 1-3. Poems (1667), pp. 1-2. Saintsbury, p. 507. Hageman (1987), pp. 584-5. Thomas, I, 69-70, poem 1.

f. 17v

• PsK 273: Katherine Philips, On the numerous accesse of the English to waite upon the King in Holland (‘Hasten (great prince) unto thy British Isles’)

Copy, headed ‘On the numerous Access of the English to wait upon the King in Flanders.’.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 3-4. Poems (1667), p. 2. Saintsbury, pp. 507-8. Thomas, I, 70-1, poem 2.

f. 18r-v

• PsK 25: Katherine Philips, Arion on a Dolphin to his Majestie in his passadge into England (‘Whom doth this stately navy bring?’)

Copy.

First published, as ‘Arion to a Dolphin, On his Majesty's passage into England’, in Poems (1664), pp. 5-9. Poems (1667), pp. 3-5. Saintsbury, pp. 508-9. Thomas, I, 71-3, poem 3.

f. 19r

• PsK 265: Katherine Philips, On the faire weather at the Coronacon (‘So clear a season, and so snatch'd from storms’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 9-10. Poems (1667), p. 5. Saintsbury, p. 509. Hageman (1987), p. 585. Thomas, I, 73, poem 4.

f. 19r-v

• PsK 481: Katherine Philips, To the Queen on her arrivall at Portsmouth. May. 1662 (‘Now that the seas and winds so kind are growne’)

Copy.

First published as a broadside (London, 1662). Poems (1664), pp. 10-13. Poems (1667), pp. 5-7. Saintsbury, pp. 509-10. Thomas, I, 74-5, poem 5.

Two known exempla of the broadside at Harvard (*pEB65 A100 662t) and at Worcester College, Oxford. Discussed, with a facsimile of the Harvard exemplum, in Elizabeth H. Hageman, ‘The “false printed” Broadside of Katherine Philips's “To the Queens Majesty on her Happy Arrival”’, The Library, 6th Ser. 17/4 (December 1995), 321-6. The Worcester College exemplum is illustrated in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), p. 158.

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• PsK 485: Katherine Philips, To the Queen's majesty, Jan. 1. 1660/1 (‘You justly may forsake a land which you’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 13-16. Poems (1667), pp. 7-8. Saintsbury, pp. 510-11. Thomas, I, 75-7, poem 6.

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• PsK 305: Katherine Philips, The Princess royall's Returne into England (‘Welcome sure pledge of reconciled powers’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Princess Royal her Return into England’.

First published, as ‘Upon the Princess Royal her Return into England’, in Poems (1664), pp. 16-18. Poems (1667), pp. 8-9. Saintsbury, pp. 511-12. Thomas, I, 77-8, poem 7.

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• PsK 255: Katherine Philips, On the death of the Duke of Gloucester (‘Great Gloucester's dead, and yet in this we must’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 18-22. Poems (1667), pp. 9-11. Saintsbury, pp. 512-13. Thomas, I, 78-9, poem 8.

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• PsK 363: Katherine Philips, To her royall highnesse, the Dutchesse of Yorke, on her command to send her some things I had wrote (‘To you, whose dignitie strikes us with awe’)

Copy, headed ‘To Her Royall Highness the Dutchess of York, on her commanding me to send her some things that I had written’.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 22-4. Poems (1667), pp. 11-12. Saintsbury, pp. 513-14. Thomas, I, 80, poem 9.

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• PsK 259: Katherine Philips, On the death of the Queen of Bohemia (‘Although the most do with officious heat’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 24-7. Poems (1667), pp. 12-13. Saintsbury, pp. 514-15. Thomas, I, 81-2, poem 10.

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• PsK 279: Katherine Philips, On the 3d September 1651 (‘As when the Glorious Magazine of Light’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 27-9. Poems (1667), pp. 13-14. Saintsbury, p. 515. Hageman (1987), pp. 585-6. Thomas, I, 82-3, poem 11.

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• PsK 472: Katherine Philips, To the noble Palaemon on his incomparable discourse of Friendship (‘We had been still undone, wrapt in disguise’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 29-31. Poems (1667), pp. 14-15. Saintsbury, pp. 515-16. Hageman (1987), pp. 586-7. Thomas, I, 83-4, poem 12.

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• PsK 495: Katherine Philips, To the Right Hono^bl. Alice, Countess of Carberry, at her enriching Wales with her presence (‘Madam, / As when the first day dawn'd, man's greedy ey’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Right Honourable Alice Countess of Carbury, at her coming into Wales’.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 31-3. Poems (1667), pp. 16-17. Saintsbury, pp. 516-17. Thomas, I, 84-5, poem 13.

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• PsK 521: Katherine Philips, To the truly noble Sir Ed: Dering (the worthy Silvander) on his dream, and navy (‘Sir, to be noble, when 'twas voted down’)

Copy, with the preamble, headed ‘To Sir Edward Deering (the noble Silvander) on his Dream and Navy, personating Orinda's preferring Rosania before Solomons Traffick to Ophir’.

First published, as ‘To Sir Edward Deering (the noble Silvander) on his Dream and Navy, personating Orinda's preferring Rosania before Solomon's Traffick to Ophir’, in Poems (1664), pp. 34-6. Poems (1667), pp. 17-18. Saintsbury, pp. 517-18. Thomas, I, 86-7, poem 14.

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• PsK 516: Katherine Philips, To the truly noble Mr Henry Lawes (‘Nature, which is the vast creation's soule’)

Copy, headed ‘To Mr. Henry Lawes’.

First published, as ‘To the much honoured Mr. Henry Lawes, On his Excellent Compositions in Musick’, in Henry Lawes, Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655). As ‘To Mr. Henry Lawes’ in Poems (1664), pp. 37-9. Poems (1667), pp. 18-19. Saintsbury, pp. 518-19. Hageman (1987), pp. 587-8. Thomas, I, 87-8, poem 15.

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• PsK 330: Katherine Philips, A sea voyage from tenby to Bristoll, 5 of September 1652. Sent to Lucasia 8th September 1652 (‘Hoise up the saile, cry'd they who understand’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 39-42. Poems (1667), pp. 19-21. Saintsbury, pp. 519-20. Thomas, I, 88-90, poem 16.

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• PsK 114: Katherine Philips, Friendship's Mysterys, to my dearest Lucasia. (set by Mr. H. Lawes.) (‘Come, my Lucasia, since we see’)

Copy.

First published in Henry Lawes, The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655). Poems (1664), pp. 43-5. Poems (1667), pp. 21-2. Saintsbury, p. 520. Hageman (1987), pp. 588-9. Thomas, I, 90-1, poem 17.

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• PsK 33: Katherine Philips, Content, to my dearest Lucasia (‘Content, the false world's best disguise’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 45-50. Poems (1667), pp. 22-5. Saintsbury, pp. 520-2. Thomas, I, 91-4, poem 18.

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• PsK 61: Katherine Philips, A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (‘Say, my Orinda, why so sad?’)

Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue of Absence 'twixt Lucasia and Orinda, Set by Mr. Hen. Lawes’.

First published, as ‘A Dialogue of Absence 'twixt Lucasia and Orinda. Set by Mr. Hen. Lawes’, in Poems (1664), pp. 50-2. Poems (1667), pp. 25-6. Saintsbury, p. 522. Hageman (1987), pp. 589-90. Thomas, I, 94-5, poem 19.

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• PsK 409: Katherine Philips, To my dear Sister Mrs. C.P. on her nuptialls (‘We will not like those men our offerings pay’)

Copy, headed ‘To my dear Sister Mrs. C.P. on her Marriage’.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 52-4. Poems (1667), pp. 26-7. Saintsbury, pp. 522-3. Hageman (1987), p. 590-1. Thomas, I, 95-6, poem 20.

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• PsK 376: Katherine Philips, To Mr. Henry Vaughan, Silurist, on his Poems (‘Had I ador'd the multitude, and thence’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 54-6. Poems (1667), pp. 27-8. Saintsbury, p. 523. Thomas, I, 96-7, poem 21.

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• PsK 312: Katherine Philips, A Retir'd friendship, to Ardelia. 23d Augo 1651 (‘Come, my Ardelia, to this bowre’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 56-9. Poems (1667), pp. 28-9. Saintsbury, p. 524. Hageman (1987), pp. 592-3. Thomas, I, 97-8, poem 22.

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• PsK 397: Katherine Philips, To M^rs M. Karne, when J. Jeffreys Esq^re courted her (‘As some great Conquerour, who knows no bounds’)

Copy, headed ‘To Mrs. Mary Carne, when Philaster courted her’.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 59-61. Poems (1667), pp. 30-1. Saintsbury, pp. 524-5. Thomas, I, 99-100, poem 23.

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• PsK 381: Katherine Philips, To Mr. J.B. the noble Cratander, upon a composition of his, which he was not willing to own publiquely (‘As when some Injur'd Prince assumes disguise’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 62-4. Poems (1667), pp. 31-2. Saintsbury, pp. 525-6. Thomas, I, 100-1, poem 24.

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• PsK 464: Katherine Philips, To the excellent M^rs. A.O. upon her receiving the name of Lucasia, and adoption into our society 29 Decemb 1651 (‘We are compleat. and faith hath now’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 102-3. Poems (1667), pp. 32-3. Saintsbury, p. 526. Thomas, I, 101-2, poem 25.

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• PsK 511: Katherine Philips, To the truly noble, and obleiging Mrs: Anne Owen (on my first approaches) (‘As in a triumph conquerours admit’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 93-4. Poems (1667), pp. 33-4. Saintsbury, pp. 526-7. Thomas, I, 102-3, poem 26.

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• PsK 214: Katherine Philips, Lucasia (‘Not to obleige Lucasia by my voice’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 64-8. Poems (1667), pp. 34-5. Saintsbury, pp. 527-8. Thomas, I, 103-5, poem 27.

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• PsK 562: Katherine Philips, Wiston=Vault (‘And why this Vault and Tomb? alike we must’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 68-70. Poems (1667), p. 36. Saintsbury, p. 528. Thomas, I, 105-6, poem 28.

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• PsK 109: Katherine Philips, Friendship in Emblem, or the Seale, to my dearest Lucasia (‘The hearts thus intermixed speak’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 70-5. Poems (1667), pp. 36-9. Saintsbury, p. 529. Thomas, I, 106-8, poem 29.

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• PsK 137: Katherine Philips, In memory of F.P. who dyed at Acton 24 May.1660 — 13th of her age (‘If I could ever write a lasting verse’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 75-80. Poems (1667), pp. 39-42. Saintsbury, pp. 530-1. Thomas, I, 109-11, poem 30.

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• PsK 155: Katherine Philips, In memory of that excellent person Mrs. Mary Lloyd of Bodidrist in Denbighshire, who dy'd the 13th of November 1656, soon after she came thither from Pembrokeshire (‘I cannot hold, for though to write be rude’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 81-7. Poems (1667), pp. 42-4. Saintsbury, pp. 531-3. Thomas, I, 111-14, poem 31.

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• PsK 506: Katherine Philips, To (the truly competent Judge of Honour) Lucasia, upon a scandalous libell made by J. Jones (‘Honour, which differs man from man much more’)

Copy, the name in the title here given as ‘J. J.’.

First published, with ‘J. Jones’ in the title, in Poems (1664), pp. 87-91. With ‘J.J.’ in the title, in Poems (1667), pp. 45-6. Saintsbury, pp. 533-5. Thomas, I, 114-16, poem 32.

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• PsK 358: Katherine Philips, To Antenor, on a paper of mine w^ch J. Jones threatens to publish to his prejudice (‘Must then my crimes become thy scandall too?’)

Copy, headed ‘To Antenor, on a Paper of mine which J.J. threatens to publish to prejudice him’.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 91-2. Poems (1667), p. 47. Saintsbury, p. 535. Thomas, I, 116-17, poem 33.

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• PsK 318: Katherine Philips, Rosania shaddow'd whilest M^rs M. Awbrey. 19. Septemb. 1651 (‘If any could my dear Rosania hate’)

Copy, headed ‘Rosania shadowed whilest Mrs. Mary Awbrey’.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 94-9. Poems (1667), pp. 48-50. Saintsbury, pp. 535-7. Thomas, I, 117-20, poem 34.

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• PsK 477: Katherine Philips, To the Queen of inconstancie, Regina, in Antwerp (‘Unworthy, since thou hast decreed’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 100-1. Poems (1667), pp. 50-1. Saintsbury, p. 537. Thomas, I, 120-1, poem 35.

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• PsK 422: Katherine Philips, To my excellent Lucasia, on our friendship. 17th. July 1651 (‘I did not live untill this time’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 104-5. Poems (1667), pp. 51-2. Saintsbury, p. 537. Hageman (1987), pp. 593-4. Thomas, I, 121-2, poem 36 (dating the poem ‘1651’).

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• PsK 325: Katherine Philips, Rosania's privage marriage (‘It was a wise and kind design of fagte’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 106-8. Poems (1667), pp. 52-3. Saintsbury, p. 538. Thomas, I, 122-3, poem 37.

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• PsK 165: Katherine Philips, Injuria amici (‘Lovely apostate! what was my offence?’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 109-12. Poems (1667), pp. 53-5. Saintsbury, pp. 538-9. Thomas, I, 123-5, poem 38.

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• PsK 89: Katherine Philips, For Regina (‘Triumphant Queen of scorne, how ill doth sit’)

Copy.

First published, as ‘To Regina Collier, on her Cruelty to Philaster’, in Poems (1664), pp. 112-13. Poems (1667), p. 55. Saintsbury, pp. 539-40. Hageman (1987), p. 594. Thomas, I, 125, poem 39.

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• PsK 371: Katherine Philips, To J.J. esq: upon his melancholly for Regina (‘Give over now thy teares, thou vain’)

Copy, headed ‘To Philaster on his Melancholy for Regina’.

First published, as ‘To Philaster, on his Melancholy for Regina’, in Poems (1664), p. 113. Poems (1667), p. 55. Saintsbury, p. 540. Hageman (1987), p. 595. Thomas, I, 126, poem 40.

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• PsK 301: Katherine Philips, Philoclea's parting. M^rs M. Stedman. Feb: 25. 1650 (‘Kinder then a condemned man's reprieve’)

Copy, headed ‘Philoclea parting’.

First published, with the date ‘Feb. 25. 1650’, in Poems (1664), p. 114. Poems (1667), p. 56. Saintsbury, p. 540. Thomas, I, 126, poem 41.

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• PsK 455: Katherine Philips, To Rosania (now Mrs Mountague) being with her, 25^th September. 1652 (‘As men that are with visions grac'd’)

Copy.

First published, with the date ‘Septemb. 25. 1652’, in Poems (1664), pp. 115-18. Poems (1667), pp. 56-8. Saintsbury, pp. 540-1. Thomas, I, 127-8, poem 42.

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• PsK 443: Katherine Philips, To my Lucasia (‘Let dull Philosophers enquire no more’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 118-20. Poems (1667), pp. 58-9. Saintsbury, p. 541. Thomas, I, 128-9, poem 43.

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• PsK 231: Katherine Philips, On Controversies in Religion (‘Religion, which true policy befriends’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 120-4. Poems (1667), pp. 59-61. Saintsbury, pp. 542-3. Thomas, I, 130-2, poem 44.

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• PsK 501: Katherine Philips, To the R^t Hono: the Lady E.C. (‘Madam / I do not write to you that men may know’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Honoured Lady E.C.’.

First published, as ‘To the Honoured Lady E.C.’, in Poems (1664), pp. 124-33. Poems (1667), pp. 61-5. Saintsbury, pp. 543-6. Thomas, I, 132-6, poem 45.

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• PsK 293: Katherine Philips, Parting with Lucasia 13^th Janu^ry 1657/8 A song (‘Well! we will doe that rigid thing’)

Copy, headed ‘Parting with Lucasia, A Song’.

First published, with the date ‘Jan 13. 1657’, in Poems (1664), pp. 133-5. Poems (1667), pp. 65-6. Saintsbury, p. 546. Hageman (1987), pp. 595-6. Thomas, I, 136-7, poem 46.

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• PsK 14: Katherine Philips, Against Pleasure. set by D^r Coleman (‘There's no such thing as pleasure here’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 135-7. Poems (1667), pp. 66-8. Saintsbury, pp. 546-7. Thomas, I, 137-8, poem 47.

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• PsK 120: Katherine Philips, God (‘Eternal reason! glorious majestie!’)

Copy, headed ‘A Prayer’ and without the quotation from More.

First published, untitled (but with quotation from Henry More), in Poems (1664), pp. 137-42. Poems (1667), pp. 68-9, as ‘A Prayer’. Saintsbury, pp. 547-8. Thomas, I, 138-41, poem 48.

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• PsK 387: Katherine Philips, To Mrs. M.A. upon absence (set by M^r Henry Law's) 12. Decemb 1650 (‘'Tis now since I began to dy’)

Copy, headed ‘To Mris. M.A. upon Absence’.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 142-4. Poems (1667), pp. 69-70. Saintsbury, p. 548. Thomas, I, 141-2, poem 49.

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• PsK 209: Katherine Philips, L'amitié: To Mrs. M. Awbrey. 6^t Aprill 1651 (‘Soule of my soule! my Joy, my crown, my friend!’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), p. 144. Poems (1667), pp. 70-1. Saintsbury, pp. 548-9. Thomas, I, 142, poem 50.

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• PsK 145: Katherine Philips, In Memory of M^r Cartwright (‘Stay, prince of Fancy, stay, we are not fit’)

Copy.

First published, as ‘To the Memory of the most Ingenious and Vertuous Gentleman Mr. Wil: Cartwright, my much valued Friend’, in William Cartwright, Comedies, Tragi-Comedies with other Poems (London, 1651). Poems (1664), pp. 145-6. Poems (1667), p. 71. Saintsbury, p. 549. Thomas, I, 143, poem 51.

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• PsK 242: Katherine Philips, On Mr Francis Finch (the excellent Palemon) (‘This is confest presumption. for had I’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 146-50. Poems (1667), pp. 72-3. Saintsbury, pp. 549-50. Thomas, I, 143-5, poem 52.

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• PsK 392: Katherine Philips, To Mrs. Mary Awbrey at parting (‘I have examin'd, and do find’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 150-4. Poems (1667), pp. 74-6. Saintsbury, pp. 550-1. Thomas, I, 145-7, poem 53.

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• PsK 415: Katherine Philips, To my dearest Antenor on his parting (‘Though it be Just to grieve when I must part’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 155-7. Poems (1667), pp. 76-7. Saintsbury, pp. 551-2. Hageman (1987), pp. 596-7. Thomas, I, 148-9, poem 54.

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• PsK 70: Katherine Philips, Engraved on Mr. John Collyer's Tombstone at Beddington (‘Here what remaines of him does ly’)

First published, with the place in the title given as ‘Bedlington’, in Poems (1664), p. 157. Poems (1667), p. 77. Saintsbury, p. 552. Thomas, I, 149, poem 55.

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• PsK 237: Katherine Philips, On Little Regina Collyer, on the same tombstone (‘Vertue's blossom, beauty's bud’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), p. 158. Poems (1667), p. 78. Saintsbury, p. 552. Thomas, I, 149, poem 56.

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• PsK 104: Katherine Philips, Friendship (‘Let the dull brutish world that know not love’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 158-61. Poems (1667), pp. 78-9. Saintsbury, pp. 552-3. Thomas, I, 150-1, poem 57.

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• PsK 287: Katherine Philips, Orinda to Lucasia parting, October 1661. at London (‘Adieu, dear Object of my Love's excess’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 139-41. Saintsbury, pp. 585-7. Thomas, I, 211-13, poem 93.

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• PsK 74: Katherine Philips, The Enquiry (‘If we no old historian's name’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 162-5. Poems (1667), pp. 80-1. Saintsbury, pp. 553-4. Thomas, I, 151-3, poem 58.

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• PsK 448: Katherine Philips, To my Lucasia, in defence of declared friendship (‘O! my Lucasia, let us speak our Love’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 165-71. Poems (1667), pp. 82-5. Saintsbury, pp. 554-6. Thomas, I, 153-6, poem 59.

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• PsK 182: Katherine Philips, La Grandeur d'esprit (‘A chosen privacy, a cheap content’)

Copy.

First published, as ‘La Grandeur d'esprit’, in Poems (1664), pp. 171-6. in Poems (1667), pp. 86-8, as ‘A Resvery’. Saintsbury, pp. 556-8. Thomas, I, 157-9, poem 60.

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• PsK 42: Katherine Philips, A Countrey life (‘How sacred and how innocent’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 177-82. Poems (1667), pp. 88-91. Saintsbury, pp. 588. Thomas, I, 159-62, poem 61. Anonymous musical setting published in The Banquet of Musick (London, 1691).

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• PsK 403: Katherine Philips, To M^rs Wogan, my honour'd friend, on the Death of her husband (‘Dry up your teares, there's ennow shed by you’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 182-4. Poems (1667), pp. 91-2. Saintsbury, p. 559. Thomas, I, 162-3, poem 62.

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• PsK 160: Katherine Philips, In memory of the most Justly honour'd M^rs Owen of Orielton (‘As when the ancient world by reason Liv'd’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 185-8. Poems (1667), pp. 92-4. Saintsbury, pp. 559-61. Thomas, I, 163-5, poem 63.

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• PsK 96: Katherine Philips, A Friend (‘Love, nature's plot, this great Creation's soule’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 189-95. Poems (1667), pp. 94-7. Saintsbury, pp. 561-3. Thomas, I, 165-8, poem 64.

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• PsK 203: Katherine Philips, L'accord du bien (‘Order, by which all things were made’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 195-203. Poems (1667), pp. 98-103. Saintsbury, pp. 563-4. Thomas, I, 169-73, poem 65.

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• PsK 170: Katherine Philips, Invitation to the Countrey (‘Be kind, my deare Rosania, though 'tis true’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 203-6. Poems (1667), pp. 103-4. Saintsbury, pp. 564-5. Thomas, I, 173-5, poem 66.

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• PsK 150: Katherine Philips, In Memory of Mrs. E. Hering (‘As some choice Plant, cherish'd by sun and aire’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 206-9. Poems (1667), pp. 104-6. Saintsbury, pp. 565-6. Thomas, I, 175-6, poem 67.

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• PsK 244: Katherine Philips, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship (‘Great Soul of Friendship, wither art thou fled?’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), p. 106. Saintsbury, pp. 566-7. Thomas, I, 176-7, poem 68. Kissing the Rod, pp. 194-5.

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• PsK 426: Katherine Philips, To my Lady Elizabeth Boyle, Singing — Since affairs of the State &c^a. (‘Subduing Fayre! what will you win’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), p. 107. Saintsbury, p. 567. Thomas, I, 177-8, poem 69.

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• PsK 350: Katherine Philips, Submission (‘'Tis so. and humbly I my will resign’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 209-13. Poems (1667), pp. 108-10. Saintsbury, pp. 567-9. Thomas, I, 178-81, poem 70.

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• PsK 530: Katherine Philips, 2 Corinth. 5. 19. v. God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself. 8^to Aprilis 1653 (‘When God, contracted to humanity’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 214-16. Poems (1667), pp. 110-11. Saintsbury, p. 569. Thomas, I, 181-2, poem 71.

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• PsK 570: Katherine Philips, The World (‘Wee falsly think it due unto our friends’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 217-22. Poems (1667), pp. 111-13. Saintsbury, pp. 569-71. Thomas, I, 182-5, poem 72.

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• PsK 342: Katherine Philips, The Soule (‘How vaine a thing is man, whose noblest part’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 222-8. Poems (1667), pp. 114-17. Saintsbury, pp. 571-3. Thomas, I, 185-8, poem 73.

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• PsK 128: Katherine Philips, Happyness (‘Nature courts happiness, although it be’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 228-31. Poems (1667), pp. 118-19. Saintsbury, pp. 573-4. Thomas, I, 188-90, poem 74.

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• PsK 55: Katherine Philips, Death (‘How weak a Star doth rule mankind’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 232-4. Poems (1667), pp. 119-20. Saintsbury, p. 574. Thomas, I, 190-1, poem 75.

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• PsK 487: Katherine Philips, To the Queen's Majesty, on her late Sickness and Recovery (‘The publick Gladness that's to us restor'd’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 234-6. Poems (1667), pp. 121-2. Saintsbury, pp. 574-5. Thomas, I, 191-2, poem 76.

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• PsK 223: Katherine Philips, An ode upon retirement, made upon occasion of Mr. Cowley's on that subject (‘No, no, unfaithfull World, thou hast’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon Mr. Abraham Cowley's retirement. Ode’.

First published, as ‘Ode. On Retirement’, in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663), pp. 45-8 [apparently unique extant exemplum Folger C6681.5]. as ‘Upon Mr. Abraham Cowley's Retirement. Ode’ in Poems (1664), pp. 237-42. Poems (1667), pp. 122-4. Saintsbury, pp. 575-7. Thomas, I, 193-5, poem 77.

f. 77r-v

• PsK 174: Katherine Philips, The Irish Greyhound (‘Behold this Creature's Form and state’)

Copy.

First published in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663), p. 54 [apparently unique extant exemplar Folger, C6681.5]. Poems (1667), p. 125. Saintsbury, p. 577. Thomas, I, 195-6, poem 78.

f. 77v

• PsK 333: Katherine Philips, Song, to the tune of, Sommes nous pas trop heureux (‘How prodigious is my Fate’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), p. 126. Saintsbury, p. 577. Thomas, I, 196-7, poem 79.

f. 78r-v

• PsK 63: Katherine Philips, A Dialogue Betwixt Lucasia & Rosania, Imitating that of Gentle Thirsis (‘My Lucasia, leave the Mountain tops’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 126-7. Saintsbury, pp. 577-8. Thomas, I, 197-8, poem 80.

f. 78v

• PsK 435: Katherine Philips, To my Lord Biron's tune of — Adieu Phillis (‘Tis true, our life is but a long disease’)

Copy, headed ‘Song to the tune of Adieu Phillis’.

First published, as ‘Song to the Tune of Adieu Phillis’, in Poems (1667), p. 127. Saintsbury, p. 578. Thomas, I, 198, poem 81.

ff. 78v-9r

• PsK 80: Katherine Philips, Epitaph. On my honour'd Mother in Law: M^rs Phillips of Portheynon in Cardiganshire, who dy'd. Jan: 1^st. A°: 1662/3 (‘Reader, stay, it is but Just’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 128-9. Saintsbury, pp. 578-9. Thomas, I, 198-9, poem 82.

f. 79r-v

• PsK 217: Katherine Philips, Lucasia, Rosania, and Orinda parting at a Fountain. July 1663. (‘Here, here are our enjoyments done’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 129-30. Saintsbury, p. 579. Thomas, I, 200-1, poem 83.

f. 79v

• PsK 83: Katherine Philips, A Farwell to Rosania (‘My Dear Rosania, sometimes be so kind’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 130. Saintsbury, p. 559. Thomas, I, 201, poem 84.

ff. 79v-80r

• PsK 424: Katherine Philips, To my Lady Ann Boyle's saying I look'd angrily upon her (‘Ador'd Valeria, and can you conclude’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 130-1. Saintsbury, pp. 579-80. Thomas, I, 201-2, poem 85.

f. 80r-v

• PsK 283: Katherine Philips, On the Welch Language (‘If honour to an ancient name be due’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 131-2. Saintsbury, pp. 580-1. Thomas, I, 202-3, poem 86.

ff. 80v-1v

• PsK 459: Katherine Philips, To the Countess of Thanet, upon her Marriage (‘Since you who Credit to all wonders bring’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 132-4. Saintsbury, pp. 581-2. Thomas, I, 203-5, poem 87.

f. 81v

• PsK 77: Katherine Philips, Epitaph. On Hector Phillips at S^t Sith's Church (‘What on Earth deserves our Trust?’)

Copy.

First published, as ‘Epitaph. On her Son H.P. at St. Syth's Church where her body also lies Interred’, in Poems (1667), p. 134. Saintsbury, p. 582. Hageman (1987), pp. 598-9. Thomas, I, 205, poem 88.

f. 82r-v

• PsK 251: Katherine Philips, On the Death of my Lord Rich, Only Son to the Earle of Warwick, who dy'd of the Small Pox. 1664 (‘Have not so many precious lives of late’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 135-6. Saintsbury, pp. 582-3. Thomas, I, 206-7, poem 89.

f. 82v

• PsK 547: Katherine Philips, The Virgin (‘The things that make a Virgin please’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), p. 136. Saintsbury, p. 583. Thomas, I, 207-8, poem 90.

f. 83r

• PsK 538: Katherine Philips, Upon the engraving. K:P: on a Tree in the short walke at Barn=Elms (‘Alass! how barbarous are we’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the graving of her Name upon a Tree in Barnelmes Walks’.

First published, as ‘Upon the graving of her Name upon a Tree in Barnelmes Walks’, in Poems (1667), p. 137. Saintsbury, p. 583. Thomas, I, 208, poem 91. Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in The Works of Henry Purcell, XXII, ed. W. Barclay Squire and J.A. Fuller-Maitland (London, 1922), pp. 153-4.

ff. 83r-4r

• PsK 416: Katherine Philips, To my dearest friend, her greatest loss, which she suffer'd the 27^th. Decemb: 1655 (‘As when two sister rivelets, who crept’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 137-9. Saintsbury, pp. 584-5. Thomas, I, 208-10, poem 92.

f. 85r-v

• PsK 268: Katherine Philips, On the 1. January 1657 (‘Th' Eternal Centre of my life and me’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 141-2. Saintsbury, p. 587. Thomas, I, 213, poem 94.

ff. 85v-6r

• PsK 427: Katherine Philips, To my Lady M. Cavendish, chosing the name of Policrite (‘That Nature in your frame has taken care’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), p. 142. Saintsbury, p. 587. Thomas, I, 213-14, poem 95.

f. 86r

• PsK 4: Katherine Philips, Against Love (‘Hence, Cupid! with your cheating Toies’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), p. 143. Saintsbury, pp. 587-8. Thomas, I, 214, poem 96.

f. 86r-v

• PsK 64: Katherine Philips, A Dialogue of Friendship multiplyed (‘Will you unto one single sense’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 143-4. Saintsbury, p. 588. Thomas, I, 215-16, poem 97.

ff. 86v-7r

• PsK 320: Katherine Philips, Rosania to Lucasia on her Letters (‘Ah! strike outright, or else forbear’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 144-5. Saintsbury, pp. 588-9. Thomas, I, 216-17, poem 98.

f. 87r-v

• PsK 404: Katherine Philips, To my Antenor, March 16. 1661/2 (‘My dear Antenor, now give o're’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 145-6. Saintsbury, p. 589. Kissing the Rod, pp. 200-1. Thomas, I, 217-18, poem 99.

ff. 87v-8r

• PsK 524: Katherine Philips, A Triton to Lucasia going to Sea, shortly after the Queen's arrival (‘My Master Neptune took such pains of late’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 146-8. Saintsbury, pp. 589-90. Thomas, I, 218-19, poem 100.

f. 88r-v

• PsK 248: Katherine Philips, On the death of my first and dearest childe, Hector Philipps, borne the 23d of Aprill, and dy'd the 2^d of May 1655, set by Mr Lawes (‘Twice Forty moneths in wedlock I did stay’)

Copy, headed ‘Orinda upon little Hector Philips’.

First published, as ‘Orinda upon little Hector Philips’, in Poems (1667), pp. 148-9. Saintsbury, pp. 590-1. Hageman (1987), p. 599. Thomas, I, 220, poem 101.

ff. 88v-9r

• PsK 465: Katherine Philips, To the Lady E. Boyl (‘Ah lovely Celimena! why’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 149-50. Saintsbury, p. 591. Thomas, I, 221-3, poem 102.

f. 89r-v

• PsK 438: Katherine Philips, To my Lord Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, on the discovery of the late Plot (‘Though you (Great Sir) be Heaven's immediate Care’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 150-1. Saintsbury, pp. 591-2. Thomas, I, 222-3, poem 103.

ff. 89v-90r

• PsK 457: Katherine Philips, To the Countess of Roscommon, with a Copy of Pompey (‘Great Pompey's Fame from Egypt made escape’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 151-2. Saintsbury, p. 592. Thomas, I, 223-4, poem 104.

ff. 90r-1r

• PsK 261: Katherine Philips, On the death of the truly honourable Sir Walter Lloid Knight (‘At Obsequies where so much grief is due’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 152-3. Saintsbury, pp. 592-3. Thomas, I, 224-5, poem 105.

f. 91r

• PsK 285: Katherine Philips, Orinda to Lucasia (‘Observe the weary birds e're night be done’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 153-4. Saintsbury, pp. 593-4. Thomas, I, 226, poem 106.

f. 91r-v

• PsK 359: Katherine Philips, To Celimena (‘Forbear, fond heart (say I) torment no more’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), p. 154. Saintsbury, p. 594. Thomas, I, 227, poem 107.

f. 91v

• PsK 19: Katherine Philips, An Answer to another perswading a Lady to Marriage (‘Forbear bold Youth, all's Heaven here’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), p. 155. Saintsbury, p. 594. Hageman (1987), p. 600. Thomas, I, 227-8, poem 108.

ff. 91v-2r

• PsK 215: Katherine Philips, Lucasia and Orinda parting with Pastora and Phillis at Ipswich (‘In your converse we best can read’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), p. 156. Saintsbury, pp. 594-5. Thomas, I, 228, poem 109.

f. 92r-v

• PsK 81: Katherine Philips, Epitaph on my truly honoured Publius Scipio (‘To the officious Marble we commit’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 156-7. Saintsbury, p. 595. Thomas, I, 229-30, poem 110.

ff. 92v-3r

• PsK 382: Katherine Philips, To Mr. Sam Cooper, having taken Lucasia's Picture given December 14. 1660 (‘If noble things can noble thoughts infuse’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 158-9. Saintsbury, p. 596. Thomas, I, 230-1, poem 111.

ff. 93r-4r

• PsK 288: Katherine Philips, Parting with a Friend (‘Whoever thinks that Joyes below’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 159-61. Saintsbury, pp. 596-7. Thomas, I, 231-3, poem 112.

f. 94r-v

• PsK 417: Katherine Philips, To my dearest Friend, upon her shunning Grandeur (‘Shine out, rich Soul! to greatness be’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 161-3. Saintsbury, pp. 597-8. Thomas, I, 233-5, poem 113.

f. 95r-v

• PsK 449: Katherine Philips, To Pastora being with her Friend (‘While you the double joy obtain’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 163-5. Saintsbury, p. 598. Thomas, I, 235-7, poem 114.

ff. 95v-6r

• PsK 428: Katherine Philips, To my Lord and Lady Dungannon on their Marriage 11. May 1662 (‘To you, who, in your selves, do comprehend’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 165-6. Saintsbury, pp. 599-600. Thomas, I, 237-9, poem 115.

ff. 96v-7r

• PsK 430: Katherine Philips, To my Lord Arch:Bishop of Canterbury his Grace 1664 (‘That private shade, wherein my Muse was bred’)

Copy.

First published, as ‘To his Grace Gilbert Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, July 10. 1664’, in Poems (1667), pp. 166-8. Saintsbury, pp. 600-1. Thomas, I, 239-40, poem 116.

ff. 98v-105r

• PsK 187: Katherine Philips, La Solitude de St. Amant. Englished (‘O! Solitude my sweetest choice’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 170-83. Saintsbury, pp. 601-4. Thomas, III, 94-102.

f. 105v

• PsK 18: Katherine Philips, Amanti ch'in pianti &c. (‘Lovers who in complaints your selves consume’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), p. 184. Saintsbury, p. 604. Thomas, III, 93.

f. 105v

• PsK 353: Katherine Philips, Tendres desers out of a French prose (‘Go soft desires, Love's gentle Progeny’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), p. 184. Saintsbury, p. 604. Thomas, III, 92.

ff. 105v-11v

• PsK 295: Katherine Philips, A Pastoral of Mons. de Scudery's in the first volume of Almahide, Englished (‘Slothful deceiver, come away’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 184-96. Saintsbury, pp. 604-9. Thomas, III, 102-16.

ff. 111v-12v

• PsK 523: Katherine Philips, Translation of Thomas a Kempis into Verse, out of Mons. Corneille's lib. 3. Cap. 2. Englished (‘Speak, Gracious Lord, thy servant hears’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 196-8. Saintsbury, pp. 609-10. Thomas, III, 116-18.

ff. 113r-44v

• PsK 577: Katherine Philips, Pompey. A Tragedy

Copy, complete with title-page, preliminaries, Dramatis Personae, Prologue and Epilogue.

Translated from Pierre Corneille's La Mort de Pompée. Tragédie (Paris, 1644). First published in Dublin, 1663. London, 1663. Poems (1667). Thomas, III, 1-91.

MS V.b.233

A tall folio comprising dramatic works by the Earl of Rochester, in a cursive rounded hand, with occasional corrections possibly in another hand, ii + 56 folio leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Late 17th century.

Inscribed (f. [ii^r] ‘M Portman’. Bookplate of ‘Henry Seymour Esq^r’. Possibly this MS or RoJ 645 the MS of ‘Lord Rochester's Lucina's Rape, or the Tragedy of Valentinian’ offered in Thomas and John Egerton's ‘Catalogue of Books comprising Several Libraries lately purchased’, Military Library, Whitehall (1792), item 1421. Similarly either this volume or British Library Add. MS 28692 offered in Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue of books, manuscripts and autograph letters [June 1848], p. 34.

ff. [1r-52r]

• RoJ 646: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Valentinian, or Lucina's Rape

Copy of an early version, with a title-page ‘Lucina's Rape Or The Tragedy of Valentinian’, ‘By the Earle of Rochester’ added afterwards.

This MS recorded in Sola Pinto, loc. cit., pp. 183-4.

The first recorded performance was at Court, 11 February 1683/4. First published in London, 1685. Collected Works of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, ed. John Hayward (London, 1926), pp. 161-238. Love, pp. 133-231, as Lucina's Rape Or The Tragedy of Vallentinian, with (pp. 232-40) [A Mask for the Tragedy of Valentinian] [by Sir Francis Fane].

ff. [53r-6v]

• RoJ 635: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Scaen of Sir Robert Howard's Play

Copy, headed ‘A Scæn of S^r Robert Howards Play, Written by the Earle of Rochester’.

This MS recorded in Sola Pinto, loc. cit., pp. 183-4.

A scene for Howard's play The Conquest of China by the Tartars. First published in Collected Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. John Hayward (London, 1926), pp. 239-47. Poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Vivian de Sola Pinto (London, 1964), pp. 61-9. Love, pp. 124-32. See also Allardyce Nicoll, ‘Dryden, Howard and Rochester’, TLS (13 January 1921), 27; J. Harold Wilson, ‘The Dating of Rochester's “Scaen”’, RES, 13 (1937), 455-8; and Jeremy Treglown, ‘The Dating of Rochester's “Scaen”’, RES, NS 30 (1979), 434-6.

MS V.b.234

A folio volume of state letters and papers, in several professional secretary hands, 1050 pages (plus a 24-page ‘Tabula’ of contents at the end), in calf. c.1630s.

Formerly MS F. 2. 20.

pp. 32-4

• LyJ 32: John Lyly, A petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth

Copy, headed ‘A Petitionarie Letter from John Lillie to Queene Elizabeth’.

Beginning ‘Most Gratious and dread Soveraigne: I dare not pester yo^r Highnes w^th many wordes...’. Written probably in 1598. Bond, I, 64-5. Feuillerat, pp. 556-7.

pp. 34-6

• LyJ 54: John Lyly, A second petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth

Copy, headed ‘Another Letter to Queene Elizabeth from John Lillie’.

Beginning ‘Most gratious and dread Soveraigne: Tyme cannott worke my peticons, nor my peticons the tyme...’. Written probably in 1601. Bond, I, 70-1. Feuillerat, pp. 561-2.

pp. 88-113, 222-4, 237-97, 696-9

• BcF 621: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

Copy of numerous letters by Bacon, to Queen Elizabeth, Essex, Cecil, Northumberland, John Davies, James I, Edward Coke, Tobie Mathew, and others.

pp. 113-29

• BcF 188: Francis Bacon, Considerations touching the Queen's Service in Ireland

Copy, subscribed ‘ffrancis Bacon’.

First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, X, 46-51.

pp. 297-305

• BcF 480: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

Copy of Bacon's supplication on 22 April 1621.

pp. 649-86

• RaW 943: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copy of letters by Ralegh to his wife, Winwood, James I, and Sir Robert Carr.

p. 675

• RaW 65: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

Copy, headed ‘Verses found in S^r Walter Raleighs Bible in the Gate house’.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 154.

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).

MS V.b.235

A composite folio volume of verse and drama, in different hands, 99 leaves, in modern black morocco elaborately gilt. Comprising principally (ff. 1r-73r) works by William Basse (1653), in italic hands.

Once owned by the Rev Mr Payne, Prebendary of Wells, who showed it to Thomas Warton (1728-90), poet and historian. Also variously owned by the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector; Corser sale, sold to F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector, who showed it to John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger, Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale), lot 83, to Ellis. In the Rowfant Library of Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821-95), poet. Also owned by W. R. Bixby, and by William Augustus White (1843-1927), American banker and collector (inscription 1 May 1911). Inscribed (f. 77v) ‘With W Luptons kindest wishes to T J Pettigrew Esq^re’. Item 89 in an unidentified American sale catalogue (?Rosenbach). Formerly Folger MS 421118.2

pp. 78-98

• DrJ 291: John Dryden, The State of Innocence, and Fall of Man

Copy, in a professional mixed hand, headed ‘The fall of Angells or Man in innocency’, unascribed. c.1674-7.

First published in London, 1677. Scott-Saintsbury, V, 93-178. See Vinton A. Dearing, ‘Textual Analysis of Dryden's State of Innocence’, TEXT, 2 (1985), 12-23.

MS V.b.240

Copy of part of Act III, sc.v, and Act IV, sc. i-v, in a single hand, on eight folio leaves, written to supply the missing text in a promptbook prepared for use by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, in half morocco on marbled boards. For the rest of the promptbook (part of a Third Folio) see Folger PROMPT 3d Folio M.W. Smock Alley (ShW 64.8). c.1670s-1700s.

ShW 65: William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

Recorded in Shattuck, p. 303 (No. 3).

First published in London, 1602.

MS V.b.276

Copy, in the hand of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, as ‘written in the Toure of Londo by S^r walter Raulegh...in an^o. 1610’, 52 folio leaves, disbound. c.1620.

RaW 590: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Dialogue between a Counsellor of State and a Justice of the Peace

Sotheby's, 2 March 1965, lot 311, to Dawson. Formerly Folger MS Add. 447.

MS V.b.280

The lute book of John Dowland, partly in his hand, 34 leaves. c.1600.

A facsimile edition of this volume published as The Folger ‘Dowland’ Manuscript, intro. Ian Harwood (Lute Society, 2003).

f. 16r

• EsR 97: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, ‘Can she excuse my wrongs with vertues cloake’

Copy of the incipit only, in a musical setting by John Dowland.

First published in John Dowland, The First Booke of Songes or Ayres (London, 1597). Discussed and attribution to Essex rejected in May, Poems, pp. 114-15. EV 4476.

MS V.b.284

A folio commonplace book of extracts, in a small predominantly italic hand, 174 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1660.

Numerous names inscribed on the front pastedown and f. 2r, including ‘This was M^r Jn^o White's’, ‘John Lambert and Elinor Corneforth married the 22 June. 1659’, ‘Jane Todd Maij 13. 1655’, and members of the Jackson and Johnson families. Bookplate of John Towlerton Leather (1804-85), hydraulic engineer, inscribed ‘Ex libris Brent Maxfield’.

ff. 148r-55v

• TaJ 25: Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

Extracts, headed ‘Jer: Taylor. holie living’.

First published in London, 1650.

ff. 156r-65v

• TaJ 21: Jeremy Taylor, The Great Exemplar

Extracts, headed ‘The great exemplar’.

First published in London, 1649.

ff. 166r-9r

• TaJ 32: Jeremy Taylor, Unum Necessarium

Extracts, headed ‘Vnum mecessarium, or the doctrine and practise of repentance. By Jer: Taylor’.

First published in London, 1655.

MS V.b.296

A folio memorandum book, in English and Latin, entitled (p. 1) ‘A book of Divers necessary remembraunces’, in various hands, 376 pages (including many blanks, a few leaves detached), in a wallet binding of embossed leather, straps and one remaining buckle. Compiled over a period by Richard Dering (d. 1612), of Surrenden, Kent, his son Anthony (1558-1635), and his grandson Sir Edward Dering (1598-1644). c.1603-44.

Formerly Folger MS Add. 450

p. 342

• WoH 35: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, subscribed ‘H. W.’

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Wotton's “The Character of a Happy Life”’, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's “The Character of a Happy Life”’, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).

MS V.b.299

A large folio volume, containing a large collection of pedigrees and arms of noble families, in several hands, with later 19th-century notes, c.350 pages (plus two indexes), in contemporary calf. With a title-page: ‘Illorum Magnatum stemata quorum hæreditas, deficientibus masculis, as feminas deuoluta est’. c.1610.

Inscribed (on front pastedown) as ‘Ex Bibl... 1838’ of William Morton Pitt, MP (1754-1836), of Kingston House, Dorset. Phillipps MS 7437. Sotheby's, 28 June 1965, lot 41, to Myers. Formerly Folger MS Add. 469.

A microfilm is in the British Library (RP 26).

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• *CmW 158: William Camden, Collectanea

Various coats of arms and pedigrees in Camden's hand or annotated by him.

MS V.b.303

A folio volume of state tracts, in several secretary hands, with a title-page ‘A manuscript containing seuerall Discourses the heades thereof are in the next Page following...1641’, 350 pages, in half calf marbled boards. c.1642.

Bookplate of the Honourable Frederic North. Phillipps MS 7511. Sotheby's, 26 June 1967, lot 596 (incorrectly described as a commonplace book of Sir Thomas Crewe, Speaker of the House of Commons (d.1634)). Formerly Folger MS Add. 538.

A microfilm is in the British Library (RP 154).

pp. 101-18

• EsR 237: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1

Copy.

p. 220

• BcF 623: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Bacon to Sir Edward Coke.

p. 229

• RaW 944: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to James I, [24 September 1618].

p. 229

• RaW 66: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

Copy, headed ‘The wourdes vnderwritten he wrote the nighte before he suffred’.

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).

MS V.b.310

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, including (ff. 7v-15v) ‘The Answer by the Committees’, on fifteen folio leaves, in old calf. Headed ‘A Discovrse Pronounced by S^r: Robert Cotton Knight & Baronet, before the Lords...secundo die Mensis Septembris...Annoque Dni 1626 & sithence by him reduced into Writing’. c.1630.

CtR 455: Sir Robert Cotton, A Speech Made by Sir Rob Cotton Knight and Baronet, before the Lords of his Majesties most Honorable Privy Covncel, At the Councel Table being thither called to deliver his Opinion touching the Alteration of Coyne. 2. Sept. [1626]

Inscribed ‘Mary Arms Edmonds, New York, 1936’.

Speech beginning ‘My Lords, Since it hath pleased this Honourable Table to command...’. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [283]-294, with related texts (‘The Answer of the Committees Appointed...2 September 1626’ and ‘Questions to be proposed’, etc.) on pp. 295-307. W.A. Shaw, Writers on English Monetary History, pp. 21-38.

MA V.b.312

A tall folio composite volume of antiquarian papers, including pedigrees, coats of arms drawn in trick, and other heraldic, historical and genealogical notes, in various hands, c.88 pages (plus blanks), in Middle Hill boards. Late 16th-early 17th century.

Once owned by the St George Family of heralds. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 166832. Sotheby's, 28 June 1965, lot 42, to Jantzen. Formerly Folger MS Add. 576.

A microfilm is in the British Library (RP 438).

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• *CmW 159: William Camden, Collectanea

Various genealogical and heraldic papers of Camden, a number autograph.

MS V.b.314

Copy of Earles's translation into Latin of the Preface and Books I-V of Hooker's Polity, almost entirely in a single cursive italic hand, lacking a general title, 224 folio leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1650s-60s.

EaJ 85: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Translated

This MS recorded by W. Speed Hill in TLS (31 January 1975), p. 112.

Unpublished.

MS V.b.317

A large folio volume of state tracts, speeches and letters, in a single professional secretary hand, 93 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt. Late 16th century.

Inscribed ‘This Manuscript was in y^e Library at y^e late Mr Pitts at Kingston, in Dorsetshire, it was bought at his sale by Mr Rodd y^e bookseller, from whom I had it in 1838. Ev: M: Shirley’. Bookplate of Evelyn Philip Shirley, being MS 9 of the Shirley family library at Ettington Hall, Warwickshire. Sotheby's, 31 January 1956, lot 407. Sold by John F. Fleming (1910-87), New York bookseller, in April 1975. Formerly Folger MS Add. 670.

Recorded in HMC, 5th Report (1876), Appendix, p. 00.

f. 20v

• ElQ 20: Queen Elizabeth I, ‘The doubt of future foes’

Copy, in triple columns, headed ‘Verses made by the Q. Maiestie’ and here beginning ‘The doubt of future foes’, subscribed ‘Viuat Regina’.

Edited from this MS in Collected Works, in Selected Works, and in Steven W. May, ‘Queen Elizabeth's “Future Foes”: Editing Manuscripts with the First-Line Index of Elizabethan Verse (a Future Friend)’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 1-12.

A version first published in George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie (London, 1589), sig. 2E2^v (p. 208). Bradner, p. 4. Collected Works, Poem 5, pp. 133-4. Selected Works, Poem 4, pp. 7-9.

MS V.b.320

Copy, in a neat secretary hand, on nineteen folio leaves, in quarter crushed morocco on boards. Headed ‘A Private Shewe presented on a Fast night to the Seniours and fellowes of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge the Custome of it being laid downe before for the space of seaven yeares in respect the fellowes had found themselues agreeved at it for theire abuse, and now againe revived by one Randolphe, one of the Schollers of the same house’. c. late 1620s.

RnT 421: Thomas Randolph, Aristippus, or The Jovial Philosopher

Sotheby's, 25 July 1978, lot 430. Formerly Folger MS Add. 753.

Facsimile of f. 1r in Jean Preston and Laetitia Yeandle, English Handwriting 1400-1650: An Introductory Manual (Binghamton, NY, 1992), No. 30, p. 95.

First published in London, 1630. Hazlitt, I, 1-34.

MS V.b.331

A folio commonplace book of extracts and private journal, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, 46 leaves (plus many blanks), in contemporary calf. Compiled by Sir William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes House, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. c.1631-44.

f. 26r-v

• BcF 201.2: Francis Bacon, Discourse upon the Commission of Bridewell

Extracts, headed ‘Out of a Discourse vppon the Commission of Bridewell’ and beginning ‘The law is that of any Charter that if any Charter be granted by the king...’.

A tract beginning ‘Inter magnalia regni, amongst the greatest and most haughty things of this kingdom...’. First published in Briefe Collections out of Magna Charta (London, 1643) [Wing B4557]. Spedding, VII, 505-16.

MS V.b.338

A folio volume comprising two tracts relating to Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, in a professional hand, 259 pages, in modern red cloth. Late 17th century.

Formerly in the Stoke-on-Trent City Libraries, Horace Barks Reference Library. Acquired from Mark Sieling in 2008. Formerly Folger MS Add. 264552.

pp. 1-42

• ClE 67: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Articles of High Treason and other hainous misdemeanours ag^st Edward, Earle of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor, exhibited by Earl of Bristol, 10 July 1663

Copy.

pp. 1-217 (second series)

• ClE 113.5: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Impeachment Proceedings against Clarendon in 1667

Copy.

Articles of Treason exhibited in Parliament against Clarendon, 14 November 1667 published in London, 1667. The Proceedings in the House of Commons touching the Impeachment of Clarendon 1667 published in London, 1700.

MS V.b.355

Copy, in a single professional hand, with a title-page ‘The Tragedie of Mustapha By the Earle of Orrery’, on 126 folio pages, in contemporary calf gilt. Late 17th century.

OrR 28: Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, Mustapha

Acquired from Hotmann & Freeman, October 1974. Formerly MS Add. 650.

First performed on the London stage 3 April 1665. First published, as Mustapha, The Son of Solyman the Magnificent, London, 1668. Clark, I, 225-304.

MS V.b.360

A double-folio-size scrapbook of miscellaneous MSS and prints, 147 pages, in 19th-century half-morocco.

Bookplates of H. Rushton Barnes and of Captain Arthur C. Crawford of Cartsburn. Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 12-13 June 2003, lot 589. Formerly MS Add. 1246.

A set of photocopies of this collection is in the British Library, RP 8302.

pp. 132-3

• DrW 117.31: William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge (‘From such a face quois excellence’)

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Quinque sensus’, on two pages of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed on the fourth page ‘Quinque Sensus. Verses to the Kinge and on the Kinge’, once folded as a letter or packet, frayed.

Often headed in MSS ‘The [Five] Senses’, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (JnB 654-70). A MS copy owned by Drummond: see The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden, ed. Robert H. Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1357. Kastner printed the poem among his ‘Poems of Doubtful Authenticity’ (II, 296-9), but its sentiments are alien to those of Drummond: see C.F. Main, ‘Ben Jonson and an Unknown Poet on the King's Senses’, MLN, 74 (1959), 389-93, and MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 118. Discussed also in Allan H. Gilbert, ‘Jonson and Drummond or Gil on the King's Senses’, MLN, 62 (January 1947), 35-7. Sometimes also ascribed to James Johnson.