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MS Am 1007

A transcript of the Andover MS of works by Anne Bradstreet (Harvard MS Am 1007.1), including her son Simon's entries there, 100 octavo pages (plus 4 blank pages), in cardboard wrappers. Entirely in the hand of her daughter Sarah Hubbard (née Bradstreet) and signed by her inside the front cover ‘Sarah Bradstreet’. c.1670s.

Donated in 1934 by The Manning Association.

pp. [1-2]

• *BdA 41: Anne Bradstreet, For my deare sonne Simon Bradstreet

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Dedication, beginning ‘Parents perpetuate their liues in their posterity...’, dated 20 March 1664. Ellis, p. 47. Hensley, p. 271. McElrath & Robb, p. 195.

pp. [2-47]

• *BdA 43: Anne Bradstreet, Meditations Diuine and morall

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

77 prose meditations. Ellis, pp. 48-73. Hensley, pp. 272-91. McElrath & Robb, pp. 195-209.

p. [47]

• BdA 30: Anne Bradstreet, To my dear children (‘This Book by Any yet vnread’)

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Ellis, p. 3. Hensley, p. 240. McElrath & Robb, p. 215.

pp. [48-61]

• BdA 46: Anne Bradstreet, To my dear children

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

A prose address beginning ‘My dear children./ I knowing by exper^c . y^t y^e exhortat^s. of parents take most effect wn y^e speakers leaue to speak...’. Ellis, pp. 3-10. Hensley, pp. 240-5. McElrath & Robb, pp. 215-19.

pp. [61-2]

• BdA 6: Anne Bradstreet, ‘By night when others soundly slept’

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet, under a general heading ‘Here follows severall occasionall Meditations.’

Ellis, p. 11. Hensley, p. 246. McElrath & Robb, p. 220.

pp. [62-4]

• BdA 10: Anne Bradstreet, For Delive^rc from a feaver (‘When Sorrowes had begyrt me rovnd’)

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Ellis, pp. 12-13. Hensley, p. 247. McElrath & Robb, pp. 220-1.

pp. [64-6]

• BdA 14: Anne Bradstreet, From another sore fitt. etc. (‘In my distresse I sovght y^e Lord’)

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Ellis, pp. 13-14. Hensley, p. 248. McElrath & Robb, pp. 221-2.

pp. [66-7]

• BdA 8: Anne Bradstreet, Delive^rc from a fitt of ffainting (‘Worthy art Thou o L^d of praise’)

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Ellis, p. 15. Hensley, p. 249.

pp. [67-94]

• BdA 45: Anne Bradstreet, Meditations when my Soul hath been refreshed w^th the Consolations w^ch the world knowes not

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet, the prose passages on pp. [67-70, 74-6, 78-9, 86]. For the verse, see BdA 0000.

Entries in prose and verse, beginning ‘Lord, why should I doubt any more wⁿ thov hast given me Such assured Pledges of thy Loue....’, and including prose meditations dated 8 July 1656, 28 August 1656, 11 May 1657, 30 September 1657, and 11 May 1661.

Ellis, pp. 16-39 (including verse. Prose on pp. 17, 20-6). Hensley, pp. 250-70 (including verse. Prose on pp. 250-1, 254-5, 257, 259). McElrath & Robb, pp. 223-9.

For verse, see BdA 1.

pp. [70-2]

• BdA 38: Anne Bradstreet, ‘What God is like to him I serve’

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Ellis, pp. 17-18. Hensley, pp. 251-2. McElrath & Robb, p. 224.

pp. [72-3]

• BdA 24: Anne Bradstreet, ‘My Soul rejoice thou in thy God’

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Ellis, pp. 18-19. Hensley, p. 253. McElrath & Robb, pp. 224-5.

pp. [76-7]

• BdA 2: Anne Bradstreet, ‘As spring the winter doth succeed’

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet, headed with the date ‘May 13. 1657’.

Ellis, pp. 22-3. Hensley, p. 256. McElrath & Robb, pp. 226-7.

pp. [79-80]

• BdA 36: Anne Bradstreet, Vpon my Son Samuel his goeing for England Novem. 6. 1657 (‘Thou mighty God of Sea and Land’)

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Ellis, pp. 24-5. Hensley, p. 258. McElrath & Robb, p. 228.

pp. [80-1]

• BdA 26: Anne Bradstreet, ‘My thankfull heart w^th glorying Tongve’

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Ellis, p. 26. Hensley, pp. 259-60. McElrath & Robb, pp. 228-9.

pp. [82-3]

• BdA 12: Anne Bradstreet, For the restoration of my dear Husband from a burning Ague. June 1661 (‘When feares and sorrowes me besett’)

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Ellis, p. 27. Hensley, p. 261. McElrath & Robb, pp. 229-30.

p. [83]

• BdA 32: Anne Bradstreet, Vpon my Daughter Hannah Wiggin her recouery from a dangerous feaver (‘Bles't bee thy Name who did'st restore’)

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Ellis, p. 28. Hensley, p. 262. McElrath & Robb, p. 230.

pp. [84-6]

• BdA 28: Anne Bradstreet, On my Sons Return out of England. July. 17. 1661 (‘All praise to him who hath now rurn'd’)

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Ellis, pp. 28-31. Hensley, pp. 263-4. McElrath & Robb, pp. 230-1.

pp. [86-9]

• BdA 34: Anne Bradstreet, Vpon my dear & loving husband his goeing into England. Jan. 16. 1661 (‘O thov most high who rulest All’)

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Ellis, pp. 32-4. Hensley, pp. 265-6. McElrath & Robb, pp. 232-3.

pp. [89-92]

• BdA 18: Anne Bradstreet, In my Solitary houres in my dear husband his Absence (‘O Lord thou hear'st my dayly moan’)

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Ellis, pp. 34-7. Hensley, pp. 267-8. McElrath & Robb, pp. 233-5.

pp.[92-3]

• BdA 20: Anne Bradstreet, In thankfull acknowledgmt for y^e lrs rec'd. from my husband ovt of England (‘O Thou that hear'st y^e prayers of Thine’)

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Ellis, pp. 37-8. Hensley, p. 269. McElrath & Robb, p. 235.

pp. [93-4]

• BdA 22: Anne Bradstreet, In thankfull Rememb^rc for my dear husbands safe Arrivall. Sept. 3. 1662 (‘What shall I render to thy Name’)

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Ellis, pp. 38-9. Hensley, p. 270. McElrath & Robb, pp. 235-6.

pp. [95-7]

• BdA 16: Anne Bradstreet, Here followes some verses vpon y^e burning of o^r house, July 10^th. 1666. Copyed ovt of a loose Paper. (‘In silent night when rest I took’)

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet.

Ellis, pp. 40-2. Hensley, pp. 292-3. McElrath & Robb, pp. 236-7.

pp. [98-100]

• BdA 4: Anne Bradstreet, ‘As weary pilgrim, now at rest’

Copy by Sarah Bradstreet, headed ‘A Pilgrim’.

Ellis, pp. 42-4. Hensley, pp. 294-5. McElrath & Robb, pp. 210-11.

MS Am 1007.1

A partly autograph octavo notebook of Anne Bradstreet, 74 pages, including a tipped-in leaf (plus 24 blank pages after p. [72]), in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps. Pages 1-41 and [97-8] are her autograph copies largely of prose meditations written at the request of her second son, the Rev. Simon Bradstreet (1640-83), to whom she dedicated them, 20 March 1664, and one poem by her at the end dated 31 August 1669. Pages 43-66 comprise transcripts (‘A true Copy’) by Simon Bradstreet of his mother's (now lost) manuscript book ‘To my dear children’, including diary entries for 8 July 1656 to 18 July 1666, made by him after her death in 1672. Pages 66-7 contain a poem by her copied by him from a loose paper. Pages 69-72 were then occupied later by Latin translations of some of Anne Bradstreet's prose in the volume made in his younger days by her great-grandson Simon Bradstreet (d.1771). c.1664-72 [and additions c.1720s].

This MS is the Andover MS. Purchased in 1954 by Buchanan Charles from the Seven Gables Bookstore, New York. Donated by him to the Stevens Memorial Library, Andover, Massachusetts, and since 1972 kept on deposit at Harvard. Inside the front cover are earlier inscriptions ‘Harrys His Book’ and ‘Sam^l. Bradstreet of the 7^th Generation from the author 1849’.

pp. 1-2

• *BdA 39: Anne Bradstreet, For my deare sonne Simon Bradstreet

Autograph.

Edited from this MS by all editors. Facsimile of both pages in Ellis, pp. [45-6].

Dedication, beginning ‘Parents perpetuate their liues in their posterity...’, dated 20 March 1664. Ellis, p. 47. Hensley, p. 271. McElrath & Robb, p. 195.

pp. 3-41

• *BdA 42: Anne Bradstreet, Meditations Diuine and morall

Autograph, subscribed by Simon Bradstreet ‘My hon^d. & dear mother intended to haue filled up this Book wth the like observations but was pvented by Death.’

Edited from this MS by all editors.

77 prose meditations. Ellis, pp. 48-73. Hensley, pp. 272-91. McElrath & Robb, pp. 195-209.

pp. 43-8

• BdA 29: Anne Bradstreet, To my dear children (‘This Book by Any yet vnread’)

Copy by Simon Bradstreet, under his rubric ‘A true Copy of a Book left by my hon^d & dear mother to her children & found among some papers after her Death.’

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Ellis, p. 3. Hensley, p. 240. McElrath & Robb, p. 215.

p. 49

• BdA 5: Anne Bradstreet, ‘By night when others soundly slept’

Copy by Simon Bradstreet, untitled, under a general heading ‘Here follow severall occasionall meditations. &c’.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Ellis, p. 11. Hensley, p. 246. McElrath & Robb, p. 220.

pp. 49-50

• BdA 9: Anne Bradstreet, For Delive^rc from a feaver (‘When Sorrowes had begyrt me rovnd’)

Copy by Simon Bradstreet.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Ellis, pp. 12-13. Hensley, p. 247. McElrath & Robb, pp. 220-1.

pp. 50-1

• BdA 13: Anne Bradstreet, From another sore fitt. etc. (‘In my distresse I sovght y^e Lord’)

Copy by Simon Bradstreet.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Ellis, pp. 13-14. Hensley, p. 248. McElrath & Robb, pp. 221-2.

p. 51

• BdA 7: Anne Bradstreet, Delive^rc from a fitt of ffainting (‘Worthy art Thou o L^d of praise’)

Copy by Simon Bradstreet.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Ellis, p. 15. Hensley, p. 249.

pp. 51-66

• BdA 44: Anne Bradstreet, Meditations when my Soul hath been refreshed w^th the Consolations w^ch the world knowes not

Copy by Simon Bradstreet, the prose sections on pp. 51-3, 54-5, 56-7, 58, and 61; the verse elsewhere.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Ellis, pp. 16-39 (including verse. Prose on pp. 17, 20-6). Hensley, pp. 250-70 (including verse. Prose on pp. 250-1, 254-5, 257, 259). McElrath & Robb, pp. 223-9.

For verse, see BdA 1.

p. 53

• BdA 37: Anne Bradstreet, ‘What God is like to him I serve’

Copy by Simon Bradstreet, untitled.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Ellis, pp. 17-18. Hensley, pp. 251-2. McElrath & Robb, p. 224.

pp. 53-4

• BdA 23: Anne Bradstreet, ‘My Soul rejoice thou in thy God’

Copy by Simon Bradstreet, untitled.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Ellis, pp. 18-19. Hensley, p. 253. McElrath & Robb, pp. 224-5.

p. 56

• BdA 1: Anne Bradstreet, ‘As spring the winter doth succeed’

Copy by Simon Bradstreet, untitled, headed with the date ‘May. 13. 1657.’

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Ellis, pp. 22-3. Hensley, p. 256. McElrath & Robb, pp. 226-7.

pp. 57-8

• BdA 35: Anne Bradstreet, Vpon my Son Samuel his goeing for England Novem. 6. 1657 (‘Thou mighty God of Sea and Land’)

Copy by Simon Bradstreet.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Ellis, pp. 24-5. Hensley, p. 258. McElrath & Robb, p. 228.

pp. 58-9

• BdA 25: Anne Bradstreet, ‘My thankfull heart w^th glorying Tongve’

Copy by Simon Bradstreet, untitled.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Ellis, p. 26. Hensley, pp. 259-60. McElrath & Robb, pp. 228-9.

p. 59

• BdA 11: Anne Bradstreet, For the restoration of my dear Husband from a burning Ague. June 1661 (‘When feares and sorrowes me besett’)

Copy by Simon Bradstreet.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Ellis, p. 27. Hensley, p. 261. McElrath & Robb, pp. 229-30.

p. 60

• BdA 31: Anne Bradstreet, Vpon my Daughter Hannah Wiggin her recouery from a dangerous feaver (‘Bles't bee thy Name who did'st restore’)

Copy by Simon Bradstreet.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Ellis, p. 28. Hensley, p. 262. McElrath & Robb, p. 230.

pp. 60-1

• BdA 27: Anne Bradstreet, On my Sons Return out of England. July. 17. 1661 (‘All praise to him who hath now rurn'd’)

Copy by Simon Bradstreet.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Ellis, pp. 28-31. Hensley, pp. 263-4. McElrath & Robb, pp. 230-1.

pp. 61-3

• BdA 33: Anne Bradstreet, Vpon my dear & loving husband his goeing into England. Jan. 16. 1661 (‘O thov most high who rulest All’)

Copy by Simon Bradstreet.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Ellis, pp. 32-4. Hensley, pp. 265-6. McElrath & Robb, pp. 232-3.

pp. 63-4

• BdA 17: Anne Bradstreet, In my Solitary houres in my dear husband his Absence (‘O Lord thou hear'st my dayly moan’)

Copy by Simon Bradstreet.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Ellis, pp. 34-7. Hensley, pp. 267-8. McElrath & Robb, pp. 233-5.

pp. 64-5

• BdA 19: Anne Bradstreet, In thankfull acknowledgmt for y^e lrs rec'd. from my husband ovt of England (‘O Thou that hear'st y^e prayers of Thine’)

Copy by Simon Bradstreet.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Ellis, pp. 37-8. Hensley, p. 269. McElrath & Robb, p. 235.

pp. 65-6

• BdA 21: Anne Bradstreet, In thankfull Rememb^rc for my dear husbands safe Arrivall. Sept. 3. 1662 (‘What shall I render to thy Name’)

Copy by Simon Bradstreet, subscribed ‘This was the last Thing written in that Book by my dear and hon'd Mother’.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Ellis, pp. 38-9. Hensley, p. 270. McElrath & Robb, pp. 235-6.

pp. 66-7

• BdA 15: Anne Bradstreet, Here followes some verses vpon y^e burning of o^r house, July 10^th. 1666. Copyed ovt of a loose Paper. (‘In silent night when rest I took’)

Copy by Simon Bradstreet.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

Ellis, pp. 40-2. Hensley, pp. 292-3. McElrath & Robb, pp. 236-7.

pp. 69-70

• BdA 40: Anne Bradstreet, For my deare sonne Simon Bradstreet

Autograph copy by Simon Bradstreet (d.1771), great-grandson of Anne Bradstreet, of his Latin translation of her dedicatory letter, headed ‘Ad Sim. Bradstreet filium charissimum meum’, beginning ‘In posteris Parentes vitam perpetuam faciunt...’, and subscribed ‘Hæc Epistola RomanoSermone versus est à Simone Bradstreet hujus Excellentissimæ Fæminæ Pronepote, cum sequentibus Meditatiunculis’. c.1720s.

Edited from this MS in Ellis, p. 74.

Dedication, beginning ‘Parents perpetuate their liues in their posterity...’, dated 20 March 1664. Ellis, p. 47. Hensley, p. 271. McElrath & Robb, p. 195.

pp. 71-2

• BdA 43.5: Anne Bradstreet, Meditations Diuine and morall

Autograph copy by Simon Bradstreet (d.1771), great-grandson of Anne Bradstreet, of his Latin translation of the first four meditations, headed ‘Meditationes divinæ & Ethicæ’ and here beginning ‘Est nihil occulis visibile, hominum nullæ actiones...’. c.1720s.

Edited from this MS in Ellis, pp. 75-6.

77 prose meditations. Ellis, pp. 48-73. Hensley, pp. 272-91. McElrath & Robb, pp. 195-209.

pp. [97-8]

• *BdA 3: Anne Bradstreet, ‘As weary pilgrim, now at rest’

Autograph, untitled, dated at the end ‘Aug. 31 69’, on a tipped-in leaf.

Edited from this MS by all editors. Facsimile of the last page in P.J. Croft, Autograph Poetry in the English Language, 2 vols (London, 1973), I, No. 48.

Ellis, pp. 42-4. Hensley, pp. 294-5. McElrath & Robb, pp. 210-11.

bMS Am 1631 (230)

Copy of a letter in Italian from the Republic of Venice to the Resident of England, 8 February ‘1650’, with Killigrew's reply.

KiT 24: Thomas Killigrew, Letter(s)

bMS Am 1631 (407)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Peter Le Neve, [from Whitehall], 27 February 1723/4. 1724.

*VaJ 357: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Edited in Judith Milhous, ‘Five New Letters by Sir John Vanbrugh’, HLB, 27 (1979), 434-41 (pp. 440-1).

bMS Am 1631 (412)

An order of Council for Foreign Plantations for payment of £150 to their secretary, Colonel Froude, signed by Waller, Orrery, and others, 9 March 1662[/3]. 1663.

*WaE 848: Edmund Waller, Document(s)

Sotheby's, 14 April 1875, lot 858.

bMS Eng 834 (36)

Copy, in a large rounded hand, untitled, on five pages of three unbound folio leaves. Late 17th century.

PsK 197: Katherine Philips, La Solitude de St. Amant. Englished (‘O! Solitude my sweetest choice’)

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.

bMS Eng 870 (11)

Autograph petition signed, to Parliament, from the Tower, [1652]. 1652.

*DaW 135: Sir William Davenant, Letter(s)

bMS Eng 870 (22)

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Richard Bulstrode, Envoy at Brussels, from Ratisbon, 12/20 February 1685/6. 1686.

*EtG 145: Sir George Etherege, Letter(s)

Owned in 1870 by T.E.P. Lefroy, of Hillcote, Bournemouth, Hampshire. Puttick & Simpson's, 8 June 1852, lot 105, and 25 January 1853, lot 183. Waller's sale catalogue for 1871, item 85. Sotheby's, 3 May 1889, lot 33, to Bennett.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 56.

bMS Eng 991

Miscellaneous papers of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn, 1656-1700.

[unnumbered item]

• *EvJ 208: John Evelyn, Theology, Prayers and Devotions

Autograph drafts of an attempted translation of the Dies Irae, on pages 2-3 of a letter to Evelyn by William Fuller (1608-75), Bishop of London, dated 27 February 1656[/7]. 1657.

[unnumbered item]

• *TaJ 56: Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed, to [John Evelyn], 9 June 1657 (the verso containing Evelyn's draft reply). 1657.

Thomas Rodd's sale catalogues, [1836], p. 16, and 1838, p. 87. Puttick & Simpson, 19 March 1850, lot 385.

Edited in Bray, II, i, 174. Eden, I, lxv-lxvi. Wheatley, III, 238-40. Facsimile in The Autograph Portfolio; A Collection of Fac-simile Letters from Eminent Persons (London, 1837).

[unnumbered item]

• *TaJ 62: Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to [John Evelyn], 12 May 1658, now lacking the signature. 1658.

Edited in Eden, I, lxxviii-lxxix. Wheatley, III, 248-9.

bMS Eng 1107

Papers of the Gell family, formerly of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, in different hands and paper sizes, now disbound in folders.

Sotheby's, 16 December 1950, lot 560. Owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Given to the Houghton Library by Robert S. Pirie in 1959.

Folder 5

• RnT 108: Thomas Randolph, An Elegie upon the Lady Venetia Digby (‘Death, who'ld not change prerogatives with thee’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on the most beauteous Lady Madam Venetia Digbye’, imperfect, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, subscribed ‘T: R:’.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 52-3.

Folder 5A

• DaW 24: Sir William Davenant, For the Lady, Olivia Porter. A present, upon a New-yeares day (‘Goe! hunt the whiter Ermine! and present’)

Copy, headed ‘Davenats new yeares guift to M^rs Porter’, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves. The text followed on the same page by ‘The mock new-yeares guift’ (‘Goe hunt y^e stinking fox’).

First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, p. 43.

Folder 6

• BaR 6: Richard Barnfield, An Ode (‘As it fell upon a Day’)

Copy, with the second line (‘In the merry month of May’) placed first, in the hand of Katherine Packer (b.1623/4), later (1644) wife of John Gell, on a single leaf. c.1638.

Edited from this MS in Dobson, pp. 64-5.

First published in Poems: In Divers Humors (London, 1598). Grosart, pp. 190-2. Arber, pp. 120-1. Klawitter, pp. 183-4.

Folder 11

• WiG 7: George Wither, The Author's Resolution in a Sonnet (‘Shall I wasting in despair’)

Copy, in the hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple, untitled, on one side of a single folio leaf.

First published in Fidelia (London, 1615). Sidgwick, I, 138-9. A version, as ‘Sonnet 4’, in Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'Arete, generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871), pp. 854-5. Sidgwick, II, 124-6.

For the ‘answer’ attributed to Ben Jonson, but perhaps by Richard Johnson, see Sidgwick, I, 145-8, and Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 439-43. MS versions of Wither's poem vary in length.

Folder 14

• HeR 171: Robert Herrick, A Nuptiall Song, or Epithalamie, on Sir Clipseby Crew and his Lady (‘What's that we see from far?’)

Copy in the hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple, headed ‘Hericks Epithalamie:’, imperfect, on the remains of two conjugate quarto leaves.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 112-16. Patrick, pp. 154-8.

Folder 15

• DnJ 1584: John Donne, A Hymne to God the Father (‘Wilt thou forgive that sinne where I begunne’)

Copy, in the hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple, headed ‘To Christ’, on a single folio leaf; imperfect.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 369 (and variant text p. 370). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 193. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 10, 16, 26, 110 (in four sequences).

bMS Eng 1143

A collection of unbound separate verse manuscripts.

[unnumbered folder]

• DoC 47: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon (‘As Colon drove his sheep along’)

Copy, in double columns, untitled, on the first two pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, II (1965), 167-75. Harris, pp. 124-35.

MS Eng 36

Copy, on seventeen quarto leaves, in paper wrappers. With a title-page in a predominantly italic hand, ‘Monarchie in its Excellence compared with Aristocratie, and Democratie seuerally, and with both Joyntly Written by the hon^ble and learned S_r Foulke Greuill Lord Brooke and left in A Manuscript’; with a dedicatory epistle in a mixed hand ‘To the Honored and worp^ll Docto^r Saint Barbe’ subscribed ‘S^r ffouck Greuill Lord Brooke, by him at his death bequeathed vnto my brother then his Lorps Chaplan And by my brother at his death giuen as A Legacy vnto mee for my better supportance ... The humblest of yo^r seruants / Richard Graues’; the text (ff. [3r-16v]) in yet another, professional mixed hand. c.1630s-40s.

GrF 13: Fulke Greville, A Treatise of Monarchy (‘There was a tyme before the tymes of story’)

First published in The Remains of Sir Fulke Grevill (London, 1670). Wilkes, II, 31-203.

MS Eng 121

Epigrams. Fair copy of eighteen Epigrams (McClure Nos. 261, 5, 67, 308, 262, 326, 338, 121, 122 (same as 329), 142, 356, 337, 366, 246, 270, 263, 248, 421), plus a Latin version of No. 421 (‘The Like in Latten’, beginning ‘Stirpis Haringtoniæ Soboles pulcherrima Sara’), in a secretary and italic hand, on six quarto leaves, inscribed on the front paper wrapper in a later hand ‘A Booke of verses made by S^r: John Harrington knight who dwelt at Bathe’. Early 17th century.

HrJ 24: Sir John Harington, Epigrams

Seven Epigrams first published in Epigrammes by Sir J. H. and others appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). 116 Epigrams published in London, 1615. 346 Epigrams published in London, 1618. 428 Epigrams edited in McClure (1930), pp. 145-322. See also HrJ 26.5-314.8. All the Epigrams published as The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. Gerard Kilroy (Farnham, 2009).

MS Eng 218.2 (v.3)

Papers of John Boyle, fifth Earl of Cork and Orrery.

pp. 37-40

• WyW 23: William Wycherley, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Wycherley, to John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, from London, 20 August 1677. c.1677.

Edited in Robert J. Allen, ‘Two Wycherley Letters’, TLS (18 April 1935), p. 257. Reedited in McCarthy, pp. 86-8.

pp. 41-2

• WyW 24: William Wycherley, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Wycherley, to John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, from Fleet Prison, 24 October 1685. c.1685.

Edited in Robert J. Allen, ‘Two Wycherley Letters’, TLS (18 April 1935), p. 257. Reedited in McCarthy, pp. 145-6.

[unspecified page number]

• DoC 335.5: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Revolution in 1688 (‘Of a splenetic nation I sing’)

Copy of lines 1-8.

Recorded in Harris.

Edited in Harris (1940), pp. 152-3. Discussed in Harris (1979), p. 188. Unlikely to be by Dorset.

MS Eng 228

A quarto volume of poems by Thomas Pestell (1584-1659), royal chaplain, headed ‘Perditi poëmata’, in a single neat roman hand (?autograph), 57 leaves, in paper wrappers. c.1637.

Maggs's sale catalogue No. 481 (1940?), item 1496.

f. 29v

• HeR 377.5: Robert Herrick, To a disdaynefull fayre (‘Thou maist be proud, and be thou so for me’)

Copy of an adapted version of Herrick's poem, headed ‘The patchd Song. 1636’ and beginning ‘Thou mayst be proud, & bee thou so for mee’.

Edited from this MS text in The Poems of Thomas Pestell, ed. Hannah Buchan (Oxford, 1940), pp. 59-60, and see also R.G. Howarth, ‘Attributions to Herrick’, N&Q, 203 (June 1958), 249.

First published in Norman Ault, A Treasury of Unfamiliar Lyrics (London, 1938), p. 134. Martin, p. 421. Patrick, pp. 553-4.

MS Eng 228*

Copy, headed ‘Jo: Bea: / On Ascension day’ and here beginning Yee y^t to starrs direct your curious eyes. With other verse, on the two inner pages of an independent pair of conjugate folio leaves accompanying the MS of Thomas Pestell's poems.

BeJ 35: Sir John Beaumont, On Ascension day (‘Ye that to heav'n direct your curious eyes’)

This MS collated in Sell.

First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, p. 101.

MS Eng 266

A transcript of Complaints made from the edition of 1591, neatly copied in one or more accomplished hands in variant styles of italic and secretary, with title-pages in facsimile imitation of the printed edition. In an octavo volume of 96 leaves also containing (ff. 80r-96v) three other English and Latin texts in other hands, in contemporary limp vellum (rebacked). c.1591.

Inscribed inside the front cover ‘Scudamore’ and on the main title-page (f. 1r) ‘Her: Leek’. Donated in 1940 by Owen D. Young.

ff. 2r-15r

• SpE 25: Edmund Spenser, The Ruines of Time (‘It chaunced me on day beside the shore’)

Copy, including the prose dedication to the Countess of Pembroke.

First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 35-56.

ff. 16r-26r

• SpE 30: Edmund Spenser, The Teares of the Muses (‘Rehearse to me ye sacred Sisters nine’)

Copy, including the prose dedication to Lady Strange.

This MS recorded in Minor Poems, II, 678, 687.

First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 59-79.

ff. 26v-37v

• SpE 34: Edmund Spenser, Virgils Gnat (‘We now haue playde (Augustus) wantonly’)

Copy, including the verse dedication to the late Earl of Leicester (beginning ‘Wrong'd, yet not daring to expresse my paine’).

First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 678, 687.

ff. 38r-58r

• SpE 17: Edmund Spenser, Prosopopoia: or Mother Hubberds Tale (‘It was the month, in which the righteous Maide’)

Copy, including the prose dedication to Lady Compton and Mounteagle.

First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 103-40.

ff. 59r-67r

• SpE 22: Edmund Spenser, Ruines of Rome: by Bellay (‘Ye heauenly spirites, whose ashie cinders lie’)

Copy, including ‘L'Envoy’.

First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 141-54.

ff. 68r-75v

• SpE 13: Edmund Spenser, Muiopotmos: or The Fate of the Butterflie (‘I sing of deadly dolorous debate’)

Copy, including the prose dedication to Lady Carey.

First published (with a separate title-page dated 1590) in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 157-73.

ff. 77r-9r

• SpE 41: Edmund Spenser, Visions of the worlds vanitie (‘One day, whiles that my daylie cares did sleepe’)

Copy.

First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 174-8.

MS Eng 584

A quarto volume entitled ‘Miscellany Poems, By Severall Hands. Collected by B. Cumberlege’, in various hands or styles of script, with occasional pen-and-ink drawings and use of coloured inks, xiv + 195 pages, including a table of contents, in later calf. c.1703.

Bookplate of Frederick Lewis Gay, of Brookline, Massachusetts, 1916.

pp. 20-35

• DrJ 8.5: John Dryden, Britannia Rediviva (‘Our vows are heard betimes, and heaven takes care’)

Copy, with a title-page, as ‘Written By M^r. Dryden. 1688. L-Sp 1703.’

First published in London, 1688. Kinsley, II, 541-51. Hammond, III, 201-17.

p. 38

• TaJ 7.5: Jeremy Taylor, Job's Curse (‘Let the Night perish curs'd by y^e Morn’)

Extracts from ‘Job's Curse’.

Published, as one of the ‘Festival Hymns’ in The Golden Grove (London, 1655). A musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Harmonia Sacra (London, 1688).

p. 66

• DrJ 156.5: John Dryden, Prologue to the University of Oxford (‘Discord, and Plots which have undone our Age’)

Copy, as ‘By M^r Dryden’.

First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 374-5. California, I, 164-5. Hammond, I, 371-3.

p. 67

• DrJ 110.5: John Dryden, The Prologue at Oxford, 1680 (‘Thespis, the first Professor of our Art’)

Copy, as ‘by M^r Dryden 1680’.

First published in Nathaniel Lee, Sophonisba, 2nd edition (London, 1681). Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 211-12. California, I, 160-1. Hammond, I, 413-16.

p. 147

• RoJ 76.8: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Epistolary Essay from M.G. to O.B. upon Their Mutual Poems (‘Dear friend, I hear this town does so abound’)

Copy of lines 89-96, beginning ‘To ev'ry Rule their mustie Customers spawn?’.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.

p. 152

• RoJ 316: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)

Copy of lines 1-13, untitled, this text quoted after the title-page (p. 151) ‘Corinna. or Human Frailty. A Poem. Also An Answer to y^e Earl of Rochesters Satyr. against Man, which begins thus’, ‘An Answer to the Satyr Against Man’ (beginning ‘Were I a Spirit free (which thought's as vain’) occurring on pp. 162-4.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning ‘All this with indignation have I hurled’) in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as ‘Satyr’. Love, pp. 57-63.

The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, ‘A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's “A Satyr against Reason and Mankind”’, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different ‘Answer’ poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).

pp. 165-7

• CoA 84.5: Abraham Cowley, The Extasie (‘I leave Mortality, and things below’)

Copy, as ‘By M^r Abraham Cowley’, here beginning ‘Heare Mortalitie, & things below’.

First published, among Pindarique Odes, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 204-6. Sparrow, pp. 161-4.

pp. 168-9

• CoA 100.4: Abraham Cowley, Life and Fame (‘Oh Life, thou Nothings younger Brother!’)

Copy.

First published, among Pindarique Odes, in Poems (London, 1656).

pp. 169-71

• CoA 37.8: Abraham Cowley, Christs Passion, Taken out of a Greek Ode, written by Mr. Masters of New College in Oxford (‘Enough, my Muse, of Earthly things’)

Copy.

First published in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663). Verses, Lately Written upon several Occasions (London, 1663). Waller, I, 402-4.

Musical setting by Henry Bowman published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman (Oxford, 1679).

pp. 178-82

• SpE 101: Edmund Spenser, Extracts

MS Eng 585

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 475 pages (plus a six-page index and a number of blanks), in contemporary black morocco gilt. In two professional hands (A: pp. 1-126; B: pp. 129-45 and probably the ‘Index’). c.1690.

Once owned by James Bindley. Sale December 1818 (Bindley sale). Phillipps MS 8418. Sotheby's, 18 June 1908, lot 627.

A transcript of this volume made by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor, is Harvard MS Eng 633.

p. 107

• EtG 72: Sir George Etherege, Song (‘Ye happy Youths, whose hearts are free’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Thorpe.

First published in Choice Ayres and Songs, Fifth Book (London, 1684). Thorpe, p. 32.

p. 108

• DoC 245: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Song (‘May the ambitious ever find’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Choice Ayres and Songs (London, [1684]). Harris, pp. 79-80.

p. 140

• DoC 326.8: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Dorsetts Lamentation for Moll Howards Absence (‘Dorset no gentle Nimph can find’)

Copy.

Recorded in Harris, p. 55, as ‘obviously not by Dorset’.

pp. 141-2

• DoC 131: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, My Opinion (‘After thinking this fortnight of Whig and of Tory’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in POAS and in Harris.

First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). POAS, II (1965), 391-2. Harris, pp. 55-6.

pp. 145-9

• EtG 103: Sir George Etherege, Mrs. Nelly's Complaint (‘If Sylla's ghost made bloody Catiline start’)

Copy, headed ‘Nellys Complaint’.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…Buckingham, Vol. I (London, 1704). Thorpe, pp. 62-4.

p. 188 et seq.

• DoC 361.6: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Town Life (‘Once how I doted on this jilting town’)

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS.

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.

pp. 326-7

• EtG 76: Sir George Etherege, A Song on Basset (‘Let equipage and dress despair’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS 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. 347-8

• BeA 2: Aphra Behn, The Coquet (‘Melinda, who had never been’)

Copy.

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

pp. 382-5

• EtG 51: Sir George Etherege, Second Letter to Lord Middleton (‘Since love and verse, as well as wine’)

Copy, headed ‘Sir George Etheridge to the Earl of Middleton’.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 48-50.

pp. 386-9

• DrJ 206: John Dryden, To Sir George Etherege Mr. D.- Answer (‘To you who live in chill Degree’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Dryden's Letter to S^r. George Etheridge’.

This MS collated in California.

First published at the end of The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Kinsley, II, 578-80. California, III, 224-6. Hammond, III, 21-7. The Letterbook of Sir George Etherege, ed. Sybil Rosenfeld (London, 1928), pp. 346-8. Letters of Sir George Etherege, ed. Frederick Bracher (Berkeley, Los Angeles & London, 1974), pp. 270-2.

pp. 390-1

• EtG 29: Sir George Etherege, A Letter to Lord Middleton (‘From hunting whores and haunting play’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r. George Etheridge to the Earl of Middleton. 2^d. Letter’.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published, as ‘Another from Sir G.E. to the E. of M--Greeting’, in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 46-7.

pp. 445-66

• DoC 94: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Faithful Catalogue of our Most Eminent Ninnies (‘Curs'd be those dull, unpointed, doggerel rhymes’)

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset (London, 1707). POAS, IV (1968), 189-214. Harris, pp. 136-67.

MS Eng 586

A quarto commonplace book and miscellany of verse and prose, in various hands, with additions up to 1751, ii + 662 pages (some erratically numbered), in contemporary calf. c.1672-1715 [plus later additions].

Ownership inscriptions (pp. [i] and [662]), dated 1672, by John Digby, of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Other inscribed names including (p. 662) ‘Thomas Digby’, ‘Edward Digby’, ‘Robert Debnam’, and (p. [640]) ‘Josh: Churchill 1694’.

pp. 188-9

• RoJ 229: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons (‘If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold’)

Copy, headed ‘I remember to haVe seen a Copy of Verses written by the Earl of Rochester (who had read and seen all the Fopperies and Idolatries of the Church of Rome, as they are practis'd abroad) to which our poor deluded English Papists are utter Strangers; I think they are very pathetick as follows’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among ‘Poems Possibly by Rochester’. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.

p. 190

• DoC 230: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Young Statesmen (‘Clarendon had law and sense’)

Copy of lines 26-30, untitled, beginning ‘Protect us, mighty Providence’, dated ‘Tuesday June 29. 1714.’

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.

p. 205

• HrJ 53.5: Sir John Harington, The Author to his wife (‘Mall, once in pleasant company by chance’)

Copy, headed ‘Coniugium & matrimonium Nuptiæ’, subscribed ‘S^r Jo: Harrington Epigram y^e 50^th’.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 45. McClure No. 299, pp. 268-9. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 85, pp. 240-1, as ‘To his wife a rule for Church house and bed’ beginning ‘Of late in pleasant company by chaunce’.

p. [541]

• CoA 57: Abraham Cowley, Davideis, Book I, Psalm 114 (‘When Israel was from bondage led’)

Copy, subscribed ‘by A. Cowley’.

Waller, I, 254-5.

pp. [543-71]

• FuT 5.238: Thomas Fuller, The History of the Holy War

Extracts, headed ‘Observations out of D^r: Fullers holy warre’.

First published in Cambridge, 1639.

ff. [572-6]

• FuT 6.4: Thomas Fuller, The Holy State

Extracts.

First published in London, 1642. Edited by M.G. Walten, 2 vols (New York, 1938).

pp. [577-8]

• BcF 713: Francis Bacon, An Essay of a King

Copy, headed ‘The King’.

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

p. [629]

• RoJ 521: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Translation from Seneca's ‘Troades’, Act II, Chorus (‘After death nothing is, and nothing, death’)

Copy, headed in another hand ‘Seneca's Troas. Chorus of the 2^d Act ... Translated by y^e Earl of Rochester’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 150-1. Walker, p. 51. Love, pp. 45-5, as ‘Senec. Troas. Act. 2. Chor. Thus English'd by a Person of Honour’.

p. [640]

• DrJ 295: John Dryden, Tyrannick Love: or, The Royal Martyr, Act IV, scene i, lines 125-48. Song (‘Ah, how sweet it is to love’)

Copy of Damilcar's song, headed ‘Song out of Tyrannick Love or y^e Royal Martyr. Dryden’, subscribed ‘Transcribed by Josh: Churchill 1694’.

First published in London, 1670. California, X, 105-93 (p. 151). Kinsley, I, 121-2. Hammond, I, 231-2.

MS Eng 598

Copy, including a title-page, prefatory poem ‘To the Parliament’, and postscript, in a predominantly secretary hand, on 21 quarto pages (plus blanks), in later calf. c.1660s.

WiG 32: George Wither, Vox et Lacrimae Anglorum (‘Renowned patriots, open your eyes’)

Bookplate of the Huth library.

First published in London, 1668. Probably not by Wither; possibly by Edward Raddon: see Stephen K. Roberts, ‘A Poet, a Plotter and a Postmaster: a Disputed Polemic of 1668’, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 53 (1980), 258-65. See also David Norbrook, ‘Some Notes on the Canon of George Wither’, N&Q, 241 (1996), 276-81.

MS Eng 606

A quarto miscellany entitled Poems, tracts & memoirs Collected by J Rolf beginning Anno 1700, in several neat hands, written over a period from both ends, 195 pages, with a tipped-in index, in contemporary green vellum. c.1700-5 [with additions to 1777].

Inscribed inside the front cover ‘N.H.W. Tytheridge, St James's Square, Notting Hill, W.’ Bookplate of G. Davies. Bequeathed by Susan Greene Dexter.

p. 8

• RoJ 230: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons (‘If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold’)

Copy, headed ‘The Earl of Rochester on Romes pardons’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among ‘Poems Possibly by Rochester’. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.

p. 15 rev.

• WoH 245.5: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)

Copy, headed ‘A farwell to the world’.

First published, as ‘a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by D^r. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will’, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.

pp. 18-20 rev.

• PsK 130: Katherine Philips, Happyness (‘Nature courts happiness, although it be’)

Copy, headed ‘on Happinesse’.

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

p. 21 rev.

• PsK 571: 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.

MS Eng 611

A set of three quarto verse miscellanies, largely in a single cursive hand, all transcribed from printed books, 276 + 340 + c.350 pages, in contemporary vellum boards. Volume I with a title-page ‘Scraps of Poetry On Winter, Its Opposites, & Concomitants: and many other agreeable Fragments all Collected Chiefly from borrowed Books Begun April 7^th: 1760. and finished May 20^th: 1760. By me Tho: Austen, Rochester’. 1760-7.

Volume II, written from both ends, some pages in a second hand, dated 1765.

Volume III, written from both ends, entitled ‘An Abstract of curious, odd, & comical Passages from old Plays as they came casually to hand, Begun Novemb^r. 1767’.

Donated by Edgar Huidekoper Wells (class of 1897).

Vol. I, pp. 162-5

• PsK 45.5: Katherine Philips, A Countrey life (‘How sacred and how innocent’)

Copy, transcribed from a printed source.

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).

Vol. I, pp. 252-5

• CoA 54.6: Abraham Cowley, The Country Mouse (‘At the large foot of a fair hollow tree’)

Copy.

First published in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663). Verses, Lately Written upon several Occasions (London, 1663). Waller, II, 414-16.

Vol. I, pp. 255-6

• CoA 129.5: Abraham Cowley, On the Death of Mr. William Hervey (‘It was a dismal, and a fearful night’)

Copy of line 25 onwards, beginning ‘He was my Friend, y^e truest Friend on Earth’, subscribed ‘Cowley’.

First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 32-7. Sparrow, pp. 36-41.

Vol. I, pp. 256-62

• MnJ 141: John Milton, Extracts

Extracts from Milton's poems.

Vol. III, pp. 20-7

• OtT 28: Thomas Otway, Extracts

A series of extracts from ‘Alcibiades. a Tragedy, Written by Tho: Otway. 4^to. 1675. in Heroic Verse’.

MS Eng 624

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several cursive hands, viii + 136 pages, in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.

Ownership inscription (p. [iv]) by Edward Dowden (1843-1913), of Trinity College, Dublin. Colbeck Radford & Co., undated sale catalogue, item 207. Item 117 in an unidentified sale catalogue.

pp. [1-12]

• MaA 341: Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter (‘Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight’)

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS, I. Recorded in Osborne.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.

The case for Marvell's authorship supported in George deF. Lord, ‘Two New Poems by Marvell?’, BNYPL, 62 (1958), 551-70, but see also discussion by Lord and Ephim Fogel in Vol. 63 (1959), 223-36, 292-308, 355-66. Marvell's authorship supported in Annabel Patterson, ‘The Second and Third Advices-to-the-Painter’, PBSA, 71 (1977), 473-86. Discussed also in Margoliouth, I, 348-50, and in Chernaik, p. 211, where Marvell's authorship is considered doubtful. A case for Sir John Denham's authorship is made in Brendan O Hehir, Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 212-28.

pp. [12-25]

• MaA 378: Andrew Marvell, The Third Advice to a Painter (‘Sandwich in Spain now, and the Duke in love’)

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS, I. Recorded in Osborne.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 67-87. Lord, pp. 130-44. Smith, pp. 346-56. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 32-3, as anonymous.

See discussions of the disputed authorship of this poem, as well as of the ‘Second Advice’, cited before MaA 314.

pp. [26-30]

• MaA 408: Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter (‘Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before’)

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS, I. Recorded in Osborne.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 140-6, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 33-5, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.

pp. [30-4]

• MaA 430: Andrew Marvell, The Fifth Advice to a Painter (‘Painter, where was't thy former work did cease?’)

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS, I, and lines 143-56 edited from it. Recorded in Osborne.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 146-52, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 35-6, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.

pp. [35-9]

• MaA 134: Andrew Marvell, Clarindon's House-Warming (‘When Clarindon had discern'd beforehand’)

Copy, headed ‘The Warming of Clarendon house’.

First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir John Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 143-6. POAS, I, 88-96. Lord, pp. 144-51. Smith, pp. 358-61.

pp. [39-40]

• MaA 296: Andrew Marvell, Upon his House (‘Here lies the sacred Bones’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon Clarendon house’.

This MS collated in George A. Aitken, ‘Marvell's Satires’, The Academy, No. 1214 (10 August 1895), 112-13, and thence recorded in Margoliouth.

First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 146-7. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.

p. [40]

• MaA 286: Andrew Marvell, Upon his Grand-Children (‘Kendal is dead, and Cambridge riding post’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the E of Clarendons Grand Children’.

First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 147. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.

pp. [61-78]

• WiG 33: George Wither, Vox et Lacrimae Anglorum (‘Renowned patriots, open your eyes’)

Copy, including the prefatory poem ‘To y^e Parliam^t’ and ‘Postscript’.

pp. [79-80]

• DoC 275: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Mr. Edward Howard, on his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem Called ‘The British Princes’ (‘Come on, ye critics! Find one fault who dare’)

Copy, headed ‘L.B. on M^r Howards Poem’.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 338-9. Harris, pp. 7-9.

pp. [88-92]

• MaA 456: Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by (‘Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in George A. Aitken, ‘Marvell's Satires’, The Academy, No. 1214 (10 August 1895), 112-13. Recorded in Osborne.

First published [in London], 1679. A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), as by ‘A-M-l, Esq’. Thompson III, 399-403. Margoliouth, I, 214-18, as by Henry Savile. POAS, I, 213-19, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 40-2, as by Henry Savile.

pp. [93-100]

• MaA 117: Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh (‘Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign’)

Copy, with cropped heading ‘A Dialogue between Britannia & S^r Walter Rawley’.

This MS collated in George A. Aitken, ‘Marvell's Satires’, The Academy, No. 1214 (10 August 1895), 112-13, and thence in Margoliouth.

First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 194-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 228-36, attributed to John Ayloffe. See also George deF. Lord, ‘Satire and Sedition: The Life and Work of John Ayloffe’, HLQ, 29 (1965-6), 255-73 (p. 258).

p. [101]

• DoC 231: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Young Statesmen (‘Clarendon had law and sense’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Clarendon had witt & sence’.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.

pp. [102-7]

• DoC 347: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell (‘Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Filld with y^e noysome follyes of y^e age’.

First published in A Third Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs &c (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 217-27. Discussed and Dorset's authorship rejected in Harris, pp. 190-2. The poem is noted by Alexander Pope as being ‘probably by the L^d Dorset’ in Pope's exemplum of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (London, 1705), British Library, C.28.e.15, p. 121.

p. [132]

• BrT 0.6: Sir Thomas Browne, Colloquy with God (‘The night is come like to the day’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Religio Medici, where Browne describes it as ‘the dormitive I take to bedward…to make me sleepe’. Published later, in an anonymous musical setting, in Harmonia Sacra, II (1693). Keynes, I, 89-90.

MS Eng 628

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, closely written in probably a single secretary hand, ii + 393 pages, in old calf. c.1620.

Inscribed (p. [i]) ‘This curious Manuscript was bought by me of M^r Muskett the Bookseller. Norwich - J. P. B.’ Unidentified Dobell sale catalogue, item 182.

pp. 317-18

• OvT 8: Sir Thomas Overbury, The Authours Epitaph (‘The span of my daies measur'd, here I rest’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r Thomas Ouerburies Epitaph’.

First published in A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury (London, 1614). Rimbault, p. 46.

p. 319

• RaW 408: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘ICUR, good Mounser Carr’

Copy.

First published in Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, ed. Frederick J. Furnivall, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted in New York, 1977), p. 20. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 48, p. 121 (as ‘Sir Walter Raleigh to the Lord Carr’).

pp. 321-2

• OvT 9: Sir Thomas Overbury, The Authours Epitaph (‘The span of my daies measur'd, here I rest’)

Copy.

First published in A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury (London, 1614). Rimbault, p. 46.

p. 331

• HoJ 109: John Hoskyns, A Dreame (‘Me thought I walked in a dreame’)

Copy of a version of lines 43-68, here beginning ‘The worst is known, the best is hid’.

Osborn, No. XXXIV (pp. 206-8). Whitlock, pp. 480-2.

A shortened version of the poem, of lines 43-68, beginning ‘the worst is tolld, the best is hidd’ and ending ‘he errd but once, once king forgiue’, was widely circulated.

pp. 335-6

• BmF 150.83: Francis Beaumont, Love's Freedom (‘Why should man be only tied’)

Copy.

Rejected by Dyce, XI, 442, and attributed to Henry Harrington.

pp. 362-74

• RaW 947: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copy of Ralegh's letter to Winwood, 21 March 1617.

p. 385

• RaW 68: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

Copy, headed ‘S^r walter Rawleigh hys verses written in his byble a lyttell before his deathe’ and here beginning ‘Yeouen suche ys tyme w^ch takes in haste’.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 35A, p. 80. Recorded in Latham (1929), p. 166, and in Latham (1951), 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 Eng 630

A folio commonplace book of verse, in several hands, 102 leaves, in half-sheepskin. Early 19th century.

Once owned by ‘the master of the Europe, the ship that Byron was suposed to have traveled on when he went to Greace [sic]’.

f. 32r

• MkM 10: Mary Monck, Verses Wrote on her Death-Bed at Bath, to her Husband, in London (‘Thou, who dost all my worldly thoughts employ’)

Copy.

Twenty-two lines, first published, introduced ‘The following verses were wrote by her (as I am inform'd) on her death-bed at Bath, to her husband in London’, in George Ballard, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (Oxford, 1752), pp. 418-22.

MS Eng 631

A large quarto miscellany of verse extracts, comprising 182 entries, in a single cursive hand varying in style, 115 unnumbered leaves (plus 26 blanks), in contemporary calf. Entitled (f. [1r]) ‘A Collection of Miscellany Poems from the Greatest Poets, both Ancient and Modern That i have Read, & here place for my own entertainment, to diuert Malincolly Thoughts, & to assist My Memory, That was neuer Good at no Time:’. Late-17th century.

From the library at Newburgh Priory, Yorkshire.

Nos 1-69

• SaG 65: George Sandys, Extracts

Extracts, from Sandys's translations of Homer, Virgil, Ovid etc.

Nos 70-88

• SpE 102: Edmund Spenser, Extracts

Extracts, headed ‘Verses taken out of M^r Edmond Spenser's works’.

Nos 89-118

• HrG 331: George Herbert, Extracts

Extracts, headed ‘These Verses taken out of M^r George Herbert's Poems’.

Nos 119-32

• CrR 457: Richard Crashaw, Extracts

Extracts, headed ‘These Verses Taken out of M^r Richard crashaws Poems’.

Nos 133-45

• WaE 916: Edmund Waller, Extracts

Extracts, headed ‘These Verses Taken out of The Poems of Edmond Waller Esq^r:’.

Nos 146-58

• CoA 289: Abraham Cowley, Extracts

Extracts, headed ‘These Verses Taken out of The works of M^r Abraham Cowley’.

Nos 159-79

• ClJ 270: John Cleveland, Extracts

Extracts, headed ‘Taken out of the Works of M^r John Cleveland’.

Nos 180-2

• RnT 593: Thomas Randolph, Extracts

Extracts, headed ‘Taken out of the Poems of M^r Thomas Randolph Fellow of Trinity college In cambridge’.

MS Eng 634

An octavo volume of nine poems by Henry King, written in oblong format in a single stylish hand up to f. 24v, subsequently used in upright format for culinary and medical receipts in other hands, 48 leaves, in later blind-stamped calf. c.1630s.

Bookplate of J. Eliot Hodgkin, FSA (1829-1912), engineer and book collector, of Richmond, Surrey. Sotheby's, 12 May 1914 (Hodgkin sale).

Recorded in HMC, 15th Report, 41-2, and Appendix II [30].

f. 1r

• KiH 256.5: Henry King, Epigram (‘I would not in my Love too soone prevaile’)

Copy.

First published in The Gentleman's Magazine, 5 (July 1735), 380. The English Poems of Henry King, ed. Lawrence Mason (New Haven, 1914), p. 174. Crum, p. 157.

f. 2r-v

• KiH 308.5: Henry King, An Epitaph On Niobe turn'd to Stone (‘This Pile thou see'st, built out of Flesh not Stone’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 156.

ff. 2v-3v

• KiH 738.5: Henry King, To One demanding why Wine sparkles (‘So Diamonds sparkle, and thy Mistriss' eyes’)

Copy of an early version, headed ‘Vpon a Demand why the Wyne sparkles’ and beginning ‘Wee doe not giue this wyne a sparkling name’.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 188-9, 243.

ff. 3v-4r

• KiH 754.5: Henry King, Upon a Braid of Haire in a sent by Mris. E.H. (‘In this small Character is sent’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 155.

ff. 4v-5r

• KiH 761: Henry King, Upon a Table-book presented to a Lady (‘When your faire hand receaves this Little Book’)

Copy, here beginning ‘When that fairie hand receiues this Little booke’.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 154.

ff. 5v-7v

• KiH 215: Henry King, An Elegy Upon the Bishopp of London John King (‘Sad Relick of a Blessed Soule! whose trust’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 172-3.

ff. 8r-11v

• KiH 166: Henry King, An Elegy Upon Mrs. Kirk unfortunately drowned in Thames (‘For all the Ship-wracks, and the liquid graves’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie Vppon a Lady unfortunately Drowned in the Thames’.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 96-7.

ff. 12r-15r

• KiH 217: Henry King, An Elegy Upon the death of Mr. Edward Holt (‘Whether thy Father's, or Disease's rage’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 98-9.

ff. 15v-24v

• KiH 237: Henry King, An Elegy Upon the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus (‘Like a cold Fatall Sweat which ushers Death’)

Copy.

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

MS Eng 640

An octavo volume principally of verse, in a single hand, unpaginated, in contemporary calf. Entitled ‘Poems on Several Occasions written By S^r W^m. Dawes Bar^nt. An: Dⁿⁱ. 1692^do Ætat. suæ 20^mo...Transcrib'd from the Original. by C. B.’: i.e. by Charles Blake, whose name, dated 1692, appears on the flyleaf. 1692.

Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1241. Item 33 in an unidentified sale catalogue of ‘Autograph Letters and Manuscripts’.

[unspecified page numbers]

• MoH 3: Henry More, The Sure Guide

Copy on 29 pages, rectos only, with a preliminary two pages of ‘The Contents of the ensuing Discourse. Chap 1^st-3^d’ by ‘C. B.’; headed ‘The Copy of a M.S. Treatise penn'd by that Great Man the truly Learned D^r.Henry More, which he left unfinish'd at his Death’, and subscribed ‘N.B. The foregoing Treatise is Part of what D^r. More intended to have intitul'ed, The sure Guide wherefore I can't but heartily Lament the unspeakable Loss which the world has sustain'd, by our Author's being prevented by Death from the farther Prosecution of this his great and charitable Designe C. B.’

Unfinished and unpublished treatise, beginning ‘That short but weighty Prophecy of the Prophet Malachi, ch.4. v.2 “But unto you that fear my name...”’

MS Eng 686

An octavo verse miscellany, predominantly in two very small hands (A: ff. 1r-44v; B: ff. 44v-87v), with further verse and prose pieces in other hands on ff. 88r-121r, written from both ends, associated with Oxford, possibly New College, and probably afterwards with the Inns of Court, 155 leaves (including 33 blanks), in modern black morocco elaborately gilt. Including 23 poems by Strode (and second copies of two poems) and one poem of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.

Including (ff. 98r-100r) a letter by one ‘Pet[er] Wood’. Inscribed (ff. 90r-1r), ‘Thease verses I borroed to write out of John Sherly [d. 1666] a booke seller in litle Brittaine, 28^th of March 1633’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9235. Sotheby's, 21 February 1938, lot 243.

Cited in IELM II.ii (1993), as the ‘Wood MS’: StW Δ 21. Discussed in C.F. Main, ‘New Texts of John Donne’, SB, 9 (1957), 225-33.

ff. 5r-6

• CoR 361: Richard Corbett, A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine (‘I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Spanish Match D^r Corbet to the Duke of Buckingame’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.

ff. 9v-10r

• WoH 110: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy of a five-stanza version, headed ‘To the Spanish Lady’ and beginning ‘Yee meaner beauties of the night’.

First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, ‘“You Meaner Beauties of the Night” A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification’, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.

f. 10r

• GrF 42: Fulke Greville, Mustapha, IV, iv, 116-117 (‘Mischiefe is like the Cockatrices eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘On Treason’, here beginning ‘Treason is like the Basiliscus eye’.

Bullough, II, 118.

f. 10r

• HrJ 268: Sir John Harington, Of Treason (‘Treason doth neuer prosper, what's the reason?’)

Copy, headed ‘Aliter’.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 5. McClure No. 259, p. 255. This epigram also quoted in a letter to Prince Henry, 1609 (McClure, p. 136). Kilroy, Book III, No. 43, p. 185.

f. 11r-v

• RaW 332: Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen (‘Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames’)

Copy, headed ‘Of Passions’ and here beginning ‘Passions are likened best to flouds & streames’.

First published, prefixed to “Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart” (see RaW 500-42) and headed ‘To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh’, in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Edited in this form in Latham, p. 18. Rudick, No 39A, p. 106.

For a discussion of the authorship and different texts of this poem, see Charles B. Gullans, ‘Raleigh and Ayton: the disputed authorship of “Wrong not sweete empresse of my heart”’, SB, 13 (1960), 191-8, reprinted in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 318-26.

f. 14r

• DnJ 409: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)

Copy of lines 27-8, headed ‘On the French Crownes’ and here beginning ‘Although y^e King eclepd most Xtian bee’.

Edited from this MS in C.F. Main, ‘New Texts of John Donne’, SB, 9 (1957), 225-33, (p. 228). Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Eleg. XII. The Bracelet’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as ‘Elegie XI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.

f. 14r

• HoJ 288: John Hoskyns, Mr Hoskins wrott in the windowe when he came out of the Tower (‘Sic luo, sic merui; sed quod meruique luoque’)

Copy.

Osborn, No. XXXV (p. 208).

ff. 15v-16r

• WoH 36: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r Henry Wooton’ and here beginning ‘How happy is he borne or taught’.

This MS recorded in Main.

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).

f. 16r

• RaW 319: Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Rauleigh to his sonne (‘Three thinges there bee that prosper up apace’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r. Walter Rawleigh to his sonne, Walt^r’.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 52, p. 125.

First published in Latham (1929), p. 102. Latham (1951), p. 49. Rudick, No. 52, p. 125.

f. 17r

• RaW 268: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy.

First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, ‘The Text of Ralegh's Lyric “What is our life?”’, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.

f. 17v

• HrJ 43: Sir John Harington, Against Swearing (‘In elder times an ancient custome was’)

Copy, headed ‘The degrees of Swearing’.

First published in Henry Fitzsimon, S.J., The Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (Douai, 1611). 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 9. McClure No. 263, p. 256. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 30, p. 220.

f. 17v

• RaW 352: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘The word of deniall, and the letter of fifty’

Copy, headed ‘Rawly his reply’, here beginning ‘The word of denyall & the figure of fifty’, following ‘Noell To S^r Walter Rawleigh’ (‘Th' offence of the stomach and the word of disgrace’).

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 19C, p. 29.

First published, as ‘The Answer’ to ‘A Riddle’ (‘Th'offence of the stomach, with the word of disgrace’), in Works (1829), VIII, 736. Latham, pp. 47-8. Rudick, Nos 19A, 19B and 19C (three versions, pp. 28-9).

f. 28v

• CoR 271: Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem (‘Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on’)

Copy, headed ‘Ad Authorem de Anniversarijs ejusdem in Henricu Principem’.

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.

ff. 28v-9r

• DyE 88: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘The lowest trees haue topps, the ante her gall’

Copy of an 18-line version, headed ‘A lovers conceipt’.

First published in A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). Sargent, No. XII, p. 197. May, Courtier Poets, p. 307. EV 23336.

f. 29r

• TiC 36: Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Lament (‘My prime of youth is but a frost of cares’)

Copy, headed ‘Tichbournes Elegy in the Tower before his execution’.

First published in the single sheet Verses of Prayse and Joy Written Upon her Maiesties Preseruation Whereunto is annexed Tychbornes lamentation, written in the Towre with his owne hand, and an answer to the same (London, 1586). Hirsch, pp. 309-10. Also ‘The Text of “Tichborne's Lament” Reconsidered’, ELR, 17, No. 3 (Autumn 1987), between pp. 276 and 277. May EV 15464 (recording 37 MS texts). For the ‘answer’ to this poem, see KyT 1-2.

f. 32r

• MrC 7: Christopher Marlowe, Ovid's Elegies. I, v (‘In summers heate, and midtime of the day’)

Copy, headed ‘Corinnæ concubitus Ovid. lib. 1° Amorum Eleg. 5 Æstus erat &c.’.

Ten of Marlowe's Elegies (including I, v and II, iv) first published ‘Middleburg’ [i.e. London], [c.1595-6]. Bowers, II, 307-421 (p. 321). Tucker Brooke, pp. 553-627 (pp. 564-5). Gill et al., I, 13-83 (pp. 18-19).

f. 32r

• RaW 424: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘I cannot bend the bow’

Copy, headed ‘A Riddle upon the Lady Bendbow’.

First published in Rudick (1999), No. 37, p. 105. Listed but not printed, in Latham, pp. 173-4 (as an ‘indecorous trifle’).

f. 33r

• CoR 385: Richard Corbett, Little Lute (‘Little lute, when I am gone’)

Copy, headed ‘One wrot this in his loves asence on her lute’.

First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 8.

Some texts followed by an answer beginning ‘Little booke, when I am gone’.

f. 34v

• HrJ 151: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett (‘A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in ‘Epigrammes’ appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). McClure No. 404, p. 312. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 57, p. 231.

f. 35r

• PeW 250: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman (‘Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression’)

Copy of the abridged version, untitled and here beginning ‘Nay pish, nay phew, in faith & will you? flye’.

Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed ‘P.’. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as ‘A Paradox of a Painted Face’, among ‘Poems attributed to Donne in MSS’. Also ascribed to James Shirley.

A shorter version, beginning ‘Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie’, was first published, as ‘A Maids Denyall’, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].

ff. 35v-6v

• DnJ 3213: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘John Dean’.

This MS collated in C.F. Main, ‘New Texts of John Donne’, SB, 9 (1957), 225-33 (pp. 226-8). Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as ‘Elegie XIX. Going to Bed’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.

The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, ‘Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's “To his mistress going to bed”’, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.

ff. 36v-7r

• HoJ 330: John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob (‘Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet w^thstood’)

Copy, headed ‘In Loves contempt’ and here beginning ‘O Love whose force and might’.

Osborn, p. 301.

f. 37r-v

• DnJ 2358: John Donne, ‘Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love’

Copy, headed ‘Vppon a woman whom the Author taught to Love & Complement’, subscribed ‘J. Deane.’

This MS collated in C.F. Main, ‘New Texts of John Donne’, SB, 9 (1957), 225-33 (p. 228). Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie VIII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 89-90 (as ‘Elegie VII’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 13. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 127.

f. 38v

• JnB 263: Ben Jonson, A Grace by Ben: Johnson. extempore. before King James (‘Our King and Queen the Lord-God blesse’)

Copy of an eight-line version headed ‘A grace said before the King by a Jester’ and beginning ‘The King, the Queen the Prince God bless’.

First published (?) in John Aubrey, Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark (Oxford, 1898), II, 14. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 418-19.

f. 42r

• CmT 172: Thomas Campion, ‘Young and simple though I am’

Copy, untitled.

First published in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London [1617]), Book IV, No. ix. Davis, p. 177. Doughtie, p. 295.

f. 44v

• BrW 12: William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Books I and II

Copy of Book I, Song 3, lines 481-2, headed ‘a girdle’ and here beginning ‘This during light I give to clip your waist’

Book I first published London, 1613. Book II first published London, 1616. Goodwin, Vol. I.

f. 50v

• CwT 1251.5: Thomas Carew, A Louers passion (‘Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see’)

Copy.

First published, as ‘The Rapture, by J.D.’, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), pp. 3-4 [unique exemplum in the Huntington edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990)]. Cupids Master-Piece (London, [?1656]). Dunlap, p. 192.

f. 51r

• CwT 585: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind (‘Goe thou gentle whispering wind’)

Copy, headed ‘On a sigh’ and here beginning ‘Goe thou gentle whistlinge winde’.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.

f. 51r

• CwT 716: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)

Copy, headed ‘To his loue’ and here beginning ‘Thinke not sweet loue that Ile reveale’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).

MS Eng 703

A quarto miscellany, in several hands, written over a period, 80 leaves (plus 67 blanks and stubs of numerous extracted leaves), in contemporary vellum gilt. Compiled by or for Sir Henry Cholmley, brother of Sir Hugh Cholmley (1600-57), the ascription ‘by my brother S^r Hugh Cholmley’ (1600-57) inserted on f. 19r in a cursive hand responsible for entries on ff. 3r-12v, 15v-29r, 41r-v, 75v-7r, the contents including twelve poems by Thomas Carew and poems by members of the circle of Lucius Cary (1610?-43), second Viscount Falkland, of Great Tew, Oxfordshire, by the St Leger family of Ulcombe, Kent, and by Sir William Twysden of Kent. c.1624-41.

Later bookplate of Henry B. Humphrey.

Recorded in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Cholmley MS’: CwT Δ 27.

f. 12v

• ToA 60: Aurelian Townshend, To the Countess of Salisbury (‘Victorious beauty, though your eyes’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘ignoto’.

First published, in a musical setting by William Webb, in John Playford, Select Musical Ayres (London, 1652), p. 22. Chambers, pp. 4-5. Brown, pp. 19-21.

f. 15v

• RaW 270: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘by one ready to dye’.

f. 16r-v

• BcF 34: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘ignoto’.

First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, ‘Bacon's Poem, “The World”: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems’, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.

f. 19r

• HrE 71: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, To Mrs. Diana Cecyll (‘Diana Cecyll, that rare beauty thou dost show’)

Copy, untitled and omitting the first two words, subscribed ‘by S^r Edward Herbert’.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 34-5.

f. 19v

• WoH 150: Sir Henry Wotton, A Poem written by Sir Henry Wotton in his Youth (‘O faithless world, and thy most faithless part’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘by S^r Hen: Wotton’.

Facsimile of this page in Pebworth's AEB article, p. 221.

First published in Francis Davison, Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602), p. 157. As ‘A poem written by Sir Henry Wotton, in his youth’, in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 517. Hannah (1845), pp. 3-5. Edited and texts discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Sir Henry Wotton's “O Faithless World”: The Transmission of a Coterie Poem and a Critical Old-Spelling Edition’, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 5/4 (1981), 205-31.

f. 20r

• PeW 43: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘If her disdain least change in you can move’

Copy, untitled.

First published in 1635. Poems (1660), pp. 3-5, superscribed ‘P.’. Krueger, p. 2, among ‘Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd’.

f. 20r

• PeW 111: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘'Tis Love breeds Love in me, and cold Disdain’

Copy, headed ‘Answer’.

Poems (1660), pp. 4-5, superscribed ‘R’. Krueger, p. 3, among ‘Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd’.

f. 22r-v

• CwT 562: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind (‘Goe thou gentle whispering wind’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘by M^r Tho: Carewe’.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.

f. 22v

• CwT 253: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon A flye lightinge in to his mistres eye’, subscribed ‘by T: C:’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

ff. 23r-4r

• CwT 191: Thomas Carew, An Elegie on the La: Pen: sent to my Mistresse out of France (‘Let him, who from his tyrant Mistresse, did’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie’, subscribed ‘by y^e same T: C:’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 19-21.

ff. 24r-5r

• CwT 466: Thomas Carew, My mistris commanding me to returne her letters (‘So grieves th'adventrous Merchant, when he throwes’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the returne of certayne papers to his Mistres’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 9-11.

f. 25v

• CwT 125: Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris (‘Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘T. C.’

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

ff. 27v-8r

• DrM 27: Michael Drayton, The Cryer (‘Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre’)

Copy, untitled.

First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 371.

f. 29

• CwT 162: Thomas Carew, Disdaine returned (‘Hee that loves a Rosie cheeke’)

Copy.

First published (stanzas 1-2), in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Complete in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

f. 29v

• CwT 151: Thomas Carew, A deposition from Love (‘I was foretold, your rebell sex’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 16-17. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

f. 30r

• CwT 377: Thomas Carew, Ingratefull beauty threatned (‘Know Celia, (since thou art so proud,)’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 17-18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).

f. 30v

• CwT 1107: Thomas Carew, To my Rivall (‘Hence vaine intruder, hast away’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 41.

ff. 30v-1r

• CwT 424: Thomas Carew, A Looking-Glasse (‘That flattring Glasse, whose smooth face weares’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 19.

ff. 31v-2v

• GrJ 56: John Grange, ‘Not that I wish my Mistris’

Copy, untitled.

First published in Wits Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. V7^v. John Playford, Select Ayres and Dialogues (1652), Part II, p. 28. Poems (1660), pp. 79-81, unattributed. Prince d'Amour (1660), p. 123, ascribed to ‘J.G.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as by John Grange.

ff. 32v-3r

• WoH 112: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy of a five-stanza version, untitled and here beginning ‘You glorious trifles of the Easte’.

f. 33r

• CwT 690: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).

MS Eng 704

An octavo verse miscellany, chiefly in one predominantly secretary hand, with a series of additions in a second hand, 36 leaves (plus blanks and stubs of extracted leaves), in contemporary calf gilt. c.1640.

Inscribed on a flyleaf (in a different hand) ‘Charles Tyrrell Anno Domini 1643’.

f. 34r

• FeO 18: Owen Felltham, Elegie on Henry Earl of Oxford (‘When thou didst live and shine, thy Name was then’)

Copy of lines 22-48, here beginning ‘like lowe Orbes wantinge Primum mobile’, subscribed ‘:Owen feltham:’, imperfect, lacking a heading and the first 21 lines.

First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 9-10.

MS Eng 705.1

Copy, in a professional hand, ii + 93 quarto leaves, in calf gilt (rebacked). c.1630s.

NaR 25: Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia

This MS recorded (as ‘Unnumbered MS’) in Cerovski, p. 87.

Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).

MS Eng 740

MS of an English translation by Moses Wall, written for presentation to Elizabeth St John, 89 octavo leaves (plus some blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, stamped ‘E S’ on each cover. With a formal title-page, Henochisme: Or A Treatise Shewinge Howe to walke with God: Written in Latin by Ioseph Hall Bishop of Exeter And Translated into English By M: W:; a five-page dedicatory epistle to Hall; a seven-page presentation epistle to Mrs Elizabeth St John; and 75 pages of text; the presentation epistle in a very small hand, signed ‘Moses Wall’ and dated ‘Octob: 2. an. 1639’, evidently in Wall's hand; all the rest in a neat secretary hand. 1639.

HlJ 53: Joseph Hall, Henochismus

Inscribed (f. [i^r]) ‘Anne Bernard Her Book / Johanna’.

Original Latin version first published London, 1635; Wynter, X, 188-207. Wall's translation unpublished.

The original Latin version first published in London, 1635. Wynter, X, 188-214. Wall's translation unpublished.

MS Eng 749

A quarto volume of Catholic tracts, in a probably professional secretary hand, 163 leaves (plus blanks), in 18th-century calf gilt. Late 16th-early 17th century.

Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘John Burns, November 30 1926’: i.e. the Rt. Hon. John Elliott Burns (1858-1943), labour leader and politician. Acquired in 1944 from Quaritch.

Some verse contents of the volume briefly discussed or edited in Peter J. Seng, ‘Recusant Poems in a More Circle Manuscript’, Moreana, 19 (March 1982), 21-4.

ff. 3r-99v

• MrT 76: Sir Thomas More, Nicholas Harpsfield's Life of Sir Thomas More

Copy, imperfect, lacking the first two leaves and title.

First published, edited by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock and R.W. Chambers, as The life and death of S^r Thomas Moore. knight, sometymes Lord high Chancellor of England...by Nicholas Harpsfield (EETS, London, 1932).

ff. 101r-16v

• SoR 267.8: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A Foure-fold Meditation: of the foure last things (‘O wretched man, which louest earthlie thinges’)

Copy, headed ‘Of the fowre last things, which are these, Death, Iudgment, Hell, and Heaven’.

First published, as ‘By R: S. The author of S. Peters complaint’, in London, 1606. The poem is more commonly ascribed to Philip Howard (1557-95), first Earl of Arundel, Catholic Saint, with whom Southwell was acquainted (see McDonald, pp. 6-7, 121-2). EV17760.

f. 163r

• TiC 37: Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Lament (‘My prime of youth is but a frost of cares’)

Copy, headed ‘Verses made by M^r Titchburne before he suffered death’.

MS Eng 764

Copy, in a professional cursive hand, with a title-page in engrossed lettering ‘The life of Master Thomas Wolsey Archbishoppe of yorke and Cardinall, written by George Cavendish his Gentleman Vsher’, 109 folio leaves (plus blanks), in old calf. c.1600s.

CvG 31: George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey

From the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 6930. No 1321 in an unidentified sale catalogue. From the library of Arthur Vicars, FSA, Ulster King of Arms. Acquired in 1946 from George Bates.

Recorded in Sylvester, p. 287.

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 Eng 765

A folio volume of tracts, in several hands, dating at the end up to 1642, 105 leaves, unfoliated, in contemporary limp vellum. Early 17th century.

Charles J. Sawyer, London, bookseller, sold 2 July 1919. Inscribed inside the front cover ‘John Burns. Feb 27 1919’: i.e. the Rt. Hon. John Elliott Burns (1858-1943), labour leader and politician. Burns sale, 1944, lot 534, to Maggs. Bought from Raphael King by Imre de Vegh in 1950 and donated to Harvard.

This MS (‘MS Burns’) collated in Hitchcock & Hallett and briefly described, pp. xiii-xiv.

ff. [1r-89r]

• MrT 84: Sir Thomas More, Ro. Ba.'s Life of Sir Thomas More

Copy, in at least three secretary hands, lacking a title-page. 1599.

A life of More written in 1599, possibly by Robert Basset (1574-1641), of Devon, a zealous Catholic and kinsman of More: see Andrew Breeze, ‘Sir Robert Basset and The Life of Syr Thomas More’, N&Q, 249 (September 2004), 263. The work first published in Christopher Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical History, vol. II (London, 1839). Edited, as The Lyfe of Syr Thomas More Sometymes Lord Chancellor of England, by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock and P.E. Hallett (EETS, London, 1950).

MS Eng 846

Copy; imperfect; lacking the ending. c.1612.

DaJ 240: Sir John Davies, A Discovery of the State of Ireland

A treatise, dedicated to James I, beginning ‘During the time of my service in Ireland (which began in the first yeare of his Majesties raigne) I haue visited all the Prouinces...’. First published as A Discoverie of the Trve Cavses why Ireland was neuer entirely subdued...vntill...his Maiesties happie Raigne ([London], 1612). Grosart, II, 1-168.

MS Eng 886

Copy, headed ‘Of y^e Springe: S: Hen: Wotton’ and here beginning ‘This day Dame nature seem'd in loue’, later subscribed ‘Iz: W.’, on one side of an octavo leaf. c.1620s-30s.

WoH 61: Sir Henry Wotton, On a Bank as I sat a-Fishing. A Description of the Spring (‘And now all nature seemed in love’)

A later note on this MS incorrectly claims that it is in the hand of Izaak Walton.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 524. Hannah (1845), pp. 32-5.

MS Eng 886.1

Autograph affidavit signed by Walton, about land in Halfhead, 23 October 1676. 1676.

*WtI 33: Izaak Walton, Document(s)

Edited in Keynes (1929), p. 601. Facsimile in E. Marston, Thomas Ken and Izaak Walton (London, 1908), p. 116.

MS Eng 887

MS Eng 901 (Lobby XI.2.69)

Copy, in a cursive hand, headed ‘The Digression in Miltons History of England. To com in Lib. 3. page 110. after these words. <from one misery to another.>’, on twelve quarto pages, in later diced russia gilt. This MS represents text excluded from Milton's The History of Britain (London, 1670-1) and later edited by Anglesey in 1681, but includes two additional pages of text suppressed in that edition as well. Late 17th century.

MnJ 47: John Milton, The Digression in The History of Britain

Bookplate of Thomas Mostyn 1744 (‘N^o [98 deleted] 81’) and derived from the library of Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90), of Mostyn Hall, near Hollywell, Flintshire, Wales. Sotheby's, 13 July 1920 (Mostyn sale), lot 82, and 11 December 1922, lot 129.

Edited from this MS in Columbia and in Yale. Recorded in LR, V, 18-19, 259-60. This MS may conceivably relate to a text in the possession of the Earl of Anglesey, whom, according to Edward Phillips, Milton ‘presented with a Copy of the unlicens'd Papers of his History’ (see Columbia, XVIII, 378).

A version of this first published as Mr. John Miltons Character of the Long Parliament and Assembly of Divines in MDCXLI (London 1681). Columbia, X, 317-25. Yale, V, Part 1, 405-67.

MS Eng 942

A posthumous presentation copy of Elizabeth's translation of Margarite de Navarre's devotional treatise and of passages from Scripture, 32 quarto leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt, with remains of ties. c.1603-6.

From the library of Edmund Butler (1771-1846), Earl of Kilkenny, Kilkenny Castle, Ireland.

ff. [1r-31r]

• ElQ 63: Queen Elizabeth I, Marguerite de Navarre's ‘Le Miroir de l'Âme Pécheresse’ (The Glass of the Sinful Soul)

A semi-calligraphic copy, prepared by or for Thomas Blundeville (1522?-1606?), author and translator, as a formal presentation copy to Catherine Knyvet (1547-1622), Lady Paget, in a professional italic hand, with a title-page, ‘A Godly Meditation of the Soule, concerning a loue towards our Lord Christ. Composed in french, by y^e Vertuous Ladie Margaret Q: of Nauarre, and aptly translated into English, by the right high and most vertuous Princesse, of Late memorie and euer in memorie, Queene Elizabeth -- Who now raigns w^th Christ in heauen’; with a dedicatory epistle ‘To the Right Worthy, Vertuous and most honor'd Ladie The Ladie Pagett, Yo^r honors humble deuoted Seruante Thomas Blunville, Wisheth all prosperitie in this life, and life euerlasting in Christ o^r Sauiour’; the main text (ff. 4r-29v]) followed (f. 30r) by extracts from Ecclesiastes ‘added to the worke, by the Queenes Ma^tie:’ and (f. 31r) by an anagram on ‘Elizabeth Regina’.

The translation first published, edited by John Bale, in A Godly Medytacyon of the Christen Sowle (Marburg, 1548). Translations, pp. 23-125.

f. [3v]

• ElQ 53: Queen Elizabeth I, Certaine Sentences out of the Xiiij Psalme, written by the Queenes Maiestie, in Latine, french and Italian (‘Stultus dixit in corde suo: non est’)

Semi-calligraphic copy.

Three quatrains, beginning respectively ‘Stultus dixit in corde suo: non est’, ‘Le fol dit en son coeur, il n'ya point de’, and ‘Le stolto disse ne'l suo cuore, Egli non’. Unpublished.

MS Eng 966

An octavo transcript of annotations by Coleridge to his exemplum of poems by Donne, made by Barron Field (1786-1846) for an intended Percy Society edition of Donne's Songs and Sonnets.

DnJ 4168: John Donne, Poems

Recorded in The Collected Works of Samuel Coleridge, Vol. 12: Marginalia II, ed. Kathleen Coburn et al. (London & Princeton, 1984), p. 214.

MS Eng 966.2

MS copy of twenty-nine poems supposedly by Donne (only six actually by him) plus an epitaph by him, in a single hand, transcribed from the O' Flahertie MS (Harvard MS Eng 966.5), with a title-page ‘Poems on several Occasions Written by the Reverend John Donne, D.D. Late Dean of S^t Pauls’, 57 quarto pages, in cardboard wrappers. 19th century.

p. 6

• JnB 294.5: Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse (‘Doe but consider this small dust’)

Copy.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.

pp. 20-4

• DnJ 2199.5: John Donne, Loves Warre (‘Till I have peace with thee, warr other men’)

Copy.

First published in F. G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 1-2. Grierson, I, 122-3 (as ‘Elegie XX’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 14. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 142-3.

pp. 27-8

• JnB 115.5: Ben Jonson, Epitaph [on Cecilia Bulstrode] (‘Stay, view this stone: And, if thou beest not such’)

Copy.

First published in John A. Harper, ‘Ben Jonson and Mrs. Bulstrode’, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 4 (5 September 1863), 198-9. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 371-2.

pp. 35-6

• DnJ 430.5: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)

Copy.

First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.

pp. 37-8

• JnB 706.5: Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, II, ii, 163 et seq. Song (‘If I freely may discouer’)

Copy.

pp. 41-2

• HoJ 26: John Hoskyns, Absence (‘Absence heare my protestation’)

Copy, headed ‘Song 2^d’.

First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), pp. 428-9. Osborn, No. XXIV (pp. 192-3).

p. 51

• DnJ 2895.5: John Donne, Sir Iohn Wingefield (‘Beyond th'old Pillers many have travailed’)

Copy.

First published in Gosse (1899), I, 51. Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 92. Variorum, 8 (1995), p. 8 (as ‘Il Caualliere Gio: Wingefield’).

p. 52

• DnJ 532.5: John Donne, Cales and Guyana (‘If you from spoyle of th' old worlds farthest end’)

Copy.

First published in Gosse (1899), I, 47. Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 91. Variorum, 8 (1995), p. 7 (as ‘Calez and Guyana’).

p. 52

• DnJ 2673.5: John Donne, Ralphius (‘Compassion in the world againe is bred’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 54. Shawcross, No. 100. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6, 9 and 11.

p. 53

• DnJ 1909.5: John Donne, The Lier (‘Thou in the fields walkst out thy supping howers’)

Copy.

First published in Sir John Simeon, ‘Unpublished Poems of Donne’, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3, p. 31. Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 95. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled) and 8.

pp. 54-6

• DnJ 4065.4: John Donne, Epitaph for Ann Donne (‘Fæminæ lectissimæ, dilectissimæque’)

Copy.

Donne's Latin epitaph on his wife Ann More, who died 15 August 1617. First published in John Stow, The Survey of London (London, 1633). Edited and discussed in M. Thomas Hester, ‘“miserrimum dictu”: Donne's Epitaph for His Wife’, JEGP, 94/4 (October 1995), 513-29. Variorum, 8 (1995), 187.

MS Eng 979

Copy. Copy, in a single cursive hand, i + 18 quarto leaves, the last leaf imperfect, in remains of paper wrappers. c.1634-41.

WoH 285: Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham

This MS sold at Sotheby's, 5 July 1955 (André De Coppet sale), lot 1019.

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

MS Eng 980

A quarto volume of proceedings in the House of Commons in 1624, in at least two probably professional cursive hands, 249 pages (plus numerous blanks and eight pages of shorthand at the reverse end), in contemporary vellum. c.1624.

[?Sotheby's], 31 March 1936, lot 174.

pp. 41-2

• RuB 6: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, March 1623/4

Speech beginning ‘We are bound to bless God that we are mett againe in this place. And we ought to acknowledge his Ma^ts favour towards vs...’.

pp. 123-4

• RuB 11: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, March 1623/4

Copy, headed ‘S^r Beniamin Rudiere:’.

Speech beginning ‘We are bound to bless God that we are mett againe in this place. And we ought to acknowledge his Ma^ts favour towards vs...’.

MS Eng 982

A quarto volume of proceedings in Parliament from 13 April to 5 May 1640, in a cursive predominantly secretary hand, 84 leaves, in quarter-vellum marbled boards. c.1640s.

[?Sotheby's], 5 October 1937, lot 19.

ff. 24r-6r

• RuB 127: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?15-25 April 1640

Copy of a report on the speech, headed in the margin ‘S^r. Benia: Rudyard’ and here beginning ‘Then S^r Ben: Rudyard said S^r. there is a dore now opened to vs of doeing good if wee take the advantage thereof...’.

Edited from this MS in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), pp. 138-40.

Speech beginning ‘There is a great dore now opened unto us of doing good...’. Variant version in Manning, pp. 148-51.

ff. 54v-5r

• RuB 137: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?23 April 1640

Copy of a report on the speech.

Speech beginning in a reported version ‘S^r: Ben: Rudierd said the house had done wiseley in taking the kings buisnesse into p^rsent consideration...’.

MS Eng 983

A quarto volume of proceedings in Parliament from 3 November 1640 to 13 April 1641, in a professional secretary hand, 320 pages, in contemporary vellum.

Item 178 in an unidentified sale catalogue.

pp. 15-21

• RuB 166: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 November 1640

Copy, headed ‘S^r Beniamin Ruddiars speech in Parliament’.

Speech (variously dated 4, 7, 9 and 10 November 1640) beginning ‘We are here assembled to do God's business and the King's...’. First published in The Speeches of S^r. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 1-10. Manning, pp. 159-65.

pp. 115-16

• RuB 182: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 29 December 1640

Copy, headed ‘S^r Beniamin Ruddiars 2^d speech in Parliament the 29 of December 1640’.

Speech beginning ‘The principal part of this business is money...’. Manning, pp. 166-7.

pp. 163-7

• RuB 191: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 21-22 January 1640/1

Copy, headed ‘S^r Beniamin Ruddiars 3^d speech in parliament January the 22^th Concerning the Scottish affayres 1640’.

Speech beginning ‘It well becometh vs thankefully to acknowledge the prudent & painfull endeuours of my Lords the Peers Comissioners...’. First published in The Speeches of S^r. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 11-‘18’ [i.e. 14]. Manning, pp. 169-72.

pp. 195-6

• RuB 188: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 20 January 1640/1

Copy, headed ‘S^r Beniamine Ruddiars speech concerning the Queenes Joynture January the 20^th: 1640’.

Speech beginning ‘God hath blessed the Queenes Ma^tie with a blessed and hopefull progenie alreadie...’. Manning, p. 213.

pp. 196-9

• RuB 196: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 7-9 February 1640/1

Copy, headed ‘S^r Beniamine Ruddiars speech concerning Bisho ffebruary the 7^th 1640’.

Speech beginning ‘I doe verily beleeue that there are manie of the Clergie in one Church who doe thinke...’. First published in The Speeches of S^r. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 15-‘12’ [i.e. 20]. Manning, pp. 185-7.

MS Eng 992

Autograph fair copy, with revisions, v + 85 quarto pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco elaborately gilt, ‘J E’ stamped on each side, with silver clasps. With a title-page, ‘The Life of Mr^is: Godolphin, Writen at the Request of my Lady Sylvius. By a Friend’, a dedicatory epistle to Lord Godolphin, and the text of a letter to Evelyn dated from London 22 September 1678. c.1702.

*EvJ 114: John Evelyn, The Life of Mrs. Godolphin

Harcourt Library. Sotheby's, 1869 (Mr Dillon's collection), lot 366. Booklabels of Howard A. Levis and of the John Evelyn Collection of Carelton R. Richmond.

Edited from this MS in Sampson (1939). Recorded in Keynes, with facsimile examples.

Facsimile of the first page in The Houghton Library 1942-67: A Selection of Books and Manuscripts in Harvard Collections (Cambridge, Mass., 1967), p. 54.

A prose account, including verses. First published in London, 1847, ed. Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford. Edited by Harriet Sampson (London, New York and Toronto, 1939). Keynes, pp. 244-50.

MS Eng 992.1

Copy, without preliminaries, in the neat italic hand of an amanuensis, headed ‘The Life of M^rs. Godolphin Written at the request of my Lady Sylvius} by a Friend’, on 90 quarto leaves (including 32 blanks), in contemporary black morocco gilt. c.1686.

EvJ 115: John Evelyn, The Life of Mrs. Godolphin

Inserted letter by James P. Muirhead, to [Samuel Wilberforce], Bishop of Oxford, discussing EvJ 992, from Henley Court, Telsworth, Oxfordshire, 21 June 1869. Owned before 1956 by Dr Octavia Wilberforce. Sotheby's, 8 May 1956, lot 42, to Maggs. Booklabel of the John Evelyn Collection of Carelton R. Richmond and booklabel of Martha Venables Vernon.

Edited from this MS in Wilberforce (1847). Discussed in Sampson (1939), pp. 116-23 (when the MS was lost and presumed autograph), and in Keynes, p. 250.

A prose account, including verses. First published in London, 1847, ed. Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford. Edited by Harriet Sampson (London, New York and Toronto, 1939). Keynes, pp. 244-50.

MS Eng 992.2

A small autograph pocket notebook (c.11.5 x 6 cm.), headed ‘A Particular of My Estate in Svrrey & mid Svssex. 1703’, 88 pages (including blanks), in panelled calf. Containing particulars of Evelyn's estates in Surrey, Sussex and Kent, ‘Things left in my Closet in Dover-streete. May 1703’, ‘Abstract of my last Acc[om]pt. as Tress[ure]r of Gr[eenwich]: Hospital’ and other personal accounts and memoranda. 1681-1704.

*EvJ 65: John Evelyn, Domestic Accounts, Inventories, Instructions, and Estate Papers

Sotheby's, 5 May 1919 (Alfred Morrison sale), lot 2823, to Maggs. John Evelyn Collection of Carelton R. Richmond.

Facsimile examples of this MS in Maggs's sale catalogue No. 449 (1924), item 173, plate XL, and in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 4 March 1937 (Moss sale), lot 686.

MS Eng 992.7

An autograph commonplace book, 80 octavo pages (the majority blank), in contemporary calf gilt. Containing miscellaneous anecdotes, proverbs, maxims, extracts in English and Latin, and other notes, headed ‘1650 Vade Mecum’. c.1650.

EvJ 32: John Evelyn, Adversaria and Commonplace Books

Inscribed inside the front cover ‘B. J. Ashley’ (or ‘Astley’?). Sotheby's, 10 November 1964, lot 456.

MS Eng 992.8

Copy, in a large rounded juvenile hand, possibly a member of the Evelyn family, 89 octavo pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf, with metal clasps. Late 17th century.

EvJ 11: John Evelyn, A Character of England

John Evelyn's motto, Meliora Retinete, on a flyleaf.

First published in London, 1659. Miscellaneous Writings, pp. 141-67. Keynes, pp. 59-67.

MS Eng 995 (Lobby X.3.10a)

Autograph draft, untitled, on six quarto leaves, in modern cloth. [1645?].

*HrE 143: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Translation of Descartes' Discours de la méthode

Formerly among Herbert's papers at Powis Castle. Sotheby's, 16 January 1956 (Powis Castle sale), lot 216, with a facsimile page in the sale catalogue.

Discussed in Rossi, II, 537-8, and III, 542. Sotheby's, 16 January 1956, lot 216. A microfilm is in the British Library (M/471).

An unpublished translation of Chapter IV and part of Chapter V of Descartes' Discours, beginning ‘I know not whether I may entertaine you with my first Meditations. since they are so Metaphysicall…’.

MS Eng 1019, [item 1]

Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Evelyn, 16 April, 1656. 1656.

*TaJ 47: Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

Anderson Galleries, New York, sale No. 2275 (George D. Smith Book Company liquidation sale, Part 3), 18 May 1928, lot 240.

Edited in Bray, II, i, 164-6; Eden, I, l-lii; Wheatley, III, 211-13.

MSS Eng 1019, [item 2]

Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to [John Evelyn], [? from Llangadock], 19 July 1656. 1656.

*TaJ 48: Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

Sotheby's, 27 November 1945.

Edied in Eden, I, lii-liii; Wheatley, III, 215-17.

MS Eng 1021

A folio volume of writings by or or related to Sir Walter Ralegh, in a professional secretary hand, 34 leaves, in modern quarter-morocco. Early 17th century.

Inscribed name ‘Edward Blandy’: possibly of the Middle Temple (1617) and of Inglewood, Berkshire. Bought from Hamill & Barker, Chicago, December 1956.

ff. [1r-28r]

• RaW 728.215: Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in November 1603 (here dated 1605).

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.

ff. [28v-32v]

• RaW 948: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copies of three letters by Ralegh, to James I (1603), to Lady Ralegh (1603), and to Sir Robert Carr.

MS Eng 1035

A quarto verse miscellany, in two neat hands, 14 leaves (plus blanks), in modern quarter-calf cloth. A (misapplied) title-page (f. 1r) possibly in another hand: ‘Copy of Verses upon y^e Government under the Protectour Cromwel -- By Edmund Waller 1650’. Late 17th century.

Inscribed (f. [ir]) ‘C F’[?].

ff. [2r-8r]

• MaA 30: Andrew Marvell, The First Anniversary of the Government under O.C. (‘Like the vain Curlings of the Watry maze’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Written for Gregory Boteler’.

First published in London, 1655. Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681), but cancelled from all known exempla except one in the British Library. Margoliouth, I, 108-19. Lord, pp. 93-104. Smith, pp. 287-98.

f. [9v]

• SeC 57: Sir Charles Sedley, To Celia (‘As in those Nations, where they yet adore’)

Copy, headed ‘A Copy of Verses dedicated to y^e vertue & beauty of M^rs Mary Knapp, of Oxon (while y^e K. & Court were there upon the accident of the plague in London) by S^r Charles Sidley, Barr.^tt A.D. 1665’.

First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1671). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Ba^t (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 62-3. Sola Pinto, I, 22.

f. [10r]

• WoH 37.5: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘S^r Henry Wootten’.

ff. [12v-13v]

• BcF 34.5: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’

Copy, headed ‘Humane Life charactered by Fra. Bacon, Viscount S^t. Albans’.

ff. [13v-14v]

• OvT 21: Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife (‘Each woman is a brief of woman kind’)

Extract, 66 lines headed ‘The Choice of a Wife in a poem by S^r Thomas Overbury’, here beginning ‘If I were to chuse a Woman’ and ending ‘Both may bud, grow green, & wither’.

First published, as A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury, in London, 1614. Rimbault, pp. 33-45. Beecher, pp. 190-8.

MS Eng 1091

A small octavo volume of verse and prose relating to the Earl of Strafford, in a single hand, ii + 31 leaves, in red morocco gilt. Mid-17th century.

ff. [1r-2r]

• DeJ 73: Sir John Denham, On the Earl of Strafford's Tryal and Death (‘Great Strafford! worthy of that Name, though all’)

Copy.

First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 153-4.

MS Eng 1132

MS of ‘Hudibras: a drama, founded on the Poem of Butler’, in a single hand, with some apparent revisions, 14 + 131 large quarto pages, on rectos only, in stiff paper wrappers. 19th century.

BuS 1.3: Samuel Butler, Hudibras (‘Sir Hudibras his passing worth’)

Part I first published in London, ‘1663’ [i.e. 1662]. Part II published in London, ‘1664’ [i.e. 1663]. Part III published in London ‘1678’ [i.e. 1677]. the whole poem first published in London, 1684. Edited by John Wilders (Oxford, 1967).

MS Eng 1178

Drawings of inscriptions on panes of glass at Wotton House, on a single leaf.

EvJ 122: John Evelyn, Maps, Drawings and Coats of Arms

MS Eng 1239

Copy of the Ordinances, unnumbered, on 22 quarto leaves, dated ‘1618’, with ‘Additionall Rules’ on ff. 22v-3v, in a secretary hand, with various corrections and emendations in another hand, disbound. Copy, with corrections in another hand; the text followed by additional Ordinances. c.1619.

BcF 247: Francis Bacon, Ordinances in Chancery

Acquired from Frank Hollings, London bookdealer.

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

MS Eng 1264

A quarto volume of poems and other works by Clement Paman (1612-63) ‘left behind him’, in a neat hand, 225 leaves, in leather gilt. 1667.

Later owned by Sir Henry Bunbury (1778-1860) and Edward Herbert Bunbury (1811-95).

f. 41v

• ClJ 199: John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford (‘Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust’)

Copy, ascribed to Clement Paman.

Edited from this MS in Davidson, No. 275 (p. 363).

MS Eng 1266 (v. 1)

A folio composite volume of state tracts, ii + 317 leaves (plus numerous ruled blanks), with a table of contents, in contemporary calf, with metal clasps. In various professional hands (including the ‘Feathery Scribe’), one distinctive secretary hand responsible for ff. 1r-141v, 177r-8v, 206r-11r, 230r-5r.

Owned by Sir Richard Grosvenor (1585-1645); later by the Duke of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire, with his bookplate (inscribed ‘XXI No. 6’) and a label with No. ‘4’ on the spine. Assembled largely from ‘Liber 9’ (= MS 4). Sotheby's, 19 July 1966, lot 486, to Hofmann.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 212. Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 218-19 (No. 12). A microfilm of the MS is in the British Library, RP170.

ff. 1r-30r

• RaW 616: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse of the Original and Fundamental Cause of Natural, Arbitrary, Necessary, and Unnatural War

Copy, as ‘written by S^r walter Rawleigh’. c.1630s.

A tract beginning ‘The ordinary theme and argument of history is war...’. First published (in part), as ‘The Misery of Invasive Warre’, in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London 1650). Published complete in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 253-97.

MS Eng 1266 (v.2)

A folio composite volume of state tracts, ii + 296 leaves, with a table of contents, in contemporary calf, with metal clasps. In various professional hands, the predominant and distinctive secretary hand in Harvard MS Eng 1266 (v. 1) here responsible for ff. 1r-41v, 142r-9r, 202r-54r, 257r-73r, 283r-94v.

Owned by Sir Richard Grosvenor (1585-1645); later by the Duke of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire, with his bookplate (inscribed ‘XXI No. 4’) and a label with No.‘15’ on the spine. Assembled largely from ‘Liber 7’ (= MS 15). Sotheby's, 19 July 1966, lot 482.

This volume recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 212.

ff. 283r-94v

• HrJ 327: Sir John Harington, A Short View of the State of Ireland

Copy. c.1635.

First published, edited by W.D. Macray (Oxford, 1879). Facsimile of f. 13 (which includes the epigram ‘Musa Jocosa, meos solari assueta dolores’) in Kathleen M. Lea, ‘Harington's Folly’, Elizabethan and Jacobean Studies Presented to F.P. Wilson (Oxford, 1959), pp. 42-58 (facing p. 48).

MS Eng 1266.1

A folio composite volume of speeches in Parliament 1623-8, in professional hands, iii + 116 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

Booklabel with an ‘AF’ monogram.

f. [11v]

• RuB 204: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech(es)

Brief notes on an undated speech of ?1623-4, headed ‘Heads of S^r Ben: Rudyards speach’, on one page of a tipped-in pair of conjugate quarto leaves, the verso bearing ‘The heads of the Dukes [Buckingham's] Relation’ which is dated on an endorsement (f. [12v]) ‘24^to ffeb: 1623[/4]’.

MS Eng 1266.2

A folio composite volume of state letters, tracts, parliamentary speeches, etc., in various professional hands, c.160 leaves, in contemporary calf.

A flyleaf inscribed ‘This belongs to M^rs Carewe of Crowcombe, Co. Somerset / T Philli’: i.e.formerly among the Carew MSS at Crowcombe Court, Somerset, and borrowed at some time by Sir Thomas Phillips, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 373.

f. [106r-v]

• BcF 482: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621, in a secretary hand, the first page foliated ‘52’.

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

ff. [107r-8r]

• CtR 183: Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, the first page foliated ‘53’, incomplete. c.1620s.

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

f. 112r-v

• BcF 483: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

Copy.

ff. [125v-6r]

• RuB 7: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, March 1623/4

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘S^r Beniamyn Rudyers Speech taken as he spake itt, beinge the first in the greate businesse concerninge the Treatise’, undated, beginning on the verso of a speech by the Duke of Buckingham dated 24 February ‘1624’, in a section on parliamentary proceedings. c.1620s.

Speech beginning ‘We are bound to bless God that we are mett againe in this place. And we ought to acknowledge his Ma^ts favour towards vs...’.

f. [134r]

• HlJ 25: Joseph Hall, Episcopal Admonition, Sent in a Letter to the House of Commons, April 28, 1628

Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed ‘Lo: Bish of Exeus Speech’, on a single folio leaf.

See HlJ 17-30.

ff. [153r-9r]

• EsR 132: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Apology

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on seven folio leaves, the first page foliated ‘99’, the work dated 1598. Early 1600s.

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.

MS Eng 1278

Collection of papers relating to George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham.

Folders 12-17, No. 14

• MrJ 43: John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 (‘And art returned again with all thy faults’)

Copy.

Folders 12-17, No. 15

• CaE 24: Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, An Epitaph upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham (‘Reader stand still and see, loe, how I am’)

Copy of the six-line epitaph. c.1630.

This MS recorded in Akkerman.

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

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

MS Eng 1290

Autograph letter signed by Donne, to Sir Nicholas Carew, 21 June 1625. 1625.

*DnJ 4135: John Donne, Letter(s)

Edited by T. Spencer (Charles River, Massachusetts, 1930).

MS Eng 1341

A quarto volume of autograph poems by Elizabeth Rowe (née Singer, 1674-1737), 306 pages, in contemporary vellum boards. Early 18th century.

A tipped-in letter by Thomas Stevenson, Cambridge bookseller, to J.A. Wickham, 2 August 1841, says this volume came to him with other books from the Rev. J.W. Berry, vicar of Foxton. A note inside the front cover by one ‘M. J.’ also records his purchase of ‘this Valuable book’ from ‘M^r Kerslake’.

Sotheby's, 21-22 July 1980, lot 552, with a facsimile of p. 82 in the sale catalogue.

pp. 288-9

• MoH 2: Henry More, A Hymn on the Creation (‘When God the first Foundations laid’)

Copy, by Elizabeth Rowe, headed ‘A Hymn by D^er Henry More’.

First published in More's Philosophical Poems (Cambridge, 1647).

MS Eng 1356

A small octavo commonplace book, in various hands, over a period from c.1649 to1815, unpaginated and imperfect, in contemporary calf. Including 64 pages with descriptions of dance steps, fifteen pages of verse, and a number of pages of miscellaneous, household and legal memoranda. Chiefly mid-late 17th century.

Inscribed names passim including ‘Richard Pattricke’, ‘Richard Lewis 1654’,

[unspecified page numbers]

• ClJ 8: John Cleveland, The Antiplatonick (‘For shame, thou everlasting Woer’)

Copy, on three pages in a ten-page section headed ‘Verses on severall occurrenses 1649’ in the middle of the volume.

First published in Poems, by J. C., With Additions (1651), the edition with yet more additions. Morris & Withington, pp. 54-6.

[unspecified page numbers]

• CaW 29: William Cartwright, On Mr Stokes his Book on the Art of Vaulting (‘Reader, here is such a booke’)

Copy, on five pages.

First published in Works (1651), pp. 209-12. Evans, pp. 462-5.

[unspecified page numbers]

• LoR 16.5: Richard Lovelace, The Scrutinie. Song (‘Why should you sweare I am forsworn’)

Copy, headed ‘Songs’, on one page in a five-page section of verse near the end of the volume.

First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 24. (1930), pp. 26-7. A musical setting by Thomas Charles published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

MS Eng 1359

A folio volume of proceedings in Parliament, the Exchequer and Star Chamber, 1628/9-34, in several professional hands, c.315 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1635.

Delivered by Edward Jones Smith to Lady Masserene on 19 June 1824.

f. [29r]

• RuB 116: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 10 February 1628/9

Copy, headed ‘S^r Beniamin Rudyard’.

A speech beginning ‘There be diverse recantations, submissions and sentences remaining on record...’. Variant versions include one beginning ‘That there have been many publique censures and recantacions...’. See Commons Debates for 1629, ed. Wallace Notestein and Frances Helen Relf (Minneapolis, 1921), pp. 137, [274]-5.

MS Eng 1382

Copy of a 581-stanza version, ii + 59 octavo leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary panelled calf. In a single minute hand, untitled and here beginning ‘I singe thy sad disaster fatall kinge’, subscribed ‘Finis By Infortunio’. c.1620s.

HuF 12: Sir Francis Hubert, Edward II (‘It is thy sad disaster which I sing’)

Inscribed (at the top of f. 1r), possibly by the scribe, ‘A North her book’.

First published, in an unauthorised edition as The Deplorable Life and Death of Edward the Second. Together with the Downefall of the two Unfortunate Favorits, Gavestone and Spencer. Storied in an Excellent Pöem, London, 1628. First authorised edition, as The Historie of Edward the Second, Surnamed Carnarvan, one of our English Kings. Together with the Fatall down-fall of his two vnfortunate Favorites Gaveston and Spencer, London, 1629. An edition of a 576-stanza version in three cantos, entitled The Life of Edward II, was printed in London 1721 from an unidentified MS.

Mellor, pp. 4-169 (664-stanza version, headed ‘The Life and Death of Edward the Second’, including ‘The Authors Preface’ beginning ‘Rebellious thoughts why doe you tumult so’?).

MS Eng 1400

An octavo commonplace book, with entries under headings, in a single cursive hand, 512 pages (plus numerous blanks), in vellum boards. c.1705.

p. 80

• JnB 568.5: Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels

Extracts.

First published in London, 1601. Herford & Simpson, IV, 1-184.

passim

• BcF 206.7: Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral

Extracts, on numerous pages throughout the volume.

Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).

passim

• DaW 29.8: Sir William Davenant, Gondibert (‘Of all the Lombards, by their Trophies knowne’)

Extracts, on pages including pp. 88, 315, 356, 572.

First published in London, ‘1651’ [i.e. December 1650]. The Seventh and Last Canto of the Third Book published in London, 1685. Gladish (1971).

MS Eng 1490

An octavo composite miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, relating to angling, 284 pages (lacking pp. 161-84), in quarter-calf marbled boards. In several neat, small, chiefly italic hands, one on pp. 1-203 that of Nathaniel Bridges, of Magdalen College, Oxford, whose inscription on f. [iii^r] is dated ‘1694’. c.1691-early 18th century.

Bookplate of George Weare Braikenridge, Broomwell House. A flyleaf is inscribed by him, November 1834, ‘The Book belonged to the late D^r. Nath^l. Bridges Lecturer of S^t Mary Radcliffe & S^t Nicholas in the City of Bristol & purchased out of a private sale of his library at his decease.’ Other names inscribed after p. 212 including ‘William Trumbu[ll]’, ‘Joseph Brampton 1691’, and ‘Hen Sacheverell / Coll. Magd.’. A later bookplate inside the lower cover: ‘Gift of Daniel B. Fearing of Newport, 1915’.

p. 123 et seq.

• WtI 4: Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler

Extracts, with a title-page: ‘M^r. Isaac Walton's Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Mans Recreation’.

First published in London, 1653.

p. 198

• WoH 61.5: Sir Henry Wotton, On a Bank as I sat a-Fishing. A Description of the Spring (‘And now all nature seemed in love’)

Copy, headed ‘A Copy of Verses of S^r. H. Wottons. who made this description of that pleasantness that possess'd him, as he sat quietly in a summers evening on a Bank a Fishing: it is a Description of the Spring’ and here beginning ‘This Day Dame nature seem'd in love’.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 524. Hannah (1845), pp. 32-5.

pp. 201-2

• WoH 217.5: Sir Henry Wotton, A Description of the Country's Recreations (‘Quivering fears, heart-tearing cares’)

Copy, headed ‘A Copy of Verses, thought to be of S^r. H. Wottons composing, in which is an elegat description of the Recreations & pleasures of the Country’.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 531-3, subscribed ‘Ignoto’, among ‘Poems Found among the Papers of S. H. Wotton’. Described in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 239-40, as ‘a Copy printed amongst Sir Henry Wottons Verses, and doubtless made either by him, or by a lover of Angling’. Hannah (1845), pp. 55-9.

p. 202

• DnJ 320.5: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)

Copy, headed ‘Some Verses of D^r Donne's, which because they relate Rivers, fish & fishing were inserted, in the Author's Book. The Bait’.

First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612). Grierson, I, 46-7. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 27.

2nd section, f. [18r]

• RaW 68.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

Copy, headed ‘S^r Walter Raleighs Epitaph written himself the night before he suffered’.

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 Eng 1534

Copy, 155 large quarto leaves, unbound. With a title-page: ‘A Treatise on Witchcraft Demonstrated by Facts In the family of Edward Fairfax Esq. Of Fuystone, Yorkshire, 1624. With many curious Plates, Transcribed from an old Manuscript. By Ebenezer Sibley. M. D. 1793 Copied by C. Forrest Sen. Jan^y 1870.’ 1870.

FaE 6.3: Edward Fairfax, A Discourse of Witchcraft

First published in Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 5 (London, 1858-9), No. 3, ed. R. Monckton Milnes. Edited by William Grainge as Daemonologia (Harrogate, 1882; reprinted in London, 1971).

MS Eng 1544 (Lobby X.1.1)

An octavo volume of some 137 poems from George Herbert's The Temple, in a single minute hand, many with revisions, 237 pages, in later black morocco. Possibly written by one ‘I.B.’ (p. 86), perhaps of ‘Hasleborow’ (p. 25), who refers to himself (p. 136) as ‘the translat^r’, in versions adapted as hymns to be sung to (frequently specified) Psalm tunes, with page references to his printed exemplar (conforming to the 1633 edition) bearing complementary annotations, and with references (on pp. 42, 44, 46, 67, 78, 80, 117, 137, 152, 163, 171, 191, 196, 206, 207, 213, and 218) to those poems which are not copied here (though assigned Psalm tunes) probably because he had made no alterations to the printed versions. 1680/1-1682.

Bookplates of James Bindley, FSA (1737-1818), book collector, and of F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector, and of Professor George Herbert Palmer (1842-1933), American scholar and author (his gift to Harvard in 1922). Formerly Her. 2.5.

This MS discussed by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart in his edition of The Complete Works of George Herbert (3 vols, printed for private circulation, 1874), II, pp. xxv-xxxi.

pp. 1-25

• HrG 51.5: George Herbert, The Church-porch (‘Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhance’)

Copy, docketed ‘Sing it as the C XIII Psalm’, subscribed ‘scripsi...ap^d Hasleborow, diebus p^rdict. et Feb. 12. 1680/1’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 6-24.

pp. 26-38

• HrG 230.5: George Herbert, The Sacrifice (‘Oh all ye, who passe by, whose eyes and minde’)

Copy, subscribed ‘scripsi Feb. 7. et nunc ulto ejus^d 24. 1680/1’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 26-34.

pp. 39-41

• HrG 261.5: George Herbert, The Thanksgiving (‘Oh King of grief! a title strange, yet true’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 35-6.

p. 42

• HrG 226.5: George Herbert, The Reprisall (‘I have consider'd it, and finde’)

Copy, docketed ‘as Psal. C’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 36-7.

pp. 42-3

• HrG 10.5: George Herbert, The Agonie (‘Philosophers have measur'd mountains’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Philosophers haue by their art’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 37.

pp. 43-4

• HrG 241.5: George Herbert, The Sinner (‘Lord, how I am all ague, when I seek’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Lord I'm all ague when I seek’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 38.

p. 44

• HrG 120.5: George Herbert, Good Friday (‘O my chief good’)

Copy, here beginning ‘O thou that art my chiefest good’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 38-9.

pp. 45-6

• HrG 222.5: George Herbert, Redemption (‘Having been tenant long to a rich Lord’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 40.

pp. 46-7

• HrG 233.5: George Herbert, Sepulchre (‘O blessed bodie! Whither art thou thrown?’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Oh blessed body (now)’, docketed ‘as Ps. 113’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 40-1.

p. 48

• HrG 92.2: George Herbert, Easter (‘Rise heart. thy Lord is risen. Sing his praise’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Rise heart; thy Lord is risen up’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 41-2.

pp. 48-9

• HrG 94.5: George Herbert, Easter-wings (‘Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store’)

Copy, here beginning ‘My tender youthful age’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 43.

pp. 49-50

• HrG 126.5: George Herbert, H. Baptisme (I) (‘As he that sees a dark and shadie grove’)

Copy, here beginning ‘As he that sees a darksome Grove’.

First published in The Temple (1613). Hutchinson, pp. 43-4.

p. 50

• HrG 128.5: George Herbert, H. Baptisme (II) (‘Since, Lord, to thee’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 44.

p. 51

• HrG 187.5: George Herbert, Nature (‘Full of rebellion, I would die’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 45.

p. 51

• HrG 187.8: George Herbert, Nature (‘Full of rebellion, I would die’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 45.

p. 52

• HrG 237.5: George Herbert, Sinne (I) (‘Lord, with what care hast thou begirt us round!’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 45-6.

pp. 53-5

• HrG 3.5: George Herbert, Affliction (I) (‘When first thou didst entice to thee my heart’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 46-8.

pp. 55-6

• HrG 224.2: George Herbert, Repentance (‘Lord, I confesse my sinne is great’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 48-9.

pp. 56-8

• HrG 109.5: George Herbert, Faith (‘Lord, how couldst thou so much appease’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 49-51.

p. 59

• HrG 209.5: George Herbert, Prayer (I) (‘Prayer the Churches banquet, Angels age’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Prayer the Churches banquet is’.

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

p. 60

• HrG 130.5: George Herbert, The H. Communion (‘Not in rich furniture, or fine aray’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Not in the richest furniture’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 52-3.

p. 61

• HrG 307.5: George Herbert, Dum petit Infantem (‘Dvm petit Infantem Princeps, Grantámque Iacobus’)

Copy, here beginning ‘O thou immortal Loue’.

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

pp. 61-2

• HrG 169.5: George Herbert, Love II. (‘Immortall Heat, O let thy greater flame’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 54.

pp. 62-3

• HrG 259.5: George Herbert, The Temper (II) (‘It cannot be. Where is that mightie joy’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 56.

pp. 63-4

• HrG 257.5: George Herbert, The Temper (I) (‘How should I praise thee, Lord! how should my rymes’)

Copy, docketed ‘medu this should haue bin placed before the last,.being pag. 46’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 55.

pp. 64-5

• HrG 152.5: George Herbert, Jordan (I) (‘Who sayes that fictions onely and false hair’)

Copy, heading ‘Who sayes that fiction & false hair’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 56-7.

pp. 65-6

• HrG 98.5: George Herbert, Employment (I) (‘If as a flowre doth spread and die’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 57.

p. 66

• HrG 134.5: George Herbert, The H. Scriptures (‘Oh Book! infinite sweetnessse! let my heart’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Oh Book so infinite’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 58.

p. 67

• HrG 285.5: George Herbert, Whitsunday (‘Listen sweet Dove unto my song’)

Copy of the heading (‘Whitsunda’) and first line only (here ‘Listen sweet dove unto my song’), docketed ‘& vid coelora in libro -- onely take out the words thus enclosed [*]’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 59-60.

p. 67

• HrG 122.5: George Herbert, Grace (‘My stock lies dead, and no increase’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 60-1.

pp. 68-9

• HrG 205.5: George Herbert, Praise (I) (‘To write a verse or two is all the praise’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 61.

p. 69

• HrG 4.5: George Herbert, Affliction (II) (‘Kill me not ev'ry day’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 62.

pp. 69-70

• HrG 180.5: George Herbert, Mattens (‘I cannot ope mine eyes’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 62-3.

p. 71

• HrG 239.5: George Herbert, Sinne (II) (‘O that I could a sinne once see!’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 63.

pp. 71-3

• HrG 106.5: George Herbert, Even-song (‘Blest be the God of love’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 63-4.

p. 73

• HrG 48.5: George Herbert, Church-monuments (‘While that my soul repairs to her devotion’)

Copy, here beginning ‘While that my soul faily repairs’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 64-5.

pp. 74-5

• HrG 50.5: George Herbert, Church-musick (‘Sweetest of sweets, I thank you: when displeasure’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Sweetest of sweets I do you think’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 65-6.

pp. 75-6

• HrG 44.2: George Herbert, Church-lock and key (‘I know it is my sinne, which locks thine eares’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Full well I know it is’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 66.

pp. 76-8

• HrG 42.8: George Herbert, The Church-floore (‘Mark you the floore? that square & speckled stone’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Sir, do you mark that handsome floor?’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 66-7.

pp. 78-80

• HrG 68.5: George Herbert, Content (‘Peace mutt'ring thoughts, and do not grudge to keep’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Peace muttering thoughts, o peace & rest’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 68-9.

pp. 80-2

• HrG 145.5: George Herbert, Humilitie (‘I saw the Vertues sitting hand in hand’)

Copy, here beginning ‘I saw the virtues all’, subscribed ‘March 28. 1682’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 70-1.

pp. 82-3

• HrG 115.5: George Herbert, Frailtie (‘Lord, in my silence how do I despise’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 71-2.

pp. 83-6

• HrG 65.5: George Herbert, Constancie (‘Who is the honest man?’)

Copy, subscribed ‘ita .I.B. mar. 30. 82.’

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 72-3.

pp. 86-7

• HrG 5.5: George Herbert, Affliction (III) (‘My heart did heave, and there came forth, O God!’)

Copy, here beginning ‘My heart did heave and presently’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 73.

pp. 87-8

• HrG 246.5: George Herbert, The Starre (‘Bright spark, shot from a brighter place’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 74.

pp. 88-90

• HrG 253.5: George Herbert, Sunday (‘O day most calm, most bright’)

Copy, here beginning ‘O day most calm, most sweet, most bright’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 75-7.

pp. 90-1

• HrG 22.5: George Herbert, Avarice (‘Money, thou bane of blisse, & sourse of wo’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 77.

p. 91

• HrG 14.8: George Herbert, Ana-{MARY/ARMY} gram (‘How well her name an Army doth present’)

Copy, here beginning ‘How well doth her great Name’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 77.

pp. 92-3

• HrG 264.5: George Herbert, To all Angels and Saints (‘Oh glorious spirits, who after all your bands’)

Copy, here beginning ‘oh glorious spirits, who on high’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 77-8.

pp. 93-5

• HrG 100.5: George Herbert, Employment (II) (‘He that is weary, let him sit’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 78-9.

pp. 95-6

• HrG 81.5: George Herbert, Deniall (‘When my devotions could not pierce’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 79-80.

pp. 96-9

• HrG 40.5: George Herbert, Christmas (‘All after pleasures as I rid one day’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 80-1.

pp. 99-100

• HrG 276.5: George Herbert, Ungratefulnesse (‘Lord, with what bountie and rare clemencie’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Lord with what bounty rare’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 82.

pp. 101-2

• HrG 235.5: George Herbert, Sighs and Grones (‘O do not use me’)

Copy, here beginning ‘After my sins, o do not use’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 83.

pp. 102-3

• HrG 288.5: George Herbert, The World (‘Love built a stately house. where Fortune came’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 84.

pp. 104-5

• HrG 279.5: George Herbert, Vanitie (I) (‘The fleet Astronomer can bore’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 85-6.

pp. 105-8

• HrG 162.5: George Herbert, Lent (‘Welcome deare feast of Lent: who loves not thee’)

Copy, with the scribe's marginal comment on p. 108 ‘In my poor judg^t. the Poetry is better then the Reason -- therefore though I translated it as piously intended, yet I cannpt say y^t. I am like-minded wth ys worthy Author. May. 30. 1682.’

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 86-7.

pp. 109-11

• HrG 199.5: George Herbert, The Pearl. Matth. 13. 45. (‘I know the wayes of Learning. both the head’)

Copy, here beginning ‘I know the wayes of Learning well’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 88-9.

pp. 111-12

• HrG 7.5: George Herbert, Affliction (IV) (‘Broken in pieces all asunder’)

Copy, docketed ‘As Psal. 25’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 89-90.

pp. 112-15

• HrG 176.5: George Herbert, Man (‘My God, I heard this day’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 90-2.

pp. 115-16

• HrG 278.5: George Herbert, Unkindnesse (‘Lord, make me coy and tender to offend’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Lord make me very coy’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 93-4.

p. 117

• HrG 163.5: George Herbert, Life (‘I made a posie, while the day ran by’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 94.

pp. 117-18

• HrG 9.5: George Herbert, Affliction (V) (‘My God, I read this day’)

Copy, here beginning ‘My glorious God, I read this day’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 97.

pp. 118-20

• HrG 185.5: George Herbert, Mortification (‘How soon doth man decay!’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 98-9.

pp. 121-2

• HrG 77.5: George Herbert, Decay (‘Sweet were the dayes, when thou didst lodge with Lot’)

Copy, here beginning ‘The dayes were sweet wn thou (o L^d)’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 99.

pp. 122-7

• HrG 183.5: George Herbert, Miserie (‘Lord, let the Angles praise thy name’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Lord, Let the Angels high’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 100-2.

pp. 127-8

• HrG 154.5: George Herbert, Jordan (II) (‘When first my lines of heav'nly joyes made mention’)

Copy, here beginning ‘when first my lines began’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 102-3.

pp. 128-9

• HrG 212.5: George Herbert, Prayer (II) (‘Of what an easie quick accesse’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 103.

pp. 129-32

• HrG 189.5: George Herbert, Obedience (‘My God, if writings may’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 104-5.

p. 132

• HrG 64.5: George Herbert, Conscience (‘Peace pratler, do not lowre’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 105-6.

pp. 133-4

• HrG 243.5: George Herbert, Sion (‘Lord, with what glorie wast thou serv'd of old’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 106-7.

pp. 134-6

• HrG 140.5: George Herbert, Home (‘Come Lord, my head doth burn, my heart is sick’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 107-9.

pp. 136-7

• HrG 30.4: George Herbert, The British Church (‘I joy, deare Mother, when I view’)

Copy, docketed at the foot of p. 136 ‘the translat^rs who in this is not like minded w^th the Rever^d. Author’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 109-10.

p. 137

• HrG 280.5: George Herbert, Vanitie (II) (‘Poore silly soul, whose hope and head lies low’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 111.

p. 138

• HrG 73.5: George Herbert, The Dawning (‘Awake sad heart, whom sorrow ever drowns’)

Copy, here beginning ‘wake heart, whom sorrow ever drowns’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 112.

p. 138

• HrG 147.5: George Herbert, Jesu (‘Jesu is in my heart, his sacred name’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 112.

pp. 139-41

• HrG 32.2: George Herbert, Businesse (‘Canst be idle? canst thou play’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Canst thou be idle man’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 113-14.

p. 141

• HrG 90.5: George Herbert, Dulnesse (‘Why do I languish thus, drooping and dull’)

Copy, here beginning ‘why do I languish drooping thus’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 115-16.

p.. 141

• HrG 173.2: George Herbert, Love-joy (‘As on a window late I cast mine eye’)

Copy, in double columns, here beginning ‘As on a window lately I’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 116.

pp. 142-51

• HrG 215.5: George Herbert, Providence (‘O sacred Providence, who from end to end’)

Copy, subscribed ‘March. 3. 1680/1’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 116-21.

p. 151

• HrG 143.5: George Herbert, Hope (‘I gave to Hope a watch of mine: but he’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 121.

pp. 151-2

• HrG 242.5: George Herbert, Sinnes round (‘Sorrie I am, my God, sorrie I am’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Sorry I am, my God, I am’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 122.

pp. 153-4

• HrG 197.5: George Herbert, Peace (‘Sweet Peace, where dost thou dwell? I humbly crave’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Sweet Peace, where dost thou dwel, I trow’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 124-5.

pp. 154-5

• HrG 63.5: George Herbert, Confession (‘O what a cunning guest’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 126.

pp. 155-6

• HrG 116.5: George Herbert, Giddinesse (‘Oh, what a thing is man! how farre from power’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 127.

pp. 156-7

• HrG 31.5: George Herbert, The Bunch of Grapes (‘Joy, I did lock thee up: but some bad man’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 128.

pp. 157-60

• HrG 174.5: George Herbert, Love unknown (‘Deare Friend, sit down, the tale is long and sad’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 129-31.

pp. 160-2

• HrG 177.5: George Herbert, Mans medley (‘Heark, how the birds do sing’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Heark how the birds do sweetly sing’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 131-2.

pp. 162-3

• HrG 249.5: George Herbert, The Storm (‘If as the windes and waters here below’)

Copy, here beginning ‘If as the furious winds’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 132.

pp. 163-5

• HrG 103.5: George Herbert, Ephes. 4. 30. Grieve not the Holy Spirit, &c (‘And art thou grieved, sweet and sacred Dove’)

Copy, here beginning ‘And art thou griev'd, o dove’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 135-6.

p. 165

• HrG 110.5: George Herbert, The Familie (‘What doth this noise of thoughts within my heart’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 136-7.

pp. 166-7

• HrG 244.5: George Herbert, The Size (‘Content thee, greedie heart’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Content thee oh my greedy heart’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 137-8.

pp. 168-9

• HrG 20.5: George Herbert, Artillerie (‘As I one ev'ning sat before my cell’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Sitting one night before my cell’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 139.

pp. 169-71

• HrG 57.5: George Herbert, Church-rents and schismes (‘Brave rose, (alas!) where art thou? in the chair’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Brave Rose (alas) where art yu now’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 140.

pp. 171-2

• HrG 159.5: George Herbert, Justice (II) (‘O dreadfull Justice, what a fright and terrour’)

Copy, here beginning ‘O dreadful Justice unto man’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 141.

pp. 172-3

• HrG 201.5: George Herbert, The Pilgrimage (‘I travell'd on, seeing the hill, where lay’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 141-2.

pp. 173-4

• HrG 139.5: George Herbert, The Holdfast (‘I threatned to observe the strict decree’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 143.

pp. 174-5

• HrG 62.5: George Herbert, Complaining (‘Do not beguile my heart’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 143-4.

pp. 175-7

• HrG 84.5: George Herbert, The Discharge (‘Busie enquiring heart, what wouldst thou know?’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Busy enquireing heart, I pray’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 144-5.

pp. 177-80

• HrG 192.5: George Herbert, An Offering (‘Come, bring thy gift. If blessings were as slow’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Come bring thy gift away’, subscribed ‘oct. 17. 1682’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 147-8.

pp. 181-3

• HrG 164.5: George Herbert, Longing (‘With sick and famisht eyes’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 148-50.

pp. 184-5

• HrG 25.8: George Herbert, The Bag (‘Away despair! my gracious Lord doth heare’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 151-2.

pp. 185-6

• HrG 150.5: George Herbert, The Jews (‘Poore nation, whose sweet sap and juice’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Poor nation long be wildered’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 152.

pp. 186-8

• HrG 61.2: George Herbert, Coloss. 3. 3. Our life is hid with Christ in God (‘My words & thoughts do both expresse this notion’)

Copy, here beginning ‘I struck upon the board’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 84-5.

pp. 188-9

• HrG 118.5: George Herbert, The Glimpse (‘Whither away delight?’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 154-5.

pp. 189-91

• HrG 21.5: George Herbert, Assurance (‘O spitefull bitter thought!’)

Copy, here beginning ‘O spiteful woful bitter thought!’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 155-6.

pp. 191-3

• HrG 207.5: George Herbert, Praise (III) (‘Lord, I will mean and speak thy praise’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 157-9.

p. 193

• HrG 155.5: George Herbert, Josephs coat (‘Wounded I sing, tormented I indite’)

Copy, here beginning ‘wounded most sore I sing’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 159.

p. 194

• HrG 217.5: George Herbert, The Pulley (‘When God at first made man’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 159-60.

pp. 195-6

• HrG 213.5: George Herbert, The Priesthood (‘Blest Order, which in power dost so excell’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 160-1.

pp. 196-7

• HrG 124.5: George Herbert, Grief (‘O who will give me tears? Come all ye springs’)

Copy, here beginning ‘O, who will give me brinish tears’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 164.

pp. 197-9

• HrG 71.5: George Herbert, The Crosse (‘What is this strange and uncouth thing?’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 164-5.

pp. 199-200

• HrG 111.5: George Herbert, The Flower (‘How fresh, O Lord, how sweet and clean’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 165-7.

p. 201

• HrG 89.2: George Herbert, Dotage (‘False glozing pleasures, casks of happinesse’)

Copy, here beginning ‘False glozeing pleasures, empty casks’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 167.

pp. 201-2

• HrG 245.5: George Herbert, The Sonne (‘Let forrain nations of their language boast’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Let forraign Nations loudly boast’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 167-8.

p. 202

• HrG 269.5: George Herbert, A true Hymne (‘My joy, my life, my crown!’)

Copy, here beginning ‘my dearest joy, My life, my Crown!’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 168.

p. 203

• HrG 16.5: George Herbert, The Answer (‘My comforts drop and melt away like snow’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 169.

pp. 203-4

• HrG 83.5: George Herbert, A Dialogue-Antheme (‘Alas, poore Death, where is thy glorie?’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Alas poore sorry death!’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 169.

pp. 204-5

• HrG 283.5: George Herbert, The Water-couse (‘Thou who dost dwell and linger here below’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Thou who impatiently dost dwell’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 170.

p. 205

• HrG 232.5: George Herbert, Self-condemnation (‘Thou who condemnest Jewish hate’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 170-1.

p. 206

• HrG 117.5: George Herbert, The Glance (‘When first thy sweet and gracious eye’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 171-2.

pp. 206-7

• HrG 178.5: George Herbert, Marie Magdalene (‘When blessed marie wip'd her Saviours feet’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 173.

pp. 207-9

• HrG 1.5: George Herbert, Aaron (‘Holinesse on the head’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 174.

pp. 209-10

• HrG 190.5: George Herbert, The Odour. 2. Cor. 2. 15 (‘How sweetly doth My Master sound! My Master!’)

Copy, here beginning ‘How sweetly doth this sentence sound’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 174-5.

p. 210

• HrG 112.5: George Herbert, The Foil (‘If we could see below’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 175-6.

pp. 211-13

• HrG 113.5: George Herbert, The Forerunners (‘The harbingers are come. See, see their mark’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 176-7.

p. 213

• HrG 146.5: George Herbert, The Invitation (‘Come ye hither All, whose taste’)

Copy of a 32-line version beginning ‘Come ye up hither all’, in double columns.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 179-80.

pp. 214-15

• HrG 146.8: George Herbert, The Invitation (‘Come ye hither All, whose taste’)

Copy of a 48-line version headed ‘aliter’ and beginning ‘Come hither ye, ye all whose taste’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 179-80.

pp. 215-16

• HrG 27.5: George Herbert, The Banquet (‘Welcome sweet and sacred cheer’)

Copy, headed ‘O welcome sweet and sacred cheer’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 181-2.

p. 217

• HrG 202.5: George Herbert, The Posie (‘Let wits contest’)

Copy.

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

pp. 217-18

• HrG 195.9: George Herbert, A Parodie (‘Souls joy, when thou art gone’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). John Donne, Poems, By J.D. (London, 1635). Hutchinson, pp. 183-4.

Herbert's poem is a ‘Parodie’ of a poem by William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, first published in John Donne, Poems (2nd edition, London, 1635). Entries below include both poems indiscriminately.

p. 218

• HrG 290.2: George Herbert, On Henry Danvers earl of Danby (‘Sacred Marble, safely keepe’)

Copy, here beginning ‘A wreathed Garland Lord’.

Inscribed on Danby's tomb in Dauntsey Church, Wiltshire. First published in Izaak Walton, Lives, ed. Thomas Zouch (London, 1776). Hutchinson, pp. 208-9.

pp. 218-19

• HrG 76.5: George Herbert, Death (‘Death, thou wast once an uncouth hideous thing’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Death, thou wast once an uncouth thing’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 185-6.

pp. 219-20

• HrG 88.5: George Herbert, Dooms-day (‘Come away’)

Copy, here beginning ‘oh come, come, come away’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 186-7.

pp. 220-1

• HrG 157.5: George Herbert, Judgement (‘Almightie Judge, how shall poore wretches brook’)

Copy, here beginning ‘All mighty judge, how shall we brook’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 187-8.

p. 221

• HrG 138.5: George Herbert, Heaven (‘O who will show me those delights on high?’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 188.

pp. 221-2

• HrG 171.5: George Herbert, Love III (‘Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Dec. 12. 1682’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 188-9.

pp. 222-36

• HrG 46.5: George Herbert, The Church Militant (‘Almightie Lord, who from thy glorious throne’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Allmighty God the Lord, who from’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 190-8.

pp. 236-7

• HrG 102.5: George Herbert, L'Envoy (‘King of Glorie, King of Peace’)

Copy, here beginning ‘O King of Glory, King of Peace’, subscribed ‘Finis. Dec. 14. 1682’.

See HrG 101-102.

fMS Eng 64

Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to the Rev. Richard Busby, [1682]. 1682.

*DrJ 310: John Dryden, Letter(s)

Ward, Letter 9.

fMS Eng 602

A folio volume principally of poems, the majority (at least 20) by Edmund Waller, some probably by members of his family, 73 unnumbered leaves, in calf gilt. Including copies of various drafts, fragments and extracts, as well as poems by other writers such as Anne Wharton, Sir Charles Berkeley, Sir Thomas Higgons (including part of a play by him), Elizabeth Taylor (Lady Wythens, afterwards Lady Colepeper), ‘Ephelia’, George Granville, the Duke of Buckingham, Sir George Etherege, the Earl of Rochester, James Shirley, and Thomas Rymer, also extracts from Dryden and Davenant; almost entirely in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, with considerable variation of style; an apparently second, unidentified, hand copying verse and prose (‘Memoire…par le Sieur Lycelot…Le 9^me de Decembre 1687’ and ‘Instructions to the Judges of Assize &c Lent 1687/8’) on ff. [23r, 62r-7v, 70v]; two of these leaves ([65r and 70v]) docketed in a later hand (after 1713) ‘The Handwriting of D^r Atterbury’ and ‘Bish^p Atterbury’ [meaning perhaps copied from Atterbury's writing (see WaE Δ 15)]; a draft letter addressed (as is clear from the content) to Catherine, Lady Ranelagh (1614-91), sister of the ‘noble and learned…M^r [Robert] Boyle’, on f. [16v], enclosing ‘ffathers last verses’ [not specified], noting his reluctance to write anything for the forthcoming marriage of Princess Anne and Prince George of Denmark [which took place on 28 July 1684], and observing that he has ‘now consecrated his remayning facullty in vers to devotion’; a poem ‘Of his voyage vp the river to vissett’ (beginning ‘In my breast Eternall flames’) on f. [71r] ascribed to ‘M^rs M Waller’ (presumably Waller's second wife, Mary Bresse or Breaux, d. 1677); some scribbling and calculations on ff. 3r, 71v, 72v, 73v, a label on the spine erroneously identifying the volume as a compilation by Brian Fairfax (1637-1711). c.1693-8.

Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1798-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9096.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the ‘Harvard MS’: WaE Δ 6.

ff. [1r-2r]

• WaE 158: Edmund Waller, Of Divine Love. Six Cantos (‘The Grecian muse has all their gods survived’)

Copy of Canto I, lines 1-22, 45-54, and Canto II, lines 1-8 only, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.

First published in Poems, ‘Fourth’ edition (London, 1682). Thorn-Drury, II, 119-30.

f. [2v]

• WaE 68: Edmund Waller, Epitaph Unfinished (‘Great soul! for whom Death will no longer stay’)

Copy of the last four lines in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, untitled and here beginning ‘Here beauty, youth, and Noble Virtue Shin'd’.

First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 116.

ff. [3v-4v], [8r]

• WaE 798.5: Edmund Waller, The Maid's Tragedy Altered

Copy of a series of passages, at least some relating to Waller's adaptation and possibly incorporating rejected drafts, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters on four pages.

Besides 12 lines (on f. [4]) begininng ‘When I consider life tis all a cheate’ from Dryden's Aureng-Zebe, IV, i, the passages on these four pages include (i) 16 lines beginning ‘Under what Tyranny are women born!’, the first two lines being a version of Evadne's couplet beginning ‘Under how hard a Fate are Women born!’ near the opening of the play (lines 9-10); and (on lower half of f. [8]) 16 lines beginning ‘Noe forrest, Cave, or Savage Denn’, being Aspasia's lines 7-22 in her scene in the Forest. Some of the other, unidentified passages also occur in other Waller family papers.

Recorded in IELM, II.ii (1993), as WaE 788.

First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (1690).

See also WaE 255-6.

f. [27v]

• WaE 178: Edmund Waller, Of Her Majesty, on New-Year's Day, 1683 (‘What revolutions in the world have been’)

Copy of a ten-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, untitled and beginning ‘May every birth-day find hir still the same’ with an alternative version of five lines.

First published in Poems, ‘Fifth’ edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 93.

See also WaE 255-6.

f. [27v]

• WaE 179: Edmund Waller, Of Her Majesty, on New-Year's Day, 1683 (‘What revolutions in the world have been’)

Copy of a ten-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘Of hir Ma^ty on hir birth day’ and beginning ‘Shee and the Sunn still like themselves appear’.

First published in Poems, ‘Fifth’ edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 93.

See also WaE 255-6.

f. [28r]

• WaE 60: Edmund Waller, Epitaph on Sir George Speke (‘Under this stone lies vertue, youth’)

Copy in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.

First published in Poems, ‘Fifth’ edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 107-8.

f. [28v]

• WaE 180: Edmund Waller, Of Her Majesty, on New-Year's Day, 1683 (‘What revolutions in the world have been’)

Copy of a nine-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘Nov: 21’ and beginning ‘What revolutions in the world are seen’.

First published in Poems, ‘Fifth’ edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 93.

See also WaE 255-6.

f. [28v]

• WaE 181: Edmund Waller, Of Her Majesty, on New-Year's Day, 1683 (‘What revolutions in the world have been’)

Copy of a thirteen-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘Of hir Ma^ty on hir birth day’ and beginning ‘What revolutions in the world are seen’, with an alternative version of four lines.

First published in Poems, ‘Fifth’ edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 93.

See also WaE 255-6.

f. [29v]

• WaE 182: Edmund Waller, Of Her Majesty, on New-Year's Day, 1683 (‘What revolutions in the world have been’)

Copy of a five-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘The Queen’ and beginning ‘Shee and the Sun alone unchang'd appear’.

First published in Poems, ‘Fifth’ edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 93.

See also WaE 255-6.

f. [34v]

• WaE 183: Edmund Waller, Of Her Majesty, on New-Year's Day, 1683 (‘What revolutions in the world have been’)

Copy of a sixteen-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘Of hir Ma^ty on Newyears day’, with alternative readings.

First published in Poems, ‘Fifth’ edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 93.

See also WaE 255-6.

f. [35r]

• WaE 184: Edmund Waller, Of Her Majesty, on New-Year's Day, 1683 (‘What revolutions in the world have been’)

Copy of the eighteen-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘Of hir Ma^ty on Newyears day’, with an alternative version of two lines.

First published in Poems, ‘Fifth’ edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 93.

See also WaE 255-6.

ff. [35v-6]

• WaE 700: Edmund Waller, Upon the late Storm, and of the Death of His Highness ensuing the same (‘We must resign! Heaven his great soul does claim’)

Copy in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, untitled and lacking lines 11-12.

First published as a broadside (London, [1658]). Three Poems upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector (London, 1659). As ‘Upon the late Storm, and Death of the late Usurper O. C.’ in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 34-5.

For the ‘answer or construction’ by William Godolphin, see the Introduction.

f. [36v]

• ShJ 160: James Shirley, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, Act III, Song (‘The glories of our blood and state’)

Copy of the dirge, untitled.

Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).

f. [38v]

• WaE 754: Edmund Waller, On Mrs. Higgons (‘Ingenious Higgons never sought’)

Copy of a six-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘Of Higgons’ and beginning ‘Noe woundes shee so well indites’.

First published in The Works of the English Poets, ed. Alexander Chalmers, 21 vols (London, 1810), VIII, 75. Thorn-Drury, II, 118.

f. [38v]

• WaE 755: Edmund Waller, On Mrs. Higgons (‘Ingenious Higgons never sought’)

Copy of a twelve-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, untitled and beginning ‘Ingenious Higgions that ne're sought’.

First published in The Works of the English Poets, ed. Alexander Chalmers, 21 vols (London, 1810), VIII, 75. Thorn-Drury, II, 118.

f. [39r]

• WaE 756: Edmund Waller, On Mrs. Higgons (‘Ingenious Higgons never sought’)

Copy of a 24-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, untitled.

First published in The Works of the English Poets, ed. Alexander Chalmers, 21 vols (London, 1810), VIII, 75. Thorn-Drury, II, 118.

ff. [52v-5v]

• DaW 160: Sir William Davenant, Extracts

f. [56r-v]

• EtG 6: Sir George Etherege, Ephelia to Bajazet (‘How far are they deceived who hope in vain’)

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published in Female Poems On several Occasions: Written by Ephelia (London, 1679). Thorpe, pp. 9-10. Harold Love's edition of Rochester (1999), pp. 94-5.

f. [57r-v]

• RoJ 616: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Very Heroical Epistle in Answer to Ephelia (‘Madam. / If you're deceived, it is not by my cheat’)

Copy, headed ‘Answere’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

First published in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 113-15. Walker, pp. 112-14. Love, pp. 95-7.

ff. [58r-9v]

• RoJ 86: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Epistolary Essay from M.G. to O.B. upon Their Mutual Poems (‘Dear friend, I hear this town does so abound’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.

f. [70v]

• WaE 784: Edmund Waller, Written before a Lady's Waller (‘The lovely Owner of this book’)

Copy of a 27-line poem in an unidentified hand, docketed ‘Bishp Atterbury’ [i.e. found in the handwriting of Atterbury: see f. [65] for a similar note].

Apparently unpublished. An elaborate compliment to a lady, suggesting that ‘y^e Old Bard would have celebrated her instead of Sacharissa had he been younger’. Its authorship is uncertain.

fMS Eng 623

A folio composite miscellany of verse MSS, chiefly poems on affairs of state, in various hands and paper sizes, now disbound in folders.

Among papers of the Hastings family, Earls of Huntingdon.

Folder 12, pp. 39-42

• RoJ 87: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Epistolary Essay from M.G. to O.B. upon Their Mutual Poems (‘Dear friend, I hear this town does so abound’)

Copy, in a professional hand, headed ‘A Letter To My Lord Musgraue’, subscribed ‘Rochester’, in a disbound fragment of a folio miscellany of poems. Late 17th century.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.

Folder 12, pp. 52-7

• RoJ 481: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Timon (‘What, Timon! does old age begin t'approach’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyr vpon a Siner’, in two hands, in a disbound fragment of a folio miscellany of poems.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, ‘Text of “Timon”’ (the heading misread by all editors as ‘Diner’).

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 65-72. Walker, pp. 78-82, as ‘Satyr. [Timon]’. Harold Love, ‘The Text of “Timon. A Satyr”’, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 6 (1982), 113-40. Love, pp. 258-63, as Satyr. [Timon], among Disputed Works.

Folder 13, pp. 37-8

• RoJ 255: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Supposed Author of a Late Poem in Defence of Satyr (‘To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Author of the Defence of Satyr’, in a professional hand, on pp. 37-8, in a disbound fragment of a folio miscellany of poems paginated 35-8. Late 17th century

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 132-3. Walker, pp. 114-15. Love, pp. 106-7. Texts are often followed by Sir Car Scroope's ‘Answer’ (‘Raile on poor feeble Scribbler, speake of me’: Walker, p. 115. Love, p. 107).

Folder 14, pp. 1-9

• RoJ 161: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country (‘Chloe, In verse by your command I write’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Rochester’, in a professional hand, on pp. 1-9, in a disbound fragment of a folio miscellany of poems paginated 1-34. Late 17th century.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.

Folder 14, pp. 10-11

• RoJ 586: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing (‘Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Rochester’, in a professional hand, on pp. 10-11, in a disbound fragment of a folio miscellany of poems paginated 1-34. Late 17th century.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.

First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.

Folder 14, pp. 12-19

• RoJ 317: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyr On Man’, subscribed ‘Rochester’, in a professional hand, on pp. 12-19, in a disbound fragment of a folio miscellany of poems paginated 1-34. Late 17th century

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

Folder 14, pp. 28-32

• RoJ 31: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book (‘Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes’)

Copy, headed ‘A Satyr on the Poets’, subscribed ‘Rochester’, in a professional hand, on pp. 28-32, in a disbound fragment of a folio miscellany of poems paginated 1-34. Late 17th century

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.

Folder 15

• RoJ 587: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing (‘Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade’)

Copy, in a professional hand, on a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.

Folder 26

• *MaB 3: Bathsua Makin, To the right honorable the Countesse Douager of Huntingdon (‘Illustrious Lady, where shall I begin’)

Autograph presentation MS, signed ‘Bathsua Makin’, on the first page of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves, undated.

Kissing the Rod, ed. Germaine Greer et al. (New York, 1988), p. 228.

fMS Eng 626

A folio verse miscellany, in a single probably professional rounded hand (except for a poem on f. 81r and later scribbling); ii + 81 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Including 16 poems by or attributed to Herrick and 24 poems by Randolph (plus two of doubtful authorship). This MS related to HeR Δ 2 and to RnT Δ 1. c. late 1630s.

Inscriptions including (on a flyleaf) ‘Anthony S^t John/ Ann: S^t John/ 1640 Bletso’: i.e. Anthony St John (1618-73), of Christ's College, Cambridge, fourth son of Oliver, fourth Baron St John and first Earl of Bolingbroke (c.1584-1646), of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and Anthony's wife, Ann Kensham (married 1639); (flyleaf) ‘Oliver Beeesfor[d]’; and (f. 81v) ‘John Watts’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13187. Sotheby's, 6 June 1910, lot 672, to Quaritch. Item 1415 in an unidentified sale.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘St John MS’: HeR Δ 4 and RnT Δ 8. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 72).

ff. 2v-3r

• CwT 1251.8: Thomas Carew, A Louers passion (‘Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see’)

Copy, untitled.

f. 3r-v

• DnJ 3024: John Donne, Song (‘Sweetest love, I do not goe’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 18-19. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 31-2. Shawcross, No. 42.

ff. 3v-4r

• CwT 1035.8: Thomas Carew, To Celia, upon Love's Vbiquity (‘As one that strives, being sick, and sick to death’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 123-4.

f. 4r-v

• FeO 31: Owen Felltham, A Farewell (‘When by sad fate from hence I summon'd am’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 18.

ff. 6v-7r

• HeR 4: Robert Herrick, The admonition (‘Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Seest thou those Jewells that shee weares’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 130-1. Patrick, p. 177.

f. 7r

• CwT 1001.5: Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love (‘Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say’)

Copy of lines 37-48, untitled and here beginning ‘Those curious locks soe aptly twin'd’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.

f. 7v

• CwT 715: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).

fMS Eng 629

A large folio verse miscellany, headed (p. 1) ‘Poems on Severall Occasions’, 298 pages, in contemporary calf (rebacked). c.1735.

p. 33

• DrJ 222.3: John Dryden, Upon the Death of the Viscount Dundee (‘O Last and best of Scots! who didst maintain’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on Dundee’.

First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1777. California, III, 222. Hammond, III, 219.

p. 45

• SeC 92: Sir Charles Sedley, Against his Mistress's Cruelty (‘Love, How unequal are thy Laws’)

Copy, headed ‘Against his Mistress's Cruelty, by S^r Cha^s: Sedley’.

First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by His Grace, George, Late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704). Sola Pinto, II, 149-50.

p. 48

• MkM 11: Mary Monck, Verses Wrote on her Death-Bed at Bath, to her Husband, in London (‘Thou, who dost all my worldly thoughts employ’)

Copy.

pp. 53-4

• DoC 88: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Epitaph on Mrs. Lundy (‘Here lies little Lundy a yard deep or more’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph’ and here beginning ‘Here lyes little Patty, a yard deep & more’.

This MS collated in Harris. Recorded in Wright & Spears.

First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, ed. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1971), II, 777-8 (among ‘Works of Doubtful Authenticity’). Harris pp. 93-4.

p. 54

• CgW 41: William Congreve, Song (‘Pious Selinda goes to Pray'rs’)

Copy, headed ‘A Song by M^r Congreve’, deleted.

First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part [by John Dryden et al.] (London, 1704). Summers, IV, 78. Dobrée, p. 245. McKenzie, II, 326.

pp. 68-9

• WaE 73.5: Edmund Waller, The Fall (‘See! how the willing earth gave way’)

Copy.

First published, as ‘The Reply’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 96.

pp. 73-4

• DrJ 102.2: John Dryden, The Monument of a Fair Maiden Lady, who dy'd at Bath, and is there Interr'd (‘Below this Marble Monument, is laid’)

Copy, headed ‘Engrav'd on the Monument of a young Lady who dy'd att Bath & is there Interr'd’.

Kinsley, IV, 1740-1. Hammond, V, 28-9.

pp. 75-6

• CoR 554.8: Richard Corbett, A Proper New Ballad intituled The Faeryes Farewell: Or God-a-Mercy Will (‘Farewell, Rewards & Faeries’)

Copy, headed ‘An Old Ballad made in 1647, by Bishop Corbett entitul'd the Fairies Farewel’.

First published (omitting lines 57-64) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Published complete in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 49-52.

p. 77

• CoR 578.5: Richard Corbett, To his sonne Vincent Corbett (‘What I shall leave thee none can tell’)

Copy, headed ‘To his Son Vincent Corbet by the same hand’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 88.

p. 152

• RaW 369: Sir Walter Ralegh, Epitaph on the Earl of Salisbury (‘Here lies Hobinall, our Pastor while ere’)

Copy, headed ‘The following Lines were written by Sir Walter Rawleigh, upon y^e Death of that famous Statesman Robert Earl of Surrey, his Most Implacable Enemy’, subscribed ‘The two last lines allude to y^e manner of y^e Earls Death w^ch was s^d. to be Occasioned by his Amours’, in a section entitled Miscellany Poems, Song &c from the year 1727.

First published in Francis Osborne, Traditionall Memoyres on the raigne of King Iames (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 735-6. Latham, p. 53.

Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, p. 146, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.

fMS Eng 636

A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, including 27 poems by Rochester (all ascribed to him), xii + 299 pages (plus a number of blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary calf (rebacked). In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in). c.1690s.

Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.

pp. 1-3

• RoJ 50: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Disabled Debauchee (‘As some brave admiral, in former war’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.

pp. 4-8

• RoJ 77: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Epistolary Essay from M.G. to O.B. upon Their Mutual Poems (‘Dear friend, I hear this town does so abound’)

Copy, headed ‘To My Lord Mulgrave, from Rochester. An Epistolary Essay From M.G. to O.B. Upon their Mutuall Poems’.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.

pp. 8-10

• RoJ 482: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To a Lady in a Letter (‘Such perfect bliss fair Chloris, we’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS and discussed (as text C) in Vieth, art. cit., pp. 153-4. Edited in part from this MS in Love.

First published, as ‘Against jealousie’, in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676). Vieth, pp. 84-5. Walker, pp. 41-2. See also David Vieth, ‘A Textual Paradox: Rochester's “To a Lady in a Letter”’, PBSA, 54 (1960), 147-62 (and sequel in Vol. 55 (1961), 130-3). Love, pp. 24-5.

For the earlier versions of this lyric, see RoJ 396-401.

pp. 10-12

• SeC 102: Sir Charles Sedley, Song (‘In the Fields of Lincolns Inn’)

Copy, here ascribed to ‘Rochester’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, loc. cit.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (‘Antwerp’ [i.e. London], 1680). Possibly by Sedley: see David M. Vieth, Attribution in Restoration Poetry (New Haven & London, 1963), pp. 172-4, 404-5.

pp. 12-20

• RoJ 277: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Ramble in St. James's Park (‘Much wine had passed, with grave discourse’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon y^e Nightwalkers in S^t. James Parke’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 40-6. Walker, pp. 64-8. Love, pp. 76-80.

pp. 20-32

• RoJ 140: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country (‘Chloe, In verse by your command I write’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.

pp. 40-6

• RoJ 14: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book (‘Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes’)

Copy, headed ‘In Imitation of the 10^th Satire Hor: 1^th Lib.’

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.

p. 48

• MkM 12: Mary Monck, Verses Wrote on her Death-Bed at Bath, to her Husband, in London (‘Thou, who dost all my worldly thoughts employ’)

Copy.

pp. 51-3

• RoJ 244: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Supposed Author of a Late Poem in Defence of Satyr (‘To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

pp. 54-5

• DoC 34: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Catch (‘When rebels first push'd at the Crown’)

Copy, headed ‘Catch’, here beginning ‘When first Rebellion struck at y^e Crowne’ and ascribed to Rochester.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Harris (1979), p. 49.

pp. 55-8

• RoJ 569: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing (‘Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.

pp. 58-61

• RoJ 486: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To Love (‘O Love! how cold and slow to take my part’)

Copy, headed ‘Love’.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 35-7. Walker, pp. 49-50. Love, pp. 12-13.

pp. 61-2

• RoJ 556: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon His Leaving His Mistress (‘Tis not that I am weary grown’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 81. Walker, p. 37. Love, pp. 17-18.

pp. 62-4

• RoJ 548: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon His Drinking a Bowl (‘Vulcan, contrive me such a cup’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon drinking of A Bowle’.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 52-3. Walker, pp. 37-8. Love, pp. 41-2, as Nestor.

pp. 64-5

• RoJ 415: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘Phyllis, be gentler, I advise’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 32. Walker, p. 36. Love, pp. 19-20.

pp. 65-6

• RoJ 623: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Woman's Honor (‘Love bade me hope, and I obeyed’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 14. Walker, pp. 22-3. Love, p. 21.

pp. 66-7

• RoJ 93: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Fall (‘How blest was the created state’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 86. Walker, p. 26. Love, p. 26.

pp. 67-8

• RoJ 450: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘While on those lovely looks I gaze’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

First published in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676). Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 12-13. Walker, pp. 43-4. Love, pp. 26-7.

pp. 68-9

• RoJ 203: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Mrs. Willis (‘Against the charms our ballocks have’)

Copy, headed ‘Song’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 137-8. Walker, pp. 44-5. Love, p. 37.

pp. 69-70

• RoJ 376: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘By all love's soft, yet mighty powers’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 139. Walker, pp. 45-6. Love, pp. 37-8.

pp. 77-9

• RoJ 378: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘Fair Chloris in a pigsty lay’)

Copy.

Edited in part from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 27-8. Walker, pp. 33-4. Love, pp. 39-40.

pp. 79-80

• RoJ 514: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Translation from Seneca's ‘Troades’, Act II, Chorus (‘After death nothing is, and nothing, death’)

Copy, headed ‘A Paraphrase upon Seneca Trag. Act: 2^d Chorus…’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 150-1. Walker, p. 51. Love, pp. 45-5, as ‘Senec. Troas. Act. 2. Chor. Thus English'd by a Person of Honour’.

pp. 80-90

• RoJ 291: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)

Copy, headed ‘A Satyre Ag^st: Man’, lines 174-221 separately headed ‘An Addition to the Satyr Against Man’.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

pp. 99-102

• DoC 111: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Letter from the Lord Buckhurst to Mr. George Etherege (‘Dreaming last night on Mrs. Farley’)

Copy.

Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe (and collated pp. 112-13) and in Harris.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). The Poems of Sir George Etherege, ed. James Thorpe (Princeton, 1963), pp. 35-7. Harris, pp. 105-8.

For other poems in this series see DoC 18-22, EtG 34-8, and EtG 39-43.

pp. 103-5

• EtG 35: Sir George Etherege, Mr. Etherege's Answer [to A Letter from Lord Buckhurst] (‘As crafty harlots use to shrink’)

Copy, headed ‘The Answer’.

Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated p. 113.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). Thorpe, pp. 38-9.

For other poems in this series, see EtG 39-43, DoC 18-22, and DoC 110-13.

pp. 106-10

• DoC 19: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Another Letter by the Lord Buckhurst to Mr. Etherege (‘If I can guess the Devil choke me’)

Copy.

Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe (and collated pp. 113-14) and in Harris.

For other poems in this series see DoC 110-13, EtG 34-8, and EtG 39-43.

pp. 110-14

• EtG 40: Sir George Etherege, Mr. Etherege's Answer [to Another Letter from Lord Buckhurst] (‘So soft and amorously you write’)

Copy, untitled.

Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated, p. 114.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). Thorpe, pp. 43-5.

For other poems in this series, see EtG 34-8, DoC 18-22, and DoC 110-13.

pp. 114-17

• RoJ 107: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Imperfect Enjoyment (‘Naked she lay, clasped in my longing arms’)

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 37-40. Walker, pp. 30-2. Love, pp. 13-15.

pp. 117-24

• BeA 5: Aphra Behn, The Disappointment (‘One day the Amorous Lysander’)

Copy, headed ‘An Imperfect Enjoyment, By M^ris A. Behn’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, by the Right Honourable, the E[arl] of R[ochester] (‘Antwerp’ [i.e. London], 1680). Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1684). Summers, VI, 178-82. Todd, I, No. 28, pp. 65-9.

Discussed in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 448-50.

pp. 131-40

• RoJ 527: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Tunbridge Wells (‘At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head’)

Copy, headed ‘A Satyre upon Tunbridge Wells’.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

First published in Richard Head, Proteus Redivivus: or the Art of Wheedling (London, 1675). Vieth, pp. 73-80. Walker, pp. 69-74. Love, pp. 49-54.

pp. 148-51

• DeJ 6: Sir John Denham, ‘After so many sad mishaps’

Copy, headed ‘To S^r William Davenant on his Gondibert’.

First published, as ‘To Sir W. Davenant’, in Certain Verses (1653), pp. 5-7. Banks, pp. 313-16.

pp. 161-71

• DrJ 92: John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe (‘All humane things are subject to decay’)

Copy.

This MS collated in California, in Blakemore Evans and in Vieth.

First published in London, 1682. Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 265-71. California, II, 53-60. Hammond, I, 313-36.

The text also discussed extensively in G. Blakemore Evans, ‘The Text of Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case for Authorial Revision’, Studies in Bibliography, 7 (1955), 85-102; in David M. Vieth, ‘Dryden's Mac Flecknoe’, Harvard Library Bulletin, 7 (1953), 32-54; and in Vinton A. Dearing, ‘Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case Against Editorial Confusion’, Harvard Library Bulletin, 24 (1976), 204-45. See also David M. Vieth, ‘The Discovery of the Date of MacFlecknoe’ in Evidence in Literary Scholarship: Essays in Memory of James Marshall Osborn, ed. René Wellek and Alvaro Ribeiro (Oxford, 1979), pp. 71-86.

pp. 172-4

• DrJ 169: John Dryden, Prologue to the University of Oxon. Spoken by Mr. Hart, at the Acting of the Silent Woman (‘What Greece, when Learning flourish'd, onely Knew’)

Copy, headed ‘Prologue to the University Spoaken there 1672’.

First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 369-70. California, I, 146-7. Hammond, I, 277-9.

pp. 174-6

• DrJ 43: John Dryden, Epilogue [to the University of Oxon.], Spoken by the same [Mr. Hart] (‘No poor Dutch Peasant, wing'd with all his Fear’)

Copy, headed ‘The Epilogue’.

First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 370-1. California, I, 147-8. Hammond, I, 279-81.

pp. 176-83

• DrJ 58: John Dryden, Heroique Stanza's, Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of his most Serene and Renowned Highnesse Oliver Late Lord Protector of this Common-Wealth, &c. (‘And now 'tis time. for their Officious haste’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegy upon Oliver Cromwell Late Lord Protector, by Jn° Dryden’.

First published in Three Poems Upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (London, 1659). Kinsley, I, 6-12. California, I, 11-16. Hammond, I, 18-29.

pp. 201-2

• WaE 722: Edmund Waller, Upon the late Storm, and of the Death of His Highness ensuing the same (‘We must resign! Heaven his great soul does claim’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Same Subject By M^r Waller’.

For the ‘answer or construction’ by William Godolphin, see the Introduction.

p. 220-7

• RoJ 285.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Satyr (‘Say Heav'n-born Muse, for only thou can'st tell’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Love.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Love, pp. 81-5.

pp. 228-36

• RoJ 475: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Timon (‘What, Timon! does old age begin t'approach’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyr Bye S^r Charles Sidley’.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, ‘Text of “Timon”’.

pp. 236-40

• LeN 4: Nathaniel Lee, To the Prince and Princess of Orange, upon Their Marriage (‘Hail, happy Warriour! hail! whose Arms have won’)

Copy of the 85-line version, headed ‘To the Prince and Princess of orrange’ and beginning ‘Hail happy Warriour! whose Armes haue won’.

First published, possibly as a broadside, 1677 [no exemplum known]. 85-line version in Examen Poeticum: being the Third Part of Miscellany Poems (London, 1693), pp. 168-74. Stroup & Cooke, II, 553-4. Earlier, 65-line version, headed ‘On the Marriage of the Prince and Princess of Orange’ and beginning ‘Hail happy Warrior! whose Arms have won’, published in Poems on Affairs of State, Vol. III (London, 1704). Stroup & Cooke, II, 555-6.

pp. 246-7

• RoJ 171: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Love and Life (‘All my past life is mine no more’)

Copy, headed ‘Song’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

First published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 90. Walker, p. 44. Love, pp. 25-6.

pp. 247-8

• RoJ 409: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘Love a woman? You're an ass!’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 51. Walker, p. 25. Love, p. 38, as ‘Love to a Woman’.

pp. 250-3

• WaE 774: Edmund Waller, To the Prince of Orange, 1677 (‘Welcome, great Prince, unto this land’)

Copy.

First published in The Works of the English Poets, ed. Alexander Chalmers, 21 vols (London, 1810), VIII, 68-9. Thorn-Drury, II, 82-3.

pp. 253-5

• DoC 150: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On Mr. Edward Howard upon his ‘New Utopia’ (‘Thou damn'd antipodes to common sense!’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon M^r Edward Howards Playes’ and here ascribed to ‘Witherley’.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 340-1. Harris, pp. 15-17.

pp. 255-7

• DoC 276: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Mr. Edward Howard, on his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem Called ‘The British Princes’ (‘Come on, ye critics! Find one fault who dare’)

Copy, headed ‘Verses on the same subject’ [i.e. Edward Howard's play].

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 338-9. Harris, pp. 7-9.

pp. 267-74

• BuS 26: Samuel Butler, Dildoides (‘Such a sad Tale prepare to hear’)

Copy.

Dated in some sources 1672 but not published until 1706.

p. 277

• RoJ 432: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘Quoth the Duchess of Cleveland to counselor Knight’)

Copy, headed ‘M^is: Knights Advice to the Dutchess, of Cleavland, in Distress For A Prick’.

Edited from this MS in Walker. Recorded in Vieth.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 48. Walker, p. 61. Love, p. 90.

pp. 286-93

• DoC 48: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon (‘As Colon drove his sheep along’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyr’.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, II (1965), 167-75. Harris, pp. 124-35.

pp. 293-5

• RoJ 341: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II (‘I' th' isle of Britain long since famous grown’)

Copy, headed ‘Verses By L^d: Roc.’ and here beginning ‘There is a Monarch in an Isle say som’.

This MS recorded in Vieth.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 60-1. Walker, pp. 74-5. Love (five versions), pp. 85-6, 86-7, 88, 89-90, 90. The manuscript texts discussed, with detailed collations, in Harold Love, ‘Rochester's “I' th' isle of Britain”: Decoding a Textual Tradition’, EMS, 6 (1997), 175-223.

fMS Eng 652

A folio volume of ‘Miscellanies Collected in the Yeare 1683 at Kingstone upon Thames May the 11^th’, in verse and prose, predominantly in one neat hand, c.141 pages (usually on rectos only), gilt-edged, in contemporary calf gilt. Compiled between 11 May and 25 June 1683 by someone whose monogram is possibly (?) ‘JMD’. 1683.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

f. 61r

• RoJ 522: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Translation from Seneca's ‘Troades’, Act II, Chorus (‘After death nothing is, and nothing, death’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 150-1. Walker, p. 51. Love, pp. 45-5, as ‘Senec. Troas. Act. 2. Chor. Thus English'd by a Person of Honour’.

fMS Eng 676

A folio commonplace book of chiefly Quaker authors, 49 leaves, in a paper wrapper. c.1745.

f. 32r

• MkM 13: Mary Monck, Verses Wrote on her Death-Bed at Bath, to her Husband, in London (‘Thou, who dost all my worldly thoughts employ’)

Copy.

fMS Eng 705

Copy, in a single professional hand, 28 folio leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum with traces of ties. Mid-17th century.

NaR 26: Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia

Bookplate of James P.R. Lyell. Given to the library in 1939 by Thomas W. Lamont.

This MS recorded (as ‘Unnumbered MS’) in Cerovski, p. 87.

fMS 757

A large coucher-size volume of accounts, state letters, speeches, legal documents and other papers, in several professional secretary hands, 402 pages, in a contemporary vellum wallet binding with remains of ties and a strap. Early 17th century.

Inscribed (p. i) ‘Per me Johannem Fry’ and ‘Per me Gul: Fry’.

pp. 174, 179

• EsR 301: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution

Copy, headed ‘Speeches vsed by the Earle of Essex at his deathe’.

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

pp. [175-7]

• EsR 79: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, A Poem made on the Earle of Essex (being in disgrace with Queene Eliz): by mr henry Cuffe his Secretary (‘It was a time when sillie Bees could speake’)

Copy of a thirteen-stanza version, untitled, on two tipped-in long narrow ledger-size conjugate folio leaves.

This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.

First published, in a musical setting by John Dowland, in his The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1603). May, Poems, No. IV, pp. 62-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 266-9. EV 12846.

fMS Eng 771

Autograph letter signed by Walton, to Mrs Dorothy Smith, from Worcester, 21 March 1661/2. 1662.

*WtI 9: Izaak Walton, Letter(s)

Edited in HMC 36, Ormonde NS III (1904), pp. 14-15. Facsimile in The Houghton Library 1942-1967 (1967), p. 54. Limited facsimile edition also edited as Good Mrs. Smith: A Letter from Izaak Walton ([Cambridge, Mass., 1948]).

fMS Eng 820

Copy, in a professional hand, headed ‘A Collection of proceedings in the House of Commons, touching the Impeachment of the late Earle of Clarendon...1667’, 207 folio pages, in vellum boards. Late 17th century.

ClE 114: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Impeachment Proceedings against Clarendon in 1667

Donated by Dr Benjamin Burley.

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.

fMS Eng 826

A partly autograph presentation copy, 232 large folio leaves, in 19th-century dark blue morocco gilt. For Robert Devereux (1566-1601), second Earl of Essex, written in the accomplished hands of two or more of Howard's principal amanuenses; with a formal title-page in engrossed lettering (f. 3r) including an autograph four-line quotation in Latin from Daniel 13.57 by Howard; the arms of Essex emblazoned in their proper colours (f. 3v) superscribed by six autograph lines of Latin verse and subscribed by six more autograph lines of Latin verse by Howard; (ff. [4r-25v]); the Dedication ‘To the Queenes most Excellent Maiestie’ in secretary script, with autograph sidenotes by Howard and signed by him ‘Henry Hwward’; (ff. 26r-232v) the main text, in predominantly secretary hands, with variant styles of script for headings, sub-headings and sidenotes; with a separate title-page for the second book (f. [127v]) and a title in the second half of the page (f. [157r]) for the third book, with autograph corrections and sidenotes by Howard occasionally in the first book and throughout the third book. c.1590s.

*HoH 79: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A dutiful defence of the lawful regiment of women

Inscribed (f. [ii^v]) ‘Tho: Chomley is the true ouner of this Booke by the Gifte of his good Mother the Ladie Marie chomley 1623’. Sale of the Royal Library, Earl de la Ware, Baron Delamire. American Art Association, 11 March 1936 (Marsden J. Perry sale), lot 218. Charles S. Boesen's sale catalogue No. 1 (c.1951), item 160.

Facsimile examples of the illuminated arms and Dedication in the 1936 sale catalogue.

An unpublished answer to, and attack upon, John Knox's ‘railing invective’ against Mary Queen of Scots, First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women (1558). Written, Howard claims in his Dedication, some thirteen years after he was asked to do so by a Privy Councillor [i.e. c.1585-90]. The Dedication to Queen Elizabeth beginning ‘It pricketh now fast upon the point of thirteen years (most excellent most gratious and most redoubted Soveraign...’; the main text, in three books, beginning ‘It may seem strange to men of grounded knowledge...’, and ending ‘...Sancta et individuae Trinitati sit omnis honor laus et gloria in secula seculorum. Amen.’

fMS Eng 830

Copy, as ‘by S^r Robert Cotton’, in a professional secretary hand, on thirteen folio leaves. In a volume also containing numerous blanks and a one-page Italian text at the reverse end, in contemporary limp vellum. c.1620s.

CtR 416: Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England

Bookplate of Thomas Philip, Earl de Grey, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire.

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

fMS Eng 868

A large folio volume comprising two tracts in different hands, the second (ff. [31r-42r]) Vox Populi, 43 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. Early 17th century.

ff. [1r-30r]

• LeC 57: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, complete with a title-page (possibly in another secretary and italic hand), dedicatory epistle, and meditation from Job.

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.

fMS Eng 870 (13)

Autograph letter signed by Waller, to John Evelyn, from Pont de l'Arche, 1 October 1648. 1648.

*WaE 815: Edmund Waller, Letter(s)

Evans's [i.e. Sotheby's], 10 February 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 286, to Young.

Facsimile in F. G. Netherclift and R. Sims, The Autograph Souvenir, a Collection of Autograph Letters, 1st Ser. (London, 1865). Facsimile example also in Lawrence B. Phillips, The Autographic Album (London, 1866), p. 12.

fMS Eng 870 (16)

Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to [John Evelyn], St Paul's Conversion [25 January] 1655/6. 1656.

*TaJ 44: Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

Sotheby's (Evans), 16 November 1836, lot 698. Sotheby's, 6 February 1865, lot 934, to Ellis.

Edited in Eden, I, xlviii-xlix. Wheatley, III, 209-11.

fMS Eng 870 (17)

Autograph letter signed by Cowley, to John Davis, from Mortlake, 20 February ‘1665’. 1665/6.

*CoA 247: Abraham Cowley, Letter(s)

fMS Eng 870 (18)

Autograph letter signed by Marvell, to Edward Thompson, from Westminster, 28 December 1675. 1675.

*MaA 560: Andrew Marvell, Letter(s)

Later owned (before 1869) by John Young.

Margoliouth, II, 344. Facsimile in F.G. Netherclift, The Autograph Souvenir (1st Series, 1865). Facsimile example also in Lawrence B. Phillips, The Autographic Album (London, 1866), 11.

fMS Eng 870 (20)

Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Elizabeth Steward, 23 February [1698/9]. 1699.

*DrJ 353: John Dryden, Letter(s)

Ward, Letter 73. NB. Ward dates this letter 23 February [1699/1700], but see W.J. Cameron, ‘John Dryden and Henry Heveningham’, N&Q, 202 (May 1957), 199-203 (p. 203).

fMS Eng 870 (24)

Autograph letter signed by Wycherley, to Alexander Pope, from London, 23 May 1709. 1709.

*WyW 25: William Wycherley, Letter(s)

Facsimile in IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile XXIII, after p. xxi.

fMS Eng 870 (29)

Autograph letter signed by Congreve, to Alexander Pope, 23 June [1720?]. 1720.

*CgW 108: William Congreve, Letter(s)

Hodges, No. 137. McKenzie, III, 185-6 (Letter 69).

fMS Eng 870 (32)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Joynes [Comptroller at Blenheim Palace], from London, 19 December 1706. 1706.

*VaJ 41: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Edited in Judith Milhous, ‘Five New Letters by Sir John Vanbrugh’, HLB, 27 (1979), 434-41 (pp. 434-5).

fMS Eng 917

A folio volume of speeches and proceedings in Parliament 1627-29, in several professional hands, 380 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1630.

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

Item 2, ff. 28r-30v

• RuB 20: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.20-22 March 1627/8

Copy, headed ‘S^r. Beniamin Ruddyard speech xxij^th of March 1627’.

Speech. Yale 1628, II, 58-60, two parallel versions: (1) beginning ‘This is the crisis of parliaments...’; (2) beginning ‘It is the goodness of God and the favour of the King...’; II, 68, third version, beginning ‘If we be thankful, all is well. By this we shall know whether parliaments will live or die...’; II, 73, fourth, brief reported version, beginning ‘We are not now upon the bene esse of our kingdom but the esse...’.

Item 2, f. 50v

• HoJ 346: John Hoskyns, Speech in the House of Commons, 2 April 1628

Copy of a brief summary.

Speech, beginning (in a brief summary) ‘That knowing our own rights we might be better enabled to give...’.

Item 2, ff. 197r-200r

• RuB 21: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.20-22 March 1627/8

Copy, headed ‘A Speeche made by Sir Beniamin Rudyard in the Comons house of Parliament March. 22. 1628’.

Item 2, ff. 251v-4v

• RuB 101: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?22 May 1628

Copy, headed ‘Sir Beniamin Ruddyarts speech Concerning maintenance of ministers the 22^th: of May 1628’.

Speech beginning ‘I did not think to have spoken...’. First published, as Sir Benjamin Rudierd His speech in Behalfe of the Clergie and of Parishes destitute of Instruction through want of Maintenance, Oxford, 1628. Manning, pp. 135-8. Yale 1628, III, 17-19, where it is dated probably 21 April 1628.

Item 2, ff. 289v-90r

• HlJ 25.2: Joseph Hall, Episcopal Admonition, Sent in a Letter to the House of Commons, April 28, 1628

Copy, headed ‘The Bishop of Exceters Lre to the howse of Coms’, subscribed ‘Josuah Hall’.

See HlJ 17-30.

fMS Eng 919

A folio composite volume of political and parliamentary tracts, in professional hands, c.400 leaves, in contemporary speckled calf gilt.

Bookplate of Algernon Capell, Earl of Essex, 1701.

Item 1, pp. 1-14

• CtR 493: Sir Robert Cotton, That the Soveraignes Person is Required in the Great Covncells, or Assemblies of the State, aswell at the Consultations as at the Conclusions

Copy, as ‘By S^r Robert Cotton’. Mid-17th century.

Tract beginning ‘Since at these Assemblies few Diaries, or exact Iournall Books are remaining...’. First published as A Treatise, shewing that the Soveraignes Person is Required in the great Councells or Assemblies of the State, aswell at the Consultations as at the conclusions, London, 1641. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [41]-57.

fMS Eng 930

Autograph letter signed by Donne, to Sir Henry Marten, 9 May 1622. 1622.

*DnJ 4127: John Donne, Letter(s)

Edited in Gosse, II, 156.

fMS Eng 966.1

A folio volume of 69 poems by Donne, together with a few poems by others, in a single neat hand, 99 pages, in contemporary limp vellum. c.1620s-33.

Inscribed inside the rear cover ‘J. D. Dune Rainsford …Chiltearns’ probably by a member of the family of Sir Henry Goodyer's brother-in-law Sir Henry Rainsford (1575-1622), of Clifford Chambers, Stratford-upon-Avon. Later owned by J. Carnaby. Puttick and Simpson's, 25 November 1886, lot 334. Then owned by the Rev. T.R. O'Flahertie (d.1894), of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector, and by Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908), American professor and art historian. Formerly MS Nor 4502.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Carnaby MS’: DnJ Δ 22. Briefly discussed in C.E. Norton, ‘The Text of Donne's Poems’, [Harvard] Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, 5 (1896), 1-22 (pp. 10-11).

pp. 3-5

• DnJ 1121: John Donne, Elegie upon the untimely death of the incomparable Prince Henry (‘Looke to mee faith, and looke to my faith, God’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie of Prince Henrie’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.

First published in Joshua Sylvester, Lachrymae Lachrymarum (London, 1613). Poems (London, 1633). Grierson, I, 267-70. Shawcross, No. 152. Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 63-6 (as ‘Elegie on Prince Henry’). Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 160-2.

pp. 5-6

• DnJ 3529: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘Reason is our Soules left hand, Faith her right’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 189-90. Milgate, Satires, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 134.

pp. 6-8

• DnJ 3555: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘You have refin'd mee, and to worthyest things’)

Copy, headed ‘Another to her’, subscribed ‘J D.’

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 191-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 91-4. Shawcross, No. 137.

pp. 8-9

• DnJ 3730: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)

Copy, headed ‘A Valediction’, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.

pp. 9-11

• DnJ 375: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r John Donne to a Ladie whose Chaine he had loste’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Eleg. XII. The Bracelet’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as ‘Elegie XI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.

pp. 11-14

• DnJ 2739: John Donne, Satyre I (‘Away thou fondling motley humorist’)

Copy, headed ‘A Satyre of M^r: John Donnes’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 145-9. Milgate, Satires, pp. 3-6. Shawcross, No. 1.

pp. 14-17

• DnJ 2769: John Donne, Satyre II (‘Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate’)

Copy, headed ‘Another Satyre of M^r: John Donne’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 149-54. Milgate, Satires, pp. 7-10. Shawcross, No. 2.

pp. 17-23

• DnJ 2831: John Donne, Satyre IV (‘Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne’)

Copy, headed ‘Another Satyre by the same J: D:’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.

pp. 23-6

• DnJ 2801: John Donne, Satyre III (‘Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids’)

Copy, headed ‘The Fourthe Satyre’, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 154-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 10-14. Shawcross, No. 3.

pp. 26-8

• DnJ 51: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published as ‘Elegie II’ in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as ‘Elegie II’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.

pp. 28-9

• DnJ 3436: John Donne, To S^r Henry Goodyere (‘Who makes the Past, a patterne for next yeare’)

Copy, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 183-4. Milgate, Satires, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 130.

pp. 29-30

• DnJ 1423: John Donne, Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward (‘Let mans Soule be a spheare, and then, in this’)

Copy, headed ‘Goodfriday, 1613’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 336-7. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 185.

p. 31

• DnJ 2291: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)

Copy, headed ‘Songe’, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.

pp. 31-2

• DnJ 665: John Donne, Communitie (‘Good wee must love, and must hate ill’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J D.’

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 32-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 33-4. Shawcross, No. 53.

pp. 32-3

• DnJ 2338: John Donne, ‘Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie VIII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 89-90 (as ‘Elegie VII’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 13. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 127.

pp. 33-5

• DnJ 2557: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’, subscribed ‘J. D’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie IV’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 84-6 (as ‘Elegie IV’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 7-9. Shawcross, No. 10. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 72-3.

pp. 35-6

• DnJ 3174: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’, subscribed ‘J: D.’

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as ‘Elegie XIX. Going to Bed’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.

pp. 36-7

• DnJ 746: John Donne, Confined Love (‘Some man unworthy to be possessor’)

Copy, headed ‘To the worthiest of all my Louers’, subscribed ‘J D.’

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 36. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 34-5. Shawcross, No. 56.

pp. 37-8

• DnJ 3904: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)

Copy of a five-stanza version, subscribed ‘J. D’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.

pp. 38-9

• DnJ 1400: John Donne, The Funerall (‘Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harme’)

Copy, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 58-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 67.

p. 39

• DnJ 1360: John Donne, The Flea (‘Marke but this flea, and marke in this’)

Copy, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.

p. 40

• DnJ 184: John Donne, The Apparition (‘When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead’)

Copy, subscribed ‘J D’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.

pp. 40-1

• DnJ 3658: John Donne, Twicknam garden (‘Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.

pp. 41-2

• DnJ 2451: John Donne, ‘Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve’

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie VII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 87-9 (as ‘Elegie VI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 10-11. Shawcross, No. 12. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 110-11.

pp. 42-3

• DnJ 627: John Donne, Change (‘Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’, subscribed ‘J. D’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie III’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 82-3 (as ‘Elegie III’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 19-20. Shawcross, No. 16. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 198.

pp. 43-5

• DnJ 1226: John Donne, The Expostulation (‘To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 108-10 (as ‘Elegie XV’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 94-6 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 22. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 369-70.

pp. 45-6

• DnJ 2042: John Donne, Loves diet (‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’)

Copy, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.

p. 46

• DnJ 3957: John Donne, Witchcraft by a picture (‘I fixe mine eye on thine, and there’)

Copy, headed ‘The Picture’, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 45-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 37. Shawcross, No. 26.

p. 47

• DnJ 3320: John Donne, To M^r T.W. (‘All haile sweet Poët, more full of more strong fire’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 203-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 59-60. Shawcross, No. 114.

p. 48

• DnJ 156: John Donne, Antiquary (‘If in his Studie he hath so much care’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 93. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled and beginning ‘If, in his study, Hamon hath such care’), 8 (as ‘Antiquary’), and 11.

p. 48

• DnJ 895: John Donne, Disinherited (‘Thy father all from thee, by his last Will’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 94. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled), 8 and 11.

p. 48

• DnJ 1912: John Donne, The Lier (‘Thou in the fields walkst out thy supping howers’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and Shawcross.

p. 48

• DnJ 2655: John Donne, Pyramus and Thisbe (‘Two, by themselves, each other, love and feare’)

Copy, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 84. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.

pp. 48-50

• DnJ 3064: John Donne, The Storme (‘Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)’)

Copy, headed Storme, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 175-7. Milgate, Satires, pp. 55-7. Shawcross, No. 109.

pp. 50-2

• DnJ 550: John Donne, The Calme (‘Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage’)

Copy, headed ‘Calme’, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.

pp. 52-3

• DnJ 931: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee’)

Copy, headed ‘A Dreame’, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 37-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 79-80. Shawcross, No. 57.

pp. 53-4

• DnJ 2204: John Donne, Loves Warre (‘Till I have peace with thee, warr other men’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

pp. 54-5

• DnJ 1685: John Donne, Jealosie (‘Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie I’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 79-80 (as ‘Elegie I’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 9-10. Shawcross, No. 11.

p. 56

• DnJ 116: John Donne, The Anniversarie (‘All Kings, and all their favorites’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 24-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 71-2. Shawcross, No. 48.

p. 57

• DnJ 1533: John Donne, His Picture (‘Here take my picture. though I bid farewell’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published as ‘Elegie V’ in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 86-7 (as ‘Elegie V’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 25. Shawcross, No. 19. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 264.

pp. 57-60

• DnJ 2138: John Donne, Loves Progress (‘Who ever loves, if he do not propose’)

Copy, with a one-line emendation, untitled, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1669) (as ‘Elegie XVIII’). Grierson, I, 116-19. (as ‘Elegie XVIII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 16-19. Shawcross, No. 20. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 301-3.

pp. 60-2

• DnJ 1872: John Donne, A Letter to the Lady Carey, and M^rs Essex Riche, From Amyens (‘Here where by All All Saints invoked are’)

Copy, with several emendations, headed ‘A Letter to the Lady Carey’, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 221-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 105-7. Shawcross, No. 142.

pp. 62-3

• DnJ 588: John Donne, The Canonization (‘For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love’)

Copy, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.

pp. 63-4

• DnJ 300: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)

Copy, headed ‘Songe’, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612). Grierson, I, 46-7. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 27.

pp. 64-5

• DnJ 492: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)

Copy, headed ‘Songe’, subscribed ‘J. D.’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.

p. 65

• DnJ 1966: John Donne, Loves Alchymie (‘Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I’)

Copy, headed ‘Mummey’, subscribed ‘J. D.’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.

pp. 65-6

• HoJ 25: John Hoskyns, Absence (‘Absence heare my protestation’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson. Cited in Osborn.

First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), pp. 428-9. Osborn, No. XXIV (pp. 192-3).

p. 66

• DnJ 2917: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)

Copy, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

p. 67

• DnJ 3029: John Donne, Sonnet. The Token (‘Send me some token, that my hope may live’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1649). Grierson, I, 72-3. Gardner, Elegies, p. 107 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 78.

pp. 67-8

• DnJ 2005: John Donne, Loves Deitie (‘I long to talke with some old lovers ghost’)

Copy, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 54. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 47-8. Shawcross, No. 64.

pp. 68-9

• DnJ 3491: John Donne, To S^r Henry Wotton (‘Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules’)

Copy, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 180-2. Milgate, Satires, pp. 71-3. Shawcross, No. 112.

pp. 70-1

• DnJ 692: John Donne, The Comparison (‘As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’, subscribed ‘J. D.’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 90-2 (as ‘Elegie VIII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 5-6. Shawcross, No. 9. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 51-2.

p. 73

• DnJ 3461: John Donne, To S^r Henry Wootton (‘Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well’)

Copy, headed ‘From Courte a Letter to S^r Henry Wootton’, subscribed ‘J. D.’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 187-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 73-4. Shawcross, No. 111.

p. 74

• DnJ 1836: John Donne, The Legacie (‘When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye’)

Copy, headed ‘Songe’, subscribed ‘J. D’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.

pp. 74-5

• DnJ 3622: John Donne, The triple Foole (‘I am two fooles, I know’)

Copy, headed ‘Songe’, subscribed ‘J. D.’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 16. Gardner, Elegies, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 40.

p. 75

• DnJ 2108: John Donne, Loves growth (‘I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure’)

Copy, headed ‘The Springe’, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 33-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 76-7. Shawcross, No. 54.

p. 76

• DnJ 2635: John Donne, The Prohibition (‘Take heed of loving mee’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 67-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 39-40. Shawcross, No. 47.

pp. 76-7

• DnJ 3106: John Donne, The Sunne Rising (‘Busie old fools, unruly Sunne’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Sunne’, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 11-12. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 72-3. Shawcross, No. 36.

pp. 77-8

• DnJ 1322: John Donne, A Feaver (‘Oh doe not die, for I shall hate’)

Copy, headed ‘The Feauer’, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 21. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 61-2. Shawcross, No. 44.

p. 78

• DnJ 2172: John Donne, Loves Usury (‘For every houre that thou wilt spare mee now’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 13-14. Gardner, Elegies, p. 44. Shawcross, No. 38.

pp. 78-80

• DnJ 3810: John Donne, A Valediction: of the booke (‘I'll tell thee now (deare Love) what thou shalt doe’)

Copy, headed ‘The Booke’, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 29-32. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 67-9. Shawcross, No. 52.

pp. 80-1

• DnJ 3289: John Donne, To M^r Rowland Woodward (‘Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe’)

Copy, headed ‘A Letter to M^r: RowlandWoodward’, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 185-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 113.

pp. 81-2

• HrE 83: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Ode: Of our Sense of Sinne (‘Vengeance will sit above our faults. but till’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson and in Smith, p. 139.

First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson (Oxford, 1912), I, 350. Moore Smith, pp. 119-20.

p. 82

• PeW 44: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘If her disdain least change in you can move’

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘If her disdaine in yo^w least Change can moue’, subscribed ‘J. D.’

First published in 1635. Poems (1660), pp. 3-5, superscribed ‘P.’. Krueger, p. 2, among ‘Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd’.

pp. 83-4

• DnJ 1101: John Donne, Elegie upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred (‘Language thou art too narrow, and too weake’)

Copy, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson, in Shawcross, and in Milgate.

First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 284-6 (as ‘Elegie. Death’). Shawcross, No. 151 (as ‘Elegie: Death’). Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 61-3. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 146-7.

pp. 84-5

• DnJ 3594: John Donne, To the Lady Bedford (‘You that are she and you, that's double shee’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie to the Ladie Bedforde’, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 227-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 94-5. Shawcross, No. 148.

pp. 85-8

• DnJ 1013: John Donne, Elegie on M^ris Boulstred (‘Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee’)

Copy, headed ‘Another Elegie on the deathe of M^rs: Boulstred’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 282-4. Shawcross, No. 150. Milgate, Epithalamions, p. 59-61. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 129-30.

pp. 89-90

• DnJ 1069: John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham (‘Man is the World, and death th' Ocean’)

Copy, headed ‘A Funerall Elegie vppon the Ladie Markeham’, subscribed ‘J. D’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.

pp. 90-1

• DnJ 1038: John Donne, Elegie on the L.C. (‘Sorrow, who to this house scarce knew the way’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’, subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie VI’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 287. Gardner, Elegies, p. 26 (as ‘A Funeral Elegy’). Variorum, 6 (1995), p. 103, as ‘Elegia’.

pp. 91-4

• BmF 44: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Death of the Virtuous Lady, Elizabeth Countess of Rutland (‘I may forget to eat, to drink, to sleep’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J. D.’

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Dyce, XI, 507-11.

pp. 94-5

• BmF 72: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Lady Markham (‘As unthrifts groan in straw for their pawn'd beds’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on the deathe of the Ladie Markeham’, subscribed ‘J D.’

First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 503-5.

pp. 96-7

• DnJ 3405: John Donne, To S^r Edward Herbert, at Julyers (‘Man is a lumpe, where all beasts kneaded bee’)

Copy, headed ‘A Letter to S^r Edward Herbert / Incerti Authoris’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 193-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 80-1. Shawcross, No. 140.

pp. 97-8

• DnJ 3840: John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping (‘Let me powre forth’)

Copy, headed ‘A valediction of Teares’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 38-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 58.

pp. 98-9

• DnJ 3780: John Donne, A Valediction: of my name, in the window (‘My name engrav'd herein’)

Copy of lines 1-38, headed ‘A valediction of my name in the Glasse windowe’.

This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 25-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 64-6. Shawcross, No. 49.

fMS Eng 981

A folio volume of state tracts and parliamentary proceedings, in varying styles of script, both secretary and roman, possibly in the same hand, 283 leaves (of which ff. 98-283 are blank), in contemporary limp vellum, with ties. c.1630.

f. 33v

• RuB 117: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 10 February 1628/9

Copy, headed ‘S^r Beniamin Ridyard’.

ff. 58r-97r

• BcF 171.5: Francis Bacon, Considerations touching a War with Spain

Copy, incomplete.

A tract dedicated to Prince Charles, beginning ‘Your Highness hath an imperial name. It was a Charles that brought the empire first into France...’. First published in Certaine Miscellany Works, ed. William Rawley (London, 1629). Spedding, XIV, 469-505.

fMS Eng 1015

A formal folio miscellany of verse and prose, in several neat secretary and italic hands, including pen-and-ink drawings, 127 leaves, in modern vellum boards. Entitled (f. 1r) in a secretary hand ‘A Book of the Coppies of Letters Libells & ovther In ventions of men, gatherid to gether, to none ovther ende, but to beholde the strainge mvtabilitye of Tyme A. B.’, and compiled by members of the Bateman family, including Antyne Bateman. c.1580s.

Sotheby's, 28 March 1906, and 31 January 1956, lot 408. Dobell's sale catalogue of Autograph Letters etc. No 10.

f. 14v

• DyE 55: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘My mynde to me a kyngdome is’

Copy, headed ‘A sonet said to bee fyrst written by y^e L ver.’ [i.e. by Edward de Vere, seventeenth Earl of Oxford].

First published, as two poems (one comprising stanzas 1-4, 6 and 8. the other stanzas 9-12) in a musical setting, in William Byrd, Psalmes, Sonets & Songs (London, 1588). Sargent, No. XIV, pp. 200-1. The uncertain authorship of this poem and its textual history are discussed in Steven W. May, ‘The Authorship of “My mind to me a kingdom is”’, RES, NS 26 (1975), 385-94. EV 15376.

fMS Eng 1041

Copy, on sixteen folio pages, subscribed ‘This was Coppy'd from the printed one’, disbound. c.1677.

MaA 521: Andrew Marvell, A Seasonable Argument to perswade all the Grand Juries in England, to petition for A New Parliament

First published in ‘Amsterdam’, 1677. Thompson, II, 555-83. Marvell's authorship rejected by Grosart and by Legouis, pp. 468-9.

fMS Eng 1063

A valedictory letter by Rochester on his death-bed, to Gilbert Burnet, expressing his repentance, in the hand of his mother and falteringly signed by Rochester, 25 June 1680. 1680.

*RoJ 660: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Letter(s)

Treglown, p. 244. Facsimile in The Houghton Library 1942-1967 (Cambridge, Mass., 1967), p. 52.

fMS Eng 1080

A folio composite volume of speeches in Parliament 1627-8, in two or three professional secretary hands, 101 pages, in 19th-century diced russia.

From the Fairfax papers. Phillipps MS 10305. Given to the library by William Appleton Coolidge.

pp. 25-9

• CtR 184: Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy

Copy, as ‘By S^r Robert Cotton K^t & Baronet’. c.1630.

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

pp. 75-7

• RuB 69: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 28 April 1628

Copy, headed ‘S^r. Beniamin Rudyard his speech the xxviij^th of Aprill 1628 in the howse of Comons’. c.1630.

Speech beginning ‘We are here upon a great business...’. Yale 1628, III, 127-9 and 133-4. Variants: III, 138-9, 141, 143, and 161. Variant version in Manning, pp. 126-8.

fMS Eng 1081

A folio volume of speeches in Parliament 1627/8-1638, in a single professional hand, 163 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum. c.1630.

Phillipps MS 20758. Donated by William Appleton Coolidge.

ff. 21v-3v

• RuB 22: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.20-22 March 1627/8

Copy, headed ‘A speech made by S^r Beniamyn Ridearde in the house of Comons of Parliament xx^o Martij 1627’.

f. 44v

• HoJ 347: John Hoskyns, Speech in the House of Commons, 2 April 1628

Copy of a six-line summary.

Speech, beginning (in a brief summary) ‘That knowing our own rights we might be better enabled to give...’.

ff. 50v-1v

• RuB 48: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.2-9 April 1628

Copy, headed ‘S^r Beniamyn Riddiarde speech [space] of Aprille [space] 1628’.

Speech beginning ‘The best thanks we can return his Ma^tie for his gracious and religious answer...’.

fMS Eng 1084

A folio composite volume of state and legal tracts, in five professional hands (including the ‘Feathery Scribe’), 268 leaves (including blanks), in later calf.

Phillipps MS 10463. Bookplate of Alfred Wynne Corrie. Given to the library by William Appleton Coolidge in 1958.

ff. 219-59v

• DaJ 234: Sir John Davies, Charge to the Jurors of the Grand Inquest at York [in 1619]

Copy, in a professional cursive hand, the Charge here dated 1620.

Charge beginning ‘You my Masters that are sworn, I am to direct my Speech principally unto you...’. First published (from a MS owned by A. Cooper Ramgard, Barrister) in Grosart, III (1876), 243-81.

fMS Eng 1121

Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, iii + 73 folio leaves, in contemporary limp vellum, with traces of ties. With a title-page, ‘Leicestrenseni Rempublicane Anno Dom. 1584’, the dedicatory epistle, and the meditation from Job. Late 16th century.

LeC 58: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

Acquired in 1960 from Hamill & Barker, Chicago.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 226.

fMS Eng 1285

A folio miscellany of verse, dramatic and heraldic works, 78 leaves (including some blanks), in contemporary limp vellum. c.1572-97.

Sotheby's, 17 June 1969, lot 492. Purchased from Hofmann and Freeman 1970.

A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 349.

f. 72v

• RaW 130: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Farewell to false Love (‘Farewell false loue, the oracle of lies’)

Copy of an untitled three-stanza version beginning ffarwell falce loue thow oracle of lies, ascribed in the margin to ‘M^r Rawleigh’ and subscribed ‘ffinis R’.

The text accompanied by a companion poem by Sir Thomas Heneage (d. 1595) beginning ‘Most welcome love thou mortall foe to lies’. Edited from this MS in Bertram Dobell, ‘Poems by Sir Thomas Heneage and Sir Walter Raleigh’, The Athenaeum (14 September 1901), p. 349. Collated from that publication in Hughey, II, 384. Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 10A, pp. 11-12. Recorded in Latham, p. 100.

A microfilm of the MS is in the British Library (RP 349).

First published, in a musical setting, in William Byrd, Psalmes, Sonets & songs (London, 1588). Latham, pp. 7-8. Rudick, Nos 10A (complementing Sir Thomas Heneage's verses beginning ‘Most welcome love, thow mortall foe to lies’) and 10B, pp. 11-13.

The poem based principally on a poem by Philippe Desportes: see Jonathan Gibson, ‘French and Italian Sources for Ralegh's “Farewell False Love”’, RES, NS 50 (May 1999), 155-65, which also cites related MSS.

fMS Eng 1312 (1)

A folio miscellany, in a single non-professional hand, 100 pages (plus blanks), in later calf gilt. Late 17th century.

pp. 1-29

• CoA 290: Abraham Cowley, Extracts

Extracts, transcribed principally from the 1669 edition of The Works, some ‘Ex Libr.Manuscript’.

pp. 91-4

• DrJ 297: John Dryden, Defence of the Epilogue. Or, An Essay on the Dramatique Poetry of the last Age

Copy, transcribed from a printed source, dated 1672.

First published at the end of The Conquest of Granada, Part II (London, 1672). California, XI, 203-18.

p. 94 et seq.

• DrJ 392: John Dryden, Extracts

Quotations from Dryden's plays.

fMS Eng 1343 (5)

Autograph MS of Cowley's epistolary essay to John Evelyn, including the verses ‘Happy art Thou, whom God does bless’, on seven folio pages, sent to Evelyn 16 August 1666. 1666.

*CoA 206: Abraham Cowley, The Garden

Formerly in the Donald and Mary Hyde (Lady Eccles) Collection.

The text corrected from this MS in The Miscellaneous Writings of John Evelyn, ed. William Upcott (London, 1825), p. 435. Facsimile of the wrapping leaves, the letter and the first two stanzas of the poem in The R.B. Adam Library (London & New York, 1929), III, after p. 73. Facsimile of the first two stanzas of the poem in Charles John Smith, Historical and Literary Curiosities (London, 1847), No. 49, reproduced in Nethercot, facing p. 231.

Verses first published in Poems upon Divers Occasions (London, 1667). The whole essay first published, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 420-8.

MS Fr 487

The Liber amicorum of Camillus Cardoinus (i.e. Camillo Cerdagni, 1608-40), of Naples.

Formerly Sumner 84 (Lobby XI.3.43).

p. 110

• *MnJ 58: John Milton, Comus

An autograph quotation by Milton from Comus, being the last two lines of the masque. 1639.

First published, as A Maske presented At Ludlow-Castle, 1634, in London, 1637. Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 85-123. Darbishire, II, 171-203. Carey & Fowler, pp. 168-229. John Milton, The Masque of ‘Comus’. The Poem, originally called ‘A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, &c.’, ed. E.H. Visiak (Bloomsbury, 1937). John Milton, A Maske: The Earlier Versions, ed. S.E. Sprott (Toronto, 1973). Various texts also discussed in A Maske at Ludlow, ed. John S. Diekhoff (Cleveland, Ohio, 1968), [see esp. pp. 251-75].

p. 110

• *MnJ 93: John Milton, Document(s)

Autograph signature (‘Joannes Miltonius Anglus’), after an autograph quotation from Comus (MnJ 58) and a line in Latin (a paraphrase of Horace), the entry dated in another hand 10 June 1639. 1639.

This MS quoted in Darbishire, II, 361. Recorded in Columbia, XVIII, 271, and in LR, I, 419. Facsimiles in Sotheby, Ramblings, after p. 98, Plate XIV, No. iv; in Illinois, IV, Appendix IX, 344A; in John Milton, Paradise Lost and Other Poems, ed. Maurice Kelley (New York, 1943), p. xvii; in Don M. Wolfe, Milton and His England (Princeton, 1971), p. 40B; and in The Houghton Library 1942-1967 (Cambridge, Mass., 1967), p. 51.

MS Hyde 10 (337)

Copy, in an unidentified hand, of the dedicatory epistle to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, dated 9 May 1640. This MS is extracted from HbT 21. 1640.

HbT 19.5: Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic

Later owned by Robert Borthwick Adam (1863-1940), American book collector. Thence to the collection of Donald and Mary Hyde (Lady Eccles).

Edited in part from this MS in The R.B. Adam Library, vol. III (London, 1929), 128-9. Recorded in Malcolm & Tolonen, p. 492.

First published, dedicated to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, in two parts, as Humane Nature: Or, The fundamental Elements of Policie, (London, [1649]-1650), and as De Corpore Politico: or The Elements of Law, Moral and Politick (London, 1650). Molesworth, English, IV, 1-76, 77-228. Edited by Ferdinand Tönnies (London, 1889). 2nd edition, with an introduction by M.M. Goldsmith, (London, 1969).

MS Hyde 10 (679)

Autograph letter signed by Suckling, to Edward, Viscount Conway, [April-May 1640]. 1640.

*SuJ 186: John Suckling, Letter(s)

Edited in Clayton, p. 151, with a facsimile, Plate 3, after p. xcviii. Facsimiles also in British Literary Autographs, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 42, and in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 273. Edited in part in The R.B. Adam Library, Vol. III (London, 1929), 232.

MS Hyde 77 (10.372.1)

Autograph letter signed by Waller, to an unidentified correspondent, [April 1652].

*WaE 819: Edmund Waller, Letter(s)

Later in the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection.

Recorded in The R. B. Adam Library, 3 vols (London & New York, 1929), III, 250. Edited in W. Carew Hazlitt, Bibliographical Collections and Notes on Early English Literature 1474-1700, Second Series (London, 1882), p. 631. Reedited in Thorn-Drury, II, 198.

MS Mus 182

An octavo book of cittern music and miscellaneous entries and recipes, in more than one hand, written from both ends, 166 leaves, in contemporary brown calf. Owned and probably compiled by John Ridout (1608-post 1665). Mid-17th century.

Phillipps MS, [unnumbered?]. Sotheby's, 15 June 1971. Gift of John M. Ward, 1985.

Described in John Ward, ‘Sprightly and Cheerful Musick: Notes on the Cittern, Gittern and Guitar in 16th- and 17th-Century England’, Lute Society Journal, 21 (1979-81), 183-95. A microfilm of the MS is in the British Library, RP 678.

Item 9

• WyT 53: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Blame not my lute, for he must sownd’

Copy of the incipit in a musical setting.

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 212-13.

MS Typ. 49

Autograph calligraphic MS, iii + 128 leaves (47 x 31 mm.), imperfect, in contemporary green velvet embroidered. A presentation MS to her son Samuel Kello, with a prose Dedication to him in English, in small Roman and italic scripts, with some decoration. April 1615.

*InE 58: Esther Inglis, Verbum Sempiternum -- Written at Londo by Esther Inglis April 1615

Probably the MS recorded in 1775 as being in the possession of Esther Inglis's great-grandson in 1711. Sotheby's, 24 January 1950, lot 423.

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 46 (pp. 74-5).

John Taylor's brief verse synopsis of the Bible, his ‘Thumb Bible’ of 1614, with two English verse epistles to Samuell Kello by Esther Inglis.

MS Typ. 212

Autograph calligraphic MS, on rectos only, iii + 101 leaves (98 x 140 mm.), in contemporary calf gilt. A presentation MS to Sir Thomas Egerton (1540-1617), Baron Ellesmere, Lord Chancellor, with a Dedication to him, in various styles of script, with colour and gold arms, decoration and figures, and with a self-portrait. 1606.

*InE 35: Esther Inglis, [Psalms] Argumenta in Librum Psalmorum Davidis Estherae Inglis Manu Exarata Londini 1606

Later owned by W.L. Boyne (1850); by W.A. White (1915); by A.S.W. Rosenbach; and by Philip Hofer (1949).

Scott-Elliot & Yeo. No. 25 (pp. 54-5), with a facsimile of the portrait page (facing their p. 11).

A summary of the Psalms in Latin verse, with Latin verses to Sir Thomas Egerton by Bartholomew Kello and to Esther Inglis by Melville, Rollock, and Johnston.

MS Typ. 347

Autograph calligraphic MS, on rectos only, ii + 65 leaves (45 x 75 mm.), in contemporary calf gilt. Apparently prepared as a New Year's Gift, but without a Dedication, in small Roman script throughout, with decorated title-page. 1615.

*InE 50: Esther Inglis, [Quatrains de Pybrac] Les six vingts et six quatrains de Guy de Faur Sieur de Pybrac escrits, par Esther Inglis pour son dernier adieu ce I. iour de l'an, 1615

Later owned by Sir John Arthur Brooke of Fenay Hall, Huddersfield (and sold at Sotheby's, 31 May 1921, lot 817); Quaritch's sale catalogue of illuminated manuscripts, 1931, item 111; afterwards owned until 1968 by Philip Hofer.

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 44 (pp. 73-4).

Quatrains in French by Guy du Faur, Sieur de Pybrac (1529-84), first published in 1576.

MS Typ. 428

Autograph calligraphic MS, on rectos only, ii + 60 leaves (34 x 86 mm.), in contemporary calf gilt (rebound). A presentation MS to Sir Edward Stanhope (1546?-1608), Chancellor of the Diocese of London, with a Dedication to him, in various styles of script, with colour and gold decoration. 1608.

*InE 11: Esther Inglis, [Genesis] Argumenta singulorum capitum Geneseos per Tetrasticha. Manu Estherae Inglis Exarata Londini 1608

Later sold by Cochran (catalogue, 1837, item 163) and by Thomas Rodd (1839). Owned by the Rev. Thomas Corser (Corser sale at Sotheby's, 11 July 1870, lot 55); by Ellis; and by Charles Sumner, LL.D, who bequeathed it in 1874.

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 35 (p. 64).

Guillaume Paradin, Historiarum memorabilium ex Genese descriptio tetrastichis versibus, first published in Lyons, 1558, in Latin.

MS Typ.428.1

Autograph calligraphic MS, 41 leaves (plus two blanks), in contemporary vellum gilt. A presentation MS, in English, in numerous styles of script, with decoration, and with a prose Dedication to Susanna, Lady Herbert, from London (probably added in 1605 to a MS written earlier). 20 February 1605.

*InE 34: Esther Inglis, [Psalms] Quotations from the Psalms and Proverbs

Later owned (in 1865) by the Rev. Charles W. Bingham, of Dorset, and by Mrs Wynyard of Kensington Palace (in the 19th century). Subsequently owned by the bookdealers Dobell and (on 8 December 1922) by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach. Afterwards the W.A. White Estate; and Philip Hofer (1939).

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 2 (pp. 26-7), with a facsimile example as Plate 2 (between pp. 42 and 43).

Autograph File

A file of miscellaneous autograph signatures.

[unnumbered item]

• *CnC 179: Charles Cotton, Fanshawe, Sir Richard. Il Pastor Fido; the Faithfull Shepheard…with…divers other poems [trans. from Giovanni Battista Guarini] (London, 1647-8)

A page bearing Cotton's autograph signature, now detached but originally the last page of Cotton's printed exemplum of this work (now untraced).

The volume was owned in 1868 (and the inscribed leaf extracted) by Joseph Henry Shorthouse (1834-1903), novelist. Mid-late 17th century.

Recorded by Shorthouse in ‘Charles Cotton the Angler, and Sir Richard Fanshawe’, N&Q, 4th Ser. 1 (15 February 1868), 146. Also recorded in Dust, p. 22, and in Parks, p. 15.

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• *AndL 86: Lancelot Andrewes, Document(s)

Document signed.

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• *HbT 133: Thomas Hobbes, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, in French, to Marin Mersenne, from St Germain, [15/]25 May 1648.

Sotheby's, 17 March 1875, lot 83, to Naylor. 1648.

Facsimile in Maggs's sale catalogue No. 471 (1925), item 2835, Plate XVII, opposite p. 136. Edited from this reproduction and discussed in Harcourt Browne, ‘The Mersenne Correspondence: A Lost Letter by Thomas Hobbes’, Isis, 34 (1942-3), 311-12. Also discussed in I. Bernard Cohen, ‘A Lost Letter from Hobbes to Mersenne Found’, HLB, 1 (1947), 112-13. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 172-3, Letter 59, with English translation.

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• *VaJ 25: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [Jacob] Tonson, from London, 15 June 1703. 1703.

Christie's, 17 December 1907 (Tonson sale), lot 167. Edited in Works, IV, 7-8 (No. 3). Register, No. 1724.

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• WtI 195: Izaak Walton, Sanderson, Robert. Sermons

Walton's signature on a detached leaf purporting to come from an edition of Sanderson's sermons.

A 1832.5

A printed exemplum of the third edition (London, 1651) with twelve missing pages supplied in MS, the quarto pages all in window mounts, in later half black morocco. Pages 101-2, 105-12, and 115-16 supplied in the small neat hand of George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor, who has also annotated the volume throughout with references to the Bedford MS and a MS of the play lent him by Dobell.

CaW 89: William Cartwright, The Royal Slave

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

Br 98.319F* Lobby XI. 4. 24

On pp. 113-46 of a larger collection entitled Rerum Britannicarum, ed. Hieronymus Commelinus (Heidelberg, 1587). Allegedly Milton's exemplum with his annotations. Mid-17th century.

MnJ 130: John Milton, Gildas. De excidio et conquestu Britanniæ epistola [1587]

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in J. Milton French, ‘Milton's Annotated Copy of Gildas’, HSNPL, 20 (1938), 75-80, and, with scepticism about the annotations, in W.H. Davies, ‘A Note on Milton's Annotated Copy of Gildas in Harvard University (Widener) Library’, Papers of the British School at Rome, 15 (1939), 49-51. The annotations edited in Columbia, XVIII, 327-30. Recorded in Boswell, No. 434 (and 651).

*EB.C3804.W651e

A warrant authorising payment to Sir Henry Hene, signed by Wither as member of the Committee of Trustees for the Sale of the Late King's Goods, 10 October 1651. 10 October 1651.

*WiG 75: George Wither, Warrant(s)

Facsimiles in The History of the Pestilence (1625), ed. J. Milton French (Cambridge, Mass., 1932), after p. xviii, and in Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester, DLB, 121 (Detroit, 1992), p. 282.

*fEC8 C6795 Zz640d

William Wordsworth's exemplum of Donne's LXXX Sermons (London, 1640), owned by him in 1807, and containing copious marginal annotations by S.T. Coleridge (made c.1809-10). c.1807-10.

DnJ 4171: John Donne, Sermons

The annotations are edited in The Collected Works of Samuel Coleridge, Vol. 12: Marginalia II, ed. Kathleen Coburn et al. (London & Princeton, 1984), pp. 245-58.

*EC65. C8294. 664sb

Copy, subscribed ‘Tuus dum suus Dogrillius Maro’. On a flyleaf in a printed exemplum of Cotton's Scarronides, or the First Book of Virgil Travestie (London, 1664), octavo, in calf. Late 17th century.

CnC 131: Charles Cotton, To Maecenas (‘To thee, Oh Knight of Sol's round table’)

Inscribed on the flyleaf ‘Elis Pagett 1682’. Owned in 1921 by the playwright John Drinkwater (1882-1937) and in 1926 by E.M. Cox.

Edited from this MS in Beresford (where it is erroneously described as autograph). Facsimile in Parks, p. 26 (discussed p. 25).

First published in Beresford (1923), p. 403.

*fEC65. C8294.674m

Inscribed by Cotton to his ‘cousin’ Port. c.1674.

*CnC 154: Charles Cotton, Cotton, Charles. The Commentaries of the Messire Blaize de Montluc [trans. from Blaise de Lasseran-Massencome, Seigneur de Montluc] (London, 1674)

Recorded in Dust, p. 22.

*EC65 M642.7.Zz635t (Lobby XI.3.41)

Allegedly Milton's exemplum. 1635.

MnJ 134: John Milton, Terence. Comoediæ sex (Leiden, 1635)

Recorded in Columbia, XVIII, 576; in LR, I, 291; and in Boswell, No. 1383.

*EC65.M6427.Zz595t (Lobby XI.3.42)

Allegedly Milton's exemplum. Mid-17th century.

MnJ 129: John Milton, Frischlin, Nicodemus. Operum poeticorum (Strasbourg, 1595)

Recorded in Columbia, XVIII, 578; LR, V, 127; and in Boswell, No. 620.

*EC65.Scu225.664ha

An exemplum signed at the end by Cotton, 1674. 1674.

*CnC 194: Charles Cotton, Scudamore, James. Homer a la Mode (London, 1665)

Recorded in Dust, p. 21, and in Parks, p. 15.

*EC C8495 645I

Autograph revisions and additions, in an exemplum of the printed edition of 1645, including a change of title to ‘A Mother's Legacie to Her Six Davghters’ and an autograph epistle presenting the work to her grandson Sir Edward Dering, complaining that ‘it is so falsly printed’ and needs correcting. c.1645.

*RiE 3: Elizabeth Richardson (Ashburnham), A Ladies Legacie to her Daughters. In three Books

Discussed in Victoria E. Burke, ‘Elizabeth Ashburnham Richardson's “motherlie endeauors” in Manuscript’, EMS, 9 (2000), 98-113 (P. 109). Facsimiles of the autograph presentation epistle in Women's Voices 1540-1700, ed. Charlotte F. Otten (Miami, 1992), p. 302, and, with a transcription, in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), pp 226-7.

First published in London, 1645. Women's Writing in Stuart England, ed. Sylvia Brown (Stroud, 1999), pp. 157-247.

*EC.D7187.633pe (B) [Lobby XII.2.8]

An exemplum inscribed ‘Izaak Walton. Giuen me by m^r Marryot the 7°. of nouember 1650’ and with autograph corrections in the printed text. 1650.

*WtI 157: Izaak Walton, Donne, John. Poems (London, 1650)

Sotheby's, 15 February 1932, lot 56, and 17 July 1933, lot 228, with facsimiles of the inscription in both sale catalogues.

EC.D7187.633 pg(B)

An exemplum of the 1669 edition of Donne's Poems annotated by Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908), American professor and art historian, including transcripts of notes by Coleridge.

DnJ 4169: John Donne, Poems

Recorded in The Collected Works of Samuel Coleridge, Vol. 12: Marginalia II, ed. Kathleen Coburn et al. (London & Princeton, 1984), p. 215.

*EC D7187. Zz607e (Lobby XII.3.13)

Autograph Latin verse inscription signed, in Donne's printed exemplum of William Covell, A Iust and Temperate Defence of the Five Books of Ecclesiastical Policie: written by M. Richard Hooker (London, 1603), bound with nine other printed tracts (published 1592-1607), including The Pictvre of a Puritane (1605) signed by him ‘J Donne’, in contemporary vellum. c.1603.

*DnJ 2: John Donne, Ad Autorem (‘Non eget Hookerus tanto tutamine. lanto’)

Later owned by Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908), American professor and art historian. Acquired by Harvard in 1905.

Edited from this MS by editors. Facsimile in English Poetical Autographs, ed. Desmond Flower and A.N.L. Munby (London, 1938), p. 7.

First published in Gosse (1899), I, 270. Milgate, Satires, p. 111. Shawcross, No. 105. Variorum, 8 (1995), p. 12, and six more versions on p. 13.

*EC F8364 556c

Exemplum of the edition of 1556 containing MS annotations, possibly used as a prompt book for a production (at Oxford or Cambridge?). c.1562?

*FxJ 19: John Foxe, Christus triumphans

Formerly *53-1371.

This item collated in Smith, p. 376 et seq.

First published in Basle, 1556. Edited, with a translation, by John Hazel Smith in Two Latin Comedies by John Foxe the Martyrologist (Ithaca & London, 1973), pp. 199-371.

*EC.H263.Zz507e

Autograph signature and annotations.

*HvG 75: Gabriel Harvey, Euripides, Hecuba & Iphigenia in Aulide...in latinam tralatae, Erasmo Roterdamo interprete. Eiusdem ode de laudibus Britanniae, Regisque Henrici septimi, ac regiorum liberorum eius, Eiusdem ode de senectutis incommodis (Venice, 1507)

Corresponding to one of Harvey's volumes whose annotations are copied in the octavo MS in University of London, Senate House Library, MS 289.

Stern, p. 212.

f*EC H2623 Zz555g

Autograph annotations.

*HvG 155: Gabriel Harvey, Simlerus, Josias. Epitome Bibliothecae Conradi Gesneri, conscripta primum a Conrado Lycothene Rubeaquensi: nunc denuo recognita & plus quam bis mille authorum accessione (qui omnes asterisco signati sunt) locupletata: per Josiam Simlerum Tigurinum (Zurich, 1555)

Formerly Houghton A1447.3.100F.

Stern, p. 235. Facsimile of f. 68r in Wilson, Plate III after p. 346.

*EC H2623 Zz563o

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 139: Gabriel Harvey, Ovidius, Publius. Metamorphoses...argumentis quidem soluta oratione; ennarationibus autem & allegoriis elegiaco versu accuratissime expositae; summaque; diligentia ac studio illustratae, per M. Johan. Sprengium Augustan. (Frankfurt, 1563)

Formerly Houghton A1447.5.10.

Stern, p. 230.

*EC H2623 Zz578f

Copious autograph annotations. Late 16th century.

*HvG 79: Gabriel Harvey, Florio, John. Florio his first fruites: a perfect induction to the Italian and English tongues (London, 1578)

Formerly Houghton *70-81.

Stern, p. 213. Discussed in Clifford Chalmers Huffman, ‘Gabriel Harvey on John Florio and John Eliot’, N&Q, 220 (July 1975), 300-2.

*EC H2623 Zz584t

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 37: Gabriel Harvey, [Billerbege, Frauncis]. Most Rare and straunge Discourses, of Amurathe the Turkish Emperor that nowe is (London, [1584?])

Formerly STC 3060 Houghton *70.83

Stern, p. 202

*EC H2623 Zz584t

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 116: Gabriel Harvey, Jovius, Paulus. Novocomensis Libellus de Legatione Basilii Magni Principis Moschoviae ad Clementem VII. Pontifex Max. (Basle, 1527)

Formerly Houghton *70-84.

Stern, p. 223.

*EC H2623 Zz584t

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 161: Gabriel Harvey, Thomas, William. The Historie of Italie (London, 1561)

Formerly Houghton *70-82.

Stern, p. 237.

*EC H2623 Zz654t

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 160: Gabriel Harvey, Terence, P. Le Comedie di Terentio Volgari; di nuovo ricorette, et a miglior tradottione ridotte (Venice, 1546)

Stern, p. 237.

*EC.H4157.W670w2

Copy, subscribed ‘Geor. Herbert’, pasted on the flyleaf of a printed exemplum of Izaak Walton, The Life of Mr. George Herbert (London, 1670), a sextodecimo, in olive morocco. 17th century.

HrG 308: George Herbert, Dum petit Infantem (‘Dvm petit Infantem Princeps, Grantámque Iacobus’)

Henry Sotheran & Co., sale catalogue Bibliotheca Pretiosa, [1907], in item 438 (pp. 89-90), where it is erroneously described as ‘in George Herbert's autograph’.

This MS collated in Hutchinson.

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

*EC.J7382. Zz620f

A printed exemplum of Lucretius, De rerum natura (Amsterdam, 1620), owned and annotated by Ben Jonson, including his extracts from Sandy's translations of Ovid and Lucretius, on the title-page, on p. 169 and on the rear pastedown. c.1620s.

SaG 66: George Sandys, Extracts

*fEC.H4157.Zz620j

Copy, in an unidentified hand, subscribed ‘G. Herbert Orator’. On the blank page facing the title-page in a printed exemplum of The Workes of James I (London, 1616 [1620 issue]), a folio volume in contemporary calf. c.1620s.

HrG 326: George Herbert, ‘Peregrinis Almam Matrem Invisentibus’

Bookplate with the motto ‘Timet Pudorem’.

Edited from this MS in Gibbs, where it is mistakenly described as autograph. Facsimile in The Houghton Library 1942-1967: A Selection of Books and Manuscripts in Harvard Collections (Cambridge, Mass., 1967), p. 53.

First published in J. Gibbs, ‘An Unknown Poem of George Herbert’, TLS (30 December 1949), p. 857.

*EC.Sul 85. 646fba

A printed exemplum bearing Philips's inscription on a flyleaf (beneath the name ‘Eliza: Pitt:’) ‘Katharine Phillips: her book’. c.1648.

*PsK 591: Katherine Philips, Suckling, Sir John. Fragmenta Aurea (2nd edition, London, 1648)

*EC. Su185.646f(C)

Printer's cast-off marks, marked up for Jacob Tonson's 1709 edition of Suckling's Works. On pages 3, 15-24 of Aglaura in an exemplum of Poems &c Written by Sir John Suckling (London, 1646). c.1709.

SuJ 161.5: John Suckling, Aglaura

Facsimile of pp. 22-23 in Roger E. Stoddard, Marks in Books, Illustrated and Explained (Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1985), p. 7, No. 6.

First published in London, 1638. Beaurline, Plays, pp. 33-119.

Lowell Autograph / Ben Jonson to George Garrard

Autograph fair copy. In an autograph letter signed by Jonson (‘Yo^r true Louer Ben: Jonson’), on the first page of a pair of quarto conjugate leaves, the fourth page bearing the address panel ‘To my right worthy Freind M^r. Geo: Garrard’. [1609].

*JnB 102: Ben Jonson, Epitaph [on Cecilia Bulstrode] (‘Stay, view this stone: And, if thou beest not such’)

Formerly among the MSS of the Bromley-Davenport family, at Baginton Hall, Warwickshire. Sotheby's, 8-9 March 1903, lot 345, to Quaritch. Acquired in May 1903 by Amy Lowell (1874-1925), American poet.

Edited from this MS in Harper; in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 79; in Percy Simpson, letter in TLS (6 March 1930); and in Herford & Simpson.

Facsimiles in The Houghton Library 1942-1967: A Selection of Books and Manuscripts in Harvard Collections (Cambridge, Mass., 1967), p. 83; in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 27; in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 204; and in Mark Bland, ‘Jonson, Biathanatos and the Interpretation of Manuscript Evidence’, SB, 51 (1998), 154-82 (p. 173).

First published in John A. Harper, ‘Ben Jonson and Mrs. Bulstrode’, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 4 (5 September 1863), 198-9. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 371-2.

*OGC.P653.620 (B) (Lobby XI.3.44)

Allegedly Milton's exemplum. Early-mid-17th century.

MnJ 132: John Milton, Pindar Olympia (Salmurii, 1620)

Sotheby's, 5 August 1871, lot 1588.

The annotations edited in Columbia, XVIII, 276-304. Discussed, with facsimile examples (and the attribution disputed), in Maurice Kelley and Samuel D. Atkins, ‘Milton and the Harvard Pindar’, Studies in bibliography, 17 (1964), 77-82. Recorded in LR, I, 204-5, 221-2, and in Boswell, No. 1119.

fSTC 6385

Exemplum of the edition of 1630, with Lady Falkland's autograph corrections, her autograph verses under the engraved portrait of du Perron, and her autograph dedicatory sonnet to Queen Henrietta Maria, in contemporary green vellum. c.1630.

*CaE 41: Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, The Reply of the most Illustrious Cardinall of Perron, to the Answeare of the most Excellent King of Great Britaine

Recorded in Wolfe, p. 12.

Lady Falkland's translation of a controversial tract by Jacques Davy (1556-1618), Cardinal of Perron. First published in Douai, 1630. Most exempla coming into England were destroyed by command of George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury. Most surviving presentation exempla include an autograph poem ‘To the Queenes most Excellent Maiestie’ (‘'Tis not your faire out-side (though famous Greece’), which is edited in Kissing the Rod, ed. Germaine Greer et al. (New York, 1988), pp. 59-60.

STC 1118

Exemplum of the 1604 edition with the six unprinted pages supplied in MS in two probably professional hands. Sigs E1^v, E2^r, E3^v, E4^r in a cursive secretary hand, sig F1^r-v in a rounded secretary hand. c.1604.

BcF 131.5: Francis Bacon, Certain Considerations touching the Better Pacification and Edification of the Church of England

First published in London, 1604. Spedding, X, 103-27. The circumstances of the original publication and the book's suppression by the Bishop of London discussed, with a census of relevant exempla, in Richard Serjeantson and Thomas Woolford, ‘The Scribal Publication of a Printed Book: Francis Bacon's Certaine Considerations Touching...the Church of England (1604)’, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/2 (June 2009), 119-56.

STC 11402

Autograph annotations, signed ‘Gabriel Haruejus. 1580’. 1580.

*HvG 86: Gabriel Harvey, Frontinus, Sextus Julius. The stratagemes, sleyghtes, and policies of warre gathered togyther, by S. Julius Frontinus, and translated into Englyshe, by Richard Morysine (London, 1539)

Formerly Houghton Lf.18.54.8*.

Stern, p. 214. Facsimiles of of the annotated verso of the title-page and sig. av^rin Wilson, Plates IIa and IV after p. 346.

STC 11445.5

Autograph annotations, signed ‘Gabrielis Haruey’.

*HvG 87: Gabriel Harvey, Fulke, William. OYPANOMAXIA. Hoc est Astrologorum Ludus, Ad bonarum artium, & Astrologiae in primis studiosorum relaxationem comparatus, nunc primum illustratus (London, 1572)

Formerly Houghton 24232.6.25*.

Stern, p. 215. Facsimile of the signed title-page in Wilson, Plate IIb after p. 346.

STC 13858 (B)

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 109: Gabriel Harvey, Howard, Henry. A Defensative against the Poyson of supposed Prophesies (London, 1583)

Formerly Houghton STC 13858.2.

Stern, p. 222.

STC 14497.100* (Lobby XI.3.40)

Allegedly Milton's exemplum. Mid-17th century.

MnJ 128: John Milton, Farnaby Thomas. Systema grammaticum (London, 1641)

American Art Association, New York, 26 January 1922, lot 35. with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.

Discussed in Washington Moon, ‘Milton's Autograph’, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 6 (10 July 1858), 39; and in T.O. Mabbott, ‘The Notes on Farnaby ascribed to John Milton’, N&Q, 171 (29 August 1936), 152-4. Recorded in Columbia, XVIII, 346; in LR, II, 29; and in Boswell, No. 587.

fSTC 14751 v. 1.

Inscribed ‘G. H: pretiu i9^s’, but not in Harvey's hand and lacking annotations. c.1620.

HvG 176: Gabriel Harvey, Jonson, Ben. The Workes of Benjamin Jonson (London, 1616)

Bookplate of ‘Heathcote of Hursley Barnet’. Inscribed ‘From the library of Norton Perkins November 11, 1925’. Formerly Houghton 14426.4F*.

Stern, pp. 223-4

STC 17996

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

HvG 130: Gabriel Harvey, Mohammed II, Sultan. The Turkes Secretorie. Conteining his Sundrie Letters Sent to divers Emperours, Kings, Princes, and States; full of proud bragges, and bloody threatnings: With severall Answers to the Same, both pithie and peremptorie. Translated truly out of the Latine tongue (London, 1607)

Formerly Houghton Ott.251.1.20.

Stern, pp. 227-8.

fSTC 21730 (B)

Copy, neatly written in two styles of hand, two pages in roman, two pages in italic. On pp. 309[-12] in a printed exemplum of Sandys's A Relation of a Journey begun Anno Dom. 1610, 4th edition (London, 1637), a folio in modern cloth. Mid-17th century.

SaG 1: George Sandys, Deo Opt. Max (‘O Thou who All-thinges hast of Nothing made’)

A tipped-in letter by Thomas Sandys, 13 March ‘1686’. Inscribed inside the front cover ‘J. L. Philips. 1807’. Bookplate of John Snowden Henry.

Formerly Ott 3100. 5.4F*.

This item recorded in Bowers & Davis, p. 176.

First published with A Paraphrase upon the Psalms of David (London, 1636). Hooper, II, 403-6.

fSTC 22544 (B)

Copy, inscribed inside the front cover of a printed exemplum of Sidney's Arcadia (London, 1613), a large folio, in contemporary calf. The volume neatly annotated up to p. 332 in an unidentified roman hand, once thought to be that of Gabriel Harvey. Early-mid-17th century.

BrW 214: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)

Lot 869 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Once owned by William Augustus White (1843-1927), American banker and collector.

Formerly Houghton 14457.23.8.7*.

This MS recorded, and the volume discussed, in W.L. Godshalk, ‘Gabriel Harvey and Sidney's Arcadia’, MLR, 59 (1964), 497-9.

Sum 132

Waller's signature on the title-page.

*WaE 891: Edmund Waller, Monluc, Blaise de Lasseran-Massencome, Seigneur de. Commentaires, 2 vols (Paris, 1594)

This corresponds to lot 245 in the Waller sale of 1832.