Miscellaneous MS No. 17
A quarto commonplace book, in a single mixed hand, 319 pages (including blanks, plus a few more), in brown calf. c.1620s-40s.
ff. 123r, 245
• RaW 579.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Dialogue between a Counsellor of State and a Justice of the Peace
Extracts.
A treatise, with a dedicatory epistle to James I beginning ‘Those that are suppressed and hopeless are commonly silent ...’, the dialogue beginning ‘Now, sir, what think you of Mr. St. John's trial in the Star-chamber?...’. First published as The Prerogative of Parliaments in England (‘Midelburge’ and ‘Hamburg’ [i.e. London], 1628). Works (1829), VIII, 151-221.
pp. 161-2
• RaW 1081: Sir Walter Ralegh, Observations concerning the Causes of the Magnificence and Opulence of Cities
Extracts.
A tract beginning ‘That the only way to civilize and reform the savage and barbarous lives and corrupt manners of such people is...’, First published in London, 1651. Works (1829), VIII, 541-7.
A translation of parts of a work by Giovanni Botero. See Lefranc (1968), p. 66.
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• BcF 207.8: Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral
Numerous extracts from Bacon, principally from the Essays, including entries and citations on pp. 31-2, 39, 42-3, 56, 59, 62, 65-7, 85, 88-9, 233-4.
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).
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• BcF 215.125: Francis Bacon, The History of the Reign of King Henry VII
Extracts.
First published in London, 1622. Spedding, VI, 23-245. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 3-169.
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• BuR 1.25: Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
Extracts.
First published in Oxford, 1621. Edited by A.R. Shilleto (introduced by A.H. Bullen), 3 vols (London, 1893). Edited variously by Thomas C. Faulkner, Nicolas K. Kiessling, Rhonda L. Blair, J.B. Bamborough, and Martin Dodsworth, 6 vols (Oxford, 1989-2000).
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• HrE 125.7: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Life and Reign of King Henry VIII
First published in London, 1649. Published in London, 1880 (with Autobiography).
Miscellaneous MS No. 19
A folio composite volume of legal and antiquarian papers, in various professional secretary hands, 284 leaves, in half brown morocco.
ff. 280v-2v
• CmW 83: William Camden, Of the Antiquity of Parliaments in England
Copy.
A tract beginning ‘That there were such like assemblies as parliaments now are, before the Romans arrival here...’. First published in Sir John Doddridge et al., The Several Opinions of Sundry Learned Antiquaries...touching...the High Court of Parliament in England (London, 1658). Hearne (1771), I, 303-6.
Miscellaneous MS No. 38
An octavo commonplace book relating to military history, in probably a single mixed hand, 230 pages (including many blanks), in contemporary brown calf. c.1630.
pp. 31, 87
• HrE 125.8: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Life and Reign of King Henry VIII
Extracts.
First published in London, 1649. Published in London, 1880 (with Autobiography).
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• RaW 679.6: Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World
Extracts, including entries on pp. 143-4, 167, 169, 171, 177, 181, 187, 193, 195.
First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.
See also RaW 728.
Miscellaneous No. 81
Manuscript notes, partly derived from notes made by George Steevens (1736-1800). literary editor and scholar, on 32 pages tipped-into an exemplum of the 1652 printed edition of The Anatomy, in dark brown calf. c.1800.
BuR 1.255: Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
First published in Oxford, 1621. Edited by A.R. Shilleto (introduced by A.H. Bullen), 3 vols (London, 1893). Edited variously by Thomas C. Faulkner, Nicolas K. Kiessling, Rhonda L. Blair, J.B. Bamborough, and Martin Dodsworth, 6 vols (Oxford, 1989-2000).
Petyt MS 511, Vol. 17
A composite folio volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, 152 leaves, in modern red morocco gilt.
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• CmW 7.2: William Camden, Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha
Extracts
Part I (to 1589) first published in London, 1615. Parts I-II (to 1603) published in Leiden, 1625-7.
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• CmW 102.9: William Camden, Remaines of a Greater Worke concerning Britaine
Extracts.
First published, dedicated to Sir Robert Cotton, in London, 1605. 2nd edition (with additions) London, 1614. 3rd edition (with a few further additions) London, 1623. Edited by R.D. Dunn (Toronto, Buffalo & London, 1984).
For individual essays in Remaines, see under separate titles.
Petyt MS 512, Vol. A
A folio volume of historical material, 123 leaves, in modern red morocco gilt.
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• CmW 13.17: William Camden, Britannia
Extracts.
First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.
Petyt MS 512, Vol. AA
A folio volume of historical materials, 331 leaves, in modern red morocco gilt.
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• CmW 13.174: William Camden, Britannia
Extracts.
First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.
Petyt MS 512, Vol. E
A folio volume of miscellaneous transcripts and extracts, 247 leaves.
ff. 166-70 passim, 180r et seq.
• DaJ 238.3: Sir John Davies, A Discourse of Law and Lawyers: with Appendix of Cases
Extracts.
A compilation, beginning with ‘Trin. 2. Iacobi en Leeschecquer. Le Case de Praxiet’, the main part an epistlolary tract by Davies to Lord Ellesmere. First published as Le Primer Report des Cases en Matters en Ley (Dublin, 1615). Grosart, II, 243-357.
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• CmW 13.175: William Camden, Britannia
Extracts.
First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.
Petyt MS 512, Vol. I
A draft by William Petyt on a treatise concerning ‘the Parliaments and Governments of England after the Reign of King John’, 296 folio leaves.
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• CmW 13.176: William Camden, Britannia
References and quotations.
First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.
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• DaJ 234.4: Sir John Davies, Charge to the Jurors of the Grand Inquest at York [in 1619]
References and quotations.
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.
Petyt MS 512, Vol. Q
A folio volume of antiquarian collections, in a single rounded hand, 261 leaves, in black morocco gilt. Compiled by William Petyt (1640/1-1707), lawyer and political propagandist. Late 17th century-1700s.
ff. 211r-13v
• CmW 54: William Camden, The Etymologie and Original of Barons
Copy, entitled ‘A Collection made by Mr. Camden concerning the Different Sense and meaning of the word Baro in severall Ages’, and headed ‘The following Collection was communicated to me by the Learned Dr. Thomas Smith…’.
A tract beginning ‘I have else where said somewhat of Barones...’. First published in Hearne (1720), pp. 205-8. Hearne (1771), I, 124-6. Camden's original MS is untraced: it is apparently not among Hatton MSS in the Bodleian, British Library, or Northamptonsire Record Office.
Petyt MS 512, Vol. S
Petyt MS 512, Vol. U
Petyt MS 526
A folio volume of three works, each in a different secretary hand, 50 leaves (including blanks, plus more blanks), in brown morocco.
ff. 33r-5v
• BcF 228: Francis Bacon, Maxims of the Law
Copy of the Dedication to the Queen and the Preface only, dated 8 February 1596. Early 17th century.
First published in The Elements of the Common Lawes of England (London, 1630). Spedding, VII, 307-87.
Bacon claimed to have collected ‘300 of them’, of which only ‘some few’ (25 maxims) were subsequently published. For an attempt to track down the ‘missing’ maxims, see John C. Hogan and Mortimer D. Schwartz, ‘On Bacon's “Rules and Maximes” of the Common Law’, Law Library Journal, 76/1 (Chicago, Winter 1983), 48-77.
ff. 43r-50r
• RaW 555: Sir Walter Ralegh, Apology for his Voyage to Guiana
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rayleigh's Apology’. c.1620s.
A tract beginning ‘If the ill success of this enterprise of mine had been without example...’. First published in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 477-507. Edited by V. T. Harlow in Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 316-34.
Petyt MS 533, Vol. 5
A folio volume of state papers, 298 leaves, in modern red morocco gilt.
f. 19r et passim
• FxJ 1.13: John Foxe, Actes and Monuments
Extracts.
First published (complete) in London, 1563. Edited by Josiah Pratt, 8 vols (London, 1853-70).
Petyt MS 533, Vol. 38
A folio volume of transcripts and extracts largely from state papers, 184 leaves.
ff. 16r-23 passim
• DaJ 238.5: Sir John Davies, A Discourse of Law and Lawyers: with Appendix of Cases
Extracts or refererences.
A compilation, beginning with ‘Trin. 2. Iacobi en Leeschecquer. Le Case de Praxiet’, the main part an epistlolary tract by Davies to Lord Ellesmere. First published as Le Primer Report des Cases en Matters en Ley (Dublin, 1615). Grosart, II, 243-357.
Petyt MS 535, Vol. 6
A folio volume chiefly of Acts of Parliament from 1483 to 1546, in a single rounded hand, 349 leaves, in brown morocco gilt. Compiled by William Petyt (1640/1-1707), lawyer and political propagandist. Late 17th century-1700s.
ff. 129r-33v
• LeJ 95: John Leland, The Laboryouse Journey and Serche of Johan Leylande for Englandes Antiquitees
Copy, headed ‘John Leyland's New years Gift, given of him to King Henry the VIII. in the 37.year of his Reigne concerning his laborious Journey and search for Englands Antiquities’.
First published in London, 1549, ed. John Bale.
ff. 267r-70r
• HrE 125.9: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Life and Reign of King Henry VIII
Extracts.
First published in London, 1649. Published in London, 1880 (with Autobiography).
Petyt MS 536, Vol. 1
A folio volume of transcripts of state papers, 314 leaves.
f. 1r
• CmW 13.178: William Camden, Britannia
Extracts.
First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.
Petyt MS 536, Vol. 8
A volume of state papers relating to criminal trials, in three secretary hands, 392 pages.
pp 129-34r
• EsR 303: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution
Copy, headed The manner of the Earle of Essex his death, the whole sume of all words as hee spake to the Guard overnight before hee dyed, and his speeches from his Chamber to the Scaffoulde, and alsoe vpon the Scaffould at the howre of his death. Early-mid 17th century.
Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.
Petyt MS 536, Vol. 10
ff. 245r-8r
• HrE 125.95: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Life and Reign of King Henry VIII
Extracts.
First published in London, 1649. Published in London, 1880 (with Autobiography).
Petyt MS 536, Vol. 11
A folio volume of transcripts of public records, inscribed on a flyleaf ‘De Creatione Nobilium in Parliamento’, 235 leaves.
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• CmW 13.18: William Camden, Britannia
Extracts.
First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.
Petyt MS 537, Vol. 16
A parliamentary journal of the Elizabethan and Jacobean period, in two professional secretary hands, the second (ff. 295r-524r) that of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, 524 folio leaves (plus blanks), in brown leather gilt. c.1620.
ff. 401v-3r
• ElQ 287: Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601
Copy of Version I, in Starkey's hand, introduced ‘...The Queene Answered herselfe’.
First published (Version III), as Her maiesties most princelie answere, deliuered by her selfe at White-hall, on the last day of November 1601 (London, 1601: STC 7578).
Version I. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we have heard your declaration and perceive your care of our estate...’. Hartley, III, 412-14. Hartley, III, 495-6. Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 337-40 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 11, pp. 84-92.
Version II. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we perceive your coming is to present thanks unto me...’. Hartley, III, 294-7 (third version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 340-2 (Version 2).
Version III. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we perceive by you, whom we did constitute the mouth of our Lower House, how with even consent...’. Hartley, III, 292-3 (second version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 342-4 (Version 3). STC 7578.
Version IV. Beginning ‘Mr Speaker, I well understand by that you have delivered, that you with these gentlemen of the Lower House come to give us thankes for benefitts receyved...’. Hartley, III, 289-91 (first version).
ff. 500r-3r
• ElQ 288: Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601
Copy of Version I, in Starkey's hand, introduced ‘...And her Matie begane thus to Answere her selfe (viz)’.
This MS cited in Hartley.
First published (Version III), as Her maiesties most princelie answere, deliuered by her selfe at White-hall, on the last day of November 1601 (London, 1601: STC 7578).
Version I. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we have heard your declaration and perceive your care of our estate...’. Hartley, III, 412-14. Hartley, III, 495-6. Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 337-40 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 11, pp. 84-92.
Version II. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we perceive your coming is to present thanks unto me...’. Hartley, III, 294-7 (third version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 340-2 (Version 2).
Version III. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we perceive by you, whom we did constitute the mouth of our Lower House, how with even consent...’. Hartley, III, 292-3 (second version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 342-4 (Version 3). STC 7578.
Version IV. Beginning ‘Mr Speaker, I well understand by that you have delivered, that you with these gentlemen of the Lower House come to give us thankes for benefitts receyved...’. Hartley, III, 289-91 (first version).
Petyt MS 537, Vol. 21
A folio volume of parliamentary journals, in several hands, one secretary hand predominating, 338 leaves, in leather gilt. c.1620s.
ff. 143v-7r, 154v-6v
• BcF 486: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications
Copy of Bacon's submission, 22 April 1621, and subsequent confession and answers to the articles against him.
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.
Petyt MS 538, Vol. 1
A folio volume of proceedings in Parliament, largely in a single rounded hand, ff. 1r-4r and 19r-41v in a clerk's hand, 246 leaves, in red morocco gilt. Compiled by William Petyt (1640/1-1707), lawyer and political propagandist. Late 17th century-1700s.
ff. 43r-6v
• ElQ 219: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's First Reply to the Parliamentary Petitions Urging the Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, November 12, 1586
Copy of Version II, headed ‘A speech Spoken by Queen Eliz: to her Parliamt Concerning The Treasons of Mary, Queen of Scots’, inscribed in the margin ‘Ex MS penes Meipsum’.
First published in Robert Cecil, The copie of a letter to the right honourable the Earle of Leycester (London, 1586).
Version I. Beginning ‘When I remember the bottomless depth of God's great benefits towards me...’. Hartley, II, 254-8 (Text ii, a summary) and II, 261 (cited only, as Text iv). Collected Works, Speech 17, pp. 186-90 (Version 1).
Version II. Beginning ‘The bottomless graces and immeasurable benefits bestowed upon me by the Almighty...’. Hartley, II, 247-53 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 17, pp. 190-6. Autograph Compositions, pp. 67-72 (Version 2). Selected Works, Speech 8, pp. 61-9.
Version III. Beginning ‘My lords and gentlemen, I cannot but accept with much kindness this your petition, wherein I perceive the great love you bear towards me...’. Hartley, II, 259-60 (Text iii).
ff. 51r-4v
• ElQ 289: Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601
Copy of Version I, entitled ‘The last Speech of Queen Elizabeth to her last Parliament held Anno 43o of her Reigne Annoque Domini 1601’.
First published (Version III), as Her maiesties most princelie answere, deliuered by her selfe at White-hall, on the last day of November 1601 (London, 1601: STC 7578).
Version I. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we have heard your declaration and perceive your care of our estate...’. Hartley, III, 412-14. Hartley, III, 495-6. Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 337-40 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 11, pp. 84-92.
Version II. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we perceive your coming is to present thanks unto me...’. Hartley, III, 294-7 (third version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 340-2 (Version 2).
Version III. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we perceive by you, whom we did constitute the mouth of our Lower House, how with even consent...’. Hartley, III, 292-3 (second version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 342-4 (Version 3). STC 7578.
Version IV. Beginning ‘Mr Speaker, I well understand by that you have delivered, that you with these gentlemen of the Lower House come to give us thankes for benefitts receyved...’. Hartley, III, 289-91 (first version).
Petyt MS 538, Vol. 2
A folio volume of proceedings in Parliament and related papers, 296 leaves, in red morocco gilt. 17th century.
ff. 274r-90
• BcF 626: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
A collection of copies of correspondence of Bacon in 1616.
Petyt MS 538, Vol. 3
A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings, largely in a single rounded hand, 182 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco. Compiled by William Petyt (1640/1-1707), lawyer and political propagandist. Late 17th century-1700s.
ff. 132r, 145v-6v, 159v-62r, 169r-79v
• BcF 487: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications
Copy of Bacon's submissions on 20 March 1620/1 and 22 April 1621 and his subsequent confession and answers to the articles against him.
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.
Petyt MS 538, Vol. 8
A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings, in three secretary hands, 163 leaves, in red morocco gilt. c.1620s-30s.
ff. 67v-85r
• BcF 386: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)
Copy of Bacon's report in the House of Commons on speeches delivered by the Earls of Salisbury and Northampton, 17 June 1607.
Petyt MS 538, Vol. 9
A folio volume of speeches in Parliament 1628-29, in one or more secretary hands, 79 leaves (plus blanks), in morocco gilt. c.1630s.
ff. 19r-20r
• RuB 70: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 28 April 1628
Copy, headed ‘Sr: Beniamin Rudiard: the 28th Aprill: 1628’.
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.
Petyt MS 538, Vol. 10
A folio composite volume of largely state and parliamentary papers, in several professional secretary hands, 202 leaves, in red morocco gilt. Including (f. 3r-v) Elizabethan verses inscribed ‘Thomas Aldwell me possidet’ and (ff. 4r-81r) a formulary of political and legal documents and precedents, in several hands, largely compiled by Francis Alford, MP (c.1530-92).
f. 3r
• ElQ 38: Queen Elizabeth I, Verse Exchange between Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Ralegh, circa 1587 (‘Ah, silly Pug, wert thou so sore afraid?’)
Copy, annotated in the margin ‘per reginam Walter Rawley’, and deleted. c.1600.
Edited from this MS in Collected Works and in The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Michael Rudick (Tempe Arizona, 1999), No. 15B, p. 20.
Collected Works, Poem 12, pp. 307-9. Selected Works, Poem 7, pp. 14-18.
For Ralegh's “Fortune hath taken away my love”, see RaW 133-5.
f. 3v
• DyE 56: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘My mynde to me a kyngdome is’
Copy, headed ‘In praise of a contented minde’. c.1600.
This MS text collated in Sargent. Part I edited from this MS in Steven W. May, ‘The Authorship of “My Mind to me a Kingdom is”’, RES, NS. 26 (1975), 385-94 (pp. 391-3); in May, ‘The Poems of Edward DeVere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford and of Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex’, Studies in Philology, 77, No. 5 (Early Winter 1980), as Poem II possibly by the Earl of Oxford; and in May, Courtier Poets, pp. 283-4 (among ‘Poems possibly by 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.
f. 3v
• ElQ 21: Queen Elizabeth I, ‘The doubt of future foes’
Copy, untitled, inscribed in the margin ‘per Reginam’. c.1600.
This MS cited in Collected Works and in Selected Works.
A version first published in George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie (London, 1589), sig. 2E2v (p. 208). Bradner, p. 4. Collected Works, Poem 5, pp. 133-4. Selected Works, Poem 4, pp. 7-9.
f. 3v
• DyE 89: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘The lowest trees haue topps, the ante her gall’
Copy, untitled. c.1600.
First published in A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). Sargent, No. XII, p. 197. May, Courtier Poets, p. 307. EV 23336.
f. 6r
• ElQ 100: Queen Elizabeth I, On the Sailing of the Cadiz Expedition, May 1596
Copy, written lengthways down the margin, headed ‘A praier made by her Matie vpon the Settinge furth of the Army to Cales: 1596’. c.1600.
This MS cited in Collected Works and in Selected Works.
Beginning ‘Most omnipotent Maker and Guider of all our world's mass, that only searchest and fathomest...’. Collected Works, Prayer 38, pp. 425-6. Selected Works, Prayer 4, pp. 254-6 (as ‘For the success of the expedition against Spain, June 1596’).
ff. 6v-7v
• ElQ 220: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's First Reply to the Parliamentary Petitions Urging the Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, November 12, 1586
Copy of Version II, headed in the margin ‘A speech made By her matie tochinge the Treasons of the Queene of Scottes’. c.1600.
This MS partly collated in Hartley. Cited in Collected Works.
First published in Robert Cecil, The copie of a letter to the right honourable the Earle of Leycester (London, 1586).
Version I. Beginning ‘When I remember the bottomless depth of God's great benefits towards me...’. Hartley, II, 254-8 (Text ii, a summary) and II, 261 (cited only, as Text iv). Collected Works, Speech 17, pp. 186-90 (Version 1).
Version II. Beginning ‘The bottomless graces and immeasurable benefits bestowed upon me by the Almighty...’. Hartley, II, 247-53 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 17, pp. 190-6. Autograph Compositions, pp. 67-72 (Version 2). Selected Works, Speech 8, pp. 61-9.
Version III. Beginning ‘My lords and gentlemen, I cannot but accept with much kindness this your petition, wherein I perceive the great love you bear towards me...’. Hartley, II, 259-60 (Text iii).
ff. 129r-40v
• SoR 308: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, An Humble Supplication to Her Majesty
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, apparently transcribed from the edition of ‘1595’. Early 17th century.
This MS recorded in Bald, pp. 47-8.
First published (by a secret English press) ‘1595’ [for 1600?]. Edited by R .C. Bald (Cambridge, 1953).
Petyt MS 538, Vol. 11
A folio composite volume of speeches in Parliament, in various secretary hands, 346 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.
ff. 252r-3v
• RuB 130: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?15-25 April 1640
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Sir Beniamin Rudyard knt:’. c.1640s.
Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 297.
Speech beginning ‘There is a great dore now opened unto us of doing good...’. Variant version in Manning, pp. 148-51.
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• CmW 13.85: William Camden, Britannia
Extracts.
First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.
Petyt MS 538, Vol. 16
A folio composite volume of proceedings in Parliament and the Exchequer, in several professional largely mixed hands, one predominating, 321 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.
ff. 297r-320v
• CtR 297: Sir Robert Cotton, The Manner and Meanes how the Kings of England have from time to time Supported and Repaired their Estates. Written...1609.
Copy, with a title-page, ‘Extracts out of the Records wherein may be collected by what meanes the kings of England haue, and may raise Moneye Written by Sr Robert Cotton, Knt. & Baronett’.
Tract beginning ‘The Kings of England have supported and repaired their Estates...’. First published, as An Abstract out of the Records of the Tower, touching the Kings Revenue: and how they have supported themselves, London, [1642]. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [161]-‘200’[i.e. 202].
Petyt MS 538, Vol. 17
A folio composite volume of state letters, papers and proceedings in Parliament, in various hands, 570 leaves, in red morocco gilt.
ff. 33r-5r
• ElQ 290: Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601
Copy of Version II, in a professional rounded hand, introduced ‘Her Gratious Matie vsed a most Excellent speech to the effect following’. Mid-late 17th century.
This MS cited in Hartley.
First published (Version III), as Her maiesties most princelie answere, deliuered by her selfe at White-hall, on the last day of November 1601 (London, 1601: STC 7578).
Version I. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we have heard your declaration and perceive your care of our estate...’. Hartley, III, 412-14. Hartley, III, 495-6. Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 337-40 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 11, pp. 84-92.
Version II. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we perceive your coming is to present thanks unto me...’. Hartley, III, 294-7 (third version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 340-2 (Version 2).
Version III. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we perceive by you, whom we did constitute the mouth of our Lower House, how with even consent...’. Hartley, III, 292-3 (second version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 342-4 (Version 3). STC 7578.
Version IV. Beginning ‘Mr Speaker, I well understand by that you have delivered, that you with these gentlemen of the Lower House come to give us thankes for benefitts receyved...’. Hartley, III, 289-91 (first version).
ff. 80r-4v
• FxJ 1.135: John Foxe, Actes and Monuments
Extracts, in a professional mixed hand, untitled, comprising the Bishop of Winchester's letter to the Lord Protector. Early-mid 17th century.
First published (complete) in London, 1563. Edited by Josiah Pratt, 8 vols (London, 1853-70).
f. 90r
• MrT 36.8: Sir Thomas More, The Supplication of Souls
Extracts. Early-mid-17th century.
First published in London, 1529. Yale, Vol. 7, pp. 109-228.
All exempla of the two editions of 1529 bear a MS correction, evidently made in the printer William Rastell's workshop, on sig h2v: see Ralph Keen, A Correction by Hand in More's Supplication, 1529, Moreana, Vol. 20 (February 1983), 100.
ff. 534r-8r
• FxJ 1.14: John Foxe, Actes and Monuments
Extracts, in a mixed hand, with inscriptions in the margin ‘Apud Foxum vol 3 fo 977’ and ‘vol 3 fo 542 Ao 1555’.
First published (complete) in London, 1563. Edited by Josiah Pratt, 8 vols (London, 1853-70).
Petyt MS 538, Vol.18
A folio composite volume of state papers and proceedings in Parliament, in various hands, 448 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.
ff. 26v
• RuB 36: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.22 March 1627/8
Copy, in a cursive predominantly secretary hand, headed ‘Sr Beniamon Ridier’. c.1630.
Speech beginning ‘Of the mischiefs that have lately fallen upon us by the late distractions here is every man sensible...’.
ff. 29r-30v
• CtR 186: Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘By Sr Robte Cotten Knt and Barronet’, imperfect, lacking the ending. 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.
ff. 207r-16v, 233r-4r
• RaW 954: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
Copies of five letters by Ralegh, to Winwood, to Ralegh's wife, to his son, and to James I (2), in a professional secretary hand, on quarto pages. c.1630s.
ff. 217r-20r
• RaW 710.245: Sir Walter Ralegh, Short Apology for his last Actions at Guiana
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Sr walter Rawleighs short Apollege’.
Ralegh's letter of 1618 to his cousin George, Lord Carew of Clopton (beginning ‘Because I know not whether I shall live...’). First published in Judicious and Select Essays (London, 1650). Edwards, II, 375 et seq. Youings, No. 222, pp. 364-8.
f. 220v
• EsR 11: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, ‘Happy were Hee could finish foorth his Fate’
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, subscribed to a copy of a letter by the Earl of Essex to Queen Elizabeth ‘vppon his Comaund to goe for Ireland’ in 1599.
This MS text collated in May, pp. 124-5.
May, Poems, No. 7, p. 47. May, Courtier Poets, p. 254. EV 8176.
ff. 237v-9v
• RaW 728.22: Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)
Copy of Ralegh's arraignment on 28 October 1618, in a professional secretary hand. c.1630s.
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. 240r-4r
• RaW 786: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Sr. Walter Rawleighs confession & gesture at the tyme of his execution’.
Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For a relevant discussion, see Anna Beer, ‘Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh’, MP, 94/1 (August 1996), 19-38.
ff. 383r-4r
• EsR 80: 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 fourteen-stanza version, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Intituled the discontented Courtier’, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1600.
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.
ff. 385r-98v
• EsR 137: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Apology
Copy, in a professional secretary hand. c.1600.
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.
ff. 400r-2v
• CtR 187: Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy
Copy, in a secretary hand, as ‘Sr Robt Cotten his opinion’. 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.
f. 414r
• HlJ 27: Joseph Hall, Episcopal Admonition, Sent in a Letter to the House of Commons, April 28, 1628
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The Bishop of Exeters Speech to the Lower Howse of Parliament’. c.1630.
See HlJ 17-30.
ff. 436r-7r
• RuB 71: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 28 April 1628
Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed ‘Sr Beniamin Rudyards Speech in the house of Commons on the 28th of Aprill. 1628.’ c.1630s.
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.
Petyt MS 538, Vol. 19
A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in several professional hands, 302 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.
ff. 37r-60v
• CvG 33: George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey
Copy of a possibly abridged version, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Notes of the life of Cardinall Wolsey written by George Cavendish his get vsher’. c.1620s.
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).
f. 150bis-179r
• CtR 298: Sir Robert Cotton, The Manner and Meanes how the Kings of England have from time to time Supported and Repaired their Estates. Written...1609.
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, unascribed. c.1620s.
Tract beginning ‘The Kings of England have supported and repaired their Estates...’. First published, as An Abstract out of the Records of the Tower, touching the Kings Revenue: and how they have supported themselves, London, [1642]. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [161]-‘200’[i.e. 202].
Petyt MS 538, Vol. 20
A folio composite volume of parliamentary proceedings, in various hands, 735 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.
ff. 694r-715v
• BcF 488: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications
Copy of an account of ‘The Passages in Parliament Against Frauncis Viscount St: Albanes Lord Chauncellor of England; with his Confession, Submission, And Censure. Anno Dni: 1620:’, incorporating his various submissions, in a professional secretary hand. c.1620s-30s.
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.
Petyt MS 538, Vol. 24
A folio composite volume of antiquarian tracts, largely in two professional secretary hands, 120 leaves, in red morocco gilt.
ff. 21v-4v
• CmW 84: William Camden, Of the Antiquity of Parliaments in England
Copy, headed ‘The antiquitie of Parliaments’, subscribed ‘William Camden’.
A tract beginning ‘That there were such like assemblies as parliaments now are, before the Romans arrival here...’. First published in Sir John Doddridge et al., The Several Opinions of Sundry Learned Antiquaries...touching...the High Court of Parliament in England (London, 1658). Hearne (1771), I, 303-6.
Petyt MS 538, Vol. 27
A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, 273 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.
ff. 1r-36r
• CtR 510: Sir Robert Cotton, Twenty-four Argvments, Whether it be more expedient to suppress Popish Practises against the due Allegeance of His Majesty, by the Strict Execution touching Jesuits and Seminary Preists? Or, to restraine them to Close Prisons, during life, if no Reformation follow?
Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed ‘Considerations for the Repressinge of the increase of Preistes Jesuits and recusants without Drawinge of Blood: Written by Sir Robert Cotton Knight and Barronett’. c.1620s-30s.
Tract beginning ‘I am not ignorant, that this latter age hath brought forth a swarm of busie heads...’, dated 11 August 1613. First published in two editions, as respectively Seriovs Considerations for Repressing of the Increase of Iesvites and A Treatise against Recusants (both London, 1641). Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [109]-159.
ff. 96r-110r
• BcF 387: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)
Copy of a speech by Bacon at the arraignment of Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset, 1616, in a secretary hand. c.1620s.
Petyt MS 538, Vol. 31
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a formal title-page, as ‘Written by Sr Robert Cotton knight and Barronett’, iii + 62 folio leaves, in red morocco gilt. c.1630.
CtR 25: Sir Robert Cotton, An Answer made by Command of Prince Henry, to Certain Propositions of Warre and Peace
A treatise beginning ‘Frames of Policy, as well as works of Nature, are best preserved from the same grounds...’., written in 1609. First published London, 1655. Also published as Warrs with Forregin Princes Dangerous to oyr Common-Wealth: or, reasons for Forreign Wars Answered (London, 1657); as An Answer to such Motives as were offer'd by certain Military-Men to Prince Henry, inciting him to affect Arms more than Peace... (London, 1665); and as A Discourse of Foreign War (London, 1690).
Petyt MS 538, Vol. 36
A folio volume of state papers and tracts, in a professional cursive secretary hand, 346 leaves, in red morocco gilt. c.1620s-30s.
ff. 56r-77v
• SoR 309: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, An Humble Supplication to Her Majesty
Copy, headed ‘The Coppy of an Humble Supplication to Her Matie in answere to the late Proclamation’.
Edited from this MS in Bald. Described in McDonald, p. 16.
First published (by a secret English press) ‘1595’ [for 1600?]. Edited by R .C. Bald (Cambridge, 1953).
f. 78r
• LyJ 34: John Lyly, A petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth
Copy, headed ‘A Peticon made by John Lilly to the Qs. Matie’.
Beginning ‘Most Gratious and dread Soveraigne: I dare not pester yor Highnes wth many wordes...’. Written probably in 1598. Bond, I, 64-5. Feuillerat, pp. 556-7.
f. 78r-v
• LyJ 56: John Lyly, A second petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth
Copy, headed ‘Another of the same mans Peticons’.
Beginning ‘Most gratious and dread Soveraigne: Tyme cannott worke my peticons, nor my peticons the tyme...’. Written probably in 1601. Bond, I, 70-1. Feuillerat, pp. 561-2.
ff. 78v-81r
• RaW 955: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
Copies of five letters by Ralegh, to James I (2), to Ralegh's wife, to Sir Robert Carr, and to Queen Anne.
ff. 82r-3r
• GrF 21: Fulke Greville, Letter to Grevill Varney on his Travels
Copy, headed ‘Sir ffulke Grevill to his Kinsman in ffrance’.
This MS recorded in Farmer, p. 141.
An epistolary essay beginning ‘My good Cousin, according to the request of your letter, dated the 19. of October, at Orleance...’, dated from Hackney, 20 November 1609. First published in Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes (London, 1633). Grosart, IV, 301-6. This essay perhaps originally written by Thomas Bodley and possibly also used by Francis Bacon and/or the Earl of Essex. Also perhaps sent by Greville to John Harris rather than Greville Varney: see Norman K. Farmer, Jr., ‘Fulke Greville's Letter to a Cousin in France and the Problem of Authorship in Cases of Formula Writing’, RQ, 22 (1969), 140-7.
ff. 111r-14r
• BcF 313: Francis Bacon, A Device to Entertain the Queen at Essex House, 17 November 1595
Copy of six speeches by the Squire (2), the Hermit (2), the Soldier, and the Secretary, headed ‘The Earle of Essex his deuice one the Queenes day præsented before he rann at Tilt’.
First published in Letters, Speeches &c. of Francis Bacon, ed. Thomas Birch (London, 1763). Spedding, VIII, 378-86. Probably written partly by the Earl of Essex, partly by his secretariat, including Bacon. See The Poems of Edward De Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, and of Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, ed. Steven W. May, Studies in Philology, 77, No. 5 (Early Winter 1980), pp. 88-90, and Paul E.J. Hammer, ‘Upstaging the Queen: the Earl of Essex, Francis Bacon and the Accession Day celebrations of 1595’, in The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque, ed. David Bevington and Peter Holbrook (New York & Cambridge, 1998), pp. 41-66.
ff. 149r-84v
• CvG 34: George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey
Copy, untitled.
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).
ff. 273r-80r
• RaW 728.225: Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)
Copy of the 1603 arraignment.
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. 283r-313r
• RaW 728.228: Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)
Copy of the 1603 arraignment.
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.
Petyt MS 538, Vol. 37
A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several hands, 216 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.
ff. 1r-16v
• RaW 688: Sir Walter Ralegh, Observations concerning the Royal Navy and Sea-Service
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page, as ‘Excellent obbservations...By Sir Walter Rawleigh Knt’, with (f. 1v) an ‘Index’. c.1620s-30s.
A tract dedicated to Prince Henry and beginning ‘Having formerly, most excellent prince, discoursed of a maritimal voyage, and the passages and incidents therein...’. First published in Judicious and Select Essayes and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 335-50. These notes probably written by Ralegh but usually appended to Sir Arthur Gorges, A larger Relation of the...Iland Voyage, printed in Purchas his Pilgrimes (London, 1625). Glasgow edition, XX (1907), 34-129. See Helen Estabrook Sandison, ‘Manuscripts of the “Islands Voyage” and “Notes on the Royal Navy”’, Essays and Studies in Honor of Carleton Brown (New York, London & Oxford, 1940), 242-52, and Lefranc (1968), pp. 53, 58-9.
ff. 171r-82r
• BcF 542: Francis Bacon, A Letter of Advice to the Queen (1584)
Copy, in a secretary hand. Mid-17th century.
Advice beginning ‘Most Gracious Soveraign and most worthy to be a Soveraign / Care, one of the natural and true-bred children of unfeigned affection...’. First published in The Felicity of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1651), pp. 121-56. Spedding, VIII, 43-56.
Petyt MS 538, Vol. 39
A folio composite volume of state and antiquarian tracts, in various hands, 378 leaves (the first 29 paginated), in red morocco gilt.
pp. 1-57
• BcF 146: Francis Bacon, Certain Observations made upon a Libel published this present year, 1592
Copy, in a professional secretary hand. c.1600.
A tract beginning ‘It were just and honourable for princes being in war together, that howsever they prosecute their quarrels...’. First published in Resuscitatio, ed. W. Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, VIII, 146-208.
A letter to M. Critoy, Secretary of France, c.1589, ‘A Letter on the Queen's religious policies’, was later incorporated in Certain Observations made upon a Libel, and first published in Cabala, sive scrinia sacra (London, 1654), pp. 38-41.
For the Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles (also known as Cecil's Commonwealth), the ‘Libel’ that Bacon answered, see RaW 383.8.
Petyt MS 538, Vol. 43
A folio composite volume of state tracts and miscellaneous papers, in various largely professional hands, 480 leaves, in red morocco gilt.
ff. 60r-81r
• WoH 286: Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with (f. 60r) a later note in the margin ‘See an Answer to this in this Vo: fo: 188. JB / 1721’: i.e. by Joshua Blew, librarian, referring to an ‘Answer’ to Wotton's tract on ff. 188r-208r. c.1630s.
First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).
ff. 84r-103r
• RaW 638: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a Marriage between Prince Henry and a Daughter of Savoy
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with some marginal annotations. c.1620s-30s.
A tract beginning ‘There is nobody that persuades our prince to match with Savoy, for any love to the person of the duke...’. First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses:...2) Touching a Marriage between Prince Henry of England and a Daughter of Savoy (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 237-52. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.
ff. 284r-6r
• SiP 88.5: Sir Philip Sidney, The Psalms of David
Copy of Psalms 51, 104 and 137, in an italic hand, headed ‘Psalmes translated by the Countesse of Pembrooke’, on three folio leaves. Early 17th century.
A copy of verses sent by Sir John Harington to Lucy, Countess of Bedford, on 29 December 1600, his letter (copy on f. 303v) declaring ‘I have sent yow heere the devine, and trulie devine translation of three of Davids psalmes, donne by that Excellent Countesse, and in Poesie the mirroir of our Age’.
This MS discussed in The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke, II, 316. See also SiP 74, SiP 76 and SiP 88.8.
Psalms 1-43 translated by Sidney. Psalms 44-150 translated by his sister, the Countess of Pembroke. First published complete in London, 1823, ed. S.W. Singer. Psalms 1-43, without the Countess of Pembroke's revisions, edited in Ringler, pp. 265-337. Psalms 1-150 in her revised form edited in The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke, ed. J.C.A. Rathmell (New York, 1963). Psalms 44-150 also edited in The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke (1988), Vol. II.
ff. 286r-9r
• PeM 3: Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, The Triumph of Death (‘That gallant Ladie, gloriously bright’)
Copy, in an italic hand, headed ‘The Triumph of death translated out of Italian by the Countesse of Pembrooke’. Early 17th century.
Edited from this MS in Collected Works. Also in The triumph of death, and other unpublished and uncollected poems by Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, 1561-1621, ed. G.F. Waller (Salzburg, 1977), and in ‘The Triumph of Death: A critical edition in modern spelling of The Countess of Pembroke's translation of Petrarch's Trionfo della Morte’, ed. Gavin Alexander, Sidney Journal, 17/1 (Spring 1999), 2-18.
Collected Works, I, 273-82.
ff. 289v-92r
• HrJ 25: Sir John Harington, Epigrams
Copy of ten Epigrams (McClure Nos. 188, 271, 31, 302, 337, 67, 90, 267, 338, and 329), in an italic hand, headed ‘Certaine Epigram's out of a Pamphlet called Misacmos: Merriments, composed by Sir Jhon Harryngton’.
In Harington's letter of 19 December 1600 to Lucy, Countess of Bedford (copy on f. 303v), he presents these epigrams to her. The present MS is probably a copy deriving from the MS he sent to her. Early 17th century.
This MS recorded in McClure, p. 390, and the letter printed p. 87; also discussed in Frances Berkeley Young, ‘The Triumphe of Death translated out of Italian by the Countesse of Pembrooke’, PMLA, 27 (1912), 47-75.
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).
ff. 294r-5r
• BcF 318: Francis Bacon, Gesta Grayorum
Copy of Bacon's possible contribution, the Prince's speech to the Counsellors and the speeches of the first two Counsellors, with what claims to be the speech of the third Counsellor but which is a somewhat mangled version of the speeches of the third and fourth Counsellors.
Performed at Christmas 1594-5. First published in London, 1688. Edited by W.W. Greg, Malone Society (Oxford, 1914), (pp. 32-7). Bacon possibly the author of the Prince's speech to the Counsellors and of the speeches of the six Counsellors: see Spedding, VIII, 325-42.
ff. 295v-8v
• NaT 1: Thomas Nashe, The choise of valentines (‘It was the merie moneth of Februarie’)
Copy, headed ‘The choice of valentines’, with a dedicatory sonnet ‘To the right Honorable the lord S.’, beginning ‘Pardon sweete flower of matchless Poetrie’, subscribed ‘Thomas Nash’. Early 17th century.
Edited from this MS in Grosart (lines 1-17), in Farmer (complete), and in McKerrow (complete).
Lines 1-17 first published in The Complete Works of Thomas Nashe, ed. A.B. Grosart (London, 1883-4), I, lx-lxi. The complete text published in London, 1899, ed. John S. Farmer (privately printed), and in McKerrow, III, 397-416.
f. 303v
• HrJ 363.5: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
Copy of a letter by Harington, to Lucy, Countess of Bedford, enclosing psalms, [19 December 1600]. 1601.
McClure, No. 19, p. 87.
ff. 304r-14r
• BcF 543: Francis Bacon, A Letter of Advice to the Queen (1584)
Copy.
Advice beginning ‘Most Gracious Soveraign and most worthy to be a Soveraign / Care, one of the natural and true-bred children of unfeigned affection...’. First published in The Felicity of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1651), pp. 121-56. Spedding, VIII, 43-56.
Petyt MS 538, Vol. 45
A folio composite volume of tracts and papers, in various hands, 486 leaves, in red morocco gilt.
ff. 132r-50v
• CtR 299: Sir Robert Cotton, The Manner and Meanes how the Kings of England have from time to time Supported and Repaired their Estates. Written...1609.
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Extracts out of the Records wherein...’[&c.], inscribed in the margin ‘Per Cotton milit et Barronett nuper defunct’. c.1620s-30s.
Tract beginning ‘The Kings of England have supported and repaired their Estates...’. First published, as An Abstract out of the Records of the Tower, touching the Kings Revenue: and how they have supported themselves, London, [1642]. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [161]-‘200’[i.e. 202].
ff. 153r-76r
• BcF 741: Francis Bacon, The Office of Compositions for Alienations
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Of the lately erected seruice called the Office of Composicons for Alyenacons. Written by the Right hoble ffrancis Lord Verulam late Chancellor of England’. c.1620s-30s.
A tract, beginning ‘All the finances of revenues of the imperial crown of this realm of England...’. Discussed in Spedding, IX, 120-1. By William Lambarde (1536-1601), whose partly autograph MS (1590) is in the Folger (MS V.a.208), but the work is frequently ascribed to Bacon, who may have used and adapted it at the time of the debate on alienations in October 1601.
ff. 177r-263v
• MrT 66: Sir Thomas More, Cresacre More's Life of Sir Thomas More
Copy, in a secretary hand, unascribed.
First published c.1626.
ff. 278r-333v
• LeC 63: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth
Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, with a supplied title (f. 275r) ‘The History of ye Earle of Leicester’ and incorporating further notes at the end, including ‘An Additon agreable to ye history Writtne in uerse’.
This MS recorded in Peck, p. 826.
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.
Petyt MS 538, Vol. 46
A folio composite volume of state letters and tracts, in various hands, 488 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.
passim
• FxJ 25: John Foxe, Miscellaneous Papers
Five items apparently owned and used by Foxe; corresponding to Nos 3, 4, 5, 17 (part), and 18 in a list of 23 ‘Manuscripts out of John Fox his study’ (f. 29r): namely, the historical documents on ff. 389r-90r, 481r-8r, 391r-426r, 4r-13x, and 431r-70v respectively. Mid-late 16th century.
The list of Foxe's MSS is printed in J. Conway Davies, Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple (London, 1972), I, 43-4. The contents of the volume are analysed in this catalogue, Vol. II, 847-57.
ff. 108r-29r
• EsR 138: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Apology
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on 22 quarto leaves. c.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.
Petyt MS 538, Vol. 47
A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 592 leaves, in red morocco gilt.
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• FxJ 26: John Foxe, Miscellaneous Papers
Fourteen items owned and used by Foxe; corresponding to Nos 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17 (part), 19 (possibly), and 22 in a list of 23 ‘Manuscripts out of John Fox his study’ (Petyt MS 538, Volume 46, f. 29r): namely, the historical documents on ff. 303-14r, 364x-72v, 392r-3v, 1r-11v, 353r-63r, 394r-5r, 390r, 389r, 415r-16r, 398r-406r, 66r-8r, 410r-14r, 397r (possibly), and 410r respectively.
The list of Foxe's MSS is printed in J. Conway Davies, Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple (London, 1972), I, 43-4. The contents of the volume are analysed in this catalogue, Vol. II, 857-83.
Petyt MS 538, Vol. 49
A folio volume of state tracts and papers, in a single professional secretary hand, 96 leaves, in red morocco gilt. c.1630s.
ff. 80r-2r
• HoH 14: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, Abatements nowe in beinge: or to be verie shortlie vppon the Marryage of the Lady Elizabeth to the Counte Pallatyne of the Rhine, Anno 1613: and otherwise ffor the kings Bennifitt
Copy.
A tract beginning ‘By the bestowing of my La Eliz. grace and after hir grace shall be settled...’. Unpublished?
Petyt MS 538, Vol. 50
A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional secretary hands, 171 leaves, in red morocco gilt.
ff. 125r-71v
• NaR 27: Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page. c.1630s.
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).
Petyt MS 538, Vol. 51
A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, with (ff. 1r-2v) a table of contents, ii + 266 leaves, in red morocco gilt.
ff. 1r-17r
• EsR 241: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1
Copy, in a professional secretary hand. c.1630s.
ff. 44r-8r
• RaW 956: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
Copy of two letters by Ralegh, to the Earl of Southampton, 14 August 1603, and to James I, 1 August 1603, in a secretary hand. c.1630.
ff. 110r-18v
• SiP 204: Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur
Copy in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘A Coppie of A Letter written by Sr Phillipp Sydney vnto Queene Eliz: toucheing hir Marriage with Monsier’ and with an extended valediction subscribed ‘Phillipp Sydney’, on eighteen pages. c.1630.
This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 326 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 25.
First published in Scrinia Caeciliana: Mysteries of State & Government (London, 1663) and in Cabala: sive Scrinia Sacra (London, 1663). Feuillerat, III, 51-60. Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 46-57.
This work and its textual transmission discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), Chapter 4, pp. 109-46 (with most MSS catalogued as Nos 1-37, with comments on their textual tradition, in Appendix IV, pp. 274-80).
f. 162r-v
• EsR 304: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution
Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed ‘The speech and Execution of the Earle of Essex’, on both sides of a single folio leaf. c.1601.
Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.
ff. 188r-93v
• BcF 627: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
Copy of a letter beginning ‘Sir at our last conference I remembered unto you...’, in a professional secretary hand, subscribed ‘Frances Bacon’.
Petyt MS 538, Vol. 55
A folio composite volume of seventeen legal tracts and papers, 240 leaves.
ff. 228r-34v
• BcF 742: Francis Bacon, The Office of Compositions for Alienations
Copy. Early 17th century.
A tract, beginning ‘All the finances of revenues of the imperial crown of this realm of England...’. Discussed in Spedding, IX, 120-1. By William Lambarde (1536-1601), whose partly autograph MS (1590) is in the Folger (MS V.a.208), but the work is frequently ascribed to Bacon, who may have used and adapted it at the time of the debate on alienations in October 1601.
[no shelfmark]
Autograph inscription, presenting the volume to Ralph Sadler.
*ChG 21: George Chapman, Chapman, George. The Crowne of all Homer's Worckes Batrachomyomachia (London, [1624?])
The inscription is printed in G. T[horn].-D[rury], ‘George Chapman’, RES, 1 (1925), 350; in Tannenbaum, p. 148, with a facsimile, plate XIV; in Jean Robertson, ‘The Early Life of George Chapman’, MLR 40 (1945), 157-65 (p. 157); in Eccles, p. 177. Facsimile in Index, I.i (1980), Facsimile VIII (p. 193).