MS 256
A folio volume of proceedings in Parliament, 406 pages. c.1625-30s.
Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.
Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, p. 361.
pp. 91-9, 122-38
• BcF 490: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications
Copy of two submissions by Bacon, here dated 24 and 26 April 1621.
The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning ‘I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...’); 22 April 1621 (beginning ‘It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...’); and 30 April 1621 (beginning ‘Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...’), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.
MS 677
A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, over 500 leaves.
Formerly belonging to Sir Andrew Fountaine of Narford. Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.
Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, pp. 364-7.
item 50
• CtR 338: Sir Robert Cotton, Reasons to maintain the navigation of the English merchants with the East and West Indies
Copy, as ‘by R. Cotton’, on nine pages. Early 17th century.
Unpublished tract beginning ‘I doubt not my honourable lord...’. Ascribed to Cotton in MS.
ff. 496r-8r
• FxJ 1.145: John Foxe, Actes and Monuments
Extracts.
First published (complete) in London, 1563. Edited by Josiah Pratt, 8 vols (London, 1853-70).
MS 684
A folio volume of state papers. Owned in 1633-5, and partly compiled, by William Heveningham, of Heveningham Hall, Suffolk. c.1633-49.
Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.
Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, pp. 369-70.
item 1
• ElQ 291: Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601
Copy of a version.
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).
[unnumbered pages]
• StW 1284.8: William Strode, Jack on both Sides (‘I holde as fayth What Englandes Church Allowes’)
Copy, headed ‘Verses to be reade two wayes’.
First published, as ‘The Church Papist’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Reprinted as ‘The Jesuit's Double-faced Creed’ by Henry Care in The Popish Courant (16 May 1679): see August A. Imholtz, Jr, ‘The Jesuits' Double-Faced Creed: A Seventeenth-Century Cross-Reading’, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 553-4. Dobell, p. 111. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
MS 686
A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled ‘A Collection Of the choicest Poems, Satyrs, and Lampoons from the beginning of the late Revolution in 1688 to 1698’, x + 336 pages plus index. c.1700.
Probably once owned by the Heveningham family. Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.
Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix.
p. 22
• DrJ 232: John Dryden, Upon the Death of the Viscount Dundee (‘O Last and best of Scots! who didst maintain’)
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on Dundee 1689’.
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.
pp. 51-3
• DoC 295: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A True Account of the Birth and Conception of a Late Famous Poem call'd ‘The Female Nine’ (‘When Monmouth the chaste read those impudent lines’)
Copy, headed ‘An Excellent New Ballad Giving...’.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
First published in POAS, V (1971), 211-13. Harris, pp. 25-7.
pp. 144-9
• HaG 35: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Maxims of the Great Almansor
Copy of 33 maxims, headed ‘The following Maxims were found by a Jew amongst the Papers of the Great Amanzor, and tho' they must loose a good deal of their Originall Spirit by the Translation, yet they seem to be so applicable to all tymes, that it is thought no disservice to make them publick’, followed (pp. 149-50) by fourteen supplementary maxims by Charles Montagu.
This MS collated in Brown, I, 398-401.
First published, anonymously, under the heading The following Maxims were found amongst the Papers of the Great Almanzor…[&c] (London, 1693). Foxcroft, II, 447-53. Brown, I, 292-5.
pp. 161-2
• DoC 179: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (II) (‘Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes’)
Copy, headed ‘On the Countesse of Dorchester. 1694’.
Edited from this MS in POAS. Collated in Harris.
First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384. Harris, pp. 43-4.
p. 162
• DoC 193: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (III) (‘Proud with the spoils of royal cully’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384-5. Harris, pp. 43-4. In most texts the poem runs directly on from the previous poem on the Countess of Dorchester (DoC 173-85).
p. 177
• DoC 205: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (IV) (‘Tell me, Dorinda, why so gay’)
Copy, headed ‘On the Lady Dorchester. 1696’.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 385. Harris, pp. 45-6.
pp. 183-4
• CgW 16: William Congreve, A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret (‘Fair Amoret is gone astray’)
Copy, the poem here dated 1697, with a note ‘Lady Fitzhardys Daughter’.
This MS recorded in Harris.
First published, in a musical setting by John Eccles and attributed to Congreve, in a broadsheet (1698). Works (London, 1710). Summers, IV, 74. Dobrée, p. 284 (as ‘Amoret’). McKenzie, II, 369.
Also attributed to Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset: see The Poems of Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, ed. Brice Harris (New York and London, 1979), pp. 182-3.
p. 262
• DoC 167: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess Dowager of Manchester (‘Courage, dear Moll, and drive away despair’)
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Courage dear Dol, and drive away despair’.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
First published (among poems of Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax) in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). POAS, V (1971), 378-81. Harris, pp. 37-40.
MS 687
A folio miscellany, compiled by one John Cooper, ‘a prisoner on board HM Fleet’ in 1678-9, 530 pages. c.1678-9.
Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.
Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, pp. 370-1.
pp. 9-12
• MaA 457: Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by (‘Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe’)
Copy, headed ‘Advice to A Painter, &c’, subscribed ‘Finis sinestea’.
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.
MS 688
Copy, 30 leaves. Copy, on 30 quarto leaves. Mid-17th century.
BrT 60: Sir Thomas Browne, Sir Kenelm Digby's Observations on Religio Medici
Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester.
Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, p. 371.
Written as a letter to the Earl of Dorset, 23 December 1642. First published in London, 1643. Edited in Wilkin, II, 118-52.
MS 691
A quarto volume of poems almost entirely by Anne Wharton (1659-85), 21 quarto leaves. Late 17th century.
Probably once owned by Lady Ann Coke. Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.
Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, p. 371.
f. [1r]
• WhA 26: Anne Wharton, A Paraphrase on the 53 of Isaiah (‘Who hath beleived on Earth what we report’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.
First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 14, pp. 169-71.
f. [2r]
• WhA 45: Anne Wharton, Thoughts occasion'd by her retirement into the Countrey (‘All fly the vnhappy & all would fly’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.
First published in A New Miscellany of Original Poems (London, 1701). Greer & Hastings, No. 13, pp. 166-8.
f. [4r]
• WhA 65: Anne Wharton, To the Lady Ann Cooke (‘Nine times the Spring return'd & with it brought’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.
First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 12, p. 165.
f. [5r]
• WhA 3: Anne Wharton, The Despair. To D. Burnet by Mrs Wharton (‘The use of Knowledge is to find it poor’)
Copy of lines 1-33, headed ‘On Knowledge’.
This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.
First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 18, pp. 180-1.
f. [6r]
• WhA 11: Anne Wharton, Elegie on John Earle of Rochester (‘Deep Waters silent roul, so greifs like mine’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.
First published in Poems by Several Hands (London, 1685). Greer & Hastings, No. 7, pp. 140-2.
ff. [8r-9v]
• WhA 8: Anne Wharton, Elegie on Charles Earle of Rochester (‘Insatiate graue yeild back thy mighty Treasure’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.
First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 11, pp. 163-4.
f. [11r]
• WhA 21: Anne Wharton, On the Storm between Gravesend and Dieppe; Made at that Time (‘When the Tempestuous Sea did foam and roar’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.
First published in A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (London, 1693), pp. 240-1. Greer & Hastings, No. 9, p. 144.
f. [12v]
• WhA 28: Anne Wharton, A Paraphrase on the last speech of Dido in Virgil's Æneas (‘Now Dido trembles with amaze and rage’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.
First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 6, pp. 138-9.
f. [14r]
• WhA 36: Anne Wharton, Mrs. Wharton's Paraphrase Upon the 103d Psalm (‘Advance my Soul, and all thy Pow'rs incline’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.
First published in The Idea of Christian Love (London, 1688), pp. xix-xxiii. Greer & Hastings, No. 15, pp. 172-4.
f. [15r]
• WhA 38: Anne Wharton, A Paraphrase on the 145 Psalme (‘Thy Glory Lord I would for ever raise’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.
First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 16, pp. 175-6.
f. [16r]
• WhA 4: Anne Wharton, The Despair. To D. Burnet by Mrs Wharton (‘The use of Knowledge is to find it poor’)
Copy of all 55 lines, headed ‘The Despare’.
This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.
First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 18, pp. 180-1.
ff. [19r-21r]
• WaE 171: Edmund Waller, Of Divine Poesy. Two Cantos (‘Poets we prize, when in their verse we find’)
Copy, headed ‘A Divine Poesy. Two Cantons occationed on ye sight of the :53: chapter of Isaiah Turn'd into Verse by Mrs: Whard.’
First published in Divine Poems (London, 1685). Thorn-Drury, II, 131-5.
[unspecified page numbers]
• WhA 55: Anne Wharton, To Mr. Waller (‘Now I shall live indeed, not by my skill’)
Copy of a 58-line version.
This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.
First published, in a 52-line version, in Poems by Several Hands (London, 1685), pp. 222-5. A 62-line version in The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 85, pt. i (June 1815), p. 493, and in Greer & Hastings, No. 19, pp. 182-3.
MS 745
MS.
passim
• CmW 190: William Camden, Document(s)
Grant(s) of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms.
MS 758
Copy, with the dedication to Queen Elizabeth, in the hand of an amanuensis, the formal MS presented to Edward Coke, Attorney-General, with Davies's autograph dedication to him (beginning ‘Great Procurator of your Princes state’). [1598-9].
*DaJ 71: Sir John Davies, Nosce Teipsum (‘Why did my parents send me to the schooles’)
Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.
This MS recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, p. 375. Collated and the dedication to Coke edited in Krueger and described, p. 440. Microfilms are in the Bodleian and at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 479).
A philosophical poem, with dedication to Queen Elizabeth beginning ‘To that clear Majesty, which in the North’. First published in London, 1599. Krueger, pp. 1-67.
[no shelfmark]
An exemplum of the first edition (1620), a folio bearing Bacon's boar crest in gilt. Presented to Bacon's great rival, Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), and bearing Coke's caustic remark inscribed on the title page, ‘It deserveth not to be read in schooles | but to be fraughted in the ship of fooles’). 1620.
BcF 659: Francis Bacon, Bacon, Francis. Instauratio magna (London, 1620)
[no shelfmark]
Autograph annotations and marginalia.
*HvG 34: Gabriel Harvey, Aristotle. Aristotelis de Arte Dicendi Libri Tres...a Petro Victorio correcti & emendati. Ildem Latinate donati per Hermolaum Barbarum (Paris, 1549)
In the library of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.
Stern, p. 200.