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DG. 7/Lit. 1

A volume of state letters and tracts. 1st half 17th century.

Among the papers of the Finch family, of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland.

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• BcF 277: Francis Bacon, Short Notes for Civil Conversation

Copy.

First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, VII, 105-10. Spedding notes (VII, 107) Basil Montagu's reference to an unspecified MS in the British Museum, but he could not find it.

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• BcF 714: Francis Bacon, An Essay of a King

(Finch Papers) Spedding, VI, 595-7; discussed 592-4.

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

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• BcF 722: Francis Bacon, An Essay on Death

Copy.

Spedding, VI, 600-4 (discussed p. 594).

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• BcF 727: Francis Bacon, An explanation what manner of persons those should be, that are to execute the power or Ordinance of the King's Prerogative

Copy.

Spedding, VI, 597-600. Discussed pp. 592-4. (Finch Papers).

An essay beginning ‘That absolute prerogative according to the king's pleasure revealed by his laws...’. Spedding, VI, 597-600 (discussed pp. 592-4). Probably by Thomas Egerton, Lord Ellesmere.

DG. 7/Lit. 2

A folio composite volume of state letters, tracts, and verse, collected by, and mostly in the hand of, William Parkhurst (fl.1604-67), Sir Henry Wotton's secretary in Venice and later Master of the Mint, including various works in verse and prose attributed to Donne, chiefly in a scribal hand, partly in Parkhurst's hand, 373 leaves (including blanks), in old calf.

Among the papers of the Finch family of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland. Mistakenly reported by Grierson and Logan Pearsall Smith to have been destroyed in a fire at Burley c.1908.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Burley MS’: DnJ Δ 53. Recorded in HMC, 7th Report (1879), Appendix, p. 516. A complete microfilm of the MS is at the University of Sheffield, Microfilm 737.

A neat transcript of parts of the Burley MS (including principally poems on ff. 255r-v, 278v, [279r]-288v, 342v-3r, 294r-300r, 301r-8v), made before 1908, on 35 leaves, is in the Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. c. 80.

ff. 1r-2v

• ToC 2: Cyril Tourneur, The Character of Robert Earl of Salisbury

Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, unascribed.

This MS recorded in Nicoll, pp. 330-6 (but not seen by him).

A character, beginning ‘He came of a parent, that counselled the state into piety, honour and power...’, and dedicated to Lady Theodosia Cecil. First published in Logan Pearsall Smith, The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton (Oxford, 1907), II, 487-9. Nicoll, pp. 259-63.

ff. 82r-6r

• WoH 303: Sir Henry Wotton, Table Talk

Copy of a series of anecdotes and sayings, evidently by Wotton, in the hand of William Parkhurst, with pencil markings in the margin, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Pearsall Smith. His Nos. 1-34, on ff. 255v-6r, are not by Wotton.

First published in Pearsall Smith (1907), II, 489-500 (his Nos. 35-145).

ff. 90r-1v

• BcF 491: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621, in William Parkhurst's hand.

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. 92r-3v

• RaW 710.25: Sir Walter Ralegh, Short Apology for his last Actions at Guiana

Copy, in William Parkhurst's hand, headed ‘S^r Walter Raleghs Apologie for his last Actions att Guiana’.

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.

ff. 237r-41r

• SiP 208: Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur

Copy, in a single mixed hand, the order of some passages rearranged and the text occasionally abridged or slightly paraphrased, headed ‘S^r Phillip Sydney to her Ma^tie Concerning Mounseur:’.

This MS recorded (but not seen) in Feuillerat, III, 326. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 29.

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. 250r-1v

• RaW 957: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to Sir Robert Carr, in William Parkhurst's hand.

ff. 255v-6r

• OvT 27: Sir Thomas Overbury, Characters

Extracts, in Parkhurst's hand.

First published in A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury (London, 1614). Rimbaud, pp. 47-169.

ff. 257r-8r

• HoJ 78: John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart (‘Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke’)

Copy, in William Pathurst's hand, headed ‘The Parliament Fart’.

Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of ‘Doubtful Verses’ in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.

ff. 258v-60r

• HoJ 266: John Hoskyns, Convivium philosophicum (‘Quilibet si sit contentus’)

Copy, in William Parkhurst's hand.

Osborn, No. XXVIII (pp. 196-9), with an English version (beginning ‘Whosoever is contented’), on pp. 288-91.

f. 260v

• JnB 54: Ben Jonson, The Dreame (‘Or Scorne, or pittie on me take’)

Copy, in the hand of Wiliam Parkhurst.

First published in The Vnder-wood (xi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 150-1.

f. 270r

• DrW 177.97: William Drummond of Hawthornden, On a noble man who died at a counsel table (‘Vntymlie Death that neither wouldst conferre’)

Copy of a version headed ‘Epitaphe’ and here beginning ‘Vnciuill death w^ch wouldst not once confer’, in William Parkhurst's hand.

First published in Kastner (1931), II, 285. Often found in a version beginning ‘Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre’. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.

f. 278r

• WoH 1: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)

Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, untitled.

This MS recorded in Pearsall Smith, II, 490.

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. 279r

• DnJ 1472: John Donne, The good-morrow (‘I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Grierson.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.

f. 279v

• DnJ 1483: John Donne, Hero and Leander (‘Both rob'd of aire, we both lye in one ground’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 83. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.

f. 279v

• DnJ 2658: John Donne, Pyramus and Thisbe (‘Two, by themselves, each other, love and feare’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 84. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.

f. 279v

• DnJ 2380: John Donne, Niobe (‘By childrens births, and death, I am become’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 85. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.

f. 279v

• DnJ 529: John Donne, A burnt ship (‘Out of a fired ship, which, by no way’)

Copy, headed ‘Nave arsa’.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 86. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as ‘Nave arsa’) and 10.

f. 279v

• DnJ 1280: John Donne, Fall of a wall (‘Vnder an undermin'd, and shot-bruis'd wall’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 87. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6 (untitled), 7 (as ‘Caso d'vn muro’), and 10 (as ‘Fall of a Wall’).

f. 279v

• DnJ 1745: John Donne, A lame begger (‘I am unable, yonder begger cries’)

Copy, headed ‘Zoppo’.

First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as ‘Zoppo’) and 10.

f. 279v

• DnJ 1891: John Donne, A licentious person (‘Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Henry Fitzgeffrey, Satyres and Satyricall Epigram's (London, 1617). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 90. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 11.

f. 279v

• DnJ 2883: John Donne, A selfe accuser (‘Your mistris, that you follow whores, still taxeth you’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 89. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 10.

f. 279v

• DnJ 2256: John Donne, Manliness (‘Thou call'st me effeminat, for I love womens joyes’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in The Complete Poems of John Donne, ed. Roger Bennet (Chicago, 1942). Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 101. Variorum, 8 (1995), p. 8 (as ‘The Iughler’).

f. 279v

• DnJ 162: John Donne, Antiquary (‘If in his Studie he hath so much care’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson.

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.

f. 279v

• DnJ 899: John Donne, Disinherited (‘Thy father all from thee, by his last Will’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 94. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled), 8 and 11.

f. 279v

• DnJ 1917: John Donne, The Lier (‘Thou in the fields walkst out thy supping howers’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson.

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.

f. 280r

• DnJ 2595: John Donne, Phryne (‘Thy flattering picture, Phryne, is like thee’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 97. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5, 8 and 11.

f. 280r

• DnJ 2405: John Donne, An obscure writer (‘Philo, with twelve yeares study, hath beene griev'd’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 98. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6 (untitled), 9 and 11.

f. 280r

• DnJ 1724: John Donne, Klockius (‘Klockius so deeply hath sworne, ne'r more to come’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Rawlings so deeply hath vowed nere more to come’.

This MS collated in Grierson.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 54. Shawcross, No. 99. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6, 9 and 11.

f. 280r

• DnJ 2272: John Donne, Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus (‘Like Esops fellow-slaves, O Mercury’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 96. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5, 8 and 11.

f. 280v

• DaJ 160: Sir John Davies, On his Love (‘My Love doth flye with winges of feare’)

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Grierson. Collated (from Grierson's edition) in Krueger.

First published in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson (Oxford, 1912), I, 437-8. Krueger, pp. 306-7.

f. 281r

• DnJ 3188: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)

Copy, untitled.

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. 283r-5v

• DnJ 2844: John Donne, Satyre IV (‘Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne’)

Copy.

This MS recorded (but not seen) in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.

ff. 285v-6r

• DnJ 3421: John Donne, To Sir H.W. at his going Ambassador to Venice (‘After those reverend papers, whose soule is’)

Copy, with a prose postscript.

This MS collated in Grierson.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 214-16. Milgate, Satires, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 129.

f. 286r

• CoH 108: Henry Constable, To our blessed Lady (‘In that (O Queene of queenes) thy byrth was free’)

Copy, in William Parkhurst's hand.

First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 5. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J. C. Grierson (2 vols, Oxford, 1912), I, 427. Grundy, p. 185.

f. 288A^r

• JnB 597: Ben Jonson, Epicoene I, i, 92-102. Song (‘Still to be neat, still to be drest’)

Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst.

First published in London, 1616. Herford & Simpson, V, 139-272.

f. 288A^r

• JnB 419: Ben Jonson, On the Vnion (‘When was there contract better driuen by Fate?’)

Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, here beginning ‘Was ever contract better driven by fate’.

First published in Epigrammes (v) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 28.

ff. 309r-15r

• DnJ 4081: John Donne, Paradoxes and Problems

Copy of ten Paradoxes, with (ff. 308v-9) a copy of a letter by Donne sending the Paradoxes to an unidentified person.

This MS recorded (but not seen) by Evelyn Simpson in RES, 10 (1934), 297-8.

Eleven Paradoxes and ten Problems first published in Juvenilia: or Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes (London, 1633). Twelve Paradoxes and seventeen Problems published in Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Two more Problems published in 1899 and 1927 (see DnJ 4073, DnJ 4089). Twelve Paradoxes and eighteen Problems reprinted in Paradoxes and Problemes by John Donne (London, 1923). Twelve Paradoxes (Nos XI and XII relegated to ‘Dubia’) and nineteen Problems (No. XI by Edward Herbert) edited in Peters.

ff. 317r-v, 319r-v

• SpE 26: Edmund Spenser, The Ruines of Time (‘It chaunced me on day beside the shore’)

Extracts, in a secretary hand, beginning at line 43.

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

ff. 318r-v, 320v

• SpE 19: Edmund Spenser, Prosopopoia: or Mother Hubberds Tale (‘It was the month, in which the righteous Maide’)

Extracts, beginning at line 713, in a secretary hand.

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

f. 320r

• SpE 30.5: Edmund Spenser, The Teares of the Muses (‘Rehearse to me ye sacred Sisters nine’)

Extracts, in a secretary hand, beginning at line 517.

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

f. 320r

• PlG 9: George Peele, Polyhymnia (‘Therefore, when thirtie two were come and gone’)

Extract, in a secretary hand.

First published in London, 1590. Edited by D.H. Horne in Prouty, I, 231-43.

f. 322r

• HrJ 179: Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Tayler (‘A Taylor, thought a man of vpright dealling’)

Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, untitled.

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 20. McClure No. 21, pp. 156-7. Kilroy, Book I, No. 40, pp. 107-8.

ff. 325v-6r

• JnB 643: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘Cock-Lorell would needes haue the Diuell his guest’)

Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst.

Herford & Simpson, lines 1061-1125. Greg, Burley version, lines 821-84. Windsor version, lines 876-939.

ff. 332r-3r

• BmF 94: Francis Beaumont, A Funeral Elegy on the Death of the Lady Penelope Clifton (‘Since thou art dead, Clifton, the world may see’)

Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, headed ‘Uppon the death of the Lady Penelope Clifton’.

First published in Poems (London, 1653). Dyce, XI, 511-13.

ff. 333v-4v

• DrW 117.4: William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge (‘From such a face quois excellence’)

Copy, in William Parkhust's hand, untitled.

Often headed in MSS ‘The [Five] Senses’, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (JnB 654-70). A MS copy owned by Drummond: see The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden, ed. Robert H. Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1357. Kastner printed the poem among his ‘Poems of Doubtful Authenticity’ (II, 296-9), but its sentiments are alien to those of Drummond: see C.F. Main, ‘Ben Jonson and an Unknown Poet on the King's Senses’, MLN, 74 (1959), 389-93, and MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 118. Discussed also in Allan H. Gilbert, ‘Jonson and Drummond or Gil on the King's Senses’, MLN, 62 (January 1947), 35-7. Sometimes also ascribed to James Johnson.

f. 336v

• WoH 62: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy of a four-stanza version, in the hand of William Parkhurst, headed ‘The Lady Eliza: Queene of Bohemia’.

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. 341r-v

• DnJ 1593: John Donne, An hymne to the Saints, and to Marquesse Hamylton (‘Whether that soule which now comes up to you’)

Copy, including Donne's prefatory epistle, in the hand of William Parkhurst.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 288-90. Shawcross, No. 154. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 74-5. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 220-1.

f. 342v

• RaW 274: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy, in the hand of William Pankhurst, untitled.

Edited from this MS in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson (Oxford, 1912), I, 441. Recorded in Latham, p. 144.

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. 344v

• RnT 393: Thomas Randolph, Upon the losse of his little finger (‘Arithmetique nine digits, and no more’)

Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, headed ‘A lost finger’.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 56-7.

f. 345v

• BrW 217: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)

Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, the second stanza apparently added by him at a different time.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, ‘Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha’, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.

f. 346r

• StW 1128: William Strode, To a Valentine (‘Fayre Valentine, since once your welcome hand’)

Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, headed ‘On a knife to a Valentine’.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 42. Forey, p. 193.

f. 346v

• StW 622: William Strode, On three Dolphins sewing down Water into a white Marble Bason (‘These Dolphins, twisting each on others side’)

Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, headed ‘On a fountayne’ and here beginning ‘The Dolphins…’.

First published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] S^r Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660). Dobell, p. 46. Forey, p. 185.

f. 347r-v

• StW 548: William Strode, On the Bible (‘Behold this little Volume here inrold’)

Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 51-2. Forey, pp. 46-7.

f. 348r

• HeR 19: Robert Herrick, The admonition (‘Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares’)

Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, here beginning ‘Seest thou those iewells w^ch she weares’.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 130-1. Patrick, p. 177.

f. 350r

• StW 819: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, headed ‘Vppon a Gentlewoman walking where it snowed’.

First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).

f. 350r

• StW 1331: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress (‘Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde’)

Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, untitled.

First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

f. 351r

• RaW 529: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart’

Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), printed twice, the first version prefixed by ‘Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames’ (see RaW 320-38) and headed ‘To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh’. Edited with the prefixed stanza in Latham, pp. 18-19. Edited in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Charles B. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 197-8. Rudick, Nos 39A and 39B (two versions, pp. 106-9).

This poem was probably written by Sir Robert Ayton. For a discussion of the authorship and the different texts see Gullans, pp. 318-26 (also printed in SB, 13 (1960), 191-8).

f. 351v

• HrJ 152: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett (‘A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse’)

Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, 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. 357v

• RnT 563: Thomas Randolph, Upon the Burning of a School (‘What heat of learning kindled your desire’)

Copy, headed ‘A lamentation for the burning of a petty school’.

Published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661), ascribed to ‘T. R.’. Usually anonymous in MS copies and the school variously identified as being in Castlethorpe or in Batley, Yorkshire, or in Lewes, Sussex, or elsewhere.

f. 358r-v

• RnT 231: Thomas Randolph, On the Fall of the Mitre Tavern in Cambridge (‘Lament, lament, ye Scholars all’)

Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, headed ‘Hospitiu Mytræ cadul Cantab’.

First published in Wit & Drollery (London, 1656), p. 68. Thorn-Drury, pp. 160-2.

DG. 7/Lit. 3 (Box 4974)

A collection of unbound papers of the Finch family of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland.

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• *HaG 45: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, A Rough Draught of a New Model at Sea

Autograph draft, on seven pages of two pairs of large conjugate folio leaves. c.1693.

Edited from this MS in Brown, with a facsimile of the first page facing p. 296. Recorded in Brown, HLQ (1972), p. 151.

First published, anonymously, in London, 1694. Foxcroft, II, 454-65. Brown, I, 296-308.

[unnumbered item]

• HaG 53: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, A Rough Draught of a New Model at Sea

Copy, in a professional hand, on twelve folio pages.

This MS collated in Brown, I, 309-14.

First published, anonymously, in London, 1694. Foxcroft, II, 454-65. Brown, I, 296-308.

DG. 7/Lit. 4 (Box 4974)

Two autograph rough drafts of a character of Halifax's maternal aunt, Lady Dorothy Pakington, partly in pencil, untitled, on fifteen leaves of different sizes (plus blanks), the first draft on thirteen leaves, the second an incomplete draft on two leaves, also including two inserted pages of ‘Misc[ellanies]’. c.1680-95.

*HaG 60: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, A Character of Lady Pakington

Edited from this MS in Brown, with a facsimile of the first page facing II, 454.

First published in Brown (1989), II, 453-79.

DG. 7/5/14

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to his mother, Mrs Vanbrugh, from Vincennes, [30 October]-9 November 1691. 1691.

VaJ 20: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Edited in HMC, 71 Finch III (1957), 293-4, and in Downes (1977), p. 249 (Appendix B, No. 1).

DG. 7/Lit. 5 (Box 4975)

An autograph commonplace book, containing observations on political, historical, legal, philosophical and miscellaneous subjects, the entries alphabetically arranged, written chiefly in columns on 37 folio pages (out of a total of 178 pages in the volume, all alphabetically lettered), together with a few loosely inserted leaves of ‘Misc[ellanies]’, the vellum cover later inscribed (inaccurately) ‘7. Common Place Book of Daniel. 2^nd Lord Nottingham’. Late 17th century.

*HaG 69: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Miscellanies

Among papers of the Finch family of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland.

Selections from this MS in Brown, III, 310-14.

DG. 7/Lit. 6 (Box 4975)

A commonplace book, containing observations by Halifax on political, historical, legal, philosophical and miscellaneous subjects, the entries alphabetically arranged, written chiefly in the hand of Halifax's chaplain and amanuensis Alexander Sion (1654-1730), with some entries in Halifax's own hand, entered in double columns on 220 folio pages (out of 290 pages in the volume), the vellum cover later inscribed ‘8 Ex. 1785 Miscellanys’. Late 17th century.

*HaG 70: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Miscellanies

Among papers of the Finch family of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland.

Edited from this MS in Brown, III, 36-310, with a facsimile of the first page facing III, 36.

DG. 7/Lit. 7/1-171, 175 (Box 4975)

A large unbound collection of autograph notes, memoranda and aphorisms, on historical, political, philosophical and miscellaneous subjects (including HaG 44), many written in two or more columns, on c.400 pages of loose sheets (plus blanks), chiefly folio, a number lettered for subsequent arrangement (‘Ab:’, ‘Ba:’, &c.). Items 128-39 have been missing since 1977. Late 17th century.

*HaG 71: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Miscellanies

Among papers of the Finch family of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland.

Most MS pages edited in Brown, under various headings: I, 243-5 and 291; II, 26-68, 72-111, 135-78, 258-332, 407-18, with facsimiles of ff. 33r and 56r facing II, 90 and 180; and III, 25-335, 315-454, with facsimiles of ff. 153r and 83r facing III, 26 and 316.

Photocopies supplied by M.N. Brown are preserved. Facsimile of f. 100r in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile XXI, after p. xxiv.

DG. 7/Lit. 7/172-4

A first autograph draft, headed ‘Tar[paulins]’, incomplete, on three folio leaves. c.1693.

*HaG 44: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, A Rough Draught of a New Model at Sea

Among papers of the Finch family of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland.

This MS collated in Brown, I, 309-14, with a facsimile page facing p. 310. Recorded in Brown, HLQ (1972), p. 151.

First published, anonymously, in London, 1694. Foxcroft, II, 454-65. Brown, I, 296-308.

DG. 7/Lit. 8 (Box 4975)

A collection of unbound papers of the Finch family, of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland. c.1690s.

Among the papers of the Finch family, of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland.

[unnumbered item]

• HaG 38: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Maxims of the Great Almansor

Copy of 33 maxims, on the first two pages of a conjugate pair of folio leaves.

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.

[unnumbered item]

• HaG 39: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Maxims of the Great Almansor

Copy of 33 maxims, on a pair of conjugate quarto leaves.

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.

DG 7, Box 4985, Bundle XII

Letter, in the hand of an amanuensis and signed by More and other fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge, to Sir John Finch, [October 1682]. 1682.

*MoH 22: Henry More, Letter(s)

Edited in HMC, 71, Finch II (1922), pp. 179-181.

DG. 9/2405-2421

Legal and financial documents relating to Robert Herrick. Including papers signed by his father, Nicholas (d.1592), and his uncle and guardian, Sir William Herrick (1562-1653).

DG. 9/2419

• *HeR 432: Robert Herrick, Document(s)

The sixteen-year-old poet's indenture of apprenticeship to his uncle, on vellum, bearing the poet's earliest known signature (‘Robert Hericke’), 25 September 1607. 1607.

Edited in F.W. Moorman, Robert Herrick: A Biographical & Critical Study (London, 1910), pp. 331-2. Facsimiles in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 15 December 1988, lot 15, p. 24, and in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 169.

DG. 9/2796

An oblong octavo verse miscellany, in a neat mixed hand up to p. 78, the remainder in later hands, 116 pages, in 19th-century half-leather marbled boards, with remains of crimson velvet. c.1630[-1700s].

Once owned by Elizabeth Herrick (1684-1745) and her brother William Herrick (1689-1773). Formerly among the papers of the Herrick family, of Beaumanor.

This MS discussed in J.A. Taylor, ‘Two Unpublished Poems on the Duke of Buckingham’, RES, NS 40 (May 1989), 232-40.

pp. 12-14

• DnJ 284: John Donne, The Autumnall (‘No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace’)

Copy, headed ‘In commendation of declineing Beautie’.

First published, as ‘Elegie. The Autumnall’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 92-4 (as ‘Elegie IX’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 27-8. Shawcross, No. 50. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 277-8.

pp. 18-19

• DnJ 1879: John Donne, A Letter written by S^r H: G: and J: D: alternis vicibus (‘Since ev'ry Tree beginns to blossome now’)

Copy, headed ‘A Lettre written by S^r: Henrye Goodier: & John Dunne: altornis vicibus’.

First published in The Poems of John Donne, ed. E.K. Chambers (London, 1896). Grierson, I, 433-4. Milgate Satires, pp. 76-8. Shawcross, No. 135.

pp. 22-3

• BeJ 25: Sir John Beaumont, My Lord of Buckinghams welcome to the King at Burley (‘Sir, you have ever shin'd upon me bright’)

Copy, headed ‘By y^e: Duke att y^e Kings coming to Burley’.

First published in Bosworth-field (1629). Sell, pp. 139-40.

pp. 24-9

• BmF 22: Francis Beaumont, Ad Comitissam Rutlandiae (‘Madam, so may my verses pleasing be’)

Copy.

First published, as ‘An Elegie by F. B.’, in Certain Elegies, Done by Sundrie Excellent Wits (London, 1618). Dyce XI, 505-7.

p. 33

• HrJ 53: Sir John Harington, The Author, of his own fortune (‘Take fortune as it falles, as one aduiseth’)

Copy, headed ‘Of Fortune’.

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 29. McClure No. 30, p. 160. Kilroy, Book I, No. 56, p. 113.

p. 34

• HrJ 226: Sir John Harington, Of Blessing without a crosse (‘A Priest that earst was riding on the way’)

Copy, headed ‘Of Blessinge’ and here beginning ‘A Preist in hast was riding on ye waye’.

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 17. McClure No. 18, p. 155. Kilroy, Book I, No. 30, p. 104.

p. 34

• HrJ 249: Sir John Harington, Of Plaine dealing (‘My writings oft displease you: what's the matter?’)

Copy, headed ‘Of plaine dealings’ and here beginning ‘My writings still displease thee, what the matter?’.

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 59. McClure No. 60, p. 170. This epigram is also quoted in the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5). Kilroy, Book II, No. 8, p. 133.

p. 35

• HrJ 248: Sir John Harington, Of one that vow'd to dis-inherit his sonne, and giue his goods to the poore (‘A citizen that dwelt neere Temple-barre’)

Copy.

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 65. McClure No. 66, pp. 172-3. Kilroy, Book I, No. 5, pp. 95-6.

p. 35

• DnJ 1769: John Donne, A lame begger (‘I am unable, yonder begger cries’)

Copy, here beginning ‘I can not sitt, nor stand, y^e beggar cryes’.

p. 35

• DnJ 1768: John Donne, A lame begger (‘I am unable, yonder begger cries’)

Copy, here beginning ‘I am not able yonder beggar cryes’.

pp. 38-40

• JnB 182: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body (‘Sitting, and ready to be drawne’)

Copy, untitled.

First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).

pp. 40-45

• JnB 220: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 4. The Mind (‘Painter, yo'are come, but may be gone’)

Copy, headed ‘The Minde’.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

p. 50

• CoR 156: Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox (‘Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true’)

Copy of the last 42 lines, headed ‘On the pox in the Face’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 59-62. The last 42 lines, beginning ‘O thou deformed unwomanlike disease’, in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 48.

pp. 54-5

• CwT 204: Thomas Carew, Epitaph on the Lady S. Wife to Sir W.S. (‘The harmony of colours, features, grace’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on a virtuous woman’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 55.

p. 56

• DnJ 2974: John Donne, Song (‘Stay, O sweet, and do not rise’)

Copy of a version beginning ‘Lye still my deare, why dost thou rise’.

First published (in a two-stanza version) in John Dowland, A Pilgrim's Solace (London, 1612) and in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Printed as the first stanza of Breake of day in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 432 (attributing it to Dowland). Gardner, Elegies, p. 108 (in her ‘Dubia’). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 402-3. Not in Shawcross.

Finch MSS, Box 4948, Box IV, Bundle 12

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to William Blathwayt, Secretary of State for War, from The Bastille, Paris, 26 August (NS) 1692, and sent on to Daniel Finch, Earl of Nottingham, Secretary of State. 1692.

*VaJ 21: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Edited in Albert Rosenberg, ‘New Light on Vanbrugh’, PQ, 45 (1966), 603-13 (pp. 604-5), and in Downes (1977), pp. 249-50 (Appendix B, No. 2).

Uppingham DE 1784/1

The ‘Parish Register of Uppingham - 1571-1656’, in which the occasional page is signed ‘Jeremy Taylor Rector Ecclesiae’. 1638-42.

*TaJ 103: Jeremy Taylor, Document(s)

Uppingham DE 1784/17

The ‘Churchwarden's Accounts 1633-1727’, in which a series of entries are made by Taylor, notably on ff. 27r, 30v-1v, 35v and 37r. c.1638-42.

*TaJ 104: Jeremy Taylor, Document(s)

Illustration of f. 31v and f. 32r (the latter in a different hand) in Stranks, facing p. 165.