MS 810(2)
Ten MS poems, in the hand of Pepys's secretary Paul Lorrain, on leaves bound, together with another related work, in Pepys's printed exemplum of Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Late 17th century.
pp. 4-7
• RoJ 327: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)
Copy of the epilogue lines (174-201), here beginning ‘All this wth. indignation have I hurl'd’.
First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning ‘All this with indignation have I hurled’) in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as ‘Satyr’. Love, pp. 57-63.
The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, ‘A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's “A Satyr against Reason and Mankind”’, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different ‘Answer’ poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).
p. 23
• RoJ 11: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Against Marriage (‘Out of mere love and arrant devotion’)
Copy of a version headed ‘On Marriage’ and beginning ‘Out of stark Love & errant Devotion’.
First published in Vieth (1968), p. 159. Walker, pp. 130-1, among ‘Poems Possibly by Rochester’. Love, pp. 40-1, as Of Marriage and beginning Out of Stark Love, and arrant Devotion.
MS 1038
A small quarto volume of texts relating to Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, in a professional secretary hand, 78 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Early 17th century.
[II], ff. 1r-7v
• EsR 306: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution
Copy.
Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.
MS 1490
Notes and collections prepared by Pepys for his published history, in several hands, headed ‘My Diary relating to the Commission constituted by King James the Second, Anno 1686, for the Recovery of the Navy, with a Collection of the Principal papers incident to and in Craigieclusive of the same’, in an octavo volume, 445 pages. 1685-6.
*PpS 2: Samuel Pepys, Memoires relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England for Ten Years, Determin'd December 1688
Summarised and discussed in J.R. Tanner, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Naval Manuscripts in the Pepysian Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Navy Records Society 26-7, 36, 40 ([London], 1903-23), I, 66-97. Pages 7-73 of the MS edited, as ‘Diary of the Special Commission 3 January-28 April 1686’, in Pepys's Later Diaries, ed. C.S. Knighton (Stroud, Glos., 2004), pp. 179-202.
First published in London, 1690. Edited by J.R. Tanner (Oxford, 1906).
MS 1836-41
Autograph diary, covering the period 1 January 1659/60 to 31 May 1669, largely in shorthand, c.3,100 unnumbered pages (plus blanks), in six bound volumes, the first octavo, the others quarto. 1660-69.
*PpS 14: Samuel Pepys, Diary
The deciphered transcript of the Diary made in 1819-22 by the Rev. John Smith (d.1870) is preserved in 54 volumes, with annotations by Lord Braybrooke and others, also at Magdalene College, Cambridge.
Facsimile examples in H.B. Wheatley, Pepysiana (London, 1899), after pp. 74 and 76; in R.W. Ladborough, ‘The Library of Samuel Pepys’, History Today, 17 (July 1967), 476-82 (p. 479); in Geoffrey Trease, Samuel Pepys and his World (London, 1972), p. 86; in Latham & Matthews, I (1970), facing pp. xlii-xliii, xlv, xlviii, c-ciii; in Augustan Reprint Society Publications Nos. 145-6 (Los Angeles, 1970); in Richard Ollard, Pepys: A Biography (London, 1974), p. 51; in Petti, English Literary Hands (1977), No. 63, p. 120; in Robert Latham, The Illustrated Pepys (London, 1978), p. 16; and elsewhere.
A facsimile of the deciphered transcript of the Diary made in 1819-22 is in Trease, op. cit., p. 44.
First published (about a quarter of the Diary), as Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, edited from the Rev. John Smith's deciphered transcript by Richard Neville, Lord Braybrooke, 2 vols (London, 1825). Edited by the Rev Mynors Bright (about four fifths of the Diary), 6 vols (London, 1875-9). Edited by Henry B. Wheatley (about nine tenths of the Diary), 10 vols (London, 1893-9). The first complete and unexpurgated edition by Robert Latham and William Matthews, 11 vols (London, 1970-83).
MS 1999
Fair copy of a poem in two cantos, with a lengthy title-page, ‘The History of the Pestilence or the proceedinges of Justice and Mercy Manifested att the great Assizes holden about London, in the yeere 1625 wherein soe many were executed by that Plague…[&c.]’, a prose dedication to the King, and an introductory twenty-line poem beginning Our Aucthor, first wth God beginns, in a professional hand throughout, 93 folio pages. c.1626.
WiG 22: George Wither, The History of the Pestilence (‘The Storme is past and loe, wee now obteyne’)
Edited from this MS in Milton French, with facsimiles of pp. 4-5 after p. xxxvi. It has been doubtfully suggested (by Milton French and others) that the MS is autograph.
First published as The History of the Pestilence (1625), ed. J. Milton French (Cambridge, Mass., 1932).
This poem is an early and substantially different version of the first two cantos of Britain's Remembrancer (1628).
MS 2099
A folio composite volume of state tracts and letters, 233 leaves, in contemporary calf.
ff. 10r-25r
• KiT 15: Thomas Killigrew, Letter about the possessed Nuns of Tours, from Orleans, 7 December 1635
Copy, in a professional cursive hand, headed in another hand ‘A Letter of Tho: Killigrew's in his Travels Dated att Orleans the 7th of December new stile 1635’. c.1636-40.
This MS collated in Lough and Crane.
Letter, to Lord Goring, beginning ‘Being thus far from London...’. Published in European Magazine, 43 (1803), 102-6. Edited in J. Lough and D. E. L. Crane, ‘Thomas Killigrew and the Possessed Nuns of Loudun: The Text of a Letter of 1635’, Durham University Journal, 78 (1986), 259-68.
ff. 84r-173v
• HbT 27.5: Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic
Copy, in one or possibly two professional hands, headed ‘The Elements of Lawe Naturall and Politique By Mr Hobbs’, 52 folio leaves. c.1640s.
First published, dedicated to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, in two parts, as Humane Nature: Or, The fundamental Elements of Policie, (London, [1649]-1650), and as De Corpore Politico: or The Elements of Law, Moral and Politick (London, 1650). Molesworth, English, IV, 1-76, 77-228. Edited by Ferdinand Tönnies (London, 1889). 2nd edition, with an introduction by M.M. Goldsmith, (London, 1969).
MS 2141
Autograph draft, in shorthand, headed ‘A Journall of ye King's Escape from Worcester, traken by mee this day in short-hand from ye King's owne mouth’, on 22 quarto leaves (plus two blanks); together with a longhand transcript made by a clerk on 79 folio leaves; both October 1680; bound with other relevant documents collected by Pepys, and partly in his hand, including ‘Notes from father Hurlston’
*PpS 1: Samuel Pepys, An Account of the Preservation of King Charles II after the Battle of Worcester
Edited from the longhand transcript by most editors. Both texts collated in Matthews, with facsimile examples after p. 86. Facsimile example also in Geoffrey Trease, Samuel Pepys and his World (London, 1972), p. 39. This MS discussed in A.N.G. Richards, ‘The King Dictates’, Cornhill Magazine, 171 (1959-61), 493-505. Extracts made in the early 18th century are among Lord Harwicke's MSS in the British Library (Add. MS 31955, ff. 2-9).
First published, edited by Sir David Dalrymple (London, 1766). Charles II's Escape from Worcester, ed. William Matthews (London, 1967), pp. 34-84.
MS 2191
A partly autograph presentation copy, on 219 folio leaves, in brown velvet. For William Cecil (1520-98), Lord Burghley, Secretary of State; written in the accomplished hands of one or more of Howard's principal amanuenses; with a formal title-page (f. 1r) including an autograph four-line quotation in Latin from Daniel 13.57 by Howard; the illuminated arms of Cecil superscribed by six autograph lines of Latin verse and subscribed by four autograph lines of Latin verse by Howard and signed by him ‘Tuæ D in perpetuum deuinctiss. H. Hwward’ (f. 1v); the Dedication ‘To the Queenes Most Excellent Maiestie’ in italic script on ff. 2r-27r signed by Howard (f. 27r); the main text, in a predominantly secretary script, by one or more scribes, with variant styles of script for headings, sub-headings and sidenotes, on ff. 28r-219r; with separate title-pages for the second book (f. 125v) and third book (f. 154r); with autograph corrections and sidenotes by Howard throughout; the paste-down formed from pages of a 16th-century French book about Henri III printed in black letter. Late 16th century.
*HoH 80: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A dutiful defence of the lawful regiment of women
The Dedication only bears Cecil's autograph annotations (occasional words flagging subject matter on ff. 10r, 11r, 12v, 13r-v, 14r, 15v, and 16r). Later owned by Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) and with his bookplates.
An unpublished answer to, and attack upon, John Knox's ‘railing invective’ against Mary Queen of Scots, First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women (1558). Written, Howard claims in his Dedication, some thirteen years after he was asked to do so by a Privy Councillor [i.e. c.1585-90]. The Dedication to Queen Elizabeth beginning ‘It pricketh now fast upon the point of thirteen years (most excellent most gratious and most redoubted Soveraign...’; the main text, in three books, beginning ‘It may seem strange to men of grounded knowledge...’, and ending ‘...Sancta et individuae Trinitati sit omnis honor laus et gloria in secula seculorum. Amen.’
MS 2237
Autograph notes, originally enclosed in a letter to Pepys, 21 August 1669. 1669.
*EvJ 57: John Evelyn, Directors for improving a short visit to Paris, 1669
2442, after p. 539.
Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Samuel Pepys, 14 July 1699. 1699.
*DrJ 357: John Dryden, Letter(s)
Ward, Letter 61.
MS 2503
A folio composite volume of state tracts and letters, in various hands, 763 pages, in contemporary calf elaborately stamped.
pp. 469-71
• EsR 307: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The Manner of the death of Robert Earle of Essex, who was beheaded wthin the Tower of London vppon Ashewednesday, 1600’, on a pair of conjugate folio leaves. Early 17th century.
Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.
MS 2504
Correspondence by Evelyn addressed to Samuel Pepys. January 1673/4.
item 649
• *EvJ 97: John Evelyn, Fishery (II)
Autograph paper, headed ‘A letter written to a Friend concerning the Interest of his Majestye and the nation in the Fishery and Duties appendant to it...’, on 21 folio pages, sent to Samuel Pepys and docketed by him on the title-page ‘Fishery. Mr Evelyn's second paper concerning the Fishery, 1673’.
Recorded in HMC, 70, Pepys (911), p. 267. Listed as item 8 (‘A discourse concerning ye duty of the Flag’) in Evelyn's note of books and MSS lent to Pepys in 1681 (EvJ 34).
item 673
• *EvJ 96: John Evelyn, Fishery (I)
Autograph paper, headed ‘A succinct but full deduction of his Majesties indubitable Title to the Dominion and Sovereignty of the British Seas, and consequently the Fishery and Duties appendant thereunto’, incomplete, on fourteen folio pages, preceded by a memorandum about the work's suppression by the King ‘just as it was carrying to the presse’, sent by Evelyn to Samuel Pepys, January 1673/4. 1674.
This paper partly incorporated in Evelyn's Navigation and Commerce (London, 1674). Recorded in HMC, 70, Pepys (1911), p. 267. Listed as item 7 (‘A discourse concerning the Fishery’) in Evelyn's note of books and MSS lent to Pepys in 1681 (EvJ 34).
MS 2553
A folio anthology of Scottish poetry, compiled by Sir Richard Maitland (1496-1586), of Lethington, in the hands of several amanuenses, including 63 poems generally attributed to Dunbar, 366 pages. c.1570-85.
Generally cited as the Maitland Folio MS. The complete text edited in Craigie.
A transcript made by John Pinkerton (1758-1826) for his edition of Ancient Scotish Poems, 2 vols (London, 1786), is preserved at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (MS Bell/White 18).
p. 3
• DuW 77: William Dunbar, Meditatioun in Wyntir (‘In to thir dirk and drublie dayis’)
Copy of lines 23-50, untitled and here beginning ‘And lat fortoune wirk furthe hir rage’.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 1-2. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 203.
Mackenzie, No. 10, pp. 26-7. Craigie, I, 380-2. Bawcutt, I, 109-10.
pp. 3-5
• DuW 119: William Dunbar, Of Sir Thomas Norny (‘Now lythis off ane gentill knycht’)
Copy, untitled; imperfect.
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 35, pp. 63-4. Craigie, I, 2-4. Bawcutt, I, 133-4.
pp. 5-6
• DuW 121: William Dunbar, Of the Changes of merche (‘I seik about this warld unstabille’)
Copy, untitled; slightly imperfect.
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie and in Craigie. Collated in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 66, pp. 140-1. Craigie, I, 4. Bawcutt, p. 93.
pp. 6-7
• DuW 94: William Dunbar, Of Covetyce (‘Fredome, honour, and nobilnes’)
Copy, untitled; imperfect.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 5-6. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 222, and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 67, pp. 141-2. Murdoch, II, 175-6. Ritchie, II, 159-60. Bawcutt, I, 77-8.
pp. 7-8
• DuW 145: William Dunbar, Quhone Mony Benefices Vakit (‘Schir, at this feist of benefice’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 6-7. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 203. Collated in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 11, pp. 27-8. Craigie, I, 6-7. Bawcutt, I, 196.
p. 8
• DuW 3: William Dunbar, Aganis the Solistaris in Court (‘Be divers wyis and operatiounes’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 29, pp. 55-6. Craigie, I, 7. Bawcutt, p. 60.
pp. 8-9
• DuW 167: William Dunbar, To the King (‘Off benefice, Schir, at everie feist’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Craigie. The text corrected from this MS in Mackenzie. Collated in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 12, p. 28. Craigie, I, 8-9. Bawcutt, I, 140-1.
pp. 9-10
• DuW 38: William Dunbar, Dunbar at Oxinfurde (‘To speik of science, craft, or sapience’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie, No. 53, p. 104, and in Craigie, I, 9. Collated in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 53, pp. 104. Craigie, I, 9. Bawcutt, I, 266.
pp. 10-11
• DuW 25: William Dunbar, Complaint to the King Aganis Mure (‘Schir, I complane off injuris’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie, No. 5, p. 5; in Craigie, I, 10; and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 5, p. 5. Craigie, I, 10. Bawcutt, I, 199.
pp. 11-12
• DuW 43: William Dunbar, Epetaphe for Donald Owre (‘In vice most vicius he excellis’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 11-12. Collated in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 36, pp. 65-6. Ritchie, I, 87-8. Bawcutt, I, 111-12.
pp. 12-16
• DuW 28: William Dunbar, The Dance of the Sevin Deidly Synnis (‘Off Februar the fyistene nycht’)
Copy, untitled; imperfect.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 12-16, with a facsimile of p. 14. Recorded in Mackenzie, pp. 219-20. Collated in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 57, pp. 120-3. Murdoch, II, 312-15. Ritchie, II, 291-4. Bawcutt, I, 149-56.
pp. 16-18
• DuW 23: William Dunbar, Complaint to the King (‘Complane I wald, wist I quhome till’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 19, pp. 39-41. Craigie, I, 17-19. Bawcutt, I, 67-8.
p. 18
• DuW 140: William Dunbar, The Petition of the Gray Horse, Auld Dunbar (‘Now Lufferis cummis with larges lowd’)
Copy of lines 23-53, untitled and here beginning ‘Schir lat It neuer In toume be tald’.
Edited partly from this MS in Mackenzie. Edited in Craigie and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 22, pp. 46-8. Craigie, I, 19-20.
pp. 53-4, 59-63, 69-70, 77-80
• DuW 48: William Dunbar, The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedie (‘Schir Johine the Ros, ane thing thair is compild’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 71-88. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 198-201, and in Bawcutt.
First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 6, pp. 5-20. Murdoch, III. 420-37. Ritchie, III, 44-62. Bawcutt, I, 200-18.
pp. 55-7
• DuW 32: William Dunbar, The Devillis Inquest (‘This nycht in my sleip I wes agast’)
Copy of a 13-stanza version, untitled and beginning ‘Dremand me thocht that I did heir’.
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie, pp. 238-9; in Craigie, I, 62-4; and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 42, p. 76-9 (see pp. 238-9). Murdoch, III, 372-5. Ritchie, III, 1-4. Bawcutt, I, 250-7.
pp. 57-8
• DuW 187: William Dunbar, The Twa Cummeris (‘Rycht airlie on Ask Weddinsday’)
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Airlie on als wodnisday’.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 64-5. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 215. Collated in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 46, p. 84. Murdoch, III, 386-7. Ritchie, III, 14-15. Bawcutt, I, 180-1.
pp. 64-6, 73-6, 81
• DuW 57: William Dunbar, The Goldyn Targe (‘Ryght as the stern of day begouth to schyne’)
Copy, imperfect.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 89-97. Recorded in Mackenzie, pp. 218-19. Collated in Bawcutt.
First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 56, pp. 112-19. Murdoch, IV, 995-1003. Ritchie, IV, 252-61. Bawcutt, I, 184-92.
pp. 81-96
• DuW 185: William Dunbar, The Tretis of the Tua Mariit Wemen and the Wedo (‘Apon the Midsummer evin, mirriest of nichtis’)
Copy.
Libes 1-103 edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.
First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 47, pp. 85-97. Craigie, I, 98-115. Bawcutt, I, 41-55.
pp. 113-29
• DuW 51: William Dunbar, The Freiris of Berwick (‘At Tweidis mowth thair standis a nobill toun’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 133-48. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 231-4.
Of doubtful authorship. Mackenzie, No. 93, pp. 182-95. Murdoch, IV, 1004-20. Ritchie, IV, 261-77.
pp. 135-8
• DuW 161: William Dunbar, The Testament of Mr. Andro Kennedy (‘I, Maister Andro Kennedy’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 155-9. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 213. Collated in Bawcutt.
First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 40, pp. 71-4. Murdoch, III, 438-41. Ritchie, III, 62-6. Bawcutt, I, 89-92.
pp. 161-2
• DuW 29: William Dunbar, The Dance of the Sevin Deidly Synnis (‘Off Februar the fyistene nycht’)
Copy of lines 1-12, 109-20, untitled and prefixed to The Sowtar and Tailyouris War (DuW 154).
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 183.
Mackenzie, No. 57, pp. 120-3. Murdoch, II, 312-15. Ritchie, II, 291-4. Bawcutt, I, 149-56.
pp. 162-5
• DuW 154: William Dunbar, The Sowtar and Tailyouris War (‘Nixt that a turnament wes tryid’)
Copy, here beginning ‘Syn till ane turnament fast thai hyit’, prefixed by lines 1-12, 109-20 of The Dance of the Sevin Deidly Synnis (DuW 29) and untitled.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 183-7. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 220.
Mackenzie, No. 58, pp. 123-6. Murdoch, II, 316-19. Ritchie, II, 295-8.
pp. 165-8
• DuW 80: William Dunbar, The Merle and the Nychtingaill (‘In May as that Aurora did upspring’)
Copy of lines 1-16, 33-120, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 188-91. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 221-2, and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 63, pp. 134-7. Murdoch, IV, 822-6. Ritchie, IV, 87-91. Bawcutt, I, 101-5.
pp. 168-70
• DuW 97: William Dunbar, Of Deming (‘Musing allone this hinder nicht’)
Copy, untitled and lacking lines 26-30.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 191-3. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 203, and in Bawcutt.
Of doubtful authorship. Mackenzie, No. 8, pp. 23-4. Murdoch, II, 171-3. Ritchie, II, 156-7. Bawcutt, I, 122-4.
pp. 176-8
• HnR 23: Robert Henryson, The Ressoning betuix Aige and Yowth (‘Quhen fair flora, the godes of the flowris’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Craigie. Collated in Wood and in Fox.
Wood, pp. 179-80. Ritchie, I, 68-71. Murdoch, II, 149-52. Craigie, I, 200-2. Stevenson, pp. 22-3. Fox, pp. 170-3.
pp. 178-81
• DuW 133: William Dunbar, Of the Warldis Instabilitie (‘This waverand warldis wretchidnes’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 13, pp. 28-31. Craigie, I, 202-5. Bawcutt, I, 258-61.
pp. 186-7
• DuW 142: William Dunbar, Quhen the Governour Past in France (‘Thow that in hevin, for our salvatioun’)
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 65, pp. 139-40. Craigie, I, 210-11. Bawcutt, I, 162-3.
pp. 187-9
• DuW 54: William Dunbar, A General Satyre (‘Doverrit with dreme, devysing in my slummer’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 211-13. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 224-6, and in Bawcutt.
Of doubtful authorship. Mackenzie, No. 77, pp. 151-3. Murdoch, II, 162-5. Ritchie, II, 147-50. Bawcutt, I, 71-4.
pp. 189-92
• DuW 72: William Dunbar, Lament for the Makaris (‘I that in heill wes and gladnes’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 214-17. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 202-3.
First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Mackenzie, No. 7, pp. 20-3. Murdoch, II. 308-11. Ritchie, II, 287-91. Bawcutt, I, 94-7.
pp. 192-3
• DoG 1: Gavin Douglas, Conscience (‘Quhen halie kirk first flurist in youthheid’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Bawcutt and in Craigie.
First published in The Poetical Works of Gavin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld, ed. John Small (Edinburgh, 1874), I, 121-2. Bawcutt, pp. 135-7.
pp. 193-4
• DuW 118: William Dunbar, Of Manis Mortalitie (‘Memento, homo, quod cinis es!’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 218-19. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 224, and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 74, pp. 149-50. Murdoch, II, 127-9. Ritchie, II, 117-19. Bawcutt, I, 120-1.
pp. 194-5
• DuW 174: William Dunbar, To the King That He war Johne Thomosunis Man (‘Schir, for your grace, bayth nicht and day’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 18, pp. 38-9. Craigie, I, 220-1. Bawcutt, I, 197-8.
pp. 195-6
• DuW 135: William Dunbar, Of the Warldis Vanitie (‘O wreche, be war! this warld will wend the fro’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 75, pp. 150-1. Craigie, I, 221. Bawcutt, I, 139.
pp. 196-8
• DuW 148: William Dunbar, Remonstrance to the King (‘Schir, ye have mony servitouris’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 17, pp. 36-8. Craigie, I, 222-4. Bawcutt, I, 222-4.
pp. 199-203
• DuW 158: William Dunbar, The Tabill of Confession (‘To The, O mercifull Salviour, Jesus’)
Copy, subscribed ‘ane confessioun generale’.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 224-9. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 227. Collated in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 83, pp. 163-7. Murdoch, II, 43-8. Ritchie, II, 42-7. Bawcutt, I, 267-73.
pp. 203-7
• DuW 128: William Dunbar, Of the Passioun of Christ (‘Amang thir freiris, within ane cloister’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 80, pp. 155-9. Craigie, I, 229-34. Bawcitt, pp. 34-8, as ‘Ane Ballat of the passioun’.
pp. 212-13
• DuW 11: William Dunbar, Ane His Awin Ennemy (‘He that hes gold and grit riches’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 239-40. Collated in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 2, pp. 2-3. Murdoch, II, 329-30. Ritchie, II, 308-9. Bawcutt, p. 86.
pp. 221-2
• DuW 83: William Dunbar, No Tressour Availis without Glaidnes (‘Be mirry, man! and tak nocht far in mynd’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 249-50. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 223-4, and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 73, pp. 148-9. Murdoch, II, 279-80. Ritchie, II, 259-60. Bawcutt, I, 61-2.
pp. 225-6
• DuW 2: William Dunbar, Advice to Spend anis Awin Gude (‘Man, sen thy lyfe is ay in weir’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Craigie and in Bawcutt. Collated in Mackenzie.
Mackenzie, No. 72, pp. 147-8. Murdoch, III, 383-4; Ritchie, III, 11-13; Bawcutt, I, 118-19.
pp. 226-56
• DoG 2: Gavin Douglas, King Hart (‘King Hart, in to his cumlie castell strang’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Bawcutt and in Craigie, with a facsimile of p. 288 facing p. 256.
First published in Ancient Scotish Poems, never before in print, ed. John Pinkerton (London, 1786), I, 3-43. Bawcutt, pp. 139-70. Craigie, pp. 254-85.
pp. 259-60
• DuW 101: William Dunbar, Of Discretioun in Asking (‘Off very asking followis nocht’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 289-90. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 204, and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 14, pp. 31-3. Murdoch, II, 165-7. Ritchie, II, 150-2. Bawcutt, I, 142-3.
pp. 260-1
• DuW 105: William Dunbar, Of Discretioun in Geving (‘To Speik of gift or almous deidis’)
Copy, immediately following on from Of Discretioun in Asking (DuW 101).
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 290-2. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 204-5, and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 15, pp. 33-4. Murdoch, II, 167-9. Ritchie, II, 152-4. Bawcutt, I, 144-6.
pp. 261-2
• DuW 108: William Dunbar, Of Discretioun in Taking (‘Eftir Geving I speik of taking’)
Copy, immediately following on from Of Discretioun in Geving (DuW 105).
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 292-4. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 205, and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 16, pp. 35-6. Murdoch, II, 170-1. Ritchie, II, 154-5. Bawcutt, I, 147-8.
pp. 290-2
• DuW 36: William Dunbar, The Dregy of Dunbar (‘We that ar heir in hevins glory’)
Copy, subscribed ‘Dumbaris dirige to ye king’.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 337-41, and in Bawcutt. Collated in Mackenzie, pp. 209-10.
Mackenzie, No. 30, pp. 56-9. Murdoch, II, 292-6. Ritchie, II, 271-5. Bawcutt, I, 274-7, as ‘Dumbaris Dirige to the King’.
pp. 294-5
• DuW 66: William Dunbar, In Prais of Wemen (‘Now of wemen this I say for me’)
Copy, here beginning ‘Off women now this I say for me’.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 345. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 215, and in Bawcutt.
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie, No. 45, pp. 83-4. Murdoch, IV, 809-10. Ritchie, IV, 75-6. Bawcutt, I, 135.
pp. 295-6, 309
• DuW 172: William Dunbar, To the King (‘Schir, yit remembir as of befoir’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie, I, 346-8; and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 20, pp. 41-3. Murdoch, II, 271-4. Ritchie, II, 251-4. Bawcutt, I, 225-8.
pp. 296-7
• HnR 3: Robert Henryson, The Abbay Walk (‘Allone as I went up and doun’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 351-2. Collated in Wood.
Wood, pp. 195-6. Ritchie, I, 50-2. Fox, pp. 156-8.
p. 307
• DuW 91: William Dunbar, Of Content (‘Quho thinkis that he hes sufficence’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie, and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No.70, pp. 144-5. Craigie, I, 366-7. Bawcutt, I, 169-70.
pp. 308, 311
• DuW 68: William Dunbar, ‘In secreit place this hyndir nycht’
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie, I, 368-70; and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 28, pp. 53-5. Murdoch, II, 296-8. Ritchie, II, 275-7. Bawcutt, I, 106-8.
pp. 309-10
• HnR 6: Robert Henryson, Aganis Haisty Credence of Titlaris (‘Ffals titlaris now growis up full rank’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 348-50. Collated in Wood and in Fox.
Wood, pp. 215-16. Murdoch, II, 182-4. Ritchie, II, 165-7. Fox, pp. 163-5.
p. 310
• DuW 116: William Dunbar, Of Lyfe (‘Quhat is this lyfe bot ane straucht way to deid’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 76, p. 151. Craigie, I, 350. Bawcutt, I, 162.
pp. 313-14
• DuW 98: William Dunbar, Of Deming (‘Musing allone this hinder nicht’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 372-4. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 203.
Of doubtful authorship. Mackenzie, No. 8, pp. 23-4. Murdoch, II, 171-3. Ritchie, II, 156-7. Bawcutt, I, 122-4.
pp. 314-15
• DuW 191: William Dunbar, Tydingis fra the Sessioun (‘Ane murlandis man of uplandis mak’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 374-5, and in Bawvcutt. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 214.
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie, No. 43, pp. 79-80. Murdoch, II, 160-2. Ritchie, II, 145-7. Bawcutt, I, 39-40.
p. 315
• DuW 122: William Dunbar, Of the Changes of merche (‘I seik about this warld unstabille’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 376, and in Bawcutt. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 222.
Mackenzie, No. 66, pp. 140-1. Craigie, I, 4. Bawcutt, p. 93.
p. 316
• DuW 4: William Dunbar, Aganis the Solistaris in Court (‘Be divers wyis and operatiounes’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 377-8. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 209.
Mackenzie, No. 29, pp. 55-6. Craigie, I, 7. Bawcutt, p. 60.
p. 316
• DuW 146: William Dunbar, Quhone Mony Benefices Vakit (‘Schir, at this feist of benefice’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie, and in Craigie, I, 376-7.
Mackenzie, No. 11, pp. 27-8. Craigie, I, 6-7. Bawcutt, I, 196.
p. 317
• DuW 9: William Dunbar, The Amendis to the Telyouris and Sowtaris for the Turnament Maid on Thame (‘Betuix twell houris and ellevin’)
Copy, subscribed ‘quhone he drank to ye Dekynnis ffor amendis to ye bodeis of thair craftis’.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 378-9. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 220, and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 59, pp. 126-7. Murdoch, II, 319-21. Ritchie, II, 298-300. Bawcutt, I, 157-8.
pp. 317-18
• DuW 39: William Dunbar, Dunbar at Oxinfurde (‘To speik of science, craft, or sapience’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie, I, 379-80; and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 53, pp. 104. Craigie, I, 9. Bawcutt, I, 266.
pp. 318-19
• DuW 76: William Dunbar, Meditatioun in Wyntir (‘In to thir dirk and drublie dayis’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 10, pp. 26-7. Craigie, I, 380-2. Bawcutt, I, 109-10.
pp. 319-20
• DuW 7: William Dunbar, All Erdly Joy Returnis in Pane (‘Off lentren in the first mornyng’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 382-3. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 223, and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 71, pp. 145-6. Murdoch, II, 131-2. Ritchie, II, 121-2. Bawcutt, I, 159-60.
p. 320
• DuW 164: William Dunbar, To a Ladye (‘Sweit rois of vertew and of gentilnes’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 49, p. 99. Craigie, I, 383-4. Bawcutt, I, 235.
pp. 321-2
• DuW 168: William Dunbar, To the King (‘Off benefice, Schir, at everie feist’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie, I, 385-6; and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 12, p. 28. Craigie, I, 8-9. Bawcutt, I, 140-1.
pp. 322-3
• DuW 144: William Dunbar, Quhone he List to Feyne (‘My hartis tresure, and swete assured so’)
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 50, pp. 99-100. Craigie, I, 386-7. Bawcutt, I, 125-6.
pp. 323-4
• DuW 63: William Dunbar, How Sall I Governe Me? (‘How sould I rewill me or in quhat wys’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie, and in Craigie, I, 388-9. Collated in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 9, pp. 24-6. Murdoch, II, 178-80; Ritchie, II, 162-3. Bawcutt, I, 87-8.
pp. 324-5
• DuW 125: William Dunbar, Of the Ladys Solistaris at Court (‘Thir ladyis fair, That makis repair’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 390-1, and in Bawcutt. The text corrected from this MS in Mackenzie (p. 217).
Mackenzie, No. 48, pp. 97-8. Murdoch, IV, 762-3. Ritchie, IV, 30-1. Bawcutt, I, 238-9.
p. 326
• DuW 138: William Dunbar, Ane Orisoun (‘Salviour, suppois my sensualitie’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 78, p. 154. Craigie, I, 393. Bawcutt, I, 193.
pp. 327-8
• HnR 33: Robert Henryson, The Thre Deid Pollis (‘O sinfull man, in to this mortall se’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Craigie. Collated in Wood and in Fox.
Wood, pp. 205-7. Murdoch, II, 157-9. Ritchie, II, 142-4. Craigie, I, 394-5. Fox, pp. 182-4.
pp. 331-3
• DuW 85: William Dunbar, None May Assure in this Warld (‘Quhom to sall I compleine my wo’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie, I, 401-3, and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 21, pp. 44-6. Edited from this MS in Murdoch, II, 234-6. Ritchie, II, 215-17 (with a facsimile of f. 84v). Bawcutt, I, 171-3.
pp. 333-4
• DuW 60: William Dunbar, How Dumbar wes Desyrd to be Ane Freir (‘This nycht, befoir the dawing cleir’)
Copy of lines 1-20, 26-50.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 404-5. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 197, and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 4, pp. 3-4. Murdoch, II, 327-8. Ritchie, II, 306-7. Bawcutt, I, 248-9.
pp. 334-5
• DuW 21: William Dunbar, The Birth of Antichrist (‘Lucina schynnyng in silence of the nicht’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 405-7, and in Bawcutt. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 213.
Mackenzie, No. 39, pp. 70-1. Murdoch, III, 375-7. Ritchie, III, 4-5. Bawcutt, I, 114-15.
pp. 335-7
• DuW 195: William Dunbar, The Wowing of the King quhen he was in Dumfermeling (‘This hindir nycht in Dumfermeling’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 407-9. The text corrected from this MS in Mackenzie (p. 208). Collated in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 27, pp. 51-3. Murdoch, II, 330-3. Ritchie, II, 309-11. Bawcutt, I, 245-7.
p. 337
• DuW 16: William Dunbar, Best to be Blyth (‘Full oft I mus and hes in thocht’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Craigie, I, 410-11. Collated in Mackenzie, p. 222, and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 69, pp. 143-4. Murdoch, II, 281-2. Ritchie, II, 260-1. Bawcutt, I, 79-80.
p. 339
• DuW 113: William Dunbar, Of James Dog, Kepar of the Quenis Wardrop (‘The wardraipper of Venus boure’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 33, pp. 61-2. Craigie, I, 413. Bawcutt, I, 236.
pp. 339-40
• DuW 131: William Dunbar, Of the Said James, Quhen he had plesett him (‘O Gracious Princes, guid and fair’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 34, pp. 62-3. Craigie, I, 414. Bawcutt, I, 237.
pp. 340-1
• DuW 87: William Dunbar, Of a Dance in the Quenis Chalmer (‘Sir Jhon Sinclair begowthe to dance’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 32, pp. 60-1. Craigie, I, 415-16. Bawcutt, I, 233-4.
pp. 341-2
• DuW 89: William Dunbar, Of Ane Blak-Moir (‘Lang heff I maed of ladyes quhytt’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie; in Craigie; and in Bawcutt.
Mackenzie, No. 37, pp. 66-7. Craigie, I, 416-17. Bawcutt, p. 113.
p. 342
• DuW 178: William Dunbar, To the Quene (‘Madam, your men said thai wald ryd’)
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Mackenzie and in Craigie.
Mackenzie, No. 31, pp. 59-60. Craigie, I, 417-18. Bawcutt, I, 116-17.
MS 2591
A folio volume of music compiled by Cesare Morelli for the use of Samuel Pepys, 169 leaves, in contemporary black morocco gilt. c.1680-93.
ff. 6r-7r
• DaW 109: Sir William Davenant, The Siege of Rhodes, Part II, iv. Song (‘Beauty, retire! Thou dost my pity move!’)
Copy of Solyman's declamation, in a musical setting by Morelli.
This MS discussed in Macdonald Emslie, ‘Pepys' Shakespeare Song’, SQ, 6 (1955), 159-70 (pp. 160-1). Facsimiles of f. 6r (erroneously said to be Pepys's setting) in The Diary of Samuel Pepys, ed. H.B. Wheatley (London, 1920), V, facing p. 165, and in Geoffrey Tease, Samuel Pepys and his World (London, 1972), p. 69.
Dramatic Works, III, 350-1.
ff. 37r-40r
• ShW 47: William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Copy of Hamlet's soliloquy ‘To be, or not to be, that is the question’ (III, i, 56-88), in a musical setting by Morelli.
Edited from this MS in Macdonald Emslie, ‘Pepys' Shakespeare Song’, SQ, 6 (1955), 159-70.
First published in London, 1603.
ff. 41r-3v
• JnB 561: Ben Jonson, Catiline, I, i, 73-97 (‘It is decree'd. Nor shall thy Fate, o Rome’)
Copy, in a musical setting by Morelli.
This MS discussed in MacDonald Emslie, ‘Three Early Settings of Jonson’, N&Q, 198 (November 1953), 466-9.
ff. 53r-6r
• CoA 7.5: Abraham Cowley, ‘Ah, happy Isle, how art thou chang'd and curst’
Copy, in a musical setting by Morelli.
First published in The Visions and Prophecies concerning England, Scotland, and Ireland, of Ezekiel Grebner (London, 1661 [i.e. 1660]). Waller, II, 343-5.
MS 2802
A folio volume of music by Cesare Morelli. Late 17th century.
ff. 48r-51r
• BcF 39.8: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’
Copy, in a musical setting by Morelli.
First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, ‘Bacon's Poem, “The World”: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems’, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.
ff. 54r-6r
• HeR 95.8: Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song (‘Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return’)
Copy, in a musical setting by Morelli.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).
MS 2803
A folio songbook compiled by Cesare Morelli for the use of Samuel Pepys, 113 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1680-93.
ff. 27r-8v
• CoA 9.5: Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. I. Love (‘I'll sing of Heroes, and of Kings’)
Copy, in a musical setting.
First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 50. Sparrow, p. 49.
Musical setting by Pietro Reggio published in Songs [London, 1680].
ff. 95r-7v
• BcF 40: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’
Copy in a musical setting.
First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, ‘Bacon's Poem, “The World”: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems’, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.
ff. 108v-11v
• JnB 562: Ben Jonson, Catiline, I, i, 73-97 (‘It is decree'd. Nor shall thy Fate, o Rome’)
Copy in a musical setting (? by Samuel Pepys and John Hingston).
This MS discussed in Emslie.
ff. 111v-12v
• DaW 110: Sir William Davenant, The Siege of Rhodes, Part II, iv. Song (‘Beauty, retire! Thou dost my pity move!’)
Copy, in a musical setting by Samuel Pepys.
Pepys records in his diary completing his setting on 6 December 1665. This MS discussed in Emslie, loc. cit. Facsimile in The Diary of Samuel Pepys, ed. Robert Latham & William Matthews, VI (London, 1972), between pp. 320 & 321. The song is shown in the portrait of Pepys in the National Portrait Gallery.
Dramatic Works, III, 350-1.
MS 2804
A folio volume of music compiled by Cesare Morelli for Samuel Pepys, 135 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.late 1670s.
ff. 59r-60v
• CoA 10: Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. I. Love (‘I'll sing of Heroes, and of Kings’)
Copy, in a musical setting by Pietro Reggio transposed by Morelli.
First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 50. Sparrow, p. 49.
Musical setting by Pietro Reggio published in Songs [London, 1680].
p. 199
• CoA 7: Abraham Cowley, ‘Ah, happy Isle, how art thou chang'd and curst’
Copy, in a musical setting.
First published in The Visions and Prophecies concerning England, Scotland, and Ireland, of Ezekiel Grebner (London, 1661 [i.e. 1660]). Waller, II, 343-5.
MS 2866
Notes and collections prepared by Pepys partly for his history. Notes and collections prepared by Pepys partly for his history, in several hands, with Pepys's autograph corrections and additions, in a folio volume of 465 pages (including 77 blanks). 20 July 1680-28 February 1695/6.
*PpS 3: Samuel Pepys, Memoires relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England for Ten Years, Determin'd December 1688
Calendared in J.R. Tanner, Samuel Pepys's Naval Minutes, Navy Records Society 28 ([London], 1926). Some extracts also edited in Charles Derrick, Memoirs of the Rise and Progress of the Royal Navy (London, 1806), passim.
First published in London, 1690. Edited by J.R. Tanner (Oxford, 1906).
2874
A folio volume of miscellaneous papers, Volume VI of Pepys's naval and historical collections, in the hands of clerks. Late 17th century.
pp. 385-504
• PpS 14.8: Samuel Pepys, A Journal of what passed between the Commissioners of Accounts and Myself
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Knighton.
First published, as ‘The Brooke House Journal 3 January-21 February 1670’, in Pepys's Later Diaries, ed. C.S. Knighton (Stroud, Glos., 2004), pp. 9-34.
2881
The first of two volumes, of “The Book of Mornamont” comprising documents relating to the accusation against Pepys by Colonel John Scott in 1679, 723 pages (some excised), including an index.
pp. 45-77
• PpS 14.5: Samuel Pepys, A Journal of the Principal Passages relating to the Commitment of Sir Anthony Deane and Mr Pepys
Copy. c.1680.
Edited from this MS in Knighton.
First published, as ‘The King's Bench Journal 20 May 1679-30 June 1680’, in Pepys's Later Diaries, ed. C.S. Knighton (Stroud, Glos., 2004), pp. 42-63.