CELM: National Library of Wales

Brogyntyn MS I. 27

An oblong quarto volume of lute music and verse, the latter written across the width of the page with the spine upwards, in several hands over a period, including that (the later poems) of Thomas Tanat, 192 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-tooled calf. c.1590-1669.

From the library of the Ormsby-Gore family, Barons Harlech, of Brogyntyn (or Porkington), Oswestry, Shropshire. Inscribed (p. 1) ‘Robert Parry’.

This volume edited as The Brogyntyn Lute Book, ed. Robert Spencer and Jeffrey Alexander (Kilkenny, 1978).

p. 5

• CwT 692.5: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)

Copy, in a neat italic hand, untitled.

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

Brogyntyn MS I. 28

An octavo verse miscellany, chiefly translations from Welsh, in a single neat italic hand, 49 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco elaborately gilt. Late 17th century.

From the library of the Ormsby Gore family, Barons Harlech, of Brogyntyn (or Porkington), Oswestry, Shropshire.

p. 34

• PsK 337.5: Katherine Philips, The Soule (‘How vaine a thing is man, whose noblest part’)

Copy of a version of lines 79-80, headed ‘M^rs Kath. Phillips her Verses on the Soul. / the 2 last lines thus Paraphras'd, y^e lines are these’, and here beginning ‘who yeild to all y^t does their Souls convince’.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 222-8. Poems (1667), pp. 114-17. Saintsbury, pp. 571-3. Thomas, I, 185-8, poem 73.

Brogyntyn MS II. 13

A quarto volume of state tracts and letters, in several professional hands, 244 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum dated inside the front cover ‘February 19^o 1606’. c.1607-20s.

From the library of the Ormsby-Gore family, Barons Harlech, of Brogyntyn (or Porkington), Oswestry, Shropshire.

Recorded in HMC 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 85, No. 29.

pp. 1-29

• RaW 728.238: Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603, in a professional secretary hand.

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.

pp. 31-4, 43-4

• RaW 966: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copy of three letters by Ralegh, to James I, in a professional secretary hand.

pp. 119-79

• RaW 1062: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Life and Death of Mahomet

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘The Life of Mahomet, the Conquest of Spaine and the ruine of the Sarazine Empire’.

A treatise beginning ‘Most writers accord that Mahomet which name in the Arabique signifies Indignation or Furie...’. First published in London, 1637, with a dedication to Carew Ralegh. This is a synopsis of a translation (or a translation of a synopsis) of a work by Miguel de Luna: see Lefranc (1968), pp. 65-6.

Brogyntyn MS II. 14

A quarto volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, 189 pages, in contemporary limp vellum. Early 17th century.

From the library of the Ormsby Gore family, Barons Harlech, of Brogyntyn (or Porkington), Oswestry, Shropshire.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 85, No. 30.

pp. 73-93

• RaW 641: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a Marriage between Prince Henry and a Daughter of Savoy

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with marginal annotations in another hand, headed ‘A politiqe Dispute about the happiest match for the noble Prince Charles’, the name ‘Charles’ deleted and ‘Henry’ added in a different hand, subscribed in different ink ‘WR:’.

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.

Brogyntyn MS II. 23

Copy, in a professional cursive mixed hand, headed ‘Considerations for the repressinge of the Encrease of Preests, Jesuites and Recusants without drawinge of Blood written by S^ir Robert Cotten Knight and Baronett’, 25 folio leaves, the last two imperfect having been gnawed by rodents, in a stiff paper wrapper. c.1620s-30s.

CtR 511: 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?

From the library of the Ormsby Gore family, Barons Harlech, of Brogyntyn (or Porkington), Oswestry, Shropshire.

Recorded in HMC 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 86, No. 39.

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.

Brogyntyn MS II. 42

Copy in the professional largely secretary hand of Ralph Crane (fl.1589-1632), poet and scribe, with a flourished title-page in italic (p. iv) ‘Demetrius and Enanthe. a pleasant Comedie Written by John Fletcher gent.’, the scenes and entrances in bold italic, v + 126 quarto pages, in contemporary limp vellum gilt. A presentation copy prepared by Crane (as ‘a Matter Recreatiue’) for Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-65), natural philiosopher and courtier, to whom a dedicatory epistle is written (p. v), dated 27 November 1625. 1625.

B&F 59: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Humorous Lieutenant

From the library of the Ormsby Gore family, Barons Harlech, of Brogyntyn (or Porkington), Oswestry, Shropshire. Inscribed (p. ii) by William E. Wynne with a note of provenance saying that Digby's grand-daughter married Richard Mostyn of Penbedw, Denbighshire, and that their daughter married Richard Williams, Wynne's great grandfather. Also inscribed ‘K. Digby Margrit’ (i.e Digby's daughter-in-law), and) ‘given by W. W. E. Wynne Esq. to me W. Ormsby Gore April 8. 1837.’

Printed from this MS, with three facsimile examples, in the Malone Society edition. Collated in Dyce, in Bond, and in Bowers.

Facsimiles of two pages also in F.P. Wilson, ‘Ralph Crane, Scrivener to the King's Players’, The Library, 4th Ser. 7 (1926-7), 194-215 (plates I and II). Facsimile of first page in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 20.

First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, VI, 415-539. Bullen, II, 455-581, ed. R.W. Bond. Edited by Margaret McLaren Cook and F.P. Wilson as Demetrius and Enanthe, Malone Society (Oxford, 1951). Bowers, V, 303-409, ed. Cyrus Hoy.

Brogyntyn MS II. 57 Vol. I

A large double-folio-size guardbook of miscellaneous verse, in various hands and paper sizes, 186 leaves.

From the library of the Ormsby Gore family, Barons Harlech, of Brogyntyn (or Porkington), Oswestry, Shropshire.

f. 1v

• WaE 673.5: Edmund Waller, Under a Lady's Picture (‘Some ages hence, for it must not decay’)

Copy of lines 3-8, headed ‘written vnder a Ladys picture’ and here beginning ‘Such Helen was & who can blame y^e boy’, in a quarto booklet of poems (occupying ff. 1r-6v) in a single neat (possibly female) roman hand. Late 17th century.

First published, in a six-line version headed ‘To be ingraven under the Queen's Picture’ and beginning at line 3 (‘Such Helen was! and who can blame the boy’), in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). An eight-line version first published in Thorn-Drury (1893), p. 129. Thorn-Drury (1904), II, 1.

f. 2r

• WaE 319.5: Edmund Waller, On a Brede of Divers Colours, Woven by Four Ladies (‘Twice twenty slender virgin-fingers twine’)

Copy, in a quarto booklet of poems (occupying ff. 1r-6v) in a single neat (possibly female) roman hand. Late 17th century.

First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 121.

ff. 13r-14v

• MaA 461: Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by (‘Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe’)

Copy, in a probably professional rounded hand, on two conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.

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.

f. 28r-v

• DrJ 171.5: John Dryden, The Prologue to Witt without Money being the first Play acted after the Fire (‘So shipwrack't Passengers escape to Land’)

Copy, in a neat italic hand, subscribed ‘the Prolog^u: to witt, without mony: being the first Play acted after the fire’, on both sides of a small quarto-size leaf. Late 17th-early 18th century.

First published in Covent Garden Drolery (London, 1672). Westminster Drolery, The Second Part (London, 1672). Kinsley, I, 140. California, I, 143-4. Hammond, I, 256-7.

f. 116r

• DrJ 77: John Dryden, The Lady's Song (‘A Quire of bright Beauties in Spring did appear’)

Copy, in a cursive hand, headed in a different hand ‘King Ja & Queen Ma’, on one side of a single quarto-size leaf. Late 17th century.

First published in Poeticall Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1774. California, III, 223. Hammond, III, 247-8.

f. 128r-9r

• DoC 29.5: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Ballad by the Lord Dorset when at Sea (‘To all you ladies now at land’)

Copy, in a rounded hand, untitled, the first poem (on three pages) in a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th-early 18th century.

First published as a broadsheet [1664? no exemplum extant]. Songs [1707?]. Old Songs [1707?]. Harris, pp. 65-8.

f. 129r

• VaJ 10.5: Sir John Vanbrugh, To a Lady More Cruel than Fair (‘Why d'ye with such Disdain refuse’)

Copy, in a rounded hand, the second poem (on the third page) in a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th-early 18th century.

First published, ascribed to ‘Mr Vanbrook’, in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704), pp. 245-6.

Carreglwyd MS I. 9

A folio booklet of discourses, in a single secretary hand, 42 pages, in modern stiff paper wrapper. Lacking pages after p. 26 and p. 32, some of which are now National Library of Wales, Carreglwyd II. 595. c.1640.

Among papers of the Griffith family of Carreglwyd, Anglesey, including papers of John Griffith of Gray's Inn, private secretary to Henry Howard (1540-1614), Earl of Northampton.

pp. 1-32, 41

• NaR 29: Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia

Copy of the first part, up to the section on Mountjoy, with a separated title-page, imperfect, lacking various pages and the last part.

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).

pp. 33-5

• WoH 262.5: Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham

Copy of the last part, imperfect, lacking all the rest (now National Library of Wales, Carreglwyd MS II. 595).

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

pp. 39-40

• SuJ 152.6: John Suckling, An Answer to a Gentleman in Norfolk that sent to enquire after the Scotish business

Copy, headed ‘A Coppie of a Lre written by S^r. John Suckling knight to a friend of his in Kent, concerning y^e Scottish Businesse. A^o. Dni: 1639.’

First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 142-4.

Carreglwyd MS II. 112

Copy of lines 1-20, headed ‘A Bracelett’, on the first page of two conjugate quarto leaves. c.1620s-30s.

CwT 1206.5: Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband (‘This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme’)

Among papers of the Griffith family of Carreglwyd, Anglesey, including papers of John Griffith of Gray's Inn, private secretary to Henry Howard (1540-1614), Earl of Northampton.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.

Carreglwyd MS II. 217

Copy, in a mixed hand, untitled, here beginning ‘Du Rex Paulinas accedit gratus ad Aras’, subscribed ‘Joh: Hoskins’, the second of two poems on one side of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed in a cursive hand ‘6^o Junij 1630 / A coppie of verses made by D^r. Sharpe & Sergeant Hoskins upon y^e appearance of a starr that day in y^e sermontyme at Poules [?church] y^e Kinges ma^tie: beinge present at the byrth of y^e prince’. c.1630.

HoJ 301: John Hoskyns, Vpon the birth of the Prince (‘Cum Rex Paulinas accessit gratus ad aras’)

Among papers of the Griffith family of Carreglwyd, Anglesey, including papers of John Griffith of Gray's Inn, private secretary to Henry Howard (1540-1614), Earl of Northampton.

The Latin poem followed by the English version, beginning ‘While at the Alter of S^t Pauls y^e King’. Osborn, No. XLVII (p. 214).

Carreglwyd MS II. 218

A folio leaf of verse (on one side), in an italic hand, endorsed ‘Verses made by Sergeant Hoskins’, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1634.

Among papers of the Griffith family of Carreglwyd, Anglesey, including papers of John Griffith of Gray's Inn, private secretary to Henry Howard (1540-1614), Earl of Northampton.

item 1

• HoJ 289: John Hoskyns, Mr Hoskins wrott in the windowe when he came out of the Tower (‘Sic luo, sic merui; sed quod meruique luoque’)

Copy, headed ‘Traditus in custodia A^o: dni 1614 12^o Jacobi. Re 8^o die Juij’, subscribed ‘J. Hoskins Liberatus 8 die Junij 1615 13 Ja: Re’.

This MS cited in Osborn.

Osborn, No. XXXV (p. 208).

item 2

• HoJ 248: John Hoskyns, To his Son Benedict Hoskins (‘Sweet Benedict whilst thou art younge’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Osborn

Osborn, No. XXXI (p. 203).

item 3

• HoJ 293: John Hoskyns, ‘Undecies senos exegi strenuus annos’

Copy, headed ‘De Seipso 1634’.

The Latin poem followed by an ‘Englished’ version, beginning ‘Years sixty six, I have with vigour Past’. Osborn, No. XLVIII (pp. 214-15).

Carreglwyd MS II. 328

Copy. Mid-17th century.

ClJ 30: John Cleveland, A Dialogue between two Zealots, upon the &c. in the Oath (‘Sir Roger, from a zealous piece of Freeze’)

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 4-5.

Carreglwyd MS II. 339

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on one side of a single folio leaf. c.1628.

CoR 13: Richard Corbett, Against the Opposing the Duke in Parliament, 1628 (‘The wisest King did wonder when hee spy'd’)

Among papers of the Griffith family of Carreglwyd, Anglesey, including papers of John Griffith of Gray's Inn, private secretary to Henry Howard (1540-1614), Earl of Northampton.

This MS recorded in HMC, 5th Report (1876), Appendix, p. 414.

First published in Poems and Songs relating to George Duke of Buckingham, Percy Society (London, 1850), p. 31. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 82-3.

Most MS texts followed by an anonymous ‘Answer’ beginning ‘The warlike king was troubl'd when hee spi'd’. Texts of these two poems discussed in V.L. Pearl and M.L. Pearl, ‘Richard Corbett's “Against the Opposing of the Duke in Parliament, 1628” and the Anonymous Rejoinder, “An Answere to the Same, Lyne for Lyne”: The Earliest Dated Manuscript Copies’, RES, NS 42 (1991), 32-9, and related correspondence in RES, NS 43 (1992), 248-9.

Carreglwyd MS II. 340

A single folio leaf, comprising two poems in a cursive predominantly secretary hand. c.1640.

Among papers of the Griffith family of Carreglwyd, Anglesey, including papers of John Griffith of Gray's Inn, private secretary to Henry Howard (1540-1614), Earl of Northampton.

Recorded in HMC, 5th Report (1876), p. 414.

f. 1r

• SuJ 207: John Suckling, Upon Sir John Suckling's hundred horse (‘I tell thee Jack thou'st given the King’)

Copy, headed ‘To S^r Jo: Sucklinge’.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 204-5.

f. 1v

• SuJ 226: John Suckling, Sir John Suckling's Answer (‘I tell thee foole who'ere thou be’)

Copy.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 205-6. Sometimes erroneously attributed to Suckling himself.

Carreglwyd MS II. 346

Copy of a letter by Ralegh.

RaW 967: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Carreglwyd MS II. 595

Copy of the first part of the work, including title, twelve folio pages, unbound, imperfect, lacking the last part (which is now National Library of Wales, Carreglwyd MS I. 9, pp. 33-5). c.1630s.

WoH 262.6: Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham

Among papers of the Griffith family of Carreglwyd, Anglesey, including papers of John Griffith of Gray's Inn, private secretary to Henry Howard (1540-1614), Earl of Northampton.

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

Castell Gorfod MS 1

A folio volume of state letters and tracts, in a single professional secretary hand, 88 leaves, in old quarter-calf marbled boards. Entirely in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’. c.1625-30s.

Bookplate of James Buckley (1770-1839), of Bryncaerau Castle. From the library of Captain James Buckley (1869-1924), of Castell Gorfod, St Clears, Carmarthenshire, which incorporated books and manuscripts collected by Theophilus Jones (1759-1812), Brecknockshire historian, by William Owen Pughe (1759-1835), antiquary and lexicographer, and by Joseph Joseph, FSA (1890), of Brecon, collector.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 211-14 (No. 1), with a facsimile example of f. 32v on p. 65.

ff. 5r-6v

• HoH 16: 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.

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, pp. 211-12 (No. 1.1).

A tract beginning ‘By the bestowing of my La Eliz. grace and after hir grace shall be settled...’. Unpublished?

ff. 7v-18v, 19v-24r

• RaW 968: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copy of nine letters by Ralegh, to the Earls of Nottingham, Suffolk and Devonshire (13 August 1603); to James I (3: November 1603 and 1607); to Ralegh's wife (1603); to Queen Anne; to Robert Cecil (1607), to Robert Carr; to Sir Ralph Winwood (here misidentified as ‘Ld Treasurer Cecil’, [14 May 1618]); plus another to James I ‘Supposed to bee written by S^r Walter Rauleigh, dated the ffirst of August 1603: and delivered by the parson of Staplye’.

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 212 (Nos. 1.4 and 1.6)

ff. 24v-32v

• RaW 1113: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Present Stat of Thinges as they now Stand betweene the three great Kingedomes, Fraunce, England, and Spaine

Copy, subscribed ‘Anno Dni: 1623’.

Edited from this MS in Lefranc (1968), pp. 590-5, and discussed pp. 586-90. The attribution subsequently doubted by Professor Lefranc (private communication). Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 212 (No. 1.7).

A tract beginning ‘These three great kingdoms as they now stand are to be compared to the election of a king of Poland...’. First published in Lefranc (1968), pp. 590-5, and discussed pp. 586-90. The attribution to Ralegh subsequently doubted by Professor Lefranc (private communication). If the tract dates from 1623, as appears in one MS, it could not have been weitten by Ralegh.

ff. 40v-4v

• CtR 364: Sir Robert Cotton, A Relation of the Proceedings against Ambassadors who have miscarried themselves, etc. ...[27 April 1624]

Copy, as ‘written by S^r Robte Cotton the xxvij^th: of Aprill 1624’.

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 212 (No. 1.9).

Tract, addressed to George, Duke of Buckingham, beginning ‘In humble obedience to your Grace's Command, I am emboldned to present my poor advice...’. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 1-9.

Chirk MS F 12633

A quarto verse miscellany, in two or three mixed hands, twenty pages, unbound. c.1670.

Inscribed (p. 20) ‘Rob: Cholmondeley 1670’. Among papers of the Myddelton family, of Chirk Castle, Wrexham.

pp. 1-7

• WaE 392: Edmund Waller, A Panegyric to my Lord Protector, of the present Greatness, and joint Interest of His Highness, and this Nation (‘While with a strong and yet a gentle hand’)

Copy, headed ‘A Panegyrick to Cromwell Lord Protector By M^r Waller...1655’.

First published London, 1655. The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 10-17.

pp. 7-8

• WaE 726: Edmund Waller, Upon the late Storm, and of the Death of His Highness ensuing the same (‘We must resign! Heaven his great soul does claim’)

Copy, as ‘by M^r Waller’.

First published as a broadside (London, [1658]). Three Poems upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector (London, 1659). As ‘Upon the late Storm, and Death of the late Usurper O. C.’ in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 34-5.

For the ‘answer or construction’ by William Godolphin, see the Introduction.

pp. 10-20

• MaA 344: Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter (‘Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight’)

Copy, subscribed after the envoy ‘To the King’‘By S^r John Denham’.

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

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

Dolaucothi MS 6748

A quarto volume comprising principally 129 poems by Donne, in a single neat italic hand up to p. 187, with verses by others added on pp. 187-98 by other hands, 198 pages, lacking seven leaves originally paginated 109-22 and 130-4, in modern quarter red morocco. c.1622-33.

Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Richard Lloyde’. Among papers of the Johnes family of Dolaucothi, in the parish of Cynwyl Gaeo, Carmarthenshire. Donated in 1944 by Herbert Lloyd Johnes.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Dolau Cothi MS’: DnJ Δ 10.

pp. 1-4

• DnJ 763: John Donne, La Corona (‘Deigne at my hands this crown of prayer and praise’)

Copy of the sequence of seven sonnets.

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Gardner.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 318-21. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 1-5. Shawcross, No. 160.

p. 5

• DnJ 216: John Donne, ‘As due by many titles I resigne’

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. I’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 322 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. I’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 6. Shawcross, No. 162. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 5, 11, 21, 103 (in four sequences).

p. 5

• DnJ 2478: John Donne, ‘Oh, my blacke Soule! now thou art summoned’

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. II’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 323 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. IV’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 7. Shawcross, No. 163. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 7, 21, 104 (in three sequences).

p. 6

• DnJ 3136: John Donne, ‘This is my playes last scene, here heavens appoint’

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. III’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 324 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. VI’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 7. Shawcross, No. 164. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 7, 22, 105 (in three sequences).

p. 6

• DnJ 231: John Donne, ‘At the round earths imagin'd corners, blow’

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. IV’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 325 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. VII’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 8. Shawcross, No. 165. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 8, 14, 22, 106 (in four sequences).

p. 7

• DnJ 1617: John Donne, ‘If poysonous mineralls, and if that tree’

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. V’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 326 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. IX’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 8. Shawcross, No. 166. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 9, 15, 23, 107 (in four sequences).

p. 7

• DnJ 881: John Donne, ‘Death be not proud, though some have called thee’

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. VI’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 326 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. X’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 9. Shawcross, No. 167. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 10, 16, 23, 107 (in four sequences).

p. 8

• DnJ 3041: John Donne, ‘Spit in my face you Jewes, and pierce my side’

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. VII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 327 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XI’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 9. Shawcross, No. 168.

p. 8

• DnJ 3879: John Donne, ‘Why are wee by all creatures waited on?’

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. VIII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 327 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XII’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 10. Shawcross, No. 169.

pp. 9-11

• DnJ 3581: John Donne, To the Countesse of Salisbury. August. 1614 (‘Faire, great, and good, since seeing you, wee see’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Countesse of S.’

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 224-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 107-10. Shawcross, No. 145.

pp. 12-15

• DnJ 1865: John Donne, A Letter to the Lady Carey, and M^rs Essex Riche, From Amyens (‘Here where by All All Saints invoked are’)

Copy, headed ‘To the La: C. of C. from France’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 221-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 105-7. Shawcross, No. 142.

pp. 16-18

• DnJ 2710: John Donne, Sapho to Philaenis (‘Where is that holy fire, which Verse is said’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 2, with a facsimile of p. 16 on p. 408. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 124-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 92-4 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 24. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 409-10.

pp. 18-19

• DnJ 952: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Image of her whom I love’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 95 (as ‘Elegie X’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 58. Shawcross, No. 35.

pp. 19-21

• DnJ 249: John Donne, The Autumnall (‘No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie The Autumnall’.

This MS collated in Shawcross.

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. 21-3

• DnJ 39: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published as ‘Elegie II’ in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as ‘Elegie II’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.

pp. 23-4

• DnJ 1675: John Donne, Jealosie (‘Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie I’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 79-80 (as ‘Elegie I’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 9-10. Shawcross, No. 11.

pp. 24-5

• DnJ 615: John Donne, Change (‘Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie III’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 82-3 (as ‘Elegie III’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 19-20. Shawcross, No. 16. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 198.

pp. 25-7

• DnJ 2495: John Donne, On his Mistris (‘By our first strange and fatall interview’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 111-13 (as ‘Elegie XVI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 23-4. Shawcross, No. 18. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 246-7.

pp. 27-8

• DnJ 2329: John Donne, ‘Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love’

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 28-31

• DnJ 2545: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS recorded in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie IV’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 84-6 (as ‘Elegie IV’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 7-9. Shawcross, No. 10. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 72-3.

p. 31

• DnJ 1524: John Donne, His Picture (‘Here take my picture. though I bid farewell’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published as ‘Elegie V’ in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 86-7 (as ‘Elegie V’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 25. Shawcross, No. 19. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 264.

pp. 32-5

• DnJ 364: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Gardner.

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

pp. 35-7

• DnJ 2439: John Donne, ‘Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve’

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie VII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 87-9 (as ‘Elegie VI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 10-11. Shawcross, No. 12. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 110-11.

pp. 37-8

• DnJ 2192: John Donne, Loves Warre (‘Till I have peace with thee, warr other men’)

Copy of lines 1-28, 31-2, 41-6, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Gardner.

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

pp. 38-41

• DnJ 3054: John Donne, The Storme (‘Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)’)

Copy, headed ‘The Storme Sent from [blank space] in the Iland Voyage To M: C: B:’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 175-7. Milgate, Satires, pp. 55-7. Shawcross, No. 109.

pp. 41-2

• DnJ 541: John Donne, The Calme (‘Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage’)

Copy, headed ‘The Calme in the same voyage’.

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.

p. 43

• DnJ 1475: John Donne, Hero and Leander (‘Both rob'd of aire, we both lye in one ground’)

Copy, under a general heading ‘Epigrams’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

p. 43

• DnJ 2649: John Donne, Pyramus and Thisbe (‘Two, by themselves, each other, love and feare’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

p. 43

• DnJ 2374: John Donne, Niobe (‘By childrens births, and death, I am become’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Shawcross.

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

p. 43

• DnJ 523: John Donne, A burnt ship (‘Out of a fired ship, which, by no way’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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.

p. 43

• DnJ 1272: John Donne, Fall of a wall (‘Vnder an undermin'd, and shot-bruis'd wall’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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’).

p. 43

• DnJ 1731: John Donne, A lame begger (‘I am unable, yonder begger cries’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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.

p. 43

• DnJ 2878: John Donne, A selfe accuser (‘Your mistris, that you follow whores, still taxeth you’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Shawcross.

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

p. 44

• DnJ 1882: John Donne, A licentious person (‘Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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.

p. 44

• DnJ 148: John Donne, Antiquary (‘If in his Studie he hath so much care’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 93. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled and beginning ‘If, in his study, Hamon hath such care’), 8 (as ‘Antiquary’), and 11.

p. 44

• DnJ 890: John Donne, Disinherited (‘Thy father all from thee, by his last Will’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Milgate.

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

p. 44

• DnJ 2260: John Donne, Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus (‘Like Esops fellow-slaves, O Mercury’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milate and in Shawcross.

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

p. 44

• DnJ 2586: John Donne, Phryne (‘Thy flattering picture, Phryne, is like thee’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

p. 44

• DnJ 2397: John Donne, An obscure writer (‘Philo, with twelve yeares study, hath beene griev'd’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

p. 44

• DnJ 1716: John Donne, Klockius (‘Klockius so deeply hath sworne, ne'r more to come’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

p. 45

• DnJ 2665: John Donne, Raderus (‘Why this man gelded Martiall I muse’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 54. Shawcross, No. 103. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 9 and 11.

p. 45

• DnJ 2671: John Donne, Ralphius (‘Compassion in the world againe is bred’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Milgate.

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

pp. 45-6

• DnJ 2384: John Donne, A nocturnall upon S. Lucies day, Being the shortest day (‘'Tis the yeares midnight, and it is the dayes’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie IV’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 44-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 84-5. Shawcross, No. 82.

p. 47

• DnJ 908: John Donne, The Dissolution (‘Shee is dead. And all which die’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 64. Gardner, Elegies, p. 86. Shawcross, No. 72.

pp. 47-50

• DnJ 1251: John Donne, The Extasie (‘Where, like a pillow on a bed’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Gardner.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 51-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 59-61. Shawcross, No. 62.

pp. 51-2

• DnJ 3693: John Donne, The undertaking (‘I have done one braver thing’)

Copy, headed ‘Platonique Loue’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 10. Gardner, Elegies, p. 57. Shawcross, No. 63.

pp. 52-3

• DnJ 1994: John Donne, Loves Deitie (‘I long to talke with some old lovers ghost’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 54. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 47-8. Shawcross, No. 64.

pp. 53-4

• DnJ 2032: John Donne, Loves diet (‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’)

Copy, headed ‘The Diet’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.

pp. 54-6

• DnJ 3894: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)

Copy of a five-stanza version.

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Gardner.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.

pp. 56-7

• DnJ 1391: John Donne, The Funerall (‘Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harme’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Gardner.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 58-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 67.

p. 57

• DnJ 175: John Donne, The Apparition (‘When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.

p. 58

• DnJ 3949: John Donne, Witchcraft by a picture (‘I fixe mine eye on thine, and there’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 45-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 37. Shawcross, No. 26.

pp. 58-9

• DnJ 481: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.

p. 60

• DnJ 1793: John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow (‘Stand still, and I will read to thee’)

Copy, headed ‘Lecture vppon Shadowe’.

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Gardner.

First published, as ‘Song’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 71-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 30.

p. 61

• DnJ 423: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

p. 62

• DnJ 1441: John Donne, The good-morrow (‘I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross. Discussed, as possibly ‘the last authorial version of the text’, in Lara M. Crowley, ‘Establishing a fitter Text of Donne's “The Good Morrowe”’, John Donne Journal, 22 (2003), 5-21.

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

p. 63

• DnJ 1699: John Donne, A Jeat Ring sent (‘Thou art not so black, as my heart’)

Copy, headed ‘A Jeat Ringe’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 65-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 38. Shawcross, No. 73.

pp. 63-4

• DnJ 3612: John Donne, The triple Foole (‘I am two fooles, I know’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 16. Gardner, Elegies, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 40.

pp. 64-5

• DnJ 2233: John Donne, Lovers infinitenesse (‘If yet I have not all thy love’)

Copy, headed ‘A Louers Infinitenes’.

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Gardner.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 17-18. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 77-8. Shawcross, No. 41.

pp. 66-7

• DnJ 2078: John Donne, Loves exchange (‘Love, any devill else but you’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 34-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 46-7. Shawcross, No. 55.

pp. 67-8

• DnJ 2166: John Donne, Loves Usury (‘For every houre that thou wilt spare mee now’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Gardner.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 13-14. Gardner, Elegies, p. 44. Shawcross, No. 38.

pp. 68-9

• DnJ 3096: John Donne, The Sunne Rising (‘Busie old fools, unruly Sunne’)

Copy, headed ‘Sun=Risinge’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 11-12. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 72-3. Shawcross, No. 36.

p. 70

• DnJ 3978: John Donne, Womans constancy (‘Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 42-3. Shawcross, No. 34.

pp. 70-1

• DnJ 1314: John Donne, A Feaver (‘Oh doe not die, for I shall hate’)

Copy, headed ‘Feuer’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 21. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 61-2. Shawcross, No. 44.

p. 72

• DnJ 1636: John Donne, The Indifferent (‘I can love both faire and browne’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 12-13. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 41-2. Shawcross, No. 37.

pp. 73-5

• DnJ 3772: John Donne, A Valediction: of my name, in the window (‘My name engrav'd herein’)

Copy, headed ‘Valediction of my Name, in the windowe’.

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Gardner.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 25-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 64-6. Shawcross, No. 49.

p. 76

• DnJ 1825: John Donne, The Legacie (‘When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.

pp. 77-8

• DnJ 815: John Donne, The Curse (‘Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.

pp. 78-9

• DnJ 11: John Donne, Aire and Angels (‘Twice or thrice had I loved thee’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 22. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 45.

pp. 79-80

• DnJ 2100: John Donne, Loves growth (‘I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure’)

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 33-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 76-7. Shawcross, No. 54.

pp. 80-2

• DnJ 580: John Donne, The Canonization (‘For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love’)

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Gardner.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.

pp. 82-3

• DnJ 1956: John Donne, Loves Alchymie (‘Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I’)

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.

pp. 83-4

• DnJ 3648: John Donne, Twicknam garden (‘Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares’)

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.

pp. 84-5

• DnJ 922: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee’)

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 37-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 79-80. Shawcross, No. 57.

pp. 85-6

• DnJ 1349: John Donne, The Flea (‘Marke but this flea, and marke in this’)

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.

pp. 86-7

• DnJ 1190: John Donne, The Expiration (‘So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse’)

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, in a musical setting, in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 68. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 36-7. Shawcross, No. 75.

p. 87

• DnJ 717: John Donne, The Computation (‘For the first twenty yeares, since yesterday’)

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69. Gardner, Elegies, p. 36. Shawcross, No. 76.

pp. 87-8

• DnJ 2627: John Donne, The Prohibition (‘Take heed of loving mee’)

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 67-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 39-40. Shawcross, No. 47.

pp. 88-9

• DnJ 108: John Donne, The Anniversarie (‘All Kings, and all their favorites’)

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 24-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 71-2. Shawcross, No. 48.

pp. 89-90

• DnJ 2608: John Donne, The Primrose (‘Upon this Primrose hill’)

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 61-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 88-9. Shawcross, No. 69.

pp. 90-2

• DnJ 342: John Donne, The Blossoms (‘Little think'st thou, poore flower’)

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 59-60. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 87-8. Shawcross, No. 68.

pp. 92-3

• DnJ 854: John Donne, The Dampe (‘When I am dead, and Doctors know not why’)

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 63-4. Gardner, Elegies, p. 49. Shawcross, No. 71.

pp. 93-4

• DnJ 2685: John Donne, The Relique (‘When my grave is broke up againe’)

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 62-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 89-90. Shawcross, No. 70.

pp. 94-5

• DnJ 2362: John Donne, Negative love (‘I never stoop'd so low, as they’)

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 66. Gardner, Elegies, p. 56. Shawcross, No. 74.

pp. 95-6

• DnJ 3832: John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping (‘Let me powre forth’)

Copy, headed ‘Valediction of weepinge’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 38-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 58.

pp. 96-8

• DnJ 3803: John Donne, A Valediction: of the booke (‘I'll tell thee now (deare Love) what thou shalt doe’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Gardner.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 29-32. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 67-9. Shawcross, No. 52.

pp. 98-9

• DnJ 3719: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)

Copy, headed ‘Valediction forbidding Mourninge’.

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Gardner.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.

p. 100

• DnJ 2281: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)

Copy, untitled, under a generall heading ‘Songes which were made to certaine Aires that were made before’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.

p. 101

• DnJ 293: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

p. 102

• DnJ 655: John Donne, Communitie (‘Good wee must love, and must hate ill’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 32-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 33-4. Shawcross, No. 53.

p. 103

• DnJ 739: John Donne, Confined Love (‘Some man unworthy to be possessor’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 36. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 34-5. Shawcross, No. 56.

pp. 103-4

• DnJ 2992: John Donne, Song (‘Sweetest love, I do not goe’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Gardner.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 18-19. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 31-2. Shawcross, No. 42.

pp. 104-5

• DnJ 2906: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘The eand of the Songes’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.

pp. 106-9

• DnJ 1146: John Donne, Epithalamion made at Lincolnes Inne (‘The Sun-beames in the East are spred’)

Copy of lines 1-72; imperfect, lacking the ending.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 141-4. Shawcross, No. 106. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 3-6. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 87-9.

p. 109

• DnJ 1059: John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham (‘Man is the World, and death th' Ocean’)

Copy of lines 45-62, here beginning ‘Soe mvch did zeale her conscience ratifie’), imperfect, lacking the first part.

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.

pp. 109-12

• DnJ 1003: John Donne, Elegie on M^ris Boulstred (‘Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie M^rs Bolstrod’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 282-4. Shawcross, No. 150. Milgate, Epithalamions, p. 59-61. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 129-30.

pp. 112-14

• DnJ 1117: John Donne, Elegie upon the untimely death of the incomparable Prince Henry (‘Looke to mee faith, and looke to my faith, God’)

Copy of lines 1-87, headed ‘Elegie Prince Henry’, imperfect; lacking the ending.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

First published in Joshua Sylvester, Lachrymae Lachrymarum (London, 1613). Poems (London, 1633). Grierson, I, 267-70. Shawcross, No. 152. Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 63-6 (as ‘Elegie on Prince Henry’). Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 160-2.

pp. 115-19

• DnJ 2414: John Donne, Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, brother to the Lady Lucy, Countesse of Bedford (‘Faire soule, which wast, not onely, as all soules bee’)

Copy of lines 109-258, here beginning ‘In the most large extent, through every path’, imperfect, lacking the first part of the poem.

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 271-9. Shawcross, No. 153. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 66-74. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 177-82.

pp. 120-1

• DnJ 1415: John Donne, Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward (‘Let mans Soule be a spheare, and then, in this’)

Copy, headed ‘Good Fryday Made as I was riding Westward that daie’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Gardner.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 336-7. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 185.

pp. 121-3

• DnJ 133: John Donne, The Annuntiation and Passion (‘Tamely, fraile body, 'abstaine to day. to day’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Annuntiation when Good Frydaie fell vppon the same daie’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Gardner.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 334-6. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 29-30 (as ‘Upon the Annunciation and Passion falling upon one day. 1608’). Shawcross, No. 183.

pp. 123-5

• DnJ 782: John Donne, The Crosse (‘Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse it selfe, dare I’)

Copy, headed ‘Of the Crosse’.

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Gardner.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 331-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 26-8. Shawcross, No. 181.

pp. 125-6

• DnJ 2702: John Donne, Resurrection, imperfect (‘Sleep sleep old Sun, thou canst not have repast’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Crowley. Recorded in Shawcross and in Gardner.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 333-4. Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 28. Shawcross, No. 182. The MS texts discussed in Lara M. Crowley, ‘A Text of “Resurrection. Imperfect”’, John Donne Journal, 29 (2010), 185-98.

pp. 126-7

• DnJ 3311: John Donne, To M^r T.W. (‘All haile sweet Poët, more full of more strong fire’)

Copy, headed ‘Letters To M: J: W.’

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 203-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 59-60. Shawcross, No. 114.

pp. 127-8

• DnJ 3354: John Donne, To M^r T.W. (‘Hast thee harsh verse, as fast as thy lame measure’)

Copy, headed ‘To M: F: W:’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 205. Milgate, Satires, pp. 60-1. Shawcross, No. 115.

p. 128

• DnJ 3362: John Donne, To M^r T.W. (‘Pregnant again with th' old twins Hope, and Feare’)

Copy, headed ‘To M: T: W.’

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206. Milgate, Satires, p. 61. Shawcross, No. 116.

pp. 128-9

• DnJ 3336: John Donne, To M^r T.W. (‘At once, from hence, my lines and I depart’)

Copy, untitled and immediately following on from ‘Pregnant again with th' old twins Hope, and Feare’ (DnJ 3362).

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206-7. Milgate, Satires, p. 62. Shawcross, No. 117.

p. 129

• DnJ 3230: John Donne, To M^r C.B. (‘Thy friend, whom thy deserts to thee enchaine’)

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 208. Milgate, Satires, p. 63. Shawcross, No. 120.

p. 130

• DnJ 3302: John Donne, To M^r S.B. (‘O Thou which to search out the secret parts’)

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 211. Milgate, Satires, pp. 66-7. Shawcross, No. 124.

pp. 130-1

• DnJ 3221: John Donne, To M^r B.B. (‘Is not thy sacred hunger of science’)

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 212-13. Milgate, Satires, pp. 67-8. Shawcross, No. 126.

pp. 131-3

• DnJ 3279: John Donne, To M^r Rowland Woodward (‘Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe’)

Copy, headed ‘To: M: R: W:’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 185-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 113.

pp. 133-4

• DnJ 3257: John Donne, To M^r R.W. (‘If, as mine is, thy life a slumber be’)

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 209-10. Milgate, Satires, pp. 64-5. Shawcross, No. 122.

p. 134

• DnJ 3249: John Donne, To M^r I.L. (‘Of that short Roll of friends writ in my heart’)

Copy, headed ‘To M^r J: L:’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 212. Milgate, Satires, p. 67. Shawcross, No. 125.

pp. 134-5

• DnJ 3240: John Donne, To M^r I.L. (‘Blest are your North parts, for all this long time’)

Copy, headed ‘To M^r: J: P:’.

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 213-14. Milgate, Satires, pp. 68-9. Shawcross, No. 127.

pp. 135-6

• DnJ 3151: John Donne, To E. of D. with six holy Sonnets (‘See Sir, how as the Suns hot Masculine flame’)

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Gardner.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 317. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 5-6. Shawcross, No. 161.

pp. 136-7

• DnJ 3450: John Donne, To S^r Henry Wootton (‘Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well’)

Copy, headed ‘To: M^r.: H: W:’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 187-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 73-4. Shawcross, No. 111.

pp. 137-9

• DnJ 3481: John Donne, To S^r Henry Wotton (‘Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules’)

Copy, headed ‘To S^r H W many yeares since’, subscribed ‘Donne’.

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 180-2. Milgate, Satires, pp. 71-3. Shawcross, No. 112.

pp. 139-41

• DnJ 3414: John Donne, To Sir H.W. at his going Ambassador to Venice (‘After those reverend papers, whose soule is’)

Copy, headed ‘To S^r H W at his goinge Ambassadour to Venice’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 141-3

• DnJ 3429: John Donne, To S^r Henry Goodyere (‘Who makes the Past, a patterne for next yeare’)

Copy, headed ‘To: S^r: H: G: moving him too trauaile’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 183-4. Milgate, Satires, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 130.

pp. 143-5

• DnJ 3397: John Donne, To S^r Edward Herbert, at Julyers (‘Man is a lumpe, where all beasts kneaded bee’)

Copy, headed ‘To: S^r: E: H:’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 193-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 80-1. Shawcross, No. 140.

pp. 145-7

• DnJ 3375: John Donne, To M^rs M.H. (‘Mad paper stay, and grudge not here to burne’)

Copy, headed ‘To: M: M: H:’.

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 216-18. Milgate, Satires, pp. 88-90. Shawcross, No. 133.

pp. 147-8

• DnJ 3523: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘Reason is our Soules left hand, Faith her right’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Countesse of B.’

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 189-90. Milgate, Satires, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 134.

pp. 149-51

• DnJ 3508: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘Honour is so sublime perfection’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Countesse of B.’

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 218-20. Milgate, Satires, pp. 100-2. Shawcross, No. 136.

pp. 151-3

• DnJ 3550: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘You have refin'd mee, and to worthyest things’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Countesse of B’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 191-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 91-4. Shawcross, No. 137.

pp. 154-6

• DnJ 3539: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘T' have written then, when you writ, seem'd to mee’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Countesse of B’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 195-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 95-8. Shawcross, No. 138.

pp. 157-9

• DnJ 3562: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford. On New-yeares day (‘This twilight of two yeares, not past nor next’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Countesse of B: att New=yeares tide’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 198-201. Milgate, Satires, pp. 98-100. Shawcross, No. 139.

pp. 159-60

• DnJ 3559: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford. Begun in France but never perfected (‘Though I be dead, and buried, yet I have’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Countesse of B. begun in France but neuer perfected’.

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 220-1. Milgate, Satires, p. 104. Shawcross, No. 143.

pp. 160-3

• DnJ 3567: John Donne, To the Countesse of Huntingdon (‘Man to Gods image. Eve, to mans was made’)

Copy, headed ‘To the: C: of H:’.

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 201-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 85-8. Shawcross, No. 141.

pp. 163-77

• DnJ 1778: John Donne, The Lamentations of Jeremy, for the most part according to Tremelius (‘How sits this citie, late most populous’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Gardner.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 354-67. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 35-48. Shawcross, No. 187.

pp. 178-87

• DnJ 1928: John Donne, The Litanie (‘Father of Heaven, and him, by whom’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Gardner.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 338-48. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 16-26. Shawcross, No. 184.

Great Sessions P 2033

Autograph letter signed by Vaughan, to Mr Justice Paulet, from Crickowel, 14 September 1693. 1693.

*VaH 9: Henry Vaughan the Silurist, Letter(s)

Edited in Martin, pp. 698-9.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E1/2

Copy of the complete work, in the neat italic hand of an amanuensis, transcribed from a lost intermediate MS (‘AuX’), with alterations in three other hands, including that of Horace Walpole, with his title-page (f. iv^r) ‘The Life of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury written by Himself’, iv + 177 folio pages, in contemporary calf. c.1700.

HrE 95: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Autobiography

A copy probably made for the Herbert family and left at Stokes Manor, Buckinghamshire, which was sold in 1713 by Henry Herbert to James Howe, whose son John sent the MS c.1737 to the Earl of Powis.

The copy-text for Horace Walpole's edition (1764). The text corrected from this MS in Shuttleworth and discussed (as ‘AuW’) pp. xx-xxi. Discussed (as ‘Draft B’) in Aaron, and (as MS ‘W’) in Rossi, III, 508-20. Also discussed in N.W. Bawcutt, ‘The Manuscripts of Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Autobiography’, The Library, 6th Ser. 12 (1990), 133-6.

First published at Strawberry Hill, 1764, ed. Horace Walpole. Edited in The Life of Edward, First Lord Herbert of Cherbury written by himself, ed. J.M. Shuttleworth (London, 1976).

The various MSS also discussed in N.W. Bawcutt, ‘The Manuscripts of Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Autobiography’, The Library, 6th Ser. 12, No. 2 (June 1990), 133-6.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers MS E2/1/5

A fair copy, in the neat italic hand of an amanuensis, with corrections probably in Herbert's hand, 22 folio pages, in a paper wrapper. September 1633.

*HrE 139: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Reply to D. Molin

This MS discussed in Rossi, I, 474-5, 589 et seq.; I, 524-5, and III, 542.

Reply to a friend of Luise Molina concerning observations on De Veritate. Unpublished.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/1/6

Autograph draft of Herbert's reply to Mersenne's objections to De veritate, including a list of corrections to the printed edition.

*HrE 141: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Reply to P. Mersenne

This MS discussed in Rossi, I, 481; II, 529-39, and III, 542.

Unpublished.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/2/1

Part of the autograph third draft of the work, with copious deletions and revisions, 43 folio leaves (plus blanks), chiefly on rectos only, unbound. c.1643.

*HrE 100: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, De causis errorum

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490-1.

First published in the 3rd edition of De veritate (London, 1645). Facsimile of this edition introduced by Günter Gawlick (Stuttgart, 1966).

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/2/1

Autograph draft for the first five pages of Herbert's reply, in Latin, with deletions and revisions. September 1633.

*HrE 140: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Reply to D. Molin

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 542 (n).

Reply to a friend of Luise Molina concerning observations on De Veritate. Unpublished.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/2/2

Copy of part of the work, with autograph revisions, on pages numbered 42-59.

*HrE 103: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, De causis errorum

Formerly Powis MSS (1959 deposit), Series II, Bundle XIX, No. 5c.

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490-1.

First published in the 3rd edition of De veritate (London, 1645). Facsimile of this edition introduced by Günter Gawlick (Stuttgart, 1966).

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/2/3

Autograph portion of the second draft, with deletions and revisions, headed at the side ‘Rectu Judex sui et obliqui’, on two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1645.

*HrE 98: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, De causis errorum

First published in the 3rd edition of De veritate (London, 1645). Facsimile of this edition introduced by Günter Gawlick (Stuttgart, 1966).

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/2/4

A portion of a fair copy of the work, in the italic hand of an amanuensis, with Herbert's autograph corrections and revisions, 34 folio leaves, on rectos only, unbound.

*HrE 102: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, De causis errorum

Inscribed (f. ⁱr) by the third Baron Herbert of Cherbury ‘De Causis Erroru manuscripts of my Grand fathers giuen me by M^r Edw: Griffith of Sutten June. 29. 1680 wherof I have not yet taken a Catalogue’

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490-1

First published in the 3rd edition of De veritate (London, 1645). Facsimile of this edition introduced by Günter Gawlick (Stuttgart, 1966).

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/2/5

Autograph, with deletions and revisions, on both sides of a folio leaf, part of the first draft.

*HrE 96: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, De causis errorum

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490-1.

First published in the 3rd edition of De veritate (London, 1645). Facsimile of this edition introduced by Günter Gawlick (Stuttgart, 1966).

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E1/1

A folio draft, principally in the hand of Herbert's secretary Rowland Evans, with corrections and revisions, a few probably in Herbert's hand, untitled, imperfect, comprising only pages 13-28, 33-72, 85-100, 105-20, 137-44, in modern blue half-morocco. c.1643.

HrE 94: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Autobiography

Edited from this MS and discussed (as ‘AuE’) in Shuttleworth, with a facsimile of p. 58 facing p. 4. Discussed (as ‘Draft A’) in R.I. Aaron, ‘The “Autobiography” of Edward, First Lord Herbert of Cherbury: The Original Manuscript Material’, MLR, 36 (1941), 184-94, with a facsimile of p. 59 facing p. 161; and (as MS ‘E’) in Rossi, III, 508-20. Also discussed in N. W. Bawcutt, ‘The Manuscripts of Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Autobiography’, The Library, 6th Ser. 12 (1990), 133-6.

Other facsimile examples in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 174, and in DLB, vol. 252, British Philosophers 1500-1799, ed. Philip B. Damatteis and Peter S. Fosl (Detroit, 2002), p. 180.

First published at Strawberry Hill, 1764, ed. Horace Walpole. Edited in The Life of Edward, First Lord Herbert of Cherbury written by himself, ed. J.M. Shuttleworth (London, 1976).

The various MSS also discussed in N.W. Bawcutt, ‘The Manuscripts of Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Autobiography’, The Library, 6th Ser. 12, No. 2 (June 1990), 133-6.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/2/6

Part of the autograph second draft of the work, with copious deletions and revisions, iii + 46 folio leaves, unbound.

*HrE 99: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, De causis errorum

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490-1.

First published in the 3rd edition of De veritate (London, 1645). Facsimile of this edition introduced by Günter Gawlick (Stuttgart, 1966).

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/2/7

Fair copy of the complete work, chiefly in the italic hands of amanuenses, partly autograph and with Herbert's copious deletions and revisions, 143 folio leaves. on rectos only, unbound. 1640.

*HrE 104: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, De causis errorum

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490-1.

First published in the 3rd edition of De veritate (London, 1645). Facsimile of this edition introduced by Günter Gawlick (Stuttgart, 1966).

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/2/8

Part of the autograph third draft of the work, with copious deletions and revisions, 35 folio leaves, foliated 41-65 (plus eleven blanks), on rectos only, unbound. c.1645.

*HrE 101: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, De causis errorum

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490-1.

First published in the 3rd edition of De veritate (London, 1645). Facsimile of this edition introduced by Günter Gawlick (Stuttgart, 1966).

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/2/9

Portion of the second autograph draft, headed ‘Appendix’, twelve folio leaves, in a paper wrapper, and ten additional unbound folio leaves of autograph drafts heavily revised; now united with HrE 97. c.1643-4.

*HrE 131: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Religio laici [in Latin]

This MS described in Rossi, III, 504.

First published, as De religione laici, with De causis errorum &c (London, 1645). Facsimile of this edition introduced by Günter Gawlick (Stuttgart, 1966). Edited and translated by Harold R. Hutcheson (New Haven, 1944).

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/2/9

A portion of the autograph first draft, 46 folio pages, irregularly numbered from 104 to 128, now united with HrE 131.

*HrE 97: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, De causis errorum

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490-1.

First published in the 3rd edition of De veritate (London, 1645). Facsimile of this edition introduced by Günter Gawlick (Stuttgart, 1966).

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/3/1

Draft of Chapters II-X, chiefly autograph, partly in the hand of an amanuensis, with copious autograph deletions and revisions, 126 folio leaves, chiefly on rectos only, unbound. c.1642-4.

*HrE 106: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, De religione Gentilium

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 506.

First published in Amsterdam, 1663.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/3/2

Autograph draft of the table of contents and part of Chapter I, with deletions and revisions, on five folio leaves. c.1642-4.

*HrE 105: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, De religione Gentilium

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 560.

First published in Amsterdam, 1663.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/3/3

A large portion of an autograph draft, comprising ‘Pars secunda’ and ‘Pars tertia’, with copious deletions and revisions, 241 folio leaves, chiefly rectos only, foliated 126-271, 271bis-342, + 5 unfoliated, + ff. 1-18 (plus blanks), unbound. c.1642-4.

*HrE 107: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, De religione Gentilium

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 506.

First published in Amsterdam, 1663.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/3/4

Copy of almost the complete work, in the italic hands of two amanuenses, with some autograph corrections or revisions by Herbert (notably on f. [13r], on 21 folio leaves (largely rectos only, plus blanks), unbound. c.1641-4.

*HrE 109: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, De religione Gentilium

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 507.

First published in Amsterdam, 1663.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/3/6

Portion of an original draft, comprising text in the predominantly italic hand of an amanuensis, with Herbert's autograph corrections and revisions in black ink, on four pages (rectos only of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves). c.1642-4.

*HrE 108: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, De religione Gentilium

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 506.

First published in Amsterdam, 1663.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/4/1

Autograph early draft of the Quid laicus, with revisions, entitled ‘Resp. J. G. petentis Quod Laicus de relligione optima statuerit’, on the rectos of seven unbound folio leaves. c.1643-4.

*HrE 134: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Religio laici [in Latin]

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 505.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/4/2

A fair copy of the complete work, in the italic hand of an amanuensis, headed ‘Appendix’, on eight folio leaves, in a paper wrapper. c.1643-4.

*HrE 132: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Religio laici [in Latin]

This MS described in Rossi, III, 504-5.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/4/3

Copy of a list of chapters, in an italic hand, subscribed in another hand ‘De Religione Gentilu Erroruq apud eos Caussis Authore Edoardo Barone Herbert &c.’, on one page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

HrE 105.5: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, De religione Gentilium

First published in Amsterdam, 1663.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/4/4

Autograph first draft, with copious deletions and revisions, headed ‘Appendix’, incomplete, on seven pages of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves, unbound. c.1643-4.

*HrE 130: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Religio laici [in Latin]

This MS described in Rossi, III, 504.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/4/5

Autograph draft, with copious deletions and revisions, untitled, comprising the ‘Appendix ad Sacerdotes’ and ‘Quid Laicus’, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1643-8.

*HrE 131.5: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Religio laici [in Latin]

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/4/6

A portion of a fair copy, in the italic hand of an amanuensis, with Herbert's autograph corrections and revisions, on fourteen unbound folio leaves.

*HrE 133: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Religio laici [in Latin]

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 505. title deleted

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/4/7

A fair copy of the complete work, in the neat italic hand of an amanuensis, entitled ‘Appendix Libr. De Veritate’, comprising (ff. 1-8) ‘Religio laici’ and (ff. 8v-10v) ‘Quid laicus’, ten folio leaves, in modern half brown morocco. c.1643-8.

HrE 135: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Religio laici [in Latin]

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/6/1

Inscriptions, including ‘Richardi Barnefilde’ in an italic hand and ‘Richardi Barnefeilde libellus ex dono Gulielmi’ in a neater italic hand. On a flyleaf in a quarto MS volume of Latin prose texts, beginning with a treatise ‘Philosophiæ Encomion’, in a cursive italic hand, 21 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum.

BaR 10: Richard Barnfield, Document(s)

Other inscribed names including ‘Edward Herbert’, ‘William Lee’, ‘William Andrewe’, and ‘Evan Thoues’.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E2/6/3

Autograph draft of the beginning of an unfinished treatise in English on aesthetics, on both sides of a a single quarto leaf. c.1630-48.

*HrE 126: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The new Philosophy of Beauty

Edited from this MS in Rossi.

First published in Rossi (1947), III, 442-3.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E3/1

Copy of an early 110-line version, in the neat italic hand of an amanuensis, with Herbert's autograph revisions, subscribed Eduardus Baro Herbert de Cherbury...An^no. Dni 1642, on all four pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet, imperfect. 1642.

*HrE 35: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Haered. ac nepot. suis praecepta & consilia (‘Si tibi chara Dei sunt Jussa, & Jussa Parentis’)

This MS discussed in Rossi, III, 391-2.

First published subjoined to De causis errorum (London, 1645). Moore Smith, pp. 106-18.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E3/2

Four autograph drafts, early versions of parts of the poem, on both sides of a folio leaf.

*HrE 30: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Euryale maerens (‘Depressae valles piceis irriguae fontibus’)

This MS discussed in Rossi, III, 391.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 93.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E3/3/5

Copy, in a cursive italic hand, headed ‘On the death of an Infant’ and here beginning ‘As carefull Mothers will to bed soone lay’, on the fourth page of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves. Mid-17th century.

DaJ 204: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E3/4

Fair copy of an early 84-line version, in a predominantly italic hand, on both sides of a single folio leaf. c.1639.

HrE 36: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Idea, Made of Alnwick in his Expedition to Scotland with the Army, 1639 (‘All Beauties vulgar eyes on earth do see’)

Found in the vicarage of Chirbury and given to Lord Powis by the Rev. John Bard.

This MS discussed in Frank J. Warnke, ‘Two Previously Unnoted MSS. of Poems by Lord Herbert of Cherbury’, N&Q, 199 (April 1954), 141-2.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 75-9.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/1/1

Copy of part of the work, in a secretary hand, on 26 folio leaves (plus blanks). c.1634-8.

HrE 125: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Life and Reign of King Henry VIII

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490.

First published in London, 1649. Published in London, 1880 (with Autobiography).

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/1/2

Part of an autograph draft of the work, with copious revisions, on all eight pages of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves. c.1634-8.

*HrE 124: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Life and Reign of King Henry VIII

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 490.

First published in London, 1649. Published in London, 1880 (with Autobiography).

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/2/1

Fair copy of the beginning of Chapter I of the English version, in the neat italic hand of an amanuensis, headed ‘To the Corte’, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1630.

HrE 116: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Expedition to the Isle of Rhé

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 487.

Latin version (Expeditio in Ream Insulam) first published in London, 1656, edited by Timothy Baldwin. English version first published by the Philobiblon Society in London, 1860, edited by Lord Powis.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/2/2

Autograph draft of the complete Latin version, with copious deletions and revisions, 122 leaves (including blanks) on rectos only, unbound. 1630/1.

*HrE 117: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Expedition to the Isle of Rhé

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 487.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/2/3

Copy of Chapters III-VIII of the English version, in the predominantly secretary hand of an amanuensis, with corrections and revisions probably in Herbert's hand, 57 folio leaves, imperfect, some leaves gnawed by rodents, unbound. c.1630.

*HrE 115: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Expedition to the Isle of Rhé

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 486.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/2/4

Copy of the dedicatory epistle to Charles I, in English, dated 10 August 1630. Mid-late 17th century.

*HrE 120: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Expedition to the Isle of Rhé

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 487.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/2/5

A portion of an autograph draft of the Latin version, on three pages of two folio leaves.

*HrE 119.2: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Expedition to the Isle of Rhé

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/2/6

Autograph fair copy of the complete English version, with the dedicatory epistle to the King but without the preface, with some alterations and underlinings in another hand, the MS prepared by Herbert for presentation to Charles I, 268 folio pages, in olive green calf elaborately gilt. c.1630.

*HrE 114: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Expedition to the Isle of Rhé

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 486-7.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/2/7

Autograph draft of the complete Latin version, with revisions, 169 folio pages, in vellum.

*HrE 118: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Expedition to the Isle of Rhé

This MS recorded in Rossi, III, 487.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/3/1

Copy of Bacon's speech on the naturalization of the Scots, in a professional secretary hand, 25 folio leaves, unbound. c.1620s-30s.

BcF 397: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers MS E5/3/5

Copy of Bacon's submission on 30 April 1621, in a cursive secretary hand, written across the width of fourteen large sheets, unbound. c.1621.

BcF 497: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

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.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/3/7

Copy, on fifteen pages, imperfect.

RaW 689: Sir Walter Ralegh, Observations concerning the Royal Navy and Sea-Service

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.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/3/8

Historical documents used by Herbert when writing The Expedition to the Isle of Rhé. c.1630.

HrE 116.5: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Expedition to the Isle of Rhé

Formerly in Powis MSS (1959 deposit), Series II, Bundle XII, Nos. 3-6.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/3/13

A volume of parliamentary speeches and proceedings in 1640.

[unspecified page numbers]

• RuB 206: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech(es)

Copy of one or more speeches in 1640.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/3/30

A folio volume of antiquarian tracts on parliament, in a professional secretary hand, twenty leaves (including two blanks), unbound. c.1620s-30s.

Among the papers of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, formerly at Powis Castle. Formerly Powis MSS (1959 deposit), Series II, Bundle XVI, ‘Miscellaneous Political Papers’, Part 1, No. 2.

ff. 11r-15r

• CmW 86: William Camden, Of the Antiquity of Parliaments in England

Copy, headed ‘The Antiquity of Parliam^t’, subscribed ‘W^m: 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.

ff. 17r-10r

• CtR 71: Sir Robert Cotton, The Antiquitie of Parliaments

Copy, unascribed.

A tract beginning ‘As touching the nature of the Right Courte of Parliament, It is nothing else but the Kinges greate councell...’. Ascribed to Cotton in MS sources.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/3/32

Copy, in a professional mixed hand, with a title-page ‘A collection out of Records of many Charges occasions of State haue ledd diuerse Princes to lay vppon theire people by supreame powers and not by Parliament. Written By S^r Robert Cotton knight and Barronet at his Ma^ts: command for the Lords of his highnes Priuie-Counsell’, inscribed on the title-page with the price ‘1^l 5^s’, vii + 77 folio leaves, in a paper wrapper. Mid-17th century.

CtR 306: Sir Robert Cotton, The Manner and Meanes how the Kings of England have from time to time Supported and Repaired their Estates. Written...1609.

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].

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/3/33

Copy, in two professional mixed hands, as ‘Written by S^r Robert Cotton Bruceus’, six folio leaves (plus two blanks), unbound. c.1630.

CtR 47: Sir Robert Cotton, An Answer to Certain Arguments raised from Supposed Antiquity, and urged by some Members of the lower House of Parliament, to prove that Ecclesiasticall Lawes ought to be Enacted by Temporall Men

Tract beginning ‘What, besides self-regard, or siding faction, hath been...’. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [203]-217.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/3/47

Part of an autograph fair copy of Herbert's translation of Francis Bacon's In felicem memoriam Elizabethae, Angliae Reginae, beginning ‘Indeed about the 10^th of her Raigne, some tumults were attempted in the North’, on all eight pages of four folio leaves, imperfect.

*HrE 142: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Translation of Bacon's Elogium Elizabethae

Recorded in Rossi, III, 542.

Unpublished.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/4/4

Copy.

OvT 52: Sir Thomas Overbury, Observations in his travailes

A tract beginning ‘All things concurred for the rising and maintenance of this State...’. First published as Sir Thomas Overbvry his Observations in his Travailes vpon the State of The Xvii. Provinces as they stood Anno Dom. 1609 (London, 1626). Rimbault, pp. 223-30. Authorship uncertain.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/4/13-15

Historical documents used by Herbert when writing The Expedition to the Isle of Rhé.

HrE 116.8: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Expedition to the Isle of Rhé

Formerly in Powis MSS (1959 deposit), Series II, Bundle XII, Nos. 3-6.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers E5/4/16

Autograph fair copy, with alterations, on three leaves, dated 10 April 1635. 1635.

*HrE 92: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Address to the King on the Present Estate of the Kingdom and Foreign Affairs

Edited from this MS in Smith. Discussed in Rossi, II, 475-85, and III, 542.

A memorial beginning ‘My most gratious Soveraine. It is observd amonge Statesmen that wise Princes have ever receivd their Counsailors advises in forraine affaires...’. First published, in a condensed form, in W.J. Moore Smith, Herbert Correspondence (Cardiff, 1963), pp. 86-8.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers M/1/1/1

A folio volume comprising ‘A Collection of proceedings in the House of Comons about Impeaching the Earl of Clarendon...1667’, 238 pages, imperfect, in modern limp vellum with ties. Late 17th century.

ClE 116: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Impeachment Proceedings against Clarendon in 1667

Articles of Treason exhibited in Parliament against Clarendon, 14 November 1667 published in London, 1667. The Proceedings in the House of Commons touching the Impeachment of Clarendon 1667 published in London, 1700.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers M 1/1/22

Two poems, in a professional cursive hand, on three folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th century.

pp. [1-2]

• DrJ 43.94: John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire (‘How dull and how insensible a beast’)

Copy in double columns, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.

First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.

The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, ‘Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire’, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that ‘Mulgrave had by far the major hand’. Recorded in Hammond, V, 684, in an ‘Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition’.

pp. [5-6]

• RoJ 104.43: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The History of Insipids (‘Chaste, pious, prudent, Charles the Second’)

Copy, in double columns, on both sides of a single folio leaf.

See Vivian de Sola Pinto in ‘“The History of Insipids”: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell’, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers M 2/4

Copy, in a neat hand, headed ‘The Fall of Angells & ma[ ] m[ ] Innocency. An Opera’, entitled on the wrapper in the hand of Captain Henry Herbert, later fourth Baron Herbert of Cherbury (d.1691) ‘The fall of Angells & Man By Drayden’, with corrections in one or more other hands, on 42 pages of a 24-leaf folio booklet, imperfect. c.1674-7.

DrJ 294: John Dryden, The State of Innocence, and Fall of Man

First published in London, 1677. Scott-Saintsbury, V, 93-178. See Vinton A. Dearing, ‘Textual Analysis of Dryden's State of Innocence’, TEXT, 2 (1985), 12-23.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers P2/1/8/4

Autograph letter signed by Habington, to a male member of the Herbert family (? William Herbert), from Lloydyarth, 9 November [no year]. c.1640s.

*HaW 53: William Habington, Letter(s)

Formerly Powis (1959 deposit), Series II, Bundle XXIII, No. 79.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers, [uncatalogued box containing verse]

MSS.

Among papers of the Herbert family, Barons Herbert of Cherbury. Formerly Powis MSS (1990 deposit).

[unnumbered item]

• MaA 488.5: Andrew Marvell, Further Advice to a Painter (‘Painter once more thy Pencell reassume’)

Copy of lines 1-58 on three pages of two conjugate quarto leaves; imperfect. Late 17th century.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). Margoliouth, I, 176-7. POAS, I, 163-7. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 38-9. Rejected from the canon by Lord and the authorship considered doubtful by Chernaik, pp. 211-12.

[unnumbered item]

• RoJ 364.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Signior Dildo (‘You ladies all of merry England’)

Copy, headed ‘To y^e Tune that Peg's gone ouer y^e Sea with a Sold^r’, here beginning ‘O all yee young ladies of merry England’, on five pages of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves.

Edited from this MS and discussed in Harold Love, ‘A New “A” Text of “Signior Dildo”’, SB, 49 (1996), 169-75.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 54-9. Walker, pp. 75-8.

The poem discussed, texts collated, and the attribution to Rochester questioned, in Harold Love, ‘A Restoration Lampoon in Transmission and Revision: Rochester's(?) “Signior Dildo”’, SB, 46 (1993), 250-62. Love (two versions and added stanzas), pp. 248-9, 250-2, 252-3, 253-7, among Disputed Works.

[unnumbered item]

• RoJ 104.44: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The History of Insipids (‘Chaste, pious, prudent, Charles the Second’)

Copy, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

See Vivian de Sola Pinto in ‘“The History of Insipids”: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell’, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.

[unnumbered item]

• WaE 726.5: Edmund Waller, Upon the late Storm, and of the Death of His Highness ensuing the same (‘We must resign! Heaven his great soul does claim’)

Copy, untitled, on a single folio leaf (the verso containing WaE 757.5). c.1658.

For the ‘answer or construction’ by William Godolphin, see the Introduction.

[unnumbered item]

• WaE 757.5: Edmund Waller, On the Marriage of Mrs Frances Cromwell with Mr Rich, Grandchild to the Earl of Warwick (‘Peace ye loud violins, peace’)

Copy, untitled, on the verso of a single folio leaf (the recto containing WaE 726.5). c.1658.

First published in Book Lover's Almanac (New York, 1893). Reprinted in Beverly Chew, Essays & Verses about Books (New York, 1926), pp. 29-32.

Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers, [uncatalogued]

A fragment of a verse miscellany compiled by Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury a[1632] and other items.

Among Herbert's papers formerly preserved at Powis Castle. Formerly Powis MSS (1959 deposit), Series II and (Envelope) Taken from Bundle 26.

[unspecified item]

• StW 467: William Strode, On a good legge and foote (‘If Hercules tall Stature might be guest’)

Copy of lines 1-29, imperfect, lscking the last seven lines of the poem.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 108-9. Forey, pp. 16-17.

[unspecified pages]

• StW 588: William Strode, On the death of Sir Thomas Pelham (‘Meerely for death to greive and mourne’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS (and erroneously attributed to Herbert) in Mario M. Rossi, La vita, le opere, i tempi di Edoardo Herbert di Chirbury, 3 vols (Florence, 1947), III, 397.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 64-5. Forey, pp. 114-15.

[unspecified pages]

• StW 662: William Strode, An Opposite to Melancholy (‘Returne my joyes, and hither bring’)

Copy in a fragment of a verse miscellany.

Edited from this MS (and erroneously attributed to Herbert) in Mario M. Rossi, La vita, le opere, i tempi di Edoardo Herbert di Chirbury, 3 vols (Florence, 1947), III, 395.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 15. Forey, pp. 103-5.

Margam & Penrice MS 6120

Copy. Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘like a true Irish Merlin that mist of her flight’, on a small octavo-size slip of paper, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th-early 18th century.

DoC 162.5: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On Mrs. Anne Roche when she Lost Sir John Daws (‘Like a true Irish merlin that has lost her flight’)

Among the archives of the Mansell family of Margam and Penrice.

First published in The Roxburghe Ballads, ed. J. Woodfall Ebsworth, V (Hertford, 1885), p. 219. The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, ed. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1971) II, 778 (among ‘Works of Doubtful Authenticity’). Harris, pp. 101-2.

NLW MS 473 B

A quarto booklet of verse, ff. 1r-10r in a cursive secretary hand, additions afterwards in other hands, sixteen leaves (ff. 12-13 stubs), unbound. Early 17th century.

Owned in 1781 by the Rev. John Williams (1760-1826), of Llanrwst.

ff. 5v-6v

• SiP 10.5: Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, Song vi (‘O you that heare this voice’)

Copy of the ‘Sixt song’, untitled, here beginning ‘O ye that heare this voice’.

Ringler, pp. 215-17.

f. 7r

• OxE 40: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, ‘If woemen coulde be fayre and yet not fonde’

Copy, untitled.

First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). May, Poems, No. III (pp. 40-1). May, Courtier Poets, p. 284. EV 11604.

ff. 9v-10r

• RaW 131: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Farewell to false Love (‘Farewell false loue, the oracle of lies’)

Copy of a four-stanza version, untitled.

First published, in a musical setting, in William Byrd, Psalmes, Sonets & songs (London, 1588). Latham, pp. 7-8. Rudick, Nos 10A (complementing Sir Thomas Heneage's verses beginning ‘Most welcome love, thow mortall foe to lies’) and 10B, pp. 11-13.

The poem based principally on a poem by Philippe Desportes: see Jonathan Gibson, ‘French and Italian Sources for Ralegh's “Farewell False Love”’, RES, NS 50 (May 1999), 155-65, which also cites related MSS.

NLW MS 550 B

An account apparently by Herbert of negotiations concerning the English liturgy at St Germain-en-Laye. Early-mid 17th century.

HrE 146: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Negotiations

NLW MS 775 B

A small octavo-size volume of autograph poems by Katherine Philips, written from both ends, originally on rectos only, 222 pages (including blanks, plus stubs of extracted leaves, some probably extracted by the poet herself to remove spoiled pages, some extracted after the poems were entered), in contemporary calf with blind-stamped initials ‘K.P.’ Comprising Philips's autograph corrected fair copies of 55 poems and titles only of two other poems, grouped according to subject and genre (and some alternate crowding and blank-spacing in the middle, as well as blocks of entries in different inks, showing a conscious attempt by the poet to preserve such units), with later notes and inscriptions in other hands, the latest poem dated 13 January 1657/8 (p. 125). c. late 1650s.

Two of the missing leaves from this volume — originally between the present pp. 88 and 89 and containing yet another poem — have now been identified at the University of Kentucky (see PsK 326). It is likely that a missing third leaf at this point would have contained A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (‘Say, my Orinda, why so sad?’): see Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993).

Later owned by William Hall (1748-1825), antiquary and bookseller in King's Lynn, Norfolk; in 1824 by Thomas George Kidd (1770-1850), headmaster of King's Lynn School; and c.1904 by John Ramsden Tutin (1855-1913), bookseller of Hull. Thomas (I, 42) reports that this MS passed through the hands of P. J. and A. E. Dobell in 1920, as did NLW MS 776B. However, it is clear from correspondence in the National Library of Wales that the Library acquired the MS directly from Tutin just before his death (which occurred on 13 December 1913).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Tutin MS’: PsK Δ 1. Fifteen poems are edited from this MS in Tutin (1905). A facsimile of p. 55 of the MS appears as the frontispiece to his earlier edition of 1904 (see PsK 372).

This MS used extensively as copy-text in Thomas's edition (1990), and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Some poems edited from this MS in Hageman (1987), and a few poems printed from Thomas's edition (as presented earlier in his doctoral dissertation of 1982) in Kissing the Rod. Also briefly discussed in Elms (inaccurately), in Mambretti (1977), and in Lucy Brashear, ‘Gleanings from the Orinda Holograph’, AN&Q, 23 (1985), 100-2. For a facsimile of p. 101 (PsK 105), see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile VII, after p. xxi.

pp. 3, 5

• *PsK 411: Katherine Philips, To my dearest Antenor on his parting (‘Though it be Just to grieve when I must part’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas; collated in Hageman.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 155-7. Poems (1667), pp. 76-7. Saintsbury, pp. 551-2. Hageman (1987), pp. 596-7. Thomas, I, 148-9, poem 54.

p. 5

• *PsK 65: Katherine Philips, Engraved on Mr. John Collyer's Tombstone at Beddington (‘Here what remaines of him does ly’)

Autograph, the name in the title here given as ‘Beddington’.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published, with the place in the title given as ‘Bedlington’, in Poems (1664), p. 157. Poems (1667), p. 77. Saintsbury, p. 552. Thomas, I, 149, poem 55.

p. 7

• *PsK 140: Katherine Philips, In Memory of M^r Cartwright (‘Stay, prince of Fancy, stay, we are not fit’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published, as ‘To the Memory of the most Ingenious and Vertuous Gentleman Mr. Wil: Cartwright, my much valued Friend’, in William Cartwright, Comedies, Tragi-Comedies with other Poems (London, 1651). Poems (1664), pp. 145-6. Poems (1667), p. 71. Saintsbury, p. 549. Thomas, I, 143, poem 51.

p. 7

• *PsK 232: Katherine Philips, On Little Regina Collyer, on the same tombstone (‘Vertue's blossom, beauty's bud’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), p. 158. Poems (1667), p. 78. Saintsbury, p. 552. Thomas, I, 149, poem 56.

pp. 9, 11, 13

• *PsK 238: Katherine Philips, On Mr Francis Finch (the excellent Palemon) (‘This is confest presumption. for had I’)

Autograph, headed ‘On Mr Francis Finch (the excellent Palemon)’.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 146-50. Poems (1667), pp. 72-3. Saintsbury, pp. 549-50. Thomas, I, 143-5, poem 52.

p. 15

• *PsK 205: Katherine Philips, L'amitié: To Mrs. M. Awbrey. 6^t Aprill 1651 (‘Soule of my soule! my Joy, my crown, my friend!’)

Autograph, headed ‘6t. Aprill 1651. L'amitié: To M^rs M. Awbrey’.

Edited from this MS in Tutin (1905), p. 25, and in Thomas; also in Kissing the Rod, pp. 189-90.

First published in Poems (1664), p. 144. Poems (1667), pp. 70-1. Saintsbury, pp. 548-9. Thomas, I, 142, poem 50.

p. 17

• *PsK 383: Katherine Philips, To Mrs. M.A. upon absence (set by M^r Henry Law's) 12. Decemb 1650 (‘'Tis now since I began to dy’)

Autograph, headed ‘To M^rs M.A. upon absence. (set by M^r Henry Laws) 12. Decemb 1650’.

Edited from this MS in Tutin (1905), p. 26, and in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 142-4. Poems (1667), pp. 69-70. Saintsbury, p. 548. Thomas, I, 141-2, poem 49.

pp. 19, 21, 23

• *PsK 314: Katherine Philips, Rosania shaddow'd whilest M^rs M. Awbrey. 19. Septemb. 1651 (‘If any could my dear Rosania hate’)

Autograph, the poem here initially dated ‘15 Septemb. 1651’.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 94-9. Poems (1667), pp. 48-50. Saintsbury, pp. 535-7. Thomas, I, 117-20, poem 34.

pp. 25, 27

• *PsK 321: Katherine Philips, Rosania's privage marriage (‘It was a wise and kind design of fagte’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 106-8. Poems (1667), pp. 52-3. Saintsbury, p. 538. Thomas, I, 122-3, poem 37.

pp. 29, 31

• *PsK 451: Katherine Philips, To Rosania (now Mrs Mountague) being with her, 25^th September. 1652 (‘As men that are with visions grac'd’)

Autograph, the poem here dated ‘25^th September. 1652’.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published, with the date ‘Septemb. 25. 1652’, in Poems (1664), pp. 115-18. Poems (1667), pp. 56-8. Saintsbury, pp. 540-1. Thomas, I, 127-8, poem 42.

pp. 33, 35

• *PsK 161: Katherine Philips, Injuria amici (‘Lovely apostate! what was my offence?’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 109-12. Poems (1667), pp. 53-5. Saintsbury, pp. 538-9. Thomas, I, 123-5, poem 38.

p. 37

• *PsK 296: Katherine Philips, Philoclea's parting. M^rs M. Stedman. Feb: 25. 1650 (‘Kinder then a condemned man's reprieve’)

Autograph, headed ‘Phioclea's parting/ M^rs M. Stedman. ffeb: 25. 1650’.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published, with the date ‘Feb. 25. 1650’, in Poems (1664), p. 114. Poems (1667), p. 56. Saintsbury, p. 540. Thomas, I, 126, poem 41.

p. 37

• *PsK 366: Katherine Philips, To J.J. esq: upon his melancholly for Regina (‘Give over now thy teares, thou vain’)

Autograph, headed ‘To J.J. Esqr: upon his melancholly for Regina’.

Edited from this MS in Thomas; collated in Hageman.

First published, as ‘To Philaster, on his Melancholy for Regina’, in Poems (1664), p. 113. Poems (1667), p. 55. Saintsbury, p. 540. Hageman (1987), p. 595. Thomas, I, 126, poem 40.

p. 39

• *PsK 507: Katherine Philips, To the truly noble, and obleiging Mrs: Anne Owen (on my first approaches) (‘As in a triumph conquerours admit’)

Autograph, headed ‘To the truly noble, and obleiging M^rs. Anne Owen. (on my first approaches)’.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 93-4. Poems (1667), pp. 33-4. Saintsbury, pp. 526-7. Thomas, I, 102-3, poem 26.

p. 41

• *PsK 460: Katherine Philips, To the excellent M^rs. A.O. upon her receiving the name of Lucasia, and adoption into our society 29 Decemb 1651 (‘We are compleat. and faith hath now’)

Autograph, headed ‘To the excellent M^rs. A.O. upon her receiving the name of Lucasia, and adoption into our society [29 Decemb 1651 added by the same hand in different ink]’.

Edited from this MS in Tutin (1905), pp. 15-16, and in Thomas; also in Kissing the Rod, pp. 101-2.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 102-3. Poems (1667), pp. 32-3. Saintsbury, p. 526. Thomas, I, 101-2, poem 25.

pp. 43, 45, 47

• *PsK 502: Katherine Philips, To (the truly competent Judge of Honour) Lucasia, upon a scandalous libell made by J. Jones (‘Honour, which differs man from man much more’)

Autograph, the name in the title here given as ‘J. Jones’.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published, with ‘J. Jones’ in the title, in Poems (1664), pp. 87-91. With ‘J.J.’ in the title, in Poems (1667), pp. 45-6. Saintsbury, pp. 533-5. Thomas, I, 114-16, poem 32.

p. 49

• *PsK 418: Katherine Philips, To my excellent Lucasia, on our friendship. 17th. July 1651 (‘I did not live untill this time’)

Autograph, the poem here dated ‘17^th July 1653’.

Edited from this MS in Tutin (1905), pp. 16-17, and in Thomas; collated in Hageman.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 104-5. Poems (1667), pp. 51-2. Saintsbury, p. 537. Hageman (1987), pp. 593-4. Thomas, I, 121-2, poem 36 (dating the poem ‘1651’).

pp. 51, 53

• *PsK 393: Katherine Philips, To M^rs M. Karne, when J. Jeffreys Esq^re courted her (‘As some great Conquerour, who knows no bounds’)

Autograph, headed ‘To M^rs M. Karne when J. Jeffreys Esq^r Courted her’.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 59-61. Poems (1667), pp. 30-1. Saintsbury, pp. 524-5. Thomas, I, 99-100, poem 23.

pp. 55, 57

• *PsK 372: Katherine Philips, To Mr. Henry Vaughan, Silurist, on his Poems (‘Had I ador'd the multitude, and thence’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas. Facsimile of p. 55 in Katherine Philips ‘The Matchless Orinda’ Selected Poems, ed. J.R. Tutin (Cottingham near Hull, [1904]), frontispiece.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 54-6. Poems (1667), pp. 27-8. Saintsbury, p. 523. Thomas, I, 96-7, poem 21.

pp. 59, 61

• *PsK 307: Katherine Philips, A Retir'd friendship, to Ardelia. 23d Augo 1651 (‘Come, my Ardelia, to this bowre’)

Autograph, the poem here dated ‘23^d. Aug°. 1651’.

Edited from this MS in Tutin (1905), pp. 27-8, and in Thomas; collated in Hageman.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 56-9. Poems (1667), pp. 28-9. Saintsbury, p. 524. Hageman (1987), pp. 592-3. Thomas, I, 97-8, poem 22.

pp. 63, 65

• *PsK 517: Katherine Philips, To the truly noble Sir Ed: Dering (the worthy Silvander) on his dream, and navy (‘Sir, to be noble, when 'twas voted down’)

Autograph, without the preamble, headed ‘To the truly noble S^r Ed: Dering (y^e worthy Silvander,) on his dream, & navy’.

Edited from this MS in Tutin (1905), pp. 28-9, and in Thomas.

First published, as ‘To Sir Edward Deering (the noble Silvander) on his Dream and Navy, personating Orinda's preferring Rosania before Solomon's Traffick to Ophir’, in Poems (1664), pp. 34-6. Poems (1667), pp. 17-18. Saintsbury, pp. 517-18. Thomas, I, 86-7, poem 14.

p. 67

• *PsK 490: Katherine Philips, To the Right Hono^bl. Alice, Countess of Carberry, at her enriching Wales with her presence (‘Madam, / As when the first day dawn'd, man's greedy ey’)

Autograph of the first two stanzas only, headed ‘To the Right Hono^ble: Alice Countess of Carberry, on her enriching wales with her presence’, imperfect, the rest of the poem torn out.

The first two stanzas edited from this MS in Thomas. Facsimile in Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993), p. 179.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 31-3. Poems (1667), pp. 16-17. Saintsbury, pp. 516-17. Thomas, I, 84-5, poem 13.

pp. 69, 71

• *PsK 377: Katherine Philips, To Mr. J.B. the noble Cratander, upon a composition of his, which he was not willing to own publiquely (‘As when some Injur'd Prince assumes disguise’)

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 62-4. Poems (1667), pp. 31-2. Saintsbury, pp. 525-6. Thomas, I, 100-1, poem 24.

pp. 73, 75, 77

• *PsK 210: Katherine Philips, Lucasia (‘Not to obleige Lucasia by my voice’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 64-8. Poems (1667), pp. 34-5. Saintsbury, pp. 527-8. Thomas, I, 103-5, poem 27.

pp. 79, 81

• *PsK 110: Katherine Philips, Friendship's Mysterys, to my dearest Lucasia. (set by Mr. H. Lawes.) (‘Come, my Lucasia, since we see’)

Autograph, headed ‘Friendships Mysterys to my dearest Lucasia. (set by M^r H. Lawes.)’.

Edited from this MS in Tutin (1905), pp. 17-18, and in Thomas; also in Kissing the Rod, pp. 193-4; collated in Hageman.

First published in Henry Lawes, The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655). Poems (1664), pp. 43-5. Poems (1667), pp. 21-2. Saintsbury, p. 520. Hageman (1987), pp. 588-9. Thomas, I, 90-1, poem 17.

pp. 83, 85, 87

• *PsK 28: Katherine Philips, Content, to my dearest Lucasia (‘Content, the false world's best disguise’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Tutin (1905), pp. 22-4, and in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 45-50. Poems (1667), pp. 22-5. Saintsbury, pp. 520-2. Thomas, I, 91-4, poem 18.

p. 89

• *PsK 405: Katherine Philips, To my dear Sister Mrs. C.P. on her nuptialls (‘We will not like those men our offerings pay’)

Autograph, headed ‘To my deare Sister M^rs. C: P. on her nuptialls’ and here beginning ‘We will not like those men y^t offerings pay’.

Edited from this MS in Thomas; collated in Hageman.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 52-4. Poems (1667), pp. 26-7. Saintsbury, pp. 522-3. Hageman (1987), p. 590-1. Thomas, I, 95-6, poem 20.

pp. 91, 93, 90

• *PsK 512: Katherine Philips, To the truly noble Mr Henry Lawes (‘Nature, which is the vast creation's soule’)

Autograph, headed ‘To the truly noble M^r Henry Lawes’.

Edited from this MS in Tutin (1905), pp. 30-1, and in Thomas; collated in Hageman.

First published, as ‘To the much honoured Mr. Henry Lawes, On his Excellent Compositions in Musick’, in Henry Lawes, Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655). As ‘To Mr. Henry Lawes’ in Poems (1664), pp. 37-9. Poems (1667), pp. 18-19. Saintsbury, pp. 518-19. Hageman (1987), pp. 587-8. Thomas, I, 87-8, poem 15.

pp. 95, 97

• *PsK 468: Katherine Philips, To the noble Palaemon on his incomparable discourse of Friendship (‘We had been still undone, wrapt in disguise’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Tutin (1905), pp. 14-15, and in Thomas; collated in Hageman.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 29-31. Poems (1667), pp. 14-15. Saintsbury, pp. 515-16. Hageman (1987), pp. 586-7. Thomas, I, 83-4, poem 12.

p. 99

• *PsK 557: Katherine Philips, Wiston=Vault (‘And why this Vault and Tomb? alike we must’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 68-70. Poems (1667), p. 36. Saintsbury, p. 528. Thomas, I, 105-6, poem 28.

pp. 101, 103, 105, 100

• *PsK 105: Katherine Philips, Friendship in Emblem, or the Seale, to my dearest Lucasia (‘The hearts thus intermixed speak’)

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Tutin (1905), pp. 19-21, and in Thomas. For a facsimile of p. 101, see Facsimile VII above.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 70-5. Poems (1667), pp. 36-9. Saintsbury, p. 529. Thomas, I, 106-8, poem 29.

pp. 107-8

• *PsK 439: Katherine Philips, To my Lucasia (‘Let dull Philosophers enquire no more’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 118-20. Poems (1667), pp. 58-9. Saintsbury, p. 541. Thomas, I, 128-9, poem 43.

pp. 110, 108, 106, 104, 102 (ff. 57, 58, 59, 60, 61 rev.)

• *PsK 444: Katherine Philips, To my Lucasia, in defence of declared friendship (‘O! my Lucasia, let us speak our Love’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 165-71. Poems (1667), pp. 82-5. Saintsbury, pp. 554-6. Thomas, I, 153-6, poem 59.

p. 111

• *PsK 246: Katherine Philips, On the death of my first and dearest childe, Hector Philipps, borne the 23d of Aprill, and dy'd the 2^d of May 1655, set by Mr Lawes (‘Twice Forty moneths in wedlock I did stay’)

Autograph of the first two stanzas, with blanks left for stanzas 3 and 4, headed ‘on y^e death of my first & dearest child, Hector Philipps borne y^e 23^d of Aprill & dy'd the 2^d of May 1655. set by M^r Lawes’.

Edited from this MS (first two stanzas) in Thomas; also in Kissing the Rod, pp. 196-7; collated in Hageman.

First published, as ‘Orinda upon little Hector Philips’, in Poems (1667), pp. 148-9. Saintsbury, pp. 590-1. Hageman (1987), p. 599. Thomas, I, 220, poem 101.

pp. 119, 121, 123, 125

• *PsK 151: Katherine Philips, In memory of that excellent person Mrs. Mary Lloyd of Bodidrist in Denbighshire, who dy'd the 13th of November 1656, soon after she came thither from Pembrokeshire (‘I cannot hold, for though to write be rude’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 81-7. Poems (1667), pp. 42-4. Saintsbury, pp. 531-3. Thomas, I, 111-14, poem 31.

pp. 125, 127

• *PsK 289: Katherine Philips, Parting with Lucasia 13^th Janu^ry 1657/8 A song (‘Well! we will doe that rigid thing’)

Autograph, headed ‘Parting with Lucasia 13^th Jann 1657/8 A song’.

Edited from this MS in Thomas; collated in Hageman.

First published, with the date ‘Jan 13. 1657’, in Poems (1664), pp. 133-5. Poems (1667), pp. 65-6. Saintsbury, p. 546. Hageman (1987), pp. 595-6. Thomas, I, 136-7, poem 46.

pp. 129, 131

• *PsK 7: Katherine Philips, Against Pleasure. set by D^r Coleman (‘There's no such thing as pleasure here’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Tutin (1905), pp. 11-12, and in Thomas; discussed in Elmen.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 135-7. Poems (1667), pp. 66-8. Saintsbury, pp. 546-7. Thomas, I, 137-8, poem 47.

pp. 130, 128, 126 (ff. 47, 48, 49 rev.)

• *PsK 98: Katherine Philips, Friendship (‘Let the dull brutish world that know not love’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 158-61. Poems (1667), pp. 78-9. Saintsbury, pp. 552-3. Thomas, I, 150-1, poem 57.

pp. 131, 133

• *PsK 78: Katherine Philips, Epitaph on Mr John Lloyd of Kilrhewy in Penbrokeshire (who dy'd July the 11^th 1657), inscrib'd on his Monument in Kilgarron (in the person of his wife) (‘Preserve, thou sad and sole Trustee’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Tutin (1905), in Elmen, in Hageman, and in Thomas.

First published in John Roland Phillips, History of Cilgerran (London, 1867), p. 65. Tutin (1905), pp. 31-2. Hageman (1987), pp. 591-2. Thomas, I, 248-9, poem 123.

The monument containing this epitaph survives in Cilgerran Church, Dyfed. A photograph of it appears in Elizabeth H. Hageman, ‘Making a Good Impression: Early Texts of Poems and Letters by Katherine Philips, the “Matchless Orinda”’, South Central Review, 11 (Summer 1994), 39-65 (p. 45).

pp. 136, 134, 132 (ff. 44, 45, 46 rev.)

• *PsK 156: Katherine Philips, In memory of the most Justly honour'd M^rs Owen of Orielton (‘As when the ancient world by reason Liv'd’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 185-8. Poems (1667), pp. 92-4. Saintsbury, pp. 559-61. Thomas, I, 163-5, poem 63.

pp. 142, 140, 138 (ff. 41, 42, 43 rev.)

• *PsK 176: Katherine Philips, La Grandeur d'esprit (‘A chosen privacy, a cheap content’)

Autograph, headed ‘La Grandeur d'esprit’, imperfect, lacking the last fourteen lines.

Edited chiefly from this MS (lines 1-82) in Thomas.

First published, as ‘La Grandeur d'esprit’, in Poems (1664), pp. 171-6. in Poems (1667), pp. 86-8, as ‘A Resvery’. Saintsbury, pp. 556-8. Thomas, I, 157-9, poem 60.

pp. 146, 144 (ff. 39, 40 rev.)

• *PsK 398: Katherine Philips, To M^rs Wogan, my honour'd friend, on the Death of her husband (‘Dry up your teares, there's ennow shed by you’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 182-4. Poems (1667), pp. 91-2. Saintsbury, p. 559. Thomas, I, 162-3, poem 62.

pp. 150, 148 (ff. 37, 38 rev.)

• *PsK 525: Katherine Philips, 2 Corinth. 5. 19. v. God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself. 8^to Aprilis 1653 (‘When God, contracted to humanity’)

Autograph, the poem here dated ‘8^to. Aprilis 1653’.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 214-16. Poems (1667), pp. 110-11. Saintsbury, p. 569. Thomas, I, 181-2, poem 71.

pp. 156, 154, 152 (ff. 34, 35, 36 rev.)

• *PsK 344: Katherine Philips, Submission (‘'Tis so. and humbly I my will resign’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 209-13. Poems (1667), pp. 108-10. Saintsbury, pp. 567-9. Thomas, I, 178-81, poem 70.

pp. 164, 162, 160, 158 (ff. 30, 31, 32, 33 rev.)

• *PsK 90: Katherine Philips, A Friend (‘Love, nature's plot, this great Creation's soule’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Tutin (1905), pp. 7-10, and in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 189-95. Poems (1667), pp. 94-7. Saintsbury, pp. 561-3. Thomas, I, 165-8, poem 64.

pp. 168, 166 (ff. 28, 29 rev.)

• *PsK 275: Katherine Philips, On the 3d September 1651 (‘As when the Glorious Magazine of Light’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas; collated in Hageman.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 27-9. Poems (1667), pp. 13-14. Saintsbury, p. 515. Hageman (1987), pp. 585-6. Thomas, I, 82-3, poem 11.

pp. 172, 170 (ff. 26, 27 rev.)

• *PsK 146: Katherine Philips, In Memory of Mrs. E. Hering (‘As some choice Plant, cherish'd by sun and aire’)

Autograph, headed ‘In memory of M^rs. E. H[ering in different ink]’.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 206-9. Poems (1667), pp. 104-6. Saintsbury, pp. 565-6. Thomas, I, 175-6, poem 67.

pp. 176, 174 (ff. 24, 25 rev.)

• *PsK 166: Katherine Philips, Invitation to the Countrey (‘Be kind, my deare Rosania, though 'tis true’)

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Tutin (1905), pp. 12-13, and in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 203-6. Poems (1667), pp. 103-4. Saintsbury, pp. 564-5. Thomas, I, 173-5, poem 66.

pp. 188, 186, 184, 182, 180, 178 (ff. 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 rev.)

• *PsK 198: Katherine Philips, L'accord du bien (‘Order, by which all things were made’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 195-203. Poems (1667), pp. 98-103. Saintsbury, pp. 563-4. Thomas, I, 169-73, poem 65.

pp. 196, 194, 192, 190 (ff. 14, 15, 16, 17 rev.)

• *PsK 336: Katherine Philips, The Soule (‘How vaine a thing is man, whose noblest part’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 222-8. Poems (1667), pp. 114-17. Saintsbury, pp. 571-3. Thomas, I, 185-8, poem 73.

pp. 204, 202, 200, 198 (ff. 10, 12, 13 rev.)

• *PsK 563: Katherine Philips, The World (‘Wee falsly think it due unto our friends’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 217-22. Poems (1667), pp. 111-13. Saintsbury, pp. 569-71. Thomas, I, 182-5, poem 72.

pp. 208, 206 (ff. 8, 9 rev.)

• *PsK 49: Katherine Philips, Death (‘How weak a Star doth rule mankind’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 232-4. Poems (1667), pp. 119-20. Saintsbury, p. 574. Thomas, I, 190-1, poem 75.

pp. 212, 210 (ff. 6, 7 rev.)

• *PsK 121: Katherine Philips, Happyness (‘Nature courts happiness, although it be’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

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

pp. 218, 216, 214 (ff. 3, 4, 5 rev.)

• *PsK 226: Katherine Philips, On Controversies in Religion (‘Religion, which true policy befriends’)

Autograph, imperfect.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 120-4. Poems (1667), pp. 59-61. Saintsbury, pp. 542-3. Thomas, I, 130-2, poem 44.

pp. 222, 220-19 (ff. 1, 2r-v rev.)

• *PsK 115: Katherine Philips, God (‘Eternal reason! glorious majestie!’)

Autograph, headed ‘Out of Mr. More's [ ]’ and with preliminary verses (Cupid's Conflict) by Henry More, imperfect.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Thomas.

First published, untitled (but with quotation from Henry More), in Poems (1664), pp. 137-42. Poems (1667), pp. 68-9, as ‘A Prayer’. Saintsbury, pp. 547-8. Thomas, I, 138-41, poem 48.

NLW MS 776 B

A quarto volume of 96 poems (dating as late as July 1663) and two dramatic works by Katherine Philips, in a generally neat italic hand except for another hand on pp. 358-9, 404 pages (slightly misnumbered and including a number of blanks), in contemporary black leather blind-stamped. With a prose preface (pp. 5-7), subscribed ‘Polex^r:’ [i.e. Polexander], dedicated ‘To the Excellent Rosania’ [i.e. Mary Aubrey], eulogising the friendship between her and the deceased Orinda [Katherine Philips] and Rosania's attendance at Orinda's fatal illness, mentioning that the subsequent collection (‘these clear streams’) was bequeathed to Rosania by the poet, noting her reluctance ‘To appear in Print’, but adding, ‘I confess, an Edition, now, would gratify her admirers’. c.1664.

The volume -- which notably lacks Philips's critical poem on Rosania, On Rosania's Apostacy, and Lucasia's Friendship, probably as an act of discretion by the compiler -- appears to be a copy of Katherine Philips's poems transcribed or edited from her papers shortly after her death and presented to Mary Aubrey (1631-1700), wife of William Montagu (1619?-1706), later Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, by a mutual friend in accordance with the poet's last wishes.

Owned in 1920 by P.J. and A.E. Dobell.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Rosania MS’: PsK Δ 2. Collated, and very occasionally used as copy-text, in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation; some poems also in Hageman (1987). Briefly discussed in Elms; in Mambretti (1977) (where the name ‘Polex^r:’ is misread as ‘Pole:r’ and identified as possibly Sir Charles Cottrell); and in C.A. Limbert, ‘Katherine Philips: Another Step-father and Another Sibling, “Mrs. C.P.”, and “Polex^r:”’, Restoration, 13 (1989), 2-6.

Limbert suggests that Polexander might be Sir William Temple, the name perhaps deriving from Marin le Roy de Gomberville's romance Polexandre which Temple's wife, Dorothy Osborne, certainly read, and Temple was also author of a poem on Orinda's death: see William Roberts, ‘Sir William Temple on Orinda. Neglected Publications’, PBSA, 57 (19634), 328-36. See also Thomas, II, 177-8, where it is suggested ‘the name may indicate one of Cotterell's colleagues at the Hague’.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the cover and first page of the dedicatory epistle ‘To the Excellent Rosania’, in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, ‘“More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd”: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the “Matchless Orinda”’, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (pp. 147-50), and, with facsimiles of pp. 5, 7, 274, and the binding, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 168-73.

pp. 11-104

• PsK 576: Katherine Philips, Pompey. A Tragedy

Copy, with a title-page (p. 11), dramatis personæ (p. 14), Prologue by Roscommon (pp. 15-16), and Epilogue by Dering (pp. 103-4).

Edited from this MS in Thomas.

Translated from Pierre Corneille's La Mort de Pompée. Tragédie (Paris, 1644). First published in Dublin, 1663. London, 1663. Poems (1667). Thomas, III, 1-91.

NLW MS 1585

A collection of genealogies. Early 19th century.

f. 196r-v

• PsK 152.5: Katherine Philips, In memory of that excellent person Mrs. Mary Lloyd of Bodidrist in Denbighshire, who dy'd the 13th of November 1656, soon after she came thither from Pembrokeshire (‘I cannot hold, for though to write be rude’)

Copy. Early 19th-century.

Cited in Thomas, I, 50 and 277, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation, pp. 50-1.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 81-7. Poems (1667), pp. 42-4. Saintsbury, pp. 531-3. Thomas, I, 111-14, poem 31.

NLW MS 5295 E

Copy of an independent English work entitled ‘Religio Laici’ and beginning ‘Having [formerly] spoken of all Learning fitt to bee obtaynd in youth I shall say something of Religion...’, in a neat predominantly secretary hand, with corrections or revisions in another hand, the last leaf in yet another hand, nine folio leaves, in modern brown morocco gilt. c.1642-4.

HrE 136: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Religio Laici [in English]

Among papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle, including particularly papers of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1582?-1648). Acquired in 1916.

Edited from this MS in Wright. Discussed in Rossi, III, 505; in R.I. Aaron, ‘A Possible Early Draft of Hobbes' De Corpore’, Mind, 54 (1945), 342-56 (pp. 354-5); in Gawlick, pp. xlvii-xlviii; and in Rossi, ‘Herbert of Cherbury's Religio Laici: A Bibliographical Note’, Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Transactions, 5, Part 2 (1962), 45-52 (where it is argued that the piece may belong to the Autobiography, but see HrE 138).

This MS also misidentified as a work by John Dryden's (reporting hearsay in a belated note) in Hugh Macdonald, John Dryden: A Bibliography of Early Editions and of Drydeniana (Oxford, 1939), p. 323, Repeated in James M. Osborn, John Dryden: Some Biographical Facts and Problems (New York, 1940); revised edition (Gainesville, Florida, 1965), p. 289.

First published in Herbert G. Wright, ‘An Unpublished Manuscript by Lord Herbert of Cherbury Entitled “Religio Laici”’, MLR, 28 (1933), 295-307.

NLW MS 5296 E

Portions of a draft of the work, in two or three mixed hands, with corrections or emendations in another hand, untitled but endorsed ‘Dialogue / Master & Pupill’, twelve folio leaves, foliated or paginated 15, 16, 29, 30, 9-12, 15-18, 230-1, 55, in modern brown morocco gilt. Mid-17th century.

HrE 113.8: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, A Dialogue between a Tutor and his Pupil

Among papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle, including particularly papers of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1582?-1648). Acquired in 1916.

Griffin's ‘W’ text. Facsimiles of pp. 11 and 55 of the MS are in Griffin, pp. 181-2.

First published and attributed to Herbert in an edition by Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill, 1768).

Commonly rejected from the canon, but see arguments for possible authorial involvement of Herbert (as well as Charles Blount) in Julia Griffin, ‘Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury's A Dialogue between a Tutor and his Pupil: Some New Questions’, EMS, 7 (1998), 162-201, where the various MS texts are discussed.

NLW MS 5297 E

Copy of part of an English redaction, in twelve chapters, of an early version of Thomas Hobbes's De corpore (here Chapters VII, VIII, XI, XII), in a cursive italic hand, possibly that of Francis Herbert, with the sub-headings ‘1° De principiis cognitionis’| ‘2° De principiis actionis’, four tall folio leaves, in modern brown morocco gilt. c.1637-40.

HrE 127: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Of Knowledge and the Power cognitive in general

Among papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle, including particularly papers of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1582?-1648). Acquired in 1916.

Edited from this MS in Rossi's article and in Thomas Hobbes, Critique du De Mundo de Thomas White, ed. Jean Jacquot and Harold Whitmore Jones (Paris, 1973), Appendix II, pp. 448-60. Also discussed in R.I. Aaron, ‘A Possible Early Draft of Hobbes' De Corpore’, Mind, 54 (1945), 342-56, and in Arrigo Pacchi, Convenzione e ipotesi nella formazione della filosofia naturale di Thomas Hobbes (Florence, 1965), pp. 15-18, 42 et seq.

First published in Mario M. Rossi, ‘L'evoluzione del pensiero di Hobbes alla luce di un nuovo manuscritto’, Civilità Moderna, 13 (1941), 125-50, 217-46, 366-402. Reprinted in Rossi, Alle fonti del deismo e del materialismo moderno (Florence, 1942), pp. 104-19.

NLW MS 5298 E

Herbert's catalogue of his Library, partly autograph (ff. 1r-4v), chiefly in the cursive hand of a secretary, untitled, 32 folio leaves, in modern brown morocco gilt. c.1636-7.

*HrE 145: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Library Catalogue

NLW MS 5301 E

A folio composite volume of family papers, chiefly verse and proverbs, in several hands, 43 leaves, in modern brown morocco gilt.

Among papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle, including particularly papers of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1582?-1648). Acquired in 1916.

ff. 1r-7r

• HrG 330: George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs

Copy of 72 proverbs, on quarto leaves, ff. 1r-2r in the italic hand of George Herbert's brother, Sir Henry Herbert (1594-1673), Master of the Revels, headed ‘Outlandishe Prouerbs selected out of seuerall Languages & entered here the [?vi or 2i]. August 1637. At Ribsford. H. H.’, followed (ff. 5r-7r) by proverbs in a different cursive italic hand, on quarto leaves from another stock of paper. 1637.

This MS collated in Hutchinson and discussed p. 572.

First published in London, 1640. Hutchinson, pp. 321-55.

NLW MS 5308 E

A folio guardbook of verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, including (ff. 1r-9r) a quarto booklet of sixteen poems by Donne in a single neat italic hand, 54 leaves, in modern brown morocco gilt. c.1620-33.

Among papers of the Herbert family, of Powis Castle, including particularly papers of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1582?-1648). Acquired in 1916.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Herbert MS’: DnJ Δ 56.

f. 1r-v

• DnJ 2058: John Donne, Loves diet (‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’)

Copy, headed ‘The Dyet’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.

f. lv

• DnJ 2371: John Donne, Negative love (‘I never stoop'd so low, as they’)

Copy, headed ‘The Nothing’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 66. Gardner, Elegies, p. 56. Shawcross, No. 74.

f. 2r

• DnJ 2020: John Donne, Loves Deitie (‘I long to talke with some old lovers ghost’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 54. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 47-8. Shawcross, No. 64.

f. 2v

• DnJ 3852: John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping (‘Let me powre forth’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 38-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 58.

f. 3r

• DnJ 3034.5: John Donne, Sonnet. The Token (‘Send me some token, that my hope may live’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1649). Grierson, I, 72-3. Gardner, Elegies, p. 107 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 78.

f. 3r

• DnJ 2307: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)

Copy, untitled and with the second stanza appearing first, here beginning ‘Send home my harmlesse hart againe’.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.

f. 3v

• DnJ 1656: John Donne, The Indifferent (‘I can love both faire and browne’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 12-13. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 41-2. Shawcross, No. 37.

f. 4r

• DnJ 1850: John Donne, The Legacie (‘When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.

f. 4v

• DnJ 512: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.

f. 5r

• DnJ 1465: John Donne, The good-morrow (‘I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

f. 5v

• DnJ 730: John Donne, The Computation (‘For the first twenty yeares, since yesterday’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69. Gardner, Elegies, p. 36. Shawcross, No. 76.

f. 5v

• DnJ 1210: John Donne, The Expiration (‘So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘So, so, leaue of thy last lamenting Kiss’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published, in a musical setting, in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 68. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 36-7. Shawcross, No. 75.

f. 6r

• DnJ 274: John Donne, The Autumnall (‘No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace’)

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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.

ff. 6v-7r

• DnJ 3441: John Donne, To S^r Henry Goodyere (‘Who makes the Past, a patterne for next yeare’)

Copy, headed in the margin ‘To S^r Henry Goodier’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 183-4. Milgate, Satires, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 130.

ff. 7v-8r

• DnJ 3389: John Donne, To M^rs M.H. (‘Mad paper stay, and grudge not here to burne’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 216-18. Milgate, Satires, pp. 88-90. Shawcross, No. 133.

ff. 8v-9r

• DnJ 3084: John Donne, The Storme (‘Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)’)

Copy, headed in the margin ‘To M^r G B. fro the ilad voyage with the E. of Essex’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 175-7. Milgate, Satires, pp. 55-7. Shawcross, No. 109.

f. 9v

• DnJ 568: John Donne, The Calme (‘Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage’)

Copy of lines 1-18, headed ‘Calme’, imperfect; lacking the ending.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.

ff. 10r-11r

• BmF 48: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Death of the Virtuous Lady, Elizabeth Countess of Rutland (‘I may forget to eat, to drink, to sleep’)

Copy, in an angular italic hand, headed ‘An Elegie made uppon the death of the Countes of Rutland’, subscribed ‘Pet ffra: Beaumont’, on a folio leaf probably once folded as a letter or packet. c.1615-22.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Dyce, XI, 507-11.

f. 12r

• ToA 95: Aurelian Townshend, [A Masque by the Merchant Adventurers], The subject of y^e Maske expressed in the first song (‘After this Rabble whom the sea hath taught’)

Copy of the song in the hand of Sir Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves.

Edited from this MS, with a facsimile, in Beal.

First published in Peter Beal, ‘Songs by Aurelian Townshend, in the Hand of Sir Henry Herbert, for an Unrecorded Masque by the Merchant Adventurers’, Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, 15 (2003), 243-60 (p. 246).

f. 12v

• ToA 96: Aurelian Townshend, [A Masque by the Merchant Adventurers], The second song to call out the Masquers (‘Faire suretys of my truthe appeare’)

Copy of the song in the hand of Sir Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels, on the second page of two conjugate folio leaves.

Edited from this MS, with a facsimile, in Beal.

f. 12v

• ToA 97: Aurelian Townshend, [A Masque by the Merchant Adventurers], The .3. song to make them Vnmasque (‘Rise, rise, yee cold spectators rise’)

Copy of the song in the hand of Sir Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels, on the second page of two conjugate folio leaves.

Edited from this MS, with a facsimile, in Beal.

ff. 13r-18v

• GrF 48: Fulke Greville, Extracts

Extracts from various works by Greville.

ff. 40r-1v

• MaA 139.93: Andrew Marvell, A Country Clowne call'd Hodge Went to view the Pyramid, pray mark what did ensue (‘When Hodge had number'd up how many score’)

Copy, in a professional rounded hand, on a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th century.

First published, as ‘Hodge a Countryman went up to the Piramid, His Vision’, in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), p. 5. Sometimes called Hodge's Vision from the Monument, [December, 1675]. Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 81-8. Thompson, III, 359-65. Grosart, I, 435-40. Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse, 1660-1714, Volume II: 1678-1681, ed. Elias F. Mengel, Jr (New Haven & London, 1965), pp. 146-53.

First attributed to Marvell in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697), but probably written in 1679, after Marvell's death.

f. 44r-v

• CgW 36: William Congreve, Prologue [to The Way of the World] Spoken by Mr. Betterton (‘Of those few Fools who with ill Stars are curst’)

Copy, in a professional rounded hand, headed ‘Prologue. To M^r Congreves New Comedy call'd the way of the World. Spoke by M^r Betterton’, on two pages in a pair of conjugate folio leaves, possibly once folded as a letter or packet. c.1700.

First published in The Way of the World (London, 1700). Summers, III, 12-13. Davis, p. 393. McKenzie, II, 101-2.

ff. 44v-5r

• CgW 3: William Congreve, Epilogue [to ‘The Way of the World’] Spoken by Mrs. Bracegirdle (‘After our Epilogue this Crowd dismisses’)

Copy, in a professional rounded hand, on two pages in a pair of conjugate folio leaves, possibly once folded as a letter or packet. c.1700.

First published in The Way of the World (London, 1700). Summers, III, 78. Davis, p. 479. McKenzie, II, 224-5.

NLW MS 5390 D

A folio composite volume of verse, prose and dramatic works, in various hands, written over a period from both ends, 543 pages (including blanks), in contemporary panelled calf with remains of metal clasps. Compiled by members of the Salusbury family of Llewenni, Denbighshire, including works by Sir Thomas Salusbury, second Baronet (1612-43), poet and politician. Early-mid 17th century.

Later owned by J. Baskerville-Glegg, of Withington Hall, Chelford. Sotheby's, 14-16 March 1921, lot 421.

p. 2

• LoR 16.8: Richard Lovelace, The Scrutinie. Song (‘Why should you sweare I am forsworn’)

Copy of lines 1-3, untitled. c.1640.

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

p. 5

• DeJ 75: Sir John Denham, On the Earl of Strafford's Tryal and Death (‘Great Strafford! worthy of that Name, though all’)

Copy, in a roman hand, headed ‘Lord Straufords Elegie’. c.1640s.

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

p. 6

• HrJ 234.2: Sir John Harington, Of certain puritan wenches (‘Six of the weakest sex and purest sect’)

Copy, in a roman hand, headed ‘The Conventicle’, here beginning ‘Sixe of our Purer and our weaker sect’, and subscribed ‘Jo: Taylor’. c.1640s.

First published (anonymously) in Rump: or An Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662), II, 158-9. McClure No. 356, p. 292. Kilroy, Book II, No. 94, p. 164.

pp. 6-7

• DnJ 2938: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)

Copy, in an italic hand, untitled. c.1620s-40s.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.

p. 152

• WoH 116: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy, in a neat mixed hand, headed ‘Upon y^e 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.

p. 163

• HrJ 272: Sir John Harington, Of two Welsh Gentlemen (‘I heard among some other pretty Tales’)

Copy of a 12-line version, in a neat mixed hand, headed ‘An Epigram of S^r John Harrington’ and here beginning ‘Two Squires of Wales came ridinge to a Towne’.

The MS text followed by ‘The replie’, twenty lines beginning ‘Once out of England ridde a companie’, subscribed ‘Ignoto’.

First published (the short version) in 1615. the longer version in 1618, Book I, No. 62. McClure No. 63, p. 171. Kilroy, Book II, No. 15, p. 136.

p. 205

• CwT 915: Thomas Carew, Song. Perswasions to enjoy (‘If the quick spirits in your eye’)

Copy, in a predominantly cursive italic, headed ‘A Double-psuasion’, here beginning ‘If those quick Spirits in y^r Ey’, and subscribed ‘T. Cary’. c.1620s-30s.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 16. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

p. 207

• DnJ 410.5: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)

Copy of the title only, here ‘D^r Dunnes farwell to 12 angells he pd for a Gold Chain hee had lost of his quonda Mistresses’, deleted. Unless detached from DnJ 411, this is presumably a false start. c.1620s-40s.

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

pp. 318-19

• WoH 249: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)

Copy, in a cursive mixed hand, headed ‘S^r Kenellam Digbies farwell to the Worlde’. c.1640.

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

p. 334 rev.

• RaW 77: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

Copy, in a roman hand, untitled. c.1640s.

First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as ‘These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse’). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).

This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

NLW MS 10615 D

A folio volume of state tracts and parliamentary proceedings, largely in three neat mixed hands, ii + 139 pages (plus numerous blanks at the end), in contemporary vellum. c.1682.

Inscribed (p. ii) ‘Frances Butler’. Later in the library of Rheola House, Neath Valley, West Glamorgan. Donated in 1936 by R.J. Thomas, MA, of Treorchy.

pp. [133-7]

• WaE 391: Edmund Waller, A Panegyric to my Lord Protector, of the present Greatness, and joint Interest of His Highness, and this Nation (‘While with a strong and yet a gentle hand’)

Copy, headed ‘A Panegyrick on Oliver Cromwell by M^r Waller Anno Dni 1655’.

First published London, 1655. The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 10-17.

NLW 10893 E

A narrow ledger-size folio composite miscellany chiefly of verse, in English and Welsh, much of it Roman Catholic in character, in several hands, 72 leaves, in a recycled vellum deed within modern quarter-morocco. Compiled in part probably by Richard Williams of Abergavenny, soap boiler. Late 17th century.

f. 36r-v

• ClJ 31: John Cleveland, A Dialogue between two Zealots, upon the &c. in the Oath (‘Sir Roger, from a zealous piece of Freeze’)

Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue betweene two zealotts’, subscribed ‘John Cleveland’.

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 4-5.

NLW MS 11469 D

A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers, in various hands, 23 items, in modern quarter red morocco.

Among papers of the associated Edwards and Morrall families, of Cilhendre and Plas Yolyn, Dudleston, Shropshire. Purchased in 1937.

item 19

• MaA 118: Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh (‘Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign’)

Copy, in a probably professional cursive hand, on five pages of three folio leaves. Late 17th century.

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

NLW MS 12443 A

An oblong octavo composite volume, comprising two independent verse miscellanies, Part I, in Latin and English, largely in a neat secretary hand, paginated 1-22, Part II, in English and Welsh, in several hands, one neat secretary hand predominating, paginated 1-266, the two parts bound together in modern quarter red morocco. c.1630s.

Inscriptions including (Part I, pp. 1, 3 and 42) ‘Edward Lewis his Book 1753’, ‘John Parker’, ‘P H Warburton’, and ‘John Aden’, and (Part II, p. 33) ‘Thomas Lloyd Esq’. Wigfair MS 43, among papers mainly of the Lloyd family of Hafodunos, Denbighshire, and Wigfair, near St Asaph, Flintshire, purchased in 1926-7 from Colonel H. C. Lloyd Howard, of Wigfair.

Part I, pp. 9-10

• CoR 581: Richard Corbett, To his sonne Vincent Corbett (‘What I shall leave thee none can tell’)

Copy, headed ‘To my sonne Vincent the 10^th of 9ber 1630, being then 3 years of age’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 88.

Part I, pp. 10-12

• StW 1394: William Strode, Ad Filiolum Vincentium, in ipsius Natalem 10^ime: Novembris, Anno aetatis 3^to. 1630 (‘Scit nemo quid Opum Tibi relinquam’)

Copy, untitled.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349. In MS sources the poem is invariably preceded by the English poem by Richard Corbett on his son, of which Strode's poem is a Latin translation (see CoR 560-83).

Part I, pp. 12-13

• CoR 273: Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem (‘Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on’)

Copy, headed ‘Ter circum Iliacos raptaverat Hectora Muros’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-9.

The poem is usually followed in MSS by Dr Daniel Price's ‘Answer’ (‘So to dead Hector boyes may doe disgrace’), and see also CoR 227-46.

Part I, pp. 33-5

• RaW 432: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Like to a Ring without a finger’

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

First published in Latham (1951), pp. 165-7, as ‘A poem doubtfully ascribed to Ralegh’. Since, in fact, it is a parody of a poem by Francis Quarles printed in 1629 it cannot be by Ralegh.

Part I, pp. 36-41

• CwT 1016: Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love (‘Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say’)

Copy, headed ‘Perswasions to loue’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.

Part II, pp. 1-7

• EsR 82: 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 the fifteen-stanza version, headed ‘A Poem made on Robt Deuorex, Earle of Essex by m^r Henry Cuff, his Chaplaine’.

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.

Part II, pp. 9-10

• RaW 277: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy, headed ‘Of the life of Man’.

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.

Part II, p. 15

• DaJ 147: Sir John Davies, An Epitaph (‘Here lieth Kitt Craker, the kinge of good fellowes’)

Copy, headed ‘Epit: on a Bellowesmaker’, here beginning ‘Here lyes John Goddard a maker of bellowes’.

A version, ascribed to John Hoskyns, first published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Krueger, p. 303. Edited in The Life, Letters, and Writings of John Hoskyns 1566-1638, ed. Louise Brown Osborn (New Haven & London, 1937), p. 170.

Part II, pp. 19-20

• RaW 221: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Cardes, and Dice (‘Beefore the sixt day of the next new year’)

Copy, headed ‘Ænigma on the Cardes’, here beginning ‘ffew dayes before the next new yeare’.

First published as ‘A Prognostication upon Cards and Dice’ in Poems of Lord Pembroke and Sir Benjamin Ruddier (London, 1660). Latham, p. 48. Rudick, Nos 50A and 50B, pp. 123-4 (two versions, as ‘Sir Walter Rawleighs prophecy of cards, and Dice at Christmas’ and ‘On the Cardes and dice’ respectively).

Part II, pp. 22-3

• HrJ 234.3: Sir John Harington, Of certain puritan wenches (‘Six of the weakest sex and purest sect’)

Copy, headed ‘Epig:’ and here beginning ‘Six of the weaker sex, but purer sect’.

First published (anonymously) in Rump: or An Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662), II, 158-9. McClure No. 356, p. 292. Kilroy, Book II, No. 94, p. 164.

Part II, pp. 31-9

• CoR 70: Richard Corbett, The Distracted Puritane (‘Am I madd, o noble Festus’)

Copy; imperfect, lacking pp. 37-8.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 56-9.

Part II, p. 44

• DkT 29: Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall (‘The Queene was brought by water to White Hall’)

Copy, headed ‘On the remoue of Queene Elizabeths body from Richmond (where she dyed) to Whitehall’.

First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, ‘Poems by William Camden’, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.

Part II, p. 48

• DaJ 203.5: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)

Copy, headed ‘Epitaph on a child dying very younge’ and here beginning ‘As Carefull Mothers their babes to lay’.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.

Part II, pp. 50-1

• ElQ 12: Queen Elizabeth I, On Monsieur's Departure, circa 1582 (‘I grieve and dare not show my discontent’)

Copy, headed ‘Sonnett by Queene Elizabeth’.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

Collected Works, Poem 9, pp. 302-3. Selected Works, Poem 6, pp. 12-13. Bradner, p. 5.

Part II, pp. 52-3

• WoH 154: Sir Henry Wotton, A Poem written by Sir Henry Wotton in his Youth (‘O faithless world, and thy most faithless part’)

Copy, untitled.

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

Part II, pp. 55-6

• StW 1034: William Strode, A Sonnet (‘My Love and I for kisses played’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘I and my loue for kisses played’.

First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1633). Dobell, p. 47. Forey, p. 211. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 446-7).

Part II, pp. 66-9

• DnJ 644: John Donne, Change (‘Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too’)

Copy, headed ‘Instances Encomiu’.

First published, as ‘Elegie III’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 82-3 (as ‘Elegie III’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 19-20. Shawcross, No. 16. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 198.

Part II, pp. 78-82

• JnB 644: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘Cock-Lorell would needes haue the Diuell his guest’)

Copy of the song, untitled.

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

Part II, pp. 97-8

• CwT 291: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Carew on the Fly’ and here beginning ‘While this fly liud it vsd to play’.

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

Part II, pp. 102-4

• DaW 66: Sir William Davenant, To the King on New-yeares day 1630. Ode (‘The joyes of eager Youth, of Wine, and Wealth’)

Copy, headed ‘Dauenat's newyeares guift to K Charles 1631’.

First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, pp. 31-2.

Part II, p. 104

• DnJ 411.5: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)

Copy of the first two lines only, headed ‘Elegie’, deleted presumably as a false start.

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

Part II, pp. 105-10

• DnJ 3087: John Donne, The Storme (‘Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)’)

Copy, headed ‘The Storme to M^r C. B’.

First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 175-7. Milgate, Satires, pp. 55-7. Shawcross, No. 109.

Part II, pp. 111-15

• DnJ 571: John Donne, The Calme (‘Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.

Part II, pp. 125-30

• DrW 117.43: William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge (‘From such a face quois excellence’)

Copy.

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.

Part II, pp. 133-4

• CoR 201: Richard Corbett, An Epitaph on Doctor Donne, Deane of Pauls (‘Hee that would write an Epitaph for thee’)

Copy.

First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 89.

Part II, pp. 143-5

• CwT 671: Thomas Carew, The second Rapture (‘No worldling, no, tis not thy gold’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 103-4.

Part II, pp. 145-53

• EaJ 29: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie, Upon the death of Sir John Burrowes, Slaine at the Isle of Ree (‘Oh wound us not with this sad tale, forbear’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie vpon the death of S^r John Burrowes’.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 12-16. Extract in Bliss, pp. 225-6. Edited in James Doelman, ‘John Earle's Funeral Elegy on Sir John Burroughs’, English Literary Renaissance, 41/3 (Autumn 2011), 485-502 (pp. 499-502).

Part II, pp. 234-6

• StW 1186: William Strode, The Townes new teacher (‘With Face and Fashion to bee knowne’)

Copy, partly in double columns, headed ‘M^r Strode’.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Forey, pp. 167-9.

Part II, pp. 237-8

• RaW 446: Sir Walter Ralegh, The passionate mans Pilgrimage (‘Giue me my Scallop shell of quiet’)

Copy, in double columns, headed ‘S^r Walter Rawleighs Pilgrimage’.

First published with Daiphantvs or The Passions of Loue (London, 1604). Latham, pp. 49-51. Rudick, Nos 54A, 54B and 54C (three versions, pp. 126-33).

This poem rejected from the canon and attributed to an anonymous Catholic poet in Philip Edwards, ‘Who Wrote The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage?’, ELR, 4 (1974), 83-97.

Part II, pp. 259-63

• HeR 187: Robert Herrick, Oberons Feast (‘A Little mushroome table spred’)

Copy, headed ‘The fayrie's feast att his mariage’ and without the preliminary lines.

First published complete, with six preliminary lines beginning ‘Shapcot! To thee the Fairy State’, in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 119-20. Patrick, pp. 161-3. An earlier version, entitled ‘A Description of his Dyet’, published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Martin, pp. 454-5.

Part II, pp. 265-6

• CoR 46: Richard Corbett, A Certaine Poeme As it was presented in Latine by Divines and Others, before his Maiestye in Cambridge (‘It is not yet a fortnight, since’)

Copy, headed ‘Oxford Sonnet / A poeme as it was p^rsented before his Ma^tie in Cambridge...[etc.]’, imperfect, lacking the ending.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.

Some texts accompanied by an ‘Answer’ (‘A ballad late was made’).

NLW MS 12746 D

A composite volume of miscellaneous extracts and culinary and medical receipts. Mid-18th century.

ff. 32v, 34v, 36v, 38v, 42v

• DrJ 394: John Dryden, Extracts

Extracts, including extracts from Aureng-Zebe and Alexander's Feast.

NLW MS 16852 D

A folio commonplace book, largely under subject headings, in Latin and English, in several hands, a neat italic hand predominating, 343 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1660.

Once owned by Llewellin-Taylor, MA, FRSA, of Lincoln's Inn. Affixed card of Edward Almack (1852-1917), bibliographer and editor. Hodgson's, 10 July 1957, lot 855.

ff. 150r-1r

• DnJ 2155: John Donne, Loves Progress (‘Who ever loves, if he do not propose’)

Copy, in a neat italic hand, subscribed ‘J D:’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1669) (as ‘Elegie XVIII’). Grierson, I, 116-19. (as ‘Elegie XVIII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 16-19. Shawcross, No. 20. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 301-3.

NLW MS 21246 D

A folio volume of extracts from antiquarian collections, largely in one neat mixed hand, vii + 52 leaves (plus thirty blanks), in contemporary calf. From the library of the Mostyn family, of Mostyn Hall, Flintshire, and Gloddaeth, Denbighshire, whose notable book and manuscript collectors included Sir Thomas Mostyn (1651-1700?) and his grandson Sir Thomas Mostyn, fourth Baronet (1704-58). Formerly Mostyn MS 255. Bookplate of Thomas Mostyn, 1744, inscribed ‘N^o. 34’. Sotheby's, 13 July 1920 (Mostyn sale), lot 70, to Backhouse. Christie's, 24 October 1974 (Mostyn sale). Mid-late 17th century.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 360.

ff. vii^r, 1r-42r

• LeJ 87: John Leland, The Itinerary of John Leland [Other transcripts and extracts]

Copy of part of the Itinerary relating to Wales, untitled, inscribed in the margin as having been transcribed from Leland's MS [of the Collectanea] in ‘Bibliotheca Bod:leianæ Oxonij existente’.

ff. 47r-8v

• LeJ 47: John Leland, Collectanea [Other transcripts and extracts]

Extracts in Latin from the Life of St Winifred by Robert, Prior of Shrewsbury, inscribed in the margin as having been transcribed from Leland's MS [of the Collectanea] in ‘Bibliotheca Bod:leianâ Oxonij existente’.

NLW MS 21699 C

Autograph, in a stylish italic hand subscribed ‘Hen. Vaughan’, inscribed at the foot of the page containing the printed text of Sannazarius's poem and of an English translation beginning ‘When Neptun 'mong his billowes Venice saw’, on sig. [B2 recto], in a printed exemplum of James Howell, A Survay of the Signorie of Venice (London, 1651), a folio in contemporary calf. c.1650s.

*VaH 1: Henry Vaughan the Silurist, Another Translation of the Same (‘When in the Adriatick neptune saw’)

Later in the library of Harry Lawrence Bradfer-Lawrence, FSA (1887-1965), Norfolk and Yorkshire antiquary and manuscript collector. Acquired from Quaritch in April 1981.

This MS edited and discussed in Nauman. Facsimile in IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile XIXa, after p. xxi.

A six-line verse translation of ‘The famous Hexastic which Sannazarius made upon the Citty of Venice’ (‘Viderat Adriacis Venetam Neptunus in Undis’). The well-known original epigram on Venice by Iacopo Sannazaro (1458-1530) was published in his Opera Latina (Venice, 1535), Epigrammata I, xxxvi: see Renaissance Latin Verse: An Anthology, ed. Alessandro Perosa and John Sparrow (London, 1979), pp. 150-1.

First published in Jonathan Nauman, ‘A New Poem is New Evidence: Henry Vaughan and James Howell Reconsidered’, N&Q, 237 (December 1992), 460-2.

NLW MS 21702 E

A guardbook of MSS, in various hands.

ff. 158r-9v

• *PsK 437: Katherine Philips, To my Lord Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, on the discovery of the late Plot (‘Though you (Great Sir) be Heaven's immediate Care’)

Autograph presentation fair copy, headed ‘To my Lord Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland on the discovery of the late Plot’ and endorsed by Ormonde, ‘Verses M^rs Phillipps /10 July 1663/ L^d Dunganon’, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves.

Formerly among MS poems presented to, or owned by, James Butler (1610-88), first Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Formerly British Library, Loan MS 37/6, p. 127. Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 275, to Quaritch. 1663.

Edited from this MS in Thomas. Recorded in HMC, 14th Report, Appendix, Part VII, Ormonde I (1895), p. 114. Identified as autograph, with a facsimile example, in Hilton Kelliher, ‘Cowley and “Orinda”. Autograph Fair Copies’, BLJ, 2 (1976), 102-8 (p. 107). Facsimiles of the first page and the endorsement in Sotheby's sale catalogue.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 150-1. Saintsbury, pp. 591-2. Thomas, I, 222-3, poem 103.

NLW MS 21867 B

Copy of the complete play (ff. 2r-35v), untitled, with the songs added at the end (ff. 36r-9r), 41 quarto leaves, in modern cloth, formerly bound in a composite volume. Written in faint ink in a professional hand, with a few intermittent autograph corrections by Katherine Philips, seven lines in her hand at the end of Act III (f. 38r), and the first page and a half of the text (f. 2r-v), as well as occasional other words (such as on ff. 5v-6r), overwritten in darker ink possibly by her in an abortive attempt to reinforce the copy; the Prologue by Roscommon (f. 1r-v) and Epilogue by Dering (f. 41r) in another professional hand on a different stock of paper but also bearing Philips's autograph annotations (‘E: Roscommon’ and ‘S^r. Ed: Deering’ respectively). c.1662-3.

*PsK 575: Katherine Philips, Pompey. A Tragedy

This MS discussed, with a facsimile of f. 38r, in Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993), pp. 187-94. Facsimile of f. 38r also in Germaine Greer, ‘Editorial Conundra in the Texts of Katherine Philips’, in Editing Women, ed. Ann M. Hutchison and Margaret Anne Doody (Toronto, 1998), pp. 79-100 (p. 83).

Translated from Pierre Corneille's La Mort de Pompée. Tragédie (Paris, 1644). First published in Dublin, 1663. London, 1663. Poems (1667). Thomas, III, 1-91.

NLW MS 22676 D

A folio composite volume of manuscript and printed verse and prose, in various hands, 59 items, in old reversed calf. Assembled and indexed by Thomas Price (d.1704), a Roman Catholic, of Llanfyllin, Powys.

Later owned by one ‘Prue Haerley’ and by one Henry Parry. Sotheby's, 20 June 1928, lot 539, to Pickering. Pickering and Chatto's sale catalogue No. 651 (1983).

item 12

• RoJ 34: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book (‘Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes’)

Copy, in a cursive hand, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet, the heading cropped by the binder.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.

item 14

• CoA 129: Abraham Cowley, On the Death of Mr. Crashaw (‘Poet and Saint! to thee alone are given’)

Copy, in a rounded italic hand, on both sides of a single folio leaf. Mid-late 17th century.

First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 48-9. Sparrow, pp. 46-8.

item 24

• DrJ 43.925: John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire (‘How dull and how insensible a beast’)

Copy, in a neat cursive hand, on both sides of four folio leaves. Late 17th century.

First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.

NLW MS 22829 D

Autograph, with one alteration, dated 12 September 1612, written on the rear endpaper of Herbert's printed exemplum of Antonio de Herrera, Tercera parte de la historia general del mundo (Madrid, 1612), a folio, in calf. w 1612.

HrE 32: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, For a Dyal (‘Discurrens dubiae placidus compendia vitae’)

Sotheby's, 20 March 1967 (Powis Castle Sale), lot 176. Dawson's sale catalogue No. 208 (1970), item 108, sold to Deighton Bell. Purchased in 1991 from Quaritch.

Facsimile of this MS in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 20 March 1967.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 89.

Orielton Deeds and Documents, Box 24, unnumbered document

A single cropped folio leaf of verse, once folded as a letter or packet. Among papers descended from the family of Anne Owen, Katherine Philips's friend ‘Lucasia’, of Orielton, Pembrokeshire. c.1646-8.

Complete facsimile in Germaine Greer, ‘Editorial Conundra in the Texts of Katherine Philips’, in Editing Women, ed. Ann M. Hutchison and Margaret Anne Doody (Toronto, 1998), pp. 79-100 (pp. 96-7).

f. 1r

• *PsK 218: Katherine Philips, ‘No blooming youth shall ever make me err’

Autograph piece of juvenilia, untitled, subscribed ‘Humbly Dedicated too M^rs Anne Barlow/C. Fowler’.

Edited from this MS in Lockley (extracts) and, with a facsimile, in Limbert. Also edited in Thomas and in Kissing the Rod, p. 188.

First published (extracts) in Ronald Lockley, Orielton (London, 1977), pp. 19-20. Published (complete) in Claudia Limbert, ‘Two Poems and a Prose Receipt: The Unpublished Juvenilia of Katherine Philips’, ELR, 16 (1986), 383-90 (pp. 389-90), reprinted in Women in the Renaissance, ed. Kirby Farrell, Elizabeth H. Hageman and Arthur F. Kinney (Amherst, 1988), 179-86 (pp. 185-6), and in Thomas I, 253-4, poem 129, among ‘Juvenilia’.

f. 1v

• *PsK 1: Katherine Philips, ‘A marry^d state affords but little ease’

Autograph piece of juvenilia, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Lockley (extracts) and, with a facsimile, in Limbert. Also edited in Thomas and in Kissing the Rod, pp. 188-9.

First published (extracts) in Ronald Lockley, Orielton (London, 1977), pp. 19-20. Published (complete) in Claudia Limbert, ‘Two Poems and a Prose Receipt: The Unpublished Juvenilia of Katherine Philips’, ELR, 16 (1986), 383-90 (p. 390), reprinted in Women in the Renaissance, ed. Kirby Farrell, Elizabeth H. Hageman and Arthur F. Kinney (Amherst, 1988), pp. 179-86 (p. 186), and in Thomas, I, 254, poem 130.

This poem comprises lines 13-16, 43-4, 48-50, 59-62 of an anonymous 62-line poem beginning ‘Madam / I cannot but Congratulate’, which is edited and discussed in Claudia A. Limbert and John H. O'Neill, ‘Composite Authorship: Katherine Philips and an Antimarital Satire’, PSBA, 87 (1993), 487-502.

See Introduction.

f. 1v

• *PsK 572: Katherine Philips, A receipt to cure a Love sick Person who cant obtain the Party desired

Autograph piece of juvenilia.

Edited from this MS in Lockley and, with a facsimile, in Limbert.

First published in Ronald Lockley, Orielton (London, 1977), pp. 19-20. Claudia Limbert, ‘Two Poems and a Prose Receipt: The Unpublished Juvenilia of Katherine Philips’, ELR, 16 (1986), 383-90 (p. 390); reprinted in Women in the Renaissance, ed. Kirby Farrell, Elizabeth H. Hageman and Arthur F. Kinney (Amherst, 1988), 179-86 (p. 186).

Peniarth MS 270 D

A folio composite volume of antiquarian tracts and genealogies, in various hands and paper sizes, 520 pages, in modern half red morocco.

pp. 499-505

• CmW 208: William Camden, Extracts

Extracts, in the hand of Robert Vaughan (1591/2-1667) of Hengwrt, antiquary.

Peniarth MS 272 C

Copy of extensive portions of the work, ‘Ex Camdeni Britania’, in thee small mixed hand of Robert Vaughan (1591/2-1667) of Hengwrt, antiquary, including drawings of coins, 96 small folio pages, in modern quarter-morocco. Early-mid-17th century.

CmW 13.182: William Camden, Britannia

First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.

Peniarth MS 273 C (1)

A small folio volume of works chiefly by John Leland, in a predominantly neat italic hand, 741 pages, in modern quarter-calf. Transcribed by Robert Vaughan (1591/2-1667) of Hengwrt, antiquary. c.1638-67.

pp. 125-46, 154-212, 233-360

• LeJ 24: John Leland, Collectanea [Stow transcript]

Copy of portions of the Collectanea, transcribed in part from one of John Stow's transcripts (LeJ 20), untitled.

pp. 361-741

• LeJ 58: John Leland, The Itinerary of John Leland [Stow transcript]

Copy, transcribed from John Stow's transcript (LeJ 57) by Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt (1591/2-1667), antiquary, headed ‘Comentarij Angliæ John Leyland. 1542. of late written by Joⁿ Stow An^o Dni 1576’, incomplete.

This MS recorded in Smith, III, vi (n).

Peniarth MS 273 C (2)

Copy of part of the fifth volume of Leland's autograph MS, in a mixed hand, transcribed from Stow's transcript (LeJ 57), headed ‘Comentarij Anglia 4. bookes by Joⁿ Laylande written by John Stow in Anno. 1576. Collegis in Kent’, 150 small folio pages, imperfect, in modern quarter-calf. Transcribed for Robert Vaughan (1592?-1667) of Hengwrt. Mid-17th century.

LeJ 59: John Leland, The Itinerary of John Leland [Stow transcript]

This MS recorded in Smith, III, vi (n).

Peniarth MS 274 D

A folio composite volume of antiquarian and state tracts and papers, in various hands, 264 pages, in a contemporary vellum wrapper within modern quarter red morocco. Partly in the hand of Robert Vaughan (1591/2-1667) of Hengwrt, antiquary.

pp. 143-93

• LeJ 95.5: John Leland, The Laboryouse Journey and Serche of Johan Leylande for Englandes Antiquitees

Copy of the work as enlarged by John Bale, in the predominantly secretary hand of Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt (1592?-1667), with a formal title-page in italic in red ink, a dedicatory epistle to Prince Edward (pp. 145-9), one by Bale to the Reader (p. 149), a Preface (pp. 150-5), and The conclusion (pp. 175-84) followed by a related register of names (pp. 185-93). Early-mid-17th century.

First published in London, 1549, ed. John Bale.

pp. 245-51

• CtR 188: Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, unascribed, dated 1628. c.1630.

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

pp. 251-64

• CtR 420: Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘A short view of the raigne of King Henry the Third written by S^r. Robert Cotton Kn^t. & Baronett & by him presented to his Ma^tie:’. c.1630.

Treatise, written c.1614 and ‘Presented to King James’, beginning ‘Wearied with the lingering calamities of Civil Arms...’. First published in London, 1627. Cottoni posthuma (1651), at the end (i + pp. 1-27).

Peniarth MS 346 A

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single cursive secretary hand, 153 pages (including many blanks), in contemporary limp vellum. Late 16th century.

p. 3

• SiP 116.8: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book I, No. 3 (‘What length of verse can serve brave Mopsa's good to show’)

Copy of Book I, No. 3, lines 13-14 (beginning ‘As for those parts unknowne, which hidden sure are best’).

Ringler, p. 12. Robertson, pp. 30-1.

p. 3

• SiP 161.5: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book III, No. 62 (‘What toong can her perfections tell’)

Copy of Book 3, No. 62, lines 83-6 (beginning ‘In that sweete seate the Boy doth sport’).

Ringler, pp. 85-90. Robertson, pp. 238-42.

p. 19

• WyT 393.5: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘When first mine eyes did view, and marke’

Copy of the incipit only, untitled.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557).Muir & Thomson, pp. 248-9.

Peniarth MS 364 B (1)

A quarto composite miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several hands, 66 leaves, in modern half-leather.

Inscribed (f. 66v) ‘Thomas Jones is my name’.

ff. 14r-43v

• LeJ 4: John Leland, Poemata

Copy of a large number of Leland's Latin poems, in a single mixed hand, prepared for John Jones of Gellilyfdy. c.1611.

Many of Leland's Latin epigrams published in Principum, ac illustrium aliquot & eruditorum in Anglia virorum, encomia, trophaea, genethliaca & epithalamia, ed. Thomas Newton (London, 1589). Reprinted in Joannis Lelandi...collectanea, ed. Thomas Hearne, 3rd edition (London, 1774), V, 79-167.

Peniarth MS 373 B

A quarto commonplace book of largely devotional extracts, some under subject headings, closely written in a single predominantly italic hand, 52 pages, in contemporary limp vellum wrapper inscribed ‘Spiritual Rules collected out of the Bible’, within modern quarter-morocco. Mid-late 17th century.

Inscribed inside the wrapper ‘Hugh Nanney his booke’.

p. 33

• TaJ 26: Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

Extracts, headed ‘Of Repentance...out of D^r Taylor Holy Leveing’.

First published in London, 1650.

Peniarth MS 374 B

Copy of Psalms 1-150, in at least two italic hands, entitled ‘The Psalms of David done into English Verse by the Most Noble and Vertuous Gent. S^r. Phillip Sidney Kn^t.’, 191 leaves, in 18th-century vellum boards. Mid-18th century.

SiP 82: Sir Philip Sidney, The Psalms of David

Inscribed (inside the front cover) ‘Ex dono Roberti Wynn’ and (f. 1r) ‘E libris Griffithii Roberto 1791’.

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.

Peniarth MS 444 C

A quarto MS of ‘A Discourse of the Pedigree of Percy's and Stanley's’, dedicated, and possibly prepared as a presentation copy, to Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-65), natural philosopher and courtier, largely in a stylish italic hand, seventeen pages (plus 21 blanks), in 19th-century red morocco blind-stamped. c.1620s-30s.

Bookplate of W. W. E. Wynne.

p. 17

• JnB 227: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 8. To Kenelme, Iohn, George (‘Boast not these Titles of your Ancestors’)

Copy, complete with prose introduction subscribed ‘B. I.’

Described erroneously, in a note by W. W. E. Wynne, as ‘in the autograph of celebrated Ben Jonson’.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 281-2.

Peniarth MS 500 B

A quarto formal verse miscellany, in a single professional secretary hand, 83 pages, in modern quarter-calf. c.1630s.

pp. 1-4

• CoR 335: Richard Corbett, A letter sent from Doctor Corbet to Master Ailesbury, Decem. 9. 1618 (‘My Brother and much more had'st thou bin mine’)

Copy, headed ‘A Letter from Doctor Corbett: to a freind’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 63-5.

p. 5

• PeW 206: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, On the Countess of Pembrokes Picture (‘Here (though the lustre of her youth be spent)’)

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Poems (1660), p. 26, superscribed ‘R.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’.

pp. 18-20

• WoH 153: Sir Henry Wotton, A Poem written by Sir Henry Wotton in his Youth (‘O faithless world, and thy most faithless part’)

Copy of lines 7-26, headed ‘Verses made by S^r Henry Wotton’ and here beginning ‘Why was shee borne to please, or I to trust’.

pp. 20-4

• DnJ 2581: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)

Copy, headed ‘That hee was betrayed by a perfume’.

This MS discussed in Baird W. Whitlock, ‘A Note on Two Donne Manuscripts’, RN, 18 (1965), 9-11. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie IV’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 84-6 (as ‘Elegie IV’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 7-9. Shawcross, No. 10. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 72-3.

pp. 25-7

• PeW 96: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Sonnet (‘Dear leave thy home and come with me’)

Copy, headed ‘A Sonnet’.

This MS collated in Krueger.

Poems (1660), pp. 38-9, superscribed ‘P.’. Krueger, p. 32, among ‘Pembroke's Poems’. Edited, and tentatively attributed to Randolph, in G.C. Moore Smith, ‘Thomas Randolph’ (Warton Lecture on English Poetry, read 18 May 1927), Proceedings of the British Academy, 13 (1927), 79-121 (pp. 115-16).

pp. 27-8

• PeW 47: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘If her disdain least change in you can move’

Copy, headed ‘Verses made by the Earle of Pembroke’, followed (pp. 29-30) by ‘The Answere’.

This MS collated in Kueger.

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

pp 29-30

• PeW 115: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘'Tis Love breeds Love in me, and cold Disdain’

Copy, headed ‘The Answer’.

This MS collated in Krueger.

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

p. 30

• PeW 78: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of Friendship (‘Friendship on Earth we may as easily find’)

Copy, headed ‘Of Freindship’.

This MS collated in Krueger.

Poems (1660), p. 48, but without attribution. Krueger, pp. 41-2, among ‘Pembroke's Poems’.

pp. 32-4

• GrJ 75: John Grange, ‘Since every man I come among’

Copy, headed ‘J: G: his Ballet’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published in Poems (1660), pp. 53-4. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as by John Grange.

pp. 59-61

• GrJ 13.5: John Grange, ‘Be not proud, 'cause fair and trim’

Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published, in a musical setting, in Henry Lawes, Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (1655), p. 10, ascribed to John Grange. Poems (1660), pp. 59-60, where the stanzas by ‘Man’ are superscribed ‘P.’ and those by ‘Woman’ superscribed ‘R.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as probably by John Grange.

pp. 64-7

• PoW 57: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’

Copy, headed ‘On black haire and eyes’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published, as ‘In praise of black Women; by T.R.’, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as ‘On a black Gentlewoman’. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as ‘On black Hair and Eyes’ and superscribed ‘R’; in The Poems of John Donne, ed Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as ‘on Black Hayre and Eyes’, among ‘Poems attributed to Donne in MSS’; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.

pp. 76-7

• GrJ 78: John Grange, ‘Sir, such my fate was, that I had no store’

Copy, headed ‘J Grange, to the Prince at his returne from Spaine’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published in Poems (1660), pp. 63-4, as ‘Benj. Rudier To the Prince At his Return from Spain’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as by John Grange.

Peniarth MS 526 A

Autograph annotations, signed on the title-page ‘GabrielisHaruey 1583’, his notes opposite dated ‘1587’, an octavo in contemporary limp vellum. 1583-7.

*HvG 22: Gabriel Harvey, [Anon.]. Calendarium Gregorianum Perpetuum (Antwerp, 1583)

Stern, pp. 240-1.

Pitchford Hall (Ottley) English Literary MSS (uncatalogued), A

Miscellaneous literary papers, unbound, assembled by Adam Ottley (1685-1752), Registrar of the diocese of St David's, Wales. Among papers formerly at Pitchford Hall, Shropshire.

• CoR 493: Richard Corbett, On John Dawson, Butler at Christ-Church. 1622 (‘Dawson the Butler's dead. although I thinke’)

Copy, with other poems on a single folio leaf.

First published (omitting lines 7-10) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 72-3.

• HrJ 153: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett (‘A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse’)

Copy, headed ‘On a lady’, among poems on a single folio leaf.

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.

• StW 865: William Strode, Song (‘Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye’)

Copy, headed ‘on a lady’, with other verses on a single folio leaf.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 88-9.

• MaA 74: Andrew Marvell, A Ballad call'd the Chequer Inn (‘I'll tell thee Dick where I have beene’)

Copy, in a mixed hand, headed ‘The Exchequer Inne’, on two conjugate folio leaves, with an untitled ‘Answer’ (‘Curse on such representations’) on a separate quarto leaf. Late 17th century.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Margoliouth, I, 201-8. POAS, I, 252-62. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

• EtG 71.5: Sir George Etherege, Song (‘Tell me no more you love. in vain’)

Copy, untitled, on one side of a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.

First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1669). Thorpe, p. 24.

• SdT 30: Thomas Shadwell, Psyche

Copy of the song ‘The delights of the bottle and the charms of good wine’, untitled, on a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.

First published in London, 1675. Summers, II, 271-340 (pp. 311, 318, 338).

• RaW 494.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘The state of Fraunce as nowe it standes’

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, endorsed ‘Primero of ffraunce’. Late 16th-early 17th century.

First published in A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1808), III, 78. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172. Rudick, No. 30, p. 71. EV 24294.

• MaA 226: Andrew Marvell, The Statue at Charing Cross (‘What can be the Mistery why Charing Cross’)

Copy, untitled, on the first of two conjugate folio leaves, the second endorsed ‘The Exchequer Inne’. Late 17th century.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1698). Margoliouth, I, 199-201. POAS, I, 270-3. Lord, pp. 201-4. Smith, pp. 418-19.

• RoJ 596: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing (‘Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade’)

Copy, on two pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.

This MS collated in Walker and in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.

First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.

• RoJ 329: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)

Copy of a 96-line version, headed ‘A Satyr against Mankind By the late E. of Rochester’, on pp. [1-4] of a small quarto booklet of poems by or relating to Rochester. Late 17th century.

This MS collated in Walker.

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).

• RoJ 66: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Disabled Debauchee (‘As some brave admiral, in former war’)

Copy, headed ‘The Maim'd Debauchee By y^e same Author’, on pp. [4-5] of a small quarto booklet of poems by or relating to Rochester. Late 17th century.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.

• RoJ 597: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing (‘Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade’)

Copy of a nine-stanza version, headed ‘Upon Nothing. By the same’ and here beginning ‘Nothing, now elder Brother ev'n to shade’, on pp. [5-6] of a small quarto booklet of poems by or relating to Rochester. Late 17th century.

This MS collated in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.

• RoJ 471: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Submission (‘To this moment a rebel, I throw down my arms’)

Copy of a four-stanza version, untitled, on a folded portion of a folio leaf, endorsed ‘A Songe’. Late 17th century.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 15. Walker, pp. 18-19. Love, p. 22, as Song.

• DoC 5.5: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Advice (‘Phyllis, for shame let us improve’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Buckhurst’, on a single leaf. Late 17th century.

First published in Westminster Drollery (London, 1671). Harris, pp. 77-8.

A10

• WyW 7: William Wycherley, Wycherleys extempore Poem on y^e Peace (‘As springing show'rs make fading flowers to smile’)

Copy of a ten-line poem ascribed to ‘Witcherley’ on a small slip of paper.

Unpublished?

Pitchford Hall (Ottley) English Literary MSS (uncatalogued), B B1

An unbound sheaf of six folio leaves of poems, in a neat secretary hand, in double columns. Among papers of Adam Ottley (1685-1752), Registrar of the diocese of St David's, Wales, and formerly in Pitchford Hall, Shropshire. c.1580s.

This MS discussed. with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, ‘Poems by Sir Philip Sidney: The Ottley Manuscript’, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 284-95. See also correspondence with Jean Robertson in The Library, 6th Ser. (June 1980) and (June 1981).

passim

• SiP 100: Sir Philip Sidney, The Old Arcadia

Copy of 24 of the poems (Nos. 2, 3, 11, 12, 13, [Lines 116-21, 123, 125, 129, 131-2, 136-7, 141], 14-22, 27, 28 [lines 37-48], 31, 33-5, 38, 60, 62, 77, in an irregular order) and also the ‘Nota’ on rules of verse (here beginning ‘Rules in mesured verses in English w^ch I observe’).

The ‘Nota’ edited (from SiP 102) in Ringler, p. 391, and in Robertson, pp. 80-1. Facsimile of f. 6v, including the ‘Nota’ on rules of verse, in Beal (1978), Plates I and II.

The unfinished revised version of Arcadia (the ‘New Arcadia’) first published in London, 1590. The original version (the ‘Old Arcadia’) first published in Feuillerat, IV (1926). The complete Old Arcadia edited by Jean Robertson (Oxford, 1973). The poems edited in Ringler, pp. 7-131.

passim

• SiP 22: Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets

Copy of sonnets 1-2, 13-25, 31, 32 (in an irregular order).

First published in Arcadia (London, 1598). Ringler, pp. 133-62.

f. 3r

• DyE 72: Sir Edward Dyer, Sonnet (‘Prometheus, when first from heuen hie’)

Copy, subscribed ‘E. D.’

First published in The Countess of Pembrokes Arcadia, 3rd edition (London, 1598). Sargent, No. I, p. 176. May, Courtier Poets, p. 302. EV 19124.

f. 4r-v

• SiP 91.8: Sir Philip Sidney, ‘Waynd from the hope w^ch made affection glad’

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Beal (1978) and in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), p. 415.

First published in Peter Beal, ‘Poems by Sir Philip Sidney: The Ottley Manuscript’, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 284-95 (p. 288). This poem belongs to the same Accession Day tournament as SiP 91.2-91.6 and is possibly by Sidney.

f. 4v

• SiP 91.4: Sir Philip Sidney, ‘Philisides, the Shepherd good and true’

Copy.

Edited from this MS in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), pp. 413-14.

First published in Bernard Mathias Wagner, ‘New Poems by Sir Philip Sidney’, PMLA, 53.i (1938), 118-24. Ringler, pp. 356-7, as ‘Wrongly Attributed Poems’, AT 19. This poem belongs to the same Accession Day tournament as SiP 91.5-6 and SiP 91.8 and was possibly by Sidney.

f. 4v

• SiP 91.7: Sir Philip Sidney, ‘Singe neighbours singe, here yow not Say’

Copy.

Edited from this MS in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), p. 414.

First published in Bernard Mathias Wagner, ‘New Poems by Sir Philip Sidney’, PMLA, 53.i (1938), 118-24. Ringler, pp. 357-8, as ‘Wrongly Attributed Poems’, AT 21. This poem belongs to the same Accession Day tournament as SiP 91.2-3 and SiP 91.8 and was possibly by Sidney.

f. 5v

• ElQ 23: Queen Elizabeth I, ‘The doubt of future foes’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Elizabetha Regina’.

This MS cited in Beal (1978) and in Selected Works.

A version first published in George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie (London, 1589), sig. 2E2^v (p. 208). Bradner, p. 4. Collected Works, Poem 5, pp. 133-4. Selected Works, Poem 4, pp. 7-9.

Wynne (Bodewryd) MS 6

A quarto composite memorandum book of English, Welsh and latin verse and prose, in several hands, 100 leaves, in a contemporary limp vellum wrapper within modern half red morocco. Compiled over a period, at least in part, by various members of the Lloyd family of Llwydiarth. Early 17th century-1672.

Inscriptions including (f. 3r) ‘Mounta: Lloyd 1671’ and (f. 49r) ‘David W^ms. his Book beeing M^rs Anne Lloyds Guift’, and with other references to David Lloyd, Elizabeth Lluyd, Robert Lluyd, Jane Lloyd, and Hugh Lloyd. Probably Quaritch's sale ‘Catalogue of English Literature’ (August-November 1884), item 22351. Formerly Sotheby MS B. 2.

f. 53v

• CmT 128: Thomas Campion, ‘Though you are yoong and I am olde’

Copy, in a mixed hand, with a fifth stanza added in another mixed hand, untitled.

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. ii. Davis, pp. 20-1.

f. 59v

• ElQ 50: Queen Elizabeth I, Written with a Diamond (‘Much suspected by me’)

Copy, in a mixed hand, headed ‘These verses shee wrott with her diamond in aglass Windowe’, with a marginal note ‘by the queen being prisoner at Woodstocke in her sisters time’, and subscribed ‘Quoth Elizabeth prisoner’ with two lines of Latin.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

First published in John Foxe, Acts and Monuments (London, 1563), p. 1714. Bradner, p. 3, as ‘Written with a Diamond on her Window at Woodstock’. Collected Works, Poem 2, p. 46. Selected Works, Poem 2, p. 4.

ff. 60r-1r

• EsR 83: 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 secretary hand, headed ‘By the L. of Essex’.

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.

f. 62r

• NaT 7.12: Thomas Nashe, ‘Monsieur Mingo for quaffing doth surpass’

Copy of the song.

First published, as ‘The Song’, in Nashe's ‘Pleasant Comedie’ Summers last will and Testament (London, 1600). McKerrow, III, 264. EV 14798.

ff. 63v-4r

• SiP 240: Sir Philip Sidney, Extracts

A prose extract from Arcadia, in a secretary hand, headed ‘in praier taken out of S^r P. Sdes: A.’, beginning ‘O all seeing light & eternall life...’.

f. 65r-v

• TiC 40: Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Lament (‘My prime of youth is but a frost of cares’)

Copy, headed ‘Tichborns verses’.

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

ff. 66r-7r

• RaW 167: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie (‘Goe soule the bodies guest’)

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Satyra volans’.

First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.

This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, ‘Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine’, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's ‘answer’ to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.

ff. 74v-5r

• DaJ 116: Sir John Davies, Verses given to the Lord Treasuer upon Newyeares Day upon a Dosen of Trenchers, by Mr. Davis (‘Longe have I servd in Court, yet learned not all this while’)

Copy of poems 1-3 and 12 (‘The Courtier’, ‘The Divine’, ‘The Souldier’, and ‘The Mayde’), in a secretary hand, headed ‘Certaine v^rses mad by S^r John Davies now his ma^ties Sollister in Irlande, vpon the xij degrees of persons, wch he Caused to be painted [? seidatlie] upon a dozen of trenchers & sent them for a new yeares gift to S^r Thomas Egerton Lo: Chancelir of England 1604’.

First published as ‘Yet other 12. Wonders of the World never yet published’ in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rhapsody (London, 1608). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 381-4. Krueger, pp. 225-8.

f. 76r

• MrC 15: Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to his Love (‘Come live with mee, and be my love’)

Copy of a four-stanza version, in a secretary hand, untitled, subscribed ‘finis the pastoral’.

First published in a four-stanza version in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). Printed in a six-stanza version in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Bowers, II, 536-7. Tucker Brooke, pp. 550-1. Gill et al., I, 215. For Ralegh's ‘Answer’ see RaW 189-99.

f. 76r-v

• RaW 196: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Nimphs reply to the Sheepheard (‘If all the world and loue were young’)

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, here beginning ‘If now the worlde and loue weare younge’.

One stanza published in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). First published complete in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Latham, pp. 16-17. Rudick, Nos 45A and 45B, pp. 117, 119-20 (two versions, as ‘Her answer’ to Marlowe's poem on p. 116 and as ‘The Milk maids mothers answer’) respectively. For the companion poem by Marlowe, which accompanies most of the texts of Ralegh's ‘reply’, see MrC 10-19.

ff. 77r-82r, 83v-4r

• EsR 174: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, First Letter of Advice to the Earl of Rutland

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, subscribed ‘R. E.’, and with a postscript.

The letter, dated from Greenwich, 4 January [1596], beginning ‘My Lord, I hold it for a principle in the course of intelligence of state...’.

First published, as ‘The Late E. of E. his aduice to the E. of R. in his trauels’, in Profitable Instructions; Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 27-73. Francis Bacon, Resuscitatio (London, 1657), pp. 106-10. Spedding, IX, 6-15. W.B. Devereux, Lives and Letters of the Devereux, Earls of Essex (1853), I, No. xciii.

Essex's three letters to Rutland discussed by Paul E.J. Hammer in ‘The Earl of Essex, Fulke Greville, and the Employment of Scholars’, SP. 91/2 (Spring, 1994), 167-80, and in ‘Letters of Travel Advice from the Earl of Essex to the Earl of Rutland: Some Comments’, PQ, 74/3 (Summer 1995), 317-22. It is likely that the first letter was written substantially by Francis Bacon.

Wynnstay MS 17

Copy, in a single professional secretary hand, headed ‘Thomas Woolsie his Liffe and death Written by George Cauendish his gentleman Vsher’, 84 folio leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum with ties. Early 17th century.

CvG 38: George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey

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).

Wynnstay MS 43

Copy, in several professional secretary hands, headed ‘S^r John Davies Serieant at law to his Ma^tie Vppon Imposicons’, 83 small quarto leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum. c.1620s.

DaJ 272.5: Sir John Davies, The Question concerning Impositions

From the library of the William Watkins Wynn family of Wynnstay.

A treatise, with dedicatory epistle to James I, comprising 33 chapters, beginning ‘The Question it self is no more than this, Whether the Impositions which the King of England hath laid and levied upon Merchandize, by vertue of his Prerogative onely...’. First published in London, 1656. Grosart, III, 1-116.

Wynnstay MS 44

Copy, in two professional secretary hands, 105 folio leaves, in modern quarter-morocco. The title-page (f. 1r), table of chapters (2r-4v), dedicatory epistle to James I (ff. 6r-7r), and ff. 7v-20v, 53v-71v, and a line inserted on f. 104r, in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’. Fols 31r to the top of f. 53v and ff. 72r-105r otherwise in another professional secretary hand. c.1630.

DaJ 272.6: Sir John Davies, The Question concerning Impositions

From the library of the William Watkins Wynn family of Wynnstay.

Briefly described in Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 214 (No. 2).

Wynnstay MS 111

Copy, in a neat roman hand, with a title-page, ii + 133 folio pages, in contemporary vellum boards with inked panels and corner ornaments. Mid-17th century.

FaE 6.5: Edward Fairfax, A Discourse of Witchcraft

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Henry Gale’. From the library of the William Watkins Wynn family of Wynnstay.

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

[Unspecified] Packet XI, No. 4

Copy of one or more speeches by Bacon. ?17th century.

BcF 398: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

[Unspecified] Packet XI, No. 19

Copy. Copy. 17th century.

BcF 498: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

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Exemplum with Harvey's autograph marginalia, bound with Vindiciae contra tyrannos. Late 16th-early 17th century.

*HvG 127: Gabriel Harvey, Machiavelli, Niccolò. Princeps (Basle, 1580)