CELM: Northamptonshire Record Office

Castle Ashby 991

Copy of Lady Anne Clifford's last will and testament, 1 May 1674. Late 17th century.

CdA 28: Lady Anne Clifford, Will

FH 1

A formal copy, in a neat predominantly italic hand (the same as CaE 35), with a title-page ‘Edwarde The Seconde. His Rainge, and deathe. w^th the ffall, of those too, his greate ffavorites. Gauestone and Spencer. Janu^y: 7^o. 1626.’, x + 195 quarto pages, in contemporary vellum gilt. 1626/7.

CaE 36: Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, The History of the Life, Reign and Death of Edward II

Among papers of the Hatton family, notably collections of Christopher Hatton, FRS (1605-70), first Baron Hatton, politician, formerly of Holdenby House and Kirby Hall, and the Finch family, Earls of Winchilsea and Nottingham.

Discussed, with facsimiles of the title-page and address ‘To the Reader’, in Margaret Reeves, ‘From Manuscript to Printed Text: Telling and Retelling the History of Edward II’, in The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680, ed. Heather Wolfe (New York & Basingstoke, 2007), pp. 125-44.

First published in two editions in London, 1680: one, in folio, as The History of the Life, Reign and Death of Edward II...Written by E.F. in the year 1627; the other, in octavo, as The History of the Most Unfortunate Prince King Edward II...(supposed to be) Writ by the Right Honourable Henry Viscount Faulkland. See also Jesse G. Swan, ‘Towards a Texual History of the 1680 Folio The History of the Life, Reign, and Death of Edward II’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 177-90.

FH 18

A folio composite volume of legal tracts, in several probably professional hands, 75 leaves (plus loose inserts), in stiff paper wrappers. c.1640.

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• BcF 76.5: Francis Bacon, Answers to Questions touching the Office of Constables

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘written by S^r. ffra: Bacon knight...at the request of my lord of Northampton’. c.1630s.

First published in Cases of Treason (London 1641). Spedding, VII, 745-54.

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• DaJ 236.5: Sir John Davies, Charge to the Jurors of the Grand Inquest at York [in 1619]

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘by S^r. John Davies knt. his Ma^ties first Seriant att lawe...1620’. c.1620s-30s.

Charge beginning ‘You my Masters that are sworn, I am to direct my Speech principally unto you...’. First published (from a MS owned by A. Cooper Ramgard, Barrister) in Grosart, III (1876), 243-81.

FH 32

Copy of 101 ordinances, in a professional secretary hand, with corrections in another hand, as by ‘Francis Lord verulam’, on 15 folio leaves, followed (ff. [16r-18r]) by fifteen Additional Rules and (f. [18v]) by an index, unbound. c.1620s.

BcF 249: Francis Bacon, Ordinances in Chancery

This MS recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 31.

First published as Ordinances made by...Sir Francis Bacon Knight...being then Lord Chancellor For the better and more regular Administration of Iustice in the Chancery (London, 1642), beginning ‘No decree shall be reversed, altered, or explained, being once under the Great Seale...’. Spedding, VII, 755-74 (mentioning, on p. 757, having seen some ‘MSS and editions’ of this work but without specifying them or his copy-text).

FH 36

Copy of a speech by ‘S^r Francis Bacon Lord Keeper of the great Seale of England’ delivered in the Star Chamber, 1617, in a professional secretary hand, i + 5 folio leaves, unbound. c.1620.

BcF 401: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

FH 45

A folio volume of three tracts relating to jurisdiction in Parliament, in a single professional secretary hand, 60 leaves foliated 100-159, in contemporary vellum boards. c.1620s-30s.

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• CtR 125: Sir Robert Cotton, A Briefe Discovrse concerning the Power of the Peeres and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature

Copy, headed ‘A Relation written by S^r Robert Cotten to S^r Edward Mountague to prove that the howse of Commons had equall power w^th the Peeres in poynt of Judicature A^o Dni 1621’, with a continuation on ff. 102r-3r headed ‘S^r Robert Cotton goes noe further what follows is from some other hand’.

Tract, the full title sometimes given as A Brief discourse prouinge that the house of Comons hath Equall power with the Peeres in point of Judicature written by S^r Rob: Cotton to S^r Edward Mountague An^o Dni. 1621, beginning ‘Sir, To give you as short an accompt of your desire as I can...’. First published in London, 1640. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [341]-351.

FH 46

A folio volume of parliamentary speeches and proceedings in 1592-93, in a professional secretary hand, 121 leaves, in vellum boards. Early 17th century.

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• BcF 402: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

Various speeches and interjections by Bacon, between 26 February and 31 March 1592/3, including speeches on ff. 20v-1r, 42r-3v (on subsidies), 65r-6r (on subsidies), 84v-7r, 107r-v

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• ElQ 241: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech at the Closing of Parliament, April 10, 1593

Copy of Version I, headed in the margin ‘Queene Eliz. speech’ and here dated 5 April 1592/3.

First published (Version II) in John Stow, Annales; or a General Chronicle of England (London, 1601), pp. 1272-3.

Version I. Beginning ‘This kingdom hath had many noble and victorious princes...’. Hartley, III, 173-5. Collected Works, Speech 21, pp. 328-30 (Version 1)

Version II. Beginning ‘My Lords and you, my Commons of the Lower House, were it not that I know no speeches presented by any other...’. Hartley, III, 28-9. Collected Works, Speech 21, pp. 330-2.

FH 47

A folio volume of parliamentary speeches and proceedings in 1597-98, in a single professional secretary hand, 57 leaves foliated 1r-35r, 1r-32v, in vellum boards. Early 17th century.

ff. 8r-11r (second series)

• BcF 403: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

Copies of summaries of two speeches by Bacon, on enclosures and on subsidies, 5 November 1597.

FH 48

A folio volume of parliamentary speeches and proceedings in 1601, in a single professional secretary hand, 277 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary boards. Early 17th century.

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• ElQ 294: Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601

Copy of Version I, introduced ‘The Queene deliuered her selfe’.

This MS cited in Hartley

First published (Version III), as Her maiesties most princelie answere, deliuered by her selfe at White-hall, on the last day of November 1601 (London, 1601: STC 7578).

Version I. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we have heard your declaration and perceive your care of our estate...’. Hartley, III, 412-14. Hartley, III, 495-6. Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 337-40 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 11, pp. 84-92.

Version II. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we perceive your coming is to present thanks unto me...’. Hartley, III, 294-7 (third version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 340-2 (Version 2).

Version III. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we perceive by you, whom we did constitute the mouth of our Lower House, how with even consent...’. Hartley, III, 292-3 (second version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 342-4 (Version 3). STC 7578.

Version IV. Beginning ‘Mr Speaker, I well understand by that you have delivered, that you with these gentlemen of the Lower House come to give us thankes for benefitts receyved...’. Hartley, III, 289-91 (first version).

FH 48

Copy of Version I.

ElQ 295: Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601

This MS cited in Hartley.

First published (Version III), as Her maiesties most princelie answere, deliuered by her selfe at White-hall, on the last day of November 1601 (London, 1601: STC 7578).

Version II. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we perceive your coming is to present thanks unto me...’. Hartley, III, 294-7 (third version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 340-2 (Version 2).

FH 50

A folio volume of parliamentary speeches and proceedings between 1623/4 and 1640, in two or more professional predominantly secretary hands, 120 leaves, the first series foliated 1-99, the second series paginated 1-4, 37-70, 81-3, in vellum boards. c.1640.

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• RuB 8: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, March 1623/4

Copy, introduced ‘S^r Beniamin Rudierd was the first that spake in the great busines and because it was all soe wayghtye as cannot be abbreviated w^thout losse and was indeed the mold of the Resolucon of the whole Parliament it shalbe Entred more at large’.

Speech beginning ‘We are bound to bless God that we are mett againe in this place. And we ought to acknowledge his Ma^ts favour towards vs...’.

p. 55 (second series)

• RuB 138: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?23 April 1640

Copy of a reported version (‘S^r Ben: Ruddierd said the howse had done wisely...’).

Speech beginning in a reported version ‘S^r: Ben: Rudierd said the house had done wiseley in taking the kings buisnesse into p^rsent consideration...’.

p. 65 (second series)

• RuB 139: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?27 April 1640

Copy of a reported version, beginning ‘S^r Ben: Ruddierd said the kinge was in necessitie and that was an ill Councellor...’.

Speech beginning in a reported version ‘S^r Ben: Ruddierd said the kinge was in necessitie and that was an ill Councellor...’.

FH 56

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Extracts out of the Records wherein may be collected by what meanes the kings of England haue & may rayse moneys’, as ‘per Cotton milit et Baronett nup defunct’, on twenty folio leaves, in paper wrappers. c.1620s-30s.

CtR 307: 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].

FH 57

Copy, in at least two secretary hands, headed ‘Extracts out of the Records wherein may be Collected by what meanes the Kinges of England haue, and maye rayse moneys’, ascribed to Sir Robert Cotton, on 28 folio leaves, in paper wrappers. c.1620s-30s.

CtR 308: Sir Robert Cotton, The Manner and Meanes how the Kings of England have from time to time Supported and Repaired their Estates. Written...1609.

FH 58

A folio composite volume of state tracts, in four secretary hands, 55 leaves, in boards.

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• CtR 309: Sir Robert Cotton, The Manner and Meanes how the Kings of England have from time to time Supported and Repaired their Estates. Written...1609.

Copy, largely in a professional secretary hand, a title added in red ink ‘Extracts out of the Records wherein may be collected by what meanes the Kings of England haue and may raise Moneyes’. c.1620s-30s.

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• CtR 365: Sir Robert Cotton, A Relation of the Proceedings against Ambassadors who have miscarried themselves, etc. ...[27 April 1624]

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page, as ‘Written by Sir Rob. Cotton the 27^th of Aprill 1624’.

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.

FH 60

A tall folio volume of state and parliamentary tracts, in four professional secretary hands, 110 leaves (plus blanks), in stiff paper wrappers. c.1620s.

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• CtR 126: Sir Robert Cotton, A Briefe Discovrse concerning the Power of the Peeres and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘A Relation to prove that the House of Commons had equall power with the Peers in point bof Judicature’, as ‘Written by S^r robert Cotton knight & Barronet to S^r: Edward Mountague Anno Dni 1621’.

FH 67

Copy, in a single professional secretary hand, as ‘Written by S^r Robert Cotton knight & Barronet’, 195 folio pages, in stiff paper wrappers. c.1620s-30s.

CtR 27: Sir Robert Cotton, An Answer made by Command of Prince Henry, to Certain Propositions of Warre and Peace

A treatise beginning ‘Frames of Policy, as well as works of Nature, are best preserved from the same grounds...’., written in 1609. First published London, 1655. Also published as Warrs with Forregin Princes Dangerous to oyr Common-Wealth: or, reasons for Forreign Wars Answered (London, 1657); as An Answer to such Motives as were offer'd by certain Military-Men to Prince Henry, inciting him to affect Arms more than Peace... (London, 1665); and as A Discourse of Foreign War (London, 1690).

FH 71

Copy, in a professional italic hand, with corrections in a different ink, the dedicatory epistle to James I subscribed ‘Wa: Raleigh’, nineteen folio leaves (plus blanks), in paper wrappers. c.1620s.

RaW 594: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Dialogue between a Counsellor of State and a Justice of the Peace

This MS recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 32.

A treatise, with a dedicatory epistle to James I beginning ‘Those that are suppressed and hopeless are commonly silent ...’, the dialogue beginning ‘Now, sir, what think you of Mr. St. John's trial in the Star-chamber?...’. First published as The Prerogative of Parliaments in England (‘Midelburge’ and ‘Hamburg’ [i.e. London], 1628). Works (1829), VIII, 151-221.

FH 72

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page, as ‘by Seriant Dauis one of his Ma^ties Learned Councell in Ireland...An^o Dni 1624’, 101 folio leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum boards with green ties. c.1624.

DaJ 273: Sir John Davies, The Question concerning Impositions

This MS recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 32.

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.

FH 74

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘A breife declaracon concerning the vse of the Lawe’, with a later title-page in roman lettering ‘The Use of the Law...By the Lord Verulam Vicount of S. Albons &c And was printed att London 1639 / This Manuscript does not exactly agree with The printed coppy throuout’, 68 quarto leaves, pagination cropped by binder, in later vellum. Early 17th century.

BcF 758: Francis Bacon, The Use of the Law

Hatton MS, recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 31.

A discourse beginning ‘The use of the Law consisteth principally in these two things...’. Spedding, VII, 459-504 (and discussed pp. 302, 453-7). Probably by Sir Robert Forster (1589-1663), judge.

FH 83

Copy of five speeches by Bacon, at the arraignment of Lord Sanqueir (27 June 1612), to Sir John Denham (19 May 1617), to Sergeant Hutton when becoming a Justice of the Common Pleas, to Sir William Jones, and in the Star Chamber 1617 respectively, in a professional mixed hand, i + thirteen folio leaves, unbound. c.1620.

BcF 404: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

FH 84/1

Copy, in two predominantly italic hands, headed ‘S^r Robert Cottons advise concerning the executing or Imprisoning of Jesuits 1613’, subscribed ‘Ann^o Dom 1613 Aug: 11. R: C:’, i + nine folio leaves, unbound. c.1620s.

CtR 512: 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?

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.

FH 84/6

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603, in a professional secretary hand, imperfect, lacking the beginning and ending, eleven folio leaves, unbound. Early 17th century.

RaW 728.24: Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)

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.

FH 91

A folio booklet of two state tracts, in a single italic hand, fourteen leaves, unbound. Early 17th century.

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• RaW 658: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a Match between the Lady Elizabeth and the Prince of Piedmont

Copy, the tract dated ‘12^mo Reg: Jacobi’ [i.e. 1614-15].

This MS recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 32.

A tract beginning ‘To obey commandment of my lord the prince, I have sent you my opinion of the match lately desired by the duke of Savoy...’. First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses: 1) Concerning a match propounded by the Savoyan, between the Lady Elizabeth and the Prince of Piedmont (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 223-36. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.

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• RaW 644: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a Marriage between Prince Henry and a Daughter of Savoy

Copy.

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.

FH 97

Copy, in probably one professional secretary hand, as ‘written by S^r: ffran: Bacon’, fourteen folio leaves, unbound. Early 17th century.

BcF 72: Francis Bacon, An Advertisement touching the Controversies of the Church of England

A tract beginning ‘It is but ignorance if any man find it strange that the state of religion (especially in the days of peace) should be exercised...’. First published as A Wise and Moderate Discourse concerning Church-Affaires ([London], 1641). Spedding, VIII, 74-95.

FH 114

A formal copy of ‘Volumen Secundum Collectaneæ Iohannis Lelandi’ (LeJ 16), in the neat italic hand of an amanuensis of Sir William Dugdale (1606-86), antiquary and herald, the index at the end (pp. [385-92]) and volume title in Dugdale's hand, signed and dated by him ‘Julij A^o 1657’, 392 folio pages, in reversed calf. c.1642-57.

LeJ 27.5: John Leland, Collectanea [Dugdale transcript]

FH 115

Copy of ‘Volumen tertium Collectaneæ Johis Lelandi’ (i.e. LeJ 16), in the neat italic hand of an amanuensis of Sir William Dugdale (1606-86), antiquary and herald, the index at the end (pp. 288-91) and volume title in Dugdale's hand, 291 folio pages, in reversed calf. c.1642-57.

LeJ 28: John Leland, Collectanea [Dugdale transcript]

FH 116

Copy of seven ‘parts’ of ‘Itinerarium Johis Lelandi inceptum A^o D. M^o. D^oxxxviij^o 30^o Henr: viij’, in the neat italic hand of an amanuensis of Sir William Dugdale (1606-86), antiquary and herald, the index at the end (pp. [505-12]) and volume title in Dugdale's hand, signed and dated by him ‘15^oJulij A^o 1657’, 512 folio pages, in a contemporary vellum wrapper within later reversed calf. c.1642-57.

LeJ 64: John Leland, The Itinerary of John Leland [Dugdale transcript]

Among the papers of the Hatton family, formerly of Holdenby and Kirby Hall, Northamptonshire.

This MS recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 31.

FH 129

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘Collected by S^r Robert Cotten knight and Baronett at her Ma^ts: Commandm^t’, i + 79 folio leaves, in paper wrappers, unbound. Early 17th century.

CtR 91: Sir Robert Cotton, A Breife Abstract of the Question of Precedencie between England and Spaine: Occasioned by Sir Henry Nevill the Queen of Englands Ambassador, and the Ambassador of Spaine, at Calais Commissioners appointed by the French King...

Tract, relating to events in 1599/1600, beginning ‘To seek before the decay of the Roman Empire...’. First published in London, 1642. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [73]-‘79’ [i.e. 89].

FH 135

Copy, in possibly several secretary hands, a title added in roman lettering lengthways down the outer margin of the first page ‘The Life of Cardinal Wolsey by Cauendish’, incomplete, 121 folio pages, in marbled wrapper. With some annotations by Christopher, first Viscount Hatton (1632-1706), politician. Late 16th century.

CvG 39: George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey

Sylvester, No. 17.

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).

FH 137

A folio composite volume of tracts, in several professional secretary hands, 234 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary boards.

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• CtR 213: Sir Robert Cotton, A Discovre of Lawfvllnes of Combats to be performed in the presence of the King, or the Constable and Marshall of England. Written...1609

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘written by S^r. Robert Cotton Knight’, subscribed ‘Ro: Cotton. B: 1609’. c.1620s-30s.

Tract beginning ‘Where difference could not be determined...’. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [59]-[71]. Hearne (1771), II, 172-80.

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• HoH 66: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, Duello Foiled

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘written by the Lord Henry Howarde Earle of Northampton’. c.1620s-30s.

A discourse, with a dedicatory epistle to ‘my very good Lord’, beginning ‘Reasons moving me to write this thing which handleth not the whole matter...’, the tract beginning ‘The two parties between whom this single fight was appointed...’. Published in Thomas Hearne, A Collection of Curious Discourses written by Eminent Antiquaries (London, 1771), II, 223-42, where it is attributed to Sir Edward Coke. It is not certain whether this tract is by Howard or simply annotated by him as a reader.

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• DaJ 244.5: Sir John Davies, Of the Antiquity, Authority and Succession of the High Steward of England

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, run on directly from DaJ 000. c.1620s-30s.

Essay beginning ‘I think the office to be ancient...’. First published in Hearne (1771), II, 35-7. Grosart, III, 283-8.

FH 238

A folio composite volume of state letters, in two professional hands, 24 leaves, in paper wrappers, unbound. Early 17th century.

ff. [13v-14v]

• SiP 180.94: Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter of Advice to Robert Sidney

Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed ‘A letter Written by S^r Phillipe Sidney to his Brother Robert Sidney (now lo Lissle) shewing what course was fitt for him to hould in his trauels’.

A letter beginning ‘My most deere Brother. You have thought unkindness in me, I have not written oftner unto you...’. First published in Profitable Instructions. Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 74-103. Feuillerat (as Correspondence No. XXXVIII), III, 124-7.

FH 247

A quarto volume of sermons and devotional works, with (pp. [ii-iii]) a table of contents, viii + 279 pages, in contemporary vellum with green ties. c.1632-4.

pp. 263-76

• BcF 162: Francis Bacon, A Confession of Faith

Copy, headed ‘The Confession of o^r Faith. by S^r: Fran: Bacon’.

First published in London, 1641. Spedding, VII, 217-26.

pp. 277-9

• BcF 257: Francis Bacon, A Prayer, or Psalm

Copy.

First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, XIV, 229-31.

FH 281

A quarto letterbook, in several neat hands, 191 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in red morocco gilt. c.1745.

f. 74r

• EsR 34: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Verses made by the Earle of Essex in his Trouble (‘The waies on earth have paths and turnings knowne’)

Copy, subscribed ‘R: E: E:’.

May, Poems, p. 47. May, Courtier Poets, p. 254. EV 24641.

f. 74v

• CmT 95.5: Thomas Campion, ‘The man of life upright’

Copy, headed ‘Verses made by M^r: Francis Bacon’.

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xviii. Davis, p. 43 (also p. 60).

ff. 79r-80r

• BcF 631: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Bacon to Queen Elizabeth.

ff. 84v-5r

• EsR 188: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Meditation

Copy.

A prose meditation beginning ‘Since that tyme the sonne hath gone about the world and inspired liefe...’ and ending ‘...w^ch is noe guift, except y^e p^tie w^ch psenteth the guift be given w^th it.’ Unpublished?

ff. 127v-30r

• RoJ 652: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Letter(s)

Copy of five letters by Rochester, ‘Transcribed by the Earl of Winchilsea from the Originals then in the Possession of the Revd M^r: Harbin and now in L^d Oxford's Library given me by Crete’.

FH 307

An autograph commonplace book of largely philosophical and religious observations, in English, 131 quarto leaves, in an old recycled Latin vellum document within vellum boards. Late 16th century.

*HoH 108: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, Commonplace book or collectanea

FH 309

An autograph commonplace book of philosophical, religious and political observations, in Latin and English, under a series of running heads (‘Good for the State’, ‘Idle for the State’, ‘Good for my Lorde’, ‘Spaine glad of peace’, ‘Amicitia’, etc.), 273 quarto pages (including some blanks), in contemporary vellum. Including (pp. 257-62, 271) entries under ‘Regiment of Women’, possibly relating to Howard's treatise A dutiful defence of the lawful regiment of women (HoH 68-87). Late 16th century.

*HoH 109: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, Commonplace book or collectanea

FH 316

An autograph commonplace book of religious and philosophical observations and aphorisms, largely in English, ii + 370 quarto leaves, in vellum boards gilt with traces of ties.

*HoH 110: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, Commonplace book or collectanea

FH 322

An octavo pocket notebook, largely in Latin, in a formal cursive hand, written from both ends, unfoliated, in a contemporary vellum wallet binding. Mid-17th century.

f. [6r rev.]

• BuR 1.265: Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

Extracts, headed ‘Democritus Junior pag 277’.

First published in Oxford, 1621. Edited by A.R. Shilleto (introduced by A.H. Bullen), 3 vols (London, 1893). Edited variously by Thomas C. Faulkner, Nicolas K. Kiessling, Rhonda L. Blair, J.B. Bamborough, and Martin Dodsworth, 6 vols (Oxford, 1989-2000).

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• DaJ 238.6: Sir John Davies, A Discourse of Law and Lawyers: with Appendix of Cases

Extracts.

A compilation, beginning with ‘Trin. 2. Iacobi en Leeschecquer. Le Case de Praxiet’, the main part an epistlolary tract by Davies to Lord Ellesmere. First published as Le Primer Report des Cases en Matters en Ley (Dublin, 1615). Grosart, II, 243-357.

FH 335

A folio volume of moralistic essays, in a single neat secretary hand, 24 leaves, in stiff paper wrappers. Early 17th century.

f. 7r

• BcF 277.5: Francis Bacon, Short Notes for Civil Conversation

Copy, headed ‘short notes of ciuill conversation made by S^r. Fr. B.’

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

FH 603

Copy, in a professional hand, on three large folio pages, unbound.

ClE 84: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, The Humble Petition and Address of Clarendon in 1667

Petition beginning ‘I cannot express the insupportable trouble and grief of mind I sustain...’. Published as To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled: The Humble Petition and Address of Clarendon, [in London, 1667?] and subsequently reprinted widely, sometimes under the title News from Dunkirk-house: or, Clarendon's Farewell to England Dec 3 1667.

FH 2414

Copy, in an italic hand, of two speeches by an Angler, headed ‘At S^r William Russels howse at Cheswick’, the second speech headed ‘At her Ma^ts: departure’, subscribed ‘John: Lilly’, on one side of a single folio leaf, the verso with a (deleted) address panel ‘To the Right Worshipfull Roger Wilbraham Esquio^r M^r of Requestes geve these’, and once folded as a letter. [1602].

LyJ 2: John Lyly, The Entertainment at Chiswick

Edited from this MS in Hotson.

First published in Queen Elizabeth's Entertainment at Mitcham, ed. Leslie Hotson (New Haven, 1953).

FH 2617

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘John Lillyes peticon to Q: Elizabeth’, on one side of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1620s-30s.

LyJ 57: John Lyly, A second petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth

Beginning ‘Most gratious and dread Soveraigne: Tyme cannott worke my peticons, nor my peticons the tyme...’. Written probably in 1601. Bond, I, 70-1. Feuillerat, pp. 561-2.

FH 2664

Copy of Volume I of the Collectanea (LeJ 16), entirely in the hand of Sir William Dugdale (1605-86), antiquary and herald, with his underlinings in red ink, as ‘transcribi fecit D. Christopherus Hatton Baro Hatto de Kirby postquam apud Oxonium delituit...’, with (pp. [914-30]) Dugdale's index dated ‘mense Augusti A^o 1657’, 930 folio pages (the first four leaves foliated, and skipping from p. 96 to 175 and from p. 878 to 911), in reversed calf. c.1642-57.

LeJ 27: John Leland, Collectanea [Dugdale transcript]

This MS recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 31.

FH 3641

A folio volume of state letters and tracts, in two professional secretary hands, thirteen leaves, in paper wrappers. c.1620s-30s.

ff. [4r-5v]

• RaW 696: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Seat of Government

Copy, headed ‘An impfect discourse of S^r: Walter Raleighs’.

A tract beginning ‘They say, that the goodliest cedars which grow in the high mountains of Libanus thrust their roots between the clifts of hard rocks...’. First published together with Sir Walter Raleigh's Scepticke (London, 1651). Works (1829), VIII, 538-40.

ff. [5v-7r]

• RaW 969: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copies of two letters by Ralegh about his voyage to Guiana, one to an unnamed correspondent, the other to James I.

FH 3699

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘S^r Beniamin Rudyards Speache the 9^th of ffebruary A^o 1640’, on twelve folio pages, unbound. c.1641.

RuB 197: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 7-9 February 1640/1

Speech beginning ‘I doe verily beleeue that there are manie of the Clergie in one Church who doe thinke...’. First published in The Speeches of S^r. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 15-‘12’ [i.e. 20]. Manning, pp. 185-7.

FH 3701

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, the speech dated ‘1625’ and as ‘Written by S^r: Robert Cotton Knight and Barronet’, i + nine folio leaves, in paper wrappers. c.1625-30s.

CtR 440: Sir Robert Cotton, A Speech Delivered in the Lower House of Parliament Assembled at Oxford: In the first year of the Reign of King Charles [6 August 1625]

Speech beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, Although the constant Wisdome of this House of Commons...’. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [271]-281.

FH 3703

Copies of two parliamentary speeches and one letter, in a predominantly italic hand, on two conjugate folio leaves, unbound. c.1628-30s.

p. [3]

• RuB 37: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.22 March 1627/8

Copy, headed ‘S^r Beniamin Rudiards speech’.

Speech beginning ‘Of the mischiefs that have lately fallen upon us by the late distractions here is every man sensible...’.

p. [4]

• HlJ 28.5: Joseph Hall, Episcopal Admonition, Sent in a Letter to the House of Commons, April 28, 1628

Copy, headed ‘Bishop Halls letter to the house of Comons’.

See HlJ 17-30.

FH 3802

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘The proofes and presidentes which we demaunde’, on the first page of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘S^r Francis Bacons notes dd to y^e judges’.

BcF 94.8: Francis Bacon, Arguments of Law. The Arguments on the Jurisdiction of the Council of the Marches

Spedding, VII, 567-611.

FH 4155

Copy of the second half of the treatise, in the professional secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, with his title-page ‘Princes: Extremityes Beyounde the ease of their people By Reason of Warres &^c’, 36 folio leaves, foliated 49-85, unbound. c.1620s-30s.

CtR 28: Sir Robert Cotton, An Answer made by Command of Prince Henry, to Certain Propositions of Warre and Peace

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 254 (No. 85).

FH 4218

An alphabetical index to part of Foxe's work, in a secretary hand with engrossed lettering, inscribed ‘1632. John foxe: Vol: i. fol: 337 et 338’, seven + i small folio leaves, unbound. 1632.

FxJ 1.153: John Foxe, Actes and Monuments

First published (complete) in London, 1563. Edited by Josiah Pratt, 8 vols (London, 1853-70).

F(M) Misc 36

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘A short view of the raigne of Kinge Henry the Third written by S^r Robert Cotton knight Baronet in Anno 16i4 and by him presented to his Ma^ty: in y^e same yeare’, 22 quarto leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum with blue ties. c.1620s.

CtR 421: Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England

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).

F(M) Misc 51

Copy, in a formal secretary hand, 80 unfoliated folio leaves, imperfect, lacking a title and the beginning and many leaves gnawed by rodents, the text followed (ff. [81r-8v]) by copies of five letters by Henry VIII relating to Wolsey in the same secretary hand and one other, disbound. c.1600.

CvG 40: George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey

Among papers of the Earls Fitzwilliam and Viscounts Milton.

Sylvester, No. 18.

F(M) Misc 793

MS of a theological work, in a single italic hand, including a letter to Hutchinson's daughter and devotional meditations on the scriptures and principles of religion, 79 octavo leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. A postscript to the letter from ‘Your truly affectionate Mother’ declaring ‘I haue not time to poynt yr book correct many errors of the pen and insert many scripture proofes in the margin which I desire you yourselfe to doe if you thinke it worth keeping by you’, and with a comment at the end (f. [79r], possibly in a different hand, ‘Having read over your booke I find but short mention made of the resurrection of the body...’.

*HuL 12: Lucy Hutchinson, On the principles of the Christian religion

Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Mem: this Book was writ by Lucy y^e wid; or Relict of Coll: John Hutchinson of owthorp & sent to her daughter Mrs orgill. J: H: 1: ap: 1731’.

Edited from this MS in 1817.

First published in London, 1817.

F(M) P 61

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled and unascribed, on ten folio leaves, unbound. Early 17th century.

BcF 62.6: Francis Bacon, An Advertisement touching the Controversies of the Church of England

F(M) P 100

Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, seven + iii folio leaves, unbound. c.1600s.

EsR 143: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Apology

First published, addressed to Anthony Bacon, as An Apologie of the Earle of Essex, against those which jealously and maliciously tax him to be the hinderer of the peace and quiet (London, [1600]), but immediately suppressed. Reprinted in 1603.

F(M) P 139

Copy of two items relating to the Travers-Hooker dispute, in a professional secretary hand, six folio leaves, in paper wrappers, unbound. Late 16th century.

ff. [1r-5v]

• HkR 31: Richard Hooker, Walter Travers's Supplication to the Council

Copy, in a neat secretary hand, subscribed ‘Walter Trauers minister of the Word of god’, inscribed on the front wrapper by Sir William Fitzwilliam the younger (d.1618)‘M^r Travers to the LL of the Counsell in purginge him self as touchinge Hooker’. c.1585-1600s.

This MS collated in Folger edition, Volume V.

First published in Oxford, 1612. Keble, III, 548-9. Folger edition, Volume V, pp. 189-210.

f. [6r]

• HkR 42: Richard Hooker, A shorte note of sundrie vnsounde pointes of Doctrine at diuers times deliuered by M^r: Hooker in his publicke sermons

Copy.

These statements edited in Keble I, 59-60, and in Folger edition, p. 282.

F(M) P 170

Copy, in the cursive secretary hand of Sir Francis Knollys (1511/12-96), Privy Counsellor, untitled, on three pages of a pair of unbound conjugate folio leaves, endosed ‘The Q late at the Parlamentt’, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1563.

ElQ 132: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Answer to the Commons' Petition that she Marry, January 28, 1563

This MS cited in Hartley.

Beginning ‘Williams, I have heard by you the common request of my Commons...’. First published (from a lost MS) in Nugae Antiquae, ed. Henry Harington (London, 1804), I, 80-3. Hartley, I, 94-5. Collected Works, Speech 5, pp. 70-2. Selected Works, Speech 3, pp. 37-41.

F(M) P 177

Copy of Version I, in a cursive secretary hand, headed ‘The speech vttered by her m^at in the parlam^t house at the eande of the cession held en iij march 1576 the xviij^th of hir raine vppo pointes both in the speaker oratio and also in the Lorde Kepers’, on all four pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1576.

ElQ 194: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech at the Close of the Parliamentary Session, March 15, 1576

Edited from this MS (as Text i) in Hartley, I, 471-5. Cited (mistakenly as in Cambridgeshire Record Office) in Selected Works.

First published (from a lost MS) in Nugae Antiquae, ed. Henry Harington (London, 1804), I, 120-7.

Version I. Beginning ‘Do I see God's most sacred, holy Word and text of holy Writ drawn to so divers senses...’. Hartley, I, 471-3 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 13, pp. 167-71. Selected Works, Speech 7, pp. 52-60.

Version II. Beginning ‘My lords, Do I see the Scriptures, God's word, in so many ways interpreted...’. Hartley, I, 473-5 (Text ii).

IC 152

Autograph letter signed by Sir Robert Tounson (1576-1621), Dean of Westminster, later Bishop of Salisbury, who attended Ralegh before and at his execution, written to Sir John Isham, discussing Ralegh's execution (‘...I hope yow had the relation of s^r Walter Rawleighs death, for so I gave order that it should be brought vnto yow...[I] sett downe the manner of his death as near as I could...’), with references to other copies, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, an address panel on the fourth page, dated 9 November 1618. Photographs and newscuttings relating to this letter in IL 3983, including the Morning Post, 28 July 1930. 1618.

RaW 739.3: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)

Among papers of the Isham family, of Lamport Hall, including collections of Sir Justinian Isham, second baronet (1611-75), scholar and politician.

Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For a relevant discussion, see Anna Beer, ‘Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh’, MP, 94/1 (August 1996), 19-38.

IC 249

Autograph devotional writing, mostly penitential in relation to the Civil Wars, much of it in shorthand, written in the spaces of a letter to her by Lady Denton, dated 30 September 1644. 1644.

*IsE 3: Elizabeth Isham, Devotional writing

Unpublished.

IC 3273

Autograph reply, with news of the Civil Wars, written on the verso of a letter to her by her brother Justinian Isham dated 14 March 164?. 1640s.

*IsE 15: Elizabeth Isham, Letter(s)

Unpublished.

IC 3274

Autograph reply, with news of the Civil Wars, written on the verso of a letter to her by her brother Justinian Isham, dated 20 March 164?. 1640s.

*IsE 16: Elizabeth Isham, Letter(s)

Unpublished.

IC 3473

Autograph letter to her father, Sir John Isham, undated.

*IsE 21: Elizabeth Isham, Letter(s)

Unpublished.

IC 3495

Copy of texts relating to Ralegh's execution, in a secretary hand, on two unbound conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1618-20s.

pp. [1-3]

• RaW 793.: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)

Copy, headed ‘S^r Walter Raleigh his speech at his Execution’.

p. [4]

• RaW 80: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

Copy, untitled.

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).

IC 3496

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The some of that which S^r walter Raleigh deliuered att his death’, on three pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, written across both sides of the sheet in broadsheet format, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1618-20s.

RaW 794: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)

IC 3497

Copy of a letter by Ralegh.

RaW 970: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

IC 4334

Autograph letter, to her brother Justinian Isham, from Stow, 23 May 1652 (or 1653). 1652-3.

*IsE 18: Elizabeth Isham, Letter(s)

Unpublished.

IC 4335

Autograph draft letters to her father, Sir John Isham, concerning the Civil Wars, undated. 1640s.

*IsE 14: Elizabeth Isham, Letter(s)

Unpublished.

IC 4336

Autograph draft letter to an unnamed suitor, as well as some notes in shorthand, on the verso of the address leaf of a letter to her, undated.

*IsE 20: Elizabeth Isham, Letter(s)

Unpublished.

IC 4337

Autograph letter to her brother Sir Justinian Isham, about a land matter, dated 30 October 165?. 1650s.

*IsE 17: Elizabeth Isham, Letter(s)

Unpublished.

IC 4348

Autograph letter to her brother, Sir Justinian Isham, about current news, including the death of Susanna Stuteville (on 18 January 1653). 1653.

*IsE 19: Elizabeth Isham, Letter(s)

Unpublished.

IC 4344

Autograph notes and drafts for her ‘Book of Remembrance’, including an account of her mother's illness, written in the blank space of a letter to her from her sister-in-law Jane Isham. c.1638-9.

*IsE 1: Elizabeth Isham, Autobiography

An autobiography modeled on St Augustine's Confessions. Unpublished.

IC 4620

Autograph MS of a petition to the house of Commons, undated.

*IsE 23: Elizabeth Isham, Petition(s)

Unpublished.

IC 4621

Autograph petition to King Charles I, the verso containing a paragraph about the Jews.

*IsE 22: Elizabeth Isham, Petition(s)

Unpublished.

IC 4774

Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, here beginning ‘Euen soe is tyme, who takes in trust’, subscribed ‘Walter Raleigh’, on a small slip of paper once part of a leaf folded as a letter or packet. c.1620s.

RaW 81: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

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).

IC 4823

Autograph medical notes, written in the blank space of a letter to her from Elizabeth Denton dated 10 December 164?. 1640s.

*IsE 7: Elizabeth Isham, Medical notes

Unpublished.

IC 4824

Autograph medical notes.

*IsE 8: Elizabeth Isham, Medical notes

Unpublished.

IC 4825

Autograph booklist and list of quotations.

*IsE 5: Elizabeth Isham, Booklist

Unpublished.

IC 4826

Autograph medical notes.

*IsE 9: Elizabeth Isham, Medical notes

Unpublished.

IC 4827

Autograph medical notes.

*IsE 10: Elizabeth Isham, Medical notes

Unpublished.

IC 4828

Autograph medical notes, written in the blank space of a letter to her from Elizabeth Denton dated 30 July 164?. 1640s.

*IsE 11: Elizabeth Isham, Medical notes

Unpublished.

IC 4829

Autograph booklist, written in the blank spaces and on the verso of a letter to her from Susanna Stuteville dated 27 May 1648. 1648.

*IsE 6: Elizabeth Isham, Booklist

Unpublished.

IC 4830

Autograph medical notes, written in the blank space of a letter to her from Elizabeth Denton dated 9 May 164?. 1640s.

*IsE 12: Elizabeth Isham, Medical notes

Unpublished.

IC 4831

Autograph medical notes, written in the blank space of a letter to her from Elizabeth Denton dated 3 December 1643. 1643.

*IsE 13: Elizabeth Isham, Medical notes

Unpublished.

IL 3365

Autograph diary, in Isham's minute rugged italic hand, closely written, probably over a period, in a series of 36 upright rectangular panels (numbered up to 40), in columns and in various sequences, with dates (when given) from 1636 to 1646, on all four sides of two unbound conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1636-46.

*IsE 4: Elizabeth Isham, Diary

Unpublished.

IL 3382

An anonymous draft, in a cursive secretary hand, with revisions, the last page in another secretary hand, headed ‘The Examinaa of M^r Hookers doctrine’, on ten leaves, imperfect. c.1650s.

HkR 62: Richard Hooker, The Examination of Mr Hookers doctrine

IL 3429

A folio composite miscellany, in several secretary hands, i + eighteen leaves, unbound.

First blank leaf inscribed ‘John Sittartt’ [?].

ff. [9r-16v]

• RaW 728.245: Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)

Copy of the 1603 arraignment, in a cursive secretary hand, followed (ff. [17r-18r]) by text relating to Lord Cobham partly in another secretary hand. Early 17th century.

IL 3477

A folio booklet of texts by Francis Bacon, in three secretary hands, 15 + iv leaves, unbound. c.1620s.

ff. [1r-5r]

• BcF 499: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

Copy of Bacon's submission of 22 April 1621, in a cursive secretary hand, as by ‘the Lord Chancellor of England S^r. Fran: Bacon’.

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.

f. [6r-v]

• BcF 500: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

Copy of Bacon's submission of 19 March 1620/1, in a florid secretary hand.

ff. [7r-16r]

• BcF 163: Francis Bacon, A Confession of Faith

Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed ‘The Confession of our Faith written by S^r. Fran. Bacon’.

First published in London, 1641. Spedding, VII, 217-26.

IL 3478

Copy, in a probably professional cursive secretary hand, headed ‘Three monethes observacon of the Lowe Countries especyallye Holland’, on fifteen pages of eight folio leaves, unbound. c.1630s-40s.

FeO 96: Owen Felltham, A Brief Character of the Low-Countries

This MS discussed in Van Strien, with a facsimile of f. 6v on p. 155.

First published as Three Monethes observation of the low Countries especially Holland by a traveller whose name I know not more then by the two letters of J:S: at the bottome of the letter. Egipt this 22th of Jannuary (London, 1648). Expanded text printed as A brief Character of the Low-Countries under the States. Being three weeks observation of the Vices and Vertues of the Inhabitants... (for Henry Seile: London, 1652).

IL 3494

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to Winwood, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, on all four pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed ‘A Coppie of S^r W: Rawleigh his letter sent from Guiana to S^r R: Winehoode 1618’. c.1618-20s.

RaW 971: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

IL 4101

Copy of a prologue and epilogue, in a rounded hand, on three pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1674.

Among the papers of the Isham family of Lamport Hall.

pp. [1-2]

• DrJ 162: John Dryden, Prologue to the University of Oxford, 1674. Spoken by Mr. Hart (‘Poets, your Subjects, have their Parts assign'd’)

Copy, headed ‘The Prologue to the University of Oxford. Spoken by M^r Hart. July 6^th 1674’, subscribed ‘J: Dryden’.

First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 372-3. California, I, 151-2. Hammond, I, 289-91.

p. [3]

• DrJ 29: John Dryden, Epilogue To Oxford Spoken by Mrs. Marshal (‘Oft has our Poet wisht, this happy Seat’)

Copy, headed ‘The Epilogue spoken to the University By M^rs Bowtell. July. 18^th 1674’, subscribed ‘J. D.’.

First published (in two versions) in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 373-4. California, I, 153-4. Hammond, I, 291-2.

IL 4259

Copy of verse and prose, in a secretary hand, on three pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves. Early 17th century.

p. [3]

• HrJ 46.5: Sir John Harington, Against Swearing (‘In elder times an ancient custome was’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘In the elder Time the auncient custome was’.

First published in Henry Fitzsimon, S.J., The Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (Douai, 1611). 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 9. McClure No. 263, p. 256. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 30, p. 220.

p. [3]

• HrJ 234.4: Sir John Harington, Of certain puritan wenches (‘Six of the weakest sex and purest sect’)

Copy, untitled.

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.

IL 4270

Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, beginning at line 43, here ‘Next rode his Lorshipp on a nag’, probably transcribed from CoR 48, on both sides of a single folio leaf, imperfect, lacking a title and the beginning. c.1620.

CoR 47: 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’)

Among papers of the Isham family of Lamport Hall.

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’).

IL 4287

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, here beginning ‘Art thou returned with all thy faults’, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate long ledger-size leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1627.

MrJ 51: John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 (‘And art returned again with all thy faults’)

IL 4295

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Here lyeth hobinall our Sheepperd while ere’, with other verses on Robert Cecil, in a single secretary hand, on the fourth page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1612-20s.

RaW 371.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, Epitaph on the Earl of Salisbury (‘Here lies Hobinall, our Pastor while ere’)

Among the papers of the Isham family of Lamport Hall.

First published in Francis Osborne, Traditionall Memoyres on the raigne of King Iames (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 735-6. Latham, p. 53.

Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, p. 146, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.

IL 4296

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘If greatenes wisdome pollicie or state’, following other verses on Robert Cecil, in one secretary hand, on one side of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1612-20s.

DaS 15.8: Samuel Daniel, ‘If greatnes, wisedome pollicie of state’

Among the archives of the Isham family of Lamport Hall.

First published in Grosart, The Dr. Farmer MS (1873), II, 189.

IL 4300

Copy, in a neat secretary hand, in double columns, on the first of two unbound conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1620.

CoR 48: 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’)

Among papers of the Isham family of Lamport Hall.

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’).

IL 4302

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, here beginning ‘Charon oh Charon, steere thy boate vp to the shore’, on one side of a single folio leaf, the first line repeated (or else a false start) on the verso, once folded as a letter or package. c.1620s-30s.

HeR 363: Robert Herrick, The New Charon, Upon the death of Henry Lord Hastings (‘Charon, O Charon, draw thy Boat to th' shore’)

Among the papers of the Isham family of Lamport Hall.

First published in Richard Brome, Lachrymae Musarum (London, 1649). Martin, pp. 416-17. Patrick, pp. 538-9.

IL 4304

Copy, in a cursive secretary han, untitled and here beginning ‘Here lyeth Haniball our sheaperd whileare’, with other verses on Robert Cecil in two secretary hands, on a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1612-20s.

RaW 371.8: Sir Walter Ralegh, Epitaph on the Earl of Salisbury (‘Here lies Hobinall, our Pastor while ere’)

Among papers of the Isham family of Lamport Hall.

First published in Francis Osborne, Traditionall Memoyres on the raigne of King Iames (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 735-6. Latham, p. 53.

Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, p. 146, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.

IL 4308

Copy of a prologue and epilogue, in a neat italic hand, on a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. Mid-17th century.

Among the papers of the Isham family of Lamport Hall

item 1

• CoA 150: Abraham Cowley, Prologue to the Guardian (‘Who says the Times do Learning disallow?’)

Copy, headed ‘Prologue’.

First published, under the pseudonym ‘Francis Cole’, in The Prologue and Epilogue to a Comedie, presented, at the Entertainment of the Prince His Highnesse, by the Schollers of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, in March last, 1641 (London, 1642). Waller, I, 31-2 (and II, 161). Autrey Nell Wiley, ‘The Prologue and Epilogue to the Guardian’, RES, 10 (1934), 443-7 (pp. 444-5).

IL 4333

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on a small slip of paper. c.1627-30s.

MrJ 89: John Marston, Upon the Dukes Goeing into Fraunce (‘And wilt thou goe, great duke, and leave us heere’)

IL 4344

A folio booklet of poems relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in an accomplished roman hand, on ten pages of three unbound pairs of conjugate folio leaves. c.1620s-30s.

Among papers of the Isham family of Lamport Hall.

f. 5r-v

• RaW 446.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, The passionate mans Pilgrimage (‘Giue me my Scallop shell of quiet’)

Copy, headed ‘Essex Pilgremage to Heauen’.

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.

Montagu (Boughton) Letterbook 29

A folio composite volume of parliamentary speeches, letters and documents, in various hands and paper sizes, 81 items, all mounted on guards, in 19th-century brown morocco.

Among papers of the Montagu family, Barons and Dukes of Montagu, of Boughton House.

item 36

• RuB 74: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 28 April 1628

Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, headed ‘S^r: Beniamin Rudiers speech 20^th of April 1628’, on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed ‘A copie of S^r Beniamin Rudyers speech 1618’. c.1628-30s.

Speech beginning ‘We are here upon a great business...’. Yale 1628, III, 127-9 and 133-4. Variants: III, 138-9, 141, 143, and 161. Variant version in Manning, pp. 126-8.

item 49

• ElQ 296: Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601

Copy of Version III, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed ‘The Qu: Speech in the Parliam^t house to the Speaker &c. touching the wronges offered to her sub^ts by her graunts of Monopolies Vlt^o. Nouembris 1601’, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1620s-30s.

First published (Version III), as Her maiesties most princelie answere, deliuered by her selfe at White-hall, on the last day of November 1601 (London, 1601: STC 7578).

Version II. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we perceive your coming is to present thanks unto me...’. Hartley, III, 294-7 (third version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 340-2 (Version 2).

S S 234

Autograph letter signed by Sir Thomas Tresham, to a Catholic friend, about Spenser's Mother Hubberds Tale, 19 March 1591. 1591.

SpE 85: Edmund Spenser, Tresham letter

Discussed in Richard Peterson, ‘Spurting Froth upon Courtiers’, TLS (16 May 1997). Edited and discussed, with facsimiles, in Richard Peterson, ‘Laurel Crown and Ape's Tail: New Light on Spenser's Career from Sir Thomas Tresham’, Spenser Studies, 12 (1998), 1-35.

W(A) Box 4 Parcel IV, No. 3/c1

A lease by Sir Walter Mildmay, to Henry Coddenham, for land in Northamptonshire, 5 November 1551, endorsed by Grace, Lady Mildmay, in 1619, ‘found in my husband's Cabinett...’ etc. 1619.

*MiG 7: Grace, Lady Mildmay, Document

W(A) Box 4 Parcel IV, No. 4

An unbound bundle of miscellaneous papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 66 items.

Among papers of the Fane family, Earls of Westmorland, of Apethorpe.

item 38

• CgW 29.6: William Congreve, The Message (‘Go thou unhappy victim’)

Copy, in a neat hand, headed ‘M^r. Congreve to Lord Cobham In imitation of Horace / Albi nostrorum sermonum Candide judex’, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves. c.1730-50.

Published in Works (1710). McKenzie, II, 465.

W(A) Box 6 Parcel VI, No. 1

A folio volume of miscellaneous verse and prose, in Latin and English, largely in one hand, with additions in other hands, written from both ends, dates ranging from 1633 to 1649, 43 unfoliated leaves, in paper wrappers. Principally composed and copied by Mildmay Fane (1602-66), second Earl of Westmorland, politician and writer. c.1640s-50s.

This MS recorded in Gerald W. Morton, ‘Two Literary and Historical Manuscripts in the Westmorland Collection’, ELN, 26 (1988), 13-17 (pp. 13-14).

[unnumbered pages]

• HeR 305.5: Robert Herrick, A Christmas Carroll to the Earle of WestmorLand (‘Now Christmas comes’)

Copy, followed by [Fane's] response ‘His answære to the Caroll’ (beginning “Robin--Like Copper guilded ore”).

Edited from this MS in Cain, the ‘answære’ edited on pp. 135-7.

First published, and attributed to Herrick, in Tom Cain, ‘Herrick's “Christmas Carol”: A New Poem, and its Implications for Patronage’, ELR, 29/1 (Winter 1999), 131-53 (pp. 134-5).

f. [11r]

• CaE 29: Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, An Epitaph upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham (‘Reader stand still and see, loe, how I am’)

Copy of the six-line epitaph, headed ‘Epitaph on Buckingham by y^e La: Faukland’.

This MS recorded in Akkerman.

A six-line (epitaph) version is ascribed to ‘the Countesse of Faukland’ in two MS copies. In some sources it is followed by a further 44 lines (elegy) beginning ‘Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place’. The latter also appears, anonymously, as a separate poem in a number of other sources. The authorship remains uncertain. For an argument for Lady Falkland's authorship of all 50 lines, see Akkerman.

Both sets of verse were first published, as separate but sequential poems, in Poems or Epigrams, Satyrs (London, 1658), pp. 101-2. All 50 lines are edited in Akkerman, pp. 195-6.

f. [12r]

• HrG 320.5: George Herbert, Lucus, XXV. Roma. Anagr. (‘Roma, tuum nomen quam non pertransijt Oram’)

Copy, headed ‘Roma Anagramma’, subscribed ‘Ge. Herb^t’.

An untitled eight-line poem on the visit of Frederick, the Elector Palatine, to the University of Cambridge. First published in James Duport, Ecclesiastes Solomonis (Cambridge, 1662). Hutchinson, p. 416. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 102-3.

ff. [28v-9r]

• WaE 554: Edmund Waller, To My Lady Morton, on New-Year's Day, 1650. At the Louvre in Paris (‘Madam! new years may well expect to find’)

Copy of a 40-line version, in a neat rounded hand, subscribed ‘Ed: Waller’.

First published as a broadside (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 6-7.

W(A) Misc Vol 20

A small narrow folio miscellany of verse and some prose, in several hands, 136 leaves, in vellum boards. Compiled probably over a period by members of the Stringer family of Sharlston. Early 18th century.

Among archives of the Fane family, Earls of Westmorland, of Apethorpe.

f. 33v

• BrT 0.8: Sir Thomas Browne, Colloquy with God (‘The night is come like to the day’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Script per me. D: T: Jan: y^e 5^th. 1702’.

First published in Religio Medici, where Browne describes it as ‘the dormitive I take to bedward…to make me sleepe’. Published later, in an anonymous musical setting, in Harmonia Sacra, II (1693). Keynes, I, 89-90.

f. 35r-v

• SuJ 237: John Suckling, Upon Sir John Sucklings most warlike preparations for the Scotish Warre (‘Sir John got him on an ambling Nag’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r John Suckling's Escape from y^e Scots’.

Imperfectly edited, and misattributed to Mildmay Fane, in Gerald W. Morton, ‘Mildmay Fane's Satiric Poem on John Suckling’, N&Q, 236 (March 1991), 85-6.

First published in Sir John Mennes and James Smith, Musarum Deliciæ (London, 1655). Clayton, pp. 208-9. Sometimes improbably ascribed to Sir John Mennes.

f. 60r-v

• WyT 431: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Thomas Wyatt to his son (15 April 1537)

Copy, subscribed ‘Thom: Wyatt’.

Letter beginning ‘In as mitch as now ye ar come to sume yeres of vnderstanding...’, dated from Paris 15 April. Muir, Life & Letters, pp. 38-41.

ff. 60v-1r

• WyT 440: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Thomas Wyatt to his son (Autumn 1537)

Copy, as ‘a second letter’, subscribed ‘Tho: Wyatt’.

Letter beginning ‘I doubt not but long ere this time my lettres are come to you...’, subscribed ‘From Valedolide the xxiii^th of June’. Muir, Life & Letters, pp. 41-4.

ff. 85r-8v

• DoC 353.5: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell (‘Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age’)

First published in A Third Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs &c (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 217-27. Discussed and Dorset's authorship rejected in Harris, pp. 190-2. The poem is noted by Alexander Pope as being ‘probably by the L^d Dorset’ in Pope's exemplum of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (London, 1705), British Library, C.28.e.15, p. 121.

ff. 88v-9r

• DoC 233.5: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Young Statesmen (‘Clarendon had law and sense’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.

f. 92v

• DoC 166.5: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess Dowager of Manchester (‘Courage, dear Moll, and drive away despair’)

Copy, untitled.

First published (among poems of Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax) in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). POAS, V (1971), 378-81. Harris, pp. 37-40.

W(A) Misc Vol 26

An octavo miscellany of Latin orations and other works, in several secretary and italic hands, 111 pages, in old brown calf stamped in gilt ‘1619’. Signed (p. 12 and elsewhere) by Mildmay Fane (1602-66), second Earl of Westmorland, politician and writer. c.1618-32.

pp. 78-91

• RnT 440: Thomas Randolph, Oratio praevaricatoria Thomae Randolphi. 1632

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed ‘Oratio praevaricatoria M^ri Randolphi Coll Trin: habita Cantab. die Comitioru: 1632’, the concluding poem beginning ‘Jam sileat Jacke Drumm taceat miracula Tom thube’.

First published in Hazlitt (1875), II, 671-80.

pp. 92-109

• FeO 97: Owen Felltham, A Brief Character of the Low-Countries

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed (after the preliminary letter) ‘Three moneths Observations of y^e Lowe Countryes, especially Holland’.

This MS discussed in Van Strien.

W(A) Misc Vol 27

A quarto miscellany. Late 17th century.

[unspecified page numbers]

• B&F 215: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Extracts

Extracts.

[unspecified page numbers]

• HkR 76: Richard Hooker, Extracts

[unspecified page numbers]

• RaW 679.7: Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World

Extracts.

First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.

W(A) Misc Vol 28

A small quarto commonplace book of largely devotional verse and prose, in a single cursive hand, viii + 335 pages (including blanks, plus numerous others to p. [374]), in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps. Compiled by Thomas Fane (1683-1736), sixth Earl of Westmorland. Early 18th century.

pp. 156-9

• HlJ 79: Joseph Hall, Extracts

Extracts, headed ‘In y^e remarques on y^e Life of y^e great Abraham Taken out of Bpp Hall being a discours made between Abraham & Isaac upon his goeing to be sacrificed’.

pp. 174-5

• TaJ 130: Jeremy Taylor, Extracts

Extracts, headed respectively ‘In D^r Taylors life of Christ’ and ‘D^r Taylor in his life of Jesus says yt in his Passion...’.

p. 211

• HeR 211.5: Robert Herrick, A Ring presented to Julia (‘Julia, I bring’)

Copy, headed ‘A Weding Ring presented to julia’, followed by an answer headed ‘To this writen by a gentlewoeman y^e answer underneath was given’ (beginning ‘Believe not him...’) which is itself followed by ‘His Answer’ (‘Yet trust him...’).

First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1641). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 65-6.

pp. 304-8

• TaJ 13: Jeremy Taylor, A Discourse of Friendship

Extracts, under the heading ‘Friendship’, inscribed in the margin ‘Taken out of y^e office of friendship by D^r Taylor’.

First published, as ‘Mutual friends’ and dedicated to Katherine Philips, in London, 1657. Eden, I, 69-98.

W(A) Misc Vol 32

A folio volume comprising a compilation of Grace Mildmay's medical writings, predominantly in one neat largely secretary hand, headed (f. 3r) ‘Certaine breife Collections and obseruations disgested into fowre bookes...left in writeinge by that reuerend Lady the Lady Mildmay of Apthorpe in the County of Northampton’, 55 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum boards, labelled on the spine ‘collected by Lady G. Mildmay’. Assembled by members of her family after her death, including items headed ‘...the treasure of this my worthy Mothers minde’. c.1620s?

MiG 2: Grace, Lady Mildmay, Medical Papers

Extracts from this MS in Linda Pollock, With Faith and Physic: The Life of a Tudor Gentlewoman, Lady Grace Mildmay, 1552-1620 (London, 1993), pp. 110-27.

W(A) Misc Vol. 33

A quarto receipt book, including medical receipts of Grace, Lady Mildmay, in one or more formal secretary and italic hands, 157 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. Late 16th-early 17th century.

MiG 3: Grace, Lady Mildmay, Medical Papers

Extracts from this MS in Linda Pollock, With Faith and Physic: The Life of a Tudor Gentlewoman, Lady Grace Mildmay, 1552-1620 (London, 1993), pp. 127-40.

W(A) Misc Vol. 34

MS of an untitled tract by Henry Thorne, presented to Lady Mildmay, in a single rounded secretary hand, headed ‘To the honorable Lady the Ladie Mildmaye Henrie Thorne wishethe health, happines, & continuance of gods grates’, beginning ‘Madam, I may plead Peters pouertie...’, 35 octavo leaves, in contemporary vellum boards, inscribed (partly perforated) on the cover ‘To the Ladie Grace Mildmaye’. Late 16th-early 17th century.

MiG 8: Grace, Lady Mildmay, To the honorable Lady the Ladie Mildmaye

W(A) Misc Vol. 35

An octavo volume comprising a compilation of Mildmay and Fane family papers, some signed ‘Mary Fane’, in three or more largely italic hands, 52 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in a cover embroidered in coloured and silver thread.

This MS recorded in Linda Pollock, With Faith and Physic: The Life of a Tudor Gentlewoman, Lady Grace Mildmay, 1552-1620 (London, 1993).

ff. 4r-11r

• MiG 5: Grace, Lady Mildmay, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter of advice, beginning ‘My Deere childe Mildmay Fane I your lovinge olde Grandmother exhort you...’ and subscribed ‘Your loving Grandmother GRACE MILDMAY’, in an italic hand.

Text of this letter in Linda Pollock, With Faith and Physic: The Life of a Tudor Gentlewoman, Lady Grace Mildmay, 1552-1620 (London, 1993), pp. 42-4. Discussed in Susan E. Hrach, ‘“Heare Councill and Receiue Instructions”: Situating the Mother's Legacy in Manuscript’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2006), pp. 207-15.

W(A) Misc Vol 55 (A)

A folio composite volume of papers of Grace Mildmay, in various hands and paper sizes, partly autograph, 22 leaves, in paper wrappers. Including (f. 1r) an autograph receipt sent by Grace Mildmay to her housekeeper (‘My good besse’), (ff. 4r, 5r, 8r, 10v, 12r, 13r-15v, 18r) other autograph medical receipts and notes in her rugged italic hand, one ‘for Elizabeth fetherston, for her vometing’, with copies of other medical receipts (one endorsed by her as ‘A french receit of an excelent pill’, another on ff. 20r-v, 21v, concerning ‘a poore woman’, with her autograph additions), an original letter to her by ‘Higgins’ about her simples (f. 9r-v), one about receipts by ‘De Heriss’ dated 20 July 1598, and (f. 22r) a letter to her by Reginald Caters, dated 1607, also with her annotations. c.1598-1607.

*MiG 4: Grace, Lady Mildmay, Medical Papers

Extracts from this MS in Linda Pollock, With Faith and Physic: The Life of a Tudor Gentlewoman, Lady Grace Mildmay, 1552-1620 (London, 1993), pp. 140-2.