CELM: The Pierpont Morgan Library

MA 41

Copy of a speech in parliament by Wilson against Mary Queen of Scots, headed ‘Actio contra Mariam Scotorum reginam’, [1572?]. Late 16th century?

WiT 6: Thomas Wilson, Speech(es)

A MS ‘Actio contra Mariam Scotorum reginam’ ascribed to Wilson is preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 41).

npublished?.

MA 130

An unbound collection of letters by or relating to Dryden and of drawings and engravings, 22 items.

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1782-1872), manuscript and book collector. Sotheby's, 7 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lot 313, to Sabin.

MA 130.14

• *DrJ 315: John Dryden, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to William Walsh, [1690?]. 1690.

Ward, Letter 15.

MA 130.15

• *DrJ 318: John Dryden, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to William Walsh, 9 May [1693]. 1693.

Ward, Letter 24.

MA 130.16

• *DrJ 319: John Dryden, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to William Walsh, 17 August 1693. 1693.

Ward, Letter 25.

MA 130.1

• *DrJ 320: John Dryden, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Jacob Tonson, 30 August [1693]. 1693.

Christie's, 17 December 1907 (Tonson sale), lot 157.

Ward, Letter 26.

MA 130.17

• *DrJ 322: John Dryden, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to William Walsh, 12 December [1693]. 1693.

Ward, Letter 28. Facsimile in British Literary Autographs, Series I, ed Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 54.

MA 130.2

• *DrJ 324: John Dryden, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Jacob Tonson, 26 May [1695]. 1695.

Christie's, 17 December 1907 (Tonson sale), lot 160.

Ward, Letter 37. NB. Ward conjecturally dates the letter 1696, but see Margaret P. Boddy, ‘Dryden-Lauderdale Relationships, Some Bibliographical Notes and a Suggestion’, PQ, 42 (1963), 267-72 (pp. 268-9), and John Barnard, ‘The Dates of Six Dryden Letters’, PQ, 42 (1963), 396-403 (p. 400).

MA 130.3

• *DrJ 325: John Dryden, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Jacob Tonson, 8 June [1695]. 1695.

Christie's, 17 December 1907 (Tonson sale), lot 161.

Ward, Letter 33.

MA 130.4

• *DrJ 331: John Dryden, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Jacob Tonson, [c.November 1696]. 1696.

Ward, Letter 40.

MA 130.5

• *DrJ 347: John Dryden, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Elizabeth Steward, 12 December 1698. 1698.

Ward, Letter 55.

[MA 130.6

• *DrJ 351: John Dryden, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Elizabeth Steward, 9 February 1698/9. 1699.

Ward, Letter 58.

MA 130.7

• *DrJ 355: John Dryden, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Elizabeth Steward, 4 March 1698/9. 1699.

Ward, Letter 59.

MA 130.8

• *DrJ 359: John Dryden, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Elizabeth Steward, 18 September 1699. 1699.

Ward, Letter 64.

MA 130.9

• *DrJ 361: John Dryden, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Elizabeth Steward, October 1699. 1699.

Ward, Letter 66.

MA 130.10

• *DrJ 362: John Dryden, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Elizabeth Steward, 7 November [1699]. 1699.

Ward, Letter 67. Facsimile in British Literary Autographs, Series I, ed Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 55.

MA 130.11

• *DrJ 364: John Dryden, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Elizabeth Steward, 26 November [1699]. 1699.

Ward, Letter 70.

MA 130.12

• *DrJ 365: John Dryden, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Elizabeth Steward, 14 December 1699. 1699.

Ward, Letter 71.

MA 130.13

• *DrJ 367: John Dryden, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Elizabeth Steward, 11 April 1700. 1700.

Ward, Letter 75. Facsimile in British Literary Autographs, Series I. ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 56.

MA 131

Copy of the poem, without the dedication to Lord Abingdon or a title-page, in the same cursive secretary hand as DrJ 176 and DrJ 245, on twelve quarto pages extracted from a MS of extracts from Dryden (DrJ 132) and mounted together with an exemplum of the first edition (1692) in an album, in modern quarter red morocco boards gilt. c.1700.

DrJ 13: John Dryden, Eleonora: A Panegyrical Poem Dedicated to the Memory of the Late Countess of Abingdon (‘As, when some Great and Gracious Monarch dies’)

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector (unnumbered Phillipps MS). Sotheby's, 6 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lots 314-15.

This MS collated in California.

First published in London, 1692. Kinsley, II, 582-95. California, III, 230-46. Hammond, III, 272-95.

MA 132

A quarto volume of extracts from Dryden's The Works of Virgil, as well as some Latin text (ff. 39r, 58r-v, 64r-9r), in the same cursive secretary hand as DrJ 131, DrJ 176 and DrJ 245, 75 leaves (plus blanks), in modern calf. c.1700.

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector (unnumbered Phillipps MS). Sotheby's, 6 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lots 314-15.

ff. 1r-74v passim

• DrJ 245: John Dryden, The Works of Virgil [Aeneis, Georgics, Pastorals] (‘Arms, and the Man I sing, who forc'd by Fate’)

Extensive extracts from the Aeneis (ff. 1r-10v, 24r-62r, 70r-4v); second and third books of the Georgics (ff. 11r-20v); and fourth and eighth eclogues of the Pastorals (ff. 62v-3v).

First published in London, 1697. Kinsley, III, 1003-1427 (Aeneis), and II, 867-1001 (Pastorals and Georgics). California, IV, 436-61 (‘Third Book of the Georgics’ only, first published in Annual Miscellany: for the year 1694).

MA 239/4/5

Copy.

RaW 1114: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Present Stat of Thinges as they now Stand betweene the three great Kingedomes, Fraunce, England, and Spaine

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.

MA 291

Copy; in a neat secretary hand, 37 small quarto pages, incomplete, slightly imperfect at the lower outer corners. c.1600.

SoR 310: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, An Humble Supplication to Her Majesty

First published (by a secret English press) ‘1595’ [for 1600?]. Edited by R .C. Bald (Cambridge, 1953).

MA 307

MS of Book I in the hand of one of Milton's amanuenses (who also made an entry in his Commonplace Book: MnJ 66), with corrections in other hands (principally that of Milton's nephew, Edward Phillips), the MS used as the printer's copy by Samuel Simmons for the first printed edition, on 33 quarto pages. Bearing on the verso of the first leaf the imprimatur of Thomas Tomkyns, a chaplain of Archbishop Sheldon; also signed by Richard Royston, Warden of the Stationers' Company, and by the Clerk of the Company, George Tokefield. c.1665.

MnJ 22: John Milton, Paradise Lost (‘Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit’)

Accompanied by (Pierpont Morgan Library, MA 307A) a lengthy autograph letter by Jacob Tonson to his nephew Jacob Tonson, written after 1732, concerning this MS and mentioning Brabazon Aylmer from whom he purchased half the rights to the poem in 1683. The text is printed in full in Darbishire's facsimile edition, pp. xi-xv.

Subsequently owned by the publisher Jacob Tonson (1656?-1736), who purchased the copyright of the poem. Sold by Henry Clinton Baker of Bayfordbury at Sotheby's, 25 January 1904 (separate catalogue), to Baker.

This MS first recorded in T. Newton's edition of Paradise Lost (London, 1749). Collated in Columbia, in Darbishire, and in Carey & Fowler. Complete facsimile edition in The Manuscript of Milton's Paradise Lost Book 1, ed. Helen Darbishire (Oxford, 1931); complete facsimile also in Illinois, II, 31-99. Facsimile examples in Sotheby, Ramblings, after p. 196 (Plate XXV); Carey & Fowler, after p. 1034 (Plates 5 & 6); and British Literary Autographs, Series I (New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981), No. 41.

First published in London, 1667. Columbia, II. Darbishire I. Carey & Fowler, pp. 417-1060.

MA 420 (St. Paul's Cathedral vol. I, p. 59)

A letter by Richard Corbett.

Sotheby's, 14 April 1875, lot 532.

The letter as a whole

• *CoR 780: Richard Corbett, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Corbett, as Bishop of Oxford, to William Laud, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, from Cassington, 27 April 1628 or 1630. See also StW 1432. 1628-1630.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xxxi. Facsimile in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile VIII after p. xxiv.

Verses

• StW 1432: William Strode, In Electionem Guilielmi Episcopi Londinensis in Cancellariatum Academiae Oxon. (‘Isis quod Thamisi vehit Tributum’)

Copy of lines 8-30, here beginning ‘Londinensis in Angelum Cathedrae?’, in the hand of Richard Corbett, quoted in his letter to Laud. 1630.

Facsimile in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile VIII after p. xxiv.

Unpublished (but see StW 1432). Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.

MA 662

Copy, in a single secretary hand, with a title-page ‘Licesters Comon Wealth’, on 24 folio leaves, incomplete, followed (ff. [25r-6r]) by ‘Certaine notes taken out of some other authour concerninge my Lor: of Leicesters Comon wealth’, in modern morocco gilt. Early 17th century.

LeC 67: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

This MS recorded in Peck. p. 226.

First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.

MA 664

A folio volume of state letters, in a single hand, 490 pages, in contemporary calf. Mid-late 17th century.

Flyleaf inscribed ‘Stamford 1693’: i.e. Thomas Grey (c.1654-1720), second Earl of Stamford, Privy Counsellor. Bookplate of John Towneley (1697-1782), translator, of Towneley Hall, near Burnley, Lancashire.

pp. 5-23

• RaW 1115: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Present Stat of Thinges as they now Stand betweene the three great Kingedomes, Fraunce, England, and Spaine

Copy, headed ‘A Survey of the 3 great Kingdomes of Europe as the state of them was in K. James his time’.

pp. 210-12, 214-18

• RaW 972: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copy of two letters by Ralegh, to his wife and to Sir Robert Carr.

pp. 218-20

• TiC 51: Chidiock Tichborne, A letter written by Chidiock Tichborne to his wife, the night before he suffered

Copy, headed ‘A Lr written by m^r Tichborne to his wife the night before he dyed’.

Hirsch, pp. 311-12.

pp. 474-81

• ElQ 195: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech at the Close of the Parliamentary Session, March 15, 1576

Copy, headed ‘Queen Elizabeth's speech in the Parliament House y^e 13 of March 1575’.

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).

pp. 484-90

• ElQ 298: Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601

Copy of a version headed The Queens Speech and beginning ‘M^r Speaker I well understand by that you haue deliuered, that you with these Gent of the lower House came to giue vs thanks...’.

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).

MA 717 Bd Engl. Lit.

Copy, headed ‘A balad mayde at London whe my lorde prince Arthur was wed by a Skotte hauyng muche money of dyu^rse lordes for hys Indytyg’, among other texts on three pages (ff. [1r, 2r-v]) of three large folio leaves, formerly the flyleaves in a printed exemplum of William Caxton's edition of Cordiale quattuor novissimorum (1479) (PLM 677) and now rebound separately in modern brown morocco gilt. c.1501-9.

DuW 184: William Dunbar, To the City of London (‘London, thou art of townes A per se’)

The printed Cordiale bears the bookplate of Richard Bennett.

Edited from this MS in Curt F. Bühler, ‘London Thow Art The Flowre of Cytes All’, RES, 13 (1937), 1-9. Facsimile in British Literary Manuscripts: Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 10.

Mackenzie, No. 88, pp. 177-8.

MA 743

A small octavo autograph notebook, 89 leaves (plus 66 blanks), written from both ends: ff. [2v, 16r-28v] and [59v-61v rev.] written in Waller's distinctive cursive hand; ff. [3r-25v] and [1r-58v rev.] closely written in a bolder, more upright variant of his hand [cp. WaE 750]; in quarter-calf marbled boards. Containing a series of philosophical notes in Latin, including (ff. [2v-28v] a commentary on Aristotle, (ff. [1r-58v rev.]) a series of 61 entries or definitions (‘De arte’, ‘De logice’, ‘De voce’, &c.), and (ff. [59v-61v rev.] notes on the Bible.

*WaE 864: Edmund Waller, Notebook

Inscribed ‘J. Lee. Doctors Commons… M.S. From the Library of Waller the Poet’ and, on the spine, ‘M.S. No 380 Waller's Library’: i.e. later in the library of Dr John Lee, F.R.S. (1783-1866), at Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. John Pearson & Co. of 5 Pall Mall, London, catalogues of ‘rare and valuable autographs’ [n.d.], variously items 98, 405, 594, and 675.

What might just possibly be this manuscript is what is described as a quarto manuscript Logicæ Rudimenta, dated 1666.allegedly in Waller's hand, offered in Willis and Sotheran's sale catalogue for 1859, item 5245.

Recorded in IELM, II.ii (1993), as WaE 789.

MA 953

Signature (‘John Milton Junior’) as witness on the post-nuptial settlement of his sister Anne, being a tripartite indenture concerning property to be bequested to Mrs Anne Phillips and her husband Edward Phillips upon the death of the latter's mother Katherine Phillips of Shrewsbury, the ‘signature’ of the elder John Milton here being in the hand of John Hutton, 27 November 1623. 1623.

*MnJ 88: John Milton, Document(s)

Sotheby's, 4 June 1908 and 5 June 1918.

Facsimile of the signatures in A.M. Broadley, Chats on Autographs (London, 1910), p. 203. Edited in LR, I, 67-74. Recorded in Columbia, XVIII, 624.

MA 1057

A quarto verse miscellany, including seventeen poems by Donne and fifteen by Strode, the main part in a single hand, 334 pages (but pp. 3-4 extracted, and including a later index). Possibly compiled by one ‘W: H:’: i.e. probably William Holgate (1618-46), of Queens' College, Cambridge, with late 17th-century additions apparently made by other members of the Holgate family, of Saffron Walden and Great Bardfield, Essex. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].

Owned in the early 18th century by John Wale, who supplied the index on pp. 330-3. Owned before 1927 by Col. W.G. Carwardine-Probert, of Bures, Suffolk (descendant of the Holgate family).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Holgate MS’: DnJ Δ 58. Briefly discussed in W.G.P., ‘Verses by Francis Beaumont’, TLS (15 September 1921), p. 596, and in E.K. Chambers, William Shakespeare, 2 vols (Oxford, 1930), II, 222-4. Also discussed, with facsimiles on pp. 68 and 70 of pp. 181 and 13, in Michael Roy Denbo, ‘Editing a Renaissance Commonplace Book: The Holgate Miscellany’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 65-73. For facsimile pages see DnJ 2931 and ShW 25. Complete microfilm in the Essex Record Office (T/A 98).

p. 1

• DrM 37.5: Michael Drayton, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, to the Lady Geraldine (‘From learned Florence (long time rich in fame)’)

Copy, headed ‘Of a Poett:’, transcribed from the version in Robert Tofte's A Blazon of Iealousie (London, 1615), p. 48.

First published in Englands Heroicall Epistles (London, 1599). Hebel, II, 277-87.

p. 2

• DkT 31: Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall (‘The Queene was brought by water to White Hall’)

Copy, headed ‘On Queene Elizabeth’ and here beginning ‘The Queene was brought from Greene-wich to White-hall’.

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.

p. 2

• DrM 40.5: Michael Drayton, Mortimeriados, The Lamentable ciuell warres of Edward the second and the Barrons (‘The lowring heaven had mask'd her in a clowde’)

Copy of seven lines, headed ‘On Iealosie’ and here beginning Pale Iealousie child of insatiate Loue, transcribed from the version in Robert Tofte's A Blazon of Iealousie (London, 1615), p. 11.

First published, with two verse dedications to Lucy, Countess of Bedford, in London, 1596. Hebel, I, 305-92.

p. 2

• CoH 12: Henry Constable, The fifth Decad. Sonnet. VII (‘Bvt beeing care, thou flyest mee as ill fortune’)

Copy of lines 2-5, 7-8, headed ‘Of Care:’ and here beginning ‘Care the consuminge Canker of the minde’, transcribed from the version in Robert Tofte's A Blazon of Iealousie (London, 1615), p. 10.

First published in Diana (London, 1594). Grundy, pp. 200-1.

pp. 5

• DnJ 3189: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)

Copy of lines 46-8, here beginning ‘Thers no pennance due to innocence’, imperfect, lacking the preceding leaf.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as ‘Elegie XIX. Going to Bed’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.

The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, ‘Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's “To his mistress going to bed”’, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.

pp. 10-11

• CoR 89: Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of his owne Father (‘Vincent Corbet, farther knowne’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘R: C:’.

First published (omitting the last four lines) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Published with the last four lines in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 67-9.

pp. 11-12

• JnB 141: Ben Jonson, An Epitaph on Master Vincent Corbet (‘I have my Pietie too, which could’)

Copy of an untitled version, arranged in two sections: lines 7- 36, here beginning ‘Deare Vincent Corbett who so longe’, subscribed ‘B: I:’, and lines 1-6, 37-40, here beginning ‘I hope my pietie to, which could’.

First published in The Vnder-wood (xii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 151-2.

p. 16

• MoG 81: George Morley, ‘Qualis, dum Scythia languescit rupe Prometheus’

Copy, subscribed ‘G: Morley’.

pp. 18-19

• BrW 66: William Browne of Tavistock, Lydford Journey (‘I oft have heard of Lydford law’)

Copy, in double columns, headed ‘Lydfoord eLaw in Deuon-sheere:’.

First published in John Phillips, Sportive Wit (London, 1656).Goodwin, II, 305-9.

pp. 25-36

• CoR 307: Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale (‘Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r: Corbet's Iter Boreale’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.

pp. 39-41

• CoR 157: Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox (‘Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on the Lady’.

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

p. 42

• RaW 169: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie (‘Goe soule the bodies guest’)

Copy, untitled.

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.

pp. 43-5

• PeW 253: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman (‘Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression’)

Copy, headed ‘A Paradox in praise of a painted fface:’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed ‘P.’. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as ‘A Paradox of a Painted Face’, among ‘Poems attributed to Donne in MSS’. Also ascribed to James Shirley.

A shorter version, beginning ‘Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie’, was first published, as ‘A Maids Denyall’, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].

p. 45

• RaW 279: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy, headed ‘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.

p. 47

• CwT 589: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind (‘Goe thou gentle whispering wind’)

Copy, headed ‘On a sigh’ and here beginning ‘Go thou gentle whistlinge winde’.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.

p. 47

• CoR 407: Richard Corbett, A New-Yeares Gift To my Lorde Duke of Buckingham (‘When I can pay my Parents, or my King’)

Copy, headed ‘D.C. to y^e M:B:1622:’.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 71-2.

p. 59

• PeW 59: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘Muse get thee to a Cell; and wont to sing’

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Poems (1660), p. 28, superscribed ‘P.’. Krueger, p. 29, among ‘Pembroke's Poems’.

p. 60

• CwT 1266.5: Thomas Carew, A Louers passion (‘Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see’)

Copy, untitled.

First published, as ‘The Rapture, by J.D.’, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), pp. 3-4 [unique exemplum in the Huntington edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990)]. Cupids Master-Piece (London, [?1656]). Dunlap, p. 192.

p. 61

• DnJ 3676: John Donne, Twicknam garden (‘Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares’)

Copy, untitled.

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. 61-2

• DnJ 3994: John Donne, Womans constancy (‘Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

p. 62

• DnJ 1211: John Donne, The Expiration (‘So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse’)

Copy, untitled.

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. 62

• DnJ 3966: John Donne, Witchcraft by a picture (‘I fixe mine eye on thine, and there’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

p. 63

• WoH 155: Sir Henry Wotton, A Poem written by Sir Henry Wotton in his Youth (‘O faithless world, and thy most faithless part’)

Copy, headed ‘On his Mistris Inconstancie’.

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.

pp. 63-4

• BmF 148: Francis Beaumont, ‘Why should not pilgrims to thy body come’

Copy, untitled.

First published in John Wardroper, Love and Drollery (London, 1969), No. 213.

p. 64

• BmF 127: Francis Beaumont, On Madam Fowler desiring a sonnet to be writ on her (‘Good Madam Fowler, do not trouble me’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Alexander B. Grosart, ‘Literary Finds in Trinity College, Dublin, and Elsewhere’, ES, 26 (1899), 1-19 (p. 8).

pp. 64-5

• DnJ 1334: John Donne, A Feaver (‘Oh doe not die, for I shall hate’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

pp. 65-6

• DnJ 1851: John Donne, The Legacie (‘When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 66-8

• DnJ 2571: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)

Copy, headed ‘Off on that was betrayd by a pfume’.

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. 68

• BcF 54.11: Francis Bacon, Upon the Death of the Duke of Richmond and Lennox (‘Are all diseases dead? or will death say’)

Copy.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 400. For a contemporary attribution to Bacon see BcF 54.117.

p. 69

• BmF 49: 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 of an anonymous untitled 18-line poem which uses the same opening line as Beaumont's poem, here ‘I may forgett to eate, to Sleepe, to Drinke’.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Dyce, XI, 507-11.

pp. 70-1

• CwT 1129: Thomas Carew, To Saxham (‘Though frost, and snow, lockt from mine eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘A winters entertainement at Saxam written by T:C.’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 27-9.

p. 72

• WoH 120: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy, headed ‘Uppon the 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.

pp. 73-7

• CoR 643: Richard Corbett, To the Lord Mordant upon his returne from the North (‘My Lord, I doe confesse, at the first newes’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r: C: of Oxford beinge kept out of the Haule on S^t George his day at Windsor by the Guard, Wrote ths verses vnto the Lord Mordent’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 23-31.

p. 78

• CwT 981: Thomas Carew, The Spring (‘Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost’)

Copy, headed ‘Of the Springe’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 3.

pp. 78-80

• BmF 79: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Lady Markham (‘As unthrifts groan in straw for their pawn'd beds’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on the death of the Lady Marcum’, subscribed ‘F: B:’.

First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 503-5.

pp. 80-1

• DrW 117.44: 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.

pp. 82-3

• JnB 665: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘ffrom a Gypsie in the morninge’)

Copy of the song, untitled.

Herford & Simpson, lines 1329-89. Greg, Windsor version, lines 1129-89.

For a parody of this song, see DrW 117.1.

pp. 86-7

• DnJ 69: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)

Copy, untitled.

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. 87-9

• CoR 364: Richard Corbett, A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine (‘I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Corbet to the Duke of Buckingham in Spaine: 1623’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.

p. 89

• GrJ 79: John Grange, ‘Sir, such my fate was, that I had no store’

Copy, headed ‘Vppon Prince Charles his cominge home out of Spaine: 1623:’, and subscribed ‘I: G:’.

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.

p. 90

• HuF 24: Sir Francis Hubert, Noli peccare (‘Forbeare to sinne: God hath thee still in sight’)

Copy.

First published in The Historie of Edward the Second, Surnamed Carnarvan, one of our English Kings. Together with the Fatall down-fall of his two vnfortunate Favorites Gaveston and Spencer (London, 1629). pp. 166-8. Mellor, pp. 170-1.

p. 91

• PeW 28: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, I left you, and now the gain of you is to me a double Gain (‘Dear, when I think upon my first sad fall’)

Copy, headed ‘I lost you & now the gaine is double to me’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Poems (1660), p. 25, superscribed ‘P.’. Krueger, p. 28, among ‘Pembroke's Poems’.

pp. 92-3

• CoR 337: 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 D^r. C: to a friend’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 63-5.

p. 93

• CwT 391.8: Thomas Carew, A Ladies prayer to Cupid (‘Since I must needes into thy schoole returne’)

Copy.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dunlap, p. 131.

p. 93

• CwT 231: Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence (‘You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay’)

Copy, here beginning ‘You will aske perhaps wherfore I stay’.

First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 28. Dunlap. p. 131.

p. 94

• GrJ 84: John Grange, ‘The world created, God made man’

Copy, headed ‘Of one braginge of his Auncestors:’, subscribed ‘I: G:’.

Unpublished? Listed in Krueger.

p. 94

• JnB 120: Ben Jonson, Epitaph [on Cecilia Bulstrode] (‘Stay, view this stone: And, if thou beest not such’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph’, subscribed ‘B: I.’

First published in John A. Harper, ‘Ben Jonson and Mrs. Bulstrode’, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 4 (5 September 1863), 198-9. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 371-2.

p. 96

• ShW 25: William Shakespeare, Sonnet 106 (‘When in the chronicle of wasted time’)

Copy, headed ‘On his Mistris Beauty’ and here beginning ‘When in the Annalls of all wastinge Time’.

Edited from this MS in Rollins, p. 260. Facsimiles in Autograph Letters & Manuscripts: Major Acquisitions of the Pierpont Morgan Library 1924-1974 (New York, 1974), Plate 12, and in British Literary Manuscripts, Series I, ed Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 33.

p. 97

• DnJ 1561: John Donne, A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last going into Germany (‘In what torne ship soever I embarke’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r D: at his goinge into Bohemia: A Himne to Christ:’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 352-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 48-9. Shawcross, No. 190.

pp. 98-9

• DnJ 3085: John Donne, The Storme (‘Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r: D: to his freinde of a storme at sea’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

pp. 99-100

• DnJ 804: John Donne, The Crosse (‘Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse it selfe, dare I’)

Copy, headed ‘The Crosse by D^r: D:’.

This MS collated in Shawcross.

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

p. 101

• DnJ 2931: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)

Copy, untitled but headed ‘D^r: D:’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross. Facsimile in Autograph Letters & Manuscripts: Major Acquisitions of the Pierpont Morgan Library 1924-1974 (New York, 1974), plate 12.

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

pp. 103-4

• DnJ 1082: John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham (‘Man is the World, and death th' Ocean’)

Copy, untitled but headed ‘D^r D:’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and 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.

p. 104

• GrJ 13.8: John Grange, ‘Be not proud, 'cause fair and trim’

Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue betwixt a Man and a woman’.

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. 105-6

• BmF 23: Francis Beaumont, Ad Comitissam Rutlandiae (‘Madam, so may my verses pleasing be’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Countess of Rutland:’, subscribed ‘ffinis: F: B:’.

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

pp. 107-9

• BmF 50: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Death of the Virtuous Lady, Elizabeth Countess of Rutland (‘I may forget to eat, to drink, to sleep’)

Second copy, headed ‘An Eligie on the Death of the Countess of Rutland’, subscribed ‘ffinis F: B:’.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Dyce, XI, 507-11.

p. 110

• BmF 140: Francis Beaumont, To M^r B.J: (‘Neither to follow fashion nor to showe’)

Copy, subscribed ‘ffinis: F B:’.

Part of the poem printed from this MS in W.G. P., ‘Verses by Francis Beaumont’, TLS (15 September 1921), p. 596. Edited from this MS in Chambers.

First published (complete) in Sir E.K. Chambers, William Shakespeare (Oxford, 1930), II, 222-5. Reprinted from Chambers in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, XI (Oxford, 1952), 377-9.

All recorded MS texts of this poem are discussed and collated, with an edited text (pp. 174-6), in Mark Bland, ‘Francis Beaumont's Verse Letters to Ben Jonson and “The Mermaid Club”’, EMS, 12 (2005), 139-79.

p. 111

• PeW 80: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of Friendship (‘Friendship on Earth we may as easily find’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Poems (1660), p. 48, but without attribution. Krueger, pp. 41-2, among ‘Pembroke's Poems’.

pp. 112-13

• PeW 159: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Benj. Rudier of Tears (‘Who would have thought there could have been’)

Copy headed ‘D^r: B. of teares’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Poems (1660), pp. 46-7. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’. By Dr Samuel Brooke.

pp. 125-7

• DnJ 395: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)

Copy, headed ‘His Passion for a lost Chaine of Gould’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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.

p. 132

• PeW 124: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, To his Mistris on his Death (‘Oh let me groan one word into thine ear’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 233. Poems (1660), p. 52, superscribed ‘P.’. Krueger, p. 47, among ‘Pembroke's Poems’.

p. 132

• JnB 300: Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse (‘Doe but consider this small dust’)

Copy, headed ‘Of the Sand runinge in an hower Glass’.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.

p. 133

• PeW 303: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, That Lust is not his Ayme (‘Oh do not tax me with a brutish Love’)

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Poems (1660), pp. 33-4, superscribed ‘P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’. This poem is by Dudley North, third Baron North. First published in North's A Forest of Varieties (1645), p. 46.

p. 134

• OxE 28: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, ‘Wheras the Harte at Tennysse playes and men to gaminge fall’

Copy, headed ‘Of playing at Tenis by S^r E: D:’.

This MS collated in May.

First published in John Cotgrave, Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). May, Poems, No. 13 (p. 35). May, Courtier Poets, pp. 279-80. EV 30349.

pp. 134-5

• RaW 536: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart’

Copy, untitled.

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

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

p. 137

• WoH 43: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)

Copy, untitled, ascribed in the margin to ‘S^r. Henry Wotton’.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Wotton's “The Character of a Happy Life”’, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's “The Character of a Happy Life”’, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).

p. 137

• DnJ 2951: John Donne, Song (‘Stay, O sweet, and do not rise’)

Copy of an untitled two-stanza version, here beginning ‘Sweet stay a while, why will you rise’.

This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 610-11.

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

MA 1158

Copy, with marginal corrections, on four folio pages. c.1620s.

BcF 504: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

Donated in 1942 by Roland L. Redmond.

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.

MA 1160

Copy of speeches by Bacon, including his inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617, and speeches to Sir John Denham and to Serjeant Jones (19 May 1617).

BcF 408: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

MA 1162

A small quarto volume of state letters and papers, in a single secretary hand, 704 pages, in quarter-calf boards. With a letter by James Gairdner (1828-1912), historian, returning this volume to Edward William Cox (1809-79), lawyer and publisher, 20 January 1886. Mid-17th century.

Gift of Mr Roland L. Redmond, 1942.

pp. 19-21

• LyJ 35: John Lyly, A petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth

Copy.

Beginning ‘Most Gratious and dread Soveraigne: I dare not pester yo^r Highnes w^th many wordes...’. Written probably in 1598. Bond, I, 64-5. Feuillerat, pp. 556-7.

pp. 21-2

• LyJ 58: John Lyly, A second petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth

Copy.

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.

pp. 52-65, 138-9, 149-71, 192-202, 214-16, 436-68, 477-80

• BcF 633: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

Copies of various letters by Bacon.

pp. 66-78

• BcF 193: Francis Bacon, Considerations touching the Queen's Service in Ireland

Copy.

First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, X, 46-51.

pp. 171-7

• BcF 505: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

Copy.

pp. 436-57, 459-68

• RaW 973: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copies of various letters by Ralegh.

p. 458

• RaW 87: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

Copy, headed ‘Verses found in S^r. Walter Raleighs Bible in y^e Gatehouse’.

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).

MA 1201 Engl. Lit.

A duodecimo volume of state tracts and speeches, in a single probably professional hand, 49 leaves, in contemporary vellum. c.1630.

Bookplate of John Harvey, of Ickwell Bury, Hertfordshire, and Finningley Park, Yorkshire. Pencil inscription inside the lower cover ‘Robinson Aug. /94’.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 62.

ff. 3r-5r

• BcF 716: Francis Bacon, An Essay of a King

Copy.

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

ff. 12r-21v

• BcF 314: Francis Bacon, A Device to Entertain the Queen at Essex House, 17 November 1595

Copy of six speeches, headed ‘A Dialogue betweene A Melancholly dreaming Hermet A Mutinous Brainesick Soldiour & A Busie teadious Secretarie’, recorded in the table of contents (f. 1r) as ‘Written by M^r [Henry] Cuffe seruant to the Earle of Essex’.

First published in Letters, Speeches &c. of Francis Bacon, ed. Thomas Birch (London, 1763). Spedding, VIII, 378-86. Probably written partly by the Earl of Essex, partly by his secretariat, including Bacon. See The Poems of Edward De Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, and of Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, ed. Steven W. May, Studies in Philology, 77, No. 5 (Early Winter 1980), pp. 88-90, and Paul E.J. Hammer, ‘Upstaging the Queen: the Earl of Essex, Francis Bacon and the Accession Day celebrations of 1595’, in The Politics of the Stuart Court Masque, ed. David Bevington and Peter Holbrook (New York & Cambridge, 1998), pp. 41-66.

ff. 22r-8v

• BcF 544: Francis Bacon, A Letter of Advice to the Queen (1584)

Copy.

Advice beginning ‘Most Gracious Soveraign and most worthy to be a Soveraign / Care, one of the natural and true-bred children of unfeigned affection...’. First published in The Felicity of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1651), pp. 121-56. Spedding, VIII, 43-56.

MA 1259

An autograph list of purchases by Shadwell, 12 March 1676[/7]. 1677.

*SdT 54: Thomas Shadwell, Document(s)

MA 1385 Bd Engl. Lit.

Six MS quarto leaves, in a stylish italic hand, bound at the front of a printed exemplum of Las obras de la S. Madre Teresa de Iesvs...primera parte qve contiene sv vida (Antwerp, 1630), the volume gilt-edged, in old calf. c.1630.

Inscribed inside the front cover, in Rome on 4 January 1836, by Richard Chenevix Trench (1807-86), Protestant Archbishop of Dublin, theologian, philologist and poet, and also with his presentation inscription, dated 5 June 1865, to Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-85), first Baron Houghton, author and politician. Subsequently in the library of the latter's son, Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician.

pp. [1-10]

• *CrR 65: Richard Crashaw, A Hymn to the Name and Honor of the Admirable Sainte Teresa (‘Loue, thou art Absolute sole lord’)

Copy, in a neat hand, the formal title-page, preliminary inscription and some textual alterations in Crashaw's hand.

This MS collated in Martin, p. xciii, with a facsimile of the title-page facing p. 315. Also discussed by Martin, with a similar facsimile, in ‘An Unedited Crashaw Manuscript’, TLS (18 April 1952), p. 272. Facsimile of the title-page in British Literary Manuscripts, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 45. See also CrR 11.

First published, in an early version as ‘In memory of the Vertuous and Learned Lady Madre de Teresa that sought an early Martyrdome’, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 131-6. Later version published in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 315-21.

pp. [10-12r]

• *CrR 11: Richard Crashaw, An Apologie. For the Fore-Going Hymne as hauing been writt when the author was yet among the protestantes (‘Thus haue I back again to thy bright name’)

Copy, with two textual alterations in Crashaw's hand, untitled, the text following on from A Hymn to...Sainte Teresa (CrR 65).

First published in an early version as ‘An Apologie for the precedent Hymne [to Saint Teresa]’ in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 136-7. Later version published in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 322-3.

MA 1475 (LHMS: No. [8], Leicester's Commonwealth)

Copy, 230 folio pages, imperfect, disbound. Pages numbered 4-230 in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’; sixteen unnumbered preliminary pages supplied in another, apparently non-professional hand on a different stock of paper, presumably to replace text missing from the original copy; with many corrections, alterations and sidenotes in other hands, a series of addresses scribbled in the margin of p. 10 and on an end-leaf suggesting possible use in a professional London scriptorium. c.1620s-30s.

LeC 68: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

This MS text recorded in Peck, p. 226. Discussed in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 74-7, 254 (No. 84), with facsimile examples on pp. 75-6.

MA 1475 (LHMS), No. [12]

Autograph draft, with revisions, untitled, on both sides of seven folio leaves. Mounted with other separate state documents in a double-folio album, gilt-edged, in red morocco gilt. c.1585.

*SiP 172: Sir Philip Sidney, Defence of the Earl of Leicester

Inscribed ‘found in y^e evidence Room at Penshurst’ and, in the hand of Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe (1780-1855), sixth Viscount Strangford and first Baron Penshurst, ‘Bought of Thomas Thorpe 1837’. Owned in 1927 by Mrs P. M. Russell, granddaughter of Lord Penshurst. Sotheby's, 30 May 1927, lot 532, to Quaritch. Sotheby's, 10 May 1828, lot 21, to ‘Triphook’. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 436 (1930), item 1647, with a facsimile example. Quaritch's sale catalogue in 1948, item 14. Acquired by the Morgan Library in 1953.

Edited from this MS in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten. Facsimile pages in Ringler, facing p. lxiii; in The Pierpont Morgan Library: A Review of Acquisitions 1949-1968 (New York, 1969), plate 31; in Autograph Letters & Manuscripts: Major Acquisitions of the Pierpont Morgan Library 1924-1974 (New York, 1974), Plate 8; in British Literary Manuscripts, Series I, ed Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 20; in DLB, vol. 167, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. Third Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1996), p. 199; and in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 114.

First published in Arthur Collins, Letters and Memorials of State of the Sidney Family (London, 1746), I, 62-8. Feuillerat, III, 61-71. Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 129-41.

MA 2149

Autograph calligraphic MS, on rectos only, 33 leaves (96 x 135 mm.), in contemporary calf elaborately gilt. A presentation MS to the courtier Thomas Puckering (1592-1636), with a prose Dedication to him in English, in various styles of script, with colour and gold decoration. 1607.

*InE 6: Esther Inglis, [Ecclesiasticus] Argumenta singuloru capitum Eccles: per tetrasticha manu Estherae Inglis exarata strenae nomine egregio et dignissimo adolescentulo, M. Thomae Pukering oblata, 1607

Owned by Thomas Sowdon, of Reading, and later by H.W. Sowdon, of East Hendred, Berkshire. Martin Breslauer, sale catalogue No. 92 (1960), item 267; and Duschnes.

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 28 (pp. 57-8).

A verse summary of Ecclesiasticus (in the Apocrypha) in Latin.

MA 3263

Autograph letter signed, to Joseph Keally, [from London, March or April 1710]. 1710.

*CgW 95: William Congreve, Letter(s)

Samuel J. Davey's sale catague of ‘Historical Documents and Autograph Letters’ (1899), item 127.

Hodges, No. 38, p. 55. McKenzie, III, 174 (Letter 48). Facsimile in British Literary Autographs, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 68.

MA 3268

Autograph letter signed by Herrick, to Sir William Herrick, from St John's College, Cambridge, [c.1615-16]. c.1615-16.

*HeR 430: Robert Herrick, Letter(s)

Given by a proprietor of Beaumanor early in the 19th century to Lady Sitwell of Rempstone, Derbyshire, and afterwards owned by her grandson, Canon Egerton Leigh. Later in the collection of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American business man and collector. Christie's 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 256, with a facsimile in the sale catalogue, Plate 37.

Martin, p. 452 (No. XIIA), and Moorman, pp. 37-8. A facsimile is also in British Literary Autographs, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 36.

MA 3342

A collection of autograph poems and letters by John Chalkhill, on separate sheets, unbound in folders. c.1638.

Once owned by the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire (John Gell marrying Chalkhill's cousin Katherine Packer in 1644). Owned after 1958 by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 13-14 June 1979 (Houghton sale Part I), lot 109 (with a facsimile of No. 3 in the sale catalogue, p. 109, Plate 15).

These MSS discussed, and occasionally quoted, in P.J. Croft, ‘Izaak Walton's John Chalkhill’, TLS, 27 June 1958, p. 365.

No. 1

• *ChJ 5: John Chalkhill, [A mock love-letter in prose]

Autograph, subscribed ‘Youres Penelope Truloue’ before a postscript, on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, the address on the fourth page, accompanying ChJ 2.

Purporting to be by a ‘handmayd’ in love with the recipient, beginning ‘Kind Sir after a longe enquiry I haue at length atteyned the happynes to be honored with the knowledge...’, and addressed ‘To M^r Josias Clarke at M^r John Brownes house at Twicknam’.

No. 2

• *ChJ 3: John Chalkhill, [Letter to Katherine Packer]

Autograph, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, the address, with remains of a wax seal, on the fourth page.

A letter, partly in prose, beginning ‘Louinge Cousen / To say I am sorrie for thy sicknes, is so tryuiall a complement...’, addressed ‘To his louinge and kinde Coussen M^ris Katherine Packerre at M^r John Packers house neere the Deanes yard in Westminster’, incorporating a 41-line verse mock-lament on lacking female company (beginning ‘Now all my hopes are dasht; the Virgins bowre’), subscribed ‘Thy truly louinge freind and Coussen John Chalkhill or S^r Hobson...1638...’. Unpublished.

No. 3

• *ChJ 7: John Chalkhill, The Sheephearts Elegie (‘In a morninge When Flora was adorninge’)

Autograph, with revisions in one line, on both sides of a single folio leaf.

Facsimile of the first page in Christie's Houghton sale catalogue, p. 109, Plate 15. Facsimile of the whole poem in P. J. Croft, Autograph Poetry in the English Language, 2 vols (London, 1973), I, Nos. 38-9.

A pastoral lyric, 34 lines. Unpublished.

No. 4

• *ChJ 4: John Chalkhill, A Melancholy Fitt (‘Wellcome wellcome pretty little lasses’)

Autograph, partly in double columns, on one side of a single folio leaf.

A lyric, 32 lines. Unpublished.

No. 5

• *ChJ 1: John Chalkhill, The Batchelers Apologie (‘To satisfie the nice & curious eare’)

Autograph, three lines deleted, on three pages of two conjugate long ledger-size leaves (40 x 15 cm.).

A humorous verse satire on women, 106 lines. Unpublished.

No. 6

• *ChJ 6: John Chalkhill, A propper newe [?]ballet calld The Coy Virgin or the Curious Impertinent to any tune it will goe to (‘Ile tell you a wonder will make you admire’)

Autograph draft, with three lines deleted, subscribed ‘printed at Shrewsbury by Inyge Idlesby for Danyell doalittle and are to be sold at the signe of the Cupid in Mayden lane’, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves.

A ballad, 44 lines, with a two-line refrain,. Unpublished.

No. 7

• *ChJ 8: John Chalkhill, ‘Theare is a seruant which I knowe’

Autograph, first item on one side of a single folio leaf.

A verse riddle, ten lines. Unpublished.

No. 7

• *ChJ 9: John Chalkhill, ‘There is a vseful little creature’

Autograph, second item on one side of a single folio leaf.

A verse riddle, eight lines.

No. 8

• *ChJ 2: John Chalkhill, ‘Goe happy verse for thou art free’

Autograph, with a revision, subscribed Penelope Truelove, on one side of a single folio leaf, accompanying ChJ 5.

A mock love-letter in verse, 22 lines. Unpublished.

MA 3383

Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Evelyn, from Portmore, 10 February 1659/60. 1660.

*TaJ 73: Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

Sotheby's (Evans), 9 July 1832, lot 74. Afterwards owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's (Evans)), 10 February 1836 (Heber sale), Part XI), lot 285, to Thorpe. Charles W. Traylen, sale catalogue No. 77 (1972), in item 91.

Edited in Eden, I, xc-xci. Wheatley, III, 275-7. Facsimile in British Literary Autographs, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 46.

MA 3388

Autograph letter signed, to Joseph Keally, from London, 4 December 1702. 1702.

*CgW 86: William Congreve, Letter(s)

Sotheby's, 14 March 1976, lot 326.

Hodges, No. 11, p. 25. Facsimile in British Literary Autographs, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 68.

MA 3463

Autograph letter signed, to ‘Sur Robart’, on one quarto page, [1637]. 1637.

*KiT 23: Thomas Killigrew, Letter(s)

MA 3584

Autograph letter signed by Behn, to Abigail Waller, following her father-in-law's death on 21 October 1687, originally accompanying BeA 10. 1687.

*BeA 52: Aphra Behn, Letter(s)

Edited (from a transcript owned by George Thorn-Drury) in Summers, I, l-li. Facsimiles of the last page in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 21 July 1981, Lot 440, and in Mary Ann O'Donnell, ‘A Verse Miscellany of Aphra Behn: Bodleian Library MS Firth c. 16’, EMS, 2 (1990), 189-218 (Plate 8, p. 202).

MA 3708

Copy, in a secretary hand, title-page + 72 numbered folio pages (plus a few blanks), in modern morocco gilt. c.1630s.

NaR 30: Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia

Bookplate of James W. Ellsworth. Gift in 1980 of John F. Fleming (1910-87), of Larchmont, New York, bookseller.

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).

MA 3863

A warrant in Cowley's hand signed by Henrietta Maria for payment of 1,200 pistoles to Sir William Davenant, with a subjoined ‘minute’ in Cowley's hand, 20 June 1647. 1647.

*CoA 253: Abraham Cowley, Document(s)

Sotheby's, 22 June 1976, lot 105. A photocopy is in the British Library (RP 780).

MA 4395

Autograph copy, with corrections, signed, on four quarto pages, sent by Mrs Behn to Abigail Waller, the poet's daughter-in-law, originally accompanying BeA 52. 1687.

*BeA 10: Aphra Behn, On the Death of E. Waller, Esq (‘How, to thy Sacred Memory, shall I bring’)

Formerly Pierpont Morgan Library MA 3585. Sotheby's, 21 July 1981, lot 441.

Facsimiles of the first page in Sotheby's sale catalogue; in IELM, II.i (1993), Facsimile I, after p. xxiv; and, of all the poem, in Todd, I, after p. 288.

First published in Poems to the Memory of that Incomparable Poet Edmund Waller, Esquire (London, 1688). Summers, VI, 405-7.

MA 7671

Autograph letter signed by Marvell, as Member of Parliament, and by John Ramdsen, to the Commissioners of the Militia for Kingston-upon-Hull, from Westminster, 29 May 1660, lacking the address leaf (which is now at Wilberforce House, Hull). 1660.

*MaA 532: Andrew Marvell, Letter(s)

Curt F. Bühler, ‘A Letter by Andrew Marvell’, N&Q, 197 (11 October 1952), p. 451. Margoliouth, II, 309. Facsimile in British Literary Autographs, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 50.

MA 7672

Autograph letter signed by Marvell, as Member of Parliament, to the Mayor and Corporation of Kingston-upon-Hull, 24 January 1673/4. 1674.

*MaA 546: Andrew Marvell, Letter(s)

Caroline Robbins, ‘Six Letters by Andrew Marvell’, Études Anglaises, 17 (1964), 47-55 (p. 50). Margoliouth, No. 165a.

MA 7673

Autograph letter signed by Waller, to William Cavendish, third Earl of Devonshire, [c.1657]. 1657.

*WaE 824: Edmund Waller, Letter(s)

Facsimile in British Literary Manuscripts, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 40.

MA 7674

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Long, from Paris, 1 January ‘1650’. 1650/1.

*CoA 228: Abraham Cowley, Letter(s)

Facsimile in British Literary Manuscripts, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 48.

MA 7675

Cowley's signature and endorsement apparently cut from an indenture between Jermyn and Sir Kenelm Digby, 29 December 1660. 1660.

*CoA 254: Abraham Cowley, Document(s)

MA 7676

Autograph ‘Papers of the Army’, parliamentary records drawn up by Clarendon in preparation for his History, on two folio pages, laid in a printed quarto volume of the work. Late 17th century.

*ClE 55: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Miscellaneous

Facsimile of one page in British Literary Manuscripts, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 43.

2970 (W. 03. D)

A folio volume, gilt-edged, in blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, signed on the title-page ‘Thomas Sakevile’, with occasional marginal annotations in Latin (especially pp. 259-301) in more than one hand. It is not clear whether this is the early signature of the future Earl of Dorset or another Thomas Sackville.

*SaT 3: Thomas Sackville, Fabyan, Robert. The Chronicle of Fabyan (London, 1542)

Bookplates of Archibald Acheson (1806-64), Earl of Gosford, and of James Toovey (1814-93), bookseller, Burnham Abbey, Buckinghamshire.

6572

A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Mrs Wallop, dated from Farnham Castle, 19 December 1678. 1678.

*WtI 128: Izaak Walton, The Universal Angler, 5th edition (London, 1676)

Facsimiles of the inscription in Nicolas, I, xcix; in Keynes (1929), pp. 602-3; and in British Literary Autographs, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 37.

6573

A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Charles Beaumont. c.1675.

*WtI 105: Izaak Walton, The Lives of D^r. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, M^r. Richard Hooker, M^r. George Herbert, 4th edition (London, 1675)

7768

Copy of the two sets of verse, the first subscribed ‘This aboue was written in a book by the Queenes Ma^tie’, the second apparently signed by, and in the hand of, Sir Thomas Heneage (c.1532-95), courtier. Inscribed on the rectos of two front endpapers in an exemplum of Henry Bull's Christian praiers and Holy Meditations (London, 1570), an octavo in contemporary calf gilt. Late 16th century.

ElQ 37: Queen Elizabeth I, Verse Exchange between Queen Elizabeth and Sir Thomas Heneage, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber, circa 1572 (‘A hapless kind of life is this I wear’)

Inscribed on the verso of the first endpaper by Thomas Dicker, of Lewes, Sussex., 19th-century banker.

Edited from this MS in Bühler, in Collected Works, and in Selected Works.

Latin elegiacs beginning ‘Genus infoelix vitae’, followed by the English version, and Heneage's sonnet to Elizabeth beginning ‘Madam, but mark the labors of our life’ first published in Curt F. Bühler, ‘Libri Impressi Cum Notis Manuscriptis’, MLN, 53 (1938), 245-9. Collected Works, Poem 7, pp. 299-300. Selected Works, Poem 5, pp. 10-11.

15606

A printed exemplum with Wycherley's autograph inscription ‘For his worthy Friend M^r Portlock…’. 1704.

*WyW 34: William Wycherley, Miscellany Poems (London, 1704)

Sotheby's, 23 March 1907, lot 243, to Quaritch.

16254

A printed exemplum containing Jonson's presentation inscription ‘To his most worthy, & learned Freind M^r: John Wilson.’ 1616.

*JnB 753: Ben Jonson, Workes (1616)

A facsimile of the inscribed title-page appears in British Literary Manuscripts, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg, et al. (New York, 1981), Plate 27.

17025

Walton's exemplum. c.1656.

*WtI 171: Izaak Walton, Fuller, Thomas. The Church History of Britain (London, 1656)

19515

Autograph petition signed by Vanbrugh, to the Earl Marshal, 21 June 1717. 1717.

*VaJ 500: Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

20297

An exemplum of the first edition (1620), a folio bearing Bacon's boar crest in gilt. 1620.

BcF 660: Francis Bacon, Bacon, Francis. Instauratio magna (London, 1620)

20522

A printed exemplum bound for Edward VI (as Prince of Wales). 1545.

AsR 3.5: Roger Ascham, Ascham, Roger. Toxophilus (London, 1545)

Later in the Cope Library at Bramshill House, Hampshire.

37191

Two original proof-sheets (sigs. Gg3^v, Gg2, Gg^v, Gg4) for the edition of 1605 with several MS corrections, bound at the end of an exemplum of St Augustine, The Citie of God (London, 1610). 1605.

BcF 54.943: Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning

Formerly recorded in IELM, I.i, as BcF 54.5.

First published, as The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of Learning, diuine and humane, in London, 1605. Spedding, III, 253-491. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. IV (Oxford, 2000).

41417

Exemplum of the 1604 edition with the unprinted pages (sigs E1^v-E2^r, E3^v-E4^r, E5^r-v, F1^r-v) supplied in MS in two professional secretary hands, the quarto volume in modern quarter-calf boards. c.1604.

BcF 130.4: Francis Bacon, Certain Considerations touching the Better Pacification and Edification of the Church of England

Gift of Roland L. Redmond, 1950. Formerly W 01 A.

First published in London, 1604. Spedding, X, 103-27. The circumstances of the original publication and the book's suppression by the Bishop of London discussed, with a census of relevant exempla, in Richard Serjeantson and Thomas Woolford, ‘The Scribal Publication of a Printed Book: Francis Bacon's Certaine Considerations Touching...the Church of England (1604)’, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/2 (June 2009), 119-56.

42969

An exemplum of the first edition (1620), a folio bearing Bacon's boar crest in gilt. 1620.

BcF 661: Francis Bacon, Bacon, Francis. Instauratio magna (London, 1620)

60841

A printed exemplum, with Ascham's autograph inscription on the title-page, in Latin and Greek, to Sir Walter Mildmay, dated 28 October 1564. 1564.

*AsR 5: Roger Ascham, Xenophon. Cyri paediae (Paris, 1538-9)

Facsimile of the inscribed title-page in British Literary Manuscripts, Series I. ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), Plate 14.

78848

Autograph presentation inscription in Latin verse, ‘To M^rs A. Wilughby’. 1633.

*FlP 24: Phineas Fletcher, The Purple Island...together with Piscatorie Eclogs and other Poetical Miscellanies (Cambridge, 1633)

The ‘Sykes-Britwell copy’) which in 1940 was in the possession of Maggs Brothers. Christie's, New York, 16 November 1984, lot 126, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue. Donated by John F. Fleming.

Recorded in The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700 (New York, 1940), I, 360.

English, Stuart v. 2

pp. 27, 30

• ClE 152: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Letters to the Duke of York and the Duchess of York

Copy.

Letters by Clarendon to his daughter Anne (who died on 31 March 1671 before the letter arrived) and to her husband, the Duke of York (later James II), on the occasion of her conversion to Roman Catholicism. The original letters, which received particular attention by his contemporaries because of their subject matter, are not known to survive.

These were first published in Two Letters written by…Edward Earl of Clarendon…one to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the other to the Dutchess, occasioned by her Embracing the Roman Catholic Religion (London, [1680?]) and were reprinted in State Tracts (1689), in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (Oxford, 1724), pp. 313-24, and elsewhere.

f. S8^a. PML 6254

Autograph signature and annotations. 1584.

*HvG 121: Gabriel Harvey, Littleton, Sir Thomas. Littletons Tenures in Englishe (London, 1581)

Recorded by W.C. Hazlitt. Moore Smith, p. 85. Stern, p. 225.

Facsimile of an annotated page in British Literary Manuscripts Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1981), No. 16.

House of Tudor, I

MS.

f. 27r

• CmW 191: William Camden, Document(s)

Grant(s) of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms.

R-V

A detached signature of Waller, inserted in an exemplum of Boswell's Life of Johnson, II, 176. Mid-late 17th century.

*WaE 857: Edmund Waller, Document(s)

Possibly the signature ‘Edm Waller’ on a slip of paper sold at Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 1 November 1950 (Barrett sale), lot 1115.

R-V Autogrs. Bishops English

Autograph letter signed, to James Calthorp, 21 December 1649. 1649.

*HlJ 132: Joseph Hall, Letter(s)

Facsimiles in British Literary Manuscripts Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1981), No. 28, and in Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester, DLB 121 (Detroit, 1992), p. 159.

R-V Autogrs. Misc, [unnumbered item]

Copy of letters by Clarendon to his daughter Anne and to her husband, the Duke of York (later James II). c.1670s.

ClE 153: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Letters to the Duke of York and the Duchess of York

R-V Autogrs. Misc.-Dramatists, [unnunbered item]

Autograph memorandum on ‘M^r Vanbrugh shares’, being a proposal for profit-sharing in 1708-9, [c.14 April 1708]. 1708.

*VaJ 430: Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

Facsimile in British Literary Autographs, Series I, ed Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 64. Edited in Coke Papers, p. 99 (No. 63). Register, No. 1973.

Rulers of England (Eliz. I)

A collection of separate state papers and poems, in folders.

No. 48[a]

• MrC 16: Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to his Love (‘Come live with mee, and be my love’)

Copy of a four-stanza version, untitled, headed in a later hand in red ink ‘Poemes written in the Reigne of Queen Elizabeth’, the fourth stanza written sideways and headed in red ink ‘A sonnet Madrigal by S^r. Philipp Sydney’, among other verse in one secretary hand on a single folio leaf. c.1600-10.

Edited from this MS in Curt F. Bühler, ‘Four Elizabethan Poems’, Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, DC, 1948), 695-706 (p. 696). Facsimile in British Literary Manuscripts, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 18.

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.

No. 48[b]

• RaW 197: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Nimphs reply to the Sheepheard (‘If all the world and loue were young’)

Copy of a three-stanza version, headed ‘Response’ and beginning ‘But if the world & love were sound’, among other verse in one secretary hand on a single folio leaf. c.1600-10.

Edited from this MS in Curt F. Bühler, ‘Four Elizabethan Poems’, Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, DC, 1948), pp. 695-706 (pp. 696-7). Recorded in Latham, p. 112. Facsimile in British Literary Manuscripts, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg, et al. (New York, 1981), No. 18.

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.

No. 48[c]

• RaW 496: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘The state of Fraunce as nowe it standes’

Copy, untitled, headed in a later hand in red ink ‘On the State of France under y^e Administration of y^e Guises by S^r Walter Rawleigh’, among other verse in one secretary hand on a single folio leaf. c.1600-10.

Edited from this MS in Curt F. Bühler, ‘Four Elizabethan Poems’, in Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, DC, 1948), pp. 695-706 (pp. 700-1), and in Rudick, No. 30, p. 71. Collated in May. Recorded in Latham.

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.

No. 48[d]

• CmT 232: Thomas Campion, ‘What if a day, or a month, or a yeare’

Copy of a two-strophe version, untitled, headed in a later hand in red ink ‘On the Brevity of Humane Happyness’ and here beginning ‘What if a daie, or an night, or an hower’, among other verse in one secretary hand on a single folio leaf. c.1600-10.

Possibly first published as a late 16th-century broadside. Philotus (Edinburgh, 1603). Richard Alison, An Howres Recreation in Musicke (London, 1606). Davis, p. 473. The different versions and attributions discussed in A.E.H. Swaen, ‘The Authorship of “What if a Day”, and its Various Versions’, MP, 4 (1906-7), 397-422, and in David Greer, ‘“What if a Day” — An Examination of the Words and Music’, M&L, 43 (1962), 304-19.

MS W. 72

Autograph calligraphic MS, on rectos only, 48 leaves (45 x 70 mm.), imperfect, in contemporary calf gilt. A presentation MS to Andrew Ramsay (1574-1659), minister of Old Greyfriars, Edinburgh, with a prose Dedication to him in French, in minute roman script throughout, with decoration. August 1615.

*InE 19: Esther Inglis, [Octonaires de la Roche Chandieu] Octonaires sur la Vanite et Inconstance du Monde Escrits par Esther Inglis, a Lislebourg, Aoust 1615

Inscribed (f. 5v) ‘S Palmes’. Owned in 1865 by James Douglas, of Cavers. Parke-Bernet, New York, sale 2071 (12 December 1961), lot 51. Harry A. Levinson, Beverly Hills, sale catalogue No. 58 (June 1962), item 61. Afterwards owned by Miss Julia Parker Wightman (1909-94), of New York and Edgartown (Martha's Vineyard), book collector.

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 47 (p. 76), with facsimiles of the title page and binding as Plates 27A and 27B (between pp. 42 and 43).

Verse ‘Octonaires’ in French by Antoine de la Roche Chandieu (1534-91), first published in Paris, 1586.

The Pierpont Morgan Library

MA 41

MA 130

MA 131

MA 132

MA 239/4/5

MA 291

MA 307

MA 420 (St. Paul's Cathedral vol. I, p. 59)

MA 662

MA 664

MA 717 Bd Engl. Lit.

MA 743

MA 953

MA 1057

MA 1158

MA 1160

MA 1162

MA 1201 Engl. Lit.

MA 1259

MA 1385 Bd Engl. Lit.

MA 1475 (LHMS: No. [8], Leicester's Commonwealth)

MA 1475 (LHMS), No. [12]

MA 2149

MA 3263

MA 3268

MA 3342

MA 3383

MA 3388

MA 3463

MA 3584

MA 3708

MA 3863

MA 4395

MA 7671

MA 7672

MA 7673

MA 7674

MA 7675

MA 7676

2970 (W. 03. D)

6572

6573

7768

15606

16254

17025

19515

20297

20522

37191

41417

42969

60841

78848

English, Stuart v. 2

f. S8a. PML 6254

House of Tudor, I

R-V

R-V Autogrs. Bishops English

R-V Autogrs. Misc, [unnumbered item]

R-V Autogrs. Misc.-Dramatists, [unnunbered item]

Rulers of England (Eliz. I)

MS W. 72

f. S8^a. PML 6254