CELM: Private owners in the UK

[Bacon MS]

Copy of part of the work, in a secretary hand.

BcF 54.932: Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning

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).

[Bartlet MS]

A receipt book of one ‘M^ris Gratia Bartlet’. 1694.

Sotheby's, 22 February 1972, lot 544, to Quaritch. Afterwards owned by Lady Poole, London.

[unspecified page numbers]

• RaW 725: Sir Walter Ralegh, Chemical and Medical Receipts

Copy of ‘Sir Walter Rawleigh's great Cordiall’.

[Cartwright MS]

Copy, in a professional hand, on 40 folio pages, imperfect, used as wrapping papers. c.1636.

CaW 90: William Cartwright, The Royal Slave

First performed at Christ Church, Oxford, 30 August 1636. First published in Oxford, 1639. Evans, pp. 193-253.

[Clifford letter]

Autograph letter signed, to her father, 31 January ‘1599’. 1599/1600.

*CdA 23: Lady Anne Clifford, Letter(s)

Facsimile of this MS in Spence (1997), p. 13.

[Denham, Chesse]

Copy, written on a preliminary blank leaf in a printed exemplum of The Royall Game of Chesse-Play (London, 1656). Mid-late 17th century.

DeJ 47.5: Sir John Denham, An Occasional Imitation of a Modern Author upon the Game of Chess (‘A Tablet stood of that abstersive Tree’)

First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 113-14.

[Denham, Poems]

Copy, on an endpaper in a printed exemplum of Denham, Poems and Translations, 3rd edition (London, 1684). Late 17th century.

DeJ 106: Sir John Denham, To the Honourable Edward Howard Esq. upon his Poem of The British Princes (‘What mighty Gale has rais'd a flight so strong?’)

Once owned by two Cambridge men. Stuart Bennett's sale catalogue No. 2: English Verse from Chaucer to Hardy (1981), item 41.

First published in Edward Howard, The British Princes (London, 1669). Banks, pp. 155-6.

[Dryden epilogue]

Copy, headed ‘Epilogue to y^e Earl of Essex’, on a single folio leaf.

DrJ 40.5: John Dryden, Epilogue [to The Unhappy Favourite] (‘We Act by Fits and Starts, like drowning Men’)

First published in John Banks, The Unhappy Favourite: or The Earl of Essex (London, 1682). Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 245-6. California, II, 182-3. Hammond, I, 429-32.

[Lord Derby MS]

A quarto volume of Poems upon Affairs of State, 170 pages (plus 80 blanks), in contemporary black morocco gilt. Predominantly in a single professional hand, with a table of contents at the end, the volume produced under the auspices of the manuscript purveyor ‘Captain’ Robert Julian (fl. c.1650-90), ‘Secretary of the Muses’, with a few additions in two other professional hands and by subsequent owners. c.1680s.

Inscribed by William Stanley (c.1655-1702), ninth Earl of Derby, ‘I bought this booke of Julian not so much for my own use as to prevent others reading of it’. Inscribed later by his brother James Stanley (1664-1736), tenth Earl of Derby, ‘When Knowsley House was puled doune (for else it would soon haue faln of it self) this Book was found hid in one of y^e Chimneys, to be sure by my Brother Derby’.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 20-30.

pp. 1-11

• WaE 389.5: Edmund Waller, A Panegyric to my Lord Protector, of the present Greatness, and joint Interest of His Highness, and this Nation (‘While with a strong and yet a gentle hand’)

Copy, headed ‘A Panegirick By E: W:’.

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

pp. 13-20

• MaA 519.5: Andrew Marvell, His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament, 13 April 1675

Copy, untitled, inscribed in another hand ‘by Hen: Savill’.

A mock speech, beginning ‘I told you last meeting the winter was the fittest time for business...’. First published, and ascribed to Marvell, in Poems on Affairs of State, Vol. III (London, 1704). Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 36-43. Grosart, II, 431-3. Augustine Birrell, Andrew Marvell (London, 1905), pp. 200-2. Discussed in Legouis, p. 470, and in Kelliher, pp. 111-12.

pp. 21-30

• RoJ 104.52: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The History of Insipids (‘Chaste, pious, prudent, Charles the Second’)

Copy.

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

pp. 31-41

• MaA 122.5: Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh (‘Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign’)

Copy.

First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 194-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 228-36, attributed to John Ayloffe. See also George deF. Lord, ‘Satire and Sedition: The Life and Work of John Ayloffe’, HLQ, 29 (1965-6), 255-73 (p. 258).

pp. 43-50

• MaA 423.5: Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter (‘Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before’)

Copy.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 140-6, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 33-5, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.

pp. 51-8

• MaA 473.5: Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by (‘Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe’)

Copy, headed ‘Advice to the King’.

First published [in London], 1679. A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), as by ‘A-M-l, Esq’. Thompson III, 399-403. Margoliouth, I, 214-18, as by Henry Savile. POAS, I, 213-19, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 40-2, as by Henry Savile.

pp. 59-64

• MaA 139.98: Andrew Marvell, A Country Clowne call'd Hodge Went to view the Pyramid, pray mark what did ensue (‘When Hodge had number'd up how many score’)

Copy.

First published, as ‘Hodge a Countryman went up to the Piramid, His Vision’, in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), p. 5. Sometimes called Hodge's Vision from the Monument, [December, 1675]. Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 81-8. Thompson, III, 359-65. Grosart, I, 435-40. Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse, 1660-1714, Volume II: 1678-1681, ed. Elias F. Mengel, Jr (New Haven & London, 1965), pp. 146-53.

First attributed to Marvell in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697), but probably written in 1679, after Marvell's death.

pp. 79-82

• MaA 209.5: Andrew Marvell, Nostradamus's Prophecy (‘The Blood of the Just London's firm Doome shall fix’)

Copy.

First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 178-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 185-9 (first part only as possibly by John Ayloffe). Rejected from the canon by Lord.

pp. 109-12

• MaA 251.5: Andrew Marvell, The Statue in Stocks-Market (‘As cities that to the fierce conquerors yield’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Statue in the Stock's Markett’ and here beginning ‘As Cittizens that to their first Conquerours yeild’.

Facsimile of p. 109 in Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 22.

First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 188-90. POAS, I, 266-9. Lord, pp. 193-6. Smith, pp. 416-17.

p. 116

• RoJ 167.8: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Lord Moulgrave's character. By Lord Rochester (‘With Equall grace and force he walks and writes’)

Copy, headed ‘Character of E: M.’

Love, pp. 92-3.

pp. 119-22

• DoC 240.5: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Young Statesmen (‘Clarendon had law and sense’)

Copy, headed ‘The Game att Chess’ and here beginning ‘My Muse and I are drunk to night’.

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

pp. 127-39

• MaA 161.5: Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between the Two Horses (‘Wee read in profane and Sacred records’)

Copy.

First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 208-13, as ‘probably Marvell's’. POAS, I, 274-83, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

pp. 173-4

• DoC 135.5: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, My Opinion (‘After thinking this fortnight of Whig and of Tory’)

Copy.

First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). POAS, II (1965), 391-2. Harris, pp. 55-6.

[Dryden letter]

Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to Richard Salwey, [6 June 1664]. 1664.

*DrJ 302: John Dryden, Letter(s)

Owned in 1961 by R. Salwey, Ludlow.

Ward, Letter 2. Facsimile in Osborn, after p. 272.

Harcourt MS

A folio volume, with a few manuscript poems entered, probably by an Oxford University man, on the first ten pages, all the rest blanks, in a vellum wrapper. c.1670s.

Among archives of the Harcourt family, of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire.

f. [1r]

• PsK 275.8: Katherine Philips, On the 3d September 1651 (‘As when the Glorious Magazine of Light’)

Copy, headed ‘On the numerous access of the English to waite vpon his Ma^ts in Flanders’ and ascribed to ‘Katherin Philips’.

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

f. [5r]

• MaA 85.5: Andrew Marvell, Bludius et Corona (‘Bludius, ut ruris damnum repararet aviti’)

Copy, headed ‘Carmina un delectum Bloodij fairnus de raptu Diademitis. Per Marvellum’, followed by an English version (beginning ‘Whilst Valiant Blood, his Rents to haue regained’).

First published in Thompson (1776), I, xxxix. Margoliouth, I, 178. Lord, p. 249. Smith, p. 414, with English translation.

For the English version, which accompanies many of the MS texts, see MaA 253-80.

f. [5r-v]

• MaA 85.8: Andrew Marvell, Bludius et Corona (‘Bludius, ut ruris damnum repararet aviti’)

A second copy of Marvell's poem, followed by a version ‘English'd by M^r Freak of Wadham’ (beginning ‘Blood to regaine his Rents’) and another Latin poem on Blood with a translation ‘English'd by D^r Arden’ (beginning ‘Noe fitter Advocate e're cause did owne’).

First published in Thompson (1776), I, xxxix. Margoliouth, I, 178. Lord, p. 249. Smith, p. 414, with English translation.

For the English version, which accompanies many of the MS texts, see MaA 253-80.

Heneage MS

A quarto miscellany, containing eleven texts in verse and prose, in several hands, including seven poems by Donne in a single hand, 114 pages (plus blanks), in a vellum wrapper. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the cover ‘Mich: Heneage: A Paris’: i.e. probably either the son (fl.1640) or the grandson (1632-c.1707) of Michael Heneage (1540-1600), antiquary. Formerly Somerset Record Office DD/WHb/3086, among the Button-Walker-Heneage MSS.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the ‘Heneage MS’: DnJ Δ 34.

ff. 4r-5r

• DnJ 2749: John Donne, Satyre I (‘Away thou fondling motley humorist’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 145-9. Milgate, Satires, pp. 3-6. Shawcross, No. 1.

ff. 5v-6v

• DnJ 2779: John Donne, Satyre II (‘Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 149-54. Milgate, Satires, pp. 7-10. Shawcross, No. 2.

ff. 7r-8r

• DnJ 2811: John Donne, Satyre III (‘Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 154-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 10-14. Shawcross, No. 3.

ff. 8v-11r

• DnJ 2840: John Donne, Satyre IV (‘Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne’)

Copy.

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

ff. 11v-12v

• DnJ 2872: John Donne, Satyre V (‘Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they’)

Copy.

First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 168-71. Milgate, Satires, pp. 22-5. Shawcross, No. 5.

f. 13r-v

• DnJ 3074: John Donne, The Storme (‘Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)’)

Copy.

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

f. 14r-v

• DnJ 560: John Donne, The Calme (‘Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage’)

Copy.

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

[item 10]

• LeC 69: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

Copy, closely written in a cursive mixed hand.

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.

[item 11]

• WoH 293: Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham

Copy, in a cursive mixed hand, on the rectos only of 32 leaves.

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

Inglis ArmsMS

Autograph calligraphic MS, chiefly on rectos only, iv + 66 leaves (44 x 66 mm.), in contemporary green velvet embroidered. A presentation MS, a New Year's Gift to Prince Henry, with a prose Dedication to him in English, in Roman and italic scripts, with gold and colour arms and decoration and with a self-portrait. 1 January 1608/9.

*InE 1: Esther Inglis, A Book of the Armes of England doone by me Esther Inglis Ianuar the first 1609

Later owned by Princess Louisa Stuart (1692-1712); Edmund Stiles; Lucy Knight (d.1781) and by her husband (in 1746) Sir Thomas Rokewode Gage, Bt, of Hengrave, Suffolk, and their descendants. Recorded in Scott-Elliot and Yeo as in private ownership in Norfolk.

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 37 (pp. 65-8), with facsimiles of the first page and the binding as Plates 26A and 26B (between pp. 342 and 43). They also record the Prince's Privy Purse Accounts recording payment to Esther Inglis (Mrs Kello) of £5 ‘for gevinge a booke of armes to his highnes’, 20 April 1609.

Sixty-four coats of arms and crests of the nobility.

Inglis Genesis MS

Autograph calligraphic MS, on rectos only, iii + 37 leaves (97 x 135 mm.), in contemporary calf gilt. A presentation MS to the courtier Thomas Wotton (1587-1630), Baron Wotton of Marley, with a prose Dedication to him in English, in numerous styles of script, with colour and gold decoration and figures. 1606.

*InE 12: Esther Inglis, [Genesis] Argumenta in Librum Geneseos Esthere Inglis manu exarata Londini 1606

Owned in 1657 by Charles Cotton (possibly the poet, 1630-87). Owned in 1832 by Robert J. Gabbett; bequeathed in 1857 to his niece Lucy O'Brien, then bequeathed by her to her daughter Mary Gwynn, and thence to the owner in 1990. Recorded in Scott-Elliot & Yeo as in private ownership in Northamptonshire.

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 26 (pp. 55-6).

An anonymous verse summary of the Book of Genesis in fifty Latin stanzas.

Killigrew MS

Autograph letter signed, endorsed ‘For my Lord Chancelor from S^r W. Killigrew 1664’. 1664.

*KiW 38: Sir William Killigrew, Letter(s)

Lady Carey MS

Autograph MS. Selectively edited from this MS in Meynell's edition (1918) and in Kissing the Rod (1988). 1653-7.

*CaM 1: Mary, Lady Carey, Meditations and Poetry

In the possession of the Meynell family. Recorded in the online Perdita Project as seen by Faith Lanum in 2001.

Selectively edited in Meditations from the Note Book of Mary Carey 1649-1657, ed. Francis Meynell (Westminster, 1918), and in Kissing the Rod, ed. Germaine Greer et al. (New York, 1988), pp. 156-61.

Mainwaring MS

Copy, on a single folio leaf. c.1640s.

SuJ 153: John Suckling, An Answer to a Gentleman in Norfolk that sent to enquire after the Scotish business

Among papers of the Mainwaring family.

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

Malet MS

Copy, untitled, on a single folio leaf. c.1700.

DoC 32: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Ballad by the Lord Dorset when at Sea (‘To all you ladies now at land’)

From the papers of the Malet family of Somerset.

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

Marvell letter

Autograph letter signed by Marvell, in Latin, to Francisco Melo e Torres, Portuguese Ambassador to England, frpm Whitehall, 4 April 1660. Photocopy in the British Library, RP 3791. 1660.

*MaA 533: Andrew Marvell, Letter(s)

In the Francisco Melo e Torres archive sold at Sotheby's, 24 July 1978, lot 108, to ‘Wesness’, with a facsimile example of the letter in the sale catalogue. Now privately owned: in UK sold to Brian T. Bristol, c/o Sotheby's, New York.

Unpublished in full; quoted and discussed in Hilton Kelliher, ‘Some Uncollected Letters of Andrew Marvell’, British Library Journal, 5 (1979), 145-57 (pp. 148-9).

[Milton/Harington]

A printed exemplum with Harington's autograph corrections. Allegedly Milton's exemplum. c.1591-early 17th century.

MnJ 131: John Milton, Harington, Sir John. Orlando Furioso, [trans. from Ludovico Ariosto] (London, 1591)

The annotations edited in Columbia, XVIII, 330-6. Discussed in Ralph A. Haug, ‘Milton and Sir John Harington’, MLQ, 4 (1943), 291. Recorded in LR, II, 78-9; in Carey & Fowler, p. 155; in Boswell, No. 64.

[Milton document]

Conveyance of land to Cyriack Skinner, signed on Milton's behalf by Jeremie Picard, with Milton's seal, 5 May 1660. 1660.

MnJ 107.5: John Milton, Document(s)

Sotheby's, 2 August 1820, lot 62 (with other Milton family papers), to Boswell, with a facsimile in the sale catalogue. Sotheby's 3 August 1858 (S. W. Singer sale), lot 75, with a facsimile in the sale catalogue.

Facsimile of the ‘signature’ in Sotheby, Ramblings, after p. 124 (Plate XVII[bis], No. ii, item 4). Reprinted in Hanford, PMLA, 38 (1923), 290-6 [Plate 3]. Edited in Columbia, XVIII, 420-1, and in LR, IV, 317-18.

Mowbray MS

A folio volume of 63 pedigrees of English noble families, with 65 coats of arms, on 225 pages, in old calf (rebacked). Originally written in 1597 by William Smith, Rouge Dragon, with Camden's extensive autograph additions, the latest for the year 1622, entitled ‘Baronagium Angliae. Magnatum scilicet illius Regni Stemmata recentiora…delineata’; with a contemporary index and a later index. c.1597-1622.

*CmW 167: William Camden, Collectanea

Later owned by Lord Mowbray, Segrave and Stourton. Sotheby's, 20 February 1967, lot 220. Christie's, 16 July 1969, lot 122, and 21 February 1973, lot 254, to Hofmann and Freeman.

Mylne MS

A large octavo verse miscellany, chiefly lampoons and poems on affairs of state, including 21 poems by Rochester and various others in the Rochester apocrypha, nearly 600 pages in all, with a 14-page index. Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6. c.1705.

pp. 1-8

• DrJ 43.96: John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire (‘How dull and how insensible a beast’)

Copy.

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

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

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

pp. 34-5

• RoJ 251.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Supposed Author of a Late Poem in Defence of Satyr (‘To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain’)

Copy, headed ‘Ansuer to the defence of Satyr’.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 132-3. Walker, pp. 114-15. Love, pp. 106-7. Texts are often followed by Sir Car Scroope's ‘Answer’ (‘Raile on poor feeble Scribbler, speake of me’: Walker, p. 115. Love, p. 107).

pp. 42-3

• RoJ 110.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Imperfect Enjoyment (‘Naked she lay, clasped in my longing arms’)

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 37-40. Walker, pp. 30-2. Love, pp. 13-15.

p. 44

• RoJ 530.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Tunbridge Wells (‘At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head’)

Copy, headed ‘Post Nihill Mortem &c.’.

First published in Richard Head, Proteus Redivivus: or the Art of Wheedling (London, 1675). Vieth, pp. 73-80. Walker, pp. 69-74. Love, pp. 49-54.

pp. 49-50

• RoJ 297.8: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)

Copy of lines 174-221 only, headed ‘Apologie’.

First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning ‘All this with indignation have I hurled’) in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as ‘Satyr’. Love, pp. 57-63.

The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, ‘A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's “A Satyr against Reason and Mankind”’, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different ‘Answer’ poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).

pp. 60-2

• EtG 13.5: Sir George Etherege, Ephelia to Bajazet (‘How far are they deceived who hope in vain’)

First published in Female Poems On several Occasions: Written by Ephelia (London, 1679). Thorpe, pp. 9-10. Harold Love's edition of Rochester (1999), pp. 94-5.

pp. 63-4

• RoJ 212.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Poet Ninny (‘Crushed by that just contempt his follies bring’)

Copy, headed ‘On S^r cha: Scroop for Answering Ephelia To Bajazet’.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 141-2. Walker, pp. 115-16. Love, pp. 107-8.

pp. 64-5

• RoJ 196.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, My Lord All-Pride (‘Bursting with pride, the loathed impostume swells’)

Copy, headed ‘Ansuer'd againe by S^r char: Scroop on y^e L^d Alpride’.

First published, as ‘Epigram upon my Lord All-pride’, in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 142-3. Walker, pp. 116-17. Love, pp. 93-4.

p. 70

• DoC 282.5: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Mr. Edward Howard, on his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem Called ‘The British Princes’ (‘Come on, ye critics! Find one fault who dare’)

Copy, headed ‘on m^r Edward Howard’, here beginning ‘Raile on ye crittiques find one fault who dare’, and subscribed ‘By y^e L^d Dorsett’.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 338-9. Harris, pp. 7-9.

pp. 71-2

• DoC 156.8: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On Mr. Edward Howard upon his ‘New Utopia’ (‘Thou damn'd antipodes to common sense!’)

Copy, headed ‘On m^r Edward Howard’.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 340-1. Harris, pp. 15-17.

pp. 72m-100

• RoJ 643.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Sodom and Gomorah

Copy of the full five-act version, headed ‘The Farce of Sodom. or The Amours of Bolloximion’.

First published (?) at ‘Antwerp’ [i.e. London], (?)1684. The only known extant early printed exemplum is a probably early 18th-century octavo entitled Sodom, or the Gentleman Instructed. A Comedy. By the E. of R., sold at Sotheby's 16 December 2004, lot 54 (with facsimile pages in the sale catalogue), now in private ownership.

Edited from MS copies as Rochester's Sodom, ed. L.S.A.M. von Römer (Paris, 1904), and as Sodom (Olympia Press, Paris, [1957]). Love, pp. 302-33.

Of uncertain authorship. For discussions of authorship and texts, see notably Rodney M. Blaine, ‘Rochester or Fishbourne: A Question of Authorship’, RES, 22 (1946), 201-6; J. Thorpe, ‘New Manuscripts of Sodom’, PULC, 13 (1951-2), 40-1; A.S.G. Edwards, ‘Libertine Literature in Restoration England: Princeton MS AM 14401’, BC, 25 (Autumn 1976), 354-68, and ‘The Authorship of Sodom’, PBSA, 71 (1977), 208-12; Larry Carver, ‘The Texts and The Text of Sodom’, PBSA, 73 (1979), 19-40; John D. Patterson, ‘Does Otway ascribe Sodom to Rochester?’, N&Q, 225 (August 1980), 349-51; and J.W. Johnson, ‘Did Lord Rochester Write Sodom?’, PBSA, 81 (1987), 101-53.

pp. 106-7

• DoC 327.5: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Duchess of Portsmouth's Absence (‘When Portsmouth did from England fly’)

Copy, headed ‘on-portsmouths departure’.

First published (in part) in The Roxburghe Ballads, ed. J. Woodfall Ebsworth, IV (Hertford, 1883), 286. Discussed in Harris, p. 194.

pp. 107-14

• RoJ 297.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)

Copy, headed ‘A-satyr-Ag^st. Mankind’, lines 174-221 separately headed ‘The Appology’, subscribed ‘By the Earle of Rochester.’.

pp. 122-4

• MaA 190.5: Andrew Marvell, The Kings Vowes (‘When the Plate was at pawne, and the fobb att low Ebb’)

Copy, headed ‘Royall Resolutions’.

First published as A Prophetick Lampoon, Made Anno 1659. By his Grace George Duke of Buckingham: Relating to what would happen to the Government under King Charles II [London, 1688/9]. Margoliouth, I, 173-5. POAS, I, 159-62. Lord, pp. 186-8, as ‘The Vows’. Discussed in Chernaik, pp. 212-14, where it is argued that it is of ‘unknown’ authorship, ‘possibly Marvell's’, and that the poem grew by accretions by different authors.

pp. 124-30

• MaA 84.1: Andrew Marvell, A Ballad call'd the Chequer Inn (‘I'll tell thee Dick where I have beene’)

Copy, headed ‘The ExChequer Inn’

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Margoliouth, I, 201-8. POAS, I, 252-62. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

pp. 142-4

• EtG 110.5: Sir George Etherege, Mrs. Nelly's Complaint (‘If Sylla's ghost made bloody Catiline start’)

Copy.

First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…Buckingham, Vol. I (London, 1704). Thorpe, pp. 62-4.

p. 167

• RoJ 177.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Love and Life (‘All my past life is mine no more’)

Copy, headed ‘Song’.

First published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 90. Walker, p. 44. Love, pp. 25-6.

pp. 168-72

• DoC 63.8: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon (‘As Colon drove his sheep along’)

Copy.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, II (1965), 167-75. Harris, pp. 124-35.

pp. 174-8

• BuS 31: Samuel Butler, Dildoides (‘Such a sad Tale prepare to hear’)

Copy.

Dated in some sources 1672 but not published until 1706.

pp. 178-83

• RoJ 480.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Timon (‘What, Timon! does old age begin t'approach’)

Copy, headed ‘A Satyr’.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 65-72. Walker, pp. 78-82, as ‘Satyr. [Timon]’. Harold Love, ‘The Text of “Timon. A Satyr”’, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 6 (1982), 113-40. Love, pp. 258-63, as Satyr. [Timon], among Disputed Works.

pp. 184-90

• DrJ 101.5: John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe (‘All humane things are subject to decay’)

Copy.

First published in London, 1682. Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 265-71. California, II, 53-60. Hammond, I, 313-36.

The text also discussed extensively in G. Blakemore Evans, ‘The Text of Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case for Authorial Revision’, Studies in Bibliography, 7 (1955), 85-102; in David M. Vieth, ‘Dryden's Mac Flecknoe’, Harvard Library Bulletin, 7 (1953), 32-54; and in Vinton A. Dearing, ‘Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case Against Editorial Confusion’, Harvard Library Bulletin, 24 (1976), 204-45. See also David M. Vieth, ‘The Discovery of the Date of MacFlecknoe’ in Evidence in Literary Scholarship: Essays in Memory of James Marshall Osborn, ed. René Wellek and Alvaro Ribeiro (Oxford, 1979), pp. 71-86.

pp. 194-201

• RoJ 149.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country (‘Chloe, In verse by your command I write’)

Copy.

First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.

pp. 211-15

• RoJ 530.8: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Tunbridge Wells (‘At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head’)

Copy, headed ‘observations on Tunbridge wells’.

First published in Richard Head, Proteus Redivivus: or the Art of Wheedling (London, 1675). Vieth, pp. 73-80. Walker, pp. 69-74. Love, pp. 49-54.

p. 215

• RoJ 8.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Against Marriage (‘Out of mere love and arrant devotion’)

Copy, here beginning ‘out of stark love and Arrant devotion’.

First published in Vieth (1968), p. 159. Walker, pp. 130-1, among ‘Poems Possibly by Rochester’. Love, pp. 40-1, as Of Marriage and beginning Out of Stark Love, and arrant Devotion.

pp. 215-16

• RoJ 423.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘Phyllis, be gentler, I advise’)

Copy, headed ‘Song By y^e L^d Rochester’.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 32. Walker, p. 36. Love, pp. 19-20.

pp. 232-4

• DoC 83.5: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Duel of the Crabs (‘In Milford Lane near to St. Clement's steeple’)

Copy, headed ‘The Duell of y^e crablice’.

First published, ascribed to Henry Savile, in The Annual Miscellany: for the year 1694 (London, 1694). Harris, pp. 118-23.

pp. 234-6

• DoC 113.5: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Letter from the Lord Buckhurst to Mr. George Etherege (‘Dreaming last night on Mrs. Farley’)

Copy, headed ‘Letter from y^e Lord Dorset to Sir George Etheridge’.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). The Poems of Sir George Etherege, ed. James Thorpe (Princeton, 1963), pp. 35-7. Harris, pp. 105-8.

For other poems in this series see DoC 18-22, EtG 34-8, and EtG 39-43.

pp. 236-8

• EtG 38.5: Sir George Etherege, Mr. Etherege's Answer [to A Letter from Lord Buckhurst] (‘As crafty harlots use to shrink’)

Copy, headed ‘The Ansuer by sr George Etheridge’.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). Thorpe, pp. 38-9.

For other poems in this series, see EtG 39-43, DoC 18-22, and DoC 110-13.

pp. 238-41

• DoC 29.8: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Ballad by the Lord Dorset when at Sea (‘To all you ladies now at land’)

Copy, headed ‘Second Letter from the Lord Dorset’.

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

pp. 241-3

• EtG 43.5: Sir George Etherege, Mr. Etherege's Answer [to Another Letter from Lord Buckhurst] (‘So soft and amorously you write’)

Copy, headed ‘Ansuer to y^e 2^d=letter By Sir George Etheridge’.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). Thorpe, pp. 43-5.

For other poems in this series, see EtG 34-8, DoC 18-22, and DoC 110-13.

pp. 243-4

• RoJ 376.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘By all love's soft, yet mighty powers’)

Copy of the ‘Song’.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 139. Walker, pp. 45-6. Love, pp. 37-8.

p. 245

• RoJ 190.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Mock Song (‘I swive as well as others do’)

Copy, headed ‘The mock to it By L^d. Rochester’.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 136-7. Walker, p. 110. Love, p. 102, as ‘Answer’ beginning ‘I Fuck no more then others doe’.

Texts usually accompanied by Sir Carr Scroope's song ‘I cannot change as others do’ (Love, pp. 101-2) of which Rochester's poem is a burlesque.

pp. 245-6

• DoC 326.93: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Dorsetts Lamentation for Moll Howards Absence (‘Dorset no gentle Nimph can find’)

Copy.

Recorded in Harris, p. 55, as ‘obviously not by Dorset’.

p. 246

• RoJ 219.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons (‘If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold’)

Copy.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among ‘Poems Possibly by Rochester’. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.

pp. 246-8

• RoJ 271.3: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Pastoral Dialogue between Alexis and Stephan (‘There sighs not on the plain’)

Copy.

First published, as a broadside, in London, 1682. Vieth, pp. 4-6. Walker, pp. 9-11. Love, pp. 3-8.

pp. 253-5

• RoJ 56.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Disabled Debauchee (‘As some brave admiral, in former war’)

Copy, headed ‘The Disable'd Debauch’.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.

pp. 255-6

• DoC 140.5: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, My Opinion (‘After thinking this fortnight of Whig and of Tory’)

Copy, headed ‘My opinion’, with inserted sub-title or comment ‘Ag^t york & Monmouth’.

First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). POAS, II (1965), 391-2. Harris, pp. 55-6.

pp. 276-81

• MaA 161.8: Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between the Two Horses (‘Wee read in profane and Sacred records’)

Copy, headed ‘A Dialogve betuein y^e tuo Horses att Wooll Church and Chareing Cross’.

pp. 284-6

• MaA 472.5: Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by (‘Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe’)

Copy, headed ‘Advice to a painter’.

pp. 295-300

• RoJ 281.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Ramble in St. James's Park (‘Much wine had passed, with grave discourse’)

Copy, headed ‘The Lord Rochester on S^t James's Park’.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 40-6. Walker, pp. 64-8. Love, pp. 76-80.

pp. 311-12

• DoC 318.5: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Debauchee (‘I rise at eleven, I dine about two’)

Copy, headed ‘Reginae de vive’.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). Vieth, Attribution, pp. 169-70. The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Keith Walker (Oxford, 1984), p. 130 (as ‘Regime d'viver’ among ‘Poems possibly by Rochester’). Discussed in Harris, pp. 186-7.

p. 320

• RoJ 269.8: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Women about Town (‘Too long the wise Commons have been in debate’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyr’.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 46-7. Walker, pp. 68-9, as ‘Lampoone’. Love, p. 42, as ‘Lampoone by the Earle of Rochester’.

pp. 320-2

• MaA 231.5: Andrew Marvell, The Statue at Charing Cross (‘What can be the Mistery why Charing Cross’)

Copy.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1698). Margoliouth, I, 199-201. POAS, I, 270-3. Lord, pp. 201-4. Smith, pp. 418-19.

pp. 323-8

• MaA 122.8: Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh (‘Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign’)

Copy, headed ‘Brittania & Rawleigh's Ghost’.

pp. 332-8

• DoC 361.1: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell (‘Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age’)

Copy, headed ‘The Lord Rochesters Fairweill’.

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.

pp. 420-1

• MoG 40: George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James (‘All that have eyes now wake and weep’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph upon King James his death, written by Rt. Reverend Dr. Morley C.C.C. Oxon.’

A version of lines 1-22, headed ‘Epitaph on King James’ and beginning ‘He that hath eyes now wake and weep’, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.

Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.

p. 504

• RaW 102.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

Copy, headed ‘Sir Walter Rawleigh his Epitaph wreaten be himselfe before his death which was in @nno i6i8. Being beheaded in ye parlia^mt yeard att west=minster @nno forsaide’.

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).

[Octavia Walsh MS]

A quarto MS volume of works by Octavia Walsh, entitled ‘The Private Entertainments of M^rs: Octavia Walsh In her vacant Hours From the Age of Fifteen to Twenty-Nine, At which Time it Pleas'd Almighty God by y^e Small-pox to take her out of this World. A:C.MDCCVI’, probably compiled by her family after her death, comprising some 33 poems on miscellaneous subjects and several prose discourses on religious themes, including a pen and wash portrait of her and some notes on the related Walsh and Bromley families, c.400 pages, in contemporary calf (rebacked). Early 18th century.

WaO 2: Octavia Walsh, Verse and prose notebook

Book label ‘Bromley - Martin, Ham Court’. With a note by W[illiam] B[romley] paying tribute to Octavia Walsh and stating that the contents of the MS ‘were found among her Papers after her death, till which time none of her nearest Relations knew that she was an Author’. Peter Murray Hill's sale catalogue No. 82 (1962), item 33, with a facsimile of the title.

Unpublished.

Ogilby, Fables

Copy. on a flyleaf of a printed exemplum of John Ogilby, The Fables of Aesop (London, 1665). Late 17th century.

DaW 61: Sir William Davenant, To my Friend Mr. Ogilby, Upon the Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse (‘In Empires Childhood, and the dawne of Arts’)

First published in John Ogilby, The Fables of Aesop (London, 1651). Works (1673). Gibbs, pp. 153-5.

[Orlando Furioso volume]

Exemplum of the printed edition of 1591, with a few autograph marginal annotations by Harington, notably in the dedication to Princess Elizabeth and on p. 7, with yet later annotations in other hands. c.1591.

HrJ 8.5: Sir John Harington, Orlando Furioso (‘Of Dames, of Knights, of armes, of loves delight’)

Later owned by one Gregory Haines; by the Rev. H.A.D. Surridge in 1908; and by his daughter Miss M.K. Surridge in 1947; and in the hands of Quaritch in the 1980s. The volume was once erroneously thought to have been owned and annotated by John Milton.

First published in London, 1591. Edited by Robert McNulty (Oxford, 1972). Printed and manuscript exempla discussed in Gerard Kilroy, ‘Advertising the Reader: Sir John Harington's “Directions in the Margent”’, English Literary Renaissance, 41/1 (Winter, 2011), 64-110.

Urania

Autograph corrections and revisions by Mary Wroth to the printed text, in an exemplum of The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania (London, 1621). c.1621.

*WrM 10: Lady Mary Wroth, The First Part of the Countess of Montgomery's Urania

Later owned by Hugh McDonald (his inscriptions (‘Dublin, 12 May 1784’ and ‘1783’); by Fitz Edward Hall (DCL at Oxford 1860); and by W.B. Chorley. Sold in 1948 by the bookseller Howard C. Howe, Waukegan, Illinois.

These authorial alterations are discussed and all incorporated in Josephine Roberts's edition, where a facsimile of sig. 3Y1^r-v appears on p. cxvii.

First published as The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania (London, 1621). Edited by Josephine A. Roberts, as The First Part of the Countesse of Montgomeries Urania (Binghamton, NY, 1995). Poems alone edited in Roberts, Poems, and in Pritchard, pp. 127-99.

[Walton indenture]

Walton's autograph signature on an indenture for his sale of ‘the Black Boy’, in a street between Temple Bar and Drury Lane, to Richard Startyn of St Mary Savoy in the Strand, 19 May 1655. 1655.

*WtI 20: Izaak Walton, Document(s)