MS 32
A large folio composite volume of state letters and papers, iv + 207 leaves, in contemporary calf.
ff. 1r-4v, 121r, 191r, 194r-202r,
• BcF 637: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
Copies of various letters by Bacon.
ff 9r, 12v, 16v-18r
• RaW 976: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
Copies of letters by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr (1608), to James I (2), and to Lady Ralegh.
ff. 13r-14r
• RaW 728.255: Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)
Copy.
Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, ‘“The Great Day of Mart”: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603’, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.
ff. 14r-16v
• RaW 802: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)
Copy. c.1620s-30s.
Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For a relevant discussion, see Anna Beer, ‘Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh’, MP, 94/1 (August 1996), 19-38.
ff. 48r-101r
• GrF 14.8: Fulke Greville, The Five Yeares of King James
Copy.
First published, attributed to Greville, in London, 1643. Almost certainly apocryphal.
ff. 129r-37r
• BcF 119.5: Francis Bacon, Certain Articles or Considerations touching the Union of England and Scotland
Copy.
First published in Resuscitatio, ed. William Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, X, 218-34.
ff. 194r-203v
• BcF 120: Francis Bacon, Certain Articles or Considerations touching the Union of England and Scotland
Copy.
This MS recorded in Spedding, X, 218.
First published in Resuscitatio, ed. William Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, X, 218-34.
MS 105
Copy, 58 folio leaves. Mid-17th century.
CdA 12: Lady Anne Clifford, The title of the La: Anne Clifford...to the style and title of...three Baronies
Lady Anne Clifford's evidences for her claim to the title and banonies of Clifford, Westmorland and Vesey, 1606.
MS 121
A folio composite volume of state tracts, letters and speeches, in various hands, 614 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.
pp. 137-51
• CtR 513: Sir Robert Cotton, Twenty-four Argvments, Whether it be more expedient to suppress Popish Practises against the due Allegeance of His Majesty, by the Strict Execution touching Jesuits and Seminary Preists? Or, to restraine them to Close Prisons, during life, if no Reformation follow?
Copy, in a small predominantly italic hand, unascribed, with a sidenote ‘ex MS. Bib. Bod. Archive’. c.1630s-40s.
Tract beginning ‘I am not ignorant, that this latter age hath brought forth a swarm of busie heads...’, dated 11 August 1613. First published in two editions, as respectively Seriovs Considerations for Repressing of the Increase of Iesvites and A Treatise against Recusants (both London, 1641). Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [109]-159.
pp. 173-82
• WoH 288: Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham
Copy, in a mixed hand, the tract dated 1634. c.1635-40.
First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).
pp. 183-6
• CtR 458: Sir Robert Cotton, A Speech Made by Sir Rob Cotton Knight and Baronet, before the Lords of his Majesties most Honorable Privy Covncel, At the Councel Table being thither called to deliver his Opinion touching the Alteration of Coyne. 2. Sept. [1626]
Copy. c.1630.
In a small mixed hand, headed ‘Sr Robert Cottons opinion concerning the Diminution of Coyne. 1627’.
Speech beginning ‘My Lords, Since it hath pleased this Honourable Table to command...’. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [283]-294, with related texts (‘The Answer of the Committees Appointed...2 September 1626’ and ‘Questions to be proposed’, etc.) on pp. 295-307. W.A. Shaw, Writers on English Monetary History, pp. 21-38.
pp. 253-6
• EsR 309: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution
Copy, among other papers relating to the Essex rebellion.
Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.
pp. 388-92
• BcF 213: Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral. Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates
Copy, on three folio leaves. c.1620s-30s.
Spedding, VI, 444-52. The Oxford Francis Bacon, XV, 89-99.
pp. 426-39
• CtR 424: Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England
Copy, in a small professional predominantly secretary hand, headed ‘A Shorte view of Henrie ye Third and his Raigne’, docketed in a later hand ‘By Sr Robert Cotton’. c.1620s-30s.
Treatise, written c.1614 and ‘Presented to King James’, beginning ‘Wearied with the lingering calamities of Civil Arms...’. First published in London, 1627. Cottoni posthuma (1651), at the end (i + pp. 1-27).
pp. 450-7
• BcF 315: Francis Bacon, A Device to Entertain the Queen at Essex House, 17 November 1595
Copy of six speeches, of the Squire (2), Hermit (2), Souldier, and Secretary, in a neat predominantly secretary hand, headed ‘The Earle of Essex device on the Queene day before he was to runne at Tilt. 17 of Novem: 39 of Eliza.’, with a side-note near the end saying ‘This is imperfect’. c.1620s.
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.
pp. 474-6
• ElQ 299: Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘The Queenes Speech at Whitehall to the speaker of the Lower house the 30th: of November 1602’. c.1620s-30s.
This MS cited in Hartley.
First published (Version III), as Her maiesties most princelie answere, deliuered by her selfe at White-hall, on the last day of November 1601 (London, 1601: STC 7578).
Version I. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we have heard your declaration and perceive your care of our estate...’. Hartley, III, 412-14. Hartley, III, 495-6. Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 337-40 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 11, pp. 84-92.
Version II. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we perceive your coming is to present thanks unto me...’. Hartley, III, 294-7 (third version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 340-2 (Version 2).
Version III. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we perceive by you, whom we did constitute the mouth of our Lower House, how with even consent...’. Hartley, III, 292-3 (second version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 342-4 (Version 3). STC 7578.
Version IV. Beginning ‘Mr Speaker, I well understand by that you have delivered, that you with these gentlemen of the Lower House come to give us thankes for benefitts receyved...’. Hartley, III, 289-91 (first version).
p. 480
• BcF 638: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
Copy of a letter by Bacon to Sir Edward Coke.
pp. 499-511
• RaW 977: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
Copy of four letters by Ralegh, to James I (2), to Lady Ralegh, and to Winwood.
pp. 511-12
• RaW 728.258: Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)
Copy.
Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, ‘“The Great Day of Mart”: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603’, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.
pp. 512-17
• RaW 803: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)
Copy, subscribed ‘Tooke by Mr. Alsbr: sectie: to ye Ld. Adll’, among other papers relating to Ralegh. c.1620s.
Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For a relevant discussion, see Anna Beer, ‘Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh’, MP, 94/1 (August 1996), 19-38.
p. 518
• RaW 91: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’
Copy, headed ‘Write by Sr. walter Rawleygh when he was in the Gatehouse’, among other papers relating to Ralegh. c.1620s.
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).
See also RaW 302 and RaW 304.
MS 130
A folio volume of state tracts and speeches, in professional secretary hands, iv + 311 pages, in contemporary vellum gilt. Largely (but not entirely) a duplicate of MS 121. c.1620s-30s.
pp. 1-16
• CtR 425: Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England
Copy.
Treatise, written c.1614 and ‘Presented to King James’, beginning ‘Wearied with the lingering calamities of Civil Arms...’. First published in London, 1627. Cottoni posthuma (1651), at the end (i + pp. 1-27).
pp. 57-63
• BcF 315.5: Francis Bacon, A Device to Entertain the Queen at Essex House, 17 November 1595
Copy of six speeches, headed ‘The Earle of Essex device on the Queene day before he was to runne at Tilt. 17 of Novem: 39 of Eliza.’, with a side-note near the end saying ‘this is not perfect’.
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.
pp. 86-8
• DaJ 294.5: Sir John Davies, An Entertainment at Harefield
Copy of the dialogue between Place and Time, headed ‘The Entertainment of the late Queen at the Lord Keepers’.
The fullest text of what are taken to be the extant portions of the Entertainment at Harefield, 31 July-2 August 1602, is edited in The Complete Works of John Lyly, ed. R. Warwick Bond (Oxford, 1902), I, 491-504, where it is suggested that probably the prose and the Mariner's song were written by Lyly and the rest chiefly by Davies (see I, 534-5). Krueger, following Grosart, accepts the prose too as Davies's (see Krueger, pp. 409-11). It is argued that ‘Davies probably wrote all of the Harefield entertainment’ in Gabriel Heaton, Writing and Reading Royal Entertainments (Oxford, 2010), pp. 100-16.
pp. 89-91
• ElQ 300: Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601
Copy, headed ‘The Queenes Speech at Whitehall to the speaker of the Lower house the 30th of Nouember 1602’.
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).
pp. 121-2, 139-40, 141-50
• RaW 978: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
Copy of five letters by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr, to James I (2), to Lady Ralegh, and to Winwood.
pp. 151-2
• RaW 728.259: Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)
Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1618.
Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, ‘“The Great Day of Mart”: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603’, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.
pp. 152-7
• RaW 803.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)
Copy, subscribed ‘Tooke by Mr. Alsbr: sectie: to the L: Adll’, among other papers relating to Ralegh.
Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For a relevant discussion, see Anna Beer, ‘Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh’, MP, 94/1 (August 1996), 19-38.
p. 157
• RaW 518.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart’
Copy, headed ‘Write by Sr. Wa: Rawleygh whe he was in the Gathouse’, among other papers relating to Ralegh
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).
MS 135
A folio miscellany, comprising a ‘treatise of nobility’, subscribed ‘Finis 1638 July 15 per me John Walthall’, and some verse, 102 leaves. c.1638.
ff. 101r-2r
• RnT 465: Thomas Randolph, The Combat of the Cocks (‘Go, you tame gallants, you that have the name’)
Copy, headed ‘A true terrible, troublesome, tragical relation of a duel fought at Wisbeach, 17 June 1637’.
(Sometimes called A terible true Tragicall relacon of a duell fought at Wisbich June the 17th: 1637.) Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Hazlitt, I, xviii. II, 667-70. By Robert Wild.
MS 146
A folio volume of grants of arms by various heralds and printed escutcheons, 151 leaves. 17th century.
passim
• CmW 192: William Camden, Document(s)
Grants of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms.
MS 157
A folio volume of state papers, 465 pages, with a later inserted list of contents (after p. 4), in contemporary vellum. Inscribed (p. 1) ‘Collected out of his Majesties papers of state, Anno 1677. by J Brydall’, being a series of transcripts in the cursive hand of John Brydall (c.1635-c.1705), lawyer and secretary to the Master of the Rolls. 1677.
pp. 158-66
• HrE 129: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, On the King's Supremacy in the Church
Copy, the work dated 1635, indexed (No. 51) as ‘My Lord Herberts paper about ye Kings Supremacy showed to ye Arch Bp. of Canterbury by ye Kings Comand’.
The text corrected from this MS in Hutcheson. Recorded in Rossi, II, 493, and III, 542.
First published in Edward Herbert, De religione laici, ed. Harold R. Hutcheson (New Haven, 1944), pp. 183-6.
MS 172
A folio composite volume of parliamentary speeches, in various professional hands, 389 pages, in contemporary calf.
pp. 137-9
• RuB 77: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 28 April 1628
Copy, headed at the side ‘Sr. Beniamin Rudyere 28o April 1628’. c.1628.
Speech beginning ‘We are here upon a great business...’. Yale 1628, III, 127-9 and 133-4. Variants: III, 138-9, 141, 143, and 161. Variant version in Manning, pp. 126-8.
pp. 145-7
• RuB 25: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.20-22 March 1627/8
Copy, untitled. c.1628.
Speech. Yale 1628, II, 58-60, two parallel versions: (1) beginning ‘This is the crisis of parliaments...’; (2) beginning ‘It is the goodness of God and the favour of the King...’; II, 68, third version, beginning ‘If we be thankful, all is well. By this we shall know whether parliaments will live or die...’; II, 73, fourth, brief reported version, beginning ‘We are not now upon the bene esse of our kingdom but the esse...’.
pp. 169-87
• CtR 484: Sir Robert Cotton, That the Kings of England have been pleased usually to consult with their Peeres in the great Councell, and Commons in Parliament, of Marriage, Peace, and Warre. Written...Anno 1611
Copy, in a professional italic hand, subscribed ‘Rob: Cotton’, and docketed ‘8 Febr. 1623’. c.1623.
Tract beginning ‘To search so high as the Norman Conquest...’. First published, as The Forme of Governement of the Kingdome of England collected out of the Fundamental Lawes and Statutes of this Kingdome, London, 1642. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [11]-39.
MS 174
A folio volume of speeches in Parliament in 1640, in several professional hands, 144 pages, in contemporary vellum with ties. c.1640s.
pp. 101-6
• RuB 132: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?15-25 April 1640
Copy, headed ‘A Speach deliured in Parlament by Sr Beniamin Ridiers Aprill 1640’.
Speech beginning ‘There is a great dore now opened unto us of doing good...’. Variant version in Manning, pp. 148-51.
MS 216
An independent unit of twelve leaves, containing poems by Donne, in a single professional secretary hand., on ff. 198r-209v. In a quarto composite volume of largely ecclesiastical papers, in various hands, 335 leaves, in boards. Early 17th century.
Once owned by Thomas Barlow (1608/9-91), Bishop of Lincoln, book collector.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the ‘Queen's College MS’: DnJ Δ 32.
ff. 198r-9v
• DnJ 2747: John Donne, Satyre I (‘Away thou fondling motley humorist’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 145-9. Milgate, Satires, pp. 3-6. Shawcross, No. 1.
ff. 199v-200v
• DnJ 2777: John Donne, Satyre II (‘Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 149-54. Milgate, Satires, pp. 7-10. Shawcross, No. 2.
ff. 201r-2v
• DnJ 2809: John Donne, Satyre III (‘Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 154-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 10-14. Shawcross, No. 3.
ff. 202v-5v
• DnJ 2838: John Donne, Satyre IV (‘Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.
ff. 206r-7r
• DnJ 2870: John Donne, Satyre V (‘Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 168-71. Milgate, Satires, pp. 22-5. Shawcross, No. 5.
ff. 207r-8r
• DnJ 3072: John Donne, The Storme (‘Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 175-7. Milgate, Satires, pp. 55-7. Shawcross, No. 109.
ff. 208r-9r
• DnJ 558: John Donne, The Calme (‘Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.
f. 209r-v
• DnJ 834: John Donne, The Curse (‘Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes’)
Copy, headed ‘Diræ’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross; recorded in Gardner.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.
MS 217
A quarto composite volume of ecclesiastical tracts, 346 leaves. Assembled by Dr Thomas Barlow (1607-91), Bishop of Lincoln.
ff. 90r-127r
• *TaJ 22: Jeremy Taylor, On the Reverence Due to the Altar
Autograph fair copy of an epistolary tract, with some added marginal notes and revisions, untitled, a title-page added in the hand of Thomas Barlow, ‘A Tract. To proue that to bow towards the Altar, is not onely permissu, and soe licitu, but prceptu, and soe necessariu./Dr. J. Taylor (in male memini) was the Author of it’; written on 38 quarto leaves (almost entirely on rectos only). c. late 1630s.
Edited from this MS in Barrow and in Eden. Facsimile of f. 115 in Barrow, at end. For a facsimile of f. 104, see IELM, II.ii, Facsimile XV. Formerly cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as TaJ 2.
First published, edited by the Rev. John Barrow (Oxford & London, 1848). Eden, V, 315-38.
MS 280
A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, 308 leaves, in boards. In various largely professional hands, including that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’.
Once owned by Thomas Barlow (1607-91), Bishop of Lincoln, book collector.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 259-60 (No. 99).
ff. 212r-39r
• *BcF 289: Francis Bacon, Cogitata et visa de interpretatione naturae
Copy, in the professional roman hand of an amanuensis, with Bacon's autograph corrections and revisions. c.1607.
Edited from this MS in Spedding, III, 587-620.
First published in Scripta in naturali et universali philosophia, ed. I. Gruter (Amsterdam, 1653). Spedding, III, 587-620.
MS 292
A folio composite volume of ecclesiastical tracts and letters, in various hands, 239 pages, in contemporary vellum boards.
pp. 1-79
• HkR 21: Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book VIII
Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, with inserted leaves of corrections by Thomas Barlow. Early 17th century.
This MS collated in Keble (see I, xliv-xlv) and in Houk.
First published in an incomplete form (with Book VI) in London, 1648. Some additions published in Nicholas Bernard, Clavi Trabales (London, 1661), and in John Gauden's ‘complete’ edition of the Polity (London, 1662). Keble, III, 326-455 (and pp. 456-60 for a passage found in MSS but not in the first edition, possibly part of a Sermon on Civil Disobedience). Edited by Raymond Aaron Houk, Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity Book VIII (New York, 1931). Folger edition, Volume III, pp. 315-448.
MS 301
Copy of the complete text, in three probably professional secretary hands, untitled, probably transcribed from SiP 98, vii + 142 large folio leaves (plus some blanks), in contemporary calf elaborately gilt, gauffered edges. Late 16th century.
SiP 101: Sir Philip Sidney, The Old Arcadia
The name ‘Thomas Savoy’ attached (f. ir) to a later copy of a letter by Charles I, dated July 1636.
This MS collated in Robertson and the poems collated in Ringler. Described in Ringler, pp. 525-6.
The unfinished revised version of Arcadia (the ‘New Arcadia’) first published in London, 1590. The original version (the ‘Old Arcadia’) first published in Feuillerat, IV (1926). The complete Old Arcadia edited by Jean Robertson (Oxford, 1973). The poems edited in Ringler, pp. 7-131.
MS 341
Copy of Psalms 1-150, in two or more probably professional secretary hands, headed ‘The Psalmes of Dauid done into English verse By ye most noble & vertuous gent: Sr Phillip: Sydney knight’, 158 quarto leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Early 17th century.
SiP 85: Sir Philip Sidney, The Psalms of David
This MS described in Ringler, p. 549.
Psalms 1-43 translated by Sidney. Psalms 44-150 translated by his sister, the Countess of Pembroke. First published complete in London, 1823, ed. S.W. Singer. Psalms 1-43, without the Countess of Pembroke's revisions, edited in Ringler, pp. 265-337. Psalms 1-150 in her revised form edited in The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke, ed. J.C.A. Rathmell (New York, 1963). Psalms 44-150 also edited in The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke (1988), Vol. II.
MS 353
An octavo volume of extracts from Cotton's works, in three closely written hands, 85 leaves, affected by seepage of ink, in contemporary vellum. Early-mid-17th century.
CtR 544: Sir Robert Cotton, Miscellaneous
MS 449
A folio composite volume of tracts, 342 leaves, in boards. In various hands, including that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’.
Assembled by Thomas Barlow (1607-91), Bishop of Lincoln, book collector.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 260 (No. 100).
ff. 118-26
• HbT 30: Thomas Hobbes, An Historical Narration concerning Heresy and the Punishment thereof
Copy in three hands, with annotations in the hand of Thomas Barlow.
A tract beginning ‘The word Heresie is Greek, and signifies a taking of any thing...’. First published in London, 1680. Molesworth, English, IV, 385-408.
ff. 158r-64r
• CtR 128: Sir Robert Cotton, A Briefe Discovrse concerning the Power of the Peeres and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature
Copy in the secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, headed ‘A: Breiffe: Discours: proveinge that the Howse of Comons, hath equall power wth the peeres, in poynte of Judicature’, docketed by Barlow ‘This was printed (but falsely) in 1640, but noe authors name to it’.
Tract, the full title sometimes given as A Brief discourse prouinge that the house of Comons hath Equall power with the Peeres in point of Judicature written by Sr Rob: Cotton to Sr Edward Mountague Ano Dni. 1621, beginning ‘Sir, To give you as short an accompt of your desire as I can...’. First published in London, 1640. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [341]-351.
See also the Introduction.
MS 477
A quarto notebook, 242 leaves, in half-calf on marbled boards. c.1738.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Jos Smith’.
ff. 170r-83r
• RaW 679.8: Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World
Extracts, headed ‘Notes out of Sr. Walter Raleigh / 1738’, on rectos only.
First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.
See also RaW 728.
Sel.b.102
A corrected proof-sheet for sigs 3Q1v (p. 496) and 3Q4r (p. 501) for the fourth printed edition of the Anatomy (Oxford, 1632). Used as the front and rear endpapers in a printed exemplum of Joannes Philoponus, In cap. i Geneseos, de mundi creatione, libri septem. Intreprete B. Corderio (Vienna, 1630). c.1632.
BuR 1.5: Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
Recorded in Jan Moore, p. 79.
First published in Oxford, 1621. Edited by A.R. Shilleto (introduced by A.H. Bullen), 3 vols (London, 1893). Edited variously by Thomas C. Faulkner, Nicolas K. Kiessling, Rhonda L. Blair, J.B. Bamborough, and Martin Dodsworth, 6 vols (Oxford, 1989-2000).