CELM: The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House

Cecil Papers 8/44

Autograph letter signed, to Lord Burghley, written by Heywood in his seventy-ninth year (1576?). Edited in A.W. Reed, Early Tudor Drama (London, 1926), pp. 237-8. 1576?

*HyJ 22: John Heywood, Letter(s)

Printed in A.W. Reed, Early Tudor Drama (London, 1926), pp. 35-7, 237-8, with a facsimile of part of the first letter facing p. 124.

Cecil Papers 24/99

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, 17 January 1594/5. 1595.

*LyJ 7: John Lyly, Letter(s)

Edited in Bond, I, 390.

Cecil Papers 52/84

Privy Council documents and other joint letters of state, signed by Andrewes.

*AndL 95: Lancelot Andrewes, Document(s)

Cecil Papers 55/6

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, August 1597. 1597.

*PeM 18: Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Letter(s)

Edited in Collected Works, II, 289-90.

Cecil Papers 55/10

Privy Council documents and other joint letters of state, signed by Andrewes.

*AndL 91: Lancelot Andrewes, Document(s)

Cecil Papers 55/81

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, from Wilton, 29 September 1597. 1597.

*PeM 16: Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Letter(s)

Edited in Collected Works, II, 290.

Cecil Papers 59/113

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, 23 January 1597/8. 1598.

*LyJ 9: John Lyly, Letter(s)

Edited in Bond, I, 391.

Cecil Papers 61/5

Autograph letter signed by Harvey, to Sir Robert Cecil, 8 May 1598. 1598.

*HvG 14: Gabriel Harvey, Letter(s)

Edited in HMC, Salisbury, VIII (1899), pp. 160-1. Moore Smith, pp. 72-4.

Cecil Papers 64/5

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, 9 September 1598. 1598.

*LyJ 10: John Lyly, Letter(s)

Edited in Bond, I, 392-3, and in Feuillerat, pp. 557-8.

Cecil Papers 76/29

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, [31 January 1600/1. 1601.

*HrJ 364: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

McClure, No. 20, p. 88.

Cecil Papers 77/14

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, 27 February 1600/1. 1601.

*LyJ 11: John Lyly, Letter(s)

Edited in Bond, I, 395.

Cecil Papers 80/62

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, [from Greenwich, 25 June 1600]. 1600.

*HrJ 357: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

McClure, No. 12, pp. 81-3.

Cecil Papers 84/69

Autograph letter signed, in French, to Sir Robert Cecil, from Paris, 2/12 January 1600/1. 1601.

*ToA 103: Aurelian Townshend, Letter(s)

Edited in Chambers, p. xxxix.

in Chambers, p. xxxix.

Cecil Papers 85/163

Autograph letter signed, in French, to Sir Robert Cecil, from Paris, 28 April 1601. 1601.

*ToA 104: Aurelian Townshend, Letter(s)

Edited in Chambers, p. xl.

Cecil Papers 86/137

Autograph letter signed, in Italian, to Sir Robert Cecil, from Venice, 4 July 1601. 1602.

*ToA 107: Aurelian Townshend, Letter(s)

Edited in Chambers, p. xli.

Cecil Papers 87/23

Autograph letter signed, in Italian, to Sir Robert Cecil, from Venice, 27 July 1601. 1601.

*ToA 108: Aurelian Townshend, Letter(s)

Edited in Chambers, pp. xlii-xliii.

Cecil Papers 87/80

Autograph letter signed (‘William Alabaster’), neatly written as a prisoner at Framlingham Castle, to Sir Robert Cecil, 9 August 1601. 1601.

*AlW 269: William Alabaster, Letter(s)

Edited in J. S. Alabaster, pp. 156-7.

Cecil Papers 87/128

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, 22 August 1601. 1601

*AndL 61: Lancelot Andrewes, Letter(s)

Synopsis printed in HMC 9, Salisbury MSS, XI (1906), 355.

Cecil Papers 88/28

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, [7 September 1601].

*HrJ 365: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

McClure, No. 21, pp. 88-90.

Cecil Papers 90/147

Autograph letter signed, to Queen Elizabeth, 1601. 1601.

*PeM 19: Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Letter(s)

Edited in Collected Works, II, 290-2.

Cecil Papers 91/103

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, 4 February 1602/3. 1603.

*LyJ 12: John Lyly, Letter(s)

Edited in Bond, I, 75. Facsimile in Bond, III, frontispiece.

Cecil Papers 91/106

Autograph letter signed, in French, to Sir Robert Cecil, fParis, 7 February 1602/3. 1603.

*ToA 113: Aurelian Townshend, Letter(s)

Edited in Chambers, pp. xlvi-xlvii.

Cecil Papers 93/23

Privy Council documents and other joint letters of state, signed by Andrewes.

*AndL 92: Lancelot Andrewes, Document(s)

Cecil Papers 93/110

Autograph letter signed, in Italian, to Sir Robert Cecil, from Venice, 3/13 June 1602. 1602.

*ToA 111: Aurelian Townshend, Letter(s)

Edited in Chambers, pp.xliii-xliv.

Cecil Papers 93/117

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, [from London, 7 June 1602]. 1602.

*HrJ 366: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

McClure, No. 23, pp. 91-3.

Cecil Papers 93/150

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, [22 June 1602]. 1602.

*HrJ 367: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

McClure, No. 24, pp. 93-4.

Cecil Papers 94/106

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Sidney, from Cardiff Castle, 3 August 1602. 1602.

*PeM 20: Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Letter(s)

Edited in Collected Works, II, 292-3.

Cecil Papers 96/11

Autograph letter signed, in Italian, to Sir Robert Cecil, 24 October 1602. 1602.

*ToA 112: Aurelian Townshend, Letter(s)

Edited in Chambers, pp. xlv-xlvi.

Cecil Papers 97/54-55

Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [October 1603]. 1603.

*HrJ 374: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

McClure, No. 33, pp. 104-7.

Cecil Papers 100/28

Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [from London, 21 May 1603]. 1603.

*HrJ 371: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

McClure, No. 29, p. 101.

Cecil Papers 101/99

Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [from London, 27 June 1603]. 1603.

*HrJ 379: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

McClure, No. 32, pp. 103-4.

Cecil Papers 110/97

Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Viscount Cranborne, [from Kelston, 20 April 1605]. 1605.

*HrJ 385: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

McClure, No. 43, p. 118.

Cecil Papers 114/58

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, [1605]. 1605.

*JnB 740: Ben Jonson, Letter(s)

Edited in Herford & Simpson, I, 194-6.

Cecil Papers 122/43

Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, from Ditchley, 27 July 1607. 1607.

*PeM 27: Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Letter(s)

Edited in Collected Works, II, 297-8.

Cecil Papers 129/177

Copy of Bacon's submission on 19 March 1620/1, on one page. c.1621.

BcF 508: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning ‘I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...’); 22 April 1621 (beginning ‘It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...’); and 30 April 1621 (beginning ‘Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...’), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.

Cecil Papers 130/37

Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621. c.1621.

BcF 509: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

Cecil Papers 130/117

Copy, in an undentified hand, of a letter by Wroth to Sir Edward Denny, 15 February [1621/2]. c.1621.

WrM 21: Lady Mary Wroth, Letter(s)

Edited in Roberts, Poems, p. 237 (No. VI).

Cecil Papers 130/118-19

Copy (possibly autograph) of a letter by Sir Edward Denny, to Lady Mary Wroth, 26 February 1621/2. 1622.

WrM 24: Lady Mary Wroth, Letter(s)

Edited from this MS in Roberts, Poems, pp. 238-9.

Cecil Papers 130/121

Copy of a letter by Sir Edward Denny to Lady Mary Wroth, [February-March 1621/2]. c.1622.

WrM 30: Lady Mary Wroth, Letter(s)

This MS recorded in Roberts, Poems, p. 241.

Cecil Papers 130/174

Autograph letter signed, to Queen Anne, from Baynards Castle, 25 April [c.1608]. c.1608.

*WrM 15: Lady Mary Wroth, Letter(s)

Edited in Roberts, Poems, pp. 233-4 (No. I).

Cecil Papers 138/163

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on both sides of a folio leaf. Late 16th century.

ElQ 173: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech Dissolving Parliament, January 2, 1567

Edited from this MS in HMC, Salisbury, XIII, 214-15. Cited in Hartley.

First published in Simonds D'Ewes, The Journalls of All the Parliaments during the Raign of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1682), pp. 113-17.

Version I. Beginning ‘I love so evil counterfeiting and hate so much dissimulation that I may not suffer you depart...’. Hartley, I, 174-5 (‘Separate version’). Collected Works, Speech 10, pp. 105-6 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 6, pp. 47-51.

Version II. Beginning ‘My lords and others, the Commons of this Assembly, although the lord keeper hath, according to order, very well answered in my name...’. Hartley, I, 172-3. Collected Works, Speech 10, pp. 107-8 (Version 2).

Cecil Papers 139/108

Extracts from the introduction, concerning ‘the 3 sorts of religions in Engla[nd]e’, closely written in a small mixed hand, on all four pages of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed by Thomas Phelippes (c.1556-1626?), a servant of Sir Robert Cecil, ‘Some notes for remembrance out of Sir Jo. Harringtons booke on the behalfe of the K. of Sc. succession’, once folded as a packet. Early 17th century.

HrJ 334: Sir John Harington, A Tract on the Succession to the Crown

This MS recorded in McClure, p. 29 (n). Discussed in Scott-Warren, pp. 167-8.

First published, edited by Clements R. Markham (Roxbiurghe Club, London, 1880). Reprinted in New York, 1969.

Cecil Papers 139/136-138

Copy, in a secretary hand, on six pages of two conjugate folio leaves, with an endorsement, once folded as a packet. c.1602.

BcF 176.9: Francis Bacon, Considerations touching the Queen's Service in Ireland

Recorded in HMC, Salisbury, XIV (1923), pp. 239-42, where it is calendared as ‘Suggestions [by Lord Mountejoy] for the Government of Ireland’ and dated ‘[1602]’.

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

Cecil Papers 139/139-140

Autograph, submitted by Ralegh to Sir Robert Cecil, closely written on four pages of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed in a contemporary hand ‘Reasons why Q. Eliz. sh^d not name her Successor’. [February 1592/3].

*RaW 698: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Succession

Edited from this MS in Lefranc (1960). Ralegh's letter accompanying this memorandum is Cecil Papers 83/35 (also edited in Lefranc).

An untitled memorandum beginning ‘first ther is no good subiect that ought to doubt of her Maiesties care and providence...’, addressed to Queen Elizabeth. First published in Pierre Lefranc, ‘Un inédit de Ralegh sur la succession’, EA, 13 (1960), 38-46.

Cecil Papers 140/110-111

Copy of the masque in a French version, beginning ‘Le genie: Ne vous estonnez pas Seigneurs si ceste place’ and ending ‘Et les loyaux subiectz s'auancent soubz leurs Roys’. In a stylish italic hand, on two pairs of conjugate folio leaves; presumably a file copy of a translation made for the use of Charles de Lorraine and his party; endorsed in a contemporary hand on a separate leaf ‘French verses at Theobalds 24 May 1607’. 1607.

JnB 577: Ben Jonson, An Entertainment of the King and Queen at Theobalds, 22 May 1607

Recorded in HMC, 9 Salisbury (Cecil) MSS, XIX (1965), 138.

First published in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VII, 151-8.

Cecil Papers 140/114

Copy of ‘Song iiij’, thirteen lines beginning ‘Will then these gloryes part away?’), in a stylish hand (similar to but not identical with Jonson's), on one side of a small folio leaf, endorsed ‘1607 Songs’. 1607.

JnB 574.8: Ben Jonson, An Entertainment for the Merchant Taylors' Company

Edited from this MS in HMC, Salisbury, XIX, pp. 490-2. The third song in the sequence is not known to survive.

Songs from an entertainment evidently for the Merchant Taylors' Company in 1607, first published in HMC, Salisbury, XIX (1965), pp. 490-2. Identification by James Knowles, Gabriel Heaton, et al., announced by Dalya Alberge in ‘New songs reveal Ben Jonson the party animal’, The Times, 24 July 2001, 7.

Cecil Papers 140/116

Autograph, untitled, on the first page of two small octavo conjugate leaves, endorsed Epitaph on L^d Salisbury. [1612].

*PeW 13: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Epitaph on Robert, Earl of Salisbury (‘You that read in passing by’)

Edited from this MS in Krueger and also with his diplomatic transcription (p. 72).

Krueger, p. 57, among ‘Poems Attributed to Pembroke in Manuscripts’. Also in online Early Stuart Libels.

Cecil Papers 140/128-129

Copy, in an accomplished italic hand, untitled, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘Ballad probably in Kg. Ch.i.’ Mid-17th century.

DeJ 90: Sir John Denham, A Speech against Peace at the Close Committee (‘But will you now to Peace incline’)

Recorded in HMC 9, Salisbury (Cecil) MSS, XXIV (1976), p. 283.

First published as a broadside entitled Mr. Hampdens speech occasioned upon the Londoners Petition for Peace [Lonon, 1643]. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 122-7.

Cecil Papers 140/132

Copy, in a neat secretary hand, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves; endorsed in a contemporary hand ‘Verses 1602’. c.1602.

RaW 201: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Now we have present made’

Edited from this MS in Lefranc (1968), p. 603.

First published in Walter Oakeshott, ‘An Unknown Ralegh MS’, The Times (29 November 1952), p. 7. Rudick, No. 23, pp. 46-7.

Cecil Papers 141/307

Copy of Bacon's submission on 30 April 1621, on 31 pages. c.1621.

BcF 510: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

Cecil Papers 144/158

Copy, in a neat italic hand, on the first two pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Early 17th century.

BcF 256: Francis Bacon, A Prayer, or Psalm

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

Cecil Papers 144/238

Autograph, on one side of a folio leaf. Late 16th century.

*RaW 146: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘If Synthia be a Queene, a princes, and supreame’

Edited from this MS by all editors.

First published in Hannah (1870). Latham, p. 24. Rudick, No. 24, p. 47.

Cecil Papers 144/239v

Autograph. Late 16th century.

*RaW 188: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘My boddy in the walls captived’

Edited from this MS by all editors. Facsimiles in T. N. Brushfield, A Bibliography of Sir Walter Ralegh Knt, 2nd edition (Exeter, 1908), facing p. 143; in Flower & Munby, English Poetical Autographs, Plate 2; and in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 13.

First published in Hannah (1870). Latham, pp. 24-5. Rudick, No. 25, p. 48.

Cecil Papers 144/240-247

Autograph, on seventeen folio pages. Late 16th century.

*RaW 8: Sir Walter Ralegh, The 12th: and last booke of the Ocean to Scinthia (‘Sufficeth it to yow my ioyes interred’)

Edited from this MS by all editors. Facsimile examples in Philip Edwards, Sir Walter Ralegh (London, 1953), facing p. 96; in John Winton, Sir Walter Ralegh (London, 1975), facing p. 122; in IELM, I.ii (1980), Facsimile XXVIII; and in Felix Pryor, Elizabeth I: Her Life in Letters (British Library, London, 2003), No. 60, p. 134.

The heading discussed in Stacy M. Clinton, ‘The “Number” of Sir Walter Ralegh's Booke of the Ocean to Scinthia’, SP, 82 (1985), 200-11 (with facsimile examples of the MS and letters by Ralegh); Douglas and Mary Brooks-Davies, ‘The Numbering of Sir Walter Ralegh's Ocean to Scinthia: A Problem Solved’, N&Q, 236 (March 1991), 31-4; and Peter Beal's review of Rudick in TLS, 29 December 2000, p. 7.

First published in Hannah (1870). Latham, pp. 25-34 (as The 11th: and last booke of the Ocean to Scinthia). Rudick, No. 26, pp. 48-66 (as ‘The 21^th and last booke of the Ocean to Scinthia’).

Cecil Papers 144/247

Autograph, on the first two pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Late 16th century.

*RaW 9: Sir Walter Ralegh, The end of the bookes, of the Oceans love to Scinthia, and the beginninge of the 12 Boock, entreatinge of Sorrow (‘My dayes delights, my springetyme ioies fordvnn’)

Edited from this MS in Latham, p. 44.

First published in Hannah (1870). Latham, p. 44. Rudick, Nos 27, 32 and 33 (three versions, pp. 66, 72-77).

Cecil Papers 144/266

Autograph fair copy, headed ‘To the most Worthy of his Honors. Robert, Earle of Salisbury. Epigramme’, together with JnB 505, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed on the fourth page in a contemporary hand ‘1606 Mr Johnsons Epigr’. 1606.

*JnB 504: Ben Jonson, To Robert Earle of Salisbvrie (‘What need hast thou of me? or of my Muse?’)

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson. Facsimile in T. Bolt, ‘The Manuscripts at Hatfield House’, The Connoisseur, 8 (January-April 1904), 32-6 (p. 36).

First published in Epigrammes (xliii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 40-1.

Cecil Papers 144/266

Autograph fair copy, headed ‘Another’, following JnB 504 on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed on the fourth page in a contemporary hand ‘1606 Mr Johnsons Epigr’. 1606.

*JnB 505: Ben Jonson, To Robert Earl of Salisbvrie (‘Who can consider thy right courses run’)

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson. Facsimile in The Connoisseur, 8 (1904), p. 36.

First published in Epigrammes (lxiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 47.

Cecil Papers 144/267

Copy of ‘Song i’, 30 lines beginning ‘Jolly Mate, Looke forthe & see’, in a stylish hand (similar to but not identical with Jonson's), on the first page of two conjugate small folio leaves, endorsed ‘1607’. 1607.

JnB 574.4: Ben Jonson, An Entertainment for the Merchant Taylors' Company

Edited from this MS in HMC, Salisbury, XIX, pp. 490-2. The third song in the sequence is not known to survive.

Cecil Papers 144/268-269

Copy of some of the songs in the masque, beginning with ‘Flora's songe’ (‘Now hath Flora rob'd her bowres’), in a neat secretary hand, untitled, on three pages of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘Verses of the Maske 1606’, once folded as a packet. 1606.

CmT 248: Thomas Campion, The Lord Hay's Masque

Recorded in HMC, 9 Salisbury (Cecil) MSS, XIX (1965), p. 2.

First published as The Discription of a Maske...in honour of the Lord Hayes (London, 1607). Davis, pp. 203-30. Also published, with illustrations of costume designs [?], in Stephen Orgel and Roy Strong, Inigo Jones: The Theatre of the Stuart Court, 2 vols (University of California Press, 1973), I, 115-20.

Cecil Papers 144/271

Copy of the concluding song, in the italic hand of Robert Kirkham, a secretary of Sir Robert Cecil, on the first page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed in a contemporary hand ‘1606 Song’. 1606.

JnB 579: Ben Jonson, An Entertainment of the King and Queen at Theobalds, 22 May 1607, lines 130-41. Song (‘O blessed change!’)

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

Cecil Papers 144/272

Autograph of the opening speech, lines 8-15, here beginning ‘Enter, o long'd-for Princes’, with alterations in another hand (?Robert Kirkham's), on one side of a small folio leaf; endorsed in a contemporary hand ‘Sp: 1607’. 1607.

*JnB 580: Ben Jonson, The Entertainment of the Two Kings at Theobalds. 24 July 1606

Edited from this MS in Herford & Simpson, VII, 147 (where it is incorrectly stated that the ‘corrections’ are in the hand of Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury).

First published in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VII, 145-50.

Cecil Papers 144/273

Copy of ‘Song ij’, eighteen lines beginning ‘To fill y^r wellcome Stomaches, Mirth & Cheere’, in a stylish hand (similar to but not identical with Jonson's), on the first page of two conjugate small folio leaves, endorsed ‘1607’. 1607.

JnB 574.6: Ben Jonson, An Entertainment for the Merchant Taylors' Company

Edited from this MS in HMC, Salisbury, XIX, pp. 490-2. The third song in the sequence is not known to survive.

Cecil Papers 144/275

Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, untitled, here beginning ‘Great Verulam is very laime the goute of goe out feelinge’, on one side of a folio leaf. c.1620s.

HoJ 227: John Hoskyns, S^r Fra: Bacon. L: Verulam. Vicount S^t Albons (‘Lord Verulam is very lame, the gout of go-out feeling’)

Osborn, No. XXXIX (p. 210). Whitlock, pp. 558-9.

Cecil Papers 147/150-154

Autograph draft, with deletions and revisions, on nine folio pages. c.1590.

*ElQ 33: Queen Elizabeth I, Twenty-seven stanzas in French, composed circa 1590 (‘With the blinding so strange’)

Edited from this MS in Autograph Compositions and, together with an English translation, in Steven W. May and Anne Lake Prescott, ‘The French Verses of Elizabeth I’, ELR, 24, No. 1 (Winter 1994), 9-43.

Facsimiles of the first page in Collected Works, p. 412, and of f. 151r and the top of f. 152v in May & Prescott, Plates 1 & 2 after p. 32.

The French text, beginning ‘Avecq l'aueugler si estrange’, in Autograph Compositions, pp. 85-94. An English verse translation in Collected Works, Poem 15, pp. 413-21.

Cecil Papers 147/155

Copy, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves. c.1590s.

*ElQ 83: Queen Elizabeth I, On the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1588

Edited from this MS in Selected Works.

Beginning ‘Most powerful and largest-giving God, whose ears it hath pleased so benignly to grace the petitions of us Thy devoted servant...’. Collected Works, Prayer 36, p. 423. Autograph Compositions, pp. 84-5. Selected Works, Prayer 3, pp. 252-3 (as ‘Undated, possibly written after the 1591 expedition to France’).

Cecil Papers 147/207-213

Autograph MS, with revisions, on seven leaves. c.1590.

*ElQ 34: Queen Elizabeth I, Twenty-seven stanzas in French, composed circa 1590 (‘With the blinding so strange’)

Edited from this MS in Collected Works, with a facsimile of f. 207r on p. 412.

The French text, beginning ‘Avecq l'aueugler si estrange’, in Autograph Compositions, pp. 85-94. An English verse translation in Collected Works, Poem 15, pp. 413-21.

Cecil Papers 147/214

Autograph draft.

ElQ 83.5: Queen Elizabeth I, On the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1588

Edited from this MS in Autograph Compositions, and in Collected Works, with a facsimile on p. 422.

Cecil Papers 153/138

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on one side of a folio leaf. Late 16th century.

ElQ 146: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Answer to the Lords' Petition that she Marry, April 10, 1563, delivered by Lord Keeper Nicholas Bacon

This MS cited in Hartley. Recorded in HMC, Salisbury, I, 272.

First published in Simonds D'Ewes, The Journalls of All the Parliaments during the Raign of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1682), pp. 107-8.

Beginning ‘Since there can be no duer debt than princes' words...’. Hartley, I, 114-15 (2 texts). Collected Works, Speech 6, pp. 79-80. Selected Works, Speech 4, pp. 42-4.

Cecil Papers 161/98

A letter signed by Sir John Throckmorton, to Sir William Cecil, Lord Burghley, notifying him of the London sheriff's apprehension (‘w^th some difficultie’) of his brother-in-law George Puttenham and requesting leave now to repair to his own house, 21 December 1578. 1578.

PtG 108: George Puttenham, Document(s)

HMC, Salisbury MSS, Part 2 (1888), p. 226.

Cecil Papers 187/66

Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [from London, June 1603]. 1603.

*HrJ 372: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

McClure, No. 30, pp. 101-2.

Cecil Papers 187/69

Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [from London, 10 June 1603]. 1603.

*HrJ 373: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

McClure, No. 31, pp. 102-3.

Cecil Papers 188/2

Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [17 June 1604]. 1604.

*HrJ 382: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

McClure, No. 40, pp. 115-16.

Cecil Papers 188/110

Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [20 May 1604]. 1604.

*HrJ 378: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

McClure, No. 37, pp. 112-14.

Cecil Papers 188/126

Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [from London, 7 June 1604]. 1604.

*HrJ 380: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

McClure, No. 38, p. 114.

Cecil Papers 188/129

Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essingdon, [from London, 12 June 1604]. 1604.

*HrJ 381: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

McClure, No. 39, p. 115

Cecil Papers 188/137

Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Baron Cecil of Essendon, [8 July 1604]. 1604.

*HrJ 383: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

McClure, No. 41, pp. 116-17.

Cecil Papers 189/38

Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Viscount Cranborne, [3 November 1604]. 1604.

*HrJ 384: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

McClure, No. 42, pp. 117-18.

Cecil Papers 191/68

Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, [9 November 1607]. 1607.

*HrJ 394: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

McClure, No. 50, pp. 129-30.

Cecil Papers 191/123

Autograph letter signed by Daniel, to Robert Cecil, Viscount Cranbourne, [1605]. [1605].

*DaS 58: Samuel Daniel, Letter(s)

Edited in Sellers, p. 51.

Cecil Papers 196/66

Privy Council documents and other joint letters of state, signed by Andrewes.

*AndL 93: Lancelot Andrewes, Document(s)

Cecil Papers 196/70

Privy Council documents and other joint letters of state, signed by Andrewes.

*AndL 94: Lancelot Andrewes, Document(s)

Cecil Papers 196/84

Privy Council documents and other joint letters of state, signed by Andrewes.

*AndL 90: Lancelot Andrewes, Document(s)

Cecil Papers 202/73-74

Autograph letter signed by Robert Horne, Bishop of Winchester, to Sir William Cecil, strongly opposing the appointment as a Justice of the Peace of George Puttenham, who ‘is a notorious enemie to god's truthe’ and ‘Sure his evel Life, his troublesom behavour is not vnknowne’, 21 January 1568/9. 1569.

PtG 45: George Puttenham, Document(s)

HMC, Salisbury MSS, Part I (1883), p. 392. Quoted in Willis, pp. 398-9.

Cecil Papers 204/43

Copy, with additional verses and endorsed ‘Mr. Hoskins' verses’, sent on 1 December 1598 to ‘M^r Percivall...at the house of...Sir Robert Cecill’ by a Mr Warwicke of Winton.

HoJ 279: John Hoskyns, In Syllabam Cos; in Pentecost Dom. in Schola Wintoniensi (‘Dic mihi Semesas Lipsi serutate figuras’)

This MS cited, and additional verses edited, in Osborn, pp. 280-1.

Osborn, No. II (pp. 168-9).

Cecil Papers 206/100r-v

Copy.

DrW 117.47: William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge (‘From such a face quois excellence’)

HMC 9, Salisbury (Cecil) MSS, XXII (1971), pp. 252-3.

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.

Cecil Papers 242

A folio volume of state papers, in probably professional cursive secretary hands, 74 leaves. c.1620s-30s.

ff. 12r-17v

• RaW 979: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copy of Ralegh's letter (both parts) to Winwood after his last return from Guiana.

ff. 22v-3v

• BcF 276: Francis Bacon, Short Notes for Civil Conversation

Copy, on two folio pages. Early 17th century.

Edited from this MS in HMC, 9 Salisbury (Cecil) MSS, XXII (1971), p. 437.

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

ff. 38r-45v

• CtR 92: Sir Robert Cotton, A Breife Abstract of the Question of Precedencie between England and Spaine: Occasioned by Sir Henry Nevill the Queen of Englands Ambassador, and the Ambassador of Spaine, at Calais Commissioners appointed by the French King...

Copy, as ‘Collected by S^r Robt Cotton K^t at her Ma^ts: Commaundm^t:’. c.1600.

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

Cecil Papers 251/121

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Robert Cecil, [3 July 1600]. 1600.

*HrJ 358: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)

McClure No. 13, p. 83.

Cecil Papers 253/3

A folio ‘book of parliament speeches’ in 1627/8-1629, in a professional secretary hand, on thirteen pages, in a folio composite volume of state papers and printed tracts. c.1630s.

ff. [2r-3r]

• CtR 189: Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy

Copy, the heading superscribed ‘S^r Robert Cottons speach in the Parlyamen^t- Anno tertio et 4 Charoli Regis Anoque Dom: 1617’, correctly dated in the margin ‘Ano Dom 1627’.

Tract beginning ‘As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine...’. First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.

f. [7r]

• CoR 6.6: Richard Corbett, Against the Opposing the Duke in Parliament, 1628 (‘The wisest King did wonder when hee spy'd’)

Copy, untitled.

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

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

Cecil Papers 253/4

Copy. c.1636.

KiT 16: Thomas Killigrew, Letter about the possessed Nuns of Tours, from Orleans, 7 December 1635

Letter, to Lord Goring, beginning ‘Being thus far from London...’. Published in European Magazine, 43 (1803), 102-6. Edited in J. Lough and D. E. L. Crane, ‘Thomas Killigrew and the Possessed Nuns of Loudun: The Text of a Letter of 1635’, Durham University Journal, 78 (1986), 259-68.

Cecil Papers 265

Copy, including colour illustrations, presented to the Marquess of Salisbury in 1814. 18th-19th-century.

SaG 38: George Sandys, A Relation of a Journey begun Anno Dom. 1610

First published in London, 1615.

Cecil Papers 286

A folio volume of state letters, speeches and verse, in probably two professional secretary hands, compiled chiefly by Simon Willis, a secretary (until 1602) of Robert Cecil (1563-1612), first Earl of Salisbury, and inscribed ‘M^r Robert Cecilles booke’, 32 leaves (including blanks). [c.1600-12].

ff. [21r-2r]

• GrF 9: Fulke Greville, A tale put in verse by M^r Grevell (‘A tale I once did heare a true man tell’)

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, subscribed ‘finis S^r F. G’.

This MS edited in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, ‘A Newly Discovered Poem by Fulke Greville’, ELR, 9 (1979), 64-8, with a facsimile example.

First published in Hughey, Arundel Harington MS (1960), I, No. 69, pp. 113-15. Wilkes, II, 555-61, as of uncertain authorship.

f. [32r]

• PlG 19: George Peele, A Sonet (‘His Golden lockes, Time hath to Silver turn'd’)

Copy in the italic hand of Simon Willis.

First published as an appendix to Polyhymnia (London, 1590). Edited by D.H. Horne in Prouty, I, 244. The sonnet probably written by Sir Henry Lee: see Horne, pp. 169-70, and Thomas Clayton, ‘“Sir Henry Lee's Farewel to the Court”: The Texts and Authorship of “His Golden Locks Time Hath to Silver Turned”’, ELR, 4 (1974), 268-75.

[no shelfmark]

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 99: Gabriel Harvey, Harvey, Gabriel. Gabrielis Harvej Ciceronianus, Vel Oratio post reditum, habita Cantabrigiae ad suos Auditores (London, 1577)

Stern, p. 219.

[no shelfmark]

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 101: Gabriel Harvey, Harvey, Gabriel. Gratulationum Valdinensium quatuor (London, 1578)

Stern, pp. 219-20.