DR 18/20/21/1
Autograph travel journal, on 46 small quarto leaves, chiefly on rectos, with occasional brief memoranda on versos, in grey wrappers. In Cassandra Willoughby's legible cursive hand throughout, entitled ‘An Account of ye Journeys I have taken & where I have been since March 1695’, recording details of her travels in England from 11 March 1695 to 29 April 1718, including numerous towns and country houses in Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Berkshire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire, and London.
*WiC 10: Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess of Chandos, Travel journal
In the Gloucestershire Papers among papers of the Leigh family, Barons Leigh, of Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire, and Adlestrop and Longborough, Gloucestershire.
This MS edited in Elizabeth Hagglund, ‘An Account of the Journeys I have Taken & where I have been since March 1695’: The Travel Journal of Cassandra Willoughby, A Critical Edition (MA dissertation, University of Birmingham, 1996). Facsimile examples in Joan Johnson, Excellent Cassandra: The Life and Times of the Duchess of Chandos (Gloucester, 1980), pp. 50-1, 54.
DR 18/20/21/2
Autograph small quarto notebook cum letterbook, in Cassandra Willoughby's legible, cursive hand throughout, written from both ends, 50 leaves (including 26 blanks), in grey wrappers. Including (ff. [1r-17v rev.]) her copies of fifteen letters by Cassandra Willoughby to her brother, Richard Child, Lady Child, Mrs Brabazon, Mrs Bullock, Mrs North, the Marchioness of Worcester, and two unnamed correspondents, six of the letters bearing dates from 1 January 1694 to May 1706; (ff. [2r, 3r])her ‘Reflection why all people fear Death’, dated at ‘Wollaton Au: ye- 18th- 1700’; and (ff. [4r, 5r, 6r, 7r]) ‘Why Children are not free & easie in ye Company of those they are subject to, as well as wth their equalls in youth, or servants’. c.1694-1701.
*WiC 12: Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess of Chandos, Letter(s)
In the Gloucestershire Papers among the papers of the Leigh family, Barons Leigh, of Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire, and Adlestrop and Longborough, Gloucestershire.
Edited in O' Day, pp. 331-41. Facsimiles of two letters dated 1696 and 1698 in Joan Johnson, Excellent Cassandra: The Life and Times of the Duchess of Chandos (Gloucester, 1980), p. 10.
DR 18/20/21/3
Notebook, written from both ends, comprising eighteen octavo leaves of writing, a portion of another leaf, stubs of at least eight excised leaves of writing, and 29 blanks, in contemporary brown calf. A series of financial accounts, principally compiled by Lettice Wendy, many ‘since my Deare Husband Dyed’, dating from 1673 to 1692; also with a loosely inserted one-page quarto letter to her ‘worthy cosen signed’ signed by Lettice Ottley, from Pitchford, 20 December 1658. c.1673-92.
In the Gloucestershire Papers among the papers of the Leigh family, Barons Leigh, of Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire, and Adlestrop and Longborough, Gloucestershire.
ff. [8v-12r]
• *WiC 9: Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess of Chandos, Family History
Autograph copies by Cassandra Willoughby of accounts of the Willoughby family of Wollaton, dated 1513, 1553, 1587, and 1597.
Cassandra Willoughby's An Account of the Willughby's of Wollaton, in two volumes, unfinished and unpublished in full. The greater part of Vol. I edited in HMC, Lord Middleton, Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire (1911), pp. 504-608. Volume II edited as The Continuation of the History of the Willoughby Family by Cassandra Duchess of Chandos, ed. A.C. Wood (Eton, Windsor, 1958).
DR 18/26/6, ‘Early Letters etc. 17th Century’, [unnumbered item]
Copy, in a neat hand, headed ‘The Chequer Inne’, on all four pages of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th century.
MaA 80.5: Andrew Marvell, A Ballad call'd the Chequer Inn (‘I'll tell thee Dick where I have beene’)
Among the Leigh papers of Stoneleigh, Warwickshire.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Margoliouth, I, 201-8. POAS, I, 252-62. Rejected from the canon by Lord.
DR 18/26/6 (Part), [quarto-size box, unnumbered item]
A small quarto booklet of Restoration verse and prose, in a single non-professional hand, ii + 32 leaves (including a few blanks), in contemporary limp vellum, inscribed on the front cover ‘State Lampoons &c.’ and on the rear cover ‘begunn March 1668’. c.1668-85.
Among the Leigh papers of Stoneleigh, Warwickshire. Inscribed names of William Leigh and of Thomas Leigh (1652-1710), Baron Leigh (‘E. Libris Tho: Leigh 1684/5’).
ff. [8r-9r]
• BrT 5.9: Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received Tenents, and commonly presumed Truths
Extracts, headed ‘Observations out of Dcr Browns Vulgar Errors’.
First published in London, 1646. Wilkin, vols II and III, 1-374. Keynes, Vol. II. Robbins (2 vols).
See BrT 29, BrT 32, and BrT 43.
ff. [9v-10r]
• MaA 210.9: Andrew Marvell, On the Monument (‘When Hodge first spy'd the labour in vaine’)
Copy.
First published, as ‘On the Monument upon Fish-street Hill’, in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), p. 27. Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1703-4).
ff. [15r-18r]
• DoC 356.8: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell (‘Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age’)
Copy, headed ‘Rochester's Farewell to D. Cantab.’.
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 Ld Dorset’ in Pope's exemplum of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (London, 1705), British Library, C.28.e.15, p. 121.
ff. [18v-21r]
• MaA 81: Andrew Marvell, A Ballad call'd the Chequer Inn (‘I'll tell thee Dick where I have beene’)
Copy, without ‘The Answer’, headed ‘The Chequer 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.
DR 37/3/42
Copy of substantial parts of Leland's autograph MS (LeJ 54), largely in a neat secretary hand, the dedication ‘To my Soverayne Leige king Henry the eight’ in another secretary hand, i + 71 quarto leaves (plus blanks at the end), in contemporary limp vellum, inscribed on the cover ‘Lelands Itinerary’. Written or compiled by Sir Simon Archer (1581-1662), magistrate and antiquary, of Tanworth, Warwickshire. c.1628.
LeJ 87.2: John Leland, The Itinerary of John Leland [Other transcripts and extracts]
DR 37/3/43
A folio composite volume, largely a copy of substantial parts of The Itinerary, partly from Leland's autograph MS (LeJ 54), partly from a MS once in the custody of John Hales, MP (1516?-72), of Coventry, in two or more secretary hands, 138 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary limp vellum, inscribed on the cover ‘A copy of some of Lelandes Antiquityes’. Written or compiled by Sir Simon Archer (1581-1662), magistrate and antiquary, of Tanworth, Warwickshire. Late 16th century - 1640.
LeJ 87.5: John Leland, The Itinerary of John Leland [Other transcripts and extracts]
Some scribbling including the names ‘Johannes Rowse of Faye’ and ‘William Barsewell’.
DR 37/3/44
A folio volume, entitled A booke of Armes in ordenaries made in the time of King Edw. 3: comonly called Jenninges his booke, of one Tho: Jenninges the first discoverer thereof in the beginning of the raigne of Queene Elizabeth, in one or more cursive secretary hands, partly in double columns, with an index at the end, vi + 42 leaves (plus three loosly inserted leaves and some blanks), in contemporary limp vellum. Partly compiled or owned by Sir Simon Archer (1581-1662), magistrate and antiquary, of Tanworth, Warwickshire, whose arms are stamped on the front cover.
Inscribed ‘Liber Willemi Burton Lindlisci Leicestrensis socij Interioris Templi Londoni: 1609’i.e. William Burton (1575-1645), Leicestershire antiquary, of the Inner Temple.
ff. [20v-1r] cols 44-7
• LeJ 47.5: John Leland, Collectanea [Other transcripts and extracts]
Copy of ‘Walford's’ roll of arms, transcribed from LeJ 16 (first volume).
DR 709/82
Papers of A.H. Bullen (1857-1920), editor and publisher, for his unfinished edition of of the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher. c.1900s.
B&F 217: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Editorial papers
ER 82/1/21
A portion of a commonplace book, largely in a single cursive secretary hand, compiled by Edward Pudsey (1573-1613), comprising four quarto leaves. These leaves are detached from a commonplace book, the major part of which is Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. d. 3. c.1604-9.
Among the papers of Richard Savage (1847-1924), antiquarian, Secretary and Librarian of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in 1884.
A facsimile of this MS portion is in the Bodleian, MS Facs. d. 155, ff. 150-3.
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• DkT 42: Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore, Part I
Extracts, headed ‘Conurted curtes.’
First published in London, 1604. Bowers, II, 1-130.
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• ShW 45: William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Extracts, on both sides of one of four leaves now detached.
Edied from this MS in Savage, Shakespearean Extracts, pp. 51-80.
First published in London, 1603.
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• ShW 68: William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing
Extracts.
Edited from this MS in Savage, Shakespearean Extracts, pp. 32-50.
First published in London, 1600.
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• ShW 73: William Shakespeare, Othello
Extracts, copied presumably after an early performance, untitled.
This MS discussed in Philip Howard, ‘Purple passages from the early days of Othello’, The Times (25 June 1977), p. 14, and quoted in Othello, ed. E.A.J. Honigmann, Arden Shakespeare (Walton-on-Thames, 1997), pp. 388-9.
First published in London, 1622.
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• ShW 80: William Shakespeare, Richard II
Extracts.
Edited from this MS in Savage, Shakespearean Extracts, pp. 23-7.
First published in London, 1597.
[1/3]
• ShW 83: William Shakespeare, Richard III
Extracts.
Edited from this MS in Savage, Shakespearean Extracts, pp. 28-31.
First published in London, 1597.
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• ShW 87: William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Extracts.
This MS continues the text from ShW 86 as edited in Savage.
First published in London, 1597.
ER 93/1
A small octavo prose miscellany, compiled by Sir Francis Fane (c.1612-80), ii + 242 pages (plus 182 blank pages). Inscribed by Fane to his son, as a book of travels to comfort him, dated from Aston, 1 January ‘1655’. One later entry dated 1659. c.1650s.
Sold by Maggs, 29 May 1930.
pp. [3-16]
• EsR 176: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, First Letter of Advice to the Earl of Rutland
Copy, untitled, the letter dated 4 January [no year] and subscribed ‘H: S:’.
The letter, dated from Greenwich, 4 January [1596], beginning ‘My Lord, I hold it for a principle in the course of intelligence of state...’.
First published, as ‘The Late E. of E. his aduice to the E. of R. in his trauels’, in Profitable Instructions; Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 27-73. Francis Bacon, Resuscitatio (London, 1657), pp. 106-10. Spedding, IX, 6-15. W.B. Devereux, Lives and Letters of the Devereux, Earls of Essex (1853), I, No. xciii.
Essex's three letters to Rutland discussed by Paul E.J. Hammer in ‘The Earl of Essex, Fulke Greville, and the Employment of Scholars’, SP. 91/2 (Spring, 1994), 167-80, and in ‘Letters of Travel Advice from the Earl of Essex to the Earl of Rutland: Some Comments’, PQ, 74/3 (Summer 1995), 317-22. It is likely that the first letter was written substantially by Francis Bacon.
p. 180
• RaW 739.4: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)
Brief notes on Ralegh's execution made by Sir Francis Fane. c.1655.
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.
ER 93/2
A small quarto miscellany of anecdotes, aphorisms, verses, etc., in two hands, compiled by Sir Francis Fane (c.1612-80), 193 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Inscribed by Fane on f. 1r ‘Aug: 24: 1629 / Franciscus Fane’ and, later, as a bequest to his three grandsons to be read by them when aged 21, dated from Fulbeck, 5 May 1672. c.1629-72.
Sold by Maggs, 29 May 1930.
f. 1v
• BrT 0.91: Sir Thomas Browne, Colloquy with God (‘The night is come like to the day’)
Copy.
First published in Religio Medici, where Browne describes it as ‘the dormitive I take to bedward…to make me sleepe’. Published later, in an anonymous musical setting, in Harmonia Sacra, II (1693). Keynes, I, 89-90.
f. 143v
• CoA 295: Abraham Cowley, Extracts
Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.
f. 157v
• JnB 551: Ben Jonson, To William Camden (‘Camden, most reuerend head, to whom I owe’)
Copy, headed ‘Ben: Johnsons Epigram on himself’.
First published in Epigrammes (xiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 31.
f. 157v
• JnB 406: Ben Jonson, On My First Sonne (‘Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and ioy’)
Copy of lines 9-12, headed ‘Bens Epitaph on his eldest son dyinge in Infancy’ and here beginning ‘Rest in soft peace and Ask't, say heare doth lye’.
First published in Epigrammes (xlv) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 41.
f. 161v
• MaA 297: Andrew Marvell, Upon his House (‘Here lies the sacred Bones’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Clarendon house’.
First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 146-7. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.
f. 187v
• RoJ 344.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II (‘I' th' isle of Britain long since famous grown’)
Copy of a four-line extracted version, beginning ‘Wee have a Very Gratious K:’.
Edited from this MS in Love, p. 90.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 60-1. Walker, pp. 74-5. Love (five versions), pp. 85-6, 86-7, 88, 89-90, 90. The manuscript texts discussed, with detailed collations, in Harold Love, ‘Rochester's “I' th' isle of Britain”: Decoding a Textual Tradition’, EMS, 6 (1997), 175-223.
f. 190r
• DkT 34: Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall (‘The Queene was brought by water to White Hall’)
Copy, headed ‘On Queene Elizabeth’.
First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, ‘Poems by William Camden’, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.
f. 190v
• StW 336: William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter (‘A fitter Match hath never bin’)
Copy.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.
f. 190v
• WoH 195.8: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife (‘He first deceased. she for a little tried’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon tow louers contracted but dyed both before marriage’.
First published as an independent couplet in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), p. 44. The authorship is uncertain.
This couplet, which was subject to different versions over the years, is in fact lines 5-6 of a twelve-line poem beginning ‘Here lye two Bodyes happy in their kinds’, which has also been attributed to George Herbert: see HrG 290.5-290.8.
f. 191v
• RaW 122.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Excuse (‘Calling to minde mine eie long went about’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, p. 10. Rudick, Nos 9A and 9B (two versions, pp. 9-10).
f. 192v
• HrJ 295: Sir John Harington, Of writing with double pointing (‘Dames are indude with vertues excellent?’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in 1618, Book I, Nos. 33 and 35. McClure Nos. 34 and 36, pp. 161-2. Kilroy, Book I, No. 65, pp. 116-17.
f. 192v
• PeW 12: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘Disdain me still, that I may ever love’
Copy, untitled.
ER 131
Copy, entitled ‘The Book called the lord of Leicesters Comon wealthe’ with the date 1584 on the title-page, 111 folio pages, in modern vellum boards. In probably two or more hands, a neat predominantly italic hand (pp. 1-7) and at least one cursive mixed hand (pp. 7-111), with a secretary hand adding the meditation on Job on the last page. Late 16th-early 17th century.
LeC 70: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth
Donated 15 May 1938 by Miss Mary de Winton and Miss Katherine Ede Winton, of Priory Hill House, Brecon, having been owned nearly sixty years earlier by Mrs Lewes Gibbs.
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.
ER 149/27
A quarto miscellany of verse, prose, orations and drama relating to the University of Cambridge, 56 leaves (plus eight blanks). Fols [1r-45v] in a single neat unprofessional hand, ff. [46r-56r] in another hand; imperfect at the beginning (lacking the first three acts of George Ruggles's Latin play Ignoramus). c.1627.
ff. [34r-6v]
• RnT 437: Thomas Randolph, Oratio
Copy of the complete work), with a general heading ‘Thom[a]e Randolphi’ and concluding with a Latin quatrain (‘Si sumpto sale probè sapiatis…’), on six pages.
Edited from this MS in Freidberg.
The Latin preface to Randolph's ‘Salting’ (RnT 444), beginning ‘Erga vos (viri gravissimi) filijs pietatem didici, sed quid demum sed ignotu hoc patris officium prorsus nescio…’. Edited in Elizabeth Ann Perryman Freidberg, Certain Small Festivities: The Texts and Contexts of Thomas Randolph's Poems and Cambridge Entertainments (unpublished PhD dissertation, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, June 1994), I, 75-9, with an English translation on pp. 97-101.
ff. [37r-45v]
• RnT 444: Thomas Randolph, Tom Randolf's Salting
Copy of the complete 545-line version of Randolph's humorous poetical monologue on an undergraduate initiation ceremony at Trinity College, Cambridge, in the autumn term of 1627, untitled, here beginning ‘No salting heere these many yeares was seene’, concluding with an eight-line Latin poem (‘Sed nimis sim iocator…’) and subscribed ‘Thomas Randolph’, on eighteen pages; the text preceded in the MS by RnT 437.
A humorous academic Lent graduation ceremony, beginning ‘No salting heere these many yeares was seene...’. First published (a short version) in Roslyn Richek, ‘Thomas Randolph's Salting (1627), Its Text, and John Milton's Sixth Prolusion as Another Salting’, ELR, 12 (1982), 102-31. The complete version edited in Elizabeth Ann Perryman Freidberg, Certain Small Festivities: The Texts and Contexts of Thomas Randolph's Poems and Cambridge Entertainments (unpublished PhD dissertation, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, June 1994), I, 79-96.
Halliwell-Phillipps, ‘Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare’
Cuttings from an anthology, in a mixed hand, originally at least 1028 pages long, entitled Hesperides, or the Muses Garden, now pasted into 61 of a collection of 128 Shakespearian scrapbooks formed by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. A version of the unpublished anthology Hesperides or The Muses Garden, by John Evans, entered in the Stationers' Register on 16 August 1655 and subsequently advertised by Humphrey Moseley, c.1660, among works he purposed to print. Other portions of this MS are Folger MS V.a.75, Folger MS V.a.79 and Folger MS V.a.80, and another version of this compilation, in the same hand, is Folger MS V.b.93. c.1655-6.
Formerly in the Shakespeare Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Discussed in Gunnar Sorelius, ‘An Unknown Shakespearian Commonplace Book’, The Library, 5th Ser. 28 (1973), 294-308. See also Hao Tianhu, ‘Hesperides, or the Muses' Garden and its Manuscript History’, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/4 (December 2009), 372-404, with a facsimile example on p. 378 and a list of headings in the MS given on pp. 402-4.
Facsimile examples of this MS are also in The Works of William Shakespeare, ed. James O. Halliwell, 16 vols (London 1853-65), I, 395; II, facing p. 177; III, facing pp. 51, 133; IV, facing p. 184; V, facing p. 308; VI, facing p. 471; VII, facing p. 128.
passim
• ShW 48.5: William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Parts I and II
Cuttings from pages of a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663), marked up as promptbooks for use by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. c.1670s.
Discussed in Gunnar Sorelius, ‘The Smock Alley Prompt-Books of 1 and 2 Henry IV’, Shakespeare Quarterly, 22 (1971), 111-28.
1 Henry IV first published in London, 1598. 2 Henry IV first published in London, 1600.
passim
• ShW 113: William Shakespeare, Extracts
Extracts from various plays.
A facsimile of a quotation from Henry V in Tianhu, p. 378.