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DD/AH/51/1

A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional hands including that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 209 leaves (including blanks), in modern half-vellum marbled boards.

Among the papers of the Acland Hood family, of Fairfield, Stogursey.

Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 350. Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 261 (No. 105), with facsimile examples on pp. 144-5.

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• SiP 211: Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur

Copy, in the secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, with a title-page ‘The Coppye: Off a Lre wrytten by S^r: phillipp. Sidnye, to Queene Elizabeth, Touchinge the Marryage, w^th Mounsieur, &c’. c.1625-30s.

This MS recorded (but not seen) in Feuillerat, III, 326. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 261 (No. 105.1) and p. 280 (No. 33), No. 33, with facsimiles of ff. 51v-2r on pp. 144-5.

First published in Scrinia Caeciliana: Mysteries of State & Government (London, 1663) and in Cabala: sive Scrinia Sacra (London, 1663). Feuillerat, III, 51-60. Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 46-57.

This work and its textual transmission discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), Chapter 4, pp. 109-46 (with most MSS catalogued as Nos 1-37, with comments on their textual tradition, in Appendix IV, pp. 274-80).

DD/AH/51/2

A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, largely that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 248 leaves (including blanks), in modern half-vellum marbled boards.

Among the papers of the Acland Hood family, of Fairfield, Stogursey.

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• CtR 93: 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, in the professional secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, as ‘Collected By S^r Robte Cotton knight, and Barronett’. c.1625-30s.

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 261 (No. 106.1).

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].

DD/AH/51/3

A folio composite volume of state tracts and speeches, in various professional hands, 121 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half-vellum marbled boards.

Among the papers of the Acland Hood family, of Fairfield, Stogursey.

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• BcF 512: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

Copy of Bacon's supplication on 22 April 1621, in a professional secretary hand. c.1620s.

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.

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• CtR 191: Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with alterations in another secretary hand, unascribed. c.1620s.

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.

DD/AH/51/4

A folio composite volume of state tracts and speeches, in various professional hands including the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 155 leaves, in modern half-vellum marbled boards.

Among the papers of the Acland Hood family, of Fairfield, Stogursey.

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• BcF 411: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

Copy of Bacon's speech on the naturalisation of the Scots, in a professional secretary hand. c.1620s-30s.

DD/HN/4/6/1

An octavo miscellany, including sermons, largely in two hands, written from both ends, in contemporary calf. c.1694-1717.

Inscribed names of Elizabeth and Thomas Kent.

pp. 1-66

• DaS 39.7: Samuel Daniel, The Collection of the History of England

Copy, in a small italic hand.

First part first published in London, 1612. First published complete in London, [1618?]. Grosart, IV, 69-299. V, 1-291.

DD/MI 18/81

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Ralph Winwood, May 1618, in two cursive secretary hands, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1620s.

RaW 981: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Among the papers of the Mildmay family, including those of Colonel Carew Harvey Mildmay (fl.1625-67), officer of the Jewel House, of Marks, Somerset.

Recorded in HMC, 7th Report, Part I (1879), Appendix, p. 592.

DD/MI 18/82/[1]

Copy, in two secretary hands, imperfect, lacking the beginning, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed ‘Sir Walt: Ralegh his speech at his dea[th] the 29^th october 161[8]’. c.1620s.

RaW 804: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)

Among the papers of the Mildmay family, including those of Colonel Carew Harvey Mildmay (fl.1625-67), officer of the Jewel House, of Marks, Somerset.

Recorded in HMC, 7th Report, Part I (1879), Appendix, p. 592.

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.

DD/MI/18/82/[2]

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to James I, in an italic hand, on the first page of two otherwise blank conjugate folio leaves, endorsed in pencil as being ‘His Speech before Execution...1618’. c.1620s.

RaW 982: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Recorded in HMC, 7th Report, Part I (1879), Appendix, p. 592.

DD/MI 18/88

Copy of an early 78-line version, untitled and beginning with the first two stanzas of the last book of Cynthia, on both sides of a single folio leaf. c.1620.

RaW 294: Sir Walter Ralegh, Petition to the Queen (‘My dayes delight, my spring tyme ioyes foredun’)

Among the papers of the Mildmay family, including those of Colonel Carew Harvey Mildmay (fl.1625-67), officer of the Jewel House, of Marks, Somerset.

This MS edited and discussed in Pierre Lefranc, ‘Une Nouvelle Version de la “Petition to Queen Anne” de Sir Walter Ralegh’, Annales de la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences humaines de Nice, 34 (1978), 57-67. Edited in Rudick, No. 32, pp. 72-5. Recorded in HMC, 7th Report, Part I (1879), Appendix, p. 592.

In three versions, first published in 1833, 1928, and 1978 respectively.

DD/MI/18/96

A sewn folio booklet of parliamentary speeches, in one or more professional secretary hands, twelve leaves, in a paper wrapper. c.1640.

In a bundle among the papers of the Mildmay family, including those of Colonel Carew Harvey Mildmay (fl.1625-67), officer of the Jewel House, of Marks, Somerset.

Recorded in HMC, 7th Report (1879), Appendix, p. 596.

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• RuB 133: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?15-25 April 1640

Copy, headed ‘Sir Beniamin Rudyards Speech in parliament’.

Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 297.

Speech beginning ‘There is a great dore now opened unto us of doing good...’. Variant version in Manning, pp. 148-51.

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• ElQ 302: Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601

Copy of Version II, headed ‘Queene Elizabeths speech in Parliamt’. c.1640.

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).

DD/MI Bx 19

State papers.

The documents signed by Wither cited in Allan Pritchard, ‘George Wither and the Sale of the Estate of Charles I’, MP, 77 (1979-80), 370-81.

No. 67

• *WiG 55: George Wither, Document(s)

An order signed by Wither and other Commissioners for the Sale of the Late King's Goods, addressed to Carew Mildmay, Groom of His Majesty's Jewels and Plate, demanding the delivery up certain goods, books and papers in his custody, 25 September 1649. 1649.

No. 73

• *WiG 56: George Wither, Document(s)

No. 105

• *WiG 57: George Wither, Document(s)

No. 114

• *WiG 59: George Wither, Document(s)

No. 115

• *WiG 60: George Wither, Document(s)

DD/PH/211

A tall folio guardbook of state letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 89 items, 249 leaves, in 19th-century black leather.

Among the papers of the Phelips family, of Montacute House, Somerset.

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• BcF 513: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

Copy of Bacon's submission on 19 March 1620/1, in a secretary hand, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves. c.1620s.

DD/PH/215

Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, on 34 quarto leaves, in 19th-century half black morocco gilt. c.1624-8.

BcF 174: Francis Bacon, Considerations touching a War with Spain

Among the papers of the Phelips family, of Montacute House, Somerset.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 286.

A tract dedicated to Prince Charles, beginning ‘Your Highness hath an imperial name. It was a Charles that brought the empire first into France...’. First published in Certaine Miscellany Works, ed. William Rawley (London, 1629). Spedding, XIV, 469-505.

DD/PH/221

A folio guardbook of state letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 70 items, 139 leaves.

Among the papers of the Phelips family, of Montacute House, Somerset.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 58.

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• HlJ 138: Joseph Hall, Letter(s)

Copy of an undated four-page epistle by Hall, headed ‘The Bishop of Exceter his Apology vpon a Report that went of him to bee a fauourer of Puritans Written to a frind of his liuing at the Kings Court’ and beginning ‘But can it bee thus? What? That a Divine of my Diocesse should so defile his owne nest…’, in an italic hand. c.1627?.

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• BcF 210: Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral

Copy of ‘Three Essayes of Revendge. Aduersitie [and] Innouations by the Lord S_t Alban’, in the cursive italic hand of Sir Robert Phelips (1586?-1638), politician, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves. c.1620s.

Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).

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• HrE 18: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Elegy for the Prince (‘Must he be ever dead? Cannot we add’)

Copy, in the cursive italic hand of Sir Robert Phelips (1586?-1638), politician, untitled, on both sides of a single folio leaf, endorsed ‘S^r. E^d Herbert of the prin[ce]’. c.1612-20s.

First published among ‘Sundry Funeral Elegies’ appended to Joshua Sylvester, Lachrymae Lachrymarum, 3rd edition (London, 1613). Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 22-4.

DD/SAS/C/795/SX/28

Copy, in a single professional predominantly italic hand, iv + 87 small quarto pages, in contemporary limp vellum gilt. c.1630s.

NaR 32: Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia

Inscribed in a 19th-century hand (f. i^r) ‘Found at Poundisford Park to which it was brought by the Daughter of Robert Tristram Esq Merchant of Barnstaple who died about the year 1700’, Tristram's daughter Jane being married in 1737 to Isaac Welma (b.1710) of Poundisford Park.

Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).

DD/SF/7/1/11/1

Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed ‘S^r Walter Rawleigh his speech at his death, who was beheaded in the ould [ ? ] at Westminster the 29^th of October 16i8 betweene 8 and 9 of the cloke in the morn’, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1620.

RaW 805: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)

Among the papers of the Sanford family. Formerly DD/SF C/2635, box 1, and in DD/SF/ 4514.

DD/SF/10/5/1

An octavo commonplace book of verse and prose, in two or more secretary hands, 41 leaves, in a recycled illuminated vellum music document. Inscribed (ff. 1r, 2r) ‘Samuell Watts’. Early 17th century.

Among the papers of the Sanford family. Formerly DD/SF 3970.

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• LyJ 0.2: John Lyly, Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit

Extracts.

First published in London, 1578. Bond, Vol. I. Edited by Leah Scragg, in Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit and Euphues and his England (Manchester, 2003), pp. 25-150.

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• JnB 568.8: Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels

Extract.

First published in London, 1601. Herford & Simpson, IV, 1-184.

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• SpE 7.9: Edmund Spenser, Amoretti. Sonnet LXIIII. (‘Coming to kisse her lyps, (such grace I found)’)

Copy, headed ‘In Dominam’.

Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 221-2.

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• JnB 692.5: Ben Jonson, The Poetaster

Extracts from Ovid's speeches at the end of Act I, scene i (beginning ‘The suffering plowshare or the flint may wear’), and Act V, scene ii.

First published in London, 1602. Herford & Simpson, IV, 185-325.

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• GrR 3.5: Robert Greene, Greenes Never too late

Extracts.

First published in London, 1590. Grosart, VIII.

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• RaW 540.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart’

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Wronge not sweet Empresse of my hart’.

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).

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• MrC 2.8: Christopher Marlowe, Hero and Leander (‘On Hellespont guiltie of True-loves blood’)

Copy of lines 184 (beginning ‘Love deeply grounded hardly is dissembled’), 175-6, 199-208, 223-4, 513-16.

First published in London, 1598. Bowers, II, 423-515 (p. 448). Tucker Brooke, pp. 485-548 (p. 507). Gill et al., I, 175-209. For George Chapman's continuation of the poem, see ChG 3-4.

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• RaW 285.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy, untitled.

First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, ‘The Text of Ralegh's Lyric “What is our life?”’, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.

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• LoT 15.5: Thomas Lodge, Rosalynde. Euphues Golden Legacie

Extracts of verse, beginning ‘Of all chaste birds the Phoenix doth excel’.

Gosse, I, p. 27.

First published in London, 1590. Gosse, Vol. I, last item.

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• ShW 35.5: William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis (‘Even as the sun with purple-coloured face’)

Copy of lines 17-18 (beginning ‘Here, come and sit where never serpent hisses’), 125-32, 161-8, 209-10, 215-16, 407-8, 229-40, 575-6, 755-6, 767-8, 809-10, 799-804, 833-4, 1007-8.

First published in London, 1593.

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• BaR 0.5: Richard Barnfield, The Affectionate Shepheard (‘Of all the kindes of common countrey life’)

Extract, lines 264-5.

First published in London, 1594. Grosart, pp. 1-55.

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• ChG 4.5: George Chapman, Hero and Leander

Copy of the Third Sestiad, lines 35-6, beginning ‘Joy, graven in sense, like snow in water wastes’.

Chapman's continuation of Marlowe's poem (Sestiads III-VI). First published in London, 1598. Bartlett, pp. 132-70.

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• SpE 9.9: Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

Copy of Book 5, Canto 8, stanza 1, and Book 6, Canto 11, stanza 1.

Books I-III first published in London, 1590. Books IV-VI published in London, 1596. Variorum, Vols I-VI.

DD/SF/12/43/3

An indenture signed by both Rochester and his wife Elizabeth, 21 August 1672. With other family documents. 1672.

*RoJ 667: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Document(s)

Formerly DD/SF 990.

DD/SF/18/2/5

A bundle of unbound poems and songs, in various hands and paper sizes.

Among the papers of the Sanford family. Formerly DD/SF C/2635, Box 1 and DD/SF 4516.

item 1

• DrW 117.48: William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge (‘From such a face quois excellence’)

Copy, in a mixed hand, in double columns, headed ‘The Senses’, on one side of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1620s.

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.

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• RaW 411: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘ICUR, good Mounser Carr’

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on the fourth page of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. Early 17th century.

First published in Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, ed. Frederick J. Furnivall, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted in New York, 1977), p. 20. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 48, p. 121 (as ‘Sir Walter Raleigh to the Lord Carr’).

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• CoR 14: Richard Corbett, Against the Opposing the Duke in Parliament, 1628 (‘The wisest King did wonder when hee spy'd’)

Copy, in a mixed hand, untitled but headed ‘Docter Corbett’, on one side of a single folio leaf. c.1620s.

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.

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• CoR 52: Richard Corbett, A Certaine Poeme As it was presented in Latine by Divines and Others, before his Maiestye in Cambridge (‘It is not yet a fortnight, since’)

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, in double columns, headed ‘A Grave poem...[etc.]’, unascribed, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1620s.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.

Some texts accompanied by an ‘Answer’ (‘A ballad late was made’).

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• HoJ 228: John Hoskyns, S^r Fra: Bacon. L: Verulam. Vicount S^t Albons (‘Lord Verulam is very lame, the gout of go-out feeling’)

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untited, here beginning Greate Verulame is very lame y^e goute of gorout feeling, on the fourth page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1620s.

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

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• KiH 133: Henry King, The Defence (‘Why slightest thou what I approve?’)

Copy of lines 1-8, in a mixed hand, untitled, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse, once folded as a letter or packet. Mid-17th century.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 145-6.

DD/TB/11/14

A bundle of unbound miscellaneous papers. Late 17th century.

Among the papers of the Carew family, of Crowcombe Court, Somerset.

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• MaA 353: Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter (‘Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight’)

Copy, in an italic hand, on all ten pages of five quarto leaves, imperfect, lacking half the second leaf. Late 17th century.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.

The case for Marvell's authorship supported in George deF. Lord, ‘Two New Poems by Marvell?’, BNYPL, 62 (1958), 551-70, but see also discussion by Lord and Ephim Fogel in Vol. 63 (1959), 223-36, 292-308, 355-66. Marvell's authorship supported in Annabel Patterson, ‘The Second and Third Advices-to-the-Painter’, PBSA, 71 (1977), 473-86. Discussed also in Margoliouth, I, 348-50, and in Chernaik, p. 211, where Marvell's authorship is considered doubtful. A case for Sir John Denham's authorship is made in Brendan O Hehir, Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 212-28.

DD/TB/18/24

A folio volume of parliamentary speeches and proceedings in 1628-9, in a single small mixed hand, 44 leaves, in a paper wrapper. c.1630.

Among the papers of the Carew family, of Crowcombe Court, Somerset.

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• RuB 51: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.2-9 April 1628

Copy, headed ‘S^r. Beniamine Ruddierds Speech the 9^th day of Aprill 1628’

Speech beginning ‘The best thanks we can return his Ma^tie for his gracious and religious answer...’.

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• RuB 79: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 28 April 1628

Copy, headed ‘S^r Beniamin Ruddierds Speech the Eight and twentieth day of Aprill 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.

DD/WO/53/3/26

Copy. Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled, here beginning ‘here lyes hobblenole our Sheapeard whileare’, with other verses on Cecil, on the first page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, in a bundle of unbound miscellaneous papers. Early 17th century.

RaW 374.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, Epitaph on the Earl of Salisbury (‘Here lies Hobinall, our Pastor while ere’)

Among papers of the related Trevelyan and Willoughby families.

First published in Francis Osborne, Traditionall Memoyres on the raigne of King Iames (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 735-6. Latham, p. 53.

Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, p. 146, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.

DD/WO/53/5/13

A pair of conjugate folio leaves of verse, in a secretary hand, in a bundle of unbound miscellaneous papers. c.1620s.

Among papers of the related Trevelyan and Willoughby families

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• HoJ 269: John Hoskyns, Convivium philosophicum (‘Quilibet si sit contentus’)

Copy, in double columns, endorsed in another hand (p. [4]) ‘Latine verses made at A Philosophicall Banquet’.

Osborn, No. XXVIII (pp. 196-9), with an English version (beginning ‘Whosoever is contented’), on pp. 288-91.

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• DrW 117.49: William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge (‘From such a face quois excellence’)

Copy, in double columns, headed ‘The fiue Sences’.

DD/WO/56/9/14.2

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on a quarto leaf, imperfect, lacking all the right half of the page, in a bundle of unbound verse and miscellaneous papers. Late 16th-early 17th century.

RaW 496.8: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘The state of Fraunce as nowe it standes’

Among papers of the related Trevelyan and Willoughby families.

First published in A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1808), III, 78. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172. Rudick, No. 30, p. 71. EV 24294.