CELM: St John's College, Cambridge

Aa. 6. 20

A printed exemplum, with Ascham's autograph inscription to Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop of Durham. c.1552.

*AsR 3.8: Roger Ascham, Osorio da Fonseca, Jeronimo. De nobilitate civili (Florence, 1552)

Facsimile of the inscription in Alfred Fairbank and Bruce Dickins, The Italic Hand in Tudor Cambridge, Cambridge Bibliographical Society, Monograph No.5 (London, 1962), Plate 7.

Aa. 6. 20*

A printed exemplum, with Ascham's autograph inscription to Cardinal Reginald Pole. 1552.

*AsR 3.9: Roger Ascham, Osorio da Fonseca, Jeronimo. De nobilitate civili (Florence, 1552)

MS H. 15 (James 281), No. 2

Copy, on 231 quarto pages. c.1630s-42.

BrT 14: Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici

Later owned by Bainbridge Dean (b.1663/4), of St John's College, Cambridge.

This MS recorded and collated in part by Denonain (1953) and subsequent editors.

First published (unauthorised edition) [in London], 1642. Authorised edition published [in London], 1643. Wilkin, II, 1-158. Keynes, I, 1-93. Edited by Jean-Jacques Denonain (Cambridge, 1953). Martin, pp. 1-80. Endicott, pp. 1-89.

MS I. 4. (James 305)

A folio composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, in vellum boards.

Later owned by Thomas Wagstaffe (1645-1712), nonjuror bishop, and by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary.

ff. [2r-11v]

• RaW 565: Sir Walter Ralegh, Apology for his Voyage to Guiana

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘S^r: Walter Rawleghe his apologie’, apparently transcribed by of for one A. Throkmorton for an aristocratic friend a (knight), with Throkmorton's accompanying letter (on f. 1r-v) sending this ‘pleadinge Appologye’ and commenting on the morals it exemplifies, dated 31 October 1618. 1618.

A tract beginning ‘If the ill success of this enterprise of mine had been without example...’. First published in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 477-507. Edited by V. T. Harlow in Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 316-34.

MSS I. 5, 6 (James 306, 307)

Autograph draft, with copious autograph revisions, ff. 283r-6r in the hand of an amanuensis, 327 folio leaves, written on rectos only, bound in two volumes, in contemporary vellum. Inscribed at the beginning of the second volume (f. [i^v]) ‘Authore Ed. Herbert...1619’ and at the end (f. 327r) ‘Parisji consum. 20/30 Juni. 1623’. c.1619-23.

*HrE 112: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, De veritate

Later owned by Thomas Wagstaffe (1645-1712), nonjuror bishop, and by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary.

These MSS discussed in Rossi, III, 417, and in Gawlick, p. xiii.

First published in Paris, 1624. Translated by Meyrick H. Carré (Bristol, 1937). Facsimile of the London edition of 1645 introduced by Günter Gawlick (Stuttgart, 1966).

MS I. 7 (James 308)

Copy of the Old Arcadia, in a professional secretary hand, to which is added some of the Certain Sonnets in an italic hand, 242 folio leaves, in contemorary vellum, with traces of ties, within modern vellum. Late 16th century.

Inscribed (f. 3r) ‘Will. Walker of Chiswick in Middlesex bought this Booke among other Manuscripts of the Executor of S^r Edmonde Scorie Knight And now possesses it AD 1633.’ and (f. 239v) ‘This Manuscript w^th many others were bought of M^r Busbie executor to Sr Edmonde Scorie Knight by Will. Walker Theol. Bac:’. Later owned by Thomas Wagstaffe (1645-1712), nonjuror bishop, and by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary.

ff. 1r-239v

• SiP 102: Sir Philip Sidney, The Old Arcadia

Copy of the complete text, with some corrections in a later hand.

Edited from this MS in Robertson. The poems collated in Ringler. Described in Ringler, pp. 528-9.

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.

f. 241r-2

• SiP 43: Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 19 (‘If I could thinke how these my thoughts to leave’)

Copy, in a second secretary hand, untitled.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Ringler, pp. 147-8.

f. 241r

• SiP 32: Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 6 (‘Sleepe Babie mine, Desire, nurse Beautie singeth’)

Copy, headed ‘To the tune of Basciam vita mia’.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Ringler, p. 139.

f. 241r-v

• SiP 30: Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 5 (‘O my thoughtes' sweete foode, my onely owner’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Ringler, p. 138.

f. 241v

• SiP 29: Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 3 (‘The fire to see my wrongs for anger burneth’)

Copy, headed ‘Non credo gia che piu infelice am'te’.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Ringler, pp. 136-7.

f. 242r

• SiP 58: Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 30 (‘Ring out your belles, let mourning shewes be spread’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Ringler, pp. 159-61.

MS K. 38 (James 347)

A quarto academic miscellany, in English and Latin, in a single hand, associated with Oxford, iv + 206 + iv pages, in half-leather marbled boards. Mid-late 17th century.

A doubtful later inscription (p. 23) ‘Common-Place -book by G [altered in pencil to H] Vaughan’. Given to the library in 1877 by Professor J.E.B. Mayor.

pp. 146-8

• CoR 774: Richard Corbett, A speech made by Doctor Corbet Bpp of Norwich to the Clergie of his Diocesse about theire Benevolence for the repayre of S^t Paules Church London [29 April] Anno domini 1634

Copy.

Sermon, beginning ‘My worthy freinds & brethren of the Clergy, I did not send for you before, though I had a commission...’, first published in James Peller Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum, 4 vols (London, 1802-7), II (1803), 77-80. Edited (with omissions) in Gilchrist, pp. xli-xlviii.

MS K. 40 (James 349)

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, vi + 210 + iii pages, in red morocco gilt. c.1680s-90s.

Owned (and possibly partly written) in 1689 by Samuel Clark; by Christopher Dalton, of Acorn Bank, Westmorland; on 30 December 1796 by George Ashby (1724-1808), of Barrow, President of St John's College, Cambridge; and (in 1791) by Sir Isaac Pennington (1745-1817), physician and chemist, also President of St John's College, Cambridge, who bequeathed it to the college.

ff. 175r-171r rev.

• MaA 519: Andrew Marvell, His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament, 13 April 1675

Copy, untitled.

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

MS K. 56 (James 542)

A collection of unbound state papers, now in folders. c.1628.

Donated in 1921 by Dr J. R. Tanner.

No. 21

• HlJ 29: Joseph Hall, Episcopal Admonition, Sent in a Letter to the House of Commons, April 28, 1628

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘A Letter sent by the bishop of Exeter to the house of Commons 28th Ap: 1628’, on a single folio leaf, imperfect. c.1628.

See HlJ 17-30.

No. 30

• CoR 12.8: Richard Corbett, Against the Opposing the Duke in Parliament, 1628 (‘The wisest King did wonder when hee spy'd’)

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, with a side-note ‘Ecles: 10’, endorsed ‘Vpon dissolucon of the Parliam^te. A^o quinto Re Caroli’, on a single folio leaf.

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.

No. 55

• CtR 192: Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy

Copy, in a secretary hand, unattributed, on seven pages of four folio leaves. 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.

No. 64

• RnT 234: Thomas Randolph, On the Fall of the Mitre Tavern in Cambridge (‘Lament, lament, ye Scholars all’)

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed ‘Verses on y^e Mitre Taverne in Cambridge &.’, with side-notes and glosses, on one side of a small, mutilated quarto leaf. c.1633-5.

This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury.

First published in Wit & Drollery (London, 1656), p. 68. Thorn-Drury, pp. 160-2.

No. 65

• CoR 365.5: Richard Corbett, A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine (‘I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd’)

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, here beginning ‘I have heard of Ilands flotinge and remoud’, on the first two pages of two conjugate folio leaves of verse relating to Corbett, endorsed ‘Do^r. Corbetts verses’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.

No. 67

• StW 1187: William Strode, The Townes new teacher (‘With Face and Fashion to bee knowne’)

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled but endorsed ‘The Townes new teacher’, on one side of a single folio leaf. c.1630.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Forey, pp. 167-9.

No. 73

• RaW 374: Sir Walter Ralegh, Epitaph on the Earl of Salisbury (‘Here lies Hobinall, our Pastor while ere’)

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled and here beginning ‘Here lyes Hobbynoll o^r shepheard whileere’, with two other poems on Cecil's death, on one side of a half-folio leaf. c.1612.

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.

[unspecified item number]

• RnT 588: Thomas Randolph, Verses upon the Vicechaun: pulling downe ye signes (‘The Vicechauncelour doth like y^e sunne appeare’)

Copy.

Tentatively attributed to Randolph in Moore Smith (1927), p. 113.

MS L. 1 (James 235)

Copy, in an early 17th-century hand, transcribed from the printed edition of 1602, bound (on ff. 121v-8v) with an early 15th-century copy of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseide, 129 folio-size leaves of vellum in all. Early 17th century.

HnR 29: Robert Henryson, The Testament of Cresseid (‘Ane doolie sessoun to ane cairfull dyte’)

This MS collated in Wood. Recorded in Fox.

Possibly first published c.1508. First known publication in Workes of Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. William Thynne (London, 1532). Wood, pp. 105-26. Fox, pp. 111-31.

MS L. 3 (James 360)

Autograph fair copy, entitled ‘Expositiones quaedam antiquae in Epistolam Divi Pauli ad Philemonem ex diversis Sanctorum Patrum graece scriptis commentariis opera et diligentia Oecumenii collectae et nunc primum latine versae’; with a dedication to John Seton, and presented to him on 1 January 1542/3. 1543.

*AsR 1: Roger Ascham, Expositiones in epistolam Divi Pauli ad Philemonem

This MS recorded in Ryan, Roger Ascham, p. 301.

Facsimiles of the title-page and f. 6r in Alfred Fairbank and Berthold Wolpe, Renaissance Handwriting: An Anthology of Italic Scripts (London, 1960), plate 34. A transcript of the dedication to Seton made by Thomas Baker (1656-1740) is in Cambridge University Library, MS Mm. 1. 43, pp. 535-7.

Ascham's Latin translation of Oecumenius's collection of Greek commentaries on St Paul's Epistle to Philemon. First published in Apologia pro caena dominica, ed. E. Grant (London, 1577).

MS L. 7 (James 364)

A MS, chiefly autograph, partly in the hand of an amanuensis, mainly a fair copy with revisions, partly a first draft, of a 192-stanza poem incorporating The Induction and The Complaint of Henry Duke of Buckingham (published in 1563), plus an unfinished draft of what is possibly an Epilogue to the poem (beginning ‘Be this phaeton whirled within his cart’). c.1557.

*SaT 1: Thomas Sackville, The Complaint of Henry Duke of Buckingham (‘Who trustes to much in honours highest trone’)

Additional passages in the MS first published in Marguerite Hearsey, ‘The MS. of Sackville's Contribution to the Mirror for Magistrates’, RES, 8 (1932), 282-90. The whole MS edited, with facsimiles of three pages, by Marguerite Hearsey (New Haven, 1936). Facsimiles of two pages in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 10-11, and in DLB, vol. 132, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. First Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1993), pp. 260-1.

The Induction and The Complaint of...Buckingham first published in A Myrrour for Magistrates, 2nd edition (London, 1563).

MS L. 11 (James 366)

Copy, in two probably non-professional secretary hands, the title-page bearing the date 1584, 294 quarto leaves, in old reversed calf. Early 17th century.

LeC 72: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

Inscribed ‘Ex dono Dignissimi viri Joannis Bagford noti in Historiâ Typographica’ [i.e. by John Bagford (1650/1-1716), bookseller and antiquary], and ‘Ex dono T. Baker’ [i.e. by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary].

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

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.

MS S. 11 (James 408)

Copy, in a single neat hand, on sxteeni quarto leaves, in modern half-calf. c.1620s-30s.

BcF 62.8: Francis Bacon, An Advertisement touching the Controversies of the Church of England

A tract beginning ‘It is but ignorance if any man find it strange that the state of religion (especially in the days of peace) should be exercised...’. First published as A Wise and Moderate Discourse concerning Church-Affaires ([London], 1641). Spedding, VIII, 74-95.

MS S. 17 (James 411)

A quarto commonplace book, c.360 pages (including numerous blanks), in contemporary calf. Inscribed (p. 99) ‘J: Alsop Darbiensem’: i.e. John Allsop (b.c.1668), Fellow of St John's Collee, Cambridge, who is probably the compiler. c.1688.

p. 117

• PeW 257: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman (‘Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression’)

Copy of the shorter version, headed ‘y^e Maids Deniall’ and here beginning ‘Nay pish, nay phew, and will you? phie’.

Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed ‘P.’. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as ‘A Paradox of a Painted Face’, among ‘Poems attributed to Donne in MSS’. Also ascribed to James Shirley.

A shorter version, beginning ‘Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie’, was first published, as ‘A Maids Denyall’, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].

MS S. 23 (James 416)

A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Thomas Carew, probably in a single accomplished hand (changing to two styles of italic on ff. 42v-4v, 5r-60r, 76r-v), i + 89 leaves (including blanks, stubs of two or three excised leaves, and an index), in contemporary limp vellum. c.1630s-40s.

Later notes and scribbling including the names ‘John Nutting’ (ff. 26r, 56r) and ‘John M.’ and ‘John Susan’ (rear paste-down). The last leaf also containing a list of the titles of 65 poems by Carew together with the number of lines in each poem, this list unrelated to the contents of the rest of the MS.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Nutting MS’: CwT Δ 35. The list of poems, probably relating to another MS, is edited, with facsimiles, in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 198-9, 217-19).

ff. 1r-2r

• JnB 380: Ben Jonson, Ode to himselfe (‘Come leaue the lothed stage’)

Copy, headed ‘An Ode to him selfe’.

First published, with the heading ‘The iust indignation the Author tooke at the vulgar censure of his Play, by some malicious spectators, begat this following Ode to himselfe’, in The New Inn (London, 1631). Herford & Simpson, VI, 492-4.

ff. 2v-3v

• CwT 1030: Thomas Carew, To Ben. Iohnson. Vpon occasion of his Ode of defiance annext to his Play of the new Inne (‘'Tis true (deare Ben:) thy just chastizing hand’)

Copy, headed ‘To Ben Johnson uppon occasion of his Ode to himselfe’, subscribed ‘T. Carew’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 64-5.

ff. 4r-14v

• CoR 311: Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale (‘Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two’)

Copy, headed ‘Iter Boriale. D. Corbet’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.

f. 18r-v

• CwT 544: Thomas Carew, A Pastorall Dialogue (‘This mossie bank they prest. That aged Oak’)

Copy, after a false start (f. 17v), headed ‘Song T C’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 45-6.

ff. 19r-20r

• DaW 4: Sir William Davenant, Elegie on B. Haselrick, slaine in's youth, in a Duell (‘Now in the blinde and quiet age of Night’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on Cap: Haslerigge by wi: Dauenon’.

This MS collated in Gibbs.

First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, pp. 59-61.

ff. 20v-2v

• CwT 1158: Thomas Carew, To the Countesse of Anglesie upon the immoderatly-by-her-lamented death of her Husband (‘Madam, men say you keepe with dropping eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Coun. of Anglyse’, subscribed ‘T Carew’.

This MS collated in Dunlap.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 69-71.

ff. 23r-5v

• JnB 524: Ben Jonson, To the immortall memorie, and friendship of that noble paire, Sir Lvcivs Cary, and Sir H. Morison (‘Brave infant of Saguntum, cleare’)

Copy, headed ‘Ode Pindarique’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxx) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 242-7.

ff. 26r-30r

• MsP 5: Philip Massinger, Londons Lamentable Estate, in any great Visitation (‘O London. Where are now those powerfull Charmes’)

Copy, headed ‘A trewe discription of the lamentable estate of the Cittie of London in the visitation of 1625’, subscribed ‘P Messinger’.

This MS collated in Edwards & Gibson.

First published in H.W. Garrod, Genius Loci and other Essays (Oxford, 1950). Edwards & Gibson, IV, 399-405.

ff. 32r-6v

• RnT 88: Thomas Randolph, An Eglogue to Mr Johnson (‘Under this Beech why sit'st thou here so sad’)

Copy, headed ‘An Eclogue to his worthy father m^r. Ben. Jonson’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randulph’.

This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 104-9.

f. 37r

• DaW 26: Sir William Davenant, For the Lady, Olivia Porter. A present, upon a New-yeares day (‘Goe! hunt the whiter Ermine! and present’)

Copy, headed ‘A new yeares gift to m^rs Porter’.

This MS collated in Gibbs.

First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, p. 43.

ff. 37v-8r

• JnB 538: Ben Jonson, To the right Honourable, the Lord Treasurer of England. An Epigram (‘If to my mind, great Lord, I had a state’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Right hon^bl: the Lord tre: weston’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxxvii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 260-1.

f. 38r-v

• ShW 17: William Shakespeare, Sonnet 2 (‘When forty winters shall besiege thy brow’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘W. Shakspere’.

This MS collated in H.T. Price, ‘An Early Variant of a Shakespeare Sonnet’, The Athenaeum (6 September 1913), p. 230, and edited in Alden, p. 22. Recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 67.

Edited and most manuscript copies collated in Gary Taylor, ‘Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets’, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 68/1 (Autumn 1985), 210-46.

ff. 38v-40v

• CwT 196: Thomas Carew, An Elegie upon the death of the Deane of Pauls, Dr. Iohn Donne (‘Can we not force from widdowed Poetry’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie vpon D^r. Donne Deane of Paules’, subscribed ‘Tho: Carew’.

This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 250.

First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633). Carew, Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 71-4.

ff. 41r-2r

• KiH 769: Henry King, Upon the Death of my ever Desired Freind D^r. Donne Dean of Paules (‘To have liv'd Eminent, in a degree’)

Copy, headed ‘vppon my euer desired friend D^r. Dunne’, subscribed in a different hand ‘D. H. kinge’.

This MS (erroneously cited as ‘MS. 417’) collated in Crum, p. 200.

First published in John Donne, Deaths Duell (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 76-7.

f. 42v-4v

• HeR 327.4: Robert Herrick, ‘Hide not thy love and mine shall be’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Aurelian Tounshind’.

Version Two edited from this MS in Brown.

First published in Aurelian Townshend's poems and Masks, ed. E. K. Chambers (Oxford, 1912), pp. 28-32. The Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend, ed. Cedric R. Brown (Reading, 1983), pp. 34-41 (Version One, First Part, pp. 35-7; Second Part pp. 35-7; Version Two, pp. 38-41). Ascribed to Herrick in several MSS.

f. 44v

• BrW 224: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)

Copy, headed ‘on the Countesse of Pembroke’.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, ‘Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha’, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.

f. 45r

• CoR 510: Richard Corbett, On Mr. Rice the Manciple of Christ-Church In Oxford (‘Who can doubt Rice to which Eternall place’)

Copy, headed ‘on the death of Rice manciple of Ch: Church. R. Corbet’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 73.

f. 45r-v

• StW 190: William Strode, In commendation of Musique (‘When whispering straines do softly steale’)

Copy, headed ‘Song’ and here beginning ‘When whispering straines with gentle winde’.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 2-3. Four Poems by William Strode (Flansham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 196-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).

f. 45v

• StW 335: 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.

ff. 46r-8r

• CoR 223: Richard Corbett, An Exhortation to Mr. John Hammon minister in the parish of Bewdly, for the battering downe of the Vanityes of the Gentiles, which are comprehended in a May-pole… (‘The mighty Zeale which thou hast new put on’)

Copy, headed ‘To m^r. John Hammond Parson of Beudly for the beating doune of the Maypole’.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 52-6.

An exemplum of Poëtica Stromata at Christ Church, Oxford, has against this poem the MS marginal note ‘None of D^r Corbets’ and an attribution to John Harris of Christ Church.

ff. 48r-9v

• BmF 113: Francis Beaumont, Master Francis Beaumont's Letter to Ben Jonson (‘The sun which doth the greatest comfort bring’)

Copy, headed ‘F Beamond to his friend B Johnson’.

First published in ‘An addition of some excellent Poems...By other Gentlemen’ in Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare Gent. (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 500-3. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, XI (Oxford, 1952), 374-7.

Nearly all recorded MS texts of this poem are discussed and collated, with an edited text (pp. 170-4), in Mark Bland, ‘Francis Beaumont's Verse Letters to Ben Jonson and “The Mermaid Club”’, EMS, 12 (2005), 139-79.

ff. 50r-1v

• RnT 357: Thomas Randolph, Upon a very deformed Gentlewoman, but of a voice incomparably sweet (‘I chanc'd sweet Lesbia's voice to heare’)

Copy, headed ‘On a good voyce and a bad face’.

This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 115-17. Davis, pp. 92-105.

ff. 51v-2r

• CoR 583: Richard Corbett, To his sonne Vincent Corbett (‘What I shall leave thee none can tell’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r. Corbett to his sonne vincent Cor:’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 88.

ff. 52r-3r

• CoR 91: Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of his owne Father (‘Vincent Corbet, farther knowne’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r. Corbett on his father’.

First published (omitting the last four lines) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Published with the last four lines in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 67-9.

f. 53r-v

• JnB 337: Ben Jonson, The Musicall strife. In a Pastorall Dialogue (‘Come, with our Voyces, let us warre’)

Copy, headed ‘A dialog betweene two Ladies. B. J.’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in The Vnder-wood (iii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 143-4.

ff. 55r-7r

• MyJ 25: Jasper Mayne, On Mris Anne King's Tablebook of Pictures (‘Mine eyes were once blessed with the sight’)

Copy, headed ‘J.M. vppon m^rs. Anne kings Booke of pictures’ and here beginning ‘My eyes were once blest with the sight’.

Unpublished?

f. 58r-v

• CoR 184: Richard Corbett, An Elegie written upon the death of Dr. Ravis Bishop of London (‘When I past Paules, and travell'd in that walke’)

Copy, headed ‘On Doctor Raines Bish: of London’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 3-4.

ff. 59r-60r

• FeO 5: Owen Felltham, An Answer to the Ode of Come leave the loathed Stage, &c. (‘Come leave this saucy way’)

Copy, after a false start, headed ‘vppon B. Johnsonns ode’.

A version first published, as ‘Against Ben: Johnson’, in Panassus Biceps, ed. Abraham Wright (London, 1656), pp. 154-6. Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 26-8.

ff. 60v-1r

• CwT 349: Thomas Carew, An Hymeneall Dialogue (‘Tell me (my love) since Hymen ty'de’)

Copy, headed ‘A hymenæall Dialogue in the persones of the Bride and Groome’, subscribed ‘T. Carew’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 66.

ff. 62r-3r

• DaW 68: Sir William Davenant, To the Lady Bridget Kingsmill. sent with Mellons after a report of my Death (‘Madam, that Ghosts have walk'd, and kindly did’)

Copy, headed ‘Sent (with mellons) to the Lady Kingsmell, after a report of my death’, subscribed ‘W. Dauenon’.

This MS collated in Gibbs.

First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, pp. 29-30.

f. 63r-v

• CwT 1076: Thomas Carew, To M^ris Katherine Nevill on her greene sicknesse (‘White innocence that now lies spread’)

Copy, headed ‘To the greene sickness’, subscribed ‘T. Carew’.

This MS recorded in Powell, p. 292.

First published in Musarum Deliciae (London, 1655). Dunlap. p. 129.

f. 64r-v

• DaW 60: Sir William Davenant, To I.C. Rob'd by his Man Andrew (‘Sir, whom I now love more than did the good’)

Copy, headed ‘To my noble friend m^r John Croftes newly robde’, subscribed ‘W Dauenon’.

This MS collated in Gibbs.

First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, pp. 44-5.

f. 65r

• WoH 195.5: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife (‘He first deceased. she for a little tried’)

Copy, headed ‘on a man and his wife’ and here beginning ‘Shee first deseased, he after liued and try'd’.

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.

ff. 66v-7r

• RnT 100: Thomas Randolph, An Elegie (‘Love, give me leave to serve thee, and be wise’)

Copy, headed ‘To a Ladie vpon Chast Loue’.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 66-7.

ff. 67v-70r

• KiH 241: Henry King, An Elegy Upon the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus (‘Like a cold Fatall Sweat which ushers Death’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie On Gustauus Adolphus victorious king of Sweden’, subscribed ‘D^r Hen: King’.

This MS (erroneously cited as ‘MS. 417’) recorded in Crum.

First published in The Swedish Intelligencer, Third Part (London, 1633). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 77-81.

ff. 70r-1v

• DaW 8: Sir William Davenant, Elegie, on Francis, Earle of Rutland (‘Call not the Winds! nor bid the Rivers stay!’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie on the Earle of Rutland’, subscribed ‘Will: Dauennant’.

This MS collated in Gibbs.

First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, pp. 62-4.

ff. 71v-2v

• ToA 12: Aurelian Townshend, Elegy on the death of the King of Sweden: sent to Thomas Carew (‘I had and have a purpose to be kind’)

Copy, headed ‘Aurelian Tounsend to Tho: Carew vpon the death of the King of Sweden’.

This MS collated in Brown. Edited in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), No. 170 (pp. 198-9).

Brown, pp. 48-9.

ff. 73r-5r

• CwT 353: Thomas Carew, In answer of an Elegiacall Letter upon the death of the King of Sweden from Aurelian Townsend, inviting me to write on that subject (‘Why dost thou sound, my deare Aurelian’)

Copy, headed ‘Thomas Carewe his Answere’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 74-7.

f. 76r-v

• CwT 1069: Thomas Carew, To Master W. Mountague (‘Sir, I arest you at your Countreyes suit’)

Copy, headed ‘A writt of Ne exeat regno agaynst m^r Walter Mountague going to trauyle’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 78-9.

ff. 77v-81r

• HeR 136: Robert Herrick, His age, dedicated to his peculiar friend, Master John Wickes, under the name of Posthumus (‘Ah Posthumus! Our yeares hence flye’)

Copy, headed ‘m^r Herick to his friend m^r. Weeks’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 132-6. Patrick, pp. 179-83.

ff. 82v-3v

• CwT 510: Thomas Carew, On the Mariage of T.K. and C.C. the morning stormie (‘Svch should this day be, so the Sun should hide’)

Copy, headed ‘vpon m^rs Cicille Croftes’, subscribed ‘T Carew’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 79-80.

ff. 83v-5v

• CwT 986: Thomas Carew, To A.D. unreasonable distrustfull of her owne beauty (‘Fayre Doris breake thy Glasse, it hath perplext’)

Copy, headed ‘To a Ladye mistrustfull of hir owne beawtie. T Carew.’

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 84-6.

MS S. 32 (James 423)

A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Henry King, perhaps almost entirely written over a period in a single secretary hand with slightly varying styles, 54 leaves, in limp vellum. c.1636-40s.

The name of the possible compiler ‘John Pike’ inscribed on f. 1r: i.e. possibly a member of the Pike family of Cambridge (one John Pike (d.1677) matriculating at Peterhouse in 1662).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the ‘Pike MS’: KiH Δ 12. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6), pp. 143-7.

f. 2r

• DaJ 213: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘As Carefull Nurses to theire bede doe lay’.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.

f. 3r

• CoR 453: Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church (‘Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle’)

Copy.

First published (omitting lines 25-48) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 79-82. Ithuriel, ‘Great Tom of Oxford’, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 465-6 (printing ‘(from a MS collection) which bears the signature of Jerom Terrent’).

f. 3v

• KiH 428: Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation (‘Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care’)

Copy, headed ‘A meditation’ and ascribed to ‘D^r [Jhon King deleted] Hen: King’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published, as ‘Man's Miserie, by Dr. K’, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 5-6]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 157-8.

ff. 3v-4r

• DaJ 59: Sir John Davies, A Lover out of Fashion (‘Faith (wench) I cannot court thy sprightly eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘The Rusticke gallants wooinge’ and here beginning ‘(ffaire wench) I cannot Court thy sprightly eyes’.

First published in Epigrammes and Elegies (‘Middleborugh’ [i.e. London?] [1595-6?]). Krueger, p. 180.

f. 4r

• RaW 285: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy, headed ‘On Mans life’.

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.

f. 7r

• HoJ 142: John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart (‘Reader I was born and cried’)

Copy.

f. 7r-v

• CwT 1278.5: Thomas Carew, The mistake (‘When on faire Celia I did spie’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Lady y^t wore in her brest a wounded heart Carv'd in a pretious stone’, here ascribed to ‘H Blunt’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 187-8. Possibly by Henry Blount.

f. 7v

• JnB 303: Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse (‘Doe but consider this small dust’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.

f. 8v

• JnB 135: Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. (‘Would'st thou heare, what man can say’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in Epigrammes (cxxiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 79.

f. 9r

• B&F 149: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song (‘Hence, all you vain delights’)

Copy, headed ‘On Malancholly’.

Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1698-9.

For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see StW 641-663.

f. 9v

• CwT 1268: Thomas Carew, A Louers passion (‘Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see’)

Copy, headed ‘One inamor'd on his m^rs perfeccons’ and here ascribed to ‘Tho: Carew’.

This MS collated in Dunlap.

First published, as ‘The Rapture, by J.D.’, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), pp. 3-4 [unique exemplum in the Huntington edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990)]. Cupids Master-Piece (London, [?1656]). Dunlap, p. 192.

f. 9v

• StW 826: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, headed ‘On A gentlewoman walkeing in y^e snowe’.

First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).

f. 10r-v

• CwT 296: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)

Copy, headed ‘Vppon A flye discou'rd in a ladies eye’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

f. 10v

• BrW 176: William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow (‘Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd’)

Copy, here ascribed to ‘W^m Stroude’.

First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Brydges (1815), p. 76. Goodwin, II, 290.

f. 11v

• BrW 225: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)

Copy.

f. 14r-v

• KiH 33: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)

Copy, headed ‘his answeare’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) ‘A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds’ (‘Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee’). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

ff. 14v-15v

• EaJ 56: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, On the Earle of Pembroke's Death (‘Did not my sorrows sighd into a verse’)

Copy.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 40-2. Extract in Bliss, pp. 227-8. Possibly written by Jasper Mayne (1604-72).

f. 16v

• PeW 292: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Sonnet (‘So glides a long the wanton Brook’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Poems (1660), p. 75, superscribed ‘P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as by Henry Reynolds.

ff. 17r-18r

• CwT 114: Thomas Carew, The Complement (‘O my deerest I shall grieve thee’)

Copy, headed ‘Loues Complement’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 99-101.

ff. 18v-19r

• MnJ 5: John Milton, Another on the same [Hobson the University Carrier] (‘Here lieth one who did most truly prove’)

Copy, here arranged as lines 1-12, 27-8, 13-14, 21-4, 29-34, headed ‘Another of old Hobson who dyed in the vacancie of his Carriage the sicknes being breife in Cambridge. 1630’, beginning ‘Here Hobson lyes, who did most truly prove’ and ascribed to ‘Jo: Milton’.

This MS collated in Shawcross, RES, 18 (1967).

First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1640). Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 33-4, and XVIII, 349-50. Darbishire, II, 137-8. Carey & Fowler, pp. 125-6.

f. 19v

• JnB 539: Ben Jonson, To the right Honourable, the Lord Treasurer of England. An Epigram (‘If to my mind, great Lord, I had a state’)

Copy, introduced (on f. 19r) ‘Ben: Iohnsons verses to Sir Richard Weston Lord Trer Jan: 10 for w^ch bee gaue him 40^1r’; 1636-40s.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxxvii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 260-1.

f. 21r

• RaW 433: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Like to a Ring without a finger’

Copy of lines 1-16.

First published in Latham (1951), pp. 165-7, as ‘A poem doubtfully ascribed to Ralegh’. Since, in fact, it is a parody of a poem by Francis Quarles printed in 1629 it cannot be by Ralegh.

f. 21r-v

• StW 1082: William Strode, To a frinde (‘Like as the hande which hath bin usd to play’)

Copy.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 99-100. The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. Rhodes Dunlap (Oxford, 1949), p. 130. Forey, p. 31.

f. 21v

• StW 208: William Strode, Justification (‘See how the rainbow in the skie’)

Copy.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 55. Forey, p. 109.

ff. 21v-2r

• CoR 202: Richard Corbett, An Epitaph on Doctor Donne, Deane of Pauls (‘Hee that would write an Epitaph for thee’)

Copy.

First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 89.

f. 22r-v

• StW 363: William Strode, On a Faire Crooked Gentlewoman, Proude and Dissembling (‘Halfe beautifull! Imperfect peice of Clay’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Crooked fayre gentlewoman dissembling & somewhat boasting’.

Unpublished. Forey, pp. 135-6.

ff. 22v-3r

• StW 591: William Strode, On the death of Sir Thomas Pelham (‘Meerely for death to greive and mourne’)

Copy.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 64-5. Forey, pp. 114-15.

ff. 23r-4r

• EaJ 31: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie, Upon the death of Sir John Burrowes, Slaine at the Isle of Ree (‘Oh wound us not with this sad tale, forbear’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘J. E.’.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 12-16. Extract in Bliss, pp. 225-6. Edited in James Doelman, ‘John Earle's Funeral Elegy on Sir John Burroughs’, English Literary Renaissance, 41/3 (Autumn 2011), 485-502 (pp. 499-502).

f. 26r-v

• WoH 253: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Dons last verses’.

First published, as ‘a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by D^r. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will’, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.

ff. 27v-8v

• JnB 667: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘ffrom a Gypsie in the morninge’)

Copy of a version in praise of ‘great Buckinghame’, possibly satirical.

Edited from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.

Herford & Simpson, lines 1329-89. Greg, Windsor version, lines 1129-89.

For a parody of this song, see DrW 117.1.

f. 29v

• DnJ 1772: John Donne, A lame begger (‘I am unable, yonder begger cries’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Beggar’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as ‘Zoppo’) and 10.

f. 30r

• KiH 360: Henry King, The Farwell (‘Farwell fond Love, under whose childish whipp’)

Copy, headed ‘A discontented louers passion for the losse of a false M^rs’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 150.

MS S. 37 (James 427)

A quarto volume of speeches and proceedings in Parliament 1628-40, in a single non-professional hand, 62 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. c.1640s.

ff. 38r-40r

• RuB 170: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 November 1640

Copy, headed ‘S^r Benjamin Rudyers speech Nou y^e 9^th’.

Speech (variously dated 4, 7, 9 and 10 November 1640) beginning ‘We are here assembled to do God's business and the King's...’. First published in The Speeches of S^r. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 1-10. Manning, pp. 159-65.

MS S. 44 (James 434)

A duodecimo commonplace book, in several hands, in English and Latin, probably associated with Oxford, written from both ends, 147 leaves, in contemporary calf. The original blanks later filled with texts with headings including (f. 116v rev.)‘By my cousen Stansfild oct 2 87’ and (f. 102v rev.) ‘By M^r Band of Stroud oct 1687’. c.1636-89.

ff. 146v-145v rev.

• StW 1474: William Strode, Speech to Charles I at Woodstock, 30 August 1635

Copy, headed ‘Oratio habita coram Rege, Woodstockiæ, die 30 Augusti A°. 1635, á Guliel. Strode publice Academiæ Oratore’.

Unpublished oration, beginning ‘Augustissime Christo proximo, homo-Deus qualis pro...’.

ff. 142v-142r rev.

• WoH 254: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r Kellam Digbie's Farewell to the World’.

MS S. 46 (James 436)

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, probably in several hands, ii + 176 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt.

Inscribed inside the front cover ‘Beinge Boughte of Joh grocer. 1617’ [‘vnwritten’ added in different ink]. Later owned by Samuel Newton (d.1718), antiquary and Mayor of Cambridge, and then by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary.

ff. 1r-111v

• LeC 73: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

Copy, the main text in probably a single secretary hand, the title-page supplied by Thomas Baker. Late 16th-early 17th century.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.

MS U. 26 (James 548)

A quarto formal verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary and italic hand throughout, paginated 1-162 (but lacking some leaves), in modern limp vellum. Compiled by John Cruso (fl.1595-1655), poet and military writer, who matriculated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1632. c.1630s.

Names inscribed lengthways down margins (pp. 71, 91, 95) including ‘Cuthbert Sewell Esq’, ‘Jos. Nicholson’, ‘Wm Richardson’, and ‘Somers’. Donated in 1922 by Gordon Wordsworth who claims that the volume was once owned by the poet William Wordsworth.

p. 20

• NaT 7.15: Thomas Nashe, ‘Monsieur Mingo for quaffing doth surpass’

Copy of the song.

First published, as ‘The Song’, in Nashe's ‘Pleasant Comedie’ Summers last will and Testament (London, 1600). McKerrow, III, 264. EV 14798.

pp. 22-3

• HrJ 182: Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Tayler (‘A Taylor, thought a man of vpright dealling’)

Copy, headed ‘Vppon a Puritan Taylor’.

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 20. McClure No. 21, pp. 156-7. Kilroy, Book I, No. 40, pp. 107-8.

pp. 32, 35

• DaJ 115: Sir John Davies, Verses given to the Lord Treasuer upon Newyeares Day upon a Dosen of Trenchers, by Mr. Davis (‘Longe have I servd in Court, yet learned not all this while’)

Copy of poems 1-3, 10-12 (‘The Courtier’, ‘The Divine’, ‘The Souldier’, ‘The Marryed’ [i.e.‘The Wyfe’], ‘The Widowe’, and ‘The Mayde’), the poems numbered in the margin 22-24, 31-33, imperfect, lacking pp. 33-4.

This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 597-601.

First published as ‘Yet other 12. Wonders of the World never yet published’ in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rhapsody (London, 1608). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 381-4. Krueger, pp. 225-8.

p. 38

• CmT 186: Thomas Campion, ‘As on a day Sabina fell asleepe’

Copy, headed ‘In Sabinam’.

First published in Vivian (1909), p. 356. Davis, p. 479.

p. 43

• RaW 173: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie (‘Goe soule the bodies guest’)

Copy of lines 1-16, set out as five lines, untitled.

First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.

This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, ‘Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine’, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's ‘answer’ to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.

p. 44

• HrJ 165: Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Cobler, and an ignorant Curat (‘A Cobler, and a Curat, once disputed’)

Copy, headed ‘vppon a cobler & a curate’.

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 66. McClure No. 67, p. 173. Kilroy, Book I, No. 10, p. 97.

p. 44

• HoJ 17: John Hoskyns, ‘A zealous Lock-Smith dy'd of late’

Copy, headed ‘Vppon a Puritan beeinge a lock smythe’ and here beginning ‘A zealous brother, dyed of late’.

Whitlock, p. 108.

pp. 72-80

• CoR 51: 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, headed ‘The Oxford ballad’.

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’).

pp. 84-6

• WoH 255: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)

Copy, headed ‘A hermite in an arboure, w^th a prayer booke in his hand, his foote spurninge A Globe’.

p. 91

• HrJ 238: Sir John Harington, Of certain puritan wenches (‘Six of the weakest sex and purest sect’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Six of y^e weakest sex yet purest secte’.

First published (anonymously) in Rump: or An Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662), II, 158-9. McClure No. 356, p. 292. Kilroy, Book II, No. 94, p. 164.

pp. 92-4

• DnJ 96: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published as ‘Elegie II’ in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as ‘Elegie II’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.

pp. 94-8

• DnJ 413: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)

Copy, headed ‘Vppon A Chayne’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Eleg. XII. The Bracelet’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as ‘Elegie XI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.

p. 99

• DaJ 33: Sir John Davies, In Curionem (‘The great archpapist learned Curio’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Krueger (1975), pp. 182-3.

pp. 112-14

• DnJ 3930: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)

Copy of a five-stanza version.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.

pp. 114-15

• DnJ 1407: John Donne, The Funerall (‘Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harme’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 58-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 67.

p. 116

• HrJ 96.5: Sir John Harington, Of a certaine Man (‘There was (not certain when) a certaine preacher’)

Copy, headed ‘Erat quidam homo’ and here beginning ‘Ther was no certayne when a Certyne teacher’, followed (p. 17) by an ‘answear’ (here beginning ‘That noe man yet Could in the Bible find’).

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 23. McClure No. 277, p. 262. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 105, p. 250.

pp. 120-5

• EaJ 32: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie, Upon the death of Sir John Burrowes, Slaine at the Isle of Ree (‘Oh wound us not with this sad tale, forbear’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegy vpon y^e Death of S_r John Burrows’.

p. 126

• DnJ 1143: John Donne, Epitaph on Himselfe. To the Countesse of Bedford (‘That I might make your Cabinet my tombe’)

Copy of the ‘Omnibus’, headed ‘Epitaph’

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 291-2. Milgate, Satires, p. 103. Shawcross, No. 147.

p. 127

• HrE 29: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Epitaph on Sir Philip Sidney lying in St. Paul's without a Monument (‘Within this Church Sir Philip Sidney lies’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘S^r Ed: Herberte’.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 132.

First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 53.

p. 145

• CmT 202: Thomas Campion, Dolus (‘Thou shalt not love mee, neither shall these eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘A Sonnet’.

First published in Vivian (1909), p. 356. Davis, p. 475.

p. 149

• HrJ 299.5: Sir John Harington, To his Wife (‘Because I once in verse did hap to call’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r Jo: Harringtonn to his wife’.

First published in 1618, Book II, No. 81. McClure No. 177, p. 218. Kilroy, Book III, No. 20bis, p. 175.

Aa.3.30

Signed by Harvey. Late 16th century?

*HvG 33: Gabriel Harvey, Aphthonius, the Sophist. <Greek> Aphthonii Sophistae Praeludia. Cum interpretatione Rodolphi Agricolae Phrysii ([Paris?], 1543)

Stern, p. 200.

T.9.30

Copy of 64 sonnets by William Alabaster, together with a prose meditation (‘An admonition for the morninge’ by Elizabeth Grymeston and an anonymous prayer, in a single secretary hand, on seventeen quarto leaves (plus five blanks), subscribed at the end ‘Finis Anno dni 1628’. Bound with a printed exemplum of Heures en Françoys et en Latin a l'Usage de Rome (Lyon, 1558), in elaborately tooled contemporary calf gilt. 1628.

Later owned by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary. A flyleaf (f. [i^r]) inscribed in pencil by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), book dealer and literary scholar, ascribing the sonnets to Alabaster.

A reproduction of this MS is in the Huntington (FAC 636).

f. [2r]

• AlW 1: William Alabaster, ‘The night, the starless night of passion’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘1’, the page headed ‘Anno dom / 16-27’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 1 (No. 1).

f. [2r]

• AlW 2: William Alabaster, ‘What meaneth this, that Christ an hymn did sing’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘2’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 1 (No. 2).

f. [2v]

• AlW 3: William Alabaster, ‘Over the brook of Cedron Christ is gone’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘3’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 2 (No. 3).

f. [2v]

• AlW 4: William Alabaster, ‘What blessed ferryman will undertake’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘4’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 2 (No. 4).

f. [3r]

• AlW 5: William Alabaster, ‘'Tis not enough over the brook to stride’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘5’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 3 (No. 5).

f. [3r]

• AlW 6: William Alabaster, ‘Up to Mount Olivet my soul ascend’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘6’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 3 (No. 6).

f. [3v]

• AlW 7: William Alabaster, ‘What should there be in Christ to give offence?’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘7’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 4 (No. 7).

f. [3v]

• AlW 8: William Alabaster, ‘Alas, our shepherd now is struck again’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘8’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 4 (No. 8).

f. [4r]

• AlW 9: William Alabaster, ‘When all forsake, whose courage dare abide?’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘9’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 5 (No. 9).

f. [4r]

• AlW 10: William Alabaster, ‘Though all forsake thee, lord, yet I will die’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘1^o’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 5 (No. 10).

f. [4v]

• AlW 11: William Alabaster, ‘His death begins within a farm, within’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘11’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 6 (No. 11).

f. [4v]

• AlW 12: William Alabaster, ‘My sins in multitude to Christ are gone’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘12’.

Edited from this MS in Pollen and in Sonnets.

First published in J.H. Pollen, ‘William Alabaster, a newly discovered Catholic Poet of the Elizabethan Age’, The Month, Vol. 103, No. 478 (April 1904), pp. 426-30. Sonnets, p. 7 (No. 12).

f. [5r]

• AlW 13: William Alabaster, ‘My soul within the bed of heaven doth grow’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘13’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 7 (No. 13).

f. [5r]

• AlW 14: William Alabaster, ‘Doubt not, my tears, how you should so aspire’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘14’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 8 (No. 14).

f. [5v]

• AlW 15: William Alabaster, ‘My soul a world is by contraction’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘15’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 8 (No. 15).

f. [5v]

• AlW 16: William Alabaster, ‘Three sorts of tears do from mine eyes distrain’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘16’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 9 (No. 16).

f. [6r]

• AlW 17: William Alabaster, ‘Jesus, thine eye of pureness doth behold’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘17’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 9 (No. 17).

f. [6r]

• AlW 18: William Alabaster, ‘My tears are of no vulgar kind I know’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘18’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 10 (No. 18).

f. [6v]

• AlW 21: William Alabaster, ‘See how the world doth now anew begin’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘19’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 11 (No. 20).

f. [6v]

• AlW 20: William Alabaster, A Divine Sonnet (‘Jesu, thy love within me is so main’)

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘20’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

First published in John Boys, An Exposition of the Festivall Epistles and Gospels (London, 1613). Sonnets, p. 10 (No. 19).

f. [7r]

• AlW 23: William Alabaster, ‘Sink down, my soul, into the lowest cell’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘21’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 12 (No. 22).

f. [7r]

• AlW 24: William Alabaster, ‘Jesus is risen from the infernal mire’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘22’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 12 (No. 23).

f. [7v]

• AlW 29: William Alabaster, The Sponge (‘O sweet and bitter monuments of pain’)

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘23’.

This MS collated in Sonnets.

First published in Edmond Malone (ed.), The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare (20 vols, 1821), II, 260-3. Sonnets, p. 13 (No. 24).

f. [7v]

• AlW 46: William Alabaster, Upon St. Augustine's Meditations (‘When to the closet of thy prayers divine’)

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘24’.

This MS collated in Sonnets.

First published in J.P. Collier, A History of English Dramatic Poetry, 3 vols (London, 1831), II, 431-3. Sonnets, p. 19 (No. 35).

f. [8r]

• AlW 50: William Alabaster, ‘To style Christ's praise with heavenly muse's wing’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘25’.

This MS collated in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 19 (No. 36).

f. [8r]

• AlW 53: William Alabaster, To the Blessed Virgin (‘Hail graceful morning of eternal day’)

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘26’.

This MS collated in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 20 (No. 37).

f. [8v]

• AlW 40: William Alabaster, Upon the Crucifix (2) (‘Behold a cluster to itself a vine’)

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘27’.

This MS collated in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 17 (No. 32).

f. [8v]

• AlW 31: William Alabaster, Upon the Crown of Thorns (1) (‘Ay me, that thorns his royal head should wound’)

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘28’.

This MS collated in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 14 (No. 25).

f. [9r]

• AlW 33: William Alabaster, Another of the Same (2) (‘The earth, which in delicious Paradise’)

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘29’.

This MS collated in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 14 (No. 26).

f. [9r]

• AlW 42: William Alabaster, Ego Sum Vitis (‘Now that the midday heat doth scorch my shame’)

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘30’.

This MS collated in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 18 (No. 33).

f. [9v]

• AlW 55: William Alabaster, The Eternity (‘Eternity, the womb of things created’)

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘31’.

This MS collated in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 20 (No. 38).

f. [9v]

• AlW 57: William Alabaster, To Christ (1) (‘See how the Sun unsetting doth uphold’)

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘32’.

This MS collated in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 21 (No. 39).

f. [10r]

• AlW 59: William Alabaster, To Christ (2) (‘Like as thy winged spirits always stand’)

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘33’.

This MS collated in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 21 (No. 40).

f. [10r]

• AlW 61: William Alabaster, ‘Lo here I am, lord, whither wilt thou send me?’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘34’.

This MS collated in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 22 (No. 41).

f. [10v]

• AlW 44: William Alabaster, Upon the Crucifix (3) (‘Now I have found thee, I will evermore’)

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘35’.

Edited from this MS in Pollen Collated in Sonnets.

First published in J.H. Pollen, ‘William Alabaster, a newly discovered Catholic Poet of the Elizabethan Age’, The Month, Vol. 103, No. 478 (April 1904), pp. 426-30. Louise Imogen Guiney, Recusant Poets: with a selection from their work, vol. 1 (1938), p. 348. Sonnets, p. 18 (No. 34).

f. [10v]

• AlW 63: William Alabaster, ‘O holy mother, New Jerusalem’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘36’.

This MS collated in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 23 (No. 42).

f. [11r]

• AlW 65: William Alabaster, ‘Thrice happy souls and spirits unbodied’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘37’.

This MS collated in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 24 (No. 43).

f. [11r]

• AlW 67: William Alabaster, ‘O starry temple of unvaulted space’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘38’.

This MS collated in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 24 (No. 44).

f. [11v]

• AlW 69: William Alabaster, ‘Holy, holy, holy, lord unnamed’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘39’.

This MS collated in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 25 (No. 45).

f. [11v]

• AlW 71: William Alabaster, Of His Conversion (‘Away, fear, with thy projects, no false fire’)

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘40’.

Edited from this MS in Bertram Dobell, ‘The Sonnets of William Alabaster’, The Athenæum, No. 3974 (26 December 1903), pp. 856-7. Collated in Sonnets.

First published (with errors) in J.P. Collier, A History of English Dramatic Poetry (London, 1831), II, 431-3. Sonnets, p. 26 (No. 46).

f. [12r]

• AlW 76: William Alabaster, ‘Lord, I have left all and myself behind’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘41’.

This MS collated in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 27 (No. 48).

f. [12r]

• AlW 78: William Alabaster, ‘Dear, and so worthy both by your desert’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘42’.

This MS collated in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 28 (No. 49).

f. [12v]

• AlW 82: William Alabaster, ‘Shall I confess my sins? Then help me tell:’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘43’.

This MS collated in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 29 (No. 52).

f. [12v]

• AlW 84: William Alabaster, A Preface to the Incarnation (‘I sing of Christ, O endless argument’)

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘44’.

Edited from this MS in Bertram Dobell, ‘The Sonnets of William Alabaster’, The Athenæum, No. 3974 (26 December 1903), pp. 856-7. Collated in Sonnets.

First published in Bertram Dobell, ‘The Sonnets of William Alabaster’, The Athenæum, No. 3974 (26 December 1903), pp. 856-7. Sonnets, p. 30 (No. 53).

f. [13r]

• AlW 86: William Alabaster, Incarnationem Ratione Probare Impossibile (‘Two, yet but one, which either other is’)

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘45’.

This MS collated in Sonnets.

f. [13r]

• AlW 88: William Alabaster, Incarnationis Prufundum Mysterium (‘The unbounded sea of the Incarnation!’)

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘46’.

Edited from this MS, as ‘The Mystery’, in I.I. Guiney (ed.), Recusant Poets: More to Jonson (1938), pp. 335-49. This MS collated in Sonnets.

First published, as ‘The Mystery’, in Louise Imogen Guiney, Recusant Poets: with a selection from their work, vol. 1 (1938), p. 347. Sonnets, p. 31 (No. 55).

f. [13v]

• AlW 90: William Alabaster, Incarnatio est Maximum Dei Donum (‘Like as the fountain of all light created’)

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘47’.

Edited from this MS in Bertram Dobell, ‘The Sonnets of William Alabaster’, The Athenæum, No. 3974 (26 December 1903), pp. 856-7. Collated in Sonnets.

First published in Bertram Dobell, ‘The Sonnets of William Alabaster’, The Athenæum, No. 3974 (26 December 1903), pp. 856-7. Sonnets, p. 31 (No. 56).

f. [13v]

• AlW 92: William Alabaster, Exaltatio Humanae Naturae (‘Humanity, the field of miseries’)

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘48’.

Edited from this MS in Bertram Dobell, ‘The Sonnets of William Alabaster’, The Athenæum, No. 3974 (26 December 1903), pp. 856-, and in Louise I. Guiney (ed.), Recusant Poets: More to Jonson (1938), pp. 335-49. Collated in Sonnets.

First published in Bertram Dobell, ‘The Sonnets of William Alabaster’, The Athenæum, No. 3974 (26 December 1903), pp. 856-7. As ‘Sons of God’ in Louise Imogen Guiney, Recusant Poets: with a selection from their work, vol. 1 (1938), p 347. Sonnets, p. 32 (No. 57).

f. [14r]

• AlW 94: William Alabaster, Christus Recapitulatio Omnium (‘Long time the parcels of created glory’)

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘49’.

This MS collated in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 32 (No. 58).

f. [14r]

• AlW 96: William Alabaster, Veni Mittere Ignem (‘God longed for man's love, and down was sent’)

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘50’.

This MS collated in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 33 (No. 59).

f. [14v]

• AlW 100: William Alabaster, Incarnatio Divini Amoris Argumentum (‘God was in love with man, and sued then’)

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘51’.

This MS collated in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 34 (No. 61).

f. [14v]

• AlW 102: William Alabaster, Omnia Propter Christum Facta (‘God and man, though in this amphitheatre’)

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘52’.

This MS collated in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 34 (No. 62).

f. [15r]

• AlW 74: William Alabaster, ‘My friends, whose kindness doth their judgements blind’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘53’.

First published in Bertram Dobell, ‘The Sonnets of William Alabaster’, The Athenæum, No. 3974 (26 December 1903), pp. 856-7. Collated in Sonnets.

First published in Bertram Dobell, ‘The Sonnets of William Alabaster’, The Athenæum, No. 3974 (26 December 1903), pp. 856-7. Sonnets, p. 27 (No. 47).

f. [15r]

• AlW 104: William Alabaster, ‘The first beginning of creation’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘54’.

This MS collated in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 35 (No. 63).

f. [15v]

• AlW 106: William Alabaster, ‘Jesu, the handle of the world's great ball’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘55’.

This MS collated in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 35 (No. 64).

f. [15v]

• AlW 108: William Alabaster, ‘Why put he on the web of human nature’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘56’.

This MS collated in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 36 (No. 65).

f. [16r]

• AlW 110: William Alabaster, ‘By what glass of resemblance may we see’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘57’.

This MS collated in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 36 (No. 66).

f. [16r]

• AlW 112: William Alabaster, ‘That power that tied God and man in one’

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘58’.

This MS collated in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 37 (No. 67).

f. [16v]

• AlW 115: William Alabaster, A Morning Meditation (1) (‘Mine eyes are open, yet perceive I nought’)

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘59’.

This MS collated in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 38 (No. 68).

f. [16v]

• AlW 118: William Alabaster, Of the Motions of the Fiend (‘With heat and cold I feel the spiteful fiend’)

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘60’.

This MS collated in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 38 (No. 69).

f. [17r]

• AlW 121: William Alabaster, A Morning Meditation (2) (‘The sun begins upon my heart to shine’)

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘61’.

This MS collated in Sonnets.

First published in Bertram Dobell, ‘The Sonnets of William Alabaster’, Athenaeum, No. 3974 (26 December 1903), pp. 856-8. Sonnets, p. 39 (No. 70).

f. [17r]

• AlW 124: William Alabaster, The Difference 'twixt Compunction and Cold Devotion in Beholding the Passion of Our Saviour (‘When without tears I look on Christ, I see’)

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘62’.

This MS collated in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 39 (No. 71).

f. [17v]

• AlW 132: William Alabaster, St. John the Evangelist (‘High towering eagle, rightly may thy feast’)

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘63’.

f. [17v]

• AlW 98: William Alabaster, Convenientia Incarnationis (‘To free our nature from captivity’)

Copy, the sonnet numbered ‘64’, subscribed ‘finis / Anno dom 1628’.

This MS collated in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 33 (No. 60).

Subscriptiones I, 1613-38

p. 79

• *HeR 437.5: Robert Herrick, Document(s)

Herrick's signature (‘Robert Hearick’). The signature appears under a similar heading to the poet's previous entry (which in this instance is in Herrick's hand). [1620]. 1620.

[no shelfmark]

Admission Book.

[unspecified page number]

• *NaT 20: Thomas Nashe, Document(s)

Nashe's signature, 1584. 1584.

Facsimile in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XX(e).