MS Euing R.d.58-61
A set of four oblong duodecimo music part books, (i) Cantus Primus, (ii) Cantus Secundus, (iii) Bassus and (iv) Basso Continuo, each written from both ends, compiled by John Playford (1623-86?), 50, 36, 48, and 35 leaves respectively, each volume in limp vellum lettered ‘I. P.’. Leaves excised from these volumes are in the Folger, MS V.a.411 (five leaves) and (nine leaves) at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (Halliwell-Phillipps, Shakespearean scrapbooks). c.1660.
A flyleaf in the Cantus Secundus part book inscribed ‘Decemb. 30. 1674. Note that I Thomas Clifford bought this sett of Musick Books of Mr Richard Price's widow Mrs Dorothy Price for --7s--6d’.
(i) f. 1v; (ii) f. 1v; (iii) f. 1v
• HeR 156: Robert Herrick, Mistresse Elizabeth Wheeler, under the name of the lost Shepardesse (‘Among the Mirtles, as I walkt’)
Copies, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, here beginning ‘Amidst the mirtles...’.
First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 106-7. Patrick, p. 147. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).
(i) f. 2v; (ii) f. 4v; (iii) f. 2v; (iv) f. 7v
• ShJ 159: James Shirley, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, Act III, Song (‘The glories of our blood and state’)
Copies of the dirge, in a musical setting by Edward Coleman.
Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).
(i) f. 8r; (ii) f. 31v; (iii) f. 17r; (iv) f. 29v
• StW 815: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)
Copies, in a musical setting by ‘Mr Blackwell’.
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).
(i) f. 12r; (ii) f. 14r; (iii) f. 11r; (iv) f. 10r
• B&F 54: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess, III, i, 429-36. Song (‘Do not feare to put thy feete’)
Copies, in a musical setting by John Wilson.
Bowers, III, 545. This setting first published in John Wilson, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659).
(i) f. 12v; (ii) f. 14v; (iii) f. 11v; (iv) f. 10r
• BrN 73: Nicholas Breton, Phillida and Coridon (‘In the merry moneth of May’)
Copies, in a musical setting by John Wilson.
This MS recorded in Spink, p. 196.
First published as ‘The Plowmans Song’ in The Honorable Entertainment at Elvetham (London, 1591). Englands Helicon (London, 1600), <No. 12>, ascribed to ‘N. Breton’; Grosart, I (t), p. 7. English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 29. A musical setting first published in Michael East, Madrigals to Three, Four, and Five Parts (London, 1604).
(i) f. 16; (ii) f. 15r; (iii) f. 18r; (iv) f. 10v
• HeR 242: Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to make much of Time (‘Gather ye Rose-budd while ye may’)
Copies, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 84. Patrick, pp. 117-18. Musical setting by William Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).
(i) f. 19v; (ii) f. 18v; (iii) f. 21v; (iv) f. 19v
• RnT 298: Thomas Randolph, A Song (‘Musick thou Queene of soules, get up and string’)
Copies, in a musical setting by ‘Mr Caeser’ [i.e. William Caesar (fl.1615-67)].
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 87.
(i) f. 32r; (iii) f. 31v
• CoA 24: Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. II. Drinking (‘The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain’)
Copies, in a musical setting by ‘Capt: Silas Taylor’.
First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Among Miscellanies in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 51. Sparrow, p. 50.
Musical setting by Silas Taylor published in Catch that Catch Can: or the Musical Companion (London, 1667). Setting by Roger Hill published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).
(i) f. 42v; (iii) f. 42v; (iv) f. 27v
• HeR 39: Robert Herrick, Charon and Phylomel, A Dialogue sung (‘Charon! O gentle Charon! let me wooe thee’)
Copies, in a musical setting by William Lawes.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 248. Patrick, p. 327. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).
(i) f. 44r; (ii) f. 31r; (iii) f. 17v
• CmT 56: Thomas Campion, ‘If Love loves truth, then women doe not love’
Copies, in Campion's musical setting.
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xi. Davis, p. 146.
(i) f. 45r; (ii) f. 33v; (iii) f. 46v; (iv) f. 30v
• BrN 74: Nicholas Breton, Phillida and Coridon (‘In the merry moneth of May’)
Copies, in a musical setting by Benjamin Rogers.
This MS recorded in Spink, p. 197.
First published as ‘The Plowmans Song’ in The Honorable Entertainment at Elvetham (London, 1591). Englands Helicon (London, 1600), <No. 12>, ascribed to ‘N. Breton’; Grosart, I (t), p. 7. English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 29. A musical setting first published in Michael East, Madrigals to Three, Four, and Five Parts (London, 1604).
(i) f. 46r; (ii) f. 35v; (iii) f. 45r; (iv) f. 32r
• CmT 171: Thomas Campion, ‘Young and simple though I am’
Copies, in a musical setting by Nicholas Lanier.
First published in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London [1617]), Book IV, No. ix. Davis, p. 177. Doughtie, p. 295.
(i) f. 46r; (ii) f. 35v; (iii) f. 45r; (iv) f. 32r
• JnB 724: Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd, I, v, 65-80. Song (‘Though I am young, and cannot tell’)
Copies, in a musical setting by Nicholas Lanier.
This setting first published in John Playford, Select Musical Ayres and Dialogues in Three Books (London, 1653).
First published in Workes (London, 1641). Herford & Simpson, VII, 1-49.
(iv) f. 4r
• CwT 714: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).
See also Introduction.
MS Hunter 82
Copy, including the dedicatory epistle to Queen Elizabeth, entitled ‘A Memoriall of a Discovrs used by the late worthie Emperor Charles the Vth upon the resignement of his gouernement and states to his sonne the now Kinge of Spaine’. Late 16th-early 17th century.
HoH 47: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A Copy of the last instructions which the Emperor Charles the Fifth gave to his son Philip before his death translated out of Spanish
An unpublished translation of a suppositious work, supposed (but unlikely) to be Charles V's instructions to his son Philip II, which was circulated in MS in 16th-century Europe and published in Spanish in Sandoval's Life of Charles V (1634). An Italian translation in MS was presented to James VI by Giacomo Castelvetro between 1591 and 1595 and is now in the National Library of Scotland (MS Adv. 23. I. 6): see The Works of William Fowler, ed. H.W. Meckle, James Craigie and John Purves, III, STS 3rd Ser. 23 (Edinburgh, 1940), pp. cxxvii-cxxx, and references cited in The Basilicon Doron of King James VI, ed. James Craigie, II, STS, 3rd Ser. 18 (Edinburgh, 1950), pp. 63-9. A quite different translation was published as The Advice of Charles the Fifth...to his Son Philip the Second (London, 1670).
Howard's translation, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth, was allegedly written when he had been more than twelve years out of the Queen's favour [? in the early 1590s]. The Dedication begins ‘If the faithful Cananite of whom we read in the holy writ...’; the main text begins ‘I have resolved (most dear son) to come now to the point...’, and ends ‘...to proceed in such a course as prayers may second your purposes. Sanctae Trinitati, &c.’
MS Hunter 399
A folio volume comprising a treatise by Sir Thomas More, 342 leaves, in contemporary black calf, bearing the Royal Tudor Arms and Tudor Crown, traces of silk ties. Mid-16th century.
The MS as a whole
• MrT 30.3: Sir Thomas More, A Dialogue of Comfort
A formal copy, in a professional secretary hand, with elaborately ornamented initials, entitled ‘A Dialogue (between Anthony and Vincent) of Comforte agaynst Trybulation Incerti Avctoris (Eivsdem), de Perivrio’.
First published in London, 1553. Yale, Vol. 12.
ff. 337r-8r
• MrT 17.8: Sir Thomas More, Assertio quod omne perjurium sit mortale peccatum
Copy.
A Latin meditation on the meaning of perjury, written while in the Tower (April 1534-July 1535), and relating to A Dialogue concerning Heresies, Book III, Chapter 7. Yale, Vol. 6, Part II, pp. 764-7, ed. R.S. Sylvester, with an English translation.
MS Hunter 506
A quarto volume of chiefly tracts and speeches, in various hands, 175 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
ff. 1v-4r 14r
• RaW 666.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a War with Spain, and of the Protecting of the Netherlands
Copy of ‘A Discourse of Sir W. Raleigh to James I 1602’.
A tract addressed to James I and beginning ‘It belongeth not to me to judge whether the king of Spain hath done wrong to the Netherlands...’. First published in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 299-316.
ff. 4r, 14v-15r, 16v
• BcF 416: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)
Copy of five speeches by Bacon, on becoming Lord Chancellor (7 May 1617), to Sir John Denham, to Sergeant Hutton, to Sir William Jones (19 May 1617), and in the Star Chamber (Trinity 1617).
5, 16v-6r, 12v
• BcF 250.5: Francis Bacon, Ordinances in Chancery
Copy, with Additional rules in 6, 13r-6, 15r.
First published as Ordinances made by...Sir Francis Bacon Knight...being then Lord Chancellor For the better and more regular Administration of Iustice in the Chancery (London, 1642), beginning ‘No decree shall be reversed, altered, or explained, being once under the Great Seale...’. Spedding, VII, 755-74 (mentioning, on p. 757, having seen some ‘MSS and editions’ of this work but without specifying them or his copy-text).
ff. 8, 2r-8, 6r
• BcF 518: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications
Copy of Bacon's submissions on 19 March 1620/1 and 22 April 1621.
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.
Hunter K.8.18
A printed exemplum with Ralegh's signature, ‘W Ralegh’, at the foot of the title-page. 1571.
*RaW 1026: Sir Walter Ralegh, Colombo, Fernando. Historie del S. D. Fernando Colombo (Venice, 1571)
Hunter V. 2. 19
Copy, in a calligraphic secretary hand, with decorative features, in contemporay dark brown calf (rebound), with stamped Tudor rose and other patriotic emblems. Possibly a presentation MS to someone connected with the Royal Court. Mid-16th century.
MrT 30.5: Sir Thomas More, A Dialogue of Comfort
This MS discussed in Ralph Hanna III, ‘Two New Texts of More's Dialogue of Comfort’, Moreana, 19 (1982), 5-11.
First published in London, 1553. Yale, Vol. 12.
G.C. 21
Copy of the song, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.
OtT 12: Thomas Otway, ‘Would you know how we meet’
Recorded in Franklin B. Zimmerman, Henry Purcell: An Analytical Catalogue (London & New York, 1963), No. 290.
A song attributed to Otway in early printed sources and possibly by him. First published, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, in The Theater of Music, The Second Book (London, 1685).
R 8.7
A printed exemplum inscribed (p. 175v) ‘Il vostro malignare non giova nulla Alexander Dicson’. 1584.
DiA 7: Alexander Dicsone, Bruno, Giordano. De l'infinito universo et mondi ([London], 1584)
Recorded in Sturlese and in Beal, ‘Sidney's Letter’, pp. 39-40, n. 12