827.32.
Exemplum of one of the printed octavo editions of 1596 with Harington's autograph sidenotes, in his small italic hand, on sig. A5r, pp. 3, 5, 11, 17, 29, 35, 51, and sig. N6v, imperfect. c.1596.
*HrJ 320: Sir John Harington, The Metamorphosis of Ajax
Among extensive scribbling and inscriptions in various hands throughout the volume are ‘Robert Eton bringeth xl xs the vith day of October [1602]’, ‘Thomas Hares of Hentor in the countie of Waltes’[part of his will], a record of the birth of Robert Pantinge the night before Whit Sunday 1600, ‘Robert Pantinge’, ‘By me Thomas Pantinge’, ‘Anthony Pantinge’, ‘Richard Pantinge’, ‘John dimmacke’, ‘John Needham’, ‘Barklay Needham 1756’, ‘Barbra Needham Book 1759’, and ‘John Rogers not his book’. Later owned by F. Bowman.
This item collated in Donno.
First published in London, 1596. Edited by Elizabeth Story Donno (New York, 1962).
50H/43/92-93
Copy, on four folio pages, inscribed as being ‘scandalous & seditious’, it or the author deserving to be ‘burned by the hand of ye Hangman’. Copy. Late 17th century.
ClE 87: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, The Humble Petition and Address of Clarendon in 1667
Petition beginning ‘I cannot express the insupportable trouble and grief of mind I sustain...’. Published as To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled: The Humble Petition and Address of Clarendon, [in London, 1667?] and subsequently reprinted widely, sometimes under the title News from Dunkirk-house: or, Clarendon's Farewell to England Dec 3 1667.
50H/48/2
Copy of the pamphlet as printed, complete with title-page, in a professional rounded hand, on eleven folio leaves. Mid-17th century.
GgA 145: Sir Arthur Gorges, A True Transcript and Publication of his Majesties Letters Pattent [5 March 1611/12]. For an Office to be erected, and called the Publicke Register for generall Commerce.
Among the papers of Samuel Hartlib (c.1600/2-1662), educationalist and natural philosopher, later owned by Lord Delamere.
First published, as A Trve Transcript and Pvblication of his Maiesties Letters Pattent [5 March 1612]. For an Office to be erected, and called the Publicke Register for generall Commerce. Whereunto is annexed an Ouerture and explanation of the nature and purport of the said Office for their better vnderstanding and direction that shall haue occasion to vse it, By Sir Arthur Gorges, Knight (London, 1611[/12]).
50H/50/14a-15a
A pair of conjugate folio leaves, comprising two poems relating to Suckling, in a single hand, with corrections. c.1640.
Among the papers of Samuel Hartlib (c.1600/2-1662), educationalist and natural philosopher, later owned by Lord Delamere.
Discussed and collated in Timothy Raylor, ‘Samuel Hartlib's Copy of “Upon Sir John Suckling's Hundred Horse”’, N&Q, 234 (December 1989), 445-7.
item 1
• SuJ 212: John Suckling, Upon Sir John Suckling's hundred horse (‘I tell thee Jack thou'st given the King’)
Copy.
First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 204-5.
item 2
• SuJ 231: John Suckling, Sir John Suckling's Answer (‘I tell thee foole who'ere thou be’)
Copy.
First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 205-6. Sometimes erroneously attributed to Suckling himself.
50H/53/4
Autograph summary of Davenant's Proposition, on a single folio leaf. [1653-1654].
*DaW 79.8: Sir William Davenant, A Proposition for Advancement of Moralitie By a new way of Entertainment of the People
Among the papers of Samuel Hartlib (c.1600/2-1662), educationalist and natural philosopher.
This MS edited, discussed and (correctly) attributed to Davenant, with a facsimile, in James R. Jacob and Timothy Raylor, ‘Opera and Obedience: Thomas Hobbes and A Proposition for Advancement of Moralitie by Sir William Davenant’, The Seventeenth Century, 6 (1991), 205-50. A facsimile also in The Hartlib Papers Project Newsletter (March 1994).
First published in London, 1654.
50H/55/15
Copy of a 132-line version, headed ‘To his Highnesse. On his late Victory in the Bay of Santa Cruz, in the Island of Tenariff’ and beginning ‘The Spaniards Fleet from the Havanna now’, on a pair of conjugate folio leaves, docketed ‘A Poem to the Protector’. c.1657.
MaA 52: Andrew Marvell, On the Victory obtained by Blake over the Spaniards, in the Bay of Sanctracruze, in the Island of Teneriff. 1657 (‘Now does Spains Fleet her spatious wings unfold’)
Among the papers of Samuel Hartlib (c.1600/2-1662), educationalist and natural philosopher.
This MS edited and discussed, with a complete facsimile, in Margarita Stocker and Timothy Raylor, ‘A New Marvell Manuscript: Cromwellian Patronage and Politics’, ELR, 20 (1990), 106-62.
First published in A New Collection of Poems and Songs, Written by several Persons (London, 1674). Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 119-24. Smith, pp. 427-9. Possibly not by Marvell, at least as a whole.