C 48/36
A letter by Thomas Killigrew, to Basil Feilding, later second Earl of Denbigh, Ambassador to Venice, 17 January 1635/6. 1636.
KiT 22: Thomas Killigrew, Letter(s)
CR 136/B25
Copy of Book IV, Canto IX, stanza 2, here beginning ‘All naturall affection soone doth cesse’, in a neat predominantly secretary hand, quoted in an undated autograph letter by Francis Beaumont (d.1624), Master of the Charterhouse, to Lady Anne Newdegate, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, folded and addressed. Spenser's ‘honest verses’ are cited, says Beaumont, because ‘Mr. Spensers opinion’, on the duel between love and honour, ‘so rightlie’ agrees with ‘that which nature had taught mee before as the same might be thought to have bene drawne out of his discipline.’ c.1611.
SpE 10: Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
Among papers of the Newdegate family, Viscounts Daventer, of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton.
This letter edited in Lady Newdigate-Newdegate, Gossip from a Muniment Room (London, 1897), p. 132. See also T.W. Baldwin, ‘The Three Francis Beaumonts’, MLN, 39 (1924), 505-7.
Books I-III first published in London, 1590. Books IV-VI published in London, 1596. Variorum, Vols I-VI.
CR 136/B463
Autograph letter signed by Sedley, to Sir Richard Newdigate, [?July 1695]. 1695.
*SeC 133: Sir Charles Sedley, Letter(s)
Edited in Sola Pinto, Life, pp. 212-13.
CR 136/B465
Autograph letter signed by Sedley, to Sir Thomas Rowe, endorsed 18 July [1695]. 1695.
*SeC 131: Sir Charles Sedley, Letter(s)
Edited in Sola Pinto, Life, pp. 211-12. Facsimile in IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile X, after p. xxi.
CR 136/B466
Autograph letter signed by Sedley, to Sir Richard Newdigate, 12 January 1689/9. 1689.
*SeC 129: Sir Charles Sedley, Letter(s)
Edited in Sola Pinto, Life, pp. 222-3.
CR 136/B467
Autograph letter signed by Sedley, to Sir Richard Newdigate, 27-8 January 1699/1700. 1700.
*SeC 134: Sir Charles Sedley, Letter(s)
Edited in Sola Pinto, Life, p. 227.
CR 136/B468
Autograph letter signed by Sedley, to Sir Richard Newdigate, 2 January [1700/1]. 1701.
*SeC 135: Sir Charles Sedley, Letter(s)
Edited in Sola Pinto, Life, pp. 229-30.
CR 136/B729
Copy, on nine folio pages. Early 17th century.
*BcF 232.9: Francis Bacon, Offer to the King of a Digest to be made of the Laws of England
A transcript is printed in The Works of Francis Bacon, ed. James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath, 14 vols (London, 1857-74) XIV, pp. 358-64.
Spedding, XIV, 358-64.
CR 136/B743
Copy, in a small neat italic hand, headed ‘The Countrie Life’, on both sides of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1630.
HeR 48: Robert Herrick, A Country life: To his Brother, Master Thomas Herrick (‘Thrice, and above, blest (my soules halfe) art thou’)
Among papers of the Newdegate family, Viscounts Daventer, of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 34-8. Patrick, pp. 50-3.
CR 136/B755
A single octavo leaf of verse. c.1700.
Among papers of the Newdegate family, Viscounts Daventer, of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton.
p. [1]
• DoC 6: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Advice (‘Phyllis, for shame let us improve’)
Copy, headed ‘Song by ye Ld Dorset’, interlineated with a shorthand version.
First published in Westminster Drollery (London, 1671). Harris, pp. 77-8.
p. [2]
• SeC 40: Sir Charles Sedley, Song (‘Not Celia that I juster am’)
Copy, headed ‘Ld Dorset to his Lady’ and here beginning ‘Not Chloe that I truer am or chaster than the rest’, interlineated with a shorthand version.
First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 6-7.
CR 136/B727
Copy, as ‘A Discourse Pronounced by Sr Robert Cotton’, sixteen folio pages. c.1630.
CtR 461: Sir Robert Cotton, A Speech Made by Sir Rob Cotton Knight and Baronet, before the Lords of his Majesties most Honorable Privy Covncel, At the Councel Table being thither called to deliver his Opinion touching the Alteration of Coyne. 2. Sept. [1626]
Among papers of the Newdegate family, Viscounts Daventer, of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton.
Speech beginning ‘My Lords, Since it hath pleased this Honourable Table to command...’. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [283]-294, with related texts (‘The Answer of the Committees Appointed...2 September 1626’ and ‘Questions to be proposed’, etc.) on pp. 295-307. W.A. Shaw, Writers on English Monetary History, pp. 21-38.
CR 136/B772
Copy of Version II, in a minute secretary hand, untitled, on two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed Queen Elizabeths last [speach] in Parliamt. Early 17th century.
ElQ 304: Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601
Among papers of the Newdegate family, Viscounts Daventer, of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton.
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).
CR 136/B808
‘A Bill of ffees of Honr of Knighthood’, endorsed by Sedley, 6 November 1686. Among the Newdigate Papers, from Arbury Hall. 1686.
*SeC 138: Sir Charles Sedley, Document(s)
CR 136/B2454
Copy, in a secretary hand, on one side of a single folio leaf, endorsed ‘Entertainmt of Q Eliz at Harfeild by Countess of Derby’. c.1602.
DaJ 298: Sir John Davies, Unidentified Entertainment. The Complaint of the Five Satyres against the Nymphes (‘Tell me, O Nymphes, why do you’)
Among papers of the Newdegate family, Viscounts Daventer, of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton.
This leaf, associated with DaJ 290, is edited in Nichols (III, 595), from Churton's transcript, as part of the Entertainment at Harefield, but it is in a different hand and may be an independent work (see also Bond, I, 497(n)). Nichols's text reprinted in Krueger (pp. 308-9, and see p. 425) as a poem possibly by Davies. A transcript of Churton's 1803 transcript made in 1819 by Sophia Palmer is in the London Metropolitan Archives, Acc. 1085/FP.1.
Krueger, pp. 308-9. This ‘complaint’ has sometimes been considered part of the Entertainment at Harefield but belongs to some other entertainment.
CR 136/B2455
Copy of portions of the entertainment, comprising prose dialogues between ‘a Baylife’ and a ‘Dayrie-Maide’ and between Place and Time, ‘The humble Petition of a guiltlesse Lady deliuered in writing...presented to the Q: by the La: Walsingham’ (beginning ‘Beauties rose and vertues booke’), and a farewell speech of Place, in a secretary hand, on all four pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves and on one side of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed ‘Entertainment of Q. Eliz. at Harefield by the Countesse of Derby’ and ‘Sr R’. c.1602.
DaJ 290: Sir John Davies, An Entertainment at Harefield
Among papers of the Newdegate family, Viscounts Daventer, of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton.
This MS edited in John Nichols, The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth, III (London, 1823), 586-95, from a transcript (with some misreadings) made in 1803 by Rev. Ralph Churton (see Bond I, 534). Reprinted from Nichols's edition in Bond, I, 491-8. See also DaJ 298-300. A transcript of Churton's 1803 transcript made in 1819 by Sophia Palmer is in the London Metropolitan Archives, Acc. 1085/FP.1.
The fullest text of what are taken to be the extant portions of the Entertainment at Harefield, 31 July-2 August 1602, is edited in The Complete Works of John Lyly, ed. R. Warwick Bond (Oxford, 1902), I, 491-504, where it is suggested that probably the prose and the Mariner's song were written by Lyly and the rest chiefly by Davies (see I, 534-5). Krueger, following Grosart, accepts the prose too as Davies's (see Krueger, pp. 409-11). It is argued that ‘Davies probably wrote all of the Harefield entertainment’ in Gabriel Heaton, Writing and Reading Royal Entertainments (Oxford, 2010), pp. 100-16.
CR 136/B3468
A small quarto booklet of verse and prose, in two predominantly italic hands, a fragment of a larger miscellany, eight leaves, paginated 73-88, disbound. c.1620s-30s.
Among papers of the Newdegate family, Viscounts Daventer, of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton.
p. 73
• RaW 377: Sir Walter Ralegh, Epitaph on the Earl of Salisbury (‘Here lies Hobinall, our Pastor while ere’)
Copy, headed ‘On Sr Rob: Cecil’, here beginning ‘Heere lieth Hobinol our Sheapheard while ere’, inscribed in the margin ‘Sr W: Raleigh in ye Tower’.
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.
CR 229/182
Copy.
ClE 121: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Impeachment Proceedings against Clarendon in 1667
Articles of Treason exhibited in Parliament against Clarendon, 14 November 1667 published in London, 1667. The Proceedings in the House of Commons touching the Impeachment of Clarendon 1667 published in London, 1700.
CR 341/277
A folio booklet of Advice to Painter poems, in a single professional rounded hand, with a formal title-page in italic lettering, ‘The Second and Third Aduices to A Painter for drawing the History of our Nauall Actions The two last years 1665 & 1666. In Answer to Mr Waller...Breda. 1667.’, on 27 further pages (plus twenty blank pages), unbound. c.1667.
Among papers of the Waller family, of Woodcote.
pp. 1-10
• MaA 354: Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter (‘Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight’)
Copy, the poem dated ‘1667’, the penultimate leaf (pp. 7-8) imperfect.
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.
pp. 11-22
• MaA 384: Andrew Marvell, The Third Advice to a Painter (‘Sandwich in Spain now, and the Duke in love’)
Copy, as ‘Written by ye. same hand as ye Former’ [i.e.MaA 354], the poem dated ‘1666’.
First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 67-87. Lord, pp. 130-44. Smith, pp. 346-56. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 32-3, as anonymous.
See discussions of the disputed authorship of this poem, as well as of the ‘Second Advice’, cited before MaA 314.
pp. 23-7
• MaA 417: Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter (‘Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before’)
Copy, as ‘Written by ye same hand as ye Former [i.e. MaA 384] / Breda 1667’.
First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 140-6, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 33-5, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.
CR 1618/W19/6
The Black Book of Warwick. The formal book of records of Warwick Corporation, with accounts of civic events, ordnances, etc. from 1556 onwards.
This volume edited in full in The Black Book of Warwick, ed. Thomas Kemp (Warwick, [1899]).
ff. 65r-70r
• ElQ 180: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speeches and Responses during her Visit to Warwick, August 12, 1572
A formal account of the Queen's visit and speeches, in the hand of a civic clerk.
Kemp edition, pp. 91-2. Edited in Collected Works from this MS account as printed in Nichols.
Beginning ‘Bailiff, I thank you, and you all, with all my heart...’. published in The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth, ed. John Nichols, 3 vols (London, 1823), I, 315-16. Collected Works, Speech 12, pp. 109-10.
CR 1998 Drawer 4 No. 1
A duodecimo volume, comprising chiefly two Catholic devotional works (the second ‘A Bref Forme of Confession for such as confesse often’), in a neat secretary hand, with additions in Latin and English (including ‘A morninge exercise’) in other hands on premilinary leaves, xxviii + 132 pages, in contemporary calf elaborately gilt. Late 16th-early 17th century.
Among papers of the recusant Throckmorton family, of Coughton Court, Warwickshire. Bookplate of Sir Charles Throckmorton, Bt.
pp. [xxi-xxvii], 1-116
• SoR 318.8: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A Short Rule of Good Life
Copy of the complete version.
First published [in London? 1596-7?]. Brown, Two Letters, pp. 21-73.
CR 2017/C48/2
Copy, in an unidentified hand, of a letter by Wroth to Sir William Feilding, first Earl of Denbigh, [March 1621/2]. c.1622.
WrM 29: Lady Mary Wroth, Letter(s)
Among papers of the Feilding family, Earls of Denbigh, of Pailton House, Warwickshire.
Edited in Roberts, Poems, p. 242 (No. X).
CR 2017/C48/2(a)
Copy, in an unidentified hand, of a letter by Sir Edward Denny to Lady Mary Wroth, 26 February 1621/2. c.1622.
WrM 26: Lady Mary Wroth, Letter(s)
This MS recorded in Roberts, Poems, p. 238.
CR 2017/C48/2(b)
Copy, in an unidentified hand (with ? an autograph signature), of a letter by Wroth to Sir Edward Denny, 27 February 1621/2. With a copy of a letter apparently by Denny to Wroth. 1622.
WrM 27: Lady Mary Wroth, Letter(s)
Among papers of the Feilding family, Earls of Denbigh, of Pailton House, Warwickshire.
Edited in Roberts, Poems, pp. 240-1 (No. VIII).
CR 2017/C48/2(c)
Copy of a letter by Sir Edward Denny to Lady Mary Wroth, [February-March 1621/2].
WrM 28: Lady Mary Wroth, Letter(s)
Edited from this MS in Roberts, Poems, pp. 240-1 (No. IX).
Dugdale MSS, Bundle IX/17
passim
• ClE 92: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, The Humble Petition and Address of Clarendon in 1667
Copy.
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.