Baxter Letters, Vol. III, ff. 284r-5v
Autograph letter signed by More, to Richard Baxter, from Christ's College, Cambridge, 10 February 1681/2. 1682.
*MoH 21: Henry More, Letter(s)
Facsimile in IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile IV, after p. xxi.
Baxter Letters, Vol. III, ff. 286r-7v
Autograph letter signed by More, to Richard Baxter, from Christ's College, Cambridge, 25 September 1681. 1681.
*MoH 20: Henry More, Letter(s)
Baxter Letters, Vol. V, ff. 85r-6v
Autograph letter signed, to Richard Baxter, from Hampton Court, 23 June [1662]. 1662.
*MoH 6: Henry More, Letter(s)
Edited in Richard Baxter, Reliquiae Baxterianae, ed. Matthew Sylvester (London, 1696), Book I, part ii, pp. 382-3. Reprinted in White Kennett, A Register and Chronicle Ecclesiastical and Civil (London, 1728), p. 714. Bliss, pp. 242-3 (from Kennett). Printed text quoted in Darwin, pp. 192-3.
MS 12. 11 (25)
Copy, headed ‘Lady Chudleighs poem the wish’, on one side of a single quarto leaf. Early 18th century.
ChM 4: Mary, Lady Chudleigh, The Wish (‘Would but indulgent Fortune send’)
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (London, 1703). Ezell, p. 77.
MSS 12. 54
A group of poems by Corbett, in a single hand, in a folio booklet of fifteen leaves presumably once part of a larger collection, foliated in pencil 49-63, numbered ‘22’, disbound. c.1620s-30s.
ff. 49r-55v
• CoR 314: Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale (‘Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two’)
Copy, headed ‘Secundum Iter horale [sic] DCor’.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.
ff. 57r, 58r-60v
• CoR 647: Richard Corbett, To the Lord Mordant upon his returne from the North (‘My Lord, I doe confesse, at the first newes’)
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbet to ye lo: Mordaunt’.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 23-31.
ff. 61r, 62r
• CoR 340: Richard Corbett, A letter sent from Doctor Corbet to Master Ailesbury, Decem. 9. 1618 (‘My Brother and much more had'st thou bin mine’)
Copy, headed ‘To Mr Hilsbury at London from Dor Corbett’.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 63-5.
MSS 28. 49
A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, in Latin, Greek and English, in several hands (two predominating), probably compiled by men associated with the University of Oxford, written from both ends, c.118 leaves, in contemporary calf. Mid-late-17th century.
Inscribed names of ‘Will. Randolph’ and ‘William Burry '67’ [who matriculated at Christ Church on 26 October 1666], and including (ff. 72v-59v rev.) verses by ‘G. Yalden’ [? William Yalden, who matriculated at Queen's College on 21 November 1687].
pp. 1-89 (ff. 73-117v rev.)
• DeJ 125: Sir John Denham, The Sophy
Transcript of an edition.
First published in London, 1642. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 232-309.
f. [14r rev.]
• PoW 77.5: Walton Poole, ‘Love & death laying in a bed to geather’
Copy, untitled and subscribed ‘W: pool’.
Unpublished.
f. [16r rev.]
• RaW 464.8: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Say not you love, unless you do’
Copy, headed ‘Dr Duns answer to a lady Laday’.
First published in Inedited Poetical Miscellanies, 1584-1700, ed. W.C. Hazlitt ([London], 1870), p. [179]. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 38, p. 106.
MSS 28.58 (PP.12.50*4 (21))
Copy, in one or possibly two rounded hands, complete with (ff. iiir-vir) two prefatory letters, by ‘M. L.’ and ‘T. H.’ (? Thomas Harrison, minister in Chester) respectively and (p. 142) a ‘P:S:’ to the reader, vi leaves + 142 quarto pages. In a composite volume principally of 26 printed sermons and elegies, in 19th-century brown leather gilt. c.1660s?.
LoM 2: Mary Love, The Life of Mr. Christopher Love
Bookplate of ‘H:Strangewayes’: possibly of Henry Strangewayes (1741-89), of York.
This MS described in the online Perdita Project.
MSS 61. 12
Volume of three theological tracts. Early-mid-17th century.
ff. 39r-44v
• BcF 75: Francis Bacon, An Advertisement touching the Controversies of the Church of England
Copy of part of the tract, here beginning ‘The wrongs of ye who are possed of the Government of ye Church towards ye others…’, inscribed ‘pag. 138 of his Works’.
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 Jones B. 60
An octavo volume of works by, or attributed to, Ralegh, in several largely secretary hands, 282 pages, in contemporary velum. c.1620s.
Owned in 1732 by the Rev. John Jones (1700-70), of Abbots Ripton and Alconbury, near Cambridge.
This MS discussed in Lefranc (1968), pp. 584-5.
pp. 1-15
• RaW 710: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Relation of the Action at Cadiz
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleighs Letter to the Earle of Northumberland being a true Relation of the takeing of Cales’.
An account of the Cadiz expedition in 1596, allegedly ‘by Sir Walter Ralegh’ and ‘Transcribed from a manuscript in the hands of his grandchild, Mr. Ralegh’, beginning ‘You shall receive many relations, but none more true than this...’. First published in An Abridgement of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World (London, 1700), part ii, pp. 17-25. Works, (1829). VIII, 667-74.
pp. 17-22
• RaW 697: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Seat of Government
Copy, headed ‘That the Seate of Gouernment is vpheld by the two great Pillers Thereof vizt Ciuill Iustice, and Martiall Pollicie...Written by Sr Walter Raleigh kt:’.
A tract beginning ‘They say, that the goodliest cedars which grow in the high mountains of Libanus thrust their roots between the clifts of hard rocks...’. First published together with Sir Walter Raleigh's Scepticke (London, 1651). Works (1829), VIII, 538-40.
pp. 23-28
• RaW 710.95: Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh unto Prince Henry touching the Model of a Ship
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleighs Letter to Prince Henry touching the modell of a Shipp’.
This MS recorded in Youings.
A letter to Prince Henry, written from the Tower, c.November 1607, beginning ‘If the ship your highness intends to build be bigger than the Victory...’. First published in Judicious and Select Essays (London, 1650), pp. 8-15. Works (1829), VIII, 627-9. Youings, No. 194, pp. 301-4.
pp. 33-63
• RaW 671: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a War with Spain, and of the Protecting of the Netherlands
Copy, as ‘Written by Sr: Walter Raleigh knight, & by him presented to his Matie: Anno Dni 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.
pp. 65-99
• RaW 609: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse of the Invention of Ships, Anchors, Compass, &c.
Copy, headed ‘A Discourse of the first invention of Shipps & the Severall parts thereof...’.
An epistolary tract addressed to Prince Henry, beginning ‘That the ark of Noah was the first ship because the invention of God himself...’. First published, as ‘Upon the first Invention of Shipping’, in Judicious and Select Essayes and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 317-34.
pp. 103-50
• RaW 619: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse of the Original and Fundamental Cause of Natural, Arbitrary, Necessary, and Unnatural War
Copy, headed ‘A Discourse of Warr, as it is either naturall (first Remedielesse wherein Somewhat touching transplantations) or Arbitrary...Written by Sr: Walter Raleigh knight’.
A tract beginning ‘The ordinary theme and argument of history is war...’. First published (in part), as ‘The Misery of Invasive Warre’, in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London 1650). Published complete in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 253-97.
See also RaW 610.
pp. 151-68
• RaW 1125: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Scepticke
Copy.
A tract beginning ‘The Scepticke doth neither affirm nor deny any position...’. First published, as by Sir Walter Ralegh, in London, 1651. Works (1829), VIII, 548-56. William M. Hamlin, ‘A Lost Translation Found? An Edition of The Sceptick (c.1590)’, ELR, 31/1 (Winter 2001), 34-51 (pp. 42-51).
A translation of extracts from the Hypotyposes of Sextus Empiricus. See S.E. Sprott, ‘Ralegh's “Sceptic” and the Elizabethan Translation of Sextus Empiricus’, PQ, 42 (1963), 166-75, and Lefranc (1968), pp. 66-7.
pp. 169-211
• RaW 567: Sir Walter Ralegh, Apology for his Voyage to Guiana
Copy, headed ‘Sr: Walter Raleighs large Appologie for his Journey to Guiana’.
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.
pp. 213-19
• RaW 710.275: Sir Walter Ralegh, Short Apology for his last Actions at Guiana
Copy, headed ‘Sr: Walter Raleighs short Appologie for his last Actions at Guiana’.
Ralegh's letter of 1618 to his cousin George, Lord Carew of Clopton (beginning ‘Because I know not whether I shall live...’). First published in Judicious and Select Essays (London, 1650). Edwards, II, 375 et seq. Youings, No. 222, pp. 364-8.
pp. 221-3
• RaW 993: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to James I.
pp. 229-34
• RaW 693: Sir Walter Ralegh, Of the Art of Warre by Sea
Copy of notes belonging to the Art of Warre by Sea, consisting of later additions to the treatise, headed ‘Fragments of Sr. Walter Raleighes’ and beginning ‘For weere it not out of a singuler devotion to doe your Matie service...’, apparently transcribed from Ralegh's autograph papers or from an early copy of them.
Edited from this MS in Lefranc (1968), pp. 599-601, and in Youings.
No complete text of this treatise is known. Fragments first published in Lefranc (1968), pp. 597-9. Youings, No. 227, pp. 375-6.
pp. 235-6
• RaW 603: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Dialogue between a Counsellor of State and a Justice of the Peace
Extract from an early version of Ralegh's dedicatory epistle to the King, untitled.
A treatise, with a dedicatory epistle to James I beginning ‘Those that are suppressed and hopeless are commonly silent ...’, the dialogue beginning ‘Now, sir, what think you of Mr. St. John's trial in the Star-chamber?...’. First published as The Prerogative of Parliaments in England (‘Midelburge’ and ‘Hamburg’ [i.e. London], 1628). Works (1829), VIII, 151-221.
pp. 243-5, 247-9, 251
• RaW 994: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
Copies of letters by Ralrgh, to Winwood, to Lady Ralegh, and to Sir Robert Carr.
pp. 257-60
• RaW 177: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie (‘Goe soule the bodies guest’)
Copy, headed ‘A Lye to the world Penned by Sr: W: Raleigh’.
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.
pp. 261-3
• EsR 49: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, ‘Go Eccho of the minde, a careles troth protest’
Copy, headed ‘An Answere to the same’ [i.e. RaW 177] and here beginning ‘Goe Eccho of the wynde’.
May, Poems, No. II, pp. 60-1.
pp. 265-7
• RaW 451: Sir Walter Ralegh, The passionate mans Pilgrimage (‘Giue me my Scallop shell of quiet’)
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleighes Pilgrimage’.
Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 54C, pp. 130-3.
First published with Daiphantvs or The Passions of Loue (London, 1604). Latham, pp. 49-51. Rudick, Nos 54A, 54B and 54C (three versions, pp. 126-33).
This poem rejected from the canon and attributed to an anonymous Catholic poet in Philip Edwards, ‘Who Wrote The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage?’, ELR, 4 (1974), 83-97.
p. 267
• RaW 315: Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir W. Raleigh, On the Snuff of a Candle the night before he died (‘Cowards fear to Die, but Courage stout’)
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh on the Snuffe of a Candle the night before hee dyed’.
Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 55, p. 133.
First published in Remains (London, 1657). Latham, p. 72. Rudick, No. 55, p. 133.
pp. 269-74
• RaW 808: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)
Copy, headed in another hand ‘Sr Walter Raleighs Speech & Behaviour before his Execution &c’.
Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For a relevant discussion, see Anna Beer, ‘Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh’, MP, 94/1 (August 1996), 19-38.
pp. 275-82
• RaW 808.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleighs speech at his Execution’.
Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For a relevant discussion, see Anna Beer, ‘Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh’, MP, 94/1 (August 1996), 19-38.
p. 282
• RaW 97: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’
Copy, headed ‘Verses hee made the night before hee dyed’.
First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as ‘These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse’). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).
This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).
See also RaW 302 and RaW 304.
MS Jones B. 62
An octavo volume of autograph Latin poems by George Herbert, together with a series of and early versions of 78 English poems by him, including several not subsequently published in The Temple, in the neat hand of an amanuensis, with Herbert's autograph corrections and revisions throughout, 137 leaves (including a number of blanks), in a Little Gidding calf binding. c.1620s.
Variously owned by Nicholas Ferrar (1593-1637), of the Little Gidding community, who was in effect Herbert's literary executor; by his relative by marriage the Rev. Hugh Mapletoft (d.1730), rector of All Saints, Huntingdon; by the Rev. John Jones (1700-70), of Abbots Ripton and Alconbury, near Cambridge; and by Thomas Dawson, before being acquired by Dr Williams.
Generally cited as the Dr Williams MS. A complete facsimile, introduced by Amy M. Charles, published as The Williams Manuscript of George Herbert's Poems (Delmar, New York, 1977). Facsimile examples in John J. Daniell, The Life of George Herbert of Bemerton (London, 1902), facing p. 317, and in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), pp. 149 and 155. See also discussions in Frank L. Huntley, ‘The Williams Manuscript, Edmund Duncon, and Herbert's Quotidian Fever’, George Herbert Journal, 10 (1986-7), 23-32, and Lillian Myers, ‘Facing Pages: Layout in the Williams Manuscript of George Herbert's Poems’, George Herbert Journal, 21 (1997-8), 72-82.
A transcript of this MS volume made in 1899 by Miss E. M. Thompson for Professor George Herbert Palmer (1842-1933), American scholar and author, 202 large quarto pages in modern cloth, was donated to Harvard on 19 March 1912 and is now Harvard MS Eng 1542.
[before f. 1r]
• HrG 78: George Herbert, The Dedication (‘Lord, my first fruits present themselves to thee’)
Copy.
Facsimile of this MS in Palmer, II, 108.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 5.
ff. 1r-13v
• *HrG 51: George Herbert, The Church-porch (‘Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhance’)
Copy, with autograph revisions.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 6-24.
ff. 14v-15r
• HrG 254: George Herbert, Superliminare (‘Thou, whom the former precepts have’)
Copy, the first quatrain headed ‘Perirranterium’.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 25.
f. 15v
• *HrG 11: George Herbert, The Altar (‘A broken Altar, Lord, thy servant reares’)
Copy, with an autograph revision.
Facsimile in James Boyd White, ‘This Book of Starres’: Learning to Read George Herbert (Ann Arbor, 1994), p. 84.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 26.
ff. 16r-22r
• *HrG 229: George Herbert, The Sacrifice (‘Oh all ye, who passe by, whose eyes and minde’)
Copy, with autograph revisions.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 26-34.
ff. 22v-3v
• *HrG 260: George Herbert, The Thanksgiving (‘Oh King of grief! a title strange, yet true’)
Copy, with an autograph revision.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 35-6.
f. 24r
• HrG 225: George Herbert, The Reprisall (‘I have consider'd it, and finde’)
Copy, headed ‘The Second Thanks-giving’.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 36-7.
f. 25r
• *HrG 221: George Herbert, Redemption (‘Having been tenant long to a rich Lord’)
Copy, with autograph revisions.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 40.
ff. 25v, 24v
• HrG 119: George Herbert, Good Friday (‘O my chief good’)
Copy, with lines 21-32 (here beginning ‘Since nothing Lord can bee so good’) as a separate poem entitled ‘The Passion’.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 38-9.
f. 26r
• HrG 240: George Herbert, The Sinner (‘Lord, how I am all ague, when I seek’)
Copy.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 38.
ff. 26v-7r
• *HrG 91: George Herbert, Easter (‘Rise heart. thy Lord is risen. Sing his praise’)
Copy, with an autograph revision; with lines 19-30 (here beginning ‘I had prepared many a flowre’) as a separate poem entitled ‘Easter’.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 41-2.
ff. 27v-8r
• *HrG 93: George Herbert, Easter-wings (‘Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store’)
Copy, with autograph revisions.
Facsimiles of this MS in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 57, and in David West, ‘Easter Wings’, N&Q, 237 (December 1992), 448-52 (p. 449).
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 43.
f. 28v
• HrG 125: George Herbert, H. Baptisme (I) (‘As he that sees a dark and shadie grove’)
Copy of an early version beginning ‘When backward on my sins I turne mine eyes’.
First published in The Temple (1613). Hutchinson, pp. 43-4.
f. 29r
• HrG 127: George Herbert, H. Baptisme (II) (‘Since, Lord, to thee’)
Copy.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 44.
f. 29v
• HrG 166: George Herbert, Love I. (‘Immortall Love, authour of this great frame’)
Copy.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 54.
f. 30r
• HrG 168: George Herbert, Love II. (‘Immortall Heat, O let thy greater flame’)
Copy.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 54.
ff. 30v-1v
• HrG 132: George Herbert, The H. Communion (‘O gratious Lord, how shall I know’)
Copy.
Edied from this MS in Grosart and in Hutchinson.
First published in Grosart (1874). Hutchinson, pp. 200-1.
f. 32r
• HrG 49: George Herbert, Church-musick (‘Sweetest of sweets, I thank you: when displeasure’)
Copy.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 65-6.
ff. 32v-3r
• HrG 256: George Herbert, The Temper (I) (‘How should I praise thee, Lord! how should my rymes’)
Copy, headed ‘The Christian Temper’.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 55.
f. 33v
• HrG 258: George Herbert, The Temper (II) (‘It cannot be. Where is that mightie joy’)
Copy, headed ‘The Christian Temper’.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 56.
f. 34r
• HrG 208: George Herbert, Prayer (I) (‘Prayer the Churches banquet, Angels age’)
Copy.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 51.
f. 34v
• HrG 129: George Herbert, The H. Communion (‘Not in rich furniture, or fine aray’)
Copy of lines 25-40, headed ‘Prayer’ and beginning ‘Give me my captive soul, or take’.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 52-3.
f. 35r
• HrG 43: George Herbert, Church-lock and key (‘I know it is my sinne, which locks thine eares’)
Copy, headed ‘Prayer’.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 66.
ff. 35v-6r
• HrG 97: George Herbert, Employment (I) (‘If as a flowre doth spread and die’)
Copy.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 57.
ff. 36v-7r
• HrG 284: George Herbert, Whitsunday (‘Listen sweet Dove unto my song’)
Copy of an early version beginning ‘Come blessed doue charmd wth my song’.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 59-60.
f. 37v
• HrG 133: George Herbert, The H. Scriptures (‘Oh Book! infinite sweetnessse! let my heart’)
Copy.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 58.
f. 38r
• HrG 135: George Herbert, The H. Scriptures. II. (‘Oh that I knew how all thy lights combine’)
Copy.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 58.
ff. 38v-9r
• HrG 165: George Herbert, Love (‘Thou art too hard for me in Love’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Hutchinson.
First published in Grosart (1874). Hutchinson, pp. 201-2.
f. 39r
• HrG 238: George Herbert, Sinne (II) (‘O that I could a sinne once see!’)
Copy.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 63.
f. 39v
• *HrG 266: George Herbert, Trinitie Sunday (‘Lord, who hast form'd me out of mud’)
Copy, with an autograph revision.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 68.
f. 40r
• HrG 268: George Herbert, Trinity Sunday (‘He that is one’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Hutchinson.
First published in Grosart (1874). Hutchinson, pp. 202-3.
ff. 40v-1r
• *HrG 223: George Herbert, Repentance (‘Lord, I confesse my sinne is great’)
Copy, with an autograph revision.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 48-9.
f. 41v
• HrG 204: George Herbert, Praise (I) (‘To write a verse or two is all the praise’)
Copy.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 61.
f. 42r
• *HrG 186: George Herbert, Nature (‘Full of rebellion, I would die’)
Copy, with an autograph revision.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 45.
ff. 42v-3r
• *HrG 121: George Herbert, Grace (‘My stock lies dead, and no increase’)
Copy, with autograph revisions.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 60-1.
f. 43r-v
• HrG 179: George Herbert, Mattens (‘I cannot ope mine eyes’)
Copy.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 62-3.
f. 44r-v
• HrG 107: George Herbert, Euen-song (‘The Day is spent, & hath his will on mee’)
Copy.
First published (from this MS) in Grosart (1874). printed from this MS in Hutchinson, p. 203.
f. 45r
• HrG 39: George Herbert, Christmas (‘All after pleasures as I rid one day’)
Copy of lines 1-14, headed ‘Christmas-Day’.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 80-1.
ff. 45v-6r
• HrG 47: George Herbert, Church-monuments (‘While that my soul repairs to her devotion’)
Copy.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 64-5.
f. 46r-v
• *HrG 114: George Herbert, Frailtie (‘Lord, in my silence how do I despise’)
Copy, with an autograph revision.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 71-2.
ff. 47r-8r
• *HrG 67: George Herbert, Content (‘Peace mutt'ring thoughts, and do not grudge to keep’)
Copy, with an autograph revision.
Edited from this MS in Norman Ault, A Treasury of Unfamiliar Lyrics (London, 1938). pp. 240-1.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 68-9.
f. 48r
• HrG 218: George Herbert, The Quidditie (‘My God, a verse is not a crown’)
Copy, headed ‘Poetry’.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 69-70.
ff. 48v-50r
• *HrG 2: George Herbert, Affliction (I) (‘When first thou didst entice to thee my heart’)
Copy, with an autograph correction.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 46-8.
ff. 50v-1r
• HrG 144: George Herbert, Humilitie (‘I saw the Vertues sitting hand in hand’)
Copy.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 70-1.
ff. 51r-2v
• *HrG 252: George Herbert, Sunday (‘O day most calm, most bright’)
Copy, with an autograph revision.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 75-7.
f. 53r
• *HrG 151: George Herbert, Jordan (I) (‘Who sayes that fictions onely and false hair’)
Copy, with an autograph revision.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 56-7.
ff. 53v-4r
• *HrG 80: George Herbert, Deniall (‘When my devotions could not pierce’)
Copy, with an autograph revision.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 79-80.
ff. 54v-5r
• HrG 275: George Herbert, Ungratefulnesse (‘Lord, with what bountie and rare clemencie’)
Copy.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 82.
ff. 55v-6r
• *HrG 99: George Herbert, Employment (II) (‘He that is weary, let him sit’)
Copy, the title added in Herbert's hand.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 78-9.
f. 56r
• HrG 289: George Herbert, A Wreath (‘A wreathed garland of deserved praise’)
Copy.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 185.
ff. 56v-7r
• *HrG 263: George Herbert, To all Angels and Saints (‘Oh glorious spirits, who after all your bands’)
Copy, with an autograph revision.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 77-8.
ff. 57v-8r
• *HrG 198: George Herbert, The Pearl. Matth. 13. 45. (‘I know the wayes of Learning. both the head’)
Copy, with autograph revisions.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 88-9.
ff. 58v-9r
• HrG 6: George Herbert, Affliction (IV) (‘Broken in pieces all asunder’)
Copy, headed ‘Tentation’.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 89-90.
ff. 59v-60r
• HrG 287: George Herbert, The World (‘Love built a stately house. where Fortune came’)
Copy.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 84.
f. 60r
• HrG 60: George Herbert, Coloss. 3. 3. Our life is hid with Christ in God (‘My words & thoughts do both expresse this notion’)
Copy.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 84-5.
ff. 60v-1v
• *HrG 108: George Herbert, Faith (‘Lord, how couldst thou so much appease’)
Copy, with autograph revisions.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 49-51.
ff. 62r-3r
• *HrG 161: George Herbert, Lent (‘Welcome deare feast of Lent: who loves not thee’)
Copy, with an autograph revision.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 86-7.
ff. 63v-4v
• *HrG 175: George Herbert, Man (‘My God, I heard this day’)
Copy, with autograph corrections and the title added by Herbert.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 90-2.
f. 65r
• HrG 18: George Herbert, Antiphon (II) (‘Praised be the God of love’)
Copy, headed ‘Ode’.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 92-3.
ff. 65v-6r
• HrG 8: George Herbert, Affliction (V) (‘My God, I read this day’)
Copy.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 97.
f. 66r
• HrG 236: George Herbert, Sinne (I) (‘Lord, with what care hast thou begirt us round!’)
Copy.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 45-6.
ff. 66v-7r
• HrG 35: George Herbert, Charms and Knots (‘Who reade a chapter when they rise’)
Copy.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 96-7.
ff. 67v-8r
• HrG 277: George Herbert, Unkindnesse (‘Lord, make me coy and tender to offend’)
Copy.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 93-4.
ff. 68v-9r
• HrG 184: George Herbert, Mortification (‘How soon doth man decay!’)
Copy.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 98-9.
ff. 69v-71v
• HrG 182: George Herbert, Miserie (‘Lord, let the Angles praise thy name’)
Copy.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 100-2.
ff. 71v-2r
• HrG 211: George Herbert, Prayer (II) (‘Of what an easie quick accesse’)
Copy.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 103.
ff. 72v-3v
• HrG 188: George Herbert, Obedience (‘My God, if writings may’)
Copy.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 104-5.
f. 74r
• HrG 153: George Herbert, Jordan (II) (‘When first my lines of heav'nly joyes made mention’)
Copy.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 102-3.
ff. 74v-5r
• *HrG 95: George Herbert, The Elixir (‘Teach me, my God and King’)
Copy of an early version beginning ‘Lord teach mee to referr’, with extensive autograph revisions; originally entitled ‘Perfection’, the title ‘The Elixir’ added by Herbert.
Facsimiles of this MS in Palmer, I, after p. 120; in Flower & Munby, English Poetical Autographs, p. 10; and in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 34.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 184-5.
f. 75v
• HrG 160: George Herbert, The Knoll (‘The Bell doth tolle’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Hutchinson.
First published in Grosart (1874). Hutchinson, p. 204.
f. 76r
• HrG 200: George Herbert, Perseverance (‘My God, the poore expressions of my Love’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Hutchinson.
First published in Grosart (1874). Hutchinson, pp. 204-5.
ff. 76v-7r
• HrG 75: George Herbert, Death (‘Death, thou wast once an uncouth hideous thing’)
Copy.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 185-6.
ff. 77v-8r
• HrG 87: George Herbert, Dooms-day (‘Come away’)
Copy.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 186-7.
f. 78v
• HrG 156: George Herbert, Judgement (‘Almightie Judge, how shall poore wretches brook’)
Copy.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 187-8.
f. 79r
• HrG 137: George Herbert, Heaven (‘O who will show me those delights on high?’)
Copy.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 188.
f. 79v
• HrG 170: George Herbert, Love III (‘Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back’)
Copy.
Facsimiles in Palmer, I, 84 and in James Boyd White, ‘This Book of Starres’: Learning to Read George Herbert (Ann Arbor, 1994), p. 262.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 188-9.
ff. 82v-9r
• *HrG 45: George Herbert, The Church Militant (‘Almightie Lord, who from thy glorious throne’)
Copy, with autograph revisions.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 190-8.
f. 89v
• *HrG 101: George Herbert, L'Envoy (‘King of Glorie, King of Peace’)
Copy, with an autograph revision and the title added by Herbert.
See HrG 101-102.
ff. 102r-7r
• *HrG 325: George Herbert, Passio Discerpta (‘Cvm lacrymas oculósque duos tot vulnera vincant’)
Autograph of twenty-one Latin poems.
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Hutchinson. Facsimiles of f. 103r in Palmer, I, 168, and of f. 106r in Hutchinson, frontispiece.
First published in Grosart (1874). Hutchinson, pp. 404-9. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 62-79.
ff. 107v-19r
• *HrG 315: George Herbert, Lucus (‘Svm, quis nescit, Imago Dei, sed sexea certè’)
Autograph MS of thirty-five Latin poems.
Edited principally from this MS in Grosart and in Hutchinson. Facsimiles of poems xxv, xxvi and xxvii in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 58, and of poems xxx and xxi in John J. Daniell, The Life of George Herbert (London, 1902), facing p. 317.
First published in Grosart (1874). Hutchinson, pp. 410-21. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 80-121.
MS Morrice A
A folio composite volume of late 16th-century ecclesiastical tracts, in various hands, 338 leaves, in marbled boards.
Part I, f. 35r-v
• HkR 50: Richard Hooker, Lawrence Tomson's Letter on the Hooker-Travers Controversy
A letter written from Laleham by Lawrence Tomson to ‘Mrs Crane’ discussing Hooker's propositions concerning the salvation of Papists, in a secretary hand, on a folio leaf, dated 26 February 1585/6.
This MS believed to be unpublished. Recorded in The Seconde Parte of a Register, ed. Albert Peel (Cambridge, 1915), II, p. 48, No. 197. A late 17th-century copy of this letter is in MS Morrice C, pp. 640-1.
Part I, ff. 109r-16r
• HkR 32: Richard Hooker, Walter Travers's Supplication to the Council
Copy, in a secretary hand. c.1585 -1600s.
This MS collated in Folger edition, Volume V.
First published in Oxford, 1612. Keble, III, 548-9. Folger edition, Volume V, pp. 189-210.
Part I, ff. 178r-83r
• HkR 52: Richard Hooker, Sr Hew Herberts treatise against Hooker
Copy of a treatise discussing at length the Hooker-Travers controversy. c.1588.
This MS believed to be unpublished. Rcorded in The Seconde Parte of a Register, ed. Albert Peel (Cambridge, 1915), II, p. 48, No. 198.
Part II, ff. 244v-51v
• HkR 33: Richard Hooker, Walter Travers's Supplication to the Council
Copy, transcribed from HkR 32 by an amanuensis for Roger Morrice (1628-1701/2). Late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Folger edition, Volume V.
First published in Oxford, 1612. Keble, III, 548-9. Folger edition, Volume V, pp. 189-210.
MS Morrice C
A folio volume of ecclesiastical tracts, in a single hand, 898 pages (plus numerous blanks), in rough calf. Late 17th century.
pp. 805-13
• HkR 34: Richard Hooker, Walter Travers's Supplication to the Council
Copy, transcribed from HkR 32 by an amanuensis for Roger Morrice. Late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Folger edition, Volume V.
First published in Oxford, 1612. Keble, III, 548-9. Folger edition, Volume V, pp. 189-210.
MS Morrice E
A folio volume chiefly comprising a journal of parliamentary speeches and proceedings in 1627-8, 187 pages (plus blank pages 288-656), in contemporary vellum. Mid-late 17th century.
p. 27
• RuB 38: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.22 March 1627/8
Copy, headed ‘Sr Benjamin Ruddierds Speech 22. March. 1627’.
Speech beginning ‘Of the mischiefs that have lately fallen upon us by the late distractions here is every man sensible...’.
pp. 37-8
• RuB 39: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.2-9 April 1628
Copy, headed ‘Sr Benjamin Ruddierds Speech upon the Receipt of his Maties Answer to the Petition against Recusants. 9. April. 1628’.
Speech beginning ‘The best thanks we can return his Matie for his gracious and religious answer...’.
pp. 126-7
• HlJ 29.4: Joseph Hall, Episcopal Admonition, Sent in a Letter to the House of Commons, April 28, 1628
Copy, headed ‘The Bishop of Exeters Letter sent to the house of Commons 28. april. 1628’.
See HlJ 17-30.
pp. 177-8
• FeO 50: Owen Felltham, On the Duke of Buckingham slain by Felton, the 23. Aug. 1628 (‘Sooner I may some fixed Statue be’)
Copy, headed ‘In compassion of the Duke’, among other poems on Buckingham.
First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 6-7.
12.57.87
An exemplum of the printed edition of 1604 with the unprinteded pages (sigs E1v-2r, E3v-4r, F1r-2v) supplied in MS in a secretary hand, the printed text also containing a reader's marginal markings and underlinings. c.1604.
BcF 130.6: Francis Bacon, Certain Considerations touching the Better Pacification and Edification of the Church of England
First published in London, 1604. Spedding, X, 103-27. The circumstances of the original publication and the book's suppression by the Bishop of London discussed, with a census of relevant exempla, in Richard Serjeantson and Thomas Woolford, ‘The Scribal Publication of a Printed Book: Francis Bacon's Certaine Considerations Touching...the Church of England (1604)’, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/2 (June 2009), 119-56.