MS Add. 122
A quarto miscellany of religious and political prose and verse, in English and Latin, in several secretary, italic and mixed hands, 318 leaves (including blanks, foliated on versos), in contemporary vellum boards. Compiled over a period (entries dated between 1621 and 1667) by members of the family of Sir Marmaduke Rawdon (1583-1646), merchant, shipowner and royalist soldier. Mid-17th century.
Inscribed (f. 278r) ‘Mary Elliston october the 27 1763’ and ‘Mary Elliston Collchester’. Later owned by Edward Hailstone (1818-90), of Walton Hall, Wakefield, botanist and book collector.
f. 34v
• RaW 101: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’
Copy, headed ‘Sr walter Rawleighs Epitaph made by himselfe’.
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.
f. 78r
• ShJ 172.5: James Shirley, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, Act III, Song (‘The glories of our blood and state’)
Copy of the dirge, untitled, here beginning ‘the Glories of our birth & state’.
Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).
f. 82r
• CoA 28: Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. II. Drinking (‘The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain’)
Copy, headed in the margin ‘A songe of drincke’, here beginning ‘The Thirsty Earth drinckes in ye Raine’.
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).
ff. 164v-9v
• DeJ 123.8: Sir John Denham, The Sophy
Extracts.
First published in London, 1642. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 232-309.
ff. 169v-74v, 249r-59r
• FuT 6.7: Thomas Fuller, The Holy State
Extracts, headed ‘Notations out of D. Ful: Ho: St:’.
First published in London, 1642. Edited by M.G. Walten, 2 vols (New York, 1938).
ff. 310r-13v
• RnT 427.8: Thomas Randolph, The Jealous Lovers
Extracts, headed ‘Out of Randalls Jea: Lo:’.
First published in Cambridge, 1632.
MS Add. 151
A quarto volume of Catholic tracts, in three different hands, 82 leaves (plus 46 blanks), in old blind-stamped calf. c.1600.
Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue (1841), item 786. Later owned by Edward Hailstone (1818-90), of Walton Hall, Wakefield, botanist and book collector.
ff. 1r-48r
• SoR 319: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A Short Rule of Good Life
Copy, in a neat italic hand.
First published [in London? 1596-7?]. Brown, Two Letters, pp. 21-73.
ff. 68r-81r
• SoR 306: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, An Epistle unto his Father (22 October 1589)
Copy, in a secretary hand, lacking the title-page.
Epistle, beginning ‘In children of former ages it hath been thought so behooveful a point of duty...’. First published as ‘An Epistle of a Religious Priest unto his Father’ in A Short Rule of Good Life ([London?, 1596-7?]). Trotman, pp. 36-64. Brown, Two Letters, pp. 1-20.
MS Add. 298, Part II
Grant(s) of arms by Camden as Clarenceux King of Arms.
CmW 199: William Camden, Document(s)
MS XVI. D. 1
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed (in another hand) ‘The life of Cardinall wolsey’, 68 folio leaves, in old vellum boards. Mid-late 16th century.
CvG 57: George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey
Inscribed (ff. 1r, 68v) ‘Robert Matthew’. From the library of Tobie Matthew (1544?-1628), Archbishop of York.
Sylvester, No. 26.
First published in George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey and Metrical Visions, ed. Samuel W. Singer, 2 vols (Chiswick, 1825). The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish, ed. Richard S. Sylvester, EETS, orig. ser. 243 (London, New York and Toronto, 1959).
MS XVI. K. 18
A quarto volume of ecclesiastical treatises, in three secretary hands, 96 leaves, in vellum boards. Early 17th century.
ff. [66r-82v]
• HrJ 335: Sir John Harington, A Tract on the Succession to the Crown
Copy of the last chapter, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The eight chapiter; of quyeting the contrauersies of Religion’, inscribed in a different hand ‘Out of Sr John Haringtons boke’.
First published, edited by Clements R. Markham (Roxbiurghe Club, London, 1880). Reprinted in New York, 1969.
f. [81r]
• HrJ 313.2: Sir John Harington, A Tragicall Epigram (‘When doome of Peeres & Iudges fore-appointed’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 82. McClure No. 336, pp. 280-1. Kilroy, Book III, No. 44, p. 185. This epigram is also quoted in the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5).
f. [83r]
• HrJ 83.5: Sir John Harington, How England may be reformed (‘Men say that England late is bankrout grown’)
Copy, headed ‘An Epigram showing how England might be reformed’ and here beginning ‘England men say of late is bancrout grown’, subscribed with the date 10 December 1602.
Not published before the 19th century (?). Quoted at the end of the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5). McClure No. 375, p. 301. Kilroy, Book I, No. 1, p. 186.
MS XVI. L. 6
A quarto volume, comprising a treatise by Sir John Harington, to which was subsequently added (pp. 263-8), in a cursive secretary hand, after 1623, a tract relating to a prognostication by Sebalt Brandt Schweizer, xiv + 268 pages, in contemporary vellum. The treatise in the hands of Harington's ‘servant’ Thomas Combe and of Harington's brother Francis. 1602 (and later).
pp. 3-261
• HrJ 333: Sir John Harington, A Tract on the Succession to the Crown
Copy, in the formal secretary hand of Harington's ‘servant’ Thomas Combe, untitled and beginning ‘To all trew Englishmen that feare God and honor the Queene. the protesting, Catholique, Puritan sendeth greeting’. The MS presumably presented to Tobie Matthew (1544?-1628), Archbishop of York.
Incorporating (p. 3) a copy of King James VI's letter to Harington of 23 December 1591.
Edited from this MS, and the title supplied, in Markham's edition (1880). Scott-Warren (pp. 158-67) thinks that the evidence that this MS was a presentation copy is ‘equivocal’. Facsimile of pp. 80-1 in Gerard Kilroy, ‘Advertising the Reader: Sir John Harington's “Directions in the Margent”’, English Literary Renaissance, 41/1 (Winter, 2011), 64-110 (p. 101).
First published, edited by Clements R. Markham (Roxbiurghe Club, London, 1880). Reprinted in New York, 1969.
p. 200
• SiP 6.5: Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, Sonnet 75 (‘Of all the kings that ever here did raigne’)
Copy of sonnet 75, concerning Edward IV, here introduced ‘Of whome the Noble Sr Phillip Sydney in a pleasant Sonnet giues this testimonye’, and here beginning ‘Of all the King's that euer heer did raigne’.
Edited from this MS in H.R. Woudhuysen, ‘Astrophel and Stella 75: A “New” Text’, RES, NS 37 (1986), 388-92.
Ringler, p. 204.
p. 257
• HrJ 313.4: Sir John Harington, A Tragicall Epigram (‘When doome of Peeres & Iudges fore-appointed’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 82. McClure No. 336, pp. 280-1. Kilroy, Book III, No. 44, p. 185. This epigram is also quoted in the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5).
p. 261
• HrJ 83.8: Sir John Harington, How England may be reformed (‘Men say that England late is bankrout grown’)
Copy, headed ‘An Epigram shewing how England might be reformed’ and here beginning ‘England men say of late is bankerout grown’, dated ‘18. December. .1602’.
Not published before the 19th century (?). Quoted at the end of the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5). McClure No. 375, p. 301. Kilroy, Book I, No. 1, p. 186.
MS XVI. L. 15
A quarto miscellany of prose and verse, in two or more cursive secretary hands, 24 leaves (including fragments of three leaves), in contemporary vellum. Compiled principally by one Jacob Blenkinsop, whose name appears on f. [23r rev.] with the date ‘30Mrch 1639’, his entry on f. [16v] dated ‘30th Aug: about 2 afternoone 1640’. 1639-40.
ff. [1r, 2r-9v]
• HrJ 16: Sir John Harington, Orlando Furioso. A Preface or Rather, A Briefe Apologie of Poetrie and of the Author and Translator of this Poem
Copy of ‘Sr John Harrington his apologie of poetrie’, in a closely written cursive secretary hand, subscribed ‘The preface or rather a briefe apologie of poetrie, the apologie of Sr: John Harrington worke of translation called Orlando: furioso finis / scriptum p me Jacob Blenkinsop’.
MS M. 5. S
A set of three oblong quarto musical part books, each formally entitled ‘A Colection of 120 or more of the Choicest Divine Hymns or Anthemnes English and Latin, that have binne Extant within this 110 or 120 yeeres, to this present yeere 1688’, the lyrics probably in a single neat rounded hand. Comprising (i) Bassus part, ix + 155 leaves, in modern vellum. (ii) Treble part, viii + 136 leaves, in contemporary vellum. (iii) Bassus continuo part, iv + 109 leaves (lacking ff. 39-44), in contemporary vellum. 1688.
(ii) ff. 78v-9r; (iii) ff. 64v-5r
• CoA 62: Abraham Cowley, Davideis, Book III, Song (‘Awake, awake my Lyre’)
Copies, in a musical setting by Pietro Reggio, both marked for ‘Basso Continuo’, untitled.
Waller, I, 344. Sparrow, pp. 191-2.
Musical setting by Pietro Reggio published in Songs [London, 1680]. Setting by John Blow published in Choice Ayres and Songs. The Third Book (London, 1681).
(ii) f. 136v
• CoA 89: Abraham Cowley, ‘For the few Houres of Life allotted me’
Copy, in a musical setting, as a canon for three voices, untitled.
First published, at the end of the essay ‘Of Liberty’, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 386.
(i) ff. 49v-50r; (ii) ff. 45v-6v; (iii) ff. 45v-6v
• RaW 293.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)
Copies, in a musical setting by Orlando Gibbons, for five voices, tenor, and quintus respectively.
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.
(i) ff. 54v-5r; (ii) ff. 50r-1r; (iii) f. 51v
• CoA 38: Abraham Cowley, Christs Passion, Taken out of a Greek Ode, written by Mr. Masters of New College in Oxford (‘Enough, my Muse, of Earthly things’)
Copies, in a musical setting by Henry Bowman, marked for three voices, Cantus primus, and three voices respectively, the Bassus continuo part (iii) with the incipit only, untitled.
First published in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663). Verses, Lately Written upon several Occasions (London, 1663). Waller, I, 402-4.
Musical setting by Henry Bowman published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman (Oxford, 1679).
MS M. 12. S
An oblong quarto songbook, in one or possibly two hands, with a table of contents, vi + 128 pages, in contemporary blind-stamped calf. c.1705-39.
Owned, and possibly compiled, by William Knight (1684-1739), vicar choral (from 1712) and subchanter (from 1722) at York Minster.
pp. 8-16
• CgW 49: William Congreve, A Two-part Song, the Words by Mr. Congreve (‘There ne'er was so wretched a Lover as I’)
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, untitled.
First published, in a musical setting, in Henry Purcell, Orpheus Britannicus (London, 1698), Book I, p. 112. The Works of Henry Purcell, XXII (London, 1922), pp. 120-4. Dobrée, p. 376. McKenzie, II, 466-7.
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• SuJ 162.8: John Suckling, Brennoralt, Act II, scene i, lines 95-106. Song (‘Come let the State stay’)
Copy of the second stanza, beginning ‘The Macedon youth left behind’, in Purcell's musical setting.
Beaurline, Plays, p. 201. The second stanza, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, published in The Second Book of the Pleasant Musical Companion (London, 1686).
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• OtT 14: Thomas Otway, ‘Would you know how we meet’
Copy of the song, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell.
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).
MS M. 22. S
A folio songbook of catches, in a rounded hand, ten leaves, in cardboard boards. Early-mid-18th century.
Inscribed inside the front cover ‘Tho: Benson’.
ff. 5r-6r
• HeR 107: Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song (‘Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return’)
Copy, in a musical setting, headed ‘Go Perjur'd man wth Symphonies by Dr. John Blow’.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).
V/3.K.199
An exemplum of the printed edition of 1604 with the unprinted pages (sigs E1v, E2r, E3v, E4r, [F1r-3r]) supplied in MS, bound with nine other printed works.
BcF 130.8: Francis Bacon, Certain Considerations touching the Better Pacification and Edification of the Church of England
Once owned by Tobie Matthew (1544?-1628), Archbishop of York. Donated in 1629 by Mrs Frances Matthew.
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.