Verse
Poems by Carew
An other (‘Reader, when these dumbe stones have t’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 58-9.
CwT 1
Copy of lines 1-2; imperfect, lacking the remainder.
In: A folio volume of poems, in a single accomplished hand, 61 leaves (plus stubs of fifteen extracted leaves), imperfect, in quarter-vellum. Including 49 pems by Thomas Carew and one of doubtful authorship. c.1640s.
Later owned by F. Wyburd who, according to W.C. Hazlitt (1870, p. xv), ‘obtained it about three years ago of a dealer at Knightsbridge’. Owned c.1927 by P.J. Dobell, who sold it in 1936.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Wyburd MS’: CwT Δ 3. Reduced facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969). Briefly discussed in Evelyn M. Simpson, ‘Two Manuscripts of Donne's Paradoxes and Problems’, RES, 3 (1927), 129-45 (pp. 131-3).
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).
CwT 2
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on the duke of Buckingham’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including 33 poems by Thomas Carew and sixteen by Henry King, in a single small hand, with (ff. 1r-2v) an alphabetical Index, 105 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. Compiled by Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London. c.1641-9.
Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.
Cited in IELM II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6918 with which it was once bound, as the ‘Calfe MS’: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp 129-35, 444-5 (see KiH Δ 6).
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 75. Edited from this MS in the online Early Stuart Libels.
CwT 3
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 152 leaves (paginated 1-34, thereafter foliated 35-169), plus index, in modern red leather. Including 85 poems (and second copies of two) by Thomas Carew. c.1638-42.
Inscriptions including ‘Horatio Carey 1642 te deus pardamus’ [viz. Horatio Carey (1619-ante 1677), eldest son of Sir Richard Carey (1583-1630) and great-grandson of Sir Henry Carey (1524?-96), first Baron Hunsdon ], ‘Thomas Arding’, ‘Thomas Arden’, ‘William Harrington’, ‘Thomas John’, ‘John Anthehope’ and ‘Clement Poxall’. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8270. Bookplates of John William Cole and of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 194.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Carey MS’: CwT Δ 34. Briefly discussed in Gary Taylor, ‘Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets’, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 68 (1985), 210-46 (pp. 220-4). Discussed, with facsimile pages, in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 188, 191-2).
An other (‘The purest Soule that e're was sent’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 54.
CwT 4
Copy, headed ‘Epitaph on a Lady’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in two styles of italic, the last poem (f. 93v) added in a later hand, 93 leaves (plus ten blanks), in modern quarter-morocco gilt. Including 14 poems by Donne, six poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, ten poems by Habington and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph. Owned and possibly compiled by Arthur Capell (1631-83), second Earl of Essex, whose name is inscribed in red ink (1*), in a similar roman hand to that on ff. 1r-19r. He married (1653) Elizabeth Percy (1636-1718), daughter of Algernon, tenth Earl of Northumberland; she was therefore the great niece of Habington's mother-in-law, Eleanor Percy, sister of the ninth Earl of Northumberland. Mid-17th century.
Later among the collections of Robert Harley (1661-1724), first Earl of Oxford, and his son, Edward (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II, i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Capell MS’: DnJ Δ 43, CwT Δ 17, and RnT Δ 3. Discussed in Geoffrey Tillotson, ‘The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell’, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91.
CwT 5
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 2 (CwT Δ 18). c.1641-9.
Lines 5-10 edited from this MS in Dunlap, p. 240.
CwT 6
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on ye L. Mary Villers’.
In: A sextodecimo pocket-book miscellany of prose and verse, chiefly in Latin, closely written from both ends, almost entirely in a single minute hand, probably that of a university man, ff. 14v-16r written in a variant style, and ff. 51v-45v (rev.) containing recipes in a later hand, 104 leaves (plus blanks), in modern morocco gilt. Including eleven complete poems by Thomas Carew and extracts from about thirty others by him, perhaps transcribed from a printed source, the date 1649 occurring on ff. 1v and 104v. c.1649.
The word ‘Berengarius’ inscribed on a slip originally inside the rear cover.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as ‘Berengarius MS’: CwT Δ 19.
CwT 7
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
An other (‘This little Vault, this narrow roome’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 54.
CwT 8
Copy, headed ‘Epitaph on the lady Villers: by T. Carew’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in probably two or more secretary hands, 108 pages, in half brown morocco. Mid-17th century.
Later owned by F.W. Cosens (1819-89). Bookplate of James W. Ellsworth.
CwT 9
Copy, subscribed ‘T: Carew:’.
In: the MS described under CwT 2 (CwT Δ 18). c.1641-9.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 71.
CwT 10
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
Another. A Lady rescued from death by a Knight who in the instant leaves her, complaines thus (‘Oh whither is my fayre Sun fled’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 63-4.
CwT 10.5
Copy, headed ‘A Marigold’.
In: The Gower manuscript of poems by Thomas Carew. A quarto volume of 77 leaves (29 of them blank) containing 47 poems by Carew, in a single professional hand, with Carew's autograph corrections, revisions and additions in black ink on various pages affecting some sixteen poems, in contemporary vellum. c.1631-2.
Owned by John Leveson-Gower (1694-1754), Baron Gower of Stittenham, Viscount Trentham and Earl Gower, Privy Councillor (and possibly by earlier members of his family). Sotheby's, 19 November 1906 (Trentham Hall Library sale), lot 1316. Acquired in 1959 from Seven Gables Bookshop, New York.
This volume is discussed and the contents listed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, ‘An Authorial Collection of Poems by Thomas Carew: The Gower Manuscript’, EMS, 8 (2000), 160-85.
CwT 11
Copy, headed ‘The Princess Song’.
In: the MS described under CwT 1 (CwT Δ 3). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).
CwT 12
Copy, subscribed ‘T: Carew.’
In: the MS described under CwT 2 (CwT Δ 18). c.1641-9.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 83.
CwT 14
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
Boldnesse in love (‘Marke how the bashfull morne, in vaine’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 42.
CwT 15
Copy, headed ‘The Marygold’.
In: the MS described under CwT 1 (CwT Δ 3). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).
CwT 15.5
Copy, in a musical setting, headed ‘By his Maiesty’ and here beginning ‘Marke how ye blushfull Morn in vayne’.
In: A folio songbook, in two or more predominantly italic hands, written from both ends, 87 leaves, in remains of contemporary vellum within modern half red morocco. Possibly compiled in part by one ‘T. C.’ c.1641-59.
Inscribed (f. 1v) ‘R. Guise [of Abbey] Feb: 12. 1760’. Purchased from Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, 17 June 1839.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 4 (New York & London, 1986).
This MS recorded in Dunlap, pp. 291-2. The setting is ascribed to Nicholas Lanier in Playford's Select Ayres and Dialogues, The Second Book (London, 1669).
CwT 15.8
Copy, headed ‘Sonnett’ and here beginning ‘See how the bashfull morne in vain’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, 206 pages (plus blanks), rebound in 1832 (by Charles Lewis) with an independent miscellany (Huntington, HM 198, Part II). Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled ‘L.C.’ [? Lord Chancellor], as are some poems by others), 11 poems by Carew, ten poems by Corbett, and 11 poems by or attributed to Herrick, in a single neat hand throughout; the poems dating up to 1637. c.1637.
Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names ‘Edw Denny’ [presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], ‘Charles Cocks’, ‘Edward Randolphe’ and (on p. 162) ‘Thomas Cassy’. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Haslewood Kingsborough MS (I)’: DnJ Δ 25, CwT Δ 28, CoR Δ 10, and HeR Δ 5. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Discussed in C.M. Armitage, ‘Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on “The Funerall”’, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707. A facsimile of part of p. 63 in Marcy L. North, ‘Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 101).
CwT 16
Copy, headed ‘Counsell to a yong man’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and university exercises, including twelve poems by Carew, in a single hand, compiled by Edward Natley, Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, 165 leaves (including many blanks), in calf (rebacked). c.1635-44.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 2592. Sotheby's, 10 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 960. Owned in 1896 by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. Acquired in 1950 from H.F.B. Brett-Smith, Oxford literary scholar and editor.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Natley MS’: CwT Δ 6.
CwT 17
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 4 (CwT Δ 17). Mid-17th century.
CwT 18
Copy, headed ‘A Song’.
In: A sextodecimo pocket miscellany, ff. 3r-53r in a single hand, other hands and scribbling on ff. 1r-2r, 54v, 87v-90v, 90 leaves in all (including blanks ff. 55r-87r), in contemporary calf, with remains of clasps. Including 12 poems by Carew. c.1650s.
Inscribed ‘Richard Archard his booke Amen 1650’; ‘Richard Archard his penn Amen 1657’; ‘to Mr Satars[?] towads the Casting of ye lead 1657’; ‘Tho: Wise’; ‘John Smith of halmortaine and I…went to Thornebury’; and ‘Edward Watt’. Bookplate of William Harris Arnold.
Cited in IELM, II.i, as the ‘Archard MS’: CwT Δ 24.
CwT 19
Copy, headed ‘To a bashfull Lover’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small mixed hand throughout; 425 pages (plus an eight-page index), in contemporary calf. Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1634.
The initials ‘T. C.’ stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 189.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Rosenbach MS II’: CwT Δ 32, CoR Δ 12, and StW Δ 24. Discussed in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 193-5).
CwT 20
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
CwT 21
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio miscellany of some 133 poems, including 55 poems by Henry King and nineteen by Thomas Carew, 247 pages. In the hands of two amanuenses associated with King: i.e. Scribe A (c.1636), pp. 1-214, that of Thomas Manne's ‘imitator’ using two styles (a: pp. 1-62, 64-6, 133-4, 147-215; and b, the earlier: pp. 63, 67-132, 135-45); and Scribe B (c.1641): pp. 217-47, that of the scribe responsible for the Phillipps MS (Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 8471). c.1636-41.
The flyleaf inscribed ‘Ex dono Eugenii Stoughton Die Octobrii 23 Anno-1738-Domini’: i.e. owned before 1738 by the Stoughton family, of St John's House, Warwick.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Stoughton MS’: CwT Δ 36 and KiH Δ 6. A complete photocopy deposited by Mary Hobbs in the Bodleian (MS Facs. d. 157). Edited in Mary Hobbs, An Edition of the Stoughton Manuscript (An Early Seventeenth-Century Poetry Collection in Private Hands connected with Henry King and Oxford) seen in relation to other contemporary Poetry and Song Collections (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1973). Also discussed in Mary Hobbs, ‘The Poems of Henry King: Another Authoritative Manuscript’, The Library, 5th Ser. 31 (1976), 127-35. Recorded in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King, D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96. A complete facsimile edition in The Stoughton Manuscript, ed. Mary Hobbs (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1990).
CwT 22
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several hands, written from both ends, 84 leaves, in contemporary calf. Probably compiled principally by an Oxford University man. c.1630s-40s.
Names inscribed on rear flyleaf and paste-down ‘Elizabeth hosman’ and ‘William Blois’.
CwT 23
Copy, headed ‘The art of wooing’.
In: A large quarto verse miscellany, 76 leaves, in old vellum wrappers within modern quarter red morocco on marbled boards. Part I, including some Welsh, comprises sixteen leaves, all (but for f. 15r-v) in the cursive hand of William Jordan, schoolmaster of Denbigh or Caernarvon, whose name (‘Gulielmus Jordan’) is inscribed, the dates 1680-83 occurring. c.1674-84.
Part II comprises 60 leaves, ff. 1-50v in a neat italic hand, ff. 51r-60r in several other cursive hands.
The vellum wrapper on Part II bears notes on a debt by William Jordan in 1674 relating to ‘Evan Thomas’ and ‘Mr Richard Wilkinsn in pepper street’. Formerly Folger MS 1669.2.
CwT 23.5
Copy in: A large octavo miscellany of verse and prose, the greater part in a single probably female hand, with additions into the 19th century, 111 leaves (including blanks), in quarter-calf on marbled boards. Inscribed (f. 111v) with the name ‘Sarah Bignell’, possibly the principal compiler. c.1750-70 [plus later additions].
Bookplate of The Pacific Union Club, San Francisco.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 93, f. 63v.
CwT 24
Copy, in a musical setting by Nicholas Lanier, untitled.
In: A folio music book, containing 327 songs, in three largely secretary hands, with a ‘Cattalogue’ of contents, 229 leaves. Owned (in 1659) and partly compiled by the composer John Gamble (d.1687), with some misnumbering. c.1630s-50s.
Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.
A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 10 (New York & London, 1987). Discussed in Charles W. Hughes, ‘John Gamble's Commonplace Book’, M&L, 26 (1945), 215-29.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 292.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 247.
Celia bleeding, to the Surgeon (‘Fond man, that canst beleeve her blood’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 26.
CwT 24.5
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 10.5. c.1631-2.
CwT 25
Copy, headed ‘On a gentle-woman that was let bloud’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by the writer Robert Codrington (1602-65) of Magdalen College, Oxford, 360 pages (including stubs of extracted leaves on pp. 297-328 and blanks, plus index), in contemporary calf. Including 16 poems by Carew and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Written in three hands: i.e. A (Codrington's hand, including his own poems) on pp. 1-283, 349-55; B on pp. 284-9; and C on pp. 289-348, 356-60; dated (pp. 1-22) ‘Anno Dom: 1638’ and ‘The 30th of May. 1638’. c.1638.
Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Codrington MS’: CwT Δ 7 and StW Δ 7.
CwT 26
Copy, headed ‘Vppon occation of his Mrs beinge lett bloude’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single neat secretary hand, the first page formally inscribed ‘To the righte honoble: the Lorde Thomas Darcy Viscount Colchester’ (c.1565-1640, Viscount Colchester from 1621 to 1626), 191 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Including 27 poems (and second copies of two poems) by Thomas Carew and three of doubtful authorship. c.1620s.
This MS largely transcribed in British Library, Add. MS 21433. The hand occurs also in British Library, Harley MS 3910, between ff. 112v and 120v, and is possibly associated with the Inns of Court.
Scribbled inscriptions including (f. 1r) ‘Mr John Bowyer’; (f. 2r) ‘Jeronomus ffox’; and (f. 3r) ‘William Ralph Baesh’.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Colchester MS’: CwT Δ 13.
CwT 27
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio composite volume of separate MSS of verse and some prose, in various secretary and italic hands, written over an extended period, with a table of contents (f. 3r-v), 186 leaves. Comprising papers of the Skipwith family of Cotes, Leicestershire, including 60 poems by John Donne (and one Problem), the text related in part to the ‘Edward Smyth MS’ (DnJ Δ 45); also 15 poems (and second copies of two) by Henry King; and 19 poems (and two of doubtful authorship) by Carew. c.1620-50.
Including poems ascribed to William Skipwith (? Sir William Skipwith, d.1610, or his grandson, William, or possibly a cousin, William Skipwith, of Ketsby, Lincolnshire, fl.1633); to Sir Henry Skipwith (fl.1609-52); and to Thomas Skipwith, and several poems by Donne's friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627), to whom a branch of the Skipwith family was related by marriage. Later owned by Robert Sherard (1719-99), fourth Earl of Harborough. Sotheby's, 10 June 1864, lot 605, to Boone.
This MS is the ‘curious folio volume’ lent to John Nichols (1745-1826) by ‘the late Lord Harborough’ and cited in Nichols's account of the Skipwith family in his History of Leicestershire, 4 vols (1795-1815), III, part i (1800), 367.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Skipwith MS’: DnJ Δ 21; CwT Δ 14; KiH Δ 8. Also described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp. 119-29 (see KiH Δ 6). For Sir William Skipwith and his literary connections, see James Knowles, ‘Marston, Skipwith and The Entertainment at Ashby’, EMS, 3 (1992), 137-92 (esp.pp. 171-2).
CwT 28
Copy, headed ‘Bleeding, to ye Surgeon’.
In: the MS described under CwT 4 (CwT Δ 17). Mid-17th century.
CwT 29
Copy, headed ‘A louer on his Mistris, being lett bloud’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves. Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.early 1630s.
Inscribed (f. 1r) by one ‘I A’ of Christ Church, Oxford, and also ‘Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison’. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Killigrew MS’: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.
CwT 30
Copy, headed ‘Of Caelia's letting blood. To ye Chirurgian’, and here beginning ‘Foole that beleevst her clearer blood’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, with later accounts on the last page dated June 1658, 1* + 238 pages (including stubs of extracted pages 191-6, plus numerous blanks), in old calf (rebacked). Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph. c.1630s-40s.
Inscribed ‘Jane Wheeler’ and ‘Tho: Oliver Busfield’. Francis Quarles's poem (pp. 209-11) ‘To ye two partners of my heart Mr John Wheeler, and Mr Symon Tue’. Item 96 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 2071.6.
A ‘Jo. Wheeler’ signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Wheeler MS’: CwT Δ 25 and RnT Δ 7.
CwT 31
Copy, headed ‘A Gentleman too a Chirurgian Letting his Mistris Blood’, subscribed ‘Tho: Cary’.
In: the MS described under CwT 30 (CwT Δ 25). c.1630s-40s.
CwT 32
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Mr Tho: Cary’.
In: A large folio verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford University, 34 leaves, in modern half-morocco marbled boards. Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King. c.1630s.
Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.8.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Halliwell MS’: CwT Δ 26 and KiH Δ 11. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Some Account of the Antiquities…illustrating…Shakespeare (1852), No. 8. Facsimile example in Giles Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (London, 1968), Plate 42. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 195).
CwT 33
Copy, headed ‘Of his mrs letting Blood’ and here beginning ‘Foole that belleues her clearer blood’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, including 26 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Thomas Carew and poems by Henry King, in several hands, 92 leaves, plus an inserted gathering of eleven leaves after f. 82v (ff. [82a-82k]), but including stubs of some extracted leaves (ff. 74-8, 94-5), in contemporary vellum. Inscribed ‘To my euer honored good Cosen Sr John Reresby Barronett these prsent’: i.e. presented to Sir John Reresby, first Baronet (1611-46), royalist, of Thribergh Hall. c.1630s.
Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 237.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Mexborough MS’: CwT Δ 29.
CwT 34
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 19 (CwT Δ 32). c.1634.
CwT 35
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
CwT 37
Copy, headed ‘To ye Surgeon, on Cælia bleeding’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands (one predominating up to p. 167), probably associated with Oxford, 436 pages (pp. 198-9 and 269-70 skipped in the pagination, and including many blanks and an index) and numerous further blank leaves at the end, in modern black morocco gilt. Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1650.
Scribbling on the first page including the words ‘Peyton Chester…’.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Osborn MS I’: CwT Δ 38; CoR Δ 14; StW Δ 29.
CwT 38
Copy, headed ‘A louer to his Mrs. beeing let blood’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, evidently associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 214 pages (skipping p. 177), plus an index. Including 18 poems by Corbett and 59 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1630s.
Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Elizabeth Lane hir booke’ and, among scribbling on another flyleaf, ‘Johannes Finch’. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 341.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Elizabeth Lane MS’: CoR Δ 1 and StW Δ 4. The Dobell catalogue description recorded in Forey (pp. lxxxv-lxxxvi).
CwT 39
Copy, headed ‘A Lover vpon his Mrs being lett Blood’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by Donne and 14 poems by Corbett, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford University, written from both ends, 102 leaves, in 17th-century calf. c.1630s.
Inscribed (f. 101v) ‘Henry Lawson’ (or just possibly ‘Lamson’). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1185. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9257. Sotheby's, 15 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 862. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (1896), item 64.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Lawson MS’: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.
CwT 40
Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
In: A large folio volume of songs in musical settings by John Wilson (1595-1674), composer and musician, vi + 214 leaves (plus some blanks), gilt-edged, in contemporary black morocco elaborately gilt, lettered on each cover ‘DR. / I.W’, with silver clasps. Possibly Wilson's formal autograph MS or else in the hand of someone similarly associated with Edward Lowe (c.1610-82). c.1656.
Complete facsimile in Jorgens, Vol. 7 (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth Century Lyrics: Oxford, Bodleian, MS. Mus. b. 1’, MD, 10 (1956), 142-209.
This MS collated in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth Century Lyrics’, MD, 10 (1956), 142-209, (p. 174).
CwT 41
Copy, headed ‘A Lover on his Mistriss being Let blood’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany and masque, in at least three hands, written from both ends, i + 123 leaves, in contemporary calf. Mid-late 17th century.
Including (f. 1r) an anagram on Frances Pawlett. Inscribed in red ink (f. 123v) ‘Egigius Frampton hunc librum jure tenet non est mortale quod opto: 1659’: i.e. by Giles Frampton, who is perhaps responsible for some of the later poems. Also inscribed [?]‘R. N. 1663’. Some later notes in the hand of Richard Rawlinson.
CwT 42
Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Carew’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, in a single professional secretary hand associated with the playhouse and possibly inns of court (also responsible for ChG 12.5, HyT 5, and MiT 6), 97 leaves, with a first-line ‘Index’ at the end, in contemporary vellum boards. Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship). c.1636.
Inscribed (on the front paste-down) ‘My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire’ (following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Chute MS’: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, ‘Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).
CwT 43
Copy, headed ‘Sonnett’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Henry King, perhaps almost entirely written over a period in a single secretary hand with slightly varying styles, 54 leaves, in limp vellum. c.1636-40s.
The name of the possible compiler ‘John Pike’ inscribed on f. 1r: i.e. possibly a member of the Pike family of Cambridge (one John Pike (d.1677) matriculating at Peterhouse in 1662).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the ‘Pike MS’: KiH Δ 12. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6), pp. 143-7.
The Comparison (‘Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold’)
First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.
CwT 44
Copy, headed ‘On his Mris Features’ and here beginning ‘Fayrest, thy tresses are not hayres of gould’.
In: A large folio composite verse miscellany, chiefly folio, partly quarto, 243 pages, in contemporary calf. Including 18 poems by Carew and two of doubtful authorship, compiled by Nicholas Burghe (d.1670), Royalist Captain during the Civil War and one of the poor Knights of Windsor in 1661 (references to ‘I Nicholas Burgh’ occurring on ff. 165r, with the date ‘3d of June 1638’, and 166r, and his name partly in cipher on other pages); predominantly in his hand, with some later additions in other hands. c.1638.
Afterwards owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Burghe MS’: CwT Δ 1.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 118.
CwT 44.5
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, neatly written in possibly several italic hands, perhaps connected with Christ Church, Oxford. Mid-17th century.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 189.
CwT 45
Copy, headed ‘To his Mris on her prfection’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small neat predominantly secretary hand but for additions in a second hand on ff. 35v and 58r, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Wadham College, 97 leaves (inclusing two blanks), in half-calf. Including 14 poems by Carew (and a second copy of one poem), eight poems (plus 3 of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, and 28 poems by Strode (plus a second copy of one and two of doubtful authorship). c.late 1630s.
Later used and annotated by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, and entries in his hand on f. 97r. Formerly Bodleian, MS CCC.328.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Fulman MS’: CwT Δ 2; RnT Δ 6; StW Δ 16.
CwT 46
Second copy, headed ‘Beaumont to his Mrs’ and here beginning ‘Fairest thy tresses are not threads of gold’.
In: the MS described under CwT 45 (CwT Δ 2). c.late 1630s.
CwT 47
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio verse miscellany, comprising nearly 250 poems, in five hands, vii + 135 leaves (with a modern index), in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked), with remains of clasps. Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller. c.1630s-40s.
Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Peeter Daniell’ and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names ‘Thomas Gardinor’, ‘James Leigh’ and ‘Pettrus Romell’. Owned in 1780 by one ‘A. B.’ when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Daniell MS’: CwT Δ 5, HeR Δ 2, RnT Δ 1, StW Δ 5, WaE Δ 9. Briefly discussed in Margaret Crum, ‘An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick’, RES, NS 11 (1960), 186-9. A facsimile of f. 22v in Marcy L. North, ‘Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 106). Betagraphs of the watermark in f. 65 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks’, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 241).
CwT 50
Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, including eleven poems by Carew, in a single professional secretary hand (adopting a different style on ff. 176r-8r), ii + 231 leaves (including numerous blanks), the date 1633 occurring on f. 55r. c.1630s.
The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Michell MS’: CwT Δ 8. Briefly discussed (in connection with the poem ‘Shall I die?’ attributed to Shakespeare) by Gary Taylor in The Sunday Times (24 November 1985, pp. 1, 3, with a facsimile example) and by Peter Beal in TLS (3 January 1986, p. 13); and see also letters on 24 January 1986, pp. 87-8.
CwT 51
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single predominantly secretary hand, with some later additions and annotations, 188 leaves, in quarter-morocco. Transcribed from British Library Add. MS 25303 and perhaps associated likewise with the Inns of Court. Including 23 poems by Carew and three of doubtful authorship. c.1620s-30s.
Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 13 May 1856 (Pickering sale), lot 258.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Pickering MS’: CwT Δ 11.
CwT 52
Copy, headed ‘Ad Amicam’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 49 leaves, outer leaves imperfect, in modern calf gilt. Including twenty poems by Carew, eleven poems by Crashaw on ff. 10-30 passim, and fifteen poems by Strode. c.1630s.
Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1834), item 728. Acquired from C. Booth, October 1857.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Thorpe MS’: CwT Δ 12, CrR Δ 3, StW Δ 9.
This MS recorded in Powell, p. 287.
CwT 53
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under CwT 26 (CwT Δ 13). c.1620s.
This MS recorded in Powell, p. 287.
CwT 55
Copy, headed ‘On his mris perfection’.
In: A small octavo verse miscellany, written from both ends, predominantly in a single hand in variant styles (ff. 1v-79v, 80r, 88v-96v, 119r-117r rev.), with additions in later hands (ff. 97r-104v, 116v-106r rev.), 164 leaves, in modern half red morocco. Inscribed (f. 1v, in a court hand) ‘Daniell Leare his Booke’, ‘witnesse William Strode’, and (f. 164r) ‘Mr Daniell Leare eius Liber’: i.e. compiled chiefly by Daniel Leare, a distant cousin of the poet William Strode, probably at Christ Church, Oxford, before he entered the Middle Temple in 1633. c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This suggestion, by Mary Hobbs, is supported by entries in the Caution Book of 1625-41 at Christ Church, where Strode is found (p. 22) paying £10 as college security for Leare and where Leare signs (p. 23) on this sum's repayment by Dr Fell on 13 May 1633. Forey suggests (p. lxxix) that he was the Daniell Leare of St Andrews, Holburne, whose will was proved in 1652; but it is more likely that he was the Daniel Leare to whom Henry King, Dean of Rochester, leased property at Chatham on 19 July 1655 (National Archives, Kew, SP 18/99/61). Daniel Leare's wife, Dorothy, was a member of the Hubert family with whom King was associated by virtue of the marriage of his sister Dorothy.
The volume includes 12 poems by Donne; 15 poems (plus a second copy of one and three of doubtful authorship) by Carew; 20 poems (plus two of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; and 84 poems (plus second copies of eight poems, four poems of doubtful authorship and some apocryphal poems) by Strode, the texts being closely related to, and in part probably transcribed from, the ‘Corpus MS’ of Strode's poems (StW Δ 1).
Inscribed also ‘John Leare’ (probably Daniel's younger brother); (f. 1r) ‘Anthony Euans his booke’ (who married Daniel Leare's niece Dorothy Leare in 1663); (f. 1v) ‘Alexander Croke his Book 1773’; and (f. 164v) ‘John Scott’ (who matriculated at Christ Church in 1632). Rimell & Son, 9 November 1878.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Leare MS’: DnJ Δ 41, CwT Δ 15, CoR Δ 4, and StW Δ 10.
Discussed in Mary Hobbs, An Edition of the Stoughton Manuscript (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1973), pp. 185-90; in her ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 189-90); and in her Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), passim, with facsimile examples of ff. 79-80 facing p. 87.
CwT 56
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 4 (CwT Δ 17). Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Powell, p. 287.
CwT 57
Copy, headed ‘In prayse of ons Mrs:’, subscribed ‘p ffr:Beamont’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in one or more secretary hands, with (ff. 244r-54r) a first-line index, 254 leaves, in modern half-morocco, poems on ff. 34v and 242v dated 1637. Including 91 poems and some prose works by John Donne and fourteen poems by Thomas Carew. c.1637.
Among the collections of Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (1776-1839), first Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham, largely derived from the collection of the antiquary Thomas Astle (1735-1803), which in turn chiefly derived from Astle's father-in-law, the Essex historian Philip Morant (1700-70) (see DnJ Δ 15). Later owned by Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878).
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as ‘Stowe MS II’: DnJ Δ 44 and ‘Stowe MS’: CwT Δ 22.
CwT 58
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, in several generally italic hands, written originally on rectos only, the versos used by later hands, i + 112 leaves (ff. 93-5 excised), in old calf (rebacked). Including 26 poems by Thomas Carew and one of doubtful authorship. c.1694-1740.
Inscribed (inside the front cver) ‘Tho: Jesson His Book 1694’; (ff. ir, 5v) ‘S Harriott 1740’, and a poem (f. 37v) subscribed ‘Sarah Harriott’.
Recorded in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Jesson MS’: CwT Δ 23.
Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 468, ff. 96r, 97r.
CwT 59
Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs’ and here beginning ‘Fairest thy tresses are not threds of gold’.
In: the MS described under CwT 18 (CwT Δ 24). c.1650s.
CwT 60
Copy, headed ‘To a most faire mistris’.
In: the MS described under CwT 32 (CwT Δ 26). c.1630s.
CwT 60.5
Copy, headed ‘Dr. Donnes comparison’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, comprising 162 poems in English, in a single hand, 273 pages, in brown morocco gilt. c.late 1640s.
Formerly (before 1686) in the Palatine Library at Heidelberg. Possibly acquired by Charles Louis (1617-80), Elector Palatine, while at the English court of his uncle, Charles I, from 1635 to 1649.
This volume discovered, and announced in the TLS, 23 July 2010, pp. 14-15, by June Schleuter and Paul Schleuter.
CwT 61
Copy, headed ‘On his Mistresses features’ and here beginning ‘ffayrest, thy tresses are not hayres of gold’.
In: the MS described under CwT 33 (CwT Δ 29). c.1630s.
CwT 62
Copy of an eight-line version, untitled and here beginning ‘Ladie your tresses are not threads of gold’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, 204 pages, in old calf. Including ten poems by Carew (and two of doubtful authorship) and 24 poems by Randolph. c.1630s.
Thomas Thorpe, ‘Catalogue of upwards of fourteen hundred manuscripts’ (1836), item 1030. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9282. Subsequently in the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 188.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Rosenbach MS I’: CwT Δ 31 and RnT Δ 10. The complete volume edited in Howard H. Thompson, An Edition of Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1959) (Rosenbach Library Mic 59-4669).
CwT 66
Copy, headed ‘On his Mistresse’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat italic hand, with rubrication, 144 pages (plus later index). Including twelve poems by Carew, nine poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph and nineteen (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the miscellany associated with Oxford University and possibly related to Bodleian MS Malone 21, the latest date occuring in a poem on pp. 63-6 ‘Vpon ye great Frost 1634’. c.1635.
Inscribed inside the front cover by a later owner: ‘April 1853 Read to Lit[erary] & Philosophical] Soc[iet]y of L[iver]pool’. Acquired in 1940 by Edwin Wolf II (1911-91), Philadelphia librarian.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Wolf MS’: CwT Δ 37; RnT Δ 12; StW Δ 28.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 9-10.
CwT 67
Copy, headed ‘On a Virgin's Complection, & pfection’, here beginning ‘ffayrest thy Tresses…’ and subscribed ‘John Grange’.
In: the MS described under CwT 37 (CwT Δ 38). c.1650.
CwT 68
Copy, headed ‘On ye Perfection of his mrs’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and some prose, in five hands, one predominating on ff. 8v-130r, ii + 166 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Compiled in part (ff. 131v-66r) by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary. c.1630s-40s.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 118.
CwT 69
Copy, headed ‘On his Mistresse’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, ii + 65 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Entitled Miscentur seria iocis. 1647. Elegies, Exequies, Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs Satires and other Poems, a formal compilation entirely in the hand of the Yorkshire antiquary John Hopkinson (1610-80). 1647.
From the library of Cecil Brent, FSA. Sold by P.J. & A.E. Dobell, January 1938.
CwT 71
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany of c.150 poems, in several hands; associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 279 pages (plus index and blanks). Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 32 poems (plus four of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1630s-40s.
Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 1044. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9561. Sotheby's, 19 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 628, and 21 March 1895, lot 903. Hodgson's, 23 April 1959, lot 528.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘English Poetry MS’: CoR Δ 3 and StW Δ 6.
CwT 72
Copy, headed ‘B: Diui Johannis’.
In: A duodecimo notebook of verse and prose, comprising 131 interleaves in a printed exemplum of John Sansbury's Ilium in Italiam (Oxford, 1608), in contemporary calf (rebacked), blind-stamped ‘S. S.’ on the upper cover. Owned in 1619, and probably compiled, by Simon Sloper (b.1596/7), of Magdalen Hall, Oxford. c.1620s-30s.
Bought from Parker, of Oxford, 2 April 1889, by Percy Manning and bequeathed by him in 1917.
CwT 73
Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, apparently a presentation MS, 133 pages (including blanks), plus index, in half-calf. Including twenty poems by Randolph, plus ten of doubtful authorship (some here ascribed to ‘T.R.’), in two hands (A: pp. 3-99; B: pp. 1, 99-129), with some scribbling and one heading in other hands on pp. 3, 98 and 133; a poem on p. 1 (beginning ‘Loe here a sett of paper=pilgrimes sent’) dedicatingthe collection [‘To ye] Incomparably vertuous Lady the Lady Harflette’: i.e. Afra (d.1664), wife of Sir Christopher Harflete of Canterbury. c.1640.
Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Harflete MS: RnT Δ 2.
CwT 75
Copy, headed ‘To his Mistresse’, subscribed ‘Tho: Carew’.
In: the MS described under CwT 42. c.1636.
CwT 76
Copy, headed ‘On a faire Mris:’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, predominantly in a single secretary hand, written from both ends, 179 leaves, in 19th-century half blue morocco gilt. c.1640s.
Inscribed (f. 179r) ‘This is Sr. Thomas Meres [or ? Maiors] Book’: i.e. probably Sir Thomas Meres (1634-1715), of Kirton, Lincolnshire. Later bookplate of the Rev. John Curtis. Purchased from Mrs Ann Austin Curtis 12 October 1889.
This MS recorded in Powell, p. 287.
CwT 77
Copy, headed ‘Vppon his Mistres’, subscribed ‘T: C:’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single professional hand, with later additions on ff. 58v-62v in three or four other hands, 65 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt. Compiled by one Thomas Crosse, whose name appears (f. 1*) in ‘An Acrosticke upon my name’, as well as subscribed (‘Tho: Cro:)’ to a poem on ff. 23v-4r. c.1630s [-1670s].
CwT 78
Copy, headed ‘To his Mris on her pfections’, subscribed ‘John Grange’.
In: An octavo miscellany of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive italic hands, with religious verse and prose at the reverse end in another hand, 111 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf gilt. Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v. c.1635.
Inscribed on f. 111v rev. ‘Thursday next at Capricks for Mr Pitt’. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Harley MS’: CoR Δ 5.
CwT 79
Copy, headed ‘On his Mrs Amatoria’, subscribed ‘J. D.’
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, comprising approximately 80 poems, including eleven poems by Donne, 21 poems by Strode, and one poem of doubtful authorship, in several hands, one small neat hand predominating (ff. 1r-34r), with later receipts for 1658-62 at the end, 161 leaves (including numerous blanks). c.1630s-40s.
Inscriptions include ‘Edwardus Hyde’ (at the end) and (f. [ir]) ‘Edward Hyde is a knave’: i.e. probably Edward Hyde (1607-59), royalist divine, who may be the ‘E. H.’ responsible for a poem ‘To his Wife’ (f. 34r) and the ‘Ned Hide’ who is subject of an ‘Epitaph’ (f. [18r rev]). Later inscribed ‘Robertus Walker’ and ‘Elizabeth Walker’. Early 18th- century bookplate of Baron Aston of Forfar. Percy Dobell, sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 345. Later owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.
Discussed in Geoffrey Keynes, ‘A Footnote to Donne’, The Book Collector, 22 (Summer 1973), 165-8, with a facsimile of the page with Hyde's ‘signature’ (which does not correspond to the main handwriting). Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 1863.
This MS collated (as ‘D8’) in Dunlap.
CwT 80
Copy, untitled and subscribed ‘Rob. [?]Gar’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several largely secretary hands, 68 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum. c.1620s.
Once owned by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector. Later in the library of the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Lot 8053 in his sale, 7 May to 16 June 1798. Formerly Chetham's MS 8011.
CwT 81
Copy, headed ‘The commendation of a mrs’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, the first 21 pages in a small mixed hand, the rest (including a book catalogue dated 1675) in one or two later hands, 33 pages (plus numerous blanks), in old calf. Inscribed (p. 1) ‘ffran: Wyrley’, possibly the principal compiler, whose name is also subscribed to several poems. c.1636-77.
Also inscribed (f. ii) ‘Michaell Keepis. anno Dom: 1636 ffebruarie. 13th. Me tenet’. Later Phillipps MS 9311. Bookplate of Wyrley Birch. Purchased from Peter Murray Hill, 1950. Formerly S4975M1 [1636-75] Bound.
CwT 82
Copy, headed ‘The K. charles verses vpon the Queene his consort’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single cursive secretary hand, with a later title-page supplied in 1832, x + 116 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century black leather elaborately gilt. Inscribed (f. 1r), possibly by the compiler, ‘Richardus Jackson 1623’ and ‘Richard Jackson his booke’, who is described in a later pencil note as perhaps the brachygrapher. On ff. 113v-16r, in a later hand, is a ‘Catalogue of ye Books lately belonging to ye. Rev. Mr Jackson Rectr of Tatham’. c.1628-30s.
Also inscribed (f. 1r) ‘John Pecke’. Sold by Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, in 1831-2. Among collections of James Orchard Halliwell (from 1872 Halliwell-Phillipps) (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bought by him in 1871 from Sotheran's, London.
A 247-page transcript of this volume made c.1830 is in the Folger Shakespeare Library, MS M.b.26.
CwT 83
Copy, headed ‘Sonnet’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a Scottish secretary hand, paginated 5-132, bound with a later verse MS on 98 pages, in brown calf. c.1630s-40s.
Bookplate of John Pinkerton (1758-1826), historian and poet. Sotheby's, April 1812 (Pinkerton sale), lot 593, to Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 1104, to Thomas Thorpe. His catalogue, 1836, bought by Laing.
CwT 84
Copy, headed ‘On his Mistresse’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Christ Church, pp. 1-202 in a single minute hand, written over a period, with a few later additions (including two lines on p. 7) by other hands; pp. 202-19 containing entries in later hands up to 1789, in half-calf on marbled boards, pp. 77-84 detached in the 19th century and now separately bound as Folger MS V.a.152. Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 30 poems by Strode (one of them in V.a.152) plus one of doubtful authorship. c.late 1630s [-1789].
Later sold by Thomas Thorpe. Afterwards owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89) (and No. 27 in his Catalogue of Shakespeare Reliques (Brixton Hill, 1852)) and subsequently in the library of Lord Warwick at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Thorpe-Halliwell MS’: CoR Δ 7 and StW Δ 17. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).
CwT 85
Copy, headed ‘A Lover to his Mistresse’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, arranged (Part I) as an anthology, under genre headings, the reverse end (Part II) largely occupied by a later series of Latin verses, epistles, and other exercises, 168 leaves, in old calf (rebacked). Part I probably in several hands, the predominant italic hand that also responsible for the ‘Welbeck MS’: DnJ Δ 57), and including 21 poems by Donne. c.1630 [-1677].
Part I inscribed (f. 1r) ‘John Smyth his Book 1640’, ‘Charles Smyth 1674’, ‘Hugh Smyth 1676’; (f. 23v) ‘J Smyth 1677 / 1676’. Part II inscribed several times ‘Thomas Smith’, on f. 19r also ‘Die: Maij 12o Ano 1659’, with a reference on f. 58v to Balliol College, Oxford, 1659/60. Later inscribed (f. [ir]) by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), who records buying ‘this very curious and interesting MS. of Messrs Boone’. Afterwards in the library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1. 28.
Cited in IELM, I.i, as the ‘Thomas Smyth MS’: DnJ Δ 48.
CwT 86
Copy, headed ‘A Louer to his Mris’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, 210 pages, comprising 38 unnumbered pages and 172 numbered pages (plus four blank leaves), perhaps largely in a single predominantly secretary hand, with additions in four other hands on the unnumbered pages and pp. 167-71, including the scribbled title ‘Divers Sonnets & Poems compiled by certaine gentil Clarks and Ryme-Wrightes’, probably associated with Oxford University and the Inns of Court, in contemporary vellum. Including 14 poems by Strode (and a second copy of one poem). c.1637-51.
Inscribed (front pastedown) ‘Wakelin EeK Hering / Blows of Whitsor’, and (rear pastedown) ‘R. J. Cotton’. Formerly Folger MS 2073.4.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Cotton MS: StW Δ 20.
CwT 87
Copy, headed ‘To his Mistresse’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves (including blanks), in old calf gilt. c.1640.
Formerly MS 2073.3.
CwT 88
Copy, headed ‘To his mistres’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single mixed hand, with additions in other hands, associated with Oxford University, possibly Christ Church, 315 pages (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt. Including 11 poems by Donne, and 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett. c.1630s.
Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the ‘Curteis MS’: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, ‘Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript’, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.
CwT 89
Copy, headed ‘To his Mris’ and here beginning ‘Fayrest thy tresses are not threads of gold’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single, minute non-professional italic hand, probably someone associated with Oxford University, comprising 180 pages now all separated and mounted, interleaved, in 19th-century calf. c.late 1630s.
Later in the libraries (with bookplates) of the book collector Richard Heber (1774-1833); of the bibliographer and antiquary Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833); of the biographer and literary editor Alexander Chalmers (1759-1834); and of the antiquary Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough (his sale by Charles Sharpe in Dublin, 1 November 1842, lot 577).
CwT 90
Copy, headed ‘A Lover to his Mistresse’.
In: A small quarto verse anthology, in a single minute hand (but for p. 206), arranged under genre headings (‘Epitaphs’, ‘Satyricall’, ‘Love Sonnets’, etc.), probably associated with Oxford University, possibly Christ Church, 382 pages (including numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. Including 13 poems by Donne and 14 (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; the scribe is that mainly responsible also for the ‘Thomas Smyth MS’ (DnJ Δ 48). c.1630s.
Later owned and used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, who also annotated Cambridge University Library MS Add. 5778 and Harvard fMS Eng 966.4. Bookplate of N. Micklethwait. Owned in 1931 by the Rev. F.W. Glass, of Taverham Hall, near Norwich (seat in the 17th century of the Sotherton family and later of the Branthwayt and Micklethwait families).
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Welbeck MS’: DnJ Δ 57 and CoR Δ 11. Discussed in H. Harvey Wood, ‘A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others’, Essays & Studies, 16 (1931), 179-90. For Taverham Hall, see Thomas B. Norgate, A History of Taverham from Early Times to 1969 (Aylsham, 1969).
CwT 91
Copy, headed ‘On his Mrs Amatoria’ and here ascribed to J. Donne.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands (A: pp. 1-56; B: pp. 57-60, 75-122; C: pp. 61-74, 125-7), 127 pages, in contemporary limp vellum. Including 23 poems (and a second copy of one) by Randolph. c.1635.
Mostyn MS 196: from the library originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn Hall, near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, the MS possibly acquired by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) or by his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 191.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Mostyn MS’: RnT Δ 11. Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1873), Appendix, p. 356. Edited in Howard H. Thompson, An Edition of Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1959) [Mic 59-4669].
CwT 92
Copy, headed ‘On his Mistresse’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including fifteen poems by Donne, with a title-page ‘Miscellanies Or A Collection of Diuers Witty and pleasant Epigrams, Adages, poems Epitaphes &c for the recreation of ye ouertravelled sences: 1630 Robert Bishop’, in a single mixed hand, probably associated with the University of Oxford, 306 pages, in old calf. c.1630.
Owned and probably compiled by Robert Bishop. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9549. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue, English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 187.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the ‘Bishop MS’: DnJ Δ 59. Edited in David Coleman Redding, Robert Bishop's Commonplace-Book: An Edition of a Seventeenth Century Miscellany (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1960) [Mic 60-3608].
CwT 93
Copy, headed ‘To his Mistresse on her perfections’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, including 15 poems by Donne, f. 162r-v in a rounded italic hand, ff. 164r-74v in a slightly erratic italic hand, ff. 175r-279v in a neat formal italic hand (also responsible for the index on ff. 2r-11v), this miscellany constituting ff. 162r-279v of a single folio volume containing also Part I (DnJ Δ 15), ii + 279 leaves in all (lacking one or more leaves at the end), in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked). c.1630s.
Formerly MS G. 2.21.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Dublin MS (II): DnJ Δ 61.
CwT 94
Copy, headed ‘On his Mris’.
In: A sextodecimo verse miscellany, written from both ends in several hands (two principal ones on ff. 6r-40r, 41r et seq. respectively), 102 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf, with remains of metal clasps. Including 45 poems by Strode and three poems of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.
Formerly Box 22, item II.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the ‘Osborn MS II’: StW Δ 30.
CwT 95
Copy, with a reference to ‘pag: 168’.
In: A quarto notebook of verse and prose, in English and Latin, written from both ends, 192 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf. Owned and probably compiled by Jonathan Rashleighe (d.1702) of Oxford. c.1660.
The Complement (‘O my deerest I shall grieve thee’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 99-101.
CwT 96
Copy, headed ‘In praise of the excellent composure of his mistress’.
In: the MS described under CwT 44 (CwT Δ 1). c.1638.
This MS collated in Dunlap.
CwT 97
Copy, headed ‘Pallenodia Loues song that it is a follye. Loves folly’.
In: the MS described under CwT 25 (CwT Δ 7). c.1638.
CwT 102.5
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, in various hands, including seventeen poems by Carew, a title-page inscribed ‘A book of Verses / Seria mixta Jocis’, c.260 pages, in calf blind-stamped ‘V/I F 1667’. References to ‘Westminster Drollerie’ (which was not published until 1671) added on pp. 1 and 242. c.1667-8.
Inscribed on the title-page ‘Frendraught Legi’: i.e. by James Crichton (d.1674/5), second Viscount Frendraught. Bookplate of Thomas Fraser Duff (1830-77), of Woodcote, Oxfordshire. Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 9 April 1987, lot 272 (with a facsimile of p. 131 in the sale catalogue), sold to Quaritch.
CwT 103
Copy, headed ‘Hee tolde his Mrs what hee loued her for’.
In: An oblong quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat hand, written with the volume tilted with the spine to the top, 167 pages (plus blanks), in elaborately tooled green morocco gilt. Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by Strode (and two poems of doubtful authorship). c.1634.
The initials ‘M W’ stamped on each cover: i.e. M[aidstone] and W[inchilsea]. Evidently compiled by or for Sir Thomas Finch, Viscount Maidstone and Earl of Winchilsea (who succeeded to the peerage in 1633 and died in 1634). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 190.
The MS came to Rosenbach with a printed exemplum of William Wishcart, An Exposition of the Lord's Prayer (London, 1633), and the two clearly share the same provenance. The printed volume is similarly bound, with the initials ‘M W’; it is inscribed ‘Lord Winchilsea for Mr Locker 1634’; it bears the late 17th-century signatures of Stephen Locker and Alexander Campbell, and the bookplates of Captain William Locker (1731-1800) and Edward Hawke Locker (1777-1849).
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Winchelsea MS’: CwT Δ 33 and StW Δ 25.
CwT 103.5
Copy of the last two stanzas, headed ‘To his Mris’.
In: the MS described under CwT 19 (CwT Δ 32). c.1634.
CwT 106
Copy, headed ‘Vpon his Mres beautyes’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, probably associated with Cambridge University, ii + 78 pages, in contemporary vellum. c.1625-31.
Inscribed (p. i) ‘Ex dono B. R. ao Jni. i625 [altered to i631] / Broughton / Thomas Gray’.
CwT 107
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 22. c.1630s-40s.
CwT 108
Copy, headed ‘On his Mris’, with other poems, on a folio leaf.
In: A folio composite volume of verse and some prose, in various hands, v + 179 leaves, in early 18th-century half-calf.
With a few additions in Rawlinson's hand.
CwT 109
Copy, untitled.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single neat largely italic hand, 155 leaves, in modern half-morocco. c.1630.
The table of contents (f. 155v) subscribed ‘Margrett Bellasys’, possibly the daughter of Thomas Belasyse (1577-1652), first Viscount Fauconberg of Henknowle. The front endpaper later inscribed ‘The pieces which I have extracted for “The Specimens” are, Page 91, 211, 265’: i.e. possibly by Thomas Campbell (1777-1844), editor of Specimens of the British Poets first published in 1809. Afterwards owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Evans (Sotheby's), 29 February 1836 (Heber sale, Part VIII), lot 13.
CwT 110
Copy, headed ‘Loues Complement’, subscribed ‘Th: Ca:’.
In: the MS described under CwT 77. c.1630s [-1670s].
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 262.
CwT 111
Copy, headed ‘To his mrs’, subscribed ‘Dr Corbett’.
In: the MS described under CwT 81. c.1636-77.
CwT 113
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, 89 leaves, in old calf gilt. Partly compiled (pp. 75-99) by one Robert Berkeley, who has inscribed the first page ‘Rob Berkeley his booke Ano. 1640’. c.1640s.
Formerly owned by Henry Huth (1815-78). Formerly Rosenbach 195.
This volume recorded in Hazlitt.
CwT 114
Copy, headed ‘Loues Complement’.
In: the MS described under CwT 43. c.1636-40s.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 32 (James 423), ff. 17r-18r.
A cruel Mistris (‘Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
*CwT 114.2
Copy, headed partly in Carew's hand ‘A Cruell Mrs. Tr: Gr:’
In: the MS described under CwT 10.5. c.1631-2.
CwT 114.5
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘We read of Gods & Kings, yt kindely tooke’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in probably three hands, written from both ends, 86 leaves, in 17th-century calf. c.1648-61.
Scribbling on f. 33r rev. including the name ‘Elizabeth keech’.
CwT 114.7
Copy of lines 5-18, headed ‘To his cruell Mrs’ and here beginning ‘A slaughter'd bull appeaseth angry Ioue’.
In: the MS described under CwT 45 (CwT Δ 2). c.late 1630s.
CwT 114.8
Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in one secretary hand, erratically paginated up to 333, 250 leaves, in 18th-century boards. c.late 1630s.
Inscribed (on p. [330]) ‘Robert Lord his book Anno Domini’; (on [p. 335]) ‘william Jacob his booke Amen’; and, among scribbling on the last leaf, ‘Hugh Gibgans of the same’ and ‘John Winter of Buckland Dursbane [or husbande?]’. Owned in 1788 by Alexander R. Popham. Bloomsbury Book Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 8.
A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.
CwT 117
Copy, headed ‘His loue neglected’, subscribed ‘Tho: Cary’.
In: A quarto composite volume of verse, in several hands (the 22 or 23 poems by Carew on ff. 2r-22r in a single hand), with later additions dated 1731-3 by one ‘G. Broughton’ on ff. 1r and after 44r, a reference to St John's College, Cambridge (in 1731) on f. 83v, 93 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century half black morocco. c.1630s [-1733].
‘G. Broughton’ is possibly William (‘Gulielmus’) Broughton (b.1684/5), of Trinity College, Cambridge (one of whose Latin verse compilations was copied in 1704-6 by Richard Robinson in Trinity College, Cambridge, MS 0.6.1 (James 1497). Also the name ‘Jo: Tweedy’ is inscribed several times on f. 81r. Owned before 1841 by one W. Potter.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Tweedye MS’: CwT Δ 10.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 8.
CwT 118
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 51 (CwT Δ 11). c.1620s-30s.
CwT 119
Copy, headed ‘His loue neglected’ and here beginning ‘Wee reade of Gods & Kings…’, subscribed ‘Tho: Carew’.
In: the MS described under CwT 52 (CwT Δ 12). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 8.
CwT 120
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 26 (CwT Δ 13). c.1620s.
CwT 121
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘I reade of kings, and Gods that kindly tooke’.
In: the MS described under CwT 27 (CwT Δ 14). c.1620-50.
CwT 122
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 55 (CwT Δ 15). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
CwT 123
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 4 (CwT Δ 17). Mid-17th century.
CwT 124
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, written in two styles of hand (A: ff. 2r, after first six lines, to 64v; B: ff. 2r, first six lines, 64v-91v, 92v-4r), possibly both in the same hand, with an Index (ff. 93r-4r), 94 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Including 22 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 13 poems by King, and 24 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and probably associated with Christ Church, Oxford. c.1633.
Inscribed names including (f. 93v, in court hand) ‘ffrancis Baskeruile’: i.e. probably the Francis Baskerville who married Margaret Glanvill in 1635 and was in 1640 MP for Marlborough, Wiltshire. Other scribbling including (f. 1r) accounts referring to Wanborough, Wiltshire; (f. 9v) ‘Elizabeth White’; (f. 54v) ‘William Walrond his booke 1663’; (f. 92r) accounts dated 1658; and (f. 94r) ‘John Wallrond’. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.
Recorded in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Baskerville MS’: CwT Δ 20, KiH Δ 10, StW Δ 13. Facsimile examples of ff. 55r and 68r in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 6, after p. 86.
CwT 125
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘T. C.’
In: A quarto miscellany, in several hands, written over a period, 80 leaves (plus 67 blanks and stubs of numerous extracted leaves), in contemporary vellum gilt. Compiled by or for Sir Henry Cholmley, brother of Sir Hugh Cholmley (1600-57), the ascription ‘by my brother Sr Hugh Cholmley’ (1600-57) inserted on f. 19r in a cursive hand responsible for entries on ff. 3r-12v, 15v-29r, 41r-v, 75v-7r, the contents including twelve poems by Thomas Carew and poems by members of the circle of Lucius Cary (1610?-43), second Viscount Falkland, of Great Tew, Oxfordshire, by the St Leger family of Ulcombe, Kent, and by Sir William Twysden of Kent. c.1624-41.
Later bookplate of Henry B. Humphrey.
Recorded in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Cholmley MS’: CwT Δ 27.
CwT 126
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 33 (CwT Δ 29). c.1630s.
CwT 127
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 62 (CwT Δ 31). c.1630s.
CwT 128
Copy, headed ‘On an vnkind Lady’ and here beginning ‘We read of gods…’.
In: the MS described under CwT 19 (CwT Δ 32). c.1634.
CwT 129
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
CwT 130
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 66 (CwT Δ 37). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 97-8.
CwT 132
Copy, headed ‘On a cruell Mrs’.
In: the MS described under CwT 68. c.1630s-40s.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 8.
CwT 133
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 72. c.1620s-30s.
CwT 134
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, in two or more hands, 95 leaves (plus blanks), including two ‘Indexes’, in contemporary vellum. Compiled by an Oxford University man, possibly a member of St John's College. c.1634-43.
A receipt (f. 104r) by John Weston recording payment from his ‘brother Ed: Weston’, 3 May 1714. The name ‘John Saunders’ inscribed on the final leaf.
CwT 135
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘We read of gods…’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, including 37 poems by Donne, in several hands, written from both ends, 279 leaves (including numerous blanks, mostly in ff. 42r-140r), with stubs of extracted leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled in part by the Oxford printer Christopher Wase (1627-90), fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Mid-17th century.
Later owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, and his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Wase MS’: DnJ Δ 39.
CwT 137
Copy, headed ‘On an vnkind Mrs’.
In: A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 98 pages (plus some blanks), in reversed calf (rebacked). c.1620s-30s.
Inscribed (f. ir) by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), the date ‘1741’ added.
CwT 138
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of plays (by George Wilde, of St John's College, Oxford) and English and Latin verse, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford, written over a period from both ends, 158 leaves, in 19th-century half black morocco. c.late 1630s-late 17th century.
CwT 139
Copy, headed ‘To his cruel Mrs’ and here beginning ‘Wee read of gods and kinges that kindly tooke’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany in several hands, written from both ends, 46 leaves, in contemporary calf. Mid-17th century.
Inscribed names (on front paste-down and f. 1r) of ‘Fra: Norreys’ (? Sir Francis Norris (1609-69)) and ‘Hen. Balle’. Purchased from J. Harvey 8 December 1877.
CwT 140
Copy, here beginning ‘We read of gods and kings that kindly tooke’, ascribed to ‘T. Carey’.
In: the MS described under CwT 76. c.1640s.
CwT 141
Copy, headed ‘Sonnet. 2’, here beginning ‘We read of Godes, and kinges that kyndlie tooke’.
In: the MS described under CwT 83. c.1630s-40s.
CwT 142
Copy, headed ‘On his Cruell Mrs’ and here beginning at line 5 (here ‘A sacred bull appeaseth angry Joue’).
In: the MS described under CwT 89. c.late 1630s.
CwT 143
Copy, here beginning ‘We read of gods…’
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in two hands, one mixed hand predominating, 128 pages (plus a five-page index). Inscribed, and probably compiled, by Hugh Barrow (b.1617/18), of Brasenose College, Oxford. c.1638.
Also inscribed names of George Hope, Peter Wynne and [?]Anselm Huff. Later owned by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia bookseller and scholar: Rosenbach MS 192.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), p. 32.
CwT 144
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of epitaphs and poems, in several hands, the main collection of verse (ff. 46-147) in a single hand and including 54 poems by Donne (all subscribed ‘J. D.’) and fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, 158 pages (plus index). c.1630s.
Once owned by the Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary, and later by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 164. Afterwards owned by Sir George Grey (1812-98), Governor of Australia, New Zealand and Cape Colony. Formerly MS Grey 2 a 11.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Grey MS’: DnJ Δ 60 and HeR Δ 6. Facsimile of p. 119r (HeR 355) in L.F. Casson, ‘The Manuscripts of the Grey Collection in Cape Town’, The Book Collector, 10 (Spring 1961), 147-55 (facing p. 153).
National Library of South Africa, Cape Town, MS Grey 7 a 29, pp. 88-9.
CwT 144.3
Copy, headed ‘To his disdainefull Mrs’.
In: the MS described under CwT 114.8. c.late 1630s.
A deposition from Love (‘I was foretold, your rebell sex’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 16-17. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
CwT 144.5
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 10.5. c.1631-2.
CwT 145
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 1 (CwT Δ 3). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).
CwT 148
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.
In: A large folio volume of autograph vocal music by Henry Lawes (1596-1662), ix + 184 leaves, in modern black morocco gilt. Comprising over 300 songs and musical dialogues by Lawes, probably written over an extended period (c.1626-62) in preparation for his eventual publications, including settings of 38 poems by Carew, fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, and fifteen by Waller. Mid-17th century.
Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer; of Robert Smith, of 3 St Paul's Churchyard; and of Stephen Groombridge, FRS (1755-1832), astronomer. Later owned, until 1966, by Miss Naomi D. Church, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Formerly British Library Loan MS 35.
Recorded in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Henry Lawes MS’: CwT Δ 16; HeR Δ 3; WaE Δ 11. Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Pamela J. Willetts, The Henry Lawes Manuscript (London, 1969). Facsimiles of ff. 42r, 78r, 80r, 84r, 111r and 169r in The Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend, ed. Cedric C. Brown (Reading, 1983), pp. 59, 60, 62, 64, 66 and 117. Also discussed in Willa McClung Evans, Henry Lawes: Musician and Friend of Poets (New York and London, 1941), and elsewhere. A complete facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 3 (New York & London, 1986).
CwT 149
Copy, subscribed ‘T: Carew:’.
In: the MS described under CwT 2 (CwT Δ 18). c.1641-9.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 19.
CwT 150
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 124 (CwT Δ 20). c.1633.
CwT 152
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 33 (CwT Δ 29). c.1630s.
CwT 153
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 19 (CwT Δ 32). c.1634.
CwT 154
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
CwT 155
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, untitled.
In: Portion of a folio songbook compiled by John Playford (1623-86?). c.1660.
This MS collated in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Paris Conservatoire MS. Res. 2489’, MD, 23 (1969), 117-39 (p. 127).
CwT 156
Copy, subscribed ‘T. C.’
In: A composite collection of miscellaneous papers, now divided into two folio volumes (Part 1, ff. 1-199; Part 2, ff. 200-487), in various hands and paper sizes, originally in vellum, now each part in modern half-morocco. Volume I of the papers of the Wyatt family, of Allington Castle, Boxley, and Quex, Kent, including (ff. 332r-58v) quarto booklets of verse, in a rounded italic hand, possibly compiled, c.1630, by Sir Francis Wyatt (1575-1644), Governor of Virginia (although according to an uncertain note on f. 358v ‘all the hand writing of Sr H Wiat’).
Later owned by Bradford Denne Hawkins, vicar of Rivenhall, Essex; by Lionel Oliver, of Hencham, King's Lynn; and then in 1872, by Charles Marsham (1808-74), third Earl of Romney. Formerly Loan MS 15/Part 2 (Wyatt Commonplace Book).
Disdaine returned (‘Hee that loves a Rosie cheeke’)
First published (stanzas 1-2), in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Complete in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
CwT 156.5
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 10.5. c.1631-2.
CwT 157
Copy, headed ‘An Inuectiue Against his Mris’.
In: the MS described under CwT 44 (CwT Δ 1). c.1638.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 222.
CwT 158
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘T. C.’
In: the MS described under CwT 27 (CwT Δ 14). c.1620-50.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 222.
CwT 159
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CwT 148 (CwT Δ 16). Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 290.
CwT 160
Copy, headed ‘Another’.
In: the MS described under CwT 124 (CwT Δ 20). c.1633.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 222.
CwT 161
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Mr Tho: Carey’.
In: the MS described under CwT 32 (CwT Δ 26). c.1630s.
CwT 164
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘She that loves a Rosie cheek’.
In: the MS described under CwT 62 (CwT Δ 31). c.1630s.
CwT 165
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 19 (CwT Δ 32). c.1634.
CwT 166
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
CwT 167
Second copy, headed ‘A Songe, write befor. page 18’.
In: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
CwT 168
Copy, headed ‘To his inconstant Mistresse’.
In: the MS described under CwT 21 (CwT Δ 36). c.1636-41.
CwT 168.5
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 102.5. c.1667-8.
CwT 168.8
Copy, transcribed from CwT 174.
In: A transcript of two 17th-century verse MSS, the second a miscellany, 195 large quarto pages, in calf gilt. 19th century.
Once owned by F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale), in lot 136. Among the collections of Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), historian.
CwT 170
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards. Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source. Late 17th century.
Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as ‘Rawlinson MS I’: PsK Δ 6.
CwT 171
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, untitled.
In: the MS described under CwT 15.5. c.1641-59.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 290.
CwT 172
Copy, headed ‘A sonnet’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, including sixteen poems by Strode and one of doubtful authorship, in several hands, including a small mixed hand on ff. 2r-43v, cursive secretary hands thereafter, and Latin entries in italic at the reverse end, 139 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1630s.
A flyleaf inscribed ‘[?] Johannes Philips’. Acquired from H. Stevens 11 December 1852.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1987), as the ‘John Philips MS’: StW Δ 8.
CwT 173
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse, academic exercises and other material, in English and Latin, almost entirely in a single hand, 134 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Inscribed by the compiler (f. 133v) ‘Anthony Scattergood His booke’: i.e. Anthony Scattergood (1611-87), theologian, of Trinity College, Cambridge. Volume XXXII of the Scattergood papers. c.1632-40.
Also inscribed (f. 130v) ‘Elisabeth Scattergood her Booke 1667/8’. Booklabel of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector.
CwT 174
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Tho: Carew’.
In: A verse miscellany, in long narrow format, 66 leaves (including a number of blanks), in later calf. Largely in one neat secretary hand; a second hand on ff. 58v-9r, and a third on f. 66r. Compiled chiefly by a University of Cambridge man. c.1630s.
Once owned by F. W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Bequeathed in 1894 by Samuel Sandars, of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth and Claude J. Summers, ‘Recovering an Important Seventeenth-Century Poetical Miscellany: Cambridge Add. MS 4138’, TCBS, 7 (1978), 156-69 (pp. 160-1). A 19th-century transcript of much of this MS is in the Bodleian, MS Firth d. 7, ff. 60r-9r.
This MS recorded (as ‘Cosens MS. B. obl. 8°’) in Hazlitt, p. 22. A 19th-century transcript is in the Bodleian, MS Firth d. 7, f. 123.
CwT 175
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, untitled.
In: the MS described under CwT 24. c.1630s-50s.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 290.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 11.
CwT 176
Copy, untitled.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several hands, showing communal use, 161 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.
Formerly Chest II, No. 21.
A divine Mistris (‘In natures peeces still I see’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 6-7.
CwT 176.5
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 10.5. c.1631-2.
CwT 177
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 50 (CwT Δ 8). c.1630s.
CwT 178
Copy, headed ‘His Mris. her perfections’, subscribed ‘Tho: Cary’.
In: the MS described under CwT 117 (CwT Δ 10). c.1630s [-1733].
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 6.
CwT 179
Copy, headed ‘His Mistresse her perfection’, subscribed ‘Tho: Carew’.
In: the MS described under CwT 52 (CwT Δ 12). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 6.
CwT 180
Copy of an untlted version beginning ‘all ye workes of Nature are’, in Lawes's musical setting.
In: the MS described under CwT 148 (CwT Δ 16). Mid-17th century.
First four lines printed from this MS in Dunlap, p. 217. Facsimile in Pamela J. Willetts, The Henry Lawes Manuscript (London, 1969), plate XV.
CwT 181
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 58 (CwT Δ 23). c.1694-1740.
CwT 183
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 19 (CwT Δ 32). c.1634.
CwT 184
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
CwT 185
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 66 (CwT Δ 37). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 96-7.
An Elegie on the La: Pen: sent to my Mistresse out of France (‘Let him, who from his tyrant Mistresse, did’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 19-21.
*CwT 186.5
Copy, with Carew's autograph revisions in lines 17 and 26.
In: the MS described under CwT 10.5. c.1631-2.
CwT 187
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on the death of the Lady Peniston sent to his Mrs out of ffrance’, subscribed ‘T C.’
In: the MS described under CwT 47 (CwT Δ 5). c.1630s-40s.
CwT 188
Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Carew’.
In: the MS described under CwT 50 (CwT Δ 8). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Powell, p. 287.
CwT 189
Copy, subscribed ‘T: C:’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, 49 leaves; in contemporary calf gilt. Including 14 poems by Carew; the main text (ff. 1r-27r) in a non-professional mixed hand of the 1630s (but for later scribbling); the remaining leaves filled by later hands; notes on family history from 1647 to 1664 on ff. 28r-9r. c.1630s[-75].
Inscribed on f. 29v ‘John Peverell Booke 1674’ and his name also on ff. 1r and 49r. Fol. 48v containing a receipt dated 30 June 1653 ‘by me Francis Blackitt of bro. William of Hoodcroft, Co. Durham’. Other names inside the front cover including ‘John Peves’ and ‘Railphe Hogwood’ and, inside the back cover, ‘James Portington’, ‘William Steadman 1675’, ‘Thomas Meeres’, ‘William Diton’ and ‘Ramond Swift’.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Peverell MS’: CwT Δ 9.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 222.
CwT 190
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on ye death of the Lady Pemstone sent out of France’.
In: the MS described under CwT 124 (CwT Δ 20). c.1633.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 222.
CwT 191
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie’, subscribed ‘by ye same T: C:’.
In: the MS described under CwT 125 (CwT Δ 27). c.1624-41.
CwT 192
Copy, headed ‘Elegy of the Lady Peniston sent to my Mrs: out of france’.
In: the MS described under CwT 15.8 (CwT Δ 28). c.1637.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 222.
CwT 193
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
An Elegie upon the death of the Deane of Pauls, Dr. Iohn Donne (‘Can we not force from widdowed Poetry’)
First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633). Carew, Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 71-4.
*CwT 194.5
Copy, with an autograph revision by Carew, headed ‘An Elegie vppon ye Deane of Pawles Dr Donne’.
In: the MS described under CwT 10.5. c.1631-2.
Facsimile of f. 35v in Beal, ‘An Authorial Collection’, Plate 7, p. 171.
CwT 194.8
Adapted extracts.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in a single italic hand, entitled Gospell Obseruations & Religius manifestations, 370 pages, in contemporary calf. Entirely in the hand of Robert Overton (1608/9-1678/9), parliamentarian army officer, whose signature appears on a flyleaf. Prepared as a memorial and tribute to his wife, Ann Gardiner (d.1665), and written when in prison, either on Jersey or in the Tower of London. c.1671/2.
Inscribed inside the front cover ‘Saml Atkins Wykeham’ and inside the rear cover ‘17 Feby 1879. Purchased this Book of Prescot Bookseller. Upper Arcade. Bristol...Edwd G. Doggett’.
This volume discussed extensively, with facsimile examples (of pp. 85-6, 151-2, 162, 166, 190-2), in David Norbrook, ‘“This blushinge tribute of a borrowed muse”: Robert Overton and his Overturning of the Poetic Canon’, EMS, 4 (1993), 220-66.
CwT 195
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
CwT 196
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie vpon Dr. Donne Deane of Paules’, subscribed ‘Tho: Carew’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Thomas Carew, probably in a single accomplished hand (changing to two styles of italic on ff. 42v-4v, 5r-60r, 76r-v), i + 89 leaves (including blanks, stubs of two or three excised leaves, and an index), in contemporary limp vellum. c.1630s-40s.
Later notes and scribbling including the names ‘John Nutting’ (ff. 26r, 56r) and ‘John M.’ and ‘John Susan’ (rear paste-down). The last leaf also containing a list of the titles of 65 poems by Carew together with the number of lines in each poem, this list unrelated to the contents of the rest of the MS.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Nutting MS’: CwT Δ 35. The list of poems, probably relating to another MS, is edited, with facsimiles, in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 198-9, 217-19).
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 250.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 23 (James 416), ff. 38v-40v.
CwT 197
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, written from both ends, 192 leaves (including blanks), in old brown calf. Compiled, over a period, principally by Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), Chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford, and Henry King's amanuensis, including (ff. 7r-61r) 24 poems by King in Manne's formal hand, written c.1625-30s; ff. 61v-72v, 73r-99v, 100r-101v written in a variant style of Manne's hand, c.1630s; and (ff. 72v, 99v, 102r-14v, 190v-169r rev.) additions in six other hands, c.1630s-44, with (ff. 75r, 76r, and 76v) three poems to which the subscription ‘R. Dorset’ is added in the hand of King himself. c.1625-46.
Inscribed (f. 190v rev.) ‘Ann Littleton’. Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue, [June 1848], p. 31. Sotheby's, 4 Februry 1850 (Rodd sale), lot 500, to James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps] (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Afterward owned by the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector. Sotheby's, 25 June 1873 (Corser sale), lot 325, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Later owned by the bookdealer Philip Robinson. Sotheby's, 26 June 1974, lot 3013, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Thomas Manne MS’: KiH Δ 7. Used in Crum. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).
The Epilogue to the same Play (‘Hunger is sharp, the Sated Stomack dull’)
First published in Hazlitt (1870), pp. 144-5. Dunlap. pp. 127-8.
CwT 198
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 1 (CwT Δ 3). c.1640s.
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).
Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villers (‘The Lady Mary Villers lyes’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 53-4.
CwT 199
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 2 (CwT Δ 18). c.1641-9.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 70.
CwT 200
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
CwT 201
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Lady Mary Villiers’.
In: A quarto miscellany, in several hands, including a number of culinary receipts, 255 leaves (including over 65 blanks), written from both ends (Part I, in a rounded italic hand: ff. 1r-117r:; Part II: ff. 1*r-72r), in old calf. Inscribed (Part II, f. 1*r) ‘A booke of verses collected by mee RDungaruan’: i.e. Richard Boyle (1612-98), Viscount Dungarvon and later Earl of Burlington. c.1630s.
Also inscribed ‘Mary Helerd’. Subsequently owned by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer, and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 15745. Formerly Folger MS 46. 2
Epitaph on the Lady S. Wife to Sir W.S. (‘The harmony of colours, features, grace’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 55.
CwT 202
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on the Lady Psalter’.
In: the MS described under CwT 1 (CwT Δ 3). c.1640s.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 241. Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).
CwT 203
Copy, headed ‘An epitaph on A Lady’, subscribed ‘T: Carew’.
In: the MS described under CwT 2 (CwT Δ 18). c.1641-9.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 242.
CwT 204
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on a virtuous woman’.
In: An oblong octavo verse miscellany, in a neat mixed hand up to p. 78, the remainder in later hands, 116 pages, in 19th-century half-leather marbled boards, with remains of crimson velvet. c.1630[-1700s].
Once owned by Elizabeth Herrick (1684-1745) and her brother William Herrick (1689-1773). Formerly among the papers of the Herrick family, of Beaumanor.
This MS discussed in J.A. Taylor, ‘Two Unpublished Poems on the Duke of Buckingham’, RES, NS 40 (May 1989), 232-40.
An Excuse of absence (‘You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay’)
First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 28. Dunlap. p. 131.
CwT 205
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 45 (CwT Δ 2). c.late 1630s.
CwT 206
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 47 (CwT Δ 5). c.1630s-40s.
CwT 207
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 16 (CwT Δ 6). c.1635-44.
CwT 208
Copy, headed ‘To his Mistris after hee had stayed long from her’.
In: the MS described under CwT 25 (CwT Δ 7). c.1638.
CwT 209
Copy, headed ‘Another’.
In: the MS described under CwT 50 (CwT Δ 8). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Powell, p. 289.
CwT 210
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 189 (CwT Δ 9). c.1630s[-75].
This MS collated in Dunlap.
CwT 211
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 55 (CwT Δ 15). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Dunlap.
CwT 212.5
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, closely written in possibly several minute predominantly secretary hands, 291 leaves (ff. 212-16 bound out of order after f. 24), in modern calf. c.1640s.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Joseph Hall’ (not the bishop). Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger, who has entered in pseudo-17th-century secretary script copies of various ballads on ff. 39r-41r, 107v-79r, 181r-v, 227r-8v, 243r-6r, as well as adding foliation (1-284) before the more recent foliation (1-291, used below). Quaritch's sale catalogue ‘of English Literature’ (August-November 1884), item 22350, Collier's transcript of the MS made c.1860 being item 22352. Formerly Folger MS 2071.7.
Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Giles E. Dawson, ‘John Payne Collier's Great Forgery’, SB, 24 (1971), 1-26.
CwT 213
Copy, headed ‘Vppon absence’ and here beginning ‘Perhapes you'le wonder why I stay’.
In: the MS described under CwT 33 (CwT Δ 29). c.1630s.
CwT 214
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Carew and one of doubtful authorship, in a single neat non-professional hand, 72 leaves (plus a later index). c.1643-50s.
Later owned by the Newcastle antiquarian collectors John Bell (1783-1864) and Robert White (1802-74).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Bell-White MS, CwT Δ 30. Described, with facsimiles of ff. 30r and 56v, in T.G.S. Cain, ‘The Bell/White MS: Some Unpublished Poems’, ELR, 2 (1972), 260-70.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, ff. 52v-3r.
CwT 215
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 62 (CwT Δ 31). c.1630s.
CwT 216
Copy, headed ‘A gentleman constrainde from his mris’ and here beginning ‘You will ask perhaps…’.
In: the MS described under CwT 19 (CwT Δ 32). c.1634.
CwT 217
Copy, headed ‘Vpon absence’ and here beginning ‘Perhaps you wonder…’.
In: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
CwT 217.5
Copy in: A small quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single non-professional mixed hand, written from both ends, 90 leaves, in vellum (lacking spine). c.1630s.
Among papers of the Clitherow family of London, which included Sir Christopher Clitherow (1578-1642), Lord Mayor of London in 1635. Bookplate of James Clitherow Esq. of Boston House, Middlesex: i.e. either Christopher's son, James Clitherow (1618-82), merchant and banker, who purchased Boston Manor, in the parish of Hanwell, in 1670, or James Clitherow (1694-1752).
CwT 218
Copy, here beginning ‘You will aske phaps wherefore I stay’.
In: the MS described under CwT 68. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Dunlap.
CwT 219
Copy, headed ‘An excuse of absence from his Mistresse’.
In: the MS described under CwT 69. 1647.
This MS collated (as ‘Δ 2’) in Dunlap.
CwT 220
Copy in: A composite volume of verse, i + 126 leaves. Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary. Late 17th century.
Given to the library in 1954 by N.R. Ker.
CwT 221
Copy in: A miscellany of verse and prose, in a single hand, originally in two volumes, xxiii + 158 pages, in 19th-century green morocco gilt. c.1630s.
Once owned by one C. Agard and later by F.W. Cosens (1819-89), book collector. The original second volume here bought from Colbeck Radford, sale catalogue No. 24 (1932), item 157.
Edited from this MS (recorded as ‘MS. Cosens. A. 4°’) in Hazlitt. Collated in Dunlap.
CwT 222
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Juvenilia Ludicra, in a single small mixed hand, 103 leaves, all now window mounted in a quarto volume, in 19th-century half morocco. Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man. c.1630s.
Inscribed in engrossed lettering (f. 1r) ‘E Libris Richard Sutclif’. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 194.
Edited from this MS in Dunlap.
CwT 223
Copy, headed ‘Excuse for absence’.
In: the MS described under CwT 139. Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Dunlap.
CwT 224
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Absence’.
In: the MS described under CwT 76. c.1640s.
This MS recorded in Powell, p. 289.
CwT 225
Copy in: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous tracts, poems and other papers, in various hands, 329 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Fols 1r-82r comprise a separate collection of verse and some prose, possibly in a single predominantly secretary hand with some variants of style, the first leaf (f. 1) inscribed in another hand ‘Poems by Wm: Browne of the Inner-Temple Gent &c / 1650’, this possibly applying to the poems up to f. 62v, which is subscribed ‘ffinis W Browne’. c.1637-50.
This volume comprising Parts 1-3, 5, 8-13, of what was formerly a single composite volume but is now bound in three volumes.
Inscribed (f. 280v) ‘Philip Butler his book’.
This MS collated in Dunlap.
CwT 226
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, largely in a predominantly secretary hand, another hand on ff. 85r-7v, 95v-6r, xiii pages + 104 leaves (including blanks, but lacking ff. 7-9, 54-5, 95), with a table of contents (pp. 1-6), in modern calf, gilt-edged. Compiled by University or Inns of Court men. c.1630s.
The extracted fols 7, 8 and 54 are now Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2757, Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2216, and Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2217 respectively. The extracted fol. 9 is now Folger MS V.a.505, p. 27.
Inscribed (f. [104v] ‘Thomas White His Book May ye 20 Anno Domine 1691’. Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and in his library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.21.
CwT 227
Copy, headed ‘Excuse for absence’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, a neat mixed hand predominating up to f. 55r, 151 leaves (including a few blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1730.
Inscribed (in another hand) on the front pastedown ‘Thomas Boydell’. Formerly Folger MS 4108.
CwT 229
Copy in: A folio verse miscellany, in a single probably professional rounded hand (except for a poem on f. 81r and later scribbling); ii + 81 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Including 16 poems by or attributed to Herrick and 24 poems by Randolph (plus two of doubtful authorship). This MS related to HeR Δ 2 and to RnT Δ 1. c. late 1630s.
Inscriptions including (on a flyleaf) ‘Anthony St John/ Ann: St John/ 1640 Bletso’: i.e. Anthony St John (1618-73), of Christ's College, Cambridge, fourth son of Oliver, fourth Baron St John and first Earl of Bolingbroke (c.1584-1646), of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and Anthony's wife, Ann Kensham (married 1639); (flyleaf) ‘Oliver Beeesfor[d]’; and (f. 81v) ‘John Watts’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13187. Sotheby's, 6 June 1910, lot 672, to Quaritch. Item 1415 in an unidentified sale.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘St John MS’: HeR Δ 4 and RnT Δ 8. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 72).
CwT 230
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, predominantly in two very small hands (A: ff. 1r-44v; B: ff. 44v-87v), with further verse and prose pieces in other hands on ff. 88r-121r, written from both ends, associated with Oxford, possibly New College, and probably afterwards with the Inns of Court, 155 leaves (including 33 blanks), in modern black morocco elaborately gilt. Including 23 poems by Strode (and second copies of two poems) and one poem of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.
Including (ff. 98r-100r) a letter by one ‘Pet[er] Wood’. Inscribed (ff. 90r-1r), ‘Thease verses I borroed to write out of John Sherly [d. 1666] a booke seller in litle Brittaine, 28th of March 1633’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9235. Sotheby's, 21 February 1938, lot 243.
Cited in IELM II.ii (1993), as the ‘Wood MS’: StW Δ 21. Discussed in C.F. Main, ‘New Texts of John Donne’, SB, 9 (1957), 225-33.
CwT 231
Copy, here beginning ‘You will aske perhaps wherfore I stay’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including seventeen poems by Donne and fifteen by Strode, the main part in a single hand, 334 pages (but pp. 3-4 extracted, and including a later index). Possibly compiled by one ‘W: H:’: i.e. probably William Holgate (1618-46), of Queens' College, Cambridge, with late 17th-century additions apparently made by other members of the Holgate family, of Saffron Walden and Great Bardfield, Essex. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
Owned in the early 18th century by John Wale, who supplied the index on pp. 330-3. Owned before 1927 by Col. W.G. Carwardine-Probert, of Bures, Suffolk (descendant of the Holgate family).
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Holgate MS’: DnJ Δ 58. Briefly discussed in W.G.P., ‘Verses by Francis Beaumont’, TLS (15 September 1921), p. 596, and in E.K. Chambers, William Shakespeare, 2 vols (Oxford, 1930), II, 222-4. Also discussed, with facsimiles on pp. 68 and 70 of pp. 181 and 13, in Michael Roy Denbo, ‘Editing a Renaissance Commonplace Book: The Holgate Miscellany’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 65-73. For facsimile pages see DnJ 2931 and ShW 25. Complete microfilm in the Essex Record Office (T/A 98).
CwT 232
Copy, headed ‘To his Mris hauing stayed longe fro her’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, compiled principally in the secretary hand of a University of Oxford man, with additions in one or more other hands, 150 pages, imperfect, disbound. c.1640.
CwT 233
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by or attributed to Herrick, almost entirely in a single small predominantly italic hand, 250 pages (plus numerous blanks), originally in contemporary calf, but now disbound. Inscribed four times on a flyleaf ‘Tobias Alston his booke’: i.e. probably Tobias Alston (1620-c.1639) of Sayham Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk. His half-brother Edward (b.1598) was a contemporary of Herrick at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, while his cousin, Edward Alston, later President of the College of Physicians, was a contemporary of Herrick at St John's College, Cambridge, some of the other contents also relating to Cambridge, besides some relating to Suffolk. The date 1639 occurs on p. 241, and pp. 243-50 contains verses written in two later hands (to c.1728) and some prose pieces written from the reverse end. c.1639 [-c.1728].
Names inscribed on a flyleaf including Henry Glisson (later Fellow of the College of Physicians); Thomas Avral(?); Horace Norton; Henry Rich; and James Tavor (Registrar of Cambridge University). Later owned by one John Whitehead, and by Dr Mary Pickford. Sotheby's, 27 June 1972, lot 309.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Alston MS’: HeR Δ 7. A complete set of photocopies of the MS is in the British Library, RP 772. Facsimile of pp. 6-7 in Sotheby's sale catalogue (see HeR 176, HeR 405) where the MS is described at some length. See also letters by Peter Beal and Donald W. Foster in TLS (24 January 1986), pp. 87-8.
A Fancy (‘Marke how this polisht Easterne sheet’)
First published in Poems (1642). Dunlap, p. 117.
CwT 235
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 4 (CwT Δ 17). Mid-17th century.
Feminine Honour (‘In what esteeme did the Gods hold’)
See CwT 305-312.
The first of Iealousie. Dialogue (‘From whence was first this furie hurld’)
See CwT 305-313.
A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
*CwT 235.5
Copy, with an autograph revision by Carew in line 11, headed ‘A flye that flewe into his Mrs her eye’.
In: the MS described under CwT 10.5. c.1631-2.
CwT 236
Copy, headed ‘The Amourouse fly’.
In: the MS described under CwT 44 (CwT Δ 1). c.1638.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 48.
CwT 237
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 45 (CwT Δ 2). c.late 1630s.
CwT 238
Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
In: A folio songbook, 121 leaves (including c.20 blanks and an index), in contemporary calf (rebacked). Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by or attributed to Herrick, in musical settings, predominantly in a single hand (ff. 2r-63v, 92r-9r, 100r, with a change of style on ff. 64r-5v and in the index probably by the same hand), with 18th-century additions on ff. 81v-7v, 89r-v and 145v-53r, and scribbling elsewhere. c.1640s-60s.
Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Probert MS’: CwT Δ 4, HeR Δ 1. Discussed and analysed in John P. Cutts, ‘A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57’, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211. Also briefly discussed in George Thewlis, ‘Some Notes on a Bodleian Manuscript’, M&L, 22 (1941) 32-5, and in Willa McClung Evans, ‘Shakespeare's “Harke Harke ye Larke”’, PMLA, 60 (1945), 95-101 (with a facsimile of f. 78r). A facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 6 (New York & London, 1987).
This MS collated in John P. Cutts, ‘A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57’, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 210); recorded in Dunlop, p. 293.
CwT 239
Copy, headed ‘On a fflye’, subscribed ‘T. C.’
In: the MS described under CwT 47 (CwT Δ 5). c.1630s-40s.
CwT 240
Copy, headed ‘A fly Kill'd in his Mrs eye’.
In: the MS described under CwT 16 (CwT Δ 6). c.1635-44.
CwT 242
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 189 (CwT Δ 9). c.1630s[-75].
CwT 243
Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Cary’.
In: the MS described under CwT 117 (CwT Δ 10). c.1630s [-1733].
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 48.
CwT 246
Copy, headed ‘On a fly an Elegy’.
In: the MS described under CwT 55 (CwT Δ 15). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
CwT 247
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.
In: the MS described under CwT 148 (CwT Δ 16). Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 293.
CwT 248
Copy, headed ‘On a fly’.
In: the MS described under CwT 4 (CwT Δ 17). Mid-17th century.
Printed from this MS in Geoffrey Tillotson, ‘The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell’, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91 (pp. 384-5).
CwT 250
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph vppon a ffly’.
In: the MS described under CwT 57 (CwT Δ 22). c.1637.
CwT 251
Copy, headed ‘An elegye vppon a flye: Carew’.
In: the MS described under CwT 30 (CwT Δ 25). c.1630s-40s.
CwT 253
Copy, headed ‘Vpon A flye lightinge in to his mistres eye’, subscribed ‘by T: C:’.
In: the MS described under CwT 125 (CwT Δ 27). c.1624-41.
CwT 254
Copy, headed ‘Upon a Fly’.
In: the MS described under CwT 214 (CwT Δ 30). c.1643-50s.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, ff. 51v-2r.
CwT 254.5
Copy, headed ‘A Flie in my Mirs eye. 25’ and here beginning ‘While this flie lived she us'd to play’.
In: the MS described under CwT 102.5. c.1667-8.
CwT 255
Copy, headed ‘Of a Flye flyeinge into his Mrs. Eye’.
In: the MS described under CwT 62 (CwT Δ 31). c.1630s.
CwT 257
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on a Flye, drounde in Caelias eye’.
In: the MS described under CwT 103 (CwT Δ 33). c.1634.
CwT 258
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
CwT 261
Copy, in a cursive hand, on a single folio leaf, originally with an accompanying leaf inscribed ‘These To Robert Lee, Esqr at his hous at Binfield in Berkshire present Leave this wth the Earle of Sterline at his hous nere Hartford Bridg’. Late 17th century.
In: An unbound folder of verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 138 leaves. Volume CCXXXVI of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Add 17 and 18.
Sotheby's sale catalogue, The Trumbull Papers (14 December 1989), part of lot 39.
CwT 262
Copy, headed ‘on a flye drownd in a gentlewoman's eye’.
In: the MS described under CwT 68. c.1630s-40s.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 48.
CwT 264
Copy, headed ‘On a flye’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany compiled by an Oxford University man, i i + 37 leaves, in later half-calf. c.1630s.
Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.
CwT 265
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.128 items, including 94 poems by Donne plus his Paradoxes and Problems, compiled by Henry Champernowne (1600-56), of Dartington, Devon, 243 pages, dated on the first page 1623. 1623.
Afterwards owned by other members of the Champernowne family, by Sir Edward Seymour, Bart. (?the third Baronet, 1610-85). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1030. Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) (MS 9568). Sotheby's, 6 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lot 749. Bookplate of C. S. Harris and bequeathed by him 1916.
Cited in IELM, I.i (190), as the ‘Phillipps MS’: DnJ Δ 20.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 231.
CwT 268
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Fly drowned in a Ladys Eye’.
In: the MS described under CwT 41. Mid-late 17th century.
This MS (erroneously cited as ‘Rawl. MS 34’) recorded in Hazlitt, p. 48.
CwT 269
Copy, headed ‘Of a flie’.
In: A quarto composite volume of four MSS, in English and Latin, iii + 187 leaves, in vellum boards. Part B (ff. 16d-86v): A quarto miscellany of poems and letters, in several hands, compiled by William Elyott (a nephew of Sir Simonds D'Ewes). c.1640-55.
Part C (ff. 86 bis-120r): A quarto verse miscellany compiled by Thomas Axton, M.A. (b.1699/1700), of Trinity College, Cambridge. c.1718-22.
Part C sold at the Thomas Rawlinson sale in March 1733/4, lot 289.
CwT 270
Copy, headed ‘On a Flye in his Mis: her Eye’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and medical and household prescriptions, in several cursive secretary hands, one predominating, written from both ends, 117 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Compiled in part by Brian Fairfax (1633-1711), scholar and courtier. Mid-late 17th century.
Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 117. Item 667 in an unidentified sale catalogue.
CwT 271
Copy, headed ‘A fly flew into his Mrs Eye’. c.1630s.
In: An octavo volume of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive hands, 102 leaves (plus blanks), in half brown morocco on marbled boards. Including principally autograph poems by Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax (1661-1715), but also (ff. 72v-7v) some poems apparently in a much earlier hand.
Later owned by John Lilly, bookseller. Sotheby's, 15-25 March 1871 (Lilly sale), lot 1366.
CwT 272
Copy, headed ‘On a dead flye’, subscribed ‘Tho: Carew’.
In: the MS described under CwT 42. c.1636.
CwT 273
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on a Flie’.
In: the MS described under CwT 173. c.1632-40.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 48.
CwT 275
Copy, headed ‘Mr Carew on the Fly’ and here beginning ‘While this fly liu'd it vs'd to play’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several small non-professional hands, 88 leaves, imperfect at the beginning. c.1630s-40s.
CwT 276
Copy, headed ‘Vppon a ffly drown'd in a Ladyes eye’, subscribed ‘Tho: Cary’.
In: the MS described under CwT 78. c.1635.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 48.
CwT 277
Copy, headed ‘On a flie drownd in a Ladies eie Dr Corbet’, subscribed ‘Dr Corbet’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in Latin and English, one cursive hand predominating, 69 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half black crushed morocco. c.1630s.
Inscribed (f. 62r) ‘Nathaniel Heighmore’: i.e. presumably Nathaniel Highmore (1613-85), chemical physician and anatomist; ‘John Sacheverell his hand and pen Amen’; and ‘John Sacheverell the Author of this...’.
CwT 278
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a fly yt hapned in his mistres eye’ and here beginning ‘While ye fly liu'd it vs'd to play’.
In: An octavo notebook of extracts in verse and prose, in a small untidy hand, written from both ends, 42 leaves (plus three blanks), badly worn, remains of boards and green ties. c.1640.
Includes (f. [31r rev.] a reference to ‘my brother Capstons account book after his death 1632’. Given to the library by H.L. Pink, Assistant Under-Librarian, 22 November 1948.
CwT 280
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a flye an epitaphe writt by T.C.’.
In: the MS described under CwT 82. c.1628-30s.
CwT 281
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a flye kild in a gentlewomans eye’.
In: the MS described under CwT 82. c.1628-30s.
CwT 283
Copy, headed ‘On a ffly drown'd in his Mistress eie’.
In: the MS described under CwT 84. c.late 1630s [-1789].
CwT 284.5
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy on a Flie. T: C:’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, pp. 13-244 in a single largely roman hand, the remainder in varying styles in one or more other hands (up to c.1655), probably associated with Oxford University, 541 pages (of which pp. 1-12, 87-8 have been extracted and pp. 251-68, 334, 400, 410-540 are blank, with stubs of other extracted leaves at the end), in contemporary brown calf. Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1630s[-55].
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: possibly his MS 18123. Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller. Formerly MS 646.4.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Dobell MS’: CoR Δ 8 and StW Δ 18A. Discussed in Bertram Dobell in The Athenaeum, No. 4475 (2 August 1913), p. 112. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).
CwT 285
Copy, headed ‘On the flie An Elegie by Tho: Carey’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford and afterwards with the Inns of Court, 73 leaves (plus a few blanks and a modern index). Including 40 poems by Strode and two poems of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9510. (Phillipps sale, lot 1015.) Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914). Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 342. Formerly MS 4201. 27. 1.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Dobell MS II’: StW Δ 19. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.42.
CwT 286
Copy, headed ‘A gentleman made these verses following vpon a little fly lighting in his Mris eye’.
In: the MS described under CwT 86. c.1637-51.
CwT 287
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie vpon a flye. Tho. Carie’.
In: the MS described under CwT 87. c.1640.
CwT 289
Copy, headed ‘On a fly drownd in his Mrs eye’.
In: the MS described under CwT 89. c.late 1630s.
CwT 290
Copy, headed ‘on a flye’.
In: A folio composite miscellany compiled entirely by William Drummond of Hawthornden, including (ff. 165r-6v, 246r-7v) copies of, or brief extracts from, nineteen poems by Donne, 300 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt. c.1618-20s.
Among the collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. VIII.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Drummond Miscellany: DnJ Δ 66. Some extracts from this MS edited in Laing (1831), pp. 78-82. ‘Drummond's Catalogue of Comedies’ (ff. 122-3). Recorded in MacDonald, Library of Drummond, pp. 231-2.
CwT 291
Copy, headed ‘Mr Carew on the Fly’ and here beginning ‘While this fly liud it vsd to play’.
In: An oblong octavo composite volume, comprising two independent verse miscellanies, Part I, in Latin and English, largely in a neat secretary hand, paginated 1-22, Part II, in English and Welsh, in several hands, one neat secretary hand predominating, paginated 1-266, the two parts bound together in modern quarter red morocco. c.1630s.
Inscriptions including (Part I, pp. 1, 3 and 42) ‘Edward Lewis his Book 1753’, ‘John Parker’, ‘P H Warburton’, and ‘John Aden’, and (Part II, p. 33) ‘Thomas Lloyd Esq’. Wigfair MS 43, among papers mainly of the Lloyd family of Hafodunos, Denbighshire, and Wigfair, near St Asaph, Flintshire, purchased in 1926-7 from Colonel H. C. Lloyd Howard, of Wigfair.
National Library of Wales, NLW MS 12443 A, Part II, pp. 97-8.
CwT 291.5
Copy, headed ‘A Flye yt flew into his Mistresses Eye by Tom Cary -- pag -- 63’.
In: A small folio volume of c.128 pages containing some 180 English and Latin poems dating from c.1649 to 1665. Written throughout in the hand of Mildmay Fane (1602-66), second Earl of Westmorland.
CwT 292
Copy, headed ‘On a Fly that gott into a Gentlewomans eie’.
In: the MS described under CwT 90. c.1630s.
CwT 293
Copy, in a hand similar to that of Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627), on a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packets, imperfect and lacking a title. c.1620s-30s.
In: A double-folio-size guardbook of separate verse MSS, in various hands and sizes, 43 leaves, in modern cloth.
Among the papers of Sir Joseph Williamson (1633-1701), but possibly derived in part from the Conway Papers: see Donne, Introduction.
CwT 295
Second copy, headed ‘The flye’ and here beginning ‘While this flye livd…’.
In: the MS described under CwT 91. c.1635.
CwT 296
Copy, headed ‘Vppon A flye discou'rd in a ladies eye’.
In: the MS described under CwT 43. c.1636-40s.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 32 (James 423), f. 10r-v.
CwT 298
Copy, headed ‘The fflye’.
In: the MS described under CwT 144. c.1630s.
National Library of South Africa, Cape Town, MS Grey 7 a 29, pp. 76-7.
CwT 299
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy on a fly’ subscribed ‘T. C.’
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, including 24 poems by Strode, in a single mixed hand, associated with Oxford, 56 leaves (out of an original eight gatherings), in contemporary calf. c.1630s.
Inscriptions inside the covers including the name ‘Phil. Mu’ (or ‘Mer.’). Later in the library of John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector. Acquired in 1969 by Dr Bent Juel-Jensen (1922-2006), Oxford physician and book collector.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the ‘Sparrow MS’: StW Δ 31.
CwT 300
Copy, headed ‘On being suspected by his Mistresse To shew his witt rather upon pea-meditation, then extempory, was by her inioynd to speake somthing concerning a fly which lay dead before him which he thus perform'd’, and subscribed ‘Tho. Carewe’.
In: the MS described under CwT 233. c.1639 [-c.1728].
For a Picture where a Queen Laments over the Tombe of a slaine Knight (‘Brave Youth. to whom Fate in one hower’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 81.
CwT 303
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 6 (CwT Δ 19). c.1649.
CwT 304
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
Foure Songs by way of Chorus to a play, at an entertainment of the King and Queene, by my Lord Chamberlaine (‘From whence was first this furie hurld’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 59-62.
CwT 305
Copy of the four songs.
In: the MS described under CwT 1 (CwT Δ 3). c.1640s.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 244. Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).
CwT 306
Copy of the four songs, subscribed ‘T. Carew:’.
In: the MS described under CwT 2 (CwT Δ 18). c.1641-9.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 77.
CwT 308
Copy of the four songs; c.late 1630s.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, ii + 318 pages (pp. 103-290 largely blank). Including many poems by Sidney Godolphin (1610-43), poet and courtier, and associated with the circle of Lucius Cary (1609/10-1643), second Viscount Falkland, politician and author, of Great Tew, Oxfordshire. c.late 1630s-early 1640s.
This MS collated in Dunlap.
CwT 309
Copy of the four songs.
In: A tall folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in professional hands, 257 leaves, in modern calf gilt. In three sections each with its own title-page. Early 1700s.
First section: ‘A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &ca Not yet Printed’.
Second section (f. 102r): ‘A Collection of Choice Poems, Satyrs, & Lampoons From 1672 to 1688 Never printed’.
Third section (f. 146r): ‘A Collection of Poems. From 1688 to 1699. 1703/4’.
CwT 310
Copy of the four songs, in two italic hands.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in possibly several hands, written from both ends, paginated 1-205, then from the reverse end 206-58 (plus blanks to 271), in old reversed calf (rebacked). Mid-17th century.
Later owned by Lucy Hutchinson's nephew Julius Hutchinson (1678-1738).
This MS is described in the online Perdita Project.
CwT 311
Copy of the four songs.
In: A formal folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, including eleven by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, probably in a single professional hand, 444 leaves (including a six-leaf index). c.1690s.
Cited in IELM, II.ii as the Vienna MS: RoJ Δ 12. Discussed in Rudolf Brotanek, ‘Beschreibung der Handschrift 14090 (Supplement 1776) der Nationalbibliothek in Wien’, in Festschrift der Nationalbibliothek in Wien (Vienna, 1926), 145-62. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker.
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090, ff. 232r-4v.
CwT 312
Copy of the four songs.
In: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, in two volumes: Vol. I, including twelve poems by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal item, spp. 1-461 (plus index); Vol. II, pp. 462-842 (with irregularities of pagination). This MS is closely related to Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090. c.1690s-1700.
Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 ‘was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes’.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dyce MS: RoJ Δ 15.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38), pp. 441-5.
CwT 313
Copy of the first song, the ‘Chorus of Jealousy’, headed ‘The song in Parts’, subscribed with Killigrew's ‘Apologie’ beginning ‘This Chorus was written by Mr. Thomas Carew Cupbearer to Charles the first, and Sung in a Masque at Whitehall Anno 1633. And I presume to make vse of it here, because in the first designe, 'twas writt at my request, upon a dispute held betwixt Mres Cicilia Crofts and my self…’.
In: Manuscript of a play by T. Killigrew including a song by T. Carew, in a professional secretary hand, 51 folio leaves, in contemporary vellum boards. c.1650.
Later owned by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. Sotheby's, 22 February 1932 (Thorn-Drury sale), lot 2407 (erroneously described as autograph). Formerly Folger MS 4458.
This version is printed in Thomas Killigrew, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1664), pp. 308-9.
CwT 313.5
Copy of the third song, ‘Separation of Lovers’, here beginning ‘Stop the chafed Boore, and play’.
In: the MS described under CwT 102.5. c.1667-8.
Good counsell to a young Maid (‘When you the Sun-burnt Pilgrim see’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 25.
*CwT 313.8
Copy, with an autograph correction by Carew in line 15.
In: the MS described under CwT 10.5. c.1631-2.
CwT 314
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 16 (CwT Δ 6). c.1635-44.
CwT 315
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 189 (CwT Δ 9). c.1630s[-75].
CwT 316
Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Cary’.
In: the MS described under CwT 117 (CwT Δ 10). c.1630s [-1733].
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 31.
CwT 318
Copy, headed ‘Good counsell to a Mayd’.
In: the MS described under CwT 27 (CwT Δ 14). c.1620-50.
CwT 319
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.
In: the MS described under CwT 148 (CwT Δ 16). Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 293.
CwT 320
Copy, headed ‘A caveat to a young maid’.
In: the MS described under CwT 4 (CwT Δ 17). Mid-17th century.
CwT 321
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 124 (CwT Δ 20). c.1633.
CwT 322
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 33 (CwT Δ 29). c.1630s.
CwT 323
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 19 (CwT Δ 32). c.1634.
CwT 324
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
CwT 325
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 21 (CwT Δ 36). c.1636-41.
CwT 326.5
Copy, headed ‘A Sonnet’.
In: the MS described under CwT 79. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Dunlap.
CwT 327
Copy, headed ‘Good counsell to a mayde’, subscribed ‘Tho: Carey’.
In: the MS described under CwT 285. c.1630s.
This MS recorded (as ‘D4’) in Dunlap, p. 224.
Good counsel to a young Maid. Song (‘Gaze not on thy beauties pride’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 13.
CwT 329
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CwT 148 (CwT Δ 16). Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 290.
CwT 330
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
CwT 331
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, untitled.
In: A square-shaped folio songbook, largely in a single rounded secretary hand, with (ff. 1r-v, 69r-v) a table of contents, i + 69 leaves, in modern half red morocco. Mid-17th century.
Puttick & Simpson's, 2 March 1866, lot 230.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 2 (New York & London, 1986).
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 290.
CwT 332
Copy, headed ‘29 Song’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including (ff. 113r-15r) copies of, or brief extracts from, 30 poems by Donne (plus two apocryphal poems), in a single hand, transcribed from the 1635 or 1639 edition of Donne's Poems, headed ‘Donnes quaintest conceits’ in several hands, 156 leaves (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt. Late 17th century.
Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).
Cited in IELM I.i (1980) as the ‘Harley Rawlinson MS’: DnJ Δ 64.
Griefe ingrost (‘Wherefore doe thy sad numbers flow’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 44-5. The eight-lline version first published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 7, and reprinted in Dunlap. p. 234.
*CwT 332.5
Copy, headed in Carew's hand ‘Sorrowe Engrossed’.
In: the MS described under CwT 10.5. c.1631-2.
CwT 333
Copy of an eight-line version, headed ‘A perplexed lover’ and here beginning ‘If she must needes deny, Weepe not but dye’.
In: the MS described under CwT 16 (CwT Δ 6). c.1635-44.
CwT 334
Copy of an eight-line version, headed ‘His perplexed loue’ and here beginning ‘If she must still denye’.
In: the MS described under CwT 117 (CwT Δ 10). c.1630s [-1733].
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 7, and in Dunlap, p. 234.
CwT 335
Copy of an eight-line version, headed ‘His perplexed loue’ and here beginning ‘If shee must still denye’.
In: the MS described under CwT 52 (CwT Δ 12). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 7, and in Dunlap, p. 234.
CwT 336
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Mr Th: Cary’.
In: the MS described under CwT 27 (CwT Δ 14). c.1620-50.
CwT 337
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.
In: the MS described under CwT 148 (CwT Δ 16). Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 293.
CwT 338
Copy, headed ‘To his Scornfull Mrs.’, subscribed ‘T: C.’
In: the MS described under CwT 124 (CwT Δ 20). c.1633.
CwT 339
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 58 (CwT Δ 23). c.1694-1740.
CwT 340
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Mr Tho: Carey’.
In: the MS described under CwT 32 (CwT Δ 26). c.1630s.
CwT 341
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
CwT 342
Copy, headed ‘To his scornefull Mistress’.
In: the MS described under CwT 21 (CwT Δ 36). c.1636-41.
CwT 342.5
Copy, headed ‘On Lover to another. 6’ and here beginning ‘Why do thy sad numbers flow’.
In: the MS described under CwT 102.5. c.1667-8.
An Hymeneall Dialogue (‘Tell me (my love) since Hymen ty'de’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 66.
CwT 345
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 1 (CwT Δ 3). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).
CwT 346
Copy, subscribed ‘T: Carew’.
In: the MS described under CwT 2 (CwT Δ 18). c.1641-9.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 86.
CwT 347
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 58 (CwT Δ 23). c.1694-1740.
Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 468, ff. 70r, 71r.
CwT 348
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
CwT 349
Copy, headed ‘A hymenæall Dialogue in the persones of the Bride and Groome’, subscribed ‘T. Carew’.
In: the MS described under CwT 196 (CwT Δ 35). c.1630s-40s.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 23 (James 416), ff. 60v-1r.
In answer of an Elegiacall Letter upon the death of the King of Sweden from Aurelian Townsend, inviting me to write on that subject (‘Why dost thou sound, my deare Aurelian’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 74-7.
CwT 350
Copy, headed ‘Thomas Carew his answere to Aurelian Townesend’.
In: the MS described under CwT 1 (CwT Δ 3). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).
CwT 351
Copy, headed ‘His Answer’, subscribed ‘Thomas Carewe’.
In: the MS described under CwT 189 (CwT Δ 9). c.1630s[-75].
CwT 352
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
CwT 353
Copy, headed ‘Thomas Carewe his Answere’.
In: the MS described under CwT 196 (CwT Δ 35). c.1630s-40s.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 23 (James 416), ff. 73r-5r.
In praise of his Mistris (‘You, that will a wonder know’)
First published in Poems (1651). Dunlap, p. 122.
CwT 355.5
Copy, headed ‘The description of his loue’, here ascribed to ‘Henry Hammon’.
In: the MS described under CwT 103 (CwT Δ 33). c.1634.
In the person of a Lady to her inconstant servant (‘When on the Altar of my hand’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 40. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
CwT 357.5
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 10.5. c.1631-2.
CwT 358
Copy of the first stanza, untitled, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
In: the MS described under CwT 238 (CwT Δ 4). c.1640s-60s.
This MS collated in John P. Cutts, ‘A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57’, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 210); recorded in Dunlap, p. 293.
CwT 359
Copy, untitled, in Lawes's musical setting.
In: the MS described under CwT 148 (CwT Δ 16). Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 293.
CwT 360
Copy, headed ‘To her vnconstant servant, a Lady’.
In: the MS described under CwT 4 (CwT Δ 17). Mid-17th century.
CwT 361
Copy, headed ‘To her Inconstant friend’, subscribed ‘T: Carew’.
In: the MS described under CwT 2 (CwT Δ 18). c.1641-9.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 52.
CwT 362
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 58 (CwT Δ 23). c.1694-1740.
CwT 363
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 19 (CwT Δ 32). c.1634.
CwT 364
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
CwT 365
Copy, untitled.
In: A single folio leaf of verse, on both sides, in two hands. Mid-17th century.
Incommunicabilitie of Love (‘By what power was Love confinde’)
See CwT 305-312.
Ingratefull beauty threatned (‘Know Celia, (since thou art so proud,)’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 17-18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).
*CwT 365.5
Copy, with an autograph correction by Carew in line 3.
In: the MS described under CwT 10.5. c.1631-2.
CwT 366
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 1 (CwT Δ 3). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).
CwT 370
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Caelia growne proud’.
In: the MS described under CwT 27 (CwT Δ 14). c.1620-50.
CwT 371
Copy, headed ‘A Louer yt cared not for him’.
In: the MS described under CwT 55 (CwT Δ 15). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
CwT 372
Second copy, headed ‘A Louer yt had made diuers coppies of verses to his mrs yt cared not for him’.
In: the MS described under CwT 55 (CwT Δ 15). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
CwT 373
Copy of the first stanza, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CwT 148 (CwT Δ 16). Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 291.
CwT 375
Copy, headed ‘A louer to his Mistris yt cared not for him’.
In: the MS described under CwT 29 (CwT Δ 21). c.early 1630s.
CwT 379
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 19 (CwT Δ 32). c.1634.
CwT 380
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
CwT 381
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Caelia growne proud’.
In: the MS described under CwT 21 (CwT Δ 36). c.1636-41.
CwT 382
Copy, headed ‘A Lover yt had sent many verses to his Mrs yt cared not for him’ and subscribed ‘Tho: Carye’.
In: the MS described under CwT 37 (CwT Δ 38). c.1650.
CwT 383
Copy, headed ‘A louer to his Mistris yt cared not for him: T: C.’
In: the MS described under CwT 38. c.1630s.
CwT 384
Copy, headed ‘One to his Mrs that card not for him’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in a single hand, vi + 98 leaves, in calf. Probably compiled by a member of New College, Oxford. c.1630s.
Some tipped-in notes by Richard Rawlinson.
CwT 386
Copy, headed ‘A Louer yt had many verses to his Mrs yt cared not for him’, subscribed ‘Tho: Carye’.
In: the MS described under CwT 78. c.1635.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 20.
CwT 387
Copy, headed ‘On a louer that made diverse copies of Vses to his Mrs. that car'd not for him’.
In: the MS described under CwT 43. c.1636-40s.
CwT 388
Copy, headed ‘A louer that made diuers copies of verses to his mris that card not for them’.
In: the MS described under CwT 94. c.1630s.
A Ladies prayer to Cupid (‘Since I must needes into thy schoole returne’)
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dunlap, p. 131.
CwT 389
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 189 (CwT Δ 9). c.1630s[-75].
This MS collated in Dunlap.
CwT 391
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 221. c.1630s.
Edited from this MS in Dunlap. Recorded (as ‘Cosens MS. A. 4t°’) in Hazlitt, p. 28.
CwT 391.5
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 143. c.1638.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), p. 77.
CwT 391.8
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 231. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
CwT 392
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 77. c.1630s [-1670s].
This MS recorded in Powell, p. 290.
Lips and Eyes (‘In Celia's face a question did arise’)
First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 6.
*CwT 392.5
Copy, with an autograph correction by Carew in line 11, headed partly in his hand ‘Lipps and Eyes. Fr. Mar:’.
In: the MS described under CwT 10.5. c.1631-2.
Facsimile of this page in Beal, ‘An Authorial Collection’, Plate 8, p. 173.
CwT 395
Copy, headed ‘On Caelias Lippes and eyes’.
In: the MS described under CwT 25 (CwT Δ 7). c.1638.
CwT 396
Copy, headed ‘A pleasing strife’, subscribed ‘Tho: Cary’.
In: the MS described under CwT 117 (CwT Δ 10). c.1630s [-1733].
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 6.
CwT 397
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘T: C:’.
In: the MS described under CwT 51 (CwT Δ 11). c.1620s-30s.
CwT 398
Copy, headed ‘A pleasinge strife’, subscribed ‘Tho: Carew’.
In: the MS described under CwT 52 (CwT Δ 12). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 6.
CwT 400
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 27 (CwT Δ 14). c.1620-50.
CwT 401
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 55 (CwT Δ 15). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
CwT 402
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CwT 148 (CwT Δ 16). Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 291.
CwT 403
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 4 (CwT Δ 17). Mid-17th century.
CwT 404
Copy, headed ‘Whether the eies, or lipps of his Mistris where more comely’.
In: the MS described under CwT 29 (CwT Δ 21). c.early 1630s.
CwT 405
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 58 (CwT Δ 23). c.1694-1740.
CwT 406
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 62 (CwT Δ 31). c.1630s.
CwT 408
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
CwT 409
Copy, headed ‘On his Mistresse Lippes and Eyes’.
In: the MS described under CwT 21 (CwT Δ 36). c.1636-41.
CwT 410
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 66 (CwT Δ 37). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], p. 98.
CwT 411
Copy, headed ‘A contention betweene Lipps, & Eyes’.
In: the MS described under CwT 37 (CwT Δ 38). c.1650.
CwT 411.5
Copy, headed ‘Whether his Mris. eyes or lips did add’ and subscribed ‘T. C.’
In: the MS described under CwT 217.5. c.1630s.
CwT 412
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 221. c.1630s.
This MS recorded (as ‘Cosens MS. A 4°’) in Hazlitt, p. 6.
CwT 413
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Cælias face’.
In: A quarto composite volume comprising three independent MSS bound together, i + 78 leaves. The first MS a verse miscellany, in an italic hand, 29 leaves. c.1640.
CwT 414
Copy, headed On Celia's Lipps & Eyes, subscribed ‘Tho: Carew’.
In: the MS described under CwT 42. c.1636.
CwT 415.5
Copy, headed ‘A Contestation’. c.1620s.
In: A folio volume comprising two tracts, in a professional secretary hand, i + 83 leaves, bound with Harley MS 1298, an independent MS of Memoirs of Sir Henry Wotton when ambassador in Italy and Holland, in worn half calf on marbled boards.
CwT 416
Copy in: A folio volume; ff. 5r-80v constituting a collection of 97 poems by Donne, in a neat mixed hand; the text possibly derived from the same source as Leconfield MS (DnJ Δ 5); ff. 81r-7r containing poems by various writers (including three by Donne) in two other 17th-century hands, 133 leaves in all, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1620-33.
The volume later used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, filling up ff. 87v-134 (and compare Balam's annotated MSS DnJ Δ 16, DnJ Δ 57, and a miscellany of Robert Stonehouse, dated 10 March 1681/2: Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 5779).
Inscribed on the cover in a 17th-century hand ‘[Thes?] for [Mr Coote?] Att his legeinge in bow street next to bull Couent garden’. Donated to the library in 1916 by Geoffrey Keynes.
Cited in IELM as ‘Cambridge Balam MS’: DnJ Δ 4. Discussed in H.J.L. Robbie, ‘An Undescribed MS of Donne's Poems’, RES, 3 (1927), 415-19.
CwT 417
Copy, headed ‘On Lips, and eyes’, subscribed ‘W.S.’
In: the MS described under CwT 79. c.1630s-40s.
CwT 418
Copy, headed ‘On Clarindas lips & eies’ and here beginning ‘In Clarindas face a question did arise’.
In: A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, largely in one hand, iv + 544 pages (including numerous blanks), in vellum boards. Inscribed, and evidently compiled, by Sir Henry Oxinden (1609-70), of Barham, Kent. c.1642-70.
Inscribed ‘Lee Warly. Canterbury. 1764’. Booklabel of Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector.
CwT 419
Copy, headed ‘A Song’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single mixed hand varying over a period, entitled in another hand Recueil Choisi De Pieces fugitives En Vers Anglois, 214 pages, in modern calf. c.1713.
Afterwards owned by Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon (1728-1810). Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9500. In the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936.
CwT 419.5
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand.
In: An octavo miscellany, in English and Latin in at least two hands. Inscribed ‘Tho: Clarkes Booke Sid[ney] Suss[ex]: Coll[ege, Cambridge] 1654’. c.1654.
Formerly in the library of the Earl of Macclesfield, Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire.
A Looking-Glasse (‘That flattring Glasse, whose smooth face weares’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 19.
*CwT 419.8
Copy, with minor autograph corrections by Carew in line 6.
In: the MS described under CwT 10.5. c.1631-2.
CwT 420
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 1 (CwT Δ 3). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).
CwT 421
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 4 (CwT Δ 17). Mid-17th century.
CwT 424
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 125 (CwT Δ 27). c.1624-41.
CwT 425
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
CwT 425.8
Copy, headed ‘Ane Looking Glasse. 27’ and here beginning ‘That flattring fac ques smoth fac wears’.
In: the MS described under CwT 102.5. c.1667-8.
CwT 427
Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CwT 331. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 292.
Loves Courtship (‘Kisse lovely Celia and be kind’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 107-8.
CwT 432
Copy, headed ‘He perswades his coy Mrs to yeild him’.
In: the MS described under CwT 214 (CwT Δ 30). c.1643-50s.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, f. 20v.
CwT 433
Copy, headed ‘A perswasion to a Maide’.
In: the MS described under CwT 103 (CwT Δ 33). c.1634.
CwT 434.5
Copy, headed ‘A loue sonnet’ and here beginning ‘Rise louely Celia, & be kinde’.
In: the MS described under CwT 232. c.1640.
CwT 435
Copy, here ascribed to ‘Corbet’, in a MS. 17th century.
Recorded (as ‘a manuscript formerly in the possession of Mr. P. J. Dobell’) in Dunlap (1949), p. 267.
A Lover in the disguise of an Amazon, is dearly beloved of his Mistresse (‘Cease thou afflicted soule to mourne’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 63.
CwT 436
Copy, headed ‘The Amazons song’.
In: the MS described under CwT 1 (CwT Δ 3). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).
CwT 437
Copy, subscribed ‘T: Carew.’
In: the MS described under CwT 2 (CwT Δ 18). c.1641-9.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 82.
CwT 439
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
A Lover upon an Accident necessitating his departure, consults with Reason (‘Weepe not, nor backward turne your beames’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 48.
CwT 440
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 1 (CwT Δ 3). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).
CwT 441
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 2 (CwT Δ 18). c.1641-9.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 61.
CwT 442
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 58 (CwT Δ 23). c.1694-1740.
CwT 443
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
Maria Wentworth, Thomae Comitis Cleveland, filia praemortua prima Virgineam animam exhalauit (‘And here the previous dust is layd’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 56. Inscribed on the tomb of Maria Wentworth in the Church of St George, Toddington, Bedfordshire (1633): see Dunlap. pp. 242-3.
CwT 444
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 1 (CwT Δ 3). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).
CwT 445
Copy, headed ‘On the death of a Lady’.
In: the MS described under CwT 4 (CwT Δ 17). Mid-17th century.
CwT 446
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on the Lady Mary Wentworth’ and here beginning ‘Loe heere the pretious dust is layd’, subscribed ‘T: Carew’.
In: the MS described under CwT 2 (CwT Δ 18). c.1641-9.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 72.
CwT 447
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
CwT 448
Copy, transcribed from Maria Wentworth's tomb in Toddington Church, Bedfordshire. Mid-17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of epitaphs, in various hands and sizes, 126 leaves. Partly compiled by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Mediocritie in love rejected. Song (‘Give me more love, or more disdaine’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 12-13. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
CwT 450
Copy, headed ‘of an Indiferent affection.’
In: the MS described under CwT 27 (CwT Δ 14). c.1620-50.
CwT 451
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CwT 148 (CwT Δ 16). Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 290.
CwT 454
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 58 (CwT Δ 23). c.1694-1740.
CwT 455
Copy, headed ‘Song: Mediocrity in loue rejected’.
In: the MS described under CwT 18 (CwT Δ 24). c.1650s.
CwT 455.5
Copy, in a musical setting.
In: Music book compiled by Lady Margaret Wemyss, daughter of David, second Earl of Wemyss (1610-79), in contemporary vellum. c.1640s.
CwT 456
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
CwT 458
Copy, headed ‘Of an Indiferent Affeccon’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a neat secretary hand, fourteen pages. c.1620s.
Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D258/31/16.
My mistris commanding me to returne her letters (‘So grieves th'adventrous Merchant, when he throwes’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 9-11.
CwT 458.5
Copy, headed ‘His Mrs. commanding him to returne her letters’.
In: the MS described under CwT 10.5. c.1631-2.
CwT 459
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 1 (CwT Δ 3). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).
CwT 460
Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs Commaunding him to returne her letters’.
In: the MS described under CwT 189 (CwT Δ 9). c.1630s[-75].
CwT 461
Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Cary’.
In: the MS described under CwT 117 (CwT Δ 10). c.1630s [-1733].
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 9.
CwT 463
Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Carew’.
In: the MS described under CwT 52 (CwT Δ 12). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 9.
CwT 464
Copy, headed ‘His Mrs comandinge to returne hyr Letters’, subscribed ‘TC’.
In: the MS described under CwT 26 (CwT Δ 13). c.1620s.
CwT 465
Copy, headed ‘Vpon his inconstant Mrs comanding him to returne back her letters’.
In: the MS described under CwT 124 (CwT Δ 20). c.1633.
CwT 466
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the returne of certayne papers to his Mistres’.
In: the MS described under CwT 125 (CwT Δ 27). c.1624-41.
CwT 467
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 15.8 (CwT Δ 28). c.1637.
CwT 468
Copy, headed ‘Uppon his inconstant mrs comanding him to returne back his letters’, subscribed ‘Jo: Donne’.
In: the MS described under CwT 33 (CwT Δ 29). c.1630s.
CwT 469
Copy, headed ‘To a Gentlewoman Commanding her Letters againe’.
In: the MS described under CwT 214 (CwT Δ 30). c.1643-50s.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, ff. 55v-6r.
CwT 470
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 19 (CwT Δ 32). c.1634.
CwT 471
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
CwT 472
Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs desyring backe her letters’ and subscribed ‘Tho: Carye’.
In: the MS described under CwT 37 (CwT Δ 38). c.1650.
CwT 472.5
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 217.5. c.1630s.
London Metropolitan Archives, ACC/1360/528, ff. [19r-20v rev.].
CwT 473
Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs desireing backe her letters’.
In: the MS described under CwT 68. c.1630s-40s.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 9.
CwT 474
Copy of an abridged, 22-line version, untitled and here beginning ‘Yet so powerfull is yor sway’ and marked as transcribed from ‘an Imp[erfec]t Copy’.
In: the MS described under CwT 71. c.1630s-40s.
CwT 475
Copy, headed ‘His mistresse commanding him to returne her letters’.
In: the MS described under CwT 106. c.1625-31.
CwT 477
Copy, headed ‘Vpon ye sending backe of his mrs papers’.
In: the MS described under CwT 109. c.1630.
CwT 478
Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, untitled, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. Mid-17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers in verse and prose, in various hands and paper sizes, 170 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half-morocco. Including eleven poems by John Donne, three of them (ff. 10r-14v, 55r, 76r-7r) in the italic hand of his friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627); ff. 95r-8r in the same hand as the Leconfield MS (DnJ Δ 5) and constituting part of what was probably a quarto MS ‘book’ of Donne's satires; f. 132r-v constituting a set of six verse epistles by Donne, the text related to the Westmoreland MS (DnJ Δ 19). Early-mid-17th century.
From the ‘Conway Papers’ belonging chiefly to Sir Edward Conway, Baron Conway of Ragley, later Viscount Killultagh and Viscount Conway of Conway Castle (c.1564-1631), and to his son, Edward, second Viscount Conway (1594-1655). Later owned by John Wilson Croker (1780-1857), politician and writer, and presented 10 January 1860.
Cited in IELM, I.i, as the ‘Conway MS’: DnJ Δ 40. Cited as A23 by editors. Facsimile of f. 62r in Michael Roy Denbo, ‘Editing a Renaissance Commonplace Book: The Holgate Miscellany’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 65-73 (p. 71).
CwT 479
Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs desiring backe her letters’, subscribed ‘Tho: Carye’.
In: the MS described under CwT 78. c.1635.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 9.
CwT 480
Copy, under a running head ‘T:C: on the Letters &c.’
In: the MS described under CwT 284.5. c.1630s[-55].
CwT 480.5
Copy, headed ‘To his unconsta[nt] < > him fortune’, on one of four octavo leaves of verse (ff. 245r-7v) in a single secretary hand, incomplete and very imperfect. c.1630.
In: A large folio guardbook of state and miscellaneous papers.
A New-yeares Sacrifice. To Lucinda (‘Those that can give, open their hands this day’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 32-3.
CwT 481
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 1 (CwT Δ 3). c.1640s.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 41, and in Dunlap, p. 227. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).
CwT 482
Copy, subscribed ‘T: Carew’.
In: the MS described under CwT 2 (CwT Δ 18). c.1641-9.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 41.
CwT 483
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
Obsequies to the Lady Anne Hay (‘I heard the Virgins sigh, I saw the sleeke’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 67-8.
*CwT 483.5
Copy, with autograph corrections by Carew in lines 17, 42, 50, 51, 58, 62, and 74.
In: the MS described under CwT 10.5. c.1631-2.
Facsimile of f. 47r in Beal, ‘An Authorial Collection’, Plate 6, p. 169.
CwT 484
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘T: C:’.
In: the MS described under CwT 189 (CwT Δ 9). c.1630s[-75].
CwT 485
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 15.8 (CwT Δ 28). c.1637.
CwT 486
Copy, headed ‘On the Earle of Carleles daughter’.
In: the MS described under CwT 19 (CwT Δ 32). c.1634.
CwT 487
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
CwT 488
Copy, headed ‘Th. Carew on Carlisles daughter’.
In: the MS described under CwT 22. c.1630s-40s.
CwT 489
Copy, headed ‘On the death of ye Earle of Carlieles daughter’.
In: the MS described under CwT 232. c.1640.
On a Damaske rose sticking vpon a Ladies breast (‘Let pride grow big my rose, and let the cleare’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 108.
CwT 490
Copy, headed ‘Damaske rose in Mrs brest’.
In: the MS described under CwT 4 (CwT Δ 17). Mid-17th century.
CwT 491
Copy, headed ‘On a Damask Rose sticking betweene a Ladie's breasts’.
In: the MS described under CwT 2 (CwT Δ 18). c.1641-9.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 138.
CwT 491.5
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 102.5. c.1667-8.
On his Mistres lookeinge in a glasse (‘This flatteringe glasse whose smooth face weares’)
First published in Hazlitt (1870), pp. 23-4. Dunlap. p. 132.
CwT 492
Copy, subscribed ‘T. C:’.
In: the MS described under CwT 51 (CwT Δ 11). c.1620s-30s.
This MS collated in Dunlap.
CwT 493
Copy, subscribed ‘TC.’
In: the MS described under CwT 26 (CwT Δ 13). c.1620s.
This MS collated in Dunlap.
CwT 494
Copy, headed ‘To his Mistress. Looking in a glasse’.
In: the MS described under CwT 124 (CwT Δ 20). c.1633.
This MS collated in Dunlap.
CwT 495
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 30 (CwT Δ 25). c.1630s-40s.
CwT 496
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
CwT 497
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 21 (CwT Δ 36). c.1636-41.
CwT 498
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 221. c.1630s.
Edited from this MS (recorded as ‘Cosens MS A. 4°’) in Hazlitt and in Dunlap.
CwT 499
Copy, subscribed ‘Th: C:’.
In: the MS described under CwT 77. c.1630s [-1670s].
This MS collated in Dunlap.
CwT 500
Copy, headed ‘On his Mistris Looking in a glasse. Mr Tho: Cary’, on both sides of a single octavo leaf. This leaf is folio 8 extracted from the verse miscellany now Folger MS V.a.96. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 22.
On Mistris N. to the greene sicknesse (‘Stay coward blood, and doe not yield’)
First published in Poems (1642). Dunlap, p. 113.
CwT 501
Copy, headed ‘Vppon the Greene Sickness of Mris. K.N.’.
In: the MS described under CwT 1 (CwT Δ 3). c.1640s.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 269. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).
CwT 502
Copy, headed ‘The retired bloud exhorted to returne into ye pale Sisters Mrs Kath & Mrs Mary Nevill’.
In: the MS described under CwT 16 (CwT Δ 6). c.1635-44.
CwT 503
Copy, headed ‘The retired blood exhorted to return in ye cheekes of ye pale sisters Mris Katherine, and Mris Mary Nevill’, subscribed ‘Tho: Cary’.
In: the MS described under CwT 117 (CwT Δ 10). c.1630s [-1733].
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 269.
CwT 504
Copy, headed ‘The retyred bloud exhorted to returne into ye cheekes of ye pale Sisters Mrs Katherine & Mrs Marye Neuile’, subscribed ‘Tho: Carew’.
In: the MS described under CwT 52 (CwT Δ 12). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 269.
CwT 505
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CwT 148 (CwT Δ 16). Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 292.
CwT 506
Copy, headed ‘On the Greene sickness’.
In: the MS described under CwT 19 (CwT Δ 32). c.1634.
CwT 507
Copy, headed ‘To ye greene Sicknesse’.
In: the MS described under CwT 66 (CwT Δ 37). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], p. 127.
On the Mariage of T.K. and C.C. the morning stormie (‘Svch should this day be, so the Sun should hide’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 79-80.
CwT 509
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
CwT 510
Copy, headed ‘vpon mrs Cicille Croftes’, subscribed ‘T Carew’.
In: the MS described under CwT 196 (CwT Δ 35). c.1630s-40s.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 23 (James 416), ff. 82v-3v.
CwT 510.5
Copy, headed ‘Upon a Lovers Marriage day being Tempestouus. 39’
In: the MS described under CwT 102.5. c.1667-8.
On sight of a Gentlewomans face in the water (‘Stand still you floods, doe not deface’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 102.
CwT 511
Copy, headed ‘on his Mris Bathinge’.
In: the MS described under CwT 45 (CwT Δ 2). c.late 1630s.
CwT 512
Copy, headed ‘On a Mistresses face in the water’.
In: the MS described under CwT 1 (CwT Δ 3). c.1640s.
This MS collated in part in Dunlap, p. 263. Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).
CwT 513
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CwT 148 (CwT Δ 16). Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, pp. 263, 292.
CwT 514
Copy, headed ‘Mrs face in ye Water’.
In: the MS described under CwT 4 (CwT Δ 17). Mid-17th century.
CwT 515
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the seeing of his Mrs face in ye Water’ and here beginning ‘Stand still yee streames doe not deface’.
In: the MS described under CwT 124 (CwT Δ 20). c.1633.
This MS collated in part in Dunlap, p. 263.
CwT 516
Copy, untitled and subscribed ‘J. A.’
In: the MS described under CwT 32 (CwT Δ 26). c.1630s.
CwT 517
Copy, headed ‘Vppon the seeing his mrs face in the water’ and here beginning ‘Stand still you streames, doe not deface’.
In: the MS described under CwT 33 (CwT Δ 29). c.1630s.
CwT 519
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman viewing her face in a River’ and here ascribed to ‘G: H.’.
In: the MS described under CwT 21 (CwT Δ 36). c.1636-41.
CwT 519.5
Copy, headed ‘On My Mirs face in the watters’ and here beginning ‘Stand of you Floods do not deface’.
In: the MS described under CwT 102.5. c.1667-8.
CwT 520
Copy, headed ‘On seing his Mrs face in the water’.
In: the MS described under CwT 73. c.1640.
CwT 521
Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
In: the MS described under CwT 40. c.1656.
This MS collated in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth Century Lyrics’, MD, 10 (1956), 142-209 (p. 183).
CwT 522
Copy, headed ‘A Lover to a Brooke, by wch sate his Mistresse’.
In: the MS described under CwT 173. c.1632-40.
CwT 523
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the seeing his Mrs face in the Water’.
In: the MS described under CwT 79. c.1630s-40s.
This MS apparently collated in part in Dunlap, p. 263.
CwT 526
Copy, headed ‘Thomas Cary. Upon a Gentlewomans face represented in ye River, as in a mirrour’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in Latin and English, written from both ends, 181 pages. Compiled by, and principally in the hand of, William Burton (1609-57), antiquary. c.1637-46.
On the Duke of Buckingham (‘When in the brazen leaves of Fame’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 57.
CwT 527
Copy, headed ‘The Inscription on the Tombe of the Duke of Buckingham’.
In: the MS described under CwT 1 (CwT Δ 3). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).
CwT 528
Copy, subscribed ‘T: Carew’.
In: the MS described under CwT 2 (CwT Δ 18). c.1641-9.
This MS collated in Dunlap. Edited from this MS in the online Early Stuart Libels.
CwT 529
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
Parting, Celia weepes (‘Weepe not (my deare) for I shall goe’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 48-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
CwT 530
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.
In: the MS described under CwT 148 (CwT Δ 16). Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 292.
CwT 531
Copy, subscribed ‘T: Carew:’.
In: the MS described under CwT 2 (CwT Δ 18). c.1641-9.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 62.
CwT 533
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
Facsimile in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (p. 191).
CwT 535
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
In: the MS described under CwT 155. c.1660.
This MS collated in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Paris Conservatoire MS. Rés. 2489’, MD, 23 (1969), 117-39 (pp. 127-8).
CwT 536
Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
In: the MS described under CwT 40. c.1656.
This MS collated in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth Century Lyrics’, MD, 10 (1956), 142-209, (p. 173).
A Pastorall Dialogue (‘As Celia rested in the shade’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 42-4.
CwT 536.5
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 10.5. c.1631-2.
CwT 537
Copy, subscribed ‘T: Carew:’.
In: the MS described under CwT 2 (CwT Δ 18). c.1641-9.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 55.
CwT 538
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 6 (CwT Δ 19). c.1649.
CwT 539
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 19 (CwT Δ 32). c.1634.
CwT 540
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
A Pastorall Dialogue (‘This mossie bank they prest. That aged Oak’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 45-6.
CwT 541
Copy, beginning at line 12 (here ‘Those streaks of doubtfull light vsher not day’); imperfect, lacking the beginning.
In: the MS described under CwT 1 (CwT Δ 3). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).
CwT 542
Copy, subscribed ‘T: Carew:’.
In: the MS described under CwT 2 (CwT Δ 18). c.1641-9.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 58.
CwT 543
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
CwT 544
Copy, after a false start (f. 17v), headed ‘Song T C’.
In: the MS described under CwT 196 (CwT Δ 35). c.1630s-40s.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 23 (James 416), f. 18r-v.
A prayer to the Wind (‘Goe thou gentle whispering wind’)
First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.
CwT 544.5
Copy, headed ‘A prayer to ye winde. Im: Gr:’.
In: the MS described under CwT 10.5. c.1631-2.
CwT 544.6
Copy of an eighteen-line version, headed ‘On a Sigh’, here beginning ‘Come thou gentle westerne wind’, and subscribed ‘J: G:’.
In: the MS described under CwT 21 (CwT Δ 36). c.1636-41.
CwT 545
Copy, headed ‘On a sigh’ and here beginning ‘Go you gentle whistling wind’.
In: the MS described under CwT 45 (CwT Δ 2). c.late 1630s.
CwT 546
Copy, imperfect at the end.
In: the MS described under CwT 1 (CwT Δ 3). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).
CwT 547
Copy of a ten-line version in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, untitled.
In: the MS described under CwT 238 (CwT Δ 4). c.1640s-60s.
This MS collated in John P. Cutts, ‘A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57’, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 208); recorded in Dunlap, p. 290.
CwT 550
Copy, headed ‘On a sigh’ and here beginning ‘Goe you gentle whistling wind’.
In: the MS described under CwT 25 (CwT Δ 7). c.1638.
CwT 551
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 189 (CwT Δ 9). c.1630s[-75].
CwT 552
Copy, headed ‘A Sigh’, subscribed ‘Tho: Cary’.
In: the MS described under CwT 117 (CwT Δ 10). c.1630s [-1733].
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 13.
CwT 554
Copy, headed ‘A Sigh’, subscribed ‘Tho: Carew’.
In: the MS described under CwT 52 (CwT Δ 12). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 13.
CwT 556
Copy, headed ‘A Sight’ [sic].
In: the MS described under CwT 55 (CwT Δ 15). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
CwT 557
Copy of an 18-line version, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under CwT 148 (CwT Δ 16). Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, pp. 219, 290.
CwT 558
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 4 (CwT Δ 17). Mid-17th century.
CwT 559
Copy, headed ‘On a Sigh’ and here beginning ‘Go gentle whistling winde’.
In: the MS described under CwT 124 (CwT Δ 20). c.1633.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, pp. 219-20.
CwT 560
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 29 (CwT Δ 21). c.early 1630s.
CwT 562
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘by Mr Tho: Carewe’.
In: the MS described under CwT 125 (CwT Δ 27). c.1624-41.
CwT 563
Copy, headed ‘On a sigh’ and here beginning ‘Goe thou gentle whistling winde’.
In: the MS described under CwT 33 (CwT Δ 29). c.1630s.
CwT 564
Copy, headed ‘On a sigh’ and here beginning ‘Go thou gentle whistlinge winde’.
In: the MS described under CwT 19 (CwT Δ 32). c.1634.
CwT 566
Copy, headed ‘An others fancy of the same’ and here beginning ‘Goe thou gentle whistling wind’.
In: the MS described under CwT 103 (CwT Δ 33). c.1634.
CwT 567
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
CwT 568
Copy, headed ‘A Sigh’.
In: the MS described under CwT 66 (CwT Δ 37). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 10-11.
CwT 568.5
Copy, subscribed ‘T. C.’
In: the MS described under CwT 217.5. c.1630s.
London Metropolitan Archives, ACC/1360/528, ff. [18v-19r rev.].
CwT 568.8
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 102.5. c.1667-8.
CwT 569
Copy, headed ‘On a Sigh’ and here beginning ‘Goe thou gentle whistling wind’.
In: the MS described under CwT 38. c.1630s.
CwT 570
Copy, headed ‘On a Sigh’ and here beginning ‘Go soft thou gentle whispring wind’.
In: the MS described under CwT 68. c.1630s-40s.
CwT 571
Copy, headed ‘Cant 10’.
In: the MS described under CwT 69. 1647.
Formerly owned by P.J. Dobell, this MS recorded (as ‘D2’) in Dunlap, pp. 219-20.
CwT 572
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 221. c.1630s.
This MS (recorded as ‘Cosens MS. A 4°’) in Hazlitt, p. 13.
CwT 573
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Goe thou gentle whistling wind.’
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in several neat hands, ii + 142 leaves (ff. 111v-42v blank), in contemporary calf gilt. Compiled in part by ‘I. N’.: i.e. John Newdegate (1600-42), of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton, Warwickshire. c.1627-35.
Formerly Long Island Historical Society MS 22, to whom it was bequeathed by Samuel Bowne Duryea. Sotheby's, 21 December 1965, lot 595.
CwT 575
Copy, headed in another hand ‘On A Sight’ [sic].
In: the MS described under CwT 106. c.1625-31.
CwT 576
Copy, headed ‘On a sigh’ and here beginning ‘Goe thou gentle whistling wind’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, predominantly in a single hand (up to f. 34v), with additions in four subsequent hands (ff. 37-50v), 50 leaves, in vellum. Compiled for the most part by a University of Oxford man, with (f. 1r-v) a list of contents. c.1640s.
Once owned by one John Faith, and by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.
Formerly cited as Corpus Christi College, MS E.i.33.
CwT 577
Copy, headed ‘A lovers verses vpon a sigh wch he sent by the winde vnto his mris’.
In: the MS described under CwT 82. c.1628-30s.
CwT 578
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Goe you gentle whisling wind’.
In: the MS described under CwT 82. c.1628-30s.
CwT 579
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Goe thou gentle whistling wynde’
In: the MS described under CwT 226. c.1630s.
CwT 580
Copy, headed ‘On a sigh’ and here beginning ‘Goe you gentle whistling wind’.
In: the MS described under CwT 84. c.late 1630s [-1789].
CwT 581
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a sigh’ and here beginning ‘Goe thou gentle whistlinge winde’.
In: the MS described under CwT 87. c.1640.
CwT 583
Copy of an eighteen-line version, headed ‘On A sigh’ and here beginning ‘Come thou gentle Westerne wind’.
In: the MS described under CwT 32 (CwT Δ 26). c.1630s.
CwT 584
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Goe thou gentle whistleing Winde’.
In: the MS described under CwT 229. c. late 1630s.
CwT 585
Copy, headed ‘On a sigh’ and here beginning ‘Goe thou gentle whistlinge winde’.
In: the MS described under CwT 230. c.1630s.
CwT 586
Copy, headed ‘On a Sigh’ and here beginning ‘Go thou gentle whistling wind’.
In: the MS described under CwT 89. c.late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Dunlop, pp. 219-20.
CwT 587
Copy, headed ‘A Song on a Sigh’ and here beginning ‘Go thou gentle whistling wind’.
In: An octavo miscellany, comprising ‘Instructions for Justices of the Peace’ in a roman hand at one end and, from the other end a collection of poems in a secretary hand, much of the MS written in double columns in oblong format, 92 leaves, in calf. c.1623-30s.
Probably compiled by two members of the Calverley family (f. 1r contains a poem headed ‘A new years giuft presented to my father and Mother by my Brother Thomas Calverly’).
Later in the library od Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9624. Owned before 1947 by N.M. Broadbent. Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 13 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 135, to Maggs.
CwT 588
Copy of an eighteen-line version, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, untitled.
In: the MS described under CwT 24. c.1630s-50s.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, pp. 219, 290.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 31.
CwT 589
Copy, headed ‘On a sigh’ and here beginning ‘Go thou gentle whistlinge winde’.
In: the MS described under CwT 231. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
CwT 592
Copy, headed ‘An imprecation to the winde made vpon a sigh’.
In: the MS described under CwT 144. c.1630s.
National Library of South Africa, Cape Town, MS Grey 7 a 29, pp. 78-9.
CwT 592.2
Extracts from lines 9-25, in a secretary hand, headed ‘To the wind. Goe thou &c.’ and here beginning ‘Boudely light vpon her lyp’. c.1620s-30s.
In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous papers, in various languages, in various hands and paper sizes, 277 leaves, in modern cloth.
Among the papers of Robert Boyle (1627-91), natural philosopher.
CwT 592.5
Copy of an untitled version, beginning ‘Goe gentle wisperinge winde’, with other verses, on a single quarto leaf.
In: A collection of papers of Lord Bagot, of Blithfield Hall, and his family. Mid-17th century.
Staffordshire Record Office, D 1721/3/246, [unnumbered item].
CwT 592.8
Copy, headed ‘On a sigh’ and here beginning ‘goe then gentle whispring winde’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, of English and Welsh verse and prose, in probably several hands, the English verse (on pages 9-70, 93-104) including eleven poems by Strode and two of doubtful authorship, 110 pages (plus stubs of extracted leaves). Compiled by members of the Griffith family, of Llanddyfnan, the verse probably entered by one or more of the various members of that family who studied in this period at the University of Oxford. Mid-17th century.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Griffith MS’: StW Δ 26.
The prologue to a Play presented before the King and Queene, att an Entertanement of them by the Lord Chamberlaine in Whitehall hall (‘Sir, Since you haue beene pleas'd this night to vnbend’)
First published in Hazlitt (1870), pp. 143-4. Dunlap. p. 127.
CwT 594
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 1 (CwT Δ 3). c.1640s.
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).
The protestation, a Sonnet (‘No more shall meads be deckt with flowers’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 109. Musical setting by Nicholas Lanier published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
CwT 595
Copy, headed ‘Ciacono’.
In: the MS described under CwT 27 (CwT Δ 14). c.1620-50.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 268.
CwT 595.2
Copy, in a musical setting by Nicholas Lanier, headed ‘Cælia. A Love Song’.
In: the MS described under CwT 15.5. c.1641-59.
CwT 595.5
Copy, in a musical setting by Nicholas Lanier, untitled.
In: the MS described under CwT 15.5. c.1641-59.
CwT 595.8
Copy, the text only, of an untitled version beginning ‘True Loue noe more shall live on earth’.
In: the MS described under CwT 24. c.1630s-50s.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 71.
CwT 596
Copy, headed ‘A Sonnett’, subscribed ‘T: Carew:’.
In: the MS described under CwT 2 (CwT Δ 18). c.1641-9.
CwT 597
Copy, in a musical setting by Nicholas Lanier, untitled.
In: the MS described under CwT 331. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 291.
Psalme the first (‘Happie the man that dothe not walke’)
First published in John Fry, Bibliographical Memoranda (Bristol, 1816). Dunlap. p. 135.
CwT 598
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 44 (CwT Δ 1). c.1638.
Edited from this MS in Fry and in Dunlap.
CwT 598.5
Copy, in a neat italic hand, headed ‘The first Psalme’.
In: the MS described under CwT 310. Mid-17th century.
Psalme 2 (‘Why rage the heathen, wherefore swell’)
First published in Hazlitt (1970), pp. 177-8. Dunlap. p. 136.
CwT 600
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 1 (CwT Δ 3). c.1640s.
Edited from this MS in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).
CwT 600.5
Copy, in a neat italic hand, headed ‘Psalme the second’.
In: the MS described under CwT 310. Mid-17th century.
Psalme 51 (‘Good god vnlock thy Magazines’)
First published in Hazlitt (1870), pp. 178-80. Dunlap. pp. 137-8.
CwT 602
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 1 (CwT Δ 3). c.1640s.
Edited from this MS in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).
CwT 602.5
Copy, in a neat italic hand, headed ‘The fiftie first Psalme’.
In: the MS described under CwT 310. Mid-17th century.
Psalme 91 (‘Make the greate God thy Fort, and dwell’)
First published in Hazlitt (1870), pp. 180-1. Dunlap. pp. 138-9.
CwT 604
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 1 (CwT Δ 3). c.1640s.
Edited from this MS in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).
CwT 605
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 47 (CwT Δ 5). c.1630s-40s.
CwT 606
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Tho: Carewe’.
In: the MS described under CwT 50 (CwT Δ 8). c.1630s.
CwT 607
Copy, subscribed ‘Henry Lawes’.
In: A folio volume of the words of anthems used in the Chapel Royal at Whitehall, 310 leaves, in contemporary brown leather stamped with the royal arms. c.1635.
Owned in 1732 by John, Earl of Leicester, Constable of the Tower. Bought by Rawlinson at an auction in St Paul's Churchyard 15 January 1742/3.
CwT 608
Copy in: An octavo volume of religious works, in a single professional hand, i + 102 leaves. Compiled and transcribed by Ralph Crane (fl.1589-1632), poet and scribe. c.1626.
This MS recorded in Dunlap, p.lxxi.
CwT 608.2
Copy, apparently transcribed from CwT 607.
In: A folio volume of the words of anthems used in the Chapel Royal at Whitehall, compiled from Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet 23. c.1660s-70s.
CwT 608.5
Copy, in a neat italic hand, headed ‘The ninetieth Psalme’.
In: the MS described under CwT 310. Mid-17th century.
Psalme 104 (‘My soule the great Gods prayses sings’)
First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in his Select Psalmes of a New Translation (London, 1655), pp. 4-6 [unique exemplum in the Huntington]. Hazlitt (1870), pp. 181-4. Dunlap. pp. 139-42. Edited from Lawes in Scott Nixon, ‘Henry Lawes's Hand in the Bridgewater Collection: New Light on Composer and Patron’, HLQ, 62 (1999), 233-72 (pp. 265-6).
CwT 610
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 1 (CwT Δ 3). c.1640s.
Edited from this MS in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).
CwT 611
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 47 (CwT Δ 5). c.1630s-40s.
CwT 614
Copy, headed ‘A Version on ye 104 Psalme’, subscribed ‘mr Tho: Carew’.
In: the MS described under CwT 52 (CwT Δ 12). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Dunlap.
CwT 616
Copies, in a five-part musical setting by Henry Lawes.
In: A folio volume of vocal musical works by Henry Lawes, the lyrics in a single mixed hand, that of Stephen Bing, 72 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century half red morocco. Mid-17th century.
Bookplate of Julian Marshall (1836-1903), music and print collector and writer. Purchased from him in 1881-2.
This MS collated in Dunlap and recorded p. 292.
British Library, Add. MS 31434, ff. 2r-3r, 15r-v, 27r-v, 39r-v, 51r-2r, 62v-3r.
CwT 618
Copy, headed ‘psal: 104. of a new translation.’
In: A large folio miscellaneous compilation of verse and prose, chiefly in a single neat hand, written from both ends, 189 leaves, in contemporary vellum (rebound). Associated with the Freville family and probably assembled by Gilbert Frevile, of Bishop Middleham, Co. Durham, whose name appears on the cover with the date 1591. A pen-and-ink ornamental drawing at the end inscribed ‘Finis quoth G. W.’ c.1620s.
This MS collated in Dunlap.
Psalme 113 (‘Yee Children of the Lorde, that waite’)
First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 184. Dunlap. pp. 142-3.
CwT 620
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 1 (CwT Δ 3). c.1640s.
Edited from this MS in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).
CwT 620.5
Copy, in a neat italic hand, headed ‘Psalme the hundredth & thirteenth’.
In: the MS described under CwT 310. Mid-17th century.
Psalme 114 (‘When the seed of Jacob fledd’)
First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 185. Dunlap. p. 143.
CwT 622
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 1 (CwT Δ 3). c.1640s.
Edited from this MS in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).
Psalme 119 (‘Blest is hee that Spottless stands’)
First published in Hazlitt (1970), pp. 186-91. Dunlap. pp. 144-9.
CwT 623
Copy of verses 1-64; imperfect, lacking the end.
In: the MS described under CwT 1 (CwT Δ 3). c.1640s.
Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).
Psalme 137 (‘Sitting by the streames that Glide’)
First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in his Select Psalmes of a New Translation (London, 1655), pp. 1-3 [unique exemplum in the Huntington]. Dunlap, pp. 149-50. Edited from Lawes in Scott Nixon, ‘Henry Lawes's Hand in the Bridgewater Collection: New Light on Composer and Patron’, HLQ, 62 (1999), 233-72 (pp. 270-1).
CwT 625
Copy, headed ‘A Paraphrase upon the 137th Psalm by Lord Digby, Earl of Bristol: April. 20: 1667’.
In: An octavo miscellany of English and Latin verse and some prose, largely in one mixed hand, 123 leaves, with (ff. 2r-4r) an index, in calf gilt. Compiled by John Watson (d. c.1707), of Queens' College, Cambridge, vicar of Mildenhall, Suffolk. c.1667-73.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Ex dono Drs Barb: Rhodes ...Mri Joan: Rhodes Decemb: 5 1667’; ‘Janawary ye 2 day 1726’; ‘Wm faildham London to ye Land of maderah & from thence to Jamaca’. Purchased from Lilly, 13 July 1850.
This MS collated in Dunlap.
CwT 626
Copies, in a five-part musical setting by Henry Lawes.
In: the MS described under CwT 616. Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Dunlap and recorded p. 292. Facsimile of f. 1r in Scott Nixon, ‘Henry Lawes's Hand in the Bridgewater Collection: New Light on Composer and Patron’, HLQ, 62 (1999), 233-72 (p. 238).
British Library, Add. MS 31434, ff. 1r-v, 14r, 26r, 38r, 50r, 62r.
A Rapture (‘I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 49-53.
*CwT 626.5
Copy, here beginning ‘I will enjoye you now my Caelia, come’, with numerous autograph corrections and revisions by Carew in lines 18, 32, 35-6, 69, 72, 79, 80, 84-6, 93, 101, 120, 128-9, 134, 139-41, 144, 149, 154-5, and 160.
In: the MS described under CwT 10.5. c.1631-2.
Facsimile of ff. 42v and 43r in Beal, ‘An Authorial Collection’, Plates 3 and 4, pp. 164-5.
CwT 627
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 44 (CwT Δ 1). c.1638.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 62.
CwT 628
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 45 (CwT Δ 2). c.late 1630s.
CwT 631
Copy, subscribed ‘T: C:’, incomplete.
In: the MS described under CwT 26 (CwT Δ 13). c.1620s.
CwT 632
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 26 (CwT Δ 13). c.1620s.
CwT 633
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 27 (CwT Δ 14). c.1620-50.
CwT 634
Copy, headed ‘Mr Carys loues Rapture’.
In: the MS described under CwT 29 (CwT Δ 21). c.early 1630s.
CwT 635
Copy of the beginning and end, deleted; imperfect, lacking all pp. 191-6.
In: the MS described under CwT 30 (CwT Δ 25). c.1630s-40s.
CwT 639
Copy, headed ‘An Elisium or Rapture’.
In: the MS described under CwT 214 (CwT Δ 30). c.1643-50s.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, ff. 16v-18v.
CwT 641
Copy in: the MS described under CwT 3 (CwT Δ 34). c.1638-42.
CwT 643
Copy on two conjugate folio leaves.
In: A large folio composite volume of verse, in various largely secretary hands, 327 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Collected, and partly written, by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Betagraph of the watermark in f. 29 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks’, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 239).
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 62.
CwT 644
Copy in: A verse miscellany, i + 25 leaves. c.1640.
Owned before 1959 by the Lingard-Guthrie family.
CwT 646
Copy, here beginning ‘I will embrace ye now my dearest come’.
In: the MS described under CwT 73. c.1640.
CwT 647
Copy of lines 1-96, in two hands, subscribed ‘R.B. Inuenit’.
In: the MS described under CwT 139. Mid-17th century.
CwT 648
Copy, subscribed ‘Th: Ca:’.
In: the MS described under CwT 77. c.1630s [-1670s].
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 62.
CwT 649
Copy. headed ‘A Rapture by Tho: Carew’.