John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury (1600/1–1665)

Verse

English Poems

An Elegie upon Master Francis Beaumont (‘Beaumont lies here, and where now shall wee have’)

First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640), sig. Klr-K2r. Beaumont and Fletcher, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Bliss, pp. 229-32.

EaJ 1

Copy, headed ‘on ye death of Mr. ffrancis Beaumont’.

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.

Bodleian, MS Ashmole 47, ff. 44v-5r.

EaJ 2

Copy of an abridged version, ascribed to ‘Jo: Earles’.

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.

Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 97, pp. 55-6.

EaJ 3

Copy, headed ‘Vpon Mr Francis Beamont’.

In: A folio miscellany of verse and some prose, 282 pages, in calf gilt. Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 34 of the Hopkinson MSS. Mid-late 17th century.

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 299.

Bradford Archives, 32D86/34, pp. 41-2.

EaJ 4

Copy 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.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MS 328, ff. 66v-7v.

EaJ 5

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the death of Beaumont’.

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

Folger, MS V.a.125, Part II, ff. 17r-18v.

EaJ 6

Copy, ascribed to ‘John Earle’.

In: A verse miscellany. c.1674.

Owned by Henry Bracegirdle, of Merton College, Oxford, and in 1674 by one Hugh Massey.

King's College, Cambridge, Hayward Collection, H. 11. 13, ff. [28v-9r].

EaJ 6.5

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Death of Beaument by J Earles’.

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).

London Metropolitan Archives, ACC/1360/528, ff. [11r-12v rev.].

EaJ 7

Copy 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).

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 239/27, pp. 396-8.

EaJ 8

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).

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 1083/17, pp. 1-3.

An Elegie, Upon the death of Sir John Burrowes, Slaine at the Isle of Ree (‘Oh wound us not with this sad tale, forbear’)

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 12-16. Extract in Bliss, pp. 225-6. Edited in James Doelman, ‘John Earle's Funeral Elegy on Sir John Burroughs’, English Literary Renaissance, 41/3 (Autumn 2011), 485-502 (pp. 499-502).

EaJ 9

Copy, headed ‘An Elegy on ye death of Sr Iohn Burrowes: I: E:’.

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).

Aberdeen University Library, MS 29, pp. 30-4.

EaJ 10

Copy, headed ‘on ye deplored death of Sr John Burrows, whoe was slaine in ye Ile of Ree in ye night wth a Bullet’ and ascribed in an endorsement to ‘Joh: Earles Merton: coll: Ox’.

In: the MS described under EaJ 1. c.1630s-40s.

Bodleian, MS Ashmole 47, ff. 97v-100r.

EaJ 11

Copy, headed ‘A ffunerall Elegie vpon ye death of ye Noble valiant & experienced Souldier Sr John Borroughs slaine before ye fort of St Martin in The Isle of Ree wth a Muskett bullet as he was veiwinge ye worke in the night’.

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).

Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. c. 50, ff. 56v-8r.

EaJ 12

Copy, headed ‘On the death of Sr John Bourroughs killd att the Ile of Ree, by a bullet from the ffort, in the night’, ascribed to ‘John Earles’.

In: the MS described under EaJ 2. c.1630s-40s.

Edited from this MS in Doelman.

Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 97, pp. 7-9.

EaJ 13

Copy, ascribed to ‘Mr Earles’.

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.

Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. f. 27, pp. 160-5.

EaJ 14

Copy, headed ‘An Elegye upon ye Death of Sr John Burrowes’.

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.

Bodleian, MS Malone 21, ff. 9r-11r.

EaJ 15

Copy of part of the poem, headed ‘J. Earles on Sr John Burroughs killd by a bullet at Reez’ and beginning ‘Why did wee thus expose the; whats now all’.

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’.

Edited from this MS in Bliss.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 142, f. 43r.

EaJ 16

Copy 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.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 160, ff. 22r-3r.

EaJ 17

Copy, headed ‘On the death of Sr John Burrowes’.

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.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 199, pp. 58-9.

EaJ 18

Copy, headed ‘On the death of Sr John Burghus’.

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.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 206, pp. 68-71.

EaJ 19

Copy, headed ‘vpon the death of sr John Boroughe 1628’.

In: A folio verse miscellany, 215 leaves (plus a few blanks), in modern calf gilt. Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 17 of the Hopkinson MSS. c.1670.

Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 295-6.

Bradford Archives, 32D86/17, ff. 97v-9r.

EaJ 20

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie upon the Death of Sr John Burrowes who was slaine by an unfortunate bullet at the seidge of the Fort in the Isle of Ree 1627’.

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.

British Library, Add. MS 15227, ff. 25r-6v.

EaJ 21

Copy, headed ‘On the death of Sr John Burroughs knight’.

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.

British Library, Add. MS 30982, ff. 83v-5v.

EaJ 22

Copy, headed ‘An Elegy on ye death of Sr John Burgh, slayne at the Ile of Rey’.

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).

British Library, Add. MS 33998, ff. 86r-7v.

EaJ 23

Copy in: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several small non-professional hands, 88 leaves, imperfect at the beginning. c.1630s-40s.

British Library, Egerton MS 923, ff. 35r-7r.

EaJ 24

Copy of the first half of the poem, headed ‘On the death of Sr John Buroughs’, incomplete.

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...’.

British Library, Sloane MS 542, ff. 26r-7r.

EaJ 25

Copy 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.

British Library, Sloane MS 1792, ff. 13r-16r.

EaJ 26

Copy in: the MS described under EaJ 4. c.late 1630s.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MS 328, ff. 65v-6v.

EaJ 27

Copy, headed ‘On Sr John Burrows’.

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).

Folger, MS V.a.97, pp. 87-90.

EaJ 28

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on the deathof Sr John Burrowes slayne in the Iland of Rez, 1627’, imperfect at the end.

In: A small octavo miscellany of 76 poems by Donne, together with a few poems by others dating up to 1627, in a single italic hand, occasionally marking the end of poems with one or more quatrefoils, 102 leaves (foliation jumping from 55 to 57), gilt-edged, in 19th-century dark green leather gilt. c.late 1620s.

Inscriptions including (f. 6r) ‘Hannah Lewis Junr’; ‘Thomas Turner his Book’ (three times, ff. 8r, 14v, 48v, dated ‘1750’, ‘58’ and ‘1760’); (f. 12r) ‘Edmund Baxter att Mrs Nortons’; (ff. 20r, 59v) ‘John Jones’; (f. 40r) ‘Jon: Pryse 1729’; (f. 59v) ‘Robt. Was’[?]; and (f. 79r) ‘Edmund Baxter 1729’. Later owned by Edward Vernon Utterson (1776-1856), of Shanklin and Ryde, Isle of Wight, artist, literary antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 24 April 1852 (Utterson sale), lot 1317, sold to ‘Lelly’. Then owned by Sir John Simeon, third Baronet (1815-70), M.P. Sotheby's, 3 March 1871 (Simeon sale), lot 638, to Pickering. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 436 (1930), item 576. Formerly MS Nor 4620.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Utterson MS’: DnJ Δ 51. Discussed in Sir John Simeon, ‘Unpublished Poems of Donne’, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3. For an account of Utterson, see Raymond V. Turley, ‘Edward Vernon Utterson’, The Book Collector, 25 (1976), 21-44 (and plates after p. 48).

Harvard, MS Eng 966.7, ff. 101v-2v.

EaJ 28.5

Copy in: the MS described under EaJ 6.5. c.1630s.

London Metropolitan Archives, ACC/1360/528, ff. [40r-2r].

EaJ 29

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie vpon the death of Sr John Burrowes’.

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. 145-53.

EaJ 30

Copy in: the MS described under EaJ 7. c.1634.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 239/27, pp. 381-4.

EaJ 31

Copy, ascribed to ‘J. E.’.

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.

St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 32 (James 423), ff. 23r-4r.

EaJ 32

Copy, headed ‘An Elegy vpon ye Death of Sr John Burrows’.

In: A quarto formal verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary and italic hand throughout, paginated 1-162 (but lacking some leaves), in modern limp vellum. Compiled by John Cruso (fl.1595-1655), poet and military writer, who matriculated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1632. c.1630s.

Names inscribed lengthways down margins (pp. 71, 91, 95) including ‘Cuthbert Sewell Esq’, ‘Jos. Nicholson’, ‘Wm Richardson’, and ‘Somers’. Donated in 1922 by Gordon Wordsworth who claims that the volume was once owned by the poet William Wordsworth.

St John's College, Cambridge, MS U. 26 (James 548), pp. 120-5.

EaJ 33

Copy, headed ‘An Elegy on the death of Sr. John Burrowe’.

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.

Bodleian, Juel-Jensen E 7 [item 5], ff. 14r-16v.

EaJ 33.5

Copy, headed ‘On the death of sr John Burroughes slaine in the night at ye Ile Rhees by a Musket bullet from ye fort’.

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.

Bangor University, MS 422, pp. 34-7.

EaJ 34

Copy, ascribed to ‘John Earles’.

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).

Rosemary Williams, London, Stoughton MS, pp. 103-10.

EaJ 35

Copy 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. 19-25.

EaJ 36

Copy 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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 197, pp. 40-3.

EaJ 37

Copy, headed ‘On ye death of Sr John Burroughes at ye Isle of Ree killed in ye night by A Musket-bullet fro ye ffort’ and subscribed ‘John Earles’.

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200, pp. 248-52.

EaJ 37.5

Copy 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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 356, pp. 17-21.

An Epitaph on the Living Sr. Lorenza Carew (‘Here lies Lorenza, my dear brother’)

First published in K. Weber, Lucius Cary, Second Viscount Falkland (New York, 1940), pp. 42-5. Edited in Colum Hayward, John Earles (privately printed booklet, London College of Printing, 1982-3), pp. 6-7.

EaJ 38

Copy of a mock epitaph, subscribed ‘Earles’.

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.

Printed from this MS in Weber and in Hayward.

Bodleian, MS Malone 13, pp. 29-30.

EaJ 38.5

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio formal verse miscellany, comprising c.406 poems, many of them song lyrics, in various neat hands, compiled probably over a period, 8 blank leaves (pp. [i-xvi]) + 10 unnumbered pages of poems (pp. [xvii-xxvi]) + 9 numbered pages (pp. 1-9) + ff. [9v]-151v + 12 leaves at the end blank but for a poem on the penultimate page (f. [11v]), in contemporary calf gilt. Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume. Mid-17th century-c.1702.

Inscribed (f. [ir]) ‘Sr Robert Killigrew / 1702’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.

Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, ‘Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?’, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.

University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, ff. 20v-1r.

In Cladem Rhenensem (‘Thus sick men feare their Cure, and startle move’)

Unpublished. Discussed, and Earles's authorship rejected, in James Doelman, ‘John Earle's Funeral Elegy on Sir John Burroughs’, English Literary Renaissance, 41/3 (Autumn 2011), 485-502 (pp. 496-7).

EaJ 39

Copy, subscribed ‘mr Earles. Merton’.

In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in generally small mixed hands, ii + 40 leaves, in 19th-century embossed black leather. c.1640s.

Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller; by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector; and by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 190.

British Library, Add. MS 22602, ff. 1r-2v.

EaJ 40

Copy on two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘Verses vpon the slaughter at the Isle of Rheis’, bound in a miscellany of poems by John Donne and others.

In: A folio verse miscellany, including 35 poems by Donne, in several hands, written from both ends, 30 leaves (plus stubs of ten extracted leaves), damp-stained, in modern boards. The text related to the ‘Skipwith MS’ (DnJ Δ 21). c.1620-33.

Inscribed name (f. 8r) of ‘Edward Smyth’ and (along margin of f. 11v) ‘in Mr Templers’. Among the collections of John Patrick (1632-95), religious controversialist.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Edward Smyth MS’: DnJ Δ 45.

Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 29, ff. 34r-5r.

EaJ 40.5

Copy of a version.

In: the MS described under EaJ 7. c.1634.

Edited from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 239/27, pp. 14-17.

On the Death of Toby Mathew, Archbishop of York. 29 March 1628 (‘And why should I not share my tears and be’)

Unpublished.

EaJ 41

Copy, ascribed to ‘Jo: Earles’.

In: the MS described under EaJ 2. c.1630s-40s.

Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 97, pp. 50-3.

EaJ 42

Copy in: the MS described under EaJ 4. c.late 1630s.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MS 328, ff. 67v-9r.

EaJ 43

Copy 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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 62, pp. 81-5.

On the Earle of Pembroke's Death (‘Did not my sorrows sighd into a verse’)

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 40-2. Extract in Bliss, pp. 227-8. Possibly written by Jasper Mayne (1604-72).

EaJ 44

Copy in: the MS described under EaJ 13. c.1638.

Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. f. 27, pp. 9-11.

EaJ 45

Copy of part of the poem, untitled, here beginning ‘Come, Pembroke liues, ôh! doe not fright our ears’, subscribed ‘Mr Earles, Merton’.

In: the MS described under EaJ 15. c.1630s-40s.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 142, f. 35r.

EaJ 46

Copy, here ascribed to ‘Cl[ement] P[aman]’.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in two or more cursive hands, written from both ends, iv + 278 pages, in contemporary calf. Compiled principally by one ‘H. S.’, a Cambridge University man. c.1640s-60s.

This MS volume edited in D.J. Rose, MS Rawlinson Poetical 147: An Annotated Volume of Seventeenth-Century Cambridge Verses (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Leicester, 1992), of which a copy is in Cambridge University Library, Manuscript Department, A8f.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 147, pp. 151-2.

EaJ 47

Copy, headed ‘On the death of W: Earle of P:’.

In: the MS described under EaJ 17. c.1620s-30s.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 199, pp. 66-7.

EaJ 48

Copy, headed ‘Vpon ye death of ye Earle of Pembrocke’.

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.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 209, ff. 10r-11r.

EaJ 49

Copy, headed ‘On ye death of Will: Earle of Pembroke Ann. 1630’, subscribed ‘J. Earles’.

In: the MS described under EaJ 39. c.1640s.

British Library, Add. MS 22602, ff. 20v-1v.

EaJ 50

Copy, headed ‘on the death of the Earle of Penbrocke Ld Chanceller of Oxford’.

In: the MS described under EaJ 24. c.1630s.

British Library, Sloane MS 542, f. 14r-v.

EaJ 50.5

Copy, headed ‘On ye Death of ye Earle of Pembroke’, subscribed ‘Jasper Maine X' Ch: Oxon’.

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.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MS 176, f. 3r-v.

EaJ 51

Copy, here ascribed to ‘G. Maine’.

In: the MS described under EaJ 4. c.late 1630s.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MS 328, f. 52r-v.

EaJ 52

Copy, headed ‘On ye Earle of Pembrook’, subscribed ‘Maine’.

In: the MS described under EaJ 27. c.late 1630s [-1789].

Folger, MS V.a.97, pp. 167-8.

EaJ 53

Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany (originally in two separate volumes), including eleven poems by Donne, chiefly in two hands, probably associated with the University of Oxford, 98 leaves, one of the original vellum covers now incorporated in modern red morocco. Mid-17th century.

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Stephen Wellden’ and ‘Abraham Bassano’ and (f. 98r) ‘Elizabeth Weldon’. Later owned by William John Thoms (1803-85), writer, antiquary and librarian. Sotheby's, 11 February 1887 (Thoms sale), lot 1092. Also owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.4.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Welden MS’: DnJ Δ 49.

Folger, MS V.a.162, f. 85r-v.

EaJ 54

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Hearse of Wlm Ea: of Pembrooke’.

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.

Folger, MS V.a.339, ff. 286v-7r.

EaJ 55

Copy in: the MS described under EaJ 7. c.1634.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 239/27, pp. 344-5.

EaJ 56

Copy in: the MS described under EaJ 31. c.1636-40s.

St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 32 (James 423), ff. 14v-15v.

EaJ 57

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the death of the Earle of Pembroke Lo: Steward of the Kings house who dyed 10mo: Apr: 1630’.

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.

Trinity College, Dublin, MS 877, [Part II], ff. 209v-11r.

EaJ 57.5

Copy, headed ‘Vppon the death of ye Earle of Pembroke’.

In: the MS described under EaJ 33.5. Mid-17th century.

Bangor University, MS 422, pp. 29-30.

EaJ 58

Copy, here ascribed to ‘Jasper Mayne’.

In: the MS described under EaJ 34. c.1636-41.

Rosemary Williams, London, Stoughton MS, pp. 111-14.

EaJ 59

Copy, headed ‘In obitur Gulielmi Pembrocensis Cancellarij Oxonij. Erleso Merton’.

In: the MS described under EaJ 43. c.1640.

Yale, Osborn MS b 62, pp. 56-8.

Latin Poems

Hortus Mertonensis (‘Hortus delitiae domus politae’)

First published in John Aubrey, The Natural History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey, ed. Richard Rawlinson (London, 1718-19), IV, 166-71.

EaJ 60

Copy 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.

Bodleian, MS Douce f. 5, fols 31v-3r.

EaJ 61

Copy, untitled, with other verses, on one page of two conjugate folio leaves.

In: A folio composite volume of MSS, eighteen leaves, in modern cloth.

Bodleian, MS Jones 27*, f. 18r.

EaJ 62

Copy, transcribed from EaJ 64, the heading and ascription to Earle deleted.

In: A quarto composite volume of papers, 127 pages, in contemporary marbled boards. Comprising a transcript of MS Wood D. 9 (Fulman's notes on the writings on Oxford University by Anthony Wood) made for Rawlinson, with related correspondence. Early 18th century.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. C. 866, pp. 109-13.

EaJ 63

Copy, on three quarto leaves. Mid-late 17th century.

In: A quarto composite volume of verse, in English, Latin and Greek, in various hands, ii + 174 leaves.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 194, ff. 161r-3r.

EaJ 64

Copy in Fulman's hand, with a note Wood's hand ‘By Joh. Earls of Mt. coll. afterwards Bp of Sarum’.

In: A quarto volume of notes on Wood's historical writings on Oxford made by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, xv + 170 pages. c.1675-8.

Among collections of Anthony Wood (1632-95), Oxford antiquary.

Bodleian, MS Wood D. 9, ff. 149r-52r.

EaJ 65

Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.118 items, including thirteen poems by Donne, twenty poems by Corbett, and twelve poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, written in several hands over an extended period, associated with Christ Church, Oxford, 99 leaves. c.1620-40s.

Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Morley MS’: DnJ Δ 62, CoR Δ 13, and StW Δ 27. This MS apparently transcribed in part in the ‘Killigrew MS’ (British Library, Sloane MS 1792).

Facsimile of f. 49r in William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford, 1987), p. 24.

Westminster Abbey, MS 41, ff. 93v-5r.

Ode ad B: J: (‘Quin te Theatri sordibus, et magis’)

First published in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford & Percy and Evelyn Simpson, X (Oxford, 1950), 333-4.

EaJ 66

Copy, subscribed ‘Jo: Earles’.

In: the MS described under EaJ 20. c.1630s.

British Library, Add. MS 15227, ff. 44-5.

Satyra Itineraria (‘Mensis erat cum cana seges per pinguia rura’)

Unpublished.

EaJ 67

Copy, inscribed ‘Jo: Earls:’.

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).

This MS recorded in The Poems of Richard Corbett, ed. J.A.W. Bennett and H.R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford, 1955), p. 118. Transcript by G. Thorn-Drury in Bodleian, Thorn-Drury e. 26 (end leaves).

Folger, MS V.a.170, pp. 127-53.

EaJ 68

Copy, headed ‘_______ Iter Boreale’ and ascribed to ‘J: Earle’.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, written over a period in three hands (A, in alternating secretary and italic, written c.1638: ff. 1-59v; B, written c.1645: ff. 60r-9r; C, written c.1649, ff. 69v-70r), 70 leaves, in old calf. Including thirteen poems by Strode and three of doubtful authorship. c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].

Later sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9569. Bookplate of 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 193.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Rosenbach MS I’: CwT Δ 31 and StW Δ 23.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 239/22, ff. 20r-5r.

Prose

Eikon Basilike

First published in The Hague, 1649. London, 1649. The English version of Earles's dedication first published in Eikon Basilike, ed. Edward J. L. Scott (London, 1880), pp. xxxiv-xxxvii. Reprinted in Edward Almack, A Bibliography of The King's Book or Eikon Basilike (London, 1896), pp. 138-40. The Latin version of the dedication is in Bliss, pp. 233-6.

EaJ 69

Copy of the original English version of Earles's dedicatory epistle to Charles II on two folio leaves, endorsed by Edward Hyde, later first Earl of Clarendon (1609-74), ‘Dr. Earles translation of his owne Epistle before the Ks. booke’.

In: A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for February 1648/9-August 1649, 220 leaves.

Bodleian, MS Clarendon 37, ff. 16r-17r.

EaJ 70

Copy of the original English version of Earles's dedicatory epistle to Charles II, on two pairs of conjugate quarto leaves.

In: A folio composite volume of papers relating to Eikon Basilike, 27 leaves. c.1649.

Among the papers of Sir Edward Nicholas (1593-1669), Secretary of State.

Edited from this MS in Scott and in Almack.

British Library, Egerton MS 2547, ff. 1r-3v.

Microcosmography

First published (anonymously), comprising 54 characters and with a preface by Edward Blount, London, 1628. 77 characters in the edition of 1629. 78 characters in the edition of 1664. Edited by Philip Bliss (London, 1811).

*EaJ 71

Autograph fair copy of 51 characters, with corrections, 174 octavo pages (with later additions, 98 leaves in all), in modern green morocco gilt. Entitled ‘Micro-Cosmographie or a peece of the world discouerd’. c.1627.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 83. Subsequently by F.W. Cosens (1819-89), book collector. Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale), lot 121. Owned in 1901 by C.W. Holgate. Sotheby's, 31 July 1947, lot 347. Myers & Co., sale catalogue No. 350 (1947), item 201. Bequeathed to the Bodleian by E.H.W. Meyerstein (1889-1952), writer and scholar.

This MS collated in Bliss's annotated exemplum of his edition (Bodleian, MS Eng. misc. e. 112), and some of Bliss's collations printed in Bliss-Irwin (1897). The character of ‘A shee-Puritan’ (pp. 115-21) edited from this MS (in an expurgated version) by ‘Peter Lombard’ in ‘Varia’, The Church Times, No. 1832 (4 March 1898), p. 250.

A complete facsimile of the MS published by the Scolar Press, Menston, 1966.

Bodleian, MS Eng. misc. f. 89.

EaJ 72

Copy of 48 characters, in a neat secretary hand, untitled, subscribed in the hand of John Newdigate ‘The end of so many of Mr Erles caracters as were bestowed vpon me by Mr G.S. [i.e. Gilbert (later Archbishop) Sheldon] April 1627’ [‘in Mr Erles own copie’added in a different ink].

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.

Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 112, ff. 83r-102r.

EaJ 73

Copy of two characters, here entitled ‘The comon Viccars or Singingmen in Cathederall Churches’ and ‘A character of A Childe’, together with (ff. 183v-4) an (anonymous) ‘A charector of a London Scriuenor’ (beginning ‘A London Scrivenor is the deerest childe of his Mother Mony...’).

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.

British Library, Add. MS 25303, ff. 181v-3r.

EaJ 74

Copy of 13 characters, with no general heading, beginning with ‘A Childe’.

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.

British Library, Stowe MS 962, ff. 21r-9v.

EaJ 75

Extracts from about 27 characters, headed ‘Earle his Caracters 1645’.

In: An octavo notebook of extracts, in a single small mixed hand, written from both ends, 165 leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled by one William Bright, entitled ‘ffragmenta hic omnigena è varijs excerpta authoribus ad priuatum existunt vsum WB ex anno 1644’. c.1644-76.

Inscribed also inside the lower cover ‘Will: Bright Novemb 12th pretiu 8d 1645’.

Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 6160, ff. 16v-17v.

EaJ 76

Copy of 46 characters, in a small predominantly italic hand, the first page inscribed in a different hand ‘Edw. Blunt, Author’, concluding (f. 32v) ‘ffinis. December this 14th day Anno Domini 1627’, and with (f. 33r) a list of the characters in a later hand, 33 duodecimo leaves (plus 55 blanks), in contemporary brown calf (rebacked). c.1627.

Among the collections of Christopher Hunter (1675-1757), Durham antiquary and physician.

This MS described and collated in J.T. F[owler], ‘The Durham MS of Earle's “Microcosmographie”’, N&Q, 4th Ser. 8 (4 & 18 November, 9 & 16 December 1871), pp. 363-4, 411-12, 475-6, 508; 4th Ser. 9 (13 January 1872), 33-4. Some readings printed in Bliss-Irwin, pp. 303-15, and three characters edited in Earle, Microcosmography, ed. Alfred S. West (Cambridge, 1897), pp. 149-51.

Durham Cathedral Library, Hunter MS 130.

EaJ 77

Extracts from 29 characters, headed ‘Blounts characters’.

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.

Edinburgh University Library, MS H.-P. Coll. 401, ff. 103r-4v.

EaJ 78

Copy of 45 characters, with a title-page and list of charactes.

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.

Folger, MS V.a.345, pp. 181-218.

EaJ 79

Copy of 35 characters, untitled.

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.

Harvard, MS Eng 686, ff. 155v-137v rev.

EaJ 80

Extracts from 40 characters.

In: A quarto commonplace book of notes and extracts, closely written in a small mixed hand, from both ends, 146 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary limp vellum. Compiled possibly by one Thomas Parsons, whose name is subscribed to a letter on f. 92v. c.1630s.

Huntington, HM 1338, ff. 53r-8r.

EaJ 81

Copy of 29 characters, headed ‘Mr Earl's Characters’.

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).

Pierpont Morgan Library, MA 1057, pp. 309-28.

EaJ 82

Extracts from several characters, headed ‘Blounts Characters’.

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.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 239/18, pp. 8, 23-6.

EaJ 83

Copy of 45 characters, headed ‘Characters’, in three hands (A: pp. 1-66, 70-84, 89-95, 101-10; B: pp. 67-9, 96-100; C: pp. 85-8), on 110 octavo pages (plus 87 blank leaves), in contemporary stamped calf. c.1630.

Once owned by E. Almack, FSA (his bookplate); by V. Almack; by Clive Coates of Helperley, Yorkshire; and by the Crewe-Milne family(possibly from the library of Robert Monckton Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, or from that of Anthony Crewe-Milnes. Sold by Quaritch, 1 August 1989.

Estate of Dr Bent E. Juel-Jensen, Oxford, [no shelfmark].

EaJ 83.5

Copy of ‘The character of a church Papist’, subscribed ‘by Mr Erle’.

In: An octavo volume of transcripts of state tracts and documents in the minute hand of Robert Horn of Shropshire, two items (ff. 19-30, dated 20 January 1620/1) added by Herbert Jenks of Newhall, 104 leaves, in contemporary vellum. c.1618-30s.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. B. 151, f. 97v.

Proctorial Oration, 11 April 1632

Unpublished.

*EaJ 84

Autograph fair copy of a Latin oration. Untitled and beginning ‘Benè quòd leuissimus jam restat provinciae nostrae labor, vt nos ipsos in ordinem cogamús...’, on five folio pages, endorsed in another hand ‘April: 11. 1632. Mr Earls his Oration Why he left the Proctership in Oxford’.

National Archives, Kew, SP 16/215/31.

Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Translated

Unpublished.

EaJ 85

Copy of Earles's translation into Latin of the Preface and Books I-V of Hooker's Polity, almost entirely in a single cursive italic hand, lacking a general title, 224 folio leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1650s-60s.

This MS recorded by W. Speed Hill in TLS (31 January 1975), p. 112.

Folger, MS V.b.314.

Sermons

EaJ 86

Evelyn's notes on six sermons by Earles, delivered in Paris in 1651, on texts in Psalms 116 and 119, 1 Peter 4, 2 Samuel, and 6 Roman, on ff. 18v-, 20v-1v, 23r-v, 24v-5v.

In: A folio volume of sermon notes in Evelyn's hand, iii + 151 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1650-87.

Volume CXCVII of the Evelyn Papers. Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn MS 49.

British Library, Add. MS 78364, passim.

Letters

Letter(s)

*EaJ 87

Autograph letter signed, to Edward Hyde, from Bishopstone, 9 December [1640]. 1640.

In: A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for September 1640-January 1640/1, 284 leaves.

Edited in Bliss-Irwin, pp. 317-18. Quoted in Darwin, p. 88. Facsimile in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile XVI, after p. xxiv.

Bodleian, MS Clarendon 19, ff. 128r-9v.

*EaJ 88

Autograph letter signed, to Edward Hyde, from Bishopstone, 15 January 1640/1. 1641.

In: the MS described under EaJ 87.

Quoted in Darwin, p. 89.

Bodleian, MS Clarendon 19, ff. 276r-7v.

EaJ 89

Autograph letter signed, to ‘Deare H’ [?Hyde], from Paris, 29 January [1651/2]. 1652.

Sotheby's, 4 April 1955, lot 202, to Maggs.

Untraced, [Earle letter (I)].

*EaJ 90

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Richard Browne, [from Paris], 9 July [1654]. 1654.

Formerly Osborn Files /Earle.

Yale, Osb MSS File 4794.

EaJ 91

Autograph letter signed by Earles, to Sir Richard Browne, in Latin, from Bruges, 20 July 1656. 1656.

In: A folio composite volume of correspondence of Sir Richard Browne, 102 leaves.

Volume LVI of the Evelyn Papers.

British Library, Add. MS 78223, f. 125r.

EaJ 92

Autograph letter signed by Earles, in Latin, to Sir Richard Browne, from Bruges, 11 August 1656. 1656.

In: the MS described under EaJ 91.

British Library, Add. MS 78223, f. 127r.

EaJ 93

Autograph letter signed by Earles, in Latin, to Sir Richard Browne, from Bruges, 25 August 1656. 1656.

In: the MS described under EaJ 91.

British Library, Add. MS 78223, f. 130r.

EaJ 94

Autograph letter signed by Earles, in Latin, to Sir Richard Browne, from Bruges, 29 September 1656. 1656.

In: the MS described under EaJ 91.

British Library, Add. MS 78223, f. 133r.

EaJ 95

Autograph letter signed by Earles, in Latin, to Sir Richard Browne, from Bruges, 2 November 1656. 1656.

In: the MS described under EaJ 91.

British Library, Add. MS 78223, f. 135r.

EaJ 96

Autograph letter signed by Earles, in Latin, to Sir Richard Browne, from Bruges, 16 November 1656. 1656.

In: the MS described under EaJ 91.

British Library, Add. MS 78223, f. 138r.

EaJ 97

Autograph letter signed, to Edward Nicholas, from Brussels, 2/12 February 1657/8. 1658.

Quoted in Darwin, p. 172.

National Archives, Kew, SP 77/32, part i, f. 27.

*EaJ 98

Autograph letter signed, to William Sancroft, from Brussels, 30 June 1659. 1659.

In: A folio composite volume of letters to William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury and manuscript collector.

Quoted in Darwin, pp. 174-5.

British Library, Harley MS 3783, ff. 239r-40v.

EaJ 99

Transcript by Baker of Earles's autograph letter signed to William Sancroft, from Brussels, 30 June 1659. Late 17th century.

In: A volume of transcripts made by by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary.

Cambridge University Library, MS Mm. 1. 45, p. 117.

EaJ 100

Copy of a letter by Earles to the Lord Mayor of London Elect, in a cursive secretary hand, endorsed ‘The draught of a Lettr sent to my Lord Maior...’, from Westminster, 1660. 1660.

Quoted in Darwin, p. 187.

Westminster Abbey, W.A.M. 6640.

*EaJ 101

Autograph letter signed by Earles, to Gilbert Sheldon, Bishop of London, from Sarum, 25 September 1662. 1662.

In: A folio composite volume of letters and other papers for 1662, in various hands, 157 leaves. 1662.

Edited in Bliss-Irwin, pp. 317-18. Quoted in Darwin, pp. 207-8.

Bodleian, MS Tanner 48, ff. 46r-7v.

*EaJ 102

Autograph letter signed, to Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, from Westminster, 15 September 1663. Quoted in Darwin, p. 220. 1663.

In: A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for July-December 1663, 374 leaves.

Quoted in Darwin, p. 220.

Bodleian, MS Clarendon 80, ff. 199r-200v.

*EaJ 103

Autograph letter signed, to Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, from Westminster, 21 September 1663. 1663.

In: the MS described under EaJ 102.

Quoted in Darwin, pp. 220, 222.

Bodleian, MS Clarendon 80, ff. 213r-14v.

*EaJ 104

Three unspecified autograph letters signed by Earle, ‘one to Sir Richard Browne, 1663, etc. 3 pp. 4to. and folio’. 1663.

Sotheby's, 15 March 1916, lot 108, to Dobell.

Untraced, [Earle letters (II)].

EaJ 105

Copy of a letter by Earles to John Evelyn, from Sarum, 2 January [1663/4]. Late 17th century.

In: A guardbook of miscellaneous separate papers, chiefly folio, 218 leaves. Early 18th century.

Chiefly collected by W.H. Black. Subsequently bought from Miss N.T. Harrison, 1947.

Quoted in Darwin, pp. 224-5.

Bodleian, MS Eng. misc. c. 292, ff. 75r, 76r.

*EaJ 106

Autograph letter signed by Earles, to Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, from Sarum, 17 September 1664. 1664.

In: A folio composite volume of letters and papers of Edward, Earl of Clarendon, for July-December 1664, in various hands, 303 leaves. 1664.

Quoted in Darwin, p. 231.

Bodleian, MS Clarendon 82, f. 94r.

*EaJ 107

Autograph letter signed, to Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, from Westminster, 29 November 1664. 1664.

In: the MS described under EaJ 106. 1664.

Quoted in Darwin, pp. 231-2.

Bodleian, MS Clarendon 82, ff. 239r*-40v*.

*EaJ 108

Autograph letter signed, to Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, from Sarum, 25 May [1665]. 1665.

In: A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for January 1663/4-June 1664, ii + 293 leaves.

Quoted in Darwin, pp. 232-3 (and see p. 15 for dating).

Bodleian, MS Clarendon 81, ff. 264r-5v.

*EaJ 109

Autograph letter signed by Earles, to Sir Edward Nicholas, from Sarum, 4 September 1665. 1665.

In: A folio composite volume of correspondence and other papers of Sir Edward Nicholas (1593-1669), Secretary of State, in various hands, 342 leaves.

Volume VII of the Nicholas Papers.

Quoted in Darwin, pp. 234-5.

British Library, Egerton MS 2539, f. 9r.

Documents

Document(s)

*EaJ 110

Earles's signature (‘John Earle’), upon his matriculation at Christ Church, 4 June 1619. 1619.

In: Oxford Subscription Register. 1615-38.

Oxford University Archives, S.P. 39, Register Ac, f. 42r.

*EaJ 111

Earles's signature on a statement of the exceptions to the articles of marriage of Henry Ingram, first Viscount Irwin, with Essex, daughter of Edward Montagu, second Earl of Manchester, dated 19 February 1662/3. Among the archives of the Ingram family, of Temple Newsam. 1663.

Leeds Archives, TN/Corr. 5/82.

Will

EaJ 112

A registered copy of Earles's last will and testament, proved 18 December 1665. 1665.

Cited in Darwin, p. 237.

National Archives, Kew, PROB 11/318/159.