Verse
English Poems
‘A Battaile amongst the Bees’
First published in Crum (1965), p. 253.
*KiH 1
Autograph verse of six lines concerning the Civil War, possibly of King's own composition, untitled, on a single quarto leaf, endorsed ‘An old Prophecy’.
In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous papers, 291 leaves.
Owned on 12 August 1709 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary.
Edited in part from this MS in Crum. Recorded by Percy Simpson in BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (p. 335).
*KiH 2
Autograph copy, untitled, on an oblong octavo-size slip of paper.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers, in various hands and sizes, 440 leaves, in half-calf.
Assembled by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary, who has inscribed the front pastedown ‘Tho: Hearne. July 31st. 1710’.
Edited in part from this MS in Crum.
An Acknowledgment (‘My best of Friends! what needes a Chaine to ty’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 164-6.
KiH 3
Copy in: A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks). Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's ‘imitator’ (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous ‘sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657’ (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning ‘Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne’, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster. c.1633-58.
Thomas Thorpe's sale ‘Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts’, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as ‘a most beautifully written volume of Poems’ in the hand of Bishop King's ‘Daughter’). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Hannah MS’: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, ‘The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King’, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, ‘Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King’, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 4
Copy in: A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1638-40.
Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Wrest Park MS’: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).
KiH 5
Copy in: A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's ‘imitator’, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) ‘Henry Dottin His Book’ and ‘Elie Dottin Her Book’. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Malone MS’: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 6
Copy in: A quarto volume of 61 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), ii + 33 leaves, in contemporary olive-brown morocco gilt, with remains of green silk ties. Except for later verses scribbled on f. 33r, all is in a single formal italic hand: i.e. that of Thomas Manne's ‘imitator’, who also reproduces King's initials ‘HK’ in his monogram format as a subscription to nearly every poem. c.1638.
Iinscribed (f. ir) ‘M. Hall / Gainsbro’ and ‘Miss A. F. Eames / Nottingham’. Sotheby's, 21 May 1968, lot 339, to John Fleming, New York. Then owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1907-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 278. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 38.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Houghton MS’: KiH Δ 4. For facsimile pages, see KiH 423, KiH 517, KiH 540, and KiH 571. A set of photocopies is also in the British Library, RP 246.
KiH 7
Copy in: A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt. In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand. c.1646-8.
Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Phillipps MS’: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 8
Copy 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).
KiH 9
Copy, subscribed ‘H: King’.
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 Crum.
The Anniverse. An Elegy (‘So soone grow'n old? Hast thou bin six yeares dead?’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 72-3.
KiH 10
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy’.
In: the MS described under KiH 3 (KiH Δ 1). c.1633-58.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 12
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy’.
In: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 16
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie’, subscribed ‘H: King’.
In: the MS described under KiH 9 (KiH Δ 9). c.1641-9.
KiH 17
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie’, subscribed ‘H: K:’.
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.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 18
Copy, headed ‘Dr Henry Kings Anniversarie vpon his Wife’.
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.
Being waked out of my Sleep by a Snuff of Candle which offended mee, I thus thought (‘Perhapps 'twas but Conceit. Erroneous Sense!’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 169-70.
KiH 20
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 21
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 23
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
Bishop John King The Latine Epitaph hanging over His Grave-stone Translated (‘No Pyramids, nor Panegyrick Verse’)
First published in The Poems of Bishop Henry King, ed. John Sparrow (London, 1925), p. 69. Crum, p. 186. Other English versions are in Bodleian, MS Rawl. D. 317, f. 171 (in John King's hand), in the Thomas Manne MS (KiH Δ 7), pp. [185-6], and in the Calfe MS (KiH Δ 9, part ii), f. 8v: see Crum, pp. 241-2, and Percy Simpson, ‘The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King’, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (p. 329).
For the original Latin epitaph, see KiH 803.
KiH 24
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 7 (KiH Δ 5). c.1646-8.
Edited from this MS in Sparrow and in Crum.
A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds (‘Stay lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee’)
See KiH 25-94.
The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) ‘A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds’ (‘Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee’). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).
KiH 26
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 27
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 28
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 29
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 7 (KiH Δ 5). c.1646-8.
This MS collated in Crum. Edited in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), No. 13 (p. 9).
KiH 31
Copy, headed ‘The Boyes answere’.
In: the MS described under KiH 17 (KiH Δ 10). c.1633.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 32
Copy, headed ‘The Answere’, subscribed in monogram format. ‘HK’.
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).
KiH 33
Copy, headed ‘his answeare’.
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.
This MS recorded in Crum.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 32 (James 423), f. 14r-v.
KiH 34
Copy, headed ‘The reply.’
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).
KiH 35
Copy, headed ‘The answer’.
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 Crum.
KiH 36
Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.
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. 204); recorded in Crum.
KiH 37
Copy, headed ‘The answer’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in a single small hand, 31 leaves, in contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, imperfect. A label on the cover: ‘Dr. Lynnet's Common Place Book’: i.e. compiled by Dr William Lynnett (1622/3-1700), of Trinity College, Cambridge. c.1643.
Inscribed ‘Ri. Walker 1758. some years agoe Mr. Brigg bought this Common place book in Smithfield, and gave it to RW’. Inscriptions dated 1792 by Thomas Bousefield (or possibly James Simpson), wheelwright of Kendal. Purchased from J.W. Jarvis & Son, 30 January 1891.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 38
Copy, headed ‘His answer’.
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.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 39
Copy, headed ‘Answeare to the same tune’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, i + 141 leaves, in contemporary calf (rebacked). Compiled, and composed, in part by John Polwhele, of Polwhele and Treworgan, Cornwall, and of Lincoln's Inn, who notes (fol. 141v rev.) ‘Johes Polwheile Lincol ex dono chariss: amici Josephi Maynardi’. c.1623-32.
Given to Jessie Glubb by a descendant of John Polwhele in 1843. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 97 (1947), item 185.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 40
Copy, headed ‘His Answere’.
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.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 41
Copy, headed ‘The answer’.
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.
KiH 42
Copy, headed ‘The Answer’.
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.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 43
Copy, headed ‘The Answere’.
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.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 44
Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, headed ‘Second Part’, following the ‘First part’ (ff. 90v-1r), ‘Why lovely Boy why flyst thou me’.
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. 179); recorded in Crum.
KiH 45
Copy, headed ‘The Fayer Maydes Answere’ and subscribed ‘Dr Hen: King’, in a verse miscellany (ff. 267r-73v) compiled by an Oxford University man. c.1630.
In: A quarto composite volume of tracts and other papers, in verse and prose, 349 leaves, in half-calf. Copy, headed ‘An other lre from Sr Thomas Wiatte the elder to his sonne oute of Spaine aboute the same tyme’.
KiH 46
Copy, headed ‘The Reply’.
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.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 47
Copy, headed ‘The Answeere’.
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.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 48
Copy, headed ‘The Reply’.
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.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 49
Copy, headed ‘His Answer’, subscribed ‘Dr Henry Kinge’.
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.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 50
Copy, headed ‘The fayer boyes answere’.
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 Crum.
KiH 52
Copy, headed ‘The Answer’.
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.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 53
Copy, headed ‘The faire boys answere to the black mayde’.
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.
KiH 54
Copy, headed ‘Her answer to ye blacke boye’ and here beginning ‘Blacke youth complayne not yt I flye’.
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.
KiH 55
Copy, headed ‘His Ansur’.
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.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 56
Copy, headed ‘The answaire’ and here beginning ‘Black girle complayne not that I fly’.
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.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 57
Copy, headed ‘The Boy's answer’.
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.
KiH 58
Copy, headed ‘The faire boyes answere to the blacke maide’ and here beginning ‘ffaire mayde )plaine not yt I fly’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several small non-professional hands, 88 leaves, imperfect at the beginning. c.1630s-40s.
KiH 59
Copy, headed ‘Her answere’.
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 Crum.
KiH 60
Copy, untitled.
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.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 61
Copy, headed ‘The faire Maides answere’.
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.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 62
Copy, untitled.
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...’.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 63
Copy, headed ‘The Reply’.
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.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 64
Copy, headed ‘A.’
In: A duodecimo miscellany, in English and Latin, in several hands, written from both ends, i + 74 leaves, in contemporary calf. Owned (inscription f.[ir]), and possibly partly compiled, by Sir Henry Rainsford (1599-1641), of Clifford Chambers, near Stratford-upon-Avon. c. late 1630s-40s.
Bookplate of Edward Greenfield Doggett and Hugh Greenfield Doggett, of Bristol, 1893. Later owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.
Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 15. Discussed in Peter Davidson, ‘The Notebook of Henry Rainsford’, N&Q, 229 (June 1984), 247-50.
Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 8447, ff. [41r, 42r] .
KiH 65
Copy, headed ‘Answeare’.
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.
KiH 66
Copy, with corrections, in the hand of William Strode, untitled; c.1630s.
In: A quarto volume of autograph poems by Strode, 130 leaves (including 31 blank leaves, plus numerous blanks, stubs of five extracted leaves, and some leaves added later). A working autograph notebook of poems by Strode, compiled and revised over a considerable period, comprising 101 English poems (including draft fragments, 66 Latin poems and 2 Greek poems by him, together with his copies of a few poems by others (generally paired with Strode's translations or answers) including Richard Corbett (2), Thomas Carew, Peter Apsley, and Henry King and Henry Reynolds, as well as a lecture in Latin by the Professor of Greek at Oxford; ff. 52r-96r written in Strode's mixed secretary and italic hand, probably early 1620s-30; ff. 96v-129v, and afterwards ff. 1-51v, written in Strode's italic hand, probably for the most part c.1635-7, with additions up to 1643; ff. 129v-30v containing rough jottings in both styles; many of the poems containing Strode's extensive revisions, probably made from the 1630s onwards. c.1620s-43.
Some scribbling on the last page including the name John Herbert. Possibly one of the MS volumes by Strode which, according to Anthony Wood (Athenae Oxonienses, ed. Philip Bliss, 4 vols (London, 1813-20), III, 152), came after Strode's death into the hands of Dr Richard Gardiner (1591-1670), canon of Christ Church, and then into those of Richard Davies, Oxford bookseller (fl.1646-88). Afterwards acquired, probably from Davies between 1665 and 1675, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, who added pagination, annotations and some further entries throughout.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Corpus MS’: StW Δ 1. Collated in part in Dobell. Identified as autograph and discussed in M.C. Crum, ‘William Fulman and an Autograph Manuscript of the Poet Strode’, BLR, 4 (1952-3), 324-35. Extensively discussed and the text edited from this MS in Forey. Facsimile of f. 94r in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 42 (see StW 641).
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 67
Copy, headed ‘Her answer’.
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.
KiH 68
Copy, untitled.
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.
KiH 69
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio volume of poems, in several secretary hands, one neat cursive hand predominating, 43 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped brown calf. Compiled by or for Lucy Hastings (née Davies, 1613-79), Countess of Huntingdon, daughter of Sir John Davies (1569-1626), her name appearing on f. 28v and that of one of her servants, Thomas Bakewell, on f. 31r. c.1625-30.
Edited from this MS in The Works in Verse and Prose of Sir John Davies, ed. A.B. Grosart, I (London, 1869), p. 470.
KiH 70
Copy, headed ‘His Answere’.
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).
KiH 71
Copy, headed ‘Answere’.
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.
KiH 72
Copy, headed (as speaker) ‘Boy’.
In: A verse miscellany, much of it in shorthand, almost entirely closely written in a small cursive mixed hand, written from both ends, in contemporary calf with initials ‘E H’ in gilt. 16°, 87 leaves (plus two paste-downs); miscellany, including portions of some 42 identifiable English poems by Crashaw, many of the lines here re-arranged in a garbled fashion; compiled by a Cambridge man, possibly a member of Christ's College; probably in a single hand throughout, with variations of style, written from both ends, about thirty pages in shorthand. c.1650s.
Later owned by Edward Hailstone (1818-90) of Walton Hall, near Wakefield, botanist and book collector. Sotheby's 23 April 1891 (Hailstone sale), probably lot 439, to Dobell). Bertram Dobell's sale catalogue No. 103 (June 1902), item 373. Formerly Folger MS 267.1.
Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Hailstone MS: CrR Δ 6. Crashaw's work selectively collated (cited as Dobell) in Martin and discussed p. lxxxi. Facsimile of f. 22 in Dobell catalogue. The MS discussed by Dobell, in other connections, in ‘Some Unpublished Epigrams by Thomas Fuller’, The Athenaeum (27 April 1901), p. 532, and in ‘An Early Variant of a Shakespeare Sonnet’, The Athenaeum (2 August 1913), p. 112. Compare CrR Δ 8.
KiH 73
Copy, headed ‘The faire Boyes Answere’.
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).
KiH 74
Copy, headed ‘His answere’.
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.
KiH 74.5
Copy, headed ‘His answere’.
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.
KiH 75
Copy, headed ‘His Answer’.
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.
KiH 75.5
Copy, untitled, headed ‘ffaire man complaine not that I fly’.
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.
KiH 76
Copy, headed ‘The Answer’.
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.
KiH 77
Copy, headed ‘The reply’, here beginning ‘Blacke Girle complaine not yt I fly’ and subscribed ‘Henry Mollt: KC’.
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).
KiH 78
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed ‘His answer’, following (f. 23r) ‘A black maid to her lover’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and some prose, in several italic and mixed hands, written probably over a period from both ends, 72 leaves, in contemporary vellum. c.1630s-40s.
John Rylands University Library of Manchester, English MS 410, f. 23v.
KiH 78.5
Copy, headed ‘An answeare to ye Black-more Wench’, following (on pp. 258-9) ‘Of a Black-more Wench in love with a pretty boy’.
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.
KiH 79
Copy, headed ‘The boyes answer’.
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.
KiH 79.5
Copy, headed ‘A young mans answer to a Blackamoore’, with a cross-referencing note ‘vid. pag. supra ab hinc decimâ sextâ’.
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).
KiH 80
Copy, headed ‘The Boy's answer’.
In: A quarto formal anthology of verse, in a single neat rounded hand, arranged by genre, entitled ‘A Collection of Serious Humorous and Affectionate Poems’, 131 leaves, on rectos only, in modern cloth. Early 18th century.
KiH 81
Copy, headed ‘Boys answere’.
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, f. 53v.
KiH 82
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on the first page of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, slightly imperfect. c.1620s.
KiH 83
Copy, headed ‘His Answeare’.
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).
KiH 84
Copy, headed ‘His answer’.
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).
KiH 85
Copy, headed ‘The answer of the Fayre Boy to the black Maide’.
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].
KiH 87
Copy, headed ‘His Answere’.
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).
KiH 88
Copy, untitled.
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, p. 90.
KiH 88.5
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.
Facsimile of f. 28v in Culbirth, ‘Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?’, p. 36.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 28v.
KiH 89
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio volume of 121 poems by Donne and his Paradoxes and Problems, in a probably professional, predominantly italic hand (the scribe also probably responsible for the Dublin MS (I) (Trinity College, Dublin, MS 877); some poems by others added at the end (pp. 239-50) in other hands, 250 pages. c.1623-5.
Owned in the mid-late 17th century by ‘E. Puckering’ (signed f. 1r), probably a man but possibly Elizabeth (d.1689), wife of Sir Henry Newton (afterwards Puckering) (1618-1701), by whose bequest the MS came to Trinity College in 1691 (this Lady Elizabeth being the daughter of Thomas Murray (1564-1623), tutor to Prince Charles).
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Puckering MS, DnJ Δ 13. A note by Henry Bradshaw states that this MS was collated in 1861 and 1863 by the Rev. T.R. O' Flahertie (d.1894), of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector.
This MS recorded in Crum.
Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R. 3. 12 (James 592), p. 239.
KiH 90
Copy, headed ‘The answere of ye fayre Boy to ye black Mayd’ and beginning ‘Blacke Girle…’.
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. 2-3.
KiH 91
Copy, headed ‘The boyes replye’.
In: A fragment of a quarto verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, seven leaves, the second item in a quarto composite volume also containing (item 1) a MS translation of the Song of Solomon written on nine leaves in 1622 by one Robert Eliot, and (item 3) Greek verse, on thirteen leaves subscribed ‘J: Malet’, in modern cloth. c.1630s.
Formerly MSS 4. 29.
KiH 92
Copy, headed ‘Answere’.
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.
KiH 93
Copy, headed ‘The fayre boyes aunswere’ and here beginning ‘Black Gyrle, complayne not yt I fly’.
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.
KiH 94
Copy, headed ‘Responsio’.
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.
By Occasion of the young Prince his happy Birth. May 29. 1630 (‘At this glad Triumph, when most Poëts use’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 73-5.
*KiH 95
Copy, with the date ‘May: 29. 1630’ in King's hand.
In: the MS described under KiH 3 (KiH Δ 1). c.1633-58.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 96
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 97
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 98
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 100
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
KiH 101
Copy, untitled.
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).
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 102
Copy, subscribed ‘H King’.
In: the MS described under KiH 9 (KiH Δ 9). c.1641-9.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 103
Copy, headed ‘By occasion of the yong Prince Charles his happy birth’, subscribed ‘H: K:’.
In: the MS described under KiH 17 (KiH Δ 10). c.1633.
This MS collated in Crum.
The Change (‘We lov'd as friends now twenty years and more’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 186-7.
The Defence (‘Why slightest thou what I approve?’)
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 145-6.
KiH 104
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under KiH 3 (KiH Δ 1). c.1633-58.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 106
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 110
Copy, imperfect at the end.
In: the MS described under KiH 101 (KiH Δ 7). c.1625-46.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 111
Copy, headed ‘The Answere’, subscribed in monogram format ‘HK’.
In: the MS described under KiH 32 (KiH Δ 11). c.1630s.
KiH 112
Copy, headed ‘A louer to one yt misiudged his Mistriss’.
In: the MS described under KiH 34. c.1630s.
KiH 113
Copy, headed ‘A Lover to one yt misiudged & desparaged ye beauety of his Mrs:’.
In: the MS described under KiH 38. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 114
Copy, headed ‘A censure on one disproving his love’.
In: the MS described under KiH 40. c.1635-44.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 115
Copy, headed ‘One that was suitour to a gentlewoman more vertuous then faire wrote these verses to a freind that dislikt his choice’.
In: the MS described under KiH 41. c.1638.
KiH 116
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘H: K:’.
In: the MS described under KiH 47.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 117
Copy, headed ‘To one that slighted his Mris.’
In: A miscellany of verse and prose, iii + 141 leaves. Compiled by Matthew Crosse, Oxford University bedell of law. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 118
Copy, headed ‘A Louer to one dispraising his mistresse’.
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.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 119
Copy, headed ‘A louer to one yt misiudged his Mrs’.
In: the MS described under KiH 56. c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 120
Copy, headed ‘A louer to one yt misiudged of his Mistris’.
In: the MS described under KiH 63. c.early 1630s.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 121
Copy, headed ‘A true louers amie’.
In: the MS described under KiH 67. c.late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 122
Second copy, headed ‘To one yt misiudged his Mris’.
In: the MS described under KiH 67. c.late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 123
Copy, headed ‘One to his freind disliking his loue being more vertuous then faire’.
In: the MS described under KiH 71. c.1650s.
KiH 124
Copy, headed ‘Vpon his choice’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, 170 leaves, paginated 1-8 (Latin text in a small secretary hand), then pp. 1-162 (in one or possibly two largely italic hands; pp. 108-57 blanks; pp. 158-62 containing later notes), in modern red morocco gilt. The pagination cited below relates to the second, main series of pagination. c.1640.
Inscribed on a flyleaf in red ink ‘Matheus Day me suum vvst’: i.e. Matthew Day (d.1661), five times Mayor of Windsor. Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger. Collier's sale, 1884, lot 906. Formerly Folger MS 452.1.
KiH 125
Copy, headed ‘On a deformed Mrs’.
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.
KiH 127
Copy, headed ‘One yt was a Suitor to a Gentlewoman more Vertuous yn faire, wrote these to a freind of his yt disliked ye Choyce’.
In: the MS described under KiH 77. c.late 1630s.
KiH 127.5
Copy, headed ‘The Answer’ and subscribed ‘J. K.’
In: the MS described under KiH 79.5. c.1630s.
KiH 128
Copy, headed ‘Verses sent to his friend who blameinge him for not likeinge his Mris: and saying she was foule and blacke’.
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. 31.
KiH 129
Copy, in a musical setting by John Atkins.
In: A folio songbook, in a single secretary hand, some items misnumbered, 144 leaves. c.1640s.
Once owned by the Shirley family, Earls Ferrers, of Staunton Harold, Leicestershire. Also owned, and annotated, by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.
Generally cited as the Earl Ferrers MS. Collated in Cutts, ‘Drexel Manuscript 4041’, MD, 18 (1964), 151-202. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 9 (New York & London, 1987).
This MS collated in Cutts, ‘Drexel Manuscript 4041’, p. 174. Recorded in Crum.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4041, No. 42, ff. 31v-2v.
KiH 130
Copy, in a musical setting by John Atkins.
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 Crum.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 222.
KiH 131
Copy, headed ‘A Louer to one that misjudg'd his mistresse’.
In: the MS described under KiH 84. c.1634.
KiH 132
Copy, headed ‘An Answere to a diswasiue freind’.
In: the MS described under KiH 87. c.1638-42.
KiH 133
Copy of lines 1-8, in a mixed hand, untitled, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse, once folded as a letter or packet. Mid-17th century.
In: A bundle of unbound poems and songs, in various hands and paper sizes.
Among the papers of the Sanford family. Formerly DD/SF C/2635, Box 1 and DD/SF 4516.
KiH 133.5
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Why slight'st thou her whom I approve?’.
In: A folio formal verse miscellany, in a single rounded hand, 259 pages (plus a three-page index), in modern boards. The contents, the latest of which (on pp. 203-7) can be dated to a marriage that took place in November 1656, reflect the taste of Interregnum Royalist sympathisers. c.Late 1650s.
Formerly in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 4001. Sotheby's, 29 June 1946, lot 164, to Myers. Then in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
KiH 133.8
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Why slights thou her whom I approue’.
In: the MS described under KiH 88.5. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 45r-v.
KiH 134
Copy, headed ‘A louer to one dispraising his Mris’.
In: the MS described under KiH 92. c.1640.
The Departure. An Elegy (‘Were I to leave no more than a Good Freind’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 163-4.
KiH 135
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy’.
In: the MS described under KiH 3 (KiH Δ 1). c.1633-58.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 137
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy’.
In: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 141
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy’, subscribed ‘H: King:’.
In: the MS described under KiH 9 (KiH Δ 9). c.1641-9.
This MS collated in Crum.
The Dirge (‘What is th' Existence of Man's Life?’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 177-8.
KiH 142
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 3 (KiH Δ 1). c.1633-58.
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 142.5
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, compiled chiefly by Eliza Chapman, 89 leaves. 1788-9 [with additions to 1817].
Among collections of Captain Montagu Montagu, RN (d.1863).
KiH 142.8
Copy, headed ‘On the fragility of man’, subscribed ‘D. H. K.’
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, largely in one secretary hand, written from both ends, with indexes (ff. 2r-3r, 168r-v), 168 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. Compiled by Sir John Perceval, Bt (1629-65), probably while at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Volume CXCII of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family. c.1646-9.
KiH 143
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 145
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
KiH 146.5
Copy, in a 19th-century hand, headed ‘From Dr. King's very rare volume of poems. 1657. The Dirge (p: 147)’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, predominantly in a single hand, with 19th-century additions (pp. 195 onwards, at least partly from earlier MS sources), 279 pages, in contemporary calf. c.1644 (and later).
Inscribed (f. [ir]) ‘William Han: 1644’, probably by the academic compiler.
An Elegy Occasioned by Sicknesse (‘Well did the Prophet ask, Lord what is Man?’)
First published in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 12-15]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 174-7.
*KiH 147
Copy, with some punctuation probably in King's hand.
In: the MS described under KiH 3 (KiH Δ 1). c.1633-58.
Edited in part from this MS in Crum.
*KiH 148
Copy, with King's autograph corrections, on two conjugate folio leaves. Early-mid-17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of letters, verses, academic plays and other documents, in various hands and paper sizes, 253 leaves, in 18th-century black half-calf.
Assembled by Thomas Hearne (178-1735), antiquary, who has inscribed a slip attached to the front pastedown ‘Tho: Hearne Junij 21o. 1709’.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 149
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 150
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited in part from this MS in Crum.
KiH 152
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
KiH 155
Copy, headed ‘A Definition of Man’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany probably associated with Oxford. Late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 157
Copy, headed ‘Vpon ye recouery of a dangerous sickenesse’, subscribed ‘Doct: Hen: Kinge’.
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.
KiH 158
Copy in: A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in probably several neat secretary and italic hands, 194 pages. Compiled, probably at least in part, by ‘George Turner Scoolmaster’, as his name is inscribed at the end, a couplet on p. 179 reading ‘Hic liber me pertinet and beare yt well in minde / Per me Georgium Turner so curteous and kinde’. Possible contributors are members of the Bancrofte family, whom he might perhaps have tutored. c.1624-1645.
Various inscribed names (sometimes more than once): ‘Anne Bancrofte’, and ‘Mary Bancrofte’. Also, under ‘1624’, a list of names with perhaps birthdates: ‘Mary Bancrofte Ap. 28. 1611’, ‘Rich Bancrofte May 2. 1608’, ‘Elis Bancrofte Apr 27. 1614’, and ‘John Bancrofte Ap 30 1616’. A legal document in the volume, dated 4 November 1645, relates to Willesden, Kilburn and Hampstead.
Formerly Folger MS 1027.2, this MS has been missing since 1991. It can be seen only on microfilm (Film Fo 4376.8).
KiH 160
Copy, headed ‘A Coppy of verses composed on the frailty of man’.
In: A small quarto miscellany, in various hands, possibly compiled in part by one William Leigh, in modern leather. c.1650.
Inscribed (f. 1v) ‘Buckley 1772’. Acquired in 1950 from P.M. Mill. Formerly MS Leigh, William (?), comp., Commonplace Book (ca. 1650).
This volume offered in Maggs's sale catalogue No. 640 (1937), item 302.
KiH 161
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 128. c.1638.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), pp. 70-2.
An Elegy Upon Mrs. Kirk unfortunately drowned in Thames (‘For all the Ship-wracks, and the liquid graves’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 96-7.
KiH 162
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy: Vpon a Lady vnfortunately drowned in the Thames’.
In: the MS described under KiH 7 (KiH Δ 5). c.1646-8.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 163
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy Vpon a Lady vnfortunately drowned in Thames’.
In: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
KiH 164
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie upon a Lady vnfortunately drowned in the Thames’.
In: the MS described under KiH 101 (KiH Δ 7). c.1625-46.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 165
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy: on A Lady unfortunately drowned in Thames’, subscribed ‘Dr Henry Kinge’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands, including eight poems by Randolph (one twice), 102 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. Fols 1r-93v, 95r-100v in the hand of Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London (whose name is inscribed on a flyleaf: f. 1*); f. 94r-v in an unidentified hand, and ff. 101v-2r in that of Peter Calfe's son, Peter Calfe the Younger (d.1693). c.1650-9.
Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford. Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Janu. 6. 1738/9’.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6917 with which it was once bound, as the ‘Calfe MS’: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 166
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie Vppon a Lady unfortunately Drowned in the Thames’.
In: An octavo volume of nine poems by Henry King, written in oblong format in a single stylish hand up to f. 24v, subsequently used in upright format for culinary and medical receipts in other hands, 48 leaves, in later blind-stamped calf. c.1630s.
Bookplate of J. Eliot Hodgkin, FSA (1829-1912), engineer and book collector, of Richmond, Surrey. Sotheby's, 12 May 1914 (Hodgkin sale).
Recorded in HMC, 15th Report, 41-2, and Appendix II [30].
An Elegy Upon my Best Friend L.K.C. (‘Should we our Sorrows in this Method range’)
First published in Poems (1664). Crum, pp. 133-5.
KiH 167
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy on the right Honourable and my Worthyest Freind the Lady Katherine Countesse of Leinst'r’.
In: the MS described under KiH 3 (KiH Δ 1). c.1633-58.
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
An Elegy Upon Prince Henryes Death (‘Keep station Nature, and rest Heaven sure’)
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 65.
*KiH 168
Copy, with an autograph correction by King, headed ‘Upon Prince Henryes Death’.
In: the MS described under KiH 3 (KiH Δ 1). c.1633-58.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 169
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 170
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 171
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 172
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Prince Henryes Death’.
In: the MS described under KiH 7 (KiH Δ 5). c.1646-8.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 173
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Prince Henryes Death’; c.1636.
In: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
KiH 174
Copy, headed ‘On prince Henry. An Elegie’; c.1625-30s.
In: the MS described under KiH 101 (KiH Δ 7). c.1625-46.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 175
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on Prince Henrys Death’, subscribed in monogram format ‘HK’.
In: the MS described under KiH 32 (KiH Δ 11). c.1630s.
KiH 176
Copy, headed ‘On Prince Henry’.
In: the MS described under KiH 38. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 177
Copy, headed ‘On Prince Henry's Death’.
In: the MS described under KiH 43. c.1634-43.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 178
Copy, headed ‘On Prince Henries death’.
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 collated in Crum.
KiH 179
Copy, headed ‘On Prince Henries death’.
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.
KiH 180
Copy, headed ‘On the death of Prince Henry’.
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
KiH 184
Copy, headed ‘On ye Death of Prince Henry’.
In: the MS described under KiH 90. c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 140-1.
An Elegy Upon S.W.R. (‘I will not weep. For 'twere as great a Sinne’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 66.
*KiH 185
Copy, with autograph corrections by King, headed ‘An Elegy’.
In: the MS described under KiH 3 (KiH Δ 1). c.1633-58.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 187
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy’.
In: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 189
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy’.
In: the MS described under KiH 7 (KiH Δ 5). c.1646-8.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 191
Copy, headed ‘On Sr. Walter Rawleigh’.
In: the MS described under KiH 101 (KiH Δ 7). c.1625-46.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 194
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy on Sr W. Raleigh’.
In: A duodecimo commonplace book of extracts, in English and Latin, written from both ends, 60 leaves, disbound. Owned and probably compiled by John Abbott (b.1653/4), of St John's College, Oxford. c.1670s.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 195
Copy, headed ‘on Sr Walter Rawleigh’.
In: the MS described under KiH 178. c.1630s[-75].
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 195.5
Copy, headed ‘Vpon his death and Elegie’.
In: A folio volume of state documents, speeches and verse, 284 leaves (plus blanks), in modern calf gilt. Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 27 of the Hopkinson MSS. Chiefly transcribed from papers belonging to John Savile, Baron of Pontefract, and Edward Taylor, of Furnivall's Inn, Holborn. 1674.
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. 298.
KiH 196
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the death of Sr Walter Rawleighe beheaded 1619’.
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.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 299.
KiH 197
Copy, headed ‘On ye Death of Sr W. Rauley.’
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single neat predominantly italic hand, 72 leaves, in old leather. Probably compiled by one ‘H.S.’, a Cambridge man. c.1640s-50s.
Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector, with his bookplate and inscription ‘1806 Purchased of Lansdown of Bristol’. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 192.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 198
Copy, headed ‘On Sr Walter Raleigh by W. R.’
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several largely italic hands, closely written, 148 leaves (plus blanks), in modern quarter morocco gilt. Probably compiled by university or inns of court men. c.1620s-30s.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 199
Copy, headed ‘on the death of Sr: Walter Rawleighe’.
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].
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 200
Copy, headed ‘Vpon ye Death of Sr Walter Raleigh beheaded 1619’, subscribed ‘Dr H: King’.
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 recorded in Crum.
KiH 204
Copy, headed ‘On Sr Walter Rawley’, ‘by Bp. King’ added in a different hand.
In: the MS described under KiH 74.5. c.1630s-40s.
KiH 204.5
Copy, headed ‘On Sr: water Raughlye beheaded. 1619’.
In: the MS described under KiH 79.5. c.1630s.
KiH 204.8
Copy, headed ‘Vpon ye death of Sr Walter Raleigh’, among other texts relating to Ralegh.
In: A folio miscellany of verse and prose on state matters, entitled Ephemeris Chirographoru quorudam Memorabiliam Succincta, 703 pages, in modern calf gilt. A formal compilation written throughout in a calligraphic hand, in black and red inks with elaborate black and coloured decorations and patterned layouts, associated with one Henry Feilde, with his inscription (p. 1) ‘No 4. Henry Feilde 1642’. c.1642.
Bookplates of Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary, and of the Rev. Charles Winn (1795-1874), of Nostell Priory, Yorkshire. Christie's, 2 July 1975, lot 229, to H.P. Kraus. Sotheby's, New York, 17 December 1992, lot 95.
Facsimile example in Sotheby's sale catalogue.
KiH 204.9
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy vpon Sr Water R:’, subscribed ‘Bp. King’.
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.
KiH 205
Copy, headed ‘Vppon the death of Sr Walter Rawleigh who was beheaded Anno Di 1619’
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.
An Elegy Upon the Bishopp of London John King (‘Sad Relick of a Blessed Soule! whose trust’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 172-3.
*KiH 206
Copy, with a correction possibly in King's autograph.
In: the MS described under KiH 3 (KiH Δ 1). c.1633-58.
Edited in part from this MS in Crum.
KiH 207
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 208
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited in part from this MS in Crum.
KiH 209
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 211
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
KiH 212
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy’.
In: the MS described under KiH 101 (KiH Δ 7). c.1625-46.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 213
Copy 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).
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 214
Copy, subscribed ‘H: King:’.
In: the MS described under KiH 9 (KiH Δ 9). c.1641-9.
This MS recorded in Crum.
An Elegy Upon the death of Mr. Edward Holt (‘Whether thy Father's, or Disease's rage’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 98-9.
An Elegy Upon the immature losse of the most vertuous Lady Anne Riche (‘I envy not thy mortall triumphes, Death!’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 93-5.
KiH 218
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 3 (KiH Δ 1). c.1633-58.
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 220
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
KiH 222
Copy, subscribed ‘Dr Hen: King’.
In: A quarto miscellany of poems on the death of Lady Rich, 44 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. With a general title-page (f. 1r), The Shadow of the (sometimes) right Faire, Vertuous, and Honourable Lady Anne Rich Now an Happy, Glorious, and Perfected Saint in Heaven, and (ff. 2r-3r) a dedication dated 22 October 1638; the miscellany collected by, and apparently in the hand of, John Gauden (1605-62), later Bishop of Worcester. 1638.
Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Ger. Sleigh’. Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 106 (1949), item 4.
This MS collated in Crum.
An Elegy Upon the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus (‘Like a cold Fatall Sweat which ushers Death’)
First published in The Swedish Intelligencer, Third Part (London, 1633). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 77-81.
*KiH 223
Copy, with correction possibly in King's autograph.
In: the MS described under KiH 3 (KiH Δ 1). c.1633-58.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 224
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 225
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 226
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 228
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
KiH 230
Copy, subscribed ‘D: Hen: Kinge’.
In: the MS described under KiH 213 (KiH Δ 8). c.1620-50.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 231
Copy, on two small folio conjugate leaves.
In: A composite volume of verse collected by John Locke (1632-1704), philosopher, partly in his hand, partly in that of Sylvester Brownover, 50 leaves. c.1680s-90s.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 232
Copy, untitled, later docketed ‘Dr Henry Kinge...’.
In: A folio composite volume, chiefly of English and Latin verse, in various hands; vi + 186 leaves, in reversed calf.
Scribbling on f. iir including ‘ffor mr William Rabey in New=market...’, ‘ffor my Louing ffriend in G John westhropp at mr Rogers Reringe house Bury in S[uffolk]’, ‘ffor mr John fford at his house in Newmarket in the countey of cambridge’; notes on f. iiiv-ivr, one ‘Recd 22 July 1669’, subscribed ‘John Cooke’ and including, on f. vir, ‘ffor mr John Cocke at his howse neere the white harte in Thetford...’. Later owned, in the 1730s, by Charles Barlow, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (his bookplate f. iiv).
KiH 233
Copy, headed ‘Elegie vpon the Victorious King of Sweden’.
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.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 234
Copy, headed ‘An Elogie on the death of the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus. / by Doctor Hen: King’.
In: the MS described under KiH 125. c.1630s.
KiH 235
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy vpon ye K of Sueden’, subscribed ‘D: K:’.
In: the MS described under KiH 74.5. c.1630s-40s.
KiH 236.5
Copy, untitled.
In: A tall folio composite volume chiefly of verse, entitled The workes of the Lady Ann Southwell Decemb: 2o 1626, assembled from the papers of Lady Ann Southwell (1573-1636), including (ff. 59r, 60v-1r) an inventory of her goods and (f. 64v-5v) a list of her books, in several hands, including hers and that of her second husband Henry Sibthorpe, as well as that of John Sibthorpe (? Henry's father), whose brief contributions date from 1588, 74 leaves (plus a few tipped-in), in 19th-century calf gilt. c.1626-36.
Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1836, item 1032. In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8581. Sotheby's, 19808 (Phillipps same), lot 699, to Bertram Dobell. Acquired from P.J. and A.E. Dobell by Henry Clay Folger in 1927. Formerly Folger MS 1669.1.
Complete edition of this volume, with facsimile examples, in The Southwell-Sibthorpe Commonplace Book: Folger MS. V.b.198, ed. Jean Klene, C.S.C. (Tempe, Arizona, 1997). Also discussed by Jean Klene, with facsimile examples, in ‘“Monuments of an Endless affection”: Folger MS V.b.198 and Lady Anne Southwell’, EMS, 9 (2000), 165-86, and discussed, with facsimiles of f. 9r-v, in Victoria E. Burke, ‘Materiality and Form in the Seventeenth-Century Miscellanies of Anne Southwell, Elizabeth Hastings, and Jane Truesdale’, EMS, 16 (2011), 219-41.
Edited from this MS in Klene (1997), pp. 36-9.
KiH 238
Copy, in a neat italic hand, headed ‘An Elegy vpon the most victorious King of Sweden’, subscribed ‘OXO: D: K.’, on two conjugate folio leaves, foliated in pencil 230-231. c.1632.
In: A folio composite volume of Caroline state papers relating to Sweden, in various hands, stamped foliation 111-244, in modern boards.
KiH 239
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy made by Dr Kinge on ye k: of Sweden. a:d: 1637’.
In: the MS described under KiH 84. c.1634.
KiH 240
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on Gustavus Adolphus Kinge of Sweden’.
In: the MS described under KiH 85. c.1635.
KiH 241
Copy, headed ‘Elegie On Gustauus Adolphus victorious king of Sweden’, subscribed ‘Dr Hen: King’.
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 (erroneously cited as ‘MS. 417’) recorded in Crum.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 23 (James 416), ff. 67v-70r.
KiH 242
Copy, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter. In a neat hand, untitled, subscribed ‘Dr. Hen. King’, and endorsed ‘The kinge of Sweden his Lamentale by Dor Kinge’. c.1630s.
Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1083 (Summer 1988), item 26.
KiH 243
Copy, in a composite folio volume of verse, 13 leaves in all. 17th century.
Dobell, sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 347. Quaritch, sale catalogue No. 1083 (Summer 1988), item 26.
Epigram (‘Hammond his Master's Cabbanet broke ope’)
First published in The Poems of Bishop Henry King, ed. John Sparrow (London, 1925), p. 154. Crum, p. 101.
KiH 244
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 7 (KiH Δ 5). c.1646-8.
Edited from this MS in Sparrow and in Crum.
Epigram (‘He whose advent'rous keele ploughes the rough Seas’)
First published in Hannah (1843), p. 129. Crum, p. 157.
KiH 246
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 247
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 248
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 250
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
Epigram (‘I would not in my Love too soone prevaile’)
First published in The Gentleman's Magazine, 5 (July 1735), 380. The English Poems of Henry King, ed. Lawrence Mason (New Haven, 1914), p. 174. Crum, p. 157.
KiH 252
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 253
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 254
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 255
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 7 (KiH Δ 5). c.1646-8.
KiH 256
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
Epigram (‘The fate of Bookes is diverse as man's Sense’)
First published in Hannah (1843), p. 130. Crum, p. 156.
KiH 258
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited from this MS in Hannah and chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 259
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
Epigram (‘To what serve Lawes where only mony reignes?’)
First published in Hannah (1843), p. 127. Crum, p. 156.
KiH 262
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 263
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 264
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 266
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
Epigram (‘When Arria to her Paetus had bequeath'd’)
First published in Hannah (1843), p. 128. Crum, p. 156.
KiH 268
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 269
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 270
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 272
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset (‘Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere’)
First published, in an abridged version, in Certain Elegant Poems by Dr. Corbet (London, 1647). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 67-8.
KiH 275
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 275.5
Copy, ascribed to ‘Dr. Corbett Bp. of Norwich’.
In: A quarto volume of epitaphs, in Latin and English, apparently compiled by one F. Cumming, 140 leaves. c.1784-1810.
KiH 276
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 278
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
KiH 279
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on the truly Noble Richard Earle of Dorsett’.
In: the MS described under KiH 101 (KiH Δ 7). c.1625-46.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 280
Copy, headed ‘On the same’ [i.e. the Earl of Dorset], subscribed in monogram format ‘HK’.
In: the MS described under KiH 32 (KiH Δ 11). c.1630s.
KiH 281
Copy 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 Crum.
KiH 282
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on Rich: -- Earle if Dorset who dyed on Easterday’.
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).
KiH 283
Copy, here ascribed to ‘Dr. Corbett. B: of Oxon’.
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.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 284
Copy, headed ‘On the Earle of Dorset by Dr. Corbett’.
In: the MS described under KiH 41. c.1638.
KiH 284.5
Copy, transcribed from KiH 291.
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.
KiH 285
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on his most honour'd freind Richard Earle of Dorset’.
In: the MS described under KiH 178. c.1630s[-75].
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 286
Copy, headed ‘On the Earle of Dorsetts death’.
In: the MS described under KiH 56. c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 287
Copy of lines 7-16 headed ‘A decade of verse in praise of the Ld of Dorsett, among those on his death, by Ric: Corbett’, here beginning ‘He lou'd men for his honour, not his ends’, and subscribed ‘Ric: Corbett’.
In: A quarto miscellany and memorandum book, in three or more cursive mixed hands, 113 leaves, in modern binding. Compiled, perhaps largely, by ‘Justinian Paget Es[q.] a Lawyer’, whose name is so inscribed on a flyleaf (f. 1*r), a number of the contents relating to the Paget family and also with references (ff. 34v-5v) to ‘my sister Ann Maydwell’. c.1633-1645.
The contents suggest an Inns of Court and possible Christ Church, Oxford, connection.
KiH 288
Copy, headed ‘On ye Earle of Dorsett death’, subscribed ‘Dr Rich: Corbett’.
In: the MS described under KiH 61. c.1635.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 289
Copy, headed ‘On the Earle of Dorset his death’.
In: the MS described under KiH 62. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 290
Copy, headed ‘On the Earle of Dorsetts death’.
In: the MS described under KiH 63. c.early 1630s.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 291
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on ye trulye Noble Rich: E. of Dorset who leaft this world ye [space] of March. 1624’, subscribed ‘Hen King’.
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.
A 19th-century transcript of this MS is in the Bodleian, MS Firth d.7, ff. 169-70 (recorded in Crum, p. 60).
KiH 292
Copy, headed ‘On ye Ea: of dorsets death’.
In: the MS described under KiH 67. c.late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 294
Copy, headed ‘On the death of Rich: Earle of Dorsett: R:C:’.
In: the MS described under KiH 73. c.1630s[-55].
KiH 295
Copy, headed ‘On the death of Richard Earle of Dorset. Dr H King’.
In: the MS described under KiH 18. c.1637-51.
KiH 296
Copy, headed ‘On the Earle of Dorsett’.
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.
KiH 297
Copy, headed ‘On ye Earle of Dorsets death’.
In: the MS described under KiH 128. c.1638.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), p. 21.
KiH 298
Copy, untitled.
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).
KiH 300
Copy, headed ‘On the Earle of Dorsets death’, imperfect, half torn away.
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.
KiH 301
Copy, headed ‘On ye Earle of Dorcet’ and subscribed ‘R: Corbet’.
In: the MS described under KiH 93. c.1650.
KiH 301.5
Copy, headed ‘On ye Earle of Dorset’.
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.
An Epitaph On Niobe turn'd to Stone (‘This Pile thou see'st, built out of Flesh not Stone’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 156.
KiH 303
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 304
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 305
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 307
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
KiH 308
Copy, subscribed ‘H K’.
In: the MS described under KiH 17 (KiH Δ 10). c.1633.
This MS recorded in Crum.
An Essay on Death and a Prison (‘A Prison is in all things like a Grave’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 139-42.
KiH 310
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 311
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 312
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 314
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
KiH 316
Copy in the hand of Thomas Manne (in a variant style), on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves.
In: A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands, 171 leaves, in half brown morocco. Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary, his brother Oliver, and Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 317
Copy, headed ‘On A prison’.
In: the MS described under KiH 142.8. c.1646-9.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 318
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 84. c.1634.
An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind (‘Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.
*KiH 319
Copy, with autograph corrections by King.
In: the MS described under KiH 3 (KiH Δ 1). c.1633-58.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 320
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 321
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum. Facsimile of f. 27v in Keynes, p. 93.
KiH 322
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 323
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 7 (KiH Δ 5). c.1646-8.
This MS collated in Crum. Edited in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), No. 14 (pp. 9-13). Facsimile of p. 37 in Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), facing p. 298.
KiH 324
Copy, headed ‘An Exequy’.
In: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
Facsimile of two pages in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), pp. 186-7.
KiH 325
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 101 (KiH Δ 7). c.1625-46.
This MS collated in Crum. Facsimile of first page in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 26 June 1974, p. 116.
KiH 326
Copy, subscribed ‘D: H: Kinge’.
In: the MS described under KiH 213 (KiH Δ 8). c.1620-50.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 327
Copy of lines 1-49; imperfect, lacking the ending.
In: the MS described under KiH 32 (KiH Δ 11). c.1630s.
KiH 328
Copy, headed ‘An Ellegye by Dr Harry Kinge on the death of his wife’, on two conjugate folio leaves. c.1630s-40s.
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 Crum.
KiH 329
Copy 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.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 330
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie by Dr H. Kinge vppon his Wife’.
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.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 332
Copy, in a neat Roman hand, on two folio leaves probably once conjugate. Early-mid-17th century.
In: the MS described under KiH 148.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 333
Copy on two folio leaves, slightly imperfect; mid-17th century.
In: the MS described under KiH 232.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 334
Copy, headed ‘Dr: Kinge On his deceased Wife’.
In: the MS described under KiH 233. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 335
Copy, subscribed ‘H: K:’.
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.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 336
Copy, in the hand of Thomas Manne, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter.
In: the MS described under KiH 316.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 337
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy by Doctour H: King upon the death of his wife’.
In: the MS described under KiH 59. c.1640s.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 338
Copy in: An octavo notebook of extracts, chiefly verse, compiled by one or two University of Cambridge men, 69 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1653-60s.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 339
Copy, headed ‘Dr Kinge on his wife's death’.
In: the MS described under KiH 67. c.late 1630s.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 341
Copy, headed ‘To his matchlesse neuer to bee forgotten friend’, subscribed with a monogram ‘HK’.
In: the MS described under KiH 180. c.1630s.
KiH 342
Copy, headed ‘Dr Henry King vpon the death of his Wife. i623’.
In: the MS described under KiH 18. c.1637-51.
KiH 343
Copy, subscribed in monogram form ‘HK’.
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.
KiH 343.5
Copy, in double columns, in a predominantly secretary hand, headed ‘An Elegie Writen by Mr Barnard brother to Mres Jernegan yt dyed at Acton’.
In: the MS described under KiH 236.5. c.1626-36.
Edited from this MS in Klene (1997), pp. 28-32.
KiH 344
Copy, subscribed ‘Doctor Hen: King’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, written in alternating secretary and italic scripts, probably in a single hand; foliated in ink 1-32 and paginated in pencil 33-96, 32 leaves (lacking final leaf). Including nine poems by Randolph, plus two of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 10110. Bookplate of Robert Hoe (1839-1909), New York businessman and book collector.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Huntington MS’: RnT Δ 9. Complete microfilm at the Shakespeare Institute, Birmingham (Mic S 15).
KiH 345
Copy, in Constance Fowler's hand, headed ‘DK on the Death of his wife’.
In: A quarto miscellany of recusant verse, many of the 65 poems relating to the circle of the Catholic Aston family, in three hands, 200 leaves (including five preliminary blanks, and ff. 53r-135v are blank), in contemporary leather gilt. Compiled principally by Constance Fowler (d.1664), daughter of the diplomat Walter Aston, Baron Aston of Forfar (1584-1639), of Tixall and Colton, Staffordshire, her roman hand responsible for ff. 6r, 8r-15v, 24v-34v, 46v-52v, 136r-9r, 143v-59r, and 182v-95v. The second, predominantly secretary hand, responsible for fourteen poems on ff. 7r-v, 16r-24r, and 35r-46r, is that of Constance's sister Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68). The third hand, on ff. 196r-200v, is that of Constance's brother-in-law Sir William Pershall. c.1635-50s.
William H. Robinson, sale catalogue (1925), item 472.
This volume discussed, with a complete first-line index and a facsimile of f. 25r, in Jenijoy La Belle, ‘The Huntington Aston Manuscript’, The Book Collector, 29 (Winter 1980), 542-67. See also Jenijoy La Belle, ‘A True Love's Knot: The Letters of Constance Fowler and the Poems of Herbert Aston’, JEGP, 79 (1980), 13-31. The complete volume edited in The Verse Miscellany of Constance Aston Fowler: A Diplomatic Edition, ed. Deborah Aldrich-Watson (Tempe, Arizona, 2000), with a facsimile of f. 28v on p. lxiv.
Aldrich-Watson, pp. 116-19. This MS collated in La Belle, pp. 549-50.
KiH 345.5
Copy, headed ‘Dr. Kinges Elegie upon his wife’.
In: the MS described under KiH 78.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 70-3.
KiH 345.8
Copy, headed ‘An Exequie by Mr. H. Kinge on his wife’.
In: the MS described under KiH 79.5. c.1630s.
KiH 346
Copy, headed ‘Dr Kinge on his wifes death’.
In: the MS described under KiH 128. c.1638.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), pp. 17-20.
KiH 347
Copy, inscribed at the side ‘Mr Henry King’.
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).
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 349
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie’.
In: the MS described under KiH 89. c.1623-5.
This MS collated in Crum.
Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R. 3. 12 (James 592), pp. 247-50.
KiH 350.5
Copy, headed ‘Dr Henry King On his Wife’.
In: the MS described under KiH 301.5. c.late 1630s.
KiH 351
Copy, in a neat italic hand, headed ‘In obitum venerabilis generosae Mae Margaretae Kay nunquam satis deploratae carmen lugubre’, on two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed ‘To his much honred: and most worthy ffreind Mr. John Kay Junior: at Denbye grange these prsent’ Mid-17th century.
Formerly part of Phillipps MS 17696.
The Farwell (‘Farwell fond Love, under whose childish whipp’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 150.
See also B&F 121-2.
KiH 352
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under KiH 3 (KiH Δ 1). c.1633-58.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 353
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 354
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 355
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 358
Copy of the last four lines; imperfect, lacking all the beginning, subscribed ‘R. Dorset’.
In: the MS described under KiH 101 (KiH Δ 7). c.1625-46.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 359
Copy, untitled but for the Latin motto, subscribed in monogram format. ‘HK’.
In: the MS described under KiH 32 (KiH Δ 11). c.1630s.
KiH 360
Copy, headed ‘A discontented louers passion for the losse of a false Mrs’.
In: the MS described under KiH 33 (KiH Δ 12). c.1636-40s.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 361
Copy in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, untitled, at the end of his earlier copy of a collection of state letters (ff. 87r-111r). c.1620s-30s.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters and miscellaneous papers, in various professional hands, including that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 292 leaves (plus blanks), in panelled calf.
A blank leaf (f. 88r) inscribed ‘William Howard 1635’: i.e. Lord William Howard (1563-1640), of Naworth Castle, antiquary. Owned in 1749 by John Murray.
Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 256-7 (No. 92).
This MS recorded in Crum. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 257 (No. 92.13), with a facsimile on p. 101.
KiH 362
Copy, untitled.
In: A duodecimo diary recording the progress of the Royalist army from March to September 1644, in a small cursive mixed hand, 80 leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled by Richard Symonds (1617-60), royalist soldier and antiquary. c.1644.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 363
Copy, headed ‘Cupids Renegado’ and here beginning ‘ffarewell fond Boy, under whose churlish whippe’.
In: the MS described under KiH 59. c.1640s.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 364
Copy, headed ‘A Sonnet’.
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.
KiH 366
Copy, in a musical setting by Charles Coleman, untitled.
In: A folio songbook, in at least two hands, 91 leaves (including numerous blanks), in calf gilt. c.1640s-50s.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Ann Blount’ and ‘The Lady Ann Blount’.
A complete facsimile of this volume is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 11 (New York & London, 1987).
KiH 368
Copy, headed ‘Her farewell to loue’.
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.
KiH 368.5
Copy, headed ‘A farewell to ye world’.
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.
KiH 368.6
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Farewell! farewell fond Love under whose childish whipp’.
In: the MS described under KiH 133.5. c.Late 1650s.
KiH 368.8
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under KiH 88.5. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, p. 8.
The Forlorne Hope (‘How long (vaine Hope!) dost thou my joyes suspend?’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 168-9.
*KiH 369
Copy, with a correction possibly in King's autograph.
In: the MS described under KiH 3 (KiH Δ 1). c.1633-58.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 370
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 371
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 372
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 374
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
KiH 375
Copy, subscribed ‘H: King’.
In: the MS described under KiH 9 (KiH Δ 9). c.1641-9.
This MS recorded in Crum.
The Labyrinth (‘Life is a crooked Labyrinth, and wee’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 173-4.
KiH 376
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 3 (KiH Δ 1). c.1633-58.
Edited in part from this MS in Crum.
KiH 377
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 378
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited in part from this MS in Crum.
KiH 379
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 381
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
KiH 382
Copy, subscribed ‘H: King’.
In: the MS described under KiH 9 (KiH Δ 9). c.1641-9.
This MS collated in Crum.
The Legacy (‘My dearest Love! When Thou and I must part’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 170-2.
KiH 383
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 3 (KiH Δ 1). c.1633-58.
Edited in part from this MS in Crum.
KiH 384
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited in part from this MS in Crum.
KiH 385
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 387
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
‘Let Faux his Powder-plot amaze no more’
First published by Percy Simpson in BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (p. 336). Crum, p. 253.
*KiH 392
Autograph verse of eight lines on Cromwell's dissolution of the Long Parliament, possibly of King's own composition, untitled, on a single slip of paper.
In: the MS described under KiH 1.
Edited from this MS in Simpson, loc. cit., and in Crum. Facsimile in Simpson, BLR, 4 (1952-3), after p. 208 (Plate XIV).
A Letter (‘I ne're was drest in Formes. nor can I bend’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 152-4.
KiH 394
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 395
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 396
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 398
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
KiH 399
Copy, subscribed ‘H: King’.
In: the MS described under KiH 9 (KiH Δ 9). c.1641-9.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 400
Copy, subscribed ‘H: K:’.
In: the MS described under KiH 17 (KiH Δ 10). c.1633.
This MS recorded in Crum.
Love's Harvest (‘Fond Lunatick forbeare. WHy dost thou sue’)
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 169.
KiH 402
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 403
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 404
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 406
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
KiH 407
Copy, in a mixed hand, subscribed ‘Doctor Kinge’, headed ‘Sonnett 3’, on the second page of two 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).
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 408
Copy, headed ‘Sonnet: 3:’, subscribed ‘Dr: H: King:’.
In: the MS described under KiH 74.5. c.1630s-40s.
KiH 408.5
Copy, headed ‘On A man that wold have lyen with his Mirs a night or two befor there marriage.’
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.
Madam Gabrina, Or the Ill-favourd Choice (‘I have oft wondred, why thou didst elect’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 144-5.
*KiH 409
Copy, with a correction probably in King's autograph, untitled.
In: the MS described under KiH 3 (KiH Δ 1). c.1633-58.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 411
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 415
Copy, untitled before the Spanish motto, subscribed in monogram format ‘HK’.
In: the MS described under KiH 32 (KiH Δ 11). c.1630s.
KiH 416
Copy, headed ‘On hauing married an Ill fauored Woman his frind wrighte thus to hymm’.
In: the MS described under KiH 281. c.1638.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 417
Copy, headed ‘Verses in Comendacions of an others wife’.
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.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 418
Copy, headed ‘On one that got him an vgly wife’.
In: the MS described under KiH 197. c.1640s-50s.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 418.5
Copy, headed with the Spanish epigram (here rendered as ‘Cor mala muger at remedio / Mucha Tietra por et medio’).
In: the MS described under KiH 79.5. c.1630s.
KiH 419
Copy, headed ‘To his Freind that was enamour'd on a Deformed woeman’.
In: the MS described under KiH 83. c.1630s.
My Midd-night Meditation (‘Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care’)
First published, as ‘Man's Miserie, by Dr. K’, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 5-6]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 157-8.
KiH 421
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 422
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 423
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
Facsimile of this MS in Christie's sale catalogue, 14 June 1979, Plate 43.
KiH 425
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
KiH 427
Copy, subscribed in monogram format ‘HK’.
In: the MS described under KiH 32 (KiH Δ 11). c.1630s.
KiH 428
Copy, headed ‘A meditation’ and ascribed to ‘Dr [Jhon King deleted] Hen: King’.
In: the MS described under KiH 33 (KiH Δ 12). c.1636-40s.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 429
Copy, headed ‘on man’.
In: the MS described under KiH 35. c.1630s-40s.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 430
Copy, headed ‘Mans miserie’
In: the MS described under KiH 282. c.1630s-40s.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 433
Copy, headed ‘A Midnights meditation’ and subscribed ‘ffinis JK’.
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’.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 434
Copy, headed ‘Of mans misery’ and subscribed ‘Dr John King’.
In: the MS described under KiH 43. c.1634-43.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 435
Copy, headed ‘A song’.
In: the MS described under KiH 46. Mid-late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 437
Copy, here ascribed to ‘J:K:’, transcribed from KiH 440.
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.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 439
Copy, headed ‘on mans frailetie’.
In: the MS described under KiH 56. c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 440
Copy, headed ‘On man's curiositie to prolong his daies’.
In: the MS described under KiH 57. c.1632-40.
KiH 441
Copy headed ‘on the Misery of man’, subscribed ‘H: Kinge’.
In: the MS described under KiH 199. c.1630s [-1670s].
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 442
Copy, headed ‘Mans misery’, subscribed ‘Dr John King’.
In: the MS described under KiH 61. c.1635.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 443
Copy, headed ‘A meditation of Death’, subscribed ‘Hen: King’.
In: the MS described under KiH 291. c.1630s.
KiH 445
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Doctor King’, and deleted.
In: A single ruled and trimmed octavo leaf of verse, the second (properly first) page containing a copy of William Basse's poem ‘On Mr William Shakespeare’. This leaf is folio 7 extracted from the verse miscellany now Folger MS V.a.96. c.1630s.
KiH 446
Copy, headed ‘Of mortality’, subscribed ‘Dr Henry King’.
In: the MS described under KiH 157. c.1636-77.
KiH 447
Copy, headed ‘A Midnight Meditation by Dr Jo: king’.
In: the MS described under KiH 65. c.1640s.
KiH 448
Copy, headed ‘On the life of man’ and here beginning ‘All bruised man…’.
In: the MS described under KiH 67. c.late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 449
Second copy, headed ‘On mans misery’.
In: the MS described under KiH 67. c.late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 451
Copy, untitled, under a running head ‘Dr. Jo: King &c.’
In: the MS described under KiH 73. c.1630s[-55].
KiH 452.5
Copy, headed ‘On Man. pag. 80’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, 22 leaves, in modern marbled boards. Inscribed (f. 4r) ‘The following 11 Poems are transcrib'd from a small printed 12mo voll Cal[led] “Parnassus Biceps”...1656.’ c.1750s.
KiH 453
Copy, untitled.
In: A small quarto book of ‘Dayly Obseruations both Diuine & Morall / The First part by Thomas Grocer Florilegius. 1657’, on 215 pages (paginated irregularly, plus five preliminary leaves). A commonplace book of quotations from largely devotional or philosophical texts under subject headings, neatly written in a single hand, with a title-page and table of contents. 1657.
Inscriptions in the MS including ‘Crescentius Matherus 1680’, ‘Crescentii Matheri Liber 1682’, ‘Nathanaelis Matheri Liber 1683’, ‘By Mr Oakes’, ‘Elijah Warings Book 1734’, ‘Jne Daniell 1832’, and ‘Thos Alexander -- 1847’.
KiH 455
Copy, in Constance Fowler's hand, untitled, subscribed ‘B. I.’
In: the MS described under KiH 345. c.1635-50s.
Aldrich-Watson, p. 64. This MS recorded in Jenijoy La Belle, ‘The Huntington Aston Manuscript’, BC, 29 (Winter 1980), 542-67 (p. 557).
KiH 456
Copy, headed ‘Verses compos'd one the ffrailty of mans life Made by J:H.’.
In: the MS described under KiH 160. c.1650.
KiH 458
Copy, headed ‘Upon mans life’.
In: the MS described under KiH 81. c.1643-50s.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, f. 24v.
KiH 460
Copy, headed ‘Of Mans misery’ and here ascribed to ‘Dr John King’.
In: the MS described under KiH 85. c.1635.
KiH 460.5
Copy, headed ‘A midnight meditation’.
In: the MS described under KiH 368.5. Mid-17th century.
KiH 461
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under KiH 90. c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 8-9.
KiH 462
Copy, headed ‘On Man's life’ and subscribed ‘Dr. John: King’.
In: the MS described under KiH 93. c.1650.
On the Earl of Essex (‘Essex twice made unhappy by a Wife’)
First published in Poems (London, 1664). Crum, pp. 99-100.
KiH 463
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph Vpon the Erle of Essex’; c.1646.
In: the MS described under KiH 7 (KiH Δ 5). c.1646-8.
This MS collated in Crum.
On two Children dying of one Disease, and buryed in one Grave (‘Brought forth in Sorrow, and bred up in Care’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 72.
KiH 465
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 466
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 467
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 469
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
KiH 470
Copy, subscribed ‘H: King’.
In: the MS described under KiH 9 (KiH Δ 9). c.1641-9.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 472
Copy, headed ‘Dr Henry King Vpon two little children of his dying of one disease and buryed both in one graue’.
In: the MS described under KiH 18. c.1637-51.
Paradox. That Fruition destroyes Love (‘Love is our Reason's Paradox, which still’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 182-5.
KiH 473
Copy, headed ‘The Paradoxe’.
In: the MS described under KiH 7 (KiH Δ 5). c.1646-8.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 474
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
Paradox. That it is best for a Young Maid to marry an Old Man (‘Fair one, why cannot you an old man love?’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 180-2.
KiH 477
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 101 (KiH Δ 7). c.1625-46.
This MS (erroneously cited for The Pink) recorded in Crum.
A Penitentiall Hymne (‘Hearken, O God! unto a wretche's cryes’)
First published in The Psalmes of David, 2nd edition (London, 1654). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 161-2.
KiH 479
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 480
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 481
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 483
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
KiH 484
Copy, subscribed ‘H: King:’.
In: the MS described under KiH 9 (KiH Δ 9). c.1641-9.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 485
Copy 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.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 486
Copy, apparently transcribed from KiH 485.
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.
This MS recorded in Crum.
The Pink (‘Faire one, you did on mee bestow’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 167.
*KiH 487
Copy, originally headed ‘Sonnet’, the heading ‘The Pink’ added in King's autograph; c.1633-40.
In: the MS described under KiH 3 (KiH Δ 1). c.1633-58.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 488
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 489
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 490
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 492
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
KiH 493
Copy, subscribed ‘H: King:’.
In: the MS described under KiH 9 (KiH Δ 9). c.1641-9.
This MS recorded in Crum.
Psalme CXXX paraphrased for an Antheme (‘Out of the horrour of the lowest Deep’)
First published in The Psalmes of David (London, 1651). Crum, p. 190.
KiH 494
Copy, in a musical setting, 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).
KiH 495
Copy, in a musical setting.
In: A quarto volume of anthems. Late 17th century.
Once owned by one Edward Yonge.
This MS recorded in Crum.
The Retreit (‘Pursue no more (My Thoughts!) that False Unkind’)
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 168.
*KiH 496
Copy, with autograph corrections by King, originally headed ‘Sonnet’, the heading ‘The Retreit’ added by King; c.1633-40.
In: the MS described under KiH 3 (KiH Δ 1). c.1633-58.
This MS collated in Crum. Facsimile in Keynes, p. 90.
KiH 497
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 498
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 499
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 501
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
KiH 502
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under KiH 213 (KiH Δ 8). c.1620-50.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 503
Copy, subscribed ‘H: King’.
In: the MS described under KiH 9 (KiH Δ 9). c.1641-9.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 504
Copy, in a mixed hand, headed ‘Sonnett 2’, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves.
In: the MS described under KiH 407. Early-mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Crum.
St. Valentine's Day (‘Now that each feather'd Chorister doth sing’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 187-8.
A Salutation of His Majestye's Shipp The Soveraigne (‘Move on thou Floating Trophee built to Fame!’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 92-3.
KiH 508
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 3 (KiH Δ 1). c.1633-58.
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 512
Copy, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves. c.1630s.
In: A large folio composite volume of papers on public affairs, in English and Latin, in various hands, 180 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards.
The first leaf inscribed by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary.
This MS collated in Crum.
The short Wooing (‘Like an Oblation set before a Shrine’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 179-80.
KiH 513
Copy, headed ‘The Wooing’; c.1646.
In: the MS described under KiH 7 (KiH Δ 5). c.1646-8.
This MS collated in Crum.
Sic Vita (‘Like to the Falling of a Starr’)
First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 148-9.
KiH 515
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 516
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 517
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
Facsimile of this MS in Christie's sale catalogue, 14 June 1979, Plate 43.
KiH 519
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
KiH 521
Copy, subscribed ‘H K:’.
In: the MS described under KiH 17 (KiH Δ 10). c.1633.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 522
Copy, subscribed in monogram format ‘HK’
In: the MS described under KiH 32 (KiH Δ 11). c.1630s.
KiH 523
Copy, headed ‘Sonnett’.
In: the MS described under KiH 33 (KiH Δ 12). c.1636-40s.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 524
This is not the poem by Henry King but a 60-line version of Francis Quarles's “Like to the damask rose you see”.
Deleted entry, St Catharine's College, Cambridge, MS F. III. 16 (James 18), after f. 120v.
KiH 525
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.
Silence. A Sonnet (‘Peace my Hearte's blabb, be ever dumbe’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 159.
KiH 527
Copy, headed ‘Sonnett’ and here beginning at line 13 (‘But yf imparting it I doe’).
In: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 528
Copy, headed ‘Sonnet’.
In: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 532
Copy, headed ‘Sonnet’.
In: the MS described under KiH 101 (KiH Δ 7). c.1625-46.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 533
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under KiH 213 (KiH Δ 8). c.1620-50.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 534
Copy, headed ‘A Sonet’, subscribed ‘H: King’.
In: the MS described under KiH 9 (KiH Δ 9). c.1641-9.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 535
Copy, headed ‘Sonnett’.
In: the MS described under KiH 33 (KiH Δ 12). c.1636-40s.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 536
Copy, headed ‘Sonnet’.
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.
Sonnet (‘Dry those faire, those Christall Eyes’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 147-8.
KiH 538
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 539
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 540
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
Facsimile of this MS in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 21 May 1968, lot 339.
KiH 542
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
KiH 543
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under KiH 213 (KiH Δ 8). c.1620-50.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 544
Copy, untitled, subscribed in monogram format ‘HK’.
In: the MS described under KiH 32 (KiH Δ 11). c.1630s.
KiH 546
Copy, headed ‘on his discontented mrs.’
In: the MS described under KiH 35. c.1630s-40s.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 547
Copy, headed ‘To his discontented mrs’.
In: the MS described under KiH 43. c.1634-43.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 548
Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
In: the MS described under KiH 44. c.1656.
This MS collated in Cutts, MD, 10 (1956), p. 177; recorded in Crum.
KiH 549
Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
In: A folio songbook, almost entirely in a single rounded italic hand, with (ff. 3r-7v) a table of contents, 113 leaves, in 19th-century half dark red morocco. Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer (his signature f. 2v). c.1654-70s.
Arms of Eleanor Bursh on a seal affixed to f. 56r. Later owned and annotated in pencil by Thomas Oliphant (1799-1873), music editor and cataloguer.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 5 (New York & London, 1986).
KiH 551
Copy, headed ‘To a faire Lady weeping’.
In: the MS described under KiH 59. c.1640s.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 553
Copy, untitled, subscribed with the monogram ‘HK’.
In: the MS described under KiH 180. c.1630s.
KiH 555
Copy, headed ‘To a weeping gentlewoeman’.
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.
KiH 557
Copy, headed ‘On his discontented Mrs’.
In: the MS described under KiH 90. c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 114-5.
Sonnet (‘Go Thou, that vainly dost mine eyes invite’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 162.
KiH 560
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 561
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 563
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
KiH 564
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under KiH 213 (KiH Δ 8). c.1620-50.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 565
Copy, subscribed ‘H: King’.
In: the MS described under KiH 9 (KiH Δ 9). c.1641-9.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 566
Copy, subscribed ‘H: K’.
In: the MS described under KiH 17 (KiH Δ 10). c.1633.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 567
Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
In: the MS described under KiH 44. c.1656.
This MS collated in Cutts, MD, 10 (1956), p. 184; recorded in Crum.
Sonnet (‘I prethee turne that face away’)
First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1641). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.
Musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (Oxford, 1659).
KiH 569
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 570
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 571
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
Facsimile of this MS in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 21 May 1968, lot 339.
KiH 573
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
KiH 574
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under KiH 213 (KiH Δ 8). c.1620-50.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 575
Copy, subscribed ‘H: K:’.
In: the MS described under KiH 17 (KiH Δ 10). c.1633.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 576
Copy, untitled, subscribed in monogram format ‘HK’.
In: the MS described under KiH 32 (KiH Δ 11). c.1630s.
KiH 578
Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.
In: the MS described under KiH 36. c.1640s-60s.
This MS collated in John P. Cutts, ‘A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57’, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 207); recorded in Crum.
KiH 579
Copy, headed ‘To a faire but unkind Mistrisse’.
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.
KiH 580
Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
In: the MS described under KiH 44. c.1656.
This MS collated in Cutts, MD, 10 (1956), p. 177; recorded in Crum.
KiH 581
Copy, untitled.
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.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 582
Copy, untitled, subscribed with the monogram ‘HK’.
In: the MS described under KiH 180. c.1630s.
KiH 583.8
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under KiH 88.5. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 44v.
KiH 584
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under KiH 89. c.1623-5.
This MS recorded in Crum.
Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R. 3. 12 (James 592), p. 242.
Sonnet (‘Tell mee no more how faire shee is’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 158.
KiH 586
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 587
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 588
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 589
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 7 (KiH Δ 5). c.1646-8.
This MS collated in Crum. Facsimile in Keynes, p. 95.
KiH 590
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
KiH 591
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘H: K:’.
In: the MS described under KiH 213 (KiH Δ 8). c.1620-50.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 592
Copy, subscribed ‘H: K.’
In: the MS described under KiH 17 (KiH Δ 10). c.1633.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 593
Copy, subscribed in monogram format ‘HK’.
In: the MS described under KiH 32 (KiH Δ 11). c.1630s.
KiH 594
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 33 (KiH Δ 12). c.1636-40s.
KiH 595
Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
In: the MS described under KiH 44. c.1656.
This MS collated (no variants) in Cutts, MD, 10 (1956), p. 181); recorded in Crum.
KiH 596
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘by Jer: Savill’.
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.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 597
Copy, headed ‘The despayringe louer’.
In: the MS described under KiH 142.8. c.1646-9.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 598
Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
In: the MS described under KiH 494. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 599.8
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under KiH 88.5. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 45r.
Sonnet (‘Tell mee you Starrs that our affections move’)
First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales & Ayres (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.
KiH 602
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 603
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 604
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 606
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
KiH 607
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under KiH 213 (KiH Δ 8). c.1620-50.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 608
Copy, headed ‘Loue ill Requited’.
In: the MS described under KiH 17 (KiH Δ 10). c.1633.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 609
Copy, untitled, subscribed in monogram format ‘HK’.
In: the MS described under KiH 32 (KiH Δ 11). c.1630s.
KiH 611
Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.
In: the MS described under KiH 36. c.1640s-60s.
This MS collated in John P. Cutts, ‘A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57’, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 207); recorded in Crum.
KiH 612
Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
In: the MS described under KiH 44. c.1656.
This MS collated (no variants) in Cutts, MD, 10 (1956), p. 179; recorded in Crum.
KiH 613
Copy, heared ‘On his coy mistresse’ and subscribed ‘Sr Simeon Steward’.
In: the MS described under KiH 50. c.1630s [-1733].
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 614
Copy, headed ‘Loue ill-requited’.
In: the MS described under KiH 53. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 615
Copy, transcribed from KiH 618.
In: the MS described under KiH 437. c.1620s-30s.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 617
Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
In: the MS described under KiH 549. c.1654-70s.
KiH 618
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
In: the MS described under KiH 60. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 620
Copy, untitled, subscribed with the monogram ‘HK’.
In: the MS described under KiH 180. c.1630s.
Sonnet (‘Were thy heart soft, as Thou art faire’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 158-9.
KiH 623
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 624
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 625
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 627
Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
In: the MS described under KiH 44. c.1656.
This MS collated in Cutts, MD, 10 (1956), p. 200; recorded in Crum.
Sonnet (‘When I entreat, either thou wilt not heare’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 148.
KiH 629
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 630
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 631
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 633
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
KiH 634
Copy, headed ‘‘The discouraged suitor’’.
In: the MS described under KiH 17 (KiH Δ 10). c.1633.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 635
Copy, untitled, subscribed in monogram format ‘HK’.
In: the MS described under KiH 32 (KiH Δ 11). c.1630s.
KiH 637
Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
In: the MS described under KiH 44. c.1656.
This MS collated in Cutts, MD, 10 (1956), p. 180; recorded in Crum.
KiH 638
Copy, headed ‘To a Discouraged Sutor’ transcribed from KiH 641.
In: the MS described under KiH 437. c.1620s-30s.
KiH 639
Copy, headed ‘To A discouraged Sutor’, subscribed partly as a monogram ‘D: HK’.
In: the MS described under KiH 335. c.1620s.
KiH 640
Copy, untitled, subscribed with the monogram ‘HK’.
In: the MS described under KiH 180. c.1630s.
Sonnet. The Double Rock (‘Since Thou hast view'd some Gorgon, and art grow'n’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 167-8.
*KiH 642
Copy with autograph corrections by King, originally headed ‘Sonnet’, the heading ‘The Double Rock’ added by King; c.1633-40.
In: the MS described under KiH 3 (KiH Δ 1). c.1633-58.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 644
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 648
Copy, headed ‘Sonnet’.
In: the MS described under KiH 213 (KiH Δ 8). c.1620-50.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 651
Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
In: the MS described under KiH 44. c.1656.
This MS collated in Cutts, MD, 10 (1956), p. 203; recorded in Crum.
KiH 652
Copy, in a mixed hand, headed ‘Sonnett 1’, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves.
In: the MS described under KiH 407. Early-mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 653
Copy, headed ‘A sonnet against a Mistris’, subscribed ‘Dr. H: King’.
In: the MS described under KiH 124. c.1640.
Sonnet. To Patience (‘Downe stormy Passions, downe: no more’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 160.
KiH 656
Copy headed ‘Sonnet’.
In: the MS described under KiH 3 (KiH Δ 1). c.1633-58.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 658
Copy, headed ‘To Patience’.
In: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 662
Copy, headed ‘To Patience’, subscribed ‘H: King’.
In: the MS described under KiH 9 (KiH Δ 9). c.1641-9.
This MS collated in Crum.
The Surrender (‘My once Deare Love. Happlesse that I no more’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 146-7.
KiH 663
Copy headed ‘An Elegy’.
In: the MS described under KiH 3 (KiH Δ 1). c.1633-58.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 665
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy’.
In: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 667
Copy headed ‘The Surrender: An Elegy’.
In: the MS described under KiH 7 (KiH Δ 5). c.1646-8.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 669
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under KiH 101 (KiH Δ 7). c.1625-46.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 670
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under KiH 213 (KiH Δ 8). c.1620-50.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 672
Copy, headed ‘On two Loures yt must forsake each othr’, 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.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 673
Copy, headed ‘A farewell to his mistress’.
In: the MS described under KiH 117. c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 674
Copy, headed ‘The mournefull parting of 2 Louers being caused by ye disproportion of Estates’, transcribed from KiH 678.
In: the MS described under KiH 437. c.1620s-30s.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 675
Copy, headed ‘A ffarwell to his beloued Mistris’.
In: the MS described under KiH 335. c.1620s.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 676
Copy, headed ‘The mournefull partinge of tow Louers beinge caused by ye disproportion of estates’, a subscription ‘Dr HK’ deleted.
In: the MS described under KiH 335. c.1620s.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 678
Copy, headed ‘The mournfull partinge of two Lovers Caused by the disproportion of estates’, subscribed ‘T: Car’.
In: the MS described under KiH 199. c.1630s [-1670s].
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 679
Copy, headed ‘The mournful parting of Two Louers being caused by the disproportion of estates’.
In: the MS described under KiH 18. c.1637-51.
KiH 680
Copy, untitled.
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).
KiH 681
Copy, with corrections in a different ink, headed ‘A departing betweene two Louars’.
In: the MS described under KiH 79. c.1630s.
KiH 682
Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs’.
In: the MS described under KiH 90. c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 123-4.
To a Freind upon Overburie's Wife given to Hir (‘I know no fitter Subject for your view’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 155.
KiH 684
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 685
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 686
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
To a Lady who sent me a copy of verses at my going to bed (‘Lady, your art, or wit could nere devise’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 178-9, 240.
KiH 688
Copy of an early version, beginning ‘Doubtlesse the Thespian Spring doth overflow’.
In: the MS described under KiH 3 (KiH Δ 1). c.1633-58.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 689
Copy of an early version, beginning ‘Doubtlesse the Thespian Spring doth overflow’; c.1635-6.
In: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 691
Copy of the revised version.
In: the MS described under KiH 7 (KiH Δ 5). c.1646-8.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 692
Copy of an early version, beginning ‘Doubtlesse the Thespian Spring doth overflow’.
In: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
To A.R. upon the same (‘Not that I would instruct or tutor you’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 155.
KiH 695
Copy, headed ‘To A.R. in eandem’.
In: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 697
Copy, headed ‘To A.R: in eandem’.
In: the MS described under KiH 7 (KiH Δ 5). c.1646-8.
This MS collated in Crum.
To his Freinds of Christchurch upon the mislike of the Marriage of the Artes, acted at Woodstock (‘But is it true, the Court mislik't the Play’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 67.
KiH 699
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 700
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 701
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 703
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
KiH 704
Copy, subscribed ‘H: King’.
In: the MS described under KiH 9 (KiH Δ 9). c.1641-9.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 705
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the mislike of Christchurch Mariage of the Artes at Woodstock’, subscribed in monogram format. ‘HK’.
In: the MS described under KiH 32 (KiH Δ 11). c.1630s.
To his unconstant Freind (‘But say, thou very Woman, why to mee’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 142-4.
KiH 707
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 708
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 709
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 711
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
KiH 712
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under KiH 101 (KiH Δ 7). c.1625-46.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 713
Copy, subscribed in monogram format ‘HK’.
In: the MS described under KiH 32 (KiH Δ 11). c.1630s.
KiH 714
Copy, transcribed from KiH 717.
In: the MS described under KiH 437. c.1620s-30s.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 716
Copy, headed ‘To his vnconstant Mrs:’, subscribed ‘Th: Ca.’.
In: the MS described under KiH 199. c.1630s [-1670s].
Edited from this MS in The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. W. Carew Hazlitt ([London], 1870), pp. 101-3; recorded in Crum.
KiH 717
Copy, headed ‘To A Gentlewoman who prmising him marriage marryed another’.
In: the MS described under KiH 93. c.1650.
To my Dead Friend Ben: Johnson (‘I see that Wreath, which doth the Wearer arme’)
First published in Jonsonus Virbius, or the Memorie of Ben Johnson Revived by the friends of the Muses, ed. Brian Duppa (London, 1638). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 87-8.
KiH 718
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 3 (KiH Δ 1). c.1633-58.
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 719
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
To my honourd friend Mr. George Sandys (‘It is, Sir, a confess'd intrusion here’)
First published in George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1638). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 89-92.
KiH 721
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 3 (KiH Δ 1). c.1633-58.
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 722
Copy of lines 1-54, incomplete, subscribed ‘Job’.
In: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
To my Noble and Judicious Friend Mr Henry Blount upon his Voyage (‘Sir I must ever owne my self to be’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 83-7.
KiH 724
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 3 (KiH Δ 1). c.1633-58.
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 725
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 727
Copy, headed ‘To Mr. Henry Blount, vpon his Voyage to the Levant’.
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).
This MS text recorded in Crum.
To my Sister Anne King who chid mee in verse for being angry (‘Deare Nan! I would not have thy Counsaile lost’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 166.
KiH 729
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 730
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 732
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
To One demanding why Wine sparkles (‘So Diamonds sparkle, and thy Mistriss' eyes’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 188-9, 243.
KiH 733
Copy of an early version, beginning ‘Wee doe not give the Wine a sparkling name’.
In: the MS described under KiH 3 (KiH Δ 1). c.1633-58.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 734
Copy of an early version, beginning ‘Wee doe not give the wine a sparkling name’.
In: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 735
Copy of an early version, beginning ‘Wee doe not give the Wine a sparkling name’. c.1635-6.
In: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 736
Copy of an early version, beginning ‘Wee doe not give the Wine a Sparkling name’.
In: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 737
Copy of an early version, beginning ‘Wee doe not give the Wine a sparkling name’; c.1646.
In: the MS described under KiH 7 (KiH Δ 5). c.1646-8.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 738
Copy of the revised version: c.1648.
In: the MS described under KiH 7 (KiH Δ 5). c.1646-8.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 738.5
Copy of an early version, headed ‘Vpon a Demand why the Wyne sparkles’ and beginning ‘Wee doe not giue this wyne a sparkling name’.
In: the MS described under KiH 166. c.1630s.
To the Queen at Oxford (‘Great Lady! That thus quite against our use’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 97-8.
KiH 739
Copy, headed ‘To the Queene’; c.1646.
In: the MS described under KiH 7 (KiH Δ 5). c.1646-8.
This MS collated in Crum.
To the same Lady Upon Mr. Burton's Melancholy (‘If in this Glasse of Humours you doe find’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 154.
KiH 742
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 744
Copy, headed ‘To a Lady vpon Mr Burtons Melancholly’.
In: the MS described under KiH 7 (KiH Δ 5). c.1646-8.
This MS collated in Crum.
To the same Lady Upon Overburye's Wife (‘Madam, who understands you well, would sweare’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 154.
KiH 746
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 747
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 748
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
Upon a Braid of Haire in a sent by Mris. E.H. (‘In this small Character is sent’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 155.
KiH 751
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 752
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 753
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
Upon a Table-book presented to a Lady (‘When your faire hand receaves this Little Book’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 154.
KiH 756
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 757
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 758
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 760
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
KiH 761
Copy, here beginning ‘When that fairie hand receiues this Little booke’.
In: the MS described under KiH 166. c.1630s.
Upon the Death of my ever Desired Freind Dr. Donne Dean of Paules (‘To have liv'd Eminent, in a degree’)
First published in John Donne, Deaths Duell (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 76-7.
KiH 763
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie Vpon the Death…’.
In: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 764
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 765
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy. Vpon the Death of my ever Desired Friend Dr Donne Deane of Paules’.
In: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 767
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
KiH 768.5
Adapted exracts.
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.
KiH 769
Copy, headed ‘vppon my euer desired friend Dr. Dunne’, subscribed in a different hand ‘D. H. kinge’.
In: the MS described under KiH 241. c.1630s-40s.
This MS (erroneously cited as ‘MS. 417’) collated in Crum, p. 200.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 23 (James 416), ff. 41r-2r.
Upon the King's happy Returne from Scotland (‘So breakes the Day, when the Returning Sun’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 81-2.
KiH 771
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 772
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 773
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 775
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
KiH 776
Copy, subscribed ‘D: H: Kinge’ and with the date ‘1633’.
In: the MS described under KiH 213 (KiH Δ 8). c.1620-50.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 777
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 213 (KiH Δ 8). c.1620-50.
KiH 779
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the King's happy returne From Scotland, Anno Dom: 1633’, subscribed ‘Dr Henry King’.
In: the MS described under KiH 61. c.1635.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 781
Copy, headed ‘Vppon his maties returne from Scotland’.
In: A folio notebook of verse and prose, predominantly in one hand, written from both ends, 45 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Compiled by John Clavell (1601-43), writer and highwayman. c.1633-42.
Among papers of the Troyte-Bullock anf Chafyn Grove families, of Zeals House, Mere.
Discussed, with facsimile examples, in John Pafford, John Clavell 1601-43 Highwayman, Author, Lawyer, Doctor (Oxford, 1993).
Edited from this MS in Pafford, pp. 153-4.
KiH 782
Copy, subscribed in another flourished hand (possibly autograph) ‘Henry: Kinge: mee fecit’, on a leaf bound in a printed exemplum of Solis Britannici perigaeum, sive Itinerantis Caroli auspicatissima periodus (Oxford, 1633). c.1633.
From the Tollemache Library of Helmingham Hall. Sotheby's, 14 June 1965, lot 213, with a facsimile of the subscription in the sale catalogue.
The Vow-Breaker (‘When first the Magick of thine Ey’)
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 160-1.
*KiH 783
Copy, originally headed ‘Sonnet’, with the heading ‘The Vow-Breaker’ added in King's autograph.
In: the MS described under KiH 3 (KiH Δ 1). c.1633-58.
This MS collated in Crum.
KiH 784
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 785
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 786
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 788
Copy, headed ‘To an inconstant mris:’, subscribed in monogram form ‘HK’.
In: the MS described under KiH 213 (KiH Δ 8). c.1620-50.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 789
Copy, headed ‘To an inconstant Mrs.’, subscribed ‘H: K’.
In: the MS described under KiH 17 (KiH Δ 10). c.1633.
This MS recorded in Crum.
KiH 790
Copy, headed ‘To an Inconstant Mistris’, subscribed in monogram format ‘HK’.
In: the MS described under KiH 32 (KiH Δ 11). c.1630s.
Copy, subscribed in monogram format ‘HK’.
The Woes of Esay (‘Woe to the worldly men, whose covetous’)
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 136-9.
KiH 792
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 4 (KiH Δ 2). c.1638-40.
KiH 793
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 5 (KiH Δ 3). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].
Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.
KiH 794
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 6 (KiH Δ 4). c.1638.
KiH 796
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 8 (KiH Δ 6). c.1636-41.
KiH 797
Copy in: the MS described under KiH 101 (KiH Δ 7). c.1625-46.
This MS collated in Crum, pp. 220-1.
Latin Poems
‘Concipit audacem patientia Laesa furorem’
Unpublished.
*KiH 800
Autograph sequence of epigrams chiefly in Latin elegiacs prepared by King while at Christ Church for his father, John King, Bishop of London, comprising: (1) an unheaded opening quatrain; (2) 16 lines, headed ‘In Febrem’ Epigram: (‘Morboru Proteu, monstrum versatile, Febris’); (3) a Greek couplet, headed ‘Aliter in Febrem’; (4) a quatrain, headed ‘Aliter’ (‘Extinctam reparant Epidauria pharmaca vitim’); (5) a quatrain, headed ‘Coelu non morbu mutat &cet.’ (‘Mutandi ventosus amor qui corripit agros’); (6) a couplet, headed ‘Aliter’ (‘Morbosi errones, du coelu aut aëra mutant’); (7) ten lines, headed ‘Ad Galenum consolatio de comuni dicterio Febris opprobriu medici’ (‘Sollicitus minium nesis de Febre Galene’); subscribed ‘Languida si numeris currant Epigramata claudis,/Credas et Musa febricitare meam./Amplitudinis vestrae filius obseruantissimus/Henricus King’; neatly written on two conjugate folio leaves, originally folded as a packet and endorsed ‘Reuerendo admodu in Christo patri, Johani Episcopo Londinensi, Patri meo benignissimo’. [1608-16].
In: the MS described under KiH 148.
This MS recorded by Percy Simpson in BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 334-5).
In obitum sanctissimi viri Di Dris: Spenseri C: C: C. nuper Praesidis et spectatissimi sui amici Elegvs (‘Si dolor hic uerus, crimem damnare cupresso’)
Unpublished.
KiH 801
Copy, formally drawn up in a neat italic script, with a correction in a different hand (? King's), of a 28-line elegy on the death of Dr John Spenser (1559-1614), subscribed ‘Mærens posuit Hen: Kinge ex Æde Chri:’, within wide black vertical and horizontal strips, in the form of a funerary placard, on a single broadsheet, and endorsed in a different hand with an English translation (beginning ‘If this tru sorrow counted be with fatall Cypresse bowes’). c.1614.
In: A folio composite volume of tracts and papers largely relating to the University of Oxford, in various hands, 691 leaves, folio- and quarto-size, in 18th-century half-calf.
Including notes by Anthony Wood.
‘Non Dani vt Danai: istorum vel dona timentur’
Unpublished.
KiH 802
Copy of an untitled Latin quatrain by ‘H.King’.
In: A volume of Latin complimentary verses by 98 members of the University of Oxford, entitled Charites Oxonienses siue Laetitia Musarum, presented to King Christian IV of Denmark by the University in 1606. 1606.
This MS recorded in Crum, p. 6.
‘Non hic Pyramides. non sculpta Panegyris ambit’
First published in Sir William Dugdale, History of St. Paul's Cathedral (London, 1658), p. 73. Crum, p. 242.
See also KiH 24.
*KiH 803
Autograph copy of the Latin ‘Epitaphium’ on John King, Bishop of London, which was originally hung near his tomb in St Paul's Cathedral, the epitaph possibly of Henry King's own composition, on a single folio leaf, the verso bearing a portion of an address panel ‘To the Right < > Mr Henrie D< > these’. c.1621.
In: the MS described under KiH 148.
This MS recorded in Crum.
Letters
Letter(s)
KiH 804
Autograph letter signed by Henry King, to William Trumbull, 16 April 1618. 1618.
In: A folio composite volume of letters and papers of William Trumbull (c.1580-1635), English Resident at Brussels, in various hands, 163 leaves, 1618.
Volume CXI of the Trumbull Papers. Formerly Berkshire Record Office, Trumbull MS Misc. IX
*KiH 805
Autograph letter signed by King, to Mr [Richard] Powell at Fosthill, from London, 13 December 1639, in a collection of papers (‘upwards of 80 items’), including letters by Sir Henry Wotton and others, of the Rev. John Hannah (1818-88), schoolmaster and editor. 1639.
Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue of manuscripts for 1833, item 769. Sotheby's, 9 December 1929, in lot 152, to Dobell.
Edited, with a facsimile of the signature, in Hannah, pp. xxxviii-xxxix. Recorded in Keynes, p. 8.
KiH 806
A letter by King (? autograph), to an unidentified recipient, one quarto page, dated 1641. 1641.
Sotheby's, 26 July 1887, lot 40, to Preston.
*KiH 807
Autograph? letter signed by King, to Sir Henry Garwaye, 18 January 1644[/5]. 1645.
Puttick & Simpson's, 11 July 1878, lot 122 (the date of the letter given as 18 June 1644), to Stamp. Later in the collection of Robert Borthwick Adam (1863-1940), American book collector. Subsequently in the collections of Donald and Mary Hyde (Lady Eccles).
Recorded in The R.B. Adam Library, 3 vols (London & New York, 1929), III, 145.
*KiH 808
Autograph letter signed by King, to Edward Bysshe, from Hitcham, near Maidenhead, 22 January 1656/7, enclosing four pages of autograph notes on the repairs done to St Paul's Cathedral in 1620, intended for the use of William Dugdale and containing Dugdale's autograph annotations. 1657.
The letter (but not the accompanying notes) edited in William Hamper, The Life, Diary, and Correspondence of Sir William Dugdale (London, 1827), No. cxii (pp. 317-18). Recorded in Keynes, p. 86. Facsimiles in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile XXV, after p. xxiv, and in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 189.
*KiH 809
Autograph letter signed, to Mrs Anne Sadleir, from London, 14 August 1661. 1661.
In: A folio composite volume of letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 86 items, in quarter-calf marbled boards. The letters chiefly to Anne Sadleir, of Standon, some to her husband.
Donated by Anne Sadleir in 1669.
Ciited in Crum, p. 21. Edited in Hobbs, Correspondence, p. 143.
*KiH 810
Autograph letter signed by King, to Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury, from Chichester, 21 February 1665/6. 1666.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters, chiefly for 1665-7, in various hands, 296 leaves.
Cited by Percy Simpson in BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (p. 338). Recorded in Keynes, p. 88. Edited in Hobbs, Correspondence, p. 146.
*KiH 811
Autograph letter signed by King, to Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury, [from Chichester], 23 April 1666. 1666.
In: the MS described under KiH 810.
Edited in Lawrence Mason, ‘The Life and Works of Henry King, D.D.’, Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 18 (November 1913), 225-89 (p. 289). Recorded in Keynes, p. 87. Edited in Hobbs, Correspondence, p. 147.
*KiH 812
Autograph letter signed, to Joseph Williamson, [from Chichester], 7 July 1668. 1668.
Edited in Hobbs, Correspondence, p. 148.
*KiH 813
Autograph letter signed by King, to Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury, from Chichester, 23 July 1668. 1668.
In: A folio composite volume of letters and papers, chiefly 1668-71, in various hands, 287 leaves.
Ciited by Percy Simpson in BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (p. 339). Recorded in Keynes, p. 88. Edited in Hobbs, Correspondence, pp. 148-9.
*KiH 814
Autograph letter signed by King, to Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury, from Chichester, 16 August 1668. 1668.
In: the MS described under KiH 813.
Cited by Percy Simpson in BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (p. 339). Recorded in Keynes, p. 88. Edited in Hobbs, Correspondence, pp. 149-50.
*KiH 815
Autograph letter signed by King, to Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury, from Chichester, 3 February 1668/9. 1669.
In: the MS described under KiH 813.
Edited in Lawrence Mason, ‘The Life and Works of Henry King, D.D.’, Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 18 (November 1913), 225-89 (p. 289). Recorded in Keynes, p. 88. Edited in Hobbs, Correspondence, p. 152, with a facsimile on p. 151.
Document(s)
Document(s)
*KiH 816
King's signature, 14 July 1626.
In: Sub-Dean's Book for 1549-1643.
*KiH 817
Two deeds signed by both Henry and John King, 3-4 June 1622.
In: A group of indentures relating to Henry and John King (‘Henry King of London Clarke Archdeacon of Coulchester and John Kinge of Christe Church in Oxford Master of Artes brother of the said Henry’), relating to a transaction between the two brothers and George and Robert More concerning land at Godalming and Artington, between 3 June 1622 and 17 November 1624. 1620s.
Among the Loseley Papers of the More family
*KiH 818
King's autograph signature (‘Henry Kinge’), upon his matriculation at Christ Church, 20 January 1608/9. 1609.
In: Subscription Register. 1581-1615.
*KiH 819
King's signature.
In: Disbursements book for 1624-5. 1624-25.
*KiH 820
A letter signed by Guiana Company shareholders, including Henry King and Sir Robert Naunton, to William Trumbull, Clerk of the Privy Council, 30 March 1628. 1628.
In: A folio composite volume of letters and papers of William Trumbull (c.1580-1635), English Resident at Brussels, in various hands, 110 leaves, 1628-32. Volume CXXXII of the Trumbull Papers.
Facsimile in Sotheby's catalogue The Trumbull Papers, 14 December 1989, lot 18.
*KiH 821
A letter by the Council of the Virginia Company, to Sir Edward Conway, signed by King and other members of the council, 30 March 1628. 1628.
*KiH 822
Two agreements signed by Henry King and others as witnesses, relating to William Norton and to the will of Norton's deceased grandfather William Wickham, one document dated 6 April 1635. 1635.
Photocopies owned by Peter Beal, London.
KiH 823
Copy, unsigned, of a lease by King, as Dean of Rochester, to Daniel Leare, concerning land at Chatham, 19 July 1655. 1655.
KiH 824
A petition to Charles II, in a secretary's hand, subscribed in bold italic ‘Hen: Chichester’, [?September 1660]. In the same hand as the ‘Phillipps MS’ (Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 8471). 1660.
Cited in Crum, p. 19. Edited in Hobbs, Correspondence, p. 142.
KiH 825
A licence by Henry King, as Bishop of Chichester, entirely in the hand of a clerk, allowing Walter Hendley to eat meat in Lent, 25 February 1662/3. 1663.
*KiH 826
A genealogy of the King family, prepared for Sir Edward Bysshe and signed by King. c.1662-8.
Recorded in Hannah, pp. lxxxiii-lxxxiv, and the signature is reproduced on p. lxxvi.
*KiH 827
An Exchequer receipt signed by King, 5 December 1667. 1667.
In: A folio composite volume of Exchequer documents.
Will
KiH 828
A registered copy of King's last will and testament, 14 July 1653, proved 16 November 1669. 1669.
Edited in Hannah, pp. cviii-cxiv.