Sir Walter Ralegh (1554–1618)

Verse

(1) Poems Commonly Attributed to Ralegh

‘A Secret murder hath bene done of late’

First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, pp. 78-9.

RaW 1

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘finis: Gossr:’.

In: A quarto miscellany chiefly of verse, largely in a single secretary hand, compiled by a Cambridge student, vii + 130 leaves, in later calf. c.1586-91.

This volume is edited in Cummings, who suggests that the compiler is Sir John Finett (1571-1641), of Fordwich, Kent: hence it is often cited as ‘The John Finett miscellany’. The hands do not appear to be his, however, and this attribution is questionable.

This MS collated in The Phoenix Nest, ed. H. E. Rollins (Cambridge, Mass., 1931), p. 173; recorded in Latham, p. 159.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 85, f. 108v.

*RaW 1.5

Copy in: A folio composite volume of letters and state papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 237 leaves, in 17th-century calf (rebacked).

Reproduced in Edwards, II, frontispiece.

Bodleian, MS Tanner 79, f. 117r.

The Advice (‘Many desire, but few or none deserve’)

First published in Le Prince d'Amour (London, 1660). Latham, pp. 14-15. Rudick, No. 18, pp. 27-8.

RaW 2

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis written to Mrs. A.V.’.

In: the MS described under RaW 1. c.1586-91.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 110.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 85, f. 116r.

RaW 3

Copy, headed ‘To A. Vaua’.

In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and some prose, in one or possibly two hands, in varying secretary and italic scripts, 107 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Compiled by someone probably connected with the Royal Court. c.1605.

Owned in 1845 by James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps] (1820-89), with his inscription ‘of Andrews Bristol 1845 at the enormous Price of 6.6.0’. Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 189.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 110.

British Library, Add. MS 22601, f. 71r.

‘As you came from the holy land’

First published in Thomas Deloney, The Garland of Good-Will (London, 1596? first extant edition 1628). Latham, pp. 22-3. Rudick, No. 13, pp. 16-17.

RaW 4

Copy, of an untitled version beginning ‘As you went to Walsingam’, with four lines beginning ‘As you came from the holy land’ added at the top right hand margin in a different hand, subscribed ‘to Sr W. R:’.

In: the MS described under RaW 1. c.1586-91.

Edited from this MS in Latham, pp. 22-3.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 85, f. 123r-v.

RaW 5

Copy in: A long narrow ledger-like volume (c.40 x 15 cm) of ballads and metrical romances, in a single predominantly secretary hand, 268 leaves, all mounted on guards, in modern half-morocco. Mid-17th century.

Later owned by Thomas Percy (1768-1808), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor, and bearing copious annotations in his hand throughout, with a list by him at the end dated 20 December 1757.

This volume edited as Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript, ed. John W. Hales and Frederick J. Furnivall, 4 vols (London, 1867-8). Re-edited by I. Gollancz, 4 vols (London, 1905-10). Facsimile example of f. 94r in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), No. 20, p. 31. Discussed, with five facsimile examples, in Joseph Donatelli, ‘The Percy Folio Manuscript: A Seventeenth-Century Context for Medieval Poetry’, EMS, 4 (1993), 114-33.

Edited from this MS in Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript, ed. John W. Hales, Frederick J. Furnivall, et al., 4 vols (London, 1867-8). This publication mentioned in Latham, p. 120.

British Library, Add. MS 27879, f. 251r-v.

RaW 5.5

Copy of a version beginning ‘As you come fro Walsingham’.

In: A quarto miscellany of both bawdy and religious verse and some prose, in several hands, 94 leaves (including a number of blanks), in modern quarter-calf marbled boards. Mid-late 17th century.

Inscribed ‘Charles Shuttleworth His Booke Anno 1691’. Peter Murray Hill, London, sale catalogue No. 82 (1962), item 33.

Folger, MS V.a.399, f. 16v.

RaW 6

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘A yow cam from that holly land, of wallsyngham’, dated at the end 1595, on the recto of a tipped-in folio leaf (with folds). c.1595.

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).

Edited from this MS in Josephine Waters Bennett, ‘Early Texts of Two of Ralegh's Poems from a Huntington Library Manuscript’, HLQ, 4 (1940-1), 469-75 (pp. 473-4). Recorded in Latham, p. 120.

Huntington, HM 198, Part I, f. ivr.

RaW 6.5

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘As you came from that holy Land of Walsingham’ and set out as four stanzas (8, 6, 4 and 4 lines respectively).

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.

Robert S. Pirie, New York, [Feilde MS], p. 466.

RaW 7

Copy 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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 213, pp. 34-7.

Conjectural First Draft of the Petition to Queen Anne (‘My dayes delight, my spring tyme ioyes foredun’)

See RaW 295.

Cynthia

The 12th: and last booke of the Ocean to Scinthia (‘Sufficeth it to yow my ioyes interred’)

First published in Hannah (1870). Latham, pp. 25-34 (as The 11th: and last booke of the Ocean to Scinthia). Rudick, No. 26, pp. 48-66 (as ‘The 21th and last booke of the Ocean to Scinthia’).

*RaW 8

Autograph, on seventeen folio pages. Late 16th century.

Edited from this MS by all editors. Facsimile examples in Philip Edwards, Sir Walter Ralegh (London, 1953), facing p. 96; in John Winton, Sir Walter Ralegh (London, 1975), facing p. 122; in IELM, I.ii (1980), Facsimile XXVIII; and in Felix Pryor, Elizabeth I: Her Life in Letters (British Library, London, 2003), No. 60, p. 134.

The heading discussed in Stacy M. Clinton, ‘The “Number” of Sir Walter Ralegh's Booke of the Ocean to Scinthia’, SP, 82 (1985), 200-11 (with facsimile examples of the MS and letters by Ralegh); Douglas and Mary Brooks-Davies, ‘The Numbering of Sir Walter Ralegh's Ocean to Scinthia: A Problem Solved’, N&Q, 236 (March 1991), 31-4; and Peter Beal's review of Rudick in TLS, 29 December 2000, p. 7.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 144/240-247 .

The end of the bookes, of the Oceans love to Scinthia, and the beginninge of the 12 Boock, entreatinge of Sorrow (‘My dayes delights, my springetyme ioies fordvnn’)

First published in Hannah (1870). Latham, p. 44. Rudick, Nos 27, 32 and 33 (three versions, pp. 66, 72-77).

*RaW 9

Autograph, on the first two pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Late 16th century.

Edited from this MS in Latham, p. 44.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 144/247.

An Epitaph upon the right Honorable sir Philip Sidney knight: Lord governor of Flushing (‘To praise thy life, or waile thy woorthie death’)

First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, pp. 5-7. Rudick, No. 16, pp. 24-6.

RaW 10

Copy, headed ‘Sr Wallter Rawleys epitaphe on Sr Phillip Sydney’, the heading and lines 1-2 in the hand of Sir John Harington.

In: A verse miscellany, including 55 poems which have been attributed to Wyatt (one copied twice) as well as his Penitential Psalms, in several hands, originally compiled by, or for, John Harington of Stepney (1520?-82) and continued by his son, Sir John Harington of Kelston (1560-1612), whose hand occurs frequently in the MS, imperfect, once comprising 228 leaves of which 145 remain. Mid-late 16th century.

This volume described, and the full text edited, with facsimile examples of ff. 53r and 66v, in Hughey. Also discussed in Ruth Hughey, ‘The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents’, The Library, 4th Ser. 15 (1934-5), 388-444.

A transcript of the whole MS made c.1810 for George Frederick Nott is in the British Library, Add. MS 28635.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 225, pp. 255-7. Recorded in Latham, pp. 97-8.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 156r-v.

Erroris Responsio (‘Courts Comender, states maintayner’)

Rudick, No. 22, p. 45.

RaW 10.5

Copy, headed ‘Erroris Responsio’, subscribed ‘Sr Wa: Ra:.’.

In: A small quarto colume of state papers and verse, in a closely written hand, i + 170 pages, badly affected by ink seepage. c.1620s-37.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 22, p. 45.

Bodleian, MS Ashmole 781, p. 164.

‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as ‘These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse’). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).

This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

See also RaW 302 and RaW 304.

RaW 11

Copy, untitled, with a sidenote ‘At Sr Walter Rawleighs deathe’.

In: Copy of texts relating to Ralegh's execution, in a single secretary hand, on an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1620.

Among the papers of the Trevor Wingfield family and possibly deriving from the papers of the Boteler family of Biddenham.

Bedfordshire Record Office, TW 1145, f. [2v].

RaW 11.5

Copy, headed ‘By Sr wal: Rawly the night befoer his heading’ and here beginning ‘Euen shuch is tiem that holds in trust’.

In: A tall folio commonplace book of miscellaneous extracts, in a single hand, 139 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Entirely in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician. c.1620s-30s.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1. Recorded (as the ‘Bedford MS’) in Peter Beal, ‘More Donne Manuscripts’, John Donne Journal, 6/2 (1987), 213-18 (p. 213).

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 26, f. 49r.

RaW 12

Copy, headed ‘These verses following were made by Sr. Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse’. c.1618.

In: A folio composite volume of French state paper, including documents relating to Ralegh, in various hands.

Edited from this MS in Latham.

Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Cinq cents de Colbert n° 467, f. 68v.

RaW 13

Copy in: Sir Richard Napier's notebook recording his medical practice from 19 August 1618 to 17 May 1619. 1618-19.

Bodleian, MS Ashmole 230, f. 343v.

RaW 14

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleighs verses, found in his bible in the gate house at Westmr’.

In: A small folio miscellany of medical receipts, chemical experiments, and verse, in a single small hand, 62 leaves (chiefly blank). Compiled by one John Stansby. c.1669.

Bodleian, MS Ashmole 1463, p. 13.

RaW 15

Copy, in an unaccomplished non-professional hand, untitled. c.1620.

In: A quarto composite volume of historical memorials of English affairs up to 1625, 193 leaves, in half-vellum on marbled boards. Compiled chiefly by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary. Mid-late 17th century.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MS 297, f. 172v.

RaW 16

Copy in: A large folio miscellany of English and Welsh poems, in occasionally alternating black and red ink, 61 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Compiled by Richard Roberts, Justice of the Peace. c.1628.

Sold by P.J. Dobell in 1936.

Bodleian, MS Don. c. 54, f. 3v.

RaW 17

Second copy, with a sidenote: ‘said to be done by Sr. W: Rawleighe’.

In: the MS described under RaW 16. c.1628.

Bodleian, MS Don. c. 54, f. 11r.

RaW 18

Copy, headed ‘verses written by Sr walter Raleigh but twoe howers before his death’, in a section of material relating to Ralegh (pp. 43-51). c.1630.

In: A folio composite volume of political tracts, speeches and other papers, many relating to Spain and the Netherlands, v + 138 pages, in 19th-century reversed calf.

Once owned by Sir Henry Spelman (1564?-1641), historian and antiquary. Later owned by Cox Macro (1683-1767), antiquary. Christie's, February 1820 (Macro sale, Part VI), lot 112. Subsequently owned by Hudson Gurney (1775-1864), banker and antiquary, of Keswick Hall, Norfolk (Gurney MS XXX), Vol. 4, pp. 308-75). Sotheby's, 30 March 1936 (Gurney sale), lot 163.

HMC, 1891, Appendix, Pt IX, pp. 144-7.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 143-4, 156.

Bodleian, MS Eng. hist. c. 272, p. 50.

RaW 19

Copy, headed in the margin ‘Rawleighs Meditation’.

In: A folio verse miscellany, comprising nearly 250 poems, in five hands, vii + 135 leaves (with a modern index), in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked), with remains of clasps. Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller. c.1630s-40s.

Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Peeter Daniell’ and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names ‘Thomas Gardinor’, ‘James Leigh’ and ‘Pettrus Romell’. Owned in 1780 by one ‘A. B.’ when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Daniell MS’: CwT Δ 5, HeR Δ 2, RnT Δ 1, StW Δ 5, WaE Δ 9. Briefly discussed in Margaret Crum, ‘An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick’, RES, NS 11 (1960), 186-9. A facsimile of f. 22v in Marcy L. North, ‘Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 106). Betagraphs of the watermark in f. 65 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks’, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 241).

Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. c. 50, f. 31v.

RaW 19.2

Copy in: A folio and quarto composite verse miscellany, in several hands, one of them that of the writer Robert Samber (1682-c.1745), 38 leaves. Early 18th century.

Bodleian, MS Rawl C 986, f. 15r.

RaW 19.5

Copy, headed ‘The verses Sr Walter Rawleigh made and wrote in a bible as he was going to ye place of Execution’, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves.

In: A double-folio guardbook of political and miscellaneous letters and other papers, in verse and prose, in various hands, 150 leaves, in 18th-century quarter-calf on marbled boards. Early 18th century.

Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Ex Bibliotheca dom. Catharinæ Bridgeman anno 1742’.

Even such

Bodleian, MS Rawl. D. 383, f. 140r.

RaW 20

Copy, in a professional hand, untitled and subscribed ‘W.R.’c.1620s.

In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and other papers of the Baskervile family, in various hands, 164 leaves (with omissions). c.1590-1636.

Assembled by Hannibal Baskervile, of Sunningwell, Berkshire.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. D. 859, f. 85v.

RaW 21

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘John Cooke’. c.1620s-40s.

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).

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 26, f. vr.

RaW 21.5

Copy in: A quarto religious diary of possibly a woman in London, covering the period from 29 September 1706 to 31 March 1707, with some verses and epitaphs in another hand at the reverse end, 31 leaves. Early 18th century.

Inscribed on the cover ‘[William] Woodman his book, 1706’.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. D. 1334, f. 29r rev.

RaW 22

Second copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh's Epitaph on his owne death - Nouemb: 1618’, subscribed ‘W.R.’.

In: the MS described under RaW 21.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 153.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 26, f. 2r.

RaW 23

Third copy, headed ‘His owne Epitaph’, subscribed ‘W. Raleigh’.

In: the MS described under RaW 21.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 26, f. 69v.

RaW 24

Copy, untitled.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, i + 23 leaves, in contemporary vellum. compiled by one John Hooper of Devon. c.1665.

The binding is a recycled vellum legal document between Christopher and Katherine Mason.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 208, f. 3r.

RaW 25

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘These words vnderwritten he wrote the nighte before he suffred’. c.1620s.

In: A folio collection of state papers, in various hands, 257 leaves, once in stamped calf, now disbound in folders.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 153.

Bodleian, MS Tanner 74, f. 144v.

RaW 26

Copy, headed ‘Verses found in Sr: Walter Raleighs Bible in the Gate howse’.

In: A folio volume of letters and state papers, in various professional hands, one secretary hand predominating, with a table of contents, 354 leaves, in black leather gilt. c.1630s.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 153.

Bodleian, MS Tanner 82, f. 244-7r.

RaW 27

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rauleighs Epitaph made by himselfe, & giuen to one of his the night before his sufferinge’.

In: A quarto volume of letters, tracts and speeches, 208 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. All in the hand of William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury. Mid-late 17th century.

Bodleian, MS Tanner 299, f. 28v.

RaW 28

Copy in Aubrey's hand, headed ‘These lines Sir Walter Ralegh wrote in his Bible, the night before he was beheaded’. Mid-late 17th century.

In: A folio composite volume of letters written or sent to Wood by John Aubrey (1626-97), antiquary and biographer, ii + 461 leaves.

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

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 153.

Bodleian, MS Wood F. 39, f. 233v.

RaW 29

Copy, headed ‘His Epitaph, made by himselfe’ and here beginning ‘O cruell time, which takes in trust’.

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.

Bradford Archives, 32D86/27, f. 129r.

RaW 30

Copy, headed ‘Epitaph upon Sr Walter Rawleigh made by himselfe’ and here beginning ‘O cruell tyme, wch takes in trust’.

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

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

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

Bradford Archives, 32D86/34, p. 35.

RaW 31

Copy, headed ‘Verses found in Sr Walter Raleighs Bible in ye Gate house’.

In: A quarto volume of state letters, in several hands, 543 pages, in calf gilt. Mid-17th century.

Once owned by John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 44 of the Hopkinson MSS. Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.

This volume (when unnumbered) recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 300.

Bradford Archives, 32D86/44, p. 401.

RaW 32

Copy, headed ‘Nox ante obitum. Sr. W.R. 29 october. 1618’.

In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single neat largely italic hand, 155 leaves, in modern half-morocco. c.1630.

The table of contents (f. 155v) subscribed ‘Margrett Bellasys’, possibly the daughter of Thomas Belasyse (1577-1652), first Viscount Fauconberg of Henknowle. The front endpaper later inscribed ‘The pieces which I have extracted for “The Specimens” are, Page 91, 211, 265’: i.e. possibly by Thomas Campbell (1777-1844), editor of Specimens of the British Poets first published in 1809. Afterwards owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Evans (Sotheby's), 29 February 1836 (Heber sale, Part VIII), lot 13.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 153.

British Library, Add. MS 10309, f. 141r.

RaW 33

Copy, headed ‘Sr. Walter Raliegh the night before his death’, transcribed from Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651).

In: An oblong octavo miscellany of largely devotional verse and some prose, including (ff. 7v-22r) twelve poems by Crashaw, probably transcribed from Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652), in a single italic hand, written across the width of the pages with the spine upwards, with (ff. 181r-8r) a table of contents, 188 leaves, in calf gilt. Entitled Collections out of seuerall Authors by Marmaduke Raudon Eboracensis 1662: i.e. compiled by Marmaduke Rawdon (1610-69), traveller and antiquary, of Guiseley, Yorkshire, who later lived with his cousin, also named Marmaduke Rawdon, at Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, the MS including elegies on yet another (Sir) Marmaduke Rawdon (1582-1646), Governor of Basing House. c.1662.

Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849). Rodd's sale catalogue, February 1850, item 764.

Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Rawdon MS: CrR Δ 2. Crashaw's work collated in Martin (cited as A1) and discussed pp. lxxx-lxxxi.

For other Rawdon miscellanies, see Yale, Osborn MS fb 150; York Minster, MS Add. 122; and a MS sold at Puttick and Simpson's, 3 March 1870, lot 552, to Nicholls. For the Rawdon family, see H.F. Hayllar, The Chronicles of Hoddesdon (1948), pp. 52-4.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 153. See also RaW 101.

British Library, Add. MS 18044, f. 153v.

RaW 34

Copy, headed ‘Another’.

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 Latham, p. 153.

British Library, Add. MS 30982, f. 21v.

RaW 35

Second copy, headed ‘on Sr: Water Rawly’.

In: the MS described under RaW 34. c.1633 [-late 17th century].

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 153.

British Library, Add. MS 30982, f. 148v rev.

RaW 36

Copy, headed ‘By Sir Walter Rawleigh a little before he was ledd from the Gatehouse’.

In: A folio volume of state papers and speeches, in a single professional mixed hand, 56 leaves, in half dark red morocco. Volume LXVIII of the Vernon Papers, collected principally by James Vernon (1646-1727), government official and politician, and his son Edward (1684-1757), Admiral. Presented by T.S. Vernon Cocks. c.1630s.

British Library, Add. MS 40838, f. 30v.

RaW 37

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Verses found in Sr Walter Raleighs Bible in the Gatehowse’. c.1620s-30s.

In: A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in several professional secretary hands, with (ff. 1r-12v) a ‘Tabula’ of contents, 315 leaves (including blanks), in old calf gilt.

Stamped crest on the cover of the Finch family, Earls of Winchilsea.

British Library, Add. MS 44848, f. 167v.

RaW 38

Copy, in a cursive mixed hand, written lengthways down the margin, headed ‘s Walter Rawley his Epitaph’.

In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in possibly several hands, a cursive secretary hand predominating, ii + 77 leaves, imperfect, in contemporary limp vellum, within modern reversed calf. Owned and possibly compiled by Richard Waferer, of Buckinghamshire (name on ff. 43r and 76v). c.1597-1628.

Also inscribed (f. ii) with names of ‘Marth: Waferer’ and Walter Jesson.

British Library, Add. MS 52585, f. 56v.

RaW 38.2

Copy, headed ‘By Sr Walter Raleigh a little before he was ledd from the Gatehouse’.

In: A tall folio volume of state and historical tracts, letters and speeches, largely in a single rounded hand, ff. 35v-6r in an italic hand, with (f. 92v) a later index, ii + 92 leaves, frayed and damp-stained, in contemporary limp vellum. Volume CCCLVII (Series II) of the Dropmore Papers: papers of William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville (1759-1834), Prime Minister, of Dropmore House, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, and associated families. c.1620s-40s.

Inscribed on the rear cover the name of Sir Henry Anderson, Bt (d.1653).

British Library, Add. MS 69394, f. 62r.

RaW 38.5

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled.

In: A small quarto volume of chiefly parliamentary speeches and sermons, in several hands, two predominating, ii + 44 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary limp vellum. Owned and probably compiled in part by Knightley Chetwode, of Chetwode, Buckinghamshire, student of Lincoln's Inn (in 1623), whose name is inscribed on the cover, as is that of Jane Chetwode. c.1626.

Later in the family papers of Sylvester Douglas (1743-1823), Baron Glenbervie, politician.

British Library, Add. MS 70636, f. 18r.

RaW 39

Copy, in the hand of Ralph Starkey, headed ‘This Epetath followinge was writtene by Sr walter Ralegh the Night before he died’.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, letters and speeches, in several professional hands, 432 leaves (plus blanks), in modern crushed morocco gilt. In professional hands, including those of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), merchant and antiquary, and the ‘Feathery Scribe’.

Later owned, and annotated, by Sir Simonds D'Ewes, BT, MP (1602-50), diarist and antiquary. A note (f. 432v) by Humfrey Wanley (1672-1726), scholar and librarian, records on 30 July 1714 that eight or nine years earlier Robert Harley lent this book to Queen Anne ‘upon the account of divers Original Letters &c. written by the Royal Family’, which, on its return, Wanley extracted and inserted into a separate collection.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 235-6 (No. 45).

British Library, Harley MS 39, f. 368v.

RaW 40

Copy, in a neat secretary hand, untitled.

In: A large folio volume of state papers and tracts, many relating to Sussex and dating up to 1627, in various secretary hands, 177 leaves, with remains of a vellum wrapper from a rubricated 15th-century antiphonal, within modern half morocco gilt. Apparently compiled for Sir Walter Covert, High Sheriff and Deputy Lieutenant in Sussex. c.1627.

The name ‘Mary Chalone’ inscribed on the vellum wrapper (f. 177r).

British Library, Harley MS 703, f. 162v.

RaW 41

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, subscribed ‘Wal: Raleigh’. c.1620s.

In: A folio composite volume of state and legal tracts, papers and speeches, in several hands, with (f. 4r) an ‘Index’ of contents, 338 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 153.

British Library, Harley MS 1576, f. 2r.

RaW 41.5

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio volume of state tracts and miscellaneous extracts, largely in one professional secretary hand, 183 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘The 2. day of Janvarie .1617. <erasure> begun to be wrytten - by my man John May. / P W’[?]. c.1618-20s.

British Library, Harley MS 1759, f. 81r.

RaW 42

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘verses found in Sr walter Rayleighs Bible in the Gatehouse’. c.1620s.

In: A folio composite volume of state letters, in vavious professional hands, 194 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Early-mid-17th century.

British Library, Harley MS 4761, f. 22r.

RaW 43

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘By Sr W: Rawleigh the morn a little before he was ledd from ye Gatehouse’. c.1618.

In: A folio composite volume of letters and tracts, in various hands, 49 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Collected by James Butler (1610-88), first Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

British Library, Harley MS 7056, f. 50v.

RaW 44

Copy, headed ‘Sr W: Raleigh de seipso’ and here beginning ‘Euen such is tyme yt takes in trust’.

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 Latham, p. 153.

British Library, Lansdowne MS 777, f. 64r.

RaW 45

Copy, on a leaf pasted in at the end of the volume.

In: A quarto volume of alchemical treatises and receipts, 117 leaves. Mid-17th century.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 153.

British Library, Sloane MS 1842, f. 117r.

RaW 46

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The verses following were made by Sir Walter Rawleigh the night before his death at the gate house’. c.1620.

In: A large folio guard-book of independent state papers, in various hands, 86 leaves.

British Library, Stowe MS 141, f. 74v.

RaW 47

Copy, headed ‘Verses made by Sr Waltr Rawly at his beheading’.

In: An octavo notebook of extracts in verse and prose, in a small untidy hand, written from both ends, 42 leaves (plus three blanks), badly worn, remains of boards and green ties. c.1640.

Includes (f. [31r rev.] a reference to ‘my brother Capstons account book after his death 1632’. Given to the library by H.L. Pink, Assistant Under-Librarian, 22 November 1948.

Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 7196, f. [21r rev.].

RaW 47.5

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh, a man of such Admirable Parts that he is More to be admired then sufficiently praised, this following Epitaph was made by himself’.

In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, predominantly in one female roman hand, written from both ends, 174 pages, in contemporary calf. Compiled by members of Sir Thomas Browne's family, chiefly his daughter Elizabeth Lyttelton (b. c.1648), containing various works in verse and prose including copies of a passage by Sir Thomas on consumptions (p. 43), a list of books which he had Elizabeth read out to him (pp. 44-5), copies of notes by him (pp. 77-76 rev.), his poem ‘Upon a Tempest at Sea’ (pp. 94-93 rev.) and verses beginning ‘the Almond flourisheth ye Birch trees flowe’ (p. 72); some of the verses in other hands including poems by Donne, Corbett, Wotton, Cartwright, William Browne, Ralegh, Katherine Phillips and others. Late 17th century.

Inscriptions (p. 1) ‘Mary Browne’ (who d.1676) and ‘James Dodsley’ and (p. 174) ‘Mar. 11th 1713/4 The gift of Mrs Lyttelton to Edward Tenison’. Percy Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1240. Bookplate of the Royal College of Medicine, London. Owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (Bibliotheca Bibliographici, No. 1301).

This MS volume described in [Geoffrey Keynes], ‘A Daughter of Sir Thomas Browne’, TLS (4 September 1919), p. 420. Discussed in Victoria E. Burke, ‘Contexts for Women's Manuscript Miscellanies: The Case of Elizabeth Lyttelton and Sir Thomas Browne’, Yearbook of English Studies, 33 (2003), 316-28. Edited selectively by Geoffrey Keynes as The Commonplace Book of Elizabeth Lyttelton, Daughter of Sir Thomas Browne (Cambridge, 1919). The passages by Browne also edited in Keynes, I, 120-1, and III, 236-7, 331-2.

Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 8460, p. 49 rev.

RaW 47.8

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

Cambridge University Library, MS Mm. 1. 45, p. 210.

RaW 48

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘W: R:’.

In: A quarto volume of state tracts and letters, largely written in one secretary hand, entries at the reverse end in a different hand, 281 leaves (including 90 blanks). Early-mid-17th century.

Inscribed at the end ‘T ed: Kenett’.

Cambridge University Library, MS Mm. 6. 33, f. 185v.

RaW 48.5

Copy, in a roman hand, headed ‘written by Sr Water Ravlige before his Death a fewe dayes’.

In: A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Welsh, in several hands, 161 pages, in contemporary limp vellum. Compiled, at least in part, by Philip Powell of Brecon (‘Phillip Powell his booke’ on p. 2), referring (p. 63) to his being committed to Newgate prison for three years on or by 1 March ‘1633’ (his wife not having come to see him ‘once’) and with a reference (p. 45) to ‘My ffather Thomas Powell’, a distant cousin of Edward Games, the first recorder of Brecknock. Other names inscribed including Thomas and Richard Powell, and with a note dated 1812 (p. 4) by ‘Thomas Lawrence’, who purchased the MS at the sale of the library of Theophilus Jones (1759-1812), Brecknockshire county historian. c.1632-48.

Cardiff Central Library, MS 3.42, p. 26.

RaW 48.6

Copy, in a neat secretary hand, headed in the margin ‘Sr water Ralige before his Death beHeaded’.

In: the MS described under RaW 48.5. c.1632-48.

Cardiff Central Library, MS 3.42, p. 39.

RaW 48.8

Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, headed ‘Sr Water Raulighs meditation’, on the first page of a single octavo leaf of verse probably extracted from a miscellany. c.1620s-30s.

Chetham's Library, Halliwell-Phillipps No. 1311.

RaW 49

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh’.

In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in at least seven secretary and italic hands, 118 leaves (plus some blanks), currently disbound. Possibly compiled by one or more persons connected with the Inns of Court. c.1600-1620s.

Later in the library of the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Lot 8055 in the sale of his library by Thomas King, 7 May to 16 June 1798. Probably owned afterwards by James Crossley (1800-83), author and book collector. Formerly Chetham's MS 8012.

The volume edited by Alexander B. Grosart as The Dr. Farmer Chetham MS. being a Commonplace Book in the Chetham Library, Manchester, temp. Elizabeth, James I, and Charles I, Chetham Society, vols 89 and 90 (Manchester, 1873).

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 153.

Chetham's Library, Mun. A.4.15, f. 99r (p. 162).

RaW 50

Copy, headed ‘Sir W: Rawleighs Epitaph made by himselfe’.

In: A quarto volume of works by or relating to Sir Walter Ralegh, largely in a single stylish hand, with later additions after f. 106v probably in another hand, 113 leaves (ff. 29v-106v blanks), in contemporary calf. Probably chiefly in the hand of Andrew Card, who inscribes f. 5r ‘Ex libris Andreæ Card 1674’. c.1674-84.

Bookplate of Richard Cranmer [i.e. Richard Dixon (d.1828), of the manor of Mitcham, Surrey, who claimed descent from Archbishop Cranmer.

University of Chicago, MS 824, f. 27v.

RaW 51

Copy, here beginning ‘Euen such is time that takes in trust’, subscribed ‘made by himselfe, the night before his execucon’.

In: A MS containing four texts relating to Ralegh, in a professional secretary hand, on four folio leaves (the last page blank). 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 D 258/67/6b

Recorded in HMC, 9th Report, Part II (1884), Appendix, p. 386b.

Derbyshire Record Office, D 258/39/5, f. [3v].

RaW 52

Copy, in the hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleys Epitaph written by himselfe the night before his execution’ and here beginning ‘Euen such is time that takes in trust’.

In: A single half-folio leaf containing on one side two copies of Ralegh's ‘Epitaph’ in different hands. c.1620-18th century.

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 D258/67/33a.

Derbyshire Record Office, D258/39/33/1, f. [1r].

RaW 53

Copy, in a cursive italic hand, probably of the 18th century, headed ‘Sir Walter Rawleys Epitaph written by himselfe the night before his execution’, here beginning ‘Even such is time that takes in trust’.

In: the MS described under RaW 52. c.1620-18th century.

Derbyshire Record Office, D258/39/33/1, f.[1r].

RaW 53.5

Copy, headed ‘His Epitaph made by himselfe’.

In: A volume comprising two works by Ralegh. Early-mid-17th century.

Sir William Dugdale, Merevale Hall, Bundle XVII/22 in Horse-hair trunk, [unnumbered page].

RaW 54

Copy, in an italic hand. c.1620s.

In: A folio composite miscellany of verse, prose, and dramatic works, in several hands, an independant unit on ff. 88r-111r, in a single hand, containing, inter alia, twenty poems by Donne, 117 leaves (plus seventeen blanks), in contemporary vellum, with remains of ties. c.1630.

Inscribed (f. 134v) ‘Anthony Methuen’. Later owned by members of the Wyndham family, including probably the Henry Penruddocke Wyndham (1736-1819), topographer. Sotheby's, 11 April 1872, lot 1331, to David Laing.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Laing MS’: DnJ Δ 47.

Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 493, f. 32r.

RaW 55

Copy, headed in the margin ‘his Epith.’

In: A folio volume principally of scullery and kitchen accounts, largely in a single secretary hand, 74 leaves, in modern calf (repaired). Probably connected with the Royal Establishment and kept by David Young, servant of the Scullery, who was presumably related to Sir Peter Young (1544-1628), royal tutor and diplomat, who is cited in the volume at least twice. c.1628-38.

Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 501, f. 67v.

RaW 56

Copy, headed ‘The night before hee died’.

In: A miscellany, belonging to the Smyth family of Hill Hall, Essex. c.1620.

Essex Record Office, Chelsmsford, D/DSh Z1, f. 38v.

RaW 57

Copy, headed ‘This Epitath ffollowinge was wrytten, by Sr: Walter; Ralegh the night before he dyed’, in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’.

In: A folio volume of state letters and tracts, in two professional secretary hands, predominantly that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 334 leaves, plus an index in an italic hand (f. 375r), in modern half vellum on marbled boards.

Sotheby's, 4 July 1955 (André de Coppet sale), lot 950, to Maggs. Formerly Folger MS Add. 35.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 262-5 (No. 108).

Folger, MS G.b.9, f. 170r-v.

RaW 58

Copy, headed ‘Verses found in Sr Walter Rauleighs Bible in ye Gatehowse’.

In: A quarto volume of verse and dramatic works, associated with Cambridge University, in several hands, a small italic hand predominating, 88 leaves, in contemporary calf, once with metal clasps. c.1620s.

Inscribed (f. [ir]) ‘Fra: Corbet’ and (f. 88v) ‘1626 Ja: Rolfe’.

Folger, MS J.a.2, f. 87r.

RaW 59

Copy, headed ‘Verses found in Sr. Walter Raleighs Bible in the Gatehowse’.

In: A quarto volume of state letters, in a single professional hand, xxvi + c.955 pages (misnumbered around pp. 895-6), including a table of contents (and plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, remains of ties. c.1630s.

Folger, MS V.a.239, p. 704.

RaW 60

Copy, headed ‘Sir Walter Ralegh of himself’.

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.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 154.

Folger, MS V.a.262, pp. 54-5.

RaW 61

Copy, inscribed ‘Sir Gualter Raleigh’ as a heading.

In: the MS described under RaW 60. c.1637-51.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 154.

Folger, MS V.a.262, p. 136.

RaW 62

Copy, headed in the margin ‘Tyme’ and here beginning ‘Whie this is time that takes in trust’, subscribed ‘Sr W: Ral:’.

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.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 154.

Folger, MS V.a.339, f. 210v.

RaW 63

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawlighes verses the nighte before he was beheaded in London 1619’.

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.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 154.

Folger, MS V.a.345, p. 31.

RaW 64

Copy, in an italic hand, headed ‘Verses made by himselfe’.

In: A quarto volume of documents by or relating to Ralegh, 81 pages in all, in contemporary limp vellum. Comprising printed exempla of A Declaration of the Demeanor and Cariage of Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight, aswell in his Voyage, as in, and sithence his Returne (London, 1618) and The humble petition...of Sir Lewis Stucley (London, 1618), with ten MS leaves at the beginning and two at the end, in at least two secretary and italic hands. c.1620.

Formerly Folger MS Add. 402.

Folger, MS V.a.418, f. [4v].

RaW 65

Copy, headed ‘Verses found in Sr Walter Raleighs Bible in the Gate house’.

In: A folio volume of state letters and papers, in several professional secretary hands, 1050 pages (plus a 24-page ‘Tabula’ of contents at the end), in calf. c.1630s.

Formerly MS F. 2. 20.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 154.

Folger, MS V.b.234, p. 675.

RaW 66

Copy, headed ‘The wourdes vnderwritten he wrote the nighte before he suffred’.

In: A folio volume of state tracts, in several secretary hands, with a title-page ‘A manuscript containing seuerall Discourses the heades thereof are in the next Page following...1641’, 350 pages, in half calf marbled boards. c.1642.

Bookplate of the Honourable Frederic North. Phillipps MS 7511. Sotheby's, 26 June 1967, lot 596 (incorrectly described as a commonplace book of Sir Thomas Crewe, Speaker of the House of Commons (d.1634)). Formerly Folger MS Add. 538.

A microfilm is in the British Library (RP 154).

Folger, MS V.b.303, p. 229.

RaW 66.5

Copy in: A folio volume comprising a collection of epitaphs, in a single neat italic hand, entitled ‘Delectus Epitaphiorum Anglo-Latinorum Tam Veterum quam Recentiu’, 74 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1664-1705.

Pencil inscription on front pastedown: ‘Charles A. Cole[?] June 26 '64’. The rear cover stamped ‘R. S. 1705’.

Folger, MS W.b.455, p. 25.

RaW 67

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled. c.1620.

In: A large folio composite volume of state papers, letters and speeches, in English and Latin prose and verse, in various hands, 58 items, i + 449 leaves.

Given by William Moore.

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, MS 73/40, f. 215v.

RaW 68

Copy, headed ‘Sr walter Rawleigh hys verses written in his byble a lyttell before his deathe’ and here beginning ‘Yeouen suche ys tyme wch takes in haste’.

In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, closely written in probably a single secretary hand, ii + 393 pages, in old calf. c.1620.

Inscribed (p. [i]) ‘This curious Manuscript was bought by me of Mr Muskett the Bookseller. Norwich - J. P. B.’ Unidentified Dobell sale catalogue, item 182.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 35A, p. 80. Recorded in Latham (1929), p. 166, and in Latham (1951), p. 154.

Harvard, MS Eng 628, p. 385.

RaW 68.5

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleighs Epitaph written himself the night before he suffered’.

In: An octavo composite miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, relating to angling, 284 pages (lacking pp. 161-84), in quarter-calf marbled boards. In several neat, small, chiefly italic hands, one on pp. 1-203 that of Nathaniel Bridges, of Magdalen College, Oxford, whose inscription on f. [iiir] is dated ‘1694’. c.1691-early 18th century.

Bookplate of George Weare Braikenridge, Broomwell House. A flyleaf is inscribed by him, November 1834, ‘The Book belonged to the late Dr. Nathl. Bridges Lecturer of St Mary Radcliffe & St Nicholas in the City of Bristol & purchased out of a private sale of his library at his decease.’ Other names inscribed after p. 212 including ‘William Trumbu[ll]’, ‘Joseph Brampton 1691’, and ‘Hen Sacheverell / Coll. Magd.’. A later bookplate inside the lower cover: ‘Gift of Daniel B. Fearing of Newport, 1915’.

Harvard, MS Eng 1490, 2nd section, f. [18r].

RaW 69

Copy on a single small leaf. 17th century.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Ag. E.83/044.

RaW 70

Copy, headed ‘Verses found in Sr. Walter Raleighs Bible in the Gatehowse’.

In: A folio volume of transcripts of state letters, in a single professional hand, 209 pages plus a three-page table of contents, in vellum. c.1630s.

Later owned by the antiquary Michael Lort (1725-90). Bookplate of Edmund Turner. Sotheby's, 24 October 1972, lot 383, to Alan Thomas.

Huntington, HM 36836, p. 127.

RaW 71

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, written on the address leaf of a folio autograph letter by Richard Blackall, to Sir Lionel Cranfield, 27 October 1618. c.1618.

Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of de la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent. Formerly EN M1012.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 314.

Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, U269/1 OEc 121.

RaW 72

Copy, in Twysden's hand, headed ‘part of an Epytaph made by Sr water Raugley beefore he sufferd’.

In: A quarto commonplace book, in an italic hand, xii + 758 pages, the great majority blank, in a recycled vellum membrane from a 14th-century missal. Compiled by Sir Roger Twysden (1597-1672), antiquary. c.1618-26.

Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, U48 Z1, p. [2].

RaW 73

Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, untitled, here beginning ‘Eaven such is tyme that takes in trust’.

In: A folio volume of documents by or relating to Sir Walter Ralegh, in several professional hands, iv + 30 leaves (including five blanks), in paper wrappers. c.1620s.

The upper wrapper inscribed ‘Cha Kemeys’. Bought from Maggs, 23 April 1953, by Annie Winifred Bryher (née Ellerman, d.1983). Afterwards owned by the Ralegh scholar Agnes Latham (1905-96), of Pickering, North Yorkshire.

British Library, Add. MS 73086, f. 22r.

RaW 73.5

Copy, headed ‘The coppy of that wch was deliver'd by Sr Walter Rawley to the Deane of Westminster upon the scaffold, for his Epitaph’.

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.

Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, p. 35.

RaW 74

Copy, untitled, indexed (f. 13v) as ‘Verses made by Sir walter Rawleigh’.

In: A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in several hands, 283 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Compiled principally by one ‘Jo. Tempest’. Mid-17th century.

Inscribed inside the front cover ‘G. J. Farsyde Fylingdales in Whitby 1826 / These M S. were found amongst the papers of my Uncle Watson Farsyde’. Peter Murray Hill, sale catalogue No. 72 (1960), item 22.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. q. 9, f. 17r.

RaW 74.5

Copy, headed ‘verses I made the Last nyght I Liued’ and subscribed ‘Walter Rawleygh’, on a small slip of paper pasted down on page ccxxxii in a printed exemplum of William Oldys, The Life of Sir Walter Ralegh (London, 1736). Early-mid-17th century.

Owned by the Historical Society of Philadelphia.

Library Company of Philadelphia, *Am 1736 Old Accession No. AqE83 0 44.

RaW 75

Copy, in the hand of John Goodyer, on the back of a draft letter dated from his lodgings at the Red Lyon in Fleet Street, London, 7 November 1618.

In: A volume of papers of John Goodyer (c.1592-1664), botanist.

Edited from this MS in R.T. Gunther, Early British Botanists and their Gardens (Oxford, 1922), p. 32. Recorded in Latham, p. 156.

Magdalen College, Oxford, MS 324, f. 2r.

RaW 76

Copy, headed ‘Epitaphe Sr W R. by himselfe’.

In: A folio composite miscellany compiled entirely by William Drummond of Hawthornden, including (ff. 165r-6v, 246r-7v) copies of, or brief extracts from, nineteen poems by Donne, 300 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt. c.1618-20s.

Among the collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. VIII.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Drummond Miscellany: DnJ Δ 66. Some extracts from this MS edited in Laing (1831), pp. 78-82. ‘Drummond's Catalogue of Comedies’ (ff. 122-3). Recorded in MacDonald, Library of Drummond, pp. 231-2.

Edited from this MS in David Laing, ‘Extracts from the Hawthornden Manuscripts’, Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 4 (1833), 225-40 (p. 238), and in Rudick, No. 35B, p. 80. Recorded in Latham, p. 153.

National Library of Scotland, MS 2060, f. 2r.

RaW 77

Copy, in a roman hand, untitled. c.1640s.

In: A folio composite volume of verse, prose and dramatic works, in various hands, written over a period from both ends, 543 pages (including blanks), in contemporary panelled calf with remains of metal clasps. Compiled by members of the Salusbury family of Llewenni, Denbighshire, including works by Sir Thomas Salusbury, second Baronet (1612-43), poet and politician. Early-mid 17th century.

Later owned by J. Baskerville-Glegg, of Withington Hall, Chelford. Sotheby's, 14-16 March 1921, lot 421.

National Library of Wales, NLW MS 5390 D, p. 334 rev.

RaW 78

Copy, in a cursive mixed hand, subscribed ‘Sr wa: Rawghleygh knt wrytten ye daye hee died’. c.1640s.

In: the MS described under RaW 77. Early-mid 17th century.

National Library of Wales, NLW MS 5390 D, p. 334 rev.

RaW 79

Copy, on a slip pasted at the bottom of the third page.

In: Copy of two texts relating to Sir Walter Ralegh, on a pair of conjugate folio leaves. Early-mid-17th century.

Later owned by André de Coppet (1892-1953), New York financial broker. Sotheby's, 5 July 1955 (De Coppet sale), lot 984.

New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Acc. No. 7482, [item 2].

RaW 80

Copy, untitled.

In: Copy of texts relating to Ralegh's execution, in a secretary hand, on two unbound conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1618-20s.

Northamptonshire Record Office, IC 3495, p. [4].

RaW 81

Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, here beginning ‘Euen soe is tyme, who takes in trust’, subscribed ‘Walter Raleigh’, on a small slip of paper once part of a leaf folded as a letter or packet. c.1620s.

Northamptonshire Record Office, IC 4774.

RaW 82

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled, on one side of a half-folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1620s.

University of Nottingham, Pw V 359.

RaW 83

Copy, headed ‘Verses found in Sr Walter Raleighs Bible att the Gatehowse’, followed by two lines in Latin.

In: A folio volume of state letters, in several professional secretary hands, with a lengthy ‘Tabula’ of contents, xxx + 558 pages, in old vellum boards. c.1637.

Recorded in HMC, 6th Report, Part I (1877), p. 306.

Lord Egremont, Petworth House, HMC MS 61, p. 391.

RaW 84

Copy in the hand of one Humphrey Holden, headed ‘Sr. Walter Rawleigh wrote these verses ye night before his Execution. Oct 28 1618’, written on the first unsigned leaf in Holden's printed exemplum of Ralegh's The History of the World (London, 1614), in modern morocco. c.1620.

Edited from this MS in E.V. Unger and W.A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), III, 846. Facsimile in Henry Stevens, Son, & Stiles, catalogue No. 177 (1927), Plate XII.

University of Texas at Austin, Pforzheimer 820.

RaW 85

Copy, headed ‘These ensueing verses are sayd to bee written, by Sr. Walter Raleigh, in the prison of the Gatehouse, the same morneing hee suffered’.

In: A folio volume of accounts of Ralegh's arraignment and execution, in four professional predominantly secretary hands, 103 pages (an unnumbered blank leaf after p. 52), in 19th-century morocco. c.1620.

Later owned, in 1821, by William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector, in 1863 by John Dillon, and afterwards by Alfred Morrison (1821-97), manuscript and art collector.

Recorded in HMC, 9th Report, Appendix, Part II (1884), p. 408. Described in E.V. Unger and W.A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), III, 857-8.

This MS partly collated in E.V. Unger and W.A. Jackson, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Library: English Literature 1475-1700, 3 vols (New York, 1940), III, 858.

University of Texas at Austin, Pforzheimer MS 112, p. 103.

RaW 86

Copy, headed ‘Upon Sr Walter Rawleigh made by himself before he was beheaded’, added in a late 17th-century hand.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, including seventeen poems by Donne and fifteen by Strode, the main part in a single hand, 334 pages (but pp. 3-4 extracted, and including a later index). Possibly compiled by one ‘W: H:’: i.e. probably William Holgate (1618-46), of Queens' College, Cambridge, with late 17th-century additions apparently made by other members of the Holgate family, of Saffron Walden and Great Bardfield, Essex. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].

Owned in the early 18th century by John Wale, who supplied the index on pp. 330-3. Owned before 1927 by Col. W.G. Carwardine-Probert, of Bures, Suffolk (descendant of the Holgate family).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Holgate MS’: DnJ Δ 58. Briefly discussed in W.G.P., ‘Verses by Francis Beaumont’, TLS (15 September 1921), p. 596, and in E.K. Chambers, William Shakespeare, 2 vols (Oxford, 1930), II, 222-4. Also discussed, with facsimiles on pp. 68 and 70 of pp. 181 and 13, in Michael Roy Denbo, ‘Editing a Renaissance Commonplace Book: The Holgate Miscellany’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 65-73. For facsimile pages see DnJ 2931 and ShW 25. Complete microfilm in the Essex Record Office (T/A 98).

Pierpont Morgan Library, MA 1057, p. 217.

RaW 87

Copy, headed ‘Verses found in Sr. Walter Raleighs Bible in ye Gatehouse’.

In: A small quarto volume of state letters and papers, in a single secretary hand, 704 pages, in quarter-calf boards. With a letter by James Gairdner (1828-1912), historian, returning this volume to Edward William Cox (1809-79), lawyer and publisher, 20 January 1886. Mid-17th century.

Gift of Mr Roland L. Redmond, 1942.

Pierpont Morgan Library, MA 1162, p. 458.

RaW 88

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, here beginning ‘Yeven such is tyme wch takes in trust’, with a sidenote ‘des carmes faits par Sr walt: Rawleigh le iour deuant qu'il fut execute Ao. dni. 1618. Nouemb.’, in a quarto booklet. c.1620s.

In: A folio guard-book of Jacobean state papers, stamped foliation 1-165.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 154.

National Archives, Kew, SP 14/96, f. 123r.

RaW 89

Copy, headed ‘Made by sr W: Raleigh the morning before his death and deliuerd to the deane of westminster alittell before his ende’, at the foot of the second page of a folio leaf. c.1618.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 187 leaves, in red morocco.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 154.

National Archives, Kew, SP 14/103, f. 70v.

RaW 90

Copy, headed ‘Sir Walter Ralleighe his Epitaph made by himselfe the Morninge when he was put to death’.

In: the MS described under RaW 6.5. c.1642.

Robert S. Pirie, New York, [Feilde MS], p. 442.

RaW 91

Copy, headed ‘Write by Sr. walter Rawleygh when he was in the Gatehouse’, among other papers relating to Ralegh. c.1620s.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, letters and speeches, in various hands, 614 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.

The Queen's College, Oxford, MS 121, p. 518.

RaW 92

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh the night before his death’.

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.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 154.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 239/16, p. 6.

RaW 93

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleighs epitaph: by himselfe made’.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, including fifteen poems by Donne, with a title-page ‘Miscellanies Or A Collection of Diuers Witty and pleasant Epigrams, Adages, poems Epitaphes &c for the recreation of ye ouertravelled sences: 1630 Robert Bishop’, in a single mixed hand, probably associated with the University of Oxford, 306 pages, in old calf. c.1630.

Owned and probably compiled by Robert Bishop. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9549. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue, English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 187.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the ‘Bishop MS’: DnJ Δ 59. Edited in David Coleman Redding, Robert Bishop's Commonplace-Book: An Edition of a Seventeenth Century Miscellany (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1960) [Mic 60-3608].

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 154.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 1083/16, p. 109.

RaW 94

Copy, headed ‘The morneing before his execucon’.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Henry King, perhaps almost entirely written over a period in a single secretary hand with slightly varying styles, 54 leaves, in limp vellum. c.1636-40s.

The name of the possible compiler ‘John Pike’ inscribed on f. 1r: i.e. possibly a member of the Pike family of Cambridge (one John Pike (d.1677) matriculating at Peterhouse in 1662).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the ‘Pike MS’: KiH Δ 12. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6), pp. 143-7.

St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 32 (James 423), f. 34v.

RaW 95

Copy, in a secretary hand, with a lengthy preamble about Ralegh's conduct before his execution, concluding ‘Going out of the prison, he gave certeyne verses in English to his Keeper, wch bycause they seme not to rellish an astonished invention, I thought good here to annexe them: His last verses’, the text followed by ‘answers’.

In: A large folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 198 pages, in quarter-vellum boards.

Trinity College, Cambridge, MS O. 5. 21 (James 1302), (20), p. 183.

RaW 95.5

Copy, in double columns, headed ‘When Kinge James the firste sente sente [sicWorde to Sr Walther Ralegh that he shod dy. he called for a pen & wrote these verses’.

In: MS verses on a flyleaf in a printed exemplum of Ralegh's The History of the World (London, 1621), a folio in contemporary calf. c.1620s-30s.

Inscribed (f. [ir]) ‘Ed: Rudd Trin: Coll: Cant: 1700’.

Trinity College, Cambridge, VI.4.4, f. [iir].

RaW 97

Copy, headed ‘Verses hee made the night before hee dyed’.

In: An octavo volume of works by, or attributed to, Ralegh, in several largely secretary hands, 282 pages, in contemporary velum. c.1620s.

Owned in 1732 by the Rev. John Jones (1700-70), of Abbots Ripton and Alconbury, near Cambridge.

This MS discussed in Lefranc (1968), pp. 584-5.

Dr Williams's Library, MS Jones B. 60, p. 282.

RaW 97.5

Copy, headed ‘On ye same W R.’

In: A small quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in one secretary hand, erratically paginated up to 333, 250 leaves, in 18th-century boards. c.late 1630s.

Inscribed (on p. [330]) ‘Robert Lord his book Anno Domini’; (on [p. 335]) ‘william Jacob his booke Amen’; and, among scribbling on the last leaf, ‘Hugh Gibgans of the same’ and ‘John Winter of Buckland Dursbane [or husbande?]’. Owned in 1788 by Alexander R. Popham. Bloomsbury Book Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 8.

A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.

Yale, Osborn MS b 356, p. 250.

RaW 98

Copy, headed ‘1616. [sic] Sr Walter Rawley, nox ante obitum’ and subscribed ‘These verses were made the night before he lost his hed’.

In: A folio commonplace book cum letterbook, predominantly in one hand, compiled by Sir Francis Castillion (1561-1638), 241 pages (plus many blanks). c.1620s-30s.

The front pastedown inscribed ‘Thomas Hugh Markham From his Mother. Sepr 11th. 1846’ and, in pencil, ‘Darker Esqr. Gayton’.

Yale, Osborn MS fb 69, p. 208.

RaW 98.5

Copy, as an epitaph used for a monument to Wilfred Lawson.

In: A quarto commonplace book of extracts, compiled by Elizabeth Elliotson, 330 pages. 1729.

Yale, Osborn MS c 547, p. 332.

RaW 99

Copy, headed ‘Sr W. Rawleigh's Epitaph on Himself’.

In: A folio miscellany entitled Epitaphs Collected 1694, 42 pages. c.1695.

Yale, Osborn MS fb 143, p. 14.

RaW 100

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Sr. Walter Rawleighs Epitaph in his Bible by him made’.

In: A group of five different sized folio leaves, paginated 412-416, now disbound. Comprising verse and prose texts by or relating to Sir Walter Ralegh. and the Duke of Buckingham. c.1625-30s.

Once belonging to Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary. Later owned by Hudson Gurney (1775-1864), of Keswick Hall, Norfolk, banker and antiquary.

Recorded in HMC, 12th Report. IX (1891), p. 161.

Formerly part of Gurney MS XXXIII at Keswick Hall, Norfolk, this MS recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Appendix IX (1891), p. 161. See also RaW 811.

Yale, Osborn Poetry Box VI/107, p. 414.

RaW 101

Copy, headed ‘Sr walter Rawleighs Epitaph made by himselfe’.

In: A quarto miscellany of religious and political prose and verse, in English and Latin, in several secretary, italic and mixed hands, 318 leaves (including blanks, foliated on versos), in contemporary vellum boards. Compiled over a period (entries dated between 1621 and 1667) by members of the family of Sir Marmaduke Rawdon (1583-1646), merchant, shipowner and royalist soldier. Mid-17th century.

Inscribed (f. 278r) ‘Mary Elliston october the 27 1763’ and ‘Mary Elliston Collchester’. Later owned by Edward Hailstone (1818-90), of Walton Hall, Wakefield, botanist and book collector.

York Minster, MS Add. 122, f. 34v.

RaW 102

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleigh His Verses, wrytten in a voide place of his Bible the night before his death, in the Gatehouse’. Apparently appended to a printed exemplum of Newes from London (November 1618). c.1618.

Formerly among the papers of the Trevelyan family, of Trevelyan, near Lostwithiel, Cornwall (but not among the Trevelyan papers now in the Somerset Record Office).

This MS edited in Trevelyan Papers, ed. John Payne Collier, III, Camden Society 105 (London, 1872), 154-5.

Untraced, [Trevelyan volume].

RaW 102.5

Copy, headed ‘Sir Walter Rawleigh his Epitaph wreaten be himselfe before his death which was in @nno i6i8. Being beheaded in ye parliamt yeard att west=minster @nno forsaide’.

In: A large octavo verse miscellany, chiefly lampoons and poems on affairs of state, including 21 poems by Rochester and various others in the Rochester apocrypha, nearly 600 pages in all, with a 14-page index. Written in a single hand which can be identified as that of the Scottish pasquil-writer and antiquary Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), who was also responsible for RoJ Δ 6. c.1705.

Private owners in the UK, Mylne MS, p. 504.

RaW 103

Copy, here beginning ‘Even so dooth tyme take up withe truste’.

In: A miscellany, compiled by Adam Winthrop (1548-1623), father of John Winthrop (1588-1649), first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 1618-23.

Formerly owned by the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Discussed in Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1st Ser. 13 (1873), 83-98.

Edited from this MS in Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, p. 98. This publication recorded in Latham, p. 154.

Untraced, [Winthrop MS], [unspecified page numbers].

RaW 104

Copy, in the hand of William Trumbull (1576/80-1635), English Resident at Brussels, headed ‘Sr walter Raleye was beheaded at Westminster the <blank> of October 1618 / His Epitaph written by himselfe the night before he suffered’. c.1620.

In: Ralegh's History of the World (London, 1614), first edition, folio, in 18th-century half-calf.

Formerly in the Trumbull library owned by the Marquess of Downshire, at Easthampstead Park, Berkshire. Sotheby's, 19 July 1990, lot 33, to Simon Finch.

Untraced, [Trumbull volume], [unnunbered final blank page].

RaW 105

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Eauen such is time that takes in trust’, in the hand of Peter Middelton.

In: Exemplum of Ralegh's The History of the World (London, 1614) with MS verses. c.1618?.

Owned by Peter Middelton (fl.1620s), Royal Chaplain. Sold in the 1980s by Joseph & Sawyer, booksellers.

Untraced, [Ralegh/Middelton volume], [on a flyleaf].

The Excuse (‘Calling to minde mine eie long went about’)

First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, p. 10. Rudick, Nos 9A and 9B (two versions, pp. 9-10).

RaW 106

Copy, subscribed ‘Wa: Ralegh’.

In: the MS described under RaW 10.5. c.1620s-37.

This MS collated in The Phoenix Nest, ed. H.E. Rollins (Cambridge, Mass., 1931), pp. 178-9; recorded in Latham, p. 101.

Bodleian, MS Ashmole 781, p. 138.

RaW 107

Copy in: A folio verse miscellany, entirely in the professional secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, containing some 76 poems, including eleven by Donne, later inscribed (erroneously) ‘Sir John Haringtons Poems Written in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth’, 56 leaves, in contemporary vellum. c.1620s-33.

From the library of Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755), nonjuring bishop and topographer.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Rawlinson MS’: DnJ Δ 38. Also briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 277 (No. 94), with facsimile examples on pp. 102-3.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 102.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 31, f. 2r.

RaW 108

Copy, headed ‘A ffancy’.

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 Latham, p. 102.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 84, f. 58v-r rev.

RaW 109

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 1. c.1586-91.

This MS collated in Rollins, pp. 178-9; recorded in Latham, p. 102.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 85, f. 104v.

RaW 110

Copy, headed ‘A ffancy’.

In: A quarto composite volume comprising three independent MSS bound together, i + 78 leaves. The first MS a verse miscellany, in an italic hand, 29 leaves. c.1640.

This MS collated in Rollins, pp. 178-9; recorded in Latham, p. 102.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 153, f. 20r.

RaW 110.5

Copy of a version, in a cursive secretary hand, imperfect, lacking the first two stanzas, and here beginning ‘Repentinge folly that myn eye had soe deceived me’.

In: A tall folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous papers, in verse and prose, in several hands, 87 leaves, in 19th-century mottled leather. Possibly assembled by a barrister of the Middle Temple.

This MS recorded in Steven W. May, Sir Walter Ralegh, pp. 29 and 140 n. 6. Edited from this MS in Carlo M. Bajetta, ‘Unrecorded Extracts by Sir Walter Ralegh’, N&Q, 241 (June 1996), 138-40.

British Library, Add. MS 5956, f. 25r-v.

RaW 111

Copy, headed ‘To his Loue’, subscribed ‘Sr Walt: Raleigh’.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Juvenilia Ludicra, in a single small mixed hand, 103 leaves, all now window mounted in a quarto volume, in 19th-century half morocco. Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man. c.1630s.

Inscribed in engrossed lettering (f. 1r) ‘E Libris Richard Sutclif’. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 194.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 9B, p. 10. Collated in Rollins, pp. 178-9. Recorded in Latham, p. 101.

British Library, Add. MS 15227, f. 88v.

RaW 112

Copy, untitled.

In: An independent quarto verse miscellany, including 47 poems by Donne, in two secretary hands. Constituting ff. 230r-99v in a quarto composite volume of verse and prose, in various hands, 308 leaves, in modern half green morocco gilt. c.1620-33.

Among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son, Edward, second Earl of Oxford (1681-1741), and acquired in 1722 from the bookseller Nathaniel Noel (fl.1681-c.1753).

Cited in IELM I.i as the ‘Harley Noel MS’: DnJ Δ 2.

This MS collated in Rollins, pp. 178-9. Recorded in Latham, p. 102.

British Library, Harley MS 4064, f. 232v.

RaW 113

Copy, untitled.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in an accomplished mixed hand throughout, with headings or incipts in engrossed lettering, 194 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco. c.1596-1601.

This MS volume discussed in Katherine K. Gottschalk, ‘Discoveries concerning British Library MS Harley 6910’, MP, 77 (1979-80), 121-31.

This MS collated in Rollins, pp. 178-9; recorded in Latham, p. 102.

British Library, Harley MS 6910, f. 142v.

RaW 114

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘FINIS. RA’.

In: A quarto composite verse miscellany, comprising three miscellaneous MSS in different hands, 151 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. Fols 11r-78r, largely in a single secretary hand, comprising a verse miscellany compiled by the antiquary St Loe Kniveton, of Gray's Inn. c.1585-90s.

Edited from this MS in Rudick (No. 9A), p. 9. Recorded in Latham, p. 102.

British Library, Harley MS 7392, ff. 36v-7r.

RaW 115

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Sir Walter Rawlyegh’.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in one or more secretary hands, with (ff. 244r-54r) a first-line index, 254 leaves, in modern half-morocco, poems on ff. 34v and 242v dated 1637. Including 91 poems and some prose works by John Donne and fourteen poems by Thomas Carew. c.1637.

Among the collections of Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (1776-1839), first Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham, largely derived from the collection of the antiquary Thomas Astle (1735-1803), which in turn chiefly derived from Astle's father-in-law, the Essex historian Philip Morant (1700-70) (see DnJ Δ 15). Later owned by Bertram, fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as ‘Stowe MS II’: DnJ Δ 44 and ‘Stowe MS’: CwT Δ 22.

British Library, Stowe MS 962, f. 85v.

RaW 115.5

Copy of the last two lines, untitled and here beginning ‘But whe I saw myselfe to you was true’.

In: the MS described under RaW 47. c.1640.

Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 7196, f. [9v].

RaW 116

Copy, untitled, inscribed in the margin ‘W.R.’

In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, 63 leaves, partly mounted on guards, in modern quarter-calf on marbled boards. Compiled by Henry Stanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, including George Carey, second Lord Hunsdon. c.1581-1612.

A complete transcription of this volume in Steven W. May, Henry Stanford's Anthology: An Edition of Cambridge University Library Manuscript Dd. 5.75 (New York, 1988).

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 102. May, Stanford, pp. 81-2 (No. 109).

Cambridge University Library, MS Dd. 5. 75, f. 27r.

RaW 117

Copy, untitled, ascribed to ‘Sr Wa: Raleighe’.

In: A folio volume of state letters, speeches and verse, in a single neat italic hand. c.1620s.

Among the papers of the Fuller family of Brightling Park. Possibly once owned by Ambrose Trayton of Lewes, Esquire of the Body to James I and Charles I.

East Sussex Record Office, RAF/F/13/1, [unnumbered page].

RaW 118

Copy, untitled.

In: An oblong quarto verse miscellany, in three accomplished secretary hands, xvi + 52 pages (including blanks), being a fragment of a larger volume, now mounted in an album, in russia gilt. c.1590-1600s.

Inscribed (on an affixed slip of paper) ‘Anne Cornwaleys her booke’ [i.e. probably Anne Cornwallis (d.1635), who on 30 November 1610 became Countess of Argyll]; (p. 34) ‘Ed Philips his Book 1740’; ‘Robert Thomas not his Book 1740’; (p. [xvi]); ‘Sam: Lysons’ [i.e. Samuel Lysons (1763-1819), antiquary]. Afterwards owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Bright sale, Part II (18 June 1844), to Thorpe. Then owned by Dr Thomas Russell and his son the Rev. John Fuller Russell (1813-84), ecclesiastical historian (who has signed the MS ‘John F. Russell’ on p.[i]); by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector, and then in the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.112.

Discussed in William H. Bond, ‘The Cornwallis-Lysons Manuscript and the Poems of John Bentley’, Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, DC, 1948), pp. 683-93, and 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. (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 102.

Folger, MS V.a.89, p. 19.

RaW 119

Copy, headed ‘A Lover to his Mistresse’, ascribed at the side to ‘Sr W. R:’.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, arranged (Part I) as an anthology, under genre headings, the reverse end (Part II) largely occupied by a later series of Latin verses, epistles, and other exercises, 168 leaves, in old calf (rebacked). Part I probably in several hands, the predominant italic hand that also responsible for the ‘Welbeck MS’: DnJ Δ 57), and including 21 poems by Donne. c.1630 [-1677].

Part I inscribed (f. 1r) ‘John Smyth his Book 1640’, ‘Charles Smyth 1674’, ‘Hugh Smyth 1676’; (f. 23v) ‘J Smyth 1677 / 1676’. Part II inscribed several times ‘Thomas Smith’, on f. 19r also ‘Die: Maij 12o Ano 1659’, with a reference on f. 58v to Balliol College, Oxford, 1659/60. Later inscribed (f. [ir]) by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), who records buying ‘this very curious and interesting MS. of Messrs Boone’. Afterwards in the library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1. 28.

Cited in IELM, I.i, as the ‘Thomas Smyth MS’: DnJ Δ 48.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 102.

Folger, MS V.a.103, Part I, f. 29r-v.

RaW 120

Copy, headed ‘A Fancy’.

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

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

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

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 102.

Folger, MS V.a.162, f. 89v.

RaW 121

Copy, headed ‘A fancy’ and here beginning ‘Callinge to minde eyes went longe aboute’.

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.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 102.

New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), pp. 106-7.

RaW 122

Copy, headed ‘Sr W. R. / A Lover on his Mistresse’.

In: A small quarto verse anthology, in a single minute hand (but for p. 206), arranged under genre headings (‘Epitaphs’, ‘Satyricall’, ‘Love Sonnets’, etc.), probably associated with Oxford University, possibly Christ Church, 382 pages (including numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. Including 13 poems by Donne and 14 (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; the scribe is that mainly responsible also for the ‘Thomas Smyth MS’ (DnJ Δ 48). c.1630s.

Later owned and used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, who also annotated Cambridge University Library MS Add. 5778 and Harvard fMS Eng 966.4. Bookplate of N. Micklethwait. Owned in 1931 by the Rev. F.W. Glass, of Taverham Hall, near Norwich (seat in the 17th century of the Sotherton family and later of the Branthwayt and Micklethwait families).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Welbeck MS’: DnJ Δ 57 and CoR Δ 11. Discussed in H. Harvey Wood, ‘A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others’, Essays & Studies, 16 (1931), 179-90. For Taverham Hall, see Thomas B. Norgate, A History of Taverham from Early Times to 1969 (Aylsham, 1969).

University of Nottingham, Pw V 37, p. 59.

RaW 122.3

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 6.5. c.1642.

Robert S. Pirie, New York, [Feilde MS], p. 468.

RaW 122.5

Copy, untitled.

In: A small quarto miscellany of anecdotes, aphorisms, verses, etc., in two hands, compiled by Sir Francis Fane (c.1612-80), 193 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Inscribed by Fane on f. 1r ‘Aug: 24: 1629 / Franciscus Fane’ and, later, as a bequest to his three grandsons to be read by them when aged 21, dated from Fulbeck, 5 May 1672. c.1629-72.

Sold by Maggs, 29 May 1930.

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, ER 93/2, f. 191v.

RaW 122.8

Copy, headed ‘A Louer to his Mrs’.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, of English and Welsh verse and prose, in probably several hands, the English verse (on pages 9-70, 93-104) including eleven poems by Strode and two of doubtful authorship, 110 pages (plus stubs of extracted leaves). Compiled by members of the Griffith family, of Llanddyfnan, the verse probably entered by one or more of the various members of that family who studied in this period at the University of Oxford. Mid-17th century.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Griffith MS’: StW Δ 26.

Bangor University, MS 422, p. 96.

RaW 123

Copy, headed ‘A Fancie’ and here beginning ‘Calling to minde mine eyes about’.

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.

Yale, Osborn MS b 205, f. 27v.

RaW 123.5

Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs’.

In: the MS described under RaW 97.5. c.late 1630s.

Yale, Osborn MS b 356, pp. 132-3.

A Farewell to false Love (‘Farewell false loue, the oracle of lies’)

First published, in a musical setting, in William Byrd, Psalmes, Sonets & songs (London, 1588). Latham, pp. 7-8. Rudick, Nos 10A (complementing Sir Thomas Heneage's verses beginning ‘Most welcome love, thow mortall foe to lies’) and 10B, pp. 11-13.

The poem based principally on a poem by Philippe Desportes: see Jonathan Gibson, ‘French and Italian Sources for Ralegh's “Farewell False Love”’, RES, NS 50 (May 1999), 155-65, which also cites related MSS.

RaW 124

Copy, headed ‘A quip for Cupide’, the heading and lines 1-7 in the hand of Sir John Harington.

In: the MS described under RaW 10. Mid-late 16th century.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 235, pp. 274-5.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 162v.

RaW 124.5

Copy, in a five-part musical setting by William Byrd.

In: A MS songbook. Once owned by one Thomas Myriell. Early 17th century.

Bibliothèque Royale, Brussels, Belgium, MS II. 4. 109 (Fétis 3095), pp. 110-11.

RaW 125

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 1. c.1586-91.

Edited from this MS in The Complete Works of John Lyly, ed. R. Warwick Bond (Oxford, 1902), III, 471-2; collated in Hughey, II, 384-5; recorded and the last stanza edited in Latham.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 85, f. 48r-v.

RaW 126

Copy of the incipit only (here ‘Fairweill fals loue’), in a musical setting.

In: A small oblong folio part book, for the Bass voice, of vocal and instrumental music, the lyrics in a single formal secretary hand, 71 leaves, in modern half dark red morocco. Compiled (and signed at the foot of every page) by David Melvill, of Aberdeen, brother of James Melvill (1556-1614), Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages. Early 17th century.

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘William Forbes [? of Tolquhon, near Aberdeen] Ought this Book 1705’. Bookplate of ‘W. H. S. F[orbes] L[eigh]’.

British Library, Add. MS 36484, f. 53r.

RaW 127

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘FINIS. RA’.

In: the MS described under RaW 114.

Edited from tis MS in Rudick, No. 10B, pp. 12-13. Collated in Hughey, II, 384. Recorded in Latham, p. 100.

British Library, Harley MS 7392, f. 37r-v.

RaW 128

Copy of the final couplet, here beginning ‘ffalse love; Desire; and Bewty fraile, Adiew’.

In: the MS described under RaW 114.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 100.

British Library, Harley MS 7392, f. 28r.

RaW 129

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 118. c.1590-1600s.

This MS collated in Hughey, II, 384. Recorded in Latham, p. 100.

Folger, MS V.a.89, pp. 10-11.

RaW 130

Copy of an untitled three-stanza version beginning ffarwell falce loue thow oracle of lies, ascribed in the margin to ‘Mr Rawleigh’ and subscribed ‘ffinis R’.

In: A folio miscellany of verse, dramatic and heraldic works, 78 leaves (including some blanks), in contemporary limp vellum. c.1572-97.

Sotheby's, 17 June 1969, lot 492. Purchased from Hofmann and Freeman 1970.

A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 349.

The text accompanied by a companion poem by Sir Thomas Heneage (d. 1595) beginning ‘Most welcome love thou mortall foe to lies’. Edited from this MS in Bertram Dobell, ‘Poems by Sir Thomas Heneage and Sir Walter Raleigh’, The Athenaeum (14 September 1901), p. 349. Collated from that publication in Hughey, II, 384. Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 10A, pp. 11-12. Recorded in Latham, p. 100.

A microfilm of the MS is in the British Library (RP 349).

Harvard, fMS Eng 1285, f. 72v.

RaW 131

Copy of a four-stanza version, untitled.

In: A quarto booklet of verse, ff. 1r-10r in a cursive secretary hand, additions afterwards in other hands, sixteen leaves (ff. 12-13 stubs), unbound. Early 17th century.

Owned in 1781 by the Rev. John Williams (1760-1826), of Llanrwst.

National Library of Wales, NLW MS 473 B, ff. 9v-10r.

RaW 132

Copy of a four-stanza version, in a neat secretary hand, untitled, on one side of a folio leaf. c.1600.

In: A folio guard-book of miscellaneous tracts, letters and papers, in various hands, 264 leaves.

This MS recorded in Pierre Lefranc, ‘A Miscellany of Ralegh Material’, N&Q, 202 (January 1957), 24-6.

National Archives, Kew, SP 46/126, f. 123v.

RaW 132.5

Copy, in a musical setting.

In: A music book. Compiled largely by Thomas Hamond (d.1662), of Cressners, in the parish of Hawkedon, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

Discussed in Ian Payne, ‘George Kirbye (c. 1565-1634): Two Important Repertories of English Secular Vocal Music Surviving Only in Manuscript’, MQ, 73, No. 3 (1989), 401-16.

Royal College of Music, MS 684, [unspecified page numbers].

‘Fortune hath taken thee away my love’

Six lines cited in George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie (London, 1589). Latham, p. 9. The full text first published as a broadside in London, 1592 (?): see TLS (12 September 1968), p. 1032. This poem is related to the song “Fortune my foe”: see TLS, 30 May 1968, p. 553. Rudick, Nos 15A, 15B, 15C and 15D (four versions, pp. 19-22), followed by the Queen's answer (p. 23: see ElQ 38).

RaW 133

Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, in six quatrains beginning ‘Fortune hathe taken away my love’, with a lengthy marginal note by William Oldys.

In: A square-shaped folio miscellany of state letters and papers, largely in a single secretary hand, ii + 119 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. Compiled by someone in the household service of Henry Stanley (1531-93), fourth Earl of Derby, possibly Martin Heton (1552-1609), subsequently Bishop of Ely. c.1583-9.

Later owned by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary; by Nathaniel Booth, of Gray's Inn, in 1737, when it was also used by William Oldys (1696-1761), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary; by Thomas Thorpe (in his sale catalogue, 1820, Part I, item 2); and by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector (Phillipps MSS 19 and 3602). Sotheby's, 30 November 1971, lot 527, and 27 June 1977, lot 4941. Owned in 1978 by A.G. Thomas, London bookseller. Purchased on 9 April 1986 from Pickering & Chatto.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 15A, pp. 19-20. Walter Oakeshott, The Queen and the Poet (London, 1960), prints the lines beginning ‘In vain mine Eyes, in vain ye waste your tears’ (p. 154) as if a separate poem but reproduces a facsimile of this MS facing p. 157. Facsimile of the first two stanzas also in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 27 June 1977, p. 63.

British Library, Add. MS 63742, f. 116r.

RaW 134

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled and unascribed.

In: An octavo composite miscellany of verse and prose, in several secretary, italic and mixed hands, 190 leaves (irregularly numbered), in contemporary limp vellum. c.1580s-1615.

Inscribed (inside front and rear covers) ‘Robert Thornton’ and ‘William Sherida / Wm Sheridan.’

Edited from this MS in L.G. Black, ‘A Lost Poem by Queen Elizabeth I’, TLS (23 May 1968), p. 535, and in Rudick, No. 15C, p. 21.

Marsh's Library, Dublin, MS Z 3. 5. 21, f. 30v.

RaW 135

Copy, in six quatrains, in a left-hand column, headed ‘A sonnett’.

In: A folio miscellany of poems and state papers, in secretary hands, written from both ends, 50 leaves, in contemporary vellum. c.1620s.

Among papers of the Troyte-Bullock family, formerly of Zeals House, Mere, and probably deriving from the papers of the Chafyn family of Bulford and Chisenbury or the Reymes family of Waddon, near Dorchester.

Edited from this MS in Queen Elizabeth I: Selected Works, poem 7a, pp. 14-15, and in Rudick, No. 15D, p. 22.

Wiltshire and Swindon Archives, 865/500, f. [27r].

‘Hir face, Hir tong, Hir wit’

First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). Latham, p. 80. Rudick, No. 11, pp. 14-15. This poem was perhaps written jointly by Ralegh and Sir Arthur Gorges: see Lefranc (1968), p. 95.

RaW 136

Copy of the first stanza, headed ‘To his Mris’.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small neat predominantly secretary hand but for additions in a second hand on ff. 35v and 58r, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Wadham College, 97 leaves (inclusing two blanks), in half-calf. Including 14 poems by Carew (and a second copy of one poem), eight poems (plus 3 of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, and 28 poems by Strode (plus a second copy of one and two of doubtful authorship). c.late 1630s.

Later used and annotated by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, and entries in his hand on f. 97r. Formerly Bodleian, MS CCC.328.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Fulman MS’: CwT Δ 2; RnT Δ 6; StW Δ 16.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MS 328, f. 74v.

RaW 137

Copy of a two-stanza version, here beginning ‘Your face; your tongue; your witt’.

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 collated in The Phoenix Nest, ed. E. H. Rollins (Cambridge, Mass., 1931), pp. 174-5; recorded in Latham, p. 160.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 117, f. 161r rev.

RaW 138

Second copy of a two-stanza version, untitled, also beginning ‘Your face; your tongue; your witt’.

In: the MS described under RaW 137. Mid-17th century.

This MS collated in Rollins, pp. 174-5; recorded in Latham, p. 160.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 117, f. 168v rev.

RaW 139

Copy of a six-stanza version, headed ‘Vnto his Loue’.

In: the MS described under RaW 111. c.1630s.

This MS collated in Rollins, pp. 174-5; recorded in Latham, p. 160.

British Library, Add. MS 15227, ff. 84v-5r.

RaW 140

Copy of a two-stanza version, headed ‘To his Mistresse’ and here beginning ‘Yr Face, yr Tongue, yr witt’.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 49 leaves, outer leaves imperfect, in modern calf gilt. Including twenty poems by Carew, eleven poems by Crashaw on ff. 10-30 passim, and fifteen poems by Strode. c.1630s.

Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1834), item 728. Acquired from C. Booth, October 1857.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Thorpe MS’: CwT Δ 12, CrR Δ 3, StW Δ 9.

This MS collated in Rollins, pp. 174-5; recorded in Latham, p. 160.

British Library, Add. MS 22118, f. 34r.

RaW 141

Copy of a six-stanza version made by an amanuensis of Sir Arthur Gorges.

In: An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all. Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth). c.1586-1625.

Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.

Edited from this MS in The Poems of Sir Arthur Gorges, ed. H.E. Sandison (Oxford, 1953), No. [79], pp. 77-8. Recorded in Latham, p. 160.

British Library, Egerton MS 3165, f. 61r.

RaW 142

Copy of a six-stanza version, subscribed in different ink ‘Raley’.

In: the MS described under RaW 114.

Edited from this MS in Sandison, pp. 210-11m and in Rudick, No. 11, pp. 14-15.. Recorded in Latham, p. 160.

British Library, Harley MS 7392, f. 66v.

RaW 143

Copy of an untitled six-stanza version, here beginning ‘Your face your tongue your witte’, in treble columns.

In: the MS described under RaW 116. c.1581-1612.

Printed from this MS in Sandison, p. 211. Recorded in Latham, p. 160. May, Stanford, pp. 117-18 (no. 193).

Cambridge University Library, MS Dd. 5. 75, f. 36r.

RaW 144

Copy of the first stanza, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled.

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.

This MS collated in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, p. 450.

John Rylands University Library of Manchester, English MS 410, f. 21r.

RaW 145

Copy, headed ‘A Propheticall Poesie’ and here beginning ‘Your face, your toungue, your wit’.

In: A miscellany compiled by one John Moulton. c.1625.

Colbeck Radford, sale catalogue No. 3 (1929), item 81, and No. 9 (1930), item 192.

This MS recorded (but not seen) in Rollins, p. 175. The first stanza edited in Sandison, p. 210.

Untraced, [Moulton MS], [unspecified page numbers].

‘I am that Dido which thou here do'st see’

A translation of Ausonius's Epigram 117 (“Ille ego sum Dido vultu quam conspicis hospes”), first published in The History of the World (London, 1614). Rudick 36.61 (pp. 99-100).

RaW 145.5

Copy of both Ausonius's epigram and Ralegh's translation, in a predominantly italic hand. On the final blank page in a printed exemplum of Symbolarum libri XVII quibus P Virgilii...per Jacobum Pontanum de Societate Jesu (Lyons, 1604). c.1620.

Chetham's Library, 2.I.7.12.

‘If Synthia be a Queene, a princes, and supreame’

First published in Hannah (1870). Latham, p. 24. Rudick, No. 24, p. 47.

*RaW 146

Autograph, on one side of a folio leaf. Late 16th century.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 144/238.

‘In vain mine Eyes, in vain ye waste your tears’

The Lie (‘Goe soule the bodies guest’)

First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.

This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, ‘Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine’, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's ‘answer’ to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.

RaW 147

Copy, untitled, headed in a different hand ‘Satyr on all things’. Early 17th century.

In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous state tracts, speeches, and verse, in various largely professional hands, iv + 413 leaves (including a thirty-page index and some blanks), in half-calf (rebacked). Transcribed from the Yelverton papers chiefly belonging to Sir Christopher Yelverton (1535?-1612), Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), and their family.

Owned in 1679 by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 131.

All Souls College, Oxford, MS 155, ff. 18v-19v.

RaW 147.5

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on a sheet of paper, with an endorsement by Henry Stanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, ‘Latworthes satyre against’ (sic). c.1600.

Berkeley Castle, Gen. Ser. Misc. Papers 3/9.

RaW 148

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio volume of state letters and tracts, in various hands.

Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, fonds anglais n° 149, f. 73r.

RaW 149

Copy of an adaptation of the poem.

In: A small quarto writing book of extracts and exercises, predominantly in a female roman hand, 20 leaves, bound with two other independent verse MSS (MSS Ashmole 49 and 50), in half-calf on marbled boards. Early-mid-17th century.

Inscribed (f. 18v rev.) ‘Ann: Bowyr’, evidently the principal compiler.

Facsimile and transcription of this MS in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), pp. 340-1.

Bodleian, MS Ashmole 51, f. 6r-v.

RaW 150

Copy of lines 1-54, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleighes farewell’.

In: An octavo verse miscellany compiled by an Oxford University man, i i + 37 leaves, in later half-calf. c.1630s.

Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 129.

Bodleian, MS Douce f. 5, fols 11r-12r.

RaW 151

Copy of lines 1-54; imperfect, lacking the ending.

In: The greater part of a quarto commonplace book of extracts, compiled by Edward Pudsey (1573-1613), iii + 104 leaves, in 19th-century green morocco gilt. Four leaves of this commonplace book are in the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, ER 82/1/21. c.1604-9.

Owned in 1615-16 by one ‘Bassett’ and in the 1880s by Richard Savage. At the Neligan sale, 2 August 1888, lot 1098. Bought by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), and his sale 4 July 1889, lot 1257.

All the Shakespearian texts except Othello were edited from this MS in Richard Savage's Shakespearean Extracts (1887). The MS also edited in Juliet Mary Gowan, An Edition of Edward Pudsey's Commonplace Book (c.1600-1615) (unpublished M. Phil., University of London, 1967). It was then found that the miscellany lacked several of its original leaves, including extracts from six plays by Shakespeare. These leaves were rediscovered in 1977 among Savage's papers at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, ER 82/1/21, and the Othello extracts identified by Gowan. The MS also discussed in J. Rees, ‘Shakespeare and “Edward Pudsey's Booke”, 1600’, N&Q, 237 (September 1992), 330-1, and in Fred Schurink, ‘Manuscript Commonplace Books, Literature, and Reading in Early Modern England’, HLQ, 73/3 (2010), 453-69 (pp. 465-9), with a facsimile of f. 31r on p. 467.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 131.

Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. d. 3, f. 2v.

RaW 151.5

Copy, transcribed from RaW 161.

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.

Bodleian, MS Firth d. 7, ff. 146r-50r.

RaW 152

Copy, headed ‘Sir Walter Rawley his Lye to ye Worlde’.

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.

Bodleian, MS Firth e. 4, pp. 3-5.

RaW 153

Copy, with two additional stanzas, headed ‘Dr Latworthe lye to all estates’.

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 Latham, pp. 129, 134-5 and in Höltgen, p. 435

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 172, f. 12v.

RaW 154

Copy, headed ‘W R farewell made by D: Lat:’.

In: A small octavo miscellany of verse and prose, written from both ends, i + 155 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum. Compiled by an Oxford University man. Early 17th century.

This text accompanied by Latewar's answer. Edited from this MS in Höltgen, pp. 435-8; in Rudick, No. 20B, pp. 34-41; and in online Early Stuart Libels. Recorded in Latham, pp. 129-30.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 212, ff. 88r-90r.

RaW 155

Copy, untitled, together with an answer beginning ‘Stay Conick soule thy errante’, arranged in parallel columns, on both sides of a folio leaf. Late 16th-early 17th century.

See also DaJ 88.

In: A guardbook of separate verse items extracted from the bound volumes MSS Tanner 306/1 and 306/2.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 20C, pp. 42-4. Recorded in Latham, p. 131.

Bodleian, MS Tanner 306*, f. 188r-v.

RaW 156

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 30. Mid-late 17th century.

Bradford Archives, 32D86/34, pp. 9-11.

RaW 157

Copy, with two additional stanzas, transcribed from an earlier MS, headed ‘A Lye to the World or The Farewell’, the ascription ‘By Sir Wa: Raleigh’ deleted in favour of ‘By the royall Earle of Essex’, with Cole's notes at the side.

In: A folio volume of antiquarian collections, including much verse, in a single neat hand, 238 leaves, in half-morocco. In the hand of the Rev. William Cole, FSA (1714-82), antiquary (Volume XXXI of the Cole Collection). Mid-18th century.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 129, 134-5.

British Library, Add. MS 5832, ff. 218r-19r.

RaW 158

Copy, headed ‘The Souls Errand’, transcribed from an unidentified source, sent with a letter by Nathaniel Ogle to Sheridan, from Southampton, 12 January in 1803, as ‘a Copy of the vigorous verses written by the great Sir Walter Raleigh, after his condemnation’.

In: A square-shaped folio composite volume of papers largely relating to the playwright R.B. Sheridan, in various hands and paper sizes, 78 leaves, mounted on guards, in half red morocco. 1803.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 130.

British Library, Add. MS 29764, ff. 9r-10v.

RaW 158.5

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, subscribed in a different hand ‘finis a rich ballet entitled Sr. ffoole yow lye’, on the first three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter. Early 17th century.

In: A collection of unbound verse manuscripts, in various hands and paper sizes (chiefly folio), 142 leaves. Partly compiled by Sir Richard Browne and his father Christopher Browne (1577-1646), of Saye's Court, Deptford.

Volume LXVII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford. Acquired March 1995.

British Library, Add. MS 78233, ff. 1r-2r.

RaW 159

Copy of a fifteen-stanza version, in double columns, in a professional secretary hand, untitled. c.1600s.

In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous verse, drama and other papers, in English, French and Latin, in various professional hands, 168 leaves, in modern brown leather gilt.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 131, 134-5.

British Library, Harley MS 2296, f. 135r.

RaW 159.5

Copy, in a secretary hand, with corrections, on one side of a folio leaf, heavily damp-stained, imperfect and lacking a heading. Early 17th century.

In: A double-folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 80 leaves, mounted on guards, in half-morocco.

Presented by Carew Reynell.

British Library, Add. MS 69847, f. 5r.

RaW 160

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 113. c.1596-1601.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 131.

British Library, Harley MS 6910, ff. 141v-2r.

RaW 161

Copy, headed ‘Satira Volans’ and here ascribed to ‘Doctor Latworth’.

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, f. 146.

Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 4138, f. 46r-v.

RaW 161.5

Copy, headed ‘Sr Gualter Rawly his farewell’, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

In: A composite folio volume of verse.

Among the papers of the families of Kitson (and later of Gage) of Hengrave Hall, Suffolk. An inscription records ‘These MSS. poems were found in the Belfry of Hengrave Church Among the title deeds’.

Edited from this MS text in Carlo M. Bajetta, ‘Unrecorded Extracts by Sir Walter Ralegh’, N&Q, 241 (June 1996), 138-40.

Cambridge University Library, Hengrave MS 71, [item 1].

RaW 162

Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, subscribed ‘Wa: Raleigh’.

In: the MS described under RaW 49. c.1600-1620s.

Edited from this MS in Grosart, The Dr Farmer MS (1873), I, 114-17, with a facsimile of the last page. Recorded in Latham, pp. 129, 134.

Chetham's Library, Mun. A.4.15, ff. 65r-6v (pp. 103-6).

RaW 162.5

Copy, in double columns, headed ‘An Errand to the Soul’, unascribed.

In: A quarto miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, inscribed (f. ir) in another hand ‘A Collection of Religious Poems &c. by an uncertain Author. Some are borrowed from Dr. J. Watts. There is another vol. larger Quarto’, iii + 299 leaves, in modern cloth. Early 18th century.

Adam Clarke, sale catalogue (1835), p. 84, item 172. His sale London, 20 June 1836, lot 361. Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 1027, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9616 = 21542. Dobell & Radford's sale catalogue The Ingatherer, No. 11 (1930), item 211.

University of Chicago, MS 558, f. 227r-v.

RaW 163

Copy, headed ‘Satyra Volans. A flying satyre made by Dr Lateware’, ‘St. Johns’ added in the margin.

In: the MS described under RaW 119. c.1630 [-1677].

This MS recorded in Latham and Höltgen, p. 435.

Folger, MS V.a.103, Part I, f. 67r-v.

RaW 164

Copy, untitled, inscribed as a heading ‘Sir Walter Rawley’, subscribed ‘See ye rest immediately before’.

In: the MS described under RaW 63. c.1630s.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 129.

Folger, MS V.a.345, pp. 176-7.

RaW 165

Copy, in an italic hand, with corrections in another hand, untitled, subscribed in another hand ‘Anne Southwell’.

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.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 130. Edited in Klene (1997), pp. 2-4, with a facsimile on p. [165]. Facsimile and transcription also in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), pp. 336-7, 339.

Folger, MS V.b.198, f. 2r.

RaW 166

Copy, untitled, on the recto of a tipped-in folio leaf (with folds). c.1595.

In: the MS described under RaW 6. c.1637.

Edited from this MS in Josephine Waters Bennett, ‘Early Texts of Two of Ralegh's Poems from a Huntington Library Manuscript’, HLQ, 4 (1940-1), 469-75 (pp. 471-2), and in Rudick. Recorded in Latham, p. 131.

Huntington, HM 198, Part I, f. ir-v.

RaW 166.5

Copy, headed ‘The sowles Errand’.

In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose generally on affairs of state, in several hands, one neat hand predominating, vii + 701 pages, in contemporary blind-stamped calf with metal clasps. c.1690s.

Inscribed (f [ir]) ‘Tho: Mercer’. Later bookplate of Charles Gordon of Beldorny and Wardhouse. Sotheby's, 14 December 1976, lot 21.

National Library of Scotland, MS Acc. 6824, p. 316.

RaW 167

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Satyra volans’.

In: A quarto composite memorandum book of English, Welsh and latin verse and prose, in several hands, 100 leaves, in a contemporary limp vellum wrapper within modern half red morocco. Compiled over a period, at least in part, by various members of the Lloyd family of Llwydiarth. Early 17th century-1672.

Inscriptions including (f. 3r) ‘Mounta: Lloyd 1671’ and (f. 49r) ‘David Wms. his Book beeing Mrs Anne Lloyds Guift’, and with other references to David Lloyd, Elizabeth Lluyd, Robert Lluyd, Jane Lloyd, and Hugh Lloyd. Probably Quaritch's sale ‘Catalogue of English Literature’ (August-November 1884), item 22351. Formerly Sotheby MS B. 2.

National Library of Wales, Wynne (Bodewryd) MS 6, ff. 66r-7r.

RaW 168

Copy, headed ‘Satyre volans. Or a flying Satyre made by Dr Latewarr of St Johns.’

In: the MS described under RaW 122. c.1630s.

This MS recorded (as MS Taverham) in Latham, p. 129, and in Höltgen, p. 435.

University of Nottingham, Pw V 37, pp. 138-9.

RaW 169

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 86. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].

Pierpont Morgan Library, MA 1057, p. 42.

RaW 170

Copy of a fifteen-stanza version, in a cursive italic hand, in double columns, untitled, on both sides of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. Early 17th century.

Sotheby's, 23 March 1900 (John Waller sale), lot 159 (erroneously described as ‘autograph’). Once owned by William Augustus White (1843-1927), American banker and collector. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.

This MS collated and additional stanzas edited in Samuel Tannenbaum, ‘Unfamiliar Versions of Some Elizabethan Poems’, PMLA, 45 (1930), 809-21 (pp. 810-14). Recorded in Latham, pp. 130, 134-5.

Princeton, RTC01 Box 14, fl. 2 [i].

RaW 171

Copy, ascribed to ‘Sr W.R.’.

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).

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 130-1.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 239/27, p. 175-7.

RaW 172

Copy, headed ‘Sir Walter Wrayly his lye’.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, 180 pages, in three secretary hands, in contemporary limp vellum. Probably compiled by a member of an Inn of Court. c.1630.

Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Formerly Rosenbach 186.

Formerly Rosenbach 186, and once owned by John Payne Collier; printed from this MS in Tannenbaum, pp. 811-13; recorded in Latham, p. 129.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 1083/15, pp. 32-4.

RaW 173

Copy of lines 1-16, set out as five lines, untitled.

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

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

St John's College, Cambridge, MS U. 26 (James 548), p. 43.

RaW 174

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio verse miscellany, containing 89 poems, including 43 by Donne, in several hands (ff. 21r-62r in a single accomplished secretary hand), 69 leaves, in paper wrappers. The text of the poems by Donne derived from the same source as the Lansdowne MS (British Library, Lansdowne MS 740) and related in part to the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS II (Huntington, HM 198, Part II). c.1620-5.

Formerly among the muniments of the Earl of Dalhousie (descendant of the Maule and Ramsay families), of Brechin Castle, on deposit in the Scottish Record Office [now National Archives of Scotland] (GD45/26/95/1). Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 490.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the the ‘Dalhousie MS I’: DnJ Δ 11. Complete reduced facsimile and transcription in The First and Second Dalhousie Manuscripts: Poems and Prose by John Donne and Others: A Facsimile Edition, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Columbia, 1988). Also discussed by Ernest W. Sullivan, II in ‘Donne Manuscripts: Dalhousie I’, John Donne Journal, 3/2 (1984), 204-19; in ‘“And, having done that, Thou hast done”: Locating, Acquiring, and Studying the Dalhousie Manuscripts’, in The Donne Dalhousie Discovery: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Acquisition and Study of the John Donne and Joseph Conrad Collections at Texas Tech University, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan II and David J. Murrah (Lubbock, TX, 1987), pp. 1-10; and in ‘The Renaissance Manuscript Verse Miscellany: Private Party, Private Text’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, ed. W. Speed Hill (Binghamton, 1993), pp. 289-97.

Facsimiles of f. 15v in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 13, and of f. 42r in Sotheby's sale catalogue and in Peter Beal, A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450-2000 (Oxford, 2008), p. 431, Illus. 91. A complete microfilm of the MS is in the National Archives of Scotland.

Sullivan suggests that the miscellany derives from sources preserved by members of the Earl of Essex's circle, their most likely ‘conduit’ to the Dalhousie family being John Ramsay (1580-1626), Viscount Haddington and Earl of Holderness.

Texas Tech University, PR 1171 D14, ff. 57v-8r.

RaW 175

Copy, untitled, probably transcribed from RaW 174.

In: A folio verse miscellany comprising 56 poems, including 29 by Donne, in several hands (two predominating), 34 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern cloth. Much of the volume (including 24 poems by Donne on ff. 15r-31v) evidently transcribed from the Dalhousie MS I (Texas Tech University, PR 1171 D14) and the text of some poems (including ff. 9r-11r) corrected from that MS. c.1622-9.

Inscribed (f. 1r) with the date 28 September 1622 and, in possibly a child's hand (f. 1v), ‘Andrew Ramsey’. Formerly among the muniments of the Earl of Dalhousie (descendant of the Maule and Ramsay families), of Brechin Castle, on deposit in the Scottish Record Office (GD45/26/95/2). Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 491, and 12 December1982, lot 49.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Dalhousie MS II’: DnJ Δ 12. Complete reduced facsimile and transcription in The First and Second Dalhousie Manuscripts: Poems and Prose by John Donne and Others: A Facsimile Edition, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Columbia, 1988). Also discussed in The Donne Dalhousie Discovery, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan, II and David J. Murrah (Lubbock, TX, 1987), and in ‘The Renaissance Manuscript Verse Miscellany: Private Party, Private Text’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, ed. W. Speed Hill (Binghamton, 1993), pp. 289-97.

Facsimiles of f. 10v in Sotheby's sale catalogue, and of ff. 20v and 26r in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), pp. 320-1. Complete microfilms of the MS are in the National Archives of Scotland and in the Brirish Library, RP 2441.

Texas Tech University, PR 1171 S4, f. 30r-v.

RaW 176

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio verse miscellany, including 15 poems by Donne, f. 162r-v in a rounded italic hand, ff. 164r-74v in a slightly erratic italic hand, ff. 175r-279v in a neat formal italic hand (also responsible for the index on ff. 2r-11v), this miscellany constituting ff. 162r-279v of a single folio volume containing also Part I (DnJ Δ 15), ii + 279 leaves in all (lacking one or more leaves at the end), in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked). c.1630s.

Formerly MS G. 2.21.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Dublin MS (II): DnJ Δ 61.

Formerly MS G.2.21, this MS recorded in Latham, p. 131.

Trinity College, Dublin, MS 877, [Part II], ff. 216r-17v.

RaW 176.5

Copy, headed ‘Sr Water Raulies farewell to ye wourld’.

In: the MS described under RaW 122.8. Mid-17th century.

Bangor University, MS 422, pp. 57-9.

RaW 176.8

Copy, in an italic hand, headed ‘Verses by Sir Walter Ralwigh Knt. from a [ ? ] of Sir Walters, & suppos'd to have been written the night before his execution’. Early 17th century.

In: A guardbook of miscellaneious documents. Volume II of a collection of ‘Miscellanea Curiosa’ assembled by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist and antiquary.

Virginia Historical Society, Mss I T8525 a2, pp. [189-90].

RaW 177

Copy, headed ‘A Lye to the world Penned by Sr: W: Raleigh’.

In: the MS described under RaW 97. c.1620s.

Dr Williams's Library, MS Jones B. 60, pp. 257-60.

RaW 177.3

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleigh to all ye world’.

In: the MS described under RaW 97.5. c.late 1630s.

Yale, Osborn MS b 356, pp. 133-5.

RaW 177.5

Copy, untitled, written on a page between entries for 26 July 1601 (f. [41v]) and June 1606 (f. [42v]).

In: A folio memorandum book of accounts and of verse and prose on current events, with entries dating from 1592 to 1641, 170 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum boards. Compiled over a period by members of the Stringer family, including Francis and Thomas Stringer. c.1592-1641.

Bookplate of Sir Thomas Brooke, Bt, FSA (1830-1908), Yorkshire antiquary and book collector, of Armitage Bridge.

Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Leeds, MS 311, f. [42r].

Like to a Hermite poore (‘Like to a Hermite poore in place obscure’)

First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). Latham, pp. 11-12. Rudick, Nos 57A and 57B (two versions, pp. 135-6).

RaW 178

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 10. Mid-late 16th century.

Edited from this MS in Hughey, I, No. 194, pp. 240-1. The Nott transcript recorded in Latham, p. 104.

The Duke of Norfolk, Arundel Castle, MSS (Special Press), ‘Harrington MS. Temp. Eliz.’, f. 145v.

RaW 179

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 1. c.1586-91.

This MS collated in Hughey, II, 314; recorded in Latham, p. 104.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 85, f. 25v.

RaW 179.5

Copy, in a musical setting by Nicholas Lanier, untitled and here beginning ‘Like Hermitt poore, in pensive place obscure’.

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).

This MS recorded in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 7.

British Library, Add. MS 29396, ff. 31v-2r.

RaW 180

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed in italic ‘Incerti Authoris’ and here beginning ‘Like Hermite poore in pensive place obscure’.

In: A folio miscellany of state papers, verse and prose, in several hands, vi + 105 leaves, in a recycled 13th-century vellum text, now within modern half dark red morocco. Compiled by Sir Edward Hoby (1560-1617), politician and diplomat. c.1580s-90s.

Bookplate of George Dunn (1865-1912), of Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead, Berkshire, antiquary. Sotheby's, 11 February 1914 (Dunn sale), lot 1198.

This MS collated in Hughey, II, 313-14; recorded in Latham, p. 104.

British Library, Add. MS 38823, f. 58v.

RaW 180.5

Copy of the second and third stanzas, in a musical setting, here beginning ‘my foode shall bee’.

In: A tall folio composite miscellany of chiefly music and heraldic and genealogical material, in various hands and paper sizes, 45 leaves, in contemporary leather gilt with stamped initials ‘R A’ and arms of James I within modern half morocco. Volume XXII of the collections of Warren Royal Dawson (1888-1968), antiquary.

Associated with the Aston family of Aston, Cheshire, and probably once owned by Sir Roger Aston (d.1612), Master of the Great Wardrobe to James I and his heirs. Also inscribed with the names of [James?] Davies, an officer serving under Sir Charles Morgan during the Thirty Years War, and Thomas Davies. One section linscribed (f. 12r, c.1682-6) ‘Sylvanus Stirrop His Booke’. Bought by Warren Dawson at Sotheby's 1931.

This volume described in Pamela J. Willetts, ‘Silvanus Stirrop's Book’, Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle, No. 10 (1972), 101-7, 156.

British Library, Add. MS 56279, ff. 5r, 15r.

RaW 181

Copy, here beginning ‘Like hermite poore, in pensive place obscure’.

In: the MS described under RaW 113. c.1596-1601.

This MS collated in Hughey, II, 314; recorded in Latham, p. 104.

British Library, Harley MS 6910, f. 139v.

RaW 182

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rayleyes last Eligie’, here beginning ‘Like Hermite poore in pensiue place obscure’.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single cursive secretary hand, with a later title-page supplied in 1832, x + 116 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century black leather elaborately gilt. Inscribed (f. 1r), possibly by the compiler, ‘Richardus Jackson 1623’ and ‘Richard Jackson his booke’, who is described in a later pencil note as perhaps the brachygrapher. On ff. 113v-16r, in a later hand, is a ‘Catalogue of ye Books lately belonging to ye. Rev. Mr Jackson Rectr of Tatham’. c.1628-30s.

Also inscribed (f. 1r) ‘John Pecke’. Sold by Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, in 1831-2. Among collections of James Orchard Halliwell (from 1872 Halliwell-Phillipps) (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bought by him in 1871 from Sotheran's, London.

A 247-page transcript of this volume made c.1830 is in the Folger Shakespeare Library, MS M.b.26.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 57B, p. 136. Recorded in Latham, p. 104.

Edinburgh University Library, MS H.-P. Coll. 401, f. 102r.

RaW 183

Copy, headed in a later hand ‘The despairing Lover’, here beginning ‘Lyke hermit pure in pensiue place obscure’.

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.

Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 436, pp. 114-15.

RaW 184

Copy, here beginning ‘Like Hermit poore in pensive place obscure’.

In: A sextodecimo miscellany of verse and topographical prose, probably in a single small cursive hand, 78 leaves, written from both ends, Part I foliated 1r-33r, Part II foliated 1r-45r, in old calf. c.1650s-60s.

Inscribed (Part I, f. 1r) ‘Mr John Oldhams Booke’ [i.e. the poet John Oldham (1653-83)]. Inscribed (Part II, f. 1r) ‘James Bateman’ [(b.1633/4) of Christ's College, Cambridge], and ‘Robert Pierrepont’ [either the son of Col. Francis Pierrepont, M.P. (d.1659), or the third Earl of Kingston (1650/1-82), of Holme-Pierrepoint, Nottinghamshire, Oldham's patron]. Formerly Folger MS 621.1.

Described in F.P. Hammond, ‘A Commonplace Book owned by John Oldham’, N&Q, 224 (December 1979), 515-18.

This MS collated in Hughey, II, 314; recorded in Latham, p. 104.

Folger, MS V.a.169, Part II, f. 10v.

RaW 184.5

Copy, headed ‘Dispair’.

In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, predominantly in a single non-professional hand, iv + 214 pages, in contemporary calf. Inscribed (p. 211) ‘I ended this book Novr. 13th 1723’. c.1723.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 15, pp. 119-20.

RaW 184.8

Originally a copy in a musical setting, listed in the table of contents (as ‘Like hermit poore’) but now lacking.

In: A folio songbook, largely in a single secretary hand, with poems and (reversed) culinary and medical receipts in later hands at the end, imperfect or incomplete, now 27 leaves, lacking half the songs listed in a ‘Table’ at the end. c.1620s-30s.

The original cover inscribed ‘Ann Twice her booke’. Inscribed on the first page ‘My Cosen Twice Leftte this Booke with me...which is to be returne to her AGhaine...’. Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.

A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 11 (New York & London, 1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, ‘“Songs Vnto the Violl and Lute” -- Drexel Ms. 4175’, Musica Disciplina, 16 (1962), 73-92.

New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4175, No, ix .

RaW 185

Copy, in a musical setting.

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.

A musical setting first published in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). A setting by Nicholas Lanier first published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres (London, 1652). This MS collated in Hughey, II, 316.

New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 15.

RaW 185.3

Copy, untitled.

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.

Robert S. Pirie, New York, [Frendraught MS], p. 244.

RaW 185.5

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Like hermit poore’.

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

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

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

University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 27v.

RaW 185.8

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Like Hermit poore in pensive place obscure’.

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.

University College London, MS Ogden 42, p. 113.

RaW 186

Copy, headed ‘Cant: 3’; imperfect.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, 54 leaves, imperfect (chewed by rodents), lacking covers. Compiled by Herbert Aston (1613-88/9), poet, son of Walter Aston, Baron Aston of Forfar (1584-1639), of Tixall, Staffordshire, diplomat. c.1634.

Inscribed on f. iv‘Her: Aston [monogram] the 29 of July an: D: 1634’.

Yale, Osborn MS b 4, f. 2v.

RaW 186.5

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 7. Late 17th century.

Yale, Osborn MS b 213, p. 65.

RaW 186.8

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 98. c.1620s-30s.

Yale, Osborn MS fb 69, p. 236.

RaW 187

Copy in: A folio verse miscellany, in vellum. Late 17th century?

Inscribed on the front cover ‘William Turner his booke, 1662’ and, on the rear paste-down ‘Catherine Gage's Booke’: i.e. Catherine Gage, Lady Aston (d.1720). Formerly among the papers of the Aston family, of Tixall, Staffordshire.

Poems selectively edited from this MS (as his ‘Third Division: Poems Collected by the Right Honourable Lady Aston’) in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 107-205.

Edited from this MS, as ‘Despair’, in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 115-16. Recorded in Latham, p. 104.

Untraced Tixal MSS, Tixall MS 3, [unspecified page numbers].

‘My boddy in the walls captived’

First published in Hannah (1870). Latham, pp. 24-5. Rudick, No. 25, p. 48.

*RaW 188

Autograph. Late 16th century.

Edited from this MS by all editors. Facsimiles in T. N. Brushfield, A Bibliography of Sir Walter Ralegh Knt, 2nd edition (Exeter, 1908), facing p. 143; in Flower & Munby, English Poetical Autographs, Plate 2; and in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 13.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 144/239v.

‘Nature that washt her hands in milke’

The Nimphs reply to the Sheepheard (‘If all the world and loue were young’)

One stanza published in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). First published complete in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Latham, pp. 16-17. Rudick, Nos 45A and 45B, pp. 117, 119-20 (two versions, as ‘Her answer’ to Marlowe's poem on p. 116 and as ‘The Milk maids mothers answer’) respectively. For the companion poem by Marlowe, which accompanies most of the texts of Ralegh's ‘reply’, see MrC 10-19.

RaW 189

Copy of lines 1-16, 21-4, in an unidentified secretary hand, headed ‘The Aunswere’ and here beginning ‘If that the Worlde and Loue were yong’, imperfect, gnawed by rodents.

In: Copy of an alchemical tract by Simon Forman, predominantly in a single hand, 20 folio leaves, dated (f. 20v) 10 November 1598, bound with five other alchemical tracts, in contemporary calf. November 1598.

The MSS collected, and partly written, by Dr Simon Forman (1552-1611), astrologer and medical practitioner.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 112; facsimile in John Bakeless, The Tragicall History of Christopher Marlowe (Cambridge, Mass., 1942), II, facing p. 184.

Bodleian, MS Ashmole 1486 (II), f. 6v.

RaW 190

Copy, headed ‘Her answer’.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 114 leaves, bound with a printed exemplum of Thomas Watson's <GREEK> or Passionate Centurie of Love (London, [1581?]). Compiled by John Lilliat (c.1550-c.1599). c.1590s.

This MS volume printed in full, with facsimile examples, in Liber Lilliati: Elizabethan Verse and Song (Bodleian MS Rawlinson Poetry 148), ed. Edward Doughtie (Newark, DE, 1985).

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 45A, p. 117. Recorded in Latham, p. 112.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 148, ff. 96v-7r.

RaW 191

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, written lengthways down the margin, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 38. c.1597-1628.

British Library, Add. MS 52585, f. 63v.

RaW 191.5

Copy, headed ‘The Milk-Maid's Mothers's Answer to Mr Marlow's Milk-Maid's Song. written by Sr Walter Raleigh’.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in one hand, written from both ends, 32 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco. c.1630s.

British Library, Stowe MS 972, f. 6r-v.

RaW 192

Extract.

In: The detached cover of an octavo book, bearing inscriptions in a mixed hand, now enclosed in modern brown morocco. c.1620s-30s.

With a lengthy note by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

Folger, MS V.a.150, item 2.

RaW 193

Copy, headed ‘The milke maids mothers answer’.

In: the MS described under RaW 184. c.1650s-60s.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 112.

Folger, MS V.a.169, Part II, f. 2v-3r.

RaW 194

Copy, in an italic hand, headed in the margin ‘Responc’, unascribed.

In: A folio miscellany of state papers, religious verse and prose, and legal material, in several secretary hands, written over a period from both ends, 143 leaves (including a number of blanks), in a vellum wrapper (a recycled rubricated Latin text) within a contemporary leather wallet binding (rebacked), with straps. c.1572-1608.

Inscribed variously ‘James Ware his Book’: i.e. Sir James Ware (1594-1666), antiquary and historian; (‘henry Streite’, ‘william rise’, ‘Bartholomew Roche’, and ‘John Anderson’. Including copies of indentures relating to John Glascock of London, John Ellis of Gray's Inn, and Edward Johnson, goldsmith, of London. Inscribed (f. [2r], ? by Ware) ‘Qre whether this booke did belong to John Thornburgh [1551-1641] sometime Bp of Limrick & deane of York. vid fol: 13.’ Later among the manuscripts of the Carew family at Crowcombe Court, Somerset. Formerly Folger MS 297.3 and MS V.b.75.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 372. Briefly discussed by Fr Herbert Thurston in The Month, vol. 86, No. 379 (1896), pp. 33-4.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 112. Facsimile in A.D. Wraight and V.F. Stern, In Search of Christopher Marlowe (London, 1965), p. 130.

Folger, MS Z.e.28, Part II, f. 101r.

RaW 195

Copy of lines 1-6, headed ‘The Answer by Sr Arthur’, apparently transcribed from an early MS source, written on the recto of the leaf before the title-page.

In: Printed exemplum of the first edition, first issue, of Ralegh's The History of the World (London, 1614). Late 18th-early 19th century.

Edited from this MS in Susanne Woods, ‘“The Passionate Sheepheard” and “The Nimphs Reply”: A Study of Transmission’, HLQ, 34 (1970), 25-33 (pp. 26).

Huntington, RB 69107, [preliminary blank page].

RaW 196

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, here beginning ‘If now the worlde and loue weare younge’.

In: the MS described under RaW 167. Early 17th century-1672.

National Library of Wales, Wynne (Bodewryd) MS 6, f. 76r-v.

RaW 197

Copy of a three-stanza version, headed ‘Response’ and beginning ‘But if the world & love were sound’, among other verse in one secretary hand on a single folio leaf. c.1600-10.

In: A collection of separate state papers and poems, in folders.

Edited from this MS in Curt F. Bühler, ‘Four Elizabethan Poems’, Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, DC, 1948), pp. 695-706 (pp. 696-7). Recorded in Latham, p. 112. Facsimile in British Literary Manuscripts, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg, et al. (New York, 1981), No. 18.

Pierpont Morgan Library, Rulers of England (Eliz. I), No. 48[b].

RaW 198

Copy, headed ‘Her Answeare’ and here beginning ‘If that the world & Loue weare young’.

In: the MS described under RaW 172. c.1630.

Formerly Rosenbach 186, printed from this MS in Samuel A. Tannenbaum, ‘Unfamiliar Versions of Some Elizabethan Poems’, PMLA, 45 (1930), 809-21 (pp. 816-17); recorded in Latham, p. 112.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 1083/15, pp. 57-8.

RaW 199

Copy of a five-stanza version, in a right-hand column, headed ‘Respon:’ and here beginning ‘If now the world & love were younge’.

In: the MS described under RaW 135. c.1620s.

Wiltshire and Swindon Archives, 865/500, f. [11v].

‘Now we have present made’

First published in Walter Oakeshott, ‘An Unknown Ralegh MS’, The Times (29 November 1952), p. 7. Rudick, No. 23, pp. 46-7.

*RaW 200

Autograph, untitled.

In: Largely autograph notebook of Ralegh's, iii + 173 quarto leaves (including many blanks), in contemporary vellum, with traces of green silk ties. c.1603-18.

Later owned by Frederick North (1766-1827), fifth Earl of Guilford, colonial governor; then, in 1830, by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector (Phillipps MS 6339. Sotheby's, 24 June 1935 (Phillipps sale), lot 144, to (Sir) Walter Oakeshott (1903-87), schoolmaster. Sotheby's, 30 November 1971, lot 526, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

Edited from this MS in Oakeshott; in George Seddon, ‘A Newly Discovered and Unknown Poem in Sir Walter Raleigh's Autograph’, ILN (28 February 1953), p. 330 (with a facsimile), and in Walter Oakeshott, The Queen and the Poet (London, 1960), pp. 205-6 (with a facsimile facing p. 141). Facsimiles also in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), No. 12, p. 24, and of last two stanzas in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 48.

British Library, Add. MS 57555, f. 172v.

RaW 201

Copy, in a neat secretary hand, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves; endorsed in a contemporary hand ‘Verses 1602’. c.1602.

Edited from this MS in Lefranc (1968), p. 603.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 140/132.

RaW 202

Copies in a musical setting.

In: A set of five quarto music part books (Altus, Tenor, Bassus, Quintus, Sextus), the last comprising 29 pages, the others ranging from 137 to 161 pages each, each in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked). First half 17th century.

Formerly at St Michael's College, Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire.

This MS collated in Oakeshott, The Queen and the Poet, pp. 205-6.

Bodleian, MSS Tenbury 1163-1167, (i) pp. 80-1; (ii) pp. 64-5; (iii) pp. 80-1; (iv) pp. 56-7.

The Ocean to Cynthia

On the Cardes, and Dice (‘Beefore the sixt day of the next new year’)

First published as ‘A Prognostication upon Cards and Dice’ in Poems of Lord Pembroke and Sir Benjamin Ruddier (London, 1660). Latham, p. 48. Rudick, Nos 50A and 50B, pp. 123-4 (two versions, as ‘Sir Walter Rawleighs prophecy of cards, and Dice at Christmas’ and ‘On the Cardes and dice’ respectively).

RaW 203

Copy, headed ‘Sr Water Rawleighs Prophecy on cards & dice’.

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.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 139.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MS 176, f. 21v.

RaW 204

Copy of an untitled six-line version, here beginning ‘the first day of ye next new yeare’.

In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose extracts, in English and Latin, in several hands, written from both ends, ii + 79 leaves (including some blanks), in contemporary calf. Compiled by men associated with Oxford University. c.1647-1698.

Inscribed on the rear pastedown ‘To the right worsppf my very kind friend Mr Tho.: Young’ and ‘Ed Burham’. Bought in 1899 by W.D. Macray from George's of Oxford. Sold by Blackwell's, 1921.

Bodleian, MS Eng. misc. f. 49, fol. 20v.

RaW 205

Second copy of an untitled six-line version, also beginning ‘The first day of ye next new yeare’.

In: the MS described under RaW 204. c.1647-1698.

Bodleian, MS Eng. misc. f. 49, fol. 70.

RaW 206

Copy, headed ‘A prognostication vpon cardes & dice’.

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 Latham, p. 139.

Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 14, f. 77r rev.

RaW 207

Copy, subscribed in another hand ‘Sr Wal: R’.

In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in three or more hands, probably compiled principally by a member of New College, Oxford, 163 pages, in calf-backed marbled boards. c.1620s-30s.

The name ‘George Brown’ inscribed on p. 14. Inscribed on p. i by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector ‘Feb 13. 1790. I this day purchased this Manuscript Collection of Poems, at the sale of Mr Brander's books, at the exorbitant price of Ten Guineas. EMalone’.

Edited from this MS in Latham and in Rudick, No. 50B, pp. 123-4.

Bodleian, MS Malone 19, p. 55.

RaW 208

Copy, headed ‘A Prophesie’.

In: the MS described under RaW 108. Mid-late 17th century.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 139.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 84, f. 68v-r rev.

RaW 209

Copy, headed ‘A rimeing prophecye alludeing to the Cards and Dice in Christenmas’.

In: the MS described under RaW 30. Mid-late 17th century.

Bradford Archives, 32D86/34, p. 107.

RaW 210

Copy, headed ‘A Prophecie’.

In: the MS described under RaW 32. c.1630.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 139.

British Library, Add. MS 10309, f. 147v.

RaW 211

Copy, headed ‘A Prophesie to come to pase the next yeare’.

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

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 139.

British Library, Egerton MS 923, f. 9v.

RaW 212

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled.

In: A folio volume of heraldic papers, in several hands, 92 leaves, in panelled mottled calf (rebacked). Compiled by, or for, William Penson (d.1637), claimant Chester Herald and Lancaster Herald. c.1620s.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 139.

British Library, Harley MS 1107, f. 92v.

RaW 212.5

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawley his provesie’.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, originally written in two hands (A: ff. 1r-22r, 27v-8v; B: ff. 22r-7v, predominantly italic), with late 17th-century additions in three other hands on ff. 28v-33v, 52r and f. 34r, associated with Cambridge, 35 leaves (plus 17 blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. Including 13 poems by Randolph, plus three of doubtful authorship. Initials stamped on both covers of ‘F R’ and the inside of the cover inscribed ‘Francis Rolfe Anno dni 1637’: i.e. Francis Rolfe (1618-78), Town Clerk of [King's] Lynn, Norfolk. c.1637.

Sotheby's, 21 July 1988, lot 18.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Rolfe MS’: RnT Δ 5. Briefly described in E.S. Leedham-Green, ‘Francis Rolfe's poetical miscellany: Add.Ms 8684’, Bulletin of the Friends of Cambridge University Library, 9 (1988), 20-2. A facsimile of f. 9v in Sotheby's sale catalogue: see RnT 123, RnT 239. For the Rolfe family (whose later papers are in the Norfolk Record Office, NRS 27114, 404 x 3), see R.T. and A. Gunther, Rolfe Family Records, 2 vols (London & Aylesbury, 1914), and Veronica Berry, The Rolfe Papers: The Chronicle of a Norfolk Family 1559-1908 (Brentwood, Essex, 1979; 2nd impression 1986).

Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 8684, ff. 21v-2r.

RaW 213

Copy, headed ‘A Prophesy giuen to the king 1618’.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several largely secretary hands, 68 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum. c.1620s.

Once owned by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector. Later in the library of the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Lot 8053 in his sale, 7 May to 16 June 1798. Formerly Chetham's MS 8011.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 139.

Chetham's Library, Mun. A.4.16, p. 40.

RaW 214

Copy, untitled.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Christ Church, pp. 1-202 in a single minute hand, written over a period, with a few later additions (including two lines on p. 7) by other hands; pp. 202-19 containing entries in later hands up to 1789, in half-calf on marbled boards, pp. 77-84 detached in the 19th century and now separately bound as Folger MS V.a.152. Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 30 poems by Strode (one of them in V.a.152) plus one of doubtful authorship. c.late 1630s [-1789].

Later sold by Thomas Thorpe. Afterwards owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89) (and No. 27 in his Catalogue of Shakespeare Reliques (Brixton Hill, 1852)) and subsequently in the library of Lord Warwick at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Thorpe-Halliwell MS’: CoR Δ 7 and StW Δ 17. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

Folger, MS V.a.97, pp. 202-3.

RaW 215

Copy, headed ‘Sr. Walter Ralegh's prophecie of Cardes & Dice’.

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.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 139.

Folger, MS V.a.160, p. 23.

RaW 216

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 120. Mid-17th century.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 139.

Folger, MS V.a.162, f. 65v.

RaW 217

Copy, headed ‘Sir Walter Raleighs prophecie of the sports and Games of christmas’.

In: the MS described under RaW 60. c.1637-51.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 139.

Folger, MS V.a.262, p. 58.

RaW 218

Copy, headed in the margin ‘A prooesie’ and here beginning ‘The first day of the nex new yere’.

In: the MS described under RaW 62. c.1640s.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 139.

Folger, MS V.a.339, f. 281v.

RaW 219

Copy, untitled.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, predominantly in two very small hands (A: ff. 1r-44v; B: ff. 44v-87v), with further verse and prose pieces in other hands on ff. 88r-121r, written from both ends, associated with Oxford, possibly New College, and probably afterwards with the Inns of Court, 155 leaves (including 33 blanks), in modern black morocco elaborately gilt. Including 23 poems by Strode (and second copies of two poems) and one poem of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.

Including (ff. 98r-100r) a letter by one ‘Pet[er] Wood’. Inscribed (ff. 90r-1r), ‘Thease verses I borroed to write out of John Sherly [d. 1666] a booke seller in litle Brittaine, 28th of March 1633’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9235. Sotheby's, 21 February 1938, lot 243.

Cited in IELM II.ii (1993), as the ‘Wood MS’: StW Δ 21. Discussed in C.F. Main, ‘New Texts of John Donne’, SB, 9 (1957), 225-33.

Harvard, MS Eng 686, f. 75r.

RaW 220

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rauleighs prophecy of Cards, & Dice at Christmas’ and here beginning ‘Before ye sixt of ye Next yeare’.

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).

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 50A, p. 123.

Huntington, HM 116, p. 97.

RaW 221

Copy, headed ‘Ænigma on the Cardes’, here beginning ‘ffew dayes before the next new yeare’.

In: An oblong octavo composite volume, comprising two independent verse miscellanies, Part I, in Latin and English, largely in a neat secretary hand, paginated 1-22, Part II, in English and Welsh, in several hands, one neat secretary hand predominating, paginated 1-266, the two parts bound together in modern quarter red morocco. c.1630s.

Inscriptions including (Part I, pp. 1, 3 and 42) ‘Edward Lewis his Book 1753’, ‘John Parker’, ‘P H Warburton’, and ‘John Aden’, and (Part II, p. 33) ‘Thomas Lloyd Esq’. Wigfair MS 43, among papers mainly of the Lloyd family of Hafodunos, Denbighshire, and Wigfair, near St Asaph, Flintshire, purchased in 1926-7 from Colonel H. C. Lloyd Howard, of Wigfair.

National Library of Wales, NLW MS 12443 A, Part II, pp. 19-20.

RaW 222

Copy, headed ‘Sr W. R. / An old and true Prophesy’.

In: the MS described under RaW 122. c.1630s.

Edited from this MS in H. Harvey Wood, ‘A Seventeenth-Century manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others’, E&S, 16 (1930), 179-90 (p. 182). Recorded (as MS Taverham) in Latham, p. 139.

University of Nottingham, Pw V 37, p. 170.

RaW 223

Copy, headed ‘An old Prophecye’.

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.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 139.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 239/22, f. 26r.

RaW 223.5

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleighs prognostication’.

In: the MS described under RaW 97.5. c.late 1630s.

Yale, Osborn MS b 356, p. 71.

On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, ‘The Text of Ralegh's Lyric “What is our life?”’, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.

RaW 224

Copy, headed ‘Mans life’.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, evidently associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 214 pages (skipping p. 177), plus an index. Including 18 poems by Corbett and 59 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1630s.

Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Elizabeth Lane hir booke’ and, among scribbling on another flyleaf, ‘Johannes Finch’. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 341.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Elizabeth Lane MS’: CoR Δ 1 and StW Δ 4. The Dobell catalogue description recorded in Forey (pp. lxxxv-lxxxvi).

Aberdeen University Library, MS 29, p. 141.

RaW 225

Copy in the hand of Elias Ashmole, untitled.

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 Latham, p. 144.

Bodleian, MS Ashmole 36/37, f. 35r.

RaW 226

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 Latham, p. 144.

Bodleian, MS Ashmole 38, p. 154.

RaW 227

Copy of a version, headed ‘On mans life’.

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 Latham, p. 144.

Bodleian, MS Ashmole 47, ff. 51v-2r.

RaW 228

Copy, headed ‘On ye brittlety of man's life’.

In: the MS described under RaW 203. c.1640s.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MS 176, f. 7v.

RaW 229

Copy, headed ‘Of mans Life’.

In: the MS described under RaW 136. c.late 1630s.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MS 328, f. 19r.

RaW 230

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 16. c.1628.

Bodleian, MS Don. c. 54, f. 3v.

RaW 231

Second copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 16. c.1628.

Bodleian, MS Don. c. 54, f. 11r.

RaW 232

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. 202).

Bodleian, MS Don. c. 57, f. 38v.

RaW 232.5

Copy, headed ‘On Mans life’.

In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in probably three hands, written from both ends, 86 leaves, in 17th-century calf. c.1648-61.

Scribbling on f. 33r rev. including the name ‘Elizabeth keech’.

Bodleian, MS Don. f. 37, fol. 69r rev.

RaW 233

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 150. c.1630s.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

Bodleian, MS Douce f. 5, fol. 5r.

RaW 234

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 206. c.1630s.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 14, f. 101r rev.

RaW 235

Copy, headed ‘On the same’.

In: A duodecimo notebook of verse and prose, comprising 131 interleaves in a printed exemplum of John Sansbury's Ilium in Italiam (Oxford, 1608), in contemporary calf (rebacked), blind-stamped ‘S. S.’ on the upper cover. Owned in 1619, and probably compiled, by Simon Sloper (b.1596/7), of Magdalen Hall, Oxford. c.1620s-30s.

Bought from Parker, of Oxford, 2 April 1889, by Percy Manning and bequeathed by him in 1917.

Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. f. 10, fol. 92v.

RaW 236

Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by the writer Robert Codrington (1602-65) of Magdalen College, Oxford, 360 pages (including stubs of extracted leaves on pp. 297-328 and blanks, plus index), in contemporary calf. Including 16 poems by Carew and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Written in three hands: i.e. A (Codrington's hand, including his own poems) on pp. 1-283, 349-55; B on pp. 284-9; and C on pp. 289-348, 356-60; dated (pp. 1-22) ‘Anno Dom: 1638’ and ‘The 30th of May. 1638’. c.1638.

Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Codrington MS’: CwT Δ 7 and StW Δ 7.

Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. f. 27, p. 91.

RaW 237

Copies, in a musical setting by Orlando Gibbons, untitled.

In: A set of five oblong quarto music part books (Cantus/Bassus, Quintus, Altus, Tenor, Bassus), including verses, chiefly in two hands, ranging from 34 to 63 leaves each, in half-red calf marbled boards. Compiled largely by Thomas Hamond (d.1662), of Cressners, in the parish of Hawkdons, Suffolk. c.1630s.

f. 11 (Cantus/Bassus) inscribed ‘Edmond Stapley’.

Bodleian, MS Mus. f. 11-15, (i) fols 33ar-abr; (ii) fols 23r-4r; (iii) fols 13r-14r; (iv) fols 29r-30r; (v) fols 33ar-33br.

RaW 238

Copy, headed ‘Mans life A Tragedie’.

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 Latham, p. 144.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 65, f. 92r.

RaW 239

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 137. Mid-17th century.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 117, f. 271r rev.

RaW 240

Copy, headed ‘Mans life compared to a stageplay’.

In: the MS described under RaW 153.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 172, f. 8r.

RaW 241

Copy, headed ‘Upon the life of man’.

In: the MS described under RaW 30. Mid-late 17th century.

Bradford Archives, 32D86/34, p. 31.

RaW 242

Copy, headed ‘Vita Fabula’, subscribed ‘Tho: Dod, Jesu’.

In: the MS described under RaW 111. c.1630s.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

British Library, Add. MS 15227, f. 14v.

RaW 243

Copy of a version headed ‘Sr. walter Raliegh of life and death’ and beginning ‘Our lifes a play of passion’.

In: the MS described under RaW 33. c.1662.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

British Library, Add. MS 18044, f. 154v.

RaW 244

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Sr. W: R:’, transcribed from RaW 245.

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.

Edited from this MS in Hannah (1845), pp. 81-2, and in Rudick, No. 29C, p. 70. Recorded in Latham, p. 144.

British Library, Add. MS 21433, f. 113v.

RaW 245

Copy, untitled.

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 Latham, p. 144.

British Library, Add. MS 25303, f. 118v.

RaW 246

Copy of an untitled adapted version beginning ‘What is mans life but a play of passion’.

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 recorded in Latham, p. 144.

British Library, Add. MS 25707, f. 7v.

RaW 246.5

Copy, untitled. subscribed ‘Sr Walter Rawliue’.

In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly in one mixed hand, 77 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Compiled by Sir Thomas Dawes (knighted 1639). c.1623-30.

Purchased on 4 July 1873 from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913), bibliographer and writer.

British Library, Add. MS 29492, f. 5v.

RaW 247

Copy, headed ‘Song’.

In: the MS described under RaW 34. c.1633 [-late 17th century].

This MS recorded in Latham (1929), p. 162.

British Library, Add. MS 30982, f. 139r rev.

RaW 248

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 211. c.1630s-40s.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

British Library, Egerton MS 923, f. 8r.

RaW 249

Copy, untitled.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, including 18 poems by Donne, in several hands over a period (the predominant secretary hand on ff. 1r-35v, 45v-63r), written from both ends, 91 leaves, in later green morocco. c.1630s [-1777].

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘E Libris Richardo Glovero pharmacopol. Londinense pertinantibus’, the date ‘1638’ possibly added in a different hand. The name ‘William Allen’ on f. 77v among scribbling. Inscribed (f. 1v) by a later owner, apparently for ‘Mr Thorpe’, ‘I was informed by the bookseller of whom I bought this book; that it belonged formerly to a literary gentleman who lived in Burton Crescent and who died about six months ago. 3rd Augt. 1835’.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Glover MS’: DnJ Δ 42.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

British Library, Egerton MS 2230, f. 7v.

RaW 250

Copy, headed ‘De brevitate vitae’.

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.

British Library, Egerton MS 2725, f. 60v.

RaW 251

Copy, headed ‘Vpon Mans life’.

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 Latham, p. 144.

British Library, Harley MS 3511, f. 1r-v.

RaW 252

Copy, headed ‘On the brevity of mans life’.

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 Latham, p. 144.

British Library, Harley MS 6057, f. 14v.

RaW 252.5

Copy of a version headed ‘Mans life’ and beginning ‘Mans life is like a play of passion’.

In: An octavo miscellany, 47 leaves, the greater part (ff. 1r-26, 42r-5v) in a single small mixed hand, with other hands on ff. 27r-41r, including a ‘Catalogus Librorum’ on ff. 29v-40r, and accounts c.1705 on ff. 46v-7r, in black morocco gilt. Compiled principally by Henry George, while a student at Christ's College, Cambridge. c.1639-43.

Inscribed (f. 1*v) ‘Meliora Spero dum Spiro / Henricus George / nec ut mortale / quod opto’.

British Library, Harley MS 6396, f. 1r.

RaW 253

Copy, headed ‘Verses Syr Walt. Rauleigh made the Same morning he was executed’, following ‘Verses made upon him since his death’ (‘Great heart, who taught ye so to die?’), on one side of a half-folio leaf. c.1620s-30s.

In: A folio composite volume of verse, in various hands, 280 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Incorporating (ff. 40r-51v) a quarto verse miscellany compiled allegedly ‘for the mendinge of his hand in wrighting’, when ‘Idle and wanting Employment’, by Feargod Barbon of Daventry, Northamptonshire (? a relation of the Anabaptist politician Praisegod Barbon (1598-1679/80)).

In preliminary verses (f. 40r), Barbon records that ‘This Booke [i.e. presumably the exemplar for his verse transcripts] was giuen me by A frende / To reade and overlooke’.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

British Library, Harley MS 7332, f. 215r.

RaW 254

Copy, in a small italic hand, untitled.

In: A quarto composite volume of papers largely relating to Parliament in 1620-28, in various professional hands, 142 leaves, in modern quarter-calf on cloth boards gilt.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

British Library, Lansdowne MS 498, f. 60r.

RaW 255

Copy, headed ‘On Mans life’ and here beginning ‘What is mans life? A playe of passion’.

In: the MS described under RaW 44. c.1637-50.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

British Library, Lansdowne MS 777, f. 70r.

RaW 256

Copy, subscribed ‘Sr: Wa: Raleigh’.

In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and jests, in a minute hand, compiled by a Cambridge man, 59 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt. c.1630.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144

British Library, Sloane MS 1489, f. 21v.

RaW 257

Copy, headed ‘Mans life’.

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 Latham, p. 144.

British Library, Sloane MS 1792, f. 56r.

RaW 258

Second copy.

In: the MS described under RaW 257. c.early 1630s.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

British Library, Sloane MS 1792, f. 113r.

RaW 259

Copy, headed ‘ffunerall Verses’.

In: A quarto miscellany chiefly of chiefly verse, in English and Latin, in probably a single secretary and italic hand, 50 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Recorded as being compiled by Thomas Smyth, of Manchester. c.1630.

Bookplate of the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Lot 8055 in the sale of his library by Thomas King, 7 May to 16 June 1798. Afterwards owned by James Crossley (1800-83), author and book collector. Formerly Chetham's MS 8010.

Chetham's Library, Mun. A.3.47, f. 30v.

RaW 259.5

Copy of an eight-line version, headed ‘Of Life’, here beginning ‘An humane life is but a Play of Passion’.

In: A series of quarto leaves of devotional poems, apparently copied by William Dugdale Jr, bound with a printed Book of Common Prayer (1679). c.1700.

Sir William Dugdale, Merevale Hall, [no shelfmark], p. 1.

RaW 260

Copy, headed ‘On Man’.

In: the MS described under RaW 214. c.late 1630s [-1789].

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

Folger, MS V.a.97, p. 7.

RaW 261

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 120. Mid-17th century.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

Folger, MS V.a.162, f. 32r.

RaW 262

Copy of a variant version, headed ‘On Man’, here beginning ‘What is our Life, but a play of derision’ and ascribed in a running head to ‘W: S.’.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, pp. 13-244 in a single largely roman hand, the remainder in varying styles in one or more other hands (up to c.1655), probably associated with Oxford University, 541 pages (of which pp. 1-12, 87-8 have been extracted and pp. 251-68, 334, 400, 410-540 are blank, with stubs of other extracted leaves at the end), in contemporary brown calf. Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1630s[-55].

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: possibly his MS 18123. Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller. Formerly MS 646.4.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Dobell MS’: CoR Δ 8 and StW Δ 18A. Discussed in Bertram Dobell in The Athenaeum, No. 4475 (2 August 1913), p. 112. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

Folger, MS V.a.170, p. 44.

RaW 263

Copy 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.

Folger, MS V.a.245, f. 41v.

RaW 264

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 60. c.1637-51.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

Folger, MS V.a.262, p. 82.

RaW 265

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raughly on mans life’.

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.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 29B, p. 70. Recorded in Latham, p. 144.

Folger, MS V.a.319, f. 2r.

RaW 266

Copy, headed in the margin ‘Life's description’.

In: the MS described under RaW 62. c.1640s.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

Folger, MS V.a.339, f. 20r.

RaW 267

Copy, headed ‘Of man’.

In: the MS described under RaW 63. c.1630s.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

Folger, MS V.a.345, p. 14.

RaW 268

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 219. c.1630s.

Harvard, MS Eng 686, f. 17r.

RaW 269

Copy, headed ‘Of Man’.

In: the MS described under RaW 219. c.1630s.

Harvard, MS Eng 686, f. 67v.

RaW 270

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘by one ready to dye’.

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.

Harvard, MS Eng 703, f. 15v.

RaW 271

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 144. c.1630s-40s.

John Rylands University Library of Manchester, English MS 410, f. 20r.

RaW 272

Copy, headed ‘Mans life’.

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.

Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 8470, f. 2r.

RaW 273

Copy, untitled, subscribed in a different ink ‘Tho: Harding’.

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.

Leeds Archives, WYL156/237, f. 7v.

RaW 273.5

Copy, headed ‘In vitam’.

In: An octavo miscellany of verse, prose and drama, written over a period in various hands, 179 leaves, in remains of contemporary calf. c.1620-late 17th century.

Inscribed (f. 31v) ‘Henry Gould his Book 1620’. Compiled in part by one Henry Gould (c.1620). Other scribbling in the volume includes names of Robert Carter, John and Peggy Marriot, Thomas and John Allsopp (1746), George and Thomas Swindell, Richard Fowles, and George and Catherine Bindale, as well as an acrostic on Mrs Anne Boulton, and, on the first page, the inscription ‘Mend the play Booke Gilbert Carter’. Sotheby's, 15 December 1988, lot 13.

Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 91, f. 168r.

RaW 274

Copy, in the hand of William Pankhurst, untitled.

In: A folio composite volume of state letters, tracts, and verse, collected by, and mostly in the hand of, William Parkhurst (fl.1604-67), Sir Henry Wotton's secretary in Venice and later Master of the Mint, including various works in verse and prose attributed to Donne, chiefly in a scribal hand, partly in Parkhurst's hand, 373 leaves (including blanks), in old calf.

Among the papers of the Finch family of Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland. Mistakenly reported by Grierson and Logan Pearsall Smith to have been destroyed in a fire at Burley c.1908.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Burley MS’: DnJ Δ 53. Recorded in HMC, 7th Report (1879), Appendix, p. 516. A complete microfilm of the MS is at the University of Sheffield, Microfilm 737.

A neat transcript of parts of the Burley MS (including principally poems on ff. 255r-v, 278v, [279r]-288v, 342v-3r, 294r-300r, 301r-8v), made before 1908, on 35 leaves, is in the Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. c. 80.

Edited from this MS in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson (Oxford, 1912), I, 441. Recorded in Latham, p. 144.

Leicestershire Record Office, DG. 7/Lit. 2, f. 342v.

RaW 275

Copy, headed ‘Of mans Life’.

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.

Leicestershire Record Office, DG. 9/2796, p. 67.

RaW 276

Copy, here beginning ‘What is or life? it is a play of passion’, subscribed ‘Rawley’.

In: the MS described under RaW 134. c.1580s-1615.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 29A, p. 69, and in his PQ, 83 article. Recorded in Latham, p. 144.

Marsh's Library, Dublin, MS Z 3. 5. 21, f. 126r.

RaW 277

Copy, headed ‘Of the life of Man’.

In: the MS described under RaW 221. c.1630s.

National Library of Wales, NLW MS 12443 A, Part II, pp. 9-10.

RaW 278

Copy of lines 1-8, headed ‘On Man’ subscribed ‘Be: Stone’.

In: the MS described under RaW 122. c.1630s.

This MS recorded (as MS Taverham) in Latham, p. 144.

University of Nottingham, Pw V 37, p. 169.

RaW 279

Copy, headed ‘Of Man’.

In: the MS described under RaW 86. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].

Pierpont Morgan Library, MA 1057, p. 45.

RaW 280

Copy, untitled.

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).

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 239/23, p. 182.

RaW 281

Copy, headed ‘On the shortnesse of mans life’.

In: the MS described under RaW 171. c.1634.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 239/27, p. 187.

RaW 282

Copy, headed ‘On life’ and here ascribed to ‘John Donne’.

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.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 144.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 243/4, p. 49.

RaW 283

Copy, headed ‘On Mans Life’.

In: the MS described under RaW 93. c.1630.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 1083/16, p. 5.

RaW 284

Copy, headed ‘On mans life’ and here beginning ‘Mans life is but a play of passion’.

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).

This MS recorded in Latham, f. 144.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 1083/17, f. 80v.

RaW 285

Copy, headed ‘On Mans life’.

In: the MS described under RaW 94. c.1636-40s.

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

RaW 285.5

Copy, untitled.

In: An octavo commonplace book of verse and prose, in two or more secretary hands, 41 leaves, in a recycled illuminated vellum music document. Inscribed (ff. 1r, 2r) ‘Samuell Watts’. Early 17th century.

Among the papers of the Sanford family. Formerly DD/SF 3970.

Somerset Heritage Centre, DD/SF/10/5/1, f. 26v.

RaW 286

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. 139.

RaW 287

Copy, untitled and subscribed ‘g s’.

In: A quarto composite miscellany of verse and prose, in various hands, probably associated with the University of Cambridge, 352 pages (including 35 blanks), in 19th-century boards. Erroneously described in 1965 as a commonplace book of the poet Robert Herrick. The so-called ‘Herrick hand’ responsible for complete poems or substantial passages on pp. 73-4, 102-3, 253, 312-13, 319-21, 323, 328 and 343, this hand also responsible for corrections and brief insertions in both verse and prose on pp. 55-6, 58-60, 68, 71, 75-6, 78, 83, 89, 91, 93, 97, 99. 108-9, 203, 266, 285, 291, 348 and 350. c.1612-24.

Scribbling on front- and end-leaves including ‘Georgius Cantuarien’, ‘Thomas Hobson’ [?the Cambridge Carrier], ‘Benjamin Broadeface’, ‘To my very long friend mr John Bond’, ‘To the right reuerend ffather in God George Archbyshop of Canterbury his grace’, ‘Whereas the Bearer hereof Thomas Hall hath serued his sixe weekes…’, ‘To the right honor Sr Tho: Moore Whereas the Bearer hereof John Tis[?]sdale’, ‘Williamson’ and ‘Phillip de Maceden’. Puttick and Simpson's, 30 May 1849, lot 158 (erroneously described as a commonplace book of George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 12341*. Sotheby's, 29 June 1965, lot 146 (as Herrick's commonplace book). House of El Dieff (Lew David Feldman), New York, sale catalogue No. 65 (1965), with facsimile page as frontispiece. Formerly Ms File/(Herrick, R)/Works B.

Also facsimiles of p. 323 in the Sotheby's sale catalogue (frontispiece) and of p. 253 (as if in Herrick's hand) in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 33. Facsimile of all the verse in the MS (viz. pp. 63-83, 85, 87, 89, 91, 93,95, 97, 99, 101-3, 105-9, 113-17, 251-3, 277-82, 291, 317-21, 323, 325-43, 345-50), together with a transcript, in Norman K. Farmer, Jr, ‘Poems from a Seventeenth-century Manuscript with the Hand of Robert Herrick’, Texas Quarterly, 16, No. 4 (Supplement) (Winter 1973), 1-185. Microfilm of the complete MS in the British Library, M/751.

The MS discussed by Farmer in loc. cit. and in ‘Robert Herrick's Commonplace Book? Some Observations and Questions’, PBSA, 66 (1972), 21-34; in P.J. Croft's critical comments on Farmer's articles in ‘To the Editor’, PBSA, 66 (1972), 421-6, and (correcting Farmer's published transcript of the text) in ‘Errata in “Poems from a Seventeenth-Century Manuscript”’, TQ, 19 (1976), 160-73; and in Farmer's ‘A Reply to Mr P. Croft’, TQ, 19 (1976), 174. Reasons for rejecting Herrick's alleged association are presented in the Introduction above, under The Texas ‘Herrick’ Manuscript.

University of Texas at Austin, HRC 79, p. 113.

RaW 287.5

Copy of an eight-line version, headed ‘Of Mans life’.

In: the MS described under RaW 122.8. Mid-17th century.

Bangor University, MS 422, p. 56.

RaW 288

Copy, headed ‘Epitaphium’.

In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, including (ff. 12r-43r) 63 sonnets by Henry Constable, 117 leaves, in brown morocco. c.1620.

Later owned by a Mr Brackman, of Kent. Given by Alderman Bristow, bookseller of Canterbury, to a Mr Todd on 19 November 1800. Afterwards owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor.

Cited by editors as the Todd MS.

Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39), f. 70v.

RaW 289

Copy, headed ‘Mans Life’.

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

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

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

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

Westminster Abbey, MS 41, f. 32r-v.

RaW 290

Copy, headed ‘One Mans life’.

In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, compiled principally in the secretary hand of a University of Oxford man, with additions in one or more other hands, 150 pages, imperfect, disbound. c.1640.

Yale, Osborn MS b 62, pp. 46-7.

RaW 291

Copy, headed ‘On mans life’.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands (one predominating up to p. 167), probably associated with Oxford, 436 pages (pp. 198-9 and 269-70 skipped in the pagination, and including many blanks and an index) and numerous further blank leaves at the end, in modern black morocco gilt. Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1650.

Scribbling on the first page including the words ‘Peyton Chester…’.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Osborn MS I’: CwT Δ 38; CoR Δ 14; StW Δ 29.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200, pp. 112-13.

RaW 292

Copy, headed ‘Vita est tanquam fabula’.

In: the MS described under RaW 123. c.1630s.

Yale, Osborn MS b 205, f. 44r.

RaW 293

Copy in: A quarto commonplace book of miscellaneous extracts, largely in one small hand, with a few additions in three other hands, 257 pages, in contemporary vellum. c.1620s.

Yale, Osborn MS b 208, p. 59.

RaW 293.5

Copies, in a musical setting by Orlando Gibbons, for five voices, tenor, and quintus respectively.

In: A set of three oblong quarto musical part books, each formally entitled ‘A Colection of 120 or more of the Choicest Divine Hymns or Anthemnes English and Latin, that have binne Extant within this 110 or 120 yeeres, to this present yeere 1688’, the lyrics probably in a single neat rounded hand. Comprising (i) Bassus part, ix + 155 leaves, in modern vellum. (ii) Treble part, viii + 136 leaves, in contemporary vellum. (iii) Bassus continuo part, iv + 109 leaves (lacking ff. 39-44), in contemporary vellum. 1688.

York Minster, MS M. 5. S, (i) ff. 49v-50r; (ii) ff. 45v-6v; (iii) ff. 45v-6v.

RaW 293.8

Copy, headed ‘The Aughr[?] An other Epetath by Sr Wa: Ra:’ and here beginning ‘What is our lyfe? ytt is a Play of passion’, in the hand of Peter Middelton.

In: the MS described under RaW 105. c.1618?.

Untraced, [Ralegh/Middelton volume], [on a flyleaf].

‘Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames’

The passionate mans Pilgrimage (‘Giue me my Scallop shell of quiet’)

Petition to the Queen (‘My dayes delight, my spring tyme ioyes foredun’)

In three versions, first published in 1833, 1928, and 1978 respectively.

RaW 294

Copy of an early 78-line version, untitled and beginning with the first two stanzas of the last book of Cynthia, on both sides of a single folio leaf. c.1620.

Among the papers of the Mildmay family, including those of Colonel Carew Harvey Mildmay (fl.1625-67), officer of the Jewel House, of Marks, Somerset.

This MS edited and discussed in Pierre Lefranc, ‘Une Nouvelle Version de la “Petition to Queen Anne” de Sir Walter Ralegh’, Annales de la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences humaines de Nice, 34 (1978), 57-67. Edited in Rudick, No. 32, pp. 72-5. Recorded in HMC, 7th Report, Part I (1879), Appendix, p. 592.

Somerset Heritage Centre, DD/MI 18/88.

RaW 295

Copy of an intermediate 51-line version, untitled and beginning with the first two stanzas of the last book of Cynthia (see RaW 9), subscribed ‘Sir Walter Raleigh’. Early 17th century.

In: A folio composite volume of verse and drama MSS, in various hands, 155 leaves, in 19th-century 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 version first published, from this MS, in Agnes M.C. Latham, ‘Sir Walter Ralegh's Cynthia’, RES, 4, No. 14 (April 1928), 129-34 (pp. 133-4). Edited from this MS in Latham (1951), pp. 68-9, as ‘Conjectural First Draft of the Petition to Queen Anne’, and, untitled, in Rudick, No. 33, pp. 76-7.

British Library, Add. MS 27407, ff. 130r-1v.

RaW 296

Copy of a 36-line version of the petition (cp. RaW 294-5), headed ‘S.W. Raghlies Petition to the Queene. 1618’ and here beginning ‘O had Truth power the guiltless could not fall’.

In: the MS described under RaW 76. c.1618-20s.

This version first published, from this MS, in David Laing, ‘Extracts from the Hawthornden Manuscripts’, Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 4 (1833), 225-40 (pp. 236-7).Edited from this MS in Latham, pp. 70-1, and in Rudick, No. 34, pp. 78-9.

National Library of Scotland, MS 2060, ff. 12r-13r.

Petition to the Queen (‘O Had Truth Power the guiltlesse could not fall’)

See RaW 296.

A Poem of Sir Walter Rawleighs (‘Nature that washt her hands in milke’)

First published in A.H. Bullen, Speculum Amantis (London, 1889), pp. 76-7. Latham, pp. 21-2. Rudick, Nos 43A and 43B (two versions, pp. 112-14).

RaW 297

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 19. c.1630s-40s.

Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. c. 50, f. 109r.

RaW 298

Copy of lines 1-12, 19-24, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

In: A large folio volume of songs in musical settings by John Wilson (1595-1674), composer and musician, vi + 214 leaves (plus some blanks), gilt-edged, in contemporary black morocco elaborately gilt, lettered on each cover ‘DR. / I.W’, with silver clasps. Possibly Wilson's formal autograph MS or else in the hand of someone similarly associated with Edward Lowe (c.1610-82). c.1656.

Complete facsimile in Jorgens, Vol. 7 (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth Century Lyrics: Oxford, Bodleian, MS. Mus. b. 1’, MD, 10 (1956), 142-209.

Edited from this MS in Norman Ault, A Treasury of Unfamiliar Lyrics (London, 1938), p. 185; recorded in Latham, pp. 119-120.

Bodleian, MS Mus. b. 1, f. 77r-v.

RaW 299

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 246. c.1620-50.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 119-20.

British Library, Add. MS 25707, f. 92v.

RaW 300

Copy of a 36-line version, headed ‘A poem of Sr Walter Rawleighs’.

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).

Edited from this MS in Bullen (1889); in Latham; and in Rudick, No. 43B, pp. 113-14.

British Library, Harley MS 6917, f. 48r-v.

RaW 301

Copy of lines 1-12, 19-24, headed ‘Sonnett’.

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 recorded in Latham, pp. 119-20.

British Library, Sloane MS 1446, f. 51v.

RaW 302

Copy, headed ‘On his Mistresse Serena’, concluding with the final couplet of “Euen such is tyme” (here beginning ‘But from this Grave, and Earth, and dust’) with a marginal note, ‘This last staffe was saide to bee made by Sr Walter Raleigh a little before his death, wth the additio of these two last verses’.

In: the MS described under RaW 119. c.1630 [-1677].

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 119-20.

Folger, MS V.a.103, Part I, f. 29v.

RaW 303

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio verse miscellany, in a single probably professional rounded hand (except for a poem on f. 81r and later scribbling); ii + 81 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Including 16 poems by or attributed to Herrick and 24 poems by Randolph (plus two of doubtful authorship). This MS related to HeR Δ 2 and to RnT Δ 1. c. late 1630s.

Inscriptions including (on a flyleaf) ‘Anthony St John/ Ann: St John/ 1640 Bletso’: i.e. Anthony St John (1618-73), of Christ's College, Cambridge, fourth son of Oliver, fourth Baron St John and first Earl of Bolingbroke (c.1584-1646), of Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, and Anthony's wife, Ann Kensham (married 1639); (flyleaf) ‘Oliver Beeesfor[d]’; and (f. 81v) ‘John Watts’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 13187. Sotheby's, 6 June 1910, lot 672, to Quaritch. Item 1415 in an unidentified sale.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘St John MS’: HeR Δ 4 and RnT Δ 8. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 72).

Harvard, fMS Eng 626, f. 63r-v.

RaW 304

Copy, headed ‘Sr W. R. / On his Mistresse Serena’, concluding with the final couplet of “Euen such is tyme” (here beginning ‘But from this Earth, and Grave, and Dust’), with the marginal note, ‘This last staffe was said to bee made by Sr W.R. a little before his death, wth the addition of these two Verses’.

In: the MS described under RaW 122. c.1630s.

This MS recorded (as MS Taverham) in Latham, pp. 119-20.

University of Nottingham, Pw V 37, p. 60.

RaW 304.5

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Nature that washt his hands in milke’.

In: A small quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single non-professional mixed hand, written from both ends, 90 leaves, in vellum (lacking spine). c.1630s.

Among papers of the Clitherow family of London, which included Sir Christopher Clitherow (1578-1642), Lord Mayor of London in 1635. Bookplate of James Clitherow Esq. of Boston House, Middlesex: i.e. either Christopher's son, James Clitherow (1618-82), merchant and banker, who purchased Boston Manor, in the parish of Hanwell, in 1670, or James Clitherow (1694-1752).

London Metropolitan Archives, ACC/1360/528, ff. [21v-2r].

A Poem put into my Lady Laiton's pocket by Sir W. Rawleigh (‘Lady farwell whom I in Sylence serve’)

First published in Hannah (1870), p. 57. Rudick, Nos 12A (eighteen-line version) and 12B (six-line version), pp. 15-16.

RaW 305

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 114.

Edited from this MS in Latham, pp. 4-5, and in Rudick, No. 12A, p. 15.

British Library, Harley MS 7392, f. 65v.

RaW 306

Copy of the first stanza, heavily deleted.

In: the MS described under RaW 49. c.1600-1620s.

Edited from this MS in Hannah and in Rudick, No. 12B, p. 16. Recorded in Latham, p. 96.

Chetham's Library, Mun. A.4.15, f. 55v (p. 85).

S.W. Raghlies Petition to the Queene 1618 (‘O Had Truth Power the guiltlesse could not fall’)

See RaW 296.

Sir Walter Raleigh in the unquiett rest of his last sicknes (‘Eternall mover whose diffused glory’)

Rudick, No 56, pp. 134-5.

Sir W. Raleigh, On the Snuff of a Candle the night before he died (‘Cowards fear to Die, but Courage stout’)

First published in Remains (London, 1657). Latham, p. 72. Rudick, No. 55, p. 133.

RaW 307

Copy, transcribed from an edition of Ralegh's Remains.

In: the MS described under RaW 14. c.1669.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 156-7.

Bodleian, MS Ashmole 1463, p. 13.

RaW 308

Copy in: A quarto miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Compiled by members of the Cartwright family, of Aynho, Northamptonshire, including (ff. 4r-7v) verse by William Cartwright (1634-76). Mid-17th century.

Inscribed names including ‘Will: Cartwright’, ‘Jo: Cartwright’, and ‘Katherin Cartwright’. Myers, sale catalogue No. 291 (1933), item 120.

Bodleian, MS Don. e. 6, f. 16v.

RaW 309

Copy, headed ‘By the same of feare’, transcribed from an edition of Ralegh's Remains.

In: the MS described under RaW 33. c.1662.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 156.

British Library, Add. MS 18044, f. 156r.

RaW 310

Copy, in the hand of Ralph Starkey, headed ‘Sr walter Ralegh on the snuffe of a Candle, the night before he Suffered death’.

In: the MS described under RaW 39.

British Library, Harley MS 39, f. 368v.

RaW 311

Copy, headed in the margin ‘Rawleigh one a Candle snuffe’.

In: the MS described under RaW 115. c.1637.

British Library, Stowe MS 962, f. 132r.

RaW 312

Copy, headed ‘Sir W: Raw: on ye Snuffe of a Candle ye night before he Dyed’.

In: the MS described under RaW 50. c.1674-84.

University of Chicago, MS 824, f. 27v.

RaW 313

Copy, in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh, on the snuffe of a Candle, the night before he suffered death’.

In: the MS described under RaW 57.

Folger, MS G.b.9, f. 170v.

RaW 313.5

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 6.5. c.1642.

Robert S. Pirie, New York, [Feilde MS], p. 468.

RaW 314

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Sir W. Raleigh’.

In: the MS described under RaW 92. c.1713.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 157.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 239/16, p. 7.

RaW 315

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh on the Snuffe of a Candle the night before hee dyed’.

In: the MS described under RaW 97. c.1620s.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 55, p. 133.

Dr Williams's Library, MS Jones B. 60, p. 267.

Sir Walter Rauleigh to his sonne (‘Three thinges there bee that prosper up apace’)

First published in Latham (1929), p. 102. Latham (1951), p. 49. Rudick, No. 52, p. 125.

RaW 316

Copy of lines 1-12 headed ‘Sir Walter Rauleigh to his sonne’.

In: the MS described under RaW 207. c.1620s-30s.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 140.

Bodleian, MS Malone 19, p. 138.

RaW 317

Copy, in a cursive mixed hand, untitled, on one side of a quarto-size leaf. c.1620s.

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).

Printed from this MS in Latham.

British Library, Add. MS 23229, f. 107r.

RaW 318

Copy of lines 1-12, headed ‘Sr: Walter Rawley to his sonne’.

In: the MS described under RaW 120. Mid-17th century.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 140.

Folger, MS V.a.162, f. 38v.

RaW 319

Copy, headed ‘Sr. Walter Rawleigh to his sonne, Waltr’.

In: the MS described under RaW 219. c.1630s.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 52, p. 125.

Harvard, MS Eng 686, f. 16r.

Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen (‘Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames’)

First published, prefixed to “Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart” (see RaW 500-42) and headed ‘To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh’, in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Edited in this form in Latham, p. 18. Rudick, No 39A, p. 106.

For a discussion of the authorship and different texts of this poem, see Charles B. Gullans, ‘Raleigh and Ayton: the disputed authorship of “Wrong not sweete empresse of my heart”’, SB, 13 (1960), 191-8, reprinted in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 318-26.

RaW 320

Copy, headed ‘W: R: To his Mistris’, here beginning ‘Passions are likened best to floods, and streames’, and prefixed to “Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart” (RaW 500).

In: the MS described under RaW 224. c.1630s.

Aberdeen University Library, MS 29, p. 171.

RaW 320.5

Copy, headed ‘Sr w. R. to his Mrs’, here beginning ‘Passions are likned...’.

In: the MS described under RaW 232.5. c.1648-61.

Bodleian, MS Don. f. 37, fols 53v-53r.

RaW 321

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled and here beginning ‘Passions are likened best to floods & streames’.

In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in several neat hands, ii + 142 leaves (ff. 111v-42v blank), in contemporary calf gilt. Compiled in part by ‘I. N’.: i.e. John Newdegate (1600-42), of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton, Warwickshire. c.1627-35.

Formerly Long Island Historical Society MS 22, to whom it was bequeathed by Samuel Bowne Duryea. Sotheby's, 21 December 1965, lot 595.

Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 112, f. 79r.

RaW 322

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Passions are likened best to flouds & streames’.

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 Gullans.

Bodleian, MS Malone 16, p. 17.

RaW 323

Copy, headed ‘Of Passions’ and here beginning ‘Passyns are likened best to floudes & streames’.

In: the MS described under RaW 207. c.1620s-30s.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 116, and in Gullans.

Bodleian, MS Malone 19, p. 44.

RaW 324

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Passions are like to floods & streames’, written lengthways along the inner margin.

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 Gullans.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 116, f. 53v.

RaW 325

Copy, headed ‘Sir Walter Ralegh to Queene Elizabeth’ and prefixed to “Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart” (see RaW 508).

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.

Edited from this MS in Gullans, p. 325; recorded in Latham, p. 115.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 160, f. 117r.

RaW 326

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Passions are likened best to flouds and streames’, prefixed to “Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart” which is subscribed ‘Sr W. R:’ (see RaW 510), transcribed from RaW 328.

In: the MS described under RaW 244. c.1620s-30s.

This MS the Pickering MS printed in Hannah (1845), pp. 132-4; recorded in Latham, p. 115, and in Gullans.

British Library, Add. MS 21433, f. 112v.

RaW 327

Copy, headed ‘Sr. Walter Ralegh to ye Queen’, prefixed to “Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart” (see RaW 511).

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.

Edited from this MS in Latham and in Rudick, No. 39A, pp. 106-8. Recorded in Gullans.

British Library, Add. MS 22602, f. 30v.

RaW 328

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Passions are likened beste to flouds & streams’, prefixed to “Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart” (RaW 513) which is subscribed ‘Sr WR’.

In: the MS described under RaW 245. c.1620s.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 115, and in Gullans.

British Library, Add. MS 25303, f. 118r.

RaW 329

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Passions are likned unto floods & streames’, subscribed ‘Th: C:’.

In: the MS described under RaW 252. c.1630s [-1670s].

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 115, and in Gullans.

British Library, Harley MS 6057, f. 9r.

RaW 330

Copy, headed ‘A Louer’ and here beginning ‘Passions are likned best to flouds of streames’.

In: the MS described under RaW 214. c.late 1630s [-1789].

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 116, and in Gullans.

Folger, MS V.a.97, p. 43.

RaW 331

Copy, headed ‘To the sole Governesse of His Affections’, here beginning ‘Passions are likned best to flouds and streames’ and prefixed to “Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart” (see RaW 525), ascribed at the side to ‘Sr Wa: Ral:’.

In: the MS described under RaW 119. c.1630 [-1677].

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 115, and in Gullans.

Folger, MS V.a.103, Part I, f. 30r.

RaW 332

Copy, headed ‘Of Passions’ and here beginning ‘Passions are likened best to flouds & streames’.

In: the MS described under RaW 219. c.1630s.

Harvard, MS Eng 686, f. 11r-v.

RaW 333

Copy, headed ‘Sr Gwalter Raleigh to ye sole Governours of his Affection’, here beginning ‘Passions are likn'd best to flouds & streams’, and prefixed to “Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart” (see RaW 527).

In: the MS described under RaW 220. c.late 1630s.

This MS recorded in Gullans.

Huntington, HM 116, pp. 16-17.

RaW 334

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Passions are likned best to flouds & streams’, in double columns.

In: the MS described under RaW 6. c.1637.

This MS recorded in Gullans.

Huntington, HM 198, Part I, p. 165.

RaW 335

Copy, headed ‘Sr. W. R. / To the sole Governes of his affections’, here beginning ‘Passions are likened best to Flouds and Streames’, and prefixed to “Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart” (see RaW 535).

In: the MS described under RaW 122. c.1630s.

University of Nottingham, Pw V 37, p. 61.

RaW 336

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleigh to his Mrs’, here beginning ‘Passions are likened to floods & streams’, and prefixed to “Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart” (see RaW 537).

In: the MS described under RaW 171. c.1634.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 115-16.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 239/27, p. 50.

RaW 337

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawly: to the Queene’, here beginning ‘Passions are most like to shades and dreames’, and prefixed to “Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart” (see RaW 538).

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, 89 leaves, in old calf gilt. Partly compiled (pp. 75-99) by one Robert Berkeley, who has inscribed the first page ‘Rob Berkeley his booke Ano. 1640’. c.1640s.

Formerly owned by Henry Huth (1815-78). Formerly Rosenbach 195.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 116.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 240/2, pp. 5, 7.

RaW 338

Copy, headed ‘On a passionate lover’ and here beginning ‘Passions best likned are to floods & streames’.

In: the MS described under RaW 123. c.1630s.

Formerly Rosenbach 195, this MS recorded in Latham, pp. 116.

Yale, Osborn MS b 205, f. 31r.

A songe made by Sir Walter Rawley (‘What teares (Deare Prince) can serue to water all’)

‘Sweete ar the thoughtes, wher Hope persuadeth Happe’

First published in Hoyt T. Hudson, ‘Notes on the Ralegh Canon’, MLN, 46 (1931), 386-9 (p. 387). Latham, p. 4. Rudick, No. 7, p. 7.

RaW 339

Copy, subscribed ‘RA.’

In: the MS described under RaW 114.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

British Library, Harley MS 7392, f. 36r.

‘The word of deniall, and the letter of fifty’

First published, as ‘The Answer’ to ‘A Riddle’ (‘Th'offence of the stomach, with the word of disgrace’), in Works (1829), VIII, 736. Latham, pp. 47-8. Rudick, Nos 19A, 19B and 19C (three versions, pp. 28-9).

RaW 340

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleigh to Bp. Nowell’.

In: the MS described under RaW 150. c.1630s.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 138.

Bodleian, MS Douce f. 5, fol. 31r.

RaW 341

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘The word of denyall, the figure of fiftye’, and in answer to the preceding verses (p. 52), Noel's “The offence of the stomach, & the word of disgrace” which is headed ‘Rawly’.

In: the MS described under RaW 207. c.1620s-30s.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 138.

Bodleian, MS Malone 19, p. 53.

RaW 342

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 108. Mid-late 17th century.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 138.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 84, f. 72v.

RaW 343

Copy, run on directly from other verses, subscribed ‘Noele’.

In: the MS described under RaW 137. Mid-17th century.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 138.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 117, f. 271r rev.

RaW 344

Copy, headed ‘The answer’, subscribed ‘id. est. Nowell’, following ‘Th'offence of the stomacke, with the woord of disgrace’, which is headed ‘A Ridle’ and subscribed ‘id est. Rawly’.

In: the MS described under RaW 190. c.1590s.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 19A, p. 28.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 148, f. 1r.

RaW 345

Copy, headed ‘Sr wa Rawly made this rime vpon the name of a gallant one Mr Noel’, followed by ‘Noels answere/ Raw Ly’ (‘The foe to the stomacke, and ye word of disgrace’). December 1602.

In: A duodecimo diary and notebook of extracts, in a single small secretary hand, 133 leaves, dated from January 1601/2 to April 1603, in modern quarter crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Compiled by John Manningham (c.1575-1622), lawyer, of the Middle Temple.

The Diary edited by John Bruce, Camden Society 99 (London, 1868). The Diary of John Manningham of the Middle Temple 1602-1603, ed. R.P. Sorlien (Hanover, NH, 1976). Facsimiles of f. 12r in DLB, vol. 62, Elizabethan Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 318, and of f. 29v in The British Inheritance: A Treasury of Historic Documents, ed. Elizabeth Hallam and Andrew Prescott (London, 1999), p. 44.

Edited from this MS in Latham and in Rudick, No. 19B, p. 29.

British Library, Harley MS 5353, f. 83r.

RaW 345.5

Copy, headed ‘Q. Eliz. that late died 1602’, and introduced in the margin ‘The queene bidding .2. courtiers namely Sr walter Rawly & Sr Andrew Nowell to rime they being enemies of each other. Sr Andrewe began / Hard of disgesture, word of disgrace / Then quoth S'r Walter’.

In: A quarto commonplace book, with entries largely under headings, in Latin and English, 163 leaves (including many blanks), in half-morocco. Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Johnes Mauritius Ano...1604’: i.e. John Morris (d.1658), antiquary and book collector, probable compiler. 1604-5.

British Library, Royal MS 12 B. V, f. 4r.

RaW 346

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 256. c.1630.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 138.

British Library, Sloane MS 1489, f. 16v.

RaW 347

Copy of the two verses, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleighs ieste vpo Noell & Noell vpo his name’.

In: the MS described under RaW 182. c.1628-30s.

Edinburgh University Library, MS H.-P. Coll. 401, f. 62v.

RaW 348

Copy, headed ‘Sr: W.R. On Dr. Noel’.

In: the MS described under RaW 119. c.1630 [-1677].

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 138. Edited from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.

Folger, MS V.a.103, Part I, f. 68r.

RaW 349

Copy, headed ‘Rawleys reply on Noel’, directly following ‘On Sr Walter Rawley, by one Noel’.

In: the MS described under RaW 120. Mid-17th century.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 138.

Folger, MS V.a.162, f. 64r.

RaW 350

Copy, headed ‘Rawley upon Noell’.

In: the MS described under RaW 265. c.1640.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 138.

Folger, MS V.a.319, f. 13v.

RaW 351

Copy, headed ‘On the Lord Noel’.

In: the MS described under RaW 63. c.1630s.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 138.

Folger, MS V.a.345, p. 277.

RaW 352

Copy, headed ‘Rawly his reply’, here beginning ‘The word of denyall & the figure of fifty’, following ‘Noell To Sr Walter Rawleigh’ (‘Th' offence of the stomach and the word of disgrace’).

In: the MS described under RaW 219. c.1630s.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 19C, p. 29.

Harvard, MS Eng 686, f. 17v.

RaW 353

Copy, headed ‘Sr. W. R / On Dr Noell’, together with ‘Dr Noel On Sr W. Rawley’.

In: the MS described under RaW 122. c.1630s.

University of Nottingham, Pw V 37, p. 140.

RaW 354

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleigh of H. Noell Courtier’, with ‘His reply’.

In: the MS described under RaW 93. c.1630.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 138.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 1083/16, p. 195.

RaW 354.5

Copy, headed ‘Rawleigh To Noell’, followed by ‘Noel to Rawleigh’ (‘The loath of ye stomacke, & ye word of disgrace’).

In: the MS described under RaW 97.5. c.late 1630s.

Yale, Osborn MS b 356, p. 307.

‘Those eies that holds the hand of every hart’

First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). Latham, p. 83.

RaW 355

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 1. c.1586-91.

This MS collated in The Phoenix Nest, ed. H. E. Rollins (Cambrdige, Mass., 1931), p. 183; recorded in Latham, p. 162.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 85, f. 24v.

RaW 356

Copy, untitled.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, ff. 2r-26r in a single secretary hand, ff. 26r-40v in yet another, with later additions near the end dated 1653, 60 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum. c.1596 [-1653].

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Anthonie Babingtonn of warrington’, with the date ‘1596’, and ‘Roger Wright me possidett ex dono Henerici fratrie Meo’. Later owned and annotated by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Signature and bookplate of F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale), lot 50. Purchased from Jarvis & Son, 15 June 1891.

Identified in Ringler, PQ (1975), as the ‘Quarto MS’ from which Percy derived the texts of three poems by Breton edited in his Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765). Substantial extracts from it edited in Grosart's edition of Breton (1879). Also briefly discussed in P.M. Buck, Jr., ‘Add MS. 34064 and Spenser's Ruins of Time and Mother Hubberd's Tale’, MLN, 22 (1907), 41-6, and in Robertson's edition of Breton, pp. liv-lv.

Typed and MS notes relating to this volume made in the 1920s by Professor Hyder Edward Rollins (1889-1958) are in Harvard MS Eng 1613.

Edited from this MS in Grosart. Collated in Rollins, p. 183/ Recorded in Latham, p. 162.

British Library, Add. MS 34064, f. 7v.

To his Love when hee had obtained Her (‘Now Serena bee not coy’)

First published in H. Harvey Wood, ‘A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others’, E&S, 16 (1930), 179-90 (pp. 181-2). Latham, p. 20. Rudick, No. 44, p. 115 (as ‘Sir W. Ra: To his Love When hee had obtained Her’).

RaW 357

Copy, ascribed at the side to ‘Sr W. Ra:’.

In: the MS described under RaW 119. c.1630 [-1677].

Edited from this MS in Latham and in Rudick.

Folger, MS V.a.103, Part I, f. 30v.

RaW 358

Copy, inscribed at the side ‘Sr W. R.’

In: the MS described under RaW 122. c.1630s.

Edited from this MS in Harvey Wood. Recorded (as MS Taverham) in Latham, pp. 118-19.

University of Nottingham, Pw V 37, p. 62.

Verses given as I suppose by Mr Lea to Laut; intimating that secret love speakes little but sithence I did understande that they weare Sir W. Rawleigh's verses to Queene Elizabeth, in the beginning of his favoures (‘The lowest trees have topps, the Aunt her gall’)

Rudick, No. 40, p. 110.

See DyE 73-95.

Vertue the best monument (‘Not Caesars birth made Caesar to suruiue’)

See RaW 497.

Walter Rawely of the middle Temple, in commendation of the Steele Glasse (‘Swete were the sauce would please ech kind of tast’)

First published in George Gascoigne, The Steele Glas (London, 1576). Latham, p. 3. Rudick, No. 1, pp. 1-2.

RaW 358.3

Copy in the hand of Gabriel Harvey. headed ‘The offence to the stomach’, in Harvey's annotated exemplum of George Gascoigne's Posies (London, 1575). c.1576?

Bodleian, Mal. 792(1).

Who list to heare (‘Who list to heare the sum of sorrowes state’)

First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, pp. 83-4.

RaW 359

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 62. c.1640s.

Folger, MS V.a.339, f. 205r.

‘Would I were chaung'd into that golden showre’

First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, pp. 81-2. Rudick, No. 8, p. 8.

(2) Poems Doubtfully Ascribed to Ralegh

Epitaph on the Earl of Salisbury (‘Here lies Hobinall, our Pastor while ere’)

First published in Francis Osborne, Traditionall Memoyres on the raigne of King Iames (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 735-6. Latham, p. 53.

Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, p. 146, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.

RaW 360

Copy by Aubrey, as ‘Sr W R. the Epigram on Robert Cecil Earle of Salisbury who died in a ditch’, here beginning ‘Here lies Robert our shepherd whilom’, as given to Aubrey by ‘Sir Thomas Malett…who knew Sr W. Raleigh’, incomplete.

In: A folio composite autograph manuscript of the first part of Brief Lives by John Aubrey (1626-97), 121 largely folio leaves, in vellum within modern boards. c.1679/80-1681.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 146.

Bodleian, MS Aubrey 6, f. 78v.

RaW 361

Copy, headed ‘Vpon Sr. R.C. Lord Treasurer’ and here beginning ‘Here lyes Hobinall, our Shepperd while=ere’.

In: the MS described under RaW 206. c.1630s.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 146.

Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 14, f. 79r rev.

RaW 362

Copy, headed ‘Upon Sr Robert Cecill, Earle of Salisbury, & Ld Treasurer’, here beginning ‘Heere Hobbinall lyes, or Sheapheard while'e[re]’, and ascribed to ‘Sr Walter Raleig[h]’, with a marginal note ‘Lady Walsingham, his Concubine’.

In: the MS described under RaW 21.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 26, f. 78r.

RaW 363

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Heere lies Hobbinal or Sheepheard while here’.

In: the MS described under RaW 27. Mid-late 17th century.

Bodleian, MS Tanner 299, f. 12r.

RaW 364

Copy, headed ‘In obitum Ro: Cecillij’ and here beginning ‘Here lies old Hobynoll, or shepheard while here’.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, nearly all in a single mixed hand, 19 leaves, in a wrapper comprising a recycled vellum leaf bearing a rubricated (?)15th-century religious text in Latin. c.1630.

Among the papers of the Stanhope family, of Horsforth, near Leeds. Formerly Spencer-Stanhope MSS, Calendar No. 2795 (Bundle 10, No. 34).

Bradford Archives, SpSt/9/1a, f. [6r].

RaW 364.5

Copy, in a stylish italic hand, untitled and here beginning ‘Heere Hobbinoll lies our sheaphard while-ere’, on one side of a large portion of a single folio leaf. Early 17th century.

In: the MS described under RaW 158.5.

British Library, Add. MS 78233, f. 3r.

RaW 364.8

Copy, headed ‘Another’ [i.e. on the Earl of Somerset].

In: A collection of epitaphs, principally from churches in and about London, at least up to f. 193 in a single large rounded hand, an epitaph on f. 309 dated 1760, 244 folio leaves. Late 18th century.

Owned in 1785 by Mary Windsor of Tottenham High Cross, Owned in 1821 by one John Marris [i.e. Morris?]. Bookplate of James Walsh, FSA, FRAS. Purchased from J. R. Smith 9 December 1848.

British Library, Egerton MS 1160, f. 143r.

RaW 365

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Heere lyes Hobbinoll our shepheard while ere’.

In: the MS described under RaW 249. c.1630s [-1777].

Edited from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.

British Library, Egerton MS 2230, f. 34r.

RaW 366

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Heere Hobbinoll lyes our Shepeheard whilere’.

In: A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous tracts and papers, in various hands, in modern red morocco gilt.

British Library, Harley MS 1221, f. 74r.

RaW 367

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Here Hobbinoll lies our shepheard whilere’.

In: A large quarto volume of verse and prose, in several hands, a cursive mixed hand predominating on ff. 1r -51, 53r-8v, with a later addition dated 1694 on f. 78r, 82 leaves, in modern half green morocco. Mid-17th century.

British Library, Harley MS 6038, f. 18r.

RaW 368

Copy in: A composite booklet of verse, comprising nine unbound quarto and folio leaves. 17th century.

Dobell, sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 349.

Untraced Dobell MSS, [Booklet of verse], [unspecified pages].

RaW 369

Copy, headed ‘The following Lines were written by Sir Walter Rawleigh, upon ye Death of that famous Statesman Robert Earl of Surrey, his Most Implacable Enemy’, subscribed ‘The two last lines allude to ye manner of ye Earls Death wch was sd. to be Occasioned by his Amours’, in a section entitled Miscellany Poems, Song &c from the year 1727.

In: A large folio verse miscellany, headed (p. 1) ‘Poems on Severall Occasions’, 298 pages, in contemporary calf (rebacked). c.1735.

Harvard, fMS Eng 629, p. 152.

RaW 370

Copy, headed ‘Upon Cicells Death’ and here beginning ‘Here lies Hobbinall or Shepherd whileare’.

In: the MS described under RaW 62. c.1640s.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 146.

Folger, MS V.a.339, f. 265r.

RaW 371

Copy, headed ‘In obitum Ro: Ceciliij.’, here beginning ‘Here lyes old Hobinol our shephard while heere’, and ascribed to ‘Sr wall. Rawleigh’.

In: the MS described under RaW 63. c.1630s.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 47, pp. 120-1. Recorded in Latham, p. 146.

Folger, MS V.a.345, p. 110.

RaW 371.2

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, here beginning ‘Here lieth Hobbynol our sheapard wch eare’, on the first page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves of verse, once folded as a letter or packet, in a file of verse MSS. c.1620s.

In: A box of unbound and unnumbered legal and miscellaneous papers.

National Archives, Kew, C 108/63, unnumbered item.

RaW 371.5

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Here lyeth hobinall our Sheepperd while ere’, with other verses on Robert Cecil, in a single secretary hand, on the fourth page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1612-20s.

Among the papers of the Isham family of Lamport Hall.

Northamptonshire Record Office, IL 4295.

RaW 371.8

Copy, in a cursive secretary han, untitled and here beginning ‘Here lyeth Haniball our sheaperd whileare’, with other verses on Robert Cecil in two secretary hands, on a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1612-20s.

Among papers of the Isham family of Lamport Hall.

Northamptonshire Record Office, IL 4304.

RaW 372

Copy, under a general heading ‘Epitaphes and verses of my Lord Tresorer Cicill’, here beginning ‘Heere Hobbinole lyeth or sheppard whyle eere’.

In: A quarto volume of transcripts of correspondence of John Holles (1587-1637), first Earl of Clare, and his son John (1595-1666), second Earl of Clare, with other tracts and verse, almost entirely in a single predominantly italic hand, 228 leaves (paginated 1-3, 14-238), in modern boards. Mid-17th century.

Among papers of the Cavendish-Bentinck family, Dukes of Portland, of Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire, incorporating papers of the related Holles, Harley and Cavendish families, and purchases made by J.A.C.J. Cavendish-Bentinck (1857-1943), sixth Duke of Portland.

University of Nottingham, Pw V 2, p. 145.

RaW 373

Copy of a version headed ‘A Sarisbury Sheaphard’ and here beginning ‘Heare lies our sheaphard a while, soe deare’.

In: the MS described under RaW 93. c.1630.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 1083/16, p. 90.

RaW 374

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled and here beginning ‘Here lyes Hobbynoll or shepheard whileere’, with two other poems on Cecil's death, on one side of a half-folio leaf. c.1612.

In: A collection of unbound state papers, now in folders. c.1628.

Donated in 1921 by Dr J. R. Tanner.

St John's College, Cambridge, MS K. 56 (James 542), No. 73.

RaW 374.5

Copy. Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled, here beginning ‘here lyes hobblenole our Sheapeard whileare’, with other verses on Cecil, on the first page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, in a bundle of unbound miscellaneous papers. Early 17th century.

Among papers of the related Trevelyan and Willoughby families.

Somerset Heritage Centre, DD/WO/53/3/26.

RaW 375

Copy in the ‘Herrick’ hand, the first three words in another hand, here beginning ‘Here lies Hobinall our Shepheard whileare’.

In: the MS described under RaW 287. c.1612-24.

This MS reproduced in facsimile, with a transcript, in Norman K. Farmer, Jr., ‘Poems from a Seventeenth-Century manuscript with the Hand of Robert Herrick’, TQ, 16, No. 4 (Supplement) (Winter 1973), (pp. 40-1), and see P.J. Croft, ‘Errata in “Poems from a Seventeenth-Century Manuscript”’, TQ, 19, No. 1 (Spring 1976), 160-73 (p. 162).

University of Texas at Austin, HRC 79, p. 73.

RaW 376

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Heere Hobinol lyes oure shepheard while ere’.

In: the MS described under RaW 288. c.1620.

Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39), f. 71r.

RaW 377

Copy, headed ‘On Sr Rob: Cecil’, here beginning ‘Heere lieth Hobinol our Sheapheard while ere’, inscribed in the margin ‘Sr W: Raleigh in ye Tower’.

In: A small quarto booklet of verse and prose, in two predominantly italic hands, a fragment of a larger miscellany, eight leaves, paginated 73-88, disbound. c.1620s-30s.

Among papers of the Newdegate family, Viscounts Daventer, of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton.

Warwickshire County Record Office, CR 136/B3468, p. 73.

RaW 378

Copy, under a general heading ‘Scurrillous epitaphes’ and here beginning ‘Heare lyeth Hobinoll our shepherd whileare’.

In: the MS described under RaW 135. c.1620s.

Wiltshire and Swindon Archives, 865/500, f. [32v].

RaW 378.5

Copy, here beginning ‘Here lyes ye worthy warrier / thar neuer blouded sword’.

In: A quarto copy of (?) Richard Verstegan's Declaration of the true causes of the great troubles presupposed to be intended against the realm of England (1592), in several secretary hands, untitled, 40 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf (rebacked). c.1590s.

Inscribed on f. iv‘Lib. Edwi. Mangin. This volume was inspected by the Revd. and learned Joseph Hunter [(1783-1861), scholar and antiquary], who said it did not contain anything of moment - sufficient to make amends for the trouble of reading it’.

Yale, Osborn MS a 41, f. 37v.

RaW 379

Copy, headed ‘vpon sr Rob: Cecill Earl of Salisbury & Ld Treasurer’ and subscribed ‘by sr Walter Raleigh’.

In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, with a title-page, 385 pages numbered 858-1243 (pp. 914-29, 966-7, 981-2, 995-6, 1023-4, 1041-2, 1083-4, 1135-6, and 1173-6 excised), in 17th-century calf. In non-professional hands, the miscellany entitled A Collection of Witt and Learning…consisting of verses, poems, songs, sonnetts, Ballads, Lampoons, Libells, Dialouges...from the year 1600, to this present year: 1677. c.1681.

Formerly Osborn MS Chest II, Number 14.

Yale, Osborn MS b 54, p. 880.

RaW 380

Copy on a single leaf. Early-mid-17th century.

Yale, Osborn Poetry Box VI/84.

‘Fayne woulde I but I dare not’

A verse exchange, with Queen Elizabeth's answer “If thou art afraid climb not at all”. First published in Works (1829), VIII, 732-3. Latham (1929), pp. 72-3 (listed but not printed in her 1951 edition, p. 172). Queen Elizabeth I: Selected Works, Poems Possibly by Elizabeth I, pp. 24-5. Bradner, p. 7, among Poems of Doubtful Authorship. May, Courtier Poets, p. 313-14, among ‘Poems possibly by Dyer’. Rudick, No. 14, pp. 18-19 (32-line version) and No. 41, p. 111 (one line, and with the Queen's one-line reply).

RaW 381

Copy, untitled, subscribed in a different ink to ‘W. R.’.

In: the MS described under RaW 1. c.1586-91.

Edited from this MS in Works (1829) and in Latham (1929), pp. 72-3. Listed but not edited in Latham (1951), pp. 172-3.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 85, ff. 43v-4r.

RaW 382

Copy of a twelve-line version.

In: the MS described under RaW 113. c.1596-1601.

This MS recorded in Latham.

British Library, Harley MS 6910, ff. 154r-v, 158r.

RaW 383

Copy, headed ‘Ferenda Natura’, subscribed ‘Fynys. DY.’[i.e. Dyer], with an additional couplet as ‘Lenuoy’.

In: the MS described under RaW 114.

Edited from this MS in Wagner and in May. Recorded in Latham, pp. 172-3.

British Library, Harley MS 7392, f. 22r-v.

RaW 383.5

Copy, in a roman hand, headed ‘Sir Water Raulige wrot this verse in the queens gardin’, here beginning ‘Faine would I climb but am afraid to fall’, the answer headed ‘The queene cominge by Knowinge whose inditing it was wrot vnder as foloweth’ and here beginning ‘If thou art afraid climb not at all’.

In: the MS described under RaW 48.5. c.1632-48.

Edited from this MS in Queen Elizabeth I: Selected Works.

Cardiff Central Library, MS 3.42, p. 26.

An epitaph on the Earl of Leicester (‘Here lyes the noble warryor that never bludyed sword’)

First published as introduced ‘...yet immediately after his [Leicester's] death, a friend of his bestowed vpon him this Epitaphe’ and beginning ‘Heere lies the woorthy warrier’, in Richard Verstegan, A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles (London, ‘1592’), p. 54, which is sometimes entitled Cecil's Commonwealth: see E.A. Strathmann in MLN, 60 (1945), 111-14. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172, who notes that the epitaph was quoted, from a text among William Drummond's papers, in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth (1821). Rudick, No. 46, p. 120.

RaW 383.8

Copy of the verses (here beginning ‘Heere lyes ye worthy waryer’), in a copy of Richard Verstegan's Causes of the Great Troubles...1592 (occupying ff. 2r-15r), in a single secretary hand, endorsed in a later hand ‘A slanderous Inuectiue against ye State and som partycular persons many yeares past’. Early 17th century.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and speeches, 81 leaves, in modern binding.

Among the collections of Gilbert Sheldon (1598-1677), Archbishop of Canterbury. Subsequently owned by members of the Dolben family, including probably John Dolben (1625-86), Archbishop of York.

Bodleian, MS Add. C. 304b, f. 10v.

RaW 384

Copy, headed ‘On Sr Robert Dudley Earle of warwicke and Leicester’, and here beginning ‘Here lies the souldier that neuer drewe his sword’.

In: the MS described under RaW 226. c.1638.

This MS recorded in Latham.

Bodleian, MS Ashmole 38, p. 181.

RaW 384.1

Copy, in a copy (on ff. 217r-38v) of Richard Verstegan's A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles...1592.

In: the MS described under RaW 147.

All Souls College, Oxford, MS 155, in ff. 217-38v.

RaW 384.2

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Heere lies ye worthy Warrior, yt nevr bloudied sworde’, quoted in a copy of Richard Verstegan's A declaration of the great troubles...1592 (occupying ff. 30r-49v), in a small cursive secretary hand. Early 17th century.

In: A quarto composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, 236 leaves, in contemporary vellum, with ties.

Yelverton MS 129, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

British Library, Add. MS 48114, f. 44r.

RaW 384.3

Copy, in a copy (on ff. 144r-69r) of Richard Verstegan's A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles...1592.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various professional hands, 299 leaves, in modern leather gilt.

British Library, Harley MS 6807, in ff. 144-69.

RaW 384.4

Copy, in a copy (on ff. 32r-55v) of Richard Verstegan's A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles...1592.

In: A folio volume of tracts by Bacon and others, in a professional hand (the same as MS Hardwick 43: BcF 60). c.1620s-30s.

See E.A. Strathmann in MLN, 60 (1945), 111-14.

The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, MS Hardwick 55, [unspecified page number].

RaW 384.5

Miss Latham notes (p. 172) that Sir Walter Scott quoted the epitaph in Kenilworth (1821), his text deriving from a copy among the Drummond Papers, most of which are now in the National Library of Scotland (MSS 2053-67).

National Library of Scotland, MSS 2053-67.

RaW 384.6

Copy, in a 19-page folio copy, in a secretary hand, of Richard Verstegan's A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles...1592, disbound. c.1600.

University of Calgary, Osborne Collection, Box/Files No. MsC 132.11 (Item 2, Accession No. 25/72.1.11).

RaW 384.7

Copy, here beginning ‘Here lies the worthie warrior / that never bloudied sword’, in a copy (on ff. 153r-91v) of A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles...1592 probably by Richard Verstegan.

In: A folio volume of legal and state tracts, 246 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum boards, with initial ‘H’ in a gilt lozenge on the front cover and ‘F’ on a similar lozenge on the rear cover. Folios 5r-217r, 225r-31r in a semi-calligraphic secretary hand, formal title-pages and headings with heavily inked borders and decoration, associated with one Henry Feilde; folios 217v-24v in a different secretary hand; folios 232r-5v in a third hand. c.1630s.

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 8989. Among the collections of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, MP (1837-1914), Baconian scholar and book collector.

University of London, Senate House Library, MS 312, f. 180r.

RaW 384.8

Sometimes entitled Cecil's Commonwealth, this is doubtfully attributed to Ralegh, for it is cited in the pro-Catholic tract (probably by Richard Verstegan) A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles.

In: A volume of historical and legal tracts. c.1630.

Later owned by Harry Lawrence Bradfer Lawrence (1887-1965), Norfolk antiquary and manuscript collector. Formerly on temporary loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

See E.A. Strathmann in MLN, 60 (1945), 111-14.

Untraced, Bradfer-Lawrence MS 48, item 1.

RaW 385

Copy of a twelve-line version, headed ‘Epitaphium’ and here beginning ‘Heere lyes ye valiant soldier | that neur drewe his sword’. c.1630s.

In: A small quarto volume of state tracts and papers, in one or more cursive secretary hands, 236 leaves, in modern half-morocco. c.1620s.

Printed from this MS in D.C. Peck, ‘Another Version of the Leicester Epitaphium’, N&Q, 221 (May-June 1976), 227-8.

British Library, Stowe MS 156, f. 204v.

RaW 385.2

Copy, headed ‘On the E. of Lecester Robert Dudley’, among other epitaphs on a pair of conjugate quarto leaves. Mid-17th century.

In: A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous MSS, in various hands, ii + 117 leaves, in half-calf.

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

Bodleian, MS Wood D. 19, f. 110v.

RaW 385.4

Copy, here beginning ‘Heere lieth the worthy warrier that neuer blooded sword’, quoted in a copy (ff. 144r-68r) of Richard Verstegan's polemic A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles...1592, which is in a probably professional secretary hand and headed ‘A slanderous and Defamatory libell published by the Trayterous Papists beyond seas...’. c.1592-early 17th century.

In: the MS described under RaW 384.3.

British Library, Harley MS 6807, f. 160v.

RaW 385.5

Copy, in a copy of Richard Verstegan's A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles...1592 (ff. 26r-65v).

In: A folio volume of state tracts, in a single professional secretary hand, 98 leaves, in half-calf on marbled boards. Early 17th century.

Cambridge University Library, MS Mm. 5. 5, ff. 52v-3r.

RaW 385.8

Copy, in a copy (on ff. 30r-79r) of Richard Verstegan's A Declaration of the Great Troubles...1592.

In: A folio volume of state tracts, in a single professional hand, 118 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1620s-30s.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MS 200, f. 64v.

RaW 386

Copy of an eight-line version, headed ‘Epitaph E. Lester’ and here beginning ‘Heir Lyes ane waliant Wariour | Who never drew his sworde’.

In: the MS described under RaW 183. c.1630s-40s.

Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 436, p. 99.

RaW 386.5

Copy, here beginning ‘Here lieth the worthy warrior yt neur. bloodied sword’, quoted in the tract.

In: Copy of Richard Verstegan's A Declaration of the true causes of the great troubles presupposed to be intended against the Realme of England...1592, on 26 folio leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary limp vellum. In a professional secretary hand, headed ‘A Slaunderous & defamatory Libell sett out & published by the Traytorous Papists beyond Seas, and intituled. A Declaration... [&c.]’, a marginal note on f. 25v in another hand listing books published by Wolfe and others 1591-99. c.1600.

Owned by John Egerton, second Earl of Bridgewater, and docketed by him on f. 1r ‘Burleygh's Comwealthe’.

Huntington, EL 1162, f. [17v].

RaW 387

Copy, headed ‘epetaphe’ and here beginning ‘Heere lyes the noble Warryor yt never bludyed sword’, ascribed to ‘Wa. Ra.’.

In: A large folio volume of prose tracts, verse, and devotional material, in a single secretary hand but for a series of engrossed indentures in a formal professional hand on ff. 3r-17v, written from both ends (ff. 1r-84v and ff. 1ar-51av respectively), 134 leaves in all. c.1603.

Inscribed names ‘Gilbert Rye’ and ‘William Norris’ and a reference (on f. 6av) to ‘Doctor Gylbart’.

The entries were at one time given separate library EL numbers ranging (intermittently) from EL 1183c to EL 6172 at one end and from EL 1183a to EL 6206 from the reverse end.

Edited from this MS in Ernest A. Strathmann, ‘An Epitaph attributed to Ralegh’, MLN, 60 (1945), 111-14; in D.C. Peck, ‘Another Version of the Leicester Epitaphium’, N&Q, (May-June 1976), 227-8; and in Rudick, No. 46, p. 120. Recorded in Latham.

This MS entry classified as EL 6183.

Huntington, EL 6162, f. 8av.

RaW 388

Copy, in an italic script, of an eight-line version, here beginning ‘Here lyes the woorthie warrior / That neuer blouded swoord’, quoted in a copy (on ff. 1r-22r) of the polemic probably by Richard Verstegan A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles...1592 in a secretary hand.

In: A folio volume of state tracts, in three secretary hands except for an addition on the last leaf in italic, c.125 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Early 17th century.

Huntington, HM 267, 2nd series, f. 15r.

RaW 389

Copy of a four-line version, headed ‘An Epitaph of th E: of Leicester’ and here beginning ‘Here lyeth that noble souldier yt neur brandeth sword’.

In: the MS described under RaW 384.7. c.1630s.

University of London, Senate House Library, MS 312, f. 105v.

RaW 389.2

Copy, the page foliated in pencil 47, quoted in a copy (on ff. 24r-44r, item 17, foliated in pencil 32-52) of the polemic probably by Richard Verstegan A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles...1592, in a professional secretary hand. c.1592.

In: A folio guard-book of independent Elizabethan state papers, stamped foliation 1-241.

National Archives, Kew, SP 12/242, f. 39r.

RaW 389.5

Copy of an eight-line version, here beginning ‘Heere lyeth yt noble Counselloure | That never kept his worde’.

In: the MS described under RaW 288. c.1620.

Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 44 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.39), f. 60r.

RaW 389.6

Copy, in a professional copy (on pp. 185-246) of Richard Verstegan's A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles...1592, which is here entitled ‘Cicell's Common Wealth’.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in professional hands, including that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 605 pages (including blanks), in 17th-century calf. c.late 1620s-30s.

Once owned by Sir Richard Grosvenor (1585-1645). Later owned by the Duke of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire (bookplate, ‘XXI no. 20’). MS 25. Sotheby's, 20 February 1967, lot 265, sold to Dobell.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 215. A microfilm of the MS is in the British Library (RP 83).

Yale, Osborn MS fb 40, p. 224.

RaW 389.8

Copy, in a copy of Richard Verstegan's A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles which occupies ff. 7r-46v.

In: A quarto composite volume of political and antiquarian tracts, in several probably professional hands, c.320 pages, in contemporary calf (rebacked). c.1592-1629.

Later ownership inscription by Edward Maugin, and a note by him which refers to the reading of this volume and dismissive attitude towards it by the Rev. Joseph Hunter (1783-1861). Sotheby's, 13 December 1990, lot 358 (unsold), and 30 July 1991, lot 28, to Hatchwell.

Untraced, [Maugin MS], [unspecified page numbers].

‘ICUR, good Mounser Carr’

First published in Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, ed. Frederick J. Furnivall, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted in New York, 1977), p. 20. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 48, p. 121 (as ‘Sir Walter Raleigh to the Lord Carr’).

RaW 390

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 16. c.1628.

Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174.

Bodleian, MS Don. c. 54, f. 22v.

RaW 391

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 150. c.1630s.

Bodleian, MS Douce f. 5, fol. 34v.

RaW 392

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh to ye Ld. Carr’.

In: the MS described under RaW 206. c.1630s.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 48, p. 121. Recorded in Latham.

Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 14, f. 49r.

RaW 392.5

Copy, transcribed from RaW 404.

In: the MS described under RaW 151.5. 19th century.

Bodleian, MS Firth d. 7, f. 152r.

RaW 393

Copy, untitled.

In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in various secretary and italic hands, 90 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. c.1625.

Edited partly from this MS in Beatrice White, Cast of Ravens (London, 1965), p. 227.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. D. 1048, f. 64v.

RaW 394

Copy, headed ‘On the Earle of Somsett’.

In: the MS described under RaW 325. c.1630s.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 160, f. 162v.

RaW 395

Copy, headed ‘On the Earl of Somerset’.

In: An octavo book of jests and verse compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, vi + 374 pages (pp. 72-306 blank), in contemporary calf. c.1682-91.

Bodleian, MS Sancroft 53, p. 48.

RaW 396

Second copy, deleted.

In: the MS described under RaW 395. c.1682-91.

Bodleian, MS Sancroft 53, p. 58.

RaW 397

Copy, headed ‘In Robertum Car, comitem Somersetensem, postquam Essex: vxorem dixit’.

In: the MS described under RaW 111. c.1630s.

Edited partly from this MS in Beatrice White.

British Library, Add. MS 15227, f. 42v.

RaW 398

Copy, added to Oldisworth's compilation in a different hand.

In: A quarto volume of verse and prose relating to the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury in 1613, almost entirely in a single largely italic hand, 94 leaves, with (f. 2r) a title-page and list of contents, in modern quarter-vellum boards. Compiled by Nicholas Oldisworth, who records (f. 2v) ‘that I Nicholas Oldisworth who wrote this Booke...did deliberately reade it over, on thursday the ixth of October 1637, and in the Hearing of my old grandfather Sir Nicholas Overbury...’. c.1637-40.

Ourchased at Southgate's saleroom, 12 March 1845, lot 131.

Edited partly from this MS in Beatrice White.

British Library, Add. MS 15476, f. 1r.

RaW 399

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 34. c.1633 [-late 17th century].

British Library, Add. MS 30982, f. 22r.

RaW 399.5

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘I: C: v. R: good: Monser Carr’, struck through. 2 January 1615/16.

In: An ordnance book kept at the Tower of London from 1607 to 1617, largely in one secretary hand, written from both ends, v + 87 leaves, in long narrow ledger format.

Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 35.

Facsimile in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 20 July 1981, lot 35, and in Peter Beal, A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450-2000 (Oxford, 2008), p. 278 (illus. 58).

British Library, Add. MS 61944, f. 76v rev.

RaW 399.8

The title of the poem (‘ICVR’) only, in an endorsement on the fourth page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves containing two Jacobean satirical ballads in a secretary, lacking the lower half of the second leaf which would have contained the text of the ICUR poem. Early 17th century.

In: An unbound collection of miscellaneous letters and papers, 151 leaves.

Acquired from miscellaneous sources.

Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 11 May 2000, lot 11.

British Library, Add. MS 74734, f. 54v.

RaW 400

Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand. c.1620s.

In: the MS described under RaW 366.

Edited from this MS in John Wardroper, Love and Drollery (London, 1969), p. 268, and in Joshua Eckhardt, Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti-Courtly Love Poetry (Oxford, 2009), p. 182.

British Library, Harley MS 1221, f. 91r.

RaW 401

Copy in: A folio volume of works in verse and prose, including (ff. 88r-144v) 98 poems by Donne and (among ff. 2r-56v, 173r-88v, 192r-204r) various masques and poems by Ben Jonson, 208 leaves. Compiled for Sir William Cavendish (1592-1676), first Duke of Newcastle, of Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire. Written principally in the semi-calligraphic hand of Cavendish's secretary John Rolleston (1597?-1681), of Sokeholme, Nottinghamshire, and including (ff. 57r-87v, 145r-72r, 189r-90v) some 85 poems by Dr Richard Andrews (d.1634), Rhetoric Reader at St John's College, Oxford, and physician, who has revised some six of the poems in his own hand, with one poem (f. 87r) by his daughter Francisca dated 14 August 1629. c.1620s-34.

After 1718 among the collections of Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford (who married in 1713 Newcastle's great granddaughter).

Recorded in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Newcastle MS’: DnJ Δ 3. Extensively discussed, and the main scribe identified, in Hilton Kelliher, ‘Donne, Jonson, Richard Andrews and the Newcastle Manuscript’, EMS, 4 (1993), 134-73, with facsimiles of ff. 2r, 55r, 84r and 88r. Facsimiles of ff. 1r and 6r also in Jonson's Masque of Gipsies, ed W.W. Greg (London, 1952), Plates X-XI, and of f. 172r in Lynn Hulse, ‘“The King's Entertainment” by the Duke of Newcastle’, Viator, 26 (1995), 355-405 (p. 365).

British Library, Harley MS 4955, f. 81r.

RaW 401.2

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 367. Mid-17th century.

British Library, Harley MS 6038, f. 28r.

RaW 401.5

Copy, headed ‘On Case E of Somerset’.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single hand, entitled Poetical Characteristicks Vol 2d Collected by W O, 35 leaves (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt. c.1730s.

British Library, Harley MS 6933, f. 9r.

RaW 401.8

Copy, untitled.

In: A folio miscellany of largely poems on affairs of state, in two professional hands, with others on six tipped-in leaves at the end, 205 leaves (plus blanks), in black morocco gilt. c.1730.

British Library, Harley MS 7316, f. 4v.

RaW 402

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 256. c.1630.

British Library, Sloane MS 1489, f. 9v.

RaW 403

Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, chiefly (ff. 1r-14r) in a single small mixed hand, i + 15 leaves, the eighth and last item in a composite volume of otherwise printed amatory poems and pamphlets, in 19th-century quarter brown calf. c.1620s.

The volume inscribed (on flyleaves) ‘E Bedford’, ‘W Monteagle’, ‘Fra: Goodwin’, ‘Edw nedwarde’.

The MS poems here edited in Frederick J. Furnivall, Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted New York, 1977).

Furnivall, p. 20.

British Library, C.39.a.37, f. 12v.

RaW 404

Copy, deleted.

In: the MS described under RaW 161. c.1630s.

Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 4138, f. 47r.

RaW 405

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 213. c.1620s.

Chetham's Library, Mun. A.4.16, p. 37.

RaW 406

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 182. c.1628-30s.

Edinburgh University Library, MS H.-P. Coll. 401, f. 43r*bis.

RaW 407

Copy, headed ‘On my Lord Carre’.

In: the MS described under RaW 120. Mid-17th century.

Folger, MS V.a.162, f. 35r.

RaW 408

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 68. c.1620.

Harvard, MS Eng 628, p. 319.

RaW 408.5

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 6.5. c.1642.

Robert S. Pirie, New York, [Feilde MS], p. 563.

RaW 409

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 172. c.1630.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 1083/15, p. 140.

RaW 410

Copy, headed ‘On the late Earle of Somersett’.

In: the MS described under RaW 93. c.1630.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 1083/16, p. 172.

RaW 410.5

Copy, here beginning ‘I.C.V.R. brave monser Car’. c.1615.

In: A folio composite volume of verse MSS, in various hands. c.1612-20.

In collections of the Manners family, Dukes of Rutland.

Recorded (erroneously as Volume XXIV) in HMC, 12th Report, Appendix V, Rutland II (1889), pp. 316-31.

The Duke of Rutland, Belvoir Castle, Letters & Papers, Verses, Vol. XXV, f. 53r.

RaW 411

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on the fourth page of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. Early 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.

Somerset Heritage Centre, DD/SF/18/2/5, item 2.

‘I cannot bend the bow’

First published in Rudick (1999), No. 37, p. 105. Listed but not printed, in Latham, pp. 173-4 (as an ‘indecorous trifle’).

RaW 412

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Sr: Walter Rawleigh to my Lady Bentbowe’.

In: A small quarto journal of proceedings in Parliament from 20 January to 2 March 1628/9, with additional verses, in three hands, ii + 87 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. c.1629-30s.

Inscribed (f. 3r) ‘Arth: Langford his booke the first of may 1629’; (ff. 3r, 84v) ‘John Slaughter’; (f. 86r) ‘Francis Webb’ and ‘Robert Thurketil’. Subsequently in the papers of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Add 51.

Sotheby's, 14 December 1989, lot 232, and 13 December 1990, lot 11. Facsimile example in the sale catalogues. Acquired 22 March 1991.

Listed but not edited in Latham, pp. 173-4.

British Library, Add. MS 70639, f. 65r.

RaW 413

Copy, headed ‘Rawly to ye Lady Bendbow’.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, including fourteen poems by Donne, almost entirely in a single hand, 33 leaves (plus six blanks), in contemporary vellum. c.1630.

Possibly associated with the Inns of Court. Later used, and annotated in the margin, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the ‘Fulman MS’: DnJ Δ 36. Formerly Bodleian MS CCC 327.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MS 327, ff. 27v.

RaW 414

Copy, headed ‘A ridle proposed to by Lady bendbow’.

In: the MS described under RaW 206. c.1630s.

Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 14, f. 85r rev.

RaW 415

Copy, headed ‘A riddle vppon the Lady Bendbowe’.

In: the MS described under RaW 207. c.1620s-30s.

Bodleian, MS Malone 19, p. 44.

RaW 416

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh to ye Lady Bend-bow’.

In: the MS described under RaW 21.

This MS recorded in Latham.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 26, f. 2r.

RaW 417

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘There is a bowe wherin to shoote I sue’.

The text followed by a six-line ‘Answer’ beginning ‘You bended have the bowe wherin to shute you sue’.

In: the MS described under RaW 137. Mid-17th century.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 117, f. 17r.

RaW 418

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘The bow is not yet bent, wherin to shoot I sue’.

The text followed by a six-line ‘Answer’, beginning ‘The man that sued to shoote, in this well bended Bow’.

In: the MS described under RaW 190. c.1590s.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 148, f. 4r.

RaW 418.5

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘There is a bow wherein to shoote I sue’, followed by an ‘Answer’ beginning ‘You bended haue the bow wherein to shoot you sue’.

In: the MS described under RaW 32. c.1630.

British Library, Add. MS 10309, f. 142v.

RaW 419

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleigh to the Lady Benbow’.

In: the MS described under RaW 211. c.1630s-40s.

British Library, Egerton MS 923, f. 44v.

RaW 419.5

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘There is a Bowe wherein to shoote I sue’.

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

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

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

Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 29, f. 37v rev.

RaW 420

Copy of a six-line version, headed ‘To his loue’ and here beginning ‘There is a bow wherein to shoote I sue’. The text followed by ‘Her answere’, beginning ‘You bended have the bow’.

In: the MS described under RaW 215. c.1640.

Folger, MS V.a.160, p. 1.

RaW 421

Copy, headed ‘On the lady Bendbow’.

In: the MS described under RaW 120. Mid-17th century.

Folger, MS V.a.162, f. 37r.

RaW 422

Copy, headed ‘Sir Walter Ralegh to the Lady Bendbowe’ and here beginning ‘In vayne I bend the Bow, wherein to shoote I sue’.

In: the MS described under RaW 60. c.1637-51.

This MS recorded in Latham.

Folger, MS V.a.262, p. 81.

RaW 423

Copy, headed ‘A ridle proposed by Sr Walter Rawley to ye Lady Bendbow’.

In: the MS described under RaW 265. c.1640.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 37, p. 105. Recorded in Latham.

Folger, MS V.a.319, f. 31r.

RaW 423.5

Copy of three poems elaborating at greater length on the original version attributed to Ralegh, the first beginning ‘Faine woulde I shoote in a bowe yt I knowe’.

In: the MS described under RaW 5.5. Mid-late 17th century.

Folger, MS V.a.399, f. 9v-10r.

RaW 424

Copy, headed ‘A Riddle upon the Lady Bendbow’.

In: the MS described under RaW 219. c.1630s.

Harvard, MS Eng 686, f. 32r.

RaW 425

Copy, headed ‘A riddle propounded by Sr Walter Raughly to ye Lady Bend-bow’.

In: the MS described under RaW 220. c.late 1630s.

Huntington, HM 116, p. 77.

RaW 425.5

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh to the Ladye Bend=Bowe &c.’ and here beginning ‘I cannot bend this Bow’.

In: the MS described under RaW 6.5. c.1642.

Robert S. Pirie, New York, [Feilde MS], p. 468.

RaW 426

Copy, headed ‘A Rose to his mrs’ and here beginning ‘ffaine would I bend ye bowe wherein to shoote I sue’.

In: the MS described under RaW 172. c.1630.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 1083/15, p. 101.

RaW 427

Copy, headed ‘Rawleigh to ye Lady Bendbow’.

In: the MS described under RaW 291. c.1650.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200, p. 412.

‘Like to a Ring without a finger’

First published in Latham (1951), pp. 165-7, as ‘A poem doubtfully ascribed to Ralegh’. Since, in fact, it is a parody of a poem by Francis Quarles printed in 1629 it cannot be by Ralegh.

RaW 428

Copy, in a mixed hand, headed ‘Canto’. c.1630s.

In: A quarto composite volume of verse MSS, in several hands and paper sizes, 129 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco. Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms, antiquary, his brother Oliver, and (in 1714) by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector. c.mid 17th century.

Later owned by Sir John Fenn (1739-94), antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 16-18 July 1866 (Fenn sale), lots 420-22.

Edited from this MS in Latham.

British Library, Add. MS 27406, f. 107v.

RaW 429

Copy of lines 1-32, 49-80, plus four additional stanzas.

In: the MS described under RaW 211. c.1630s-40s.

This MS recorded and additional stanzas edited in Latham, pp. 169-70.

British Library, Egerton MS 923, ff. 1r-3r.

RaW 430

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, a neat mixed hand predominating up to f. 55r, 151 leaves (including a few blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1730.

Inscribed (in another hand) on the front pastedown ‘Thomas Boydell’. Formerly Folger MS 4108.

Folger, MS V.a.308, ff. 34v-5r.

RaW 431

Copy of lines 1-64, headed ‘Canto’.

In: the MS described under RaW 62. c.1640s.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 167-9.

Folger, MS V.a.339, ff. 230v-1r.

RaW 431.5

Copy of a sixteen-line version, headed ‘Canto’.

In: A duodecimo pocket commonplace book of chiefly religious verse and prose, in English and Latin, in a single minute hand, 238 pages, in contemporary calf with traces of metal clasps. Inscribed on the first page ‘Thomas Weld his Book. An. dom. 1669’: i.e. owned and compiled, perhaps partly while at Harvard University, by the Rev. Thomas Weld (1653-1702), first minister of the First Church of Dunstable, Massachusetts. c.1669-95.

Later inscription (p. 45) ‘Stephen Pearse's Book July 30th 1794’.

Massachusetts Historical Society, Ms SBd-69, pp. 169-70.

RaW 432

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 221. c.1630s.

National Library of Wales, NLW MS 12443 A, Part I, pp. 33-5.

RaW 433

Copy of lines 1-16.

In: the MS described under RaW 94. c.1636-40s.

St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 32 (James 423), f. 21r.

‘Now what is Loue, I praie thee tell’

First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). The first and last stanzas were a song in Thomas Heywood, The Rape of Lucrece (London, 1608). Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 171. Edited in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 156-7. Ralegh's possible authorship also discussed and largely supported in Walter Oakeshott, The Queen and the Poet (London, 1960), p. 161; in Lefranc (1968), pp. 78-9, 83; and in Michael West, ‘Raleigh's disputed Authorship of “A Description of Loue”’, ELN, 10 (1972-3), 92-9.

RaW 434

Copy of a version in 19 stanzas.

In: the MS described under RaW 3. c.1605.

This MS collated, and the additional stanzas printed, in Doughtie, pp. 504-10; recorded in Latham.

British Library, Add. MS 22601, ff. 104r-6r.

RaW 435

Copy, in a musical setting.

In: A folio volume of largely vocal music, mainly in a single secretary hand, 120 pages, in mottled calf. Early 17th century.

Complete facsimile in Jorgens, VI (1987).

This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 504-10.

Christ Church, Oxford, MS Mus. 439, p. 35.

RaW 436

Copy, headed ‘Tam arte quam Marte:’.

In: the MS described under RaW 5.5. Mid-late 17th century.

This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 503-10.

Folger, MS V.a.399, f. 10r-v.

RaW 437

Copy of a version in 15 stanzas, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 172. c.1630.

Extracts from this MS printed in John Payne Collier, An Old Man's Diary (London, 1871), Part i, pp. 39-40. Formerly Rosenbach 186, this MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 504-10; recorded in Latham.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 1083/15, pp. 98-100.

Of Favorites (‘Dazled with the height of place’)

Rudick, No. 49, p. 122.

The passionate mans Pilgrimage (‘Giue me my Scallop shell of quiet’)

First published with Daiphantvs or The Passions of Loue (London, 1604). Latham, pp. 49-51. Rudick, Nos 54A, 54B and 54C (three versions, pp. 126-33).

This poem rejected from the canon and attributed to an anonymous Catholic poet in Philip Edwards, ‘Who Wrote The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage?’, ELR, 4 (1974), 83-97.

RaW 438

Copy, headed ‘Verses Made by Sr walter Raleigh the night before hee was beheaded’.

In: the MS described under RaW 226. c.1638.

This MS recorded in Latham pp. 141-2.

Bodleian, MS Ashmole 38, p. 59.

RaW 439

Copy, headed ‘verses written by Sr walter Raleigh in the gatehouse att westmr the evening before he died’, in a section of material relating to Ralegh (pp. 43-51). c.1630.

In: the MS described under RaW 18.

This MS recorded in Latham pp. 141-2.

Bodleian, MS Eng. hist. c. 272, pp. 49-50.

RaW 440

Copy, headed ‘Sir Walter Raleighs Pilgrimage’.

In: the MS described under RaW 325. c.1630s.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 54B, pp. 128-30. Recorded in Latham, pp. 141-2.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 160, f. 57r-v.

RaW 441

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raileieghs Pilgrim’, probably transcribed from an edition of Ralegh's Remains.

In: the MS described under RaW 33. c.1662.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 141-3.

British Library, Add. MS 18044, ff. 155r-6r.

RaW 442

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleighs Pilgrimage’, transcribed from RaW 443, subscribed ‘W: R:’.

In: the MS described under RaW 244. c.1620s-30s.

This MS the Pickering MS collated in Hannah (1845), pp. 105-8. Recorded in Latham, pp. 141-3.

British Library, Add. MS 21433, ff. 82r-3r.

RaW 443

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleighs Pilgrimage’.

In: the MS described under RaW 245. c.1620s.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 141-2.

British Library, Add. MS 25303, ff. 71v-2r.

RaW 444

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleighes Pilgrimage’, subscribed ‘Sr: walter Rawleigh’.

In: the MS described under RaW 252. c.1630s [-1670s].

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 141-2.

British Library, Harley MS 6057, ff. 22v-3r.

RaW 445

Copy, headed ‘Sir Walter Raws: Pilgramage’.

In: the MS described under RaW 50. c.1674-84.

University of Chicago, MS 824, f. 27r-v.

RaW 446

Copy, in double columns, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleighs Pilgrimage’.

In: the MS described under RaW 221. c.1630s.

National Library of Wales, NLW MS 12443 A, Part II, pp. 237-8.

RaW 446.5

Copy, headed ‘Essex Pilgremage to Heauen’.

In: A folio booklet of poems relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in an accomplished roman hand, on ten pages of three unbound pairs of conjugate folio leaves. c.1620s-30s.

Among papers of the Isham family of Lamport Hall.

Northamptonshire Record Office, IL 4344, f. 5r-v.

RaW 447

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh his Pilgrimage; Or A Preparative made by Himselfe, the Night before hee was beheaded’.

In: the MS described under RaW 122. c.1630s.

University of Nottingham, Pw V 37, pp. 191-2.

RaW 448

Copy, headed ‘Verses that Sr Wal: Rawly made a little beefore hee was beeheaded, his Farewell to the world’.

In: the MS described under RaW 337. c.1640s.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 141-2.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 240/2, pp. 35, 37.

RaW 449

Copy, headed ‘By Sr Wa: Raleigh the night before his execucon’.

In: the MS described under RaW 94. c.1636-40s.

St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 32 (James 423), f. 33v-4v.

RaW 449.5

Copy, headed ‘Sr Waltr Raleigh his pilgrimage’.

In: the MS described under RaW 95.5. c.1620s-30s.

Trinity College, Cambridge, VI.4.4, f. [iir].

RaW 450

Copy of a version, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The Lo: Straford his Pilgrymage’, here beginning ‘Gyue me my Cockell Shells of quiett’, 24 lines, imperfect and lacking the rest, among other poems on Strafford.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, with a table of contents, 599 leaves. Inscribed (f. 141r) ‘John: Saunders is the trew owner of this booke’, ‘Captaine Christo: Blounte’, and ‘Valentine LLawless’.

Owned by John Madden, MD (1649-1703/4), physician and manuscript collector. Old pressmark F. 1. 20.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 141.

Trinity College, Dublin, MS 806, ff. 538r.

RaW 451

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleighes Pilgrimage’.

In: the MS described under RaW 97. c.1620s.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 54C, pp. 130-3.

Dr Williams's Library, MS Jones B. 60, pp. 265-7.

RaW 452

Copy, headed ‘Sr W: Ralegs Pilgrimage’.

In: An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by or attributed to Herrick, almost entirely in a single small predominantly italic hand, 250 pages (plus numerous blanks), originally in contemporary calf, but now disbound. Inscribed four times on a flyleaf ‘Tobias Alston his booke’: i.e. probably Tobias Alston (1620-c.1639) of Sayham Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk. His half-brother Edward (b.1598) was a contemporary of Herrick at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, while his cousin, Edward Alston, later President of the College of Physicians, was a contemporary of Herrick at St John's College, Cambridge, some of the other contents also relating to Cambridge, besides some relating to Suffolk. The date 1639 occurs on p. 241, and pp. 243-50 contains verses written in two later hands (to c.1728) and some prose pieces written from the reverse end. c.1639 [-c.1728].

Names inscribed on a flyleaf including Henry Glisson (later Fellow of the College of Physicians); Thomas Avral(?); Horace Norton; Henry Rich; and James Tavor (Registrar of Cambridge University). Later owned by one John Whitehead, and by Dr Mary Pickford. Sotheby's, 27 June 1972, lot 309.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Alston MS’: HeR Δ 7. A complete set of photocopies of the MS is in the British Library, RP 772. Facsimile of pp. 6-7 in Sotheby's sale catalogue (see HeR 176, HeR 405) where the MS is described at some length. See also letters by Peter Beal and Donald W. Foster in TLS (24 January 1986), pp. 87-8.

Yale, Osborn MS b 197, pp. 25-6.

‘Say not you love, unless you do’

First published in Inedited Poetical Miscellanies, 1584-1700, ed. W.C. Hazlitt ([London], 1870), p. [179]. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 38, p. 106.

RaW 453

Copy, headed ‘Two Louers dialogue’.

In: the MS described under RaW 224. c.1630s.

Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174.

Aberdeen University Library, MS 29, p. 186.

RaW 453.5

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed at the side ‘Answare’.

In: the MS described under RaW 412. c.1629-30s.

British Library, Add. MS 70639, f. 65r.

RaW 454

Copy, subscribed ‘finis D: Donn’.

In: the MS described under RaW 226. c.1638.

Bodleian, MS Ashmole 38, p. 152.

RaW 455

Copy, headed ‘A Gentlewoman to a gentleman’.

In: the MS described under RaW 227. c.1630s-40s.

This MS recorded in Latham.

Bodleian, MS Ashmole 47, f. 54v.

RaW 455.5

Copy in: An autograph diary of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary, for 6 July-12 September 1711, 242 quarto pages. 1711.

Bodleian, MS Hearne's diaries 30, p. 229.

RaW 456

Copy, headed ‘A Gentlewoman to A Gentleman’.

In: the MS described under RaW 203. c.1640s.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MS 176, f. 32v.

RaW 457

Copy, headed ‘A conference betwixt 2 lovers’.

In: the MS described under RaW 150. c.1630s.

This MS recorded in Latham.

Bodleian, MS Douce f. 5, fol. 18v.

RaW 458

Copy, headed ‘Of loue’ and here beginning ‘Loue, or doe not say doe’.

In: the MS described under RaW 206. c.1630s.

Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 14, f. 82r rev.

RaW 459

Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue between a man and woman’.

In: the MS described under RaW 236. c.1638.

Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. f. 27, p. 213.

RaW 460

Copy, headed ‘A Lady to her Louer’, transcribed from RaW 461.

In: the MS described under RaW 244. c.1620s-30s.

British Library, Add. MS 21433, f. 95r-v.

RaW 461

Copy, headed ‘A ladye to hyr Louer’.

In: the MS described under RaW 245. c.1620s.

British Library, Add. MS 25303, f. 90r.

RaW 462

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Ralegh & a Lady’.

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.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt (1870) and in Rudick, No. 38, p. 106.

British Library, Add. MS 44963, f. 37v.

RaW 462.5

Copy, untitled and subscribed ‘J.D.’.

In: A folio volume of of tracts and papers chiefly on state matters, largely in one hand, 72 leaves (plus blanks). c.1635.

Inscribed (f. 10r) with names of Stephen Foster of Wrexham, Buckinghamshire (possibly the principal compiler) and Robert Drake of Topsham, Devon. Bookplate (f. 11r) of Berkeley Seymour of Queens's College, Cambridge. Purchased from the Rev. John C. Jackson 8 December 1866.

British Library, Egerton MS 2026, f. 65v.

RaW 463

Copy, headed ‘On 2 louers A dialogue’.

In: the MS described under RaW 257. c.early 1630s.

British Library, Sloane MS 1792, f. 76r.

RaW 464

Copy, headed ‘his Mrs:’.

In: the MS described under RaW 47. c.1640.

Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 7196, f. [8r rev.].

RaW 464.8

Copy, headed ‘Dr Duns answer to a lady Laday’.

In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, in Latin, Greek and English, in several hands (two predominating), probably compiled by men associated with the University of Oxford, written from both ends, c.118 leaves, in contemporary calf. Mid-late-17th century.

Inscribed names of ‘Will. Randolph’ and ‘William Burry '67’ [who matriculated at Christ Church on 26 October 1666], and including (ff. 72v-59v rev.) verses by ‘G. Yalden’ [? William Yalden, who matriculated at Queen's College on 21 November 1687].

Dr Williams's Library, MSS 28. 49, f. [16r rev.].

RaW 465

Copy, headed in the margin ‘Dialogue’.

In: the MS described under RaW 182. c.1628-30s.

Edinburgh University Library, MS H.-P. Coll. 401, f. 12r.

RaW 466

Copy, headed ‘A lady to Dr. Donne’.

In: the MS described under RaW 262. c.1630s[-55].

Folger, MS V.a.170, p. 49.

RaW 467

Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue. J D’.

In: the MS described under RaW 262. c.1630s[-55].

Folger, MS V.a.170, p. 175.

RaW 468

Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue’.

In: the MS described under RaW 263. c.1630s.

Folger, MS V.a.245, f. 43r .

RaW 469

Copy, headed ‘A conference between two Louers’.

In: the MS described under RaW 265. c.1640.

Folger, MS V.a.319, f. 42v.

RaW 470

Copy, headed ‘two Louers’.

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.

Folger, MS V.a.322, p. 1*.

RaW 471

Copy, headed ‘A conference betwixt 2 louers’, deleted.

In: the MS described under RaW 63. c.1630s.

Folger, MS V.a.345, p. 27.

RaW 472

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 219. c.1630s.

Harvard, MS Eng 686, f. 87v.

RaW 473

Copy, headed ‘A Gentlewoman to Doctour Dun’.

In: the MS described under RaW 220. c.late 1630s.

Huntington, HM 116, p. 12.

RaW 474

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed ‘A ladyes speech to her suitour’.

In: the MS described under RaW 144. c.1630s-40s.

John Rylands University Library of Manchester, English MS 410, f. 22v.

RaW 475

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Sr say not that you loue unlesse you doe’.

In: the MS described under RaW 273. c.1630s.

Leeds Archives, WYL156/237, f. 8v.

RaW 476

Copy, headed ‘Doctor Dunns Answer to a ladie’.

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. 38r.

RaW 476.3

Copy, headed ‘A gentlewoman to her loue’.

In: the MS described under RaW 171. c.1634.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 239/27, p. 163.

RaW 476.5

Copy, headed ‘An epigram. T: S:’.

In: the MS described under RaW 337. c.1640s.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 240/2, p. 39.

RaW 476.8

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Love or doe not say you doe’.

In: the MS described under RaW 93. c.1630.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 1083/16, p. 32.

RaW 477

Copy, headed ‘A dialogue’.

In: the MS described under RaW 290. c.1640.

Yale, Osborn MS b 62, p. 16.

RaW 477.5

Copy, including the answer.

In: the MS described under RaW 123. c.1630s.

Yale, Osborn MS b 205, f. 98r rev.

‘Shall I, like an hermit, dwell’

First published in The London Magazine (1734), p. 444. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 173.

RaW 478

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson.

In: the MS described under RaW 232. c.1640s-60s.

Printed from this MS in Norman Ault, A Treasury of Unfamiliar Lyrics (London, 1938), p. 124.

Bodleian, MS Don. c. 57, f. 36v.

RaW 478.5

Copy, in a musical setting.

In: the MS described under RaW 180.5.

British Library, Add. MS 56279, f. 24v.

RaW 478.8

Extracts, headed ‘Sr Gualt: Raleigh’.

In: An octavo commonplace book of extracts, in Latin and English, in a single mixed hand, 73 unfoliated leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Mid-17th century.

Hertfordshire Record Office, DE/P F11, ff. [25r, 26r, 27r, 28r].

RaW 479

Copy, untitled.

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

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

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

Harvard, MS Eng 966.7, f. 16v.

RaW 480

Copy of a four-stanza version, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson.

In: the MS described under RaW 185. c.1630s-50s.

New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 257.

RaW 481

Copy, allegedly in the hand of Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627).

In: An unbound collection of MS poems. Described by Bright in 1877 as ‘A small packet of old discoloured papers’. Early 17th century.

Once owned by Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-65), natural philosopher and courtier. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Bright's library was sold in five parts at Sotheby's, 3 and 18 June 1844, 3 March, 12 April and 7 July 1845.

The MS poems printed, with commentary by G.F. Warner, in Poems from Sir Kenelm Digby's Papers, in the possession of Henry A. Bright (Roxburghe Club, London, 1877).

Edited from this MS in Bright (1877), pp. 32-3, where (pp. 34-6) the hand is identified as Goodyer's by Sir George Warner.

Untraced Bright MSS, [Digby MSS], [unnumbered item].

‘So lies my lovinge heart conceald’

First published in Latham (1951), p. 169, as a doubtfully ascribed fragment.

RaW 482

Copy, ascribed in another hand to ‘W. R.’

In: the MS described under RaW 62. c.1640s.

Edited from this MS in Latham.

Folger, MS V.a.339, f. 207r.

A songe made by Sir Water Rawley (‘What teares (Deare Prince) can serue to water all’)

First published in Latham (1929). Latham (1951), p. 52. Rudick, No 51, p. 124.

Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, pp. 145-6, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.

RaW 483

Copy of the first stanza, untitled, in a musical setting by Robert Ramsey.

In: the MS described under RaW 232. c.1640s-60s.

Edited from this MS in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 12.

Bodleian, MS Don. c. 57, f. 20r.

RaW 484

Copy, in a musical setting by Robert Ramsey, untitled.

In: A folio songbook, in two or more predominantly italic hands, written from both ends, 87 leaves, in remains of contemporary vellum within modern half red morocco. Possibly compiled in part by one ‘T. C.’ c.1641-59.

Inscribed (f. 1v) ‘R. Guise [of Abbey] Feb: 12. 1760’. Purchased from Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, 17 June 1839.

A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 4 (New York & London, 1986).

This MS recorded in Spink.

British Library, Add. MS 11608, f. 26r.

RaW 485

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 140. c.1630s.

Edited from this MS in Latham snd in Rudick, No. 51, p. 124.

British Library, Add. MS 22118, f. 31r.

‘The state of Fraunce as nowe it standes’

First published in A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1808), III, 78. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172. Rudick, No. 30, p. 71. EV 24294.

RaW 486

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 1. c.1586-91.

This MS collated in Steven W. May, ‘“The French Primero”: A Study in Renaissance Textual Transmission and Taste’, ELN, 9 (1971-2), 102-8.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 85, f. 104r.

RaW 487

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The French Primero’.

In: A folio compendium or entry book of state letters and other documents and memoranda, in various secretary and italic hands, 231 leaves (including numerous blanks), in modern half-calf. Compiled over a period, and partly written, by Sir Stephen Powle (c.1553-1630), Clerk of the Crown.

This MS collated in May.

Bodleian, MS Tanner 169, f. 70v.

RaW 488

Copy, headed ‘The State of france translated oute of frenche into Englishe Anno Domini 1585’.

In: A folio miscellany chiefly of heraldic and historical collections, in a single secretary hand, with rubrication, 418 leaves. Compiled by Robert Commaundre (d.1613), rector of Tarporley, Cheshire, and chaplain to Sir Henry Sydney, Lord President of the Marches of Wales. Late 16th-early 17th century.

This MS collated in May.

British Library, Egerton MS 2642, f. 232v.

RaW 488.5

Copy of an eleven-stanza version, headed ‘The frenche Prymero. 1585’.

In: the MS described under RaW 488. Late 16th-early 17th century.

British Library, Egerton MS 2642, ff. 324v-5.

RaW 489

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on a leaf following (on f. 214r-v) ‘A coppy of a lettre sent by the great lord to the Kinge of Nauarr. translated out of greekento ffrenche and soe into Englishe’. c.1600.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, papers and speeches, in various hands, 215 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

Printed from this MS in Catalogue of Harleian Manuscripts (1808); collated in May; recorded in Latham.

British Library, Harley MS 3787, f. 214v.

RaW 490

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 114.

This MS collated in May; recorded in Latham.

British Library, Harley MS 7392, f. 62v.

RaW 491

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 116. c.1581-1612.

May, Stanford, p. 89 (No. 113).

Cambridge University Library, MS Dd. 5. 75, f. 29r.

RaW 492

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 118. c.1590-1600s.

This MS collated in May; recorded in Latham.

Folger, MS V.a.89, pp. 32-3.

RaW 493

Copy, headed ‘Tempore Hen: 3.’

In: A small quarto volume of 123 poems by Donne plus some of his Paradoxes, Problems and characters, together with some poems by others, 185 leaves (including blanks on ff. 141r-61v) plus nine further blanks on ff. 185v-94v, inscribed ‘L: ll: N: 6./6’ on f. 1r and ‘Dr: Donne’ within a gilt grid on f. 3r, in contemporary vellum with initials ‘F B’ [Frances Bridgewater] in gilt and a smudged watercolour central lozenge on the upper cover. In a single, neat, predominantly roman hand (but for entries on ff. 105v-15r in a less neat cursive hand), and with various corrections or emendations throughout possibly in another hand. c.1622-32.

Once owned by Frances (née Stanley) Egerton (1583-1636), Countess of Bridgewater, and her husband John Egerton (1579-1649), first Earl of Bridgewater. Listed in ‘A Catalogue of my Ladies Bookes at London Taken October .27th 1627’ (Huntington, EL 6495) as No. 3, ‘The Lamentaons of Jeremy in verse by Dr Donne, 8o’, among ‘Paper Bookes of diverse volumes’ after the date 26 April 1631 and before a new list in a different hand under the date 17 April 1632.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Bridgewater MS’: DnJ Δ 24.

This MS recorded (but not seen) in May.

Huntington, EL 6893, f. 48v.

RaW 494

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled and unascribed.

In: the MS described under RaW 134. c.1580s-1615.

This MS collated in May.

Marsh's Library, Dublin, MS Z 3. 5. 21, f. 22r.

RaW 494.5

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, endorsed ‘Primero of ffraunce’. Late 16th-early 17th century.

In: Miscellaneous literary papers, unbound, assembled by Adam Ottley (1685-1752), Registrar of the diocese of St David's, Wales. Among papers formerly at Pitchford Hall, Shropshire.

National Library of Wales, Pitchford Hall (Ottley) English Literary MSS (uncatalogued), A, A4.

RaW 495

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled, on one side of a single quarto leaf, endorsed ‘Verses of the civill Vprores in Fraunc’, on a single leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. Early 17th century.

University of Nottingham, Cl LM 19.

RaW 496

Copy, untitled, headed in a later hand in red ink ‘On the State of France under ye Administration of ye Guises by Sr Walter Rawleigh’, among other verse in one secretary hand on a single folio leaf. c.1600-10.

In: the MS described under RaW 197.

Edited from this MS in Curt F. Bühler, ‘Four Elizabethan Poems’, in Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, DC, 1948), pp. 695-706 (pp. 700-1), and in Rudick, No. 30, p. 71. Collated in May. Recorded in Latham.

Pierpont Morgan Library, Rulers of England (Eliz. I), No. 48[c].

RaW 496.5

Copy in: A folio volume of transcripts of state papers, in a secretary hand, i + 41 leaves, in contemporary vellum with remains of ties. c.1610.

Names inscribed on f. [ir]: ‘John Humphreys’ and ‘D [?] Wynn’.

Yale, Osborn MS fb 9, f. 38v.

RaW 496.8

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on a quarto leaf, imperfect, lacking all the right half of the page, in a bundle of unbound verse and miscellaneous papers. Late 16th-early 17th century.

Among papers of the related Trevelyan and Willoughby families.

Somerset Heritage Centre, DD/WO/56/9/14.2.

Vertue the best monument (‘Not Caesars birth made Caesar to suruiue’)

First published in Latham (1929). Latham (1951), p. 53. Rudick, No. 59, p. 137.

Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, p. 147, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.

RaW 497

Copy, subscribed ‘Sr Walt: Raleighe’.

In: the MS described under RaW 301. c.1633.

Edited from this MS in Latham and in Rudick.

British Library, Sloane MS 1446, f. 24v.

‘Water thy plants with grace devine, and hope to live for aye’

A version first published as the first two stanzas in a twenty-line poem edited in Poetical Miscellanies from a Manuscript Collection of the Time of James I, ed. James Orchard Halliwell, Percty Society 15 (1845). The long version in Rudick, p. 187. The two-stanza version (conflated to four lines) in Rudick, No. 58, p. 137.

RaW 497.5

Copy of a two-stanza version conflated to four extended lines, subscribed ‘Sir Wa: Raleigh’.

In: the MS described under RaW 10.5. c.1620s-37.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 58, p. 137.

Bodleian, MS Ashmole 781, p. 163.

RaW 497.8

Copy of the 20-line version.

In: the MS described under RaW 3. c.1605.

Edited from this MS in Halliwell and in Rudick, p. 187.

British Library, Add. MS 22601, f. 63v.

‘When first this circell Round, this buildinge faire’

First published as part of the anonymous play The First Part of the Tragicall Raigne of Selimus (London, 1594). Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 173. Rudick, No. 28, pp. 67-9.

RaW 498

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Certaine hellish verses devysed by that Athiest and traitor Rawley as yet is sayd viz’, subscribed ‘finis R. W / als’, on both sides of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed ‘Verses written by Sr Walter Rawleye 1603’. Early 17th century.

In: A folio composite volume of state letters and documents, in various hands, 238 leaves.

Edited from this MS in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 52, and in Jean Jacquot, ‘Ralegh's “Hellish Verses” and the “Tragicall Raigne of Selimus”’, MLR, 48 (1953), 1-9.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Portland Papers, Vol. I, f. 191r-v.

RaW 498.5

Copy, in an italic hand, probably transcribed from RaW 498, on both sides of a single folio leaf. Mid-late 17th century.

In: the MS described under RaW 498.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Portland Papers, Vol. I, f. 192r-v.

RaW 499

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Certaine hellish verses devised by yt Athiest & traitour Rawley as Yet is said’, on both sides of a folio leaf once folded as a letter, subscribed ‘finis R W. als W Rawley’ and endorsed ‘verses sayed to be written by walter Rawley knight 1603’. Early 17th century.

In: A large folio composite volume of state papers and tracts, in various hands and paper sizes, 333 leaves, mounted on guards, in half red morocco.

Volume II of papers of the Malet family, baronets, of Wilbury, Wiltshire, including papers collected and endorsed by George Harbin (c.1665-1744), nonjuror, historical writer, and librarian at Longleat to Thomas Thynne (1640-1714), first Viscount Weymouth, and his family.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 28, pp. 67-9. Recorded in HMC, 5th Report (1876), Appendix, p. 311; in Latham, and in Jacquot.

British Library, Add. MS 32092, f. 201r-v.

‘Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart’

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), printed twice, the first version prefixed by ‘Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames’ (see RaW 320-38) and headed ‘To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh’. Edited with the prefixed stanza in Latham, pp. 18-19. Edited in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Charles B. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 197-8. Rudick, Nos 39A and 39B (two versions, pp. 106-9).

This poem was probably written by Sir Robert Ayton. For a discussion of the authorship and the different texts see Gullans, pp. 318-26 (also printed in SB, 13 (1960), 191-8).

RaW 500

Copy, prefixed by ‘Passions are likened best to floods, and streames’ (RaW 320).

In: the MS described under RaW 224. c.1630s.

Aberdeen University Library, MS 29, pp. 171-2.

RaW 501

Copy of stanzas 1-7, apparently subscribed ‘Lo: Walden’, but now in an illegible state.

In: the MS described under RaW 10.5. c.1620s-37.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 116, and in Gullans.

Bodleian, MS Ashmole 781, p. 143.

RaW 502

Copy of stanzas 1-7, headed ‘To his Mrs’ and here beginning ‘Wronge not deare Mrs of my harte’.

In: the MS described under RaW 413. c.1630.

This MS recorded in Gullans.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MS 327, ff. 10v-11r.

RaW 503

Copy, headed ‘A paradox yt silence is ye best suiter’.

In: the MS described under RaW 136. c.late 1630s.

This MS collated in Gullans.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MS 328, f. 78r-v.

RaW 504

Copy of stanzas 1, 3, 4, 2 and 7, headed ‘Cant 5’.

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 recorded in Gullans.

Bodleian, MS Don. d. 58, f. 22v.

RaW 505

Copy of stanzas 1, 3, 4, 2 and 7, headed ‘A Song’.

In: the MS described under RaW 206. c.1630s.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 116, and in Gullans.

Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 14, f. 19r.

RaW 506

Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.128 items, including 94 poems by Donne plus his Paradoxes and Problems, compiled by Henry Champernowne (1600-56), of Dartington, Devon, 243 pages, dated on the first page 1623. 1623.

Afterwards owned by other members of the Champernowne family, by Sir Edward Seymour, Bart. (?the third Baronet, 1610-85). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1030. Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) (MS 9568). Sotheby's, 6 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lot 749. Bookplate of C. S. Harris and bequeathed by him 1916.

Cited in IELM, I.i (190), as the ‘Phillipps MS’: DnJ Δ 20.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 116.

Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. f. 9, p. 6.

RaW 507

Copy, headed ‘The silent wooer’.

In: the MS described under RaW 236. c.1638.

Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. f. 27, pp. 150-1.

RaW 508

Copy, prefixed by ‘Our passions are most like to floods & streams’ (see RaW 325).

In: the MS described under RaW 325. c.1630s.

Edited from this MS in Norman Ault, Elizabethan Lyrics, 4th edition (London, 1966), pp. 284-5; collated in Gullans; recorded in Latham, p. 115.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 160, f. 117r.

RaW 509

Copy, with Sir John Ayton's emendations, untitled.

In: A folio volume of poems by Sir Robert Ayton (1570-1638), in two hands, with corrections and corrections and emendations in the hand of his nephew Sir John Ayton, 23 leaves, in modern half blue morocco. With Sir John's title-page (f. 1r): ‘Some fewe English and Scotts amorous Poems of Sr: Robert Ayton late Secretarye to the most Illustrious Anna and Henrietta Mary Queenes of greate Brittayne France and Ireland’. c.1660s.

Edited from this MS in The Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse (Oxford, 1958), pp. 85-6. Collated in Gullans. Recorded in Latham, p. 116.

British Library, Add. MS 10308, ff. 9v-10r.

RaW 510

Copy, prefixed by ‘Passions are likened best to flouds and streames’ (RaW 326) and subscribed ‘Sr W: R:’, transcribed from RaW 513.

In: the MS described under RaW 244. c.1620s-30s.

This MS collated in Gullans; recorded in Latham, p. 115.

British Library, Add. MS 21433, ff. 112v-13v.

RaW 511

Copy, prefixed by ‘Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames’ (RaW 327).

In: the MS described under RaW 327. c.1640s.

Printed from this MS in Latham; collated in Gullans.

British Library, Add. MS 22602, ff. 30v-1r.

RaW 512

Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, on two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves of verse. Mid-17th century.

In: the MS described under RaW 317. Early-mid-17th century.

This MS collated in Gullans; recorded in Latham, p. 116.

British Library, Add. MS 23229, f. 54r-v.

RaW 513

Copy, untitled, prefixed by “Passions are likened beste to flouds & streams” (RaW 328) and subscribed ‘Sr WR’.

In: the MS described under RaW 245. c.1620s.

This MS collated in Gullans; recorded in Latham, p. 115.

British Library, Add. MS 25303, f. 118r-v.

RaW 514

Copy, in a Scottish hand, untitled, subscribed ‘finis quod sumbodie’. c.1620s-30s.

In: the MS described under RaW 295.

This MS collated in Gullans; recorded in Latham, p. 116.

British Library, Add. MS 27407, f. 129r.

RaW 515

Copy, in an italic hand.

In: An octavo volume of poems by Sir Robert Ayton (1570-1638), with later household recipes from f. 41 onwards, in several hands, 65 leaves. Mid-late 17th century.

Inscribed (f. 2v) ‘Mrs. Margaret’ and ‘M’. Presented by the Rev. C. Rogers, 4 March 1871.

This MS collated in Gullens. Recorded in Latham, p. 116.

British Library, Add. MS 28622, f. 18r-v.

RaW 516

Copy of stanzas 1, 3, 4, 6-8.

In: A folio composite volume of political and ecclesiastical verse and prose, 123 leaves.

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

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 116, and in Gullans.

British Library, Egerton MS 2560, f. 114.

RaW 517

Copy of stanzas 1, 3, 4, 6-8, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 251. Mid-17th century.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 116, and in Gullans.

British Library, Harley MS 3511, ff. 12v-13r.

RaW 518

Copy, headed ‘An ode’, subscribed ‘Sr Walter Rawleigh’.

In: the MS described under RaW 252. c.1630s [-1670s].

This MS collated in Gullans; recorded in Latham, p. 115.

British Library, Harley MS 6057, f. 18r.

RaW 518.5

Copy, headed ‘Write by Sr. Wa: Rawleygh whe he was in the Gathouse’, among other papers relating to Ralegh

In: A folio volume of state tracts and speeches, in professional secretary hands, iv + 311 pages, in contemporary vellum gilt. Largely (but not entirely) a duplicate of MS 121. c.1620s-30s.

The Queen's College, Oxford, MS 130, p. 157.

RaW 519

Copy, headed ‘To his Mistresse’, here beginning ‘Wrong not sweet Empresse of my soule’, and subscribed ‘Sr: Wa: Raleigh’.

In: the MS described under RaW 44. c.1637-50.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 39B, pp. 108-9. Collated in Gullans. Recorded in Latham, p. 115.

British Library, Lansdowne MS 777, f. 63r-v.

RaW 520

Copy of stanzas 1-7, headed ‘The Lord Walden to ye princesse Eliz:’ and here beginning ‘Wronge not deere mistresse of my hart’.

In: the MS described under RaW 115. c.1637.

This MS recorded in Gullans.

British Library, Stowe MS 962, f. 185r-v.

RaW 521

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 47. c.1640.

Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 7196, ff. [8v-9r rev.].

RaW 522

Copy of stanzas 1-7, here beginning ‘Wrong (not dear mrs: of my heart’ and set out as two poems.

In: A folio miscellany, begun as a commonplace book and then used for transcribing state papers, letters and verses, in several hands, 560 pages (including numerous blanks), in quarter-calf marbled boards. Early-mid-17th century.

Inscribed (p. i), probably in the late 17th century, ‘John Peck His Book’.

This MS recorded in Gullans.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ee. 5. 23, pp. 6-7.

RaW 523

Copy, headed ‘Songe’.

In: the MS described under RaW 183. c.1630s-40s.

This MS collated in Gullans.

Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 436, pp. 20-1.

RaW 524

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Sr: Walter Raleigh.’

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.

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.

This MS collated in Gullans; recorded in Latham, p. 115.

Folger, MS V.a.96, ff. 62r-3r.

RaW 525

Copy, prefixed by ‘Passions are likned best to flouds and streames’ (see RaW 331).

In: the MS described under RaW 119. c.1630 [-1677].

This MS recorded in Gullans; recorded in Latham, p. 115.

Folger, MS V.a.103, Part I, f. 30r.

RaW 526

Copy, headed ‘A silent wooer’.

In: the MS described under RaW 63. c.1630s.

This MS collated in Gullans; recorded in Latham, p. 116.

Folger, MS V.a.345, pp. 90-1.

RaW 527

Copy of lines 1-2, 5-28, 31-2, untitled, prefixed by “Passions are likn'd best to flouds & streams” (see RaW 333).

In: the MS described under RaW 220. c.late 1630s.

This MS recorded in Gullans.

Huntington, HM 116, pp. 17-18.

RaW 528

Copy in: A folio verse miscellany, 148 leaves (foliated 161-206), once bound (reversed) with an independent miscellany (Huntington, HM 198, Part I), rebound with this MS (in continuous form without inversion) in 1832 (by Charles Lewis). Including 59 poems by Donne (and second copies of six poems), in probably six professional secretary hands: A (ff. 1r-25v, 82r-129r); B (ff. 26r, 42v-7v, 49r-63r, 63v-79r, 130r-48r); C (ff. 27r-36v, 41r-2v; with occasional corrections possibly in hand B); D (ff. 37r-40v); E (ff. 63r-v); and F (f. 129v). c.1620-33.

Scribbling includes the name ‘Meriall Tracy’ (on f. 148v). Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary; by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary; and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library, lot 624). Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.

Recorded in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (II)’: DnJ Δ 26. Discussed in C.M. Armitage, ‘Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on “The Funerall”’, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707.

A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Betagraph of the watermark in f. 43 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. 240).

This MS recorded in Gullans.

Huntington, HM 198, Part II, ff. 52v-3r.

RaW 529

Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst.

In: the MS described under RaW 274.

Leicestershire Record Office, DG. 7/Lit. 2, f. 351r.

RaW 530

Copy, headed ‘Songe’, transcribed from a text in ‘a small MS. Collection in Mr. Bouchers possession’ [i.e. Jonathan Boucher of Epsom].

In: A composite volume of transcripts of ballads made, from various printed and manuscript sources, by and for Robert Jamieson (1780?-1844) for his edition of Popular Ballads and Songs (Edinburgh, 1806). c.1800.

Owned in 1921 by George Neilson, then by Charles R. Cowie, and now in the John Cowie Collection.

Discussed in G. Neilson, ‘A Bundle of Ballads’, E&S, 7 (1921), 108-42.

This MS recorded in Neilson, ‘A Bundle of Ballads’, p. 111.

Mitchell Library, Glasgow, SR 241 308897, p. 19.

RaW 531

Copy of a sixteen-line version, in a musical setting.

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).

Edited partly from this MS in Cutts, ‘Drexel Manuscript 4041’, p. 181.

New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4041, No. 58, f. 42v.

RaW 532

Copy of a sixteen-line version, in a musical setting.

In: the MS described under RaW 531. c.1640s.

Edited partly from this MS in Cutts, ‘Drexel Manuscript 4041’, p. 181.

New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4041, No. 65, f. 46r.

RaW 533

Copy, in a musical setting.

In: the MS described under RaW 184.8. c.1620s-30s.

This MS collated in Cutts, ‘“Songs unto the Violl and Lute”--Drexel MS 4175’, MD, 16 (1962), 72-92 (pp. 85-6).

New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4175, No. xxviii.

RaW 534

Copy of a garbled version, in a musical setting.

In: the MS described under RaW 185. c.1630s-50s.

This MS recorded in Cutts, MD, 16 (1962), 85.

New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 210.

RaW 535

Copy, prefixed by ‘Passions are likened best to Flouds and Streames’ (see RaW 335).

In: the MS described under RaW 122. c.1630s.

University of Nottingham, Pw V 37, p. 61.

RaW 536

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 86. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].

Pierpont Morgan Library, MA 1057, pp. 134-5.

RaW 537

Copy, prefixed by ‘Passions are likened to floods & streams’ (see RaW 336).

In: the MS described under RaW 171. c.1634.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 115-16; recorded (but not seen) in Gullans.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 239/27, pp. 50-1.

RaW 538

Copy, prefixed by ‘Passions are most like to shades and dreames’ (see RaW 337).

In: the MS described under RaW 337. c.1640s.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 116; recorded (but not seen) in Gullans.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 240/2, p. 5.

RaW 539

Copy, headed ‘A Songe’.

In: the MS described under RaW 282. c.1634.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 116; recorded (but not seen) in Gullans.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 243/4, p. 7.

RaW 540

Copy, headed ‘Sonnett: to his Dearest’.

In: the MS described under RaW 93. c.1630.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 116; recorded (but not seen) in Gullans.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 1083/16, pp. 49-50.

RaW 540.5

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Wronge not sweet Empresse of my hart’.

In: the MS described under RaW 285.5. Early 17th century.

Somerset Heritage Centre, DD/SF/10/5/1, ff. 20v-1r.

RaW 540.8

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 185.5. Mid-17th century-c.1702.

University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 14v.

RaW 541

Copy, subscribed ‘Finis: Lo: Wal.’.

In: the MS described under RaW 452. c.1639 [-c.1728].

Yale, Osborn MS b 197, p. 212.

RaW 542

Copy, headed ‘To his Mistresse’.

In: the MS described under RaW 291. c.1650.

Yale, Osborn MS b 200, pp. 78-9.

Prose

Apology for his Voyage to Guiana

A tract beginning ‘If the ill success of this enterprise of mine had been without example...’. First published in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 477-507. Edited by V. T. Harlow in Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 316-34.

RaW 543

Copy, in a secretary hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, under the general title in another hand ‘Sir Walter Raleiges large Apologie for his last voyage to Guiana with certaine letters of his written to the King, his wife and others’.

In: A folio volume of tracts and letters relating to seafaring, in several professional secretary hands, 560 pages (plus a table of contents and blanks), in contemporary limp vellum gilt. Owned by, and occasionally annotated in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician. c.1620s-30s.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 4.

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 261, pp. 444-518.

RaW 544

Copy in three or four hands, headed ‘Sr Walter Ralegh his Appologie’.

In: A folio composite volume of state letters, speeches and other papers, in various hands and paper sizes, x + 315 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

Collected and partly written by Elias Ashmole (1617-92).

Bodleian, MS Ashmole 830, ff. 87r-103v.

RaW 545

Copy, headed ‘Sr: Walter Raighley Large Appologie for the ill Successe of his enterprise to Guina’.

In: A folio volume of four works by Ralegh, in professional hands, i + 47 leaves, in 19th-century diced russia gilt (rebacked). c.1630.

Inscribed (f. 2r) with the name ‘Watkin Owen’. Formerly Mostyn MS 142, from the library of originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn Hall, near Holywell, Flintshire, and maintained by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) and his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90). Sotheby's, 13 July 1920 (Mostyn sale), lot 99, to Edwards. Francis Edwards, sale catalogue No. 519 (1929), item 385.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 353.

Edited from this MS in Harlow, pp. 316-34.

Bodleian, MS Eng. hist. d. 138, ff. 8r-40v.

RaW 546

Copy, in a secretary hand

In: A folio volume of state papers, in two or three hands, 70 leaves, in vellum. c.1620s.

Bodleian, MS Jesus College 83, ff. 60r-7r.

RaW 547

Copy in a professional secretary hand, a title added in another hand (f. 24r) ‘Sr walter Rauleighs Appologie’, on quarto leaves.

In: A quarto composite volume of state tracts, 72 leaves, in later grey boards.

Owned in 1721 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary, who has inscribed f. [ir] ‘Given to me by Richard Graves, of Mickleton near Campden in Gloucestershire, Esq.’

Bodleian, MS Rawl. D. 180, ff. 25r-42r.

RaW 548

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rauleigh's Apologie, written to the King & the Councill in defence of his last action in Guiana, since his last coming into the towre’.

In: the MS described under RaW 27. Mid-late 17th century.

Bodleian, MS Tanner 299, ff. 15r-24v.

RaW 549

Copy, headed ‘Sir walter Rawleighs Apologie’.

In: the MS described under RaW 36. c.1630s.

British Library, Add. MS 40838, ff. 36v-48v.

RaW 549.5

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleyghs Apologie’.

In: the MS described under RaW 38.2. c.1620s-40s.

British Library, Add. MS 69394, ff. 68v-81r.

RaW 550

Copy, on ten folio leaves. Early-mid-17th century.

British Library, Sloane MS 760.

RaW 550.2

Part of a copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, imperfect. c.1620s.

In: An unbound collection of state letters and tracts, in various hands, 128 leaves.

Volume XII of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Misc. XXXIV.

British Library, Add. MS 72353, ff. 55r-60v.

RaW 550.4

Part of a copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Sr walter Ralegh his Appologie’, imperfect.c.1620s.

In: the MS described under RaW 550.2.

British Library, Add. MS 72353, ff. 61r-2v.

RaW 550.6

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Sr Walter Ralegh his Apologie’, on six pages of three pairs of conjugate folio leaves, incomplete, lacking the ending, endorsed ‘Sr Walter Rawleigh's Apology’. c.1620s.

In: the MS described under RaW 550.2.

British Library, Add. MS 72353, ff. 63r-5v.

RaW 550.8

Extracts.

In: A quarto miscellany of extracts chiefly from historical works, in Latin and English, in a single small mixed hand, compiled by one Thomas Gybbons, armiger, 237 leaves, in modern quarter-morocco gilt. Mid-late 17th century.

British Library, Harley MS 980, f. 142v.

RaW 551

Copy, headed ‘Sir Walter Rawleigh his large apologie at his returne from Guiana voiage’.

In: A quarto volume of state papers, nearly all in a single secretary hand, 74 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt. Early-mid-17th century.

British Library, Sloane MS 1856, ff. 63r-71r.

RaW 552

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleighe his Apolloge’.

In: A folio volume of state tracts and letters, c.480 pages. c.1625-30s.

Inscribed on the rear cover ‘Robert Wingfield his Booke witnes Barbary Wingfield’. Among the Tabley House MSS and once owned by Sir Peter Leycester (1614-78), antiquary.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, pp. 47-8.

Cheshire Record Office, DLT/B8, pp. 283-300.

RaW 553

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleighs Apologie’, on nine folio leaves, in blank paper wrapper. c.1620s-30s.

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 D258/67/6c.

Recorded in HMC, 9th Report, Part II (1884), Appendix, p. 386.

Derbyshire Record Office, D258/39/6.

RaW 553.5

A composite copy, in different hands and paper sizes, partly in the hand of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, 21 pages. c.1620s.

Among manuscripts purchased after Starkey's death by Sir Simonds D'Ewes, Bt (1602-50), diarist and antiquary.

Essex Record Office, Colchester, D/DRg 3/3.

RaW 554

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleighes Apologie’. c.1620.

In: the MS described under RaW 67.

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, MS 73/40, ff. 205r-13r.

RaW 555

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rayleigh's Apology’. c.1620s.

In: A folio volume of three works, each in a different secretary hand, 50 leaves (including blanks, plus more blanks), in brown morocco.

Inner Temple Library, Petyt MS 526, ff. 43r-50r.

RaW 556

Copy in: A folio volume of tracts by Ralegh, in a single hand. Early-mid-17th century.

Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Given me by Wm. Collins Esqr. of Maise Hill, Greenwich, 12th Steptr. 1866 / Berrick’. In the library of Silvanus Phillips Thompson (1851-1916), physicist.

Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, [A Thompson MS], [item 3].

RaW 557

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleigh his Appologie after his Retorne into England in excuse of his not working the Mynne at Orenoque’.

In: A folio volume, comprosing two MSS of copies of letters by Ralegh, in three secretary hands (pp. 1-86, 87-91, 91-[93] respectively), with a table of contents, iii + 93 pages, in modern quarter-morocco. Among papers of the Knatchbull family, Barons Brabourne, of Mersham-le-Hatch, Kent. c.1620s.

Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, U951 Z6, pp. 19-86.

RaW 558

Copy, in two italic hands, a supplied title-page in another hand ‘The Apologie of Sr Walter Raleigh for his Voyage to Guaiana’, with notes along the margin of f. 26r by a reader, inscribed on the first page ‘[?Gri]ffith M.A. / 1664’. Mid-17th century.

In: A collection of state tracts and verse, in various professional hands (including the ‘Feathery Scribe’), now bound in two volumes, Vol. I comprising 249 leaves (plus blanks), Vol. II 247 leaves (plus blanks), each in modern half-morocco gilt.

Among the collections of Thomas Tenison (1636-1715), Archbishop of Canterbury.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 349 (No. 75).

Lambeth Palace Library, MS 806, Vol. II, ff. 24r-36v.

RaW 559

Copy, headed ‘Sr Wa: Ralegh his Apologie’.

In: A folio volume of state tracts and letters, in several probably professional secretary hands, 225 pages, in marbled boards. c.1630.

Formerly among the F. Bacon Frank MSS at Campsall Hall, Yorkshire. Sotheby's, 11 August 1942, lot 70. Afterwards owned by Annie Winifred Bryher (née Ellerman, d.1983) and by the Ralegh scholar Agnes Latham (1905-96), of Pickering, North Yorkshire.

Recorded, as B. 3, in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 459.

Bodleian, MS Eng d. 2912, pp. 133-58.

RaW 560

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, imperfect, lacking the beginning and ending. c.1620s.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, partly relating to Thomas Fairfax (1612-71), Parliamentarian army officer, in various hands, including some printed material, 181 leaves, in modern morocco.

Formerly among papers of the Ingleby family, of Ripley Castle, Yorkshire. In the collection of Roger Charles Anderson, D Litt (1883-1976).

Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 362.

National Maritime Museum, AND/25, ff. 113r-20v.

RaW 560.5

Copy, in two mixed hands, headed ‘Sr Walter Ralegh his Apologie’.

In: A folio volume of tracts.

Among papers of the North family, Earls of Guilford.

University of Kansas, MS P519, pp. 1-20.

RaW 561

Copy, in possibly three hands, untitled, on ten folio leaves numbered 5-23, disbound. c.1620s.

University of North Carolina, CSWR A30.

RaW 562

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Sir Walter Raleigh his Apologie’, eleven + ii folio leaves, in a paper wrapper. c.1620s.

University of Nottingham, Cl LP 5/1.

RaW 562.5

Copy, headed ‘Sir Walter Raleigh his greate Apologie when he came fro Guiana 28: Oct 1618’.

In: the MS described under RaW 6.5. c.1642.

Robert S. Pirie, New York, [Feilde MS], pp. 417-33.

RaW 563

Copy; in a professional secretary hand, on eight folio leaves, imperfect, lacking a title and the beginning, later endorsed (f. 82v) ‘Imperfect Relation on a Voyage &c’. c.1620.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 194 leaves, in red morocco.

National Archives, Kew, SP 14/98, ff. 75r-82r.

RaW 564

Copy, in a secretary hand, on seven folio leaves (plus one blank), imperfect, lacking a title and the beginning, later endorsed ‘Imperfect Relation of a Voyage &c. Sr W. Rawleigh’. c.1620s-30s.

In: the MS described under RaW 563.

National Archives, Kew, SP 14/98, ff. 83r-9v.

RaW 565

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Sr: Walter Rawleghe his apologie’, apparently transcribed by of for one A. Throkmorton for an aristocratic friend a (knight), with Throkmorton's accompanying letter (on f. 1r-v) sending this ‘pleadinge Appologye’ and commenting on the morals it exemplifies, dated 31 October 1618. 1618.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, in vellum boards.

Later owned by Thomas Wagstaffe (1645-1712), nonjuror bishop, and by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary.

St John's College, Cambridge, MS I. 4. (James 305), ff. [2r-11v].

RaW 566

Copy, in a secretary hand. c.1620s.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 270 leaves (including some blanks), in quarter-calf marbled boards.

Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R. 5. 12 (James 707), ff. 172r-7v.

RaW 567

Copy, headed ‘Sr: Walter Raleighs large Appologie for his Journey to Guiana’.

In: the MS described under RaW 97. c.1620s.

Dr Williams's Library, MS Jones B. 60, pp. 169-211.

RaW 568

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleighes Apologie’.

In: the MS described under RaW 389.6. c.late 1620s-30s.

Yale, Osborn MS fb 40, pp. 513-444.

RaW 569

Copy in: A folio volume of tracts attributed to Ralegh. 17th century.

Formerly among the Finch MSS at Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland. (Not among the Finch MSS in the Leicestershire Record Office and possibly destroyed in a fire in 1908).

Recorded in HMC, 7th Report (1879), Appendix, p. 516.

Untraced, [Finch MS], [unspecified page numbers].

RaW 569.5

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh his large appologie’, on 46 pages.

In: A folio volume of writings by Sir Walter Ralegh, in a single professional secretary hand, 38 leaves, in 18th-century vellum. c.1630s.

Sotheby's, 15 March 2007 (‘The Library of the Earls of Macclesfield removed from Shirburn Castle, Part Nine’), lot 3258.

Facsimile of the first page in Sotheby's sale catalogue, p. 201.

Untraced, [Macclesfield MS], [unspecified page numbers].

RaW 570

Three-page abstract of the tract, headed ‘Out of the Apologie of Sr Walter Ralegh after his unfortunate sucesse in Guiaiana. 1618’ and here beginning ‘My ill success was not without example…’.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 248 leaves, in modern crushed morocco gilt.

British Library, Cotton MS Titus C. VII, ff. 96r-7r.

Considerations concerning Reprysalles

A memorandum beginning ‘All that hath or shalbe taken may be brought in question...’. First published in John Payne Collier, ‘Sir Walter Raleigh. Additional Papers’, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 5 (12 March 1864), 207-8.

*RaW 571

Autograph draft memorandum, untitled and here beginning ‘All yt hath or shalbe taken may be brought in question...’, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed in the hand of Sir Thomas Windebank (1566-1607), Clerk of the Signet,‘Consyderacons concerning Reprysalls’. c.February 1602/3.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 159 leaves, in red morocco.

Edited from this MS in Collier. Discussed (when unlocated) in Lefranc (1968), p. 52, and subsequently rediscovered by him.

National Archives, Kew, SP 12/253, f. 166r.

A Dialogue between a Counsellor of State and a Justice of the Peace

A treatise, with a dedicatory epistle to James I beginning ‘Those that are suppressed and hopeless are commonly silent ...’, the dialogue beginning ‘Now, sir, what think you of Mr. St. John's trial in the Star-chamber?...’. First published as The Prerogative of Parliaments in England (‘Midelburge’ and ‘Hamburg’ [i.e. London], 1628). Works (1829), VIII, 151-221.

*RaW 572

Copy, with a few minor autograph corrections and additions in the dedicatory epistle to King James.

In: A folio volume of tracts apparently owned by Sir Walter Ralegh, 170 leaves, in 18th-century calf (rebacked). c.1611-15.

Bookplate of the Earl of Derby, Knowsley House, Merseyside. Christie's, 23 March 1954, lot 248, to Quaritch. Afterwards owned by Harry Lawrence Bradfer Lawrence (1887-1965), Norfolk antiquary and manuscript collector. Formerly on temporary loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Briefly described in Phyllis M. Giles, ‘A Handlist of the Bradfer-Lawrence manuscripts deposited on loan at the Fitzwilliam Museum’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 2 (1973), 86-99 (p. 96).

Untraced, Bradfer Lawrence MS 61, ff. 146v-70v.

RaW 573

Copy 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.

Bodleian, MS Jones 56, ff. 36v-46v.

RaW 574

Copy of an abridged version, including the dedicatory epistle to King James, in at least two hands, imperfect, the last leaf gnawed by rodents. Early 17th century.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and letters, in various hands, 297 leaves, in calf (rebacked). Early-mid-17th century.

Bodleian, MS Tanner 103, ff. 213r-20v.

RaW 575

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, docketed ‘MSS. No 55’, imperfect at the beginning and ending.c.1620s-30s.

In: A folio composite volume of works by Sir Walter Ralegh, in several professional hands, 63 leaves, in modern half green morocco. Volume XXI of the collections of Macvey Napier (1776-1847), encyclopedia and journal editor.

Item 921 in an unidentified sale catalogue.

British Library, Add. MS 34631, ff. 20r-46v.

RaW 576

Early-mid-17th century.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers and tracts.

British Library, Harley MS 248, ff. 107r-8v.

RaW 576.5

Extracts.

In: the MS described under RaW 550.8. Mid-late 17th century.

British Library, Harley MS 980, ff. 15r-v.

RaW 577

Fragment of a copy, in a professional secretary hand, comprising only the last portion, imperfect. c.1620s.

In: A folio composite volume of tracts, in various hands, 158 leaves, in modern green half crushed morocco gilt.

Inscribed on the last page Bought of ‘Mrs G: Pauls landlady’.

British Library, Harley MS 4685, ff. 115r-26v.

RaW 578

Copy, in a single professional hand, untitled, in mottled calf with initials ‘M. B.’ in gilt on each cover. c.1620s-30s.

British Library, Harley MS 6191.

RaW 579

Copy of an abridged version, complete with dedicatory epistle to the King, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Out of the Dialogue betweene a Counsellor & a Justice of Peace’. c.1630.

In: A large folio composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, 275 leaves, in modern half red crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Early-mid-17th century.

British Library, Lansdowne MS 806, ff. 28r-38r.

RaW 579.5

Extracts.

In: A quarto commonplace book, in a single mixed hand, 319 pages (including blanks, plus a few more), in brown calf. c.1620s-40s.

Inner Temple Library, Miscellaneous MS No. 17, ff. 123r, 245.

RaW 580

Copy in: Volume XII of the state papers largely assembled by Sir Thomas Edmondes (1563?-1633), 235 leaves. [1615-33].

British Library, Stowe MS 177, ff. 138r-70r.

RaW 581

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, lacking a title. c.1620s.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, 104 leaves, now disbound.

Among the collections of John Patrick (1632-95), religious controversialist.

Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 27, ff. 1r-18v.

RaW 582

Copy in: A composite volume of twenty tracts, in 19th-century half-calf.

Not available for examination for conservation reasons.

Cambridge University Library, MS Dd. 3. 85, Item 1.

RaW 583

Copy, in a single professional secretary hand, as ‘Written by Sr Walter Raleighe and dedicated to King James our Soueraigne Lord anno 1610’, on 78 folio pages (plus blanks), in half-calf on marbled boards. c.1620.

Cambridge University Library, MS Mm. 5. 8.

RaW 584

Copy, as ‘Written by Sr Walter Raleighe’.

In: A quarto volume of state and antiquarian tracts, in a single professional secretary hand, 92 leaves, in old calf gilt. c.1620s-30s.

G.N. Last's sale catalogue 200 (1934), item 773.

University of Chicago, MS 870, ff. 1r-53v.

RaW 584.2

Copy, including the dedicatory epistle to James I, in a professional rounded hand, 24 tall folio pages, imperfect, lacking all the rest, unbound. A fragment of the same volume to which Cornwall Record Office, EL/730 belongs. c.1700.

Among the papers of the Eliot family, Earls of St Germans, of Port Eliot, Cornwall.

Cornwall Record Office, EL/725.

RaW 584.5

Copy, including the dedication to the King, in a professional cursive hand, headed ‘A Dialogue betwene a Counsellor of State and a Justice of Peace, the one disswadeng, the other perswading the calling of a Parliament. written by Sr Wa: Raleighe’, on 46 folio leaves (plus blanks), in vellum. c.1620s-30s.

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).

Derbyshire Record Office, D258/55/22.

RaW 585

Copy. Early-mid-17th century.

Once in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 34507. Sotheby's, 25 March 1895. Afterwards owned by Thomas Nadauld Brushfield (1828-1910), medical superintendant, antiquary, and Ralegh scholar.

Devon Record Office, Exeter, MS 36.

RaW 586

Copy, in two secretary hands, of the dedicatory epistle to King James and of the beginning of the dialogue, described as ‘written in the Tower of London by Sir Walter Raleigh...In Anno 1610’, subscribed in a later hand ‘Perlegi et pro Libitu Excerpsi Aug. 5. 1697. W. K.’, incomplete.

In: A folio volume of state tracts and parliamentary speeches, in several professional hands, 197 leaves (plus numerous blanks and some additions at the reverse end), in contemporary vellum. c.1620s-30s.

Exeter College, Oxford, MS 139, ff. 190v-2r.

RaW 587

Copy, the dedicatory epistle and main text in two different italic hands or styles, some corrections probably in another hand, inscribed by Twysden (f. 48r) ‘The lady Raleigh did assure me this was her husbands doeing, Rog: Twysden: 1622’, and the name ‘Sr. Walter Raleigh’ added to the title possibly by him, subscribed (f. 73r) ‘Finis. Transcriptum Ao. 1622.’

In: A tall folio volume of state tracts and papers, in English and French, in several largely professional hands, 138 leaves, in diced calf gilt. Compiled by Sir Roger Twysden, second Baronet (1597-1672), antiquary, of Roydon Hall, East Peckham, Kent. c.1621-6.

Bookplate of Thomas Gage Saunders Sebright, eighth Baronet (1802-64).

Folger, MS G.b.7, ff. 47r-73r.

RaW 588

Copy, in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, as ‘by S: Walter Rauleghe...1610’.

In: the MS described under RaW 57.

Folger, MS G.b.9, ff. 1r-61v.

RaW 589

Copy, in a professional italic hand, untitled, unascribed, on 31 folio leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. Early 17th century.

Folger, MS V.b.230.

RaW 590

Copy, in the hand of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, as ‘written in the Toure of Londo by Sr walter Raulegh...in ano. 1610’, 52 folio leaves, disbound. c.1620.

Sotheby's, 2 March 1965, lot 311, to Dawson. Formerly Folger MS Add. 447.

Folger, MS V.b.276.

RaW 590.5

Copy, headed ‘A Dialoge beetweene a Justice and a Councillour’, imperfect.

In: A folio composite volume of legal tracts. c.1630s-40s.

Free Library of Philadelphia, MS LC 14:41, f. 166r et seq.

RaW 591

Copy in a secretary hand, with the dedication to the King, incomplete, headed ‘Out of the Dialogue betweene a Counsellor and a Justice of Peace’, on nine folio leaves. c.1630.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, in calf (rebacked). Early-mid-17th century.

Bearing a list of contents in the hand of John Egerton, first Earl of Bridgewater (1579-1649).

Huntington, EL 7976, item 5.

RaW 592

Copy, in a secretary hand, subscribed ‘W. R.’, 33 + ii folio leaves, in remains of paper wrappers within later boards. Early 17th century.

Among papers of the Sidney family, Viscounts De L'Isle, of Penhurst Place, Ashford, Kent.

Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, U1475 Z7.

RaW 592.5

Copy in: A volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, one secretary hand predominating, with a table of contents and other additions by members of the Hervey family. c.1630[-1690].

Probably once owned by John Hervey (1665-1751), first Baron Ickworth and first Earl of Bristol, of Ickworth, near Bury St Edmunds.

Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds, 941/73/2, ff. 30r-72r.

RaW 592.8

Copy, 128 quarto pages, allegedly including an autograph note, dated July 1616, and signature, attested by Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), Yorkshire antiquary and topographer. Early-mid-17th century.

Puttick & Simpson, 18 August 1865, lot 408, to Dell.

Untraced, [Ralegh/Puttick MS].

RaW 593

Copy, 60 leaves paginated 1-116. Early-mid-17th century.

Formerly owned by Annie Winifred Bryher (née Ellerman, d.1983) and by the Ralegh scholar Agnes Latham (1905-96), Pickering, North Yorkshire.

Untraced, [Bryher MS].

RaW 593.5

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The prerogative of parliaments in England by Sr Walter Ralegh preserved to be now happily in thes: distracted tymes published’, imperfect, lacking the ending. Early-mid 17th century.

In: A quarto composite volume of tracts, letters and sermons, in secretary hands, unfoliated, disbound. Mid-17th century.

National Library of Scotland, MS Acc. 8861, ff. [9r-12v].

RaW 594

Copy, in a professional italic hand, with corrections in a different ink, the dedicatory epistle to James I subscribed ‘Wa: Raleigh’, nineteen folio leaves (plus blanks), in paper wrappers. c.1620s.

This MS recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 32.

Northamptonshire Record Office, FH 71.

RaW 595

Copy of part of the tract, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Out of the Dialogue betweene a Counsellor & a Justice of Peace’, as by ‘Sr: walter Rawley’, thirteen folio pages, in a paper wrapper. c.1620s.

University of Nottingham, Cl LP 5/2.

RaW 596

Copy, complete with Ralegh's dedicatory epistle to James I, in a professional.secretary hand, with some passages marked in the hand of Sir John Eliot. c.1620s.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and letters, in various hands and paper sizes, 257 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century diced calf gilt. Volume 8 of the papers of Sir John Eliot (1592-1632), politician, and partly in his hand.

Among the papers of the Eliot family, Earls of St Germans, of Port Eliot, Cornwall.

Recorded (as Vol. 1) in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 42.

Cornwall Record Office, EL/655/8, ff. 54r-82r.

RaW 597

Copy of an abbreviated version, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Out of the Dialogue betweene a Counsellour and a Justice of Peace’, on twelve folio leaves. Early 17th century.

In: A folio guard-book of independent Jacobean state papers, stamped foliation 1-104.

National Archives, Kew, SP 14/84, ff. 66r-77r (item 44).

RaW 598

Copy, in a secretary hand, with the dedicatory epistle to James I, on 32 folio leaves. Early 17th century.

In: A folio guardbook of independent Jacobean state papers, stamped foliation 1-42.

National Archives, Kew, SP 14/85, ff. 1r-32r.

RaW 599

Copy, including the dedicatory epistle to James I, in a predominantly secretary hand.

In: A folio volume of tracts (one ‘A vew of the State of Religion’ by Sir Edwin Sandys, 1599, on ff. 2v-89r) and a speech, in different hands, 130 leaves (plus 126 blanks), in contemporary calf gilt with stamped crest, traces of green silk ties. c.1617.

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘En dieu est tout: Et tout en tout / ThWentworth’: i.e. by Thomas Wentworth (1593-1641), first Earl of Strafford. Among the Wentworth Woodhouse Muniments.

Sheffield Archives, WWM MS 1, ff. 95r-130r.

RaW 600

Copy, complete with Dedication to the King, in a non-professional hand.

In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in several hands, written from both ends, with a list of contents, 108 leaves. Late 17th century.

Bookplate of Charles W.G. Howard, ‘The Gift of the Rt. Hon. Sir David Dundas Knt. of Ochtertyre 1877’. Formerly Osborn MS. Chest II, No. 13. vol. 2.

Yale, Osborn MS b 52/2, pp. 1-108.

RaW 601

Copy in: A folio volume of state tracts. 17th century.

Once among the family papers of Sir Thomas Winnington, M.P. (1811-72), of Stanford Court, Worcestershire, which was partly destroyed by fire in 1882

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 53.

Untraced, [Stanford Court MS (I)], [unspecified page numbers].

RaW 602

Copy, in a competent secretary hand, with dedicatory epistle to James I, with an affixed slip of replacement text on p. 447, inscribed in the margin ‘Sr Walt Rawley’.

In: A quarto volume of state and antiquarian tracts and papers, in various secretary hands, x + 523 pages, in contemporary limp vellum inscribed ‘Liber B’. Some of the items copied from manuscripts of Roger Dodsworth (1585-1654), antiquary, and of the Aske family. A list of books at the end, with dates 1642-54, includes references to Robert Cotton, Sir Hugh Cholmley, and Sir Gervase Clifton (who ‘hath ye booke’). c.1627-52.

Owned by the Fairfax family of Yorkshire. Partly compiled by Charles Fairfax (1597-1673) and with annotations by his brother Ferdinando (1584-1648), second Lord Fairfax. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 11138. Sotheby's, 8 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lot 406, sold to Downing. Bonham's, 18 March 2008, lot 250.

Folger, MS V.a.537, pp. 429-52.

RaW 603

Extract from an early version of Ralegh's dedicatory epistle to the King, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 97. c.1620s.

Dr Williams's Library, MS Jones B. 60, pp. 235-6.

RaW 603.5

Copy, on 126 quarto pages, numbered 2-128, in 19th-century red morocco. c.1620s-30s.

Owned in 1866 by one A. Potts. Bookplates of Earl Jermyn and of W.A. Foyle (1885-1963), bookseller, of Beeleigh Abbey, Essex. Christie's, 12-13 July 2000 (W.A. Foyle sale, Part III), lot 320 (item 2).

Untraced, [Potts MS].

A Dialogue between a Jesuit and a Recusant

A dialogue beginning ‘My most reverend Father you are well returned into England...’. First published, as A Dialogue between a Jesuit and a Recusant. shewing how dangerous are their Principles to Christian Princes, in L. Eachard's An Abridgement of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World (London, 1700), part ii, pp. 27-70. The authorship discussed in Lefranc (1968), pp. 59-62.

RaW 604

Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, almost entirely on rectos only, headed ‘A Discourse betwixt a Recusant and a Jesuit’, incomplete, ending at p. 62 of the published version. Early 17th century. c.1640.

In: the MS described under RaW 581.

Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 27, ff. 29-62v.

A Discourse of the Invention of Ships, Anchors, Compass, &c.

An epistolary tract addressed to Prince Henry, beginning ‘That the ark of Noah was the first ship because the invention of God himself...’. First published, as ‘Upon the first Invention of Shipping’, in Judicious and Select Essayes and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 317-34.

RaW 605

Copy, in a secretary hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, a title-page in italic, as ‘Written by Sr Walter Raleigh Kt’.

In: the MS described under RaW 543. c.1620s-30s.

This MS recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 4.

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 261, pp. 19-64.

RaW 606

Copy, as ‘Written by Sir Walter Rawleigh’.

In: the MS described under RaW 551. Early-mid-17th century.

British Library, Sloane MS 1856, ff. 50v-6v.

RaW 607

Copy, as ‘written by Sr Walter Rawleigh’. c.1630s.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, ii + 317 leaves (plus numerous ruled blanks), with a table of contents, in contemporary calf, with metal clasps. In various professional hands (including the ‘Feathery Scribe’), one distinctive secretary hand responsible for ff. 1r-141v, 177r-8v, 206r-11r, 230r-5r.

Owned by Sir Richard Grosvenor (1585-1645); later by the Duke of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire, with his bookplate (inscribed ‘XXI No. 6’) and a label with No. ‘4’ on the spine. Assembled largely from ‘Liber 9’ (= MS 4). Sotheby's, 19 July 1966, lot 486, to Hofmann.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 212. Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 218-19 (No. 12). A microfilm of the MS is in the British Library, RP170.

Harvard, MS Eng 1266 (v. 1), ff. 45r-63r.

RaW 608

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 556. Early-mid-17th century.

Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, [A Thompson MS], [item 1].

RaW 608.5

Copy, in two professional cursive secretary hands, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleighs Letter to Prince Henry touchinge the modell of a ship’. c.1630s.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, iv +130 leaves, in reversed calf.

Presented by Philip Henry, fifth Earl Stanhope, President of the Society of Antiquaries, 22 January 1863.

Society of Antiquaries, MS 258, ff. 45r-9r.

RaW 609

Copy, headed ‘A Discourse of the first invention of Shipps & the Severall parts thereof...’.

In: the MS described under RaW 97. c.1620s.

Dr Williams's Library, MS Jones B. 60, pp. 65-99.

RaW 610

Copy, complete in 17 folios apparently in original vellum binding (though the title-page also includes the title of Ralegh's ‘Discourse of...War’). Early-mid-17th century.

Formerly Lincolnfield MS 41 at Petworth House, Sussex, this MS recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 304.

Yale, MS 566.

A Discourse of the Original and Fundamental Cause of Natural, Arbitrary, Necessary, and Unnatural War

A tract beginning ‘The ordinary theme and argument of history is war...’. First published (in part), as ‘The Misery of Invasive Warre’, in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London 1650). Published complete in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 253-97.

See also RaW 610.

RaW 611

Copy, in a secretary hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, the title in italic, unascribed.

In: the MS described under RaW 543. c.1620s-30s.

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 261, pp. 65-138.

RaW 611.5

Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed ‘Collections out of Sr Walter Raleghs discourse of War’.

In: An octavo commonplace book, largely in one mixed hand, written from both ends, with two tables of contents, 185 leaves, in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps. Owned by, and with additions and annotations in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician. c.1620s-30s.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 18, ff. 106r-11r.

RaW 612

Copy, untitled, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, imperfect, lacking the beginning. c.1620s-30s.

In: the MS described under RaW 575.

British Library, Add. MS 34631, ff. 2r-19v.

RaW 612.5

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed A Discourse of the Original and Fundamental Cause of Natural, Customaryy, Voluntary, and Necessary Warr. Written by Sr: Walter Rawleigh Knt:, i + 27 leaves, in modern half red morocco. Early 18th century.

Volume DXCV of the Blenheim Papers, papers principally of John Churchill (1650-1722), first Duke of Marlborough, army commander and politician, his wife Sarah (née Jenyns) (1660-1744), and the related Spencer and Trevor families.

British Library, Add. MS 61695.

RaW 613

Copy, in a rounded hand, with a title-page (f. 149r) in faded red ink, as ‘Written by Sr. Walter Rawleigh / Never Expos'd to the Public’. Late 17th century.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and speeches, in various professional hands, 280 leaves, in half red morocco gilt.

British Library, Harley MS 6274, ff. 149r-85v.

RaW 614

Copy in: A folio volume of political speeches and miscellaneous papers.

British Library, Lansdowne MS 211, ff. 309r-43r.

RaW 615

Copy, unascribed.

In: the MS described under RaW 551. Early-mid-17th century.

British Library, Sloane MS 1856, ff. 57r-62v.

RaW 615.5

Extracts, inscribed ‘Sr Walter Rawleigh in a Manuscript discourse entitled A Discourse of the Original...& necessary war...this manuscript is now in ye hands of Mr Combs of Dainty in Northamptonshire, it is imperfect at ye end’.

In: A quarto miscellany of English and Latin tracts and recipes, in two or more hands, written from both ends, c.256 pages (including numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum. Inscription on front pastedown by O.W. Malet sayimg the MS belonged to his grandfather the Rev. A. Malet of [?]Canterbury. Inscribed (f. [ir]) ‘Michel W Malet’. c.1700-1740.

Folger, MS W.a.303, pp. 29-31.

RaW 616

Copy, as ‘written by Sr walter Rawleigh’. c.1630s.

In: the MS described under RaW 607.

Harvard, MS Eng 1266 (v. 1), ff. 1r-30r.

RaW 617

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 556. Early-mid-17th century.

Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, [A Thompson MS], [item 2].

RaW 618

Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, with a title-page ‘A Discourse of Warr Written by Sr Walter Raleigh’ followed by the fuller heading.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in various professional hands, including the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 385 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf.

Once owned by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Old pressmark G. 4.10.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 223 (No. 18).

Trinity College, Dublin, MS 732, ff. 68r-83r.

RaW 619

Copy, headed ‘A Discourse of Warr, as it is either naturall (first Remedielesse wherein Somewhat touching transplantations) or Arbitrary...Written by Sr: Walter Raleigh knight’.

In: the MS described under RaW 97. c.1620s.

Dr Williams's Library, MS Jones B. 60, pp. 103-50.

RaW 620

Copy, folio. 17th century.

Formerly among the MSS of the Duke of Marlborough, at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire.

Recorded in HMC, 8th Report (1881), Appendix, p. 25.

Untraced, [Blenheim MS].

A Discourse touching a Marriage between Prince Henry and a Daughter of Savoy

A tract beginning ‘There is nobody that persuades our prince to match with Savoy, for any love to the person of the duke...’. First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses:...2) Touching a Marriage between Prince Henry of England and a Daughter of Savoy (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 237-52. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.

RaW 621

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 572. c.1611-15.

Untraced, Bradfer Lawrence MS 61, ff. 105r-9v.

RaW 622

Copy, in a professional hand, the first leaf imperfect, endorsed (f. 102v) ‘A discourse of w. Rawleigh agt a match with the daughter of Savoy’. c.1620s.

In: A folio composite volume of papers, chiefly correspondence of the fifth and seventh Earls of Huntingdon, on state affairs, 723 leaves, in half-calf.

Bodleian, MS Carte 77, ff. 89r-102r.

RaW 622.5

Copy, headed ‘A politique dispute aboute the happyest Marriage for the noble P.C.’c.1630.

In: the MS described under RaW 18.

Bodleian, MS Eng. hist. c. 272, pp. 75-99.

RaW 623

Copy, headed ‘A Politick Dispute about the Happiest Match for ye noble & most hopefull prince Charles’. c.1620s.

In: A quarto composite volume of chiefly state letters and tracts, in English and Latin, in various hands, 176 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. D. 1208, ff. 32r-44v.

RaW 624

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘A politique dispute aboute ye happiest marriage for the noble prince Charles’. Early 17th century.

In: A quarto composite volume of state letters and tracts, 168 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Bodleian, MS Tanner 303, ff. 1r-14r.

RaW 625

Copy, in Starkey's hand, unascribed.

In: A folio volume of state papers, tracts and verse, in professional secretary hands, predominantly that of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, and including the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 349 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco. c.1624-8.

Afterwards owned by Sir Simonds D'Ewes, Bt, MP (1602-50), diarist and antiquary. Inscribed (f. 2r) ‘G Hewett’.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 227-8 (No. 27).

British Library, Add. MS 4149, ff. 193r-203v.

RaW 626

Copy, probably by one of Birch's amanuenses.

In: A folio composite volume of papers, largely in the hand of Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian, for his Life of Sir Walter Ralegh (preface to his edition of the Works, 1751), 106 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Including (ff. 1r-16v) a printed proof of Birch's Life with his autograph corrections, and an autograph draft of his Life (ff. 17r-83v). c.1751.

British Library, Add. MS 4231, ff. 98r-106v.

RaW 627

Copy, headed ‘A politique dispute about ye happiest match for ye Noble prince Charles’, subscribed ‘W Rawley’. c.1620s-30s.

In: A folio volume of state tracts and parliamentary papers, in three professional secretary hands, 32 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern quarter-vellum. Volume IV of the papers of John Scudamore (1601-71), first Viscount Scudamore, politician and diplomat.

Evans, 3 December 1821 (Scudamore sale), various lots, to Thomas Thorpe. Phillipps MS 287. Sotheby's, 16 June 1896 (Phillipps sale). Dobell's sale catalogue No. 238 (1914), item 603. Presented by Wilfred Merton, FSA (1888-1957), book and manuscript collector.

British Library, Add. MS 45143, ff. 10r-15r.

RaW 628

Copy, headed ‘A Politique discourse by way of Disput about ye happiest mariage for ye Noble Prince Henry written by Sr Arthure Gorge in An°. 1611’, the ascription emended to ‘by Sr Walter Rauleghe’, imperfect.

In: A folio composite collection of state papers and tracts, chiefly relating to matrimonial matters, in various hands, c.538 leaves, now bound in two volumes (ff. 1-302, and ff. 303-538).

This MS formerly divided between Vitellius C. XVI and XVII but now united.

British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius C. XVI, Part II, ff. 529r-38r.

RaW 629

Copy, in one or possibly two mixed hands, subscribed ‘Walter Rawley’.

In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous tracts, in several professional hands, 174 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt.

British Library, Harley MS 6273, ff. 139r-50v.

RaW 630

Copy, untitled.

In: A large folio composite volume of state papers and tracts, in various professional hands, 298 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt.

A later note in the gutter of f. 199r: ‘Bought of H.W.’, and similar inscriptions on ff. 12r and 13v (1581).

British Library, Harley MS 6845, ff. 213r-17r.

RaW 631

Copy, as ‘Written by Sr Walter Rawleigh kt’.

In: A folio volume of state tracts and papers, dating up to 1663, in a single semi-calligraphic hand, except for ff. 224r-95r in two other professional hands, 445 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt. The principal scribe associated with Henry Feilde. c.1660s.

British Library, Lansdowne MS 213, ff. 101r-10r.

RaW 632

Copy, in two professional italic hands, headed ‘A politique dispute about the happiest mariage for the noble Prince Charles’.

In: the MS described under RaW 254.

British Library, Lansdowne MS 498, ff. 53r-9v.

RaW 633

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘A Politique dispute aboute the happiest Mariage for the Noble Prince Charles’, imperfect at the end. c.1620s-30s.

In: the MS described under RaW 579. Early-mid-17th century.

British Library, Lansdowne MS 806, ff. 167-90v.

RaW 634

Copy, in a predominantly rounded italic hand, as ‘Written by Sr Walter Rawleigh Knt therto comanded by the same Prince’, on fourteen quarto leaves, in modern half crushed morocco. Mid-17th century.

British Library, Sloane MS 713.

RaW 634.5

Copy, in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, with a title-page, on nineteen leaves. c.1620s-30s.

In: A folio composite volume of seventeen state tracts, in the hands of professional scribes, nearly 600 pages, in half-calf marbled boards. c.1620s-30s.

Once owned by Sir Richard Betenson, Bt (? the first Baronet, d.1679, of Hatton Garden, Holborn); by Thomas Brooke, F.S.A., of Armitage Bridge; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 2402; and later by Lord Fairfax of Cameron. Sotheby's, 14 December 1993 (Fairfax sale), lot 30 (unsold), and 13 December 1994, lot 538 (with facsimile examples in both sale catalogues).

Recorded in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 214-15 (No. 3), with facsimile examples on pp. 64, 65, 84-6.

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 215 (No. 3.3), with a facsimile of the last page on p. 65. Facsimile of the title-page in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 13 December 1994, lot 538.

Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 9276, Item 15.

RaW 635

Copy, headed ‘A Politiqe dispute aboute the Happiest Match for the noble & most hopefull Prince Charles’.

In: the MS described under RaW 48. Early-mid-17th century.

Cambridge University Library, MS Mm. 6. 33, ff. 167r-80v.

RaW 636

Copy, ascribed to ‘Sr W. Raw:’.

In: the MS described under RaW 552. c.1625-30s.

Cheshire Record Office, DLT/B8, pp. 25-48.

RaW 637

Copy, in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’.

In: the MS described under RaW 57.

Folger, MS G.b.9, ff. 295v-310v.

RaW 637.5

Copy, in a neat secretary hand, the work dated 1611. Early 17th century.

In: A quarto composite volume of verse and dramatic works, in various hands, 200 leaves, each of the fifteen items now bound separately in modern boards.

Sotheby's, 19 March 1930, lot 450.

Folger, MS J.a.1, ff. 175r-82v (MS J.a.1.14).

RaW 638

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with some marginal annotations. c.1620s-30s.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and miscellaneous papers, in various largely professional hands, 480 leaves, in red morocco gilt.

Inner Temple Library, Petyt MS 538, Vol. 43, ff. 84r-103r.

RaW 639

Copy, in the professional secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 32 folio pages. c.1625-30s.

Sold by B.A. Seaby Ltd at Sotheby's, 31 July 1962, lot 554, to Blackwell. Subsequently owned by Dr Bent Juel-Jensen (1922-2006), Oxford physician and book collector. Quaritch's sale catalogue ‘English Books and Manuscripts’ (Winter 2008-9), item 61.

This MS recorded in The Book Collector, 15 (Summer 1966), p. 163. Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 259 (No. 98). A photocopy example is in the British Library, RP 9403 (ii).

Folger, MS V.a.605.

RaW 640

Copy in: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 185.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, MS 114, pp. 342-76.

RaW 641

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with marginal annotations in another hand, headed ‘A politiqe Dispute about the happiest match for the noble Prince Charles’, the name ‘Charles’ deleted and ‘Henry’ added in a different hand, subscribed in different ink ‘WR:’.

In: A quarto volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, 189 pages, in contemporary limp vellum. Early 17th century.

From the library of the Ormsby Gore family, Barons Harlech, of Brogyntyn (or Porkington), Oswestry, Shropshire.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 85, No. 30.

National Library of Wales, Brogyntyn MS II. 14, pp. 73-93.

RaW 643

Copy, as ‘Written by Sr Walter Rawleigh’, on nineteen folio leaves. c.1620.

University of North Carolina, CSWR A36.

RaW 644

Copy in: A folio booklet of two state tracts, in a single italic hand, fourteen leaves, unbound. Early 17th century.

Northamptonshire Record Office, FH 91, ff. 7v-14r.

RaW 644.5

Copy, headed ‘Consideracons touchinge the Mariage of the Prince with ye house of Savoy Ano 1612 by Sir Walter Raleighe knight’.

In: the MS described under RaW 6.5. c.1642.

Robert S. Pirie, New York, [Feilde MS], pp. 471-84.

RaW 645

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘A Politique dispute aboute the happiest marriage for the noble Prince Charles’, on twenty quarto leaves plus a blank. Early 17th century.

In: A folio guard-book of independent Jacobean state papers, stamped foliation 1-264.

National Archives, Kew, SP 14/72, ff. 224r-33v (item 130).

RaW 645.8

Copy, dated 1611.

In: the MS described under RaW 592.5. c.1630[-1690].

Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds, 941/73/2, ff. 145r-56r.

RaW 646

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘written by Sr Walter Rawleigh’, dated 1612. c.1620s-30s.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional secretary hand, with a table of contents, i + 221 pages (including some blanks), in old vellum boards. Early-mid-17th century.

Old pressmark E. 1. 36.

Trinity College, Dublin, MS 545, pp. 1-10.

RaW 646.5

A formal copy of an untitled French translation of the discourse, beginning ‘Il ny a personne Qui persuade nostre prince de sallick a la Maison de Sauyoye...’, in a neat hand, 32 small quarto leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. Early 17th century.

University of Texas at Austin, HRC 185.

RaW 647

Copy, headed ‘A politicke dispute about the happiest Match for the noble Prince Charles’.

In: A folio volume of state tracts and speeches, 380 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt, now disbound. Early-mid-17th century.

Includes arms and genealogy of ‘Helsby Cherleton & Acton Co. Lestr’ and of ‘The Lords of Hatton Co. Lestr’. Inscribed ‘Thomas Helsby Lincoln's Inn London 1855’.

Yale, Osborn MS fb 23, ff. 287-98.

A Discourse touching a Match between the Lady Elizabeth and the Prince of Piedmont

A tract beginning ‘To obey commandment of my lord the prince, I have sent you my opinion of the match lately desired by the duke of Savoy...’. First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses: 1) Concerning a match propounded by the Savoyan, between the Lady Elizabeth and the Prince of Piedmont (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 223-36. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.

RaW 648

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 572. c.1611-15.

Untraced, Bradfer Lawrence MS 61, ff. 99r-105r.

RaW 649

Copy, in Starkey's hand, headed ‘A matche propounded by ye Sauoyan betweene the ladie Elizabethe, & the prince of Piemont’, unascribed.

In: the MS described under RaW 625. c.1624-8.

British Library, Add. MS 4149, ff. 184r-92v.

RaW 650

Copy, probably by one or two of Birch's amanuenses.

In: the MS described under RaW 626. c.1751.

British Library, Add. MS 4231, ff. 89r-97v.

RaW 651

Copy of an abridged version, headed ‘An opinion of ye match propounded by ye Embassadour of Savoy betweene ye Lady Elizabeth his Maties eldest (and now only daughter) and ye Prince of Piemont...1611’.

In: A folio volume of tracts and papers principally by Sir Charles Cornwallis (c.1555-1629), courtier and Ambassador to Spain, in professional mixed hands, i + 163 leaves, in modern half dark red morocco. Entitled ‘A Collection of Sr Charles Cornwaleys my fathers manuscripts’, and probably compiled by or for ‘Charles Cornwaleys of London Esqr’, who describes himself (f. 163r) as ‘a younger son to Sir Charles Cornwaleys Kt author of this manuscript’. c.1630s.

British Library, Add. MS 39853, ff. 25r-6r.

RaW 652

Copy, imperfect.

In: the MS described under RaW 628.

British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius C. XVI, Part II, ff. 395r-403v.

RaW 653

Second copy, imperfect.

In: the MS described under RaW 628.

British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius C. XVI, ff. 541r-5r.

RaW 654

Copy, in a mixed hand, imperfect, a large part torn away.

In: the MS described under RaW 629.

British Library, Harley MS 6273, ff. 128r-38r.

RaW 655

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 630.

British Library, Harley MS 6845, ff. 201r-7r.

RaW 656

Copy, in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, headed ‘A matche propounded by ye Sauoyan betwene the Ladie Elizabeth and the Prince of Piemont’.

In: the MS described under RaW 57.

Folger, MS G.b.9, ff. 283r-95r.

RaW 657

Copy, unascribed, dated ‘9 Jacobi’ [i.e. 1611-12], 27 folio pages. Late 17th century.

In: A folio composite volume of legal and state tracts and letters, in various hands and paper sizes, eight items unfoliated. Early-mid 18th century.

Once owned by Sir Thomas Clarke, MP, FRS (1703-64), Master of the Rolls, and by Richard Pepper Arden (1744-1804), first Baron Alvanley, Attorney General. Inscribed by Charles Purton Cooper (1793-1873), lawyer and antiquary, while at Wadham College, Oxford.

Lincoln's Inn Library, Misc. MS 218, item 6.

RaW 658

Copy, the tract dated ‘12mo Reg: Jacobi’ [i.e. 1614-15].

In: the MS described under RaW 644. Early 17th century.

This MS recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 32.

Northamptonshire Record Office, FH 91, ff. 1r-7r.

RaW 658.5

Copy, headed ‘The match propounded by the Savoian...’.

In: the MS described under RaW 592.5. c.1630[-1690].

Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds, 941/73/2, ff. 135r-44r.

A Discourse touching a War with Spain, and of the Protecting of the Netherlands

A tract addressed to James I and beginning ‘It belongeth not to me to judge whether the king of Spain hath done wrong to the Netherlands...’. First published in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 299-316.

RaW 659

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, dated ‘1602’. c.1620s-30s.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, 430 leaves, in contemporary calf, with ties. In various hands, including early items docketed by Robert Beale (1541-1601), Clerk of the Privy Council.

Yelverton MS 68, including papers of Beale descending to Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 43. Described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 228-9 (No.33).

British Library, Add. MS 48062, ff. 370r-85r.

RaW 659.5

Copy, in a secretary hand, endorsed (f. 312v) ‘Ra. warr and peace’.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers and tracts, largely relating to relations with Spain, 452 leaves, in half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. In various hands, including that of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), merchant and antiquary (ff. 23r-v, 135r-42r, 169r-70v, 331r-v. 449r-52v).

British Library, MS Vespasian C. XIII, ff. 307r-11v.

RaW 660

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘written by Sr Walter Rauleighe and presented to kinge James in the first yeare of his raigne 1602’. ‘c.’1620s-30s.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, with (f. 1*r-v) an ‘Index’ of contents, 247 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt. In various professional hands, including those of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, and the ‘Feathery Scribe’.

Later owned by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary. Then by Robert Harley.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 239-41 (No. 53).

British Library, Harley MS 444, ff. 92r-108r.

RaW 661

Copy, as ‘written by Sir Walter Raleigh 1602’.

In: A quarto composite volume of MSS, 121 leaves.

British Library, Sloane MS 63, ff. 58r-69r.

RaW 662

Copy, headed ‘A Discourse touchinge the prsent Consultacon concerninge the peace with Spaine, and protection written by Sr Walter Rauleigh, and prsented to Kinge James in the first yeare of his Raigne: 1602’.

In: A folio volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, including the ‘Feathery Scribe’ and Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), 374 leaves (plus blanks), in modern quarter-calf. c.1620s-30s.

Bookplate of John Moore (1646-1714), Bishop of Ely.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 216-17 (No. 6).

Cambridge University Library, MS Ee. 2. 32, ff. 109r-27v.

RaW 663

Copy, headed ‘A Consultation for the king concerning the retaining of the Netherlands in socyety and protection’ and endorsed (f. 67v) ‘Copie of a discourse touching the present consultacon of making peace or war wth: Spaine Ano. 1603’.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in various professional hands, 124 leaves (including blanks), in half-calf on marbled boards.

Cambridge University Library, MS Mm. 4. 24, ff. 60r-7v.

RaW 664

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on eleven folio leaves (plus one blank). Headed ‘A discourse touching the present Consultacon concerning the Peace with Spaine, and the retayninge of the Netherlands in societie & protection written by Sr. Walter Raleigh the first yeare of the Kinge. 1602’. c.1602-25.

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 D258/34/37.

Eecorded in HMC, 9th Report, Part II, (1884), Appendix, p. 386.

Derbyshire Record Office, D258/12/41.

RaW 665

Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, as ‘written by Sr Walter Raleigh the first yeare of ye Kinge 1602’.

In: A Folio composite volume of state tracts, in three hands, 130 leaves, in old calf. c.1625-30s.

Once owned by Henry Powle (1630-92), Master of the Rolls, whose library and MS collection were assembled with the help of John Bagford (1650-1716). Bookplate of Francis North (1704-90), first Earl of Guilford, of Wroxton Abbey. Acquired by Henry Clay Folger (1857-1930) from the Arthur H. Clark Company, Cleveland (from their London warehouse) in August 1924. Formerly Folger MS 1291.3.

Folger, MS V.b.151, ff. 63r-73r.

RaW 665.5

Copy, in two hands, headed ‘A discourse tuchinge the prsent Consultation Consernige the peace wth spayne and there layinge of the nether landes in socitye & Prection written by sr walter Rawley’, thirteen pages. c.1620-30s.

Among the papers of the Jervoise family, of Herriard Park.

Hampshire Record Office, 44M69/G2/148.

RaW 666

Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, headed ‘A discourse touchinge the prsent consultacon concerninge the peace wth Spaine and the retayninge of the Netherlands in societie and pteccon written the first yeare of Kinge James 1602’, and docketed in another hand on a blank leaf ‘Concerning Peace wth Spaine & Netherlands 1602’, on ii + 24 folio leaves. c.1630.

In: the MS described under RaW 591. Early-mid-17th century.

Huntington, EL 7976, item 3.

RaW 666.5

Copy of ‘A Discourse of Sir W. Raleigh to James I 1602’.

In: A quarto volume of chiefly tracts and speeches, in various hands, 175 leaves, in contemporary vellum.

University of Glasgow, MS Hunter 506, ff. 1v-4r 14r.

RaW 667

Copy. Early 17th century.

Formerly owned by the Sotheby family at Ecton Hall, Northamptonshire.

This MS recorded in Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the William L. Clements Library, by Arlene Phillips Sky and Barbara A. Mitchell, 3rd edn (Boston, Mass., 1978), p. 96, No. 148 (44).

University of Michigan, MSS 1570-1965.

RaW 668

Copy, as ‘by Sr water Rawleigh’, in several secretary hands, in an irregular sequence with passages on ff. 239v-40r and 245v marked for repositioning, on eight folio leaves, incomplete or imperfect. c.1620s.

In: A large folio guard-book of independent Jacobean state papers, stamped foliation 1-242.

National Archives, Kew, SP 14/205, ff. 239r-46v (item 43).

RaW 669

Copy, headed ‘Of Spaine & ye Netherlands by Sr W. Raleigh 1o Jac.’, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, on 15 leaves, docketed at the end ‘Plegi febr. 25. 1673/4 Jo: Witham’.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and letters, in professional hands, including that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 517 leaves, in reversed calf. No. 11 inscribed ‘Severall Tracts Selected out of a Booke in ye hands of Sir Robert Cotton Knight and Baronnet’.

Collected in 1674 by one John Witham.

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 239/4, No. 4.

RaW 669.5

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘written by Sir Walter Raweleigh and directed to kinge James in the first yeare of his raigne 1602’. c.1630.

In: the MS described under RaW 608.5.

Society of Antiquaries, MS 258, ff. 93r-110v.

RaW 670

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘by Sr Walter Rawleigh...1602’. c.1625-30s.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and speeches, in various professional hands, 429 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf.

Bequeathed by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Old pressmark G. 4. 8.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 225-6 (No. 22).

Trinity College, Dublin, MS 861, ff. 239r-64v.

RaW 671

Copy, as ‘Written by Sr: Walter Raleigh knight, & by him presented to his Matie: Anno Dni 1602’.

In: the MS described under RaW 97. c.1620s.

Dr Williams's Library, MS Jones B. 60, pp. 33-63.

RaW 672

Copy in: A folio volume of state tracts, in various hands, 273 pages. Early-mid-17th century.

Once owned by Sir Richard Grosvenor (1585-1645). Formerly owned by the Marquis of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire (‘Liber 5’ = MS 8). Sotheby's, 19 July 1966, lot 485, to Dobell.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 212. A microfilm of the MS is in the British Library, RP 45.

Yale, Osborn MS fb 178, ff. 1r-16v.

RaW 673

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘written and directed vnto Kinge James the first yeare of his raigne 1602’, annotated by a reader (f. 1r) ‘A Manuscript of Spaine Netherlands, &c.’ and (f. 15v) ‘The state of things is now much altered betweene ffrance, spaine, the netherlands and vs’[plus two heavily deleted lines].

In: A folio volume of state and antiquarian tracts and letters, in two or more professional hands, with a table of contents at the end, ii + 227 leaves, in modern cloth. c.1630.

Mostyn MS 139 (Old Catalogue MS 53), from the library originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn Hall, near Hollywell, Flintshire, and maintained by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) and his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90). Sotheby's, 13 July 1920, lot 72, to Sumner.

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 352.

Lambeth Palace Library, MS 2858, ff. 1r-15v .

RaW 674

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 569. 17th century.

Untraced, [Finch MS], [unspecified page numbers].

RaW 675

Copy; quarto. described in the Phillipps catalogue as ‘Sir Walter Raleigh's Discourse on Spain. 1602’. 17th century.

Untraced, Phillipps MS, MS 4855 .

RaW 675.5

Copy in: A folio volume comprising three works by or relating to Sir Walter Ralegh, in a professional secretary hand, 52 leaves, in modern quarter-morocco. c.1620s.

Sotheby's, 18 December 1986, lot 9, to Simon Finch.

Untraced, [Ralegh/Discourse], ff. 34-47.

The Discovery of Guiana

A tract, with ‘To the Reader’ beginning ‘Because there haue been diuers opinions conceiued of the golde oare brought from Guinana...’, the main text beginning ‘On Thursday the 6. of Februarie in the yeare 1595. we departed England...’. First published as The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empire of Guiana (London, 1596). Works (1829), VIII, 377-476. Edited by V. T. Harlow (London, 1928). Edited by Joyce Lorimer (Aldershot, 2006).

RaW 676

Copy of an early version, with a dedication (f. 315r) to Charles Howard and Sir Robert Cecil in a neat italic hand, the main text (ff. 316r-36r) closely written in a probably professional secretary hand, with sidenotes (on ff. 320v, 321v, 322v, 325v, 326v) in an italic hand, probably Cecil's, untitled, but endorsed in a later hand (f. 337v) ‘sir Wallter Ralleghes dyscourse: of his first voyadg to Guiana’. c.1596. c.1596.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, relating to Elizabethan voyages, in various hands, 475 leaves, in modern calf.

The first item inscribed (f. 1r) ‘This boke ys myn / Iohn fford’. Among papers of the Carew family.

Edited from this MS in Lorimer.

Lambeth Palace Library, MS 250, ff. 315r-37v.

RaW 677

An abridgement of the work, headed ‘Sr. Walter Raleigh. G. / An abstract of diuerse memorable thinges, worthy the noting, selected out of Sr. Walter Raleighes first booke of his discoverie of Guyana and by hym performed in Anno Domini 1595’.

In: A quarto volume of works by Ralegh, in a neat italic hand, 50 leaves, incorporating (ff. 22r-45v) a printed tract, in modern mottled leather gilt. c.1618.

The printed tract, Newes Of Sr. Walter Rauleigh, With The true Description of Gviana (London, 1618) inscribed on the title-page ‘Liber Richardi Harmar: Oxoniææ. 1618’.

British Library, Sloane MS 3272, ff. 1r-21r.

The History of the World

First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.

See also RaW 728.

RaW 677.1

Extract.

In: A notebook of state and parliamentary papers compiled by John Browne, Clerk of the Parliaments, partly in another hand, ii. + 34 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Early 17th century.

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 25152. Sotheby's, 27 April 1903, lot 868. Donated in 1938 by Falconer Madan (1851-1935), librarian and bibliographer.

Bodleian, MS Eng. misc.e. 226, f. 12r.

RaW 677.2

Extracts.

In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in several hands, written from both ends (ff. 1-19, then ff. 82-20 rev.), the forty-three sonnets on ff. 1r-11r in a single neat secretary hand and headed ‘Sonetts by Alablaster vppo ye ensignes of Christes Crucifyinge’, iii + 82 leaves (plus three blanks), in contemporary vellum. Early-mid-17th century.

Discovered c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), book dealer and literary scholar. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 106 (1949), item 1.

Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 57, f. 15v.

RaW 677.3

Extracts.

In: the MS described under RaW 235. c.1620s-30s.

Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. f. 10, fol. 70r.

RaW 677.4

Extracts.

In: A quarto volume of miscellaneous extracts and religious tracts, compiled or owned by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), Oxford antiquary, with his inscription ‘Liber Tho. Hearne, 16 Aug. 1709’, 285 leaves.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. D. 267, ff. 1r-33r.

RaW 677.5

Extracts.

In: A folio comonplace book of extracts from different authors, 81 leaves. Mid-17th century.

Inscribed ‘Th. Crewe, pret. 3s 6d’.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. D. 368, pp. 1-12.

RaW 677.6

Extracts.

In: John Milton's Commonplace Book. c.1632-60s.

This MS probably given to Viscount Preston by Daniel Skinner, his former schoolfellow at Westminster School; Milton's Commonplace Book (MnJ 66), together with the letter addressed to him by Henry Lawes (MnJ 10), were discovered by Alfred J. Horwood in 1874 among the papers of the Graham family at Netherby Hall, Longtown, Cumberland, and recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 320. The state papers of Viscount Preston, among whose muniments Milton's commonplace book (with related material) was found, were sold at Sotheby's on 10 July 1986, lot 303, and are now in the British Library (Add. MSS 63752-63781).

British Library, Add. MS 36354, p. 114.

RaW 677.7

Extracts, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh Histor Mundi Libro 3 fo 15’.

In: A folio volume chiefly of heraldic arms, 97 leaves, in modern half brown morocco gilt. Partly in the hand of John Woodnoth (d.1634), antiquary, of Shavington Hall, Cheshire, with additions in a late-17th-century hand. Chiefly c.1603-34.

Later owned by Sir Simeon Stuart, third Baronet, MP (c.1724-c.1779/82), of Hartley Mauduit, Hampshire, Chamberlain of the Exchequer (constituting Volume VIII of the Stuart Collection). Purchased in 1778.

British Library, Add. MS 4965, f. 95r.

RaW 677.8

Extracts, headed ‘Sr W. R. Pref’.

In: A quarto commonplace book of extracts from theological and historical works, largely in a single minute hand, 116 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. c.1673.

Inscribed (f. 10v) ‘Gaue these Book to Mr Norman to Couer’.

British Library, Sloane MS 719, f. 31v et seq.

RaW 677.9

A Latin translation of a passage from Ralegh's work made in the 1630s by Thomas Egerton, younger son of John Egerton (1579-1649), first Earl of Bridgewater.

In: 4°, composite volume of MSS in several hands, including (items 4, 9, 10, 16, 17, 21, 24) eight sermons by Donne in six hands; used by members of the Egerton family, Earls of Bridgewater. The Ellesmere MS. in contemporary calf. c.1620-30s.

Bridgewater Library. Sold at Sotheby's, 19 March 1951, lot 174. Owned in 1957 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes.

Described in Geoffrey Keynes, ‘John Donne's Sermons’, TLS (28 May 1954), p. 351, and in Potter & Simpson, II, 365-71. Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 1862.

Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 8469, Item 18.

RaW 678

Copy of the Preface only, in the accomplished predominantly secretary hand of a relatively young Elias Ashmole, transcribed from a printed source, on 51 duodecimo leaves, imperfect and lacking title, in quarter-calf over contemporary reversed calf, with remains of metal clasps. Mid-17th century.

Bodleian, MS Ashmole 787.

RaW 678.1

Extract, the ending of the work, docketed ‘chap: 6: S. 12 / Sr Walter Rawligh ye last leaffe of hys history I meane ye first parte for wee are not lykly to see any other att least this world He being in Heaven’, here beginning ‘By this wch wee haue alreadie sett downe, is seene the beginninge and end of the three first Monarchies of the worlde...’.

In: the MS described under RaW 41.5. c.1618-20s.

British Library, Harley MS 1759, ff. 80r-1r.

RaW 678.2

Extracts, with various emendations and deletions, headed ‘Out of sr wa: Rauleighs book entituled The History of the World, wherof the first part Containing fiue Bokes is printed ao Dni. 1614: are best notes taken &c’. Early 17th century.

In: A folio composite miscellany of genealogical and antiquarian tracts, in various hands, 341 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

British Library, Harley MS 4872, ff. 35r-51v.

RaW 678.3

Numerous extracts, including entries on pp. 15, 15a, 27, 34, 60, 63, 65, 79, 96, 106, 119-21, 138, 153, 162, 201, 206-7, 226, 236, 238, 264, 266, 282, 288, 308, 321-3, 329, 332, 337-8, 362, 386, 420, 430, 442, 449, 453-4, 467, 470, 473, 492-4, 525-6, 591, 596-600, 605, 607, 613, 619-22, 624, 626, 633-4, 637, and 648 (rev.).

In: A folio commonplace book of entries arranged under subject headings, in a single hand, written from both ends, 652 pages (plus some unnumbered), in modern cloth. Mid-17th century.

A modern pencil note on a flyleaf claims to identify the compiler as one ‘Raworth’.

Chetham's Library, Mun. A.6.33, passim.

RaW 678.4

Extract, headed ‘Sr walter Rawleigh 1. c 7. fo. 210’, beginning ‘That we may not saie to the Devill...’.

In: A quarto miscellany, in English and Latin, in a single small italic hand, i + 124 unnumbered leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum with ties. c.1615.

Inscribed (f. [ir]) ‘This Book I bought at Chester...1734 / J. Draye’. Among the collections of Christopher Hunter (1675-1757), Durham antiquary and physician.

Durham Cathedral Library, Hunter MS 48, f. [72r].

RaW 678.6

A corrected proofsheet (sigs 5A3v-4r: pp. 398-9) in an exemplum of The History of the World (London, ‘1617’ [i.e. 1621]). c.1621.

Recorded in Jan Moore, p. 69.

Edinburgh University Library, C. 175. dd. 14.

RaW 678.7

Extracts.

In: A large untitled folio anthology of quotations chiefly from Elizabethan and Stuart plays, alphabetically arranged under subject headings, in a single mixed hand, in double columns, 900 pages (lacking pp. 1-4, 379-80, 667-8, 715-20 and 785-8), including (pp. 893-7) an alphabetical index of some 351 titles of plays, in modern boards. This is the longest known extant version of the unpublished anthology Hesperides or The Muses Garden, by John Evans, entered in the Stationers' Register on 16 August 1655 and subsequently advertised c.1660, among works he purposed to print, by Humphrey Moseley. Another version of this work, in the same hand, dissected by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), is now distributed between Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Halliwell-Phillipps, Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare, Folger, MS V.a.75, Folger, MS V.a.79, and Folger, MS V.a.80. c.1656-66.

Formerly MS 469.2.

This MS identified in IELM, II.i (1980), p. 450. Discussed, as the ‘master draft’, with a facsimile of p. 7 on p. 381, in Hao Tianhu, ‘Hesperides, or the Muses' Garden and its Manuscript History’, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/4 (December 2009), 372-404 (the full index printed as ‘Catalogue A’ on pp. 385-94).

Folger, MS V.b.93, passim.

RaW 678.8

Copy of an abridged version, with an index, on 802 small octavo pages, in a black morocco elaborately gilt. Mid-17th century.

Later in the library of William Stuart (1755-1822), Archbishop of Armagh, and his son William Stuart (1798-1874), of Aldenham Abbey.

John Emmerson, Melbourne, Australia, [Ralegh MS].

RaW 678.9

Extracts, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawley / Of ye name, & meaning of ye words Law, & Right’, beginning ‘The word Lex, or Law, is not always taken alike, but is diversly & in an indifferent sense vsed...’.

In: A large folio volume of ecclesiastical and historical tracts, in a mixed hand, 418 pages (including numerous blanks, plus many blanks at the end), in modern calf. Early-mid-17th century.

Given by William Moore.

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, MS 291/274, pp. 403-6.

RaW 679

Copy of an abridged version, with two prefatory poems in praise of Ralegh, the History on pp. 37-229 in a volume of 237 pages, in leather. Mid-17th century.

Once owned by Robert Greville (c.1638-77), fourth Lord Brooke, of Warwick Castle. Sotheby's, 11 May 1970, lot 146. Hofmann and Freeman, sale catalogue No. 36.

This MS, or one similar to it, used by Laurence Echard as the basis for his Abridgment of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World (London, 1700). A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 880.

University of North Carolina, CSWR A96.

RaW 679.1

Extracts, on eight pages of four folio leaves, disbound. Headed Sr. ‘Walter Rawleis Booke of ye History of ye World; the first Booke treats of tymes from the Creation to Abraham’. c.1620.

Among the papers of the Hastings family, Earls of Huntingdon.

Huntington, HA School Exercises Box 1 (2).

RaW 679.2

Extracts, on f. [iv] of a quarto booklet of twelve leaves, unbound, damaged by corrosive seepage of ink. Headed ‘ovt of Sir Walter Rovlie October ye 31 1643 this day begon and beginninge with ye Creation’. 1643.

Among the papers of the Hastings family, Earls of Huntingdon.

Huntington, HA School Exercises Box 1 (3).

RaW 679.3

Extracts, on ff. [4r-7r] in a quarto booklet of twelve pages (plus four blanks). Docketed on f [1r] ‘Thucydides and Sir walter Rauly’.

Huntington, HA School Exercises Box 1 (4).

RaW 679.4

Extracts, headed ‘Generall notes’.

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

Huntington, HM 1338, ff. 93r-100v.

RaW 679.6

Extracts, including entries on pp. 143-4, 167, 169, 171, 177, 181, 187, 193, 195.

In: An octavo commonplace book relating to military history, in probably a single mixed hand, 230 pages (including many blanks), in contemporary brown calf. c.1630.

Inner Temple Library, Miscellaneous MS No. 38, passim.

RaW 679.7

Extracts.

In: A quarto miscellany. Late 17th century.

Northamptonshire Record Office, W(A) Misc Vol 27, [unspecified page numbers].

RaW 679.8

Extracts, headed ‘Notes out of Sr. Walter Raleigh / 1738’, on rectos only.

In: A quarto notebook, 242 leaves, in half-calf on marbled boards. c.1738.

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Jos Smith’.

The Queen's College, Oxford, MS 477, ff. 170r-83r.

RaW 679.9

Series of extracts, headed ‘Some few things excerpted out of Sir Walter Raleighs history of the World’, subscribed ‘Finis hujus Collectionis ex Dom: Walt: Raleigh / march 26 1700’.

In: An octavo notebook of extracts principally from works on religion and ancient history, in a single cursive mixed hand, closely written from both ends along the length of of each page with the spine uppermost, 162 leaves (plus three stubs), in contemporary calf with ties. Compiled by Andrew Melvill, a student of Glasgow University under James Woodrow (d.1707), Professor of Divinity, and frequently signed by Melvill (sometimes as ‘And: Melvinus’) with dates ranging from 29 November 1699 to 15 May 1701. 1699-1701.

Wellcome Library, London, MS 6880, ff. 29r-40v.

RaW 679.91

Extracts, in a cursive hand, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawley of Phillip of Macedon Hist: 135 page’.

In: An octavo commonplace book, in several hands, 198 leaves, in contemporary calf with traces of ties. Compiled in part by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. c.1630s-48.

Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).

University College London, MS Ogden 7/21, f. 26r.

RaW 679.92

Extract, headed ‘The Character of Epamanondas by Sir Walter Rawley’, beginning ‘He was graue and yet very affable...’.

In: A duodecimo commonplace book of extracts from historical works, in a cursive hand, written from both ends, 81 leaves, in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps. Compiled by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. c.1640.

Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).

University College London, MS Ogden 7/33, f. 25v.

RaW 679.93

Extracts, in Drake's hand, headed ‘Some obseruations out of Sir walter Rawleies history of the world’.

In: An octavo commonplace book, largely in one cursive hand, written from both ends, 184 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Owned by, and with some entries in the cursive hand of, William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. c.1640s.

Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).

University College London, MS Ogden 7/37, ff. 184v-183v rev.

RaW 679.94

Extracts, headed ‘Out of Sr wal: Rauley the Preface’.

In: A duodecimo commonplace book of extracts, in one cursive hand, written from both ends, 117 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum boards gilt. c.1630.

Owned by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).

University College London, MS Ogden 7/38, ff. 116v-r rev. [2v-r rev.].

RaW 679.95

Observations and extracts.

In: A duodecimo commonplace book, compiled by James, Earl of Derby [presumably James Stanley (1607-51), seventh Earl of Derby], x or xii + 295 pages. 17th century.

Formerly among papers of the Rev. T.W. Webb, of Hardwick Vicarage, Herefordshire.

Recorded in HMC, 7th Report, Part I (1879), Appendix, p. 682.

Untraced, [Webb MS (I)], [unspecified pages].

*RaW 679.96

A printed exemplum of The History of the World with, at the top of the title-page, Ralegh's autograph presentation inscription to William Trumbull (1576/80-1635), English Resident in Brussels. c.1614.

In: the MS described under RaW 104.

Facsimile of the inscribed title-page in Sotheby's sale catalogue.

Untraced, [Trumbull volume], The volume as a whole.

Instructions to his Son and to Posterity

A treatise in ten chapters, beginning ‘There is nothing more becoming any wise man than to make choice of friends...’. First published in London, 1632. Works (1829), VIII, 557-70. Edited by Louis B. Wright in Advice to a Son (Ithaca, 1962), pp. 15-32.

RaW 680

Copy of chapters I-IX, headed ‘Sir Walter Rawleigh to his sonne’.

In: A quarto volume of state papers, in several hands, one small secretary hand predominating, 73 leaves, all now mounted on guards, in modern red half-morocco. c.1630.

This MS discussed and the accompanying letter edited in Agnes Latham, ‘Sir Walter Ralegh's Instructions to his Son’, in Elizabethan and Jacobean Studies Presented to Frank Percy Wilson (Oxford, 1969), pp. 199-218 (pp. 206-8). However, the letter is probably independent of the Instructions: see Fred B. Tromly, ‘Sir Walter Ralegh Instructs his Son, Twice’, N&Q, 254 (December 2009), 616-19.

British Library, Add. MS 22587, ff. 11r-16r.

RaW 680.3

A précis of the tract, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleighs Instructyons to his Sonne and to Posterytye’.

In: A quarto volume of pious tracts, in a single secretary hand, 157 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. c.1633.

British Library, Harley MS 6534, ff. 102r-3r.

RaW 680.5

Copy, untitled, the first chapter headed ‘Wise and vertuous psons to be made choise of for friend’, imperfect.

In: the MS described under RaW 53.5. Early-mid-17th century.

Sir William Dugdale, Merevale Hall, Bundle XVII/22 in Horse-hair trunk, [unnumbered pages].

RaW 680.6

Extracts ‘Out of Sr walter Raleighs Instructions to his sone, & to posteritie’.

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.

Folger, MS V.b.110, pp. 490-5.

RaW 680.8

Extracts, headed ‘Some Obseruations drawen from [Sr Wal: Rawleigh deleted] Instructions to his son’.

In: A quarto commonplace book of extracts, with a tipped-in insert, written from both ends, 171 leaves, in contemporary calf with green ties. Compiled by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. c.Mid-late 1630s.

Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).

University College London, MS Ogden 7/7, ff. 53r-5v.

RaW 681

This letter by Ralegh to his son is not the Instructions to his Son and to Posterity.

Deleted entry, Inner Temple Library Petyt MS 538 Volume 18, f. 215r.

RaW 682

Copy in: A quarto volume of tracts. Mid-17th century?

Sotheby's, 15 June 1896, lot 982, to W. Flower.

Untraced, Phillipps MS, MS 8455, item 1.

RaW 682.5

MS of a French translation, entirely in the hand of John Egerton (1622-86), second Earl of Bridgewater, Privy Councillor, on 175 quarto pages. Written as a presentation copy to his father, the first Earl of Bridgewater (1579-1649), politician and lawyer, signed ‘JBrackley’, with preliminaries comprising (p.[1]) a title-page, ‘Instructions du Cheualier Gvalter Raleigh à son Fils, & a la Posterité’; (pp. [2-12]) a dedication; and (pp. [13-15]) a list of contents; the main text, in ten chapters, paginated 1-160.

A facsimile of this MS is in the Huntington, EL 34 A 6.

The Duke of Sutherland, Mertoun, Roxburghshire, 34/A/6.

A Journal of Ralegh's Second Voyage to Guiana

See RaW 726.

Observations concerning the Royal Navy and Sea-Service

A tract dedicated to Prince Henry and beginning ‘Having formerly, most excellent prince, discoursed of a maritimal voyage, and the passages and incidents therein...’. First published in Judicious and Select Essayes and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 335-50. These notes probably written by Ralegh but usually appended to Sir Arthur Gorges, A larger Relation of the...Iland Voyage, printed in Purchas his Pilgrimes (London, 1625). Glasgow edition, XX (1907), 34-129. See Helen Estabrook Sandison, ‘Manuscripts of the “Islands Voyage” and “Notes on the Royal Navy”’, Essays and Studies in Honor of Carleton Brown (New York, London & Oxford, 1940), 242-52, and Lefranc (1968), pp. 53, 58-9.

RaW 683

Copy, in a secretary hand, as ‘Written by Sr Wa: Raleigh’.

In: the MS described under RaW 543. c.1620s-30s.

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 261, pp. 388-437.

RaW 684

Copy, ascribed to Gorges.

In: A folio volume of tracts relating to seafaring, in a single professional predominantly secretary hand, 237 leaves. c.1640.

This MS recorded in Sandison (1928), p. 671. The previously unpublished introduction in this MS edited in Sandison (1940), p. 252.

Bodleian, MS Ballard 52, ff. 125r-36v.

RaW 685

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘Written by Sr walter Rawleigh and by him dedicated to the most noble and illustrious Prince Henry’. c.1630.

In: A large folio composite volume of naval tracts, in various hands, 188 leaves, in modern half red morocco.

This MS recorded in Sandison (1928), p. 671.

British Library, Add. MS 9298, ff. 39r-54v.

RaW 686

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘by Sir Arthur Gorge’ and dedicated to Prince Henry, on six folio leaves. Bound with three other MSS (Harley MSS 4133, 4271, 6014), in modern half crushed morocco gilt. c.1612-19.

This MS recorded in Sandison (1928), p. 671.

British Library, Harley MS 4311.

RaW 687

Copy, unascribed.

In: the MS described under RaW 631. c.1660s.

This MS recorded in Sandison (1928), p. 671.

British Library, Lansdowne MS 213, ff. 49r-56v.

RaW 687.5

Copy of an early version, headed ‘Especiall Notes concerning her Maties Nauie and Sea-Seruice’, with a preface addressed to Queen Elizabeth. c.1600.

In: the MS described under RaW 637.5.

This MS is discussed in Suzanne Gossett, ‘A New History for Ralegh's Notes on the Navy’, MP, 85 (1987), 12-26.

Folger, MS J.a.1, ff. 161r-5v (MS J.a.1.12).

RaW 688

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page, as ‘Excellent obbservations...By Sir Walter Rawleigh Knt’, with (f. 1v) an ‘Index’. c.1620s-30s.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several hands, 216 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.

Inner Temple Library, Petyt MS 538, Vol. 37, ff. 1r-16v.

RaW 690

Copy, the work ascribed to Gorges.

In: A quarto MS of two works by Sir Arthur Gorges and Sir Walter Ralegh, in a professional secretary hand, 173 pages, in contemporary limp vellum, with remains of green silk ties. A presentation MS, probably to Henry Percy, ninth Earl of Northumberland, in a professional hand, with title-page, inscribed ‘Given by Sir Arthur Gorges’. c.1612-19.

Formerly Leconfield MS 83 at Petworth House, Sussex. Sotheby's, 24 April 1928, lot 105, to A.S.W. Rosenbach. Afterwards in the library of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937). Sotheby's, 23 June 1988 (Philip Robinson sale, Part I), lot 169. Quaritch's sale catalogue English Literature in Manuscript (November 1996), item 9.

Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 308. A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 3898.

This MS discussed in Sandison (1928), p. 671, and in Sandison (1940).

Untraced, [Leconfield MS 83], pp. 142-71.

RaW 691

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 569. 17th century.

Untraced, [Finch MS], [unspecified page numbers].

Of the Art of Warre by Sea

No complete text of this treatise is known. Fragments first published in Lefranc (1968), pp. 597-9. Youings, No. 227, pp. 375-6.

*RaW 692

Two autograph sets of notes in preparation for the work, comprising two draft versions of a list of fifteen chapter headings, the first version beginning ‘The antiquitie of sea fight & in what vessels’, the second version headed ‘The pface’ and beginning ‘The Antiquitie of sea fight, & their weapons in elder times’, on two trimmed folio leaves.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers and tracts, generally relating to voyages and naval matters, in various professional hands, 388 leaves (but see RaW 726), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Edited from this MS in Lefranc (1968), pp. 597-8.

British Library, Cotton MS Titus B. VIII, ff. 226r, 228r.

RaW 693

Copy of notes belonging to the Art of Warre by Sea, consisting of later additions to the treatise, headed ‘Fragments of Sr. Walter Raleighes’ and beginning ‘For weere it not out of a singuler devotion to doe your Matie service...’, apparently transcribed from Ralegh's autograph papers or from an early copy of them.

In: the MS described under RaW 97. c.1620s.

Edited from this MS in Lefranc (1968), pp. 599-601, and in Youings.

Dr Williams's Library, MS Jones B. 60, pp. 229-34.

Of the Voyage for Guiana

A tract beginning ‘Touching the voyage for Guiana, it is to be considered first, Whether it bee to be vndertaken...’. First published in The Discoverie of...Guiana, ed. Sir Robert H. Schomburgk, Hakluyt Society, 1st Ser. 3 (London, 1848). Edited by V.T. Harlow in The Discoverie of...Guiana (London, 1928), pp. 138-49, and in Joyce Lorimer's edition of that work (Aldershot, 2006), pp. 253-63.

RaW 694

Copy, in three styles of secretary and italic, possibly in a single hand, docketed at the top of the first page ‘by Sr. W. Raleigh’, on eight quarto leaves (plus blanks), originally foliated 45-52, in 19th-century half morocco. c.1595-6.

Edited from this MS by editors.

British Library, Sloane MS 1133.

On the Conduct of the War

First published in Pierre Lefranc, ‘Un inédit de Ralegh sur la conduite de la guerre (1596-1597)’, EA, 8 (1955), 193-211. Recorded in T.N. Brushfield, A Bibliography of Sir Walter Ralegh (Exeter, 1908), No. 249, as ‘A Discourse on the Defence of a Country, the conduct of a Fleet and Army, &c.’.

RaW 695

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Discou[rse] < >’, beginning ‘Whosoeu attendeth ye approach [? of an Invador]….attendeth allso his tyme...’, subscribed ‘Wal: Rauleigh’, very imperfect. c.1596-early 17th century.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers chiefly relating to military and defence matters, in various largely professional hands, 426 leaves, damaged by the fire of 1732, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Edited from this MS in Lefranc (1955).

British Library, Cotton MS Otho E. XI, ff. 377r-81v.

On the Seat of Government

A tract beginning ‘They say, that the goodliest cedars which grow in the high mountains of Libanus thrust their roots between the clifts of hard rocks...’. First published together with Sir Walter Raleigh's Scepticke (London, 1651). Works (1829), VIII, 538-40.

RaW 696

Copy, headed ‘An impfect discourse of Sr: Walter Raleighs’.

In: A folio volume of state letters and tracts, in two professional secretary hands, thirteen leaves, in paper wrappers. c.1620s-30s.

Northamptonshire Record Office, FH 3641, ff. [4r-5v].

RaW 697

Copy, headed ‘That the Seate of Gouernment is vpheld by the two great Pillers Thereof vizt Ciuill Iustice, and Martiall Pollicie...Written by Sr Walter Raleigh kt:’.

In: the MS described under RaW 97. c.1620s.

Dr Williams's Library, MS Jones B. 60, pp. 17-22.

On the Succession

An untitled memorandum beginning ‘first ther is no good subiect that ought to doubt of her Maiesties care and providence...’, addressed to Queen Elizabeth. First published in Pierre Lefranc, ‘Un inédit de Ralegh sur la succession’, EA, 13 (1960), 38-46.

*RaW 698

Autograph, submitted by Ralegh to Sir Robert Cecil, closely written on four pages of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed in a contemporary hand ‘Reasons why Q. Eliz. shd not name her Successor’. [February 1592/3].

Edited from this MS in Lefranc (1960). Ralegh's letter accompanying this memorandum is Cecil Papers 83/35 (also edited in Lefranc).

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 139/139-140.

Opinion upon the Articles propounded by the Earl of Essex upon the Alarum given by the Spaniards in 1596

The articles propounded by Essex beginning ‘Besides many advertisements of the great preparation of Spain, of their forwardness or rather full readiness to set sail...’ and Ralegh's opinion beginning ‘First, if we consider without further circumstance that the fleet which was at Lisbon is already gone...’. First published in Opinions delivered by the Earl of Essex, [&c.]...on the Alarm of an Invasion from Spain in the Year 1596 (London, n.d.) [the exemplum in the National Archives, Kew, SP 9/52/25, bears the MS date ‘1803’]. Works (1829), VIII, 675-81.

RaW 699

Copy of Essex's ‘Articles’, incorporating various commanders' opinions including Ralegh's.

In: A folio volume of state papers, in a single professional secretary hand, 28 leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt, the cover inscribed ‘Concerneinge Inuasion or Incursion into a Kingdome. / J. n. 22.’ c.1596.

Bodleian, MS Tanner 235, ff. 18r-22r.

RaW 699.5

Copy in: A folio volume of state letters and tracts, in several professional secretary hands, with (p. [i]) a table of contents in a later hand, 140 pages (including c.17 blank pages) plus 17 blank leaves at the end. Early 17th century.

Huntington, EL 1612, pp. 37-8.

RaW 700

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 647. Early-mid-17th century.

Yale, Osborn MS fb 23, ff. 196-9v.

Orders to be observed by the Commanders of the Fleet with Land Companies. 3 May 1617

Orders, beginning ‘First, because no action or enterprise can prosper (be it by sea or land) without the favour and assistance of Almighty God...’. First published in Newes of Sir Walter Rauleigh (London, 1618). Works (1829), VIII, 682-8. Edited by V. T. Harlow in Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 121-6.

RaW 701

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 544.

Bodleian, MS Ashmole 830, ff. 109r-10v.

RaW 701.5

Copy of Gorges's adaptation of Ralegh's orders, in a mixed hand, headed ‘A forme of Orders and directions to be given by an Admiral...’.

In: A tall folio commonplace book, chiefly of naval tracts and sermons, in two hands, begun 23 May 1629, 322 pages of text (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. Partly in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician, partly in the neat mixed hand of an amanuensis. c.1629-30s.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 23, pp. 93-105.

RaW 702

Copy. Among papers of the Graham family, Viscounts Preston.

Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 328.

Norton Conyers, [no shelfmark].

RaW 702.5

Copy of Sir Arthur Gorges's adaptation (A Forme of Orders and Directions...[for] Conducting a Fleete through the Narrow Seas), in a secretary hand, with a title-page, on seven quarto leaves (plus a blank). c.1619.

In: A folio guard-book of independent Jacobean state papers, stamped foliation 1-235.

This MS recorded in Sandison (1928), p. 672.

National Archives, Kew, SP 14/17, ff. 219r-25r.

RaW 703

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a lengthy heading beginning ‘Orders to be observed by the Comanders of the ffleet & land companies, vnder the charge & conducte of Sr. Walter Rawly...’, as ‘Given at Plimouth in Deuon, the third of May. 1617’, on two and a half folio leaves. c.1620.

In: A large folio guardbook of maritime documents, in various hands, 172 items, in modern black morocco gilt.

National Maritime Museum, REC/1/50, item 50.

RaW 703.5

Copy, in a neat rounded hand, probably transcribed from RaW 703, on five folio pages. Late 17th century.

In: the MS described under RaW 703.

National Maritime Museum, REC/1/50, item 50b.

RaW 704

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on six folio leaves plus two blanks. From the ‘Conway Papers’ belonging to Edward Conway (c.1564-1631), first Viscount Conway and first Viscount Killultagh, politician, and his son Edward Conway (1594-1655), second Viscount Conway and second Viscount Killultagh, politician and book collector, of Ragley Hall, Warwickshire.

Edited from this MS in Sir Julian Corbett, ‘The Elizabethan Origin of Ralegh's Instructions’, Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816, Navy Record Society (London, 1905), 27-45.

National Archives, Kew, SP/14/92/9 (ff. 65r-70v).

RaW 705

Copy of Sir Arthur Gorges's adaptation of Ralegh's Orders, as A Forme of Orders and Directions...[for] Conducting a Fleete through the Narrow Seas, in the hand of an amanuensis, with Gorges's copious autograph deletions and revisions.

In: A small quarto volume of works by Sir Arthur Gorges, 37 leaves, in vellum. Inscribed on the upper cover ‘Matters concerninge Sea-seruice’. 1619.

This MS recorded in Sandison (1928). Sections printed from this MS, and the relation between Ralegh's Orders and Gorges's version discussed, in Helen E. Sandison, ‘Ralegh's Orders once more’, Mariners' Mirror, 20 (1934), 323-30.

British Library, Stowe MS 426, ff. 30v-6r.

RaW 706

Copy of Gorges's version, with lengthy title beginning ‘The forme of orders and directions to bee giuen by an Admirall in conducting a Fleet through the Narrow seas...’.

In: A small quarto volume comprising two works by Sir Arthur Gorges, formal copies in a professional secretary hand, 46 pages (plus some blanks), in contemporary vellum, with remains of green silk ties. A presentation MS, probably to Henry Percy (1564-1632), ninth Earl of Northumberland (the ‘Wizard Earl’). Inscribed inside the front cover ‘Giuen by Sr Art: Gorge’. c.1619.

Formerly Leconfield MS 48 at Petworth House, Sussex.

Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 305.

This MS recorded in Sandison (1928), p. 672; in Helen E. Sandison, ‘Ralegh's Orders once more’, Mariners' Mirror, 20 (1934), 323-30 (p. 328); and in Sandison (1940), p. 244.

National Maritime Museum, MS LEC/8, pp. 35-46.

RaW 707

Copy of Sir Arthur Gorges's adaptation of Ralegh's Orders, as A Forme of Orders and Directions...[for] Conducting a Fleete through the Narrow Seas.

In: the MS described under RaW 631. c.1660s.

This MS recorded in Sandison (1928), p. 672. Discussed in Sandison, Mariner's Mirror, 20 (1934), 323-4.

British Library, Lansdowne MS 213, ff. 46r-8v.

RaW 708

Copy, as adapted and incorporated in Gorges's A forme of Orders.

In: the MS described under RaW 702.5.

This MS recorded in Sandison, Mariner's Mirror, 20 (1934), 328.

National Archives, Kew, SP 14/17, ff. 222r-5r.

The Prerogative of Parliaments in England, Proved in a Dialogue between a Counsellor of State and a Justice of the Peace

A Relation of the Action at Cadiz

An account of the Cadiz expedition in 1596, allegedly ‘by Sir Walter Ralegh’ and ‘Transcribed from a manuscript in the hands of his grandchild, Mr. Ralegh’, beginning ‘You shall receive many relations, but none more true than this...’. First published in An Abridgement of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World (London, 1700), part ii, pp. 17-25. Works, (1829). VIII, 667-74.

RaW 709

Copy, inscribed ‘Transcrib'd from a MS. in ye Hands of his Grandchild, Mr Raleigh’.

In: A large quarto volume of political, ecclesiastical and antiquarian tracts, in a single accomplished professional hand, 268 leaves. c.1630.

Bodleian, MS Tanner 278, ff. 240r-4r.

RaW 710

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleighs Letter to the Earle of Northumberland being a true Relation of the takeing of Cales’.

In: the MS described under RaW 97. c.1620s.

Dr Williams's Library, MS Jones B. 60, pp. 1-15.

Short Apology for his last Actions at Guiana

Ralegh's letter of 1618 to his cousin George, Lord Carew of Clopton (beginning ‘Because I know not whether I shall live...’). First published in Judicious and Select Essays (London, 1650). Edwards, II, 375 et seq. Youings, No. 222, pp. 364-8.

RaW 710.1

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Sr walter Rauleighs Lesser Apollogie’.

In: the MS described under RaW 547.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. D. 180, ff. 42r-5v.

RaW 710.11

Copy, originally paginated 978-80, in a section of the volume in a single professional secretary hand (ff. 14r-39r, originally paginated 937-[1003]). c.1620s. c.

In: A folio composite volume of state letters, speeches and other papers, in various largely professional hands, folio- and quarto-size leaves, 577 leaves.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. D. 924, ff. 34v-5v.

RaW 710.15

Copy in two secretary hands, endorsed twice (f. 88v), once by Hannibal Baskerville's brother-in-law A. Scudamore, ‘S. W: Raleighs Apollogie to the Kinge, for sacking S. Thome 1618’.

In: the MS described under RaW 20. c.1590-1636.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. D. 859, ff. 87r-8r.

RaW 710.17

Copy, headed ‘An addition to Sr Walter Raleyghs Apologie’.

In: the MS described under RaW 38.2. c.1620s-40s.

British Library, Add. MS 69394, ff. 81v-4r.

RaW 710.21

Copy, imperfect.

In:

Edited from this MS (erroneously believed to be the original letter) in Edwards (No. CLX).

British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius C. XVII, ff. 439r-40r.

RaW 710.22

Copy in: A folio volume of state letters, tracts, speeches and a parliamentary journal for 1624-25, in possibly several largely secretary hands, one predominating, 77 leaves (plus blanks), in modern quarter crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. c.1628[-1640].

Notes (f. 55r-v) on the executions of Ralegh, Cuffe and Essex signed ‘Wr Bilmor’ [i.e. Walter Belmor or Belmore], possibly the principal compiler.

Inscribed (f. [iir]) ‘Timothy Langley’.

British Library, Harley MS 1327, f. 60v.

RaW 710.225

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘His Apology for his last action att Guiana. october 29. 1618’. c.1620s.

In: the MS described under RaW 41.

British Library, Harley MS 1576, f. 211r-v.

RaW 710.23

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raughlyghes Apologie To the Lords of his mats Counsell for his accon in Guiana. 1618’.

In: the MS described under RaW 552. c.1625-30s.

Cheshire Record Office, DLT/B8, pp. 279-82.

RaW 710.235

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on two pages of two conjugate folio leaves.

In: A double-folio-size guardbook, containing state letters and papers, in various hands, largely written or collected by John Smyth (1567-1641), antiquary and parliamentary diarist, of Nibley, Gloucestershire, in modern red morocco gilt.

From the papers of the Cholmondeley family, of Condover Hall, Shropshire. Owned in 1889 by Hungerford Crewe (1812-94), third Baron Crewe, of Crewe Hall, Cheshire.

Recorded in HMC, 5th Report (1876), Appendix, pp. 354-5.

Folger, MS Z.e.1, No. 10.

RaW 710.238

Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed ‘The Apologie of Sr Walter Raleigh’.

In: the MS described under RaW 64. c.1620.

Folger, MS V.a.418, ff. [8r-10r].

RaW 710.24

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Sir Walter Rawleighs Apologie’. c.1620.

In: the MS described under RaW 67.

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, MS 73/40, ff. 204r-5r.

RaW 710.245

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Sr walter Rawleighs short Apollege’.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers and proceedings in Parliament, in various hands, 448 leaves (plus blanks), in red morocco gilt.

Inner Temple Library, Petyt MS 538, Vol.18, ff. 217r-20r.

RaW 710.248

Copy in: A folio booklet of state letters and tracts, in a secretary hand, 15 leaves (lacking a leaf torn out after f. 4), in a paper wrapper. c.1620s.

Among the muniments of Lord Mexborough, descended from the Savile family formerly of Methley Hall, near Pontefract, West Yorkshire. Formerly MX 269.

Leeds Archives, WYL156/269, ff. [11r-13r].

RaW 710.25

Copy, in William Parkhurst's hand, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleghs Apologie for his last Actions att Guiana’.

In: the MS described under RaW 274.

Leicestershire Record Office, DG. 7/Lit. 2, ff. 92r-3v.

RaW 710.255

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Sr walter Rawleyghs Apollogie’, on the first of two pairs of conjugate quarto leaves. c.1620s.

In: the MS described under RaW 563.

Stamped ‘Conway Papers’: i.e. from the collections of Edward Conway (c.1564-1631), first Viscount Conway, politician, of Ragley, Warwickshire, and his son Edward (1594-1655), second Viscount Conway, politician and book collector.

National Archives, Kew, SP 14/98, ff. 191r-2v.

RaW 710.258

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleigh his Apologie’.

In: A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings and state tracts, in several professional secretary hands, with (f. iiir) a table of contents, iv + 200 leaves, in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps. c.1635.

Once owned by Sir Richard Grosvenor (1585-1645); later by the Duke of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire, with his bookplate (inscribed ‘XXI no. 21’) and a label with No. ‘24’ on the spine. Assembled largely from ‘Liber 8’ (= MS 24). Sotheby's, 20 February 1967, lot 263. Formerly House of Lords Record Office, Historical Collection No. 53.

Recorded in HMC. 3rd Report (187-), Appendix, p. 214b.

Parliamentary Archives, GRO/1, ff. 33r-4v.

RaW 710.26

Copy, headed ‘Sir Walter Raleighs lesser Apologie since he came from Guiana 1618’.

In: the MS described under RaW 6.5. c.1642.

Robert S. Pirie, New York, [Feilde MS], pp. 434-6.

RaW 710.265

Copy. Early-mid-17th century.

Staffordshire Record Office, D 1721/3/186 [item 2].

RaW 710.268

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 569. 17th century.

Untraced, [Finch MS], [unspecified page numbers].

RaW 710.27

Copy in: A duodecimo volume of speeches and tracts, closely written in a single hand, with a later table of contents, 228 pages (foliated 1-144), in contemporary mottled calf gilt within modern green morocco gilt.

Inscribed by Thomas Rundall and, in 1937, by Sir Walter Oakeshott, SBA (1903-87), Oxford college head. Bookplate of W.A. Foyle (1885-1963), bookseller, of Beeleigh Abbey, Essex. Christie's, 12-13 July 2000 (W.A. Foyle sale, Part III), lot 320 (item 1). Quaritch's catalogue No. 1415 (2012), item 51, with a facsimile opening in the sale catalogue.

Untraced, [Rundall MS], pp. 106r-9v.

RaW 710.275

Copy, headed ‘Sr: Walter Raleighs short Appologie for his last Actions at Guiana’.

In: the MS described under RaW 97. c.1620s.

Dr Williams's Library, MS Jones B. 60, pp. 213-19.

RaW 710.28

Copy of Ralegh's ‘Appologie’.

In: A miscellany, including state papers, in several hands, in vellum. Compiled by members of the Benett family, of Pythouse, Tisbury. c.1660.

Inscribed inside the cover ‘Chaloner freville’.

Wiltshire and Swindon Archives, 413/445, f. [42r-4r].

RaW 710.286

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1618.

In: A folio composite volume of copies of state letters and papers, in several professional hands, i + 23 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf.

The majority of the MS items here once owned by Sir Edward Dering, first Baronet (1598-1644), antiquary and religious controversialist. Portions of this volume once in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MSS 22355 snd 34574. Sotheby's, 6 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lot 847. Bequeathed in 1816 by Captain C. S. Harris.

Bodleian, MS Eng. hist. c. 121, ff. 7r-8v.

RaW 710.3

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled and incomplete, on two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘Part of Sr Walter Raughleighes apology’. c.1620.

In: the MS described under RaW 25.

Bodleian, MS Tanner 74, ff. 140r-1v.

RaW 710.4

Copy, in a professional hand, headed ‘The Coppie of Sr Walter Raighleys Answer for takeng of St Thome in Gaiana i6i8’. c.1620s.

In: A folio volume of state tracts, letters and speeches, 34 leaves, in modern half-calf.

Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Liber Mri ffrancesti Annyson’.

Bodleian, MS Tanner 265, ff. 9r-10r.

RaW 710.5

Copy, in a professional hand, untitled but subscribed ‘The Coppie of Sr. wa. Raleigh his appologie to ye Kinge at his returne from Guiana in July 1618’. c.1620s.

In: the MS described under RaW 622.

Bodleian, MS Carte 77, ff. 41r-2r.

RaW 710.6

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 546. c.1620s.

Bodleian, MS Jesus College 83, ff. 68r-8v.

RaW 710.7

Copy, headed ‘Sr walter Rawleighes short Apologye’.

In: the MS described under RaW 680. c.1630.

British Library, Add. MS 22587, ff. 5r-7r.

RaW 710.8

Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed ‘An Apollogie written by Sr Walter Raleigh touchinge his voiage to Guyana ymediatly vpon his landinge to Plymouth. Anno: Dom 1618’. c.1620s-30s.

In: the MS described under RaW 575.

British Library, Add. MS 34631, ff. 55r-60r.

RaW 710.9

Copy, headed ‘An Addition to Sr: Walter Rawleighs Apologie’.

In: the MS described under RaW 36. c.1630s.

British Library, Add. MS 40838, ff. 49r-51r.

Sir Walter Ralegh unto Prince Henry touching the Model of a Ship

A letter to Prince Henry, written from the Tower, c.November 1607, beginning ‘If the ship your highness intends to build be bigger than the Victory...’. First published in Judicious and Select Essays (London, 1650), pp. 8-15. Works (1829), VIII, 627-9. Youings, No. 194, pp. 301-4.

RaW 710.91

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleigh his Leter to Prince Henry touching the Modell of a Shipp’.

In: A small folio volume of maritime tracts, in three professional secretary hands, 52 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1620s.

The cover bearing the family crest in gilt of Henry Percy (1564-1632), ninth Earl of Northumberland (the ‘Wizard Earl’). Leconfield MS 34 formerly at Petworth House, Sussex.

Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 304.

National Maritime Museum, MS LEC/6, ff. [1r-3v].

RaW 710.92

Copy, in a secretary hand.

In: the MS described under RaW 543. c.1620s-30s.

This MS recorded in Latham & Youings.

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 261, pp. 438-43.

RaW 710.93

Copy, headed ‘A Letter to Prince Henry <excised >the Modell of a Shipp, written by Sir Walter Raleigh’.

In: the MS described under RaW 545. c.1630.

This MS recorded in Latham & Youings.

Bodleian, MS Eng. hist. d. 138, ff. 2r-3v.

RaW 710.95

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleighs Letter to Prince Henry touching the modell of a Shipp’.

In: the MS described under RaW 97. c.1620s.

This MS recorded in Youings.

Dr Williams's Library, MS Jones B. 60, pp. 23-28.

RaW 710.96

Copy in: A folio volume of state letters, 155 leaves, in modern calf gilt. Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 19 of the Hopkinson MSS c.1665-70s.

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. 297.

Edited from this MS in Latham & Youings.

Bradford Archives, 32D86/19, ff. 87v-8v.

Speech on the Scaffold

Testamentary Notes

Miscellaneous

Chemical and Medical Receipts

*RaW 711

Autograph notebook of chemical and medical receipts, including Ralegh's ‘great Cordiall’, and accounts of experiments; 70 quarto pages, with Ralegh's writing on 53 pages. Late 16th-early 17th century.

Later owned by Francis Bernard (1628-98), apothecary and physician.

This MS discussed in Lefranc (1968), p. 682; facsimile of the words ‘Our great Cordiall’ in Walter Oakeshott, ‘Carew Ralegh's Copy of Spenser’, The Library, 5th Ser. 26 (1971), 1-21 (plate V(c)).

British Library, Sloane MS 359.

RaW 712

Copy of various receipts by Ralegh, in a 36-page MS of medical and other prescriptions, in a single mixed hand, with (pp. 33-6) an Index; the first receipt (‘for the flux of the belly and blood’, p. 1) inscribed in the margin ‘Sr W: R.’; one on p. 14 (‘Myne owne purge’) recorded in the Index (under ‘fol. 14’) as ‘Sr W: R: his owne purge’; with a declaration (p. 28) ‘Whatsoever is conteyned in theis precedent pages is transcribed out of Sr Walter Raleghs booke of receipts written wth his owne hand and is done according to the originall in eurie sillable’; followed (pp. 28-9) by a receipt introduced ‘This that followeth Sr W: R: wrote wth his own hand and gave it to mee to teach me to make the Magister: of Pearle’. c.1620s.

In: A folio composite volume of cookery, medical and miscellaneous MS receipt books, comprising fourteen items, in various hands, 359 leaves, in half-calf marbled boards.

Booklabel of James Shrowle. Inscribed ‘J Hodgkin Dec. 9th, 1914’. Item 492 on an unidentified sale catalogue. Acquired in 1931.

Wellcome Library, London, MS 749, item 13.

*RaW 713

Autograph, eight-line culinary receipt, beginning ‘eyght stone of beef rostad, & when it is cold take out the bones...’, headed in another hand ‘To keepe beefe at sea’, written on a single small quart-size leaf, bearing on the verso a correspondent's address ‘To my honoble; and mutche respected frend S r walter Raleighe knight these’, and inscribed in yet another hand ‘Autographum Walt. Ralegh. in Turri Londinensi don. dr. Kileigrew’.

In: A folio composite autograph album, 34 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

This MS recorded in Lefranc (1968), p. 681. See also RaW 723 (concerning Sir Robert Killigrew (1579-1633)).

British Library, Add. MS 12097, f. 13r.

RaW 714

A list of chemical symbols used by Ralegh, headed ‘Clavis Adversariorum Equitis Walteri Rhalegh’. 1592.

This MS recorded in Lefranc (1968), p. 678.

National Archives, Kew, SP 12/240/149.

RaW 715

A list of chemical symbols used by Ralegh, headed ‘Alphabetum seu clavis chemicus N.S. Gwalteri Ralegh, equitis’.

In: Volume of chemical and medical collections compiled by Theodore Turquet de Mayerne. 17th century.

British Library, Sloane MS 2046, f. 110.

RaW 716

Copy of Ralegh's receipt to make quicksilver, headed ‘To make [symbol] into watter as Sr walter Rawlye did’.

In: A compendium of medical, chemical and alchemical receipts and prescriptions ‘By me Thomas Robson’, 70 quarto leaves, bound with eight other alchemical tracts and papers, in contemporary calf, with metal clasps. Early 17th century.

This MS recorded in Lefranc (1968), p. 680.

Bodleian, MS Ashmole 1407 (II), ff. 35v-6r.

RaW 717

Copy of Ralegh's receipt to make quicksilver.

In: A quarto volume of alchemical papers compiled by Thomas Robson, 204 leaves (including blanks). 1615.

This MS recorded in Lefranc (1968), p. 680.

Bodleian, MS Ashmole 1424, ff. 49v-50r.

RaW 717.5

Second copy of Ralegh's receipt to make quicksilver.

In: the MS described under RaW 717. 1615.

This MS recorded in Lefranc (1968), p. 680.

Bodleian, MS Ashmole 1424, ff. 57v-8r.

RaW 718

Copy of Raleigh's receipt to make quicksilver, headed ‘Sr. w Rawley’.

In: Copy of an alchemical compendium of receipts and prescriptions apparently by Robert Garland, in at least three hands, 68 folio leaves, bound with five other achemical works, in contemporary calf. The MSS collected, and partly written, by Dr Simon Forman (1552-1611), astrologer and medical practitioner. c.1596.

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘I am Robarte Garlands booke’ and (f. 27r) ‘This is Robarte Garlandes booke, practizioner in the arte spagericke, anno Do. 1596’.

This MS recorded in Lefranc (1968), p. 680.

Bodleian, MS Ashmole 1486 (I), f. 24v.

RaW 719

Copy of receipts by Ralegh, partly in scribal hands, partly by Powle, including ‘Sr W. Rawleigh to cause to pisse bloode’ [1609], ‘December. 3: 1613 ffor the stone in ye bladder and raynes’ (annotated by Powle ‘This stone Sr. w. Rawlegh did geaue mee which I keepe as a Jwell 1613’), ‘December 1613 10 Sr Wa: Raughlyes medicen for the dropsy’, and ‘This medicen for the preservacon of the sight, Sr wa: Rawghly learned of a Dutch man, and imparted the same vnto mee, August: 27th 1614’.

In: the MS described under RaW 487.

This MS recorded in Lefranc (1968), p. 680 et seq.

Bodleian, MS Tanner 169, f. 139r-42r (passim).

RaW 720

Copy of ‘A present Metson for the Agewe’ ascribed to ‘Sr water Raylishe 1616’ (this ascription deleted).

In: A quarto navigational notebook, possibly associated with the East India Company, iii + 71 leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt. Early 17th century.

This MS (formerly owned by Boies Penrose) offered for sale at Sotheby's, 24 July 1978, lot 97.

British Library, Egerton MS 3801, f. [33v].

RaW 720.5

Copy of ‘Sr Walter Rawleighs great Cordiall After Sir Robert Killigrewes way’, dated ‘March 19th: 1659’. c.1660.

In: A large folio composite volume of papers, in English and Latin, in various hands, 320 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco. Papers of Dr John Downes (fl.1640-95) physician to St Bartholomew's and Christ's Hospitals. Late 17th century.

British Library, Sloane MS 203, ff. 124r-5v.

RaW 721

Copy of a receipt by Ralegh, on p. 362 of a 17th-century transcript of a book of medical prescriptions compiled in the 16th century by Sir Samuel Sandys of Ombersley, Worcestershire, son of Edwin Sandys (d.1558). 17th century.

Formerly among the papers of the Shirley family of Ettington Park, near Stratford-upon-Avon. Sotheby's, 29 April 1947, lot 333, to Myers.

Recorded in HMC, 5th Report (1876), Appendix, p. 365 (No. 33).

Untraced, [Sandys MS].

RaW 722

Copy of a receipt for ‘A Excellent Cordiall ielly a Comforter of the harte and helpe to digesture > of Sr water raleigh’.

In: A quarto volume of chemical receipts, in several largely italic hands, 187 leaves (including a seven-page index and numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, silver clasps. Mid-17th century.

Bookplate of ‘Sr Edw: Littleton Bart’, of Pileton Hall, Staffordshire. Probably the MS sold at Sotheby's, 9 May 1961, lot 282, to Dawson.

Folger, MS V.a.361, f. 38r.

RaW 723

Copy of ‘Sr Walter Raleighs Great Cordiall Sr Robert Killigrews way’.

In: A large folio book of medical receipts and prescriptions. Late 17th century.

In the Cole Park Collection deriving from the papers of the Lovell, Willes, and Harvey families.

Wiltshire and Swindon Archives, 161/90A, p. 135 bis.

RaW 724

Copy of ‘Sir Walter Rawleigh's Cordial’, in a small quarto volume of culinary receipts. Mid-late 17th century.

Sotheby's, 9 May 1961, lot 282, to Dawson.

Untraced, [Dawson MS].

RaW 725

Copy of ‘Sir Walter Rawleigh's great Cordiall’.

In: A receipt book of one ‘Mris Gratia Bartlet’. 1694.

Sotheby's, 22 February 1972, lot 544, to Quaritch. Afterwards owned by Lady Poole, London.

Private owners in the UK, [Bartlet MS], [unspecified page numbers].

A Journal of Ralegh's Second Voyage to Guiana

First published in The Discoverie of...Guiana, ed. Sir Robert H. Schomburgk, Hakluyt Society, 1st Ser. 3 (London, 1848), 177-208.

*RaW 726

Ralegh's autograph journal compiled on his last voyage to Guiana. 19 August 1617 to 13 February 1617/18. Now bound separately.

In: the MS described under RaW 692.

Facsimile examples in Facsimiles of Royal, Historical and Literary Autographs in the British Museum (1899), plate 28; Walter Oakeshott, ‘Carew Ralegh's Copy of Spenser’, The Library, 5th Ser. 26 (1971), 1-21 (plate V(d-e)); Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 49.

British Library, Cotton MS Titus B. VIII, ff. 162r-75r.

Miscellany

*RaW 727

The volume comprises copies of various tracts on Spain and on political and military affairs, including several letters and works by Ralegh and (f, 135v) his proposal for an agreement with the Lords in 1611 for the voyage to Guiana, in three professional secretary hands, with a number of minor autograph annotations by Ralegh throughout.

In: the MS described under RaW 572. c.1611-15.

Untraced, Bradfer Lawrence MS 61, The MS as a whole.

Notebook

*RaW 728

A largely autograph notebook, with some pages in the hands of two amanuenses, compiled during Ralegh's imprisonment in the Tower of London; containing a glossary of geographical notes (used for his History of the World), several annotated ink and watercolour maps, a list of his books, and a poem, partly arranged under letters of the alphabet.

In: the MS described under RaW 200. c.1603-18.

This MS described by Walter Oakeshott (with a facsimile example) in ‘An Unknown Raleigh MS’, The Times (29 November 1952), p. 7; in The Queen and the Poet (London, 1960) (with facsimile examples facing pp. 119, 223); and in ‘Sir Walter Ralegh's Library’, The Library, 5th Ser. 23 (1968), 285-327 (with facsimile examples after p. 288, but plates I and II are not in Ralegh's hand). Facsimile examples also in Philip Edwards, Sir Walter Ralegh (London, 1953), facing p. 97; John Winton, Sir Walter Ralegh (London, 1975), facing p. 288; and Petti, English Literary Hands, Nos. 47-8.

British Library, Add. MS 57555, Entire MS.

Ralegh's Arraignment(s)

Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, ‘“The Great Day of Mart”: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603’, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.

RaW 728.1

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 147.

All Souls College, Oxford, MS 155, ff. 293r-4v.

RaW 728.113

Copy Ralegh's arraignment at Winchester, 25 November 1603.

In: A folio volume of miscellaneous papers, many relating to Kent, the greater part in a single secretary hand, 228 leaves, in contemporary stamped calf. Compiled for, and chiefly relating to, Francis Fane (1582-1628), first Earl of Westmorland. Early 17th century.

Christie's, 18 July 1897.

This volume recorded in HMC, 10th Report, Appendix IV (1885), pp. 4-19.

British Library, Add. MS 34218, ff. 224r-6r.

RaW 728.115

Copy of the 1603 arraignment, in a predominantly secretary hand.

In: the MS described under RaW 73. c.1620s.

British Library, Add. MS 73086, ff. 2r-19v.

RaW 728.12

The beginning of a copy only of Ralegh's arraignment in 1618, lacking the rest.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 468 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on roan boards. End 16th-early 17th century.

This volume discussed and printed in part, with facsimile examples, in F. Haverfield, ‘Cotton Iulius F. VI Notes on Reginald Bainbrigg of Appleby, on William Camden and on some Roman Inscriptions’, Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, NS 11 (1911), 343-78.

British Library, Cotton MS Julius F. VI, f. 78v.

RaW 728.125

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603.

In: the MS described under RaW 570.

British Library, Cotton MS Titus C. VII, ff. 85r-92v.

RaW 728.128

Notes on Ralegh's arraignment in 1603.

In: A large folio miscellaneous compilation of verse and prose, chiefly in a single neat hand, written from both ends, 189 leaves, in contemporary vellum (rebound). Associated with the Freville family and probably assembled by Gilbert Frevile, of Bishop Middleham, Co. Durham, whose name appears on the cover with the date 1591. A pen-and-ink ornamental drawing at the end inscribed ‘Finis quoth G. W.’ c.1620s.

British Library, Egerton MS 2877, f. 177v et seq.

RaW 728.13

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment.

In: the MS described under RaW 39.

British Library, Harley MS 39, f. 360r-v.

RaW 728.135

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603, a quarto volume. Early 17th century.

British Library, Harley MS 968.

RaW 728.14

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1618, in a secretary hand.

In: the MS described under RaW 41.

British Library, Harley MS 1576, ff. 212r-v.

RaW 728.145

Copy of the 1603 arraignment, here dated ‘1605’, and of the 1618 one.

In: A quarto volume of texts relating to Ralegh, 45 leaves. Early-mid-17th century.

British Library, Sloane MS 3079, ff. 1r-38r.

RaW 728.148

Copy in: A large folio guard-book of independent state tracts and miscellaneous papers, in various hands, 229 leaves.

British Library, Stowe MS 180, f. 9r-v.

RaW 728.15

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603, headed in the margin ‘Sir Walter Rawleighs Indictment’.

In: A folio volume of state trials from 1521 to 1666, in several professional hands, 194 leaves, in 19th-century mottled leather. Late 17th century.

Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, dated 1701.

British Library, Stowe MS 396, ff. 70v-82v.

RaW 728.155

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603.

In: A folio volume of state tracts, speeches and accounts, written from both ends, 86 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 335, ff. 50r-2v rev.

RaW 728.16

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment on 28 October 1618.

In: the MS described under RaW 522. Early-mid-17th century.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ee. 5. 23, pp. 462-4.

RaW 728.165

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603.

In: the MS described under RaW 552. c.1625-30s.

Cheshire Record Office, DLT/B8, pp. 21-4.

RaW 728.17

Copy in: A composite volume of verse and prose, compiled by William Davenport of Bramhall.

Later owned by J.P. Earwaker (1847-95), Cheshire historian. Formerly in the Chester City Record Office.

Recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Appendix IX (1891), pp. 545-52.

Cheshire Record Office, CR 63/2/19, f. 16r-v.

RaW 728.175

Copy. c.1620s-30s.

Derbyshire Record Office, D258/67/31/2.

RaW 728.18

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 117. c.1620s.

East Sussex Record Office, RAF/F/13/1, pp. 99-100.

RaW 728.185

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1618.

In: the MS described under RaW 54. c.1630.

Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 493, ff. 29r, 32r.

RaW 728.205

Copy in: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in several hands, c.170 leaves (including many numbered blanks, plus many others), written from both ends (Part I: ff. 1-260; Part II: ff. 1-82), with later 18th- and 19th-century additions, in contemporary calf. c.1620s-30s.

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Thomas Medcalf His B’; (f. 1v) ‘James Calvert’.

Folger, MS V.a.130, Part II, ff. 13r-20v.

RaW 728.208

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment at Winchester in 1603, in a secretary hand, with related papers. Early 17th century.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, ii + 91 leaves, virtually disbound.

Folger, MS V.b.142, ff. 78r-85r.

RaW 728.215

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in November 1603 (here dated 1605).

In: A folio volume of writings by or or related to Sir Walter Ralegh, in a professional secretary hand, 34 leaves, in modern quarter-morocco. Early 17th century.

Inscribed name ‘Edward Blandy’: possibly of the Middle Temple (1617) and of Inglewood, Berkshire. Bought from Hamill & Barker, Chicago, December 1956.

Harvard, MS Eng 1021, ff. [1r-28r].

RaW 728.22

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment on 28 October 1618, in a professional secretary hand. c.1630s.

In: the MS described under RaW 710.245.

Inner Temple Library, Petyt MS 538, Vol.18, ff. 237v-9v.

RaW 728.225

Copy of the 1603 arraignment.

In: A folio volume of state papers and tracts, in a professional cursive secretary hand, 346 leaves, in red morocco gilt. c.1620s-30s.

Inner Temple Library, Petyt MS 538, Vol. 36, ff. 273r-80r.

RaW 728.228

Copy of the 1603 arraignment.

In: the MS described under RaW 728.225. c.1620s-30s.

Inner Temple Library, Petyt MS 538, Vol. 36, ff. 283r-313r.

RaW 728.23

Copy of ‘The Arraignment of Sr Walter Rawley’ on 17 November 1603, in a professional secretary hand. c.1630s.

In: A folio composite collection of legal and state tracts, in various hands, now bound in two volumes, foliated 1-307 and 308-617 respectively, in modern quarter-calf vellum boards.

Among collections of Sir John Maynard, MP (1604-90), lawyer and politician.

Lincoln's Inn Library, Maynard MS 59, Part II, ff. 308r-39v.

RaW 728.235

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603, on sixteen quarto leaves. Early 17th century.

National Library of Scotland, MS 5444.

RaW 728.238

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603, in a professional secretary hand.

In: A quarto volume of state tracts and letters, in several professional hands, 244 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum dated inside the front cover ‘February 19o 1606’. c.1607-20s.

From the library of the Ormsby-Gore family, Barons Harlech, of Brogyntyn (or Porkington), Oswestry, Shropshire.

Recorded in HMC 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 85, No. 29.

National Library of Wales, Brogyntyn MS II. 13, pp. 1-29.

RaW 728.24

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603, in a professional secretary hand, imperfect, lacking the beginning and ending, eleven folio leaves, unbound. Early 17th century.

Northamptonshire Record Office, FH 84/6.

RaW 728.245

Copy of the 1603 arraignment, in a cursive secretary hand, followed (ff. [17r-18r]) by text relating to Lord Cobham partly in another secretary hand. Early 17th century.

In: A folio composite miscellany, in several secretary hands, i + eighteen leaves, unbound.

First blank leaf inscribed ‘John Sittartt’ [?].

Northamptonshire Record Office, IL 3429, ff. [9r-16v].

RaW 728.248

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in November 1603.

In: the MS described under RaW 6.5. c.1642.

Robert S. Pirie, New York, [Feilde MS], pp. 377-405.

RaW 728.25

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment 28 October 1618.

In: the MS described under RaW 6.5. c.1642.

Robert S. Pirie, New York, [Feilde MS], pp. 438-40.

RaW 728.255

Copy in: A large folio composite volume of state letters and papers, iv + 207 leaves, in contemporary calf.

The Queen's College, Oxford, MS 32, ff. 13r-14r.

RaW 728.258

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 91.

The Queen's College, Oxford, MS 121, pp. 511-12.

RaW 728.259

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1618.

In: the MS described under RaW 518.5. c.1620s-30s.

The Queen's College, Oxford, MS 130, pp. 151-2.

RaW 728.26

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1618, i n a secretary hand, docketed ‘These notes in ye margin, are out of mr O. Bands book, viz. at ye end of Rob: Monachus’. c.1620s.

In: the MS described under RaW 95.

Trinity College, Cambridge, MS O. 5. 21 (James 1302), (20), pp. 175-6.

RaW 728.265

Copy of Ralegh's Arraignment in 1603.

In: the MS described under RaW 566.

Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R. 5. 12 (James 707), ff. 160v-4v.

RaW 728.268

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603.

In: An octavo commonplace book of tracts and extracts, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, 186 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum. Compiled entirely by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. c.1640s.

Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.

Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).

University College London, MS Ogden 7/45, ff. 7r-11v.

RaW 728.27

Accounts of Ralegh's arraignments in 1603 and 1618.

In: the MS described under RaW 50. c.1674-84.

University of Chicago, MS 824, f. 7r-25v.

RaW 728.275

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603 (here dated 1605).

In: A composite volume of state tracts and papers.

Owned by Sir Richard Grosvenor (1585-1645); later by the Duke of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire, with his bookplate (inscribed ‘XXI No. 3’) and a label with No. ‘4’ on the spine. Sotheby's, 19 July 1966, lot 490, to Hofmann & Freeman. Acquired from them June 1977.

University of Kansas, MS D153, ff. 40r-81r.

RaW 728.278

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603, in the hand of Henry Bull, Jr.

In: A folio miscellany, entitled ‘A Booke of Memorable Accidents and famous Arraignements with other worthy matters touchinge great personages agitated wthin this Realme of England in the Reignes of Queene Elizabeth and Kinge James’, compiled by William Bull, of the Middle Temple, 104 leaves, bound with other material by Henry Bull, Jr, and others, in half-calf. c.1620s.

Puttick & Simpson's, 11 November 1887, lot 1050. Briefly owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89, literary scholar and book collector. Bequeathed to his nephew and executor Ernest E. Baker. Acquired in 1960 from Emily Driscoll, manuscript dealer, New York.

University of North Carolina, CSWR A32, pp. 229-66.

RaW 728.28

Copy of the 1603 arraignment, in a professional cursive secretary hand, on fifteen pages of eight folio leaves. Early 17th century.

University of Nottingham, Cl LP 5/3.

RaW 728.285

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603, in three professional hands, including (pp. 47-65) that of the ‘Feathery scribe’.

In: the MS described under RaW 85. c.1620.

University of Texas at Austin, Pforzheimer MS 112, pp. 1-92.

RaW 728.288

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603.

In: the MS described under RaW 569. 17th century.

Untraced, [Finch MS], [unspecified page numbers].

RaW 728.29

Copy of ‘The chiefe points of ye indictment of Sr Water Rawly’ at his arraignement in 1603.

In: A quarto miscellany of state, military, and household material, 346 pages, in contemporary vellum. Compiled by John Holles (1595-1666), second Earl of Clare. c.1629-32.

Later owned by the fourth Duke of Newcastle, whose arms are stamped in gilt on the front cover.

Yale, Osborn MS b 32, pp. 60-2.

RaW 728.3

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment 28 October 1618.

In: the MS described under RaW 10.5. c.1620s-37.

Bodleian, MS Ashmole 781, pp. 101-3.

RaW 728.4

A summary of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603.

In: A double-folio-size composite volume of historical tracts and papers, many relating to state arraignments, in a single professional secretary hand up to p. 527, xxiv + 552 pages (plus blank pp. 553-684), in red morocco elaborately gilt. c.1610 [with addition to c.1630].

Presented to the Bodleian in 1620 by Sir Peter Manwood (1571-1625), judge and antiquary.

Bodleian, MS Bodl. 966, p. 254-5.

RaW 728.5

A summary of Ralegh's arraignment.

In: the MS described under RaW 622.

Bodleian, MS Carte 77, ff. 60r-v.

RaW 728.6

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment on 17 November 1603.

In: the MS described under RaW 559. c.1630.

Bodleian, MS Eng d. 2912, pp. 96-106.

RaW 728.7

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603.

In: A folio volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, 193 leaves. Early 17th century.

One of the volumes donated in 1727 by Thomas Perrott, of St John's College, Oxford.

Bodleian, MS Perrott 4, ff. 3r-11r.

RaW 728.71

Copy of an abbreviated version of Ralegh's arraignment in 1618, headed ‘A short relation, wt was done at ye K' Bench-Barr wn Sr W. Ra. had Warng given him tp prpare to die’.

In: the MS described under RaW 27. Mid-late 17th century.

Bodleian, MS Tanner 299, ff. 26r-v, 28v-9r.

RaW 728.8

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603.

In: the MS described under RaW 29. 1674.

Bradford Archives, 32D86/27, ff. 62r-3r.

RaW 728.9

Copy of the 1618 arraignment in a French translation, headed ‘Informations faictes contre le Milord Walter Raleigh. Neuf Septembre 1618’.

In: A large folio volume of French state papers, transcribed in a single French professional hand, 494 leaves, in contemporary mottled leather gilt. Made at the direction of Jean Baptiste Colbert (1619-83), Minister of Finance under Louis XIV. Late 17th century.

British Library, Add. MS 30663, ff. 481r-6v.

Ralegh's First Testamentary Note

Ralegh's note ‘for discharge of his conscience’, concerning his estate, last wishes, &c as delivered to Sir Thomas Wilson, 1618, beginning ‘There is a lease of certaine parcells of land, claymed by one John Meere...’. First published in Edwards (1868), II, 493-4.

RaW 729

Copy of Ralegh's note, in Wilson's italic hand, on the first page of two once conjugate folio leaves, endorsed by Wilson ‘A copy of ye note written by Sr. Wal: Rawley in his owne hand wch hee gaue me for discharge of his conscience. W’. [1618].

In: the MS described under RaW 89.

Edited from this MS in Edwards (1868 ). II. 493-4.

National Archives, Kew, SP 14/103, f. 45r.

Ralegh's Second Testamentary Note

Ralegh's note, 1618, denouncing false allegations, beginning ‘I did never receive advise from my Lord Carew to make any escape, neither did I tell ytt Stukeley...’. First published in The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Thomas Birch (London, 1751), II, 280-1. Edwards (1868), II, 494-5.

RaW 730

Copy of Ralegh's list of points in his own defence, beginning ‘I did neuer receive Advise from my Lord Carew to make any escape…’ and subscribed ‘Att my Death. W: Raleigh’. c.1620.

In: the MS described under RaW 570.

Published in The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Thomas Birch (London, 1751), II, 280-1; Works (1829), VIII, 563. Printed from this MS in Edwards (1868), II, 494-5.

British Library, Cotton MS Titus C. VII, f. 93r.

RaW 730.1

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘These words following he putt into his Ladies pocket the night before he suffred and charged her not to publish them vntill he was dead’. c.1620s.

In: the MS described under RaW 25.

Bodleian, MS Tanner 74, ff. 144v-5r.

RaW 730.2

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled, subscribed ‘Wa: Rawleigh’.

In: the MS described under RaW 38.5. c.1626.

British Library, Add. MS 70636, ff. 17v-18r.

RaW 730.3

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Coppie of that Sr. W. Raleghe did write the Day before he suffered, wch he did desire might be published for the better satisfaction of all men’, on one side of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter. c.1620.

In: An unbound collection of letters and papers generally dating from October to December 1618, in various hands, 125 leaves. Comprising Volume CXIII of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park.

This leaf formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull MSS (Misc. Corres. Vol. XXXIV, No. 11).

British Library, Add. MS 72354, f. 47r.

RaW 730.6

Copy, in the secretary hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple, headed in the margin ‘The coppie of that script which Sr walter Rawley gaue his wife the eue before his death’, on one side of a single folio leaf. 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).

Derbyshire Record Office, D258/10/2.

RaW 730.8

Copy, headed ‘These woordes following he putt into his La: Pockitt the night by fore he was executed Charging hie nott to publish them by fore he was deade’.

In: Copy of two texts by Sir Walter Ralegh, in a predominantly italic hand, on a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1620.

Endorsed ‘Alex Fuller 10. June 1937’. Bonham's, 18 December 2002, lot 776, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.

Photocopies of this MS are in the British Library, RP 8200.

Untraced, [Fuller/Ralegh MS], p. [3].

RaW 731

Copy, headed ‘Thes wordes following he put into his Ladyes pocket the night before he suffered. and charged hir not to publish them till he was dead’.

In: the MS described under RaW 66. c.1642.

Folger, MS V.b.303, pp. 229-30.

RaW 731.5

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Articles’, subscribed ‘S W. R’. c.1620.

In: the MS described under RaW 67.

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, MS 73/40, f. 215v.

RaW 732

Copy, headed ‘An answere made by Sr: walter Rawleigh at his death to the false accusations, yt a repriued and infamous fellow called Lewds stukleye charged him wthall, & therby caused & brought him to his vntimely end: as it is suspected induced thervnto by ye youthfull vertue of certaine spanish pistols. wch were shot at his treatcherouse soule’.

In: the MS described under RaW 710.248. c.1620s.

Leeds Archives, WYL156/269, f. [13v].

RaW 732.2

Copy, headed ‘These Affirmacons were written by Sr Walter Raleighe noxte ante Obitu and put by himselfe in to his wifes pockett fearing he should not be suffered to speake his mynde at large’.

In: the MS described under RaW 6.5. c.1642.

Robert S. Pirie, New York, [Feilde MS], p. 441.

RaW 732.3

Copy, headed ‘These woordes following he putt into his La: Pockitt the night befoer he was executed charging her nott to publish them by Lore he was deade’.

In: Two texts by Ralegh, in a single hand, on a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1620.

Bonhams, 18 December 2002, lot 776, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue, p. 173.

Robert S. Pirie, New York, [Ralegh MS], p. [3].

RaW 732.5

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed ‘Accusations against Sr W Rawleigh cleared by him at his death’, on the first page of what was once probably two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed (on a mounted slip) ‘Sr Walter Rawleys clearing severall accusations at his death’. c.1618.

In: the MS described under RaW 89.

National Archives, Kew, SP 14/103, f. 70r.

RaW 732.6

Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, untitled, on the first and third pages of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘A paper written by Sr W. Ralegh at his death’. c.1618.

In: the MS described under RaW 89.

National Archives, Kew, SP 14/103, ff. 72r, 73r.

RaW 732.8

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleighs Protestacon at his Death’.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, c.543 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum.

Formerly among the Braye Manuscripts, descending from John Browne (1608-91), Clerk of the Parliaments, whose daughter Martha married Sir Roger Cave, Bt, of Stanford Hall, Rugby, seat of successive Lords Braye. Christie's, 23 June 1954, lot 108.

Recorded in HMC 15, 10th Report, Appendix VI (1887), Appendix, Part VI, p. 122. A complete set of photocopies is in the Parliamentary Archives, BRY/96.

Yale, Osborn MS fb 155, pp. 381-2.

RaW 733

Copy of the text in a French translation, on a single leaf. c.1618.

In: the MS described under RaW 12.

Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Cinq cents de Colbert n° 467, f. 72r.

RaW 734

Copy of the text in a French translation, headed ‘Confession du Cheuallier Raulegh executé à Londres’. c.1618.

In: A folio volume of French state papers, in various hands.

Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Cinq cents de Colbert n° 488, ff. 167r-8r.

RaW 735

Copy of the text in a French translation, headed ‘Escript et confession de Raulegh’. c.1620.

In: A folio volume of French state papers, in various hands.

Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, fonds français n° 5812, ff. 82r-3r.

RaW 736

Copy of the text in a French translation, headed ‘1618 / Confession du Sr . Walter Raleg. a l' Instan de sa mort’ and here beginning ‘Jen'ay Jamais recu aduice du Milord Carew...’.

In: the MS described under RaW 728.9. Late 17th century.

British Library, Add. MS 30663, f. 480r-v.

A Speech found in Sir Walter Rawleighes pockett after his Execution Written by him in the Gatehouse ye night befores dea[th]

A prayer, beginning ‘I owe to god a death because his sonne died for me…’ and ending ‘…I am willing help my vnwillingnes.’ Unpublished.

RaW 737

Copy, in a secretary hand, subscribed ‘finis Walter Rawleigh’, on a single leaf. c.1620.

In: the MS described under RaW 489.

British Library, Harley MS 3787, f. 182r-v.

RaW 737.5

A transcript of RaW 737 made by Thomas Baker. Late 17th-early 18th century.

In: the MS described under RaW 47.8.

Cambridge University Library, MS Mm. 1. 45, p. 211.

RaW 738

Copy, headed ‘A prayer’, unascribed. Early 17th century.

In: the MS described under RaW 147.

All Souls College, Oxford, MS 155, ff. 144v-5r.

Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)

Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For a relevant discussion, see Anna Beer, ‘Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh’, MP, 94/1 (August 1996), 19-38.

RaW 739

Copy, headed ‘The tenor of Sir Wat. Raleigh his speech at his death’.

In: A folio volume of historical tracts, in several secretary hands, 167 pages, in modern purple calf. c.1609-20s.

Bequeathed by Dr George Coningsby, 1766.

Balliol College, Oxford, MS 270, pp. 165-7.

RaW 739.1

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleigh his speech at his death who was beheaded in the Pallace of Westmr the 27th of October 1618. betweene the howres of 8 and 9 in the morning these lordes being present there...And also many Kts and gent. of rank...’.

In: A folio volume of miscellaneous tracts and papers, in several professional secretary hands, written from both ends, 287 leaves, in modern calf gilt. c.1630s.

Thomas Thorpe, ‘Catalogue of a most important collection of ancient manuscripts’ (1839), item 184. Purchased 8 June 1839.

British Library, Add. MS 11600, ff. 21r-2r.

RaW 739.2

Autograph letter signed by Robert Branthwaite, to William Trumbull in Brussels, discussing ‘the vnfortunate end’ of their ‘old freind’, who ‘made a most resolute and religious end’ and ‘dyed like a Sainte, and a souldier’, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves. 2 December 1618.

In: the MS described under RaW 730.3.

British Library, Add. MS 72354, ff. 84r-5r.

RaW 739.3

Autograph letter signed by Sir Robert Tounson (1576-1621), Dean of Westminster, later Bishop of Salisbury, who attended Ralegh before and at his execution, written to Sir John Isham, discussing Ralegh's execution (‘...I hope yow had the relation of sr Walter Rawleighs death, for so I gave order that it should be brought vnto yow...[I] sett downe the manner of his death as near as I could...’), with references to other copies, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, an address panel on the fourth page, dated 9 November 1618. Photographs and newscuttings relating to this letter in IL 3983, including the Morning Post, 28 July 1930. 1618.

Among papers of the Isham family, of Lamport Hall, including collections of Sir Justinian Isham, second baronet (1611-75), scholar and politician.

Northamptonshire Record Office, IC 152.

RaW 739.4

Brief notes on Ralegh's execution made by Sir Francis Fane. c.1655.

In: A small octavo prose miscellany, compiled by Sir Francis Fane (c.1612-80), ii + 242 pages (plus 182 blank pages). Inscribed by Fane to his son, as a book of travels to comfort him, dated from Aston, 1 January ‘1655’. One later entry dated 1659. c.1650s.

Sold by Maggs, 29 May 1930.

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, ER 93/1, p. 180.

RaW 739.5

Copy in: A folio volume of Jacobean political tracts and verse, 103 leaves. Mid-17th century.

Once owned by John Loveday (1711-89), antiquary and traveller.

Yale, Osborn MS fb 243, [unspecified page numbers].

RaW 740

Copy, untitled.

In: the MS described under RaW 11. c.1620.

Bedfordshire Record Office, TW 1145, ff. [1r-2v].

RaW 742

Copy in Ashmole's hand, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawley his speech at his death...’.

In: the MS described under RaW 544.

Bodleian, MS Ashmole 830, ff. 114r-15v.

RaW 742.5

Copy of an account of the execution, headed ‘The vntimely and vnfortunate death of Sr Walter Rawleighe Knt. 1618’.

In: the MS described under RaW 29. 1674.

Bradford Archives, 32D86/27, ff. 127v-8v.

RaW 743

Copy, in the hand of William Fulman. Mid-late 17th century.

In: the MS described under RaW 15. Mid-late 17th century.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MS 297, ff. 166v-7v.

RaW 743.5

Copy, in an unidentified hand.

In: the MS described under RaW 15. Mid-late 17th century.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MS 297, ff. 168v-9v.

RaW 744

Copy in an unaccomplished non-professional hand, headed ‘Sr W. R. confession at his death. 1618’. c.1620.

In: the MS described under RaW 15. Mid-late 17th century.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MS 297, ff. 170r-2r.

RaW 745

Copy of an account of the speech and execution, in two hands, on five pages of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves (the third leaf, in the second hand, cut to ¾-leaf size), endorsed (f. 22v) ‘Sr walter Raleighe his speech at his death Octob: 29. 1618’. c.1620s.

In: A composite volume of state tracts and speeches, in various hands, folio and quarto sizes, 79 leaves, in modern cloth.

Given to the Bodleian in 1952 by J.C.B. Gamlen via Ruth Waterhouse.

Bodleian, MS Eng. hist. c. 319, ff. 19r-21r.

RaW 746

Copy of an account of the speech and execution, in two secretary hands, headed ‘The Confession of Sr Water R’.

In: the MS described under RaW 546. c.1620s.

Bodleian, MS Jesus College 83, ff. 68v-70r.

RaW 747

Copy of an account of Ralegh's speech on the scaffold and execution, in a professional secretary hand, on quarto leaves, imperfect, lacking the beginning. c.1620s.

In: the MS described under RaW 547.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. D. 180, ff. 46r-52v.

RaW 748

Copy, in a professional hand, untitled, with an annotation at one point in the hand of someone apparently present at the execution, declaring that when Ralegh ‘came into his gallery hee said nothinge as I remember’. c.1620s.

In: the MS described under RaW 20. c.1590-1636.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. D. 859, ff. 84r-5v.

RaW 749

Copy, in a secretary hand, on six pages of two conjugate folio leaves, headed ‘Walter Rawlighes speeche at his deathe whoe was beheaded at the ould Pallace at westminster ye 28th of october betwene 8 & 9 of the clocke in the morning’.

In: the MS described under RaW 25.

Bodleian, MS Tanner 74, ff. 148r-50v.

RaW 750

Copy, headed ‘The effect of sr Walter Rauleigh's speech written on the hearing of him before he was beheaded. Octob. 29th. 1618’.

In: the MS described under RaW 27. Mid-late 17th century.

Edited from this MS in Works (1829), VIII, 775-80, and in Edwards (1868), I, 698-706.

Bodleian, MS Tanner 299, ff. 26v-8v.

RaW 751

Copy, with alterations, in a cursive predominantly italic hand, untitled, on the first page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘Sr Walt Raleighs last words on ye Scaffold’. c.1620.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, mostly in the hand of Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian, 276 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco.

British Library, Add. MS 4106, ff. 82r-3v.

RaW 752

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘A short Relation of what was done at the Kings Bench Bar wn Sr Wa. Raleigh had warning given him to ppare himself to die Together wth what hee spake at the time of his death.’

In: the MS described under RaW 575.

British Library, Add. MS 34631, ff. 61r-3v.

RaW 753

Copy of a version headed ‘A Memoriall of what passed concerning Sir Wa: Rawleighs execution who was beheaded in the old Pallace at Westminster October. 29 1618’, subscribed ‘written by mr Al: S. to the L. A:’: i.e. possibly by Sir Thomas Aylesbury, Bt (1579/80-1658), patron of mathematics, to Charles Howard, Earl of Nottingham, Lord High Admiral, whom Aylesbury served as secretary.

In: the MS described under RaW 36. c.1630s.

See also RaW 803.

British Library, Add. MS 40838, ff. 27v-30r.

RaW 754

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘The speech of Sr. Walter Rawleigh at his death, Anno Dnj. 1605’. c.1620s-30s.

In: the MS described under RaW 37.

British Library, Add. MS 44848, ff. 267r-9v.

RaW 754.5

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed ‘Words spoke by Sr. Walter Rawleigh at his death’.

In: the MS described under RaW 38.5. c.1626.

British Library, Add. MS 70636, ff. 14r-17v.

RaW 755

Fragment of a copy, inserted in the volume.

In: the MS described under RaW 141. c.1586-1625.

British Library, Egerton MS 3165, f. 115.

RaW 756

Copy, in the hand of Ralph Starkey, headed ‘sr Walter Raleghe his speeche Deliuered at his Deathe...Ano. 1618’. c.1620s.

In: the MS described under RaW 39.

British Library, Harley MS 39, ff. 361r-8v.

RaW 757

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The sume of that wch Sr. Walter Rawley deliuered att his death’. c.1620s.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and miscellaneous verse and prose, in various hands, 69 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt.

British Library, Harley MS 791, ff. 49v-50v.

RaW 758

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleighes speech at his death, Whoe was beheaded at the old Pallace, at Westminster 28th octob: betweene the houres of eight and nyne in the Morninge, these lordes being present...’.

In: A folio volume of state papers and speeches, in several professional hands, 41 leaves, in modern calf gilt. c.1620s-30s.

British Library, Harley MS 852, ff. 29r-32r.

RaW 759

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh his Speech in October 1618 At his death on the Scaffold in the Old Pallace ar westmr 29th of October then executed’.

In: the MS described under RaW 710.22. c.1628[-1640].

British Library, Harley MS 1327, f. 56r-v.

RaW 760

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Notes of Sr. walter Rawleighs speech Novem: 20 1618’. c.1620s.

In: the MS described under RaW 41.

British Library, Harley MS 1576, ff. 93r-4r.

RaW 761

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh his speech at his death, who was beheaded in the old Pallace at Westm: the 29 of Octob: 1618’, incomplete. c.1620.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, 93 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

Inscribed (f. 1*r) by Humfrey Wanley ‘Brought in by my Lord Harley, 23 March. 1714/5’.

British Library, Harley MS 1893, f. 81r.

RaW 762

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed ‘The Sume of Sr walter Raleigh his speetch att his execution in the olde pallace att westmr the 29th of october .1618. & in ye sixteenth yere of his Maties Raigne, as followeth’. c.1620s-30s.

In: A quarto composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, 194 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt.

British Library, Harley MS 6353, ff. 80r-6r.

RaW 763

Copy, in a secretary hand, of ‘Sr Walter Rawleighs Wordes at his Death, taken exactly by Tho: Aylsbury Esqr. [i.e. Sir Thomas Aylesbury (1579/80-1658), patron of mathematics] 1618’. c.1618.

In: the MS described under RaW 43.

British Library, Harley MS 7056, ff. 49r-50v.

RaW 764

Copy, in a secretary hand, on both sides of a folio leaf, imperfect; lacking the beginning. c.1620.

In: the MS described under RaW 46.

British Library, Stowe MS 141, f. 74r-v.

RaW 765

A second copy, in another secretary handm, untitled. c.1620.

In: the MS described under RaW 46.

British Library, Stowe MS 141, f. 75r-v.

RaW 766

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleighs speach at his death...[&c.]’, on two conjugate folio leaves. c.1620.

In: the MS described under RaW 728.148.

British Library, Stowe MS 180, ff. 47r-8r.

RaW 766.5

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, endorsed in another hand ‘If my boy hath mistaken or miswritten any thing in the speech, you must by discretion amend it. for I haue no tyme to read it’, and, in yet another hand, ‘Sr Walter Rawghleyes speech at his Death’, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter. c.1618.

In: the MS described under RaW 730.3.

Formerly Trumbull Misc. corres. XXXIV, no. 12.

British Library, Add. MS 72354, ff. 50r-1r.

RaW 767

Copy, untitled, on six leaves.

In: A composite volume of state, ecclesiastical and parliamentary tracts, speeches, and other records.

Cambridge University Library, MS Dd. 3. 87, Item 8.

RaW 768

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 522. Early-mid-17th century.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ee. 5. 23, pp. 464-7.

RaW 769

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 48. Early-mid-17th century.

Cambridge University Library, MS Mm. 6. 33, ff. 181r-5v.

RaW 769.5

Copy of an account of Ralegh's speech and execution, untitled.

In: A folio booklet of state letters, in a single predominantly secretary hand, 24 leaves, the last three leaves imperfect, unbound. c.1630.

Cardiff Central Library, MS 4.424, ff. 1r-2v.

RaW 770

Copy, the speech introduced ‘His wordes were to this effecte’.

In: the MS described under RaW 552. c.1625-30s.

Cheshire Record Office, DLT/B8, pp. 302-6.

RaW 771

Copy of an account of ‘The speeches of sr Walter Rawleighe beheaded in the old pallace...’, here beginning ‘This daie whether the sunne refused to be a beholder or in pittie withdrew himselfe...’.

In: the MS described under RaW 552. c.1625-30s.

Cheshire Record Office, DLT/B8, pp. 306-12.

RaW 771.5

Copy of an account of Ralegh's execution, on fourteen small quarto pages, imperfect. c.1620.

Among the collections of J.P. Earwaker (1847-95), Cheshire historian. Formerly in the Chester City Record Office.

Cheshire Record Office, CR 62/2/692/225.

RaW 772

Copy, headed ‘Sir Walter Rawleighs Speech Imediately before he was Beheaded’.

In: the MS described under RaW 50. c.1674-84.

University of Chicago, MS 824, ff. 28r-9r.

RaW 773

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 51. c.1620s.

Derbyshire Record Office, D 258/39/5, ff. [1r-3r].

RaW 774

Copy, in the secretary hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple; untitled, on seven pages of four small quarto leaves, in blank paper wrappers, docketed ‘Raleighs speech at his death’. c.1620s-30s.

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 D258/67/33b.

Derbyshire Record Office, D258/39/33/2.

RaW 775

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 117. c.1620s.

East Sussex Record Office, RAF/F/13/1, pp. 101-4.

RaW 776

Copy, in an italic hand. c.1620.

In: the MS described under RaW 54. c.1630.

Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 493, ff. 32r-3v.

RaW 777

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Sir walter Rauleighes speech at his execution who was beheaded at The old palleice at westminster the 28. of october 1618. betuin the hower of 8 & 9. in the morning theis Lords being prt...’.

In: the MS described under RaW 55. c.1628-38.

Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 501, ff. 65r-6v.

RaW 778

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 56. c.1620.

Essex Record Office, Chelsmsford, D/DSh Z1, ff. 37r-8v.

RaW 779

Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand.

In: the MS described under RaW 587. c.1621-6.

Folger, MS G.b.7, ff. 135r-8v.

RaW 780

Copy, in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’.

In: the MS described under RaW 57.

Beal, In Praise of Scribe, p. 264 (No. 108.14).

Folger, MS G.b.9, ff. 161r-70r.

RaW 781

Copy, in a small secretary hand.

In: the MS described under RaW 64. c.1620.

Folger, MS V.a.418, ff. [1r-4v].

RaW 782

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walther Rawleigh's speech a little before his execution beinge the 19th of October 1618’.

In: the MS described under RaW 66. c.1642.

A facsimile of p. 271 in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, 2008), p. 37.

Folger, MS V.b.303, pp. 271-5.

RaW 783

Copy, in Smyth's accomplished secretary hand, headed ‘Sr walter Rawleighes speech at his death, who was beheaded at the old Pallace at Westminster the 28. of October .1618. betweene .8. and .9. of the Clocke in the morninge’. c.1618.

In: the MS described under RaW 710.235.

Folger, MS Z.e.1, No. 11.

RaW 784

Copy, in a secretary hand. c.1620.

In: the MS described under RaW 67.

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, MS 73/40, ff. 214r-15r.

RaW 785

Copy, headed ‘october 29 1618 The full effecte and substance of Sr walter Rawliethes speeches at his Execution’.

In: the MS described under RaW 68. c.1620.

Harvard, MS Eng 628, pp. 387-9.

RaW 786

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Sr. Walter Rawleighs confession & gesture at the tyme of his execution’.

In: the MS described under RaW 710.245.

Inner Temple Library, Petyt MS 538, Vol.18, ff. 240r-4r.

RaW 787

Copy, in two hands, on two leaves, the second evidently a later replacement for a lost or damaged original. Early-mid-17th century.

Rcorded in HMC, 14th Report, Appendix IV (1894), p. 24.

Lord Kenyon, Kenyon MSS HMC. 43.

RaW 788

Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, headed ‘Sr: Walter Raleigh his speace att the time of his death’.

In: the MS described under RaW 73. c.1620s.

British Library, Add. MS 73086, ff. 20r-2r.

RaW 789

Copy, in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, headed ‘Sir walter Rawleighe Confession’.

In: A folio volume of state letters and tracts, almost entirely in two professional secretary hands, predominantly that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, iv + 232 leaves, in reversed calf. c.1628-30s.

Once owned by ‘Ric: Tichbone’, probably Sir Richard Tichborne, second Baronet, MP (c.1578-1652). James Tregaskis, sale catalogue No. 1022 (1948), item 29. Bought from Maggs, 4 November 1948, by Annie Winifred Bryher (née Ellerman, d.1983). Afterwards owned by the Ralegh scholar Agnes Latham (1905-96), of Pickering, North Yorkshire.

Briefly described in Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 229-31 (No. 35).

This MS recorded in C. Deedes, ‘Unpublished Letters of Sir Walter Ralegh’, N&Q, 8th Ser. 3 (24 June 1893), 481-2.

British Library, Add. MS 73087, ff. 43r-6v.

RaW 790

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleigh his speech at his execution’.

In: A quarto volume of state letters, the main text in a single mixed hand, viii + 125 pages, in half brown calf on marbled boards (rebacked). c.1630.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 33.7.19, pp. 18-23.

RaW 791

Copy, untitled, on three pages, endorsed on the fourth page ‘Sr Walter Raleigh's Execution’.

In: the MS described under RaW 79. Early-mid-17th century.

New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Acc. No. 7482, [item 1].

RaW 791.5

Copy, on 29 quarto pages, disbound, originally bound with an exemplum of Declaration of the Demeanour &c of Sir Walter Ralegh (1618). Early-mid 17th century.

New York Public Library, MSS Col 2388.

RaW 792

Copy, in the hand of Henry Bull, Jr.

In: the MS described under RaW 728.278. c.1620s.

University of North Carolina, CSWR A32, pp. 267-71.

RaW 793.

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh his speech at his Execution’.

In: the MS described under RaW 80. c.1618-20s.

Northamptonshire Record Office, IC 3495, pp. [1-3].

RaW 794

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The some of that which Sr walter Raleigh deliuered att his death’, on three pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, written across both sides of the sheet in broadsheet format, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1618-20s.

Northamptonshire Record Office, IC 3496.

RaW 795

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Octob: 28. 1618’, inscribed in the margin (p. 1) ‘The ffirst sheete / His bringeinge to the Barre’ and (p. 2) ‘The execucon Octob: 29th: 1618’, on five pages of two unbound pairs of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1620.

This MS recorded in HMC, 55, Various Collections, VII (1914), p. 269.

University of Nottingham, Cl LP 5/5.

RaW 796

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh his speech att the time of his Execution, with the manner of his deportment’.

In: the MS described under RaW 85. c.1620.

University of Texas at Austin, Pforzheimer MS 112, pp. 93-103.

RaW 797

Copy, in a neat secretary hand, identified in an inscription on the mount as probably that of Edmund Elms of Lilliford, Clerk of the City of London, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh his speech vpon the scaffold at his death’. c.1620.

In: the MS described under RaW 197.

Edited from this MS in R.H. Bowers, ‘Ralegh's Last Speech: The “Elms” Document’, RES, NS 21 (1951), 209-16.

Pierpont Morgan Library, Rulers of England (Eliz. I), No. 49.

RaW 798

Copy, in a cursive secretary hand (incorrectly stated to be that of Serjeant Fleetwood), untitled, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1620.

In: the MS described under RaW 197.

This MS described in Bowers, pp. 210-11 (see RaW 797).

Pierpont Morgan Library, Rulers of England (Eliz. I), No. 50.

RaW 798.5

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 6.5. c.1642.

Robert S. Pirie, New York, [Feilde MS], pp. 443-8.

RaW 799

Copy, in an italic hand, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleighes speech att his death who was beheaded att the ould Pallace att westminster the 28th of October betwene 8 and 9 of the clocke in the morninge’, on the rectos of five small folio leaves, in loose paper wrapper. c.1620.

Formerly Princeton AM 20450 and General MSS Misc Ralegh unnumbered file.

Princeton, RTC01 Box 14, fl. 2 [ii].

RaW 800

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Sr W Raligh his speetch and behauior at his executio in Westminster Pallace. October. 28. 1618’, on five pages of three folio leaves, endorsed ‘Sr W. Ralegh his Execution. 28 Octr 1618’. c.1618.

In: the MS described under RaW 89.

National Archives, Kew, SP 14/103, ff. 74r-6r.

RaW 801

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled but with a sidenote ‘Sr walter Raleighs speech att his death’, subscribed ‘Sr walter Rawleigh was be-headed on a Scaffold ye <space> day of Nobr 1618. in ye Pallace-yarde att Westmr’, on seven quarto leaves, foliated in ink (as if part of a larger volume) 57-63. c.1618 or later.

In: the MS described under RaW 89.

National Archives, Kew, SP 14/103, ff. 77r-83r.

RaW 802

Copy. c.1620s-30s.

In: the MS described under RaW 728.255.

The Queen's College, Oxford, MS 32, ff. 14r-16v.

RaW 803

Copy, subscribed ‘Tooke by Mr. Alsbr: sectie: to ye Ld. Adll’, among other papers relating to Ralegh. c.1620s.

In: the MS described under RaW 91.

The Queen's College, Oxford, MS 121, pp. 512-17.

RaW 803.5

Copy, subscribed ‘Tooke by Mr. Alsbr: sectie: to the L: Adll’, among other papers relating to Ralegh.

In: the MS described under RaW 518.5. c.1620s-30s.

The Queen's College, Oxford, MS 130, pp. 152-7.

RaW 804

Copy, in two secretary hands, imperfect, lacking the beginning, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed ‘Sir Walt: Ralegh his speech at his dea[th] the 29th october 161[8]’. c.1620s.

Among the papers of the Mildmay family, including those of Colonel Carew Harvey Mildmay (fl.1625-67), officer of the Jewel House, of Marks, Somerset.

Recorded in HMC, 7th Report, Part I (1879), Appendix, p. 592.

Somerset Heritage Centre, DD/MI 18/82/[1].

RaW 805

Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleigh his speech at his death, who was beheaded in the ould [ ? ] at Westminster the 29th of October 16i8 betweene 8 and 9 of the cloke in the morn’, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1620.

Among the papers of the Sanford family. Formerly DD/SF C/2635, box 1, and in DD/SF/ 4514.

Somerset Heritage Centre, DD/SF/7/1/11/1.

RaW 806

Copy. Early-mid-17th century.

Among the papers of the Bagot family of Blithfield, Staffordshire.

Staffordshire Record Office, D 1721/3/186 [item 1].

RaW 807

Copy, in a secretary hand, with annotations in a later hand.

In: the MS described under RaW 95.

Trinity College, Cambridge, MS O. 5. 21 (James 1302), (20), pp. 177-82.

RaW 808

Copy, headed in another hand ‘Sr Walter Raleighs Speech & Behaviour before his Execution &c’.

In: the MS described under RaW 97. c.1620s.

Dr Williams's Library, MS Jones B. 60, pp. 269-74.

RaW 808.5

Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleighs speech at his Execution’.

In: the MS described under RaW 97. c.1620s.

Dr Williams's Library, MS Jones B. 60, pp. 275-82.

RaW 809

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 728.29. c.1629-32.

Yale, Osborn MS b 32, pp. 145-53.

RaW 810

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 103. 1618-23.

Edited from this MS in Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, pp. 94-8.

Untraced, [Winthrop MS], [unspecified page numbers].

RaW 811

Copy in: A composite volume of state papers. Early-mid-17th century.

Once belonging to Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary. Later part of MS XXXIII among the collections of Hudson Gurney (1775-1864), of Keswick Hall, Norfolk, banker and antiquary. Part of eight leaves sold at Sotheby's, 31 March 1936, lot 188, to Last, five of which are now in Yale, Osborn Poetry Box VI/107 (see RaW 100).

Recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Appendix IX (1891), p. 161.

Untraced, [Gurney MS XXXIII], [unspecified page numbers].

RaW 812

Copy in: Volume of state papers. 17th century.

Formerly MS XXXIV among the collections of Hudson Gurney (1775-1864), of Keswick Hall, Norfolk, banker and antiquary.

Recorded in HMC, 12th Report, Appendix IX (1891), p. 162.

Untraced, [Gurney MS XXXIV], pp. 275-8.

RaW 813

Copy of the speech in a Spanish translation, in a roman hand, with corrections or alterations in a different ink, headed ‘La suma de lo que dixo Don Gualtero Ralegh estando sobre el cadahalso antes que le degollassen’, on three pages of two folio leaves. c.1618.

In: A folio composite volume of Spanish state papers, relating to the affairs of Spain in 1613-19, in various hands and paper sizes, 256 leaves, in modern half-leather.

British Library, Add. MS 14015, ff. 134r-5r.

RaW 814

Copy of the speech in a French translation, headed ‘Dernieres parolles du Cheualier Raulegh, traduittes d'Anglois mot à mot’. c.1618.

In: the MS described under RaW 12.

Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Cinq cents de Colbert n° 467, ff. 67r-8v.

RaW 815

Copy of the speech in a French translation, headed ‘Dernieres parolles du Cheualeir Rauleigh traduites d'Anglois mot a mot’.

In: the MS described under RaW 728.9. Late 17th century.

British Library, Add. MS 30663, ff. 489r-93r.

RaW 816

Brief notes of the main points in Ralegh's speech, beginning ‘Two fits of an ague / Thankes to god...’, in Thomas Harriot's hand, on a long slip of paper, quite possibly jotted down at the execution itself.

In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, in various hands, 538 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco. Volume VIII of the collections of collections of Thomas Harriot (c.1560-1621), mathematician and natural philosopher.

This MS printed and discussed in B.J. Sokol, ‘Thomas Harriot's Notes on Sir Walter Raleigh's Address from the Scaffold’, Manuscripts, 26, No. 3 (Summer 1975), 198-206. Also printed and discussed, with a facsimile, in John W. Shirley, ‘Sir Walter Ralegh and Thomas Harriot’, in Thomas Harriot Renaissance Scientist, ed. John W. Shirley (Oxford, 1974), pp. 16-35.

British Library, Add. MS 6789, f. 533r.

RaW 816.5

Copy, headed ‘A Memoriall of what passed concerninge Sr Wa: Raleighs execusion, whoe was beheaded in the ould Pallace at Westminster October the 29. 1618’, subscribed ‘Write by Mr. Al: S. to the L. A.’: i.e. possibly by Sir Thomas Aylesbury, Bt (1579/80-1658), patron of mathematics, to Charles Howard, Earl of Nottingham, Lord High Admiral, whom Aylesbury served as secretary.

In: the MS described under RaW 38.2. c.1620s-40s.

British Library, Add. MS 69394, ff. 59r-61r.

RaW 817

An account of Ralegh's speech and execution, in a letter written by Thomas Lorkin to Sir Thomas Puckering, from London 3 November 1618, with a postscript ‘When you have read this side I should esteem it a fauor, if yow burnt it.’. 1618.

Later inscription (f. 423v) ‘Bought of Mr Baker’.

In: A large folio composite volume of original state letters, in various hands, iv + 488 leaves (plus blanks), in half morocco gilt.

This MS printed in V.T. Harlow, Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 311-14.

British Library, Harley MS 7002, f. 420r-3v.

RaW 818

Account of Ralegh's speech in a letter written in the predominantly italic hand of John South to an unidentified person (‘Right Worshipfull’).c.30 October 1618.

In: A quarto booklet of verse and prose, in Latin and English, in several secretary and italic hands, thirteen leaves, disbound. c.1635.

Folger, MS X.d.241, ff. 4v-5r.

RaW 819

Account of Ralegh's speech and execution in an autograph letter written by John Chamberlain (1553-1628) to Sir Dudley Carleton (1574-1632), English Ambassador at The Hague, mentioning that beforehand at the Gatehouse Ralegh ‘spent the rest of that day in writing letters to the k. and others’, docketed by Carleton ‘Mr Chamberlain the last of Octobr. red the 6th of 9ber giuing acct of sr Walter Rawleighs Execution’, 31 October 1618. 1618.

In: the MS described under RaW 89.

The letter is edited in The Letters of John Chamberlain, ed. Norman Egbert McClure, 2 vols (Philadelphia, 1939), II, 175-9.

National Archives, Kew, SP 14/103, ff. 91r-2v.

RaW 819.5

Copy of the first part of John Chamberlain's letter to Sir Dudley Carleton (RaW 819) giving an account of Ralegh's speech and execution, in a secretary hand, endorsed on a second leaf (f. 94v) ‘ult octobris 1618 mr John Chamberlayn to Sr d. Carleton / Sr walter Raleighs Plea ourruled, because noe pardon is[?] for Treason by [?]Juriplication’. c.1618 or later.

In: the MS described under RaW 89.

National Archives, Kew, SP 14/103, f. 93r-v.

RaW 820

Account of Ralegh's execution and speech in an autograph letter written by John Pory (1572-1636?) to Sir Dudley Carleton (1574-1632), English Ambassador at The Hague, endorsed by the recipient ‘Mr Pory ye last of 8ber red ye 6th of 9ber 1618’ with subsequent addition ‘upon the death of Sr Wal. Raleighe’. 1618.

In: the MS described under RaW 89.

This MS edited in William S. Powell, ‘John Pory on the Death of Sir Walter Raleigh’, WMQ, 3rd Ser. 9 (1952), 532-8 (pp. 534-7).

National Archives, Kew, SP 14/103, ff. 96r-8r.

RaW 821

Account in Spanish of Ralegh's execution in a letter written by Juan Bautista van Male to Diego Sarmiento de Acuña (1567-1626), Count Gondomar, Spanish Ambassador to England. 14 November 1618. In a composite volume of Gondomar's diplomatic correspondence. 1618.

This MS edited in F.J. Sánchez Cantón, ‘Cóme se enteró el Conde de Gondomar de la ejecución de Sir Walter Ralegh’, Real Academia de la Historia, Boletín 113 (1943), 123-9

Biblioteca de Palacio, Madrid, Spain, MS 2160, No. 57.

RaW 822

Account in Spanish of Ralegh's speech and execution, in a letter written by the Spanish agent Ulloa to King Philip. 1618.

Hume's source, presumably in the Spanish archives, is unknown (it is not at Simancas and cannot be identified in the archives of the Biblioteca de Palacio, Madrid, although it may be among uncatalogued papers).

This account edited, in an English translation, in Martin A.S. Hume, Sir Walter Ralegh (London, 1897), pp. 414-16. Reprinted from this publication in V.T. Harlow, Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 314-15.

Untraced, [Ulloa MS].

Letters

Letter(s)

RaW 823

Copies of letters by Ralegh, to his wife and to Sir Robet Carr.

In: the MS described under RaW 147.

All Souls College, Oxford, MS 155, ff. 100v-2r, 253r-v.

RaW 824

Copy of a letter by Ralegh.

In: the MS described under RaW 147.

All Souls College, Oxford, MS 155, ff. 353r-v.

RaW 825

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to James I, 1603.

In: the MS described under RaW 739. c.1609-20s.

Balliol College, Oxford, MS 270, pp. 151-2.

RaW 826

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Winwood, in a secretary hand, on a single folio leaf. c.1620.

In: the MS described under RaW 498.

The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Portland Papers, Vol. I, f. 206r-v.

RaW 827

Copy of six letters by Ralegh, to his wife (2), to James I (2), to Ralph Winwood (both parts), and to Sir Robert Carr, in at least two secretary hands, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford.

In: the MS described under RaW 543. c.1620s-30s.

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 261, pp. 519-60.

RaW 828

Copies of letters by Ralegh.

In: A MS volume.

Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, fonds anglais n° 146, pp. 166-75.

RaW 829

Copies of letters by Ralegh.

In: the MS described under RaW 148.

Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, fonds anglais n° 149, ff. 93v-102r.

RaW 830

Copy of letters by Ralegh, to James I (3), Lady Ralegh (3), and Robert Carr.

In: the MS described under RaW 10.5. c.1620s-37.

Bodleian, MS Ashmole 781, pp. 92-101.

RaW 830.5

Copy of letters by Ralegh, one to Winwood, 21 March 1617/18.

In: the MS described under RaW 25.

Bodleian, MS Tanner 74, ff. 111r-12v, 146r, 147r.

RaW 831

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to James I, 1603.

In: A folio volume of state letters and papers, 355 leaves.

Bodleian, MS Tanner 75, f. 12r.

RaW 832

Copy of five letters by Ralegh, to Winwood, James I, Lady Ralegh (2), and Robert Carr.

In: the MS described under RaW 26. c.1630s.

Bodleian, MS Tanner 82, ff. 236v-43v.

RaW 833

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife.

In: the MS described under RaW 487.

Bodleian, MS Tanner 169, ff. 192v-3v.

RaW 834

Copy of Ralegh's letter to Winwood, 21 March 1617/18, in a professional secretary hand.

In: A folio composite volume of letters, in various hands, 243 leaves, in contemporary calf.

Bodleian, MS Tanner 290, ff. 4r-5v.

RaW 835

Copy of five letters by Ralegh, to James I (3), Lady Ralegh, and the Earl of Southampton (14 August 1603).

In: the MS described under RaW 27. Mid-late 17th century.

Bodleian, MS Tanner 299, ff. 25r-6r, 29v-31r.

RaW 836

Copies of letters by Ralegh, including one to James I.

In: the MS described under RaW 544.

Bodleian, MS Ashmole 830, ff. 104r-8r, 113r.

RaW 837

Copy of a letter by Ralegh., 26 July 1584. Late 16th century.

In: A folio volume of letters, 186 leaves.

Bodleian, MS Ballard 11, f. 3r.

RaW 838

Copy of one or more letters by Ralegh.

In: the MS described under RaW 622.

Bodleian, MS Carte 77, ff. 43r-6r.

RaW 839

Copy of letters by Ralegh, to his wife (2, 1603 and 1618); to Sir Robert Carr (1608); and to Winwood.

In: the MS described under RaW 559. c.1630.

Bodleian, MS Eng d. 2912, pp. 107-10, 115-23.

RaW 840

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to James I.

In: the MS described under RaW 18.

Bodleian, MS Eng. hist. c. 272, pp. 44-6.

RaW 841

Copy of two letters by Ralegh, to James I.

In: the MS described under RaW 545. c.1630.

Bodleian, MS Eng. hist. d. 138, ff. 6r-7v, 41r-2v.

RaW 842

Copies of letters by Ralegh.

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

Bodleian, MS Rawl. B. 151, ff. 1v, 2r, 104r.

RaW 842.5

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to James I.

In: the MS described under RaW 573.

Bodleian, MS Jones 56, ff. 35r-6r.

RaW 843

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to James I.

In: A folio volume of state papers and verses relating chiefly to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in a single professional secretary hand up to f. 58r, other hands on ff. 59r-65r, 65 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1610.

An anonymous reader has dated f. 58r ‘Septembr 10. 93 / ffebr: 30. [1]700/1’.

the life which i had...

Bodleian, MS Rawl. C. 744, f. 59r.

RaW 844

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife, 1603.

In: the MS described under RaW 19.5. Early 18th century.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. D. 383, ff. 140r-1r.

RaW 845

Copy of a letter by Ralegh.

In: the MS described under RaW 20. c.1590-1636.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. D. 859, f. 80r-v.

RaW 846

Copy of several letters by Ralegh, to his wife, to James I, to Sir Robert Carr, and to Winwood.

In: A quarto volume of letters and state papers, in a secretary hand, xii + 209 pages (plus blank pp. 211-472, 475-6), in contemporary calf. c.1620s-30s.

Owned in the 17th century by William Goswell, his friend James Bedford, and Gerard Langbaine [? Gerard Langbaine (1608/9-58), head of Queen's College, Oxford]. Also inscribed (f. 376) ‘Amy Wigmore’.

Bodleian, MS University College 152, pp. 43-53, 151-60.

RaW 847

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to Winwood.

In: the MS described under RaW 710.96. c.1665-70s.

Bradford Archives, 32D86/19, f. 81r-8v.

RaW 848

Copy of letters by Ralegh, to Winwood, to James I, and to Lady Ralegh.

In: the MS described under RaW 31. Mid-17th century.

Bradford Archives, 32D86/44, pp. 388-401.

RaW 849

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to Robert Cecil, 1601, in the hand of Thomas Birch. Mid-18th century.

In: the MS described under RaW 751.

British Library, Add. MS 4106, f. 59r-v.

RaW 850

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to Robert Carr, in a secretary hand. c.1620s.

In: the MS described under RaW 751.

British Library, Add. MS 4106, f. 81r.

RaW 851

Copy of letters by Ralegh to Winwood and James I.

In: A small folio volume of state letters, in a probably professional secretary hand, ii + 114 leaves, in half-morocco. c.1625-30s.

Later owned by John Locker (1693-1760), barrister and literary editor. Bought at his sale in 1764 by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian (whose signature on f. iir is actually dated 26 September 1763).

British Library, Add. MS 4108, ff. 111r-14v.

RaW 852

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to James I.

In: A quarto composite volume of state papers and printed material relating to Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Essex, in various hands, ff. 3r-87r in the neat secretary hand possibly of one ‘M. K.’ whose initials appear on the title-page (f. 3r), 161 leaves, with a table of contents (ff. 4r-5v), in modern half-morocco. Collected by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian. Early 17th century-1630s.

Inscribed (f. 2r) ‘Rd Bankes Anno Dni 1708’; (f. 1r) ‘Tho: Birch Januarii 8. 1752’; and (f. 96r) ‘Tho. Birch 28. Janua: 1754’.

British Library, Add. MS 4130, ff. 82r-3v.

RaW 853

Copies of letters by Ralegh, in Birch's hand.

In: A large quarto volume of letters, copied almost entirely in Thomas Birch's hand, 340 leaves. Volume I of the collection of state letters etc. by Thomas Birch (1705-66), biographer and historian. Mid-18th century.

British Library, Add. MS 4160, passim.

RaW 854

Copy, by Birch and at least one amanuensis, of letters by Ralegh, on pages including ff. 85r-8r.

In: the MS described under RaW 626. c.1751.

British Library, Add. MS 4231, passim.

RaW 855

Copies of numerous letters by Ralegh, chiefly to Robert Cecil, some to Essex, James I, Ralegh's wife, and others, including those on ff. 15r, 17r, 19r, 21r-v, 29r, 53r, 67r-v, 69r, 81r-v, 87r, 89r, 97r-v, 99r, 101r, 107r, 109r-v, 113r-v, 119r-v, 135r, 137r-8r, 139r, 141r, 143r-v, 145r, 147r-v, 149r-v, 151r-v, 153r-v, 157r, 185r-v, 187r-v, 197r-v, 201r-v, 203r, 205r, 207r, 208r, and 209r-v; together with letters and petitions by Lady Ralegh (ff. 23r, 65r, 93r, 155r, 159r, and 163r).

In: A folio volume of transcripts of Elizabethan-Jacobean state letters, in a single neat hand, transcribed from originals at Hatfield House, 210 leaves (including blanks), in vellum boards. Early-mid-18th century?

British Library, Add. MS 6177, passim.

RaW 856

Copies of seven letters by Ralegh to Robert Cecil.

In: A folio volume, in several hands, 214 leaves, in modern half red morocco. 18th century?

British Library, Add. MS 6178, ff. 2r-v, 16r-v, 18r-v, 22r, 44r-v, 46r, 198r-v.

RaW 857

Copy of two letters by Ralegh, to his wife (‘the night before he was beheaded att Westminster’) and to Winwood, in a professional secretary hand. c.1630s.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various professional hands, 200 leaves, in 19th-century morocco.

Purchased from Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller, 11 February 1838.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 228 (No. 28).

British Library, Add. MS 11308, ff. 135r-42v.

RaW 858

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to James I, 1603, in a secretary hand.

In: the MS described under RaW 739.1. c.1630s.

British Library, Add. MS 11600, f. 22r-v.

RaW 859

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to Sir Robert Carr, [December 1608].

In: A large square-shaped folio letterbook, in several secretary hands, 248 leaves, in embossed calf. Comprising copies of letters principally received by Sir Christopher Hatton (c.1540-91), Vice-Chamberlain of the Household and Lord Chancellor. c.1640.

Later in the possession of William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector. Upcott sale (22 June 1846), lot 83.

British Library, Add. MS 15891, f. 200r.

RaW 860

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to James I.

In: the MS described under RaW 680. c.1630.

British Library, Add. MS 22587, f. 3r-v.

RaW 861

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Winwood.

In: the MS described under RaW 680. c.1630.

British Library, Add. MS 22587, ff. 8r-10v.

RaW 862

Copy of two letters by Ralegh, to his son and to his wife, 1603.

In: the MS described under RaW 680. c.1630.

British Library, Add. MS 22587, ff. 16v-17v.

RaW 863

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr.

In: the MS described under RaW 680. c.1630.

British Library, Add. MS 22587, f. 37r-v.

RaW 864

Copy of one or more letters by Ralegh.

In: the MS described under RaW 3. c.1605.

British Library, Add. MS 22601, f. 17v.

RaW 865

Copy of letters by Ralegh, including one to James I.

In: the MS described under RaW 246. c.1620-50.

British Library, Add. MS 25707, ff. 138r, 147r-v.

RaW 866

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Stradling, from the Court, 26 September 1584.

In: A quarto letterbook comprising letters written to Sir Edward Stradling (c.1529-1609), antiquary, of St Donat's, Glamorganshire, in at least two secretary hands, 88 leaves, in modern half red morocco. Early 17th century.

Booklabel of Sir Charles George Young, FSA (1795-1869), Garter King of Arms. Sotheby's, 18 December 1871.

British Library, Add. MS 28852, f. 63v.

RaW 867

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Winwood, in a secretary hand, imperfect. c.1620.

In: A folio composite volume of largely original letters, in various hands, in half red morocco.

British Library, Add. MS 29598, ff. 2r-4v.

RaW 868

Copies of four letters by Ralegh, to his wife (22 March 1617/18), to Winwood (21 March 1617/18), to James I (2: 1603), and to Sir Robert Carr (1608), in a professional secretary hand. c.1620s-30s.

In: the MS described under RaW 575.

British Library, Add. MS 34631, ff. 47r-54v.

RaW 869

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to James I [Winchester, after 17 November 1603].

In: A tall folio volume of state papers, in various largely secretary hands, ii + 267 leaves, in modern half red morocco. Collected by Sir Peter Manwood, MP (1571-1625), of Hackington, Kent, judge and antiquary. c.1618-25.

British Library, Add. MS 38139, f. 45r.

RaW 870

Copy of four letters by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr, to James I (2), and to Winwood.

In: the MS described under RaW 36. c.1630s.

British Library, Add. MS 40838, ff. 31r-6r.

RaW 871

Copies of six letters by Ralegh, to Winwood, James I (2), Lady Ralegh (2), and Sir Robert Carr, in a professional secretary hand. c.1620s-30s.

In: the MS described under RaW 37.

British Library, Add. MS 44848, ff. 164r-9v.

RaW 872

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to James I, in a formal secretary hand.

In: the MS described under RaW 38. c.1597-1628.

British Library, Add. MS 52585, ff. 41v-2r.

RaW 873

Copy of five letters by Ralegh, to his wife., to Sir Robert Carr, to James I (2), and to Winwood.

In: the MS described under RaW 38.2. c.1620s-40s.

British Library, Add. MS 69394, ff. 17r-v, 62v-8r.

RaW 874

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Ralph Winwood, in a secretary hand, on three pages of two conjugate large folio leaves, folded as a letter, addressed on the last page (f. 48v) to William Trumbull in Brussels, with traces of a red wax seal and Trumbull's docketing. c.1617.

In: A folio collection of unbound letters, chiefly for 1617, 138 leaves.

Volume IX of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park.

Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Misc MS VIII, No. 37.

British Library, Add. MS 72350, ff. 47r-8r.

RaW 875

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife, 14 November [1617], in a professional secretary hand, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves. c.1620.

In: A composite folio volume of official letters and papers of William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), English Resident at Brussels, in various hands, 1617, 136 leaves. Volume CX of the Trumbull Papers. 1617.

Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Misc XXXIV, No. 5.

British Library, Add. MS 72351, f. 100r.

RaW 876

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife, in a secretary hand, on two pages of two conjugate folio leaves. c.1620s.

In: the MS described under RaW 730.3.

British Library, Add. MS 72354, f. 48r-v.

RaW 877

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr, 1608, in a predominantly secretary hand.

In: the MS described under RaW 73. c.1620s.

British Library, Add. MS 73086, f. 1r.

RaW 878

Copy of ten letters by Ralegh, to Lords Nottingham, Suffolk, and Devonshire, to Sir Robert Carr, to Sir Robert Cecil, to James I, to Queen Anne, to Sir Ralph Winwood, and to Ralegh's wife, in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’.

In: the MS described under RaW 789. c.1628-30s.

British Library, Add. MS 73087, ff. 22r-43r.

RaW 879

Copy, imperfect, badly burnt. Early 17th century.

In: A folio volume of warrants and other letters, tracts and state papers, in various hands, c.327 leaves.

This MS recorded in Latham & Youings

British Library, Cotton MS Otho E. VII, f. 208r.

RaW 880

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr.

In: the MS described under RaW 570.

British Library, Cotton MS Titus C. VII, f. 98r.

RaW 881

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr, 1609. c.1620.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, 54 leaves.

British Library, Egerton MS 2884, f. 12r.

RaW 881.5

Copy of two letters by Ralegh, to his wife and to Winwood, in a professional secretary hand.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, speeches and letters dating up to 1631, in various professional hands, including the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 313 leaves.

In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer. Inscribed by him on f. [iv] ‘F Hargrave A gift to me this day from my friend George Hardinge Esquire [(1743-1816), judge and writer]. F. H. 16. July 1789.’

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), pp. 232-3 (No. 41).

British Library, Hargrave MS 226, ff. 261r-9v.

RaW 882

Copy of letters by Ralegh, including letters to James I, to Lady Ralegh, to Winwood, to Queen Anne., and to Nottingham, in the hand of Ralph Starkey and another professional secretary hand.

In: the MS described under RaW 39.

British Library, Harley MS 39, ff. 351v-60r, 369r-72r.

RaW 883

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife, 1603.

In: the MS described under RaW 40. c.1627.

British Library, Harley MS 703, f. 162v.

RaW 884

Copy of letters by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr and to Lady Ralegh.

In: A folio volume of state letters and papers, in a single professional secretary hand (but for f. 98r-v), 128 leaves, in black morocco gilt. According to an inscription on f. 1*r this MS comprises (presumably a transcript of) ‘Severall papers found in Mr: Deas Study Secretary to Bishop Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury’. c.1650.

British Library, Harley MS 787, ff. 59r-60v.

RaW 885

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Winwood, in a professional secretary hand.

In: the MS described under RaW 758. c.1620s-30s.

British Library, Harley MS 852, ff. 21r-3v.

RaW 886

Copy of two letters by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr and to Lady Ralegh. c.1620s.

In: the MS described under RaW 366.

British Library, Harley MS 1221, ff. 94v-6r.

RaW 887

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to lord Arundell.

In: the MS described under RaW 710.22. c.1628[-1640].

British Library, Harley MS 1327, ff. 53r-5v.

RaW 888

Copy of two letters by Ralegh, to James I and to Lady Ralegh, in a secretary hand. 17th century.

In: the MS described under RaW 41.

British Library, Harley MS 1576, ff. 94v-5v.

RaW 889

Copy of letters by Ralegh, including to James I (1603) and to Winwood (1618), in secretary hands. 17th century.

In: the MS described under RaW 41.

British Library, Harley MS 1576, ff. 209v-10v, 212v-13r.

RaW 890

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife.

In: the MS described under RaW 761.

British Library, Harley MS 1893, f. 80r-v.

RaW 891

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife, in a secretary hand.

In: the MS described under RaW 489.

British Library, Harley MS 3787, f. 183r.

RaW 892

Copy of letters by Ralegh, to Winwood, to James I (2), to Lady Ralegh (2), and to Sir Robert Carr.

In: the MS described under RaW 42. Early-mid-17th century.

British Library, Harley MS 4761, ff. 13r-25v.

RaW 893

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife.

In: A folio volume of state papers and speeches, in a single accomplished cursive hand, 235 leaves, in later vellum boards gilt. Mid-late-17th century.

Inscribed (f. [ir] ‘Mr Noel from Lord Fitz-Williams. A.D. 1719’.

British Library, Harley MS 4808, ff. 106v-12v.

RaW 894

Copies of two letters by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr and to Lady Ralegh.

In: the MS described under RaW 367. Mid-17th century.

British Library, Harley MS 6038, ff. 31r-4r.

RaW 895

Copy of a letter by Ralegh.

In:

British Library, Harley MS 6242, f. 90r.

RaW 896

Copy of letters by Ralegh, to his wife, to Sir Robert Carr, and to Queen Anne.

In: A quarto composite volume of verse, state letters and culinary recipes, in English and French, in various hands, 136 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Inscribed (f. 2r) ‘Fane Chambrelaine’.

British Library, Harley MS 6908, ff. 92r-89r rev.

RaW 897

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to James I, 21 January ‘1603’.

In: A folio composite volume of state letters and papers, in various hands, compiled by Sir Julius Caesar (1558-1636), Master of the Rolls, c.455 leaves.

British Library, Lansdowne MS 157, f. 155r et seq.

RaW 898

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife.

In: A folio composite volume of letters and state papers, in various professional largely secretary hands, ff. 80r-160v an imperfect single unit, 346 leaves, in modern half red morocco gilt. c.1630s.

Inscribed (f. 3r) ‘Sum Ed: Umfrevile Janrio 1727’: i.e. Edward Umfreville (1702?-(1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts.

British Library, Lansdowne MS 238, ff. 138r-9r.

RaW 899

17th century.

In: the MS described under RaW 677. c.1618.

British Library, Sloane MS 3272, ff. 40r-55r.

RaW 900

Copy of three letters by Ralegh, to James I (1603), to Lady Ralegh (1603), and to Sir Robert Carr (1609).

In: the MS described under RaW 728.145. Early-mid-17th century.

British Library, Sloane MS 3079, ff. 40r-44r.

RaW 901

Copy of a letter by Ralegh.

In: the MS described under RaW 728.148.

British Library, Stowe MS 180, f. 26r.

RaW 902

Copies of letters by Ralegh, to Winwood, to James I (2), to Ralegh's wife; to Sir Robert Carr; and to Francis Bacon.

In: A small folio volume of state tracts and papers, in one or more probably professional hands. c.1620s-30s.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 203-4.

The Marquess of Bute, D 18, item 21.

RaW 903

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife.

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.

Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 79, ff. 62v-5v.

RaW 904

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife, 1603.

In: the MS described under RaW 47.5. Late 17th century.

Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 8460, pp. 173-171 rev.

RaW 905

Copies of letters by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr (1608), to James I (3); to Lady Ralegh (3); and to Ralph Winwod.

In: the MS described under RaW 522. Early-mid-17th century.

Cambridge University Library, MS Ee. 5. 23, pp. 418, 427-9, 436-7, 446-50, 452-3.

RaW 906

Copy by Baker of three letters by Ralegh, to the senate and vicechancellor of Cambridge University, 10 February 1584/5, 9 July 1584, and 20 February 1584/5, ‘taken from a volume of letters in the registry office, so mixed and confus'd that they Cannot be reduc't to any tolerable order’.

In: A large folio volume of transcripts of historical and antiquarian papers, in Latin and English, made by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary, 409 pages, in old calf. MS Baker 29. Late 17th-early 18th century.

Cambridge University Library, MS Mm. 1. 40, ff. 341-2.

RaW 907

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to his wife.

In: the MS described under RaW 769.5. c.1630.

Cardiff Central Library, MS 4.424, ff. 2v-3r.

RaW 908

Copy of two letters by Ralegh, to Winwood and to Carr, 1608.

In: the MS described under RaW 769.5. c.1630.

Cardiff Central Library, MS 4.424, ff. 13v-16v.

RaW 909

Copy of five letters by Ralegh, to Ralph Winwood (both parts), to Ralegh's wife (2), and to James I (2).

In: the MS described under RaW 557. c.1620s.

Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, U951 Z6, pp. 1-18, 87-[93].

RaW 910

Copy of letters by Ralegh, one to Winwood dated 21 March 1617[/18], another to Ralegh's wife.

In: the MS described under RaW 552. c.1625-30s.

Cheshire Record Office, DLT/B8, pp. 199-203, 300-1.

RaW 911

Copy of a letter by Ralegh.

In: the MS described under RaW 728.17.

Cheshire Record Office, CR 63/2/19, f. 15r.

RaW 912

Copies of two letters by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr and to Ralegh's wife.

In: the MS described under RaW 49. c.1600-1620s.

Chetham's Library, Mun. A.4.15, f. 34r-6r (pp. 54-8).

RaW 913

Copies of letters by Ralegh, to James I.

In: the MS described under RaW 49. c.1600-1620s.

Chetham's Library, Mun. A.4.15, ff. 41r-2r (pp. 66-8).

RaW 914

Copy of letters by Ralegh, to his wife, one from Guiana dated 1617.

Derbyshire Record Office, D 258/10/72.

RaW 915

Copy of a letter by Ralegh.

In:

Derbyshire Record Office, D 258/31/73, passim.

RaW 916

Copy of two letters by Ralegh, to James I, 1603.

Derbyshire Record Office, D 258/37/17.

RaW 917

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife, from Guiana, 1617.

Derbyshire Record Office, D 258/39/4.

RaW 919

Copy of a letter by Ralegh.

In: A folio volume of tracts and letters, many relating to Cambridge affairs, partly compiled by I. Wickstede, mayor of Cambridge. Early 17th century.

Downing College, Cambridge, Bowtell Collection, MS ‘Wickstede Thesaurus’, Part II, f. 40r.

RaW 920

Copies of several letters by Ralegh.

In: the MS described under RaW 117. c.1620s.

East Sussex Record Office, RAF/F/13/1, pp. 7, 19-21, 39, 66-71, 73-4.

RaW 921

Copy of two letters by Ralegh, to his wife and to James I.

In: the MS described under RaW 55. c.1628-38.

Edinburgh University Library, MS La. III. 501, ff. 66v-7v.

RaW 922

Copy of two letters by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr and to Ralegh's wife.

In: A folio volume of state letters, in an accomplished professional hand, with an ‘Index’, 209 pages (plus blanks). Late 17th century.

Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, pp. 305-6.

Lord Egremont, Petworth House, HMC MS 60, pp. 112-23.

RaW 923

Copy of five letters by Ralegh, to Winwood (both parts), James I (2), Sir Robert Carr, and to Ralegh's wife.

In: the MS described under RaW 83. c.1637.

Lord Egremont, Petworth House, HMC MS 61, pp. 374-91.

RaW 924

Copy of two letters by Ralegh, to James I and to Ralegh's wife.

In: the MS described under RaW 56. c.1620.

Essex Record Office, Chelsmsford, D/DSh Z1, f. 36r-v.

RaW 925

Copy, in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, of two letters by Ralegh to James I and one to Ralegh's wife, in 1603.

In: the MS described under RaW 57.

Folger, MS G.b.9, ff. 136v-40v.

RaW 926

Copy of three letters by Ralegh to Queen Anne (1618), to four noblemen (Nottingham, Suffolk, Devonshire, and Cecil, 13 August 1603), and to his wife (14 November 1617), in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’.

In: the MS described under RaW 57.

Folger, MS G.b.9, ff. 179v-84v.

RaW 927

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to his wife, 1603.

In: the MS described under RaW 58. c.1620s.

Folger, MS J.a.2, ff. 86v-7r.

RaW 928

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to his wife, December 1603, in a secretary hand, on the first two pages of two conjugate folio leaves. c.1620.

From the papers of the Bagot family, of Blithfield, Staffordshire.

Folger, MS L.a.758.

*RaW 929

Letter, in the secretary hand of an amanuensis, signed by Ralegh, to Sir William More, about a house at Blackfriars, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, the address on the fourth page, undated.

Among papers of the More-Molyneux family, of Loseley Park, near Guildford, Surrey.

Folger, MS L.b.37.

RaW 930

Part of a copy of a letter by Ralegh, in a secretary hand, lacking the beginning, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘Copie of a letter of Sr Walter Ralegh to Secretarie Winwood at S. Christopher one of the Antilian Ilands, 21 Marche. 1617[/18]’. c.1620.

Folger, MS X.c.45.

RaW 931

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to James I, 2 January 1603/4, in a mixed hand.

In: the MS described under RaW 818. c.1635.

Folger, MS X.d.241, f. 1r-v.

RaW 932

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to James I, 24 September 1618, in a predominantly italic hand. c.1620s.

In: the MS described under RaW 818. c.1635.

Folger, MS X.d.241, ff. 3v-4r.

RaW 933

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to his wife, [c.27 July 1603], in Smyth's accomplished secretary hand, on two pages of two conjugate folio leaves. c.1618.

In: the MS described under RaW 710.235.

Folger, MS Z.e.1, No. 8.

RaW 934

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to Sir Ralph Winwood, [21 March 1617/18], in a professional secretary hand, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves. c.1618.

In: the MS described under RaW 710.235.

Folger, MS Z.e.1, No. 9.

RaW 935

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr.

In: the MS described under RaW 728.205. c.1620s-30s.

Folger, MS V.a.130, Part II, ff. 9v-10r.

RaW 936

Copy of letters by Ralegh to his wife, Winwood, James I, and Robert Carr.

In: the MS described under RaW 59. c.1630s.

Folger, MS V.a.239, pp. 670-703.

RaW 937

Copy of letters by Ralegh to his wife (1603) and to Sir Robert Carr (1618).

In: the MS described under RaW 62. c.1640s.

Folger, MS V.a.339, f. 211r-v.

RaW 938

Copy of part of a letter by Ralegh to James I, headed ‘The Remaindr of Sr Walter Ralies ler begunn 5 leaues before’, the earler part now lacking.

In: the MS described under RaW 62. c.1640s.

Folger, MS V.a.339, f. 221v.

RaW 939

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to James I, in a cursive secretary hand.

In: the MS described under RaW 64. c.1620.

Folger, MS V.a.418, f. [6r-v].

RaW 940

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to his wife, 1603, in a cursive secretary hand, on three pages of two leaves after the printed Declaration.

In: the MS described under RaW 64. c.1620.

Folger, MS V.a.418, ff. [11r-12r].

RaW 941

Copy, in Dugdale's hand, of a letter by Ralegh to Sir Robert Carr, on both sides of a narrow octavo leaf.

In: A folio composite volume of antiquarian papers, in various hands and paper sizes, fourteen items, in modern boards. Papers collected by, and chiefly in the hand of, Sir William Dugdale (1605-86), antiquary and herald, in preparation for his Antiquities of Warwickshire (1656). Mid-17th century.

Folger, MS V.b.66, item 4 (f. 12r-v).

RaW 942

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to his ‘Noble Cosin’ relating to Cadiz, 21 January 1596/7.

In: A thick folio volume of state letters and tracts, a number relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in several largely secretary hands, 271 leaves, in contemporary calf (rebacked). Early 1600s.

Inscribed (front pastedown) ‘Die veneris. Julij: 1o 1601. per me Richardu Greenen’ and ‘Thomas Scott’; (f. 3r) ‘G. Scott’; (f. 271v) ‘Thomas Scott’, ‘Thomas Payne’, ‘Willm Scott’. Bookplate ‘Ex Libris Chambrun-Longworth’. Formerly Folger MS 6185.1

This volume discussed in James G. McManaway, ‘Elizabeth, Essex, and James’, in Elizabethan and Jacobean Studies Presented to Frank Percy Wilson (Oxford, 1959), pp. 219-30 (p. 221 et seq.).

Folger, MS V.b.214, ff. 106v-9r.

RaW 943

Copy of letters by Ralegh to his wife, Winwood, James I, and Sir Robert Carr.

In: the MS described under RaW 65. c.1630s.

Folger, MS V.b.234, pp. 649-86.

RaW 944

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to James I, [24 September 1618].

In: the MS described under RaW 66. c.1642.

Folger, MS V.b.303, p. 229.

RaW 945

Copies of four letters by Ralegh, to James I (2), to Sir Robert Carr, and to Ralegh's wife (two copies of one letter).

In: the MS described under RaW 67.

Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, MS 73/40, ff. 195r-v, 203r-v, 213r-v, 215.

RaW 946

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to his wife (1603), on a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endosed with a twenty-line poem beginning ‘Death is the goale of fame in life we doe’. c.1620s.

Hampshire Record Office, 44M69/F19/1/33.

RaW 947

Copy of Ralegh's letter to Winwood, 21 March 1617.

In: the MS described under RaW 68. c.1620.

Harvard, MS Eng 628, pp. 362-74.

RaW 948

Copies of three letters by Ralegh, to James I (1603), to Lady Ralegh (1603), and to Sir Robert Carr.

In: the MS described under RaW 728.215. Early 17th century.

Harvard, MS Eng 1021, ff. [28v-32v].

RaW 949

Copy of a letter by Ralegh.

In: A large folio volume of state letters and of speeches in the Star Chamber, in a single secretary hand, 45 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum, damaged by corrosive seepage of ink. Early 17th century.

Huntington, EL 2805, No. 12.

RaW 950

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr, in a professional secretary hand, on one side of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter, endorsed ‘1608’. Early 17th century.

Huntington, EL 6232.

RaW 951

Copy of letters by Ralegh, to James I and to Ralegh's wife.

In: An oblong quarto volume of transcripts of state letters up to 1627, closely written in two professional secretary hands, 39 leaves, in a late 16th-century vellum deed wrapper (now within modern green morocco gilt). c.1627-30s.

Phillipps MS 10665.

Huntington, HM 102, ff. 13r, 14v.

RaW 952

Copy of letters by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr and to Lady Ralegh.

In: the MS described under RaW 388. Early 17th century.

Huntington, HM 267, 4th series, ff. [2r-3r].

RaW 953

Copy of five letters by Ralegh, to Winwood (two parts), to James I (2), to Carr, and to Ralegh's wife.

In: the MS described under RaW 70. c.1630s.

Huntington, HM 36836, pp. 102-27.

RaW 954

Copies of five letters by Ralegh, to Winwood, to Ralegh's wife, to his son, and to James I (2), in a professional secretary hand, on quarto pages. c.1630s.

In: the MS described under RaW 710.245.

Inner Temple Library, Petyt MS 538, Vol.18, ff. 207r-16v, 233r-4r.

RaW 955

Copies of five letters by Ralegh, to James I (2), to Ralegh's wife, to Sir Robert Carr, and to Queen Anne.

In: the MS described under RaW 728.225. c.1620s-30s.

Inner Temple Library, Petyt MS 538, Vol. 36, ff. 78v-81r.

RaW 956

Copy of two letters by Ralegh, to the Earl of Southampton, 14 August 1603, and to James I, 1 August 1603, in a secretary hand. c.1630.

In: A folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands, with (ff. 1r-2v) a table of contents, ii + 266 leaves, in red morocco gilt.

Inner Temple Library, Petyt MS 538, Vol. 51, ff. 44r-8r.

RaW 957

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to Sir Robert Carr, in William Parkhurst's hand.

In: the MS described under RaW 274.

Leicestershire Record Office, DG. 7/Lit. 2, f. 250r-1v.

RaW 958

Copy of three letters by Ralegh, to James I, to Ralegh's wife, and to Sir Robert Carr, in a professional secretary hand. c.1630s.

In: the MS described under RaW 728.23.

Lincoln's Inn Library, Maynard MS 59, Part II, ff. 340r-343v.

RaW 959

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife, from St Christopher, 22 March 1617/18, in a secretary hand, on two conjugate quarto leaves. c.1630s.

In: Muniments of the Duchess of Norfolk.

National Archives, Kew, C115/101, M 21, No. 7632.

RaW 960

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr, 1608, on two conjugate folio leaves.

In: the MS described under RaW 959.

National Archives, Kew, C115/101, M 21, No. 7633.

RaW 961

Copies of five letters by Ralegh, to Sir John Gilbert the elder, 1583-91.

National Archives, Kew, SP 9/55/12.

RaW 962

Copy of Ralegh's letter to Winwood, 21 March 1617, in a secretary hand, on three folio leaves, imperfect. c.1620s.

In: the MS described under RaW 88.

National Archives, Kew, SP 14/96, ff. 118r-20r.

RaW 963

Copies of two letters by Ralegh, to his wife, [1603], and to Winwood, 21 March 1617, in a professional secretary hand, in a quarto booklet. c.1620s.

In: the MS described under RaW 88.

National Archives, Kew, SP 14/96, 122r-6v.

RaW 964

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife, concerning the ship The Destiny, in a predominantly italic hand. c.1620s.

In: the MS described under RaW 89.

National Archives, Kew, SP 14/103, f. 26r-v.

RaW 965

Copies of four letters by Ralegh, to James I, Carr, Winwood and Ralegh's wife.

In: the MS described under RaW 790. c.1630.

National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 33.7.19, pp. 5-17.

RaW 966

Copy of three letters by Ralegh, to James I, in a professional secretary hand.

In: the MS described under RaW 728.238. c.1607-20s.

National Library of Wales, Brogyntyn MS II. 13, pp. 31-4, 43-4.

RaW 967

Copy of a letter by Ralegh.

National Library of Wales, Carreglwyd MS II. 346.

RaW 968

Copy of nine letters by Ralegh, to the Earls of Nottingham, Suffolk and Devonshire (13 August 1603); to James I (3: November 1603 and 1607); to Ralegh's wife (1603); to Queen Anne; to Robert Cecil (1607), to Robert Carr; to Sir Ralph Winwood (here misidentified as ‘Ld Treasurer Cecil’, [14 May 1618]); plus another to James I ‘Supposed to bee written by Sr Walter Rauleigh, dated the ffirst of August 1603: and delivered by the parson of Staplye’.

In: A folio volume of state letters and tracts, in a single professional secretary hand, 88 leaves, in old quarter-calf marbled boards. Entirely in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’. c.1625-30s.

Bookplate of James Buckley (1770-1839), of Bryncaerau Castle. From the library of Captain James Buckley (1869-1924), of Castell Gorfod, St Clears, Carmarthenshire, which incorporated books and manuscripts collected by Theophilus Jones (1759-1812), Brecknockshire historian, by William Owen Pughe (1759-1835), antiquary and lexicographer, and by Joseph Joseph, FSA (1890), of Brecon, collector.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 211-14 (No. 1), with a facsimile example of f. 32v on p. 65.

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 212 (Nos. 1.4 and 1.6)

National Library of Wales, Castell Gorfod MS 1, ff. 7v-18v, 19v-24r.

RaW 969

Copies of two letters by Ralegh about his voyage to Guiana, one to an unnamed correspondent, the other to James I.

In: the MS described under RaW 696. c.1620s-30s.

Northamptonshire Record Office, FH 3641, ff. [5v-7r].

RaW 970

Copy of a letter by Ralegh.

Northamptonshire Record Office, IC 3497.

RaW 971

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to Winwood, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, on all four pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed ‘A Coppie of Sr W: Rawleigh his letter sent from Guiana to Sr R: Winehoode 1618’. c.1618-20s.

Northamptonshire Record Office, IL 3494.

RaW 972

Copy of two letters by Ralegh, to his wife and to Sir Robert Carr.

In: A folio volume of state letters, in a single hand, 490 pages, in contemporary calf. Mid-late 17th century.

Flyleaf inscribed ‘Stamford 1693’: i.e. Thomas Grey (c.1654-1720), second Earl of Stamford, Privy Counsellor. Bookplate of John Towneley (1697-1782), translator, of Towneley Hall, near Burnley, Lancashire.

Pierpont Morgan Library, MA 664, pp. 210-12, 214-18.

RaW 973

Copies of various letters by Ralegh.

In: the MS described under RaW 87. Mid-17th century.

Pierpont Morgan Library, MA 1162, pp. 436-57, 459-68.

RaW 974

Copy of letters by Ralegh, to James I, to Lady Ralegh, and others.

In: the MS described under RaW 6.5. c.1642.

Robert S. Pirie, New York, [Feilde MS], pp. 406-16, 437.

RaW 975

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife.

In: the MS described under RaW 732.3. c.1620.

Robert S. Pirie, New York, [Ralegh MS], pp. [1-2].

RaW 976

Copies of letters by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr (1608), to James I (2), and to Lady Ralegh.

In: the MS described under RaW 728.255.

The Queen's College, Oxford, MS 32, ff 9r, 12v, 16v-18r.

RaW 977

Copy of four letters by Ralegh, to James I (2), to Lady Ralegh, and to Winwood.

In: the MS described under RaW 91.

The Queen's College, Oxford, MS 121, pp. 499-511.

RaW 978

Copy of five letters by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr, to James I (2), to Lady Ralegh, and to Winwood.

In: the MS described under RaW 518.5. c.1620s-30s.

The Queen's College, Oxford, MS 130, pp. 121-2, 139-40, 141-50.

RaW 979

Copy of Ralegh's letter (both parts) to Winwood after his last return from Guiana.

In: A folio volume of state papers, in probably professional cursive secretary hands, 74 leaves. c.1620s-30s.

The Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 242, ff. 12r-17v.

RaW 980

Copies of letters by Ralegh, to James I (2) and to Ralegh's wife (3), the last imperfect, lacking the ending.

In: A quarto volume of state papers, in two secretary hands, 53 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum with traces of ties.

Inscribed inside the front cover ‘Ex Libris J J Cumberstone MCCCCCCC’.

Society of Antiquaries, MS 291, ff. 31v-3v, 35r-6r, 45r-v.

RaW 981

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Ralph Winwood, May 1618, in two cursive secretary hands, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1620s.

Among the papers of the Mildmay family, including those of Colonel Carew Harvey Mildmay (fl.1625-67), officer of the Jewel House, of Marks, Somerset.

Recorded in HMC, 7th Report, Part I (1879), Appendix, p. 592.

Somerset Heritage Centre, DD/MI 18/81.

RaW 982

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to James I, in an italic hand, on the first page of two otherwise blank conjugate folio leaves, endorsed in pencil as being ‘His Speech before Execution...1618’. c.1620s.

Recorded in HMC, 7th Report, Part I (1879), Appendix, p. 592.

Somerset Heritage Centre, DD/MI/18/82/[2].

RaW 983

Copy of letters by Ralegh, to his wife, in 1603; to Sir Robert Carr; and to Winwood. 17th century.

In: the MS described under RaW 566.

Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R. 5. 12 (James 707), ff. 164v-71v, 175v-7v.

RaW 984

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife, when expecting execution in 1603.

In: the MS described under RaW 95.5. c.1620s-30s.

Trinity College, Cambridge, VI.4.4, f. [iir].

RaW 985

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to his wife, [1603], in a secretary hand. c.1620s.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers largely relating to Ireland, in various hands, 318 leaves, in vellum boards.

Old pressmark F. 3. 15.

Trinity College, Dublin, MS 672, ff. 93v-4v.

RaW 986

Copy of two letters by Ralegh, to his wife and to Winwood, in a professional secretary hand.

In: A folio volume of state tracts dating up to 1641, in various professional hands, 381 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf. c.1625-41.

Bequeathed by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Old pressmark G. 4. 13.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 226-7 (No. 23).

Trinity College, Dublin, MS 862, ff. 152r-61r.

RaW 987

Copy of Ralegh's letter to his wife.

In: the MS described under RaW 50. c.1674-84.

University of Chicago, MS 824, f. 26r-v.

RaW 988

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr.

In: A folio volume of state letters and poems, 65 pages. c.1625-30s.

Once belonging to the Sotheby family of London and Ecton Hall, Northamptonshire.

University of Kansas, MS 4A:1, p. 18.

RaW 989

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Prince Henry, undated.

In: A volume of transcripts of 15th-17th-century letters. 1806.

Owned and possibly compiled by the novelist Jan Porter (1776-1850). Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 16688. Sotheby's, 27 June 1977, lot 4935.

University of Kansas, MS 153:10, pp. [32-40].

RaW 990

Copy of letters by Ralegh after his condemnation in 1603.

In: the MS described under RaW 728.275.

University of Kansas, MS D153, leaves after ff. 40-81.

RaW 991

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife, in a small neat secretary hand, on two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1620.

University of Nottingham, Cl LP 5/4.

RaW 992

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to his wife, [1603], in a secretary hand.

In: A quarto volume of chiefly state tracts, speeches and letters, in several hands, with (ff. 94r-5r) a ‘Table’ of contents, ff. [96r-107v] occupied by tracts in later hands, 107 leaves, frayed towards the end, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1625[-1730].

The last item subscribed (f. 107v) in the same hand ‘Finis Jne phillipson 1730 / Transcribed...in December Anno Dominij i689 p me Georgium Dixon p pastorle phillipsono’, this hand also responsible for various marginal inscriptions elsewhere including (f. 55v) ‘Jno: Phillipson Elizabeth Green Coppy’. Item 422 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Acquired in 1930.

Wellcome Library, London, MS 805, ff. 38r-9v.

RaW 993

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to James I.

In: the MS described under RaW 97. c.1620s.

Dr Williams's Library, MS Jones B. 60, pp. 221-3.

RaW 994

Copies of letters by Ralrgh, to Winwood, to Lady Ralegh, and to Sir Robert Carr.

In: the MS described under RaW 97. c.1620s.

Dr Williams's Library, MS Jones B. 60, pp. 243-5, 247-9, 251.

RaW 995

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to James I.

In: the MS described under RaW 710.28. c.1660.

Wiltshire and Swindon Archives, 413/445, f. [41r-v].

RaW 996

Copy of four letters by Ralegh, to James I (2), to Ralegh's wife, and to Sir Robert Carr.

In: the MS described under RaW 135. c.1620s.

Wiltshire and Swindon Archives, 865/500, ff. [28r-30r].

RaW 997

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to James I.

In: the MS described under RaW 732.8.

Yale, Osborn MS fb 155, pp. 379-80.

RaW 998

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to his wife.

In: the MS described under RaW 100. c.1625-30s.

Yale, Osborn Poetry Box VI/107, p. 415.

RaW 999

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to his wife, on a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1620s.

Among papers of the Middletons, a Yorkshire recusant family. Formerly MD59/22/E/45.

Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Leeds, MD59/5/6/86.

*RaW 1000

Copy of three letters by Ralegh, headed respectively in Ralegh's hand ‘A coppie of my letter to his Maiestie ano: 1607 concering Guiana’, ‘Coppie of my letter to Mr Secritarie Winwood in Julie, 1615’, and ‘Coppie of my letter to ye Treasorer Secyll. 1607’, the first letter also bearing Ralegh's autograph subscription ‘your M: humble vassall / WR:’ and the others also initialed by him ‘WR’.

In: the MS described under RaW 572. c.1611-15.

Untraced, Bradfer Lawrence MS 61, ff. 136r-8v.

RaW 1001

Extracts from a letter by Ralegh to his wife.

In: A quarto notebook and miscellany, largely in two hands, one of them that of Charles Deynes (1681-1756), of Roydon, near Diss, Norfolk, c.250 pages, in contemporary vellum (rebacked). Late 17th-early-18th century.

Later owned by the Rev. Guy Bryon, of Malden, Essex, and by Alex Robertson, of Inverscargill, New Zealand, who acquired it in 1924 from Dobell. Roy Davids's sale catalogue No.VI (1999), item 32.

Untraced, [Deynes MS], [unspecified page numbers].

RaW 1002

Copy of one or more letters by Ralegh.

In: the MS described under RaW 569. 17th century.

Untraced, [Finch MS], [unspecified page numbers].

RaW 1003

Copy of Ralegh's letter to his wife in early December 1603 before his anticipated execution.

In: the MS described under RaW 730.8. c.1620.

Untraced, [Fuller/Ralegh MS], pp. [1, 3].

RaW 1004

Copies of four letters by Ralegh, to James (2 in 1603); to Lady Ralegh (22 March 1617/18); and to Winwood (21 March 1617/18).

In: the MS described under RaW 569.5. c.1630s.

Untraced, [Macclesfield MS], [unspecified page numbers].

RaW 1005

Copy of Ralegh's letter to King James I after his condemnation, 1603.

In: the MS described under RaW 710.27.

Untraced, [Rundall MS], ff. 105r-v.

RaW 1006

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to James I.

In: the MS described under RaW 601. 17th century.

Untraced, [Stanford Court MS (I)], [unspecified page numbers].

Documents

Document(s)

*RaW 1007

Copy of a letter by Lord Burghley to Sir John Perrott, Lord Deputy of Ireland, 12 October 1587, with Ralegh's autograph nine-line subscription at the foot signed by him, on all four pages of two conjugate folio leaves. 1587.

In: Bundle of documents, relating to Ralegh's Irish estates. 1587-1628.

The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, L Box 1 No. 7, [unnumbered item].

RaW 1008

Copy of a ‘supposed deed made by Sr.Walter Ralegh to Sr. John Gilbert & Adrian Gilbert his brother, of his landes in Ireland, dated xxo. ffebr. Ao xxxiiijo Elizabeth’. [20 February 1591/2]. 1592.

In: the MS described under RaW 1007. 1587-1628.

The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, L Box 1 No. 7, [unnumbered item].

*RaW 1009

‘An abstract of a certaine euidence Concerninge the landes wch Sr walter Raleigh formerly held in Ireland. and into whose custody he deliuered the same’, in a professional hand, on one page of a bifoilum, subscribed at the bottom in Ralegh's hand ‘This is a trew abstract given by my self per the vse of Sr: Richard Boyle 1612 WRALEGH’. 1612.

In: the MS described under RaW 1007. 1587-1628.

The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, L Box 1 No. 7, [unnumbered item].

*RaW 1010

A lease by Ralegh to George Goringe of Lewes, Sussex, and Herbert Pelham of Mychelham, Sussex, of land in Skannakin, on two membranes of parchment, signed by Ralegh, 7 February 1589/90. 1590.

In: Bundle of documents relating to Ralegh's Irish estates.

The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, L Box 2 No. 9, [unnumbered item].

*RaW 1011

A lease by Ralegh to John Jonson of Youghall yeoman of land in Skannakin, on one membrane of parchment, signed by Ralegh, 4 September 1589. 1589.

In: the MS described under RaW 1010.

The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, L Box 2 No. 9, [unnumbered item].

*RaW 1012

A lease by Ralegh to William Cade of Youghall, yeoman, of land in Skannakin, on one membrane of parchment, signed by Ralegh, 4 September 1589. 1589.

In: the MS described under RaW 1010.

The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, L Box 2 No. 9, [unnumbered item].

*RaW 1013

Articles of agreement, in a law clerk's hand, between George Goringe and Herbert Pelham and Robert Mawle, concerning land in Skannakin, on 3 pages of a bifolium, signed by Ralegh, 30 April 1596. 1596.

In: the MS described under RaW 1010.

The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, L Box 2 No. 9, [unnumbered item].

*RaW 1014

A lease by Ralegh to Richard Nelthorpe of London, of land in Skannakin, on one membrane of parchment, signed by Ralegh, 20 July 1588. 1588.

In: the MS described under RaW 1010.

The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, L Box 2 No. 9, [unnumbered item].

*RaW 1015

A lease by Ralegh to Robert Balle of London, of land in Inchekin, on one membrane of parchment, signed by Ralegh, 8 May 1591. 1591.

In: the MS described under RaW 1010.

The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, L Box 2 No. 9, [unnumbered item].

*RaW 1016

Lease by Ralegh to Robert Reve of Bury St Edmunds and Akice his wife, of land in Inchekin, on one membrane of parchment, signed by Ralegh, 1 February 1589. 1589.

In: the MS described under RaW 1010.

The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, L Box 2 No. 9, [unnumbered item].

*RaW 1017

Lease by Ralegh to William Badly of Witham, Suffolk, of land at White's Island, on one membrane of parchment, signed by Ralegh, 21 February ‘1588’. 1588.

In: Bundle of documents relating to Ralegh's Irish estates.

The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, L Box 3 Bundle 3, [unnumbered item].

*RaW 1018

A lease by Ralegh and Thomas Allen of London to Robert Balle of London, of land at White's Island, on one membrane of parchment, signed by Ralegh, 8 May 1591. 1591.

In: the MS described under RaW 1017.

The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, L Box 3 Bundle 3, [unnumbered item].

*RaW 1019

A lease by Ralegh to Thomas Allen, of land at White's Island, on one membrane of parchment, signed by Ralegh, 2 October 1589. 1589.

In: the MS described under RaW 1017.

The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, L Box 3 Bundle 3, [unnumbered item].

*RaW 1020

A lease by Ralegh to Richard Trevor of Trevalyan, Denbigh, of land in Kilbree, on one membrane of parchment, signed by Ralegh, 9 February 1594. 1594.

In: Bundle of documents relating to Ralegh's Irish estates.

The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, L Box 3 Bundle 4, [unnumbered item].

RaW 1021

Quadripartite articles between Ralegh and Edward Dodge, Henry Pyne and Henry Hoons merchant and Veromo Martines, relating to land in Knockmourne, signed by all the parties except Ralegh, 13 July 1590. 1590.

In: Bundle of documents relating to Ralegh's Irish estates.

The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, L Box 3 Bundle 7, [unnumbered item].

*RaW 1022

Autograph signed inscription by Ralegh in his roman hand, ‘Opus peragunt labor et amor / WRalegh’.

In: The liber amicorum of Captain Francis Segar, brother of Sir William Segar (c.1564-1633), Garter King of Arms, including signed inscriptions in numerous English and continental hands and various arms emblazoned in colours, 121 quarto leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1599-1611.

Later owned by James Bindley, FSA (1737-1818), book collector. His sale, London, 7 December 1818, I, item 362, to Triphook. Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1836, item 14. Sale in London 1865 of the library of Dr Henry Wellesley (1794-1866), Oxford College head and connoisseur, sold to Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. A.H. Huth sale, London, 1918, VII, item 6680, to Sabin. Then owned by G. Wells and sold at Anderson's Galleries, New York, 17 February 1919, lot 894, to G.D. Smith.

Huntington, HM 743, f. 110v.

RaW 1023

A document signed, covenanting to pay a share of the profits to Sir Arthur Ingram, 26 March 1617. 1617.

Untraced, Bradfer-Lawrence MS 60.

Will

RaW 1024

Ralegh's last will and testament, on vellum, 8-10 July 1597. 1597.

Discussed in Agnes M.C. Latham, ‘Sir Walter Ralegh's Will’, RES, NS 22 (1971), 129-36. Edited in Youings, pp. 381-6.

Sherborne Castle, [no shelfmark].

RaW 1025

Ralegh's last will and testament, 20 January 1602/3. 1603.

A reduced facsimile in John Winton, Sir Walter Ralegh (London, 1975), p. 343.

Sherborne Castle, [no shelfmark].

Books, Manuscript Volumes and Maps Owned or Inscribed by Ralegh

Colombo, Fernando. Historie del S. D. Fernando Colombo (Venice, 1571)

*RaW 1026

A printed exemplum with Ralegh's signature, ‘W Ralegh’, at the foot of the title-page. 1571.

University of Glasgow, Hunter K.8.18.

Horæ

*RaW 1028

A 15th-century, French, illuminated MS book of hours with Ralegh's signature, ‘W Ralegh’, at the top of fol. 1r. Late 16th-early 17th century.

This volume briefly discussed in Rosemond Tuve, ‘Spenser and some Pictorial Conventions’, SP, 37 (1940), 149-76 (p. 151), and in G.A. Wilkes, ‘The Authorship of “The Passionate Mans Pilgrimage”’, N&Q, 202 (August 1957), 335-6.

Bodleian, MS Add. A. 185.

Map(s) of Guiana

*RaW 1029

A map, probably drawn by Robert Tatton, bearing three or four inscriptions in Ralegh's hand, in French, indicating to the French ships where they were supposed to find him (in 1617). c.1617.

This feature explains how the map came to be in Spanish archives, for it was clearly given by Ralegh to one of his French agents, probably Antoine Belle, who subsequently disclosed the arrangements to the Spaniards.

This map first recorded in James Augustus St John, Life of Sir Walter Raleigh (London, 1868), I, 241. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in R. A. Skelton, ‘Ralegh as Geographer’, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 71 (1963), 131-49 (p. 141 and after p. 142).

Archivo General, Simancas, Spain, Mapas, Planos y Dibujos, IV-56.

RaW 1030

A sketch map among the papers of Diego Sarmiento de Acuña (1567-1626), Count Gondomar, Spanish Ambassador to England. c.1617?

Possibly once owned by Ralegh and given to James I, who may have passed it on to Gondomar, before Ralegh's last voyage, as a gesture of appeasement. This is speculative, as is its location among Gondomar's papers in the Biblioteca de Palacio.

The sketch was reproduced in C. Pérez Bustamente, El Conde de Gondomar y su intervención en el proceso, prisión y muerte de Sir Walter Raleigh (Santiago, 1928), after p. xxiv.

Biblioteca de Palacio, Madrid, Spain, [unlocated?].

*RaW 1031

A map, possibly drawn for Ralegh by Thomas Harriot (1560-1621), the names in which appear to be in Ralegh's own hand. c.1595.

Facsimiles of this map appear in T.N. Brushfield, A Bibliography of Sir Walter Ralegh Knt. (Exeter, 1908), p. 29; in Geographical Journal, 44 (1914), facing p. 181; in Ralegh, Selections, ed. G.E. Hadow (Oxford, 1917), after p. 200; in John Winton, Sir Walter Ralegh (London, 1975), p. 172; on large folded leaves, in Richard Hakluyt, Principal Navigations of the English Nation (Glasgow edition, 1903-5), X, after p. 384; and in Ralegh, The Discoverie of...Guiana, ed. V.T. Harlow (London, 1928), facing p. 1, and in Joyce Lorimer's edition of this work (Aldershot, 2006), p. 282.

British Library, Add. MS 17940A.

RaW 1032

A map on vellum, perhaps drawn by Thomas Harriot (1560-1621) or else by Thomas Hood (1556-1620), evidently presented to Ralegh's friend Henry Percy (1564-1632), ninth Earl of Northumberland (the ‘Wizzard Earl’).

Formerly among the Leconfield MSS at Petworth House, this map was owned after 1928 by Boies Penrose (d.1976), at Barbados Hill, Devon, Pennsylvania.

A facsimile appears in Penrose's Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance (Cambridge, 1952), facing p. 108.

Duke of Northumberland, Alnwick Castle, [no shelfmark].

Miscellany

See RaW 727.

Patrizi, Francesco. La Militia Romana (Ferrara, 1583)

*RaW 1033

An exemplum with Ralegh's signature, ‘W Ralegh’ (heavily deleted), at the foot of the title-page and his autograph motto, ‘Amore et virtute’, at the top. c.1583.

Facsimile of the title-page in Walter Oakeshott, The Queen and the Poet (London, 1960), facing p. 150.

Worcester College, Oxford, [no shelfmark].

Ralegh, Sir Walter. The History of the World (London, 1614)

See RaW 679.96.

Rerum Britannicarum, ed. Hieronymus Commelin (Heidelberg, 1587)

*RaW 1034

Ralegh's signature, ‘W Ralegh. T.’, at the top of the title-page. This volume possibly noted in Ralegh's list of books (Oakeshott's No. 305). 1587.

Cambridge University Library, L*.9.4.

Rocca, Bernardino. De' discorsi di guerra (Venice, 1582)

*RaW 1035

An exemplum with Ralegh's signature, ‘W Ralegh’, on the title-page (midway down on either side) and his autograph motto, ‘Medium Medijs’, at the bottom. c.1582.

The title-page also bears the signature of Ralegh's cousin, George Carew (1555-1629), Baron Carew of Clopton.

This volume recorded by W.R.B. Prideaux in N & Q, 9th Ser. 7 (5 January 1901), 7. It is noted in Ralegh's list of books (Oakeshott's No. 507, with a reference to this volume mistakenly printed under No. 506).

Royal College of Physicians, Dorchester Library, D 32 b/5.

Roteiro de Dom. Joham de Castro, da viagee que os Portugueses fizeram desa India ate Soez

RaW 1036

A large calligraphic MS, with coloured maps and drawings, transcribed by one Gaspar Aloisius in 1543, 92 folio leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. No trace of Ralegh's hand, but probably the MS mentioned in Purchas his Pilgrimes (1625) as the ‘originall...reported to have beene bought by Sir Walter Raleigh, at sixtie pounds, and by him caused to be done into English, out of the Portugall’ (Glasgow edition (1905-7), VII, 236). Ralegh himself refers in The History of the World (II. iii. 8) to ‘the report of Castro, a principal Commander under Gama (which Discourse I gave Mr. Hacluit to publish)’. The possibility that Ralegh's friend, Sir Robert Cotton, could have owned a second (and obviously very expensive) contemporary Portuguese copy of this rare work is perhaps remote, whereas, on the contrary, some of Ralegh's MSS (e.g. RaW 692 and RaW 726) are known to have passed into Cotton's collection. 1543.

The text corresponds fairly closely with the English translation printed by Purchas (Glasgow edition, VII, 236-309), a translation ‘which yet in part was done, as I thinke, and many marginall notes added by Sir Walter Raleigh himselfe’.

British Library, Cotton MS Tiberius D. IX.

Tasso, Torquato. Rime, e prose. Parte prima (Ferrara, 1583)

RaW 1037

An exemplum with Ralegh's signature, ‘W Ralegh’ (struck through), on the title-page (part way down on either side) and his autograph motto, ‘Medium Medijs’, at the bottom. c.1583.

Also inscribed ‘L. Berard’. Bookplate of Charles Bruce (1682-1747), third Viscount Bruce of Ampthill, dated 1712.

Yale, 1975 380.

Tasso, Torquato. Rime, e prose. Parte seconda (Ferrara, 1583)

RaW 1037.5

An exemplum with Ralegh's signature, ‘W Ralegh’ (struck through), on the title-page (part way down on either side) and his autograph motto, ‘Medium Medijs’, at the bottom. c.1583.

Phillips, 13 November 1997, lot 351, with a facsimile of the title-page on the cover of the sale catalogue.

Untraced, [Ralegh/Tasso volume].

Vignier, Nicolas. Theatre de L'Antechrist ([La Rochelle], 1610)

RaW 1038

An exemplum, in contemporary vellum, bearing Ralegh's crest on the cover and the near-contemporary inscription inside ‘This was Sr Walter Raleighs booke’. c.1610.

Sotheby's, 26 June 1986 (Lionel Robinson sale), lot 126, to Rizwick, and 19 July 1993, lot 223, to Quaritch.

Robert S. Pirie, New York, [Ralegh / Vignier volume].

Miscellaneous Extracts from Works by Ralegh

Extracts

RaW 1039

Copy in: A quarto volume of antiquarian and miscellaneous extracts, compiled by John Stansby, written from both ends, 34 leaves, in half-calf. Late 17th century.

Bodleian, MS Ashmole 816, ff. 3r-4r.

RaW 1040

Extracts.

In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, predominantly in one hand, written from both ends, 127 leaves, in contemporary vellum, heavily soiled. Early-mid-17th century.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. D. 1372, ff. 55r-7v.

RaW 1041

Extracts, ascribed to ‘Sr Walter Rawley’, under various subject headings (‘Prayer its efects’, ‘Of Providence’, ‘A Description of Man’, etc.).

In: An octavo commonplace book of prose extracts, many under subject headings, written from both ends on rectos only, in contemporary calf. Inscribed, evidently by the compiler, ‘Henry Harpur An: Do: 1674’. c.1675.

Yale, Osborn MS Hey 7, ff. [41r-7v].

Prose Works Doubtfully or Spuriously Attributed to Ralegh

A Breviary of the History of England, with the Reign of King William I

First published in London, 1693. Works (1829), VIII, 508-37.

By Samuel Daniel: see DaS 31-9.

The Cabinet-Council: containing the Chief Arts of Empire and Mysteries of State

A treatise beginning ‘A Commonwealth is a certain sovereign government of many families...’. First published, attributed to Sir Walter Ralegh in John Milton's preface ‘To the Reader’, as The Cabinet-Council [&c.] (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 35-150.

Widely circulated in MSS as Observations Political and Civil. The various attributions include ‘T.B.’, for whom Thomas Bedingfield (early 1540s?-1613), translator of Machiavelli, is suggested in Ernest A. Strathmann, ‘A Note on the Ralegh Canon’, TLS (13 April 1956), p. 228, and in Lefranc (1968), p. 64.

RaW 1042

A formal copy, in a professional cursive secretary headed ‘Obseruations Pollitical Ciuill’, the ‘Argument’ (f. ivr-v) subscribed ‘T* B*’, vi + 138 folio leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt. Owned by, and occasionally annotated in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician. c.1630s.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 4.

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No.269.

RaW 1043

Copy, headed ‘Observations politicall & civil’, subscribed ‘T. B’, v + 135 folio leaves, in calf.

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Thomas Bushell’. Bookplate of [E. W. Harcourt]. Acquired from Blackwell's, 1949.

Bodleian, MS Don. d. 93.

RaW 1044

Formal copy in a professional secretary and roman hand, headed ‘Observations Politicall and Ciuile’, with (f. 12r) a dedicatory epistle ‘To my very honorable good Lord the Lord Threasurer of her Maiesties royall Housholde and of her preuie Counsell’ subscribed ‘T: B:’, with a few shorthand annotations in another hand and the date ‘1640’, 124 tall folio leaves, with a table of contents (f. 124r-v), in modern half-calf marbled boards. Early 17th century.

Inscribed (f. 124v inverted) ‘Christopher P’. Acquired from W. G. Bohn, 12 May 1866.

British Library, Add. MS 27320.

RaW 1045

Copy of the treatise, in a single professional secretary hand, entitled ‘Observations Politicall and Civill A treatise on Government’, ‘The Argument’ (f. 2r-v) subscribed ‘W: * . B:’, 133 folio leaves, with (f. 3r-v) a ‘Tabula’ of contents, in 19th-century half dark red calf. c.1630s.

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Sum Edri Umfrevile Junr. Inter Templi Studti. 1724’: i.e. Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts, who here also records having seen ‘a Coppy subscrib'd T: B:’ which, together with ‘the Diction & manner of expression’, leads him to believe ‘the Work to be of the Pen of the learned Sr. Tho: Brown’. Also inscribed (f. 1r) ‘E Leeds Intr Templi 1758’. Presented by Mrs Janet Morgan, 20 April 1888.

British Library, Add. MS 33359.

RaW 1046

Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, 128 small folio leaves. With (f. 2r-v) a dedicatory epistle ‘To my very Honourable good Lord the Lord North Threasurer of her Maiesties royall Houshold and of her Priuie Counsell’ [i.e. Roger, second Baron North (1530/1-1600), Treasurer of the Queen's Household after 30 August 1596] (beginning ‘My good Lord, it is more then many yeeres since I first became devoted vnto yor vertue...’) and with (f. 4r) a title-page ‘Obseruations Politicall and Civill’. c.1630.

In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer. Inscribed by him (f. 1r) ‘29. Septr. 1789. / A present to me from Dan. Jones of Fakenham in Norfolk Esqr. F. Hargrave’.

British Library, Hargrave MS 280.

RaW 1047

Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed ‘Observations polliticke and Civill. Off a kingdome written by Sir ffrances Bacon knight and Barronett’. c.1630.

In: A folio composite volume of legal and state tracts, chiefly by Bacon, in several professional hands, 168 leaves, bound with an independent MS (Harley MS 1858) in mottled leather with gilt lettering and initials ‘M.B.’ on the front cover.

British Library, Harley MS 1853, ff. 39r-89v.

RaW 1048

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page ‘Observations Politicall and Ciuill’, subscribed ‘W:* B’:, 156 folio leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. Text on ff. 1*r-105r, followed by a series of ‘Observations confirmed by Examination’ etc. c.1630.

British Library, Harley MS 1889.

RaW 1048.5

Copy, with a title-page ‘Obseruations Politicall: And,: Civill; Wrytten, by: Sr: ffrauncis Bacon: knight, &c’, the title-page and three-line heading of the table of contents in the professional secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, the remainder in another professional secretary hand, c.100 folio pages.

In: the MS described under RaW 634.5. c.1620s-30s.

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 215 (No. 3.2), with facsimile examples on pp. 84-6.

Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 9276, item 12.

RaW 1049

A formal copy, in an accomplished mixed hand, entitled ‘Observations Politicall and Civill’, with a dedicatory epistle to Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector, in Latin, subscribed ‘Johes Bolles’, dated 22 October 1655, iv + 122 + iii folio leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. 1655.

Acquired from Peter Murray Hill, 1951.

Clark Library, Los Angeles, fB6915 M3 014 1655.

RaW 1050

Copy, in several probably professional secretary and italic hands, headed ‘Obseruations, What a Common weale is:’, on 280 pages, with some misplacing or duplication, including (p. [279]) ‘The Argument’ and (p. [280]) a dedicatory epistle ‘To my very honourable good Lord the L. North, Treasurer of her Mates royal houshold’ by the anonymous author who refers to himself as ‘by age ouertaken’ and ‘constrained to retire’.

Inscribed (p. 1) ‘D: Bord: 1629:’. c.1629.

In: A tall folio composite volume of state tracts and a Latin play and verses, in various hands, 510 largely unnumbered pages, in reversed calf.

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

Durham Cathedral Library, Hunter MS 26, item 3.

RaW 1051

Extracts.

In: A folio composite compilation of extracts from various works, in a single cursive hand, originally on folded and docketed pairs of conjugate leaves of differing sizes before being opened out and mounted, the pages unnumbered, in contemporary calf. Mid-late 17th century.

Harvard Law School Library, HLS MS 1169 (Hollis No. 005905616), passim.

RaW 1052

A formal copy, in probably two professional predominantly secretary hands, with a title-page ‘Observations Politicall and Civill’, 131 folio pages (including a ‘Table’ of contents), in vellum gilt. With (f. iiir-v) a dedicatory epistle ‘To my very honorable good Lord the Lord North Threasurer of her Maiesties royall Houshold and of her priuie Counsell’ [i.e. Roger, second Baron North (1530/1-1600), Treasurer of the Queen's Household after 30 August 1596] (beginning ‘My good Lord, it is more then many yeeres since I first became devoted vnto yor vertue...’), subscribed ‘T: B:’. c.1630.

Inscribed by the second Earl of Bridgewater.

Huntington, EL 1174.

RaW 1053

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, entitled ‘Obseruations Politicall & ciuill’, subscribed ‘W: * B: *’, vi + 91 leaves.

In: A folio volume comprising three treatises, in a single professional secretary hand. c.1630.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 120. Microfilm in the British Library, M/346 (1st item).

Duke of Northumberland, Alnwick Castle, MS 528, item 1.

RaW 1054

Copy, the title-page and most of ff. 176r-83v in an unidentified professional secretary hand, ff. 183v-220v in the professional secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, entitled ‘Observations Polliticall and Civil’, unascribed.

In: A folio volume of state tracts and speeches, in several professional hands, 586 leaves, in old calf. c.late 1620s-30s.

Bequeathed by Sir Jerome Alexander (c.1600-70), Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. Former pressmark G. 4. 9.

Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 222-3 (No. 17A).

Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 222 (No. 17A.1).

Trinity College, Dublin, MS 731, ff. 175r-220v.

RaW 1056

Copy, in a professional secretary and italic hand, entitled ‘Observations Politicall and Civil’, the prefatory ‘Argument’ subscribed ‘T. B.’, with a table of contents at the end, 228 folio leaves, in 19th-century red morocco gilt, the spine lettered ‘Taverner’. c.1630.

Sotheby's, 13 March 2008 (‘The Library of the Earls of Macclesfield removed from Shirburn Castle, Part Eleven’), lot 3875, to Quaritch.

Facsimile of the first page of the main text in Sotheby's catalogue, p. 29.

Untraced, [Macclesfield Observations].

RaW 1057

Copy, allegedly ‘Very fair’, folio. Early-mid-17th century?

Osborne catalogues for 1748, lot 99, and for 1750, lot 165.

Untraced, [Ralegh/Osborne MS].

RaW 1057.5

Copy, headed ‘Observations Political and Civil’.

Yale, fb 249.

A discourse concerneing peace or warre with Spaine

An unpublished tract, dedicated to James I, beginning ‘By the relation of the Spanish project agt this State of England most illustrious Prince...’.

Keymer

RaW 1057.8

Copy, as by ‘Sr Walter Rawlaigh Knt’. Early 17th century.

In: A folio volume of state papers and treatises, chiefly relating to relations between England and Spain, in a single professional hand, vi + 166 leaves (including some blanks), in half-calf.

This MS discussed in Lefranc (1968), p. 64.

Bodleian, MS Carte 96, ff. 82r-94r.

A Discourse of Sea-ports, principally of the Port and Haven of Dover

First published in London, 1700, with ‘A Memorial of Sir Walter Raleigh to Q. Elizabeth’ beginning ‘There is no one thing, most renowned Soveraign, of greater necessitie...’, ‘drawn up either by Sir Walter Raleigh or Sir Dudley Diges’. Written by Thomas Digges or Sir Dudley Digges?: see Ernest A. Strathmann in TLS (1956), p. 228, and Lefranc (1968), p. 65.

RaW 1058

1700.

In: A volume of state treatises, copied for, and annotated by, Sir Robert Southwell (1635-1703), diplomat and government official, vi + 420 pages. Late 17th century.

Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue for 1834, item 245. Later owned by J.R. Magrath. Donated in 1930 by Miss Lefroy.

Bodleian, MS Eng. misc. c. 144, pp. 338-57.

RaW 1059

Copy, as ‘written by Sir Walter Raleigh and addressed to Queen Elizabeth...Printed in Quarto, London, 1700’, and with a prefixed note ‘Sir Walter Rawlegh or Sir Dudley Digges discourse...to which is added Sir Henry Sheer's thoughts in 1686’. 1700.

In: A folio volume of state tracts, speeches and papers, in a single hand, 230 leaves. 1700s.

Once owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor.

British Library, Sloane MS 3828, ff. 181-5.

A Discourse of Tenures, which were before the Conquest

A tract beginning ‘The book of Doomsday, which is militia Anglicani imperii, as it was in the Conqueror's time, speaks often of a land...’. First published in London, 1761. Works (1829), VIII, 592-626. It comprises extracts from a work by Sir Roger Owen, of which there are numerous MS copies: see Ernest A. Strathmann, ‘Ralegh's Discourse of Tenures and Sir Roger Owen’, HLQ, 20 (1957), 219-32, and Lefranc (1968), p. 65.

RaW 1060

Copy, as ‘Written by Sr. Walter Rawleigh’.

In: the MS described under RaW 709. c.1630.

Bodleian, MS Tanner 278, ff. 217r-39r.

Estimate of Spain & Portugale as they flourisht in the Yeare 1582

Unpublished. Possibly (but not likely) the lost work Of the present state of Spain, with a most accurate Account of his Catholique Majesties Power and Riches; with the Names and Worth of the most considerable Persons in that Kingdom, which was mentioned in the late 17th century by John Shirley and Anthony Wood as ‘a MS going about from hand to hand, said to have been written by our author [Ralegh]’: see Lefranc (1968), p. 72.

RaW 1061

Copy, ascribed to Ralegh apparently in a 17th-century hand on the rear cover, on 44 pages. Late 16th-early 17th century.

Owned in 1947 by Peter Murray Hill, bookdealer. Christie's, 28 November 1960, Lot 127. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 911, item 130.

Microfilms and other reproductions of the MS are in the British Library (RP 235, made in 1968) and in the Folger (Film Acc. 256 and PR. 1405.E7).

Riveredge Foundation, Calgary, Canada, No. .256.16.

The Life and Death of Mahomet

A treatise beginning ‘Most writers accord that Mahomet which name in the Arabique signifies Indignation or Furie...’. First published in London, 1637, with a dedication to Carew Ralegh. This is a synopsis of a translation (or a translation of a synopsis) of a work by Miguel de Luna: see Lefranc (1968), pp. 65-6.

RaW 1062

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘The Life of Mahomet, the Conquest of Spaine and the ruine of the Sarazine Empire’.

In: the MS described under RaW 728.238. c.1607-20s.

National Library of Wales, Brogyntyn MS II. 13, pp. 119-79.

RaW 1063

Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, as ‘Written by Sr Walter Raleigh’.

In: the MS described under RaW 618.

Trinity College, Dublin, MS 732, ff. 103r-32v.

RaW 1064

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 569. 17th century.

Untraced, [Finch MS], [unspecified page numbers].

RaW 1065

Unlocated Phillipps MS 8455, sold at Sotheby's 15 June 1896, Lot 982, to W. Flower.

Untraced, Phillipps MS, [no shelfmark].

A Military Discourse

A treatise beginning ‘Forasmuch as in every doubtfull and questionable matter, it is familiar and common amongst men to be diverse...’. First published in London, 1734. It was probably written by Sir Thomas Wilford (1541-1601?), or possibly by Sir Francis De Vere or Nathaniel Boothe. See Lefranc (1968), pp. 64-5.

RaW 1066

Copy in: A folio volume of state tracts and proceedings and speeches in Parliament from 2 to 21 April 1572, in a single professional hand, 152 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt stamped with arms. c.1620s.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. C. 680, ff. 111r-52v.

RaW 1067

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 574. Early-mid-17th century.

Lefranc (1968), pp. 64-5.

Bodleian, MS Tanner 103, ff. 7r-17r.

RaW 1068

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, inscribed in another hand (f. 1r) ‘Virescit Vulneræ Virtus: Wylsforde’,seventeen folio leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. c.1620s.

Bearing a pasted-down strip of vellum with the title of the tract in the hand of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary.

British Library, Harley MS 132.

RaW 1068.5

Copy in: A folio volume of ten state tracts, in a single professional hand, 437 leaves, in modern quarter-vellum. c.1620s-30s.

In the collection of Francis Hargrave (1740/1-1821), legal writer. Inscribed by him on f. iv‘A present to me from my friend Charles Butler Esqr. Fra: Hargrave 15 Jan. 1792’. Inscribed on f. 1r in a different hand, ‘Given me by Mr: S. Baker, Bookseller, Whit-. May 26. 74 in XII. f. 1. my way home from Woodfd. Church, with another Fol. Ms. Halfd:’.

British Library, Hargrave MS 168, ff. 307r-62v.

RaW 1069

Copy, in Ralph Starkey's hand. c.1620s.

In: A folio composite volume of state parpers, the great majority in the secretary hand of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, 253 leaves, in modern red half-morocco.

British Library, Harley MS 168, ff. 221v-40r.

RaW 1070

Copy, in the same professional secretary hand as in Dulwich College, MSS 29, incomplete. Early 17th century.

In: the MS described under RaW 577.

British Library, Harley MS 4685, ff. 1r-28r.

RaW 1071

Copy in: A folio composite volume of tracts and papers chiefly relating to dealings with foreign states, in various largely professional hands, 365 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

Fol. 87 inscribed ‘Bought of Mr. G. Pauls Landlady’ and fol. 89 ‘Giuen by Mr Geo. Holmes’.

British Library, Harley MS 6798, ff. 25r-43r.

RaW 1072

Copy, in the same professional secretary hand as in British Library, Harley MS 4685, 36 folio leaves. Early 17th century.

Dulwich College, MSS 29.

RaW 1073

Copy in: A folio volume of state tracts, in probably two professional secretary hands (A: ff. 1r-210v,; B: f. 211r onwards), with an index in an italic hand at the end, 370 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards. c.1630s.

Folger, MS G.b.8, ff. 93v-126v.

RaW 1074

Copy, on 23 leaves.

In: A duodecimo volume of four tracts. Early 17th century.

Formerly in the library of the Harvey family, of Ickwell Bury, Bedfordshire, and of Finningley Park, Yorkshire. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 536 (1930), item 2129. Then owned by André de Coppet (1892-1953), New York financial broker. Sotheby's, 4 July 1955 (de Coppet sale), lot 888, to Quaritch.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 62, and in The Book Collector, 15 (Summer 1966), p. 156.

Removed from this volume before the volume was acquired by Dr Juel-Jensen.

Bodleian, Juel-Jensen E 7 [item 1], No. 2.

RaW 1075

Copy, in a secretary hand, 48 pages. Early 17th century.

In: A folio composite volume of tracts and state papers, in various hands and paper sizes, c.281 pages, in quarter-calf marbled boards.

Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R. 5. 15 (James 710), item 5.

RaW 1076

Copy. In the Hubert S. Smith Collection. Early 17th century?.

University of Michigan, [no shelfmark].

RaW 1077

Copy in: A folio volume of state tracts, in two or more professional hands, 150 leaves, in modern boards. c.1630.

Yale, Osborn MS fb 39, ff. 27r-[63r].

RaW 1078

Copy, 46 pages. In an octavo composite volume of state tracts, including ‘The Manner of Sir Philip Sidneyes Death’ by his chaplain George Gifford (wrongly attributed to Fulke Greville), all in a single small neat hand, 72 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary limp vellum. Early 17th century.

Formerly among the MSS of John Harvey of Ickwell Bury, Hertfordshire, and Finningley Park, Yorkshire. Maggs, sale catalogue No. 536 (1930), item 2129. Afterwards owned by André de Coppet (1892-1953), New York financier and broker. Sotheby's, 4 July 1955 (De Coppet sale), lot 888, to Quaritch. The volume possibly broken up afterwards. The Gifford tract at least owned by Dr Bent Juel-Jensen (1922-2006), Oxford physician and book collector.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 62.

Untraced, [Harvey MS (II)].

RaW 1079

Copy.

Maggs's sale catalogue No. 590 (1933), item 252. Owned in 1935 by Hamilton Cottier, of Princeton.

A set of photocopies in in Princeton University (AM 20450).

Untraced, [Military Discourse MS].

RaW 1080

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 675.5. c.1620s.

Untraced, [Ralegh/Discourse], 2r-30r.

Observations concerning the Causes of the Magnificence and Opulence of Cities

A tract beginning ‘That the only way to civilize and reform the savage and barbarous lives and corrupt manners of such people is...’, First published in London, 1651. Works (1829), VIII, 541-7.

A translation of parts of a work by Giovanni Botero. See Lefranc (1968), p. 66.

RaW 1081

Extracts.

In: the MS described under RaW 579.5. c.1620s-40s.

Inner Temple Library, Miscellaneous MS No. 17, pp. 161-2.

RaW 1082

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 569. 17th century.

Untraced, [Finch MS], [unspecified page numbers].

Observations touching Trade and Commerce with the Hollander

A tract addressed to the monarch and beginning ‘According to my duty, I am emboldened to put your majesty in mind, that about fourteen or fifteen years past...’. First published, as by Sir Walter Ralegh, in London, 1653. Works (1829), VIII, 351-76.

Written by John Keymer (fl.1584-1622). See Adolf Buff, ‘Who is the author of the tract intitled “Some observations touching trade with the Hollander”?’, ES, 1 (1877), 187-212, and Lefranc (1968), p. 64.

RaW 1083

Copy, possibly signed by the author, Keymer.

In: the MS described under RaW 574. Early-mid-17th century.

Bodleian, MS Tanner 103, ff. 205r-12r.

RaW 1084

Copy, in a roman hand, including an introductory address to James I, untitled, subscribed ‘John Keymer’. c.1620s-30s.

In: A tall folio volume of state tracts and papers, in several formal roman and secretary hands, i + 229 leaves, in contemporary leather gilt. c.1620s.

Book-stamp on cover of Henry Percy (1564-1632), ninth Earl of Northumberland (the ‘Wizard Earl’). Formerly Leconfield MS 115, at Petworth House, Sussex. Sotheby's, 23-24 April 1928 (Leconsfield sale), lot 149.

Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 311.

British Library, Add. MS 41613, ff. 220r-9r.

RaW 1085

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page ‘Keymers Booke of observacons...’, subscribed ‘John Keymer’. c.1620s-30s.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in various hands, 263 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary limp vellum, with ties. In various hands, including the ‘Feathery Scribe’.

Yelverton MS 69, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family.

Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 43.

British Library, Add. MS 48063, ff. 253r-60r.

RaW 1086

Copy in: A folio volume of legal and state tracts and papers, in a single professional secretary hand, 92 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum, with remains of green silk ties. Yelverton MS 166, among papers of Sir Henry Yelverton (1566-1629), Justice of the Common Pleas, and his family. c.1620s.

British Library, Add. MS 48155, ff. 66r-71v.

RaW 1087

Copy in: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, 420 leaves.

British Library, Cotton MS Titus B. V, ff. 231r-44v.

RaW 1088

Copy, headed ‘The Originall (where of this is a Copie) was first devised and written by Sr Walter Cope knight deceased, late Master of the Wards’.

In: An octavo volume of transcripts of state tracts and letters, iii + 227 leaves (including blanks) in all, in calf. Mainly in three hands, with later additions in c.1683-99.

Inscribed names including Anthony, Thomas and John Marshall, Jonas Ramsden, Jenkinson, Thomas Maleverer, and Lawson. Owned c.1670s-90s by the family of Sir Thomas Seyliard, third Baronet (d.1701), of Delawarre, Kent. Later note: ‘Bought this Manuscript at Montague's Book warehouse near Queen Street Lincoln's Inn Fields Tuesday Feb: 12 1739’. Later armorial bookplate apparently of the Appleyard family of either Yorkshire or Norfolk. Phillips, 20 March 1998, lot 467, to Quaritch.

British Library, Egerton MS 3876, ff. 38r-45r.

RaW 1089

Copy in: A quarto composite volume of tracts, in various hands, 232 leaves, in modern half calf gilt.

Owned, at least in part, by Sir Simonds D'Ewes.

British Library, Harley MS 541, ff. 174r-82v.

RaW 1090

Copy in: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, 122 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. In various professional hands, including that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’.

Inscribed by Wanley (f. 1r and elsewhere) with date of accession into the Harley library ‘16 October 1725’. In the Harley Library, formed by the politician and book collector Robert Harley (1661-1724), first Earl of Oxford, and his son Edward (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford; the volume docketed 16 October 1725, a year after the library was moved from Brampton Bryan to London.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 244-5 (No. 59).

British Library, Harley MS 5111, ff. 36r-42v.

RaW 1091

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 629.

British Library, Harley MS 6273, ff. 151r-63r.

RaW 1093

c.1620s.

In: A folio volume of miscellaneous tracts.

British Library, Lansdowne MS 798, ff. 78r-104v.

RaW 1094

c.1620s.

In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous tracts, in several professional secretary hands, 198 leaves, in modern half-morocco. c.1620s-30s.

Later in the library of Edward Umfreville (1702?-86), collector of legal manuscripts.

British Library, Lansdowne MS 811, ff. 7r-16r.

RaW 1095

Copy in: A folio volume comprising two treatises, 31 leaves. Early-mid-17th century.

British Library, Sloane MS 2179, ff. 24r-31v.

RaW 1096

Copy, headed ‘A discoverye of the Hollanders trades, and their circumventinge vs therein, and the meanes howe to make profitt by the ffisheinge...’.

In: A folio volume comprising two treatises, 101 leaves. c.1630s.

Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, dated 1701.

British Library, Stowe MS 285, ff. 75r-101r.

RaW 1098

Copy, lacking the introduction.

National Archives, Kew, SP 14/18/115.

RaW 1099

Copy, with a title-page ‘Keymers Booke of onservacons for your Most excellent Matie touchinge trade & traffique beyond ye seas in England...’.

In: A folio volume comprising two works by John Keymer, the first dated 1601, in a single professional small rounded secretary hand, 15 leaves, in modern half-morocco marbled boards. c.1620s.

Inscribed (f. 2r) ‘Jos. Ames his book 1753, at the Hermitage London’: i.e. Joseph Ames (1687-1759), bibliographer and antiquary. Later owned by James Crossley (1800-83), author and book collector. Sotheby's, 11 June 1885 (Crossley sale), lot 00. In the library of Herbert Somerton Foxwell (1849-1936), economist and bibliographer.

University of London, Senate House Library, MS 189, ff. 8r-15r.

RaW 1100

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, subscribed ‘Your Mts most locall and true harted Subiect John Keymer’, on fifteen pages of eight folio leaves, endorsed (p. 16) ‘A book concerning merchandizing to K: James’. c.1620.

University of Nottingham, Cl LP 32.

RaW 1101

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘John Keymer’.

In: the MS described under RaW 572. c.1611-15.

Untraced, Bradfer Lawrence MS 61, ff. 139r-45v.

RaW 1102

Copy, a folio. c.1620s-30s.

From the papers of the Isham family, of Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 253.

Untraced, [Isham/Keymer MS].

The Present Stat of Thinges as they now Stand betweene the three great Kingedomes, Fraunce, England, and Spaine

A tract beginning ‘These three great kingdoms as they now stand are to be compared to the election of a king of Poland...’. First published in Lefranc (1968), pp. 590-5, and discussed pp. 586-90. The attribution to Ralegh subsequently doubted by Professor Lefranc (private communication). If the tract dates from 1623, as appears in one MS, it could not have been weitten by Ralegh.

RaW 1103

Copy, ascribed to Ralegh.

In: the MS described under RaW 828.

Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, fonds anglais n° 146, pp. 6-9.

RaW 1104

Copy, ascribed to Ralegh.

In: the MS described under RaW 628.

British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius C. XVI, ff. 390v-4v.

RaW 1105

Copy, in the hand of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), antiquary, as ‘written by Sr walter Ralegh Knight’. Early 17th century.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, 207 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. In professional hands, including those of Ralph Starkey (c.1569-1628), merchant and antiquary, and the ‘Feathery Scribe’.

Once owned by Sir Simonds D'Ewes, Bt, MP (1602-50), diarist and antiquary.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 239 (No. 52).

Edited from this MS in Lefranc (1968).

British Library, Harley MS 354, ff. 36r-42r.

RaW 1106

Copy, headed ‘A Suruey of ye 3. great kingdomes of Europe as ye State of them was in K. James his tyme’.

In: the MS described under RaW 884. c.1650.

British Library, Harley MS 787, ff. 5r-9r.

RaW 1107

Copy, headed ‘A Discourse upon mariage to bi made between ye three kingdomes of ffrance, Spain & great Britany’.

In: A folio volume comprising two tracts, in a single cursive secretary hand, 27 leaves, in modern speckled calf. c.1620s.

British Library, Harley MS 1305, ff. 24r-7v.

RaW 1108

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 1071.

British Library, Harley MS 6798, f. 299v-306v.

RaW 1109

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on seven folio leaves, in modern half-calf, originaly foliated 317-323, formerly bound with other tracts in a much larger volume. c.1620s.

Edited from this MS in Lefranc (1968), pp. 590-5, and discussed pp. 586-90; the attribution subsequently doubted by Professor Lefranc (privately communicated by letter).

British Library, Sloane MS 23.

RaW 1110

Copy, headed ‘A Discourse touching the Marriage wth. Spaine’.

In: A quarto volume of state tracts relating to Spain and national defence, in a single probably professional mixed hand, 152 leaves, in old half calf on marbled boards.

Bookplate of Robert Parker, FAS

Folger, MS G.a. 1, ff. 58r-75r.

RaW 1111

Copy, headed ‘The three greate kingdomes of England, France and Spaine’, subscribed ‘Anno Domini 1623’. c.1623.

In: A large folio volume of state and antiquarian tracts and papers for c.1530-1631, predominantly in two professional secretary hands, one of them that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 762 numbered pages (lpp. 148-76 blank, lacking pp. 345-56, plus 28 blanks), in old reversed calf.

From the library of William T. Smedley (1851-1934), Baconian. Acquired c.1924.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 265-7 (No. 109).

Folger, MS V.b.50, pp. 281-301.

RaW 1112

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed in another hand ‘Of the match wth Spayne’. c.1620s-30s.

In: A large folio of state tracts and parliamentary speeches and proceedings, in several professional hands, 263 leaves, in modern calf gilt.

Bookplate of Algernon Capell (1654-1710), second Earl of Essex, Privy Councillor, dated 1701.

Edited from this MS in Lefranc (1968), pp. 590-5, and discussed pp. 586-90.

Folger, MS V.b.173, ff. 26r-35v.

RaW 1113

Copy, subscribed ‘Anno Dni: 1623’.

In: the MS described under RaW 968. c.1625-30s.

Edited from this MS in Lefranc (1968), pp. 590-5, and discussed pp. 586-90. The attribution subsequently doubted by Professor Lefranc (private communication). Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 212 (No. 1.7).

National Library of Wales, Castell Gorfod MS 1, ff. 24v-32v.

RaW 1115

Copy, headed ‘A Survey of the 3 great Kingdomes of Europe as the state of them was in K. James his time’.

In: the MS described under RaW 972. Mid-late 17th century.

Pierpont Morgan Library, MA 664, pp. 5-23.

RaW 1116

Copy, in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, on seven leaves, lacking a title-page, docketed at the end ‘Plegi J. W:’.

In: the MS described under RaW 669.

Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 260 (No. 102).

Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 239/4, No. 5.

RaW 1117

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with italic headings, untitled. c.1620s-30s.

In: the MS described under RaW 670.

Trinity College, Dublin, MS 861, ff. 133v-46v.

RaW 1118

Ascribed to Ralegh.

In: A folio volume of state tracts and papers relating chiefly to Privy Council matters, in several largely professional secretary hands, 266 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards. c.1620s-30s.

Sotheby's, 15 March 1895, lot 207. In the library of Herbert Somerton Foxwell (1849-1936), economist and bibliographer.

Edited from this MS in Lefranc (1968), pp. 590-5, and discussed pp. 586-90; the attribution subsequently doubted by Professor Lefranc (privately communicated by letter).

University of London, Senate House Library, MS 20, ff. 199v-210.

RaW 1119

Copy in: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, French, Latin and Greek, written from both ends in various hands, with a list of contents, 117 leaves, in half-calf. Late 17th century.

Bookplate of Charles W.G. Howard, ‘The Gift of the Rt. Hon. Sir David Dundas Knt. of Ochtertyre 1877’. Formerly Chest II, No. 13.

Yale, Osborn MS b 52/1, pp. 8-11.

The Prince, or Maxims of State

A tract beginning ‘Of Government. Government is of two sorts 1. Private, of a man's self...’. First published in London, 1642. Works (1829), VIII, 1-34. See Lefranc (1968), pp. 67-70.

RaW 1120

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 569. 17th century.

Untraced, [Finch MS], [unspecified page numbers].

The Scepticke

A tract beginning ‘The Scepticke doth neither affirm nor deny any position...’. First published, as by Sir Walter Ralegh, in London, 1651. Works (1829), VIII, 548-56. William M. Hamlin, ‘A Lost Translation Found? An Edition of The Sceptick (c.1590)’, ELR, 31/1 (Winter 2001), 34-51 (pp. 42-51).

A translation of extracts from the Hypotyposes of Sextus Empiricus. See S.E. Sprott, ‘Ralegh's “Sceptic” and the Elizabethan Translation of Sextus Empiricus’, PQ, 42 (1963), 166-75, and Lefranc (1968), pp. 66-7.

RaW 1121

Copy, in a mixed hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleighs Skepticke’.

In: the MS described under RaW 701.5. c.1629-30s.

The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 23, pp. 28-34.

RaW 1122

Copy in: A large folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and tracts, in various hands, 360 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

Edited principally from this MS in Hamlin.

British Library, Harley MS 7017, ff. 25r-33r.

RaW 1123

Copy in: A folio composite volume of political, legal and antiquarian tracts, 500 leaves. In various professional hands, including that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’.

Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 245 (No. 62).

British Library, Lansdowne MS 254, ff. 353r-65r.

RaW 1124

Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, unascribed. c.1630s.

In: A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional hands, 273 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1635-40.

Old pressmark E. 2. 7.

This MS discussed in Richard H. Popkin, ‘A Manuscript of Ralegh's “The Scepticke”’, PQ, 36 (1857), 253-9.

Trinity College, Dublin, MS 532, ff. 129r-45r.

RaW 1125

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 97. c.1620s.

Dr Williams's Library, MS Jones B. 60, pp. 151-68.

RaW 1126

Copy in: the MS described under RaW 569. 17th century.

Untraced, [Finch MS], [unspecified page numbers].

A Treatise of the Soul

A tract beginning ‘There are two kinds of souls, one void of reason, another endued with reason...’. Works (1829), VIII, 571-9. See Lefranc (1968), pp. 57-8.

RaW 1127

Copy, in Ashmole's hand, as ‘by Sr: Walter Rawleigh knight’.

In: A composite volume of tracts and papers.

Edited from this MS in Works (1829).

Bodleian, MS Ashmole 1149, Part III, p. 87 et seq.