Verse
English Poems
Againe on the Death of Sir Rowland seconding that of Sir Robert Cotton (‘More Cottons yet? What, doth some envious Fate’)
First published in Parentalia spectatissimo Rolando Cottono (London, 1635), sig. E3v. Dobell, p. 76. Forey, p. 182.
*StW 1
Autograph, with one revision.
In: A quarto volume of autograph poems by Strode, 130 leaves (including 31 blank leaves, plus numerous blanks, stubs of five extracted leaves, and some leaves added later). A working autograph notebook of poems by Strode, compiled and revised over a considerable period, comprising 101 English poems (including draft fragments, 66 Latin poems and 2 Greek poems by him, together with his copies of a few poems by others (generally paired with Strode's translations or answers) including Richard Corbett (2), Thomas Carew, Peter Apsley, and Henry King and Henry Reynolds, as well as a lecture in Latin by the Professor of Greek at Oxford; ff. 52r-96r written in Strode's mixed secretary and italic hand, probably early 1620s-30; ff. 96v-129v, and afterwards ff. 1-51v, written in Strode's italic hand, probably for the most part c.1635-7, with additions up to 1643; ff. 129v-30v containing rough jottings in both styles; many of the poems containing Strode's extensive revisions, probably made from the 1630s onwards. c.1620s-43.
Some scribbling on the last page including the name John Herbert. Possibly one of the MS volumes by Strode which, according to Anthony Wood (Athenae Oxonienses, ed. Philip Bliss, 4 vols (London, 1813-20), III, 152), came after Strode's death into the hands of Dr Richard Gardiner (1591-1670), canon of Christ Church, and then into those of Richard Davies, Oxford bookseller (fl.1646-88). Afterwards acquired, probably from Davies between 1665 and 1675, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, who added pagination, annotations and some further entries throughout.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Corpus MS’: StW Δ 1. Collated in part in Dobell. Identified as autograph and discussed in M.C. Crum, ‘William Fulman and an Autograph Manuscript of the Poet Strode’, BLR, 4 (1952-3), 324-35. Extensively discussed and the text edited from this MS in Forey. Facsimile of f. 94r in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 42 (see StW 641).
Edited from this MS in Forey.
Another (‘I, your Memory's Recorder’)
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 53. Forey, p. 52.
*StW 2
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 3
Copy, headed ‘Alias. W: S’.
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).
StW 4
Copy 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).
StW 5
Copy, headed ‘On a Register for a Bible’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany of c.150 poems, in several hands; associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 279 pages (plus index and blanks). Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 32 poems (plus four of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1630s-40s.
Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 1044. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9561. Sotheby's, 19 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 628, and 21 March 1895, lot 903. Hodgson's, 23 April 1959, lot 528.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘English Poetry MS’: CoR Δ 3 and StW Δ 6.
StW 6
Copy, headed ‘A song’.
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 collated in Forey.
StW 7
Copy, subscribed ‘Will: Stroud’.
In: An octavo miscellany of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive italic hands, with religious verse and prose at the reverse end in another hand, 111 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf gilt. Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v. c.1635.
Inscribed on f. 111v rev. ‘Thursday next at Capricks for Mr Pitt’. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Harley MS’: CoR Δ 5.
StW 8
Copy, headed ‘On the Register of a Bible’, subscribed ‘W: S:’.
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.
StW 9
Copy, headed ‘Idem’.
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.
StW 10
Copy, headed ‘On a Register for a Bible’.
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).
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.
StW 11
Copy, subscribed ‘W: S.’
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.
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell. Collated in Forey.
StW 12
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including seventeen poems by Donne and fifteen by Strode, the main part in a single hand, 334 pages (but pp. 3-4 extracted, and including a later index). Possibly compiled by one ‘W: H:’: i.e. probably William Holgate (1618-46), of Queens' College, Cambridge, with late 17th-century additions apparently made by other members of the Holgate family, of Saffron Walden and Great Bardfield, Essex. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
Owned in the early 18th century by John Wale, who supplied the index on pp. 330-3. Owned before 1927 by Col. W.G. Carwardine-Probert, of Bures, Suffolk (descendant of the Holgate family).
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Holgate MS’: DnJ Δ 58. Briefly discussed in W.G.P., ‘Verses by Francis Beaumont’, TLS (15 September 1921), p. 596, and in E.K. Chambers, William Shakespeare, 2 vols (Oxford, 1930), II, 222-4. Also discussed, with facsimiles on pp. 68 and 70 of pp. 181 and 13, in Michael Roy Denbo, ‘Editing a Renaissance Commonplace Book: The Holgate Miscellany’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 65-73. For facsimile pages see DnJ 2931 and ShW 25. Complete microfilm in the Essex Record Office (T/A 98).
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 13
Copy in: A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat italic hand, with rubrication, 144 pages (plus later index). Including twelve poems by Carew, nine poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph and nineteen (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the miscellany associated with Oxford University and possibly related to Bodleian MS Malone 21, the latest date occuring in a poem on pp. 63-6 ‘Vpon ye great Frost 1634’. c.1635.
Inscribed inside the front cover by a later owner: ‘April 1853 Read to Lit[erary] & Philosophical] Soc[iet]y of L[iver]pool’. Acquired in 1940 by Edwin Wolf II (1911-91), Philadelphia librarian.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Wolf MS’: CwT Δ 37; RnT Δ 12; StW Δ 28.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], p. 27.
StW 14
Copy 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.
StW 15
Copy, subscribed ‘W. S.’
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, including 24 poems by Strode, in a single mixed hand, associated with Oxford, 56 leaves (out of an original eight gatherings), in contemporary calf. c.1630s.
Inscriptions inside the covers including the name ‘Phil. Mu’ (or ‘Mer.’). Later in the library of John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector. Acquired in 1969 by Dr Bent Juel-Jensen (1922-2006), Oxford physician and book collector.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the ‘Sparrow MS’: StW Δ 31.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 16
Copy, headed ‘On a register of a Bible’, subscribed ‘W.S.’
In: A quarto miscellany, in several hands, including a number of culinary receipts, 255 leaves (including over 65 blanks), written from both ends (Part I, in a rounded italic hand: ff. 1r-117r:; Part II: ff. 1*r-72r), in old calf. Inscribed (Part II, f. 1*r) ‘A booke of verses collected by mee RDungaruan’: i.e. Richard Boyle (1612-98), Viscount Dungarvon and later Earl of Burlington. c.1630s.
Also inscribed ‘Mary Helerd’. Subsequently owned by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer, and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 15745. Formerly Folger MS 46. 2
An Answere made to Maudlins Rimes and their Factions, concerning the Proctors (‘If Ch: church Lads were sad they spent their breath’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 26-30.
*StW 17
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 18
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 19
Copy, headed ‘An aunswere to A coppy of verses on ye striving of Xt Church &c: p:43’.
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.
StW 20
Copy, headed ‘Answeare’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in Latin and English, one cursive hand predominating, 69 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half black crushed morocco. c.1630s.
Inscribed (f. 62r) ‘Nathaniel Heighmore’: i.e. presumably Nathaniel Highmore (1613-85), chemical physician and anatomist; ‘John Sacheverell his hand and pen Amen’; and ‘John Sacheverell the Author of this...’.
This MS collated in Forey.
Answere or Mock-song (‘Ile tell you true wheron doth light’)
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Forey pp. 155-6.
*StW 21
Autograph with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 22
Copy, headed ‘The answeare’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 23
Copy, headed ‘The Contrary’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and university exercises, including twelve poems by Carew, in a single hand, compiled by Edward Natley, Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, 165 leaves (including many blanks), in calf (rebacked). c.1635-44.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 2592. Sotheby's, 10 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 960. Owned in 1896 by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. Acquired in 1950 from H.F.B. Brett-Smith, Oxford literary scholar and editor.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Natley MS’: CwT Δ 6.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 24
Copy, headed ‘A songe’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands, including eight poems by Randolph (one twice), 102 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. Fols 1r-93v, 95r-100v in the hand of Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London (whose name is inscribed on a flyleaf: f. 1*); f. 94r-v in an unidentified hand, and ff. 101v-2r in that of Peter Calfe's son, Peter Calfe the Younger (d.1693). c.1650-9.
Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford. Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Janu. 6. 1738/9’.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6917 with which it was once bound, as the ‘Calfe MS’: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4.
StW 25
Copy, headed ‘An answere of a Contrary Mrs. A sonnett’.
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 collated in Forey.
An Answere to a frinde (‘Have I a Corner in your memory’)
Unpublished. Forey p. 43.
*StW 26
Autograph, originally headed ‘A reply to a frinde’.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
An Answeare to an old Soldier of the Queenes (‘With a new beard but lately trimd’)
Unpublished. Forey pp. 83-5.
*StW 28
Autograph with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 29
Copy, headed ‘An answeare to an old Soldier of ye Queenes: W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 30
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 31
Copy of a seven-stanza version, untitled and here beginning ‘With a new white feather in his Cappe’.
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.
An answer to the song against the New-Inglanders, made at the request of a well-wisher to that side. but in a Sense Ambiguous (‘Let such as to new Ingland goe’)
Unpublished. Forey pp. 163-6.
*StW 32
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
An Antheme (‘O sing a new song to the Lord’)
See StW 868-873.
An Anthem for Good Friday (‘See, sinfull soul, the Saviours sufferings. see’)
First published in James Clifford, Divine Services and Anthems (London, 1663). Dobell, pp. 53-4. Forey p. 188.
StW 33
Copies in a musical setting by Richard Gibbs.
In: Two MS volumes of church music used at Durham Cathedral. c.1664, 1670.
Volume (i) belonged in 1664 to George Davenport, chaplain to John Cosin, Bishop of Durham; Volume (ii) belonged in 1670 to Isaac Basire (d.1676), Prebendary of the seventh stall in Durham Cathedral.
These MSS recorded in Forey, p. 325.
British Library, Add. MS 30478-9, (i) ff. 178v-9; (ii) f. 154r-v.
StW 33.5
Copy, in a musical setting by Isaac Blackwell.
In: A folio volume of anthems, motets, hymns, etc.96 leaves. Early 18th century.
An Anthymne of the Prodigall (‘To raggs my Silks are turnd, to dreggs my Wine’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 170-2.
*StW 34
Autograph
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
‘Can Christendom's great champion sink away’
See PoW 78-100.
The Capps (‘The witt hath long beholden bin’)
See StW 944-964.
Chimney-Sweeper's Song (‘Hath Christmas furr'd your Chimneys’)
See StW 741-746.
The commendation of gray Eies (‘Looke how the russet Morne exceedes the Night’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 35-6. Forey pp. 40-1.
*StW 35
Autograph, with revisions; c.1620s-30s.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 36
Copy, headed ‘Vpon ye. commendation of graye Eyes: W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 38
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 39
Copy in: the MS described under StW 8 (StW Δ 13). c.1633.
StW 40
Copy, heaed ‘On gray eyes’.
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.
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.
StW 41
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small mixed hand throughout; 425 pages (plus an eight-page index), in contemporary calf. Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1634.
The initials ‘T. C.’ stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 189.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Rosenbach MS II’: CwT Δ 32, CoR Δ 12, and StW Δ 24. Discussed in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 193-5).
StW 42
Copy, headed ‘Gray Eyes’.
In: the MS described under StW 13 (StW Δ 28). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 78-9.
StW 43
Copy in: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
StW 44
Copy, headed ‘on ye prayse of gray eyes’.
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 collated in Forey. A facsimile of f. 46v in Marcy L. North, ‘Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 94).
StW 45
Copy by John Newdegate, subscribed ‘Stroud of Christs Curch’.
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.
StW 46
Copy of the last eight lines, untitled and here beginning ‘Corruption layes on blacke. Give me the eye.’
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’.
StW 47
Copy, headed ‘On the Praise of a grey Eye.’
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.
StW 48
Copy, headed ‘In praise of gray eyes’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, largely in one secretary hand, written from both ends, with indexes (ff. 2r-3r, 168r-v), 168 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. Compiled by Sir John Perceval, Bt (1629-65), probably while at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Volume CXCII of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family. c.1646-9.
StW 49
Copy, headed ‘Gray eyes’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany in several hands, written from both ends, 46 leaves, in contemporary calf. Mid-17th century.
Inscribed names (on front paste-down and f. 1r) of ‘Fra: Norreys’ (? Sir Francis Norris (1609-69)) and ‘Hen. Balle’. Purchased from J. Harvey 8 December 1877.
StW 50
Copy, headed ‘On gray Eyes’.
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.
StW 51
Copy, headed ‘Of Grey eyes’.
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.
StW 52
Copy, headed ‘Of Grey eyes: W: Stroude’.
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.
StW 53
Copy, headed ‘On praise of Gray=Eyes’.
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).
StW 54
Copy, headed ‘In praise of grey eyes’.
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).
StW 55
Copy 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.
StW 56
Copy, headed ‘On the praise of gray eyes’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in two hands, one mixed hand predominating, 128 pages (plus a five-page index). Inscribed, and probably compiled, by Hugh Barrow (b.1617/18), of Brasenose College, Oxford. c.1638.
Also inscribed names of George Hope, Peter Wynne and [?]Anselm Huff. Later owned by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia bookseller and scholar: Rosenbach MS 192.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), p. 80.
StW 57
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 152 leaves (paginated 1-34, thereafter foliated 35-169), plus index, in modern red leather. Including 85 poems (and second copies of two) by Thomas Carew. c.1638-42.
Inscriptions including ‘Horatio Carey 1642 te deus pardamus’ [viz. Horatio Carey (1619-ante 1677), eldest son of Sir Richard Carey (1583-1630) and great-grandson of Sir Henry Carey (1524?-96), first Baron Hunsdon ], ‘Thomas Arding’, ‘Thomas Arden’, ‘William Harrington’, ‘Thomas John’, ‘John Anthehope’ and ‘Clement Poxall’. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8270. Bookplates of John William Cole and of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 194.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Carey MS’: CwT Δ 34. Briefly discussed in Gary Taylor, ‘Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets’, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 68 (1985), 210-46 (pp. 220-4). Discussed, with facsimile pages, in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 188, 191-2).
Consolatorium, Ad Parentes (‘Lett her parents then confesse’)
See StW 511-525.
The Description of Ætna out of Claudian (‘The peake of Ætna any eie may know’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 75-6.
*StW 58
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 59
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
A Devonshire Song (‘Thou ne'er wutt riddle, neighbour Jan’)
First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, pp. 65-6. John Tuckett, ‘A Devonshire Song’, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 462. Dobell, pp. 114-16. Forey, pp. 101-3.
*StW 60
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 61
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 62
Copy, subscribed ‘Bill: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 7. c.1635.
Edited from this MS in Tuckett.
StW 63
Copy of a version beginning ‘Riddle, riddle, neighbour Jan’.
In: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
This MS collated in Dobell and in Forey.
StW 65
Copy of an untitled version beginning ‘A Ridle a Ridlea me neighbour John’. Mid-17th century.
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).
StW 66
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Thou ne're wout Riddle Nebur Jahn’, on a single folio leaf. Mid-17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of letters, verses, academic plays and other documents, in various hands and paper sizes, 253 leaves, in 18th-century black half-calf.
Assembled by Thomas Hearne (178-1735), antiquary, who has inscribed a slip attached to the front pastedown ‘Tho: Hearne Junij 21o. 1709’.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 67
Copy of a version headed ‘The Devonshire Travailer’ and beginning ‘Riddle riddle, neighbar Tom’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several hands, written from both ends, 84 leaves, in contemporary calf. Probably compiled principally by an Oxford University man. c.1630s-40s.
Names inscribed on rear flyleaf and paste-down ‘Elizabeth hosman’ and ‘William Blois’.
Edited from this MS in Dobell, pp. 117-18; collated in Forey.
StW 68
Copy of a version headed ‘Stroude on Deuon: Sonnett’ and beginning ‘Ruddle Ruddle, nebour Jan’.
In: the MS described under StW 20. c.1630s.
StW 68.5
Copy, headed ‘A Song Made when King Charles was at Plimouth’ and here beginning ‘A Riddle a Riddle me neighbour John’.
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, pp. 249, 249 bis, 250.
StW 69
Copy, headed ‘A Western humour’ and here beginning ‘Ridlea, Ridlea neighbour John with atale ha' bea?’
In: An octavo commonplace book, 209 pages, in 17th-century calf (rebacked). Owned and probably compiled (in part) by one John Hale. c.1650s-1725.
A Dialoge on the Calott (‘Why Shoomaker, how ist I pay to You’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 150-3.
*StW 70
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 71
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Callot’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, written from both ends, 192 leaves (including blanks), in old brown calf. Compiled, over a period, principally by Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), Chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford, and Henry King's amanuensis, including (ff. 7r-61r) 24 poems by King in Manne's formal hand, written c.1625-30s; ff. 61v-72v, 73r-99v, 100r-101v written in a variant style of Manne's hand, c.1630s; and (ff. 72v, 99v, 102r-14v, 190v-169r rev.) additions in six other hands, c.1630s-44, with (ff. 75r, 76r, and 76v) three poems to which the subscription ‘R. Dorset’ is added in the hand of King himself. c.1625-46.
Inscribed (f. 190v rev.) ‘Ann Littleton’. Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue, [June 1848], p. 31. Sotheby's, 4 Februry 1850 (Rodd sale), lot 500, to James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps] (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Afterward owned by the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector. Sotheby's, 25 June 1873 (Corser sale), lot 325, to William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Later owned by the bookdealer Philip Robinson. Sotheby's, 26 June 1974, lot 3013, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Thomas Manne MS’: KiH Δ 7. Used in Crum. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).
StW 72
Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue betweene A Scholler and A Shoemaker: upon the Callot’.
In: the MS described under StW 24. c.1650-9.
This MS collated in Forey.
An Earestring (‘'Tis vaine to adde a ring or Gemme’)
First published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] Sr Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 101. Dobell, p. 44. Forey, pp. 34-5.
*StW 73
Autograph of a sequence of four couplets.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 74
Copy of the fourth couplet, here beginning ‘Here silken twine, the locks you see’, followed by the second couplet, headed ‘Another’ and here beginning ‘When idle wordes are passing here’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 75
Copy in: the MS described under StW 4 (StW Δ 5). c.1630s-40s.
StW 76
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
StW 77
Copy in: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 78
Copy 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).
StW 80
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, predominantly in two very small hands (A: ff. 1r-44v; B: ff. 44v-87v), with further verse and prose pieces in other hands on ff. 88r-121r, written from both ends, associated with Oxford, possibly New College, and probably afterwards with the Inns of Court, 155 leaves (including 33 blanks), in modern black morocco elaborately gilt. Including 23 poems by Strode (and second copies of two poems) and one poem of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.
Including (ff. 98r-100r) a letter by one ‘Pet[er] Wood’. Inscribed (ff. 90r-1r), ‘Thease verses I borroed to write out of John Sherly [d. 1666] a booke seller in litle Brittaine, 28th of March 1633’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9235. Sotheby's, 21 February 1938, lot 243.
Cited in IELM II.ii (1993), as the ‘Wood MS’: StW Δ 21. Discussed in C.F. Main, ‘New Texts of John Donne’, SB, 9 (1957), 225-33.
StW 81
Copy in: the MS described under StW 13 (StW Δ 28). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], p. 28.
StW 84
Copy of the second couplet.
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).
An Epitaph (‘Beneath this brazen plate those ashes lie’)
Unpublished. Forey, p. 128.
*StW 85
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 86
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on a gentlewoman’.
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.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 87
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 88
Copy, here beginning ‘Behind this brazen plate these ashes lie’.
In: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
An Epitaph (‘Keep well this sacred Pawne, thou bed of stone’)
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 249. Forey, p. 123.
*StW 89
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey and in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), No. 131 (p. 140).
StW 90
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
Edited from this MS in Dobell.
An Epitaph (‘Man newly borne is at full age to die’)
Unpublished. Forey, p. 129.
*StW 91
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 93
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
An Epitaph on Mr. Blacknoll, and his Wife (‘Behold the Grave turnd Wedding bed! a payre’)
Unpublished. Forey, p. 173.
*StW 95
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
An Epitaph on Mr. Bridgman (‘One Pitt containes him now, who could not die’)
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 87. Forey, p. 123.
*StW 96
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 97
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on Mr Bridgman: W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 98
Copy, headed ‘On one that died of the small Poxe’.
In: the MS described under StW 5 (StW Δ 6). c.1630s-40s.
StW 99
Copy, headed ‘On mr Bridgman’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
StW 100
Copy in: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
An Epitaph on Mr. Chitwood (‘Whatere hath Chitwoods powrs opprest’)
Unpublished. Forey, p. 79.
*StW 102
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
An Epitaph on Mr. Dayrell Reader of Grayes Inne, and sometime Recorder of Abindon (‘Though Camden honoured Lillingston conferrd’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 187-8.
*StW 103
Copy in the hand of William Fulman.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
An Epitaph on Mr. Fishborne the great London benefactor, and his executor (‘What are thy games, o death, if one man ly’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 82-5. Forey, pp. 124-7.
*StW 104
Autograph, with corrections.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Dobell; Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 105
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph upon Mr. Fisborne ye geat London benefactor: W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 106
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
An Epitaph on Mistress Mary Nedham (‘As Sin makes grosse the Soule and thickens it’)
First published in E. V. Lucas, [unspecified publication cited in Dobell, printing from an untraced ‘MS book of poems of Catherine Anwill’]. Dobell (1907), p. 57. Forey, pp. 128-9.
*StW 108
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 109
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on mrs: Elizabe. Mary Nedham’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 110
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on mris Eliz: Nedam’.
In: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
StW 111
Copy, headed ‘On Mrs Mary Neadham’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands (A: pp. 1-56; B: pp. 57-60, 75-122; C: pp. 61-74, 125-7), 127 pages, in contemporary limp vellum. Including 23 poems (and a second copy of one) by Randolph. c.1635.
Mostyn MS 196: from the library originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn Hall, near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, the MS possibly acquired by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) or by his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 191.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Mostyn MS’: RnT Δ 11. Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1873), Appendix, p. 356. Edited in Howard H. Thompson, An Edition of Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1959) [Mic 59-4669].
An Epitaph on Sir Henry Lees 3 children (‘Three branches death here prun'd from Henry Lee’)
Unpublished. Forey, p. 130.
*StW 112
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 113
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on Sr Henry Lees three Children. W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 114
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
An Epitaph on Sir John Walter, Lord cheife Baron (‘Farewell Example, Living Rule farewell’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 73-5. Forey, pp. 130-2.
*StW 115
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 116
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on Sr. John Walter. Lord chiefe Baron. W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 118
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 119
Copy, headed ‘On the death of Sr Jo: Walter’.
In: the MS described under StW 8 (StW Δ 13). c.1633.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 120
Copy, headed ‘On the death of Sr Jn Walter: L: cheife Baron’.
In: the MS described under StW 47. Mid-late 17th century.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 121
Copy, headed ‘On Sr: John Walther the Lord cheife Baron his death’, subscribed ‘W: St.’
In: A quarto miscellany and memorandum book, in three or more cursive mixed hands, 113 leaves, in modern binding. Compiled, perhaps largely, by ‘Justinian Paget Es[q.] a Lawyer’, whose name is so inscribed on a flyleaf (f. 1*r), a number of the contents relating to the Paget family and also with references (ff. 34v-5v) to ‘my sister Ann Maydwell’. c.1633-1645.
The contents suggest an Inns of Court and possible Christ Church, Oxford, connection.
Epitaphes on the Monument of Sir William Stone (‘Tread soft, for if you wake this Knight alone’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 120-1. Forey, p. 186.
*StW 122
Copy of a series of three epitaphs, the second ‘On his Ladie Marie’ (‘Marie Incarnate Virtue, Soule and Skin’), the third ‘On his Lady Denys’ (‘Denys hath merited no slender praise’), following the Latin text of an epitaph, all in the hand of William Fulman.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Dobell; Edited from this MS in Forey.
For a Gentleman who kissing his frinde, at his departure out of England, left a Signe of blood upon her (‘What Mystery was this, that I should finde’)
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 32-3. Forey, pp. 22-3.
*StW 123
Autograph, with extensive revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 125
Copy, headed ‘A Gentleman kissing his Mrs at his departure fro England, left some bloud on her lippe’.
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 Forey.
StW 126
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 127
Copy, headed ‘Vpon ye leaving some signe of bloud on his Mistris Lip vpon a parting kisse’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, in a single professional secretary hand associated with the playhouse and possibly inns of court (also responsible for ChG 12.5, HyT 5, and MiT 6), 97 leaves, with a first-line ‘Index’ at the end, in contemporary vellum boards. Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship). c.1636.
Inscribed (on the front paste-down) ‘My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire’ (following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Chute MS’: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, ‘Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).
StW 128
Copy, headed ‘A gent: to his freind whome kissing at his departure he left some signe of bloud vppon her’.
In: the MS described under StW 7. c.1635.
StW 129
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentleman who Kissing a Gentlewoman left some bload on her lipp’.
In: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 130
Copy, headed ‘A Gent: kissing his Ms left blood vpon her’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 131
Copy in: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 132
Copy in: the MS described under StW 80 (StW Δ 21). c.1630s.
StW 133
Copy, headed ‘A Gentleman to his freind who kissinge her att his departure left a signe of blood vpon her’.
In: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
StW 134
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentleman who kissing his Mistresse at his departinge from England left blood upon her’.
In: the MS described under StW 13 (StW Δ 28). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 7-8.
StW 135
Copy, headed ‘A Gent: to his ffreind, who kissing at his departure he left some signe of blood upon her’.
In: the MS described under StW 19 (StW Δ 29). c.1650.
StW 136
Copy, headed ‘For One who kissing his freind att his departure out of England left a signe of blood vpon her’.
In: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
StW 137
Copy, headed ‘On a gentleman who kissing a gentle woman left some blood on her lipp’.
In: the MS described under StW 15 (StW Δ 31). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 138
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentleman yt kissing his Mrs at his departure from England, left blood vpon her’.
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.
StW 139
Copy, headed ‘On one who kissing his mistris at his departure left some signe of blood upon her’, subscribed ‘W: Stroud.’
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including 33 poems by Thomas Carew and sixteen by Henry King, in a single small hand, with (ff. 1r-2v) an alphabetical Index, 105 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. Compiled by Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London. c.1641-9.
Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.
Cited in IELM II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6918 with which it was once bound, as the ‘Calfe MS’: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp 129-35, 444-5 (see KiH Δ 6).
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 140
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentleman who kissing his Mrs at his departure from England left blood upon her’.
In: the MS described under StW 111. c.1635.
StW 140.5
Copy, headed ‘On a kisse leauing blood on his Mrs lipps’.
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.
For Mr. Fei: and to his Freind (‘Unreasonable Sute, yet Freindly too!’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 143-5.
*StW 141
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
Fragmentary Poems
Unpublished. Forey, p. 184.
*StW 142
Autograph draft verse fragments of seventeen lines, three headed ‘On Ursula Chichester’ and beginning ‘Why should these parts, no Body fairer, noe soule better’, four lines beginning ‘Her Breath is Incense, sigh'd out when’, and ten lines beginning ‘Swell siluer Tame, a lusty source downe beare’.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
A Girdle (‘When ere the wast makes too much hast’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 45-6. Forey, p. 193.
StW 143
Copy of a sequence of five couplets.
In: the MS described under StW 4 (StW Δ 5). c.1630s-40s.
Text from this MS in Forey.
StW 144
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 145
Copy of the fourth couplet, headed ‘On a Girdle’, here beginning ‘This Circle heer is drawne aboute’, subscribed ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 8 (StW Δ 13). c.1633.
StW 146
Copy in: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 147
Copy in: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 148
Copy of the first two couplets, headed ‘Vpon a Girdle’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.
StW 149
Copy, subscribed ‘W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 151
Copy 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.
StW 152
Copy, headed ‘On a ladies girdle’.
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.
StW 155
Copy of the last four couplets, here beginning ‘I here stand keeper’.
In: the MS described under StW 84. c.1630s.
StW 156
Copy 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].
Her Epitaph (‘Happy Grave, thou dost enshrine’)
See StW 511-525.
An humble Thanksgiving for a Deliverance on New yeares Eeve, under a Rock whereon these afterward were presented (‘True Votive Thankes upon this Rock weele pay’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 147-9.
*StW 157
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
In commendation of Musique (‘When whispering straines do softly steale’)
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 2-3. Four Poems by William Strode (Flansham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 196-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).
*StW 158
Autograph fair copy, headed ‘The Commendation of Musick’.
In: An unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, occupied by eight autograph poems by Strode, written in fair copy in his stylish italic hand, two poems to each page, some marginal scribbling on the second page in another hand. c.1620s-30s.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Portland MS’: StW Δ 3, with a facsimile example as Facsimile XIII, after p. xxi. Recorded and two poems edited from the MS in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), pp. 40-1, where, however, it is not identified as autograph.
Edited from this MS in Needham, p. 40.
StW 159
Copy, headed ‘In ye commendation of Musick. W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 160
Copy, headed ‘On Musicke’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, including sixteen poems by Strode and one of doubtful authorship, in several hands, including a small mixed hand on ff. 2r-43v, cursive secretary hands thereafter, and Latin entries in italic at the reverse end, 139 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1630s.
A flyleaf inscribed ‘[?] Johannes Philips’. Acquired from H. Stevens 11 December 1852.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1987), as the ‘John Philips MS’: StW Δ 8.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.
StW 161
Copy, headed ‘Laus musices’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.
StW 162
Copy, subscribed ‘Will: Strode’.
In: the MS described under StW 7. c.1635.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.
StW 163
Copy, headed ‘The comendation of Musick’, subscribed ‘W.S.’
In: the MS described under StW 8 (StW Δ 13). c.1633.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 164
Copy, headed ‘Laus Musices’.
In: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.
StW 165
Copy 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.
StW 166
Copy in: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.
StW 167
Copy, headed ‘A Song on Musicke’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 168
Copy, headed ‘On Musicke. W: S.’ and here beginning ‘When whispring streams with creeping wind’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
StW 169
Copy, subscribed ‘W: Strode’.
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 170
Copy, untitled.
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.
StW 171
Copy, headed ‘The Comendation of Musicke’.
In: the MS described under StW 80 (StW Δ 21). c.1630s.
StW 171.5
Copy, headed ‘A Song in praise of Musick’.
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.
StW 172
Copy in: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
StW 173
Copy 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.
StW 174
Copy in: the MS described under StW 152 (StW Δ 26). Mid-17th century.
StW 176
Copy in: the MS described under StW 13 (StW Δ 28). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 68-9.
StW 178
Copy in: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
StW 179
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany compiled by an Oxford University man, i i + 37 leaves, in later half-calf. c.1630s.
Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.
StW 180
Copy, subscribed ‘Dr Strode’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in two or more hands, 95 leaves (plus blanks), including two ‘Indexes’, in contemporary vellum. Compiled by an Oxford University man, possibly a member of St John's College. c.1634-43.
A receipt (f. 104r) by John Weston recording payment from his ‘brother Ed: Weston’, 3 May 1714. The name ‘John Saunders’ inscribed on the final leaf.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 181
Copy, headed ‘In the prayse of Musicke’, subscribed ‘W. Strode’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in two or more cursive hands, written from both ends, iv + 278 pages, in contemporary calf. Compiled principally by one ‘H. S.’, a Cambridge University man. c.1640s-60s.
This MS volume edited in D.J. Rose, MS Rawlinson Poetical 147: An Annotated Volume of Seventeenth-Century Cambridge Verses (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Leicester, 1992), of which a copy is in Cambridge University Library, Manuscript Department, A8f.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.
StW 182
Copy, headed ‘On ye Comendation of Musicke’, imperfect.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and medical and household prescriptions, in several cursive secretary hands, one predominating, written from both ends, 117 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Compiled in part by Brian Fairfax (1633-1711), scholar and courtier. Mid-late 17th century.
Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 117. Item 667 in an unidentified sale catalogue.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.
StW 183
Copy, headed ‘A Song in comendacon of Music’.
In: the MS described under StW 49. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.
StW 184
Copy of a version headed ‘The Commendation of musicke’ and beginning ‘When whispering straines with creeping winde’, subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 139. c.1641-9.
Edited from this MS in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), No. 90 (p. 98).
StW 185
Copy in: the MS described under StW 50. c.1640s.
StW 187
Copy, headed ‘The comendation of musick’, here beginning ‘When Whispering straynes wth creeping wynd’, and subscribed in a different hand ‘WS’.
In: the MS described under StW 55. c.1630s.
StW 188
Copy, headed ‘On Musicke’ and here beginning ‘When whispering straines with creeping winde’, transcribed from a text in ‘A small MS. Collection in Mr. Boucher's 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.
Edited from this MS in Robert Jamieson, Popular Ballads and Songs (Edinburgh, 1806), II, 295-6. Recorded in Neilson, ‘A Bundle of Ballads’, p. 113.
StW 189
Copy, headed ‘His Mistris playing on a lute’ and here beginning ‘When whispering streines with creeping wind’.
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. 20r.
StW 190
Copy, headed ‘Song’ and here beginning ‘When whispering straines with gentle winde’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Thomas Carew, probably in a single accomplished hand (changing to two styles of italic on ff. 42v-4v, 5r-60r, 76r-v), i + 89 leaves (including blanks, stubs of two or three excised leaves, and an index), in contemporary limp vellum. c.1630s-40s.
Later notes and scribbling including the names ‘John Nutting’ (ff. 26r, 56r) and ‘John M.’ and ‘John Susan’ (rear paste-down). The last leaf also containing a list of the titles of 65 poems by Carew together with the number of lines in each poem, this list unrelated to the contents of the rest of the MS.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Nutting MS’: CwT Δ 35. The list of poems, probably relating to another MS, is edited, with facsimiles, in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 198-9, 217-19).
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 23 (James 416), f. 45r-v.
StW 191
Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs as shee sate playing on the Lute’, subscribed ‘Will: Stroude’.
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.
An Inscription and Epitaphes on the Monument of Sir William Strode (‘Tread soft, for if you wake this Knight alone’)
See StW 122.
An Inscription on the Monument of Mistress Ursula Sadleir (‘Behold a Virgin free from any spot’)
Unpublished. Forey, p. 187.
StW 192
Copy in the hand of William Fulman.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
Justification (‘See how the rainbow in the skie’)
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 55. Forey, p. 109.
*StW 193
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 195
Copy in: the MS described under StW 4 (StW Δ 5). c.1630s-40s.
StW 196
Copy in: the MS described under StW 125 (StW Δ 9). c.1630s.
StW 197
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 198
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Justification’, subscribed ‘Wil: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 127 (StW Δ 11). c.1636.
StW 199
Copy in: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 200
Copy, headed On Justification.
In: the MS described under StW 165. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 201
Copy, headed ‘On Justification. W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.
StW 202
Copy in: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell. Collated in Forey.
StW 203
Copy, headed ‘Vppon Iustification’.
In: the MS described under StW 12. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
StW 207
Copy in: A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 98 pages (plus some blanks), in reversed calf (rebacked). c.1620s-30s.
Inscribed (f. ir) by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), the date ‘1741’ added.
StW 207.5
Copy, headed ‘Uppon Justification’.
In: A quarto commonplace book, written from both ends, unnumbered pages, in contemporary vellum rebound in modern vellum. Compiled by members of the Deynes family and others. Mid-late 17th century.
Inscribed names of Charles Deynes, Grey Bryan (in pencil), and (in pencil) Alex Robertson, Invercargill, New Zealand. Purchased from P.J. and A.E. Dobell 30 November 1924.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 114, f. [iiir].
StW 208
Copy 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.
StW 208.5
Copy 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.
A Letter impos'd (‘Goe, happy paper, by commande’)
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 100-1. The Poems and Amyntas of Thomas Randolph, ed. John Jay Parry (New Haven & London, 1917), pp. 219-20. Forey, pp. 32-3.
*StW 209
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 211
Copy, headed ‘A Letter’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
StW 212
Copy, headed ‘A Love Letter’, subscribed ‘Nich: Oldisworth’.
In: the MS described under StW 127 (StW Δ 11). c.1636.
StW 215
Copy, headed ‘A Letter: W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited from this MS in Dobell.
StW 217
Copy, headed ‘A Letter sent to his Mris in her praise.’
In: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
StW 218
Copy, headed ‘On A Letter to his Mrs:’
In: the MS described under StW 19 (StW Δ 29). c.1650.
StW 221
Copy, headed ‘A letter to his Mistresse’, subscribed ‘T. Randall’.
In: the MS described under StW 138. c.1640s.
Edited from this MS in Parry.
StW 222
Copy, headed ‘To his Lady’.
In: A verse miscellany, much of it in shorthand, almost entirely closely written in a small cursive mixed hand, written from both ends, in contemporary calf with initials ‘E H’ in gilt. 16°, 87 leaves (plus two paste-downs); miscellany, including portions of some 42 identifiable English poems by Crashaw, many of the lines here re-arranged in a garbled fashion; compiled by a Cambridge man, possibly a member of Christ's College; probably in a single hand throughout, with variations of style, written from both ends, about thirty pages in shorthand. c.1650s.
Later owned by Edward Hailstone (1818-90) of Walton Hall, near Wakefield, botanist and book collector. Sotheby's 23 April 1891 (Hailstone sale), probably lot 439, to Dobell). Bertram Dobell's sale catalogue No. 103 (June 1902), item 373. Formerly Folger MS 267.1.
Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Hailstone MS: CrR Δ 6. Crashaw's work selectively collated (cited as Dobell) in Martin and discussed p. lxxxi. Facsimile of f. 22 in Dobell catalogue. The MS discussed by Dobell, in other connections, in ‘Some Unpublished Epigrams by Thomas Fuller’, The Athenaeum (27 April 1901), p. 532, and in ‘An Early Variant of a Shakespeare Sonnet’, The Athenaeum (2 August 1913), p. 112. Compare CrR Δ 8.
StW 224
Copy in: the MS described under StW 111. c.1635.
StW 225
Copy, headed ‘A leter to ones Mris’.
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.
Loves Ætna. Song (‘In your sterne beauty I can see’)
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 47. Forey, p. 93.
*StW 226
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 228
Copy, headed ‘To his Mris:’.
In: the MS described under StW 5 (StW Δ 6). c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 229
Copy, headed ‘Another’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 231
Copy, headed ‘On a kisse leauing blood behind it’, subscribed ‘W.S.’
In: the MS described under StW 165. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 232
Copy, headed ‘For a Gentleman’, under a running head ‘For a Friend: W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.
StW 233
Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs’, subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell. Collated in Forey.
StW 236
Copy, headed ‘To his Mris’ and here beginning ‘In thy sterne bewty I can see’.
In: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
A Moderating Answere to Both (‘Ile tell you of another Sun’)
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Forey pp. 156-7.
*StW 238
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 239
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
A Musical Contemplation (‘O lett me learne to be a Saint on earth’)
First published in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), pp. 40-1. Forey, pp. 109-10.
*StW 240
Autograph, originally headed ‘The diuines Commendation of a good voyce’ and the title later emended by William Fulman.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in M.C. Crum, ‘William Fulman and an Autograph Manuscript of the Poet Strode’, BLR, 4 (1952-3), 324-35 (pp. 334-5). Text from this in Forey. Facsimile in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 252.
*StW 241
Autograph fair copy, headed ‘The Commendation of a good voyce’.
In: the MS described under StW 158 (StW Δ 3). c.1620s-30s.
Edited from this MS in Needham.
StW 242
Copy, headed ‘The deuines comendation of a good voice’.
In: the MS described under StW 4 (StW Δ 5). c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 243
Copy, headed ‘The Diuines Comendacions of a good Voyce’.
In: the MS described under StW 125 (StW Δ 9). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 244
Copy, headed ‘The divines commendation of a good voyce’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 245
Copy, headed ‘The diuines comendation of a good voice’.
In: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
A necklace (‘Theis threades enjoy a double grace’)
First published (as the final couplet of Strode's other posy on a necklace) in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] Sr Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 100. Dobell, p. 45. Forey, p. 210.
StW 246
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.
StW 247
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.
A Necklace (‘These Vaines are Natures Nett’)
First stanza first published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 386. Second stanza (‘Loe on my necke…’) first published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] Sr Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 100. Complete in Dobell, p. 45. Forey, p. 35.
*StW 249
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 250
Copy, headed ‘A Necklace: W: S.’, the second stanza headed ‘Another’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 252
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
StW 253
Copy, headed ‘A Posey in a Necklace’, subscribed ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 8 (StW Δ 13). c.1633.
StW 254
Copy in: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 255
Second copy of the second stanza, here beginning ‘Lo on my necke’.
In: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 256
Copy in: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 258
Copy in: the MS described under StW 151 (StW Δ 23). c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
StW 259
Copy in: the MS described under StW 13 (StW Δ 28). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], p. 29.
StW 260
Copy in: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
StW 261
Copy in: the MS described under StW 15 (StW Δ 31). c.1630s.
StW 262
Copy of the seconde stanza, here beginning ‘Loe on my necke’.
In: the MS described under StW 84. c.1630s.
StW 263
Copy, headed ‘On A Necklace’.
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.
Photocopy of this MS in the British Library (RP 772).
A Newyeares-gift (‘Others may give you presents out of Thrift’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 205-7.
A New yeares gift (‘Wee are prevented. you whose Presence is’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 98-9. Forey, p. 134.
*StW 267
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Dobell; Edited from this MS in Forey.
Of Death & Resurrection (‘Like to the rowling of an eye’)
See StW 965-983.
On a blisterd Lippe (‘Chide not thy sprowting lippe, nor kill’)
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 28-9. Forey, pp. 92-3.
*StW 268
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
*StW 269
Autograph fair copy.
In: the MS described under StW 158 (StW Δ 3). c.1620s-30s.
Facsimile of this page in IELM, II.ii, Facsimile XIII.
StW 270
Copy, headed ‘On a blisterd lipp. W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 271
Copy, headed ‘On his Mistris blistered Lip’.
In: the MS described under StW 127 (StW Δ 11). c.1636.
StW 273
Copy in: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 274
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewomans blistred Lip. W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell.
StW 275
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewomans blisterd lipp’, subscribed ‘W: S’.
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell.
StW 276
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewomans blistered Lip’.
In: the MS described under StW 170 (StW Δ 20). c.1637-51.
StW 278
Copy in: the MS described under StW 12. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
StW 279
Copy in: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
StW 280
Copy in: the MS described under StW 173 (StW Δ 25). c.1634.
StW 281
Copy, headed ‘On a lady hauing a sprouting lip’.
In: the MS described under StW 152 (StW Δ 26). Mid-17th century.
StW 282
Copy in: the MS described under StW 31 (StW Δ 27). c.1620-40s.
StW 283
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman's Lippe’.
In: the MS described under StW 13 (StW Δ 28). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 1-2.
StW 285
Copy in: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
StW 286
Copy, untitled.
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.
StW 287
Copy in: the MS described under StW 182. Mid-late 17th century.
StW 288
Copy in: the MS described under StW 49. Mid-17th century.
StW 290
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewomans blistred lipp’, subscribed ‘mr Strode’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, the first 21 pages in a small mixed hand, the rest (including a book catalogue dated 1675) in one or two later hands, 33 pages (plus numerous blanks), in old calf. Inscribed (p. 1) ‘ffran: Wyrley’, possibly the principal compiler, whose name is also subscribed to several poems. c.1636-77.
Also inscribed (f. ii) ‘Michaell Keepis. anno Dom: 1636 ffebruarie. 13th. Me tenet’. Later Phillipps MS 9311. Bookplate of Wyrley Birch. Purchased from Peter Murray Hill, 1950. Formerly S4975M1 [1636-75] Bound.
StW 291
Copy, ascribed at the side to ‘Mr Strowd of C. Chu:’.
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.
StW 292
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewomans blisterd Lippe’.
In: the MS described under StW 53. c.late 1630s.
StW 294
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewomans blistred lipp’ and here beginning ‘Hide not thy sprowting lipp, nor kill’.
In: the MS described under StW 55. c.1630s.
StW 295
Copy, headed ‘On the blisterd lip of his mris:’.
In: the MS described under StW 56. c.1638.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), pp. 12-13.
StW 296
Copy, headed ‘On a Lady having a blistered Lip’.
In: the MS described under StW 189. c.1643-50s.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, f. 19r-v.
StW 298
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewomans blistred Lipe.’
In: the MS described under StW 57. c.1638-42.
StW 299
Copy in: the MS described under StW 263. c.1639 [-c.1728].
On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter (‘A fitter Match hath never bin’)
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.
*StW 300
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 301
Copy in: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 302
Copy, here beginning ‘Fitter a match hath neuer beene’.
In: the MS described under StW 4 (StW Δ 5). c.1630s-40s.
StW 303
Copy in: the MS described under StW 5 (StW Δ 6). c.1630s-40s.
StW 304
Copy in: the MS described under StW 86 (StW Δ 7). c.1638.
StW 306
Copy, headed ‘A Bucher marringe to a Tanners daughter’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
StW 307
Second copy, headed ‘Verses on a Butcher marrying a Skinners daughter’ and here beginning ‘No fitter match hath ever bene’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
StW 307.5
Copy 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.
StW 309
Copy, headed ‘On a butcher married to a farmers daughter’ and here beginning ‘A fitter match was never seene’.
In: the MS described under StW 165. c.1630s-40s.
StW 310
Copy in: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
StW 311
Copy, headed ‘On a butchers sonne and a Tanners daughter’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 312
Copy in: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
StW 314
Copy, inscribed at the side ‘W.S’.
In: the MS described under StW 151 (StW Δ 23). c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
StW 315
Copy, headed ‘On a butchers daughter marryed to a Tanner’.
In: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
StW 316
Copy in: the MS described under StW 31 (StW Δ 27). c.1620-40s.
StW 317.5
Copy in: A folio composite volume of verse in Latin and English, some relating to Oxford, in various hands, 215 leaves, in contemporary quarter-calf gilt vellum boards. Early-mid-18th century.
StW 319
Copy in: the MS described under StW 286. c.1630s.
StW 319.5
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, 171 leaves, with an index, imperfect at the beginning, in contemporary calf (rebacked). Compiled by Colonel Gabriel Lepipre, being the ‘4th Vol’. of his compilations. c.1748-50s.
Donated in 1938 by F.F. Madan.
StW 320
Copy 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.
StW 321
Copy, headed ‘upon A Butcher yt married A Tanners daughter’.
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.
StW 322
Copy, headed ‘on a Buchers son, to a Tanners daughter’, 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.
StW 323
Copy, subscribed ‘These 3. out of Philpot's Remains. pp. 533. & 547.’
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.
StW 324
Copy, headed ‘On a Butcher maryeing a skynners daughter’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, 215 leaves (plus a few blanks), in modern calf gilt. Entirely in the hand of John Hopkinson (1610-80), Yorkshire antiquary, of Lofthouse, near Leeds, and comprising Volume 17 of the Hopkinson MSS. c.1670.
Signed bookplate of Frances Mary Richardson Currer (1785-1861), book collector, of Eshton Hall, West Yorkshire. Subsequently owned by her step-father Matthew Wilson.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, pp. 295-6.
StW 325
Copy 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.
StW 326
Copy 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.
StW 327
Copy in: the MS described under StW 49. Mid-17th century.
StW 328
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘A fitter match then this cold not haue byne’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, nearly all perhaps in probably several hands, with (ff. 41v-2r) a ‘Tabula’ of contents, 45 leaves, in 19th-century mottled leather gilt. c.1630s.
StW 329
Copy, here beginning ‘Noe fiter match could e're haue beene’.
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.
StW 330
Copy 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.
StW 331
Copy, headed ‘On a Butcher yt Marry'd a Tanners Daughter’.
In: the MS described under StW 53. c.late 1630s.
StW 331.5
Copy in: A folio composite volume of Percy family poems, in various hands, in half red morocco. Early-mid-18th century.
StW 332
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and some prose, in several italic and mixed hands, written probably over a period from both ends, 72 leaves, in contemporary vellum. c.1630s-40s.
John Rylands University Library of Manchester, English MS 410, f. 22r.
StW 332.5
Copy, headed ‘A Butcher marrying a tanners daughter’ and here beginning ‘A fitter match then ys could —r have been’.
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’.
StW 333
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in probably two or more secretary hands, 108 pages, in half brown morocco. Mid-17th century.
Later owned by F.W. Cosens (1819-89). Bookplate of James W. Ellsworth.
StW 334
Copy in: the MS described under StW 84. c.1630s.
StW 335
Copy in: the MS described under StW 190. c.1630s-40s.
StW 336
Copy 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.
StW 337
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Butcher that had married a Tanners daughter’.
In: the MS described under StW 191. c.1630s.
StW 338
Copy, headed ‘On a tanners marieinge a butchers Daughter’.
In: the MS described under StW 225. c.1640.
On a Child dying at 2 yeares of Age (‘A Span in Age, and growth of 2 yeares might’)
Unpublished. Forey, p. 183.
*StW 339
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
On a Dissembler (‘Could any shew where Pliny's people dwell’)
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 33-4. Forey pp. 42-3.
*StW 340
Autograph, with one revision.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 342
Copy in: the MS described under StW 5 (StW Δ 6). c.1630s-40s.
StW 343
Copy, here beginning ‘Can any shew, where Plibies people dwell’.
In: the MS described under StW 86 (StW Δ 7). c.1638.
StW 344
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
StW 347
Copy, with two lines added interlineally in a different hand.
In: the MS described under StW 8 (StW Δ 13). c.1633.
StW 348
Copy in: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 349
Copy, here beginning ‘Can any shew…’.
In: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 350
Copy, subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 351
Copy, as by ‘W:S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 353
Copy, here beginning ‘Can any shewe…’.
In: the MS described under StW 173 (StW Δ 25). c.1634.
StW 354
Copy in: the MS described under StW 152 (StW Δ 26). Mid-17th century.
StW 355
Copy in: the MS described under StW 13 (StW Δ 28). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], p. 30.
StW 357
Copy in: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
StW 359
Copy, here beginning ‘Can any shewe where Plinnies people dwell’, subscribed ‘Will: Strode Cts Church’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in a single hand, vi + 98 leaves, in calf. Probably compiled by a member of New College, Oxford. c.1630s.
Some tipped-in notes by Richard Rawlinson.
On a Faire Crooked Gentlewoman, Proude and Dissembling (‘Halfe beautifull! Imperfect peice of Clay’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 135-6.
*StW 360
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 361
Copy, headed ‘On a crooked fayre Gentlewoman dissembling, and somewhat boasting. W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 362
Copy, headed ‘On a crooked fayre gentlewoman dissembling and somewhat boastinge’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 363
Copy, headed ‘On a Crooked fayre gentlewoman dissembling & somewhat boasting’.
In: the MS described under StW 208. c.1636-40s.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 32 (James 423), f. 22r-v.
On a freind's absence (‘Come, come, I faint: thy heavy stay’)
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 13. Forey, pp. 95-6.
*StW 364
Autograph of lines 9-24, the last two lines repeated among jottings; imperfect, lacking the beginning.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 365
Copy, headed ‘On a friends absence: W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 366
Copy in: the MS described under StW 160 (StW Δ 8). c.1630s.
StW 367
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 368
Copy, headed ‘A Song on the Absence of a Frend’, subscribed ‘Will: Strowde’.
In: the MS described under StW 7. c.1635.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 370
Copy, headed ‘A Sonnet. W: S.’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
This MS collated and the text of lines 1-8 from this MS in Forey.
StW 371
Copy, subscribed ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 372
Copy, headed ‘The ialous mans replye’.
In: the MS described under StW 173 (StW Δ 25). c.1634.
StW 374
Copy, headed ‘Song to his Mistresse’.
In: the MS described under StW 13 (StW Δ 28). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 83-4.
StW 375
Copy in: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
StW 376
Copy, headed ‘Song to his Mrs’.
In: the MS described under StW 180. c.1634-43.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 377
Copy, headed ‘A songe on ye absence of a friend’.
In: the MS described under StW 56. c.1638.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), p. 109.
On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute (‘Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears’)
First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 278. Dobell, p. 39. Forey, p. 208.
StW 378
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman yt sung, and playd on ye lute well: W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 379
Copy, headed ‘On a gentle woman that sunge most exquisitely’.
In: the MS described under StW 86 (StW Δ 7). c.1638.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 380
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman playinge vppon ye Lute’.
In: the MS described under StW 160 (StW Δ 8). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 332.
StW 381
Copy in: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 332.
StW 382
Copy in: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 332.
StW 383
Second copy.
In: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 332.
StW 384
Copy, headed ‘A Gentlewoman playing on the Lute’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 385
Copy, inscribed at the side in a different ink ‘T.C.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Text from this MS in Forey.
StW 386
Copy, subscribed ‘W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 332.
StW 387
Copy, headed ‘On a faire gentlewoman yt sunge well’.
In: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
StW 389
Copy, headed ‘On A Gentlewoman Singing, & playing on A Lute’ and subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 19 (StW Δ 29). c.1650.
StW 390
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman yt playd on a lute’.
In: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
StW 391
Copy, headed ‘B: John: On a ffayre gent: voyce’.
In: the MS described under StW 44. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 392
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman singing’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, ii + 65 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Entitled Miscentur seria iocis. 1647. Elegies, Exequies, Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs Satires and other Poems, a formal compilation entirely in the hand of the Yorkshire antiquary John Hopkinson (1610-80). 1647.
From the library of Cecil Brent, FSA. Sold by P.J. & A.E. Dobell, January 1938.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 394
Copy, headed ‘On a faire woman that sung sweetly’.
In: the MS described under StW 207. c.1620s-30s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 332.
StW 395
Copy, headed ‘On a faire Woman that sung excellently’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Juvenilia Ludicra, in a single small mixed hand, 103 leaves, all now window mounted in a quarto volume, in 19th-century half morocco. Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man. c.1630s.
Inscribed in engrossed lettering (f. 1r) ‘E Libris Richard Sutclif’. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 194.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 332.
StW 396
Copy, headed On a Gentlewoman [playing on ye Lute added in another hand], transcribed from StW 397.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single predominantly secretary hand, with some later additions and annotations, 188 leaves, in quarter-morocco. Transcribed from British Library Add. MS 25303 and perhaps associated likewise with the Inns of Court. Including 23 poems by Carew and three of doubtful authorship. c.1620s-30s.
Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 13 May 1856 (Pickering sale), lot 258.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Pickering MS’: CwT Δ 11.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 332.
StW 397
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under StW 325. c.1620s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 332.
StW 398
Copy, headed ‘To his Mris singing’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, predominantly in a single secretary hand, written from both ends, 179 leaves, in 19th-century half blue morocco gilt. c.1640s.
Inscribed (f. 179r) ‘This is Sr. Thomas Meres [or ? Maiors] Book’: i.e. probably Sir Thomas Meres (1634-1715), of Kirton, Lincolnshire. Later bookplate of the Rev. John Curtis. Purchased from Mrs Ann Austin Curtis 12 October 1889.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 332.
StW 399
Copy, headed ‘On a faire woman that sung Excellently’.
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 Forey, p. 332.
StW 400
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman that sung excellently’.
In: the MS described under StW 291. c.1630 [-1677].
StW 401
Copy, headed in a different hand ‘upon a lady that sang lately’, subscribed ‘Wm Strowde’.
In: the MS described under StW 51. c.1640.
StW 402
Copy, headed ‘On a Lady singing’, subscribed ‘W. Stroude’.
In: the MS described under StW 52. c.1630s-40s.
StW 403
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman that sung very wel’.
In: the MS described under StW 330. c.1630s.
StW 404
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman that sung excellently’.
In: A large folio verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford University, 34 leaves, in modern half-morocco marbled boards. Including 15 poems by Carew and 17 poems by King. c.1630s.
Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.8.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Halliwell MS’: CwT Δ 26 and KiH Δ 11. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Some Account of the Antiquities…illustrating…Shakespeare (1852), No. 8. Facsimile example in Giles Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton, Elizabethan Handwriting 1500-1650 (London, 1968), Plate 42. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 195).
StW 406
Copy, headed ‘On A Ladye that songe And plaid on a Lute’.
In: the MS described under StW 56. c.1638.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), pp. 103-4.
StW 407
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman that sung excellently’.
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).
StW 408
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman that sung exquisitly’.
In: the MS described under StW 111. c.1635.
StW 409
Copy, headed ‘To his Mistresse as shee sate singing’, subscribed ‘Geo: Markham’.
In: the MS described under StW 191. c.1630s.
On a Gentlewoman Walking in the Snowe (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)
See StW 747-834.
On a Gentlewoman who escapd the marks of the Pox (‘A Beauty smoother then an Ivory plaine’)
First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 272. Dobell, p. 49. Forey, p. 15.
*StW 410
Autograph, with alterations, originally headed ‘On a Gentlewoman iniurd by the Pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 411
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman inur'd by ye Poxe: W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 412
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman yt had ye small pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 4 (StW Δ 5). c.1630s-40s.
StW 413
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman iniurd by ye Pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 125 (StW Δ 9). c.1630s.
StW 414
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman yt had ye smale pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 415
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlwomans beauty iniurd by ye pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 416
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman iniured [by ye pox added]’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 417
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman, that had the small poxe’, subscribed ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 418
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman disfigured by the Pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 80 (StW Δ 21). c.1630s.
StW 419
Copy, headed ‘Of Mrs Bettie Lambert’.
In: the MS described under StW 80 (StW Δ 21). c.1630s.
StW 420
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman mard with ye small pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
StW 421
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman that had the small pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
StW 422
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman yt had ye pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 44. c.1630s-40s.
StW 423
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman yt had ye Small pockes’.
In: the MS described under StW 23. c.1635-44.
StW 424
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman that had The Small Pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 47. Mid-late 17th century.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 425
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman that had the small Pox’.
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).
StW 426
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman yt had ye small pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 50. c.1640s.
StW 427
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman that had the small pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 25. c.1640.
StW 427.5
Copy, headed ‘A sonG’, here beginning ‘As I saw fair Clora walk alone’, followed by a Latin version headed ‘Latinè redditum. p Mr Denny’ (beginning ‘Jupiter in Cloram tacitus descendit euntem’).
In: An octavo verse miscellany, predominantly in a single hand, written from both ends, the contents collected over a period but not entered in chronological order, 171 leaves, in contemporary panelled calf. Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Benj: Coles At Great Forster's. near Egham. In Surrey. owns this book MDCCXXXII’ and the miscellany evidently compiled by Coles. A similar inscription on f. 31r rev. dated ‘3d. Jany 1740/1’. c.1729-41.
Inscribed (f. iiv) ‘purchased by R Brown, for a valuable consideration of Benjamin Coles Anno 1754. August 8th’. Later owned by James Langlands and, in 1965, by Mrs V.J. Dawson, of Southan, Gloucestershire.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 24, f. 2v.
StW 428
Copy, headed ‘on a gentlewoeman yt had ye pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 56. c.1638.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), p. 83.
StW 429
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman that had ye small poxe’.
In: the MS described under StW 111. c.1635.
StW 430
Copy, headed ‘On a faire Lady yt had ye smal pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 57. c.1638-42.
StW 431
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman iniuried by ye pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 263. c.1639 [-c.1728].
StW 431.5
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman dying on ye Poxe’.
In: the MS described under StW 140.5. c.late 1630s.
On a Gentlewomans Watch that wanted a Key (‘Thou pretty Heavn, whose greate and lesser spheares’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 36-7. Forey, pp. 44-6.
*StW 432
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Text from this MS in Forey; recorded in Dobell.
StW 433
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewomans watch yt. wanted a key: W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 434
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 436
Copy in: the MS described under StW 50. c.1640s.
On a Glasse falling on the stones without breaking (‘How can the Embleme of Mortality’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 35-7.
*StW 437
Autograph, with revions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 438
Copy, headed ‘On a glasse falling on ye stones Without breaking: W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 439
Copy of an abridged version.
In: the MS described under StW 125 (StW Δ 9). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 440
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 441
Copy in: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
On a good legge and foote (‘If Hercules tall Stature might be guest’)
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 108-9. Forey, pp. 16-17.
*StW 442
Autograph, partly written sideways down the margin of the page.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 443
Copy, headed ‘On a good legg, and a good foot: W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 444
Copy in: the MS described under StW 5 (StW Δ 6). c.1630s-40s.
StW 445
Copy in: the MS described under StW 86 (StW Δ 7). c.1638.
StW 447
Copy, headed ‘On a good foot and a bad leg’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 448
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a good Legge & foote’.
In: the MS described under StW 127 (StW Δ 11). c.1636.
StW 449
Copy in: the MS described under StW 8 (StW Δ 13). c.1633.
StW 450
Copy, subscribed ‘W.S.’
In: the MS described under StW 165. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 452
Copy in: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 453
Copy, headed ‘On a good Legge & foot. W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.
StW 454
Copy, subscribed ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell. Collated in Forey.
StW 455
Copy in: the MS described under StW 170 (StW Δ 20). c.1637-51.
StW 457
Copy in: the MS described under StW 151 (StW Δ 23). c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
StW 458
Copy in: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
StW 459
Copy in: the MS described under StW 13 (StW Δ 28). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 76-8.
StW 460
Copy in: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
StW 462
Copy in: A verse miscellany, i + 25 leaves. c.1640.
Owned before 1959 by the Lingard-Guthrie family.
StW 463
Copy, headed ‘In praise of a handsome Leg & foot’ and subscribed ‘W Strode’.
In: the MS described under StW 180. c.1634-43.
StW 464
Copy, headed ‘On a leg and foot’.
In: A sextodecimo pocket miscellany, ff. 3r-53r in a single hand, other hands and scribbling on ff. 1r-2r, 54v, 87v-90v, 90 leaves in all (including blanks ff. 55r-87r), in contemporary calf, with remains of clasps. Including 12 poems by Carew. c.1650s.
Inscribed ‘Richard Archard his booke Amen 1650’; ‘Richard Archard his penn Amen 1657’; ‘to Mr Satars[?] towads the Casting of ye lead 1657’; ‘Tho: Wise’; ‘John Smith of halmortaine and I…went to Thornebury’; and ‘Edward Watt’. Bookplate of William Harris Arnold.
Cited in IELM, II.i, as the ‘Archard MS’: CwT Δ 24.
StW 465
Copy, headed ‘The Comendations of A good Legg and foote’.
In: the MS described under StW 54. c.1637.
StW 467
Copy of lines 1-29, imperfect, lscking the last seven lines of the poem.
In: A fragment of a verse miscellany compiled by Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury a[1632] and other items.
Among Herbert's papers formerly preserved at Powis Castle. Formerly Powis MSS (1959 deposit), Series II and (Envelope) Taken from Bundle 26.
StW 468
Copy in: the MS described under StW 57. c.1638-42.
On a Great Hollow Tree (‘Preethee stand still awhile, and view this tree’)
See StW 1234-1244.
On a Locke burnt by the owner (‘When this Locke grew it was a Favourite’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 97-9.
*StW 469
Autograph, subscribed ‘P[ro] P[eter]: Apsley’.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 470
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
On a Register for the Bible (‘I am the faythfull deputy’)
See StW 691-705.
On a watch made by a blacksmith (‘Vulcan and love of Venus seldome part’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 38-9. Forey, p. 44.
*StW 471
Autograph, the first line originally reading ‘A Vulcane and a Venus seldome part’ before emendations added in the hand of William Fulman.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 472
Copy, headed ‘On a watch made by a black Smith: W: S.’, here beginning ‘A Vulcan, and a Venus seldome part’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 473
Copy, here beginning ‘A Vulcan and a Venus seldome part’.
In: the MS described under StW 5 (StW Δ 6). c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 474
Copy, here beginning ‘A Vulcan and a Venus seldome part’, as by ‘W. S.’
In: the MS described under StW 160 (StW Δ 8). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 475
Copy, here beginning ‘A Vulcan and a Venus seldome part’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 476
Copy, here beginning ‘A Vulcan & a Venus seldome part’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 477
Copy, here beginning ‘A Vulcan & a Venus seldome part’.
In: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
On Chloris standing by the fire (‘Faire Chloris, standing by the Fire’)
On Dr Lanctons death (‘Because of fleshly mould wee bee’)
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 70-1. Forey, pp. 216-18.
StW 478
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 479
Copy, subscribed ‘Will: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 7. c.1635.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 481
Copy, headed ‘On Dr Lancton’, subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 482
Copy, as by ‘W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited from this MS in Dobell and in Forey.
On Faireford windores (‘I know noe paint of Poetry’)
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 25-7. Forey, pp. 7-10.
*StW 483
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 486
Copy in: the MS described under StW 127 (StW Δ 11). c.1636.
This MS text recorded (as ‘A 17’) in The Poems of Richard Corbett, ed. J.A.W. Bennett and H.R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford, 1955), p. 169
StW 487
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under StW 7. c.1635.
This MS recorded (as ‘H 9’) in Bennett and Trevor-Roper, p. 169.
StW 488
Copy, subscribed ‘R: C:’.
In: the MS described under StW 8 (StW Δ 13). c.1633.
Edited from this MS in The Poems of Richard Corbet, ed. Octavius Gilchrist (London, 1807), pp. 239-42.
StW 489
Copy, subscribed ‘Mr Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 490
Copy, headed ‘On Farford windowes. W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.
StW 491
Copy, headed ‘On the same’, subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell. Collated in Forey.
StW 492
Copy, inscribed at the side ‘W. S’.
In: the MS described under StW 151 (StW Δ 23). c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
StW 493
Copy in: the MS described under StW 173 (StW Δ 25). c.1634.
StW 494
Copy in: the MS described under StW 13 (StW Δ 28). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 53-6.
StW 495
Copy, headed ‘On ye same’ and subscribed ‘W. Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 19 (StW Δ 29). c.1650.
StW 498
Copy in: the MS described under StW 49. Mid-17th century.
StW 499
Copy, subscribed ‘w. Stroode’.
In: the MS described under StW 20. c.1630s.
This MS recorded (as ‘S 1’) in Bennett and Trevor-Roper, p. 169.
StW 501
Copy in: the MS described under StW 111. c.1635.
On Gray Eyes (‘Looke how the russet morne exceeds the night’)
See StW 35-57.
On his Majesties Fleete (‘Cease now the talk of Wonders nothing rare’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 145-6.
*StW 502
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Text from this in Forey.
StW 503
Copy on a folio leaf.
In: A folio composite volume of verse and some prose, in various hands, v + 179 leaves, in early 18th-century half-calf.
With a few additions in Rawlinson's hand.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 504
Copy, in a small mixed hand, on the second of two conjugate folio leaves, oce folded as a letter and addressed (f. 109v) ‘To his much respected & kind friend Mr Robert Sawer at Stratfieldsay in Hampshire these be d[elivere]d’.
In: A large folio composite volume of state papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 157 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern half green morocco.
This MS collated in Forey. See also StW 1472.
StW 505
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, 148 pages (lacking pp. 55-8, 117-26). Late 17th century.
Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1284. Afterwards owned by John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector.
On Mr. Ingram, a Preist that built a house for his Rectory and kept it well (‘Ingram hath left a Monument. but where?’)
Unpublished. Forey, p. 178.
*StW 506
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Text from this in Forey.
On Mr James Van Otten's death. March 1° (‘The first day of this month the last hath bin’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 85-6. Forey, pp. 218-19.
StW 507
Copy, headed ‘On mr James Van Otten March 1o’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell. Collated in Forey.
StW 508
Copy, as by ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
Text from this MS in Forey.
StW 509
Copy, headed ‘On the death of Mr. James Van Otten an expert Chirurgion, who dyed att Oxford: March: 1. 1622’.
In: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
On Mr. Sambourne, sometime Sherife of Oxford-shire (‘Fie, Schollers, fie, have you such thirsty souls’)
On Mistress Jane Hele borne on the 24 of Aprill betwixt St. George's Day and St. Markes. 1637. A Calculation (‘Betwixt St. Georg and Mark the Gospeller’)
Unpublished. Forey, p. 149.
*StW 510
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
On Mistress Mary Prideaux dying younge (‘Sleepe pretty one, oh sleepe while I’)
Sequence of three poems, the second headed ‘Consolatorium, Ad Parentes’ and beginning ‘Lett her parents then confesse’, the third headed ‘Her Epitaph’ and beginning ‘Happy Grave, thou dost enshrine’. The third poem probably by George Morley and first published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). The three poems published in Dobell (1907), pp. 59-63. Forey, pp. 211-16.
StW 511
Copy of the sequence.
In: the MS described under StW 5 (StW Δ 6). c.1630s-40s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 335.
StW 512
Copy of the sequence.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 335.
StW 513
Copy of the sequence, headed ‘On the Death of Mrs Mary Prideaux’, each of the three poems subscribed ‘Will: Strode’.
In: the MS described under StW 7. c.1635.
This MS recorded (erroneously as ‘H67’) in Forey, p. 335.
StW 514
Copy of the third poem (lines 85-106), here beginning ‘Happie graue that dost vnshrine’, subscribed ‘G Morley’.
In: the MS described under StW 8 (StW Δ 13). c.1633.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 515
Copy of the sequence.
In: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 516
Copy of the sequence, headed ‘On Mrs Mary Preas dying young’, subscribed ‘W.S.’
In: the MS described under StW 165. c.1630s-40s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 335.
StW 517
Copy of the sequence.
In: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 335.
StW 518
Copy of the sequence, headed ‘On the same. M: M: P.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited from this MS in Dobell and in Forey.
StW 518.5
Copy of the sequence, here arranged as ‘An Eligie on.’ (‘Sleepe pretty one...’), ‘The Epitaph’ (‘Happie graue...’), and ‘Consolatio ad Parentes’ (‘Let her Parents...’).
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).
StW 519
Copy of the sequence.
In: the MS described under StW 151 (StW Δ 23). c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
StW 520
Copy of the sequence.
In: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
Rosenbach Museum & Library, MS 239/27, pp. 349-50, 189-90, 350-1.
StW 521
Copy of the first and third poems, headed respectively ‘On Mrs. Mary Prideaux dying’ and ‘Mrs. Mary Prideaux Epitaph’.
In: the MS described under StW 15 (StW Δ 31). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 335.
StW 522
Copy of the first and third poems (lines 1-44, 85-106).
In: the MS described under StW 67. c.1630s-40s.
StW 523
Copy of the first poem (lines 1-44), headed ‘On the Death of Mrs Mary Priduax’.
In: the MS described under StW 359. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 524
Copy of the sequence, the first headed ‘An Elegie upon the death of Mrs M. P.’
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.
StW 525
Copy of the third poem (lines 85-106), ‘An epitaph on mrs Mary Prideaux’, subscribed ‘G: Morley:’.
In: the MS described under StW 139. c.1641-9.
On Mistress Withypoll, an Epitaph (‘Alass our Loss and Greife, that wee should say’)
Unpublished. Forey, p. 182.
*StW 526
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
On Sir Edwin Sandys (‘O Learnings Head, where is thy braynes rich might?’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 174-5.
*StW 527
Autograph of a sequence of four poems.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
On Sir Thomas Savil dying of the smal Pox (‘Take, greedy Death, a Body here intoomd’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 86-7. Forey, p. 124.
*StW 528
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 529
Copy, headed ‘On Sr. Thomas Sauil dying of ye small poxe: W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 530
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentleman dying of ye small Pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 125 (StW Δ 9). c.1630s.
StW 531
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 532
Copy in: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell. Collated in Forey.
StW 533
Copy, subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 534
Copy, headed ‘Vpon one dyinge of the pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
StW 535
Copy, headed ‘On one that died of the small pox’.
In: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
StW 536
Copy in: the MS described under StW 111. c.1635.
On the Bible (‘Behold this little Volume here inrold’)
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 51-2. Forey, pp. 46-7.
*StW 537
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 539
Copy in: the MS described under StW 5 (StW Δ 6). c.1630s-40s.
StW 540
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
StW 541
Copy in: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
StW 541.5
Copy, subscribed ‘Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 542
Copy in: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
StW 544
Copy in: the MS described under StW 12. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
StW 545
Copy in: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
StW 546
Copy in: the MS described under StW 13 (StW Δ 28). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 25-6.
StW 547
Copy in: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
StW 548
Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst.
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.
On the Death of a Twin (‘Where are yee now, Astrologers, that looke’)
See StW 623-631.
On the death of doctor Langton, President of Maudlin Colledg (‘When men for injuries unsatisfied’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 68-70. Forey, pp. 121-3.
*StW 549
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 550
Copy, headed ‘On ye death of Doctor Langton: W:S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 551
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
StW 552
Copy of a version of lines 23-46, here beginning ‘Such store of flesh How seldome haue wee seene’.
In: the MS described under StW 80 (StW Δ 21). c.1630s.
On the death of Mr. Fra. Lancaster (‘Even so the greatest Alexander by’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 219-21.
On the Death of Mr. James Van Otton (‘The first day of this month the last hath bin’)
See StW 507-509.
On the death of Mr. Robert Horne who died of the small Poxe (‘Sweete Brother — so Ile call thee constantly’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 176-7.
*StW 554
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
On the Death of Mrs. Mary Neadham (‘As sinn makes gross the soule and thickens it’)
See StW 108-111.
On the death of Mistress Mary Prideaux (‘Weepe not because this Child hath died soe young’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 58-9. Forey, p. 111.
*StW 555
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 556
Copy in: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 557
Copy in: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
StW 558
Copy in: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 558.5
Copy in: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
StW 559
Copy, inscribed at the side in a different ink ‘W. S.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell.
StW 560
Copy in: the MS described under StW 12. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
StW 563
Copy in: the MS described under StW 47. Mid-late 17th century.
On the Death of Sir Rowland Cotton Seconding that of Sir Robert (‘More Cottons yet? What, doth some envious Fate’)
See StW 1.
On the death of Sir Thomas Leigh (‘You that affright with lamentable Notes’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 71-3. Forey, pp. 118-21.
*StW 565
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 566
Copy, headed ‘On ye death of Sr. Thomas Leigh: W.S.’
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 567
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 568
Copy, subscribed ‘W.S.’
In: the MS described under StW 165. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 570
Copy, inscribed at the side in different ink ‘W S’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.
StW 571
Copy in: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
StW 572
Copy in: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
On the death of Sir Thomas Pelham (‘Meerely for death to greive and mourne’)
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 64-5. Forey, pp. 114-15.
*StW 573
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 574
Copy, headed ‘On ye death of Sr Thomas Pelham: W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 575
Copy in: the MS described under StW 5 (StW Δ 6). c.1630s-40s.
StW 576
Copy in: the MS described under StW 86 (StW Δ 7). c.1638.
StW 577
Copy, headed ‘On ye death of an old Gentleman’.
In: the MS described under StW 125 (StW Δ 9). c.1630s.
StW 578
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
StW 580
Copy in: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
StW 581
Copy, headed ‘On Sr Thomas Peltham’, subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 582
Copy, inscribed ‘W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell.
StW 583
Copy, subscribed ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell.
StW 584
Copy in: the MS described under StW 12. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
StW 585
Copy in: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
StW 587
Second copy of lines 1-6, headed ‘on sorrow for ye dead’.
In: the MS described under StW 44. c.1630s-40s.
StW 588
Copy in: the MS described under StW 467.
Edited from this MS (and erroneously attributed to Herbert) in Mario M. Rossi, La vita, le opere, i tempi di Edoardo Herbert di Chirbury, 3 vols (Florence, 1947), III, 397.
StW 589
Copy of lines 1-12, headed ‘On the death of an old man’.
In: the MS described under StW 56. c.1638.
New York Public Library, Arents Collection, Cat. No. S 288 (Acc. No. 5442), p. 77.
StW 590
Copy in: the MS described under StW 111. c.1635.
StW 591
Copy in: the MS described under StW 208. c.1636-40s.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 32 (James 423), ff. 22v-3r.
On the death of Lady Caesar (‘Though death to good men be the greatest boone’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 80-2. Forey, pp. 116-18.
*StW 592
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 593
Copy in: the MS described under StW 125 (StW Δ 9). c.1630s.
This MS recorded in Dobell, p. 82.
StW 594
Copy in: the MS described under StW 40 (StW Δ 16). c.late 1630s.
StW 595
Copy, inscribed ‘W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited from this MS in Dobell.
StW 596
Copy in: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
On the death of the young Baronet Portman, dying of an Impostume in the head (‘Is death soe cunning now, that all her blow’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 66-8. Forey, pp. 112-13.
*StW 597
Autograph, with one revision.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 598
Copy, headed ‘On the death of ye young Baronet Portman, dying of ye impostume in ye head. W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 599
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 601
Copy, headed ‘On the young Baronett Portman, dying of an Impostume in's head’, subscribed ‘W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.
StW 602
Copy in: the MS described under StW 12. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 603
Copy, headed ‘On one that died of an impostume in the head’.
In: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
StW 604
Copy, headed ‘Another’ [i.e. on one who dyed of a consumption].
In: the MS described under StW 392. 1647.
This MS collated in Forey.
On the Old man that died by chang of Ayre (‘Here lies the Man so long forgot by Death’)
First published in Anthony Wood, The History of the Antiquities of the University of Oxford, ed. John Gutch, 2 vols (Oxford, 1792-6), II, 348. Forey, p. 180.
*StW 605
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
On the Picture of Two Dolphins in a Fountayne (‘These dolphins twisting each on either side’)
See StW 608-622.
On the renowned Knight Sir Rowland Cotton, concerning his Agility of mind and Body. Elegy (‘Renowned Champion full of Wrestling Art’)
First published in Parentalia spectatissimo Rolando Cottono (London, 1635). Dobell, pp. 75-6. Forey, pp. 180-1.
*StW 606
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
On the same M.M.P. (‘Sleepe pretty one: oh sleepe while I’)
See StW 511-525.
On the Star which appeard at Prince Charles his Birth (‘Now Charles his Offspring bought with frequent Prayrs’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 133-4.
*StW 607
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
On the Young Baronett Portman Dying of an Impostume in 's Head (‘Is Death so cunning now that all her blowe’)
See StW 597-604.
On three Dolphins sewing down Water into a white Marble Bason (‘These Dolphins, twisting each on others side’)
First published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] Sr Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660). Dobell, p. 46. Forey, p. 185.
StW 608
Copy in the hand of William Fulman.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 609
Copy, headed ‘On a Fountayne. W: S.’ and here beginning ‘The Dolphines twisting each on others side’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 610
Copy, headed ‘On a fountaine’.
In: the MS described under StW 4 (StW Δ 5). c.1630s-40s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 320.
StW 611
Copy, headed, ‘On a fountaine’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 612
Second copy, also headed ‘On a fountaine’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 613
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a fountayne’, subscribed ‘Hen: King’.
In: the MS described under StW 127 (StW Δ 11). c.1636.
This MS text recorded in Forey, p. 320.
StW 614
Copy, headed ‘On a Fountaine’, subscribed ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 8 (StW Δ 13). c.1633.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 320.
StW 615
Copy, headed ‘On a fountaine’.
In: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 320.
StW 616
Copy, headed ‘On a fountaine’.
In: the MS described under StW 165. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 617
Copy, headed ‘On the picture, Of two Dolphins, in a Fount.’ and here beginning ‘These dolphins twisting each on either side’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 618
Copy, headed ‘On the picture of twoe Dolphins in a fountayne’, subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 619
Copy, headed ‘On a ffountaine’ and here beginning ‘The Dolphines twisting each on others side’.
In: the MS described under StW 12. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 320.
StW 620
Copy, headed ‘On a fountaine’.
In: the MS described under StW 152 (StW Δ 26). Mid-17th century.
StW 622
Copy, in the hand of William Parkhurst, headed ‘On a fountayne’ and here beginning ‘The Dolphins…’.
In: the MS described under StW 548.
On Twins divided by death (‘Where are you now, Astrologers, that looke’)
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 66. Forey, pp. 115-16.
*StW 623
Autograph, the original heading ‘On the death of a Twin’ altered to ‘On Twins divided by death’.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 625
Copy, headed ‘On ye death of a Twin’.
In: the MS described under StW 125 (StW Δ 9). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 626
Copy, headed ‘on the death of a Twine. W: S’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 627
Copy, headed ‘On the death of a Twin: W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.
StW 628
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the death of a Twin’.
In: the MS described under StW 170 (StW Δ 20). c.1637-51.
StW 629
Copy, headed ‘On the death of a twinne’.
In: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
StW 630
Copy, headed ‘On the death of a twinne’.
In: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
StW 631
Copy, headed ‘On the death of A twinne’.
In: the MS described under StW 179. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
On Ursula Chichester (‘Why should these parts, no Body fairer, noe soule better’)
See StW 142.
On Westwell Downes (‘When Westwell Downes I gan to treade’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 20-1. Four Poems by William Strode (Fransham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 5-7.
*StW 632
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey and in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), No. 183 (pp. 216-17).
StW 633
Copy, headed ‘On Westwell downes: W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 635
Copy, as ‘p W. S.’
In: the MS described under StW 160 (StW Δ 8). c.1630s.
Edited in part from this MS in Seventeenth Century Lyrics, ed. Norman Ault (London, 1928)m p., 172, and from this MS in Poetry of the English Remaissance 1509-1660, ed. J. William Hebel and Hoyt H. Hudson (New York, 1929), pp. 635-6.
StW 636
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
Edited in part from this MS in Ault, p. 172.
StW 637
Copy of lines 5-16, here beginning ‘The pleated wrinckles on the face’, subscribed ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 8 (StW Δ 13). c.1633.
StW 639
Copy, as by ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 640
Copy, subscribed ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
An Opposite to Melancholy (‘Returne my joyes, and hither bring’)
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 15. Forey, pp. 103-5.
*StW 641
Autograph, with extensive revisions and with an additional opening couplet beginning ‘For Business don, for strife well ended’.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey. Facsimiles in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 42, and in DLB, 126, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 253.
*StW 642
Autograph fair copy.
In: the MS described under StW 158 (StW Δ 3). c.1620s-30s.
Facsimile of this page in IELM, II.ii, Facsimile XIII.
StW 643
Copy, headed ‘An opposite to Melancholy: W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 645
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 646
Second copy.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 648
Copy in: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 650
Copy, subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 651
Copy, headed ‘W: S: Opposite to Melancolly’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 652
Copy, headed ‘An answer to Melancholly’.
In: the MS described under StW 41 (StW Δ 24). c.1634.
StW 653
Copy in: the MS described under StW 13 (StW Δ 28). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], p. 74.
StW 656
Copy, headed ‘Against Melancholly’ and subscribed ‘Dr Strode’.
In: the MS described under StW 180. c.1634-43.
This MS discussed in Edward F. Rimbault, ‘Song in Fletcher's Play of “The Nice Valour”…’, N&Q, 1 (5 January 1850), 146-7. Collated in Forey.
StW 657
Copy, subscribed ‘Dr Strode’.
In: A quarto composite volume of tracts and other papers, in verse and prose, 349 leaves, in half-calf. Copy, headed ‘An other lre from Sr Thomas Wiatte the elder to his sonne oute of Spaine aboute the same tyme’.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 658
Copy, headed ‘Melancholly opposd by Mr Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 67. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 662
Copy in a fragment of a verse miscellany.
In: the MS described under StW 467.
Edited from this MS (and erroneously attributed to Herbert) in Mario M. Rossi, La vita, le opere, i tempi di Edoardo Herbert di Chirbury, 3 vols (Florence, 1947), III, 395.
StW 663
Copy in: the MS described under StW 84. c.1630s.
A Paralell between Bowling and Preferment (‘Preferment, like a Game at bowles’)
See StW 924-942.
Poses
Poses for Braceletts (‘This keepes my hande’)
Third stanza (beginning ‘Voutchsafe my Pris'ner thus to be’) and fourth stanza (beginning ‘When you putt on this little bande’) first published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 386. Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 43-4. Forey, p. 34.
*StW 664
Autograph of a sequence of four stanzas.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 665
Copy of the third stanza, headed ‘Vpon Bracelets: W: S’, here beginning ‘Vouchsafe my Prisoner thus to bee’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 666
Copy of the second and third stanzas, headed ‘Another for the same’ and here beginning ‘Silke tho thou bee’, and the fourth stanza, here beginning ‘When you put on this little band’.
In: the MS described under StW 5 (StW Δ 6). c.1630s-40s.
StW 667
Copy, headed ‘Bracelets’, under a general heading ‘Posies by W: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 668
Copy of the third stanza, headed ‘A Posee vpon a sent Bracelet’ and here beginning ‘Vouchsafe my Prisoner thus to bee’.
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
StW 669
Copy, headed ‘Braceletts’, under a general heading ‘Posies by W: Stroud’.
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
StW 671
Copy of the second stanza.
In: the MS described under StW 151 (StW Δ 23). c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
StW 672
Copy in: the MS described under StW 13 (StW Δ 28). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 27-8.
StW 673
Copy in: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
StW 674
Copy in: the MS described under StW 15 (StW Δ 31). c.1630s.
A Prologe crownd with Flowres. On the Florists Feast at Norwich (‘If any think this dayes Solemnity’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 136-9.
*StW 675
Autograph, with corrections.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
Prothalamium (‘No sullen Clowde with frowning seeke’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 157-8.
*StW 676
Autograph, untitled.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Text from this MS (with title supplied) in Forey.
A pursestringe (‘Wee hugg, imprison, hang and save’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 44-5. Forey, p. 210.
StW 677
Copy in: the MS described under StW 4 (StW Δ 5). c.1630s-40s.
StW 678
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.
StW 679
Copy, headed ‘A Posey on a Pursestringe’, subscribed ‘W: S:’.
In: the MS described under StW 8 (StW Δ 13). c.1633.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.
StW 680
Copy in: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 681
Copy, headed ‘On a Purse-string. W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
StW 684
Copy in: the MS described under StW 151 (StW Δ 23). c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
StW 685
Copy in: the MS described under StW 13 (StW Δ 28). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], p. 29.
StW 688
Copy in: the MS described under StW 15 (StW Δ 31). c.1630s.
StW 689
Copy of the second couplet, headed ‘On a purs Stringe’ and here beginning ‘While thus I hang’.
In: the MS described under StW 24. c.1650-9.
A Register for a Bible (‘I am the faithfull deputy’)
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 52-3. Forey, p. 52.
*StW 691
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
StW 692
Copy, headed ‘A register for a Bible. W: S’.
In: the MS described under StW 3 (StW Δ 4). c.1630s.
StW 693
Copy in: the MS described under StW 4 (StW Δ 5). c.1630s-40s.
StW 695
Copy in: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 697
Copy in: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
StW 698
Copy in: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.
StW 699
Copy, subscribed ‘W: S.’
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell. Collated in Forey.
StW 700
Copy in: the MS described under StW 12. c.1630s [-late 17th-century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 701
Copy in: the MS described under StW 151 (StW Δ 23). c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].
StW 702
Copy in: the MS described under StW 13 (StW Δ 28). c.1635.
The Family Album, Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, [Wolf MS], pp. 26-7.
StW 703
Copy, here beginning ‘I am yt faithfull deputy’.
In: the MS described under StW 14 (StW Δ 30). c.1630s.
StW 704
Copy in: the MS described under StW 15 (StW Δ 31). c.1630s.
StW 705
Copy, headed ‘vpon ye Register of a Bible’ and subscribed ‘Dr Strode’, in a verse miscellany (ff. 267r-73v) compiled by an Oxford University man. c.1630.
In: the MS described under StW 657.
Remembrances of the Renowned Knight, Sir Rowland Cotton, of Bellaport in Shropshire, concerning his Agility of Body, Tongue, and Mind (‘Renowned Champion full of wrestling Art’)
See StW 606.
Shiptons Distraction (‘Farewell the Seate where Hospitality’)
Unpublished. Forey, pp. 139-41.
*StW 706
Autograph.
In: the MS described under StW 1 (StW Δ 1). c.1620s-43.
Edited from this MS in Forey.
A Sigh (‘O tell mee, tell, thou God of winde’)
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 6-8. Forey, pp. 194-6.
StW 708
Copy, headed ‘songe on a sight’.
In: the MS described under StW 6 (StW Δ 10). c.1633 [-late 17th century].
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 709
Copy, headed ‘A Song on a Sigh’, subscribed ‘Will: Strowde’.
In: the MS described under StW 7. c.1635.
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.
StW 710
Copy, headed ‘A song on a sigh’.
In: the MS described under StW 9 (StW Δ 14). c.early 1630s.
This MS collated in Forey.
StW 711
Copy, headed ‘A Song on a sigh’.
In: the MS described under StW 78 (StW Δ 17). c.late 1630s [-1789].
StW 712
Copy in: the MS described under StW 10 (StW Δ 18A). c.1630s[-55].
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; text from this MS in Forey.
StW 713
Copy, headed ‘A song on a sigh’.
In: the MS described under StW 11 (StW Δ 19). c.1630s.
Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; recorded in Forey, p. 329.