MS Eng. misc. b. 48
A composite volume of papers, mainly verse on separate sheets. Mid-18th century.
Given in 1952 by D. Niichol Smith.
f. 79r-v
• DoC 1: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Advice (‘Phyllis, for shame let us improve’)
Copy, untitled, on the first of two conjugate quarto leaves.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in Westminster Drollery (London, 1671). Harris, pp. 77-8.
MS Eng. misc. b. 169
A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, in various hands, 340 leaves.
f. 62r
• SeC 108.5: Sir Charles Sedley, Subject: Pleasure of the Town & Country Sr C Sedley (‘Oh! the charms the Country yields’)
Copy. Early 18th century?.
Unpublished?
MS Eng. misc. c. 34
A folio miscellany, owned and probably compiled by one ‘P. D’, 123 leaves, the first entry dated ‘Ap. 18. 1687’. 1687-9.
Discussed, with extracts, in G. Blakemore Evans, ‘A Seventeenth-Century Reader of Shakespeare’, RES, 21 (1945), 271-9.
f. 24v
• DrJ 285.2: John Dryden, Sir Martin Mar-all, or the Feign'd Innocence
Comments on the play.
Quoted in Blakemore Evans, p. 278.
First published in London, 1668. California, IX (1966), pp. 205-89.
f. 26r
• LeN 10.3: Nathaniel Lee, Oedipus
Comments on the play.
Quoted in Blakemore Evans, p. 278.
By Nathaniel Lee and John Dryden. First published in London, 1679. Stroup & Cooke, I, 367-449. California edition of Dryden's works, XIII (1962), 114-215.
in ff. 59v-60v
• ShW 67.5: William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing
Comments on the play.
Quoted in Blakemore Evans, pp. 273-4.
First published in London, 1600.
in ff. 59v-60v
• ShW 60.2: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
Comments on the play.
Quoted in Blakemore Evans, p. 274.
First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).
in ff. 59v-60v
• ShW 64.2: William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor
Comments on the play.
Quoted in Blakemore Evans, p. 274.
First published in London, 1602.
in ff. 59v-60v
• ShW 72.2: William Shakespeare, Othello
Extracts, with comments on the play.
Quoted in Blakemore Evans, pp. 274-5.
First published in London, 1622.
in ff. 59v-60v
• ShW 38.5: William Shakespeare, As You Like It
Comments on the play.
Quoted in Blakemore Evans, pp. 275-6.
First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).
f. 64r
• DrJ 172.1: John Dryden, Religio Laici
Comments on the poem.
Quoted in Blakemore Evans, p. 278.
First published in London, 1682.
See DrJ 299.4.
ff. 90v-1e
• MaA 519.7: Andrew Marvell, The Rehearsal Transpros'd
Some critical comments on the work. 1680s.
Quoted in Blakemore Evans, pp. 278-9.
First published (the first part) in London, 1672. The Second Part in London, 1673. Edited by Martin Dzelzainis and Annabel Patterson in The Prose Works of Andrew Marvell, 2 vols (Yale University, 2003), I, 41-203, 221-438.
f. 101v
• SuJ 158.2: John Suckling, Aglaura
Comments on the play.
Quoted in Blakemore Evans, p. 279.
First published in London, 1638. Beaurline, Plays, pp. 33-119.
f. 119r
• DrJ 281.9: John Dryden, Secret-Love, or The Maiden-Queen
Comments on the play.
Quoted in Blakemore Evans, p. 278.
First published in London, 1668. California, IX (1966), pp. 113-203.
f. 120v
• LeN 11.4: Nathaniel Lee, The Princess of Cleve, I, i, 4-15. Song (‘All other Blessings are but Toyes’)
Comments on the play.
Quoted in Evans, p. 279.
First published in London, 1689. Stroup & Cooke, II, 147-227 (p. 157). Musical setting of the song by William Turner first published in Choice Ayres and Songs…The Fourth Book (London, 1683).
MS Eng. misc. c. 35
A letterbook of correspondence sent to an officer serving in India in 1810. c.1810.
f. 56v
• BrW 3.5: William Browne of Tavistock, ‘Behold, O God, in rivers of my tears’
Copy.
First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 4-5.
MS Eng. misc. c. 93
A guardbook of miscellaneous separate papers, chiefly folio, 21 leaves.
Given by J. Fowler 19 March 1918 on behalf of the owner Edward Weston Cracroft, J.P. (1849-1933), of Hackthorn Hall, Lincoln.
f. 21v
• EsR 53: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, A Poem made on the Earle of Essex (being in disgrace with Queene Eliz): by mr henry Cuffe his Secretary (‘It was a time when sillie Bees could speake’)
Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, headed ‘Verses made by The Erle of Essex’, in a secretary hand, in a pair of conjugate folio leaves (ff. 20r-1v) of Elizabethan verse. c.1600.
This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.
First published, in a musical setting by John Dowland, in his The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1603). May, Poems, No. IV, pp. 62-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 266-9. EV 12846.
MS Eng. misc. c. 139
A folio volume comprising two independent units, foliated as a single series, xii + 246 leaves (plus 12 further blanks). Both parts containing antiquarian tracts:
ff. 1r-29v, ‘Matters of Combat 1609’, predominantly in a professional secretary hand, with additions in other hands, owned in 1612 by William Crispe (name inscribed in court hand several times) and also by Henry Crispe (inscribed f. 20r-v), one or both also probably responsible for trial exercises in decorative lettering. c.1609-12.
ff. 30r-45v, discourses and copies of Latin documents relating to the offices of Lord Steward, Constable, and Earl Marshal of England, with title-page and (incomplete) list of contents, in the hands of professional scribes: ff. 30r-119v, 132r-45v, 150v-61r, 165v to to half-way down f. 205r in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’; the remainder in two other scribal hands. c.1630s.
Once owned by the Isham family, of Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire. Sotheby's, 17 June 1904 (‘Library of a Gentleman in the Country’), lot 89, to Quaritch. P.J. and A.E. Dobell, sale catalogue No. 80 (1928), item 719.
Described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 255 (No. 88). Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney, p. 30.
f. 1r
• CmT 89: Thomas Campion, ‘The man of life upright’
Copy, in a different hand, untitled.
First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xviii. Davis, p. 43 (also p. 60).
f. 21r
• CmT 90: Thomas Campion, ‘The man of life upright’
Second copy, in yet another hand.
Edited from this MS in Joiner.
First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xviii. Davis, p. 43 (also p. 60).
ff. 30r-7v
• CtR 252: Sir Robert Cotton, A Discourse Off the Offyce of the Lord Steward of England, Written by Sr Robte Cotton, knight, and Baronnett
Copy in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’.
Tract beginning ‘For the Clearinge whereof wee will intreate off the name...’. Hearne (1771), II, 1-12.
ff. 48v-51r
• CmW 35: William Camden, The Antiquity, Authority, and Succession of the High Steward of England
Copy, in the professional secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’.
A tract beginning ‘Whom we call in English steward, in Latine is called seneschallus...’. First published in Hearne (1771), II, 38-40.
ff. 52r-3v
• CtR 235: Sir Robert Cotton, A Discourse Of the Offyce of the Lord Highe Connstable of England, written by Sr: Robte Cotton, knight, and Baronett
Copy in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’.
Tract beginning ‘Yff wee curiouslye will looke the Roote of this question...’. Hearne (1771), II, 65-7.
ff. 54v-9v
• CtR 51: Sir Robert Cotton, The Antiquitye and Offyce of Earle Marshall of England, Written by Sr Robte Cotton, knight, and Baronett
Copy in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’.
Tract beginning ‘The plentye of this discourse, the last question of Highe Connstables, whereto...’. Hearne (1771), II, 97-103.
ff. 60r-4r
• CtR 218: Sir Robert Cotton, A Discourse Of the Antiquitye, and Offyce of the Earle Marshall of England, written by Sr Robte Cotton, knight, Att the request of the Lord Henrye Howard, Earle of Northampton [25 November 1602]
Copy in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’.
A dedicatory epistle beginning ‘Sir, Yor small tyme, I must Ballance, wth as sclendr Aunswere...’ followed by a tract beginning ‘Because the Jurisdiction att the Comon Lawe was vncertayne...’.
ff. 71-7v
• CmW 23: William Camden, The Antiquity and Office of the Earl Marshall of England
Copy in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’.
A tract beginning ‘Such is the vncertainety of etimologyes...’ and sometimes entitled in manuscripts ‘The Etymology, Antiquity and Office of the Earl Marshall of England’. First published, as ‘Commentarius de etymologia, antiquitate, & officio Comitis Marescalli Angliae’, in Camdeni epistolae (London, 1691), Appendix, pp. 87-93. Hearne (1771), II, 90-7.
MS Eng. misc. c. 144
A volume of state treatises, copied for, and annotated by, Sir Robert Southwell (1635-1703), diplomat and government official, vi + 420 pages. Late 17th century.
Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue for 1834, item 245. Later owned by J.R. Magrath. Donated in 1930 by Miss Lefroy.
pp. 152-63
• HkR 63: Richard Hooker, Extracts
pp. 338-57
• RaW 1058: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse of Sea-ports, principally of the Port and Haven of Dover
Copy. 1700.
First published in London, 1700, with ‘A Memorial of Sir Walter Raleigh to Q. Elizabeth’ beginning ‘There is no one thing, most renowned Soveraign, of greater necessitie...’, ‘drawn up either by Sir Walter Raleigh or Sir Dudley Diges’. Written by Thomas Digges or Sir Dudley Digges?: see Ernest A. Strathmann in TLS (1956), p. 228, and Lefranc (1968), p. 65.
MS Eng. misc. c. 292
A guardbook of miscellaneous separate papers, chiefly folio, 218 leaves. Early 18th century.
Chiefly collected by W.H. Black. Subsequently bought from Miss N.T. Harrison, 1947.
ff. 75r, 76r
• EaJ 105: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, Letter(s)
Copy of a letter by Earles to John Evelyn, from Sarum, 2 January [1663/4]. Late 17th century.
Quoted in Darwin, pp. 224-5.
f. 101r
• FrG 7: George Farquhar, The Beaux Stratagem, Act III, scene iii. Song (‘A Trifling Song you shall hear’)
Copy of Archer's song, headed ‘The Triffle’, on a single folio leaf, the verso containing recipes and the note ‘Mr. Cheney at the backside of St Thos. Apostles Key Court near Choue Land’. Early 18th century.
First published in London, 1707. Stonehill, II, 113-92 (pp. 154-5). Kenny, II, 159-243 (pp. 197-8).
ff. 108r-9v
• SuJ 19: John Suckling, A Ballade, Upon a Wedding (‘I tell thee Dick, where I have been’)
Copy, on two conjugate folio leaves. Late 18th century.
This MS collated in Clayton.
First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646): Clayton, pp. 79-84.
f. 116r-v
• DoC 23: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Ballad by the Lord Dorset when at Sea (‘To all you ladies now at land’)
Copy, untitled, on the first two pages of two conjugate quarto leaves of verse. Mid-late 18th century.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published as a broadsheet [1664? no exemplum extant]. Songs [1707?]. Old Songs [1707?]. Harris, pp. 65-8.
MS Eng. misc. c. 339
A volume of estate and household accounts of Anne Freke at Hannington, Hampshire, i + 101 leaves (ff. 77-101 blank), in vellum. 1737-46.
f. 30r
• RoJ 664: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Letter(s)
Copy of Rochester's letter on his death-bed to Dr Thomas Pierce, President of Magdalen College, Oxford, July 1680. c.1680.
See also RoJ 662 and RoJ 663.
MS Eng. misc. c. 437
Part of a collection of papers of Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920), poet and essayist, for her proposed edition of William Alabaster's sonnets, including correspondence with Bertram Dobell, 1904-14, 51 leaves. Late 19th-early 20th century.
AlW 271: William Alabaster, Editorial papers
Donated by her executor 1964.
MS Eng. misc. d. 239
Copy on thirty folio leaves. With a title-page (f. 5r), inscribed ‘Scripsit Pau: Thompson Cant: in gratia Amicissmi: sui Jwhs: Clapham’; with the Dedication ‘To the Qs most sac: matie’ on ff. 10r-13r; the main text on ff. 14r-39r; written in a single secretary hand, that of Paul Thompson (1563-1617) of Cambridge, apparently for his friend John Clapham. Folios 6r-9r are occupied by sixteen sonnets (two addressed to the painter Segar), apparently by one ‘Ch. M.’, in a different hand. The volume was originally in vellum wrappers extracted from a 15th-century Italian manuscript of letters by Cicero. Late 16th century.
HoH 29: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A Copy of the last instructions which the Emperor Charles the Fifth gave to his son Philip before his death translated out of Spanish
Owned in 1898 by Richard Mullings and before 1933 by the Wiltshire Archæological and Natural History Society.
Recorded in Wiltshire Archæology and Natural History Magazine, 30 (1898), pp. 39, 85-6, and in Woudhuysen, p. 102.
An unpublished translation of a suppositious work, supposed (but unlikely) to be Charles V's instructions to his son Philip II, which was circulated in MS in 16th-century Europe and published in Spanish in Sandoval's Life of Charles V (1634). An Italian translation in MS was presented to James VI by Giacomo Castelvetro between 1591 and 1595 and is now in the National Library of Scotland (MS Adv. 23. I. 6): see The Works of William Fowler, ed. H.W. Meckle, James Craigie and John Purves, III, STS 3rd Ser. 23 (Edinburgh, 1940), pp. cxxvii-cxxx, and references cited in The Basilicon Doron of King James VI, ed. James Craigie, II, STS, 3rd Ser. 18 (Edinburgh, 1950), pp. 63-9. A quite different translation was published as The Advice of Charles the Fifth...to his Son Philip the Second (London, 1670).
Howard's translation, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth, was allegedly written when he had been more than twelve years out of the Queen's favour [? in the early 1590s]. The Dedication begins ‘If the faithful Cananite of whom we read in the holy writ...’; the main text begins ‘I have resolved (most dear son) to come now to the point...’, and ends ‘...to proceed in such a course as prayers may second your purposes. Sanctae Trinitati, &c.’
MS Eng. misc. e. 13
A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in a single small hand, 31 leaves, in contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, imperfect. A label on the cover: ‘Dr. Lynnet's Common Place Book’: i.e. compiled by Dr William Lynnett (1622/3-1700), of Trinity College, Cambridge. c.1643.
Inscribed ‘Ri. Walker 1758. some years agoe Mr. Brigg bought this Common place book in Smithfield, and gave it to RW’. Inscriptions dated 1792 by Thomas Bousefield (or possibly James Simpson), wheelwright of Kendal. Purchased from J.W. Jarvis & Son, 30 January 1891.
f. 10r-v
• DnJ 2646.6: John Donne, Psalme 137 (‘By Euphrates flowry side’)
Copy, headed ‘Psalm. 137’, subscribed ‘John Donne’.
This MSA collated in Crowley.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 424-6 in his Appendix B, as ‘Probably by Francis Davison’. Discussed, and the case for Donne's authorship reviewed, in Lara Crowley, ‘Donne, not Davison: Reconsidering the Authorship of “Psalme 137”’, Modern Philology, 105, No. 4 (May 2008), 603-36.
f. 11r
• CoA 204: Abraham Cowley, ‘Qualiter in ramo volucris quae semper eodem’
Copy, untitled and here ascribed to ‘A.C.’.
Unpublished.
ff. 12v-13r
• CoA 205: Abraham Cowley, ‘Qualiter in ramo volucris quae semper eodem’
Second, variant version, untitled, original heading with ascription to William Spratt deleted.
Unpublished.
f. 23r-v
• CrR 75: Richard Crashaw, In praise of Lessius his rule of health (‘Goe now with some dareing drugg’)
Copy of lines 15-46, headed ‘To ye reader on Lessius hygiasticon’, here beginning ‘Heark hither, Reader: wouldst thou see’, and subscribed ‘R: Crashaw. Pemb:’.
This MS collated in Martin.
First published (lines 15-46 only) in Leonard Leys, Hygiasticon…done into English, 2nd edition (Cambridge, 1634). Published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Reprinted, as ‘Temperance, Or the Cheap Physitian Vpon the Translation of Lessivs’, in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 156-8 (and later version pp. 342-4).
f. 24r
• KiH 37: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)
Copy, headed ‘The answer’.
This MS recorded in Crum.
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) ‘A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds’ (‘Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee’). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).
f. 29r
• BrT 0.4: Sir Thomas Browne, Colloquy with God (‘The night is come like to the day’)
Copy.
First published in Religio Medici, where Browne describes it as ‘the dormitive I take to bedward…to make me sleepe’. Published later, in an anonymous musical setting, in Harmonia Sacra, II (1693). Keynes, I, 89-90.
MS Eng. misc. e. 147
A quarto composite volume of micellaneous papers, in verse and prose, 188 leaves (including blanks), in half-green morocco over marbled boards, worn. Collected by Thomas Gale, FSA (1635?-1702), Dean of York, or else by his son, Samuel Gale (1682-1754), Land Surveyor at the Customs House, London.
Once owned by Elizabeth Stukeley (née Gale) and by William S. and Richard Fleming. Later bookplate of ‘Andrew Coltee Ducarel L.L.D. Doctor's Commons’, 1778. P.J. & A.E. Dobell, sale catalogue No. 62 (1926), item 129.
ff. 88r-90v
• DrJ 50: John Dryden, Heroique Stanza's, Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of his most Serene and Renowned Highnesse Oliver Late Lord Protector of this Common-Wealth, &c. (‘And now 'tis time. for their Officious haste’)
Copy, forming part of a quarto transcript of Three Poems upon…Oliver Lord Protector (1659), ascribed ‘By John Dryden’. Late 17th century.
This MS collated in Dearing et al., loc. cit.
First published in Three Poems Upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (London, 1659). Kinsley, I, 6-12. California, I, 11-16. Hammond, I, 18-29.
f. 91r-v
• WaE 708: Edmund Waller, Upon the late Storm, and of the Death of His Highness ensuing the same (‘We must resign! Heaven his great soul does claim’)
Copy, forming part of a quarto transcript of Three Poems upon …Oliver Lord Protector (1659), ascribed ‘By Mr Waller’.
First published as a broadside (London, [1658]). Three Poems upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector (London, 1659). As ‘Upon the late Storm, and Death of the late Usurper O. C.’ in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 34-5.
For the ‘answer or construction’ by William Godolphin, see the Introduction.
MS Eng. misc. e. 183
A verse miscellany, in English and Latin, 83 leaves. Compiled by William Parry, vicar of Shipton-on-Stow, Warwickshire. c.1741.
Once owned by one Anne Bromage. P.J. & A.E. Dobell, sale catalogue No. 73 (1928), item 487.
ff. 18v-19r
• FrG 8: George Farquhar, The Beaux Stratagem, Act III, scene iii. Song (‘A Trifling Song you shall hear’)
Copy, headed ‘Nonsensical Folkes, &c - a Song’.
First published in London, 1707. Stonehill, II, 113-92 (pp. 154-5). Kenny, II, 159-243 (pp. 197-8).
MS Eng. misc. e. 219
A notebook chiefly of verse, compiled by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor, 35 leaves. c.1749.
Acquired by William Macmath from W. B. Bennett, Birmingham bookseller, in 1885. Davis & Orioli, sale catalogue No. 72 (1936), item 67.
f. 6v
• JnB 123.5: Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. (‘Would'st thou heare, what man can say’)
Copy.
First published in Epigrammes (cxxiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 79.
f. 10v
• DrJ 43.1: John Dryden, Epitaph on Mrs. Margaret Paston of Barningham in Norfolk (‘So fair, so young, so innocent, so sweet’)
Copy.
Kinsley, IV, 1801. Hammond, V, 671-2.
MS Eng. misc.e. 226
A notebook of state and parliamentary papers compiled by John Browne, Clerk of the Parliaments, partly in another hand, ii. + 34 leaves, in modern half-morocco. Early 17th century.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 25152. Sotheby's, 27 April 1903, lot 868. Donated in 1938 by Falconer Madan (1851-1935), librarian and bibliographer.
f. 12r
• RaW 677.1: Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World
Extract.
First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.
See also RaW 728.
MS Eng. misc e. 241
A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, i + 200 leaves (ff. 129-199 blank), in quarter-vellum over boards. Compiled by John Phillipps, of Exeter College, Oxford, and the Middle Temple, who has inscribed the front pastedown ‘John Phillipps. med: Temp: Lond: 1776’. c.1776-1804.
Acquired from Cumming of Exeter, 1941.
ff. 20r-4r, 96v-8r
• CrR 455: Richard Crashaw, Extracts
Extracts, including The Weeper and The Teare from Crashaw's Steps to the Temple (1646).
f. 24v
• CaW 62: William Cartwright, Women (‘Give me a Girle (if one I needs must meet)’)
First published in Works (1651), p. 218. Evans, p. 471.
ff. 24v-5r
• CaW 60: William Cartwright, A Valediction (‘Bid me not go where neither Suns nor Show'rs’)
Copy.
First published in Works (1651), pp. 245-6. Evans, p. 494.
f. 25r
• CaW 1: William Cartwright, Absence (‘Fly, O fly sad Sigh, and bear’)
Copy.
First published in Works (1651), p. 248. Evans, p. 496.
f. 45r
• BuS 0.2: Samuel Butler, Hudibras (‘Sir Hudibras his passing worth’)
Extracts.
Part I first published in London, ‘1663’ [i.e. 1662]. Part II published in London, ‘1664’ [i.e. 1663]. Part III published in London ‘1678’ [i.e. 1677]. the whole poem first published in London, 1684. Edited by John Wilders (Oxford, 1967).
ff. 45v-6r
• BrW 5.5: William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Books I and II
Extracts.
Book I first published London, 1613. Book II first published London, 1616. Goodwin, Vol. I.
f. 60v
• HeR 219.2: Robert Herrick, To Blossoms (‘Faire pledges of a fruitfull Tree’)
Copy.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 176.
f. 99r
• SeC 17.2: Sir Charles Sedley, The Indifference (‘Thanks, fair Vrania. to your Scorn’)
Copy, ascribed to Sir Charles Sedley.
First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Bat (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 69-70. Sola Pinto, I, 29-30.
ff. 115v-16r
• ShJ 118.5: James Shirley, Verses on the martyrdom of St. Alban (‘This image of our frailty, painted Glass’)
Copy.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 408. Sir Henry Chauncy, Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire (London, 1700), p. 472. R.G. Howarth, ‘Some Unpublished Poems of James Shirley’, RES, 9 (1933), 24-9 (p. 29). Armstrong, p. 54, as a ‘Doubtful Poem’.
f. 118r
• DrW 25.5: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Son (‘Sleepe, Silence Child, sweet Father of soft Rest’)
Copy.
First published in Poems ([Edinburgh?, 1614?]). Kastner, I, 7.
f. 126r
• DrM 0.5: Michael Drayton, ‘Bright starre of Beauty, on whose eye-lids sit’
Copy.
First published, as sonnet 4, in Idea in Englands Heroicall Epistles (London, 1599). Hebel, II, 312.
f. 126r
• DrM 37.8: Michael Drayton, ‘How many paltry, foolish, painted things’
Copy.
First published, as sonnet 6, in Idea in Englands Heroicall Epistles (London, 1599). Hebel, II, 313.
MS Eng. misc. e. 262
A quarto miscellany of poems on the death of Lady Rich, 44 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. With a general title-page (f. 1r), The Shadow of the (sometimes) right Faire, Vertuous, and Honourable Lady Anne Rich Now an Happy, Glorious, and Perfected Saint in Heaven, and (ff. 2r-3r) a dedication dated 22 October 1638; the miscellany collected by, and apparently in the hand of, John Gauden (1605-62), later Bishop of Worcester. 1638.
Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Ger. Sleigh’. Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 106 (1949), item 4.
ff. 37v-8v
• KiH 222: Henry King, An Elegy Upon the immature losse of the most vertuous Lady Anne Riche (‘I envy not thy mortall triumphes, Death!’)
Copy, subscribed ‘Dr Hen: King’.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 93-5.
ff. 40v-1v
• WaE 697: Edmund Waller, Upon the Death of my Lady Rich (‘May those already cursed Essexian plains’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 37-40.
f. 96v
• CrR 177.5: Richard Crashaw, On the Miracle of Loaves (‘Now Lord, or never, they'l beleeve on thee’)
Copy, subscribed ‘Crashaw’.
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 88.
MS Eng. misc. e. 536
A quarto composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 137 pages (plus eight pages of later additions and eight blank pages), in modern cloth. In a single hand, including sixteen poems by Rochester, pp. 139-46 occupied by charges of the Grand Jury added after 1714. c.1680s.
Recorded in IELM II.ii as the Gilpin MS: RoJ Δ 3.
pp. 1-12
• MaA 325: Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter (‘Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight’)
Copy, including the envoy ‘To the King’.
First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.
The case for Marvell's authorship supported in George deF. Lord, ‘Two New Poems by Marvell?’, BNYPL, 62 (1958), 551-70, but see also discussion by Lord and Ephim Fogel in Vol. 63 (1959), 223-36, 292-308, 355-66. Marvell's authorship supported in Annabel Patterson, ‘The Second and Third Advices-to-the-Painter’, PBSA, 71 (1977), 473-86. Discussed also in Margoliouth, I, 348-50, and in Chernaik, p. 211, where Marvell's authorship is considered doubtful. A case for Sir John Denham's authorship is made in Brendan O Hehir, Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 212-28.
pp. 13-26
• MaA 367: Andrew Marvell, The Third Advice to a Painter (‘Sandwich in Spain now, and the Duke in love’)
Copy, including the envoy ‘To the King’, the poem here dated 1666.
First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 67-87. Lord, pp. 130-44. Smith, pp. 346-56. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 32-3, as anonymous.
See discussions of the disputed authorship of this poem, as well as of the ‘Second Advice’, cited before MaA 314.
pp. 27-34
• MaA 396: Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter (‘Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before’)
Copy, the poem here dated 1667.
First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 140-6, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 33-5, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.
pp. 35-6
• MaA 484: Andrew Marvell, Further Advice to a Painter (‘Painter once more thy Pencell reassume’)
Copy, headed ‘An Advice to a Paintr in 1670’.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). Margoliouth, I, 176-7. POAS, I, 163-7. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 38-9. Rejected from the canon by Lord and the authorship considered doubtful by Chernaik, pp. 211-12.
pp. 41a-42b
• RoJ 75: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Epistolary Essay from M.G. to O.B. upon Their Mutual Poems (‘Dear friend, I hear this town does so abound’)
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.
pp. 43-9
• RoJ 288: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr on Man’.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning ‘All this with indignation have I hurled’) in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as ‘Satyr’. Love, pp. 57-63.
The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, ‘A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's “A Satyr against Reason and Mankind”’, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different ‘Answer’ poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).
pp. 54-5
• RoJ 242: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Supposed Author of a Late Poem in Defence of Satyr (‘To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain’)
Copy, followed (p. 55) by ‘The Answr’.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 132-3. Walker, pp. 114-15. Love, pp. 106-7. Texts are often followed by Sir Car Scroope's ‘Answer’ (‘Raile on poor feeble Scribbler, speake of me’: Walker, p. 115. Love, p. 107).
p. 56
• RoJ 208: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Poet Ninny (‘Crushed by that just contempt his follies bring’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 141-2. Walker, pp. 115-16. Love, pp. 107-8.
p. 57
• RoJ 216: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons (‘If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold’)
Copy.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among ‘Poems Possibly by Rochester’. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.
p. 59
• RoJ 555: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon His Leaving His Mistress (‘Tis not that I am weary grown’)
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 81. Walker, p. 37. Love, pp. 17-18.
p. 60
• RoJ 546: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon His Drinking a Bowl (‘Vulcan, contrive me such a cup’)
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 52-3. Walker, pp. 37-8. Love, pp. 41-2, as Nestor.
p. 61
• RoJ 169: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Love and Life (‘All my past life is mine no more’)
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
First published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 90. Walker, p. 44. Love, pp. 25-6.
p. 62
• RoJ 192: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, My Lord All-Pride (‘Bursting with pride, the loathed impostume swells’)
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
First published, as ‘Epigram upon my Lord All-pride’, in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 142-3. Walker, pp. 116-17. Love, pp. 93-4.
pp. 63-5
• BeA 12: Aphra Behn, On the death of Mr. Grinhil, the Famous Painter (‘What doleful crys are these that fright my sence’)
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions, by the Right Honourable, the E[arl] of R[ochester] (‘Antwerp’ [i.e. London], 1680). Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1684). Summers, VI, 151-3. Todd, I, No. 15, pp. 42-4.
Discussed in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 451-2.
pp. 67-9
• RoJ 566: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing (‘Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade’)
This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.
First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.
p. 79
• DoC 268: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Mr. Edward Howard, on his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem Called ‘The British Princes’ (‘Come on, ye critics! Find one fault who dare’)
Copy, headed ‘On Mr E— H—. upon his B— P—’.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 338-9. Harris, pp. 7-9.
pp. 81-2
• DoC 146: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On Mr. Edward Howard upon his ‘New Utopia’ (‘Thou damn'd antipodes to common sense!’)
Copy, headed ‘On the same Author upon his New Vt-’.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 340-1. Harris, pp. 15-17.
pp. 83-8
• RoJ 473: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Timon (‘What, Timon! does old age begin t'approach’)
Copy, headed ‘A Satyr’.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; collated in Love, ‘Text of “Timon”’.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 65-72. Walker, pp. 78-82, as ‘Satyr. [Timon]’. Harold Love, ‘The Text of “Timon. A Satyr”’, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 6 (1982), 113-40. Love, pp. 258-63, as Satyr. [Timon], among Disputed Works.
pp. 89-90
• RoJ 48: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Disabled Debauchee (‘As some brave admiral, in former war’)
Copy, headed ‘The Maim'd Debauchee’.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.
pp. 91-4
• RoJ 13: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book (‘Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes’)
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.
pp. 103-10
• RoJ 137: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country (‘Chloe, In verse by your command I write’)
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.
pp. 113-14
• RoJ 275: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Ramble in St. James's Park (‘Much wine had passed, with grave discourse’)
Copy, incomplete.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 40-6. Walker, pp. 64-8. Love, pp. 76-80.
pp. 115-16
• EtG 1: Sir George Etherege, Ephelia to Bajazet (‘How far are they deceived who hope in vain’)
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, p. 331.
First published in Female Poems On several Occasions: Written by Ephelia (London, 1679). Thorpe, pp. 9-10. Harold Love's edition of Rochester (1999), pp. 94-5.
pp. 117-18
• RoJ 607: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Very Heroical Epistle in Answer to Ephelia (‘Madam. / If you're deceived, it is not by my cheat’)
This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
First published in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 113-15. Walker, pp. 112-14. Love, pp. 95-7.
MS Eng. misc. e 714
A volume of entomological and antiquarian notes, 75 leaves, in vellum. 19th century.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 18210.
ff. 39v-75r
• BaJ 21.5: John Bale, Illustrium Maioris Britanniae scriptorum summarium
Extracts.
First published in ‘Wesel’ [i.e. Ipswich], 1548.
MS Eng. misc. f. 49
An octavo miscellany of verse and prose extracts, in English and Latin, in several hands, written from both ends, ii + 79 leaves (including some blanks), in contemporary calf. Compiled by men associated with Oxford University. c.1647-1698.
Inscribed on the rear pastedown ‘To the right worsppf my very kind friend Mr Tho.: Young’ and ‘Ed Burham’. Bought in 1899 by W.D. Macray from George's of Oxford. Sold by Blackwell's, 1921.
fol. 1v rev.
• StW 773: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)
Copy.
First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).
fol. 20v
• RaW 204: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Cardes, and Dice (‘Beefore the sixt day of the next new year’)
Copy of an untitled six-line version, here beginning ‘the first day of ye next new yeare’.
First published as ‘A Prognostication upon Cards and Dice’ in Poems of Lord Pembroke and Sir Benjamin Ruddier (London, 1660). Latham, p. 48. Rudick, Nos 50A and 50B, pp. 123-4 (two versions, as ‘Sir Walter Rawleighs prophecy of cards, and Dice at Christmas’ and ‘On the Cardes and dice’ respectively).
fol. 70
• RaW 205: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Cardes, and Dice (‘Beefore the sixt day of the next new year’)
Second copy of an untitled six-line version, also beginning ‘The first day of ye next new yeare’.
First published as ‘A Prognostication upon Cards and Dice’ in Poems of Lord Pembroke and Sir Benjamin Ruddier (London, 1660). Latham, p. 48. Rudick, Nos 50A and 50B, pp. 123-4 (two versions, as ‘Sir Walter Rawleighs prophecy of cards, and Dice at Christmas’ and ‘On the Cardes and dice’ respectively).
MS Eng. misc. f. 79
An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in two or more hands, written from both ends, 180 pages, in contemporary calf. c.1740s.
A flyleaf inscribed, possibly by a compiler, ‘Miscellanies / Rob: Traile’. Owned in 1938-42 by Norman Ault.
pp. 71-7
• DrJ 3: John Dryden, Alexander's Feast. Or The Power of Musique. An Ode, In Honour of St. Cecilia's Day (‘'Twas at the Royal Feast, for Persia won’)
Copy.
First published in London, 1697. Fables Ancient and Modern (London, 1700). Kinsley, III, 1428-33. California, VII, 3-9. Hammond, V, 3-18.
MS Eng. misc. f. 89
Autograph fair copy of 51 characters, with corrections, 174 octavo pages (with later additions, 98 leaves in all), in modern green morocco gilt. Entitled ‘Micro-Cosmographie or a peece of the world discouerd’. c.1627.
*EaJ 71: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, Microcosmography
Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 83. Subsequently by F.W. Cosens (1819-89), book collector. Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale), lot 121. Owned in 1901 by C.W. Holgate. Sotheby's, 31 July 1947, lot 347. Myers & Co., sale catalogue No. 350 (1947), item 201. Bequeathed to the Bodleian by E.H.W. Meyerstein (1889-1952), writer and scholar.
This MS collated in Bliss's annotated exemplum of his edition (Bodleian, MS Eng. misc. e. 112), and some of Bliss's collations printed in Bliss-Irwin (1897). The character of ‘A shee-Puritan’ (pp. 115-21) edited from this MS (in an expurgated version) by ‘Peter Lombard’ in ‘Varia’, The Church Times, No. 1832 (4 March 1898), p. 250.
A complete facsimile of the MS published by the Scolar Press, Menston, 1966.
First published (anonymously), comprising 54 characters and with a preface by Edward Blount, London, 1628. 77 characters in the edition of 1629. 78 characters in the edition of 1664. Edited by Philip Bliss (London, 1811).
MS Eng. misc. f. 473
An octavo miscellany of ecclesiastical, legal and political tracts and notes, with later additions, 103 pages (plus some blanks), in contemporary vellum. Early 17th century [to 1788].
Once owned by Thomas Smethurst and, later, by Thomas Madocks, mariner. Owned in 1713-88 by William Billington, of Preston Gubbals, Shropshire, son of John Billington. Scribbling on pastedown and flyleaves also including the name ‘Anne Pilling’. Later purchased from John Salkeld by A.F. Norwood. Donated in 1974 by E.R. Lewis.
ff. 51r-66r
• SpE 64: Edmund Spenser, A View of the Present State of Ireland
A précis of Spenser's arguments, in a small neat secretary hand, headed ‘Spensers discourse of Ireland termed Irelands good’ and beginning ‘1. The cause of Tyrons and the rests Rebellion in Ulster was the new Countyinge of Monahon…’
First published in Sir James Ware, The Historie of Ireland (Dublin, 1633). Variorum, Prose Works (ed. Rudolf Gottfried), pp. 39-231.
Spenser's authorship of this ‘View’ is generally accepted, especially in light of the comparable views about Ireland in The Faerie Queene. A cautionary note about authorship is sounded, however, in Jean R. Brink, ‘Constructing the View of the Present State of Ireland’, Spenser Studies, 11 (1994), 203-28; in her ‘Appropriating the Author of The Faerie Queene: The Attribution of the View of the Present State of Ireland and A Brief Note of Ireland to Edmund Spenser’, in Soundings of Things Done: Essays in Early Modern Literature in Honor of S.K. Heninger, Jr., ed. Peter E. Medine and Joseph Wittreich (Newark, Delaware, 1997), 93-136. See also, inter alia, Andrew Hadfield, ‘Certainties and Uncertainties: By Way of Response to Jean Brink’, Spenser Studies, 12 (1998), 197-202, and Jean R. Brink, ‘Spenser and the Irish Question: Reply to Andrew Hadfield’, Spenser Studies, 13 (1999), 265-6.