MS Mm. 1. 26
Copy, in a single cursive hand, complete with the Dedication ‘To the Queenes most Excellent Majestie’ subscribed ‘Henry Hwward’ (pp. 1-12), headed ‘The Memoriall of a Discourse used by the late worthie Emperor Charles the Vth vpon the Resignement of his Government & State to his Sonne, Philip .II. King of Spaine’, on 110 small quarto pages (followed by 22 blanks), in later half-calf on marbled boards. c.1630.
HoH 40: 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
From the library of King George I.
An unpublished translation of a suppositious work, supposed (but unlikely) to be Charles V's instructions to his son Philip II, which was circulated in MS in 16th-century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 Mm. 1. 36
A folio volume of historical material compiled entirely by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary, 460 pages. c.1717-20s.
p. 406
• DrJ 73.5: John Dryden, In Obitum Viri pientiss: Literatiss: Mri Johis Smith Coll: Regin: Socii. Carmen Lapidarium (‘Adsis Viator, sed eruditus’)
Copy in Baker's hand, subscribed ‘Jo: Dryden e Coll: Trin.’
Edited from this MS in Kelliher, with a facsimile as Plate 9 (p. 340), and in Hammond, with a facsimile, I, after p. 304.
First published in Hilton Kelliher, ‘John Dryden: A New Work from his Cambridge Days’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 10/3 (1993), 341-58 (p. 348, with his translation on p. 349). Hammond, I, 11-12, with translation p. 13.
MS Mm. 1. 40
A large folio volume of transcripts of historical and antiquarian papers, in Latin and English, made by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary, 409 pages, in old calf. MS Baker 29. Late 17th-early 18th century.
ff. 341-2
• RaW 906: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
Copy by Baker of three letters by Ralegh, to the senate and vicechancellor of Cambridge University, 10 February 1584/5, 9 July 1584, and 20 February 1584/5, ‘taken from a volume of letters in the registry office, so mixed and confus'd that they Cannot be reduc't to any tolerable order’.
MS Mm. 1. 41
A folio volume of transcripts of historical and antiquarian papers, in Latin and English, relating to Ely, made by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary, 454 pages, in old reversed calf. MS Baker 30. c.1723.
p. 374
• BcF 604: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
Copy by Baker of two letters to Cambridge University by Francis Bacon, 12 April 1617 and undated.
MS Mm. 1. 44
A folio volume of transcripts of historical and antiquarian papers, in Latin and English, made by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary, 476 pages, in old reversed calf. MS Baker 33.
pp. 81-3
• EsR 289: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution
Copy by Baker.
Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.
pp. 267-8
• ClE 144: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Letters to the Duke of York and the Duchess of York
Copy by Baker of Clarendon's letter to York.
Letters by Clarendon to his daughter Anne (who died on 31 March 1671 before the letter arrived) and to her husband, the Duke of York (later James II), on the occasion of her conversion to Roman Catholicism. The original letters, which received particular attention by his contemporaries because of their subject matter, are not known to survive.
These were first published in Two Letters written by…Edward Earl of Clarendon…one to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the other to the Dutchess, occasioned by her Embracing the Roman Catholic Religion (London, [1680?]) and were reprinted in State Tracts (1689), in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (Oxford, 1724), pp. 313-24, and elsewhere.
MS Mm. 1. 45
A volume of transcripts made by by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary.
p. 117
• EaJ 99: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, Letter(s)
Transcript by Baker of Earles's autograph letter signed to William Sancroft, from Brussels, 30 June 1659. Late 17th century.
pp. 167-8
• BcF 605: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
Copy.
p. 210
• RaW 47.8: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’
Copy.
First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as ‘These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse’). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).
This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).
See also RaW 302 and RaW 304.
p. 211
• RaW 737.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Speech found in Sir Walter Rawleighes pockett after his Execution Written by him in the Gatehouse ye night befores dea[th]
A transcript of RaW 737 made by Thomas Baker. Late 17th-early 18th century.
A prayer, beginning ‘I owe to god a death because his sonne died for me…’ and ending ‘…I am willing help my vnwillingnes.’ Unpublished.
Mm. 1. 47
A folio volume of transcripts made by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary, 472 pages plus a tipped-in letter, in reversed calf. MS Baker 36. Late 17th-early 18th century.
p. 107-8
• HvG 13: Gabriel Harvey, Letter(s)
Copy of a letter by Harvey, to Thomas Hatcher, [c.1577].
pp. 329-32
• EvJ 220: John Evelyn, Diary
Transcript of the ‘Extract out of my Diary. Paris 1651’, headed ‘MS Smith num: 13’.
This MS discussed, with all of Baker's MSS, in the Appendix to Zachary Masters' Life of Baker (Cambridge, 1784). Recorded in Bishop Cosin's Correspondence (1869-72), I, 282-5, in Wheatley, and in de Beer, III, 632.
First published in selections in Bray (1818). The text for the period from 4 October 1699 to 1706 first published as a serialisation in Abinger Monthly Record, I (1889), pp. 7-8, 20,32, 48, 64, 76. II (1890), pp. 15-16, 31-2, 44, 60, 79-80, 96, 116, 132, 148, 167-8, 184, 199-200. III (1891-3), pp. 15-16, 31-2, 44, 60, 76, 92, 107-8, 127-8, 147-8, 167-8, 191-2, 215-16, 235-6, 251-2, 271-2, 291-2, 311-12, 328, 343-4, 364, 393-6, 414-28, 439-58. The Diary first published in full (but for missing pages) in de Beer (1955).
MS Mm. 2. 23
A folio volume of transcripts made by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary, 309 pages (plus index). Late 17th-early 18th century.
ff. 247r-84r
• FuT 9: Thomas Fuller, Historical and Chronological Account of the University of Cambridge and its Colleges
Copy, apparently transcribed from FuT 8.
First published, edited by the Rev. Marmaduke Prickett and Thomas Wright (Cambridge, 1840).
pp. 287-97
• CmW 164: William Camden, Collectanea
Copy of some of Camden's historical notes and lists in CmW 161 transcribed from Thomas Baker's transcript (CmW 163).
MS Mm. 3. 6
Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, with a title-page, ‘The Life and Death of Mr Thomas Wolsey Arch=Bishop of Yorke and Cardinall. Written by George Cavendish his Gentleman Vsher’, 86 folio leaves, in quarter-calf marbled boards. Early 17th century.
CvG 25: George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Tho: Nott’ [? Sir Thomas Nott (1606-81), of Pembroke College, Cambridge, royalist army officer] and (on a flyleaf) ‘From the library of Richard Holdsworth, D.D. [(1590-1649)], Master of Emmanuel College. 1664’.
Sylvester, No. 23.
First published in George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey and Metrical Visions, ed. Samuel W. Singer, 2 vols (Chiswick, 1825). The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish, ed. Richard S. Sylvester, EETS, orig. ser. 243 (London, New York and Toronto, 1959).
MS Mm. 3. 29
MS verses written in late 16th-century hands in a late 15th-century rubricated MS of tracts relating to Scottish expeditions of Edward I up to the reign of Richard II, 64 folio leaves of parchment, in calf. c.1596.
Owned and inscribed, with the date 2 December 1596, by Henry Colling (1565-1628), of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, who matriculated at St John's College, Cambridge, and was connected by marriage to the Hervey family of Ickworth. Other contemporary names relating to Bury inscribed (ff. 63v-4r) including William Penninge, George Dove, Henry Couelle, and Frances Frodge.
Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Hilton Kelliher, ‘Unrecorded Extracts from Shakespeare, Sidney and Dyer’, EMS, 2 (1990), 163-87.
f. 46v
• DyE 28: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘Fancy farwell, that fed my fond delight’
Copy, untitled, in the cursive italic hand of Henry Colling.
Edited from this MS in Kelliher, p. 177, with a facsimile of f. 46v as Plate 2, p. 176.
First published in Bernard M. Wagner, ‘New Poems by Sir Edward Dyer’, RES, 11 (1935), 466-71 (p. 470). May, Courtier Poets, p. 312, among ‘Poems possibly by Dyer’. EV 6219.
f. 63r
• SiP 18.5: Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, Song xi (‘Who is it that this darke night’)
Copy of the song in an abridged and garbled version, untitled and here beginning ‘Who is it that this Darcke nighte’, in the cursive italic hand of Henry Colling.
Edited from this MS in Kelliher, pp. 171-2.
Ringler, pp. 233-5.
f. 63v
• ShW 32.5: William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis (‘Even as the sun with purple-coloured face’)
Copy of lines 229-40, here beginning ‘fondlyng quoth she sinc I haue hemd the heere’, in the cursive italic hand of Henry Colling.
Edited from this MS in Kelliher, p. 169, with a facsimile as Plate 1, p. 168.
First published in London, 1593.
MS Mm. 4. 2
A folio volume comprising a tract by Davies and (ff. 76v-8r) material relating to ship-money in 1636, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, 86 leaves (including blanks), in quarter-calf on marbled boards. c.1636.
ff. 1r-75r
• DaJ 270: Sir John Davies, The Question concerning Impositions
Copy, headed ‘An Argument vpon the Question of impositions digested and deuided into sundry Chapters by Serieant Davis one of his maties learned Councell in Ireland’.
A treatise, with dedicatory epistle to James I, comprising 33 chapters, beginning ‘The Question it self is no more than this, Whether the Impositions which the King of England hath laid and levied upon Merchandize, by vertue of his Prerogative onely...’. First published in London, 1656. Grosart, III, 1-116.
MS Mm. 4. 7
Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, on five folio leaves (plus one blank), in half-calf on marbled boards. c.1620s.
CtR 175: Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy
Tract beginning ‘As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine...’. First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.
MS Mm. 4. 13
Copy, on 26 folio leaves (including two blanks), in half-calf on marbled boards. Complete with the four prefatory poems To the true Patroness of all Poetry, Calliope (ff. 3r-4r, three of them subscribed ‘W: B.’, ‘J: B:’, and ‘A: F’ respectively) and The Author to the Reader (f. 4v, beginning ‘I singe the fortune of a lucklesse paire’). Early 17th century.
BmF 135: Francis Beaumont, Salmacis and Hermaphroditus (‘My wanton lines do treat of amorous love’)
First published (anonymously) London, 1602. Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 441-71. Elizabethan Minor Epics, ed. Elizabeth Story Donno (London, 1963), pp. 281-304. Elizabethan Narrative Verse, ed. Niel Alexander (London, 1967), pp. 168-91. Beaumont's authorship discussed by Philip J. Finkelpearl in N&Q, 214 (October 1969), 367-8, and by Roger Sell in N&Q, 217 (January 1972), 10-14.
MS Mm. 4. 21
Copy, in a neat cursive secretary and italic hand, entitled ‘Sr T. Mores Life by his son in law William Roper’, 28 folio leaves (plus blanks), imperfect. Early 17th century.
MrT 98: Sir Thomas More, William Roper's Life of Sir Thomas More
This MS collated in Hitchcock and briefly described pp. xvi-xvii.
First published in London, 1626. Edited, as The Lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte, written by William Roper Esquire, by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock (EETS, London, 1935).
MS Mm. 4. 24
A folio composite volume of state tracts, in various professional hands, 124 leaves (including blanks), in half-calf on marbled boards.
ff. 1r-29v
• BcF 171: Francis Bacon, Considerations touching a War with Spain
Copy. c.1620s.
A tract dedicated to Prince Charles, beginning ‘Your Highness hath an imperial name. It was a Charles that brought the empire first into France...’. First published in Certaine Miscellany Works, ed. William Rawley (London, 1629). Spedding, XIV, 469-505.
ff. 36r-50r
• EsR 124: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Apology
Copy. Early 17th century.
First published, addressed to Anthony Bacon, as An Apologie of the Earle of Essex, against those which jealously and maliciously tax him to be the hinderer of the peace and quiet (London, [1600]), but immediately suppressed. Reprinted in 1603.
ff. 60r-7v
• RaW 663: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a War with Spain, and of the Protecting of the Netherlands
Copy, headed ‘A Consultation for the king concerning the retaining of the Netherlands in socyety and protection’ and endorsed (f. 67v) ‘Copie of a discourse touching the present consultacon of making peace or war wth: Spaine Ano. 1603’.
A tract addressed to James I and beginning ‘It belongeth not to me to judge whether the king of Spain hath done wrong to the Netherlands...’. First published in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 299-316.
f. 70r-v
• RuB 35: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.22 March 1627/8
Copy, headed ‘Sr. Beniamin Ridger his speech. 22. Mar: 1627’. c.1630.
Speech beginning ‘Of the mischiefs that have lately fallen upon us by the late distractions here is every man sensible...’.
ff. 106r-14r
• CtR 176: Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy
Copy, in a secretary hand, on nine quarto leaves, the work dated 1627. c.1630.
Tract beginning ‘As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine...’. First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.
MS Mm. 4. 33
Copy, in a single cursive secretary hand, with a title-page dated 1584, 170 folio pages (plus 34 blanks), in quarter-calf on marbled boards. Late 16th-early 17th century.
LeC 38: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth
This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.
First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.
MS Mm. 5. 1
A folio volume of speeches and proceedings in Parliament 1625-9, in several professional hands, 222 leaves (including six blanks). c.1630.
ff. 94r-9r
• CtR 177: Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy
Copy, in a professional secretary hand.
Tract beginning ‘As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine...’. First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.
MS Mm. 5. 5
A folio volume of state tracts, in a single professional secretary hand, 98 leaves, in half-calf on marbled boards. Early 17th century.
ff. 52v-3r
• RaW 385.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, An epitaph on the Earl of Leicester (‘Here lyes the noble warryor that never bludyed sword’)
Copy, in a copy of Richard Verstegan's A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles...1592 (ff. 26r-65v).
First published as introduced ‘...yet immediately after his [Leicester's] death, a friend of his bestowed vpon him this Epitaphe’ and beginning ‘Heere lies the woorthy warrier’, in Richard Verstegan, A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles (London, ‘1592’), p. 54, which is sometimes entitled Cecil's Commonwealth: see E.A. Strathmann in MLN, 60 (1945), 111-14. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172, who notes that the epitaph was quoted, from a text among William Drummond's papers, in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth (1821). Rudick, No. 46, p. 120.
ff. 66r-98v
• BcF 142: Francis Bacon, Certain Observations made upon a Libel published this present year, 1592
Copy of an abridged version.
This MS collated in Spedding.
A tract beginning ‘It were just and honourable for princes being in war together, that howsever they prosecute their quarrels...’. First published in Resuscitatio, ed. W. Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, VIII, 146-208.
A letter to M. Critoy, Secretary of France, c.1589, ‘A Letter on the Queen's religious policies’, was later incorporated in Certain Observations made upon a Libel, and first published in Cabala, sive scrinia sacra (London, 1654), pp. 38-41.
For the Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles (also known as Cecil's Commonwealth), the ‘Libel’ that Bacon answered, see RaW 383.8.
MS Mm. 5. 8
Copy, in a single professional secretary hand, as ‘Written by Sr Walter Raleighe and dedicated to King James our Soueraigne Lord anno 1610’, on 78 folio pages (plus blanks), in half-calf on marbled boards. c.1620.
RaW 583: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Dialogue between a Counsellor of State and a Justice of the Peace
A treatise, with a dedicatory epistle to James I beginning ‘Those that are suppressed and hopeless are commonly silent ...’, the dialogue beginning ‘Now, sir, what think you of Mr. St. John's trial in the Star-chamber?...’. First published as The Prerogative of Parliaments in England (‘Midelburge’ and ‘Hamburg’ [i.e. London], 1628). Works (1829), VIII, 151-221.
MS Mm. 6. 33
A quarto volume of state tracts and letters, largely written in one secretary hand, entries at the reverse end in a different hand, 281 leaves (including 90 blanks). Early-mid-17th century.
Inscribed at the end ‘T ed: Kenett’.
ff. 1r-127v
• LeC 39: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth
Copy, with a title-page.
This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.
First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.
ff. 167r-80v
• RaW 635: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a Marriage between Prince Henry and a Daughter of Savoy
Copy, headed ‘A Politiqe dispute aboute the Happiest Match for the noble & most hopefull Prince Charles’.
A tract beginning ‘There is nobody that persuades our prince to match with Savoy, for any love to the person of the duke...’. First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses:...2) Touching a Marriage between Prince Henry of England and a Daughter of Savoy (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 237-52. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.
ff. 181r-5v
• RaW 769: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)
Copy.
Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For a relevant discussion, see Anna Beer, ‘Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh’, MP, 94/1 (August 1996), 19-38.
f. 185v
• RaW 48: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘W: R:’.
First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as ‘These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse’). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).
This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).
See also RaW 302 and RaW 304.
MS Mm. 6. 58
A folio composite volume of legal and historical tracts, in various largely professional hands, 306 leaves (including some blanks), in modern half-calf.
ff. 273r-88v
• HoH 41: 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
Copy, in a single mixed hand, of about two thirds of the main text, incomplete and lacking a title and the Dedication. Early-mid-17th century.
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 Mm. 6. 63
A folio composite volume of legal and state tracts, in various largely professional hands (including the ‘Feathery Scribe’), 216 leaves (including some blanks), in modern half-calf.
Bookplate of John Moore (1646-1714), Bishop of Ely.
Described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 218 (No. 8).
ff. 122r-54r
• CtR 292: Sir Robert Cotton, The Manner and Meanes how the Kings of England have from time to time Supported and Repaired their Estates. Written...1609.
Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed ‘Extracts out of Records wherein may be collected by what meanes the Kings of England haue and may raise money’. c.1630.
Tract beginning ‘The Kings of England have supported and repaired their Estates...’. First published, as An Abstract out of the Records of the Tower, touching the Kings Revenue: and how they have supported themselves, London, [1642]. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [161]-‘200’[i.e. 202].
ff. 155r-80v
• LeC 40: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth
Copy, in a single secretary hand, imperfect at both ends. Late 16th-early 17th century.
This MS recorded in Peck. p. 226.
First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.
MS Nn. 4.5
A small quarto volume comprising two separate MSS, 24 leaves, in later half-calf boards.
ff. ir, 1r-16v
• SkJ 44: John Skelton, Vox Populi, Vox Dei (‘I pray yow, be not wrothe’)
Copy, in a neat secretary hand, as by ‘Mr Skeltone poete Lawriate’. Late 16th-early 17th century.
Canon, R70, pp. 22-3. First published in Sir John Littledale's Roxburghe Club edition of Skelton's Magnyfysence (London, 1821). Edited in Dyce, II, 400-13.
ff. 18r-24v
• BcF 206.3: Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral
Copy of ten essays, numbered ‘Cap: 1’ to ‘Cap: 10’, namely ‘Of Studies’, ‘Of Discourse’, ‘Of Cerimonies, and Respectes’, ‘Of followers and friendes’, ‘Of Suitors’, ‘Of Expence’, ‘Of Regiment of health’,‘Of Honour, and Reputation’, ‘Of Faction’, and ‘Of Negoatiating’. Early 17th century.
Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).
MS Oo. 6. 115
A folio composite volume of tracts and miscellaneous papers, in several hands, 160 leaves (including numerous blanks), in 19th-century half-calf. Compiled in large part by William Jackson, one of the ‘Custome Masters’ of Great Yarmouth.
f. 71r
• ShJ 154: James Shirley, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, Act III, Song (‘The glories of our blood and state’)
Copy of the dirge, in a secretary hand, untitled, in a section of verse. c.1679.
Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).
ff. 90r-5v
• TaJ 17: Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium or The Rule of Conscience
Extracts, ‘out of Ductor Dubitantium p Dr Jeremy Taylor’, in a predominantly secretary hand.
First published in London, 1660.
ff. 99r-138r
ff. 141r-7v
• EsR 226: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1
Copy.
ff. 148r-v
• EsR 290: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution
Copy, headed ‘The Last Speech of Robert Devereux Earle of Essex Within The Tower of London the 25th day of ffebruary 1600’, including ‘The Earl of Essex his Prayer’.
Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.
Adv.d.8.1
Autograph annotations and marginalia.
*HvG 165: Gabriel Harvey, Valerius Maximus. Valerii Maximi Dictorum factorumque memorabilium exempla (Paris, 1544)
Stern, p. 238.
Adv.d.38.5-6.
Fourteen autograph corrections and insertions in the margins of the text of Lycidas. In an exemplum of Obsequies to the memorie of Mr. Edward King [a portion of the edition of Justa Edouardo King naufrago, ab amicis moerentibus, amoris] (Cambridge, 1638) 1638.
*MnJ 13: John Milton, Lycidas (‘Yet once more, O ye Laurels, and once more’)
Formally MS Add. 154.
Facsimile in Lycidas: 1637-1645 (1970); facsimile examples in A History of the Cambridge University Press, 1521-1921 (Cambridge, 1921), p. 59; Candy, loc. cit., Plate I. Collated in Columbia, I, 459-74; Darbishire, II, 330-6.
First published, among ‘Obsequies to the memorie of Mr. Edward King’, in Justa Edouardo King naufrago, ab amicis moerentibus, amoris (Cambridge, 1638). Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 76-83. Darbishire, II, 163-70. Carey & Fowler, pp. 232-54.
Ch(H)/4, unnumbered item
Copy of a speech here dated 7 November 1640.
RuB 157: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 November 1640
Among papers of the Pell family of Norfolk and Walpole family of Houghton, Norfolk, in the Cholmondeley (Houghton) Papers.
Speech (variously dated 4, 7, 9 and 10 November 1640) beginning ‘We are here assembled to do God's business and the King's...’. First published in The Speeches of Sr. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 1-10. Manning, pp. 159-65.
Ely.a.272
An exemplum with Milton's autograph inscription, ‘Pre: 18s. 1636. J: Milton’, and corrections. c.1636.
*MnJ 119: John Milton, Chrysostom, Dio. Orationes LXXX (Paris, 1604)
From Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire.
Facsimile examples in Kelley and Atkins, Studies in Bibliography, 17 (1964), 77-82. Recorded in Columbia, XVIII, 576-7; in LR, I, 206; in Parker, II, 805; and in Boswell, No. 342.
F157.d.1.1
Autograph annotations and marginalia.
*HvG 76: Gabriel Harvey, Fabricius Marcoduranus. Franc. M. Tulli Ciceronis Historia, per Consules descripta, & in annos LXIV distincta. Editio Secunda (Cologne, 1570)
Stern, p. 212.
Keynes.B.4.7
A printed exemplum of the 1639 edition of Donne's Poems, extensively annotated by Giles Oldisworth (1619/20-78), clergyman and author. c.1633.
DnJ 4165: John Donne, Poems
Initials ‘I P’ stamped on the covers. Inscribed ‘R P Gillies 1811’. Bookplate of J.G.H. Drummond, of Abbots Grange. From the library of John Sampson.
Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici, No, 2829.
Keynes B.4.8
Annotated exemplum of Donne's Poems (London, 1639). Mid-17th century.
Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 1918. Discussed in John Sampson, ‘A Contemporary Light upon John Donne’, Essays & Studies, 7 (1921), 82-107.
The volume as a whole, passim
• DnJ 4166: John Donne, Poems
Copious glosses, comments, and collations made by the Royalist divine Giles Oldisworth (1619-78).
p. 17
• DnJ 30: John Donne, Aire and Angels (‘Twice or thrice had I loved thee’)
MS emendation in line 19 made by Giles Oldisworth.
This emendation recorded in John Sampson, ‘A Contemporary Light upon John Donne’, E&S, 7 (1921) (p. 88).
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 22. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 45.
p. 79
• DnJ 2471: John Donne, ‘Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve’
MS emendation in line 5 made by Giles Oldisworth; also his supplied heading, ‘Neglect’.
These emendations recorded in John Sampson, ‘A Contemporary Light upon John Donne’, E&S, 7 (1921), 82-107 (pp. 88, 90).
First published, as ‘Elegie VII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 87-9 (as ‘Elegie VI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 10-11. Shawcross, No. 12. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 110-11.
p. 183
• DnJ 3246: John Donne, To Mr I.L. (‘Blest are your North parts, for all this long time’)
MS emendations in lines 13-14 made by Giles Oldisworth.
These emendations recorded in John Sampson, ‘A Contemporary Light upon John Donne’, E&S, 7 (1921), 82-107 (p. 88).
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 213-14. Milgate, Satires, pp. 68-9. Shawcross, No. 127.
p. 191
• DnJ 3585: John Donne, To the Countesse of Salisbury. August. 1614 (‘Faire, great, and good, since seeing you, wee see’)
MS emendations in lines 1-2, 128, made by Giles Oldisworth.
These emendations recorded in John Sampson, ‘A Contemporary Light upon John Donne’, E&S, 7 (1921), 82-107 (p. 88).
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 224-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 107-10. Shawcross, No. 145.
PET. A. 2. 37
A printed exemplum with a presentation epistle (by Ascham?, now imperfect) to Thomas Wriothesley. 1545.
*AsR 3.3: Roger Ascham, Ascham, Roger. Toxophilus (London, 1545)
Rel.a.63.2
An exemplum of the printed edition (Douai, 1630), with numerous interlinear MS additions and some deletions in a neat print-hand, notably on sigs B1v and Ir and pp. 130, 151, 260, 424, 455, and 459, imperfect, lacking the once present engraved portrait of du Perron with her autograph verses and the page with her dedicatory sonnet to Queen Henrietta Maria, a tall folio in old calf, stamped in gilt on both covers ‘IHS’. c.1630.
*CaE 38: Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, The Reply of the most Illustrious Cardinall of Perron, to the Answeare of the most Excellent King of Great Britaine
Recorded in Wolfe, p. 12.
Lady Falkland's translation of a controversial tract by Jacques Davy (1556-1618), Cardinal of Perron. First published in Douai, 1630. Most exempla coming into England were destroyed by command of George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury. Most surviving presentation exempla include an autograph poem ‘To the Queenes most Excellent Maiestie’ (‘'Tis not your faire out-side (though famous Greece’), which is edited in Kissing the Rod, ed. Germaine Greer et al. (New York, 1988), pp. 59-60.
Rel.d.50.2
Autograph annotations and marginalia.
*HvG 149: Gabriel Harvey, Sacchi de Platina, Bartholomaeus. Platinae hystoria de Vitis pontificum periucundae, diligenter recognita: & nunc tamen integro impressa (Paris, [c.1505])
Stern, p. 233.
Sel.2.85
The exemplum of the printed Novum Organum (London, 1620) presented by Bacon to Trinity College, Cambridge, in velvet bearing Bacon's boar device in gilt. The autograph letter signed by Bacon presenting this volume to the college is Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 7565. c.1620.
BcF 305.4: Francis Bacon, Novum organum
First published in the unfinished Instauratio magna (London 1620). Spedding, I, 119-363.
Sel. 2. 12618
Exemplum of the printed broadside A Satyr against Mankind. Written by a Person of Honour ([London, 1679]). Exemplum of the printed broadside A Satyr against Mankind. Written by a Person of Honour ([London, 1679]) with at least nine substantive alterations in MS. Late 17th century.
RoJ 314: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)
This item in a large collection of Popish Plot pamphlets (the Verney Collection) sold at Sotheby's, 24 July 1987, lot 262, to Quaritch.
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).
Sel. 2. 12623
Exemplum of the printed broadside A Letter from Artemiza in the Town, to Chloe in the Country. By a Person of Honour ([London, 1679]). Copy with a total of ten lines inserted in MS (corresponding to lines 20-3, 34-5, 183-4 and 203-4 in Vieth's text). Late 17th century.
RoJ 159: 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 item in a large collection of Popish Plot pamphlets sold at Sotheby's, 24 July 1987, lot 262, to Quaritch.
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.
Sel. 5. 102
Containing a reader's annotations. c.1596-early 17th century.
SpE 91: Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (London, 1596)
Discussed in the anonymous ‘MS Notes to Spenser's “Faerie Queene”’, N & Q, 202 (December 1957), 509-15, and in Alastair Fowler, ‘Oxford and London Marginalia to “The Faerie Queene”’, N& Q, 206 (November 1961), 416-18.
SSS. 52. 12
Dryden's printed exemplum, with his autograph annotations and, on a flyleaf, his inscription ‘Sum Johannis Dryden 1685°’. 1685.
*DrJ 300.5: John Dryden, Virgil. Opera, [ed. Daniel Heinsius] (Leiden, 1636)
Later owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor.
Described in Paul Hammond, ‘Dryden's Library’, N&Q, 229 (September 1984), 344-5.
Syn. 8.63. 251
A printed exemplum of Abraham Cowley's Poeticall Blossomes, 3rd edition (London, 1637), in modern half-morocco.
Inscribed inside the front cover ‘G. David 1901 Nov. 23’.
sig. A6r-v
• CoA 54.1: Abraham Cowley, Constantia and Philetus (‘I sing two constant Lovers various fate’)
Copy of stanzas 1-6, written in a neat italic hand to replace a lost leaf in the volume. Late 17th century.
First published in Poetical Blossomes (London, 1633). Waller, II, 7-12. Collected Works, I, pp. 21-5.