Derbyshire Record Office

D 117/T 1-2

A title deed signed by Cotton, concerning the sale by him and by Arthur and William Stanhope of some 121 acres of property to Joseph Woodhouse of Wollescote, 11-12 October 1666. 1666.

*CnC 152: Charles Cotton, Document(s)

A facsimile of the signature appears in Parks, p. 19.

D258/7/5/9

A small collection of unbound MS verse and some prose, all in the secretary hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple, all imperfect. c.1620s.

Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D258/28/5i.

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B&F 105: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Mad Lover, V, iv, 43-73. Song (‘Arm, arm, arm, arm! the scouts are all come in’)

Copy, on one side of a single folio leaf.

Dyce, VI, 199. Bullen, III, 204-5. Bowers, V, 84-5.

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DnJ 992: John Donne, Ecclogue. 1613. December 26 (‘Unseasonable man, statue of ice’)

Copy of lines 1-104, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, lacking a title.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 131-44. Shawcross, No. 108. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 10-19 (as ‘Epithalamion at the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset’). Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 133-9.

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BmF 40: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Death of the Virtuous Lady, Elizabeth Countess of Rutland (‘I may forget to eat, to drink, to sleep’)

Copy, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves; lacking a title and opening line.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Dyce, XI, 507-11.

[unspecified page numbers]

DnJ 4068.5: John Donne, Paradoxes and Problems

Copy of three Problems, on both sides of a folio leaf, imperfect.

Eleven Paradoxes and ten Problems first published in Juvenilia: or Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes (London, 1633). Twelve Paradoxes and seventeen Problems published in Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Two more Problems published in 1899 and 1927 (see DnJ 4073, DnJ 4089). Twelve Paradoxes and eighteen Problems reprinted in Paradoxes and Problemes by John Donne (London, 1923). Twelve Paradoxes (Nos XI and XII relegated to ‘Dubia’) and nineteen Problems (No. XI by Edward Herbert) edited in Peters.

D258/7/13/6 (vi)

A quarto booklet of prose works chiefly by Donne, on seventeen leaves (plus two blanks). c.1620s.

Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671).

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DnJ 4071.5: John Donne, Paradoxes and Problems

Copy of eleven Paradoxes, in a small secretary hand.

Eleven Paradoxes and ten Problems first published in Juvenilia: or Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes (London, 1633). Twelve Paradoxes and seventeen Problems published in Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Two more Problems published in 1899 and 1927 (see DnJ 4073, DnJ 4089). Twelve Paradoxes and eighteen Problems reprinted in Paradoxes and Problemes by John Donne (London, 1923). Twelve Paradoxes (Nos XI and XII relegated to ‘Dubia’) and nineteen Problems (No. XI by Edward Herbert) edited in Peters.

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DnJ 4096: John Donne, The True Character of a Dunce

Copy, in a small secretary hand.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Hayward, pp. 415-17. Peters, pp. 59-62 (among ‘Dubia’). The authorship discussed in Dennis Flynn, ‘Three Unnoticed Companion Essays to Donne's “An Essay of Valour”’, BNYPL, 73 (1969), 424-39.

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DnJ 4066.8: John Donne, An Essay of Valour

Copy, in a small secretary hand.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Cottoni Posthuma (London, 1651), as ‘Valour Anatomiz'd in a Fancie by Sir Philip Sidney’. Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). The Prose Works of Sir Philip Sidney, ed. Albert Feuillerat, 4 vols (Cambridge, 1968), III, 308-10 (as Appendix). Hayward, pp. 417-20. Peters, pp. 62-7 (among ‘Dubia’). The authorship discussed in Dennis Flynn, ‘Three Unnoticed Companion Essays to Donne's “An Essay of Valour”’, BNYPL, 73 (1969), 424-39.

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DnJ 4063.5: John Donne, The Character of a Scott at the First Sight

Copy, in a small secretary hand, headed ‘The description of a Scot at first sight’.

First published in Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Hayward, pp. 414-15. Peters, pp. 59-62 (among ‘Dubia’). The authorship discussed in Dennis Flynn, ‘Three Unnoticed Companion Essays to Donne's “An Essay of Valour”’, BNYPL, 73 (1969), 424-39.

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BcF 129.5: Francis Bacon, Certain Considerations touching the Better Pacification and Edification of the Church of England

Extracts, in the secretary hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple, headed ‘Certaine considerations touching the Church of England dedicated to his most excellent maiestie’, transcribed from sigs A3v-D4r of the printed edition of 1604.

First published in London, 1604. Spedding, X, 103-27. The circumstances of the original publication and the book's suppression by the Bishop of London discussed, with a census of relevant exempla, in Richard Serjeantson and Thomas Woolford, ‘The Scribal Publication of a Printed Book: Francis Bacon's Certaine Considerations Touching...the Church of England (1604)’, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/2 (June 2009), 119-56.

D258/10/2

Copy, in the secretary hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple, headed in the margin ‘The coppie of that script which Sr walter Rawley gaue his wife the eue before his death’, on one side of a single folio leaf. c.1620s.

RaW 730.6: Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Second Testamentary Note

Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671).

Ralegh's note, 1618, denouncing false allegations, beginning ‘I did never receive advise from my Lord Carew to make any escape, neither did I tell ytt Stukeley...’. First published in The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Thomas Birch (London, 1751), II, 280-1. Edwards (1868), II, 494-5.

D258/10/15

A quarto verse miscellany, in a neat secretary hand, fourteen pages. c.1620s.

Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D258/31/16.

pp. 7-8

KiH 536: Henry King, Silence. A Sonnet (‘Peace my Hearte's blabb, be ever dumbe’)

Copy, headed ‘Sonnet’.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 159.

pp. 8-9

BcF 24: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’

First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, ‘Bacon's Poem, “The World”: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems’, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.

p. 9

JnB 287: Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse (‘Doe but consider this small dust’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.

p. 10

CwT 751: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘Aske me no more whether doth stray’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in a five-stanza version beginning ‘Aske me no more where Iove bestowes’ in Poems (1640) and in Poems: by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640), and edited in this version in Dunlap, pp. 102-3. Musical setting by John Wilson published in Cheerful Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1659). All MS versions recorded in CELM, except where otherwise stated, begin with the second stanza of the published version (viz. ‘Aske me no more whether doth stray’).

For a plausible argument that this poem was actually written by William Strode, see Margaret Forey, ‘Manuscript Evidence and the Author of “Aske me no more”: William Strode, not Thomas Carew’, EMS, 12 (2005), 180-200. See also Scott Nixon, ‘“Aske me no more” and the Manuscript Verse Miscellany’, ELR, 29/1 (Winter 1999), 97-130, which edits and discusses MSS of this poem and also suggests that it may have been written by Strode.

p. 10

DnJ 1764: John Donne, A lame begger (‘I am unable, yonder begger cries’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Cripple’ and here beginning ‘I can neither goe nor stand the Cripple cries’.

First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as ‘Zoppo’) and 10.

p. 11

CwT 524: Thomas Carew, On sight of a Gentlewomans face in the water (‘Stand still you floods, doe not deface’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 102.

p. 12

WoH 146: Sir Henry Wotton, A Poem written by Sir Henry Wotton in his Youth (‘O faithless world, and thy most faithless part’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Francis Davison, Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602), p. 157. As ‘A poem written by Sir Henry Wotton, in his youth’, in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 517. Hannah (1845), pp. 3-5. Edited and texts discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Sir Henry Wotton's “O Faithless World”: The Transmission of a Coterie Poem and a Critical Old-Spelling Edition’, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 5/4 (1981), 205-31.

p. 14

CwT 458: Thomas Carew, Mediocritie in love rejected. Song (‘Give me more love, or more disdaine’)

Copy, headed ‘Of an Indiferent Affeccon’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 12-13. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

D258/10/16/7

Copy of Bacon's speech on the naturalization of the Scots, untitled. Early 17th century.

BcF 364: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671).

D 258/10/72

Copy of letters by Ralegh, to his wife, one from Guiana dated 1617.

RaW 914: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

D258/10/29/15

Copy, in a professional hand, on two conjugate folio leaves, damp-stained. Headed ‘To Mr. Henrye German in the beginninge of Parliamt 1640’ and subscribed ‘J: S:’. c.1640.

SuJ 157.5: John Suckling, To Mr. Henry German, In the Beginning of Parliament, 1640

Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671).

First published as A Coppy of a Letter Found in the Privy Lodgeings at Whitehall (London, 1641). Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 163-7.

D258/12/19 (iv)

Copy, in the hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple, a folio booklet of six leaves. Early 17th century.

OvT 48: Sir Thomas Overbury, Observations in his travailes

A tract beginning ‘All things concurred for the rising and maintenance of this State...’. First published as Sir Thomas Overbvry his Observations in his Travailes vpon the State of The Xvii. Provinces as they stood Anno Dom. 1609 (London, 1626). Rimbault, pp. 223-30. Authorship uncertain.

D258/12/41

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on eleven folio leaves (plus one blank). Headed ‘A discourse touching the present Consultacon concerning the Peace with Spaine, and the retayninge of the Netherlands in societie & protection written by Sr. Walter Raleigh the first yeare of the Kinge. 1602’. c.1602-25.

RaW 664: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a War with Spain, and of the Protecting of the Netherlands

Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D258/34/37.

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

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.

D258/12/43

Copy, headed ‘A Discourse...Whether it be better to suppresse Popish Practises by the strict execution...’ [&c.], the tract dated 11 August 1613. Early 17th century.

CtR 509: Sir Robert Cotton, Twenty-four Argvments, Whether it be more expedient to suppress Popish Practises against the due Allegeance of His Majesty, by the Strict Execution touching Jesuits and Seminary Preists? Or, to restraine them to Close Prisons, during life, if no Reformation follow?

Tract beginning ‘I am not ignorant, that this latter age hath brought forth a swarm of busie heads...’, dated 11 August 1613. First published in two editions, as respectively Seriovs Considerations for Repressing of the Increase of Iesvites and A Treatise against Recusants (both London, 1641). Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [109]-159.

D 258/24/46

Copy, headed ‘New Instructions to a Painter ./. 1667’, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.

MaA 406: Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter (‘Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before’)

Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D258/48/46.

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.

D258/28/5i

A small unbound collection of verse among papers of the Gell family, formerly of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire. Early 17th century.

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B&F 96: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Mad Lover, IV, i, 45-68. Song (‘Charon, oh, Charon, Thou wafter of the souls to bliss or bane!’)

Copy.

Dyce, VI, 180-1. Bullen, III, 184. Bowers, V, 67-8.

D 258/30/35

A pair of conjugate folio leaves containing two texts (the first a copy of Lady Penelope Rich's letter to Queen Elizabeth in 1601), both in the hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple. c.1620.

Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D 258/56/35.

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

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GrF 19: Fulke Greville, Letter to Grevill Varney on his Travels

Copy, headed ‘A letter written by Sr ffulke Grevill to his cousin Grevill Varney then residinge in ffrance...directinge him how hee may make the best use of his travells’.

An epistolary essay beginning ‘My good Cousin, according to the request of your letter, dated the 19. of October, at Orleance...’, dated from Hackney, 20 November 1609. First published in Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes (London, 1633). Grosart, IV, 301-6. This essay perhaps originally written by Thomas Bodley and possibly also used by Francis Bacon and/or the Earl of Essex. Also perhaps sent by Greville to John Harris rather than Greville Varney: see Norman K. Farmer, Jr., ‘Fulke Greville's Letter to a Cousin in France and the Problem of Authorship in Cases of Formula Writing’, RQ, 22 (1969), 140-7.

D 258/31/3

Copy.

HoJ 107: John Hoskyns, A Dreame (‘Me thought I walked in a dreame’)

Osborn, No. XXXIV (pp. 206-8). Whitlock, pp. 480-2.

A shortened version of the poem, of lines 43-68, beginning ‘the worst is tolld, the best is hidd’ and ending ‘he errd but once, once king forgiue’, was widely circulated.

D 258/31/73

passim

RaW 915: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Ralegh.

D258/34/26/1

A quarto miscellany of English and Latin verse and prose, largely in a neat secretary hand, 91 leaves, in limp vellum. Early 17th century.

Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D258/60/26a.

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DnJ 406: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)

Copy, headed ‘Ad amicam de perditione armillæ’.

First published, as ‘Eleg. XII. The Bracelet’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as ‘Elegie XI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.

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DnJ 86: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)

Copy, headed ‘In Flaviam’.

First published as ‘Elegie II’ in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as ‘Elegie II’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.

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HrJ 91.8: Sir John Harington, Of a certaine Man (‘There was (not certain when) a certaine preacher’)

Copy, headed ‘a certain woman’, the text followed by an untitled answer beginning ‘That we yet could in the bible find’.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 23. McClure No. 277, p. 262. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 105, p. 250.

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WyT 403: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Who so list to hounte I know where is an hynde’

Copy, headed ‘Sr Th. w.S.’ and here beginning ‘Who list to hunt I knowe where is an hind’.

Not published in 16th century. Muir & Thomson, p. 5.

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HrJ 81: Sir John Harington, How England may be reformed (‘Men say that England late is bankrout grown’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘England men say of late is bankrout growen’, inscribed ‘Sr. J H.’

Not published before the 19th century (?). Quoted at the end of the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5). McClure No. 375, p. 301. Kilroy, Book I, No. 1, p. 186.

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HrJ 306.8: Sir John Harington, A Tragicall Epigram (‘When doome of Peeres & Iudges fore-appointed’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘When doome of death by iudgment fore appointed’.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 82. McClure No. 336, pp. 280-1. Kilroy, Book III, No. 44, p. 185. This epigram is also quoted in the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5).

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HrJ 209.8: Sir John Harington, Of a pure preaching Phisition (‘The zealous preacher Lalus as they tell’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Lalus the zealous preacher as they tell’.

Kilroy, Book IV, No. 20, p. 216.

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HrJ 164.4: Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Cobler, and an ignorant Curat (‘A Cobler, and a Curat, once disputed’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 66. McClure No. 67, p. 173. Kilroy, Book I, No. 10, p. 97.

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HrJ 240.8: Sir John Harington, Of Don Pedros debts (‘Don Pedro's out of debt be bold to say it’)

Copy.

McClure, No. 65. Kilroy II, 18, p. 138.

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DnJ 3759: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)

Copy, untitled but superscribed ‘J. D.’

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.

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BmF 14: Francis Beaumont, Ad Comitissam Rutlandiae (‘Madam, so may my verses pleasing be’)

Copy, untitled but superscribed ‘Francis Beaumont’.

First published, as ‘An Elegie by F. B.’, in Certain Elegies, Done by Sundrie Excellent Wits (London, 1618). Dyce XI, 505-7.

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OvT 17: Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife (‘Each woman is a brief of woman kind’)

Copy.

First published, as A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury, in London, 1614. Rimbault, pp. 33-45. Beecher, pp. 190-8.

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HrJ 279.8: Sir John Harington, Of Women learned in the tongues (‘You wisht me to a wife, faire, rich and young’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘You wisht me to a wife both faire and yonge’.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 7. McClure No. 261, pp. 255-6. Kilroy, Book I, No. 7, p. 96.

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PlG 17.5: George Peele, A Sonet (‘His Golden lockes, Time hath to Silver turn'd’)

Copy, untitled.

First published as an appendix to Polyhymnia (London, 1590). Edited by D.H. Horne in Prouty, I, 244. The sonnet probably written by Sir Henry Lee: see Horne, pp. 169-70, and Thomas Clayton, ‘“Sir Henry Lee's Farewel to the Court”: The Texts and Authorship of “His Golden Locks Time Hath to Silver Turned”’, ELR, 4 (1974), 268-75.

D 258/37/17

Copy of two letters by Ralegh, to James I, 1603.

RaW 916: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

D 258/39/4

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife, from Guiana, 1617.

RaW 917: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

D 258/39/5

A MS containing four texts relating to Ralegh, in a professional secretary hand, on four folio leaves (the last page blank). c.1620s.

Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D 258/67/6b

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

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RaW 773: 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.

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RaW 51: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

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

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.

D258/39/6

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleighs Apologie’, on nine folio leaves, in blank paper wrapper. c.1620s-30s.

RaW 553: Sir Walter Ralegh, Apology for his Voyage to Guiana

Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D258/67/6c.

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

A tract beginning ‘If the ill success of this enterprise of mine had been without example...’. First published in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 477-507. Edited by V. T. Harlow in Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 316-34.

D258/39/33/1

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

Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D258/67/33a.

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RaW 52: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

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

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.

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RaW 53: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

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

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.

D258/39/33/2

Copy, in the secretary hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple; untitled, on seven pages of four small quarto leaves, in blank paper wrappers, docketed ‘Raleighs speech at his death’. c.1620s-30s.

RaW 774: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)

Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Formerly D258/67/33b.

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.

D258/39/35

Copy of a speech by Bacon in the House of Commons on the union of the laws of England and Scotland, in the secretary hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple. c.1620s.

BcF 365: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671).

D258/55/22

Copy, including the dedication to the King, in a professional cursive hand, headed ‘A Dialogue betwene a Counsellor of State and a Justice of Peace, the one disswadeng, the other perswading the calling of a Parliament. written by Sr Wa: Raleighe’, on 46 folio leaves (plus blanks), in vellum. c.1620s-30s.

RaW 584.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Dialogue between a Counsellor of State and a Justice of the Peace

Among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671).

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.

D258/67/1

Copy, including the prose dedication, in the secretary hand of Thomas Gell, MP (1595-1657), of the Inner Temple, headed ‘The Iner Temple masque by W.B.’; on seven quarto leaves (plus one blank), imperfect, gnawed by rodents. c.1620s.

BrW 255: William Browne of Tavistock, The Inner Temple Masque

Once among the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, including those of the Parliamentary commander and MP Sir John Gell, first Baronet (1593-1671). Later owned by Lt. Col. John Chandos-Pole, of Newnham Hall, Daventry.

Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, p. 386b. The text corrected from this MS in Goodwin (II, 345) and in Hill.

First published in The Works of William Browne, ed. Thomas Davies (London, 1772). Goodwin, II, 165-90. Edited by R.F. Hill as The Masque of the Inner Temple (Ulysses and Circe), in A Book of Masques in Honour of Allardyce Nicoll (Cambridge, 1967), pp. 179-206.

D258/67/31/2

Copy. c.1620s-30s.

RaW 728.175: Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)

Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, ‘“The Great Day of Mart”: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603’, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.

D258/67/31/17g

Copy of a speech by Bacon. c.1620s-30s.

BcF 366: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

D258/67/35a

Copy of a speech by Bacon. c.1620s-30s.

BcF 367: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)