ACC/1360/528
A small quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single non-professional mixed hand, written from both ends, 90 leaves, in vellum (lacking spine). c.1630s.
Among papers of the Clitherow family of London, which included Sir Christopher Clitherow (1578-1642), Lord Mayor of London in 1635. Bookplate of James Clitherow Esq. of Boston House, Middlesex: i.e. either Christopher's son, James Clitherow (1618-82), merchant and banker, who purchased Boston Manor, in the parish of Hanwell, in 1670, or James Clitherow (1694-1752).
ff. [1r-2r]
• CoR 361.5: Richard Corbett, A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine (‘I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd’)
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbett’.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.
ff. [5v-6v]
• DnJ 3859.8: John Donne, Variety (‘The heavens rejoyce in motion, why should I’)
Copy, headed ‘Mr. Nicholas Hare's Elegie’.
First published in Poems (1650). Grierson, I, 113-16. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 104-6 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 23. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 393-4.
Probably by Nicholas Hare (1582-1622), Clerk of the Court of Wards and Liveries.
ff. [9r-10r]
• BrW 32.5: William Browne of Tavistock, An Elegy (‘Is Death so great a gamester, that he throws’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegye Funerall’.
First published in Le Prince d'Amour (London, 1660).
ff. [10r-11v]
• KiH 345.8: Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind (‘Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!’)
Copy, headed ‘An Exequie by Mr. H. Kinge on his wife’.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.
f. [15r-v]
• CoR 107.5: Richard Corbett, An Elegy Upon the death of Queene Anne (‘Noe. not a quatch, sad Poets. doubt you’)
Copy. headed ‘Dr: Corbett on the Queenes death’.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 65-7.
f. [16r]
• KiH 181.5: Henry King, An Elegy Upon Prince Henryes Death (‘Keep station Nature, and rest Heaven sure’)
Copy, headed ‘On Prince Henryes death’.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 65.
f. [17v]
• KiH 204.5: Henry King, An Elegy Upon S.W.R. (‘I will not weep. For 'twere as great a Sinne’)
Copy, headed ‘On Sr: water Raughlye beheaded. 1619’.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 66.
f. [18r-v]
• DnJ 1561.8: John Donne, A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last going into Germany (‘In what torne ship soever I embarke’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 352-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 48-9. Shawcross, No. 190.
f. [19r-v]
• WoH 165.8: Sir Henry Wotton, This Hymn was made by Sir H. Wotton, when he was an Ambassador at Venice, in the time of a great sickness there (‘Eternal mover, whose diffused glory’)
Copy, headed ‘A Himne made by Sr. H. W. in the nights of a painfull sicknes’.
First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), pp. 45-8.
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• StW 518.5: William Strode, On Mistress Mary Prideaux dying younge (‘Sleepe pretty one, oh sleepe while I’)
Copy of the sequence, here arranged as ‘An Eligie on.’ (‘Sleepe pretty one...’), ‘The Epitaph’ (‘Happie graue...’), and ‘Consolatio ad Parentes’ (‘Let her Parents...’).
Sequence of three poems, the second headed ‘Consolatorium, Ad Parentes’ and beginning ‘Lett her parents then confesse’, the third headed ‘Her Epitaph’ and beginning ‘Happy Grave, thou dost enshrine’. The third poem probably by George Morley and first published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). The three poems published in Dobell (1907), pp. 59-63. Forey, pp. 211-16.
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• RaW 304.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Poem of Sir Walter Rawleighs (‘Nature that washt her hands in milke’)
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Nature that washt his hands in milke’.
First published in A.H. Bullen, Speculum Amantis (London, 1889), pp. 76-7. Latham, pp. 21-2. Rudick, Nos 43A and 43B (two versions, pp. 112-14).
f. [22v]
• B&F 146.6: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song (‘Hence, all you vain delights’)
Copy, headed ‘Of Malenchollye’.
Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1698-9.
For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see StW 641-663.
f. [26v]
• StW 762.5: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘I saw faire Clora walke alone’.
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).
f. [28r]
• MoG 73: George Morley, On the Nightingale (‘My limbs were weary and my head oppressed’)
Copy, headed ‘On the Nightingale Mr. G. M.’
f. [28v]
• ShW 14.5: William Shakespeare, Sonnet 2 (‘When forty winters shall besiege thy brow’)
Copy, headed ‘Spes altera’.
Edited and most manuscript copies collated in Gary Taylor, ‘Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets’, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 68/1 (Autumn 1985), 210-46.
f. [30r-v]
• DnJ 1876.5: John Donne, A Letter to the Lady Carey, and Mrs Essex Riche, From Amyens (‘Here where by All All Saints invoked are’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie by the L. Herbert’.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 221-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 105-7. Shawcross, No. 142.
f. [30v]
• DnJ 2951.5: John Donne, Song (‘Stay, O sweet, and do not rise’)
Copy.
First published (in a two-stanza version) in John Dowland, A Pilgrim's Solace (London, 1612) and in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Printed as the first stanza of Breake of day in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 432 (attributing it to Dowland). Gardner, Elegies, p. 108 (in her ‘Dubia’). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 402-3. Not in Shawcross.
See also DnJ 428.
f. [31r]
• DnJ 2309.5: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)
Copy, headed ‘Songe: i. x.’
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.
f. [31r-v]
• DnJ 312.9: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612). Grierson, I, 46-7. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 27.
f. [31v]
• DnJ 199.5: John Donne, The Apparition (‘When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.
f. [32r]
• DnJ 515.8: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)
Copy, headed ‘Songe. 3.’
Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.
f. [33v]
• DnJ 1815.8: John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow (‘Stand still, and I will read to thee’)
Copy.
First published, as ‘Song’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 71-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 30.
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• DnJ 3479.5: John Donne, To Sr Henry Wotton (‘Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 180-2. Milgate, Satires, pp. 71-3. Shawcross, No. 112.
f. [34v]
• DnJ 1471.8: John Donne, The good-morrow (‘I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.
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• DnJ 2933.8: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)
Copy, headed ‘Songe. 7.’
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.
f. [35r-v]
• DnJ 3997.5: John Donne, Womans constancy (‘Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day’)
Copy, headed ‘8.’ [i.e. Songe. 8.].
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 42-3. Shawcross, No. 34.
ff. [35v-6r]
• DnJ 2063.5: John Donne, Loves diet (‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’)
Copy, headed ‘Loues Dyett Dr Dunn’.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.
f. [36r-v]
• DnJ 3924.5: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)
Copy, headed ‘The Will: Dr. Dunn:’.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.
f. [37r]
• DnJ 1375.5: John Donne, The Flea (‘Marke but this flea, and marke in this’)
Copy, headed ‘Du: the flea’.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.
f. [37v]
• DnJ 452.8: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)
Copy, headed ‘Du Sonnett’.
First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.
ff. [38r-9v]
• CoR 221.5: Richard Corbett, An Exhortation to Mr. John Hammon minister in the parish of Bewdly, for the battering downe of the Vanityes of the Gentiles, which are comprehended in a May-pole… (‘The mighty Zeale which thou hast new put on’)
Copy.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 52-6.
An exemplum of Poëtica Stromata at Christ Church, Oxford, has against this poem the MS marginal note ‘None of Dr Corbets’ and an attribution to John Harris of Christ Church.
ff. [40r-2r]
• EaJ 28.5: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie, Upon the death of Sir John Burrowes, Slaine at the Isle of Ree (‘Oh wound us not with this sad tale, forbear’)
Copy.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 12-16. Extract in Bliss, pp. 225-6. Edited in James Doelman, ‘John Earle's Funeral Elegy on Sir John Burroughs’, English Literary Renaissance, 41/3 (Autumn 2011), 485-502 (pp. 499-502).
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• KiH 418.5: Henry King, Madam Gabrina, Or the Ill-favourd Choice (‘I have oft wondred, why thou didst elect’)
Copy, headed with the Spanish epigram (here rendered as ‘Cor mala muger at remedio / Mucha Tietra por et medio’).
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 144-5.
f. [46v]
• KiH 127.5: Henry King, The Defence (‘Why slightest thou what I approve?’)
Copy, headed ‘The Answer’ and subscribed ‘J. K.’
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 145-6.
ff. [47v-8r]
• BrW 173.5: William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow (‘Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd’)
Copy, headed ‘Vppon one drownd in a Snowe’.
First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Brydges (1815), p. 76. Goodwin, II, 290.
ff. [1v-2r rev.]
• JnB 537.5: Ben Jonson, To the right Honourable, the Lord Treasurer of England. An Epigram (‘If to my mind, great Lord, I had a state’)
Copy, headed ‘Ben. Johnson to the L. Treasorer’.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxxvii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 260-1.
f. [2r rev.]
• CoR 200.5: Richard Corbett, An Epitaph on Doctor Donne, Deane of Pauls (‘Hee that would write an Epitaph for thee’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Deane of Paules: D.D.’ and subscribed ‘R. Corbett’.
First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 89.
ff. [7r-8v rev.]
• MyJ 8: Jasper Mayne, On Dr. Donnes death: By Mr. Mayne of Christ-Church in Oxford (‘Who shall presume to mourn thee, Donne, unlesse’)
Copy, headed ‘On Dr Donnes death’, subscribed ‘Jasper Mayne’.
First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633), p. 393. Grierson, I, 382-4.
f. [8v rev.]
• CwT 217.5: Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence (‘You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay’)
Copy.
First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 28. Dunlap. p. 131.
ff. [8v-9r rev.]
• StW 1369.5: William Strode, Upon the blush of a faire Ladie (‘Stay, lustie bloud, where canst thou seeke’)
Copy, headed ‘A Blush’.
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 39-40. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
f. [9r rev.]
• HeR 19.5: Robert Herrick, The admonition (‘Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares’)
Copy, headed ‘A Phansie’.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 130-1. Patrick, p. 177.
ff. [9r-10v rev.]
• MyJ 24: Jasper Mayne, On Mris Anne King's Tablebook of Pictures (‘Mine eyes were once blessed with the sight’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Gentlewomans Tablebookes of Pictures drawne by her selfe with a Siluer penn’.
Unpublished?
ff. [10v-11r rev.]
• DaW 57.5: Sir William Davenant, To a Gentleman at his uprising (‘Soe phoebus rose, as if he had last night’)
Copy, headed ‘An Incitation to Mr: Endymion Porter's Morning Muse’ and subscribed ‘Sr William Dauenant’.
First published in Herbert Berry, ‘Three New Poems by Davenant’, PQ, 31 (1952), 70-4. Gibbs, pp. 317-21.
ff. [11r-12v rev.]
• EaJ 6.5: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie upon Master Francis Beaumont (‘Beaumont lies here, and where now shall wee have’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Death of Beaument by J Earles’.
First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640), sig. Klr-K2r. Beaumont and Fletcher, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Bliss, pp. 229-32.
ff. [13v-14r rev.]
• JnB 182.5: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body (‘Sitting, and ready to be drawne’)
Copy, headed ‘The Body. On Mris. V. S sitting to be drawne’.
First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).
ff. [14r-15v rev.]
• JnB 220.5: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 4. The Mind (‘Painter, yo'are come, but may be gone’)
Copy, headed ‘The Minde. On the same’ and subscribed ‘Ben Johnson’.
Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.
ff. [15v-16r rev.]
• CwT 863.8: Thomas Carew, Song. Eternitie of love protested (‘How ill doth he deserve a lovers name’)
Copy, subscribed ‘T. Carew’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 23-4.
f. [16r rev.]
• CwT 697.5: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)
Copy, subscribed ‘T. C.’
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).
See also Introduction.
f. [16v rev.]
• ShJ 130.5: James Shirley, ‘Would you know what's soft?’
Copy, headed ‘On his Mris’.
First published, as a ‘Song’, in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Shirley, Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 3.
ff. [16v-17r rev.]
• CwT 1144.5: Thomas Carew, To T.H. a Lady resembling my Mistresse (‘Fayre copie of my Celia's face’)
Copy, headed ‘To a Ladie that had a resemblance of his Mris’ and subscribed ‘T. C.’
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 26-7.
f. [17v rev.]
• CwT 411.5: Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes (‘In Celia's face a question did arise’)
Copy, headed ‘Whether his Mris. eyes or lips did add’ and subscribed ‘T. C.’
First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 6.
ff. [17v-18r rev.]
• CwT 1093.5: Thomas Carew, To my Mistresse in absence (‘Though I must live here, and by force’)
Copy, subscribed ‘T. C.’
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 22.
f. [18r-v rev.]
• CwT 1200.5: Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband (‘This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.
ff. [18v-19r rev.]
• CwT 568.5: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind (‘Goe thou gentle whispering wind’)
Copy, subscribed ‘T. C.’
First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.
ff. [19r-20v rev.]
• CwT 472.5: Thomas Carew, My mistris commanding me to returne her letters (‘So grieves th'adventrous Merchant, when he throwes’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 9-11.
ff. [21r-2r rev.]
• RnT 133.5: Thomas Randolph, A gratulatory to Mr. Ben. Johnson for his adopting of him to be his Son (‘I was not borne to Helicon, nor dare’)
Copy, headed ‘To Mr Beniamin Johnson’.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 40-2.
f. [22r rev.]
• HeR 95.5: Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song (‘Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return’)
Copy, headed ‘To a false louer’.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).
f. [22v rev.]
• DaW 24.5: Sir William Davenant, For the Lady, Olivia Porter. A present, upon a New-yeares day (‘Goe! hunt the whiter Ermine! and present’)
Copy.
First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, p. 43.
f. [23r rev.]
• RnT 412.5: Thomas Randolph, Ad Carolum Cotton, amicu (‘Dic vbi canities tua sit? guaue arte capillos?’)
Copy, subscribed ‘Tho. Randolph’.
Unpublished.
f. [23r-v rev.]
• JnB 428.2: Ben Jonson, A Satyricall Shrub (‘A Womans friendship! God whom I trust in’)
Copy, headed ‘On a Woman’.
First published (in an incomplete 24-line version) in The Vnder-wood (xx) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 171-2. Complete 32-line version first published in Grace Ioppolo, ‘The Monckton-Milnes Manuscript and the “Truest” Version of Ben Jonson's “A Satyricall Shrubb”’, Ben Jonson Journal, 16 (May 2009), 117-31 (pp. 125-6). Some later texts of this poem discussed in Peter Beal, ‘Ben Jonson and “Rochester's” Rodomontade on his Cruel Mistress’, RES, NS 29 (1978), 320-4. See also Harold F. Brooks, ‘“A Satyricall Shrub”’, TLS (11 December 1969), p. 1426.
f. [28v rev.]
• KiH 79.5: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)
Copy, headed ‘A young mans answer to a Blackamoore’, with a cross-referencing note ‘vid. pag. supra ab hinc decimâ sextâ’.
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).
ff. [30v-1r rev.]
• CwT 819.5: Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing (‘Harke how my Celia, with the choyce’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.
ff. [32r-3v rev.]
• JnB 253.5: Ben Jonson, An Expostulacon wth Inigo Iones (‘Mr Surueyr, you yt first begann’)
Copy.
First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, 7 vols, ed. Peter Whalley (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 402-6.
f. [34r rev.]
• JnB 494.5: Ben Jonson, To Inigo Marquess Would be A Corollary (‘But cause thou hearst ye mighty k. of Spaine’)
Copy.
First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. Peter Whalley, 7 vols (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 406-7.
f. [34r-v rev.]
• JnB 480.5: Ben Jonson, To a ffreind an Epigram Of him (‘Sr Inigo doth feare it as I heare’)
Copy, headed ‘To a freind P.K.D. An Epigram of him’ and subscribed ‘Ben Johnson’.
First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. Peter Whalley, 7 vols (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 407-8.
ff. [34v-7r rev.]
• HrE 38.5: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, An Ode upon a Question moved, Whether Love should continue for ever? (‘Having interr'd her Infant-birth’)
Copy, headed ‘The L. Herbert’.
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 61-6.
Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/145
Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [19 November 1602]. 1602.
*HrJ 369: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
Evans, p. 215.
Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/146
Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [4 June 1606]. 1606.
*HrJ 387: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
Evans, p. 216.
Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/147
Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [June 1607]. 1607.
*HrJ 389: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
Evans, p. 217.
Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/148
Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [July 1607]. 1607.
*HrJ 390: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
Evans, pp. 221-2.
Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/149
Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [22 July 1607]. 1607.
*HrJ 391: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
Evans, pp. 218-19.
Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/150
Autograph letter signed, to Sir William Smith, [31 July 1607]. 1607.
*HrJ 392: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
Evans, pp. 219-20.
Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/151
Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [4 June 1608]. 1608.
*HrJ 397: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
Evans, p. 226.
Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/153
Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [13 November 1607]. 1607.
*HrJ 395: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
Evans, pp. 225-6.
Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/154
Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [13 June 1608]. 1608.
*HrJ 399: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
McClure, No. 51, pp. 130-1, edited from Philip Bearcroft, Thomas Sutton (London, 1737), p. 23. Evans, pp. 227-8.
Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/155
Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [from Bath, 5 September1608]. 1608.
*HrJ 400: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
McClure, No. 53, pp. 134-5, edited from James Peller Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum (London, 1803). Evans, pp. 229-30.
Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/156
Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [21 December 1608]. 1608.
*HrJ 401: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
McClure, No. 56, p. 139 (here dated 21 December 1609), edited from James Peller Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum (London, 1803). Evans, pp. 230-1.
Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/157
Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [5 February 1609/10]. 1610.
*HrJ 406: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
McClure, No. 57, p. 140, edited from Harington's rough draft (HrJ 405). Evans, pp. 232-3.
Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F3/317
Autograph letter signed, to Thomas Sutton, [17 September 1607]. 1607.
*HrJ 393: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
Evans, pp. 223-4.
Charterhouse Papers, ACC. 1876/F5/42
Autograph letter signed, to Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, 23 November 1609. 1609.
*HrJ 404: Sir John Harington, Letter(s)
Craig, p. 54.
COL/CC/O1/030
A double-folio-size civic register of entries, in the professional hands of clerks, with numerous signatures by others, 402 leaves (including blanks), in modern vellum.
Formerly Corporation of London Records Office, Journal 29.
f. 28r
• *HeR 434: Robert Herrick, Document(s)
A statement in Latin, in a professional secretary hand, signed by Herrick (‘Robert Hearicke’), acknowledging receipt of money from his uncle, 19 March 1612/13. 1613.
A negative microfiche of this document also in London Metropolitan Archives, COL/AC/19/188. Discussed in Mark Eccles, ‘Herrick's Inheritance’, N&Q, 230 (March 1985), 74-8.
CLC/297/MS 00094
A folio composite volume of miscellaneous tracts and civic papers relating to London, in several hands, 311 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half-vellum marbled boards.
Formerly Guildhall Library MS 94.
ff. 50r-3v
• EvJ 116: John Evelyn, London Revived Consideration for its rebuilding in 1666
Copy of Evelyn's revised version (as sent to Henry Oldenburg, Secretary of the Royal Society, 22 December 1666), in a rounded italic hand, subscribed ‘JEvelyn’, on two pairs of conjugate folio leaves. Early 18th century.
Edited from this MS in Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 3rd Ser. 27 (1919-20), 463-70. Reprinted in E.S. de Beer's edition (Oxford, 1938) [see Keynes, p. 255].
CLC/267/MS 017561756
A volume of materials relating to the Woodford family of Burnham, Buckinghamshire, in several hands, 33 pages, in remains of a contemporary vellum wrapper. c.1510-18.
Notes on f. 1r by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector. Formerly Guildhall Library, MS 1756.
ff. 3v-12v (versos only)
• MrT 2.5: Sir Thomas More, Fortune Verses
Copy of lines 53-193, comprising ‘The wordes of ffortune to the pepull’ and ‘To them that trusteth yn Fortune’, in a secretary hand.
This MS edited and discussed in A.S.G. Edwards and M.T.W. Payne, ‘A New Manuscript of Thomas More's “Fortune Verses”’, RES, NS 60 (September 2009), 578-87.
The Fortune Verses first published, in a 313-line version, including a ‘Prologue’ beginning ‘As often as I consydre, these old noble clerkes’; ‘The wordes of Fortune to ye people’ beginning ‘Myne high estate power & auctoryte’; ‘To them that tristith in ffortune’ beginning ‘Thow that arte prowde of honour, shape or kynne’, and ‘To them that seketh ffortune’ beginning ‘Who so deliteth to prove & assay’, in The Boke of the fayre Gentylwoman...Lady Fortune (London, [1556?]). Yale, Vol. 1, pp. 31-43. The texts of this poem are also discussed in Hubertus Schulte Herbrüggen, ‘Sir Thomas Mores Fortuna-Verse’, Lebende Antike Symposion für Rudolf Sühnel (Berlin, 1967), 155-72.
CLC/522/MS03738
Shakespeare's signature on a conveyance of the Blackfriars Gatehouse, on a membrane of vellum, 10 March 1612/13. 1613.
*ShW 126: William Shakespeare, Document(s)
Formerly in the Guildhall Library.
Unfolding facsimile in S. Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life (New York, 1975), pp. 221-2. Facsimile also in William Shakespeare: A Documentary Volume, ed. Catherine Loomis, DLB, 263 (Detroit, 2002), p. 220; and elsewhere.
CLC/539/MS09384
A folio composite volume of legal, civic and parliamentary tracts relating to London, in several professional hands, i + 192 leaves, in modern half red morocco.
Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 2898. Formerly Guildhall Library, MS 9384.
ff. 1r-9v
• BcF 201.8: Francis Bacon, Discourse upon the Commission of Bridewell
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘A Breife Treatise or discourse of ye vallidity, Strength, and Extent of the Charter of Bridewell, and how farr, Repugnant both in Matter, sence, and meaninge to the great Charter of England / Worthily Composed by Mr Serieant ffleetwood Somtymes Seriant at Lawe’. c.1630s.
A tract beginning ‘Inter magnalia regni, amongst the greatest and most haughty things of this kingdom...’. First published in Briefe Collections out of Magna Charta (London, 1643) [Wing B4557]. Spedding, VII, 505-16.
COL/AD/01/026
A double-folio-size civic register of entries, in the professional hands of clerks, with numerous signatures by others, vi + 368 vellum leaves (plus 21 blanks), in modern vellum.
Formerly Corporation of London Records Office, Letter Book AB.
f. 189v
• *HeR 435: Robert Herrick, Document(s)
A statement in Latin, in a professional secretary hand, signed by Herrick (‘Robert Hearick’), acknowledging receipt of money from his uncle, 19 March 1612/13; together with similar or related statements signed by his brothers ‘Thomas Heyrick’, ‘Nicholas Hericke’, and ‘William Hericke’, and by his sister ‘Mercie Hericke’, 19 March 1612/13. 1613.
A negative microfiche of this document is also in London Metropolitan Archives, COL/AC/19/187. Discussed in Mark Eccles, ‘Herrick's Inheritance’, N&Q, 230 (March 1985), 74-8.
MDR/Middlesex Land Register 1719/6, No. 323
Copy of Vanbrugh's lease of the Haymarket Theatre to James and Thomas Yarburgh, 16 March 1718/19, in an official abstract of deeds. c.1719.
VaJ 508: Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)
Register, No. 2910.
P69/DUN/B/011/MS02968/003
Churchwarden's account book for St Dunstan in the West, 1628-44.
Formerly Guildhall library MS 2968/3.
f. 602r
• *WtI 17: Izaak Walton, Document(s)
Walton's autograph signature as a Vestryman in approval of the Churchwardens' accounts, 28 June 1641. 1641.
These accounts recorded in Nicolas, I, clix-clxi.
St Paul's Cathedral archive, CF 56 (uncatalogued)
One leaf of what was originally two conjugate folio leaves bearing copies of five letters by Donne, in a single mixed hand. Formerly St Paul's Cathedral, Donne file in safe, and in Guildhall Library, Gh CF56. The other leaf is now in the library of Robert Pirie, [Donne letters]. c.1620s-30s.
Puttick & Simpson's, 19 December 1855, lot 1436. Owned before 1879 by J. H. Anderdon. Owned at some time by Miss Mary Donne of Chester.
item 1
• DnJ 4129: John Donne, Letter(s)
Copy of a letter by Donne, to an unnamed lady probably in the suite of the Queen of Bohemia, from St Paul's house, 1 February 1623/4.
Edited in Gosse, II, 206.
item 2
• DnJ 4116: John Donne, Letter(s)
Copy of a letter by Donne, to an unnamed correspondent, ‘From my Hospital’, 17 July 1613.
Edited in Gosse, II, 16-17.
item 3
• DnJ 4105: John Donne, Letter(s)
Copy a letter by Donne, to Sir Henry Goodyer, 23 February 1601/2.
Edited in Gosse, I, 109-10.