263/251
Registered copy of Hall's last will and testament, made by him on 21 July 1654, emended 7 September 1656, and proved 18 September 1656. 1656.
HlJ 141: Joseph Hall, Will
BL/ BC 8/11
Autograph letter signed by Fletcher, to Sir Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey, Norfolk, 21 May 1611. 1611.
*FlG 3: Giles Fletcher the Younger, Letter(s)
Later owned by Harry Lawrence Bradfer-Lawrence (1887-1965), Norfolk and Yorkshire antiquary and manuscript collector. Formerly Bradfer-Lawrence VII b (1)
Facsimile in IELM, I.ii (1980), Facsimile XIV (p. 76).
DCN 47/1
A signed indenture between Surrey and the Dean and Chapter of Norwich for the lease of St Leonard's Priory, Norwich, 10 May 1542. 1542.
*SuH 76: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Document(s)
DN/INV27B/112
Copy, untitled, written on the back of a probate inventory relating to Ann Vander Poest of Norwich, 1615. c.1615.
WiG 12: George Wither, The Author's Resolution in a Sonnet (‘Shall I wasting in despair’)
First published in Fidelia (London, 1615). Sidgwick, I, 138-9. A version, as ‘Sonnet 4’, in Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'Arete, generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871), pp. 854-5. Sidgwick, II, 124-6.
For the ‘answer’ attributed to Ben Jonson, but perhaps by Richard Johnson, see Sidgwick, I, 145-8, and Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 439-43. MS versions of Wither's poem vary in length.
Hare 6167, 228X4
Copy, in a professional hand, on 64 folio pages. c.1620s-30s.
DaJ 272.8: Sir John Davies, The Question concerning Impositions
Among the papers of the Hare family, Baronets, of Stow Bardolph.
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.
LEST/NE 3
Copy of Bacon's speech in Chancery on receiving the Great Seal, 1617. c.1620.
BcF 399: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)
Among papers of the Le Strange family, of Hunstanton.
MC 196/1
Copy, in a mixed hand, untitled, subscribed ‘Deliuered at Norwich to the Cleargye at a Synod Apr: 29. 1634.’, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘Dr Corbet, Bp of Norwich his speech to his clearge concerning a Beneuolens to Pauls’. c.1634.
CoR 773.5: Richard Corbett, A speech made by Doctor Corbet Bpp of Norwich to the Clergie of his Diocesse about theire Benevolence for the repayre of St Paules Church London [29 April] Anno domini 1634
Sermon, beginning ‘My worthy freinds & brethren of the Clergy, I did not send for you before, though I had a commission...’, first published in James Peller Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum, 4 vols (London, 1802-7), II (1803), 77-80. Edited (with omissions) in Gilchrist, pp. xli-xlviii.
N.C.C. Original Wills 1682, No. 38
Browne's autograph and signed last will and testament, dated 2 December 1679. 1679.
*BrT 61: Sir Thomas Browne, Will
An unfolding lithograph facsimile appears in Wilkin, II, after p. viii, whence the text is edited in Keynes, IV, 403.
RAY 25
Letter signed, in a professional italic hand, to Sir Nicholas Bacon of Stiffkey, including six lines of verse, beginning ‘Before the sturdye colte will byde the bytt’, surmounted by a drawing of two men with horses, 1 January 1576/7. 1577.
*GaG 9: George Gascoigne, Letter(s)
Owned by Marquess Townshend of Raynham.
Recorded in HMC, 11th Report, Appendix IV (1887), p. 3. Edited in B. M. Ward, ‘George Gascoigne and his Circle’, RES, 2 (1926), 32-41. Edited, with a facsimile, in The Papers of Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey, ed. A. Hassell Smith and Gillian M. Baker (Norwich, 1983), pp. 3-4. Facsimiles in Gabriel Heaton, ‘The Queen and the Hermit: “The Tale of Hemetes” (1575)’, in Elizabeth I and the Culture of Writing, ed. Peter Beal and Grace Ioppolo (British Library, 2007), pp. 87-114 (p. 105), and in Gillian Austen, George Gascoigne (Cambridge, 2008), Figure 10, after p. 83.
Rye MS 20
A quarto volume of state tracts and papers.
In the Walter Rye Collection.
item 3
• BcF 400: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)
Copy of a speech by Bacon, to Sir William Jones, Chief Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland, on three leaves.
MS 4504
Copy of the prefatory and other supplementary material which was added in the authorized edition of 1643 (i.e. not in the unauthorized edition of 1642), 8 pages. Mid-late 17th century.
BrT 5.98: Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici
First published (unauthorised edition) [in London], 1642. Authorised edition published [in London], 1643. Wilkin, II, 1-158. Keynes, I, 1-93. Edited by Jean-Jacques Denonain (Cambridge, 1953). Martin, pp. 1-80. Endicott, pp. 1-89.
MS 10837 P138B
Copy, in the same hand as SiP 103, untitled, bound up with a miscellany compiled by Francis Blomefield (1705-52), rector of Fersfield, Norfolk topographer, and indexed by him in 1726 as ‘A treatise of Horsman shipp. (Not so.). Tis a defence of Neglected Poetry, in 19 fol:’. c.1584.
SiP 176: Sir Philip Sidney, A Defence of Poetry
Also once owned by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector; by John Ives, FRS (1751-76), antiquary and Suffolk Herald-Extraordinary; by John Thane (1747?-1818), bookdealer; and by John Borthwick (1788-1845), thirteenth Earl of Crookston. Sold by Major Borthwick at Sotheby's, 3 June 1946, lot 195, to Quaritch.
Edited from this MS, with a facsimile of the first page, in The Norwich Sidney Manuscript: The Apology for Poetry, ed. Mary R. Mahl (Northridge, California, 1969). Discussed by Mary Mahl in TLS (21 December 1967), p. 1245; in ‘The Norwich Sidney Manuscript: Adventures of a Literary Detective’, Coranto, 8 (1972), 18-32, and in ‘Sir Philip Sidney's Scribe: The New Arcadia and the Apology for Poetry’, ELN, 10 (1972-3), 90-1. Collated in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten.
First published in London, 1595. Feuillerat, III, 1-46.
See also SiP 226.
MS 11349
A formal commonplace book, with a running heading ‘Things New & Old’. c.1684 ?
Owned in 1684 by one Stephen Aldhouse, of Matlaske.
p. 58
• HlJ 78: Joseph Hall, Extracts
Extracts from works by Hall.
p. 404
• DnJ 4052: John Donne, Sermon preached at St. Paul's, 1627
Extract, a passage ascribed to ‘Jo: Donne’, headed ‘Excellencie of the Soule’, beginning ‘When God had in six daies made the Common-Diall of the world…’ and ending ‘…that God might saue and Glorifie Man Hereafter’.
Unidentified passage. A different version printed in John Spencer, Things New and Old (London, 1658), pp. 502-3, with the sidenote ‘Joh. Donne Serm. at S. Pauls, Lond. 1627’.
MS 21267, T134 D
Copy, on 83 octavo pages. c.1630s-42.
BrT 11: Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici
Owned in 1785 by one J. Bohyun Smyth and later by Simon Wilkin (1790-1862).
This MS recorded (as ‘W’ or ‘Wilkin Collection, no. I’) and collated in part by all editors.
First published (unauthorised edition) [in London], 1642. Authorised edition published [in London], 1643. Wilkin, II, 1-158. Keynes, I, 1-93. Edited by Jean-Jacques Denonain (Cambridge, 1953). Martin, pp. 1-80. Endicott, pp. 1-89.
MS 21267, T
Copy, originally untitled, a title and long Latin note attributing the work to a Scot named Dr Read who died in 1641 added in a later hand, 186 quarto pages. c.1630s-42.
BrT 12: Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici
Later owned by Simon Wilkin (1790-1862).
First published (unauthorised edition) [in London], 1642. Authorised edition published [in London], 1643. Wilkin, II, 1-158. Keynes, I, 1-93. Edited by Jean-Jacques Denonain (Cambridge, 1953). Martin, pp. 1-80. Endicott, pp. 1-89.
MS 21268, T 134 D
MS.
BrT 12.5: Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici
This MS recorded (as ‘W.2’ or ‘Wilkin Collection, no. II’) and collated in part by all editors. Facsimile of the first page of text (erroneously described as ‘written by Sir Thomas Browne himself’) in Charles Williams, Souvenir of Sir Thomas Browne, with twelve illustrations (London and Norwich, 1905).
First published (unauthorised edition) [in London], 1642. Authorised edition published [in London], 1643. Wilkin, II, 1-158. Keynes, I, 1-93. Edited by Jean-Jacques Denonain (Cambridge, 1953). Martin, pp. 1-80. Endicott, pp. 1-89.
MS 21270, T 134 D (first item)
Autograph draft, with revisions, on 39 quarto leaves, bound with BrT 17. c.1680.
*BrT 16: Sir Thomas Browne, Repertorium, or Some Account of the Tombs and Monuments in the Cathedrall Church of Norwich 1680
Later owned by William Fitch (1793-1859), Suffolk antiquary.
Edited chiefly from this MS in Keynes.
First published in Posthumous Works (London, 1712). Wilkin, IV, 1-31. Keynes, III, 121-43.
See also BrT 21 and BrT 36.
MS 21270, T 134 D (second item)
Autograph draft, with revisions, on 22 quarto leaves, the tract dated ‘1679’, bound with BrT 16. c.1679.
*BrT 17: Sir Thomas Browne, Repertorium, or Some Account of the Tombs and Monuments in the Cathedrall Church of Norwich 1680
Later owned by William Fitch (1793-1859), Suffolk antiquary.
Edited in part from this MS in Keynes.
First published in Posthumous Works (London, 1712). Wilkin, IV, 1-31. Keynes, III, 121-43.
See also BrT 21 and BrT 36.
PD 382/1
Autograph entries by Fletcher in the register of baptisms, burials, and marriages of All Saints Church, Hilgay, Norfolk, for 1583-1674, while he was rector there from 1621 to 1650. c.1621-50.
*FlP 27: Phineas Fletcher, Document(s)