CELM: Princeton

AM 16022

A commonplace book, owned or compiled by John Gybbon. c.1712.

[unspecified page numbers]

• FuT 5.272: Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England

Extracts.

First published in London, 1662.

CO140, box 44

An indenture for the transfer of manors in Surrey from Francis Howard to Sir George Couthopp, signed by Shadwell as a witness, 16 April 1673. 1673.

*SdT 53: Thomas Shadwell, Document(s)

Sotheby's, 18 July 1973, lot 165. Formerly Gen. MSS. Misc. No. AM 21354.

CO199 No. 241

A duodecimo miscellany of verse, prose and astronomical drawings, in several hands, written from both ends, 89 leaves (including 27 blanks), in contemporary leather. Associated with Oxford University. c.1695.

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 10580. Formerly Princeton MS 3584.614.

f. 73v rev.

• PsK 63.5: Katherine Philips, A Dialogue Betwixt Lucasia & Rosania, Imitating that of Gentle Thirsis (‘My Lucasia, leave the Mountain tops’)

Copy, in a roman hand, incomplete.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 126-7. Saintsbury, pp. 577-8. Thomas, I, 197-8, poem 80.

ff. 75r-74v rev.

• PsK 555: Katherine Philips, The Virgin (‘The things that make a Virgin please’)

Copy, in a roman hand.

First published in Poems (1667), p. 136. Saintsbury, p. 583. Thomas, I, 207-8, poem 90.

f. 75v-r rev.

• PsK 404.5: Katherine Philips, To my Antenor, March 16. 1661/2 (‘My dear Antenor, now give o're’)

Copy, in a roman hand, untitled.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 145-6. Saintsbury, p. 589. Kissing the Rod, pp. 200-1. Thomas, I, 217-18, poem 99.

CO199 No. 812

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in a single italic hand, entitled Gospell Obseruations & Religiu^s manifestations, 370 pages, in contemporary calf. Entirely in the hand of Robert Overton (1608/9-1678/9), parliamentarian army officer, whose signature appears on a flyleaf. Prepared as a memorial and tribute to his wife, Ann Gardiner (d.1665), and written when in prison, either on Jersey or in the Tower of London. c.1671/2.

Inscribed inside the front cover ‘Sam^l Atkins Wykeham’ and inside the rear cover ‘17 Feby 1879. Purchased this Book of Prescot Bookseller. Upper Arcade. Bristol...Edw^d G. Doggett’.

This volume discussed extensively, with facsimile examples (of pp. 85-6, 151-2, 162, 166, 190-2), in David Norbrook, ‘“This blushinge tribute of a borrowed muse”: Robert Overton and his Overturning of the Poetic Canon’, EMS, 4 (1993), 220-66.

pp. 152-3, 155

• WiG 83: George Wither, Extracts

Adapted verse extracts from Wither's ‘miscelany’, Faire-Virtue (London, 1622).

Facsimile of p. 152 in Norbrook, p. 223 (Plate 2).

passim, including pp. 157-8, 316-25, 327-50, 352-6, 358-67

• HrG 333: George Herbert, Extracts

Adapted extracts from various poems by Herbert.

Discussed by Sidney Gottlieb in ‘Allusions to George Herbert in Robert Overton's Gospell Obseruations & Religious Manifestations’, SP, 90 (1993), 83-100, and in ‘George Herbert and Robert Overton’, George Herbert Journal, 18 (1994-5), 184-200.

passim, including pp. 159-70, 203, 206, 208, 266, 273-7, 280

• DnJ 4184: John Donne, Extracts

Adapted extracts from various poems by Donne.

Facsimiles of pp. 162 and 166 in Norbrook, pp. 235 and 238 (Plates 5 and 6).

p. 167

• HrG 196.5: George Herbert, A Parodie (‘Souls joy, when thou art gone’)

Copy, an adapted version.

First published in The Temple (1633). John Donne, Poems, By J.D. (London, 1635). Hutchinson, pp. 183-4.

Herbert's poem is a ‘Parodie’ of a poem by William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, first published in John Donne, Poems (2nd edition, London, 1635). Entries below include both poems indiscriminately.

pp. 171, 208

• HlJ 81: Joseph Hall, Extracts

Adapted verse extracts from works by Hall.

p. 172

• CoA 131.5: Abraham Cowley, On the death of Mrs. Katherine Philips (‘Cruel disease! Ah, could it not suffice’)

Adapted extracts.

First published, among Verses written on several Occasions, in Works (London, 1668). Grosart, I, 165. Waller, I, 441-3.

p. 173

• OrR 5: Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, The Earl of Orrery to Mrs. Philips (‘When I but knew you by report’)

Adapted extracts.

First published in Katherine Philips, Poems (London, 1667), sig. b^r-v.

pp. 229-30

• KiH 768.5: Henry King, Upon the Death of my ever Desired Freind D^r. Donne Dean of Paules (‘To have liv'd Eminent, in a degree’)

Adapted exracts.

First published in John Donne, Deaths Duell (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 76-7.

p. 231

• WtI 2: Izaak Walton, An Elegie upon D^r Donne (‘Our Donne is dead; England should mourne, may’)

Adapted extracts.

First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635), pp. [397-9].

p. 233

• CwT 194.8: Thomas Carew, An Elegie upon the death of the Deane of Pauls, Dr. Iohn Donne (‘Can we not force from widdowed Poetry’)

Adapted extracts.

First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633). Carew, Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 71-4.

p. 233

• MyJ 9: Jasper Mayne, On Dr. Donnes death: By Mr. Mayne of Christ-Church in Oxford (‘Who shall presume to mourn thee, Donne, unlesse’)

Adapted extracts.

First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633), p. 393. Grierson, I, 382-4.

p. 273

• CoH 109: Henry Constable, To our blessed Lady (‘In that (O Queene of queenes) thy byrth was free’)

Copy.

First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 5. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J. C. Grierson (2 vols, Oxford, 1912), I, 427. Grundy, p. 185.

passim

• PsK 593: Katherine Philips, Extracts

Adapted extracts from various poems by Philips, including verses on pp. 173-6, 178-200, 202, 210, 212-14, 234-5, 238, 240-2, 245, 247-8, 250-1, 253, 255-62, and 265.

Facsimiles of pp. 190-2 in Norbrook, pp. 241-3 (Plates 7-9).

CO199 No. 895

A quarto miscellany of Restoration verse, prose and dramatic works, in a single cursive predominantly italic hand, 417 pages. c.1670s-80s.

Formerly Princeton General MSS Misc AM 14401.

This MS discussed in A.S.G. Edwards, ‘Libertine Literature in Restoration England: Princeton MS AM 14401’, BC, 25 (Autumn 1976), 354-68, and in PBSA (1977).

pp. 1-36

• RoJ 642: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Sodom and Gomorah

Copy, without a title-page but with a prologue headed ‘Prologue To Sodom & Gomorah by Bolloxinian’.

First published (?) at ‘Antwerp’ [i.e. London], (?)1684. The only known extant early printed exemplum is a probably early 18th-century octavo entitled Sodom, or the Gentleman Instructed. A Comedy. By the E. of R., sold at Sotheby's 16 December 2004, lot 54 (with facsimile pages in the sale catalogue), now in private ownership.

Edited from MS copies as Rochester's Sodom, ed. L.S.A.M. von Römer (Paris, 1904), and as Sodom (Olympia Press, Paris, [1957]). Love, pp. 302-33.

Of uncertain authorship. For discussions of authorship and texts, see notably Rodney M. Blaine, ‘Rochester or Fishbourne: A Question of Authorship’, RES, 22 (1946), 201-6; J. Thorpe, ‘New Manuscripts of Sodom’, PULC, 13 (1951-2), 40-1; A.S.G. Edwards, ‘Libertine Literature in Restoration England: Princeton MS AM 14401’, BC, 25 (Autumn 1976), 354-68, and ‘The Authorship of Sodom’, PBSA, 71 (1977), 208-12; Larry Carver, ‘The Texts and The Text of Sodom’, PBSA, 73 (1979), 19-40; John D. Patterson, ‘Does Otway ascribe Sodom to Rochester?’, N&Q, 225 (August 1980), 349-51; and J.W. Johnson, ‘Did Lord Rochester Write Sodom?’, PBSA, 81 (1987), 101-53.

pp. 37-108

• RoJ 643: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Sodom and Gomorah

Copy of a variant version, with an epilogue.

Edited from MS copies as Rochester's Sodom, ed. L.S.A.M. von Römer (Paris, 1904), and as Sodom (Olympia Press, Paris, [1957]). Love, pp. 302-33.

pp. 237-70

• MaA 163.94: Andrew Marvell, The Dream of the Cabal: A Prophetical Satire Anno 1672 (‘As t'other night in bed I thinking lay’)

Copy.

A lampoon sometimes called The Gamball or a dreame of y^e Grand Caball. First published in A Second Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs, &c. (London, 1689). Edited in POAS, I (1963), pp. 191-203, as possibly by John Ayloffe. Ascribed to Marvell in two MS copies (MaA 163.4 and MaA 163.92).

pp. 279-99

• MaA 120: Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh (‘Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign’)

Copy.

This MS collated in part in A.S.G. Edwards and R.M. Schuler, ‘New Texts of Marvell's Satires’, SB, 30 (1977), 180-5 (pp. 182-4).

First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 194-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 228-36, attributed to John Ayloffe. See also George deF. Lord, ‘Satire and Sedition: The Life and Work of John Ayloffe’, HLQ, 29 (1965-6), 255-73 (p. 258).

pp. 301-17

• MaA 415: Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter (‘Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before’)

Copy, headed ‘New Instruccons to a painter’.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 140-6, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 33-5, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.

pp. 319-23

• RoJ 354: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II (‘I' th' isle of Britain long since famous grown’)

Copy, headed ‘A copy of verses presented to y^e K:’.

Edited from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 60-1. Walker, pp. 74-5. Love (five versions), pp. 85-6, 86-7, 88, 89-90, 90. The manuscript texts discussed, with detailed collations, in Harold Love, ‘Rochester's “I' th' isle of Britain”: Decoding a Textual Tradition’, EMS, 6 (1997), 175-223.

pp. 325-32

• MaA 493: Andrew Marvell, Further Advice to a Painter (‘Painter once more thy Pencell reassume’)

Copy, headed ‘Advice to a Painter’.

This MS collated in part in A.S.G. Edwards and R.M. Schuler, ‘New Texts of Marvell's Satires’, SB, 30 (1977), 180-5 (pp. 181-2).

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). Margoliouth, I, 176-7. POAS, I, 163-7. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 38-9. Rejected from the canon by Lord and the authorship considered doubtful by Chernaik, pp. 211-12.

pp. 347-52

• CrR 91: Richard Crashaw, Loves Horoscope (‘Love, brave vertues younger Brother’)

Copy.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 185-6.

p. 355

• MaA 287: Andrew Marvell, Upon his Grand-Children (‘Kendal is dead, and Cambridge riding post’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e Dukes-children’.

First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 147. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.

pp. 361-2

• MaA 94: Andrew Marvell, Bludius et Corona (‘Bludius, ut ruris damnum repararet aviti’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon Blood's attempt of borrowing y^e Crowne’.

This MS collated in part in A.S.G. Edwards and R.M. Schuler, ‘New Texts of Marvell's Satires’, SB, 30 (1977), 180-5 (p. 181).

First published in Thompson (1776), I, xxxix. Margoliouth, I, 178. Lord, p. 249. Smith, p. 414, with English translation.

For the English version, which accompanies many of the MS texts, see MaA 253-80.

pp. 362-3

• MaA 271: Andrew Marvell, Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown (‘When daring Blood, his rents to have regain'd’)

Copy, headed ‘Translacon’.

This MS collated in part in A.S.G. Edwards and R.M. Schuler, ‘New Texts of Marvell's Satires’, SB, 30 (1977), 180-5 (p. 181).

First published as a separate poem in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, I, 78. Lord, p. 193. Smith, p. 414.

This poem also appears as lines 178-85 of The Loyal Scot (see MaA 191-8 and Margoliouth, I, 379, 384).

For the Latin version, which accompanies many of the MS texts, see MaA 85-97.

pp. 367-71

• MaA 209: Andrew Marvell, Nostradamus's Prophecy (‘The Blood of the Just London's firm Doome shall fix’)

Copy, headed ‘An ancient prophecy of Nost^rDam's written originally in french and English't thus’.

This MS collated in part in A.S.G. Edwards and R.M. Schuler, ‘New Texts of Marvell's Satires’, SB, 30 (1977), 180-5 (p. 182).

First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 178-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 185-9 (first part only as possibly by John Ayloffe). Rejected from the canon by Lord.

pp. 385-6

• EtG 90: Sir George Etherege, To a Very Young Lady (‘Sweetest bud of beauty, may’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1669). Thorpe, p. 1.

pp. 387-9

• SeC 61: Sir Charles Sedley, To Celia (‘As in those Nations, where they yet adore’)

Copy, headed ‘To y^e same’ [i.e. a very young lady].

First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1671). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Ba^t (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 62-3. Sola Pinto, I, 22.

CO677

An indenture signed by both Rochester and his wife Elizabeth, leasing lands in Bishop's Lydeard, Somerset, to John Winter, 29 July 1672. 1672.

*RoJ 666: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Document(s)

Sotheby's, 18 July 1973, lot 163.

Photograph in the British Library, RP 989 (2). Formerly Gen. MSS. Misc. No. AM 21597.

COO47, Vol. 1, leaf 92.

Autograph letter signed by Waller, to [? Sir Richard Browne], 10 May 1652. 1652.

*WaE 820: Edmund Waller, Letter(s)

Formerly John Wild Autograph Collection, Leaf 92.

K623 .F745 1583

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 85: Gabriel Harvey, Freigius, Johannes Thomas. Paratitla seu synopsis pandectarum juris civilis (Basle, 1583)

Recorded in 1979 as being in a ‘Private Collection, United States’.

Stern, p. 214.

Not NjP

An exemplum bearing the inscription, in an unidentified hand, ‘Ex libris Johannis Miltonii’. Possibly owned by Milton the poet, but lacking any sign of his own hand by way of corroboration. 1635.

MnJ 124: John Milton, Ames, William. Conscientia (Amsterdam, 1635)

Recorded in LR, I, 292;, and in Boswell, No. 36.

Oversize DL45 .0438 1555q

Autograph annotations.

*HvG 137: Gabriel Harvey, Olaus Magnus. Historia de gentibus Septentrionalibus, earumque diversis statibus, conditionibus, moribus, ritibus, superstitionibus, disciplinis, exercitiis, regamine, victu bellis, stricturis, instrumentis, ac mineris metallicis, et rebus mirabilibus; nec non universis pene Animalibus in Septentrione de gentibus, eorumque nativa...Auctore Olao Magno Gotho, Archiepiscopo Upsalense, Suetiae, et Gothae Primate (Rome, 1555)

W. H. Robinson's sale catalogue No. 55 (1935), item 51.

Stern, p. 229 (as in a ‘Private collection, United States’).

Oversize PA6452 .A2 1555q

Copious autograph annotations.

*HvG 123: Gabriel Harvey, Livy, Titus. T. Livii Patavini, Romanae Historiae Principis, Decades Tres, cum dimidia; partim caelii secundi curionis industria, partim collatione meliorum codicum iterum diligenter emendatae...a Iodoco Badio Ascensio redacta (Basle, 1555)

Owned in 1990 by Lucius Wilmerding, Jr and on deposit at Princeton University.

Stern, p. 225 (as in a ‘Private collection, United States’). Discussed in Lisa Jardine and Anthony Grafton, ‘“Studied for Action”: How Gabriel Harvey Read his Livy’, Past and Present, No. 129 (1990), 1-78. Facsimile examples in Anthony T. Grafton, ‘Gabriel Harvey's Marginalia: New Light on the Cultural History of Elizabethan England’, Princeton University Library Chronicle, 52/1 (Autumn 1990, 21-4.

PA8550 .D43 1564

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 129: Gabriel Harvey, Melanchthon, Philip. Selectarum Declamationum Philippi Melanthonis, quas conscripsit; & partim ipse in schola witebergensi recitavit, partim aliis recitandas exhibuit (Tomus Primus, Strasbourg, 1564)

Maggs's sale catalogue No. 505 (1928), item 1475, with a facsimile of the title-page as Plate LXII.

Stern, p. 227 (as in a ‘Private collection, United States’).

PE1137 .A2 S53 1568

Autograph signatures and annotations.

*HvG 157: Gabriel Harvey, Smith, Sir Thomas. De recte & emendata Linguae Anglicae Scriptione, Dialogus, Thoma Smitho Equestris ordinis Anglo authore (2 parts, Paris, 1567). De Recta & Emendata Linguae Graecae Pronuntiatone...ad Vintoniensen Episcopum Epistola (Paris, 1568)

Formerly owned by Lucius Wilmerding, Princeton.

Stern, p. 236 (as in a ‘Private collection, United States’).

RHT 16^th-11

Autograph annotations on the final blank page, occasional marginalia, and Harvey's signature (‘Gabrielis Harvey’) on the title-page, an octavo in later leather. c.1571.

*HvG 47: Gabriel Harvey, [Buchanan, George]. De Maria Scotorum Regina, totaque eius contra Regem coniuratione; foedo cum Bothuelio adulterio; nefaria in maritum crudelitate & rabie, horrendo insuper & deterrimo eiusdem parricidio: plena, & tragica plane Historia [London, 1571]

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 3 March 1845, lot 818, and 15 June 1858, lot 778. Puttick & Simpson's, 14 July 1862, lot 130; 16 June 1863, lot 365; and 14 May 1866, lot 1311. W. H. Robinson's sale catalogue No. 77 (1948), item 75, with a facsimile of the title-page in the catalogue.

Stern, p. 205. Recorded in W. Carew Hazlitt, ‘Gabriel Harvey’, N&Q, 3/10 (10 November 1866), p. 371.

RHT 16^th-12

Autograph annotations on the final blank page, occasional marginalia, and Harvey's signature (‘gabrielhauejus’) on the title-page, an octavo in later morocco. c.1572.

*HvG 46: Gabriel Harvey, [Buchanan, George] Ane Detectioun of the duinges of Marie Queene of Scottes, touchand the murder of hir husband, and hir conspiracie, adulterie, and pretensed mariage with the Erle Bothwell. And ane defence of the trew Lordis, mainteineris of the Kingis Graces actioun and authoritie. Translatit out of the Latin quhilke was written by G.B. [London, 1571]

Item 123 in an unidentified sale catalogue. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.

Stern, pp. 204-5.

RHT 16^th-45

A large-paper printed exemplum of the first edition (1596) of A new discovrse of a stale svbiect called the matamorphosis of Aiax, inscribed on the title-page in red ink ‘Seen and dissalowed’, dated (on the verso of the title-page) 3 August 1596. 1596.

Five loosely inserted pages of notes in the hand of Isaac Reed (1742-1807), literary editor and book collector. Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. In the Britwell Court Library of William Henry Christie Miller, MP (1789-1848) and Samuel Christie Miller, MP (1810-89), at Burnham, Buckinghamshire. Sold by John R. B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.

This volume described in William Beloe, Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books, 2 vols (London, 1814), II, 372-84. Also recorded in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), 212.

The volume as a whole

• *HrJ 322: Sir John Harington, The Metamorphosis of Ajax

Harington's autograph marginal annotations and additions throughout, including his autograph dedication to his uncle Thomas Markham.

First published in London, 1596. Edited by Elizabeth Story Donno (New York, 1962).

blank page at the end of the Apologie

• HrJ 302.5: Sir John Harington, To the ladies of the Queenes Priuy-Chamber, at the making of their perfumed priuy at Richmond, The Booke hanged in chaines saith thus: (‘Faire Dames, if any tooke in scorne, and spite’)

Copy, in an unidentified hand, headed ‘An Epigram of the Book - Hanging in Cheyns. To the Lady’, here beginning ‘Fair Dames yf any took in scorn or spite’.

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 44. McClure No. 45, p. 165. Kilroy, Book I, No. 86, p. 124.

blank page at the end of the Apologie

• HrJ 300.5: Sir John Harington, To Master Cooke, the Queenes Atturney, that was incited to call Misacmos into the Starre-chamber, but refused it (‘Those that of dainty fare make deare prouision’)

Copy, in an unidentified hand, headed ‘Epilogue’ and here beginning ‘They that of dainty food make deer prouision’.

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 45. McClure No. 46, p. 165. Kilroy, Book I, No. 87, p. 124.

RHT 16^th-86

Twenty-nine quarto leaves of MS verse, bound up before and after a printed exemplum of Pseudo-Boethius, De disciplina scholarium cum notabili commento (Deventer, 1496), in contemporary blind-stamped calf. In the hand of one John Symson, who also inscribes the first page ‘liber ioannus symson dmi xxi’. 1521.

Also inscribed on the first page ‘W^m Herbert 1774’: i.e. William Herbert (1718-95), bibliographer and print seller. Later in the library of Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.

ff. 2r-3r

• SkJ 27: John Skelton, ‘Wofully araid’

Copy of a longer version, in the hand of John Symson, in black and red ink, subscribed ‘Explicit J Skelton’.

This MS collated in Dyce. Edited in Walter De Gray Birch, ‘A New Poem by John Skelton’, Athenaeum (29 November 1873), p. 697.

Skelton wrote a “Wofully araid” but it is uncertain whether his version can be identified with any extant poem incorporating these words: see Canon, L118, pp. 32-3. First published in Sir John Hawkins, General History of the Science and Practice of Music (London, 1776), III, 2. Dyce (1843), I, 141-3.

pp. 5-6

• SkJ 40: John Skelton, Petevelly constrayned am Y

Copy. Late 15th century.

Edited from this MS in Flügel.

Canon, R68, p. 22. Edited in Ewald Flügel, ‘Liedersammlungen des XVI. Skelton’, Athenaeum (29 November 1873), p. 697.

RHT 17^th-56

An extensive series of autograph corrections and revisions, made possibly in preparation for the first authorised printed edition (1643), on 84 pages of a portion (pp. 49-190) of a printed exemplum of the first, unauthorised, octavo edition (1642), disbound. c.1643.

*BrT 6: Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici

In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.

A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, RP 2300.

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.

RHT 17^th-188

MS verse, in an italic hand, written in a printed exemplum of Donne's Deaths Dvell (London, 1633), in modern half-leather. c.1633-40.

In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.

title-page verso

• HrE 90: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Ode: Of our Sense of Sinne (‘Vengeance will sit above our faults. but till’)

Copy, headed ‘Ode’, subscribed ‘J. D.’

First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson (Oxford, 1912), I, 350. Moore Smith, pp. 119-20.

p. [iii]

• DnJ 1568: John Donne, Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse (‘Since I am comming to that Holy roome’)

Copy, on the verso of the printed frontispiece.

First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 368-9. Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 192.

pp. 37-[38]

• DnJ 1513: John Donne, His parting from her (‘Since she must go, and I must mourn, come Night’)

Copy, headed ‘His parting from his mistress’.

First published, in a 42-line version as ‘Elegie XIIII’, in Poems (London, 1635). Published complete (104 lines) in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 100-4 (as ‘Elegie XII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 96-100 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 21. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 332-4 (with versions printed in 1635 and 1669 on pp. 335-6 and 336-8 respectively).

RHT 17^th-202

An exemplum signed by Walton on the title-page. c.1627.

*WtI 159: Izaak Walton, Donne, John. A Sermon of Commemoration of the Lady Da[n]vers (London, 1627)

Facsimile of the inscribed title-page in ‘Robert H. Taylor Collection’, Princeton University Library Chronicle, 38 (1977), Plate 8, after p. 96.

RHT 17^th-261

An exemplum of the printed edition of 1633, marked up as a prompt-book probably for a theatre production in the Restoration. Late 17th century.

FoJ 16: John Ford, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore

A. S. W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue of English plays to 1700 (1940), item 204.

Recorded in Bentley, III, 464.

First published in London, 1633.

RHT 17^th-463

An exemplum of the printed edition of Katherine Philips's Poems (London, 1664), with MS additions in an unidentified cursive hand, including additional titles in ‘The Table’ for pages 243-7 which are not present in the volume. Late 17th century.

Inscribed ‘John ffreeman’ on the title-page.

p. 10

• PsK 267.5: Katherine Philips, On the faire weather at the Coronacon (‘So clear a season, and so snatch'd from storms’)

The text for line 12, printed as a row of asterisks, added in MS (possibly from the 1667 edition of the Poems).

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 9-10. Poems (1667), p. 5. Saintsbury, p. 509. Hageman (1987), p. 585. Thomas, I, 73, poem 4.

p. 30

• PsK 468.5: Katherine Philips, To the noble Palaemon on his incomparable discourse of Friendship (‘We had been still undone, wrapt in disguise’)

The text for line 26, printed as a row of asterisks, added in MS (possibly from the 1667 edition of the Poems).

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 29-31. Poems (1667), pp. 14-15. Saintsbury, pp. 515-16. Hageman (1987), pp. 586-7. Thomas, I, 83-4, poem 12.

p. 52

• PsK 409.8: Katherine Philips, To my dear Sister Mrs. C.P. on her nuptialls (‘We will not like those men our offerings pay’)

The text for line 6, printed as a row of asterisks, added in MS (possibly from the 1667 edition of the Poems).

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 52-4. Poems (1667), pp. 26-7. Saintsbury, pp. 522-3. Hageman (1987), p. 590-1. Thomas, I, 95-6, poem 20.

p. 237

• PsK 353.5: Katherine Philips, Tendres desers out of a French prose (‘Go soft desires, Love's gentle Progeny’)

MS copy.

First published in Poems (1667), p. 184. Saintsbury, p. 604. Thomas, III, 92.

p. 237

• PsK 83.5: Katherine Philips, A Farwell to Rosania (‘My Dear Rosania, sometimes be so kind’)

MS copy.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 130. Saintsbury, p. 559. Thomas, I, 201, poem 84.

p. 238

• PsK 424.5: Katherine Philips, To my Lady Ann Boyle's saying I look'd angrily upon her (‘Ador'd Valeria, and can you conclude’)

MS copy.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 130-1. Saintsbury, pp. 579-80. Thomas, I, 201-2, poem 85.

p. 239

• PsK 555.5: Katherine Philips, The Virgin (‘The things that make a Virgin please’)

MS copy.

First published in Poems (1667), p. 136. Saintsbury, p. 583. Thomas, I, 207-8, poem 90.

p. 240

• PsK 63.8: Katherine Philips, A Dialogue Betwixt Lucasia & Rosania, Imitating that of Gentle Thirsis (‘My Lucasia, leave the Mountain tops’)

MS copy, lacking the last four lines.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 126-7. Saintsbury, pp. 577-8. Thomas, I, 197-8, poem 80.

[RHT 17^th-594

A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Mrs Anne King. c.1678.

*WtI 49: Izaak Walton, The Life of Dr. Sanderson, late Bishop of Lincoln (London, 1678)

RHT 17^th-596

A printed exemplum inscribed by Walton for Mr Danvers. c.1670.

*WtI 81: Izaak Walton, The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, M^r. Richard Hooker, M^r. George Herbert (London, 1670)

RHT 17^th-634

A printed exemplum with Wycherley's autograph inscription ‘For his much esteem'd and honourd Friend, S^r George Browne, from his humble Servant, W: Wycherley’. 1713.

*WyW 50: William Wycherley, Works (London, 1713)

Bookplate of John Sheepshanks, 1852. American Art Association, New York, 1 January 1938 (Joseph B. Shea sale, Pt II), lot 458.

RHT 17^th-795

A printed exemplum with Wycherley's autograph inscription ‘For S^r Brocas Gardiner…’. 1704.

*WyW 35: William Wycherley, Miscellany Poems (London, 1704)

American Art Association, New York, 4 December 1935, lot 449, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue. Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 23 April 1946 (Hogan sale), lot 174.

RTC01 No. 33

Copy, in two cursive hands, entitled ‘A Short view of the state of Ireland from the yeare 1640 to the yeare 1652’, 203 folio pages, followed (pp. [204-25]) by a tract on the trial of Mr Mordaunt in yet another cursive hand, in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.

ClE 38.5: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, A shorte view of the State and condicon of the kingdome of Ireland from the year 1640 to this tyme

Formerly Princeton AM 2002-18. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.

A set of photocopies is in British Library, RP 4683 (1).

First published in Dublin, 1719-20. Published in London, 1720. Incorporated into the 1816, 1826 and 1849 editions of The History of the Rebellion. Reprinted as Vol. II of A Collection of Several Valuable Pieces of Clarendon (2 vols, London, 1727).

RTC01 No. 34

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, including twelve poems in the Marvell canon (plus prose and apocryphal poems), in probably a single professional hand with variations of style (but for another hand on pp. 189-92), 192 pages (plus over 90 blank leaves and an Index), in modern red morocco. The predominant hand in the MS is the same as that in Yale Osborn MS b 105. c.1680s.

In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 1.

Marvell items recorded and some poems collated in POAS, I.

pp. 1-13

• MaA 318: Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter (‘Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight’)

Copy, as ‘supposed to be Written by S^r: J: Denham’.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.

The case for Marvell's authorship supported in George deF. Lord, ‘Two New Poems by Marvell?’, BNYPL, 62 (1958), 551-70, but see also discussion by Lord and Ephim Fogel in Vol. 63 (1959), 223-36, 292-308, 355-66. Marvell's authorship supported in Annabel Patterson, ‘The Second and Third Advices-to-the-Painter’, PBSA, 71 (1977), 473-86. Discussed also in Margoliouth, I, 348-50, and in Chernaik, p. 211, where Marvell's authorship is considered doubtful. A case for Sir John Denham's authorship is made in Brendan O Hehir, Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 212-28.

pp. 13-28

• MaA 364: Andrew Marvell, The Third Advice to a Painter (‘Sandwich in Spain now, and the Duke in love’)

Copy.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 67-87. Lord, pp. 130-44. Smith, pp. 346-56. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 32-3, as anonymous.

See discussions of the disputed authorship of this poem, as well as of the ‘Second Advice’, cited before MaA 314.

pp. 28-32

• MaA 393: Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter (‘Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before’)

Copy, headed ‘The Fourth Advice or The New Instructions to a Painter’.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

pp. 33-7

• MaA 129: Andrew Marvell, Clarindon's House-Warming (‘When Clarindon had discern'd beforehand’)

Copy, headed ‘The House warming to the Chancellor’.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir John Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 143-6. POAS, I, 88-96. Lord, pp. 144-51. Smith, pp. 358-61.

pp. 39-42

• MaA 441: Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by (‘Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe’)

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

First published [in London], 1679. A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), as by ‘A-M-l, Esq’. Thompson III, 399-403. Margoliouth, I, 214-18, as by Henry Savile. POAS, I, 213-19, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 40-2, as by Henry Savile.

pp. 43-5

• MaA 238: Andrew Marvell, The Statue in Stocks-Market (‘As cities that to the fierce conquerors yield’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon S^r Robert Viners setting up the Kings Statue’.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 188-90. POAS, I, 266-9. Lord, pp. 193-6. Smith, pp. 416-17.

pp. 45-57

• MaA 163.95: Andrew Marvell, The Dream of the Cabal: A Prophetical Satire Anno 1672 (‘As t'other night in bed I thinking lay’)

Copy.

pp. 69-73

• MaA 306: Andrew Marvell, Upon his Majesties being made free of the Citty (‘The Londoners Gent’)

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 190-4. POAS, I, 237-42. Lord, pp. 196-201, as ‘Upon the Citye's going in a body…’.

pp. 79-85

• MaA 68: Andrew Marvell, A Ballad call'd the Chequer Inn (‘I'll tell thee Dick where I have beene’)

Copy, with (p. 85) ‘The Answer’.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Margoliouth, I, 201-8. POAS, I, 252-62. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

pp. 86-8

• MaA 220: Andrew Marvell, The Statue at Charing Cross (‘What can be the Mistery why Charing Cross’)

Copy, headed ‘On King Charles y^e First his Statue Why it is soe long before it is put up at Chareing crosse’.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1698). Margoliouth, I, 199-201. POAS, I, 270-3. Lord, pp. 201-4. Smith, pp. 418-19.

pp. 88-94

• MaA 147: Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between the Two Horses (‘Wee read in profane and Sacred records’)

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 208-13, as ‘probably Marvell's’. POAS, I, 274-83, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

pp. 94-100

• RoJ 104.46: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The History of Insipids (‘Chaste, pious, prudent, Charles the Second’)

Copy, headed ‘The History of the Tymes’.

See Vivian de Sola Pinto in ‘“The History of Insipids”: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell’, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.

pp. 101-7

• MaA 105: Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh (‘Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign’)

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

pp. 107-8

• RoJ 355: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II (‘I' th' isle of Britain long since famous grown’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyr’.

This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

pp. 108-10

• MaA 84.9: Andrew Marvell, A Ballad called The Haymarket Hectors (‘I sing a woeful ditty’)

Copy.

Sometimes called Upon the cutting of S^r John Coventry's nose. First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Thompson, I, xxxix-xli (from ‘Marvell's writing’). Grosart, I, 456-8. Edited in POAS, I (1963), 168-71, as doubtfully by Marvell.

p. 110

• MaA 258: Andrew Marvell, Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown (‘When daring Blood, his rents to have regain'd’)

Copy, headed ‘On Bloods stealing y^e Crowne’.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

First published as a separate poem in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, I, 78. Lord, p. 193. Smith, p. 414.

This poem also appears as lines 178-85 of The Loyal Scot (see MaA 191-8 and Margoliouth, I, 379, 384).

For the Latin version, which accompanies many of the MS texts, see MaA 85-97.

p. 112

• RoJ 266: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Women about Town (‘Too long the wise Commons have been in debate’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyr’.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 46-7. Walker, pp. 68-9, as ‘Lampoone’. Love, p. 42, as ‘Lampoone by the Earle of Rochester’.

pp. 124-7

• MaA 513: Andrew Marvell, His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament, 13 April 1675

Copy, headed ‘His Majesties Speech’.

A mock speech, beginning ‘I told you last meeting the winter was the fittest time for business...’. First published, and ascribed to Marvell, in Poems on Affairs of State, Vol. III (London, 1704). Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 36-43. Grosart, II, 431-3. Augustine Birrell, Andrew Marvell (London, 1905), pp. 200-2. Discussed in Legouis, p. 470, and in Kelliher, pp. 111-12.

pp. 129-34

• DrJ 61: John Dryden, Heroique Stanza's, Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of his most Serene and Renowned Highnesse Oliver Late Lord Protector of this Common-Wealth, &c. (‘And now 'tis time. for their Officious haste’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon Oliver Cromwell late Lord Protector. By John Dryden’.

First published in Three Poems Upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (London, 1659). Kinsley, I, 6-12. California, I, 11-16. Hammond, I, 18-29.

pp. 147-8

• WaE 730: Edmund Waller, Upon the late Storm, and of the Death of His Highness ensuing the same (‘We must resign! Heaven his great soul does claim’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e same Subject: By M^r Waller’.

First published as a broadside (London, [1658]). Three Poems upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector (London, 1659). As ‘Upon the late Storm, and Death of the late Usurper O. C.’ in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 34-5.

For the ‘answer or construction’ by William Godolphin, see the Introduction.

pp. 153-7

• MaA 139.94: Andrew Marvell, A Country Clowne call'd Hodge Went to view the Pyramid, pray mark what did ensue (‘When Hodge had number'd up how many score’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Mengel.

First published, as ‘Hodge a Countryman went up to the Piramid, His Vision’, in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), p. 5. Sometimes called Hodge's Vision from the Monument, [December, 1675]. Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 81-8. Thompson, III, 359-65. Grosart, I, 435-40. Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse, 1660-1714, Volume II: 1678-1681, ed. Elias F. Mengel, Jr (New Haven & London, 1965), pp. 146-53.

First attributed to Marvell in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697), but probably written in 1679, after Marvell's death.

pp. 173-81

• DoC 355: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell (‘Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age’)

Copy, headed ‘The Lord Rochesters farewell’ and here beginning ‘Fill'd w^th y^e noisome folly of the Age’.

This MS (or DoC 356) collated in POAS.

First published in A Third Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs &c (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 217-27. Discussed and Dorset's authorship rejected in Harris, pp. 190-2. The poem is noted by Alexander Pope as being ‘probably by the L^d Dorset’ in Pope's exemplum of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (London, 1705), British Library, C.28.e.15, p. 121.

pp. 189-92

• DoC 324: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Deist: A Satyr on the Parsons (‘Religion's a politic law’)

Copy, headed ‘A Satyr on the Parsons’.

This MS collated (as ‘No. 2’) in Harris.

Unpublished. Discussed in Harris, pp. 189-90.

RTC01 No. 35

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional rounded hand, entitled ‘A Collection of Choyce Poems, Lampoons, and Satyrs from 1673 to 1689. Never Extant in Print’, 335 pages (plus a Table of contents and blanks), in modern red morocco. c.1690s.

In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 2.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

pp. 1-7

• BuS 30: Samuel Butler, Dildoides (‘Such a sad Tale prepare to hear’)

Copy, headed ‘Dildoides. By the Author of Hudibras, 1673’.

Dated in some sources 1672 but not published until 1706.

p. 8

• RoJ 509: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To the Postboy (‘Son of a whore, God damn you! can you tell’)

Copy, headed ‘Earle of Rochesters Conference with a Post Boy’. This MS in the same hand as RoJ 502 and RoJ 508.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.

First published, in shortened form, in Johannes Prinz, Rochesteriana (Leipzig, 1926), p. 56. Vieth, pp. 130-1. Walker, p. 103. Love, pp. 42-3.

pp. 9-13

• RoJ 367: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Signior Dildo (‘You ladies all of merry England’)

Copy, as ‘By E: of Rochester. 1673’.

This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 54-9. Walker, pp. 75-8.

The poem discussed, texts collated, and the attribution to Rochester questioned, in Harold Love, ‘A Restoration Lampoon in Transmission and Revision: Rochester's(?) “Signior Dildo”’, SB, 46 (1993), 250-62. Love (two versions and added stanzas), pp. 248-9, 250-2, 252-3, 253-7, among Disputed Works.

pp. 14-22

• MaA 79: Andrew Marvell, A Ballad call'd the Chequer Inn (‘I'll tell thee Dick where I have beene’)

Copy, without ‘The Answer’, headed ‘The Chequer Inne...By M^r H: Savile. 1674’

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Margoliouth, I, 201-8. POAS, I, 252-62. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

p. 40

• DrM 39.2: Michael Drayton, King John to Matilda (‘When these my Letters come into thy view’)

Copy of the later version of lines 149-52.

First published inEnglands Heroicall Epistles (London, 1599). Hebel, II, 147-52.

Lines 149-52 (beginning ‘Th' Arabian Bird, that never is but one’) later published in a version beginning ‘'Tis the Arabian bird alone’, attributed to John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1703), p. 191.

pp. 182-8

• BeA 32: Aphra Behn, The last Nights Ramble. 1686 (‘Warm'd with the pleasures w^ch: debauches yield’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘M^rs Behn’.

Ascribed to Aphra Behn in BeA 32. Various other MS copies of this poem are anonymous.

pp. 117-21

• EtG 108: Sir George Etherege, Mrs. Nelly's Complaint (‘If Sylla's ghost made bloody Catiline start’)

Copy, the poem dated 1682.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…Buckingham, Vol. I (London, 1704). Thorpe, pp. 62-4.

p. 305

• DoC 144: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On King William's Happy Deliverance from the Intended Assassination (‘The youth whose fortune the vast globe obey'd’)

Copy, headed ‘On K. William. By L^d Dorset. occasion'd by his deliverance from the Barbarous Assassinacon’.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Harris (1979), pp 61-2.

pp. 315-35

• DoC 100: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Faithful Catalogue of our Most Eminent Ninnies (‘Curs'd be those dull, unpointed, doggerel rhymes’)

Copy, the poem here dated ‘1686/7’.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset (London, 1707). POAS, IV (1968), 189-214. Harris, pp. 136-67.

RTC01 No. 36

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in a single hand, 304 pages (plus an Index and blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1680s-90s.

Sotheby's, 21-22 April 1958, lot 397, to Seven Gables bookshop. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 3.

A microfilm of this volume is in the British Library, M/546.

pp. 2-5

• DoC 81: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Duel of the Crabs (‘In Milford Lane near to St. Clement's steeple’)

Copy, headed ‘A Duell betwixt 2 Monsters upon my Lady Bettys Cunt w^th y^e Chainge of Goverⁿment from Monarchical to Democratical’.

This MS collated in Harris (as ‘No. 1’).

First published, ascribed to Henry Savile, in The Annual Miscellany: for the year 1694 (London, 1694). Harris, pp. 118-23.

pp. 14-20

• DoC 57: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon (‘As Colon drove his sheep along’)

Copy.

This MS colated (as ‘No. 1’) in Harris.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, II (1965), 167-75. Harris, pp. 124-35.

pp. 21-32

• DrJ 43.95: John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire (‘How dull and how insensible a beast’)

Copy.

A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.

First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.

The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, ‘Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire’, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that ‘Mulgrave had by far the major hand’. Recorded in Hammond, V, 684, in an ‘Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition’.

pp. 38-47

• DoC 356: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell (‘Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Fild w^th y^e noise & folly of y^e Age’.

This MS (or DoC 355) collated in POAS.

pp. 76-9

• MaA 311: Andrew Marvell, Upon his Majesties being made free of the Citty (‘The Londoners Gent’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e Lord Mayor (S^r Rob^t: Viner) and y^e Court of Aldermen Goeing to Whitehall & presenting the King & Duke a Goulden Box in which were y^e Coppies of y^r freedome of y^e Citty 1674’.

pp. 79-88

• RoJ 104.48: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The History of Insipids (‘Chaste, pious, prudent, Charles the Second’)

Copy, headed ‘The Cronicle’.

See Vivian de Sola Pinto in ‘“The History of Insipids”: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell’, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.

p. 103

• RoJ 267: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Women about Town (‘Too long the wise Commons have been in debate’)

Copy, headed ‘Essay’.

This MS recorded in Vieth.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 46-7. Walker, pp. 68-9, as ‘Lampoone’. Love, p. 42, as ‘Lampoone by the Earle of Rochester’.

pp. 109-12

• DoC 325: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Deist: A Satyr on the Parsons (‘Religion's a politic law’)

Copy, headed ‘A Ballet’ and here beginning ‘Tho: Religeon's a Pollertick law’.

This MS recorded (as ‘No. 1’) in Harris.

Unpublished. Discussed in Harris, pp. 189-90.

pp. 124-7

• MaA 246: Andrew Marvell, The Statue in Stocks-Market (‘As cities that to the fierce conquerors yield’)

Copy, headed ‘On S^r Rob: Vyners setting up y^e Kings Statue in Stocks Markett 1673’.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 188-90. POAS, I, 266-9. Lord, pp. 193-6. Smith, pp. 416-17.

pp. 127-31

• MaA 229: Andrew Marvell, The Statue at Charing Cross (‘What can be the Mistery why Charing Cross’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon y^e old Kings statue sett up in Brass at Chareing Cross’.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1698). Margoliouth, I, 199-201. POAS, I, 270-3. Lord, pp. 201-4. Smith, pp. 418-19.

pp. 137-9

• DoC 237: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Young Statesmen (‘Clarendon had law and sense’)

Copy, headed ‘A Lampoon on y^e Court’.

This MS collated (as ‘No. 1’) in Harris.

First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.

p. 150 et seq.

• RoJ 11.9: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion (‘The freeborn English Generous and wise’)

Copy.

First published in The Genius of True English-men (London, 1680). Love, p. 55 (21-line version) and pp. 257-8 (30-line version). Also attributed to Robert Wolseley.

pp. 152-8

• MaA 464: Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by (‘Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe’)

Copy, with additions in another hand.

pp. 193-202

• MaA 121: Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh (‘Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign’)

Copy.

pp. 203-13

• MaA 170: Andrew Marvell, An Historical Poem (‘Of a tall Stature and of sable hue’)

Copy.

First published in The Fourth (and Last) Collection of Poems, Satyrs, Songs, &c. (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 218-23, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, II, 154-63, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

pp. 213-21

• RoJ 540: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Tunbridge Wells (‘At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head’)

Copy, as ‘by y^e E: of R. June 30. 75’.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

First published in Richard Head, Proteus Redivivus: or the Art of Wheedling (London, 1675). Vieth, pp. 73-80. Walker, pp. 69-74. Love, pp. 49-54.

pp. 230-40

• CoA 159: Abraham Cowley, A Satyre against Seperatists (‘I have beene where so many Round-heads dwell’)

Copy of a slightly abbreviated version, headed ‘A Satyr on y^e Hipocracy of Dissent^rs by A. Cowley’ and here beginning ‘I have bin S^r where so many Puritans dwell’.

First published, as by ‘A. C. Generosus’, in London, 1642. Collected Works, I, pp. 94-101, as The Puritans Lecture. Cowley's authorship uncertain but probable: see Perkin, pp. 25-9.

pp. 241-2

• RoJ 356: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II (‘I' th' isle of Britain long since famous grown’)

Copy, headed ‘A Poem made by y^e E— R for w^ch y^e K. banisht him.’

This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

p. 254

• RoJ 510: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To the Postboy (‘Son of a whore, God damn you! can you tell’)

Copy, headed ‘Roch: to a Post boy’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution, and in Walker.

First published, in shortened form, in Johannes Prinz, Rochesteriana (Leipzig, 1926), p. 56. Vieth, pp. 130-1. Walker, p. 103. Love, pp. 42-3.

p. 258

• CnC 23.5: Charles Cotton, An Epitaph on M.H. (‘In this cold Monument lies one’)

Copy, originally headed ‘On a Minument by y^e E[arl of] R[ochester]’, this inscription later deleted and ‘Squire Cotton’ and ‘In Print’ written at the side.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 354-6. Beresford, p. 283.

pp. 264-6

• MaA 22: Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda (‘When Death, shall part us from these Kids’)

Copy, headed ‘A Pastorall between Thirsis & Dorinda’.

First published, in a musical setting by John Gamble, in his Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659). Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 19-21. Lord, pp. 261-2, as of doubtful authorship. Smith pp. 244-5. The authorship doubted and discussed in Chernaik, pp. 207-8.

pp. 284-9

• MaA 350: Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter (‘Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight’)

Copy, as ‘by y^e Authour of y^e 1^st A.M.’.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.

pp. 302-3

• DoC 172: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess Dowager of Manchester (‘Courage, dear Moll, and drive away despair’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e Countess of Mack- by y^e E. of Dor:’.

This MS collated in POAS and (as ‘No. 1’) in Harris.

First published (among poems of Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax) in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). POAS, V (1971), 378-81. Harris, pp. 37-40.

RTC01 No. 38

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly on affairs of state, including nine poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in a single small hand, 356 pages (misnumbered in pencil 1-344 and lacking the first few original leaves), in contemporary boards. Probably compiled by an Anglican cleric (or student before taking orders) associated with Cambridge University. c.late 1690s-1704.

Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 5.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Cambridge Miscellany MS: RoJ Δ 13.

p. 2 et seq.

• DoC 335.8: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, ‘Poor Tom of Lincoln’

Copy, superscribed ‘By y^e E. of Dorset at Bugden. Ordinat. at y^e. Mitre in 88 -- written w^th a coal on y^e Wall’.

A twelve-line poem. Unpublished?

p. 46

• RoJ 114: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on Charles II (‘God bless our good and gracious King’)

Copy of a version headed ‘An Epitaph on K. Ch: 2^d by L^d Rochester’ and beginning ‘Here lies our prettie wittie King’.

First published, in a version headed ‘Posted on White-Hall-Gate’ and beginning ‘Here lives a Great and Mighty Monarch’, in The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon (London, 1707). Vieth, p. 134. Walker, p. 122, as ‘[On King Charles]’.

ff. 76-81

• RoJ 104.51: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The History of Insipids (‘Chaste, pious, prudent, Charles the Second’)

See Vivian de Sola Pinto in ‘“The History of Insipids”: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell’, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii).

See Vivian de Sola Pinto in ‘“The History of Insipids”: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell’, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.

pp. 109-15

• RoJ 145: 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’)

Copy, headed ‘A Letter fancyd from Artemisia in y^e Town to Cloe in the Country’.

First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.

pp. 116-17

• DrJ 37.5: John Dryden, Epilogue to The Man of Mode (‘Most Modern Wits, such monstrous Fools have shown’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Poets of late such monstrous Fools' have shown’.

First published in Sir George Etherege, The Man of Mode: or, S^r Fopling Flutter (London, 1676). Kinsley, I, 158-9. California, I, 154-5. Vinton A. Dearing, A Manual of Textual Analysis (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1959), pp. 69-72. Danchin, II, 705 et seq. Hammond, I, 301-3.

pp. 117-20

• RoJ 82: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Epistolary Essay from M.G. to O.B. upon Their Mutual Poems (‘Dear friend, I hear this town does so abound’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epistolary Essay from M.B. to O.G. upon their mutuall Poems’, subscribed Rochester.

Edited in part from this MS in Love.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.

pp. 120-2

• MaA 247: Andrew Marvell, The Statue in Stocks-Market (‘As cities that to the fierce conquerors yield’)

Copy, headed ‘On S^r. Robert Vyners erecting the Kings Statue’.

First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 188-90. POAS, I, 266-9. Lord, pp. 193-6. Smith, pp. 416-17.

pp. 122, 122bis, 123-8

• RoJ 294: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)

Copy, headed ‘A Satyr on Man’, subscribed ‘Rochester’.

First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning ‘All this with indignation have I hurled’) in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as ‘Satyr’. Love, pp. 57-63.

The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, ‘A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's “A Satyr against Reason and Mankind”’, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different ‘Answer’ poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).

pp. 128-30

• RoJ 54: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Disabled Debauchee (‘As some brave admiral, in former war’)

Copy, headed ‘The maim'd Debauchee / The E. of Rochester to his Companions when he lay sick’, subscribed ‘Rochester’.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.

pp. 136-44

• CoA 159.5: Abraham Cowley, A Satyre against Seperatists (‘I have beene where so many Round-heads dwell’)

Copy, headed ‘A Satyr made by M^r Abraham Cowley’ and here beginning ‘I have been S^r where so many Puritan's dwell’.

First published, as by ‘A. C. Generosus’, in London, 1642. Collected Works, I, pp. 94-101, as The Puritans Lecture. Cowley's authorship uncertain but probable: see Perkin, pp. 25-9.

p. 147

• RoJ 517: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Translation from Seneca's ‘Troades’, Act II, Chorus (‘After death nothing is, and nothing, death’)

Copy, headed ‘Rochesters Translation of part of the Chorus of the 2^d Act of Seneca's Troas; post Mortem &c’.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 150-1. Walker, p. 51. Love, pp. 45-5, as ‘Senec. Troas. Act. 2. Chor. Thus English'd by a Person of Honour’.

pp. 151-3

• RoJ 571: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing (‘Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade’)

Copy, as ‘By Rochester’.

First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.

p. 154

• RoJ 500: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To the Postboy (‘Son of a whore, God damn you! can you tell’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘By Rochester’.

First published, in shortened form, in Johannes Prinz, Rochesteriana (Leipzig, 1926), p. 56. Vieth, pp. 130-1. Walker, p. 103. Love, pp. 42-3.

pp. 270-1

• SeC 90: Sir Charles Sedley, Upon the Author of the Satyr Against Wit (‘A Grave Physician, us'd to write for Fees’)

Copy.

First published in Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 46-7.

pp. 333-4

• RoJ 219: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons (‘If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold’)

Copy.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among ‘Poems Possibly by Rochester’. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.

RTC01 No. 42

Copy, in a mixed hand, headed ‘A Poem to the King's most Sacred Majesty. by S^r William Dauenant. 1663’, 22 quarto pages, in modern calf gilt. Late 17th century.

DaW 42.5: Sir William Davenant, Poem to the Kings most Sacred Majesty (‘Though Poets (Mighty King) such Priests have bin’)

In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.

First published in Madagascar (1638). Gibbs, pp. 90-1.

RTC01 No. 53

Copy of an early version, in two neat secretary hands, with lines added in the margin of f. 19r in the first hand, 45 folio pages of text, lacking a title, disbound. c.1609.

GrF 31: Fulke Greville, Mustapha

Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 13 November 1968, lot 86. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.

This MS recorded in Wilkes, II, 463-4.

An early version first published in London, 1609. A later version first published in Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes (London, 1633). Bullough, II, 63-137. Wilkes, I, 210-97.

RTC01 No. 60

Copy of a 581-stanza version, in a single small mixed hand, untitled and here beginning ‘I sing thy sad disaster fatall King’, subscribed ‘finis Infortunio’, followed by a poem on five pages in another secretary hand headed ‘Vpon the death of a Pigeon slaine by a fowler on a plowed land in an Aprill eueninge 1615’, beginning ‘Yee Joue begotten graces yt can reare’, and subscribed in a cursive hand ‘Garnet Maners’, the octavo pages all unnumbered, in old red morocco blind-stamped. Early 17th century.

HuF 15: Sir Francis Hubert, Edward II (‘It is thy sad disaster which I sing’)

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9185. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.

First published, in an unauthorised edition as The Deplorable Life and Death of Edward the Second. Together with the Downefall of the two Unfortunate Favorits, Gavestone and Spencer. Storied in an Excellent Pöem, London, 1628. First authorised edition, as The Historie of Edward the Second, Surnamed Carnarvan, one of our English Kings. Together with the Fatall down-fall of his two vnfortunate Favorites Gaveston and Spencer, London, 1629. An edition of a 576-stanza version in three cantos, entitled The Life of Edward II, was printed in London 1721 from an unidentified MS.

Mellor, pp. 4-169 (664-stanza version, headed ‘The Life and Death of Edward the Second’, including ‘The Authors Preface’ beginning ‘Rebellious thoughts why doe you tumult so’?).

RTC01 No. 62

Autograph MS of ‘My Booke of Remembrance’, closely written in Isham's italic hand, untitled, 38 quarto leaves, in modern cloth-backed marbled boards. c.1638-9.

*IsE 2: Elizabeth Isham, Autobiography

Bequeathed to Elizabeth Isham's brother, Sir Justinian Isham, second Baronet (1611-65), scholar and politician, and his children. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.

Discussed in Anne Cotterill, ‘“Fit Words at the pitts brinke”: The Achievement of Elizabeth Isham’, HLQ, 73/2 (2010), 225-48.

An autobiography modeled on St Augustine's Confessions. Unpublished.

RTC01 No. 82

A quarto volume comprising A Forest of Varieties by Dudley North, third Baron North, in the italic hand of an amanuensis with North's autograph corrections and revisions, 85 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary limp vellum gilt. c.1640s.

Inscribed inside the front cover ‘Given to V. A. N. by her Father-in-law Lord North Aug 1932’. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.

pp. 55-6

• PeW 307: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, That she is onely Fair (‘Do not reject those titles of your due’)

Copy, with a correction in darker ink, untitled.

First published in Dudley North, A Forest of Varieties (1645). Poems (1660), pp. 26-7, superscribed ‘P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ and as by Dudley North, third Baron North.

p. 66

• PeW 304: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, That Lust is not his Ayme (‘Oh do not tax me with a brutish Love’)

Copy, with corrections in darker ink, untitled.

Poems (1660), pp. 33-4, superscribed ‘P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’. This poem is by Dudley North, third Baron North. First published in North's A Forest of Varieties (1645), p. 46.

RTC01 No. 83

Copy, in a professional rounded hand, 79 folio leaves, in olive green morocco gilt. c.1660s.

OrR 22: Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, Henry the Fifth

In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.

First performed on the London stage 13 August 1664. First published London, 1668. Clark, I, 165-224.

RTC01 No. 84

Copy, including a Prologue and Epilogue, in a professional rounded hand, with corrections, emendations and deletions in another hand, 125 folio leaves, in contemporary red morocco gilt. c.1660s.

OrR 9: Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, The Black Prince

Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Ex dono J. Anstis Garter King at Arms’: i.e. John Anstis (1669-1744), antiquary. Bookplate of Thomas Morell, DD, FRS, FSA (1703-84), classical scholar and librettist. Later in the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.

First performed on the London stage 10 October 1667. First published London, 1669. Clark, I, 305-72.

RTC01 No. 167

An octavo miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in one small neat hand, with additions (pp. 71-5 plus 20 pages at the reverse end) in later hands c.1709, 95 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum gilt. c.1680-1700s.

A label: ‘Sold by Robert Paske Stationer in the Piatza on y^e North side of the Royal Exchange London’.

This volume is probably that sold at Sotheby's, 1 March 1871 (Sir John Simeon sale, 7th day), lot 1675, to Quaritch, and probably item 1279 in Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918). In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Restoration poetry MS 4.

pp. 1-9

• MaA 105.5: Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh (‘Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign’)

Copy, headed ‘Rawley's Ghost’.

pp. 21-4

• MaA 312: Andrew Marvell, Upon his Majesties being made free of the Citty (‘The Londoners Gent’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e Lord Mayor & Court of Aldermen presenting y^e K & y^e D: of York each w^th a Copy of their freedome. 1674. Vyner Mayor’.

pp. 25-6

• RoJ 357: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II (‘I' th' isle of Britain long since famous grown’)

Copy, headed ‘On C. S—’.

pp. 28-33

• MaA 210.8: Andrew Marvell, On the Monument (‘When Hodge first spy'd the labour in vaine’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Monument upon Fish street Hill’.

First published, as ‘On the Monument upon Fish-street Hill’, in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), p. 27. Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1703-4).

pp. 53-6

• WaE 776: Edmund Waller, To the Prince of Orange, 1677 (‘Welcome, great Prince, unto this land’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon y^ePrince of Orange’.

First published in The Works of the English Poets, ed. Alexander Chalmers, 21 vols (London, 1810), VIII, 68-9. Thorn-Drury, II, 82-3.

pp. 69-70

• DoC 137.5: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, My Opinion (‘After thinking this fortnight of Whig and of Tory’)

Copy.

First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). POAS, II (1965), 391-2. Harris, pp. 55-6.

RTC01 No. 178

A small quarto miscellany, in a single neat hand, 34 pages, in marbled stiff paper wrapper. c.1720.

In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly cited as the ‘Addison Miscellany’.

p. 13

• SeC 66: Sir Charles Sedley, To Celia (‘Princes make Laws, by which their Subjects live’)

Copy, headed ‘To Celia. by Sir Charles Sedley’.

First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 16.

p. 15

• EtG 90.5: Sir George Etherege, To a Very Young Lady (‘Sweetest bud of beauty, may’)

Copy, as ‘By Sir George Etherege’.

First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1669). Thorpe, p. 1.

p. 16

• EtG 82.5: Sir George Etherege, Sylvia (‘The nymph that undoes me is fair and unkind’)

Copy, as ‘By the same Author’ [i.e. Sir George Etherege].

First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions (London, 1672). Thorpe, p. 26.

p. 17

• SeC 62: Sir Charles Sedley, To Celia (‘As in those Nations, where they yet adore’)

Copy, headed ‘To Celia. By Sir Charles Sedley’.

p. 18

• SeC 8: Sir Charles Sedley, Constancy (‘Fear not, my Dear, a Flame can never dye’)

Copy, as ‘By the same Author’ [i.e. Sir Charles Sedley].

First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 11.

pp. 22-5

• WhA 17: Anne Wharton, The Lamentations of Jeremiah (‘How doth the Mournfull Widow'd City bow?’)

Copy, headed ‘The Lamentations of Jeremiah. By M^s: Wharton’.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

First published in A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (London, 1693), pp. 224-33. Greer & Hastings, No. 10, pp. 145-62.

RTC01 Box 2, fl. 1, [item 2]

Autograph MS of a dozen aphorisms and anecdotes, headed ‘Elegancies Miscellany. Apr. 22. 1601’, on both sides of a single quarto leaf. 1601.

*BcF 85: Francis Bacon, Apothegms New and Old

Sotheby's, 31 March 1875, lot 22, to Sabin. Later in the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly General MSS Misc AM 21463.

This MS unpublished. Conceivably belonging to the Promus of Formularies and Elegancies (BcF 269).

A collection of Bacon's Apothegmes first published in London, 1625. An enlarged collection published in Resuscitatio, 2nd edition (London, 1661). Further enlarged in Spedding, VII, 111-86. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 209-78, 647-52.

RTC01 Box 5, fl. 5

Four lines of Latin verse, in a cursive hand, subscribed ‘Gulielmus Cartwright’, on a pair of conjugate sextodecimo leaves. Possibly written by the poet William Cartwright, but equally likely that it was written by another eponymous member of the Cartwright family of Aynho, Northamptonshire. Mid-17th century.

CaW 66: William Cartwright, ‘Signis hunc vsqua videat libellum’

With a note by one ‘P. B.’ saying that the MS appeared in the ‘1841 sale of Mr Leonard's books of Aynho’ and that ‘It came from an odd volume of the Orations of Cicero printed by Richd Field. Lond. 1600. 12^o.’

Unpublished poem against book thieves.

RTC01 Box 5, fl. 22

A receipt to John Warner, signed by Congreve, 27 October 1720. 1720.

*CgW 134: William Congreve, Document(s)

RTC01 Box 5, fl. 28

Autograph letter signed by Cowley, to Sir Richard Browne, from Paris, 1 February [1644/5]. 1645.

*CoA 213: Abraham Cowley, Letter(s)

RTC01 Box 5, fl. 29

Autograph letter signed by Cowley, to an unnamed person, from London, 3 April 1656. 1656.

*CoA 237: Abraham Cowley, Letter(s)

Photocopy and microfilm in the British Library, RP 266 and RP 267.

RTC01 Box 6, fl. 27

Copy, in the italic hand of Sir Nathaniel Rich (c.1585-1636), colonial investor and politician, headed ‘Meditation on a good friday ridinge from London into y^e West Country’, on one side of a single folio leaf. c.1613-17.

DnJ 1430: John Donne, Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward (‘Let mans Soule be a spheare, and then, in this’)

Formerly among the muniments of the Duke of Manchester on deposit in the Huntingdon Record Office. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.

Recorded in HMC, 8th Report, Appendix, Part II (1881), p. 63, No. 597. Reproduced and transcribed by R .S. Thomson and David McKitterick in TLS (16 August 1974), pp. 869-73. where the MS is mistakenly claimed to be autograph. The correct identity of the hand established by R.E. Alton and P.J. Croft in TLS (27 September 1974), pp. 1042-3. Also discussed in Gardner, pp. 155-6. A photocopy of the MS is in the British Library, RP 2823.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 336-7. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 185.

RTC01 Box 6, fl. 31

Autograph lrtter signed by Dryden and by Elizabeth Dryden, to Sir Robert Robert Long, [from Charlton, Wiltshire], 14 August 1666.

DrJ 303: John Dryden, Letter(s)

Ward, Letter 3. Facsimiles in Catalogue of the Collection of Autograph Letters and Historical Documents formed between 1865 and 1882 by Alfred Morrison, II (1885), Plate 67, after p. 46, and in Wolfgang Keller and Bernhard Fehr, Die Englischer Literatur (Potsdam, 1928), p. 180.

RTC01 Box 12, fl. 9

Copy, in a cursive hand, headed ‘Apr. 13. 1675’, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1675.

MaA 517: Andrew Marvell, His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament, 13 April 1675

In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.

RTC01 Box 12, fl. 10

Autograph letter signed by Marvell, to Edward Thompson, from London, 2 December 1676. 1676.

*MaA 563: Andrew Marvell, Letter(s)

Later owned (before 1833) by J. L. Anderdon, and later by John Wild.

Unpublished Letters from the Collection of John Wild, ed. R.N. Carew Hunt (London, 1930), pp. 15-17. Margoliouth, II, 349-50.

RTC01 Box 13, fl. 3

Autograph letter signed by the Countess of Pembroke and by her husband Henry Herbert, and on his behalf, to Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, [1596?]. 1596?.

*PeM 15: Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Letter(s)

Edited in Collected Works, II, 288, and also in Margaret P. Hannay, ‘Unpublished Letters by Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke’, Spenser Studies, 6 (1986), 165-90 (pp. 166-7), with a facsimile. A facsimile also in Sotheby's sale catalogue 21 July 1983, lot 7 (on p. 8).

RTC01 Box 14, fl. 2 [i]

Copy of a fifteen-stanza version, in a cursive italic hand, in double columns, untitled, on both sides of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. Early 17th century.

RaW 170: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie (‘Goe soule the bodies guest’)

Sotheby's, 23 March 1900 (John Waller sale), lot 159 (erroneously described as ‘autograph’). Once owned by William Augustus White (1843-1927), American banker and collector. In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.

This MS collated and additional stanzas edited in Samuel Tannenbaum, ‘Unfamiliar Versions of Some Elizabethan Poems’, PMLA, 45 (1930), 809-21 (pp. 810-14). Recorded in Latham, pp. 130, 134-5.

First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.

This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, ‘Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine’, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's ‘answer’ to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.

RTC01 Box 14, fl. 2 [ii]

Copy, in an italic hand, headed ‘S^r Walter Rawleighes speech att his death who was beheaded att the ould Pallace att westminster the 28^th of October betwene 8 and 9 of the clocke in the morninge’, on the rectos of five small folio leaves, in loose paper wrapper. c.1620.

RaW 799: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)

Formerly Princeton AM 20450 and General MSS Misc Ralegh unnumbered file.

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.

RTC01 Box 21, fl. 11, unnumbered item [i]

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Peter Le Neve, 16 October 1707.

*VaJ 53: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Microfilm in the British Library (RP 683). Edited in Judith Milhous, ‘Five New Letters by Sir John Vanbrugh’, HLB, 27 (1979), 434-41 (pp. 435-6).

RTC01 Box 21, fl. 11, unnumbered item [ii]

Warrant authorising John Grigsby to pay to Thomas Kynaston a South Sea Company dividend on behalf of Charles Vanbrugh, in a professional hand and signed by Sir John Vanbrugh, 24 February 1712/13. 1713.

*VaJ 465: Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

Edited in Judith Milhous, ‘Five New Letters by Sir John Vanbrugh’, HLB, 27 (1979), 434-41 (p. 437).

RTC01 Box 21, fl. 11, unnumbered item [iii]

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Peter Le Neve, ‘Thursday’ [between July 1717 and April 1718].

*VaJ 259: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Photocopy in the British Library (RP 666, item 4). Edited, with a facsimile example, in Catalogue of the Collection of Autograph Letters…by Alfred Morrison, VI (1892), 297. Reprinted from thence in Albert Rosenberg, ‘New Light on Vanbrugh’, PQ, 45 (1966), 603-13 (pp. 607-8). Edited from the original in Judith Milhous, ‘Five New Letters by Sir John Vanbrugh’, HLB, 27 (1979), 434-41 (p. 439).

RTC01 Box 21, fl. 11, unnumbered item [iv]

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Jacob Tonson, from Whitehall, 5 November 1719. 1719.

*VaJ 298: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Christie's, 17 December 1907 (Tonson sale), lot 166. Christie's, 12 June 1980 (Arthur A. Houghton Jr sale, Part II), lot 514, with a facsimile example in the sale catalogue; Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1013 (1981), item 82.

Edited in Works, IV, 120 (No. 111).

RTC01 Box 22, fl. 3

Autograph letter signed by Waller, to John Evelyn, [28 August 1651]. 1651.

*WaE 817: Edmund Waller, Letter(s)

RTC01 134, [1]

Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Evelyn, 23 August 1656. 1656.

*TaJ 49: Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

Edited in Eden, I, liv-lv.

RTC01 134, [2]

Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Evelyn, discussing religion, [? from London], 29 August 1657. 1657.

*TaJ 57: Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue for 1838, item 1108. Puttick & Simpson, 11 July 1878, item 214. Sotheby's, 16 April 1918, to Maggs. Afterwards in the collection of Alfred Morrison (1821-97), manuscript and art collector. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 449 (1924), item 416. Quaritch's sale catalogues No. 938 (1974), item 152, and No. 1013 (1981), item 78, with a facsimile in the catalogue.

Edited in Eden, I, lxvi-lxviii; Wheatley, III, 240-4. Edited, with facsimile examples, in Catalogue of the Collection of…Alfred Morrison, 6 vols (1883-92), VI, 231-2. Photocopy of the MS in the British Library (RP 2795).

RTC01 134, [3]

Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Lady Annabella Howe, [from London], 29 August 1657. 1657.

*TaJ 58: Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

Sotheby's, 6 December 1921, to Maggs, 14 July 1931 to Maggs, 29 October 1945, lot 47, and 29 June 1982, lot 267.

Facsimile in Sotheby's sale catalogue. Photocopy of the MS in the British Library (RP 2785).

RTC01 134, [4]

Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Evelyn, [from London], 17 February 1657/8. 1678.

*TaJ 61: Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

Sotheby's, 6 May 1858, lot 174, t Skeffington, 27 May 1887, lot 389, and 10 December 1918, to Halliday. Later owned by F.W. Joy.

Edited in Bray, II, i, 176-8. Eden, I, lxxv-lxxvi. Wheatley, III, 245-7.

RTC01 134, [6]

Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Edward, Viscount Conway, 26 February 1658/9. 1659.

*TaJ 64: Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

Sotheby's, 6 May 1858, lot 176, to Skeffington.

Cited from Murray's transcript in QR (1871), pp. 119, 125. Extracts from the transcript edited in Stranks, pp. 191-2. Photocopy of the autograph MS in the British Library (RP 527).

RTC01 134, [7]

Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Edward, Viscount Conway, from Dublin, 2 January 1660/1. 1661.

*TaJ 76: Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

Sotheby's, 6 May 1858, lot 181, to Skeffington.

Cited from Murray's transcript in QR (1871), p. 121. Extracts from the transcript edited in Stranks, pp. 225-6. Photocopy of the autograph MS in the British Library (RP 527).

RTC01 134, [8]

Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Edward, Viscount Conway, from Portmore, 10 March 1658/9. 1659.

*TaJ 65: Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

Sotheby's, 6 May 1858, lot 177, to Skeffington.

Extracts from Murray's transcript edited in Stranks, pp. 192-3. Photocopy of the autograph MS in the British Library (RP 527).

RTC01 134, [9]

Autograph letter signed, to Edward, Viscount Conway, 9 April 1659. 1659.

*TaJ 67: Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

Sotheby's, 6 May 1858, lot 179, to Skeffington. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 449 (1924), item 417.

Cited from Murray's transcript in QR (1871), pp. 119, 125. Edited from the transcript in Stranks, pp. 193-5. Photocopy of the autograph MS in the British Library (RP 527).

RTC01 134, [10]

Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Edward, Viscount Conway, from Hillsborough, 2 March 1660/1. 1661.

*TaJ 77: Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

Sotheby's, 6 May 1858, lot 180, to Skeffington.

Cited from Murray's transcript in QR (1871), pp. 120, 122. Extracts from the transcript edited in Stranks, pp. 233-4. Photocopy of the autograph MS in the British Library (RP 527).

RTC01 134, [11]

Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Edward, Viscount Conway, [undated, but c.1661]. c.1661.

*TaJ 84: Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

Cited from Murray's transcript in QR (1871), p. 127. Extracts from the transcript edited in Stranks, p. 234. Photocopy of the autograph MS in the British Library (RP 527).

RTC01 134, [12]

Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Edward, Viscount Conway, from Portmore, 18 June 1662. 1662.

*TaJ 89: Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

Sotheby's, 6 May 1858, lot 182, to Skeffington.

Extracts from Murray's transcript edited in Stranks, p. 249 (where the letter is incorrectly dated January). Photocopy of the autograph MS in the British Library (RP 527).

RTC01 134 [13]

Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Edward, Viscount Conway, 28 January 1664/5. 1665.

*TaJ 99: Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

Sotheby's, 6 May 1858, lot 183, to Skeffington.

Cited from Murray's transcript in QR (1871), p. 122. Extracts from the transcript edited in Stranks, pp. 258-9. Photocopy of the autograph MS in the British Library (RP 527).

RTC01 134, [14]

Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Edward, Viscount Conway, from Portmore, ‘Lammas’, [1 August] 1666. 1666.

*TaJ 102: Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

Sotheby's, 6 May 1858, lot 184, to Skeffington.

Extracts from Murray's transcript edited in Stranks, p. 270. Photocopy of the autograph MS in the British Library (RP 527).

RTC01 134, [15]

Fragment of an autograph letter signed by Taylor, to Edward, Viscount Conway, [undated, but after 25 July 1666]. 1666.

*TaJ 101: Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)

Extracts from Murray's transcript edited in Stranks, p. 269. Photocopy of the autograph MS in the British Library (RP 527).

SC4.2.14 [item 1]

Autograph signature and copious annotations, bound with other works.

*HvG 148: Gabriel Harvey, Saa, Jacobus à. De Navigatione Libri Tres (Paris, 1549)

Sotheby's, 9 June 1980, lot 25, to Kraus. Kraus's sale catalogue No. 186 (1991), item 79.

Recorded in David McKitterick's review of Stern, The Library, 6th Ser. 3 (1981), 348-53. Facsimile of the signed title-page in the Sotheby's sale catalogue.

SC4.2.14 [item 2]

Autograph signature and substantial annotations, bound with other works. Late 16th century.

*HvG 150: Gabriel Harvey, Sacrobosco, Joannes de. Libellus de Anni Ratione (Paris, 1550)

Sotheby's, 9 June 1980, lot 25, to Kraus. Kraus's sale catalogues No. 164 (1983), item 143, and 186 (1991), item 79.

Recorded in David McKitterick's review of Stern, The Library, 6th Ser. 3 (1981), 348-53.

SC4.2.14 [item 3]

Autograph signature and annotations, bound with other works. Late 16th century.

*HvG 154: Gabriel Harvey, Sepulveda, Joannes Genesius de. De Correctione Anno Mensiumque Romanorum (Venice, 1547)

Sotheby's, 9 June 1980, lot 25, to Kraus.

Recorded in David McKitterick's review of Stern, The Library, 6th Ser. 3 (1981), 348-53.

U101 .M16 1573

Autograph annotations and marginalia. Late 16th century.

*HvG 125: Gabriel Harvey, Machiavelli, Niccolò. The Arte of Warre; written in Italian by Nicholas Machiavel; and set foorth in English by Peter Withorne, student at Graies Inne, with other like Martial feates and experiments; as in a Table in the ende of the booke may appeare ([London], 1573)

Quaritch's General Catalogue (1868), item 2228.

Stern, p. 226. W.C. Hazlitt. Moore Smith, p. 84. Stern, p. 226 (as in a ‘Private collection, United States’).

Princeton

AM 16022

CO140, box 44

CO199 No. 241

CO199 No. 812

CO199 No. 895

CO677

COO47, Vol. 1, leaf 92.

K623 .F745 1583

Not NjP

Oversize DL45 .0438 1555q

Oversize PA6452 .A2 1555q

PA8550 .D43 1564

PE1137 .A2 S53 1568

RHT 16th-11

RHT 16th-12

RHT 16th-45

RHT 16th-86

RHT 17th-56

RHT 17th-188

RHT 17th-202

RHT 17th-261

RHT 17th-463

[RHT 17th-594

RHT 17th-596

RHT 17th-634

RHT 17th-795

RTC01 No. 33

RTC01 No. 34

RTC01 No. 35

RTC01 No. 36

RTC01 No. 38

RTC01 No. 42

RTC01 No. 53

RTC01 No. 60

RTC01 No. 62

RTC01 No. 82

RTC01 No. 83

RTC01 No. 84

RTC01 No. 167

RTC01 No. 178

RTC01 Box 2, fl. 1, [item 2]

RTC01 Box 5, fl. 5

RTC01 Box 5, fl. 22

RTC01 Box 5, fl. 28

RTC01 Box 5, fl. 29

RTC01 Box 6, fl. 27

RTC01 Box 6, fl. 31

RTC01 Box 12, fl. 9

RTC01 Box 12, fl. 10

RTC01 Box 13, fl. 3

RTC01 Box 14, fl. 2 [i]

RTC01 Box 14, fl. 2 [ii]

RTC01 Box 21, fl. 11, unnumbered item [i]

RTC01 Box 21, fl. 11, unnumbered item [ii]

RTC01 Box 21, fl. 11, unnumbered item [iii]

RTC01 Box 21, fl. 11, unnumbered item [iv]

RTC01 Box 22, fl. 3

RTC01 134, [1]

RTC01 134, [2]

RTC01 134, [3]

RTC01 134, [4]

RTC01 134, [6]

RTC01 134, [7]

RTC01 134, [8]

RTC01 134, [9]

RTC01 134, [10]

RTC01 134, [11]

RTC01 134, [12]

RTC01 134 [13]

RTC01 134, [14]

RTC01 134, [15]

SC4.2.14 [item 1]

SC4.2.14 [item 2]

SC4.2.14 [item 3]

U101 .M16 1573

RHT 16^th-11

RHT 16^th-12

RHT 16^th-45

RHT 16^th-86

RHT 17^th-56

RHT 17^th-188

RHT 17^th-202

RHT 17^th-261

RHT 17^th-463

[RHT 17^th-594

RHT 17^th-596

RHT 17^th-634

RHT 17^th-795