MS Ogden 7/3
A folio volume of state and antiquarian tracts, entirely in the professional secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 27 leaves, in paper wrapper. c.1625-40.
Owned by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
ff. [1r-11r]
• BcF 104.8: Francis Bacon, Arguments of Law. Arguments in the Case De Commenda
Copy, in the professional secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, headed ‘Touchinge the Comendams att Whitehall the vjth of June Anno 1616: the xiiij Jacobi’.
Unpublished.
ff. [18r-27r]
• BcF 413: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)
Copy of Bacon's inaugural speech as Lord Chancellor, 7 May 1617, in the professional secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’.
MS Ogden 7/4
A folio volume of parliamentary tracts and speeches, in two or more secretary hands, 37 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum. c.1624-8.
Owned by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
ff. [5r-6v]
• BcF 516: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications
Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621.
The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning ‘I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...’); 22 April 1621 (beginning ‘It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...’); and 30 April 1621 (beginning ‘Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...’), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.
f. [8r-v]
• BcF 258: Francis Bacon, A Prayer, or Psalm
Copy, headed ‘The Lo: Chancelors prayer’.
First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, XIV, 229-31.
MS Ogden 7/7
A quarto commonplace book of extracts, with a tipped-in insert, written from both ends, 171 leaves, in contemporary calf with green ties. Compiled by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. c.Mid-late 1630s.
Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
ff. 3r-39v passim
• BcF 54.935: Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
Copious annotations by William Drake in a bound-in set of misnumbered pages 70-103 of the Second Book of a printed exemplum of the 1605 edition of The Advancement of Learning.
Facsimile of ff. 17v-18r in Sharpe, p. 77.
First published, as The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of Learning, diuine and humane, in London, 1605. Spedding, III, 253-491. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. IV (Oxford, 2000).
f. 11v
• SuJ 196: John Suckling, Extracts
Prose extracts.
f. 43r-v
• BcF 210.1: Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral
Extracts, headed ‘Lord Bacons Essays’.
Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).
ff. 53r-5v
• RaW 680.8: Sir Walter Ralegh, Instructions to his Son and to Posterity
Extracts, headed ‘Some Obseruations drawen from [Sr Wal: Rawleigh deleted] Instructions to his son’.
A treatise in ten chapters, beginning ‘There is nothing more becoming any wise man than to make choice of friends...’. First published in London, 1632. Works (1829), VIII, 557-70. Edited by Louis B. Wright in Advice to a Son (Ithaca, 1962), pp. 15-32.
passim
MS Ogden 7/8
A quarto commonplace book of extracts, in English and Latin, written from both ends, 209 leaves, in contemporary vellum with traces of ties. Compiled by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. c.1638.
Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
ff. 13r-30v
• BcF 54.9365: Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
Copious annotations by William Drake in a bound-in set of misnumbered pages 79-103 of the Second Book of a printed exemplum of the 1605 edition of The Advancement of Learning.
First published, as The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of Learning, diuine and humane, in London, 1605. Spedding, III, 253-491. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. IV (Oxford, 2000).
f. 32r
• BcF 278: Francis Bacon, Short Notes for Civil Conversation
Extracts.
First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, VII, 105-10. Spedding notes (VII, 107) Basil Montagu's reference to an unspecified MS in the British Museum, but he could not find it.
f. 196v-r rev.
• BcF 290.6: Francis Bacon, De augmentis scientiarum
Extracts, headed ‘Ex Bacono de Augmentis Scientiarum’.
First published in Opera, tomus primus (London, 1623). Spedding, I, 413-840.
See also BcF 288.
MS Ogden 7/10
Miscellany. 17th century.
passim
passim
• HrE 125.98: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Life and Reign of King Henry VIII
Extracts.
First published in London, 1649. Published in London, 1880 (with Autobiography).
MS Ogden 7/11
A quarto commonplace book of extracts from state and legal writings, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, 118 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Compiled entirely by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. c.Mid-1630s.
Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
ff. [13r-16r rev.]
• DaJ 255.5: Sir John Davies, The Question concerning Impositions
Extracts.
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.
[ff. 20r-1r]
• BcF 748: Francis Bacon, The Office of Compositions for Alienations
Extracts.
A tract, beginning ‘All the finances of revenues of the imperial crown of this realm of England...’. Discussed in Spedding, IX, 120-1. By William Lambarde (1536-1601), whose partly autograph MS (1590) is in the Folger (MS V.a.208), but the work is frequently ascribed to Bacon, who may have used and adapted it at the time of the debate on alienations in October 1601.
f. 30r
• EsR 178: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, First Letter of Advice to the Earl of Rutland
Extracts, headed ‘Notes taken out of a letter of the Earle of Essex to the Earle of Rutland being to travill’.
The letter, dated from Greenwich, 4 January [1596], beginning ‘My Lord, I hold it for a principle in the course of intelligence of state...’.
First published, as ‘The Late E. of E. his aduice to the E. of R. in his trauels’, in Profitable Instructions; Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 27-73. Francis Bacon, Resuscitatio (London, 1657), pp. 106-10. Spedding, IX, 6-15. W.B. Devereux, Lives and Letters of the Devereux, Earls of Essex (1853), I, No. xciii.
Essex's three letters to Rutland discussed by Paul E.J. Hammer in ‘The Earl of Essex, Fulke Greville, and the Employment of Scholars’, SP. 91/2 (Spring, 1994), 167-80, and in ‘Letters of Travel Advice from the Earl of Essex to the Earl of Rutland: Some Comments’, PQ, 74/3 (Summer 1995), 317-22. It is likely that the first letter was written substantially by Francis Bacon.
f. 31r
• CvG 45: George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey
Extracts, headed ‘Notes from Cardinall wolseies life taken out of George Candish his gentlman vsher’.
First published in George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey and Metrical Visions, ed. Samuel W. Singer, 2 vols (Chiswick, 1825). The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish, ed. Richard S. Sylvester, EETS, orig. ser. 243 (London, New York and Toronto, 1959).
ff. 99v-98v rev.
• BcF 747: Francis Bacon, The Office of Compositions for Alienations
Extracts, headed ‘Notes taken out of a Manscript called the Office of Compositions for Alienations. supposed to be written by Lo Bacon’.
A tract, beginning ‘All the finances of revenues of the imperial crown of this realm of England...’. Discussed in Spedding, IX, 120-1. By William Lambarde (1536-1601), whose partly autograph MS (1590) is in the Folger (MS V.a.208), but the work is frequently ascribed to Bacon, who may have used and adapted it at the time of the debate on alienations in October 1601.
ff. 106v-103v rev.
• DaJ 255.8: Sir John Davies, The Question concerning Impositions
Extracts, headed ‘Notes taken out of a booke of Sir John Davies in defence of the kings prerogative’, with a reference to ‘Stratton’ (from whom Drake borrowed books).
A treatise, with dedicatory epistle to James I, comprising 33 chapters, beginning ‘The Question it self is no more than this, Whether the Impositions which the King of England hath laid and levied upon Merchandize, by vertue of his Prerogative onely...’. First published in London, 1656. Grosart, III, 1-116.
MS Ogden 7/13
An octavo commonplace book, in English and Latin, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, 152 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1659.
Owned by William Drake (1606-69) of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
f. [72r et seq
• LoT 16: Thomas Lodge, The Workes of L.A. Seneca both morrall and naturall
Extracts from Lodge's translation, headed ‘Ex Seneca obseruat’, on 23 leaves.
First published in London, 1614.
ff. [33r-7r]
• SiP 179: Sir Philip Sidney, A Defence of Poetry
Extracts, headed ‘Defence of Poesie by Sr. Phil Sydney’.
First published in London, 1595. Feuillerat, III, 1-46.
See also SiP 226.
MS Ogden 7/17
An octavo commonplace book, in a single cursive italic hand, written from both ends, 151 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1650s.
Owned by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000). Facsimile of f. 132 in Sharpe, p. 194.
ff. 3r-18v
• HkR 77: Richard Hooker, Extracts
Extracts, headed ‘Out of Mr Hookers preface’ and (f. 11r) ‘Lib 1’.
MS Ogden 7/21
An octavo commonplace book, in several hands, 198 leaves, in contemporary calf with traces of ties. Compiled in part by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. c.1630s-48.
Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
ff. 4r-10v
• WoH 302: Sir Henry Wotton, The State of Christendom
A brief synopsis of part of the work, in Drake's hand, headed ‘notes from a Discourse of the State of Christendom in ye yeare 1589’, inscribed in the margin ‘Lent me by Mr Stansby August the 10th 1633’.
A lengthy treatise, beginning ‘After that I had lived many years in voluntary exile and banishment...’. First published in London, 1657. Wotton's authorship is not certain.
ff. 15r-16r
• BcF 100: Francis Bacon, Arguments of Law. Argument in the Case of the Post-Nati of Scotland
Extracts, in Drake's hand, headed ‘Notes taken from the Argument of Sir ffrancis Bacon in the Case of the Post Nati of of [sic] Scotland in the Exchequer Chamber he being then Solliciter / Mr Hall hath the Originall’.
First published in Three Speeches of The Right Honorable, Sir Francis Bacon (London, 1641). Spedding, VII, 637-79.
ff. 17r-18r
• BcF 414: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)
Extracts, in Drake's hand, headed ‘Ex eodem libro Mr Hall, A speech of Naturalization. by Bacon’.
ff. 23r-4r
• AndL 4.5: Lancelot Andrewes, Sermons on the Sixth and Seventh Commandments. 17 February 1593/4 - 28 July 1594
Extracts from ‘Bishop Andrews on the Commandments’, in Drake's hand.
Unpublished.
f. 26r
• RaW 679.91: Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World
Extracts, in a cursive hand, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawley of Phillip of Macedon Hist: 135 page’.
First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.
See also RaW 728.
ff. 27r-34v
• BrT 5.911: Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received Tenents, and commonly presumed Truths
Extracts, in a cursive hand, headed ‘Out of Dr Brownes Enquiries’.
First published in London, 1646. Wilkin, vols II and III, 1-374. Keynes, Vol. II. Robbins (2 vols).
See BrT 29, BrT 32, and BrT 43.
ff. 56r-69v
• AndL 13.7: Lancelot Andrewes, Sermons
Extracts, in a cursive italic hand, headed ‘Out of Dr Andrewes his Sermons’.
Unpublished.
MS Ogden 7/22
An octavo commonplace book, in at least two cursive italic hands, 187 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1650.
Owned by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
f. 24v
• BcF 690: Francis Bacon, Extracts
Extracts, headed ‘Bacon’.
ff. 125r-6r
• BcF 54.937: Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
Extracts, headed ‘Sentences out of Bacons Aduancemt’.
First published, as The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of Learning, diuine and humane, in London, 1605. Spedding, III, 253-491. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. IV (Oxford, 2000).
ff. 126v-9v
• BcF 691: Francis Bacon, Extracts
Extracts, headed ‘Certaine choice places out of Seneca, Aristot & Bacon’.
ff. 130r-47v
• BcF 110.2: Francis Bacon, A Brief Discourse touching the Happy Union of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland
Extracts, in two cursive italic hands, headed ‘Secunda pars Baconi / of friendship’.
A tract beginning ‘I do not find it strange (excellent King)...’. First published in London, 1603. Spedding, X, 90-9.
f. 186r-v
• HbT 19.8: Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic
Extracts, headed ‘Mr Hobs his booke of human Nature / Of Prudence’.
First published, dedicated to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, in two parts, as Humane Nature: Or, The fundamental Elements of Policie, (London, [1649]-1650), and as De Corpore Politico: or The Elements of Law, Moral and Politick (London, 1650). Molesworth, English, IV, 1-76, 77-228. Edited by Ferdinand Tönnies (London, 1889). 2nd edition, with an introduction by M.M. Goldsmith, (London, 1969).
MS Ogden 7/24
An octavo volume of extracts chiefly from classical and Renaissance historical works, in vellum boards. Mid-17th century.
passim
• FxJ 1.155: John Foxe, Actes and Monuments
Extracts.
First published (complete) in London, 1563. Edited by Josiah Pratt, 8 vols (London, 1853-70).
MS Ogden 7/25
An octavo commonplace book of extracts, in a single cursive hand, 198 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1640s.
Owned by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
f. 3v
• BcF 85.8: Francis Bacon, Apothegms New and Old
Extracts, headed ‘Ld Bacons judgement of Apothegmes’.
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.
f. 129r-v
• BcF 54.938: Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
Extracts, headed ‘Concerning Dispersed occasions from some parables of Salomon by Ld Bacon Aduanc. pag 372’.
First published, as The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of Learning, diuine and humane, in London, 1605. Spedding, III, 253-491. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. IV (Oxford, 2000).
MS Ogden 7/26
An octavo commonplace book, in several hands, written from both ends, 181 leaves, in contemporary calf. Partly compiled by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. c.1640s.
Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
ff. 179v-175v rev.
• BcF 210.3: Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral
Extracts, in Drake's hand, headed ‘Of Negotiating’, inscribed in the margin ‘Bacon’.
Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).
ff. 175r-174v rev.
• BcF 215.13: Francis Bacon, The History of the Reign of King Henry VII
Extracts, in Drake's hand, headed ‘Bacons Hen: 7. pag: 204’.
First published in London, 1622. Spedding, VI, 23-245. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 3-169.
MS Ogden 7/27
An octavo commonplace book, in a single cursive mixed hand, 197 leaves (including numerous blanks), in old reversed calf. c.1650.
Owned by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
ff. 3r-10r
• BcF 641: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
Copy of several letters by Bacon, to Queen Elizabeth, Essex, Northumberland, and Tobie Mathews, headed ‘Sr franc. Bacons Letts’.
f. 10v
• BcF 720: Francis Bacon, An Essay of a King
An abridgement, headed ‘Frs Bacons Essay of a King’.
Essay, beginning ‘A king is a mortal god on earth...’. Spedding, VI, 595-7 (discussed pp. 592-4).
ff. 22r-34r
• BcF 54.939: Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
Extracts, headed ‘Sentences out of Bacons Advancement’.
First published, as The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of Learning, diuine and humane, in London, 1605. Spedding, III, 253-491. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. IV (Oxford, 2000).
MS Ogden 7/28
An octavo commonplace book, in a single cursive italic hand, 101 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1630s.
Owned by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
f. 5r-v
• BcF 210.4: Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral
Extracts, headed ‘Bacons Essays’.
Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).
passim
• WoH 295.8: Sir Henry Wotton, Philosophical Survey of Education
Extracts.
First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (1651), pp. 309-35.
MS Ogden 7/29
An octavo commonplace book, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, 193 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum boards. Compiled entirely by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. c.1635-40s.
Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
f. 63r-v
• BcF 54.941: Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
Extracts, headed ‘Bacons aduancement pag: 73’.
First published, as The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of Learning, diuine and humane, in London, 1605. Spedding, III, 253-491. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. IV (Oxford, 2000).
ff. 141r-2v
• JnB 731: Ben Jonson, Sejanus his Fall
Extracts, headed ‘Ben Johnsons Seianus’.
First published in London, 1605. Herford & Simpson, IV, 327-486.
f. 143r
• SuJ 161.8: John Suckling, Aglaura
Extracts from Aglaura, Act I, scene iv, lines 95-103, beginning ‘Ambition seemes all things and yet is none’, headed ‘Sr John Suckling’.
First published in London, 1638. Beaurline, Plays, pp. 33-119.
MS Ogden 7/30
An octavo commonplace book of extracts, in two or more cursive hands, 184 leaves, in contemporary vellum boards. c.1640s-50s.
Owned by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
ff. 110v-41r
• BcF 210.6: Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral
Extracts, headed ‘Notes taken out of Bacons Essayes Relateing to Gouernmt’ and, on f. 134v, ‘Obseruat. out of seueral Essaies’.
Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).
MS Ogden 7/31
An octavo commonplace book of extracts from religious and philosophical works, in English and Latin, in a cursive mixed hand, 207 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1640s.
Owned by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
f. 202v
• BcF 228.1: Francis Bacon, New Atlantis
Extract, headed ‘Out of Sr fra. Bacons New Atlantis’.
First published, edited by William Rawley (as ‘A Worke unfinished)’, with Sylva Sylvarum (London, 1627). Spedding, III, 125-66.
MS Ogden 7/32
A sextodecimo commonplace book of extracts, in two or more cursive hands, written from both ends, 102 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1640s-60s.
Owned by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
f. 23r
• AndL 13.8: Lancelot Andrewes, Sermons
Extracts, headed ‘Dr Andrewes’, beginning ‘All things haue a time saith Salomon Eccles. 3.1...’.
Unpublished.
MS Ogden 7/33
A duodecimo commonplace book of extracts from historical works, in a cursive hand, written from both ends, 81 leaves, in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps. Compiled by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. c.1640.
Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
f. 25v
• RaW 679.92: Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World
Extract, headed ‘The Character of Epamanondas by Sir Walter Rawley’, beginning ‘He was graue and yet very affable...’.
First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.
See also RaW 728.
MS Ogden 7/37
An octavo commonplace book, largely in one cursive hand, written from both ends, 184 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Owned by, and with some entries in the cursive hand of, William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. c.1640s.
Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
ff. 184v-183v rev.
• RaW 679.93: Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World
Extracts, in Drake's hand, headed ‘Some obseruations out of Sir walter Rawleies history of the world’.
First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.
See also RaW 728.
MS Ogden 7/38
A duodecimo commonplace book of extracts, in one cursive hand, written from both ends, 117 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum boards gilt. c.1630.
Owned by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
f. 3r
• LeC 80: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth
Extracts, headed ‘Leicesters Commonwealth’.
First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.
f. 115v
• BcF 210.8: Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral
Extract from Bacon's essay ‘Of Innovations’, untitled.
Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).
ff. 116v-r rev. [2v-r rev.]
• RaW 679.94: Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World
Extracts, headed ‘Out of Sr wal: Rauley the Preface’.
First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.
See also RaW 728.
passim
• AsR 3.2: Roger Ascham, The Schoolmaster
Extracts from an abridgement made by John Ward (1679?-1758).
First published in London, 1570. Ed. Lawrence V. Ryan (Ithaca, NY, 1967).
MS Ogden 7/41
An octavo volume of state letters, largely in a single mixed hand, 76 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf. Owned, and annotated at the end, by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. c.1635.
Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
ff. 38r-[73v]
• BcF 642: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
Copy of over thirty letters by Bacon, to Queen Elizabeth, Essex, Robert Cecil, Sir John Davies, Edward Coke, Northumberland, Toby Mathew, and others.
MS Ogden 7/45
An octavo commonplace book of tracts and extracts, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, 186 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum. Compiled entirely by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. c.1640s.
Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
ff. 3r-5r
• BcF 75.8: Francis Bacon, Advice to the King touching Sutton's Estate
Copy, headed ‘Touching Suttons Hospitall / Sir ffrancis Bacon to the King’.
Written c.January 1611/12. First published in Resuscitatio (London, 1657), pp. 265-70. Spedding, XI, 249-54.
ff. 7r-11v
• RaW 728.268: Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)
Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1603.
Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, ‘“The Great Day of Mart”: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603’, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.
f. 166v-r rev.
• FuT 6.6: Thomas Fuller, The Holy State
Extracts, headed ‘ffullers holy State’.
First published in London, 1642. Edited by M.G. Walten, 2 vols (New York, 1938).
ff. 172v-166v rev.
• FuT 5.237: Thomas Fuller, The History of the Holy War
Extracts, headed ‘ffullers Holy War’.
First published in Cambridge, 1639.
MS Ogden 7/46
A folio volume of state treatises, chiefly in two professional secretary hands, 210 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf with remains of metal clasps. c.1620s-30s.
Owned by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
f. [1r-v]
• BcF 692: Francis Bacon, Extracts
Extracts, in a non-professional secretary hand, headed ‘Sir ffrancis Bacon’ and beginning ‘There be two things which the King cannot doe without Parlament...’.
ff. [2r-80r]
• DaJ 278: Sir John Davies, The Question concerning Impositions
Copy, as by ‘Sr John Davies Kt’, in a professional secretary hand.
A treatise, with dedicatory epistle to James I, comprising 33 chapters, beginning ‘The Question it self is no more than this, Whether the Impositions which the King of England hath laid and levied upon Merchandize, by vertue of his Prerogative onely...’. First published in London, 1656. Grosart, III, 1-116.
MS Ogden 7/51
An octavo volume of proceedings in Parliament, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, 95 leaves, in contemporary vellum with traces of ties. Compiled entirely by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. c.1640s.
Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
f. 74r rev.
• RuB 197.5: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, April 1641
Copy of a summary of an interjection, six lines, headed ‘Sr Beiamin Rud:’, beginning ...‘[he] said that we should make so many examples...’, dated April 1641.
MS Ogden 7/52
An octavo commonplace book of extracts, in one cursive hand, written from both ends, 156 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary calf. Compiled entirely by William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. c.1641.
Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Drake's commonplace books discussed in Stuart Clark, ‘Wisdom Literature of the Seventeenth Century: A Guide to the Contents of the “Bacon-Tottel” Commonplace Books’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 6, Part 5 (1976), 291-305; 7, Part 1 (1977), 46-73, and in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions (New Haven & London, 2000).
ff. 2r-15v
• BcF 415: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)
Copies of, or extracts from, several speeches by Bacon, headed ‘Notes taken out of Sir ffrancis Bacons speeches vppon seuerall occasions out of a Mascript’, including speeches addressed to Sergeant Hutton, to Sir William Jones, to the judges in Star Chamber, at the arraignments of Lord Sanquier and the Earl of Somerset, and when he became Lord Chancellor (1617).
MS Ogden 8
Copy, closely written in a professional secretary hand, on five folio leaves, in modern vellum boards. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector. c.1592.
BcF 74: Francis Bacon, An Advertisement touching the Controversies of the Church of England
A tract beginning ‘It is but ignorance if any man find it strange that the state of religion (especially in the days of peace) should be exercised...’. First published as A Wise and Moderate Discourse concerning Church-Affaires ([London], 1641). Spedding, VIII, 74-95.
MS Ogden 16
A formal partly autograph copy, probably made for presentation, with separate title-pages for the ‘second booke’ (p. 259) and ‘third booke’ (p. 323), 478 folio pages, in old purple velvet. The Dedication to the Queen (pp. 1-49) entirely in Howard's italic hand and signed ‘Henry Hwward’, the main text in the accomplished hand of one of his principal amanuenses; with some of the sidenotes in Books 1 and 2 and all those in Book 3 also in Howard's italic hand. Late 16th century.
*HoH 84: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A dutiful defence of the lawful regiment of women
Inscribed (down the margin of p. 248) ‘William Trumbull’, possibly the son (1594-1668) or grandson (1639-1716) of William Trumbull (c.1580-1635), diplomat. Later owned by Lord Brougham and Vaux [? Henry Peter Brougham (1778-1868), first Baron, Lord Chancellor] whose monogram is stamped in gilt on the upper cover. Afterwards in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist and book collector.
Facsimile of p. 442r in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), Plate II after p. 272.
An unpublished answer to, and attack upon, John Knox's ‘railing invective’ against Mary Queen of Scots, First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women (1558). Written, Howard claims in his Dedication, some thirteen years after he was asked to do so by a Privy Councillor [i.e. c.1585-90]. The Dedication to Queen Elizabeth beginning ‘It pricketh now fast upon the point of thirteen years (most excellent most gratious and most redoubted Soveraign...’; the main text, in three books, beginning ‘It may seem strange to men of grounded knowledge...’, and ending ‘...Sancta et individuae Trinitati sit omnis honor laus et gloria in secula seculorum. Amen.’
MS Ogden 36
A folio volume of four tracts, the first three of them in the professional secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 83 leaves, in modern half-vellum marbled boards. c.1625-40.
Mostyn MS 262 (MS 56 in 1744), from the library originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn hall, near Holywell, Flintshire, and maintained by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) and his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90). Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 361. Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 250 (No. 77).
ff. [65r-9r]
• ToC 6: Cyril Tourneur, The Character of Robert Earl of Salisbury
Copy, in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, as ‘Written by mr: Serill Turneur’ and ‘Dedicated to the most vnderstandinge, and the most worthie Ladie, the Ladie Theodosia Cecill: Dated, ano’ [blank], subscribed ‘Serill Tourneur:’.
This MS recorded (but not seen) in Nicoll, pp. 330-6. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 250 (No. 77.2).
A character, beginning ‘He came of a parent, that counselled the state into piety, honour and power...’, and dedicated to Lady Theodosia Cecil. First published in Logan Pearsall Smith, The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton (Oxford, 1907), II, 487-9. Nicoll, pp. 259-63.
MS Ogden 40
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Sr Thomas Overburye His observations vpon ye State of ye 7tene Provinces and of France, and first vpon yt. of the Provinces Vnited’, 75 small quarto leaves, in half-calf marbled boards. Early 17th century.
OvT 55: Sir Thomas Overbury, Observations in his travailes
Loosely inserted is a letter about the MS by Edward Arleer of Scarborough to its owner L.A.B. Waller, of 5 Talbot Road, Tottenham, 11 August 1883. Later in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
A tract beginning ‘All things concurred for the rising and maintenance of this State...’. First published as Sir Thomas Overbvry his Observations in his Travailes vpon the State of The Xvii. Provinces as they stood Anno Dom. 1609 (London, 1626). Rimbault, pp. 223-30. Authorship uncertain.
MS Ogden 42
A folio formal verse miscellany, in a single rounded hand, 259 pages (plus a three-page index), in modern boards. The contents, the latest of which (on pp. 203-7) can be dated to a marriage that took place in November 1656, reflect the taste of Interregnum Royalist sympathisers. c.Late 1650s.
Formerly in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 4001. Sotheby's, 29 June 1946, lot 164, to Myers. Then in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
pp. 1-3
• ToA 13: Aurelian Townshend, An Elegie vpon the best of Kinges CHARLES the first Kinge of Great Brittayne (‘So much too much, in many meaner Theames’)
Copy of the full 62-line text, subscribed ‘Philobasileus’[i.e. lover of the king].
Full version unpublished. ‘Fragments of a poem on the death of Charles I’, comprising ten lines (versions of lines 51-52, 47-48, 23-26, 35-36), edited in Vita Sackville West, Knole and the Sackvilles (London, 1922), pp. 106-7. Edited thence in Brown, p. 70.
pp. 5-6
• ToA 2: Aurelian Townshend, An Answere (‘Sr / It is too true! Lord Francis is deceast’)
Copy of the full text, headed ‘The Answere’, subscribed ‘AT’.
The Answere
An unpublished 44-line answer to a previous poem (Ogden MS, pp. 3-4) ‘To my worthy freind A:T: inviteinge him to write somethinge on the Lord Francis Villers slayne in these vnciuill Warrs at Kingston vpon Thames’ (beginning ‘Friend! Though perhapps you'le say y'are old’), subscribed ‘CR’ [? Carew Ralegh].
pp. 6-7
• MaA 23.5: Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda (‘When Death, shall part us from these Kids’)
Copy.
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. 8-9
• CaW 43: William Cartwright, Sadness (‘Whiles I this standing Lake’)
Copy.
First published in Works (1651), pp. 220-1. Evans, pp. 473-4.
pp. 9-10
• HeR 207.8: Robert Herrick, A Pastorall upon the birth of Prince Charles, Presented to the King, and Set by Master Nicholas Laniere (‘Good day, Mirtillo. And to you no lesse’)
Copy, headed ‘A Diologue vpon the Princes Birth sung betweene Amintas, Mirtillo & Amarillis’.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 85-7. Patrick, pp. 120-1.
pp. 12-16
• WaE 111.8: Edmund Waller, The Lady Katherine Howards Voyage and Enterteynement, aboard the Triumph by the Earle of Northumberland he being then Lord High Admirall (‘Madame / Mixt with the Greatest, a Grand Day at Court’)
Copy, headed ‘The Lady Katherine Howards Voyage and Enterteynement, aboard the Triumph by the Earle of Northumberland he being then Lord High Admirall’.
This MS collated in Raylor, with a facsimile of p. 12 on p. 215.
Firsr published, and attributed to Waller, in Timothy Raylor, ‘A new poem by Waller? Lady Katherine Howard, the Earl of Northumberland, and an Entertainment on board the Triumph’, EMS, 13 (2007), 211-31 (pp. 223-7). The attribution supported in John Burrows, ‘A Computational Approach to the Authorship of Lady Katherine Howard's Voyage’, EMS, 13 (2007), 232-49.
pp. 26-9
• ToA 39: Aurelian Townshend, A Paradox (‘There is no Lover, hee or shee’)
Copy.
First published in Chambers (1912), pp. 33-5. Brown, pp. 30-1.
pp. 32-3
• CwT 1064.5: Thomas Carew, To his jealous Mistris (‘Admit (thou darling of mine eyes)’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 110.
pp. 33-4
• HeR 327.9: Robert Herrick, ‘Hide not thy love and mine shall be’
Copy, headed ‘Innocent Love’, subscribed in another hand ‘AT’.
First published in Aurelian Townshend's poems and Masks, ed. E. K. Chambers (Oxford, 1912), pp. 28-32. The Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend, ed. Cedric R. Brown (Reading, 1983), pp. 34-41 (Version One, First Part, pp. 35-7; Second Part pp. 35-7; Version Two, pp. 38-41). Ascribed to Herrick in several MSS.
pp. 34-5
• ToA 78: Aurelian Townshend, ‘Your smiles are not as other womens bee’
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Smile of the Lady May’, here beginning “Yr Smiles are not as other woemens are”.
First published in A. H. Bullen, Speculum Amantis (London, 1889). p. 126. Chambers, p. 17. Brown, p. 23.
p. 54
• StW 866.5: William Strode, Song (‘Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye’)
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Keepe on your Vayle, & hide your Eye’.
First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 88-9.
p. 55
• B&F 26.5: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Bloody Brother, V, ii, 21-32. Song (‘Take o take those lipps away’)
Copy of the song, untitled.
Dyce, X, 459. Jump, p. 67. Bowers, X, 237. The first stanza first published in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (First Folio, 1623), IV, i. Authorship discussed in Jump, pp. 105-6 (first stanza probably by Shakespeare, second by Fletcher).
p. 56
• CaW 102: William Cartwright, The Royal Slave, Act I, scene ii, lines 167-79. The Priest's song (‘Come from a Dungeon to the Throne’)
Copy of the song, untitled.
Henry Lawes's musical setting of the forst six lines first published in his Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659), p. 26. Evans, p. 205.
pp. 68-9
• CmT 177.5: Thomas Campion, ‘Young and simple though I am’
Copy, untitled.
First published in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London [1617]), Book IV, No. ix. Davis, p. 177. Doughtie, p. 295.
pp. 71-3
• JnB 674.4: Ben Jonson, The Haddington Masque, lines 86 et seq. Song (‘Beauties, haue yee seene this toy’)
Copy, untitled.
First published together with The Masques of Blackness and Beauty (London, [1608]). Herford & Simpson, VII, 243-63 (p. 252).
pp. 74-5
• LoR 44.8: Richard Lovelace, To Althea, From Prison. Song (‘When Love with unconfined wings’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 70-1. (1930), pp. 78-9. Thomas Clayton, ‘Some Versions, Texts, and Readings of “To Althea, from Prison”’, PBSA, 68 (1974), 225-35. A musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659).
pp. 77-8
• B&F 8.8: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, II, i, 143-64. Song (‘Cast our Caps and cares away!’)
Copy of the song, untitled, here beginning ‘Cast your Caps & Care away’.
Bowers, III, 264-5. This setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659).
pp. 82-5
• CaW 4: William Cartwright, Ariadne deserted by Theseus, as She sits upon a Rock in the Island Naxos, thus complains (‘Theseus! O Theseus heark! but yet in vain’)
Copy, headed ‘A Songe. Ariadne on ye Rock deserted by Theseus’.
First published in Works (1651), pp. 238-42. Evans, pp. 488-91.
p. 88
• KiW 11: Sir William Killigrew, Selindra, Act III. Song (‘Come come thou glorious obiect of my sight’)
Copy of the song, untitled.
pp. 90-1
• GrJ 7: John Grange, ‘A Lover once I did espy’
Copy, untitled.
First published, in a musical setting, in Playford, Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (1652), I, 12. Poems (1660), pp. 86-7, beginning ‘A Restless Lover I espy'd’, superscribed ‘P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’, and in Krueger's Appendix II list of poems by John Grange.
p. 92
• ShJ 74.5: James Shirley, Strephon, Daphne (‘Come my Daphne, come away’)
Copy, headed ‘A Song’.
First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 6. Also in The Cardinal, Act V, scene iii, printed in Six New Playes (London, 1652-3). Gifford & Dyce, V, 271-352 (pp. 344-5). Musical setting by William Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652) and in John Playford, The Musical Companion, 2nd edition (London, 1673). Edited from the latter in James Shirley, The Cardinal, ed. E. M. Yearling (Manchester, 1986), p. 162.
pp. 96-8
• DaW 50.5: Sir William Davenant, Song. The Dying Lover (‘Dear Love let me this Evening dy!’)
Copy, untitled.
First published (in Lawes's musical setting) in Henry Lawes, Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655). Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 168-70, 311-12.
pp. 105-6
• CmT 74.5: Thomas Campion, ‘Shall I come, sweet Love, to thee’
Copy, untitled.
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xvii. Davis, pp. 152-3.
p. 109
• KiH 583.5: Henry King, Sonnet (‘I prethee turne that face away’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1641). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.
Musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (Oxford, 1659).
pp. 109-10
• KiH 599.5: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Tell mee no more how faire shee is’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 158.
pp. 110-11
• KiH 133.5: Henry King, The Defence (‘Why slightest thou what I approve?’)
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Why slight'st thou her whom I approve?’.
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 145-6.
p. 113
• RaW 185.8: Sir Walter Ralegh, Like to a Hermite poore (‘Like to a Hermite poore in place obscure’)
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Like Hermit poore in pensive place obscure’.
First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). Latham, pp. 11-12. Rudick, Nos 57A and 57B (two versions, pp. 135-6).
p. 114
• ToA 22: Aurelian Townshend, ‘Let not thy beauty make thee proud’
Copy, untitled and unascribed.
First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in John Playford, Select Musical Ayres (London, 1652), p. 34. Chambers, p. 3. Brown, pp. 66-7.
pp. 114-15
• LoR 19.5: Richard Lovelace, The Scrutinie. Song (‘Why should you sweare I am forsworn’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 24. (1930), pp. 26-7. A musical setting by Thomas Charles published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).
p. 133
• KiH 368.6: Henry King, The Farwell (‘Farwell fond Love, under whose childish whipp’)
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Farewell! farewell fond Love under whose childish whipp’.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 150.
See also B&F 121-2.
p. 138
• SuJ 55.5: John Suckling, Song (‘No, no faire Heretique, it needs must bee’)
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘No more fayre Heretick, it needs must be’.
First published in Aglaura (London, 1638), Act IV, scene iv, lines 4-23. Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 63-4.
A musical setting by Henry Lawes (1592-1662) published in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652). See also John P. Cutts, ‘Drexel Manuscript 4041’, MD, 18 (1946), 151-202 (p. 166), where it is argued that the setting is probably by William Lawes (1602-45).
pp. 145-6
• ToA 68: Aurelian Townshend, To the Countess of Salisbury (‘Victorious beauty, though your eyes’)
Copy, untitled.
First published, in a musical setting by William Webb, in John Playford, Select Musical Ayres (London, 1652), p. 22. Chambers, pp. 4-5. Brown, pp. 19-21.
pp. 150-1
• GrJ 76: John Grange, ‘Since every man I come among’
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Since ev'ry one I come among’.
First published in Poems (1660), pp. 53-4. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as by John Grange.
pp. 157-8
• WaE 438.5: Edmund Waller, Song (‘Chloris! farewell. I now must go’)
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Chloris farewell I needs must goe’.
First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652). Poems, ‘Eighth’ edition (London, 1711). Thorn-Drury, II, 110-11.
pp. 203-7
• DaW 11.8: Sir William Davenant, Epithalamium. The morning after the Marriage of the Earl of Barymore with Mrs. Martha Laurence (‘A Lover is a high and mighty Thing!’)
Copy.
First published in Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 158-62.
pp. 209-10
• ToA 15: Aurelian Townshend, An Elegie upon the untymely death of the rightly honorable Edward Sackville (‘There was a Tyme and that not long agoe’)
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on the Death of the Right honble Mr Edward Sackvile’.
First published in C. J. Phillips, History of the Sackville Family, 2 vols (London, 1930), II, 383-4. Brown, pp. 68-9.
p. 215
• PsK 248.5: Katherine Philips, On the death of my first and dearest childe, Hector Philipps, borne the 23d of Aprill, and dy'd the 2d of May 1655, set by Mr Lawes (‘Twice Forty moneths in wedlock I did stay’)
Copy, headed ‘Mis Phillipps Elegie On The Death of her sonn’ and here beginning ‘Twice forty month of wedlock I did stay’.
First published, as ‘Orinda upon little Hector Philips’, in Poems (1667), pp. 148-9. Saintsbury, pp. 590-1. Hageman (1987), p. 599. Thomas, I, 220, poem 101.
pp. 217-20
• PsK 318.8: Katherine Philips, Rosania shaddow'd whilest Mrs M. Awbrey. 19. Septemb. 1651 (‘If any could my dear Rosania hate’)
Copy, headed ‘Orinda, To Parthenia A shaddow of Rosania’ and subscribed ‘Ka. Ph:’.
First published in Poems (1664), pp. 94-9. Poems (1667), pp. 48-50. Saintsbury, pp. 535-7. Thomas, I, 117-20, poem 34.
p. 221
• PsK 588: Katherine Philips, Letter(s)
Copy of a letter by Philips (‘Orinda’), to Lady Fletcher (‘the noble Parthenia’), undated. c.Early 1650s?.
Edited and discussed in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (Oxford, 1998), pp. 148, 281.
pp. 230-1
• DeJ 39.5: Sir John Denham, Martial. Epigram Out of an Epigram of Martial (‘Prithee die and set me free’)
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
First published in Sportive Wit (London, 1656). Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 180-1.
pp. 237-8
• ToA 41: Aurelian Townshend, Song (‘I have bene Northward o' tother side Trent’)
Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue betwixt Tyme & a Pilgrim’, subscribed ‘AT.’
Unpublished song of five sestains.
pp. 238-9
• ToA 75: Aurelian Townshend, ‘When we were parted’
Copy, headed ‘Partinge’, subscribed ‘A T’.
First published, in a musical setting by Lawes, in Henry Lawes, The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655), p. 19. Chambers, p. 12. Brown, p. 61.
pp. 239-40
• ToA 43: Aurelian Townshend, ‘Thou art soe faire, and young withall’
Copy, headed ‘Youth & Beauty’, subscribed ‘AT.’.
First published, in a musical setting by Lawes and headed ‘Youth and Beauty’, in Henry Lawes, Ayres and Dialogues, Book I (London, 1653), p. 29. Chambers, p. 5. Brown, pp. 62-3.
pp. 240-1
• ToA 5: Aurelian Townshend, ‘Delicate Beauty, why should you disdaine’
Copy, headed ‘Sufferance’, subscribed ‘AT.’
First published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655), p. 20. Chambers, p. 11. Brown, pp. 64-5.
p. 241
• ToA 25: Aurelian Townshend, On hearing her Majesty sing (‘I have beene in Heav'n, I thinke’)
Copy, headed ‘On his hearing her Matie sing’, subscribed ‘AT.’
First published, in a musical setting by Lawes, in Henry Lawes, The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655), p. 21. Chambers, p. 13. Brown, pp. 46-7.
pp. 242-3
• ToA 46: Aurelian Townshend, ‘Thou Shepheard, whose intentive eye’
Copy, headed ‘A Description of Cloris’, subscribed ‘AT’.
First published, in a musical setting by Lawes, in Henry Lawes, Ayres and Dialogues, Book I (London, 1653), p. 20. Chambers, pp. 9-10. Brown, pp. 57-9.
pp. 243-4
• ToA 7: Aurelian Townshend, A Dialogue betwixt Time and a Pilgrime (‘Aged man, that mowes these fields’)
Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue betwixt Tyme & a Pilgrim’, subscribed ‘AT.’
First published, in a musical setting by Lawes, in Henry Lawes, Ayres and Dialogues, Book I (London, 1653), p. 3. chambers, pp. 6-7. Brown, pp. 43-5.
pp. 244-5
• ToA 93: Aurelian Townshend, A Bacchanall in a maske before their Majestys, 1636 (‘Bacchus, I-acchus, fill our braines’)
Copy, headed ‘A Bacchanall’ and here beginning ‘Bacchus J'accus fill our Braynes’, subscribed ‘AT.’
First published, in a musical setting by Lawes, in Henry Lawes, Ayres and Dialogues, Book I (London, 1653), p. 9. Chambers, pp. 7-8. Brown, pp. 115-16.
p. 246
• ToA 72: Aurelian Townshend, To the Incomparable Brothers, Mr. Henry, and Mr. William Lawes (Servants to His Majestie) upon the setting of these Psalmes (‘The various Musick, both for Aire and Art’)
Copy, headed ‘To Henry & William Lawes Brothers Servants to his Matie vppon ye setting of Mr Sandys's Psalmes into musique’, subscribed ‘A. T:’.
First published among commendatory verses in Choice Psalms put into Musicke, for three Voices. Composed by Henry and William Lawes, Brothers: and Seervants to his Majestie (London, 1648). Chambers, pp. 44-5. Brown, p. 122.
pp. 248-9
• ToA 1: Aurelian Townshend, Adoration to Sylvia (‘'Tis Summer now since thou art come’)
Copy, subscribed ‘AT.’
Unpublished poem of three quatrains.
pp. 249, 249 bis, 250
• StW 68.5: William Strode, A Devonshire Song (‘Thou ne'er wutt riddle, neighbour Jan’)
Copy, headed ‘A Song Made when King Charles was at Plimouth’ and here beginning ‘A Riddle a Riddle me neighbour John’.
First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, pp. 65-6. John Tuckett, ‘A Devonshire Song’, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 462. Dobell, pp. 114-16. Forey, pp. 101-3.
MS Ogden 48
A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several professional secretary hands, 76 leaves (plus blanks), in later calf gilt.
Inscribed (f. 76v) ‘good mr / Mr W / Mr Wally’. Bookplate of James P. R. Lyell (1871-1948), book collector. Afterwards in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector
ff. [15v-20v]
• CtR 371: Sir Robert Cotton, A Relation of the Proceedings against Ambassadors who have miscarried themselves, etc. ...[27 April 1624]
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘written by Sr Robert Cotton the 27 of Aprill 1624’. c.1625-30s.
Tract, addressed to George, Duke of Buckingham, beginning ‘In humble obedience to your Grace's Command, I am emboldned to present my poor advice...’. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 1-9.
ff. [48r-76r]
• CtR 518: Sir Robert Cotton, Twenty-four Argvments, Whether it be more expedient to suppress Popish Practises against the due Allegeance of His Majesty, by the Strict Execution touching Jesuits and Seminary Preists? Or, to restraine them to Close Prisons, during life, if no Reformation follow?
Copy, in a professional cursive secretary hand, headed ‘Considerations for the represseing of the increase of Preistes Jesuites and Recusantes without Draweinge of Blood by Sr Robt Cotton’. c.1630s.
Tract beginning ‘I am not ignorant, that this latter age hath brought forth a swarm of busie heads...’, dated 11 August 1613. First published in two editions, as respectively Seriovs Considerations for Repressing of the Increase of Iesvites and A Treatise against Recusants (both London, 1641). Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [109]-159.
Ogden A 50
A printed exemplum presented to Alexander Dicsone by Bruno, with the latter's inscribed dedication to him ‘D Alexandro Dicsono Bonarum literarum optime merito...in sui memoriam, & amicitiæ...’, in contemporary vellum gilt. c.1584.
DiA 8: Alexander Dicsone, Bruno, Giordano. De umbris idearum (Paris, 1582)
Later owned by Sir James Balfour, first Baronet (1600-57), of Denmilne and Kinncaird, Lyon King of Arms and antiquary. Afterwards sold by David and Robert Freebairn, Edinburgh book auctioners (fl. 1703-37).
Recorded in Beal, ‘Sidney's Letter’, p. 40, n. 13. Facsimiles of the inscription in Rita Sturlese, ‘Un nuovo autografo del Bruno’, Rinascimento, 27 (1987), 387-91, and in John Bossy, Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair (New Haven & London, 1991), p. 277.