88/9/25
Series of original letters by Sir John Vanbrugh.
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• *VaJ 344: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Bowes Howard, fourth Earl of Berkshire, from London, 7 September 1722. 1722.
Edited in Clyve Jones, ‘“To dispose in earnest, of a place I got in jest”: Eight New Letters of Sir John Vanbrugh, 1722-1726’, N&Q, 234 (December 1989), 461-9 (p. 463).
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• *VaJ 346: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Bowes Howard, fourth Earl of Berkshire, from London, 27 June 1723. 1723.
Edited by Clyve Jones in N&Q, 234 (December 1989), 461-9 (pp. 463-4).
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• *VaJ 370: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Bowes Howard, fourth Earl of Berkshire, from Hartford Bridge, 11 May 1725. 1725.
Edited by Clyve Jones in N&Q, 234 (December 1989), 461-9 (pp. 464-5).
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• *VaJ 371: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Bowes Howard, fourth Earl of Berkshire, from London, 1 June 1725. 1725.
Edited by Clyve Jones in N&Q, 234 (December 1989), 461-9 (p. 465-6).
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• *VaJ 372: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Bowes Howard, fourth Earl of Berkshire, from London, 29 June 1725. 1725.
Edited in Clyve Jones, N&Q, 234 (December 1989), 461-9 (pp. 466-7).
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• *VaJ 378: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Bowes Howard, fourth Earl of Berkshire, from London, 21 October 1725. 1725.
Edited by Clyve Jones in N&Q, 234 (December 1989), 461-9 (p. 467).
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• *VaJ 381: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Bowes Howard, fourth Earl of Berkshire, from Greenwich, 16 November 1725. 1725.
Edited by Clyve Jones in N&Q, 234 (December 1989), 461-9 (pp. 467-8).
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• *VaJ 383: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)
Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Henry Bowes Howard, fourth Earl of Berkshire, from London, 3 February 1725/6. 1725/6.
Edited by Clyve Jones in N&Q, 234 (December 1989), 461-9 (pp. 468-9).
161/90A
A large folio book of medical receipts and prescriptions. Late 17th century.
In the Cole Park Collection deriving from the papers of the Lovell, Willes, and Harvey families.
p. 135 bis
• RaW 723: Sir Walter Ralegh, Chemical and Medical Receipts
Copy of ‘Sr Walter Raleighs Great Cordiall Sr Robert Killigrews way’.
161/198
A quarto account book of George Downing relating to legal matters, subsequenty used as a commonplace book by a member of the Willes or Lovell families, 80 pages. 1785-9 [-c.1800].
f. [11r-v]
• DoC 335.7: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Phryne (‘Phryne had Talents for Mankind’)
Copy, subscribed ‘Earl of Dorset’.
Unpublished.
f. [12r]
• LeN 11.9: Nathaniel Lee, The Rival Queens: or, The Death of Alexander the Great
Extract.
First published in London, 1677. Stroup & Cooke, I, 211-83.
p. 54
• RoJ 237: 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.
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• MnJ 144: John Milton, Extracts
213/420
Copy.
ClE 88: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, The Humble Petition and Address of Clarendon in 1667
Petition beginning ‘I cannot express the insupportable trouble and grief of mind I sustain...’. Published as To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled: The Humble Petition and Address of Clarendon, [in London, 1667?] and subsequently reprinted widely, sometimes under the title News from Dunkirk-house: or, Clarendon's Farewell to England Dec 3 1667.
413/445
A miscellany, including state papers, in several hands, in vellum. Compiled by members of the Benett family, of Pythouse, Tisbury. c.1660.
Inscribed inside the cover ‘Chaloner freville’.
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• BcF 650: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
Copy of letters by Bacon.
f. [41r-v]
• RaW 995: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
Copy of a letter by Ralegh to James I.
f. [42r-4r]
• RaW 710.28: Sir Walter Ralegh, Short Apology for his last Actions at Guiana
Copy of Ralegh's ‘Appologie’.
Ralegh's letter of 1618 to his cousin George, Lord Carew of Clopton (beginning ‘Because I know not whether I shall live...’). First published in Judicious and Select Essays (London, 1650). Edwards, II, 375 et seq. Youings, No. 222, pp. 364-8.
ff. [51r-2v]
• BcF 528: 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.
865/500
A folio miscellany of poems and state papers, in secretary hands, written from both ends, 50 leaves, in contemporary vellum. c.1620s.
Among papers of the Troyte-Bullock family, formerly of Zeals House, Mere, and probably deriving from the papers of the Chafyn family of Bulford and Chisenbury or the Reymes family of Waddon, near Dorchester.
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• MrC 18: Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to his Love (‘Come live with mee, and be my love’)
Copy of an eight-stanza version (plus two lines), in a left-hand column, headed ‘Blundwells exercise’.
First published in a four-stanza version in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). Printed in a six-stanza version in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Bowers, II, 536-7. Tucker Brooke, pp. 550-1. Gill et al., I, 215. For Ralegh's ‘Answer’ see RaW 189-99.
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• RaW 199: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Nimphs reply to the Sheepheard (‘If all the world and loue were young’)
Copy of a five-stanza version, in a right-hand column, headed ‘Respon:’ and here beginning ‘If now the world & love were younge’.
One stanza published in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). First published complete in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Latham, pp. 16-17. Rudick, Nos 45A and 45B, pp. 117, 119-20 (two versions, as ‘Her answer’ to Marlowe's poem on p. 116 and as ‘The Milk maids mothers answer’) respectively. For the companion poem by Marlowe, which accompanies most of the texts of Ralegh's ‘reply’, see MrC 10-19.
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• EsR 315: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution
Copy.
Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.
f. [26r]
• HoJ 113: John Hoskyns, A Dreame (‘Me thought I walked in a dreame’)
Copy of the shortened version, headed ‘Mrs hoskins petition to the kings matie: her husband. being imprisoned in the tower vpon the kings high indignation An: 1615.’, here beginning ‘The worst is knowne the best is hid’.
Osborn, No. XXXIV (pp. 206-8). Whitlock, pp. 480-2.
A shortened version of the poem, of lines 43-68, beginning ‘the worst is tolld, the best is hidd’ and ending ‘he errd but once, once king forgiue’, was widely circulated.
f. [27r]
• RaW 135: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Fortune hath taken thee away my love’
Copy, in six quatrains, in a left-hand column, headed ‘A sonnett’.
Edited from this MS in Queen Elizabeth I: Selected Works, poem 7a, pp. 14-15, and in Rudick, No. 15D, p. 22.
Six lines cited in George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie (London, 1589). Latham, p. 9. The full text first published as a broadside in London, 1592 (?): see TLS (12 September 1968), p. 1032. This poem is related to the song “Fortune my foe”: see TLS, 30 May 1968, p. 553. Rudick, Nos 15A, 15B, 15C and 15D (four versions, pp. 19-22), followed by the Queen's answer (p. 23: see ElQ 38).
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• ElQ 39: Queen Elizabeth I, Verse Exchange between Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter Ralegh, circa 1587 (‘Ah, silly Pug, wert thou so sore afraid?’)
Copy of the complete 24-line poem, in a right-hand column, headed ‘An aunswer’.
Edited from this MS in Queen Elizabeth I: Selected Works, poem 7a, pp. 14-15, and in The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Michael Rudick (Tempe Arizona, 1999), p. 23.
Collected Works, Poem 12, pp. 307-9. Selected Works, Poem 7, pp. 14-18.
For Ralegh's “Fortune hath taken away my love”, see RaW 133-5.
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• RaW 996: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
Copy of four letters by Ralegh, to James I (2), to Ralegh's wife, and to Sir Robert Carr.
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• RaW 378: Sir Walter Ralegh, Epitaph on the Earl of Salisbury (‘Here lies Hobinall, our Pastor while ere’)
Copy, under a general heading ‘Scurrillous epitaphes’ and here beginning ‘Heare lyeth Hobinoll our shepherd whileare’.
First published in Francis Osborne, Traditionall Memoyres on the raigne of King Iames (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 735-6. Latham, p. 53.
Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, p. 146, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.
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• BcF 529: 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.
865/502
A folio notebook of verse and prose, predominantly in one hand, written from both ends, 45 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Compiled by John Clavell (1601-43), writer and highwayman. c.1633-42.
Among papers of the Troyte-Bullock anf Chafyn Grove families, of Zeals House, Mere.
Discussed, with facsimile examples, in John Pafford, John Clavell 1601-43 Highwayman, Author, Lawyer, Doctor (Oxford, 1993).
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• KiH 781: Henry King, Upon the King's happy Returne from Scotland (‘So breakes the Day, when the Returning Sun’)
Copy, headed ‘Vppon his maties returne from Scotland’.
Edited from this MS in Pafford, pp. 153-4.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 81-2.
f. [6r-v]
• RnT 137: Thomas Randolph, A gratulatory to Mr. Ben. Johnson for his adopting of him to be his Son (‘I was not borne to Helicon, nor dare’)
Copy, headed ‘A gratulatory to Ben: Jonson for his voluntary Adoption of mee to bee His Sonn’.
Edited from this MS in Pafford, pp. 192-4.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 40-2.
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• PoW 74: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’
Copy.
First published, as ‘In praise of black Women; by T.R.’, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as ‘On a black Gentlewoman’. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as ‘On black Hair and Eyes’ and superscribed ‘R’; in The Poems of John Donne, ed Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as ‘on Black Hayre and Eyes’, among ‘Poems attributed to Donne in MSS’; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.
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• MsP 3: Philip Massinger, A funerall Poem Sacred to the memorie of the trewly noble and most accomplishid gentleman Sr Warham Sentliger Knight lineally descended from &c: (‘Such were his noble Ancesters, and yet’)
Copy of a 108-line elegy, subscribed ‘Written by his truly devoted servant Philip Massenger’.
Edited from this MS in Pafford, pp. 209-12, and, initially in his ‘A New Poem by Philip Massinger’, N&Q, 223 (December 1978), 503-5, corrections to his transcription appearing in C.A. Gibson, ‘The New Massinger Elegy’, N&Q, 227 (December 1982), 489-90.
First published in J.H.P. Pafford, ‘A New Poem by Philip Massinger’, N&Q, 223 (December 1978), 503-5.
865/581
Copy, in a professional hand, untitled and unascribed, thirteen folio pages, unbound. c.1620s.
CtR 428: Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England
Among papers of the Troyte-Bullock family, formerly of Zeals House, Mere.
Treatise, written c.1614 and ‘Presented to King James’, beginning ‘Wearied with the lingering calamities of Civil Arms...’. First published in London, 1627. Cottoni posthuma (1651), at the end (i + pp. 1-27).