Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton (1620/1–1669 and 1626-1663)

Verse

The angry Curs (‘Who is't that darr tell mee they'l haue a way’)

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An answeare to my Lady Alice Edgertons Songe Of I prithy send mee back my Hart (‘I cannot send you back my hart’)

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An answeare to the verses Mr Carey made to the La: Carlile (‘What doe your thoughts begin in loue to stray’)

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The captiue Buriall (‘My captiue soule, it selfe bemones’)

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The Carecter (‘Your seruants now them selues to saue’)

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The cautious man, or wits wonder (‘I wonder as those people that doe thinke’)

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The Cure (‘I'll tell thee what's the cure of Jealousy’)

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The descoursiue Ghost (‘Clog of my Spirit prethee get thee hence’)

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Epilog (‘And I was sent in all hast to you here’)

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An Epilog / In perticuler to your Lopp: (‘Now since your Excellence hath thought it fitt’)

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Epilog (‘Truely the conflicts I did see wthin’)

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Faireings Munckey (‘The Faireinge shewed thy selfe to bee’)

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‘Foure Brthers & a Sister such I had’

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The Greate Example / To my Lord my ffather the Marquess of Newcastle (‘My Lord / You are the Academy of all truth’)

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‘Haue you now read my Lord, pray doe not speake’

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Hopes preparation (‘Now I'm prepared against my Lord doth come’)

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Hopes Still (‘What shall I say I am a brickle still’)

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‘I cannot speake, nor looke, nor nothing say’

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‘I haue now receiu'd thy Sacrament, soe fynd’

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Lifes weather Glass (‘The Deuill take mee if I can tell what’)

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Loue conflict (‘When first I happily did heare’)

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Loues Torture (‘Ther's noe such Hell as is a torter'd mind’)

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Loues Vniuerse (‘The vniuers mee thinkes I see’)

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C&E 39

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The minds Saluation (‘This day I did in perspectiue one veiw’)

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‘My Lord / After the deuty of a Verse’

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C&E 43

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‘My Lord it is your absence makes each see’

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‘My Lord / This Pastorall could not owne weake’

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C&E 46

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‘My Lord your absence makes I cannot owne’

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‘Now Lord I begg of thee before I pray’

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On a Chamber=mayde (‘Thou louely Bess, that art soe plumpe & young’)

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On a Chambermayde (‘Thy presence Mary, I with trueth confess’)

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On a false reporte of yr Lops: landinge (‘Fye false Scout doe you growe madd’)

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On a Noble Lady (‘Madam, and friend, for trueth must call you soe’)

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on a Noble Lady (‘Madam, I pray 'giue leaue in this’)

last word?

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On a Noble Lady (‘Madam you are soe truely noble & soe good’)

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On a Noble Lady (‘Thou sent a message Late’)

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On a Noble Lady (‘Thy selfe a sacred Church, soe each should look’)

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On a worthy freind (‘Those that would chuse a patterne for a wife’)

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On an Acquaintance (‘Each in your face this truely now doe see’)

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On an Acquaintance (‘Thou art a free good soule of Innocence’)

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On an Acquaintance (‘Thou were the prittest thinge that e'r I saw’)

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On an Acquaintance (‘When looke on you then each should truely name’)

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On an Acquaintance (‘You did appeare as if that Black’)

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On an Honourable Lady (‘Madam giue leaue to prayse you though you are’)

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On Christmas day to God (‘This day a happy day for all on earth’)

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on Gilbert Earle of Shrewsbury (‘Thou wert the onely peece of noble trueth’)

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On good Fryday (‘The remembring of this day appeareth soe’)

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On hir most sacred Matie: (‘When Mary's named, what life it giues’)

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On his Highnes the Prince of Wales (‘Sir your lookes a Conqueror doth presage’)

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On hir sacred Matie: (‘Madam / Your lookes are courage mixt wth such sweetnes’)

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On his most sacred Matie: (‘Most sacred Sr and best of humane race’)

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On my deare Brothers & Sister (‘Foure Brothers & a Sister such I had’)

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On my deare mother the Countess of Newcastle (‘I had a mother which to speake was such’)

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On my good & true freind Mr Henry Ogle (‘Seruant, noe, freind thou wert & truely soe’)

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On my good Aunt Jane Countes of Shrewsbury (‘Madam / Your blessed selfe was euen pure vertues fame’)

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On my Grandfather Mr Basset (‘Sir / A gallant man you were & Courtier true’)

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On my Grandmother the Lady Corbett (‘When looke on you your face did teach one wealth’)

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On my honble: Aunt Mary Countes of Shrewsbury (‘Madam / Your Courage, witt, & judgment this is true’)

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On my Honble: Grandmother Elizabeth Countes of Shrewsbury (‘Madam / You were the very Magazine of rich’)

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On my Lord my ffather the Marquess of Newcastle (‘My Lord / Your face is a sweete molde for modestie’)

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On my Noble Grandfather Sr Charles Cauendysh (‘Sir / Your memory a Cronacle would make’)

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On my Noble Vncle Sr Charles Cauendish Knight (‘Vncle / Your life's the true Example of a Saint’)

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On my Sister Brackleys Picture (‘Looke on this Picture where you'l see’)

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On my Sister Brackley (‘May all new yeares and happines, bee soe’)

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On my Sister Fraunces Picture (‘Nature bids you on this Picture veiw’)

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On my sweete brother Charles (‘Brother / Your face the quintecence of modestie’)

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On my sweete brother Henry (‘Brother / your selfe the onely peece of natures pride’)

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On my sweete Nephew Henry Harpur (‘The lookes sweete boy as if thou wouldest bee’)

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On my sweete Sister Brackley (‘Sister / Thour't quinticence of beauty, goodnes, truth’)

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On my sweete Sister Brackley (‘Sister / Thy natures onely fitt for Cæsars wife’)

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On my sweete Sister Fraunces (‘Sister / Among'st our Sex sweete Pursland pure you are’)

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On my sweete Sister the Lady Harpur (‘A sister once I had which alwayes saw’)

C&E 133

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Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 16, p. 32.

C&E 134

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Yale, Osborn MS b 233, p. 32.

On my Worthy freind Mr Haslewood (‘Your pensells fanceys I dooe sweare is such’)

C&E 135

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Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 16, p. 44.

On my Worthy freind Mr Richard Pypes (‘Sir / You are soe truely Noble, and soe free’)

C&E 136

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Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 16, p. 44.

on the Lady Ogle my deare Grandmother (‘My Grandmother the onely peece of good’)

C&E 137

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Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 16, p. 30.

C&E 138

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Yale, Osborn MS b 233, p. 30.

on the least finger of hir hand (‘When on thy little Finger looke’)

C&E 139

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Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 16, p. 14.

C&E 140

Copy, here beginning ‘On thy litle Finger looke’.

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Yale, Osborn MS b 233, p. 16.

On the Lord Viscount Brackley (‘My Lord / You are a Husband iust as one would wishe’)

C&E 141

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Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 16, p. 19.

C&E 142

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Yale, Osborn MS b 233, p. 21.

On the .30th. of June to God (‘This day I will my thankes sure now decline’)

C&E 143

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Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 16, p. 38.

C&E 144

Copy, here beginning ‘This day I will my thankes sure now declare’.

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Yale, Osborn MS b 233, p. 38.

Passions Contemplation (‘Ther's nothing more afflicts my greiued soule’)

C&E 145

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Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 16, p. 3.

C&E 146

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Yale, Osborn MS b 233, p. 5.

Passions Contemplation (‘The torments I receaue is thought of mind’)

C&E 147

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Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 16, p. 4.

C&E 148

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Yale, Osborn MS b 233, p. 6.

Passions delate (‘Greife sadnes sounds what shall thee take’)

C&E 149

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Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 16, p. 7.

C&E 150

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Yale, Osborn MS b 233, p. 9.

Passions inuitation (‘For Gods sake come away & land’)

C&E 151

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Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 16, p. 15.

C&E 152

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Yale, Osborn MS b 233, p. 17.

Passions Lre to my Lord my Father (‘My Lord, it is your absence makes each see’)

C&E 153

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Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 16, p. 1.

C&E 154

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Yale, Osborn MS b 233, p. 3.

The Peart one, or otherwise, my Sister Brackley (‘Sister / Thou art soe pritty, younge, and witty’)

C&E 155

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Facsimile of p. 11 in Lynn Hulse, ‘“The King's Entertainment” by the Duke of Newcastle’, Viator, 26 (1995), 355-405 (p. 367).

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 16, p. 11.

C&E 156

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Yale, Osborn MS b 233, p. 13.

A perticuler Prologe to your Lopp: (‘My Lord / If that your iudgement doth approue of wee’)

C&E 157

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Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 16, p. 88.

A Prologe to the Stage (‘Ladyes I beseech you blush not to see’)

C&E 158

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Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 16, p. 87.

The quinticence of Cordiall (‘Sister/ Wer't not for you I knew not how to liue’)

C&E 159

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Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 16, p. 12.

C&E 160

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Yale, Osborn MS b 233, p. 14.

A recruted ioj vpon a Lre from your Lopp: (‘This happy Tuesday since that now I see’)

C&E 161

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Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 16, p. 29.

C&E 162

Copy, here beginning ‘Thou happy Tuesday since that now I see’.

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Yale, Osborn MS b 233, p. 29.

The reuiue (‘Greifes passion Child, this night had dyed’)

C&E 163

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Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 16, p. 8.

C&E 164

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Yale, Osborn MS b 233, p. 10.

The second Prologe spoke by a Woman (‘Though a second Prologue spoke to our Play’)

C&E 165

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Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 16, p. 87.

A Songe (‘A man and a wife when once they marry’)

C&E 166

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Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 16, p. 26.

A Songe (‘I doe desire to liue’)

C&E 167

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Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 16, p. 21.

C&E 168

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Yale, Osborn MS b 233, p. 23.

A Songe (‘I would loues language tell but soe’)

C&E 169

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Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 16, p. 24.

C&E 170

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Yale, Osborn MS b 233, p. 26.

A Songe (‘Mayde, wife, or widow wch beares the graue stile’)

C&E 171

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Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 16, p. 13.

C&E 172

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Yale, Osborn MS b 233, p. 15.

A Songe (‘Our Eyes fix'd lookeing on thee’)

C&E 173

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Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 16, p. 10.

C&E 174

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Yale, Osborn MS b 233, p. 12.

A Songe in answeare to yor Lops: Sayter (‘Sayter I thanke you for your declaration’)

C&E 175

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Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 16, p. 5.

C&E 176

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Yale, Osborn MS b 233, p. 7.

The speakeing Glass (‘When that I looke into my Glasse’)

C&E 177

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Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 16, p. 42.

Thankes Lre (‘My Lord / Your present to mee was soe iustly kind’)

C&E 178

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Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 16, p. 15.

C&E 179

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Yale, Osborn MS b 233, p. 17.

To Heauen or a confession to God (‘I doe confess great God my sinns are great’)

C&E 180

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Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 16, p. 36.

C&E 181

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Yale, Osborn MS b 233, p. 36.

The trueth of Pensell (‘My Lord your Picture speakes you this to bee’)

C&E 182

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Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 16, p. 4.

C&E 183

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Yale, Osborn MS b 233, p. 6.

‘When I in prayer, pray God looke on mee’

C&E 184

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Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 16, p. 40.

C&E 185

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Yale, Osborn MS b 233, p. 40.

‘Your truely full of seruice this is true’

C&E 186

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Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 16, p. 24.

C&E 187

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Yale, Osborn MS b 233, p. 26.

Prose

Loose Papers and Meditations of Elizabeth Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater

Edited in Travitsky, Subordination (1999), pp. 172-207 (collations pp. 208-40).

C&E 188

Copy of Elizabeth Egerton's ‘Meditations on the seuerall Chapters of the Old Testament’ (pp. 1-318) and (pp. 319-79) the New Testament, 379 large folio pages (plus nearly 200 blank pages), in contemporary calf gilt over wooden boards, with brass clasps. c.1660s.

Item 46 in the Bridgewater sale (March 1951).

Huntington, RB 297343.

*C&E 189

MS, possibly autograph, very closely written in a single non-professional cursive hand, 710 small folio pages (including blanks). With a general title-page in the hand of her husband John Egerton (1623-86), second Earl of Bridgewater, Privy Councillor, ‘Meditations on the Seuerall Chapters of the Holy Bible, by the Right Honble: Elizabeth Countess of Bridgewater, who died the 14th: of June, in ye Yeare of Our Lord, 1663’; with separate title-pages in the same hand at intervals and with the Earl's copious autograph textual emendations throughout. c.1660s.

A complete facsimile of this MS is in the Huntington, EL 8374. Facsimile examples of three pages in Travitsky, Subordination, pp. 141, 143 and 145.

The Duke of Sutherland, Mertoun, Roxburghshire, 35/C/16.

C&E 190

Copy, in a formal probably professional roman hand, with (ff. 150r-2v) ‘A Table’ of contents, 152 octavo leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Entitled ‘True Coppies of certaine Loose Papers left by ye Right hoble Elizabeth Countesse of Bridgewater Collected and Transcribed together here since Her Death Anno Dni 1663’, and inscribed by her husband John Egerton (1623-86), second Earl of Bridgewater, Privy Councillor, ‘Examined by J. Bridgewater’. c.1660s.

Inscribed (on an affixed slip inside the front cover) ‘Sam. Egerton Brydges The Gift of his mother’; (f. 2r) ‘Samuel Egerton Brydges Feb. 12: 1795’; (f. 4r) ‘C. Hammond’ and ‘Jemima Bridges’.

This MS discussed by Betty S. Travitsky in ‘“His wife's prayers and meditations” MS Egerton 607’, in The Renaissance Englishwoman in Print: Counterbalancing the Canon, ed. Anne M. Haselkorn and Betty S. Travitsky (Amherst, Mass., 1990), pp. 241-60; and in ‘Reconstructing the Still Small Voice: The Occasional Journal of Elizabeth Egerton’, in Women's Studies, 19 (1991), 193-200. Collated in Travitsky, Subordination, with a facsimile of the title-page on p. 4.

British Library, Egerton MS 607.

C&E 191

Copy, in a neat professional hand, comprising pages 1-130 of a small folio volume also containing, in the same hand (pp. 130-50, headed ‘Spoken’), four prayers and contemplations made by her husband John Egerton (1623-86), second Earl of Bridgewater, Privy Councillor. With a title-page, ‘True Coppies of certaine loose Papers left by ye Right Honble: Elizabeth Countesse of Bridgewater Collected and Transcribed togeather here since her death, Anno Dnj. 1663.’, signed by the second Earl of Bridgewater, and with a five-page table of contents. c.1660s.

A complete facsimile of this MS is in the Huntington, EL 8376. Collated in Travitsky, Subordination.

The Duke of Sutherland, Mertoun, Roxburghshire, 35/B/35.

C&E 192

Copy, in a large professional rounded hand, comprising pages 1-267 of a volume also containing, in the same hand (pp. 268r-301), four prayers and contemplations made by her husband John Egerton (1623-86), second Earl of Bridgewater, Privy Councillor, who has signed the title-page and added a heading on p. 267. With a title-page, ‘True Coppies of certaine Loose Papers left by ye Right hoble: Elizabeth Countesse Of Bridgewater Collected and Transcribed together here since Her Death, Anno Dni. 1663’, and a five-page table of contents. c.1660s.

A complete facsimile of this MS is in the Huntington, EL 8377. Edited from this MS in Travitsky, Subordination, pp. 172-207, with facsimile examples on pp. 160, 167, and 172.

The Duke of Sutherland, Mertoun, Roxburghshire, 35/B/36.

Dramatic Works

The concealed Fansyes

A five-act play, including songs. Unpublished.

C&E 193

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Facsimile and transcription of p. 91 in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), pp. 430-1.

Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 16, pp. 91-154.

A Pastorall

A series of antemasques, songs and speaches. Unpublished.

C&E 194

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Bodleian, MS Rawl. poet. 16, pp. 52-83.

C&E 195

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Yale, Osborn MS b 233, pp. 46-76.

Miscellaneous

Account Book of Lady Jane Cheyne

Unpublished.

*C&E 196

Autograph account book, written from both ends, in a small quarto volume of 199 pages, of which 54 bear writing, in contemporary limp vellum. Inscribed on a paste-down ‘Jane Cauendysshe / Michelmass 1635 / My Personall Esteat, in this Booke’, and containing detailed and occasionally dated entries over a long period including inventories and accounts of receipts and expenditure for clothing, linen, plate, jewellery, and other personal and household goods. c.1635-64.

Huntington, EL 11143.