Verse
‘A happles man of late’
Sandison, No. [39], pp. 45-7.
GgA 1
Copy in: An octavo volume of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, 115 leaves in all. Written over a long period, principally in the accomplished italic hand of an amanuensis, with additions and revisions in Gorges's hand, the last eleven poems added in or after 1614 in another scribal hand, the volume entitled in Gorges's hand The Vanytyes of Sir Arthur Gorges Youthe (and again as Sir Arthur Gorges his vannetyes and toyes of yowth). c.1586-1625.
Inscribed in 1631 by one John Kayll.
Another of the same Armories (‘Whylome this subject Crowne, a soveraigne crowne pursu'd’)
First published in Restituta, ed. Sir E. Brydges (1816), IV, 506-9. Sandison, No. [105], pp. 128-9.
GgA 2
Copy, among the eleven later poems.
In: the MS described under GgA 1. c.1586-1625.
Edited from this MS in Sandison.
GgA 2.5
Copy, in gilt, in the second of two rectangles beneath the Prince of Wales's coloured arms.
In: MS of six poems by Gorges to the Stuart Royal Family, on 5 small folio leaves of vellum (ff. 2-4) and paper (ff. 1, 5), in modern calf. The author's presentation MS to James I as a New Year's Gift, in the calligraphic italic script of an amanuensis, with decoration, the verses on ff. 2, 3, 4 written in gold, with arms and emblems in gold and colours, f. 1r signed by Gorges himself (f. 1r). 1 January 1609/10.
Edited from this MS in Brydges. Collated in Sandison.
The Answer (‘My trustie servants matchless faith’)
Sandison, No. [24], p. 25.
‘But this and then no more’
The incipit first published, in a musical setting, in W. Barley, A new Booke of Tabliture (London, 1596), sig. Dv of the third part. Sandison, No. [25], pp. 26-7. May EV 4157.
GgA 5
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘FYNIS. G O R’.
In: A quarto composite verse miscellany, comprising three miscellaneous MSS in different hands, 151 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. Fols 11r-78r, largely in a single secretary hand, comprising a verse miscellany compiled by the antiquary St Loe Kniveton, of Gray's Inn. c.1585-90s.
This MS collated in Sandison. Edited from this MS, and misattributed to Edward Dyer, in Bernard M. Wagner, ‘New Poems by Sir Edward Dyer’, RES, 11 (1935), 466-71 (pp. 468-9).
Carnation, whit and watchede (‘I saue of late a Ladie weare a shoo’)
Sandison, No. [8], pp. 9-10.
GgA 7
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, 63 leaves, partly mounted on guards, in modern quarter-calf on marbled boards. Compiled by Henry Stanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, including George Carey, second Lord Hunsdon. c.1581-1612.
A complete transcription of this volume in Steven W. May, Henry Stanford's Anthology: An Edition of Cambridge University Library Manuscript Dd. 5.75 (New York, 1988).
This MS collated in Sandison. May, Stanford, p. 117 (No. 192).
The Conclusion to the Kings Majestie (‘Of manie now that sound with hopes consort’)
First published in Restituta, ed. Sir E. Brydges (1816), IV, 506-9. Sandison, No. [106], p. 129.
D (‘Full lytle knowes my deare and sweeteste frynde’)
Sandison, No. [63], pp 65-6.
D (‘That to revive which wronge of tyme might weare’)
Sandison, No. [66]. pp. 67-8.
D (‘To shunne the fury off the hoote Sunnebeame’)
Sandison, No. [44], p. 54.
GgA 12
Copy in: the MS described under GgA 1. c.1586-1625.
D (‘Yff other love then yours do lodge within my Breste’)
Sandison, No. [52], p. 59.
GgA 12.5
Copy in: the MS described under GgA 1. c.1586-1625.
D-- Sonnett (‘My deare, take in good parte this fortune badde’)
Sandison, No. [48], p. 57.
‘Decayde I fynde my favor and my fate’
Sandison, No. [80], pp. 78-9.
Dido to Æneas (‘Lyke as the swann snow white’)
Sandison, No. [90], pp. 87-106.
GgA 15
Copy in: the MS described under GgA 1. c.1586-1625.
Didos true Complainte (‘Itt was the sylente tyme’)
Sandison, No. [91], pp. 106-10.
GgA 16
Copy in: the MS described under GgA 1. c.1586-1625.
‘Downe came desire from heaven this other daye’
Sandison, No. [9], pp. 10-11.
An Ecloge betwen a Shephearde and a Heardsman (‘Cumme gentle Heardman sitt with mee’)
First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). Sandison, No. [98], pp. 118-23.
GgA 18
Copy in: the MS described under GgA 1. c.1586-1625.
GgA 19
Copy, in the hand of Henry Sanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, on one sheet of paper. Headed ‘An Eglogue between a shepheard and a heardsman’, endorsed ‘A verse of Sr Philip Sidney’. c.1600.
May EV 4798.
GgA 20
Copy of lines 1-52, in a musical setting, headed ‘A dialogue’.
In: A folio songbook, in probably two secretary and italic hands, 25 leaves, in a recycled contemporary vellum indenture within modern half red morocco. c.1614-30.
Inscribed (f. 1v) ‘John Shurlane His Booke’, and (f. 24v rev.) ‘This Book Do[ ] / Hugh ffloyd / Domn: 11’, with dates ‘28 Nov. 1630’ and ‘1633’. Purchased from Thomas Rodd, bookseller, 13 April 1844.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 1 (New York & London, 1986).
This MS collated in Sandison.
GgA 21
Copy, headed ‘between a sheapheard & a heardsman an eglogue’.
In: the MS described under GgA 7. c.1581-1612.
This MS collated in Sandison. May, Stanford, pp. 132-4 (No. 205).
‘False Cræssyde have yow chaungde your mynde’
Sandison, No. [38], pp. 44-5.
GgA 22
Copy in: the MS described under GgA 1. c.1586-1625.
‘Farewell Crueltye lodged in greate Bewtye’
Sandison, No. [21], p. 23.
‘From your fayr eyes the kendlynge sparks were sent’
Sandison, No. [3], p. 5.
‘From whence doth this proceade’
Sandison, No. [40], pp. 47-9.
GgA 25
Copy in: the MS described under GgA 1. c.1586-1625.
‘Henceforth I will nott sett my love’
Sandison, No. [94], pp. 113-14.
GgA 26
Copy in: the MS described under GgA 1. c.1586-1625.
‘Her face Her tongue Her wytt’
First published. in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593), p. 79. Sandison, No. [79], pp. 77-8.
See RaW 136-145.
‘How durste a selye Paynter undertake’
Sandison, No. [72], pp. 71-2.
‘Iff all my thoughtes were open unto yow’
Sandison, No. [59], p. 63.
‘If mortall men so grevous paynes would taste’
Sandison, No. [15], pp. 19-20.
‘Iff this be love, to fyxe the Eyes onn grownde’
Sandison, No. [76], pp. 74-5.
GgA 30
Copy. The poem followed (f. 59v) by a copy of Thomas Churchyard's ‘Of Mounsieur’ (‘On worthy Queen on mighty Realme on God above’) which is deleted.
In: the MS described under GgA 1. c.1586-1625.
‘If under your fair looks so sweete in shewe’
Sandison, No. [18], p. 21.
‘Let Castyls Phillip gratefully confess’
Sandison, No. [111], p. 133.
‘Lett those that lyve in love, lament the lovers fitts’
Sandison, No. [11], pp. 12-13.
‘Like as the Adamante by vertue straunge’
Sandison, No. [14], pp. 18-19.
GgA 34
Copy in: the MS described under GgA 1. c.1586-1625.
‘Love as a Prynce to shew his power and myght’
Sandison, No. [858], p. 84.
‘Lyke as the Princely faulcon on the fyste feedynge’
Sandison, No. [77], p. 76.
‘Mars and the Muses weare att mortall stryfe’
Sandison, No. [97], p. 118.
‘My harte I have oftymes bydd the beware’
Sandison, No. [6], pp. 7-8.
‘My mistrs waveringe mynd full well compare I might’
Sandison, No. [23], p. 25.
‘My werye ghooste charged with to highe desyre’
Sandison, No. [68], p. 69.
‘Myne eyes thinke yow that still myne eyes yow are’
Sandison, No. [37], pp. 43-4.
An new Yeares guift to the Kings Majestie alluding to the time that hee Was proclaimed heere in England 24th March (‘When time our styled yeare did end’)
First published in Restituta, ed. Sir Egerton Brydges (1816), IV, 506-9. Sandison, No. [101], p. 126.
‘O fayre and cruell hande that me enchaynde’
sandison, No. [31], p. 37.
‘Of love fayne woolde I frame my style’
Sandison, No. [42], pp. 50-2.
GgA 45
Copy in: the MS described under GgA 1. c.1586-1625.
Of Syr Phyllypp Sydney (‘Summe for thy sake rych Monuments doo frame’)
Sandison, No. [96], p. 117.
of the Q. (‘To the greate Macedon my fayre Queene I compare’)
Sandison, No. [61], pp. 64-5.
of the Q. Sonnet (‘Prodigall was nature fruitfull and devyne’)
Sandison, No. [47], p. 56.
The Olympian Catastrophe (‘This princely Crowne, the marke of Monarchye’)
First published edited by Randall Davier (Kensington: Cayme Press, 1925). Sandison, pp. 135-82. The poem ‘To the Reader’ (beginning ‘No praise for Poesie do I affect’) was recycled by Sir Arthur Gorges Jr and published as his contribution to Lachrymae Musarum (London, 1650) on the death of Henry Lord Hastings.
*GgA 49
A quarto manuscript, 56 leaves, plus three blank leaves, in vellum. Principally in the neat hand of an amanuensis, in a predominantly secretary hand with italic headings, with occasional autograph corrections by Gorges, a number of alterations and substitutions (ranging from single words to two whole lines) on pasted-on slips of paper (notably on ff. 10v, 17v-19r, 22v, 24r, 29r, 32r, 33v, 43v, 45v, and 49r); with a title-page dedicated to the deceased Prince Henry (f. 1r), and dedicatory poems to Queen Anne (‘To the Queenes Maiestye’, beginning ‘If sorrow comment on a text of woe’, f. 2r); to Princess Elizabeth (‘To the most Excellent & vertuous Princes the Lady Elizabeths Grace Countess Palatine of Rheyne, Duchess of Bavyere &c.’, beginning ‘When greife wth mutiny disturbs the hart’, f. 2v); and ‘To the Reader’ (beginning ‘No praise for Poesie do I affect’, f. 3r); with the Prince's emblem and motto and the first stanza of the main text in italic on a pasted-on leaf (f. 4r); the 1182-line poem in sextains (ff. 4r-54r); followed by ‘The Author to his Muse’ (beginning ‘To those that (wth a squint malignant eye)’, f. 54r-v); ‘Sonet To his Entombed Bodye’ (beginning ‘Sume for thy sake prowed Monnume[n]ts will frame’, f. 55r); and ‘The Lamentation of Richmond Sonnet’ (beginning ‘Like to a lampe whose flaiminge light is dead’, f. 56r). 1612.
From the Bridgewater Library.
Edited from this MS in Davier and in Sandison.
‘Once as I dyd contemplate with myn Eyes’
Sandison, No. [13], pp. 16-17.
GgA 50
Copy in: the MS described under GgA 1. c.1586-1625.
A Pastorall unfynyshed (‘Dianas darlinges in a rownde’)
Sandison, pp. 124-5.
*GgA 51
Autograph.
In: the MS described under GgA 1. c.1586-1625.
Edited from this MS in Sandison. Facsimiles of f. 106v in Sandison, facing p. 124, and of ff. 106r-v in P.J. Croft, Autograph Poetry in the English Language, 2 vols (London, 1973), I, Nos 17 and 18.
Philomela. (‘Nothinge on earth remaynes to shew so ryght’)
Sandison, No. [85], pp. 81-2.
Q Sonnet (‘In that yow sway the Scepter and the Crowne’)
Sandison, No. [49], pp. 57-8.
‘Restore agayne that colloure to the golde’
Sandison, No. [20], p. 23.
‘Retire from me yow pensive thoughts awhile’
Sandison, No. [7], pp. 8-9.
GgA 55
Copy in: the MS described under GgA 1. c.1586-1625.
‘Sence course of kinde ordaynes itt to be so.’
Sandison, No. [4], p. 6.
‘She that holdes me under the lawes of love’
Sandison, No. [17], pp. 20-1.
‘She whome I holde so deare’
Sandison, No. [10], pp. 11-12.
GgA 58
Copy in: the MS described under GgA 1. c.1586-1625.
‘Since that the date drawes on’
Sandison, No. [26], pp. 28-34.
GgA 59
Copy in: the MS described under GgA 1. c.1586-1625.
‘Some will commend and prayse their mistres crsped hayre’
Sandison, No. [2], pp. 4-5.
Sonnett (‘As I drawe neere with fearfull stepps to see’)
Sandison, No. [28], p. 35, and second text, No. [55], p. 61.
Sonnett. (‘Erect thy flighte on hye with Eagles winges’)
Sandison, No. [75], pp. 73-4.
Sonnett (‘Hadd not Pirythous to hell gone downe’)
Sandison, No. [50], p. 58.
Sonnett (‘How gravelye wise was that Senatours counsaile’)
Sandison, No. [54], pp. 60-1.
Sonnett. (‘In that faire face of yours where joyes so ryffe doo shyne’)
Sandison, No. [73], p. 72.
Sonnett. (‘Itt gladdes the harte to see faire Phæbus ryse’)
Sandison, No. [67], p. 68.
Sonnett. (‘Like to a lampe whose flaming lyghte is deade’)
Sandison, No. [65]. p. 67.
Sonnet. (‘Myghtye is death and mightie Shee lylewise’)
Sandison, No. [62], p. 65.
Sonnett (‘My mynde desyrous off my Bodies wracke’)
Sandison, No. [86], p. 82.
Sonnet. (‘Neither amongste the Nimphes, in shady woodes’)
Sandison, No. [74], p. 73.
Sonnett. (‘O love how my sweete Mistres in bewty all excellethe’)
Sandison, No. [71], p. 71.
Sonnett (‘Our long sweet sommers day of youthfull yeares’)
Sandison, No. [110], p. 132.
Sonnett (‘The fayrest scornynge to see my lybertye’)
Sandison, No. [81], p. 79.
Sonnett (‘Vauntinge sometymes how I had bynn a thralle’)
Sandison, No. [58], pp. 62-3.
Sonnett (‘Waying the cares that cause me thus to crye’)
Sandison, No. [84], p. 81.
Sonnett (‘When att your handes of love the sugred fruite’)
Sandison, No. [16], p. 20.
Sonnett. (‘Whilste all on fyre victorius Rome blazed’)
Sandison, No. [60], p. 63-4.
Sonnet. (‘With his owne hande dyd love her feature frame’)
Sandison, No. [70], p. 70.
Sonnet (‘Your selfe the Sonne, and I the meltinge froste’)
Sandison, No. [64], p. 66.
Sonnet. D (‘Harde is the happ wherto my lyfe is Bownde’)
Sandison, No. [53], p. 60.
Sonnett. D (‘He that cann number by his skill or payne’)
Sandison, No. [57], p. 62.
Sonnett D (‘Mistres, thinke nott it is alone the flattringe hue’)
Sandison, No. [29], p. 36.
Sonnett D (‘Nott the disdaynes of her prowde youthly mynde’)
Sandison, No. [69], pp. 69-70.
‘Tell me my harte how wilte thow doe’
Sandison, No [19], pp. 22-3.
‘That yeelds yow due prayse I am the meanest of manye’
Sandison, No. [56], p. 61.
‘The gentell Season of the yeare’
First pub in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593), p. 87. Sandison, No. [1], pp. 3-4.
GgA 88
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto miscellany chiefly of verse, largely in a single secretary hand, compiled by a Cambridge student, vii + 130 leaves, in later calf. c.1586-91.
This volume is edited in Cummings, who suggests that the compiler is Sir John Finett (1571-1641), of Fordwich, Kent: hence it is often cited as ‘The John Finett miscellany’. The hands do not appear to be his, however, and this attribution is questionable.
This MS collated in B.M. Wagner, PMLA, 53 (1938), 123. Recorded in Sandison.
GgA 89
Copy, untitled, subscribed in different ink ‘S: P. Sidney’ added afterwards.
In: the MS described under GgA 5.
This MS collated in B.M. Wagner, PMLA, 53 (1938), 123. Recorded in Sandison
GgA 90
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under GgA 7. c.1581-1612.
This MS collated in B.M. Wagner, PMLA, 53 (1938), 123. Recorded in Sandison. May, Stanford, pp. 136-7 (No. 208).
‘The lytle droppes off raine that fall from hye’
Sandison, No. [5], pp. 6-7.
‘The prisone sweet that Captyve holdes my mynde’
Sandison, No. [87], p. 83.
‘The unrype fruyts of wanton youthes desyre’
Sandison, No. [33], p. 40.
‘To frame a sadd discourse of languysshinge desyre’
Sandison, No. [92], pp. 110-11.
GgA 94
Copy in: the MS described under GgA 1. c.1586-1625.
‘To my unspotted fayth I may compare’
Sandison, No. [82], pp. 79-80.
Upon the death of the Young lord Harrington. (‘Sorrow and Honor were at strife’)
Sandison, No. [105], pp. 130-1.
Verses of the Queenes Armes beinge the three Lyons of Denmarke (‘Perfections Queene, these Lyons three’)
First published in Restituta, ed. Sir E. Brydges (1816), IV, 506-9. Sandison, No. [103], pp. 127-8.
Verses sung to Queene Elizabeth by a Mairmead as shee past upon the Thames to Sir Arthur Gorges house at Chelsey. (‘O blessed eyes, the lyfe of sights yee see’)
Sandison, No. [109], pp. 131-2.
Verses to bee sett over the Rose and Thisle enterlaced together with the Harpe in the middle of the Wreath. And the kings Moat over it which is ... (‘Devynelie did your Royall Moate presage’)
First published in Restituta, ed. Sir E. Brydges (1816), IV, 506-9. Sandison, No. [102], p. 127.
Verses to bee sett over the three Crownd plumes the Princes Armores (‘Bellona vaunts that this brave Prince to her belongd’)
First published in Restituta, ed. Sir E. Brydges (1816), IV, 506-9. Sandison, No. [104], p. 128.
GgA 102
Copy, among the eleven later poems.
In: the MS described under GgA 1. c.1586-1625.
Edited from this MS in Sandison.
GgA 103
Copy, in gilt, in the first of two rectangles beneath the Prince of Wales's coloured arms.
In: the MS described under GgA 2.5. 1 January 1609/10.
Edited from this MS in Brydges. Collated in Sandison.
‘What fier encreaste by rage of wynde’
Sandison, No. [32], pp. 38-9.
GgA 104
Copy in: the MS described under GgA 1. c.1586-1625.
‘What man on earth doth lyve like me’
Sandison, No. [43], p. 53.
GgA 105
Copy in: the MS described under GgA 1. c.1586-1625.
‘What was is nott: what may shalbee:’
Sandison, No. [401], pp. 49-50.
GgA 106
Copy in: the MS described under GgA 1. c.1586-1625.
‘What wordes may well suffyse’
Sandison, No. [95], pp. 114-17.
GgA 107
Copy in: the MS described under GgA 1. c.1586-1625.
‘wheare hap or harme shall me betyd’
Sandison, No. [99], pp. 123-4.
‘When I complayne I doo butt fayne’
Sandison, No. [35], pp. 41-2.
GgA 109
Copy in: the MS described under GgA 1. c.1586-1625.
‘When yow shall have a harte fraughhte full of love’
Sandison, No. [34], pp. 40-1.
GgA 110
Copy in: the MS described under GgA 1. c.1586-1625.
‘Wher leaste of all I dyd susspecte’
Sandison, No. [78], pp. 76-7.
‘Whilste hope high honnors place to have’
Sandison, No. [93], pp. 112-13.
GgA 112
Copy in: the MS described under GgA 1. c.1586-1625.
‘Who hath released yow myne Eyes from griefe’
Sandison, No. [27], pp. 34-5.
‘Who so desires to vewe’
Sandisin, No. [12], pp. 13-16.
GgA 114
Copy in: the MS described under GgA 1. c.1586-1625.
‘Who woulde more sweete Contentment crave’
Sandison, No. [83], p. 80.
‘Whom love commaundes and holdes as humble thrall’
Sandison, No. [51], pp. 58-9.
‘Why were myne eyes so forewarde to my harme’
Sandison, No. [30], pp. 36-7.
‘Woolde I were changde into that golden Showre’
First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593), p. 81. Sandison, No. [46], pp. 55-6. Latham, pp. 81-2. The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Michael Rudick (Tempe, Arizona, 1999)Rudick, No. 8, p. 8.
GgA 120
Copy of lines 1-4, untitled, cancelled.
In: the MS described under GgA 5.
This MS text recorded in Sandison.
GgA 121
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘FINIS. RA.’
In: the MS described under GgA 5.
This MS collated in Sandison .Edited from this MS in Hoyt H. Hudson, MLN, 46 (1931), 386, and in The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Michael Rudick (Tempe, Arizona, 1999), p. 8.
Written upon the death of the most Noble Prince Henrie (‘Whilst my heart bleeding writes that deadlie wound’)
Sandison, No. [107], p. 130.
GgA 122
Copy in: the MS described under GgA 1. c.1586-1625.
‘Yee heavye sighes drawne with my latest breath’
Sandison, No. [36], p. 43.
‘Yf ever I doe tribute yeelde agayne’
Sandison, No. [22], pp. 24-5.
GgA 124
Copy in: the MS described under GgA 1. c.1586-1625.
‘Yf teares avayle to ease the gryved mynde’
Sandison, No. [405], p. 55.
‘Yf theis my humble lynes thy presence to to boldely wronge’
Sandison, No. [89], pp. 84-7.
GgA 126
Copy in: the MS described under GgA 1. c.1586-1625.
Prose
Advice to a favorite
A letter to George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham, beginning ‘And what in ballancing of the scales...’.
GgA 127
Copy, possibly incomplete, in a mixed hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford ‘Written by Sir Ar Gorg to my Lo: D of Buckingam’.
In: A tall folio commonplace book, chiefly of naval tracts and sermons, in two hands, begun 23 May 1629, 322 pages of text (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. Partly in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician, partly in the neat mixed hand of an amanuensis. c.1629-30s.
Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.
The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 23, pp. 65-75.
A Breife Discourse tending to ye wealth, and strength of this Kingdome of Greate Brittayne
Unpublished.
*GgA 128
A quarto MS, in the calligraphic roman hand of an amanuensis, with decoration, 23 leaves, imperfect, the margins chewed by rodents, in contemporary vellum gilt. A presentation copy to Prince Henry, with his illuminated arms and a title-page, the dedication signed by Gorges (‘A Gorges’) and dated 1610. 1610.
One in a collection of volumes presented to Prince Henry, donated in 1691 by Sir Henry Puckering.
This MS recorded in Sandison (1928), p. 672.
A dialouge discourse betweene the marchant venturer and a Sea Captaine
Unpublished tract.
GgA 129
Copy, in a mixed hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed ‘A dialouge discourse betweene the marchant venturer and a Sea Captaine, of the Sea fight betweene the Navies of England and Spaine on the Narrowe Seas in the yeare: 1588 -- written by Sr Arthur Gorge Knight’.
In: the MS described under GgA 127. c.1629-30s.
The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 23, pp. 114-31.
A discourse concerning vs and the vnited Provinces of the Lowe Countries
A tract beginning ‘The loue and amitie betweene the realme of England and the vnited Provinces...’.
GgA 130
Copy, in a mixed hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, as ‘by Sr Arthur Gorge’.
In: the MS described under GgA 127. c.1629-30s.
A Forme of Orders and Directions...[for] Conducting a Fleete through the Narrow Seas
Gorges's adaptation of Sir Walter Ralegh's Orders to be observed by the Commanders of the Fleet with Land Companies. 3 May 1617.
See RaW 701-708.
The Islands Voyage
First published, as ‘A larger Relation of the...Iland Voyage’ (but without any dedicatory epistle), in Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes (London, 1625). Glasgow edition of Purchas, XX (1907), 34-129. According to Purchas the work was written in 1607 and dedicated to Prince Henry.
GgA 131
Extracts, in the hand of the fourth Earl of Bedford, headed ‘Sr Arthur Gorges of the Iland Viage’.
In: A folio commonplace book, in several hands, written from both ends, with a table of subject headings, begun 7 March 1624/5, 358 pages of text (plus blanks), Chiefly in the rugged italic hand of Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician, partly in the rounded secretary hand of an amanuensis and two others. c.1625-30s.
Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.
The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 21, pp. 189-94.
GgA 132
Copy, with a title-page and dedicatory epistle to England.
In: A folio volume of tracts relating to seafaring, in a single professional predominantly secretary hand, 237 leaves. c.1640.
This MS recorded in Sandison (1928), p. 670. The prefatory material edited from this MS in Sandison (1940), pp. 247-52.
GgA 133
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page ‘The Voyage made to the Isles of Azores...under the Conduct and Commaund of Robert late Earle of Essex...Collected and written...by Sr Arthur Gorges Knight’, (also mentioning, as ‘annexed’, Ralegh's ‘certaine Observations and Notes concerning the Royall Navy and Sea service’ although no text of this work is present), 37 folio leaves (plus blanks), unbound. c.1620s-30s.
Volume CLXVII of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park.
Annotated at the end by William Trumbull with a quotation from Camden's Annales regnante Elizabetha (pt. II, f. 534). Formerly in Berkshire Record Office, part of Trumbull Add. 22.
GgA 134
Copy in: A folio composite volume of tracts and papers chiefly relating to dealings with foreign states, in various largely professional hands, 365 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.
Fol. 87 inscribed ‘Bought of Mr. G. Pauls Landlady’ and fol. 89 ‘Giuen by Mr Geo. Holmes’.
GgA 135
Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, very imperfect, lacking half the title-page, all the dedicatory epistle and Ralegh's Observations. Early 1600s.
In: A folio guard-book of independent Jacobean state papers, stamped foliation 1-230.
From the ‘Conway Papers’ belonging to Edward Conway (c.1564-1631), first Viscount Conway and first Viscount Killultagh, politician, and his son Edward Conway (1594-1655), second Viscount Conway and second Viscount Killultagh, politician and book collector, of Ragley Hall, Warwickshire.
This MS recorded (as ‘Jas I Add 36, f. 225’) in Sandison (1928), p. 670.
GgA 136
Copy in: A volume of state tracts and papers, in various hands, one secretary hand predominating, with a table of contents and other additions by members of the Hervey family. c.1630[-1690].
Probably once owned by John Hervey (1665-1751), first Baron Ickworth and first Earl of Bristol, of Ickworth, near Bury St Edmunds.
Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds, 941/73/2, ff. 188r-200r.
GgA 137
Copy, with a dedicatory epistle to England, entitled ‘A true Relation of the Voyage to the Iles of Azores ...under the Conduct of the Right Ho:ble Robert Devorux Earle of Essex...in the Yeare of or Lord 1597...collected & written...by Sr: Arthur Gorges Kt:’.
In: A quarto MS of two works by Sir Arthur Gorges and Sir Walter Ralegh, in a professional secretary hand, 173 pages, in contemporary limp vellum, with remains of green silk ties. A presentation MS, probably to Henry Percy, ninth Earl of Northumberland, in a professional hand, with title-page, inscribed ‘Given by Sir Arthur Gorges’. c.1612-19.
Formerly Leconfield MS 83 at Petworth House, Sussex. Sotheby's, 24 April 1928, lot 105, to A.S.W. Rosenbach. Afterwards in the library of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937). Sotheby's, 23 June 1988 (Philip Robinson sale, Part I), lot 169. Quaritch's sale catalogue English Literature in Manuscript (November 1996), item 9.
Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 308. A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 3898.
This MS recorded in Sandison (1928), p. 670. Facsimiles of the first page of the text in Sotheby's sale catalogie, p. 169, and of ‘The Epistle Dedicatorie of the Author’ in Quaritch's sale catalogue.
Observations and Ouertures concerning the Royall Nauye and Seaservice
See RaW 683-691.
Observations & Overtures for a Seafight
The fuller title: Observations & Overtures for a Seafight vppon our owne Coasts, and what kynd of order and disciplyne is fittest to be vsed...against the præparations of such Spanish Armadas...as shall at anie tyme come to invade vs. Unpublished.
GgA 138
Copy, in a mixed hand, with annotations by the fourth Earl of Bedford including the ascription ‘Written by Sr Arthur Gorg to Lo Du of Buckingam’, the tract dated ‘1 March: 1618’.
In: the MS described under GgA 127. c.1629-30s.
GgA 139
Copy, with a title-page (appertaining to the three works on ff. 37r-56v), all as ‘Written, By Wm; Gorges Gent:’.
In: A folio volume of state tracts and papers, dating up to 1663, in a single semi-calligraphic hand, except for ff. 224r-95r in two other professional hands, 445 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt. The principal scribe associated with Henry Feilde. c.1660s.
This MS recorded in Sandison (1928), p. 671.
*GgA 140
Copy in the hand of an amanuensis, with Gorges's copious autograph deletions and revisions, some overlaid on large strips of paper, with a title-page dated 1 March 1618[/19] and with a Dedication to the Marquess of Buckingham as Lord High Admiral, dated 16 March 1618/[19].
In: A small quarto volume of works by Sir Arthur Gorges, 37 leaves, in vellum. Inscribed on the upper cover ‘Matters concerninge Sea-seruice’. 1619.
This MS recorded in Sandison (1928), p. 671.
GgA 141
Copy, in a secretary hand, with a title-page, on seventeen quarto leaves plus a blankc.1619.
In: A folio guard-book of independent Jacobean state papers, stamped foliation 1-235.
This MS recorded in Sandison (1928), p. 671.
GgA 142
Copy, with a lengthy title.
In: A small quarto volume comprising two works by Sir Arthur Gorges, formal copies in a professional secretary hand, 46 pages (plus some blanks), in contemporary vellum, with remains of green silk ties. A presentation MS, probably to Henry Percy (1564-1632), ninth Earl of Northumberland (the ‘Wizard Earl’). Inscribed inside the front cover ‘Giuen by Sr Art: Gorge’. c.1619.
Formerly Leconfield MS 48 at Petworth House, Sussex.
Recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 305.
This MS recorded in Sandison (1928), p. 671.
Observations concerninge the abuse of our lawes in matters Criminall
Unpublished tract beginning ‘Soe again we doe find...’.
GgA 143
Copy, in a mixed hand, annotated by the fourth Earl of Bedford, as ‘Sr Arthur Gorge his observations...’.
In: the MS described under GgA 127. c.1629-30s.
The Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, HMC MS No. 23, pp. 111-14.
A True Transcript and Publication of his Majesties Letters Pattent [5 March 1611/12]. For an Office to be erected, and called the Publicke Register for generall Commerce.
First published, as A Trve Transcript and Pvblication of his Maiesties Letters Pattent [5 March 1612]. For an Office to be erected, and called the Publicke Register for generall Commerce. Whereunto is annexed an Ouerture and explanation of the nature and purport of the said Office for their better vnderstanding and direction that shall haue occasion to vse it, By Sir Arthur Gorges, Knight (London, 1611[/12]).
GgA 144
MS, in a neat professional hand, of Gorges's proposed patent, drawn up as a letter to a Lord with an introductory explanation, citing ‘Presidentes of sundri patentes for newe inventions wth prohibicions’, endorsed ‘The humble information of Sr Arthure Gorges knight concerning the proiect for genall Commerce and exchang for Interests moneyes’. c.1611/12.
In: A folio composite volume of state tracts and letters, in various hands, 297 leaves, in calf (rebacked). Early-mid-17th century.
GgA 145
Copy of the pamphlet as printed, complete with title-page, in a professional rounded hand, on eleven folio leaves. Mid-17th century.
Among the papers of Samuel Hartlib (c.1600/2-1662), educationalist and natural philosopher, later owned by Lord Delamere.
The Wisedome of the Ancients
First published in London, 1619.
See BcF 292.
Miscellaneous
Will
GgA 146
A registered copy of Gorges's last will and testament, proved 27 December 1625.