Durham Cathedral Library

MS A. IV. 31

An octavo composite volume of sermons chiefly by John Cosin (1595-1672), Bishop of Durham, mainly in his hand and one other's, most of the sermons dating from 1622 to 1655, the leaves unnumbered, in vellum boards.

Inscribed (inside the front cover) ‘ex dono Georgij Smith’, and presented to the Cathedral in 1740.

item xvi

AndL 3.5: Lancelot Andrewes, Sermons on Matthew iv. 6

Copy of two sermons by Andrewes on the Temptation of Christ, preached probably in 1592 (during the plague that closed the London theatres), in a minute secretary hand, on eleven pages of six leaves. Early-mid-17th century.

Edited from this MS in Cosin (1843).

First published, mistakenly attributed to Cosin (as Sermons IV and V), in The Works of John Cosin, Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology, I (Oxford, 1843), 58-83.

MS C. IV. 35

A square-shaped folio composite volume of chiefly ecclesiastical papers, in Latin and English, in several neat hands, 25 items on several hundred pages.

pp. 103-4

CoR 803: Richard Corbett, Document(s)

‘The Interpretation and Declaration of the Reverend Father in God Richd: Lord Bishop of Norwich made the Ninth day of November Anno Dom. 1632, Upon a Clause in the 25th Chapter of the Local Statutes of the Cathedral Church of Norwich’. Late 17th-early 18th century.

Hunter MS 26

A tall folio composite volume of state tracts and a Latin play and verses, in various hands, 510 largely unnumbered pages, in reversed calf.

Among the collections of Christopher Hunter (1675-1757), Durham antiquary and physician.

item 3

RaW 1050: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Cabinet-Council: containing the Chief Arts of Empire and Mysteries of State

Copy, in several probably professional secretary and italic hands, headed ‘Obseruations, What a Common weale is:’, on 280 pages, with some misplacing or duplication, including (p. [279]) ‘The Argument’ and (p. [280]) a dedicatory epistle ‘To my very honourable good Lord the L. North, Treasurer of her Mates royal houshold’ by the anonymous author who refers to himself as ‘by age ouertaken’ and ‘constrained to retire’.

Inscribed (p. 1) ‘D: Bord: 1629:’. c.1629.

A treatise beginning ‘A Commonwealth is a certain sovereign government of many families...’. First published, attributed to Sir Walter Ralegh in John Milton's preface ‘To the Reader’, as The Cabinet-Council [&c.] (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 35-150.

Widely circulated in MSS as Observations Political and Civil. The various attributions include ‘T.B.’, for whom Thomas Bedingfield (early 1540s?-1613), translator of Machiavelli, is suggested in Ernest A. Strathmann, ‘A Note on the Ralegh Canon’, TLS (13 April 1956), p. 228, and in Lefranc (1968), p. 64.

item 4, pp. 1-22

EsR 125: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Apology

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, the first page numbered at the top ‘16’. c.1600s.

First published, addressed to Anthony Bacon, as An Apologie of the Earle of Essex, against those which jealously and maliciously tax him to be the hinderer of the peace and quiet (London, [1600]), but immediately suppressed. Reprinted in 1603.

item 4, pp. 22-41

EsR 230: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1

Copy, in a professional secretary hand. c.1600s.

item 4, pp. [43-5]

EsR 294: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Concerning the Earle of Essex execution and arrainement’. c.1600s.

Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.

item 4, pp. 47-55

EsR 231: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1

Copy of an abridged version, in a professional secretary hand. c.1600s.

item 4, pp. 69-98

EsR 232: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1

Copy, in a professional secretary hand. c.1600s.

item 4, pp. 99-101

EsR 295: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘The Manner and death of the Earll of Essex one A wensdaie the 25th of febriari 1600 in the Towr of London: as follow &c’. c.1600s.

Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.

Hunter MS 27

A tall folio composite volume of largely ecclesiastical verse and prose documents, in English and Latin, in various hands and paper sizes, with dates from 1613 to 1669, 238 leaves, in reversed calf.

Among the collections of Christopher Hunter (1675-1757), Durham antiquary and physician.

f. 92r-v

CoR 268: Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem (‘Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on’)

Copy, probably in the secretary hand of Thomas Carre (d.1641), rector of Himsworth and vicar of Aycliffe, Co. Durham, headed ‘Vpon Dr Price his Anniversary for noble prince Henrie’, subscribed ‘Dr. Corbit’. c.1630s.

This MS recorded in P.G. Stanwood, ‘Poetry Manuscripts of the Seventeenth Century in the Durham Cathedral Library’, DUJ, 62 (1969-70), 81-90 (p. 84).

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-9.

The poem is usually followed in MSS by Dr Daniel Price's ‘Answer’ (‘So to dead Hector boyes may doe disgrace’), and see also CoR 227-46.

f. 93r

DnJ 1626: John Donne, Ignatij Loyolae Apotheosis (‘Qui sacer ante fuit, sanctus nunc incipit esse’)

Copy, probably in the secretary hand of Thomas Carre (d.1641), rector of Himsworth and vicar of Aycliffe, Co. Durham, subscribed ‘Dr Dunne Deane of Paules’. c.1630s.

Edited from this MS in Stanwood.

First published in P.G. Stanwood, ‘A Donne Discovery’, TLS (19 October 1967), p. 984. Reprinted in John Donne, Ignatius his Conclave, ed. T. S. Healy, S.J. (Oxford, 1969), pp. 174-5, and in Shawcross, pp. 505-6. Variorum, 8 (1995), p. 253, as ‘Dubium’.

This Latin poem is not by Donne but by the physician and poet Raphael Thorius (d.1625): see Peter Beal and Hilton Kelliher, ‘John Donne’, TLS (12 February 1982), p. 162.

ff. 94v-5v

DrW 117.28: William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge (‘From such a face quois excellence’)

Copy, probably in the secretary hand of Thomas Carre (d.1641), rector of Himsworth and vicar of Aycliffe, Co. Durham, headed ‘To King James’. c.1630s.

Often headed in MSS ‘The [Five] Senses’, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (JnB 654-70). A MS copy owned by Drummond: see The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden, ed. Robert H. Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1357. Kastner printed the poem among his ‘Poems of Doubtful Authenticity’ (II, 296-9), but its sentiments are alien to those of Drummond: see C.F. Main, ‘Ben Jonson and an Unknown Poet on the King's Senses’, MLN, 74 (1959), 389-93, and MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 118. Discussed also in Allan H. Gilbert, ‘Jonson and Drummond or Gil on the King's Senses’, MLN, 62 (January 1947), 35-7. Sometimes also ascribed to James Johnson.

ff. 190-202

HrG 120.8: George Herbert, Good Friday (‘O my chief good’)

Copy of a Latin verse translation made by James Leeke (1605-54), Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge. 1634.

Discussed and edited in part in P.G. Stanwood, ‘Poetry Manuscripts of the Seventeenth Century in the Durham Cathedral Library’, DUJ, 62 (1969-70), 81-90 (pp. 88-90).

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 38-9.

ff. 203r-v

HrG 45.8: George Herbert, The Church Militant (‘Almightie Lord, who from thy glorious throne’)

Copy of a Latin verse translation made by James Leeke (1605-54), Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge. 1634.

Discussed and printed in part in P.G. Stanwood, ‘Poetry Manuscripts of the Seventeenth Century in the Durham Cathedral Library’, DUJ, 62 (1969-70), 81-90 (pp. 88-90).

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 190-8.

Hunter MS 44

A volume of letters. Late 17th-early 18th century.

items 4 and 5

ClE 146: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Letters to the Duke of York and the Duchess of York

Copy.

Letters by Clarendon to his daughter Anne (who died on 31 March 1671 before the letter arrived) and to her husband, the Duke of York (later James II), on the occasion of her conversion to Roman Catholicism. The original letters, which received particular attention by his contemporaries because of their subject matter, are not known to survive.

These were first published in Two Letters written by…Edward Earl of Clarendon…one to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the other to the Dutchess, occasioned by her Embracing the Roman Catholic Religion (London, [1680?]) and were reprinted in State Tracts (1689), in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (Oxford, 1724), pp. 313-24, and elsewhere.

Hunter MS 48

A quarto miscellany, in English and Latin, in a single small italic hand, i + 124 unnumbered leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum with ties. c.1615.

Inscribed (f. [ir]) ‘This Book I bought at Chester...1734 / J. Draye’. Among the collections of Christopher Hunter (1675-1757), Durham antiquary and physician.

ff. [31v-3v]

OvT 18: Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife (‘Each woman is a brief of woman kind’)

Copy, headed ‘The election of a wife’.

First published, as A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury, in London, 1614. Rimbault, pp. 33-45. Beecher, pp. 190-8.

f. [72r]

RaW 678.4: Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World

Extract, headed ‘Sr walter Rawleigh 1. c 7. fo. 210’, beginning ‘That we may not saie to the Devill...’.

First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.

See also RaW 728.

Hunter MS 51

A large quarto volume of tracts on Mary Queen of Scots, in several hands, 75 unnumbered leaves (including blanks, plus a number of other blanks), in contemporary vellum. Early 17th century.

Among the collections of Christopher Hunter (1675-1757), Durham antiquary and physician.

f. 31v

HrJ 307: Sir John Harington, A Tragicall Epigram (‘When doome of Peeres & Iudges fore-appointed’)

Copy, in a mixed hand, here beginning ‘When Doome of Death by Judgemt foreappoynted’, subscribed ‘Sr John Harrington vpon the Death of the Queen of Scotts’.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 82. McClure No. 336, pp. 280-1. Kilroy, Book III, No. 44, p. 185. This epigram is also quoted in the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5).

Hunter MS 52

A quarto volume of parliamentary proceedings in 1628/9-1630, in several hands, one secretary hand predominating, 135 leaves, in contemporary vellum boards. c.1630.

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘August 1629 / the 10th / 1629’ and ‘John Heath empt Londino a W. Walbanck’. Among the collections of Christopher Hunter (1675-1757), Durham antiquary and physician.

f. 48r

RuB 115: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 10 February 1628/9

Copy, headed in the margin ‘Sr Ben: Ruddiard’.

A speech beginning ‘There be diverse recantations, submissions and sentences remaining on record...’. Variant versions include one beginning ‘That there have been many publique censures and recantacions...’. See Commons Debates for 1629, ed. Wallace Notestein and Frances Helen Relf (Minneapolis, 1921), pp. 137, [274]-5.

Hunter MS 54

Copy, in a cursive secretary hand, headed (p. 7) ‘The life of Sr Thomas Moore sometimes L. Chancelor of England’, the epistle to the Curteouse Reader subscribed ‘Rd. Bar.’, imperfect, lacking the dedicatory epistle to R.R. and the ending after the first two pages of Chapter 18, ii + 122 quarto pages, in old brown calf. Early-mid-17th century.

MrT 83: Sir Thomas More, Ro. Ba.'s Life of Sir Thomas More

Inscribed (f. ir) ‘James Carr’. Among the collections of Christopher Hunter (1675-1757), Durham antiquary and physician.

This MS collated in Hitchcock & Hallett and described, pp. xvii-xviii.

A life of More written in 1599, possibly by Robert Basset (1574-1641), of Devon, a zealous Catholic and kinsman of More: see Andrew Breeze, ‘Sir Robert Basset and The Life of Syr Thomas More’, N&Q, 249 (September 2004), 263. The work first published in Christopher Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical History, vol. II (London, 1839). Edited, as The Lyfe of Syr Thomas More Sometymes Lord Chancellor of England, by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock and P.E. Hallett (EETS, London, 1950).

Hunter MS 55

Copy, in a single secretary hand, with (f. iir) a formal title-page with the treatise as ‘by Sr Anth. Brown’, dated ‘1584’ and subscribed ‘J. K.’, with (f. iiir) a further title ‘Leic: Comon wealth’, v + 76 quarto leaves (an additional note on f. 77r deleted), in contemporary vellum. Late 16th-early 17th century.

LeC 44: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

Inscribed (f. ir) ‘empt de Mra Blakeston’. Among the collections of Christopher Hunter (1675-1757), Durham antiquary and physician.

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.

Hunter MS 76

A quarto composite volume of miscellaneous tracts, including (item 1: 20 leaves) a verse miscellany, in several largely secretary hands, 210 unnumbered leaves.

Among the collections of Christopher Hunter (1675-1757), Durham antiquary and physician.

item 1, ff. [15r, 16r]

MaA 203: Andrew Marvell, Nostradamus's Prophecy (‘The Blood of the Just London's firm Doome shall fix’)

Copy of a version, in a cursive hand, headed ‘A Translation of a Prophecy of Nostrodamus’ and beginning ‘Her faults and follies a foolish Lands firm doom shall fix’. Late 17th century.

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

ff. [17r, 18r, 19r, 20r]

MaA 139.8: Andrew Marvell, A Country Clowne call'd Hodge Went to view the Pyramid, pray mark what did ensue (‘When Hodge had number'd up how many score’)

Copy, in a cursive hand. Late 17th century.

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

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

ff. [19v, 18v, 17v, 16v, 15v, 14v, 13v rev.]

MaA 115: Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh (‘Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign’)

Copy, in two cursive hands, headed ‘A Dialogue between Sr Walter Rawleigh's Ghost and B.tnia’.

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

item 2

DrW 15: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Polemo-Middinia inter Vitarvam et Nebernam (‘Nymphae quae colitis highissima monta Fifaea’)

Copy, in an italic hand, partly in double columns, as by ‘Gulielmo Drummundo’, transcribed from the 1691 Oxford edition, on 13 leaves, the title-page (f. 1v) inscribed ‘E. Gibson’. c.1700.

See DrW 15-18.

item 5

LeC 45: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

Copy, closely written in a single small secretary hand, the heading in italic, annotated in a later hand ‘Having compared this Copy with the latter [printed edition of 1640], I find ye M.S to be fuller’, 49 leaves. Late 16th-early 17th century.

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.

Hunter MS 107

A MS book of epigrams. Late 17th century.

[Unspecified page numbers]

DrJ 388: John Dryden, Extracts

Extracts from dramatic works.

[Unspecified page numbers]

WiG 42: George Wither, A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne (‘How Fond are they, who spend their pretious Time’)

A list of ‘Wither's Emblems’, on four pages.

First published, in four books, with preliminary material including a dedication to Charles I, in London, 1634-5. Facsimile edition of it edited by Rosemary Freeman and Charles S. Hensley (Columbia, SC, 1975).

Hunter MS 108

An octavo composite volume of religious tracts, in several hands, 316 leaves (plus blanks), in reversed calf.

Among the collections of Christopher Hunter (1675-1757), Durham antiquary and physician.

item 2

SoR 315: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A Short Rule of Good Life

Copy, entitled ‘A short rule of good life to derecte the devowte Christian’, in a neat secretary hand, with corrections and alterations, 95 unnumbered leaves; inscribed (f. [91v] and elsewhere), in a formal secretary hand, ‘James Cleasbie bocke’. c.1600.

First published [in London? 1596-7?]. Brown, Two Letters, pp. 21-73.

Hunter MS 112

A volume comprising last speeches and prayers of martyrs as extracted from Foxe and others, inscribed ‘finished by Elizabeth Curtis, March 20th, 1699-1700’. c.1700.

FxJ 1.12: John Foxe, Actes and Monuments

First published (complete) in London, 1563. Edited by Josiah Pratt, 8 vols (London, 1853-70).

Hunter MS 125

An octavo commonplace book of miscellaneous verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, in several hands, one mixed hand predominating, written from both ends, lvi + 302 pages, in a recycled medieval vellum document within contemporary vellum. Possibly compiled in part by Elias Smyth, minor canon of Durham (whose epitaph on his son Richard appears on p. 134). c.1644-67.

Among the collections of Christopher Hunter (1675-1757), Durham antiquary and physician.

pp. 41-2

DnJ 4044: John Donne, Sermon preached at St Paul's Cross on September 15, 1622, on Judges 5.20

Extracts, headed ‘Dr Donne. iud. 15.20.’ and here beginning ‘It was ye imaginatio & dreame of the Rabbins…’, transcribed from the first printed edition of 1622.

First published in London, 1622. Potter & Simpson, IV, No. 7, pp. 178-209.

p. 54

CoR 617.5: Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (‘Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Ladyes yt haue black Cypresse vails’.

First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 90.

This poem is usually followed in MSS by ‘The Ladyes Answer’ (‘Blacke Cypresse vailes are shrouds of night’): see GrJ 14.

p. 139

HlJ 3.5: Joseph Hall, On his Majestyes Death & his Incomparable Booke (‘Soe falls that stately Coedar, while it stood’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph upon King Charles’.

First published, as ‘An Epitaph upon King Charles 1st’, in Eikon Basilike (1649), p. 312.

p. 157 rev.

ClJ 193: John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford (‘Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust’)

Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, headed ‘An Epitaph on the Earle of Stratford’.

First published in Character (1647). Edited in CSPD, 1640-1641 (1882), p. 574. Berdan, p. 184, as ‘Internally unlike his manner’. Morris & Withington, p. 66, among ‘Poems probably by Cleveland’. The attribution to Cleveland is dubious. The epitaph is also attributed to Clement Paman: see Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), notes to No. 275 (p. 363).

Hunter MS 130

Copy of 46 characters, in a small predominantly italic hand, the first page inscribed in a different hand ‘Edw. Blunt, Author’, concluding (f. 32v) ‘ffinis. December this 14th day Anno Domini 1627’, and with (f. 33r) a list of the characters in a later hand, 33 duodecimo leaves (plus 55 blanks), in contemporary brown calf (rebacked). c.1627.

EaJ 76: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, Microcosmography

Among the collections of Christopher Hunter (1675-1757), Durham antiquary and physician.

This MS described and collated in J.T. F[owler], ‘The Durham MS of Earle's “Microcosmographie”’, N&Q, 4th Ser. 8 (4 & 18 November, 9 & 16 December 1871), pp. 363-4, 411-12, 475-6, 508; 4th Ser. 9 (13 January 1872), 33-4. Some readings printed in Bliss-Irwin, pp. 303-15, and three characters edited in Earle, Microcosmography, ed. Alfred S. West (Cambridge, 1897), pp. 149-51.

First published (anonymously), comprising 54 characters and with a preface by Edward Blount, London, 1628. 77 characters in the edition of 1629. 78 characters in the edition of 1664. Edited by Philip Bliss (London, 1811).

Hunter MS 132

A small (?sextodecimo) pocket notebook, in probably a single small cursive mixed hand, 134 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary calf. Compiled by Richard Brathwaite (1587/8-1673), poet, writer and Justice of Peace for Westmoreland. c.1652-7.

Among the collections of Christopher Hunter (1675-1757), Durham antiquary and physician.

f. 27r

CaW 129: William Cartwright, Extracts

A brief extract ‘Out of Cartwrights Poems’, beginning He yt repeats stolne verse, & for fame looks.

f. 35r

DnJ 4058: John Donne, Biathanatos

Extract, headed ‘Out of Dr. Duns selfe homicide’.

First published in London, [1647]. Reprinted in facsimile, ed. J.W. Hebel (New York, 1930). Edited by Michael Rudick and M. Pabst Bettin (New York, 1982) and by Ernest W. Sullivan II (Newark, NJ, 1984).

ff. 119v-20v

DeJ 5: Sir John Denham, ‘After so many sad mishaps’

Copy, headed ‘To Sr Wm Dauenantt in prayse of his Gondiberit’.

First published, as ‘To Sir W. Davenant’, in Certain Verses (1653), pp. 5-7. Banks, pp. 313-16.

passim

HlJ 75: Joseph Hall, Extracts

Extracts, headed ‘Arguments agt Anabaptists out of Hall’.

G.111.33

A quarto volume comprising three printed works owned by Gabriel Harvey, bound together in contemporary vellum.

item 1

*HvG 58: Gabriel Harvey, [Cosin, Richard]. An Apologie for the Sundrie Proceedings by Jurisdiction Ecclesiasticall, of late times by some chalenged, and also diversly by them impugned...against proceedings ex Officio, and against Oathe ministred to parties in causes criminall (London, 1593)

Autograph signature and date 1593 on the title-page, pencil and ink notes on front pastedown and two front flyleaves, occasional underlinings, and other annotations in margins and borders. 1593.

Stern, pp. 207-8.

item 2

*HvG 20: Gabriel Harvey, [Anon.] An Abstract, of Certaine Acts of Parlement: of certaine her Majesties Injunctions: of certaine Canons, Constitutions, and Synodals provinciall, established & in force, for the peaceable government of the Church, within her Majesties Dominions and Counries, for the most part heretofore unknowen and unpractized ([London, 1583?])

Autograph signature on the title-page, Latin mottos on A2v and the last blank page, and a few pencil markings.

Stern, p. 241.

item 3

*HvG 57: Gabriel Harvey, [Cosin, Richard]. An Answer to the two fyrst and principall Treatises of a certaine factious Libell, put foorth latelie, without name of Author or Printer, and without approbation by authoritie, under the title of An Abstract of certeine Acts of Parlemement: of certaine hir Majesties Injunction, of certeine Canons, &c. (London, 1584)

Autograph annotations in pencil and ink on five pages of the rear flyleaves and occasional notes and markings chiefly in pencil elsewhere.

Stern, p. 207.