Gen. Ser. Misc. Papers 3/9
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on a sheet of paper, with an endorsement by Henry Stanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, ‘Latworthes satyre against’ (sic). c.1600.
RaW 147.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie (‘Goe soule the bodies guest’)
First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.
This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, ‘Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine’, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's ‘answer’ to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.
Gen. Ser. Misc. Papers 30/72
A quarto miscellany, 79 pages (including some blanks), compiled by Henry Stanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families. c.1590s-1600s.
Discussed, with facsimiles of pp. 1 and 49, in Steven W. May, ‘Henry Stanford's “God Knows What”’, EMS, 16 (2011), 70-81.
pp. 11-13
• HoH 68: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A dutiful defence of the lawful regiment of women
Extracts by Stanford.
An unpublished answer to, and attack upon, John Knox's ‘railing invective’ against Mary Queen of Scots, First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women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.’
pp. 49-51
• MrJ 9.5: John Marston, The Malcontent
Extracts by Stanford.
Facsimile of p. 49 in May, p. 78.
First published in London, 1604.
p. 78
• HkR 7.5: Richard Hooker, A Learned Sermon of the Nature of Pride
Extracts by Stanford.
First portion published in Oxford, 1612. Additional portion first published in Keble (1836). Keble (1888), III, 597-642. Folger edition, Volume V, pp. 309-61.
Gen. Ser. Misc. Papers 31/6.
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.
GgA 19: Sir Arthur Gorges, An Ecloge betwen a Shephearde and a Heardsman (‘Cumme gentle Heardman sitt with mee’)
May EV 4798.
First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). Sandison, No. [98], pp. 118-23.
Gen. Misc. Papers 31R
Copy, the first of five elegies on Nashe in the hand of Henry Sanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, on f. 1r of a small folded leaf. c.1601.
JnB 0.5: Ben Jonson, Ad. charissimam memoriam Th. Nashi amici dilectissimi Beniamin Jons. hoc elegidium consecrauit (‘Mortals yt yet respire wth plenteous breathe’)
Edited from this MS, and discussed, in Katherine Duncan-Jones's TLS article; in her ‘“They say a made a good end” Ben Jonson's Epitaph on Thomas Nashe’, Ben Jonson Journal, 3 (1996), 1-19; and in Robert C. Evans, ‘Ambiguity and Balance in Jonson's “New” Poem on Nashe’, Renaissance Papers (1998), 125-36.
First published in Katherine Duncan-Jones, ‘Jonson's epitaph on Nashe’, TLS, 7 July 1995, pp. 4, 6.
Select Books 85
A quire of poems by Henry Constable, in the mixed hand of Henry Sanford (d.1616), household tutor to the Paget and Carey families, entitled ‘Certen Spirituall Sonnetts to the honner of God and his Sainctes: Withe Nyne other directed by particuler deuotion to :3: blessed Maryes: By Hen. Conestable Esquire’, 16 quarto pages. c.1600.
p. 3
• CoH 83: Henry Constable, To God the Father (‘Greate God: within whose symple essence, wee’)
First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnetts, p. 3. Grundy, p. 183.
p. 3
• CoH 87: Henry Constable, To God the Sonne (‘Greate Prynce of heaven begotten of that kyng’)
Copy, here beginning ‘Younge Prince of Heauen begotten of that Kinge’.
First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnetts, p. 4. Grundy, pp. 183-4.
p. 4
• CoH 85: Henry Constable, To God the Holy-ghost. (‘Aeternall spryght: which art in heaven the Love’)
Copy.
First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnetts, p. 4. Grundy, p. 184.
p. 4
• CoH 140: Henry Constable, To the blessed Sacrament. (‘When thee (O holy sacrificed Lambe)’)
Copy.
First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnetts, p. 5. Grundy, pp. 184-5.
p. 5
• CoH 100: Henry Constable, To our blessed Lady (‘In that (O Queene of queenes) thy byrth was free’)
Copy, headed ‘To our Ladye’.
First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 5. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J. C. Grierson (2 vols, Oxford, 1912), I, 427. Grundy, p. 185.
p. 5
• CoH 132: Henry Constable, To St Mychaell the Archangel. (‘When as the prynce of Angells puft'd with pryde’)
Copy.
First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spitituall Sonnettes, p. 6. Grundy, p. 186.
p. 6
• CoH 118: Henry Constable, To St Iohn the Baptist. (‘As Anne longe barren, Mother dyd become’)
Copy.
First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spitituall Sonnettes, p. 6. Grundy, pp. 186-7.
p. 6
• CoH 134: Henry Constable, To St Peter and St Paul (‘He that for feare hys mayster dyd denye’)
Copy.
First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spitituall Sonnettes, p. 7. Grundy, p. 187.
p. 7
• CoH 126: Henry Constable, To St Mary Magdalen (‘For fewe nyghtes solace in delitious bedd’)
Copy, headed ‘To St Mary Maudlyn’.
First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 7. Grundy, pp. 187-8.
p. 7
• CoH 120: Henry Constable, To St Kathayne. (‘Because thow wast the daughter of a kyng’)
Copy.
First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 8. Grundy, p. 188.
p. 8
• CoH 122: Henry Constable, To St Margarett. (‘Fayre Amazon of heaven: who took'st in hand’)
Copy.
First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 8. Grundy, pp. 188-9.
p. 8
• CoH 117: Henry Constable, To St Collett on the day of her ffeaste and his natiuitye (‘This day (oh blessed virgin) is the daye’)
Copy.
Unpublished.
p. 9
• CoH 111: Henry Constable, To our blessed Lady (‘Sovereigne of Queenes: If vayne Ambition move’)
First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 9. Grundy, p. 189.
p. 9
• CoH 115: Henry Constable, To our blessed Lady. (‘Why should I any love O queene but thee?’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 9. Grundy, p. 190.
p. 10
• CoH 113: Henry Constable, To our blessed Lady. (‘Sweete Queene: although thy beuty rayse vpp mee’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 10. Grundy, pp. 190-1.
p. 10
• CoH 124: Henry Constable, To St Mary Magdalen. (‘Blessed Offendour: who thyselfe haist try'd’)
Copy, headed ‘To the Blessed sinner St Mary Mawdlyn’.
First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 10. Grundy, p. 191.
p. 11
• CoH 128: Henry Constable, To St Mary Magdalen (‘Such as retyr'd from sight of men, lyke thee’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 11. Grundy, pp. 191-2.
p. 11
• CoH 130: Henry Constable, To St Mary Magdalen (‘Sweete Saynt: Thow better canst declare to me’)
Copy, untitled.
This poem deliberately omitted from Heliconia because of its ‘indecorous’ (i.e. erotic) elements. Grundy, p. 192.
p. 12
• CoH 139: Henry Constable, To the Blessed Martir Marye Queene of Scotland (‘I write of tears, and blud at on time shed’)
Copy.
Unpublished.
p. 12
p. 13