Bundle III C/4 (1)
Autograph letter signed by King, to Edward Bysshe, from Hitcham, near Maidenhead, 22 January 1656/7, enclosing four pages of autograph notes on the repairs done to St Paul's Cathedral in 1620, intended for the use of William Dugdale and containing Dugdale's autograph annotations. 1657.
*KiH 808: Henry King, Letter(s)
The letter (but not the accompanying notes) edited in William Hamper, The Life, Diary, and Correspondence of Sir William Dugdale (London, 1827), No. cxii (pp. 317-18). Recorded in Keynes, p. 86. Facsimiles in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile XXV, after p. xxiv, and in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 189.
Bundle V in Horse-hair trunk
No. 27
• *TaJ 39: Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to William Dugdale, from Golden Grove, 1 April 1651. imperfect. 1651.
Edited in William Hamper, The Life, Diary, and Correspondence of Sir William Dugdale (London, 1827), No. lxv (pp. 250-1). Reprinted from thence in Eden, I, xxxv.
Bundle XVI, Part ii, in Horse-hair trunk
A bundle of unbound papers, chiefly verse, of Sir William Dugdale (1605-86), antiquary and herald.
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• BcF 24.5: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’
Copy, on one side of a single quarto leaf. Mid-17th century.
First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, ‘Bacon's Poem, “The World”: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems’, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.
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• WoH 237.5: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)
Copy, untitled, on two pages of an pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘Verses of the tragedye of this life’. Mid-17th century.
First published, as ‘a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by Dr. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will’, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.
Dugdale MSS, Bundle IX/17 in Horse-hair trunk
Copy, in the hand of William Dugdale.
ClE 81: 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.
Dugdale MSS, Bundle XVI (ii)
A bundle of unbound papers of Sir William Dugdale (1605-86), antiquary and herald. Mid-17th century.
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• DeJ 115: Sir John Denham, Verses on the Cavaliers Imprisoned in 1655 (‘Through the gover[n]inge part cannot finde in their heart’)
Copy, untitled, on two folio leaves, endorsed by Dugdale ‘Verses concerning the Prisonors at St James Gr’.
First published, and attributed to Denham, by C. H. Firth in N&Q, 7th Ser. 10 (19 July 1890), 41-2. Banks, pp. 135-41. Denham's authorship rejected in O Hehir, Harmony, pp. 117-19.
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• DeJ 122: Sir John Denham, A Western Wonder (‘Do you not know, not a fortnight ago’)
Copy, in Sir William Dugdale's hand, untitled, on a single folio leaf.
First published in Rump: or an Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 130-2.
Bundle XVII/22 in Horse-hair trunk
A volume comprising two works by Ralegh. Early-mid-17th century.
[unnumbered pages]
• RaW 680.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, Instructions to his Son and to Posterity
Copy, untitled, the first chapter headed ‘Wise and vertuous psons to be made choise of for friend’, imperfect.
A treatise in ten chapters, beginning ‘There is nothing more becoming any wise man than to make choice of friends...’. First published in London, 1632. Works (1829), VIII, 557-70. Edited by Louis B. Wright in Advice to a Son (Ithaca, 1962), pp. 15-32.
[unnumbered page]
• RaW 53.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’
Copy, headed ‘His Epitaph made by himselfe’.
First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as ‘These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse’). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).
This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).
See also RaW 302 and RaW 304.
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A series of quarto leaves of devotional poems, apparently copied by William Dugdale Jr, bound with a printed Book of Common Prayer (1679). c.1700.
p. 1
• RaW 259.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)
Copy of an eight-line version, headed ‘Of Life’, here beginning ‘An humane life is but a Play of Passion’.
First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, ‘The Text of Ralegh's Lyric “What is our life?”’, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.
pp. 75-6
• SiP 88.6: Sir Philip Sidney, The Psalms of David
Copy of Psalm 137, headed ‘Psalm ye 137th done by Sr Philip Sidney Knt’, here beginning ‘Nigh seated where ye River flows’.
Psalms 1-43 translated by Sidney. Psalms 44-150 translated by his sister, the Countess of Pembroke. First published complete in London, 1823, ed. S.W. Singer. Psalms 1-43, without the Countess of Pembroke's revisions, edited in Ringler, pp. 265-337. Psalms 1-150 in her revised form edited in The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke, ed. J.C.A. Rathmell (New York, 1963). Psalms 44-150 also edited in The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke (1988), Vol. II.
pp. 185-7
• WoH 237.8: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)
Copy, headed ‘Verses on ye frailty of this Life’.
First published, as ‘a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by Dr. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will’, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.
pp. 229-30
• BcF 24.8: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’
Copy, headed ‘On the frailty of this Life’.
First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, ‘Bacon's Poem, “The World”: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems’, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.
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Sir William Dugdale's printed exemplum inscribed on the flyleaf ‘Ex dono Authoris A°. 1651’. 1651.
TaJ 115: Jeremy Taylor, XXVIII Sermons (London, 1651)