MD59/5/6/58
Copy.
RuB 186: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 29 December 1640
Formerly MD59/E/26
Speech beginning ‘The principal part of this business is money...’. Manning, pp. 166-7.
MD59/5/6/64
Copy, here dated 3 February 1640/1.
RuB 193: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 21-22 January 1640/1
Formerly MD59/E/27.
Speech beginning ‘It well becometh vs thankefully to acknowledge the prudent & painfull endeuours of my Lords the Peers Comissioners...’. First published in The Speeches of Sr. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 11-‘18’ [i.e. 14]. Manning, pp. 169-72.
MD59/5/6/72
Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘Bacon, Earle of St Albans The Late Lord Chancelor - his confession ingenerell & submissiue, to ye vpper house of Parliamente’. c.1621.
BcF 532: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications
Among papers of the Middletons, a Yorkshire recusant family. MD59/22/B/4
The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning ‘I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...’); 22 April 1621 (beginning ‘It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...’); and 30 April 1621 (beginning ‘Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...’), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.
MD59/5/6/86
Copy of a letter by Ralegh to his wife, on a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1620s.
RaW 999: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
Among papers of the Middletons, a Yorkshire recusant family. Formerly MD59/22/E/45.
MD59/5/6/92
Copy, in a secretary hand, on both sides of a single folio leaf.
CoR 341: Richard Corbett, A letter sent from Doctor Corbet to Master Ailesbury, Decem. 9. 1618 (‘My Brother and much more had'st thou bin mine’)
Among papers of the Middletons, a Yorkshire recusant family. Formerly MD59/22/B/3.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 63-5.
MD59/5/6/95
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘In ducem reducem 1627’, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1627.
MrJ 54: John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 (‘And art returned again with all thy faults’)
Among papers of the Middletons, a Yorkshire recusant family. Formerly MD59/22/B/7
MD59/5/6/97
Copy, headed ‘A discourse of Robert Deuereux Earle of Essex. And George Villers Duke of Buckingham. by way of Paralell: by Sr Ed: Wootten Kt.’, on ten folio leaves (plus two blanks), unbound. c.1634-41.
WoH 292: Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham
Among papers of the Middletons, a Yorkshire recusant family. Formerly MD59/22/E/15.
First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).
MD59/5/6/105
Copy, in a probably professional hand, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Mid-17th century.
ClJ 94: John Cleveland, The Rebell Scot (‘How? Providence? and yet a Scottish crew?’)
Among papers of the Middletons, a Yorkshire recusant family. Formerly MD59/22/B/18.
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 29-32.
MD59/5/6/111
Copy, headed ‘An Execration against Vulcan for burninge his Papers’, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnson’, on folio leaves, endorsed ‘Vulcans Cursse’. c.1640.
JnB 247: Ben Jonson, An Execration upon Vulcan (‘Any why to me this, thou lame Lord of fire’)
Among the papers of the Middleton family, a Yorkshire recusant family. Formerly MD59/22/B/1.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (xliii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 202-12.
MD59/22/B/2
Copy, headed ‘To my Lrd. Leifnt.’ and endorsed ‘To my Lo: Leuet: when hee was Sick 1640 By will Dauenante’, on the first of two conjugate folio leaves. c.1640.
DaW 69: Sir William Davenant, To the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (‘My Lord./ How much you may oblige, how much delight’)
Among the papers of the Middleton family, a Yorkshire recusant family. Formerly MD59/22/B/2.
First published in The Foure Ages of England (London, 1648). Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 198-9.
MS 34
Copy, in a single cursive secretary hand, 93 quarto leaves, in contemporary calf. Late 16th-early 17th century.
LeC 91: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth
Later owned by Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), Yorkshire antiquary and topographer; by George Steevens (1736-1800), literary editor and scholar; given by him 19 March 1780 to Isaac Reed (1742-1807), literary editor and book collector; then in the libraries of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector (Phillipps MS 9544); and of Sir Thomas Brooke, Bt, FSA (1830-1908), Yorkshire antiquary and book collector, of Armitage Bridge.
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.
MS 311
A folio memorandum book of accounts and of verse and prose on current events, with entries dating from 1592 to 1641, 170 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum boards. Compiled over a period by members of the Stringer family, including Francis and Thomas Stringer. c.1592-1641.
Bookplate of Sir Thomas Brooke, Bt, FSA (1830-1908), Yorkshire antiquary and book collector, of Armitage Bridge.
f. [42r]
• RaW 177.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie (‘Goe soule the bodies guest’)
Copy, untitled, written on a page between entries for 26 July 1601 (f. [41v]) and June 1606 (f. [42v]).
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.
MS 312
A folio composite volume of miscellaneous historical MSS, in modern boards. Collected by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary.
Bookplate of Sir Thomas Brooke, Bt, FSA (1830-1908), Yorkshire antiquary and book collector, of Armitage Bridge.
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• JnB 549: Ben Jonson, To the worthy Author M. Iohn Fletcher (‘The wise, and many-headed Bench, that sits’)
Copy, headed ‘On Fletcher's faithfull Sheapheardesse’, subscribed ‘B J’, on one side of a single quarto leaf. c.1630.
First published in John Fletcher, The Faithfull Shepheardesse (London, [1609?]). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 370-1.
MS 320
A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in one or more secretary hands, compiled at least in part by Thomas Harrison of York, 103 leaves, originally in vellum, now in modern half-calf. c.1647-8.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Hugh Massey his Booke Amen 1692’: ? Alderman of York, ‘sone of Hugh Massey ...in ye County of Chester b. 9 Jan 1676’. Later owned by Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), Yorkshire antiquary and topographer.
f. 17r
• SuJ 214: John Suckling, Upon Sir John Suckling's hundred horse (‘I tell thee Jack thou'st given the King’)
Copy of a version of the last two stanzas (inverted).
First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 204-5.
ff. 17r-v
• SuJ 233: John Suckling, Sir John Suckling's Answer (‘I tell thee foole who'ere thou be’)
Copy, headed ‘His Answere to the lybell’.
First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 205-6. Sometimes erroneously attributed to Suckling himself.
MS 326
Copy, in a probably professional hand, with a title-page ‘The Character of a Trimmer wrn in anno 1684’, on 118 small octavo leaves, in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.
HaG 21: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, The Character of a Trimmer
Bookplate of Sir Thomas Brooke, Bt, FSA (1830-1908), Yorkshire antiquary and book collector, of Armitage Bridge.
This MS collated in Brown, I, 345-96.
First published, ascribed to ‘the Honourable Sir W[illiam] C[oventry]’, in London, 1688. Foxcroft, II, 273-342. Brown, I, 178-243.
MS 329
A quarto volume of poems and essays, in a single hand, written from both ends, xi + 26 pages and iii + 37 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf. Written and composed by Sir John Reresby, first Baronet (1611-46), royalist, of Thribergh Hall, West Yorkshire. c.1638-45.
Bookplate of Sir Thomas Brooke, Bt, FSA (1830-1908), Yorkshire antiquary and book collector, of Armitage Bridge.
pp. 13-14
• BcF 52: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’
The first thirteen lines, quoted in Reresby's essay ‘Of vertue’, with introductory preamble ‘I cannot giue thee a more worthie Moderne Instance; to make thee detest this base worlds vanities then my Lord Verrulams meditation of mortality, who truely saith:’.
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.