Stowe MS 960

POEMS by Sir John Beaumont, Bart., [1582-1628], brother of Francis Beaumont the dramatist, and author of "Bosworth Field." This volume contains several of his shorter poems, including two not printed in Grosart's edition, one (f. 8 b) entitled "Of the Assumption of our Blessed Lady," the other (f 10) "On the death of many good People slaine by the fall of a floore at a Catholike sermon in Black Friers " [in Aug. 1623]. The latter is unquestionably the poem belonging to the cancelled pages 181, 182 of the edition of 1629, which have been cut out of every known copy of that edition; for in two or three copies, including one in the British Museum [1077 b. 26], the initial letters of the lines on p. 181 have been left in cutting out the page, and these correspond with the poem in question. The last six lines of the poem occupied p. 182, the remainder of it, according to the custom of this edition, remaining blank. The cancelling of this poem may have been due to its being supposed to show favour to the Roman Catholic religion; and the same reason, in stronger measure, may have caused the omission of the poem on the Assumption, which was never printed at all. This volume also contains an additional memorial poem on Sir John Beaumont, beg. "Expect no more: this latest line contains The bounds and scope of all his former strains." Paper; ff. 15. XVIIth cent. Folio.

Sir John Beaumont, Baronet: Poems: 17th cent.