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Harley MS 367

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040-002046195

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040-002046195

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Harley MS 367

Title:

Historical notes, documents and poems written or copied by John Stowe and others, including poems by George Ripley, John Lydgate, Humphrey Brereton, John Skelton, John Heywood, William Vallans, William Drummond of Hawthornden, Robert Herrick, John Denham, Paul D'Ewes, Tom Coryate, John Hoskyns and others

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-3v: John Stowe's paper against Richard Grafton and his chronicle.

f. 4r: Proceedings of John Stowe in surveying the measures in the Ward of Baynard's Castle, 1584.

ff. 5r-5v: Declaration of the absues done to John Stowe by William Ditcher, alias Tatford, and his wife.

ff. 6r-7v: John Stowe's complaints of his brother Thomas and his wife; imperfect.

f. 8r: John Stowe's petition to the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London to settle an annual pension upon him, in consideration of his Charges in printing his Summaries wherein he has recorded the Acts of worthy Citizens.

f. 8v: Historical notes by John Stowe.

f. 9r: John Stowe's petition to have the benefit accruing by the admission of two men to the Freedom of the City.

f. 10r: Printed declaration of King James I with which he gives his royal benevolence to John Stowe and authorised him to collect ' the voluntarie contribution and king gratuitites of his loving subjects', dated 8 March 1603.

ff. 11r-11v: Richard Grafton's complaint against John Stowe' with the latter's remarks in the margin.

ff. 12r-12v: John Stowe's vindication of himself against Richard Grafton.

ff. 13r-13v: John Stowe, 'Of the Castell of Wyndsore'.

f. 14r: John Stowe, note concerning Samson of Tottington, Abbot of Bury St Edmunds, and of the Knights' Fees held of him.

ff. 15r-15v: 'The Aunswere of Adam sometyme Bushopppe of Worcester nowe the electe of Wincester to the appele exhibted againste him Anno domini 1334'.

ff. 16r-16v: Historical notes by John Stowe.

f. 17r: John Stowe, 'The copy of certayne articles set downe by lenard Ramsey, preched and tawght secretly, by one Geyton Hanson, Knewube, and othars'.

ff. 17*recto-18r: John Stowe, 'The names of suche as were in the Castell of Edinghborow when it was rendred, 28 May 1573'.

ff. 19r-22v: Historical notes by John Stowe.

f. 23r: Historical notes on John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, and Margaret Beauchamp.

ff. 24r-24v: John Stowe, 'A peticion by the gentlemen of Suffolk to the Lords of the counsell on the behalfe of the mynesteres Anno Elizabethe'.

ff. 25r-43v: John Stowe, List of monasteries and hospitals founded in England.

ff. 45r-45v: John Stowe, tract on coining and examining or trying of money ('For the Mynte').

f. 46r: Account about Robert Bale, the Elder, and the books written by him.

f. 47v: 'A Description of a Vaute made for Thomas Tomlinson at the Corner of Bredstreete in Cheapside', dated 1595.

ff. 48r, 49v: Historical notes by John Stowe.

f. 50r: 'The gifte of Landes by William the Conqueror as the same is mentioned in the Scottishe Cronicle in the Library at Richmond'.

f. 50v: Historical notes by John Stowe.

ff. 55r-75r: George Ripley, poem on Alchemy in English verse, with the heading: 'Hic incipit liber quia me dicit flos omniume librorume filosoforum Anno 1525'; ending with: 'Explicit Alikee tractatus philosophe Cuius Ripley [...]'; followed by a note by Humfrey Wanley: 'A fragment seeming to belong to this work way be found in 40.A.19 at fol. 16'.

f. 76r: Latin note on the bones of Bede the Venerable and St Cuthbert's coffin at Durham Cathedral.

f. 76v: Historical notes by John Stowe.

ff. 77r-78r: John Stowe, English poem on ancient and modern Rome.

f. 79r: John Stowe, Ballad on Saint Edward the Confessor.

ff. 80r-83v: The Life of St Margaret of Antioch in verse, attributed to John Lydgate.

ff. 83v-85v: 'The tragedy of Rome'.

ff. 85v-86r: 'Morall Episte [of] Kynge Amasias to Kyng Johas'; attributed to John Lydgate.

ff. 86r-86v: Extract from John Lydgate's Life of Edmund and Fremund, entitled: 'Ballad Royall of Invocation to seint Edmond at thenstaunce of Kynge Henry the sixt'.

f. 86v: 'A morall ballad to the prince, the duke of Clarence, the duke of Bedford, the duke of Gloucester, the Kyngs sonns, by henry Scogan, at a supper among the marchaunts in the Vintry at London in the howse of Louys Johan'.

ff. 87r-87v: 'A complaynt made by Lydgate for the departyng of Thomas Chaucer into Fraunce by his servants upon the Kyngs ambassate'.

f. 88r: Poem on the town and university of Cambridge, attributed to John Lydgate.

ff. 89r-100r: Humphrey Brereton, Song of Lady Bessy; english poem on Elizabeth of York ('Ladye Bessie'), with the added title 'Of the Princesse Elizabeth after wife of King Henry 7'.

ff. 101r-101v: John Skelton, Poems against Garnesche, entitled: 'Skelton Lauriate defens agenst Mr Garneshe chalenger'.

ff. 101v-102v: 'Be the kynges most noble commandement Skelton lauryate defender agenst Mr Garnesche chalanger with gresy gorbelyd godfrey'.

ff. 102v-106r: 'Mirres vous y loke nat to hye. By the kynges most noble commaundment'.

ff. 106v-109v: 'By the Kynges most noble Commaundment domini laureati disticon contra goliardum Garnishe et Scribam ejus'.

ff. 110r-119r: John Heywood, Wytty and Wytless.

ff. 120r-125r: Poem on Flodden Field.

ff. 126r-127v: 'London Lyckpeny - A ballade compyled by Dan John Lydgate monke of bery about [...] yere agoes, and newly oversene and amended'.

ff. 128r-128v: Fragment of an English poem on the marriage of the 50 daughters of Daunus, the Danaids, with the 50 sons of Aegyptus.

f. 129r: William Vallans, poem on John Stowe's reward for compiling his survey of London, dated 1582.

ff. 130r-143r: John Skelton, Vox Populi, Vox Dei, addressed 'To the Kinges moste Excellent Maiestie' [King Henry VIII].

f. 144r: 'To a flattering preacher'.

ff. 145r-146v: 'A lamentable complant of the pore Cuntrymen againste greate hose for the los of theire cattelles tailes'. ff. 147r-147v: 'Epigrams, Epitaphs & Sonnets'.

f. 148r: Acrostic on the name of Francis Davison; inscribed on f. 148v: 'W. Fletchers Acrostichs upon my name'.

f. 149r: 'Certeyne English verses written and made by a gentlewomen'; signed Mrs Mary Jenes 'then a mayde now a wyfe to Mr Thomas Fitzwilliams'.

ff. 150r-150v: 'A tale of Robin Hoode dialogue wise beetweene [sic] Watt and Jeffry - The morall is the overthrowe of the Abbyes, the like being attemted by the Puritane which is the wolfe and the Poletetyan which is the Fox agaynst the bushops' '

ff. 151r-152v: 'The Answere to the Libell called the Comons Teares'.

f. 152v: Objections of Sir Horacio Vere upon his surrender of Mannheim.

ff. 153r-153v: William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge, entitled: 'The Senses'.

f. 154r: Robert Herrick, Chorus; Elegy on John Browne, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and signed by 'Trinitall Halls Exequies'.

f. 155r: 'Upon the death of that right Worthye man Mr Browne late of Caius and Gonville colledge diseased Epicedion'; signed: 'R. Constable Caio-Gonvillensis'.

f. 156r: 'Dialogues inter Academiam et Parcam'.

f. 157r: English translation of Psalm 115; imperfect.

f. 158r: A poem entitled 'A vertuous woman'.

f. 159r: 'The song of a Constable made by James Gyffon Constable of Alburye Anno 1626 to the tune of Jump to me Cossen'.

ff. 160r-160v: Poem on the dissolution of two Parliaments by King Charles I.

f. 161r: Poem against Roman Catholic religious practices ('popery'), with the inscription (f. 161v): 'R. F. Verses on Mr Moore and Tregian'.

f. 161v: A fragment of an English indenture.

f. 161v-162r: English poem, entitled: 'Cantilene Politica jocunda facta post Principis discessum in Hispaniam, 1623'.

f. 163r: Lampoon upon the Princess going to France, dated April 1623. f. 164r: Poem in Latin and Greek, 'In obitum D. Doctoris Branthwaite, hujus Academiae doctissimi reverendissimique Procancellarii Lachrymae'.

f. 165r: Robert Angot, French sonnet, beginning: 'Je ne crain d'Aquillon'. f. 166r: F. D., English poem 'To Dick Baker', bellfounder.

f. 167r: A French poem.

f. 168r: An English sonnet, beginning: 'When Venus did desend from heven above'.

ff. 169r-173v: Sir John Denham, Cooper's Hill; a poem on Windsor Castle and adjacent places, ending with the added note: 'The above is Part of Sir John Denham's Cooper's Hill Last Edition'.

ff. 174r-175r: 'Captaine Mortons Answere out of Breda to Sir Ferdinando Careys Letter'.

f. 176r: English poem, entitled: 'In Regis Caroli Inaugurationem'.

f. 177r: John Knyvett, poem 'to the Memorie of the Honorable and vertuous Ladi deceased the lady D'Ewes - Funebre'.

ff. 178r-179r: Directions for dances, beginning: 'The quatheren paven'.

f. 180r: An English sonnet, entitled: 'Simia Salisburiensis'.

f. 181r: An English sonnet, beginning: 'When crabbed Cancer ith his crooked Clair'.

f. 182r: A French sonnet, entitled: 'Sur les yeux de Madame de MArquise de Vernaud'.

f. 183r: Love verses in English.

f. 184v: Name inscriptions, including: 'John Bois', 'Frances Boys', 'Jeane Mason', 'Thomas Spelman', 'Jaques Clement', 'Francis Davison', 'Anthony Shirley', and 'Thomas Shirley'; added in the 17th century.

f. 184r: Paul D'Ewes, draughts of love verses.

f. 185r: Nathaniel Gibson, Carmen ad Simondsium D'Ewes.

f. 186r: Tom Coryate, Verses in Latin and French.

f. 187r: John Hoskyns, 'Verses made by an unknowne Author upon the falle of Sir Francys Bacon Lord Verulam Viscounte Sir Albones and Late Lord Chauncelor of Englande'.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

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Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 367 : Historical notes, documents and poems written or copied by John Stowe and others, including poems by George Ripley, John…

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Languages:

English
French
Greek, Ancient
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1500

End Date:

1624

Date Range:

mid 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: various.

Foliation: ff. 17* + 50*+ 60* +161*+ 168* + 187 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 at the end); 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. [i]recto (bibliographical notes).

Script: Humanistic cursive.

Binding: British Museum in-house; brown half leather binding with the Harleian arms gold stamped on the outside covers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

England.

Provenance:

John Stowe, (b. 1524/5, d. 1605), chronicler and antiquary: the manuscript includes an imperfect print of James I's letters patent of 8 March 1603, authorising Stowe to receive voluntary contributions on f. 10r (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 319).

Ralph Starkey of Darley Hall, Oulton (d. 1628), partially written by him: (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 314).

Sir Simonds d'Ewes (b.1602, d. 1650), 1st baronet, diarist, antiquary, and friend of Sir Robert Cotton: listed in his catalogues as A.450ii [ff. 1-88]; A.483 [ff. 89-100]; and A.450ii [ff. 101-187]; D'Ewes's hand is on ff. 55r, 28r, 89r ['Of the Princesse Elizabeth after wife of King Henry 7'], 147r, 161*verso, 162v; paper of the D'Ewes family are found at ff. 177, 184, and 185 (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D’Ewes (1966), pp. 157 [A.450ii], 164 [A.483]; see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), p. 131).

Sir Simonds D’Ewes (d. 1722), 3rd baronet and grandson of the former: inherited and later sold the D’Ewes library to Robert Harley on 4 October 1705 for £450; according to a receipt in Additional MS 70478 (Portland Papers) [formerly Loan 29/254 packet 2] (see Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D’Ewes (1966), pp. 60, 91 n. 308; Diary, ed. by Wright and Wright (1966), p. xviii n. 3).

The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.

Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d. 1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), pp. 212-14 (no. 367).

Henry Noble McCracken, The Lydgate Canon. Appendix to the Philological Society's Transactions 1907-1909 (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, and Trübner for the Philological Society, 1908), pp. iii-xlvi (p. xxiii).

A Survey of London by John Stowe ed. by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford, 3 vols (Oxford: Clarendon, 1908), I, pp. xi-xii, xxxv, xlviii-lxvii, lxxxviii.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by Cyril Ernest Wright and Ruth C. Wright, 2 vols (London: Bibliographical Society, 1966), I: 1715-1723, p. xviii n. 3.

Andrew G. Watson, The Library of Sir Simonds D'Ewes (London: British Museum, 1966), pp. 60, 91 n. 308, 157 [A.450], 164 [A.483].

Anthony S. G. Edwards, ‘Lydgate’s Fall of Princes: Unrecorded Readings’, Notes and Queries, 216 (1969), 170-71 (p. 171).

Charles Lethbridge Kingsford, English Historical Literature in the Fifteenth Century (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913; repr. New York: Franklin, 1972), p. 252.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 131, 314.

D.R. Wilson, 'Dancing in the Inns of Court', Historical Dance, 2.5 (1986-87), 3-16 (pp. 5-6).

Peter J. Foss, The Field of Redemore: The Battle of Bosworth 1485 (Leeds: Rosalba, 1990), p. 8.

Chris Fletcher, Roger Evans, and Sally Brown, 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2003), pp. 64-65.

The Life of St Edmund, King & Martyr : John Lydgate’s Illustrated Verse Life Presented to Henry VI : A Facsimile of British Library MS Harley 2278, with an introduction by A. S. G. Edwards (London: British Library, 2004), p. 16.

'Harley MS 367' in the Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450-1700 [=CELM] [accessed 1 June 2022].

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