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Harley MS 6932

Record Id:
041-003449856
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-002049754
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100076151109.0x000001
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 6932
Title:

Latin and English poems by Payne Fisher

Scope & Content:

An octavo manuscript collection of Latin and English poems by Payne Fisher (1615/16-1693). Entitled ‘Fancies on seuerall occasions written and reuis’ed heere from Julij: 6t: 1645: to Apr: 4: 1647’ (f. 1v) and dedicated to Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles (1598-1690). Many of the poems relate to Fisher’s military experience during the English Civil War, and most are addressed to various friends. The manuscript is a presentation copy compiled by Fisher and is in the same hand as Add MS 19863, which also contains his poems.

Contents:

  • f. 2r: A dedicatory letter ‘Ffor my noe lesse truly honord then Infinitley Indeared Freind Mr Denzell Hollis’ by ‘P: ffisher’.
  • ff. 2v-3r: ‘An eiaculation in sense of my present condition’. First line: ‘Great God! before whose all discearning eye’.
  • ff. 3v-4v: ‘An Elegie on the Deathe of th right Honble th Ld Faulkland killd at ye Battle of Nubury’. First line: ‘Great Faulklands fallne! o sofetly! ‘tis a spell’.
  • ff. 5r-7v: ‘An abstract of o[u]r March: and first monthes seige before Breda’. First line: ‘The word was given: and soone wee had’. Inscribed ‘To my honord Freind: E: J:[?] Esq’ and accompanied by a ‘Postscript’.
  • ff. 8r-9v: ‘The Cryes: or Calamities of Ulster’. First line: ‘Up sad Melpomine; up; and condole’. Inscribed ‘To my truly honord Freind Sr I: Cl: k[?]’.
  • ff. 10r-11v: ‘On o[u]r lamentable Rainy march twixt Monymore, and Montioy: wth a commanded party of the Scotch Regiment:’. First line: ‘Twas almost noone, when wee Sir (loath to loose’. Inscribed ‘To my honod Freind Maior: Ellis’.
  • ff. 12r-18r: ‘De Obsidione; Praelioq[ue] Eborocensi vulgo Marston: Moore appellato Carmen: Ad desiderium Dom[in]I Plumbtree ludimagisti Sti Albanensis exaratum’. First line: ‘Tertius horrentem Bellis Civilibus Annum’.
  • ff. 18v-20r: ‘A vindication to my deare Freind here Hen: Dix:. Esq. Upon the Inequality of his late marriage’. First line: ‘Say dearest Freind, what sudden blast’.
  • ff. 20v-22v: ‘On my first Imprisonment. To my truely honord Freind Sr Joh: Clot: kt et Coll:’. First line: ‘When shall wee meet againe Sr and restoare’. Also attributed to Thomas Randolph and Ben Jonson.
  • f. 23r-v: ‘A Contemplation on ye sight of a Tombe heere’. First line: ‘See’st Thou that Marble? marke it well’.
  • ff. 24r-25r: ‘On the last great winde: 1645. Febru: 17: 18, et 19th: 1645’. First line: ‘Twas a Black morning: and the sable skies’.
  • ff. 25v-26r: ‘To my discontented Freind: H: D: Solamen miseris socios habuisse’. First line: ‘Florida contiguis coalescit frondibus Arbor’.
  • ff. 26v-28r: ‘An abstract of Yorke Seige and fight in Blanck verse’. First line: ‘Bellona now had long displayd hir black’.
  • ff. 28v-29r: ‘An Elegie on ye lad: A: Pel:’. First line: ‘As the rare temper of a spotlesse spirit’.
  • ff. 29v-31v: ‘On o[u]r dangerous voyage twixt Carreckfergus and Whitehaven. To my well respected Friend: R: C:’. First line: ‘Wee had now weighed up o[u]r Anchors, and hoisd sayles’.
  • ff. 32r-33r: ‘On the Gunpowder Treason To my honord ffreind Do[c]ter: R: S:’. First line: ‘Quae serpentifero nova monstra eduxit hiatu’.
  • ff. 33v-34r: ‘On my truely honord Freind the Lad: L: N: In mourning’. First line: ‘Sorrowe reioyce; and into laughters growe’.
  • ff. 34v-36r: ‘The Field: To my much esteemed Friend: Mr: R: C:’. First line: ‘Aurora scarce was risen and attired’.
  • f. 36v: ‘An Epitaph: Inservient for any Tombe’. First line: ‘Who ere Thou art darest stay and reade’.
  • ff. 37r: ‘On occasion of this subiect: extempo: Facilis Descensus Averni’. First line: ‘Difficile est virtutis opus: Fastigia Caeli’.
  • ff. 37v-39v: ‘Newes from Loughe: Bagge in answer to my Left: Coll: letter upon the first discovery of it’. First line: ‘Sr I have reade your lines whose cheife’. Signed ‘P: ff:’ and dated ‘From Loughe Bagge alias the Church Iland Feb: 4th: 1643’.

This item is bound with Harley MS 3918.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Harley Collection
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002045828
040-002049754
041-003449856
Is part of:
Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3918 and 6932 : Two manuscripts containing verse and treatises

 

Harley MS 6932 : Latin and English poems by Payne Fisher
Hierarchy:
032-002045828[3910]/040-002049754[0002]/041-003449856
Container:
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Record Type (Level):
Item
Extent:
1 item
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Latin
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1645
End Date:
1647
Date Range:
1645-1647
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper.

Dimensions: 163 mm x 118 mm.

Foliation: 39 folios + ii.

Binding: British Museum binding.

Custodial History:

Provenance:

Previously owned by Payne Fisher and Denzil Holles (according to Wright).

The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (1661-1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (1689-1741), 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 (1694-1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (1715-1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.

Former Internal References:
161.A.33
Finding Aids:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 6932.

Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A study of the sources of the Harleian collection of manuscripts preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972) p. 151, 192-3.

'Harley MS 6932', Catalogue of English Literary Manuscripts 1450–1700: http://www.celm-ms.org.uk/repositories/british-library-harley-6000.html

Publications:
Victoria Moul, ‘Revising the siege of York: from royalist to Cromwellian in Payne Fisher’s Marston Moor’, The Seventeenth Century, 31 (2016) pp. 311-331.
Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Fisher, Payne, poet, c 1616-1693
Holles, Denzil, 1st Baron Holles, politician, 1598-1690