ENGLISH CLANDESTINE SATIRE, 1660-1704

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REEL 1

Avon, Badminton House, Muniments Collection Fm E 3/12, vol 2. c.222pp.
An important manuscript of libertine and some town and state satires from the ‘Gyldenstolpe’ scriptorium. The MS is fully described in Michael Brennan and Paul Hammond, ‘The Badminton Manuscript: a new miscellany of Restoration verse’. English manuscript studies 1100-1700 5 (1995), 171-207.

British Library, Additional MS 23722. c.162 pp.
‘Poems, chiefly Political, referring to Persons and Occurences of the Reigns of King Charles II & King James II’. A coherent anthology written in a clear but somewhat inelegant hand. The title-page must be later, and is inaccurate as the latest items are c.1680. The scribe preferred to start a new work on a new page, but later went back and wrote short poems in the blank spaces. These are listed out of order in the Table of Contents.

British Library, Additional MS 34362 (Danvers). c.132 pp
Described by Beal, Index to English Literary Manuscripts, as ‘a quarto miscellany of poems, chiefly on affairs of state, owned in 1681 by Sir Samuel Danvers (d.1683) of Culworth, Northamptonshire; c.1680s’. Fol 1r has ‘SamII Danvers. 1661’ - a date that makes no sense. On the fore-edges is written in an early hand ‘Coll | No 3 | Poetry’. This MS contains mostly 1670s and early 1680s state satire, with some court libertine verse and a few pre-1660 items. The third-last item (in later hand) is dated 1687. This is probably not a personal compilation, but either a professional anthology originally entered by a single scribe, or a volume copied by a clerk working from separates held by Danvers.

British Library, Additional MS 29497. c.226 pp.
State and town satires of the 1680s and 1690s with some earlier court libertine material, much of which has been excised. Oliver Pickering has identified several poems in this MS as having been written by Henry Hall. The Index was apparently compiled after the first round of excisions.

British Library, Additional MS 73540. c.178 pp.
State and court satires with a strong representation by Rochester and Marvell, who are rarely so fully combined within a single collection.

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British Library, Additional MS 18220. 252 pp.
The miscellany of John Watson, Fellow of Queens’ College, Cambridge and later Vicar or Mildenhall, Sussex. Some items were sent to him by his brother Thomas, an usher at Sutton’s Hospital (the Charterhouse) in London. The collection, which is particularly valuable for its dates of entry and identification of sources, is discussed by Love, English Clandestine Satire, 269-73.

British Library, Additional MS 40060. 176 pp.
An anthology of satires 1698-1711, entered in an untidy hand. On front verso: ‘Nov: ye 17th 1701 / 1:6 / Lond’.

British Library, Additional MS 30162. 156 pp.
MS written late in date for this collection.

British Library, Additional MS 21094. 372 pp.
A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state owned in 1703 by Basil Fielding, fourth Earl of Denbigh (1668-1717); c.1700. Cognate with Oep18 and Np46* which present items 82-162 in virtually the same order but with other items interpolated. Is there also an interpolated version of item 1-81? Original pagination crossed out and replaced by modern foliation.
* Love, English Clandestine Satire, 306-307. OEP 18 is Oxford Bodleian Library MS. Eng. poet d.18. NP46 is Nottingham University Library MS Portland
Pw V 46.

REEL 3

British Library, Sloane MS 655. 100 pp.
A collection of separates, several dated 1680 with some among these having the name R Baker.
British Library, Harley MS 7319. c.774 pp.
‘A Collection of Choice Poems’, dated April 24 1703. A remarkably full, professionally written miscellany of court, town and state satires of the 1670s through to the early 1690s.

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British Library, Harley MS 7312. 151 pp.
An important anthology of libertine and indecent verse written c.1679.

British Library, Harley MS 6913. c.444 pp.
A professionally written anthology of lampoons and libertine verse from the reign of Charles II. The scribe has taken great care with layout and avoids starting a poem on a verso.

British Library, Harley MS 6914. c.248 pp.
Described by Beal as ‘a quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state; early 18th century’. The latest item is dated 1720 but the main entries cease c. 1706. It is written in two hands, the first thick and informal and the second a practised clerk’s hand. Cameron has pointed out that the main contents represent a private transcript from a MS of his ‘Restoration’ group.

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British Library, Harley MS 7315. c.606 pp.
Comprises two folio collections of which the first contains mainly political verse from the mid-1660s through to c.1680 and is an almost exact twin of Princeton MS Taylor 1 (‘Hansen’ scriptorium). It is professionally written in a large book hand with poems mostly beginning on a new page. The second collection bears the title A Collection of the most choice and Private Poems, Lampoons &c from the withdrawing of the late King James 1688 to the year 1701 Collected by a Person of Quality; c. 1703’ and is an almost exact twin of Leeds Brotherton Ms Lt. q. 38, which is derived from the Cameron scriptorium archive but is not, according to Cameron, a product of that scriptorium.

British Library, Harley MS 7317. c.260 pp.
An anthology of ‘Satyrs & Lampoons’ from the mid-1660s onward in no particular order leading into a dated sequence from 1687-91. Index on ff. 1v-3v. The scribe has underlined proper names in the text and written extensive annotations in the margins which are not always reliable. Closely related to Yale Osborn b 111.

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Edinburgh, University Library, MS Dc. 1. 3/1. 112 pp.
The first part (pp. 1-112) of a folio of MS in a single professional hand, further divided into six collections with continuous pagination. The contents are English libertine and state poems from the 1660s to c.1681, apart from the last section which is of songs. Hard to read but important.

Folger Shakespeare Library, MS M b 12. c.514 pp.
A late product of the Cameron scriptorium, representing three originally separate volumes reduced to one using an ingenious palimpsest technique.

Harvard University Library, Houghton Library, MS Eng. 636 F. c.313 pp.
‘A Collection of Poems’ in a handsome professional hand. Mostly libertine verse prior to 1680 with a strong representation of Rochester. A much later hand has corrected the texts throughout.

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Harvard University Library, Houghton Library, MS Eng. 624. 134 pp.
A personal miscellany rather scrappily written. Contents suggest a non-conformist with broad tastes. Contains mainstream ‘Marvellian’ satire, with one or two libertine items and an appendage of Wild-related material, mostly from the 1660s and 1670s; but ‘Rochester’s Farewell’ indicates material was still being entered in 1680.

Harvard University Library, Houghton Library, MS Eng. 585. 475 pp.
Formerly Phillipps MS 8418. An extensive collection of town and state satires of the 1680s.

Hertfordshire Archives & Local Studies, D/EP f36. 200pp.
‘Poems Collected at several Times from the year 1670’ transcribed by Sarah Cowper.

Huntington Library, MS Ellesmere 8770. c.237 pp.
‘A Collection of the best Poems, Lampoons, Songs & Satyrs from the Revolucõn to 1692’. From Cameron’s ‘William’ group.

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Leeds, University of Leeds, Brotherton Library, MS Lt. q. 38. 298 pp.
‘A Collection of the most choice and Private Poems, Lampoons &ca. from the withdrawing of the late King James 1688 to the year 1701. Collected by a person of Quality.’ An important, professionally written MS, closely related to British Library Harleian 7315, and derived from the Cameron scriptorium archive.

Leeds, University of Leeds, Brotherton Library, MS Lt. 55. c.143 pp.
Mostly state lampoons of 1665-75. Includes some neo-Latin material.

Leeds, University of Leeds, Brotherton Library, MS Lt. 54, Robinson Miscellany. Originally 463 numbered pages but now lacking pp. 59-68, 147-54 and parts of pp.155-8 (Beal). c.463 pp.
A professionally written miscellany of libertine and state satire and an important Rochester source (though with very few attributions, and some of these erroneous). Described in Paul Hammond, ‘The Robinson Manuscript Miscellany of Restoration Verse in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds’, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society 18 (1982), 275-324.

REEL 9

Lincolnshire Archives, MS ANC 15/B/4, Brownloe Miscellany of Poems. 159 pp.
State and town satires mostly of the 1680s. Related to Yale MS Osborn b 327 both by contents and owner.

Manchester, Chetham’s Library, Mun. A4. 14. 160 pp.
A verse miscellany compiled by Oliver Le Neve; c.1690’ DoC 45, 128, 331. Poems from general circulation, from his own circle in which ‘R.E.’ seems to have been the star poet, and a few by himself. Ceases 1688. In 1699 Le Neve killed Sir Henry Hobart in a duel and had to flee the country. Many of the poems, particularly the coarse ones, have been crossed out.

Dublin, National Library of Ireland, MS 2093. c.140 pp.
Mostly court libertine verse 1665-1680, including Rochester items. Oblong format.

Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Advocates Library, MS 19.1.12.
c.400 pp.
A large collection of satires, principally from the 1670s and 1680s, with many dated.

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Nottingham University, Hallward Library, Portland MS Pw V 32. 47pp.
Professionally written MS with the first page headed ‘A supplement to some of my Lord Rochesters Poems’. Derived from Gyldenstolpe archive. Similar to Pepysian MS.

Nottingham University, Hallward Library, Portland MS Pw V 38. 262 pp.
A professional miscellany of satires from c.1682 in a bold clear hand.

Nottingham University, Hallward Library, Portland MS Pw V 39. c.140 pp.
A professionally written MS of political and libertine verse of c.1680.

Nottingham University, Hallward Library, Portland MS Pw V 40. c.320 pp.
A large miscellany of predominantly libertine verse, partly copied from a MS anthology of the Gyldenstolpe group and partly from one of the ‘Pfortzheimer’ editions of Rochester’s Poems on Several Occasions.

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Nottingham University, Hallward Library, Portland MS Pw V 42. 470 pp.
A scriptorium manuscript of c.1703 from Cameron’s ‘Venus’ group. Part of a set with Portland MS Pw V 43 and Portland MS Pw V 44.

Nottingham University, Hallward Library, Portland MS Pw V 43. 463 pp.
‘A Collection of Poems and Lampoons etc. Not yet Printed’. A professionally written miscellany from the Cameron scriptorium in the same hand as PwV 42 and PwV 44, with which it forms a set.

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Nottingham University, Hallward Library, Portland MS Pw V 44. 444 pp.
‘A Collection of Poems and Lampoons etc. Not yet Printed’. Cameron scriptorium; William group. In the same hand and of a set with Pw V 42 and
Pw V 43. Similar content to the third section of Folger MS M b 12 and apparently preserving the material excised from that.

Nottingham University, Hallward Library, Portland MS Pw V 45. 82 pp.
A professionally written miscellany of satires dated c.1682 with some retrospective libertine material.

Nottingham University, Hallward Library, Portland MS Pw V 46. 400 pp.
Mostly state lampoons c.1685-95, many of them dated and in chronological sequence.

Nottingham University, Hallward Library, Portland MS Pw2 V 7. c.164 pp.
Satires and facetiae from c.1700 but containing some retrospective material, preserved as seven unbound fascicles.

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Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Add. b. 106. c.106 pp.
A miscellany of an Oxford don containing neo-Latin and English satires and satirical epigrams along with other material.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawl. poet. 81. c.96 pp.
Mostly Jacobite political verse from the 1690s.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Don. f. 29. c.208 pp.
Miscellany of William Doble containing Latin and English satirical texts of Oxford provenance from the early 1670s and some court libertine satire.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 357. c.323 pp.
‘A P 1642’ embossed on leather binding. A collection of both pre- and post- 1660 satires, the latter beginning on fol. 49v.

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Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Poet. c. 18. c.406 pp.
A late-seventeenth-century miscellany of state poems, associated with Cameron scriptorium.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Poet. d. 53. 175 pp.
A personal anthology mostly from the 1690s but with some earlier material; includes transcriptions from the lampoon newspaper ‘Momus ridens’.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Firth e.6. c.320 pp.
A professionally written collection, in one hand, of songs and satires of the post-Revolution period.

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Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Firth c. 15. 338 pp.
‘A Choice Collection of Poems, Lampoons, Satyr’s etca.’ Cameron scriptorium, Venus group.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Firth c. 16. 308 pp.
Important collection of satires associated with Aphra Benn and including numerous items entered by her. Discussed in Mary Ann O’Donnell, ‘A verse miscellany of Aphra Benn: Bodleian Library MS Firth c.16’, English Manuscript Studies 2 (1990), 189-227.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Add a. 301. 259 pp.
Personal miscellany containing material to c.1700, arranged in four ‘books’. Bookplate ‘Toujours le même’. ‘W.Cole. 1756’ and later owner identifications. In bottom left corner ‘Bought 18 Mar. 1685 for 30s. from G: P. Johnston, Edinburgh’ [but can’t be right date (?)]. Quarto - oblong? - with index at front. Several translations by ‘Gerard’. Huntingdon connections. Includes a long prose tract on the management of the passions. To begin this is written on rectos only; having reached the end it returns upside down on versos, being followed by a correspondence of 1662-3 on conformity between William Hayes, rector of Papworth Agnis, Hunts and his nephew G. Cater, and other items. In same (non-professional) hand throughout. Includes post-Revolutionary, including Jacobite, material. Modern foliation in small roman, and contemporary pagination.

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Oxford Bodleian Library, MS Don. b 8. 721 pp.
Personal miscellany of Sir William Haward. The first fifteen or so numbered pages are blank, excepting p. v on which is written: ‘My Book Frances Leneve’, followed by ‘The Writer of these Collections was Sir William Haward of Tanrigge in Surrey Knt of the Privy Chamber to King Cha:ye 1st. Cha: 2d. and King James the second. He Liv’d in Scotland Yard, & Died ye day of 169’ (See the autograph pages 66, 68) Le Neve has added extensive marginal glosses. There are some details about the MS in another hand on scraps of paper which have been tucked or stuck in, and on which the roman page numbering continues. Pages xxxiv-xl are blank, and the MS proper begins with arabic page numbering on the following page, and a note repeating the information about Haward as scribe and compiler etc. A particularly important MS because it was compiled within the court of Charles II by a functionary with excellent sources.

Oxford Bodleian Library, MS Don. e 176. 148 pp.
Personal miscellany complete by late 1670s.

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Oxford, All Souls College, Codrington Library, MS 116. c.248 pp.
State verse of the 1670s.

Princeton University Library, MS C0199 (RTC01). c.417 pp.
Libertine verse of 1670s with some state satire. Includes two versions of Sodom.

Princeton University Library, Taylor Restoration MS 2. 341 pp.
‘A Collection of Choyce Poems. Lampoons, and Satyrs from 1673 to 1689. Never Extant in Print’. Cameron scriptorium.

REEL 18

Princeton University Library, Taylor Restoration MS 1. 195 pp.
State lampoons 1665-80 in the same hand as the important Rochester source, Yale MS Osborn b 105.

Princeton University Library, Taylor Restoration MS 3. 309 pp.
Libertine and state poems 1665-90, including material from the Gyldenstolpe scriptorium archive. Cambridge provenance.

Princeton University Library, Taylor Restoration MS 5. c.358 pp.
A personal miscellany containing chronologically jumbled state satires among other verse and some satirical prose. Last entries belong to early years of Anne.

Staffordshire Record Office, MS D 1287/19/6 (uncatalogued). 134 pp.
State and town lampoons from 1665-82.

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Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection, Cat. No. 43. 854 pp.
Cameron scriptorium ‘Restoration’ group. A huge anthology of libertine, town and state lampoons.

REEL 20

Stockholm, Kungl.Biblioteket, MS Vu. 69 (Gyldenstolpe MS). 314 pp.
Important MS from a scriptorium of c.1680.

Yale University Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,
MS Osborn b 54. 356 pp.
‘A Collection of Witt and Learning’. Satires and facetiae from a variety of sources, compiled in 1677 (many unique). Opening page is p. 858, indicating that it was originally part of a set.

Yale University Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,
MS Osborn fb 140. c.134 pp.
‘A Collection of Poems Sayters and Lampoones’. Court and state lampoons of the interregnum 1660s and early 1670s including an important group attacking the second Duke of Buckingham.

Yale University Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,
MS Osborn fb 106. c.90 pp.
A made-up volume of sheets and part-sheets originally circulated as separates.

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Yale University Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,
MS Osborn fb 70.
A collection of unbound separates of state lampoons and songs, chiefly from the early 1690s.

Yale University Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,
MS Osborn fb 108. c.334 pp.
A collection of professionally written separates and booklets, containing verse satires mostly relating to the events of 1688-1689, which had been sent through the post to a buyer resident with Sir George Strode in Dorset - 3 have postmarks.

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Yale University Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,
MS Osborn b 113. c.297 pp.
Town and state lampoons assembled in early 1680s.

Yale University Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,
MS Osborn b 111. c.596 pp.
An important anthology of Jacobite verse bound in red morocco with the royal arms of James II and later owned by Sir Thomas Strange, secretary to the Young Pretender.

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Yale University Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,
MS Osborn b 105. 316 pp.
An important Rochester source, collateral with the lost MS drawn on for the 1680 Poems. Discussed in David M. Vieth, Attribution in Restoration Poetry (New Haven: Yale U.P., 1963) and Harold Love, ‘Scribal texts and literary communities: the Rochester circle and Osborn b 105’, SB 42 (1989), 219-35.

Yale University Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,
MS Osborn b 327. c.68 pp.
Miscellaneous lampoons c.1680. Related to Lincolnshire Archives Office MS above both by contents and owner.

Yale University Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,
MS Osborn b 219. 36 pp.
Poems connected with the Wolseley-Wharton quarrel.
No title-page or cover. Yale heading ‘Familiar Epistles’