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Notes
I am especially indebted to Ruth Hughey, for her distinguished scholarship on the Haringtons and for her devotion to my efforts, and to Dean John A. Dillon Jr. and the Graduate School of the University of Louisville for a summer grant that funded my research in England. I am also very much indebted to the British Library Board for their permission to reproduce the new textual material from B.M. Harl. MS. 1220, ff. 245-248, appearing in Appendix III. The previous accounts of Harington's Supplie appear in Anthony à Wood, Athenae Oxonienses, ed. Bliss (1813-20; rpt. New York: Johnson Reprint, 1967), II, 555-559, and IV, 376; Thomas Fuller, The Worthies of England, ed. Freeman (1952), p. 500; Thomas Park, in his edition of the Nugae Antiquae (1804), I, xxxxi; and N. E. McClure, Letters and Epigrams of Sir John Harington (1930), pp. 37-38. Sigla for all manuscripts and printed editions discussed below are as follows:
- A B.M. Add. MS. 46370.
- FC B.M. Royal MS. 17 B XXII.
- H B.M. Harl. MS. 1220, ff. 134-248.
- S B.M. Sloane MS. 1675.
- BV A Briefe View of the State of the Church of England (1653).
- NA1 Nugae Antiquae, ed. Henry Harington (1769), I, 5-27.
- NA2 Nugae Antiquae, ed. Henry Harington (1779), I, 1-246.
- NA3 Nugae Antiquae, ed. Thomas Park (1804), II, 1-278.
The Supplie has received an undeservedly bad press, as I hope to show in a collateral study. Fuller, Wood and Strype all criticized and at the same time used it extensively as an historical source. See Fuller, Worthies, p. 500; Wood, Athenae, II, 558; and Strype, Life of Grindal (1821), p. 454.
Leila Parsons has discovered a record of a gift to "Sr Johne Harington" of a "ring with 32 dyamants" valued at £100, presented by Prince Henry and recorded in the Prince's privy purse accounts on 1 August 1608 ("Prince Henry [1594-1612] as a Patron of Literature," MLR, 47 [1952], 503-507). If her assumption as to the identity of Sir John Harington is correct, then Henry may have bestowed the gift in gratitude for Harington's presentation of the manuscript of the Supplie. There is, however, the possibility that the gift may have been presented to Henry's close friend and personal companion, then also Sir John Harington, but of Exton, later second Lord Harington of Exton (d. 1614), shortly before his journey to Italy in 1609. See Ian Grimble, The Harington Family (1957), pp. 154-163, for a full account of this contemporary of Sir John's, who is often confused with him.
Though Park's edition of the Nugae contains the only widely-available text, in its modern reprinting by the AMS Press of New York (1966), it is not accurate, as I show below. (These and other cross references that follow are to the pages of my typescript.) All direct quotes from the Supplie are taken from FC and cited by page number, and a citation is also provided from Park's more available text in NA3, to the passage where it appears in his edition, thus: FC, p. 178; NA3, II, 277.
A full account is given in her article, "The Harington Manuscript at Arundel Castle and Related Documents," Library, 4th Ser., 15 (1934), 388-444. The A MS. is described p. 402, it. 3.
See Hughey, I, 18-19, for a more complete description of Henry Harington's handling of the Arundel MS. in preparing his edition of the Nugae Antiquae.
A full account of the history of Prince Henry's outstanding library is given in Sears Jayne and F. R. Johnson, The Lumley Library: The Catalogue of 1609 (1956), pp. 13-26.
See the earlier description of this manuscript in A Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King's Collections (1921), II, 230.
Catalog of Manuscripts of the Folger Shakespeare Library (1971), II, 172-173; a facsimile of Camb. Add. MS. 337 is given in W. W. Greg, English Literary Autographs (1932; rpt. Kraus Reprint Ltd., 1968), Sect. XLV.
Wing STC H770. Wood, Athenae, IV, 376, says that the Supplie was also published abroad, a statement I have not been able to confirm. The seriatim signing of the book, A6 (—A6) B-K12, suggests the possibility that Kirton may have been setting from printed copy. On the other hand the excision of leaf A6 suggests equally that gathering A was reserved for preliminaries, and was set last.
Poynton's collection contains extensive material on the Chetwinds. See Memoranda . . . Relating to the Parish of Kelston, in the County of Somerset (1878), Pt. III, 19-20.
Elizabeth Donno finds the same practice in B.M. Add. MS. 46368, "The Metamorphosis of Ajax," where Harington left lacunae for psalm numbers, and for a line of Latin (The Metamorphosis of Ajax [1962], pp. 14-15).
NA3 is the last complete published text of the Supplie, but excerpts from it were printed in nineteenth-century editions relating to the bishops; they were taken from NA3, however, not from earlier texts. S. H. Cassan reprinted a full text of the section on Oliver King of Bath and Wells in Lives of the Bishops of Bath and Wells (1829), pp. 317-325. James Bliss, in his edition of Two Answers to Cardinal Perron, and Other Miscellaneous Works of Lancelot Andrewes (1854), XI, xxxv-xxxviii, prints Harington's remembrance of Andrewes, with some explanatory notes.
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