This dissertation has been microfilmed exactly as received 69-4939 MILLER, Robert Henry, 1938- A SELECTED EDITION OF SIR JOHN HARINGTON'S A SUPPLIE OR ADDICION TO THE CATALOGUE OF BISHOPS, TO THE YEARE 1608, The Ohio State University, Ph.D., 1968 Language and Literature, general University Microfilms, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan Copyright by Robert Henry Miller 1969 A SELECTED EDITION OF SIR JOHN HARINGTON'S A SUPPLIE OR ADDICION TO THE CATALOGUE OF BISHOPS. TO THE YBARE 1608 DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Robert Henry Miller, B.A., M.A. The Ohio State University 1968 Approved by Adviser Department of E llsh ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I wish to express my deepest thanks to Professor Ruth Hughey, who spent many hours encouraging and advis­ ing me in my work, and who succeeded in instilling in me some of her own interest in the Haringtons. I am completely in her debt for any comments I make here about Sir John Haringtonfs equally talented father, John Harington of Stepney. Without her help this edition would never have been possible. To Richard Schrader I am grateful for much needed assistance in translating Latin quotations and phrases. I also wish to thank the Folger Shakespeare Library for assistance of various kinds, all of which were vital to my work. I am especially grateful to the Trustees of the British Museum for permission to base this edition on manuscripts in their keeping. 11 VITA August 10, 1938 Born - Defiance, Ohio 1960 B.A., Bowling Green University, Bowling Green, Ohio 1960-I96I Teaching Assistant, English Department, Bowling Green University 1961 M.A., Bowling Green University 1961-196^ Instructor, Humanities Depart­ ment, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan 196^-1968 Teaching Assistant, Department of English, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio FIELDS OF STUDY Major Field: English Literature of the Renaissance Studies in the Renaissance. Professor Ruth Hughey Studies in Bibliography and Textual Criticism. Professor Hughey and Professor Matthew Bruccoll 111 TABLE OP CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS .................................... 11 VITA ............................................ • ill LIST OF TABL E S .................................... vl INTRODUCTION ...................................... 1 TEXTUAL N O T E ....................... o ............ 71 A SUPPLIE OR ADDICION TO THE CATALOGUE OF BISHOPS, TO THE YEARE 1608 f Canterbury! 102 Of the Bishops of L o n d o n ........................... 11^ Of the Bishops of Winchester . • ................. 133 Of Sallsburle .........................................17^ Of the Bishops of Bathe and Wells 183 Hereford ........................................ 210 Chichester ..... ... 220 Of Peterborough ............. 227 Of Saint P a r i e s ............... ............... .. 230 Of L a n d a f ............... 235 Of the Archbishops of Y o r k e ......................... 2^1 It [Conclusion] ...................................... 272 The Occasion Why the Former Worke Was Taken In Hand ....................... 27^ NOTES ..................................... 283 APPENDIXES .................................. 3^6 Appendix A: Substantive Emendations . • „ . 3^7 Appendix B: Emendations of Accidentals . 350 Appendix C: Historical Collation of Substantive Variants ••••. ............ 355 BIBLIOGRAPHY ............. „ ................... 383 v LIST OF TABLES Table Page 1* Some Changes of Accidentals In A and FC .<>••. ..o. ....... 79 2. Census of Substantive Variants . • . 99 3. Textual Genealogy ..... 100 vl INTRODUCTION On the sixth of November 1612 Prince Henry Frederick, son of King James I of England, died. He was eighteen, and the great promise he had shown had given hope to those around him that he would make a worthy king. In an elegy to the dead prince, John Taylor wrote: "For hee that was the worlds admired Lampe, The life of Peace, of War, of Court, of Campe, Th'expected hope of blest ensuing time, Fell in his spring, and dide in golden prime." No one knew at the time that monarchy was to end temporarily with Henry’s younger brother Charles I; but to us, in retrospect, his death seems to have been that much more tragic. No person can say what kind of king Henry might have been, but there is a chance that the bloodshed that was to come under King Charles I might have been averted under Prince Henry's reign. ^Great Brltalne. All in Blacke (London, 1612), sig. B2V. 1 2 Par to the west, two weeks later, on the twentieth of November, another older, perhaps by this time sager, courtler left the world, In the quietness of his home In Kelston, near Bath. Sir John Harlngton, godson to Queen Elizabeth, man of the court, poet, translator, and historian, died, as Sir Robert Cecil says, "sick of a dead palsy." Sir John's quest for preferment began early in the reign of Elizabeth I and extended through the early part of that of James I. Harlngton had incurred the ill favor of his godmother the queen by being associated with the Earl of Essex in the letter's abortive expedition to Ireland in 1599* Although the death of Queen Elizabeth came as a great loss to Sir John, It also meant a chance for him to find favor with the new king. It is to King James that Harlngton dedicated and addressed his A Tract on the Succession to the Crown, which attempts to set forth Harlngton*s views on the religious compromise that he hoped James 2 would implement. When his efforts with James found 2 A Tract on the Succession to the Crown was written in 1602 for the purpose of not only procuring favor, but also of influencing James's attitudes as king, especially his religious attitudes, and it was to have the same effect on James that Harlngton hoped the later Supplle would have on Henry. Harlngton's own manuscript of the work, together with marginalia by Archbishop Toby Mathew, is now in the Chapter Library at York Cathedral. The only printed edition is that of the Roxburgh Club, ed. C. R. Markham (London, 1880). no encouragement, he directed his renewed attempts at the Prince of Wales, Henry Frederick, In the form of "A Supplle or Addiclon to the Catalogue of Bishops, to the Yeare 1608," In order to counterbalance some strong Puritan Influence that had always been present around the young prince. The story of the Supplle then Is the story of an older man's attempt to advise a younger man, or at least that la part of the story. With Henry' sudden death. It seems as If Harlngton too saw not only the collapse of his own ambitions but also the collapse of his desires to bring about a religious compromise, which he proposed in both the Tract and the Supplle. The struggle for Henry's religious convictions actually began early In his life, when Pope Clement offered to give James money to secure him on the English throne, If he, the pope, might be entrusted with the care and upbringing of the prince.3 of the Puritan influence surrounding Henry there can be little doubt. The young prince naturally became the subject of appeals from the Puritan writers and divines, who had great difficulty influencing the anti-presbyterlan James. With Henry they may have made greater gains, though it is difficult to tell, since we have very ^Thomas Birch, Life of Henry. Prince of Wales (London, 1?60), pp. 22-23. 4 little Information ebout the young prince's religious feelings. One of the more prominent writers who appealed to Henry at one time or another was Hugh Broughton, the Hebraic scholar whom Harlngton mentions disparagingly in the Supplle.*4, Broughton's reply to Bishop Thomas Bllson of Winchester, on the matter of Christ's descent into Hell^ was inscribed to Henry, as well as his scholarly treatise Responsum ad Eplstolam Iudael and his translation from the Hebrew of The Lamentations of Jeremy. The Puritan divine John Brinsley the elder dedicated his Henry Ludus Llterarlus of 1612 to the prince. Probably the greatest influence, however, was exerted by Bishop Joseph Hall, who was a close friend of the prince and who served as his chaplain from 1608 to 1612. Some of Hall's works dedicated to Henry are his Epistles (1608, 1612), The Peace of Rome (1609), and Contemplations upon the ^Supplle. p. 175. The information on religious writings has been taken from E. C. Wilson, Prince Henry and English Literature (Ithaca, N.Y., 19^6), which dis­ cusses the many works dedicated or addressed to Henry. Wilson mentions the Supplle. pp. 66-67, but he gives the fair-copy manuscript the title that Chetwlnd provided for the printed edition, and, like his earlier source, Birch's Life of Henry. he confuses Sir John Harlngton with his relative John, Baron Harlngton of Exton, who was also Henry's close friend. ^See Supplle. p. 171 and Note 171.10. 5 Prlnclpall Passages of the Holie Storle (1612). Two of his later chaplains also exerted strong antl-Catholic Influences on him: Daniel Price, who presented Recusants Conversion (1608), and Lewis Bally, later Bishop of Bangor and author of The Practice of Piety (1612). In his history of the church at this time, W. H, Frere tells the story that Bally, in his funeral sermon quoted the prince as having said shortly before his death that "religion lay a-bleeding, and no marvall when divers of the privy council hear mass in the morning, court sermon in the afternoon, tell their wives what is done at the Council so that they tell their Jesuits and confessors."^ The truth of Bally1s report Is doubtful, even though he was to become a bishop, and Bally himself was summoned before the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Privy Council for having made it. However, It is interesting to note that the statement Is violently anti-Catholic rather than pro-Puritan. There is nothing in it to indicate that Henry carried Puritan sentiments to his grave, but there is a great deal in it to suggest that he was vehemently opposed to the Catholics, and little wonder.