Nugae Antiquae
Contents
Bibliographic and Editorial Note
by the Ex-Classics Project
Title Page
Of the 1804 Edition
ADVERTISEMENT
Of the revised edition
SOME ACCOUNT OF SIR JOHN HARINGTON,
of Kelston, Knight.
ORDERS FOR HOUSEHOLD SERVANTS;
First devised by John Harington, in the Year 1566, and renewed by John Harington, Son of the said John, in the Year 1592: the said John, the Son, being then High Sheriff of the County of Somerset.
BRIEF NOTES AND REMEMBRANCES.
From Sir John Harington's papers.
JOHN HARINGTON TO THE LORD TREASURER BURLEIGH
Giving a humorous description of himself, and enclosing the Monks' Hymn to Saint Satan.
A TREATISE ON PLAY.
By Mr. (afterwards Sir John) Harington. (c. 1597)
JOHN HARINGTON, ESQ. TO SIR HUGH PORTMAN, KNIGHT,
Describing an interview with his cousin, Sir John Harington of Exton, and the Lord Treasurer Burleigh, who laboured under a mortal malady, which gave serious concern to the Queen.
REPORT OF A JOURNEY INTO THE NORTH OF IRELAND
Written to Justice Carey, by Sir John Harington, 1599.
SIR JOHN HARINGTON TO MR. THOMAS COMBE, HIS CONFIDENTIAL SERVANT,
from Trim, in Ireland—a further report of military proceedings, 1599.
SIR JOHN HARINGTON TO SIR ANTHONY STANDEN, KNIGHT.
From Athlone, in Ireland, 1599.
SIR JOHN HARINGTON'S REPORT CONCERNING THE EARL OF ESSEX'S JOURNEYS IN IRELAND
from May 10 to July 3, 1599.
SIR JOHN HARINGTON TO SIR ANTHONY STANDEN, KNIGHT, 1600.
Written in his rural retreat at Kelston, whither he had retired from the danger and displeasure which prevailed at court, on the failure of the Irish expedition.
SIR JOHN HARINGTON TO SIR HUGH PORTMAN, KNIGHT
Represents his visit to court, and the alteration in Queen Elizabeth's manners and temper since the death of Essex:—resolves not to leave his poor castle of Kelston again, lest he should find a worse elsewhere.
SIR JOHN HARINGTON TO HIS LADY, 1602.
Relates another interview with the Queen, his royal godmother, whose increasing infirmities and pitiable state are interestingly shown, and her speedy releasement from human pains and misery, truly predicted.
SIR JOHN HARINGTON'S NEW YEAR'S GIFT TO KING JAMES
A curious relic of court-craft.
KING JAMES TO SIR JOHN HARINGTON;
in return for his New Year's gift.
SIR JOHN HARINGTON TO LORD THOMAS HOWARD, 1603
Persevering in his endeavours to obtain courtly favour, with resolutions of studious labour and actve integrity, which ill accord with his pursuits.
SIR JOHN HARINGTON TO BISHOP STILL, 1603
Lamenting that Tyrone was brought to England, and treated courteously, after all he had unsergone in assisting to subdue him. Raleigh highly estimated, and the perils of a courtier's life forcibly set forth.
SIR JOHN HARINGTON TO THE EARL OF SHREWSBURY,
Enclosing a rental of his estate at Lenton, and beseeching the Earl to further his suit against Sir John Skinner.
SIR JOHN HARINGTON TO MR. SECRETARY BARLOW,
Giving an account of the entertainment that King James had prepared for the King of Denmark, which failed, from the intemperance of the assistants and their royal auditor.
SIR JOHN HARINGTON TO MR. ROBERT MARKHAM,
Apologising for having shown the journal of the Irish expedition to queen Elizabeth, whom he delineates with masterly skill, and portrays with apparent fidelity.
SIR JOHN HARINGTON TO PRINCE HENRY
Enclosing a poetical character of Bishop Gardiner, and announcing his Brief View of the State of the Church. 1606.
SIR JOHN HARINGTON TO SIR AMIAS PAWLET,
Representing his interview and conversation with King James, in which the Monarch is drawn to life. 1606
SIR JOHN HARINGTON TO MR. SUTTON, FOUNDER OF THE CHARTERHOUSE SCHOOL.
Expressing his anxiety about a rumour which had gone abroad, that Sir John had been often tampering with Mr. Sutton to make the Duke of York his heir, in order to procure the honour of a barony.
SIR JOHN HARINGTON TO PRINCE HENRY, SON TO KING JAMES I,
Detailing the merits and extraordinary sagacity of his dog Bungey.
SIR JOHN HARINGTON TO PRINCE HENRY, 1609,
Communicating, from a book in his grandfather's handwriting, fragments of wit and poesy, by Henry the Sixth and Eighth, with a copy of his own Ariosto for which he humbly but earnestly solicits some special mark of his Highness' approbation.
A SUPPLEMENT OR ADDITION TO THE CATALOGUE OF BISHOPS, TO THE YEAR 1608, or
A Brief View of the State of the Church of England
THE OCCASION WHY THIS WORK WAS TAKEN IN HAND.
By Sir John Harington
ARCHBISHOPS OF CANTERBURY:
Doctor Matthew Parker.
ARCHBISHOPS OF CANTERBURY:
Doctor Edmond Grindal.
ARCHBISHOPS OF CANTERBURY:
Doctor John Whitegift.
ARCHBISOPS OF CANTERBURY:
Doctor Richard Bancroft.
BISHOPS OF LONDON:
Doctor John Elmer.
BISHOPS OF LONDON:
Doctor Richard Fletcher.
BISHOPS OF LONDON:
Richard Vaughan.
BISHOPS OF LONDON:
Dr Thomas Ravis.
BISHOPS OF WINCHESTER:
Doctor William Wykeham.
BISHOPS OF WINCHESTER:
Doctor Stephen Gardiner.
BISHOPS OF WINCHESTER:
Doctor John Whyte.
BISHOPS OF WINCHESTER:
Doctor Thomas Cooper.
BISHOPS OF WINCHESTER:
Doctor William Wickham.
BISHOPS OF WINCHESTER:
Doctor William Day.
BISHOPS OF WINCHESTER:
Doctor Thomas Bilson.
BISHOPS OF ELY:
Doctor Martin Heaton.
BISHOPS OF LINCOLN:
Doctor William Chatterton.
BISHOP OF COVENTRY AND LICHFIELD:
Doctor William Overton.
BISHOPS OF SALISBURY:
Doctor John Jewell.
BISHOPS OF SALISBURY:
Doctor John Coldwell, Doctor of Physick.
BISHOPS OF SALISBURY:
Doctor Henry Cotton.
BISHOPS OF BATH AND WELLS:
Doctor Oliver King.
BISHOPS OF BATH AND WELLS:
Doctor William Barlow.
BISHOPS OF BATH AND WELLS:
Doctor Thomas Godwin.
BISHOPS OF BATH AND WELLS:
Doctor John Still.
BISHOPS OF EXETER:
Doctor William Cotton.
BISHOP OF NORWICH:
Doctor John Gegon.
BISHOPS OF WORCESTER:
Doctor Gervase Babington.
BISHOPS OF HEREFORD:
Doctor John Scory.
BISHOPS OF HEREFORD:
Doctor Herbert Westphaling.
BISHOPS OF HEREFORD:
Doctor Robert Bennet.
BISHOPS OF CHICHESTER:
Dr Anthony Watson.
BISPHOPS OF CHICHESTER:
Doctor Lancelot Andrews.
BISHOP OF ROCHESTER:
Doctor William Barlow.
BISHOPS OF OXFORD.
Doctor John Underhill.
BISHOPS OF OXFORD:
Doctor John Bridges.
BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER:
Doctor Henry Parry.
BISHOP OF PETERBOROUGH
Doctor Thomas Dove.
BISHOP OF BRISTOL:
Doctor John Thornbury.
BISHOP OF ST. DAVID'S:
Doctor Anthony Rudde.
BISHOP OF LLANDAFF
Doctor Francis Godwin.
ARCHBISHOPS OF YORK:
Doctor Thomas Young.
ARCHBISHOPS OF YORK:
Doctor Edwin Sands.
ARCHBISHOPS OF YORK:
Doctor John Piers.
ARCHBISHOPS OF YORK:
Doctor Matthew Hutton.
ARCHBISHOPS OF YORK:
Doctor Toby Matthew.
BISHOP OF DURHAM:
Doctor William James.
BISHOP OF CARLISLE:
Doctor Henry Robinson
BISHOP OF CHESTER:
Doctor George Flood, or Lloyd.
CONCLUSION
Of the Lives of Bishops
