The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson

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  • LR44 - The James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University - Lord Stanhope's copy of F2(1), Osborn Shelves Pb30, Epigrams, p. 9

LR44 - The James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University - Lord Stanhope's copy of F2(1), Osborn Shelves Pb30, Epigrams, p. 9

Philip Lord Stanhope   's marginal note indicating that he met Jonson with Wat Raleigh   in Lyon. The note is written in the margin of page 9, against Epigram 21, 'On Reformed Gamster'. The date of the comment is unknown, but it refers to 1612 , when Jonson was with Ralegh in France .
Eugene Giddens


[fol. 131]


I kneaw Ben Jhonson at Lyons hee trauelld with yoonge Watt Wrawleigh

Bibliography
Osborn (1957), 16

(1584-1656), knighted 1605; Baron Stanhope 1616; and made earl in 1628.

Frequently known as Wat, Ralegh was born, probably at Sherborne, in Oct. 1593. He graduated BA (Oxon.) in 1610; Daniel Featley was his tutor. He was killed at St Tomas, on his father's ill-fated expedition to Guiana, some time before 8 Jan. 1618 (when the news was brought to his father).