Beginning with a focus on Lewiston Fitzjames as a ‘stray poet’ amongst more well-known names in manuscript collections of Inns poetry, Marotti goes on to reveal other such poets who have been hitherto largely concealed in discussions of these compilations. These include John Grange of the Middle Temple, connected there to the more famous Benjamin Rudyerd, John Vaughan of Inner Temple, who moved from the circle of the Earl of Essex to Prince Charles’s household, Henry Blount and Robert Ellice of Gray’s Inn, and Richard Clarke and William Austin of Lincoln’s. Marotti’s analysis explores these writers’ attitudes to women, and their homosocial and competitive conviviality. Several of the men show connections with better-known writers such as Jonson and Coryate, and many are interesting in the context of social aspiration, religious belief, or the uses of humanist learning.