Scope and Contents A volume originally intended to form a commonplace book, with various titles written in alphabetical order on the pages; but very few entries have been made, and it was subsequently used for other purposes. Contents:(I) (1) ‘Love verses and songs on all occasions’, 20 in number; (2) scattered very short extracts in a handwriting of the seventeenth century, followed by (a) ‘Mr Billars ye publick orators speech of Cambrigd to ye king and queen upon the Region [sic] walk, anno dom....

Scope and Contents (1) ‘Sir Thos. Smith’s dialogue about Qu. Elizabeth’s marriage’; (2) ‘The effecte of the lorde keper’s oracion in the starre chambere the laste daye of Hyllarys terme, 1566’; (3) ‘Allegacions ageynst the surmysed tytle of the queene of Scotts and the favorers of the same’; (4) ‘An answeare to the former allegations agt the queene of Scott’s title to the crowne of England’; (5) ‘Allegacions in the behalf of the highe and myghty princes the ladye Marie nowe queene of Scottes ageynste the...