Scope and Contents (1) Edmund Spenser, ‘A viewe of the presente estate of Irelande discoursed by waye of a dialogue betweene Eudoxius and Irenius’; at the end is ‘Finis anno dni 1590’, although the date usually assigned to the work is 1596; see also MS Dd.10.60; (2) ‘A short view of the reigne of Kinge Henrie the third written by Sir Robert Cotton knight baronett in anno 1614 and by him presented to his majestie the same yeare’, c 1642; (3) ‘The fore-runner of revenge upon the duke of Buckingham...

Scope and Contents By the original paging 66 pages appear to have been lost, unless 36 out of order at the end were some of these. Other pages have been torn out. They do not appear to have been missing when the manuscript was catalogued for John Moore. Contents: (1) ‘The king’s [Charles I] message to parliament’; (2) ‘The answer of the howse of commons, 14th March 1625’; (3) ‘The king’s majestie’s replie to the said answer of the howse of commons made to them the 15 of March, 1625; (4) speeches of the king...

Scope and Contents Copies made in four different hands; the titles to the several articles, except the last, are those prefixed in the manuscript. (1) ‘The manner of the sicknes and death of prince Henrye, sonne to kinge James, anno 1612’; this is an extract from Sir Charles Cornwallis, ‘The life and death of our late most incomparable and heroique prince Henry, prince of Wales, &c.’, printed in 1641; (2) ‘By the Compa. of Marchant Adventers. Reasons against bras money, for ye quoyning whereof a new mynt...