Scope and Contents (1) ‘A brief collection taken out of the customers’ accompts remayning in the custody of the Clerke of the Pipe’: extracts relating to tonnage and poundage, beginning in the reign of King Edward III; (2) notes of a grant to be made about the year 1629, endorsed ‘Breddon Forrest for Mr Chauncellor’; (3) appointment by Sir John Michell, a master in chancery, of Robert Henley, one of the six clerks, to appear for him in the matter of Dame Thomasin Carew, 24 January 1620; (4) Warrant with the...

Scope and Contents In two parts. Items in part I are chiefly by John Overall while Regius Professor of divinity at the university of Cambridge.Part I: (1) Titles of ‘Quæstiones comitiis magistr. disputandæ, and a chapter ‘Of faythe towarde God’, divided into 22 heads, and all crossed through with a pen; (2) ‘An Henoch et Elias sint in Cælo?’; (3) ‘De quinque articulis in Belgio controversis’, followed by the ‘Sententia ecclesiæ Anglicanæ on these points’; (4) a letter of King James I, in Latin, to...

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’, seventeenth century; (3) ‘The fore-runner of revenge upon the duke of Buckingham...

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 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 Written in various hands: (1) ‘Collections out of the records, declaring the manner howe the kinges of England have from time to time supplied theire necessities with moneyes, without the helpe of parliamentes’, dated ‘Anno 9o Jacobi regis’, beginning ‘The kinges of England have repaired and supported their estates ...’; (2) a letter ‘to my noble friends in the lower howse of parliament’, by a former member of the house, and relating to grievances; (3) remonstrance of the house of commons,...

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Transcribed from records of the Dublin College of Physicians, 1693, p. 26.

Scope and Contents 'Statuta collegii Jesu in Universitate Cantabrigiensi'. The title is wanting, and also the Introduction which precedes the 37 statutes in the copy printed in 'Documents relating to the University and colleges of Cambridge', London, 1852, volume II, pp. 94-123. The MS however contains 'Cap. 38. Collij statutum de numero et victo sociorum et discipulorum per visitatores Dnæ Reginæ Eliz.' and Cap. 39, which is a copy of a royal letter from King Charles I, dated Westminster, 22 December 1635,...

Scope and Contents 1. 'Transcripta aut extracta e registro Eliensi viz. Arundell.' pp. 1-23. 2. 'Transcripta aut extracta e registro Eliensi viz. Gray.' pp. 25-106. 3. 'Transcripta aut extracta e registro Eliensi viz. Nic. West.' pp. 107-126. 4. 'Transcripta aut extracta e registro Eliensi viz. Goodrick et Thirlby,' etc. pp. 127-172. 5. 'Transcripta aut extracta e registro Eliensi viz. Bourgchier.' pp. 173-205. 6. 'Transcripta vel extracta e registris episcoporum Eliensium viz....

Scope and Contents 1. 'Letters Original from Cardinal Wolsey, to the King's Embassadors to the Emperor. In the Royal Library Cambr.' pp. 1-21. 2. 'A Specimen of Capgrave's Chronicle dedicated to Edward ye 4th.' pp. 23-25. 3. 'MSS. Mri Cory Coll. C. C. Socii. Private Foundations &c. in Corpus Christi College in Cambridge.' pp. 27-50. 4. 'Particulars concerning Trinity Coll. &c. from the Paper Office' pp. 51-57. 5. 'A letter concerning Dr Cudworth's Intellectual Systeme.' pp. 58,...

Scope and Contents 1. 'Letters Orig. from King Charles 1st, The Prince, Prince Elector, Pr. Rupert, etc.' pp. 1-37. 2. 'Letters Originall from the Earle of Essex, Warwick, Manchester, Oliver Cromwell, Sir John Hotham, Wa. Mountagu, Secr. Nicholas, Sir John Strangways, Sir Tho. Fairfax, Generall Monck, Wm. Lenthall &c. Treaty at Uxbridge and at Newport in the I. of Wight. Two Receits from the Scots for £200,000 paid by the English 1646. Speaker Lenthal's Petition for leave to quit his employment, Mr...

Scope and Contents 1. Statuta reginæ Elizabethæ anno duodecimo regni sui edita. ff. 1-103. 2. 'The Composition betweene the Universitie and the Kinges-Colledge.' ff. 103-120. 3. 'Articles for ye office of keepeinge ye Universitye Librarye made Ao 1582.' ff. 120-124. 4. 'Diverse parcells, things and furniture, belongeinge to ye Universitye.' ff. 125-132. 5. 'Officium Clerici Mercati' etc. ff. 133-157. 6. Letter of Charles I. (1625) to the chancellor, and of the chancellor to the...