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) ‘A comunicacon or discours of the Queenes highnes betwen fower Gent. at Montholl in Essex reported by Sir Thomas Smyth knight to his neybore ffrances Wiat gent. 1561 primo Aprilis; (2) copies of five letters from Sir Roger Ascham, (a) to ‘Mr Secretarie Cecill’, 6 October 1561, (b) to ‘Mr Secretarie’, 25 December 1553, (c) to ‘Mr Secretarie Cecill’, 8 June 1567, (d) ‘A lre written by R. A. for a gent. to a gentlewoman in waie of marriage’, (e) to the Bishop of Winchester, [1554]; (3) a...

Scope and Contents Includes: letter from Roger Ascham to William Cecil, 9 Jan. 1548; copy letter from Samuel Ward to James Ussher, 24 May 1637; letters from Francis Standish, Thomas Hearne, Samuel Noyes and unidentified to Simon Patrick; letters from Edmund Symondes, John Ste[?], Sir William Denny, John Vincent, and William Burgess to Thomas Rogerson, 1619-62 and undated; 'The Conquest of China by the Tartars', 1 fo., c. 1690; letter from John Strype, with memorandum concerning the Hicks MSS. Aug. 1714; letter...

Scope and Contents 1. 'Letters [Original] to or from My Lord Burghley from a Volume of Original Letters MSS. of Jo. Bp. of Ely.' pp. 1-18. 2. 'Copies of Letters, taken from a Large Volume of Letters &c. in the late Bp. of Ely's Library, endorsed 10lib.00s.00d. wch probably was the price of the Book, and yet only Copies.' pp. 19-128. 3. 'The manner of the sicknes and death of Prince Henrye Sonne to Kinge James, Anno 1612.' pp. 129-140. 4. 'Count Arundells Apologie, beinge restrained, for...