(1) Leicester’s commonwealth: ‘The coppy of a letter wrytten by a mr. of arts in Cambridge to his friend in London concerning some talke passed betweene two worshippfell and grave men aboute the presente state and some proceedings of the earl of Lecistre and his freinds in England’, a copy of the anonymous book with this title, attributed to Robert Parsons, published in London, 1641. Some of the copyist’s errors have been corrected in red chalk. See also MSS Ff.02.03 and Ii.05.01; (2) ‘A tetrase declaring, and conferminge against all objections the just title and right of the excellent and worthie prince James, king of Scotland, to the succession of the crowne of England. Whereunto is added a dyscorse shewing how necessarye yt is for the realme of Ingland that he be in due tyme accknowledged and admytted to the succession of ye kingdome’; the name Jeremias Philodicaios appears at the head of the treatise. The preface begins ‘Seing of greate diversytye of opinions ...’; the treatise begins ‘The right of the king of Scotland by desent of kindred ...’; the discourse begins ‘Having hetherto sufficiently declared ...’; (3) ‘A booke conteyninge a declaration of the succession of the crowne imperiall of England’, beginning ‘In so greate and waighty a matter as we have in hand ...’; this is followed by a tract, or second chapter of the foregoing, ‘Off the five principall howses or lynages that doe or maye pretend to the crowne of England, which are the howses of Scotland, Suffolk, Clarence, Brytany, and Portingale, and first of all the house of Scotland, which contanyeth the pretensions of the king of Scotts and the lady Arbel’a’, beginning ‘Fyrst having declared in the former chapter ...’; (4) ‘Two books of the histories of Ireland, compiled by Edmunde Campion, feloe of Seint John the Baptistes colledge in Oxforde’; this fragment answers to the first seven pages of the history as printed in Sir J. Ware’s collection, Dublin, 1633; see also MS Kk.01.03, no, 3; (5) the genealogy of the sovereigns of England from William the Conqueror to Queen Elizabeth I; the date 1584 appears on a flyleaf of this part; (6) ‘Statuta academiæ Cantabrigiensis data per reginam Elizabetham anno regni 12mo’; at the end, the name Gulielmus Cecilius is written apparently in imitation of the autograph. Following this is a leaf containing seven suggestions or propositions for reforming the constitution of the English Church.