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 was prepared in the tower of London, anno dni 1640 Car. 16o’; (3) ‘A discourse of the high court of parliament and of the auctoritye of the same, collected out of the common lawes of the lande, and other good aucthors’, attributed to Raphe Starkey; see also MS Ee.03.55; (4) ‘The charge delivered by the earle of Essex and 9 other colonells at the councell table against the viscount Wimbledon generall of the last Cades [i.e. Cadiz] voyage; with his answer concerninge a full relacion of the defeate of the same voyage’; see also MSS Ee.04.15 and Gg.05.18, no. 8; (5) ‘Advertisements of a loyall subjecte to his gracious soveraigne drawne from observations of his peoples speeches’, apparently the work of an anonymous author in 1603; (6) ‘Count Arundells apologie beinge restrained for acceptinge the honour of Comes Imperii without the queenes leave, in reward of his noble service done in ayde of the emperor against the Turkes: wherein are expressed the chiefe priviledges belonginge unto the same honor and his reasons for acceptinge the same’; (7) ‘Propositions made by the ambassadors of the kinge of Fraunce to the assemblye of the states generall of the United Provinces of the low countryes upon presentation of the letters of his majestie to the said lordes the states. the xii. of November, 1618’; (8) ‘The antiquytye, use and privelidge of cittyes burroughes and townes wrytten by Mr. Francis Tate of the Middle Temple London’; (9) ‘Ordinarye annuall receipts of the exchequer’ and ‘Ordinarye annuall yssues of the exchequer’, from an unspecified year in the reign of King James I; (10) ‘A lettre wrytten by Sir Phillip Sidneye to his brother Roberte Sidneye (nowe Lord Lisle), shewinge what course was fitt for him to hould in his travills’; (11) ‘The passages at the councell table betweene the councell and William Coriton esquire about refusinge to pay the loane’; (12) ‘A coppy of certaine verses dispersed in and about London in February 1634 occasioned by the eager prosecution of shipmoney and imprisonments therefore’, beginning ‘The cittie cofers abounding with treasure ...’; (13) ‘A discourse touchinge the present consultacion concerninge the peace with Spaine and the retayninge of the Netherlands in society, and protection, written by Sir Walter Rauleigh and presented to kinge James in the first yeare of his raigne 1602 [sic]’; (14) ‘A councell off war, xxviio. Novembr. 1587. The advise of the lord Graye, Sir Francis Knowles, Sir John Norris with others touchinge the meanes fittest to be obteyned for the defence of the realme’; (15) ‘A speeche delivered by the earle of Salisbury lord trer of England beeinge appointed by the kings majesty, unto the lords knights and burgesses of both howses of parliament at their meeting in the painted chamber. A. D. 1609’, beginning ‘I am enjoined twoo thinges by the lordes of ye councell ...’; (16) ‘The politia or governmente of the United Provices’; (17) ‘The fore-runner of revenge upon the duke of Buckingham for the poysoninge of K James of happie memorie, and the lord marquesse Hamilton and others of the nobilitie, discovered by Mr. George Eglisham one of kinge James his phisitions for his majesties person above the space of 10 yeares: Francfurt, 1626’; see also MS Dd.14.28; (18) ‘Sir Walter Copes apologie on the behalfe of Sir Robert Cecill’; (19) ‘A relation of the occurrencies happening in the begyning and after our landing in the Isle de Ree. 1627’, commencing with a notice of the fleet’s arrival before the Isle of Rhee, on 11 July, and ending with the retreat on 28 October; it was printed by T. Walkley in 1627; (20) ‘A journall of the parliament helde in anno 39 Elizabethæ a dni 1597. which began Oct. 14 and ended Februarie the 9th. of and concerning suche things as passed in the upper howse, &c.’; (21) ‘A reconciliacion made betweene the king and his subjects touching the demaunde of his right in old debts and landes quietlie enjoyed tyme out of minde’; (22) ‘A shorte view to bee taken of Greate Brittayne and Spayne’; (23) ‘That the kinges of England have been pleased usually to consult with their peeres in the great councels and commons in parliament, of marriage, peace and warr’, by Sir Robert Cotton, 1621; see also MS Dd.13.35, no. 2; (24) ‘Forms of oaths to be administered to the king at his coronation, and to all officers, &c., within the realm’.