1. f. 1. 'The Copie of a Letter written by a Mr of Artes in Cambridge to his frende in London,' etc. This is Leicester's Commonwealth; see the description of Mm.04.33, ante, p. 281.
2. f. 127. 'A godly and profitable meditacion taken out of the 20th chapter of the booke of Jobe'.
3. f. 129. The Petition of Francis Phillips to James I. in behalf of his brother, Sir Robert, who had been committed to the Tower (in Jan 1621-2) for his opposition to the Spanish match. A copy of this is in MS. Harl. 444, 34.
4. f. 134. 'A letter writte, as was reported, to the thrice Honble man Sr Edward Cooke.' This is addressed to him at 'a supposed time of his affliction' and discusses his character with a freedom bordering upon scurrility.
5. f. 143. 'To the Kings most excellent Majestie from the Howse of the Commons assembled in Parliament.' The Apology touching their privileges, June 20, 1604.
6. f. 158. 'Consideracions upon the treatie of Marriage betweene England and Spaine.'
7. f. 167. 'A politique dispute aboute the happiest match for the noble and most hopefull Prince Charles.'
8. f. 181. 'Sr Walter Rawlyes speech at his death, ... 29th of October, 1618.' To this copy are appended the verses (concluding 'The Lord will raise me up, I trust.') said to have been written by him the night before his execution.
9. f. 186. Satirical verses upon the excitement occasioned by the appearance of a comet in 1618. The next two articles, consisting of satirical verses, are in a different handwriting.
10. f. 188. 'To the most blessed Sainct Elizabeth of famous memory. The humble peticion of hir most wretched, and most contemptible, the Commons of England.'
11. f. 189. 'To the most heigh, mightie, and most merciefull Chauncellor of Heaven and only judge of Earth.—The most humble peticion of the pore distressed Commons of longe afflicted England.'
At the end of the Vol., with the book inverted, is an extract from an English version of Barclay's Argenis, Lib. i.