Collection of tracts, Late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Scope and Contents
(1) ‘A collection of the description and division of all the several shires and townes in Irelande with their greatnes and large precinctes, shewing also the governmente in Mounstar ruled bie the same lawes which are enacted by publique authoritie in Englande, the true coppie whereof being founde in the studie of one Sir Edwarde Waterhouse knight ...: also a particular survey of all such his Majesties yerelie revenewes and rentes received dewe and answerable unto his highnes by the Lorde deputie of Irelande, with an estimate of the yerelie expenses of the saide Lord deputie for the time beinge: together likewise shewing the auntiente manner of herauldrie and honorable order of the offices of armes whatsoever to be observed in times both of peace and warre and at coronations citations funeralls and all other solempnities and orders of the fielde for services to their prince and countrie’, written in the time of King James I, the heraldic part ‘made and confirmed’ in 1568; (2) ‘Balaam’s asse, or a free discourse touching the murmurs and fearefull discontents of the tyme directed to his then Majestie K. J., by way of humble advertisement’, ‘Before his going into Scotland’, with a marginal note, ‘The author one Williams, an inner of court gent. [sic] who, as I was informed by Mr Terrill, was afterwards hanged’, in a later hand; see also MS Ii.06.51; (3) (a) ‘A copie of Mr [Thomas] Scott’s booke called “Vox populi, or newes from Spain”, which may serve to forewarne both England and the United Provinces how far to trust to Spanish pretences, imprinted 1620’, (b) ‘A briefe note concerning the horrible massacre in France, 1572’, (c) ‘A copie of Mr Thomas Aldred’s letter [to my Lo. Marquess of Buckingham] advising against the Spanish matche in treaty for the then prince Charles, anno 1620’; (4) ‘Hieronymi Donati patricii Veneti de processione spiritus sancti contra Græcum scisma’, a treatise, imperfect (containing Books I and II but only one page of Book III); (5)-(8) ‘De clandestinis sponsalibus et matrimoniis’, a treatise relating to the marriage of the lady Katherine and the Earl of Hertford, signed at p. 129 ‘Genesius Iurisc: Cal. Octobribus MDLXIII’, and giving the opinions and signatures of various lawyers of the time, including Franciscus Mantica and Tiberius Decianus, in handwriting of the late sixteenth century, with the seal and signature of Johannes Oldendorpius and the signature of Jacobus Amphalius affixed, and at the end of (8) an English relation of the case; (9) ‘A form of preparation against the receiving of the holy sacrament of the Lord’s supper: composed by Sir Edward Rodeney for the use of his children’, with additional prayers, meditations and religious treatises; (10) ‘Scriptio pacifica euius scopus vel meta ad quam sagittæ diriguntur dissidiorum ἀναίρεσις seu interitus est, sententiam ecclesiæ Catholico-romanæ, vulgò sic dictæ tamen incongruè, et Anglicanæ male dividentium’; (11) ‘Cacodæmon or the hob-goblin, being a serious inquiry into the doctrine of devils, asserted and maintained by the modern witchmongers, &c. &c.’, a dialogue between two neighbours under the borrowed names of Verax and Fallax, by Eutrapelus Philalethes, 14 May 1692; (12) ‘De igne purgatorio ex sententiâ Hebræorum adversus Valverdium et alios; necnon de ceteris damnatorum suppliciis diatribe auctore I. Milner, S.T.B., L. A. Pr., anno 1691’, treatise by John Milner; (13) ‘The privileges of the baronage of England when they sit in parliament’, copy of the beginning of the book by John Selden, published London, 1642; (14) ‘Judge Doderidge his law of nobility and peerage’, imperfect copy of the first 116 pages of the book of Sir John Doderidge, published London, 1658; (15) eight chapters of a Scottish law tract (the first eight chapters are wanting); (16) ‘The question is whether a free coynage causes an increase of money or trade to the benefit of this kingdom, equivalent to the charge it bringeth upon the Crown?’
Dates
- Creation: Late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
2 volume(s) (105 pages.)
Language of Materials
Latin
English
Custodial History
In the Library by the mid 1750s.
Physical Description
Paper.
Repository Details
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