Contains odes, ‘New Year’s gifts’, sonnets, epigrams, riddles, etc. The pieces which are dated range between the years 1581 and 1612. The following title occurs at f. 10: ‘Gulielmi Pagetti versiculi quos ex suo cerebro depromptos Aviæ [i. e. to his grandmother] officii et anni testificandi causa obtulit calendis Januarii A. D. 1584, annos nato 12 dies 14’. The William Paget thus referred to was in all probability the 4th baron of the name, who died in 1629. Other traces of him are discernible as far as f. 17, where several pieces of ‘George Berkeley’ (possibly the 13th baron, who died in 1658) are added (ff. 17-20). ‘H. Stanford’ and ‘young Wilkin’ are also named as authors. Most of the remaining pieces are anonymous. On f. 24 is preserved an English ‘Oratio Elizabethæ reginæ habita in regni conventu convocato ad diem 15 Martii anno 1575’. f. 39 contains a Latin poem, entitled ‘In Mariam Scotiæ reginam adulteram, veneficam et viricidam Dutani Patricii Knockfargensis Rithmus Satyricus’.