Miscellaneous collection of political tracts and speeches, and other items. In 24 hands. Includes: two works attrib. to Sir Walter Ralegh; report on trial of the earl and countess of Suffolk and Sir John Bingley; orders made by governors of Highgate Free School; various speeches in parliament by James I and others; 1621 petition of the nobility to James I; parliamentary business, including Charles I's dissolution of parliament, 1628; royal instructions for George Abbot, archbishop of Canterbury, 1629; circular letter from abbot to the dioceses, concerning preaching, 1622; peers' petitions of 1629; 'A true relation of the manner of the duke of Buckingham's death'; letter from Pope Urban VIII to Louis-XIII, 1629; letter from Pilgrim Fathers to their friends, undated; merchants of Staple, reasons for shipping cloth, 1621; letters from Charles I to Sefi I, shah of Persia, and from Murad III, sultan of Turkey to Rudolf-II. Mostly copies, many printed.