Includes: letter from Roger Ascham to William Cecil, 9 Jan. 1548; copy letter from Samuel Ward to James Ussher, 24 May 1637; letters from Francis Standish, Thomas Hearne, Samuel Noyes and unidentified to Simon Patrick; letters from Edmund Symondes, John Ste[?], Sir William Denny, John Vincent, and William Burgess to Thomas Rogerson, 1619-62 and undated; 'The Conquest of China by the Tartars', 1 fo., c. 1690; letter from John Strype, with memorandum concerning the Hicks MSS. Aug. 1714; letter from Strype to Samuel Knight, undated; John Patrick, 'Reasons against the repealing [of the Test Acts]', 1687, unpublished; 'The Substance of what was alledged before the worthy Dr F. Chancellor of L. in the Parish Church of M, June 12 1684'; John Gibson, 'A Word of Caution to the Inhabitants of England, 4 Oct. 1666'; William Cecil, Lord Burghley, 'Certain Precepts ...'; petition from the parish of Wisbech St Peter to Simon Patrick, undated; transcript of passage relating to Gunpowder plot, with extract of will of Peter Heywood; notes of sermon preached by James Rowe in St Giles, Edinburgh; copy of letter from Jean de St Bonnet, Seigneur de Toiras, to 1st duke of Buckingham [1627]; hand of John Patrick: declaration of war by the prince of Transylvania against the Holy Roman Emperor [1678?], Algernon Sidney's petition of Nov. 1683, and an unidentified speech in the House of Lords temp. Charles II; Sir Sidney Montague: abstract of case upon Quo Warranto against the Lords of the manors of Somersham and Ramsey, Hunts.; letter of Edward Wetenhall, bishop of Cork, to an unidentified correspondent, 21 Mar. 1699. Several items have appeared in print.