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List of contents in the hand of Archbishop Sancroft (f.iv).
Forms of prayer on public occasions for the preservation of Queen Elizabeth I and her forces, with corrections and drafts in the hand of Archbishop Whitgift. At f.11 is 'A prayer for the safty of her majesty's forces abroad 1597'.
Endorsed, 'Bundle ye first #C', and the number '29' (ff.1-34 of which ff.23-34 blank).
Sermon at St. Paul's Cross by John Jegon, Bishop of Norwich (1602), on 1 Tim.5 vv.17-20, late 16th cent. Not listed in M. Maclure, The Paul's Cross sermons 1534-1642, 1958.
Endorsed, 'Bundle ye first #C', and the number '24' (ff.35-44).
Anonymous sermon on 1 Tim.6 v.20, 16th cent. (Latin).
Endorsed, 'Bundle ye first #C', and the number '31' (ff.45-52v).
Sermon by George Closse, minister of Black Torrington, Devon, on 1 Cor.6 v.7 preached at Exeter assizes, 8 August 1603.
Endorsed, 'Bundle ye first #C', and the number '20' (ff.53-60v).
Anonymous sermon on Heb.13 vv.10-13, 16th cent. (Latin). Heading in Sancroft's hand.
Endorsed, 'Bundle ye first #C', and the number '12' (ff.63-68v).
Sermon [by John Salisbury, Dean of Norwich, and subsequently (1571) Bishop of Sodor and Man] on Psalm 94 vv.1-2 preached in Norwich cathedral and for which he was sequestered.
Endorsed, 'Bundle ye first #C', and the number '16' (ff.69-74).
A defence of his sermon by Salisbury in which he denies that it was seditious or defended the mass. Contains biographical details.
Endorsed, 'Bundle ye first #C', and the number '17' (ff.79-83).
Sermon perhaps by Henry Robinson, Provost of Queen's College, Oxford, and (1598) Bishop of Carlisle, on Psalm 132 vv.11-18, c.1595.
Endorsed by Richard Bancroft, Bishop of London, and later Archbishop of Canterbury, 'Another of Dr Robinson's sermons'. Also endorsed, 'Bundle ye first #C', and the number '26' (ff.88-97v).
Six Calvinistic theological propositions, 16th cent.
Endorsed with the number '13' (f.99).
Reasons against subscription to the Articles of religion and conformity with the Book of Common Prayer, written after the Hampton Court Conference, [1605].
Endorsed with the number '156' (ff.101-78).
Book of Discipline. 'Disciplina Ecclesiae sacra dei verbo descripta', c.1587. The author is Walter Travers though the MS. is not in his hand. The MS. was never published. This MS. is the most important of five surviving copies and is the copy referred to by Bancroft in Dangerous positions, 1593, p.98 etc. The chapter numbers are perhaps in Bancroft's hand.
Endorsed, 'A booke of discipline with the Classicall Orders' (ff.180-6).
'A Reproofe of certeine schismatical persons [Henry Barrow and John Greenwood] and their doctrine touching the hearing and preaching of the word of God', [1588]. In the hand of Robert Browne but attributed by A. Peel and L.H. Carlson to Thomas Cartwright (Cartwrightiana, 1951, 197). Printed in Cartwrightiana, 201-61.
Endorsed by Bancroft, 'Mr. Brownes Booke sent me' (ff.187-202).
'An answere to Mr. Cartwright's Letter for Joyninge with the English Churches', by and in the hand of Robert Browne, [?1585]. Printed in The writings of Robert Harrison and Robert Browne, ed. A. Peel and L.H. Carlson, 1953, 430-506 (ff.203-222v).
Latin verses [by Andrew Melville] in defence of the Millenary petitioners entitled, 'Pro supplici ministrorum Evangeliorum in Anglia ad serenissimum Regem libello contra larvatam gemissae academiae Gorgonem Apologia. Sive Anti-Cami-Tami-Categoria responsum', [1604]. Printed in 1620 and again in D. Calderwood, Altare Damascenum, 1623. The author correctly identified in Sancroft's list of contents (f.iv), but now cut out of the MS. (ff.223-6).
Synod of Middelburg. 'Ad nobiles equestris ordinis dominos et urbium legatos qui status comitatus Hollandiae referunt de actis concionatorum aestate praeterita in Synodo Middelburgi quam nationalem dicunt coacta', 1582.
An inscription in the hand of Archbishop Abbot reads 'Haec epistola scripta est et impressa in lingua Hollandica, ac a Do.D. Saravia in Latinam linguam conversa. Qui mihi dedit April. 27. 1612'. Endorsed, '#C.2 ye first Bundle' and the number '41' (ff.227-34). Notes on an unidentified separatist book containing not less than 111 pages, early 17th cent. (ff.235-6).
'Articles to be obiected by his majesties high commissioners for causes ecclesiasticall against Mary Whetenhall, the wyfe of Thomas Whetenhall, ye yonger son of Tho: Whetenhall of East Peckham in ye county of Kent esquire', [for adultery with father-in-law], April 1606 (ff.238-40).
'A third [second crossed out] humble supplication of many faithfull subjects in England falsly called Puritans directed to ye Kings majestie 1605', with corrections in another hand (f.241r-v).
Undertaking by Henry Jacob, congregationalist, not to circulate his book entitled Reasons taken out of God's word... proving a necessitie of reforming our churches in England, 1604, or to speak against church government, 4 April 1605, and a copy of a letter from him to the Bishop of London praying to be released from the Clink. Also a note by him of matters in his book (ff.242-53).
Papal condemnation of Roger Widdrington's Apologia cardinalis Bellarmini pro jure principum, 1611, Rome, 16 March 1614 (Latin copy) (f.255).
Defence of the Real Presence in the Eucharist by and in the hand of Sir Julius Caesar, c.1600 (Latin).
Endorsed, '#C.2 the first bundle' and the number '42'; also 'Prohibition' and 'Fasciculus 1us MSS. 4to' (ff.256-258v).
260 ff.

Lectures on the Summa of St. Thomas Aquinas dictated by Robert Bellarmine, later (1599) Cardinal, at the University of Louvain in 1574 and copied at the English College at Douai in 1577. MSS/123-4 and 126 also contain lectures on the Summa by D. Isambertus, professor at the University of Paris, in 1618
List of contents in the hand of Archbishop Sancroft (p.x).
Lectures by Bellarmine on the Summa pars prima quaestiones 1-114 (pp.1-234).
Lectures on the Summa by Isambertus. On p.351 appears, 'Dictabat subtilissimus theologia scholastica et controversiarum doctor et professor regius D. Isambertus in alma academia Parisiensis anno 1618 die Martis 17o'. (pp.235-351). Marked 'S.8'.
Old shelfmark #I.Z.16 Fol.vol.37. The name 'William Morecotte' is scribbled on p.x. Morcott was a seminary priest sent to England in June 1581 and is believed to have been executed subsequently (T.K. Knox, First and second diaries of the English College, Douay, 1878, 28, 180, 293).
x + 358 pp.

Lectures on the Summa of St. Thomas Aquinas dictated by Robert Bellarmine, later (1599) Cardinal, at the University of Louvain in 1574 and copied at the English College at Douai in 1577. MSS/123-4 and 126 also contain lectures on the Summa by D. Isambertus, professor at the University of Paris, in 1618
Lectures by Isambertus 'In primam secundae divithione doctoris angelici' (ff.1-132v). Marked 'S.8'.
Lectures by Bellarmine on the Summa pars prima secundae quaestiones 55-114 (ff.133-481v). Marked 'T.12'.
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Lectures on the Summa of St. Thomas Aquinas dictated by Robert Bellarmine, later (1599) Cardinal, at the University of Louvain in 1574 and copied at the English College at Douai in 1577. MSS/123-4 and 126 also contain lectures on the Summa by D. Isambertus, professor at the University of Paris, in 1618
Lectures by Bellarmine on the Summa pars secunda secundae quaestiones 1-147. Marked 'S.14'.
520 ff.

Lectures on the Summa of St. Thomas Aquinas dictated by Robert Bellarmine, later (1599) Cardinal, at the University of Louvain in 1574 and copied at the English College at Douai in 1577. MSS/123-4 and 126 also contain lectures on the Summa by D. Isambertus, professor at the University of Paris, in 1618
Lectures by Bellarmine on the Summa pars secunda secundae quaestiones 1-83 (ff.1-243v). Marked 'R.11'.
Lectures by Isambertus on the Summa (ff.246-87). Marked 'S.8'.
295 ff.

Three separate manuscripts bound together in this volume by Archbishop Sancroft, in whose hand is a list of contents at f.iv.
1 John Wyclif. 'Historia Vuicleuiana' by Nicholas Harpsfield (d. 1575). Written in a clerk's hand with marginal notes in a second hand in the early seventeenth century. The text is printed in N. Harpsfield, Historia Anglicana ecclesiastica, ed. R. Gibbons, 1622, 661-732. Ownership inscription of John Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley, and the old number 'L.5'.
(ff.1-96).
2 Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop of Durham. 'De veritate corporis et sanguinis domini nostri Jesu Christi in Eucharistia, Libri duo. Authore Cutheberto Tonstallo Dunelmensi episcopo Anno domini 1551'. Written in a clerk's hand but with a few corrections in Tunstall's hand (e.g. f.210), and some passages deleted and omitted from the edition printed in Paris in 1554 (e.g. 170v and 217v). Ownership inscription erased of Clement Colmore, Canon of Durham (1587). Died 1619. Also the old number 'N.13'.
(ff.98v-223v).
3 Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester. 'Annotac]ones in Dialogum Johannis Oecolampadii cum suo Nathanaele de mysterio Eucharistico Disceptantis'. Anonymous and undated but the attribution to Gardiner by Sancroft is accepted by J.A. Muller (Stephen Gardiner and the Tudor reaction, 1926, 316), who believes the manuscript may have been written in the Tower and that passages in Greek may be in Gardiner's hand.
(ff.225-333v).
336 ff.

Theological treatises by Juan Maldonado (Joannes Maldonatus) (1533-83), S.J., professor of theology at Paris, headed 'Annotationes D. Ioan. Maldonati Societis Jesu professoris theologi in quatuor sententiarum', 16th cent. (Latin).
Versions of the treatises on baptism, confirmation, the eucharist, penitence, extreme unction, and marriage were published in J. Maldonati Andalusii, S.J. theologi, disputationum ac controversiarum decisarum et circa septem Ecclesiae sacramenta inter catholicos praesertim et calvinistas tum alios hoc tempore agitari solitarum tomi duo, Lyons, 1614, and on ceremonies in F.A. Zaccaria, Bibliotheca ritualis, 1781, II (2).
The manuscript was in Lambeth Palace Library in the early 17th cent.
548 ff.

Four separate manuscripts bound together by Archbishop Sancroft in whose hand is a list of contents at f.ivv.
1 Copies of letters, memoranda, and other papers perhaps made for Archbishop Whitgift by his secretary Michael Murgatroid, c.1587-9. Several items concern Sir Christopher Hatton, whose appointment as Lord Chancellor on April 29th 1587 is noted on f.iv. The contents of this item are as follows:
List of contents (f.1r-v).
Letter from Sir Thomas Wilkes, diplomat, to Queen Elizabeth I, [August 1587], against peace with Spain in the Low Countries (f.4).
Letter from Sir Thomas Wilkes, diplomat, to Queen Elizabeth I, [13 July 1587], on policy in the Low Countries and in particular the dangers of the Earl of Leicester's policies (f.8).
[Translation] of a letter from Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, to the States of Holland and Zealand, [6 December 1587] on his departure (f.12).
"Whether hir majestie be bounde by ye worde of God to assist the United Provinces against the K. of Spaine'. Printed Strype, Whitgift, 1822, I, 439-40 (f.15).
'Certaine observations and reasons why there shoulde not be an heire apparent nominated' (ff.17-20).
'That such papists as of late have bene executed were by a statute of Ed:3 lawfullie executed as trayters' (ff.20-3).
'Of magistrates in generall howe they were instituted and ought to be obeyed' (ff.24-5).
'A perfect definition of a kinge and of his office and government over the people' (ff.25v-30v).
'The olde order of the Romaines when either there cheif governer was deade or absent by reason of war' (f.31r-v).
'Of calumination' (f.32v).
'We ought first and principallie to seeke the true worship of God and the preservation of his church' (f.33).
Biblical and classical texts on 'Of our dutie to hir majestie and care of hir defence and safetie' (f.33v).
Classical texts on 'Of our dutie to our Countrie and preservation of hir defence and safetie' (f.34).
Biblical texts on 'The judgments of God against kings for disturbinge ye church' (f.34).
'On the duties of subjects' (ff.34v-35v).
'That princes by mulcts maie use compulsion against hereticques' (ff.36-37v).
'If anie violence be attempted against Princes the treason maye rightlie touch them who graspe for the crowne' (ff.38-39v).
Prayer of thanksgiving for the defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1588. Heading in Sancroft's hand (f.40).
'That the Jesuits maye laufullie be banished: yt upon the contempte of such order they may be executed and theire receivers punished severelie' (ff.41-2).
Classical and other texts on 'Ambitio' (f.42v).
Biblical and classical texts on 'De proditione et proditoribus' (f.43).
Biblical and classical texts on 'Malum in auctores plerumque recidit' (f.43v).
Classical and biblical texts 'to be applied to the Queene' (f.44).
Biblical texts that 'It is not lawfull for anie subiecte either to kill or resiste his prince' (f.44v).
Texts from the Psalms 'to be applied to ourselves' (f.45).
Biblical and classical texts 'In Jesuitas authores seditionum et sanguinis' (f.45v).
'The maner of the Oxforde men signifyinge to my L. Chaunceler [Sir Christopher Hatton] yt they had chosen him ye Chaunceler of Oxforde written by waie of a letter to Mr. Murgetrode', [October 1588] (ff.46-47v).
'A discourse upon the bill and booke of the Puritanes in ye Parliament 1586'. Attributed by Strype to Hatton (Whitgift, 1822, I, 489-91, and printed Ibid., III, no.XXXI (ff.48-51).
'That the presente forme of our ecclesiasticall government in Englande is both godlie and necessarie' (ff.52-3).
'That the ordinances of our church and the meanes appointed by lawe for ye execution are good and commendable' (f.54v).
'That yf anie thinge be generallie amisse in ecclesiasticall affaires it appertaineth under hir majestie unto the clergy, the Convocation house or synode to be reformed' (ff.54v-55v)
'That when orders are agreed upon by ye clergie and confirmed by hir majestie those men ought to be punished yt wilfullie oppose themselves and will not obey them' (ff.56-7).
'The papists treecheries maye appeare by these 3 pointes: yr slaunderous wordes in yr writings against hir majestie: yr trayterous practises: yr fanaticall and develish doctrine' (ff.58-9).
'Certaine places of scripture wch ye precisians use' (f.59v).
'That godlie kinges maye not onelie laufullie suppresse ye wicked but destroye all yr children and allyes' (f.60r-v).
'Certaine petitions for a reformation in causes ecclesiasticall' (ff.61-62v).
'Errours and untruthes in ye bill exhibited for a farther reformation of ye church' (ff.62v-63).
'Certaine mischeifs ensuinge the Puritans demandes and platforme'. Printed Strype, op.cit., I, 491-3 (ff.63v-64).
'Abby livinges to be conferred to the use of our presbiteries'. An additional passage in the hand of Archbishop Whitgift (f.64v).
'Orders for the better increase of learninge in the inferior ministers and for more diligent preachinge and catachisinge', [1586]. Printed Strype, op.cit., III, no.XXXII (f.65r-v).
'Of the abrogation of the morall lawe by waye of a letter to Mr. Byrde', from Cambridge, 18 March 1577. Signed 'R.B.' (ff.66-74v).
Speech at the opening of Parliament by Sir Christopher Hatton, February 1589 (ff.75-81v).
'A breviate of ye Chaunceler's authoritie and iurisdiction collected by delegates laufullie authorised for yt purpose and afterwards published and [blank] in the Convocation of Oxforde in Januarie 1588' (ff.83-84v).
'The proiecte and platforme of outwarde church government exhibited in a bill and booke ye last parliament by such as disturbe the peace of this church by seekinge innovation, is absurde in divinitie and daungerous in pollicie to this State as it appeareth by the severall writings of such as are favourers and divisers thereof and by ye bill and booke itself' (ff.85-87v).
'Why you ought not to deale with matters of religion' (f.88).
To the Speaker of the House of Commons: 'The effect of your speech
(to disable yourself
(to be dismissed' (f.88v-89)
'Reasons agaynst the bill now exhibited in the lower howse of parlayment against pluralityes of benefices etc' (ff.89v-91).
Old numbers [...] #C.[GREEK]. 5. fol.vol.231 and R.14.
2 'Disciplina et politeia Ecclesiae Anglicanae' by Richard Moket, Warden of All Souls College, Oxford. Printed in his Doctrina et politia Ecclesiae Anglicanae, 1617, 291-350 (ff.93-142).
Old numbers [...] #C.[GREEK]. 4 and fol.vol.230.
3 Sir John Burgh, Keeper of the Records in the Tower of London, 'The Souueraigntie of the seas of England proued by Record, Historie, and the Municipall Lawes of the Kingdome. Also a particular Relation concearning the inestimable Riches and Commodities of the British Seas' (ff.143-207).
4 'The prologue of Dom. Godfrey monk of Clarevallis upon the three last bookes of Saint Bernard's life'. A translation of the life of St. Bernard by Geoffrey of Auxerre (Migne P.L., 185, 302-22) (ff.208-29).
230 ff.

A catalogue of Archbishop Laud's collections of coins in the hand of John Barkham (1572?-1642), Dean of Bocking, entitled 'Elenchus Numismatum Quinque Arculis comprehensorum'. The coins are arranged in five cabinets containing: Greek and a few Jewish coins; Roman family coins; Roman imperial coins to Constantine I; late Roman imperial and Byzantine coins and foreign medals; British, Roman imperial, Saxon, and English coins. The collection was formed by Barkham and given by him to Laud who presented it to Oxford University in 1636 and made subsequent additions to 1639.
Bound in calf with gold tooling and Laud's archiepiscopal arms stamped on the front and back.
128 ff., of which ff.83-128 blank.

Copies of theological treatises or lectures perhaps delivered in a continental university or seminary in the early seventeenth century. The manuscript belonged to Richard Mede, whose ownership inscription is on f.iv and whose 'Cathologus librorum meorum' is entered on f.320v. The inclusion in this catalogue of 'Tres libri S. Theologiae manuscripti Lutetiae' and'Tres libri cursus philosophici manuscripti Rothomagi' suggests a common provenance for this volume and MSS/123-6 and 155.
The contents are:
Tractatus de Sacramentis. Incipit: Recte hic de Sacramentis post Superiorem Tractatum de Incarnatione (ff.1-294).
Disputatio de Indulgentiis (ff.295-320).
Tractatus de Purgatorio (ff.323-342v).
The old number F.23.
343 ff.

A copy made in the first half of the seventeenth century of Cardinal Wolsey's diplomatic correspondence with ambassadors and envoys to the Emperor and the Papacy, 1517-25. The documents, which are not in chronological order, are as follows:
Wolsey to John Clerk, Bishop of Bath and Wells, Richard Pace, Dean of St. Paul's, and Thomas Hannibal, Master of the Rolls, 25 March [1524]. C.S.P.For. & Dom.IV (1), no.185 (f.1).
Henry VIII to Cardinal Hadrian de Corneto, Bishop of Bath and Wells, [4 Feb. 1517]. Fiddes, Life of cardinal Wolsey, 1726, app.4 book II c.2; C.S.P.For. & Dom.II (2), no.2871 where it is conjecturally addressed to the Bishop of Worcester (f.13v).
Wolsey to Richard Sampson, Dean of Windsor and the Chapel Royal, and Sir Richard Jerningham, 6 Nov. [1523]. Fiddes, op.cit., app.68 book II c.27; C.S.P.For. & Dom.III (2), no.MSS/3513 (f.19).
Wolsey to the Bishop of Bath and Wells, Pace, and Hannibal, [22 Dec. 1523]. Fiddes, op.cit., app.51 book II c.25; C.S.P.For. & Dom.III (2), no.3659 (f.27).
Wolsey to the Bishop of Bath and Wells, [16 Jan. 1525]. C.S.P.For. & Dom.IV (1), no.1017 (f.42).
Wolsey to Sampson, [13 Feb. 1525]. C.S.P.For. & Dom.IV (1), no.1083 (f.61).
Wolsey to the Bishop of Bath and Wells and Hannibal, [28 May 1524]. C.S.P.For. & Dom.IV (1), no.375 (f.82v).
Jerningham and Sampson to Wolsey, [3 July 1523]. C.S.P.For. & Dom.III (2), no.3150 (f.92).
Pace to Henry VIII, [26 Jan. 1525]. C.S.P.For. & Dom.IV (1), no.1036 (f.100).
Henry VIII to Cuthbert Tunstal, Bishop of London, and Sir Richard Wingfield, [26 March 1525]. C.S.P.For. & Dom.IV (1), no.1212 (f.102).
Henry VIII to Cuthbert Tunstal, Bishop of London, and Sir Richard Wingfield, 8 Sept. [1525]. C.S.P.For. & Dom.IV (1), no.1628 (f.131)
Wolsey to Sampson and Jerningham, 30 August [1523]. Fiddes, op.cit., app.69 book II c.27; C.S.P.For. & Dom.III (2), no.3281 (f.147v).
Wolsey to Sampson and Jerningham, 15 [recte 14] Jan. [1524]. Fiddes, op.cit., app.70 book II c.27; C.S.P.For. & Dom.IV (1), no.26 (f.154v).
Wolsey to Sampson and Sir Thomas Boleyn, [10 Jan. 1523]. C.S.P.For. & Dom.III (2), no.2764 (f.163v).
Instructions to Sampson and Boleyn, [25 Sept. 1522]. C.S.P.For. & Dom.III (2), no.2567 (5) (f.175v).
Henry VIII to William Knight, LL.D., [June 1523]. C.S.P.For. & Dom.III (2), no.3123 (f.178).
Wolsey to Pace, 31 August 1524. C.S.P.For. & Dom.IV (1), no.605 (f.193).
Wolsey to Pace, 7 August [1524]. C.S.P.For. & Dom.IV (1), no.567 (f.208v).
Wolsey to Pace, 28 May [1524]. C.P.S.For. & Dom.IV (1), no.374 (f.216v).
Wolsey to Pace, 5 March 1524. Fiddes, op.cit., app.73 book II c.29; C.S.P.For. & Dom.IV (1), no.1152 (f.226v).
Wolsey to Pace and Sir John Russell, [August 1524]. Fiddes, op.cit., app.72 book II c.29; C.S.P.For. & Dom.IV (1), no.590 (f.230v).
Wolsey to Pace, [Dec. 1524]. C.S.P.For. & Dom.IV (1), no.911 (f.234).
Wolsey to Pace, 28 Feb. [1524]. Fiddes, op.cit., app.53 book II c.25; C.S.P.For. & Dom.IV (1), no.126 (f.239v).
Wolsey to Pace, 28 June 1524. C.S.P.For. & Dom.IV (1), no.456 (f.241v).
Instructions to Pace for treating with Venice, [Sept. 1522]. C.S.P.For. & Dom.III (2), no.2497 (f.251).
Instructions to Pace for his mission to the Swiss, [19 March 1523]. C.S.P.For. & Dom.III (2), no.2901 (quoting this manuscript only) (f.260v).
Wolsey to Pace, [March 1523]. C.S.P.For. & Dom.III (2), no.2863.
Sancroft has written against this item (f.273) 'This Last Letter was transcrib'd from Sir Wm Boreman's copies of these negotiations & was ye only one wanting here'. Sir William Boreman, who was knighted in 1661, was chief clerk of the kitchen in 1660, clerk comptroller in 1661, and junior clerk of the Green Cloth in 1680 (f.271v).
On the inside cover 'Bibliotheca MS. Lambethana No.245' in the hand of Andrew Coltee Ducarel. A list of contents in the hand of Samuel Wayland Kershaw is at ff.iv-ii.
xii + 288 ff.

A contemporary copy with minor variants of Sir Robert Cotton's An exact abridgement of the records in the Tower of London... of all the Parliaments, revised by William Prynne, 1657. The MS. covers only 1 Henry IV to 1 Richard III, and appears to be the second of two volumes.
v + 270 ff. (ff.300-577).

Copies of documents relating to the military system in England in the 16th century, chiefly during the reign of Elizabeth. The volume is in two parts, each foliated separately in an early 17th century hand. Many of the papers appear to be copied from the State Papers. The contents are as follows:
Part I
List of the Constables of England from the time of William the Conqueror to Edward III (ff.1-2v).
Instructions from Queen Elizabeth to Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal and Lieutenant of Hertford and other counties, 26 May 1559. Printed G.S. Thomson, Lords Lieutenants in the sixteenth century, 1923, 156-9 (ff.3-4v).
Commission to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, to be Lieutenant-General of the queen's forces in the south of England, July 1588. Printed H.M.C. Report XV, app.pt.V (Foljambe), 49-51 (ff.5-8v).
Commission to Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon, Lord Chamberlain, to be Lieutenant-General of the queen's person, 1588. Printed H.M.C. Foljambe, 53-5 (ff.9-11v).
Form of commission to a Lieutenancy, May 1585 (ff.12-14v).
Form of appointment of a Deputy-Lieutenant, n.d. Printed G.S. Thomson, op.cit., 63-4 (f.15r-v).
Articles to be delivered to the Lieutenant or Deputy-Lieutenants of a county and other Justices of the Peace by the muster master, c.1573. C.f. C.S.P. Dom. 1547-80, 471 (no.18) (ff.17-21v).
Articles of instructions given by the Privy Council to the Commissioners for Musters, temp. Eliz. (ff.23-24v).
Instructions by the Privy Council to the Commissioners for Musters in a county referring to the musters of 1573, c.1576-7 (ff.25-31v).
Letter [from the Privy Council] to the Vice-Admirals and officers of the ports in the maritime counties for staying ships and sailors, 14 February 1579/80. C.f. Acts of the Privy Council, 1578-80, 390-1 (f.32r-v).
Instructions [from the Privy Council] appointing surveyors to view castles and fortresses in Kent, Sussex, Southampton, Dorset, Cornwall, and Essex, c.1579. C.f. Acts of the Privy Council, 1578-80, 381 (ff.33-4).
Letter [from the Privy Council to the Commissioners for Musters] and other Justices of the Peace ordering the muster of men allotted in 12 Eliz. for the defence of the sea coasts and ports in Devon and Cornwall, [31] January 1579/80. C.f. Acts of the Privy Council, 1578-80, 381 (ff.34-7).
Letter [from the Privy Council to the Commissioners for Musters] and other Justices of the Peace of the inland shires adjoining the maritime counties ordering musters to make up shortages in the numbers allotted for the defence of the coasts of Devon and Cornwall in case of invasion, Whitehall, 29 February 1579/80 [recte 31 January]. C.f. Acts of the Privy Council, 1578-80, 381 (ff.37-8).
Lists of men to be mustered in different counties for defence of the chief ports on the sea coast in the event of invasion, 1579. C.f. H.M.C. Foljambe, 9 (ff.38-9).
Names of the principal captains each in command of 500 men in each county, c.1579 (ff.39v-40).
Variations in the certificates of musters between 12 and 20 Eliz. in the counties of Berkshire, Cambridge, Lincoln, Somerset, and Wiltshire (f.40v).
Letter [from the Privy Council to the Commissioners for Musters] for Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Southampton, Sussex, Kent, Essex, Suffolk, and Northampton (recte Norfolk), sending the commissions under the great seal for general musters to be held, with various directions, [18] March 1579/80. C.f. Acts of the Privy Council, 1578-80, 422 (ff.40v-45).
Variations in the certificates of musters between 15 and 20 Eliz. in the maritime counties of Dorset, Essex, Kent, Southampton, and Sussex (f.45).
Letter [from the Privy Council to the Commissioners for Musters] for the remaining shires, ordering general musters on receipt of the commissions under the great seal and the instructions as to musters, 10 March [1579/80]. C.f. C.S.P. Dom. 1547-80, 646 (nos.49 and 52); Acts of the Privy Council, 1578-80, 422 (f.45r-v).
Instructions for general musters, [March 1579/80]. C.f. C.S.P. Dom. 1547-80, 646 (nos.49 and 52) (ff.46-54v).
Instructions for musters by the Commissioners for Musters in the maritime and adjoining counties, temp. Edward VI. C.f. C.S.P. Dom. 1547-80, 471 (no.18) (ff.55-57v).
Instructions for musters issued to the Commissioners for Musters in inland shires [between 6 June and 24 October 1513 when Catherine of Aragon was Regent] (ff.58-60).
Articles for the execution of the commission issued to Justices of the Peace in the county of [blank] for general musters, [14 March 1572/3]. C.f. C.S.P. Dom. 1547-80, 459 (no.12) (ff.60-62v).
Letter from Queen Elizabeth I [to the Commissioners for Musters] and the Sheriff of the county of [blank] ordering general musters according to the commission issued to them in March 15 Eliz., [April 1573]. C.f. C.S.P. Dom. 1547-80, 476 (no. 67) (f.63r-v).
Instructions to Muster Masters, with a list of words of command, March 1597/8. C.f. C.S.P. Dom. 1598-1601, 38 (100) (ff.64-7).
Letter from Queen Mary [to the Lieutenants of the counties] ordering musters to be held in view of dangers following Wyatt's rebellion, February 1553/4 (ff.67v-68v).
Articles [for the Commissioners for Musters] for increasing the number of horses available for musters and improving their breed, [March 1579/80]. C.f. C.S.P. Dom. 1547-80, 645 (no. 42) (ff.69-73v).
Tables arranged by counties of general musters in England and Wales in 1574 and 1575, and a memorandum of counties which had returned no certificate (ff.75-76v).
Certificates of musters in England and Wales, 1592. The certificate for Somersetshire (f.85v) gives the names of officers. At f.101v is a summary of the Welsh certificates. C.f. C.S.P. Dom. 1591-94, 301 (no. 108) (ff.77-101v).
Certificate of the officers and companies raised in the Hundreds of Southamptonshire for the relief of the Isle of Wight, 20 June 1591. C.f. C.S.P. Dom. 1591-94, 60 (no. 46) (ff.103v-104).
Orders for musters in the maritime counties in the event of invasion, [1588] (ff.105-112v).
Summary of former instructions to Lieutenants and their deputies in the maritime counties, [1588] (f.113r-v).
Numbers of troops to be raised in various counties to resist an invasion of Kent, August 1601 (f.114).
Report by Sir John Norris of his survey of the defences of Hampshire according to instructions by the Privy Council, [1588]. C.f. C.S.P. Dom. 1581-90, 481 (no. 131) (ff.115-18).
Declaration and tables drawn up in 1552 of the cost of the wars of Henry VIII and Edward VI in France and Scotland in 30-38 Henry VIII and 1-6 Edward VI, and of the rebellion in England in 3 Edward VI (ff.119-31).
List by Bartholomew Dodington of the wages and allowances of the nobility and officers and their retinues serving in France, 36 Henry VIII, and in Scotland, 34 Henry VIII, 17 June 1588 (ff.133-4).
Summary of sums paid by the Exchequer for expenses in Ireland, the Low Countries, and other foreign parts from Easter 1 Eliz. to 10 March 35 Eliz. Total £1,517,351.12s.1¼d. (ff.135-138v).
Rates of pay and other expenses of 3,400 men to be levied [for service in France], 20 June 1591. C.f. C.S.P. Dom. 1591-94, 61 (nos.49-50) (f.139r-v).
Estimate for victualling 2,000 men for a month at a rate of 6d. a day for each man, [1591] (f.140r-v).
Part II
'The manner of proceedinge in the musteringe and trayni[n]ge of the severall counties since the yeare of our Lord god 1583'. Printed G.S. Thomson, op.cit., 159-63 (ff.1-7).
List of the names of the Lieutenants of counties and of their deputies, and of counties with no Lieutenants, [1590-1] (f.8r-v).
Abstracts of the authority given to the Lieutenants of counties by their commissions and of orders to be observed, [1587-8] (ff.8-9v).
Various abstracts:
(a) Orders to be observed by Muster Masters.
(b) Certificates of horse and foot serving on the Scottish borders.
(c) Number of men to join Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, [13 August 1588]. Printed with the omission of Leicestershire in Acts of the Privy Council, 1588, 231.
(d) Names of gentlemen appointed to view the forces and assist the Lieutenants, with their allowances, [November-December 1587]. C.f. Acts of the Privy Council, 1587-8, 296-7, 310.
(e) Names of principal gentlemen appointed to view 'places of discent' in the maritime counties, [April 1588]
(ff.9-11).
Abstract of the trained and untrained men in the counties of England and Wales with their arms and equipment, 1588. Printed with minor differences in H.M.C. Foljambe, 36-9 (ff.11v-19).
Abstract of certificates of lances and light-horse from 1574 to 1589. C.f. H.M.C. Foljambe, 39 (ff.19v-20).
Projects on 'the discovery of the Spanishe Navie', [July 1588]:
(a) Numbers of the army to be raised to meet the enemy. C.f. H.M.C. Foljambe, 45.
(b) Numbers remaining on guard in the counties.
(c) Numbers of troops to be raised for defence of the Queen's person with names of regimental commanders; numbers from inland shires to be trained in London; ordinance and equipment to be provided. C.f. H.M.C. Foljambe, 46-7.
(d) Lists of principal and inferior officers of the camps (no names).
(e) Provisions to be made for the equipment of both armies.
(f) Lists of counties not charged with sending men.
(g) Further supply of men for the queen's army.
(h) Names of officers of the army for the defence of the queen's person. C.f. H.M.C. Foljambe, 56.
(i) Names of captains appointed to attend the Lord Chamberlain [Lord Hunsdon, commander of the queen's army]. Printed with minor variants in H.M.C. Foljambe, 55-6.
(j) Abstract of the officers of the forces raised by various noblemen to attend the Queen according to letters [from the Privy Council], June 1588. Printed H.M.C. Foljambe, 40.
(k) Abstract of certificates from the bishops of men furnished by the clergy. C.f. H.M.C. Foljambe, 40.
(l) Total of numbers of the queen's army. C.f. C.S.P. Dom. 1581-90, 517 (no. 69).
(m) Total of numbers of the Lord Steward's army [Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester].
(n) Notes of forces under the Presidents of the North and of Wales.
(o) Forces to be in readiness for service in Ireland (ff.20-3).
Commissions for Lieutenants to Richard Fitz Alan, 10th or 3rd Earl of Arundel, and William de Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury, and to Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick, 11 Edward III (ff.25-8).
List of generals employed beyond the seas or in England from 1072 to 1585 compiled from Holinshed's Chronicle ('last edition' i.e. 1587) (ff.29-40).
Laws and ordinances issued by William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke, President of the Council of the Welsh Marches, Lieutenant and Captain-General of Calais and Guisne, and of the army against the French king, for the government and discipline of the army, [July 1557] (ff.41-48v).
Ordinances and instructions for the army in Brittany, c.1590 (ff.49-54).
Orders of the Privy Council for the pay and distribution of the imprest to the army in Brittany, Richmond, 20 December 1590 (ff.54v-58).
Laws and ordinances by the Privy Council for the discipline of the army in Brittany, c.1590 (ff.58v-62v).
'Ordinances militare' concerning the discipline and pay of the army in the Low Countries drawn up with the concurrence of the States General, 1589 (ff.63-71v).
Oath to be taken by all officers and soldiers at their 'entry into paye' and at musters in the Low Countries, c.1585. Printed C.G. Cruickshank, Elizabeth's army, 1966, app.6 (ff.71v-72).
'A conference of a good and bad Muster master or his inferior Commissaries of Musters by the fruits to discerne the Tree'. Printed G.S. Thomson, op.cit., 165-8 (ff.73-4).
'A brieffe conference of twoe pagadores or millitare Treasurers', n.d. (ff.74v-76).
'A Conference of twoe Auditors', n.d. (ff.76-8).
Commentary on ff.73-8 above and reforms necessary, n.d. (ff.78-91v).
'A Course sett downe wherby her Majestie can in noe wise be abused neither by Treasurer nor Marchante', n.d. (ff.91v-93).
Order by the Privy Council for paying forces in the Low Countries and directions as to musters, Nonsuch, 27 July 1589. Printed with minor variants in Acts of the Privy Council, 1588-89, 438-43 (ff.95-9).
Orders by the Privy Council for reforming abuses in paying common soldiers in the Low Countries, c.1590 (ff.99v-106).
Orders by the Privy Council to distributors of apparel of soldiers of the garrison of Flushing and elsewhere in the Low Countries, Hampton Court, 15 November 1592 (ff.106-112v).
Orders by the Privy Council concerning pay, distribution of the imprest, and apparel, to the forces in Normandy, London, 20 February 1592/3 (ff.112v-115v).
Orders by the Privy Council concerning the same matters for the forces in Brittany, 24 February 1592/3 (ff.115v-119).
An explanation by the Privy Council of points in former orders, with additions made at the request of the chief officers of the forces serving abroad, Hampton Court, 3 February 1594/5 (ff.119-25).
Order by the Privy Council at the request of Sir Conyers Clifford and Sir Thomas Baskervile concerning officers out-staying their leave, Greenwich, 1 April 1594 (ff.125v-126).
Rates of pay for 3,000 soldiers and their officers, 17 February 1593/4. C.f. C.S.P. Dom. 1591-94, 433-4 (nos.67-8) (f.126).
'Remembrances for the better execution of the Booke of the Contribution', containing details of the assessment of noblemen, bishops, royal officials, ecclesiastics, the city of London, and other corporations, [17 February 1593/4] (ff.127-128v).
Account of the duties of officers in the army, 'concordat. cum originali Anth: Ashley [clerk of the Privy Council]', c. February 1593/4 (ff.129-148v).
Laws and orders issued by Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, for the good conduct of the service in Ireland, [April 1599] (ff.149-153v).
Incomplete index to part I of the Book of Musters; list of some papers not copied into the volume; diagram of troop movements taken from an unidentified printed book (fig.21.Ca.5.par.6).
144 + 159 ff.

(1) A contemporary copy by several hands of Edmund Campion's 'Two bookes of the historie of Irelande compiled by Edmunde Campion, Felow of Saint Jhon Baptists College in Oxforde'. Dedicated to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, from Dublin, 27 May 1571, with an address 'To the lovinge reader', from Drogheda, 9 June 1571. A marginal note by J[ohn] Dee appears on f.58. (confirmed as the autograph of John Dee by Prof. A.G. Watson, Sept. 1992.) Campion's text is printed in A.F. Vossen, Two Bokes of the histories of Ireland, 1963, but the present manuscript was not known to the editor (ff.1-97v).
(2) A contemporary copy by several hands of almost the whole of the Book of Howth (see ff.141, 197). The Book of Howth is a compilation of historical notes concerning the history of Ireland and was written over a period between the mid sixteenth century and 1579. It came into the possession of George Carew, Earl of Totnes, Master of the Ordnance in Ireland (1588-92) and President of Munster (1600-3), and is now Lambeth Palace Library MS.623. It was printed in Calendar of the Carew manuscripts, ed. J.S. Brewer and W. Bullen, 1871. The present copy collates with the printed edition as follows:
ff.101-7: pp.2-11
107v-71: 18-117
171v-173: 255-9
174-7: 219-24
179-251v: 118-218
252-4: 224-7
255-268v: 237-55
268v-269v: 259-60
The copy was made in Ireland for the names Mr. Edmunde of the city of Limerick, alderman, James Faning, of Waterford, merchant, and William Roche appear on f.197v.
Campion quoted from the Book of Howth (e.g. f.57 in the present manuscript appears on f.153 of the Book of Howth (p.252 of the printed edition)), but there is no connection between Campion's original manuscript and the present copy of the Book of Howth since the latter contains passages referring to events after the composition of Campion's history (ff.101-269).
269 ff.

Many of the items in this volume belonged to or were written by George Carew, Earl of Totnes (1555-1629), and may be strays from the main body of Carew Papers (MSS.596-638). The contents are as follows:
1 Summary, incomplete at the start, of statutes and ordinances relating to purveyance, weights and measures, riot, forcible entry, liveries, the statute of labourers, rogues and vagabonds, 23 Edward III - 8 Henry VI. On f.1 is written, 'This boke ys myne John Ford' (ff.1-20v).
2 Historical account of the Black Prince in the hand of George Carew apparently written in 1610 (f.28). Begins: 'Edward Plantagenet the first sonne unto that prudent, religious and triumphant monarche kinge Edward the third'. It ends with the siege of Calais, and is followed (f.54) by notes from Froissart and Stow apparently intended for a continuation (ff.25-28v).
3 Copies of royal charters of confirmation of the privileges of Oxford University dated 10 October 1510 (C.S.P.For. & Dom., 1, pt.1, no. 604 (19)), 1 April 1523 (C.S.P.For. & Dom., 3, pt.2, no. 2926), and 16 July 1543 (C.S.P.For. & Dom., 18, pt.1, no. 981(71)), early 17th cent. (ff.61-71).
4 The Life of Wolsey by George Cavendish, copied in about 1589 (incomplete). Foliation by Carew (ff.73-154v).
5 'The manner of the Earle of Essex his deathe in Ireland Anno domini 1576', including (f.159) 'The songe the Earle of Essex songe the night before he dyed'. The song is printed in J.P. Collier, Ancient biographical poems (Camden Miscellany III), 1855, 19-20. On f.159 is written 'finis 1589'. In the same hand as item 4. Foliation by Carew. See MS.251 ff.231-236v (ff.155-9).
6 The case of Henry Cromwell, 2nd Baron Cromwell, 1572, headed 'The Arguments exhibited by the Lord Keeper in parlyament provinge that noble men's persons be attacheable for contemptes comitted by them in the Quene's Majestie's Courte of Chauncery disobeyinge the decrees made there in matters examinable in the same Courte which came in question for that there was an attachment accorded out of the same Courte to the Shereff of Norfolk to attache the body of the Lord Cromwell for desobeyinge of a decree made in the same Courte betweene one Taverner, plaintiff, and the said Lord Cromwell, defendant, which attachment was executed by the said Shereff and the body of the same Lord Cromwell brought prisoner in the said Courte of Chauncerye'. In the same hand as item 4. Foliation by Carew (f.160r-v).
7 Memorandum of things 'meete to be considered [at] a Consultation at the Lord Treasorer's howse nere the Savowey' concerning the provision of military aid to the United Provinces in the war against Spain, 8 May 1584. In the same hand as item 4. Foliation by Carew (ff.161-3).
8 Report of a speech in the House of Commons, probably by Sir Christopher Hatton, concerning attempts on the life of Queen Elizabeth and the need to take measures against the Queen of Scots, 3 November 1586. In the same hand as item 4. Foliation by Carew (ff.163v-167).
9 Report of a speech in the Star Chamber at the examination of William Davison, 28 May 1587. In the same hand as item 4. Foliation by Carew (ff.167v-169).
10 Proceedings at 'the Arreynment of Phillip Earle of Arundell the xiiiith of Aprill 1589 at Westminster'. A shortened version of the account printed in State trials, 1730, I, 156-61. Foliation by Carew (ff.170-5).
11 'A trew Reporte of Sir Francis Drake's Voyage as followethe, wherein he dyed, Anno domini 1596'. Begins: 'The 27 of August they went from Plymoth 27 sayle, 6 of those the Quenes Shipps and others marchants'. Same hand as item 4. Foliation by Carew (ff.176-7).
12 'The Voyage of the Right famous and worthy man the Earle of Essex made in the portes of Spayne and Pertingale in the yere of our Lord God 1596'. Begins: 'We set sayle from Plymothe the thirde of [ ] in number, 44 saile of Ships and pynnasses'. At f.179v is a list of knights made at sea on the expedition. Same hand as item 4. Foliation by Carew (ff.178-80).
13 Copy of correspondence between Sir Thomas Egerton, Lord Keeper and (1616) Viscount Brackley, and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1599. Printed T. Birch, Memoirs of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, 1754, II, 384-8. Same hand as item 4. Foliation by Carew (ff.181-184v).
14 'An Apologie of the Earle of Essex against those which falsely and maliciously tax him to be the only hinderer of the peece and quiet of his Countrey'. Printed in 1603 (STC 6788). Other copies are MS.933 item 4 and MS.2872, ff.59-73. In the same hand as item 4. Foliation by Carew (ff.185-91).
15 Journal, with copies of instructions and despatches, of an embassy to France by Sir Robert Cecil, Sir John Herbert, Master of Requests, and Sir Thomas Wilkes, Clerk of the Council, 10 February - 30 April 1598. The MS. is written in the hand of an amanuensis much used by Cecil at this period, and perhaps came into the possession of Carew when he joined Cecil as ambassador in France in May 1598 (ff.198-246v).
16 'Of Islands arrisinge in the sea and of the Salt shore compared with the freshe'. An examination of legal authorities intended to assert the rights of the crown to ownership of the sea shore, with particular reference to Kent, late 16th cent. (ff.250-5).
17 Cumberland's voyages. 'All the Nyne Memorable Voyages made by the Righte Honorable George Erle of Cumberland, to and from the King of Spayne's territoryes, wherof the first Seaven are here onely briefly comprehended, the other twoo vizt the Eighte and Nyneth onely at large collected and written oute of Credible advertizments', by Richard Robinson, citizen of London, 23 April 1599.
At the end of the seventh voyage occurs the following statement: 'Thus muche was related unto mee by the sayde worthy Capteyn Willyam Midleton's worde of mowthe some tymes having bene a Soldyer and Leevetenant as allso Ensigne bearer under the vertuous renowned Sir Philip Sydney Knight in the Lowe Contryes and here a follower in all these voyages and in the Eight Voyage allso here now next followyng, wherof hee and Capteyn Thomas Greenewell gave mee under theyre handes in wryting these Credible advertizments in maner and forme from poynte to poynte as followeth'. The Ninth Voyage is prefaced with the statement, 'Firste penned at sea by Ro. Thornton, Mr. Walter Cope and Peter Hayburn Passingers 1598. Newly amplifyed and trewly written by other credible advertizments per me R.R.'.
See H.M.C. 12th Report (Cowper), 1888, pt.1, 16; G.C. Williamson, George, third Earl of Cumberland, 1920, 26. See also MS.2688 (ff.256-67).
18 Journal of the expedition of Sir Francis Drake and Sir John Norris to the coast of Spain, 15 March - 3 July 1589. From 10 June the journal appears to be in the hand of Sir John Norris (ff.270-304).
19 Lists of coins 'in my lord's purss' and of 'soch things as I have in my keping', including bed furniture, clothing, and weapons apparently belonging to a nobleman, March-April 1595 (ff.304v-305v).
20 Journal of the expedition to Brittany commanded by Sir John Norris, 11 April - 10 July 1591, when the writer breaks off (ff.308-311v).
21 Account of the purchase of clothes and lists of articles headed 'deliver to the laundresse', late 16th cent. (ff.312v-313).
22 Copy of Sir Walter Raleigh's account of his voyage to Guiana in 1596. It differs in important respects from the version printed by Hakluyt (Voyages, III, 1600, 627-62) (ff.315-337v).
23 Journal in the hand of George Carew of the expedition to Cadiz and the Spanish coast, in which he took part, commanded by the Earl of Essex and Lord Howard of Effingham, 11 April - 14 August 1596. Printed S. and E. Usherwood, The counter-Armada, 1596, 1983 (ff.338-362v).
24 Journal in the hand of George Carew entitled 'Notes of our voyadge after my beinge at Rochell', apparently concerning his participation in Essex's voyage to the Azores, 4 September - 14 October 1597 (ff.366v-373).
25 Copy of an unsigned letter concerning Virginia, early 17th cent. (f.382).
26 'A Discourse of Virginia' by Edward Maria Wingfield, June 1607 - May 1608. Printed Archaeologia Americana, 1860, IV, 67-163. Endorsed by Carew (ff.383-95).
27 Copy of a letter from William Adams to 'some or many of my acquaintances in Limehouse or in Gillingham by Rochester', from Japan, 22 October 1611. Printed Purchas his Pilgrimes, 1625, I, 125-9. Endorsed by Carew (ff.397-405).
28 'A Iournall of the voiadge of discoverie made in a barke builte in Newfowndland called the Indeavour, begunne the 7 of October 1612 and ended the 25th of November followinge', concerning a voyage by John Guy in which he encountered the Beothuck Indians. Printed The New World. A catalogue of an exhibition... held at Lambeth Palace Library, 1957, 52-64. See also Purchas his Pilgrimes, 1625, IV, 1880-2. Endorsed by Carew (ff.406-412v).
29 'Captain William Morgan's discourse concerninge the Northwest passage, from thence to the South Sea', temp. Jas.I. Printed The New World, 73-7 (ff.414-416v).
30 'A Breife Narration of the Discouery of the Northerne seas and the Coasts and Countries of those Parts, as it was first begunne and Continued by the singular Industrie and Charge of the Company of Muscouie Merchants of the Cittie of London [(in the hand of George Carew) written in the defence of the righte which the Englishe hathe unto the new discoverie of Greenland otherwise called Kinge James his Newland]', 1613. Perhaps by Thomas Edge but differing from the account by him printed in Purchas his Pilgrimes, 1625, III, 462-6. Printed The New World, 77-89. In the same hand as item 27. Endorsed by Carew (ff.419-427v).
31 'A Breefe Journall of the Action at the Ile of Ree in Anno 1627', 2 June - 13 November 1627 (ff.428-33).
32 'De Rebus Liveciae et Poloniae 1598'. An account of relations between Sweden and Poland to 1609. Latin (ff.434-49).
33 'Neues out of Suethlande, or the Coronation of the younge Gustauus Odolphus, verie honorablely celebrated at Vpsallia, An Vniuersitie in Suethlande', by W. Portington (ff.450-60).
34 'A battell, or the honorable Seige of Vobesco, a Citie in Russia, Foughte betwixt the Rushians and the Tartars', by William Anderson, 'lieftenant'. Dedication to Sir Arthur Chichester. In the same hand as item 33 (ff.463-75).
iii + 478 ff.

List of contents (f.ii).
Treatise entitled, 'The reasonablenesse of Christian Religion', written in the first half of the 17th cent. (ff.1-18).
A contemporary copy of Sir Henry Spelman's treatise on sacrilege written in 1632, and subsequently published in The history and fate of sacrilege, 1698 (ff.19-30).
Memorial by John Ferrar, elder brother of Nicholas Ferrar, of the Anglican community at Little Gidding, Hunts., including accounts of the presentation of the latter's theological works to Charles I and the King's visit to Little Gidding in 1642. Printed Ecclesiastical biography, ed. C. Wordsworth, 1853, IV, 218-50 (ff.31-51).
A copy made in 1634 of John Selden's treatise entitled 'The privileges of the Baronage of England when they sitt in Parliament'. Printed Works, ed. D. Wilkins, 1726, III pt.ii, 1473-1586 (ff.55-139).
List of knights and burgesses elected to Parliament, 19 March 1604 (ff.140-51).
Arguments in Parliament on the naturalisation of the post-nati and ante-nati by Sir Edwin Sandys and others, [1606] (ff.152-5).
Memorandum (lacking page 1) by Sir Henry Savile on the union of states, written at the request of James I. A further copy is Bodl. MS. e.Mus.55, f.93 (ff.156-67).
Proceedings in Parliament, 1610 (ff.168-203).
'The King's Third Speech to the Lower House, the 4th of May 1614'. The speech is not reported in Parliamentary history (ff.204-7).
'Questions concerning the passages of this present Parliament', [1621] (f.208).
Notes of proceedings in Parliament after the arrest of Sir Dudley Digges and Sir John Eliot, May [1626] (ff.209-10).
Copies of treatises by Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Bart., entitled 'A relation of the proceedings against ambassadors who have miscarried themselves' and 'That the Kings of England have beene pleased usually to consult with their Peares in ye great Councell & Commons in Parliament of Marriage, Peace & Warre'. Printed Cottoni posthuma, 1672, 1-39 (ff.212-30).
'The reporte of the Earle of Essex his death' [Robert Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, d. 1576]. It includes a copy of 'The songe the Earle of Essex songe the night before he dyed'. A copy is in MS.250, ff.155-9 (ff.231-236v).
Original draft treaty with France in 1610, including clauses omitted from the final version. Endorsed by Carew, 'Articles of the league betwene James Kinge of Great Brittanye France and Ireland and Louis 13 the french Kinge anno 1610'. See Foedera, XVI, 687-8, 693-703 (ff.237-54).
Notes from printed books concerning the United Provinces, beginning with 'The Politie of the United Provinces, 1615', and including William Lithgow's A true and experimentall discourse upon the last siege of Breda, 1637 (ff.255-68).
The first part of a treatise dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I concerning preparations for resisting a Spanish invasion, partly written in July 1592 but dated January 1595/6. Endorsed in the hand of an amanuensis used at this time by Sir Robert Cecil (c.f. MS.250, ff.198-246v) 'Discourse of Capen Henderd' [? Captain Degory Hender] (ff.270-280v).
'The Copie of a Letter sent out of ye Lowe Contries by a gentleman intertayned by ye King of Spaine in pention to a yonge gentleman his kinsman in England', [1590]. The author, who is a soldier in receipt of a Spanish pension, notes that he has 'laboured wth her Majesties most honourable previe counsell about my Returne, wch... I am in Comfort and hope shortlie to obtaine' (ff.281-303v).
Copies by Leonard Digges of documents concerning the embassy of Sir John Digby to Spain, entitled by Digges, 'A Register of buisinesses of Madrid in Spaine in the tyme of the right honble. Sr John Digbie Knighte. L: Embassador for his maiestie of Greate Brittaine with the Kinge of Spaine 1611 July the 30: stil: vet. Leonarde Digges'. Sir John Digby, later (1622) 1st Earl of Bristol, was employed on an embassy to negotiate a marriage between Prince Henry and Anne, the Spanish infanta (ff.305-18).
An account in Spanish of the revenues of the kings of Spain and others, 1577. Endorsed by Carew, 'A relation of all the rents and customes yearly payed to the K: of Spayne and allso the revenewes of all the Dukes, Marquesses and Ea[r]les in that kingdome as itt was in the yere of our Lord 1577' (ff.322-334v).
'Relatione delle cose di Spagna l'anno 1577' (ff.335-57).
A note: 'Sr Giacomo of the Glasshowse hath hangings to be sent him from Venice and with that commeth Mr. Chamberlains glasse sent by Mr. Luter to him but payd for by me three crownes', 16th cent. (f.358).
List of anchorages in Spain, [1596]. Endorsed by Carew, 'Havens, Roades and Creakes in Spayne' (ff.359-360v).
'Los nombres de los reten[id]os por Cadiz', [1596]. Endorsed, 'Names of the Spaniards Brought hether from Cales' (ff.361, 363).
Names of Viceroys and Governors of Navarre, Portugal, Sicily, the Low Countries, Peru, and Mexico, in Carew's hand (ff.362, 364-365v).
List in Carew's hand of 'The names of the principall gentlemen that came into England with the Constable of Castill in 1604'. Also a note of the renewal of a lease for 61 years from the death of Sir Amyas Paulet, 'dyed in April 1533', which will be 63 years from his death in April [1596] (f.365v).
Statutes of the French Order of St. Michel, 1469-76. French early 17th cent. copy (ff.366-389v).
Instructions by Pope Clement VIII for Count Girolamo Porzia, papal nuncio in Germany, in a dispute between William V, Duke of Bavaria, and the Archbishop of Salzburg 'ratione prepositurae Berghdesgadensis', 25 March 1594. Latin copy (ff.390-393v).
Letter from Robert Frampton, chaplain to the English factory at Aleppo, and (1680) Bishop of Gloucester, to Archbishop Juxon, 4 March [1662], seeking assistance for Eastern Christians, and mentioning the persecution of the Patriarch of Antioch by the Turks (f.394).
Notes by Carew on dwelling taken from 'Fabio Acherghuti Bolognese Libro Terzo', [1607] (ff.396-402). Also questions by 'Mr. Bechers' with answers concerning duelling in France, early 17th cent. Endorsed by Carew (ff.403-8).
v + 415 ff.

'Discourse upon the Inquisition Containing a short but pithie Narration of ye first Entrance, Progresse and finall Confirmation of that great Jurisdiction in diuers partes of ye Christian World, but particularlie and cheefelie as it is appropriate to ye State of Venice. Together with the Causes and Motiues wch. induced that famous Republique to make Seuerall Decrees and Ordinances concerning the regulation of it for the publique peace and quiett of ye Common Wealth. Collected and Explaned by ye most Actiue Seruant of that State F. Paolo Soarpi Seruita, and translated out of the Originall by Jonathan Sidnam Anno 1638'.
Bound in calf.
xii + 178 pp. (of which pp.129-78 blank).

Copies written in a uniform hand of treatises, memoranda, and other documents concerning the exchange of currency, with numerous examples of the rates of exchange of European currencies, and proposals for minting coins in England and Ireland, temp. Henry VIII to the early seventeenth century. Index (ff.iii-vi).
Bound in vellum embossed with Carew's crest.
vi + 402 ff.

A treatise on English coinage including the minting and assay of coins, temp. James I (ff.1-52v). Also in the same hand as MS.254 various notes and memoranda concerning the English coinage, of which the latest, which refer to an Irish mint, are dated 1621. Index. (ff.58-130v).
Bound in vellum embossed with Carew's crest.
iv + 161 ff.

Folio containing three geneological and heraldic manuscripts written in the early 17th cent. They are as follows:
(1) Genealogies in two sections written in the same hand of extant English Baronies and Earldoms with shields or arms in colour, and, for the Earldoms only, crests and mottoes.
The first section contains Baronies. An early foliation (ff.1-174) indicates that some leaves have been removed or torn out, and a list of contents made prior to the foliation shows that some of these contained genealogies and others continued the manuscript after f.174.
The omitted leaves in this section are: ff.31-3, 73-4, 85-8 (Cromwell), 137-40 (Egerton), 142-3 (Russell of Thornhaugh and Grey of Groby), 146, 157-8 (Gerald of Bromley), 165, 173, 175-c.187.
The second section contains Earldoms and is omitted from the index.
The omitted pages in this section are: pp.1-22, 35-6, 39-44, 111-12, 127-8, 187-8, 212-16, 227-8, 237-64, 273-4.
(2) 'All the Erles, Viscounts and Barons of Ireland created and made by vertue of there Majesties letters patent from King James and King Charles', with shields of arms elegantly drawn and in most instances crests and mottoes, probably written in Ireland, c.1627.
(3) 96 pedigrees of French noble families copied from an original containing 38 leaves, with an index of titles, early 17th cent.

Folio containing shields of arms with supporters and crests of Charles II and 158 English peers elegantly executed in colour in 1664 with a few later additions. An index by S.W. Kershaw.
vi + 198 ff.

Three treatises by Sir John Fortescue (1394?-1476?), Lord Chief-Justice. Early 16th century. Items (2) and (3) are probably in the same hand.
(1) 'Hic sequitur memorativum quoddam de contentis in subsequenti libello. Opusculum de natura legis naturae et de eius censura in successione regnorum suprema'.
Printed from this MS., which is the only known MS. of both parts, in Works of Sir John Fortescue, ed. Lord Clermont, 1869, I, 63-184 (ff.1-102).
(2) Chapters 1-18 (though apparently complete) of 'The difference betwene dominium regale et dominium politicum et regale'. The treatise is sometimes known as 'The Governance of England' or 'Monarchia'. Printed op.cit., 461-73 (ff.106-128v).
(3) 'The declaration made by John Fortescu Knyght uppon certen writyngs sent oute of Scotlond agenste the Kyng's title to hys Realme of Englond'. Printed op.cit., 523-41 (ff.129-40).
Belonged to John Selden and inscribed by him in Greek: Peri pantos ten Eleutherian.
148 ff.

'Itinerarium Cambriae or a curiouse description of the paynefull Journey of Baldwyn, Archbushop of Canterburye, thoroughe Wales. Written first in latine by Sil. Giraldus Cambrensis. With the Annotations of David Powell, Doctor of Divinitye. Englished by George Owen [Harry], gentleman, 1602'. It includes (f.2) a dedication by George Owen [Harry] to George Owen, esquire, Vice-Admiral of Pembroke and Cardigan, and Deputy-Lieutenant and J.P. of Pembroke, 6 February 1602/3. Also (ff.3-5) 'The liefe of Giraldus Cambrensis gathered by Leland and Bale out of his own writinges' (ff.1-114).
'The description of Wales written first in Latine by Sylvester Giraldus Cambrensis. With the Annotations of David Powell, doctor of divynitie. Englished by George Owen [Harry], gentleman, 1602' (ff.115-44).
Bound in 17th-century calf with clasps stamped on both covers with the armorial device of Carew.
144 ff.

An alphabetical index of nautical terms entitled, 'Nomenclator Navalis or an exact Collection and exposition of all words and tearmes of Arte belonginge to the Partes, quallities, conditions, proportions, Rigginge, Fittinge, Manageinge and saileinge of Shipps with other Necessaries to be knowne in the Practique of Navigation. Alsoe includeinge soe much of the Arte of Gunnery as concernes the use of Ordenance at Sea'. Written in the first half of the 17th century.
Bound in calf stamped on both covers with the armorial device of Carew.
323 pp.

A copy or translation of an anonymous treatise on the Decalogue written in several hands no later than 1610 and possibly in the late 16th century (see p.27). It contains:
Praefatio in Catechismum (pp.1-51).
Praeparatio legis (pp.52-69).
Prolegomena in Decalogum (pp.70-89).
Praeceptum primum (pp.90-208).
Secundum (pp.209-34).
Tertium (pp.235-54).
Quartum (pp.255-97).
Quintum (pp.297-391).
Sextum (pp.392-407).
Septimum (pp.408-31).
Octavum (pp.432-62).
Nonum (pp.463-84).
Decimum (pp.485-93).
Bound in calf.
495 pp.

Returns by incumbents of London parishes by order of the Privy Council on 22 April 1638 requiring the clergy and principal inhabitants to estimate for each London parish the moderate rental of each house and to state the actual amount of tithes and other income. There are no returns for the following parishes: St. Alphage, St. Anne Blackfriars, St. Bennet Paul's Wharf, St. Catherine Cree, St. Mary Aldermanbury, St. Michael Wood Street, St. Peter-le-Poer, St. Sepulchre Holborn, St. Stephen Coleman Street, and St. Swithin. The returns appear to have been submitted to Samuel Baker, domestic chaplain to William Juxon, Bishop of London (f.332v). They are printed without details of tithes in T.C. Dale, The inhabitants of London in 1638, 1931. Other papers concerning the London tithe case are MS.273 and C.M.VIII-IX.
The returns are as follows:
St. Alban Wood Street [William Watts] (ff.1-2v).
All Hallows Barking (Edward Layfield) (ff.3-18).
All Hallows Bread Street (John Lawson) (f.23).
All Hallows the Great [Andrew Janeway] (ff.24-31).
All Hallows Honey Lane (Henry Vertue) (f.32).
All Saints the Less (Andrew Blackwell) (ff.34-7).
All Hallows Lombard Street (John Weston) (f.39r-v).
All Saints Staining (Adoniram Byfield) (ff.41-3).
All Hallows London Wall (Andrew Janeway) (ff.45-47v).
St. Andrew Hubbard [Richard Chambers] (ff.49-50).
St. Andrew Undershaft [John Pritchett] (ff.51-54v).
St. Andrew by the Wardrobe (William Isaacson) (ff.55-59v).
Sts. Ann and Agnes Aldersgate [Richard Cluett] (ff.61-3).
St. Anthony (Charles Ofspring) (ff.65-6).
St. Augustine [Ephraim Udall] (ff.67-8).
St. Bartholomew-by-the-Exchange (John Grant) (ff.69-71).
St. Bennet Fincke [Roger Warfeild] (ff.73-4).
St. Benet Gracechurch (William Quelch) (ff.75-6).
St. Bennet Sherehog (Cadwalader Morgan) (f.77).
St. Botolph Billingsgate (Philip King) (ff.79-80).
Christ Church Newgate Street (f.81).
St. Christopher-le-Stock (Samuel Baker) (ff.82-5).
St. Clement Eastcheap (Benjamin Stone) (f.87r-v).
St. Dionis Backchurch [George Hume] (ff.89-90v).
St. Dunstan-in-the-East (John Childerly) (ff.91-97v).
St. Edmund the King Lombard Street (Ephraim Pagett) (ff.99-100v).
St. Ethelburgha [John Clarke] (ff.101-6).
St. Faith (Jonathan Browne) (ff.107-9).
St. Vedast (James Batty) (ff.111-15).
St. Gabriel Fenchurch (Ralph Cooke) (ff.117-18).
St. George Botolph Lane [Matthew Styles] (ff.119-20).
St. Gregory by St. Paul's [Rowland Jennings] (ff.121-127v).
St. Helen Bishopsgate [Richard Maden] (ff.131-2).
St. James Aldgate [John Wood] (ff.133-7).
St. James Garlickhithe [Edward Marbury] (ff.139-40).
St. John Baptist Walbrook (Richard Walmesley) (ff.141-5).
St. John the Evangelist Watling Street [George Walker] (ff.147r-v).
St. John Zachary (Philip Edlin) (ff.149-52).
St. Catherine Coleman (Percival Hill) (ff.153, 156-158v).
St. Laurence Jewry (Thomas Crane) (ff.159-62).
St. Laurence Pountney (an impropriation) (ff.163-4).
St. Leonard Eastcheap (Abraham Colfe) (f.165r-v).
St. Leonard Foster Lane (William Ward) (ff.167-172v).
St. Magnus the Martyr London Bridge (Cornelius Burges) (ff.173-4).
St. Margaret Lothbury (Humphrey Tabor) (ff.175-178v).
St. Margaret Moses (Richard Culverwell) (ff.179-81).
St. Margaret New Fish Street [Thomas Wood] (ff.183-6).
St. Margaret Pattens (James Meggs) (ff.187-8).
St. Mary Abchurch (Benjamin Stone) (ff.189-190v).
St. Mary Aldermary (Thomas Browne) (ff.191-2).
St. Mary-le-Bow (Jeremiah Leech) (ff.193-4).
St. Mary Bothaw (Benjamin Kirkby) (f.195).
St. Mary Colechurch (Richard Cowdal) (ff.197-200).
St. Mary-at-Hill (Samuel Baker) (ff.202-6).
St. Mary Mounthaw (Thomas Thrale) (ff.208-9).
St. Mary Somerset (John Cooke) (ff.210-15).
St. Mary Staining [Samuel Fawcett] (f.216).
St. Mary Woolchurch [Richard Crooke] (ff.218-19).
St. Mary Woolnoth (Josias Shute) (ff.220-1).
St. Martin Pomeroy [Joseph Symonds] (f.222).
St. Martin Ludgate [Michael Germyn] (ff.224-7).
St. Martin Orgar (Brian Walton) (ff.228-9).
St. Martin Outwich (Thomas Peirs) (f.230).
St. Martin Vintry [Luke Proctor] (ff.232-7).
St. Matthew Friday Street (Joseph Browne) (ff.238-9).
St. Mary Magdalene Milk Street [John Jones] (f.240r-v).
St. Mary Magdalene Old Fish Street [Matthew Griffith] (ff.242-243v).
St. Michael Bassishaw [John Gifford] (ff.244-8).
St. Michael Cornhill (William Brough) (ff.249-52).
St. Michael Crooked Lane [Thomas Wood] (ff.253-7).
St. Michael Queenhithe (John Hills) (ff.258-260v).
St. Michael-le-Querne [William Launce] (ff.262-264v).
St. Michael Royal (Lucas Procter) (ff.266-7).
St. Mildred Bread Street (Nicholas Bradshawe) (ff.268-9).
St. Mildred Poultry (Nathaniel Shute) (ff.270-2).
St. Nicholas Acon (Matthew Benet) (ff.273-4).
St. Nicholas Cole Abbey [William Chibald] (ff.275-278v).
St. Nicholas Olave [Richard Chesshire] (ff.280-1).
St. Olave Hart Street (Abraham Hayne) (ff.282-5).
St. Olave Silver Street (Thomas Manne) (ff.286-90).
St. Olave Jewry (Thomas Tuke) (ff.292-6).
St. Pancras Soper Lane [George Ezcoppe] (f.298r-v).
St. Peter Cheapside [Daniel Votier] (ff.300-1).
St. Peter upon Cornhill [William Fairfax] (ff.302-5).
St. Peter Paul's Wharf [Edward Marbury] (ff.306-7).
St. Stephen Walbrook [Thomas Howell] (f.308).
St. Thomas the Apostle (William Cooper) (ff.309-11).
Holy Trinity-the-Less (Edward Harrison) (ff.313-14).
St. Andrew Holborn [John Hackett] (ff.317-29).
St. Bartholomew-the-Great (Thomas Westfeild) (f.331).
St. Bartholomew-the-Less (William Hall) (ff.333-5).
St. Bride Fleet Street [Thomas Palmer] (f.337).
Bridewell (Joseph Browne) (ff.338-9).
St. Botolph without Aldgate [Thomas Booth] (ff.341-50).
St. Botolph Aldgate [Thomas Swadlin] (ff.353-75).
St. Botolph Bishopsgate [Thomas Worrall] (ff.377-92).
St. Dunstan-in-the-West [James Marsh] (ff.395-402).
St. Giles without Cripplegate (William Fuller) (ff.404-407v).
St. Olave Southwark [Thomas Turner] (f.410).
At f.411 a petition by the London clergy to Archbishop Laud for the implementation of the King's order of 22 April 1638.
Bound in calf.
412 ff.

'A Treatise Concerning the payment of tythes and Oblations in London', by Brian Walton, subsequently (1660) Bishop of Chester, [1638]. A copy with insertions and alterations in Walton's hand. The treatise was occasioned by the grievances of the clergy that tithes in London did not reflect actual rents. The treatise is printed in Collectanea ecclesiastica, collected and published by Samuel Brewster, 1752, 1-230. See also MS.272 and C.M.VIII-IX.
Bound in calf.
89 ff.

'Summarie Collections of true naturall Magick grounded upon principles divine and from the writinges of Hermes Trimegistus and others the learned Auncients, conteining the true Philosophie and Physick drawen into common places', [by Samuel Norton, alchemist (1548-1604?)]. An incomplete preface is addressed to an unnamed nobleman or ecclesiastic 'From my house at Ligh' [Abbots Leigh, Somerset].
Bound in vellum stamped on both covers 'NORTON' and the armorial device of Carew.
38 ff.

Papers concerning the foundation of the Hospital of the Holy Trinity at Croydon, Surrey, by Archbishop Whitgift, 1595-1603. They are as follows:
Statutes of the Hospital of the Holy Trinity at Croydon signed by Archbishop Whitgift, [1595]. A note by S.R. Maitland states that they were found by him 'in the MSS Room' and inserted at the front of the volume.
An outside wrapper consists of an undated copy of Whitgift's commission to visit the diocese of Chichester sede vacante, [31] January 1583 (Whitgift's Register, I, 350-1). An inner wrapper is endorsed 'A just reporte shewinge how the meanes that most encreased the greatest Annoiance in the Fleteditch that impoisoned the water of Theames hath ben and is most comended and maintained, and how the meanes that best preserved that ditch and the water of Theames and reformed the Annoiance hath ben and is most accused and condempned and procured to be discontinued, that the truthe from deceipt may be knowen and the cause ordered as may be for the most generall good of her Majestie, the Citie and all people'. A second endorsement reads 'The humble sute of the pore Curriers of London'.
A printed book label is attached and reads 'Quam Non-dividuae Triadis fundavit honori Whytgifti pietas Praesulis alma Scholam Huic Massingerus (tanti devotus Alumnus Patris) Cooperi dedicat istud opus, 1599'. (See F.G.H. Percy, History of Whitgift school, 1976, 46).
A copy of the statutes is at ff.211-221v. They are printed from this copy in A.C. Ducarel, Some account of the town, church and archiepiscopal palace of Croydon, 1783, appendix 135-48 (J. Nichols, ed., Bibliotheca topographica britannica, 1780-90, 11).
List of contents. Printed Ducarel, op.cit., appendix 38-9 (f.iir-v).
Copy of letters patent for building the Hospital, with licence of mortmain, 22 November 1595. Printed Ducarel, op.cit., appendix 125-9 (ff.1-3v).
Copy of the deed of consecration of the chapel by Richard Bancroft, Bishop of London, 10 July 1599. Printed Ducarel, op.cit., appendix 149 (f.4r-v).
'Md. note of my charges abowte my hospitall at Croyden' by Whitgift, n.d. (f.5r-v).
Letters from Samuel Finche, Vicar of Croydon and overseer of the building of the Hospital, to Whitgift, 4 February 1597, and to Christopher Woormall, at Lambeth, 1597-[1600]. All are printed in Ducarel, op.cit., appendix 152-6, '153-4'(ff.6-10, 18-19, 226-7).
Note of terms agreed with William Buckminster and George Cooles, Sawyers, 1596 (f.10a).
Agreement with William Hyllarie, carpenter, and a note of payments made, January 1597 (f.10b).
Cover of a letter to Whitgift endorsed by him 'Towching Mr. Whitaker's for the Mastership of St. Jones' [William Whitaker, Master of St. John's College, Cambridge (1586)] (f.11).
Weekly accounts of Samuel Finche, Vicar of Croydon, for building the Hospital, school, and schoolmaster's house, 1597-1603, including (ff.185-207) accounts of payments to almsmen and to the schoolmaster (ff.12-17, 22-207).
Directions for inscription and arms over the gate, 1596 (ff.20-1).
Copy of opinion by Sir Edmund Anderson, chief justice of common pleas, and others, concerning the tenure by which Whitgift held the manor of Croydon from the Queen, n.d. Printed Ducarel, op.cit., appendix 148 (f.230).
Form of appointment of an almsman. Printed Ducarel, op.cit., appendix 150-1 (f.230v).
Copy of a release by Sir Francis Carew to Whitgift of quit rents in the manor of Norbury, n.d. (ff.230v-231).
Copy of the deed of foundation of the Hospital of the Holy Trinity at Croydon, 25 June 1599. Printed from the original by Ducarel, op.cit., appendix 130-4 (ff.231-3).
Note of lands bought from Francis Butler, n.d. (f.234).
Copy of a bond of Francis Butler to keep covenants, [2]1 August 1599 (f.235).
Note of lands purchased for Croydon Hospital, 37-43 Eliz.I (ff.235v-236).
Note of an annuity to Croydon Hospital, 1 January 1601 (f.237).
238 ff.

Draft of revised statutes for cathedrals, excluding Christ Church, Oxford, drawn up by Archbishop Parker and other members of the commission for ecclesiastical causes by order of Queen Elizabeth I, by virtue of 1 Eliz.I c.xxii, 4 June 1562, with an extract from letters patent re-appointing the commission, 20 July 1562 (CPR Eliz.I, 1560-63, 11, 279). They bear the signatures of Archbishop Parker, Robert Horne, Bishop of Winchester, Richard Cox, Bishop of Ely, Alexander Nowell, Dean of St. Paul's, Thomas Watts, Archdeacon of Middlesex, and Thomas Yale, Chancellor to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
ii + 51 ff.

Extracts from a cartulary of Dunstable Priory entitled 'Excerpta ex Antiquo Registro quondam Prioratus de Dunstaple inter libros Roberti Cotton militis et Baronetti remanentes 1619' (now B.L. Cotton Tib.A.X). Printed by Thomas Hearne from a transcript of the original made by Humfrey Wanley in 1731, and edited from the original by H.R. Luard in Annales monastici, III (Rolls series 1866).
18th-century boards with Bibliotheca Lambethana labels.
57 pp.

Accounts of experiments and calculations for the practice of gunnery, 1597-1601. The author, who appears to have resided at Rainham, Kent, or Rainham, Essex may be Edmund Parker (d. 1602), whom Sir George Carew, lieutenant-general and subsequently master-general of the ordnance, described as 'the best cannonier that served her Majesty' (MS.624, f.153).
Old vellum covers.
101 ff.

Letter-book of Sir Isaac Wake containing autograph copies of his letters as Ambassador to France addressed to Dudley Carleton, Viscount Dorchester,Secretary of State, and after the latter's death on 15 February 1632 to Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland (1633) and Sir John Coke, 14/24 April 1631 - 13/23 May 1632. For Wake's commission and the treaty negotiated by him see Foedera, XX, 302-3, 361-5. Wake's earlier letter-books are British Library Add. MSS.18,639-42, 34,310-11.
Vellum covers.
167 ff.

'The right and title of Sir Thomas Fane of Kente, knight, to the name, stile, and dignitie of Lord of Bergavennye in the right of dame Marie his wiefe, daughter and sole heire of Henrie [Nevill], late Lord of Bergavenny, deceased [1587]', with examples of baronies inherited through the female line. The author is probably Robert Glover, Somerset herald (1544-88).
The following documents have been inserted:
'Examples to prove Ed: Nevill's title to the Barony of Abergavenny' (ff.52-8).
'The Petition and Genealogie of Mary Nevill, Lady Fane, for the Barony of Abergavenny' (ff.60-1).
Brief genealogies of some peerages inherited through the female line. They include George Carew, Baron Carew of Clopton, 1609 (ff.62-3).
Miscellaneous historical and legal notes (ff.118-23) concerning various titles of honour (ff.64-9).
Parchment covers endorsed 'The true copy of Mr. Glover, as Somerset booke touchinge the barony of Bergaveny'. The inclusion of a note on the barony of Clopton suggests that the manuscript came into the possession of George Carew,Earl of Totnes.
iii + 107 ff. (ff.70-107 blank).

Transcript of knights' fees for Devon, 24 Edward I, 'copyed out of an Auncient booke in thexcheaquer called the booke of Knights Fees' by Joseph Holand, 1584.
18th-century boards with Bibliotheca Lambethana labels.
29 ff.

43 Volumes

Collected by Sir George Carew, President of Munster (afterwards Earl of Totnes), for the purpose of writing a history of Ireland, but he died before completing this work.

Diverse and important papers for the history of Ireland, especially during the reign of Elizabeth I, including copies of some documents not now known to survive.