Catalogue description MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS

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).

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