Catalogue description MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS

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).

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