" A commyssion sent to the bloudy byshop of London, and to al couents of Frers, by the high and mighty prince lord Sathanas the deuill of hell " : a satire against the Church, apparently composed in the reign of Henry VIII. A note at the end states that it was " transcribed from a copy in the ha...
" THE coppie of a letter written by a Mr. of Artes in Cambridge to his friend in London, concerning some conferrence passed of late betweene twoe worshipfull and graue men about ye present state and some of ye proceedings of the Earle of Leicester and his friends in England ": the tract known as...
1. " LEICESTER'S Commonwealth " : the political tract attributed to Robert Parsons, the Jesuit (see No. 270). f. 1b. 2. " Encyclopædia sive tabulæ artium liberalium " : a summary of philosophy, theology, etc., in the form of deductive tables, in Latin and English. f 49. Paper; ff. 79. xviith c...
John Leslie, 'A treatise touchinge the right, title, and interest of the moste excellente princesse Marie, Queene of Scotland' (1584); early 17th century devotional poetry and other writings
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This volume's original vellum cover has been retained, bearing on the front and back the arms and name of Richard St George (1554/5-1635), herald. The cover (f. 1r) also has written on it in a 17th century hand the contents as: 'The Title of Scotland to the Crown of England by John Lisle Bishop...
Robert Glover (?), An Answer to John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, 1584-1585
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This treatise carries a title page in an 18th- or 19th-century hand: 'AN ANSWER to a discourse of John Lesley, Bishop of Rosse, intended to prove that Mary, Queen of Scots, was intitled to the crown of England in preference to Queen Elizabeth, because the Pope had deposed her, and that her son ...
" A LARGE and excellent discourse of the estate of Christiandome, written by an vnknowne author about the yeare of our Lord 1594 . . . conteyning many secret passages and hidden mysteries of the tymes both past and present, with much variety of good matter both historicall and politicall." The a...
" AN APOLOGIE of [Robert Devereux] the earle of Essex against those which falsly and malitiously take him to be the onely hinderance of the peace and quietnes of his countrye ": a defence of the policy of war with Spain, addressed to Anthony Bacon in 1598. To this is annexed, in the same hand, a...
1. Copy of the letter of [Robert Devereux], Earl of Essex, to [Henry Wriothesley], Earl of Southampton, written shortly before the execution of the former in 1601. Printed in 1642. f. 3 b. 2. Treatise, " Of the foundacion of a State and the essencial parts that form a Prince." A note in anothe...
"DISCOURSE concerning the prerogative of the Crown," by William Camden, beg. "The lawes of England which men call the common lawes." Apparently a draft. Paper; ff. 12. Early xviith cent. Small quarto. Political Tracts: Discourse on the prerogative of the Crown, by W. Camden: early 17th cent. W...
" FRAGMENTA REGALIA, or observacions on Queene Elizabeth, her tymes and favourites," by Sir Robert Naunton, Secretary of State. First printed in 1641. Paper; ff. 69. xviith cent. Small folio. Political Tracts: "Fragmenta Regalia," by Sir R. Naunton: 17th cent. Sir Robert Naunton, Secretary of ...
