'Similitudines... ex Platonis Aristotills Senicae et aliorum philosophorum libris collectae', from the English. Subscribed 'Filia tua dominationi tuae deditissima Maria Arundell'.
'Sententiae atque preclara facta Alexandri Seueri', from the English (Sir Thomas Elyot's Image of Governance, first published 1540), with dedication subscribed like the preceding; but the latter part 'Responsum Alexandri', &c. (f. 20), is written and signed by 'Filius tuus dominationi tuae o...
'FRATRIS IOHANNIS DE CISELLIS Beneuentani ordinis predicatorum ad laudem illustrissimi et inuictissimi Anglie regis Henrici oratio': an adulatory letter, in Latin, to Henry VII, asking aid for the writer's theological studies. Vellum; ff. 19. 8 in. x 5 in. Temp. Hen. VII. Illuminated border to t...
NEW-YEAR ADDRESS, in Latin, to Queen Elizabeth 1 Jan. 1566/7, by Thomas Wilson [LL.D., M.P. for St. Michael, Sec. of State 1577-1580], comprising a declamation on clemency. Paper; ff. 17. Quarto. 8 in. x 6 in. A.D. 1567. Not in the old catalogues.
RHETORICAL EXERCISES, in Latin, on the judgement of Solomon (1 Kings iii), dedicated as a new-year's gift to Queen Elizabeth, by Thomas Butler. It is possible that the author, who speaks of his gratitude for a 'predium quod in multos annos toti nostrae genti ac familiae victum vestitumque prebet...
'SEXTVS dominabitur astris': warnings against treasonable designs of the 'Alastores', i.e. the Society of Jesus. An apparently incomplete and somewhat incoherent compilation, partly in Latin, partly in French, dedicated to James I by an anonymous author, who, however, prefixes his coat of arms, ...
'VINCVLA VNIONIS, siue Scita Britannica, id est De unione Insulae Britannicae tractatus secundus', the author's name 'per Dauid Humium Theagrium' being carefully erased here and again on f. 21: a sequel to a tract published in London, 1605, by David Hume, of Godscroft ('Theagrius') in Berwickshi...
'RATIO LEGENDAE HISTORIAE': a tract, in Latin, addressed to Edward VI by Petrus Olivarius of Valentia [editor of Pomponius Mela, &c., see Antonio, Bibl. Hisp. Nova, ii, p. 206] ; cf. l5 C. 1. Paper (vellum cover); ff. 34. Quarto. 81/4 in. x 6 in. Temp. Edw. VI. On the vellum cover (f. 34 b) ...
'PYRAMIS quinto Nouembris 1605 sacra, ad serenissimum principem Iacobum (&c.). Guilielmus Gagerus posuit, 1608': a Latin poem, in about 1,300 hexameters, on the Gunpowder Plot, by William Gager, the Latin dramatist and chancellor of Ely (see Dict. Nat. Biogr., and cf. other poems by him in A...