AN ABSTRACT of Frauds of the Officers of the Navy by Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton (d. 1614), addressed to James I (cf. list of the author's works in Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and of Sir Thomas Wyatt, ed. G. F. Nott, 1815, ii, p. 468). A clerk's copy corrected and subscribed by ...
'A PARTICULAR of my journey, with those meane obseruations I have collected': anonymous travels, lasting 17 months, through France, Switzerland, Italy, by sea from Venice to Egypt, through Sinai to Jerusalem, where the author arrived 7 Jan. 1607[8] and spent 12 days. He thence passed through Pal...
MEMORIAL to James I containing proposals for economics in the cost of armour, by 'Jhon Martin', a manufacturer of armour plates, with a comparative table (f. 9) of the price Queen Elizabeth 'paid Sir Thomas Gresham for theis sorts of armors in the first and second yeare of her raigne', the price...
PETITION of James Dackombe (cf. 18 A. XXX) to James I, for the relief of imprisoned debtors and the reform of judicial abuses. Paper; ff. 15. Quarto. 73/4 in. x 6 in. Temp. Jas. I. Not in the old catalogues.
PROPOSALS to James I by John Lewis [of Llynwene] a barrister formerly practising in the Marches Court, for a history of Britain in ten books, asking for the King's 'incoragement or discoragement' before he proceeds further. The work, in seven books, with dedication to Prince Henry, was printed a...
ADDRESS to Henry VIII by 'Johne Eldar, clerk, a Reddshank, to introduce what the author, a native of Caithness, calls a 'plotte of the realme of Scotland' (f. 4), which was to give a description of the country, and advocating a marriage between Prince Edward and Mary, Queen of Scots. The author ...
'A RELATION of the State of Polonia and the United Provinces of that Crowne, anno 1598'; including also a summary of Polish history. Anonymous, but the 'author was no doubt George Carew (knt, 1608, d. 1612), who was sent on an embassy to Poland in 1598 (see Dict. Nat. Biogr.), and whose 'relatio...
Melusine, a romance in English prose, translated from Jean d'Arras, Roman de Melusine (ou la noble histoire de Lusignan), composed for Jean, Duc de Berri, at the request of his sister Marie, Duchesse de Bar in 1393 (the date given in this manuscript is 1387). ff. 1r-3v: Prologue, translated fr...
CHRONICLE OF THE BRUTE, to A.D. 1419, in English. Imperf at beg. and end. The text resembles 17 D. XXI, but is not so good. Beg. (f. 5) 'was alle wyldernesse' in the middle of the 'Prologe of Albyon'. ff. 1-4 should follow f. 8, but two leaves are wanting before the misplaced passage. Ch. i beg....
CHRONICLE OF THE BRUTE, to A. D. 1419, in English. Beg., imperf, 'of him had skorne and dispite' in the 'Prolog of Albion'. Chronicle beg. 'In the noble citee of grete Troie'; ends, imperf. (two leaves missing), 'than come the Erle of Warrewik'. The events of 1 (part)-5 Henry V are omitted by ac...