Medieval endleaves (ff. 1–4); John of Bologna, Summa notarie (5r–28v: incomplete); Aegidius de Fuscarariis, Ordo iudiciarius (29r–97r); Thomas of Capua, Summa de arte dictandi (101r–204v); medieval endleaves (ff. 205–208)
Miscellaneous political and historical tracts (originals and copies), including Richard Morison, A Persuasion to the King that the Law of his Realm should be in Latin (5r–22r: draft); The Policy and Government of the Duchy of Florence (30r–38r); and Calender or Cataloge off Mr Cotton’s 4 bookes ABCD of Treaties, Actes and Monuments, 1600 (204r–206v)
Papers relating to heraldry, including Certein Questions ... touching the Baronnetts (23r–v) and Reasons for the place and precedencie of the Serieants at the Lawe (26r–v), with an index (31r–v)
Records and correspondence concerning England and France, 1520–1560
Scope & Content:
Codex chartaceus, in folio, constans foliis 218, simul cum superiore compactus. [These two vols. have been (1902) rearranged in chronological order:- Cal. E. I. circ. 1416-1521. Cal. E. II. 1522-1555.] 1. Henry VIII, to Francis I; in answer to letters received by Tarbe. [i. e. Gabriel de Gramo...