Excerpts from chronicles and pedigrees transcribed by Thomas Talbot (d. 1595 × 1599), including Genealogia fundatorum monasterii de Stanlaw (Whalley Abbey) (4r–12v); Gervase of Canterbury, Chronica (19r–21v, 25v–32v); Liber fundationis monasterii sancte Marie Eborum (44r–45r); Tintern Chronicle (60r–61v); Croxden Chronicle (113v–119r)
William Thomas, Wheather it be expedient to varie with tyme (2r–11v); William Thomas, What princes amitie is best (12r–19r); William Thomas, Wheather it be better for a common wealthe, that the power be in the nobilitie or the commonaltie (20r–27v); William Thomas, Myne opinion tooching the reformacion of the coyne (28r–33v); William Thomas, My private opinion toocheng your Maiesties outwarde affaires at this present (34r–45v)
Speech of John Feckenham, abbot of Westminster (d. 1584), in Parliament, 1559 (86r–91v); funeral oration for Queen Mary I of England (1553–1558) (92r–105r); discourses on the Catholic faith (105v–109v); letter of Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury (1162–1170), to King Henry II of England (1154–1189) (110r–111r); speech of Cuthbert Scott, bishop of Chester (1556–1559; d. 1565), in Parliament, 1559 (112r–123r); prophecies (123v–126v); Ps.-Lentulus, Epistola ad senatum Romanum de Iesu Chris...
Ps.-Augustine of Hippo, De uisitatione infirmorum (1r–15r); Robert Grosseteste, De dotibus (15v–19v); letter of Pope Innocent IV (1243–1254) (19v–21r) followed by Robert Grosseteste, epistola cxxviii, 1253 (21r–23r); John Wyclif, De diabolo et membris eius (23v–29r); Gospels concordance (29v–32v)