'A LITLE TREATISE agaynst the supremytie of the bishop of Rome.' Anonymous. Beg. 'We may very well se and perceyue '. Paper; ff. 35. 71/4 in. x 51/2 in. XVI cent. Not in the old catalogues.
'ANE GLASSE for Christiane Subiectis, whairin they may clearlie sie be whome and whairfor Kingis ar set over thame': a dissertation on 1 Peter ii. 13, by David Lindesay, minister of St. Andrews, afterwards suecessively Bishop of Brechin (1619) and of Edinburgh (1634). With an address to James I,...
'AN APOLOGIE of John Shotbolt [al. Battalion, cf. Stowe MS. 326, f. 24], esquier, William Burnarde, and Adam Moore, his maiesties agentes imployed for the enclosure of Kinges Sedgmoore in the county of Somersett': a treatise in defence of the measure of enclosing King's Sedgmoor. The apology and...
'THE DESCRIPTION and use of his Maiesties Dialls in Whitehall Garden' [by Edmund Gunter, Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College]. Printed, with slight additions, 1624. The dials were destroyed in 1697 (see Dict. Nat. Biogr.). Paper; ff. 20. 7 in. x 51/4 in. Circ. 1623. catalogues.
17 B. 1 CONCORDANCE to the New Testament in the later Wycliffite version, alphabetically arranged, with an interesting preface explaining the methods of the compiler, who is not named. Preface beg. 'Mannes mynde þat is ofte robbid'; text, 'Aaron: bi þe ordre of Aaron Heb. vii. co'. Some passag...
'MAISTIR OF GAME': the treatise on hunting by Edward, second Duke of York (cf. 17 A. LV). Imperfect, wanting at the beginning one leaf with part of the table of contents, three (?) leaves after f. 12, two after f. 16, and one at the end. On ff. 2, 2 b are medical recipes in a 16th cent. hand, a...
SERMON for Easter, on Matt. xxviii. 6. Beg. 'This feast wee celebrate in commemoration of our Saviour's triumph'. Imperfect. Paper; ff. 14. 71/4 in. x 51/4 in. XVII cent. (first half). This MS. and the net two are bound together. Not in the old catalogues.
'THEATRVM ACADEMIARVM or the Universitie of universities, containinge all such Academics as doe at this daye florish in our christian worlde . . . by Samuell Lewkenor, gentleman': a description of the universities in the several countries of Europe, dedicated to Lord Lumley, 8 Aug. 1599. The aut...
'A DISCOVERYE of popishe corruption requiringe a Kingely reformation', by William Crashawe, B.D., Preacher at the Temple. Autograph. With a dedication to James I, in which the writer accuses the Roman Catholics of 'falsifijnge of authors, alteringe their bookes, when they be deade, puttinge out ...
TRANSCRIPTS of letters, &c., chiefly connected with Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, circ. 1590-1600, viz.:- 1. 'Verses made by the Earle of Essex in his Trouble'; printed in A. B. Grosart's Miscellanies of the Fuller Worthies Library, iv, p. 97, W. B. Devereux' Lives of the Earls of Es...