'A PANEGYRICK CONGRATULATORIE to the kinges most sacred maiestie by Samuel Danyel' (d. 1619): a poem delivered to James I at Burley-Harington, co. Rutland, in 1603, and printed the same year; see also Nichols, Progresses of James I, 1828, i, p. 121. Differs from the printed copies verbally and s...
ADDRESSES, &c., to James I, viz.:- 1. Discourse on the abuses of the clergy, lawyers, gentry, &c., by Mark Hoskins (a resident in Hampshire); preceded by acrostic verses (on vellum, f. 1) on Iacobus Rex, and followed (f. 8) by other verses and a request for permission to have the whole ...
ADDRESS to James I. written (see ff. 1, 14) from [the Fleet] prison, by Arthur Hall (M. P. for Grantham 1571- 1585, see Dict. Nat. Biogr.), the translator of Homer from the French, on 'The principall transportable commodities of the realme of Englande', the inconveniences arising from privileges...
'THIS DISSENTT of the moost victorious and Chrysten prynce kyng Edward the sext, sonne and heire of kyng Henry the viiith, that goeth lynyally to Brute, is true lynage and agreith with the best cronycles in Wales, and was at the true examinacion off the same the abbatt of Llyngewestill, maister ...
TWO TREATISES by Jo[hn] Russell, addressed to James I, viz.:- 1. 'Ane treatise of the happie and blissed vnioun betuixt the tua ancient realmes of great Britane, efter thair long trubles', &c. f. 4. 2. 'Ane treatise of the office and deuty of ane Christiane prince in the administratioun o...
TRANSCRIPTS made probably as precedents for James I, of five charters of Kings of England conferring honours, &c., on their eldest sons, viz.:-(a) Creation by Edward III of his son Edward as Duke of Cornwall; 17 Mar. ao II [1337]. f. 2;-(b) Creation by the same of the same as Prince of Wales...
MEMORIAL by [Gen. Sir Edward Cecil,] Viscount Wimbledon (cr. 1625, d. 1638), to Charles I, on 'How the coasts of your Majesties Kingedome may bee defended against any enemie, if in case your royall navie should bee otherwise imployed or impeached . . . 1628'. An extract was printed in H. Walpole...
THE PRICK OF CONSCIENCE, commonly, but doubtfully, attributed to Richard Rolle of Hampole (d. 1349); in about 8,000 lines, with rubrics mostly in Latin. The text differs very considerably from that edited by Richard Morris for the Philological Society in 1863, and though among the ten MSS. in th...
This manuscript contains medical, herbal, obstetrical and gynaecological treatises and recipes in a variety of hands, dating from the beginning of the 15th century to the 16th century, predominantly in Middle English. It is also notable for the inclusion of 3 large urine diagrams and six full-pa...
TWO TRANSLATIONS into English, viz.:- 1. 'The book of the governaunce of kyngis and ot pryncis callid the Secrete of Secretes, whiche that Aristotill made to kyng Alexandre': prose version, from a shortened French translation, of the Pseudo- Aristotelian Secreta Secretorum (cf. 9 B. II, art. 1...