METRICAL ADAPTATION of 'Plutarchi commentarium (sic) in Principe requiri doctrinam' ( perhaps in the Latin version of Erasmus, printed with his Institutio Principis, 1516, &c.), by Thomas Blundeville. Probably identical with 'The Learned Prince', the first of Blundeville's Three Moral Treati...
ANONYMOUS TRACT addressed to James I, showing the abuses and frauds on the revenue practised by foreign merchants, especially the Dutch, and the inadequacy of the laws to deal with them. In two parts, viz. (a) 'Of the exportation of Treasure', or the buying up and transporting of the best Englis...
'AN ELLEGIACK ENCOMIUM' on the death of James I addressed to Charles I, in doggerel verse, by Richard Taileboys. Apparently autograph. The dedicatory letter, in prose, mentions (f. 2) that the King (Charles I) had already received a book from the author. The Elegy itself, which begins 'Mounte vp...
ADDRESS to Queen Elizabeth on the disorders of the Royal Household, by an officer of the same. The writer, who defends himself against the charge of dishonesty made against him and hinted at by the Queen 'in a generall speache' to all her officers, states that from 28 years of age (f. 5 b) he ha...
VERSES by Sir Arthur Gorges (d. 1625), to illustrate three devices, viz. :-(a) For King James, the rose and thistle entwined round the harp, surmounted by a crown and crossed sword and sceptre, with motto 'Regum est parcere subiectis et debellare superbos'. Beg. 'Divinly did your Royall Mott pre...
'THE TALE of Hemetes the heremyte pronownced before the Q. Maiesty att Woodstocke, 1575', by George Gascoigne (d. 1577), in Euphuistic prose. Preceded by 14 lines of verse over the poet's motto 'Tam marti quàm Mercurio' (f. 2), and a dedicatory letter to the Queen (f. 3) apparently signed by the...
'THE EXPOSITION of the xxxvi Psalme of Dauid, Noli emulari in malignantibus, by the greate and exellent dyuyne Johannes de Turrecremata' [Juan de Torquemada, Cardinal, d. 1468], translated into English by Henry Parker, 10th Lord Morley (d. 1556), and dedicated to the Lady [afterwards Queen] Mary...
NARRATIVE of the suppression of the conspiracy of the Earls of Huntly, Erroll, Crawford, and Montrose, known as the Affair of the Brig of Dee, 1589. The tract, which begins with the overtures of Philip II of Spain to James VI after the failure of the Armada, was written, probably by an Englishma...
SERMONS in English, viz.:- 1. Homilies on the gospels for Sundays throughout the year, beg. with Advent. Besides Christmas Day, New Year's Day, Epiphany, and the Purification, the only additions are:-(a) The sermon on the gospel for the 3rd Sund. after Epiphany is in two parts. ff. 40, 43;-(b) ...
PRAYERS and devotional commonplaces in Latin and English. Prefixed to the Latin (f. 2) are extracts headed 'Hi. Sauano', from Girolamo Savonarola's 'Meditatio in Psalmum Miserere' (cf. H. Savonarolae Triumphus Crucis . . . et med. eiusdem Ps. Miserere, Rome, n. d., pp. 433-437, 489, &c.). At...