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...
POEM by Philip Massinger, headed 'Sero sed serio', and addressed to Philip [Herbert, 4th] Earl of Pembroke (1630-1655), on the death of his son Charles, Lord Herbert, &c. (d. Jan. 163 4/6 ; with autograph signature. Printed in The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford, ed. Hartley Coleridge, ...
A LETTER from James Kinvyn to the King [James I] asking him and his son, whom he calls his 'ever honored master', to have a speedy trial of some 'rare Ingines of warre' which he has perfected after 40 years' study. On f. 1 is the fragment of another letter ending your ffaithfull servant and subi...
POEM addressed to James I on the occasion of the marriage of Princess Elizabeth to Frederick, Elector Palatine, in 1613, by William Vener; preceded by a prose dedicatory letter and lines from 'the author to his booke' and 'the booke to the author'. The poem, which is fulsome in character and of ...
DISCOURSE on the text 'Take away the wicked from the kinge, and his throne shalbe stablished in righteousnes' (Prov. xxv. 5), addressed to King James I by john Norden, the topographer. Followed (at f. 38b) by an autograph address, beg. 'I have presumed (yet in dutie), right gratious Soueraigne, ...