'OF THE BEGINNINGS, practises, and suppression of pirats', by Captain Henry Maynnaringe [al. Manwayring], knighted 20 Mar. 1618, and afterwards Lieutenant of Dover Castle. With a dedication to James I, in which he refers to the King's pardon (?granted in June, 1617, see Cal. State Papers, Domest...
NARRATIVE by James Hall, principal pilot, of the expedition from Denmark to Greenland which sailed 2 May, 1605; with drawings of landfalls and four coloured charts of the coast. Printed from another copy in Purchas His Pilgrimes, 1625, iii, p. 814, and from the present copy, which is in the form...
'ALPHONSUS MADRILIENSIS his methode or way to serve God arighte': a translation of the treatise b y Alfonso Tostado de Madrigal, Bishop of Avila. Probably taken from a Latin edition of which there was a copy in the Lumley library (Lumley cat, f. 13). According to a note by Sir F. Madden on f. 1 ...
'CERTAIGNE PSALMES or songues of David translated into Englishe meter by Sir Thomas Smith, Knight, then prisoner in the Tower of London, with other prayers and songues by him made to pas the tyme there, 1549': eleven Psalms (cii, cxli, cxlii, cxix, lxxxv, xxx, xl, lxx, liv, cxliv, cxlv, Vulgate ...
THREE TRACTS, probably not bound together till Charles II's time or later, viz.: A. 'A Keye to the Controversies, or a theologicall triangle to finde the truthe in all controversies in Divinitie. Don into Englishe for the vse of the Irishe, spetiallie the Gent. of the province of Mounster. By R...
'SECOND BOOKE of the Third Punique Warre': part of a continuation of Silius Italicus [by Thomas Ross, Royal Librarian 1661-1675]. Cf. 7 A. XII, art. 21. Autograph rough draft. Not printed. The author in his dedicatory Epistle (f. 26) to the D[uke] of M[onmouth ?] claims his protection for it, be...
'CERTAIGNE PSALMES of Dauyd [49 in number] in meeatre, added to maister Sterneholdis and others, by William Forreste (see Dict. Nat. Biogr., and cf. 17 D. III, 18 C. XIII), 1551'; with a poetical version of the Te Deum, Benedictus, Magnificat, and Nunc Dimittis. At the beginning is a dedication,...
METRICAL VERSION of the seven Penitential Psalms in English terza rima, each with a prologue in stanzas of eight lines [by Sir Thomas Wyatt]. Printed as Certayne psalmes, &c., 1549 (cf. Aldine Poets ed., 1866, p. 203). The text differs in details, but some of these appear to be the scribe's ...
'SENTENCES painted in the Lorde Keepars gallery at Gorhambury [co. Herts] and selected by him [sc. Sir Nicholas Bacon] owt of divers authors and sent to the good Ladye Lumley [Jane, daughter of Henry Fitz- Alan, Earl of Arundel, and 1st wife of John, Lord Lumley] at her desire.' In Latin, writte...
'A FEWE witty sainges collected out of divers autors worthy to be parvsed by so worthy a prince': religious and moral extracts, the title being in the autograph of John, Lord Lumley (1547-1609). On f. 1 is a note [by Henry, Prince of Wales ?], 'This booke My Lord Lumly gaue me'. Paper; ff. i + ...