Egerton MS 2877

COMMONPLACE-BOOK of Gilbert Frevile, of Bishop Middleham, co. Durham, containing notes of sermons by Puritan and other divines, miscellancous historical matter, etc. Tables of contents are at ff. 2 b, 188. The date 1591 on the cover is perhaps that of the commencement of the collection. The chief contents are:-

1. Copy of a sundial, with the name of Rob. de Freuyle, 1583. f. 1.

2. Calligraphical design, "Servire deo est regnare." f. 2.

3. Beginning of a compendium of English history, doubtless translated from a French roll-chronicle of the type of Royal MS. 14 B. v. (cf. Wright, Feudal Manuals of Engl. History, 1872, pp. 61-74). Begins with a diagram of the heptarchy and breaks off at the end of Edgar, "men held him for a saint and [he] lieth at Winchester." f. 3.

4. "The names and armes of all the noble men then beeing or created since the conquest of England and by whome they were created": an incomplete copy of the Baronage of Robert Cook, Clarencieux, extending in its earliest form to 1572. There are thirty or more copies in the Museum, but some peculiarities of the text connect the present MS. with Harley MS. 2041, which extends to 1591. Breaks off with Hamlin Plantagenet in Henry II.'s reign. f. 5.

5. "A Breife Shadow of Queene Elizabeth's due praises." Beg. "The state of which great Queene throughout the whole course of her moist flourishing raigne"; ends with her epitaph. f. 13 b.

6. "A breife shadow of the due praises of K. Edward the 6th." Beg. The vertues of which king were rare"; ends with an epigram upon the (falsely) reported Caesarian operation at the king's birth, beg. "Here lies the phoenix Lady Jane." f. 14 b.

7. "Occurrents from Ireland," 12 July, 1599: a brief note on the severe measures taken by Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, against Sir Henry Harrington and his force, and list of knights made by him. f. 15.

8. "Quene Elizabeth's Speeche to her last parliament," 30 Nov. 1601, (cf. Harley MS. 169,f. 45). Printed in the Somers Tracts, 1809, i. p. 244. It differs from the text given in Egerton MS. 2222, f. 250, and printed in the Supplement to Camden's Annales, 1719, p. 674. Bog. "Wee perceyue your coming is to present thankes." f. 15 b.

9. "A copie of Queene Elizabeth her Answer to the King of Polandes Embassador in the presence Chamber at Greenewich the 25^th of July, 1597, openly and ex tempore," in Latin (cf. Stow, Annates, 1615, p. 814). Beg. "O quam decepta fui." f. 16.

10. "A copy of an Epistle dedicatory [in verse] to Queene Elizabeth written by Mr Davies [afterwards Sir John Davies, Attorney General for Ireland] in his Booke called Nosce Teipsum"; printed 1599, but a copy in Add. MS. 25304, f. 1, bears the date 11 July, 1592. Beg. "To that deare Majestie which in the North." f. 16.

11. "The welcome home of the Earle of Essex and the lord Admiral from the victorious voyage of Cales [Cadiz], 1596." At the end is the colophon, "Written by Tho. Churchyard esquire vpon the sodaine sight of the Earle of Essex coming to the Court." Said by Lowndes to have been printed, 1599, but his statement that it is reprinted in Nichols' Progresses of Queen Elizabeth is apparently a mistake. Beg. "The heavens smilde, the earth that long was wett." f. 16.

12. Memorials of Queen Elizabeth in prose and verse, viz.:-(a) Note on certain coincidences, beg. "Queene Elizabeth (of famous memory) came to the Crowne with the fall of the leafe";-(b) Verses made upon her Remooue being dead" (cf. Sloane MS. 1489, f. 57 b), four lines, beg. "The Queen's remou'de in solemne sort";-(e) "Vpon the bringing of her Corpse by water from Richmount to Whitehall" (cf. Sloane MS. 1792, f. 112 b, Egerton MS. 923, f. 15, etc.), eight lines, beg. "The Queene was brought by water to Whitehall";-(d) "Vpon ber lying dead at White-Hall," five lines, beg. "The Queene lics now at White-Hall dead";-

(e) Prose eulogy, beg. "This Queene having an invincible spiritt, the summons of death did not amaze her." f. 16 b.

13. "Some considerations proposed vnto suche as are not well affected to Religion": the concluding chapter of A thankfull Rememebrance of God's Mercy, by Geoge Carleton, Bishop of Chichester, printed, London, 1624, pp. 224-227. f. 17.

14. "The summ and effect of Mr [Stephen] Egerton's prayer vsed before his sermons, collected by G[ilbert ?] F[revile] at the Churche [St. Anne's] in Black friers, 1604." f. 18.

15. "Here beginneth the notes taken by G. F., 1604, at severall sermons of Mr. Stephen Egertons preached at Black friers in London vpon the weeke daies, videlicet on Wednesdaie and Friday in the forenoones": twenty sermons on texts from Ruth and Samuel. Followed (f. 26 b) by similar notes of eight others on texts from the Acts, "taken by the said party at Mr. Egertons sermons preached at Black-friers upon the sabboth daies, A.D. 1604." f. 18 b.

16. "The notes of soudrie other sermons taken by the said party tho same yeare, 1604, at seuerall churches in London": twenty-nine anonymous sermons. f. 31 b.

17. Later London sermons, all (except two) with preachers' names and many dated, viz.:-

(a) Mr. Barber (perhaps Thomas Barber, formerly minister of St. Mary-le-Bow, see Brook's Puritans, i. p. 429), 15 Feb. 1606/7. f. 48 b; - (b) Mr. Clarke (probably William Charke, formerly preacher at Lincolns Inn, ibid. ii. p. 113), 5 July, 1607. f. 50;-(c) Mr. Cooke, eleven sermons, n. d. ff. 48, 50b-56;-(d) Mr. Draunt of Woollchurche, 9 Apr. 1607. f. 60b;-(e) Dr. Elmer (Theophilus Aylmer, al. Elmer, Archdeacon of London, rector of St, Magnus), St. Stephen's Day, 1605. f. 49;-(f) Mr. Dr. King (John King, afterwards Bishop of London?), Midsummer Day and 1 July, 1610. ff. 60, 61 b;-(g) Dr. [Peter] Lilly (vicar of Fulham), seven sermon, n. d. ff. 56b-60;-(h) Mr. [Francis] Masbery (rector of St. Martin, Vintry, and St. Pancras, Soper Lane), four sermons, n. d. ff. 62-64;-(i) Mr. [Richard] Stock (curate, afterwards rector, of All Hallows', Bread Street, the parish church of Milton), cf. artt. 41, 98 below; Christmas Day, 1606. f. 46b; -(k) Mr. [Thomas] Westfeild (al. Westfield, rector of St. Bartholomew, Smithfield, afterwards Bishop of Bristol, 6 May, 1611. f. 64;(l) Mr. White, n. d. ff. 47, 47 b.

18. Sermon by "Mr [Peter] Burrell of Gainford" [co. Durham], on James ii. 12. f. 65.

19. "The testimony given to one Mrs. Rebecka Crisp [wife of Nicholas Crispe, skinner, of London, who died in 1637] in a funerall sermon preached at her buriall by Mr. Thomas Gataker." Printed, with the sermon in full, as Paul's Desire of Dissolution, etc., by T. G., Bachelor of Divinity [preacher at Lincoln's Inn till 1611, then pastor of Rotherhithe], 1620. f. 65 b.

20. "A copie of the testament of the Lord Treasurer Burleigh of his soule and body, begun 1579, revisited 1586, reviewed 1588, reformed 1589, reviewed againe 1590, perfected 1593, perused 1597 and at his death": preameable to a draft or supposed will of William Cecil, Baron Burghley. A variant copy is in Lansdowne, MS. 102, f. 170. Beg. "Considering I haue ben by the goodnes of almighty God made and created reasonable creature"; ends "to charitable vses." f. 66.

21. "The council of a father to his sonne in tenn seurall precepts left as a legacie at his death." This tract, an edition of which was registered for Joseph Hunte, 28 June, 1611 (see Arber's Registers of the Stationers' Company), does not appear to have any connexion with the Instructions to his Son of Sir Walter Raleigh as [by W. Eames] in A Bibligraphy of Sir W. Raleigh, New York, 1886, p. 34. Beg. "Sonne! the vertuous inclinacion." f. 66 b.

22. Speech of "thee excellent lord George Ossolinski, Count Palatyne of Tenizyn and Sendomiria, Chamberlaine to the Kinges Majestic of Poland, sent Embassador to K. James," Whitehall, Sunday, 11 Mar. 162 . Printed with the original, Latin, in Somers Tracts, ii. p. 458; the Latin is also in Burney MS. 368, f. 35, and printed in J. C. Lünig's Orationes Procerum Europae, Leipzig, 1713, i. p. 546. f. 68 b.

23. Poetical collections, viz.:-(a) "A necessary Table for all men to looke on, taken out of the golden epistles that were gathered out of the remainder of Guavarraes workes, etc., newly made into english meeter by Edward May, 1612": verse-paraphrases of answers to questions in a letter of Antonio de Guevara to the Governor of Naples, Epistolas Familiares, pt. ii. ep. ii., in Aribau's Biblioteca de Autores Españoles, xiii., probably taken from the French edition, Epistres dorées et Discours salutaires, Lyons, 1588, ii. p. 128. Each answer consists of four rules, e.g. "to know a good man by," and is paraphrased in a quartrain of verse. Beg. "That man which is of nature proude and in whose mouth romes loathsome lies." At the end (f. 70) is an appendix entitled "Other verses called the figure, of 4, collected out of other authors" but only the subjects, not the verses, are oiveu. Beg. "Things surpassing humane reason. The secretts of the heavens, the wonders of the world, the wickedness of sinne, the madness of fooles." f. 68 b;-(b) "Johnsons conclusion in his Almanach, 1603," apparently from an almanack of Thomas Johnson, though the earliest in the British Museum library is of 1604 and does Dot contain these verses, viz. ten lines on human imperfection, beg. "What head so staied that never changed intent." f. 70 b "The joy of the shepehards to heare of Christs birth by the Angels, Luke 2 ". 130 lines, Wee Shepheardes. are happie, who see this sweete sight." f. 70 b;-(d) "The calling of the gentills. Math. 2": 6 lines, beg. "The new starr which Baa'lam foresaid should appeare." f. 71.

24. Foundation-deed and articles of government of the Free School of Heighington, co. Durhain, founded Oct. 1601 by Elizabeth Jenison out of an annuity of eleven pounds given to her by George Frevile, of Bishop Middleham, co. Durham, together with a list of twenty poor people, the first recipients of a yearly charity also charged on the same annuity (cf. Surtees, History of Durham, iii. p. 317). f. 72.

25. "A true relacion of the Farle of Essex and Lord Admiralls exployt at Cales (a great Haven towne in Spaine), A.D. 1596": a short account of Essex's victory at Cadiz, beg. "The first of June they weighed anchor at Plyniouth." Followed by a list of the knights made and (f. 77) "The Aduantage which the Queenes Ma^tie gott by the said victory at Cales." The last is printed from Antony Bacon's papers by Birch, Memoirs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, 1754, ii. p. 47 (cf. Add. MS. 4119, f. 110). f. 7 6 b.

26. "A sermon made to Theeves and Drunkards": the well-known facetious sermon on the word Malt (cf. Sloane MSS. 619, f. 43, 3769, f. 22 b). Printed in 1777 as by John Dod, the puritan (1549- 1645), the scene being laid at Cambridge, but there seems no earlier authority for the attribution, and it was printed in 1686 in Coffee House Jests (4th ed.), p. 202, with the scene laid, as it is here, at "Prysall." f. 77.

27. "Oratio dom. Rogeri Marbeek ad regiam maiestatem": Latin speech to Queen Elizabeth at Oxford [31 Aug. 1566]. Printed from Harley MS. 129, f. 102, in Nichols' Progreses of Queen Elizabeth, vol. i. f. 77 b.

28. "Carmina dom. Rogeri Marbeek ad amicos Oxonieinses a quibus iniquis fatis ereptus erat": ten Latin epigrams upon leaving Oxford in 1566, owing to his marriage (cf. Harley MS. 129, f. 45, where sixteen are given). Beg. "Vix ego sum tanti, si tu tamen esse putabis." f. 78.

29. "M^r [Richard] Martins oration vnto King James at his first entring into London, A.D. 1603": speech delivered in the name of the sheriffs of London and Middlesex. Printed, 1603, and reprinted in Nichols' Progresses of King James, i. p. * 1 28. f. 78 b.

30. "A copie of a letter of the Lord Keepet. [Sir Thomas] Egerton to the Earle of Essex, being committed vpon his retorne from Ireland in the latter end of Q. Eliz. raigne," and Essex's answer [the trile dates are 15, 18 Oct. 1598]. Printed in Cabala, 1654, ii. p. 27, Birch, Memoirs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, 1754, ii. p. 384, and elsewhere. f. 79 b.

31. "Copie of a letter from K. James to certaine lords and knights at his entrance to the Crowne of England": reply to congratulations from [Henry Grey,] Earl of Kent, [Edward Russsell, 3rd] Earl of Bedford, [Oliver St. Jolin,] Baron St. John, Sir William Russell [afterwards 1st Baron Russell of Thornhaugh] and Sir Edward Radcliff, knight. Dat. Berwick, 8 Apr. 1603. f. 80.

32. "Sondry prayers cathechysmes and other godly and holy instruccions as in the table next before are perticularly descrybed" (the table in question, f. 81, includes artt. 32-;59), viz.:-(a) "Mr Morehouse prayer." Beg. "O almighty God and most mercifull Father, most able to help." f. 82;-(b) "Mr Morehouse catechisme." Beg. "Was man at the beginning created a sinner?" f. 83;-(c) "Sondry necesary obseruacions meete for a Christian." Beg. "That you keepe narrow watche over your hart." f. 83 b;-

(d) "All Dearings letter to a godly gentlewoman, being in heavines of spiritt." Printed among the"Godly Letters" in Edward Dering's Workes, 1597. f. 84;-(e) "Godly meditacions, etc." Beg. "If thou hast praied to God for earthlie blessings." f. 86;-(f) Godly precepts." Beg. "If thou be cholerick and canst not beare with the ignorance or dulnes of thy brother." f. 86;-(g) "Rules how to governe thy selfe and to staie thy mind in the time of these warrs and approching calamities, 1588." Beg. "If thou heare that thy frendes are slaine." f. 86 b;-(h) "Offices of practise drawne from experience, home from scripture and the rest from good Authors." Beg. "Hath which by care or thought thou canst not help." f. 88 b.

33. "Verses sett vp over the lord Burgleys pew in Newark churche, for which M^r Batts the preacher there was cited vp before the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1606": six lines [? on Thomas Cecil, 2nd Baron Burghley and 1st Earl of Exeter] beg. "A Romane right, then rotten at the kore." f. 88 b.

34. "Places of scripture to read by the sick," and forms of prayer for the sick. f. 89.

35. "A letter of Doctour Cranmers, Archbishop of Canterbury, to one Mrs Wilkinson, a godly matron, distressed in Q. Maries time"; n. d. Printed in Strype's Memorials of Cranmer, app. no. lxxii. f. 89 b.

36. "A peticion preferred to Q. Elizabeth for association in religion about th' end of her highnes raigne": recommendations from to Queen Elizabeth for the act of association [before Oct. 1584?]. f. 90.

3 "Verses touching the vncertainty of life": eight lines beg. Lyre is a dropp, a sparke, a spann." f. 90 b.

38. Theological notes in prose and verse, including:-(a) "Most excellent Latin verses": ten lines upon six things ever to be remembered, beg. "Vt tibi preceptis niens conformetur honestis." f. 91;-(b) Rynling couplet, "Quos anguis tristi diro cum vulnere strauit Hos sanguis Christi miro cum lauit," as in Royal MS. 15 A. vii., f. 76, etc. f. 91;-(c) Another couplet, "Corda manus oculos aures animosque levemus et domino voces, sua sunt, et ei sua demus." f. 91.

39. "Perticuler times of praying and manner of praying." f. 91.

40. "So short a catechisme that whosoever can not or will not learne are not in any wise to be admited to the Lords supper ." Beg. "Who made thee? God. What is God? He is almighty." Prefixed is not a note by "Mr Pagget" on two kinds of catechisms. Perhaps by Eusebuis Pagett, rector of SS. Anne and Agnes, Aldersgate St., 1604-1617 (cf Brook's Puritans, ii .p. 253). f. 91 b.

41. "A note concerning reading of the Scriptures, taken at a sermon of Mr [Richard] Stocker,1607." f. 92.

42. Lists of "seaven points of civility" and " seven pints of inhumanity." f. 92 b.

43. Poetical pieces, viz.:-(a) "A dialouge between a philosopher and Justice," beg. "What goddesse here ? Justice I am. Why blindfold doest thou stand?" f. 92 b;-(b) "A dialouge of the poet Ausonius," a version of the lines of Decimus Magnus Ausonius on Bias of Priene. beg. "Quaenam summa boni." Translation beg. "What if the chiefest goodnes that in these daies we may fyned ?" f. 92 b;-(e) "The censure of Pruden[c]e concerning Justice," beg. "Lo here the prime of Justice in her kynd." f. 93;-(d) "Seaven things that trouble a citty," beg. "The first is when the judge corrupt doth sitt in comon place." f. 93;-(e) "Seave kind of fooles," beg. "With bragging words, whoo braues it out, and seemes god Mars to be." f. 93.

44. "Christian consolations for afflicted consciences comfortable for all repentant sinners, written dialoug-wise by W[illiam] P[erkins] printed in his Works, Cambridge, 1616, i. p. 409. Perkins was a fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, and died in 1602 (see Brook's Puritans, ii. p. 129). f. 93 b.

45. "Other godlie praiers very meete for masters of familyes daily to vse in their house-houlds." f. 96.

46. "A prayer for a sicke person," beg. "Almighty God and most mercifull Father, which art the phisitiion of our bodies." f. 96 b.

47. "A comfortable speeche taken from a godlie preacher lying on his Death-bedd: wri.itten for the sicke," beg. "I owe to God a death." f. 97.

48. "A holsome medicyne for the soule of man," beg. "Take a quarte of the repentance of Ninivie." f. 97.

49. "Some of St. Ciprian his pithy sentences," beg. "Lett it not sleepe in thie treasures." Followed by the 12 abuses or absurdities in the life of man, saith Ciprian," the well-known Duodecim Abusiva, attributed toSt. Cyprian, St. Augustine and others (Corpus Scriptt. Eccl. Lat., iii. app. p. 152), with an English translation. It does not seem to be connected with the expanded English version in Harley MS. 2330 f. 100 b. f. 97 b.

50. "A prayer often vsed on the behalfe of Mrs, E. J. in time of her sicknes, who died at Wallworth, 1622"; perhaps Elizabeth Jenison, a granddaughter of the Elizabeth Jenison mentioned in art. 24. f. 9 8.

51. "A sermon called the Proiector preached before the Judges in Norwich at a sommer Assizes there holden, 1620, by Thomas Scott, Bacheler in Divinity," followed by a prayer. Both printed (two editions) in 1623. f. 98 b.

52. " A particuler morning prayer for the sabboath day by Mr. Sam. Hieron" (vicar of Modbury, co. Devon, d. circ. 1618, see Brook's Puritans, ii. p. 270); printed in his book A Helpe unto Devotion (13th edition, 1620, p. 53). f. 103.

53. "Psalm 104, of a new translation" [by Thomas Carew]. Printed in his Poems, ed. W. Carew Hazlitt, 1870, p. 181. Beg. "My soule the great God's praises sings." f. 103 b.

54. "Mr Johnson's verses. Jehovae liberatori": 4 x 6 lines, beg. "My God, I speake to thee with full assurance." f. 104 b.

55. "A prayer and thanksgiving to God for the blessed, prosperous and peaceable raigne of that gratious and famous Q. Eliz. made in Barwick [Berwick-upon-Tweed], and sunge there in triumphe, the 17 of November., 1586" (at the end, "finis quoth Ste. Baraclough"): 36 couplets beg. "If that the Hebrews from the heavens did any blessing gaine." f. 104 b.

56. "Verses against feare of Death, made by Sir Ph[ilip] Sidney Musidorus' song from the Comtesse of Pembroke's Arcadia (cf. Complete Poems, ed. Grosart, Early Eng]. Poets, 1877, iii. p. 59). Beg. "Since natures workes be good and death doth serue." f 105.

57. "Other verses by another author": 3 x 4 lines beg. "Haue great regard in time of zouth least age repent thie spending." f. 105.

58. Verses on the Frevile family, viz.:- (a) "Verses in memory of Sir Geo. Freuile, knight [of Walworth, co. Durham, d. 1619, elder brother of Gilbert], made by his nephew Thomas Freuile upon the alphabet of his name," beg. "Since swiftfoote tyme hath finished thie race";-(b) "Other verses vpon the same subject [not acrostic] by his nephew Richard Freuile," beg. "Dead and confyn'd to dust, oh wofull I";-(c) "Verses engraven on the tombe of the said Knight and the Lady his wife, 1631," a couplet in Latin and English. f. 105 b;-(d) "Verses in memory of the Lady Frevile [Elizabeth Jenison, daughter of the Elizabeth Jenison mentioned in art. 24, married Sir George Frevile], who died 6 Octob. 1630, made by Mr Robert Burrell, minister of Gaynford," beg. "Come neare and see what all shall be who here on earth do dwell." f. 106.

59. "A copie of Mr Shuttes prayer before his sermons"; possibly Christopher Shutte or Shute, vicar of Giggleswick, but more probably one of his sons (Jossias, rector of S. Mary Woolnoth, 1611-1643, or Nathaniel, rector of S. Mildred, Poultry, London, 1618-1638 ?), one of whom was probably father of another Christopher, Milton's contemporary at Christ's College, Cambridge. f. 106. Reversing the volume, the following articles occur at the end:-

60. "A breife note of the names of the moste honorable counsellors that haue died since the beginning of the Queenes Maiesties Reigne": thirty-five names ending with Sir Christopher Hatton (d.1591). Border-ornament drawn with a pen. Colophon, "Finis quoth G. W." f. 189.

61. Emblematical drawings of Cupid and various animals, with mottoes. f. 188 b.

62. "The ould rent of the whole county of Durham," divided into wards, parishes and townships [early 17th cent.]. f. 186 b.

63. "The proclamacion set fourth against the Earle of Essex and his complices," 9 Feb. 1600. See a printed copy in Dyson's collection in the Grenville library (press-mark G. 6463, no. 382). f. 183.

64. "A copie of verses made by sondry papists of Somersetshire who entred into the church of Enbourne [Emborrow] in that countie and rent and scattered the service booke and tare [the] churche bible and register booke and directed these verses to the parson, leauing them behind them"; 44 Eliz. [1601-1602]. Another copy is in Harley MS. 677, f. 50 b. Title, "To the hereticall parson of Enbourne, Ware Newbury, our due comendacions wishing him a catholique mind once, else no saluacion." Beg. "Nowe, Mr. parson" for your welcome home." f. 183.

65. Muster "of horsemen on great horses made before King Edward the 6th in the parke at Grenewich," 16 May, 1552. f. 182 b.

66. "The order of the show to be done at the Turret entring into the parke at Grenewich, the musick being within the turrett. Acted before Q. Elizabeth," n. d. Not in Nichols' Progresses. The speech of a boy representing Goodwill, beg. "He, Joue himselfe, that guides the golden spheare." f. 182.

67. "A breife of the obiections against Sir John Parrodd arraigned at the Kyngs benche in Westminster Hall," 27 Apr. 1592: notes of the trial of Sir John Perrot, Lord Deputy of Ireland. Differs from the narrative in the State Trials, but is not so full. f. 181 b.

68. "Aduertisementes of a loyall subiect to his gracious soueraigne drawne from obseruacion of the peoples' speeches, anno primo regis Jacobi": the well-known anonymous tract printed in Somers Tracts, 1809, ii. p. 144. f. 180 b.

69. "An oration made to the Kings Maiestie at his first entrance into the towne of Barwick [Berwick-upon-Tweed] in Aprill, 1603." f. 179 b.

70. "A short and generall confession of the true Christian faith and religion according to Gods word and acts of our parliament; subscribed by the Kings Maiestie and his househould with sondry others ...at Edenborough, 20 Junii, 1580": apparently from an edition [by Thomas Man?, see Add. MS. 34218, f. 1 68] "newly sett fourth at London, 1603." Also printed by Rob. Waldegrave, n d. f. 179.

71. "A proclamacion," for guidance in the choice of knights and burgesses for parliament, 11 Jan. 1603. See a printed copy by Rob. Barker, Brit. Mus. press-mark 506 h. 10 (33). f. 178 b.

72. "Notes taken at the arraignment of Sir Waltier Raleigh, being upon the 17 of Nouember, 1603, certified by a gentleman present thereat to his frond in the country," followed by a similar account of the trial of George Brooke, Sir Griffin Markham, William Watson and others for high treason, at Winchester, 15 Nov. 1603. These reports are abbreviated, but contain remarks on the impressions produced in court which are not in the printed narratives, Jardine's Criminal Trials, Edwards' Life of Ralegh, and State Trials. f. 177 b.

73. "The copie of a letter sent by the Great Turke [Amurath III.?] to the Emperour Radulphus [Rudolph II.] word by word extracted out of Dutch," dat. Constantinople, "after our nativity xxviii years, and of our raigne the sixt yeare" [circ. 1579-1580]. ii. p. 175.

74. "The humble petition of the ministers of the churche of England, desiring reformacion of certaine ceremonies and abuses of the Churche," 1 Jas. I.: the petition of the thousand ministers, printed (almost in full) in Strype's Life of Archbishop Whiggift, ii. p. 479 (cf. Stowe MS. 180, f. 7). f. 174b.

75. "A breife relacion of the conference held at Hampton Court. 1603": a narrative independent of the official account by Dean Barlow. Beg. "Vpon Thursday the xiith of Jan. 1603[4] my L. Grace of Canterbury"; ends "given by manie of themselues." f 173 b.

76. "His Maiesties letter to [Matthew Hutton] my Lo. Grace of Yorke," 29 Oct. 1603; probably sent to both archbishops (see a copy in Harley MS. 677, f. 107, addressed to the Archbishop of Canterbury). Followed by a "note of suche thinges (sixteen in number) as shalbe reformed." The last of these is "Certaine ministers in Lancashire to be tollerated for not wearing the surplice and not vsing the crosse in baptisme, by my lo. of Canterbury's letters to my lo. of Chester." f. 172 b.

77. "A proclamacion," against seminary priests and Jesuits, 22 Feb.

160¾. See a printed copy by Rob. Barker., Brit. Mus. press-mark 506 b. 10 (34). f. 172.

78. "The execution of Robert Devereux, late Earle of Essex, the 25th of Feb. 1600[1] within the tower of London": a narrative agreeing apparently with a MS. relation used by Birch, Memoirs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, ii. p. 482. f. 171.

79. "Arguments drawne against the vnion, 1604": fifteen objections from the English point of view. Not quite the same as in Harley MS. 292, f. 133. f. 170 b.

80. "A protestacion of the kings supremacy, made in the name of the afflicted ministers, and opposed to the shamefull calumniations of the prelates, 1605": thirty-two articles, with a brief "epistle......... to the civill states of this kingdome " prefixed. f. 170.

81. "A position against vayne-glorious and that which is falcely called learned preaching," by H. I. Printed, 1604. According to Brook (Puritans, ii. p. 333) the author was, Henry Jacob, the Brownist. f. 168 b.

82. "A true copie of a letter from D[octor Matthew] Hutton, tho Lo. Archbishop of York, to [Robert Cecil] the Lo. Vicount Cranborn," 18 Dec. 1604 (of. Harley MS. 677, f. 45, etc.). Printed in Strype's Whitgift, iii. p. 420. f. 167 b.

83. "A true copie of another letter from the said Archbishop to [Henry Howard] the Earle of Northamapton," 26 Jan. 160.4/5 (cf. Harley MS. 677, f. 53). f. 167 b.

84. "A breife deliuered the last starr chamber daie in Trinity Terme, 1603, of the kings former speech in the councell chamber, delivered then to all the lords spirituall and temporall, the judges and others there present": short notes of speeches by [Thomas Egerton, Baron Ellesmere,] Lord Chancellor, [Thomas Sackville, Baron Buckhurst,] Lord Treasurer, [Robert Cecil,] Viscount Cranborne, and others. f. 167.

85. "A copie of a petition deliuered to the king at Royston in Michaelmas Terme, 1604, by a company of gentlemen to the nomber of 100 or theraboutes in the behalfe of some silenced preachers " (cf. Harley MS. 677, f. 44). f 166 b.

86. "Certaine reasons why it seemeth that the preachers who refuse the subscription and ceremonies vrged should not, for that their refusall, be removed from their chardges, or inhibited to preach, humbly offered to consideracion" [1604?]; forty-five articles. f. 166 b.

87. "The humble petition of 22 ministers in London and the subburbs thereof to the Kyn[g]s most Excellent Maiestie, delivered anno 3 R. Jacobi, 1605" (cf. Sloane MS. 27 1, f. 35). f. 163 b.

88. "A copie of the letter sent to the Lo. Mounteagle, by which it pleased God to disclose the late blouddy plott intended against the king and whole state, etc.": copy of the anonymous letter to William Parker, Baron Monteagle, warning him of the Gunpowder Plot, Nov. 1605. Printed in Somers Tracts, 1809, ii. p. 103, State Trials, 1816, ii. p. 198 and elsewhere. Followed by a note of the amount of powder, etc., discovered. f. 163.

89. "A note of the [thirty-two] cheife offices of the Realme vnder the Kings Maiestie," and of "the officers in ordinarye attending in Court vpon the Kings Maiestie." f. 163.

90. "The speeche by Ewmone by Dice and Irene the 3 houres which do represent Time. Made in a showe at the entertainment of our King James and the K. of Den[mark] at Thebaulds by [Robert Cecil] the Earle of Salisburie " [24 July, 1606]. Printed in Nichols' Progresses of King James, ii. p. 70. Beg. "Enter (o lord), for princes blesse those bowers." f. 162 b.

91. "A copie of the challenge made by the Duke of Lenox [Ludovick Stuart], the Earls of Arundell [Thomas Howard], Pembroke [William Herbert] and Mongomery [Philip Herbert] in sommer 1606 against the time of the King of Denmarks coming into England." Printed ibid., p. 49. f. 162 b.

92. "A description of the 4 elements. Pond, 1605": thirty-two couplets (one line missing) from an almanack (Enchiridion, or Pond his Eutheca, 1604-the 1605 issue is not in the British Museum library) by Edward Pond. Beg. "As in our bodies wee maie see full plaine." f. 162.

93. "A solemne decree of the nationall synod of Gap in the province of Dolphine in France publiquely proclaymed and ascribed to the publique confession of the churche" [met 1 Oct. 1603], that the Pope is Antichrist. f. 162.

94. "Particuler reasons against crossing of children in Baptisms, by Mr Nicholas Standon" [al. Standen, rector of St. Margaret Pattens, London, 1566-1568, see Brook's Puritans, i. p. 317]. f. 161 b.

95. "Parliament matters, 1613, then agreed vpon in the lower howse and reiected by the higher howse": fourteen heads, concluding "All these were termed greevances of the commons of the land." Perhaps drawn up during the elections for the Parliament which met 5 Apr. 1614, the previous Parliament having been dissolved 9 Feb 161 0. A committee to draw up a similar list was appointed 16 Oct. 1610 (see Gardiner, History of England, ii. ch. xiv.). f. 161.

96. "The epistle of Paule Thompson to the Kings Maiestie, indicted and arraigned for clipping of gould and therof found guiltie, and yet obteyned his pardon, being one of his Maiesties chapleynes" [circ. Mar. 1615, see Cal. of State Papers, Domestic, p. 278]. Followed by "Mr [Williain] Butler of Cambridge (the phisition) his opinion touching the said Thompson and sent and delivered to him." f. 161.

97. "The testimony of 6 phisicions who viewed the body of prince Henry when it was opened, 7 Novemb. 1612, by the appointment of King James." Printed in Birch's Life of Henry, Prince of Wales, 1760, p. 359. The Christian name of the first physician is wrongly given as Mathew (for Theodore) Mayerne; the last is William Butler (see the preceding article). f. 160 b.

98. "Here beginneth the notes of sondrie sermons of one Mr Stock [Richard Stock, cf. artt. 17, 41], taken by G[ilbert?] F[revile] 1606 and 1607 in London": sixty-one sermons, chiefly on texts from Malachi or 1 John. A few are more precisely dated. f. 159 b.

99. "Verses against popish priests," 3 x 5 lines on transubstantiation, marked (in another hand) "J. D. (?)." In Burney MS. 390, f. 36, they are anonymous, but in Add. 15226, f. 25 b, entitled "Dr Dunne vppon the Eucharist." In E. K. Chambers' Poems of John Donne, 1896, ii. p. 300, it is suggested that they are by John Donne the younger (1604-1662), but they are probably older than his time, though the attribution to the Dean of St. Paul's is doubtful. Beg "Preists makes Christs bodie and soule you must not doubt." f. 106 b. Paper; ff. i. + 189. 131 in. x 9 in. Circ. 1591-1622. The name "Gilbert Frevile, 1591" is on the vellum cover. From the Farnborough Fund.