Add MS 33271

COPIES of letters, speeches, etc., 1545-1579; collected as models or precedents, and arranged under the heads of "Advice," "Answers to petitions," "Commendatory," "Consolatory," "Expostulatory," "Orations," "Narratory," and "Supplicatory." The contents are:-

1. "The Queenes........oration in the Parliament howse, March 15, a° Dni. 1576" [1575/6]. (Harrington, Nugæ Antiquæ, ed. 1804, i. p. 120). f. 2.

2. "The Quenes Maiesties aunsweare to the peticions exhibited" by Parliament urging her to marry; [Nov. 1566]. (Parl. Hist., i. col. 714.) f. 2 b.

3. Letters of Roger Ascham to Qu. Elizabeth; Windsor, 10 Oct., 1567. (Works, ed. Giles, ii. No. lxxxvii.). f. 3;-to Bishop Gardiner; London, 18 Jan. 1554[5] (i. No. clxvii.). f. 4 b;-to "S^r W[illiam] P[awlett]"; [18 Jan. 1554-5] (i. No. clxxi.). f. 5 b;-to Bp. Gardiner; [circ. Apr. 1554] (i. No. clxx.). f. 6;-to "Sr T[homas] S[mith]," from Germany; [1551] (i. No. cxxxii.). f. 6;-"to my L. Ro." [Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester]; 5 Aug. 1564 (ii. No. lix.). f. 19;-"to his brother [in law] C. H[owe], when he put him to service to my L. of Warwick"; [ 1559] (il. No. xii.). f. 19 b;-"to Quene Elizabeth, written in the beginninge of the Twoo Bookes of Samuel, with Peter Martirs comment," referring to the subject of the letter below, art. 23 ; London, 29 Oct. 1566. f. 35;-"to his frend E[dward] C[alibut]"; 16 Apr. 1550 (i. No. c.). f. 36;-

"to my Lorde Admirall [Thomas Seymour, Lord Seymour of Sudeley] for the Universitie"; Cambridge, "in our full Assemble house," 2 Nov. 1547. f. 36 b;-"to my L. of Warwick for the Universitie," in favour of Dr. [Walter] Haddon, Vice Chancellor; [1550]. f. 37;-

"to his frende Mr. Calibut," when on a visit to Cambridge by "licence of my Ladyes grace"; 15 Dec. 1548. f. 37;-"to the same Mr. A[stley] in the behalf of a deare frende that desired him," concerning a proposal of marriage; Cambridge, [circ. 1545]. f. 37 b;-"to a frende [Richard Goodrich] of his beinge sicke for vnkindnes as he tooke it that his service in the commen weale was no better considered"; [17] Nov. 1559 (ii. No. x.). f. 39;-"to Mistres A[stley]"on the death of William Grindal; [1548]. f.39b;-"to his wief,"on the death of his son [Sturm Ascham]; [1568] (ii. No. xcvii). f. 39 b;-to the Earl of Leicester, "towchinge his prebend at Yorke"; London, 14 Apr. 1566 (ii. No. lxxv.). f. 43;-to the same, on his neglect to answer the preceding letter, etc.; "at my dolefull house in London," 28 Apr. 1566. f. 44;-"to Mr. E[dward] C[alibutt]"; [circ. 1563] (ii. No. xxxix.). f. 44b;-"to Mistres A[stley]"; [1545] (i. No. xxxix.). f. 45;-to Bishop Gardiner; [1554] (i. No. clxxv.). f. 46.

4. "A supplication written by R[oger] A[scham] for certain citezens of London to the Lords and Burgesses of the parliament house," praying for payment out of the estates of "the late personnes which died atteinted of high treason," of moneys due for "wares and workemanshippe"; [ 1554]. f. 5 b.

5. Letters from Thomas Heneage, Vice Chamberlain, to Lord Burghley, interceding for Tho. Hills, of Chichester, charged with slandering him; from the Court, 31 March, 21 Sept. 1576. f. 7.

6. "The Counsell lettre to my L. B[urghley]," to the same effect; Windsor, 5 Sept. [1576]. f. 7.

7. Letters from [Thomas Howard, 4th] Duke of Norfolk, "then beinge in the Tower, to the Cownsell, after the signinge of his submission"; 15 July, 1570. (Burghley State Papers, i. p. 596) f. 7 b;-to the Queen, "after his last comittinge to the Tower"; [10 Sept. 1571]. (ibid. ii. p. 153.) Imperfect, two leaves being lost. f. 7 b;-to his children: two letters of advice written before his execution, the last dated 26 Jan. [1572], but differing from those in Harl. MS. 787, f. 112. f. 22.

8. [Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury] to the Queen, on preachings, etc.; [20 Dec. 1576]. (Strype, Grindal, 1821, p. 558.) Imperf. at the beginning. f. 8.

9. "Mr. Bartews [Richard Bertie] lettre to Stephen Gardiner," on the withdrawal of his wife [Catharine, Duchess of Suffolk] from England; [Jan. 1554-5]. f. 9b.

10. Sir Francis Englefield to the Queen, praying for clemency, and that he may enjoy "that little lefte" him "in this displeasaunt exile"; Tremond [Aug. 1563]. f. 10.

12. "Sir Nicholas Throg[morton] to the Quene [Mary], from Paris, declaringe his innocencye after his first arraignement"; [1556]. f. 10 b.

12. Address of the Commons urging the Queen to marry; [28 Jan. 1562]. With the Queen's answer. (Nugæ Antiquæ, i. pp. 69, 80.) ff. 12, 13.

13. "A petition of the Lower Howse vnto the Quenes Majestie," on reform of church discipline; 2 Mar. 1575[6]. With the Queen's answer, through Sir Walt. Mildmay. ff. 13 b, 14.

14. Speeches of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper, against retaining "the Frenche denyzens into England"; [ 1576]. f. 15;-on the best means "to have fewer Frenchemen or none at all"; [1576] (see Archæologia, xxxvi. p. 346). f. 15 b;-to the Queen at Greenwich, "after the readinge of tharticles sent by Mr. Smythe out of Fraunce"; 1563 (see Harl. MS. 398, f. 46b). f. 18;-on the admission of Francis Rhodes and John Popham as Serjeants at Law; 25 Jan. 1578. f. 18 b.

15. A letter apparently addressed to Edmund Scambler, Bishop of Peterborough, expostulating with him on the want of a preacher at Northampton, on the conduct of his chancellor, "a naughtie man," and on the state of his diocese generally; 27 Sept. 1578. Attributed here (in the table of contents) to Ascham, evidently in error; in Harl. MS. 398, f. 51 b, to Sir N. Bacon; and in Harl. MS. 677, f. 37, to the Earl of Leicester. f. 20.

16. Sir Nich. Bacon to Lord Rob. Dudley, on the traffic to the Narve, in the Baltic; [5 Apr. 1564] (Cal. St. Pap., p. 237). f. 20 b;-"to Mr. Secretary [Cecil], towchinge William Bonde and John Foxall," merchants trading to the Narve; [Nov. 1564] (ibid., p. 246). f. 21.

17. "Tobye Mathewe" [Matthew] to Lord Cromwell, on a cause between the latter and one Androwes, concerning an advowson; Hampton Court, 20 Jan. 1576[7]. f. 21 b.

18. "Mr. Secretary [Cecil] to the Erle of Bedford at Barwick," in answer to a request for advice as to his "affaires and service there," as Captain of Berwick, etc.; [Feb. 1564]. f. 24.

19. Two letters of advice from Sir Thomas Wyat to his son; Paris, 15 Apr., n.d. (Printed in Nott's Works of Surrey and Wyatt, ii. p. 267, as written "from out of Spain," 1538 or 1539.) ff. 25, 25 b.

20. Letter to Lord Burghley, "towchinge the Q. of Scottes," urging her execution, as a "daungerous trayteresse and pestelence of Christendome"; London, 6 Sept. 1572. f. 26.

21. Thomas Norton, "Remembrauncer of London," to "Mr. Jeames Hawes, Lorde Maior," on the importance of his office, bidding him to remember "howe greate a thinge is the L. Maior," etc.;[1574]. f.28.

22. [Sir Philip Sidney] to the Queen, dissuading her from "the marriage of Mounsieur " [the Duke of Alencon]; [Nov. 1579]. (Cabala, 1691,p.334.) Imperfect, wanting a leaf in the middle. f.32.

23. Qu. Elizabeth to [Tho. Young], Archbishop of York, commanding him to revoke an "advocation" of the prebend of Wetwang, and to bestow it upon Roger Ascham, in accordance with a grant from herself in the first year of her reign; [20 June, 1566]. (Ascham's Works, ed. Giles, ii. No. lxxvii). f. 35.

24. [Joannes Sturm ?] to-, on the good conduct of his son Edward "in Academia nostra"; Strassburg, 4 Dec. [circ. 1560]. f. 38 b.

25. [Sir Nicholas Bacon?] to one of the Judges, commending his "frend Mr. Spurlinge of Grayes Inne" as a counsel; "From my howse besides Charinge Crosse"; 20 June, 1578. f. 38 b.

26. "Ed[mund Grindal], Arch[bishop] of Yorke, to the L. Keeper," on "certeine sclaunderous printed libells," emanating from "rancke trayterous papistes," etc.; Bishopthorpe, 5 Oct. 1573. f. 40b.

27. "A lettre of Mr. Deeringe [Edward Dering, rector of Pluckley, etc.] to the Duke of Norfolk," on the eve of the latter's execution; [1 June, 1572]. f. 40 b.

28. Thomas Cartwright, the Puritan, to - Travers, on the death of Robert Travers, his son, at Geneva; Geneva, 1574. f. 41.

29. Thomas Norton to "Mr. Anthonye" [Bacon?], on the death of his father [Sir N. Bacon]; 20 Feb. 1578[9]. f. 42.

30. Order from Qu. Elizabeth to the Bishops, to suppress "prophecienge," etc.; Greenwich, 7 May, 1577. (Strype, Grindal, p. 574.) f. 44 b.

31. "Mr. Fr[ancis] Bacon to the L. Amb"[assador, Sir Amias Paulet], reporting his interviews with the Queen, Burghley, etc., on his return from France; [Mar. 1579 ?]. f. 46 b. Another letter from Bacon to his father is missing (together with letters from Paulet and Rob. Erle), owing to the loss of a leaf at the end. Vellum; ff. 46. Late xvith cent. Oblong Folio. With bookplate of Richard Towneley, of Towneley, co. Lanc., 1702. Presented by William Amhurst Tyssen Amherst, Esq., M.P.