Add MS 27632

COMMONPLACE book and papers of Sir John Harrington, the poet, with additions. Mostly autograph. The contents are:-

1. Warrant of T[homas Howard, 3rd duke of] Norfolk, to Sir John Harrington, vice-tresurer to the vanguard of the army in France, for payment of troops; Lambeth, 5 June, 36 Henry VIII. [1544]. Signed. f. 3.

2. Orders and ceremonies respecting processions, funeral habiliments, laws of prcedency etc., including the "Allowances of seruantes and blackes at the funeralls of Mary Queene of Scottes at Peturborough on Twesday the first of Aug. 1587." Cf. Harl. MS. 2358. ff. 4, 12.

3. Notes of books and other articles lent by "Father Alvey" to Edward Boys and others; 1558, f. 11.

4. "The Inventory of my masters bookes caryed wth him to Eaton," f. 11 b.

5. Two leaves of Henry de Bractone's treatise "de legibus et consuetudinibus Angliæ." Vellum; xivth cent. f. 26.

6. Almanack for 1612. Printed; with memoranda of letters sent to various persons by Sir J. Harington, 7 Feb.-5 Mar. 1611[2]. f. 28.

7. Miscellaneous Memoranda of Sir John Harrington; including drafts of letters and petitions, bills, memoranda of books, poems, household affairs, etc., ff. 30, 33 b, 41, 44.

8. Translation of Psalms i., iii. and iv. into English verse, f. 33.

9. A treatise on the marriage of the clergy, addressed to [Joseph] Hall [afterward Bishop of Exeter], f. 35.

10. List of plays, including many of Shakespeare's, f. 43.

11. Copy of a remonstrance of the clergy of Ashby [co. Leicester] to the Bishop [of Peterborough], respecting charges of holding unlawful preachings, etc. [temp. Eliz.], f. 47.

12. "The ordre of a Christian Commonwealth," ff. 54, 116 b.

13. "Of the Trinitie. A dialogue betwene the Catholick and the Cacolicke." f. 61.

14. "A question of the Trynytye, dialogue wyse," between Pithanolo gus and Catbolicue f. 72.

15. "Whether usuryo be Lawfull among Christians, and what places be alleadged oil bothe parties, and what usurye is:" a dialogue f. 94. b.

16. "Of the Sabbothe," f. 105.

17. "A Dialogue betwene Neshama, the Sowle, Nephes, the Bodye, and Orthodoxus," f. 110.

18. "Whether it be dampnation for a man to kill hymself," a dialogue between Samuel, Saul, and Solomon; 1578, f. 122.

19. Translation of part of the first book of the, "Elucidarium," a theological dialogue attributed to St. Anselm and to Honorius of Autun; early xvith cent. With drawings in pen and ink. Imperfect at the end. f. 127. At f.53 has been inserted a copy of the letter of the Princess [atfterwards Queen] Anne to Mary of Modena, Queen of James II., excusing her desertion of her father, [25 Nov. 1688.] Paper; xvith and xviith centt. Folio.