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A VOLUME of the Collections made by Sir Julius Caesar, Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, and Master of the Rolls, temp. James I containing the following legal,and miscellaneous Papers and Letters; most of which are originals:-

Notes by Sir J. Cæsar of the Proceedings in the Star Chamber against George Fortune, a pursuyvant, for the releasing of priests for money, 6 July, 1620;-Lord Chancellor Verulam's Speech in the Star Chamber, 14 Feb. 1619;-Large Notes by Sir J. Cæsar, of the case in the Star Chamber against the Dutch, for the emption and transportation of gold, June-December, 1619, with many papers relating thereto ;-Notes by the same, of the case in the Star Chamber against [Thomas Howard] Earl of Suffolk, Lord High Treasurer, and Sir John Bingley, Nov. 1619;-Peter Van Lore's case in the Star Chamber, Nov. 1619 ;-Draft of a patent of confirmation of Queen Anne's grant to Sir J. Cæsar, of the Mastership of St. Catherine's Hospital, dat. I James I. ;-Letter of Ric. Etheryngton touching the Stewardship of the forest of Pickering, co. York, 14 May, 1596 ;-Notes of the Manors of Yaxley, and Avlton, co. Hunt. and Warmington, co. North., " to be begged of the King," 11 Aug. 1605 Note of things to be granted by lease, 14 Nov. 1608 ;-Draft of a grant of lands to Sir J. Cæesar ;-Letters patent of Queen Elizabeth, appointing Charles, Lord Howard of Effingham [afterwards Earl of Nottingham], Lord High Admiral, 8 July, 1585, Lat. ;-Note of the plate and jewels bought and given away by the King's Majesty, since his coming into England, and what was in the cofers left at her Majesty's death, 2 Sept. 1607 ;-Assignation of forfeitures by the Kings to private persons, 6 Aug. 1607;-Note of licences granted by the King since his coming, for transportation of goods, and the losses thereby, 19 Aug. 1607;-Note by Sir J. Cæsar of Sir John Fortescue's [Chancellor of the Exchequer] means of gain, 26 Nov. 1608;-

Warrant for payment of £46 to Sir Richard Sackville, Knt., Under treasurer of the Exchequer, for his expenses in attending the Queen at Windsor, 17 May, 1564 ;-Note by Sir J. Cæsar of the gifts made by Queen Elizabeth to Sir Robert Cecill [afterwards Earl of Salisbury] when Secretary of State;

-Notes of old debts between 1 Edw. VI. and 30 Eliz., the names of the grantees, the sums granted, and the sums yet recovered, 4 Aug. 1610;-

Note of the debts assigned to [George Home] Earl of Dunbar, by Letters patent of James l., 4 Feb. 1606;-" Guiftes to the Scottishmen, since the Kings coming, penult. Nov. 1610 " ;-Annuities granted to Scottishmen, and payable out of the Exchequer, 11 Nov. 1608 ;-A Discourse touching the precedency of Masters of the Chancery and Serjeants at Law, 7 Oct. 1604 Certain pretended reasons that Serjeants at the lawe ought to preceade the Doctors of the lawe, 21 Sept. 1604 ;-Laws of Sea government amongst the Dutch shippers, translated from the Dutch, 16 Oct. 1600;-List of the Cardinals at the death of Pope Sixtus V., 1590, Ital. ;-

Project of the undertakers for setting at work all the poor children in Middlesex, 28 Dec. 1602; -Oath taken by Sir J. Cæsar, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, 3 July, 1606 ;-Copy of Letter of Dr. Cæsar Adelmare [father of Sir J. Cæsar to Lord Burghley, when Secretary of State, with remedies for the cure of lumbago, 13 Sept. 1563, Lat. ;-Letter of Frederic, Elector Palatine of the Rhine, to James l., requesting payment of the first quarter of his wife's dower, 9 July, 1613, Fr. ;-Draft, in Sir J. Cæsar's handwriting, of Letters from James I. to the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Salisbury, and the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, touching Anne Gunter, supposed to be possessed with a spirit, 10 Oct. 1605 ;-Letter of George [Abbot] Abp. of Canterbury, to Sir J. Cæsar, concerning Richard Kirkham, Henry Dorrell, and Thomas Price, prisoners in Newgate, for not taking the oath of allegiance, 7 June, 1613 ;-Petition of the feoffees of Wm. Stanton, late of East Grenewiche, to the same, touching Lambert's hospital, and the poor there, 17 Jan. 1614;-Copy of Warrant of the Lord High Admiral Howard, for the payment to Sir .J. Cæsar, as Judge of the Admiralty, of 5 per cent. on all prizes brought into the Thames, 19 Sept. 1593 ;-Fine passed by Henry, Lord Compton, of a house and lands at Tottenham, Hil. term, 17 Eliz. Latin ;-Letter of' Henry Hungate [.Son of Sir Julius Cæsar's third wife] to Sir J. Cæsar, 24 Aug. 16l6;Letter of Capt. Henry Woodhouse [brother of Sir J. C.'s third wife,] to the same, 24 Aug. [ 1616. ] ; - Letter of Richard Davies to the same, 24 Aug. [ 1616. ] ;-

Letter of William Trumbull, the Kings agent at Brussels, to the same, 2 Sept. 1616 ;-Letter of Sir George Carew, Lord Carew of Clopton, [afterwards Earl of Totness] to the same, Nonsuch, 3 Aug. 1620;-Letter of Edward, Lord Zouche, to the same, n. d. ;-Letter of George [Abbot] Abp. of Canterbury to the same, 2 Aug. 1620 ;-List of Passports for ships. 27 Jan. 1587 ;-Copy of Letter from Sir J. Cæsar to the Lord Treasurer [Thomas Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, afterwards Earl of Dorset], touching the goods brought in by Sir Robert Mansell, Admi. to her Majesty, 13 March 1601 ; -Copy, of Letter of Sir Christopher Hattton, Lord Chancellor, to the Dean of the Arches, etc., touching causes of the Court of Delegates, 10 Feb. 1589;-Draft of Agreement between Sir J. Cæsar, his second wife Alice,

and Leonard Dent, respecting a farm at Hummerston gate, near Leicester.

5 Feb. 1596 ;-Copy of Letter of [Robert Devereux] Earl of Essex, to tile Lords of the Council, previous to his departure for Cadiz [May 1596] ;-

Address to Queen Elizatbeth on her visit to Sir J. Cæsar's house at Mitcham, in Surrey, 12 Sept. 1598 ; -Tretrastichs on the Roman Emperors, addressd to Sir J Cæsar by [Edumund ?]Bolton, of Trinity hall,Cambridge,11 Dec. 1598, Latin;- Account of the provisions, etc, at Queen Elizabeth's visit to Sir J. Cæsar, at Mitcham, 12, 13 Sept. 1598 Copy of Letter of Matthew [Hutton], Archbishop of York, to [Robert Cecil] Viscount Cranborne, [afterwards Earl of Salisbury,] touching Puritans and Papists, 28 Dec. 1604;-Medical receipts for "an ill breath";-Notesof Sir J. Cæsar touching the election made by the fellows of Christ Church in Cambridge, contrary to his Majesty's commands, 6 Nov. 1609;-" The 2 speeches, dialogue wise, to Q. Elizabeth, at my house at Mitcham, 13 Sept. 1598 ";-

A generall bond made by the subjects of thee K. Majestie, for the preservation of his Highness' person, and the pursuite of his undoubted right to the Crown of England and Ireland, made 1599; - " My Lord Admiral's [Charles Howard, Earl of Nottingham] opinion, being justice of an eyre citra Trentam, touching warrants for deere ; who may grant them by right, and who not," 8 Sept. 1608 ;-Notes by Sir J. Cæsar, of Sir Robt. Cotton, his book of the Exchequer, 10 May, 1610;-Flosculi quarundam Orationum, excerpti ex oribus oratorum, II April, 1610, by the same ;-Copy of Letter from Tho. Ellesmere, Lord Chancellor, to Alderman Sir Thos. Bennet, and Sir Thos. Lowe, touching the payment of a debt due to Sir Robert Gardyner, 15 Jan. 1607;-Account of the revenue of the King of Spain, 2 Aug. 1608 ;-Analysis tractatus pacis inter Anglian et Franciam, anno 1564;-Some notes out of my Lord Treasurer's [Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury] speeches to the Lord Mayor of London, 29, 30 Oct. 1609;-

Greek Ode of Anacreon to Cupid, with Latin translation, delivered before Queen Elizabeth, at her visit to Sir J. Cæsar, at Mitcham [Sept. 1598];-

'The sum of Lord Northampton's [Henry Howard] speech in the Court of Wards, 5 May, 1608 ;-Interrogatories whereupon to examine the prisoners for Essex's conspiracy, 12 Feb. 1600;-Copy of Letter of the Lords of the Council to Sir J. Cæsar and the other Commissioners in the case of the prisoners, 11 Feb. 1600, with papers relating thereto;-Order made in the Court of Wards, 9 June, 1597, concerning the payment of an annuity to the daughters and heirs of John Dent, citizen and salter of London [father of Sir J. Cæsar's second wife],, with the case of the heirs against Francis Dent and others, and copy of John Dent's will, 6 Apr. 1595, and several other papers, 1596 ;-Petition of Edmund Goodcliild, prisoner in the Marshalsea, to Sir J. Cæsar, 30 April, 1597 ;-Notes touching the inconvenience of Starch, and the profit made thereby by the farmers, 19 July, 1596 ;-Indenture tripartite by Henry Thomson, etc., for the settlement of the manor of Bromefelde, co. Camb., and lands in Holt, co. York, on his base son ; enrolled in Chancery, 2 June, 8 Eliz. ;-Papers relating to the affairs of John Dent, Nov. 1588 ;-Instructions on behalf of Michael Lok [husband of Sir Jul. Caesar's mother] late English Consul at Aleppo, against the complaint of George Dorrington [1595] ;-Declaration of' the cause of the displacing of Michael Lok from his office of Consul, 6 Oct. 1595 ;-Two Letters from Lok to Sir J. Cæsar, Dec. Feb. 1587;-Lands of Mich. Lok mortgaged to Rich. Yonge, 3 Feb. 21 Eliz.;-Letter of Wm. [Cecil] Lord Burghley, to Sir J. Cæsar, relative to the complaint of the Wire-drawers, 21 Aug. 1594, accompanied by the original petition of the Wire-drawers to Lord Burghley, on vellum;-Note of Radulph Agas touching surveyors, and against the turning of copyholds into freeholds, 5 Nov. 1606 ;-Letter of Lady Anne Heydon to Sir J. Cæsar, concerning the manors of Feildalling, Saxlingham and Hindringham, co. Norf 21 oct. 1606;-Note by Radulph Agas, Of what he is able to perform, 17 Nov. 1606;-Papers relating to the case of Sir John Parker, and Elizabeth, his wife, Dec. Jan. 1614;-Case of the will of Robert Pyke, late of St. Katharine's, Surgeon, 31 July, 1583 ;-Draft of Articles alleged against Richard Tliomas of' St. Katharine's, Lat. ;-Copy of a bill to be presented to Parliament, in favour of the Wire workers, 17 Feb. 1592;-Letter of Thomas Smithe, secretary to the Earl of Essex, to Sir J. Cæsar, in favour of Richard Nash. 19 July, 1593;-Presentment of the Jury touching Mordone River [the Wandle], co. Surrey;-" Dispatch of the King's Commandments unto me by Sir Thos. Lake, Knt., Nov.-Dec. 1613 ";-Notes by Sir J. Cæsar of the case between Sir John Stafford, Knt., and his son-in-law, Wineard of the Wardrobe, 19 May, 1613 ;-Papers relating to the Prisoners connected with the Powder-l)lot, in Nov. 1605 ;-Letter of H. Lovelace and John Bilby, concerning Nettleton, co. Linc., 30 July, 1604 ;-Verses by R. A., entitled " The Countreyman's opinion touching the uniting of the two Kingdoms, England and Scotland ";-Letter of Nicholas Saunderson to Sir J. Cæsar, respecting the purchase of Heling, etc., co. Linc., 7 Aug. 1605;-

Letter of Thomas Cæsar [afterwards knighted, brother of Sir J. Caesar], 5 Aug. 1605;-Particulars of the manor of Eastmeane and Meanchurch, CO. Hants, 21 April, 1591 ;-Act of Court for the placing of the Lady [Alice] Cæsar's gentlewoman in the pew next to her lady, at Mitcham Church, claimed by John Hasillrigge, 30 Oct. 1605;-Warrant to Thomas, Lord Buckhurst, Lord High Treasurer, and Sir John Fortescue, Knt., Chancellor of the Exchequer, ranting a lease in reversion of certain lands to Sir J. Cæsar, 42 Eliz. ;-Draft in Sir J. Cæsar's hand, of a Grant from the Queen to himself and Bevys Bulmer, of a Patent for Lighthouses, with Reasons for the same, 4 March, 1584, with fair copies of the " Reasons -Petition of Sir J. Cæsar for a Patent for the gauging of vessels for beer and ale, 6 May, 1587 ;-Petition of Sir Robert Stewart for the same;-

" The difference betwene the sute of the Erle of Oxford and the sute of Sir Robert Stewart," 17 May, 1587 ;-Sir Thomas North, his exceptions against the suit of surveyor of the gaugers of beer and ale, 9 Jan. 1591 ;-

Draft of a Letter respecting the two daughters of John Dent, wards of Sir J. Cæsar, 13 Dec. 1599 ;-Particular of the rents of all the lands belonging to the Lady Cæsar and her two daughters, 20 May, 1607 ;-Original Tender of Marriage of Julius Cæsar, the younger [second son of Sir J. Cæsar], to Mary Dent, 8 July, 1604;-Original Tender of Marriage of Charles Cæsar [third son of Sir J. Cæsar], to Mary Dent, 24 Sept. 1606 ;-

Copy of Letter from William [Cecil], Lord Burhley, Lord Treasurer, to Alice Dent, widow [afterwards Lady Caesar], offering her the wardship and marriage of her two daughters, for £1000, to be paid to the Queen, 15 Jan. 1595 ;-Accounts of Sir J. Cæsar, in the matter of Elizabeth and Mary Dent, 1595-1605 ;-'Particulars of Sir J. Caesar's estate, 20 May, 1607 ;-

Agreement between Sir Henry Savell, the younger, and Sir J. Cæsar, for the marriage of Mary Dent with the former, 16 June, 1607 ;-Notes by Sir J. Cæsar, in the case of the Advowson of Rushton, co. North., between Sir Louis Tresham, and Clement Gregory, 14 Jan. 1612;-Petition of the farmers of the Mineral and Battery Works, to the Earl of Pembroke and Sir J. Cæsar, the Governors of the Company, 26 June, 1613 ;-Letter of Edward, Lord Zouche, to Sir J. Cæsar, 11 June, 1613;-Petition of Henry Knevet, of Harting, co. Sussex, to the Privy Council ;-Letter of the Lords of the Council to Sir J. Cæsar, in the matter of H. Knevet, 12 April, 1589; -Letter of James Altham, Baron of the Exchequer, to the same, 13 Sept. 1613;-Protest of Michael Lok, concerning money due to him from the Levant Company, 15 July, 1599, Ital. with an English translation ;-Letter of Sir John Swinarton to Sir J. Cæsar, 20 Oct. 1613 ;-Letter of Sir Drue Drury, to the same, 27 Dec. 1613;-Two Letters of [George Villiers] Duke of Buckingham, to the same, 5 July, 1620, 11 Feb. 1619 ;-Letter of H. Bacon to the same, 6 Jan. -;- " A note of such writtinges as Sir Richard Martine, Knight [father-in-law of Sir Jul. Cæsar], hath receaved from Mr. Dilke, concerninge Sir Walter Lewsonnes debte," 3 July, 1610:-

Letter of Sir Rich. Martyn to Sir J. Cæsar in the matter of Sir Walter Leveson's debts, 26 Sept. 1610;-" Some of Sir Richard Martine's debtes dewe to him ";-Letter of Dr. W. Crashaw, testifying Sir Thomas Cæsar's godly disposition, on the morning he died, 15 July, 1610;-Sir J. Cæsar's Notes of the cause between Lodovic Stuart, Duke of Lennox [afterwards of Richmond], and Gervase, Lord Clifton, 1610;-Note of the lease of the manor of Milton, co. Surr., to the Lord Treasurer, 18 July, 1592 ;-Rates of the Custom-house for the subsidy and poundage inwards, 29 May, 1594 -Particular of the Castle of Tallawgharne, co. Caermarth., 39 Eliz. ;-

Note of certain manors grantable from the Queen's Majesty in fee farm, viz., Hudon and Edington, co. Berks, Exford, co. Som., and Honyborne and Winterborne, co. Glouc.;-Two Letters of Sir Rich. Martyn, in the matter of Sir Rich. Leveson, 17 June, 1611 ;-List of the Sheriffs of Northamptonshire, I Hen. II.-33 Hen. VIII., extracted from the Pipe Rolls;-Note of the lands whereof Richard Cecill, Esq., died seized, 7 Edw. VI. Folio. [12,497.]