Add MS 5947*

First of two volumes in duodecimo (not consecutive) of Historical and Miscellaneous Collections, made at the end of the 17th century and beginning of the 18th century; and chiefly, if not wholly copied from printed books, viz.

1. Poem titled ‘Scepters and Crowns must tumble down’ beginning ‘The glorys of our birth and estate’. (page 1)

2. Poem beginning ‘Tole, tole, gentle Bell, for a soule’. (page 2)

3. Anagram and distich on the Virgin Mary’s name. (page 5)

4. A discovery which are the wine countries, and in particular praise of sack. (Out of Howell’s Family Letters, page 350, ed. 1678). (page 6)

5. A wonderful discovery of the young pretended Prince of Wales, or Perkins sucking bottle. To the tune of ‘Noebody can deny’. Includes ‘Come all you brisk lads and lasses so bonny’. (page 7)

6. Italian Moll, or otherwise Queen Mary her sad complaint against her husband King James. Includes ‘Why am I daily thus perplexed’. (page 13)

7. ‘The manner and forme how the crowne of England, France and Ireland is now limited’. (page 19)

8. The oaths that are to be taken to the new made King William. (page 20)

9. Memorandum of the time of the Prince of Orange’s landing in England, and of their being proclaimed. (page 22)

10. Of the several Kingdoms now united into the Crown of England. (page 22)

11. Number of Kingdoms in Ireland. (page 23)

12. To prove more books than what we now have belonging to the Old Testament. (page 24)

13. ‘Letter of advice to a young Gentleman that was going to trayle a pike in the Low Countries’. (page 25)

14. The story of Joan de Arc, a French Virago, who was taken by the English and burnt for a witch. (page 28)

15. Epitaph upon Joan of Arc. (page 30)

16. St. Augustine’s answer to an impertinent question. (page 31)

17. Why Rome is taken to be Babylon. (page 32)

18. Names of the 7 Hills and 7 Kings of Rome. (page 32)

19. How many times Rome hath been taken. (page 34)

20. The seven sorts of rulers in Rome. (folio 37)

21. How many several nations have inhabited England. (page 38)

22. How many Kings did reign in England in the time of the Heptarchy. (page 43)

23. Kingdom’s formerly in Wales. (page 47)

24. How many natural languages or mother tongues which have no affinity with others, spoken in Europe. (See Howell’s Letters, page 366). (page 48)

25. The names and heads of the Canting Rogues, Vagabonds, and of Women Canters. (See Harman’s ‘Caveat for common Curators’). (page 51)

26. A discourse concerning Popes of Rome. (page 64)

27. Concerning the City of Rome, and the courtesans there. (page 68)

28. The story of Pope Joan. (page 71)

29. More concerning the Popes, and their tyranny and vices. (page 76)

30. The Parisian massacre (Out of De Thou). (page 111)

31. The story of Cardinal Granvil and the Duke of Alva, their cruelties. (page 133)

32. The French Kings have not only outed but created many Popes formerly. (page 139)

33. Verses on an infant whose name was Pope, presented to King James I. (page 142)

34. Description of Ignatius Loyola, the Founder of the Jesuits. (pages 144)

35. How Henry IV of France was stabbed to death by Raviliac. (page 146)

36. Concerning three Popes in Rome at one time. (page 151)

37. A jest made of St. Peter and St. Paul. (page 152)

38. The several titles the Pope assumes to himself. (page 154)

39. Mr. James Howell, his letter to the Earl of Bristow concerning Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, his first entering into Germany. Dated 23 April 1630. (In Howell’s Letters, page 213, ed. 1678). (page 155)

40. Expression of St. Austin, taken out of Howell’s Letters, and Hymn. (In Howell’s Letters, page 345). (page 160)

41. A strange observation between Oliver Cromwell and General George Monck. (page 162)

42. Description of William Evans, King Charles I’s porter. (page 165)

43. Why husbands seek wives, and not wives husbands. (page 166)

44. In what place in Europe it is where Brewers are preferred before Lawyers. (page 167)

45. Story of a Woman that went 28 years with a dead child. (page 167)

46. Of a man riding every day for 5 days together between York and London. (page 168)

47. Remarkable Epitaph on John Heyrick, in the Church of St. Martin, Leicester. (page 172)

48. ‘Observations, that noe country is soe plentifully stored but hath need one of another’. (page 173)

49. ‘In what points the Greeke and Muscovite Church differ from that of the Romish and Reformed’. (page 176)

50. What city is that which is founded in the Waters etc. (Venice). (page 178)

51. When a man dies which is the last part of him that stirs, and which of a woman. (page 179)

52. Of the River Nylus in Egypt. (page 180)

53. King James I’s answer to the Deputation of the House of Commons at Newmarket. (page 185)

54. Quarle’s Epigram upon the soul. (page 186)

55. Verses upon Charles I. (page 188)

56. Places remarkable. (page 189)

57. A wonder about Italy. (page 189)

58. True Greek spoken in the Morea, etc. (page 190)

59. A proof against invocation to Saints. (page 191)

60. Decrees of two councils for setting up and pulling down images. (page 191)

61. Notes upon the Slavonique tongue. (Out of Howell’s Letters, page 357). (page 192)

62. Concerning the Kingdom of Naples. (page 193)

63. Why man is called Microcosmus. (page 194)

64. How Buchanan came off in Italy, when suspected of heresy. (page 194)

65. Upon Lewis [Louis] XIII of France. (page 196)

66. Verses in praise of Venice by Sannazar, and translation, with Mr. James Howell’s observations. (Howell’s Letters, page 50). (page 197)

67. Letter from M. J. Howell to Sir Thomas Hawk, about being invited to supper by Ben Johnson. Dated 5 April 1636. (Howell’s Letters, page 369). (page 200)

68. Historical collection touching the succession of the Crown of England. (page 203)

69. ‘How many times the Crowne of England hath been entailed’. (page 210)

70. Translation of a distich of Ovid. (page 212)

71. Observations upon man’s redemption. (page 212)

72. Hymn upon the Holy Sacrament. (Howell’s Letters, page 400). (page 214)

73. Another Hymn upon the Holy Sacrament. (Howell’s Letters, page 401). (page 216)

74. Verses under the statue of Charles I in the Royal Exchange, made by Dr. Gale. (page 217)

75. ‘Custome formerly observed in Scotland (marcheta mulieris). (page 218)

76. Of a strange way of a deaf person to tell what are said by the motion of the lips. (page 220)

77. Ten persecutions of the Church. (page 221)

78. Epigram made by King James I on the death of Sir Philip Sidney, with a translation. (page 224)

79. A survey of the Spanish Monarchy. (page 226)

80. A treatise of the Spanish women. (page 247)

81. Poem titled ‘The Second Session of the Poets and great Witts that claymed the Lawrell’. Includes ‘Apollo concerned to see the transgressions’. (page 251)

82. Prologue made by Dryden upon a play called ‘The unfortunate Favourite’. (page 274)

83. Verses on the author of a dialogue concerning women, by Dryden. (page 279)

84. Verses titled ‘The unrewarded Lover’. Includes ‘Let the dull merchant curse’. (page 287)

85. A petition against a false mistress. Includes ‘Is there a pious pleasure that proceeds’. (page 292)

86. Address to Sir John Fleet, Knight, Lord Mayor of London. Includes ‘Our great metropolis, like the patriarcks wife’. (page 295)

87. Elegy on the death of Dr. Thomas Saffold, sometimes a weaver. (page 309)

88. Account of William Parr, Earl of Essex. (page 317)

89. Observations on the family of the Tracys by James Yorke in his book called ‘The union of Honour’. (pages 319, 329)

90. The issue of the Kings of England, from William I to Richard II. (Out of the ‘The union of Honour’). (page 321)

91. Character of the mother of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. (Out of the ‘The union of Honour’, folio 94). (page 334)

92. Pedigree of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. (page 336)

93. Pedigree of Stafford, Duke of Buckingham. (page 337)

94. How Raby Castle came to the crown by attainder of Charles Nevill, Earl of Westmoreland. (page 340)

95. Princes of Wales since the conquest. (page 342)

96. Order and Decrees of all sorts of Nobility and Gentry. (page 345)

97. Verses titled ‘The Chaplain’s Petition to the Honourable House for redress of Grievances’. Includes ‘Since the Ladies against me’. (pages 347-353).