Stowe MS 402

COLLECTION of State Trials, etc.:-

1. " The proceedings which happened touching the divorce betweene the Ladye Francis Howard [Countess of Essex, afterwards Countess of Somerset] and Robert, Earle of Essex," Jan. 1613/4. As in Howell's State Trials. f 1.

2. The trials of Richard Weston and others for complicity in the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury. As in No. 396, above, except that the account of Franklin's trial is here the same as that in State Trials, and that the trial of Sir Thomas Monson is given in addition, also corresponding with the account in State Trials. At the end of the trials (f. 24) is a copy of the elegy on Sir Thomas Overbury by Richard Corbett, [Bishop of Oxford 1628, of Norwich 1632], beg. " Hadst thou, like other sirs and knights of worth." f 5.

3. A legal paper on "an Act against abuses in Election of Scholars and presentation to benefices " (31 Eliz. cap. 6), entitled " Mr. Gerard's Reading " [? William Gerard, Reader at Gray's Inn, 1597, or Philip Gerard, Reader at Gray's Inn, 1611]. f. 25.

4. Judgments of Justices Warburton [Sir Peter Warburton, Justice of Common Pleas, 1603-1621] and Tanfield [Sir Laurence Tanfield, Justice of King's Bench, 1605-1607, Chief Baron of Exchequer, 1607-1625] and Sir Edward Coke, on a question affecting the legal constitution of a hospital. f. 30.

5. " A letter written by the Lords of the Counsell to his Majestie to certefle the proceedinge against my lord Cooke [Sir Edward Coke] at the Counsel table "; 26 June, 1616. f. 32. Paper; ff. 33. Early xviith cent. Folio.

State Trials: Reports of, 1521-1666.

includes:

• f. 1 Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex: Divorce proceedings against: 1613.
• f. 1 Frances Devereux, wife of Robert, 3rd Earl of Essex, and (1613) of Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset: Divorce suit against Lord Essex: 1613.
• f. 5 Richard Weston: Report of his trial: 1615.
• f. 5 Sir Thomas Overbury: Trial of his murderers: 1615.
• f. 14 b Anne Turner: Report of her trial: 1615.
• f. 17 Sir Gervase Helwys, Lieutenant of the Tower: Report of his trial: 1615.
• f. 22 James Franklin: Report of his trial: 1615.
• f. 22 b Sir Thomas Monson: Report of his trial: 1615.
• f. 24 Richard Corbett, Bishop of Norwich: Elegy on Sir T. Overbury: 17th cent.
• f. 25 William or Philip? Gerard: Paper on an Act against abuses in election of Scholars, etc.: 17th cent.
• f. 30 Peter Warburton, Justice of the Common Pleas (1649): Judgment on a question affecting a hospital: circ. 1605-7.
• f. 30 Sir Laurence Tanfield, Justice of the King's Bench, afterwards Chief Baron of the Exchequer: Judgment on a question affecting a hospital: circ. 1605-7.
• f. 32 Sir Edward Coke, Lord Chief Justice: Proceedings against: 1616.