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TRANSCRIPTS of miscellaneous tracts and papers rel. to trade, currency and political questions, tempp. Hen. VIII, Eliz. I and Jas. I. The great majority of the documents, especially in the earlier part of the volume, concern matters under consideration by the Privy Council; a number of them occur also in vol. vii of the MSS. of the Duke of Northumberland at Alnwick Castle (Hist. MSS. Comm., 3rd Report, App., p. 51). Included are:-

(1) Petitions to the Privy Council from (a) the clothiers of the North, exhibited 28 Apr. 1605 (ff. 2-3 b), and (b) the merchants of Cities of the Western counties, exhibited 28 Apr. and June 1605 (ff. 4-5b, 9 b), against the increased valuation for Customs of coarse cloths (kersies and dozens), under the Book of Rates of 1604, and praving for a restoration of the Book of Rates of Queen Mary (Hist. MSS. Comm., 3rd Report, App., p. 52; cf. Hist. MSS. Comm., MSS. of Maj.-Gen. Lord Sackville, i, p. 122); also (ff. 8b-9) a petition of the former against the actions of the farmers of the Customs, exhibited May 1605 (cf. Hist. MSS. Comm., Hatfield MISS., xvii, p. 617, and A. P. Newton, 'The Establishment of the Great Farm of the English customs', in Trans. o the R. Hist. Soc., 4th Ser., i, pp. 129 sqq.). Followed (ff. 17-19) by an answer to the clothiers of the North and West, submitted to the Privy Council, 12 June 1605 (cf. Hist. MSS. Comm., Hatfield MSS., xvii, p. 586), and accompanied by other relevant documents, including (a) notes on statutory regulations of weights and measures of cloths for Custom and Subsidy purposes (ff. 6-7), and (b) a letter from [William Cecil, 1st Baron] Burghley, and Sir John Fortescue to the Customs Officers at Exeter and Dartmouth, 2 Apr. 1591 (Hist. MSS. Comm., 3rd Report, App., p. 50). ff. 7b-8.

(2) 'The Proiect and Plattforme of a more ample and richer Contribution ... towardes the defraying of his Maties household chardges'; proposals for the substitution of a sales- or land-tax for the right of purveyance and other charges for the Royal Household, n.d. ff. 10-11b.

(3) Charter party of affreightment of the 'Bonaventure' of London, 1604; followed by a deed of assurance of a cargo of fish from Newfoundland to Toulon and Marseilles on the 'Hopewell' of London, 3 Oct. 1604. ff. 12-14.

(4) Letter from [Richard Bancroft], Archbishop of Canterbury, to [Matthew Hutton], Archbishop of York, rel. to proceedings against recusants, June 1605. Printed in Wilkins, Concilia, iv, pp. 410-412. ff. 14b-16b.

(5) Commission to Robert Spencer, Ist Baron Spencer of Wormleighton, and Sir William Dethick, Garter King of Arms, to invest Frederick, Duke of Würtemberg with the Order of the Garter, [18 Sept.] 1603. Latin. Cf. Hist. MSS. COMM., 2nd Report, App., p. 20; Lord Spencer, 'Lord Spencer's Garter Embassy', in Northamptonshire Past and Present, Northants. Rec. Soc., i, no. 2, p. 1; Ashmole, Order of the Garter, p.4II; Stowe, Annals, p. 828. ff. 19b-20.

(6) Petition from the merchants of London and other ports to James I against alleged abuses committed by makers of white salt in cos. Northumb. and Durh., Mar. 1605 [? 1606]. ff. 20b-21b. Followed by:-(a) counterstatement giving an account of the salt trade and manufacture in those counties, with statistics of costs, etc. ff. 22-24;-(b) Admiralty warrant in favour of Humfrey and Alsoppe Crosse, deputies of Stephen Riddlesden, measurer of coals, grain and salt within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty, 10 June 1603. Latin. ff. 24b-26.

(7) Note of a judgement by the Privy Council on a request by the Spanish Ambassador that a plea before the Court of Admiralty (for the surrender of a Spanish ship captured by the Dutch and brought into an English port) should be tried by the Civil, and not the Common, Law, 1605. Cf. S.P. Dom. 1603-1610, p. 216. ff. 26b-27.

(8) Documents rel. to Ireland, viz.:-(a) Proclamations by the Lord Deputy and Council, recalling commissions of Martial law, and forbidding the carrying of arms, 20 Feb. 1604/5. Cf. S.P., Ireland, 1603-1606, p. 259, and Hist. MSS. Comm., 3rd Report, App., p. 52. ff. 27b-29b;-(b) Agreements by the same with the gentry of the Pale for compositions for cess, 27 June 1592 (S.P., Ireland, 1588-1592, p. 532) and 16 June 1605 (ibid., 1603-1606, p. 289 and Hist. MSS. Comm., 3rd Report, App., p. 53). ff. 30-33;-(c) Proposals for the pacification of Ireland, the introduction of the English language and civilisation, and for the increase of land revenue, n.d. Possibly the project referred to in a letter from John Wilkinson, with proposal that it be submitted to the Privy Council, 19 Feb. 1605 (Hist. MSS. Comm., Hatfield MSS., xvii, p. 60, and cf. a MS. of the Duke of Northumberland in Hist. MSS. Comm., 3rd Report, App., p. 51). ff. 33b-35 ;-(d) 'Important considerations which moued our late Queene to restraine the current of Starling moneis from hence into Ireland'-a report to James I on the effects of the issue by Queen Elizabeth of a debased currency for Ireland, and on the workings of the Irish Exchequer; adapted from a similar report to Queen Elizabeth, dated 21 Dec. 1601, by Thomas and Edward Hayes, printed in S.P., Ireland, 1601-1603, pp. 225-234, a copy of which is in Cotton MS. Otho E. x, f. 271b. Followed (f. 158) by propositions for a 'new project' for Irish coinage [by Edward Hayes], another copy of which is in Cotton MS. Otho E. x, f. 253; cf. also J. S. Brewer and W. Bullen, Calendar of Carew MSS., 1603-1624, pp. 5-7, and Hist. MSS. Comm., 3rd Report, App., p. 53. ff. 152-163;-(e) Accompt forthe making of the new Irish coinage from silver ingots received of Sir Thomas Knyvet[t], [BaronKnyvett 1607], Warden of the Mint, 5 Mar. 1602/3.ff. 164-165.

(9) Letter from the Privy Council to the Lord Treasurer rel. to the renewal of the right of London merchants to levy toll on cloth exported to France, Mar. 1604/5. Cf. Hist. MSS. Comm., 3rd Report, App., p. 52. ff. 35b-36.

(10) Documents rel. to the Union of the Crowns of England and Scotland, viz.:-(a) 'Certen Articles or considerations touching the Union of the Kingdomes of England and Scotland', by Sir Francis Bacon. Printed in Spedding, Heath and Ellis, Works of Francis Bacon, pp. 218-234. Only one copy (Queen's College, Oxford, MS. xxxii. 27) was known to the editors. The present text, which is in substantial agreement, supplies an intelligible reading ('gagge') for the unintelligible 'gap' at p. 232 of the printed text. ff. 37-47;-

(b) Articles of Union agreed by the Commissioners for England and Scotland to be proposed to the Parliaments of the two realms, with the Preface, Acts for authorizing the several Commissioners, etc., 6 Dec. 1604. Cf. S.P. Dom., 1603-1610, p. 173 and Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, iv, p. 263. ff. 119 b- 130b;-(c) Tract on the difficulties in the way of a more complete union, with proposals for the pacification and settlement of the Border, n. d. ff. 149-151 b.

(11) Privy Council order for the better preservation of the peace, 23 June 1605. ff. 47b-49.

(12) Objections of the inhabitants of co. Linc. to the drainage of the Fens, 1605. Cf. S.P. Dom., 1603-1610, p. 290. ff. 49b-51b.

(13) 'A discourse of the Lawes of England': the tract 'The Use of the Law' attrib. to Sir Francis Bacon and printed in Spedding, Heath and Ellis, op. cit., vii, pp. 452-504. Other copies are in Harley MS. 1201 and Sloane MS. 4263, with the latter of which the present text agrees closely. ff. 52-78.

(14) Differences between the Attorney-General, on behalf of the Court of King's Bench, and Sir John Croke, King's Serjeant, and Sir Francis Bacon, on behalf of the President and Council of the Welsh Marches, in a dispute conc. the. jurisdiction of the latter body before the Privy Council, 1604-1605. Two abstracts, the latter agreeing in general with Cotton MS. Vitellius C. i, f. 192, and Add. MS. 25244, f. 84. Cf. also S.P. Dom., 1603-1610, pp. 181- 182 and C. A. J. Skeel, The Council in the Marches of Wales (Girton College Studies, ii), p. 130. ff. 78b-81.

(15) 'The Course of the Lawes of England and the abuses of the ministers thereof, laid open.' A tract on the administration of justice in England, and the abuses to which it is prone, n.d. ff. 81 b-92.

(16) Memorial to James I, [? from Francis Goodwin], against abuses in copyhold and other tenures, and the shortcomings of stewards and officials of royal manors, with arguments in favour of inclosures, n.d. The author refers to himself as one of eight members (named) of a commission from Queen Elizabeth I to make an inquisition of copyhold tenures in various manors in co. Bucks, and as the M.P. who introduced, in the Parliament Of 39 Eliz. I, a Bill for the commodious usage of lands dispersed in the common-fields (for which see D'Ewes, Journals of all the Parliaments during the reign of Elizabeth, 1682, p. 584). He also quotes in full (ff. 94 b, 100b) two long letters addressed by him to a Privy Councillor, the latter dated 12 Mar. 1601/2 from 'my poore house of Buckingham Personage' (f.106b; cf. f. 100b). ff. 92b-111.

(17) Abstract of the Patent granted by James I for the manufacture of saltpetre, 18 Oct. 2 Jas. I [1604] (S.P. Dom., 1603-1610, p. 156), with notes on its working and reasons for its revocation, perhaps drawn up for, or in, the Privy Council following a complaint to the House of Commons, 1606 (Commons' Journals, i, pp. 299, 305, 324, 1004 and Hist. MSS. Comm., Hatfield MSS., xviii, p. 335). ff. 111b-115.

(18) 'Inconueniences obserued in ye proceedinges before the President and Councell of the North', with proposed remedies, [1603-1606]. Cf. R. R. Reid, The King's Council in the North, 1921, p. 354. ff. 115b-119.

(19) Papers rel. to revenue, exchange, etc., viz. :-(a) 'A declaration of the decay of hir Matties, reuenewe, rising by hir Highnes prerogatiue of tenures in Capite', by 'Mr. Sparckes', n.d. ff. 131-139b;-(b)'A discourse of Monopolies and Licences', by [Thomas] Harrison, [1603 (see f. 140b)]. Cf. Cotton MS. Otho E. x, f. 347. ff. 140-143;-(c) Establishment (with wages) of the garrison at Berwick-upon-Tweed as allowed by Queen Elizabeth I and continued by James I, [9 Dec. 1603]- Cf. Cotton MS. Caligula B. i, f. 358, Harley MS. 151, f. 1, and S.P. Dom., 1603-1610, p. 58. ff. 147b-148b;-

(d) Letter from the Privy Council to the Attorney-General [Sir Edward Coke], ordering him to draw up an indenture for the minting of rose rials, spur rials and angels, 2 Apr. 1605. Cf. S.P. Dom., 1603-1610, p. 211. f. 163b;-

(e) Grant by Queen Elizabeth I to William Cecil, [1st] Baron Burghley, Lord Treasurer, for twenty-three years, of the office of Keeper of 'Chaunge, Exchaunge and Rechaunge', 9 Mar., 17 Eliz. [1575]. Another copy is in Harley MS. 251, f. 62. ff. 165b-168b;-(f) Sir Richard Martin, Master of the Royal Mint: treatise on the differences that had arisen between himself and the Warden, dedicated to James I, with petition, [Jan. 1603, see f. 178]. Other copies are in Harley MS. 6364 and Lansdowne MS. 706, ff. 34-57; cf. also Hist. MSS. Comm., 3rd Report, App., p. 230. ff. 170-183 b;-(g)'The gaine of making moneys in the minte', 1612. ff. 211b-212;-(h) 'Reasons against Raysing the Currant value of siluer moneys', 1612. Cf. S.P. Dom., 1611-1618, pp. 129, 143. ff. 212b-213b.

(20) Petition to James I from the Mayor and Burgesses of Newcastle-upon- Tyne, co. Northumb., against abuses of the Guild of Hoastmen, with reply of the latter, [1603]. Printed from MS. Y. ii. 4 at Syon House (Hist. MSS. Comm., 6th Report, App., pp. 222-223) in F. W. Dendy, Extracts from the Records of the Company of Hostmen of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Surtees Soc., CV) 1901, pp. 20-24. Cf. Add. MS. 11402, f. 103. ff. 143b-147.

(21) Three indictments against Sir Richard Empson al. Emson by Juries of the Cities of Coventry and London, [1509]. Latin. ff. 184-187.

(22) Parliamentary petitions and grievances, etc., viz.:-(a) 'The Petition of Right',-the petition of the Commons on behalf of freedom of debate in Parliament, in reference to the right of the Crown to impose customs, [23 May] 1610. Commons' Journals, i, p. 431; Petyt, Jus Parliamentarium, pp. 316-318. Cf. S.P. Dom., 1603-1610, p. 612. ff. 187b-188b;-(b) 'Greivances 1605'-the petition of the Commons to James I against patents and monopolies, etc., delivered to the House 9 Apr. 1606 and to the King 15 May 1606. Another copy is in Harley MS. 6846, ff. 201-207; cf. Commons' Journals, i, April 1606, passim, and D. H. Willson, The Parliamentary Diary of Robert Bowyer, pp.76-I66 passim. ff.189-196b;-(c) Petition of Grievances presented to James I on [7 July] 1610. Printed, with variations in arrangement, etc., in Petyt, op. cit., pp. 318-336. Followed (f. 206b) by 'His Mali,, Answere to 4 greieuances'-the King's interim reply, [ 10 July 1610]. Other copies of the petition and reply are in Cotton MS. Titus F. iv, ff. 133-148 b; Lansdowne MSS. 216, ff. 77-86, 94, 94b, and 486, ff. 161-176b; and Hargrave MS. 132, ff. 53-59, 62, 62b. Cf. S.P. Dom., 1603-1610, pp. 622-623. ff. 197-207;-(d) 'A Memoriall of such resolucions as his Matie, hath taken vppon Examinacion of those greevances w were presented ... at the last Session 1605[6]', [19 Nov. 1606]. Printed in Commons' Journals, i, pp. 316- 318; cf. S.P. Dom., 1603-1610, p. 335, nos. 67-70. Other copies are in Cotton MS. Titus F. iv, ff. 86-92; Harley MSS. 299, ff. 23-37 and 589, ff. 79-83; and Lansdowne MS. 486, ff. 106-111. ff. 207b-211;-(e)'Motiues to induce ... the Comons house of Parlemente to petition ... for the reuokinge & abolishinge of the degree of Barronetts', [1614]. Tract against the creation of, and precedency given to, Baronets. Other copies are in Add. MS. 34218, f. 119b (where it is dated 27 May 1614); Egerton MS. 2541, ff. 15b-18; and Cotton MS. Faustina C. viii, ff. 24-24b. ff. 214-214b.

(23) Sir Charles Cornwallis, tract against a proposal for a marriage between Prince Henry and a sister of the Duke of Florence, [? 1612]. Printed in Gutch, Collectanea Curiosa, i, 1781, pp. 156-160; cf. S.P. Dom., 1611-1618, p. 149. ff. 215-216b.

(24) Tract against the marriage of Prince Henry with a Roman Catholic, beg. 'In the marriage of his highnes there are many things'; n.d. ff. 217-219b.

(25) John Keymer, tract, commonly known as 'Keymer's Book of Observations', on the importance of encouraging manufactures in England and reducing customs, etc.; n.d. The usual introductory address to James I is lacking. Formerly erroneously attributed to Sir Walter Raleigh, and first published under his name in 1653 with the title Sir Walter Raleigh's Observations touching Trade & Commerce with the Hollander and other Nations; subsequently republished as a separate tract, in various editions of his Remains, and in McCulloch, Select Collection of Scarce & Valuable Tracts on Commerce, 1859, and elsewhere (see J. N. Brushfield, Bibliography of Sir Walter Ralegh, 1908,nos.219,262-267). For the evidence in support of Keymer's author ship see A. Buff in Englische Studien, i, 1877, pp. 187-212 and The Academy, 1877, p. 508; cf. also S.P. Dom., 1619-1623, pp. 208, 469. Other manuscripts, which contain a number of variants in the text, include Lansdowne MSS. 216, ff. 133b-144; 798, ff. 78-104b; 811, ff. 7-16; Harley MSS. 5111, ff. 36-42b; 6273, ff. 151-163; Sloane MS. 2179, ff. 24-31b;Add. MS. 48063, ff. 253-260; and Cotton MS. Titus B. v, ff. 231-244b (arranged differently). The present MS. ends with a suggested list of Commissioners for the settling of a State Merchant which does not occur in any of the above printed or manuscript copies; the list includes the name of Sir Daniel Dunne [al. Donne] (d. 1617), whereas A. Buff, loc. cit., dates the work 1622; the present MS. may therefore represent an earlier version. ff. 220-229. Paper; ff. i + 229. Folio. Temp. Jas. I [between 1603-1625]. Heraldic book-stamp of Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland ('the Wizard Earl'), 1564-1632, on front and back covers (Davenport, English Heraldic Book-Stamps, p. 312). See also Hist. MSS. Comm., 6th Report, App., p. 310, no. 115, and Leconfield sale-cat., lot 149.

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Privy Council, The: Transcripts of documents rel. to business under consideration by: circ. 1605.

includes:

• ff. 2-9, 17-19 Customs and Excise: Papers rel. to customs on cloth: 1591-1605.: Copies (17th cent.).
• ff. 2-9, 17-19, 35b-36 Cloth: Papers rel. to customs on, etc.: 1591-1605: Copies (17th cent.).
• ff. 2-9, 17-19, 35b-36 Trade and Commerce: Papers rel. to cloth trade, etc.: 1591-1605.: Copies (17th cent.).
• f. 4 Tiverton, Devon: Petition of merchants of, to the Privy Council: 1605.: Copy.
• f. 4 Dartmouth, Devon: Petition of merchants of, to Privy Council: 1605.: Copy.
• f. 4 Lyme Regis, county Dorset: Petition of merchants of, to the Privy Council: 1605.: Copy.
• f. 4 Taunton, Somerset: Petition of merchants of, to the Privy Council: 1605.: Copy.
• f. 4 Tavistock, Devon: Petition of merchants of, to the Privy Council: 1605.: Copy.
• f. 4 Exeter, Devon: Petition of merchants to the Privy Council: 1605.: Copy.
• f. 4 Totnes, Devon: Petition of merchants of, to the Privy Council: 1605.: Copy.
• f. 4 Barnstaple, Devon: Petition of merchants of, to the Privy Council: 1605.: Copy.
• f. 4 Plymouth, Devon: Petition of merchants of, to the Privy Council: 1605.: Copy.
• f. 4 Weymouth, Dorset: Petition of merchants of, to the Privy Council: 1605.: Copy.
• f. 4 South Molton, Devon: Petition of merchants of, to the Privy Council: 1605.: Copy.
• f. 7 b Exeter, Devon: Letter to the customs officers at: 1591.: Copy.
• f. 7b Sir John Fortescue, Chancellor of the Exchequer: Letter to the Customs officers at Exeter and Dartmouth: 1591.: Copy.
• f. 7b Dartmouth, Devon: Letter to the Customs Officers at: 1591.: Copy.
• f. 7b William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley: Letter to the Customs Officers at Exeter and Dartmouth: 1591.: Copy.
• f. 9b Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland: Petition of merchants of the western counties to: 1605.: Copy.
• f. 10 Revenue: Proposal for a sales or land tax towards expenses of the Royal Household: temp. Jas.I.: Copy.
• f. 10 Purveyance: Proposals for substitution of right of, by sales or land tax: temp. Jas.I.
• ff. 10-11b Political Tracts: Tract on puneyance: temp. Jas.I.: Copy.
• ff. 10-11b Household, Royal: Proposals for a sales or land tax towards expenses of: temp. Jas.I.: Copy.
• ff. 10-11b Taxes: Proposals to substitute a sales or land tax for right of purveyance: circ. 1605.: Copy.
• f. 12 Shipping: Charter party of affreightment of the 'Bonaventure': 1604.: Copy.
• f. 13 b Insurance: Insurance of cargo of fish from Newfoundland to Toulon and Marseilles: 1604.: Copy.
• f. 14 b Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York: Letter to, from the Abp. of Canterbury: 1605.: Copy.
• f. 14b Richard Bancroft, Bishop of London (1597) and Archbishop of Canterbury (1604): Letter to the Abp. of York: 1605: Copy.
• f. 14b Roman Catholics: Letter from the Abp. of Canterbury rel. to recusants: 1605.: Copy.
• f. 19 b Robert Spencer, 1st Baron Spencer: Commission to, to invest the Duke of Würtemberg with the Garter: 1603.: Lat.: Copy.
• f. 19b Sir William Dethick, d 1612 Garter King of Arms: Commission to, to invest the Duke of Würtemberg with the Order of the Garter: 1603.: Lat.: Copy.
• f. 19b Frederick I, Duke of Würtemberg: Commission to invest him with the Garter: 1603.: Lat.: Copy.
• f. 19b Orders Military. Garter: Commission to invest the Duke of Wurtemberg with: 1603.: Lat.: Copy.
• f. 20b James I of England: Petition to, conc. abuses in saltmaking: 1605.: Copy.
• ff. 20-26 Trade and Commerce: Tracts rel. to salt trade and manufacture: 1603-1605.: Engl. and Lat.: Copies.
• f. 24b Navy; England: Admiralty warrant in favour of H. and A. Crosse: 1603.: Lat.: Copy.
• f. 24b Humfrey and Alsoppe Crosse, deputies of S Riddlesden, measurer of coals, grain and salt: Admiralty warrant in favour of: 1603.: Lat.: Copy.
• f. 24b Coal: Admiralty, warrant in favour of H. and A. Crosse, measurers of coals: 1603.: Lat.: Copy.
• ff. 24 b-26 Court of Admiralty: Admiralty warrant to deputies of S. Riddlesdon: 1603.: Lat.
• f. 26b Law OF ENGLAND: Note on Privy Council judgement conc. jurisdiction in dispute over Spanish ship captured by the Dutch, 1605.
• ff. 26b-27 Court of Admiralty: Note on case of captured Spanish ship: 1605.
• ff. 27b, 28b Ireland: Proclamations recalling commissions of martial law and forbidding carrying of arms: 1605.: Copies.
• ff. 30-33 Ireland: Agreements for composition for cess by gentry of the Pale: 1592, 1605.: Copies.
• ff. 33b-35 Political Tracts: Proposals for pacification of Ireland: temp. Jas.I.: Copy.
• ff. 33b-35, 152-163 Ireland: Political tracts on: temp. Jas.I.: Copies.
• ff. 35b-36 Privy Council, The: Letter to the Lord Treasurer rel. to the right of London merchants to levy toll on cloth exported to France: 1605.: Copy.
• ff. 37-47 Scotland: Sir F. Bacon, tract conc. the Union of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland: circ. 1604.: Copy.
• ff. 37-47 James I of England: Tract on the Union by Sir F. Bacon: circ. 1604.: Copy.
• ff. 37-47 Francis Bacon, Viscount St Albans: Tract on the Union of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland: circ. 1604.: Copy.
• ff. 37-47, 149-151 b Political Tracts: Tracts on the union of England and Scotland: temp. Jas.I: Copies.
• ff. 47 b-49 Privy Council, The: Order for the better preservation of the peace: 1605.: Copy.
• ff. 49 b-51 b Lincolnshire, county: Objections to drainage of Fens in: 1605.: Copy.
• ff. 49 b-51 b Drainage: Objections of the inhabltants of co. Linc. to drainage of Fens: 1605.: Copy.
• ff. 49 b-51 b (copies) Fens: Objections to drainage of, in co. Linc.: 1605.
• ff. 52-78 Francis Bacon, Viscount St Albans: 'A discourse of the Lawes of England' attrib. to: n.d.: Copy.
• ff. 52-78 Law OF ENGLAND: A discourse of the Lawes of England', attrib. to Sir F. Bacon: temp. Jas.I.: Copy.
• ff. 78b-81 Wales; Court of the Marches: Papers rel. to differences conc. its jurisdiction: 1604-1605.: Copies.
• ff. 81 b-92 Law OF ENGLAND: Tract on abuses in administration of justice: temp. Jas.I.: Copy.
• ff. 81b-92 Political Tracts: Tract on the administration of justice in England and abuses arising therefrom: temp. Jas.I: Copy.
• ff. 92 b-111 Law OF ENGLAND: Memorial on abuses in copyhold tenures: temp. Jas.I: Copy.
• ff. 92b-111 Tenures: Memorial on abuses in copyhold tenures: temp. Jas.I.: Copy.
• ff. 92b-111 Political Tracts: Memorial [by F. Goodwin?], on abuses in copyhold tenures and in support of inclosures: temp. Jas.I.: Copy.
• ff. 92b-111 Manors and Manorial Documents: Memorial to the King against abuses in copyhold tenures, etc.: temp. Jas.I: Copy.
• ff. 92b-111 James I of England: Memorial to, by [F. Goodwin?], on abuses in copyhold tenures, etc.: n.d.
• ff. 92b-111 Sir Francis Goodwin, MP: Tract on tenures and inclosures by (?): temp. Jas.I.: Copy.
• ff. 92b-111 Inclosures: Tract in favour of: temp. Jas.I.: Copy.
• ff. 111b-115 Gunpowder: Tract on James I's patent for manufacture of saltpetre and gunpowder: circ. 1606.: Copy.
• ff. 111b-115 Trade and Commerce: Papers rel. to manufacture of saltpetre: circ. 1606.
• ff. 111b-115 Saltpetre: Abstract of patent for manufacture of, 1604, with notes conc. proposed revocation: [1606?].
• ff. 115b-119 North; Council of the: Tract on jurisdiction of: [1603-1606].: Copy.
• ff. 115b-119 Law OF ENGLAND: Tract on jurisdiction of the Council of the North: [1603-1606].: Copy.
• ff. 119b-130b James I of England: Articles agreed on by the Commissioners for the Union: 1604.: Copy.
• ff. 119b-130b Scotland: Articles agreed on by the Commissioners for the Union: 1604.: Copy.
• ff. 131-139b Sparckes: Tract on the decay of revenue from tenants in chief: temp. Eliz I.: Copy (early 17th cent.).
• ff. 131-139b Political Tracts: Tract on decay of revenue from tenancies in chief: temp. Eliz.I.: Copy.
• ff. 131-139b Revenue: Tract on the decline of, from tenants in chief: temp. Eliz.I.: Copy.
• ff. 140-143 Political Tracts: 'A Discourse of Monopolies and Licenses', by T. Harrison: 1603.: Copy.
• ff. 140-143 Monopolies: T. Harrison, 'A discourse of Monopolies and Licences': 1603.: Copy.
• ff. 140-143 Thomas Harrison: 'A Discourse of Monopolies and Licences': 1603.: Copy.
• ff. 143b-147 Guilds: Petition of Mayor and Burgesses of Newcastle-upon-Tyne against Guild of Hoastmen, with reply: 1603.: Copies.
• ff. 143b-147 Coal: Petition of the Mayor and Burgesses of Newcastle-upon-Tyne against the Guild of Hoastmen, with reply of latter: 1603.: Copy.
• ff. 143b-147 Newcastle upon Tyne, county Northumberland: Petition by Mayor and burgesses against the guild of Hoastmen, with reply of the latter: 1603.: Copy.
• ff. 147b-148b Revenue: Expenses of the establishment at Berwick-upon-Tweed: 1603.: Copy.
• ff. 147b-148b Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland: Establishment of the garrison at: 1603.: Copy.
• ff. 147b-148b Army; England: Establishment of garrison at Berwick-upon-Tweed: 1603.: Copy.
• ff. 149-151 b James I of England: Tract on the Union, with proposals for pacification and settlement of the Border: n.d.: Copy.
• ff. 149-151b Scotland: Tract on the Union, with proposals for settlement of the Border: temp. Jas.I.: Copy.
• ff. 152-163 Political Tracts: Tracts on the Irish coinage, by T. and E. Hayes: temp. Jas I.: Copies.
• ff. 152-163 Edward Hayes: Tract on the Irish coinage: temp. Jas.I.: Copy.
• ff. 152-165 Coinage: Papers rel. to the Irish coinage: temp. Eliz. I - Jas. I.: Copies.
• f. 163 b Sir Edward Coke, Lord Chief Justice: Letter to, from the Privy Council: 1605.: Copy.
• f. 163b Privy Council, The: Letter to the Attorney-General rel. to coinage of rials, etc.: 1605.: Copy.
• ff. 163 b, 170-183, 211 b-213 b Coinage: Documents and tracts rel. to English coinage: 1604-1612.: Copies.
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• f. 164 Accompts: Accompt for minting new Irish coinage: 1603.: Copy.
• f. 164 Ireland: Accompt for new Irish coinage: 1603.: Copy.
• ff. 165b-168b William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley: Grant to, of the office of Keeper of the Change, Exchange and Rechange: 1575.: Copy.
• ff. 165b-168b Elizabeth I of England: Grant to Lord Burghley of the office of Keeper of the Change, Exchange and Rechange: 1575.: Copy.
• ff. 170-183 b James I of England: Treatise on the Royal Mint dedicated to: 1604.: Copy.
• ff. 170-183 b Revenue: Treatise on the Mint, by Sir R. Martin: 1604.: Copy.
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• ff. 170-183b Sir Richard Martin: Treatise on the Mint: 1604.: Copy.
• ff. 170-183b, 211b-213b Political Tracts: Tracts on coinage and the Royal Mint: 1604-1612.: Copies.
• ff. 184-187 Sir Richard Empson, alias Emson: Three indictments against: 1509.: Lat.: Copies.
• ff. 187 b-21 1 England; Parliament: Parliamentary petitions and grievances, with replies of James I: 1606-1621.: Copies.
• ff. 187b-211 James I of England: Parliamentary petitions and grievances, with the King's replies: 1605-1621.: Copies.
• f. 214 James I of England: Plea for parliamentary action to abolish baronetcies: 1614.: Copy.
• ff. 214-214b Baronetage: Tract against creation and precedency of: 1614.: Copy.
• ff. 214-214b England; Parliament: Motives to induce Commons to petition for revocation of Baronetcies: 1614.: Copy.
• ff. 215-216b Sir Charles Cornwaleys: Tract against the proposed marriage of Prince Henry with the sister of the Duke of Florence: [1612?].: Copy.
• ff. 215-219b Political Tracts: Tracts on the proposed marriage of Prince Henry.: 1612, n.d.: Copies.
• ff. 215-219b Henry Frederick, Princes of Wales: Tracts on proposed marriage of: 1612, n.d.: Copies.
• ff. 220-229 Political Tracts: 'Keymer's Book of Observations': tract on trade and customs: temp. Jas.I.
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