Royal MS 18 A LXVI

'ROBINSONS Eupolemia, Archippus and Panoplia': a strange medley addressed to James I (but originally begun in 1602 for Queen Elizabeth) by Richard Robinson, a London skinner (see Dict. Nat. Biogr.), with Latin verses (ff. 3, 4) addressed to both sovereigns. In three parts, viz.:-

1. Eupolemia; containing a list of nineteen of his printed works, 1576-1599, with their dedications, the reception of them, &c. f. 5.

2. Archippus; including (a) Survey of the wards of London and the suburbs, names of captains, devices on their ensigns, and number of soldiers as mustered in 1588. f. 14;-(b) Account of a sham fight at Myles ende Greene [Mile End], 1588. f. 17 b;-(c) Account of the camp at Tilbury, 1588. f. 18;-(d) Account 'of a fayned treaty or colloquy praetended at Bronckburg [Blankenberghe] in the Netherlands by the Spanish king and his governours there for a peace', 1588. f. 18 b;-(e) Brief account of the defeat of the Spanish Armada, Aug. 1588. f. 19 b;-(f) Verses in Latin by George Buck [? Sir George Buc, Master of the Revels 1608] Theodore Beza (beg. 'Strauerat innumeris Hispanus navibus aequor', pr. 1588, a single sheet), and Robinson himself on the defeat of the Armada. f. 21;-

(g) Another survey of the London wards as mustered in 1599. f. 22;-(h) Extracts from Emanuel van Meteren's Historia Belgica (Antwerp, 1600 ?) in Latin on the voyages of Sir Francis Drake, 1580, 1585, 1587, and Thomas Cavendish, 15986-1588, and the defeat of the Armada. f. 25;-(i) Brief account in English of the eleven voyages of George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland, 1585-1598, and the Cadiz expedition, 1596- f. 27.

3. Panoplia; containing a further list of translations and works executed or planned by Robinson, including a work on the courts of law, which is to be found in Cotton MSS. Vesp. E. VIII, ff. 2-12, and Titus A. XXVI, ff. 208-230, and a tract entitled 'Mercury, marr jarr, malice scourge and make peace', which is appended (f. 32), and consists of a long complaint, accompanied by acrostic and other verses, of slanders uttered against Robinson by Richard Veale, a scrivener's apprentice, the whole concluding with a long 'prayer of a Christian soldyer', texts, &c. Dated 25 May, 1603, 'aetatis meae 58'. f. 32.

Paper; ff. 37. Folio. 101/2 in. x 71/4 in. A.D. 1602-1603. Not in the old catalogues.