Royal MS 19 B IX

MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS, bound together in the 17th century or later, viz.:-

1. Names and arms, in blazon, of the Knights of King Arthur's Round Table. The number is 168, one (f. 8) being omitted, the MS. differing in this particular, and in the order, from the list printed at Paris, 1520 (?). Beg. 'Lamorat de Listenois portoit de pourpre seme de croisettes dor a ung leopards dargent arme de gueules'. f. 1.

Art. 1 is in a late 16th cent. hand. Belonged (f. i) to [John, Lord] Lumley. Lumley cat. f. 152; not in the other old catalogues. Art. 2 is in an early 17th cent. hand.

2. 'Considerations d'estat sur le traicté de la paix avec les serenissimes Archiducs d'Austriche' : a treatise written circ. 1607 by a Hollander who describes himself (f. 36) thus: 'Je suis du grand nombre de ceux qui ont quelque voix deliberative et non du petit nombre de ceux-la qui l'ont resolutive'. The four points discussed are (f. 12 b) ' Faire la paix auec l'Archiduc en reseruant aux Estats la souuerainete-Faire vne tresue pour longes annees-Transporter la Souuerainete au Roy de France-Ou continuer la guerre auec nos forces ioinctes a celles de nos confederez tant en ce pays qu'aux Indes Occidentales'. Beg. 'Certain philosophe a laisse par escrit quil ny a homme si heureux qui puisse scauvoir toutes choses'. f. 12.

3. 'De ne point croire facilement a calomnie, traictie traduict de Latin en wlgaire François': a translation, through the Latin, of, Lucian's Probably an exercise, corrected by a tutor. Beg. 'Ignorance est chose pernicieuse'. f. 37.

Art. 3 is in a hand of the middle of the 16th cent., artt. 4, 5 of the end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th cent.

4. Treatise on the creation of the world and especially of the celestial bodies, with remarks on the science of astrology, forming, perhaps, an introduction to the next article. Beg. 'En vne premiere matiere masse confuse sans fourme de dieu cree nommee, selon les Grecz, yle'. f. 45.

5. 'Prenostique infaillible pour cest an present et plus. Figure du ciel au temps de lintroite du soleil au premier poinct daries, Lan de grace mil cinq cens'. Beg. 'En lan et temps dessusditz se esleuera et metra sus des haultes parties et extremitees de orient vng roy trespuissant'. f. 51. Art. 6 is in a hand of the second quarter of the 17th cent.

6. 'Relation des qualitez heroiques de . . . Baron de Walstain, Duc de Fridlant, de Mechelembourg, &c., generalissime des victorieux et invincibles armées de l'augustissime et tres sacree maison d'Austrice . . . traduict de la langue Allemande en Italien. Imprimé en Ingolstadt et re-imprimd à Trente': French translation of a description of the characteristics and habits of Albrecht Wenceslas Eusebius, Count of Waldstein, al. Wallenstein, Duke of Mecklenburg and Friedland (d. 1634). Written during his lifetime. f. 56.

7. 'Deduction ou remonstrance au Roy de la Grande-Brittannie, la France et l'Irlande, &c., presenté per Ghodefroy Boot.' Dated Dec. 1624. Holograph. The writer claims to have rendered certain services in Holland, offers a cure for the gout, &c. Cf. Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1623-1625, pp. 378, 396, 482. f. 60.

8. '[Copie de] la declaration et depositions que feit Nicolas [Howbert] dict Paris Parisiensis touchant la mort et . . . du feu roy Henry [Stuart, Lord Darnley,] Roy d'Escosse': certified copies by Alexander Hay, 'scriba secreti consilii ac notorius publicus', made at St. Andrews, 9-10 Aug. 1569, of the declaration and depositions of Nicholas Aubert, al. Howbert, al. Hubert, al. French Paris, about the share taken by himself and by James Hepburn, Lord Bothwell, in Darnley's murder [9-10 Feb. 1567] at Kirk-o'-Field. Another copy of the depositions only is in Cotton MS. Caligula C. 1, f. 320, and they are printed in J. Anderson's Collections relating to the History of Mary, Queen of Scots, 1721, ii, p. 192. f. 65. Art. 8 bears (f. 65) the Royal press-mark of a seal (a ship); not in cat. of 1666; CMA. 8688.

9. Two letters of [Marin] de Boisloree (cf. 19 A. X) to the King [James I] in which he sets forth his services to the Crown, especially as 'escuier extraordinaire' to the late Duke of Lennox and Richmond [Ludovic Stuart, 2nd Duke of Richmond, d. 1624] in France, and begs the King's assistance; n. d. [1624-1625]. f. 78. Paper; ff. i + 89. Folio. XVI-XVII centt.