Royal Appendix MS 67

MEMORANDUM-BOOK of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Lord Treasurer, circ. 1592. Autograph. The entries are chiefly notes of letters to be written, petitions, and Council business. The only dated entries are of May and June, 1592. At ff. 2, 3 are notes on the pedigree of Egerton of Ridley, co. Chest., Richard Champernoun, and Richard Carew of Anthony, co. Cornw. At f. 9 b is a note of the ships with [Henry Clifford, 3rd] Earl of Cumberland, April, 159[2] and (f. 10) 'in the narrowe seas', 'the riuer of Rown' and 'at Quinborowe', 20 May, 1592, with particulars of men and tonnage. At ff. 4, 11 is noted an application of John Norden, the topographer, for a privilege for printing maps of England, and at f. 11 a similar application from Tycho Brahe, the Danish astronomer, for a book. Paper; ff. 37. 41/2 in. x 3 in. Circ. A.D. 1592. Formerly numbered Add. 6405, taken in 1823 from the 'refuse' of the Royal Library (see note by Sir Henry Ellis, f. 1), but restored to the Royal collection by Sir F. Madden. Not in the old catalogues.