'Leicester's Commonwealth'. English, seventeenth century

Anon.: 'The Copy of a Letter written by a Master of Arts in Cambridge to his frend in London ... Anno Domini 1584'. The notorious work of a Roman Catholic polemicist hostile to the Elizabethan regime, popularly known as Leicester's Commonwealth, which survives in many copies. Formerly and mistakenly attrib.

Konrad Glesinski, Polish-Slavonic primer. Polish, Latin, English and German, c. 1670

Konrad Gleshinski, or Glesinski (fl. 1670): a Slavonic primer, consisting of alphabets (fos 6r-7v), numbers (fo. 19r-20v), the Epistle to Philemon (fos 8r-16r) and the Lord's Prayer (fos 17r-18v) in four parallel texts: a strongly polonised Church Slavonic (Cyrillic and transliterated), and English and German, both rendered literally. A fulsome Latin dedication to Peter Gunning (1614-84), as Bishop of Chichester (fos 2r-5r), which would date the MS between 1669 and 1675. From fo.

Thomas Sackville, The Complaint of Henry Duke of Buckingham. English, c. 1560

'The Complaint of Henrie Duke of Buckinghame made bye T[homas] S[ackville]', Lord Buckhurst, later Earl of Dorset (1527/36-1608). The Complaint was Sackville's contribution to the second part of the Mirror for Magistrates, first published in 1563 (STC 1248). It has usually been published as two separate works, the Induction and the Complaint, but appears as one under the latter title in this autograph MS.

John Fisher, Month's Mind Sermon for Margaret, Countess of Richmond. English, seventeenth century

'Hereafter followeth a morninge remembrance had at the month mind of the noble princesse Margaret countesse of Rychemonde and Darby mother unto King Henry the vii and grandame to our soverayne Lord that now is, upon whose soule almightie god have mercy': a faithful MS facsimile of the edition published by Wynkyn de Worde in 1509 (STC 10891), complete with copies of the woodcuts and colophon.

Marriage of Charles I and Henrietta Maria. English, c. 1625

'A true Relacion of the treatie and ratification of the marriage concluded and agreed upon betweene our soveraigne Lord Charles ... and the Ladie Henrietta Maria Sister to the French King'. A copy of the marriage treaty of 8 May 1625, signed at the Louvre. Printed in [1642], Wing T3062.

French books in the Library of John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln. French, 1634

Roger Ascham, 'Expositiones'. Latin, 1542-3

Roger Ascham (c. 1515-68): 'Expositiones quaedam antiquae in Epistolam Divi Pauli ad Philemonem ex diversis Sanctorum Patrum graece scriptis commentariis opera ex diligentia Oecumenii collectae et nunc primum Latine versae. Cantabrigiae Anno domini 1542'. The text is printed in Apologia ... Aschami ... pro caena Dominica, etc (1577), pp. 280-96. The dedication copy (dated at fo. 10r 1 Jan. 1543) to Ascham's friend John Seton (d. 1567), also Fellow of St John's (see L. V. Ryan, Roger Ascham (1963), p.

William Davison, 'Elementa Physicae Practicae', etc. Latin, c. 1631

William Davison (fl. 1635-60):

Papers relating to the trial of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford. English, 17th century.

W.H.B. Proby, A revision of the Anglican Psalter pointed for chanting. English, c. 1907-8.

'A revision of the Anglican Psalter pointed for chanting, to which is added a revision of the Benedicte, the Quicunque vult, and the Gloria in excelsis', by William Henry Baptist Proby (1832-1915). Proby studied at Trinity College (BA 1855), was Tyrwhitt Hebrew Scholar (1855), won the Carus Prize (1856), and took a first class in the Theological Examination (1856). He was subsequently ordained, pursued a career in the church and published a number of theological works.