Elizabeth Elstob (transcr.), Anglo-Saxon Homily on St Cuthbert. English, Old English and Latin, 1709

Treatises on experimental and observational science. Latin, 1623

According to Cowie, this is 'evidently the common-place book of a student at Rome, at the beginning of the 17th century'

Tractatus de habitibus vitiosis. Latin, seventeenth century

'Tractatus de habitibus vitiosis', in sixty meditations. No date, but apparently of the early seventeenth century. An 'index' (properly a table of contents) has been prepared at the end, but since the work has never been foliated no pagination has here been attempted.

John Comenius, 'In Januam rerum', etc. Latin, c. 1643

Jan Amos Komensky alias John Comenius (1592-1670): an apparently complete version of the work published in incomplete form by G. H. Turnbull as Two pansophical works by John Amos Comenius (Prague, 1951).

Sir William Cornwallis the younger, Encomium of Richard III. English, before 1611

John Cowell, 'Interpreter or Vocabularie'. English, c. 1613

The State of Europe. English, c. 1604

'History of Europe etc about the year 1602' (eighteenth-century hand at p. i). Beg.: 'Whereas your lordship as oft hertofore even in the late Queens tyme ...'; ends: 'In which I yett should desyre some tymes to bee, if not a carefull actor, at least a curyous spectator'. Covering in a less than straightforward argument many aspects of European society, economics, learning and politics, the author refers at p. 32 to a work by Anthony Bacon, 'a wyse gentleman'.

Proceedings against Mary Queen of Scots. English, c. 1587

'A Declaration of the proceadynges against the Quene of Scottes'. A contemporary account of the process at law against Mary Stuart, with related material and a collection of sermons and notes for sermons probably compiled by or for Richard Fletcher (d. 1596), Dean of Peterborough and afterwards Bishop of Bristol, Exeter and London, who according to Thomas Baker 'was present and rather over active at the execution of the Queen of Scotts' (fo. 18v).

Thomas Lee (or Lea), 'The Discovery and recoverie of Ireland'. English, [1599]

History of the Life and Death of Mary Queen of Scots. English, seventeenth century

'The Historie of the Lamentable Life and Deplorable Deathe of Marie Queene of Scotts', c. 1630.