Creations of English nobility. English, seventeenth century

Treatise against bishops. English, 1571

Treatise against the episcopacy, in favour of a Genevan form of Church government. Beg.: 'Howe excellent a thinge, and howe greatly to be estemed'; ends: 'wee maye see joye in Jacob, for a reformation, and peace upon the Israell of God'. The date 1 Mar. 1570 appears at fo. 1r. At fo. 110r, at end of work: 'Sit laus deo 12 Nove. 1571 anno aetatis 32'.

Two comedies. Latin, 1600

[Walter Hawkesworth, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, d. 1606], 'Leander', and 'Labyrinthus', two comedies in five acts, with Florentine settings, apparently written for Cambridge commencements. 'Leander' concludes with the date '1599. Jan. 7', and the initials 'H. H.' It was staged at Trinity at the bachelors' commencement, 1603. 'Labyrinthus' was (supposedly) performed before James I at Cambridge in March 1623, It was printed and published London, 1636 (STC 12956). Another MS copy is at CUL, MS Ee.5.16(3).

Sir Philip Sidney, 'The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia'. English, before 1588

Lord Herbert of Cherbury, 'De Veritate'. Latin, 1623

Literary and theological commonplace. English, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

An artificial collection, consisting of the following:

Justification for the war between Frederick II of Denmark and Erik XIV of Sweden. Latin, 1564

Thomas Mangey, Notitia Ecclesiastica Primitivae Ecclesiae a Thoma Mangey D.D. collecta. Latin and Greek, 18th cent

Thomas Baker, History of St John's College. English, 1764

A Horoscope. Latin, 1681

'Horoscopus Nativitatis / Ad diem XXV Aprilis MDCLXXXI., / & horas XI., minuta LVI. horologii / Italici / Sub / Regione, seu Polo graduum / XXXXII., & minutorum / XXXX'. Loose in the vol. is a bifolium, titled 'Parere del Sig' Valentino Melchiorri Comes', with an introductory paragraph in Italian.