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.

A Tract supporting the Bishop of Chalcedon's letter. English, 1629

'A Survey of the Answer to the Bishop of Chalcedon his letter to the Laie Catholicks of England, Sent unto him by the heads of three Regular Orders in England'. The date appears on the title page. A lengthy refutation of the arguments advanced by the Superior of the Jesuits and by the heads of the Benedictine and Dominican Orders challenging the authority of Richard Smith (1566-1655), Bishop of Chalcedon.

John Mundey, 'Sabbatum Redivivum'. English, after 1633

John Mundey [Munday], Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, sequestered rector of Little Wilbraham, Cambs (d. 1653): 'Sabbatum Redevivum. or, Defence of the Lord's Day'. Prefatory dedication to Charles I. A lengthy defence of the fourth Commandment, in fairly moderate terms. Restrained, seemly exercise is sanctioned. The treatise was written early in the king's reign, soon after the reissuing of the Book of Sports [1633].

Notes on St Matthew's and St Mark's Gospels. Greek, Latin and English, before 1598

Notes on the variety of English and Latin translations of the first two Gospels, arranged chapter by chapter, and verse by verse. The spine carries a title in the hand of William Cecil, Lord Burghley (1520-98), somewhat worn: 'Observations (?) of the variete of translations by the English [at Rheims?] and the vulgar in England'. These notes include several references to the Rhemish Testament. St Matthew begins at p. 1, St Mark at p. 145.

'Apologia Turrecrematae'. Latin, 1620

Walter Bayley, of New College Oxford, Regius Professor of Physic (1529-92): 'Parergon explicationis nostrae in tertiam partem Galeni de arte parva ubi agitur de potu convalescentium et senum'. Dedication to an unidentified party dated Cal. Jan. 1582. Apparently never printed.