Latin; addressed, "Illustri et Magnifico Angliæ "Cancellario U. U. Domino et amico observan"dissimo."

Fol. 279. A treatise or oration against the Jesuits; in English.

Fol. 319. Heads of the peace between Spayne and England, A.D. 1604; in Latin.

Fol. 339. "Oratio habita per Senatorem Alexandrum "Ronidium Londini die 30 Maii 1604, respondentem "Comiti de Northampton in prima conferentia."

Fol. 342. The Treaty of accord betwixt the Queen and the United Provinces, A.D. 1585; in English.

Fol. 379. The State and Force of the port and other maritime townes in Kent,-bearing reference more expressly to the tonnage of the vessels and boats of the various places, and the several landing-places of the county; of the time apparently of Henry VIII.

Fol. 385. A Letter from Mr. Rosni [afterwards Duke de Sully] to the Queen Regent of France; translated into English.

Fol. 386. Extracts from Rudborne's "Historia "Parva," as to the Life of St. Edmund, Archbishop of Canterbury; made apparently by W. Lambard, the Kentish antiquary.

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Fol. 391. Cardinalis Pole de sua ac Carol. Moroni "suspensione ad Papam Expostulatio."

Fol. 431. The Lord Protector and the Counsell the xxiiiith of June [1549] to Mr. Gregorye. In English; its object being "For encouraging the frequent and dyscrete prenthing of God's hollie word and com"mandement." Signed,-"E. Somerset, R. Riche Canc., "F. Shrewesbury, W. St. John, A.Wyngfeld, Arrendelle, "Edward Mountagu." On the reverse is a communication, of the same date and to a like effect, to Mr. Dr. Raynoldes. They both apply to the West of England, then under the government of the Lord Privy Seal. These and the following Letters, down to fol. 471, are all copies of the original documents.

Fols. 432a.-4346. Letter from my Lord Protector and the Council to my Lord Privy Seal, 29th June 1549, with several signatures. It seems mostly to bear reference to the late rising at Sampford Courtney in Devonshire, occasioned by the recent alterations in the Church Service.

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Fol. 435. From the Lord Protector and the Council, the 10th of July 1549, to the Lord Privy Seal. It begins, We do understand at good length your "contynuall travaill for the scayre of the rabelle in "those partes." Signed by " E. Somerset, W. Petre, "R. Riche," and several others.

Fol. 4366. From the Lord Protector to the Lord Privy Seal, the 12th of July 1549.

Fol. 438a. From the Lord Protector to the Lord Privy Seal, the 17th of July 1549.

Fol. 4386. From the Lord Protector and Council to the Lord Privy Seal, the 18th of July 1549.

Fol. 4396. From the Lord Protector and Council to the Lord Privy Seal, the 22nd of July 1549.

Fol. 442a. From the Lord Protector and Council to the Lord Privy Seal, the 24th of July 1549.

Fol. 4426. From the Lord Protector and Council to the Lord Privy Seal. "the Kyngys Majesties Lord "Lieutenaunt in the West parties;" dated, apparently, the 26th of July 1549.

Fol. 4436. From the Lord Protector and the Council to the Lord Privy Seal, the 27th of July 1549.

Fol. 444a. From the Lord Protector and Council to the Lord Privy Seal, apparently the 17th of July 1549, but query.

Fol. 446. From the Lord Protector and Council to the Lord Privy Seal, the 28th of July 1549.

Fol. 447. From the Lord Protector and Council to

the Lord Privy Seal, the 10th of August 1549.

Fol. 449a. From the Lord Protector to the Lord Privy Seal, "Leutenaunt of the West parties," the 8th of August 1549; signed only "E. Somerset."

Fol. 449b. From the Lord Protector and Council to the Lord Privy Seal, the 10th of August 1549.

Fol. 4506. From the Lord Protector and Council to the Lord Privy Seal, the 10th of August 1549. Fol. 451a. A similar Letter, 11th August 1549.

Fol. 4676. A Letter to the Lord Protector, dated the 7th of October 1549, and signed "Your loving freinde." Fol. 469a. A Letter from the Lord Protector to the Council, at London, 7th of October 1549.

Fol. 470a. To the Lord Protector, the 11th of October 1549, signed "John Russell, Wylliam Harbert."

According to an entry at fol. 29a. in this volume, already noticed, all the above transcripts, from fol. 431, are MSS. " out of John Fox his studye."

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Fol. 481. "Vita B. Edmundi Cantuariensis Archie. piscopi," written in a fine hand of the last half of the 16th century. According to the entry at fol. 29, above noticed, this was also from Fox's study.

The Second Volume of this Collection (No. 538, Vol. 47) is much thicker, and somewhat taller, than the preceding one, and similarly bound in modern morocco leather. A much larger proportion of its contents are original than in the preceding volume; in Petyt's written catalogue, already noticed, they are thus briefly described:-" A Collection of original papers, under the "hands of Queene Jane, Bishop Bonner, Queene Mary, Queene Elizabeth, and of many of the great officers; "and of other papers relating to Religion, and the "Church and Convocation, in her raigne, and alsoe concerning Priests and Jesuites."

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Fol. 2. A copy of a Letter from Edmund Bonner, late Bishop of London, to Queen Elizabeth, dated the 26th of October 1564, from the Marshalsea Prison in Southwark. It is written in Latin, and begins, "Auxi"lium meum a Domino. Serenissima, clementissima, "et optima Regina, salutem, addere etiam . . . . felici"tatem, eamque perpetuam, cum omni meo obsequio "et servitute," and is signed "Edmundus Bonnerus," from "sede tribunalis tui regii in Southwarke." The letter is of considerable length, and in it he appeals to the Queen's clemency, and quotes from the Fathers in support of his conduct in the preceding reign.

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Fol. 3. A fragment of an original Letter of Bonner while Bishop of London, and dated - July 1558. From the mention in it more than once of "Your Grace" it no doubt was written to Cardinal Pole, the then Archbishop of Canterbury. In the latter part, in reference to the heretics then awaiting punishment, is the following passage:Your Grace and my Lord Chancellor, I should doe well to have theym [the heretics] "burnt in Hammersmythe, a myle from my howse here [Fulham]; for then can I giff sentence against theym "here in the Parishe Church very quickly and without 'tumult, or having the Sheriff present.' A somewhat similar letter on the subject of burning the heretics at Hammersmith, addressed to the Lord Chancellor [probably Heath, Archbishop of York] was in existence among the records formerly preserved in the Tower.

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Fol. 4. A curious paper, written probably about 1560, and headed " Bonner's petigre;” making out that he was the bastard son of one Sir Jhon Savage, a priest, who had seven illegitimate children " by three sondry women," the fourth of them being "Edmund Boner, gotten of Elizabeth Frodsam; which, when he was conceived, was sent to Elmesley in Worcestershire, to one Thom. Savage, and after was married to a carpenter called 'Boner,' of Potters Handley, by Malverne Hill. Of this Edmund Boner came D. Darbishere, Chauncellor (?), as the fame talketh." Strype apparently altogether rejects this story.

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Fol. 5. A short Latin address to Queen Elizabeth, on persecution for religion's sake, quoting St. Augustine, and citing the case of King "Nabugodonosor," and Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

Thus far the pagination is in pencil. Here it recommences, with fol. I, in ink.—

Fol. 1. A Letter from Edmund Boner, directed "To "the Kinge's Highnes,' At Roane the ix. day of August. He has been at Lyons and elsewhere, having been sent upon an Embassy, with Thomas Wyat the Elder, to the King of France.

Fol. 3. A Letter from the same "To the ryght "Honorable my very singular good Lorde, my lord Pryvey Seale.' Dated also "At Roan the ix. day of August." A long letter; in it he expresses a hope that he " may sute my proceedings to the King's

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Fol. 7. A Letter of the same date, from E. Boner to the Lord Privy Seal.

Fol. 9. "The Copie of my Letters sent from Blese "[Blois] by Barnabie, secundo Septembris." A Letter by Boner, filled with complaints against his fellow Envoy, Mr. Wyat, whose former imprisonment in the Tower is alluded to. The Letter is very long, and remarkably curious; it is in Boner's handwriting, and the original was intended probably for the Lord Privy Seal. The following is the charge under head IX. :"I can not commend Mr. Wyat, in that in all his factes "and doynges he useth Mason as a God Almyghty, who is as glorious (sic) and as malitious a harlot as ony "that I know; and withall as greate a Papiste, wher he "dare utter it."

Fol. 12. Original Letter of Lady Jane Grey as Queen, signed at the top, "Jane the Queene," dated "the 18th of July in the first yere of our reign," and addressed to "our trustie and well-beloved Sir John Saintlowe and Sir Anthony Kingston, Knight;" commands them to levy forces for putting down the seditious movement against her, and for the purpose of so doing to proceed towards Bucks.

Fol. 13. An original Letter, signed "Mary the Queene" at the top, dated "9th of July 1553, at our "Manour of Kennynghall," and addressed to Sir Edward Hastinges, Knight; reminds him that by reason of the death of her brother, she is now the lawful Queen, and charges "him to have an harte and an ie vigilant " and fully bent to Godes glorye, our honour, the suertie "of our persone, the universalle quyetnes of the whole "realme, specially of that our County of Middlesex."

Fol. 14. Original Letter of the Lords of the Privy Council to the Bishop of Worcester [John Whitgift] dated 28th of May 1581, and signed by Bromley Chancellor, W. Burghley, F. Walsingham, F. Knollys, and others; enjoins him to make enquiry in his diocese as to recusants.

Fol. 15. Original Letter of the Lords of the Privy Council to the Bishop of Worcester, dated the 7th of March 1582, and signed by R. Leicester, F. Walsingham, F. Knollys, and others. A lawsuit is mentioned between John Russell (apparently) of Strentham, Co. Worcester, and Thomas Handforde of Wollashulle, in the same county, as to stopping the course of the river Avon, to the prejudice of the poor, especially. He is requested to mediate in the matter.

Fol. 16. Original Letter of the Lords of the Privy Council to the Bishop of Worcester, against recusants; dated 1st of April 1582, and signed by Walsingham, Hatton, Bromley, Knollys, and others.

Fol. 17. Draft apparently of a long Letter in answer thereto, sent with the Bishop's "Certificates of such as "refuse to come to the church."

Fol. 18a. "Oure opinyon concernynge the proceed"inge with the Jesuytes and Semynarie priestes, and "other Papistes, by such as shalbe appointed to have "conference with them." In the next page a list is given of 25 Protestant Divines, beginning with Dr. Fulke [Master of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge], and ending with Mr. Tower.

Fol. 20. Copy of a Latin Letter of John [Whitgift], Archbishop of Canterbury, to Queen Elizabeth, asking her to nominate one of the Clergymen, whose names he has given, to be a Suffragan Bishop within the Province of Canterbury.

Fol. 21. Letter of Edmund [Grindal], Archbishop of of York, to Matthew [Parker], Archbishop of Canterbury, 4th March 1574. Printed in the "Remains of "Archbishop Grindal," p. 353, published by the Parker Society. In the next page is the draft of Archbishop Parker's answer to it, given in p. 474 of the "Parker "Correspondence," edited in 1853 for the Parker Society by John Bruce, Esq., and the Reverend T. T. Perowne. In addition to those named in the sequel, there are about 25 letters in this volume, written either by Archbishop Parker or his correspondents, which are printed in the volume above-mentioned.

Fol. 25. Original Letter of the Lords of the Council to the Bishop of Winchester [Robert Horne], dated Grenewich 7th November 1573, on the observance of the Book of Common Prayer; signed by W. Burghley, T. Lyncoln, T. Sussex, R. Leycester, and others.

Fol. 26a. "A Copy of a Letter from Gentlemen in "Suffolk to the Councell, concerning favour towards "Ministers." It speaks of an odious name put upon them by certain persons," the name of puritanisme; we detest both the name and herisy: it is a compound "of all the heresies aforesayd. The Papist is pure and immaculate, he hath, short of goodness for himself, plenty for others. The family cannot sinne, the be

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Fol. 266. Written in the same neat hand as the preceding. "A Copy of a Letter from 7 of the Privy "Councell to the two chief Justices, to observe favour "towards Protestants throughout the Circuit."

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Fol. 28. Original Letter from Dr. William Maister, -"To the Right Worshipfull Sir Christopher Heidon, Knight," dated Norwich, 15th of May 1574. Endorsed, apparently by Archbishop Parker," Dr. Mas"ters. How he was handled in Norffolk for putting "down the prophesy men." Master appears to have been Chancellor of Norwich, and in his letter he complains that great people have set him, a poor Chancellor," to carry out commandments which they would have scrupled to carry out themselves.

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Fol. 29. A Letter of Thomas Lamphy to the Archbishop of Canterbury, dated the 3rd of October 1571; as to the discontinuance of his lecture at Whitington College, unless he would sign certain articles. He speaks of himself as having been one of about 30 of the Synod, who wanted certain faults to be removed which they found in the Book of Common Prayer. This letter does not appear in the "Parker Correspondence," abovementioned.

Fol. 30. Part of a Letter in Latin, without a name, addressed to the Archbishop of Canterbury, treating of the Hebrew names of the Deity, Adonai, Elohim, and Jehovah.

Fol. 31. Copy of a list of names of persons, desirous of supporting a Supplication to my Lorde Burley, "Chancellour of Cambridge, for reformation of certain "matters amisse in the new Statutes of that University." Dated the 6th of May 1572, and endorsed,— "The names of such as joyned against the heades, touching the new Statutes at Cambridge."

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Fol. 32. A Letter of Robert Jhonson to the Archbishop of Canterbury, date 14th of August 1571. He had forborne to answer the first of his Lordship's three articles," for that it seemed to me to contayne a licence "of ministering baptism to women, a thing forbidden "by the word of God," for which he has since stood suspended and sequestred from preaching and ministering the sacraments,-" and thereby My Lord and his familye have longer then their accustomed maner "hath been, wanted those most necessary, comfortable, "and Cristian helpes, &c." He offers to make submission on certain terms. This letter does not appear in the "Parker Correspondence."

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Fols. 33, 34. A Letter of the Archbishop of York to the Archbishop of Canterbury, dated 28th of August 1571; and, apparently, the draft of an answer by the latter, dated 8th of September 1571, beginning," Mr. Bullinger's book is done in Lattin, not without the "advice of My Lord Burghley."

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Fol. 35. Draft of a Letter written by Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, to Lord Burghley, 4th June 1571, in reference to the examination of Mr. Goodman and others. Printed in the "Parker Correspondence," p. 381. Fol. 38 (no fols. 36 or 37). The Lords of the Council to Archbishop Parker and Sandys, Bishop of London, 15th of June 1571. Printed in the "Parker Correspondence," p. 384.

Fol. 39. "Mr. Cartwright's refusall to dispute with "Mr. Whitegifte before the Masters of Colledges," 8th of March 1570, 1. The paper is signed by John Whitgifte, Vice-Cancel., Andrew Pern [Master of Peterhouse], and

School and Oxford, and his acquaintance with Mr. Alexander Popham, Mr. Tristram Mitchell, and others. Fol. 45. A long Latin Letter to the Bishop of Ely [Richard Cox], date November 1570; the name of the writer obliterated.

Fol. 47. Copy of an address to the "Auncientes and "Benchers of the Inner Temple," dated 20th of May 1569, and signed by Pembroke, N. Bacon, F. Knollys, and several others of the Privy Council; in reference to the deliberations that had been held in the Star Chamber, in presence of the Archbishop of Canterbury and other Bishops, and some of the Justices, upon the non-attendance at church of several members of the Inner Temple, and their not receiving the Sacrament.

Fol. 48. Original of the address of the Privy Council, dated Windsor, 6th of November 1569, to the Archbishop of Canterbury in reference to recusants. Archbishop Parker has scored in three places with his usual red chalk. Printed in the "Parker Correspondence,” p. 355.

Fol. 50. Original Letter, signed "Elizabeth R." at the top, to the Archbishop of Canterbury, dated Hatfield, 1st of August "in the 13th year of our reign (1571);" charging him to proceed in securing uniformity. Printed in the "Parker Correspondence," p. 386.

Fol. 51. A letter closely written, and in a small and difficult hand. It appears to have been sent to the Bishop of Norwich, but by whom, so far as on a cursory inspection could be ascertained, does not appear. It is, however, endorsed, apparently by Archbishop Parker. "Crane, his leud letter."

Fols. 53, 54. Draft of a Letter from Archbishop Parker to Sir W. Cecil, dated 2nd of February 1570. Printed in the "Parker Correspondence," pp. 375, 6.

Fol. 55. A brief paper in Latin, "Contra Anabap"tistas."

Fol. 57. Apparently the draft of a Letter, headed at the top, "To ye Lord Treasorer;" but endorsed in another hand,-"The Archbishop to Mr. Secretarie, towching Mr. Cartwright's madd brother."

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Fol. 58. A long Latin Letter, signed by the Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford, appealing to the Archbishop of Canterbury for his protection.

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Fol. 59. A draft of a Letter, endorsed "Matthew Cant. to my Lady Bacon of her husbandes binding a poore man to give 5 li. a yeare to a kinesman of "his at Cambridge," dated 6th of February 1567. Printed in the "Parker Correspondence," p. 311; but the above endorsement is there omitted.

Fol. 65. Sir W. Cecil to Archbishop Parker, 15th June (or January ?) 1564: he sends the Archbishop a draft for him to correct, and expresses a fear that the Queen "will be provoked to some offence, that there "is such cause of reformation." Not printed in the "Parker Correspondence."

Fol. 66. Draft of the will of John Story, Doctor in Law.

Fol. 69. A long written paper, endorsed "To Black"well," in reference to a contemplated religious discussion before arbitrators. At this point in the volume, a large collection of papers relative to Blackwell, the Arch-priest," and the Jesuits, begins.

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Fol. 75. A draft of a Letter, not signed, and endorsed, in another hand:-" The cause of this letter proceeded "of Blackwell wordes to the Jesuites, he having exceptions against him." The letter begins,-" Unwillingnes to shewe myselfe either to quick in takeinge, or over tender in brooking, injuries, hath "hitherto not a little (as to me semeth) staide both tongue and pen from due questioning and complayninge."

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"Mr. Blackw[ells] Archpresbyteric: " and then follow 30 reasons, given at length.

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Fols. 94-97. Several pages of very minute and close writing, containing charges against the Jesuits, probably by Blackwell. It is headed,-" A brief collection "of the causes moving me never to yeelde to the "Jesuites Howse, &c." In fol. 95a, under charge 22, the following occurs :-"The catalogue showed unto me was thus, viz., all these here folowing have been in"famed and evil spoken of bie the Jesuites, and such as were Jesuitally affected; whereof though some were not of England, yet I will write them as I "found them, &c." Then follows a list of about 100 persons, foreign and English, commencing with Sixtus V., the then reigning Pontiff, and Queen Elizabeth.

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Fols. 97-105. Two copies-the second in a much clearer hand-of a paper beginning "Right worshipfull," and ending "Your worship's poor afflicted W "Watson." He recounts at great length the hardships inflicted upon him by the Jesuits. He was one of the 24 priests confined in the Marshalsea, that utterly disliked and condemned Babyngton's attempt [against the life of Queen Elizabeth, in 1586]. The following passage also occurs,-" Insomuch as I heard myself a "Scotts Puritane at a noble man's table of Scotland say, that it was the Papists of England that must helpe Kinge Jamee to thi crowne, as Leicester's buke "had given yt him, or els he would never gett yt." Endorsed" April 1577 [a date that is evidently wrong], "A letter from William Watson, a priest, unto Mr. Attorney General." On closer examination, this would probably be found to be a paper of singular interest.

Fols. 106-112. A series of small tracts, finely written, prefaced with their titles, in another hand:-Parsons collections afore his flyghte. The Spainards letters "for the Jesuits to Rome. Parsons labouringe for a "redd cappe."

Fol. 113. Written in a small hand and faint ink, a series of answers, apparently, to the charges contained in fols. 94-97. The paper begins,-"The first [Jesuits "in England] were J. Parsons and J. Campion, sent be theyre Generall, aboute xxii. years agoe." Fol. 114. A Latin Letter, signed

Fol. 116. A short Latin Letter, signed "Vester totus Herring," addressed "To my friend Mr. Thomas "Layer [or Sayer]," and endorsed, in an old hand,— "Garnet, that he hath power to graunt faculty only to "Jesuits, and Mr. Blackwell] to priests."

The papers in this volume, connected with the Jesuits, and the Roman Catholics of England generally, in the time of Elizabeth, are continued to fol. 317. At fol. 318 another class of papers begins.

Fol. 316. Agreement signed by the Lords of the Council to abide by King Edward's limitation of the descent of the Crown: the original document. It is printed in Nichols's "Literary Remains of King Ed"ward VI.," p. 572.

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Fol. 317. A corrected draft, in the handwriting of King Edward VI., headed-"My devise for the succession: "Lady Jane Grey is to succeed to the crown, to the exclusion of his sisters, Mary and Elizabeth. Printed in Nichols's " Literary Remains of King Ed"ward VI." p. 571.

Fol. 318. A draft of proposed sumptuary laws, in English, as to the wear of clothing of various qualities, from persons of the blood royal down to husbandmen; in the handwriting of King Edward VI.-"No hus bandman to weare any died cloth, nor lether tanned or dressed, out of the realme."

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yeilding to weare the cornered cappe." After having been suspended from preaching for refusing to wear the cornered cap, at the urgent request of the people of

Bury, he now agrees to do so in future. Not printed in theParker Correspondence."

Fol. 328. A communication of the Privy Council to the Bishop of Worcester [John Whitgift], as Vice-President of the Marches in Wales, dated 25th of January 1578, as to "daungerous practizes of poperie used in "the house of one Mr. John Edwardes of Chirk, or dwelling neare thereaboute, in the Countie of Denbigh.'

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Fol. 329. Depositions presented to the Privy Council, at the same date, relative thereto.

Fol. 330. The Privy Council again to the Bishop, thanking him for his pains and good discretion therein. Fol. 331. The Privy Council to the Vice-President and Council of the Marches in Wales, 1st of April 1578. Fol. 332. The same to the same, 28th of September 1578; in reference to conformity.

Fol. 333. The Privy Council to the Bishop of Worcester, Vice-President of the Marches in Wales, 8th of February 1579, 80; announcing that Sir Henry Sidney, the Lord President of the Marches, is about to return there and take the duties upon him.

Fol. 334. The Privy Council to the Vice-President and Council of the Marches in Wales, 11th of February 1579, 80; complaining that the house of the Lord President has become in debt to the extent of more than 1,000l.; whereas when the President left, it was out of debt; also, that the fines imposed were never more grievous than now.

Fol. 336. A very long Letter from Dr. Thomas Sampson, apparently to Archbishop Parker, written in an expostulatory tone, dated 9th of November 1574. It is not printed in the "Parker Correspondence."

Fol. 338. A Letter from the Privy Council to the Bishop of Worcester, Vice-President of the Marches in Wales, "from Nonesuch," 18th of June 1580; requesting him to extend the time for a collection of money to be made in the Marches, towards a fund for the relief of the town of Portsmouth, which had lately suffered by fire.

Fol. 329. From the same to the same; Whitehall, 16th of December 1580; as to the system of educating the young gentlemen of England beyond seas, whereby they are nourished and misled in Papistrie."

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Fol. 350 a. A written paper, endorsed "A spiteful speech to Bishops, out of a boke called 'The Harborow ""of a faythfull subject.'

Fol. 350 b. "A short form of thanksgiving to God "for eeasinge the contagious siknes of the plague, "to be used in Common Prayer on Sundays, Wednesdayes, and Frydayes, in sted of the Common prayer

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mayd in the tyme of mortalytye, comaunded by the Bouship of Elye to be used in his Cathedrall Churche at Elye, and the rest of his Diocese."

Fol. 353. "The Bysshoppe of Winchester, for the "instruction of Mr. Doctor Boner in such tenne articles as he hath put in wryting, and generally in al other "thynges concernyng the Kynges Hieghnes affaires, " and the office committed to the said Doctour Boner "of legation and ambassyate in the Cort of France, sayth as folowyth."-Endorsed "at Vienne,

fols. 1-11 of this volume, notices of which have been already given in this Report.

Fol. 364*. Oaths of certain of the Bishops in 1534, repudiating the Papal Supremacy, namely, Stephen [Gardiner] Bishop of Winchester, John [Stokesley] Bishop of London, Edward [Lee] Archbishop of York, and Cuthbert [Tonstall] Bishop of Durham.

Fol. 371. Letter of John Storey, Bishop of Rochester, to King Edward VI., thanking his Majesty for his preferment. He incidentally mentions the fact that the "conversion of tillage into sheep pastures" has brought decay upon the villages, towns, and cities of England.

Fol. 373. The Queen's will is expressed, under her signature, that married men shall not keep household in Cathedral Churches and Colleges: temp. Elizabeth.

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Fol. 391. "The Recantation made the iiii. day of October by Sir John Cheke, Knight, before the "Quene's Highnes, openly in the Courte, they being at "St. James.

Fol. 392. 'Injunctions given in the Vysytation of "the Reverend Father in God, Nicolas, Bishop of "London, for uniformity in his dioces, in the iiiith yere "of the reign of our Sovereign Lorde King Edwarde "the Sixt."

Same few of the foregoing articles, in addition to those already indicated, may have possibly appeared in print, in the Parker Society's publications, or elsewhere: but the great majority of them, it is believed, have hitherto remained unnoticed by the press, and, in all probability, unexamined.

There are also a very large number of additional papers in Vol. 47, for a detailed description of which opportunity has been wanting in the present Report. The late Mr. John Bruce, F.S.A., on the occasion of his consulting the volume for the purpose of completing the printed edition of the " Parker Correspondence," seems to have paid some attention to the general nature of its contents, and, as the result of his examination, took the pains, in his own handwriting, to draw up a brief summary of the contents, in a classified form. This summary, a memorial alike of his learning, his industry, and his precision, is bound up at the beginning of the volume; and, under the circumstances, it has been thought advisable here to insert it, as being, to some extent, supplementary to this Report.

Mr. Bruce's Summary of the Contents of the Petyt MSS., No. 538, Vol. 47.

"The Letters and Papers in this Volume may be thrown into the following divisions :

I. Fol. 303-314. A translation into Latin (probably by Geoffrey Baker) of the French Chronicle of Edward II. by Sir Thomas de la Moor.

II. Fol. 409-415. Early English Ecclesiastical documents, one a treatise or Confessio, ascribed to Wicliffe De Ecclesia.

III. Papers relating to affairs of Henry VIII.

Fol. 1-11. Letters of Bishop Boner; some of them are later than temp. Henry VIII.; but the chief of them relate to Boner's complaint against Sir Thomas Wyat the Elder, when joined with him on a foreign Embassy.

Fol. 353-364. Boner's instructions on that Embassy. Fol. 365-370. Oaths of Bishops, temp. Henry VII., repudiating the Papal supremacy.

Fol. 371. Letter of Dr. Storey to Henry VIII. Fol. 398-406. Copy of the Will of Henry VIII. IV. Original documents of the reigns of Edward VI., Jane Grey, and Queen Mary.

Fol. 316-319. Edward VI.'s Devise for settling the the succession to the throne on Lady Jane Grey.

Fol. 416-417. Other papers relating to the same subject.

Fol. 417*. Letter of Edward VI. and his Council to Bishop Gardiner.

Fol. 389-396. Ridley's Visitation Articles 1550: the Deposition of Bishop Gardiner by Edward VI., and papers relating to the reconciliation with Rome under Mary.

Fol. 407. Archbishop Cranmer's order for the removal of images out of Churches, 4th February 1547, 8.

Fol. 524. Letter of Sir W. Cecil to the Earl of Northumberland, temp. Edward VI.

Fol. 12. Queen Jane's Letter to Sir John St. Loe and Sir Anthony Kingston.

Fol. 13. Queen Mary's Letter to Sir Edward Hastings.

Fol. 315. Queen Mary's order for the Princess Elizabeth to repair to London, on the occasion of Wyat's Rebellion.

Fol. 409. Sir John Cheke's Recantation, 1556.
V. Correspondence of Archbishop Parker.-

Fol. 18-66, 320–327, 336, 342-352, 364*, 372-382, 419523, 525-592 (end of the volume). These papers are part of Archbishop Parker's Correspondence with the government and his brother Bishops, together with various illustrative papers and letters. They are exactly the same kind of papers as some of those which the Archbishop bequeathed to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

VI. Fol. 14-17, 328-335, 338-341.-Correspondence of the Privy Council with the Bishop of Worcester, as Vice-President of the Marches of Wales.

VII. Fol. 69-302, 383-341.-Correspondence of the Arch-priest Blackwell. These papers seem to be most valuable in reference to the History of the Roman Catholics in England during the latter part of the reign of Elizabeth and that of James I.

At the moment of closing this Report, I have received the following communication from Mr. J. E. Martin, the Librarian of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple; who has added therein to the obligations I feel myself under to him for the courtesy and attention which I have experienced at his hands.

"Besides Vols. 46 and 47 of No. 538, Vols. 17, 52, "and 54 of 538 contain papers of the same nature; " and a careful inspection of many other volumes would, “I think, reveal papers not noticed either in our own "Catalogue or in the list appended to the Report of the "Record Commission in 1800."

HENRY THOMAS RILEY.

CHETHAM LIBRARY, MANCHESTER.

A folio volume, paper, writing of the 16th and 17th centuries, containing 631 numbered pages.

The contents are miscellaneous, but all relate to Ireland. They comprise portion of a history of Ireland; a description of Ireland; notes of the Peerage of Ireland; lists of fees in different Courts; copies of Acts of Synods; copies of King's letters and Council letters; copies of provincial Statutes; copies of Petitions; a large body of notes regarding Churches and religious foundations in Ireland.

Portions seem to be in the handwriting of Dudley Loftus, and portions in the handwriting of Thomas Preston, Ulster King at Arms.

A full catalogue of contents follows.

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Page 1. Portion of a history of Ireland. Begins, "With this Bartholemus as theire Capen came manye "of that line." Ends (p. 22), so that in processe of tyme desyre of . . . areλ.' The first leaf apparently is wanting, and the last date on p. 22 is A.M. 2535. (The author quotes Stanihurst.)

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Page 23. A description of Ireland. Begins, "Ireland conteyneth, from Knockbrandon in the South, which "is West & by North St. Michael's Mount in Corn"walle." Ends, p. 116, with "The names of the "Irish Lords & Captaines in the four provinces of "Leynster, Mounster, Connacht, & Ulster. (This treatise was composed in 1586, see p. 81.) The descriptions are minute and interesting.

This treatise contains several divisions.
Page 24. The Bishops.

Page 25. The Peerage.

Page 35. Description of all the shires. (This portion appears from a marginal note in p. 38 to have been composed in 1598.)

Page 43. How Ulster is to be kept in peace.
Page 47. Leinster described.

Page 67. Munster described.

Page 75. Connaught described, and how to govern it. (Composed 10 Dec. 1586, see p. 81.)

Page 82. The description and present state of Ulster, the 8th of Feb. 1586.

Page 94. A brief discourse declaring how the service against the Northern rebels may be advanced, and the Connaught tumults in some sort repressed.

Page 101. The general bounds of the co. of Wicklow. (Pp. 82 to 102 are in a different handwriting.) Page 103. The present state of Ireland. The meane of reformation (in parallel columns).

Page 105. Some device to reform the losse and broken estate of Ireland.

Page 113. Annual rents belonging to the Crown in Ireland, 17 Eliz.

Page 116. Names of the Irish Lords or Captains in the four provinces.

Page 117. Letter written about the time of King James the 2d's accession, containing a scheme for encouraging Popery and the Popish interest in Ireland.

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Begins, "I acknowledge the honour of your letter to "be the treater." Ends (p. 147), "wishing his Majesty a long life, happy reign, and all imaginable blessings, both temporal & spiritual, & you a great share of them; abiding your ever humble servant, "A.B."

(The writer notices (at the end of the letter) the great number of ruined parish churches, and recommends that they should be given to the Roman Catholic parish priests, who would endeavour to build them anew.)

Page 148. The practice of the Court of Admiralty. (Only one page of a treatise.)

Page 152. Form of appointment by the Archbp. of Armagh, on behalf of himself and other bishops, of persons to represent them at a General Council at Pisa or elsewhere.

Page 153. Notes of Bishops.*

Page 154. Notes of foundations of abbeys and orders. Page 162. List of chief governors who ended their days in that Government, beginning with Richard de Clare, ob. 1176, ending with Sir James Audeley, ob. 1272.

Page 164. A note of Bishop Bale having at his consecration refused to communicate "in printed bread, "and caused manchet bread to be set on the altar."

Page 166. Final clause of a letter from the Lord Justice and Council to the Governor and Council of Connaught, giving them discretionary power. Signed, R. Colman. No date.

Page 168. Articles containing sundry things to be answered by the Lord Deputy and Council in Ireland, and to be for causes ecclesiastical answered to her Majesty (Q. Elizabeth) (for insuring obedience to the laws established for uniformity of religion).

Page 173. Order of tae Lord Justice and Council for re-edifying churches and enforcing attendance at church.

Page 174. Note of such fees as belong and are to be received by the Judge and Register of Her Majesty's Court of Prerogative for causes ecclesiastical and faculties, and the pursevants and apparitors of the said Court.

Page 184. List of the fees presented by the Lord Archbp. of Dublin and the judges, officers of his Consistory Court of Dublin, considered of by his Majesty's Commissioners for the reformation of fees, and to be further approved of by the Lord Deputy as shall be thought fit, and in the interim the said fees to be generally taken. (For Ireland.)

Page 190. Note of fees commonly received by the Register of the Admiralty and his clerks, there being no table. A.D. 1631.

Page 204. The particular fecs and tenths payable to the clergy of Ireland. Feb. 22, 1632. Copia vera. (The Ulster table.)

Page 210. Modus inthronisandi Archiepiscopum, ex consilio Dudleii Loftus, LL.D., gratia Mich. Boyle. Archiep. A.D. 1663.

Page 212. Delegatio a Convocatione tenta in Ecclesia S. Patricii, episcoporum Corcag. et Elphin, et Will. Fuller Decani S. Pat. ad regiam majestatem.

Page 217. A.D. 1635. King Charles's Commission to Adam Viscount Loftus, Chancellor of Ireland, and others, for the examination and establishment of fees. Page 227. The oath administered to Thos. Johnson, clerk for the execution of the said Commission. Page 229. The fees mentioned at p. 184, supra, and others, to 251. Page 253. A.D. 1453. Statutes of the provincial Council at Limerick. (Latin.) 121 articles. Page 286. Other statutes in 1514.

Page 288. Statutes of provincial Synod at Dublin in the time of Alexr. de Bignor, Archbp. of Dublin. (Latin.)

Page 316. A.D. 1662. Form of profession of obedience and fealty by a Roman Catholic priest to King Charles 2d. Page 317. Judgment of the School of Theology at Louvain on the said formula. Page 320.

A.D. 1662. Letters of recommendation of a Hungarian student by the V.C. of Cambridge. (Latin.)

From the table of contents at the beginning of the volume the contents of pp. 153–161 seem to be by Dudley Lortus.