Thomas Creech, Bachelor of Theology and Fellow of All Souls, gave a silver Spanish medal, encrusted with pseudo-coral, found in the treasure of a Spanish ship sunk on the high seas in Queen Elizabeth's reign, and fished up from it by Englishmen in 1687. See the Vice-Chancellor's Catalogue, no. 956.

We were next shown a number of white ivory pipes with which all kinds of animal sounds may be imitated. On the tapestries around the crested canopy was a garter with the accompanying French motto as above. In another room I saw the portrait of Ferdinand, the Spanish prince at the age of eight. Again in another room a small virginal all made of glass, beautifully perfumed (parfumiert) with the following inscription on the lid in gilt letters: Cantabis moneo quisquis cantare rogans, Vivat in aethernos Elisabetha dies, which is in English 'Whomsoever one bids sing, let him not refuse', and 'May Elizabeth live in eternity'.

We saw in addition many more costly virginals, instruments, positive organs, and organs of which Her Royal Majesty is a great lover and connoisseur. And amongst others we were shown an instrument or virginal whose strings were of pure gold and silver, and they said the queen often played this very charmingly. In another room we were shown a large chest full of nothing but costly cushions on which the queen sits and reclines.

A Thin Slice of the Sea-Unicorn's Horn, white and solid; the Present of Mrs. Dorcas Dyneley, to whose Great-Grand-Mother, Frances, then Daughter-in-Law to Archbishop Parker, and after the Wife of Archbishop Matthews, Queen Elizabeth gave this very Piece.

A Ruff, or Piccadilly, to wear about the Neck to support the Ruff, and might suit Queen Elizabeth's strictest Proclamation, being but a Nail in the broadest Part. Don. D. Corn. Lee. A Brass Instrument for marking or crisping the Linen. An Indian Gorget, or Ruff, not made of Linen, but Hair woven together in Wefts; it consists of 10 Rounds, six of the inmost of which are entirely red, the rest a yellow white for an Inch in Breadth, and the Remainder of it red. The Wefts are sowed together, and bound about with red Cloth; it is three Inches broad and 19 long. Peaked Lace of different Forms and Fineness. A laced Cravat scarce 4 ½ Inch deep, Temp. Car. 2. A Point Cravat a Foot deep, in the same Reign; its Ribband of Gold and Green. Band Strings, and Knops of Thread, and of Beads both black and white. Breast-Knot of black Bugles and Snail-work. Stomacher embroidered with Silver and Gold; another of Silk with Flowers, curiously shaded with Variety of Colours. Holland Sleeves neatly wrought with black Silk. Sleeves of black Velvet, which Stow tells us was first made by Mr. John Tyce and Englishman near Shoreditch, in Q. Elizabeth's Time. As Heliogabalus was the first who wore Silk Cloths in Rome, so was Cardinal Wolsey the first Clergyman who did the like in England. A pair of Iron-stays or Bodice, which Mrs. W. of L. obliged her Daughter to wear; not so constantly, I presume, as St. Goodrick did his Iron Jerkins, of which he is said to have worn three Suits in the Time of his Hermitage (Legend of St. Cuthbert, p. 81.) Holland Puffles for the Gown Sleeves. Cuffs of Cambrick and Lawn, which in Q. Elizabeth's Time was so rare that all the Merchants in London, had not so much as may be had now in one Linen-Drapers Shop (Stow, pag. 86.) when Mrs. Dinghen van den Pass, a Flemish Knight's Daughter was the first profess'd Starcher in London. Archbishop Dolben's Buttons of Indian Peas tipp'd with Silver, probably when he was in the Army of King Charles I. Button-Molds of antique Forms. Buttons of Gold and Silk, large enough for a Wedding Coat, 1 Jac. 2. Since worn on the Wast-Coat of a Child of five Years old; such the foolish Instability of our Tempers!

A small Fragment of Capt. Eliot's Canoe, wherein he made his Escape from Petty Guaves in the West-Indies, and gave the Governour of Jamaica Notice that the French were coming to surprize that Island, by which Means it was saved: He sailed sixty Leagues without Compass in three Days, and had no Sustenance for himself and two Blacks but a little raw Flesh; for which signal Service K. William gave him the Command of a Man of War. The Canoe hangs up in Greenwich Hospital. A Truncheon of Sir Francis Drake's Ship, wherewith he surrounded the World; Queen Elizabeth order'd it to be drawn up in a little Creek near Deptford, whence this was sent to my Father.

The Misery of War, admirably express'd in most noble Painting upon a Copper-Plate, near two Foot broad, and 2 ½ in Length, every Figure merits a Comment; the various Passions being express'd with so particular a Pathos, as is surprizing. Belshasar's Feast, excellently painted upon Board. It seems to be an Original, as the former indisputably is. The Heads of K. Henry 4. and K. Hen. 5. Charles 5. Emperor, and his Son Philip, King of England and Spain. Queen Mary, and Q. Elizabeth, K. James I. and Q. Anne; his Son-in-Law Frederick K. of Bohemia, and Q. Elizabeth, Mother to the Princess Sophia. The Duke of Alva, Oliver Cromwell, quondam-Protector; Mr. Pym, and Tho. Lord Fairfax, the General. Wicliffe, Tindal and Knox (Don. D. S. Wainwright); Dr. Donne, Mr. Marvel, Mr. Bowles, and Mr. Wales. Old Tho. Par, and Mr. Henry Giles, the noted Glass-Painter; all these in Oil-Colours upon Wood or Cloth. Sir Tho. Gascoigne in small upon Copper. Not to mention Family-Pieces, though some are of good Workmanship, particularly one in Miniature to be worn upon the Breast.

The Survey of the Rivers Ouse, Are and Calder, made by those sent from the Trinity-House at London, when the two later Rivers were made navigable. A Map of Yorkeshire in less than 2 ½ Inches. A Copy of the Prophetick Picture, concerning the Kings of England; the Original is carefully preserved in the Vatican; it was carried to Rome by one Thomson a Priest, about the Year 1626. My late pious Friend Dr. Fall, Præcentor of Yorke, saw it there, An. 1670, and by the Favour of Cardinal Howard procured a Copy of it, whence I took this. It is divided into eight Scenes: In the first, the Crosses are falling down from the Churches, and by the King is writ, A Thief; in the 2d they are re-erected by Queen Mary, by whose Picture is writ, God for the Woman: In the 3d the Church is on a Flame, and by Queen Elizabeth is writ, Persecution. By King James in the 4th, A Goer about, a Man killer, with Axes, &c. and some of the Romish Clergy laid dead. The preceding four are all crowned, but that of the 5th for King Charles I. is at a Distance from his Head, with Armies, &c. The 6th instead of a King hath a headless Trophy, Cannons, Swords, &c. The 7th hath a young Prince at Rest, with his Sword at a Distance: In the 8th are Crosses erected, the Triple-Crown, Cardinals Caps, Crosier-Staffs, &c. the later four have no Words annexed, nor do they now need any. A Drawing of Mr. Will. Kent's, an ingenious Artist now at Rome, where he won the Prize of Drawing this very Year, from all the Students in that Science, for which his Holiness presented him with two Silver Medals of his own Bust, with St. Luke on the Reverse: He was also the first of the English Nation who was admitted into the Great Duke of Tuscany's Academy of Artists, which is an Honour to his Native County of Yorke: This Curiosity was the Present of my worthy Friend Mr. Sam. Gale (Son of the late excellent Dean of Yorke) from whom the learned World impatiently expects the History of the Cathedral of Yorke, wherein he hath made considerable Progress.

The Learned le Long, to the various Editions of the Bible, adds a Chapter of the Concordances, but this, as to the Latin, is before-mentioned, as Concordantiæ, or Index Biblicus, and some of the English: But I shall add others that I have which he wholly omits, as that of Robert Fitz-Henry, of which here are two Editions in 4to. 1578, and 1613, by Chr. and Rob. Barker, the former Printer to Qu. Elizabeth, the later to K. James. He also omits the noted Mr. John Downam's Concordance to the last Translation, allowed by his Majesty's special Privilege to be printed and bound with the Bible in all Volumes. Here are both the Folio Edition 1639, and that in 8vo. 1663. Also Mr. Sam. Newman's (who resided in these Parts of Yorkeshire) An. 1650, Fol. Lond of which the later Editions are commonly called the Cambridge Concordance: That of Rob. Wickens was printed at Oxford, 8vo. 1655.

As to the Book of Common-Prayer, here are the first Edition of Qu. Elizabeth, which is very rare, and another 1580; which having collated with other Editions, ancient and modern, I have noted the Alterations in the Margent: That of K. James's (wherein the Thanksgivings were first inserted) the Persons then prayed for, were K. James and Queen Anne, Prince Charles, Frederick Prince Elector-Palatine, and the Lady Elizabeth his Wife (Mother to the Princess Sophia.) The Scotch Prayer-Book in K. Charles the 1st's Time, printed at Edinburgh 1637, Folio After the K. and Q. follow Prince Charles, and the rest of the Royal Issue (Royal Progeny in the English Books.) Liber Precum publicarum in usum Ecclisiæ Cathedralis Christi Oxon. 12°. 1660. Oxoniæ. This being before the Act of Uniformity took Place, the Queen Mother is not mentioned. The Thanksgiving upon 5 Nov. as well as 29 May, and the rest that are placed after the Psalms, was never, I suppose, printed and bound up in the same Volume with the Prayer-Book 'till the Restoration. In the Book it self, the Prayers for the Parliament, and All Conditions of Men, and the Collect of General Thanksgiving were added, many of the other Collects were altered, and Lessons changed, the Epistles and Gospels were according to the New Translation, which before were in the Old, (witness that 2d Phil. that in the Name of Jesus every Knee should bowe). In the Folio Edition (of which here is a curious one, the Present of his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Yorke) is added the Form and Manner of making, ordaining and consecrating of Bishops, Priests and Deacons. And for the Honour of this his Native Country, be it remembred that the Learned and Judicious Dr. Rob. Sanderson Bishop of Lincoln, did either entirely form and word many of the new Collections and Additional Offices, or at least did more therein than any single Man of the Convocation, by whom he was also desir'd to draw up the Preface. See his Life by Iz. Walton, and as to the true Place of his Nativity, pag. 78. of this Book.

32. A large Manuscript (about 1200 Pages) writ by a Romanist who owns himself to be a Voluntary Exile for Religion in Qu. Elizabeth's Reign, against the Spanish Monarchy, as the common, and only Perturber of Christian Peace and Tranquillity.

34. A Discourse of Ambassages compiled by Sir Henrie Unton (who was twice Ambassadour from Qu. Eliz. to the King of France) which treats of the good Gifts an Ambassadour must be endowed with, both as to the Body and Fortune; of the Number of Ambassadours, of his Preparation for, and Behaviour in his Journey, and before a straunge Prince, during his Abode in a straunge Land, and at his Departure; that Ambassadours are safe by the Law of Nations; whether excusable yf found to practise any Thing against it during his Ambassage. Of the Intercepters of Ambassadours Letters; and, lastly, of the Privileges of Ambassadours in their own Country after their Return.

35. Instructions from Qu. Elizabeth for Sir Francis Walsingham Ambassadour in France, with Letters to and from the Lord Burleigh, Earl of Leicester, Sir Tho. Smith, and other Chiefe Ministers of State, about the French Affairs, and the Queen of Scots, An. 1570, 71, 72.

38. Libri Pascales of the Learned Rob. and Alex Cook, and others, Vicars of Leedes in Queen Elizabeth's Time, and since. The First Register of Births, Weddings and Burials. Temp. Hen. 8.

40. This Volume contains many Tracts, 1. A Treatise of Baronage, their Privileges and Concerns in Parliament. 2. A Collection of such Things as the Earl of Salisbury, Lord Treasurer, thought fit to offer to K. James I. upon the Calling of a Parliament, with some of his Speeches to both Houses; with the first and second Part of his Lordship's Treatise to his Majesty, and his Considerations upon his Majesty's Estate 1610, with the Propositions made thereupon by the King to the Lords of his Council, and their Advice upon the said Propositions. 3. Several Speeches of the Lord-Keeper, Sir Nicholas Bacon, from the Year 1558 to 1571 inclusive. 4. His Oration in the Name of the Nobles, moving her Majesty to marry, with other State Affairs of that Age: Arguments in Parliament that Noblemens Persons be attachable for Contempt. 5. His Letters to the Queen, and several great Statesmen. The Recreation of his Ages, his Prayer, Poems, &c. 6. Queen Elizabeth's Letter to Sir Amyas Pawlet, relating to the Scottish Queen; the Particulars of her Arraignment in Fodringhay Castle, 12 Oct. 1586, with divers Letters, and the Account of her Execution, 8 Febr. following. This Book by the Arms upon the Cover seems to have been the Lord-Keeper Williams's, when Bishop of Lincoln, but was bought of the Lord Fairfax's Executors.

42. The Pedigrees of many of the Gentry of Yorkeshire, with their Arms painted; it concludes in Queen Elizabeth's Time. Don. Rev. Geo. Plaxton Rectoris Bervic.

44. Mr. Sampson Erdeswick's History of Staffordshire writ towards the later End of Q. Elizabeth's Reign, containing the Antiquities of the same: With a Postscript added 1673, shewing that in little more than sixty Years, one half of the Estates had changed their Owners, &c. Don. Rev. Gul. Tong. Coventr.

45. Miscellanies. Q Elizabeth's Speech to her last Parliament. Letters of the Earl of Essex, Lord-Keeper Egerton, Duke of Lenox, with later Transactions in the Reigns of K. James and K. Charles, 1st and 2d of both Names; as also during the Interregnum; the Ministers Reasons against the Engagement: Committees Proceedings against Mr. Case. Proposals for propagating the Gospel in India. Colonel Venable's Instructions from Oliver for subduing the West-Indies.Lady Tirrel's Letter concerning her Father Archbishop Usher's Predictions. Justices of Peace for the West-Riding of the County of Yorke, who were put in and left out by several Revolutions.

46. A Rentall, or Computus of the Archbishop of Yorke, from Mich. last of Eliz. to Mich. 1st of K. James. It is the Original examined by Auditor Johnson. The Present of Mr. Fran. Taylor, who married a Grand-Daughter of the then Archbishop Dr. Mat. Hutton.

49. A Collection of Presidents in the Law, in two Volumes, during the Reigns of Qu. Elizabeth and K. James. As the Gyfte of an Advowson or Presentation to a Parsonage, &c.

121. Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester's Common-wealth, since printed (1641), but perhaps not without Mistakes, if strictly collated; the very first Page of the printed Book, faith the Book of Justice, was evil penned; this MS. (which was writ in Qu. Elizabeth's Time) that ytt was not yll penned.

126. Sapientia Solomonis. Drama Comicotragicum; formerly Qu.Elizabeth's own Book.

132. The Arms of Queen Elizabeth, and the Knights of the Garter, in the Year 1599. Very nobly painted and gilt upon Parchment, bound in Velvet.

This reminds me of another Branch of the Curiosities that I begun to collect of late Years, viz. Original Letters, and other Matters of the proper Hand Writing of Persons of all Ranks, eminent in their Generations. It begins with the Kings of England, and contains the Signs Manual of K. Hen. 5, Hen. 6, Edw. 4, Rich. 3, and Hen. 7. K. Henry the 8th, Queen Katharine Par's Letter to the Admiral, K. Edw. the 6th's to the said Queen; the entire Letter of his own Writing, so one of his Sister the Lady Elizabeth's, both delicately writ: Qu. Elizabeth's Original Instructions for the Lord Evre, Warden of the middle Marshes. Mary Queen of Scots, when Prisoner in Yorkeshire; K. James the 6th of Scotland, the same when King of England; his Daughter Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia: K. Charles the Ist's Letter to the said Queen; the Commeatus for Sir John Burrough, Garter: K. Charles II. when in Exile (to the Provost of Edinburgh); and after his Restoration: His Order for erecting a Monument in Westminster-Abbey for K. Edw. 5, and his Brother, whose murdered Corps were then discovered at the Tower. Prince Rupert, James Duke of Yorke, the same when King of England; William-Henry Prince of Orange, King Will. 3. Qu. Mary 2. and her present Majesty Qu. Anne, whom God long preserve; Prince George, Duke of Glocester, and Princess Sophia, to the Bishop of Sarum.

Of the Bishops before the Reformation, here is only Fisher, of Rochester, and of the Roman Church since, Cardinal Howard, and Bishop Leyburn. But of the Protestants (at the Reformation, and after) Archbishop Cranmer the Martyr; and four Parchments containing the Subscriptions of Archbishop Parker, (of which his Mem. p. 62.) and most of the first Sett of Qu. Elizabeth's Bishops, when they took the Oath of Supremacy. These, and their Successors, are digested Alphabetically; Abbot, Atterbury; Barckley, Barlow, Bentham, Best, Beveridge, Boyle, Bramhall, Brideoake, Bridgeman, Bullingham, Burnet; Compton, Cosins, Cox, Cumberland; Davyes, Dolben, Doping; Fell, Fleetwood, Fowler; Gardiner, Geste, Goodman, Grindall, Guning; Hacket, Hall, Harsnet, Hartstong, Hooper, Hopkins, Hough, Humfreys, Huntington, Hutton; Jewel, Jones, Juxon; Ken, Kidder, King; Lake, Lamplugh, Laud, Leighton, Lloyd, Loftus; Margetson, Marsh, Matthewes, Merrick, Mewe, More, Morley, Morton, Montague; Neile, Nicolson; Palliser, Parker, Parkurst, Patrick, Pearson, Pilkington; Rainbow, Ravis, Reynolds, Robinson; Sandys, Scory, Sharp, Sheldon, Smalridge, Sprat, Stern, Stillingfleet, Stratford; Taylor, Tenison, Thornbrough, Tillotson, Turner; Usher; Wake, Walker, Walton, Watson, Wettenhall, White, Whitgift, Wickham, Wilkins, Williams, Wilson, Worth; Young.

The Original Charters of Edward I. King of England, to William de Vescy; and of John King of Scotland to John de Insula, under the Great Seals of their respective Kingdoms. Letters Patents of K. Rich. 2. K. Henry 8. with this additional Inscription upon the Seal, In terris Supremi Capitis Ecclesie Anglicane; which Title was also recognized by the Clergy, as appeareth by an Indenture of Rob. Prior of Nostell. Queen Elizabth's with the Great Seal of England; and another with that of the Dutchy of Lancaster. K. James I. and his Consort Queen Anne. K. Charles I. and II. Only those of K. Rich. 2. and Jac. I. have lost the Seals. Of the Royal Family, here are Charters of Edm. Earl of Lancaster (second Son of K. Hen. 3.) and John, Constable of England, and Regent of France (third Son of K. Hen. 4.) Of the ancient Nobility, Alice Lascy's (Lacy) Confirmation of Aberford Mills, the Original of that mentioned by Dr. Kennet (Par. Ant. p. 280.) sealed with three Garbs, An. 1274. Johan de Warenne Counte de Surr. a toutes, &c. de la vile de Wakefeud, 7 Ed. I. The Arms Checkie.