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.

41. Miscellanies. 1. De Attornatis & Apprentitiis Legis. Querela contra Johanem Regem Scotiæ. 2. K. Edward VIth's Grant of Chantrys in the North. Thomaso Campanello's Discourse of Spain's universal Monarchy. An Oath imposed upon the Protestants in the Palatinate, and other Parts of Germany. The Jesuits Exposition of the 1st and 2d Psalms. A Waggish Description of Scotland. 3. Memorable Proceedings in Parliament 1611. K. James's Speeches to several Parliaments, with the Duke of Buckingham's, Lord-Keeper Williams, Sir Hen. Yelverton's, &c. both the Petitions to the King, with his Majesty's Answer to that called the Apologetick Petition. 4. Considerations upon the Treaty of the Marriage with Spain; the Spanish Inquisition, and Hostilities between England and Spain, from 1558 to 1588. Gerard de Malines Spanish Mercury. 5. Inconveniences by the Heralds giving of Arms. An Answer to the Reasons for that Usurpation. Discommodities that may come into an Army for want of Ensigns and Banners. 6. A Discourse of the Jurisdiction of the High Court of Parliament: Protestation of the House of Commons 1621. Notes of divers Speeches in the said Parliament: Remonstrances. A Kalendar of Ships taken by the Enemy. The Archbishop of Canterbury's Letter to K. James concerning a Toleration. Petition in Parliament concerning Religion. 7. K. Charles Ist's. Speech, 18 June 1625. A Petition for a Fast; the Commons Remonstrance 1628. The Lord's Propositions; An Answer to the Grievances: Petition of Right: Last Remonstrance for Tunaage and Poundage, with several Speeches of both Parties. An Abstract of the Earl of Northumberland's Commission. The Earl of Castlehaven's Speech at his Execution.