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.