CHAPTER 1.

NUMBER 1 . A letter of the lord treasurer, lord Burghley, to sir Henry Unton, the queen’s ambassador in France, upon that king’s requiring more forces from her. [ Number 1 .] Mr. Rare Lane to the lord treasurer; advice upon occasion of the expulsion of king don Antonio out of his kingdom of Portugal; and what use the queen might make of him to annoy king Philip of Spain. Dated March 7, 1584.
Number 2 . Lord Burghley, his judgment, upon a consultation of the queen and council, concerning a fleet to be sent to the Azores islands, under sir Francis Drake, to assist don Antonio, expulsed his kingdom of Portugal by Philip king of Spain. Digested under certain questions, with answers to each.

CHAPTER 2.

Number 3 . A true answer to the articles exhibited by the lord bishop of Norwich, against sir Robert Jermin, sir John Higham, knights; Robert Ashfield and Thomas Badley, esquires, justices of the peace for the county of Suffolk.
Number 4 . John bishop of Excester to the lord treasurer, lord Burghley; to favour his proceedings against one Randal, a minister in his diocese, of the family of love, holding dangerous principles.

CHAPTER 3 - 4.

Number 5 . Minutes of a warrant to Edward Stafford, esq. For parsonages impropriate, free chapels, guilds, chantries, &c. dissolved, that were concealed. With insertions of the lord treasurer’s hand.
Number 6 . Campion’s letter to the privy-council; offering to avow and prove his catholic religion before all the doctors and masters of both universities; and requiring a disputation.
Number 7 . A relation of the cruel burning of Richard Atkins, an Englishman, at Rome: put into the inquisition there, for disturbing the priest carrying the host.

CHAPTER 5.

Number 8 . Academia Oxoniensis ad dom. Burghleium Epistola gratulatoria.
Number 9 . Exemplum chartae an. 29. Edw. III. Pro juramento vicecomitis. Touching a privilege of the university of Oxford.

CHAPTER 6.

Number 10 . Sales of Edward earl of Oxford. And names of the purchasers. And his debts to the queen.

CHAPTER 7.

Number 11 . Tho. Sampson’s account of the conversion, and divers other historical remarks of the holy life of J. Bradford, martyr Number 12 . A copy of verses, set before a book of Martial Discipline ; exciting the nation to exercise arms; considering the present dangers from foreign enemies. By the author, T. Styward Number 13 . Theodore Beza to the lord Burghley: presenting him with an ancient Pentateuch in six languages, towards the furnishing of the new library at Cambridge Number 14 . The same to the same: moving him to procure the printing of that ancient hexaglot translation of the Pentateuch, likely to prove so highly useful to the Christian world.

CHAPTER 8.

Number 15 . Beza to the lord treasurer Burghley: to favour the request of the council of Geneva for a loan of money in their present distress, by the means of the duke of Savoy. 199.
Number 16 . The syndics and council of Geneva to the lord treasurer: to promote their suit to the queen for a loan of money. The letter sent by Maillet, their agent.

CHAPTER 9.

Number 17 . The answer of Dr. Beacon to the three reasons propounded by the bishop of Coventry and Litchfield, why he should not be chancellor of that diocese.
Number 18 . The complaints of the bishop of Coventry and Litchfield, concerning the hard dealings with him; the earl of Leicester his adversary: in a letter to the lord treasurer.
Number 19 . Overton, bishop of Coventry and Litchfield, to the lords of the privy-council; with a certificate of convicted recusants; and concerning the ill state of his diocese.
Number 20 . lnterrogatories ministered to sir Robert Stapleton, knt. in the star-chamber: concerning abuses done to the archbishop of York at Doncaster, by Scisson the host, (where the archbishop lodged,) himself, and others in the conspiracy.
Number 21 . The public confessions at the assizes in York, read by sir Robert Stapleton and others, of their slanders and abuse of the archbishop. And his answers to each of them.

CHAPTER 10.

Number 22 . The state of the bishopric of St. David’s, and the revenues thereof: sent up to the lord treasurer, upon the decease of the bishop.

CHAPTER 11.

Number 23 . Wright, a puritan, his answers to the matters urged against him, upon his own answers in the consistory: from notes taken thereof by the register.
Number 24 . Wright’s answers to the notes of matters roved against him by sworn witnesses.

CHAPTER 12 - 13.

Number 25 . Ockland’s character of sir William Cecil, lord Burghley, lord treasurer. In heroic verse.
Number 26 . A catechism; containing certain questions and answers touching the doctrine of predestination, and the use of God’s word and sacraments. Formerly bound up with some English Bibles.

CHAPTER 14.

[ Number 26 .] Declaratio eorum quae circa Mendozae, ca-tholici regis legati, commissionem acciderunt; una cum responsione ad ejusdem objecta contra suam majestatem.
Number 27 . The syndics and council of Geneva to the lord treasurer Burghley; to move the queen to relieve them against the army of the duke of Savoy. In French. [ Number 27 .] Epistola serenissimae Scotorum reginae; ab piscopo Rossensi, (ut videtur,) missa. Consolatoria.
Number 18 . A proclamation against retainers.

CHAPTER 15.

Number 29 . Archiepiscopus Eborum Cestriensi episcopo.
Number 30 . The lords of the council to the earl of Darby and the bishop of Chester, concerning the weekly collections to be made in his diocese, for maintenance of popish recusants in prison. [ Number 30 .] The bishop of Winton to the lord treasurer: clearing himself against sir Richard Norton, his officer, that had accused him that he was covetous.
Number 31 . The bishop of Meath in Ireland to the lord treasurer, for the erecting of a free grammar school in a town in that kingdom.
Number 32 . Tobie Matthew, D. D. dean of Durham, to the lord treasurer Burghley. Thanks for his counsel, upon his going down to Durham. The condition of the deanery.

CHAPTER 16.

Number 33 . George Withers, of Danbury in Essex, to the lord Burghley; concerning church controversies, and subscription to the Book of Common Prayer.
Number 34 . A private letter of one Touker to the lord treasurer Burghley: informing him of Englishmen in Rome and of some matters relating to them.

CHAPTER 17.

Number 35 . The vice-chancellor and heads of the university of Cambridge to their high chancellor, lord Burghley: concerning their printing-press, hindered by the stationers’ company of London.

CHAPTER 18.

Number 36 . An abstract taken by the lord treasurer out of the instructions given to monsieur de Grises and Ortel, agents from Holland to the queen: to take on her their protection. In four papers.
Number 37 . The queen’s letter to the duke of Montpensier: upon the murder of the prince of Orange. For the bringing up of his daughters ; to one whereof the queen was godmother.
Number 38 . An original letter of Mary queen of Scots’ own writing, to the lord treasurer Burghley: to favour her cause with the queen, and to assist monsieur Mauvesier, the French ambassador with the queen, in that affair.
Number 39 . Petitions, digested into 34 articles, to be humbly offered unto the queen, her council, and parliament: for a learned ministry to preach the gospel, and pastors, to be resident in every parish: and for further regulation of bishops, officers, and governors of the church.
Number 40 . A writing, containing an answer of the bishops to the book of Articles, offered the last sessions of parliament, anno regin. 27. for ecclesiastical causes: concerning ministers, excommunications, dispensations, nonresidence, &c.

CHAPTER 19.

Number 41 . General propositions ; to be supplied with proofs, by such as his grace should appoint: and other particulars to be gathered. Drawn up by Dr. Drury, a learned civilian, and sent to the archbishop of Canterbury; in order to prevent a commission of Melius inquirendum; endeavoured by a bill in parliament.
Number 42 . Fraternum et amicum de resartienda inter Anglicanae ecclesiae doctores et ministros pace, consilium.

CHAPTER 20.

Number 43 . Cowper, lately made bishop of Winchester, his letter to the lord treasurer Burghley: for a commission to carry down with him, to make inquiry after recusants.

CHAPTER 21.

Number 44 . Three forms of prayer used at court and parliament after Parry’s treason. I. A prayer for all kings, princes, countries, and people, which do profess the gospel; and especially for our sovereign lady queen Elizabeth: used in her majesty’s chapel, and may be used of all persons within her majesty’s dominions. II. A prayer and thanksgiving for the queen ; used of all knights and burgesses in the high court of parliament. Anti very requisite to be used and continued of all her majesty’s loving subjects. III. A prayer used in the parliament only.
Number 45 . A prayer of thanksgiving for the deliverance of her majesty from many dangers, and particularly from the murtherous intention of Dr. Parry. A manuscript.
Number 46 . Parry’s confession in a letter to the queen, written from the Tower after his condemnation. Exemplified from his own paper.

CHAPTER 22.

Number 47 . A treatise, that such papists as of late times have been executed were by a statute of Edward III. Lawfully executed as traitors.
Number 48 . Intelligences sent to secretary Cecyll by Daniel Rogers ; taken and transcribed by him from letters written to several princes of Germany in the year 1569.
Number 49 . John Fox to the lord treasurer: to obtain the queen’s confirmation of his prebend in the church of Sarum.

CHAPTER 23 - 24.

Number 50 . Adrianus Saravia to the lord treasurer Burghley; wrote from Leyden: moving him to counsel the queen, at this dangerous juncture, to assist the provinces, and to take the government of them upon her.

His letter being accompanied with their ambassador’s, coming into England. [ Number 50 .] Laws and ordinances set down by Robert earl of Leicester, the queen’s majesty’s lieutenant and captain-general of all her army and forces in the Low Countries: meet and fit to be observed by all such as shall serve her majesty under him in the said countries; and therefore to be published and notified to the whole army.
Number 51 . The speech of John Puckering, sergeant at law, speaker of the house of commons, to the queen, at the conclusion of the sessions of parliament. regin. Elizab.
Number 52 . Sir Amias Paulet to the lord treasurer, for an assistant in the custody of the Scots queen. Writ from Tutbury.
Number 53 . Instructions given by the queen to Davison, her ambassador to the States of the United Provinces: taking upon her the protection of those countries, upon the Spaniards’ taking of Antwerp. An original.

CHAPTER 25.

Number 54 . Expressions in Dr. Allen’s book, taken notice of in the bill of indictment against Alfield, a Jesuit; who had brought some hundreds of those books into England to be dispersed.

CHAPTER 26.

Number 55 . Sandys, archbishop of York, his prayer after his sermon at St. Paul’s Cross, at a public thanksgiving for the queen’s deliverance from the conspiracy of Ballard and Babbington.
Number 56 . A survey taken of the value of the bishopric of Chichester, upon the death of Curtess, late bishop there.
Number 57 . Proof and evidences from ancient grants of the liberties of the bishop of Ely’s manor of Holborn house. [ Number 57 .] The state of the cathedral church of Norwich: truly set down by William Downyng, in pursuit of his humble petition.

CHAPTER 27.

Number 58 . Minutes of a letter wrote by the lord Burghley to a nameless friend clearing himself of sundry slanders raised of him.
Number 59 . Another letter of the lord treasurer Burghley to his nameless friend; in vindication of himself from a slander upon him of hindering the negotiation between the queen and the king of Navarr.
Number 60 . The earl of Leicester. In answer to the lord treasurer Burghley’s letter to him, upon some informations, as though the earl were not his friend. Justifying himself at large to the contrary.
Number 61 . Philip earl of Arundel, his debts, estates, and circumstances,

CHAPTER 28.