A collection by Thomas Pound of various papers respecting his adherence to the Roman Catholic religion in spite of thirty years’ imprisonment, submitted to K. James I. in 1604, Date not recorded at time of cataloguing

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Shelfmark: MS. Rawl. D. 320, fols. 1-27b

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(fol. 1) An address to James I.
(fol. 2) A petition submitted by Pound to the Privy Council in 1580, in the name of the Catholics of England.
(fols. 3-6) Copies of letters between Pound and Mr. Tripp.
(fol. 6) Letter to bp. Aylmer.
(fol. 7) Two further addresses to the King.
(fol. 8) Six reasons why the Queen cannot be supreme head of the Church of England.
(fol. 11) Letter to Sir Geo. Crew, Lord Chamberlain, from the Marshalsea, in 1479, "25 yeares agon."
(fol. 13) "The reason shewed of my recusancie."
(fol. 16) An address apparently to the Bishops of the Church of England.
(fol. 27) "An information for his Majestie to understande" the form of a search made by Sir Fras. Popham on Tuesday, June 19, in two Catholic houses in St. John Street, two in Clerkenwell, on in Ivy Lane, and three in Holborn.
(fol. 27b) "A motion for repealinge of the penall statutes against recusants."

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MS. Rawl. D. 320, fols. 1-27b

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