A. Fol. 1. Latin speech of Queen Elizabeth to the University of Oxford, Sept. 28, 1592: beg. 'Merita et gratitudo': printed in Elizabethan Oxford (Oxf. Hist. Soc., vol. viii), pp. 271-3, from a later copy (MS. Tanner 461, fol. 171v) which presents some textual differences.

B. Fol. 2. Translation into English of the Pro Marcello of Cicero by Queen Elizabeth and in her autograph (a late non-calligraphic hand), on paper water-marked with the Crown and initials E R: beg. 'Of my longue scilence'. See English Historical Review, vol. xxix, p. 271; Bodleian Quarterly Record, vol. i, p. 22. The Old Catalogue describes this article as simply 'a translation of one of Cicero's Orations into Old English'; and its authorship has not been known hitherto.

C. Fol. 10. 'Epistola beatae Mariae virginis ad Messanenses', translated out of Greek into Latin by Constantine Lascaris, followed by an English translation; the epistle is printed in Greek and Latin in Migne's Patrologia Graeca, vol. clxi, p. 911 n. [Cr.]