'The order of the procedinge against the Scottish Queene & the maner of her execucion. The sermons, prayars & exortacions apperteyninge to that Accion. Anno 1586', an interesting and detailed account of Mary queen of Scots from her arrival at Fotheringay on Sept. 25, 1586, to her burial at Peterborough on Aug. 1, 1587: beg. 'Anno 1586. Vpon sonday the xxvth day of September was the Scottish Queene brought from Chartley in Staffordshere to the castle of Foringhay'. This appears to be sir Robert Wingfield's Narrative, of which copies are in MSS. Ashmole 781, 830, and elsewhere.

The account of the funeral (fols. 31v-2v) is identical with that printed in Gunton's History of Peterborough (1686) as certified by the dean, dr. Richard Fletcher. At the end are the names 'Lord Mordent of Laightry. Mr William Downeall'.

Fols. iii-iv, 33-4, which formed the original cover of the MS. are fragments from a Latin 14th-cent. Sarum missal or manual written in England.