(fols. 7-16 are blank Contemporary copies of letters in French concerning the attempts of the Dutch to persuade J. J. Scaliger to accept the chair of history at the University of Leiden, comprising: (fols. 4, 5) two letters to Scaliger from Henry IV of France, 1591, 1592; (fol. 6) a letter from the Estates of Holland and West Friesland to one of Henry IV's councillors, 1592.