Collections on various points of law: viz. touching proceedings upon criminal information; on the King’s power to restrain persons from leaving or entering the kingdom without licence; of the dispensing power; of the high commission; no man to be twice prosecuted for the same offence; the King can do no wrong.

Abstract of a pamphlet signed J. Veridicus, written upon occasion of the marquess of Halifax’s Letter to a dissenter, and the answers to it.

An account of franchises, and more particularly such as are enjoyed by spiritual persons. Begins, "Franchise is a general denomination for all privileges, exemptions, capacities, and interests."

Of ecclesiastical revenues. Begins, "The revenues enjoy’d by ecclesiastical persons are such as may be distinguish’d into spiritual and temporal."

The sum of certain proposals for increasing his majesty’s revenue of first-fruits and tenths, delivered to the lord treasurer in March 1686, with the answer of some of the auditors to whom they were referred.

Draught of a letter by one of the bishops to the archbishop against a commission "ad melius inquirendum" upon the livings of the clergy, in Q. Elizabeth’s time.

At the end Sancroft has written, "Out of a sheet of paper which came to my hands, and by the character seem’d to be of the times of Q. Elizabeth or the beginning of James I."

Copy of a letter from Dr. Margetson, archbp. of Armagh, to archbp. Sheldon, together with lord Santry’s argument whether a benefice that hath been taxed with first-fruits according to 28 Hen. VIII. may by that statute be retaxed; as also the opinions of serj. Steel and serj. Osburn on the same matter.

Copy of letters patent from James I. to sir Oliver St. John, deputy of Ireland, appointing a commission for the taxation of benefices in that country; 18 Jul 1616.

Notice of Dr. Bradley’s pamphlet intituled A present for Cæsar, with an abstract of an answer to it under the signature D. B. R. V. O. G. J. E. [R. Vaughan, a lawyer,] written by archbp. Sancroft.

A proposition of service to his majesty concerning tenths; heretofore in part, but now more fully offered to consideration by David Waterhouse and others.

Several grounds, reasons, arguments and propositions, offered to the King for the improving of his revenue in first-fruits and tenths; annexed to the petition of James [Compton,] earl of Northampton and others, for a patent of the first-fruits and tenths for the term of thirty-one years at the yearly rent of £60,000; 5 Oct 1660. Signed G. C. [Geo. Carew].

Project (probably in the time of James I.) for raising a fee-farm rent of £100 upon one hundred livings in the King’s gift; and thereupon granting the perpetual patronage to the projector.