Benefices, prebends, and other spiritual promotions given by the lord keeper from the first day of Jan in the first year of the reign of Q. Elizabeth, until the first of Dec in the eleventh year of her majesty’s reign.

Letters patent addressed to archbp. Parker and others appointing the Court of High Commission; Westminster, 19 Jul 1559. (transcript.)

Letter from the privy council to the lord mayor of London to restrain excess in apparel, gambling, and other abuses; Westminster, 8 Nov 1559. (transcript.)

First draught of Q. Elizabeth’s proclamation against breaking or defacing monuments set up in churches or other public places, in sir Will. Cecil's hand; 19 Sep 1559.

Answer of the Protestant princes to the pope’s nuncios concerning the council of Trent; Feb 1560. (transcript.)

Letter of the Protestant princes to sir Will. Cecil, secretary of state, on the same subject, to which is annexed the letter of the emperor Ferdinand to Pius IV.; 8 Mar 1563. (transcript.)

"The declaracion of Elye otherwyse called Ellys hawle, the carpenters sonn of mannchester in the counte of lanc before the right honorable the earle of bedford, etc." concerning a pretended call by a vision; 18 Jun 1562. At the end in a cotemporary hand, "The same manne was sett on the pillerye in cheape the xxvith of Janry beyng Frydaye with thys superscription in paper (For seducing the people by publyshyng fallce Revelacions.)"

"Short and summary nootes of some sermons preached [during the years 1565 and 1566] at Poulls crosse and ells whear not unprofitable to be remembered." The names of the preachers are: Tho. Bickley, chapl. to the archbp. of Canterbury; John Bridges, of Pembr. Hall, Cambridge; John Bullingham; Egid. Buskell, vic. of St. Lawrence Jewry; ...

"The oracion in effect of sir Nicholas Bacon, knight, lord keper of the great seale of Englonde, spoken in the starrchamber the xxixth daye of Nouember in the ixth yeare of the raigne of our souereyne Ladie Quene Elizabeth;" for the suppression of seditious speeches against the queen’s supremacy.

Warrant from Q. Elizabeth to the treasurer and chamberlain of the exchequer for the payment of money for the repairs of palaces and other public buildings; 1566. (transcript.)

Order in council for the suppression of seditious books; 29 Jun 1566. (transcript.)

"An informacion of probable and infallible conjectures and presumpcions, wherebye it apperethe evidentlye that the quene mother to our Sovereine Lorde was not onelye privye to the horrible and unworthye murder perpetrated in the persone of the kinge of good memorye hys highnesse father, but allso the verye instrument, chefe orgaine and causer of that unnaturalle crueltye." Begins, "To enter in declaracion of her inconstancye towardes the kinge her husbande." Ends, "So...