Collection of tracts, notes and observations, including an account of Drake's Cadiz Voyage of 1587 subscribed "W:N:", Sir Walter Ralegh's letter to the King ("Most gratious Soveraigne/ Those those [sic] that are supprest & hopeless are commonly silent...") and (in the same hand) "A Dialogue Between A Conncellor of State and A Justice of Peace", Cotton's "The Danger wherin the Kingdom now standeth & the remedy" and "A shorte view of the Raigne of Kinge Henry the thirde", tracts on Mary Queen of Scots and the succession ("An Oration Perswadinge a Limitation of the succession to the French Queene" etc.), and (at the beginning) a range antiquarian notes and transcriptions largely pertaining to the Aske, Fairfax, Constable and other Yorkshire families; the collection on different stocks of paper written at different times and in different hands, and bound up later in the 17th centuy, some 520 pages, thumbing and dust-staining, the first few leaves of Drake's voyage damaged by damp, limp vellum, upper over inscribed "Liber B", inscribed by Sir Thomas Phillips in ink "Phillipps MS/ 11138", and in pencil "a, 562285", 4to, seventeenth century
Collection of tracts, notes and observations, including an account of Drake's Cadiz Voyage of 1587 subscribed "W:N:", Sir Walter Ralegh's letter to the King ("Most gratious Soveraigne/ Those those [sic] that are supprest & hopeless are commonly silent...") and (in the same hand) "A Dialogue Between A Conncellor of State and A Justice of Peace", Cotton's "The Danger wherin the Kingdom now standeth & the remedy" and "A shorte view of the Raigne of Kinge Henry the thirde", tracts on Mary Queen of Scots and the succession ("An Oration Perswadinge a Limitation of the succession to the French Queene" etc.), and (at the beginning) a range antiquarian notes and transcriptions largely pertaining to the Aske, Fairfax, Constable and other Yorkshire families; the collection on different stocks of paper written at different times and in different hands, and bound up later in the 17th centuy, some 520 pages, thumbing and dust-staining, the first few leaves of Drake's voyage damaged by damp, limp vellum, upper over inscribed "Liber B", inscribed by Sir Thomas Phillips in ink "Phillipps MS/ 11138", and in pencil "a, 562285", 4to, seventeenth century
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