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British Library, Additional MS 22591

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2r-24v

'The Five Years of King James'

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25r-28r

'The Manner of the Sickness and Death of Prince Henry'

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29r-v

'Letter to the King of France' by Nicolas Brulart de Sillery

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30r-v

'What Manner of Persons Ought to Exercise the King’s Prerogative' by Thomas Egerton, 1st Baron Ellesmere

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30v

'A Letter by a Gent to a Noble Man to be Entertained into his Service'

31r-39v

'The Forerunner of Revenge' by George Eglisham

43r-54r

'Tom Tell-Troth'

54r-55v

'Advertisements of a Loyal Subject to his Gracious Soveraign Drawn from Observations of the People's Speeches'

70r-80r

'The Manner of the Trial Between Donald Lord Reay and David Ramsey'

80r-v

'Letter to Richard Weston, Earl of Portland' by Sir Henry Wotton

81r-89r

'Arraignment of Mervin, Lord Audley, Earl of Castlehaven'

81r-89r

'Confession of Faith' by Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven

81r-89r

'Speech on the Scaffold' by Mervyn Tuchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven

96r-98v

'Challenges' by Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, and Sir Francis Vere

99r-101r

'Letter to his Father, the Earl of Manchester' by Walter Montagu

111r-116v

'Opinion of Sundry Antiquaries Touching the Antiquity of Parliaments'

181r-186v

'A Treatise of Bail and Mainprise' by Sir Edward Coke

187r-v

'Opinion of the Ancient Doctors of the Law, Whether it be Lawful for a Prince, whose Subject is wronged by a Foreign Prince, to Licence his Subject to Detain the Body and Goods of that Prince's Subject, which Wrongeth'

191r-197v

'A Collection Offered to King James on Calling a Parliament' by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl Salisbury

199r-202v

'A Copy of a Letter from G.D. to his Friend A.W. at Middlesbrough' by G.D.

203r-205r

'First Part of His Lordship's Treatise to His Majesty, Showing As Well by Arguments as Precedents That His Majesty’s Estate Cannot Be Supported in Any Proportion Without Levies From His People' by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl Salisbury

205v-208r

'Second Part of His Lordship's Treatise, That It Is Inconvenient to Strain His Prerogative Too Far, For Leavy of Treasure and Therefore Necessary to Call a Parliament' by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

210v-211r

'Considerations upon his Majesties’ Estate, with the King’s Propositions and the Humble Answer and Advice of the Council' by Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

211r-216r

'The Humble Answer & Advice of his Majesty’s Council upon Certain Propositions' by Privy Council

216v

'Letter to King Charles I' by Mohammed esh-Sheikh es-Seghir, Sultan of Morocco

222r-223r

'Letter to the Viscount Anan' by John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln

258r-v

'Speech at the Arraignment of Robert Crichton, Lord Sanquhar' by Francis Bacon

258v-259r

'Speech to Sir John Denham when he was called to be one of the Barons of the Exchequer' by Francis Bacon

259r-v

'Speech to Mr Serjeant Hutton, when he was called to be one of the Judges of the Common Pleas' by Francis Bacon

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259v-260r

'Speech to Sir William Jones upon his being called to be Lord Chief Justice of Ireland' by Francis Bacon

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260r-261r

'Speech in the Star Chamber, Last Day of the Trinity Term' by Francis Bacon

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262r-265v

'Speech at the Arraignment of Somerset' by Sir Francis Bacon

265v-267r

'Opinion on Sutton's Charity' by Francis Bacon

268r-271r

'Speech at First Taking His Seat in Chancery' by Francis Bacon

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271v-273r

'Letter to Bacon' by Sir Thomas Bodley

273v

'Letters' by Sir Francis Bacon

274r-279v

'Speech Concerning Naturalization of the Scots' by Sir Francis Bacon

280r-288v

'A Relation of the Desperate Estate of Francis Spira' by Nathaniel Bacon

290r-305v

'Fragmenta Regalia' by Sir Robert Naunton

306r-311r

'A Parallel of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham' by Sir Henry Wotton

312r-314v

'An Unhappy View of the Whole Behaviour of My Lord Duke of Buckingham at the French Island Secretly Discovered' by William Fleetwood

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316r-319v

'The Canvas of Cambridge'

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320r-323v

'Three Months Observation in the Low Countries, Especially Holland' by Owen Felltham

324r-331v

'De Sepultura' by Sir Henry Spelman

338r-345v

'On the Suppression of Jesuits' by Sir Robert Cotton

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