A manuscript volume of essays by Sir James Turner, Scottish soldier and author, entitled "Tract's Criticall and Historicall compiled by Sir James Turner Kny't." The volume includes a criticism of George Buchanan's history of Scotland and his De Jure Regni apud Scotos; a story in which Buchanan is placed in hell; a reply to Bishop Henry Guthrie's memoirs; observations on Roderic O'Flaherty's Ogygia; an account of Mary Queen of Scots; a biography of Queen Christina of Sweden; a biography of Karl X Gustaf, King of Sweden; and several poems by Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Torquato Tasso with comment about them and Ludovico Ariosto.
