[Commonplace book], [ca. 1610.].

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[Commonplace book], [ca. 1610.].

[Commonplace book], [ca. 1610.].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702177297

Copies of Elizabethan letters, speeches, etc. with a few verses, ca. 1570-1605. Collection includes: trial of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1566-1601) (f. 1); execution of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1542-87) (f. 34); letters of: Sir Thomas Egerton, Baron Ellesmere and Viscount Brackley (1540?-1617); Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (1566-1601); Anthony Babington (1561-86); Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603), etc.; Polish ambassador's speech 1597 and Queen's reply, here dated 1577 (f. 31); entertainment for the Queen at Harefield 1602 (see Lyly's "Works," ed. Bond, I 493) (f. 40).

1 v.(46 f.) ; 34 x 20 cm.

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library