Scope and Contents: More complete cataloging can be found at: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70515103
Commonplace book, containing chiefly legal matter, including transcripts of legal documents.
Notes on the office of justice of the peace; documents concerning the estate of Thomas Talbot of Bashall, Yorkshire; documents concerning John Osbaldestone and Edmonde Smoulte of Lancaster; two orations on the Queen's marriage, by the Lord Keeper; two letters to the Queen, one from Anthony Babington and the other from Fra. Throgmorton (Throckmorton); two letters, with medical advice, from Mr. Haldswoorthe "upon the sighte of my water," etc.
Origin: Written in England during the reign of Elizabeth and the beginning of the reign of James I.
Provenance: Sir Thomas Phillipps (Ms. 10406) -- Purchased from Dobell, 1941.
Former shelfmark: Ms. 10406 (Phillipps).
Faye & Bond. Provisional record based on De Ricci (suppl.)