Dates

• Creation: Events date from 1558-1640; writings separately copied 17th century (nearly contemporary)

Extent

2 Volumes : The material is paper.The cover title was assigned arbitrarily by cataloger in November 1976: State tracts, proclamations, letters & c Vol 2 [-1]. Vol. 1 was foliated 1-623 in 17th-18th century, omitting present preliminary and tail leaves, but including blanks. Vol. 2 was foliated in pencil 1-532 by present cataloger, omitting 19th century leaves, but including blanks. Most items were written independently, on different sizes and qualities of paper, and in different hands. Wear on the outside of items indicates that they were kept separately before being bound. A few items begin on a new page, but not on a new quire. The leaves skipped in the table of contents in this description are blanks, usually the end of one quire; sometimes the beginning of the next one. Distinction between items is sometimes arguable. Items may occupy more than one quire. Many hands: legal-type, secretary, or humanist. Some hands repeat. Occasionally the hand changes in the middle of an item, but this may be the same scribe varying his script.19th century marbled paper boards, half-bound in vellum. Spine gold-tooled: 6 panels. Binding title gold-tooled on straight-grain black morocco label on 2nd panel; vol. no. on label in 4th panel. NOTE: Volumes MISLABELED: vol. 1 labeled 2 and vice-versa. Armorial book-plate of "The Mostyn 1744 no. 51" on inside front board of vol. 1; same, "no. 52" on vol. 2. (Presumably removed from pre-1744 binding.) Large "Gloddaeth Library" label in yellow on vol. 1; in blue on vol. 2. (Contemporary with the present binding?). Inside front board in ink: Ms No 178; Ms No 177. Pencilled in corner: H b in both vols. Lot-numbers on slips (discarded): 20/2. ; 32.4 x 21.5 cm