| Description | Commonplace book compiled by Sir William Drake. Consists of a collection of notes taken from a manuscript on affairs in the reign of James I. They include Bacon's proposals to James in "Touching Suttons Hospitall", extracts from the trials of Raleigh and the Earl of Northumberland and various other notes on parliament and law from the period. Two other significant entries are probably from other manuscripts, "Judgments uppon moderne proceedings and affaires out of Burleighs letters in Walsinghams negotiations", and "Notes from a booke lent me discovering some things of the greate Actors of Qu: Eliz tymes" (Clark suggests that these are from Naunton "Fragmenta regalia" but not the 1641 printed edition).
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Also various short notes on works by or about Cato, Lambard, Fuller, Cecil, Cavendish, Daniel Heinsius, etc.; and a list of "Bookes to be had". |