| Title | Skin bound volume approx 5" x 7", ff 234, marked ‘Benet Family £2’ containing entries by Ambrose Benett of Gray’s Inn and other unidentified hands.
Entries by Ambrose Benett, from Jan 1656/57:
1.copies of bonds and notes about a system of borrowing
2.copies of letters
3.‘An Ingenious Invention to Tell any cast throwne by three dice or any number Thought on of that quantity or greater &c’, and other arithmetical gymnastics
‘Some tricks and pretty experiments’
Entries in a second hand A. Copies of state papers
1.Speeches in the trial of Bacon, 1621
2.The king’s speech in the Lords, 19 Feb 1624
3.Proceedings in the Lords, 21 Feb 1624
4.Council to the king, proceedings against Sir Edward Coke, 26 June 1616
5. Sir Edward Coke before the king at Greenwich, 30 June 1616
6.Sir Walter Raleigh to the king, ante 10 Dec 1604
7.Sir Walter Raleigh’s Apology following voyage to the Orinoco
8.Earl of Westmoreland [Mildmay Fane] to James I, undated
9.Thomas Allured to Buckingham, 1621
10.Francis Bacon to parliament, 1621
11.Declaration of the Commons, 4 June 1621
12.Petition, Francis Phelips on behalf of Sir Robert Phelips
13.‘The King’s direcon touching preachers ……..’, 4 Aug 1621
14.King’s letter of 16 Dec 1621 on parliamentary privilege
15.The Commons’ Protestation, 18 Dec 1621. [Differs slightly from Rushworth’s version, Historical Collections, I, 53]
16.The Lord Keeper to the judges, to enlarge papists, 2 Aug 1622
B. Miscellanea
1.Newgate sessions, Hil.1630/31
Speech from the scaffold, Earl of Castlehaven, 14 May 1631
Entries in different hands:
1.Jeux d’esprit
Accounts, business (including cloth) and personal, 1661-1662, another series (sale of beasts, etc), 1688-1694
Insertions
1.Recipe beginning ‘Take ye greenis Cowcumbers you can
2.gett …’ Addressed to Mrs Dorothy Stubbs and marked ‘with speed’]
Photocopies only. Originals now in British Library |