Includes various tracts relating to the Civil War:

1) An ordinance made and agreed by the Lords and Commons of Parliament the 28th day of August 1641. for the speedie disarming of popish recusants and other dangerous persons.

2) The Earle of Straffords letter to His Most Excellent Majestie, dated from the Tower, 4.May, 1641.

3) The humble petition and declaration of both Houses of Parliament, to the Kings most excellent Majesty, sent to Yorke, by one Lord and two members of the House of Commons, on Wednesday the 23 of March. 1641.

4) His Majesties speech, in the House of Commons, 4 January, 1641.

5) Sir John Eliot his grave and learned speech spoken in the High Court of Parliament desiring an orderlie proceeding in matters of religion, and that it may not be onely disputed of, but firmely established, as it ought to be.

6) A coppy of a letter found in the privy lodgeings at White-Hall.

7) A proposition or message sent thr 31 of December 1641 to His Majestie, by the House of Commons, for a guard. Together with His Majesties gracious answer thereunto.