[Collection of Elizabethan and Jacobean tracts, ca. 1570-1625], [ca. 1640?].engContents include: pedigree with arms in color of the Helsby and Hatton families (f. i-iv); Sir Robert Naunton's (1563-1635) Fragmenta regalia [similar to first edition 1641] (f. 1-48); Leycesters commonwealth [as first edition 1584] (f. 49-137); Hooker alias Vowell's discourse on parliament [his "Order and usage of keeping of the parliaments" 1572] (f. 138-172); and numerous shorter tracts, speeches in parliament, political poems, etc, listed at beginning of manuscriptBlack ink has rotted paper, especially f. 90-150 which are extremely brittle and cracked.Signed on inside front cover, "Thomas Helsby Lincoln's Inn London 1855."Armorial device with motto "Omnia vincit amor" stamped on cover (Bruce family?).Hooker, John, also known as Vowell.