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John Dee performing an experiment before Queen Elizabeth I. Oil painting by Henry Gillard Glindoni.

Six portraits of eminent sixteenth century men. Engraving.

Memoirs of the life and administration of William Cecil Baron Burleigh, Lord High Treasurer of England in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth; including a parallel between the state of government then and now. To which is prefixed a preface to the people of Britain. Together with an appendix of original papers.

A catalogue of the Lansdowne manuscripts in the British Museum : with indexes of persons, places, and matters.

The execution of iustice in England for maintenaunce of publique and Christian peace, against certeine stirrers of sedition, and adherents to the traytors and enemies of the realme, without any persecution of them for questions of religion, as is falsely reported and published by the fautors and fosterers of their treasons.

Iustitia Britannica : Per quam liquet perspicue aliquot in eo regno perditos ciues, seditionis & armorum ciuilium authores, regníq[ue] hostium propugnatores acerrimos, vt communi Ecclesiæ reiq[ue] publicæ paci, cautius prospiceretur, morte mulcatatos esse: propter religionem vero, aut cæremonias Romanas, neminem in capitis discrimen vocatum: licet ab aduersarijs secus multò, & admodum malitiosè publicetur. Perscriptum primo in nostrate lingua, deinde versum in Latinam.

The state of England in 1588. In a letter from a priest at London to the Spanish ambassador at Paris: Giving A particular Account of our Warlike Preparations, with the Names of the Nobility and Gentry, &c. as well Catholick as Protestant, who voluntarily and generously raised, headed, and maintained great Numbers for Sea and Land, to support their Sovereign, and defend their Country. Shewing Our vast Power and Riches, contrary to the contemptible Opinion had of us in Spain; also, an Account of the Spanish Armada. To which are added, The Examinations of many Prisoners, their Losses by Battle, Tempests and contrary Winds on the Coaste of Ireland, in their Return from the North Isles of Scotland, &c.

A declaration of the fauourable dealing of her Maiesties commissioners appointed for the examination of certain traitours : and of tortures vniustly reported to be done vpon them for matters of religion. 1583.

The draught of a proclamation in the year 1563, relating to persons making portraits of Queen Elizabeth / [William Cecil Burghley].

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Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598

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A declaration of the fauourable dealing of her Maiesties commissioners appointed for the examination of certain traitours : and of tortures vniustly reported to be done vpon them for matters of religion. 1583.

The draught of a proclamation in the year 1563, relating to persons making portraits of Queen Elizabeth / [William Cecil Burghley].