MANUSCRIPTS,

AND

OTHER RARE DOCUMENTS,

ILLUSTRATIVE OF

SOME OF THE MORE MINUTE PARTICULARS

OF

English History, Biography, and Manners,

FROM THE

REIGN OF HENRY VIII. TO THAT OF JAMES I.

PRESERVED IN THE

MUNIMENT ROOM OF JAMES MORE MOLYNEUX, ESQ.

AT LOSELEY HOUSE, IN SURREY.

"Now come tidings of weddings, maskings, mummeries, entertainments, jubilees.
embassies, tilts and tournaments, trophies, triumphs, revels, sports, plays: then
again, as in a new-shifted scene, treasons, cheating tricks, robberies, enormous villa-
nies in all kinds, funerals, burials, deaths of princes, now comical then tragical
matters."
Democritus to the Reader, Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy.

NOW FIRST EDITED, WITH NOTES,

BY ALFRED JOHN KEMPE, Esa. F.S.A.

LIBRARY OF

DR, EWALD FLÜGEL

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