ADVERTISEMENT. THE following Collection of MSS. has been preserved at the venerable old mansion, LoSELEY, near Guildford in Surrey. They will be found of a mixed character, connected with passages in history and biography, with the entertainments of the Court, with the internal regulations of the country under the Magistracy, and in some instances with the minor relations of domestic life. They cannot be expected, in a general point of view, to compete with the valuable historical collections of State Papers and Letters which have been derived from public depositories; yet it may truly be said that they contain many papers on subjects of interest, to which none parallel are to be found in those collections, and they will afford, as the Editor conceives, a very correct idea of the state of society and political government in the 16th and early part of the 17th centuries. CONTENTS. Page. I 15 Original Papers relating to the Lady Ann of Cleves Notice of Sir Thomas Cawarden of Bletchingley Original Papers illustrating the Revels and Dramatic En- tertainments of the English Court. Masques, Inter- ludes, &c. Notice of George Ferrers, as Lord of Misrule 19 Original Documents relating to the Lady Jane Grey's succession to the Crown on the demise of Edward VI. . 11 Original Documents (some under the sign manual of Queen Mary) relating to Wyatt's Rebellion Documents relating to the Royal Palace of Nonesuch Curious old Parochial Accounts, from the Papers of Sir Papers relating to Lotteries in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth 185 Policy of Elizabeth in maintaining the principles of the Reformation; Papers concerning the Ecclesiastical Com- |