The contents are as follows:

(i) Transcript, late 16th century, of Asser's 'De rebus gestis Aelfredi', from the library of John, Lord Lumley. The unique eleventh century manuscript, Cotton Otho.A.Xll, was in the Lumley Collection before passing into the Cotton Collection and being burnt in 1731; The present manuscript seems to have been copied from this manuscript or a transcript of it, and then collated with Archbishop Parker's printed edition of 1574. See Stevenson, W H. "Asser's life of King Alfred" (Oxford, 1904), pages xxxvii-liv, and ‘The Lumley library: the catalogue of 1609’, edited by S Jayne and F R Johnson (London, 1956), pages 121, 124 (folio 2).

(ii) 'The Appendix to the Collection of the Historie of England'. Seventeenth-century transcripts of charters, statutes, and other documents (folio 22).