The volume contains seventeenth-century copies of letters sent to and received from the ambassadors of Henry VIII at Rome, with the Emperor and elsewhere. Entitled: The Negotiations of Thomas Woolsey, Cardinall on the title-page, which is also annotated in a later hand: 'I believe several of the letters & State Papers in this Vol. have not been published. 3 or 4 are printed in the Collections at the end of Dr Fiddes' Life of Wolsey from a M.S. in the Yelverton (L. Sussex's) Library [M.S.S. Angl. P.3.5288] "The Negotiations of Thomas Woolsey, Lond. 1641. 4to" are nothing more than his Life by Cavendish.'
[Richard Fiddes (1671-1725), The life of Cardinal Wolsey: with several copper plates (London: printed for John Barber, 1724); George Cavendish (b. 1494, d. in or before 1562?), The negotiations of Thomas Woolsey, the great Cardinall of England: containing his life and death, viz. 1. The originall of his promotion. 2. The continuance in his magnificence. 3. His fall, death, and buriall / Composed by one of his owne servants, being his gentleman-usher (London: printed for William Sheeres, 1641); the latter work was formerly attributed to the author's brother, Sir William Cavendish.]