Excerpts from a purported discussion of the relative merits and claims to authority of the Protestant and Roman Catholic Churches. In fact, the document is a pro-Protestant polemic. Divided under chapter headings but by no means (as the Sotheby catalogue suggests it is) a complete treatise in its own right. A one-page interleaved fragment, consisting of one sentence on organising Mint payments to moneyers and some jottings on 10th-century history, is completely unrelated, unmentioned in the Sotheby catalogue, and probably included only by accident.