This paper is written in a clerkly hand of the period. It is undated, but it evidently belongs to the time when Mary Stuart was a prisoner in England and probably after the year 1580 when her friends at home and abroad were beginning to manifest something like a concerted aggressive policy in her behalf. From its association with other papers of Sir Christopher Hatton's it may be presumed to belong to him although it bears no evidence of his handling. It looks like brief notes for a speech or part of a speech in Parliament. One is tempted, on very little evidence, to connect it with the speech Hatton made in the House of Commons on the 22nd February 1586/7, in which he set forth the dangers to which the realm was exposed (cf. D'Ewes p. 408).