Strode has entitled this diary, "'Certaine breife thinges wch I observed at the Parlam[en]t, when I was a Burgise for warum in Dors[e]t wch begann the 19 day of February... 1592 [O.S.] and ended the 10th of Aprill then next followinge". The volume includes a sermon (f. 44r-v) and notes on a sermon (ff. 41r-43v), the latter preached by (Stephen?) Egerton. Other items in the volume include an Strode's notes for speeches against a recusancy bill (ff. 13v-15v, 16v-19), an account of parliamentary procedue (ff. 20v-30r), and an account of Queen Elizabeth's dissolution of Parliament (ff. 30r-36r).
46 leaves. Bound in stiff vellum wrappers.
This volume was deposited by Ionë and Bernard A.B. Burrows in1931 along with Dep. c. 9-11, MSS. D. D. Brocas a. 1, c. 1-2. It was removed from Dep. c. 11.
Jeanne Shami; Bodleian Library online Catalogue of "manuscripts acquired singly: diaries and journals"
See also MS. Add. C. 278, another diary of the same period in Parliament.
Sermon on unidentified text -- f. 44r-v (written in reverse).
Sermon on 1 Samuel 30 -- f. 41r-43v (written in reverse).