This is a manuscript copy of papers relating to the trial of John Ashton and Richard Graham in 1691. This high profile trial was later published, although these texts seem to have been copied from various accounts and proceedings. This fragment used to be part of a larger manuscript; it is foliated from f. 223r to 231v. Nothing is known on its author, but the handwriting seems to date from the late 17th/ early 18th century. It contains the following texts and extracts:

Ff. 223r-224v: 'Mr Ashton's Paper delivered at his Execution to Sir Francis Child, Sheriff of London, 1690". Before his death Ashton handed to the sheriff a paper declaring himself a protestant, and happy in losing his life in James II's service, from whom he had received favours 'for sixteen years past.' This document, which well exemplified the depth of the sincerity of James's supporters in England, was published in England, France, and Holland, and greatly alarmed the authorities. An answer to it was written anonymously by Dr. Edward Fowler, bishop of Gloucester.

Ff. 225r-225v: "The following paper contains a Scheme of the whole plot following". It starts with the words: "The result of a conference between some Lords and Gentlemen, both Tories and Whighs, in which it was undertaken to prove the possibility and method of restoring by a French power without endagering the Protestant religion and Civil Administration according to the Law of this Kingdom". This text was in one of the papers that Ashton and Graham were carrying when they were seized.

Ff. 226r-227v: "The Trials of Sir Richard Grahme [sic] Bart. Viscount Preston in Scotland and John Ashton Gent. in the old Bailey on 16.17 & 19 of Jan. 1690 [sic] & Mr. Ellyott."

Ff. 228r-229v: "Memorandums made by Lord Preston, to put him in mind what he was to enlarge upon in France". This is also likely to be a copy of some of the papers Preston was carrying when he was arrested.

Ff. 230r-230v: "Translation of a Latine letter which was writ then by K. James to the Pope as it is extracted out of the Register taken at Dublin, with a marginal note, that it was all writ with his own hand". Dublin, 1689. The following letter was published with an unsympathetic commentary in Animadversions on King James His Letter to the Pope, Publisht in the Tryal of the Ld. Preston & Mr Ashton, London: Printed and sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1691.

Ff. 231r-231v: Jacobite notes.