A comunication or discourse of the Queenes highnes mariage : Debated betwixte fower gentlement of the courte at Monthall in Essex reported by s[i]r Thomas Smythe knighte to his neighbor Ffraunc[es] Wyat gentleman 1561 p[ri]mo Aprilis : contemporary manuscript, ca. 1561 Apr.

Treatise concerning Queen Elizabeth's duty to marry and the difficulties and dangers attendant on a choice of consort by or for her. Written in the form of orations by three allegorically-named gentlemen of the Court: Agamos Spitewedd (fol. 2v, against marriage altogether), Philoxenus Lovealian (fol. 7v, in favor of a foreign match), and Axenias Homeffrend (fol. 21r, arguing for an English husband), with interlocutions by a fourth character called "the Stammerer" or "the Godfather." With frequent allusions to Scriptures, classics, and authorities such as Machiavelli and Erasmus.