The following transcription of Demorest's annotations was selected and transcribed by Casper College Student and Archives staff member Grace MacPherson in January of 2024.

Sonnet 5
Overall Notes:
’05 – Isabella dies
“till” = Sp. Castille
The frost – lease – show?
E’s speech 1585 q. Eccl.: They that fear the frost the snow will fall on them.
’06 – Joann[a] + Philip removed[?] as prisoners after shipdown to England[?] – Bacon Treaty of Windsor
Summer must be fair queen

Sonnet 6
Overall Notes:
6 – Perfect number assigned to Venus
’06 – Death of Philip after pact with Ferdinand. Henry considers Joanna as wife.

Line 1
Ragged: Henry
Line 2:
Distill’d: Joanna
Line 4:
Self-kill’d: Philip]]> https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/]]>