The Speakership dates back under its present title to 1377, when Sir Thomas Hungerford was appointed.
In one of the letters she asks Sir Thomas to come and see her.
Mr Brown is not the only party leader to fall foul of Sir Thomas's new standards.
Also on display for the first time are love letters from Katherine Parr to Sir Thomas Seymour.
Sir Thomas Bouch, the architect of the first Tay Bridge, proposed his own plans for the Forth, but these were rejected.
Sir Thomas, whose final report is expected in December, does not have the power to demand that they repay money.
Within months of Henry's death, Katherine Parr married Sir Thomas Seymour in secret and moved to Winchcombe in the Cotswolds.
But Sir Thomas has applied his own limits on what he thinks should have been claimed for gardening and cleaning.
Following the Telegraph's revelations, former senior civil servant Sir Thomas Legg was commissioned by Downing Street to examine the MPs' claims.
Wells presented the diamond to Sir Thomas Cullinan, who owned the mine.
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The prime minister also asked an independent auditor, Sir Thomas Legg, to go over past claims again, to ensure money had been paid out properly.
Sir Thomas, an ascetic former civil servant, was appointed by Gordon Brown, the prime minister, to study every expenses claim for the past five years.
The Tudor building started by Sir Thomas Tresham was never finished after the family fell out of favour for being associated with the Gunpowder Plot.
Shakespeare's story evolved from a history penned by Sir Thomas More more than two decades after Richard died in the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.
In 1535, Sir Thomas More was executed in England for treason.
Adding to the confusion is the parallel effort of Sir Thomas Legg, a former civil servant asked by Mr Brown to audit all expenses claims since 2004.
The Conservatives' David Cameron has been asked by Sir Thomas to provide more information about payments for which he over-claimed in 2006 when he changed his mortgage.
The BBC understands that Sir Thomas is interested in whether MPs were using money to improve their properties - rather than just maintain them, as the rules allow.
In 1535, Sir Thomas More, former Lord Chancellor of England, was executed for treason after refusing to recognize Henry VIII as the head of the Church of England.
Armed police sealed off the area for just over two hours because it was thought one of the men was inside the Hilton Hotel on Sir Thomas Steers Way.
Sir Thomas, a former civil servant, has applied new limits to categories like gardening and cleaning but some MPs are angry that claims for mortgage repayments have not been included.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown asked Sir Thomas to look for mistakes made in expenses claims approved by the Commons Fees Office over five years, when the expenses scandal broke in May.
Margaret Hodge, minister for culture, media and sport is due to attend an event on Saturday in honour of the library's founder, Sir Thomas Bodley, when the donation will be formally announced.
To paraphrase Sir Thomas More, Robert Bolt's excellent play "A Man For All Seasons, " the laws of this country are the great barriers that protect the citizens from the winds of evil and tyranny.
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Names include Sir Thomas Denys - a notable figure at Elizabeth I's court and George Carey, Baron Hunsdon, who later became patron of the Chamberlain's Men theatre company of which William Shakespeare was a member.
To race aboard Mariquita is to travel back a century, when wealthy yachtsmen such as King George V and Sir Thomas Lipton dueled through the summer on outsize boats that needed 20 sailors just to leave the dock.
But Sir Stuart Bell, who sits on the estimate committee, told the BBC on Sunday that Sir Thomas had been asked to carry out a review "in accordance with the rules at the time and the standards that applied at the time".
He argued that, under Sir Thomas's interpretation of the rules, he could have sold the flat and bought a new one and claimed 100% of the mortgage interest, or claimed for his Taunton home - even though either option would have cost the taxpayer more.
Some of the weeks incorporate both history and fiction, for example the reading of "A Man for All Seasons, " Robert Bolt's 1954 play -- later reworked into a famous 1966 film - about the life of Sir Thomas More, Lord Chancellor to England's mercurial King Henry VIII in the 16th century.
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