Commonplace. English and Latin, seventeenth century

Anonymous seventeenth-century commonplace, dated items 1635-89. The contents are primarily theological. At fo. 2 is a poem 'On my Lute-strings catte-bitten', with several corrections and additions in another hand, beg.: 'Are these the notes that Poets faine / Have cleerd the Ayre, & calm'd the maine?'; ends: 'And as thy Touch was nothing fine, / So I've but scratch't these Notes of mine.' Notes under a series of headings relating to the government and internal character of the Church, inc. 'Scripture-marks for the discovery of false Teachers, led by one spirit of Antichrist and 1 Joh. 2.18 of errour to oppose the truth of the Gospell' (fo. 9r), and 'Whether Ministers ought to have a Maintenance stated and setled by law, or left to the arbitrary benevolence of others?' (fo. 18r); Notes on 'Popery' (fo. 39v); notes on sermons, 1688-9, and other prayers and exercises in the same large hand run almost throughout the book, from both ends; 'Oratio habita coram Rege, Woodstockiae, die 30 Augusti Anno 1635. á Guliel. Strode publico Academiae Oratore' (fo. 146v); 'Oratio ad serenissimum Regem Carolum, habita in Bibliotheca Bodleiana' a Gulielmo Herbert nobilissimi Comitis Pembrochiae Filio', 30 Aug. 1636 (fo. 145r); 'Sir Kellam Digbie's Farewell to the world' (fo. 142v); pen exercises.