Commonplace book, with additions by William James. Latin, Greek, French and English, c. 1650-94

Commonplace of a royalist with an Oxford connection. Includes: terrae filius speeches (?), one attributed to 'Mr Stuart' (p. 22); a 'Schema Regum Anglorum' (p. 40), one-line summaries of each monarch, beginning with William the Conqueror and ending with Charles II ('Ingratus populus non tali est principe dignus'); verses 'upon the Earle of Stratfords (sic) death' (p. 44); verses 'Upon the Prince of Condé his imprisonment in the boy de Vincene a Paris' (p. 55), and 'Credo in Regem omnipotentem', both dated 29 Jan. 1650 (p. 56); 'Thirty dayes hath Septembre' (p. 58); 'Symbola / In obitum Magistri [Henry] Thomas Coll: Univer: Socii [d. 1673]' (p. 59); list of medicines, Dec. 1657, 'by William Johnson for Mr Webbe' (p. 75); directions for a cipher: 'If you would wright to a friend in an unknowen character, take this way', ends: 'your humble servant James' (p. 79); 'A Popish Creed' (p. 136); accounts dating Aug. 1657 - Apr. 1658, mentioning Cousin George Throckmorton and Cousin Chaffey (p. 130). With additions at the end of the volume by William James, 'aetatis suae 18', and Thomas James (signatures at p. 137): the draft of a letter, beg. 'I pray stir nimbly in the business you imparted to me last ...' (p. 128); the Lord's Prayer, in a child's hand, signed William James and dated 7 Jan. 1694 (1695) (p. 126).