Thomas Westfield (?), Notes on sermons. English, c. 1615 and after.

(?)Thomas Westfield, Bishop of Bristol (Fellow of Jesus College, 1573-1644): Notes on sermons. A letter from Samuel Knight (of Trinity College, Prebend of Ely, d. 1746) [to Thomas Baker?] dated Ely, 27 May 1727, enclosed in the volume, describes them as sermons 'preached before 1630 at St Mary's in Cambridge', and conjectures that Westfield was the author, he 'being a native of this place very probably it was once his book, and his own writing'. The attribution is far from certain.

Extent and rental of the manor of Monewden cum Solyards, 15 Henry VIII.

Samuel Newton?, Legal formulary. English, seventeenth century

A formulary containing complete or slightly edited specimens of legal documents relating to real and personal property and to probate, probably compiled by and certainly owned by the notary public, mayor of Cambridge and Cambridge antiquary Samuel Newton (1628-1718), whose name appears twice at p. i, together with the date 25 March 1648 and the price of the volume, 1s 2d. Newton's name is also found as a copied signature at pp. iii, x, 67, 112, 117, 173, 186, 236, 238, vii, and x.

Translations of classical authors. English and Latin, mid-seventeenth century.

A Miscellaneous Collection. English and Latin, c. 1641

A miscellaneous collection, mainly relating to the politics of the 1630s and early 1640s:

'Castrum Animae'. Latin, c. 1600

'Castrum Animae', or 'Castellum Conscientiae', dedicated 'ad illustrissimum atque doctissimum Edouardum Rutlandie Comite [Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland, 1549-87] Anno Domini 1586'. 'Exterius perlege interius remniscere. Hoc fac et vives.' A colophon: 'Ex bibliotheca ?nostra Sive bibliis et ?perangustis cubiculo Nottinghamne per A. Atkinsonn'.

Alexander Bolde, Commonplace. English and Latin, c. 1620 and after.

Alexander Bolde, Fellow of Pembroke College from 1610 (d. 1625): a collection of themes, Latin and English verses, Latin letters, speeches, medicinal recipes, epigrams and anecdotes on religious themes (the latter in a less careful hand). From end of vol., in another hand, 'notes out of [Richard] Vines his funerall serm[on] for [Robert Devereux, 3rd earl of] Ess[e]x'. Essex died in 1646. The donor, Thomas Baker, identifies Bolde at fo. 14r. See K. M.

Catalogue of Scriptural expositions. Latin, 1624

'Catalogus expositorum Sacrae Scriptura qui vel in omnes vel in aliquot vel in singulos Bibliorum libros scripserunt, eorum praecipuè quorum scripta iam extant in communum bibliotheca Coll D. johannis Apud Cantabrigiam'. The arrangement is by book, including the Apocrypha. Beginning from the other end: 'Notatio locorum comunium: et authoru ea optime explicantium et obiter et de industria', 1624.

Collection of poetry. English, c. 1630.

Poems by various authors, some unidentified, possibly compiled in the 1630s. Several poems by William Strode, including 'On the death of the duke of Buckingham' at fo. 1 (the Strode readings are very close to those in BL, Sloane MSS 1792, 1446 and Add. MS 30982). Unique early variants of Milton's Hobson poems are at fos 18v-19r (see John T. Shawcross, 'A note on Milton's Hobson poems', Review of English Studies NS 18 (1967), 433-7, who suggests a date of transcription between 1632 and 1640).

Verses and letters on University matters. Latin, c. 1625

Unidentified member of Christ Church, Oxford: commonplace or note-book, before 1625. Includes: 'Epistola ad Decanum (fos 3r, 10v, 16r, 18r, 27v, 35v, 38r, 63v, 67v, 79r, 81r); 'Epistola: ad Fratrem' (fos 8r, 55v, 76v); 'Epistol: ad Censorem' (fos 19r, 24v, 53r, 57v); 'Epist: ad Tut:' (fo. 20r); 'Scribendo disces scribere' (fo. 21r); 'Epist: ad Subde:' (fo. 51r); 'Ad Dr Peirce' [William Peirs, or Pearce, d. 1670], perhaps congratulating him on his election as Vice-Chancellor, 1621 (fo. 52r); 'Epist: ad Amicu:' (fo.