Artificial collection. English, French and Latin, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

An artificial collection, principally consisting of legal or law-related MSS, formerly bound with four items now in K.35 as a single vol., but rebound as three vols in the later nineteenth century to separate the folio items from the quarto. The contents are:

'J. A.' or William Birde(?), 'Readings of Gilbert, Spilman, Bromeley and other learned lawyers'. French, 1584

'Readings of [Ambrose] Gilbert, Spilman, [George] Bromeley, and / other learned lawyers / Observacons sur Littleton, by Wm Fletewode [the latter line written twice]', in the hand of Thomas Baker. On the last folio, almost certainly in the same hand, is the inscription 'William Birde Gent / Anno Domini 1584'. The word 'Gent' has been erased. Perhaps this is the William Bird who was adm. at Gray's Inn, 1571, an Ancient 1589-90. The initials J. A.

Michael Dalton, Legal compendium, and other works. Latin, French and English, 1629-51

Michael Dalton (1564 - c. 1651) of Trinity College, Cambridge and Lincoln's Inn: Legal and theological works. The principal contents are:

Artificial collection of separate tracts, proclamations and pamphlets. Latin and English, various dates

S.26 was originally an artificial collection of miscellaneous political and religious tracts and other papers, bound together either by the donor, or shortly after donation. This volume was broken up in the mid nineteenth century (after Cowie's catalogue was compiled). Several items were then transferred to SJC, MS K.35. The remaining items were bound in three vols as follows:

Commentary on the Physica of Aristotle. Latin, seventeenth century

A commentary on the Physica of Aristotle. The volume appears to lack title page and a conclusion. No date, but perhaps early seventeenth century. Cowie notes a similarity in hand and binding to MS I.37, which he described as 'the common-place book of a student at Rome, at the beginning of the seventeenth century'. However, the similarities are not perhaps sufficiently marked.

Collection of poetry. Circa 1632-37.

1. An ode to him selfe. Come leave the loathed stage (Jonson) (fo. 1)
2. T. Carew. To Benn Johnson uppon occasion of his ode to himselfe (fo. 2v)
3. Iter Boriale. D. [R.] Corbut (fo. 4)
4. Mr Austinn to his friend Ben Johnsonn. Sir you desire to see in writing (fo. 15)
5. To John Blencow. Whereby (fo. 17). This and 4 published in Simpson (ed.), Ben Jonson, xi, 412-15(p. 27)
6. Song, T. C. This mossy banke (fo. 17v)
7. An Elegie on Captain Haslerigge by William Davenon (fo. 19)
8. T.

Gifford Galton?, Artificial commonplace collection. English, 1640s

A commonplace compilation of various tracts and treatises, probably compiled and bound by Gifford Galton. Galton may have been a London bookseller, his name is found on political pamphlets of the mid 1640s (Henry R. Plomer, A Dictionary of the booksellers and printers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667 (London, 1907), p. 79). The contents are as follows:

William Lloyd, Papers concerning the Non-jurors. English and Latin, c. 1690-1700

Papers re his fellow non-jurors collected by William Lloyd (1637-1710), of St John's College, successively Bishop of Llandaff, Peterborough, and Norwich:

A Non-Conformist's commonplace. English, c. 1670

University and legal commonplace. English and Latin, c. 1700

Sparse notes under theological headings over the first 150 pages have all been cancelled. The vol. Includes: