John Allsop, commonplace book. English and Latin, c. 1688

Robert Jenkin, 'De Potestate Ecclesiastica'. Latin, 1711

Robert Jenkin (1656-the author's hand1727), Master of St John's College, and Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge: 'De Potestate Ecclesiastica', a development of his inaugural lecture as Lady Margaret Professor, delivered on 3 May 1711. The work is in nine chapters. An 'index', or rather a chapter by chapter synopsis in the author's hand, is at fos viii r - x v. This MS is listed eighth among Jenkin's publications in the old DNB article.

Matthew Prior, letters to the sixth earl of Dorset. English, 1694-1701

Controversies in the Church of England. English, before 1603

'An Advertisement touchinge the controversies of the Churche of Englande', no date, but before 1603 (see references to the Queen at fo. 12v). Perhaps c. 1580, given the references to the present 'dayes of peace' at fo. 1r, though the hand suggests a slightly later copy. Beg.: 'It is but ignorance if any man finde it straunge'; ends: 'At the least I shall not repent my selfe of the meditacion'.

Thomas Segethus, Dedicatory letter to James I. Latin, 1622

Thomas Seghetus, or Segethus, author of De Principatibus Italiae (Leiden, 1628): dedicatory letter to James I, dated 'Hamburgi propriae / Non. Martias MDCXXII', bound with a presentation copy of his Thomas Seghetus a Gravi Calumnia vindicatus (Magdeburg, 1622).

Sermon for Good Friday. Russian, c. 1700

Sermon for Good Friday, in Russian Church Slavonic, c. 1700. The text of the Strasti is found, with considerable additions, in BL, Add. MS 30040 and in School of Slavonic and East European Studies Slavonic MS 1. The MS incorporates seventeen engravings: at fo. 1 a headpiece and border, the other sixteen corresponding to Rovinskij, Russkie narodnye lartinki (St Petersburg, 1881), no. 862A. The title is translated into Latin at fo. ii v.

Legal commonplace. English and Latin, c. 1638-53

Legal commonplace, apparently once in the possession of Richard Sedgwick, presumably the sizar of Magdalene College, Cambridge, about whom little else appears to be known, and of William Barnes, who matriculated from Queens' College in 1634, and who was subsequently a barrister and Ancient of Gray's Inn. 8 fos have been excised after the title page, the first three of them apparently once containing an index or other alphabetical list. The principal surviving contents are:

Thoughts on the Lord's Day and the Sabbath. English, seventeenth century

William Springett and William Soames (?), 'Tabula Angliae'. Latin, 1638

'Tabula Angliae Script' Ann: dm: 1638', a complete valuation of all the benefices in England and Wales, arranged by county. Including a list of 'Additiones' (fos 263-9) it lists 9407 benefices, with a total annual value of just over £113,270. Cf. SJC, MS H.20. At the end of the volume is a seventeenth-century copy of a charter of John, 30 Aug. 1199, referenced 'E Monastico Anglicano [Sir William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum (1655)], p. 191, Chartae Antiquae Lib. B Num. 8'.

George Charles Moore Smith, Commonplace book. English, French, German, Greek, and Latin, 1881-1929.