Speeches of John Barrett, lists and academic exercises. Latin, c.1620-75.

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'The Unhappy Civill Warrs'. English, later seventeenth century

'Account of Affaires from the First of K. Cha. I To the Returne of K. Cha. II' (p. I); 'The Unhappy Civill Warrs' on original front cover. A politically-neutral, summarised account of events during the reign of Charles I and during the Interregnum, drawn for the most part from Bulstrode Whitelocke's Memorials, first published in 1682: the first and last entries coincide with Whitelocke's work, but there are variants and discrepancies.

John Brown, Address to Empress Catherine II. English, 1766.

George Henry Sawtell, A perambulation of the Universitie and towne of Cambridge. English, 1843-7.

Commonplace book of J.W. Hawksley. English and Latin, 1805-35.

John Webster Hawksley (d. 1856) studied at St John's College, graduating BA in 1789. He was ordained in 1790 and served as Rector of Knotting with Souldrop, Bedfordshire, from 1792 until his death. He also held various other livings in the county. Hawksley had several poems published in the Poetical Register.

Henry Wrigley, A course of mechanical lectures. English and Latin, c. 1722-9.

William Samuel Powell, Lectures in experimental philosophy. English, 1746.

William Whitaker, Latin translation of Apollinaris of Laodicea's Greek version of the Psalms etc. Latin, with some Greek and English, 1566.

Roger Kenyon (?), Theological commonplace. English, 1680

A theological commonplace, perhaps in part compiled by Roger Kenyon (1666-c. 1724), Fellow of St John's College, while a young man; the date 1680 appears on the flyleaf. The contents, which principally consist of undated sermons or commentaries on Biblical verses in a number of hands, include: John Arrowsmith (1602-59), successively Master of St John's College and Trinity College, Cambridge, 'Divine Aphorismes'.

Edward Stillingfleet, Sermons. English, 1682-3 and undated

Edward Stillingfleet, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, afterwards Dean of St Paul's and Bishop of Worcester (1635-99): four sermons, on Jeremiah xvii.9 (fo. 1r, preached at the Mercers' Chapel, 11 Nov. 1682), Luke xvi.31 (fo. 25r, preached at Whitehall, 23 Feb. 1683), 2 Timothy iii.5 (fo. 50r, preached at St Clement's, 'a Lent Sermon', 4 Apr. 1683), and John xx.29 (fo.