William Craven, Plan for reading history. English, c. 1800

William Craven, Master of St John's College (d. 1815): 'A plan for reading history', compiled c. 1800 or earlier. It is rather a potted history of the Classical and post-Classical Western world, arranged chronologically, and thereafter (usually) by country or region.

William Craven, Sermons on Gibbon. English, early nineteenth century

William Craven, Master of St John's College (d. 1815): drafts of sermons, apparently preached in College and drawing on Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1807-13.

Commonplace. English, late seventeenth century

A political and verse commonplace of the later seventeenth century. The initial and concluding pages contain notes by G[eorge] A[shby] (Fellow and President of St John's College, Cambridge, 1724-1808), dated Barrow 30 December 1796, and Ashby's remarks and comments are scattered Thomas Baker-like throughout the work. The substantial contents are:

George Ashby's collections relating to St John's College. Latin and English, various dates

George Ashby (Fellow and President of St John's College, Cambridge, 1724-1808): collections relating to St John's College. Other collections by Ashby are at L.32. In the later part of the volume the collection is very miscellaneous, but the following is a summary of the contents:

Commonplace book. English and Latin, seventeenth century

Commonplace, no date, but apparently mid to late seventeenth century. Attributed to 'H. Vaughan' by James, on the basis of the nineteenth-century inscription on p. 23 and the declarations in 2 below by Henry Vaughan. However, the attribution cannot pass unchallenged. The principal contents are:

William Cole, History of St John’s College. English, 1839

William Cole (1714-82): ‘Coles MS Mus. Brit. Vol. xlix, pag. 265 / Continuation of Mr Baker’s History of St John’s College / in Cambridge’ (fo. 1r), beginning at Francis Turner, twenty-third Master, admitted 1670, and ending with John Chevallier, ‘29th and present Master’, elected 1775, running down to 1782. All as printed in Part II of J. E. B. Mayor (ed.), History of the College of St John the Evangelist, Cambridge, by Thomas Baker (Cambridge, 1869), pp. 985-1081.

James Wood, Papers on subjects in divinity, church government and education. English, early nineteenth century

Artificial collection of papers. English and Latin, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

Artificial collection of misc. papers, both printed and MS, relating to the Short Parliament, the Glorious Revolution, and other religious and political affairs, 1566-1689. In Cowie's catalogue the items were listed under SJC, MSS H.14, S.26 and S.29, and they are still described under these numbers in James, though the current binding arrangements are there noted. There is a list of contents on the first flyleaf. The volume consists of:

Hannah More, Letter to the Bishop of Bath and Wells. English, 1802

Jeremiah Markland, Notes on the Greek New Testament of 1723. English and Greek, c. 1760