Scope and Contents ‘Index librorum in musæo V. V. M. Th. Knivett Arm.’ At the end are memoranda of books borrowed from and returned to Knyvett’s library at Ashwell Thorpe, with the signatures of the borrowers, among whom were John Spelman, William le Neve, Ralph Flowerdewe and others; there are also such entries as ‘Memord. I let my sonne Ja: have to Cambridg the second and 3rd tome of Plutarke, the first being wanting, Marc. Tully, in 5 vol. octavo: Poldore Virg. de Inv. rerum. Corne: Tacitus’, with the date...

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English and Latin verses. The manuscript contains translations from Ovid, several Latin epitaphs on the Lady Catherine ‘nuper Duraventani comitis filiæ’, and other miscellaneous pieces, one of which is dated 1568. On the first page of the manuscript the following note occurs: ‘Anno ante nativitatem Christi quadringentisimo octogesimo septimo editum fuit castrum Norwici per regem Gurguntum [Caer-Gunt], ut patet in record’.