1. Four leaves of paper, dated 1627. Two letters (with their seals) from G. J. Vossius to Samuel Ward.
2. One leaf of paper, dated 23 Jan. 1649. A letter from Johannes Huldricus to Abraham Whelock.
3. Two leaves of paper. A fragment concerning the Thirty Years War.
4. Two leaves of paper. A Fragment of a letter from Sir Thos. Roe, concerning a person professing to be inspired.
5. Two sheets of foolscap, and one of large folio. Notes of four sermons.
a. Mr Calamie, 12 Jan. 1661. Ps. c:xxv. 4.
b. Mr Jenkyn, 13 Ap. 1662. St John xii. 24.
c. Mr Jenkins, 9th March, 1661/2. St John xii. 35.
d. Mr Jenkyn, 16 March, 1661/2 Same text.
6. One large sheet of paper, containing Genealogical Tables. These are the pedigrees of the families of Bendish of Steeple Bumpstead, Kt. and Baronett., Cole, Quarles, Harvey of Ickworth, Wiseman of Felsted, More (including Sir Thomas More) and Amyce.
7. Two leaves: one blank. A question concerning the civil law of Marriage, &c. This is addressed to the Right Rev. Father in God, Thomas, Lord Bishop of Chichester, but the names Thomas and Chichester have been blotted out. Thomas Manningham and Thomas Bowers held the see from 1709 to 1724.
8. One sheet, copperplate, with specimens in water-colour. 'Tabula Colorum Physiologica tam mixtorum quam simplicium Quadrilinguis una cum speciminibus adjectis. Regiæ Societati Londinensi humillime D.D.D. a Ric. Waller, S.R.S.
See Philosoph. Transactions, Vol. 1. p. 689.
Richard Waller was Secretary to the Society, and for a while ostensible Editor of the Transactions soon after the commencement of their publication. See Weld's History of the Royal Society.
9. Five leaves of vellum. Illuminated. xvth century. Some leaves of the English Version of Bonaventura de Vita Christi, called 'the Myrroure of the blyssyd lyffe of Jhu Crist.' See Ll.04.03, which much resembles this fragment, and Mm.05.15. The pages in the latter answering to this fragment are in ff. 115 b-121 b. It has been much mutilated for the sake of the gilding.