(1) ‘A short historical account of the Cistercian order, and the several offices and performances of such persons as profess the monastical state in the same’, by ‘René Guybert, formerly a professed monk in the above-said Cistercian order’; (2) ‘The oration of Sr Roberte Bell for succession; (3) Extracts from various manuscripts concerning the Cathedral church at Norwich; (4) Extracts from various manuscripts relating to Norwich; (5) (a) names of the scholars elected from Westminster School to Christ Church, Oxford and Trinity College, Cambridge in the years 1561-1629, preceded by an extract from the deed of foundation, 1561, (b) collections for a history of Christ Church, Oxford; (6) ‘Blomefyldes quintaessens’: ‘To the moste redoubted and victoriouse princes quene elisabeth william blomfild your highnes humble subiecte sendith this lytyl boke called the regiment of lyfe’, composed c. 1574, copied by Myles Blomefylde, imperfect and incomplete; (7) ‘An account of the O’Brien family ... sent by Dennice Molony, of Gray’s Inne, Esqre, to Mr Collier, in order to have it inserted ... in his ... dictionary, which he doth now revise and enlarge in English ...’, with marginal notes by Jeremy Collier; (8) extracts from Latin poets, and from works on Latin poetry: (a) ‘Ex Terentii vita [auctore Suetonio Tranquillo]’, (b) ‘Ex libello de trajœdia et comœdia [auctore Evanthio]’, (c) ‘Ex ælii donati in Andriam Terentii præfatione’, (d) ‘Ælli donati argumentum in Andriam Terentii’, with a brief citation from M. A. Muretus on the same page, (e) ‘Sententia et phrases [ex omnibus Terentii fabulis desumptæ]’, (f) ‘Carmina elegantissima ex variis authoribus collecta’: extracts from Virgil, Juvenal, Persius, Ovid, Statius, Martial, Maximinianus, Avianus, Horace, Tibullus, Propertius, Philelphus and others, with some single and double lines marked ‘Sapiens’, and some anonymous lines by Christian authors; (9) ‘M. Alexandri Bodii epistolæ heroides et hymni ad Jacobum sextum regem’; (10) ‘Liber Norvicensis’: a list of the ecclesiastical benefices within the Norwich diocese, apparently written in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, with the values as given in Bacon’s ‘Liber regis’, and with the names of many of the patrons, corrected in another hand; (11) ‘A representation concerning the manufacturing of Sal Armoniac, humbly desired to be laid before the ... Lords Commissioners for trade, Dr Thomas Hoy, her Majesty’s professor of physic, in Oxford; (12) ‘Constitutiones ecclesiasticæ regni Daniæ et Norw.’, 1629; (13) ‘De emendatione rerum humanarum consultatio catholica, ad genus humanum, ante alios vero ad eruditos Europæ’; (14) ‘De subveniendo afflictæ Germaniæ consultationis capita præcipua’; (15) ‘Sir Robert de Valois, knight and bart, his manifesto concerning his journey out of France into England, and his imprisonment at Bruxelles’, 1657 (de Valois was a spy for the exiled king in England, where he was imprisoned by Oliver Cromwell, and falling under suspicion on his return to Brussels, was confined there by the order of Charles); (16) (a) ‘A particular of such things, as are excepted out of Queen Elizabeth’s grant to the gentry, and are not granted back to the Dean and Chapter [of Chester], nor to the gentry’, 22o Eliz., (b) ‘A particular of the things granted by Queen Elizabeth to the Dean and Chapter of Chester’; (17) collection of notes and extracts from documents relating to the early history of Westminster Abbey; (18) (a) ‘Proofe that the University of Cambridge hath ecclesiastical jurisdiction’, which according to a statement below the title was ‘transcribed out of one of Mr Moore’s MSS in Caius Coll. Library. No. 26 a [in 1856, No. 197 (5)], (b) ‘A minister plea upon an indictment at ye Quarter sessions, for reading common prayer’, addressed ‘To the right worshipful the Justices of the Peace for ye county of Cambridge’, and apparently made in 1647 or 1648; (19) ‘A letter from Thomas Gataker to a friend concerning his spiritual state’; (20) ‘A perfect survey of the English tongue, as best it may be referred to the rules of the Latines collected by Lillye’, consisting of two parts or treatises, the second of which ends with an ode, ‘Author ad librum’, and with the name ‘Gilbert Crane’ at the foot of the title; (21) ‘Oratio in laudem Thomæ Bodleii equitis, bibliothecæ apud Oxonienses fundatoris, ex nupera donatione Reverendi D. D. Morrisij, lingæ Hebraicæ professoris, (1626-43), habita in scholis publicis Oxoniæ, octavo die Novembris, 1684. C. H. S. T. B.’