(1) (a) ‘The memorial of Sr Thomas Fairfax general of the parliament army, written by himself’; it is headed ‘A short memoriall of some things to be cleared during my command in the army’, (b) Sir Thomas Fairfax, ‘A short memoriall of the northerne actions during the war there from the yeare 1642 till 1644’; (2) ‘Nicolai Carri Novocastrensis Angli Græcæ linguæ in academia Cantabrigiensi professoris regii de scriptorum Britannicorum paucitate et studiorum impedimentis oratio’, according to the title page a copy of the oration printed in London in 1576; (3) genealogical notes concerning many noble families of England; it resembles MS Dd.12.55, and appears to have been a notebook of the same person; (4) A cronolige of the state of the Church, wherein is sett downe the most principal things mentioned in every age from the beginning of the worlde untill this day. J. B. anno domini 1658; imperfect, and perhaps a translation; it is only carried down to the fourth century A. D. and the succession of the popes terminates with Sabinianus, 605 A. D.; (5) a treatise on justification, dated 23 June [16]72; (6) a divinity commonplace book, with heads of sermons; (7) a Greek-Latin-English vocabulary, beginning ‘De partibus corporis’, followed by some remarks on Latin syntax in English; (8) ‘A defence of the house of Scotland against the title of the house of Suffolke, wherein is declared the intreste of the title of Scotland to the succession of the crowne of England’; the author’s name, ‘Sr Rob. L Knight’ has been partly obliterated; (9) collection of prayers, controversial divinity, poems and church history, made by one of the name of Somers, or perhaps of more than one of the same family, as is probable from the notices of births and deaths, mostly of the earlier part of the seventeenth century; at the end is ‘a catalogue of all my bookes 1636’, a list of answers to some questions of his daughter, among them ‘whether Papists should goe to heaven or no when they weare deade’, and a ‘dreame’, 1617; also includes Grace Carye, ‘England’s forewarning ...’ (see MS Add.32). Bound in three volumes: (1)-(5) in volume 1, (6)-(8) in volume 2, (9) in volume 3.