(1) Latin: ‘Summarium quoddam de vanitate simul et falsitate sectariorum, et etiam de stabilitate soliditate et firmitate Catholicorum collectum ad lucubrationem Johannis de la Vache sive Vachell in usum fratrum dubitantium. A. D. 1629’; by the same author, and in the same handwriting, as MS Dd.12.63;
(2) English: ‘A Christian treatise of the brevity of the life of man, by Lucas Trelcatius the younger, professor of divinity in the university of Leiden in Holland, son of Lucas Trelcatius the elder, translated out of Latin into English by R. S. 1665’;
(3) a Latin sermon on 2 Cor. ii. 16, imperfect, c 1648; at the top of the page is written in a later hand ‘This was Mr Sandcroft’s clerum for B. D.’;
(4) Latin, 17th century: Christiana Religio non solvit sed fortius astingit Officianum Vincula: probably an exercise for the degree of BD;
(5) English, 1706, ‘The [honest mariner’s] devotion and Jonah’s creed in a dreadful storm: a sermon preached at St Dunstan’s church in Stepney, on Sunday in the afternoon, February the 24th, 1705, by John Jennings M. A., fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, with a note in another hand concerning other occasions on which the sermon was preached;
(6) English, 17th century, a sermon on 1 Timothy vi. 3;
(7) English, c 1635: ‘A reply to somewhat of Bishop White on the sabbath’, beginning ‘Those characters of lawes simply morall’;
(8) Latin, c 1600: ‘Visitatio collegii Anglicani de urbe sanctissimi domini nostri Clementis papæ octavi jussu per illustrissimum ac reverendum cardinalem Segam episcopum placentinum 2o., jam peracta A. D. 1596’; this begins with a ‘Præfatio ad summum pontificem’, then follows a list of the students, and index of the chapters of the brief, containing the visitor’s decisions on the various points in dispute;
(9) English, 17th century: ‘A treatise proving by the king’s laws that the bishoppe of Rome had neither right to any supremacy within this realme’; ‘Londini in ædibus Thom. Berthelet regii impressoris excusum’; begins ‘Although before this time ...’; with a preface, and a table of contents at the end;
(10) English, 17th century: Gregory Martin, ‘A treatise of Christian peregrination and holye monuments’, beginning ‘Pilgrimage coming of the latine word ...’;
(11) English, 17th century: [James Warre], ‘The touchstone of truth, wherein veritie by scripture in plainely confirmed, and error confuted’, beginning ‘And these words ...’;
(12) English, 17th century: a sermon on Rev. xii. 1, 2, by Edward Clerke;
(13) Latin, 17th century: ‘Responsio ad epistolam hominis euiusdam ordinis honesti et splendidi, sed factionis Jesuiticæ, a cognato suo, A. C.’ (An Answere to a Letter of a Jesuited Gentleman, trans. Anthony Copley), beginning ‘Accepi literas tuas ...’;
(14) English, late 16th century: two anonymous translations from Galen, ‘A treaty made by Galene concerninge the best constitution of the body’, beginning ‘Whiche is the beste constitution of our bodye?’, and ‘A treatye made by Galen intituled Of a goode habite’, beginning ‘We use to give the name of habite ...’;
(15) a letter from John Durie to a friend on the pacification and union of the Calvinistic and Lutheran Churches, dated ‘Westminster, this 31 March 1634’;
(16) Latin, 15th century: ‘Soliloquia beati Ysidori episcopi’ (title given in the explicit), beginning ‘... doloris non reperio argumentum’; imperfect: a leaf is lost from the commencement; see also MS Hh.01.04, no. 5; this is followed by four more leaves of a similar character, ‘Xenophontis apologia ex greco in latinum conversa’, beginning ‘Socratis quoque dignum ...’;
(17) Latin, 15th century: Thomas Aquinas, a commentary on Job, chap. i-iv, imperfect, beginning ‘Sicut in rebus’;
(18) English, 17th century: an ‘Inquirie what wee are to say of those wicked thoughts and other extravagant fancies that are often times injected into the minds of good men, and which are usually by way of eminence called the Devill’s temptations’, beginning ‘It is not all persons ...’;
(19) a sermon on Matt. xii. 58, in Portuguese; three leaves follow, apparently in the same hand, containing theological notes in Latin; an exposition on Genesis v. 1-9, in two different hands, in English.
Bound in three volumes.