Autograph, hand of Charles Cowles, and other hands. Includes: (fo. 41) poem 'On the funeral of Robert Trotman Esq.'; (fo. 47v) poem, beg.: 'At Kirton near Bostone (my story is true ...'; (fo. 56) notes on Cambridgeshire items in PRO; (fo. 91) speech by Sir Simonds D'Ewes in parliament, on the antiquity of the University of Cambridge, 2 Jan. 1641; (fo. 100) 'Cantabrigiae Origo etc.': legendary account of early Cambridge; (fo. 102) chronicle of Cambridge, 1229-1388, with abstract of return for Cambridge from hundred rolls; (fo. 104v) account of Cambridge incidents during peasants' revolt; (fo. 140) abstracts of mainly medieval docs re, in particular, Fordham, Isleham, and Wicken, and probably drawn from muniments of the Peyton family, formerly of Isleham. The Wicken section contains many records re Spinney Priory.