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With an index of a later date. On the outer edges of the top is written Statham, with whose Abridgment it has much in common.

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Upon the fly-leaf is written the name of Robert Bullocke. Pasted into the corner at the end is a table 'To find the beginnings and endings of the Termes and their Retornes for ever.'

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Many manuscripts acquired by the University Library before the middle of the nineteenth century either originated as or were made up into bound volumes, and were classified alongside printed material. Most carry what is known as a 'two-letter' reference, running (for western manuscripts) from Dd.1.1 through to Oo.7.60. They comprise mainly medieval and early modern manuscripts. This catalogue is based on entries for western post-medieval manuscripts in the 5-volume Catalogue of the...

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With notes of cases, temp. Henry VII and VIII.

Scope and Contents This contains (1) notes of Visitations and other events from 1548 to 1600; (2) the Gospel of Nicodemus in English; (3) notes concerning Puritan controversies; (4) Collections from Tindal, Barnes, etc. Prefixed is a pretended table of contents by Wanley. Inserted (ff. 38, 39) is a letter signed Edm. London [i. e. Bp. Grindal] with the date Jan. 10, 1567, against unlicensed preachers. Earl or Early, as he is called in Newcourt's Repertorium, held the Rectory of S. Mildred, Bread Street, from...

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Alphabetical index to latin terms compiled by Robert Stonehouse. Also used as a commonplace book by William Balam, Registrar of the Diocese of Ely. Includes drafts of copies of letters, some concerning land disputes in and around Ely.

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'Librum hunc in duas divisimus partes, in prima de vita et moribus in secunda de natura et rebus occultis disseritur.' Most of the pages are blank.

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Chiefly filled with geographical and historical notes and references. On the first page is the note 'This MS is in the handwriting of Mr John Smith sometime fellow of Queens Coll. in Cambridge, author of several discourses published after his death by my father' (J. Worthington, DD: the note is by his son John Worthington d 1738).

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Many manuscripts acquired by the University Library before the middle of the nineteenth century either originated as or were made up into bound volumes, and were classified alongside printed material. Most carry what is known as a 'two-letter' reference, running (for western manuscripts) from Dd.1.1 through to Oo.7.60. They comprise mainly medieval and early modern manuscripts. This catalogue is based on entries for western post-medieval manuscripts in the 5-volume Catalogue of the...

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The first 80 pages of the volume form a commonplace book written in the seventeenth century. At the end of the book reversed are 11 leaves of writing of which six written in 1556 were intended to form part of a book of precedents; on f. 8 is 'An elegie upon the deathe of the righte worthye Sr Thomas Griffine, knighte', beginning 'I labor not to know why Griffine died...'; on ff. 9 and 10 are 'An indenture of mortgage of a manor', and on f. 11 are forms of conveyance dated 1611.

Scope and Contents A volume originally intended to form a commonplace book, with various titles written in alphabetical order on the pages; but very few entries have been made, and it was subsequently used for other purposes. Contents:(I) (1) ‘Love verses and songs on all occasions’, 20 in number; (2) scattered very short extracts in a handwriting of the seventeenth century, followed by (a) ‘Mr Billars ye publick orators speech of Cambrigd to ye king and queen upon the Region [sic] walk, anno dom....

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(1) Commonplace book consisting of Greek and Latin sentences extracted from various authors; also a note, 'Sebast. Barradas. Itinerarium filiorum Israel ex Ægypto; (2) Heads of sermons (commencing from the other end of the book, reversed).

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An 'A-b-c-darius', or commonplace book, written about 1700, with a few notes for sermons, written on some of the blank pages, about 1750.

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Contents include: collections from 'Mountaine his Essayes'; collections from 'The Historye of Scanderbegge'; collections from 'Charron, de Sapientiâ'; collections from 'Sleiden's Comentaries'; 'Collections out of Perkins'; 'Collections out of the Vocall Forist'; 'Collections out of Donne's Lettres'; 'Excerpta ex Marcelli Paling: Signis Yodiacis'.

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Commonplace books, derived from the Latin locus communis, were a form of intellectual scrapbook where interesting facts and observations could be compiled by the author.

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A bound verse commonplace book with the initials 'F.R.' on the cover.

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Academic notes and a collection of contemporary verses by Henry King, Sydney Dodolphin and others, copied in Oxford.

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Mostly blank.

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Miscellaneous notes, rhymes, poems, cabalistic formulae and other miscellanea, all by the same author.

Scope and Contents Autograph, and (?) in hand of John Saxby. The volume was originally used for accounts by the Saxbys as executors to John Scotchford (d. 30 Dec. 1600) of Brenchley, Kent. The accounts continue to 1610, and are entered on fos 1-7v, 10v-11v, 13, 17, 27, 29, 31, 34, and 54. Fos 56v onwards were subsequently used by Robert Saxby to record pious discourses, chapters of the Bible (including most of the Book of Judith), sermons copied from printed editions, extracts from John Downham, The Christian...