The translation is that of the Book of Common Prayer. To each psalm is affixed a heading of its contents. At the end is written 'The end of king David's psalmes set downe in written hande by me R: I: anno domini 1593, etatis meæ 32'.

'The spy, discovering the Danger of Armenian Heresie and Spanishe Trecherie, written by J. R. at Strasburgh, 1628'.

The principal question addressed is 'how far the light of Nature if closely adverted to, may be extended toward the making of good men?' The work was attributed to Floyer Sydenham by James Nasmith.

Contains entries on the different articles of the Christian faith according to the Roman communion. Many leaves are blank and the book is incomplete at the end.

Contains sermons, notes on homilectics etc., sermon notes, and memoranda.

Miscellaneous theological notes in three different handwritings, on Church authority, Church discipline, the sacraments, and other topics.

The collection primarily consists of drafts and notebooks created during the preparation of Tomline's biography of his friend William Pitt the Younger: 'Memoirs of the life of the Right Honorable William Pitt' by George Tomline, first published in 1821. There are also 2 small sets of correspondence (GBR/1058/TOM/10).

Begins ‘De censura in communi. Dico 1o censura lata sepe ...’; this seems to be an abridgement of J. de Dicastillo’s ‘Tractatus de censuris et pœnis ecclesiasticis’, Antwerp, 1562. The title is painted and ornamented.

(1) English: ‘Some considerations concerning episcopacie’, seventeenth century;
(2) Latin: ‘Chronologicæ demonstratio’, seventeenth century;
(3) English: brief notes on parts of the epistles to the Galatians, Colossians, Thessalonians, and the Revelation of St John, seventeenth century;
(4) Latin: divinity commonplace book, seventeenth century;
(5) moot cases, in legal French, 1641.

‘Explicatio doctrinæ Christianæ’, written ‘per Joannem de la Vache, die Annunciationis B. Mariæ, 1633 A. D.’, beginning ‘Doctrinæ Christianæ breve quoddam compendium ...’. See also MS Dd.14.27 no. 1.

'A treatise, in the form of question and answer, on the difference of God's government of his Church under the law, and the government of his Church under the gospel', with a preface 'to the Christian reader'.

Incomplete treatise on the sacraments, beginning 'To prove the Reall presence of Christs body'.

Three treatises, with prefaces, and tables of contents: (1) 'A new discovery of the old world'; (2) 'Actas Noachi rediviva'; (3) 'Remarques in the life of Noah after the flood'. By 'E. L.'

(1) on Gal. iv. 4, 5, beginning (after the text) 'St. Aust. in his 5 epi. ad Marcel. tells us of a certaine young man …'; (2) on Zech. ix. 9, beginning (after the text) 'What is here spoken by the prophet, is as St Matt. witnesseth in v. 5 …'.

(1) ‘An doctrina Trinitatis sit mysterium a seculis absconditum quod divini verbi patefactione hominibus innotescere debuit’, autore Thoma Pisecio. Anno 1605; f. 1 b contains the dedication to his brother Martin Pisecius a Martowic; it is an extract from a larger work, ‘De origine Trinitatis’, written in 1605, which perished by fire; (2) (at the other end of the book, reversed) a tract on the ‘Gloria patri’, beginning ‘Here very fitt occasion is offered ....’

Letter from WSC to the Archbishop of York [William Temple] on the resignation of Henry Woollcombe as Bishop of Selby [Yorkshire]. [Carbon].

Letter from WSC to the Archbishop of Canterbury [Cosmo Lang] on the proposed resignation of the Bishop of Ely [Bernard Heywood]. [Carbon].

Letter from WSC to Reverend Alan Don offering him the vacant canonry of Westminster [London] and the Rectory of St. Margaret, Westminster. [Carbon].