Commonplace. Latin and English, c. 1650 and earlier

Literary, political and household commonplace, c. 1650:

Henry Smith, Literary and antiquarian commonplace. Latin and English, c. 1650-1720

Henry Smith, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge (1615 or 1616-1702) and subsequently Thomas Baker: literary, university and antiquarian commonplace, with contents:

Commonplace. English and Latin, seventeenth century

Anonymous seventeenth-century commonplace, dated items 1635-89. The contents are primarily theological. At fo. 2 is a poem 'On my Lute-strings catte-bitten', with several corrections and additions in another hand, beg.: 'Are these the notes that Poets faine / Have cleerd the Ayre, & calm'd the maine?'; ends: 'And as thy Touch was nothing fine, / So I've but scratch't these Notes of mine.' Notes under a series of headings relating to the government and internal character of the Church, inc.

'The Art of shorte writeinge'. English, seventeenth century

'Tachy graphy, the Art of shorte writeinge', seventeenth century. This is an exposition of a system of shorthand, taken from first principles and concluding with a table of common English words rendered into single pen-strokes.

Book of Private Devotions. English, seventeenth century

Roman Catholic private devotions, early seventeenth century. At fo. v verso: 'I pray you remember, the sender of this booke whoe never will be unmindfull of your Ladiship'.

Thomas Westfield (?), Notes on sermons. English, c. 1615 and after.

(?)Thomas Westfield, Bishop of Bristol (Fellow of Jesus College, 1573-1644): Notes on sermons. A letter from Samuel Knight (of Trinity College, Prebend of Ely, d. 1746) [to Thomas Baker?] dated Ely, 27 May 1727, enclosed in the volume, describes them as sermons 'preached before 1630 at St Mary's in Cambridge', and conjectures that Westfield was the author, he 'being a native of this place very probably it was once his book, and his own writing'. The attribution is far from certain.

Extent and rental of the manor of Monewden cum Solyards, 15 Henry VIII.

Samuel Newton?, Legal formulary. English, seventeenth century

A formulary containing complete or slightly edited specimens of legal documents relating to real and personal property and to probate, probably compiled by and certainly owned by the notary public, mayor of Cambridge and Cambridge antiquary Samuel Newton (1628-1718), whose name appears twice at p. i, together with the date 25 March 1648 and the price of the volume, 1s 2d. Newton's name is also found as a copied signature at pp. iii, x, 67, 112, 117, 173, 186, 236, 238, vii, and x.

Translations of classical authors. English and Latin, mid-seventeenth century.

A Miscellaneous Collection. English and Latin, c. 1641

A miscellaneous collection, mainly relating to the politics of the 1630s and early 1640s: