Sermon for Good Friday. Russian, c. 1700

Sermon for Good Friday, in Russian Church Slavonic, c. 1700. The text of the Strasti is found, with considerable additions, in BL, Add. MS 30040 and in School of Slavonic and East European Studies Slavonic MS 1. The MS incorporates seventeen engravings: at fo. 1 a headpiece and border, the other sixteen corresponding to Rovinskij, Russkie narodnye lartinki (St Petersburg, 1881), no. 862A. The title is translated into Latin at fo. ii v.

Legal commonplace. English and Latin, c. 1638-53

Legal commonplace, apparently once in the possession of Richard Sedgwick, presumably the sizar of Magdalene College, Cambridge, about whom little else appears to be known, and of William Barnes, who matriculated from Queens' College in 1634, and who was subsequently a barrister and Ancient of Gray's Inn. 8 fos have been excised after the title page, the first three of them apparently once containing an index or other alphabetical list. The principal surviving contents are:

Thoughts on the Lord's Day and the Sabbath. English, seventeenth century

William Springett and William Soames (?), 'Tabula Angliae'. Latin, 1638

'Tabula Angliae Script' Ann: dm: 1638', a complete valuation of all the benefices in England and Wales, arranged by county. Including a list of 'Additiones' (fos 263-9) it lists 9407 benefices, with a total annual value of just over £113,270. Cf. SJC, MS H.20. At the end of the volume is a seventeenth-century copy of a charter of John, 30 Aug. 1199, referenced 'E Monastico Anglicano [Sir William Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum (1655)], p. 191, Chartae Antiquae Lib. B Num. 8'.

George Charles Moore Smith, Commonplace book. English, French, German, Greek, and Latin, 1881-1929.

Speeches of John Barrett, lists and academic exercises. Latin, c.1620-75.

Contents

'The Unhappy Civill Warrs'. English, later seventeenth century

'Account of Affaires from the First of K. Cha. I To the Returne of K. Cha. II' (p. I); 'The Unhappy Civill Warrs' on original front cover. A politically-neutral, summarised account of events during the reign of Charles I and during the Interregnum, drawn for the most part from Bulstrode Whitelocke's Memorials, first published in 1682: the first and last entries coincide with Whitelocke's work, but there are variants and discrepancies.

John Brown, Address to Empress Catherine II. English, 1766.

George Henry Sawtell, A perambulation of the Universitie and towne of Cambridge. English, 1843-7.

Commonplace book of J.W. Hawksley. English and Latin, 1805-35.

John Webster Hawksley (d. 1856) studied at St John's College, graduating BA in 1789. He was ordained in 1790 and served as Rector of Knotting with Souldrop, Bedfordshire, from 1792 until his death. He also held various other livings in the county. Hawksley had several poems published in the Poetical Register.