George Whittington, Commonplace book. English, 1796 and later

George Downing Whittington, of Eton College and St John's College (1780-1807): 'Common Place Book January 27 1797', including: witticisms; epigrams; several signatures of J. Harris Esq.

Anthony Dopping, Journal as Bishop of Meath. Latin and English, 1678-94

Anthony Dopping, Bishop of Meath (1643-97): 'Private Journal ... being a diary of the contest between James and William, also of private, ecclesiastical and collegiate matters from 1678 to 1694' (label pasted to front cover). Dopping was successively Bishop of Kildare (1678-81) and Meath (1681-97). A strong opponent of Roman Catholicism he was a privy counsellor in Ireland under both Charles II and William III.

Collection of Graces in the University of Cambridge. Latin and English, later seventeenth century

Collection of Graces for degrees in the University of Cambridge, dated between 1630 and 1661, possibly gathered as precedents by an official of the University. The graces are in approximate chronological order.

Matthew Robinson, 'Strena Poetica'. Latin and English, 1646

Matthew Robinson, Fellow successively of Christ's College and St John's College, Cambridge (1628/9-94): 'Strena Poetica / Cantica Canticorum: Paraphrasis poetica in Salamonis epithalamium', a College New Year's gift to his tutor Zachary Cowdrey (1618/9-84), Fellow of St John's. On the custom of New Year's gifts see J. E. B. Mayor's edition of Robinson's life, taken from SJC, MS S.26: Matthew Robinson (Cambridge in the seventeenth century 2) (Cambridge, 1856), p. 22.

Commonplace book, with additions by William James. Latin, Greek, French and English, c. 1650-94

William Drummond, Mathematical commonplace. Latin, French and English, 1683

William Drummond (fl. 1683): Commonplace, chiefly containing copies of mathematical treatises, dated 1683 on flyleaves. The contents are:

Thomas Balguy, A system of morality. English, 1753.

De diversis regulis iuris antiqui. Latin, 1650.

William Selwin, Commonplace Book. English, Latin and French, 1727-35

Thomas Ashe, Collections for an edition of Richard Crashaw's poetry. English, c. 1880

Thomas Ashe, of St John's College (1836-89): 'A Complete account of all the old Editions of Richard Crashaw's poems'. Ashe, himself a poet and co-founder of The Eagle, has cut up and pasted into his notebook a copy of Crashaw's works from the English Poets series, adding his own notes, corrections, introduction and index.