Service book. English, eighteenth century

Collection of services and anthems by Childs, Thomas Williams, Tudway, Rogers, Batten, and Aldridge, no date, but eighteenth century. Six-line stave throughout.

Compositions for organ. English, eighteenth century

Collection of services and anthems by Gibbons, Croft, Goldwin, Green, Bishop, Blow, Purcell and others, no date, but eighteenth century. There is a list of contents in several hands on the rear flyleaf.

'La Coignee de Lutter'. English and French, sixteenth century

Collection of Astrological calculations. English and Latin, sixteenth century

A collection of astrological calculations, nativities and rules by which the future may be divined, sixteenth century. There are some verses at fos [1r], [1v] and [5r], the second acknowledging a book ('The lovynge booke which you have sent ...'), the third two verses from a poem on Jason and Medea ('Many a lady that was full fayer / thoroughe love hathe lost her chef delight').

William Craven, Notes and drafts of sermons. English, before 1815.

William Craven, Master of St John's College (d. 1815): Notes and drafts for sermons on Gibbon and other subjects. At the end of K.43 there are sermons in other hands on Thessalonians v.17, 'Preached at St Paul's Birmingham on the fifth Sunday after Easter May 11th 1828 A.M.' and on Isaiah xxxiii.6, 'preached for St Paul's Sunday School May 3rd 1829 - morning. Preached in St Bartholomew's Birmingham January 20th 1833 - for the benefit of the National Society.'

William Craven, Plan for reading history. English, c. 1800

William Craven, Master of St John's College (d. 1815): 'A plan for reading history', compiled c. 1800 or earlier. It is rather a potted history of the Classical and post-Classical Western world, arranged chronologically, and thereafter (usually) by country or region.

William Craven, Sermons on Gibbon. English, early nineteenth century

William Craven, Master of St John's College (d. 1815): drafts of sermons, apparently preached in College and drawing on Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1807-13.

Commonplace. English, late seventeenth century

A political and verse commonplace of the later seventeenth century. The initial and concluding pages contain notes by G[eorge] A[shby] (Fellow and President of St John's College, Cambridge, 1724-1808), dated Barrow 30 December 1796, and Ashby's remarks and comments are scattered Thomas Baker-like throughout the work. The substantial contents are:

George Ashby's collections relating to St John's College. Latin and English, various dates

George Ashby (Fellow and President of St John's College, Cambridge, 1724-1808): collections relating to St John's College. Other collections by Ashby are at L.32. In the later part of the volume the collection is very miscellaneous, but the following is a summary of the contents:

Commonplace book. English and Latin, seventeenth century

Commonplace, no date, but apparently mid to late seventeenth century. Attributed to 'H. Vaughan' by James, on the basis of the nineteenth-century inscription on p. 23 and the declarations in 2 below by Henry Vaughan. However, the attribution cannot pass unchallenged. The principal contents are: