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Neophytus, Metropolites of Philippopolis, Speech accepting the degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology at Cambridge, [13 Sept. 1701]. Copy by John Covel, with parallel Latin translation. See ff 1r-3r.
24. Two stories, set down by Mr. Holles, of what was seen at Burton & Asholme by some still more silly persons, who practised the superstition of watching in the church porch to try whether they should see the spectres of such as should die in the parish the following year. fo. 356.
3. "A modell of the designe ot King Henry the 4th of France, for the uniting of Christendome against the comon enemy the Ottoman Emperour. Extracted from the Memoirs of the Duke of Sully, by the Bishop of Rhodez." fo. 13.
19. A sermon preach'd at St Maries in Oxford. The text, Matthew xxviiith chap, ver. 13, "Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night and stole him away while we slept." fo. 180. This ludicrous piece is very much in the manner of Dr. Fuller.
4. The copy of a letter from Sir Robert Cotton to Prince Henry, on the subject of a manuscript in his library concerning the right of the Kings of England to the inheritance of the crown of France. Dated from Saint Stephens, May 24, 1615. fo. 4*.
26. Note of a charter of William Earl of Essex, by which he gives to Adilicia of Essex, his mother's sister, in free dower, the town of Aincho. fo. 67.