Add MS 5832

Volume XXXI of Cole’s [Reverend William Cole] manuscripts, folio, ff. 236, consisting of miscellaneous collections in prose and verse, viz.

1. Account of Robert Hare, esquire, the Cambridge antiquary. f. 1b.

2. Index Collectionum Roberti Hare, armigeri (being a collection of the charters and privileges of the University of Cambridge, in 3 volumes, compiled temp. Elizabeth and James I, preserved in the public chest of the University). ff. 3-21b.

3. Contents of Dr. William Bokenham’s book of records relating to the University of Cambridge, compiled temp. Elizabeth (see vol. XLII, f. 397). ff. 22, 23b.

4. Contents of Matthew Stokys (Registrar of the University) book, compiled temp. Elizabeth and James I. (See vol. XLIV for a transcript of this book). f. 23b.

5. ‘Index to Mr. Thomas Baker’s Manuscript Collections, being Thirty nine volumes (Forty-one volumes are, however accounted for), of which the first Twenty-three were bequeathed by will to the Right Hon. Edward, late Earl of Oxford (now Manuscripts Harleian 7028-7050); the remainder are among the manuscripts of the University of Cambridge, in the Public Library’ – with short notes by Dr. Zachary Grey and Mr. Cole, and some memoranda relating to Mr. Baker and his collections. ff. 24-65. At folio 50, Mr. Cole has inserted a drawing of the seal of Barham Priory, county Cambridgeshire, and, at folio 58b, a transcript of the manuscript notes of Mr. Baker in his copy of Bishop Burnet’s Life of Bishop Bedel, with additions.

6. Account of the School of Pythagoras at Cambridge (otherwise called Merton Hall) including an extract from one, and a copy of another letter from Joseph Kilner, M.A., Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, to Mr. Masters, Rector of Landbeche, dated 1759, in which are abstracts of numerous ancient deeds relating to the school; also the original drawing of the plan and elevation of Merton Hall, made by Richard West in 1739, and subsequently engraved in 1760. ff. 65b-78. From these materials, Mr. Cole drew up his account of the school published in Grose’s Antiquities 1777, which was privately reprinted, with notes and additions in folio, about 1790. See also f. 110b, and vol. XXV, f. 45b.

7. Copy of General Wolfe’s epitaph in Westerham Church, county Kent, and memoranda relating to his mother, Mrs. Henrietta Wolfe. ff. 78b, 79.

8. Church notes relating to Eaton-Soken, in Bedfordshire, taken in 1760. ff. 80-82.

9. Similar notes relating to Little Berkford in Bedfordshire, with notices of Mr. Berridge, Vicar of Everton, and Mr. Madan, of Trinity College, Cambridge. ff. 83, 84.

10. Similar notes relating to St. John’s Church, Bedford, with a list of the rectors of the church, and masters of the Hospital of St. John. ff. 85-90.

11. Description, and drawings, of some Roman antiquities dug up in 1759 between Withersfeild and Haveril, in Suffolk. ff. 90b-92.

12. Notice of some gold trinkets formerly belonging to the Percy Family. f. 92.

13. Drawings and notes of arms in painted glass, in some of the windows of Ely Cathedral. ff. 92b, 93.

14. Church notes and collections relating to Slow cum Quoy, county Cambridgeshire, including extracts from the parish registers, copied from a manuscript belonging to Mr. Rutherforth. ff. 93b-96.

15. Copy of an account of Dr. Peter Baro alias Baron, and family, including various memoranda; a letter from Samuel Baron to Mr. Leigh, Lym, 3 Apr 1671, and a letter from Rev. Thomas Baker to Mr. John Strype of Low Leyton (enclosing the above papers) dated Cambridge, 22 Dec (1729). ff. 96b-99.

16. Epigram upon Mr. Pitt’s elevation to the peerage as Earl of Chatham (from the Whitehall Evening Post, 2 Aug 1766). f. 99.

17. Account of the tablet of knights and monks in the Bishops’ Palace at Ely, including 1. A long letter from Mr. Cole to Mr. Joseph Bentham, on the subject. Blecheley, 12 Feb 1767 (which was partly printed in the Rev. James Bentham’s History of Ely Cathedral, quarto, 1771, append. p. *5); 2. 3. In letters from Mr. James Bentham to Mr. Cole, on the same subject, Ely, 12 Dec 1759, and 7 Jan 1762; 4. A letter from Mr. Cole to Mr. James Bentham, with memoranda relating to the cathedral, 20 Apr 1767; 5. A Letter from the same to the same, touching Mr. Essex’s opinion of the age of the tablet, 14 June 1767; and 6. A Letter from the same to Mr. Joseph Bentham, with corrections of the accounts of the bishops of Ely. 29 Jan 1768. ff. 99b-100b, 108b.

18. Extracts from the Harleian catalogue of manuscripts in the British Museum, chiefly relating to Cambridge, with notes by Cole. ff. 107-108.

19. Copy of two songs composed at the election of Sir Sampson Gideon, baronet, to be member for Cambridgeshire, 1770, with prefatory remarks by Cole, and copy of a letter from Lord Montfort to Mr. Cole, on the subject of the election. Cambridge, 10 Nov 1770. ff. 109-110.

20. Letter from Mr. Michael Tyson to Mr. Cole, on the subject of the School of Pythagoras. Benet College, 17 Dec 1777. f. 110b.

21. Portion of a letter from Mr. Kilner to Mr. Masters, on the same subject. 10 Jan 1760. Ib.

22. Letter from Mr. Tyson to Mr. Cole, respecting the orators’ books. 18 Dec 1777. f. 111.

23. From the same to the same. Same subject. 10 Dec 1777. Ib.

24. Account of Mrs. Newcome, wife of Dr. Newcome, Dean of Rochester. f. 112.

25. Account of the distribution of the gold medals by the Duke of Newcastle, as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, and list of those who had gained medals, from the first institution (from the Cambridge Chronicle, 12 March 1763). ff. 113, 114.

26. Notes of monumental inscriptions, arms, etc., in Christ’s College Chapel, in Cambridge. ff. 114b-119.

27. Mr. Waller’s verses on a girdle, with a Latin translation by Mr. George Bally, Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. f. 119b.

28. Formula of conferring the degree of D.D. in the University of Cambridge. f. 120.

29. Amarillis her soliloquy in the Pastor Fido of Guarini, Act. 3 & 4 with several English poetical translations of it by Mr. George Bally. f. 120b.

30. Verses on Mr. Andrew Pern, Fellow of Peter House, signed ‘Harry Basset,’ but supposed to have been written by his brother Chester Pern, esquire. f. 121.

31. Satirical verses made by Mr. Chester Pern on Sutton John Carry, esquire, with some memoranda relative to Sir Suton Coney, 1647. ff. 121b, 122.

32. Copy of a singular monumental inscription on Felix Adam Blechsmidt, at Leipsic, in upper Saxony. f. 123.

33. Copy of the Latin inscription at Bologna in Italy, on Alia Lætia Crispis. ff. 123, 124.

34. Equivocal political verses. f. 124.

35. Epigram on an entertainment given at Cambridge by Lord Hardwicke’s friends, entitled ‘Coterie Commous,’ (from the Cambridge Chronicle, 13 Dec 1764). f. 123b.

36. Verses to the ‘Honourable and Ingenious author of the Castle of Otranto’ (from the St. James’s Chronicle), ascribed by Cole to Thomas Gray of Pembroke Hall. Ib.

37. Latin verses on the death of the Church of England, 1705, with an English translation. f. 124b.

38. Two epigrams on Sir John Hind Cotton, ascribed to Dr. Apthorp. f. 125.

39. Epigram on the disgrace of the Duke of Argyle, copied from the London Evening Post, 10 May 1740. f. 125 and f. 144b.

40. A tale in verse, by Mr. Western. f. 125b.

41. Chanson, ‘mon coeur est tout à toi.’ f. 126.

42. Chanson, ‘je n’avois pas encore aimé.’ f. 126b.

43. Verses of Pope on his grotto at Twickenham. Ib.

44. Epitaph on the Rev. John Ray, in the churchyard of Black-Notley in Essex. f. 127.

45. Verses in imitation of the first ode of Horace, by Mr. Philip York, M.P. for the county of Cambridgeshire (afterwards Earl of Hardwicke), addressed to Mr. Soame Jenkyns of Bottesham. f. 127b.

46. Verses on a silkworm by Dr. Mortell, D.D., addressed to Mr. Thomson, on his unfinished plan of a poem, called The Castle of Indolence. f. 128b.

47. Latin verses on Dr. Richardson, Master of Emanuel College, supposed to have been written by Dr. Whaley, Master of Peter House. f. 129.

48. An enigma, or riddle, on the letter I. f. 129b.

49. A riddle made by Mr. Cole’s youngest sister, Jane Cole. f. 130.

50. Epigrams made by Dr. Stephen Apthorp (brother in law of Mr. Cole) upon Fortuna Barnes, Fellow of King’s College, on a talkative lady, and on Mrs. Layngs being brought to bed, with notes by Cole. ff. 130b, 131.

51. ‘Directions to the Fan Painter at Tunbridge,’ a satire in verse (about 1750). f. 131b-133.

52. Two latin epigrams made by Mr. Leonard, councellor of the Chatelet at Paris. f. 133.

53. Latin epigram ‘De acone and Leonella’. (Printed in Camden’s Remains, p. 413, Ed., 1637). Ib.

54. Three epitaphs in the church of Westminston in Sussex, copied by Mr. Cole about 1734, ‘being the first initiation of myself into these affairs.’ Ib.

55. Elegy entitled ‘a Lady at Bath in a deep consumption, to her husband in London.’ f. 133b.

56. Verses on a spider, by Dr. Edward Littleton, Fellow of Eton. f. 134.

57. ‘Edward Prior’s Lamentation for the Loss of Jug Bentley (daughter of Dr. Bentley). By an unknown hand,’ with notes by Cole. f. 134b.

58. Latin verses in Effigiem Dnee Catherinæ Hyde, aliarumque Virginium, à Knellew pictarium.’ f. 135.

59. Epigram of Seneca the Philosopher. Ib.

60. Verses on Miss Molly Fowl, of Cambridge, in imitation of Horace. By Dr. Sneyd Davis. f. 135b.

61. Anacreontic Song of p. Metastazio, with an English poetical translation by Richard Roderick, esquire, Fellow of Magdalen College, Cambridge, 1744. (Printed in the Cambridge Chronicle, 16 Feb 1765). ff. 136, 137b.

62. Another translation of the same song, entitled ‘The Triumph of Indifference,’ from the London Chronicle, for 1757. p. 559. f. 138.

63. Verses entitled ‘A Reflection.’ f. 138b.

64. ‘The young man and his cat,’ a fable in verse. Ib.

65. ‘Description of Pleasure and virtue,’ in verse. f. 139.

66. ‘On an old Lady that painted,’ in verse. Ib.

67. ‘Bellman’s Verses to the Mayor of Cambridge By Chester Penne Esq.’ Ib.

68. ‘The 2nd Ode of the 3rd Book of Horace, imitated by Mr. Titley.’ f. 139b.

69. ‘A Reply to Mr. Titley’s Verses, by Dr. Bentley.’ Ib.

70. ‘Extempore Verses on a Beauty patched. By Jun Prior.’ f. 140.

71. ‘On a glass window in an Inn,’ in French. Ib.

72. ‘A Letter from a Cantab. To a Westminster Scholar.’ Signed ‘Titley’ in verse. f. 140b.

73. ‘In Henricum VI Collegii Regalis Cantabrigiæ Fundatorein, autore Ric. Lyne, eiusdem Coll. Socio,’ with an English translation by Thomas Morrell. f. 141.

74. Satricial poem on Dr. Gooch, afterwards Bishop of Ely, Dr. Waterland, and others. ff. 141b-143, see p. 149.

75. More night thoughts, a fragment by Mr. William Whitehead. (A satire on Dr. Young). f. 143, 143b.

76. Jacobite verses on the statues of Charles I, at Charing Cross, and of George I, in Grosvenor Square. f. 144.

77. Verses on Queen Anne’s statue in St. Paul’s churchyard. Ib.

79. A parody on the vicar of Bray. By Thomas Dampier, D.D., Fellow of King’s College. f. 145.

80. Extempore verses by Dr. Swift, on his curates’ complaining of hand duty. f. 145b.

81. Verses ‘on some of the Bishops and Judges. By the Duke of Wharton.’ f. 146.

82. Epigrams on Cambridge and Oxford. Ib.

83. Epitaph on Susan Crane, wife of Sir Edward Walpole, K.B. By Sir Edward Walpole, with a Latin translation by Dr. H. Bland. f. 146b.

84. Verses on Sir Robert Walpole’s second marriage. Ib.

85. ‘Verses on the last Spanish war but one, which the Merchants of London drove Sir Robert Walpole into 1740. To the Tune of Packington’s Pound.’ ff. 147-148.

86. ‘On a Lady who used to paint bad Likenesses of her Rivals,’ in verse. f. 148b.

87. ‘To a young Lady who complained that she was short. A Fable,’ in verse. f. 149.

88. Church notes, and memoranda, relating to Sawston, in Cambridgeshire, and the family of Huddleston (including a contemporary account of the funeral of Sir John Huddleston, in 1557), from a manuscript in the College of Arms. ff. 149b-157b.

89. ‘An excellent New Ballad, called the Hunting of the Hind.’ By Mr. John Whaley, Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. f. 158.

90. ‘To a young Lady on a Puppet Shew,’ in verse. f. 158b.

91. Oxford verses on 5 November (Latin). Ib.

92. Epitaph on the tomb of Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, in Westminster Abbey. f. 159.

93. The same burlesqued, by Mr. Withers. Ib.

94. ‘To a Lady whose eyes were blood-shot.’ Ib.

95. ‘On Queen Caroline’s Grotto at Richmond. By Tho. Morrell, Fellow of King’s Coll. Camb.’ f. 159b, 160.

96. ‘To Mrs. A. G. on the death of her Bullfinch. By Tho. Morrell.’ ff. 160, 160b.

97. ‘Hit or Miss, Luck’s all. On Lord ‘Glas’ Garden on Hounslow Heath.’ By James Bramston. f. 161.

98. Copy of King George II’s letter to Frederic, Prince of Wales, sent by the Dukes of Graffon and Richmond, and the Earl of Pembroke, 10 Sept 1737. Ib.

99. ‘The Captain to his son, or a Burlesque on the King’s First Letter to the Prince of Wales’ in verse. f. 161b.

100. Latin verses ‘On Prince William’s (afterwards Duke of Cumberland) coming to the Ram-hunting at the Election at Eton College,’ with an English translation by Mr. Bathurst. f. 162.

101. Verses ‘on a Rod.’ f. 162b.

102. Pastoral song by Lord Middlesex, copied from a newspaper called Common Sense. 2 Aug 1740. f. 163.

103. Letter from the Rev. Thomas Herring, Fellow of Corpus College, Cambridge, to Dr. Grey, the editor of Hudebras, with a specimen of a French translation of a passage of Hudebras, by the Rev. Mr. Wharton. Doncaster, 6 June 1743. f. 163.

104. Quotations from ariosto, and from a Latin epigram of John Packhurst, Bishop of Norwich, in illustration of the same passage. f. 163b.

105. Latin Epigram ‘In Carolum II Reducim,’ by John Read, scholar of King’s College. f. 164.

106. Latin distich made by John Lane, Fellow of King’s College, with an English imitation by John Dale of the same college. Ib.

107. Passages in Dante, which illustrate the origin of the French fleurs-de-lis. Ib.

108. Definition of physic and physicians, from the Menagiana, and Moliere. Ib.

109. ‘Lout and Onors, the 4 th Chaplen of Genesis parodiz’d by William Roydon, Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge,’ being a satire on Mr. Loft and Mr. Lemon of King’s College, with notes by Mr. Cole. f. 164b.

110. Anecdote of the vanity of the M. Seger, the Emperor’s poet laureate (from the Journal des Seavans, 1716). f. 165.

111. Epitaphs, viz. 1. On a wife by her husband; 2. On Mr. Curzon, rector of Kettleston, county Derbyshire; 3. On King William, by M. Pavillon, with a Latin translation by M. Werenfels; 4. On the Earl of Scarborough. f. 165b.

112. Epigrams, viz. 1. ‘Le Mari Malade’ of M. Le Brun, with a similar one in English; 2. Upon J. C., answering to the Sadducees, that in Heaven there is no marrying nor giving in marriage, from Owen, lib. 2. and Swift; 3. ‘What you may believe your wife in,’ from the Menagiana; 4. ‘Piscatores Hominum;’ 5. On the burning of Bishop’s Thorpe, the palace of Lancelot Blackburn, Archbishop of York; 6. On a young gentleman of Essex, who was attacked by a bull, as he was going to see his mistress; 7. On Sir Robert Walpole’s being translated from the order of the Bath to that of the garter; 8. Distich designed to have been put on the monument of Shakespeare in Westminster Abbey; 9. Distich written by Dr. Stukeley, under a picture of Sir Isaac Newton; 10. Epigram on a dog by M. du Bellay, with Italian, Latin, Greek and French translations; 11. On the Marquis de Langey, from the Menagiana; 12. On St. Luke; 13. Epigrams fixed on the senior’s parlour door at King’s College; 14. On a lady, in Greek, with English and French imitations; 15. A grace after dinner, at a miser’s feast. By Mr. Savage; 16. Epigram fixed on the Palace Gate of Louis XIV; 17. On Dr. Bentley’s applying to himself some lines of Virgil; 18. On the Duke of Bolton, who died taking cantharides. ff. 166-168.

113. Epitaphs, viz. 1. In Crowland Abbey Church; 2. On William Newberry; 3. On a vicious man whose name was Wise; 4. In Burford Church, Oxfordshire; 5. On Martin Eltingbrod; 6. On John Button; 7. On Thomas Browne; 8. On the wife of Thomas Ford; 9. On Cardinal Mozarine. f. 168b.

114. Arms of ancient barons. ff. 169-170.

115. Advocationes, Prioratus et Ecclesiæ ad Dom Ducem Spectantes, in Com. Cornub. f. 170.

116. Copy of ‘The Gamester’s address to the King, 1752. ‘A humorous composition, attributed to Col. Lyttleton, brother to Sir Geo. Lyttleton, with a note relative to Lord Montfort’s love of cards.’ f. 170b.

117. Drawing, and explanation, of the common seal of the town of Devizes in Wiltshire. f. 171.

118. Copies of epitaphs in a few churches of Bedfordshire, Berkshire and Cambridgeshire, viz. Tuddington, Sandy, Cockayne-Hatley, Marcham, Faringdon, Leighton-Buzard, Dunstable, Bloxham, and Adderbury, with a notice of Thynne’s collection of epitaphs, MS Cotton Cleop. C. III. ff. 171b-172b.

119. Dimensions of the churches of Bloxham, Adderbury, and Banbury, in Oxfordshire, from a scrap of paper in Browne Willis’s handwriting. f. 173.

120. Memoranda relating to the family of Ayde, entered in an edition of the English Bible, 1568. Ib.

121. Notes out of Dr. Christopher Hunter’s collections, respecting incumbents of livings in the bishopric of Durham. ff. 173b-175.

122. List of the members of Parliament for the town of Poole in Dorsetshire, with an account of Poole, Corfe Castle, and some other places in the same county, by Sir Peter Thompson. ff. 175b-177.

123. Copy of a letter from the Rev. J. Hutchins, to Mr. Browne Willis, respecting the collections of the former towards a History of Dorsetshire. f. 177b.

124. Copy of grant from King Edward III to Jordanus de Cantuania, his physician, of 20 £ a year for life, to be received from the rent arising from the firm of the vill of Dorchester. 18 Aug ao. r. 17 (1343). f. 178.

125. Copy of part of a letter from the Rev. Thomas Baker to Browne Willis, containing a short chronology of events at Dorchester, from 1569 to 1635. Cambridge, 14 Jan 1734/1735. f. 178b.

126. List of sheriffs for Dorsetshire, from 1644 to 1756. ff. 179-180b.

127. Lists of sheriffs for the counties of Cornwall; Shropshire; Lincolnshire; Somerset; Wiltshire; Nottinghamshire; Monmouthshire; Derbyshire; Hampshire; Staffordshire; Sussex; Devon; Essex; Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire; Northumberland; Rutland; Herefordshire; Leicestershire; Bedfordshire; Oxfordshire; Surrey; Worcestershire; Hertfordshire; and Berkshire, from 1647 to 1653. Collected out of the Commons Journals. ff. 181-182.

128. List of sheriffs of Bedfordshire, from 1646 to 1756. f. 182b-184.

129. Notes relating to Cople Church, in Bedfordshire. f. 184.

130. The manner of installing a prebendary of Lincoln, copied from the papers of Dr. Trunnell. ff. 184b-185b.

131. Oratio habita ad Presentationem Prolocutoris. ff. 186, 186b.

132. Paper relating to the censure of Mr. Edmund Killingworth of New College, 1695. (Latin). ff. 187, 187b.

133. Copies of two inscriptions, one at Osgathorp Church, county Leicestershire, on Thomas Harley, gentleman; the other in Belton, county Leicestershire, to William Shaw, yeoman. f. 188.

134. List of the governors of the Charter House, in 1748. f. 188b.

135. Notes of the number of houses and inhabitants in Cambridge and Oxford, in 1728 and 1737. f. 189.

136. The number of the headships, fellowships, scholarships, and exhibitions; also the number of heads, fellows, scholars and exhibitioners, and all students, whose names were upon the buttery tables in their respective colleges (in Cambridge) on commencement, 1727. f. 189b.

137. The number of headships, fellowships, scholarships, etc. Also the whole number of heads, fellows, etc., whose names were in the buttery books (at Oxford) in their respective colleges, about the time of the Public Act, in 1733. f. 190.

138. Copy of a letter from Mr. George Shelvocke, junior to Lord Leicester (?), giving the first English account of the discoveries at Hereulaneum (about 1741). ff. 190b-192.

139. Copy of a letter from Eleanor James to King William III. ff. 192b, 193.

140. Papers chiefly relating to the time of King James I and King Charles I found among the manuscript collections of Sir John Crewe of Utkinton, viz.

a) ‘A Particler of the Kings greatest Debts (since 1619) delivered to the Parliament House by the L. Treasr. after the speech of the King at Theobalds.’ f. 193b.

b) ‘A note of the Jewelles given by the Prince for presents in the Court of Spayne.’ ff. 193b-194b.

c) Narrative of ‘The arrival of the Prince at Madridd, the 17 March 1622.’ ff. 194b-195b.

d) Verses directed to John Felton, the murtherer of the Duke of Buckingham, ‘Immortal man of glory.’ ff. 195b-196b.

e) Verses on the Duke of Buckingham, being a dialogue between the Duke and Lambe, ‘away, away, great George!’ ff. 196b-198.

f) ‘A schedule of the Gifts and Grants bestowed upon the Duke of Buckingham and his Kindred.’ ff. 198-199.

g) Song on Prince Charles, his going to Spain, ‘All the newes that’s stirringe nowe.’ ff. 199b, 200.

h) ‘Verses presented to the King on the – Sedicoñ in Scotland, 1639,’ signed ‘Robt. Codrington.’ ff. 200-201.

i) ‘To the blessed St. Elizabeth of famous meõry, the humble Petition of her most wretched and most contemptible the Comons of England.’ – ‘If Saints in Heaven can either see or heare.’ ff. 201-201b.

k) Satirical verses on the gentry of Northamptonshire, temp. James I. ‘Neighbor Lester by your leave, your Peace Keepers we conceyne.’ ff. 202-203b.

l) A satire on Richard Fletcher, Bishop of London, ‘John London was condemned for cutting downe of woods.’ ff. 204-204b.

m) Verses upon the order for making knights of such persons who had 40 £ per annum in King James I’s time. ‘Come all you Farmers out of the Countrey.’ ff. 200, 200b.

n) Verses upon George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, and his kindred, ‘Heavens Kepe King James our Joy.’ ff. 205b-206b.

o) Letter signed ‘G.B.,’ supposed from the Duke of Buckingham to King James I dated ‘Madrid, this 8 of Aprill.’ f. 207.

p) Letter from Queen Elizabeth to Sir Amias Pawlett. (Printed in Strype’s Annals, vol. II, p. 361). Ib.

q) A copy of the Earl of Northampton’s will, ao. 1614. ff. 207b-208b.

r) A poetical litany, probably written in the beginning of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, ‘Sweete Jesu, with thy mother my lde.’ ff. 208, 209.

141. Copy of an order from the Duke of Richmond, for the payment of 100 £ to Roger Langford. 20 July 1626, with the receipt. f. 209b.

142. Copy of the case of Colonel Christopher Copley. ff. 209b, 210.

143. Copy of the confession of William Starlinge of West-Wrattinge, county Cambridgeshire, tailor, concerning his adultery with Mary Wood, taken before Michael Dalton, esquire. 25 March 1603. f. 210b.

144. Form of confession and penance to be made by – the wife of Richard Byswicke, of Trinity parish, in Ely, for fornication. July 1596. Ib.

145. Form of penance enjoined on George Nicholson of Leverington. 26 July 1594, for adultery with Elizabeth Smithe. f. 211.

146. Account of the family of Spring of Suffolk. (See vol. LIX, f. 206). ff. 211b-212.

147. Copy of the will of Johannah Rutter of Cambridge, widow. 19 Jan 1 James II. f. 212, 212b.

148. Note of the monument and inscription for Sir Hans Sloane, baronet, at Chelsea, from the Cambridge Chronicle. 29 Oct 1763. f. 213.

149. Memoranda of the situation of ancient places in Cambridgeshire, by Mr. John Allen, Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. ff. 213b, 214.

150. List of chantries in the diocese of Ely. 27 Henry VIII. f. 214b.

151. Short account of the revolution in 1688. f. 215.

152. Copy of a supposed revelation from J. C. to Saints Elizabeth, Malachias, and Bridget, with a form of indulgence, found on the person of Thomas Crewe, 1688, a disbanded officer of the King’s Army. f. 215b.

153. Note of a return made to a writ of inquiry, ao. 1339, of what spiritualities and temporalities the priories’ alien held within the county of Cambridgeshire. (See vol. XXIII, f. 36). f. 216.

154. Latin epitaph on Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, with an English translation by John Hale, 1634. f. 216.

155. Poem entitled ‘A Lye to the World,’ printed in Percy’s Reliques, and attributed to Sir Walter Raleigh, but here ascribed to ‘the royall Erle of Essex.’ ff. 217-218.

156. Copies of three original papers relating to Stephen Dugdale, of Tixhall, county Staffordshire.

a) Wager between John Crewe of Utkinson, and Stephen Dugdal, relative to a horse race. 19 Sept 1678. f. 218.

b) Letter from Charles Wolseley to Sir John Crew, concerning the debt of 100 £ from Mr. Dugdale to Sir John Crewe. 30 March 1680. f. 218b.

c) Bond of 100 £ from Dugdale to Sir John Crewe. 30 March 1680. f. 218b.

157. Account of the ceremony of Maundy Thursday, 17 Apr 1595, in Westminster Abbey. f. 219.

158. Note respecting the George and garter of King Charles II, lost at Worcester Fight, from Ashmole’s History of the Garter. Ib.

159. Extract from Sir William Noy’s will, 3 June 1634. f. 219b.

160. Note of an inscription for Richard Frotesby, Dean of the Collegiate Church of Attleborough, in Norfolk, ao. 1400, and arms in the church. Ib.

161. Copy of inscription on Edmond Thornley, vicar of Littleborough, 1737, at Littleborough Chapel, under Blackstone Edge. f. 220.

162. Epitaph on Sir Thomas Chaworth, at Laund, in Leicestershire, 1458. Ib.

163. Epitaph on Mrs. Annew Mundy, wife of Mr. Wrighton Mundy, 1759, with notes by Cole. ff. 220b, 221.

164. Epitaph on Richard Smith, an idiot, at Colne, county Lancashire. f. 221.

165. Epigram on a fat dean of Ely being succeeded by a lean one. Ib.

166. Epitaph on the infant son of John Gilbert Cooper of Thurgarton, county Nottinghamshire, esquire, 1749. f. 221b.

167. ‘An Epitaph for Anonymous, from Mr. Baker’s MSS.’ (Latin). Ib.

168. ‘An Epitaph on Dr. Sherlocke, late Deane of St. Paul’s.’ (Satirical). f. 222.

169. Verses on the Countess of Castlehaven. f. 222b.

170. Note respecting the wife of John Arden, esquire, of Stockport (from the Chester Journal, 1753). Ib.

171. Copy of a warrant from King Charles I for a brace of bucks out of Delamere Forest, in Cheshire. 27 June 1642. f. 223.

172. Church notes taken by Mr. Allen, relating to Annesley Church, county Nottinghamshire, 1748. ff. 223, 223b.

173. Note of arms in Kimbolton Church, county Huntingdonshire, 1757. f. 224.

174. ‘A Fragment of Lord Roscommon, from Dean Chetwode’s account of him, entitled A Picture of the Regularity of the Inanimate Creation. From Mr. Baker’s MSS, vol. 36.’ Ib.

175. Account of the death of William Chaworth, esquire, in a duel with B-n, 1765. ff. 224b, 225.

176. Answer to the question ‘Why is a Gardener the most extraordinary man in the world?’ (From the Whitehall Post, 15 Oct 1765). f. 225b.

177. On the religion of ancient knight errañts, from the ‘Memories sur l’ancienne Chevalerice.’ Ib.

178. Account of the statue of King George II, at Cambridge, and copy of the inscription on it. f. 226.

179. Copy of the correspondence between Sir John Fielding, and messrs. Napthaly Franks, and Napthaly Hart Myers, presidents of the Great Synagogue, respecting the vagabond Jews in and about London, ao. 1776, with remarks by Cole. ff. 226b-227.

180. Epitaph on Mrs. Mary Steyman, wife of John Conrad Steyman, in Islington Church. f. 227b.

181. Jocose epitaph on Mr. Ralph Thickness, Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. (Latin). f. 228.

182. ‘Conjecture concerning some antiquities lately found in Devonshire’ – supposing them to be the remains of Edward, 13th Saxon monarch (from the St. James’s Evening Post, 1767). f. 228b.

183. Verses on the picture of Mr. Nash of Bath, 1741. f. 229.

184. Memoranda of some fragments and arms of painted glass in one of the prebendal houses at Ely, 1768. f. 230.

185. An account of the ceremony of installing the Duke of Newcastle chancellor of the University of Cambridge in 1749. (From the Cambridge Chronicle, 3 Dec 1768). ff. 230b, 231.

On various intermediate pages are entered:

i. Extract from a poem on death, by Charles Emily, esquire, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (from the Cambridge Chronicle, 5 Feb 1762). ff. 65b, 66b, 69b.

ii. Memoranda relating to Sir John Armytage, baronet, of Kirklees, county Yorkshire, Sir William Pere Williams, baronet, and Colonel Henry Townshend. ff. 65b, 66b.

iii. Epitaph on the Rev. James Sheels, A.B., of Trinity College, Cambridge, by Mr. Christopher Smart (from the Cambridge Chronicle, 5 Feb 1762). f. 67b.

iv. Epitaph for Peter the Great, Corzan of Muscovy (from the Cambridge Chronicle, 29 Jan 1763). f. 68b.

v. List of deans of colleges in England. f. 69b.

vi. Some account of Charles Churchill, the poet, by Cole, with copies of epitaphs, elegies, etc., to his memory (from the Cambridge Chronicle). ff. 71b, 72b, 73b, 74b, 75b, 81b.

vii. Memoirs of the Rev. Charles Churchill (from the Whitehall Evening Post, 8 Dec 1764). ff. 76b, 77b, 79b, 80b.

viii. Verses on the death of General Wolfe (from the St. James’s Chronicle, 22 Jan 1763), with a note relating to the will of his mother. f. 78b.

ix. Memoranda relating to Robert Lloyd, the poet. f. 80b.

x. Anecdote of Mr. John Wilkes (from the Cambridge Chronicle, 5 Jan 1765). f. 81b.

xi. Impromptu on the Death of the Duke of Newcastle (from the Cambridge Chronicle, 3 Dec 1768). f. 82b.

xii. Account of Sir James Burrough, knight, with a further account as contained in a letter from Mr. Betham to Mr. Cole, and copy of his epitaph. ff. 83b, 84b, 85b.

xiii. Note concerning the election of the Rev. John Smith as master of Cains College, Cambridge (from the Cambridge Chronicle, 18 Aug 1764). f. 84b.

xiv. ‘Elegy to Resignation,’ written by Mr. Archer, when prisoner for debt in Cambridge Castle (from the Cambridge Chronicle, Sept 1773). f. 86b.

xv. Letter to the Bishop of Peterborough respecting Mr. Lambert, Greek professor at Cambridge (from the Whitehall Evening Post, Jan 1775). f. 88b.

xvi. Epigrams on Mr. Charles Yorke’s taking a patent of precedence (from the Whitehall Evening Post, 13 Dec 1764, and new foundling hospital for ivit, p. 66), with an article relating to the same from the Gent’s Magazine for December 1764. f. 89b.

xvii. Quotation from the ‘Parentalia,’ relating to some Roman antiquities discovered by Sir Christopher Wren. f. 90b.

xviii. Account of Dr. Byrone of Manchester (from the Cambridge Chronicle, 1 Oct 1763). f. 111b.

xix. Note relating to the ‘Ordinances’ made by John Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester, Manuscript Harleian. 2129. Ib.

xx. Account of Thomas Holles Pelham, Duke of Newcastle (from the Cambridge Chronicle, 19 Nov 1768). ff. 112b, 113b.

xxi. Note of the death of Lord Aston, Baron Forfan. f. 114b.

xxii. Memoranda relating to Sir Thomas Baynes and Sir John Finch. f. 116b.

xxiii. Copy of a letter from Mr. Cole to Lady Montfort. Milton, 26 Dec 1773. f. 117b.

xxiv. Verse on Lady Montfort and Lady Blake, on seeing them at a review, about 1772. f. 118b.

At the end of this volume is an alphabetical index to the contents, ff. 231b-236b.