Add MS 6269

A thick quarto volume of 354 folios. Consisting of thirty-four Orations, Dissertations, etc, the greater part in Professor Ward’s handwriting; who has added notes to each. Viz.

1. Oratio Rogero Marbeck, coram Regina Elizabetha, Oxonii habita, August, 31, 1566. Folios 106.Copied by J[ohn] W[ard] from a MS in the Bodleian Library.

2. Oratio a Jesuitarum Anglicorum Collegio ad carolum Principem in Hispania habita, folios 7-10.At the end is this note by Ward “This Oration was sent T.H by T.13 transcribed from a copy found among the papers of Bishop W. Loveday has added: “V. Huddesford’s Catalogue of Wood’s MSS no 23. Page.22”.

3. Diploma Regium Regenti et Professoribus Musei Minervae à Carolo Primo rege concessum, A.D. 1635. Item alia quaedam ad Collegium illud spectantia descripta ab. J.W. Folios 11-17b.

4. Miscellanies relating to several projects for founding a Philosophical College, etc. Collected from the papers of Mr John Worthinton by J[ohn] Ward. (see MS. Add. 6271 Art.4).

• i. Extracts from the correspondence of Dr Worthington and Mr Hartlib, July, 1660-Jan 1661/2. Folios 19-20b.
• ii. Certificate of Benedictus Skytte, Baron Duderhof, in favour of Richardus Christophilus, a convert from the Mahommedan religion. Dated London, 13 December, 1659. Folio 21.
• iii. Memorial for advancement of universal leaning including,A remonstrance of particulars wherein it is likely the feoffees in trust may think fit to bestow the contributions given for the advancement of learning and Arts, and,Certificate in favour of Mr John Dury, library Keeper of St James’s and Sam[uel Hartlib, Esquire to be Trustees for the above purpose. Folios 21b-23.
• iv. Regium Diploma (s.d.) Folios 23b-27.
• v. Mr Hartlib’s account of himself and family, written by him in a letter to Dr W[ard] 3 August, 1660. Folios 70-28.
• vi. Petition of Sam[uel] Hartlib, Senr to the House of Commons. Folios 28b-29.See Kennet’s ‘Reg. and Chron’. Pages 868-872.

5. Five letters of Ann Wilmot, Countess dowager of Tochester, written when 80 years old, to her sister in law Lady St John, giving an account of her son’s behaviour during his sickness; copied from the Originals in the hands of Mrs Meredith, grand daughter to Lady St John. Folios 31-35b.

6. Diarium in itinere per Asiæ Minoris septem Ecclesias instituto breviter conscriptum [ab Antonio Picenini, M. D. At 1705]. Folios 36-48.Apparently the author’s autograph; found among Mr Chishull’s papers).

7. An account of Mr Chishull’s papers, from which he composed and published the first volume of his ‘Asiatic Inscriptions’ ; and from which also a second volume was compiled and digested by John Ward, now in the hands of Dr Mead, imprinted. Folios 49-50.See MS Add. 5106. Professor Ward has added various notes connected with Mr Chishull’s work, and at the end folio 60 is inserted a printed fac-simile of a Greek inscription in the possession of Dr Mead.

8. Tractatus de Graccea linguae Accentibus, Anctore Jos. Barnes. Folios 61-70.Autograph of the author.

9. Linguae Graecae Prologonmena. Auctore Joshua Barnes (à J[ohn] Ward descripta) folios 72-79b.

10. A sermon preached at Cirencester in Gloucestershire, at the funeral of Mr Robert Watkins, Oct.[ober] 1706 (by J[ohn] W[ard] sen.) Folios 80-88b.

11. [Greek inscriptions] ex Martini Crusii Turco – Grœcia, et conr. Gesmeri Mithradate, excerpta. Collectore J[ohn] Ward. Folios 90-110.

12. Oratiuncula de Potestate Ecclesiae. Dated 5 Kal. 10 bris 1703. Anctore J[ohn] W[ard]. Folios 111-114b.

13. Polygamy between one man and more than one woman not agreeable to the law of nature (by Professor Ward). Folios 115-118. See [Professor John Ward’s] “Dissertations” vol i. 16.

14. The case of our saviour’s Crucifixion, (by the same). Folios 119b-128b. Printed in Ward’s “Dissertations”, vol.ii. at the end. Prefixed to the MS is an Attestation in favour of it, in the writing of Dr George Benson. Dated 3 October, 1758.

15. An essay on Prosaic numbers [by Mr John Russell]. Folios 129-138.16. Of Taste [by the same]. Folios 139-144b.

17. Concerning the natural immortality of the Soul by Philipo Glover, Esquire. Folios 145-151b. Printed 8o[Octavo] London.

18. A Dissertation concerning the Origin and Antiquity of Malt Liquor, by Samuel Zythophil, Knight of Malta [March, 1741]. Folios 152-170b.The author was the Reverend Sam[uel] Rolleston, see MS. Add. 6211 folio 75. This Dissertation was subsequently enlarged and anonymously printed 4to [quarto], Oxford, 1750, but without the Dedication.

19. An Essay on the measure and kinds of English verse. By Joseph Hallet. Annexed are copies of two letters to the author on the subject, 1. From Dr Francis (Hare) Bishop of Chichester, dated the other from J[ohn] Watts, dated Newington, 2 October, 1736. Folios 171-181.

20. Of the poetry of the Hebrews, with remarks on the late very learned and ingenious Bishop Hares Hebrew Psalter, by J[ohn] Hallet. Folios 182-195b.

21. Capita Catalogi Bibliothecae Rich. [Richard Mead?]. Folios 196-203.

22. A Dissertation to shew that the [Greek inscriptions] of the Greeks was the Laurocerasus of the Romans or our Laurel, and not the Bay tree, by Will[iam] Heberden M.D. a letter is prefixed to Dr Mead, dated Cambridge St. John’s C[ollege], 18 December, 1741. Folios 204-212.

23. The manner of St. Paul’s two confinements at Rome considered [by Professor Ward] Folios 213-219. Printed by Dr Benson in his “Paraphrase and Notes on Six Epistles of St Paul”, page 381.

24. Voces [Greek inscriptions] apud Evangelistas pro minima mimmorum specie promiscuè usurpari videntur [auctore J[ohn] Ward]. Folios 220-222. Printed (in English) in the “Dissertations”, vol. i. Page.207. See MS Add. 6288. Art. 26.

25. Letter from Professor Ward to Dr Stukeley, containing some observations upon the latter’s Discourse on Oriuna. Dated G[resham] C[ollege], 5 February, 1752. Folios 223-230.

26. An account of the statues at Easton, the Seat of Lord Pomfret, as they formerly stood. Folios 232-239.

27. Memoirs relating to the life of Sir Hans Sloane, Bar[one]t. Formerly President of the Royal Society. By Dr T[homas] C[irch]. Folios 240-252.

*27. A sermen preached at the Funeral of Sir Hans Sloane, January, 18, 1753, in the handwriting of the Precher, Bishop Pearce. Folios 253-263.

28. Memoirs of the life of Richard Mead M.D. by Dr T[homas] B[irch]. Folios 264-277.

29. Memoirs of the life of Martin Folkes, Esquire late President of the Royal Society, by Dr T[homas] B[irch]. With Additions. Folios 278-287.

30. A letter from G[eorge]. L[ewis]. S[cott]., Esquire to Lord Bathurst, concerning the opinions of the Dissenters (n[o]. d[ate].). Folios 289-294b.

31. Arcanum Theologicum; a Sceptical Discourse concerning the Everlasting Torments of Hell, by N N [Mr Whitefoot of Norwich]. Folios 295-331b.

32. Henrico Ashursto, juveni nobilissimo, Samuel Mead, S.P.D. (Epistola de Talismanibus] Dated Lugdunum Batavorum ante diem decimem January, 1691. Folios 312-330b, 331.

33. An Essay upon the Lex Regia of the Romans, by Samuel Mead, Esquire, in a letter to --- Dated October, 1697. Folios 332-346b.

34. A description of the remains of some large Antique Buildings near Alchader in Mesopotania, supposed to be the ruins of antient Babylon; as likewise an account of the City Bussora, near the Euphrates. Copied from a journal written by Mr John Carmichael of his passage through the desant from Aleppo to Bussora, on his way to India, began 21 October, 1751 and sent by him to Alexander Drummond, Esquire, Consul at Aleppo, September, 5, 1753. Folios 347-354.