841 842 Dd. xiv. 18. A paper book in 8vo, 52 leaves. REPORTS OF CASES in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Dd. xiv. 19. A paper book in 12mo, 45 leaves, written in 1707. Lex Parliamentaria in Domo Superiori, or the Laws and Usage of Parliament alphabetically digested. A quarto, on parchment, of 297 leaves, in various handwritings. The first 2 sections have double columns of 50 lines, and are of the xivth century: §§ 3, 4 have about 50 lines in a page, and are of the xvth century. ff. 1, 2, and 275 are mutilated, and after f. 262 three leaves have been cut out. 1. ff. 1-258. SUMMA SUPER LIBROS SENTENTIARUM' per Petrum de Tarantasia, postea Innocent. V. Papam. The commencement has been torn away. The second chapter begins : Ends: dignetur Jesus Christus dominus noster. Qui &c. This has been published, Tolosa, 1652. See Cave. A note from Boethius de Trinitate, and others of no value, are appended by a later hand. 2. ff. 260-262. Extracts from the Liber de gestis summorum Pontificum.' On f. 263 are four paragraphs, continued from the three lost leaves. The first three relate to Astronomical questions; the last to the things 'que necessaria sunt ad cognicionem sacre Scripture.' At the foot of the 'Meditationes' is a paragraph on Sensuality. 4. ff. 266-275. Paragraphs on subjects of Theology (much abbreviated, and difficult to decypher). De circumcisione, de cessacione legalium, de Baptismo Johannis, de Baptismo Christi, &c. &c. 5. ff. 276-279 b. De Spiritu et Anima. Imperfect. Begins: Quoniam dictum est mihi... Ends: ...olfaciendo audiendo videndo... S. Aug. Opp. Paris, 1837, vi. pp. 1139—1170. The next 3 pages contain various Theological notes. 6. ff. 283, 284. Canons Ecclesiastical. A fragment. Begins: ...Et quia non solum luxuriam... ...dicat Christus Petro intra gaudium... 9. ff. 289-294. 'Tabula super iv libros Sententiarum.' An Index of Contents to § 1, above. 10. ff. 294-297. A poem in rhyming quatrains. The title has been added by a later hand, Defensio fratrum Mendicentium per Jo. Peckham.' Mentioned by Tanner, with a reference to this MS. Begins: Ends: Christi vicarie monarcha terrarum Vir martiris ecclesie cella Scripturarum ... Hanc qui contravenerit declaracionem 844846 847 848 Dd. xiv. 21-23. Three paper books, in 12mo, written by Dr Lightfoot. The title of the first is, 'A JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASSEMBLY OF DIVINES Convened for the Worke of Reformation in the Church, by the Authority of Both Houses of Parliament, anno 1643. Upon the Discipline and Liturgy.' The title of the third is, 'A Further Journal of Passages in the Assembly from Easter, 1644.' The last entry in this Journal is 'Tuesday Decemb. vlt. The first weeke kept me at Munden. This day our worke was about Church censure.' See Lightfoot's Whole Works, (ed. Pitman) vol. xiii. See also Dd. xiv. 28, § 4. At the end of the book, reversed, are notes of Sermons, &c. Dd. xiv. 24. A small long 18mo, on paper, in very good preservation: date about 1640. This MS. contains 120 pages, each ruled for five staves of four-line MUSIC. On 56 of the pages there are harmonized dance-tunes, similar to those in MS. 43: the remaining pages are not used. A Collection of SMALL TRACTS, now bound up in 3 volumes, 12mo. 1a. pp. 1-9. The Memorial of St Thomas Fairfax General of the Parliament Army, written by himself:' it is headed, 'A Short Memoriall of some things to be cleared during my command in the army.' It begins with the extract printed in The Fairfax Correspondence, 11. 408, 409 (8vo. London, 1848). Has the rest been printed? b. pp. 20-59. A Short Memoriall of the Notherne Actions during the War there from the yeare 1642 till 1644.' This was printed under the title 'Short Memorials of Thomas Lord Fairfax. Written by himself,' 12mo. London, 1699, and reprinted 8vo. 1815. Academia Cantabrigiensi Professoris Regii de Scriptorum Britannicorum paucitate et studiorum impedimentis Oratio.' According to the title-page this is a copy of the Oration printed in London, 1576. 3. A paper book, in 12mo, of 90 pages, containing GENEALOGICAL NOTES concerning many noble families of England. It exactly resembles Dd. x11. 55, and appears to have been a note-book of the same person. 4. A duodecimo, on paper, of 34 leaves, with about 26 lines in a page. A Cronolige of the state of the Church, wherein is sett downe the most principal things mentioned in every age from the beginning of the worlde untill this day. J. B. anno domini 1658.' Imperfect. Perhaps a translation. It is only carried down to the ivth century A. D., and the succession of the Popes terminates with Sabinianus, A.D. 605. 5. A duodecimo, on paper, of 51 leaves, with the date June 23, [16]72. A treatise on Justification. 6. A duodecimo, of 43 leaves, some blank, containing on ff. 1-30, A Divinity Common-Place Book, with heads of Sermons. 7. A duodecimo, on paper, consisting of 33 leaves, of which the last two are blank, each page containing 15-25 lines, apparently of the early part of the xvIIth century, written in a careless scrawling hand. A Greek-Latin-English Vocabulary, followed by some remarks on Latin Syntax in English. Begins: De partibus corporis. μaoxaλn (-ns), axilla, the armpit. Ends: multis gradibus. 8. p. 96. 'A Defence of the House of Scotland against the title of the House of Suffolke, wherein is declared the intreste of the title of Scotland to the succession of the crowne of England.' The author's name (S' Rob. L Knight) has been partly obliterated. 9. The collections of one of the name of Somers, or perhaps M M 849 of more than one of the same family, as is probable from the notices of Births and Deaths, mostly of the earlier part of the XVIIth century, inserted in the volume, which consists of prayers, controversial divinity, poems, and church history. At the end is 'a catalogue of all my bookes 1636'-a list of answers to some questions of his daughter-among them, 'whether Papists should goe to heauen or no when they weare deade,' and a 'Dreame' 1617. Dd. xiv. 26. Two small quarto volumes, comprising 1. On paper, 10 leaves, with about 30 lines in a page, written in the xvith century. Documents relating to the Confession of Faith' subscribed by Jas. VI. his household, the General Bande,' and 'the Acte of the Secreit Counsaill. 2. On paper, 23 leaves, written from both ends. • Certaine Annuall Tyths for St. Austins and St. Ffaiths united payd quarterly. The quarter ending at Michlmas 1689.' This is followed by private accounts of a household, 1691, 2. The 3. On parchment, of 52 leaves, imperfect at both ends. last three leaves are misplaced, and should follow f. 43. Written in the xivth century. Paragraphs in Latin and English, Prose and Verse, on Subjects of Divinity: with prayers, &c., from the fathers, Richard of Hampole, &c. 4. On paper, 21 leaves, each page consisting of about 18 lines, neatly written in rather a large hand, apparently of the XVIIth century. 'La Vie d'Esope tirée des anciens auteurs par Monsieur de Meziriac, Begins: Comme il est arrivé. |