Item genre: Notes

The Folger Shakespeare Library: MS V.b.198
Miscellany containing poetry, prose, and notes (1587-1636)
(author, occasional scribe)

Item 12 (Notes), fol. 5v


Aristotle (Author)

Philosophical notes

[A list of 5 predicables and 10 predicaments of Aristotle]


The Folger Shakespeare Library: MS V.b.198
Miscellany containing poetry, prose, and notes (1587-1636)
(author, occasional scribe)

Item 60 (Notes, Sermon), fol. 66v

Master C preacher of Acton In the 11th of Matthew. 16 and 17. verses

I have piped unto you and you have not danced

...

Their hearts are hardened against the day of wrath

[The sermon notes are dated 3 February 1632 in the left hand margin]


The Folger Shakespeare Library: MS V.b.198
Miscellany containing poetry, prose, and notes (1587-1636)
(author, occasional scribe)

Item 66 (Notes, Sermon), fol. 72r

Notes on the funeral of Robert Johnson given by Roger Cox

Mr Johnson died the 18th day of November 1633 and was buried the one and twentieth of the same month

...

and to leave him that they might not hinder him of his passage

[Robert Johnson was a court musician and composer (who composed for some of Shakespeare's plays) who lived in Acton until his death in 1633. He was also Southwell's landlord (see msItem 65).]


The Folger Shakespeare Library: MS V.b.198
Miscellany containing poetry, prose, and notes (1587-1636)
(author, occasional scribe)

Item 70 (Notes), fols 73v-74v

Fragments of words

[On fol. 74r is another copy of Southwell's epitaph (see msItem 71).]


Bodleian Library: MS Ashmole 51
Commonplace book containing sententious rhyming couplets, six poems, an inscription from a gravestone, notes on colours, and handwriting exercises (c.1590-1617)
(scribe)

Item 4 (Inscription, Notes), fol. 5v

Monumental inscription plus a note


(scribe)Hand B
Bodleian Library: MS Ashmole 51
Commonplace book containing sententious rhyming couplets, six poems, an inscription from a gravestone, notes on colours, and handwriting exercises (c.1590-1617)
(scribe)

Item 4.2 (Notes), fol. 5v

A note on the removal of Thomas Grey's body from the churchyard

The Lord Marquis Dorset was taken up in the churchyard of Astley in Warwickshire at the new building of the church the 26th of May 1608


Bodleian Library: MS Ashmole 51
Commonplace book containing sententious rhyming couplets, six poems, an inscription from a gravestone, notes on colours, and handwriting exercises (c.1590-1617)
(scribe)

Item 11 (Notes), fols 7v-11v

A list of inks and colours plus some instructions for binding a picture which is painted on satin.

[Hand B has written this list on fols 7v-8r. Many of the colours were also written on fol. 4v and then crossed out. Perhaps Hand B needed more space than simply the half page available at the bottom of 4v.]


(scribe)Hand B

[Fols 8v-11v are blank.]


Bodleian Library: MS Ashmole 51
Commonplace book containing sententious rhyming couplets, six poems, an inscription from a gravestone, notes on colours, and handwriting exercises (c.1590-1617)
(scribe)

Item 12 (Notes, Sententia, Display alphabet, Calligraphic writing), fols 12 rev.-20v rev.

Calligraphic exercises, including alphabets, proverbial sayings, epistolary salutations, and punctuation symbols.

[For this final section, the manuscript has been reversed so that the end of the volume forms a new beginning. I believe that the main hand is Hand A, but it is so much neater than the rest of Hand A's entries that it is open to debate. First appears a list of punctuation symbols (fol. 19v rev.), then on fol. 19r the alphabet has been written eight times and the name " Ann Bowyr" appears at the bottom of the page. On fol. 18v a proverbial saying about the evils of wine has been transcribed six times, and the name "Ann Bowyr" appears again at the bottom of the page. On fol. 18r the alphabet appears four times, and on fol. 17v the salutation of a letter, addressing a sister, has been written four times, in at least two different hands (Hand A and C). Hand C, making its only appearance here, may be a sibling, given the subject matter. Fol. 17r contains one copy of the alphabet, and fol. 16v a proverbial saying on never comitting your honour to fortune. That proverb is signed "Ann Bowyr". Fol. 16r contains the letters A through M followed by lower case m's, and fol. 15v a proverbial saying on the virtue of charitable deeds. Fol. 15r contains the rest of the alphabet begun on fol. 16r (N through Z), again followed by lower case m's, and fol. 14v contains an incomplete proverb on the folly of quarreling with a mighty man. On fol. 14r is one copy of the alphabet, and on fol. 13v a proverb on the just man fearing nothing. On fol. 13r we have one copy of the alphabet, and on fol. 12v simply two lower case a's, each followed by a colon. On fol. 12r is a final copy of the alphabet.]


(scribe)Hand A
(scribe)Hand B

[Fols 20r-v are blank.]


British Library: Add. MS 4454
The religious meditations, verse and autobiographical writings of Katherine Austen (1664-83)
Katherine Austen (Author)

Item 30 (Autobiography, Notes), fol. 40r

Writing this pag. 37 makes me think I am in the 7th year of my widowhood and in the 37th year of my age, this Nov. last 1664.

[This is the full text of this item. A cross next to it matches a cross next to the page number (this is page 37 in Austen's own pagination).]


British Library: Add. MS 4454
The religious meditations, verse and autobiographical writings of Katherine Austen (1664-83)
Katherine Austen (Author)

Item 59 (Autobiography, Notes), fol. 57r

Now is Mr Rich, Mr Symons, the Parliament, Mrs Pelhams unjustly taking advantage all upon me at once.

[This is the complete text of msItem 59.]


British Library: Add. MS 4454
The religious meditations, verse and autobiographical writings of Katherine Austen (1664-83)
Katherine Austen (Author)

Item 82 (Notes), fol. 66v

Here join those 4 leaves out of parchment book of meditations of praise, beginning Oct. last 64.

[This is the complete text of item 82.]


British Library: Add. MS 4454
The religious meditations, verse and autobiographical writings of Katherine Austen (1664-83)
Katherine Austen (Author)

Item 95 (Autobiography, Meditation, Notes, Religious writing), fol. 72r

The last week I attended a friend of mine (Cousin Birkenhead's wife, Mr Prier's daughter) to her grave.

...

The 21 April Aunt Wilson mother to Cousin Samuel Wilson. ['Aged 79' also appears at the end of this msItem, but it is unclear whether it refers to 'Aunt Wilson'.]


British Library: Add. MS 4454
The religious meditations, verse and autobiographical writings of Katherine Austen (1664-83)
Katherine Austen (Author)

Item 133 (Notes), fol. 91v

Notes on adversity and prosperity, following on from item 132.

Adversity and prosperity, both conduce for good. And the place of rising and the place of falling is most at Courts. See pag. 13 book C, pag. 26 book I.

[This is the complete text of item 133.]


British Library: Add. MS 4454
The religious meditations, verse and autobiographical writings of Katherine Austen (1664-83)
Katherine Austen (Author)

Item 149 (Notes), fol. 103r

O God that art worthy to be praised with

[This incomplete sentence occurs just below item 148.]


British Library: Add. MS 4454
The religious meditations, verse and autobiographical writings of Katherine Austen (1664-83)
Katherine Austen (Author)

Item 173 (Autobiography, Notes), fol. 113r

Feb. 65

a lawsuit did begin again that was ended, not as yet grown to a disturbing proceed.

[This is the complete text of item 173.]


British Library: Add. MS 4454
The religious meditations, verse and autobiographical writings of Katherine Austen (1664-83)
Katherine Austen (Author)

Item 179 (Autobiography, Notes), fol. 114v

12 of May 1650 [?]

but now [.. ..] made a dust and a powder, now [..] dance [..] it.

[This inscription uses abbreviations / a shorthand that I don't understand.]


Bodleian Library: MS Rawlinson D. 1308
Lady Carey's Meditations, & Poetry, ... As also the late Thomas Lord Fairfax's Relation of his Actions in the late Civil Wars. Together With his Grace the Duke of Buckingham's Verses upon the Memory of the late Thomas Lord Fairfax (1681)
Mary Carey (Author)

Item 4 (Notes), p. 176 [fol. 94v]


Mary Carey (Author)
Charles Hutton (Scribe)

May, 14:th 1652. I have now buried four Sons, & a Daughter; God hath my all of Children, I have his all (beloved Christ) a sweet Change; in greatest Sorrows, content, & happy: Mary Carey

[This is the full text of the item.]


Folger Library: MS X.d.177
Jests and poems, compiled c.1595, with later additions (c. 1595-c. 1660)
Elizabeth Clarke (scribe)

Item 5.2 (Notes), fol. 8r

[At the bottom of msItem 5.1 is a note in English and Latin: ""finis in the three & twentith yeare of my age. Tricestimo septimo Elizabethe ."" The thirty-seventh year of Elizabeth's reign is approximately 1595. This note is followed by a few words in Latin: ""aetas prima canat veneres postrema tumultus"". A translation of these words (by Shane Hawkins) is ""The first age sings that you ought to revere the last things"".]

Latin
Folger Library: MS V.a.89
Leaves from a verse miscellany of court poetry (c. 1580-c. 1595)
Anne Cornwallis (owner)

Item 35 (Notes, Back matter), p. 34, rev.

[There is a note of ownership on this page: ""Robert Thomas not his Book 1740 Ed. Philips his Book 1740"". This is the verso of the final leaf of the original miscellany.]

[Page 35 (of the bound volume) is blank.]


Folger Library: MS V.a.89
Leaves from a verse miscellany of court poetry (c. 1580-c. 1595)
Anne Cornwallis (owner)

Item 36 (Notes), p. 36

[Lysons has written the heading ""Poetry of Queen Elizabeth's Reign"" and gives the full title of The Paradise of Dainty Devices, 1600, plus lists those who wrote the poetry in that volume.]

[Pages 37-51 are blank.]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F30
Diary, Volume 2 (1703 - 1705)
(Author, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 14 (Notes, Closing material), p.[372]-back pastedown

Thoughts on writings diaries

The writers of diaries record the most memorable things that befall them.

...

and whoever will attend to it may find many of his Psalms to be a register of divine dispensation towards him, and of the frame of his spirit under them left to posterity to make their best use of them.

[

Preceded by blank p.[371].

Followed by blank p.[373] and back pastedown.

]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F31
Diary, Volume 3 (1705-1706)
(Author, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 3 (Notes), p.[ii]

Note about Cowper's writing

I thought myself a great scribbler till I read of one Aldrovandes a Bolognese doctor of physic who hath two or 300 large books (some folios other quartos) all writ with his own hand.

[This is the entire entry.]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F31
Diary, Volume 3 (1705-1706)
(Author, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 5 (Notes), p.304

Note after husband's death

I have set down a great many things in my diaries which I would never had done but with an intention Sir W should see them after my death. Not in the least imagining he would die before me.

[

This is the entire entry.

Although this note is undated, it must post-date Sir William's death on 26 November 1706.

]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F32
Diary, Volume 4 (1706-1709)
(Author, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 5 (Notes), p.[ii]

Note about Cowper's own writings

My books are like Chrysippus's,if other men's sentences were left out, the pages would be void.

...

Or it may be said (as of Erasmus there is more devotion in the book, than in the writer.

[

This is the entire entry.

The explicit alludes to Erasmus's A Manual for a Christian Soldier, sig.A3v.

]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F33
Diary, Volume 5 (1709-1711)
(Author, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 7 (Notes), p.[i][rev]

Note

It is affirmed upon trial that the flesh of a peacock never rots-----

[This is the entire entry.]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F34
Diary, Volume 6 (1711-1713)
(Author, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 38 (Notes), p.40[rev]

Note about the Roman geese

The geese were providentially ordained to save the capitol.

[This is the entire entry.]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F34
Diary, Volume 6 (1711-1713)
(Author, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 61 (Notes), p.63[rev]

August the Tenth 1713.

Josephus observes the taking of Jerusalem by Titus Vespatian did happen in the very same month, and on the very same day of the month in which Jerusalem was taken by Nebuchadnezzar, viz. upon our tenth of August --

...

What will follow now who can tell?


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F34
Diary, Volume 6 (1711-1713)
(Author, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 65 (Notes), p.66[rev]

A Trickster

By her Majesty's permission, there is come to this place, the famous artist who performs ingenious tricks after the Italian way by dexterity of hand.

...

He hath had the honour to show before her present Majesty, and several of the nobility, to their great satisfaction ---

[The rubric is in the margin at the end of the note.]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F35
Diary, Volume 7 (1713-1716)
(Author, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 6 (Notes), p.[4][rev]

Note about Samuel Garth

Most authors steal their works, or buy,

...

Garth did not write, his own Dispensary.

[

This is the entire entry.

Despite Cowper's claim, The Dispensary is regarded as Garth's own work. See Sena, pp.37-68.

]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F36
Miscellany (1670-1710)
(Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 10 (Notes), fol.[59v]

Notes

I would rather be thought idle than lazy.

...

Dr Sheldon Archbishop of Canterbury prayed for the dead in his daily prayers.


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F36
Miscellany (1670-1710)
(Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 53 (Notes), fol.[2v][rev]

Number of parishes

Parishes in England and Wales beside chapels, 9500.

[This is the entire entry. It appears to be a later addition, since it is in the shaky hand characteristic of Cowper's writing after 1705.]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F37
Commonplace Book (1673-1710)
(Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 1 (Notes), front pastedown

Sarah Cooper 1673

Look for an Index in a little black book wherein is contained an Index of the History of the World

...

At the end of this book, see for an Index.

[

This is the entire entry.

The black book to which she refers is D/EP F42. Her "History of the World" is written in D/EP F41.

The explicit appears to have been added some time after the other text, since it is in the shaky hand characteristic of Cowper's writing after 1705.

]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F37
Commonplace Book (1673-1710)
(Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 20 (historical, Notes), pp.127-133

Notes about opposition to Lady Jane Grey and King Edward VI

Let it be noted that on the 19 of July. of Dukes Peers etc. to the number of 27 all of her council engaged to stand true to Queen Jane.

...

Whereupon were sent two of their emissaries from Rotterdam into England who were to pretend themselves Anabaptists and preach against baptism of infants. and preach up a fifth Monarchy upon Earth.

[Followed by blank pp.128-133.]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F39
Commentary on the Bible (1680-1685)
(Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 2 (Notes), fol.[1v]

Sarah Cooper 1680

I recommend particularly the paraphrase upon the Book of Ecclesiastes.

[This is the entire entry. The recommendation about Ecclesiastes is written in the shaky hand characteristic of Cowper's writing after 1705.]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F39
Commentary on the Bible (1680-1685)
(Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 3 (Compilation, Notes), fols [2r-6v]

Collection of notes concerning Genesis, the rise of the Sadducees and Essenes, prayer and scripture reading

How the appointed number of creatures to be saved with necessary food might have place in the Ark, if we look with the eyes of judgment we shall find nothing monstrous therein.

...

It may be answered because this first history was principally for information concerning the visible world. the invisible, whereof we know but in part, being reserved for the knowledge of a better life.

[Followed by blank fol.[6v].]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F39
Commentary on the Bible (1680-1685)
(Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 4.46 (Notes), fol.[291v]

Isolated note on the dating of the Gospels

The first Book of the New Testament was not written till eight years after Christ's ascension. and St Mark's Gospel 12.

[This is the entire entry. It is written in a different hand from the surrounding text, indicating that it probably was added later.]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F40
Prayer Book (Before 1720)
(Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper?

Item 3.4 (Notes), fol.[9v]

Instructions concerning prayers

Then the prayer for grace and intercession as in the morning

[This is the entire entry.]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F40
Prayer Book (Before 1720)
(Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper?

Item 3.6 (Notes), fols [10r-12r]

Instructions concerning prayers

Then the same concluding prayer as in the morning

[

This is the entire entry.

Followed by blank fols [10v-12r].

]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F40A
Miscellany (Started in 1683)
(Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 6 (Notes), pp.200-205

Observations out of the life of Bishop Ussher

Famine The extremity of famine in Ireland caused by Civil War there grew so great, that the very women in some places by the way side have surprised the men that rode by to feed themselves with the flesh of the horse or the rider.

...

Omneity the all being of a thing


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F40A
Miscellany (Started in 1683)
(Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 38 (Notes), p.[396]

Miscellaneous notes

James Ussher Archbishop of Armagh had two aunts blind from their cradles; never saw letters, yet taught him first to read.

...

Note that only compounds nourish, those things which are merely simple can give no nutriment at all.

[This is the entire entry. It is written in the shaky hand characteristic of Cowper's writing after 1705.]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F40A
Miscellany (Started in 1683)
(Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 39 (Notes), p.[397] - back pastedown

Miscellaneous notes

Upon that sudden astonishment I fell into a sickness and vehement cogitation which lasted two months.

...

My revenge upon them that will not take my counsel shall be to commend them that do.

[Followed by blank back pastedown.]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F43
Miscellany (1690, 1698 and later)
(Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 13 (Notes), p.[670]-back pastedown

Note

see page 104

[

This is the entire entry. P.104 contains some thoughts on tranquillity that might reflect on Sedley's prayer.

Followed by blank p.[671], flyleaf and pastedown. The flyleafv and pastedown are marbled.

]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F44
Miscellany (Started in 1700)
(Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 5.4 (Notes), p.145


Sarah Cowper (Author)

Explanation for omitting reflections on Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon

The Bishop of Ely Dr Patrick Hath in his paraphrase upon the Books of Proverbs Ecclesiastes, and Solomon's Song, discoursed so excellently well. that it will be hard to add any meditations after him, that must not appear flat and low.

...

Some of his notes I have formerly collected in a large manuscript containing some interpretations of the Old and New Testament. To which I think it will be best to refer myself.

[

This is the entire entry.

The "large manuscript" is D/EP F39.

]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F44
Miscellany (Started in 1700)
(Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 5.5 (Notes), p.145


Sarah Cowper (Author)

Note

There being not room to proceed here with my meditations on the writings of the Holy Prophets, it follows in page 178 ----

[This is the entire entry.]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F44
Miscellany (Started in 1700)
(Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 5.9 (Notes), p.149

Prefatory note concerning the style of the Gospels

In the style of the Gospel may be discerned many excellencies among other things the native simplicity and if we may so term it. The coldness and unconcernedness with which our Lord seemed to speak of the greatest and most important subjects

...

The joining of this accuracy with this simplicity is admirable.


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F44
Miscellany (Started in 1700)
(Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 9 (Notes), pp.357-358

Thoughts on Christian Churches around the World

Greek Church The principal characters of the Grecian religion are. That the Holy Ghost proceedeth from the father only not from the son.

...

It was the Millenaries that held, the angels were created long before the creation of the visible world.


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F44
Miscellany (Started in 1700)
(Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 10 (Notes), p.359

Note concerning the Eucharist

Eucharist The errors touching the necessity of the Eucharist to be given to infants, continued in the Church about 600 years, it began about 300 years after Christ.

[This is the entire entry.]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F44
Miscellany (Started in 1700)
(Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 11 (Notes), p.359 - back pastedown

Notes concerning divination

Divination an impious art and full of illusions because grounded upon the fallacious knowledge of the Devil, who can know things unknown to man,

...

The forehead, eyes, and countenance often deceive what credit can be given to the hand.

[

This is in the shaky hand characteristic of Cowper's writing after 1705.

Followed by blank back pastedown. There is some printed material visible beneath the pastedown.

]


Folger Library: MS E.a.1
Prose miscellany of recipes, prayers, meditations, accounts, and a description of the trial, execution, and funeral of Mary Queen of Scots (c. 1550-c. 1590)
Anne Denton (scribe)

Item 2 (Notes), fol. 2r-v

[On this page is written ""Md that ther were 267 linckes in/ Anne Dentons cheyne 5th of Apryle. 1564 ."", probably in Denton's hand.]

[Fol. 2v is blank.]


Huntington Library: MS EL 8374
Meditations on the Bible (After 1663)
Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater (Author)

Item 21 (Notes), [57v]-[57v]

ex: to the end of the 16th Psalm: 7 [month] 20 [day] 70

...

ex: to the end of the last chapter of Isaiah: Aug 6 71

[[57r] is blank. Similar notation as pastedown in John Egerton's hand. Notes dates of transcription to fair copy. Beginning of volume 2.]


Huntington Library: MS EL 8374
Meditations on the Bible (After 1663)
Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater (Author)

Item 28 (Notes), [107v]-[107v]

ex: to the end of the 4th chapter of Jeremiah: Aug 6 71

...

ex: to the end of the last chapter of the 2nd of Maccabees May 13 67 [mistranscription for 77]

[[107r] is blank. Similar notation as pastedown and [57v] in John Egerton's hand. Notes dates of transcription to fair copy. Appears on film/facsimile to be a pastedown: marks beginning of 3rd volume.]


Huntington Library: MS EL 8374
Meditations on the Bible (After 1663)
Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater (Author)

Item 63 (Notes), [175v]-[175v]

ex: to the end of the 5th chapter of Matthew: May 13 1677

...

ex: to the end of the last chapter of the Acts 8 15 77

[[176r] is blank. Similar notation as pastedown, [57v] and [107v] in John Egerton's hand. Notes dates of transcription to fair copy. Appears on film/facsimile to be a pastedown: marks beginning of 4th volume.]


Huntington Library: MS EL 8374
Meditations on the Bible (After 1663)
Elizabeth Cavendish Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater (Author)

Item 69 (Notes), [239v]-[239v]

ex: to the end of the 8th chapter of the Romans: 8 15 77

...

ex: to the end of the concluding meditation 9 13 1677

[[240r]-[240v] is blank. Similar notation as pastedown in John Egerton's hand. Notes dates of transcription to fair copy. Appears on film/facsimile to be a pastedown: marks beginning of 5th volume.]


British Library: Add. MS 32376
Autobiography (11 September 1677-21 April 1678)
Anne, Lady Halkett (Author, scribe)

Item 2.2 (Notes), fol. 1r

Note in a nineteenth-century hand

This Manuscript

Written by Anne, Daughter of Mr Thomas Murray, Provost of Eton, and Preceptor of Charles 1st. She was Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Henrietta Maria, and married Sir James Halkett knight of Pitfirrane.

[This later note appears in the middle of the page, in a blank spot left by Halkett. The hand resembles that which wrote a note on the first volume of Halkett's meditations (National Library of Scotland MS 6489, p. i), and signed it "JH". Loftis, p. 193 notes there is no evidence that Halkett was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Henrietta Maria.]


National Library of Scotland: MS 6491
Meditations and prayers (1660-1663)
(Author, Scribe) Anne, Lady Halkett

Item 52 (Notes), p.326

Statement about the preceding meditations

Since I ended the meditations upon the festivals of the Church I have seen another book upon the same subject which yet I have not had time to look over.

...

Those meditations are public which I never intend these; but if any unexpected occasion should ever bring these to light all I desire is, that as every good motion or desire comes from God, so he may not be dishonored by any reflection upon my incapacity of performing what those of greater parts thought worthy their employment. For though some have ten talents another but one yet from the least is expected an improvement and these endeavours will be I hope accepted of my God who can give more, or pardon what I want.

[

This is the entire entry.

The book to which she refers might be Edmund Gayton's The religion of a physician: or, Divine meditations upon the grand and lesser festivals, commanded to be observed in the Church of England by act of Parliament (1663).

Entry unpaginated by Halkett. The final page of the volume is followed by two blank modern endpapers.

]


National Library of Scotland: MS 6492
Meditations (September 1667 to 2 January 1671 and later)
(Author, Scribe) Anne, Lady Halkett

Item 2 (Notes, Front matter), p.ii

This book was begun in the first Monday in January in the year 1667/8

[This is written in a different ink, set apart like a title page.]


National Library of Scotland: MS 6492
Meditations (September 1667 to 2 January 1671 and later)
(Author, Scribe) Anne, Lady Halkett

Item 5 (Advice, Meditation, Notes), p.iv

Explanation of contents

When this book was first begun I intended to have divided it into occasional and select meditations the last of the occasional having reached where the select meditations begun and being a sad conclusion I intend the rest of the book to be for instruction to my poor child (who is all the temporal comfort I have left) and praying that they may be useful to him.

...

In this I intend to employ the rest of this book and the remainder of my time

[This is the entire entry.]


National Library of Scotland: MS 6492
Meditations (September 1667 to 2 January 1671 and later)
(Author, Scribe) Anne, Lady Halkett

Item 51 (Notes), p.xxii

Note

upon Saturday the 10th of December 1670 my son-in-law came home to Pitfirrane.

...

Lord make it a day of mercy to him and all concerned in this family.

[

See also msItem 11.

Entry not paginated by Halkett. It is the back pastedown.

]


National Library of Scotland: MS 6493
Meditations (23 June 1673 - 21 January 1675)
(Author, Scribe) Anne, Lady Halkett

Item 52 (Notes), p.ix

[

This paragraph is added beneath the table of contents: ""in page 63 a remarkable observation that it fell out to be the same day and month on which I had made the resolution of dedicating the tenth of what ever the Lord blessed me with to charitable uses that the same day three year accidentally I was acknowledging the mercy of being instrumental to serve the poor.""

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Meditations (20 June 1676 - 5 December 1678)
(Author, Scribe) Anne, Lady Halkett

Item 9 (Notes), p.ii

Inserted note

[Th]e Popish/ plot/ The Fanatical [spelled Phanatickeall]/ plot/ The Pharisaical/ plot/ from which good Lord/ deliver us

[

This is the entire entry. It is not listed in the table of contents.

See NLS MS 6501, msItem 32 for Halkett's identification of these plots.

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Meditations (10 February 1679 - 5 November 1681)
(Author, Scribe) Anne, Lady Halkett

Item 5 (Meditation, Notes), p.v

Notes

Ended Saturday the 5 of November 1681

...

To the praise of my most gracious God who hath brought me through many difficulties and trials since this book was first begun and till he please to end them will I hope support me with his grace so, as that I may do nothing unsuitable to a widow indeed, that is (oh Lord) devoted to thy fear.

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This is the entire entry.

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Meditations (2 January 1683 - 27 June 1685)
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Item 7 (Notes, Back matter), p.iii

Ended June 27 1685 being Saturday

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Meditations (21 May 1688 - 17 March 1690)
(Author, Scribe) Anne, Lady Halkett

Item 5 (Notes, Back matter), p.v

ended March 17 1689/90

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Meditations (24 June 1690 - 22 May 1692)
(Author, Scribe) Anne, Lady Halkett

Item 49 (Notes, Back matter), p.iv

[On the back pastedown Halkett has written, ""ended 22th of May 1692"". This page was once the back pastedown (visible from indentations on the leaf). The verso is blank and reinforced. This is followed by two modern endpapers and a modern back pastedown.]


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(Author, Scribe) Anne, Lady Halkett

Item 53 (Notes), p.342

Note on Lord Cumberland, his governor and his page going to Edinburgh to see his grandmother

Monday the 13th of August 1694

My Lord Cumberland with his governor and page went to Edinburgh to his grandmother and returned Wednesday the 5th of September

[This is the entire entry. Paginated by Halkett p.344.]


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(Author, Scribe) Anne, Lady Halkett

Item 3 (Contents list, Notes), p.v

The first part of the occasional meditations begins page 267 The second part of the occasional meditations begins page 201

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Huntington Library: Hastings Literature Box 1, Folder 6
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Item 13 (Notes), fols 34v rev.-35v


Elizabeth Hastings (Author)

[A fragment written in a different, much messier hand appears on fol. 34v rev. It is the hand of Elizabeth Hastings. The page is torn at the top and seems to contain sermon notes. It appears that Hastings began to write sermon notes in this volume, but stopped after writing half a page. After her death this manuscript was reversed and begun again so that the final page became a new first page.]


(scribe)Hand C

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Item 17 (Notes), fol. 34v

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Item 3 (Translation, Notes, Religious writing), pp. 7-50


Jean Calvin ( Author)

Notes on Calvin's Institutes (abridged)

[Numbered notes (1-100)]


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Item 3.1 (Translation, Notes, Religious writing), pp. 7-[12]

Book one

[space for a title]

1 The true wisdom of men, is sited in the knowledge of God, the Creator, and the Redeemer.

...

Nothing is done by hazard although the causes are hidden but by the will of God as well that which is secret which we cannot pry into yet reverently adore as that which is revealed in the law and the Gospel.


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Item 3.2 (Translation, Notes, Religious writing), pp. 12-[24]

Book two

Book the second

14 The knowledge of God the Redeemer is gathered from the fall of man and the material cause of redemption

...

by sitting at the right hand of the father from whence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead and thus he hath merited for us the favour of God and eternal salvation.


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Item 3.3 (Translation, Notes, Religious writing), pp.[24]-37

Book three

The third Book

43 We receive Christ our Redeemer by the power and virtue of the holy Ghost who brings us into union with Christ and is therefore called in Scripture the spirit of sanctification and adoption, the pledge and scale of our salvation, Water, anointing, a fountain, fire, the hand of God.

...

65 The last resurrection will certainly be 1 because we cannot otherwise be perfectly glorified 2 because Christ rose in our flesh 3 because God is omnipotent.


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Item 3.4 (Translation, Notes, Religious writing), pp. 37-[50]

Book four

The fourth booke

66. God retains us in Christian society by ecclesiastical and civil administrations

...

But we are so to obey earthly Magistrates that the prerogative of the supreme King may be always kept entire and inviolable.


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Objections

The three first books are all sound doctrine conformable to the scriptures although in these days of light there is more spiritual discovery and application of the same truth but in the fourth book are many doctrines mistaken and questionable and not sufficiently cleared from several objections yet I [illeg.]

72 In this I doubt concerning the imposition of hands now because the gift that then accompanied it is not given with it.

...

Some other doubts may remain but obedience to lawful magistrates is one and so granted.

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Item 5 (Notes, Religious writing), pp. 53-[114]

Statement of belief

My own faith and attainment are

That the chief felicity of man consists in the true knowledge and enjoyment of God

...

but faith sees it through a cloud and in the assurance of it cheerfully passes through all difficulties of this mortal pilgrimage.

1667

[p. 115 is blank.]


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Summary statement of belief

A briefer sum of what I believe

I believe one only true and living Lord God

...

he that invocates God regarding iniquity in his heart, must not expect to be heard in his prayers or accepted in his services.

1668


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Notes out of the Institution of Mr John Calvin


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Item 20.1 (Translation, Notes, Religious writing), pp. 274-272 [rev]

Chapter 1

Liber 1. Caput 2.

The whole sum of that which can truly be accounted wisdom in us is comprehended in these two parts the knowledge of God and the knowledge of our selves which are so interwoven in each other that it is hard to say which precedes and brings forth the other.

...

This is that which hath always stricken even the purest saints with dread and horror when they apprehended the presence of God Judges the 13.22. Esay 6.8 Ese. i. 28. Job. 9.4. Gen. 18. 27.


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Item 20.2 (Translation, Notes, Religious writing), pp. 272-270 [rev]

Chapter 2

Caput 2

By the knowledge of God we are not to understand a bare acknowledgement that there is a God

...

there is everywhere great ostentation in ceremonies but sincerity of spirit is very rare.


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Item 20.3 (Translation, Notes, Religious writing), pp. 269-266 [rev]

Chapter 3

That there is a certain sense of the deity implanted in the mind of all men by an instinct of nature is most evident

...

only the worship of God by which the pure aspire to immortality renders them superior to all other creatures


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Item 20.4 (Translation, Notes, Religious writing), pp. 266-261 [rev]

Chapter 4

Chapter 4th

As there is naturally in every man an impression of a deity

...

throughout their whole lives practise perpetual rebellion and think to appease god with their mock sacrifices and service


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Item 20.5 (Translation, Notes, Religious writing), pp. 261-250 [rev]

Chapter 5

Chapter 5th

The chief felicity of life consisting in the knowledge of God that the way to this beatitude might lie open before men

...

the manifestation which god hath hereby given of himself stands as a perpetual witness against them who change the truth of god into a lie and worship and serve the creature more then the creator.


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Item 20.6 (Translation, Notes, Religious writing), pp. 250-247 [rev]

Chapter 6

Chapter the 6th

God therefore having mercy on people's infirmities after their fall who could not discern him

...

Wherefore not only complete faith is to be derived from thence but there is no true and right knowledge of God to be any where else attained.


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Item 20.7 (Translation, Notes, Religious writing), pp. 247-243 [rev]

Chapter 7

Chapter 7.

To ascertain us more of the doctrine of the Scriptures it is necessary we be confirmed in the authority of them

...

remember that none can comprehend the mysteries of god but those to whom it is given.


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Item 20.8 (Translation, Notes, Religious writing), pp. 243-240 [rev]

Chapter 8

Chapter the 8th

Without this persuasion of the spirit all the strongest arguments are of no force

...

But in vain it is to go about proving to unbelievers that the Scriptures is the word of God which is a truth that cannot be known but by faith.


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Item 20.9 (Translation, Notes, Religious writing), pp. 240-239 [rev]

Chapter 10?

Chapter 10th

["9th" is crossed out and "10th" added.]

The scriptures declare unto us the same things of God that are manifested in his workes

...

wherefore Habakkuk condemning Idols commands that men should seek God in his own Temple and admit nothing of him but what he reveals in his word. Hab. 2. 20.


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Item 20.10 (Translation, Notes, Religious writing), pp. 239-234 [rev]

Chapter 11

Chapter the 11th

The Scripture addressing itself to the vulgar speaking of when it distinguisheth the true from false gods

...

And the Heathen themselves did not believe the image to be God but that the gods inhabited heaven and only their power and efficacy resided in these

[p. 234 is blank]


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Item 4 (Biblical writing, Notes), pp. [423-79]

[Hutchinson notes biblical references and verses marked in her husband's bible under different themes. She may be merging them with her own selections. First and last lines have not been noted here.]


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Item 4.1 (Biblical writing, Notes), pp. [423-36]

[The first group of biblical references concern John Hutchinson's mistreatment and imprisonment.]


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Item 4.1.1 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [423]

Psalms he had marked when he first began to be persecuted.

[List of psalms, plus verses from the books of Romans and John]


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Item 4.1.2 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [424]

His selected psalms in the prison

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.1.3 (Biblical writing, Notes), pp. [425-7]

Concerning his enemies

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.1.4 (Biblical writing, Notes), pp. [427-9]

Concerning a mighty Adversary

[Biblical quotations and references.]

[From fol. 428 all biblical references are marginal.]


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Item 4.1.5 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [429]

The whole tenth psalm is marked with C.

[This is the complete text of the item.]


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Item 4.1.6 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [429]

In reference to an ungrateful Peer and others these might be marked

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.1.7 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [429]

Upon occasion of Robinson's Lies told at Court

[Biblical quotations and references.]

[Sir John Robinson was the Lieutentant of the Tower during John Hutchinson's imprisonment there. His sins are detailed in the Life.]


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Item 4.1.8 (Biblical writing, Notes), pp. [430-31]

In reference to the Presbyterian party and other Apostates

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.1.9 (Biblical writing, Notes), pp. [431-3]

Applicable Scriptures to the Prelates

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.1.10 (Biblical writing, Notes), pp. [433-4]

Upon other circumstances of his persecutors

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.1.11 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [435]

For the 30th of January

[Biblical quotations and references.]

[The date refers to the execution of Charles I on 30 January 1649.]


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Item 4.1.12 (Biblical writing, Notes), pp. [435-6]

A Conclusion gathered upon all this from other places he then marked.

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.2 (Biblical writing, Notes), pp. [437-46]

[The second group of biblical references record encouragements and promises from the bible.]


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Item 4.2.1 (Biblical writing, Notes), pp. [437-8]

Grounds of encouragement which he had selected with some choice promises

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.2.2 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [439]

Spiritual Triumphs and exercises of faith very suitable to his professions to those that were with him to the last.

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.2.3 (Biblical writing, Notes), pp. [440-42]

More select Promises

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.2.4 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [442]

Promises to the Church

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.2.5 (Biblical writing, Notes), pp. [443-4]

Invocations of God and prayers

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.2.6 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [445]

Triumphs of faith

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.2.7 (Biblical writing, Notes), pp. [445-6]

Promises to the Church

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.3 (Biblical writing, Notes), pp. [447-59]

[The third group of biblical references concern doctrines adhered to by John Hutchinson.]


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Item 4.3.1 (Biblical writing, Notes), pp. [447-9]

Scriptures that have reference to that great principle wherein he was so fixed concerning Gods eternal purpose of free grace to sinners and absolute Decrees depending upon his own righteous will.

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.3.2 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [450]

Concerning the Glorious Kingdom of Christ and the restoration of the seed of Abraham to serve him then these places were marked

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.3.3 (Biblical writing, Notes), pp. [451-3]

Concerning Christ's exaltation in Power and second coming to to reign in Judgement

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.3.4 (Biblical writing, Notes), pp. [453-7]

More particular Scriptures concerning the restoration of the Jews and Christ their King.

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.3.5 (Biblical writing, Notes), pp. [458-9]

Some more threats to wicked princes and people.

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.4 (Biblical writing, Notes), pp. [460-66]

Rules Gathered for sundry things out of the scripture

[The fourth group of biblical references observe rules for various aspects of the Christian life.]


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Item 4.4.1 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [460]

Concerning Magistracy and Magistrates


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Item 4.4.1.1 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [460]

For the choice of them

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.4.1.2 (Biblical writing, Notes), pp. [460-1]

Magistrates' duties

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.4.1.3 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [461]

Concerning Subjects

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Concerning friends

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.4.3 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [462]

Pertaining to Truth

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.4.4 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [462]

Reputation

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.4.5 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [462]

An unquiet woman

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.4.6 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [462]

Concerning sloth

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.4.7 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [462]

A Whore

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.4.8 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [463]

Concerning Drunkenness

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.4.9 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [463]

Reproof and Fools

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.4.10 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [463]

Concerning servants

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Concerning children

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.4.12 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [464]

Rules in affliction

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.4.13 (Biblical writing, Notes), pp. [465-6]

General Christian Rules

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.5 (Biblical writing, Notes), pp. [466-72]

[A short section dealing with preaching and ministers.]


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Item 4.5.2 (Biblical writing, Notes), pp. [469-70]

Concerning Ministry and Ministers


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Item 4.5.2.1 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [469]

The end of the Ministry

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.5.2.2 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [469]

The Commission of the Ministers

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.5.2.3 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [469]

The qualifications requisite in Ministers

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.5.2.4 (Biblical writing, Notes), pp. [469-70]

The duties of Ministers

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.5.3 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [470]

Duties of Christians concerning Ministers

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Concerning false Teachers

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Item 4.5.5 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [472]

Other texts referred to preaching and preachers

[Biblical quotations and references.]


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Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson (Written after the death of Colonel Hutchinson in 1664.)
Lucy Hutchinson

Item 4.6 (Biblical writing, Notes), pp. [473-79]

Rules concerning sundry things

[The final section is another miscellaneous group of rules for Christian living.]


Nottinghamshire Archives: DD/Hu 4
Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson (Written after the death of Colonel Hutchinson in 1664.)
Lucy Hutchinson

Item 4.6.1 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [473]

Against Idolatry

[Biblical quotations and references.]


Nottinghamshire Archives: DD/Hu 4
Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson (Written after the death of Colonel Hutchinson in 1664.)
Lucy Hutchinson

Item 4.6.2 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [473]

Against Witchcraft

[Biblical quotations and references.]


Nottinghamshire Archives: DD/Hu 4
Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson (Written after the death of Colonel Hutchinson in 1664.)
Lucy Hutchinson

Item 4.6.3 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [473]

Concerning swearing

[Biblical quotations and references.]


Nottinghamshire Archives: DD/Hu 4
Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson (Written after the death of Colonel Hutchinson in 1664.)
Lucy Hutchinson

Item 4.6.4 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [473]

Against eating blood

[Biblical quotations and references.]


Nottinghamshire Archives: DD/Hu 4
Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson (Written after the death of Colonel Hutchinson in 1664.)
Lucy Hutchinson

Item 4.6.5 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [473]

For doing justice

[Biblical quotations and references.]


Nottinghamshire Archives: DD/Hu 4
Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson (Written after the death of Colonel Hutchinson in 1664.)
Lucy Hutchinson

Item 4.6.6 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [474]

Concerning Riches and avarice

[Biblical quotations and references.]


Nottinghamshire Archives: DD/Hu 4
Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson (Written after the death of Colonel Hutchinson in 1664.)
Lucy Hutchinson

Item 4.6.7 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [474]

Concerning the resurrection

[Biblical quotations and references.]


Nottinghamshire Archives: DD/Hu 4
Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson (Written after the death of Colonel Hutchinson in 1664.)
Lucy Hutchinson

Item 4.6.8 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [474]

Concerning Faith

[Biblical quotations and references.]


Nottinghamshire Archives: DD/Hu 4
Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson (Written after the death of Colonel Hutchinson in 1664.)
Lucy Hutchinson

Item 4.6.9 (Biblical writing, Notes), pp. [475-6]

Pertaining to God's Love and christian charity

[Biblical quotations and references.]


Nottinghamshire Archives: DD/Hu 4
Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson (Written after the death of Colonel Hutchinson in 1664.)
Lucy Hutchinson

Item 4.6.10 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [476]

The institution of the Supper

[Biblical quotations and references.]


Nottinghamshire Archives: DD/Hu 4
Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson (Written after the death of Colonel Hutchinson in 1664.)
Lucy Hutchinson

Item 4.6.11 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [477]

Concerning perfection

[Biblical quotations and references.]


Nottinghamshire Archives: DD/Hu 4
Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson (Written after the death of Colonel Hutchinson in 1664.)
Lucy Hutchinson

Item 4.6.12 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [477]

Some Rules concerning women

[Biblical quotations and references.]


Nottinghamshire Archives: DD/Hu 4
Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson (Written after the death of Colonel Hutchinson in 1664.)
Lucy Hutchinson

Item 4.6.13 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [477]

Concerning Marriage

[Biblical quotations and references.]


Nottinghamshire Archives: DD/Hu 4
Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson (Written after the death of Colonel Hutchinson in 1664.)
Lucy Hutchinson

Item 4.6.14 (Biblical writing, Notes), pp. [477-8]

Some Scriptures paralleled to the persecutions of that day

[Biblical quotations and references.]


Nottinghamshire Archives: DD/Hu 4
Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson (Written after the death of Colonel Hutchinson in 1664.)
Lucy Hutchinson

Item 4.6.15 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [478]

Places pertaining to faith and repentance

[Biblical quotations and references.]


Nottinghamshire Archives: DD/Hu 4
Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson (Written after the death of Colonel Hutchinson in 1664.)
Lucy Hutchinson

Item 4.6.16 (Biblical writing, Notes), pp. [478-9]

Some additional places pertaining to preachers and preaching

[Biblical quotations and references.]


Nottinghamshire Archives: DD/Hu 4
Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson (Written after the death of Colonel Hutchinson in 1664.)
Lucy Hutchinson

Item 4.6.17 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [479]

Concerning temptation

[Biblical quotations and references.]


Nottinghamshire Archives: DD/Hu 4
Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson (Written after the death of Colonel Hutchinson in 1664.)
Lucy Hutchinson

Item 4.6.18 (Biblical writing, Notes), p. [479]

[There is a space left for a title which has not been added.]

[Biblical quotations and references.]

[The following page, [480], is blank.]


William Andrews Clark Memorial Library: MS L6815 M3 C734
Miscellany of works by Anne and Roger Ley, including Anne Ley's commonplace book (1623-1668)
Anne Ley (Compiler, Author, Scribe)

Item 3 (Notes, Religious writing), fols. 90r-91r


Anne Ley (Scribe)
Anonymous (Author)

A short Confession

I do believe and confess that there is one immortal God

...

and rather than be drawn from the same, will seal it with my blood


Cambridge University Library: MS Additional 8460
Miscellany in verse and prose (c.1665-1714. Elizabeth Lyttelton probably began compiling this manuscript in the mid to late 1660s, when she is first mentioned in her father's letters as helping him organize his papers (Keynes, Works, IV, p. 29, letter 21 (13 August 1668)). She might have continued until she gave the manuscript to her cousin Edward Tenison in 1714 (p. 174), though the latest dateable item in the miscellany is 1710 (see Item 6.25).)
Elizabeth Lyttelton (author, scribe)

Item 5 (Notes, Sententia, Sermon), pp. 170 rev.-104 rev.


(Scribe) Dorothy Browne

Sermon notes, texts, and homilies in an earlier hand

[Rebecca Rees has discovered that this hand is that of Dorothy Browne, Elizabeth Lyttelton's mother (personal communication with this Perdita researcher; article forthcoming). Browne compiled her material before Lyttelton (for example, see p. 171, which shows Lyttelton continuing her transcription of the Ralegh letter, Item 4, working around Browne's entry).]


(scribe)Hand B
National Library of Wales: MS 775B
Autograph Manuscript of Katherine Philips's Poetry (1650-1658)
Katherine Philips (Author, Scribe)

Item 2 (Biography, Notes), pp. 1-2


Hand C (Scribe)

[

A much later, fourth hand, provides biographical notes on Philips, 'Orinda' as she is termed here. These notes are largely extracted from: William Thompson, , Poems on Several Occasions, to which is added Gondibert and Birtha, a tragedy, Oxford, 1757, 2 volumes.The reader is referred to a folio edition of Philips; to two odes on Philips by Abraham Cowley; to her translation of Corneille's Pompey, , including the earl of Roscommon's Prologue; and to Jeremy Taylor's discourse on friendship. Her dates of birth and death are provided. At the point where the scribe quotes Langbaine, this account of Philips breaks off mid-sentence, suggesting that the remainder must have been torn out. A stub between pp. 1/2 and 3/4 is visible.

]


National Library of Wales: MS 775B
Autograph Manuscript of Katherine Philips's Poetry (1650-1658)
Katherine Philips (Author, Scribe)

Item 48 (Notes), pp. 215, 213, 211, 209, 207


William Hall (Author, Scribe)

[

Hall transcribes two humourous poems about pies, an anecdote, another homely verse, and three Latin anagrams derived from the names of Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. All are likely his own compositions.

]


Beinecke Library: Osborn MS b.188
Commonplace book of prose extracts and sermons (1672-1694)
Jane Truesdale (scribe)
Jane Truesdale's unnamed father (scribe)

Item 1.2 (Contents list, Notes, Front matter), fol. i r

Table of contents and a note on the scribes of the manuscript by a later hand


(scribe)Hand C

Contents

1. Tillotson's sermon before the king, April 1672. Fol. 1 to 45.

...

and notes on a sermon of Bishop Cumberland (see overleaf)

[The writer of the table of contents (Hand C) lists the four items which were written in the first hand (msItems 2, 4, 5.1, 5.2). Beneath the table of contents the writer has noted that the first hand in the manuscript (fols 1r-63r) was a clergyman acquainted with Dr. Burton (see item 4), and that the second hand, which has written from fols 64r to the end of the manuscript, was the daughter of the first scribe. The later hand (Hand C) notes that the daughter compiled her material between 1692 and 1696 and characterizes her contribution as follows, "The last being extracts, philosophical, moral, and religious, from ancient and contemporary authors, with two more of Dr. Tilloston's sermons, and notes on a sermon of Bishop Cumberland"]


Beinecke Library: Osborn MS b.188
Commonplace book of prose extracts and sermons (1672-1694)
Jane Truesdale (scribe)
Jane Truesdale's unnamed father (scribe)

Item 1.4 (Notes, Front matter), fol. i v

A prose note on jointure

if a jointure run to the heirs of her body by you to be begotten

...

then a fine will bar your own heirs


(scribe)Hand B

[Beneath this item is written "£7", possibly an amount paid for the manuscript at one time.]


Beinecke Library: Osborn MS b.188
Commonplace book of prose extracts and sermons (1672-1694)
Jane Truesdale (scribe)
Jane Truesdale's unnamed father (scribe)

Item 1.7 (Notes, Front matter), fols iii r-v

A note by Hand C on the scribes of the manuscript

[Hand C notes that the first 63 leaves were written by an unknown person who knew Dr. Burton, and that the rest was written by his daughter who was married to a Mr. Truesdale. The hand also notes the monument to Thomas Truesdale in All Saint's Church in Stamford, Lincolnshire.]


(scribe)Hand C

[Fol. iii v is blank (see note to item 1 for uncertainty).]


Beinecke Library: Osborn MS b.188
Commonplace book of prose extracts and sermons (1672-1694)
Jane Truesdale (scribe)
Jane Truesdale's unnamed father (scribe)

Item 3 (Notes), fol. 45v

A note on the identity of Dr. Burton


(scribe)Hand C

[Hand C has isolated two possible Dr. Burtons to which item 4 (fol. 46r) might refer: William Burton, author of "The Antiquities of Leicestershire", and R. Burton, Rector of Segrave, Leicestershire, about whom Hand C provides some information taken from the Rev. John Lightfoot 's works. The Beinecke catalogue suggests instead that the Dr. Burton of msItem 4 is Hezekiah Burton , presumably because he was part of Tillotson's circle. This last identification is the most convincing one.]


Beinecke Library: Osborn MS b.188
Commonplace book of prose extracts and sermons (1672-1694)
Jane Truesdale (scribe)
Jane Truesdale's unnamed father (scribe)

Item 4 (Notes, Religious writing), fols 46r-v

A note about what Dr. Tillotson told a lady considering converting to Roman Catholicism.

Dr Tillotson to a lady newly turned papist offered this to be considered

...

which I hope she hath since done. This story Dr Burton related coming to my house September 7th 1672


(scribe)Hand A

[The writer of this note, Hand A, Jane Truesdale's father, was known to a Dr. Burton. See item 3 for a discussion of possible identities of Dr. Burton.]

[Fol. 46v is blank.]


Beinecke Library: Osborn MS b.188
Commonplace book of prose extracts and sermons (1672-1694)
Jane Truesdale (scribe)
Jane Truesdale's unnamed father (scribe)

Item 5.3 (Notes), fols 63r-v

A note about change of hands in the manuscript.

Thus far was my husband's own writing

to the end of the book was my daughter Truesdale's own writing


(scribe)Hand D

[ The first note was written on fol. 63r and the second on fol. 63v. Hand D is the hand of the wife of the owner of Hand A and the mother of the owner of Hand B.]


Beinecke Library: Osborn MS b.188
Commonplace book of prose extracts and sermons (1672-1694)
Jane Truesdale (scribe)
Jane Truesdale's unnamed father (scribe)

Item 12.1 (Notes), fol. 137v

A note about Richard Cumberland's biography

Dr. Richard Cumberland , Rector of All Saints Stamford, was made Bishop of Peterborough in 1691.

[This is the whole text of the item.]


(scribe)Hand C

[This hand matches the later hand of the early pages of the manuscript.]


National Library of Scotland: Deposit 314/23
Songs for voice and bass viol, poems, and solo lute music (1643-c.1649)
(scribe)

Item 6 (Notes, Back matter), fols 75v rev.-74r rev.

[Fol. 75v rev. contains pen trials and signatures of Margaret Wemyss as well as phrases including, "with my hand" and "my very good lady" .]

[The back pastedown, fols 75r, and 74r-v are blank.]


Beinecke Library: MS b.222
Devotional miscellany (c. 1662-1672)
Ursula Wyvill (Compiler)

Item 3 (Notes, Religious writing), p. 3

through the Mercy & Goodness of God I received the Honour of Baptism in November 1619 the 24 day of that Month

...

to be admitted to that great sacrament of my Lords Body & Blood amen amen

[Notice of Ursula Wyvill's baptism.]


Beinecke Library: MS b.222
Devotional miscellany (c. 1662-1672)
Ursula Wyvill (Compiler)

Item 4 (Notes, Religious writing), p. 4

Our Blessed Saviour on the Cross gave Himself for us; and in the Sacrament of His Dearth and Passion he gives Himself to us.

[This is the complete text of the note on the cross, written in a mixed secretary hand. The scribe who wrote this also wrote the following item, the treatise on the sacrament of the Lord's Supper. It is possibly a professional hand and these two items were possibly written before the rest of the contents of the manuscript.]


Beinecke Library: MS b.222
Devotional miscellany (c. 1662-1672)
Ursula Wyvill (Compiler)

Item 8 (Notes, Religious writing), p. 38

In time of Temptation;

...

as it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end amen amen

[List of suitable scriptural passages.]


Beinecke Library: MS b.222
Devotional miscellany (c. 1662-1672)
Ursula Wyvill (Compiler)

Item 9 (Notes, Religious writing), p. 39

[Statement of baptism with note that she was born on 18 November 1619, with a prayer of commitment to the covenant made at her baptism.]

[Apparently signed "Ursula Wyvill March the 28 1662"]


Beinecke Library: MS b.222
Devotional miscellany (c. 1662-1672)
Ursula Wyvill (Compiler)

Item 12.7 (Notes, Religious writing), p. 63

[A note on deathbed scenes, arguing that God will judge according to the rational self rather than clouded or disturbed faculties.]