Item 9 (Commentary, Compilation, Dream, Prophecy, Vision), fols. 10r-17r

A compilation of records of prophetic dreams and visions from diverse sources, and commentary on them, including reference to Katherine Austen's own dreams and visions.

[Written on versos only except fols. 10v and 12v (see items 9.2 and 9.6).]

Item 9.2 (Compilation, Dream, Prophecy), fol. 10v

Records of four further prophetic dreams and visions, apparently known through family members, acquaintances and hearsay.

[The four dream records on fol. 10v have been added at later dates. Item 9.1 runs continuously on the rectos of fols 10 and 11; also, item 9.2.4 is dated 1682.]

Item 9.5 (Commentary, Compilation, Dream, Prophecy), fols. 12r-13r (not 12v; see item 9.6)

Records of 'diverse other dreams' (as described in Austen's contents page, fol. 3r) and prophetic experiences, including those of 'Henry a German Prince' and Archbishop Laud, compared to Katherine Austen's own experience.

Henry a German prince was admonished by revelation to search for a writing in an old wall which should nearly concern him.

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Whose name was the Boar he was chosen Roman Emperor. See.

Item 9.6 (Commentary, Compilation, Dream, Prophecy), fol. 12v

Further records of two prophetic dreams, experienced by Lady Diana Holland [not identified] and by an unnamed apothecary at Westminster 'about 1663'.

The Lady Diana Holland dreamed, a while after the death of her mother, the Countess of Holland

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He had a second fit of sickness a while after, and then he died. It being a summons to him indeed.

[These records on fol. 12v have been added at a later date; item 9.5 runs continuously on the rectos of fols. 12 and 13.]

Item 19 (Commentary, Compilation, Dream, Prophecy), fols. 32r-32v

A reflection on the dangers of wishing to interpret dreams, drawing on the examples of Henry IV and an unnamed Pope.

Though many dreams have come to pass

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But men had need take heed of curiosity to know things to come, which is one of the kernels of the forbidden fruit.

Item 20 (Commentary, Compilation, Dream, Prophecy), fol. 33r

A reflection on dreams' value as portents and prophecies, drawing on examples including Lady Margaret Beaufort and Socrates.

Some dreams are not to be slighted

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and within that time both died. See B. J. [Book J] pag. 260 of dreams and of prophesies.

[For a prophetic dream of Lady Margaret, Henry VII's mother, Austen gives as a source 'end History. H. 7. L. Herbert'. This would seem most likely to be a reference to Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury's History of Henry VII, but I have not been able to locate the passage in that volume.]

Item 3 (Commonplace, Compilation), pp.1-12

"A" section of commonplaces

A. 1.St Augustine said; that he should never believe the scriptures, but for the authority of the Church;

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A. Age 1 Of all things the company of old men is most afflicting, for they have only the memory of things past in their time, but have lost the remembrance of their repetitions

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Item 4 (Commonplace, Compilation), pp.13-18

"B" section of commonplaces

B Bounty 1 It is said of Maximilian Emperor of Germany his bounty was observed such, that it extended even to the disabling him in the pursuit of his designs, wherein he made a royal virtue criminal,

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Brethren twins. 7. He that is first son, is first to reap.

[Preceded by blank pp.8-12.]

Item 7 (Commonplace, Compilation), pp.25-34

"C" section of commonplaces

C Character. 1. Of Cardinal Wolsey, he was no great dissembler for so qualified a person, as ordering his business (for the most part) so cautiously as he got more by keeping his word, then by breaking it,

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The City With serious follies reverend trifles stored, griefs to be laughed at, joys to be deplored,

[Preceded by blank p.24.]

Item 10 (Commonplace, Compilation), pp.45-48

"D" section of commonplaces

D Deceit. 1. There is no use of deceit among the wiser sort.

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Devotion 14. The patience of God is very great? so it had need to hear him all that while,

Item 13 (Commonplace, Compilation), pp.57-60

"E" section of commonplaces

E Elegies. 1. Improbable elegies are the greatest disservice to their own design, and do in effect diminish the person, whom they pretend to magnify,

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Eloquence 3. He always dirties himself and thinks to make himself clean with his tongue.

[Preceded by blank p.56.]

Item 15 (Commonplace, Compilation), pp.69-87

"F" section of commonplaces

F of my friend. 1. The necessary qualities of a friend are understanding fidelity, and judgment.

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5. Friendship loves to be prescribed by the will of another rather than by its own,

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Item 17 (Commonplace, Compilation), pp.89-96

"G" section of commonplaces

G to God 1. God did create the light before the sun, the effect before the cause,

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Greatness 17. 'Tis men's own faults if they be bad in courts, as 'tis some inward cause and not the sun that blacks the moor. for there are white people in the same degree.

[Followed by blank pp.91-96.]

Item 18 (Commonplace, Compilation), pp.97-112

"H" section of commonplaces

H History 1. In the reign of Henry the eighth; the Yorkshire men made an insurrection, yet they would have it called only a pilgrimage of Grace, while for giving it reputation certain priest with crosses led the way, wherein I observe that in all times rebellion is used to countenance itself with religion.

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Betters the mind, and doth control, the thoughts and soul.

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Followed by blank p.112.

Item 21 (Commonplace, Compilation), pp.134-136

"H" section of commonplaces

H MC Heaven. 1. The angels left heaven for hell, but nothing has left hell for heaven.

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Honour. 2 My eyes may deceive me, but not you, they have more reason, I never loved them half so well.

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The "MC" probably indicates that the item was given to her by Martin Clifford.

Preceded by blank pp.128-133.

Item 22 (Commonplace, Compilation), pp.137-141

"I/J" section of commonplaces

J Jealousy. 1 Jealousy restores the eyes that love takes away.

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Infirmity. 3 His body's so lame, that he has had one foot in the grave these ten years, and yet is not able to put in 'tother.

Item 24 (Commonplace, Compilation), p.145

"K" section of commonplaces

K. of Kings. 1. Kings by reason of the excellency of their degree ought not only forbear to be evil, but also strive to be exemplar in virtue.

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Kisses 14. I think there's no woman wooed the man since Eve's time,

[Preceded by blank p.144.]

Item 25 (Commonplace, Compilation), pp.146-164

"L" section of commonplaces

Love MC 1. Take heed of torturing my heart, for thy image being in it, the substance will decay with that

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16. Like the sea, she loves to kill, but hates dead corpse.

[The "MC" probably indicates that the item was given to her by Martin Clifford.]

Item 26 (Commonplace, Compilation), pp.165-167

"M" section of commonplaces

M. Maxims 1 There can be no peace so void of religion as a Civil War.

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Mach: 4. Counterpoise of reward and punishment, are the best weights to make the great clock of the Commonwealth to go right.

[Followed by blank p.167.]

Item 31 (Commonplace, Compilation), pp.172-176

"M" section of commonplaces, continued

M Modesty MC: 1 What a proud modesty is that, to think ill of yourself against the opinion of all the rest of the world.

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Mutability 5 We go not but we are carried as things that float now gliding gently, now again hurried violently according as the water is either stormy, or calm.

[The "MC" probably indicates that the item was given to her by Martin Clifford.]

Item 32 (Commonplace, Compilation), pp.177-179

"N" section of commonplaces

N. Note. 1. This I have received from a credible and I would say from an infallible fountain, if it did not become my simplicity, in a point so much concerning the eternal dishonour of a great man, to leave always some possibility of misinformation.

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Nature 4 Without the help of industry, and study, which oft destroy the body before they perfect the soul.

Item 35 (Commonplace, Compilation), pp.185-206

"O" section of commonplaces

O Observe. 1. As since the discovery of the Indies coin hath been much more plentiful, so great matters have been done in these latter times by bribes;

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but old age is the last, and extremest way of dying, indeed it is the limit beyond which we shall not pass, and which the law of nature hath prescribed unto us, as that which shall not be outgone by any but it is a rare privilege peculiar unto herself to make us continue unto it.

Item 39 (Commonplace, Compilation), pp.225-228

"P" section of commonplaces

P Precept 1. If you would appease anger in your friends seek not (while they are in passion) to excuse;

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4. Were no jealous brow, it makes men false to be suspected so

Item 42 (Commonplace, Compilation), pp.229-254

"P" section of commonplaces, continued

P Politics. 1. The cause of a kingdom (as Statists write) acknowledgeth neither kindred, duty, faith, friendship, or society.

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Set some such bound to thyself at last which thou canst not transgress, even if thou should'st be so unhappy as to desire it.

Item 45 (Commonplace, Compilation), pp.257-268

"P" section of commonplaces, continued.

Poetry. An Epigram of Epictetus. 1. Born indisposed of body and a slave,

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To wish that thou had'st kind and happy been.

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All the entries in this section are in verse.

Preceded by a blank p.256.

Item 46 (Commonplace, Compilation), pp.269-270

"Q" section of commonplaces

Q Question 1 I would propound to your judgment a pretty moral doubt, which I have heard discussed and resolved affirmatively among some skilful humourist who knew the world well,

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Quickness. 5 An angel in short hand could not have writ it

Item 47 (Commonplace, Compilation), pp.271-280

"R" section of commonplaces

R Religion. 1. Those were happy times when men did not think themselves bound to study the intricacies, and sophisms of authors, in matters impertinent to salvation,

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they are made bishops by the civil power so that those who oppose the authority they exercise oppose the civil magistrate

Item 49 (Commonplace, Compilation), pp.294-297

"R" section of commonplaces, continued

R Religion 1. He has an unseasonable religion, he never says his prayers, but when dinner's upon the table

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Railer 14. He has teeth in his tongue like a trout.

Item 52 (Commonplace, Compilation), pp.311-330

"S" section of commonplaces

S Sentences. 1. It is unpossible to draw his picture well who hath several countenances.

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The base is no part of his stature, but you ought to measure the man without his stilts:

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Followed by a blank p.330

Item 60 (Commonplace, Compilation), pp.349-350

"S" section of commonplaces, continued

S Spleen. 1. The spleen seems to be the disease of people that are idle, or think themselves but ill entertained,

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I cannot hope it will end in a solar period being such a Saturnine humour, yet I have found it of more contumacy, than malignity/

[Followed by blank p.350.]

Item 61 (Commonplace, Compilation), pp.351-353

"T" section of commonplaces

T Truth. 1. Truth, and invention are the daughters of time,

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Tyrant 14 If once his fortunes spring a plank, he's sunk;

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Followed by blank pp.352-353.

Item 64 (Commonplace, Compilation), pp.356-361

"Poets" section of commonplaces, continued

Poets 1 Not half my love was by their wits expressed

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How much the dreams of meat feed hungry men?

[All the entries in this section are in verse.]

Item 66 (Commonplace, Compilation), pp.362-363

"Poets" section of commonplaces, continued

A Pindaric ode to Eu: Proud and ingrateful idol now 'tis plain

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As the suns beams put out our fires below.

[All the entries in this section are in verse.]

Item 67 (Commonplace, Compilation), pp.364-366

"U/V" section of commonplaces

V Voyage And like the wind flees from his native country never to return again / out travail the winds,

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Vicious 15 God can't deny you, for you never asked any thing before nor never will again

Item 69 (Commonplace, Compilation), pp.369-375

"W" section of commonplaces

W War 1 The accursed honour of fighting nobly to be slaves by victory

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Women 5 I like a thing that's excellent though in an ill kind, as I like a good woman;

Item 70 (Commonplace, Compilation), p.376 - back flyleaf r

"Y" section of commonplaces

Youth 1 The blossoms of the blackest fruit, are white

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3 Like a prophecy everybody endeavours to make him good. / yonder genneting /

[Followed by blank back flyleaf r.]

Item 2 (Commonplace, Compilation), fols [1r-36v]

Saith Seneca

I daily examine myself and consider both my actions and words, I let nothing slip nor hide any thing from myself, for why should I fear any of my errors?

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Pain and pleasure are so linked together, that they closely succeed each other by turns.

The End of Seneca

[The final rubric is in a slightly larger hand and appears to have been inserted after the surrounding text was written. The next line begins without a separate heading.]

Item 3 (Commonplace, Compilation), fols [36v-37v]

Unattributed commonplaces

No man ought to desert the station wherein God hath placed him: but to persist in the duties thereof contemning all opposition

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O how beautiful is a succession of good things.

Item 4 (Commonplace, Compilation), fols [37v-38v]

Unattributed commonplaces

Begin Here

All sufferings did not move his spirit in the least to any unchristian passion nor extort from him one angry, one revengeful, one unseemly word.

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The crafty man has many parts to play so that it is almost impossible for him so to act all, as not to be discovered in some and then he will be suspected in all whereas the honest man always acts according to plain nature.

[The rubric is in the same hand as "The End of Seneca" and also appears to have been inserted after the surrounding text had already been written.]

Item 6 (Commonplace, Compilation), fols [39v-52r]

Unattributed commonplaces

As nothing is perfect without decency; so nothing can be decent without simplicity

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Our appetites must be tamed and reduced, and then they will not put us into mutiny and discontent

August 14th

[This is the last item in the front of the book. The manuscript is turned upside down and written in from the back towards the front. This contents list now starts from the back and works to the middle.]

Item 11 (Biblical writing, Compilation, Quotation), fols [2r-41r][rev]

Collection of texts from scripture

Exodus 22 28 Thou shalt not revile the Gods. Nor curse the ruler of thy people.

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To the only wise God our Saviour be glory and Majesty, dominion and power, now and forever Amen.

[Fol.[41r][rev] is the other side of fol.[52r].]

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.

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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].]

Item 5 (Compilation, historical), fols [494r-499v]

Heretics

1 Simon Magus In the ninth year of the reign of Domitian, St John the Apostle was banished into the Island of Patmos, where he wrote his Revelations.

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Maronites The Maronites believe that the souls of men were all created together from the beginning.

[Followed by blank back flyleaf and pastedown. The flyleaf v and pastedown are marbled.]

Item 2 (Compilation, Prayer), fols [2r-7r]

Prayers for the Morning

Item 3 (Compilation, Prayer), fols [7r-12r]

Prayers for Night

Item 4 (Biblical writing, Compilation, Quotation), fols [12v-35v]

Verses out of Psalms

Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

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The Lord will give strength to his people the Lord will bless his people with peace

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

Followed by blank fols [13r-35v].

Item 5 (Compilation, Prayer), fols [36r-49v]

Meditations and Prayers before Receiving

[Preceded by blank fols [13r-35v].]

Item 6 (Compilation, Prayer), fols [50r-55r]

Prayers before the Receiving of the Blessed Sacrament

[Preceded by blank fols [39r-49v].]

Item 7 (Compilation, Prayer), fols [55v-72v]

Prayers for after Receiving the Sacrament

[Preceded by blank fols [54v-55r].]

Item 8 (Compilation, Prayer), fol.[58r]

Ejaculations to be used at the Lord's Supper

Lord I am not worthy that thou should'st come under my roof

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O Lamb of God which takest away the sins of the world have mercy upon me

[Preceded by blank fol.[57v].]

Item 9 (Compilation, Prayer), fols [58v-72v]

Prayers concerning the Sacrament

Item 10 (Compilation, Prayer), fols [64v-72v]

Ejaculations after Receiving

How excellent is thy loving kindness, O God and how precious are thy thoughts towards us.

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for so shall we still have fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus Christ thy son shall cleanse me from all sin.

[Followed by blank fols [66r-72v], a flyleaf and pastedown.]

Item 3.3 (Commonplace, Compilation), pp.1-96

Selections from Plutarch's Morals

Education Let those who desire to be fathers of such children as may live in reputation among men not match with women of ill fame.

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Aristotle writes that the scents of perfumes ointments, flowers and fragrant smells serve no less for health than for delight and pleasure.

The End of Plutarch's Morals

Item 4 (Commonplace, Compilation), pp.96-98

Commonplaces

To relations we must pay their proper duty of which we must remember this general rule, that it is impossible to get content by them unless we do our duty towards them.

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As it asks some knowledge to demand a question not impertinent so it requires some sense to make a wish not absurd.

Item 5 (Commonplace, Compilation), pp.98-200

Here follows some collections out of several authors, many of 'em excellent precepts and rules of life. If some of these saying are not exactly true, yet I note them to shew how well some things may be said for that which is not so

Apologies It was a magnanimous resolution of the Duke of Buckingham who would never admit any apology to be written for him nor make any himself, for he would say he never found any fruit in apologies but the multiplying of discourse.

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In all moral actions God values the will for the deed and reckons the man a companion in the sin who though possibly he may never actually join in it does yet inwardly applaud and like it.

Item 10 (Compilation, historical), pp.228-273

Collections out of History

The first Olympiad was 779 before the era of Christ.

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Montaigne will hardly allow any physician competent but only for such diseases as himself had passed through.

Item 12 (Compilation, historical), pp.273-280

Collections out of History, continued

Anciently some good Catholic Bishops excommunicated and damned others for holding there were Antipodes.

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He wrote Anecdota, or a Secret History which is generally obnoxious to impertinencies and disadvantages.

Item 13 (Prose, Compilation), pp.280-292

Dr Burnet's travels of the Quietists

Dr Burnet Mrs Walkeir of Geneva lost her sight when she was but a year old in being too near a stove that was very hot.

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The execution of thieves and robbers they thought most pleasing to the gods but wanting them they did not spare the innocent.

Item 14 (Prose, Compilation), pp.292-295

The Princes of Austria. Their long chins

The Princes of Austria have all a long chin and thick lips which is a physiognomical sign of their piety constancy and integrity.

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The part of constancy is chiefly to be acted in firmly bearing the inconveniences against which no remedy is to be found

Item 18 (Compilation, Medical writing), pp.347-352

Rules of Health

That measure of food is exactly proportionable which the stomach hath such power and mastery over as it can perfectly concoct and digest in the midst of any employments either of mind or body, and which withall sufficeth to the due nourishment of the body.

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The true secret of preserving union among the good, is to entertain perpetual differences among the bad.

Item 19 (Prose, Compilation), p.352

Philosopher's stone

As to the philosopher stone it is a thing certain that several persons have attained to the perfection of this undertaking which employs so great a number of virtuosos in all parts of the world:

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and at the same time caused their books to be burnt lest the people who were naturally ingenious being become too powerful by the art of making gold, should undertake a war against the Roman Empire.

Item 20 (Compilation, historical), pp.353-361

Siege of Rochel

The misery of the siege of Rochel was almost incredible but to such only as have seen it.

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A barbarous pastime it was at feasts where men stood upon a rolling globe with their neck in a rope fastened to a beam and a knife in their hands ready to cut it when the stone was rolled away, wherein if they failed they lost their lives to the laughter of the spectators.

Item 21 (Prose, Compilation), pp.361-364

Burial

That burying the dead is of an elder date than burning the old examples of Abraham and the patriarchs are sufficient to illustrate.

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Children were not burnt before their teeth appeared as apprehending their bodies too tender a morsel for fire and that their gristly bones would scarce leave separable relics after the pyral combustion.

Item 22 (Prose, Compilation), pp.364-365

Sense

Songer endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves.

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Would it not be a wonder says he and my fortune very good if I get safe out of this country where sin is the Archdeacon, and the Devil Dean.

Item 23 (Prose, Compilation), pp.365-367

Rivers

In ancient times rivers had by the ignorant people of Britain divine honours heaped upon them.

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The lame horse ever raiseth the most dust and the faster he putteth on still the more dust.

Item 24 (Prose, Compilation), pp.367-373

Bishop Sancroft | passive obedience with a witness.

We may not take up arms offensive or defensive against a lawful sovereign.

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The life of man is to be estimated by its usefulness and serviceableness in the world.

["Passive obedience with a witness" is in the shaky hand characteristic of Cowper's writing after 1705.]

Item 26 (Commonplace, Compilation), pp.373-378

Fortune

The proverb fools have the fortune implies no more than that the prosperity of fools is to be imputed to their fortune, that of wise men to their merit,

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yet esteem it necessary to act under the specious guise of justice and in the good opinion of the multitude.

Item 27 (Prose, Compilation), pp.378-380

Sabatai Sevi a imposter

In the year 1666 sprung up that imposter Sabatai Sevi a native of Smyrna who styled himself the only and first born son of God the Messiah and Saviour of Israel that was to restore them to their temporal kingdom.

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Observe that Molinos in his Epistle to his Book pretends to inspiration, or to be inspired or taught of God.

Item 28 (Commonplace, Compilation), pp.380-381

Those temptations which pursue you either overcome them or slight them

The quieter I keep my spirit the better all things succeed with me and my crosses and afflictions suddenly vanish.

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concluding with St Augustine I may err but I will not be a heretic, the first being proper to a man, but the other a property of an obstinate and perverse will.

Item 29 (Prose, Compilation), pp.381-382

Wonder of Nothing

In the reign of Henry 8 : Edmond Bonner was a Lutheran and a great professor of the gospel, zealous for translating the Bible

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It is not so necessary in religion to be instructed in all its articles and to believe aright, as it is duly to obey and serve God nor is every wrong opinion so dangerous as false and mistaken worship.

Item 30 (Prose, Compilation), pp.382-383

Note

In India is a root called jucca the juice whereof is a poison strong as aconitum so that if it be drunk it causeth present death.

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If it be an error it is of thee O God that we are deceived, for these be confirmed with such signs and wonders which cannot be done but by thee alone.

Item 31 (Prose, Compilation), pp.383-384

Juggler

In the year 1536 the Company of English Merchants being at supper together at Antwerp there was a juggler among 'em

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Christ asked Peter three times if he loved him, not for his own information, but that by his threefold profession he might help and heal his threefold negation of him.

[The rubric is in the shaky hand characteristic of Cowper's writing after 1705.]

Item 34 (Prose, Compilation), pp.385-392

Bishop Cowper

I read in the life of William Cowper Bishop of Glasgow that he was subject to great bodily infirmities by reason of the wetness of the soil and moisture of the air wherein he lived in Sterlingshire.

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Man is a watch which must be looked to and wound up every day.

[The rubric is in the shaky hand characteristic of Cowper's writing after 1705.]

Item 35 (Prose, Compilation), p.393-[394]

Miscellaneous prose items

Discontent is the greatest weakness of a generous soul, which is always so intent upon its unhappiness, that it forgets its remedies.

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They much fear the curses of their parents.

Item 37 (Commonplace, Compilation), p.[396]

Commonplaces

Reading doth administer divers remedies to the diseases of the mind.

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not to be fixed or settled in the defects thereof, but still to be capable and susceptible of growth and reformation.

Item 4 (Compilation), pp.[iv-vii]

Wonder

Calingians ancient people of the Indies toward the sea their women bore children at 5 years of age. and hardly outlived 8. if we may believe Pliny.

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That which is most to be admired in this matter, is, that the child should lie so long in the uterus without putrefaction. Memoirs du Temp

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This is in slightly less fluid hand than the majority of the volume, and may have been added later.

Followed by blank pp.[vi-vii]

Item 5 (Compilation, historical), pp.[1]-753

The History of the World

In the year of the world 1757 after the flood 101. the Earth was divided among the sons of Noah.

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Beside the greatness of it being such as it labours with nothing more than its own weight, it must needs (after the manner of worldly things) of itself fall.

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Between pp.713 and 714 is a loose clipping, showing the head of a young boy, with the surrounding printed notice: "Anno Domini 1623 Morat Aut Amurathes IV. Achmeti filius turcarum imperator undecimus". A note on the clipping in the shaky hand characteristic of Cowper's writing after 1705 reads, "I think this picture liker Mrs. Cooper than that which was drawn for her".

Preceded by blank pp.[vi-vii]

Item 6 (Prose, Compilation), fol.1[v]-p.63

Prose excerpts from various authors

Observe | Natural Philosophy 1 The writings of Pliny, Cardanus, and Albertus, are fraught with much fabulous matter, to the great derogation of the credit of natural philosophy.

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That which is rudeness and ill nature in the aggressor, is a monitory justice, and a discreet sharpness in the retaliator.

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Cowper foliates until fol.55, and then begins to paginate.

Italics in the incipit indicate marginal text.

Between fols 14 and 15, a modern white envelope has been inserted, containing a corner of fol.15.

Item 7 (Prose, Compilation), pp.63-622

Prose excerpts, continued

November 1st 1698

Anger The more any man conquers his passions, the more calm and sedate his spirit is, and the greater equality he maintains in his temper, his apprehensions of things will be the more clear and unprejudiced, and his judgment more firm and steady.

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And here by the way we need not wonder, there is no mention made of the institution of sacrifices; when the first peopling of the world is only supposed, not related.

[The rubric is in the margin.]

Item 9 (Prose, Compilation), pp.625-660

Prose excerpts, continued

Separation If men will set themselves only to find faults, it is impossible in this state of things they should ever be pleased.

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Miracles and prophecies always came forth from God to serve some great occasions (not only to cause wonder or to supply discourse) now these occasions being long ago expired, it is but reasonable to presume, that miracles and prophecies are fallen with them.

[Italics in the incipit indicate marginal text.]

Item 4 (Prose, Compilation), pp.2-86

Prose excerpts from various authors

Errors All errors, sects, and heresies, as they are mixed with some inferior truths, to make them the more passable to others; so do they usually owe their original to some eminent truths (either misunderstood or misapplied) whereby they become the less discernable to their own teachers: when it is that such teachers both deceive and are deceived. 2 Timothy 3.13.

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Trinity The papists illustrate the mystery of the Trinity by the similitude of a piece of cloth which is thrice folded, which not withstanding the three folds, is one and the same cloth.

Item 6 (Prose, Compilation), pp.193-341

Prose excerpts from various authors

Ann Baynard for her prudence piety and learning deserves to have her memory perpetuated, being not only well skilled in the learned languages but in all manner of learning and philosophy without vanity or affectation.

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This is the plain case of all wicked livers, and no man need to envy their skill in divine things which will make them in the conclusion but the more miserable.

Item 8 (Commonplace, Compilation, Quotation), pp.348-356

Precepts out of Herbert's Poem

Stay at the third glass ---

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Lord say Amen. And Thine be all the praise.