Item 61 (Extract, Religious writing), fol. 67r-v

St. Augustine chapter 8 of his book the city of God

Adverse and prosperous fortune are both assistants in a good man's salvation

...

To which come few that lie embalmed in gold

[These are notes from Augustine's City of God, chapters 8, 1, 9, and 11.]

[Fol. 67v is blank.]

Item 62 (Extract), fol. 68r-v

Bestiary extracts

A book of the nature of four footed beasts written by Conradus Gesner in Latin, and translated into English by Edward Topsell

...

so that malice is to be entreated if it be either worshipped or implored

[These are extracts from Edward Topsell's Historie of Foure-Footed Beastes (1607) and his second volume, The Historie of Serpents (1608).]

Item 2 (Verse, Commonplace, Couplet, Extract), fols 1v-5r

Verse extracts from a variety of printed sources, many arranged into rhyming couplets

[

I have matched many of the couplets with printed sources. On folio 1v, two lines are from Timothy Kendall, "Flowers of Epigrams" (1577), sig. O8v. Eleven lines are from "The Mirror for Magistrates" (first printed in 1559): three from ""Robert Tresilian, Chief Justice of England"", lines 124-126; six from ""The Two Rogers, surnamed Mortimers"", lines 15-18, 92, and 94; and two from " "King James the First"", lines 111-112. Four lines are from the February eclogue in Spenser's " The Shepheardes Calender" (1579), lines 15-16 and 29-30.

On fol. 2r, one line is from the May eclogue of " The Shepheardes Calender", line 304. Four lines are from Spenser's "The Faerie Queene" (1596), I.iii.1.1-4. Two lines are from the Robert Tresilian story in "The Mirror for Magistrates", lines 83-84. Two lines are from Chaucer's " The Manciple's Tale", lines 160-162.

On fol. 2v, four lines are from Chaucer's " The Knight's Tale", lines 1251-1254.

On fol. 3r, four lines are from the May eclogue of " The Shepheardes Calender ", lines 71-72 and 152-153. Two lines are from John Heywood's "A Dialogue of Proverbs", lines 2717-2718.

On fol. 3v, four lines are from the May eclogue of "The Shepheardes Calender", lines 302-304, and the March eclogue, lines 121-122. Four lines are from "The Mirror for Magistrates", two from Robert Tresilian's story, lines 48-49, and two from ""Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester"", lines 202-203. Four lines are from Chaucer's "The Assemblie of Foules", lines 22-25.

On fol. 4r, 12 lines are from Michael Drayton's "Englands Heroicall Epistles": six from " "Henry Howard, Earle of Surrey, to the Lady Geraldine"", lines 89-92 and 87-88; two from ""The Epistle of Rosamond to King Henry the Second"", lines 73-74; and four from ""The Lady Jane Gray, to the Lord Gilford Dudley"", lines 67-68 and 115-116. Three lines are from Spenser's ""The Ruines of Time"", lines 159-161. Four lines are from Josuah Sylvester's translation of Du Bartas's "Divine Weeks and Works", specifically ""The Seaventh Day of the First Weeke"", lines 521-24.

On fol. 4v, all of the lines are from Chaucer: four lines are from "The Wife of Bath's Prologue", lines 655-658, and seven are from "The Man of Laws Tale", lines 162-168. Hand B has written a list of inks or colours but has scribbled it out in the bottom half of fol. 4v.

On fol. 5r, 28 lines are from Drayton's "Englands Heroicall Epistles": two from " "Queene Katherine to Owen Tudor"", lines 45-46; four from " "Queene Margaret to William De-La-Poole, Duke of Suffolke"", lines 153-154 and 53-54; two fron ""William De-La-Poole, Duke of Suffolke, to Queene Margaret"", lines 151-152; four from " "Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolke, to Mary the French Queene"", lines 179-83, two lines from " "Mary, the French Queene, to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolke"", lines 85-86, and 14 lines from ""The Lady Jane Gray, to the Lord Gilford Dudley"", lines 23-24, 31-34, 97-98, 95-96, 99-100, and 43-44. The only other item on that page is a poem (see msItem 3).

For a discussion of editions Bowyer may have used and some of her variants see Victoria Burke's article, listed below.

[On the top of fol. 4r Bowyer has written the word anagrams in Greek, above an anagram ("womenkind are man's woe/O man we women are kind")]

[In this section, Hand B has written only a crossed out list of colours on fol. 4v.]

Item 6 (Verse, Extract), fol. 6r

A long extract from Thomas Churchyard's epitaph on William Somerset, Earl of Worcester, and an untraced couplet by Churchyard.

Item 6.1 (Verse, Extract), fol. 6r

Happy is he that standeth free from every kind of toil

...

that sit in honours high and all estates an end of life must make

[Bowyer has copied the introductory section of Thomas Churchyard's epitaph on William Somerset, Earl of Worcester, before Churchyard speaks specifically about Worcester. Bowyer has altered her penultimate line to " "& nobel hartes"" from Churchyard's " "and noble Earles", making a more general comment on the short life of man. The elegy was printed in Churchyard's "A Feast full of sad cheare" of 1592.]

Item 6.2 (Verse, Extract), fol. 6r

A couplet, attributed in another manuscript to Thomas Churchyard

Your grace did promise on a time, to grant me reason for my rhyme

...

but from that time unto this season I neither heard of rhyme nor reason

[A couplet very similar to this has been attributed to Thomas Churchyard in two places in Folger Shakespeare Library MS X.d.177, fols 3r and 8r. In both places it is linked with Queen Elizabeth, headed on fol. 3r "Churchyard's verses to the queen". This couplet has not been found in Churchyard's printed works.]

Item 8 (Verse, Extract), fols 6v-7r

Extracts from William Warner and Michael Drayton

Item 8.1 (Verse, Extract), fol. 6v

A four-line extract from William Warner's poem

Albions England

Be virtuous and assure thyself thou canst not then but thrive

...

That kills itself and hurts his sight that hath her in his eye

[Warner's "Albions England" was first printed in 1586. The lines quoted by Hand B appear in the fourth book, the twenty-first chapter, lines 85-89 (though there are two chapter 21s in the first two editions, and three in successive editions; Hand B's extract appears in the second chapter 21).]

Item 8.2 (Verse, Extract), fol. 7r

Eight rhyming couplets from Michael Drayton's

The Barons Warres

Things which presage both good and ill there be

...

who lends not hand to thrust him in boldly in

[The couplets come from Canto 2, lines 119-120; Canto 2, lines 247-248; Canto 3, lines 607-608; Canto 3, lines 615-616; Canto 2, lines 135-136; Canto 2, lines 223-224; Canto 4, lines 159-160; Canto 4, lines 455-456.]

Item 3 (Verse, Drama, Commonplace, Extract, Sententia), fols 176v-194v

Verse extracts from a variety of sources

1696

[This section is prefaced by the following epigraph written by Katherine Butler on an otherwise blank page (fol. 176v): ""The reason why I wrote severall of these following Verses, was not that I thought them all good, but the subjects was - what, I had occasion to make vse of"". With one exception (the second item on fol. 177r, on grief) all of the passages in this section are in verse. See Context and purpose article for a general discussion of the contents of these pages.]

[End of poetry section. Manuscript is reversed and the final page is now a new first page.]

Item 5 (Drama, Commonplace, Extract), fols 275v, rev.-257r, rev.

Prose extracts from a variety of sources

A Common Place Book 1696

[This section of the commonplace book contains prose excerpts from a variety of sources compiled by Butler. The sources of the shorter extracts include Giovanni Paolo Marana 's Letters writ by a Turkish Spy, Valerius Maximus, Cicero, Plutarch, and Thomas Sprat's The history of the Royal-Society. This section also includes the complete text of William Walsh's dialogue The Hospital of Fools; A Dialogue, first printed in 1714, but dated 1697 in the manuscript (fols 273v, rev.-263v, rev.). This is followed by another dialogue, one between Socrates and Alcibiades on prayer (fols 263r, rev.-259v, rev.). This is followed by an extract from a letter dated at Paris 5 March 1745 from Mr. Quin to Mr. Ellis about electricity (fols 259r, rev.-258v, rev.).]

[Fol. 257v-r is blank.]

Item 2.2 (Verse, Extract), fol. 3r

Churchyard's verses to the queen

Your grace did promise on a time

...

I never heard of rhyme nor reason

[These lines ask for a promised reward which the poet has not yet received. These lines appear also on fol. 8r (msItem 5.3) and in another manuscript, Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 51 , fol. 6r (msItem 6.2 in the catalogue entry for that manuscript). Though the lines have not yet been found in the works of Thomas Churchyard, many of his works bemoan his lack of favour at court and so the identification seems reasonable.]

Item 5.4 (Verse, Couplet, Extract), fol. 8r

The day is past and yet I saw no sun

...

and now I live and now my life is done

[This couplet is extracted from Tichborne's Elegy (lines 5 and 6), written on the eve of his execution in 1586.]

Item 8 (Extract), pp.xiv-xv

In the London Gazette February 1 1687/8

There is mention of an account from Sicily of apprehension of a new eruption of Mount Eball or Aetna

...

as it forced its way to the sea by the Walls of Catanea running unmixed and boiling for near a league into the sea

[This extract describes a new eruption on Mount Eball or Etna in Sicily; the last eruption was in 1669, which the Earl of Winchilsea gave an account of. Halkett notes that she made some reflections on this (i.e. see pp.80-81, msItem 24). Four streams of fire bore down, destroying castles, villages and the homes of 27,000 people as it forced its way to the sea by the walls of Catania.]

Item 43 (Biblical writing, Extract), pp.309-316

Confessions out of the scripture

I am not worthy of the least of all thy mercies (O God) and of all the truth which thou hast shewed unto thy servant

...

I know O Lord that thy judgments are right and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.

[

This section contains biblical extracts strung together. There is a marginal biblical reference beside the first line to Genesis 32:10 and beside the final line to Psalm 119:75. This section is headed ""Scripture Confessions"" on pp.310 and 311, and just ""Confessions"" on pp.312-316.

Entry paginated by Halkett pp. 169-176.

Item 44 (Biblical writing, Extract), pp.317-326

Prayers and supplications out of the scripture

O let not the Lord be angry and I will speak if thy presence go not with me carry us not up hence

...

Make you perfect in every good work to do his will working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ to whom be glory for ever and ever

Amen

[

This section contains biblical extracts strung together. There is a marginal biblical reference beside the first lines to Genesis 18:30 and Exodus 33:15. This section is headed ""Supplications"" on all pages.

Entry paginated by Halkett pp.177-186.

Item 45 (Biblical writing, Extract), pp.327-343

Promises and duties

I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel

...

Lord since thou hast made these promises to all that are thine, confirm I am thine and then I shall have a right to all in Christ Jesus for whom they are made

[

This section contains biblical extracts strung together. There is a marginal biblical reference beside the first lines to Genesis 3:15. This section is headed ""Promises and duties"" on all pages.

Entry paginated by Halkett pp.187-204 (Halkett skipped p.202).

Item 46 (Biblical writing, Extract), pp.344-345

The character of a righteous man and his blessings

The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom and his tongue talketh of judgment

...

Let us commit the keeping of our souls to him in well doing as unto a faithful creator

[

This section contains biblical extracts strung together. There is a marginal biblical reference beside the first lines to Psalm 37:30 and beside the final line to 1 Peter 3:12 and 4:19. The heading on p.345 is ""The character and advantages of a righteous man"".

Entry paginated by Halkett pp.205-206.

Item 47 (Biblical writing, Extract), pp.346-348

Thanksgivings and praise

Praise waiteth for thee oh God in Sion and unto thee shall the vow be performed

...

Now unto God and our father be glory for ever and ever

Amen

[

This section seems to contain biblical extracts strung together. There are marginal biblical references beside the first lines to Psalm 65:1 and beside the final lines to Philippians 4.20. This section is headed ""Thanksgiving and praise"" on all pages.

Entry paginated by Halkett pp.207-209.

Item 49 (Biblical writing, Extract), p.350

Resolutions

As for me and my house we will serve the Lord

...

And herein to exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offence towards God and towards man Lord say Amen speak but the word and it will be

[

This section contains biblical extracts strung together. There are marginal biblical references beside the first lines to Joshua 24:15 and beside the final lines to Acts 24:16.

Entry paginated by Halkett p.210.

Item 3 (Extract, Religious writing), p.iv

Eusebius lib 6 chap 13

Clemens out of Macarius the elder sued that Paul an apostle is not prefixed to the epistle of the Hebrews

...

partly for honour due unto Christ and partly because he was the apostle of the gentiles

[Page iv is the recto of a larger scrap of paper pasted onto a guard.]

Item 4 (Extract), pp.v-vi

Mr Richard Allen's the work godly man's sanctay [sic] page 138

Come not together to strengthen parties or propagate opinions let all manner of controversies be waived and hereof let there be much assurance given beforehand

...

need of strong and this is the way

[

Page v is torn and incomplete. Page vi consists of rough notes crossed out; i.e. ""He might have presumed there had been some merit in himself by which he obtained that name and had it cont[lost in gutter] but before honour is humility and the Lord oft times casts down those lowest which he designs to raise highest in favour"". A few words in a different hand are visible where the page has been torn.

The reference in the title is probably to R[ichard] A[lleine], The Godly Man's Portion and Sanctuary Opened, in two Sermons, Preached August 17. 1662 (London, 1662). Page 138 of this edition does not contain the quoted passage, but that page does contain a series of exhortations (as do earlier and later pages). Under the command to ""6. Pursue Peace and Union, with the utmost strength of thy Soul. And that you may obtain it,"" the first exhortation is, ""1. Let all parties that are names of Christ, be humbled under former Divisions..."". Perhaps Halkett put this passage into her own words.

Item 4 (Extract, Sermon), p.vi

In Bishop Hall's sermon on the mischief of faction page 72 he says thatPope Urban the 6th coming to his episcopal chair would be correcting the loose manner of the cardinals

...

as Fasciculus says even the most learned and conscientious men knew not who was the true bishop of Rome where was infallibility then

[

This is probably a sermon by Joseph Hall, Bishop of Winchester.

Page vi is a scrap of paper.Its unfoliated verso is blank.

Item 2 (Biblical writing, Extract), fols 1r-2r

Certain collections of the right honourable Elizabeth late Countess of Huntingdon for her own private use. 1633

[This section contains biblical extracts with marginal biblical references.]

Item 2.1 (Biblical writing, Extract), fol. 1r

Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God

...

and the Lord shall raise him up, and if he have committed sins they shall be forgiven him

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Acts 10:4) and the last lines (James 5:13-15).]

Item 2.2 (Biblical writing, Extract, Psalm), fols 1r-2r

Psalms of supplication

Unto thee oh Lord do I lift up my soul

...

Restore to me the joy of thy salvation, and establish me with thy free spirit

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Psalm 25:1) and the last lines (Psalm 51:12).]

Item 4 (Biblical writing, Extract, Meditation, Religious writing), fols 7r-8r

Preparation before the receiving of the holy sacrament. How to consider our own unworthiness taken out of the book of the practice of piety and the holy scripture

[This item is in three parts: the first quotes from Lewis Bayly's The practice of piety, the second quotes from the Bible, and the third meditates upon those scriptural extracts.]

Item 4.1 (Extract, Religious writing), fol. 7r

A man shall best perceive his own unworthiness by examining his life according to the ten commandments

...

by whose sacrifices we are only healed even Jesus Christ the Son of God

[The printed book from which Hastings is quoting is Lewis Bayly's extremely popular The practice of piety (the subtitle is Directing a Christian how to walk that he may please God). It seems to have been first printed in 1612 but it was reprinted throughout the seventeenth century. The extract is copied directly from Bayly, with a few small variants, from his section ""How to consider thine owne vnworthinesse"". This appears on pp. 564-565 (sigs Bb6v-Bb7r) of the 1630 edition, and is the second point in chapter 22, ""Holy and deuout Meditations of the worthy and reuerent receiuing of the Lords Supper"" (pp. 522-565).]

Item 4.2 (Biblical writing, Extract), fols 7r-v

For I have received of the Lord that which I also delivered unto you

...

and drink the cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord

[The second section of Hastings's transcription comprises biblical extracts from I Corinthians 11: 23-27 (though the marginal reference lists the verses as 23-29).]

Item 5 (Extract, Meditation, Religious writing), fols 8r-14r

The doctrine of the Lord's supper taken out of Mr A: H: book

None can receive worthily that doth not prepare himself carefully

...

and love we bear to God cast away such sins as we know by ourselves

[The printed book is Arthur Hildersham (or Hildersam)'s The Doctrine of Communicating worthily in the Lords Supper (1609). A marginal note mentions that Hastings is using the first impression. Marginal biblical references are used. The following page numbers are mentioned in the margins: pp. 2, 3, 4, 6, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, 36-41; a reference to pages 64-71 is embedded in the text. Some of Hastings's transcription differs significantly from the printed version. For example she has dispensed with the question and answer format, and she has taken out the first, second, and third structures and turned them into continuous prose, with some exceptions. For a discussion of Hildersham's rocky ecclesiastical career (due to his nonconformist sympathies), which involved preaching at Ashby-de-la-Zouch, see Bryan D. Spinks's article on "Hildersham, Arthur (1563-1632)" in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. James Knowles, in his Oxford Dictionary of National Biography article on Elizabeth Hastings's husband Henry Hastings, fifth earl of Huntingdon, mentions that Henry was a patron of Hildersham's into the 1620s.]

Item 7 (Biblical writing, Extract), fols 15r-23v

Extracts from the bible

[One item, msItem 7.8, contains brief meditations after most of the biblical quotations.]

Item 7.1 (Biblical writing, Extract), fol. 15r

Of man's life

All flesh is grass, and the glory of it as the flower of the grass

...

he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Isaiah 40:6) and the final lines (Psalm 39:6).]

Item 7.2 (Biblical writing, Extract, Psalm), fol. 15v

Psalms of judgment

The Lord knoweth the way of the righteous but the way of the wicked shall perish

...

to cut off the remembrance of them from of the earth

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Psalm 1:6) and the final lines (Psalm 34:16).]

Item 7.3 (Biblical writing, Extract), fols 16r-v

Lamentations

We have transgressed, and rebelled, thou hast not pardoned

...

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Lamentations 3:42) and the last line (Lamentations 3:27).]

Item 7.4 (Biblical writing, Extract), fol. 16v

The reward of mercy

Blessed is he that considereth the poor, the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble

...

The Lord will strengthen him in his bed of languishing, thou wilt make all is bed in his sickness

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Psalm 41:1) and the last lines (Psalm 41:3).]

Item 7.5 (Biblical writing, Extract), fols 16v-17r

God's love to those that seek him

Call upon me in the day of trouble I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me

...

for the spirit would fail before me, and the souls which I have made

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Psalm 50:15) and the final lines (Isaiah 57:16).]

Item 7.6 (Biblical writing, Extract, Psalm), fols 17v-19v

Psalms of comfort

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the council of the ungodly

...

The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Psalm 1:1) and the last lines (Psalm 34.7). The title ""Psalms of comfort"" is a running head at the top of each page except for fol. 19v, no doubt because a new item begins partway down that page.]

Item 7.7 (Biblical writing, Extract), fols 19v-20r

Justification and salvation is by Christ only

Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved

...

who is even at the right hand of God who also maketh intercession for us

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Acts 4:12) and the last lines (Romans 8:34).]

Item 7.8 (Biblical writing, Extract, Meditation), fols 20v-21r

Christ the object of faith

Looking to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith

...

Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends

[This section contains brief meditations on most of the biblical extracts. Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Hebrews 12:2) and the last lines (John 15:3, but this is an error for John 15:13).]

Item 7.9 (Biblical writing, Extract), fols 21v-23v

The promises of God, and who they are that have any interest in them

Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven

...

because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Matthew 5:3) and the last lines (John 14:17).]

Item 8 (Extract, Sermon), fols 24r-25r

Notes taken out of Dr Andrewes's book of sermons Bishop of Winchester of the resurrection. 1 Peter 1.3.4. leaf. 493

Blessed be God the father of our Lord Jesus Christ

...

Such is this, not erga aliquos vestrum, but erga vos

[The printed source is Lancelot Andrewes, XCVI. Sermons by the Right Honorable and Reverend Father in God, Lancelot Andrewes, late Lord Bishop of Winchester (1629). Hastings has copied a passage from pp. 500-501 (sig. Yy6v-Zz1r), noting p. 500 in the margin, with no obvious omissions or alterations. It appears in the section ""Sermons of the Resurrection, preached upon Easter-day"" as number 11 (pp. 493-504; sigs Yy4r-Zz2v) and is headed, ""A Sermon Preached before the King's Maiestie, at Whitehall, on the XXXI. of March, A.D. MDCXVI. being Easter Day."" The meditation opens with a transcription of the biblical verse I Peter 1:3-4. Andrewes's first words are ""We pass now to the inheritance"". Early in his career, in 1586, Andrewes was appointed chaplain to Henry Hastings, third Earl of Huntingdon, a man noted for nonconformist beliefs (see P.E. McCollough, ""Andrewes, Lancelot (1555-1626)"", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).]

Item 10 (Extract, Meditation, Religious writing), fols 26r-v

Dr Hall's meditations and vows

It were better a man should want work than great works should want a man answerable to their weight

...

but if I speak to a cold Christian he cannot understand me

[The printed book is Joseph Hall's Meditations and vowes divine and morall (1605). Hastings has copied out 10 sayings from this source. Hall was born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, where the Hastings family had their seat, and educated at the radically protestant grammar school there (Richard A. McCabe, ""Hall, Joseph (1574-1656)"", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). In EL 6871 the title of these extracts is simply ""Doctor Hall's meditations"".]

Item 2 (Biblical writing, Extract), fols 1r-2v

Certain collections of the right honourable Elizabeth late Countess of Huntingdon for her own private use 1633

[This section contains biblical extracts with marginal biblical references.]

Item 2.1 (Biblical writing, Extract), fol. 1r

Thy prayers and thine alms-deeds are come up for a memorial before God

...

and the Lord shall raise him up, and if he have committed sins they shall be forgiven him

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Acts 10:4) and the last lines (James 5:13-15).]

Item 2.2 (Biblical writing, Extract, Psalm), fols 1r-2v

Psalms of supplication

Unto thee oh Lord do I lift up my soul

...

Restore to me the joy of thy salvation, and establish me with thy free spirit

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Psalm 25:1) and the last lines (Psalm 51:12).]

Item 4 (Biblical writing, Extract, Meditation, Religious writing), fols 9r-10r

Preparation before the receiving of the holy sacrament. How to consider our own unworthiness taken out of the book of the practice of piety and the holy scripture

[This item is in three parts: the first quotes from Lewis Bayly's The practice of piety, the second quotes from the Bible, and the third meditates upon those scriptural extracts.]

Item 4.1 (Extract, Religious writing), fol. 9r

A man shall best perceive his own unworthiness by examining his life according to the ten commandments

...

by whose sacrifices we are only healed, even Jesus Christ the Son of God

[The printed book from which Hastings is quoting is Lewis Bayly's extremely popular The practice of piety (the subtitle is Directing a Christian how to walk that he may please God). It seems to have been first printed in 1612 but it was reprinted throughout the seventeenth century. The extract is copied directly from Bayly, with a few small variants, from his section ""How to consider thine owne vnworthinesse"". This appears on pp. 564-565 (sigs Bb6v-Bb7r) of the 1630 edition, and is the second point in chapter 22, ""Holy and deuout Meditations of the worthy and reuerent receiuing of the Lords Supper"" (pp. 522-565).]

Item 4.2 (Biblical writing, Extract), fols 9r-v

For I have received of the Lord that which I also delivered unto you

...

and drink the cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord

[The second section of Hastings's transcription comprises biblical extracts from I Corinthians 11: 23-27 (though the marginal reference lists the verses as 23-29).]

Item 5 (Extract, Meditation, Religious writing), fols 10v-17r

The doctrine of the Lord's supper taken out of Mr A: H: book

None can receive worthily that doth not prepare himself carefully

...

fear, and love we bear to God, cast away such sins as we know by ourselves

[The printed book is Arthur Hildersham (or Hildersam)'s The Doctrine of Communicating worthily in the Lords Supper (1609). A marginal note mentions that Hastings is using the first impression. Marginal biblical references are used. The following page numbers are mentioned in the margins: pp. 2, 3, 4, 6, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, 36-41; a reference to pages 64-71 is embedded in the text. Some of Hastings's transcription differs significantly from the printed version. For example she has dispensed with the question and answer format, and she has taken out the first, second, and third structures and turned them into continuous prose, with some exceptions. For a discussion of Hildersham's rocky ecclesiastical career (due to his nonconformist sympathies), which involved preaching at Ashby-de-la-Zouch, see Bryan D. Spinks's article on "Hildersham, Arthur (1563-1632)" in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. James Knowles, in his Oxford Dictionary of National Biography article on Elizabeth Hastings's husband Henry Hastings, fifth earl of Huntingdon, mentions that Henry was a patron of Hildersham's into the 1620s.]

Item 7 (Biblical writing, Extract), fols 18r-26r

Extracts from the bible

[One item, msItem 7.8, contains brief meditations after most of the biblical quotations.]

Item 7.1 (Biblical writing, Extract), fol. 18r

Of man's life

All flesh is grass, and the glory of it as the flower of the field

...

he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Isaiah 40:6) and the final lines (Psalm 39:6).]

Item 7.2 (Biblical writing, Extract, Psalm), fol. 18v

Psalms of judgment

The Lord knoweth the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish

...

to cut off the remembrance of them from of the earth

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Psalm 1:6) and the final lines (the reference has been chewed in this volume, but it is to Psalm 34:16).]

Item 7.3 (Biblical writing, Extract), fols 19r-v

Lamentations

We have transgressed and rebelled, thou hast not pardoned

...

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Lamentations 3:42) and the last line (Lamentations 3:27).]

Item 7.4 (Biblical writing, Extract), fol. 19v

The reward of mercy

Blessed is he that considereth the poor, the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble

...

The Lord will strengthen him in his bed of languishing, thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Psalm 41:1) and the last lines (Psalm 41:3).]

Item 7.5 (Biblical writing, Extract), fols 19v-20r

God's love to those that seek him

Call upon me in thy day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me

...

for the spirit would fail before me, and the souls which I have made

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Psalm 50:15) and the final lines (Isaiah 57:16).]

Item 7.6 (Biblical writing, Extract, Psalm), fols 20v-22r

Psalms of comfort

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the council of the ungodly

...

The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Psalm 1:1) and the last lines (Psalm 34.7). The title ""Psalms of comfort"" is a running head at the top of each page except for fol. 22r, no doubt because a new item begins halfway down that page.]

Item 7.7 (Biblical writing, Extract), fols 22r-v

Justification and salvation is by Christ only

Neither is there salvation in any other for there is none other name under heaven given amongst men whereby we must be saved

...

who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Acts 4:12) and the last lines (Romans 8:34).]

Item 7.8 (Biblical writing, Extract, Meditation), fols 23r-v

Christ the object of faith

Looking to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith

...

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends

[This section contains brief meditations on most of the biblical extracts. Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Hebrews 12:2) and the last lines (John 15:3, but this is an error for John 15:13).]

Item 7.9 (Biblical writing, Extract), fols 24r-26r

The promises of God, and who they are that have any interest in them

Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven

...

because it seeth him not neither knoweth him, for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Matthew 5:3) and the last lines (John 14:17).]

Item 8 (Extract, Sermon), fols 26v-27v

Notes taken out of Dr Andrewes's book of sermons Bishop of Winchester of the resurrection. 1 Peter 1.3.4. leaf 493

Blessed be God the father of our Lord Jesus Christ

...

Such is this not erga aliquos vestrum, but erga vos

[The printed source is Lancelot Andrewes, XCVI. Sermons by the Right Honorable and Reverend Father in God, Lancelot Andrewes, late Lord Bishop of Winchester (1629). Hastings has copied a passage from pp. 500-501 (sig. Yy6v-Zz1r), noting p. 500 in the margin, with no obvious omissions or alterations. It appears in the section ""Sermons of the Resurrection, preached upon Easter-day"" as number 11 (pp. 493-504; sigs Yy4r-Zz2v) and is headed, ""A Sermon Preached before the King's Maiestie, at Whitehall, on the XXXI. of March, A.D. MDCXVI. being Easter Day."" The meditation opens with a transcription of the biblical verse I Peter 1:3-4. Andrewes's first words are ""We pass now to the inheritance"". Early in his career, in 1586, Andrewes was appointed chaplain to Henry Hastings, third Earl of Huntingdon, a man noted for nonconformist beliefs (see P.E. McCollough, ""Andrewes, Lancelot (1555-1626)"", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).]

Item 10 (Extract, Meditation, Religious writing), fols 28v-29r

Doctor Hall's meditations

It were better a man should want work than great works should want a man answerable to their weight

...

but if I speak to a cold Christian, he cannot understand me

[The printed book is Joseph Hall's Meditations and vowes divine and morall (1605). Hastings has copied out 10 sayings from this source. Hall was born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, where the Hastings family had their seat, and educated at the radically protestant grammar school there (Richard A. McCabe, ""Hall, Joseph (1574-1656)"", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). In each of the other three manuscripts the title of this item is ""Dr Hall's meditations and vows"".]

Item 2 (Biblical writing, Extract), fols 1r-2r

Certain Collections of the right honourable Elizabeth late Countess of Huntingdon for her own private use

[This section contains biblical extracts with marginal biblical references. In contrast to HM 15369 and EL 6871, the date 1633 does not appear after this title. Folio 1r of Hastings Religious, Box 2, Folder 8 may have contained the date 1633 but that page is now torn.]

Item 2.1 (Biblical writing, Extract), fol. 1r

Thy prayers and thine alms deeds are come up for a memorial before God

...

and the Lord shall raise him up, and if he have committed sins they shall be forgiven him

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Acts 10:4) and the last lines (James 5:13-15).]

Item 2.2 (Biblical writing, Extract, Psalm), fols 1r-2r

Psalms of supplication

Unto thee oh Lord do I lift up my soul

...

Restore to me the joy of thy salvation, and establish me with thy free spirit

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Psalm 25:1) and the last lines (Psalm 51:12).]

Item 4 (Biblical writing, Extract, Meditation, Religious writing), fols 8r-9r

Preparation before the receiving of the holy sacrament. How to consider our own unworthiness taken out of the book of the practice of piety and the holy scripture

[This item is in three parts: the first quotes from Lewis Bayly's The practice of piety, the second quotes from the Bible, and the third meditates upon those scriptural extracts.]

Item 4.1 (Extract, Religious writing), fol. 8r

A man shall best perceive his own unworthiness by examining his life according to the ten commandments

...

by whose sacrifices we are healed, even Jesus Christ the Son of God

[The printed book from which Hastings is quoting is Lewis Bayly's extremely popular The practice of piety (the subtitle is Directing a Christian how to walk that he may please God). It seems to have been first printed in 1612 but it was reprinted throughout the seventeenth century. The extract is copied directly from Bayly, with a few small variants, from his section ""How to consider thine owne vnworthinesse"". This appears on pp. 564-565 (sigs Bb6v-Bb7r) of the 1630 edition, and is the second point in chapter 22, ""Holy and deuout Meditations of the worthy and reuerent receiuing of the Lords Supper"" (pp. 522-565).]

Item 4.2 (Biblical writing, Extract), fols 8r-v

For I have received of the Lord that which I also delivered unto you

...

and drink the cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord

[The second section of Hastings's transcription comprises biblical extracts from I Corinthians 11: 23-27 (though the marginal reference lists the verses as 23-29).]

Item 5 (Extract, Meditation, Religious writing), fols 9r-15v

The doctrine of the Lord's supper taken out of Mr A H book

None can receive worthily that doth not prepare himself carefully

...

fear and love we bear to God cast away such sins as we know by ourselves

[The printed book is Arthur Hildersham (or Hildersam)'s The Doctrine of Communicating worthily in the Lords Supper (1609). A marginal note mentions that Hastings is using the first impression. Marginal biblical references are used. The following page numbers are mentioned in the margins: pp. 2, 3, 4, 6, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, 36-41; a reference to pages 64-71 is embedded in the text. Some of Hastings's transcription differs significantly from the printed version. For example she has dispensed with the question and answer format, and she has taken out the first, second, and third structures and turned them into continuous prose, with some exceptions. For a discussion of Hildersham's rocky ecclesiastical career (due to his nonconformist sympathies), which involved preaching at Ashby-de-la-Zouch, see Bryan D. Spinks's article on "Hildersham, Arthur (1563-1632)" in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. James Knowles, in his Oxford Dictionary of National Biography article on Elizabeth Hastings's husband Henry Hastings, fifth earl of Huntingdon, mentions that Henry was a patron of Hildersham's into the 1620s.]

Item 7 (Biblical writing, Extract, Meditation), fols 16v-26v

Extracts from the bible

[ A brief meditation, written in smaller print and crossed out, appears at the end of msItem 7.6. One item, msItem 7.8, contains brief meditations after most of the biblical quotations.]

Item 7.1 (Biblical writing, Extract), fol. 16v

Of man's life

All flesh is grass, and the glory of it as the flower of the grass

...

he heapeth up riches and knoweth not who shall gather them

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Isaiah 40:6) and the final lines (Psalm 39:6).]

Item 7.2 (Biblical writing, Extract, Psalm), fols 17r-v

Psalms of judgment

The Lord knoweth the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish

...

to cut off the remembrance of them from of the earth

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Psalm 1:6) and the final lines (Psalm 34:16).]

Item 7.3 (Biblical writing, Extract), fols 18r-v

Lamentations

We have transgressed and rebelled, thou hast not pardoned

...

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Lamentations 3:42) and the last line (Lamentations 3:27).]

Item 7.4 (Biblical writing, Extract), fol. 18v

The reward of mercy

Blessed is he that considereth the poor the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble

...

The Lord will strengthen him in the bed of languishing, thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Psalm 41:1) and the last lines (Psalm 41:3). The first two words of the title are written with a different pen.]

Item 7.5 (Biblical writing, Extract), fols 18v-19r

God's love to those that seek him

Call upon me in thy day of trouble, I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me

...

for the spirit would fail before me, and the souls which I have made

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Psalm 50:15) and the final lines (Isaiah 57:16). The title is written in a different pen; msItems 7.4 and 7.5 ran together when they were first written, then the scribe returned to add the title to this section in order to follow the other manuscripts.]

Item 7.6 (Biblical writing, Extract, Psalm), fols 19v-21v

Psalms of comfort

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the council of the ungodly

...

The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Psalm 1:1) and the last lines (Psalm 34.7). The title ""Psalms of comfort"" is a running head at the top of each page. On fol. 20v three extracts have an X through them. A brief meditation, written in smaller print and crossed out, appears at the end of the biblical extracts. It begins, ""Therefore it grieveth me not that I am afflicted"." ]

Item 7.7 (Biblical writing, Extract), fols 22r-v

Justification and salvation is by Christ only

Neither is there salvation in any other for there is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved

...

who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Acts 4:12) and the last lines (Romans 8:34). The words ""and salvation is"" in the title have been added with a different pen.]

Item 7.8 (Biblical writing, Extract, Meditation), fols 23r-v

Christ the object of faith

Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith

...

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends

[This section contains brief meditations on most of the biblical extracts. Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Hebrews 12:2) and the last lines (the reference says just 13, but it is to John 15:13).]

Item 7.9 (Biblical writing, Extract), fols 24r-26v

The promises of God, and who they are that have any interest in them

Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven

...

because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him, for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Matthew 5:3) and the last lines (John 14:17). After the first four words of the title the words ""to all that believe in him"" have been crossed out with a different pen and the rest of the title added.]

Item 8 (Extract, Sermon), fols 27r-28v

Notes taken out of Dr Andrewes's book of sermons Bishop of Winchester of the resurrection. 1 Peter 1.3.4. leaf 493

Blessed be God, and the father of our Lord Jesus Christ

...

Such is this: not erga aliquos vestrum, but erga vos

[The printed source is Lancelot Andrewes, XCVI. Sermons by the Right Honorable and Reverend Father in God, Lancelot Andrewes, late Lord Bishop of Winchester (1629). Hastings has copied a passage from pp. 500-501 (sig. Yy6v-Zz1r), noting p. 500 in the margin, with no obvious omissions or alterations. It appears in the section ""Sermons of the Resurrection, preached upon Easter-day"" as number 11 (pp. 493-504; sigs Yy4r-Zz2v) and is headed, ""A Sermon Preached before the King's Maiestie, at Whitehall, on the XXXI. of March, A.D. MDCXVI. being Easter Day."" The meditation opens with a transcription of the biblical verse I Peter 1:3-4. Andrewes's first words are ""We pass now to the inheritance"". Early in his career, in 1586, Andrewes was appointed chaplain to Henry Hastings, third Earl of Huntingdon, a man noted for nonconformist beliefs (see P.E. McCollough, ""Andrewes, Lancelot (1555-1626)"", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). In this manuscript this item is numbered "1" in the margin.]

Item 11 (Extract, Meditation, Religious writing), fols 29r-v

Dr Hall's meditations, and vows

It were better a man should want work than that great works should want a man answerable to their weight

...

but if I speak to a cold Christian, he cannot understand me

[The printed book is Joseph Hall's Meditations and vowes divine and morall (1605). Hastings has copied out 10 sayings from this source. Hall was born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, where the Hastings family had their seat, and educated at the radically protestant grammar school there (Richard A. McCabe, ""Hall, Joseph (1574-1656)"", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). In HM 15369 and EL 6871 these extracts are msItem 10, and in EL 6871 their title is simply ""Doctor Hall's meditations"". In Hastings Religious, Box 2, Folder 8 these extracts are msItem 9. In this manuscript this item is numbered "2" in the margin.]

Item 2 (Biblical writing, Extract), fols 1r-2r

Certain collections of the right honourable Elizabeth late Countess of Huntingdon for her own private use

[The page is torn so if the date 1633 was originally there (as it is in HM 15369 and EL 6871), it is gone now. This section contains biblical extracts with marginal biblical references.]

Item 2.1 (Biblical writing, Extract), fol. 1r

Thy prayers and th[ine alms deeds are] come up for a mem[orial before God]

...

and the Lord shall raise him up, and if he have committed sins they shall be forgiven him

[The letters in square brackets in the first line are missing in the manuscript because the page is torn. Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Acts 10:4) and the last lines (James 5:13-15).]

Item 2.2 (Biblical writing, Extract, Psalm), fols 1r-2r

Psalms of supplication

Unto thee oh Lord do I lift up my soul

...

Restore to me the joy of thy salvation, and establish me with thy free spirit

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Psalm 25:1) and the last lines (Psalm 51:12).]

Item 4 (Biblical writing, Extract, Meditation, Religious writing), fols 8v-9v

Preparation before the receiving of the holy sacrament. How to consider our own unworthiness taken out of the book of the practice of piety, and the holy scriptures

[This item is in three parts: the first quotes from Lewis Bayly's The practice of piety, the second quotes from the Bible, and the third meditates upon those scriptural extracts.]

Item 4.1 (Extract, Religious writing), fol. 8v

A man shall best perceive his own unworthiness by examining his life according to the ten commandments

...

by whose sacrifices we are healed even Jesus Christ the Son of God

[The printed book from which Hastings is quoting is Lewis Bayly's extremely popular The practice of piety (the subtitle is Directing a Christian how to walk that he may please God). It seems to have been first printed in 1612 but it was reprinted throughout the seventeenth century. The extract is copied directly from Bayly, with a few small variants, from his section ""How to consider thine owne vnworthinesse"". This appears on pp. 564-565 (sigs Bb6v-Bb7r) of the 1630 edition, and is the second point in chapter 22, ""Holy and deuout Meditations of the worthy and reuerent receiuing of the Lords Supper"" (pp. 522-565).]

Item 4.2 (Biblical writing, Extract), fols 8v-9r

For I have received of the Lord that which I also delivered unto you

...

and drink the cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord

[The second section of Hastings's transcription comprises biblical extracts from I Corinthians 11: 23-27 (though the marginal reference lists the verses as 23-29).]

Item 5 (Extract, Meditation, Religious writing), fols 10r-15v

The doctrine of the Lord's supper taken out of Mr A H his book

None can receive worthily that doth not prepare himself carefully

...

love and fear that we bear to God, cast away such sins as we know by ourselves

[The printed book is Arthur Hildersham (or Hildersam)'s The Doctrine of Communicating worthily in the Lords Supper (1609). A marginal note mentions that Hastings is using the first impression. Marginal biblical references are used. The following page numbers are mentioned in the margins: pp. 2, 3, 4, 6, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, 36-41; a reference to pages 64-71 is embedded in the text. Some of Hastings's transcription differs significantly from the printed version. For example she has dispensed with the question and answer format, and she has taken out the first, second, and third structures and turned them into continuous prose, with some exceptions. For a discussion of Hildersham's rocky ecclesiastical career (due to his nonconformist sympathies), which involved preaching at Ashby-de-la-Zouch, see Bryan D. Spinks's article on "Hildersham, Arthur (1563-1632)" in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. James Knowles, in his Oxford Dictionary of National Biography article on Elizabeth Hastings's husband Henry Hastings, fifth earl of Huntingdon, mentions that Henry was a patron of Hildersham's into the 1620s.]

Item 7 (Biblical writing, Extract), fols 16v-25r

Extracts from the bible

[One item, msItem 7.8, contains brief meditations after most of the biblical quotations.]

Item 7.1 (Biblical writing, Extract), fol. 16v

Of man's misery

All flesh is grass, and the glory of it as the flower of the grass

...

he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them

[The title of this item in the other three manuscripts is ""Of man's life"" and so this is probably a transcription error, with the scribe noting the title of msItem 6.1 on the previous page. Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Isaiah 40:6) and the final lines (Psalm 39:6).]

Item 7.2 (Biblical writing, Extract, Psalm), fols 17r-v

Psalms of judgment

The Lord knoweth the way of the righteous but the way of the wicked shall perish

...

to cut off the remembrance of them from of the earth

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Psalm 1:6) and the final lines (Psalm 34:16).]

Item 7.3 (Biblical writing, Extract), fols 18r-v

Lamentations

We have transgressed, and rebelled, and thou hast not pardoned

...

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Lamentations 3:42) and the last line (Lamentations 3:27).]

Item 7.4 (Biblical writing, Extract), fol. 18v

The reward of mercy

Blessed is he that considereth the poor the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble

...

The Lord will strengthen him in his bed of languishing, thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Psalm 41:1) and the last lines (Psalm 41:3).]

Item 7.5 (Biblical writing, Extract), fol. 19r

God's love to those that seek him

Call upon me in the day of trouble I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me

...

for the spirit would fail before me, and the souls that I have made

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Psalm 50:15) and the final lines (Isaiah 57:16).]

Item 7.6 (Biblical writing, Extract, Psalm), fols 19v-21r

Psalms of comfort

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the council of the ungodly

...

The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him and delivereth them

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Psalm 1:1) and the last lines (Psalm 34.7).]

Item 7.7 (Biblical writing, Extract), fols 21r-v

Justification and salvation is by Christ only

Neither is there salvation in any other for there is no other name given among men whereby we must be saved

...

who is even at the right hand of God who also maketh intercession for us

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Acts 4:12) and the last lines (Romans 8:34).]

Item 7.8 (Biblical writing, Extract, Meditation), fols 22r-v

Christ the object of faith

Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith

...

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends

[This section contains brief meditations on most of the biblical extracts. Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Hebrews 12:2) and the last lines (John 15:13).]

Item 7.9 (Biblical writing, Extract), fols 23r-25r

The promises of God, and who they are that have any interest in them

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven

...

because it seeth him not neither knoweth him, for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you

[Marginal biblical references appear beside the biblical extracts, including beside the first line (Matthew 5:3) and the last lines (John 14:17).]

Item 8 (Extract, Sermon), fols 25v-26v

Notes taken out of Dr Andrewes's book of sermons, Bishop of Winchester of the resurrection. 1 Peter 1.3.4. leaf 493

Blessed be God, and the father of our Lord Jesus Christ

...

Such is this, not erga aliquos vestrum, but erga vos

[The printed source is Lancelot Andrewes, XCVI. Sermons by the Right Honorable and Reverend Father in God, Lancelot Andrewes, late Lord Bishop of Winchester (1629). Hastings has copied a passage from pp. 500-501 (sig. Yy6v-Zz1r), with no obvious omissions or alterations. Unlike the other three manuscripts, this copy does not list page 500 in the margin. The extract appears in the section ""Sermons of the Resurrection, preached upon Easter-day"" as number 11 (pp. 493-504; sigs Yy4r-Zz2v) and is headed, ""A Sermon Preached before the King's Maiestie, at Whitehall, on the XXXI. of March, A.D. MDCXVI. being Easter Day."" The meditation opens with a transcription of the biblical verse I Peter 1:3-4. Andrewes's first words are ""We pass now to the inheritance"". Early in his career, in 1586, Andrewes was appointed chaplain to Henry Hastings, third Earl of Huntingdon, a man noted for nonconformist beliefs (see P.E. McCollough, ""Andrewes, Lancelot (1555-1626)"", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).]

Item 9 (Extract, Meditation, Religious writing), fols 27r-v

Dr Hall's meditations and vows

It were better that a man should want work than great works should want a man answerable to their weight

...

but if I speak to a cold Christian he cannot understand me

[The printed book is Joseph Hall's Meditations and vowes divine and morall (1605). Hastings has copied out 10 sayings from this source. Hall was born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, where the Hastings family had their seat, and educated at the radically protestant grammar school there (Richard A. McCabe, ""Hall, Joseph (1574-1656)"", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography). In HM 15369 and EL 6871 these extracts are msItem 10 and in EL 6871 their title is simply ""Doctor Hall's meditations"". In Hastings Literature, Box 1, Folder 6 these extracts are msItem 11.]

Item 13 (Biblical writing, Extract), fols 21r-v

Biblical extracts from the book of Matthew

[The extracts begin with Matthew 10:32-34 (though it is listed as book 9 in the margin), then continue with extracts from books 6, 7, and 9.]

Item 18 (Biblical writing, Extract, Meditation), fols 35r-37v

[Untitled meditations on biblical extracts, beginning with Genesis 6:5-7.]

[Fols 36r-37v are blank.]

Item 22 (Biblical writing, Extract, Meditation), fols 60r-74v

Doctor Preston of mortification

[A heading in the left margin, ""Leafe"" indicates both page numbers and biblical references. Hastings is quoting from John Preston's Sins overthrow: or, A godly and learned treatise of mortification (1633). Though 20 January 1633 was the date of Hastings's death she must have had access to a copy published shortly before that date. Hastings has noted the pages upon which her chosen extracts, both biblical extracts and Preston's commentary, appear. Her references to Preston all correspond with the passages in the printed volume. Hastings gave a copy of another book by John Preston, The new covenant, or the saints portion, to her sister Frances, Countess of Bridgewater in 1632. Frances's scribe recorded this in her library catalogue (Huntington Library MS EL 6495). Jonathan D. Moore's article on Preston in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him a moderate or fully conforming puritan. See msItem 11 for a meditation on mortification.]

[Fols 60v-74v are blank.]

Item 2.32 (Essay, Extract), p. 43

A fragment on consumptions

Many have thought it no lost time to exercise their wits in the praises of diseases

...

and even his last hours and speak unto his saviour when he is within a moment of him

[This fragment is attributed ""by TBMD"", probably Thomas Browne, medical doctor. Geoffrey Keynes has argued that this was a fragment composed by Browne for his ""Letter to a Friend"" but not used in it (Keynes, " "Daughter"", p. 470). For other works possibly by Browne see Items 6.8 and 6.24.]

Item 6.2 (Prose, Extract), p. 102 rev.

Notes on the martyrdoms of Saints Andrew, James, and Peter

St Andrew when he saw the cross, oh cross most welcome with a willing mind joyfully and desirously I come to thee

...

bad her remember the Lord such was then the blessed bond of marriage

[Above these extracts are some sermon notes in Hand B headed ""Mr Cock"".]

Item 6.5 (Extract, Prophecy), pp. 100 rev.-99 rev.

Prophecies of Jerome of Prague and John Hus about the appearance of Martin Luther in one hundred years' time

Mr Jerome said again unto them: you will condemn me wickedly and unjustly

...

which was the just hundred year after according to the right account of Jerome's prophecy

[The three extracts on this page come from Foxe 's Book of Martyrs, specifically The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, ed. by George Townsend, 8 vols (New York: AMS Press, 1965), III, p. 523; IV, pp. 253, 255. Lyttelton recorded that she read ""all fox his book of Martyrs"" to her father (p. 44, Item 2.33). See Items 6.6, 6.7 and 6.38 for further citations from this source.]

[p. 99 is blank.]

Item 6.6 (Extract, Prayer), pp. 98 rev.-96 rev.

The prayer of Luther at his death

My heavenly father, eternal and merciful God, thou hast manifested unto me thy dear son

...

and resuscitate Emmanuel govern conserve and defend thy church, haec Melancthon

[This extract is from The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, ed. by George Townsend, 8 vols (New York: AMS Press, 1965), IV, p. 321. Lyttelton has added the reference ""haec Melancthon"" after this prayer, a reference not found in Foxe. See Items 6.5, 6.7 and 6.38 for further citations from this source.]

[p. 97 is blank.]

Item 6.7 (Extract, Prayer), pp. 96 rev.-95 rev.

The usual prayer of Doctor Martyn Luther

Confirm (oh God) in us that thou hast wrought and perfect the works that thou has begun

...

ex hist. Phil. Melancthon. Ex Sledano. Ex Paralip. Abb. Ursberg. And ex Casp. Peucero

[This extract is from The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe , ed. by George Townsend, 8 vols (New York: AMS Press, 1965), IV, p. 292 (including the Latin footnote with references to other writers-see explicit). See Items 6.5, 6.6 and 6.38 for further citations from this source.]

[p. 95 is blank.]

Item 6.11 (Extract), p. 83 rev.

My love is crucified

That is my appetites and desires are crucified to the world, and all the lusts and pleasures of it

[These lines are attributed to ""St Ignatious Bishop of Antioch"" .]

Item 6.17 (Prose, Extract), p. 77 rev.

Seignor Verdero in his proper habit

A suit and vest of a mandrake or night shade green

...

Ribbons all about of fig leaf laurel box green

[Geoffrey Keynes discovered that this is an extract from one of Sir Thomas Browne 's own commonplace books, British Library MS Sloane 1843 (Commonplace Book, p. 18; Keynes, Works, III, p. 277). See also Items 6.19 and 6.20.]

Item 6.20 (Prose, Extract), p. 76 rev.

That which makes meadows look so yellow is the great abundance of renunculus or crow foot flowers

...

or meadow cresses white of all which cat tail will eat

[MsItems 6.17, 6.19 and 6.20 were all copied from one of Sir Thomas Browne 's commonplace books (see Item 6.17). See Victoria Burke's article for a description of variants in this extract.]

Item 6.30 (Verse, Panegyric, Extract), p. 68 rev.

And (world mourned) Sidney, warbling to the Thames

...

To Thetis's lap, and Thetis everywhere

[These four lines in praise of Sir Philip Sidney are from Joshua Sylvester's translation of Guillaume Du Bartas's Divine Weeks and Works, from the second day of the second week (lines 663-666).]

Item 6.31 (Verse, Panegyric, Extract), p. 68 rev.

Sidney thy works in fame's book are enrolled

...

That thy Arcadia be condemned with fire

[These unidentified lines praise Sir Philip Sidney's works.]

Item 10 (Extract, Psalm), p. 3

[The words of Psalm 104: 33-4; Psalm 105: 3, 5; and Psalm 108: 1, 5 are written.]

Item 6 (Extract, Religious writing), fols 64r-75v

Prose extracts, chiefly from from John Wilkins'

Of the principles and duties of natural religion

[The majority of the extracts from items 6.1-6.36 appear in John Wilkins, Bishop of Chester's work of 1675 "Of the principles and duties of natural religion", Book 1. The exceptions are the second half of item 6.4, and all of 6.5, 6.14-6.15, 6.19-6.24. These last 9 items have been transcribed on versos, probably at a later time.]

Item 6.1 (Extract, Religious writing), fol. 64r

Bishop Wilkins' principles of natural religion, concerning the existence of a deity

Amongst all mankind there is no nation so wild and barbarous, who though they may mistake in their due apprehensions of the nature of God

...

There is nowhere any nation so utterly lost to all things of law and morality, as not to believe the existence of God

[John Wilkins (1614-1672) was Bishop of Chester.]

[This extract is from Wilkins chapter 4, "Concerning the existence of a deity". The lines she has quoted are Wilkins' translations of Cicero and Seneca ]

Item 6.2 (Extract), fol. 64r

From the admirable contrivance of natural things

Saith Tully, the great elegance and order of things in the world, is abundantly enough to evince the necessity of such an eternal and excellent being

...

than to infer a supreme deity from that order and government we may behold amongst the heavenly bodies

[This extract is from Wilkins chapter 6, "From the admirable contrivance of natural things". The lines she has quoted are Wilkins' translations of Cicero.]

Item 6.3 (Essay, Extract), fols 64r-v

L Bacon Essays

God never yet wrought a miracle to convince an atheist, because to a man that is capable of being convinced his ordinary works are sufficient

[This is the whole text of the item.]

[This is transcribed from Wilkins chapter 7, "From Providence, and the government of the word", and not directly from Bacon's essays as Bacon uses different wording. A marginal gloss in Wilkins notes the source as "L. Bacon. Essays."]

[Fol. 64v is blank.]

Item 6.4 (Essay, Extract), fol. 65r

L Bacon

I should think it much more easy and rational to believe all the fables in the poets the legend the Talmud and the Alcoran than that this universal frame should be without a creator and governor

...

without successful attempts for supplying of their wants by them

[The first two sentences on this page are from Wilkins (chapters 7 and 4, respectively). The final passage (beginning, " There is no reason to believe that the world was from all eternity as Aristotle imagined"), has not been found in Wilkins.]

Item 6.5 (Extract), fol. 65v

An extract on Pythagoras

Pythagoras one of the oldest of the philosophers has this notion of God

...

therefore he forbid them to make any image or representation of God

[This passage has not been found in Wilkins.]

Item 6.6 (Essay, Extract, Religious writing), fol. 66r

Of the excellencies and perfections of the divine nature.

Lord Bacon

It would be better to have no opinion of God, than such a one as is unworthy of him, the one is but mere unbelief the other is contumely

[This is the whole text of the item.]

[This extract, and the 6 that follow (msItem 6.7-6.12) are taken from chapter 8 of Wilkins entitled, "Concerning the excellencies and perfections of the divine nature". The compiler uses the heading "Lord Bacon"while in the printed source the word "better" is followed by "saith a great Author" in parentheses. In a marginal note this is clarified as "Lord Bacons Essays".]

Item 6.7 (Extract, Religious writing), fol. 66r

Sophocles

There is but one God, who made the heaven and the earth

[This is the whole text of the item.]

[This extract is from Wilkins chapter 8. In the printed version the sentence is prefaced by "So Sopohcles" and then some Greek, but the compiler has simply used the heading "Sophocles".]

Item 6.8 (Extract, Religious writing), fols 66r-v

Maximus Tyrius

Though men differ much in their opinions about other matters, yet in this they all agree

...

in this the Grecian consents with the barbarian the inhabitant of the continent with the Flanders the wise with the unwise

[This extract is from Wilkins chapter 8. In the printed source the sentence is prefaced by "I shall only add that remarkable passage in Maximus Tyrius:" and the marginal note reads "Dissert. 1", a reference to Maximus' "Dissertationes". The compiler of the manuscript has instead used the heading "Maximus Tyrius".]

[Fol. 66v is blank.]

Item 6.9 (Extract, Religious writing), fol. 67r

A quotation from Plato

God is never in any wise capable of any kind of change whatsoever, saith Plato

[This is the whole text of the item.]

[This extract is from Wilkins chapter 8. In the printed source the passage begins, "His words are most emphatical" followed by some words in Greek, then "that he is never" then it continues like the manuscript.]

Item 6.10 (Extract, Religious writing), fol. 67r

So Seneca

God is always constant to his one decree and doth never repent of his purposes

...

nor can this be any prejudice to his liberty or his power since he is his one necessity

[This extract is from Wilkins chapter 8. In the printed source there is some extra contextual information.]

Item 6.11 (Extract, Religious writing), fol. 67r

A quotation on divine perfection

The greater the divine perfections are the greater imperfection would mutability be

[This is the whole text of the item.]

[This extract is from Wilkins chapter 8. In the printed source this line is in italics.]

Item 6.12 (Extract, Religious writing), fol. 67r

A quotation from Cicero

Tully cites Pythagoras affirming that God is a spirit or mind which doth pass through all things, and men ought to think that God beholds everything and fills every place

[This is the whole text of the item.]

[This extract is from Wilkins chapter 8. The manuscript combines two sentences from the printed source into one sentence.]

Item 6.13 (Extract, Religious writing), fol. 67r

Seneca

Nothing is hid from God he is intimate to our minds and mingles himself with our very thoughts

[This is the whole text of the item.]

[This extract is from Wilkins chapter 9, "Of the communicable perfections of God". In the printed version the sentence is preceeded by " So Seneca," and some Latin.]

Item 6.14 (Extract), fol. 67v

A quotation on friendship

There is no accident that can menace and shake that friendship whereof virtue is the cause

[This is the whole text of the item.]

[This extract has not been found in Wilkins. It may have been added at a later date, as the compiler turned back to versos that had been left largely blank.]

Item 6.15 (Extract), fol. 67v

A quotation on the danger of being too scrupulous

A wisdom that is too scrupulous, commonly doth nothing for fear of doing ill,

[This is the whole text of the item.]

[ This extract has not been found in Wilkins. See note to item 6.14.]

Item 6.16 (Extract, Religious writing), fol. 68r

A quotation on divine providence

Aristotle amongst other testimonies he gives of the divine providence, hath this for one

...

whereas the divine providence doth dispose of all and every particular thing without the least trouble

[This extract is from Wilkins chapter 9. Some differences occur in the manuscript version, such as the omission of this line from the printed source, "Aristotle himself, or whoever else was the Author of that Book de Mundo" .]

Item 6.17 (Extract, Religious writing), fol. 68r

Saith Seneca

There are some who think so well of their own minds, that they are able to take care of their own business

...

be managed by any kind of wisdom or councel and not left wholly to chance

[This extract is from Wilkins chapter 9. The opening is different in the printed version: "Seneca speaking of such as denied particular Providence, hath this remarkable passage".]

Item 6.18 (Extract, Religious writing), fol. 68r

A quotation from Seneca

The most fundamental thing in religion saith Seneca is to acknowledge the being of God

...

without which there can be no religion and in another place

[This extract is from Wilkins chapter 10, "Of the perfections relating to the divine will". The printed version begins, "That is a known and an excellent passage in Seneca", followed by some Latin. The compiler of the manuscript has crossed out the word "Majesty" and has replaced it with " religion" in the final sentence. The reference to "another place" refers to another quotation that follows in the printed text.]

Item 6.19 (Extract), fol. 68v

A quotation from Socrates

A good man (saith Socrates) should apparently demean himself, that his word may be deemed as credible as an oath

[This is the whole text of the item.]

[This extract, and the five that follow on this page (msItem 6.20-6.24), have not been found in Wilkins. They may have been added at a later date, as the compiler turned back to versos that had been left largely blank. This hypothesis is further strengthened by the fact that items 6.18 and 6.25 follow each other directly in the printed source.]

Item 6.20 (Extract), fol. 68v

A quotation from St. Jerome

St. Hierome saith a man should so love truth, that he should suppose himself to have sworn whatsoever he hath said

[This is the whole text of the item.]

[See note to item 6.19.]

Item 6.21 (Extract), fol. 68v

A quotation on the dangers of doubts and fears

Doubts and fears are of all the sharpest passions

...

like evening shadows disproportionable to the true substance

[See note to item 6.19.]

Item 6.22 (Extract), fol. 68v

A quotation on time

Time wipeth out groundless conceits, but confirms that which is founded in nature and real

[This is the whole text of the item.]

[See note to item 6.19.]

Item 6.23 (Extract), fol. 68v

A quotation on passion and reason

Passions ought to be reason's vassals not her master

[This is the whole text of the item.]

[See note to item 6.19.]

Item 6.24 (Extract), fol. 68v

A quotation on Roman Catholic Cardinals

It was always observed that of what faction soever a cardinal might be, yet upon the advancement of the popedom he becomes the head of his own

[This is the whole text of the item.]

[See note to item 6.19.]

Item 6.25 (Extract, Religious writing), fol. 69r

A quotation from Seneca on praying and making vows

He that doth not acknowledge the goodness of the divine nature doth not take notice of the general custom amongst men

...

who neither can nor will do anything that is mischievous, being as remote from anything that is injurious to others as it is to itself

[This extract is from Wilkins chapter 10. This item is three separate quotations which follow one another. A number of variants between the print and manuscript versions occur.]

Item 6.26 (Extract, Religious writing), fols 69r-v

Seneca

Would you render the deity propitious to you endeavour to be good, that man only doth truly worship him, who labours to be like him

[This is the whole text of the item.]

[This extract is from Wilkins chapter 12, "Concerning the duties of religion naturally flowing from the consideration of the divine nature and perfections". In the printed version Seneca is introduced several sentences earlier.]

[Fol. 69v is blank.]

Item 6.27 (Extract, Religious writing), fol. 70r

Cicero

Who would not fear that God who sees and takes notes of all things

...

and will deal with every one as they are pious or impious

[This extract is from Wilkins chapter 15, "Of reverence and the fear of God". There are some variants, including a different opening in the printed version: "'Tis a notable saying in Cicero to this purpose". As well, a sentence on the fear of the deity being the chief basis of government is omitted in the manuscript, and the compiler has altered the word "men" in the printed version to the gender neutral "every one" in the manuscript.]

Item 6.28 (Extract, Religious writing), fol. 70r

St. Augustine

He that would not fear other things let him learn to fear God

...

to such a one, the world whether smiling or frowning will seem contemptible

[This extract is from Wilkins chapter 15. Each of the three sentences in this passage are preceded by Latin in the printed version.]

Item 6.29 (Extract, Religious writing), fols 70r-71r

Antonius

If God doth not take particular notice and care for me and my affairs

...

I refer all things to God by whom all things are disposed in a wise order

[This extract is from Wilkins chapter 17, "Of passive obedience, or patience and submission to the will of God". A number of variants between the print and manuscript versions occur.]

[Fol. 70v is blank.]

Item 6.30 (Extract, Religious writing), fols 71r-72r

Epictetus

Why may not a man as well refuse to obey God in what he commands as to refuse to submit to what he inflicts

...

such thy dealings with me, to be most fitting and prudent, most suitable and advantageous to my condition

[This extract is from Wilkins chapter 17. Three sections follow one another in one paragraph in the printed version, with a number of variants.]

[Fol. 71v is blank.]

Item 6.31 (Extract, Religious writing), fol. 72r

Seneca

That man must needs be unjust and unequal who doth not think fit to leave the giver unto the liberty of his own gift to resume it again when he pleaseth

[This is the whole text of the item.]

[This extract is from Wilkins chapter 17. Latin precedes the quotation in the printed version.]

Item 6.32 (Extract, Religious writing), fol. 72r

Epictetus

what reason have I to fight against God

...

and why should you take it so heinously if he pleaseth to resume something back again

[This extract is from Wilkins chapter 17. Greek precedes this passage in the printed version.]

Item 6.33 (Extract, Religious writing), fols 72r-73v

Seneca

There is nothing more desirable than for a man to arrive to this temper of mind

...

having a hard opinion of the government of the world, thinking it fitter to mend God than himself

[This extract is from Wilkins chapter 17. A number of omissions and variants are evident in the manuscript version.]

[Fols 72v and 73v are blank.]

Item 6.34 (Extract, Religious writing), fol. 74r

Seneca

It is not in our power to change our condition but this is in our power, to attain to such a gratefulness of mind as becomes worthy men

...

they esteem those things bought for which they pay money, but account those things of free cost for which they pay themselves

[This extract is from Wilkins chapter 17. The extract comprises three passages with omitted portions between them.]

Item 6.35 (Extract, Religious writing), fols 74r-75r

Maximus Tyrius

Take away from a good man the honour of his sufferings and you rob him of his crown you hide and obscure his glory

...

those that are most apt to be deceived and puffed up with the flatteries of prosperity, will be most apt to be dejected by the frowns of adversity

[This extract is from Wilkins chapter 17. The incipit is the only part of the passage that is by Maximus. The rest of the passage is attributed in the printed version to Seneca. The explicit appears several pages after the rest of the passage in the printed version.]

[Fol. 74v is blank.]

Item 6.36 (Extract, Religious writing), fols 75r-v

Epictetus

Thou foolish man dost thou not desire that which is most convenient for thee

...

and seduce thy counsellors than which there cannot be a greater folly

[This extract is from Wilkins chapter 17. This appears to be the last of the Wilkins quotations.]

[Fol. 75v is blank.]

Item 7 (Essay, Extract), fols 76r-83v

Prose extracts, twelve from Francis Bacon's

Essays

[The sources for items 7.1-7.5, 7.9, and 7.20-7.22 have not been located. Items 7.6-7.8 and 7.10-7.18 (but only the first half of 7.18) are taken from Bacon's Essays, the first complete version of which was published in 1625 with 58 essays. The scribe may have used any number of later editions of the work, but I have compared the extracts with the 1625 edition. MsItem 7.19 is attributed to "Robinson's essays" but has not been located in John Robinson's New essays, or observations divine and moral .]

Item 7.1 (Extract, Religious writing), fol. 76r

An extract attributed to Boniface

Boniface, who converted Friesland to Christianity, was wont to say in old time, they were golden prelates and wooden chalices, but in his time, wooden prelates and golden chalices

[This is the whole text of the item.]

Item 7.2 (Extract), fol. 76r

An extract on the wealth of princes

The treasure of princes is compared to the spleen, that the greater it groweth the limbs are the less

[This is the whole text of the item.]

Item 7.3 (Extract, Religious writing), fol. 76r

An extract on outward sins

Whilst we are careful to repair the outward seeming breaches, nature is undermining the very foundations of life, and draining the radical moisture which is the well the town lives by

[This is the whole text of the item.]

Item 7.4 (Extract), fol. 76r

An extract on choosing the best course of life

To pick upon the best course of life, resolve to do that which is most reasonable and virtuous and custom will soon render it the most easy

[This is the whole text of the item.]

Item 7.5 (Extract), fols 76r-v

An extract on unquietness of mind obscuring wit

Wit is no less eclipsed with unquietness of mind than beauty with indisposition of the body

[This is the whole text of the item.]

[Fol. 76v is blank.]

Item 7.6 (Essay, Extract), fol. 77r

L: B: of death

Death is not such terrible enemy when a man hath so many attendants about him

...

Death hath this also that it openeth the gate to good fame and extinguisheth envy

[These lines all appear in Bacon's essay "Of Death". The first paragraph is from the middle of the essay and the explicit is the final line of the essay.]

Item 7.7 (Essay, Extract), fol. 77r

Of adversity

It was a high speech of Seneca after the manner of the stoics

...

prosperity best discovereth vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue

[These lines all appear in Bacon's essay "Of Adversity". The first line of the extract is the first line of the essay, the second line is from the middle, and the third is the final line of the essay.]

Item 7.8 (Essay, Extract), fols 77r-78r

[Fol. 77v is item 7.9. The scribe evidently wrote first on the rectos and then returned at a later time to write on the verso of fol. 77.]

Of goodness of nature

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers it shows that he is a citizen of the world

...

if he be thankful for small benefits, it shows that he weighs men's minds and not their trash

[These lines all appear (with one minor omission) in Bacon's essay "Of Goodness and Goodness in Nature", near the end of the essay (but do not include the final line of the essay).]

Item 7.9 (Extract), fol. 77v

Several moral sayings

Take out of men's minds, vain opinions flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations, and it would leave the minds of a great number of men poor shrunken things

...

There is no benefit so large but malignity will lessen it, no so narrow but which a good interpretation will not enlarge

Item 7.10 (Essay, Extract), fol. 78r

Of counsel

When one asketh counsel let him beware how he opens his own inclinations

...

and instead of giving free counsel sing him a song of placebo

[These lines appear, slightly altered, as the last line of Bacon's essay "Of Counsel".]

Item 7.11 (Essay, Extract), fols 78r-79r

Of wisdom for a man's self

Divide with reason between self love and society, as to be so true to thyself as thou be not false to others

...

to the inconstancy of Fortune, whose wings they thought by their self-love to have pinioned

[The first sentence of the extract appears near the beginning of Bacon's essay " Of wisdom for a man's self". The scribe seems to have added a linking phrase and ended with the final sentence of the essay.]

[Fol. 78v is blank.]

Item 7.12 (Essay, Extract), fol. 79r

Of seeming wise

Seeming wise men may make shift to get opinion, but let no man choose them for employment, for certainly you had better take for business a man somewhat absurd than over formal

[This is the whole text of the item.]

[This appears as the final line of Bacon's essay "Of seeming wise" .]

Item 7.13 (Essay, Extract), fols 79r-v

Of expence

If a man will keep but of even hand his ordinary expences ought to be but half of his receipts

...

but in matters that return not, he may be more magnificent

[The first sentence appears near the beginning of Bacon's essay "Of expence" and the second is the final line of the essay.]

[Fol. 79v is blank.]

Item 7.14 (Essay, Extract), fol. 80r

Of suspicion

There is no better way to moderate suspicion than to account upon suspicions as true

...

as if that should be true that he suspects, yet it may do him no hurt

[These lines appear in the middle of Bacon's essay "Of suspicion" .]

Item 7.15 (Essay, Extract), fols 80r-v

Of discourse

It is good in discourse and speech of conversation to vary and intermingle speech

...

namely religion, matters of state, great persons and any man's present business of importance, and any case that deserveth pity

[These two sentences appear (with a small omission) near the beginning of Bacon's essay "Of discourse".]

[Fol. 80v is blank.]

Item 7.16 (Essay, Extract), fol. 81r

Of riches

Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayst get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly

...

he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own

[These lines appear near the beginning and at the end of Bacon's essay " Of riches".]

Item 7.17 (Essay, Extract), fols 81r-v

Of boldness

Boldness is ever blind, for it seeth not dangers and inconveniencies, therefore it is ill in counsels

...

for in councel it is good to see dangers, and in execution not to see them, except they be very great

[These lines appear as the last sentences of Bacon's essay "Of boldness". This quotation disturbs the order of the essays quoted in this section. The previous quotations (msItems 7.6-7.8, 7.10-7.16) have all come from essays that appear after each other. This quotation jumps back to an essay near the beginning of the volume.]

[Fol. 81v is blank.]

Item 7.18 (Essay, Extract), fol. 82r

Of anger

Carry anger rather with scorn than fear so that you may seem rather to be above the injury than below it

...

another time his slave having offended him, I would beat thee says he, but that I am angry

[The opening sentence of the extract appears at the end of the second paragraph of Bacon's essay "Of anger". The rest of the extract (the example of Plato not chastizing a servant when he was angry) does not seem to be in the 1625 essay.]

Item 7.19 (Essay, Extract), fols 82r-83r

Robinson's essays

Several quotations on revenge

As the bear whets and sharpens his tusks in his own foam, so doth a proud man excite and sharpen his own indignation and revenge

...

the other the ground and continuation multiplication of the crime and consequently makes it without measure and end

[The source is probably John Robinson's New essays, or observations divine and moral first published in 1628 (though that is apparently the second edition). A search yielded no obvious matches with the quoted lines in this manuscript. The quotation attributed to Cosmus, Duke of Florence (on fol. 83r) about forgiving our enemies but not our friends also appears in Bacon's essay "On revenge", but that seems to be the only overlap.]

[Fol. 82v is blank.]

Item 7.20 (Extract), fol. 83r

An extract on a noble enemy

A noble enemy will never speak of his enemy in bad terms

[This is the whole text of the item.]

Item 7.21 (Extract), fol. 83v

S

An extract on the role of natural causes in creating the world

It is a vain thing to talk of making the world by natural causes when it is demonstrable that there can be no natural causes till the world is made

...

for while natural causes keep their natural course they will preserve not destroy the world

Item 7.22 (Extract), fol. 83v

An extract on the immortality of the soul

That our souls are immortal and cannot die has been the belief of all mankind

...

that the soul survive the funeral of the body or they could never have made gods of them

Item 9 (Extract), fols 102r-106v

Prose extracts from a variety of sources, many untraced

Item 9.1 (Extract), fol. 102r

A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude

[This is the whole text of the item.]

Item 9.2 (Extract), fol. 102r

Whensoever God who lent me my self, and what I have, shall call for all back again

...

And it will become me to return my mind better than I received it

Item 9.3 (Extract), fol. 102r

A great traveler was complaining that he was never the better for his travels

...

it is no matter what manners we find anywhere, so long as we carry our own

[Socrates]

Item 9.4 (Extract), fol. 102r

Did we but often reflect upon the miseries of others of which we need never want instances

...

but the foresight of evils to come breaks the violence of them

Item 9.5 (Extract), fol. 102r

It is the part of a great mind to be temperate in prosperity, resolute in adversity, to defying what the vulgar admire

[This is the whole text of the item.]

Item 9.6 (Extract), fols 102r-v

I had rather beg of myself not to desire anything, than of fortune to bestow it

[This is the whole text of the item.]

[Fol. 102v is blank.]

Item 9.7 (Extract), fol. 103r

There is no surer argument of a great mind than not to be transported to anger by any accident

...

which is the emblem of a brave man that lives within himself modest venerable and composed

[Two lines of text are crossed out at the top of the page, reading possibly "There is no greater argument of a great mind than not to be supported" where "greater" is crossed out and "surer" written above it.]

Item 9.8 (Extract), fol. 103r

Clemency is a favourable disposition of the mind, in inflicting punishment, or a moderation, that remits somewhat of the penalty incurred

[This is the whole text of the item.]

Item 9.9 (Extract), fol. 103r

What extremities have some men endured in sieges, even for the ambition and interest of other men; and shall not a man venture the crossing of an intemperate lust for the conquest of himself

[This is the whole text of the item.]

Item 9.10 (Extract), fol. 103r

There are no greater exactors of faith than the perfidious, no greater persecutors of falsehood than the perjured, and he that loves his neighbour's wife, looks up his own

[This is the whole text of the item.]

Item 9.11 (Extract), fol. 103v

A man's own unruly passions are the greatest tyrants

[This is the whole text of the item.]

Item 9.12 (Extract), fol. 103v

Liberty cannot be maintained but by virtue, temperance, moderate desires and contented minds

...

this is an uncontested truth that liberty and religion live and die together

Item 9.13 (Extract), fol. 103v

Monluce the martial of France confessed that were not the mercies of God infinite

...

seeing the cruelties by them permitted and committed were also infinite

[These lines have not been found in Monluc's memoirs, Commentaires de messire Blaise de Monluc, 1674.]

Item 9.14 (Extract), fol. 103v

The joys of the bridal chamber are quickly past, and the remaining portion of the state is a dull progress without variety of joys, but not without change of sorrows

[This is the whole text of the item.]

Item 9.15 (Extract), fol. 104r

The virtues of the mind may be discovered in the countenance

...

Reverence shows itself in modesty, joy, in serenity, and truth in openness and simplicity

Item 9.16 (Extract), fol. 104r

Barrow

The truly liberal man reserveth not the disposal of all once at his death

...

which are only due to their mortality, when as were they immortal they would never be liberal

[Isaac Barrow's theological works were edited by Tillotson in four volumes from 1683-1687.]

Item 9.17 (Extract), fols 104r-v

Barrow

By no force of reason or stratagem of wit are men so easily subdued; by no bait so thoroughly allured and caught as by real courtesy, gentleness and affability

[This is the whole text of the item.]

[Fol. 104v is blank.]

Item 9.18 (Extract), fol. 105r

To be happy does not signify merely to have, but to enjoy;

...

which can relish what it has, and extract its true pleasure and satisfaction

Item 9.19 (Extract), fols 105r-106r

The severest of God's judgments are no argument against the goodness of his providence

...

that the general state of the world was much the better for it, and mankind the better disposed to receive the gospel

[Fol. 106r is blank.]

Item 9.20 (Extract), fol. 106v

Maliciously to oppose the known truth is by most divines a principal branch of that great unpardonable sin, the sin against the holy ghost

[This is the whole text of the item.]

Item 11 (Extract), fols 135r-137r

Prose extracts citing ancient writers such as Plato and Plutarch

Item 11.1 (Extract), fol. 135r

The Cyrenians prayed Plato to write then some laws and to appoint them some form of government for their commonwealth

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so contrarily nothing so ready to receive counsel and government than a man in adversity

Item 11.2 (Extract), fols 135r-v

Metellus a Roman consul saying when he was urged to take an oath which he thought would prejudice the commonwealth

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or else things stand as now do, it will be best for me to be furthest off

Item 11.3 (Extract), fol. 135v

Plutarch's saying of virtue

I am persuaded said he that no misfortune can make virtue grounded upon good reason, to act anything contrary to itself

[This is the whole text of the item.]

Item 11.4 (Extract), fol. 135v

Antonius made this answer to one who rebuked him for his liberality

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not where the Romans take but where they give most

Item 11.5 (Extract), fol. 135v

none are in danger by others' flatteries who are not first seduced by their own

[This is the whole text of the item.]

Item 11.6 (Extract), fol. 136r

Solon's saying to Croesus King of Lydia who expected Solon should have admired his greatness

The gods said he, have given us Grecians all things in a mean

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but when the gods have continued a man's good fortune to the end, then we think that in an happy and blessed

Item 11.7 (Extract), fols 136r-v

Cleomenes King of Sparta being in great danger of being swallowed up by Antigonus, sends to Ptolemy King of Egypt for aid

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he should not spare to do anything that was expedient for the honour of Sparta without any fond regard to her or his son

Item 11.8 (Extract), fol. 137r

The ancient Lacedaemonians in their solemn feasts used to force their slaves to overcharge themselves with wine

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that by the apparent beastliness of drunkenness they might work in them an abhorrence of so loathsome a vice

Item 13 (Extract, Religious writing), fols 140v-141v

Two extracts on the creed.

Item 13.1 (Extract, Religious writing), fol. 140v

The Nicene Creed so called by the first General Council held at Nice, it was thought necessary

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which is absolutely agreeable to the sense and meaning of the apostles themselves

Item 13.2 (Extract, Religious writing), fols 141r-141v

Of the Athanasian Creed

The doctrine is (well nigh all of it) the asserting the unity of the divine nature and the trinity of hypostates

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and when it might more reasonable be deemed not to be any fault of the will, to which this were imputable

Item 14 (Extract, Sermon), fols 142r-143v

Dr Sherlock's Dean of St. Paul his character of Mary II Queen of England who died December 27 1694

She had a large and capacious mind, a quick and lively apprehension, a piercing and solid judgment

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had she outlived the difficulties and expenses of war and been at leisure to attend the peaceful arts of government

[These lines are extracted from Sherlock's "A sermon preached at the Temple Church, December 30, 1694 upon the sad occasion of the death of our gracious queen".]

[Fols 143r and 143v are blank.]

Item 34 (Extract, Sermon), fols. 30v-40v

A description of the unity in trinity; and of the trinity in unity, as it is revealed unto us in holy scripture

The natural man perceiveth not the things, that are of god

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governeth it by his fight and shall ruinate it at his will

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The transcription of Hunt's full sermon (item 46) confirms Hunt as the author.