Miscellaneous papers, including 'An Elegiack Dialogue [between 'Passenger' and 'Beaumorice'] dedicated to ye memorye of ... Mr Richard Bulckley [of Baron Hill, died March 1639/40] lately deceased' by 'Geo: Dib' [?George Dibdall], [1640] (pp. 113-128); translations from Horace, Cicero, and Martial; and miscellaneous Latin and English poems, including some by Paul Panton, senior.

An English verse translation of Euripides's satyric drama The Cyclops, with the dates 9 Apr[il] 1782 and 26 Apr[il] 1782 inserted at the beginning and end of the text respectively; and an incomplete translation into English of Longinus's treatise on the sublime, the latter part of the penultimate section (No. 43) and the whole of the final section (No. 44) being missing. Both works are probably by and in the hand of the Rev. Robert Potter.

Nine letters, 1782-1784, from [the Rev.] E[dward] Owen of Warrington, schoolmaster and translator, to John Blackburne, Chester, mainly concerning points of difficulty in translating Classical Latin authors.
Owen comments on the works of Livy (ff. 1, 3 recto-verso, 5 recto-verso, 7 recto-verso), Horace (ff. 9-10, 12) and Catullus (ff. 12-13, 14-15). He also discusses a variety of subjects including Roman land measurement (f. 1 recto-verso), Roman coins (ff. 1 verso, 3 verso-4), Roman numerals (f. 16) and the arrangement of rowers in Roman ships (ff. 16 verso-17). Although apparently living in Chester at this time, John Blackburne's family owned Orford Hall, near Warrington, and he was elected MP for Lancashire in 1784.

Note books, a volume of sermons, etc., in the hand of [the Rev. Hector Davies Morgan, M.A., curate of Castle Hedingham, co. Essex, ?1809-1846, and prebendary of Trallwng in the collegiate church of Christ, Brecon, 1820-?1846].
12544B: A note book containing English poems entitled 'To Stella on the birth of Mr. John Harrison of Calcutta', 'To Miss [ ] on the birthday of her brother Mr. Thomas Harrison of Bombay', and 'Elegiac Stanzas sacred to the Memory of an Unfortunate Maniac Inscribed to Thomas Slade, Esq.', a poem invoking God's aid for Britain, passages (English) translated from or written in imitation of Horace, Pindar, Tibullus, Arist[otle], etc., and short disputations in Latin or English on academic debating points such as 'Anne amor melior imperii custos an timor' or 'An Cicero plus gloriae adeptus est a Consulatu quam ab exilio'. The volume was compiled or written at Oxford and Pentonville, 1803-1806. Pasted to the inside upper cover is a copy (printed) of An Elegy sacred to the memory of Mr. Richard Harrison who died August 18, 1802, with manuscript emendations.
12545B: Two exercise books, the first containing a Latin poem (161 lines) entitled 'Trafalgar', and the second a poem (197 lines) entitled 'Natale Solum. Poema quoddam Latinum ob positos honores Academicos conscriptum'. At the end of the second poem is a note reading 'Oxoniae Maii 2ndo 1805'.
12546C: Two exercise books, the first containing an essay entitled 'A Comparison of the Characters and Conduct of Caesar and Pompey. An English Essay. Trinity College [Oxford] 1805', and the second an oration entitled 'Pro Henrico quinto Angliae Rege Oratiuncula 1804', which had been 'Read in Hall, June 5 1804'. The second book also contains extracts from the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, with marginal annotations.
12547B: A volume of sermons preached at C[astle] Hedingham, 1835-1841.
12548-12550C: Three notebooks containing extracts, some very lengthy, from miscellaneous printed works including (Mrs.) Hamilton Gray, Tour to the Sepulchres of Etruria in 1839 [London, 1840], The Sermons of ... Hugh Latimer ... (London, 1758), Mary Roberts, The Progress of Creation ... (London, 1837), Edward Churton [archdeacon of Cleveland], The Early English Church [London, 1840], [Sir] Austen Henry Layard, Nineveh and its Remains ... (London, 1849), Henry Hammond, A Pacific[k] Discourse of God's Grace ... [London, 1660], etc.
12551B: A note book containing copious extracts from the correspondence exchanged between [John] Jebb [bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe, 1823-1833] and Alexander Knox, Esq., [and published as Thirty Years Correspondence between John Jebb and A[lexander] Knox, ed. Rev. C[harles] Forster, 2 vols. (London, 1834)].
12552C: A bound volume containing copies of an essay on 'The Influence of Education and Government on National Character', 1792, by Frodsham Hodson of Brasen Nose College [Oxford, later principal of the college, 1809-1822], and an essay on 'A Sense of Honour' [1805], by Reginald Heber of All Souls College [Oxford, later bishop of Calcutta, 1823-1826]. The essays were Oxford University English Prize essays and were published in The Oxford English Prize essays [see 1836 edition, Oxford, vols. 1 and 2]. Heber's work was also published separately as A Sense of Honour, A Prize Essay, Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, June 26, 1805 (Oxford, 1805).

A translation of a portion of Caesar's 'Commentaries'.

A school exercise book containing prayers for scholars, translations from Sallust, extracts from Gibson's Anatomy and from a book on geography, and English poems.