A volume, 1696-[early 18 cent.], in the hand of John Tibbots, later Vicar of Darowen, compiled mostly whilst a student at Oriel College, Oxford, containing notes and transcripts in English, Latin and Welsh on subjects including theology, church history and logic and including also several sermons.
The notes are taken from several books, including [Matthew Parker], De Antiquitate Britannicae Ecclesiae (London: J. Day, 1572, STC 19292) (f. 3); Henry Aldrich, Artis Logicae Compendium (Oxford: e Theatro Sheldoniano, 1691, Wing A896) (ff. 6-11); Jeremy Collier, Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects, Part 2 (London: R. Sare and H. Hindmarsh, 1697, Wing C5253), pp. 17, 25 (f. 23 verso); John Tillotson, Sermons Preach'd Upon Several Occasions (London, 1678, Wing T1260bA), pp. 175-200 (ff. 24-33); three sermons from The Works of the Reverend and Learned John Lightfoot D.D. (London, 1684, Wing L2051), pp. 1135-40, 1163-4, 1303-5 (ff. 33 verso-45 verso); [Simon Patrick], A Discourse of Profiting by Sermons (London: T. Basset, B. Tooke, F. Gardiner, 1683, Wing P790), pp. 2-9 (ff. 46-48); John Goodman, A Sermon Preached...at the Guild-Hall Chappel on Decemb. 18th 1681 (London: R. Royston, 1681, Wing G1126), pp. 1-33 (ff. 52-62); James Ussher, The Annals of the World (London: J. Crook and G. Bedell, 1658, Wing U149), pp. 1-2 (f. 63 recto-verso); John Tillotson, Six Sermons (London: B. Aylmer and W. Rogers, 1694, Wing T1268), pp. 247-286 (ff. 64-71 verso); [Charles Leslie], An Answer to a Book (London: [n. pub.], 1692, Wing L1120), pp. [vii]-[xxii], 1-19 (ff. 77 verso-82 verso); [Francis Gastrell], Some considerations concerning the Trinity (London: E. Whitlock, 1696, Wing G303), pp. 1-12 (ff. 83-86 verso); [Louis Jobert], The Knowledge of Medals (London: William Rogers, 1697, Wing J755), pp. 1-5 (ff. 88-89 verso); and John Wagstaffe, The Question of Witchcraft Debated (London: Edward Millington, 1669, Wing 198), pp. 4-15 (ff. 90-91). The single text in Welsh is a short homily to be read to repenting adulterers, entitled 'Coffaad bur neu Ddarn o rybydh i dorwyr priodas a godinebwyr...', apparently unpublished (ff. 74 verso-77). A short memorandum concerning butter, [1792], is on f. 2 verso.

A volume containing notes of the first eleven in a series of lectures on divinity, the first dated 20 October 1801, made by Rowland Williams, later rector and vicar of Ysceifiog, Flintshire, whilst a student at Jesus College, Oxford. The lectures were delivered by the Regius Professor of Divinity, John Randolph, Bishop of Oxford (see his Heads of a course of lectures in divinity, ([Oxford(?)]: [n. pub.], [1784(?)]) [ESTC T130135], which gives headings for thirty-five lectures).
Originally used as a wrapper (now ff. i, 36) is the final leaf from a copy of The Office of the Judge, promoted by Collet and Havard, against Evanson: Depositions of Witnesses ... ([Gloucester(?)]: [n. pub.], [1774(?)]) [ESTC T142453], relating to the 1775 trial in the Consistory Court of the Diocese of Gloucester of the Rev. Edward Evanson for publishing a tract contrary to Church doctrine. On f. i Rowland Williams has added a note recording his election, 9 December 1801, as a scholar of Jesus College.