| Summary: | Description: Personal miscellany containing material to c.1700, arranged in four 'books'. Bookplate 'Toujours le même'. 'W.Cole. 1756' and later owner identifications. In bottom left corner 'Bought 18 Mar. 1685 for 30s. from G: P. Johnston, Edinburgh'. Several translations by 'Gerard'. Huntingdon connections. Includes a long prose tract on the management of the passions. To begin this is written on rectos only; having reached the end it returns upside down on versos, being followed by a correspondence of 1662-3 on conformity between William Hayes, rector of Papworth Agnis, Hunts and his nephew G. Cater, and other items. In same (non-professional) hand throughout. Includes post-Revolutionary, including Jacobite, material. Modern foliation in small roman, and contemporary pagination.
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