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Large notebook, paginated to p. 141. Remainder of volume is unpaginated. Some sermons have brief marginal notations of the parts of the sermon.

Volume in original leather binding. First page recto has the name M[r] Cumming inscribed. The name David Cumming appears also at the other end of the volume. On the verso is a list of the texts of the sermons in a later hand. Original pagination which ends at 178; remainder of volume is unpaginated. Margins are ruled and brief divisions of the sermon are noted in the margins. Pages 59-62, 165 are blank. The sermon on John 5:14 is in a different hand.

Leather-bound volume apparently used as a commonplace book. The hand appears to be the same throughout, but the ink varies and suggests the material was written at various times. The first pages have the margins ruled. The first page is headed “Annotations on Some Sermons.” Page numbering begins at 5 with the first sermon and ends at p. 22. The following sermon is unpaginated. Later part of the volume (after original pagination ends) has been foliated beginning at 1r.

Vellum binding. Spine water damaged. Pages are missing at the beginning of the volume as a text begins in the middle. There is a break after the first sermon (16-20 are blank), after which the sermons resume. Handwriting is neat but exceedingly small. Sermons are written in full and some text has been emphasized using an increased size and darker ink. Original pagination up to p. 71; subsequent pages are not numbered or foliated. Pages 61-62 blank.

198 leaves. Written in two parts. Part I proceeds from front to back (ff 1r-128r) and Part II upside-down from back to the front (169r-198v). The handwriting is very clear in Part I, but much less clear in Part II. On f. i r-v, Philipps has written the title "A Sermon booke" under which are scribbles in various inks, including her name several times. The end of the notes on a particular sermon is often marked with the word "telos" in Greek. Some of the recipes are written sideways. Blank on ff. 41v-67v, 72v-73v, 74v-78v, 79v-90v, 91v, 92v-96v, 97v-107r, 118r-123r, 127r, 128v-147r, 148r-159r, 160r-168v, 184v-185r.

463 pages of sermons (but pp. 402-449 are missing) followed by 92 pages of printed text. The writing goes forward on pp. 1-25 (odd numbers only), 27-301v, and 344-350. It goes upside-down and backward on pp. 12-24 (even numbers only), 302-343, and 350-462. The two directions run into each other on p. 350. The pagination begins again at the back cover, written upside-down, proceeding toward the front cover; the page numbers given here are those proceeding from the front cover. Leaf 301 is foliated rather than paginated. Table of contents on pp. ii-iii. On p. i. is written "Francis Frampton his booke 1632". A leaf has been torn out at pp. 127-128, another at pp. 313-314, and another at pp. 359-360. Pp. 319-320 contain Frampton's list of parishioners.

The page has some damage. Part of a leaf from a service book is attached to the binding.

8 leaves. On f. 1v, a note is written in a different hand from the sermon, but it is partly cut off by the edge of the page. It explains that the sermon was preached "By Mr Perry Minister of Stap[leford]:" and dedicated "to My Lady Sherrard after ye Death" of her husband.

22 pages. Tattered edges on ff. 1-2, obscuring some text.

31 leaves. The paper is somewhat old and tattered, and the ink is fairly faded. Extensive damage on f. 2v. The bottom half of f. 31 is torn off.

22 leaves. On f. 1r the date and preacher are noted: "8. and 9 March 1674 / These Sermons on Jer. 45. 4. 5. taught By Mr George Hutchesone who being dead yet speaks Heb: ii. 3." (The writer of this note has misidentified the text; "being dead yet speaketh" is a quotation of Hebrews 11:4.) The sermons appear to be written in the same hand as this attribution, so the volume was probably not owned by Hutcheson himself. F. 22r features a crude drawing of a man with a top hat and a cane. The ink is faded on f. 22v, and the handwriting is different from the rest of the manuscript.

539 pages, but pp. 281-382 are missing, and there are various inconsistencies in the pagination.

The foliation runs for 68 leaves going forward from the front cover (Part I), and also 43 leaves upside-down and backward from the back cover (Part II). The materials in this volume are written in several hands. The three sets of sermon notes at ff. 13r-25r (Part II) are written in the same hand. On f. 1v, a name (Mary Sickinge?) has been written and crossed out.

178 leaves, 15 x 10 cm. The recipes proceed from the front cover on foliated leaves (Part I). The text continues upside-down and backward from the back cover with numbered pages (Part II). The book contains two inscriptions identifying Susan(a) Hixon as the owner: one dated simply 28 January on f. 1r (Part I) and one dated 17 May 1674 on p. i (Part II). Also on p. i (Part II) is a seventeenth-century inscription by Edward Wordsworth.

12 leaves. Includes a title with a border, made to resemble a published text.

291 leaves, 14 x 9 cm.

Manuscript quarto, bound in niger morocco. Lettering on the spine reads: 'INSTRUCTIONS TO A SECRET AGENT IN FRANCE, CIRCA 1595, ETC.'

Calf binding.