There is a standalone quotation from Ovid on f. 45r, accompanied by a pen flourish. There is also a title page (f. 46r) and a dedicatory epistle addressed to Francis Stoner, the father of the deceased (ff. 47r–47v).
The full title of the sermon is as follows: ‘David’s ultimum vale to his dead son. Or David’s & his son’s mortality’. See f. 46r. The deceased is described by the preacher as his ‘hopefull scholler’ (f. 47r). Firmin describes his manuscript as ‘these poore meditations’ which are to serve as ‘a monument to continue his name to ensuing posterity’ (ff. 47r–47v). The sermon proper begins on f. 48r.
Hannah Yip
Written in an italic hand. There are some marginal annotations; citations include Seneca, Ovid, Perkins, and John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs. There is some use of Latin. The margins have been ruled with red ink.