Reader's Commonplace Book

Selected extracts from printed sermons and treatises. Specific examples include Daniel Featley, The Judges Charge (i.e. a sermon on Psalms 2:10 preached at the Readers' Feast in Lincoln's Inn; see the ninth item in Clavis Mystica (London, 1636)) on p. 76. An extract from Miles Smith, Sermons (London, 1632) (i.e. the first sermon on Jeremiah 9:23-24), can be found on p. 77. Grocer also cites from Edmund Calamy, The City Remembrancer (London, 1657) and Jeremiah Burroughs, An Exposition of the Prophesie of Hosea (multiple editions).

The Topsell work to which Bruen refers is entitled 'The Reward of Religion'. Several editions exist of this work, dating from 1596.

Henry Oxinden's notes on the sermons of James Ussher, based on his reading of the printed version of Ussher's Oxford sermons. On p. 136, Oxinden has listed the texts on which Ussher preached. His notes on the sermons appear on pp. 137-141. In addition, p. 142 features two paragraphs under the simple heading "Usherr [?]" beginning with the title of his Annales Veteris Testamenti (1650).