Manuscript on paper of a commonplace book containing entries in several hands. "Short Directions for the Line of Numbers. Nov. 1687" is followed by 17 double-columned pages of "proverbs" in English with their corresponding "Adagia" in Latin, in an earlier 17th century hand; 18 pages of a Greek-Latin word list in the same hand; and, in a different hand, two poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester: "Verses made by the Ld. Rochester" (a version of "A Satyr against Reason and Mankind") and "On Nothing by Ld. Rochester." Bound in 1849 with explanatory title-page and table of contents by Frederick Cosens, who also notes that the original ms. contained a description of a case of witchcraft, removed by Cosens.
