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With several Religious Tracts collected by him from several Authors. Inside flyleaf contains a marriage certificate in the time of Cromwell (Worcestershire), 1656/57. The collection includes:
1-50: Description of the Roman Road leading from York to Lincoln, with historical and archaeological notes about various places along the route (Lincolnshire places only mentioned below):
6: Marton
8: Wintringham
9: Winterton, Ferriby Sluice
10: Winterton, Roman pavement etc, discovered 1747
12-13: Winterton, sketch of site
15: Winterton, sketch of part of mosaic
20: Coleby, WEst Halton, Alkborough
21: Thealby, Fixborough
23: Crosby, Scunthorpe
25: Bagmoor, Burringham
26-28: Sketches of spear, dagger and axe heads (British)
31: Risby, Roxby
32: Sketch of Roman pavement at Roxby
34: Winterton
36: Appleby, Broughton
37: Scawby
39: Sketch map of the road from Wintringham to Lincoln, showing places along the route.
40: Redbourne, Grayingham
41: Spital
42: Harpswell, Glentworth
43: Till Bridge Lane
47: Hibaldstow
48: Great Limber
49: Thornton Curtis

50-62: Topographical extracts from various sources relating to various localities in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire:
50: Isle of Axholme: Belton, Temple Belwood
56: Isle of Axholme: Kinnard, Melwood
57: Brocklesby, North Kelsey, Hibaldstow
58: Broughton by Brigg
59: Hirst Priory
60: Belton
62: Waterton, parish of Luddington

63-161: Religious Tracts:
63-70: From the Revd Mr Hervey’s Meditations
71-73: Mr Whiston’s epitaph; for his tomb at Lyndon, Rutland
73-74: Clement of Alexandria
75-92: Dr Edwards on contentment
93-111: Abraham Taylor on saving faith
[Taylor was a Presbytarian minister in London; his work was printed in 1730]
112-127: John Wesley: Who is a Christian – from a letter to the Revd Dr Conyers (1769)
127-128: John Wesley: Further Appeal to men of Reason and Religion re the Baptists and Quakers
129-131: Lord Bolingbroke’s Letters – of Sacred History
132-135: Propositions of the Parliament of Paris, and the Pope’s rejection of them (1713)
136-157: Preface to the lectures of Mr Adam (rector of Wintringham), published 1753
158-161: Mr Wesley’s answer to Mr Church’s second letter

162-166: Extracts from Burton’s “Monasticon Eboracum” concerning the Axholme and Marshland areas of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. Crowle, Luddington, Eastoft and Carlton near Lincoln.

167-169: Confession of faith of the King of Prussia. Ratisbon, 1754

170: Notes about Snaith, Yorkshire

Index (to all sections).
On the last page is a passage from Voltaire.

Repository: Lincolnshire Archives
Date: 1749-1754
CMV: cmv32962

Boswell writes that he was happy to have received a letter from Voltaire, adding that to him receiving a letter from Voltaire was like receiving one from Abraham or Julius Cæsar. He then turns to the soul, noting that Voltaire should speak of it with reverence because the soul is all. Boswell then remarks that he has been in Rome for some time and has become an antiquities and fine arts enthusiast. He adds, however, that he will not comment on Rome so as to avoid telling Voltaire what he already knows. Boswell discusses having spent some time in Naples with Mr Wilkes, and recounts an anecdote Wilkes told him about a lady in Paris who inveighed against the English for their cruelt of disposition in executing Charles I and cutting the tails of their horses.

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscripts Library, Yale University, Connecticut, US
Date: 4 April 1765
CMV: cmv33559

In these notes, Voltaire heavily criticises l’Histoire des Antiquités judaïques by Flavius Josèphe. The passage ends with the phrase: ‘judée; la moitie sterile, lautre bonne de la deux divers jugements’.

Repository: Voltaire Foundation
Date: c.18th
CMV: cmv33708
Repository: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
Date: c.18th
CMV: cmv33790