Item 10a.33 - Commonplace book relating to the college, including a copy of James Duport's rules

1 vol., leather bound, c. 144 x 930 x 23 mm. Paginated 1-74; rest of book (84 ff) blank, except for pencil notes and calculations on last leaf. Label pasted to inside front board; 1 f. tipped in there. No pp/ 5/6, 23/24, 29/30 (all stubs). Slit across pp 71/72; lower half of pp. 73/74 missing. Stubs after pp. 74 and at end of book.

Bought from Geoffrey E. H. Grigson, Pelynt, Looe, in Apr. 1927. Note that Preston & Oswald (2011) suggest that 1927 might be the date Grigson bought the book himself, but there is a record of the purchase from Grigson for this date in a college accessions book.

Note about James Duport pasted to the inside front cover. Notes headed 'G. E. H. Grigson Esq., Pelynt, Looe, Cornwall' tipped in at beginning of book: 'A commonplace book in a late 17th cent: hand or early 18th, by an undergrad: or fellow of Trinity College...', records extent and condition of book before listing contents. Note at the bottom [in the hand of A. F. Scholfield, Librarian?]: 'Bought for £1. ? Apr. 1927'.

pp. 1-15 (pp. 5-6 excised): 'Rules to be observed by young Pupils & Schollers in the University', concluding 'The End of Mr Duports Rules. Ann. dom. 1660'
pp. 16-18: 'Animadversions upon the Election of Fellowes in Trin: Coll. Ann dom: 1656.' English verses.
pp. 18-22: 'In electionem Socioru[m] Trin: Coll.Anno 1658.' Latin verses on the election of fellows to Trinity.
pp. 22[-23 or 24]: 'A Relation of a Quaker, that to the shame of his profession attempted to bugger a mare neere Colchester Anno 1658.' English verses. Most of the tile, from 'to the shame' to 'Anno', crossed out in later hand. Four verses only; the leaf containing the rest has been excised.
pp. 25-28: 'Verses made upon the election of Fellows T.C. 1659.' English verses.
pp. 31-33: 'The hunting of the Hare.' English verses.
pp. 33-49: 'Oratio M[agist]ri Linnet, habita in Collegio SStae & Individuae Trinit: cu[m] Primarij lectoris officiu[m] exorsus est.' Latin prose. Text of oration delivered by William Lynnet at Trinity at the beginning of his term as Head Lecturer, Oct. 1656.
pp. 50-73: 'Oratio habita in Collegio SStae Trin Cantab: circa annum 1654 die quinto Novembris in conspirationem Anglicanam. Authore M[agist]ro Ramsy ejusde[m] Collegii quonda[m] Socio.' Latin prose. Oration delivered by John Ramsey c 1654, ' about the Anglican [English] conspiracy of the fifth day of November [the Gunpowder Plot].
p. 74: Transcription of lines from Isaac Watt's 'How does the little busy bee...', published 1715, in childish hand.

'Walter Godfrey's' written in pencil on last page; there is a discussion in Preston & Oswald (2011) as to whether the original owner may have been Walter Godfrey, matriculated 1661 but did not graduate.

• English
• Latin

Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 6986: James Duport: Rules to fellow commoners.

G. M. Trevelyan, (1943), 'Undergraduate life under the Protectorate', The Cambridge Review, 64, 328-30. Includes transcription.
Preston, C. D., & Oswald, P. H. (2011). 'James Duport’s Rules for his tutorial pupils: a comparison of two surviving manuscripts ', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 14(4), 317–362. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23622489
Includes transcription.