Notebook of Zachary Merrill, 1685 to c. 1705

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(fol. 3) i. "A selection of certaine phrases and observations upon Juvenall, out of Stapylton, Schrevelius, Famabii (sic), etc.".
(fol. 19) ii. Notes out of Dugard’s Rhetoric.
(fols. 21b-24) iii. School exercises in the shape of familiar letters in Latin by Tho. Cleator, Ant. Green, John Byne, Henry Spencer and Henry Rotham.
(fol. 34) iv. "Mr. [Samuel] Ogden’s method of school-teaching, as it was practised by him near 40 years with good success, and observed by me sometime his usher, and written as a fit pattern for myself or others to imitate".
(fol. 46) v. "The meaning of the rules of Propria quae maribus", etc.
(fols. 57-75, 78) vi. Table-talk; notes of remarks made and anecdotes told by various non-conformist ministers in London, from 4 Apr. 1691 to 24 May, 1705. Burgess, Howe, Steel, Brand, Lorimer, are among many that are quoted. Milton, it is said, was thought to have died a papist.
(fol. 76) vii. Commencement of a translation of the first satire of Persius.
(fol. 104) viii. (Manu sec.) Satires 1–5, and commencement of 6, of Persius, "grammatically translated by Mr. Henry Crosedaile".
(fol. 111) ix. "Phrases out of Aesop’s Fables".
(fol. 139 [see also fol. 63]) x. (Manu prima) Title of Mr. Cheek to his estate in Northweald, Tillingham and Childerditch, Essex, 1699.
(fol. 140b) xi. "Mr. Moxon’s receipt for ink".

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142 leaves, of which fols. 79-103 and 115-138 are blank

MS. Rawl. D. 1120

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