Henry Docker, Commonplace book. English, Latin and Greek, 1685-1715

Henry Docker, of St John’s College, Cambridge (1665 or 6 - 1721): commonplace book, begun while an undergraduate at St John’s, but containing entries dated through to 1715. Political, religious and legal entries, with some, usually lighthearted, verse. There is a brief index on pp. 362-3. The contents include: ‘The Bishop of Valence’s speech to the King of France at Versaill’s the 14 of July 1685’ (p. 27); ‘In obitum doctissimi viri J[ames] Jackson [d. 1686] M: D: Aulae Clarensis praesidis’ (p. 37); ‘Mr Smallwoods verses’ (p. 39); ‘A Speech before the Dutchesse of Yorke and the Lady Anne at St Peters College in Cambridge by Dr [Joseph] Beaumont [1616-99] Master of the same and Regius Divinity Professor, Sept 28 [16]80’ (p. 44); ‘A Speech made to his Majesty at Newmarkett by Dr [Humphrey] Gower [d. 1711] Master of St Johns College in Cambridge, Vice-Chancellor 1681’ (p. 45); ‘On Occasional Conformity 1703’ (p. 59); ‘An Encomium on the Parliament, 1699’ (p. 61); ‘The Calves head Club Anthem on the 30th of January 1696’ (p. 67); ‘1704 On the New Medall, with the Queen on one side and the Generall D. Malbrough [John Churchill, first duke of Marlborough, 1650-1722] on his prancing horse on the other’ (p. 73); ‘The Lord Havershams speech in the house of Peers on Thursday November 23 1704’ (p. 75); ‘An Epistle from Jemmy Singleton to his friend Tho: Pullen about the Election of Races, 1708’ (p. 85); ‘The Devil and Dr Burnett [Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury], 1715’ (p. 92); ‘Nero the Second, 1715’ (p. 94); ‘A Letter to Bishop Burnett from the Presbytery of Whigtown upon his Speech in the house of Lords’ (p. 98); ‘A Computation of forraine Coynes with the English’ (p. 100); ‘Collectiones ex Antiquitatibus Justi Lipsii’ (p. 129); ‘Observationes Physicae ad Methodum Legrand’ (p. 189); ‘A Letter from the May Pole in the Strand to the May Pole in Turnam’ (p. 198); ‘The Lord Bolingbrooke prov’d guilty of high treason’ (p. 227); ‘Pasquin to the Queens Statue at St Pauls during the procession January 26 1714’ (p. 236); ‘The New Court, to the tune of To all you Ladies now at hand’ (p. 241); ‘The Queens Speech at the breaking up of the Parliament July 1713’ (p. 262); ‘The British Ambassadress’s Speech to the French King 1712, Duchess of Shrewsbury’ (p. 265); the genealogies of Christ and antichrist (p. 270); ‘Upon the Tryall of Dr Henry Sacheverell 1709/10’ (p. 280); ‘A receipt how to make a right presbyterian in two days’ (p. 301); ‘December 20 1712, The humble Address of the Chief Inhabitants and Burgesses of your Majesties most Loyal and ancient City of Edinburgh’ (p. 312); ‘The State Gamesters or the Old Cards new pack’d and shuffl’d 1714’ (p. 321); definitions of Whig and Tory, from John Toland, The Memorial of the state of England, London, 1705 (p. 354); brief notes on the foundation of Cambridge and Oxford Universities (p. 356).