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Item is an original handwritten manuscript of the proceedings of the British Parliament during the reign of James I, dated February 1620 to December 1621. The manuscript is written on rag paper and is 117 pages in length. It is bound in half-calf, and the spine has the inscription: "Phillips MSS 3093." The binder's ticket on the inside cover has the inscription: "Bretherton ligavit 1848."

File consists of a letter from his brother, Comm. Edward Willy, writing from Boston. Includes reference to smallpox. Note, other letters by these brothers referred to on internet connect them with the slave trade, but no reference to slave trade in this letter.

This item is a leather-bound sermon book, of notes taken by an unidentified person at Kilbride, Stevenstoune and Kilwinning in Cunningham, Scotland (south-west of Glasgow) from August 12th to October 1705.

File includes letters from John Spratt, Alexander Cronacher, Jon. Campbell, Will Stewart, Alexander Boyd, and Thomas Gandy. Topics includes the shipping trade, mention of Sir John Blunt (chairman of the South Sea Trading Company)

Transcription of document (on University of Sydney envelope) reads: "As the court [indecipherable] and court Baron of the Right Worshipful William Sedgewich Bachelor in Divinity or Master of the College of Saint Margaret and Saint Bernard commonly called Queens College in the University of Cambridge and the fellows of the said College Lords of the said Manor ---- ----- ----- for the said Manor this twenty fifth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty. Therefore, Robert Green Esquire Steward ----- In this Court it is found by the homage (jury) that Thomas Bowles Gentleman who held to him and his heirs diverse copyhold lands and hereunto hold of the said Manor before this Court ---- and that Bowles Crowder is his kinsman and next heir who presented in Court of the Lords of the said manor to be admitted tenant to --- three ---- of pasture containing four acres woods and half and forty acres of land sometimes ---- [indecipherable] at a Court here holden for the said Manor the sixth day of June 1737 may appear to whom the Lords by their said steward granted Bowles Crowder [indecipherable] thereof by the road to hold the said premises with the appointances[?] to the said Bowles Crowder his heirs and assignees of the Lord of the said Manor at the will of the lord according to the customs [of the said manor] by the annual rent of £1/3/8 suit of court and other services therefor and Right accustomed and he make his [?] and fealty and is therof [indecipherable] tenant.