The volume includes the following contents:

A. Be witena geraednessan: decrees of council of Eynsham, 1009, concerning the church. Fair copy in Old English (Anglo-Saxon), foliated pages 207-210. Made for Sir Henry Spelman's Concilia (1639), pages 513-525? Apparently marked by printer. Spelman began collecting material in 1630, and the first volume of his Concilia covered the history of Christianity in England until the Norman Conquest of 1066.

B. Copies of extracts from charters, chronicles, genealogies, etc., covering at least 1016-1602. Emphasizes religious foundations, Norfolk, copied at various times in 17th or 18th century and later bound together. In Latin.

C. Heavily revised draft of Concilia, pages 586-617: church laws in Old English with Latin translation. Foliated 38-54, apparently marked by the printer, with occasional English notes. Also other drafts or printer's copy of Anglo-Saxon laws with Latin translations.

D. 17th century originals or contemporary copies of a leaf containing political poetry, astrology, the King's speech from 1667, and the Great Fire of 1666; Latin verses on a comet of 1652, signed "S.C."; Edward Voyce's Latin poem on Oliver Cromwell, dated 1654, and another; Latin eulogies on William Whitaker of Cambridge (died 1595); reply to an enquiry about the observance of statues in English by the University of Cambridge; synopsis of Hare's Collections; petition of Newport Pagnell, Bucks, concerning garrison, written after 1642 (one signature: John Bynyon, possibly Bunyan?); and a draft order concerning the garrison of Newport Pagnell, slighting the fortifications.