| Description | (1.) Concilium Berghamstedense Saxonico-Latinum. This is Somner's emendation of Spelman's version, who has arranged in three parallel columns the version of the Textus Roffensis, Spelman's text, and an emended one of his own.
(2.) Orosius, Saxonice; transcriptus e pervetusto libro illo MS. in Bibl. Coltoniana (Tib:B.1.1. Brit. Mus.)
(3.) Caedmonis Paraphrasis Saxonica, transcriptus e pervetusto libro in Bib. Deuvesiana. See Caedman Manuscript by Sir Israel Gollancz p.p. xiv.xv.
(4.) Medicinalis Anglicus [Saxonice,] transcriptus e pervetusto libro MS. in Bib. Regia apud S Jacobum. This heading, as it stands, not in MS. See list of contents at beginning.
(5.) In Domini Henrici Spelmanni equitis aurati Glossarium Latino-barbarum adversaria.
(6.) Statuta Ecclesiae Christi Cant' ab Henrico VIII fundatore.
(7.) Somner's Treatise on the origin of the Goodwin Sands; (Printed in "Roman Ports and Fords(forts?) in Kent": Oxford, 1693).
(8.) Littus Saxonicum per Britanniam. A treatise written to oppose the views expressed by Selden in his Mare Clausum.
(9.) Miscellaneous, but chiefly drafts of letters written by William Somner.
(10.) Chartae Odonis prioris (1167). (Somner's extracts "out of Mr. Denne's collection".)
(11.) "A discourse of Portus Iccius; wherein the late conceipts of Chiffletius in his topographicall discourse thereof, are examined and refuted; the judgement of Cluverius concerning the same port asserted and embraced, and the true site thereof more clearly deomonstrated by William Somner." (This was translated into Latin and published by Dr. Edmund Gibson in 1694.)
(12.) Chronica Gervasii, de Combustione et reparatione Cantuariensis Eccliesae. (Somner's transcript.) |