A late eighteenth and early nineteenth century commonplace book of R[obert] Pugh, [N]eston containing copious extracts from printed sources entitled 'On Assurance', 'On Justification', 'On baptism...', 'On Reformation of Manners', 'Speeches & Anecdotes of dying Criminals', 'Divine Consolation ...', 'On Overcoming the World', 'On Libels', 'Orthodox Heterodox Opinions', 'On Orthodoxy & Conformity to Ch[urch] of England', 'On the Uncertainty of the Seasons', 'on Marrying', 'Lord Thurlow' (died 1806), 'On Unity in Religion', 'Of Seditions & troubles', 'On Charity', 'Mount Aetna in Sicily', etc.; poetry, including 'On early Rising - to a Friend' by B. C. (from the Shrewsbury Chronicle, 30 October 1789), 'On the Marriage of Miss Eliza Sackville to the Honorable Colonel Herbert' by Richd Cumberland, and 'An Hymn of Praise & Resignation' by T. H., 3 October 1763; a letter from Lydia Foulkes, Machynlleth to her cousin Mrs Lees, Shrewsbury, 1814 (an account of the last illness and death of the Reverend Thomas Charles of Bala); a 'Memorandum' of the 'Conversation & Advice' of the Reverend Henry Venn, rector of Yelling, near Huntingdon to [Charles] Jerram, [Thomas Truebody] Thomason and John Havel of the University of Cambridge; and recipes for wine. There is a thumb-index at the beginning of the volume.