Archbishop John Spotswood, The History of the Church of Scotland, Beginning the Year of our Lord A.D. 203, and continued to the end of the reign of James VI.

Content includes:
The Progress of Christianity
The Persecutions and Interruptions of it
The Foundations of Churches
The Erecting of Bishoprics
The Building and Endowing Monasteries and other Religious Places
The Succession of Bishops in their sees
The Reformation of Religion and the frequent disturbances of that Nation, by Wars, Conspiracies, tumults, schisms.

Published in London, 1655.

The historie of the civil warres of France written in Italian by H.C. Davila, translated by Sir C. Cotterell and W. Aylesbury. London 1647.

Matthaei Paris Monachi Albanensis, Angli, Historia Major
Published in London 1640.

Matthew Paris Monk of St Albans (c. 1200-1259) wrote several chronicles of the history of England over numerous decades.

This volume was originally owned by Thomas Aymot FRS/ FSA, and eventually donated to the school by R. Walker (OW). The rare book was rebound before acquiring it, by the Newcastle Upon Tyne university library in 1961. A page of Cranmer's Great Bible (parts of St. John's Gospel, chapters 2 and 3) was found inside the front cover of this volume which remains in place with a photocopy attached to the fly leaf.