Commonplace book , once owned by Mrs Cole, Springfield House, Paignton, South Devon, 1900. The 32-page commonplace book is crammed and Includes many newspaper cuttings and entries written by hand, including local matters, e.g. a Swansea centenarian; a fact such as 'the last woman burned in England (named Christian? Bowman) was at the Old Bailey for counterfeiting the silver & coin of the realm in the month of March 1789', poems, epitaphs, a flyer advertising Wesleyan Chapel, Paignton, re-opening services, on Wednesday, June 22nd, 1881, a sermon will be preached at 3.45 p.m. by the Rev. J.T.F.Halligey, of Exeter, public tea at five o'clock...Halligey...[to] deliver his popular lecture on `David Livingstone...'