Spiritual commonplace book Leather volume with one clasp. Inscribed on first page: H. Fermor / Liege March 1790 / Lord teach me how to pray. / I will speak to the Lord though I am but dust & ashes. / Lord. The hand changes throughout. - A devout Method of hearing Mass, pp 1-4. - The Litany of St Teresa, pp 5-7. - A Manner of Uniting our Heart to that of Jesus, pp 8-9. - The Prayer of the [?]lavage to be renew'd twice a Year on a feast of our Lord and one one of our Lady, p 10. - A Plenary Indulgence is granted to those who say the following Prayer with Devotion after Communion, pp 13-14. - A Novena to the ever blessed Virgin, pp 15-18. - A Prayer made by Pope Sixtus the 5th who granted to those who recite it, an Indulgence of 11000 Years, which Indulgence was afterwards confirmed by Paul the 5th & Alexander the 7th, pp 19-20. - A prayer when you find great difficulty in the performance of your Duty, pp 21-22. Pagination stops. - How to put away Distractions, [pp 23-27]. - Of Humility the Ground work of Perfection, [pp 27-29]. - A series of prayers, meditations etc. in French, [pp 30-39]. - Pious Reflections & [ . . .] before Communion, [pp 41-46]. - Pious Reflections after Communion, [pp 47-48]. - French prayer [p 49]. - St Columban Speaking of the contempt of the world [and extracts from other spiritual writers], [pp 55-62]. - Advice how to draw fruit from prayer, [pp 63-66]. - Reflections before the Renovation, [pp 66-72]. - The Review of Every Month, [pp 73-78]. - Meditation for the Renovation of Vows, [pp 78-86]. - A Method how make Reflection upon Ourselves every Month, [pp 86-91]. This includes some French passages. - De l'Examen de la Meditation, [pp 92-96]. - French prayers [pp 100-105]. - The End of the Devotion of the 5 Fridays in honour of St Mary Magdalen de Pazzis, [pp 106-20]. - Acts de Consécration au Sacré Coeur de Jesus, [pp 120-27]. - La Methode qu'il fait . . . per faire les considerations, [pp 128-30]. - Considerations for the . . . of Recollection, [pp 130-38]. - Chapters in Kempis for the Renovation, [pp 138-39]. - A Preparation for the Renovation. To be read before the first Meditation. By the Rev. Father Roberts [vere Rouse] Rector 1745, [pp 139-44]. - Taken from a Consideration delivered by the Revd Doc. ch [?], [pp 145-51]. - Various French prayers and meditations, [pp 151-80]. - La vrai religieuse est un victime volontaire de la solitude, [pp 182-205]. - English meditations and extracts [pp 205-09]. The remaining pages are blank. Beginning at the back: English and French payer on the frontispiece. - Revd. Father Kemper's instruction for the Renovation, [pp 2-72]. - Exercice de l'Ame qui fait sa Profession a Dieu, [pp 73-93]. Eight blank pages separate these from the reflections that begin at the other end. late 18th century-early 19th century