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Chart tracing the ancestors of the Reverend John Rogers (c 1500-1555), translator of the Bible and the first English Protestant martyr under Queen Mary I, back to Sir Tancred de Hautville (c 970-c 1058) and King Edward I of England (1239-1307). Featuring illustrations of St Paul's Cathedral before the Great Fire of London of 1666, and of the rebuilt Cathedral in 1954; the Arms of the Rogers and Courtenay families; John Rogers, with the quotation 'That which I have preached I will seal with my blood!'; and a quotation from Thomas Macaulay: 'The English Bible [.] A book which - if everything else in our language should perish - would suffice to show the full extent of its beauty and power.'

Chart containing brief histories of the lives of St Cyllin, King of Siluria; St Clothilde (474-545); St Charlemagne (747-814); St Helen of the Cross (274-330); St Arnulph of Metz (580-640), and St Vladimir of Kiev (d 1015).

Richly illustrated chart showing the descendants of the first Christian Emperor, Constantine the Great (256-337), down to Llewelyn the Great (1194-1240).

Chart showing the respective descendants of Boadicea and Mark Antony from c 60 to c 481 AD, and the line of British kings descended from the marriage of Boadicea's daughter to Mark Antony's grandson. Illustrated with drawings of Hadrian's Wall; a group of musicians; a battle scene; a king on a throne, and a Roman figure (Mark Antony?), and featuring a narrative passage on the life of Boadicea. The bottom-right corner of the paper bears the pencilled name, 'H. Woodman.'

Illustrated chart showing the descendants of the Barons who acted as sureties for the enforcement of the Magna Charta (the Great Charter of the Liberties of England, and of the Liberties of the Forest, created in 1215), down to Helen Tooker's father, Harry L[andon] Tooker.

Chart tracing the ancestors of Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, Le Cid Campeador (c 1044-1099), back to Withimer, King of the Ostrogoths, and briefly summarising his life. Featuring illustrations of the city of Bugos and the Cid standing before a horse.

Chart depicting the Saints and Martyrs (St Cyllin, St Olga, St Vladimir, St Margaret, St Arnulph, St Clothilde, St David, St Helen, St Charlemagne, St Ferdinand, St Louis and John Rogers).

Chart tracing the ancestors of Helen Tooker's mother, Emily W[hite] Perkins, back to nine of the 'Plymouth Planters' (settlers of the Plymouth Colony, an English territory in seventeenth-century North America). Featuring illustrations of Luke Perkins, who was publicly whipped for insulting the town minister, and his wife, Elizabeth, who was among those brought before Essex County Court at Ipswich in 1682 for 'folding their hair, frizzing and knots, and wearing silk scarves'. The chart has pencilled annotations.

Line drawing of a map of England, with the names of towns and seas marked and two faint (unfinished?) illustrations on the top right corner.