A personal account book kept by Miles Tarn beginning two years before he attended Queen's College, Oxford and ending in the year of his death 1797. He provides a biographical sketch as well as details of the births, marriages, and deaths of his eleve...
Description:
Miles Tarn was born at Moss End in Preston Patrick 15 December 1719. He attended Queen's College in Oxford February 1737/8 and ordained in 1741.
A personal account book kept by Miles Tarn beginning two years before he attended Queen's College, Oxford and ending in the year of his death 1797. He provides a biographical sketch as well as details of the births, marriages, and deaths of his eleve...
Description:
Miles Tarn was born at Moss End in Preston Patrick 15 December 1719. He attended Queen's College in Oxford February 1737/8 and ordained in 1741.
Manuscript, in a single hand, describing the work of four men who made a garden wall at Sir Christopher Musgrave's estate, Edenhall. The accounting includes 39,500 bricks as well as other supplies and the labour in a specified number of days. Final pa...
Manuscript, in a single hand, listing various household expenses paid by Sir Christopher Musgrave to Christopher Dobson for the period April through September 1754
Description:
In English.
Subject (Name):
Musgrave, Christopher, Sir. and Dobson, Christopher.
Manuscript on paper containing 1) Anthony Jenkinson (1529-1610/11), Relation of a travel to Russia and Persia. 2) Anonymous sonnet in praise of Queen Elizabeth I. Probably an autograph. 3) Anonymous treatise in four parts attacking the apology which C...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., England, Middle East, Russia, and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Allen, William, 1532-1594., Jenkinson, Anthony., and Standen, Anthony, Sir.
Subject (Topic):
English poetry, English prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Description and travel, History, and Politics and government
Manuscripts, in a single hand, listing the produce sold to Lord Glenbervie -- all vegetables -- and the fruit listed separately as sold to Lady Glenbervie for the period 31 January 1814 till 20 December 1814. The seedsman is identified as James Astin...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Astin, James. and Glenbervie, Sylvester Douglas, Baron, 1743-1823.
Manuscript, in a single hand, listing the goods of the deceased James Beechan, probably a weaver, and signed by the two appraisers: Thomas Straton and J. Watkins. The sheet is laid down on later paper
