Holograph of a diary recording primarily family comings and goings and routine social activities of the East family, including visits from friends and family, tea drinking, dining, races, plays, and balls; as well as traveling by the family and neighbors, descriptions of the weather, and frequent updates on Sir William East's numerous illnesses, including two substantial bouts of the gout, several serious toothaches, a cold, and pain in his fingers, ankle, leg, and heel. Elsewhere, she mentions servants' wages, their livery, and the arrival and firing of a housekeeper who becomes inebriated on his first night of employment. On October 16, 1784, she goes to London to see Jean-Pierre Blanchard ascend in a hot air balloon. The writer also makes frequent mention of members of the Clayton family throughout the volume, most often visits by the "Miss Claytons." The volume also contains a list titled Rules & maxims for promoting matrimonial happiness, and a verse excerpt from the Ladies Magazine in 1786 titled A young lady's advice to an acquaintance lately married. Throughout the manuscript, in a different hand, and sometimes tipped, are notes on landownership, law terms, and legal concepts such as the laws on inheritance
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Lady East, née Hannah Casamajor (1746-1810), was the wife of Sir William East, 1st. Bart. (1738-1819), of the Hall Place in Hurley, Berkshire; they married on 29 June 1763. Their daughter, Mary East (1765-1833), married Sir William Clayton, 4th Bart. (1762-1834) in 1785. Sir William was succeeded by his elder son, Sir Gilbert East, 2nd Bart (1764-1828). The younger son, Augustus Henry East (1766-1828), married Caroline Anne, daughter of George Vansittart, who is mentioned in the diary., In English, some Latin quotations., Available on microfilm, Binding: full parchment with a pencilled number '2' and the date '1776' on the cover. Written on a paper label on front cover: Diary. Feb. 8 1776 to April 16th 1785. On spine: Law., On front flyleaf recto, quote attributed to Sir Edward Coke, followed by a summary of the maxim as mathematical statement: Sex horas somno, totidem des legibus aquis, / Quatuor orabis, des epulisque duos, / Quod superest ultra sacris largire Camcenia. To sleep 6. To law 6. To prayer 4. To [?] 8. 24, Biographical details provided by Neil Jeffares, art historian. See also: Iconographical genealogy, (http://www.pastellists.com/Genealogies/East.pdf)., and For further information, consult library staff.
Subject (Geographic):
England, England., and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809., Clayton family., Clayton, William, Sir, 1762-1834., East, Lady, fl. 1776-1785., and East, William, Sir, 1737 or 8-1819.
Subject (Topic):
Family, Domestic relations, Households, Inheritance and succession, Land tenure, Nobility, Social life and customs, and Weather
Manuscript, on parchment, in a single secretary hand, of a copy of the will of Sir John Fitzjames. The will opens with an appeal to "the most blessed Mother and virgyn Marie St. Anthony and St. Chr[ist]ofer" for their intercession for his soul; arrangements for funeral and intercessory Masses and for a Month's Mind service and The extremely detailed lists of personal and estate bequests that follow comprise a virtual household inventory of the manor house at Redlynch in Somerset. His widow, Eleanor Draycott, receives liferent of Redlynch and Knoll as well as use of the household furnishings, including the beds, hangings, "carpettes, cusshyons, dysshes, potts, and pannes," as well as tablecloths, jewelry, and various articles of plate. Fitzjames also leaves "my greate book of Statutes in vellum or parchment" to his cousin Nicholas Fitzjames, the nearest male heir and successor to Redlynch; silver cups to various other relatives; and ten shillings for "every mayden of good and honest conversation" in his household
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In English and Latin., With: 3 documents on parchment concerning James Fitzjames. (1) Indenture transferring revenues and fees inherited from Sir John Fitzjames in the county of Somerset, signed and dated 26 June 1568. (2) Indenture concerning the same, signed and dated 26 June 1570. (3) Attestation of probate of a will for a member of the Fitzjames family in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, signed by the Clerk Thomas Argall and issued in the name of Archbishop Cranmer, n.d. (damaged)., and With: volume of manuscript transcripts of three of the documents made for Sir Thomas Phillipps, with genealogical notes on the Fitzjames family.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Draycott, Eleanor., Fitzjames, John, Sir, 1470?-1542?., and Fitzjames family.
Subject (Topic):
Catholics, Decedents' estates, Inheritance and succession, Manors, Material culture, Prayers for the dead, Saints, Cult, and Wills
