Manuscript on paper in good secretary hand containing saints' lives and related material, including a saints' days calendar and several prayers and hymns in Welsh. Opening with a selection of Welsh lives headed "Buchedh y Seintiau", the volume include...
Description:
Texts in English, Latin and Welsh.
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Wales.
Subject (Name):
David, Saint, active 6th century., Farrar, William., Leigh, Philip., Morgan, Edward, d. 1642., Rhygyfarch, 956-1099., Robert of Shrewsbury, d. 1167., Wilson, John, approximately 1575-approximately 1645?., and Winifred, Saint.
Manuscript, in mutliple hands, of a collection of several hundred riddles, acrostics, and rebuses, lighthearted poems primarily on female behavior, and several dozen hand-colored satirical engravings and newspaper clippings pasted in. Poem titles inc...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Ireland
Subject (Topic):
Acrostics, Catholics, Politics and government, English poetry, English wit and humor, Engravings, British, Rebuses, Riddles, Verse satire, English, Women, Conduct of life, and Women authors
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a collection of political material, the bulk of which consists of petitions and Parliamentary speeches made in 1640 and 1641. The grievances cited in a petition by "the Citizens of London" at York include "im...
Description:
In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., Great Britain, Netherlands, and Scotland
Subject (Name):
Arundel and Surrey, Thomas Howard, second earl of, 1585-1646., Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649., Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, 1593-1641., and Great Britain. Parliament, 1640-1641.
Subject (Topic):
Catholics, Episcopacy, Satire, Sermons, Ship money, History, Politics and government, Religious life and customs, and Description and travel
Autograph document on parchment containing a very detailed household inventory of the contents of the 94 rooms of Ingatestone Hall. Compiled after the death of Robert, third Lord Petre, the inventory includes the contents of the servants' quarters ...
Description:
Signed by: Richard Chendry, Thomas Wright and John Barker.
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Essex (England)
Subject (Name):
Petre family. and Petre, Robert Petre, Baron, 1599-1638.
Subject (Topic):
Ingatestone Hall, Catholics, Material culture, and Historic buildings
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; arrang...
Description:
In English and Latin.
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
