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Commonplace book. Religious: manuscript

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Description: Contains copy of Abp. Tillotson's letter to a friend, Abp. Ussher's "Last Prediction," a sermon on the death of Lady Elizabeth Hastings, etc. Owned by Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: [approximately 1740]
Call number: mssHM 30302
Provenance: In Library, 1974.
Dimensions: 17 cm :
Associated people: Huntingdon, Selina Hastings, (1707-1791,); Tillotson, John, (1630-1694.); Ussher, James, (1581-1656.)
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Entertainment at Ashby: manuscript, 1607

Manuscripts

A partly autograph presentation manuscript by John Marston of the masque presented for the family of Henry Hastings, fifth Earl of Huntingdon. Staged at the family seat at Ashby, Leicestershire, in 1607, the show is devised as pastime for a visit by the Earl's mother-in-law, Alice Spencer, dowager Countess of Derby. Binding: gold-tooled vellum. Paper, 15 quarto leaves; main text written probably in a single professional hand, in alternating italic and secretary scripts. The dedication (f. 1r) and all of ff. 14r-15r in Marston's hand, as are probably occasional deletions, corrections and additions throughout the text. Written in 1607. Also includes a tipped-in a separate manuscript of verses relating to Lady Derby and Lady Huntingdon (beginning "As this ys endelesse, endelesse be yor ioyes"), in a secretary hand, subscribed 'W: SK:' [i.e. William Skipton], on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

mssEL 34 B 9

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Commonplace book. English poetry and songs : manuscript ; hymns, poetry, correspondence and printed material

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The material includes: HM 82903 (1) - a commonplace book of English poetry, songs and hymns (1865-1902); 92 pages with additional blank pages, entries written in several hands of various ages. There is an autograph note on the inside front cover: "This book was given to me by Lady Abercomby, Lady Dysarts oldest friend at Adelaide House, St Leonards."

mssHM 82903 (1-6)

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Poetical commonplace book

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Seller's note reads "Volume containing a Selection of Poems in Lady Bury's handwriting, including Lines written Impromptu by Mr. Hook at the Dinner Table at Belle Vue, Lord Lorne having just before, made him a present of a plaid ; Lines written on a Skeleton found in Dalkeith Park during the time of the American War, by Lady Frances Scot ; Living without God in the World, by Charles Lamb ; Lines addressed to the Thames near Eaton School, occasioned by the death of the Friend under whom the Author was weducated, Supposed Pastoral by Dryden not published with his Works ; the Orphan's Prayer by Mrs. St. George, etc., clearly written manuscript, 210 pages, 8vo, morocco, gilt."

mssHM 29165

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Commonplace book. Parliament: manuscript

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A Booke Conteyning the whole Passages of the last Parliament ended the 10th daie of March 1628 [with] other materiall passages that happened from the yeare 1623 untill the end of the Parliament in the Yeare 1628[/29].

mssHM 213

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Commonplace book. English law: manuscript

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Extracts from Year Books, abridgements of cases and decisions, law reports, precedents and formularies, notes on the Assize of Forests and other legal matters. Owned by and [partly in the hand of?] Sir John Port.

mssHM 46980

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Commonplace book. English and American poetry : manuscript

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Bound volume of English and American poems, includes an index; copied out and signed by Mary Gillham. With marbled covers and slight damage to the spine and corners. The volume includes poems by, among others: Washington Allston, Robert Burns, S.T. Coleridge, Lady Jane Grey, Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Robert Herrick, L.E.L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon), Caroline Sheridan Norton, James. G. Percival, William R. Spencer, Henry K. White, and Nathaniel P. Willis.

mssHM 82902

Commonplace book. Religious: manuscript

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