Notes on land tenure and poems : manuscript.

Cheshire, England?, circa 1650s-1771.

1 volume (circa 200 pages) ; 16 cm

English

Purchased from Dean Cooke Rare Books Ltd. on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection Fund, 2020.

This material is open for research.

Autograph manuscript in several unidentified hands, containing extracts from legal documents, accounts, and other notes relating to land ownership in Weaver Bank, Cheshire, England, 1650s-1680s. Possibly in the hand of Thomas Lowe, of Tarvin, Cheshire, these entries contain references to “Thomas Lowe,” “Daniel Harrison,” “Thomas Mainwaring,” possibly Sir Thomas Mainwaring (1623-1689), and members of the Whittingham family. Undated poems in one or more additional unidentified 17th-century hands are “An elegie upon ye death of Mrs Margaret Barker,” of Overton, Shropshire; an untitled poem with first line “Viewing thy handy [wondrous] works oh Lord”; and an untitled poem with first line “Sweet was thy savoure while thou here lived,” by “Samuel Lindop.” Bound with fragments of a printed almanac, Angelus Britannicus: an ephemeris for the year of our redemption 1676, by John Tanner (London: Ratcliffe and Thompson, for the Company of Stationers, 1676); and Prognōstikon [Greek characters]: M.DC.LXXVI: an appendix to the preceding ephemeris or almanack (London: printed by A. Maxwell for the Company of Stationers, 1676). Later annotations in 18th-century hands include notes by “Caleb Lowe,” 1712 and undated; brief references to events of the Jacobite Rebellion, 1715; and ownership inscriptions by “Thomas Waine, Stapleford,” 1770-1771, and “Elizabeth Davenell.”

September 21, 2021

Notes on land tenure and poems. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Notes on land tenure and poems. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Almanacs - England - 17th century.