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Memoranda book
Creator
Title
Memoranda book, [circa 1665].
Physical Description
1 v. (circa 100 p.) ; 35 cm.
Language
English; Latin
Notes
Genealogical charts are illustrated with 63 hand-colored coats of arms. Title page decorated with Fowles's coat of arms quartered with the arms of his wife, Margaret Jefferay.
Binding: late seventeenth-century or early eighteenth-century paneled, sprinkled calf, gilt; rebacked.
In English and Latin.
Provenance
Purchased from Justin Croft Antiquarian Books on the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Fund, 2013.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Biographical / Historical Note
Anthony Fowle (born 1602) served as Justice of the Peace for Kent and Sussex during the mid-seventeenth century. He married Margaret Jefferay in 1639.
Summary
Autograph manuscript, on paper, containing memoranda and genealogical charts. The volume opens with entries concerning the charters for the Cinque Ports and instructions and document copies concerning the government's right to requistion timber for national defense purposes from parishes in Kent and Sussex. These are followed by sixty-three genealogical charts concerning the pedigrees of noble English families, concluding with three pages of notes on the descent of Margaret Jefferay and a two-page chart on the descent of King Charles I.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts / Images
Added to Catalog
April 18, 2016
References
Anthony Fowle, Memoranda Book. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Anthony Fowle, Memoranda Book. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Coats of arms - Great Britain - 17th century.
Genealogies (histories) - Great Britain - 17th century.
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