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Title: A diary of the actions & accidents of my life: tending partly to observe & memorize ye Providences therein manifested, & partly to investigate ye measure of time in astronomical directions and to determine the astrall causes &c.
Creator: Jeake, Samuel, 1652-1699.
Contributor: Frewen family, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1694
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript. On title page: "Rye, Begun July 12, 1694." Published as: An astrological diary of the seventeenth century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Scope/Content: Manuscript diary kept by Samuel Jeake, begun in 1694, but treating events in his life from his birth to 1694. Illustrated with astrological diagrams.
Condition: Bound in parchment wrappers.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Diaries
Ownership inscriptions (Provenance)
Extent: 196 p., bound ;21 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1801k
MS.1959.006
Language: English
eng
Subject: Astrology--Early works to 1800.
Horoscopes--Early works to 1800.
Merchants--England--17th century--Diaries.
Place: England--Sussex--Rye
Provenance: Passed down through Jeake's widow's family by her second husband, Joseph Tucker; "M. Frewen" inscribed on cover, probably by Sarah Jenkins Frewen, widow of Moreton Frewen.
Location: CLUW

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