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Title: [Memoirs of the last two years of the reign of King Charles I].
Alternative Title: Thrednodiæ Carolinæ mss.
Creator: Herbert, Thomas, Sir, 1606-1682.
Shirley, Evelyn Philip, 1812-1882, former owner.
Contributor: Bell, Beaupré, 1704-1745, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: [1678?]
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. At end of text: "by Sir Thomas Herbert one of the Gentlemen of the Kings bedchamber, ye end of a sad & deplorable history faithfully transcribed from a maniscript [sic] of his own wrighting."
Scope/Content: Manuscript transcription of Sir Thomas Herbert's account of the last years of King Charles, his execution and burial. The transcriber of this volume is unknown, but writes that the text has been "faithfully transcribed" from Herbert's own autograph manuscript. Herbert's account was first published in 1702, and has some slight variations from the text presented here.
Condition: Bound in full brown calf with blind stamping on cover; "Thrednodi{aelig} Carolin{aelig} mss." stamped in gold on spine.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Bookplates (Provenance)
Ownership inscriptions (Provenance)
Extent: [14], 87, [27] p., bound ;19 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1c32x
MS.1950.026
Language: English
eng
Subject: Charles--I,--King of England,--1600-1649.
Place: England
Provenance: Notes on the text on p. [xx] signed May 1874, by "Ev:Ph: Shirley" (Evelyn Philip Shirley); Inscribed "Beauprei Bell de Beaupr{acute}e Hall in Com: Norfolk 1733" on opposite page with note about rarity of the 1702 published version. Bookplate of Ettington Manuscript Library of E.P. Shirley (numbered 24 in ink) on front paste-down endpaper.
Location: CLUW

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