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Title: [Commonplace book of historical extracts].
Alternative Title: Commonplace book.
Creator: Rymer, Thomas,1641-1713.
J. B. (John Bulwer), 1606-1656. Anthropometamorphosis.
Holinshed, Raphael,-1580? Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande.
Stow, John, 1525?-1605. Annales of England.
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1800]
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.
Scope/Content: Manuscript commonplace book containing primarily extracts from historical works about England in the 16th and 17th centuries. Extracts are grouped somewhat thematically and topics range from methods of entering illegitimate children in parochial registers, to the history of hackney coaches, to anecdotes about Sir Robert Walpole, to bon mots of Charles II, among many, many others. Extracts appear to have been taken from published works such as Stow's and Holinshed's Chronicles as well as parliamentary proceedings and manuscript parish record books. The volume was probably composed in the late 1700s to early 1800s, as the latest date mentioned in the text is 1788.
Condition: Bound in quarter brown leather with marbled boards; backstrip missing and covers detached from text block. Housed in modern case.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Commonplace books
Extent: [302] p., bound ;29 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1hw4v
f MS.1945.004
Language: English
eng
Subject: Anecdotes--England--18th century.
Curiosities and wonders--England--18th century.
Manners and customs--Early works to 1800.
Place: England
Location: CLUW

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