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Folio 34r (ff. 28-33 missing from volume)

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Title: [Commonplace book].
Creator: Beach, Philip.
Contributor: Merton, Wilfred, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1698-1699.
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. With a note from Wilfred Merton suggesting that the author of this volume also authored the 1736 "A letter to Thomas Burnet Esq"
Scope/Content: Commonplace book of Philip Beach, dated 1698-1699, containing predominantly religious poetry. It is unclear if any of the recorded passages are original work. Beach was probably the son of William Beach, who was deprived of his position as rector Orcheston St. George, Wiltshire in 1689 for refusing oaths to William and Mary, and the author of "A letter to Thomas Burnet Esq" published in 1736. This volume was previously owned by Wilfred Merton (born Schmiechen), a prominent British book collector.
Condition: Contemporary vellum.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Commonplace books
Prayerbooks
Extent: [70] p., bound ;19 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1j88g
MS.1968.001
Language: English
eng
Place: England
Provenance: On front paste-down endpaper: "Steal not this book for fear of shame for under here you may see my name: Philip Beach, 1698." Beach's name and the dates 1698 & 1699 also appear on the front and back covers of the volume, and in many places throughout the text. Pen doodles and the names of "Thomas Bennett" and "William Beach, DD, " appear on both front and back endpapers. On front paste-down endpaper: "W. Schmiechen 1908."
Location: CLUW

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