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Posted:
07 Feb 2018
| (old shelfmark **A.83) | |
|---|---|
| Language: | English |
| Origin: | England, ?York |
| Date: | 20th c., ca. 1918 - 1961 |
| Material: | Paper (factory made) |
| Physical Description: | 327 pages (paginated i – xxxiv, 1 – 307, xxxv – lxv), 202 x 152 (180 x 110) mm, 33 – 39 long lines, ruled in pink ink, running headers |
| Rubric: | N/A |
| Incipit: | Stephen Gardiner, being asked if he thought he should ever get his bishopric again |
| 2o folio: | The account of |
| Explicit: | At Selby in Yorkshire a woman of lose character was delivered of 4 children, one of which wanted arms & legs and none lived above two days. |
| Contents: | pp. ix – xxxiii, Index (incomplete); pp. 1 – 20, Extracts from State Papers etc, mainly temp. Elizabeth I; pp. 21 – 46, ‘Narrative of the executions of the Jacobite lords after the Rising of 1745’; pp. 47 – 307, Extracts from the Gentleman’s magazine, March 1731 – May 1732 |
| Script: | Documentary cursive (pseudo-Secretary, pp. 1 – 20) |
| Scribe: | George Edward Larman (1895 – 1961) |
| Decoration: | None |
| Provenance: | George Edward Larman (1895 – 1961); his bequest, 1961 |
| Binding: | 19th / 20th c., brown leather over paste boards, blind-tooled edge design, leather over endbands (probably made as a blank notebook) |
| Notes: | Account of the Jacobite executions is Larman’s own; he provides footnotes and a bibliography, p. 46. |
| Bibliography: | |
| © Trinity Hall, Cambridge |
