- Published / Created:
- 1673 September 28
- Call Number:
- Osborn b161
- Collection Title:
- Diary, 1673 Aug 18 - 1676 May 23
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of the diary of a dissenting divine living in Ireland who records, with close interest, the progress of the Dutch War and other domestic and foreign activities, including a famine in Ireland, the activities of Louis II de Bourbon Prince de Conde, persecutions against nonconformists in England, and notes about the American colonies. On November 16, 1675, he writes, """"I first heard of a War begun in N. England. Our first report is that the French joine with the Indians...A famine feared in N. England & Virginia by reason of 2 unseasonable yeares...The merchants forbid any more goods to bee sent from Londont o N.E. All the country, prepareing for war."""" Taylor mentions the work of John Eliot among the Indians and quotes a letter from Increase Mather. The manuscript also includes accounts of crimes, such as the description of an apprentice stabbed with a rapier hidden in a cane, notes on """"prodigies,"""" signs, and portents, and the description of """"an unusuall distemper which was generally called a cold, November 1675.
- Description:
- Teaching resource: English Paleography Examples, 16th-18th century
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- Subject (Topic):
- Anecdotes, Dissenters, Dissenters, Religious, Dutch War, 1672-1678, and King Philip’s War, 1675-1676
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The East India Compnay sold theyr goods ...
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- Published / Created:
- 1673 September 28
- Call Number:
- Osborn b161
- Collection Title:
- Diary, 1673 Aug 18 - 1676 May 23
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of the diary of a dissenting divine living in Ireland who records, with close interest, the progress of the Dutch War and other domestic and foreign activities, including a famine in Ireland, the activities of Louis II de Bourbon Prince de Conde, persecutions against nonconformists in England, and notes about the American colonies. On November 16, 1675, he writes, """"I first heard of a War begun in N. England. Our first report is that the French joine with the Indians...A famine feared in N. England & Virginia by reason of 2 unseasonable yeares...The merchants forbid any more goods to bee sent from Londont o N.E. All the country, prepareing for war."""" Taylor mentions the work of John Eliot among the Indians and quotes a letter from Increase Mather. The manuscript also includes accounts of crimes, such as the description of an apprentice stabbed with a rapier hidden in a cane, notes on """"prodigies,"""" signs, and portents, and the description of """"an unusuall distemper which was generally called a cold, November 1675.
- Description:
- Teaching resource: English Paleography Examples, 16th-18th century
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain and United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- Subject (Topic):
- Anecdotes, Dissenters, Dissenters, Religious, Dutch War, 1672-1678, and King Philip’s War, 1675-1676
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Two apprentices to a taylor ...
- Published / Created:
- 1654 January
- Call Number:
- Osborn b362
- Collection Title:
- [Sermons], 1655 Jan-Jul
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, of 15 sermons preached between January 7, 1654/5 and July 1, 1655. The first seven sermons are on Exodus 20:17; the next three on Ecclesiastes 12:13; a single sermon is on Lamentations 3:40; and the final four on Luke 11:1-2.
- Description:
- Binding: Contemporary calf. and Teaching resource: English Paleography Examples, 16th-18th century
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain--History and Great Britain--Religion--17th century
- Subject (Topic):
- Dissenters, Religious, Puritans --England--Sermons, and Sermons, English--17th century
- Collection Created:
- 1655 Jan-Jul
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Two page opening including sermon on Exodus 20.17]