Manuscript fair copy, of dated entries recounting the departure from Liverpool, the shipwreck on the Barbary Coast, the crew's enslavement in northern Africa, and their return to Dartmouth. Many entries concern the work done, foods, illnesses and injuries, and racial and religious differences encountered. The June 16th entry mentions the separation of "the mate and my relation," and the volume also contains, in the same hand, an account of a group separated from the Captain from June to October 1789, signed Jas. Irving Junr., and titled "A very short account of what happened to me after the seperation on the 16th of June 1789."
Description:
Binding: contemporary half-calf, marbled-paper boards. and For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator.
Subject (Geographic):
Africa, North--Description and travel and Africa, North--Foreign relations--Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Sailors--Great Britain--Personal narratives, Ship captains--Great Britain--Personal narratives, Shipwrecks--Africa, North, and Slavery--Africa, North
At back of volume, in a different hand: Mrs. Dillope�s dyeing instructions to her daughter taken from her own mouth. and Ladies Vavasor and Ingram are the writer�s sisters (p.1, 11.2-3); thus the author may have been Miles Stapylton (or Stapleton, 1660-1731).
Subject (Topic):
Death --Religious aspects --Christianity --Prayer-books and devotions --English, Devotional literature, English --18th century, and Women authors
Manuscript copy, made in the 18th century, sometime after 1723. "Un des quelques MS complets de l’ouvrage devenu celebre sous le titre de Testament du cure Meslier.
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church --Controversial literature
Subject (Topic):
Atheism, Christianity --Controversial literature, and Religion --Controversial literature
Occasion'd by ye Bisps in Ireland ..., On Prince Frederick's arrival, On Sir R.W., On the fable of the elf in the lyon's skin, and On the place of ye damned
Manuscript on paper, in a single cursive hand, of an English version of Manrique?s biography of Sister Ana de Jes?s, a companion of St. Teresa of Avila who also founded Carmelite convents in France and the Spanish Netherlands.
Description:
Teaching resource: English Paleography Examples, 16th-18th century
Subject (Topic):
Catholics--England, Christian saints--Spain--Biography, Counter-Reformation, Devotional literature, English, Mysticism, and Women--Religious life
Poems on various subjects extracted chiefly from the works of some of the most celebrated poets
Image Count:
23
Alternative Title:
Another, Another from the French, Baucis and Philemon imitated from the 8th book of Ovid, Epigram, Mary the cookmaid's letter to Dr Sheridan, On Colly Cibber, On Stephen Duck, and The journal of a modern lady