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
Manuscript, in the hand of John Abbott, of some of the "accounts of Divine occurrences" written by his wife Ann. Topics include her first religious awakenings, temptations, and conversion; experiences of the Spirit at Quaker meetings; her struggles with the proper division between love of God and love of family and friends; and her occasional fondness for "fine dress." This is followed by a copy of a 1789 letter to a young man containing moral and business advice. Abbott concludes this section of the notebook with a description of the final illness and death, in 1791, of this "affectionate wife [and] tender mother." and The notebook concludes with "A Memorable Instance of Divine Guidance," which tells the story of "James Dickensen and Jane Fearn," who fled a house in fear of being murdered and eaten, only to discover "some years later" that their hosts were indeed murderers.
Description:
Binding: stiff blue wrappers., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., Front cover annotated: "Manuscript book No. 182.", and Pasted in on last page: ALS from William Button to his "uncel," February 1855.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain--Religious life and customs--18th century
Subject (Topic):
Christian life--18th century, Conduct of life--18th century, Quakers, Spiritual biography--England, and Women--Religious life--England
Manuscript on paper, in a cursive hand, of thirty-three prayers for the relief of the souls in Purgatory. The prayers open with "We salute thee o most sweet Lord Jesus," and focus particularly on redemption through the events of the Passion and Resurrection. The final prayer asks Him "mercifully to forgive us all our omissions of intention in these prayers and let them not be through our coldness less meritorious to these poor souls.", Pages 54-[55] contain a devotional practice "For y.e Holy Conversation," directing daily recital of the Litanies of Loreto, weekly Mass on Tuesday, "a pair of Beads" on "y.e first Tuesday of y.e month," and receiving Communion three times a year, "upon y.e Feast of the Circumcision, of y.e purification, and of St. Joseph." Dated "12 Jan 1675/6.", and This text is almost identical to that of Three and thirty most godly and deuout prayers and salutations...for faithfull soules departed [St. Omer, 1620-40?]. Also includes a translation of Psalm 50 (51), the Miserere, which combines phrasing from the Douai version and the revised version which appeared in The Primer, or Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in English... (St. Omer, 1673).
Description:
Binding: Contemporary English calf, spine gilt., Corrections include careful renumbering of all prayers past Prayer 5 on pasted-in small slips., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., Separate title page with decorated print capitals., and Spine title: "33 prayers for the souls in purgatory" (paper label).
Subject (Name):
Catholic Church--Customs and practices, Catholic Church--England, Catholic Church--Prayers and devotions, and Jesus Christ--Passion--Prayer-books and devotions
Subject (Topic):
Catholics--England, Devotional exercises--Catholic Church, Devotional literature, English, Miserere, Prayers for the dead, and Purgatory
Manuscript on paper, in a single hand, of a diary describing the author's travels through the shires and market towns of England, chiefly in the west and south of England and East Anglia. Luttrell describes the houses of each town and indicates whether it sends burgesses to Parliament, its market days and principal commodities, its inns, and its distance and accessibility from London.
Description:
Alphabetical index of towns at beginning of text., Binding: full calf., For information on the source of acquisition, consult the appropriate curator., In English., Names of towns are rubricated, as well as marginal notes., and Stamped on spine: "Travells MSS."
Subject (Geographic):
England--Commerce, England--Description and travel, and Great Britain--Social life and customs
Subject (Name):
Great Britain.--Parliament.--House of Commons and Luttrell, Narcissus,--1657-1732