Manuscript on paper in a formal secretary hand of a petition to James I, signed by 33 members of the English peerage, protesting the king?s generous creation of new Scottish and Irish peers. The signatories state that they are acting """"to challenge & preserve our birthrightes"""" against the new peers and that they """"wish to give them not the respect nor place as to noblemen strangers.
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Teaching resource: English Paleography Examples, 16th-18th century
Subject (Name):
Ardglass, Thomas Cromwell, Earl of, 1594-1653
, Bedford, Francis Russell, Earl of, 1593-1641
, Bergavenny, Edward Neville, Baron, d. 1622
, Bolingbroke, Oliver St. John, Earl of, 1580?-1646
, Campden, Edward Noel, Viscount, d.1643
, Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope, Earl of, 1584-1656
, Dacre, Richard Lennard, Baron, d. 1630
, Darcy, John Darcy, Baron, 1579-1635
, Denny, Edward, Sir, 1605-1646
, Dorset, Richard Sackville, Earl of, 1594?-1624
, Dover, Henry Carey, Earl of, ca. 1580-1666
, Dudley, Edward Dudley, Baron, 1567-1643
, Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1591-1646
, Gerard of Gerard's Bromley, Gilbert, Baron, d. 1622
, Holles, John, Earl of Clare, ca. 1565-1637
, Huntingdon, Henry Hastings, Earl of, 1586-1643
, James I, King of England, 1566-1625
, Lincoln, Theophilus Clinton, Earl of, ca. 1600-1667
, Lindsey, Robert Bertie, Earl of, 1583-1642
, Mulgrave, Edmund Sheffield, Earl of, 1565-1646
, Oxford, Henry de Vere, Earl of, 1593-1625
, Paget, William Paget, Baron, 1572-1629
, Peterborough, John Mordaunt, Earl of, 1599-1643
, Salisbury, William Cecil, Earl of, 1591-1668
, Say and Sele, William Fiennes, Viscount, 1582-1662
, Spencer, Robert Spencer, Baron, 1570-1627
, Stafford, Edward Stafford, Baron, 1572-1625
, Stamford, Henry Grey, Earl of, 1599?-1673
, Stourton, Edward Stourton, Baron, 1555?-1633
, Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, 1593-1641
, Suffolk, Theophilus Howard, Earl of, 1584-1640
, Sunderland, Emanuel Scrope, Earl of, 1584-1630
, Warwick, Robert Rich, Earl of, 1587-1658
, and Windsor, Thomas Windsor, Lord, 1591?-1641
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
Stuart, of Southville, Connecticut, left Bridgwater for New Haven where he joined the New Haven and California Joint Stock Company. The Company chartered the bark Anna Reynolds, with Capt. John Bottom, and sailed for California. and The journal describes the 1849 voyage around the Horn, by Talcahuano to California and the return voyage in 1850. After a gap, the journal resumes with the company breaking up in San Francisco and Stuart setting off for the mines at Negro Bar on the American River. In March 1850, the journal describes passage on the ship Talma from San Francisco to Realejo, Nicaragua. There is a table of latitude and longitude readings and five pencil sketches of the shoreline of Guatemala and El Salvador.
Description:
Blank pages included in pagination but not scanned.
Subject (Geographic):
Central America --Pictorial works and Diaries --United States
Subject (Name):
Anna Reynolds (bark), New Haven and California Joint Stock Company, and Talma (Ship)