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Add MS 5541
- Record Id:
- 032-003441945
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003441945
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100075949233.0x0001cc
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 5541
- Title:
- ‘A collection of Thomas Willford's verse, entitled 'Hyemall Pastimes’
- Scope & Content:
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‘Hyemall Pastimes; consisting of various subjects and diversities of stiles, such as the author’s phancie could invent, his vacant houses dictate, or his recreations prompt him unto, as sometime Prose, at other times meeter, partly Historicall partly Poeticall, etc. Composed as at severall times so upon diverse occasions, with severall sortes of Poems to helpe passe away the tedious winter nights, collected togeather out of severall loose papers, and digested in the order at the desire of the admired M. and S. by their brother Thomas Willford.’
Prefixed are some lines in commendation of the work, signed G. P. At p. 189 is an ‘Epitaph upon the most learned Comedian and modern Poet Benjamin Johnson’. There are also inserted elegies and epitaphs on:
- Mrs. Holyday, 1643;
- Mr. Rivers, 1643;
- Mr. Thomas Long, 13 Dec 1643;
- Sir John Smith, baronet, 1644;
- Sir John Digby, knight, 1645;
- Robert Adams, M.D.;
- Mrs. Mary Francke, 28 Dec 1647;
- Mrs. Agnes Throgmorton, widow, 25 Oct 1648;
- Mr. Turner, 1648;
- Lady Anne Smith, another of Lord Carrington, 19 Nov 1648;
- Sir William Andrewes, baronet, 18 Dec 1648;
- Mr. Edward Stepkins, 30 Jan 1649;
- Mrs. Alice Flamsted of Denton, county Northamptonshire, 31 May 1649;
- Edmund Church, esquire, 19 Sept 1649, etc.
The latter portion of the volume seems to have been subsequently added, and consists of anigmatical poems addressed by Thomas Wilford to his nephews and nieces, Henry, James, Charles, Susannne, Anne and Mary.
Small quarto, ff. 328. Presented by the Reverend William Carr of Rempstone, county Nottinghamshire. 3 Oct 1794.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003441945
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003441945
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume (328 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- A small quarto
- Custodial History:
- Thomas Willford. Presented by the Reverend William Carr of Rempstone, Nottinghamshire, on 3 October 1794
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This catalogue description has been transcribed from the original [18th-19th-century] handwritten Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts and may contain inaccuracies. The handwritten catalogue is available in the Manuscripts Reading Room.