Add MS 70636 - Speeches in Parliament: with miscellaneous verses

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 195
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-773)
Title
Speeches in Parliament: with miscellaneous verses
Shelfmark
Add MS 70636
Creation Date
1618 - 1662
Repository
Contents Note

A volume of parliamentary speeches and poetry owned by Knightley Chetwode. His name, as well as the name "Jane Chetwode" (probably Knightley's sister), is recorded on f. i. The volume also includes notes on sermons by Obadiah Grew, written in another hand (ff. 25r-33v), recorded ca. 1651-1662.

Material Features

Paper, ii + 44 leaves, 187 x 147mm. Small notebook bound in contemporary limp vellum. At various points, there are stubs of other pages from a previous binding.

Provenance

This volume was formerly among the papers of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie (d. 1823).

Acquisition

Presented on 5 December 1990 to the British Library by Winkworth and Pemberton, solicitors based in Oxford, through the British Records Association (Deposit 2378) and the National Library of Scotland.

Source of Data (Contributor name)

Anne James; British Library manuscript catalogue

Sermons Contained
GEMMS record created
March 8, 2018
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024