SAL/MS/685 - Diary and accounts of the Reverend John More, c. 1687-1696

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 969
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-770)
Title
Diary and accounts of the Reverend John More, c. 1687-1696
Shelfmark
SAL/MS/685
Creation Date
ca. 1687 - 1696
Contents Note

Diary and accounts (relating to farming, tithes, rents, etc.) of the Reverend John More, rector of Earl's Croome, Worcestershire, compiled in 1687-1696. The volume also contains recipes, sermon notes, and religious poems.

ff. [ii]v-iiir: 'To make a water to cure an old sore';

f. iiiv: accounts;

f. 1r: 'To make a Cordiall Water good against infectious diseases or to remove offensive matter from the stomake especially after a surfeit';

ff. 1v-12r: accounts;

ff.12v-15v: sermon notes;

f. 16r: accounts;

ff. 16v-17v: sermon notes;

f. 18r: accounts;

f. 18v (first half of page only): another recipe;

ff. 18v-37v (in reverse): diary and miscellaneous religious meditations (composed June 1694-July 1696);

ff. 38r-71r (not in reverse): diary and miscellaneous religious meditations;

ff. 71v-78r (in reverse): religious verse;

ff. 78v-93r (in reverse): accounts.

Material Features

Octavo. Leather, brown. Clasps missing. ff. iii + 93.

Source of Data

Hannah Yip; Pamela J. Willetts, Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Society of Antiquaries of London (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000), p. 293; TNA Catalogue

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GEMMS record created
March 2, 2018
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024