BC MS Lt 31 - John Beetham's commonplace book

GEMMS Manuscript ID
GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT- 1000
(old series: GEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-801)
Title
John Beetham's commonplace book
Shelfmark
BC MS Lt 31
Creation Date
ca. 1650 - 1670
Repository
Leeds University Library, Special Collections (Brotherton Library)
Contents Note

Contains verse, sermons and other miscellaneous notes, including, ff.1-2 signatures; ff. 3v-8v family records, dates for burials and baptisms; ff. 30-40 arithmetical tables, remedies, cryptomgrams, etc.; f. 42v bill of debt; f. 73r ink recipe; f. 75v sententious precepts; f. 76r The prophesie of Heuah the Walshman (prose); ff. 76v-78v list of the compiler's one-sign word symbols; f. 79r a record frost November to April "1683"; f. 80v spire burning in year 3 Eliz.; Pontefract sessions complaint of man of 68 whose wife 65 had two children 5 and 3; f. 128v “The Loyall non-conformist the account hee careserve and what he care not’; f. 129v coal accounts?; beaching of monster "fish" at Grimsby, year 6 Eliz; heights of Robin Hood and Little John (?); remarks on Italian women and Italian livestock; f. 160r record of hanging of John Oldroyd in 1682 on Holberd Moore for murder in 1679; ff. 160v-162v signatures including Richard Dearley.

Material Features

1 volume (219 ff.). Bound in blind tooled sheep; spine damaged. Charles Lardner Woodd's signature and bookplate are on f. 2r and the inside front cover.

Associated People
Provenance

Owned by members of Beetham and Dearlove families, Thomas Jefferson, and Charles H. Lardner Woodd [sic]. Signature of Charles H. L[ardner] Woodd [sic], 1847, is on f.2r, and his bookplate inside the front cover.

Source of Data (Contributor name)

Catherine Evans; Brotherton Library Catalogue

Sermons Contained
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GEMMS record created
April 25, 2018
GEMMS record last edited
July 15, 2024