A eulogy for Josias Shute by Mr. Povey. The title page reads as follows: 'An Elegiack Comemoration of the pious life and most lamented death and Funeralls of Mr. Josiah Shute Rector of the Parish of St. Mary Woolnoth in Lumbard streete Who left vs on the 22d: day of June. 1643 By M:r Pouey.' The scribe appears to have made an error, as Shute died on 13 June 1643.
Quarto. Bound in vellum. The pages are ruled in red ink.
Part of the Bridgewater Library (see bookplate). 'J Brackley' is inscribed on the title page.
The Bridgewater House Library was purchased by Henry E. Huntington from John Francis Granville Scrope Egerton, Fourth Earl of Ellesmere, in 1917.
Egerton Family Papers online finding aid (see link below); Guide to British Historical Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1982), p. 49; Hannah Yip.
See Guide to British Historical Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1982), pp. 21-25 for more information about the Ellesmere Collection.