This manuscript was identified as being written in the hand of Nehemiah Wallington by Gerald Aylmer in 1986. The manuscript is dated by Wallington to 1645, and the latest dated entry is October 1648, although a note on p. iii records an instance where Wallington re-read a passage (dated 4 June 1658). The notebook comprises transcripts from newsbooks, pamphlets and letters centring on the First Civil War. The subject matter covered includes sequestration and the punishment of witches.
288 folios. There is pagination by Wallington, which starts on the ninth folio. Half-bound in calfskin with a paper pastedown and a Tatton Park bookplate.
Hannah Yip
See G. E. Aylmer, 'Collective Mentalities in Mid Seventeenth-Century England: I. The Puritan Outlook', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 36 (1986), 1-25; David Booy, ed., The Notebooks of Nehemiah Wallington, 1618-1654: A Selection (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007), pp. 215-234. See also Mark Stoyle, 'The Road to Farndon Field: Explaining the Massacre of the Royalist Women at Naseby', English Historical Review, 123.503 (2008), 895-923.