Prose miscellany [manuscript], compiled ca. 1655.

Prose miscellany [manuscript], compiled ca. 1655.

174 leaves.

Extracts from various authors. Contains: Plutarch's Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans and his "Philosophy"; Pedro Mexia's Some few collections out of the lives of some few Emperors, and The treasury of ancient and modern times; Thomas Fitzherbert's Policy and religion; and Jeremy Taylor's, Holy living, Holy dying, The great exemplar and Unum necessarium, (leaves 148-169r). Includes list of books on leaf 2 as well as lists of marriages including John Lambert and Elinor Corneforth married 22 June 1659.

List of contents of Policy and Religion (leaves 59v-60v), and The treasury of ancient and modern times (leaves 60v-61r)

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Rev. John Jackson of Marske, Yorkshire --Peregrine Jackson -- John White -- J. Towlerton Leather -- Brent Maxfield MS.
Formerly Folger MS Add 400.

Mexía, Pedro, 1496?-1552? Works. Selections.
Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667. Works. Selections.
Fitzherbert, Thomas, 1552-1640. Policy and religion.
Plutarch. Works. Selections.

V.b.284

MS Add 400