Letter from Philip Percivale to Edward Southwell [manuscript], 1703 September 5.
1703
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Title
Letter from Philip Percivale to Edward Southwell [manuscript], 1703 September 5.
Created/published
Dublin, 1703 September 5..
Description
1 item ; 19 x 15 cm
Associated name
Percivale, Philip, sender.
Southwell, Edward, addressee.
Southwell, Edward, addressee.
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Place of creation/publication
Ireland -- Dublin.
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Call number
FAST ACC 271853 (flat)
Folger-specific note
Purchase made possible by The K. Frank and Joycelyn C. Austen Acquisitions Endowment. From dealer's description: "AUTOGRAPH LETTER signed by Philip Percivale (b. 1680) while an undergraduate at Oxford to his Cousin Edward Southwell Sr. (1671 - 1730) Secretary of State for Ireland, providing an extremely lively account of Oxford and of y.e. act" - the ceremony where a Thesis is publicly maintained by a candidate for a degree. Hatch, 5 September, 1703. 3 pp. 19 x 15 cm, some minor losses to inner marginal fold. The letter is a fascinating account of student life at Oxford in the early 18th century including that "It was no small pleasure to see a far Proctor [...] fixing his brawny shoulders against ye. door outbraved all ye, hissing and .hooting of ye. Whole Theatre till at length after a vigorous resistance being overpowered they stormed his fortress, and poured through blue aprons, footman, ladies, beauxs, Gowns and Cassocks, Plowman and what not [...] squinting dogg & pelted with him with Stools, sticks, stones and apples." Ordered from Konstantinopel Rare & Fine Books, D9368, 2019-11-18, Cat. Maps, phorograps, prints & misc., item 215.