A Profane Wit

Johnson wrote this generous biography - a veritable progress of a rake's rake - with enthusiasm and engaged fascination with Rochester (1647-1680)...Johnson's forte, in addition to the extensiveness of his information, is his strong narrative sweep: this is an exciting biography. Highly Recommended. CHOICE
  hardback   ISBN 978-1-580-46170-2

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A Raine Miscellany

Edition of James Raine the Elder's memoir of his northern England childhood and other family materials, prepared by his great-grand-daughter, Angela Marsden. Printed in the year of the bicentenary of his birth. Contains: Memoir of his Childhood, by James Raine (1791-1858); Early Life of M. Raine, by Margaret Hunt, daughter of James Raine; Letters of Thomas Peacock concerning the Birkbeck Family (Peacock was father-in-law of James Raine). Concludes with a list of the Surtees Society's publications up to volume 200.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-854-44057-3

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Brief Lives

John Aubrey's racy portraits of the great figures of 17th-century England stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wiltshire squire; at the age of 26 he inherited a family estate encumbered with debt, and finally went bankrupt in the 1670s. From then on he led a sociable, rootless existence at the houses of friends - from Oxford and the Middle Temple - pursuing the antiquarian studies which had always obsessed him.   paperback   ISBN 978-1-843-83112-9

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Christabel Pankhurst: Fundamentalism and Feminism in Coalition

Christabel Pankhurst was arguably the most influential member of her famous family in the struggle to win the vote for women in the years before the First World War. Paradoxically, she has also been the most neglected subsequently by historians.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-851-15905-8

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Commercial Papers of Sir Christopher Lowther, 1611-1644

Papers cover 1632-1637 and 1639-1644 and consist of letters, notebooks and miscellaneous documents. Significant for information on Lowther family, early history of Whitehaven and its coal industry, Irish economic history, Englishinternal and overseas trade in 1630s, early industrial developments and the role of the gentry in commerce and manufacturing, especially the part played by younger sons of gentry families. Christopher Lowther's commercial papers throw light on the development of Whitehaven - salt making, coal mining - and other family commercial speculations in Cumberland. Market: Economic history, 17c   hardback   ISBN 978-0-854-44038-2

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Complete Works of Charles Evans

Genealogy and Related Topics. Edited by Steven Edwards. Published to recognise the centenary of Charles Evans birth, includes scholarly articles, book reviews, letters to editors, and notes and queries. 344 pages.   Hardback   ISBN 0-9546812-0-7

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Complete Works of Charles Evans

Genealogy and Related Topics. Edited by Steven Edwards. Published to recognise the centenary of Charles Evans birth, includes scholarly articles, book reviews, letters to editors, and notes and queries. PDF files.   CD   ISBN 0-9546812-1-5

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Constable of Everingham Estate Correspondence 1726-43

Letters between Marmaduke Constable of Everingham Hall, a leading member of the Catholic landed gentry in Yorkshire, and Dom John Bede Potts, Sir Marmaduke's chaplain, and from 1726 supervisor of the estate and of his business affairs: a graphic picture of circumstances on a medium-sized estate in the early 18th century.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-902-12230-7

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David Hume of Godscroft's The History of the House of Angus, vol 1

    ISBN 978-1-897-97624-1

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David Hume of Godscroft's The History of the House of Angus, vol.2

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David Hume of Godscroft's The History of the House of Douglas, vol 1

    ISBN 978-1-897-97612-8

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David Hume of Godscroft's The History of the House of Douglas, vol 2

    ISBN 978-1-897-97613-5

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Diary of John Young, Sunderland chemist and Methodist lay preacher, covering the years 1841-1843

John Young was a Sunderland chemist. His diary was prompted by his desire to record his inner life, and the subjective passages reveal the thoughts and feelings of an early Victorian evangelical. However, his comments on his social, religious and business life are more interesting to today's reader and make his diary an interesting social document, offering vignettes of life in Sunderland in the early 1840s. Two appendices: I. John Young and pepper adulteration; II. Principles of Doctrine and Church Discipline held by the Methodists of the Wesleyan Association in the Sunderland Circuit. Market: Social history.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-854-44040-5

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Great Tooley of Ipswich

When Henry Tooley drew up his will shortly before his death in 1551 he ensured the survival of two monuments to his career as a merchant in Ipswich: the almshouses which still stand in the town, and an account book which the Corporation originally acquired to administer his bequest and now hold in their archives.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-900-71610-2

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Innocent Espionage

This book is irresistible. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
Ranks with Defoe and Cobbett, and fills the gap between them... in this wonderful book we have a portrait of England at its most beautiful and most vigorous, of Jane Austen's idyllic countryside and Blake's Satanic mills. NIGEL NICOLSON, SPECTATOR
We always have it in stock as it is such a marvellous book. HEYWOOD HILL BOOKSHOP   hardback   ISBN 978-0-851-15596-8

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Jail Journal

Described as 'a classic of Irish revolutionary writing', or a manual of Irish nationalist philosophy. John Mitchel's Jail Journal contains more than 500 pages and 37 sketches of members of the Young Ireland Movement. Fully searchable. An ideal research tool allowing easy access to Mitchel's opinions on events and individuals. The style of prose, honed through decades of editorial experience, is highlighted by an acerbic wit.     ISBN 1-84630-071-1

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John Wesley at Whitestonecliffe, Yorkshire

This is one of an on-going series of publications from the Borthwick Insitute for Archives, intended to provide insights into new research concerning the history of Yorkshire and the North of England.   pp 25   ISBN 0-903857-49-9

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Letter-Book of William of Hoo

The letter-book of William of Hoo is a hybrid between a formulary and letter-book with over 200 entries. It begins with fifty six entries which are pure forms, with initials instead of names or places and no dates, and ends with more or less complete copies of letters with full names and dates. William of Hoo was the sacrist of Bury St Edmunds from 1280-1294.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-900-71611-9

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Letters and papers of the Banks Family of [The] Revesby Abbey, 1704-1760

Alterations to Revesby - buildings, furnishings, estate management - and family business in Lincoln, London and elsewhere.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50320-6

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Lonsdale Documents

Letters, dating 1799-1804, of Rev. John Lonsdale concerning his efforts to secure a new lease of the Crown estate of Sunk Island in the River Humber in which he had acquired an interest by marriage, and letters to his wife Elizabeth while he resided in London at a critical stage in these negotiations. Also includes an account and history of Sunk Island and the survey of it made in 1797. Social history; legal history.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-854-44007-8

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Lowther Family Estate Books, 1617-1675

Two MSS printed here for the first time yield information not only on Lowther family, but on the north as a whole in the seventeenth century. Contain estate memoranda books, or 'diaries', of land and financial transactions, building work and family affairs. Not only record, but also explain why, decisions were taken which brought about growth of family estates and wealth. Four appendices including autobiography of Sir John Lowther I (d. 1637) which chronicles rise of young man lacking wealth or influence. Market: Economic history, inc. innovative agriculture.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-854-44009-2

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Matthew and George Culley: Farming Letters, 1798-1804

The brothers Matthew and George Culley were successful farmers in Northumberland in the late eighteenth century. They contributed greatly to the improvement of agriculture in their area and beyond, notably through sheep breeding [the `Culley sheep' or Border Leicester], and also by practising and inculcating the use of modern techniques of husbandry and modern crop varieties.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-854-44065-8

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North Country Diaries (Second Series).

Journal of Sir William Brereton, 1635. Autobiography of Sir John Gibson, 1655. Jacob Bee's Chronicle. Mark Browell's Diary. The Family of Mark Akenside, the Poet. Two letters of Bishop Warburton. Northern Journeys of Bishop Richard Pococke. Diary of John Dawson of Brunton. Each entry is preceded by an introduction. See volume 118.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-854-44016-0

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Particular Friends

Pepys and Evelyn first came to know each other during the Second Dutch War (1664-7). As the plague raged in the London they loved, they were both preoccupied with the business of casualties from the war, Pepys as Clerk of the Acts, and Evelyn as a Commissioner for Sick and Wounded Seamen and Prisoners of War. Nearly forty years later they were still corresponding, exchanging details of remedies for the afflictions of old age.   paperback   ISBN 978-1-843-83134-1

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Robert Boyle (1627-91): Scrupulosity and Science

Robert Boyle (1627-91), one of the seminal figures in the origins of modern science, yet a complex and tortured personality, has been the subject of much scholarly attention in recent years. Here, Michael Hunter, the acknowledgedexpert on Boyle, makes use of much hitherto unpublished material to offer a novel and distinctive view of the man.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-851-15798-6

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Savage Fortune: An Aristocratic Family in the Early Seventeenth Century

The story of Thomas and Elizabeth Savage and their family, presented here, is a turbulent one, moving from the grandeur of the royal court [Thomas was Chancellor to Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, and his wife Elizabethwas one of her ladies of the bedchamber] to debt and imprisonment. It is teased out through a close examination of the documentary evidence, from letters on intimate family matters and health problems to business correspondence and official documents from the royal court, including Elizabeth's many petitions to Charles I, and later to the House of Lords. There is a particular focus on their houses at Long Melford (Suffolk), Rocksavage (Cheshire), and at Tower Hill in London. Lavishly illustrated with plates and diagrams.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83199-0

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The Archive of James Russell, garden designer

One of a series of guides to archive collections at the Borthwick Institute for Archives, University of York.   100 pp + plates   ISBN 1-904497-07-01,

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The Armburgh Papers

The collection of fifteenth-century letters printed here for the first time stands alongside the Paston and Stonor correspondence in its intrinsic interest and the light it sheds on contemporary gentry life.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-851-15624-8

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The Bousfield Diaries

The diaries of Charlotte Bousfield, extending from 1878 to 1896, paint a vivid picture of the activities of a multi-talented Bedford family, led by a strong-minded matriarch. They were prominent in local life...   hardback   ISBN 978-0-851-55072-5

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The Correspondence of Sir James Clavering (1680-1748)

Sir James Clavering (1680-1748) was a typical member of the lesser gentry in County Durham, but he had widespread family connections throughout the North East and became interested in national politics and the coal-trade. Collection contains letters from Anne Clavering, Thomas Yorke and John Yorke, miscellaneous business letters, letters from his wife, Catherine and to his son, George.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-854-44036-8

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The Crofton Memoirs

This extremely readable and interesting account will provide valuable source material for researchers interested in the history of the Crofton family, the general east Connaught region or the operation of structures of governance in the Tudor period. Important detail is provided on families in Leitrim, Sligo, Mayo and Roscommon, and branches that had migrated, either within Ireland, or abroad. Fully searchable.     ISBN 1-84630-083-5

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The Diary of Charles Fothergill 1805

A record of a young Yorkshire Quaker, of yeoman roots and bourgeois estate, in search of history, antiquities, folklore, customs and other phenomena of his native county for a projected 'Natural and Civil History' of Yorkshire: accounts of archaeological relics, scraps of local history, notes on economic life, on local dialect and nomenclature, and descriptions of flora and fauna.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-902-12248-2

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The Diary of John Evelyn

The Diary of John Evelyn (1620-1706) is one of the principal literary sources for life and manners in the English seventeenth century. Evelyn was one of an influential group of men which included Wren, Pepys and Boyle...   paperback   ISBN 978-1-843-83109-9

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The Entring Book of Roger Morrice [1677-1691]

Compiled between the years 1677 and 1691, the Entring Book is 900,000 words long, with many sensitive passages written in a secret shorthand that has only recently been decoded. This remarkable chronicle of public affairs has remained for nearly three centuries, secure but little known, in Dr Williams's Library, London. The Entring Book fits no simple definition. It is not just a political diary, nor is it only the newsletter it sometimes resembles.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83244-7

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The Flemings in Oxford vol. I

  hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-77508-5

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The Flemings in Oxford vol. II

  hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-77509-2

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The Flemings in Oxford vol. III

  hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-77510-8

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The Goodman of Paris (Le Mnagier de Paris)

The Goodman of Paris [Le Mnagier de Paris] wrote this book for the instruction of his young wife around 1393. He was a wealthy and learned man, a member of that enlightened haute bourgeoisie upon which the French monarchy was coming to lean with increasing confidence. When he wrote his Treatise he was at least sixty but had recently married a young wife some forty years his junior. It fell to her to make his declining years comfortable, but it was his task to make it easy for her to do so.   paperback   ISBN 978-1-843-83222-5

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The Journal & Diary of John Savidge

(Methodist City Missionary) January 1896 to June 1898. Hundreds of pages hand written. Lots of information about sick and aged people he visited in Nottingham, Basford and Plumtree daily. A unique original.    

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The Letter Books of Robert Joseph

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The Letters of Henry Liddell to William Cotesworth [1708-17]

Henry Liddell, Esq., c. 1673-1717. Younger son of the Liddells of Ravensworth. Became the supervisor of the family's extensive interests in the Durham coalfield and thereby one of the leading figures in the coal-trade. William Cotesworth of Gateshead, c. 1668-1725. Rising local entrepreneur. Shared business and political interests produced a mutual understanding and trust between these two men of different social backgrounds. The friendship lasted until Henry Liddell's death and had implications for some time afterwards. The letters provide 'a vivid picture of the labyrinthine workings of the Newcastle coal-trade at a difficult time in its history.' Market: Economic history, 19c.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-854-44054-2

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The Letters of Samuel Pepys

The correspondence included here represents the first selection of Pepys's letters drawn from all possible sources to be published since 1933. Since the Diary does not cover this period, the letters enable the reader to follow Pepys' early career on the staff of the Earl of Sandwich, his rise to greatness as Secretary of the Admiralty, and his retirement after the Glorious Revolution.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83197-6

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The Life of William Bruges

- The First Garter King of Arms William Bruges was a man of some prominence in his day, the first Garter King of Arms, an excellent herald, diplomat and devoted churchman. Little is known of his early life or even his date and place of birth, although i    

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The Meditations of Lady Elizabeth Delaval Written Between 1662 and 1671

This record of the meditations and prayers of the independent and high-spirited daughter of Sir James Livingston, Viscount Newburgh, was written between the ages of fourteen and twenty-three, to assist self-examination and repentance of sins. They detail her relationships with her family, close friends and certain servants and her reflections on her courtships and marriage. Lady Elizabeth had royal connections and was later closely involved with various Jacobite plots and schemes. Bodleian Library MS. Rawlinson D. 78. Biography, 17c   hardback   ISBN 978-0-854-44008-5

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The Papers of Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey: volume IV, 1596-1602

  hardback   ISBN 978-0-953-82982-8

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The Pastons

Within three generations (1426 to 1485), and through the dark and dangerous years of the Wars of the Roses, the Pastons established themselves as a family of consequence, both in their native Norfolk and within court circles. Ambitious and highly mobile - womenfolk as well as men - they kept in touch by correspondence, usually but notinvariably through the medium of a clerk. These letters, a rare survival, break upon us across the centuries with the urgency, and sometimes the violence, of their preoccupations: defending property,fighting court cases, making the right alliances, and, on the domesticside, managing their estates, conducting their courtships, stocking their cupboards. Selected and presented here with Richard Barber's invaluable linking narrative, they bring the middle ages triumphantlyto life.   paperback   ISBN 978-1-843-83111-2

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The Richest East India Merchant

John Palmer was the most influential and wealthiest British merchant in British India for the first three decades of the nineteenth century. He ran an `agency house', a global commercial firm involved in banking, the opium trade, shipping, plantation agriculture and trade with Britain, Europe, China, south east Asia and the USA.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83303-1

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The Southwold Diary of James Maggs, 1818-1876

James Maggs [1797-1890] of Southwold, schoolmaster, auctioneer and general factotum, was ideally placed to know practically everything that happened in the little Suffolk port. From 1818 to 1876 he kept a chronicle of local events, recording with scrupulous accuracy the fortunes and (more often) misfortunes of the seafarers, small tradesmen and others who were his fellow townsmen.   paperback   ISBN 978-1-843-83327-7

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The Writings of John Evelyn

Today John Evelyn is known almost exclusively for his Diary, the remarkable record of his life at the centre of English social and political life in the seventeenth century; his other literary works have received scant attention. The Writings of John Evelyn is the first serious attempt to make a selection of his works available for modern scrutiny. It covers as representative a range as possible of Evelyn's books and tracts, from the first edition of his work on arboriculture, Sylva (1664), and his invective on London's pollution, Fumifugium (1661), which has acquired a new relevance, to his memorial to his son Richard, The Golden Book of St John of Chrysostom(1659). Also included are political tracts and his comic account of England under the Commonwealth, A Character of England (1656). The editor has written a full introduction to Evelyn's literary career,and each piece is accompanied by an individual introduction and extensive footnotes. Guy de la Bdoyre gained his Masters Degree from London University.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-851-15631-6

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Thomas Coram, Gent.

Thomas Coram is forever identified with the foundling hospital he established in 1739. This, however, came near the end of his life: previous records seemed few and far between until Gillian Wagner began to look at the scarce but intriguing evidence for his earlier career. As a young man Coram went to Massachusetts, where he stayed for ten years building ships in Boston and Taunton, working to further the spread of Anglicanism. .   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83057-3

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Unitarianism, philanthropy and feminism in York 1782-1821: the career of Catherine Cappe

This is one of an on-going series of publications from the Borthwick Insitute for Archives, intended to provide insights into new research concerning the history of Yorkshire and the North of England.   pp 31   ISBN 1-904497-02-0

Price:  £4.00