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Saxby, Robert, fl 1619

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  • Existence: fl 1619

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Religious commonplace book

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3117
Scope and Contents Autograph, and (?) in hand of John Saxby. The volume was originally used for accounts by the Saxbys as executors to John Scotchford (d. 30 Dec. 1600) of Brenchley, Kent. The accounts continue to 1610, and are entered on fos 1-7v, 10v-11v, 13, 17, 27, 29, 31, 34, and 54. Fos 56v onwards were subsequently used by Robert Saxby to record pious discourses, chapters of the Bible (including most of the Book of Judith), sermons copied from printed editions, extracts from John Downham, The Christian...
Dates: 1600-1637 (Circa)
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