Description of Rome and the Jesuits, etc.; scraps of poetry; Treatise on marriage, mid seventeenth century
Scope and Contents
(1) ‘A description of the cittie of Rome, etc. And of the Jesuitts. Per P. Tomkinson’, in two parts, ‘Of the description of the cittie of Rome’, beginning ‘Rome in times past a cittie to all men known ...’, and ‘Relations in generall of the Jesuites’, beginning ‘Amongst all sorts of religious and superstitious men ...’; these are followed by ‘A copy of the Lord Lieutenants speech to his majestie when he was created earl of Strafford’, ‘Verses by the earle of Strafford before he suffered’, beginning ‘Goe, emptie joyes’, and a stanza on ‘Melancholly’, beginning ‘Come, folded arms ...’, by William Strode, dedicated ‘Reverendissimo domino do. T. episc. Dunelm’, i.e. Thomas Morton, bishop of Durham from 1632 to 1659; (2) a treatise on ‘Marriage. By A[ntony] A[scham], gent. London, 1647’, beginning ‘Marriage is the first step that a man ...’; on the title-page is the note ‘Written by Mr Ascham, that was afterwards killed in Spaine, being agent for the parliament of England there’; at the end is ‘12th October, 1658. J. Hinson’, probably the name of the scribe.
Dates
- Creation: mid seventeenth century
Creator
- Wentworth, Thomas, 1593-1641 (1st Earl of Strafford, statesman) (Person)
- Ascham, Anthony, bap 1614-1650 (diplomat and pamphleteer) (Person)
- Strode, William, ? 1601-1645 (poet and playwright) (Person)
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Extent
1 volume(s)
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
In the Library by the mid 1750s. No. 1048 in F. S. Parris's list.
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