Commonplace book [manuscript], ca. 1600.

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Commonplace book [manuscript], ca. 1600.

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Headings include: Lex, Breuitis, Lexuria, Mors, Recreatio. With aphorisms of Ovid, Cato, Erasmus, Seneca, Lacun, Juvenal, Cisero, Virgil, et al. Later used in the late 17th and 18th centuries for accounts and records of the manor of Rowington, Warwickshire. Mention of a John Shakespeare of Rowington, yeoman, 1683, p. 83; and a William Shakespeare of Knowle, 1727, p. 50. Terrier of the glebe, etc., 1614, p. 74; customal of the manor, 1616 and later, p. 78.

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