Diaries of Richard Stonley [manuscript], 1581-1598.

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Diaries of Richard Stonley [manuscript], 1581-1598.

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Stonley's entries are brief and include quotations and paraphrases from the Bible, the Classics and proverbs such as the Proverbs or Adages by D. Erasmus, Englished by Richard Taverner, and his household accounts. Among the many books he bought was Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis on June 12, 1593. Stonley mentions public events occasionally: he saw Edmund Campion being taken to Tyburn on December 1, 1581. Stonley was often at Paul's Cross. On Sunday Stonley attended divine service and in 1581 comments several times on the preacher's departure from the order of the book of Common prayer. After the service Stonley often invited the minister and friends, whom he usually mentions by name, to dinner. By 1593 he was in financial difficulties and seeking the counsel of Lord Burghley; Stonley allows himself on comment on him (v. 2, leaf 58). By 1597 Stonley was in the Fleet prison and actively trying to liquidate his assets. There he gives his menus and lists his fellow diners; at times he went out with a keeper. Volume 1 contains a preliminary note of expenses, May 10, 1580-June 26, 1581; volume 2 Francis Douce's copy of the first entries of the diary; volume 2 is bound in part of a mortgage by Humfrey Holte citizen and goldsmith of London to Richard Stonley of Alderichgatestrete, London, Gent. of a tenement ... in Fleet St., originally leased May 17, 1549.

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