Miscellany [manuscript], ca. 1613-ca. 1756.

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Fettiplace, Edmund, d. 1613. Miscellany [manuscript], ca. 1613-ca. 1756.

Miscellany [manuscript], ca. 1613-ca. 1756.

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Contents: cookery, household, pharmaceutical recipes; poems, including one on puppets and several on Admiral Byng, and humorous epitaphs; a commentary on John Keymor's observation made upon the Dutch fishing in 1603, (Part I, leaf 19); a note of family baptisms, 1662-1684, (Part I, leaf 33); an excerpt from the letters patent for the erection of the bishopric of Oxford, November 4, 1546, (Part II, leaf 6); a memorandum of the bequests of Mrs. Goodenough to her daughter, June 20, 1730, (Part II, leaf 21), an extract of the will of Anthony Bruce of the parish of St. George the Martyr, Middlesex, (Part II, leaf 53), a note of the naval force, 1755, (Part I, leaf 28 and Part II, leaf 62); comments on news of 1756, (Part II, leaf 63); notes of certain documents, some connected with the jointure of the first compiler's wife, ca. 1291-1629, involving a prebend in the deanery of Witney, Oxford, and mentioning the Fettiplace and Ingoldsby families, (Part I, leaves 4, 48 and Part II, leaves 1-5); an inventory of Sir Edmund Fettiplace's goods, 1613, (Part II, leaf 1); and other matters.

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