Analecta Fairfaxiana, A[nn]o 1660, compiled by Charles Fairfax. ca. 1663-1667.

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Analecta Fairfaxiana, A[nn]o 1660, compiled by Charles Fairfax. ca. 1663-1667.

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Contains probably the final version of the Analecta Fairfaxiana by Charles Fairfax, being his detailed history of the Fairfax and related families, including a dedication dated 1663, historical and genealogical records, accounts, and pedigrees in English and Latin, verse epitaphs likewise in English and Latin on various prominent members of the family from medieval times onwards, letters, indentures, memoranda, mottos, anagrams, coats of arms, drawings of seals, emblems, and monuments, and an index, all neatly written out, with some interlineated insertions and revisions, and with annotations by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), especially on pp. 403-406.

1 v. (421 p.), folio manuscript.

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Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

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Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

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Fairfax family

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Fairfax, Charles, 1597-1673

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Charles Fairfax (1597-1673) was an antiquarian, genealogist and compiler of the Analecta Fairfaxiana . He was born at Denton in Yorkshire, but spent most of his life at Menston, on his wife's estate. In 1646, his brother Ferdinando, second Lord Fairfax, appointed him steward of the courts of Ripon and he later served as a colonel of foot in Monck's army. Following Monck's march into Yorkshire, Fairfax became governor of Kingston-upon-Hull, but after a year he retired to Menston to pursue his ant...