A collection of documents relating to the Fairfax family, together with other miscellaneous material, compiled by Charles Fairfax and others. ca. 1650-1710.

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A collection of documents relating to the Fairfax family, together with other miscellaneous material, compiled by Charles Fairfax and others. ca. 1650-1710.

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Contains notes by Charles Fairfax relating to the Analecta Fairfaxiana, a Latin anagram on himself with his explanatory note referring to the tempest which his ship weathered in September 1652; also, other Latin verses, including a draft elegy on Dr Radcliffe, English verses on Lord Harrington, on the vanity of women, and other subjects, Latin prose about the tragedies of Sophocles, and a page of Italian verses.

1 v. (33 ff.), folio and quarto manuscript.

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...