Instructions for my children, or any other Christian, directing to the performance of our duties, towardes God and Man, drawne out of the holy scripture [manuscript], 1606-ca. 1750.

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Instructions for my children, or any other Christian, directing to the performance of our duties, towardes God and Man, drawne out of the holy scripture [manuscript], 1606-ca. 1750.

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Contains an unfinished work of Lady Ashburnham's prayers, meditations, and thanksgivings, separated into four parts according to her table of contents (although part two is not present and the other parts may be incomplete). Volume starts with a preface by Ashburnham, "Of the intent and effect of this booke." Also includes (in later hands), an inventory of plate, "the 6th of Feby. 1699 / An acc[oun]t of what plate is put into a grate flat box couered w[i]th red le[a]ther" (leaf 6r); a list of book titles, ca. 1750 (leaves 54-57); and a paper seal of the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury from the 1820s (originally laid in; formerly Folger MS X.d.544).

86 leaves (mostly blank) ; 20 x 16 cm.

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Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Prerogative court

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Cramond, Elizabeth Richardson, Baroness, -1651

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Elizabeth Richardson (also known as Elizabeth Ashburnham) wrote A ladies legacie to her davghters, published in 1645 (Wing R1382). The Folger manuscript, according to the Oxford DNB, appears to be a much earlier precursor to that work. A related manuscript is in the East Sussex Record Office (ASH 3501), a manuscript copy of Richardson's prayers given to her eldest daughter, Elizabeth Cornwallis, in 1635. From the description of Instructions for my children, or any other Christian, di...