Catalogue description Commonplace book of William Wisdom of Glynde (born 1756)
This record is held by East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO)
Reference: | PAR347/7/1/1 |
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Title: | Commonplace book of William Wisdom of Glynde (born 1756) |
Description: |
Contains reminiscences of himself and his father (dating back to 1719) and reports of contemporary events relating mainly to Glynde, Firle, Lewes, Ringmer, Seaford and Newhaven; includes roads, cricket, Lewes races, shipwrecks, elections; local properties; anecdotes about local people (the Bishop of Durham, the Duke of Newcastle, Francis Poole, MP for Lewes, the Ellman and Hay families); descriptions of London, Warwick, Leamington, Coventry and Warwickshire villages |
Date: | [1719-1832] |
Held by: | East Sussex and Brighton and Hove Record Office (ESBHRO), not available at The National Archives |
Former reference in its original department: | PAR 347/7/1/1 |
Language: | English |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
Purchased from a bookseller by Mark Antony Lower, 1864, and presented to the Rev W de St Croix for himself and future vicars, Mar 1872; roughly half the book has been published by A T A Lusted as 'The book of Wisdom' parts 1 [1991] and 2 (1992) |
Custodial history: |
Formerly PAR347/7/1 |
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