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)

Details of PAR347/7/1/1
Reference: PAR347/7/1/1
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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