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GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-000773
TitleSpeeches in Parliament: with miscellaneous verses
ShelfmarkAdd MS 70636
Creation Date1618 - 1662
RepositoryBritish Library
Contents NoteA volume of parliamentary speeches and poetry owned by Knightley Chetwode. His name, as well as the name "Jane Chetwode" (probably Knightley's sister), is recorded on f. i. The volume also includes notes on sermons by Obadiah Grew, written in another hand (ff. 25r-33v), recorded ca. 1651-1662.
Material FeaturesPaper, ii + 44 leaves, 187 x 147mm. Small notebook bound in contemporary limp vellum. At various points, there are stubs of other pages from a previous binding.
Associated Peoplemanuscript owner - Chetwode, Knightleymanuscript owner - Douglas, Sylvester
ProvenanceThis volume was formerly among the papers of Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie (d. 1823).
AcquisitionPresented on 5 December 1990 to the British Library by Winkworth and Pemberton, solicitors based in Oxford, through the British Records Association (Deposit 2378) and the National Library of Scotland.
Source of DataAnne James; British Library manuscript catalogue
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Sermon Reports Contained
GEMMS record createdMarch 08, 2018
GEMMS record last editedJune 27, 2022