GEMMS IDGEMMS-MANUSCRIPT-000801
TitleJohn Beetham's commonplace book
ShelfmarkBC MS Lt 31
Creation Dateca. 1650 - 1670
Contents NoteContains verse, sermons and other miscellaneous notes, including, ff.1-2 signatures; ff. 3v-8v family records, dates for burials and baptisms; ff. 30-40 arithmetical tables, remedies, cryptomgrams, etc.; f. 42v bill of debt; f. 73r ink recipe; f. 75v sententious precepts; f. 76r The prophesie of Heuah the Walshman (prose); ff. 76v-78v list of the compiler's one-sign word symbols; f. 79r a record frost November to April "1683"; f. 80v spire burning in year 3 Eliz.; Pontefract sessions complaint of man of 68 whose wife 65 had two children 5 and 3; f. 128v “The Loyall non-conformist the account hee careserve and what he care not’; f. 129v coal accounts?; beaching of monster "fish" at Grimsby, year 6 Eliz; heights of Robin Hood and Little John (?); remarks on Italian women and Italian livestock; f. 160r record of hanging of John Oldroyd in 1682 on Holberd Moore for murder in 1679; ff. 160v-162v signatures including Richard Dearley.
Material Features1 volume (219 ff.). Bound in blind tooled sheep; spine damaged. Charles Lardner Woodd's signature and bookplate are on f. 2r and the inside front cover.
Associated Peoplemanuscript owner - Beetham, John manuscript owner - Jefferson, Thomasmanuscript owner - Woodd, Charles
ProvenanceOwned by members of Beetham and Dearlove families, Thomas Jefferson, and Charles H. Lardner Woodd [sic]. Signature of Charles H. L[ardner] Woodd [sic], 1847, is on f.2r, and his bookplate inside the front cover.
Acquisition
Source of DataCatherine Evans; Brotherton Library Catalogue
Other Note
Sermons ContainedSermon on John 8:18 -- ff. 11r-15vSermon on Haggai 2:13 -- ff. 16r-22vSermon on Ezekiel 14:12-18 -- ff. 22v-29vSermon on Philippians 4:7 -- ff. 43r-51vSermon on Song of Solomon 5:6 -- ff. 51v-64vSermon on 1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- ff. 66r-72rThe Malt Sermon -- f. 74rSermon on Psalms 16:11 -- ff. 89r-96rSermon on Romans 6:18 -- ff. 81r-88vSermon on 2 Corinthians 8:12 -- ff. 96v-107vSermon on Exodus 16:30 -- ff. 108r-120rSermon on Haggai 1:5-7 -- ff. 120v-128rSermon on Ephesians 6:16 -- ff. 163r-170rSermon on Jeremiah 8:8 -- ff. 171r-183rSermon on 1 Corinthians 11:29 -- ff. 187r-193rSermon on Isaiah 57:2 -- ff. 195r-201rSermon on Psalms 113:1-3 -- ff. 202r-211vSermon on Luke 13:3 -- ff. 211v-219r
Sermon Reports Contained
Attached URLs:
| URL | Notes |
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| https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/7219 |
GEMMS record createdApril 26, 2018
GEMMS record last editedJanuary 19, 2023