Holland, early 18th century

Notebook of an anonymous English commentator on the political institutions of Holland, with various other entries The political memoranda occupy the beginning of the volume (ff. 1-28); there follows a receipt against the Plague' (f. 63), a précis of `Mead's discourse concerning pestilential contagion' [first edition 1720] (ff. 64-65), a `Journal thro Flanders' (ff. 76-78), and `An account of the rise of the Helvetian Republick ` (ff. 82-83). Various addresses at f. 85v.: `Mr G Benson Prescot Street Goodmans Fields London', `Mr Tho. Mills(?) Cherry Garden Street Redriffe Southwk', `Dr Pererin.(?) Hunt (Goodmans Yard Holieures(?)', `Mr Ant.(?) Calamy Founders Court Lothbury'.

Early 18th century

85 ff. numerous blanks. 1 volume, 158 x 95 mm. Original pagination 1-72 and unnumbered. Quarter red-leather binding, with marbled boards.

Purchased from A R Heath, 2000.

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts