Moulton, John ( -1623)

Common-place book, notes of sermons, expenses, etc., with a few medical receipts: mainly in Latin. At the end, among the unpaginated leaves, are notes 'February 2nd 1621 A note of my estate in moneyes at London': below this 'A note of my estate in money left at North Waltham when I went to London on Thursday being the 27th of February 1622'. Further among these leaves is a copy of John Donne's 'Last will and testament. This is printed in Grosart's edition of Donne's poems, as 'Loves legacie'. On the verso of the second preliminary leaf is a note 'Thomas Moulton was Buride in the Paston Church the 24th day of September 1602'. The medical receipts towards the end are in English, as also are a few original [?] verses.

c. 1620

1 volume 2 ll. + 356 pp. + 66 ll. 4to. 191/2 X 131/2 cm. Original calf binding. Pp. 9-12 wanting.

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Purchased 1930.

John Moulton of North Waltham, Hants was Vicar of the Church of St. Bartholomew the Less (Venn: 'Alumni Cantabrigienses').

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).