Miscellaneous prayers, two volumes: Volume II, late 17th century
By Dr. Fitzwilliams.
The following particulars show the general contents of Volume II:
- (fols. 1-51) i. Miscellaneous prayers, partly in Fitzwilliams' hand, with a table prefixed. The contents also include special prayers for particular persons, among them those in fols. 58, 60, 62, 64 and 66.
- (fol. 58) ii. Prayer for use by a Jacobite, whose name has been carefully crossed out, under sentence of death.
- (fol. 60) iii. Prayer "For the lady Northamp[ton] upon the death of her daughter the countess of Dorset", [1691].
- (fol. 62) iv. "A prayer for a lady upon the death of her lord; fitted for lady Russel".
- (fol. 64) v. "A prayer for lady Russel, July 19, 1693, after the marriage of both her daughters".
- (fol. 66) vi. "Coll[ect] for a widow afflicted for the loss of her husband by a violent death", apparently the widow of the Jacobite mentioned above, a name in the margin being similarly crossed out.
- (fol. 69) vii. Letter to the countess of Gainsborough at Titchfield [Mary wife of Edw. Noel, first earl of Gainsborough] condoling on the death of her husband [in 1689], and sending a prayer for her use; Chilton, 31 Aug., n. y.
- (fol. 70) viii. "An anniversary prayer for the day of my birth, St. Bartholomew".
- (fols. 112-116) ix. "Meditation and prayer on St. John Baptist’s day".
At the end of the volume is a small slip (fol. 119) which was found among these papers, but is written by another hand, containing a list of irregularities and violations of the rubric committed by some parish clergyman.
Dates
- Creation: late 17th century
Extent
119 Leaves
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MSS. Rawl. D. 1247
Other Finding Aids
William D. Macray, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae partis quintae fasciculus primus viri munificentissimi Ricardi Rawlinson, J.C.D., codicum classes duas priores, ad rem historicam praecipue et topographicam spectantes, complectens(Oxford, 1862), no. D. 1247.
Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series(7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. III, no. 13979.
Physical Facet
On paper, in octavo
Repository Details
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