Notebook of a barrister riding on the Midland Circuit [manuscript], ca. 1609 February-1610/11 February.
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Notebook of a barrister riding on the Midland Circuit [manuscript], ca. 1609 February-1610/11 February.
Description
164 leaves.
Associated name
Jeffreys, John, approximately 1564-1622.
Shakespeare, John, active 1609-1611.
Jeffreys, George, 1645-1689, annotator.
Jeffreys, George, 1645-1689, former owner.
Jeffries family, former owner.
Shakespeare, John, active 1609-1611.
Jeffreys, George, 1645-1689, annotator.
Jeffreys, George, 1645-1689, former owner.
Jeffries family, former owner.
Summary
Apparently this volume belonged to the Jeffreys family of Acton, Denbighshire, ca. 1650-ca. 1660. The six Christian names on leaves 24 correspond to those of Judge Jeffreys and his five brothers, some of whom scribbled in the blank spaces, e.g. a note of personal expenses (leaf 62v), a couplet (leaf 39v), 2 alphabets (leaf 62r and leaf 68v), and an incomplete line of verse (leaf 68v). Their maternal grandfather, Sir Thomas Ireland of Bewsay, Lancashire (d. 1625), was a Reader of Gray's Inn. Their paternal grandfather, John Jeffreys of Acton Park (d. 1622), was a judge of the Anglesey Circuit.
Towns visited: Nottingham, Derby, Leicester, Warwick, Bridgnorth in Shropshire, Northampton and Lincoln. Rough notes of cases numbered sequentially by a clerk of the Assizes. The amount of detail varies. John Shakespeare appears as a defendant on leaves 56 and 160v. Includes annotations made by Jeffreys family.
Towns visited: Nottingham, Derby, Leicester, Warwick, Bridgnorth in Shropshire, Northampton and Lincoln. Rough notes of cases numbered sequentially by a clerk of the Assizes. The amount of detail varies. John Shakespeare appears as a defendant on leaves 56 and 160v. Includes annotations made by Jeffreys family.
Note
Verse listed in the Folger card index of first lines.
First line: A man of words and not of deeds (leaf 68v).
First line: God made man and man made money God made bees and bees made honey (leaf 39v).
First line: A man of words and not of deeds (leaf 68v).
First line: God made man and man made money God made bees and bees made honey (leaf 39v).
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2006-2007. Technologies of Writing in the Age of Print.
Washington, D.C. Folger Shakespeare Library 2015. The Age of Lawyers. Opening: p.56.
Washington, D.C. Folger Shakespeare Library 2015. The Age of Lawyers. Opening: p.56.
Includes
God made man and man made money God made bees and bees made honey
A man of words and not of deeds
A man of words and not of deeds
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Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- Midlands.
Great Britain -- Wales -- Wrexham.
Great Britain -- Wales -- Wrexham.
Item Details
Call number
V.a.489
Folger accession
MS Add 587