Memorials of the English affairs: or, an historical account of what passed from the beginning of the reign of King Charles the First, to King Charles the Second his happy restauration. Containing the publick transactions, civil and military. Together with the private consultations and secrets of the Cabinet.
Sir Bulstrode Whitlocke (1605 - 1675)
Category
Books
Date
1682
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Vyne Estate, Hampshire
NT 3042725
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 166, 159-162, 185-305, [1], 303-377, [1], 378-384 leaves, 385-456, 458, [1], 458-460 leaves, [5], 461-464 leaves, [5], 465-558, 561-592, 603, 594-599, 606, 601-610, 617-647, 678, 657-704, [16]p. . fol. Loosely inserted: 2 leaves of ms. notes in eighteenth- or nineteenth-century (?) hand, beginning ‘To the memory of Chaloner Chute [(d. 1659)]… purchaser of the Vyne in 1653 … and Speaker of the House of Commons. … In a Monument in the Chapel, at y. Vyne, which for Design, Architecture, Statuary, and Execution, is worthy of notice. – Carter.’ Also notes on monuments to Sir B. Granville. Provenance: Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate: Chute of the Vyne [i.e. Chaloner William Chute (1838-1892); the plate was designed for him in 1885 by his brother-in-law William Wyndham Portal, but also used by later generations]. Binding: Seventeenth-century full calf over boards; red morocco spine label with title ‘Whitelock’s Memorials’; sewn on six raised bands; nineteenth-century (?) brown morocco repairs to spine.
Makers and roles
Sir Bulstrode Whitlocke (1605 - 1675) Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey PC (1614-1686)