The Notebooks of Nehemiah Wallington, 1618–1654 by David Booy

Author:David Booy [Booy, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780754651864
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2007-06-28T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 The first (not extant) was number 15 in Wallington’s list in the Folger notebook, dated 1639 (Seaver, 1985: 200).

2 Editorial additions in this and the next two paragraphs arise from manuscript damage.

3 See 1 Kings 8:57; but a common promise: see, for example, Deuteronomy 4:31 and 31:6, 8; 1 Samuel 12:22; 1 Kings 6:13.

4 Job 13:15.

5 Because this notebook covers three years, in order to prevent confusion, I have added the year to Wallington’s dates where he has not given it, unless it seemed superfluous to do so. Where a passage I have chosen does not include a date at all, I have usually recorded the day, month and year; occasionally it was not possible to be that precise.

6 Manuscript: gap in text. Charles reluctantly gave his assent to the Triennial Bill on 16 February 1641.

7 and: probably in error for ‘than’.

8 Headquarters of the Guild of Turners (in Smithers Lane).

9 trougs: trugs (wooden baskets, pans or trays).

10 Obscured by tight binding.

11 ‘knowes’ deleted.

12 formarly: formal.

13 Obscured by tight binding.

14 Thomas Wentworth, earl of Strafford. See the selection from BL, Add. MS 21 935, fol. 138v and following.

15 On fasting, see Durston (1992), Webster (1997: 61-74).

16 Obscured by tight binding.

17 Above ‘we’ deleted.

18 dampe: state of dejection.

19 Proverbs 11:10. See also Psalms 68:2-3.

20 William Grant, Wallington’s apprentice.

21 Aspe: aspen.

22 There are probably letters obscured by tight binding.

23 Obscured by tight binding.

24 Above ‘her’ deleted.

25 On 3 July 1641 Charles deferred assenting to the Bills for the abolition of the Courts of High Commission and Star Chamber.

26 colcoating: there is no such word; Wallington probably means ‘holding colloquy with’ (that is, ‘conversing with’).

27 See the selection from GL MS 204, pp. 470***-472.

28 ‘and consulted in his holy word’ deleted.

29 anatomizing.

30 Wallington decided not to copy out the 12 other sins listed by Mark.

31 Again, Wallington breaks off before listing the 15 other sins named by Paul.

32 Wallington gives further biblical references.

33 Manuscript: (incorrectly) ‘Galatians 5:22’.

34 sennit: a contracted form of ‘seven night’; here it means ‘a week ago’, ‘last Friday’.

35 Above ‘ mon[y?]’ deleted.

36 Having inserted ‘6’, Wallington did not delete ‘5’.

37 ‘my’ deleted.

38 Wallington’s use of ‘then’ to mean ‘than’ as well as ‘then’ calls for attentive reading in these lines.

39 Francis Spira (Francesco Spiera). See the selection from Folger MS V.a.436, pp. 45-7.

40 Psalms 6:6.

41 Simeon Ashe, a leading Presbyterian.

42 Above ‘some’ deleted.

43 Deletion: probably ‘afternoon’.

44 That is, the first chapter of the Old Testament book of Nehemiah (specifically verses 4-11).

45 Manuscript: ‘death’.

46 It is unclear why Wallington mentions chapter 2; he quotes only from 1:11.

47 my thought: methought.

48 Above ‘ower’ deleted.

49 Deletion: probably ‘so stand’.

50 See the selection from BL, Add. MS 21 935, fol. 163r-v.

51 Thomas Adams (see Seaver, 1985: 102-3, 150). Adams’s name appears with Wallington’s in lists of inhabitants of the upper precinct of St Leonard in Bridge Ward Within (GL MS 3461/1).

52 See the selection from BL, Add. MS 21 935, fols 163v-164r.

53 shreifes: sheriffs.

54 countrys: counties.

55 Coronal Lon: Colonel (Thomas) Lunsford. See the selection from BL, Add.

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