Report On The Mss Of The Earl Of Ancaster Preserved At Grimsthorpe

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ISBN 13 : 9780265278512
Total Pages : 648 pages
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Download or read book Report on the Manuscripts of the Earl of Ancaster, Preserved at Grimsthorpe written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report on the Manuscripts of the Earl of Ancaster, Preserved at Grimsthorpe: Presented to Both Houses of Parliament by Command of His Majesty On the accession of Queen Elizabeth, Mr. Bertie and the Duchess returned to England with their two children, Susan and Peregrine, the latter of whom was born during their wanderings. They settled down at Grimsthorpe, and lived there in considerable state, as is Shown by the list of their household on p. 459, contained in a very interesting volume of household accounts for 1560 - 1562. Its pages give us many glimpses Of their family life. At Yule-tide the Lord of Christmas and the boy-bishop played their parts there were new-year's gifts, and presents on Twelfth-night; the weddings of friends and retainers were attended, and on one occasion celebrated by a banket in the Park to the children of the house hold. Susan and Peregrine bought fairings, acted as gossips to their friends' babies, and were, no doubt, present at the perform ances given by players, musicians, jugglers, baiting bulls and puppets, who came in their wanderings round the country or from the castles of noble patrons to entertain the company. There are notes of visits to and from neighbours, journeyings to their London home in Barbican and sojourns at the Court, and occasional indulgence in play of a very modest description, for which Mr. Pretie, the cofferer, apparently doled out small sums to his master and his noble lady. In 1572 Richard Bertie made an attempt to prove his title to the style of Lord Willoughby in right of his wife, fortifying his case by a long list of barons jure uxorum (pp. 4, He was unsuccessful, but in 1580 the title fell to his son, Peregrine, on the death of the Duchess. On p. 5 will be found a letter of condolence to Mr. Bertie from one of his old Palatine friends, praising her virtues, and especially the piety which led her to endure banishment and even the danger of death for the sake of her faith. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.