Author: John Richard Magrath

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Published: 2015-08-05

Total Pages: 628

ISBN-13: 9781332310371

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Excerpt from The Flemings in Oxford, Vol. 1: Being Documents Selected From the Rydal Papers in Illustration of the Lives and Ways of Oxford Men, 1650-1700 This book aims at doing for the latter half of the seventeenth century, in the way of illustration of Oxford life and ways, what is done for the latter half of the eighteenth century in Mrs. Evans' Letters of Radcliffe and James. In the Prefatory Note to that book (p. xxii) I stated that I had been put on the track of what promised to be an interesting correspondence; how interesting it was to turn out I had at the time little idea. In 1885 Sir Henry Maxwell Lyte, who was then engaged on his History of the University, took occasion of a visit to Oxford to inspect the Diary of Thomas Crosfield in the College Library, and in course of conversation he told me that he was at work for the Historical Manuscripts Commission on a collection of family papers which contained much information on the University life of the time. I understood that till the Commission had done with them no access to them could be obtained, but that he would be very happy to put me in the way of inspecting them afterwards. He added that he proposed to print everything of interest that he found in them. In 1890, in the seventh part of the Appendix to the Twelfth Report of the Commission, appeared the Calendar of the Manuscripts of S. H. le Fleming, Esq., of Rydal Hall. The glimpses in the Calendar of what I hoped to discover made me anxious to get to closer quarters with the collection, and with the kind co-operation of Sir Henry Maxwell Lyte I was enabled to obtain the consent of Mr. le Fleming to my inspection of the documents at the Public Record Office in London. 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.

Download or read book The Flemings in Oxford, Vol. 1 written by John Richard Magrath and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Flemings in Oxford, Vol. 1: Being Documents Selected From the Rydal Papers in Illustration of the Lives and Ways of Oxford Men, 1650-1700 This book aims at doing for the latter half of the seventeenth century, in the way of illustration of Oxford life and ways, what is done for the latter half of the eighteenth century in Mrs. Evans' Letters of Radcliffe and James. In the Prefatory Note to that book (p. xxii) I stated that I had been put on the track of what promised to be an interesting correspondence; how interesting it was to turn out I had at the time little idea. In 1885 Sir Henry Maxwell Lyte, who was then engaged on his History of the University, took occasion of a visit to Oxford to inspect the Diary of Thomas Crosfield in the College Library, and in course of conversation he told me that he was at work for the Historical Manuscripts Commission on a collection of family papers which contained much information on the University life of the time. I understood that till the Commission had done with them no access to them could be obtained, but that he would be very happy to put me in the way of inspecting them afterwards. He added that he proposed to print everything of interest that he found in them. In 1890, in the seventh part of the Appendix to the Twelfth Report of the Commission, appeared the Calendar of the Manuscripts of S. H. le Fleming, Esq., of Rydal Hall. The glimpses in the Calendar of what I hoped to discover made me anxious to get to closer quarters with the collection, and with the kind co-operation of Sir Henry Maxwell Lyte I was enabled to obtain the consent of Mr. le Fleming to my inspection of the documents at the Public Record Office in London. 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.