Item genre: Family record

British Library: Add. MS 4454
The religious meditations, verse and autobiographical writings of Katherine Austen (1664-83)
Katherine Austen (Author)

Item 2 (Family record, Title page), fol. 1r

Book M

All common people have the interest of the sun's rising

...

My Husband was born Sunday the 11th August 1622. He died 31 Oct. 1658 being 36 years, 2 months, 21 days.

[These constitute the full text of item 2. They are written in a large but plain italic hand, and occupy the top third of the page.]

[Fol. 1v is blank.]


British Library: Add. MS 4454
The religious meditations, verse and autobiographical writings of Katherine Austen (1664-83)
Katherine Austen (Author)

Item 3 (Family record, Title page), fol. 2r

English, French.

Katherine Austen 1664. Appriel. Ma defence consiste, assouoir endurir.

...

et 11 Nov 1668 A Rudd wilt buried

[This is a more 'formal' title page than msItem 2: the incipit is in a more ornate, larger italic hand in the top third of the page, and the notes on significant family dates are in the middle of the page.]

[Fol. 2v is blank.]


British Library: Add. MS 4454
The religious meditations, verse and autobiographical writings of Katherine Austen (1664-83)
Katherine Austen (Author)

Item 39 (Verse, Autobiography, Diary entry, Family record, Religious writing), fols. 46r-46v

Dec. 5th 1664 upon Robin Austen's recovery of the smallpox, and Colonel Popons' son John dying of them, a youth of a very forward growth, their ages the same, Popon 3 years for growth more.

How does thy mercies still renew

...

As well in death as life ensue.

30 lines

[A note in the margin next to the rubric labels this poem '2nd'.]


British Library: Add. MS 4454
The religious meditations, verse and autobiographical writings of Katherine Austen (1664-83)
Katherine Austen (Author)

Item 41 (Autobiography, Family record, Letter, Address to the reader), fols. 48r-49r

Discourse to L. upon the Newington Barrow

My lord when the King [Charles I] had this estate in his interest it was of such trivial value

...

And I hope we shall be better able to keep it when our family have lived in credit for this 100 years without it.

[This discourse relates to the expiry of a lease period that the Crown had imposed on Highbury (see biographical article). One line in the middle of (the otherwise blank) fol. 48v reads 'We are not come to the fruition of it at this time, being still in lease'.]


British Library: Add. MS 4454
The religious meditations, verse and autobiographical writings of Katherine Austen (1664-83)
Katherine Austen (Author)

Item 43 (Autobiography, Family record, Meditation), fol. 51r

1664

I observe what a long and healthy age my Grandmother Rudd lived above 80

...

Dear mother thou hadst a great estate and a great burden too.


British Library: Add. MS 4454
The religious meditations, verse and autobiographical writings of Katherine Austen (1664-83)
Katherine Austen (Author)

Item 44 (Advice, Family record), fol. 51v

An advice piece to her children, relating the circumstances of their Uncle Field's bequesting of his estate.

To my children

Let the example following divert your wishes and your aims at the estates of friends

...

And be the raiser of your fortune and leave the rest to God, and he will do better than your own projects can.


British Library: Add. MS 4454
The religious meditations, verse and autobiographical writings of Katherine Austen (1664-83)
Katherine Austen (Author)

Item 47 (Verse, Epitaph, Family record, Religious writing), fol. 53v

On the Death of my niece Grace Ash. 4 years old.

Sweet blooming bud

...

Where their chiefest part will grace.

16 lines

[A note in the left hand margin next to the rubric numbers this poem '3rd'.]

[Barbara Todd identifies Grace Ash as the daughter of Austen's sister, Lady Mary Ashe ('A Young Widow', p. 211).]


British Library: Add. MS 4454
The religious meditations, verse and autobiographical writings of Katherine Austen (1664-83)
Katherine Austen (Author)

Item 48 (Commentary, Dream, Family record, Meditation, Religious writing), fol. 54r

On the death of Mr Francis Duffield, my husband's cousin germane. Died De. [December] 18 1664 of smallpox, aged 35 [or 33; difficult to read] at Medenham.

How many young persons are dead since I had my dream gave me intimation of mine.

...

I may not shrink by fear, but learn to render up myself to the Almighty's pleasure.


British Library: Add. MS 4454
The religious meditations, verse and autobiographical writings of Katherine Austen (1664-83)
Katherine Austen (Author)

Item 51 (Family record, Meditation, Prayer, Religious writing), fol. 55v

This 5th May 1666 my multitude of business and of cross affairs I do renew that petition that my God would strengthen me and waft me over this ocean where I am.

[This is the complete text of item 51.]

[A cross in the margin half-way through item 50 matches a cross at the beginning of msItem 51, which has apparently been added to the page two years later.]


British Library: Add. MS 4454
The religious meditations, verse and autobiographical writings of Katherine Austen (1664-83)
Katherine Austen (Author)

Item 180 (Family record), fol. 114v

The 12 of March 1664, my Aunt Marget was 68 years old.

[This is the full text of item 180.]


British Library: Add. MS 4454
The religious meditations, verse and autobiographical writings of Katherine Austen (1664-83)
Katherine Austen (Author)

Item 184 (Family record), fol. 114v

A set of three family records.


British Library: Add. MS 4454
The religious meditations, verse and autobiographical writings of Katherine Austen (1664-83)
Katherine Austen (Author)

Item 184.1 (Family record), fol. 114v

22nd Nov. [November] [..] [illegible] anno. 1664.

[This is the complete text of msItem 184.1.]


British Library: Add. MS 4454
The religious meditations, verse and autobiographical writings of Katherine Austen (1664-83)
Katherine Austen (Author)

Item 184.2 (Family record), fol. 114v

22 Feb [February] Robin [Austen's son Robert] went to school

[This is the complete text of msItem 184.2.]


British Library: Add. MS 4454
The religious meditations, verse and autobiographical writings of Katherine Austen (1664-83)
Katherine Austen (Author)

Item 184.3 (Family record), fol. 114v

Tom went to Oxf [rest caught in the binding]

[This is the complete text of msItem 184.3.]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F34
Diary, Volume 6 (1711-1713)
(Author, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 4 (Family record), p.289

Note about Cowper's stillborn granddaughter

On the 28th day of this month, Lady Cowper was delivered of a girl stillborn.

...

I am not apt to lament the dead; but less for such as never lived.

[This is the last item in the front of the book. The manuscript is turned upside down and written in from the back towards the front. This contents list now starts from the back and works to the middle.]


Bodleian Library: MS Rawlinson D. 102
(c. 1635-8)
(author) Mary Honywood

Item 2 (Family record), 1r-2v

[fol. 1 is blank. Fol. 2 is cropped c. 25 mm from the gutter, and two larger folios are pinned to the stub]


(scribe)unknown

[scribe probably an employee of the Honywood family]

register of children born to Sir Thomas Honywood and his son Sir John Honywood

The Ages of Sir Thomas Honywood's Children and all Sir John Honywood's Children's Ages

1582 Margaret Honywood the 4th of November

...

Katherine Honywood entered into this world upon the thirteen day of May 1637 about eight of the clock at night and was Christened at Elmsted the 23 of the said month.


Nottinghamshire Archives: DD/Hu1
Lucy Hutchinson's Commonplace Book ()
Lucy Hutchinson

Item 6 (Family record), pp. 192-205

Genealogy of the Boteler family

An abstract out of the Pedigree or Genealogy of the Noble Family of the Botelers anciently Barons

English and Latin

[The hand transcribing this section is a small mixed (secretary/italic) hand.]

[p. 205 is blank.]