Item genre: Closing material

Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F29
Sarah Cowper's Diary, Volume 1 (1700-1702)
(Author, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 8 (Prayer, Closing material), pp.325-[326]

Closing prayer

Help me to love wisdom above health, and choose to have her instead of light, for the light that comes from her never goeth out.

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This is the entire entry.

Page [326] is blank.

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Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F29
Sarah Cowper's Diary, Volume 1 (1700-1702)
(Author, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 9 (Apology, Closing material), back flyleaf r - back pastedown

Final remarks on the diary

Here are indeed a great many trifling occurrences, but having few extraordinary accidents to relate I must be content to recount things as they have happened.

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Yet 'tis possible those reflections may not trouble but please us to see we have passed over them so well, or at least no worse.

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A later reader has added pencil notes to the flyleaf, including remarks about Cowper, such as "58 years in 1702" and "born in 1644".

Flyleaf v and the pastedown are blank.

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Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F30
Diary, Volume 2 (1703 - 1705)
(Author, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 14 (Notes, Closing material), p.[372]-back pastedown

Thoughts on writings diaries

The writers of diaries record the most memorable things that befall them.

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and whoever will attend to it may find many of his Psalms to be a register of divine dispensation towards him, and of the frame of his spirit under them left to posterity to make their best use of them.

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Preceded by blank p.[371].

Followed by blank p.[373] and back pastedown.

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Newberry Library: Wing MS ZW 645.K29
Proverbs ( 1 January 1606)
(scribe) Esther Inglis

Item 24 (Closing material, Drawing, Motto), fol. 22r

nil penna sed usus

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Decorated page, showing a device of crossed gold pens interweaving a green floral wreath, surmounted by a jewelled crown, with a double blue rule above and below. Inglis's motto, "Nil penna sed usus", straddles the device

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Dr. Williams's Library: MS 28.58
Biography of Christopher Love (after 1660)
Mary Love (Author)

Item 6 (Closing material), p. 142


Mary Love (Author)

Reader. P:S:

I have now scarce Eyes left me (being drowned in Just tears) to write thee a short farewell

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And for all the sorrow I have been content to repeat for thy spiritual advantage repay one prayer that it may go well for ever with those afflicted ones, whom this man of God left behind him.

[Followed by a blank leaf, fol. 78.]