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Commonplace book of Humphrey Newton (1466–1536), of Pownall, Cheshire — 15th century, late - 16th century, early; English

MS. Lat. misc. c. 66

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Title

Commonplace book of Humphrey Newton (1466–1536), of Pownall, Cheshire — 15th century, late - 16th century, early; English

Shelfmark

MS. Lat. misc. c. 66

Associated place

Congleton

Newton

Pownall

Place of origin

English

Date

15th century, late - 16th century, early

Language

Middle English (1100-1500)

English

Latin

Contents

(fols. 1r–75r) Legal memoranda, copies of deeds and rental, notes on familes in East Cheshire and estate management
(fol. 24r) Rental of Newton, 14–20 Henry VII
(fol. 49r) Fitton deeds
(fol. 66r) Rubric: For to serve a Lord
(fol. 8v) Rubric: To lerne to set a harpe
(fol. 9v) Rubric: Measurement of the fote of Jesu Christ
(fol. 17v) Indulgences to be obtained at various churches in England.
(fol. 18r) Prayer found in a copy of the Miracles of our Lady at Newark
(fol. 19v) Letter of Adam Mottram, precentor of Salisbury to John Pigot
(fol. 21r) Vision in a traunce of John Newton of Congleton , draper and sherman, 1492.
(fol. 26v) Rubric: Gode proverbes to set in ye border of ye halle
(fol. 31b) Legal treatise
(fol. 34b) Forms of grace before and after meals.
(fol. 62v) Letter of Robert Preston .
(fols. 75r–91r) Medical treatises
(fol. 75r) Commentary on Egidius Corboliensis, De urinis
(fol. 83r) Trotula
(fol. 86v) Recipe
Recipe
(fol. 87a) Medical remedies
(fol. 89r) Rubric: A regement of dietynge for the mygrem secundum Reyns
(fols. 92r–129r) Verse and other collections of H. Newton
(fol. 92v) Poems, mainly by H. Newton
(fol. 95r) Manus palmiste.
(fols. 96r–101ar, 104v–105v) Ornamental letters and beginnings of petitions
(fol. 101bv) Sir John Fortescue (attrib.) Twelve points for purchasers of land to look to
(fol. 102r) Treatise on conveyancing
(fol. 122r) Table of the planets
(fols. 123r, 124v–127r, 128v) Recipes for making inks and colours
(fol. 123r) Extracts on physiognomy
(fol. 124r) Rubric: Proportio ymaginis undarum
(fol. 127r) Names of the books of the Bible, in verse
(fols. 128r) Recipe for cooking rabbit
Extract on confession

Form

codex

Support

paper, parchment

Binding

19th century half morocco binding.

Acquisition

Sold at Sotheby's, 27 October 1947, lot 259; bought by the Bodleian.

Provenance

Humfrey Newton (1466–1536) (on whom see Earwaker, 1877, I, 121–2).

The descendants of H. Newton, the Wards and the Bromley-Davenports, first at Pownall Hall, and later at Capesthorne (see Horwood, 1874, 80).

Lent in the mid-17th century to John Booth , the Cheshire antiquary, who suffered it 'to be destroyed with moisture and eaten with ratts' (fol. vi recto).

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