Mary Love (fl.1639-60–)

Prose

The Life of Mr. Christopher Love

LoM 1

Copy, in a non-professional rounded hand, with two prefatory letters, by ‘M. L.’ and ‘T. H.’ (? Thomas Harrison, minister in Chester) respectively, in a different mixed hand, incomplete. c.1660s.

In: A quarto composite volume comprising four MSS, 113 leaves, in half green leather gilt.

This MS described in the online Perdita Project.

British Library, Sloane MS 3945, ff. 78r-113r.

LoM 2

Copy, in one or possibly two rounded hands, complete with (ff. iiir-vir) two prefatory letters, by ‘M. L.’ and ‘T. H.’ (? Thomas Harrison, minister in Chester) respectively and (p. 142) a ‘P:S:’ to the reader, vi leaves + 142 quarto pages. In a composite volume principally of 26 printed sermons and elegies, in 19th-century brown leather gilt. c.1660s?.

Bookplate of ‘H:Strangewayes’: possibly of Henry Strangewayes (1741-89), of York.

This MS described in the online Perdita Project.

Dr Williams's Library, MSS 28.58 (PP.12.50*4 (21)).