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Barcheston Parish Register. Binding

Barcheston Parish Register. Vellum binding

Barcheston Parish Register. Whole page entry for Richard Hyckes' burial. 1621

Barcheston Parish Register showing burial entry for Richard Hyckes. He set up the looms at Barcheston[which continued] under the patronage of [the founder's son] Ralph Sheldon with the assistance of Peter ...

Barcheston Parish Register. Whole page showing entry for Peter the Dutchman. July 1590

William Sheldon provided funds to set up a tapestry weaving workshop at Barcheston in South Warwickshire, under the management of Richard Hyckes, who held the title 'Queen's Arrasmaker'. Some of the ...

Beautiful Britain: Stratford on Avon with Leamington & Warwick

Beautiful Britain: Stratford on Avon with Leamington & Warwick, by Dixon Scott. The book features colour illustrations by Fred Whitehead. It was published by A & C Black Ltd, London, and printed by Billing ...

Beck's Leamington Guide Book

This guide book, described as 'an historical and descriptive account of [Leamington and] the neighbourhood', was published in 1852. It contains information and images about places of interest in the town. ...

Bible

A hard backed Bible with a black cover used at the Leamington Spa Borough Police Court. There is an embossed inscription on the front, 1880.

Bible. English. The Bible translated, 1576 - blank leaf following Old Testament front page, owners' notes

Births and deaths recorded in a Bible of Shakespeare's time. Family notes recording the birth of a son to Edward Lumley in 1695, and the death of Mary, the wife of a later owner, Robert Mason, in 1780 ...

Bible. English. The Bible translated, 1576 (Geneva version) - [?18th century] plate, illustration inserted p.67

A disobedient servant in Shakespeare's England. Every Elizabethan home employed servants to assist with the daily tasks of housekeeping. Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew ...

Bible. English. The Bible translated, 1576 (Geneva version) - St Matthew, chapter 1, p. 5A1v.

The Christmas story: a source for Shakespeare. The Christmas story as recounted by St. Matthew in his gospel was familiar to Shakespeare who refers to this ‘holy’ time of year in his play ...

Bible. English. The Bible translated, 1576 (Geneva version) - binding view

A family Bible from Shakespeare's time, in a repaired later binding. Many of Shakespeare’s contemporaries, especially devout Protestants would have owned a so-called ‘Geneva’ edition ...

Bible. English. The Bible translated, 1576 (Geneva version) - notes on verso of front flyleaf .

An owner’s family notes in their Bible from Shakespeare's time. This Bible has notes by a number of former owners whose signatures appear on the title-page. On the flyleaf a late Victorian owner ...

Bible. English. The Bible translated, 1576 (Geneva version) - title page of New Testament.

The New Testament provided sources for Shakespeare. Shakespeare’s plays show a familiarity with the text of the ‘Geneva’ edition of the Bible, and many Elizabethan homes would have ...

Bible. English. The Bible translated, 1576 (Geneva version) - title page.

The Bible in English: known by Shakespeare. The Shakespeare family, like all their Elizabethan contemporaries were required by law to attend their parish church for worship every Sunday. At Holy Trinity ...

Bible. English. The Bible translated, 1576 (Geneva version) - Book of Common Prayer, p.3A1r.

The Book of Common Prayer : The church services known to Shakespeare. Most printed copies of the ‘Geneva’ Bible from Queen Elizabeth’s time are bound with The Book of Common Prayer ...

Bible. English. The Bible translated, 1576 (Geneva version) - Book of Common Prayer, Psalm 45, p.Aa2v.

Psalms in the church service Shakespeare knew. The text for the Psalm known as the ‘Venite’, was regularly sung by Shakespeare's contemporaries at Morning Prayer each week. See:1 Henry ...

Blotter - open

This is a blotter that was owned by the author George Eliot. It is signed by Eliot and her husband John Cross. The names and addresses of her piano maker, solicitor and T.A. Trollope also appear. George ...

Book

A Maltese book of the Acts of the Apostles, 1871.

Book

Chinese book, from Macao, with a beige paper cover and black printing, 1832.The book is written in both English and Chinese characters and was given to H. Clarke.