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On the inside upper cover are the names of R. Pugh and of J. H. Silvan Evans, Ty-Gwyn-ar-Daf, Whitland, 1907.
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A late eighteenth and early nineteenth century commonplace book of R[obert] Pugh, [N]eston containing copious extracts from printed sources entitled 'On Assurance', 'On Justification', 'On baptism...', 'On Reformation of Manners', 'Speeches & Anecdotes of dying Criminals', 'Divine Consolation ...', 'On Overcoming the World', 'On Libels', 'Orthodox Heterodox Opinions', 'On Orthodoxy & Conformity to Ch[urch] of England', 'On the Uncertainty of the Seasons', 'on Marrying', 'Lord Thurlow' (died 1806), 'On Unity in Religion', 'Of Seditions & troubles', 'On Charity', 'Mount Aetna in Sicily', etc.; poetry, including 'On early Rising - to a Friend' by B. C. (from the Shrewsbury Chronicle, 30 October 1789), 'On the Marriage of Miss Eliza Sackville to the Honorable Colonel Herbert' by Richd Cumberland, and 'An Hymn of Praise & Resignation' by T. H., 3 October 1763; a letter from Lydia Foulkes, Machynlleth to her cousin Mrs Lees, Shrewsbury, 1814 (an account of the last illness and death of the Reverend Thomas Charles of Bala); a 'Memorandum' of the 'Conversation & Advice' of the Reverend Henry Venn, rector of Yelling, near Huntingdon to [Charles] Jerram, [Thomas Truebody] Thomason and John Havel of the University of Cambridge; and recipes for wine. There is a thumb-index at the beginning of the volume.
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English.
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Preferred citation: 309B.
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- Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806 (Subject)
- Charles, Thomas, 1755-1814 -- Death and burial (Subject)
- Venn, H, (Henry), 1725-1797 (Subject)
- Pugh, R. (Robert), 1749-1825 (Subject)
- Foulkes, Lydia, Machynlleth (Subject)
- Jerram, Charles, 1770-1853 (Subject)
- Thomason, Thomas Truebody, 1774-1829 (Subject)
- Havel, John (Subject)