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- 1601-1607, [mid 17 cent.]. (Creation)
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247 ff. (old partial foliation in two sequences 1-24, 4-162, defective; some leaves blank) ; 195 x 135 mm.
Bound by H. Stamper in marbled calf with gold fillets; five raised bands with gold tooling on spine; the arms of the 4th duke of Newcastle stamped in gold on front cover.
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A volume, 1601-1607, in the hand of John Prise, the Priory, Brecon, and the Priory, Hereford, grandson of Sir John Prise (1502?-1555), containing medical and other recipes including charms against witchcraft (ff. 16 verso, 18); monetary accounts, mostly agricultural and household disbursements, together with brief lists of rents received, 1603-1604, for lands in Defynnog and for the tithes of Battle and Llandeilo'r-fân, Breconshire (ff. 5, 6 verso-7); the medicinal properties of various kinds of meat (ff. 234-238 verso); and farming memoranda (ff. 3 verso, 5, 6 verso-7, 240, 241 verso-242, 243 recto-verso). Additions in later seventeenth-century hands include culinary recipes (ff. 223 verso-224 verso, 225 verso).
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- English
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English.
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Leaves cut out between ff. 3 and 4, 8 and 9, 213 and 214, stubs only remaining of ff. 4, 245-247.
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'Cup[?] 25/B', '12/12/-', '383', 'No[?] 9', 71.D.4', 'MSS 928.38' in pencil inside front cover; 'MS 2.1079' [former Cardiff Central Library shelfmark] in pencil (erased) on flyleaf.
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