Queen's University Belfast: [A diary] (Percy Ms 7)

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Queen's University Belfast: [A diary] (Percy Ms 7)

Author Name
Rogers, Samuel, 1613-1643?
Document Date
1634
Source Location
Percy Ms 7
Source Collection Name
Queen's University Belfast
Editorial Notes
Autograph diary with the life of the subject followed by daily entries 18 November 1634-31 December 1638. Note by Percy on endpaper dated Oct 12 1760 reads: 'It was a common thing in the last century for the Puritans to draw up narratives of their experiences or as the favourite phrase was of God's dealings with them. The following fanatic diary is a piece of that kind'. 'Samuel Rogers his booke' is inscribed on the front free endpaper; there are other scribblings and sums. This diary, edited by Tom Webster and Kenneth Shipps, was published in 2004 by the Boydell Press for the Church of England Record Society. From the library of Thomas Percy. Calf, blind tooled; spine wormed; spine decorated in white ink with skulls and crossbones; spine title in white ink 'Fanatick Journal MS'.
Original Filename
Diary_Fanatick