The Papers of Thomas Bowrey 1669 - 1713 discovered in 1913 by John Humphreys, and now in the possession of Lieut.-Colonel Henry Howard. Part I Diary of a six weeks' tour in 1698 in Holland and Flander

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Author: Thomas Bowrey (1669-1713) edited by Richard Carnac Temple Year: 1927 Publisher: Hakluyt Society Place: London Description: xxx+398 pages with frontispiece and 8 other plates, 5 maps of which 1 is folding, 8 figures, bibliography and index. Octavo (9" x 6") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial representation of the ship Victoria on the cover, decorative blind stamp to covers. Part I: Diary of a six weeks' tour in 1698 in Holland and Flanders, Part II: The story of the Mary Galley, 1704-1710. Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Number 58. First edition. The Thomas Bowery papers were discover in 1913 in a chest preserved by his widow and contained documents of all sorts and sizes, from books of accounts, records of law cases, shipping papers and correspondence, to mere slips of notes, covering Bowrey's life and the settlement of his own, his wife's and his mother-in-law's estates, together with papers connected with his father-in-law and the Bushell family, the latter carrying on the record long after Bowrey's death. There were hundreds of papers in all stages of legibility, and very many undated and unsigned. The editor eventually split up the documents into nine different sections; of which two are published in this work. The first set contains a characteristically energetic Six Weeks' Tour in Flanders and Holland in 1698, a diary of which is a pocket book with marbled cardboard cover, very closely written.

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