The Ferrar papers, 1590-1790, in Magdalene College ... - Microform

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This microfilm edition presents those Ferrar Papers which are
in Magdalene College, Cambridge. They are reproduced by permission
of the Master and F~~lloW5 of the college, with whom the copyright
remains.
The edition does not include those items which were part of
the collecticm once but which are so no longer, nor does it record
any of those volume5 from the Ferrars' library which are to be
found in the Old Library at Magdalene.
The three thousand and more items of the Ferrar Papers came to
the college in 1781 when Peter Peckard became the Master, and they
have remained there ever since because, being childless, he
bequeathed them to the college at his death in 1797. He himself
had inherited them in 1769 from his father-in-law, Edward Ferrar
11, a Huntingdon lawyer.
In the 19th century the collection was left largely
undisturbed. It warj used by J.E.B.Mayor for his Kafi-b-ridqe in the
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Seventeenth Century :_j&J&v,es of Nicholas Ferrar (1855). At the
end of the century, when Miss Carter wa5 preparing her Plicholas
Ferrar. his househo1.d and friends