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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 February 2009
The diary which is the subject of this paper was written by Margaret, Lady Hoby, the wife of Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby, of Hackness, near Scarborough; it extends from August 1599 to August 1605. The manuscript is now in the British Museum (Egerton 2614); it was purchased from the Sydenham family, to whom it descended through Hoby's heir, Sir John Sydenham. As I hope to edit the text in full, I propose to give only a brief account of the writer, and a few extracts from the diary showing the everyday life of a country gentlewoman of that time.
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3 Ibid. p. vii.
4 Ibid. p. viii.
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1 Sydenham family MSS.
2 A little-known stringed musical instrument.—N.E.D. Possibly the same as the orpharion.—Schoole of Musicke, by Thomas Robinson, sign. B 1 (1603).
3 Most probably Stephen Tubley ‘of Scarborough, merchant,’ whose family came from Hackness.—Hackness Parish Register, ed. Rev. Johnstone, Charles and Hart, E. J. (1906). Paver's Marriage Licences, Yorks. Archœol. Journ. vol. x. p. 190.Google Scholar
1 Gawen Pollard was head constable of Pickering Lythe.
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2 Possibly William Perkins, the theological writer (1558–1602).
3 One of the famous family of physicians and probably brother to her own doctor at York.
4 The Queen was received at Chelsea by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, all in scarlet.—Annales of Engl. by John Stow, continued by Edmund Howes, p. 791. (1615).
5 The Theakstones were connected with Lady Hoby's cousins, the Isons, and with her friends the Girlingtons.
1 Probably Sir John Bouchier, or Bourchier, of Hanging Grimston, Yorks.
2 Job Throgmorton (1545–1601), the controversialist of Martin-Marprelate fame.
3 Wife of Sir Edward Hoby, daughter of Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon.
4 This was John Thornborough (1551–1641), Dean of York and Bishop of Limerick, whose second wife, Elizabeth Bayles, was a great friend of Lady Hoby's.
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6 About 1580 the first glasshouse for making Venice glass was set up in London. —London, by H. B. Wheatley, ii. 115, (1891).
7 Probably Frances, daughter of Henry Vavasour, of Coppenthorpe, near York; married 1591 Sir Thomas Sherley, the younger (1564–1630?); their daughter afterwards married a Dakins.
1 Sir Philip Sidney's ‘Stella,’ Lady Hoby's sister-in-law, being the sister of her first husband, Walter Devereux.
2 Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Philip Sidney (Lady Hoby's niece), married 1598–99 Roger Manners, fifth Earl of Rutland.
3 Ursula, second wife of Sir Francis Walsingham.
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2 Ibid. p. 65.
