MS. Laud Misc. 1
Summary Catalogue no.: 653
Prayer-book of Jane Wriothesley
Contents
with added inscriptions, some with one or two couplets of verse, by at least six Tudor women, as follows:
‘As Y have sayd ye shall me fynd, | In word and ded, Y you asuer,| Wyche ys to be your ernest frynd,| As long as my lyf doth induer.| Margaret Dowglas’
Elizabeth Fitzwalter
'M.T'., after a four-line poem
‘Madam althowe I have differred writtyng in your booke, | I am no lesse your frend than you do looke. | Kateryn the Quene KP’
Marie Wriothesley
Princess Mary (according to a later inscription)
‘Good madame I do desyer you most hartly to pray,| that in prosperyte and adversyte I may, |have grace to kepe the trewe way ;| your lovyng frende to my⟨⟩’
Tower prayers of Thomas More (Katherine Parr: Complete Works and Correspondence, ed. J. Mueller (2011), 495 n. 13)
Physical Description
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Jane Wriothesley (fol. 1v).
William Laud, by 1633.
Part of his first donation to the Bodleian, 1635.
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Last Substantive Revision
2022-08: Description revised for publication on Digital Bodleian.