Manx miscellanies.

Format:

Book

Microformat

Contributor:

Harrison, William, 1802-1884, editor.

Series:

Manx Society. Publications ; v. 20, 30.

[Publications] ; v. 20, 30

Language:

Celtic (Other)

English

Subjects (All):

Isle of Man.

Physical Description:

2 volumes : plates. ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Douglas, Isle of Man : Printed for the Manx Society, 1872-80.

Contents:

I. Selections from "Paradise lost" translated into the Manx language by the Rev. Thomas Christian. The emerald vernicle of the Vatican. Ancient portraitures of our Lord. The seal of Thomas, Bishop of the Isle of Man. Poetical description of the Isle of Man, in Manx, by Joseph Bridson, 1760; and rendered into English, by Mr John Quirk. The diary of James VIIth Earl of Derby.

II. Memoir of Captain John Greenhalgh, governor of the Isle of Man, 1640-l651. Memoir of Thomas Bushell, "the Recluse of the Calf", by the Rev. Abraham de la Pryme. A list of the householders in the town of Douglas, with their names, A.D. 1730. Godred Crovan, a poem written by Thomas Chatterton, 1768. Journal of the Rev. John Gell, chaplain of St. Mark's, during his early seafaring life, 1789. Mann, its names and their origin, by J. M. Jeffcott. Particulars relating to the brass coinage executed in the Isle of Man in 1733.

Notes:

Microfiche. Bishop's Stortford, Eng., Chadwyck-Healey, 1974. 5 sheets. 11 x 15 cm.

Each article in vol. II has special t. p.

Vol. II edited by William Harrison.

OCLC:

1379494