The Spalding Gentlemen’s Society has been in existence from 1710 and all its minute books survive. Early members under the leadership of Secretary Maurice Johnson included Sir Isaac Newton and William Stukeley. A quick glance through this volume soon indicates why it is of facsimile pages and is not a transcription. There are sketches of medals, coins, artefacts, heraldry and even a seahorse. Among the many subjects discussed at these early meetings were alphabets, a Roman Wall at Boston, a method for treating small pox, an urn found at Spalding and Gerves’s Water Engine. Adapted from the Introduction.
Volume 73 The Minute-Books of The Spalding Gentlemen's. Society 1712 – 1755
Editor Selected and introduced by Dorothy M. Owen with the help of S.W. Woodward
Date For the year ending 31st August 1980
Publication Date 1981
Size 330 x 220 mm
Language English
Printer Set, printed and bound by Fakeham Press Ltd., Fakenham, Norfolk
Note On the reverse of the title page: The Society is grateful to the late Sir Francis Hill and to the Twenty-Seven Foundation for generous grants towards the cost of this publication and to the Spalding Gentlemen’s Society for permission to publish the text.
Content Contents, 1 page
Introduction, 11 pages
Facsimile plates of pages from the Minute-Books, 46 pages
Place Index, 1 page
Index of Persons, 2 pages
Subject Index, 2 pages
Bibliography, 1 page
Description The Spalding Gentlemen’s Society has been in existence from 1710 and all its minute books survive. Early members under the leadership of Secretary Maurice Johnson included Sir Isaac Newton and William Stukeley. A quick glance through this volume soon indicates why it is of facsimile pages and is not a transcription. There are sketches of medals, coins, artefacts, heraldry and even a seahorse. Among the many subjects discussed at these early meetings were alphabets, a Roman Wall at Boston, a method for treating small pox, an urn found at Spalding and Gerves’s Water Engine.
Adapted from the Introduction.
Editor Selected and introduced by Dorothy M. Owen with the help of S.W. Woodward
Date For the year ending 31st August 1980
Publication Date 1981
Size 330 x 220 mm
Language English
Printer Set, printed and bound by Fakeham Press Ltd., Fakenham, Norfolk
Note On the reverse of the title page: The Society is grateful to the late Sir Francis Hill and to the Twenty-Seven Foundation for generous grants towards the cost of this publication and to the Spalding Gentlemen’s Society for permission to publish the text.
Content Contents, 1 page
Introduction, 11 pages
Facsimile plates of pages from the Minute-Books, 46 pages
Place Index, 1 page
Index of Persons, 2 pages
Subject Index, 2 pages
Bibliography, 1 page
Description The Spalding Gentlemen’s Society has been in existence from 1710 and all its minute books survive. Early members under the leadership of Secretary Maurice Johnson included Sir Isaac Newton and William Stukeley. A quick glance through this volume soon indicates why it is of facsimile pages and is not a transcription. There are sketches of medals, coins, artefacts, heraldry and even a seahorse. Among the many subjects discussed at these early meetings were alphabets, a Roman Wall at Boston, a method for treating small pox, an urn found at Spalding and Gerves’s Water Engine.
Adapted from the Introduction.