Reference code
DWL/RB/v.133
Other numbers
former reference:Treatises, v.2
Level of description
item
Title
Margaret Baxter’s instructions to the trustees of her estate
Date
10 February 1679
Extent and Medium
Extent:f 2 (f 2v is blank); 187 x 145 mm.
Genre/Physical Characteristic:w/m fragment: post horn in an ornate shield Seal
Creator
Scope and content
Direction by Margaret Baxter to her trustees for the disposal of the remainder of her estate by her husband after her death. Quarto.
Finding aids
Argent / Black v.133 (also recorded as v.2); Thomas p.14
Publication note
  • For Richard Hampden (1631-95), the son of the Parliamentarian leader John Hampden, see ODNB, Corr 602, 625, 723, 726, 773, 792, 967 and 1006, and Rel ii, 448, iii, 172. Richard Baxter dedicated the second, greatly enlarged edition of his The Life of Faith (1670) to Richard and Lady Laetitia Hampden. See also Rel iii, 61. Baxter’s sermon,
  • The life of faith, as it is the evidence of things unseen', which was originally printed in 1660. It was preached before King Charles II at Whitehall on 22 July 1660. See Rel i, 120.
  • For John Swynfen (Swinfen) (1612-94), MP for Stafford in the Long Parliament and for Tamworth in Richard Cromwell’s Parliament and in the Cavalier Parliament, see Corr 554 and ODNB.
Personal name