The Poems of Sir Robert Aytoun (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Poems of Sir Robert Aytoun

How the ms. Became the property of the Hadow family, the editor has been unable to discover; but from the family care that seems to have been bestowed on it, it had probably come into their possession by the intermarriage of Mr James Hadow, Principal of St Mary's College, with one of the family of the Archbishop. In the beginning of last century, it appears to have been used as a household book, as the latter half of the volume, unoccupied by the poems, is filled with directions for dyeing, and other domestic recipes. There occur in this part of the volume the dates of 1704, 1705, and 1708, and the writing resembles that of Principal Hadow.

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