Identifier: eighteenthcentur00long (find matches)
Title: An eighteenth century squire; his journals and letters
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Longden, Henry Isham, 1859-1942
Subjects: Isham, Justinian, Sir, 1687-1737
Publisher: (Northampton) : Northampton & Oakham Architectural & Archaeological Society
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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lways adiflaculty, whose long voyages and hardships at sea are des-cribed, who returned to live and die in a decline in GoldStreet, Northampton ; Euseby, the rector of Lincoln College,■Oxford, who held the Lamport living with one other, fromwhom the present family descend; Charles who lived in thepresent Inland Revenue Ojffice at Northampton, the giant ofthe family, who thought nothing of tramping the eight milesto Lamport and beyond, to shoot. The sisters were Mrs.Hester Raynsford, wife of Francis, who lived a near neigh-bour at Brixworth Hall, during a long widowhood; Susanna,who died at Bath whither she had been taken in search ofliealth; Edmunda, who interested herself in the NorthamptonInfirmary and is buried at S. Giles, Northampton; and Vere,the eldest sister who was her brother Justinians special com-panion. When pursuing his studies in London or abroad, thebrother and sister corresponded regularly; frequently, too,in French and Italian at their fathers special wish. 13128T0
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Sir Justinian Isham, fifth baronet. AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY SQUIRE. 3- It was decided that Justinian, now nearly seventeen,should have a foreign education, including a period at a.German university. Setting out 2 May, 1704, in companywith his cousin, Edmund Turnor, and his tutor M. Masson,they encounter several delays at Harwich, but at length thewind being fair, they sail on 15 May, M. Masson writing toSir Justinian, Mr. Isham is very well and hopes to be so ashipboard. Journals were kept for each period of histravels. A tour among the Dutch cities ends at Utrecht 2.July, 1704, where he stays the greater part of a year. Thiswas but the first of many tours in Holland, Belgium, Den-mark, France, Germany, and Italy. Two years at the DucalAcademy at Wolfenbiittel in the Duchy of Brunswick follow.A famous library had been founded there in 1644. At the-Academy were the sons of many distinguished people, bothforeign and English. By letter Sir Justinian constantly giveshis son advice: Consider

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