Northamptonshire Studies Collection, Accession No. 7839
Autograph autobiographical journal of Grace Mildmay, in her neat italic hand with various corrections, deletions and revisions in her secretary hand, a family tree added in another hand, iii + 85 pages (plus blanks), in half-leather.
Written to cover a great part of the pilgrimage of my Whole life
(p. 59), a section cited by her (p. 30) as This book of my Meditation including (p. 32 et seq.) her obseruation
of her father-in-law Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer (having been with him almost twenty Yeares
), and (p. 67) declaring My deare childe Mildmay Fane, I your louing & old grandmother exhort you in the name of the Lorde, receiue my wordes acceptably...
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c.1617-20.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 2569.
A facsimile of this MS was published on CD by Microform Academic Publishers in 2005. Extensive extracts are published in Randall Martin, The Autobiography of Grace, Lady Mildmay, Renaissance and Reformation, NS 18/1 (Winter, 1994), 33-81, and in Linda Pollock, With Faith and Physic: The Life of a Tudor Gentlewoman, Lady Grace Mildmay, 1552-1620 (London, 1993), passim. Facsimile of p. 11, with transcription, in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), pp. 254-5.
*MiG 1:
Grace, Lady Mildmay,
Journal
A facsimile of this MS was published on CD by Microform Academic Publishers in 2005. Extensive extracts are published in Randall Martin, The Autobiography of Grace, Lady Mildmay, Renaissance and Reformation, NS 18/1 (Winter, 1994), 33-81, and in Linda Pollock, With Faith and Physic: The Life of a Tudor Gentlewoman, Lady Grace Mildmay, 1552-1620 (London, 1993), passim. Facsimile of p. 11, with transcription, in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), pp. 254-5.