Dear Stephen (Steven?)
I may be wrong (I often am) but I don't think the spelling of names
was quite so standardised at that time.
I see much variation for Holbourne, etc
There may be an accepted
spelling, but that would probably
be a modern fairly arbitrary decision, I think.
Anthony Hind (Hinde?)
Le 21 juin 07 à 00:56, Edward Martin a écrit :
> Stepen,
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> In the front of her book, on f.lv in 16 16, inscribed:
>
> Jane Pickeringe owe this
> Booke 1616
>
> In the Boethius edition, Robert Spencer gives an introductory
> study, and he
> states in the 1877 British Museum "Catalogue of Additions 1854-1857"
> identified her thus: "A daughter of Sir John Puckering (or
> Pickering),
> Lord Keeper, married Adam Newton, tutor to Henry Prince of
> Whales". The
> facts are incorrect, as Sir Adam Newton in 1605 married "not Jane, But
> Katherine, the youngest daughter of Sir John Puckering, Lord
> Keeper". Indeed, Sir John did not have a daughter, Jane.
>
> The 1909 British Museum "Catalogue of Manusctript Music" offered an
> alternate identification "...probably the Jane Puckering whose
> father, Sir
> Thomas, was created a baronet in 1612 and whose aunt Dorothy
> married Sir
> Adam Newton" But, Sir Thomas did not marry until 1616, so the
> daughter
> Jane who died without issue in 1652 cannot possibly have been the
> owner of
> the book in the same year as her parents' marriage.
>
> So, it remains a mystery, unless there is new research of late.
>
> All in all, records indicate Pickering, Pickeringe, and Puckering.
> Since
> her inscription is Pickeringe, I'd go with that.
>
> ed
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> At 11:20 PM 6/20/2007 +0100, Stephen Kenyon wrote:
>> Hello, which please is the appropriate spelling for our Jane?
>> Many thanks...
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>> Stephen
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