My First Booke of My Life

Contents

Contents Preface xv Introduction xvii Editorial Principles and Documentation lvii • My First Booke 1 Bpp Halls Obseruations in his booke of Meditations And Vowes 3 A Praier 3 The dedication 3 The birth of Alice Wandesforde 4 Prouerbes 5 A Preface to the booke 5 Vppon my deliuerance from death, by a fall when I was 3 years old 6 A preseruation in the Meassells 8 A Preseruation in the smale-Pox, 1631 9 The first dawning of Gods Spirit in my heart 9 A deliuerance from a fire in London, 1631 10 My Mothers goeing into Ireland, 1632, 33, 34, 35 10 A great deliuerance from drowning In Ireland by a fall out of the Coach 11 A great deliuerance from a 2d fall att Sr Robert Merideths in Dublin, 1637 12 A deliuerance from a fire & other remarkables 13 viii • Contents A dreadfull fire in the Castle of Dublin, 1638 14 A deliuerance from Ship-Rack in A Passage into Ireland 15 A thankesgiueing for our deliuerances affter our dangerous passage by Sea 16 Obseruations vppon seuerall accidents happening in Ireland vppon the Earle of Strafford . . . and on his fatall murder, may 12, 1641 17 A Relation conserning my Honoured Father, the Lord Deputy Wandesforde, & of his Death, December 3d 1640 21 Account of the Lord Deputys Death 22 Meditations & Praier vppon the Death of my Honoured Father 26 A Praier vppon my fathers Death 32 A Prayer to be said before wee Receiue, Made by my father before he went into Ireland, 1628 34 My Mothers Preseruation from the Irish Rebellion, October 23d 1641. A Thankesgiueing for our great deliueration 34 A thankesgiueing for preseruation from the Rebellion in Ireland, Octb 23, 1641 38 Vppon my Mothers comming to Weschester from Ireland & of my haueing the Smale Pox 39 A Thankesgiueing affter my recouery from the smale Pox in weschester, 1642 43 A discourse of passages & deliuerances of my Mother & vs 3 Children 44 A deliuerance from a Surfett of Lobster att Richmond, 1643 48 A Gratefull Remembrance of my beeing preserued from the fury of the warres 50 Contents • ix A great deliurance from the violence of a Rape from Ierimy Smithson 52 My deliurance from Drowning in the Riuer att Midlam . . . in the yeare 1644 52 The death of My Sister Danby, September 30th 1645, att her house at Thorpe 53 The death of my Cosen Iohn Norton, 1646 57 The death of Sr Edward Osborne, 1646 57 The marriage of my Cozen Edmund Norton 58 The death of my Cosen Edmund Norton 58 Vppon the beheading of King Charles the Martyr Ian 30th 1648 58 The death of my cozen Iulian Norton 61 Vppon the Death of my brother George Wandesforde, March 31, 1651, & of his Sequestration, & other troubles 61 A Lamentation, & Prayer, vppon the death of my honoured brother George Wandesforde Esquire 69 Vppon the reconsileing of my two Brothers George & Christopher Wandesford 73 An Eligie vpon George Wandesford Esqr on his vnfortunate Death, by the Honourable Sr Christopher Wyuill Barronett 73 Obseruations of Gods goodnesse . . . in the time of the Warres & Distractions 74 The Marriage of my Cosen Mary Norton 75 The Marriage of my brother Christopher Wandesforde 75 The Mariage of Alice Wandesforde, December 15, 1651 76 A Relation of the Remarkable passages of my Life Since my Marriage 81 A deliuerance from death that day on which I was married, December 15th 1651 81 x • Contents Meditations vpon my deliuerance of my first Childe, & of the great sicknesse followed 82 A praier & thankesgiueing for my deliuerance of my first Childe August 6th 1652 85 Vppon the Birth of my Second childe, & Daughter Alice Thornton 87 A praier & thanksgiueing for my deliuerance of my Second daughter Ian. 3d 1654 88 Meditations vppon the birth of my 3d childe Eliz. Thornton, borne the 14th of February 1655 90 A thanksgiueing affter the birth of my 3d childe Betty 91 The death of my husbands Mother 93 The death of my husbands father in Law 93 The death of my husbands brother Richeard Thornton 93 Meditation vppon the birth of my 4th childe Katherin Thornton Iune 12th 1656 94 A prayer before the deliuery of my daughter Alice Thornton, Iune the 12th 1656, by Alice Wandesford 94 A Thankesgiueing affter the deliuery of my Daughter Alice Thornton 96 Elizabeth Thorntons death, the 5th of September 1656 98 A Praier After the death of my 3d childe Betty Thornton 98 Vppon...