Crowdsourcing the Reconstruction of a 17th-Century Englishwoman's Library
Englands Helicon : casta placent superis, pura cum veste venite, et manibus puris sumite fontis aquam (At London : Printed by I. R[oberts] for Iohn Flasket, and are to be sold in Paules Church-yard, 1600)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 267. ESTC S112729.
British Library C.39.c.48. Located by Paul Morgan.
A discouerie of the treasons practised and attempted against the Queenes Maiestie and the realme, by Francis Throckmorton, who was for the same arraigned and condemned in Guyld Hall, in the citie of London, the one and twentie day of May last past (London : Printed by Christopher Barker, 1584)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 265. ESTC S95543, S118509, or S111550.
Unlocated.
Downing, Calubyte. A discourse of the state ecclesiasticall of this kingdome, in relation to the civill : considered under three conclusions (Oxford : Printed by William Turner, and are to be sold by Ed. Forrest, 1634)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 264. ESTC S109842.
Unlocated.
Note: It is possible that this text belonged to one of Wolfreston’s sons, Stanford or Francis Wolferstan, given their keener interests in matters ecclesiastical.
Fletcher, Phineas. The purple island, or, The Isle of Man : together with piscatorie eclogs and other poeticall miscellanies (Cambridge : Printed by [Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel] the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge, 1633)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 263. ESTC S5142 or S102332.
Unlocated.
Donne, John. Poems … with elegies on the authors death (London : Printed by M[iles]. F[lesher]. for Iohn Marriot, and are to be sold at his shop in St Dunstans Church-yard in Fleet-street, 1633)
Sotheby’s 1856 lot 263. ESTC S121864 or S1701.
Unlocated.
Frances Wolfreston Hor Bouks 