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Folio [11.50 tall x 8.00 wide]. ESTC ref. 006078356. Wing B5204. Collates textually complete including portrait [lacking errata leaf & advert leaf at the close only]. A very good, clean and solid copy in the main. Minor marks, light blemishes or reading wear only else a very nice copy. Various divisional title pages throughout. The front blank leaf contains some very early MS notations & signatures of John & William Harbin of Newton (Surmaville) near Yeovil. John Harbin (2) (1614-1664) Born in 1614, John was the third son of Robert and Gertrude. His eldest brother Edward emigrated to Barbados but was never heard from again, his older brother Robert died in 1665 after which John became the fourth owner of the Newton Surmaville estate. John Harbin (2) had been a captain in the trained bands, and as a Loyalist suffered sequestration, from which he was discharged on 6 March 1647 "at which time he was not possessed of any estate". The same year he married Isabella, daughter of William Pert Esq., of Arnolds, in the parish of Mountnessing, Essex. The marriage settlement gave him Newton and land in West Lydford; and the immediate result was a fresh sequestration from which he was not released until he had taken the negative oath and handed over £30 to the use of the Commonwealth. He was again sequestrated by instructions from London on 8 October 1651 (after Worcester), when his real estate consisted of the lands as above, and he was valued at £50 including three cloth suits. The death of his older brother Robert Harbin (2) put John in possession of the family estates, burdened with debts and legacies. After the Restoration he was obliged to obtain a private Act of Parliament to bar the entail and enable him to sell the greater part of the property left by his ancestors. John had six children from his marriage to Isabella; Robert (d 1672, unmarried), Elizabeth (1648-1720, married Thomas Compton, then married William Young), William (1654-1708, married Elizabeth Wyndham of Yeovil, 1654-1708), Charles (1658-1691, unmarried), Bridget (1658-1716, unmarried) and John (1660-1699, unmarried). John Harbin's second wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Richard Strode, Knt., of Chalmington, in the parish of Cattistock, the marriage settlement being dated 6 May 1665. The licence issued from the Faculty Office gives Clifton Maybank as one of the churches where the ceremony could be performed. John Harbin (2) died on 29 May 1672. His widow remarried on 21 May 1684, Richard Mallock Esq. William Harbin (1654-1705) William born in 1654, the second son of John and Isabella, became the fifth owner of the Newton Surmaville estate in 1672 after the death of his father and elder brother Robert. The date of William's baptism was recorded in the Yeovil register on 9 August 1654, and his Christian name was probably due to his grandfather, William Pert. As a younger son he was apprenticed to Thomas Williams, mercer, and Sara, his wife, of Bristol, on 16 May 1670. It may have been his mercantile training that led him to make notes and copies of letters and other documents in his account book or on the fly-leaves of his favourite authors. He thus recorded his first action as head of the family, which is worth giving in full: "In the year 1672 one Sir Edward Bish, Clarencieux King-at-Arms, visited this Countie, and by the bailiffs of every hundred and I met at Ilchester in ye same year, and carryed my parchment in which my coat of arms were granted to my family many years ago; at which time, 72 aforesaid, one of Sir Edward Bish, his servants took my coat of arms, and enquired how many brothers my father had, who he marryed, how many brothers I have, and on paying 39 shillings and 6 pence for a confirmation came home again. I observed at the meeting aforesaid I saw no justice of peace neither could I learn of anyone that went the same time, but in Dorsetshire some years after most of the county went, and Sir Edward Bish aforesaid petitioned the Parliament about 82 a. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1707997158602
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