Decoded Roger Morrice diary reveals dark days
Freak weather, prisoners held without trial, bishops behaving badly: it's the stuff of everyday news. Except these are not 21st-century reports, they are 17th-century ones.
It has taken seven years - at least two longer than expected - and the collaboration of six leading international academics to extract these stories of life in the late Stuart period from the "diary" of Roger Morrice, a Puritan cleric-turned-lobby correspondent.
His Entring Book, which lay forgotten for 300 years in a small research library in London, was unearthed in 2000, but this week the journal, hailed as "the most important unpublished British diary of the later 17th century", will be published.
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It has taken seven years - at least two longer than expected - and the collaboration of six leading international academics to extract these stories of life in the late Stuart period from the "diary" of Roger Morrice, a Puritan cleric-turned-lobby correspondent.
His Entring Book, which lay forgotten for 300 years in a small research library in London, was unearthed in 2000, but this week the journal, hailed as "the most important unpublished British diary of the later 17th century", will be published.