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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in a small research library in London, was unearthed in 2000, but this week the journal, hailed as "the most important unpublished British diary of the later 17th century", will be published.
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)