Ferrers, John. Autograph letter signed from John Ferrers, Preston, to Thomas Parker, Esq., Browsholme

Folger bibliographic ID: 122704
Folger call number: X.c.118
Folger holdings ID: 115330
Accession Number: MS Add 1210

Ferrers discusses help that might be given to him in a forthcoming law case at Whalley-Sessions. More significantly, the letter concerns events relating to the Rye-House plot, including the burning of the Rump at Covent Garden after the return of the Duke of York (James II), the burning of an effigy of a Presbyterian Minister, the burning of the Earl of Shaftesbury's effigy, as well as the Exclusion Bill and other related news

General notes

John Ferrers is possibly the same John Ferrers, gentleman, who appears in an appeal to Lancashire Quarter Sessions, 1668-69. Those documents state that Ferrers was a Derbyshire man, an attorney by training Dated: Preston, 15o April 82o. Signed: J. fferrers. Addressed: For his honoured friend Thomas Parker, Esqr., att Broosholme. Intact red wax seal to right of address Also available as a digital reproduction Formerly Folger MS Add 1210 Acquired from A.R. Heath, February 2003 (no. 27)

Item information about Folger X.c.118

Adopted by Marie Hojnacki and Garrett Sullivan, Acquisitions Night 2004

Extended title: Autograph letter signed from John Ferrers, Preston, to Thomas Parker, Esq., Browsholme 1682 April 15

Ferrers, John, active 1682 Parker, Thomas, 1631?-1695 Rye House Plot, 1683 Great Britain

correspondent: Ferrers, John, active 1682
subject: Ferrers, John, active 1682
subject: Parker, Thomas, 1631?-1695
correspondent: Parker, Thomas, 1631?-1695