Nicholas, John. Diary and accounts of Sir John Nicholas

Phillipps, T. Phillipps manuscripts: 11750
Folger bibliographic ID: 230592
Folger call number: V.a.419-420
Folger holdings ID: 279244
Accession Number: MS Add 431.1

The daily entries refer to proceedings in Parliament and the Privy Council, to politics and social events as well as to family concerns. The accounts include his expenditure on his family's and servant's clothes, his stables and cellar, repairs to the church in 1673 (?), his purchase of the manor of Winterbourne Stoke [Wiltshire], and a summary of his rents and income, 1668-1674. He mentions the proceedings of the court of the manor of West Horsley in 1668. Sir John went to plays several times, but he never states what play he saw. He bought a landscape by Danckerts (Dancre) and called in Dr. Needham for medical advice

General notes

Sir John Nicholas was clerk to the Privy Council and lived in Horsely, Surrey and at Spring Gardens, London The entries are inserted in the current volume (1668?) of Gallen. A new almanack (Wing A1789A) No. 168 in Sotheby Sale Catalogue of the B.H. Bright MSS, June 18, 1844 Phillipps MSS 11750, 11806. (the description under the number 11806 in the catalogue of Sir Thomas Phillipps MSS does not correspond to V.a.420) Formerly Folger MS Add 431

Extended title: Diary and accounts of Sir John Nicholas 1668-1674

Danckerts, Hendrick, approximately 1625-1680 Needham, Walter, 1631?-1691? Clothing and dress

author: Nicholas, John, 1623 or 1624-1705
subject: Danckerts, Hendrick, approximately 1625-1680
subject: Needham, Walter, 1631?-1691?
former owner: Bright, Benjamin Heywood, -1843
former owner: Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872