| Number & Link |
Description | Location |
|---|---|---|
| MOR-1 | Typescript "description of the Mordaunt Bible from A.W. Codd" (3 sides). Quotes text of manuscript entries written in a Book of Common Prayer by Elizabeth, wife of John Mordaunt who was tried for conspiring against the Protector. The entries refer to their marriage on 7 May 1657, the birth of Charles Mordaunt (4 Feb 1657-8); acquittal of her husband, 2 June 1658; birth of John Mordaunt 20 Mar 1658-9; birth of Charlot Mordaunt 21 Jun 1660; birth of Cary Mordaunt 29 Jul 1661; birth of Harry Mordaunt 29 Mar 1663; Sophia Mordaunt, born 15 Jul 1664; Louis Mordaunt, born 12 Dec 1665; Anne Mordaunt, born 5 Mar 1667; Osbert Mordaunt, born 2 Mar 1668; Osmond Mordaunt, born 13 Oct 1669; George Mordaunt, born 3 Dec 1675. This refers to the Mordaunt Bible [MOR/2] | Given to John Barnard by Nea Morin, circa 1980 |
| MOR-2 | Original 1638 Book of Common Prayer and Holy Bible with manuscript entries by Elizabeth Viscountess Mordaunt, as transcribed in document MOR/1. [Extensively annotated transcript with images of manuscript entries prepared by John Barnard, October 2022] | Held by Ian Morin |
| MOR-3 | Anecdotes &c. of Elizabeth Viscountess Mordaunt Commencing 1656. London: F.C. & J. Rivington (1810). Printed volume bound by Lilian Taunton (paper sticker on inside cover), 137pp. "Extracts from the Lady Mordaunt's manuscript 1656". No inscriptions. Appears to be transcripts of prayers and diary entries. Photos taken of cover and title page 27 Jul 2015. [It is not clear how this relates to "The Diarie of Viscountess Mordaunt", edited by Robert Jocelyn, Earl of Roden; privately printed, Duncairn, 1856. - see item MOR/7] | Held by Ian Morin |
| MOR-4 | Virgil Scott, I, John Mordaunt. Pan Books, paperback (1966) [First published New York, Harcourt Brace (1964)]. Historial novel based on the life of 1st Viscount Mordaunt of Avalon, probably of dubious historical accuracy. | Held by Ian Morin |
| MOR-5 | Elizabeth Hamilton, The Old House at Walton. More About the Mordaunts. Salisbury: Michael Russell (1988). Copy signed by the author [This book is concerned with the Mordaunt Baronets, who are only very distantly related to the Earls of Peterborough] | Held by Ian Morin |
| MOR-6 | Manuscript note made by John Barnard at 17 Church Road,
Tunbridge Wells, 17 Oct 1980. This appears to relate to a document seen
there, though it was not among the material seen at Ian Morin's on 27
Jul 2015. The note refer to "The Proceedings of a General Court-Martial
held ... Dec 1757 ... upon the Trial of Lt.-Gen. Sir John
Mordaunt. Published 1758" [This work available in digitised form at
https://books.google.co.uk/books ?id=JkJfAAAAcAAJ&lpg=PA8&ots=vDK50FQZUd &dq=%22John%20Mordaunt%22%20court-martial&pg=PA1#v=onepage &q=%22John%20Mordaunt%22%20court-martial&f=false This John Mordaunt was the son of Lt.-Gen. Harry Mordaunt, younger brother of 3rd Earl of Peterborough https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mordaunt_%28British_Army_officer%29 |
Held by John Barnard |
| MOR-7 | Manuscript note made by John Barnard at 17 Church Road, Tunbridge Wells, 17 Oct 1980. This appears to relate to a document seen there, though it was not among the material seen at Ian Morin's on 27 Jul 2015. The note quotes from "The Diarie of Viscountess Mordaunt (edited by Robert Jocelyn, Earl of Roden; privately printed, Duncairn, 1856)" of which there is a digitised copy at https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OZJCAAAAYAAJ&redir_esc=y | Held by John Barnard |
| MOR-8 | Portrait print of Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough in oval frame (2 photos taken 26 Jul 2015) | Held by Lady Denise Evans |
| MOR-9 | Nadine Akkerman, Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain, Oxford University Press 2018 (paperback edition 2020). Chapter 5 (pp. 185-181) is concerned with Elizabeth Carey, Viscountess Mordaunt. | Paperback edition purchased by John Barnard, 2022 |
| MOR-10 | The Letter-Book of John Viscount Mordaunt 1658-1660. [The original manuscript is held at the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, GB 133 Eng MS 55. The items listed below are publications relating to it.] | |
| MOR-10-1 | Mary Coate, The Letter-Book of John Viscount Mordaunt 1658-1660. Edited transcript . Royal Historical Society Camden Third Series, Vol. LXIX [https://doi.org/10.1017/S2042171000005239] | |
| MOR-10-2 | Cedric C. Brown, “The Story of the Mordaunt Letter-Book in the Rylands Library. The Eloquence of Incompletion”, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library, 94 (2) 51-71 (2018) [https://doi.org/10.7227/BJRL.94.2.2] | Copy held by John Barnard |
| MOR-11 | B. Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages. London: Harrison (1883). pp. 379-381 [entries for Mordaunt peerages] | Photographed at TNA, Sep 2022 |
| MOR-12 | G.E.C[okayne] et al., The Complete Peerage, 2nd Ed., Vol IX. London: St Catherine Press (1936). pp. 193-203 [entries for Mordaunt peerages] | Photographed at TNA, Sep 2022 |