| Description | Entitled 'Biographica Domestica: Jacobus Montaltus Scotus' (in rubic).
Foreword by Menteath saying that it was written by Sanderson Miller in 1774, when confined on account of insanity at Doctor Willis' house at Dunston near Lincoln. The account starts when Sanderson Miller met Menteath up at Oxford, about 1737. It consists mainly of a series of incidents told at length without much connection, which give more information about Sanderson Miller than about Menteath, including, for instance, Sanderson Miller's first meeting with Sir Edward Turner when at Balliol, over a horse-deal, and his estrangement from another lifelong friend, William Talbot, vicar of Kineton, whom Sanderson Miller considered responsible for his first confinement for insanity at the end of 1759.
The account ends on 31 Jan 1775, but is continued by a description of a visit of Menteath and his wife to Warwickshire in 1771, of which the end is missing.
At the beginning is an abuse of Willis 'the horse and cow doctor': at the end an elevation for a church or chapel, possibly at Waddington [Lincs], 1771 (ink sketch)
1 vol: 178 pp (incomplete), leather bound. |