| Description | The manuscript was written after 1740 but no other indication to the date is given. It is not signed.
A manuscript copy of this item - HUGUENOT LIBRARY/F/MT/71 - was made in the 19th century.
James Lewis Minet possibly provides some indication as to the origin of this manuscript in his analysis of ‘Receipt Booke, 1704’ (HUGUENOT LIBRARY/F/MT/224), which he added to it. When examining Isaac Minet's escape account included in the volume he noted: 'This account is very much expanded from the one written in the year 1722 (15 years before) and which has been already noticed. In an incomplete form we were already acquainted with it for as far as page 29 to the ‘C’ of courage is contained in a tiny old manuscript lent to the family in 1839 (possibly HUGUENOT LIBRARY/F/MT/88) and copied at that time by James L Minet but this manuscript was but a copy, more probably a dictation, as it differs from the original in paragraphs and in punctuation and is in spelling decidedly more modern. Besides all this there are in the copy two striking differences. One of which shows the copy to have been taken certainly three years later than the time of composition of the original. At p. 19, line 6, the original mentions Daniel, one of Isaac’s brothers, as an old man, but still living in the year 1737. Now the copy adds the date of his death in 1740 and we find that this is taken from a note added on the margin of the manuscript story.’
HUGUENOT LIBRARY/F/MT/88 indeed ends suddenly with a capital C, and shares physical similarities to the the manuscript described by James Lewis Minet. |