| Description | On first page: ‘N.B. These particulars I sent my brother-in-law Mr Hughes Minet Fulham at his request. Nov 18 1799.’ Followed by one page of genealogical information on the Minet family starting with Ambrose Minet (Isaac’s father).
Narrative starts on the following page with no indication as to when it was copied and from where. It is an exact copy of HUGUENOT LIBRARY/MT/88, including words left blank. 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 and copied at that time by James L Minet (possibly HUGUENOT LIBRARY/F/MT/71) 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.’ |