| AdminHistory | Only surviving son of the nonconformist minister John Rastrick, or Raistrick (1650-1727); succeeded his father as preacher to the Spinner Lane presbyterian congregation in King's Lynn, Norfolk; declined the pastorate, and seems never to have been ordained; lived a retired life; died, 1752; buried in St Nicholas's Chapel, King's Lynn. The Revd Dr Samuel Werensfel was a Professor of Divinity in Basel. |
| CustodialHistory | Part of the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), linguistic psychologist, founder of the Orthological Institute and originator of the language system Basic English, whose interests in language systems are reflected in the subject matter of his collection, which comprised individual manuscripts and manuscript collections dating from the 14th to the 20th century. |