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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)KWH/Q/768b
TitleCharade by Edmund Pollexfen Bastard of Sharpham, [Totnes, Devon], with bookplates
Extent3 items
Date1808
DescriptionCharade commences 'When from the seat of bliss and love / Offending man was driven / His disobedience to reprove / 'Twas thus decreed by Heaven'
On reverse: poem entitled 'On a Fallen Leaf'

With two printed bookplactes of Edmund Pollexfen Bastard depicting his coat of arms with motto 'Pax potior bello'
7 February 1808

[Items KWH/Q/763-768 are all Bastard family miscellanea, the family descended from Drake]
Access StatusOpen
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