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| ==== Religious faith ==== | ==== Religious faith ==== |
| Evidence of Eliza Prior's strong religious nature comes from the books which she owned. Almost all of them are religious ones, with a strong evangelical flavour.((Provenance of all the following books: J. Godden.)) | Evidence of Eliza Prior's strong religious nature comes from the books which she owned. Almost all of them are religious ones, with a strong evangelical flavour.((Provenance of all the following books: J. Godden.)) |
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| **1.** Collected works of Bishop Joseph Hall, published in 1617. The works include Hall’s uncompromising anti-Catholic tract with a title that leaves no room for misinterpretation!: 'No Peace with Rome. Wherein is proved, that (as termes now stand) there can be no reconciliation of the Reformed Religion, with the Romish (and that the Romanists are in all the fault)'. It also includes his still-popular 'Meditations and Vowes, Divine & Morall [Moral]: Serving For Direction in Christian and ciuill [civil] practise'. Eliza was 26 years old when she was given this book, with the following dedication: | **1.** Collected works of Bishop Joseph Hall, published in 1617. The works include Hall’s uncompromising anti-Catholic tract with a title that leaves no room for misinterpretation!: 'No Peace with Rome. Wherein is proved, that (as termes now stand) there can be no reconciliation of the Reformed Religion, with the Romish (and that the Romanists are in all the fault)'. It also includes his still-popular 'Meditations and Vowes, Divine & Morall [Moral]: Serving For Direction in Christian and ciuill [civil] practise'. Eliza was 26 years old when she was given this book, with the following dedication: |
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| //Eliza Prior. This book she has found a treasure indeed, as it easily convinced her, that Christ was all. May her dear children read it with attention, and may they be led by the influence of the Holy Spirit to take Christ as their portion, and to say that they “count all things but less for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus their Lord.// | //Eliza Prior. This book she has found a treasure indeed, as it easily convinced her, that Christ was all. May her dear children read it with attention, and may they be led by the influence of the Holy Spirit to take Christ as their portion, and to say that they “count all things but less for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus their Lord.// |
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| **6.** //The Titles of Christ viewed Prophetically: Being Lectures delivered during Lent, 1857// ... by Twelve Clergymen of the Church of England, London: John Farquhar Shaw, 1857. In it is written,'Mrs Prior; Southsea August 31st 1857.'\\ | **6.** //The Titles of Christ viewed Prophetically: Being Lectures delivered during Lent, 1857// ... by Twelve Clergymen of the Church of England, London: John Farquhar Shaw, 1857. In it is written 'Mrs Prior; Southsea August 31st 1857.'\\ |
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| **7.** //The Gospel-Mystery of Sanctification ... Suited especially to the cases of those who labour under the GUILT and POWER of IN-DWELLING SIN. To which are added, A Sermon on JUSTIFICATION//... by Walter Marshall, London, Joseph Johnson, 1765. The name written in it is simply 'Eliza --'.\\ | **7.** //The Gospel-Mystery of Sanctification ... Suited especially to the cases of those who labour under the GUILT and POWER of IN-DWELLING SIN. To which are added, A Sermon on JUSTIFICATION//... by Walter Marshall, London, Joseph Johnson, 1765. The name written in it is simply 'Eliza --'.\\ |
| //'Mother … [gave me all the money] she could possibly spare from their modest allowance and made me take the few sovereigns which would diminish home comforts for the quarter [til next payday]'.((TLM-P, draft memoirs of a voyage from London to Sydney on the 'Roxburgh Castle', MLMSS6576, copied from Praed Papers, Oxley Library.))// | //'Mother … [gave me all the money] she could possibly spare from their modest allowance and made me take the few sovereigns which would diminish home comforts for the quarter [til next payday]'.((TLM-P, draft memoirs of a voyage from London to Sydney on the 'Roxburgh Castle', MLMSS6576, copied from Praed Papers, Oxley Library.))// |
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| ===== Mourning Mary ===== | ===== Mourning Mary ===== |
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| This is a mourning ring, worn to indicate (along with the strict wearing of black) the recent death of a loved one.((Provenance: J. Godden.)) The writing around the centre funeral urn states that it is in memory of ‘Mary Skynner OB [who died aged] 63 [on] 14 November 1797’. Given her age, this Mary could not be Eliza’s mother, but perhaps her grandmother? Research into the death of Mary Skynner will hopefully resolve this mystery although it was before State registration of deaths. | This is a mourning ring, worn to indicate (along with the strict wearing of black) the recent death of a loved one.((Provenance: J. Godden.)) The writing around the centre funeral urn states that it is in memory of ‘Mary Skynner OB [who died aged] 63 [on] 14 November 1797’. Given her age, this Mary could not be Eliza’s mother, but perhaps her grandmother? Research into the death of Mary Skynner will hopefully resolve this mystery although it was before State registration of deaths. |
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