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  Richard Cobb to Hugh Trevor-Roper. 7th February, 1988 "For once Dr Hill and you are in agreement. The former has little respect for the new Earl's scholarship and told us that he was a fraud. That was when we [Balliol College] elected Pennington [in 1965 as Hill's successor as a Fellow in History]. Well, of course, Merton [College] too occasionally turns out a Monster.... 'The new Earl' who was disparaged by Christopher Hill was Conrad Russell, son of Bertrand the philosopher. Pennington who beat him for the vacant Balliol Fellowship was Donald Pennington." My Dear Hugh, Letters from Richard Cobb to Hugh Trevor-Roper and others. Edited by Tim Heald (Frances Lincoln Publishers. London. 2011. Pages 166, 167)

 

 This article in the Journal The Seventeenth Century can be read here . Well worth reading.

I spent part of yesterday evening wondering what has happened to Tom Cogswell's e-mail address at the University of California Riverside. Both the e-mails I sent to him were returned as 'undeliverable' which is a puzzle. It is possible that he has retired and that his university e-mail address has been cancelled but I have no proof of this. It would be pretty sad to lose contact with him since we have known one another for over forty years. This morning I attended a meeting of a sub-committee of the Essex Archaeological and History Society in the Charles Gray room of Colchester Castle Museum. I had not been in the room before but was intrigued to see this fireplace with its grotesques which, I suspect, must date to the late-sixteenth or early-seventeenth centuries.  

 

 

 I had missed this publication last month. It looks highly interesting. (Pasted) Download Flyer → Recommend to library Title Details 416 Pages 23.4 x 15.6 cm 11 graphs and 4 b/w illus. Series: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History Series Vol. Number: 53 Imprint: Boydell Press ...