The sermon also contains the first recorded use of the term “red herring”, when three kings eat so much that 24 oxen burst out of their bellies, sword fighting the oxen chop each other up until they are reduced to three “red herrings”. “This is a minstrel telling his audience, perhaps people of very different social standing, to get drunk and be merry with each other,” Wade said. The sermon addresses the audience as “cursed creatures” and includes fragments from drinking songs. The archival holdings for the Jefferson County Historical Society range from the 1800s to the present day. Wade said that one scene is reminiscent of Monty Python’s “Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog” sketch. The Hunting of the Hare is a poem about peasants, “full of jokes and absurd hijinks”. To get an insight into someone like that from this period is incredibly rare and exciting.” “Here we have a self-made entertainer with very little education creating really original, ironic material. “He didn’t give himself the kind of repetition or story trajectory which would have made things simpler to remember,” Wade said. Letter - San Francisco - Gold Mining - Lumber - 1850. An 1859 Glowing Account of Springfield, Limestone County, Texas. 138 letters, comprising 189 manuscript pages, without envelopes, dated between. Dougherty - Montana Territory Archive - 1880-1889. Wade believes the minstrel wrote part of his act down because its many nonsense sequences would have been extremely difficult to recall. 28 volumes of business ledgers, accounts, and memorandum books (5,500 pp.). They were copied circa 1480 by Richard Heege, a household cleric and tutor to a Derbyshire family called the Sherbrookes, from a now lost memory-aid written by an unknown minstrel performing near the Derbyshire-Nottinghamshire border. The texts consist of a tail-rhyme burlesque romance entitled The Hunting of the Hare, a mock sermon in prose and an alliterative nonsense verse The Battle of Brackonwet. Manuscripts, Ledgers, Diaries New Orleans - Merchant Samuel Wright Oakey letters Reuben Marmaduke Potter - Texas Manuscript Lyons Coast to Coast Road Trip - c. 1829 Manuscript ledger See original listing Condition: - Ended:, 2:51PM Starting bid: US 49.99 0 bids Shipping: 5. (1) Manuscript Letter Signed Chas Thomson as Secretary of Congress, 1 page. Manuscripts Share Bidding has ended on this item.The seller hasrelisted this itemor one like this. Standup comedy has always involved taking risks and these texts are risky! They poke fun at everyone, high and low.” Patriot Charles Thomson archive: 5 letters, documents and ledger. It’s mad and offensive, but just as valuable. “Manuscripts often preserve relics of high art,” he continued. Wade, from Cambridge’s English faculty and Girton College, said that most “medieval poetry, song and storytelling has been lost”. Included in this collection are approximately 5,600 individually cataloged letters, diaries, military and court records, ledger books, and printed ephemera (broadsides, handbills, etc.) related to the Maryland region-principally dating from 1750 to 1900. Dr James Wade: ‘To get an insight into someone like that from this period is incredibly rare and exciting.’ Photograph: University of Cambridge
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