These battered and well used Bibles often include hidden treasures in the form of family annotations on the endpapers. This is an example: 'Memerandum Febery 22 1827, Thomas Charmer and Ann Clout his wife and three children Miria aged...?anne aged..Thomas aged...set out from London to go to America the 27 of the above month being very windy and storme all the day and in the evening it became very calm'.
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