Alice Thornton's Books
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We were an AHRC-funded project (Sept. 2021-Feb. 2025), based at the University of Edinburgh. Our main output was a digital edition of the books of Yorkshire gentlewoman, Alice Wandesford Thornton (1626-1707). See http://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
Image: An epileptic or sick person having a fit on a stretcher, two men try to restrain him. Ink drawing attributed J. Jouvenet (1644-1717). Wellcome Images.
Library reference: ICV No 17146
Photo number: V0016630
@wellcomecollection.bsky.social
Library reference: ICV No 17146
Photo number: V0016630
@wellcomecollection.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Image: An epileptic or sick person having a fit on a stretcher, two men try to restrain him. Ink drawing attributed J. Jouvenet (1644-1717). Wellcome Images.
Library reference: ICV No 17146
Photo number: V0016630
@wellcomecollection.bsky.social
Library reference: ICV No 17146
Photo number: V0016630
@wellcomecollection.bsky.social
Image: Infant boy's cap, bib, and shirt set probably for christening, England, 1675-1725, linen tabby with lace - Patricia Harris Gallery of Textiles & Costume, Royal Ontario Museum. Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
November 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Image: Infant boy's cap, bib, and shirt set probably for christening, England, 1675-1725, linen tabby with lace - Patricia Harris Gallery of Textiles & Costume, Royal Ontario Museum. Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Image: DCL, CCOM 58/1, pre-conservation. Photo: Liz Brannigan.
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Image: DCL, CCOM 58/1, pre-conservation. Photo: Liz Brannigan.
Image: Ludolf de Jongh, Lady receiving a Letter (1658). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
November 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Image: Ludolf de Jongh, Lady receiving a Letter (1658). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
The scheme to take Nally away under the pretence of having her confirmed was never realised and she would marry Thomas Comber nine days later at the family home in East Newton. 2/2
Image: Dirck van Delen, An Interior with Ladies and Gentlemen Dining (1629). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Image: Dirck van Delen, An Interior with Ladies and Gentlemen Dining (1629). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
November 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The scheme to take Nally away under the pretence of having her confirmed was never realised and she would marry Thomas Comber nine days later at the family home in East Newton. 2/2
Image: Dirck van Delen, An Interior with Ladies and Gentlemen Dining (1629). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Image: Dirck van Delen, An Interior with Ladies and Gentlemen Dining (1629). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Image: Claes Janszoon Visscher II, The Scene at the Execution of the Gunpowder Plotters (1606). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
November 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Image: Claes Janszoon Visscher II, The Scene at the Execution of the Gunpowder Plotters (1606). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
She noted it was 'a most eminent day to our Church of England being that very day in which almighty God did show his miraculous deliverances of all our souls and bodies with the whole Church of God in the Christian world from that gunpowder plot of the bloody Papists.' (Bk3) 2/3
November 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
She noted it was 'a most eminent day to our Church of England being that very day in which almighty God did show his miraculous deliverances of all our souls and bodies with the whole Church of God in the Christian world from that gunpowder plot of the bloody Papists.' (Bk3) 2/3
Image: Anonymous, Elizabeth Clarke Freake (Mrs John Freake) and Baby Mary (1671-4). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
November 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Image: Anonymous, Elizabeth Clarke Freake (Mrs John Freake) and Baby Mary (1671-4). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
We found a Chancery deposition (pictured) from Thornton but dated 1656 so perhaps she got her dates wrong; Book 2 was written c.1685-95.
Image: C 22/811/15, TNA (taken by Jo Edge).
Image: C 22/811/15, TNA (taken by Jo Edge).
November 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
We found a Chancery deposition (pictured) from Thornton but dated 1656 so perhaps she got her dates wrong; Book 2 was written c.1685-95.
Image: C 22/811/15, TNA (taken by Jo Edge).
Image: C 22/811/15, TNA (taken by Jo Edge).
Source: The North Yorkshire Federations of Women's Institutes, The North Yorkshire Village Book (1991), 148.
Image: Gordon Hatton / Kirklington Hall / CC BY-SA 2.0. Converted to black and white.
Image: Gordon Hatton / Kirklington Hall / CC BY-SA 2.0. Converted to black and white.
October 31, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Source: The North Yorkshire Federations of Women's Institutes, The North Yorkshire Village Book (1991), 148.
Image: Gordon Hatton / Kirklington Hall / CC BY-SA 2.0. Converted to black and white.
Image: Gordon Hatton / Kirklington Hall / CC BY-SA 2.0. Converted to black and white.